Guild Wars 2

I’m a pretty average pvp player, and I’ve played on and off since release. I have like 4ish champ titles, so I’m not that hardcore, but I enjoy it and have played in the previous tournament setups, etc.

Queuing up with a friend today who’s above average; we lost 3 in a row. One was pretty close, the others we pretty much got slaughtered. Okay, it happens. 4th game we get paired against 1 guy from abjured and another 2-man premade. I really don’t understand how matchmaking is supposed to work. Even if I really suck shouldn’t I – once and a while – be on the better team? Shouldn’t it always try to get me around 50%? I haven’t played in a while, because the last time I tried it was the same thing – lost like 4 games in a row. Once a week maybe before I would pop into tpvp and (with the exception of 2 wins last night), I don’t think I’ve won game in a month. Even if I am the world’s kittentiest pvp player, this should not happen. Aside from all the god awful balancing with the new professions, this is quite frustrating.

Also crashing every 1-2 hours. Happens in Auric Basic a lot; all meta progress lost, spot not saved, can’t rejoin my party b/c map is full, etc, etc. Same thing.

After the patch, I still did not receive the map completion reward on VB.

Exactly my thoughts. Once I get to 100 I don’t see myself doing fotm – if I did, it would be for the daily. I haven’t done enough high levels to corroborate all your comments (I’m only on 65), and the break bar mechanic seems at least new and relevant for some of the islands (cliffside).

There is no reward for doing the challenge other than the completion and the “challenge” seems to be a time sink, like the rewards are a gold sink.

Edit: I did some more higher levels today and I think some of the instabilities do make it more challenging. Getting trolled by the fear on thaumanova was funny and we had a hard time with it — tho the boss was a GIANT bag of HP. I do think some of the levels encourage someone to play something a bit tankier and I have had to switch my build around quite a bit.

HOWEVER after spending 40 min to beat a hard fractal there is literally no sense of satisfaction or reward. Rewards really need to be addressed to make it feel… well.. rewarding.

IMPORTANT: You can now buy and sell fractal weapons (golden and regular) on the TP. This makes all my farming for a fractal wep… well, a waste. You can also get nearly ALL fotm rewards with gold, since you can buy stabilizing matrices on the TP and boxes to open on the TP.

I have run 3-9 fractals each day since release. Today I opened 10 boxes and did not get 20s in even ONE of them. Please, at least make the boxes break even. It’s ridiculously depressing not to make anything off of fotm. My best drops have been 1 exotic and 1 breather recipe, with likely 40 (?) boxes opened, and the chests haven’t given anything.

I know there are some really good items in the chest, but I shouldn’t have to get lucky to be profitable doing a dungeon, esp. since the higher levels are currently the hardest content in the game. Come on!

After I’m done the achievements, I don’t see myself playing fotm.

Please change the way fotm loot works. I don’t want to PAY for my loot.

I am very sad about this. In my view, elite specs are not content, they are a way to enjoy the content. I was really looking forward to trying out the specs in Halloween and new HoT content. Now I will be largely incentivized to rush through as many hero points as possible and then finish up in WvW first, just so I can get my spec. I really wanted to take my time through the jungle, but I want to play the elite specs while doing it…

Kodama is right, I was wondering if the gyro would trigger explosion traits, especially as the dev seemed to be using some of those traits in the vid.

It would be pretty easy to take the mortar for a few blasts if you don’t need the stealth imo.

I noticed in the video the dev took traits in the explosions tree. Will detonating a gyro count as an explosion?

Even if it wasn’t bugged at first, this is worse than any of the LS1 events, and that is really saying a lot. Doing the same 3 events for 30 minutes for 1.5 hours/day for 4 days (to get the daily each day for 3 maps) just to get a handful of rewards – which you have to pay for – is really underwhelming. I was blown away that the scarlet loot box was part of the daily… its SO bad. There’s barely anything in it, to make up for 30min worth of loot. ONE unID dye is what like 25 blooms? That’s almost your entire 30 min. For something worth maybe 1g.

