Guild Wars 2

Zaxares.5419:

On a related note, has anyone else noticed that the CFSoM’s (and possibly the SFSoM, although I don’t have one) random lines is now almost inaudible?

I have, ever since the feature patch rolled out. If I hear anything at all, it seems to be limited to the first syllable of a word. There is a thread regarding this issue in the “Game Bugs” sub-forum.

No fossil, no goggles, no scarf for me. The majority of the time I’ve spent in Dry Top has been with a guildie, doing the same events, killing the same creatures, and yet he has picked up 4 goggles, 2 scarves and 2 fossils.

Is there any reason why these region specific rewards can’t all be redeemed with tokens (e.g. geodes) instead of this RNG garbage? It’s bad enough that many of the interesting weapon skins and limited edition dyes are locked beyond this gamble that is RNG. The only thing I feel upon hearing that another player has picked up yet another Dry Top themed “thing” is cheated. Reward my EFFORT- not my LUCK!

Pandaman.4758:

It’s the AoE attack from the Liadri boss in the Queen’s Gauntlet, which is held in the platforms way above the pits. The attack should not be reaching all the way down to the bottom of the pit though.

Ah! So THAT’S what happened!

Katz.5143:

They could put the torch run and other such things into the towns. Could even run them monthly, like 1 week a month in each town a different thing. They have the torch run, SAB, possibly other things I forgot.

I like this idea!

Dolyak racing is fun, and definitely my favourite part of this entire update. High jumping as a dolyak is hilarious!

Xae Isareth.1364:

RottenRagamuffin.3159:

Aza.2105:

I’ve gotten gold over a dozen times. The loot is good. Also you can trade tokens for equipment boxes for even more loot.

Are you a member of a large guild?

You don’t even need to be a member of a large guild. If you join halfway, you just look around and ask how many people are at each boss. 0-10? Join it. 10> go to another boss.

If its a fresh event, just gather yourself into 6 groups.

I gave up, not because the event mechanics is bad or anything, but because after spending 30mins explaining why you don’t zerg them and how to get gold multiple times, all that happens is people just zerg up and ignore you.

The once I succeeded convincing a small group to split up, we took one of the bosses down quicker than the blob next to us, and I’m all like ‘see?’, yet no one followed suit.

I don’t even know how is this actually possible. If I grab a bunch of 5 year old kids and tell them to split into 6 groups on the playground, they can probably do it. Apparently we can’t.

In theory, you don’t have to be a member of a large guild… if players understood the mechanics of the Boss Blitz. Last night, I was in a group of 8 and we took down two bosses (really fun fight done this way btw!) whilst the zerg was hammering away at just the one. No chance of a gold whilst ever this happens.

Where the large guilds, or at least co-ordinated guilds shine, is in their ability to organise players. And that’s why these players, and those lucky pugs who happen to be in the map with them, are likely to be the ones getting the gold rewards, whilst the rest of us will be chugging away for bronze. :\

Aza.2105:

I’ve gotten gold over a dozen times. The loot is good. Also you can trade tokens for equipment boxes for even more loot.

Are you a member of a large guild?

eekzie.5640:

RottenRagamuffin.3159:

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

Agree.^

Additionally, the skins say a couple of things: this player is a veteran player, and they completed an event way-back-when. Re-releasing them is a bit ordinary, as it diminishes the rarity of the skins. Someone who’s only played the game for two days shouldn’t be running around with, for example, the fervid censor backpiece that I had to earn by doing a meta-event.

That’s what titles are for… not skins.

Not all meta-achievements have awarded titles, some rewarded skins instead.

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

Agree.^

Additionally, the skins say a couple of things: this player is a veteran player, and they completed an event way-back-when. Re-releasing them is a bit ordinary, as it diminishes the rarity of the skins. Someone who’s only played the game for two days shouldn’t be running around with, for example, the fervid censor backpiece that I had to earn by doing a meta-event.

fishball.7204:

So I finished this just now 10/10. You need to come top 3 or no credit towards it, also have to run from start to finish.

Really need to fix tool tip or the way of obtaining this achievement…

I just ran this twice (didn’t place in the top three) and did not receive credit. If the achievement requires a top three finish, the tool tip needs to state this. If only participation is required, it’s clearly a bug that needs to be fixed.

