Guild Wars 2

Considering the base game is 4+ years old and the HoT expansion is over a year old, charging $50 for the game is silly. My friend plays the f2p version and wants to buy the game, but refuses to buy from an online CDKey store as he’s been cheated in the past with invalid keys. Few brick and mortar stores have the game in stock and the ones that do, such as Walmart, still charge $50. Anet, it’s time to drop your prices and encourage new players, especially if the rumored second expansion is coming… gotta get people hooked on the game so you can sell more expansion copies!

Are WXP upgrades account based or toon based?

Same issue. I’ve restarted the client for patching 3 times now. Still gives “Connection error(s) detected. Retrying…” error after about a minute of trying to download the patch.

Is there a location to find the patch for manual download without the GW2 client?

Agreed. The timing of this “joke” was poorly planned. Furthermore, this joke has broken so many of the animations to the point that I find the game too irritating.

Anet, revert your crap.

Will the new expansion address the obvious imbalances in the way teams are created in WvW? I’m new to EotM, and so far, I am always placed on a team that is outnumbered 50 to 1. What’s the fun in that? Granted, I started playing GW2 after the apparent megaserver creation, so I have no reference for how it was prior, but it seems like the megaserver should match an entering player to the team that needs the most bodies in an attempt to balance the teams. Maybe I’m missing the point of EotM, but it’s not fun to always be destroyed. No level of skill can beat the incoming slaughter when outnumbered this much!

New EotM player here… there are a LOT of “wvw imbalanced” topics, so it’s pretty evident that it’s been an issue for a while. So putting my 2 cents in… since all my experience with EotM is on the tiny teams that get absolutely hammered by teams that outnumber us 50 to 1, I fail to see the “fun” in EotM. I guess destroying a little team in 10 seconds might be fun once or twice, but would seem to be really boring. From the little team perspective, it’s not fun at all to be instantly killed the moment you leave your start zone.

I have the issue trying to access EotM. Just loads and loads. I have to kill the game, relog as another toon, and wait for my first player to timeout in order to log back on her.

Guessing that with the problem up for over 12 hours and no response from Anet, this isn’t going to be a quick fix.

Thanks Ojimaru. I’ll spend more time on my guardian and apply the build changes you recommended. I appreciate the feedback.

Hi all. I need some profession advice. I’ve been playing for a few months and have allowed others to kill my enthusiasm for GW, so I’m wondering if I need a fresh start or just a different perspective. I have 3 level 80 characters, but I have virtually zero experience in dungeons. I’ve leveled them all through mapping and personal story. I still consider myself a bit of a rookie, so I’ve stayed away from what the forums label as complex prof’s such as mesmer or engi. I want to stick it out with a profession and “do everything” in the game before I split any more time with alts.

First 80 – Guardian – I like the profession, but I got a lot of negative feedback from pugs as I died a lot in dungeons.

Second 80 – Necro – I found the class to much more survivable (maybe because I started to appreciate the game’s mechanics!), but pugs are rather “racist” to the class, and I got insta-kicked several times before I could even say hello.

Third 80 – Condition Warrior – I liked the sword/sword approach, but pugs would kick me for my weapon and signet selection.

Third 80 part 2 – Power Warrior – I went through the expense to replace all my condi warrior stuff with berserker gear and an axe/mace – axe/sword build. Then the might nerf in the latest patch happened and several “pros” have done nothing but bad-mouth warriors since. I feel like I wasted my time on him.

So that’s my long-winded story. I just want a profession and build that I can stick with and shrug off all the negative feedback/kicks. I realize that the most common answer to this is “just play what you like” but it’s hard to like any profession with the negative experiences. So it’s likely that I’ll lose interest in the profession before I find the perfect one.

-Soup