Not to mention I just ran around like a crazy person tagging mobs and leaving to get 20 stacks. Super unenjoyable. I don’t want to play it but there hasn’t been anything new in ages.

If working as intended the tooltip is wrong. Changing it is inelegant, but I guess it could say something like “heal downed players in target area for XXXX amount.” The “heal” makes it clear it will be reduced by effects that would normally reduce healing.

This functionality is definitely annoying for pvp, and given the massive cooldown I don’t think it should be negated by something as easy to apply as poison. Be that as it may, it is even more annoying in fractals, where agony reduces healing and obviously cannot be removed by condi clear.

I volunteered for autobalance in two games today and did not get the ‘daily winner’ chest. I didn’t leave the game and had points. I’ve never noticed this happening to me before today.

I just had to play two games in a row against the same engi traited this way. In courtyard it is ludicrous. In 1v1 I did manage to avoid the insta kill 1-2 times, but eventually they’re going to get you down.

Done queuing for the night, incidentally.

This change is so awesome!

Fractals are worth doing finally! All those boxes I’ve been hording can be used for whatever I want. I’m so stoked! Fractals are also a good source of those weird insignias like magi.

Thanks anet! This change allows you to rebalance builds without people complaining about their obsolete stats, and allows people to play around more with their builds, as well convert previously useless drops to suit their needs. Hooray!

Tickets: #1419581 and 1420520 (4/8/2015)
Account: amovo.1689

My friend received error code 45.63.2416. The message told her that Anet was afraid her account had been compromised and she should contact support. She cannot currently log in at all.

Her English is pretty good, but not perfect and she was worried she had been banned, she sent two tickets and two emails over the last three days, but has had no response, so I told her I would help by posting here. I told her not to create more tickets and to respond directly to the email she gets, when someone finally replies to her.

She is pretty bent out of shape about it, so if someone could respond that would be great! Is there something which would help speed the process – i.e. – should she send an email from the account which is associated with GW2, or is it better not to do that? Any advice from Anet or non-Anet folks would be appreciated! She said on Chinese servers she would be able to put in her personal info and unlock it, but I’m not sure if there is something equivalent here. If it would be better for her to post to his forum, I can try to help her (although I don’t know if her acct is banned if she can?)

Edit: She subsequently received other notifications that her account had been permanently banned, both for botting and gold selling so she is obviously upset.

This change would make a lot of sense to me if CC was generally underpowered, but it isn’t. In sPvP it is very powerful, as it is in WvW. In PvE is is generally not good because the bosses have defiant (and this is already changing, due to new defiant mechanic).

I really don’t get the need to nerf to stability. If some long stability skills (like lich or rampage as one maybe?) are too powerful, just nerf them. The class with the most access to stability (guardian) is not exactly wrecking spvp face. Warriors are probably the most annoying with it.

This is also NOT a straight increase to skill level or to counterplay (the reason being repeatedly given). Now n00bs who spam CC without checking to see if their opponent has stability are potentially REWARDED. It will make walls much more powerful, but with less skill involved. Put wall down, stand on it.

If you thought CC was not good enough (news to me), give out some more boon stripping and nerf some of the long stab skills. This change makes no sense to me, unless there are a ton of new balance changes in HoT.

I was really hoping that last patch would change it.
All your achieves make me so sick of minigames and hate them, please there’s still time to change! The achievement is disruptive and very unfun!

Please…. just make it 10!

Every time anet comes out with some minigame they make it super tedious for achievement point hunters to finish (looking @ you, Lunatic court and Wintersday). This one takes the cake though, since in order to get it you must specially focus on something which does not involve winning the game.

The dragon kick is not a very good skill, interrupting is barely worth it, and you cannot get 100 rupts without focusing on it. The detriment to your team is clear, as is the tediousness of the achieve. If you’re going to make a hard achievement at least make it based on playing rounds or getting wins kitten .

