Guild Wars 2

I’m currently trying to make a Minstrel set for my WvW ele to experiment with.

That’s 18 pearls. Almost 500 gathers later, I have 0 pearls.

I know I could spend the gold and buy them, but I don’t want to drop over 100g simply to experiment with a niche armor set which I will probably discard.

This drop rate pretty much takes Minstrels armor off the table.

OK so, in summary:

Season One was too grindy for “good” players as they had to “carry” average/bad players.

Season 2 is too grindy because too many people got to Legendary (in your opinion). (But queue times in Legendary are too high as well!)

So in summary, ANet need to make a system that:

1. Isn’t grindy for you getting to Legendary
2. Is difficult, if not impossible, for anyone else to get to Legendary
3. Has short queue times at Legendary

Disclaimer: I solo queued to Legendary this season despite horrific losing streaks in Emerald and Sapphire

Now that I have all the pieces to finish The Ascension, I’m left with an additional 30 tickets. I could use these to buy a mini Llama, but then I got thinking… Are the PVP league tickets going to carry over to the 2017 season or will they be reset to zero at the end of the year?

They adjust to match the level of the character weilding them. I guess this is the justification of the expense. But looking at it from a cost/benefit point of view, it doesn’t seem worth it.

Stillstanden.5874:

Valentinus.3412:

Hi, looking for a PvP guild to run with, are you folks still recruiting?

Of course! We’re active mate, will send you a mail with some details in game.

Excellent thanks. I’m Rank 52, hit Ruby last season and aiming for Diamond this time around!

What was your personal score?

Hi, looking for a PvP guild to run with, are you folks still recruiting?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

OK, title says it all really.

I’m fully done being potato farmed in solo queue. I accept I’m to blame for my average MMR that started this whole mess (due to me experimenting with builds A LOT in Ruby end of last season), but now I want to take my pvp to the next level.

Any suggestions on decent PVP guilds in EU?

My requirements are:

English Speaking
Don’t require 100% rep
Don’t require me on at fixed times.
Aren’t total kittens (I’m ok with moderate kittenry)
Will have me!

nb. Season 2 matchmaking still sucks donkey balls.

It’s an MMO. Old people leave, new people join. By the very nature of their longevity this will happen. It doesn’t mean it is dying, simply changing.

An invisible wall has been placed across the entrance to the Skalefound Cove guild trek point. This is preventing completion of the guild trek when this point is in play. Screenshot attached using tempest warhorn to identify where invisible wall is placed.

The problem with engineer is that it requires a significantly higher degree of skill to play well, and to be meta you do need to play well.

Engineer is second only to elementalist in terms of theoretical DPS, but that is very difficult to put into practice.

Short answer: A DVD only holds 4.7 gig of data.

And I don’t think fraud means what you think it means.

I’ve seen people in this thread saying things like “im casual and I play 8 hours a night” and “I’m casual and this is mandatory”.

Newsflash, you aren’t casual. You are playing the game A LOT. Hell, almost as much as I used to play when hardcore raiding in WoW.

And if you are setting yourself insanely high goals in insanely short timescales. Again, not casual. You can do these things, it will just take a kitten ton more time to do it.

I’m working for my nightfury and the winter backpack. I play 1-3 hours a day if I’m lucky. I know and accept I won’t have them “rightthekittennow”, but I will get them.

We really need a new name for people with this horrific entitlement. I suggest “slackcore”.

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This is what you sound like…

Funny how FSP (OPs server) has been hammering AG border all day. We have actually been having some really great fights. But please, continue whining about how the borderlands are dead and the sky is falling.

Seconded, the second to last room in the great tree is directly over the updraft needed to reach the strongbox. If you swing left before going right you can also grab the waterfall hero point too.

Found it whilst I was exploring last night.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Alekt.5803:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Lucid Singularity is totally underpowered for a GM trait. And the warhorn trait gets doomed by 3 different design failures:

• Warhorn is our worst offhand
• The cooldown is 30 seconds (or 20 with the earth cooldown trait), not 10 like the trait states
• The automatic Sand Squall doesn’t even proc if you don’t have Warhorn equipped…

10 second cooldown and proccing while not having a Warhorn would actually make this trait compete with the Aura Healing trait I think.

