Guild Wars 2

Morsus.5106:

Normally my LFGs say “All welcome” but now they’re gonna say “No TVH”.

“I’m not TVH, I’m PTV.”

Welcome to hell.

My post got infracted. So I’m gonna say it again. This is a kittening joke and you guys should be ashamed. I haven’t complained about anything in this expansion because I’ve enjoyed it, but this was content you promised with the expansion, you’ve had 6 additional months to get it done, and now you’re bailing on it with 25% of the new legendaries completed. GG.

PlatinumMember.5274:

Arena net made it very clear Legendary collections would be hard. Their intent was to keep the value of precursor.

What, exactly, is hard or challenging on a personal level about waiting for a super rare boss to spawn in Dry Top, or hoping to god you get hit by a boss attack with a super low target cap?

Literally nothing of any immediate consequence requires leyline gliding. All the other masteries are more important and you’ll get them soon enough just playing the game. All the grind people keep complaining about is self-inflicted, because it’s all actually quite optipnal. You just don’t want to wait.

“P1 zerk speed. Join fast or be kicked.”

I still don’t know what he meant by that…

Sounds like a perfect reward for collecting all the gold skins.

This is quite possibly the worst balance idea ever.

Unkillable bunker guardians who can’t even be engaged unless you’re a necro or a Mesmer or somehow traited for boon rip (something several classes can’t even do).

Being rewarded for passive, semi afk gameplay in PvE as you allow yourself to get hit and kill kitten without even trying.

Just. No.

Make a set of commanders gear. Power for your retal scaling, toughness for your tankiness, and concentration to make your retal last longer. All accomplished without destroying the game.

/Thread

dutchiez.7502:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the world’s first visual LFG: http://i.imgur.com/d9xdaUy.png

The more I have to deal with it, the more I’m convinced the megaserver idea is the worst thing they have implemented into the game in a long time.

Champ train much?

rchu.8945:

SuinegTsol.1729:

Hi,

I’m doing ds events for some time now to get this rune. By now I’m at about 150 crystalline ores.
Aint 600 ores a very very very little bit to much for sth like a runeset? If it’s a recipe ok, but for runes…
Apart from “farming” the hot-story, where you get 40 in the end, the only way by now is to open pods at dragons stand map. Apart from ~6, they only spawn after map event is completed. This means you need to wait up to one hour to get on a map doing events/ got enought time to start new map, then need about one to 1.5 hours to hopefully finish (seen so many fails last days) it. Now you got a 15min race to find and open all pods. Without a ton of luck this leads to 40 to 50 ores.
So all in all you need to do 15 times the story with different characters, or do 13 times success on ds meta event (without dc!!!). For ds thats best case two days without break dc or fail doing this event. Just for runes…
If they just were buyable, but….

so everything must be easy and less time consuming? I wanted the whole set of auric weapons, instead of farming AB meta events, I use one of my extra character slot, created few 80’s to run the HOT story to chapter 8 to get the ones I’m missing.

Sorry, zero sympathy for this type of whining.

There’s a huge difference between grinding long term, goal oriented gear and non-essential collections and cosmetic items…. and insane grind for upgrade components that have basically zero portability once used.

No one get to complain about legendary gear (or ascended gear for that matter) or collection skins being too grindy because they’re meant to be long term goals. But we’re talking about a rune set… one that you will never get back once you use it on ascended gear unless you drop a fortune on extractors from the gemstore.

I’m the first person to tell people to kitten and stop complaining about things being grindy, but they’re right about these runes. And I don’t even want or need them.

The only bad joke here is you thinking this would turn into a legendary ring.

#SABorRIOT

15 MOTOS

I work full time and can only play 2-3 hours a night.

30 minutes of map comp, rest of the time spent in fractals (or doing whatever it is you like doing in this game.) I’ve done map completion 10 times with this schedule, despite the fact that I hate map completion with a burning passion. Nut up and get it done or live without it.

Honest question: why do you guys argue about/discuss changes like this, that any rational person can surmise will never, ever happen….ever?

Dear Subjugator,

Learn to break your spawn cycle. Get rekt, nub.

Chillin Safely,

The Foulbear Chieftain
#NOgrewars

dutchiez.7502:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the world’s first visual LFG: http://i.imgur.com/d9xdaUy.png

You can buy it off the trading post, and it’s basically the same cost as making winter’s presence. Zero RNG. None. What, exactly, are you complaining about? The lack of a time-gated collection that lets you feel like you “earned it”, when in reality it’s just a gold/mat sink?

cranked.3812:

OMG, you have to wait a little time to get something instead of immediate gratification? How will you all continue on living anymore? Where exactly did society go wrong when someone is calling for a public outcry against a game company because, aghast, you can’t have something the second you want it? I encourage you to take a step back and really examine what it is you are complaining about and maybe try and develop a better perspective of the situation.

