Guild Wars 2

RECRUITMENT IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

It seems to be really random because my group has done Matthias plenty of times before the LS3 patch with 2 necros with their minions and have never bugged out like this.

Anyone else having this problem?

This has become such a common bug after the Living Story Season 3 patch. When Matthias does his rapid blood shard attack, there is a very common bug where reflects will not remove the stack. Before the patch, this was never an issue for my group, but this week, we struggled to try to defeat him because he kept producing this bug over and over again. We often hit enrage timer because the stack would not decrease so many times.

Original post has been updated with new requirement information

Greetings citizens! Paradox Prophets [PDoX] is currently recruiting experienced and/or geared multi-class raiders to help fill up our close group of raiders! We raid two nights per week and regularly complete at least two wing’s worth of Legendary Insights. We are currently 8/9 bosses as a guild, and will be working on Xera to get her down! Our raid times are as shown below:

Thursday – 6pm PST/9pm EST
Saturday – 5pm PST/8pm EST

The following are our requirements for anyone interested:

1. Be available for at least one of our raid times per week on a regular basis. Obviously, it is fine if you are going on vacation or have an event for work and can’t make a raid night. We also do not have a reputation requirement, but we will expect you to be aware of when we are forming up a group.

2. Have full ascended trinkets and ascended weapons for whatever professions you can bring to raids. Full ascended armor is not required although you should be actively working towards it.

3. Have multiple classes that you could bring to the raid group for greater flexibility. It will increase your chances of getting to raid as having only one available class may prevent you from being in the group, especially if it’s a class that has a specific role.

4. Be a strong team player. Although we are not a hardcore raiding guild, we expect every raider to bring maturity and focus to raids as we work through the different wings to get those precious Legendary Insights.

5. Download the Discord application as that is our primary means of communication. Having a mic is essential. Being able to talk is really important and makes things easier.

If you are interested in joining us or have further questions, please feel free to contact Khatyala Nagarian (Khatyala.7504) or Velasca Vix (Vixena.3821) in game via mail or message if we are available.

Many thanks!

I’m so angry. I saved up thousands of badges for multiple Gifts of Battle and now they’re completely useless? WTF Anet. Thanks for screwing those people over for no reason.

Has Anet said anything about what will happen to people’s progress if they are not able to finish the legendary backpack by the end of next season? Should I even bother with progression if they are going to retire the current way of obtaining the backpack?

Are you just doing events over and over again to get the crowbars? Maybe I’m missing something that would help with getting them.

Is there a reason why airship oils have such low drop rates compared to Auric Dust, Leyline Sparks, and Crystalline Ore? I feel like it’s taking forever to get airship oils compared to the others, especially since the pact crowbars only come after long events. Why can’t you buy pact crowbars with the airship parts even though you can buy the keys for the other maps with currency? I feel like I’m gathering more airship parts than airship oils from the supplies.

Seems like ArenaNet forgot about airship oils when they buffed the other materials in the other HoT maps. It would be nice if the drop rate could increase to at least 1 guaranteed per supply so I’m not having to end up opening up 1,500+ at this rate just to get 500 airship oils. The other option would be to allow us to buy pact crowbars from the vendor with the airship parts.

Do you NEED burnzerkers to be able to defeat Gorseval? I’m hearing all over the place that you need burnzerkers or you won’t be able to defeat the boss. I’m finding that hard to be true, but it seems like so many people are swearing on it and demanding it.

Anyone have any suggestions on strong reaper tank builds for raids?

I was wondering if that is possible. I know the precursor is account bound, but was curious to know if anyone knows for sure if the legendary made with that precursor was also account bound or sellable.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug with Death’s Charge where it will often miss during the spinning phase? It happens extremely often for me, and it’s incredibly annoying. All of that DPS is just gone. What is happening? This was found early in beta and still no fix.

Am I the only one having this bug where death’s charge will not tick any damage to foes even if I’m right in front of them? When I initiate death’s charge, sometimes only the first hit and very last smash will hit the target. Everything in between while the reaper twirls the scythe will not tick any damage. Other times, I’ll only get 3 or so tickets total. This is a HUGE problem as the main DPS source of the form is gone.

This doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen a lot if there’s varying terrains. If it’s fairly flat surface, it’s fine.