And would be completely cancer and broken with the perma magnetic aura that would follow.

But that’s how the talent was designed, a magnetic aura on a 30 second cooldown is nowhere near GM worthy. Otherwise, why would there even be the tooltip that lists the cooldown as 10 seconds?

Also, 50% is nowhere near “perma magnetic aura”. Using hyberboles without facts make you look uninformed.

I’m all for improving the trait (and annoying rangers), but 50% uptime on magnetic aura does seem a bit much.

I’m genuinely getting more and more baffled by the complaints on this forum.

You can’t expect content to be balanced around 2-3 person guilds. That doesn’t even qualify as a full party!

The game type should clue you in… Massivley-Multiplayer-Online.

If you can’t stand the rest of the community to thebpointbyou have hamstring your enjoyment of the game… Well, that’s your issue and not Anets.

And for the love of Dhuum. Does ever single tiny tangential complaint need a new thread?! This forum is already hard enough to navigate without “I’m quitting HOT because X” thread number 9000.

You should all start an anti hot support group guild, then you will have plenty of people to get a guild hall.

/rant

I disagree. They just need slowing down pretty significantly.

As it stands, you can t1 a keep in a few minutes when Dolly’s are running in, t2 not much after that.

Leave the Dolly’s at 5 minutes and triple the base timers. That would make the upgrade system matter more, I think.

Please don’t speak for everyone. Personally, our guild and server are adapting to the new map just fine. We had plenty of people on the borders last night and had a brilliant time!

There were fights, we defended air keep against a (much) larger group and even did some dolly running to speed up the T3 on the keeps.

Don’t blame the map for your inability to adapt like a good wvw player should. #breakthektrain

Dealing with the middle is fairly easy to wvw-ify. Remove the mutie-sauruses and make the temple thing a “soul collector”. Kills charge the laser. People want to avoid it? They avoid it. People want to fight? Seems like a good area for scrims.

Edit: or even a slow cap objective with kills speeding it up, if you want to force fights shrug

Foefaller.1082:

Sobin.5947:

Wahaha.7938:

DivineBuddha.1589:

Dam Drone Race is bugged for me and I cant complete my collection anybody know a way to fix it or do we have to wait till anet fixes it?

How is it bugged?

One of the missions that you have to complete to unlock it gets stuck and is unfinishable, i assume that’s what he means

Also, sometimes you are mysteriously one-shotted at the end of Drone Race itself when using the final ramp to jump over the flames at the end.

Luckly, unlike the event that often bugs out before it, there is a workaround; ramp over the rocks to the left of the flames instead, you’ll land safely behind them without any problems crossing the finish line.

Hop on the rocks to the left at the end. The poison field extends higher than the gfx so you can’t hop over.

“Tried and true”… I think you answered your own complaint on keep sizes there.

Please search the forum before starting a new topic. This has been hashed out on the forums more than enough times by now. Frankly it’s getting boring.

Fundamentally change the most interesting and compelling class in the game into ranger 2.0? I’ll pass thanks.

I still kind of wish they would have given one of the minor traits some kind of modifier like:

“Your mainhand weapon abilities take half as long to recharge(or)cast, but are half as effective”

Being in one attunement for so long just feels like mashing auto attack far too often, which is the single biggest thing I hate in MMOs.

Sadly not. Scepter is the antithesis of the elementalist:

“Jack of no trades, master of even less”

I cannot like this idea enough, it is 100% the right approach to take to begin untangling the complexity which is causing issues balancing elementalists.

Maybe putting the new utilities in a fire trait isn’t far enough though. Maybe do the following: move glyph trait from air to earth, signets to fire and the new trait into air? This would allow the conjures to play well with the “melee brawler” line and might make it a little more appealing?

I dunno, just a thought!

