Guild Wars 2

I will admit that the HoT expansion could use some more non-party/guild content. What im really against is them reworking the current content to make it easier. Before the expansion the challenging content was countable on one hand. Now i have a lot more and im loving it. I hate seeing a world full of enemies where i can just set a fire field down, stand in it and the enemies kill themselves.
When they fix the map population issue we should have a lot of these complaints solved. At that point even if you aren’t in a party a lot more random players should be around to help you out.

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Rasimir.6239:

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Skye.2038:

I keep seeing this “people wont want to help out with old content” but the champions from the new Hero Point challenges seem to drop some good loot once a day if you’ve already unlocked it for you character. Am i wrong about that?
Seems like a really good incentive for helping out people who don’t have it already.

If that is true, that is a step in the right direction. The biggest problem with doing old content (i.e. Orr, Living Story) the don’t make it rewarding for people who have already done it.

Yes it is. The hero challenge champ events give champion bags, map currency, experience, and map event participation once a day. The hero point itself is kind of the icing of the cake for first-time participation .

I’m fully expecting “hero point champ trains” to be a thing in the future.

Right…

What’s going to be the motivation to do these hero point champ trains, when people have nothing to put their hero points into? (i.e. they finish their specialization)?

Nice reading comprehension. This is why people are having trouble with the content.

Running D/D ele in a mix of exotic/ascended celestial and the content is tough but im doing pretty well. I absolutely love the Air overload. I spam it every chance i get. I hardly ever have to even leave air.
Air Overload
Glyph of storms – usually they are all hurting pretty bad here and i just clean them up
Tornado
Healing/might stack rotation
back to air.

I keep seeing this “people wont want to help out with old content” but the champions from the new Hero Point challenges seem to drop some good loot once a day if you’ve already unlocked it for you character. Am i wrong about that?
Seems like a really good incentive for helping out people who don’t have it already.

Wow, I cant believe im seeing all this complaining about grouping up in an MMO. Isn’t that the point? I was coming here just to say how much i enjoy it and i see this thread.
Every time I play the new content im excited that it so hard you have to group up. It actually feels like an accomplishment when you finish something. Also its a good reason to run around with your guild/friends. You do have friends, right?
Anyways, thanks Anet for some quality content. Please don’t downgrade the difficulty. There already plenty of easy content in the game. My guild and I are having a blast.

Bliss is absolutely right on all points. Except maybe laptop cooling pad. Ive never needed or used one. I just want to add that I have played GW2 on a lot of computers of varying quality. The component i recommend you focus on is the CPU. GW2 is very CPU heavy. Even on low graphics, Ive had terrible framerates when i had a great graphic card but a mediocre CPU.
When i played with the opposite situation, Great CPU/integrated graphics card, it was a much better experience. I could have medium quality and still have decent framerates in zerg situations.

Calyptica.6758:

Same here with “Exotic Hunter”… =/

Twin Sisters and Twin Talons are 2 different exotics that share the same skin, so you wont get the Twin Talons collection achievement for owning the other.

As for the first problem your ring is infused, which the game counts as a totally different item. But i agree it should still count.

I want to add that this happened to me. Some of the engineers died and the door wouldn’t ope, so we couldn’t get the last cooling rod. We ended up using a super buffed warrior to get through the burning area anyway and activate the switch. We fought the final boss and when he died we WERE NOT teleported to the treasure chest and we couldn’t continue to the next fractal. It was extremely frustrating to get to that fractal have all the problems we did and have our progress denied by all the bugs.

Same thing happened to me. It was working until i tried to transmute it onto a reward i got for the first dungeon, AC. After that i tried transmuting it to other helms and its still bugged.
I even went as far as to get another one from another elementist i made and it was still hidden.
Other helmets seem to show fine though.