Guild Wars 2

I am really rarely reacting balance changes but this hit the roof for me.

So I have spent hundreds of gold’s to gear up my Rev JUST for raids. With this change you are ruining the whole raid balance and not just making it less fun for the players who actually likes playing Rev but you make it impossible now for them to find a group. GG as always. I’m waiting for the refund on my account in email. Thanks in advance!

Beer

Aeolus.3615:

Gw1 is a much(way much) more skilled game than gw2.

On gw2 players just need to know they do alot of damage, it is spammable, and if it is aoe the better.
It is a very unskilled game for unskilled players… it should not be even on esports..

Gw2 is ment to be very noob friendly.. look at ranger example from gw1 where:
players needed to know wich bow they would use in the situation.

Source : https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bow

+1 to this. This is the main reason behind the skill-cut. They wanted to make an MMO for the Average Joes on the cost of loosing some hardcore GW1 player.

Money talks.

Of course they had to make GW2 stupid proof. 95% of the game can be done running naked with a great sword spamming 1 and maybe 2.

Since closed BETA and around 4k hours here is the list of my precursors dropped in all game mode:

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I was more thinking of Aion. I’ve been playing GW1 for a quite a long time and can’t remeber any titles that gave you boost.

Hi,

I have just read a thread about how pointless are the titles in the game as people rarely checks /change them, or just don’t care what is sitting over their head mostly.

I have played an MMO where titles had a use. They were providing boosts to the player so they were changed according to the game situation.

We could have something like this. Of course nothing game breaker but still something that worth working for.

Of course this should not affect WvW and PvP as those titles are mostly time gated and would punish new joiners.

For example:

Been There, Done That – + 5% speed boost (not in towns)
Master Crafter – + 5% XP boost while crafting
Golden – + 5% extra gold received from monsters
Combat Healer – +50 Healing Power
The Sunbringer – + 50 Condition Damage
Dungeon Master – + 10% Gold Reward income from dungons (more gold / more token)

and so on…

What do you think?
Cheers
Beer Time

I have played an another MMO for years called Aion where some titles were quite hard to obtain. They needed lots of time, skill and of course grinding to get them but they actually gave you boosts like extra HP, Armor etc etc..

Thanks! Will look for them.

Hi everyone,

How do you people feel about this two achievement?

Since the Shatterer change i managed to kill the dragon around 25-30 times (probably more, mostly 4PM – 7PM UK time) being there 30 min before, and all the times i tried to find servers with commanders / organised maps. I keep jumping in time, bombing the dragon at least 2 times / jump and still I am 0/20 on No-fly Zone, not to talk about the Smash the dragons goal.

Nowadays there is less and less “organised” maps in LFG and I see more and more pathetic tries to break that bar.

Is it me being this unlucky with these and ppl already got these achievement or people gave up on this due to the short break time and bugs?

Do you have any idea how to find maps with really organised players? I ve heard a guild is doing runs but nothing else how and when to join them on these runs.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Beer

This really went towards the RNG again.
You don’t have fixed income like you had with dungeons. (as it is planned)

The 6 daily fractal for core and casual dailies lasts average an hour +/- 15 min depending on the team you find.

That usually nets me around 15 boxes with 7 keys so I spend around 1.60 Gold to open them all.

The boxes has chance to drop pages that has worth of 20s, 50s , 1G, 5G. This is quite random though I am usually lucky enough to get 50s /1 G at least once in the 15 boxes so at least my investment in the keys are coming back.

Over this I am salvaging every rare items and other junks. My daily income in 45-60 minutes in fractal is around 5G-10G WITH the daily reward.

Of course the luck luck factor can always kick in in you receive some nice armor skin / recipes from the boxes / chests.

Hi,

As the title says the. Pact commander autoloot option loots the reward chest in Molten Furnace fractal right after the Thermal Core is destroyed.

Not like the bossfight is something hard but still, it is not working as intended.

Cheers

Beer

700G? You are lucky.

