Guild Wars 2

I don’t mean to sound rude to the devs but what took/ is taking them so long to incorporate this huge and awesome world they created and adding some incentive for players to revisit low -level area’s?

Good Luck in orr or even completing your personel story in Arah. Took me a good 3 weeks to finally get a Arah story run going.

I don’t understand why Anet wouldn’t fill these chests with goodies . At least increase the odds of a mini pet at a 1/2 ratio. They are burning themselves by taking the customer like this. I understand the concept of a “Lottery ticket” or “gambling” but in my opinion, from a business standpoint its a poor move to loads these chests with crap with such a poor “jackpot” ratio so to speak.

You figure 10 bucks gets you 3 chests , It should be a 1/3 ratio on the mini pets at the very least. Hell, a 1 dollar scratch off lottery ticket gives you these odds and that for 1 buck lol.

WOW What a freackin ripoff!!! I guess the saying is true , there really is a sucker born every minute and you are a reading a post by one. I can’t believe i wasted 10 dollars on a 3 chests full of Crapola….

Anet in my opinion filling these chests with garbage is really not the way to get people to continue spending real money on these kinds of things. I feel robbed!

O well, I do really enjoy this game so I tell myself the 10 bucks WASTED went to a somewhat good cause of supporting this very awesome game and the people you employ….

So will the final event on Sunday be a all day event , I won’t be home to early evening and would hate to miss out on this . Is this a one shot deal you will have to get lucky catching Sunday afternoon or will there be repeated spawns of the boss/event?

He’s just not a very likeable character. I don’t know if its the voice acting or the dialogue written for the character, Maybe both but he comes off as a major kittenr.

I don’t want people to get confused as to the nature of my post. I love cool looking skins, as a matter of fact my appearance was priority over my stats in all the years I played WOW. My motivation for showing up to guild raids night after night was to land that cool looking piece of armor that dropped off a specific boss. The stats were just a bonus to me and allowed me to do more dmg ie… secure my raid spot as a “Leet dpser” lol.

I’m not against GW2 having a grind to obtain a very cool looking weapon that not many can or will get. But i do think the requirements to make these are really “out there”, The prerequisites to make one of these weapons is not months of grinding but at least a year maybe 2 for a casual who plays maybe 2-3 hours a day, Is that even considered a casual these days ?

How does one find a group ? Apparently noone on Furgensons crossing runs this….. HELP!

I actually looked up what ingredients/mats would be needed to make the staff last night and realized I will never own one lol. I can’t imagine how much time would be involved in obtaining this weapon…… To be honest I would actually be embarrassed to equip one of these on my character , To me it would be a badge of shame for all the hours of my life i just wasted grinding for one lol.

I approve of this thread but still think chat suppression is ridiculous in a game with no dungeon finder.

I’m very disappointed that Anet hasn’t incorporated more of their awesome & beautiful game world into lvl 80 play.

I feel like you have all these really cool zones that have so much untapped potential for lvl 80 players to return to. I would like to see more random World events pop up in low to mid lvl zones. Have some sort of global message system that alerts players to these events.

Also I hope all your holiday events are not going to focus around Lion Arch and Lions arch only. Diventy Reach is absolutely gorgeous and yet I have no reason at lvl 80 to return there. Make some holiday themed events take place there or and of the other racial cities.

As it stands now i just do not feel you are really taking advantage of all the world space you have. Give players a REAL reason to revisit zones they love other than the typical boring escort caravan event.

zencow.3651:

Fiery Gsword is GREAT for skipping monsters. Fiery Whirl at 5s cooldown and Fiery Rush at 10s cooldown gets you across Arah in no time!

Elementals tend stay alive and pull aggro from everything in Arah and can’t be turned off.

I never thought of using that to actually travel/skip mobs, awesome idea for Orr TY!

I’v only been 80 for a little over 2 weeks now and haven’t really gotten into builds /theory crafting yet so i figured i’d come here and see what community has to say. Currently i am using a 30 fire 30 air 5 water and 5 arcane build as a staff elementalist.

I’m assuming this is a glass cannon sort of build yes ?

What would you staff “experts” out there recommend for me and why . My main focus is PVE running dungeons for tokens.

I’m going to answer my own question and say the reason Arah is ignored by players is because of the frustration of Orr. Countless threads have been made about Orr so I won’t go into detail about the mob cluster , mob difficulty and just the overall frustration lvl of that zone.

