Guild Wars 2

I’ve been trying to get the achievement the legit way last night. It didn’t work. So I tried to “AFK” once to try to get it. Didn’t work. I’m not trying to leech. I’m just trying to get the achievement out of the way so I can play the event normally again.

can i get an invite please?

would appreciate a invitation!

sn: worc

Broadicea.8294:

They should just rename the game to Hindsight Wars

I redeemed my extra ticket because I thought the vendor was going away. I picked a skin I didn’t like too much either because I felt rushed and didn’t want to waste the ticket. Then I find out about the skins vendor. I could of had more time to pick a better one. Oh well.

Now I find out the skins can be sold. Can’t sell mine. I feel like I’m being punished for doing the right thing. Claiming the ticket before it went to waste. Annoyed.

Off topic, but I thought these skins were exclusive and limited items that were earned through that RNG system. You left lucky to get one. Now people with gold can just buy them. I put in some real cash to get that fused ticket. I feel like a real fool now thinking I was RNGing for something “special”. I put a lot of time in getting my Fractal skins. Some skins were acquired through 3 hour runs with bad pugs. If they put them on the trading post as well for any rich player who didn’t put in the time to earn them, I’m just going to be really annoyed.

Guild Halls, right? They’re announcing Guild Halls…

I like my fractal weapons because they are uncommon. Zenith weapons (oh gawd greatsword) are so common that I lean away from them when possible. When my fractal weapons start becoming common, I will find other uncommon cool looking skins to find.

I straight out destroyed my SAB greatsword skin. It just got boring because it wasn’t special anymore.

The bomb makes the puzzle special. You don’t even need the bomb to get the puzzle achievement. The smoke turns red when it’s going to blow soon. Also the chest is just like any other puzzle chest. Blues, greens, and a very rare chance of getting a yellow.

Why would you want to remove it? Just because it’s too hard for you to complete? I practiced that puzzle for an hour until I beat it. I did trial and error each try until I got my path down. The challenge was fun and just right in terms of difficulty.

Jemmi.6058:

Do you watch Community? This gave me a deja vu to the episode where the group was voting in a new member and Jeff was trying to convince everyone Chang was a good idea (because you see what you get). If you don’t watch Community, /disregard.

“I agree” slow clap

morrolan.9608:

My complaint about producing it so fast is more about the lack of quality control and consistent standards across all the living story teams and what they are producing.

This is my main concern. This AR dungeon and JP are cool. But the rest is crap. The Southsun one had a horrible "dungeon’. There story behind these are completely forgettable. Theres a lack of quality around the Living STORY and experience involving that story.

I feel like I rush to make sure I obtain the limited meta item or skins related to the living story that will go away. I’m focused on that only. The tasks to get those items before they’re gone. I feel like I forget the story entirely or why they are there. I don’t care about them because they don’t give me time to care. It has to be extended 3-4+ weeks. I feel like I can’t get immersed into this Aetherblades story. It just seems like such a weak delivery at something with potential with little time to attempt to enjoy it.

Whats the use for Anet staff to put their efforts into all these details and the players can’t take time to appreciate it? I know the staff who put their time into this deserve better.

opened over ~3500 coffers

first ticket was around 100th-200th opened without buying from TP
second was around 2000th opened from a TP stack
third came around 3000th one from a TP stack

wish i could have some of that gold back though…

I’m a GW1 player who played D3 while waiting for GW2 to release. I was surprised to see Magic Find gear in GW2 after seeing how horribly it failed in D3 (they’ve since then revamped the system in a good way). I would have thought Anet would have seen what was going on before GW2’s release.

I despised and regretted putting time into D3, but I have to give them a lot of credit for addressing the MF issue and providing a more acceptable solution to it. I don’t care if Anet copies it or completely scraps it, just find a way to phase it out, please.

It’s account bound btw…so if you have more than one heavy and want to share the look amongst them, you can.

You could probably talk to the merchant and have him display his goods, but you still need a fused gauntlet ticket to exchange for the gloves. He doesn’t take gold or Amex. :X

Yep, when Flame and Frost conclude, that place will be useful…

Or just add a world boss there with a chest.

He/She can change servers. See link: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Just-bought-game-want-to-change-server/1383490

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Maximum Honesty: based on OP, this game is not for you.

