Guild Wars 2

Was when I unlocked that last turret or toolkit… Have to agree with above, the alchemist/commando vibe isnt what I signed up for. and the gadgets are mostly terrible. I love my engineer though. dont want to shelf her. One day! Waiting for Anet to do something.

Always waiting….

woah Maggy really woke up today, and we are seemingly stuck in a drinking contest with DB.

love how close the fight is so far. this is going to be hell of a week.

At this point, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPMmC0UAnj0 seemed relevant.

Legendary Golem skin? This one right here.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_adQFJxToEyc/TFQJxeTtZUI/AAAAAAAAAz8/JRiww16a_-g/s1600/Sucker+Punch+Poster.jpg

pigtaro.2749:

Evalana.5480:

I’m not crying, I’m sneezing! Honest!!

Looks like you are sneezing while crying :p

My thoughts were ’facepalm in 3.. 2.."

Oh man, can we fast forward to the part where you lot stop kitten on each others hushpuppies about who is now where and get back to work?

Score update so this isn’t entirely a whine post;

FA: 79,186
DB: 63,031
CD: 57,176

yeah still nothing that way.

Normally I wouldn’t be so concerned, but that was a lucky drop dagger, rather expensive.

Sent mail to a fellow guild member, Swervo, yesterday containing a Malefacterym I was giving as a present to his rogue for when it hits 80.

As of posting, he still hasn’t received it. Is there any assistance I can seek into this issue, please?

tigirius.9014:

Chase.8415:

I play less than 20 hours a week

I make roughly 3-4 gold a day running FOTM 15+

No complaints here, there’s nothing hardcore about me.

You can make the same amount of gold doing world completion, dungeons..

If you’re worried about repair bills then you should simply die less.

tigirius.9014:

they could easily fix this if they made it so that the only cost for teleporting was outside the zone you are already in.

Or like I said, you can die less and preserve your gold more efficiently. A lot of activities in this game award 1-2 gold an hour.

Die less is not an option as an engineer unless you are all shields all the time in which case each fight with a normal mob lasts days. (i do not wish to return to the days of healy priests in vanilla wow or early loremasters in lotro thanks, combat should not be nerfed like that)

Funny, I’m managing perfectly fine with my second engineer now. Running as crit rifle.

:D I walk. Encounter events. Get money. Have fun.

Journey. Not destination~
This game will still be here tomorrow. Don’t need to get everything yesterday.

Happy New Year from Random Janthir player;

Score as of post;

IoJ: 89,415
CD: 81,076
AW: 67,898

Heres to a good year of killing, maiming and random pillaging!~

Like I advised my guild leader a while back. When in doubt go back to jumping 101; Mario Brothers.

Ran out of gold I’m willing to spend to try get this thing.
Shame.

Supposedly what I have spent is remarkably tame.

What outrageous amounts have others spent and how many tonics later are you with/without the endless version showing up?

On the subject of PvE vs WvW, counter to some of the above arguments, and in recognition of the above points that they are currently very separate and don’t care about eachother:

I’d like to put my name down to support any effort to make a server as a whole; PvE and WvW, feel more united against other servers. so it really ALL is WvWvW.

Bonus points if it gets those spamming jerks out of Lions Arch and spread all around the world to participate.

Sudden thought. What happens when every Tom, Richard and Harry with a spare bit of gold gets a badge and we have loads of them on the map purely for the sake of having a map icon?

My major problem with this… ‘culture’ is as follows in simple dotpoint form.

And I do want to disclaimer here that this obviously doesn’t apply to EVERYONE.
I’m coming from a perspective of having far too many groups ruined by some self important kitten.

Situation; AC Path 2.

> Person A calls to skip mobs on way to ghost eater room from traps.

> Group, or a majority of it, meets an unfortunate end at the ghost waves.
(Usually one mouthy one who called to skip somehow managed to drop combat and survive.)

> Some of group needs to run back.

