Guild Wars 2

I havent tried the nerfed Orr, so will mostly comment on the general look and feel of the place. In short…. way overuse of the undead / zombie theme. It might be fun for a smaller zone, but to have 3 maps covered in this goo is just painfull and insulting to my senses. The Shiverpeaks lvl 80 (unfortunately small) area is way better.
I didnt mind the difficulty of the original, was not even that difficult … just very tedious. Really boringly so.

A very much needed feature indeed. I hope this get implemented soon.

It would be nice to have worthwile loot too. So far Wvw is subpar in terms of return on time spent when it comes to loot / coin / gear.

There’s a Dragonbrand cheater, clipped underground stopping the cap at DH Borderland NW suppply. He’s been here for 15 minutes or more, and he’s not afk, he’s moving around.

I tend to prefer a balanced mix of power + precision and toughness all above 1600 (level 80 total stat). And a lot less vitality.

I found a sweet spot around 14-15k hp, where I have enough time to react to burst damage, and then benefit from all my heal / regen options before I die.

This is for me playing mostly PVE open world and Wvw support roles.

So a lot of knight with some valkyrie in the mix for amour / jewelry. More varied stats for weapons depending on what I am doing (some cleric some berserker etc…)

Good post.

I love the dragon events, just for the fun aspect. But if they don’t even pay for my transportation cost, then something is seriously wrong.

Even with full mf gear and buffs I only seem to be getting low (blue / green) profit loot.

I wonder if the event’s loot has been nerfed since Lost Shores, as if the devs had said: “ok the lucky ones who were able to participated in the event and got loot should be sated for now, and let’s just push all the population to our instanced grind in fractals.”

As a DH player from release, I have to say I found a good community there. I has it’s lot of drama , and it also has it’s unique and unforgetable characters / commanders like Seal or Banana who make the server unique.

I also enjoy fighting Maguuma, they are a good bunch and when numbers are close enough we can duke it out in good fun. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.

CD has been a mixed bag, some good players in there, but also a lot of mindless zerglings. Sheer numbers in the Asian / oceanic timezone possibly could mean they never had to get more organised.

DH is going through a rough patch at the moment, and it can be difficult to even find enough people for a raiding group. Let’s see how this plays out on the long term, as by nature it is dynamic.

ps: Maxentus you are also doing a great job, at a time of the day when it’s very much needed. Thanks for being there.

You’d want to precise which kit you use for salvaging:
Master kit gives me 0.6 per rare on average
Lion kit gives me 1.2 per rare
Small sample, but quite steady
Of course I have a small number of Lion Kits, so once they are used up and it’s master kits only, you are better off selling the rares (19s) and buying the ectos (26s), in my excel spreadsheet anyway.

Zeke Minus.5720:

This isn’t against their Manifesto.

They’re just adding a more obtainable step between Exotic and Legendary items. Most people think this means they’re going to keep adding items higher than Legendary rarity, stat-wise.

You missed the part where Legendaries were cool skins with stats similar to Exotics.

Ascended = superior stats to exotic = a new tier of gear (even excluding the infusion slot)

This is very detrimental to the game. Everyone and their minis are now LFG FOTM, either because they like it, or because they feel that they have to. I am sure some people genuinely enjoy FOTM. I am not one of them, this is not the game I bought.

On my server Wvw is good as dead, with maybe a third of the usual crowd turning up.

PVE in Orr is dead, Plinx nerf and whatnot. Still a few people around but it seems the rewards have been nerfed to the ground. I think I made 25silver in an hour yesterday. I used to be able to get a few rares with full mf gear + food up until recently.

The new island is dead, a couple of eventshere and there, abysmal loot. Only good to farm a few nodes. Only fun part was soloing to the high Ori node and dodging the champion for long enough to get it mined.

All I can see is a crowd of people “lfg Fotm” in Lion’s Arch. The whole game seems to have been reduced to a few instanced areas.

This is a complete U turn in game design. This is not the game I bought.

I felt like I was playing a fun mmo at release. Now I feel marginalised because I don’t want to get into the fractal grind.

Samfisher.7942:

Have you not heard that not everyone is skilled in every single thing in game development? Maybe there’s a guy hired specifically for JP’s? He wouldn’t be any help in the other departments if that’s his skill set. In fact, he might actually be a hindrance if he tried anything out of his capabilities! People should stop talking about “diverting resources” as if every single employee is able to do each other’s job equally well.