^^^ This was running through my head reading the OP’s rambling post

When was the last time you played? Were Orbs still around for WvW?

There will be weeks where your server will be dominated, but the match ups change if youre patient. Some tiers have a better experience than others. For example tier 2 WvW is very competitive between all 3 servers.

WvW you will still have to run across the map. To solve that, don’t die often and play it smart. Wait until the battle subsides around you and let people res you.

Also if youre on a decent/good WvW server, get on their server voice chat. When things are organized and everyone is working together, the experience is way better than just roaming around by yourself.

For dungeons with the “zerging” (dying, ressing to attack, dying, ressing to attack until it’s dead), you can’t do that anymore. The whole party has to be out of combat to allow people to respawn. Groups that have to still resort to that have issues with the party skills/equipment/tactics.

Honestly, the core game hasn’t changed much to a point where it’s a different game. And asking people is the least effective way to find out if it’s “matured” in your eyes. If you had space on your hard drive you should have left it there instead of uninstalling it. It doesn’t cost you a thing. Read the patch notes that have come out since you left and just try the game for yourself. There are tons of people who still enjoy the game since release regardless of the pitfalls you saw in the game so their opinions here may be biased.

Vick.6805:

Rather than removing the boulder trap, make it so that players cannot teleport past it, so that people actually have to learn how to do it, rather than relying on portal.

Really like this idea. Leave it in the game. Or make the boulders start rolling earlier before the Mesmer has a chance to get across far enough for a Blink. (I’m not hating on Mesmers, I have one myself)

It’s not hard to do at all. Practice and patience. Taught 3 CoF newbies to do it last night. Took a few minutes for them to understand everything and help pass it.

timmyf.1490:

Snow White.9680:

We’re looking to get our daily done ASAP so we can log off, or get to the fun stuff.

But isn’t playing the game the fun stuff? When it comes to events, don’t you just get those as part of playing the game?

People play and have fun with GW2 differently.

Ex: I’ve have tons of fun doing fractals, dungeons, etc but then my bedtime is coming up and I realize that I haven’t completed my dailies (I’m collecting Laurels). So I have to rush to do them as fast as possible so I don’t lose sleep.

If they’re in the wrong, you don’t have to be either with your replies. Their “events?” inquiries might bring down the mapchat quality, but so does smart kitten comments in reply to them. Ignore them or don’t say anything.

I feel the same way like you about them (save the map chat for better discussion), but I don’t act on it because it does nothing positive.

TC has the same requests on mapchat. Just ignore them. No need to be a smartypants about it.

i just recently ran into a person who ordered people around. the way he talked was very condescending and annoying. it was very unpleasant. would definitely kick.

They should make a monthly achievement where you have to do 1 or 2 paths (or all) for at least 2-4 different dungeons (or particular dungeons). Work for your laurels and also it will get people to do other dungeons. March monthly was ultra easy.

I don’t understand how not being informed that the exploit was closed is a big deal. You had to kill the boss the normal way the first time you discovered the exploit was gone. Such a minor inconvenience.

Lysico.4906:

why would you pug? That is why you have guilds/friend’s list!

It’s hard to find a good guild and keep friends in the game. Some guildies are great to run dungeons with while some make it way more difficult. I’ve had some of the smoothest runs in dungeons with pugs.

As far as pugs go, sometimes there are obvious signs that it may be a bad group. The person who created the party and the way they talk or conduct themselves can be a sign of bad times. Some recent signs off the top of my mind:

1) Liberally vote kicking people is one of them. They’re not afraid to do it without any explanation or thought. It’s rude, but it’s likely that they don’t care about other players.
2) Another is stubbornness. Some have control issues and refuse to listen to input or desires from the party because they feel they are 100% right when they are usually wrong. Some people just have to have everything go their way because it’s comfortable for themselves only. This is something that spawns bully behavior. A lack of tolerance.
3) Selfish actions. Signet warriors (4-5 signets) is a selfish build in dungeons. PvE map/world events are fine. In dungeons, it pulls the whole team down. Granted, the person may just not understand what they’re doing. But if you explain to them whats needed for the whole group to make a successful run and they don’t care, then yeah not a good sign.
(edit) 4) They talk like a complete jerk. Possibly a very immature person.

