Guild Wars 2

Sartharina.3542:

YaYa.5879:

Is this smart to take back something that players love only 19 days after putting it?
That seems like a collin johanson thing to do…

They actually have a good reason for the taking it back. By time-gating the event, they keep it exciting and fresh (even if it’s just the same few worlds), instead of letting it go stale.

The problem is when, after cycling it out, they forget to bring it back for two full years.

And we all now how people LOOOOOOVE time gated event in a game “where you play the way you want to”…

Is this smart to take back something that players love only 19 days after putting it?
That seems like a collin johanson thing to do…

HAHAHAHA DAT COMPANY THO !
Anet is kind of like a little kid with ADD. It has a lot of ideas, and a wonderfull imagination. BUT kitten , the execution, the focus?
“We have an idea fo this! now this ! oh but we’ve given up on this, and that will come in 6 months”.

My god, like, since HOT (6 months now), the only content you have been releasing is raids. And raids is for a marginal part of the population (thanks to a lack of lfg, only hardcore raid guild can truly enjoy it, other wise it’s just waiting and begging the gods for people to join).

I mean no new raids, still no wvw revamp.

And now one of the new features announce in hot is abandoned?

God bless you guys hahaha !

Just to be sure, only the higher ranks in the guild can use the mats to buy an upgrade right?

Hey !
In my guild hall the boosters only gives us an 8% bonus. While in other guildhalls they give 10%.
Do you know why?
In the wiki they say “The percentage benefit of these enhancements increases depending on the number of enhancements that the guild has unlocked. They are stackable with other modifiers”
How to unlock these enhancements?

Hi i’m looking for a large EU guild that does meta event (in the new hot map).
My ID is YaYa.5879
I have 8 characters with metabuilds and elite specs unlock.
I can raid (killed the VG with my ascended PS warr).
I’m lvl 60+ on fractals.

Feel free to mp me in game

I don’t really want it I JUST NEED IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you gonna bring it back on the everyday march sale?

I’m talking about that: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glint's_Gaze_Mask

Valky.2574:

Basically they lost all income from me and i wont be getting the new expansion until i know every DAM thing in it

It’s not about knowing everything in it, it’s about knowing when those things are gonna be released…
Well guess i’m gonna go back doing the same fractals i’ve been doing for a butt load of time. I mean it takes 3 person to release an entire wing of a raid in 3 months but no fractals…
Way to know your audience…

What is frustrating with gw2 is that it’s a game with amazing ideas but really poor execution. Collin being kind of the guy in charge of this execution, i hope that the ne one will actually do a better job.

For exemple raids…
It’s cool to have the choice to do them (even tho it’s not for a good majority of the players). But on the other hand since the release it has been the only pve conten that has been updated. No new fractals, dungeons were killed. So either you are an elitist raider or you can go kitten yoursel right in the kitten.

here’s what i found n reddit. It was a subject where a guy asked why people don’t like raids. There is currently 630 answers and here’s my favorite (picture).

WvW, still dead… Still no news on when will this big update come. (We barely have as much intel kitten months ago when the game was released).

5 month in, still no Living word season 3, still no legendary back pack, we have 3 new legendary weapons…

Congrats guys…

Edit: Oh and what’s up with the kitten loot that we get? instead of havin useless green or blue items that we will throw or sell for 1 silver. Can’t we have something smarter?

I mean in high lvl difficulty fractals what should keep you alive are skills, not some infusions.
I mean it seems lazy. You can have an unskilled guy with high AR who survives a lvl 75 fratal, but a Highly skilled player who will automatically die in a high lvl fractal because he chose a character without AR.

Oh and AR forces you to play with a limited amount of character.
I only have 2 chars with AR.
Now i know that people who played the game since day 1 and had a lot of time to kill, might have all they’re character with full ascended gear but… I was under the impression that new players could also enjoy the game after lvl 80.

In a dream world, alacrity would be at 50% instead of this insulting 33%

Phy.2913:

YaYa.5879:

Fluffball.8307:

I unlocked all 9 elite specs at about 10 or 20 minutes of play per character, my main aside since I took my time and explored everything (and that was back before the # change). It’s extremely little effort once you know where the channeled 10-pointers are.

kitten

(sorry i couldn’t fit how much of a bull kitten this was in only 1 line)

Maybe you are a veteran player with map complession on most characters, but for the players such as my self who has been playing for 1.5 years it was long repetetive and boring.
They introduce a new thing, and instead of putting it in the story (braham picking up his mothers bow and starts training to be a dragon hunter; the asura ingeneer, lacking ressources so she starts to scrap reckage and becomes a scrapper…) we have to commune point.

