Guild Wars 2

Azoqu.8917:

Oh the entire thing is a disaster. When I first heard about Firebrand I was super excited because I’d be able to actually support people and the fact that it also was burning focused was nice as well. Then I saw the skills and traits and I was still relatively stoked. Once I found out everything was a cone, all my hype for the spec fell apart. I do not want to play a clunky spec and have to jump through a million hoops to seem useful.

That’s just the start of the problems too. Another one is how the entire specs cast times seem to be balanced for when you have quickness. So if Anet wanted a skill to cast in 1s, they made the skill have a 1.5s cast time so that with quickness it is 1s (not exact numbers, just for illustration). Meanwhile everything else in the game is given a 1s cast time so it’s a buff having quickness unlike the FB where it is normal to have quickness and a nerf when you don’t have it.

What this person said +1

I want to begin with saying that I enjoyed the new content but I do feel there is room for a few improvements to make it even more enjoyable.

The good:
- Mounts and their animations are very well done.
- The story instance felt already better than LS3 instances even though it was relatively short.
- Very easy to navigate on the map, found everything within minutes.
- Always active events which will make sure the map won’t feel ‘dead.’
- Amazing visuals all around, especially the water seems to be improved a lot.
- No technical issues or bugs, very smooth experience.

Room for improvement:
- The bounty system seems solid although sometimes a bounty is pretty much over by the time you get there. A spawn window/timer where we can gather before the event would help I think.
- The raptor ends up stuck on a lot of slopes and small objects, feels very awkward when running long distances.
- There doesn’t seem to be a meta event which I personally dislike as I believe that the only reason that HoT maps are still this much played is due to their meta events.

I want to address one concern separately. The size of the new map. In 1.5 hours I finished 67% of the map (the full demo I think) without extreme rushing. The first map doesn’t seem to be much bigger than the previous maps. I hope the other maps are larger than the current one.

Yes it seems to bug out, people in team chat reported the same.

Maluk.1376:

Gliding needs a little bit of tweaking,but I absolutely Love Gliding in WvW,pls keep it!!

+1

I like the gliding and I hope we keep it.

Still bugged. Any ETA on when we can expect a fix? A lot of people seem to be stuck with their collections (including myself) because of this bug.

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

facepalm.. coming right up good sir.

My apologies if my post came across as rude.

I love the new fractal, especially the visuals. I just dislike playing another class in PvE.

Once again the passive aegis blocks this achievement on guardians. It was the same on the nightmare fractal. Can this please be fixed? Maybe make the initial achievement attack unblockable?

I would like to know how Q&A beat these achievements because I sure as hell cannot. I’ve tried 23 times now and every time the NPCs die instantly at the 5th wave, causing me to wipe within seconds as well.

zealex.9410:

devs play this gamemode?

They appear to play a lot on the NA servers or so I’ve heard

Finding a dev in WvW on an europe server is very unlikely, I’ve only seen them twice in WvW now and I’ve been playing since prelaunch. I’m glad I found a small team of their guild and managed to kill one. The achievement is worth 0 points but it’s a fun prestige thing for achievement hunters.

Why did you run from our 1vs1 to get help from 4 more people?

I’ve been waiting two years to fight someone with the tag for my achievement and now that I had the chance, you decided to get help. That was not nice :P

Guess I will wait longer ._.

Till next time o/

Update: Ganked one of you guys tonight in a border, thank you for the achievement \o/

I’m on a main server, have been for over two years and not getting any loyalty pips as well. Can a developer please share if this is intended or a bug?

I’ve tried looking in the ‘Looking for …’ section, not a single PvP guild in the EU on the first batch of pages. Ingame I’ve never seen anyone looking for teammates in the LFG tool. I tried finding people in the few PvX guilds that I’m a member of, but the few souls that do PvP said they only want to SoloQ …

I thought this was a mmo?

I just want to PvP and have fun on TS ._.

number 99 please

Morfedel.4165:

An acquaintance of mine got on, in two weeks got an abyssal dye and a precursor, decided he was bored, and stopped playing.

