Guild Wars 2

khani.4786:

dead jezebel.4359:

velmeister.4187:

dead jezebel.4359:

I often find myself alone ..

Therein lies the rub. Use the LFG tool. Take Charge. Form Groups. Have fun.

PROTIP: You do not need to know how to do a specific task to form a group to complete the task. Fake it till you make it! But, make it eventually.

the problem there is finding a group with the same interest or goal… like ive said… most of the people running around pve are just going for the boss train.

not at all true. Yeah there are lots of people who do the boss train, but many more who do not.

And your complaint about the living story season 1 mobs insta-gibbing folks. Yeah if you get surrounded at a group event and you’re solo you’ll have issues if you don’t know what you’re doing. But with the way they’re doing living story now it’s all instanced and not an issue.

And your complaint about maps being dead….I’ve been working on my 15th map completion and have yet to find a map that I’m the only one there. If you poke your head up in mapchat and start talking you’ll get people talking back. Sometimes you have to take initiative and want to talk to folks, but they’re there and someone will talk back. Don’t assume that since you don’t see people swarming everywhere in every map you go to that the maps are dead and people only want to boss train. That assumption is incorrect.

honestly, maybe its just the server im on… i havent really checked server activity in a while. idk, like i said, i havent given up on the game yet… if i had then i wouldnt even bring up the issues i have had. which from what i have read here some of the issues have been corrected… like the living world portion. didnt know they changed the way they did it.

velmeister.4187:

dead jezebel.4359:

I often find myself alone ..

Therein lies the rub. Use the LFG tool. Take Charge. Form Groups. Have fun.

PROTIP: You do not need to know how to do a specific task to form a group to complete the task. Fake it till you make it! But, make it eventually.

the problem there is finding a group with the same interest or goal… like ive said… most of the people running around pve are just going for the boss train.

Gern.2978:

dead jezebel.4359:

GummiBear.2756:

Yeah what Germ said pretty much and also putting highlvl mobs in lowlvl areas? WUT? on the contrary there is no such thing, since it is the high lvl players that get scaled down to the lvl of the area they are in, you sure it wasnt you that strayed into a highlvl map with a lowlvl character?

what i mean by high level is those points of interest brought in by episodes of the living world. hot spots on maps through out the game including low level areas that have monsters that are just too powerful for low levels to beat even when in their own zone of level

What? If you are fighting mobs from the living world, then you have entered a living world instance, and are no longer in a normal zone. Those living world instances are a part of the end game, and as such are level 80, and are not meant for leveling.

I get the feeling that you haven’t asked in zone chat for people to do zone completion with, or used the “looking for group” tool. There are always people looking for other people to do zone completion with.

ok here is an example of the mobs im talking about… you know how in different spots in areas there are naga or something surrounding some sort of pylon (this is an old example mind you) in the normal open world… where you run around and explore… yeah those mobs are in newbie areas too… regardless this isnt quite an issue for me considering the 2 toons i play on the most are level 80. even with the down scaling of level they are normally more powerful than the other foes of the area. im just saying that those spots can be frustrating for people who are new to the game because your running around exploring the area you are in and you run into a mob that you think you can beat and they slaughter you almost instantly. in the open world… not an instance.

i have owned the game since it was pre-orderable. i know what im talking about.

yes i have used the different aspects of the chat window… i know how the functions work.

GummiBear.2756:

Yeah what Germ said pretty much and also putting highlvl mobs in lowlvl areas? WUT? on the contrary there is no such thing, since it is the high lvl players that get scaled down to the lvl of the area they are in, you sure it wasnt you that strayed into a highlvl map with a lowlvl character?

what i mean by high level is those points of interest brought in by episodes of the living world. hot spots on maps through out the game including low level areas that have monsters that are just too powerful for low levels to beat even when in their own zone of level

CureForLiving.5360:

With megaserver there should be some people on the map. Maybe you’re playing on off-hours? Maybe everyone is in the Maguuma Waste maps trying to get that beta portal.

this has been an issue for me way before the announcement of the expansion.

Thaddeus.4891:

Did you at least try to find a nice guild? My social interaction with other people in the game is mostly with TS, followed by Guild chat and then sometime there is an interesting conversation in map chat or say chat (mostly in a city or during World events). And I’m sure most GW2 players are like that. If you don’t make a little effort to find a guild and only relying on map chat, you won’t have much interaction.

