Guild Wars 2

Hey All,

I was thinking about trying out a condi warrior build and wanted to verify with you folks that the following build is viable: Burnbow. The change to Discipline will work well I believe. Especially Leg Specialist as it gives me 3 immobilization(s). With the constant burn stacking from LB1 I can be assured of keeping up the condition pressure even while moving around.

Please let me know what you think.

Cheers
Kora

Awesome! Thanks Astral Projections.

Alex … thank you very very much for the reply! Really appreciate the help. It’s the one thing I truly love about this game: the community. Always make me feel so warm and fuzzy on the inside.:)

Cheers
Kor

Hey All,

I was hoping someone could weigh in and let me know if the following is possible: I inadvertently transmuted my tempered spinal blades backpack and now I want to change it to a static tempered spinal blade backpack in the mystic toilet. Is this possible even though I have transmuted the item?

I asked in map chat and someone advised that yes I can but I would like to be 100% sure before purchasing the required materials to make the change. I have also submitted a ticket. However, Anet still hasn’t responded.

Thanks for the help!

Kor

Noooooooooo … I am going out of town and won’t be back until Monday. When does the sale end?

I have to agree with the OP. The expansion for me has become a monumental grind. The fact that you have to grind so much in order to obtain any sort of reward has really ruined the experience for me. I am not saying that there should be no work involved but the fact that you have grind experience for the masteries, then grind mastery points, then grind a crapload of the various new currencies for whatever item you are keen on getting. Mix into this incredible recipe the various meta events, which take a huge amount of time and the fact that you get barely any experience makes for a very sad gaming experience. Oh, and I almost forgot, the insane amount of disconnects!

I use to enjoy the game because I could do whatever I wanted yet still feel as though I made progress. Now that feeling is no longer applicable. The new content is also rather unfriendly to those that prefer solo play. The time-gating and champions that must be killed in order to farm up hero points is one of the most ludicrous things that I have ever encountered. Yes I know that you can farm them in Tyria which would take an insane amount of time as its a 1:1 ratio and yes, I know about the hero points in wvw/eotm. However, the pace at which you can obtain them is so painfully slow.

Whoops! You are correct, should be LB instead of GS. The build as is works extremely well. Unless you try it out you won’t know how well it performs a feeling isn’t exactly the same as actual experience. Trust me … when I found the build I was skeptical as well but now I love it!

You might find this build to your liking: Burning Bleeding Bow Build: A Condition Warrior.

I also use rare veggie pizza and the toxic master crystals in order to cap condition duration (only used to test out DPS though, I usually use some cheap +condition food while kitten ing around).

Try the build out, it’s really rather awesome.

Cheers

Thanks so much! This is exactly what I needed. Not looking forward to grind them all but heh.

Quick question; whats the best way of obtaining Maguuma Mastery Points? I am assuming that it’s achievements + the points available on each map but wanted to make sure that I am correct. So far everything is going smoothly but I have hit a bit of a road block with my now depleted Maguuma Mastery Points.:(

TYVM:)

As the topic suggests … looking for the fractal weapon vendor. I have unlocked the 1st level of the fractal mastery. However, when I port up to the second room there’s only 1 vendor which is not selling the skins! I really hope this isn’t one of those “we’ll be introducing that later” type scenarios.

One last piece of advice … lower the cost of the rewards. I can imagine that Anet won’t invoke any of the other changes that the community has mentioned. Changing the cost of the rewards should be a simple change. This way, at the very least, we won’t have to grind 24/7 in order to get one thing (well this is specific to the potions I guess … but still).

This response has only made me more frustrated. No real hard or concrete plans nor answers to the communities specific questions. Is this response a sad attempt to placate us. I am not trying to be negative, nor trying to seem like I am on the attack, it’s just that Anet’s constant lack of forthrightness is becoming a larger issue for me personally. When I noticed this post/update I was hoping for something that would help ease my worry. Instead, it’s the usual rigmarole about how they are “listening” and how this will be used for future reference.

Ayrilana.1396:

korasukage.9315:

Anet … we need an update. Do not remain silent on this matter. The event can still be salvaged. As it stands now some of the most sought after items are impossible to obtain without spending 10+ hours a day grinding. The reward system requires a revamp as well as the length of period the event is running. Address these issues so that those longtime players as well as new players can enjoy themselves.

If those exclusive rewards from the previous Living Story releases were instead made available for 100G from the vendor, and the event rewarded about 10G an hour, would you still have an issue?

