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The Devolution of Leather.

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Honestly the whole gathering and crafting system is a wreck. Some materials are gathered (plants, ore, lumber) and others are only from drops (rare materials, cloths, leather). The rare materials I can understand being from drops from specific creature types, but the leather and cloth should have been a part of the gathering system from the start.

Lag spikes

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Hi there. I have only just started playing again a couple days a week in the last month or so since leaving last August. I am having some major lag spikes of maybe 2-5 seconds. My internet speeds are ~98.7 Mbps down and ~65.3 Mbps up and the server is Washington D.C and I’m in Pittsburgh PA. My ping is generally about 60 with an avg of 200. I have Verizon Fios here at my apartment and the same at my parents’ house and I only get the lag at my apartment. Any idea as to why?

I also lose connection often and get dc’d. Why does it only happen on this network?

This is making the game unplayable for the majority of the time I can play.

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Duo-playing Story Dungeons?

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I would say all except for the CoF, CoE, and Arah. The explorable mode of those have been done solo, but if you aren’t experienced in doing something like that, I’d say to not try just 2 manning the story. Arah is difficult because a lot of it requires the full party, at least from what I remember.

There is no story mode of Arah anymore. It’s simply a personal story step now and can be soloed.

huh. well, thanks for that info.

Loss of sigils = no healing support

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all of the healing based sigils being gone now removes any ability to provide a healing support, which was my second favorite way to play. Any love coming our way?

Duo-playing Story Dungeons?

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I would say all except for the CoF, CoE, and Arah. The explorable mode of those have been done solo, but if you aren’t experienced in doing something like that, I’d say to not try just 2 manning the story. Arah is difficult because a lot of it requires the full party, at least from what I remember.

More retaliation for guards

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Was this an oversight by ANet? How long has this been an issue?

The new Swamp [Merged]

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You should have put the Mossman and Bloomhunger in the same room at the same time with old mechanics, that might have made it more interesting,

They should combine after 40% health hahaha. Mossman should jump on and mount the bloomhunger.

In all seriousness though, maybe replace the mobs at the spirit stage with a spirit form of Mossman and elite wolves, and you have to fight him 25% health and kill the wolves each interval, with Mossman stealthing like he used to and shadowstepping between the spirit tethers at random, or maybe like Mai Trin shadowstepping to the furthest enemy so that you still have the kiting to the spirit areas like we have now.

Thanks for the molten furnace rework.

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I afk in the corner between the intervals where you can attack the generator. My vit/tough and healing signet keep me above 80% health the entire encounter.

The new Swamp [Merged]

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You didn’t do the fight mechanics for the bloomhunger correctly. You have to kill the mobs in the green circles. But yes, Mossman is facerolled in 20 seconds and the bloomhunger and mobs are too easy. I like the new mechanics but it is not challenging enough.

Two handed axes

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I would like a two handed pistol please.

That’s called a rifle…

1s ICD for Stealth attacks

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I wholly agree dude. I can’t even understand their reasoning for the 1 second cd. You only get one attack in stealth, correct? There is already a revealed period. Why add on the 1 second cd to my backstab? It’s already tough enough to position yourself correctly and land the attack at the opportune time, especially when paying attention to the positioning and the boons/condis on your target.

Seriously, what is up with the lag and fps?

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Since getting my new pc in January and up until about at least a month or 2 ago, I have been getting at most 110 fps and no lag on most maps and about 60 in LA and PvP and that’s on medium-high settings. Now, nothing has changed on my end, but I am getting 20-30 in pvp on low and lagging a crap ton that I can’t even play a match properly, so I don’t play at all after trying out again today since about 2 weeks ago. Really, what is the big deal with this? Nothing has been altered on my end, so what’s the issue?

Hardened Leather Squares

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Well. That’s just lovely. Glad that Anet had waited soooo very long to do something with that leather, after I had sold the 1.5 bank tabs worth of leather squares that I invested in before ascended armor released. I just LOVE GW2’s economy.

