Guild Wars 2

I’m also a straight male, yet all my characters in this game are female. Because:
1) I prefer to look at pretty girls rather than guys.
2) I don’t put myself in my character shoes. I am one thing, they are another.
3) Let’s face it, most armor/outfits in the game look A LOT better on females than on males.

Terrahero.9358:

Not being in a squad does not lock you out from WvW activities. No one can stop you from still playing with the zerg.

That’s what i do. XD
When i play WvW and i’m not solo roaming, i just follow the zerg wherever it goes without joining the squad, unless the Commander himself ask me to join on his own.

Correction: We never killed (or even seen) Jormag. The World Boss in Frostgorge Sound is the Claw of Jormag, just one of its champions.

That said, yes, we have been killing Elder Dragons up until now, but then we discovered that killing Elder Dragons also actually destroys the world. So now we have to come up with a method of putting them back to sleep without killing them.
However, Balthazar (evil God edition) doesn’t care one bit about the world and wants to kill the Elder Dragons to steal their power for himself. So, afer he failed (thanks to our intervention) to kill both Primordus and Jormag back in episode 5, now he wants to go after Kralkatorrik. Guess who will have to stop him again?

BunjiKugashira.9754:

On the other hand I don’t want to see a single mount in one of the cities. Both the major ones and the small outpost-like cities you can find in some starter-zones.

I will be fine with this. I don’t mind mounts in open fields, but i don’t want to see a main city conquered by giant bunnies. Expecially not in the areas where the bank and trading post are.

Same error here as well. Looks like we have a bug, ladies and gentlemen.

castlemanic.3198:

Honestly this is one of the things that bugs me most as a mesmer main. It doesn’t make sense that illusions are tied to an individual enemy. They should be able to swap targets and shatter when out of combat and not be on a time limit either. They have a chance of being killed by any enemy, they should have the opportunity of swapping targets when their primary target has died.

So no to time limit but yes to swapping targets, for both clones and phantasms, please.

^ THIS.

It’s something that has always bothered me as well. I would love to see it changed.

Liepa.9701:

Not so long ago I bought “Heart of Thorns” and now I’m trying to figure out how should I begin gliding. Currently, I have 2 Masteries to choose from: Gliding (with 27% Updraft Use) and Itzel Lore (with 27% Bouncing Mushrooms). As I understand, only 1 can be “activated” (Trained) at one time. Which should I prioritize and learn first? I cannot glide for a long time yet and I cannot jump over the mushrooms at all. I’m totally new at this.

Both are in the “must have” category, but i say go with Bouncing Mushrooms first, and then Updraft Use. BM is tier 1 in Itzel lore, so it’s faster to get that than Updrafts.

Squee.7829:

What was weird about Marjory was the fact that she literally just nominated you to be the leader. I.e. “I’ll let you make the important decisions and follow what you say”. Then the very first opportunity she gets to listen to you it’s “You don’t know me! You can’t tell me what to do!” And runs off. The commander wasn’t heavy handed at all. It was a bad idea. The commander said it was a bad idea. And the commander told Marjory he/she thought it was a bad idea. Commander didn’t even explicitly say “Don’t do it”. Just that Marjory should really reconsider. But Marjory decided to get belligerent about it anyway.

And grief over a parent isn’t a good reason to react the way Braham did. Losing a woman who just happened to give birth to you but whom you’ve never actually had an emotional attachment to is an especially poor reason.
A lot of people lost their parents. Marjory lost her sister. The girl she grew up with and loved dearly. But Marjory didn’t just blame the commander for absolutely no reason and storm off. She handled it like an adult. Took some time off and came back to do her kitten job. Her poor behavior didn’t come until much later and for completely unrelated reasons.
Many PC’s lost their parents and it affected literally no one. The story moved on and the PC kept doing their job of saving the world.

^ THIS. I 10.000% agree with what Squee said. I undestand that they both lost someone important to them (but they were NOT the only ones), and i also understand that they are angry about it. But they have absolutely no reasons to direct that anger towards the Commander. No reasons. At all.

