Guild Wars 2

It is not right.

DPS meters are one of the best things to happen to the game. They let you see where you are and what to improve. They also make it easier for people to play with like-minded people, and to remove those who are just there to be carried. Too many people in gw2 want to get carried, it’s shameful.

I’m not sure how to feel about the costs in time, they are kinda high. However, comparing it with raid armor is not actually quite accurate.

For raid armor LIs you literally need to be good and do your job, and the ten million billion threads on the forum with people complaining proves that it’s not as easy as it sounds; buying runs is an option I guess but it would cost I think in the hundreds of thousands of gold for 150 LIs…

For wvw tickets you just need to be in wvw and take something once in a while. It can be boring if you do not enjoy wvw, but it is stupid easy. Maybe the huge cost in tickets is there to balance the lack of relevant skill needed.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

jucep.2094:

no more Ticket cap , i just got 14 tickets on the first Diamond Chest after finishing diamond tier.

This is unintended. There is supposed to be a weekly ticket cap and we will be fixing this.

Hey I don’t mind the weekly cap, but if you are gonna increase it midweek then let diamond repeatable give tickets until the cap is reached! There are many players who finished already and they are missing out. By playing so much already, they are the most dedicated, so to say. You are literally hurting the people who are most dedicated!

Yes, it would be a very good ideea to make all wvw ktrain. No thank you.

Swagger.1459:

This game has ZERO monthly access fee, so I think some of you need to stop complaining about the $30 for an xpac (that took 2 years to create)…

It’s not the cash value that is the issue here, it’s the lack of consistency. When you say one thing and then do another… well… you know how that is.

Then again, they did not lie. They just used alternative facts.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Everyone should get the same pips for playing in wvw.

Wrong. People who are not participating or are doing so poorly should get less rewards. Veterans will always do better than newer players, for the same reason an experienced soldier with deployment, specialisations and training, will do better in war then a recruit fresh out of boot camp.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

You don’t get legendary armor or legendary fractal back piece faster because you have been playing pve for 5 years.

Wrong. You get them a hell of a lot faster than new players because of various reasons, but mostly because you have the resources to craft them fast and the expertise to do the content faster and better than people who do not have your experience.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

You don’t get the legendary spvp back piece faster because you are rank 80 and played spvp for 5 years.

Wrong. Having played a lot of pvp and therefore being better at PvP means more wins, which means getting it literally faster.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Sure hope they add exclusive stuff for “veteran” spvpers and pvers. But I bet they won’t.

Ahahahahahahaha, are you for real?! This game has been 95% PvE oriented since launch, almost everything in it is pve exclusive.

It is your entitlement that is the problem here, son.

Yes, a true godsend! Let’s give more rewards to the people who do not play the game mode! Are you on a server that cares about wvw, is organised and plays it consistently? Well kitten you, you get less rewards than people on ghost servers or who afk! Woooooo

5/7 system anet, pls moar like this.

I think they drop more from the guild comms stuff than the ley-line stuff. A lot more. At least that’s how it drops for me.

This ideea is one of the worst cases of “cutting the arm to remove a bruised finger” that I have seen in a good long while…

PLS ANET NO!

EOTM already ruined wvw once, we don’t need it doing it again…

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

I’ve played a good amount of wvw since launch and am rank 364 with about 360 hrs in wvw. Feels unobtainable.

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha

Guys, we need to change the meaning of the phrase “a good amount”!

360 hours in 5 years is nothing.

It only feels unobtainable. Booster up and play wvw, if you want the wvw shiny. WXP is sooo easy to get…

Ah, yes, how I missed pve entitlement!

Leave the pips system as is. Improvements:
1. commanders should get an extra pip per every 5 members of his squad; yes, up to a total of 10 extra pips just for commanding – if he is good enough to attract a full squad, he should be rewarded well. Reward our awesome leaders!
2. remove outnumbered pips. Or make it 1 pip or something. 5 pips is ridiculous and attracts stupid farms.

Jski.6180:

A lot of ppl get legendary armor with in mins of the update what next for them? Are they realty going to keep raiding even though they have the best gear in the game? Are raids going to be HoT only and the next expansion going to bring the next thing maybe dungeon will make a come back.

Gw2 is not a game for raiding yes you can have it in the game but there nothing to keep ppl running them once they get the best gear in the game.

As a raider who finished his legendary armor when the patch hit, I am really going to keep raiding. Why? Because I want all 3 armors, for one. I also enjoy the content, it is very satisfying to clear raids smoothly and some of the fights I really really like, especially Xera and Deimos. There are also skins to be had in raids and some of them are really really nice. I also enjoy the gamble of the exotic per kill; who knows, I might get even a pre some day. While raids aren’t really the top moneymaker, you do make some money especially if you have a group which runs smoothly. Not to mention the free ascended drops which are very nice, even though dwayna knows I’m way past the point of actively needing them.