On the other hand, why is there only TWO profession designers on ANet’s team?? How is this acceptable?? Look at the replies on the Ranger forum, it’s ridiculous the excuses you guys give out for practically doing nothing for the ranger since launch.

You have to pay the guy in question, and that’s taken from your budget, so yes it’s resource allocation. If you don’t hire that guy to do this specific task then the money is still in your budget and you can allocate it to something else.

makes too much sense, and solves the worry of wvw players who are not too happy to be at a disadvantage vs PVE geared players.

Niim.9260:

It’s like being at the aquarium when they throw food into the shark tank.

That made me laugh out loud!

I am hoping, really hoping, that we will have a wvw gear progression as well.

I think the success of wvw has taken Anet by surprise, and they might have thought initially that it would be done by PVE players who would get in wvw occasionally.

On my server, the wvw players hardly do any PVE at all, and I am there with them. I’ll explore / heart etc while levelling, and farm Orr a bit to buy siege and that’s it.
I have no interest in dungeons (this game changed me from a dungeon crawler to a dungeon hater) jumping puzzles etc… and I now wonder if people in my category will be able to remain competitive at all in wvw.

I won’t complain about what I got, because I got nothing.
I live in Australia, and like most here was not able to participate.

So, more of this or not, in the end makes little difference aside from the disapointment of not getting a chance at a precursor.

Is there a point going to the new map at all?

I wandered there and explored some, found some harder than usual mobs (still killable tho) very few events, and loot drops that are very unimpressive.

Considering the added difficulty, which I don’t mind, is there an incentive to go to this map at all? I feel like I am missing something.

note: ok I can collect 1000 shells, a nice grind if I ever had nothing else to do. Is there something else worth noting?

Now that we know there is one for PVE, whats is the plan for wvw?

Any news on that?

The question is in the title.

Considering the last event, how hard would it be to make so that you can run as a sort of raid instance that would remain open for some time?

You can limit the chest to one time per account / character, and give people with different time zones / schedules a chance to participate.

lots of blood, not much else… but I couldn’t join the final event where apparently some people got precursors.

Well I couldn’t do the event because in my time zone it was impossible.
I will probably NEVER get to do ANY one time event because of that design choice.

And you’re complaining that you got loot scaled to your character’s level?
Well at least you got to participate… and it seems the rewards were pretty good compared to the actual effort (3 hours of zerging?)

So next time do the event with your 80, and be happy you actually have a chance to do the event.

Zone look and feel: fine

Mob difficulty: ok, some need tuning like the drake 10k attack that a melee can’t avoid. Mostly soloable, but doing events with a zerg and somer lag often leads to death from invisible AOEs, Dot’s ticking for insane amounts etc… with little chance to react. Running around solo again was fine, not easy but fine.

Reward: absolute crap, not worth the time and effort… big let down here.

Events: very few of them, some are bugged and won’t progress.

well I disagree. These jumping puzzles do nothing for me, and the time the devs spend doing them could have been spent doing something else.

jumping puzzles, as you said, are not necessary. So it only bothers me to the extent that resources were diverted to develop something that I don’t like. now we can argue about how many people do them or don’t of course… and nobody can win this argument.

In the meantime, I’d like to know when the Wvw (one of the unique features of this game) will get some attention… incentivisation, gear progression, new maps, new objectvies etc…

short of this being fixed in the foreseable future, can I get a refund for this skin so I can then buy one that’s not bugged?

thanks!

They nerfed Plinx spawn time… expect the zerg to spread a bit more now.

heh bad timing! I had a server reset once when Jormag was at 10% health… should have taken a screenshot of the map chat. I learnt some new words on that day

My guess is that the Plinx farm route will be extended to include more surrounding events now, perhaps the infamous tunnel camps defense and further away, escort mission more camp defense, then back to Plinx.

Just give it a couple of days and your local farmers will have an optimised route figured.

Farming is necessary in the game, either for gold, tokens or karma… but they just made it a bit more difficult because they want you to hang around a bit longer.

Thanks for the heads up.
I won’t buy them because I don’t gamble when I don’t know the odds.
So I’ll farm / save for whatever I want to get.

