Guild Wars 2

Would love to try and play together with other people in the game
Send me a guild invite, or whisper me if I have to apply

Can’t see it in shop. Want to buy the seasons for my brother who just finished HoT.

Please continue with the flashy stuff Anet

We need a new legendary longbow, that’s for sure.

I don’t know what it is, but females just look more badas@ when they fight :P

However, if you are ONLY using the pc for GW2. Spent most of the budget on a good CPU. Even a GTX 1050 is plenty for GW2.

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

My ideal builds depending on budget would be something like this:

At a Very Low budget: Ryzen 3 1300X + Nvidia GT1030 (GTX 1050 2GB at a stretch) – 4 cores compared to a similarly price intel i3 will be better for GW2 and you can even overclock it. Meanwhile a GT 1030 has good performance and doesn’t need extra PSU power, as a GPU it will perform well but for a little more you can get a GTX 1050 and it’s a great card for the price.

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Medium Budget: Ryzen 5 1500X + Nvidia GTX 1050Ti (GTX 1060 3GB at a stretch) – 4 cores, 8 threads CPU with OC out of the box and at 2/3 the price of an i7. Paired with a GTX 1050Ti this is probably the best bang for the buck in terms of 1080p gaming. A GTX 1060 (3GB Model) will take you a step further, despite having 1GB less memory it performs somewhat better than the 1050Ti and the price isn’t too far off either.

If you’re limited on budget you might want to skip on the SSD and focus on the CPU/GPU mainly.

If OP is planning on using this for other things than Guild Wars 2 I would HIGHLY recommend spending extra on GTX 1060 6 GB version. Many games eat more than 3 GB Vram nowadays even in 1080p. I would even say get a GTX 1050 TI over GTX 1060 3 GB, since it has 4 GB Vram.
And Vram isn’t the only advantage the 6 GB version have over the 3 GB version. It’s a better card in every aspect, tbh NVIDIA should had named the 6 GB version GTX 1060 TI.

I recently build a budget pc.

G4560
GTX 1060 6 GB
8 GB RAM

I can play pretty much all AAA games smoothly, but I not so impressive performance in GW2 because of my budget CPU, can confirm that CPU is most important for this game

Amaimon.7823:

jokke.6239:

Mel.3064:

jokke.6239:

We still don’t have a title for 5 legendary weapons .. So wouldn’t count on it

You are late, the title already got added. Just the description is not accurate with pvp and wvw legendary armors.

And what is the title called?

Envoy’s Herald
But its only awarded for finishing all three weight classes, so you’re still gonna have to carry the armor on all your raiding characters to prove you have it

I’m a returning player. I have 5 legendaries WEAPONS. No armor. That’s what I meant that there was no title for :P

Mel.3064:

jokke.6239:

We still don’t have a title for 5 legendary weapons .. So wouldn’t count on it

You are late, the title already got added. Just the description is not accurate with pvp and wvw legendary armors.

And what is the title called?

Gemstore change race item 800 gems
“WARNING: Using this item will reset your personal story”

Why only once? I have asked for this feature many times before.
I believe the reason is not possible because of the personal story. But I would gladly accept a reset on the personal story to change race.

I want new Longbow

Just out of curiousity, name one mmorpg with more replayable zones than Guild Wars 2? I can’t think of any, and I pretty much play them all. (all the big ones anyway)

We still don’t have a title for 5 legendary weapons .. So wouldn’t count on it

I just bought Ultimate edition of PoF yesterday, so it must be a problem on your end? Idk, contact support.

Oh please .. They give you the story free if you log in while it’s new. I just came back recently, and payed 10 euros to unlock it. It’s well worth the price, and you can even get it for gold if you don’t feel like paying real money.
You’re most certainly not getting ripped off.

Yes please, never got to try i

Really? I play FFXIV, WOW and GW2.

GW2 is by FAR the most social mmorpg.

