Guild Wars 2

When the manifesto was released and the promise of a changing world with events that have consequences for failure… one year on I cant help but feel a little decieved.
The only time I’ve actually felt compelled “We really need to win this event” was for the event chain outside Citadel of Flames so I can actually enter the dungeon.

I was looking forward to the living story where Eir reforges the other sword she found in Ascalon Catacombs and escorts Queen Jennah with Logan and Rytlock to finally lay to rest the ghosts in Ascalon.
Instead we get a Mary Sue who suddenly appears with several armys, has been everywhere done everything and is ruining everyones day because EVIL! HaHa ha.

When I tell new players about stuff from my time spent playing, it was the end of beta events or how certain superbosses were alot harder once (Shadow behemoth what happened to you.. r shadow punch?) When people still turned up for Tequatl or how you created a 5hr event chain that dropped precursers.
Living story? What happened?
Did X, Y amount of times. Got a back skin.

I do have some good points though!
Halloween and Christmas events are amazing I love the effort put into them and look forwarded to the events again when they return.
Sanctum Sprint, Southsun Survival and Keg brawl making a return as daily activities is good but I still want to be able to enter the same match with friends/guildies, alongside or against either is fun.

I was told updating my GFX Driver could fix this since its not a universal problem but cant find anything on the forums suggesting to do so.
Going to update and edit with result.

I just think this fight needed more polish before release.
Multiple enemies/leftovers from previous fight/other glitchs needed fixing
Resurrection upon failing/time out wouldve been nice
Having the Arena above an area where lots of players would be fighting was a cool idea but bad in practice
I also had problems with clones bunching up on top of each other and yet only 1 of them vanishing in a pool of light leaving several clones on top of an orb that will rapidly vanish even after I pick it up.
Was the orb being obstructed by ranged intended? If so BAD FORM Ive failed to rally twice because of that message. Also being killed by clones after using Shield Stance/Endure Pain because of lag was frustrating.
Frustrating describes Liadri in general, all I felt after beating her was relief that I didnt have to do it anymore (the 8 orbs can be for the die hard achievement hunters)
I wouldve preferred her fight to be a little simpler as I feel my victory was mostly due to luck and having the time to repeatedly attempt to beat her.
I was lucky that all the orbs that spawned after her invulnerability wore off were nearby and all I had to do wakitten them with rifle 5 (and none of them missed/obstructed)
idk how you would tone her down but stop from being regularly pulled and/or cripple would make the fight easier without taking the challenge from the fight

Wethospu.6437:

Watch this http://youtu.be/KYAjo4ZZXLo and you can feel happy about yourself.

Is there anything that gives you trouble in this game?

To those saying Clones down you, this is false, check your combat logs. Both the Shadow AoE and Clones deal a large amount of damage which is usually too much to survive but once I wakitten for 19k damage while at full health and just barely survived it.
Also Ive repeatedly been killed while Endure pain has been active my combat logs will show 0 damage from Liadri one second then a clone to the face downing me. Ive not been killed by the AoE while using EP though.
I tried to pick up a crystal and clear out some clones by popping EP and got killed, in the next run I intentionally popped EP and walked into a clone. Death. Fun times.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Nilkemia.8507:

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Nilkemia.8507:

(In before “It’s not luck based, Lrn2play noob!”)

I disagree, the whole fight is frustration, both phases.

That’s pretty much the big killer for me. It wasn’t fun or fair. Just blatantly designed to kill you off in cheap ways.

Welcome to hardcore content. This was the best boss I’ve fought in GW2. If this was frustrating for you, avoid hardcore content in the future.

So content has to involve one-hit kills, gimmicky invulnerability, and the very environment working against you to be considered hardcore? I would think there are ways to make something hard without those cheap old tricks. There’s another reason stuff like this shouldn’t continue.

Thanks for the advice, but I already took the hint and throw away all the tickets from now on, since I can’t sell them or give them to someone else, which doesn’t make sense.

Yes. For something to be hard, it has to actually punish you for making mistakes. If the AoE Circles did 5k damage, the fight would be trivial and you wouldn’t have to know a thing about them. Because they instantly kill you, you have to fully understand them. In fact, because everything instantly kills you, you have to know about everything in the fight if you want to stand a chance. It’s hardcore content. Practice and learn it or go back to the pits below.

when 2-3 clones walk over a light patch and only 1-2 die meaning I cant pick up the orb/s because clones are unblockable
thats me being punished for?
when an orb spawns and pulls me into clones/AoE
thats me being punished for?