> Scavengers. Enough said here.
Suddenly running back is a freaking headache. Oh and now the one person mentioned above waiting decides to get mouthy. Verbally abusive for ‘wasting his precious time’

>Realize that…

…by the time everyone finally manages to finish the little game of frogger back that more gear damage has been done, everyone is now frustrated, Insults have often been thrown around, someone has generally left in anger and a replacement has also shown up also had to do the dash to get in…

…You could have just killed the kitten things, taken the loot and be done with it and everyone is happy.

In far less time.

Bottom line I want to get across to this little culture is that if they want to do their dash runs, do it in an organized group of like minded people.

Personally I do not welcome the sass, insults and other terrible behaviour in a random group.
Or at the very least, drop the bullkitten and be willing to compromise with those who are new, less experienced or are having trouble getting through. just like you are. Ensure your group knows what you are skipping, and if they get caught, PLEASE be willing to help them in getting through.

Have a good day all, and go have some fun.

Feels good to have the worlds all very close in score. A very nice change!~

so I can chaperone others around and promote terrible habits? Awesome.

That’s just silly. You’d be cutting out two realms of players from content. Think of cases where a particular server dominates, or one simply cannot stand up to the others.
Technically you would also be welcoming ‘trading’ of winning position with this method. Loose example; this happened in WoW cataclysm with the prison island. Horde and Alliance teams had organized it so they would lose/win for their later benefit. Of course this isn’t the same conditions, but it fits.

And on another note, something nagging me at the moment is a certain attitude I feel around here;
Just because you (anyone, I don’t mean this to seem a direct attack.) want to label yourself as a WvW player, doesn’t give you the right to start taunting and belittling those who do not get the same enjoyment from something as you do.

One point I’d like to drive home is that I have avoided joining any ‘WvW’ guilds so far.
I do my research into possible circles of people to become friends with. Occasionally I have noticed anti-PvE player remarks, I’d imagine not usually made on purpose. But they are still around. These put me off joining such groups. Sometimes for fear they would not agree with or allow me to enjoy what I want also.
I don’t mean to target anyone with this so please don’t misunderstand, but more let it be known in hopes to aid your efforts. Some of us may feel targeted or discriminated.

Instead of alienating PvE players, time and effort should be finding ways to introduce and welcome them to contribute towards a servers progression.
And in this I don’t only mean currently existing ways, but possibly evolutions to Guild Wars 2, both in WvW and PvE that could be propositioned to Anet.

Hopefully I haven’t upset anyone with my post but rather hope it may help in your efforts.
Good luck, gentlemen and/or ladies.

Been having frustrations with this temple over the past few days. One major problem we seem to have is that no one wants to come back up, because the nearest secure waypoint is meddlers, and is a very long distance away.

The other being the Anchorage. Three times now whilst assaulting grenth that has been taken.

The waypoint inside Grenth temple is useless. Instead I would have thought it should be at Death’s Gaze Torch, which by that point is being held by the pact, a rally point that would make sense for reinforcements to come from.

May also help attract support when people don’t have to navigate undead swarmed lands for a good 3-5 mins before even arriving, and when they do its usually exhausted from the run.

Just completed the run to level 80 on mine last night. Definatly tested my patience a few times. cant lie that there were sections where I was so frustrated I wanted to shelf it.
Main with a staff. secondary switches as I need. Usually sceptre/focus though. People say I should be sword/pistol but I don’t fancy it.

:/ My engie or warrior can rip up way easier, I don’t even have to think.
But I’m that silly sort of stubborn that I enjoy my mesmer more.

:D I’m looking forward to the change personally, I hope it will renew those who were tired, and bring new cream to the top. A nice fresh start of sorts.

I’m mainly a PvE player myself, but with this change, I’ve decided I’m going to get in there and lend a hand as much as I can also, even if its just babysitting supplies.

Looking forward to seeing you out there~

Obviously I cant speak for anyone else in IoJ, but I welcome a change of opponents for once.

