Guild Wars 2

So me and my friends tested it – poor asuras ^^

For some odd reason norn’s shield absorption have bigger bubble radius then Human guardians do. Me and my friend tested it out and its a really big difference…

I dont even want to know how big of the bubble is for asuras…

Anet – you give us betaweekend and pvp reward bonus and yet pvp is in total mess!!
The biggest mess since Im playing this game and its been for over past 2 years.

Do something with this sick amount of burning! Guardian stacks 5+ burnings just by looking at you! Seriously its just crazy… Last game I had 3 guardians agains my team – My poor thief couldnt even atack them with Sbow ’cos of the bounces and burnings that procs…

Pick ele – SPam the keyboard – you win
GG!

Not rly….

So just to sum up – After reading your comment I’ve decided to test out my CPU utilization on my win 10 (task manager).
What I’ve came across is amazing… Everytime my FPS drops (like a mini second drop from 30 to 10 – then getting back up) my CPU utilization drops… And it drops from 40-50 % to 20-30% and then it gets back up…

Is there a way of fixing it??
I mean I have a really strong CPU and it should handle this game without any problems!

Its a bit weird – Im running gw2 and my CPU ussage is not even close to 50%…
And yet Im having some visual downfalls in FPS

So basicly my CPU is doing gr8 – my GPU is slacking..

I hope I didnt miss the forums since Im looking for other players help.

Anyhow My pc configuration looks like this
8 gbs of ram
AMD FX™-8320 Eight-Core Processor, 3,5 GHz
AMD radeon 6800HD series (I thinks its 6830 or smth like that…)

Anyhow – I have a pritty much nice CPU which should handle GW2 without any issues. How ever my GPU is slacking and as a result I do tend to have a frame drops in fractals / dungeons / mass wvw fights.
I run it on autodetect setup (except in wvw where I down my details alot and yet I have some 18-20 fps with frequently fps drop to <10)

What GPU / config do you guys run and it handles all GW2 situations smoothly without any lags / freezes / fps drops.

Im considering buying a new GPU so some feedback would be really helpfull.

Thanks in advance &
Cheers! :-)

Finally!
Cheeeers!

Im wondering does any1 knows where to look out all dungeon paths cutscenes?
I find it so hard to find it on youtube and it makes me sad. Would enjoy watching them…

Thief is a hard class to play. It takes 200-300 games to get to the point of a decent play. However it takes 1k+ games to actually master the gameplay and overall thief skills and tricks to your advantage in every combat situation.

My main class is thief and it hurts me alot to see how Anet screwed us. Thats off the topic – lets get back to the main subject.

To be an excellent thief, as I’ve said before it takes time and practice. I personally win 80% of the time (not counting courtyard). D/P + Marauder & Runes of Strenght gives you all you need. I can outplay 1v1 almost any class (not saying that those players were good) and even sometimes carry my team. Im always at the top of the scoreboard for my team and I see no problem winning the game with it.

However I see alot of bad thiefs – how to spot them?
a) They try to stay in the middle of the nass fight (3v3+) instead of jump-stab-jump out
b) They run D/D – its worthless spec in this kind of meta
c) You can predict where he’ll jump out of stealth and where his next position is
d) never runs for free far points

To sum it up –
This is one of the hardest classes to master.
It takes brains and reflexes to be a good thief and most of the thief players you team up are just bad…
Trust me – You can do alot with the thief only if you know how..

I’m having this funny problem – When ever I click on the ladder site I get an overvie of the ladder when Im not logged in to my account. After I press “Log in to see your stats bla… bla.. ..” I get redirected to https://account.arena.net/overview from where I cant see my stats…
So I go again on the ladder and for some odd reason Im not logged in.. And this goes around in circles…

Any1 having the same issue? Does ladder work anyway?

1. you try to dodge as most as you can (as its your only way to survive in general…). If you get high amount of conditions use shadowstep return to remove 3 conditions.
   After that – just run away.
2. Go 1v1 only against another thiefs. Other 1v1s you’ll probably gonna lose or you’ll have to run away or it will take you way too long to kill it and you’ll get outnumbered.
3. Not so good – If thief is a good player he’ll use his blinds way too often and you’ll have problems landing your hits.

