Guild Wars 2

its because the drop rate is unbelievably low. near null.

I don’t mean yesterday as in “yesterday”, in the latest patches, where they also added to the war on shake it off to remove 2 condies, so please don’t take literally “yesterday”, but it was in the last couple of patches. steal used to deal around 4.5k, as a thief u calculate every dmg u have, ur too squishy when playing zerg 1 mistake and ur dead. this was compensated with the dmg it had, which is now lowered to 1.4k on steal.
but yesterday we noticed heavily, i’m in a guild with 20 thieves, we discuss those skills a lot.

HardRider.2980:

From what I’ve seen.. Thieves have no issue dealing damage to players.

the nerf was yesterday.

Ragnarox.9601:

you have 9k backstabs. Steal is fine.

Not anymore, it was nerfed too to 4 to 5k.

the nerf of the dmg to the steal skill is way to penalizing on the thieves. it is killing it. from 4.5k to 1.4k, that’s like a nerf of 300%, its too heavy on the build now
please review it.

the problem is the amount of insane mats needed to craft one tiny thing. this is what should be addressed.

Ok, I agree with you. Anything capped should be removed. We need more Achi points, not just 1 point 1 point 1 point and 1 point from most of the new introduced stuff. its crazy.
and since we are talking about caps, could you please remove the 2000 decorations cap in guild halls. we hit that ages ago and would like to continue decorating.. the size of the guild hall is like a continent, not a home instance. it should allow more stuff in it.

don’t do it, 5 winter’s daily, u need 3.

they were supposed to release tengu as a race, and great axe. RIP expansions that are worth buying.

they’d make more money if they release a full proper expansion same as the old gw1 when they released the canthan’s expension then nightfall. they’ll win more players and the community would really grow.`

search youtube, there’s a full video about everything and shows u the size.

the cash shop lol funniest thing i read. i agree with u mate its killing the game, we had a guild of 150 players wvw all of them, disbanded, around 90 of them quit the game because of the cash shop and the insane grinding everywhere.

good to see i’m not the only one! it should really be raised again with the new 1080ti hitting soon graphic cards should not be a problem!
i really hope they address this issue fast i know its not on their priority list, but where else would we put all those trophies?

I knew about a cap for decoration in a specific area, but i was surprised when we got a msg saying that we hit the max decoration possible in a guild hall.
If it was intended plz can you guys work on it and expand it.
thanks.
check attached pic.

oh my oh my, was logging in just to create a topic about outfits vs armors and saw ur post! I though i’m alone in the dark hopefully not.
ANET if you are listening to your community plz:
WE JUST HAD ENOUGH OUTFITS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. RELEASE THEM AS ARMOR SKINS.

read most of the decoration topics, agree with a lot of them regarding the size of the available decos, needs to be bigger and cheaper not doubt bout that.
but for me what i want to see is 3 things:
- the old fountain from the old lion’s arch, as a memory of tribute to the old town which had a “lion symbol” not a lobster :p because it was awesome specially with the floating ships around it. (check the attached picture)
- mad king doors which can be used inside the guild hall that ports u from an area to another instead of running all the time because the halls are huge.
- the mad king moon, for the love of god and mercy on our souls, plz make it bigger. when i crafted it it thought it would be something as big as the one that shows in LA during the festival for the amount of mats it uses (check the pic in LA), but the disappointment was huge when i placed it in GH (check pic).
other than that, keep it up we r enjoying ur game)

Wanze.8410:

Shaman.4513:

Well, in the scale of things, I have to say that I am spending more time crafting rather then playing and enjoying the game.
In the scale of things, I have to farm tons of mats every day to craft the time-gated tier 7 mats.
In the scale of things, if you haven’t tried scribing you won’t even know what I am talking about. The price and number of mats required to build a simple wall could buy a precursor.
In the scale of things… there’s a lot of drift from lore…
I have made peace with all of the above, If this game is about cooking and knitting, then I will do my share, but Anet you gotta help and improve the rate drop of something, that would rather not impact your cash income from gems nor would affect or buff the pvx environment.
What I am asking for is related to decoration/ scribing:
To craft a bronze statue, you need 10 drops from a specific boss; the silver would require 10 silver statue meaning 100 from the item, for the gold its 10 silver meaning 1000 item.
In other words, to craft the gold vale or gold teq you need 1000 of its drop, etc…
Now, if every time you do that specific boss you get the drop, in the scale of things, I would teach myself to live with it, but, it’s that bloody system again at work, from every 6 to 8 times you get 1 drop which means, that, in the scale of things… you need to do the vale guardian or the shatterer or teq or gorseval around 6000 to 8000 times.
Assuming you have a guild of 50 who are willing to do the content on a regular basis, from each raid run, 1 or 2 players would get it, and its weekly timed, so in the scale of things, I lost count and think that it shows how the simplest things to get are yet scaled to legendary grind grind grind and grind.
In the scale of things, I will go cook meself a burger or two, hoping that the next time I join the game, I will actually have more time to play then cook artificial food that requires recipes breaking me back from farming its account bound mats…

