Guild Wars 2

Anet please please PLEASE add an enrage timer its not much of a “challenge” if 2 out of the 3 bosses can be cheesed with multiple support builds.

Did you guys record your run by any chance. I looking for guide video or even a video of someone’s pov while doing the challenge mote would great.

Maybe someone has to post something thing about this on the gw2 subreddit before it gets recognized

Same for me as well connection error(s) detected retrying. Never got this error msg before this patch came out.

Vissarion.6509:

joeytan.3865:

Sigh your still not giving out the most important info yet…….? Release date??!!!

26 of April. Remember this date.

Pretty sure that’s the second quarterly patch date. Or am I wrong?

Crystal Reid.2481:

On Difficulty
With Salvation Pass you should see comparable difficulty with the bosses to Spirit Vale. Things like No Updraft Gorseval weren’t really possible the first week when players learned the encounter. We definitely don’t want to make the encounters so challenging that things like that are never possible since all it does is make raids less accessible to others. It’s fun to be able to master them and get better and do things like this.

On Achievements
There aren’t any “avoid getting hit by X and then kill the boss” style achievements in Salvation Pass. They are a lot more involved and will change up how you approach the encounter.

On Rewards
Andy jumped in here somewhere a few weeks back (I can’t find the original post) but he hinted that duplicate minis are going to have value with the second raid release so make sure you hold on to them.

Other than that, we’re making improvements to show ascended gear is awarded. You’ll have a lot more choice instead of getting something you can’t use.

On LFG
We’re not happy with the state of this either. Colin actually mentioned some stuff about this on Reddit.

Love the short term problem solving – wish it was easier for us to to do a quick short term fix. (sadly nothing with LFG is easy or quick)

I did want to quickly point out the team is aware of the recent discussions around things that aren’t working (or missing) from LFG and have it included in the list of “resolving outstanding issues” that is our goal for the spring update in April.

Not entirely sure what will actually make it yet LFG wise since it’s all in development – we’ll give more details once we’re sure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/462xs8/make_our_own_raid_lfg_category_by_taking_over_pvp/d02aq2l

Sigh your still not giving out the most important info yet…….? Release date??!!!

Crystal Reid.2481:

I’m going to get these out to you before the next raid patch ships since this is a pretty simple fix. It’ll be in the patch notes when it goes live.

Any chance of an ETA for this raid patch (ie which month). Hopefully soon considering raiding/pve has been pretty boring for more then a month already. Being shard capped by Monday night(Monday afternoon is when raids reset for me) and logging in the rest of the week just to do fractal dailies is getting old.

NikeEU.7690:

Hitting the shard cap is voluntarily and not mandatory. It isn’t grind to put in additional rewards for additional clears. I’m not sure what the big deal is.

So groups that wipe multiple times while trying to clear 3 bosses cap out on shards while groups that clear all in bosses in fairly few attempts or just one, have to find other ppl to do the bosses with again just to cap on shards?

Also I already tired getting guild mates/frens to open a fresh instance for my group and every time, they ask me to let them in the group. Which means one of my core group member has to sit out. It gets compounded as my core group is made of groups of 2 or 3 frens(Its basically a pug), so if I ask one person to sit of then a few other ppl will leave with them. Keep in mind that there’s always gonna be questions of why one person has to leave over another, if no one volunteers to leave. This is gonna lead to further problems.

In any case the actual question in this thread has not been answered yet. Does anyone know if this is working as intended or just another bug that Anet has not fixed.

From previous weeks I used to get capped on Magnetite shards, after killing just Sabetha. But this week even after clearing all 3 bosses I am still not capped on shards.
Cleared it once before today’s patch and once after today’s patch but still same results.
So is this a bug that has not been fixed or is it working as intended. Cos if its working as intended, then its utter bullkitten.
Exactly how much grind do your wanna put in this game to cover your lack of content for HOT Anet?

aelfwe.4239:

joeytan.3865:

aelfwe.4239:

rchu.8945:

hi,

can someone share some raid builds?

thanks.

Hi, since i have no time\will of puttin down a guide i suggest you to give a look at this thread that a guy posted yesterday

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vl5nz/sc_mesmer_builds_for_raids/

it’s a good recap of what we were writing here 1 week ago.