The difficulty jump for this fight is frustrating and while some may manage this after an hr or 2 the rest are going to feel like they are hitting a brick wall.
Theres challenging fights that make you feel good when you win and then theres this where your just glad you dont have to do it again. This isnt fun.

The clones are basically unblockable, you can blind them or evade them but thats it. Idk if its a bug or Anet thinks Liadri is too easy but only 1 clone gets zapped when 2 or more walk into a light patch.
Makes picking up the orb almost impossible now with a shadow slowly walking ontop of each orb and rains of AoE, especially since they vanish in seconds even after picked up.
I’m not impressed with this fight, I cant reliably make it to phase 2 despite hours worth of attempts.
Also really ANet? if we die we just get dumped on the railings and pray for a res or pay for a waypoint INSIDE A CITY?
Thanks…

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

We are listening. Not only to what you’re saying but also to what you’re not. The very first living world team actually did the thing some of you have called for. Some 40 or so permanent events were added around the game in our very first content update. They were met with little interest or fanfare. Granted, Halloween may have stolen the show. But those events are still in the game today. I’ve seen very little reaction to them, however, positive or negative.

I saw this and it makes me feel bad but I have to agree , a lot of the extra stuff they added that event I didnt even notice until recently because it was a single line in the updates that they added new stuff to find but what they did add is pretty awesome and Id appreciate more like it continuing forward
Halloween was one of my favourate events and I hope it lasts longer this year

The fact that Anet seem to think that Adnul is a fair challenge and STILL havent fixed this event (which is blocking progress to completing belchers bluff) goes to show how much they actually test their content
Id like to see how long a developer would try and beat this NPC before he admits its broken.

This guy is completely unbalanced, he never bluffs but his HP is huge and he heals 2-3 drinks worth of damage with 1 water can prevent you bluffing for 3 turns and then either punishs your bluffs or worse he punishes your water
I cant see a timing with his water, if I could this would be doable without insane luck
Anet loves its RNG

I enjoy WvW and enjoyed my time spent there but being given 600 badges after I finally got my Gift of Battle is a kick in the teeth and makes me feel like a fool now that everyones just been given one.
Should I wait until Im handed a precurser too or will they be given out just after I get my Legendary?

I personally wished that Leroy Stonekin took the rite just so that in some dungeon path or event we had to chase the mad little blighter again through swarms of destroyers to find his stash of ancient booze.

I agree with OP completely however I also know that Anet agrees with OP that precursers are too hard to get currently
Which is why several months ago I read that they were working on something to make aquisition easier. (Possible scavenger hunt?)
Given time Im confident I can get the materials for any legendary EXCEPT when I look at the trading post for precursers or consider mystic flushing for my own. Its the only hurdle which makes me want to give up and stop playing.
I think that players can amass large amounts of gold are the main problem, whenever I see the top valued items I’m constantly reminded that those people paid more gold to list that one item then all the gold Ive owned and spent playing since release. And then there are people that can afford to buy these items.
What are you doing Anet?

Oh right, putting desirable items in Black Lion/Consortium/Rich Dragon coffers with a low drop rate. My other pet peeve! Id quite happily pay gems for the item itself.
Good luck getting me to throw money away at RNG cash sinks though, I wouldn’t buy those with gold or money if they had a chance at precursers/legendarys.

I roll warrior main and even I agree that 100 blades is pretty ridiculous, we arnt the only class with a multi hit skill that roots us but when you compare the damage its no wonder that people will tell you to go war or go away.

Game unplayable this is really frustrating as I would like to enjoy Dragon Ball and/or my new thief and both are unplayable with the lag issues.
Arenanet probably havent figured out anything or havent done much to find out why this is happening.

Been playing fine most of today but suddenly unplayable from about 8pm for both me and my sister who share the internet (we never have lag issues normally and have checked every possible cause)

Loc: England UK
ISP: Sky Broadband
Server: Ring of Fire

Edit: Im even having issues loading forum pages

After the free trial weekend a couple of my friends are planning to buy the full version and one of them pointed out to me that buying online is still priced at £49.99 when the disc can be bought from a retail store or other online stores for merely £35.
Why is this? we are past beta now and theres no extra benefit other than instant delivery which isnt worth the extra £15. I thought that the advantage of selling online was that you cut out the middleman and save on packedging and discs that hold old versions of the client.
I had to convince my friend he could get the game much cheaper buying in store because he was instantly convinced that the price was ridiculous.
I apologise if this should have been posted in suggestions but I was wondering if there will be a sale or price reduction towards christmas? This game would be a fun gift for a few friends.
Thank you.

