Guild Wars 2

Hi
I’m expiriencing problem with accessing guildwars.com website.
At home everything is ok.
At work, on different ISP, when I try to access this website and forum, I have warning about security certificate not issued by trusted provider and my adress bar looks like this: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum

In both cases I use latest Chrome or IE (for problem verification only)

I can still access site or forum, but connection is not secure.
Is this forum or ISP related?
Regards

I hope mods here will not understand this as a personal attack on them in any way and close this thread immediately. It is not. It is a discussion about how I think modding here should work and to clarify some terms that I think are not correct. That’s why this is in a Suggestions section of forum.

Today I have again stumble upon overzealous moderator. Some threads about Orr were closed. I participated in one of them.
Now that thread is closed with announcement that anything regarding Orr is in one thread that is supposed to be merged.

It’s not.

Only title say [merged], content is not merged at all. My posts are gone. General topic in this [merged] post is not the same as it was in closed post.

I do not question action of mod, he is after all something like god here. If he doesn’t like the content of thread, he can close it. If he think that too many threads address same question, he can [merge]them into one.

I question technical deployment of this action. If title say [merged] I understand it is [merged]. Posts from closed thread are moved to the [merged]one, even if general topic is not connected to the approved thread in any other point but only with part of name, witch contain word Orr in both cases.

So, finally, my suggestion (2 COA):

1st -Make [merged] posts really merged. Two threads molded into one. posts from both threads are there, sorting is done by time stamp of posts.

2nd -Change the explanation or whatever is it called to appropriate one. Like [approved] or [general topic about]or [(anything else besides merged)].

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@gilosean
I don’t get your camera problem. I always run around, move around and do everything with my right mouse button pressed so I have control over camera all the time. That’s how I control area all around me and not just in front of me. Only places where that doesn’t work are more than 3 steps jumping paths to vistas and puzzles where camera goes beserk.
But I agree, there should be more pants for light armor. I have fem necro and I have same problem, I just can’t find proper leggings that I would like. All skirts are so… don’t know how to express… like I have 4 sizes oversized behind.
<troll>
About “It’s not skirt = stripper, it’s that the whole attitude towards female armor seems to be that more skin = good.”
Didn’t you noticed yet in general western art, the hotter the woman is, the skimpier armor she have?

marnick.4305:

I haven’t seen a single bot in this game yet let alone bot trains, and I’m actually keeping my eyes open for them considering the vocal minority reporting this “problem”. I did my part in making sure my account is 200% secure with two-factor on both email and gw2 account + unique passwords for both.

There is a place on the north where people farm some ice corrupted something. There it was me and 7 others. After 15min I figured out I’m the only one alive, all others were bots. They are easy to spot when you learn how. I reported them and after 2 days they were gone.
I didn’t notice bots in Orr, possible because I’m to busy surviving and fighting, but main reason I think is that bot from north can’t live long enough in Orr so they must have different tactics.

Let’s be honest, Orr is a farming place. And since it’s place for farm, it has to be quick and efficient. That’s why people run around with trains and don’t care for anyone besides them.
It happens to me numerous times in one place. Malchor’s leap low right corner, some 5 trees on one point to chop. I’m dealing with weteran guarding them, a war comes, chops his trees and runs away. Or even better, pulls a train on me, chops his trees and runs away.
I have some new tactics now.
Those are players who run places in regular intervals because they are farming. I remembered some of them, and when I spot them now I always run around, gather a train and run the train on them. It works about 50% that mobs will turn on them, if don’t, turn and repeat. Once I had to follow one across half of Malchors, but eventually mob got him in the end. When he was on the ground I thanked him for his behaviour, told him that I will repeat procedure every time I will come across him and walked away without resing.
When I see someone running with low health and only one or two follow I help. Always.
When I see champ event I stop and help. Always.
When I see someone fight on my way I stop and help. Always. Except if I have my own little train, I try to avoid bring trouble to others.
If I run for my life and there is player on my way i usually run mob on him. I just need some time to regen, then I turn around and finish mob. Usually I apologize and no one is mad on me, because I turn around and fight. And be honest, if one can’t survive 30sec of fighting alone in Orr, he shouldn’t be there.
When I see someone running with train 4 or more mobs I help mobs. Always. I just hate engines in those trains.