So I guess after 3 weeks I have accepted the fact I won’t be finishing my personnel story as it requires a run through Arah. Looking for a group through “map” chat is not a option as Anet only allows you to ask maybe 4 or 5 times before they chat suppress you so some Gold selling spammer can get his message out loud & clear. Good job Anet…..

To be honest I’m not sure what the issue is , I’m not even sure how the event/quests work to unlock the gates because noone is even in Orr on Furgensons Crossing. The only response I have gotten from other players on my server as to why people refuse to run Arah is “Because its a Pain the kitten #8221;, whatever that means.

Anet it would really be nice if you worked to make this endgame finally of a dungeon much more accessible to the masses. Whether that be through adding a dungeon finder or removing this ridiculous prerequisite to unlock the gates. Not only do I desperately want to finish my story quest but I would really love to see Zaihtan in action.

How many more of these threads need to posted here before you actually acknowledge this issue ?

As another poster noted for the past several days or so every time I either log into the game or into the forums i receive a message " Waiting to authenticate log-in attempt”. I then have to go to my email and click a link to log in. I made no changes to my account even though the message says i did.

Tonite i received one of those emails with a address located out of China. Obviously i did not click the link, I am not sure if this was a actual attempt by a hacker to log into my account or just a “phishing” /dummy email .

What steps do you advise I take now ?

Devata.6589:

Thunderstruck.5368:

What really screwed this jumping puzzle up for most was the time limit. Had they not put in the rising ooze i think 90% of players would have completed this.

Of course almost everybody would have made it then. It would the be an easy jumping puzzle. But we do not want that do we? Like you said, some will manage some will not. That’s the fun, that is what defines skills.

Yeah I actually agree with you, Although i will stand by my statement that if you are going to create something that only half or less of the playerbase can/will complete then the reward better be pretty spectacular. In my opinion the boots did not justify the time spent by most completing this challenge.

I think the OP said it all.

I really didn’t have enough free time to play all the acts thoroughly so I wont complain. Only spent about 2-4 hours on each act.

They should have made the joke scene a event. If you didn’t laugh or something you got zapped, Act 4 just felt very anticlimactic to me.

Yeah clock tower graphically looked insane. I loved the way the camera panned in cutscenes giving you this epic sense of its height. The lightning & rain really added to the atmosphere.

I liked the dungeon, It was short and entertaining , difficulty felt just right and having a mini jumping puzzle to get to the chest was a great idea.

I put in 90 minutes worth of attempts before calling it. I’m not as bitter as most though, I see nothing wrong with Having a event that not everyone can complete. Perhaps in the future there will be a event that i can complete that others can not. I do feel the reward for completing this should have been MUCH BETTER though. The real reason I gave up was because in my opinion those lame looking boots were not worth the amount of time i was going to spend completing this puzzle.

What really screwed this jumping puzzle up for most was the time limit. Had they not put in the rising ooze i think 90% of players would have completed this.

Event was awesome, I feel like they packed so much more content into this holiday update than other MMO’s do. I love the creativity of the devs making this game, they really have a outstanding eye for detail.

ACT 1 : I was a little lost, really didn’t know what to do or where to go. I feel like A-net could have done a better job explaining what was going on without having me to alt tab and do a google search. Rating 6/10

ACT 2 : Doors throughout the world were very cool, entering them was alot of fun and the maze was entertaining . Clock Tower was awesome in design, reminded me of the old arcade game from the 80’s “Dragons Lair” but much more difficult lol. To be honest the difficulty on the clock tower was way to high. I think clock tower would have been a much more enjoyable expierance without the time limit to complete it ie: the rising ooze. Rating 9/10

ACT 3 : Mini instance fighting the Mad king was fun & quick, difficulty felt just right.
Rating 8/10

ACT 4 : Act 4 felt very anticlimactic . Now i was only able to spend 2 hours on this act last night from 10 -12 so maybe i missed something. The whole simon/mad king says thing was funny & entertaining but that was all there really was to this act, again I only spent 2 hours here so maybe i missed something . Rating 6/10

Overall : 8/10 I feel like the devs put alot of work on this update and it showed. As a gamer i apprciate the fact the update didn’t feel like it was thrown together 2 days before release of the patch the way so many other MMO’s do. Basically i hope the Devs pretty muich mirror this event in all future updates, It was alot of fun and the rewards were decent. Good Job Anet.