In the scale of things, you only need 500 crystals, not 1000, for a gold statue.
In the scale of things, I would say that gold statues are there to show guild dedication towards completing a specific event.
In the scale of things, the simplest things (bronze statues) are fairly easy to get and dont require a legendary grind from a decent sized guild.

well what i was trying to say, is regardless if its 500 or 1000, why would it have to be that much and it doesn’t drop on each occasion. did u check the drop rate? how many times did u have to do the same thing over and over and over to get, and after weren’t you surprised to see that it was just tier one of some overly l-o-n-g quest that requires mats worth a precursor to craft?
did u try scribing? did you see how much each item cost? not to mention its size in comparison of how much you had to pay for it?
250 amalgameted gemstones, fulgurites, 20 flaxes per 1 lindsail oil, why why and yes why? I have the right to question it, cured leather a tier 6 mat costs 70g per stack, is this normal?

Agree to all of the above, in addition, for the desert GH, not complaining about the design, but the hidden areas in the GH are so much nicer than the main ones.
They should have been there instead of the regular places now. Like for example the area above the crystalline which u interact with when u claim the hall, has so many nice places, its a like a small antique village with market like areas full of spice bags and stuff, this should have been the main area in the guild hall.
ANET PLZ RECONSIDER THE DESIGNS.

yes u were right, the system changed it auto so i fixed it.

Reclaimed Metal Plates
Chakk Eggs
Queen’s Gauntlet Entrance Tickets
Blood Rubies
Petrified Wood
Gift of Battle
Gift of Exploration
All Maguuma Exploration Gifts
Legendary Insights
All Scribing Kits
Fractal Research Pages
Mystic Binding Agents
All Dubloons
Amalgamated Gemstones
Shards
Badges of tribute
Golden Fractal Relics
Milling basins
Elonian Wine (sometimes you buy some extras by mistake, its account bound anyway)
Icy Runestones
Philosopher Stones and crystals
Writs of xp and tomes of knowledge
Most scribing items, they r killing my bank
Damask Patch <—— OMG and all the other patches!

Also and off topic could we have more shared inv. slots plz, so many items to carry between all char.

I had the same issue, how to get past this is when they have an update, system and events resets apparently. So right after you update go there and hopefully you will get it.
I did that with all my legendary collections when I had trouble with a specific event.

Well, in the scale of things, I have to say that I am spending more time crafting rather then playing and enjoying the game.
In the scale of things, I have to farm tons of mats every day to craft the time-gated tier 7 mats.
In the scale of things, if you haven’t tried scribing you won’t even know what I am talking about. The price and number of mats required to build a simple wall could buy a precursor.
In the scale of things… there’s a lot of drift from lore…
I have made peace with all of the above, If this game is about cooking and knitting, then I will do my share, but Anet you gotta help and improve the rate drop of something, that would rather not impact your cash income from gems nor would affect or buff the pvx environment.
What I am asking for is related to decoration/ scribing:
To craft a bronze statue, you need 10 drops from a specific boss; the silver would require 10 silver statue meaning 100 from the item, for the gold its 10 silver meaning 1000 item.
In other words, to craft the gold vale or gold teq you need 1000 of its drop, etc…
Now, if every time you do that specific boss you get the drop, in the scale of things, I would teach myself to live with it, but, it’s that bloody system again at work, from every 6 to 8 times you get 1 drop which means, that, in the scale of things… you need to do the vale guardian or the shatterer or teq or gorseval around 6000 to 8000 times.
Assuming you have a guild of 50 who are willing to do the content on a regular basis, from each raid run, 1 or 2 players would get it, and its weekly timed, so in the scale of things, I lost count and think that it shows how the simplest things to get are yet scaled to legendary grind grind grind and grind.
In the scale of things, I will go cook meself a burger or two, hoping that the next time I join the game, I will actually have more time to play then cook artificial food that requires recipes breaking me back from farming its account bound mats…

Josh Davis.6015:

Mel.8495:

more skill based? I think it is too hard to reach legendary
can you sell a legendary division booster in the gem store? I would pay 8000 gems for it

Not everyone belongs in legendary – it should be hard to get into.

