Guild Wars 2

Arenanet thank you for an awesome 5 years! Loving the new anniversary skins!

I have the same problem with the 2-week passes… they only included the three that I already purchased through the Gem store, but none of the others.

They really need to make the Dye’s obtained through the birthday gifts Saleable, which would only be good for the inflated dye economy, and add all the other dye packs and pass locations when doing items like this in birthday gifts.

Falling to death, obliterated by mordrem…. A) Gliding, Gliding…. nuf said.

Seriously though, HoT can be tough for lone travelers, especially for those who haven’t spent a lot of time there or don’t have the masteries.

Personally I do really like all the new maps. As you progress through the masteries they definitely make a difference, and things get easier. The maps were designed to be tough at first, but easier and more appreciated as you increase your skills and masteries.

At first I hated TD as well, but now it’s one of my favorite zones. Why? Because i’ve played enough of the lanes and have grouped up with enough people to finally know my way around. Do I still get lost occasionally, and find new areas? Yes. But if the zone was super easy and you could find your way around everything all at once it would get boring quickly (*points to many of the original GW2 maps).

Looks like people got off topic on this one…

Any advice on how to get the Amalgamated Gemstones other than just outright purchasing stuff off of the trading post? Someone mentioned crafting orbs; any good farming advice on the items required for said crafting?

Thanks!

Shout out to anyone who has done Astralaria or the other HoT Legendaries on how to best go about collecting the resources needed for the Amalgamated Gemstones.

The Legendary requires 250 Crystalline Ingots, and in order to get 250 Amalgamated Gemstones it requires 9 stacks of items that are 30 silver each!

That’s 675 gold to purchase these off of the trading post, and researching on the wiki for where these items come from they don’t look like they’re going to be easy to farm either.

While all of the other items required for the Legendary are still going to take a long time to come up with, and require a LOT of gold, time, and skill to complete, 675 gold required just for one part of one gift is insane to the point of being ridiculous….

Any pointers from those who have actually done this step?

I’m sure this has come up before (didn’t see any recent threads).

I’m working on Astralia, and there are a few temple event requirements that didn’t get added to the recent defense events in Orr (Ancient Charting Device, and Ancient Planetarium Slide), and every time I see a defense mission pop up a small handful of players is able to easily succeed at defending the temples. Specifically when doing Dwayna’s defense mission 3 people were able to kill the champion…

This is making it near impossible for me to actually move forward since I don’t always have 3-4 hours of time to sit around waiting just to have the capture events never come around because of this.

Is there anything being done to require a similar number of people to defend the temples as capture them, or to change the requirements here?

In general I think it’s sad that not many people will be able to experience the capture events due to the temples almost always being captured to begin with.

I purchased the Infinite Continue Coin expecting SAB to be around for a while, or at least more frequent… just to never be able to use it.

If it’s never coming back can I get a gems refund for it?

Let people have the tag, but only force people “looking for mentors” to see it (option in LFG or something). That way people can still be mentors earlier, but we don’t see places like the World Events Train where 90% of the people have floating apples above their heads.

Problem Statement: Everyone is getting the mentoring tag and spamming it on the maps to where it drowns out any real tags and gets very annoying.

Proposed Solution: Add an option to the LFG system that allows a person to actually see those tags. Don’t force everyone to see it; just the people looking for mentors. Add a “new character” help pop-up to highlight the “Looking for Mentor” option to get help when desired.

I just wanted to give a big Thank You to the ANET team for the experience they’ve created in Heart of Thorns.

Despite some of the bugs and issues some people have been complaining about I have had quite the positive experience exploring the different zones, participating in the events, and progressing through the story line.

For me, the greatest things about the original Guild Wars were the excellent story lines added in the frequent expansions, and the lack of level grinds. GW2 HoT brought both of those aspects back to the game and I’m loving it.

The storyline was compelling, with very creative and well put-together missions that actually make you think and come up with strategies for completion. The final battle was immersive and one of my favorite boss battles of any games I’ve ever played. I really felt like everything I was doing in the fight was having an impact on the environment and overall victory, and I’m looking forward to trying it sometime in Extreme mode!

The difficulty of HoT, while surprising at first, really encouraged me to improve my gameplay and brought my skill-level for playing my character to a whole new level which has been awesome! I actually feel like I’m not “mashing buttons” and actually putting more thought into how I use my skills!

And I’ve loved the Mastery Points system, progressing my character by gaining new skills and abilities that enhance my exploration and gameplay rather than just going up a level that just results in increased stats and new gear unlocks which aren’t that meaningful.

All in all, a great expansion guys. Keep up the great work!

With the new system for obtaining Legendary Weapons will we be able to craft more than one of the same weapon? i.e. if as a warrior I want two of the new axes, would that be possible, or are we limited to just one?

Still having the same problem…. what the heck Anet, why isn’t this fixed yet?

This Hero Point in Cursed Shore was the last one I needed for the map, and since it was contested I joined the Melandru group that disabled the statues. Went back to the statue to collect the waypoint and was still getting hit by Melandru’s Sorrow…. very frustrating.

Daily Reward Changes: Love the dailies idea to add variety. This is going to be awesome!

Monthly Rewards: Log-in rewards? Seriously?!? For people who don’t have more than a few days a week to play, and like to crank out the monthlies through some focused efforts, this is really going to put them at a disadvantage just because they don’t log in as often.

