Guild Wars 2

Saw this in ember bay, 3 characters were standing afk on a platform spamming healing while small mobs died really quickly.

thought it looked strange.

This happened to us a few weeks ago too. Someone created the same guild tag as us and joined our raid which meant the guild we were fighting always thought we had more numbers that we said we had, also the trolling behaviour and other guild blaming us for it. Sad times . . .

I got burnt too so I feel your pain. My new year resolution: not to buy anything from ANET in 2017. Yip a whole year this game wont be getting any money from me. Which is actually easier than it sounds since I play mainly wvw anyway and yeah much frustrations what else can I say.

no thank you. This will only add more exclusive rewards for raiders. I’d prefer they start working on wvw.

I want them to address this publically. I feel burned that they changed this – I sunk hours into the jp to collect their inflated amount of drinks then they go and eliminate the sigil/rune drops.

Unhappy customer, I won’t be wearing my gw2 cap in game for a very very long time. Disappointed.

yup, I got the same. It said unlocks at 79 but nothing happens when I get to 79.

Levelling is truly becoming a struggle in this game with all the event bugs etc. It’s sad that the game is in this situation

It’s a brilliant money making idea on their part – I’m surprised they haven’t exploited this revenue option tbh. Regardless of what you think there are people that will throw hundreds of gems at those boxes for a chance at getting exclusive loot. Expect more updates with this.

HoT is quite a step up from the core game in terms of awareness needed of each mob and surroundings.

But remember, it’s quite literally, a jungle in there so think of it as an adventure, focus on one mob type and learn it’s weaknesses; become familiar with the jungle and develop safe paths through it.

It’s a challenge, try to break it down into chunks that help you deal with it rather than being overwhelmed by it all. With practice it can become easier.

I too hope for a more ‘casual’ expansion in the future, one that’s easier to travel across. Perhaps the Crystal Desert will offer just that – we can hope . . . It would be nice to see more co-op type objectices in MMORPGS.

I recently found this to be the case too. I wanted to change to my mesmer so my friend, who doesn’t have lava tube mastery required to get it because she recently bought the expansion, could get the mastery point – even though she had done the story and had the elixir recipe.

Slightly annoying, but it didn’t take long for her to get the lava tube mastery and in fact she obtained that before I could finish the story up to the elixir recipe on my mesmer so she got the mastery point herself – but it did create an annoying detour to our playtime.

oh? is it still in the loot table? thought I remember wiki research suggesting it wasn’t Glad to be wrong ofc!

Please bring this back to the Wintersday gifts, will make my holidays very special \o/

Looks great! but I don’t raid . . .

Perfectly fine as is.

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I happen to be logged on so I’m gonna add this. From a purely EU perspective, it’s obvious that the likes of Deso and Gandara did not need to be linked (Vabbi & RoS). I think, generaly, linking went too far up the chain. Oh, and calling it linking or an alliance is a joke atm. I’m on Gandara and I have no idea who the RoS players are. In fact, I couldn’t say for certain that there are Slurmies playing at all. I think that’s a shame.

A guild from RoS lead the open tag last night for the Gandara/RoS squad. We did pretty well against Debbi and had them on the back-foot most of the time.

But to be fair they did say it was their first raid so I’m guessing they recently moved to RoS for the t1 fights against deso. Anyway they are there, just not in large numbers.

Fully support this idea.

WvW, never done raids and only a few fractals – been playing since release.

would seeing someone else with this slow down my pc?

I remember finding out about this the hard way. My friend, who had bought core Tyria soon after GW2 released, hadn’t bought HoT so the previous exp boosts provided by the guild – in a game she had paid for – was no longer available.

She no longer plays this game with me

I can’t seem to feel comfortable playing a game like Blade and Soul due to its anime graphics. I guess I’m too ‘western’ in my tastes – I need more realistic graphics and choice in my gameplay.

Great news! Very good marketing of HoT for them too. Hearing about others gliding in HoT zones and seeing people actually glide throughout core Tyria are very different things. ‘OMG dey gliding!, imma buy expansion!’

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I like JPs, in fact I’ve completed them all! However even I think that this JP achiv is over the top!

The only purpose it serves is to be another gem store cash grab.

…how exactly is a jumping puzzle a “gem store cash grab”? There’s nothing you can buy on the gem store that will help you complete it.

If you can’t figure it out then there is no reason trying to explain it to you.

I like JPs, in fact I’ve completed them all! However even I think that this JP achiv is over the top!

The only purpose it serves is to be another gem store cash grab.

10k drinks is NOT FINE. It means you either grind your brains out and hate this game more for it or you use the TP which is the reason it’s at 10k.

I don’t play this MMO or any other to pay someone else to do the farming for me. I’ll finish the grind then I’ll probably shelf this game until the next expansion.

Why are you playing gw2? This game is about grind locked behind gem store, and no, not grind that most people would be able to do without gems but grind that gems are encouraged to be bought for whatever reason.

This game is less and less about the story but more and more about gem purchases. Almost no progress can be made without some kind of trading-post transaction which is backed my gems.

If you want grind, gw2 is actually the game for you if you dont want to spend real cash.

I would normally say raids take effort but you can buy progress with that too if you find the right group to carry you.

gw2 is Gems for the Win squared.

