Guild Wars 2

AegisRunestone.8672:

hlaraujo.3210:

I see where you all want to go and I get why you are disapponted. I wanted to play the new elites with the new story, just like hot betas. The thing is that they announced it as a demo, not as a beta. So I never got my hopes high on that and I’m ok with the waiting, its not like its going to make me waste my money. I dont use all of hot elites and I would gladly pay for the game again. Anyway, I’m going to say this again, if you want to test whichever the elite you want, you can try them next weekend without going unto a pvp match and/or getting into a zerg fest in wvw. It wont be pve, but youll sure get a taste of the new styles. I dont think it’ll be necessário to pay with currency to unlock traits and utilities, it males no sense, I think they’ll be all unlocked with new demo characters that will be wiped afete. Thats why I see no point in complaining over this. Another thing I was thinking of is that we dont use all of our hero points we get in map completion, so there are some sparing. I wonder how much more we’ll have to farm for them to complete the new elites (considering they do it in the HoT way -10ish pts for each trait/utility).
About messing up elites, people are never happy with what they have. Players still complain about core classes, its not one weekend test that will make them happy, balance updates are yet to come.

The spec I want to play; those characters have hardly any spare hero points. My eles. I main a thief and as I said, she has 160+ HP, I’m not specing deadeye because it’s not my playstyle, nor does it “feel” like my character and how I designed her. The fact that my eles are more alt characters makes this more painful. I now have to take a character, who hasn’t even gone through the PS and LS2 and HoT and LS3 to PoF? Not to mention, there would be a lot of Hero Point farming before I could even enjoy the Weaver.

I want to play with the Weaver first to see if I really enjoy it and not waste time farming HPs only to discover the spec isn’t as fun as I thought. The test golems in the PvP lobby will not give me a good idea of the spec and I’m not touching WvW. I know that’s a personal choice, but with no PvE option being given I feel limited. Both by my choice and by Anet’s choice to limit the Elite Specs to PvP playstyles next week.

Also, I’m already bored of the weekend beta. I feel like I’ve seen everything I need to see and I’m not impressed. Mounts are fun, but everything feels… dull, dead, not alive. It’s not exciting me. It would be much better if I could actually play the elite specs.

If this post doesn’t help you understand my frustration and disappointment, I don’t know what will. I doubt Anet will change this weekend to allow Elite Specs to be tested, so that’s something I have to live with. Regardless, it doesn’t lower my frustration and disappointment any further.

Got it and I have to agree with the fact that golems are not the same that pve ai. If it helps, pvp lobby has all classes npcs that will fight you back, if you’re looking for something else other than stationary mobs. Another option is to go to wvw camps, you’ll find some npcs to kill there (of course you’ll still be susceptible to get attacked by other players, but it could be something, I’ve done a few without getting hit by anyone).
But now I get what you mean, I too got satisfied with this demo, but I’m excited to get the rest of it, not just the elites, but the story, the rest of the mounts, the rest of the maps, the new kind of events, skins, weapons and armors and etc.

I see where you all want to go and I get why you are disapponted. I wanted to play the new elites with the new story, just like hot betas. The thing is that they announced it as a demo, not as a beta. So I never got my hopes high on that and I’m ok with the waiting, its not like its going to make me waste my money. I dont use all of hot elites and I would gladly pay for the game again. Anyway, I’m going to say this again, if you want to test whichever the elite you want, you can try them next weekend without going unto a pvp match and/or getting into a zerg fest in wvw. It wont be pve, but youll sure get a taste of the new styles. I dont think it’ll be necessário to pay with currency to unlock traits and utilities, it males no sense, I think they’ll be all unlocked with new demo characters that will be wiped afete. Thats why I see no point in complaining over this. Another thing I was thinking of is that we dont use all of our hero points we get in map completion, so there are some sparing. I wonder how much more we’ll have to farm for them to complete the new elites (considering they do it in the HoT way -10ish pts for each trait/utility).
About messing up elites, people are never happy with what they have. Players still complain about core classes, its not one weekend test that will make them happy, balance updates are yet to come.