My concern with ascended gear is that it is an upgrade from exotic.

At the moment it appears that the new PVE will be the way to get them, so as a WvW player I will be forced to PVE if I want to remain competitive.

This of course could be that I worry for nothing as they surely have a plan to give WvW players a WvW upgrade path as well… they do don’t they? Failing to do that would be showing contempt for those of us who would rather shoot themselves in the foot than be forced to go through dungeons.

Heavens Brethren.6471:

I just want to say my perception of Fort Aspenwood is that they are the worst spawn camping server I have personally played against. And GODS guild is a huge culprit. I don’t typically post on forums but I felt a huge urge this round. This is not something I would want my guild to be known for personally. Just saying. =P

And then they come here to complain that they don’t have enough people to wtf pwn.
Can’t have it both ways guys

So the super skilled elementalist who brags about how leet he is could be just a bot after all. And people who play with him are not aware that it happens?

Surely, the boon stacking thing is easy to verify, and that itself could be proof enough. Your server doesn’t need cheaters like this!

There are a limited number of server WE (Darkhaven) can have a good match up with. What I mean is not that we necessarilry win, but the match is balanced enough that it remains interesting the whole time.
Maguuma is close, and fun to fight.
Rolling with overwhelming number or being rolled, is not.

Maybe it’s time to level alts again.

Seen a huge improvement on Darkhaven. there are still a few bots poping around, but nowhere as many as before. patience! the bot hammer will come to your server some day soon!

Several ways to do this:

1/ Farm the mobs that drop them. You’ll notice as you travel that a certain type of mob will have more chances to drop the item you want, And you can stay around and kill them for a while.

2/ Not sure how you level your crafting skills but in many cases the most efficient way is to research / discover new recipes. This does not use quite as many mats as just producing known recipes. so for example armorsmith… you needs 4 rares of each type at first for each piece of corresponding armour you can discover the recipe for, coat, legs, gloves, boots x blood, fang, etc…
Later it goes up to 6.

3/ When all this failed I hit the TP for a top up, usually in small amounts.

this is more visible in combat stance.
it is the only armor I have that sort of problem with

Guys come to DarkHaven! we have the opposite problem, as previously mentioned.
So we’d then have a good round the clock presence.

DH is getting well organised with an Alliance of guilds dedicated to WvW. Nice friendly people, free cookies and synchronised dancing!

Guardian is the only 80 I have so far and I enjoy it a lot in Wvw. I play mostly in guild runs, usually 1 to 3 groups. Sometimes with a zerg, mostly not.

I love the survivability, support, defense (blocks / shields / reflection) as well as the ability to do some decent, if not stellar, damage. I swap weapons all the time, but usually include a hammer in my set.

Can’t talk much about other classes as I find that uplevelled characters in greens don’t perform all that well. However I found the warrior’s dps impressive!

Siliconhobbit.4361:

2 simple optional fixes:

#1 Being stealthed does not affect the capture of any objective. The individual who is stealthed must come OUT OF IT in order to prevent capture. Otherwise the capture of the objective continues.

#2 The number of people standing in the capture ring of an objective affects the time in which the capture proceeds. The more standing in the ring, the faster it goes. This happens on a One for One basis. For example if 10 people are attempting to capture an objective and 5 people are opposing them, the capture progresses as if only 5 people are standing in the ring. 5 people on each team cancel out each other and the team with more members gets the advantage. This would negate the effect of 1 stealthed individual, or even 5 of them if a large zerg of 30+ stormed a location with the intent to capture.

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Honestly…I bet suggestion #1 would be easier to implement. That’s my vote.

This is badly needed, I hope the dev acknowledge this issue and don’t just toss it under the rug.

I don’t think a mesmer should be able to spawn clones inside a keep through walls and doors.

arrow carts can be a pain, then again being able to AOE the walls from below is also a pain.

who in his right mind would design wall that leave you completely exposed to AOEs?

If you are an architect in this world, you build your fortifications so they give you an advantage. Following that logic, GW2 walls should have a roof protection…

back to the original topic:

Rendering issues. Nothing makes or breaks my day more than running to attack a group of 5 ennemies only to find out seconds late rthat there was not 5 but 50 of them.