All we did was tell Marjory that trusting a super villain who suddenly pretends to be a good guy might be a bad idea, and tell Braham to wait a few days to see if Taimi could come up with a better plan. And we got a middle finger and a “kittenk you!” as response. It’s nonsense.

Like the title says, is being rude to the PC for no good reason whatsoever a new trend or something? First Marjory, now Braham…. Who’s next?
Going with this flow, is Kasmeer going to greet us with a middle finger and a spit in our face when she finally comes back from oblivion? Because…. reasons? WTF??!

/Rant.

Same. This must be part of Jormag’s new strategy to defeat the Norn. Step 1: prevent the creation of any new Norn character.

Same here, crashed twice while i was trying to play the firs story mode instance with my new Norn character. Does this happen to ALL personal story instances, or just the Norn ones?

Rentapest.6503:

Give the option to press a key and ‘ignore’ ley lines for gliding please!

You have that already. It’s your space bar.

Since you are a beginner (if i’m not mistaken), i say Necromancer. It’s a lot easier compared to a Mesmer. With Necro you get tons of AoE skills that allow you to fight solo against multiple enemies, and a second life bar (Death Shroud) that makes you more durable.

EDIT: Oh, and you can also summon up to five minions.

Europa.4301:

Can we please make these retrievable items like the skins you get from AP chests? Seems silly to spend the gems so one toon can benefit when we have 9+ toons.

You can also do this:

1) Since you are going to spend gems for the unlimited gathering tools, just spend some more and buy three shared inventory slots.
2) Put your unlimited gathering tools in the shared inventory slots, then double-click to switch them with the regular gathering tools equipped on your character.
3) Before logging off with your current character, remember to put the unlimited gathering tools back in the shared inventory slots.
4) Log in with another character, and repeat the process.

Congratulations, you now have unlimited gathering tools on all of your characters.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

Ronin.7381:

Him/her basically telling Lazarus when he appears, “It’ll be a short second life if you don’t.” Did make me chuckle a bit given how powerful he is.

but hey we killed 2 dragons already, you really think that we couldn’t handle single mursaat?

also bloodstone absorption out – if you remember GW: Prophecies – mursaat becomes very easy to kill once you get resistance to spectral agony….

still doable without it, you’d just need to be able to outheal that thing…..

and I’m here on fighting groups of mursaats…

Exactly. You can’t exactly expect someone who killed two Elder Dragons (with the help of friends and armies, yeah, but we still did it) to wet his/her pants at the sight of one Mursaat. No matter how much magical power the guy has. We have defeated stronger opponents before, so a little bit of kitteniness on our part is understandable.

MLinni.6109:

The commander did NOT “roll with it”. S/he told Lazarus to get lost, then Marjory jumped onto the idea and latched onto Lazarus for whatever necromantic reason she had, even being all “you’re not the boss of me!” to the commander when s/he objects.

Yeah, and that kind of kittened me off. I mean, Marjory spent the entire LWS2 (i dunno about S1 because i wasn’t there when it happened) and HoT campaign calling me “Boss” at least once every five seconds, and now she suddenly says to me “You can’t tell me what to do!” O_o
Wait….. WHAT? Yes, darling, I CAN tell you what to do, since i’m the kitten leader of the Guild you are part of. It’s my Job. What’s with your attitude all of a sudden? >_<

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

Logged onto my alt account and my exotic armor says its bound to another player. Needless to say it isn’t. The armor belongs to this character and now i cannot equip it. I am not sure if this is happening with legendary, ascended or rare or masterwork or fine armor as I only have exotic on this account. Please fix so I can equip the armor on my characters.

I also have the “This item is soulbound to another character” thing happening to me, but apparently i can equip the items just fine. It seems to be just a problem of incorrect labelling in my case, thankfully. Still annoying though.

EDIT: It’s as Agsded said. I actually always equip my armor and weapons by dragging them in the hero panel, so i didn’t notice this at first, but it’s true. I cant equip by double clicking, only by dragging the items.