As for having alts, I don’t see how anet is discouraging anything other than farming here. Most people lvl alts to use them in different situations or pvp/wvw.

@Wraith: Now that it pays to run different paths rather than farming the same path for 10 hours straight, you should have no problem getting a group for all three paths of any dungeon.

Plain and simple: you should be able to get things as fast as you want, IF you’re willing to put in the work. There is not one good godkitten reason why it should now take 3 weeks to do something that you used to be able to do in a 2 days.

If you want to complain about the “I want it know” brigade, go post in one of the 300,000 “Gimme my precursor for free” threads.

This is not a complaint post, I’m just genuinely curious why Anet has suddenly started making hidden achievements a regular thing?

They’ve done hidden achievements before, but starting with the current events achievements and continuing on into Bloodstone Fen and Out of the Shadows, they’ve done alot of them. The “Don’t Cross the Streams” achievement makes perfect sense as a hidden achievement, but the other ones in the map and story don’t. I personally find it very confusing. The hidden achievements in the story are also necessary for the Journal UI to recognize that you’ve finished all the achievements for the episode, so again, why hide them?

Again, this is all so trivial that it’s irrelevant, I just find it curious.

Homonavn.6348:

Tentonhammr.7849:

Homonavn.6348:

I don’t think so, and i don’t hope so. Transmuting should be a choice and a risk you do. If Anet did change everything it wouldnt be fun. I would be like: “OH im just gonna destroy my legendary, because Anet will bring it back later”… Thats not how it works. Your choices is your choices and it will have consequenses

That’s the stupidest kitten I’ve read in a long time. You do realize there are a lot of people who made legendary weapons PRIOR to the introduction of ascended gear, right? This “risk” you speak of didn’t exist for them. They had no way of knowing transmuting it would become a problem later on down the line. You think people should be punished for taking the only available route to solve a problem with the functionality of legendary weapons, a problem that never should have existed in the first place? Fail.

Lol… Its called THINKING FORWARD… I knew this was going to happen, even before ascended items came out. Unless you are very stupid, you would know legendary would always be top tier and if transmuted it would get the coding to the weapon you transmute it to.

I have 5 legendary weapons. Do you know how many of them I transmuted? ZERO. I won’t bother me one kittening bit if you get your wish. I saw this coming as well, but other people didn’t. And that’s the point. It just astounds me that you as*holes want people to get kittened over, and for what? So you can have some smug sense of validation and say “I told you so”?

I’d be astounded if slick shoes was working as intended. One skill shouldn’t negate a breakbar. If what you’re saying is true I imagine they fixed slick shoes.

Right.. cuz the one thing fractals need more of is RNG.

Add instabilities as gambits, like we’ve been asking for for months. Increased difficulty and rewards. Problem solved.

notorious bob.2061:

How about a vendor to convert WvW Badges of Honour into Dungeon Tokens?

No.

Range attacks are exploits. Melee attacks are exploits. Damage is an exploit. Killing is an exploit.

I personally think there is a relatively obvious fix to this issue: bypass transmutation altogether by introducing new recipes to the mystic forge for each legendary using the same stat combination formula used when crafting regular weapons at the weaponsmith, artificer, or huntsman stations.

Example: Twilight + 1 mystic coin + 1 skill point crystal + 1 vial of powerful blood= Twilight with beserker stats.

Swap out the blood for an armored scale to get knights stats, ect, ect.

Given the time investment to make a legendary, its silly that we have to mess around with transmutation to get the stats we want.

spoj.9672:

Im patiently awaiting a cleave weapon. And hopeful anet will develop the class into a spiker type class. Thats something that could easily happen with the addition of cleave and a few minor buffs and alterations in traits. Attrition is far too different to how the necro currently works for it to be the route they continue to follow.

Until then I will be avoiding my necro for the most part. I will however being attempting to break the lupi record once i finish my ascended focus. After that i probably wont have a reason to go back to it until we get some big changes.

I +1 spammed this for about 15 minutes. Too bad it still only counts as 1.

same. can’t login after downloading the update. same with the rest of my guild party I was running with. :/

I’ve made my legendaries, bought my T3 armor, ect. I have a lot of gold and not much to spend it on, so I forge a lot. I’ve forged probably tens of thousands of rares. I’m gonna share with you all of my extensive knowledge of the mystic forge….

You put stuff in, and other stuff comes out. That’s all I’ve got so far.