I just want a balanced method of obtaining rewards. I don’t really care how its done. What I don’t want is to grind for hours upon hours. I more than understand making something difficult to get. However, when an event is time gated you must weigh that against rewards gained. Especially when one of the rewards is a currency.

Anet … we need an update. Do not remain silent on this matter. The event can still be salvaged. As it stands now some of the most sought after items are impossible to obtain without spending 10+ hours a day grinding. The reward system requires a revamp as well as the length of period the event is running. Address these issues so that those longtime players as well as new players can enjoy themselves.

Now that we have the white feather wings can we please, please, please see the return of the black feather wings! I have been waiting to purchase this back item.

Pretty please with sugar on top.:)

Thanks!

Hmm good to know. Thanks Kaat. Out of curiosity, for those that paid with paypal, did the charage for the pre-order appear immediately in your paypal account?

Also created a request for this issue Request #1582672 “Order Number: 9520116762” created.

A quick response to this query would be greatly appreciated so that I can resubmit my purchase if need be. Also, I have not yet received an email containing the receipt of my purchase.

Heya Anet,

I purchased the ultimate edition of HoT and although I did receive an error msg upon completion (authorization failed), after hitting, refresh, it then said the transaction was successful and gave me a purchase order (see subject).

I just wanted to verify with Anet that the purchase did in fact go through.

Please advise.

Hmm awesome … can’t wait until the wings make a return to the Gem Store.:)

Cheers
Kor

Heya Anet,

I was wondering if/when the Black Feather Wings Backpack would make it’s return to the trading post. I missed this item originally as I took a break from the game. A simple “sometime” or in the future would be greatly appreciated.:)

Cheers
Kor-

I wasn’t sure that I was going to waste my time actually posting my thoughts on this subject, but then realized that it best that I do so that my voice can join the hundreds of others which are disappointed with the new trait system.

I recently started playing the game and found it to be exactly what I was looking for. The lvling was fun, the events really cool and the environment fun to explore. I power lvl’d my first character to 80 and thought … win! However, this all took a sharp turn for the worse after this content patch. I am now currently lvling another toon and realised that in order to complete the process I will have yet another incredibly lengthy grind in order to free up all of the traits. Honestly, I don’t know what the Anet developers were smoking when they thought this change would be good? It seems so abysmally executed it makes me wanna choke. The fact that Anet remains so silent causes me no amount of frustration. At the very least someone, any one, should step up and actually be actively discussing this with the community. Your silence only makes things worse for both you and your player base. I for one am right on the cusp of never playing again. (admittedly I am one of the foolish people that actually spent real money to buy gems for an outfit).

There are other things which are equally annoying but at the very least Anet has provided different means of attaining such things (such as the dungeon armor sets from the pvp dungeon track). Although the pvp grind to finish one is insane!! I only bring this up because I believe the change to the trait system is similar … the amount of time required to complete something is staggering. I for one only have so much time to invest in a game and making that game require vast amounts of time to completely “finish” a character (lvling/gear/traits/etc) is absurd.

Something else that’s been bothering me are some of the changes that have been implemented which makes certain aspects of the game less useful. One such example is the “zerg train”. I know that some folks liked to grind this in order to power level their character, make some gold and obtain some nice loots. However, it seems that that has been smacked about with the nerf bat as well. My question is … why? If people are happy with something why bother changing it? If all I want to do is run from point A to point Z kill things and get loot then so be it. I realize that as a game designer you might want your player base to enjoy the world as a whole but it is up the individual player, not the game company, to decide how an individual enjoys the game.

[/end rant]

Well, that’s about it. I will stop there before this becomes a full blown novel. In closing I would like to add that many facets of the game are incredible even with the faults I have listed above. However, unless something is done to shore up some of the failures I will have to walk away from the game permanently (I know this is no big deal but hey, thought that I would say it anyway :p ).

Cheers
Kor

Name: Tharizdunn
Profession: Mesmer
Traited: DPS / Greatsword & Sword/Sword
Gear: Full lvl80 exotics can ping gear if necessary.
Experience: Killed first two bosses in P1 & one boss in P2
Time: 1AM – 9AM Eastern Time Zone (UTC-05:00) Friday – Sunday
Other: Have done a few other dungeons.

Hopefully this is still an option. If not, I would like to thank those that took the time to teach us newbies the ropes. Its very kind of you.:)

PS: Not sure if it’s useful but I used to raid back in my WoW days so I am just fine with listening and taking my time.

Take Care
Thar