In general – as thief you only enter fights when numbers are on your side. If you see mass fight 3v3+ either:
a) run on the free point
b) Be patient and wait for some1 to get low hp and jump on it to down it.
If you jump in 2+ red circles you’ll probably get downed before you realize it…

Thiefs are not so good this days in pvp

Cynz.9437:

What really bothers me is: we have to heavily rely on our opponents to do a lot of mistakes while we have to play close to perfect to achive same results as other classes do casually. Hard class is fun and all but high risk/low reward is not ok and i really would rather not rely to 100% on stupidy of my enemy (or lag lol).

You’ve said everything … Thief became useless class in PvP and that makes me so sad..
I was enjoying this class way more before the patch. Only thing that we can hope is some magic turnaround in expansion with some nice specialization (’though I highly doubt it…)

Im opening this topic ’cos Im getting quite tired of beeing bullied in PvP and Im looking for some reasons why is this so.

After that mega change patch on 23d of June (I personally call it "Doomsday for thief players) I was trying for really long time to get some good thief build. Anyhow what ever I came across I was so dissapointed. No matter how good you play in 1v1 situations you will always get bullied by:
1) Necros – Those tanky makittenas are just unkilleable by thief. Its like a bully class for thiefs. Even if you manage to dodge critical spells and interrupt his heals – Dont worry he’ll just pop out his green life and you’re gone.
2) Engineers – Do I have to say anything ’bout them? Even pre patch they were the only class that thief didnt have any real chance.
3) Mesmers – And here we are – My favourite candy in pre patch is now my worst enemy. The amount of damage that those sneaky kittens can produce is insane. Besides that they can reset the fight like they are born in shadows.
4) Warrior – Elite form -> Down! I cant even count down how many stuns do they have. 4 – 5?

So those are 4 classes that you most likely have chance of winning like you would have chances of winning a MMA fight.
I didnt mention guardians but they are very dependeable on the build – If you’re against a tanky / safe point guard you’ll be hitting him for 5min before you kill it.

Only 1v1 situations that Im feeling good att is against another thief or against rangers.

Anyhow, Im so dissapointed with this new thief in PvP – Your only option is to outnumber the oponents and to run and capture free points. In mass fights if you enter in 2 – 3 red circles you are happy if you’re not downed, and your only option is to get the hell out of it…

Am I the only one feeling so sad and sorry for what they did to my lovely thief …
THanks for reading

Me and my friend are looking for semi HC pve Guild that can provide us the following :
—>Some kind of daily dungeon speed clear runs
(it doesnt have to be scheduled exactly)
—> Teach us how to speed clear arah (we are a fast learners )
—> Daily fractal 40 – 50 runs
—> Friendly atmosphere
—> Mostly night time play

We can offer you :
—> 2 great and communicative friends :P
—> Full ascended meta Warr & Guard (we’re both working on making full ascended necro & Thief in couple of weeks)
—> 5-6 hours a day of gameplay

If there is any interest feel free to contact me ingame or simply reply on this topic.
Ingame name kamix.4713

In general – we are not pros nor we are looking for a HC pro guild. We do like to speed things up while clearing the dungeons but we’re not interested in setting up speedclear records. We’re both eager to learn arah paths and high fractal speed clears.

Thanks for reading!
Cheers!

So I’ve spent like 2hours buggling around in that dirty place and I just couldnt find the way how to open fire from that stupid cannon!! I need this part for my maydrew and somehow its not working.
I took the statue head and cannon is non interact-able…
I’ve done the puzzle and nothing happened…

Is it bugged o.O ?
Need help

When you open the map – Yes squares everywhere.
When you play it – Not even a slight feeling that you are in the middle of some boxed map. In my honest humbly opinion this game has some more issues to resolve then this.

Harper.4173:

No OP. Just no.

Your post is more or less worthless due to lack of arguments…

Kordash.2197:

And btw, each class have to change BUILD (not gear, i’m talking about traits and skills) several times in a dungeon if they really want to be effective against the different situations and encounters.

