Guild Wars 2

Thank you for all of your reply’s, it has been very helpful.

The reason I quite before was not because of fractals, I actuary really liked them and got all the ascended gear available at the time back piece upgrade back piece and rings on more then one character.

I think I just got bored of doing the same dungeons or fractals over and over, and had nothing to aim for anymore. So I left and went back to pvp on wow.

I think I will come back thou and do some WvWvW . Like others have said its free to play so i got nothing to loose.

Hello All,

As the title says really I played a lot from launch, I stopped playing around a month or so after the ascended gear came out.

Tbh I don’t think I really had many dislikes about when I played, I didn’t rage quit or anything, but once I got all my charters my favorite appearance and ascended items ect I got bored.

I think when i stopped you could get rings and back pieces of ascended gear.

Whats changed since I last played? did they keep the ascended gear idea can you get more pieces of ascended gear?

Thanks In advance?

Jozan

Zadoris.7015:

I personally am tired of people turning me down, or kicking me from a dungeon ONLY because I’m an Elementalist. It is incredibly frustrating.

pretty much everyone pictures the “perfect group” as pure warriors/guardians. because they hit hard, and are hard to kill.

so what do YOU think? do you think that Elementalists are simply underpowered, useless, or both? Or do you think warriors / heavy armor wearing professions are too overpowered and dominate every other profession in PvE.
Or do you not see an issue?

I don’t want to see people posting “oh you get kicked or not invited cause you suck” cause that’s not it, as they don’t even give a chance, simply see that I’m an elementalist and decide they don’t want me.
Nor do I want to see anyone comparing to PvP, this is STRICTLY about PvE.

I am really surprised anyone would do this, I consider myself quite a hard-core pver, and I would never turn down an ele. Quite the opposite I’m actually happy when I get an ele in my group.

If what you say is true and someone would turn you down without playing with you to see your skill, they clearly don’t know what great group versatile an ele can bring. In my opinion they are noobs and not worth playing with.

I roll a guard as main and I have a warrior and ele fully geared as my alt.

I don’t know about you guys but it looked like they have enhanced the colour display?

It looks nicer it already looked good but it looks even better now.

My friend felt the same, has anyone else noticed this?

I also like the new daily tracker and all the bug fixes :-).

SkipOne.8430:

They could increase power on the rings and let healing and thoughtness where it is….that would be ok for me too

Would also be happy with this keep, the healing power same as clerics but increase power.

I think what angers me the most is that they delete the cleric jewellery, and don’t give any reason for why they have done it.

It’s completely unprofessional in my opinion. I would at least like to hear their reasoning behind their the decision

I guess they will end up getting rid of cleric weapons whey they release the ascended weapons.

I would like to point out that I loved the ascended idea, and was thrilled that they released it, but I am now very disappointed that I can’t have the cleric stat.

Also when you talk to your real life friend who also plays the game and you address him by his in game charter name!

When you type/age and think WTF!

Still recruiting

Riyu.2103:

yes game is awesome until you get to 80, fullequipped with some exotic sets of gear for different purposes, fancy skins from dungeons etc and 50g on the bank.

then come and tell us again its the best mmo.

I have two 80s fully geared working on a 3nd lots of fancy skins 500g in the bank 700 hours logged.

BESY MMO EVER!

Still recruiting

Just a cheeky bump.

The Jozan Brothers are now recruiting.

We are on Underworld server and are looking for a few more members to fill our elite ranks.

We focus on both PVE and WvWvW, a reasonable amount of skill in PVE is required to join the guild.

The guild is ran by me and my twin brother who are both active British players but we do have a 9-5 job so won’t be on in the day but will be in the evenings. We are on most weekends.

We have a TeamSpeak server and when partying with us, it is required so we can communicate easier.

We are planning on keeping the guild small (around 20 players) as we like to get to know the members in our guild. So if you are looking for a massive guild this won’t be for you.

Although we are looking for players with a reasonable amount of skill, we are a good bunch of lads who enjoy some banter.

If you are interested please PM me or whisper Jozan Is Back, or my brother Jozan Returns in game.

I would also like to see MF go.

Malediktus.9250:

I am not on a call, but there are plenty of people who are, and they shouldnt be left in the dust because of some absurd rule anet enforces because they cant make a proper instance system, where you can kick anyone without ruining the run.