Better idea? More variety to the existing monthly system or coming up with something that is done “in-game” to get the reward for those who are dedicated players, but who aren’t able to log in as frequently.

My work gives recognition rewards in the form of gift-cards, and I used to always use them on amazon to buy gem-cards.

However, my last order on amazon.com last month said that they were out of stock, and they still haven’t received any.

Since this is the only way I justify buying gems and I wanted to get some before the next living story content comes out, can someone please look into why amazon.com no longer has the gem-cards available?

I have the exact same problem. I’ve followed all the steps from others on the forums, and have my GW1 and GW2 accounts linked. Still, my GWAMM title isn’t showing up in GW2. Submitted a ticket, and the only response I got is that the devs are aware of it, yet it’s been forever and still no fix. I put a LOT of effort into getting the GWAMM title, and each day I run around and see other people with it, it just makes the annoyance that much worse.

Gaile, appreciate you asking others with the same issue to submit their tickets… hopefully it will move up the priority chain that way =) Look forward to seeing this get fixed.

From a recent update, I thought that all ascended and high-end gear should be account bound, and no longer soulbound. My wife wanted to retire an old character, and move her Light of Dwayna over to a new one, expecting the back-piece to be account bound. To her shock, it was still Soulbound!?!?!

Figured I’d start this thread for people to list out any other armor pieces that still behave the same way, and need to be fixed. To most people in other threads I’ve read on the subject this is viewed as a bug, and annoyance, but to get it fixed we need to increase awareness and demand for a fix. If you have armor pieces that share the same issue, please continue to post here until something is done about it….

GW2 Dev Gods, please hear our plea to get this fixed!

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

The last 10 minutes I have gotten about 10 whispers… It started when I entered Rata Sum for a bit…

Can we please have a filtering system on our whispers so that whispers from a certain bank won’t come through anymore? Or at least give us a whitelisting system, so only people from our friendlist can whisper us if we select that option…

Bumping this one… I think this would be a great idea and would really limit down the gold farmers’ ability to advertise.

Thanks Guhracie…. was just trying to be helpful in letting them know the offending site, and didn’t realize that was a bad idea lol. Just the same, I’ve never seen it so bad before. Hope they are able to do something about it.

Tonight both my wife and I were hit up repeatedly in whispers from randomly generated characters selling gold.

In a single evening she had over 20 whispers, and I had at least 5.

Is there any way to not just ban the accounts being used for these annoying messages, but also the IP addresses associated with them?

It was getting to the point tonight where it was negatively affecting our gameplay.

Just wanted to highlight this since it hasn’t been much of a problem until this weekend.

Not sure if it’s just me, but after the update there’s an insane number of waypoints contested at any given time, making it hard to get around anywhere.

Same thing with my guild…. several people were able to get double monthly rewards, but I who did 5 achievements got squat…

Oh, just looked in the trading post to see what it would cost me to respec my armor with new runes…. going to cost me 23 gold. Thanks guys….

Suggestion for GW2 Developers: When you massively change a rune-set, GIVE THE PLAYERS THE ABILITY TO SWAP THEIR RUNES FOR SOMETHING ELSE of the same value, so they don’t have to redo their entire armor set….

So…. to give some background behind this suggestion: When I first got my Elementalist going I spent a lot of time, money, and energy into getting two complete sets of armor:
1) A Magic Find set
2) A Power set using the Armageddon Balthazar armor…

So when magic find went away, there went my first set (never recovered back to the MF I had from that one)

Now with this update, the Balthazar Runes swapped from giving power to 100% condition damage… but I don’t spec my character to be focused on condition damage.

So now, I have NO good armor sets any longer that suit my play-style, and have to re-do my entire armor before I’ll have enough power to feel good about my Ele again.

I’m surprised no one else has posted on this one! Everyone I talk to in game wants this, so people…. post here if you think we should have trait templates with the new free trait switching in the April 15th update!

@Developers: With the ability to change our traits at any time out of battle, will you be putting in the capability to save off trait templates, so that we can switch between templates depending on the situation we’re going into?

That way if I’m going into a dungeon and I’m primarily going to be doing a support role as an ele, I can quickly switch to a pre-determined template? Or will I have to redo my traits every stinking time?

This was one thing that I remember really liking about GW1 that didn’t carry forward into GW2

My biggest disapointment with the Wintersday Festival this year was not being able to find anyone on New Years to get into the last Tixx missions I missed. In general trying to find a group on GW2 for dungeons is terrible: have to rely on shouting out in /say and /guild chat.

Automatic Group Queue : Please create a selectable option when entering a dungeon to enter an automatic group queue, that will wait until 5 people have entered, and group them into the dungeon, in case they can’t find guildies or people through normal channels.

That or come up with some workable LFG system that will let people see who else is looking for groups for the different dungeons, or just general partying.

Bought a bunch of Gift Boxes from the store with Gems the other day, and ended up getting duplicates of the minis…. anyone know if there is any use for duplicate ACCOUNT BOUND minis? Or did I just waste the money I spent on the Gems for those?

I really think they ought to NOT account bound these minis, so that people who get duplicates can at least sell, trade, or gift them (since we paid for them to begin with).