I crashed six times in the last three days. It has never ever happened before, and i started playing in June 6, 2014.

Quaggans are funny and cute. Let’s kill the Krait instead. Nobody likes kraits, they are ugly, evil, and annoying as hell.

DarcShriek.5829:

Lazurus seems to be more powerful due to the excess magic. It won’t belong before he decides Primordus needs to die as well. The excess magic from his death will be too much for Tyria. We need to stop Lazarus from killing Primordus.

Lazarus took most of the Maguuma Bloodstone magic for himself, that’s true. But Primordus has been filling his belly with Ley-Lines magic for 200 years now. I think it’s premature to decide that the Elder Dragon is weaker than Lazarus. If anything, i would expect the opposite.

Starknight.3759:

Will we ever again have a normal beautiful map?

All the HoT maps are literal hell,filled with destruction and they are kinda pain to watch,all them updrafts and floating land chunks to explosions,various ship fragments,garbage etc.

They are war zones, what did you expect?

insomnia.8563:

just tried season 3. some of the story fights are a joke. same with the area and mobs.
I have to get past the boss, but i move so ridiculesly slow, and there is an army of mobs attacking me, while i move, so either i don’t make it, because you move kittenedly slow, or i get killed because of the ridiculesly number of mobs attacking me. And if i manage to get out near it, the bosses aoe just knocks me so far out, i lose connection with the stone in the middle. Congratulation for making a worse fight than the previous onces

You know you need to activate your countermagic skill in order to NOT move super slow, right?

And not having time to play somehow entitles you to have everything effortlessy handed over to you because….. ?
You are not supposed to go to Bloodstone Fen without completing HoT first, because you need the masteries to navigate the map. If you don’t have those, go back to the Jungle until you get them. You don’t need to unlock all of them. As long as you have unlocked gliding up to updrafts and Bouncing Mushrooms, you are good to go. And they are not hard to get. (Of course, having full gliding mastery makes it easier, but it’s not mandatory).

Why lies? I remember my character saying that she died killed by a powerful Winetooth. That’s exactly what happened, so no lies there.

Kell.9365:

I’m so grateful that I didn’t have to pay anything for this trash. I just hope the next expansion will be more playable.

There is nothing unplayable about it though.

Kalendraf.9521:

I was looking for a drinking, feasting, boasting type of option for honoring her as well. I ended up carving the 4 blocks of ice and laying a rose at the statue at which point I was done. I felt a bit bummed that I didn’t get to do anything beyond that.

You can also wash Garm with hot water and Dance while Shaman what’s-his-name plays the flute.

The Heart of Maguuma is a war zone full of Mordrems and many other aggressive creatures. It’s not meant to be a safe place for hanging out, and that’s how it should be. The immersion would be completely ruined otherwise. If you are looking for a place to go afk in the Hot maps, just stay near the entrance waypoint of each map. No enemy ever attacks there.

leeny.5362:

I cannot follow the mysterious figure as some wind keeps knocking me back! Does anyone know why I am missing here? Thanks in advance!

There is a small interval between one gust of wind and the next. You need to hide behind a rock while the wind blows, and then run towards the next rock before the gust returns. Do it again and again until you reach the end of the tunnel.

“Forge your Mistward Plate” is a figure of speech. You don’t need to use the MF at all. Collect the seven items listed in the achievement and you will receive the chest with the Mistward Plate. Same thing you do with all the other pieces of the armor.

Well, even though it has been nerfed (it was harder at launch) HoT is still a lot more difficult than Core Tyria, that’s for sure. Almost all mobs in the jungle can easily kill you if you don’t know how to counter them.

What you mean with “Flower Power”, exactly?

I may be wrong because i don’t really play fractals, but i think you are supposed to play as one of the Charr that attacked Ascalon City 250 years ago in this one. My Sylvari female ranger also got turned into a Charr when i tried this. ^^

I think SW is a lot better than CS, imo. No matter what you do in the SW, you get loot.