In WoW and FFXIV you almost never talk to anyone beside your guild. In FFXIV the cities are always packed, but no one ever talk to eachother.
In Guild Wars 2 you always see people talking in map chat. Try and join in and make some friends ^^

Guild Wars 2 have the music in any mmorpg

Vherak.5276:

Why not add an option to disable viewing of other people’s backpacks? That way if you like then you can see them and not have them visible if you don’t?

Waste of development time.
This game have had flashy legendaries shooting rainbow ponies since day one, can’t see what’s changed.

Moyayuki.3619:

For the sake of discussion, I am personally on the other side of the fence as yourself (which is fine). I played GW2 since maybe a year after it came out, and while the Personal Story wasn’t perfect, I enjoyed aspects of it…especially in comparison to LWS1 onward. I liked the ability to be able to skip past dialogue and cut-scenes I had already heard/seen, when doing playthroughs with other toons, whereas everything after the PS forces you wait for everyone to stop yakking before you can do anything (this is mostly a problem when playing the Living Story with multiple toons).

I also personally dislike the new characters and the new direction of the story. Sure, Taimi has grown on me a bit, but I’d say she’s the only new character I care about to any degree. Everyone else just…annoys me. For different reasons, which I am too tired to lay out here for the hundredth time. Suffice to say, many aspects of the new characters grate on me (personality-wise, for the most part). I just couldn’t bring myself to care about anything that happened to Rox, Braham, Marjory, and Kasmeer. I also am unhappy with what ANet has done to already established characters, either killing people off or making our toon hate their guts for no logical reason.

And that last part, about our characters…is what has frustated and angered me the most. I at least felt like our characters were a blank enough slate during the Personal Story that I could imagine my own details about them, and they learned about people, places and events at the pace that I learned about them. But now, our character, the “Commander”, feels alienated from me. They have done and said things that I disagree with. They are snarky and kitteny at moments that don’t feel appropriate. In essence, they no longer feel like they are my character.

Good and 100% valid points. But yeah it’s a matter of opinion.
I’ve never really gotten much into RPG’s where your character makes their own story. I usually find that the quality of the story becomes much worse, because it’s much easier to create a good story if it’s linear. Same reasons I enjoyed Witcher 3 much more than Skyrim etc.

Haven’t played the game over 2 years.
I tried to enjoy the story in the base game, and living world season 1 and 2. But the presentation and quality of the writing wasn’t very good imo. Dialogue windows and text boxes was the majority. But I must admit I didn’t give it much of a chance, but that’s how much good presentation matters to me. I usually never care for story in mmorpg’s for that reason .. Untill now ..

Now we have well executed cutscenes, much better dialouge, and well written characters. Heart of Thorns is the first time I enjoyed the story in this game (or in any mmo actually). Just bought living world season 3, and they seem to stick to that high standard, the story is just as great, if not better. I always enjoyed GW2, it’s my favorite mmo actually, but the story was never why.

It’s also really great that our characters actually speaks, it made me much more immersed into the story.
The writing is really great. Dialouge is funny and certain plots even managed to make me sad (poor Eir).

The effort they have put into the story really shows.

And i’m sure GW2 base games story wasn’t bad either, i’m sure lots enjoyed it. But for me personally, the direction they went with it is what I needed to fully enjoy it.

sorudo.9054:

JPUlisses.8756:

Guild wars 2 is the best engine in MMO, why guild wars 3?

still runs on DX9, barely has any 64bit support, 4K makes it unplayable, textures are at it’s max supported quality yet is even worse then oblivion standards, no bump mapping, still works with old fashioned spite systems, etc..

the engine needs as serious update if they want to compete with the other games, even WoW, a really old game, still competes while GW2 lacks behind.

And yet Guild Wars 2 is still the prettiest mmorpg there is.

It’s ALOT of work, that’s why :P
Beeing danish i’m used to not having native subtitles ^^
It doesn’t really bother me in an mmorpg.