Personal best is 15 – I still make silly mistakes or presents blow up without warning etc.

My advice is keep going – as soon as you fall just run into the JP again as if you’d never fallen. You’ll eventually get there.

One thing Anet has made sure of is that after you’ve got your 10k drinks you’ll never step another foot into the JP for the rest of this festival or any in the future. Content killed by slapping you with a frying pan while pushing you off a ledge and setting you on fire!

Absolutely love this thread! Please keep the creative juices coming with your experiences of playing the new profession – revenant

I play mostly solo, although I’m in a wvw guild.

I would say the game has value in terms of content but to me, after almost 7 weeks since release, what you’re buying is an unoptimised buggy shell of a game that looks pretty.

Fighting at the towers and next second I’m kicked into a different map.

This is not the first time this has happened, and I’m certainly not the only one it’s happening to either as numerous other people were in the empty tower with me.

It’s annoying but really my issue is that it’s still happening, and how long after expansion release?

Not that this post will affect anything but I feel my opinion needs to be shared. This is a bug and it’s still not fixed.

Elite or veteran spider? ah never mind, I see the elite now

how did you get there?

gw2 seems to be down

Just crashed again, 3rd time since update and this time during DS meta at the Mouth . . .

me too, nothing today, then twice since update

Happened to me too, would be nice to get the consumable back. Until then I will try joining the map first before porting to friend.

This map system is really annoying tbh. Map Wars FTW!

They’re blades so would be difficult to ‘glide’.

I also have this issue. I think visability is a big problem but it’s just a game so I don’t get too stressed about it.

I found if i just logged out, without claiming the reward, and logged in on the character I want it on then it works.

Good thing I read it was soulbound on acquire before accepting the reward though!

Agree with OP, they def hit the nail on the head with an epic feel to this fight.

There is nothing wrong with having mentor tags. They simple provide the ability for those who wish to be helpful in PVE to do that.

I wish people could get over the idea that mentoring should be something restricted to the levelling process. How many people in the new maps need mentors? – not everyone has a commander tag for the simple reason they aren’t willing to shell out gold for it.

New players to the game will also be able to see Mentor and be obliged to ask questions and those mentors will be in a position to give guidance.

How many commanders are willing to take the time and give guidance on maps? I’m betting very few. They’re to busy organising stuff or speeding through with zergs.

The only people sour here are those with commander tags that have felt its novelty supposedly being devalued for some reason – get over it and be a commander, not whine about mentors who want to take the time to help individual people and/or groups.

Amazing expansion! Really, I’ve spent so many hours in Verdant Brink just gliding around, by far my favourite map!

Well done

I have to add my voice to this. I was in a group about 20 mins ago and finally got to the point of seeing the Mouth for the very first time – I was really impressed with it!

The climax became very quickly the opposite as I dc’d along with another person in my group. 10 mins later a 3rd person dc’d and finally the 4th when the Mouth was apparently at 5%! My first time there (after numerous attempts I can tell you that!) and it felt amazing and really depressing at the same time

Adding insult to injure I tried using a portal stone on one of the group members that was still fighting and – surprise surprise – I couldn’t port in as the server was full, fair enough but my portal stone was consumed even though I couldn’t use it . . . not a happy chappy.

Oh well, thank goodness for online videos where hopefully I can see this awesome event without the sad times.

Editing post because I’ve just completed it, it all worked fine Amazing fight – so worth it And glad to say I didn’t watch it online either so it was even more spectacular to see it live Happy face back!

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Well having finally got through it I can say a few things [SPOILERS]:

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I was surprised to find it was the end of the story – I thought the pacing of the initial part of the story up till Rata Novus was much better. After this I thought it rushed ahead way too fast and all of a sudden it’s like “oh, ok so this is it?”
The fight with Mordremoth itself was very tedious. But then I hate pve bullet sponges in general so I’m not the target audience for these “boss” fights…
The glider section bugged out so I had to restart a few times. But once the gliding worked, it was a relatively easy, but extremely tedious fight – ie a test of stamina/endurance and not skill.
- the scenery was as usual stunning. I’m constantly in awe of the environments the Anet team is able to create. Amazing.
Overall I thought it was a good concept of entering the Dream, and well done despite me not enjoying bullet sponge boss fights.
Sad to see Trahearne die – it seems his voice actor did the best job right here at the end. I actually like his character. Looking forward to the next LS to see what happens in the future.
Edit: for the record I soloed the end hence why I might have found it tedious. I imagine it might be faster in a group.

Your experience of story pacing summed up mine perfectly – excellent up to Rata Novus then it felt like I skipped ahead somehow to the bottom of the map of Dragon Stand.

That coupled with the lack of ‘epicness’ of the final boss made it overall feel somewhat wanting. I get it that his body is the whole jungle but some resemblance to what the trailer suggested would’ve been nice.

Overall the design of the zones are amazing. I particularly loved the design of Mordremoth’s spiral ‘backbone’ leading to his heart and ultimately to his mind. Well done to the team you really have set the bar high.

Gandara does Troll-Oak-Boar.

While waiting for boar some go to Bandit.
I usually wait at boar to empty bags etc.

I’ve just go to this point for the first time. being a new player I had no idea a group was needed until i gave it a go. I really was disappointed that I couldn’t do it on my own as all of my previous personal story was done on my own.

Please change this.