Is ArenaNet planning to do anything at all about this achievement?

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

11 in like 1 hour and 30 minutes. Too much time wasted on this.
10 per day and I SHOULD be done in 10 days…
They will never understand that we want hard achies, not time consumable ones…

Exactly this. I’m not going to play hours and hours of Dragon Ball, which gets boring after first 2-3 times in a row.

lordkrall.7241:

100 shouldn’t really be all that bad. You can easily get 10 or so in a match if you are good, thus it would be about 10 matches.

The issue is that people feel like they should get everything the very first day.

You can’t easily get 10 or so in a match. First, you have to get the skill. Second, you need to stay alive long enough to use it. Third, you need to actually use the skill and hope they don’t evade. Fourth, if you do land it, you have to hope to interrupt their skill.

Yeah doesn’t come easy at all. It’s just tedious and annoying.

Opc.4718:

Ping them a [Packet of Salt].

That’s hilarious. I will have to do that

I’ve been recently playing a ranger in hot joins so that I could do the Hunter achievement, and wow… I have been verbally abused every single day that I’ve been playing that ranger. I never received so much harassment on my warrior, engineer, or mesmer. It’ll happen at least once and up to five times per day that I’m doing spvp. I’ve had to report so many people over the past week. What I find interesting is that it is often coming from players who have the Legendary Champion title.

Where is all of this hate coming from? It’s making me really hate playing my ranger. I do not say anything nor do any emotes to provoke. All I want to do is play my ranger and not have to worry about someone calling me f****t (most popular word to use).

I did a lot of the boss blitz earlier during the Festival of the Four Winds patch but had to leave for several weeks in June due to private matters. I expected that there would be a way to still turn them in but I was told today that you couldn’t. Are there any plans for Anet to allow someway to still turn in festival tokens or am I just going to have to destroy all the 9000 festival tokens in my inventory?

The only way to get it is by those gauntlet chance bags. It’s known that the current drop rate is unintended and Anet stated they were going to take a look at it and adjust it.

Can we get any clarification on exactly how rare this recipe is actually supposed to be? Is it supposed to be on the levels of precursor rare or even moreso?

As of now, there are still no Recipes of Lyssa on the TP. In addition, the 1150g… yes… 1150g buy orders for the recipe have not been touched all day. What is going on here?

This is absolutely ridiculous. There are no recipes on the TP AND the 3 buy orders of 1150g have not even been touched, so you know that people getting them aren’t selling to buy orders.

It’s like they’re practically nonexistent.

Can anyone from Anet answer this?

Ok I Did It.2854:

Problem is, if they make it so that you downscale so much you get rolled people will stop going to the low level zones to help new ppl out, sure you will help a friend out here and there, but you wont actually go back to these zones.

It should be downscaled to the point where it’s as evenly level as possible with the current zone. It should not be either too downscaled or not enough. As of right now, it is not even close to enough downscaling.

Izdubar.9540:

No there doesn’t. There has to be some power curve or, really, whats the kitten point of levelling at all?

It’s fine as is. As stated above you can nerf yourself as you prefer, I’d rather not be nerfed more than I already am thank you very much.

You’re making it sound like you’re so heavily nerfed if you go to a lower level zone. The problem is… you’re barely nerfed at all so you just faceroll everything like it’s nothing. It’s boring and makes it hard to really play with a low level friend.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Change your weapon, not your armor. The reason you’re destroying everything is because mobs are balanced around you having a green or yellow-tier weapon at lower levels, not an orange or red one. Mobs in starter zones are meant to be killable with white gear, hence why it’s so easy to massacre them with an ascended weapon.

I will try to use a low level weapon and see if that helps. I know taking off armor didn’t help.

Neural.1824:

I enjoy it the way it is. It’s nice to casually run around destroying everything once in a while. There are plenty of options to make it more difficult. If anything, make a new character. If the game is so incredibly easy for you, surely it isn’t difficult to make enough gold to buy another character slot.

Having to make another character to be able to really play with a friend goes against what downscaling was supposed to do in the first place.

So I have been doing map completion since the patch on my level 80 and have really noticed, especially on the lower level maps the lack of real downscaling. I’m just on my mesmer and I feel like I’m just absolutely obliterating everything. There’s no challenge at all and I actually have to try to contain my damage so my friend is able to tag the mob I’m attacking.