Or to see that thief takes 10k health from me before he even appears on the screen.
(as a 1700 toughness guardian) .. Ok I can deal with the last one, but I feel sorry for any non tanky class that gets insta gibbed.

Again trying to defend a keep, and I KNOW there are a LOT of ennemies at the walls but I can onyl see a handfull.

Trying to flank an attacking force to attack their siege engines, and succeeding to getting where they are .. err, I mean where they should be, wait… they are invisible now…

etc…

if you quit don’t go back to SWTOR.. it’s bad, just bad.

At least this game has a world that is worth exploring, and not only populated by static clone copycats all over… don;t even get me started on SWTOR,

But I do agree that the thief stealth + rendering issues + front loaded damage is a major issue.

Agreed, although I’d like to see the orbs back but not giving an advantage in fighting, makes them give them extra exp / karma / loot instead. And give the undermaned buff the extra hp / stats.

But as long as hackers can not be stopped efficiently, this is the lesser evil. I enjoy not seeing people fly across the map to insta cap an orb.

Today we spent 10 minutes trying to cap a camp, about 12 people.

1 single thief in perma stealth stopped it form happening.

Yes we were using AOEs but somehow he only appeared once every 20-30 seconds and for 1-2 seconds at the most. Then disappeared again, stopping the cap.

I believe this to be lousy and poor gameplay system. If there are 12 peopl ein the circle one single opponenet should not stop the cap. How about making based on the number of people in the circle instead?

This needs to be adressed as it is detrimental to the game.

And yes I also play a thief and love the class, I just don’t think that giving that sort of power to one single character vs many is in the spirit of Wvw. Actually I find it ridiculous.

Well you’ll probably want to have 2 or 3 sets or armour with different stats to try with different specs / roles.

Just completed the Dwayna set on my guardian, now I’ll start a Knight set, and maybe a Cleric set…

Not sure if I qualify for giving up. See I am a bit older…

Logged in, caught up with my in game mate with whom I have played multiple MMOs since EQ1 in 1999. Asked him about the Clock Tower and his answer was “rage inducing, gonna quit this kitten game”
So I decided to pass, I play to have fun, not to punish myself.

I enjoy a challenging fight, I can do some jumping puzzles, I love Wvw, just didn’t think this clock tower would be worth my time.

And to me yes the MK map had a jumping element to it, not too hard but the first time you get in it’s easy to miss or get it wrong. Especially the sharp edged little island before the last big one. I later skipped that one thanks to fall damage reduction allowing me to do so.

Now I have to say that my 2 main characters are Norns… and I hate the kitten camera (I am actually typing kitten) which forces me sometimes to look through my head, moves around randomly or zooms all the way in for no apparent reason while doing jumping puzzles. This is not a challenge, it’s bad design.

Running Orr with MF gear makes me more money than the event did. I still enjoyed the books hunt and the MK dungeon.
Didn’t get any Halloween item. I don’t mind that, the whole Halloween style isn’t my cup of tea anyway.
Good thing when the event ends is I can go back to mining without having all these silly candy nodes crowding the map.

I did a combination of Wvw (get in a raiding group running around the map capping camps and towers) and Orr events.
It seemed to go faster doing Wvw because I was having more fun. Orr is tedious after a while (for me “a while” was 1 hour on that map)

on Darkhaven a lot of bots have disappeared. A few new ones replaced them but nowhere as many as it used to be. So thanks for getting rid of them, and giving the human players their game back!

Tried the unidentified dyes, bought 112 of them. didn’t get any jackpot super expensive ones and my return was 34 silver per 1 g spent.
So out of bad luck I guess it wasn’t worth it.
For half of them I sold them back directly, for the other half I tried my luck at the forge, didn’t make a big difference.

My approach on this is that if I have enough HP to survive a big hit and some condition damage long enough to get the regens and heals flowing, then toughness is the way to go.

Sitting around 14K HP in WvW and PVE with Dwayna’s karma set and knight jewelry, I am not easy to kill.
Condition removers are a must in that case, ie Smite is your best friend. Traited its even better.

Shield is very situational.

As a mostly wvw player I find it handy when stacking guardians to portal bomb or block a choke point. Also good when resing a player.

In PVE I used mace + Shield when I was in a tight spot, to gain some time and allow that next heal / dodge / to refresh.

I am sure more skilled playes have found other things to do with it