As for the second question – no.

Brace yourselves. Salty Players are coming.

thanks will try again then.

Hi, I know its a bit late but yeah I just decided to do the coin collector (or as a matter of fact to continue my collection already have 26/30).
The problem is the missing coins were no where to be found.
I followed all the guides available on the net, all youtube videos everything.
Even asked 2 of my guild mates who haven’t done any of the coins to join me and we ended with the same result: Coin #2, 3, 7 not found on the map. We didn’t check the rest of the coins if available.
We tried during and after the sandstorm, but nothing. We gave up after that.
I do not know if its a bug or if the guides on the net are out of date, I hope someone looks into this and can clarify the issue.
Attached is my character near what is supposed to be coin #3.
Regards,
Shaman

i frequently get this problem when they release a patch

if u could chill a bit on the amount of mats needed it would be nice.

almost every time you release a patch it corrupts my client and i have to download the game all over!!! if its not me its couple friends in the guild or some ppl i know!
i’m so depressed about that its killing my will to play.
now my 64 bit client is dead even when i try to reinstall it i get a msg that its not finding the executable file!
i don’t know what to say or what to do…

https://youtu.be/ngiyKD5qZy4 check this out just founs it on the net!

Sphinx.8014:

I have no idea who Randy Orton is, but I am always for new finishers, hence I fully support that request!

He’s a very famous WWE wrestler, he’s got a super famous finisher move, its so spread that you can find a lot of videos about it, famous to the point where some of those videos are just hilariously made for fun.
check this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-rsqEaa_s

I don’t know if this is the right place to put it in the forums, if not please move it to the right place
My request is simple: is it possible for you guys to introduce a new finisher inspired from WWE, specifically, a Randy Orton RKO finisher.
please make it happen guys, pretty please!

was just wondering about if you guys can investigate the whisper chat.
the reason i am asking is that we had a guy in our guild who stole siege worth around 500g, he got a kick of course, then started joining using another account we knew about. when he went online our guild leader told him plz return the siege, so the response was: i am going to report you to anet with all my friends, he got reported from many accounts each one 2 or 3 times apparently, that’s what that guy told him.
the guild leader didn’t take that serious but when he tried to log in today, he couldn’t because his account is banned.
the guy who stole from the guild, told his friends to report the leader as a gold seller!
he opened a ticket but can’t post here so i’m posting on his behalf and asking if it is possible to investigate the private chat.
ty

Guys, I was redirected to forums after contacting support they said I should post here.
I play this game 7/7, 8 to 10 hours / day. Yes I am a grinder. I hate it but I am. It is what this game has become anyway. Got Gwamm from gw1, around 20 char on gw2 and 14 full map completions including thorne, been on gw2 since beta.

Now to my subject:

1- Fractals: I do my fractals on a daily basis, in the past 100 fractals only got 2 Globes of Coagulated Mists Essence. I’m stuck because as much as I would like to move on and reach lvl 100, I really want to see more of those so i can infuse my rings and other stuff. If they don’t drop how can I infuse?! Can’t buy them on TP they r account bound, I realize they are ascended and drop rate should be disgustingly low but for the sake of the game can you fix that as well as drop rate for Vial of Condensed Mists Essence and the Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence. Oh and can you chill a bit the amount of mats needed for that as well as those needed for the backpack.

