Guild Wars 2

IndigoSundown.5419:

Rhanoa.3960:

Standard POF $49.99 + Free GW2

New & Returning Players Get: (Non-HOT Purchasers)
*New Class
*Level Boost

Standard POF $49.99
Standard HOT $49.99
Standard GW2 $59.99
$159.97 5yr Investment. (Excluding deluxe & Gem purchase)

Veteran Players Get:
*Level Boost (By now some of may have 9 or more Characters at 80) Useless.

If you’re going to continue your complaining, at least get your facts straight. You might also look into how businesses work, and how value is determined in business-consumer relationships. Since I don’t expect you to, here’s the crash course as it applies to the situation under discussion.

• 5 Years ago (you?) spent $59.99 to purchase access to GW2. For those 5 years (you?) had the opportunity to enjoy the game. (You?) also got — for no additional cost — access to LS1 and 2.
• 2 years ago (you?) spent $49.99 to purchase access to HoT. For those 2 years you had the the opportunity to enjoy what HoT brought to the game. (You?) also got — for no additional cost — access to LS3.
• Now, (you?) would be paying $29.99 (not $49.99) for standard PoF. (You?) will get the opportunity to play what PoF offers as long as you care to. Freebies: the level boost you don’t care about, plus the shared inventory slot it arrives in (which would cost $8.75 if bought separately).

• The new player spends $29.99. He will get PoF, the same way (you?) will. Freebies: restrictions on free GW2 core removed; level boost (which you seem to presume has value for him); shared slot; and Revenant unlocked.

He does not get:

1. Core Gw2 for free (just the removal of the restrictions)
2. The 5 years of access (you?) got to core GW2, including any titles, achievements, drops, legendary weapon(s) produced, and anything else that adds value to a virtual game account.
3. LS1 (it’s gone)
4. LS 2 (he would have to pay an additional, not inconsequential fee to get this)
5. Any of HoT except Revenant base profession. Were I to have to tell you how little a percentage of HoT Revenant base profession is, you would have no business talking about numbers.
6. The two years access (you?) had to what came with HoT, along with any (see #2 for the add-ons)
7. LS 3 (he would have to pay an additional, not inconsequential fee to get this)

Were he to purchase all of the above, he’d be spending a lot more than $29.99, and he cannot purchase retroactive access.

And now the good news. (You?) too can partake of the “enormous” deal that the new player gets with PoF while the Veteran gets so “little.” All (you?) have to do is buy PoF and link it to a new account. Not interested? Why not, if the value of having (your?) account all this time is not part of the equation?

Couldn’t say it better than this.

Been a while since I played PvP, and as such I just want to get the basic again , any huge new meta formation I need to be aware of ? I see they changed the clocktower map alot

Also any guides for builds ? I hear meta battle is out of date and Qtfy is raid only it appears

But is it to late ? With PoF launching in a month will hot maps die out ? I only have 3 Alma-something gemstones atm and I see I need 250….kicking myself atm since I sold all mine. And how much map specific Items is required ?

I don’t want to finish the legendary in a month , just the hot exclusive items.

Well this theory is very interesting , I suppose we will have to wait and see…..

What is the best way of making money atm ? Since I want to craft Ascended armor for a few toons and get them geared for raids. And is there a way to farm leather ? Since the prices sky rocketed

Can we maybe get a indicater of our overall progress in HotS ? Like with central tyria ? Maybe a window under the current one with out Hots + Season 3 Progress? and then a new one for the next expansion + season 4 and so on….

Like the title states , I’ve been gone for a while … Now that I have returned I would like to finish my Specialist collections and a few of the maguma achievements I have missed. Is there a Specific time people do the map events ? And do they still go to max tier ?

Also whats the newest money farming scheme ?

Where can I get this glider ? it is not in the gem store and I dont think it is a in-game item….

Do you guys think there will be any sales in the gem store for Black Friday ?