If you mean that the glider doesn’t open when you jump from a high place, that’s because in order to actually use the glider, you need to train the gliding mastery in the HoT maps first.

Uzzar.7390:

Add me to the list of people who find the difficulty in HoT maps to be a bit too much. I played from launch to mid-2013, then took some time off to play ESO. I came back a couple of weeks ago to re-learn how to play with the new changes, then finally put down the cash for the expansion.

I knew that the difficulty had been increased, but did not expect it to be quite this much. My biggest gripe is about story mode where you have to solo. Did the developers actually play these through with all classes? Some classes are much weaker than others, and it is very frustrating to die over and over because the mobs all focus on you and the damage is outrageous. I am fine with difficulty being raised, but in my opinion they overdid it and made it too difficult for those without groups.

I have completed HoT story mode five times with my five characters (Elementalist, Mesmer, Necromancer, Ranger, Ravenant), and i did it 100% solo with full exotic gear (i don’t have any ascended item in my inventory except for crafting materials). And please note that i’m not even a good player, i would rather say i’m average at best.
My point is that HoT is far from “too difficult”. Yes, it is more difficult than core Tyria. Yes, you can and will die A LOT while exploring the jungle, but it’s really just a matter of getting used to it. Hell, if i could do it, everyone can.

I agree. Sometimes it gets really annoying when you miss your landing spot because you glide instead of just jumping. The JP in Verdant Brink for example was a nightmare for me because of that. I had to do it with my mesmer using portals, because it was impossible (for me) to do it with another character.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Hey Anet Dev’s.

So lately I’ve had Glider popup issues where it doesn’t show up for a bit.

This made me realise I so want an invisible glider so I can see my character gliding with nothing on her back.

Please.

Are you sure your PC has finished loading the map you are in? The invisible glider thing happens to me sometimes when i jump of a cliff immediately after entering one of the HoT maps, but thats because my PC is still busy loading map elements. Once it’s finished loading, the glider becomes visible again.

Corp Por.1567:

My last 2 POIs for map complete. Do I need leyline gliding in order to access these? I cannot seem to get them.

[&BE0IAAA=] LeyLine overlook

[&BEwIAAA=] Wyverns nest

Wyverns nest does not require leyline gliding. Use the jumping mushrooms near the vista west of central forward camp waypoint to reach a nearby platform, and then climb your way up from there.

LeyLine overlook is supposed to require leyline gliding, but you can use a little “trick” to get there regardless if you have it or not. South of the PoI there is a jumping mushroom. Just jump on that, and when you reach the highest point in the jump deploy your glider and glide to the PoI.

Ayrilana.1396:

The HP by the spiders can be obtained at any time with a leap skills or one of the teleport rifles.

The HP on the far west of the map can be reached at any time by coming at it from above. There’s a path leading up to it from the first camp.

The only ones that require the entire meta to be completed are the mushroom one at the center lane and the one in the final area. The vista and POI also require you to have beaten that meta. The three towers have HP but can be done at any time once those doors have been opened. You can easily get all three once you have completed the tower events.

I’ve done map completion twelve times in that map and 15 min is more than enough time to get what you need and farm pods.

^ THIS

Most of the map can be explored at any time. Only 1 Vista, 5 PoI, and 4 HP require that you do the meta event. And 15 minutes are more than enough to get those after the meta event is over.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

They need to make this game more interesting and take away the demoralising mission/mob grinding as a pve mainstay. They suck.

Wait. Mob grinding? You are not telling me you are trying to level your character by endlessly killing mobs over and over and over again, i hope. Because that’s the worst way to get XP in this game.

Just go around exploring the maps and do dynamic events. You will be level 80 before you notice it.

Oh, and crafting stations in main cities are always available, btw.

Drakortha.6974:

Wanted to just drop this here, because honestly im tired of bugging out/dropping out all the time on these new maps. they are an exercise in frustration in every way. all that guild wars 2 manages to do these days is kitten me off and remind me why i don’t log in anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Q5I9xVhV4

make better maps next time, tyvm.