Your point reflects my suggestion ’bout trait save system. We need to have this implemented asap!

Michal.4513:

1st its not to have one “build”, and second… game itself dont force only Berserk, its players way to + / – that force others to play only berserk., but yea its all by Anet for not doing anything about that. And yeah 80 in lfg is Ele/guard/Thief bers meta/exp/+10ap bullkitten xd

“Balance by Anet 2015”
ps: im Mesmer main player (got Ele and Thief also)

I couldnt agree more. I completely understand why people go full zerk – Optimization of time and output. And as well – Anet has done absolutely nothing in preventing zerk domination.

locoman.1974:

kamix.4713:

Dungeons that ends in 5min? When devs were designing the game there was no chance that they were having this thing in mind! “LFG – Zerk only link items” o.O
People will always use exploit and the game mechanics to optimize time effort and final result.
We need diversity! Make some new dungeons with some new boss mechanics in which you’ll need guardian support build, condi necros etc…. We need to change this order of zerkers. If you want to become the best mmorpg out there you need to have more different builds that optimizes in different situations. Give us some old WoW grinding Dungeons with unique skins, weapons that are worth our efforts with nice AP addition. If you can make every couple of weeks a new edition to a living story I think you can make 1 hard dungeon per 5-6 months (optimal time to complete it). If needed make them 5+ players dungeons (10 max). I think there were tons of players that joined this game that were in to this kind of dungeon grinding (and not todayslike) and left after they realized that there is no such content in this game.

TBH, I’d like something like this as well, actual skins that could drop off specific bosses, for example, and updating of new dungeon paths and things like that.

Thing is, they did try this, they replaced one of the paths on twilight arbor explorable with the aetherblade path… and TBH it’s one of my favorite dungeons in the game so far. Bosses that need some strategy to them so you can’t just zerg them to dead, several puzzles that people actually had to figure out and an exclusive set of weapon skins that only drop there…

And what was the result?… it’s the least played dungeon path, personally once the achievements were over I’ve very rarely seen it in LFG, and only done it as part of guild runs… so, from their points of view… does it really make sense to divert so many resources to make something that experience has shown them most people don’t really want?.

It is indeed a nice dungeon, I couldnt agree more. I enjoyed it myself first time when I entered it I felt so happy!! But where did Anet go wrong with it?
Here is a nice review on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2j3d2f/aetherpath_what_the_kitten/

Biggest problem – Rewards are crap! Besides 2g and couple of AP – you literally dont get anything!

To have this kind of dungeon you need a bigger rewards for it! If you make a dungeon that takes 4 freaking hours to complete at least give us some freaking reward for it!
Besides low rewards, people dont play it ’cos most of them either completed AP or simply dont want to waste alot of time for completing additional achivement part for nothing…
Suggestion – Unique skin drops! (similar to ascended armor drop on Triple trouble)

Wyrdfell.8327:

Kordash.2197:

“Give us some old WoW grinding”

No. It’s not WoW. It’s GW2.

Also, BINGO

This. I don’t wanna play another mmo with mindless gear grind. That’s why we love and play Gw2. Stop trying to change this. If you want that go play something else. There are a lot of mmos like that out there.

I see both of you missed my point.
I am not looking for endless gear farm since we all know that ascended pieces wont change anytime soon. And in fact I love gw2 gearing waaaay much more then any other type. Craft > grind.

What I miss in gw2 and what I wanted to say – We need more PvE component in the end game. Give us some challenges and goals within it. If you think legendary is challenging enough for end game – its not! Its pure challenge of gold farm (or bank card) and ridiculously small ammount of RNG for a precursor drop. And I welcome incoming changes in the expansion with crafting precursor.
You would be surprised how many players would enjoy challenging endgame dungeons with unique mechanics (not exploitable) which would eventually lead to more diversity of playstyle in pve content. Im thinking ‘bout dungeons which would merely be possible to complete by small amount of coordinated players.
Ofc those dungeons should have some nice looking unique skins that would “tell” to other players —-> "I’ve completed it!" (even some titles!)