Yeah, 2 weeks in a row is going to kill morale. And I don’t even want to think about how bad this sucks for RoF…

I really wish ANet would just make seasons, where you fight each server once(or even 3 times, once as each colour). That way we won’t keep getting stale kitten match ups week in week out.

Very much agree with Comfys analysis.

Rather than just suggesting the usual for Overloads i thought I would suggest an alternative:

Change overloads to be like the Legendary Clockheart ability:

Overload: On activation, the elementalist gains a stacking buff (over 5s or whatever). During this stacking buff the “channel” effect is gained. At 25 stacks, the “complete channel” effect is felt, and the elementalist gains “exhausted” preventing them from overloading attunements for a given time. If the elementalist is knocked down/stunned/etc they are [Insert Penalty Here].

This will allow a more elegant form of the same ability. Allowing the mandatory dodging a front line player needs without changing the core intent of the spec. And it uses existing technology in GW2 to do it!

Edit: Karl, very much approve of the change to rebound! you are playing around with. If it remains anything like what you outlined it will 100% become my elite of choice for WvW.

Wanting to pick the name is pretty shellfish…

Personally, I think the main mistake that has been made is making tempest a melee build – We already have D/D, D/F for that.

We also already have an incredibly strong long range weapon in staff.

I feel that a trick has been missed in making Tempest a S/W design. If they tweaked a few traits, altered overloads to not be PBAoE and gave scepter a rework I think they would have been on to a winner. And more importantly a winner that could have been used in all 3 game modes.

I’ve begun thinking of Tempest Overloads as analogous to a haymaker in a fight.

In a simple brawl between regular folk, yes you will on occasion luck out and land a haymaker. It is a very high risk, high reward punch. It is also a very imperfect punch.

In a competitive environment, against experienced opponents, a haymaker is suicide. It is a very rare occasion when an experienced fighter will ever even consider throwing the haymaker.

I honestly get the impression that this is all down to corporate double speak. Sounds like a dev (whoever that may be) has been on “holiday” (read in to that what you will) and has not properly handed over the work to another dev.

In order to at least do something for us, another dev has been drafted in to do triage, and make whatever quick and easy changes could be made without completely stepping all over the work done by the main Tempest developer. Management would have thought this sufficient to appease the angry forum bear (http://i.imgflip.com/poht2.jpg) and have sadly miscalculated.

I say give the dev who is returning from holiday or whoever is now making the Tempest changes a couple of weeks and hope that they can pull something out of the bag before things get too close to crunch.

Beyond that there is nothing we can really do or say at this point to get our point across without going full screaming gamerkid on the situation.

TL:DR, cut Irenio some slack. At least he/she/Asura is talking to us.

Seems like Revenant is going to be the Auramancer we were hoping for. Sigh…

Having tried it in WvW last night, the short answer is: No.

Warhorn is decent for running in the melee train.

Shouts are “OK”, but will never be picked over cantrips due to the lack of trait synergy versus the massive synergy you get from cantrips.

Speccing out of Arcane and Water is simply not viable due to how ridiculously good cleanse and EA are. This leaves us with T/W/Ar build, which has less damage than FWAr, is less tanky than EWAr, and less control than AWAr. Aura traits are all over the place, making any build suboptimal to a Regen Cantrip build.

Overloads are just garbage. I saved this one til last, as I didn’t want to come off as negative but I just can’t see any point in it:

1. The mechanic is clunky: Change Attunement → Wait 5 seconds → Cast 5 seconds →Wait 20 seconds to use again, or swap and wait another 5 seconds.

2. Long channel is a death wish in WvW. It means no dodging, can be interrupted and makes you a big glowing target. This prevents you from going front line, which was the intent of the spec. Overload Fire is ok-ish, but you can’t spec in to fire due to TWAr being the only viable spec.

Finally Rebound: It’s rubbish all over the place, which fits with the ele theme of rubbish elites. So… good job on that? I guess?

100% agree. But the main problem I see at the moment is that Overload goes into a 5 second cooldown when you switch to the attunement. Not sure if this is intentional or not but it is really clunky.

Make a real map night time.

