Guild Wars 2

Hey all

As the title says i’m coming back to playing this game, last time I played was December last year and I just came back 2-3 days ago and I see a lot has changed, most notably Edge of The Mists has changed a LOT since the last time I was in here.
I’ve also noticed there are changes to the characters skill etc, I read an article, can’t remember which site it was right now, that GW2 had an update that made huge changes to the game back i February I think, it was a pretty long article but in short PvE got the most changes and they were good while PvP and WvW kinda got screwed.
I was just wondering if anyone who has played steady these last few months could update me on the biggest changes that affected the game?

So I was just in a PvP match where my team had a Necro and a Guardian, after a little back and forth our team started losing badly so I decided to just run to our closes point, take it, run to the enemy teams point take that, and just keep running back and forth, but then I saw something interesting.
The Necro and Guardian on my team were fighting a Ranger, easy I thought, but then suddenly the Ranger started healing, so a Druid it was, but here’s the part that surprised me, no matter how much condition damage the Guardian and Necro threw at the Druid he just kept healing to full health, he also had some immobilize skill that kept them immobilized for like 5-6 seconds at a time, and boy could this Druid heal BIG and FAST.
It was almost like it had no cooldown on it’s skills cause it just kept healing and this fight lasted from the score 98-22 until the round ended with the enemy team winning, this Druid was having a blast never losing more than 50% health and healing fully up, barely taking damage and dealing major damage as well, not ONCE did that Druid go down and that makes me wonder is the Druid somewhat overpowered?
I mean if it just healed like crazy all right, but it healed like a fully healing gear Guardian, had toughness like a bunker and did damage like a glass cannon, how is that possible?

So i’ve just came back to GW2, took a break right after the expansion came out and now I feel like trying this game again.
I’ve noticed there are changes in PvP with the expansion bringing new types of builds and i’ve looked up a few, so far I’ve found that MetaBattle has the most recent updated ones and tried the most popular ones, even checked out a few videos on Youtube to see how to use these new builds properly and this is where I guess my rust kicks in.
I’ve always been about a decent PvP player and I don’t think i’m that bad but so far the few builds I’ve tried for some reason don’t work for me, either I don’t do the amount of damage the build claims it can do or last as long as the build claims it can do so I was wondering if anyone knows of any other pages with more detailed info on how to use the builds or perhaps videos that show what to do cause these last 4 rounds of PvP I ran a tanky Guardian build and I still got slaughtered, the most I held out was like 10 seconds and that was with healing and all the boons I could muster.
Thanks in advance for any help!

lordkrall.7241:

Buying it from another site might be a pre-order rather than a pre-purchase and thus won’t give access to the betas.

If you buy them directly from ArenaNet you get the key at once.

The date of December 29th is also totally made up by the store, since no release date have been announced.

It is also worth pointing out that one should always buy the game from official retailers as can be found here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/retailers/ or on buy.guildwars2.com

That explains it, I figured something was out of the ordinary when he said they told him he would get the key closer to the release date but also the release date puzzled me because I haven’t seen anything about it here, thanks for the answer!

I was wondering about the CD key, do you get it right away when you purchase it or do you have to wait?
I’m asking because a friend of mine bought it from some other site and they told him he would get the CD key a few days before the expansion releases December 29th which is a long wait but also seems odd to me because there’s a Beta event this weekend and I don’t know how to access it without having the CD key for Heart of Thorns.

Vayne.8563:

I’m not sure that anything has changed with regards to the focus of the game, but perhaps your expectations were unreasonable too.

There’s no way any company can make enough content to keep you playing forever. So in order to keep people around for new content, you end up having to work toward goals, whatever those goals are.

For some they’re items, for others achievements. Some people play to get better skins, some play to complete collections.

But the bottom line is, you’re going to have to do something repetitively in an MMO, no matter what MMO you play.

I’m aware that things will be repetetive but what kind of ruined it for me was that weapons and armor that were somewhat cool costs like 30-50g maybe even more while other stuff could cost twice as much, maybe even three times as much, there was a legendary sword on sale for 9999g, and at the time besides being very good at flipping the only way to get gold a little faster was grinding this one particular dungeon, can’t remember the name of it, and that’s what killed some of the fun for me, either spending hundreds of hours playing to get one armor set or grinding the same dungeon a few hundred hours less to get the same thing.
Besides I wasn’t asking if anything game wise has changed, but just in general what has changed because Lion’s Arch is not the way I remember it and I don’t know what other maps have gotten a makeover.