I just wanted to say i have been pretty blown away by the amount of content you have packed into this halloween themed event. I was expecting the decoration and maybe 1 quick instance to run and thats about it. I love this whole “Act” thing and all the little mini games and creative things you have packed into this world with the event.

So far i have enjoyed every aspect of the MadKing , yes even the clock tower which wasted 2 hours of my life with unsuccessful attempts.

Thank You Anet for not only making this awesome game but providing new and fresh content that truly raised the bar in MMO gaming. Having a blast playing this game.

Cmon Anet, If you are NOT going to have a dungeon finder you can’t seriously enforce this kind of "excessive messaging moderating….. Don’t make getting groups for dungeons harder than it already is.

TimeBomb.3427:

Hi all.

After updating from SweetFX 1.1.1 to 1.3, I worked diligently to redo my settings from scratch – this time using HDR. HDR has its issues – it often makes bright things far too bright; this is most noticeable in the character select screen with HDR enabled. It also can very easily make everything far too dark. I worked diligently to make the game handle SweetFX’s HDR setting as well as SMAA, LumaSharpen, and Bloom. Bloom and HDR together may sound crazy, but the bloom helps compliment the HDR-induced darkness. Do note that I also lowered the default sharpening in LumaSharpen as some of the armor was beginning to show too much ugly outlines.

I’ve modified them now to where I’m quite satisfied. I feel it compliments the game while still improving on the graphics quite nicely.

Here are some screenshots of my changes; it’s vertically split 50/50, so the left hand side is the normal game w/o SweetFX or FXAA, and the right hand side is w/ my custom SweetFX settings:
http://i.imgur.com/mzaha.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bdOfk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xnjvx.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/13yW9.jpg

And here’s my custom SweetFX settings file:
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1877492

You can replace the content of the pastebin w/ SweetFX_settings.txt, or, if you know how to use SweetFX’s presets, you can use this as a custom preset.

Timebomb i used your settings and the game looks great but, a bit dark, The blacks look a little to black for my taste. What would you recommend for increasing the overall brightness ? Should i ncrease the gamma in game via the "games settings " or should i change a value in the sweet fx settings ?

Also the very last setting in sweet fx “splitcreen setting” You have yours on 1, mine is set to 3 by default. Should this be turned to 0 for off ? I’m not really sure what this option does but I’m assuming its for screenshots ??

Awesome, I’m glad they will be adding this in. I don’t understand why they didn’t launch with this feature when you consider how “appearance” is a big part of GW2 . I think adding this feature will give a real boost to the economy . Many people like myself will simply buy gear based on looks alone , Alot of “cool” looking gear that is vendor trash ATM may become very profitable in the future.

I just wanted to say Thank You to whomever at Anet made the decision to do away with the traditional MMO Questlog. Of all the things you did right with this game perhaps the one thing that stands out to me the most is the questing ie dynamic events & even hearts in this game. I’v always hated “managing” my quest logs in MMO’s , It really took away from the enjoyment of the game.

Anyway I don’t know if “Thank You” threads are allowed on the forums but I just wanted to tell everyone involved with making this Great game , Thanks, Your Hard work is very well appreciated and I haven’t had this much fun in a MMO in a long long time….

Add me to the list of low fps since the last patch. Was getting a steady 45-60 fps in pve and since the last patch i have dropped to 30-40 fps. The only other time a patch killed my fps was your 9/6/12 update which was remedied a week or so later.

Q6600 2.4 GHZ
Vista 32
3GB Ram
HD 6850 OCed 900/1150
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Odd the blocked exit was actually open before downing the mini boss in the cave… Is this working as intended devs ? Also maybe this bug is related the the grubs/slug things , They seem to glitch out in the cave and when you engage them in combat is when the red text "This content is not available pops up.

Finally got it to work on my 5th attempt last night, Thank God lol.

Ok guys here is what i did different. When i entered the cave to find the second research team I went slow. When i first entered i was still getting the dreaded red “This content is not available at this time Bull&^%%” . Ok here is what i believe made the differance.

