Guild Wars 2

Anyone has an update on this? I know this weekend is the PoF beta weekend, but unfortunately we won’t be able to play elite specs.

As we have lvl 80 boosters now, I was wondering if ANet could allow us to use them to unlock both elite specs of a single class

Hope it will be today as well

I would guess as the trial weekend starts this week

Will the balance and class update release today?

Do I need to run ReShade or GemFX every time I launch/play the game or is it online 1 time to update the settings?

What would be the most realistic presents which also eliminate the fog/mist effect?

I heard however they are a great way to remover the blur/mist effect. Is this the case?

Although I have never used GemFX nor SweetFX, I have heard they can be used to greatly improve graphics.

It would be amazing if someone could give me some advice on which one looks best and what presets are recommendable to achieve amazing results.

In addition I was wondering if they are compatible with the 64bit client if GW2 (incl. HoT and PoF).

Thanks!

Behellagh.1468:

Hannelore.8153:

Why do people think graphics API has anything to actually do with graphics ? DirectX 11 and 12 are APIs, nothing more, they provide an interface to the programmer, and don’t determine what kind of content you can create.

Even if they completely rewrote the game the graphics would not just magically look better, this is a myth that is used to sell bad games.

All you’d really gain is better CPU usage from thread-safe GPU model.

Blackhearted.1264:

This would require anet to actually work on their engine and improve it. Something they have never shown any interest in doing. So no, it’s not gonna happen unfortunately.

They have massively improved the engine over the years, at launch the game could barely handle world bosses with 10-20 players, much less the kind of content that was introduced with HoT and LS3 and now PoF.

Even just Tequatl and Shatterer required significant internal retuning.

It’s not necessarily looks but many believe performance will automagically improve. Dx11/12 and Vulkan can handle a multithreaded renderer that Dx9 can’t. To support a redesigned renderer the in program data elements need to be thread safe which last we heard wasn’t. So they have a lot of work to the engine even before they chose which APIs to support.

The point is that DX11 and 12 games are more optimized for modern multicore CPUs as well as GPUs.

E.g. I run ESO on 1440p with max settings having a much higher FPS than GW2 on my 6700k with 980ti..
Same for almost every current other game which looks a lot better than GW2.

In addition, there are plenty of MMOs which received minor graphic updates over the years (WoW, LOTRO, Eve online etc.).

I am not asking for a complete overhaul, but there are definitely some improvements that could easily be made.

I was indeed surprised that non of the old classes returned.

Would have loved to see a Paragon elite spec for the warrior or guardian

Any update from the devs on how to unlock the new specs? Shouldn’t be too hard to answer…

@Gaile Gray, would you have any input on the above.

As a casual player, the HoT hero point system was rather a time consuming issue for me. In case we again need hero points, allowing us to respec our HoT elite spec hero points to the PoF elite spec would be an amazing feature.

Hi all

In case ANet wants us to grind hero points instead of offering an interesting (class specific) quest chain, I was wondering:

If you own HoT, will they allow us to respec?

If, for instance, I don’t like my current HoT elite spec, it would be great if I could retrieve the 250 HP used to unlock it.

In this case I can use them to unlock the character’s PoF elite spec.

I assume you can’t combine 2 elite specs so these 250 points would otherwise be wasted.

Odin the exiled.5764:

they will most likely be unlocked wtih same number of points as teh HoT ones were. So fully expect the same type of hero challenge champions that give 10 points. It should only take about 2-3 maps to fully unlock the elite spec anyways from all the hero points. I know i’ll just dive bomb each hero point with each character then map them later.

I was really hoping for some good class specific story quests through which you were able to unlock the elite spec. ANet spent so much time in creating all this great content. It would be very much of a shame should we again need to grind points..

Anyone? I would love to know both before purchasing. Especially about the Elite Spec progression as this is key. I am a casual player and don’t wish to grind points again

Will Lucky.8703:

Although system specs are jumping there has been no mention of either API.

But apparently viewing distance improvements will be in due to the size of the maps.

How big is the new map compared to HoT and Core?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Pifil.5193:

Zushada.6108:

A few of my friends have come over from another game recently and are playing on free accounts. They would like to purchase the HoT unlocks but have been holding off until the announcement of the PoF release date.

I just took a look at the bundle postings and they indicate that PoF and the core Central Tyria is included; however, there is not indication of whether the HoT content is as well.

Can you please confirm or deny that HoT is included in this price?

Thank you for clarifying!

HoT is not included in the price, however you can add HoT to your cart when buying PoF and receive a discount.

This is correct.