An hour in the pavilion, no reward for my effort besides 3 greens. Head over to the only-slightly-made over Labyrinthine Cliffs to find it’s pretty much the same as last year, and all the “rewards” on offer are skins I already have… oh wait—- there’s a new mini and another useless tonic. Ugh.

As for the new Phoenix skins- yep, you guessed it, subject to RNG once more. Anet, please STOP this RNG garbage!

The ONLY thing that is an improvement is the relocation of services to Lion’s Arch.

I was so looking forward to this patch, but as it is, beyond getting the achievements, there’s no reason at all to participate.

Undoubtedly, the most disappointing patch to date, and it had such potential. FIVE thumbs down for this one.

I am looking for a friendly, mature guild with a decent roster size, who does guild missions etc., runs buffs, and is happy to help with dungeon mentoring and runs.

Thanks for an epic April Fool’s Anet! My hubby and I LOVE the bobble heads (especially on our charrs!) We needed a good laugh!!! <3

Enaretos.8079:

Hey now, don’t be lke this my friends and don’t talk about DPS race.

Take a second and think about this :
- the goal of the event is to kill 3 bosses.
- people are bringing their defensive gear in the event.
- they complain that they can’t complete the event.

??? I fail to understand…

And about condition damage not working, I find it quite logical : I’ve never seen metal bleed, nor even burn to a small fire. Think about the immersion :>

Consider this then- you can melt metal with the heat from a fire, but no warrior would consider hacking away at a metal robot with their precious metal sword…

kokiman.2364:

RottenRagamuffin.3159:

But they are a DPS race. And, teamwork doesn’t mean excluding anyone who isn’t in berserker gear. All players, regardless of their level, degree of skill, or gear/build type should have a role to play in these events, not just those in possession of one sort of armour type, or what’s the point of build diversity? How dull would the game be without all the “unique snowflakes”? If the only viable build in GW2 was berserker, I doubt I’d still be playing.

And I like I said after that quoted post, I never implied that people should wear zerker gear and be zerker specced.

You didn’t have to. It’s a fact that berserker gear has the greatest potential DPS, and as is the case with the knights, who have a predetermined health pool and a timer, maximising damage output means maximising the likelihood of success.

kokiman.2364:

CHIPS.6018:

So I just tried that “Kill 3 Legendary Clockworks” quest. It is nothing but a DPS test. Can we please stop having quests like these?

These quests are saying:
If you are not using berserker gear, go home.

No these “quest”, they are actually called events, are not a DPS check, they are events that encourage people to play together. The biggest problem right now is, that there are way to many “unique snowflakes” around that keep shouting “I PLAY HOW I WANT AND YOU PLAY HOW YOU WANT” which is something that just doesn’t work in a genre that is all about playing together.

But they are a DPS race. And, teamwork doesn’t mean excluding anyone who isn’t in berserker gear. All players, regardless of their level, degree of skill, or gear/build type should have a role to play in these events, not just those in possession of one sort of armour type, or what’s the point of build diversity? How dull would the game be without all the “unique snowflakes”? If the only viable build in GW2 was berserker, I doubt I’d still be playing.

Ryoki Hokishami.2756:

So, they nerf the loot AND make it harder, and don’t compensate us for the bugged loot we missed? This “finale” might be the worst LS event thus far. My friend was actually having fun with the new champ chest fun, it was great fun to get a lot of boxes to open. But this? No, this is bad. Very bad. No one’s going to come to these events much anymore, I’m afraid, at least on my server, which is one of the lower pop- servers.

Why make a grindy game where it takes months to get the T6 mats for a legendary, then punish people for getting adequate loot for once? It’s silly.

Agree. I’ve done this event a number of times now, and received loot on only my first attempt (that was on the first day). I just watched my hubby participate in a post-patch event, only to see it’s been made harder, but at least he got a loot drop, albeit with no core! (Do these things even exist…? :\ )

And as for the knight’s scaling- no, no they don’t. Tried to do this last night (SEA) time, with perhaps 15 people and barely made a dent in one of the knights, let alone kill three of them within six minutes. So… no quick knight kill equates to no Knightfall achievement; no getting anywhere near the Breachmaker to attempt the hologram kill; which means all of the achievements associated with that event are also out of reach.