Meanwhile, I’ve been playing since beta and have never touched a precursor. So… yeah, luck happens. Sucks, but what can you do about it, other than live with it or rage quit?

I’m a PHP developer. When a system doesn’t work as intended, or there is a better alternative, I improve on my initial designs. That’s why my framework has developed quite well over the past 7 years. I give my customers 2 years long free upgrades incase I find ways to improve their initial product. All part of the service I offer.

ArenaNet however decided that RNG + Skinner Box is the way to go and to never improve upon this system (adding new currency is a band aid at best).

A well developed system would increase the droprates over time for a person if they have been unlucky for months/years to ensure every player has their ‘happy’ moment. An even better system would be one that rewards actual effort instead of pressing 1 once and resulting in bronze completion with the same item rewards as gold completion. This however is far more expensive to develop & maintain so they choose the cheap version instead.

I’ve been playing since Guild Wars 1 and while I’ve sadly been getting older over these past 10 years (wtb age reduction skill) I’ve also seen well respected companies turn to crap due to financial restraints setup by investors/management. This case is sadly no different.

I still play for about 5 minutes per day as I keep a slight sense of hope that someday they will understand that the skinner box & rng won’t work forever as content but it’s also fading a bit more every day seeing the current developments.

This entire ‘event’ for the next beta only reconfirmed why I decided to become inactive in the first place.

edit: spelling.

lordkrall.7241:

Xuro.5861:

Two full rounds of Silverwastes with full maps and not a single person got one. Talk about a grind a la korean style.

You are assuming that every single player in the map would post about getting one in the map chat if they did. I don’t think even half the people would do that actually.

I was already waiting for a regular poster to point the obvious out. The next step is probably that someone points out that my ‘bad luck’ is no indication for the borked droprate system and I should just be happy the content is free. After which someone else will state how they got it on their first kill and the cycle will be complete.

Yay.

Two full rounds of Silverwastes with full maps and not a single person got one. Talk about a grind a la korean style.

Mathematically that already shows my chances are to low to bother considering my busy schedule for this week.

No new content and only 1 massive grind update after months.

Disappointed is all I have to say.

Same, had to log off due to motion sickness, first time in 16 years I experienced that from a game.

That plus the new fps issues, very disappointing.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Lowered-frame-rate-after-patch

Several others including myself have major fps issues now aswell.

Using default camera settings, actually getting motion sick due to low fps spikes everywhere, it’s horrible.

Several graphical options are broken aswell, LOD distance & Post processing for example, they change very little now compared to before, my fps doesn’t even change when I alter them, horribly optimized.

Same, went from average 108-115 fps down to 51-67 with my overclocked I5 and 760GTX

CPU is used for 72% on average and GPU for 49% … 49%!

I didn’t overclock my hardware to play with 51 fps.

I agree that this change might have effects in WvW solo roaming that are not desirable but they will not change it, mostly due to the fact you are posting in the PvE section of the forum where most people are allergic to even using simple meta builds in dungeons/fractals, let alone use viable builds in PvP or WvW. You won’t find the support you are looking for in this section of the forum.

If this change affects my guardian to much in WvW, I will simply take a break till a rebalance is done, personally I will not reroll after 5000+ hours on my beloved guardian just to stay competitive in small scale WvW.

23 runs (which were not enjoyable as people refuse to listen most of the time) but I got mine, never doing the event again.

17 runs and only 1 box.

The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of never having to return to this dreadfull place after obtaining this final box.

Some friends got their boxes within two runs while I did 10 and got nothing but a big kitten you.

I am SO sick of this nonsense with RNG.

Only reason I didn’t walk away from this game and it’s never improving designs is because I have a guild to look after.

Just … kitten . Didn’t drop any for a year while playing WvW.

(got it from bag of WvW supplies)

The new tonic is so awesome to troll with.

Best collection reward ever, hundreds of people got trolled every hour during the dolyak event.

What’s next? Logging in daily for a free chance at a precursor? Maybe even a legendary? This game has been degrading into a cheap sleazy f2p mmorpg for a while now and I think this is a new low.