Just to check the the raid quickness build says that I should have sigil of concentration on my main hand. Since its a weapons swap sigil and the main hand weapon doesnt technically swap, does the increase in boon duration actually still apply

raid quickness is the build i used to play around since raid release and who granted me “eternal” title so it’s more than viable

I think it’s the best one to be honest.

anyway weapon swap sigil apply on main hand even if it doesnt technically swap.

It works for every “on swap” sigil

Awesome, thanks for the reply. Was worried I need to farm a ton more gold for 2 of those sigils.

aelfwe.4239:

rchu.8945:

hi,

can someone share some raid builds?

thanks.

Hi, since i have no time\will of puttin down a guide i suggest you to give a look at this thread that a guy posted yesterday

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vl5nz/sc_mesmer_builds_for_raids/

it’s a good recap of what we were writing here 1 week ago.

Just to check the the raid quickness build says that I should have sigil of concentration on my main hand. Since its a weapons swap sigil and the main hand weapon doesnt technically swap, does the increase in boon duration actually still apply

Come on is it such privileged information that it can’t be released to the player base? Any chance someone could data mine it?

Its been exactly 2 weeks since spirit vale was released, well at least where I am its been 2 weeks. Was wondering how many groups have cleared each boss.

Any chance Anet can release these figures to shed some light on this issue?

Or if anyone knows kindly share here.

Thank you

Also why is your routing station for Asian and Australian playing on NA servers, in Europe?

So I opened a support ticket on this issue and a gm got back to me, asking me to download something called game advisory and attach the text file it generates, in my rely to him. On top of that I attached a trace route and ping test to the three gw2 ips I got from my resource manager.
After a few hours a gm, Beast T got back to me saying that, most likely my avg was causing it. However it is unlikely that as the latency always starts on fridays and weekends from 12pm gmt onwards and the rest of the time its fine. In any case I deleted my avg(one that I paid for by the way not the free one) just to wait and see what happens.
Also I linked him this thread in case he was unaware of it.
For his and our benefit I would like to ask you guys, how many ppl here are having this ping issue and also running avg.

Wait is that all Anet is doing to punish these players? They are basically trivializing your end game content and all the hard work that has gone into it with false advertisement. If you do not come down really harsh on such players, future testers are just gonna keep doing it. The simple matter of the fact is that testers(as something like this has happened before), will not take you seriously unless you do something really harsh.

This Nike guy was almost already bragging in the video link below. One could see how confident he was in finishing the raid first even BEFORE the raids were officially released. Sigh this has to be a joke.

LOL the comments are hidden. Hmm pretty sure I read the comments yesterday or the day before and there were 149 of them. Seems a bit sus that they are suddenly hidden.
Edit: Hmmm weird the comments are visible again. In case you guys are wondering where it was scroll down to I am one and I am legion’s comment 3 days ago and click on view all replies. Look for Nike’s message from 3 days ago.

whoa really no one else has this issue?

Just to check are u guys aware that some of the fractal mislocks make certain fractals really hard to do.
Personally I found the urban battle ground where enemies give conditions and the arrow crates literally rain conditions on players and the asura fractal(sorry i forgot the name) with the lasers.
The instant a laser goes through a person its like 12 stacks of agony. I even got 22 stacks once. Surely this cant be right.
Also pls reduce the duration of fear and imbo on the fractals that give conditions when enemies hits a player.

Crystal Reid.2481:

The only masteries that are required for the raid release are Glider Basics and Updraft Use. They don’t come in to play until the third encounter.

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it mentioned in on the recent Guild Chat that there was going to be a new mastery track and it was linked to rewards that can be bought using the currency one got for killing each boss?

Hello

After the HOT expansion came out, I have been having an issue where my character gets stuck after dodge rolling. The only way for me move again is to waste another dodge roll.

Is there any fix to this issue. If there is a fix kindly explain it to me or drop a link where it is explained.

Thanks ahead of time for any assistance

Hello I would like to know if bloodlust stacks and force sigils affect turret.

Lost atleast 3 or 4 game 500 – 200 or less. Started happening 3 am to 5 am gmt. Had quite a few before that since 1am gmt as well.