So overall I will keep raiding, and I am sure I will even after I get all armors. Because the content is nice and tbh I can’t wait to see more raids. They have done a very good job of them IMO and their stories are very nice and very well-put. Rest in peace, friend, you have certainly earned it; you are finally free.

Jski.6180:

Ardid.7203:

People keep saying raids require skill. I think it must be true… However, skill is NOT what defines raid difficulty.

- People whitout skill can still be carried. The mere fact that there is “selling” of raid completion is proof of this.

- Very skilled people are still unable to raid because factors not related to skill: access to 10 man groups; availability of long, uninterrupted, scheduled and frequent time periods for raiding; language and communication options; etc. Lots of skilled people are not being rewarded.

There goes the “reward for the skilled”. Change it for “reward for people with lots of time to play” and I’ll believe it.

I think a good argument is that “reward for the skilled” is missing the point of once you have it the legendary armor becomes a “handicap” set as in you do not need to be as good of a player when you have it on you just need to run the right “meta” build for the fight.

Real skill would be playing though fight with exotic of lower gear. That where attachment should be and less for ppl with high level gear (legendary being the highest.)

This is not true. If you raid for long enough to get the armor, I daresay you become good enough to play that content well by default. If you are not trying anymore, it will be apparent immediately and you will be out of the good groups.

As for me, personally, I enjoy striving to be better. Since DPS meters are legal, I can actually see how well I am performing and if I am doing better or worse than the others. And I always want to do better. Raiding with people who are better than you is, I think, preferable, because then you are always on your toes to improve and not seem the black sheep of the group, regardless of what gear you have. But the same is valid for raiding with people who are not as good as you, since you don’t want your numbers to drop to their level. All in all I think the DPS meters are a great way to improve the raiding experience.

Legendary is not the highest set of gear, it’s simply the most convenient. And ascended is easy to obtain these days.

Running the right meta build is not mandatory, again thanks to DPS meters: as long as you do your job and your numbers are good, people won’t care if you run the meta or some wacky build you made but which works.Sure there might be some kittens who complain even then, but I found through experience, to my surprise, that they are actually the ones getting kicked, because people generally preffer less drama like that…

And regarding the “not having enough time to raid even though I am skilled”, I call BS on that. I also didn’t have enough time to raid, but I decided I wanted it hard enough so I made time. I had to wake up at 3-4 in the morning on Mondays in order to participate in my guild’s raid training sessions, raid for 2-3 hours, then maybe get another hour of sleep and then go to work; I didn’t feel especially well on those Mondays, but I learned how to raid. I also had to cut on doing other stuff I enjoyed in the game so that I could raid more, again due to lack of time. And I did that as well, because I wanted it hard enough. So no, not having enough time is not an excuse; it just means you don’t want it hard enough. This in itself is not something bad, but it does mean that it’s not for you. So stop whining.

I am glad to see the sense of entitlement on these forums has remained the same since I last was here.

If you want the shiny, why don’t you do the thing that needs doing to get the shiny? How hard is this logic?

All this whining can be mostly paraphrased as WE HAVE DONE NOTHING AND WE ARE ALL OUT OF IDEAS. There are guilds teaching raids, there are teaching runs on the gorram lfg kitten … But why bother when it’s easier to come to the forums and whine and whine? Smh…

As for the screenshots, they are highly disappointing to me. I will have enough stuff to make one at release and another in a little while, but will probably be done for the stats swapping and runes thing, rather than the skins. Maybe the videos will be more convincing, but after seeing the one for the heavy armor, I sincerely doubt that. The movement of the armor is cool and all, but the skins are… just… so… disappointing…

At least I’m hoping for a new legendary weapon to come out next week…

:(

I think it’s this E character.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

I did this fight, first time, on a full zerk rev. with power/prec food, and shiro/glint.

Pretty much an l2p issue.
The aoes are easily avoided while running around grabbing the bloodstone shards – they do ~20% break bar when thrown.

Nastiest part is the jade construct adds I found. I had to clear those out asap.

Pretty much this.

The NPCs even res you if you get downed/killed.

Nice encounter, a good step away from the ridiculously easy usual stuff found in the LS. Nice to see things going in a different direction from the press-1-to-win mentality.

I’d like to see titles and/or AP for people who craft multiple legends, 5-10+, maybe split into generations.

Like, for someone who has all generation 1 legends, he should have Master Of The Credit Card. And for generation 2 it would be something like Man Is This Guy Patient With Anet.

Please give us an option to opt for either Tomes or siege (cough-superior-cough) in the tracks, this would be satisfactory for everyone I think! Or allow the exchange of tomes-for-siege. Be a pal, ANet!