Please anet you still have time to change this to a more reasonable number! If you tell me it was a typo I’ll believe you!

It’s a small holiday and the decorations are okay.

Dragon ball…
1) There is no reward for losing. Ergo I leave every losing match.
2) Is 100 interrupts supposed to be 10, like a typo? All the other achieves are very reasonable. That one will take ages and means people are fighting over the kick buff.

Hey guys,

Thanks for the replies. I have done all the JPs in the game, just wondering which ones are hardest, i.e. you would like ported.

We have mesmers parked @ Not So Secret chest as well as the goggles, so that one is covered, and also have one @ skipping stones.

The dry top one is a good suggestion for one people may have a hard time with. I don’t know about the llamas or badges? I feel like badges 7+30 have been ported ad nauseum.

The orb one you mentioned is kinda annoying, but un-portable

A few friends and I recently made a small guild dedicated to offering portals. We did the SW goggles and the Aetherblade puzzle as well as goggles for a few hours. It was lots of fun to hang out on TS and chat and make some gold from tips.

The Aether puzzle was popular (and seeing people finally get the achieve was satisfying lol), and I asked people if they would be interested in having other puzzles ported to which they said yes….

But which puzzles? Which puzzles are the hardest that you would like ported? Or vistas/badges?

Thanks!

I haven’t heard anything about any new dungeons in HoT. As someone who has always played in small groups, this is the primary type of content I want. WvW Roaming, Dungeons and Spvp are the type of content I play the most, as I can play with my actual friends any time. If some adventures are like challenge missions ala Gw1 for 5-10 people that will be cool too, and challenging solo content (like gauntlet) is welcome. But all my friends who quit for FF14 won’t be coming back unless there is solid content for 5-10 people, not massive open world zerging (no matter how unique and blah blah that zerging is).

Teq and wurm are fun and all but I’m usually not in the mood to sit in TS while 40 people talk, and have to wait in a zone for 30min-1hr for a new event (let alone spam “join in…” to get with my friends). VW is very simple compared to Marionette. I was reaaallly hoping for a 10 man dungeon like the deep or urgoz’s warren (2 parties of 5, like some missions in Cantha would be great).

I hope the fotm mastery comes with a lvl 100 cap, and is not just a way for new players to get easy AR. And I hope they add some more fractals and finally give it some better (and unique!! plz!!) rewards.

2 games around 10:30 EST sun (feb. 1)

One game 500-170 (I won). Temple of silent storm.
One game 500-100ish (I lost). Foefire.

Posting account (tigerlily.3765).

Two bad games in a row, one where I crushed, one where I was crushed. Oddly enough I seem to get really long queue times during NA prime time (7-11pm EST) and bad games, but when I queue during the day it seems to be a lot better, and WAY shorter queue times. All weekend during primetime I’ve been getting 8 min queues. I think I’m a pretty average player – not super high MMR, and I usually queue with one friend.

good match // bad match is one thing, but I’m also waiting like 7-8 min for the privilege! Doesn’t seem much point to queue again tonight. Thanks.

My set I is bugged in just the same way. I contact support with a ticket and they simply said they were aware of the issue.

Paying a couple hundred gold for 10 AP and not getting it sucks and I hate seeing it on my ‘nearly completed’ but I guess they have bigger fish to fry :P

you can try sending a ticket to see if you have better luck than I did

I tried using autocast today and it wouldn’t work. Even on skills with no target (such as heal) it was not autocasting.

I haven’t used the feature in a long time, but it seemed bugged to me.
I just ctrl-right click the skill, correct?

The skill has the autocast arrows around it, but the skill doesn’t autocast when CD is up.

Thanks!

Haha, I guess I want my friend to come back to play GW, and I felt his pain when he was like “oh ya, that one skin I was excited about got bumped way up by prospecters…qq.” He doesn’t use the forums

Were aether weps 5 or 7 tickets before they took them away? I regret not getting the pistol/shield way back when but engi is not one of my mains.