LouWolfskin.3492:

Delgotta.3817:

I had to log in just to support Swaggers post. has some really great ideas there. I agree, support rolls, all of them are lackluster compared to damage. I actually ENJOY healing, tanking, buffing and supporting. The game has all these tools to make each roll viable, right down to gear options, which rarely get used because it isn’t supported.

Having each class have its own “flavor” of support, like the OP suggested, would really push this game over the top. I know A-net wants to prevent a trinity, but having only damage is a bad design. Zerker still is the preferred method.

The fact that Zerker is still preferred is not only by class design though.

Enemies in PvE, outside of HoT were at least some support gets to see the light of day, just don’t warrant other playstyles as much.

This though would mean the core game would need to get harder, Zerker would have to be less profitable jadajada…

The community will make sure that will never happen because let’s be honest, there are enough players that just want to see high damage and not engaging game mechanics

Orrrrrrrr, there are enough players that enjoy the reliance on personal skill and not having to have a healer and a tank tag along with them just to get through open world content.

Get out of the zerg and jump off the hero point train. Most of the elite and champ mobs have engaging mechanics that you actually need to play around when you’re not spamming 1 in an ocean of other players.

WvW is another matter entirely and y’all can figure that out on your own…

In PvE this is a god awful idea. You will 100% guaranteed have people fighting over who gets to command and it’ll all go to kitten. I routinely tag for TD metas and occasionally other stuff. I even drop expensive food when I command. I do this because I want to organize people so the event succeeds. That’s your reward. If that’s not good enough then don’t tag up. Take it as an opportunity to teach people to do kitten properly, instead of a burden that you have to type instructions.

winterchillz.2564:

Tentonhammr.7849:

J Eberle.9312:

dutchiez.7502:

winterchillz.2564:

J Eberle.9312:

dutchiez.7502:

J Eberle.9312:

dutchiez.7502:

Kain Francois.4328:

Huh? What am I looking at in the screenshot? Where is the raptor?

http://i.imgur.com/1gYtJAd.png

Still not seeing the raptor. I need an air traffic controller to direct me to it pls.

http://i.imgur.com/Q6HGmr2.png

Ooh I think I’m almost seeing it, but I think the aircraft controller needs to be turned towards me and giving me a look okittennowledgement to signify that he knows I’m watching where he is directing my attention. I need that reassurance before I can be absolutely certain that what I am seeing is the raptor. Also if he could have an unclothed torso with a 6 pack of abs that would also get my attention better as well.

Wow ack nowledgement is a swear word. Nice.

I regret nothing.

Fixed: http://i.imgur.com/nRKSAda.png

OMG YES! I SEE IT!
Finally. People who actually know how to convey information. Srsly ppl. LEARN from this.

We have the answer: Visual LFG posts.

No more words that people won’t read. Just pretty pictures.

Brb, I have a few people on my Twitter whose photos I could use.

Inb4 breath mint nerf.

Gaile Gray.6029:

• The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

12 pages of vitriol and anger. Is that enough to make it desirable to fix this ridiculous change?

Add 2 buttons. One to convert 20 gems, one to convert 100 gems, until you sort this out.

obal.3218:

Proposal Overview
The rewards should be higher to reflect the time and difficulty of the content compared to other content.

Goal of Proposal
Fractals is a grind in hopes you get the weapon skin you want and unrewarding in the process. Other dungeons let you spend tokens on the items you want and give you a good amount of gold for time spent.

Proposal Functionality
The trader should be updated to add the weapon skins in exchange for relics. An armor set should be added as well like all the other dungeons. The skin drop rate should be higher at higher levels and the ring rate should be lower since no one needs them anymore if they are high up. Fractal weapon skin boxes should be in the loot table as well in some way. Recycling unwanted rings in some way should be introduced. The gold reward should scale better. The higher levels should give as much or more as dungeons given the time and difficulty is greater.

Associated Risks
Some people may have deleted rings or spent all their relics up since no change has been made. They might get a bit mad but this would be a great change going forward and would get a lot more people interested in doing them again and be a rewarding experience.

Do this. I’ll be happy.

+1. Vendor needs to return.

Karma needed to be nerfed, but I think we can agree they went a little too far with it- namely the dungeon nerf. Give us half of what it use to be. I think that’s fair.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Is that massive number of reflect hits thanks to the walling? I haven’t done Arah in a while.

He’s using Consecrated Ground to give WoR ground targeting, then casting it on top of the arena wall.