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Hardened Leather Squares

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Why did the price of Hardened Leather Sections/Squares skyrocket over the past 6 months? What change was implemented that I didn’t notice, either because I wasn’t playing during that time until I got a new pc in February, or because I was just mostly pvping after that point.

FPS Plummets, Vert Sync not working

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My FPS will cap at 115 and then suddenly plummet to 30’s and then back up after like a second. In pvp my fps is about 60-80 and then plummets and causes me problems. My ping was at about 50 or 60. Selecting V-Sync will cause textures to be blue and the game won’t load between zones unless I ctrl-alt-delete>>cancel and then alt-tab to GW2. I have a Windows 10, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and Intel HD 530. What could be the cause?

The most cheese build?

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I’m a little on edge right now. My competitive bones are alight. One of the many traits of a son in a family of 4 boys.

I just fought a team with a thief that was condi spec and just dodged-caltrop/caltrop/death-blossom/reflexive-strike all match. Freaking annoying. My team’s composition was not able to do very much to counter.

What is the most cheese build in the game, apart from perhaps something akin to this?

Other language characters in chat.

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Is it possible to get other language packs or characters incorporated into the chat? I wish I could use Korean and Japanese in chat, but I can’t.

The Rarest Weapon in GW2

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I have the fused gs and dagger and I wish I could sell the skins. I got them back when skins weren’t tradable. I spent a good bit of money to get the tickets too ????

Frog People Voices

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So did the sound engineers bring in their kids to do the voices and say “here is the general idea, have at it” and the kids did the voices? That would be so funny. The voices are great when you haven’t invested MP into learning the language. Ridiculous.

Thief PvP

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I think the main point is the delay after using sword 2 and that it needs reworked. Sure, that has something to do with 1v1’s, but it’s not the reason for his post.

Mechanics Idea | Higher Level Fractals

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I’d prefer a party wipe aoe from archdiviner. From the thaumanova boss I’d like it to be a quicker than usual destruction of the energy plates of half the platform and in random sections of 1-4, but that might be more readily punishing, so 1-6 or so.

[Suggestions] Gemstore Items

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Asking for capes has been beaten like the dead horse that was the “MOUNTS!” plea. It’s possible, and I’d like to see them too, as would almost the whole playerbase. However, I don’t think it will happen, mostly because of the Charr models.

RIP moa on core mesmer

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I’d like a change to the mechanic. It should be similar to a polymorph from WoW. You don’t have control over your movements. Your toon kinda wanders about in a circle for a few seconds. Thank goodness for everyone’s sanity that it isn’t a 20 second duration like WoW was in vanilla.

Effect breaks on hit? Brilliant.

I don’t think GW2’s combat is capable of a condition like that haha. It’s hard enough to place your skills without them hitting multiple targets. Just by the natures of the combats in WoW and gw2, the one is more single targeted unless purposeful AoE and the other is mostly AoE through hit boxes.

RIP moa on core mesmer

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I’d like a change to the mechanic. It should be similar to a polymorph from WoW. You don’t have control over your movements. Your toon kinda wanders about in a circle for a few seconds. Thank goodness for everyone’s sanity that it isn’t a 20 second duration like WoW was in vanilla.

PvP Rune of Surging bugged

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I tried using the rune of surging with my warrior and whenever I pop rampage the shocking aura doesn’t proc.

Loading screen freezes

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My game won’t load beyond the loading screen after character select. It finishes the little loading circle widget on the bottom right corner, but the screen just stays as it was. I cannot minimize the game through alt-tab or the windows key, so every time I load I have to ctrl-del and then switch windows.

Fair Matchmaking? Kek.

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Also. It seems to me that he has a very shallow understanding of the ele class and how to play and react. I’d suggest going to pve and playing tough opponents, like mobs that are higher level than yourself, or elites/soloing champs. If need be, if you are level 80, unequip everything except a lower level weapon and try to kill a large group of 80 mobs, such as the Sons of Svanir tower event in Frostgorge.

Fair Matchmaking? Kek.

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Such fair match making lmao.

edit: just fought against these 2 and same outcome… they got face rolled :/

…………..LOL!

