Guild Wars 2

I am literally disgusted by the fact that 19 days and 600 posts later Anet has still failed to even comment on this issue in their OWN FORUMS.

CharuStar.4109:

Not sure how much truth there is to this but figured its worth taking a peek?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3qi7vf/spoilers_ranger_tiger_pet_found/

Confirmed

Edit: I actually saw 4 individual spawns of this, and they respawn pretty quick after being tamed

Juvenile Electric Wyvern found.

You have to complete world event in Dragon Stand. Located at the hero point inside of Dragon’s Domain you will find this little beauty.

Edit: Tiger was not found, but there is a timer on how long you can remain in dragon’s domain before game kicks you out, so did not get to continue looking.

2nd edit: Right Here

I am fine with the limited # of new armors, I just wish the medium armor skins would stop SUCKING SO HARD! Seriously. Awful.

Can we please get some more fur/light metals/ninja. Seriously, there are so many options other than a fricken tanktop/trenchcoat combo.

I should be upset that you removed this gate after I already completed story but I suppose I didn’t technically lose out on anything and now I have itzel poison lore 4 so I guess all’s well that ends well.

Elite spec is also complete, full druid here. It seemed excessive at first but once you really get into it the HP come pretty quick.

Zaroua.2714:

“Engi’s will be brought because they are the highest single target dps and there WILL be mandatory condi phases.”

Engineers are thought to be the highest single target DPS profession. Doesn’t mean that they are. It’s not because someone has “done the math” that the math is accurate nor does it mean that the math is being interpreted correctly nor does it mean that all the variables used are correct and accounted for. What am I talking about? All these flashy DPS numbers don’t take Alacrity and Quickness into account. Mesmers can give out ridiculous amounts of both of these to others: nearly 100% uptime on Alacrity and a very high amount on Quickness. Hell, achieving a higher Quickness uptime for the group might even be worth sacrificing more personal DPS for the Mesmer – I’ve argued on the “might be” part in the past and I continue to think that the effects of high Quickness uptime along with Alacrity are severely underestimated by the GW2 theorycrafters.

I don’t really know what to say… do you even read your own posts? Just because you think GotL is to strong, doesn’t mean that it is. And it seems to me that nobody else posting in this thread thinks it’s an issue either. I don’t know what your problem is with Ranger, maybe you think that whatever class you currently play is about to be replaced. Maybe the problem is not the class, maybe your just not very good.

Article is full of misleading information. Thanks anet for always being ambiguous.

“…By completing this collection, you’ll unlock a recipe to craft the first iteration of your precursor—a nontradable exotic weapon with a distressed version of the existing precursor skin…”

“…Completing this collection unlocks a recipe to do just that, resulting in another nontradable exotic weapon with the existing precursor skin….”

“…This final collection unlocks the recipe to craft the polished final iteration of the precursor…”

Why make it a recipe if you can only craft it once. Just silly.

I have not seen any official word stating the collection can only be done once. It makes sense but would be extremely disappointing. It is possible that by speaking to the NPC, whoever that may be, to initiate the Pre-cursor collection you may be able to reset it similar to the PvP reward tracks. Will have to wait and see. I have also not seen anything that says the Legendary Item will not be trade-able, only that the Precursor is account bound.

I am also disappointed that they have chosen to abandon dungeons and are further discouraging players from doing them by removing rewards however I have hopes that there will be certain aspects of the precursor crafting that will have to be completed in the dungeons. That should keep participation up a bit.

Always sad when a developer abandons content. Underwater… PvP maps… Dungeons

Downed state is not dead. If you want the effects of being dead to be applied to downed state then kill all necro minions, kill all mesmer illusions, kill all engi turrets cancel all aoes previously placed by the player that is downed etc

I wanted a means of crafting a legendary that did not include RNG. That is what they are implementing. Success

And the potential 30 days of time-gated crafting is significantly better than 3 years of waiting for RNG to yield a positive result.

I like the concept and build options for the Druid. I do not like how much they seem to imply that the druid will be almost a requirement for HoT content. I really hope they take a step back and make sure that all players/classes are not being forced to play a certain way and that all classes have the ability to fill each role.

That being said I can’t wait to get hands on.

I am not a new player, however after playing yesterday I felt that this would be an excellent way to level up some of my lower level characters. Little did I know that all experience had been stripped from the event.

I don’t know what people were thinking when they advertised this to new players and then removed all possible means of reward/progress from new players.

No exp for kills, no loot from kills, no exp/karma/gold reward from event completion. Why would I bother as a new or old player bother to spend my time participating in this event. For the mediocre rewards from the merchant, most of which are pulled from past events that many people probably already have? No thanks.