Is the Chak killer Achievement bugged ? I cleared the entire pit. Do I need to kill every chak in the instance ( If there are any others ?) or wait until the end of the mission ? I still qualify for the achievement

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

Red Mistress Denna.9804:

Didn’t they turn the in game chest to an achievement style chest (above the mini map)? I didn’t do many missions before HoT so I don’t know if you got the chests before the expac

For missions and rushes, you always received a wiggly chest along with a chest to open at the end (a cute cheese shaped chest at the end of Proxemics lab, two chests in Langmar estate). All the chests at the end have been eliminated and you need to cross your fingers to get the wiggly chest.

They changed it so you get the chest when the timer expires instead of when YOU finish. Or its suppose to , if you didn’t get it when the timer expired and your guild suceeded you either didn’t participate or its bugged

Not sure if this is the right place to put this but don’t see a raid subform.

Is there some sort of Guide for Spirit Vale ? Some tips I could follow ? I don’t want to go in blind. Also I been reading that you need condi damage , I play a condi ele mostly so is that any good ?

Element.4319:

masterJP.5048:

What is the name of the legendary armor and can I preview it in the wardrobe ?

Forgive me if this is off topic, but two professions in your signature are misspelled, especially if those are THE classes you are playing.

Sorry ! Didn’t see and your the first to notice in 2 years. Thanks !

What is the name of the legendary armor and can I preview it in the wardrobe ?

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Larynx.2453:

Get the collection chest. Log out. Log on Revenant. Open collection chest. Enjoy your Revenant armor. It’s really not rocket science at this point.

And If you did’nt knew they were gonna be soulbound ?

Its been like this since 2014 (or 2013 I’m not sure). Since the first time the Zephirites visited with their flying air ship. So if you did it once a day you could have a full stack of 250 !

Donari.5237:

Ooh, I haven’t done it as the instance starter yet and I’m working on a sylvari now in the story. I’ll see if my guild is willing to run it once more with me leading once I get to that part.

I’ll be willing to go with you , taking my alts through the story to

I also finished it on my Sylvari , liked the little extra part where he “takes” you over.
I also did’nt truely hate mordy until he used Forgal against me , I was furious ! And when they came over to your side I got the chills fighting with him one more time……It was legendary !!!!

Forgal is vigil mentor you might have gotten Tybalt or The Sylvari ( Cant remember her name atm)

You can buy more with gems in the gem store

Happy Anniversary Gaile !

I love trahearne , but please don’t make your title (Spoiler)and then spoil it ! Make is something suggestive.

Anyone ? I Really want the new Guild Armor , it looks awesome (not the archemage set) It is called Guild pants , Guild vestments , guild gloves and so on , I think me and TYHE is talking about the same thing.

lordhelmos.7623:

There are just some things that need to be changed with HoT. Be warned, I’m not going sugar coat this post. This is just how it is.

1.) Content designed for groups only, leads solo players to believe its too hard. For them it is.
Difficulty for the new zones needs to be toned much lower. The majority of the player base are casual players with limited time. This is especially true for tangle root.

EDIT: I want to point out that difficulty is not just the problem. Having a hard game is one thing, and to an extent that is ok. But HoT is meant for groups, its hard because THE ENTIRE EXPAC was designed for a 5+ man group. People going at the game solo or leveling at their own pace are going to come up against unfair situations where they will just get their face pushed in because they are traveling alone. This is not an issue of difficulty at this point, but impossibility.

There is no disclaimer in the game that warns you about this. Solo players are and will be punished in this game and sometimes that is mistaken as “difficulty.” This type of design is bad design, because solo players are a large segment of the playerbase. Sometimes players want to grow at their own pace and don’t want to be held back or left behind by other players. Grouping brings its own set of social rules and sometimes can greatly extend a player’s time to complete an objective to far more than they have to play.

If you want hard content, go play the raids or high level fractals. This goes for grouping. Some players like to group for GROUP content, but want to level at their own pace. I don’t want to sit there for 15mins with someone who is bad at jumping puzzles waiting at the boss while they take forever to complete it, do you? HOT forces these situations.