Theory time:
-WoR is in the middle of Lupis hitbox, causing more (all?) projectiles to be reflected.
-WoR is reflecting the projectiles that normally hit outside the combat area on the other side of the arena wall
-There’s some interaction between the height of WoR on top of the arena wall and the actual source point of Lupi’s projectiles vs reflecting them when they’ve spread out and reached their target on the ground.
-All of the above?
-I’m completely wrong?

There is nothing wrong with the control panel phase. Please leave it alone. Its one of the few instances in the game that require at least a modicum of communication and teamwork. If you know how to do it right, no one even has to die. (And “right” does not involve ash legion spy kits).

The problem is with the middle 2 phases.

Turret Path: No real issues. DPS and you’re done. Decrease some of the mobs maybe.
Bomb Path: Eliminate it entirely leaving just the turret path; or decrease the bomb spawn timer and decrease the number of mob spawns by 30%.

Clown car: I love my 50+ heavy miner bags, but I’d rather not sit there mindlessly auto-attacking for 7-10 mins. Reduce the mob spawn scaling 30-40%.

Oh, and those mobs that are sometimes, but not always, on the ground and on the catwalks at the beginning? They need to go die in a grease fire.

Tl;dr

“Please destroy game balance, redesign the expansion, or approve god-knows how many hours of dev work because I’m too lazy to manage my inventory.”

Q: Skill points aren’t just a way of unlocking traits and skills. They’re a form of currency. What happens with all the mystic forge recipes that require Eldridge Scrolls or Philosopher’s Stones, or more importantly, Bloodstone Shards? How are people supposed to make the current legendaries if all skill points suddenly disappear and no one can buy bloodstone shards? What happens with Bloodstone Shards and Eldridge Scrolls people have already bought and were saving? Will the new legendaries require Bloodstone Shards? Last but not least, please for the love of god, DEFINE “mystic forge crafting materials”.

For some reason people still think legendaries are supposed to be better than other equipment, despite 4 years of evidence to the contrary. Legendaries are skins. Nothing else. They don’t need additional functionality.

A sigil/rune overhaul is desperately needed, but thats an entirely separate issue that, for some reason, peolple seem hell-bent on tying to legendary gear.

250 thick leather sections + 250 thick leather sections + 250 thick leather sections +250 thick leather sections= 1 bank space voucher

Elbegast.6970:

Just as Queen Jennah is about to cut the cake, a mysterious, well-dressed Asuran arrives…

Logan Thackeray: 1256! Season of the Zephyr, 1256!

Mysterious Asuran: Wait, kid! Wait a minute! What’s this all about?

Logan Thackeray: He’s alive! Snaff’s alive! He’s in old Elona but he’s alive!

Mysterious Asuran: Yeah but kid, are you alright? Do you need any help?

Logan Thackeray: There’s only one Asuran that can help me!

Logan hastily runs off into the cold, rainy night

I’ll just leave this right here.

The 3×2 was stacked in a corner. He maths how he wants.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You have a chance to get ecto(s) from Rares. There is no guarantee you will receive an ecto from salvaging.

I am a bit puzzled how receiving ectos from salvaging impacts any immersion, though.

Pretty sure this is a troll thread. Let me check….

Yup. Definitely troll thread.

Lupi phase three skip,
Much feedback. The vuln is nowhere in sight.
Alas, all is vain

No.

You basically want all these mechanics to be useless, or seriously nerfed, just to randomly shoehorn toughness into being meta or viable, when it already is- just not in any of the game modes you play. It’s critical in PvP, WvW and raids, and working just fine as it is.

laokoko.7403:

how many of the 18 bounties are actually kill-able in a party of 6?

All of them. My fractal group did it for funzies one day. Diplomat Tarban and the Rat Wrangler can suck balls, though.

Can’t wait for (-) to become (+) and a “working as intended” explanation. :p

Seriously can we get a fix for this?

Scoobaniec.9561:

They arent legendary anymore, just a combination of exotic+legendary that created new weapon.

I will feel cheated if for w/e reason they get any boost/returned to previous status

Transmutation is Anet’s own broken system. It’s a game mechanic they introduced for us to use, and it’s not a player’s fault that this busted kitten system quite literally BREAKS best in slot, end game weapons. This stat swapping functionality should have been in place from the very beginning.

None of my legendaries are transmuted because I didn’t want to risk it, but I don’t blame people who did transmute them. Sorry, but your of view seems insanely vindictive, petty, and spiteful. Your reward for waiting patiently will be getting the upgrade immediately and without having to jump through hoops to get what is rightfully yours, and transmuters will have to do whatever Anet comes up with to fix their broken legendary. Anyone who put in the effort to make a legendary deserves this upgrade. Period.