Ya some other gear hammers are cool, but he (at the time) bought every wep an engi could possibly use (shield, pistol, rifle and UW wep), so he really wanted to complete the set.

Guess I just have to tell him to save his tickets, and hopefully they come back before he despairs too much of GW2 inflation!

Ya, but lovestruck is for valentines day. So I wasn’t 100% sure aetherized would return. Plus “they’ll come back sometime” is small consolation to my aether-lovin friend

So a few hours after the new preview all the aetherized hammers were gone off the TP and then jacked up to 1200g. It’s pretty obvious why.

One of my friends who was gone out of the game came back and was really discouraged by this (his engi has all the aetherized weps), but thought at least he could buy/farm keys and eventually get it from BL tickets….. unfortunately it is retired.

Please bring back aetherized weps to the BL trading man for a limited time at least please! Its very easy for TP flippers to corner the market on something which no one can get access too.

Thanks!

I know this is the last episode of LS, but do we know if there will be extractors for the last body parts (kidney/eye)?

I would rather wait two-four weeks than camp the same boss grinding for the part.

Thanks.

I tried the fix from the other post (downloading at 0-75kps), changing the target on your gw2.exe. It worked.

this has happened to be every patch recently. so annoying. i have tried all suggested fixes.

This thread makes no sense to me. People who say “he went 99-0 cuz he’s on the best team and everyone else can’t compare.” Alright…. shouldn’t he then be #1 on the leaderboard, b/c nobody can beat him? Isn’t that the point of a leaderboard?

Even if he queues with a really good team — shouldn’t all those on his team be high on the leaderboard?

Colour me confused.

I don’t know any of the people named in the thread but if you go 99-0 and are NOT top 250, what was the guy supposed to go? He LITERALLY could not do better other than playing more (100 games is a lot, 3 games a night… reasonable). And even if he DID play on offtimes, is that like his fault? Maybe he works. There is no way other than quantity of games he could have moved up… thats SUPER lame. MMR seems to punishing such types, since they are expected to win, they have to crawl up the leaderboard one point at a time.

High MMR should give points faster, not slower. It makes no sense.

The grindboard did not encourage me to play at all. Once I realized there is no way I could get to 250 with the amount of time I would need to play, I stopped qing for ranked.

It was an OK first try for a leaderboard, but I am really surprised no changes were introduced. Or new rewards, or season announced or anythng.

They cannot fix by merging the two achieves now, since many of us bought all the minis just for the new achieve who had the old one. And the new one gets minis out of the economy, which I imagine was part of the point.

As far as I know none of my minis were unlocked in hotm, but perhaps in wvw.
Only set I is bugged for me 51/54. so priest of balth wont help me

MMR should be a part of the leader board for sure, even if the number can’t be displayed or a pure mmr leaderboard has too much decay / suddenly highly ranked new people who got lucky (I think the main complaint about the old leaderboard was about people with low number of wins getting ranked high).

Would it be possible for people with higher MMR to get a multiplier to the ladder points that they get? So average players get 1 to +3 for a win but good players with high MMR could earn +1-3 (x 1.5 or 1.6) or something (multiplier based on your MMR). Then people with higher rating could climb faster, but dedicated players are still getting a shot? MMR could gain a noticeable benefit without showing MMR.

It seems to me that the way the leaderboards work now the highest are people who play the most, and who play better than what matchmaking predicts, rather than just who is the best (although I am sure they are solid experienced players, still grinding for leaderboard is unappetizing to say the least). Surely some combination of the two systems is possible (I don’t know if my suggestion would work, just a thought on how you could reward high mmr and make leaderboards a little more reflective of high level play).

Hi,

3 days in a row am getting paired against duo or triple q high level players in unranked.

I have played very few tourney games on my Mesmer and am trying to learn the class. It is almost impossible when I continue to be paired up like this.

Is MMR working in unranked? Is the MMR for class thing working?