I’m sorry but the people you are referring to should simply not join the dungeon first, it’s really not that hard to figure out.

If I knew there was a chance I had to go AFK and it would be out of my control then I would not join first simple solution.

tonyl.5063:

This game does kind of lack the druid… And that fits into his shapeshifting idea

I would like to see a druid shapeshifter.

Or a blood drinking vampire.

ComeAndSee.1356:

Oh, so it does work on yourself? I’ll have to play around with it later. Honestly, I didn’t even go in combat to test it. I just turned it on, asked some people, and went on my merry way.

To clarify I did some testing last night, I can confirm this move does work on yourself as soon as you go in to combat.

I think the issue here is the wording for the trait in game, it does not say you need to be in combat so is a bit misleading.

I think some simply rewording by Arena Net would be helpful here.

ComeAndSee.1356:

I tested this in WvW and people were reporting getting the bonus out of combat.

hmmmm its seems a little bugged then.

Psilence.2859:

It only activates once you enter combat, at least when I was testing it solo in the Mists. It does seem like it should be active all the time though as soon as you select the trait.

Thanks for your response,

I have since re-read Arena Nets recent patch notes.

“Strength in Numbers: Now activates more quickly when entering combat, and scales from 0-70 defense instead of being capped at 30.”

It would appear that it does only activate in combat.

It does not state this at all from the trait with in game, So I think this is something Arena Net needs to change.

Guys I have a question about how Strength in Numbers is meant to work. Since the new patch it’s now meant to give +70 toughness to nearby allies (depending on lv).

I was online with my brou last night and was in fractals and thought I would put it on to check if it worked, he also put it on.

It didn’t seem to do anything, I checked my toughness and he checked his and they did not change at all.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Look forward to your response

PainTrain

Not had this happened to me tbh, but I have had people dc on 2nd fractal lots of times, so I can imaging its the same sort of annoyance.

Roachy.6194:

Undercover Dev definitely.

Why is it that because someone post a positive post it’s has to be an undercover dev?

Does this mean any negative posts are posted by undercover Blizzard agents looking to sabotage Arena nets forum?

I also love this game am I an undercover dev?

Dee Jay.2460:

The Burrowers in AC do the same. It’s really annoying.

Sure, you can get a stun-breaker but it’s always one of these things your forget until you’re chain-stunned again.

Of course as a ranged DPS this is nothing you need to worry about. Just continue watching TV while avoiding red circles and you’re set.

I do not think this need to be changed, because it can be avoided in my experience as a melee charter.

It’s important to have a stun breaker equipped even if it’s just for that part; it takes 1 sec to change it, and do not waist it unnecessary watch your HP and see if you really are going to have to use it.

Also the initial attack can often be avoided by dodging, the scavenger’s in AC before they do there leap nock down their faces glow and you can dodge just need to be paying attention.

Commutation also helps, although if you’re paying in pugs it can be hard, if you’re paying with some you know then they can knock the creatures of you the guardian shield bubble is perfect for this.

I have done it by killing all.

But in a weird way I start to enjoy trying to stay alive till 100% with all mobs alive.

Kyxs.7298:

If you guys did the tactic that kites the mob around until the event is finished, I’m interested in knowing how long did the first person manage to do before dieing. (in terms of percentage). Whether it is you who is doing it or a person you saw. thanks.

Me and my brou (twins IRL) have both done 100% and not died or get downed twice now.

We both Guardians.

Charter Names

Jozan is Back (Underworld)
Jozan Returns (Underworld)

We both worked as a pair thou so we had us two in at once.

Dico.4815:

Now this is for the guys that tell me everyday that Warrior have HIGH HP and High Armor so you can do a Durable DPS as Guardian can do – Armor and Vitality every profession can have from GEAR but Stealth/Protection/Invulnerable and the other survival things are IMPOSSIBLE to get from GEAR.

I have an 80 Guardian (Tanky) as my main and also an 80 Rifleman DPS warrior as my alt, I love them both.

The Guardian does not get the same big HP pool as warriors do, and I understand why and I think this is correct as the guardians have so many ways of getting there HP back ect…

On my warrior I go full berserker gear, and hit massive numbers which is awesome, but I still get about 20k HP and it does make you more durable. So from my experience of playing I have no issue staying alive with my warrior in full berserker gear.

Must add im talking PVE here.