Hell no, then people can tell that i’m still running around in exotic armor

I’m gonna give ESO a shot when it’s on a 75% sale on steam.
I actually just started playing Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, and haven’t played gw2 in 2 weeks. I’m surprised I got addicted to that game, since it was such a huge dissapointment at launch.
I doubt that I will find ESO to be very interresting, but with no sub fee its worth a shot though, if I can grab it on a sale.

Zypher.7609:

Have spent over $1000.00 in gems as of the first of the year. Little sad to see I am still not considered one of the most loyal fans. Guess I’ll wait like the rest of the people.

No idea if loyal means people who actual spend money or just people who play 8 hours a day. I would think people who spend money would be the better choice.

So rich people = loyal

ZeftheWicked.3076:

The content of upcoming HoT seems very..mixed bag so far, so here’s my request to people who will do public reviews of it:

Rather then wrapping it up in one grade, give it 3 grades -one for each game mode additions.
One for new PvE content and changes.
One for spvp part
And one for new WvW map.

Because i honestly feel that while in certain aspects the expansion delivers diamonds (new WvW map), in others it’s barren wasteland (spvp) and I shudder at thought of all this being “averaged” into one grade that will not fully flesh out the great pros of xpac, while also mercilessly jab at it’s gaping holes.

How about a thorough review wich explains cons and pros about all the content, instead of a meaningless number?

Seera.5916:

Which do you want more?

Is the chain saw skin a skin with limited quantities since no new ones are being added to the market or is it something that will continue to be added to the game? Or an item that could become that way in the future? Or only available for a limited time period?

The legendary weapons are likely going to be available for the life of the game. If the chain saw skin is limited time only or has only X amount left because there are no new ones entering the market, I’d go with the chain saw skin.

But if the chain saw skin appears to be something that’s going to be around for the life of the game because it can still drop, then it’s purely personal choice.

There is always the risk that they add it to some future halloween chest etc. Making drop in value.

Do people actually count how many teq runs they’ve done?
Always amaze me how accurate people can be with this kind of stuff – “I wasted 7800 g in mf trying to get a precursor” etc.

Anyways .. If I had to GUESS I would think i’ve done at least a 1000 teq runs so far, and no luck for me neither :P

darres.8203:

i created my thief like in 2010
I know the game warns you several times before you finalized your decision to join
but the silly me back then didn’t know better and choice to join vigil

i’ve always regretted that decision because order of whisper would be a much better choice for a thief
i’m not much of a role play guy; nevertheless, I do enjoy the story line and pve content quite a bit
I am way too far in to delete my thief then make another one

i’m just wondering, it’s been several years now
have the devs made it possible for players to change their stories yet?

nope

lol, the guy was trying to scam you.
I did maize balm farm when it was still good, in rata sum. The 10% was just for the maize balm (wich is fair) .. NOT if you get super lucky and get a nice item :P

Worst thing about prison was the Dementors

SyZ.7920:

People say farm for a legendary … so my two options as a ranger are a bow that shoots flowers or a different bow that shoots unicorns … really?

Lol, Rangers are one of the prof with the biggest pool of weapons to choose from.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

as a ranger.

And that is to have freaking laser beams attachable to our sharks’ heads. Now evidently a-net tells us that can’t be done, looking at the current state of things.

Can you remind me what i pay you people for? Honestly throw me a bone here!

Ps. Oh and fix pet pathing while you’re there;)

It’s beyond me how such an obvious feature haven’t been added!

Take a break, play other games.

the krytan assassin.9235:

pfff hate to see anet abusing us like this. Getting a reviewer who barely played since the release to comment on the upcoming xpac, this just feels like the interviewer after the Xpac was announced. Not blaming Angry Joe for this, but it just looks like they were trying to seek another market mechanism to promote the Xpac more. If anet really cared about us they would send some expert players of pvp/pve/wvw to interview. There are alot of unsolved problems out there on the field, but this way it’s not beneficial in any way for our community…

Yeah, and if you had a game i’m sure you wouldn’t want Angry Joe covering it right?
It would be stupid not to take advantage of this kind of publicity.