So read the above, please don’t assume my gripe is on difficulty alone. The issue is more complex and needs to be addressed.

2.) Hero Point difficulty needs to be toned down
People don’t like the personal progression of their hero tied to groups or requiring friends/begging for help. Some of these 5 man hero point bosses that ares gated behind mastery requirements and/or jumping puzzles need to go or be nerfed to hell. Having hard content is fine, having that hard content gating players from personal growth towards their elite spec is not cool.

3.) Ranger Pet location for some pets needs to change
Rangers already cried bloody murder over this. Pets that impact your playstyle by a large margin should not be locked behind 3 hour pve events. What about WvWer’s who will NEVER gain access to these pets due to how horrible their acquisition is?

4.) Mastery system needs a review
The system is a total and catastrophic failure, forcing people to grind in silly ways just to do the content they like. Example is fractal mastery and people being unable to get enough agony resist because the fractal vendor with +7 infusions is tied to a generic experience bar and they didn’t grind out enough CoE P1 to get it. This system is so monumentally bad (starwars NGE level of bad), I have no idea how to “undo” the damage it wrought.

One way I can think to improve the mastery system is to tie mastery acquisition to a specific achievement instead of an XP grind bar. For example, fractal mastery can be tied to completing fractals. Pact mastery can be tied to completing group events.

The idea is to advance players in masteries based on the content they do, not to lock them out of the content they like with a mindless grind and XP bar. Imagine fractal players, who have to sit there and farm CoE p1 just so they can do higher fractals? That’s silly. Who thought of this?

5.) Rewards need to be better
There just needs to be better rewards to incentivize players into doing content like Dragon’s Stand and Tangle Root’s meta. Sitting there for 3hrs for a box of greens is not going to cut it anymore. Even the professional reviewers ripped the game for this. Rewards suck, they have always sucked. Now that content is harder and takes more time, that needs to change. It’s silly how many people are in SW still chest running because the HoT rewards are so terrible.

6.) Dead content needs to be put into a incentivizing rotation
Do you see people in dry top? I don’t. Good luck getting mawdrey or amberite weapons now. Something needs to be done to funnel people into dead zones to complete the meta. Make a weekly quest with a good reward and have that quest go and complete the meta for these zones to get players to do this content.

7.) Get a better balance team
Everyone can agree, it took the balance team forever to get game balance decent prior to the new specialization system. Even since then, its been a nightmarish mess of failed tournaments and low twitch views in PvP. Classes are so horribly imbalanced in PVP, PVE, and WvW. Certain classes just suck at certain content (like thief outside of D/P).

8.) Get your class roles and visions straight
WTF is going on with healing? You state how zerker meta won’t cut it, introduce healers, then fill the game with timed bosses that enforce even more zerk? Whhhhhuuuuuuuuttt? I just head desk so hard looking at this.

9.) Your communication with the community/fanbase sucks, fix it
Alot of players didn’t see these sweeping changes coming and weren’t warned about the difficulty or the 400 hero points. If you told us about the 400 HP, we could have told you it was a s——-y idea to begin with. Communication and morale is at an all time low. You guys rip entire systems out of the game and barely give us notice, leading to so much wasted time and progression. Like look at all the guilds that whose contribution points became useless because the announcement was made so late. Was anything learned after the fractured update?

You need a public test server. So much of this stuff can be fixed with simple community input. Instead you hide everything from us, like we are some sort of evil gremlins that will steer the game wrong with our protests. It’s better to hear it from us early and be open; rather than watch the professional reviewers tear HoT apart like they are doing now while are all going “we told you so” or “we could have helped.”

The content is not to hard at all , I defended a outpost at night alone , and captured a rally point alone. With the change to HP everything is solo-able.

Dry top is FAR from dead , It is accually getting to T5 and T6 now. I went there to farm sand for Guild Hall and there is a TON of people

Larynx.2453:

Gaviston Hawkington.9647:

Please don’t argue this is normal market speculative behavior….it’s foreknowledge.