Story is garbage, but all this cutesy stuff is really killing the release. Why the kitten do you need to put all this cutesy BS in the patches?! Ember Bay was one big joke all around, between skritts and frikkin clowns and OMG that stupid Aurene. Bloodstone Fen was much, much better. Atm the top 3 of your 3 releases is 1. Bloodstone Fen, 2. Bloodstone Fen, 3. Bloodstone Fen.

And why is Braham hating you? You literally killed the thing that killed his mom, and he was there too. You can crap out “explanations” but that doesn’t mean they stick. So much potential, all to waste.

Since we are ranting, how about the fact that they removed the moderately-useful boosters, but you still get tomes of knowledge and transmutation charges?!

Remove those stupid tomes and at least bump the transmutation charges to 10, not a measly 1.

I would personally like to see the cap removed.

An alternative would be to have the chests above 30-something thousand to come every 100 AP and not 500 AP.

I don’t think there is a way right now but I guess it would be cool to have one.

Honest John.4673:

“Of course people can add their map in the message, but it shouldn’t be necessary”

Well it is. Maybe you’d have a better time if you stopped focusing on how things OUGHT to be versus how they are. If we get the map next to the name it’s a good thing but till then the problem exists between the keyboard and chair.

1. Giving feedback is usually considered a good thing, though I see many would preffer the crowds to just line up and thank ANet regardless of reality.
2. I see that victim blaming is a very real thing on the forum. Yeah, I know it’s a mild comparison, but it applies.

Whatevs. It’s gonna be somewhat useful, even though it’s done in the typical ANet manner of stopping just short of the promise land.

Whiteknighting is always funny.

Of course people can add their map in the message, but it shouldn’t be necessary since it seems stupid easy to add tags to names in team chat. Just put an EB, RBL etc after the name and it would be sufficient. Why make this awesome feature and fail at this very simple thing?!

Team chat across maps. Awesome.

No map tags in team chat. WTF!? “Bay needs help, wurm gate 30%” – WHICH BAY?!

While soloQ in unranked on my DH I had a team of 5 DHs. The match was a hillariously stupid roflstomp, the opponents never had a chance in group fights. 1v1 at least 3 of them were better than me and some others in my team, but at one point the score was 400-80 in our favor or so and then 2 guys in my team said to just sit on home and we win by default, which we did. I have a screencap of it but it’s home and I am at the office now.

DH is too strong right now. To my shame(?) I am playing it now to finish those Capricorn achievements, E Z wins. Too bad most times it’s Coliseum, though.

Longbow plox. Then scepter.

I take objection to your micro-aggression, it should be “Why aren’t xe called Keep Ladies?”!

I 110% subscribe to this, please add more normal-looking swords ANet!

Also, @OP – this is another nice gs to use: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ebon_Vanguard_Greatsword

I have I think 50? of them by now and I haven’t touched gerent in months. They are easy to come by, they drop from chests in TD as well.

Please add an option to the merchant to sell him fractal potions (regular and large), either for relics or something else. Getting the infinite potions makes the regular ones useless, for those that choose to get them.

They’re also used for legendary armor and the generation 2 legendaries, but I agree, it would be nice to have more uses for them.

As a clarification to some people in this thread, you do not need a “good team” to get the gift in ~8 hours, you just need to max your participation as fast as possible (cap camps sentries etc) and then run around and do stuff so it does not decrease. Once you max your participation, you get the same amount of participation points every 5 minutes regardless of what you do, as long as you do something. If you have no boosters, it takes about 8-9 hours. If you have XP boosters, it will take about 6 hours since they give 50% to the score you get every 5 mins, and if you have potions it will take even less. So stop your kittening.

One of the worst weapon sets I have seen in gw2.

Endless fractal tonic is too cheap.

Why is Lazarus a bro now?! Have you even played his quest in GWEN?!

The baby design is ridiculously stupid and has nothing to do with Glint or Gleam.

Marjory’s plan at the end is one of the stupidest things I have ever EVER heard of and I see no way in which she can hope to achieve it, given what Lazarus is.

Humour is good but too much humour is bad.

Considering how Gleam looked (https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Baby_Dragon), I found the design of Aurene to be insultingly stupid. It does not relate to the old art direction, it does not relate to how Glint looked, it does not relate even to its importance and scope. But hey, it’s cute so the masses will love it, right!?

Another reason why minis in GW1 were valuable was their relative scarcity. In GW2 it rains minis, so only the rare ones have any value; not to mention that a ton of them are account bound. ANet ruined minis when they made soooo many of them, so easily obtainable and most as account bound.

I sincerely doubt they would to this kind of armor which is usable only by humans: asuras have furr-ish stripe-ish thing, charr have furr, sylvari have leaves and norns already have tattoos.

But I would love it for my characters!