Svarty.8019:

Shield 5 is only good for a knockback and because shield 4 is directional, it is only good if you can get behind the people you want to defend (which is tricky when you’re dodging around, concentrating on your active defence and trying to evade an enemy).

It’s true that is one directional, I wouldn’t object to it being a 360 direction.

But I honestly do not find it that hard to move behind the boss before I press it and target my party. Of cause certain occasions you can’t but the majority of the time I find you can, even then you still get protection which will add another buff to heal you when it goes on if specced that way.

Reihert.1509:

We have a shield as a class symbol showing that we protect our party, wich is true.

However, when you are doing your job is a tank/control guardian anyone here is insane enough to wield a shield outside gimmick situations?

I personally tank with a mace/focus. Heals, healing symbol, and a free block as a number 3 on a short CD, that added to a blind/heal + 3 blocks makes it the best set up for “tanking”.

And when I’m not using those for bosses or hard hitting mobs, I’m always with greatsword… wich is… the class symbol for warriors.

Makes me sad. Shields should be our main tanking offhand.
However, it’s long long long CD and real use only against ranged makes me sad.

What I’d do to fix it would be greatly decrease shield’s CD:

• number 4 has no reason why it shouldnt be designed to allow us to keep protection permanently, make it lasts 10 sec and it’s CD 8 sec.
• number 5, on the other hand, really either need a aoe healing boost (I not even notice it) or it’s bubble should lasts far longer for its CD.

If we are talking PVE here then I could not disagree more. The shield is amazing, with the correct build.

For PVE I use mace/shield + GS.

The shield bubble heals the group for about 1500k which is pretty nice extra bit off healing IMO. The knock back is also extremely handle it has saved my groups from being eaten by scavengers for example many of times.

The protection for group is also sick 33% less damage is awesome, as well as this heal it gives if you are spec for it is awesome as long as you target as many of your allies as possible so max people get the buff. .Also the extra 90 toughness is nice as well.

For me and my bro at least both experienced guardians we both love the shield to bits.

I really don’t want Arena net to change anything with it.

Good news for those of you who also have the same issue as this. I have found a work around what works for me and I thought I would share.

When it comes up with the endless timer instead of re-login, open up your crafting page and right click on an item and say “Buy at trade house”.

This will then load the item and will not have the silly endless timer. Then as long as you stay on that tab and do not leave the tab in the trade house or close down the close trade house window you are free to buy what you like without the timer issue.

I hope this helps, it certainly helped me when I am buying lots of stuff to lv in crafting.

This is a bit of an odd issue because some of my friends never get this issue but others get it all the time.

Kind Regards,

PainTrain

When I’m searching for certain items on the trade house it will not load until I completely close down the game and log back in.

I have had this issue since day one but it’s never become a massive issue until now.
The reason I’m getting very frustrated with this bug now, is because I’m trying to Lv an alt quickly though crafting using the money from my main.

But every time before I buy something I have to reboot the game to get the trade house to work.

When it works I can buy lots of things at once until I exit the trade house screen and come back.

I know my friend has the same issue; does anyone else have this problem?

Kind Regards,

PainTrain

Done 15 daily’s in a row, still no ring.

This has to be a bug right? Or am I that unlucky!

ekimsfree.9406:

How do you quit something you’re not obligated to play?
No contract, no sub. Play, don’t play, it’s not a big deal. Drama Queens.

Soo true.

Svarty.8019:

Let’s gather a group, okay, everybody prepped and ready? Let’s go!

…but when we port to the Waypoint… ack, ack we’re coming under heavy fire. They’re in the walls…

Hejkp! Ugh, this isn’t the open instance I ordered!

Waiter!

Seriously, is this not fixable? It’s been happening forever.

LOL yeah its best to completely discard ARAH as a dungeon now. Cant see them ever fixing this one.

kiranslee.4829:

How they are not related to gem store , if you can obtain like 80% of required materials over gem store, placing almost no effort into gameplay?

Do you actually realise how much money that would cost?

Chipster.6713:

So where do I go from here? I don’t see any point in completing dailies since i got 134k karma that I can’t use for anything. I bought some level 80 excotic gear through lion trade, so I don’t see any need to start a crafting profession. And now I feel that I’m stuck

What do you guys spend your time with?

Also if you plan on getting a legendary at some point, you will need a lot more karma.