Yeah I meant Lion’s Arch, got it mixed up i’m afraid.
I remember Scarlet’s attack but also that event in Kessex Hills, just not sure which one came first but it was during one of those that I quit, not sure if it was during or right after that event though.

Hi all

I’m gonna try and keep this short, about a year ago, could be a a little longer than that, I quit playing GW2, there wasn’t much new, everything was expensive and I didn’t really feel like grinding over and over and over and over to get new stuff, also my friends quit playing.
Anyway now i’m back and the first thing I noticed was that Lions Reach was totally different than I remember it, the last thing I remember about playing the game is that there was an event going on, not sure where it was but there were a lot of poison enemies and a lot of events, one of the bosses was a big kitten spider.
I think that’s the last event I was a part of, I remember there being one in Lions Reach but I think that was before the one I mentioned.
Anyway to keep it short I was just wondering if someone can fill me in on what’s happened since the last time I was around, I know there is a expansion coming and that there are ‘Elite’ classes now, Chronomancer etc, but it would be nice to know what else is going on so I can catch up.
Thanks in advance!

Pip.2094:

SmokeyJoe.4927:

Coopziana: I’ve done CoF several times and all three paths, had nowhere near as hard a time to get through it as with TA…
Pip: I understand some weapons being harder to get, like legendary weapons or exotic, even though it’s not as hard, but when the droprate for something is already 0.03% which is pretty low but why remove the one place where you could get it without having to do dungeons, and with the RNG crap I could do 20 runs and still end up with nothing.

I have to say I didn’t get your words properly in the first time, I apologise. You are right about this, it was quite an unfair move to remove that place and it just gave advantage to Fractals runners…
Btw, if you have a lot of karma to spend, try with Orrian boxes, there you get a good chance to get different lodestones!

No problem
I just feel that the people who have nothing else to do but play this game are getting advantages, I mean sure they will have more karma and gold, get armor etc faster, but why make it so that only those who put several hours a day get rewarded while the rest who have school or jobs and possibly a wife and/or kid/s get punished by having a much harder time getting anywhere, while those players get one step forward in the game the others who spend hours have gotten 20 steps ahead…

Coopziana: I’ve done CoF several times and all three paths, had nowhere near as hard a time to get through it as with TA…
Pip: I understand some weapons being harder to get, like legendary weapons or exotic, even though it’s not as hard, but when the droprate for something is already 0.03% which is pretty low but why remove the one place where you could get it without having to do dungeons, and with the RNG crap I could do 20 runs and still end up with nothing.

First off fix the economy cause the prices are totally nuts, items worth only a few bronze cost you almost one silver to buy while on the other hand items worth a silver or two are sold for a loss, i’ve found a lot of items that are worth 1s 98b and they are sold for 2s, that means I can’t raise the price cause a whole bunch of them er already out there so the chance for me to sell mine is close to none.
Crafting also needs a fix, I spent a lot of time and money getting my weaponsmithing up only to find out in the end that the stuff I need to create the stuff I want are close to impossible to find and I can’t buy them cause the prices are way overboard, let’s say I want a Destroyer greatsword, I need 30 destroyer lodestones, now I can either find them but it’s a 0.03% chance for me to find it as loot, or I can buy it but they cost 1 gold each which means I need to pay 30 freakin gold to get ONE ingredient for the weapon I want.
I could do dungeons and earn tokens to buy exotic weapons with but how the hell am I supposed to do that when most of the dungeons are d*** near impossible and you barely get anything good, at times you spend more money fixing gear than you earn during that run.
Let’s take TA for example, you got a load of flowers letting out poison gas, fair enough, but hey you guys decided it would be fun to put in giant worms that can shoot poison globs that could cover an entire football field, you could kill it you might say, yeah if it weren’t for the fact that there are 2-3 other worms shooting globs at you and other enemies with hammers knocking you down constantly to make sure you are down long enough to get killed, and if that doesn’t work you got dogs the size of an angry mob jumping at you from all over.
So if you could stop nerfing things that actually work for us players and not do a single thing about the stuff that really cause problems in this game it would be great.