This is the biggest fail I have ever seen by Arena Net since the launch of the original Guild Wars.

$10 for a movie ticket at a crappy theater for 2 hours of entertainment.
$50=10 hours. HOT > 10 hours therefore HOT > $50.

I was just thinking this exact same thing tonight while I was playing. I love underwater combat, probably the reason why Honor of the Waves is still my favorite dungeon by leaps and bounds, and I thoroughly enjoyed the variety of playing pvp underwater. They completely removed from WvW and from PvP and it is a huge disappointment.

Don’t remove content. If there is a problem with it, fix it, or simply leave it in as a fun alternative as others have suggested.

If they would just implement the GW1 system of saving builds so you could quick swap I think that would eliminate a lot of the gripes and grumbles. That being said I do understand how locking builds in an instance increases the challenge and forces people to think more from the start and plan a solid individual and team build. However as we have seen this usually ends up in a single build option such as all the zerker dungeon builds, and prevents the class diversity that ANET is looking for.

I think a happy medium is possible.

I tried everything, around 8 different solutions found on the forums/support site, and none of them worked. Figures it would be something really simple
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https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28148006-Repairing-the-Game-Client

My client is stuck updating at 99% with one file left. What should I do?
1. First, locate and delete your local.dat file which can be found in your Documents > Guild Wars 2 folder.

2. Next,reboot your computer and launch Guild Wars 2 again. After seeing the “1 file remaining” message, a secondary protocol should kick in to download the missing file from the backup system. This process usually takes about 10 minutes.

3. If after 15 minutes or so you find that the above process has not resolved the issue – that is, you’re still stuck at a 99% download – please try this work-around: Change the language setting for the launcher (in the top right corner of your screen) to a different language. At that time, the download should complete. Once that occurs, change the launcher back to your original language and log in to play.

Login screen, updating GW2 client. Made it all the way to 99% and then it halted, dl 0kb/sec 6 files remaining.

Reset client begins downloading, makes several attempts then sits at 0kb/sec 6 files remaining.

Lets me login just fine but won’t finish the patch and won’t let me play. After a minute or so patch bar removes all text except for a 0% on the far left.

I have now attempted to run client with all background services turned off as well as disabled firewall, still the same issue. Game ran just fine before the new patch.

Edit: Setting DNS provider to google also failed to fix the problem.

I understand the good intentions behind it but trial keys always turn into easy access for gold farmers/ chat spam/ trouble makers. I would be fine with implementation, but only if in the event a trial account was found to be in violation of the EULA, then the account which initiated the trial was also held responsible. Trial account permanently closed and the host account dealt with as seen fit.

Bring back PvP is all I can say, GW1 PvP, where you actually had to you know… player verse player, where creativity, team composition, communication, and skill mattered. Get rid of the PvE and gimmicks and builds designed to turn pvp into pve.

And separate team and solo pvp for kittens sake! How can so much progress be made in pve design, and so much progress be LOST in pvp design.

I don’t post often, but I support this thread 100%

-My name is Zachary, I used to go by zach but in the past few years I have decided to go by my full name.
-I was born in an Army Hospital in Berlin, Germany, grew up in Arizona, and am of Polish descent.
-I am Active Duty Air Force with nearly 5 years in, just recently moved to Guam.
-28 years old
-I prefer a good ol barbecue/house party to going out on the town/bars/clubs.

-When drinking with my brother we tend to end up discussing MMORPG mechanics/systems and how we would do it.
-I have numerous books of notes on my ideal MMORPG mechanics/systems.
-I was introduced to MMORPG’s with Ultima Online pre-trammel
-I worked In-Game customer service for Warhammer Online at Mythic. (A CSR for those who played) Was there approx 15 months starting at launch. 7 of 8 hours of my day was spent dealing with gold spam, and the other hour was generally spent explaining to players that we could not restore items/characters that didn’t exist or that they never had, which generally resulted in some sort of threat against my life or the company or my job. Also lots of botting/hacking.
-Hobbies include carpentry, DJ’ing, volleyball, working out, snowboarding and hopefully soon i’ll be taking up paddle-boarding.
-I participated in the first Open Beta Event of Guild wars back in November 2004 played that until the launch of GW2 and have been here ever since.

seemed to me on the last boss that the vortex would not spawn until i picked up the fragile.

I personally enjoyed it. I see myself replaying the mission multiple times, not just to complete the achievs but because it feels so much like gw1.

It’s a step in the right direction ANET, keep it coming.

haha, I saw a dungeon lfg that said 3k ap… I thought they were referring to attack power Elitism will always find a way into any mmo, best thing you can do is ignore it because it doesn’t mean jack.

You almost described what the Home Instance was supposed to be back in 2010 lol.