Been there. It took at least 20 of us and 20 min to bring him down. Interesting expirience. A lot of kiting, a lot of resing, ranged attacks only, a lot of dying before I learned how to stay far enough from him. No chest in the end, loot was something white, so next time i got to him I just passed. It’s not worth it. I was like 3-4s in deficit after he finally fell for armor repair.
Some champions are fun. Some are even soloable, but this one is to be avoided.

I know a bug that boosts me, but I’m not stupid enough to publish it. It would be nerfed tomorrow. It’s not exploit, just some 10-15% buff.
On the other hand, if a bug corrupt something that should work and is not in player’s favor they took their time.
Posting bugs in general section and asking for reply will get you nothing. Did it, was deleted (not closed) in 30 min.

Edit:
When our profession will get boosts and fixes in comparison to e.g. ele, witch is already polished but still got 8 boosts and 1 fix I will publish that bug. So I think I’m good for at least a year.

<[PVE ONLY!]>

I use DS it a lot. It’s great to tag everything in DE, gives allyes some health, keep my golem up all the time and mostly saved my kitten a lot of times when I stayed in it long enough for heal to recharge. It’s there, it is avaiable and why not use it?
But I see nothing special in it. It’s just another skill bar, like one for any other weapon. No true corrupted necro ability to play with death and dark magic. Like I said, nothng exclusivly necro special.
For me to have extra value it would have to be more “twisted mind half mad half out of this world necro” oriented. After all, necro plays with death and underworld and who with normal mind would go and play with so dark magic if one is not at least 30% twisted in his head? I would agree to shorten it’s duration if it would have skills that would blast the …… out of mobs. Now we have some 1v1 blast, 1v1 transport, 1v1 fear and only one AoE life siphon. If I call forces from underworld to help me, mobs should know that. They should fear me more than 1 for 1 sec, they should be chilled and their spines should be shattered at least 600 distance AoE, they should see dragons and ghostst and monsters from their worst nightmares….

Wet dreams.

But again, if DS is there and it’s usable, I will use it even if it is not anything special what makes me Necro.

</[PVE ONLY!]>

Based on bugs fix count and nerfs we are one of the class that has almost no problems. Look at the ele, they got 21 fixes!
Why do you all complain all the time?

It works on Android with Chrome browser. It doesn’t work in Win7 with Chrome browser.

… that Anet will kill Necro.
Why?
There are tons of bugs reported in Necro forum and almost no response from devs. Last “bugs” fixing nearly one month ago adressed nothing important and some Necro players feel it more nerfing than fixing.

After last discovered bug that life siphon actually heals mobs (verry small amount, but anyway) I’m afraid that tipical group forming for dungeons will be like:
“LFG 3 more XXexplore”
“take me”
“no go, you’re necro, you’re healing instead of killing”

So, if no one want you in party, what’s the point of playing?

If anyone asks or demands answer from Anet, thread is locked becouse: “based on the fact that this thread is a staff call-out and, as you well know, such a thing is not allowed in the forums, the thread will be locked”

What do players think, is it worth reporting bugs since no one answers to reports, is it worth to play broken class, is it worth to play class that will be rejected by groups in near future?

I don’t ask this devs, I don’t want to be locked because staff call-out, players respond only.
Does anyone besides me think that with my money for game received Anet has at least a little obligation to listen to me and fix obviously broken things? It’s not like “I wish something like that would be implemented in game” it’s like “my car does not perform as stated, so you should fix it:”

I bet that they would fix immediately one bug I found and it is in my favor. It’s not exploit, one can not make any money out of it but it makes fight little easier. I’m not reporting it until others are fixed.

LithePanther.5027:

As unpopular as my opinion is, I will never hold back in any low-level event. And the reason is low-level loot sells…and sells for quite a lot.

