Guild Wars 2

as pointed above GW2 has a large playerbase and is one of the most known mmorpg’s so releasing on steam would be potentially a loss of revenue. When HOT gets some sales a lot of people will pour in again in the game

Because the game has enough revenue and playerbase to keep itself afloat and going in steam will largely take out of this revenue. Steam takes 30% of all the game sales and if you make the math if hot has sold(hypotheticaly)500 000 copies for 50$ that means steam takes 7.5 million from arenanet

there is a dps meter for gw2 that has been said to not be illegal as it doesnt read the code gw2specs

So i did the daily fractal of the swamps today and afterwards i started exploring the mount maelstorm map and i think the jurney itself to reach a location in the real (fictional) world of tyria that is facility and has a story in itself is what makes dungeons truly special and slay fractals which are some random chunks with no connection in between them to the point that it feels pretty meh just running them- you enter the fractals lobby and u go to the islands and nothing more no immersion no exploration ,nothing going on.

And this is where I think anet went wrong with the 5 man content i dont see what is the problem putting the new ai in a new story that is somewhere on the map that has some architecture surrounding it making it feel like an you are going into an epic adventure how raids are at this moment. I know the reason is probably optimizing costs but thats just my 2 cents.

So what do you guys think about dungeons vs fractals do you like fracs more? if so why?

Loosmaster.8263:

arakkune.1429:

shinjin.3924:

Can we know how many players actually play gw2? and by server too how many people there are in this game?

GW2 uses a megaserver system so we have maps that fill up to a certain number and then overflow. As to how many ppl play gw2 i think gw2 has sold around 6 million copies before it went free to play. So by that you can make an assumption how many play. Another one is based on the HOT sold copies which sold around 300-400k (idk if preorders were in the financial report for Q4) this as a whole makes out for a pretty good number.

Account sales and people that actually “play” are two different things. OP needs to specify which he is looking for. HoT copies could be more upgrades than actual entire new accounts. There are a lot of variables here.

IDK of I made it clear but by the 300-400k comment i meant if only those upgrades play the game it is still a pretty big playerbase

shinjin.3924:

Can we know how many players actually play gw2? and by server too how many people there are in this game?

GW2 uses a megaserver system so we have maps that fill up to a certain number and then overflow. As to how many ppl play gw2 i think gw2 has sold around 6 million copies before it went free to play. So by that you can make an assumption how many play. Another one is based on the HOT sold copies which sold around 300-400k (idk if preorders were in the financial report for Q4) this as a whole makes out for a pretty good number.

Hey guys im looking for a raiding guild are you still recruiting?

hi im fairly interested in raiding and am available on the days that you raid. Are you still recruiting? Ill be available tomorrow for accepting

Has there been any information if raids will have a separate tab in looking for group? Or there is no chance of it being implemented it looks pretty ridiculous seing lfr in the open world tab

I think we need a new one with raids in mind where there can be different roles filled. Since the raids promote build diversity it would be good if people can queue for different roles- dps control support.

raid release day is next week and from what has been shown the basic masteries and mb updraft will be needed

do you think anet needs a bigger team size cause from what ive seen i think they are struggling in maintaining constant updates with a sizable chunks of content but maybe its just me.

anyone knows where i can find a good quantity of them? I’ve been farming in aurin basin for 2 hours straight and nope the item hasnt dropped yet -_- anyone had the same problem as me?

So i just did a hour event to get disconected when MoM was at freaking 10% health.Tried to get back and guess what world is full. So i just wasted 1 hour of my time to not get to the end. So please fix the crash. and a question why does this crash even happen what is it connected to?

next week or the week after that its coming with raids which are coming mid november

The one to Rule.2593:

Nope, you should get zerker

already have zerker but i think sustain might be good for raids if its as tough as they make it sound

can someone please tell me the numbers of the stats it gives cause im rly torn if i should get it and i cant find the numbers anywhere (saw the marauder staff numbers and they seemed big) oh and does anyone know why we cant sell the insignias of the new stats?

2 months ago i started playing ff XIV and they had an expansion a new continent (zone?) which added 5 new zones and to be honest (except the dungeon/raid content which was so good) to me hot brings me more joy and the world feels better and more alive than what i played in heavensward

Please when raids come dont nerf them. Peace

joric.1042:

arakkune.1429:

well i played for the 400 hero points and i had my fun unlocking the elite spec the challenging way so i really feel like ive done the right thing. If other people want less and they get it i dont see the problem. What’s important is we did it the right way and that in itself is self satisfactory

Didn’t really know there was a “right” way, but if that helps you sleep better at night then by all means. It is an accomplishment whether it is 250 or 400. I applaud you for getting the specialization the “correct” way.

well for one i got the elite spec the way anet intended it to be unlocked and that is by playing all the content so yeah i did it how it was designed to be done and not how whining made them change it ^^

well i played for the 400 hero points and i had my fun unlocking the elite spec the challenging way so i really feel like ive done the right thing. If other people want less and they get it i dont see the problem. What’s important is we did it the right way and that in itself is self satisfactory

Tapioca.9062:

Awesome.