All this new system does is artificially inflate the playerbase to give an illusion of a thriving game for both ingame players and their statistics which they seem to love a little bit to much.

This along with the lack of actual challenging content updates to PvE, PvP & WvW is the final straw for myself. I haven’t bought any gems for a while now (spent 1200 euro’s on gems before) and I will never reconsider buying again.

You lost my business.

For the past 2 years I have seen people beg you to (re)add certain items to the gemstore yet there is no sign of them to be found anywhere.

People are asking you to allow them to spend money yet you refuse to (re)add items for the sake of fictional exclusivity which does not exist in Guild Wars 2 to begin with since everything is easily obtainable by anyone who has access to a good farming location or a credit card.

I can only conclude that what we are seeing here is a false sense of item exclusivity that leads to decisions which are questionable in my opinion. I honestly would like to learn why you would deny yourself money like this with your ever decreasing revenue according to NCSoft reports.

(p.s, I’m well aware of the longterm profits by using fictional exclusivity since the masses eat it up like there’s no tomorrow but I do hope that one of you also understands you don’t have to rely on this if you keep a steady stream of content + desired items coming our way)

Just my 2 cents.

Ticket #998290

3 days no reply

Now that we can obtain infinite wxp buffs from the new gobbler, how about adding wxp to the current enchanted reward boosters? Seems a bit silly that I cannot use my 200+ reward boosters to obtain the wxp buff while a cheap gemstore item gives infinite amounts of said buff.

It’s hidden under Flame & Frost achievement tab in the Historical tab and cannot be progressed.

Those 1500+ skins I gathered the past few months will finally pay off (went as far to gather every dungeon set + weapon in the game aswell)

An interview got posted on GuildMag which says we won’t see SAB for a loooooooooooooooong time considering they want to ‘focus on other parts of the game first’ (we all know what that means, precursor crafting anyone?)

Sad day to be a SAB lover.

This shows how out of touch arenaNet is with their own playerbase/community.

I’m expecting more cashgrabs like these to be announced for WvW over the next few weeks.

Same here, sad these things still happen.

Yet someone who only has 2 of the same one receives one? Are you serious?

I’m just speechless about these illogical decisions.

Streaming daily starting at 19:00 CEST our guild raid where I command in WvW.

The stream is located at twitch.tv/littlexuro

I hope to see you there

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If you decide to attend our farm, please make sure you follow the rules:

1) Geared 80’s only, you can level your upscaled characters in Edge of the Mists.

2) You donate 20 silver per round, you earn about 1 ~ 2 gold per round so don’t be cheap.

3) You understand the importance of teamwork and follow the commander’s requests.

Well today I didn’t get a chest at all even with the server placing 5th.

Just awesome.

Same here, bugged.

ArenaNet programming at it’s finest as usual.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Is your server locked into its position, perchance? Will it finish 7th no matter what the results of this week’s matchup is?

Nope, we can become 6th if we win although we most likely won’t.

Doesn’t seem it’s working like intended as most of us didn’t get the chest with the achievement.

Took a picture of the bugged achievement.

Added it to the first post.

I’m talking about the season chest, not the achievement chests.

My younger brother is staring at his season chest right now, similar icon as the 5/10/15/20k achievement chests.

More friends keep reporting already getting theirs randomly after relogging.

The achievement just popped up but I got no chest while half of my guild did get a chest with the achievement aswell? Seems to be majorly bugging out.

talking about SEASON CHEST, not achievement chests

It seems people randomly get them after relogging in WvW.

Check your real WvW tab to see the spring season achievement, most can see it there already + your placement for this season.

I got eternity and I don’t regret it, even with the bugged skills it was worth it for me.

I do hope they fix the bugs eventually.

What I’m more worried about is how long the restriction will be from this point forward, will it be another 14 days starting from yesterday when the system finally kicked in or will it just be 14 days since the transfer, even with the system bugging out for 10+ days?

By ogden’s hammer, what savings!

hahaha, that made me laugh more than it should have.

Since it now has a barrier around it, seems the only way to get it is by finishing the scarlet event which nobody event attemps anymore.

So much for world completion?