Also had 2 to 3 groups with 3 to 4 ppl premade with none on mine. Cant remember which group had how many ppl sorry. Ranked and unranked matches.

4 games in a row losing 500-100 or less. 9am est to 11am est. Cant be bothered to do more and get owned

Also I was doing it fine till the day before and since yesterday it was porting me back to the same spot.

Sorry you guys might have crap internet but I dont. This speed test is done from Singapore(where I am playing from) to California. There is not reason why I should be lagging. If I can get the IP to JQ, I can do a trace route but I cant find it.

The download speed is to the left side of the meter and the upload speed is on the meter itself.

So is another reasons why this is happening

On my ele when I do fiery rush and lighting flash to which ever place, It takes my back to the same spot. Also for Sky Hammer each time i try to take the port to sky hammer it ports me back.

Have been losing quite a alot of matches today by a large margin 200 and above. Also realised that there are a few low ranking players being in my game team quite a few times. Knew this as they were asking were is home, mid and far ect. Also kept going up against a premade of 3 and one time 4 with no premades or premade of 2 in my team.

Only started happening today. Today as in when the server reset for the day 2nd Feb till this moment. Let me be more specfic for the last 12 hours. Was playing quite a alot for the past few days and it seemed fine.

Update: HELLO IS ANY ONE CHECKING THIS FOR THE 11 TH TIME LOSING 500 – 100 +/-

Thanks to your queueing system my NA pvp win/loss ratio went down 3% today. Still can’t believe it, was doing fine the past few days and suddenly I lost almost all the games today.

Also can you fix your game pls. On my ele when I do fiery rush and lighting flash to which ever place, It takes my back to the same spot. Also for Sky Hammer each time i try to take the port to sky hammer it ports me back.

Thanks ahead of time if you decide to look into my case.

The MMR system is kittened I swear. I have been playing quite a bit since thursday and have been doing decently well. In fact yesterday was quite a winning streak for me. But when I started playing today. I almost win no games. All the while when I was single queueing most of then time, I did play with some pug premades but thats rare. And I only went up by two rank from yesterday to today.

But today no matter premade or pug I almost always keep losing. On top of that the party members don even know what they are doing half the time. Its not like like I suck or am kittened enough to not know what I’m doing as can be seen by my decent NA pvp rank. Just in one day my win/loss ration went down by 1 percent. Till today it was going up in bits.

Seriously what is wrong with this system.

Alright thanks alot

Hello

I have 3 parts to my question.

1. I would like to know for how long more{in hours} the GW2 sale will be on for,

2. Would it be ok if I buy this account for a friend of mine. I stay in Singapore, he stays in Australia.

3. What is the safest way to pay for it, as I have read in the forums that there have been a few issues with ppl not receiving a particular code.

Thank you

I’m not a fanboy or anything but after such a long time someone has came forward and said something about making certain conceptual changes to fotm. Just a side note, I hate the devs of fractals as I been doing 2 or 3 daily tiers since december and still cant get my fractal focus.

If you go back and look at all the previous post about fractals, almost no one replies them. And when I say long time I mean all the way back till last year. Well of course, unless the OP of a certain post are asking stupidly obvious questions.
Atleast this dev came out and said something about their plans.

So just give sometime, although they have taken one year to come back to fractals, lets see what they come up with. FYI all the suggestions and arguments for certain changes has been posted on separate threads a thousand times, so should be aware of it already.

I must admit your quite brave Mr Anthony cos each time a dev discuss the topic, he or she usually ends up in a whirlwind of insults and arguments.

I was wondering why world bosses like megadestroyer, risen high wizard or foulboar chieftain isn’t dropping any dragonite ore at all. The level of difficulty is almost the same as other world bosses such as fire elemental or golem mark II so there is no reason why they shouldn’t be included in the drops.

It doesn’t really help when dragonite ore drops from grenth and balthazar or bosses like Eye of Zhaitan and Taidha Covington for the simple fact that they are rarely done. Although I know you guys don’t care much for it.

For those who are going say that the world bosses I meantioned above are rarely done. Well hey they are giving dragonite ore is awarded for the temples and world bosses i mentioned above, which are done less frequently in fact.