Twilight collection: Until the end of Twiligh Vol 2. (not finished yet) it requires like 100 Deldrimor Ingots. Thats 10G EACH. + Thousands of mithril INGOT + Hundreds of other materials from range 5G – 25G. If you craft the 100 deldrimor ingot (LOL) you are still way over the TP price.

Dusk is 1050 G buyout atm. Legendary journey my kitten. Vol 2 basically only requires you to run between the crafting spot and the Trading Post. Worst GW2 experience ever.

I was like dumping my gold into this, saying to myself: “The next step cant be this exepsnive.” It is. Spend 930 G already. (Buyout price of Dusk) and still need 35!!!!! deldrimor ingot to finish. Congrats ANET.

Started to craft Dusk after the unbugged T1…

Well the crafting spend seems mad comparing the buy now option of the precursor on the TP. Dusk was around 1200 G on the TP.

As the current status I dumped 760 G (not on buy now option but not on the ideal / slow way) already and in the middle of T2 where 30 more Deldrimor Ingot is needed. Thats 300 G + countless mithril ingots still needed. And thats just the end of T2.

I start to fear to look into T3 when i GRINDED enough gold for the “legendary journey” that precursor crafting provides.

Probably it is only the Dusk as Legend was reported to be around 700G alltogether (with the same method as I did with Dusk (no wait for time gated mats).
At the same time it makes me thinking why ANET differentiate 2 two-handed precursor craft that way that the Legend not just cost like 500G cheaper to craft but at the same time T1 takes 1 hour running low lvl areas while we all know about Dusk T1.

Did any1 think about how funny it is, that for Twilight 1 you have to run around in several maps, waiting for broken / meta events, world bosses, going to fractal 3 times etc etc etc, while for Biforst 1 basically u just WP 20 times, kill 100 low lvl Jotuns and you are done.

9 – One of each profession.
Human – Ranger / Engi / Rev
Charr – Warrior
Asura – Guardian / Mes / Thief
Norn – Ele
Sylvari – Necro

2 Elite Unlocked: Warrior + Ranger

All 80 except my Thief who is 54 and slowly growing with tomes.

I have controversial feelings about Beserker. I like the animations, style and idea of it but you have to sacrifice too much when play without the “MUST USE” Warrior traits. When you are in Berserker stance you feel great and powerful and when it ends you feel like a dead goat. I am using it and testing builds but so far, it is not even close to the previous Warrior builds I have played.

I have been patient with my beloved ranger (GW1 main for the entiry game) for 1,5 – 2 years. All I saw during this 2 year, and since then continuously that Rangers are and will get nerfed forever, because GW2 has been made for 5 year old childs who does not know how to encounter them.

They freakin’ destroyed so many builds I can’t tell… basically they have killed short bow, spirit and trap ranger.

Larynx.2453:

Reflects the quality of the trait line.

+1 Soooo true.

I am using Beserker but just because it is new and shiny and want to give a chance to it. But basically it is not fitting at all to the current build and it forces you to drop something that is more valuable. I’m not impressed at all with Beserker at the current status.

5k ToT bags SOLD. Happy.

If you would have sold for those bags for 5s each average (it was 7 sometimes) you would have 400 Gold in your hand to buy it.

Hi all,

I find it great to have changable stats on legendary weapons, and hope to have this feature later for the future armor / accessory items as well.

What would be an another good idea to make the similar with Runes and Sigils on them.

Reason:

I find it boring, and unnecessary to carry over several armor sets for my toon for different situations. Sometimes you need to adapt to the gameplay, and change your build. At the same time the sigil / rune change would be a great as well.

Solution:

Make the legendary items that way, that you can add several (can be limited) runes and sigils to your gear and based on your decision, you can change them out of combat. So for example based on the gameplay, I could change my Rune of Strenght to anything else, whatever the game requires.

So for example in WvW or GvG (even in PvE sometimes) it would be great to adapt to your enemy without the need of having over 3-4 set of armor in your pocket, and 2 even with the same stats but different runes on it.