When I do CoF dungeons, I worry about griefers since it’s a popular dungeon (attracts all sorts of people). The way I solve this for myself is to create the dungeon instance. I’m a very fair person and treat others the way I wanted to be treated. I make sure everyone leaves the dungeon after getting their rewards. But during the dungeon, if they kick me, they lose. It also removes power from the potential griefer because they can’t liberally kick people and risk destroying the dungeon instance.

I never been griefed in the game, but its always on my mind due to stories like yours. I expect to have it happen to me sometime in the future. But I take my precautions.

Your definition of respectful when telling people what to do can differ from others.

I’ve played with some people multiple times where he/she are oblivious of their deficiencies. They talk like they know everything, but their play doesn’t back it up. I’m not saying this is your case, but perhaps it’s the way you talk to people that rubs them the wrong way and you don’t realize it. Also, some people are okay with another person giving them directions, but don’t appreciate the tone the person uses. When you talk down to people like they’re dumb, it ruins their fun.

Try not talking and directing and let someone else do it. Even though you don’t intend to say things that might touch a nerve, others might feel it that way. See if you see griefing happen less to yourself. Don’t stand out and be a target of it.

I’m working on getting my last piece of Charr Tier 3 armor (12 gold boots). All the other pieces did not seem too hard to get as long as I was making sure I wasn’t spending needlessly. I probably blew over 100 gold levelings up alts, crafting, bad investments, holiday items, etc AFTER i decided that Tier 3 was my goal (sometime in September/October). So it takes a little discipline and patience.

The second thing was to get gold, its best to run dungeons. I didn’t run them obsessively or “farmed” them. Basically from all those tokens and gold, I was able to buy the Tier 3 armor piece AND the exotic dungeon armor I wanted at the same time. Transmute and look play/good.

The main thing is that it’s DOABLE and not unreasonable. This whole time of earning gold for it, I never once felt like it was such a boring hard grind. I had many goals and things to do. Leveling alts, dungeon running with PUGs, etc has been fun for months. I just feel like people are to impatient to save gold.

The game has personality. It’s not some boring serious person.

I didn’t know my guild leader owned me. This is news to me…

I ran TA for a full armor set with my mesmer 2 months ago. Using gw2lfg (wake up Anet), I didn’t have much trouble running UU, FF, and sometimeskitten(fitting) each day.

Granted, I hated the blooms and dungeon, it was worth the look of the light armor on my mesmer. I got a few compliments in pugs and thats enough for me to make it worth it.

Since then, I’ve put my all in my guardian and with the slight nerf on the wurms at the first part of the dungeon, it’s not that hard running it with a guardian. Still not the easiest dungeon.

Blasino.3128:

-I’m not a fan of divinity runes. The math is not in its favor. There are better ways to gear then to use those runes especially for its cost.

I’m curious as to other runes to use besides Divinity or Soldier with this build.

ExZee.8109:

(ie. shoots black acid instead of rainbows or what have you)

And satisfy the emo/goth kids? Unacceptable direction!

On a serious note, I believe there will be more Legendaries introduced in the future expansions. It hasn’t been announced by Anet but in GW1 they kept rolling out those new greens (uniques) as time went on. So I wouldn’t get hung up on not having choices later.

It’s so ridiculous that I think it’s great. I guess it’s just my sense of humor (silly) and the way I see the game.

It’s a game of magic and fantasy. I can’t take things in it too seriously. I loved the Banana Scythe in GW1. There’s tons of silly things all over Guild Wars 2 that I wasn’t surprised by The Dreamer’s changes. The people at Anet have a good sense of humor and charm they put in the game.

ONE detail that you find outrageous out of this game of soooooo many thousands upon thousands of details is nothing really to get all fussy about IMO.

Mini’s are not consumable. You can use them all you want. They will stay in your inventory. But as others pointed out if you use “Deposit all collectibles” don’t be alarmed if it isn’t in your inventory anymore. It’s in your account bank (in the collectible tab). Just bring it out again.

Patience. It’s not permanent.

SolarNova.1052:

Keep the right mouse button down use it to turn. Use ‘a’ and ‘d’ to straff mid air for corrections whilst moving forward (right mouse button must still be down)

^^ This is what I do that helps me the most in all puzzles. But the main thing I would stress most in this particular puzzle is PATIENCE (between each jump).

Each jump I actually take an extra half second to prep my jump (adjust the camera and move slightly into position).