Dont know why are you complaining. No one said this would be a demo of the elite specs. On the contrary, anet (and everyone else from whom I watched a youtube vid about PoF) said from the start this would be a story/map/mount only demo and that the one with the elite specs would be another weekend in pvp and wvw only. No reason to have high hopes and wait for it a whole week and get mad now.
If you dont like pvp/wvw, dont play it. The rest of the game will still be there for you. Demos are not intended for people to go there and master the new elite specs and start off when PoF launches with a pre-made meta build.
This demo is for people to get a little taste of whats to come, not to go through it all. It is also free for all players, including the ones who havent bought HoT, so its a nice “free trial” as well for those, to encourage them to buy the game.

I dont think the order of demos really matters nor the type of content we will be able to play. If you need to buy a new char slot, you’ll do it eventually, if you dont like spoilers, dont worry, the story instance does not tell you that much, if you dont like fighting other players, just go try the new elites on the npcs to get a feeling on them, not to get DPS numbers, builds and so on.
There is so much in this expansion other than elite specs that is really sad to see you guys talking about how useless this is if it doesnt include elites ????

I got back to my ranger to see what was that all about, but my pets seem to be reponding just fine, no delay after swapping for F2 skills nor for commands. Tried with different pets and none had this issue.

First of all, A HUGE THANKS FOR MAKING THIS THREAD.
I don’t know whats happening, it seems like people are losing it everytime ANET don’t deliver exactly what they were hoping for. I’m so tired of hate threads point the same problems (which to me are so minor close to the whole piece they are delivering) and all that threatening of “this is your last chance to make it right or I will leave the game forever” etc.

I’m not done with this episode just yet, been liking what I’ve seen so far, specially the puzzles (the first one with the bloodstones took me a few minutes to understand but I really enjoyed figuring it out, kind of reminded me of the times I used to google all over for the riddles and quest from The Secret World, not that I’m comparing both), I would like to see more of those in the future.
I didnt like the first Orrians related map from the fight with Zhaitan, but this one I’m really enjoying it all. I’ve got some spoilers on whats to come and I’m excited to see it all in game.

Im no expert in GW history and I may be (and probably am) completely wrong. But this is how Im looking at everything thats been happening so far.
We killed Zhaitan and Mordremoth. The LW3 started with the alert of both Jormag and Primordus. People started to build up “hype” around we have to kill them both in the next expansion and the logic would be for it to continue with the upcoming expasions, we would have to kill one or two elder dragons with each new realease. I was concerned with this line of story so straightfoward cause in about 3 expansions there would be no more dragons to kill and they would have to lead everything towards a post apocalyptic scenario, after all dragons were dead and all that magic floating around Tyria.
So, instead they came up with this. The white mantle, who were lurking in the shadows, saw an opportunty to rise again with the help of bloodstones and all the magic residues from Zhaitan and Mordremoth. In the meantime, Primordus and Jormag increased their activities because they also started to absorb Zhaitan and Mordremoths magic. Ok, pause there and lets go to wherever the humans Gods are.
Apparently Balthazar was suffering from a great power loss (for whatever reason) and saw in the dragons defeats and in the attempt of the white mantle of reviving Lazarus the opportunity to gather back his strength. So what did he do? He uses a mirror made by Lyssa to disguise himself of Lazarus and fool the white mantle to get power from the bloodstones. Then he sees something even more insteresting, Aurene, Glints baby dragon, so he “joins” us to protect her and be close to her so its easier for him to get her powers/energy/magic.
While he is in this undercover mission for magic sucking, Jormag and Primordus become more active and Taimi get this machine done which is an easier way for him to get a huge amount of power in a faster way.
So, while the dragons are waking up, he steals the machine and sets off after Primordus first, but then the commander and Taimi stop him before he drains all magic from Primordus and this one returns to his deep sleep state.
So for me the big reveal and plot twist wasnt really the fact that Lazarus was Balthazar, it was the fact that the flow of the story can now be completely changed. Maybe we are not going to kill Elder Dragons with every new expansion. Maybe we are going to have to deal with some gods issues as well and it feels refreshing and even more set up than the cliche and obvious “oh, ok, we’vê killed two Elder Dragons. Now we go after the others and live forever happy”.
I mean, we still dont really know what happened for Balthazar to return, we still dont know if he is going to try to go after Jormag, we dont know almost anything at all anymore, and thats where the real plot twist lies.
Maybe people are disappointed for their theories not being confirmed because it made more sense to them in that previous storyline I mentioned at the beginning.
I always try to think of GWs story as a bunch of things happening together and affecting each other, thats the way it was supposed to be, right?