Buying the Bundle

The option to purchase the bundle of Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire will appear at the end of the purchase flow, when you are reviewing your order. Please note that if you already own HoT, the upgrade/bundle option will not appear. But if you do not own HoT and are looking to purchase Path of Fire and add Heart of Thorns at a reduced price, it should appear as I described above.

Please let me know if it does not appear for you, and thanks!

If you received a level 80 boost from HoT, will you get one more for purchasing PoF?

Hi all,

Do we get a graphic boost for all areas as well as DX11 or 12?

Thanks

Hi all,

I am looking to return 6 month break.

I noticed on the Gw2 website that you get a level boost.

If you got one with HoT, will you still get one with PoF?

In addition, I was wondering how the Elite Specialisations work. Will this again be through hero point grinding (hope not), or is there something more interesting behind this expansion’s elite progression?

Thanks!

Rambitshouse.8712:

Choppy.4183:

Rambitshouse.8712:

You wouldn’t happen to be in T4 and captured SBI’s Quentin Lake Tower this morning?

If so, I’m sorry

Oh sure, NOW you’re visible…. :P

Packit’s right though. He solved your problem for only 10 supply.

lol was never killed though

@Rambitshouse, what build, traits and gear are you using? I can’t seem to find a good combi to play around with once in a while

Well someone was asking for help and contacted one of the Anet moderators when he didn’t receive a reply after some days.
Someone else stated that, according to a sticky post, he should not have done this.

I mentioned that this should have been no problem if only Anet would be a bit more interactive with their customers.

I have seen so many good questions from the community, but almost never a reply from ANet. I just don’t get why they cannot hire a couple more moderators who ACTIVELY interact with their customers on a daily base.

Is it just me or is there an incredible high form of censorship on this forum.

I posted a single reply one of the forum’s posts in which I stated that Anet’s staff is barely interacting with their customers/community (which is a fact) and it got removed within 5 min..

Why not taking this feedback instead of removing it instantly with a warning?

I love GW, but have never seen this kind of censorship on community forums in my life

Agent Mulder.4531:

It honestly feels like the devs don’t even play the game.

They are not (actively) listening to their consumers. E.g. they barely reply to topics or answer questions which would show proactive interest….

Can’t seem to find an overview of large guilds unfortunately. Any one has a top 5?

What are the names of the largest guilds currently active?

Hi all,

As someone who bought GW Prophercies on the day of the release ad played it for nearly 7 years, I recently got a bit nostalgic and would like to start playing the game again.

I have played GW2 as a casual player for nearly 4 years as well, however really miss the story, depth and complexity of the first game.

The only thing I was wondering if there is still some kind of active community and to make sure there are no plans to “close” the game anyime soon.

It has always been a shame they did not update the core game’s (Prophercies, Factions and Nightfall) graphics when they released the Eye of the North expansion.

Thanks!

Hi all,

Just curious about every one´s opinion when it comes to today´s update?

Personally I am quite disappointed as I was hoping for a lot more improvements e.g. towards balancing in WvW and some rework of the racial skills as well.

Wanze.8410:

As they are not participating, I doubt it

:( That’s a shame. Don’t get me wrong, I love the LW seasons, but a true expansion takes too long to release…

In 2015 HoT was officially announced at Pax South.

As we are nearly 2 years further, I was wondering if ANet will finally announce the next expansion for GW2 during the same event which will be held from Jan 27-29?

After almost completing LS3EP3 I must honestky say that I am a bit disappointed with it’s content.

The map is very nice, however all the content is grind related. Get 4 of this, get 3 of that etc..I was really hoping for something more original especially as the quest chain is also very short

In the end I am just wondering, was it this we were waiting for? Where are the 2 dragons the trailer talked about? Why can’t we fight them even though we slayed multiple incl the one in the end of the original GW2 story

Pyriall.1683:

robertjan.2197:

Pyriall.1683:

robertjan.2197:

Rolisteel.1375:

Random unknown people that main a class that have boss like survivability because of good defenses + mobility + high damage all together always think their class are well balanced.

My main is a DH, my second a Ele and my third a Thief. Trust me Mesmer is definitely not OP. You should just know how to counter it. In the beginning I lost a lot from Mesmers, now I am in most cases a step ahead. Just make sure you don’t run too much and take it easy on the skill use in case you cannot clear their conditions.

I just started a mesmer. After using tombs to hit 80 and speccing/gearing it for dire Condi, I am still losing from most Druids, Thiefs and DHs. It will take some time to learn the class.

(ALMOST) all classes can be strong, you just need to know how to play them

Do you care to duel a top tier Condi Mesmer to show us how to do it?