I would really love for there to be some serious downscaling that more accurately reflects what they should be in those lower maps. It would simply make doing map completion and playing with lower level friends a lot more enjoyable. It’s not fun trying to play with a lower level friend and I’m just destroying everything. Even if I take off all my armor and my traits, I still just destroy things.

I can’t do dungeons, I can’t do FotM, I can’t do hotjoins (don’t care about tpvp), I can’t do world events, I can’t get laurels.. what the hell can I do?

They stated in a different thread that it was an error and that it would be corrected soon.

Oh I should be try to clarify. I am asking when the cap on hot join reward track progression lifts so you can progress again. Does the lockout lift when daily resets or is there a different system for it?

I was wondering when the lockout for progressing past 2 tiers in hotjoins resets. The daily reset came and I did some games ankitten ot able to progress. Are they supposed to reset at daily? I know I’m affected by the daily reset bug, but I don’t know if that also applies to the reward track.

I just realized that the one I’m in is owned by someone. He named it Server 002.

I’m a bit confused. Have all main servers gone back to 8v8 format? I thought they were supposed to have become 5v5. I recently was on Server 002 and it was 8v8 but on patch day, any server I went into was 5v5.

Balkanwarrior.5132:

maybe pve heroes should learn how 2 rotate before jumping into tourneys

just a thought

We were trailing against a really tough team but eventually came back to win 500-440ish. The other team never got the 3 cap.

http://imgur.com/a/22O73#0

In the album above, you’ll see just one of the many conversations that I’ve seen where one person (in red) trash talks other people (in blue and green) in a TPVP match within the same team. It started even before the match commenced with the person in red saying we already lost because of a “bunch of pve hero mesmers”. I have seen this in numerous matches today in TPVP where there has been some blame put on people who might be PVErs doing TPVP for the first time (which was not true in that instance).

This is awful for the TPVP community because it prevents new people from really getting into TPVP if there are a bunch of elitists going around trash talking them from the get go. Seeing as how often you see the same people in solo queue, having new faces would be great.

Note: We actually won that match against full Champions including 2 Legendary Champions even though we were just “pve hero mesmers”.

Millillion.5914:

One good reason stuff like this isn’t done in most games is that actual, useful contribution to a group effort is extremely hard (impossible in most games) to quantify. You could have one person who just scouts for hours at a time, occasionally flipping camps, and though he might be the most useful individual person in the entire map, he still wouldn’t get rewards for doing the sort of stuff he isn’t doing, like taking towers or killing players.

The one person who just scouts for hours at a time isn’t being rewarded for scouting under this system either because he still has to do 10 achievements to get the meta reward. Only an extremely tiny portion of the population would be like one of those scouts you mention.

electronvolt.7541:

The current system has some pretty major faults, though, and one is that certain rewards (bought with tickets) are exclusively reserved for players on winning worlds. It over-incentivizes jumping to worlds that are likely to win, which is bad for both the server that people are leaving and the one that people are going to: one server loses population, which makes WvW and PvE (some people do both, after all) harder for everyone.

That is definitely what occurred with free transfers and Henge of Denravi. Anet hoped that more players would transfer to the servers that had free transfers. What inevitably occurred was people transferring to one or two free transfer servers and thus stacking them. HoD is the perfect example of how Anet really did not have the foresight to predict what would occur.

In addition, they didn’t even allow the rankings to adjust from all the transfers, so that’s why you’re seeing HoD dominating CD and NSP.

Just really mind boggling decisions that doesn’t make any sense.

Something that I propose for the next tournament is to have the tickets be connected to individual contribution as opposed to the tickets being dependent on the entire server. This way, even if an individual is on a server that simply does not realistically have the same WvW capabilities as other servers in its league, he can still reap the benefits of his own contribution.

A very simple hypothetical is let’s say that Anet has 20 total achievements for the WvW tournament. They then have 5 different ticket brackets of 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500.

To obtain 100 tickets, you need to complete the bare minimum of 10 total achievements. To obtain 200 tickets, you need to complete 12. To obtain 300 tickets, you need to complete 14. To obtain 400 tickets, you need to complete 16. To obtain 500 tickets, you need to complete 18 of the 20 achievements. For 20/20 achievements, there could be a special title as the reward.