Before june everyone had hundrerds of hp, they took it out, replaced them by shards and now we have to commune 8 times the same points, wait 15 minutes for a champion.

You might be a veteran player, but this expension was sold for everyone, new players, old players. So the “sucks to be you if you are a new player” is either lazy or insulting.

HP for elite specialization is a bad idea, a lazy idea, and grindy as hell.

Im a glad that is over. The first 3 weeks i didn’t even participate to the new meta events cuz i was working on my elits… (thank god they’re was netflix on my ipad)

Hero point trains. You can be a brand new fresh 80 with 3% map completion, and max out your elite in about 2 hours, and that’s if you’re going slow.

Impossible because in that case you would have to lvl up masteries first

eldenbri.1059:

Hi @YaYa – as it turns out, I’m actually old. Most likely, I’m more than twice as old as you. And I’ve managed software development for decades. That doesn’t mean that I can’t be wrong or naively hopeful about changes being made.

But I do have a perspective about building and maintaining complex software products. I understand a lot of the tradeoffs that happen as you’re trying to build, test and release something that has many different kinds of users and many different priorities.

And I fundamentally believe that I’m better off trying to offer constructive suggestions than just providing criticisms. When I talk to customers of my products, sometimes they take the road of being critical (yeah, my software has problems too – all software does). In the end, the only way I can help those customers is if we focus on what can be done.

So this post is about looking for little things that would at least show the spirit of trying to make improvements for the class while keeping the effort and risk of disrupting the balance low. And I think it’s awesome if you have some ideas that might help with that goal.

As it turns out my old friend my post wasn’t about mocking you, it was about saying that what you suggesting is awesome, but Anet is so bad with balancing that it’s a dream.

Thanks for giving me your curiculum vitae, it was necessary.
I mean i am just working in business law so… i wouldn’t have such experience

Someone suggested that other class would have alacrity… That would be the death of the mesmer…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA the op makes me laugh…
Listen kid, if you think that Anet is going to make a reasonable change (like the one you suggested) in 2 days, you believe in miracles.
I don’t know if you noticed but Anet can’t balance a class to save their lives. I mean each balance patch some classes become garbage and some become overpowered.

I mean look at the last patch they nerfed the class without adding anything new.
I hope that when the next patch comes, mesmer will still be able to create clones and phantasms XD

Fluffball.8307:

I unlocked all 9 elite specs at about 10 or 20 minutes of play per character, my main aside since I took my time and explored everything (and that was back before the # change). It’s extremely little effort once you know where the channeled 10-pointers are.

kitten

(sorry i couldn’t fit how much of a bull kitten this was in only 1 line)

Maybe you are a veteran player with map complession on most characters, but for the players such as my self who has been playing for 1.5 years it was long repetetive and boring.
They introduce a new thing, and instead of putting it in the story (braham picking up his mothers bow and starts training to be a dragon hunter; the asura ingeneer, lacking ressources so she starts to scrap reckage and becomes a scrapper…) we have to commune point.

Before june everyone had hundrerds of hp, they took it out, replaced them by shards and now we have to commune 8 times the same points, wait 15 minutes for a champion.

You might be a veteran player, but this expension was sold for everyone, new players, old players. So the “sucks to be you if you are a new player” is either lazy or insulting.

HP for elite specialization is a bad idea, a lazy idea, and grindy as hell.

Im a glad that is over. The first 3 weeks i didn’t even participate to the new meta events cuz i was working on my elits… (thank god they’re was netflix on my ipad)

I know that you are probably aware and trying to fix these servers error, but since i haven’t seen any other post, just wanted to inform you .

TheFamster.7806:

savacli.8172:

TheFamster.7806:

I thought there are many guilds recruiting for raid in GW2 Looking for section? Did you try applying to any of them? While you may not get speedrun results but at least you can try with likeminded people at your own time.

The big problem with recruiting guilds is that a good majority of them are a core guild that does raids rather than just a standalone guild solely for raids.

In other words, you’re effectively signing up for a new guild in order to do raids. For some folks that may not be a problem taking up a new title. But it’s not that great of a deal for folks that belong to a more casual community that meets all their needs but just aren’t skilled/committed enough for raids.