2-Achievements: I would like to reach my 30k to get the hellfire chest. Been playing since beta can you release more content with Achi Points, i’m around 20kish. The annoying part is you force us to get 3 pieces hellfire 3 pieces mantle, should give the players the option that when they reach 20k they have either full set of mantle or hellfire armor. I don’t understand why it was made this way. In addition on Achievements, can you chill a bit the grinding thingie?! guys 100 times tarir? what is wrong there? this is not what I hoped for as extension. I was looking for new content not 1 thing do it xxxxx amount of time. this goes for most stuff in the game now

3- Legendary Crafting: Oh Boy was I glad to hear we can now craft our legendary weapons! I was playing since beta my base MF is around 230 now, always boosted with everything that can boost MF from your TP and food and stuff, but never ever ever in the past years got a single precursor, even the lame ones selling for rubbish on TP! Oh, but i’m not here to complain about me not getting a prec drop, I’m here to complain about the fact that you made it easier to buy one then to wander endlessly grinding seeking a drop that never drops to complete a tier. The main issue is the fact that grinding now has to go through PvP as well as PvE and WvW. to get a precursor to the 1st tier you need live in exile from real life and just play everything in the game regardless if you like it or not. I’m a WvW PvE oriented user. I play PvP occasionally, but now to craft the prec I need to grind on my daily PvP! Why are you forcing me to hate the game!? I do not understand?! Why can’t we get what we want playing what we like?! Should be a different track that leads to the same place either play pvp and get your prec or play pve and get it. Can you please take in consideration the different taste of your loyal clients playing this game and supporting you.

4- Nerfs:
a- Can you please un-nerf what you have done to the dungeon rewards. No one is doing dungeons anymore. Its so sad.
b- Can you please review your policy regarding crafting in general? The game has turned everyone into a material grinding *%$#. I bought this game to fight not to knit and cook.
c- Can you please RETURN the Old WvW maps, the new one SuxeZ (that’s just out of topic, but I had to say it. Perhaps leave one of the new border maps for the players that likes it so we have 4 WvW maps and you can give the designer an academy award).
d- Can you Nerf the lords and chill them in WvW, it takes a blob to take down a guard now! looks like they are on some sort of hyper superhero drug, i’m doing a raid in wvw not a killing Gorseval!

That’s about it, hope there many players out there sharing my opinion. For those who share it, please say it out loud, for those who don’t, I apologies if you don’t like my opinion, but I respect yours as well as you views on the game. In all cases, please find a way to meet the taste of your clients. All of them.

I say give some classes -the Revenant for instance- a skill that remove stealth, everything in the game got a counter skill except for the stealth!

Diku.2546:

@Shaman

Would your suggestion be able to handle the requirements set by the WvW Vision above?

If so…how would you propose to do it without throwing out the Current Tier based Match-Ups?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Discuss-New-WvW-Map-Mechanic-v2-0/first#post5385207

Well to start with its WvW, not WvWvW.
I know this needs a bold approach from the programmers because at the end of the day they have to rework it out, but at least it will give a fair chance to any world to fight for its border on a 1vs1 basis which is something we have seen recently being exploited by servers depending on the ranking to manipulate the outcome of the war.
Having no borders means you could end up ganged by all the other borders which is something not helpful and contribute in the manipulation of the outcome of the war.
The suggestion to find a constructive solution, is having the borderlands closed as 1vs1, its a world vs another wold – not world vs worlds, in a tri or quad server fight, whilst keeping EBG as a 3 (or maybe 4) world battle fight, probably with some minor improvements to the map as Anet was saying that they want to make the towers have a strategic importance and position either in defense or offence.

I can understand what you are saying, for a year the server you are on sees someone beat it over and over and over, so probably it reached a point where it is ready to do anything to manipulate the outcome of the war. The end justifies the means.
GG.

Raised another question, if you do not care about PPT why are you after points?

But in all that, I think Deso and FSP are to be thanked, because of what they are doing, the arrogant players you are talking about, whom moved from other servers including deso and fsp, are moving out of SFR.

All in all, the question was for Anet, they put all kind of mechanics to forbid the manipulation of the outcome of the game specially in PvP, the issue is not for now who is blobbing who and double teaming who, its for the future, because God forbids, I would not want to be in a desperate position, where I have no choice left but to double team a server to win. I would loose a thousand times before I loose my honor.
Oh maybe those servers did :p

GROMIT.7829:

Grow some balls and push for better hardware you weak little man.

I agree with GROMIT.

The lag is getting worse and its pathetic. And Bill, sorry to say but I do not see the improvements. I do not join EBG the Eternal Land of Lag since a quite 5 to 6 months now, the borders on peek hours are not any better, only skill 1 – 1 – 1- 1 that is of course if u don’t see yourself running into a wall and dc.
Skill 1 on any profession today is the deadliest blob killer! ha ha !