As a PvE minded IoJ player, I have a very hard time adjusting to the demanding reaction speed/strategy etc needed for PvP. It is a different mindset. I still get in there occasionally, but rarely feel like more than just another number following the herd. And caught alone I’m more often than not screwed.

WvW results support PvE progress. I’d like a way that I, as a PvE minded player can also support my realm in a meaningful way. It would be nice if there was a way to make the world feel more united, with both PvE and WvW contributing, but I can also understand the complexity of such a concept.

Granted most of you can point out the obvious solution “grow some PvP balls” but sometimes its just not that simple.

Still in there trying though.

+1 support for bringing it back. I like to see what nifty toys I pick up and if they will look good on future characters.

You are complaining about 50ish silver…? Really?

Woah, stop the presses…

:D to me, this is us rid of another ignorant fool.

Next thread!~

Onshidesigns.1069:

Skribbl.7684:

Strongly disagree with this concept.

You lot are already complaining about how lonely the world feels and how separated everyone is by dungeon difficulty levels and story mode vs explore mode. This can only make this problem WORSE.

Instead of entertaining this idea at all, put more effort into giving people a reason to be out in the world to meet up with others. more reason to run those dungeons with others. and reason to join in the random events and support each other.

Personal Bots are not the answer.

Story mode should have the option to play with bots.
Explore mode needs a dungeon finder.

There has been news on these forums that they are working on an internal dungeon finding system. One of Roberts posts, couple of weeks ago.

Story mode will likely have changes with this ‘dungeons overhaul’ that keeps getting spoken of. What their final idea will be, I dunno.
For the purposes of story mode, I suppose that would be satisfactory, as personal story isn’t much different. Mayhaps a scaling ability when additional party members tag along.

For out in the world, or exp mode dungeons, I just cannot agree to a bot system. They need to promote working together in an mmo, not embrace being alone.

Strongly disagree with this concept.

You lot are already complaining about how lonely the world feels and how separated everyone is by dungeon difficulty levels and story mode vs explore mode. This can only make this problem WORSE.

Instead of entertaining this idea at all, put more effort into giving people a reason to be out in the world to meet up with others. more reason to run those dungeons with others. and reason to join in the random events and support each other.

Personal Bots are not the answer.

PvE minded player reporting in. (seriously cant pvp to save my life most of the time -_-)

Did the PvP achievements.

Actually had fun doing it.

News at 11.

New player, and mostly pve minded, reporting in. Have played engie to 80, warrior is currently in its 40s, and I have an ele on the side I play as well.

Mesmer, for me, is a constant source of headaches and utter violent frustration due to its inability to operate even half effectively as my other characters. My engineer rips through any foes, and my warrior, simply put, feels immortal.

:( and as much as the class makes me curse and jump up and down, I cant shelf her.

I am also having an extreme amount of trouble fighting a whole pack of them with my mesmer.

happy day for me when the present reveals skritt to fight and not these damn powerful toys. -_-

make sure you got every single piece of fence, every tree and every post. theres some that look destroyed that are not.

Just had similar problem. just solved similar problem.
Good luck

Araris.7839:

Turkman.1089:

kittentail.7492:

I’m all for everyone having fun in the game, but the mindset of people who play MMOs these days that theyre entitled to have EVERYTHING is cancer. Its all fluff, it is time for some people to accept that something is too hard for them and move on.

This attitude is everything that’s wrong in this world.

Additionally, ANet wants to retain customers. And if a large portion of the playerbase is unhappy with something they’ll move on. I’m assuming that jumping puzzles as a concept are probably the hardest thing to accomplish in this game. And I absolutely don’t understand, why it wouldn’t be better to have varying difficulty levels for them. And I must say that I have absolutely no respect for people like you that seem to want to exclude others from having fun in a part of a video game.

I don’t care for rewards, so I would have no problem if I would get nothing for finishing it. But I must say that I also think that it’s a very stupid design decision to create a thing that doesn’t get used by most of the players because it’s too difficult for them.