That’s just a stupid comparison. I am not a top tier player and talking about the fact that as you learn to play your class, there are many classes who are able to win from Mesmer. Of course not every time, but at a normal “balanced” rate…I am pretty sure however that a top tier DH and Thief could easily finish a Mesmer without issues 6/10 times.

Wait..wait…wait, you told people to trust you and explained how you are a step ahead of mesmers when vs’ing them. If all you’re doing is curb stomping lower tiered players; I don’t have value for much of what you say.

I am talking about how I learned to play the mentioned classes in a way that I win most fights against “the average/normal” Mesmer players (again, I am not talking about top tier. Real top tier players would be able to beat me regardsless their own class). It’s a combi of knowijg your skills, knowing the opponent class (as the rotations are almost always the same) and most likely also a bit of luck ;-)

Key = bring condi clean and be very careful with spamming skills/running around if you don’t.

For DH, the most effective combi is running trapper incl trapper runes if you want. Use sword to teleport and place traps right under them. Even a dire condi Mes melts under the dps pressure.

Rolisteel.1375:

What skill level of mesmers you play against? You sounds like it so easy to kill mesmers on necro. So you are saying you beat Helseth and others? you aoe down clones transfer condi and dead Helseth. Sounds good on paper.

…I don’t even play necro so can’t comment on this. And again, I am not a top tier player. I am doing a lot WvW and often am killing up to platinum versions of mesmers (both condi and power shatters). Again, I am not saing Mesmer is weak, not at all, but it’s also not as overpowered as some people shout out…

Btw Necro indeed took a big hit lately, however with a couple of well timed well and condi transfers it is still possible to wipe out Mesmer clones and kill the Mesmer itself. It is however, a lot harder than with DH and Thief Chars.

Pyriall.1683:

robertjan.2197:

Rolisteel.1375:

Random unknown people that main a class that have boss like survivability because of good defenses + mobility + high damage all together always think their class are well balanced.

My main is a DH, my second a Ele and my third a Thief. Trust me Mesmer is definitely not OP. You should just know how to counter it. In the beginning I lost a lot from Mesmers, now I am in most cases a step ahead. Just make sure you don’t run too much and take it easy on the skill use in case you cannot clear their conditions.

I just started a mesmer. After using tombs to hit 80 and speccing/gearing it for dire Condi, I am still losing from most Druids, Thiefs and DHs. It will take some time to learn the class.

(ALMOST) all classes can be strong, you just need to know how to play them

Do you care to duel a top tier Condi Mesmer to show us how to do it?

That’s just a stupid comparison. I am not a top tier player and talking about the fact that as you learn to play your class, there are many classes who are able to win from Mesmer. Of course not every time, but at a normal “balanced” rate…I am pretty sure however that a top tier DH and Thief could easily finish a Mesmer without issues 6/10 times.

It would indeed be nice to have big patch notes 1 or 2 days upfront so people can prepare

BrotherBelial.3094:

“Soon”

Would be nice to have some patch notes while we wait.

Patch notes would be nice indeed! Shouldn’t take too much efford to post them

Rolisteel.1375:

Random unknown people that main a class that have boss like survivability because of good defenses + mobility + high damage all together always think their class are well balanced.

My main is a DH, my second a Ele and my third a Thief. Trust me Mesmer is definitely not OP. You should just know how to counter it. In the beginning I lost a lot from Mesmers, now I am in most cases a step ahead. Just make sure you don’t run too much and take it easy on the skill use in case you cannot clear their conditions.

I just started a mesmer. After using tombs to hit 80 and speccing/gearing it for dire Condi, I am still losing from most Druids, Thiefs and DHs. It will take some time to learn the class.

(ALMOST) all classes can be strong, you just need to know how to play them

Arden.7480:

This is Monday- new day for realise the patch, so it is not Tuesday and maybe it will be in 40 mins or 1h and 40 mins, we dont know.

Haha, unfortunately in the EU and Asia it’s a bit later :-D

Ithilwen.1529:

Mesmer has been hit repeatedly. Most recently, Moa took yet another strong nerf. This is a learn to play issue, not a Mesmer problem.

I agree with this. Sorry, but mesmer is at the bottum of the DPS chart and nerfed with every patch. If they reduce condi, there is just not much left when it comes to PVP or WvW…

I was wondering when the update will arrive? I don’t see any patch notes yet

Toolbox.9375:

It only applies to your next hit after using the Venom, and the next hit of any allies affected by it. I’m not sure if the duration stacks between players, I’m afraid, but I know it hits Break Bars pretty hard when you have a team around you.

Ow, seems a but useless to me then…40 sec cooldown, 1 sec stunfor an elite skills could be a lot better..