Make it DARK, so that you need torches to move about easily (not weapon torches, but a buff or something).

It will allow people to still play, give an entire new level to WvW in a tactical sense and potential mitigate the overnight megaflip.

Hell, it would get me playing at night just to experience it.

Location: UK
Time and date of incident: Friday 27/2/15 to Present
Server: Gunnar’s Hold (EU)
Description: Severe rubber banding to the point of being unplayable in WvW

Additional Info:
Tracing route to 206-127-159-243.ncsoft.com [206.127.159.243]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 7 ms 14 ms 8 ms leed-core-2a-xe-210-0.network.virginmedia.net [82.15.94.85]
4 26 ms 11 ms 12 ms manc-bb-1d-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.159.249]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 36 ms 18 ms 18 ms brhm-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.106]
8 19 ms 16 ms 23 ms ae1.lon25.ip4.gtt.net [77.67.65.161]
9 28 ms 29 ms 27 ms xe-1-1-1.fra23.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.184.86]
10 113 ms 110 ms 112 ms 89.149.164.42
11 130 ms 113 ms 116 ms 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.86]
12 113 ms 112 ms 123 ms 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.102]
13 118 ms 112 ms 113 ms 206-127-159-243.ncsoft.com [206.127.159.243]

Summary: Source of the issue is consistently the TINET interconnect between NCSoft and the rest of the internet. Issue can also be replicated by doing a tracert on Guildwars2.com, with the same bottleneck.

ionix.9054:

The amount of people that do not want to blob is very small. WvWvW is niche to begin with. Any personal preferences group you into a subset of this already relatively tiny set. You are playing a game where majority of people (and a game company) prefer this style of play; large hectic battles with lots of siege. Blobs aint going anywhere. It’s preferred… remember that

Personally, I feel you are conflating “prefer blobbing” with “prefer using the most effective playstyle”. As a long time WvW player, consensus is that the majority of people find blobbing to be the only way to play, not their preferred way to play.

I have been mulling one thing for the over for a while now.

I started by thinking what the main difference is between a Real Life large scale army and a Guild Wars 2 large scale army and then it hit me: SOUND.

As a rule of thumb, a gigantic “zerg” in real life would make a hell of a racket compared to the ultra stealthy mega zergs of GW2.

This would make it much easier for scouts to find and track, compared to smaller groups.

So, how do we implement this in game? I came up with 3 possibilities.

1. A “footfalls” buff that applies to players depending on how close they are to a large enemy group, allowing scouts to know when they are close to a zerg.

2. A sonar like overlay for the world map that pulses every few seconds and starts to show up enemy groups once they pass a certain threshold of players in a group, “swords on steroids” if you will.

3. Actual, physical SOUND. Make it so that, the bigger the group the louder you are and the more sound travels. I’ve always found it a little disconcerting that large scale zergs make no sound until you are right on top of them!

Now, don’t get me wrong, this will only work in concert with multiple other changes to make defending more worthwhile but this was my 2c on the subject.

Thanks, It was Mystic Coins. Making the recipe:

4 × 3 Wintersday & 1 Mystic Coin.

Current Results are:

3 Tiny snowflakes
2 Tiny snowflakes
1 Delicate snowflake
1 Flawless snowflake
1 Pristine snowflake

So yeah, not worth it in the slightest.

I noticed today whilst I was playing about with the mystic forge that there appears to be a recipe using 3 random Wintersday Tonics and a 4th unknown item.

Does anyone know what the 4th items is? And if so, what the recipe creates?

Edit: Should have mentioned, it doesn’t seem to be recorded on the wiki.

Here’s my idea: A telescope/binoculars bundle, and a flare gun.

Basically this is how you would scout. Turn the telescope on, scan the landscape and when you see enemy players (not inside of a tower they own of course) you can “ping” them on the map using a skill from the telescope. When you ping successfully (i.e. ping contains an enemy player) you get a reward.

Obviously there would need to be some limitations:
No pinging when X number of friendlies are near by
Xminute cooldown timer on ping skill