This would add more value to the legendary items and would encourage people to get them over the ascended armors / weapons.

Cheers,
Beer

I want GW2 to be GW1 with GW2 graphics and open world maps.

What I miss the most:

- Secondary profession
- Build diversity
- Skill diversity
- aaaaaand bloody build templates SAVE option.

Bomber.3872:

The cof xp farm is great. You can max all tyria mastery in about 8h. We can be happy the cof farm exist!
As a veteran I had instantly closely all available tyria mastery points. Why did I instantly have them? Because I played gw2 more than 3 years since release. During that time I earned literally billions of xp already. Now after xp got decreased and after a lot mobs don’t give xp anymore I’m supposed to grind not only ~50 million xp in Hot (which is kind of fine because it’s something new), no I should grind hours to get another ~32 million xp from content I already did for 3 years?

This.

I’m playing since the first BETAs. Did 100% map completition on 3 characters. Spent over 3k hours on housand and thousands of normal events, world events, boss events, karka farming, silwewaste farming, Teq, Triple Trouble, and every single festival and now with the huge XP nerf they want me to go back that part of the of the game I find boring and GRIND another 32M Xp if I want to gain the right like those who plays the game since yesterday.

If someone wish to do this on the old fashion ways I can understand. The same with those who are not using tomes to lvl up from1-80. We all play differently and ppl has to accept that.

Personally I really enjoy autoloot as that is the only good thing coming from masteries in Tyria.

Legendary.1706:

Modniir’s Ruin does not drop from Ulgoth Modniir like it should. Instead he drops Overlord’s Defeat. I am unable to complete Twilight I: The Experimental Nightsword. Please fix soon.

This! Very much!

Shark: Baywatch

Definitely Lab is the best place to farm them. I have made hundreds of golds last year just selling them bags on the TP. Just change toon in every other stacks of ToT bags dropped. It is a great place to lvl characters as well.

It is only 500 AP and that requires insane amount grind and time to play. I played GW1 for over 5 years ( though i skipped most of the grinding) and still finished up 400/500.

Beside the AP GW1 is great game and it worth the time you play. It is very different from GW2. I think the gameplay, skill vairaty, builds are far better then GW2 is and ever will. It is just old.

I would give insane amount of money for a game with GW2 graphic and GW1 gameply, skill system etc etc. Gw2 basically looks like a dumb kid next to GW1 if we don’t count the visual part.

Derenek.8931:

Expect to see Anet deincentivize older content as newer content is released. Since GW2 is now free to play, there will be a built in corporate driven desire to make the free players spend money. So monsters in the standard areas will drop less treasure, areas won’t be updated or worked on, etc etc… The economy and drop rates will shift making the only decent areas to make gold or get materials will be in the paid expansion or living story areas.

It will also incentivize players to buy gems and convert them into gold to purchase decent materials from the TP.

It changes the focus on gameplay and development from exciting story and mechanics towards grinding.

As a free player, grinding or paying is required to even get the most basic of decent items.

For paid players, grinding is incentivized, since free to play players will pay higher gold amounts for materials paid players can get more easily.

All material and item prices go up dramatically. This leads to more required grinding, or paying for gems by all parties, paid players and free to play together.

This happens in every MMO. It’s the sad truth, that game design ideals often go out the window when money is on the line.

So the cmpany has silently changed their game ideals of

“Buy the game, play a quality release forever”

to

“Buy the game, experience quality gaming until the next expansion is announced. Then find your experience to be greatly nerfed unless you purchase the expansion.”

50 dollars every 2 years is equivalent to 2 dollars a month subscription from every player who likes the game.

Hidden subscription fees. Brilliant, yet very korean move Anet. (I’m allowed to make that observation, I am korean)

So basically you expect ANET working for decades with all the expansion, content, lure, update patch for the original 60 USD, wait you paid nothing… and expect everything.

