Guild Wars 2

When Anet reveals the Guardian specialization page… it’ll slowly load to only reveal the following words:

“Guardian is in a good place right now”

:P

I know the last post in this thread was 9 days ago, but I had another Hero’s chest, and had to laugh when it was filled with goo. It has gone beyond absurd. It’s like getting a huge account for your employers, netting them millions in profit, and they give you a beautifully wrapped present as a reward. You open it only to find it is filled with steaming dog crap. Yet, the whole time they are smiling like it’s the greatest gift they could have given. You can’t be mad, it’s like they don’t know any better.

There’s no justifying it.

There is absolutely no excuse for putting disgusting waste products in presents given to you as tokens of appreciation. Try it next time you buy someone a present: wrap it along with your morning stool and see how well that is received.

That’s because it’s bloody weird to find boogers and toenail clippings in presents you get as a token of appreciation from heads of nations.

Excursion.9752:

Some guaranteed rewards would be nice. I didn’t know Anet was going to be that guy that gives you a scratch off ticket and calls it a gift. When at the end of the day you would of just rather had the Dollar.

Crafting an expensive back piece does not count either. I just thought I would throw that out there.

So totally agree with you on all your points!

Why can’t our characters earn this favor as individuals once and then keep it?

If you think GW2 Dry Top is dead, you should see GW1 Dry Top.

Raire.7983:

Silberfisch.3046:

@ Raire:
I suppose you are a staunch supporter of dragonite for fractals?

Not sure what you mean, but they can bury the place in my unused dragonite for all I care. ;P

What I mean is the following:
In order to realistically do lvl 50 fractals you need an AR of 70.
There are 2 ways to obtain this. One is done running fractals, it would appear. But there is a catch. In order to get there with what fractals provide assuming you level strait up from level 1, you will have to spend 1600g (and change) on the TP/crafting materials from npc vendors. If you want the maths behind that number, I can provide them, just say so.
You will also need 110 laurels. And roughly 350 globs of ectoplasm for example. And a few other drops I just presumed them to be lucky enough get along the road.
If you want to factor in armor or weapon chest drops, those are incredibly rare and will in most cases not deliver the statistics your looking for, forcing you to either use subpar statistics or go through the ordeal described above. So I didn’t enter them in my consideration, but I already was generous with ring rewards, coagulated mist items and similar in favor of the player. Which is actually by no means a given.

Fun fact, since Agony infusions have a current maximum of +16 (if the wiki is correct), you can’t actually get to 70 only using gold/fractal drops. You will need the laurels or dragonite ore, which brings me to the second option.

The alternative is to venture outside of fractals and do open world content, namely meta event world bosses because they deliver dragonite ore which is needed to craft ascended armor and/or weapons. And crafting these ist expensive as hell either way.

So fractal players have been forced to spend hilarious amounts of gold or spend a almost equally hilarious amount of gold and venture into open world pve. Something a lot of them despise at least to an equal measure as you seem to despise doing fractals.

Given that this has been the state of things for quite some time now, I don’t think it is surprising, that a lot of fractal regulars can’t understand why 5 lvl 1 fractals are such a huge deal.

So, quoting you about forcing people to cross-over gameplay, I presumed that you were someone in support of the plight of fractal runners in regard to the acquisition of dragonite ore.

Raire.7983:

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I consider it an action to exclude people and show no respect for what they want to do with their time. I personally have little issue with exclusive rewards for different aspects of the game (so long as they’re aesthetic), but this cross-over garbage makes me angry. If ANet wanted this to be a Fractals reward, the process should have began and ended in Fractals, and not included something with a unique function.

I know ANet and their stauncher fans like to present it as positive encouragement, but to me it’s an imposition that I simply won’t tolerate.

I’m actually an advocate of allowing people to play the game the way they like and I understand that “we have to do something we hate, so why shouldn’t they too” is not really a good argument.
But I think it puts some of the comments that doing 5 fractal runs is no big deal into a different perspective compared to what fractal runners have to go through.
Btw. I don’t say that this is the only motivation for people to say “why not do those measily 5 fractal runs?”. Just an easily understood reason for some of those comments, I believe.

That’s why I asked you wether you were a supporter of dragonite through fractals.
In the end, we will have either to abide by Arenanet’s policy in the matter or choose to play a different game or do without something we would like to have/do.

I’ll offer you a compromise: Be vocal about getting your mists stone via a different route, maybe even the mentioned dragonite ore. And in addition be vocal about changing the rewards for fractals to include dragonite ore, or at least allowing fractal runners to trade their excess relics for dragonite ore.
That way you and the fractal crowd have something to agree to.
A common cause is always better anyway.

The only reason to keep him alive at this point would be to troll the community. The overwhelming hatred of his character from the community demand his death/absence.

The best thing that could happen to him is that he comes to offer his help and is promptly picked up and killed by a vine.

I don’t see what’s elite about being lucky to get on main server and not in an overflow.