I have completed all 4 HoT maps (100% map completion) both open world and story mode, with five characters. It took me two months to achieve that, and in all this time i only experienced ONE game crash in Tangled Dephts, and ONE bugged instance in the final story mission, Hearts and Minds. And i have the 32 bit client.

My point is, the game seems to work pretty well to me, maybe you are just really unlucky (you and the other people who experienced all this bugs i’ve heard about but never seen)

Ayochak.8293:

The problem is not the mob, even tho she’s overpowered, it’s the spot.
Putting a mob that does destructive and LASTING area of effect attacks in a confined small space is silly.
Even well timed dodges can’t avoid it.
It’s not just too hard, it’s also very bad implementation.

Indeed. It would not be as hard if you could actually move around and dogde the MQ AoE’s. But you can’t. You are forced to fight in that small space filled with rocks and stuff, and that’s the real problem. I managed to achieve 100% TD map completion with all my five characters, but that one HP was always tough to get.

Strange. After the june 23rd patch, that should not happen anymore. I guess you have been unlucky.

Guhracie.3419:

Sir Alric.5078:

Noob question: What is DR? O_o
The only DR i know of is Divinity’s Reach, but unless you are planning a terrorist attack on Kryta’s capital, i don’t think you are talking about the city. So, what’s DR?

Diminishing returns. It’s the point at which the game decides you’ve done so much of the same thing that you might be a bot, therefore it lessens the rewards.

I see, thank you. It never happened to me, so i didn’t know.

Noob question: What is DR? O_o
The only DR i know of is Divinity’s Reach, but unless you are planning a terrorist attack on Kryta’s capital, i don’t think you are talking about the city. So, what’s DR?

You CAN play it again. With an alt, that is. :P

Uhm, first time i did it with my necro, i killed the Boss so fast that i didn’t notice any of these things. I was just spamming wells and blinds and conditions on him and then he died. Maybe my other characters will have a harder time.

SkullProX.7083:

Hello!

I was wondering why couldnt anet just make it so we can use the elite spec without giving up any of the 3 previous one? It is called elite specialization after all, but like this, its nothing special. Its supposed to make your character stronger, but it just offers a little bit of different playstyle to each class and nothing else. I cant speak of other classes, but for thief, daredevil gives a bit more mobility, but way less dps, than using critical strikes, trickery and shadow arts…
Maybe there could be 2 elite specs for each class, so we HAVE to make a choice, but still use 3 old spec+ elite spec. Or just simply let us use the elite.

Regards.

And that is what they are meant to do. To give you a different way to play your favourite class. If elite specializations really were stronger than the core specializations, who would ever use the latter?

I finally did it today with my Mesmer after failing several times with my necro. The most annoying thing to me was when i wanted to do a simple NORMAL jump but no, my wings opened up and made me miss the landing spot because of a sudden change in direction. è_é

Arctarius.2649:

So I keep hearing from people that te scale of the battle against Mordremoth seems far less epic than that of Zaitan. Even wooden potatoes failed to analyze how large a scale mordremoths was In one of his videos simply because he has not been to dragon stand before completing the story. What people fail to realize is that mordremoths encounter is actually in a far bigger scale than zaitans ever was. The mouth of mordremoth IS actually the embodiment of the dragon. That being said, when you enter his lair in the personal story, that moment is taking place at the same time that the pact is storming dragon stand and confronting the mouth of Mordremoth ( his body). It is even pointed out by one of the characters in the mission that it is our only chance at striking his mind while his attention is focused on the army outside. So all in all , our little group of hero’s did not single handedly slay an elder dragon. It took the entire pact obliterating the body Mordremoth created for himself to sustain all his magic so that the commander ( the player) and his elite squad could strike him at his core at the same time. It almost had a lord of the rings feeling to it in a sense that frodo is you the player sneaking into the heart of the volcano as the army outside distracts the eye of sauron. Honestly to me this was brilliant and I loved that the dragon was so powerful we had to destroy his mind, body and his seed (trahern) all at the same time to completely end him or he would just return.

I completely agree.