I guess that’s a problem but its also expected. Raid is supposedly done with a core members of a group and people should also acknowledge the efforts of others when it comes to creating a raid team and setting up schedules. I mean nowadays lacking skill is no excuse as there are loads of videos and written guides up for raid boss/profession. Committing to a schedule or a set group might be difficult but since we are playing with real people behind monitor screens, we should also to a degree expect certain challenges when it comes to social interaction in GW2.

LFG for raid could be good but its not the ultimate solution. The same problems will persist and people will still complain. I agree its a bit saddening to see some people can’t complete raid contents due to lack of group but that is also a natural thing for end game content. Not everyone gets to compete for thousands of dollars in ESL proleague, and not everyone will get to raid due to their personal problems.

But everyone has the tools to be in the ESL prolegues: Play in pvp.
In the case of raids it’s a lack of tool driven by Anet’s desire to keep us from deciding how we want to play: in an organized group or a pug group.

nacario.9417:

I started by using the LFG, either by putting up an lfg myself lf a raid with what classes i played, or sometimes i joined raids that were advertising. If u just sit and watch the LFG for a min or two u often get a shot. And as u make it into raids, make sure to connect with them and add ppl, and eventually u dont have to spend so much time forming raids as u have ppl to form with or to join.

Yes the current implementation is rough, but if u do the above then all who got skillz can do it. We cant always be handheld the entire way.

So instead of having a tab for raid, we should polute the exploration mode tab?

So i tried playing raids, i actually beat the vale guardian. But that was it. I didn’t even try gorseval. Why?

No LFG
The thing, is after a long day of work, when i log in i don’t want to wait 1H00-1h30 half hour of doing nothing but organizing a group.
And That’s what keeps me from entering them.

Sure you have your hardcore organized group, but there are a lot of players such as my self who want to enjoy them without having to spend 1H00-1H30 of waiting.

I mean even Wow had a system where when you entered in a group you chose your role; tank, DPS, Healer… Why not condi and what not.

Not putting an LFG for raid is:
—> Keeping us to play how we want
—> Keeping me from playing some more because i really don’t want to wait 1H30 hour when i just want to have some fun

Just one a 2V0 pvp match because we were only 2 in the whole pvp match to successfuly load.

So here’s my latest Bad experience in pvp. It was in unranked since it was yesterday and in Skyhammer.The match begins with me going in point A. Halfway throught capping 2 members of MY TEAM come and just stand there capping the point with me (so 3/5 of our team is capping an uncontested point…)
I then go to use the skyhammer. 2 minutes in i realise that one of the player was standing next to me doing nothing…

My point is, please fix the MMR
I have played a lot of PVP and i don’t want to loose because of players who don’t know how to use they’re keyboard or the part of their brain responsable for logic.
I know thant ranked is going to come back but does that mean that good pvp is dead until february 26?

Even during season 1 i felt that a lot of the matches (i was solo queuing) were lost because i was put with rank 1 people…

It’s The best thing that could have happened to the warrior in the current meta

Before it the only thank it did was make sure that any new conditions wouldn’t apply to you. Which means that if you had 8 condis on you and used the skill, well the 8 condis would still kill you.

Now if you are getting bashed on by a condi thief or necro: all these waves of condis applied to you don’t damage you. So it’s awesome. I’m really happy with it.

But if a necro can strip it, than you are like a sick person in america with no insurance (screwed)

Oh ok: “Scorched Earth: Enemies are now able to be struck by this skill only once every 0.5 seconds.”
so you can’t put 2 fire field on a boss with a huge hitbox, because he can only get damaged once every 0.5 sec.

Which section? Warr, Berzerker, general?

But what changed exactly?

Hi i main Warrior, and spend a lot of time making a burnzerker warrior, with optimal armor and all.
And now i read on forums that it’s not viable anymore.
Is that true?
Did i spend all this gold an time for a build that was rendered garbage thanks to the new patch?

Solved it: Setting> graphical options > Interface size > Large

Since the Update every writting in the game is smaller, the chat box is smaller, the french audio was redownloaded.

Now when a message appears in the screen it’s really small, What happened !!!!!

Jski.6180:

Varezenem.2813:

The reason they gave wasn’t this please watch the video again.

Does not make it any less of a problem and is part of what they where talking about. If you add in gliding to wvw you need to make a LOT of no fly zones a LOT of walls etc.. time they simply do not have when there are many other major problems with wvw that need to be fixed. Its one of though things that its best to be with out then with and try to patch work fixes to make it not comply broken.

They simply do not have time? Dude first of all the “major WvW update” was supposed to come out before HOT? and yet it hasn’t come.
They installed Gliding in Core tyria in a really short time. Core tyria is HUUUUUUGE compare to those 2 WvW maps.

