Guild Wars 2

I tried following the FAQ and replacing the files into the game directory, then creating a new shortcut and starting it up.

It immediately begins patching, and the patching is going extremely slowly at 2mb a second.

I can’t even relaunch it in the 32bit client to change back, it also starts re-downloading the entire game.

edit: it seems like one of the files replaced was the DAT file, which would explain why it is re-downloading the entire game again.

Can we add a warning about this to the FAQ? It is fairly unclear on this point.

Those both look like a much better skills in general. Tomes are currently very clunky and have a very small niche they cover.

I bought $20 worth of gems, but I noticed I had an additional tax fee I never had before.

1600 Gems
Subtotal: $ 20.00
Tax: $ 1.65
Total (incl. Sales Tax): $ 21.65

I looked up my previous purchase of gems and I was not taxed at all.

1600 Gems
Total: $20.00

I checked with another friend who made a recent gems purchase, and he was not taxed either.

Is there any particular reason I am being taxed now?

I got one from the Personal Gift Box a few days ago, so I know for a fact they drop this wintersday.

If by treating us better then most other classes, you mean basically ignoring every issue the Guardian class has had since inception and tossing us a bug fix or two when other classes get a page full of changes, sure.

and Last I checked, the numbers also indicate Shattered Aegis and SoS were nerfs as well.

It isn’t about having it as bad as other classes, its about Guardian basically being ignored when it comes to actual balance changes, not to mention all the false promises made for this patch.

Except Guardian defensive superiority is just short of a myth. Every offensive class is getting more and more defensive options, while guardian aren’t getting more offensive options. Several parts of the class are also plagued by outdated design and clunky usage.

Yeah, that was a load of misleading statements and false promises.

Hammer 5 really should either cast instantly, or be useable on the move.

Hammer also has an overabundance of light fields, either the field on 1 or the 5 should be changed to fire imo.

Banish needs to do more in general, I like the idea of making it a cone AoE.

It really is disappointing to see that Anet basically changed nothing despite all that feedback and those false-promises. Literally nothing changed from the preview to the actual release, despite numerous well thought out complains/suggestions.

Been experimenting with it myself, unless you are traited for Meditations, I wouldn’t bother. The heal on Meditation Trait heals for more then the base heal of this skill.

Its primary use seems to be giving an extra source of Fury.

It really makes no sense to not have them free and useable on all characters like the Zenith skins now that they are soul bound.

It really feels silly that these purely aesthetic Gem Shop items are bound to a single character, only being made reusable if you use transmutation stones whenever you want to apply it to a new set of gear on a single character.

These items should be made reusable, in a fashion similar to the achievement skins. I know quite a number of players who would find it a much more attractive buy if they weren’t single-use only.

To a lesser extent, this suggestion would apply to the unlimited use resource gathering items.

I agree, too often I have seen these events fail because people had already done them, and refuse to help do them a second time due to lack of incentive.

I have been experiencing some severe lag problems today, to the extent the game isn’t even in a playable state for me at the moment.

I’m not sure if others have been experiencing this problem today, but I have never had such severe lag problems prior to this.