I just checked out all the meta build for dungeons. Result – All builds except mesmers and eng has full berserker (who runs engi and mesmers anyway o.O). If you think that game like guild wars 2, which goal is to become one of the best mmorpgs out there, should have only 1 meta build for almost EVERY profession in the game then then you dont realize how importaint it is for the game to evolve. At this very moment (and it was since I know) GW2 is corrupted by meta zerk gameplay.
On the other hand – I wouldnt have anything against it if we (classic mmo players) have other end game challenges with wide range of equipment requierment and trait builds.

Summa summarum – Keep the dungeons and meta zerk the way that it is for ever if you like (its there only for gold farm anyway), but give us something more, new challenging dungeons with unique rewards worth our effort.

We need some mode like that! I hardly doubt it would divide community since it should be so hard that its only doable with coordinate people (guild mates, friends etc…)

We need this content!

I’ve decided to make this post couple of days ago when I actually realized how this end game system works. Its not that I didnt know it before, but I’ve been inactive for couple of months and I get back a month ago. (I got 5k AP so its not that I’ve come to lvl 80 couple days ago). Here are some suggestion that I am sure would make this game surpass its current stage. I know expansion is on its way and this things may get implemented (which I hope they do).

Trait save system
I can say that this game has one of the best trait (tree) system there is in this genre. Not too complex, but also it has wide range of specific paths which are usefull depending on the paths / wvw etc. However I am still quite confused why doesnt we have some kind of a save method for it. We (or at least I do) re-trait alot deppending on the part of the game I’m going to play. There should be some save system! (ps you can easly implement it and charge it for 100 gems!)
Same goes for graphic settings! I have to change it every time if I want to have a decent FPS in world bosses/ zerg fights in wvw etc. and Im sure alot of players do the same thing.

Leagues in sPvP
This system is more or less known for quite some years. Now we have a global ladder and players fight for some “insignificant points”. With league system you would actually have more reason to play. Deppending on your league you would acquire some AP, maybe even titles and deppending on your position in the league you would get some rewards. I strongly suggest implementing unique item skins (with already made trackers). As well leagues would reset every month / 2 monts / half a year etc, but I strongly suggest adding unique skins for every season with some chain requierments to acquire final reward (and make it worth grinding the skin!)

Meta zerk change with adding unique end game content

Dungeons that ends in 5min? When devs were designing the game there was no chance that they were having this thing in mind! “LFG – Zerk only link items” o.O
People will always use “exploit” and the game mechanics to optimize time effort and final result.
We need diversity! Make some new dungeons with some new boss mechanics in which you’ll need guardian support build, condi necros etc…. We need to change this “order of zerkers”. If you want to become the best mmorpg out there you need to have more different builds that optimizes in different situations. Give us some “old WoW grinding” Dungeons with unique skins, weapons that are worth our efforts with nice AP addition. If you can make every couple of weeks a new edition to a living story I think you can make 1 hard dungeon per 5-6 months (optimal time to complete it). If needed make them 5+ players dungeons (10 max). Im sure there was alot of players who left this game after they realized how gw2 lacks a real PvE end game content.

Conclusion - GW2 has one of the best platforms out there. Nicely polished gameplay, beautiful graphics, epic action based combat which can / must be utilized by REAL end game content.

Thanks for reading & sorry for bad english.

Edited due to nice response by community + making a decent conclusion to the end game & zerk issue.

I love how it tends to attract you to try to make some money.
First time I’ve ever put 4 major runes I got sup rune of traveler. I said to myself – Lol this is ez money making!
So I went spending around 10g for major runes and I got – NOTHING !!

This is disgraceful! Take care of your issues or limit the max top players per server!!

This is insane. Its like my character has 2 – 3 seconds of delay on all of his actions. I just cant play and its been like this since the latest patch!
118 ping at this moment, average 121!

Wanze.8410:

The recipes for each weapon or armor piece are found randomly in Buried Locked Boxes during sand storms. So if you want a specific armor piece or weapon, you might as well buy it from the TP right now while they are cheap.