And… heaven help any hapless condition appliers that happen to be one of the 50 buffed players at one of the “new and improved” knight events…

Drakma.1549:

It can’t be dps based. I wish people would understand that. I walked up to red knight at 5% health and gotten loot. I’ve been there for entire fights and not gotten loot.

Clearly something else is at play. And guessing by anet’s lack of response to this thread, I have a feeling they don’t know what it is.

Agree- it isn’t about DPS. The first knight I fought I used my Condition Mesmer, which, due to the boss’ condition reflect mechanic, meant that my presence was largely decorative, but I still received a loot drop. The next two events, I used my ’zerker warrior, and got no loot from either.

On a side note, I wasn’t in a party with either, but the Condition Mesmer received a loot drop, and the ‘zerker warrior didn’t…

Pifil.5193:

I’d love some of these skins, the axe and shield especially, but I won’t buy expensive keys to open chests that normally contain just junk in order to hopefully get them.

That’s my feedback, them effectively putting their new weapon sets in the horrendous Black Lion Chest lottery again means that they won’t be getting my money for them again. If they had just added them to the store directly they’d have it now.

Not being a lucky person myself, I too am not interested in gambling away my hard earned gold. If I could simply BUY these skins from the gemstore, I would. As it stands, whilst ever Anet insist on this RNG crap, I won’t be buying anything from them.

Ramiel.4931:

I’ve been playing a condition mesmer since launch.

Today I got full zerker. ANet convinced me that they want us ALL to play exclusively zerker.

It’s sad that it’s come to this. So much for diversity… :\

Honestly, one of the most time consuming and glitchiest achievements in the game.

I just finished map completion for the second time… and nothing. I knew from my previous experience that this achievement was buggy when I did it last time (a YEAR AGO!). So…. I did the usual revisit of the Chantry of Secrets, revisited EVERY map AGAIN (what a waste of 20+ silvers!) and still nothing. It really, really diminishes the effort I put into getting world completion, and I didn’t even get the utterly anti-climatic reward of my Gifts of Exploration.

Ropechef.6192:

this has been great. the whole map is littered with stuff to do.

If you want a zerg ball. you got it.
Small group hero stuff. you got it.
Solo roaming. to save the kids? got that too.
Loot variants are outstanding. emphy shards. AND dragonite in one place? how is this a bad thing

VERY WELL DONE!

now if you will excuse me I have things to kill

Agree!

For those who don’t enjoy following the zerg particularly, break away from the pack! The LS content is solo friendly. Exploring the new Lion’s Arch is great, and there’s plenty to do and see.

Bumped… for being the best thread ever!!!

I agree with you, OP. The map looks amazing!

Agree. I find it easier to use Google if I’m looking for something on this forum…

Must bump this thread- this is a search function that the TP seriously needs.

For the last two days I have had a Hell of time (trying) to get through the forward path. The mobs keep tethering and resetting repeatedly. Leurent in particular, has become all but immortal because he’ll just randomly run away, reset and then reengage, rinse and repeat ad infinitum- and no, we aren’t kiting him too far from his starting point( in fact, we even tried fighting him there, and it still happened). I’m doing this dungeon with one other person and we just can not kill him before he resets. It is incredibly frustrating, given that we’ve done this path successfully before and this hasn’t happened.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Players who don’t do WvW, dungeons, or fractals generally don’t know about might stacking — or combo fields for that matter.

Exactly! And why would they? With the exception of the odd champion here and there, there are few things in PvE that offer the player any serious challenge.

The Marionette experience has taught a lot of players some new skills, and that can only enrich their gaming experience.

Behellagh.1468:

It’s a “Mommy let me paint your face” from your adorable 4 year old mask.

“Now you’re pretty.”

Haha! I must agree with this.

It’s also a little too close stylistically to the Norn character “tattoos”.

This is a great resource! Thanks for taking the time to make it.

I think scoffing down food that you aren’t going to use is pretty wasteful, but then so is karma spender and badge of honour spender, more often than not.

The upside of Anet making players purchase food to get this achievement on their dailies is that perhaps the price of food might go up… eventually. As it is, for those of us that cook, the price of food on the TP is, for the most part, far less than the cost of making it.