I’ve done this puzzle successfully many times without having to rush it to a point where I’m stressed. The timer is more forgiving than the Clocktower. I think it’s pretty spot on (good job Anet).

Hologramx.6402:

You are missing the point.
Game design should be focused on balance in the first place.
Failure of an easy event leads to an extremely hard event never makes sense.
It is like if you fail to kill an easy first boss in a dungeon, you are given an option to kill another boss which is much more difficult in all aspects. That’s dumb.
Why must it be a champion? Why not a veteran?
Looks like it is based on some individual thoughts like ’I want a champion here. So be it!".

I just see it as consequences of not completing the first event. If you fail, this is what happens. This is the whole dynamic event/world concept they wanted to implement.

A person who is soloing this area may be able to explore the area still while it’s in a neutral state or during the first event since the difficulty isn’t hard. When the first event fails, it allows the monsters to gain more control and power of the area. To emphasize this, a Champion shows up and that area becomes dangerous to travelers. That area in the map (the world) has changed. The player, if alone, should avoid it and move along. The player also has a choice to rally the map (server population is a separate issue) or wait for help to arrive from another player to oust the Champion.

It seems fine as it is and makes sense. Consequences for failing.

If you want to give new quality players a good impression to choose their home server, you could change the name of your server to Nicegate or Familygate…Blackgate sounds like a place where Raiders fans hang out…

(Just my opinion) My perception for BG that I saw a few weeks ago the week they were matched up with DB: 2010 Miami Heat Welcome Party http://youtu.be/e9BqUBYaHlM

I heard from people that the “bad apples” jumped/bandwagoned to Blackgate since it was the hot server at the time. Weeks later, I’m pretty indifferent about Blackgate. And you shouldn’t care how others perceive your server either if you’re enjoying it there already.

I am hoping for them to start merging the lower population servers as time goes on.

In GW1, there was a point where I couldn’t do UW. It was difficult for my skill level. I accepted that I couldn’t do everything in the game. No need to complain. It wasn’t blocking my progress from enjoying the game. I’m not good competing with others during some of the holiday events in GW1 as well. Passed up on those as well.

I spent 3 hours on the clock tower. Very fun and rewarding challege. I don’t think Josh has to apologize for anything…he did nothing wrong. People moaning about not being able to do the clock tower need to accept their limitations and just move on. There were plenty of other Halloween festivities to enjoy.

Why do people keep asking to clarify?

It’s only from killing things. He says “It does not work on the Mystic Forge, magic find only effects the loot generated from killing monsters.”

Daboom.1987:

nachtnebel.9168:

@aliquis
I had my problems with arcophobia too (I came to grips with it due to shock treatment a few years ago) but it never was an issue in video games. I’m really sorry to hear that it’s different in your case. But about your motion sickness, where I’m from you can lose your driver license if you have that kind of sickness (if it’s bad enough), so my statement wasn’t that silly after all.

I get that there are people out there that have certain sicknesses or other issues (e.g. people with arachnophobia sometimes can’t fight spiders in video games), but they are a minority and Arena Net cannot design events and encounters based on their issues.

They should put more effort into making boss fights more fun instead of mandatorizing jumping.

the jumping in the MK dungeon is pretty basic…in fact its semi falling instead of jumping…

in gw1, people complained that there was no jumping and stopped playing.

gw2, they give people jumping. they complain still.

Not saying griefing doesn’t exist like this because it does. But what if there are people out there who form groups, but are unaware of their consequences by leaving the party? Like they didn’t know it would boot the rest of their party.

I think some people still like to play the game solo, but in some situations like the MK dungeon, they feel forced to party and look for a way to leave the party as soon as it’s “over”.

But yeah, Anet should address this whether it’s griefing or accidental. Just seems really unfair for the others.

yeah, someone already activated the ghost. i know you want to explore and reveal things by yourself, but it’s not going to happen in GW2…it’s an active world constantly affected by other players.

GW1 on the other hand was pretty much all private instances

Griping and coming to the forums to post about this is wasting time. Every holiday in GW1 there was an influx of players. More players = more help. Ask for help and be patient about it.

Cleared on Tarnished Coast 5 min ago

Took 3 hours for me…found it frustrating at times. But i kept at it because it was challenging and fun.

At first it was soooo daunting as if I could not beat it. But really, its all practice and memory. Then you just have to execute. And there is room for small errors.