I would actually say your post may be “everything that’s wrong with the world.”
It’s becoming a trend in gaming that everyone feels entitled to everything. Whether they have the skill, time, patience, etc, doesn’t matter, they want it so it should be handed to them.

If you can’t do something, then you try harder at it, if you’re not willing to try harder, walk away. Don’t demand something is brought down to your level, don’t ridicule others because they actually try to achieve something while you sit with your hand out, saying “give me, because its fair.”

The training wheels are supposed to come off at some point. Fly, or fall.

I have to agree. Its becoming a real curse on the gaming world.

I’m terrible at PvP myself, won’t lie. Thought the Snowball fight achies were way out of my league. Like the other pvp achies, Thought I wasn’t going to be able to get it.
But I really want that title.
Stuck into it for a few hours this arvo though and eventually got them. Not going to say it wasn’t frustrating at times, but what it was is enjoyable. Having such great time in the snowball fights that I even stayed for an hour or two after Id completed it. It felt like an achievement. It felt like I had done something big. for me anyway.

Life story over;

TL;DR:
Achievements should be achievements.
Your “lower level content” is the ability to play.
End of story as far as I am concerned.

:D The mesmers may want a word with you~

After coming from just one such terrible a run; Stop people having the ability of running through freely like the police are at the door at they have to hide the miniature pony dressed in leather in the back room.

Sick of it!

How about not making one scale you up to its level and taking everyone away from the rest of the world?
I’m a newer player, and only just now found out about this. Feels pretty bad.
Its no wonder I meet no one whilst I’m out exploring these days.

My brother is having the same issue at this moment, he cannot log in to assist me in levelling a bandit camp. He’s made multiple login attempts and is not getting an email.

an announcement in the announcement forums, you say!??

Invisibility trick ones are permanently invisible, stave bandits throwing insta-spells. knockbacks are practically an insta death.

Hope this one gets attention quickly. clearing zones and levelling is incredibly difficult with this handicap. any newer players are going to be having extreme troubles.

Relying on a third party to fix oversights is a Bethesda level incompetence. This website is a band-aid fix at best.
I also agree this should not be stickied as a solution.

I would seriously hope some development time is being put into making one for in game.

Short answer; 30-45mins minimum sounds like a good target. anything less, to me, isn’t an experience.

A vary on dungeon length is also good if done properly. some longer, some shorter. The tricky part, as with anything, is making them ALL worth playing.

I am fairly new, but experienced enough with the game to be getting a larger picture of the community. I feel the dungeons so far (the few I have done) are a good step in the right direction to making content varied in methods of completing the tasks. (ie, fractals each having a slight unique task, or AC having the traps event and so on)

I often enjoy longer runs with a prepared team.
I enjoy exploring, and clearing. Difficult content. Unique content. parts that make me think before I leap. puzzles and more.

I don’t want to start a debate about it here, but especially so in a game like this, I’m saddened when people want to just skip immediately to the end of a dungeon as fast as they can for tokens or whatever. I love the journey more so than the quick satisfaction of the destination. and again, personally, I am saddened that only a few months after release thats the extremely overwhelming vibe I get from the major population.

I hope there is a way to reverse this. For the entire point of playing, I feel, is about enjoying the journey.

Have fun, people.

I gotta throw my hat in with the “Don’t skip stuff” lot. As such, I am totally in favor with the ‘not resetting mobs’ suggestion above. And to clarify; I’m not talking about the ones you can sneak around. I’m meaning the ones people specifically just run THROUGH.

Hate it.

Group is more than powerful enough to clear this stuff properly. Nine times out of ten the mobs skipped will cause a headache later when someone dies, gets caught, falls behind or whatever and then the group waits for them to attempt to leg it through.

I’m no genius, but I know which one saves more money, more enjoyable, less frustrating and much less time consuming… For everyone involved.

And related to this, I like to think there is a special place in hell for the person who calls for the skipping, and then complains when it later comes back to bite him in the kitten