Yes if you haven’t paid a single cent for the original game, pay for the extension. Not to talk about if you buy the extension you will have the same rights like the players who not just paid for the extension but for the original game as well.

Anyone knows if tomes will affect the masteries progress?

My vote goes to: Charrs in Light Armor
…and my Necro is also a Sylvari.

The extension will add so much new stuff including new traits/ skills to all existing profession and a totall new profession with zillion options.

If you ask me they will wait the HoT release with the next balance planning and start the balance discussion after we see how the new content will affect the existing builds / balance. Making a balance just now would probably just a waaste of time.

I was thinking what if they destroyed our current spirit trait line to involve them into the Druid elite spec trait line?

Thanks for the answers all.

I will skip this years achievement then, no way I will spend a single minute in Bell Choir.

DarcShriek.5829:

gaborkaldy.3210:

So today i have finished the Grank one as well. Now the panel shows i have finished 11 achievement but still 10/11.

Something is wrong…

What’s wrong is that you haven’t bothered to see what the requirements for the meta are. You should check out the requirements before you complain.

Maybe I didn’t know this feature?

Maybe you could be nicer if someone is asking something about they don’t know?

Maybe then, but only maybe I would give a kitten about your opinion.

So today i have finished the Grank one as well. Now the panel shows i have finished 11 achievement but still 10/11.

Something is wrong…

As I see in this year the dailies not count into the achievement.
Did ANET do this on purpose?

Actually I am really bad at Bell Choir and dissapointed if I have to force myself doing it.

May i ask how you make 60 gold with a BLSK?

At the moment I’m currently unhappy with the recent state of the game.

First when it came out I was impressed. It was like a beauftiful women you meet at the first time. Exciting, nice looking, shiny and interesting. But if the women is dumb, and almost totally empty inside you start to get bored.

So many things to list here:

The game / skill / combat system is so much dumber than GW1 that it would take hours to write down just that part. They took everything that was good in GW1 and made it dumbproof. Every part of the game (except the higher tier of sPvP) can be simplified to 1-2-3. Stand on the right place, keep pressing your 1 and there you go, heres a chest with absolutely nothing inside.

WvW turned into zergfest with no solution. Edge of the mist just made it worse. You barely see an oldschool guild out there. Zerg over all.

RNG makes some players absolutely rich while others never see a precursor drop.

Reward system, loots are terrybad.

Prices on TP got skyrocketed, so if you refuse to spend hours on TP and not doing the same instance over you never got big money. And no, dedication towards a goal (for example a legendary) does not mean you have to do the same boring thing over and over again for 2 months / 4hours a day. Thats what they said: No grinding.

squallaus.8321:

can we please make the GW2 keyboard available for purchase again ?

Thats actually a very good idea.

Until they guarantee 1 scrap / chest they wont see me spending a single EUR or Gold on BL keys.

But people will keep droping their currency into the toliet. Beacuse buying the skin off the TP is a spent money. If they find a ticket scrap ( or a ticket) in the chest is a WIN. That is what drives them forward.

Hi all,

We are closing to the 2nd birthday of the game. Those who have pre-started the game willl have at least 1 character that turns to 2 at 25th of August.

I think we get the usual bday booster, some very “exciting” mini and the experience scroll.

But for the 2nd bday of the game i was awating something bigger. New race, precursor scavenger hunt, new dungeon etc…

What you think we get?
How will GW2 celebrate the 2nd?

Cheers,
Beer

2.3k hours across 3 main characters. Varied gaming fields between WvW, Dungeons, Open World, Champ farm and Living Story.

Precursors dropped: 0

I guess some accounts are just more equal than others.

Ah, I bought off Zap from my guildie for 350G a year back and crafted my Bolt with blood and sweat.

thaooo.5320:

lordkrall.7241:

Tagus Eleuthera.7305:

I thought this was the fastest selling MMO of all time.

So…?
That information was based on stuff from almost TWO YEARS ago, do you really think they can live on those monies forever?