Ruby division makes people hate PvP

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I don’t know why, but people so far in Ruby seem to be generally worse at PvP than the people in sapphire were. Holy kitten some of the garbage I have seen. I am not a pro by any means but by this point I’d kind of expect people to have some kind of clue about rotating and not doing stupid kitten.

So garbage quality players have been carried yet again but there are still good players stuck in sapphire and emerald because they keep getting poor quality teammates

This. You have no kittening idea, though, maybe you do? I am getting ready to just make a premade and stick with that for the rest of the season.

Statistics on your last 10 games

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Over 450: 0
400 – 450: 1
300 – 400: 2
200 – 300: 2
100 – 200: 4
Less than 100: 1

Highest Losing Score was 434.

I have lost 8 of 10 last matches. I am getting close to just giving up on pug ranked progression out of sapphire. I will try and form a group and see what happens, but I keep getting into teams that just have no ability to win. I am tired of getting people on my team that say “I just made this build/I am not used to this build/I just returned to the game” or those that are just like dumb dogs running back to its vomit and running to the same spot death after death and cannot do anything differently.

Guild halls trailer & mounts

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There was a mounted enemy in the trailer for guild halls. now that they have the animations and assets in the game, anyone think they will implement them for players?

HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]

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To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

One of the first things they teach us in economics is that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
If a restaurant offers lunch for free, then more than likely they’ve raised the price of their drinks.

So even though Anet is offering the core game for free, it is more than likely that the price of the expansion was raised as a result.

Nice try.

Been trying to inform this uneducated lot about that phrase. Seriously, it seems to me that either ANet had a really stupid moment that lasted 5 months, or they think their player base are a bunch of idiots they can roll over and shake the money out of our pockets.

Also, other than the above stickied Answer, has there been any ANet activity on the forums, social pages, or youtube channel? Seem like they arent doing very good cc, and soon might find themselves in their own self induced down state. This is just, smh, laughably stupid on their part.

Vet players got more!

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The same slight against player’s wallets applies to someone who bought the game on Monday for $10. It isn’t just against the veterans, but against everyone who already purchased the core game. From my experience in other games, the expansions did not include the core game, you needed to purchase it separately. WoW had the battlechest and then the newest expansion. Besides, ANet should cater more to their veteran player base.

HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]

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There needs to be an option to just buy the expansion separately. It isn’t a bonus gift to include the core game, because that itself cost everyone prior to the expansion the full game price, during a sale or not. You guys recently had a sale on the core game, knowing that people interested in getting the expansion would maybe go ahead and buy vanilla prior to release to get through the original content first. Now you include them both in the same bundle and call the core game a gift? That is unfair to your veteran players, the new ayers as of January and even 24 hours prior to the pre-order announcement. That is some ethical business practice you had there. So how many bought the game yesterday for $10? You need to add a separate option to buy the expansion in all 3 editions, minus the estimated cost of the core game, whatever that average is between the months from today to back when the expansion was announced, or close to it. I hope you all do realize just how shady that is.

Guild hall locations/themes

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I’d like my guild hall in the Hidden Garden jumping puzzle please

i dislike courtyard

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lol. whoever changed the post’s title, dislike just doesn’t suit how I feel about those 3 maps, particularly CY.

i dislike courtyard

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FRAKKING HATE COURTYARD. please remove CY, SW, and that other one. annoying maps.

Superior rune of Warrior & weapon swap sigils

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does the reduction of weapon swapping from the superior rune of the warrior and other traits reduce the cooldown on weapon swap sigil effects? Or do you end up losing an effect for every 2nd cycle?

Weird Screen Glitch After Switching 'Tabs'

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It’s a Mac, what can you do?

Guadian Absolute Resolution bugged

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My guardian uses the trait Absolute Resolution and it says the passive heal should be Virtue of Resolve: 649 Heal, but the F2 icon says Resolve: 217 Heal, as does the combat text. Is this bugged?

FPS DROP after Patch

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Having issues here as well. On a surface pro 2 and can usually get between 50-60 fps on low and sub sample, or 30-40 on native with only textures above lowest, set at medium. Now I get 30-35 on sub sample and lowest settings, and about 20 on medium textures and native sample.