I’m not going to give away my loot and money so some lowbie can do a 15-second event that repeats 2 minutes later. Sorry

I see you’re not familliar with basic concept of GW2:

No XP steal
and
No loot steal

If you tag mob and do BASIC damage you will get both xp and loot. Loot will NOT be based on your dmg done but by dice. As soon as you tag mob and do minimum dmg ( when you are lvl80 just walk by does some dmg, you’re in for dice throw. If you’re lucky you get, if not you don’t get.
You have to do some % of dmg and it is minimal. If you kill mob with one shot than those who are same or under lvl does not have time to even tag anything, so there is nothing for them left.
Risk two hours of your precious time and do a test:
First run be egoistic
Second run one day later, same spot, same events, help people and let them play.

Report difference in XP and loot here.

Hi, nice topic. I came across one of those fun spoilers few days ago. I created new ranger and while I was unlocking skills for bow hunting by scales he came across and decided to go hunting too. Needles to say, in the time that my arrow needed to fly to scale it was already dead. So first I thanked him for his showoff and invited him to 1v1 in some arena, but with my other toon. He didn’t even respond because he was too buisy wiping poor scales with one shot.
I do go to lover levels, mostly for hunting skill challenges or I do raid over mining and tree chopping. Offcourse I get near DE and if I’m there then I go in too. What I’m doing depends on what is to do and how many players are around. In large scale events I pop control conditions and boost others, but I try to do nothing serious. I learned that if I dont do too much I still get gold reward and I don’t want to spoil others fun.
If there is a champion and only two or three around then I go to tank and let them kill the champion. Did anyone notice that tanking in low level fights is a lot of fun, but only after you learn that you’re squishy and not even remotely invincible? It can be expensive too to repair damaged armour.
Even with downleveling we are still OP. If we want to spoil DE we can easily do it. If we want to have fun and let others have fun too, we can do it. It’s our choice.

ostracize.8316:

When did I say anything about the people complaining? All I did was expressed how much I enjoy the profession.

I didn’t say you say anything about the people complaining. I was saying that posts like yours are jewels on this forum, witch is full of “buhaha, Anet nerfed my necro, it’s full of bugs, I won’t play it any more, I’m UP, I can’t kill 10 mobs in under 3,5 sec, mamiiii, mamiiiiiiiiiiiiiii”
:)

At least some people enjoy playing necro and not whining about how it is broken, how Anet doesn’t care about it…
I love it. I really do. 2 days ago I just finished “A light in the darkness” with my lvl48 necro without any problem. I regulary get gold reward and tons of loot from any DE I participate, even if there are nukers and melees who finish group of mobs in seconds… I die in such rare ocasions that I forget to repair my armor.
Seriously, where would the fun be if necros could wipe out entire mobs in seconds? As it is now it is fun. I did’t try it after last update (some called it last nerf), but in general, necro is for people who can and do think some seconds in advance.

Is it even possible to finish all hearts without killing anyone? Than how does one unlock all weapon skills?
Or is it just trolling?

Did anyone actualy tried this now or is all written here only a guessing game?

One more article, they benchmarked GW2 on different HW configurations. Results could be quite interesting:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html

xanitus.9784:

As of right now the only reason I would use a golem is if i wanted to knock people down and miss a lot with charge also <_<

I love my golem. I’m mostly PvEing alone minding my own buisiness and I found it priceless. It’s always on, min cooldown time for elite, it can be healed (DS + traits) so he wouldnt just die when I need him, he keeps aggro, if I’m in trouble he can charge and give me some seconds to breathe and regen, it has decent AI for something undead, he can survive some time even spiked and it’s not too ugly.
As for stability, i don’t know. Necro’s primary job is casting so he should not be in the melee/knockdown range anyway, except quick jumps in, making havoc and jump out. Sometimes I already feel OP, but in the other hand nothing kittens me more than being constantly on the ground when doing one skill challenge somewhere in Norn teritory. Something flying should be killed, forgot what.

