Set your volume sliders EXCEPT music to high, ensure that Mute GW2 when in background is unchecked.
Goto a very quiet area without much ambient noise, many of the open ascalon fields are good for this (Don’t go into the corrupted area as thunderclaps tend to happen around there)
Here switch windows and amuse yourself with web pages or something that won’t cause too much noise. When you hear a buzzing sound, switch back and QUICKLY look around you, you will have extremely little time, the Anolomy should be there, touch it.
You must have completed the Ley-line Anolomy event in previous CEs to get this to happen.
:Also as someone else said the new living story chapters are helping with completing masteries, both by giving more points and by giving us more stuff to do to train them up so we’re not having to play the same maps over and over.
Yep! Thanks for pointing that out.
I believe you meant to say the former wouldn’t have been required, not the latter, which was standard gliding.
Right now it’s getting beyond frustrating trying to enjoy that map because unranked queue is full of yuk yuks who vote against it.
The achievements for this map are time limited to this PvP season based on it’s beta availability…so when the map goes full live can we finish them then?
1. Consider checking the wiki here https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Current_Events
There are lots of new events up, some with good items up for grabs.
2. Living Story Season3 is up and the next elder dragon we are taking on appears to have been identified.
3. Check Fractals, it has been given a big facelift.
4. A raid wing has been implemented.
It’s getting irritating clashing with people who vote anything other than it just to annoy those trying to get the achievements done (Really, what were they thinking?)
The GW1 system works for that game, but even then it’s an utter nightmare to balance, to the point the term “smiter’s boon’d” was coined to refer to when a skill is completely nerfed to the point of it being intentionally unusuable due to it’s previous OPness.
There are times when I wish I could hide all backpacks. It’s very odd that even when I put the graphics all the way to their lowest setting, backpacks still show up. Distracting during a big world boss fight, which is really the only time I put graphics all the way down.
Nothing like trying to fight a world boss at 15fps with a screen full of sparkles in a mass of people.
The appearance of player characters are getting quite annoying. These are examples you see pretty much all the time, and everywhere, and it’s really taking its toll.
They do not look overly flashy to me. Customizing your character is the endgame of GW2.
Back on topic
While customizing your own character is all fun an that, some other players would rather it not get in the way of their own game.
Be it by putting pressure on hardware in large amounts, i.e seeing huge amounts of pure atheistic particles piling on top of effects from damage.
Visually being a nuisance in areas where precision is required (Mad King’s Tower anyone?)
You know the idea, it’s no bad ask for a way to tone it down on a user’s end client.
I agree with the option to restrict the particle effects of other player’s items.
Not everyone has stupidly powerful hardware. and would heavily benefit from being able to tone it down to the point where they can….you know, actually play at some kind of FPS during huge group events.
A dedicated button to mute job-o-tron and all his incarnations would be lovely too.
If you want to get the latest build, add -image to the target in the properties of a GW2.exe shortcut, they have also released a 64-bit client which you can get from your player control panel here at the site.
Guild Wars 2 will never succeed as an esport and unless they actually start caring and do proper balance it’s salty players will ensure it stays that way.
The last few weeks have been far worse due to the horrendous balance issues with the game in sPvP and how that filters through to PvE. Warriors and Thieves have been kicked down the crapper, metacrap has been all the rage and not even having a pro-team QUIT ON STREAM is enough to get Anet to push out more MEANINGFUL BALANCE CHANGES.
I’m happy to see all the negativity, because it’s reflective of my own feelings on the PvP situation.
Anet would heavily benefit from a test environment.
Let’s call it….Asuran Simulation Arena, an asura heys “Oh hey brave Mists Warrior, we’ve been tinking around with the ins and outs of the combat environment and want to get feedback on if our changes are helping, would you like to try and queue to see how it works? Here’s some notes on what we have changed if you’d like to see!”
Then the player IN GAME can see the changes they are testing and do a queue to test it out. Then at the end a little form can be filled in similar to what was used in the first BWEs where proper feedback can be given on their balance changes. To encourage players to try it, given them some ingame silver for their help, no rank change.
Then they have no excuse for making such utterly ridiculous changes.
At this rate there will be no next season, Anet’s reputation for PvP is going down the pan extremely fast, the most kitten ing incident being when players ragequit a match due to the horrendous meta on STREAM.
They are just acting fast enough to put in emergency changes to restore the playability of the sPvP game.
With Auramancers and so many ways to get outpaced, Condi Zerkers are in a horrendous spot, infact using Primal Burst Sword against most people is outright dangerous due to reflects or the simple act of SIDESTEPPING.
1. Bunker Mesmer – So powerful it actually made a team member ragequit on a ESL stream.
2. Auramancer – Condition Immunity, aura spamming, stupid ammounts of healing.
3. DHs – Traps are just way too easy to use right now in conquest.
Anet would have to refund over 16,000 gems to my accounts if this ever happens. so yeah.
No they would not. You got to enjoy that extra space for that price. Things change, and you would just accept it with a smile.
Do you really think that ANet would want to go through another round of hostile feedback? They might not be required to refund the gems; they would be under pressure to do something for folks that had bought more than a few extra slots.
Accordingly, it’s not as simple as the OP suggests.
The absolutely absurd grind for the shoulders….I really wish I didn’t burn all those mystic coins.
I wish I could go back and kick my past self, telling me to simply sell all the booze as I’d have been much happier with the money than the soul destroying JP/Bells.
I may as well find a low resource using Turn Based Strat game and just play Bells on the side while playing that.
Anet, give us all a 5k xmas booze care package. For at least remaining with the game loyally.
1) Fix MMing so that people cannot team up with lower ranking players to get easier matches, base MM off the highest partied person’s MMR. The highest MMR person takes most of the hit of any loss because they made the choice to team with a lower person, people they got matched with feel less of a hit for losing.
2) Fix the bunker meta. This crap has never been good and now it’s putting the turret engie bunker meta to SHAME. Why can’t we have the glorious days of GW1 elimination PvP?
3) Buff Core specs. The new specs should be an alternate way to play, not THE standard.