Bloodlust.3672:

i’ve got a bunch of mats but haven’t done any crafting. does crafting really give that much xp??

I total get what you are saying that you don’t like levelling some people don’t. I also much prefer endgame.

Crafting really does help you level, it makes it much much faster. I did my last 3 lvs in 15min lol by crafting.

It cost me though because I bought the stuff from trade house.

ThePainTrain.8190:

Aphix.9846:

I agree with the OP about everything.
Great game got even better since last update. For me ascended gear = more stuff to aim for, and more progression on my main char, I don’t care if its progress stat wise or cooler skins. If they give me a chance to get better stats, I’ll gladly take it and not moan like a 12 year old on the forums.

Nice post.

I also completely agree with OP on all.

I love the ascended gear and new dungeons. I also love the new agony damage I think they did a brilliant job with this, I like the fact that if you are skilled you can dodge the moves that causes it.

It’s also great that if you our more of a casual player you can still do the dungeon on lower difficulty and not miss out on doing them.

I also do not think the stats different s makes that much difference in WvW. For a laugh me and my friends decided to go to WvW in our rare’s to see the difference it made form exotics.

And surprisingly it did not make that much difference, we were able to kill just as much as we could in our exotics and ascended jewellery.

I still think skill matters the most.

Aphix.9846:

I agree with the OP about everything.
Great game got even better since last update. For me ascended gear = more stuff to aim for, and more progression on my main char, I don’t care if its progress stat wise or cooler skins. If they give me a chance to get better stats, I’ll gladly take it and not moan like a 12 year old on the forums.

Nice post.

I also completely agree with OP on all.

I love the ascended gear and new dungeons. I also love the new agony damage I think they did a brilliant job with this, I like the fact that if you are skilled you can dodge the moves that causes it.

It’s also great that if you our more of a casual player you can still do the dungeon on lower difficulty and not miss out on doing them.

Hello People.

I’m after some advice on the fastest and easiest way to make money in this game?

Basically I am at the stage where I would like to raise the money to make the twightlight legendary, but I have worked out I am going to need around 1000 gold.

Are there any tips to make money? Like flipping items on the trade house?

I can make around a gold in half hour by farming grawls, but this is really boring, and will take forever.

I thought about trying to save like a 100g and spending it on legendary pre cursor to flip, has any one done this and does it work?

I look forward to your advice.

PainTrain

Romeo.4378:

Well it’s no secret that the last few days has seen the GW2 community divided on many issues. Topic words include ‘Manifesto’, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Grind’, ‘Gear Treadmill’, ‘Vertical/Horizontal Progression’ and so and so forth.

Well the AMA on Reddit has finished and for those that have read it, it is again likely to divide opinion.

For me, however, it comes down to this:

Are you going to give Anet a second chance?

Again, it’s no secret that for many of us, gaming is very important to our lives. Whilst I cannot say I fall into this category these days, I certainly used to, and because of this I understand that for those of you playing for 8+ hours a day, Anet’s recent ‘betrayal of the manifesto’, has been taken very personally.

For those of you under that category, you are understandably asking questions such as ‘Why should I trust anything Anet says again? The answers on the AMA say ’we are working on this’, ‘we are aware of that’ but they have completely ignored everything they have said in the past, they could do it again.’

Are the answers in the AMA enough for you? Can you bring yourself to believe what they say again?

I can.

My own personal stance is that I have not heavily invested in the hate train. I cannot say that I have enjoyed the game as much as pre-patch. I think the population is heavily fractured, between those stuck at low level fractals, and those too scared to jump off the fractal treadmill for fear of being left behind. I immediately disliked how difficult it is to get Ascended items but am also pleased to find out that they are going to add more ways in which to obtain them. I disliked the patch but didn’t get caught up in the uproar. I personally think a lot of your reactions over the past few days have been embarassing and undignified. A lot of your responses, though, have been thoughtful, philosophical, well-organised.

Personally, I acknowledged that Chris both too responsibility for this fallout, and apologised for it.

I am also ready to give them a second chance, and so is my wife and so here we will stay.

So yeah, I am not saying those of you leaving are wrong or right, just showing my own personal stance on the matter.

I am going to stay and give them a second chance.

I’d like to hear your own stances and plans now.

Thanks.

I still do not think Arena Net have done anything wrong. So no need for me to give a second chance.

Love the new Fractals been doing them over and over their so fun.