I don’t think any other class except maybe ele is better in tagging/ getting loot in DE than necro. I won’t claim it when we talk about single target/ champion, but on group of mobs….. I often participate in DE’s that are 5-8 lvls above me (sill 50) and I always get gold reward and a lot of loot. It happened to me in some chained events that I couldn’t pick it up any more because bags were full.
You have some excellent AoE skills. Learn where mobs come in, it’s always 2 or 3 directions, not hard to do it, place staff skills in their path, dont stack them one ontop of the other but spread them a little, when they trigger them jump in the middle, enter DS, skill 4, and if you have any traits in death magic, life siphon will heal allies. It’s really great when you see white and green numbers flying all around you. With little practise you can tag every mob in DE and you DS bar will always be full.
Main line you have to follow here is: you are not dumb war or guardian who jumps in the middle of the mob, swing his axes or greatsword and he is “ohImsobadkittenIwipedouteverythingonmyownnealinfrontofmygreatnessyoumaggots”. You have to plan ahead. You alone can put group of mobs, no matter how big it is to 50% health before dumb war can even spot them. But then you have to retreat and recharge. Since mobs are running in from different directions go to the other one, place staff marks in their path, wait for them to come in, repeat procedure from spot no1, then go to spot no1 and pick up the loot, return to spot no2, pick up the loot…. Once you tag them and do some damage ( marks have initial burst dmg) loot and XP is yours, so there is no problem in running here and there and tag them all.
Necro is profession of skill, it has long learning path, but when you master it you’re the biggest badkitten there.

Well, kitten happens. I admit I did it sometimes, but it was always the “OMG have less than 100 health and DS empty” mode. I always turn around after I had at least 50% health and help clean the mob. But lately I learned, if I run away for my life and spam Necro staff skills on the ground train stops following me.
I also encountered that someone else pulled train on me. Usually running out of the cave when I was entering it, but that is not a big problem, when entering cave you expect to fight anyway. Sometimes they turn and help, sometimes not. If I see somebody running with train following and if I don’t have anything to do sometimes I even join the train .
I don’t recall anyone pulled train on me just for trolling. Or I didn’t recognise trolling. It was mostly running for life or running because “I have to get to the toilet or accident will happen to my shiny bright new super armour pants!” At least I think of that when I see people running around with train tail.
But, what is the difference between have train jumping on you or sudden respawn of wolf pack on top of your head? It’s dangerous world all around you.
But please, I never managed to pull more than 4-5 of them. Anyone claiming that he encountered/ pulled like train from India with countless of mobs is a liar. They loose aggro long before that can happen.

Just one thing. Necro is hard to master, but when you do it, you’re almost invincible. There are two health pools, normal and DS, there are three different skill bars, two weapons and DS, and there is traits line. Right now I don’t remember which line does what, but I use the one that gives me retaliation when entering DS, 50% more life gain in DS, 50% of runes on armor and weapons are condition damage, the rest are power, toughness and vitality.
Usualy combat looks like this:
On group of targets, lay down all staff skills, pull mob to you over that “mine field” and they will be on 50%, enter DS, jump in the middle of them, skill number 4 (some kind of life siphon, skill 3 fear, exit DS, retract a little so they group again when they follow you and lay down all of staff skills again. If any of them survive all this just finish him with axe.
I’m level 39 now and I can easily survive up to 5 foes 3-4 levels over me, even if they come one by one. Yesterday I beat up 3 weteran oaks in group, one of them was skill challenge (those are like harder). But necro is not invincible in all situations. If you encounter Champion alone you will still die. Tried that yesterday. After 3-4 minutes he was on 75%, but I was dead.
Remember one thing. If you expect for fight to last a little longer don’t empty your DS bar. Enter DS, 2 or 3 skills, exit DS, do havoc with staff or axe/dagger, then you will learn when DS skills are about to be recharged, DS again even if it is not totally full, rinse and repeat…

I have also similar issue.
Beware, this only happens in/after visiting Black Citadel. I can play for hours with avg 50-60 fps as long as I stay out of the Black Citadel. If I go in, fps drops below 30, i think average is 10-15 fps. When I leave Black Citadel to any other zone (Norn, Human….) it stays as it was in BC until I preform restart of the game.
I also noticed that if I walk through BC and don’t have floor (any kind of) in my view fps goes to normal, but as soon as I look little lower so I can see floor fps goes to 10-15.
Maybe there is in floor textures in BC something that ATI can’t process as it should?