Hi all,

Will Baselisk Venom turn a foe into stone/stun a foe everytime it is hit with one of your attacks?

If so, does this mean that a single target could be turned to stone/stunned every single hit I land on him/her for 30 sec (duration of the BV skill)?

I do not seem to find a maximum of hits it lasts

Ah ok :-D :-D

Hmm I might have missed something. What video?

My Wintersday wish: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Secret_Lair_of_the_Snowmen

“Mmmm Snowcone!” :-D

As I bought HoT when it released back year, I would like to upgrade to the deluxe version.

Once again however it looks like Anet only thinks about new customers as there is no 50% off on the Deluxe upgrade package in the gem store

Vavume.8065:

Offair.2563:

Gratz. I was on 12K+ before revamp but sadly no screenshot to back that up.

Edit: Incase you wonder how, run around the borderlands and hug every dolyak 10-15sec to claim “escort” credit.

Accourding to GW2 efficiency you would prob be top 3 with that, the number 1 guy has 25k escorts… I thought yours was crazy but that really is woah… btw apparently I’m number 1 yakslapper, most of them was your yaks

P.S I miss the old days of [Rise] chasing me around your border, good times.

LOL the no. 1 played for 16,758h total. Taking into account that GW2 has been out for around 4 years that would be around 11 hours a day average! Looks like some people either don’t need to work/go to school/have a social life or do not sleep :-)

The number 9 even topped this with 20,759h!!!

1. How do you feel about this proposal?
2. What, if anything, would you change about this current proposal?
3. Would you be interested in transferring to a new free world?

From an objective I think it won’t work:
Currently many top tier servers have their own dedicated WvW groups and guilds. Changing the server layout could ruin this community completely.
In addition, on the more populated servers we currently have a waiting time to enter WvW (like EB). Increasing the population will only increase this OR you need more players in WvW.

Lastly, from a personal opinion: Since top tier servers aren’t full any longer, many people decided to pay up to 1800 gems for a server transfer to play with their active WvW guild.

If you suddenly change the whole layout and offer free transfers, I for instance would like back the 1800 GEMS I spent 1 week ago!!!

TheHeretic.3529:

1. You can already buy ascended items with Badges of Honor and Ectoplasm

2. I’ve gotten more ascended drops in WvW than in PvE, including FotM, and I have Ad Infinitum.

Do you even play WvW? I can guarantee you that the drop is much lower than in PVE…

As for your first point, you are only able to buy the same accessories as you can buy in the main cities for Laurels. You canmot biy armor nor weapons.

Hanza.6872:

I agree, there should be a steady way to acquire ascended items. Unlike with pve the only way to currently obtain ascended gear in wvw is luck. It would help tremendously if there was a way to slowly gather enough for some new gear without lucky drops. RNG cannot be a way to balance things out!

Rinks example might just be one of lucky drops, or perhaps my own luck might just be really crappy, but the system shouldn’t be based on RNG alone! Just look at what happens to the playerbase in all the Korean games that do it that way..

Agee. I am currently WvW lvl 114 which took me 1 year to reach as I am a very casual player who plays 1-2 hours a day tops. So far I have obtained 1 Ascended ring and no other Ascended item.

Hi all,

Currently there are many PVE related options to get Ascended items. These are raids, crafting, bosses etc.

For players who only like WvW there is only a rediculously small chance of finding Ascended items through ranking chests.

My suggestion would be to get tokens for ranking up, capping points and killing enemies which allow you to buy Ascended items (Armor,Weapons etc), like with Raid tokens.

Or, why not allowing us to buy them with Badges of Honor? Just make the price of Ascended items twice the price of Exotics

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

I would love it, the effort into lore and story line make me love this game.

But I can only manage the forum whining of "how dare you quest lock content!?!??!?!’

Better drop the boring hero point farming and add a great personal story for each of then. I would very much like the idea of a quest row in which you unlock the entire spec.

In case we get another elite spec locked behind hero points I will once and for all drop GW2 to be honest…

Hi all,

I have posted this request before, but unfortunately without luck. As the below item would be so dear to me I would love to try again (I deleted my old post).

I have been playing Guild Wars when it first released back in 2005. My favorite item of all time has been Chaos Bow. I still remember being able to buy it after selling a mini I received with my characters birthday. Such a happy day!

It might be too much to ask, but as I would never be able to afford this amazing item in GW2 , it would be more than amazing if someone has a spare Chaos Longbow Skin to gift away. Or as 400 gold for one person would probably be too much to ask for, it would be amazing if I could raise the 360 additional gold I would need to buy it myself.
Thanks a million to everyone in advance!

Server EU, FSP