Now go do it again on ten other characters. From the exact same hero points every single time.

actually im planning on doing it and what makes it fun to get the hero points is that some of the fight are pretty challenging and take skill and coordination to finish ex. (mushroom queen hero point) . Btw why would u do it on 10 other characters? O_O there are 9 elite specs

So thats how long it took me to get my elite spec fully unlocked ( i had 100 hero points before hot). So i dont see why people are complaining I played fairly casually and did most of the events for fun. What i liked mostly about the process of getting hero points is dragon stand’s map-wide event which is a really good example of how playing the game events gets you the hero points u need. So in conclusion thanks anet for making the process of getting my reaper seem rewarding and fun

are we gonna get some new hairstyles with hot? cause the customization is kinda lacking?

Nekrothaft.6390:

What build are you using?

marauder amulet/scholar runes although unlike arixade i took dhuumfire in the soul reaping traitline. Force and acuracy runes and reaper melts like hell dunno if its because of the intensity of burning but has rly nice dps and reaper shrould finishes everything. I just hope they dont nerf reaper

is it just me or is reaper rly godlike in pvp i mean it rs melts other ppl like hell. What do u think of the dmg in pvp mb im exaggerating but it feels like reaper shroud’s attack speed makes it so powerfull (have yet to lose a 1v1 in pvp)

wait how much time did the red boss take? isnt he suppose to be only condi killed?

what do u think will be the reaper meta in raids? This is just for speculation post ur opinions. I personally think zealots might be viable with blood trait line for more survival. What i have noticed in fractals that even when being terrible necro has some kind of support (ds 4 heals for like 3k a piece and i drop a wob when resing someone in synergy with dagger 2). So i think if raids arent a real dps fest the healing power will be a good asset to have for a raid. Share your thoughts

Will there be loot for everyone doing the raids or will there be the classic greed option and the gear falling from the boss will be limited?

Hello ive been thinking about raids and the way thinks would work and I had an idea- remove downstate and revive in raids. Now this might seem harsh but that way the need for stacking in a corner and when someone gets downed the whole party pressing f and resing faster than the boss can hit will make room for more dodging and control over ur skills so what do you guys think?

I see where you are coming from but when i want to write something i write the cyrilic word in latin ex(bulgarian): Otivam da pravia neshto
just use phonetic cyrilic and write it in latin

Well i played hot beta on a laptop(I7-4720HQ/gtx 960) on a stable 60fps everything on max v-sync off not on supersample though

So I played reaper in pve and pvp in pve (almost full zerker) gravedigger did around 13k a crit. In pve i went with knights stats( i thought toughness for survival) and what i did was in large fights focus on one under 40% and spam the kitten out of gravedigger that way i killed 3 while 2 were trying to res the third i downed and killed them. Gravedigger skill of the year.

So the base game is free to play what are you people’s impressions from it I havent noticed anything out of the ordinary no bot spam no nothing I went to metrica province and saw there were some new players but from my point of view the game hasnt boomed with f2p like most others mmos(at least first weeks). So discuss im rly interested in opinions considering how noone wanted this to happen

So i was browsing the wiki for stats combinations and i saw the zealots gear and wondered would zealots gear be good for a power necro build? d/w/staff what do you guys think im not rly sure how well healing power scales with the lifesteal

Wanze.8410:

Jerus.4350:

Wanze.8410:

Jerus.4350:

Wanze.8410:

Behellagh.1468:

Jockum.1385:

SkiTz.4590:

Open world is their focus.
Spamming auto attack, and getting rewards so everyone is a winner and they can also show off their sparkly new dresses to everyone in the zerg. Its a win win for casuals, which is the overwhelming majority in this game.

On the other hand the only teamcontent are dungeons. Open World is singleplayer content.

You’re forgetting Fractals.

And guild missions and world bosses.

I’d say only a few world bosses qualify. While there is a massive team at most, they aren’t something you really work together on, just all stand in a pile and pew pew together. I wouldn’t call that a team, more like a mob.

So whatzs the difference to the current dungeon meta of stack and kill?

Is it worth describing or are you just being silly? Simply put, when I go to do Shatter, Fire Elemental, Svanir Shaman, Karka Queen, Jungle Wurm, Mk II, or Shadow Behemoth I equip a range weapon, run to the area, press 1 when it starts and tab back out to waste time on the forums. If I try doing that same thing in a dungeon I’ll not be in there very long and surely won’t finish.