I don’t remember that Andrew had daughter Petra. I think Andrew had no offsprings at all. Petra was one of his battleschool classmates who got married with Bean.

If I browse forum not logged in, because there is no autologin, and I find topic that I want to reply, I go to top of the page, find login button, then I login and I’m redirected to first forum page, not to topic I was in. Then I have to browse forum again to find it and post a reply.
Is it possible in the future to be changed so after I login I will be redirected to the page from where I did login? I cant’t remember that any forum now (they did in the past but not now) redirect you to first page of forum.

I didn’t wrote ‘kittenly". I used word witch describe female in bad mood. The one “say another word and I will rip your head off” This forum have autocorrect and I approve that.
My engrish here is due fact I’m doing this on android and I’m to lazy to find out how to set up spellchecker to english. Sorry bout that. :-P

tralon.2135:

My grandaughter is only 7. Is there an easy setting for a player in this game?

Sorry, forgot this:
She will choose ranger becouse they have pets. She will refuse to wear better stats armor becouse “this skirt is so ugly no one would even think of wearing it”. She will spend half of hour to get to vista and then she will be on vista and watch landscape for another hour. She will help everyone who is in trouble. She will stick with bow “because that is what rangers do!” She will explore and discover every possible corner and hole on one map and only then she will go forward. She will enjoy jumping puzzles even with lousy camera (I hope they will fix it).
Her concept of what is fun and how game should be played will be so much different from yours that you will not be able to comprehend. For you killing superduper boss is main goal. For her enjoying eye-candy (and this game has a lo of it), explore and have fun is main goal.

I’m not werry far in game, I took my time in exploration rather than level run so I don’t know if this is how it suppose to be, but I have to ask.
I’ve done that Svanir dome event like 5-6 times. That should be one of two chained events on every map. When killing the big boss on frozen lake (the othe chained event on Norn territory) there was allways chest, on Svanir dome there was newer chest. Not for me not for others. Is this bug or chests don’t spawn allways after big boss is dead?

My daughter started GW1 when she was 8. She found her own fun in game. Her goal was not to kill everything she saw, but to run around with her pet and have fun. Her leveling was slow but exploration experience was better than mine. I had to help her with some quests, but as soon as I got over difficult points she continued on her own again. She aquired all possible pets and mini pets. She changed armor like every week. She was extremly unsattisfied wit my selection of armor dyes and I had to listen to her witch colours I should be used. She learned how to communicate with people in english language. Well, that could hardly be called english, for me it was more like some sort of very bad international version of english, but who cares. She could communicate on her own.
Now she is perfectly mentaly healty young teen. No traumas, no suicidal or killing tendencies, she has developed social skills, and yes, she can be kitteny like every other teen with raging hormones popping out.
Violence, adult themes? I had some concern about it, but, turn on TV or open newspaper and tell me about violence and adult themes. In fact, she just jelled at me the other day why did I killed that beautifull moa bird.

I sometimes hate this skill and guardian who spams it.

If I play warrior, I usually jump in the middle of the mob, swing my axes and all of them are getting dmg. Two or three times are usually enough combined with adrenaline burst skill to put them down. If mob is too strong, then I jump out, wait for recharge and go back again. Fast and clean.
But if there is overzelaous guardian who does not look what is going on and where am I with my health or what is mob doing to me (conditions, knock-backs and so on) and keep spamming SoP then mob is thrown all over the place and I have to chase them 1 by 1. And I hate it most if I just use adrenalin burst and mob is pushed away, so it goes out for nothing.
Don’t get me wrong, SoP is very usefull, but it has to be used right. If preasure is too big, use it. If melee’s are knocked back, use it so they can get up. If you see boss is getting ready to do wipe out, use it. But please don’t spam it and don’t use it if war is having mob under control.