Sam Gem.1246:

I’m a logic person. After buying 3 precursors, I have done the math, using statistics and the experience of other people to persuade myself to use the mystic forge instead of buying the precursors. Basically, the odds of getting a pre is .2 % from rares. Using a cumulative binomial calculator, the odds of getting 1 or more pre from 350 attempts is 50%….
Well, after 1100 attempts, I’ve convinced myself to quit. I know.. 100 trolls will say good ridden. Whatever. I’ll never buy an Anet game or all other affiliates. You have wasted my time enough already…

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TerminASA.8253:

Hi, So what i will be talking about in this topic is a pretty popular discussion that has been going on since the game came out, Here i start:

I will start with what i know about each of Twilight, Sunrise and Eternity, so, Twilight and Sunrise are greatswords with awesome legendary skin, almost all players consider them as legendary. yet, the game dont, as a matter of fact, you dont get the “legendary” achievement when you wield either Sunrise or Twilight, and of all that, you have to go through the same pain to create one of those two gs as any other legendary in the game, so my question and discussion here is that why did Arena Net make Eternity be so hard to get as you have to make two legendary greatswords that will take you alot of time and waste of money just to make it? why they did that with only greatswords? why would they make players go through alot of pain to get it? is it that special?

So yeah, here is my topic. its something that has been bothering me lately, so i wanted to share it with you as an OPEN discussion.. thanks.

False

oO ???
GW2 is probably the most populated mmorpg out of the 5 I play from now and then.
WoW is more populated, but only in new zones, gw2 have activity in all maps.
Have you even played since megaserver change? Cause what you are saying is simply not true.

Donari.5237:

By login screen do you mean the launcher or the character select screen? To me there is no login screen as such any more, just a small launcher that then puts me in character select (if I log out from there, I’m back to the launcher).

If you mean the character select, sure, I could see some benefit to tweaking it a bit; other threads have made a number of suggestions for improvement without cluttering it too much. But I’ll point out there’s a reason so many character/armor screenshots use the character select screen: guaranteed good lighting and a good look at armor detail, which you can’t always get in game thanks to too much granularity in the camera zoom and greatly differing lighting levels and colors outside player control.

I’d want any changes to continue to give us clear views of our characters.

Oh yea sry, didn’t mean the launcher.
But the character selection screen

Okay, this is not super important or anything, but would really love it though.
The current one is getting old ..
And was never a big fan of the one we have.
I’ve never play GW1 beside from a demo, but gotta say, I absolutely loved the login screen. It was so atmospheric.
I would love a login screen for gw2 with a 3d background, it just does the job so well.
And also add in some new music, maybe do a jungle themed loginscreen.

Thoughts?

Guild Wars 2 story: 5/10
Guild Wars 2 gameplay: 9.5/10

.. Yea, lets just get more gameplay pls ..

I like this mix myself for my female human warrior

Helmet: Glint’s Gaze Mask (gemstore)
Shoulders: Protector (Human Cultural t3)
Chest: Phalanx (gemstore)
Gauntlet: Whispers (Order of whispers armor)
Legs: Phalanx (gemstore)
Boots: Whispers (Order of whispers armor)
Back: Light of Dwayna

Armor/colors is not made for the Twilight skin there is on the eternity while i screenshotted, so just ignore that. Was night time when I went and screenshotted -.-

meh, i’m fine with maguuma

15 char

Yay
Have they even mentioned this oO?
Anyway, way to go anet

Aaahh .. Once again a complainer complaining about complainers..

PVP is what earns you trans charges the fastest from my experience.
Maybe it ain’t actually faster than map exploring, idk. Maybe it’s just that time flyes by when you’re having fun in pvp, compared to boring repetitive map exploration.