I like the current set up.
I don’t think every dungeon should have a standard time.
I think you should have some easy dungeons what are fast which they do. And some harder dungeons what take longer which they do also.
Maybe every dungeon should have one long path, one in between, and a short one, to please everyone.

Monarch.4026:

Yes, it is dying.

1. Devs never listen to anyone when they say an instance is too darn long and one boss (Lupicus Giganticus) is the longest fight of any boss in game and he almost single handedly ruins the instance completely.

Don’t really agree with you on this point.

I suppose you may label me as an “Elitist”, but I don’t find Lupicus Giganticus that long or hard.

I don’t think he’s too easy or too short ether, I think they have got this one just right.
I’m not running Arah at the moment due to the bugs. It waist so much time where I could be having fun not getting stressed about wanting to go , but when I did I have ran with pugs and I had no issues, once I explained to them what to do.

Ozma.1950:

Hi guys, first post here!
Not sure if this has been covered in other threads but I’ve noticed a dying player base for the arah dungeon. I’m sure this is due to the popularity of fractals recently even so, the player base for arah dungeon has been dreadful even prior to fractals.

The result of this is very discouraging for players like me working hard to get those shards of zhaitan for my legendary or the arah armor set which is the best looking armor light armor set by far IMO.

I’m sure it is not only the limited window time when you can get into the dungeon (have to complete the arah event chain), but the difficulty of the dungeon that has turned people away complemented with the abysmal rewards that comes at the end with completing the dungeon.

So i am pleading for anet to place more attention on reviving arah! Raise the rewards, lower the difficulty, make it accessible at ALL times, whatever it takes…It is painful to even find a group these days and i’m in Crystal Desert.

Tbh I haven’t bothered doing Arah recently, but this has not been for me because of the difficulty.

I do not find Arah too hard I actuary think they have the difficulty spot on and I love the dungeon.

The reason I do not do it is simply because 90% of the time I cannot get in as the door is bugged, and when I final get in we get to the end of the path and it bugs so we are unable to collect our reward.

It is a great shame because if I put the bugs aside, I think Arena Net did a great job on the content in this dungeon, but for now until I here that the bugs have been resolved I will not be doing this.

RedBaron.6058:

ThePain Train, I disagree when you say ANet is giving us stuff for nothing. They are selling us stuff for real cash. And no one is spitting in their faces. I just pointed out that this sale does not resemble any Black Friday sale I have been or heard of. IMO (am I entitled to express my opinion?) it is a very limited sale in number/worthiness of the articles.

But they are giving us something for nothing, they are giving us 50% of certain items, we do not have to pay or do anything for this 50%.

XRTDiablo.9321:

Amuses me that so many people are rushing to convert gold>gems NOW for the sales, paying double what they cost recently just to get 50% off thus negating the whole point of buying during the sale since the cost ends up being the same.

A lot of players have gems saved up when they where cheap.

RedBaron.6058:

No lordkrall, it is pixels they sell but it is our time and money we spend..:)

Then simply do not take part in the sale, pretend it did not happen.

Then you will not waste any time or money.

I really cant see your argument here.

AreanNet give us some more stuff for nothing, lets all moan at them and spit it back in their faces brilliant idea.

Many Thanks,

PainTrain

RedBaron.6058:

Hello lordkrall,

They are trying to sell the items that nobody buys anyway. They are not offering anything.

Thanks and best regards,

Red

Your incorrect.

I want some of the stuff their offing so guess is not nobody.

lordkrall is correct people will moan about anything, I cant see how any one has the right to moan about this because they are doing it for nothing you don’t have to buy anything. But the people who do get it cheaper great!

Thanks and best regards,

PainTrain

Have you seen the magmaton hammer it’s what I use for appearance I love it?
The lava actually moves in the hammer so cool! And it doesn’t have a tiny hammer at the end!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magmaton

Also the legendary hammer OMG it looks so cool! Once I have my twightlight sword I’m getting that bad boy.

drkn.3429:

No resets, dev-confirmed.

Not that this issue effects me because I have friends who I play this game with and only ever have to find 1 or 2 pug players so it’s not a issue finding players.
This might be a good idea though to reset the lv every week or every two weeks?

This is a very nice move for PvE I use it all the time.
Never had an issue with it not working before, unless everyone is on full health then it won’t heal obviously.