What they did is good, i love it…but till they either fix/enlarge or remove the concept of overflows this is a failed attempt for me.

This event honestly entices me to get an autoclicker and afk on that map. Well thought out system der’

Not to be a total jerk here, but maybe just don’t do this event? If you don’t like it?

I have no interest in high-level Fractals, so I skip them. I don’t want to spend hours and hours in dungeons, so I avoid Arah Explorable.

I’m not a big MMO guy, I’ve only played the GW games, but I’m consistently surprised by people who seem to complain because they feel the need to do EVERYTHING. If you aren’t enjoying being a completionist, stop being a completionist!

Oh, AND LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

oh and this happened to me the last day when i got steamrolled afk beside bay by bg.

Hmm…all my equipped items showed stats, but I kept getting that message. So, I double clicked on each of my equipped items, and…lo and behold…one of them allowed me to change it’s stats. Not sure why, as it already had stats, but….

It did get rid of the message.

Not sure about the bank thing, the message does state ‘item…equipped’. Maybe it was an oversight. =)

I love the ranger class and I just got two legendaries because I am absolutely sure that it will be my main class for quite a while.
Everyone hates the pets it seems to me. I love them. With the pets you get “free” utilities which you can switch out at any time.
You need a personal tank for example to solo camps in WvW or for tough dungeons? Take the bears with weakness and chill or if the encounter is not extremely hard you can use the drakes and have good aoe damage with blast finishers and burst damage.
You need CC? Use wolf and hound. They are just awesome. Two knockdowns, AoE fear and AoE Immobilize. Thats decent especially while roaming in WvW.
You want to support the group? Take the red moa for 50% fury uptime for the group. If you get lucky or play well you can even get a 3400 heal out of the moa in a small radius.
You need plain damage use birds or cats but they are squishy! You might prefer drakes as they deal good damage too and offer a blast finsiher + good survivaiblity
You can use spiders or devourers if you prefer. I love the pets.
It’s simply about you handling them well and finding out when to use which pets. Once you realize the strengths of the pets and know when to put them on follow or when to stow them (if you are out of fight like sometimes during jade fractal) pets won’t be as bad any more as people tell you.
What is true is that our utilities define the class alot. It’s a weakness and a strength at the same time because we can’t have too many of them even though they are so important. If they were on our weapon skills that would be great

Today I needed a build with good damage + insane survivability for the Arena. I had to fight the Dunwell with five debuffs. I had zero endurance so I was not able to dodge.
Now imagine what was possible: I used full zerker stuff, a 30/25/15 build with active signets working for the ranger and Lightning reflexes, Signet of Stone, Protect me and the Elite spirit while using longbow.
As pets the wolf and the jaguar.
So I had insane abilities – Longbow knockback every 12 seconds, wolf knockback, wolf fear as interrupts.
For survivability lightning reflexes against the onehit, Signet of Stone is a 6 sec damage immunity on 64 sec of CD (or 80), Protect me killed the pet but saved me and the Spirit healed me for 480 every second + can potentially rezz you two times after a oneshot.
All this in one build. Even though this was situational it shows the potential and how awesome the ranger class can be. The Elite spirit is also godly in groups to rezz your downed teammates and for awesome heal.

The ranger is not as bad as people tell you. I suggest that you play one and find out if you like the class or not.

There is a simple answer to this: Money. It’s always about money. Keeping your gold income low only makes people spend money on gems to convert to gold. I see this as a necessary evil to keep the game alive since we dont pay a subscription.

- To all of the people who claim they don’t farm, that’s a disgusting lie. You’re either lying, or you have never in your life decided to get anything that costs more than 30g. If you are happy with your 5g armor, and common exotic skin, good for you. But you simply don’t have the right to tell the OP how he wasted his efforts because you’re happy without a legendary. Get off your high horse.
Yes, you do not need gold to lvl up or gear your toon. But if you want a fancy skin you do need gold and sometimes hundreds.

The main problem with these items is how you obtain them (through purchase), when there could’ve been better ways, through achievements and feats. But again this is all about money so thats never gonna happen.

I feel your pain OP, and don’t give up. I completed my Incinerator about 3 weeks ago and only because i got Spark out of a chest in HOTW. I’ve been playing since pre-launch and just now i got my Legendary. I can’t say i played it casually, i would classify myself as a above casual but under hardcore, and i am poor at making gold in the game. I farm sometimes when i feel like shutting my brain in Orr and just go with the zerg. I can’t run more than 3 runs of COF a day because it bores the kitten out of my mind. I don’t do fractals. I don’t run around chasing meta events for rares. I have no idea how to flip items or play the TP so there goes that.

This isn’t a very popular advice and most people would tell you that’s insane, but its better to just buy gems with $$$ and then exchange it to gold when the rate is good. You probably earn more $$$ per hour, than gold by farming or “just playing the game”. Plus my job is way more fun and satisfying than farming in GW2. Which is just sad.