I see your point with the respawning but mostly I think its a bug that they are having trouble fixing because Ive seen enemies respawn as soon as their corpses vanish which isnt cool plus that invulnerable thing needs fixing badly
Dynamic events repeat too often too much money being created people just farm repeating events rather then roaming across the map
if they didnt repeat as often and lasted longer people would /map where events were happening and people would map to get them
OWAIT no they wouldnt since mapping to the nearest waypoint costs about as much as a dynamic event gives

Without diminishing returns the value for anything that dropped from enemies would be copper and the price of anything rare would be gold creating an unbridgeable middleground where only the lucky and the people that could play for countless hours selling trash and getting those rare drops would have money
I have 15g and I feel poor as hell because anything I might want is expensive and anything I can sell is worth nothing I can grind events in Orr, farm orichalcum for money but thats not fun and its going to be forever until I can afford T3 Cultural armor. Legendarys are for no lifers.

I understand the need to create money sinks to prevent inflation but it is crushing on the casual player (I have a full time job I cant grind Orr and watch the trading post all day) just to keep up with the current prices on high demand items
The only items that sell for good money are very rare drops with a high demand and what with dynamic events and dungeons being able to create money the community is creating more money then is being used up
hence why most things that arnt rare/exotic rarity being sold for npc value on the trading post

Thats just it they didnt tell me what baffled them, and my account was locked the day after I was banned. I could still log into the website for the first day though. I wanted to see if some other ISP had accessed my account, none had but I changed my password to be sure. Then I was locked the day after from logging into the website.
I’m angry because they havent explained why I was banned when I know I didnt do anything or get hacked.
I’m angry because it took way too long to get escalated despite them knowing something was weird about it they still changed my password twice before investigating further.
After it all I still havent had an explanation or apology.

Ahh well I tried. Although maybe this just got lost among all the hacked threads?

This concerns an incident that started the Sunday of the head start event. I was banned for inappropriate behaviour 5min after reporting a player spamming a gold selling website. I immediately submitted tickets as appropriate (3 total, one instantly and 2 more using the errors as the ticket title)
I realise it was release and that customer support were very busy however it took 10 days for me to get access to my account again with no explanation or apology. It’s only made worse by the fact that I had booked that first week off work to fully enjoy release with friends but instead spent the week waiting for e-mails and stalking the twitter and reddit pages.
I actually had a response from Customer Support on the reddit page but only to say they had all looked at it and they were “baffled” and nothing further came of it.
Eventually after submitting information to confirm my identity they sent me a password and told me I could log in. Except I couldn’t, nothing had changed the error was still there and I was still blocked from the website.
A couple of days later I got a new password and the result was the same.
This was maddening not only were they ignoring my questions on why or how this happened they were just wasting time repeating the same mistakes. It was another couple of days having my ticket elevated and finally having access restored before I could finally log in again. I once more sent a request asking why this happened to begin with and that was 19 days ago.
I don’t expect I will receive a response so I would like to make my complaint heard either here or through other means. Is there an address or e-mail I could send my complaint?
I do not believe my situation was given the attention it deserved given that I was logged in when I was banned, my password was never changed by anyone other than myself before customer service did and my account showed no unauthorised access before I was blocked. I believe this is due to your mistake and at the very least I deserve an apology.

I posted this in another thread but their loss was due to the server rollback from the other day and I decided I might be better making a new thread since this only just happened last night

I tend to ramble so Im keeping this as factual as possible
Leveling weaponsmithing 196 I want 200 before I sleep so I can craft new weapons next day
Go afk to get drink and snack and I come back game is threatening to kick me for inactivity
I move my character and head to the trading post to buy materials for inscriptions
I craft myself to 200 hang around a bit while I check hero menu and mentally add up what materials I need to craft my new weapons
I exit to desktop
This morning the weapons are still in my inventory and my amount of money is the same but my skill level is back to 196 and I still have the discoverys for the weapons I crafted
Granted not a huge loss but a very frustrating set back and it worries me if this sort of thing could happen again only the result would be worse?

I tend to ramble so Im keeping this as factual as possible
Leveling weaponsmithing 196 I want 200 before I sleep so I can craft new weapons next day
Go afk to get drink and snack and I come back game is threatening to kick me for inactivity
I move my character and head to the trading post to buy materials for inscriptions
I craft myself to 200 hang around a bit while I check hero menu and mentally add up what materials I need to craft my new weapons
I exit to desktop
This morning the weapons are still in my inventory and my amount of money is the same but my skill level is back to 196 and I still have the discoverys for the weapons I crafted
Granted not a huge loss but a very frustrating set back and it worries me if this sort of thing could happen again only the result would be worse?