Correct me if I am wrong, but for last two days I was searching on TP for nomad’s recepies, and all I can find when I type “nomad’s” on TP are recepies for 400 crafting skills, which is NOT an ascended recepie…

Do I get a particular recepie (e.g. recepie for an ascended helm) or may I choose what to pick?

I’ve bought an ascended recepie for ascended nomads insignia and so I bought a recepie for gossamer intricate nomads insignia. But I just cant find where to buy an ascended parts for my nomads armor. (Helm, boots, gloves etc…)

Thanks

I was thinking about this for a week now so I’ve decided to create a topic about it.
I have a fairly ok PC which can hold on to high graphics for PvP and general PvE (fractals and dungeons). But when it comes to WvWvW and World bosses it tares him apart!!
I mean from smoothly 50ish FPS in normal situations my game play drops down to 8-10 FPS and its quite unplayable unless I drop down my graphic settings…

Now the bottom of this topic is that you can easily add a graphic save system with 1 or 2 save slots (or even unlimited although I dont see a purpose of it). When ever players needs to adjust their graphic system due to lack of FPS, they can easily load their saved settings…
It gets quite annoying doing it every time I enter world boss fight or WvWvW.

Im sure that you’r program developers are able to do this and implement it in no time. This shouldn’t be a problem at all and it will gradually increase the possibility of quick graphic change when ever we need it.

Opinions and thoughts are welcome!
Thanks for reading

PS Im posting it on General discussion since Suggestion forum is in archives.

Tman.6349:

Do you realize how silly PvP and WvW would be if nobody could ever die because of ridiculous stacks of regen? Even now, regen stacking bunker eles, rangers, and warriors are pretty stupid. BTW, support does not equal ‘healer’ in GW2.

I dont see why dont people like changes in the game? It could actually be a new meta game in gw2…

It is healthy for the game to migrate in other directions! I could assume that top teams would have at least one player fulled up with sigils and armor atributes with healing power.

I am sure there are way beyond regeneration boon and that this game is unique in fact that every profession has its own healing spell

Mada.5319:

If stop and think how ridiculously overpowered regeneration would be if it stacked in intensity, you’d know why it stacks only in duration.

Well its your insinuation since you dont know how would it actually work.
Mine guess is that Regeneration stacks in intensity would bring this game on higher level of support class!
I know Anet wanted to get away from classic tank + heal + 3 DPS groups – but they made support professions!
Give support a chance!

Wethospu.6437:

Might doesn’t stack duration.

Pardon me – That was my mistake. Im fairly new to this game so excuse me for that…
I’ll edit my post – Anyhow might does stack but not on duration, they could easily implement the same stacking on regeneration as well

I have a simple question to ask –
Why doesnt regeneration buff stack with itself? It only prolongs the duration but it doesnt stack… For instance they could implement the same stacking option as might – Stacks on but not on duration! Why wouldnt Anet implement a stacking regeneration If they gave us a new ascended insignia with toughness vitality and healing power (which I intend to craft for my necro) why dont they let regeneration stacks? It would surely improve the position of supporting players who would like to support for a change! Not only building ZERK ZERK and once again ZERK!
I want to try a different necromancer build with supporting role in parties with all kinds of boons, but particularly based on regeneration and heal – since regen cant stack itself (only duration does) Im feeling like Anet doesnt have a sence for roles in parties..
Im sure necro could support like crazy!

I find them highly unkilable when they put all of their stuff down… They do TONS of damage, and besides that, the amount of heal that he can do + invulnerability is just sick…

Why on earth are they unkilleable ?!!

Im wondering does any1 knows will my current Arah pvp reward completion reset to 0 after 17hours (17h left on Arah)?
If I do the story now, will it stay on my current progression?
Thanks

First dungeon is at level 30 – You will get a mail when you hit level 30 which will provide you location where the entrance is. To enter the dungeon for the first time you have to go through the story mode (this is for all the dungeons in GW2 when you enter them first time). After you finish the story you can do exploreable mods, but I strongly recommend you doing it when you get to 80 ’cos it will be hard for you to find a group for it.