Map chat is like talking to stranger in the streets. From time to time you found someone nice to talk too, but most of the time people get stuff to do, already have a conversation/activity with friends, or find you weird. It’s only in event when people get together for a specific activity that talking to people around you make sense.

yes i have been in several guilds… 2 of them were quite decent but both disbanded sometime after i joined or in a group effort decided to move to a new server. which is all fine and dandy if you can throw away money to change a server.

and yes people do show up to world events but mainly only boss fights… no one is really interested in doing anything else in PvE besides the “Boss Train”. maybe if i could find a guild that wasnt completely focused on PvP and rep points it wouldnt be so bad. but most of the guilds that spam the chat are looking for point farmers or pvpers… i am a pve person. yes i play pvp sometimes but it gets to be quite repetitive.

like i stated before i havent even been able to complete the story on GW2 because once you get ot areas that are like lvl 70+ it gets to be overwhelming and its difficult to either not die or not be swarmed with enemies. and its like no ones around except a few afk’d people.

i have 2 lvl 80 toons that i think arent all that bad. they dont have ascended weapons or armor or anything but they do have good gear. idk.

im honestly not trying to kitten about the game because it has a lot of wonderful beauties to it and great aspects. i just feel like its missing a lot of what made GW such an outstanding and innovative game.

i haven’t given up on it yet and i still try to go back from time to time i just get discouraged when i really cant ever find help from the community

I really liked Guild Wars 2 at first… and I might try out the new expansion even though i haven’t even beaten the story of the primary. quite honestly, even with being a veteran of Guild Wars 1, I find this game to be EXTREMELY challenging and a lot less social than its Mother Game. It seems as though it is geared more towards the PvP aspect rather than the story of Guild Wars.

I often find myself alone in most PvE maps that aren’t newbie areas. chat screens are dead. asking for help with quests/missions that obviously cant be done with just one person is pointless because there is no one around or they are all droning around a black lion trade post. I feel that a lot of aspects that made me love GW1 are now gone with GW2.

for example – the henchmen/hero aspect of the game. Yeah i know this wasn’t there because this game was meant to be a game where everyone helps each other out. In a perfect world that would be great, but it just doesn’t happen.

another part that has me a bit sideways about GW2 is the living world. its a fabulous idea don’t get me wrong and i love what you guys have done for the most part. but putting high level monsters in low level areas can be quite intimidating for new players or low level player who took a wrong turn or have to go through it to get where they need to go.

im sure there will be trolls commenting on this post but all nonsense aside this is an actual issue… not just for me but for quite a few people. a lot of my friends who have played GW1 and 2 have completely abandoned GW2 because of some of these flaws.

i sure as hell dont want to play WoW because yeah no… but for me GW was an MMO i actually enjoyed. Hopefully one day something will change and i can come back and enjoy GW2 again like i once did. Maybe even love it as much as if not more than GW1.

thanks for reading.

LumAnth.5124:

Actually the Perfect Salvage Kit from GW1 mimics that of another Gem Store item, not the Black Lion Salvage Kit but the….

Upgrade Extractor, which I think should have a chance at our dailies just like the BLSK

BLSK:
Double-click then select an item in your inventory to salvage for crafting materials. 100% chance of recovering upgrades. 50% chance to get rarer materials.

Upgrade Extractor:
This tool will remove the upgrade from any item, without destroying either the upgrade or the item.

Perfect Salvage Kit (GW1):
Double-click to salvage upgrade components or crafting materials [sic] from an item. While using this kit to salvage out upgrade components, the item you are salvaging from will not break.

Perfect Salvage Kits allows one to salvage upgrade components from all kinds of equipment without the risk of breaking the salvaged item; they cannot be used on unidentified items or to salvage crafting materials.

it is not like the BLSK at all… have any of you even played the first GW?

maestrochino.7104:

I have almost a full bank tab of Black lion salvage kits from daily rewards without ever buying one from the gem shop.

Same thing i just said to the guy above you

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Can’t you occasionally get Black Lion Salvage kits at no cost? I have several, and I know I never bought one. Especially for 20 dollars.

Black Lion Salvage kits cant do what Perfect Salvage Kits could… the only item that can do what perfect salvage kits did are Upgrade Extractors which are 250 Gems EACH

Why do we not have these??? The first Guild Wars has them but we don’t. Seriously though, how do you take something so simple away from us players and replace it with something that costs basically $20.00 +tax if you get the amount most players would need.

Its robbery I tell you!!!

THE FACE OF LORNAR’S PASS

please tell me im not the only one who sees it

GW1 was much more social then this and i honestly feel that people were more helpful

name some high levels that are willing to deal with a random low level laying dead waiting for assistance… i personally had several run right by me through the crypt and not one of them even thought to res or help me

and before anyone starts trolling… i apologize that i have a life a job and a family and cant spend every minute of every day on guild wars and didnt make it to level 80 within a week of release

what happened to equality?? how are you going to make a scavenger hunt that jumps from town to low level to high level and expect all players of this game to enjoy the event?? I understand that GW2 is supposed to be challenging and i support that. but this is a HOLIDAY EVENT AND SHOULD BE FUN AND ENJOYABLE FOR ALL LEVEL OF PLAYERS PERIOD!!!! what happened to the way you guys made events in GW1? it was all set in lower level areas where everyone could enjoy them! now we have to try to do events where stepping on a spike trap will kill us instantly and oozies just kitten is without lube. it is ridiculous and i hope for the sake of ALL PLAYERS OF THIS GAME that you guys realize that a challenging game is fun but when it comes to holiday events you guys need to try to keep it in the lower areas for ALL to enjoy…