Guild Wars 2

Still bugged as of ~6hours ago when guildies did it. No loot at Cairn, MO, but there was loot at VG. However, when I did it yesterday our group did not get loot for Vale Guardian nor Gors, but we got it at Matthias. Pls fix.

Dadefyl.1908:

Meh!
Hoping for a game sale to bring more family members aboard…

Amazon is currently having Heart of Thorns sale for 31.99.

My guildies and I have lots of gems and $$$ waiting to be spent. We are waiting for post-Christmas sales for useful things to purchase. Please make it happen!

Christmas Edition. NA only.

Hi everyone. With Christmas around the corner, [HOWL] raid community guild will be doing another event where you can earn 1 free raid boss kill of your choice. The catch is the same as before (our previous event https://www.twitch.tv/jabohc/v/109472049), you have to sing one or two “Christmas” song(s) (you can pick the song – but it must be approved)! The song must be sung from beginning to end or we will wipe for failure to do so. We will be streaming this event at twitch.tv/jabohc or twitch.tv/adigw2 (if I am unable to make it due to IRL aggro)

Some adjustments we are making:

-No raid sellers allowed. It was a lot of fun having them sing, but it defeats the purpose of helping the community to get raid kills.

-You MUST provide an instance, whether you have it/buy it. If you do not, we will kill the boss you open for us.

-No achievements, ONLY boss kills.

-The event will start at around reset time +/- 30 minutes (7 pm eastern) tomorrow night (Dec. 24th).

Interested? You must reply here with an answer this question: If you can get up tomorrow in the body of someone else, who would you pick and why. Our group will pick the most creative answers!

Do we know when the next gemstore item sale would be (or what is it) – any info at all?

Lots of people I know (including myself) bought the ulti edition to support the game, and waiting for an extra incentive to spend gems on.

Hoping for bank inventory upgrade capacity, bag slot, infinite mining tools, infinite upgraded silver kit, a few costumes (hint: balthazar’s). Or I suppose we can hang on to the gems a bit longer. Can’t remember if we had summer sale or not.

RobsterCraws.6405:

If I wanted to experience failure, I can get that in real life. GW2 is escapism.

Daily Teq is the backbone of the game for semi-hardcore gamers. We log in, spend 45 minutes then leave with a sense of accomplishment. Escapism at its finest.

I’ve tried the buffed Teq twice and lost miserably both times despite being well organized the second time. Sure, make content for hardcore players (fractals, Triple trouble, etc) but lumping Teq into that is a huge mistake. It is mid-range content, not for newbies but not hardcore either. It achieves that perfect balance… or at least it did before last night’s patch.

MMOs survive on semi-hardcore/semi-casual players like me. If we can’t count on the daily Teq kill, this guts the game for the biggest share of your target audience. So please fix Tequatl asap so I can go back to enjoying the game.

I can relate with you here. I am IRL a teacher… (ya…). When I play GW2, I really don’t want to stress out during my play time – work to play a game? work to make sure I get in a good server with other DPS characters? Sigh.

Don’t get me wrong, challenging content is awesome and welcomed (I love pvp, fotm 50, wvw, etc), but with world boss, how much control do you actually have…? Other than 1) try get into a good server via friend- spam that join!, or 2) don’t do it at all.

So far, it’s 50% win rate for me… but all the win rates are by spamming into “good” servers via friend in another guild 30-40mins before event starts. My constructive criticism is: reduce his HP by 10%, and/or extend timer ~2mins.

I can see the old system could work here too… if that’s what you mean like having adept from another tree in sacrifice of a GM from a trait line you don’t like.

Also – warrior’s need our banner’s reduce cooldown and increase radius trait back.

This is not a question of was it removed, but “why” did it not carry over to specialization, and importantly will it be reinstated? This is mostly for PvE (at least for me) to provide a wider range of the banner’s effect to allow more flexible space for party members to fight in. Warriors used to have a trait that reduce 20% of cooldown of banners (cooldown time 120s… 2minutes long…). Both effects of increased radius radius and reduce cooldown were on the same trait. Please consider making it an option again.

Should … when power stats = condition stats, then the effectiveness should be equal terms of damage? This create a challenging scheme when power stats shine with simple direct damage, while conditions have numerous ways of being effective via bleeding, burning, torment, poison, confusion. On a typical target, should the same amount of Power stats (alone) be just as effective as conditional damage , and vis versa?

If you answer yes, then imbalance comes about when you add in precision and ferocity.

If you answer no, then you are correct in the meta game right now CD is MUCH MUCH more effective than power.

How to balance the two? That’s the question/process that will take trial and error.

With the exciting new changes to condition damage, can we please get more armor/weapon stats combination? I was hyped to make a condition/healing warrior, only to find that there is not a condition (main), with healing (minor), + x at all. Disappointing. I was also hoping to make a necro well build using power (main), condition damage (minor), toughness (minor) to find that there is none either.

Other players may be wanting more options as well, but the two stats I am hoping for future add ins are:
1) Condition (main), healing (minor), and precision (minor) – or toughness minor (instead of precision)
2) Power (main), condition damage (minor), toughness (minor).

Thoughts?

HoMaki.4813:

Part of my first post in this thread was – what i am supposed to do with my gear and weapons? No chance, that i’m going to put my legendaries and ascended zerk gear in bank, and then craft new weapons and new ascended set just to adapt that ANET is forcing us to play melee style.
I’ve spent over a year farming to achive this what i got now, and im now forced to put that in a locker, and make new things.. No ty, it would be best to leave the game, than farm over 7-8k gold, which i ’ve invested in this ranger..
Because, they are, u want to confess or not, nerfing pure dmg, and forcing us to play condi-bunker-kittened melee style..
Thats the fact.

Though it’s frustrating investing much in a class, you “should” already know the ranger class pretty well before investing expensive cosmetic (legendary) or ascended armor on the class. The ranger class hasn’t changed much – it’s still low DPS (pet dependent), and lack of “OMG abilities” as it ever was. The ferocity change affects all classes – if anything it affects other zerker dps classes MORE (numerical wise) reducing more damage on non-ranger classes (assuming zerker/dps build).

That is – I am not necessary saying the ranger is “completely” garbage. The class has two nice team-oriented DPS support that may be useful in a group play scenario:
1) spotter (grants 150 precision to party members)
2) frost spirit (with trait -70% chance increase of group’s damage by 10%)

Do I think ranger is fine the way it is? No it’s not. It’s still lacklsuter and the dreaded forced pet system (divided DPS) is terrible. The pet system is a major flaw…. and unfortunately I think it’s our developer’s goal to somehow make the system work but failing short on balance.