A very easy way to getting some ascended trinkets is Bloodstone Fen. You can purchase ring, amulet and backpiece there for the map currency. It takes a while to farm but it’s super easy.

Be careful as rings are unique, even the Bloodstone Fen ones for some reason. So you can only wear one of each name. However, you can bypass this by having 2 rings of the same name and infusing/attuning one of them in the Mystic Forge; that way you can use both of them.

Another way to get rings (only) is through fractals. Aside from the rare drops from the daily chests, you can buy 1 ascended ring of your choosing for just 10 pristine fractal relics. You get 1 (or more, not sure) pristine fractal relic from each daily fractal chest, so in a few days you should have more than enough for 2 rings. Again, same thing as above, if you buy the same ring twice you need to either infuse or attune one of them.

But if you buy from fractals you can simply buy 2 different rings with the same stats, there are always 2 different rings with the same stats (for example: berserker rings are Ring of Red Death and Crystalline Band). Or you can buy one from fractals and one from Bloodstone Fen, the choice is yours. My recommendation would be to only buy the backpiece and maybe amulet from Bloodstone Fen – the amulet you really should buy with laurels, it’s only 20 laurels if you buy from WvW laurel vendor, who has all laurel prices discounted but you need to also spend a little WvW currency.

Ascended accesories (earrings) are best bought with guild commendations, which you get from doing guild missions. See wiki for details.

All the best!

Rockfur raccoon is my favorite. I have a whole farm of them because back in 2012 when I was new and didn’t know about the invisible bags, and in the days when Deposit All would also deposit your minis to the bank, I came up with a “genius” ideea on how to keep my furry friend in my inventory: I bought an extra 250 from the HoM merchant and deposited those in the bank, so the tab was full and I always had the 251st with me.

Other minis I like are: Tequatl, Xera, Owl and Molten Effigy.

A lot of trolls in this thread, and a lot of vitriol against warriors. I guess some people need to make themselves appear better by making others appear less. Ah, well.

The 2 classes are fairly different and each has a different strong advantage: warrior can soak up damage and passively heal with signet, while the thief avoids taking damage by stealth, evading and throwing blinds. This does not mean that a warrior will not be melted down in seconds if he just stands idly by, positioning and evading are crucial. That last part mostly applies to HoT mobs, as the core ones have grown old and weak and barely scratch you regardless of the class you are playing.

Both classes have excellent mobility, the best in the game in fact, but I think the thief has a slight advantage here since he only needs shortbow+1 utility skill (shadowstep) to increase his speed, aside from his F1 which needs a target, while a warrior would have to run greatsword/sword+warhorn and have a dedicated utility skill for bull’s charge if he wants to keep up, thus sacrificing his second weaponset just for mobility and have no ranged damage.

Thief also benefits greatly from stealth and this can help A LOT in the open world with skill points and exploration.

In the end, my recommendation is to take both to 80+elite spec. Along the way you will maybe decide which one you like best.

But if you are just starting playing and find GW2’s combat system a bit odd, maybe warrior is a better first choice due to how forgiving it can be when you make mistakes.

I would love to have this.

I would also like to be able to buy 1 golden relic for something like 200-500 pristine fractal relics.

#givepristinierelicsvalue

DBL is okay-ish as long as it’s not my home BL. This week, it is. FML.

I understand there are people who like it, but the very low numbers of people playing DBL while there are tags up and zergs/havocs in the other BLs and EBG show how many they are. Bad map is bad.

Aaaaaaaand still no answer from ANet. Great handling, 5/7.

Yep, it looks really stupid to hold them like that. Not saying it’s 100% impractical, it’s just not how it should be.

Pls make it like gw1…

Bank tab discount.
Phoenix glider discount.

Wanted bank slots but they already delivered and my lootsticker’s inventory is now 60 slots-wider.

The amount of people defending ANet’s decision to stop (postpone indefinitely, w/e) new legendary weapons is astounding. I guess people like to be lied to, or just think that, since they don’t care that much about new legendaries, then it doesn’t matter, not realising that once a payed-for promise is cancelled, others can be cancelled too. Because that is the problem here, this wasn’t something hinted-at, this was a straight-up selling point for the expansion.

Nonono, OP is a poor misunderstood chap who was only trying to help, while the big bad toxic community jumped on him and kicked him! True story! It’s not like he came to the forums to spread lies about a raid group and try to make the raid community appear as evil when in fact he was 100% to blame?! Who would do such a ghastly thing?! The raiding community is soo toxic and wrong, amirite?

This right here is the issue folks, there are so many people like this it’s unbelievable. This is why people have trust issues in dungeons, fractals and raids (mostly raids), they have to deal with this kind of people.

Guys, let’s not mention the cool stuff from GW1, please. ANet will just add it as a stupid gemstore skin and every bit of prestige that came with it will be lost, and we’ll only be left with the bitterness.