~$200,000,000 from 3.5 million box sales as of August 2013, not including box sales since then, not including gem store revenue, not including China sales.

I would sure hope the combined total lasts a lot longer than 2 years.

By the way, stop defending failure.

I don’t give a flying skritt about the reward distribution bug. It’ll get solved eventually for sure, but saying they don’t hire more developer because they don’t have the money for that is bullkitten.

Personally ( and I’m not a big Gemstore spender) i have spent more money in Gemstore than i have spent on the game itself. Like double that much. There are tons of people out there who have spent thousands of Euros just on Black Lion Chest keys, not to talk about the bank expansions, server transfers, gold exchange, character slots etc etc etc…

I don’t have the numbers of course, but i would guess just the gem store itself multiplied the game selling income of ANET.

Guuuuys, just relax.

Is that really soooo important to receive that awfull looking weapon skin right now? After 9 weeks of playing is that few extra day hurt a lot.

No worries they wont leave anyone without their well deserved rewards. Anyway you were playing for your server succes not for the prize right?

Funny how not a single orange sword happened in the past 1 hour on EB between BB and SFR… SFR coming from the left. BB from the right with a nice setup.

Hopefully spanish guys they can look into the mirror after being the prostitute of SFR lately. One thing is sure they are the girl in this relationship.

2 full kill – 2 head kill and none counted :/

Lootwise: Wurm does BS comparing the effort is needed for the kill.

Few rares is all i got.

Glad to be there for the 2nd kill too.
Thanks for the commanders.

Loot wise:
1 rare
3 greens

+ daily chest (3 gold)

Yep, these big bosses should be instanced. One person, the commander creates the group and he enters the instanced map first, and when this happens everyone in the group will have a pop up window, if he wish to enter or not.

The group join option should be Password protected IF the commander decide to put PW on it. This way everyone: organised groups, big guild groups, pug groups could organize their own wurm kill.

This way guesting would be irrevelant, friends, guildmates could fight among each other and would not have to stuck in overflows while keep clicking “Join In Bloodtide Coast” button.

For the fact we defeated it first it s totally worth it doing every single try from 8 am till midnight. Thanks for the commanders for the great effort and everyone who participated int he fights and never gave up.

BUT in reward point of view I am dissapointed once again. ANET is totally underestimated the efforts needed to kill the worm. 150 ppl coordinated in 3 groups, for 3 days and we received few gold and few greens. Joke. Isnt it? Teq was a childplay comparing to this.

Woooooooo Great Fight It Was! Legendary!!!!

kRiza krimos.1637:

gaborkaldy.3210:

kokiman.2364:

bOgz.7263:

spot on

been doing this to level alts while watching a movie, large/multiple monitor helps

So why bother “playing” the game if you have no interesst in playing it?

Most of the players have played the lore already with multiple characters but they still want to level characters for WvW for instance. You have a several option for this:

1. Do the quests, story missions, hearts 20th time again. (longest way with minimal income)

2. Craft the toon to lvl 80 that would cost you now way over 100G (shortest but most expensive way)

3. Do Queensdale champ farm while watching TV (medium long with large income while u receive kittenloads of extra skillpoint and karma and AP)

So i.e. someone is running circles to lvl up char that he will then use to play wvw with it, right? Thats a really logical solution especially since you can lvl your alts in wvw. But why would anyone do lvling in content he plans to play with that char is beyond me…

Bringing your toon to level in WvW is very hmmm… unfair to others and i ve been nice using word “unfair”. If you enter a fight with your lvl 10, 30,40 etc toon you most probably will die pretty much at the beginning of the engangement. If you plan to range it, you most probably will be picked by a thief from nothing.

So you will be the best weapon of the opposite team. A freakin’ rally bot. You die and any1 who got 1 simgle dmg on oyu get up and that can totally turn the way of a fight.

If we talk about PLAYING WvW of course. If you just karma training what makes you better than champ farmer?