At this point it’s not a problem of time, it’s a problem of organisation and execution.

Jesus, tomorrow i will be able to glide in a map like Gendaren’s field where it’s not needed (but i will still do it cuz gliding is fun), but i won’t be able to do it in the desert borderlands where its needed…

Ok so from what i understood in the last guild chat, the reasons why the WvW team hasn’t put Gliding in WvW (and desert borderlands which are kinda deserted because of the unexploitable verticality), is because they didn’t figure a way to prevent players to glide in ennemies keep…
Why not putting no fly zone area’s around the keeps so that players can’t glide into them, and still enjoy WvW gliding

This wasn’t a complex solution to come up with. I acutally used a simple “DUUUUUUUUH” Algorithm to think of it.
That’s what the PVE team did.
And surely if installing gliding in the HIUUUUUUUGE entirity of Tyria was done that fast, it wouldn’t be hard to introduce it in the 2 maps of WvW.

(oh and since the desert borderlands weren’t that much of a success, can you put like 1 deserte borderland, and 2 alpine borderland? Or 2 desert borderland and 1 alpine borderland, instead of the 3 exact copy of an unused desert borderland).

No pressure take your time, WvW is doing fine…

Doesn’t show the 30% increase in the description

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Wait untill the patch comes out before you scream stances and cooldowns.
They said on the stream there is more to show, so i think we will get more then just some small regen buffs

They obviously spoke about the major updates and avoided the minor tweaks.
Stances are not a minor tweak, it’s a HUGE part of the warrior gameplay (especially in pvp).

If they had done something about it, they would have mentioned it.

Really??
we have stances that have a cooldown of 60 sec, which makes them grabage, and you don’t even touch them??
OMG why?

You want them to reduce the dps of the warrior? i don’t understand????
i hope i didn’t understand cuz reducing the dps of the warrior would be stupid

Hi ! i have stealth gliding in HOT, but would i have to redo all the gliding masteries for tyria?

And with the trait

Here’s an exemple

On the fractal greatsword of my asura reaper, the white mist/gaz comes from the middle of the sword when i’m running (and not the edges). Looks weird

Hi! when i choose the trait “King of fire” on my berzerker (elite spec), it increases the duration of burning damage on the longbow but doesn’t change the amount of damage on the description.
It works fine with the torch though

Best anaysis indeed.
I think the main problem and source of frustration is that Gw2 hot, is not a bas game, it’s juste a really disapointing and poorly executed game.
First of all, we didn’t have HOT on the release date, we had a portion of HOT: fractals were unbalanced, crashes were frequent, the elite spec system required 400 points.
So we had to wait, patch after patch, week after week. Fractals became playable only mid december… WvW is deserted.
The ratio of ingame cosmetic content/gemstore content is close to insulting.

I was angy because i appreciated what the game could have been, if some really stupid decisions were avoided. But know, we have this.
Lol 3 month in and WvW is not complete yet (apparently there is going to be a revamp in the next months, but most of the WvW community has already left the game for something else).

Right now i don’t really care anymore. I log in to get my dayli chest month is a while (in case i want to replay some day), and then log out.

This could have been the start of a massive reference in the MMO genre. We would’ve had expension after expension. But i don’t think that after this a 100% of veterent players would come back.

For my part i kinda moved on. This didn’t feel like a good time anymore

Can a developper please acknoledge this problem? I mean it’s been 3 days, i can’t loggin for more than 2 minutes now without being disconnected!

(or maybe they acknoledge this problem but in a third party website, like reddit or something…)

Hi ! I saw this site on flippable items http://www.gw2tp.net/
I got my gw2 api key, made a transaction and 5 minute later realised that this could be illegal. So i immediatly deleted the transactions and all the gw2 api keys.

My intention is not to break any Rule, so i’m asking : can this get me banned, or is it legal?

“Hey guys, this is a free to play game (that you paid for at least 50€) ok ! So be a little patient, the developers are working on it! If you want to speed things up, maybe buy a little something something in the gemstore so that they could deliver the fully functionnal game they promised us during the pre-ordering phase of this free to play.”