If you do that its your choice, you still have the option to actually contribute towards a faster kill by using proper skill rotations but you prefer to contribute as little as possible.

By doing so, you make a statement that challenging content isnt what youre looking for but rather the rewards are your primary goal.

These days, completing dungeons isnt a challenge either but it seems the option to complete them faster by stacking and killing and using good rotations is an incentive for players.

You can do the same during world bosses, if that is what youre looking for.

Im just interested how many fps do u have in a big fight such kitten because in such a fight my pc/laptop is by no means weak i get around 25 fps and if there are a lot more people it goes to 15 where all u can do is press 1 or press something else and hope it lands. The problem with open world bosses and open world group content is that it is not visually appealing as it is now its a lagfest so why dont anet keep the instanced story dungeons which are fun to run they have good lore if i dare say i also like the story explorable way the dungeons are built and I dont see a problem with adding more things to gw making 1 or 2 once in a while….

Wanze.8410:

Jerus.4350:

Wanze.8410:

Behellagh.1468:

Jockum.1385:

SkiTz.4590:

Open world is their focus.
Spamming auto attack, and getting rewards so everyone is a winner and they can also show off their sparkly new dresses to everyone in the zerg. Its a win win for casuals, which is the overwhelming majority in this game.

On the other hand the only teamcontent are dungeons. Open World is singleplayer content.

You’re forgetting Fractals.

And guild missions and world bosses.

I’d say only a few world bosses qualify. While there is a massive team at most, they aren’t something you really work together on, just all stand in a pile and pew pew together. I wouldn’t call that a team, more like a mob.

So whatzs the difference to the current dungeon meta of stack and kill?

Actually what i was thinking is why do we get short parts of dungeons like the molten one in fractals and why didnt we keep the whole one that was one of the best the gw team has produced if there are dungeons like the molten facility i think the comunity might be happy (this is not based on my opinion but the opinion of the comunity when it was released)

I swear to god the title was why does anet hate dungeons show yourself whoever changed it!

I really think the concept of dungeon with story and explorable mode is really cool but anet forsoke it the moment the game got released and they fired the dungeon team im just interested your opinion do people really dislike dungeons that much that they are not needed anymore? Im making this topic because dungeons are a cool way to have small groups (fractals arent exactly dungeons they are too small) playing and while anet thinks open world events are the best i find no fun sitting at 25 fps in a melee of characters and enemies but thats just my 2 cents. So yeah are u guys pro dungeon or pro open world?

So i play powermancer and have lich form as an elite and i have this problem in pvp sometimes when i cast the skill 1 on lich form it goes out goes through the person and doesnt do dmg and i spam it and the next hits dont hit too when the person against me isnt dodging is this a bug or is the skill a straight cone?

ok thanks guys and another one is life siphoning getting buffed? cause if it is i might invest in blood magic i really like the lifesteal builds but they are not rly good in gw2

Hello since im rly not that good will dagger necro still be viable with the new changes in traits and trait lines coming? Im running a zerker gear necro build and wanna know if i should get back to conditionmancer or if this build is still going ti be good. Thanks in advance

So we will get the expansion at some point but do you think we will get to fight mordremoth at the beginning of the expansion or will we get something like living world patches to get to the point where we have a battle with him

How many of you will buy the game if we only get world events (though i cant see mordremoth being a world boss only). And also if we dont get them how will new armors be distributed only via events or ?

guild wars is doing really good but who would expect other than that. From the report all i can say is poor wildstar people were so scared of free to play/buy to play but when i look at the numbers now I think they should be afraid if the game has any future since ncsoft doesnt mind closing a game within its first year if its not profitable enough
edit: B & S got such a boost because of the taiwan release right?

Do u prefer open world instances we are likely to get or the instanced dungeons as a group playing method? Why do u prefer it?
Personally i like the open world boss fights but i feel like dungeons have the advantage of a smaller coordination playing and unlike world bosses i dont get tears/fps spikes in dungeons
Share ur opinion

i find what you say is weird im not the best geared in the game yet i can help friends and i 2 shot everything when i go to some of the lower leveled zones hell u can help ur friends with the downscaling until something like orr but thats just my opinion

I have this one and in pve and dungeons its about 95 fps on ultra , In tequatl its about 30fps and in pvp its 95-100 , dunno about wvwvw cause i dont play
havent seen any thermal throttling yet but the vent is in a bad position so i suppose it will happen eventually

So yeah ive been interested in this laptop and wanted to ask if people who play on it are sattisfied by the performance? And if they have wifi problems cause there are a lot of discussions about the wifi card and some random ping spikes. So yeah any information would be appreciated

am i the only 1 that thought Dota when he read the article i mean its not in a 1:1 ratio but i see some similarities