I also am bugged at 51/54. Not only is it stuck on my “nearly completed” list but (obviously) cost hundreds of gold.

I sent in-game report and sent a ticket. They said they were aware of the problem, that was over a month ago so I’m all for bumping this.

The new leaderboards are cool in theory, but right now they are rewarding quantity of games too much over quality. Maybe people at high MMR could gain points at a much faster rate, so if they win lots of high quality games they can easily past grinders?

I went away for a week over the holidays and I don’t see any way of my getting into the top 250 unless I farm my brains out. I feel like the leaderboard should NOT require you to play 3+ hours/night.

Nevertheless, it’s good to reward dedicated pvpers.

Since monthlies are gone THIS month (i.e. January, ‘early 2015’), I also assumed they would be combined for January (for total 15000 cap)

Is this a bug?

The dailies are quicker to complete than before by far.
I wish they had made this change 6 months ago when I was doing every daily every day.

A few more PvE options would be nice but overall good change imo.

You can’t open the penn’s ultimate gift and the final reward in hotm, have to go to pve.

Maybe this has been mentioned, but rip search function :P

Same problem with the patches since 1st wintersday patch. Never had the problem before, downloading very slow and keep stalling at 0kps

Edit: I do NOT have comcast.

Same, continually get into matches that are already done.
I got the achieve for finishing the game a soon as I walked in.
Tried a number of times, kept getting finished games

I really just can’t believe they have NOT FIXED THIS PART.
Come ON!! And they took out the save spot at Tixx.
This part of the puzzle is solo, can I have my own instance please?

Not to mention the “game ending” and kicking me out when im half way done the puzzle.

I generally did not like playing as Caithe, but to mix it up for one story segment is fine.
The story told was much more interesting (imo) than anything thus far. Though the dialogue is still brutal (and having to rewatch… ugh).

I wish she was more OP, like Togo in bonus mission pack. Then it’s more like a cinematic movie play through. If the content is hard(er), it is more frustrating to not be playing on your own character. I played as Caithe to help three groups through the challenge mote, since no one wanted to play as her.

She should have a downed state, I don’t know if that was unintended. But Caithe should be at least as bad kitten as me in every way. And not having a downstate was annoying for the harder content, especially when playing in groups.

tldr; it’s fine and somewhat interesting for one patch, but not my favourite.

please please please please please let us skip cut scenes.

the stealth mission requires minimum 3 plays to get the achieves.

please.

ditto. I was punching him out the second time, they apparently saw me, but I stayed invis and they are aggrod. Can no longer do anything….

Must do entire instance over again. Colour me not surprised.

pixel – I agree.. it doesn’t seem like the track was very well thought out. May have been better to release at the end of the LS season or something. I don’t know. I guess I’ll avoid it for now until the next patch comes and I see what that do with it, since no one is interested in answering // knows the answer to my question!

I myself posted about the Hero of the People collection in this forum once, if not twice. When the patch first came out.

I have been saving champ bags of each colour, up the line, but now half of them have different names. I assume this was some kind of intended fix? But I imagine it will just make it a heck of a lot more confusing come time to finish the achievement…

I have no idea why these champ boxes were changed — like do they no longer drop the correct exotic correspondent to their champ box type? I couldn’t see any pattern to how the boxes were changed.

Also, I have no idea about the fractal wep collection. I was pretty surprised there wasn’t one when collections first came out. But I got the staff last week (for the first time), and I can confirm no collection unlocked for me.

pixel – I think that Lesh comment was prior to adding the current silverwastes reward track.

I want to know primarily if I start the glove track and get half finished before the new LS hits, they’re not going to change the final reward on me. It seems unlikely, but right now having a track for the gloves (but not the shoulders) and naming it “silver wastes” is ambiguous.

It would be better if there was a non-repeatable track for each of the pieces IMO. Even better if there was one non-repeatable for carapace which unlocks a second track to get the luminous version.