And don’t start saying its not meant to be farmed in a day. If it wasn’t there will be some kind of cap on how many can be farmed in a day.

Please anet do something about this. Pile of Bloodstone Dust and Empyreal Shard can be farmed so easily. In fact I have farmed 500 of both these mats in a day but the dragonite ore is such a pain.

Think quite a few ppl would like to know the answer for this one. On one side Ascended gear has never been on TP.
On the other Legendary weapons are on TP and now they’re gonna be a basically Ascended weapons with a fancy skin. So if they can be on TP there is no reason why Ascended weapons should not be on TP.
Gonna suck for ppl who could’nt be bothered with lvling professions, but still always want the best possible gear.
I run a mesmer with a GS & sword/focus or sword/pistol. I gotta go lvl all 3 professions. And if the prices of all crafting items increase I’m more or less screwed/ Also wonder how long I gotta wait for all 3 if they bring something like charged quartz into the picture.

swiftpaw.6397:

I get the suspicion that any real dungeon / perma content /fotm update will likely have to wait till expansion. Good news? well at least rumor is the expansion is late this year, although my guess we could be waiting till next year… who knows haha, anet’s not gonna tell us XD.

Actually I’ve been having the same suspicion lol. I know its asking for too much but it would be nice if someone from Anet could shade some light on this.

SkyChef.5432:

Syn Sity.5826:

40 fractal weapons > complaining about rng.

He probably got his skins before the drops nerfed. I doubt that he could get that many lately.

I think it was something like half before the started limiting fractals to 49 and half after that.
Ok you guys gotta see where I’m coming from, before you ask why I’m complaining even though I got so many skins. I have been doing 3 dailies (ie 28/38/48) ever since they put a fractal lvl soft cap and before anet introduced that a few dailies as well(started doing more dailies ever since they fixed the dc and cant get back into fotm bug).
For those who have who do about 3 dailies a day, you would know that it takes atleast 3 hours minimum to get them all compeleted. So its quite frustrating that I have been spending 3 to 4 hours a day, almost everyday since some where in October or November and I still cant get a skin I want.

1. My first qns is about fractal weapons skins.

Just wondering how many ppl do you know that have a full set of fractal weapons. I only know 2 ppl till now who have gotten it and they had 2 or 3 alts and they do 3 dailies a day on all their alts.
Personally I have been trying to get a full set on my mesmer since fractal’s release. However till now I still don have a focus. Another weapon skin I don have is a mace. As proof I’ll post a pics.
Some of my frens have already left the game cos of the nerfs to fotm, limiting to lvl 49 and the the chance on getting wep skins. I don play as much as they do but the ridiculouly low chance on the skin is getting to me as well.
Do I have to buy gems from anet to pls the rng gods?

2. When is Anet going to release the ascended armor and weps.

Its been so long since they release ascended gear. When is anet going to do it again. All this temp content is getting boring. This game really needs some hard content which gives ascended armor and weps as rewards. A new 6 to 10 man raid would be awesome any thoughts?
Are we gonna have to wait till the new expansion?

UHhhh, correct me if I’m wrong but the website below says that, all these stuff will be worked on for the first half of 2013.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

Well its almost over lol. So what’s gonna be happening for the second half? More 1 off content that can be finished in a day or 2?

4 months of living story and 1 easy dungeon with a decent boss fight is starting to get a bit boring. Any chance we can see a bit more challenging content soon, say maybe a 8 to 10 man raid?

Loved it. If you guys could post the builds you were talking about here, it would be awesome

Guys could you help me out here. I don understand why Golem Mark II, Modniir Ulgoth, FE and Taidha Covington has no count down timer on the bottom left(black tabs with white fonts). But it randomly pops up on the top left(yellow tabs with black fonts). Are they accurate?

I’m on Crystal Desert Server

http://v2.gw2stuff.com/events/crystal-desert

As long as they stop with the using RNG as a limiting mechanism. Well logically they should. If they release a new expansion, that means money in the pocket for NCsoft which means they will get off Anet’s back. Then maybe anet can focus on making proper content instead of coming up with semi crappy content(i say semi crappy cos the end event dungeon in F&F was good) with stuff that you would pay for, yet it has a very low chance on dropping. Which if you realize has been happening for F&F and Secret of Southsun.