Anyway to enter the dungeon only thing you have to do is to have a full party and to be in the same region where the dungeon is.
I hope I helped

I leave mine in banks – just in case of what you’ve said

I’ve recently installed new Windows on my PC and I didnt uninstall the game -
I was shocked when I realized that game is working properly and that I dont need to download and install it again (which will take almost a full day)
But since I’d done that – My game is not in windows registry and game programs like Xfire cant recognize it while Im playing it -

Any1 have some clue how to registry gw2?

thanks

Erm – Since Im a newly level 80 I want to know how to make 40g with couple of Laurels

Please enlight me

Cush.4063:

He’s talking about the full patch notes. Not a notification linking you to the forums. Tbh, I think its a good idea because it brings more of the player base to the actual forums. Otherwise I think there would be a lot less people here contributing.

Yes, Im talking about FULL patch notes
And I must agree with you – This will bring more people contributing the forums, which in general is a good thing. Active forums means more active community

Has any1 ever asked himself why dont we have a patch notes inside the gw2 launcher?
Why do I have to open my browser and check out the forums, when notes can simply be put in the right side of the launcher (instead of that "learn how to play gw2 manual which is imo kinda useless) with the provided link to the forum topic where every1 can discuss and comment about recent changes

Opinions please

It is AMD yea – 3 years old CPU…

Im considering about buying new PC with next components
CPU AMD FX-Series X8 8320 3.5GHz which have 8.1 rating score on CPU benchamarket (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html )
8gb DDR3 x2 (2133 MHz)
I will leave my Radeon hd 6870 GP cos that beauty can do it

Now if this wont work GW2 on 30frame rate I will uninstall the game…

Its an investment for me that will cost me nearly 400 euros, and Im buying it just ’cos Im rly kittened of that I cant play properly WvW!

Sevenn.3085:

1. Overclock ur cpu
2. Don’t blob

I will burn my house if I overclock it…

Hello community

Recently I reached level cap and I decided to do little bit of WvW and to be honest I enjoyed every minute of it. I’ve connected to server teamspeak (which was entirely new experience for me) and it was great. Players are amazing and this whole community is quite great.
But besides the good sides – there was a huge downside when I realized that in zerg fights my poor PC is running 5-7 Frame rates per second.
8 rates MAX!!
I have 4GB of RAM memory, 3 core 3GHz; and Radeon HD 6870

I’ve set all the graphic options to lowest or even NONE and still my PC cant handle it…

Is there any other way to improve the frame rates?
How come Anet made a game that requires quite a beast of a PC to play WvW?
Wasnt there any way to reduce the performance requirements in that area of the game?

Hey there folks

First of all I want to represent myself – Im 24 years old student of economics and I would like to join in some moderate competitive guild ( PvP mostly, PvE, guild missions etc…)
At the moment I do have a guild, but my guild is quite inactive… Alot of players are there online, but they are not playing as guild, we rarely do anything together. And this is what I am looking for. Im highly communicative person, with fluent English, can play most of the day time (but mostly night hours)

So what Im looking for –
Active guild with active and kind players
ENGLISH speaking guild!!
Guild with raidcall/teamspeak server / skype calls etc. etc..
Dungeon runs
PvP (as for WvWvW as for Team Arena)

PM me ingame or here on forum (ingame name kamixirer)

P.S. I am newly level 80 and Im looking forward learning and discovering the end game in Guild Wars 2.

I believe this question have been asked hundred of times, but Im wondering – why no duel? Why cant I see and challenge my friend for a friendly duel

Why no implementing that?

PS – why no inspect option?

Hmm it says that I can buy items for totems in Lions arch, but I dont get it where are the vendors now, since LArch is in flames

heya folks.
I’ve recently hit up lvl 80 and Im wondering where are some good karma Vendors since I want to spent some karma to get some good gear. And if you have any good tips for me how to gear up please let me know.

Thanks

Ok so I’ve just reached the lvl 80 and Im just wondering how do I level up?
Yesterday I went to the exp 1 dungeon and they drop only low level drops… How do I actually get a good gear in end game.

Thanks