Instead of going directly to the second research team fighting the mini boss “Like YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO” I swung a left and cleared ALL the mobs to the blocked cave exit. To my surprise when i reached the “Blocked exit” It was actually open…. So after ALL the mobs in the cave were dead I went back to the research team , They had the mini boss down to about 50% . I finished him off and when the dilagoue option came up to talk to the little dude I just clicked the main quest option “No side dialogue .ask questions stuff”

To my surprise this worked and the TEAM actually followed. Hope this helps some of you. Again my advice would be to go Extremely slow right before you enter the cave and dont get ahead of that first team, Let the little dude explode the hole in the cave and let him finish his dilaogue before moving,Then clear ENTIRE CAVE

What really aggravates me about this situation is 17 days have passed like this is just some non issue, Meanwhile recources are wasted on policing chat for naughty words and offensive names. Priority’s really seemed to be mixed up right now. I WANT A PLAYABLE bug free game please stop wasting resources on this “police state” and take care of the real PROBLEMS first.

How about some compensation for all the silver wasted on repairs? Very frustrated after my 3rd attempt to get this broken quest working with no luck!!

I’m big on the appearance of my toon so obviously I’m loving this game. Why is there no "preview " feature for armor or weapons when browsing the trading post ? Would love to see these added and I’m sure many others would agree.

Sorry if this has been brought up before or addressed for a upcoming patch.

So i ran my first dungeon a few days ago, Caudacus Manor. After reading countless threads on difficulty I kind of expected a challenge and got one. I enjoyed the challenge, Its not your typical MMO mindless stand there and wail on button mash. You have to use all your skills, As a elementalist i found myself in more of a support role using alot of my crowd control effects i usually ignore in open world PVE.

Yes there was alot of wipes but the further we got into the run the more the group (pug) seemed to adjust to the gameplay.

Here is my only issue with this particular dungeon. I don’t mind having a ton of mobs thrown at the group but this game calls for alot of movement when fighting. Those first 2 or 3 waves of mobs inside the mansion is a ridiculous fight . I hope the devs keep in mind the wonky camera system when fighting. The more mobs you throw at a player the more space the said player needs to see the action and where he is going/running. It became really difficult to kite mobs when your camera can not see the action because of a low ceiling. The line of sight makes it very difficult to fight packs of mobs in SMALL ENVIRONMENTS like the inside of CM.

I hope going foward as you design more dungeons you consider the line of sight,camera view ect relative to the enviroment, Obviosuly if it is a outdoor fight like at the end of CM throwing more mobs at the player is justified. I hope my post was clear and you "kind of " have a idea as to what I am trying to explain here.

I am a casual player (1 toon lvl 51) so I don’t have a tremendous amount of time to research the latest patch but can someone clarify exactly what kind of restrictions are in place ?? I read on another forum that farming one kind of mob for to long can result in a banned account ? Please tell me this is a joke lol also whats the deal with DE’s? You can only do 3 or 4 in a row? Someone please clarify this

Right now I am loving the game, Just exploring and having fun but one of my favorite things to do at endgame (max level) in any MMO is just to put on some music and do some mindless farming, whether it be for mats or Gold its what I enjoy doing.

Jeez , Is A-net really going to ban my account if i want to spend 2 hours when i hit lvl 80 farming a certain mob for a materials ? This sounds like crazy talk, someone please clarify what is going on here ?

You know , my only complaint with this game has been field of view. I love everything about this game but have been baffled as to why you choose to go with this horrible camera angle.

You created this amazing game world full of detail everywhere and the camera seems to point directly to the ground ???? It just feels very uncomfortable when playing and really doesn’t take advantage showing off the beautiful world as you play.

Please go all out for holidays, I love seeing halloween & christmas in-game it just really adds to the immersion of a MMO and with the outstanding a beautiful world full of detailed you have created I Can’t wait to see whats to come for us…

Thunderstruck.5368:

The latest patch you just put into the game 9/6/12 lowered my fps by about 10-15 fps
was getting a steady 45-60 out in the world now at 30 -45

Vista32
intel core 2 quad q6600 2.4 ghz
3 GB Ram
AMD 6850 overclocked through CCC 900/1150 (Driver 12.8)
1920×1080

UPDATE***
Todays patch 9/10/12 (May have been 9/9/12 patch didnt play sunday) returned my fps back to 45-60 as a matter of fact the fps even spiked at times into the high 60’s which is awesome.

The latest patch you just put into the game 9/6/12 lowered my fps by about 10-15 fps
was getting a steady 45-60 out in the world now at 30 -45

Vista32
intel core 2 quad q6600 2.4 ghz
3 GB Ram
AMD 6850 overclocked through CCC 900/1150 (Driver 12.8)
1920×1080