“Your home instance (which consists of an area about the size of a city block, within your character’s racial city, where you have the racial equivalent of a house – a lab, for the asura, for example – several streets, some merchant’s areas, and other city-like things) will reflect your character’s victories, their accomplishments, and the people they meet in the game. It will not reflect your class, except where your class contributes to the storylines you receive in the game. Your character’s personality might change your storyline, making a difference in the characters you choose to meet and befriend, and that might affect the home instance by having different people show up to visit you there.”

http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/29/guild-wars-2-personal-story-massivelys-interview-with-ree-soes/

and yes, I would like to see Anet get back to this as well. Currently Home instance is a waste.

This needs some more attention. I am enjoying the actual gauntlet and the overall event but the excessive, pointless, annoying travel and deaths and such are really dragging it down. They seemed to think it was so important that it received it’s own achievement section and yet when they designed the area for the gauntlet and the mechanics it seems to have just been thrown together last minute.

Just a matter of perspective.

You say they are killing playing alts because you can’t do everything every day on each of your characters. I say these changes encourage playing alts because you can do everything everyday from any of your characters.

A lot of people play alts for the alternate story, race, and/or class which results in a different play experience which helps keep the game fresh. Not everyone’s sole focus is on the “bling”

Not going to bash anyone because I don’t care, but I will just say that WvW ranks would of been much better/meaningful if it had been based entirely on player kills. With that they would need to add map wide announcements of “xxx killed xxx” so that we could report anyone abusing the system such as what happened in DAoC and WAR.

There is still the opportunity for ANET to do this, it is an MMO after all.. constantly growing, changing, progressing… “wink wink”

Who need’s traps?
:)

Granted it’s not a tournament but the only ss I have of a tournament match, other team got rolled so bad 2 of them quit.

Don’t think it’s a counter, but the best thing I have found to do is call the real one out as a target. Otherwise I have to pick them out of the crowd again every time they vanish. Makes my life a whole lot easier.

I’ve recently started using Sword in sPvP and am having a blast worth it. Still tweaking the build.

I also have been using sword in dungeons because I play a tank/support build and am always in melee range, the sword/dagger is excellent for the free evades for so many bosses.

First off, there is plenty of room for improvement, with dungeons and with rangers.

That being said, I have no trouble joining a dungeon group as a ranger, at least within reason. I don’t try to join every group that is looking, and I’m sure I don’t get invited to any group looking when I am, but I rarely spend more than about 5-10 minutes looking for a dungeon group.

I also have for the past month run a tank/support build in dungeons, and have had some of the fastest, most enjoyable runs doing so. It’s performed so well that I am now attempting to solo several exp dungeons.

DPS is not the only option. Just saying.

I agree with some of your points, but please keep in mind that I’ve only recently started getting serious into the pvp side.

I think a more thorough score board that shows dmg done, hp healed, and could probably toss in a few more stats as well or just more detailed info would do amazing things for the game.

I love the downed state and I’m saying that as a ranger. I also love the challenge of taking down a mesmer/thief/ele, sure they are annoying, but it feels so much better finishing them than anything else.

By the end of the OP though, I really just felt like this is a Mesmer/Thief hate thread, and overall a pretty poor review due to the fact that 80% is about 2 out of the 8 classes.

I’m curious about who is buying all these unidentified dyes.

I’m not so lucky with my WvW kills, but a month is plenty of time, even if I only get 20 kills a week.

As for the Monthly… it sounds like a lot of people think the monthly should be based on some single aspect of the game, which is sad. I am glad that they require people to spread out and participate in multiple aspects of the game. And the rewards may not be huge, but it’s at least something to complete each month, and it is a reward for simply playing the game.

Point being.. if you can’t complete one of the 4 tasks for the monthly.. you don’t deserve it.

Lol reimbursed. Ok you can have some time reimbursed. 10 free hours on your account lol

I’ve found that this happens for any piece of the Asura T1 Cultural Armor. Helm/Coat/Glove/Shoulder/Leg/Boot Only once piece needs to be equipped for the backpack to wig out, but any of them will do it.

They have a thread dedicated to bugs/suggestions for the Authentication feature.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Mobile-Two-Factor-Authentication/first

This is a suggestion thread, and you have made some suggestions. I like a few, don’t see the point of a few others, and think 1 is just plain lazy. Whatever.

I’m just stopping by to say, the title of this thread, will get no attention from devs.
The suggestions you have made, I highly doubt are going to convince anyone to buy the game. And if someone is willing to quit the game over these minor conveniences… all I would be able to do is laugh.