No but seriously i can’t play for more than 2 minutes without being disconected

5th time in 15 min…
HAHAHAHAHAHA Well 2016 starts well for Anet XD

Woaw today the amount of server crash has been huge from my part…
What’s happening? Can you fix that?

apharma.3741:

I believe they said they want you to earn your new elite specs and stuff by actually playing those characters.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Heart of grind.
The problem is that playong a character to earn the new elite would be a good idea if the experience was fun. Like if we had a story, some Lore about the aquisition of such faculties. For exemple seeing braham beeking up his mothers bow and becoming a dragonhunter, and you have to do quests with him.
BUT NO. It is a grind of HP that you have to do over and over again for evey characters…

So “playing a character to earn the specs” is useless for the simple reason that no matter what your class, you are gonna commute the same points, wait 15 minutes in front of a champion the same way. Earning proof of heroism stuff is a way to lvl up without the mindless grind…

I thought i was gonna do some WvW and earn enough points to get my 8th charachter’s elite (Yeah… i had to do the HP thing 7 time… don’t worry netflix was here for me).
But now i discover that they are soulbound… And the characters whose eroic proof are soulbount are already maxed out…

i wana say that this is another example of kitening up a great idea (elite specs) with poor execution (the boaring countless hours of grind). But hey what’re you gonna do…

PS: you are probably gonna get banned for the title

Ok so this is my humble opinion. So don’t take it agressively
The goal of an expension is to push a product forward.
Before we had 4 different maps in wvw: eternal battle ground and 3 different borderlands.

And now with the new expansion we have 2 different maps: eternal battlegrounds and the one desert borderland that is copied and past 3 times.

So did the expansion push the product forward? Well no… instead of having 4 maps we have 1 playable one and 3 exact same dersert borderlands that are (ready for the pwn) “deserted” by the players (haha get it, “deserted”. Because it’s called the desert borderlands and that they are deserted by the players. Did you get it? did you get it? you laughed? tell me you lauged).

So please Anet, Even though you don’t want to introduce gliding in a super vertical map, can we at least have 2 of the old borderlande back?
I mean on the one hand you will keep you heads high cuz there is still going to be a deserted borderlands, and on the other hand we would have 3 playable maps.

PS: oh and again, That would be awesome if you introduced gliding, in the desert borderlands for the owners of the expansion.
- Gliding is a HOT content.
- Desert B are HOT maps (kinda)
- The game is dead anyway if you don’t have the expansion: in pve dungeons are dead, and to be rewarded in fractals you need masteries. PVP without the new (awesome) elites is like going in a Formula 1 car race tournament with a skateboard. So why not make the experience better for HOT owners (such as myself) for wvw too?

Hi ! Well instead of having 3 times the same exact desert borderlands (without a glider so the verticality kills the fun), can we have 1 desert borderland, and 2 of the old ones?

Concerning the gliders, I now that this is a HOT exclusivity, thats why you don’t put it to WvW. BUT Gw2 without the expension is already a disadvantage:
- In PVE: dungeons are dead, fractals rewards are mostly for the ones with the masteries (so who bought the expension).
- PVP: The META revolves around the new elite specs (so you are probably gonna loose without the expension)
- WvW: Why not introduce the glider for those who already have the mastery on HOT? Those without HOT would still be able to play but without a glider. And borderland maps can be fun again !

ArchonWing.9480:

Nope.

What you have here is an HoT map with zero of the appeal of an HoT map. Of course, they wouldn’t allow gliding because they want people to buy the expansion to experience gliding, except all it really does is make people play pve to experience gliding.

Well in that case, gliding would only be available if you have the expension.
I mean PVE is already dead without the expension (death of dungeons, fractals reward need masteries). PVP needs the new elite to have a chance to win. Why not give an advantage to HOT owners in WvW?

Ok so i’m a new wvw player. I mostly played PVE and PVP.
In Maguma the verticality is awesome because you can use it and enjoy it with a glider.
But in WvW is it really usefull?

I am not experienced enough on that matter to throw affirmations and critics, but so far (even if the borderlands maps are gorgeous), the verticality seems like a waists of time that keeps me from joining my party or some locations.

Besides when I roam ont the new borderland maps, most times: i never really see roamers of the opposite sides to brawl with.
On the other hand, i logged in 30 minutes on eternal battlegrounds today, and brawled with at least 3-4 roaming groups. T’was fun.

So my point is. The verticality in wvw is only interesting (in the sens that a game should be fun and not mostly spending time to go from point A to point if you can take advantage of it (like with a glider). Otherwise it just is a useless disadvantage and waist of time In my opinion

Then again, there is apparantly going to be a “huge wvw revamp”.
I don’t know (or think) that it’s gonna change the architecture of the map. But the last PVE patch that changed fractals and rewards, made me hopefull that the wvw changes are gonna make me happy