How is the Queensdale, or any champ train for that matter, still in existance? I’ve joined the zerglings a few times and have been bored kittenless after maybe five minutes of press 1 to win…

I make more gold and get better loot just by exploring the map, seriously.

I’ve seen the map chat regarding rangers, and yeah, it’s not nice, and it isn’t really helpful either. It would be more constructive if commanders, or anyone really, could let those who don’t know the in and outs of the boss encounters what to do with their pets/ minions etc., BEFORE the fight begins.

Too much vitriol in map chat, in general, has ruined this event for me.

digiowl.9620:

One compromise could be to have the charge advancement be based on the number of platforms that succeed. Meaning that if phase 2 gets 4/5 it will barely move, but if it gets 0/5 you get the current 25% jump.

^ This a great suggestion.

Just finished doing this event for the umpteenth time (always in an overflow, and lately with barely enough people) and I still haven’t been a part of a successful event. This is becoming incredibly IRKSOME.

The lack of even distribution of players on platforms is resulting in too many fails. Whenever I have had the good luck to be on a platform with the requisite five players, it’s been fine- BUT… more often than not, myself and two other players are on the platform, with the same time limit as five players, trying to take down the champ.

My latest attempt had me teleport onto a platform with one already dead player, one other player who was being trained by the champ who, not surprisingly got downed right as I arrived. I revived them, but they were still pulling all the aggro and went down again shortly after. Then, well it was my turn. Not really a lot I could do… and fail… again.

In order for me to get my achievement, Anet, do you consider it a reasonable expectation that I park my toon AFK for two hours in Lornar’s Pass just so that I can get into a map that isn’t an overflow (and thereby increase my chances of being a part of a successful run)? If you do, I do not consider this to be an acceptable use of my limited game time.

And, please fix the player distribution once the champ fights begin. This afternoon’s overflow attempt had map chat streaming with abuse at the lanes who failed to sever a chain. (Guess I’m not the only frustrated one… )

Haha! Yes, I like this idea!

lesliejb.3615:

Or perhaps even if there are less than say 4 or 5 people on a platform, spawn a Veteran instead of a Champion.

This is a great idea.

I’ve done this event 6 times now, and only TWICE has my platform had 5 players on it (successful both times, of course, since this is how many players are meant to populate the platform and kill the champ in the allocated time). Any less than four, it becomes a bit tricksy, even moreso if someone gets downed…

Quiznos.4296:

Any chance we will see any exclusive leather dyes? They’ve been left out if the “exclusive” dyes every time so far. :-(

Don’t worry- the “metallurgic” dyes are anything but exclusive. Of the 25 dyes included in this range, only six of those are new colours and anyone can purchase them from the TP. The balance are pre-existing dyes selected for how “fab” they look on metal armour. I bought one of these dyes and got a “Veridian” dye…. only to find that there are 233 listed on the TP for the princely sum of 10 silvers… Bye, bye 125 gems, and that’s the last time I’ll ever fall into that trap!

The removal of RNG?

Indeed, buying anything where RNG is a factor is a gamble. However, do Anet really believe that (as was the case for me) that my expenditure of 9 gold and a return of 10 silvers is anything but insulting? The disparity between expenditure and return is too great. As a show of respect for their customers, the least they could have done was to draw the pre-existing selection of dyes from the non-cheapskate selection of their colour range.

I’d like an update on this too.

I bought the Flamekissed armour skin but I feel like a pariah wearing it. For the most part, it’s gathering dust in the bank waiting for the update…

Facepunch.5710:

I previewed the dyes on dulfy, so a bit of detail may have been lost in the screenshot, but they look like dyes that already exist, or they’re 1 RGB point from an existing one.

Why do people pay 50g+ for stuff like this? At least the flame and frost and other recent dyes have had interesting contrast settings that makes them stand out.

I don’t mind if the new dyes go to the gem store instead of into the game, and I’d love to spend my money on something, but I’m not going to drop ten bucks for a dye that I could match with a little TP previewing and 94 copper.

With the exception of the 6 new dyes, the others are pre-existing dyes. I (stupidly) bought one of these “new dyes” from the gemstore (by exchanging 9 gold for 125 gems) and got a common dye that sells for 10 silvers on the TP.