It’s normal market speculative behavior.

I agree , It’s normal market speculative behavior.

Have you stood under a temptest’s Lightning storm ? or Flame Storm ? Those do massive damage , While his abilities are heavy support Temptest makes a awesome Auramancer.

I still dont know how to play thief because I die on thief and Daredevil like you said

It went up to 7.1 (10/27/2015)

No , that vendor is only if you have leftover tokens from when the events where running

Sylvari Male , I cant progress my story at all , please help , eager to progress

I remember reading about the golden city , Can you enter it and is it a hub ?

Its been the 23rd in South Africa for 6 hours now

Firelysm.4967:

masterJP.5048:

Stronghold is suppose to be the new GvG mode , Arena’s is for brawls in your own guild. I might be wrong though but that is what I can gather

just dont, ok:)? Because you guys that truly believe that have no idea what is the purpose of gvg.

I did not say it was my idea , I meant that is what Anet intended

Stronghold is suppose to be the new GvG mode , Arena’s is for brawls in your own guild. I might be wrong though but that is what I can gather

I may be wrong but aint stronghold supposed to be the GvG mode ? Aint the arena’s just for duels between guild members ? I have not seen the trailer you are refering to so I might be wrong

If my friend don’t have LS Season 2 , can they still join a instance I create ?

hmm I see , Mesmers also got a change , only been playing on ele lately so did’nt notice

“Fear my wrath !” Ultimate skill (0) , when did this get added ? Am I late to the party or something ?

Garambola.2461:

I have a theory that it will be for sale after the 24th.

I hope your right Got crests saved up

Is there any way to buy this box ? I done the vinewarth nearly 30 times now and no drop yet

Based on what we know option available is :
-Doing WvW , Exploring the new map
-Start a Revenant
-Try the new SPvP maps , get your guild to do it.
-Doing the new PvE stuff

Personally I’m stuck between Revenant and new pve stuff

Crimson Clouds.4853:

The Kidney and Eye extractors were released with yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) update.

Enjoy

THANKS !!!!

Hi , Any ETA on the last two modrem organ extractors ? RNG has not been kind on me.

Hi , Just read a few posts from “state of Roleplaying” and got a idea , What if players were able to make there own chat channels that all there characters can see no matter where or in what guild ? It would create alot of possibility’s :
-WvW groups
-Guild Allainces , though unofficial I know a few people who would love it !
-Family and friends when your more than 5
-Squads when commanders is offline

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY :
-RolePlaying , The RP community can create there own channel and talk to each other no matter where they would be. Always find someone !

How it work is :
You create a channel by giving it a name , anyone can type in that name and join the channel. You can type : /leave in that channel to leave it.

A few other games have done it for example Startrek online and DC Universe online.

I believe this might help the RP community alot !

No grinding to have BIS gear , Grinding for Skins (Which is Legendaries and Dungeon rewards) is how they keep you busy and is not required , Which is why they are grindy. Ascended give a small stat increase so I suppose that can be considered grindy. But not that much a increase

I think mastery’s Will only be in the new zone But Specializations will be everywhere , As they will only add skills and weapon types , people without the Expansion just wont have access to that skills. The game will eventually balance out (since release of new skills usually bring inbalance) and there wil be a HoT Meta build and a normal meta build but they should have the same impact

Guild Halls is in the Heart of maguuma jungle , they say so on the Expansion page , so only people with HoT will be able to get to it.

WvW I have no clue

PvP I think only people with HoT will be able to play the new maps and mode

Please note this is my opinion and NOT facts

Sab ? SAB !!!!!!!!

How long till HoT is released ? It make sense monst companies announce there Expansion packs almost a year ahead of the release date but What of the LS ? Gonna do nothing for a year ? Great work though !! Really loving HoT !!!!!!!

Well since pre-cursor crafting is coming , I assume everyone will want to make a legendary