Stealth against PEW PEW Rangers

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can you guys please fix the issue where ranger skills continue tracking thieves after going into stealth? it works against all the other classes but rangers.

rallying

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i am finding that you don’t rally when the one who downs you is killed. is it only when you have inflicted a certain amount of damage that you can rally? why not also by the damage inflicted upon you?

Heart of Thorns Wish List:

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Legendary trinkets of no use. Legendary weapons on par with ascended. Trinkets would be too. Legendary armor would just be unique skin. I’d want it to be rather than needing to build each piece, each legendary armor is a whole set. Potentially 3 sets of each armor class. Each piece added to wardrobe when completing the armor and then each pieces skin interchangeable.

Initially i wasn’t going to jump on the bandwagon but I can’t help it.

I’d like to see, (in no particular order):

  • Larger PvE party size. GW1 was 8 and when our guild go out, there are often members left out in the cold
  • Two handed axe. (Maybe for warrior and ranger and new profession).
  • Spears. (Amphibious weapons maybe?)
  • New professions. (Ritualist or Dervish seem a good and popular choice)
  • New Races. (Tengu, Centaurs, Kodan all good choices).
  • Increased Level cap. (Something more to work toward, sorry but I actually like level grinding).
  • Legendary Armor and Trinkets.
  • Ability to craft ascended food and jewellery.
  • Guild Halls. (And therefore by definition GvG battles).
  • More elite skills (possibly an Elite heal)
  • Ascension (and the ability to swap class).
  • A template editor to quickly switch between saved skills and traits (like we had in GW1).
  • A secondary class (ok so I know this won’t happen but I miss the synergy of different profession from GW1).

New areas goes without saying

Heart of Thorns Wish List:

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4 new classes. 1 light/medium 2 heavy.
At least 2 new weapon skills to choose from for each weapon skill slot 1-5.
New zones. Would love to see verticality to map designs. Plateaus and such. Have whoever designed charr zones design these. Some really cool use of ruins in charr zones.
A couple new dungeons for 5 man party and then a few new dungeon types requiring 2 or 3 parties. A couple new mini open world dungeons. New pvp map. Rehash of wvw map designs to have the borderlands differ. Tengu and kodan.

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JS, do you ever think you are one of the Tyrian gods when it comes to the economy? The amount of insane changes to the game over the last 2 years in terms of economy is, to me, bewildering. Prices of goods have fluctuated astronomically since the game released. How many of these changes were you guys aware would occur when implementing updates to the game such as: changing weapon skins (and some other skin types) to BoE, rich orichalcum vein add/removal, introduction of ascended gear and ascended crafting (especially the crafting. balance of goods is ridiculous. 100 silk bolt >> 50 mithril bars is frakking ridiculous, not to mention linen and cotton. leather also is pretty much worth as much as the dirt beneath our feet), the mystic toilet (several guild members seem to be extremely lucky getting 2 dusks or zaps within 20 rares in the toilet whereas most, included myself, have dumped hundreds upon thousands over time in the toilet and have received not one). the economy is almost, if not more so, frustrating as the economy was in WoW between vanilla and the release of BC.

Expansion Thread [merged]

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i want at least a new heavy class, but prefer 2 new heavy and 1 of each light and medium. add new skills to weapon slots. give each weapon’s 1-5 a 3 skill selection. 2 new races. a new cultural armor tier with a new skin for each race’s armor type.

oh, and for anet to hire an economist, or fire the current one if there is one and hire one that knows what he/she is doing.

crafted ascended and TP

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so it looks like the ascended crafted materials like the deldrimor steel coat or the lining is able to be sold on the tp whereas those used to make weapons are not. can someone explain why? please make a change to this anet. i have a hammer head just sitting in my bank that i will probably never use.

please add to LS tab at laurel vendor

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please add the Selfless Potion and the Thoughtless Potion, or the Lost Heirlooms to the vendor.

bank ui tab expander

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like what is on the bottom right corner of the inventory ui window, please add that to the bank tab window as well. trying to reorganize my bank and having to continually scroll up and down to move things around is annoying