Also I would like to see a 8 or 10 man raids brought into the game.

Actually its not a question if, its more a question of when and how lol. And the sooner the better.

YESS PLSS!!

When is Anet gonna release new ascended armor and weapons. I cant wait. My only worry is that the do what they did with Sclerite Karka Shell.

http://dulfy.net/2013/05/14/gw2-secrets-of-southsun-achievement-guide/

“The Sclerite Karka Shell can be upgraded to an ascended version by throwing it into the mystic forge with 50 glob of ectoplasm + 250 karka shells + 100 passion flowers (appearance remains the same).”

That will be a major disappointment

The only profession that is amazing in FOTM is Guardians. Not gonna go far until you learn that.

The dev who was incharge of fractals was Leah Rivera

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/leah-rivera-on-the-new-fractals-of-the-mist-dungeon/

Now he’s doing Guild missions

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/leah-rivera-on-new-guild-missions/

Of course he and his team are not gonna have the time to do proper changes to fractals. Ever since feb they have been coming up with new guild missions or expansions to existing guild missons. They also have been monitoring GMs in order to buff or nerf certain things.

The only thing they seem to have time for, when it comes to FOTM, is to fix exploits, nerf the rewards lol and a bunch of stuff that made fractals harder. Maybe its not them doing it, might be the dungeons team stepping in, I don know.

But coming back to my point, if stuff keeps going the way they are, I believe we will only see changes to fractals such as new fractals or change in the method of getting fractal skins after all the guild missions are released. And also it is only if he’s not handed a content to develop.

My question is why can’t he and his team take a bit of time to develop fractals a bit more? With the constant fixes or changes to fractals which makes it harder and the reduction in rewards compared to the first few months of its release, I would say that they are not wanting to take on more workload, hence trying to “discourage” ppl from doing fractals in the hope that it will eventually be forgotten. Well atleast until Leah Rivera and his team have the time to revisit it.

On a separate note what happened to Linsey Murdock. This dev is supposed to be doing crafting and items. What happened to the infusion recipes for the rest of the accessories?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t this dev suppose to come up with some sort of treasure hunt. Lol what happened to that?

Also the skins I am already using.

I have been doing fotm for so long and all I want is a fractal focus. Have been after the dam focus for a month already now but no luck. I have so many duplicates of staffs, war horns and other skins but I cant get one kittening focus? And the best part is my frens keep getting duplicates of fractal focus.

Stop giving bs about it being rng. Cos if it is every skin should have an equal chance of dropping for everyone. Due to this for the past 2 months my gw2 game play time has been relegated to just fotm dailies. This double rng to get the fractal skin you want is not working. Please do something about it.

And FYI do something about the kittenty looking specter and staff.

Whoa nice dungeon, really enjoyed it. However I wish ppl will stop qqing about it. I mean they did a good job on the bosses and you have to remember living story was always made in a way that everyone can do it.

They did try to make it a bit tough but to this was not meant to be end game content or anything close to that. Also if what Anet says is true, that the dungeon team has nothing to do with it, this means its the first attempt for the living story team at a dungeon.

Frankly if you ask me the living story team should be able to put their inputs on future dungeons releases. I would say they did quite a good job and nice skins and minis by the way, the gaulets could have been bit better but still love what you guys did.

And for those who think I’m just another GW2 fan boy, let me just say this is one of the few times I’m actually posting to praise Anet on something

I would agree to this alot of my ppl I know have moved away or cut down on fractals. Guess what they also started leaving the game of playing much less frequently cos there is not else that provides good challenge and good loot.

From the ppl I know Anet already lost 4 ppl who bought so much gems, that anet had to lock their account and ask them for some form of authentication before they allow future purchases.

Sadly they gonna lose a few more soon if nothing is being done. Previously each time the server reset for a new patch the loot dr resets. OK for ppl who think there’s no dr, then lets say the loot gets good for a while and there are more skins drops.

However no such thing is happening this time. I at around 24 to 27 runs without a skins already. Of course this is a combination of 28, 38 and 48.

Losing my patience here.

Strifey.7215:

They posted on twitter and there’s a few top 50 threads on reddit already that it’s a bug and they’re working on it.

Thank you