Since I got the game about a month ago i’ve had a lot of game crashes and every single time I get the window that the game has crashed and asks if I want to send a crash report, it happens mostly at random, when i’m questing, swimming, buying, selling, dancing, doesn’t matter it just crashes at random, only time it wasn’t random is when I was in WvW and and tried to travel from one portal to another, the game crashed and the crash report window came up as soon as I pressed Yes to travel.
I didn’t have this problem the first few days after I got the game but after that it comes up every single time I play, sometimes it comes up maybe 1-2 during the day and sometimes it shows up 4-5 times, at worst it came up 10 times during a day when me and my friends were gonna go finish up maps together, played for around 5-6 hours and it crashed 10 times before I had enough and stopped playing.

Murderous Clown.9723:

Thanks for responding to my question Smokey. Now if you were to actually answer it I would be able to give you more specific help, as was my intention when I asked it to you..

Sorry I think responded to someone else but put your name in there, anyway the server I play on is Ring of Fire Eu, there have been times when there is a whole lot of people from my team but it rarely lasts long, last for maybe 30 min and suddenly we’re a small group again while the enemy on the other hand have grown in numbers so I don’t understand what the problem is, I mean are these teams just unbalanced and i’m on the team that has the least players in total or do players just not give a f***?
And before I enter a server I check how much my team has compared to the other teams, the one I played before making this topic my team had 115+ while the red team had 110+ and still after about 20-30 min where we were a few player more than them they ran and came back 5 minutes later twice the size they were and we got swept, I tried to wait and see if our team would get more players but players just left, in the end we were around 10-15 players out 40-50 when I first started.

Dark Aidget: No i’m not just in there for Daily and Monthly reasons only, I was there yesterday because of the Monthly yeah but the main reason I haven’t played it so much is because I haven’t gotten fully to lvl 80, right now I am 77.
Murderous Clown: Well yesterday I tried to switch around, at first I tried the WvW servers that looked sort of balanced with neither side having a huge advantage over the others.
CorliCorso: Well I tried all the different WvW servers and at best there were about 20 of us and we took over a few areas before the enemies suddenly came in a HUGE group and wiped us out with ease, don’t remember which map it was, while the other maps either had few team players or the enemy outnumbered us pretty badly.

I haven’t played WvW that much but I have spent the last 2 hours trying to accomplish a monthly objective of getting 50 invader kills, only problem is that after the first hour my team was getting beat senseless by the enemy team, reason? We were outnumbered like 5 to 1.
I have played it 2-3 times before and every time up until now my team were always outnumbered, we try to take over a fort and suddenly the enemies come out like roaches and kill us within a minute, we try to defend and it takes them max 5 minutes to destroy the gate and take over the whole thing.
My question is why is it that one team is so severely outnumbered?
Might just be me but I feel like it’s not a coincidence that every single time i’ve played thus far the other team outnumber us by 2 to 1 or even more…

Just talked with my friend, he said the error code he get’s is 7113190101, I did find a few posts about a similar code only that error code had 189 instead of 190 so i’m not sure if he read it wrong, I heard him wrong or if it’s a different type of error he get’s.

Hi

A friend of mine is having problems with his game, he has a lvl 73 character and a lvl 16 character, the lvl 16 he made 3 days ago when myself and another friend bought the game so we just played together for a couple of hours and everything worked fine.
After our other friend left my friend chose to play with his lvl 73 character so I joined him around since he was doing a lvl 15-25 area but after about 1 hour my friend started having connection issues, he kept getting kicked out and get’s the message about unable to connect to login server, he doesn’t remember the error code but he’s in the game as I write to wait for the kick and get the error code.
He said he didn’t have these issues before when he played but only recently and we’ve tried everything, disabling the firewall, turning off his anti-virus program and every other solution we could come across while google’ing but it hasn’t helped, like I wrote he didn’t have these problems until 2-3 days ago, I myself had one problem where I couldn’t log in but it worked right after when I clicked log in and another where the game suddenly crashed and asked if I wanted to send a crash report, after that the game client had to check all the files to make sure everything was ok.
I have tried looking around and I see some posts where people write they have a similar problem but all of them are several weeks/months old and this problem didn’t occur to my friend until recently.
If anyone knows what can be the cause we appreciate all the help we can get.