There is absolutely nothing legendary about Legendaries. By now a lot of people have them, and they aren’t even special or good looking. The way we obtain them is just stupid. The only good they are for is having that achievement on your log in screen. If some people really believe they are something prestigious, they are mistaken and no one cares that you have it.

I wish you the best of luck OP and i hope you’ll be satisfied with your Sunrise

The OP acknowledged the PR trope of “This is not a game in which you farm, we’ve evolved beyond that”. It’s not about him not knowing that, because he does

It’s about the dissonance between that line, and how the game actually plays.

There’s a distinct lack of cohesion between how Legendaries work, systems like Diminishing Returns on mats, and the “no farming” line. None of these ideas play nicely with each other.

My theory: there are too many chefs in the kitchen. Now, this may not be the situation, but its how I can see it playing out.

• One designer, who’s incredibly naive and idealistic, thinks he has a grand vision of this game, where people never farm, they just have fun without thinking about it, like an ant gathering food. He thinks people will either “get” his vision, or they’ll go back to WoW if they want to grind so badly.
• A suit from NexonC Soft, who doesn’t actually play this game, nor have a practical understanding of online games in general, but he gets to monkey with it all the same.
• A programmer who doesn’t have the luxury of the aforementioned designer’s idealism, has to deal with the day to day issues of a live game. He’s caught between meeting the demands of both Designer and Suit, as well as juggling priorities between what they want, and fixing things that are blatantly broken. People aren’t being good little sheep and admiring other people’s Legendaries, and instead are trying to grind them out themselves? Better get on that! Some anti-social guy figured out how to grind Crystalline Dust so he doesn’t have to do CoFp1 with four strangers in order to have money! NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRFFFFFF! People aren’t converting gems to gold? Better put in a million stopgaps that make this B2P game more like MapleStory. No one’s playing Engineers and Necromancers in PvE? Sorry, don’t have any time to address this.

Whether you think the OP needs to get a life or not, he’s hit upon an issue with the lack of focus with this game’s live team.

SnoodBeAR.5286:

“In Guild Wars 2, everybody should have access to every item. It’s not fair that somebody has something I don’t and they should be banned. I want a drop. Please.”

Just face it that you aren’t going to be able to get every goody they bring out..

So, it’s perfectly ok that some players statistically will never receive ANY of the goodies that are introduced to the game, no matter how hard they try, no matter how much time and skill they purpose for the game?

Random is a cruel mistress, and games really need to stop giving her power over rewards.

Because the two other threads talking about this weren’t good enough to post in.

As already stated in those other threads, exploits need fast fixes. Other fixes take time and most companies, Anet included apparently, will take the fast and dirty way to fix an exploit, particularly one that might damage the economy. That it was done on a Saturday evening, at least to me, suggests that it was a pretty bad exploit.

It apparently fits given the amount this community seems to cry.

I’ve been guilty of it myself at times, but do we really need threads with no other purpose?

Yargesh.4965:

Wife aggro always takes priority.

Don’t forget husband aggro :P
Seriously, I agree with Op- this is why I do not commit to dungeons with strangers because my husband and my daughter takes priority and they have a very developed "instance sense "
Open world exploring it is for me.

Try running a ranger in WvW. Or don’t because as a player who’s had one since near launch I can say that ranger’s currently are lacking in many aspects including their ability to add to a team. Been trying warrior in WvW and it is nice to actually be able to pump out big numbers consistently from range without having my dps nerfed by a nearly always dead pet that dies to the slightest aoe concentration.

now i am really puzzled…

first you guys complain that warrior don’t have enough healing,
then i have explained your mistake, then you complain that warrior have too much healing and you didn’t want to roll a healbot?

in addition to my previous post, warriors also can have the highest passive regen in game with adrenal health. combine all the healing sources ( including omnoms pie, it is still 325h every two seconds very viable with warrior attack rate and easy fury *that other classes lack*)
and warrior have better healing in offensive armor (zerker/knight/soldier etc) than any other class

if you roll COF1 farming build then yes… you don’t have enough healing.

and please stop comparing warrior to guardian.
the guardian forums full of whine about warrior burst, mobility and ranged capabilities that the guardian lacks.

is warrior in perfect shape? maybe not- some improvements are necessary.
does warrior lacks healing options? – no it doesn’t, its a trade off between healing and raw damage, you cant have it both.

please invest your time and writing talent in pointing out the REAL warrior issues and not imaginary ones.

I honestly would of chosen either a elementalist or guardian if i could re-do things

And one of our guild members tried warrior and never wants to switch back to his guardian. The grass is always greener on the other side and while guardians are meant to be superior in terms of damage mitigation it’s basically impossible to keep the enemy near you.

I know this may not be a problem in sPvP where you have to cap points and can be stationary but WvW is much more open and a guardian can be kited be just about any other class. We lack the CC, ranged attacks and mobility of the warrior.

Warriors can’t have everything just like guardians can’t.

id say team up with a guardian, mesmer, ele and engineer in wvw and live forever