There is another option:
Server1 – Server2 – Server3 fighting each other on EBG as it is, then S1 and S2 on 1 Border Map, S1 and S3 on 1 Border Map, S2 and S3 on 1 Border Map. This would end the lag and provide fair fights between 2 servers on a certain map.

Since the changes coming to the game are huge, might as well rethink the fight setup for WvW.

Today we have three servers competing at the same time on the same map, I will not discuss the issue of lag here, instead a more pressing issue. Anyone with some decency can not deny the obscenity happening with the double teaming on the maps, especially in the Titan’s section, between the top 3. (i’m on a euro server)
This is not another topic complaining about double teaming, no matter how low I think of the commanders and people that does it, but the three teams (server) inherited from guild wars 1’s pvp section (Hero’s Ascent) proved that it can not be implemented in gw2.

It is not a party of 8 fighting another party of 8, where even if double teamed you can manage to fight back someone and people from gw1 will know this. In GW2 it is full blobs of 60 / 60 / 60 (more or less depending on the update and maxed allowed number), so if you have 120 teaming up against 60, there is no chance on earth that this server can even defend anything, because no matter how many siege you have inside a tower or keep, the game is made in such a way that no tower / keep / castle can be held indefinitely, given also the issue that the game should not be a game of sieges.

For that, I would like to suggest a solution, but that would require a bold approach form Anet because of the work and updates they would have to do:
a- Two servers fighting each others on all maps, be done with the trio.
b- Three servers, however the only map hosting them together would be EBG map; The border maps each would only siege 2 servers instead of 3, and that would require more border maps accordingly.

I think option “b” would force the servers to play decently because they could not control the outcome of the different border maps It would also show which server deserves to be number 1 without the help of another server or the indecent double blobbing, in addition it might help Anet solve their lag issues.

Anyway, I know they are about to release the new WvW desert map in thorn, and I hope they have taken some consideration to the issues I’ve raised if not already, then in the future.

Just an idea I had, to which I would like to hear your thoughts.

Same here, major lag spikes, WvW is making me puke every time I join it so I rage quit, PvP was not any better.
I decided to go to old PvE, tried joining a Champ run, got my share of lag – but not as sick as what was happening in WvW.
If you really hate someone, just have them join EBG.
It would be comforting if least ifANet – out of respect – can share with us – the normal users – why is there so much lag -not in details as I am not a technical expert- and if there is serious action to fix it, because all I see is complains complains, and nothing on the horizon from your side.

event still bugged, weeks jumping in and out of this map. its the only item missing from my collection, sad…

Got the same problem, on leave party my game crashes, and since the queues to WvW is ridiculously long, you can imagine how this is affecting the gameplay.

I had the same error code, you get this error code when your account has been compromised and hacked by gold sellers.
Anet freezes your account because a third party contacted them with all your credentials having also you gw2 registration code.
I discovered a trojan horse on my pc and i think it is how I was hacked.
Support was kind enough to restore my account, be patient guys and hopefully you’ll get yours again, they are doing a great job!

reading all the comments, and from personal experience, I can say:
RIP all melee!!!
if ur happy with 2 zergs spitting at each other to death have fun, I only play WvW and the change is the worst nightmare ever!
it’s even worse than the unfix-able lag!

For the love of GOD, can u check my reporting!!! or its just sitting there for decoration.
Yesterday was the worst GW2 experience I ever had since the release of the game. One cannot play with a gold spammer every 30 seconds.
The worst part is that its the same spammers i have been reporting for the past month, I now know their char. names. they all spamming for the same pvp bank stupid #^%&% site.
My experience was ruined yesterday and i stoped playing and spent the nxt hour cursing them.
If you have a reporting system in place and u don’t use it simply remove it Anet. or start banning those ^%$#^%.
oh and yeah a perma ip ban would be ideal to hell with them!
PEACE.

i’m getting this crash msg before the char select screen:

• Crash <—*
  Assertion: hdr→signature == PACKFILE_SIGNATURE
  File: ..\..\..\Services\Packfile\Packfile.cpp(1929)
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 6392
  Cmdline:
  BaseAddr: 00400000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 32519
  When: 2014-04-15T22:50:13Z 2014-04-16T01:50:13+03:00
  Uptime: 0 days 0:00:19
  Flags: 0