Well, hope Im not all wrong and that my thoughts make sense. We need to have a little bit of faith here, afterall GWs story is still one of the best in a MMORPG out there.

Hello,

I’m not a vet engineer, but I love the class and I have 2 of them. I’ll try to answer your questions with my limited knowledge and others may correct me if I’m mistaken (would love to see some feedback from more experienced players as well).

1. It depends on the aim of your build. I have a condi and a power engineer, with the condi one I use dual pistols for its skills apply a variety of conditions, for the power one I use rifle.

2. Again it depends on your build. For example, for my condi engie I went for explosives (3,2 [I hate the bomb kit],2) first, then firearms (1,1,3) and tools (2,1,2). But it would be better if you first tried all your weapons and utilities and settle a playstyle that suits you, then you can go pick and mix the traits that would improve it.

3. They are, specially if you are a condi one and know how to maximize your rotation for the top damage. But as you said, its one of the hardest, if not the hardest, rotations in the game.

4. There are a few sites that are very known to players, metabattle, dulfy, the official forums and youtube. Some things may be outdated, so you’ll have to pay attention on the dates in which they were posted. I don’t have any specific link right now since I don’t know what build you are going for. But metabattle and the forums have a lot of builds for all game types, dulfy has some interesting guides on rotation and skills explanations and youtube have them all in vids.

Hi all,

So this past week I’ve been working on my new condi engineer and as soon as I got to lvl 21, I went for Explosions spec and for Grenadier trait.
Although the throw velocity is indeed increased, I dont think the radius changes as stated by the description. Actually, I dont know how long 60 unities is in radius, but I tried to measure with some other parameters (an actural ruler, comparison of max range, ground objects covered) and it just doesnt seem to have any difference.

I couldnt get any screenshots for now, but can anyone confirm this?

Ty

Jamaryle.6283:

I have been playing gw2 without any problems for a couple months now. Yesterday I suddenly started experiencing very low fps, incredibly slow loading, and freezing for no apparent reason. Other games are running perfectly normal, so it appears to be a problem with specific to gw2. ANY thoughts or advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks.

Im not experiencing low FPS, but since the mad king patch my game keeps freezing, my NVIDIA driver is 375.70 and I haven’t touched it for some time now…
Its like Im playing and all of a sudden, the game freezes and I have to reset my PC cause it wont let me change to another window nor force close the game. Sometimes it happens as soon as I login, sometimes it takes hours…

Sorry to bring it up again, but I think I found the problem.

I don’t know the mechanics used to trigger the events inside the quest instance, but the first time I did it, I went to the relics gathering spot using the mountains trail on the left side of the map, all the way through False Lake Waypoint because I wanted to get Greybeard’s Landing POI before getting the relics, after the POI, I went to designed spot for teh relics, got a few and then it said that the gathering part was done, but it didn’t show me the stone sheath location. So I quit and got in the stance again and went to the relics gathering spot again, but this time through the false lake, after 6 relics gathered, the stone shteath location was avaiable and I finished the quest.

So, I may be wrong, but I think the problem is with the path you take to get to the relics gathering area. Hope this can help.