This would show just how active you were as an individual and your own contribution, especially if you got the 20/20 title. Of course, there could still be server-wide rewards like the dolyak finisher as an example but the server-wide rewards should not be greater than individual rewards.

I believe that this type of reward system would be a lot fairer for everyone involved because the philosophy is simple… the more you contribute, the more you earn. With the current system, it is incredibly unfair to me that someone that happens to be on Fort Aspenwood (example of server top of their league) and does the bare minimum for a few days to get the meta reward will be rewarded far more than someone on Sanctum of Rall (example of a server tumbling downward due to mass exodus) who commands in WvW almost everyday for the entire tournament. With individual rewards, that commander on SoR will be rewarded handsomely for his contribution to the tournament while that person on FA will be rewarded, but minimally because he only cared to get the meta achievement. As it stands right now, that commander on SoR will never receive the same rewards as the person on FA simply due to the fact that he isn’t on the “right” server for the tournament.

Berk.8561:

EmoDevo.3209:

Funny how most of the responses are that not everyone or every server should get a Mistforged Weapon so quickly. You know what, why not make it more exclusive? 300 tickets for the top server of each league and 200 tickets and decreasing for the rest of the league. Hey, it’s just like you guys said, not everyone deserves it, am I right?

A very good point. Why is it OK to exclude the bottom half of the league and not the #2 ranked server and lower?

Exactly. It’s pretty visible on this thread the difference between people who are on servers who are pretty much guaranteed to get a Mistforged weapon versus those who are on servers who are pretty much guaranteed to not get one.

As I am on the rank 15 server (very bottom) of Silver, it’s pretty much guaranteed that I won’t get one. What’s funny is the rank 16 server (top of Bronze) is guaranteed to get far better rewards than the rank 15 server.

Anet just needs to stop with these server-wide rewards.

It’s incredibly unfair to those who do WvW everyday yet still end up getting rewards for a 9th place win because the server’s WvW is not that great while someone who simply needs to play a few days worth of WvW on a strong server for the 10 achievements gets far better rewards.

If Anet does not change things for the next tournament, I might as well just transfer to whatever bandwagon server is for that tournament.

It just seems like The WvW team just has no idea what they’re doing in terms of population. They failed in their efforts for the first tournament and they failed again for the second.

Thank you very much for your offer! I will wait to see if I or she gets any responses from someone from a Spanish speaking guild. Perhaps I will try to refer her to the Spanish GW2 forums if we don’t get any hits.

I am looking for a Spanish speaking guild for a friend with the account name KaspeR.7583. I recently invited her to my guild but discovered that her first language is Spanish and has trouble understanding and speaking English, so I’m trying to find her a suitable guild that can help her a lot better than I can and make her feel more comfortable in a Spanish speaking environment.

Please feel free to message/mail me or KaspeR.7583 in-game!

Another one of these self congratulating posts from BG? o.O

Be aware guys…. they have been deleting voiced opinions on this matter on what once was a giant thread on the BLTC subforum, including mine. They’re silencing people now.

I just can’t believe it…

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Erskine.5206:

Could we please get a statement from one of the devs? Please?
You can see that a lot of people are quite unhappy! Can you explain your decision to reskin the t3 armor (alongside with two not-so-desired-armors).

Sadly, they will either ignore us like usual and hope the problem goes away on it’s own (or sweep it under the rug), or the response they give will be about keeping the thread constructive.

No response they give will justify what they have done here. There is nothing they can say that will justify selling an exclusive, expensive, rare T3 human cultural set on the gem store and making it available for every race at half the cost.

This is just another bit of proof that shows that they don’t care about the players and the time/effort/money they have put into the game. They just want our money and will do whatever it takes to get it. Even if that means screwing over the players in the process. Nothing they can say will prove otherwise.

This is actually a very true statement. I’d like a dev prove otherwise, but I’m sure they never will. What are their actual intention? Money, money, money. That is all they care about.

What ArenaNet should do is give a free upgrade somehow to those who have already purchased the 119g set whether it be 800 gems to cover the upgrade or some kind of token.