My advice to everyone is to NOT buy the dye pack from the gemstore. Buy the dye you want from the TP instead.

I (foolishly) exchanged 9 gold to buy enough gems to purchase one of these dyes, mistakenly thinking they would impart an effect to my armour. What I ended up with was a common dye, of which there are 233 listings on the TP, worth 10 silvers.

Anet, what would it cost you to remove the RNG system from gemstore purchases? (And be clearer in your marketing descriptions!) Surely my expenditure of 125 gems (9 gold, in game), is worth one of the NEW dyes? In terms of how many hours of gaming it took to accumulate said gold, surely you want to give me, your CUSTOMER, something worthy of my time (and money!)? Instead, I feel had, conned, disappointed. I will NEVER buy anything of this nature from you again. EVER.

Boottspurr.9184:

Bmac.5346:

I can’t imagine that this is what Arena net had in mind when they introduced “competitive league play”.

Hi there! My name is Boottspurr, and I don’t post in the forums very often but I’d just like to say a little something to everyone here in this matchup thread.

First off, the above sentiment is something that I can’t disagree with more. When ArenaNet set up WvW, they set it up as a match-up between 3 servers. If they wanted it to be a completely direct mano-à-mano fight, it would have been 2 servers pitted against each other every week, not 3. If they wanted it to be a FAIR fight between 3 servers, they would have somehow set it up so that each server has exactly the same amount of people playing at any given time. Instead, what we have is, more often than not, a fight between 3 servers with a fairly different level competitiveness between one another.

So, what does this mean? Does this mean that ArenaNet fully intended for each server to be an island and fight in such a way so that each contest is Pre-determined even before we step on the field? Why even show up in that case, what would be the point of fighting besides just having a few good fights – which could easily be had with some other game-type. I say NO. I say this is EXACTLY what ArenaNet intended when they set up WvW with 3 servers.

TL;DR: There is a 2v1 going on, it’s super tactical and what I think WvW is supposed to be all about. SBI shouldn’t feel bad about what happened, they’re just a victim of the Season.

In WvW, 2v1 is a sound strategy, to be sure. What’s irksome about it happening in this particular match-up, is what motivated it. Undoubtedly, there are many players from YB and EB who employed this strategy to maintain the competitiveness of the league, but from the tone of this thread, it’s apparent that the implementation of said strategy was driven by the desire, by more than a few, to demoralise SBI, rather than because people want competitive gameplay.

Righteous.4307:

arKRazor.8654:

In this thread HoD and SF toast each other’s martial prowess whilst stepping over the bodies of the DR militia, sifting through the belongings of naive fairweathers, motioning to maps of native Devona lands and squabbling good-naturedly over how they should be divided.

http://i.imgur.com/AdDrvdq.gif

I think GoM had the same feeling last week.

lol A perfect visual analogy, Righteous!

Odies.8017:

Had fun in DR BL for the last part of the night. Great job DR for the good fights and fun.

Haha! So THAT’s what you were doing up there! Photo opportunity! lol

And… My Name is Red (an Asuran thief from [MU]), I hope you find a duel (that doesn’t get interrupted) ;P

Amok Threeohthree.8501:

Yesterday oceanic time on IoJ there were about 6 ppl at teq, so I think it is fair to say that the oceanic players on IoJ have given up unfortunatly

It’s the same on Devona’s Rest.

Our server hasn’t a hope of defeating Tequatl during NA primetime, let alone when the Oceanics want to play. Driving players to guest on another server to get the achievements is unacceptable. The server lost most of it’s WvW population due to terrible WvW matchups, and now we seem to be losing our PVE’ers as well…

Zumy.6318:

Jumped 20+ times. Counted only 3.

Same here! I’ve been jumping (successfully!) like a crazy person and my counter is also stuck at 3.

Agree absolutely. It’s atrocious and needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.

Caittus.7436:

Something that bears mentioning: You can’t salvage a Rabid/etc Inscription out of a crafted Exotic, only from named Exotics with those stats.

Thanks for the info, Caittus. Pity the GW2 wiki doesn’t state this- it says “Acquisition: Salvaging exotic Rabid weapons.”