Keep the suggestions coming, but if they are things you would actually like to see added… maybe try being serious about them, because your ideas of what should be in by 2 months, are way different than what I think should be in by two months, and probably different than what everyone else playing thinks should be in by 2 months.

Personally, I have never had trouble finding a group for any dungeon, story or exp.

That being said, are you seriously complaining about not being able to find FOUR other people for a dungeon. You must be new to MMO’s because I’ve never seen or heard of any MMO with dungeons designed for such a small number of people.

And you say single player dungeons wouldn’t hurt anyone? I disagree. Chamone.6890 explains it best.

And the dungeons that currently exist can be played solo. Your probably not going to be able to complete them, but you can kill mobs and clear the occasional boss. I have done so. And to say we are grasping at straws for thinking this is a bad idea… LOL. You are grasping at straws by defending your post with the idea that you can’t find 4 other people to group with. Just because you can do things solo, doesn’t mean you should. It is an MMO after all.

There really isn’t anything in the Chest worth having anyway.

Having a Permanent key would defeat the purpose, might as well not have the keys for sale, or even have the chests.

Absolutely not. What if I’m in the middle of a boss fight and get asked a question?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t stare at my chat window the whole time I’m playing. Nor do I want Game generated popups interrupting my game time either.

And who determines if your afk or not? Because someone is moving they are not afk? Or is it because someone is standing still they are afk? Or maybe they are afk if they are standing in a single spot but attacking mobs that spawn near them.

And rewarding players for this? You must be crazy. And how would you get a botter anyway? I thought you said the questions were generated by the game? Are they now generated by player actions? Then you enter into the area of Players harassing each other by constantly forcing them to answer stupid questions, or else they get kicked from the server and banned.

Again I say, NO.

Hard Mode was not introduced into GW1 until nearly 2 years after the game came out, after Factions and Nightfall had been released. Releasing such a concept this early in the games life would I think do much more harm than good.

If you want more content/ more difficult content, just be patient, it will come.

Also, a Hard Mode will not be possible like it was in GW1 because the core “world” is not instanced. In GW2, if you turned on HM…. how would that impact the level 5 guy fighting the same mobs right next to you, back in the early zones?

The exact system you are describing, is exactly what existed in GW1, until they released the expansions at which point you no longer had to complete a quest, you just had to reach the NPC that would sell you a secondary profession.

Correction, it seems that you are not really talking about secondary professions, rather you are talking about changing your primary profession based on completion of a quest… and then being able to switch between them at will, but still being able to use any of the weapons from either profession?

You’ve lost me.

If you are trying to make a suggestion, I suggest you provide some sort of explanation or info as to why this should be. If your simply asking a question, there is an excellent sub-forum for discussions of what ifs and whys.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2

Cool skins carried GW1 for over 7 years. Please go away.

This is a Suggestion sub-forum, not a speculation sub-forum. Go away please.

I am laughing in everyone’s face that is complaining about this, or that complained about the fact that names have been reserved up to this point.

First off, people were pissed that names were going to reserved from GW1, and oh NOES that’s not fair. Those people probably don’t even play anymore, and “I want to make my characters during head start but someone else has the name reserved in GW1 already, so now I can’t play”

Then there were the people that couldn’t play during the headstart, complaining that those few days was not long enough to get their characters made and that they deserved to have their names reserved for longer.

Then we have the folks that two months later are complaining about the fact that names are still reserved….

And NOW, we have more people complaining that they have not had enough time to make their characters with their reserved names, and that another WEEK is not enough notice.

I am overly disgusted with this community. I wish I could punch every single person who has complained about name reservations in any aspect. That would be the only way to vent this anger.

ANET if you read this! Never do anything nice for the community again. kitten US, we don’t deserve it, and all we will do is complain about it in every possible aspect.

Armor Art Issue

The Guild Backpack is the issue I am currently having trouble with. When I equip and view the Guild Backpack while having any Asura Tier 1 Cultural Armor equipped, the Guild Packpack goes horizontal through my body, and looks more like a reverse fanny pack than anything else.

I have equipped with numerous other armors/weapons and had no issues. I also have tried with Asura Cultural T2 armors and do not have the problem.

Only 1 piece of Asura Cultural T1 armor needs be equipped for the backpack to get messed up.

I gave up very quickly. If I had been able to SEE my character while doing it, probably would of given it a few more tries, unfortunately it was a zerg fest with very little room to breathe.
Excuse or not, I did not enjoy it a single bit. I am glad it is not necessary to get the Final Halloween Title.

I actually like the Med armor from CoE so I would be happy to run the dungeon with you anytime I am on. Problem at the moment though is that I have been having some extremely terrible connection problems, causing severe lag and disconnects on a reg basis, so I’m not to reliable for another week and half or so till I get this internet fixed.