Guild Wars 2

The new page bug and no forum search for 2+ years are a disgrace.

Let me have one more go at this.

Returning to the OP, his problem is (am I even getting that right, cause it’s never really explained) that his phantasms die too quick. So quick, that they don’t even attack aka. “blew up on summoning” → “This exact same issue happens with this chapter” (mind you, this is hard for me to believe)
Right?

I have not noticed this issue. Yes, my clones/phantasms die after 1-2 attacks, just like any other solo boss. Thus came my advice of maybe not waiting for popping out 3 phantasms and hoping for them to survive, but instead actively using them aka. shatter.

If OPs phantasm do not even do the first attack, he is either:
1. Exaggarating
2. Running so low defenses that it really makes phantasms useless

For this I suggested getting A – clone boosting traits, B – clone boosting skills, C – not full zerker gear

While this will lead to missing out on some damage that full zerk provides, it seems OP is loosing “potential 60%+ of his damage”.

So what to do? Buff up your clones to a point where they can do a successfull attack, and shatter afterwards for bonus damage, as they will die anyway.

For some strange reason my clones manage to survive with a 50-50% mix of zerker and celestial.

Ping.5739:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Players were exploiting it by deleting and remaking characters, so we made it based on your entire account.

Edit:
Due to the reward being so high, and the upscaling for the living world, this was seen as being bad.

0.0 Now its considered as exploiting…. if the reward is high…. oh wait… what define the “high” line?

Uhm, that’s not what he said. He said making characters, deleting them for the sole purpose of farming that one specific dungeon is an exploit. And everyone with a sane sense should realise that.

(don’t tell me now that anyone belived that that was ‘k to do’)

ProtoGunner.4953:

My point was people will always complain and they wouldn’t play SAB anymore (unless you are a hardcore fan) be cause there is no additional content. The kitten begins anew: they moan there is no additional SAB content.

I’m sorry, but the solution for people wanting more content is certainly not removing content.

Actually you can farm laurerls.

Achievments chests, the ones you get for every 500 AP gives you Laurels.

Poobadoo

ProtoGunner.4953:

Did something happen a day ago? What is this discussion about? Did they mention there’s only two maps?

It’s the PvP map OP is talking about. He is hoping for… get this… ANOTHER PvP map on top of it.

Yeah right! Some hero!

Listen up citizens! Here is THE TRUTH about Gnashblade (if that’s even his real name!)!

Just yesterday I was investigating at Caedecus Manor and guess what I have found:
Some of the bandits had so called “support reminders”. With vote tokens and some silver. Trying to kidnap Queen Jennah are we Gnashblade?

On the very same day I also took a visit to Twighlight Arbor. And it turned out Gnashblade also wanted support from the Nightmare!

But that’s not the worst… in twighlight arbor, I was swimming around, when some barracuda attacked me. I fended it off, and manage to kill it. Believe it or not, it also had a “support reminder”.

I ask you, how low can you get Gnashblade? Not only is he flame legion, not only is he supporting bandits and the Nightmare, he is also corrupting fish now! That’s your hero right there: Evon “fishcorrupter” Gnashblade.

Disgusting.

Cyninja.2954:

Bubi.7942:

Aenesthesia.1697:

Animosity.5968:

OP

First, two things:

- i regularly run fractals, and speed clear dungeons. We never glitch anything. Just once in fractals and for laughs (the mai trim glitch)
- using reflects on a boss is not an exploit. If you think it is, then so dodging, healingm cand even attacking would be exploits. Dont troll if you are serious about your post.

Op is saying (if I got it right) that for instance glitching Lupi in the wall so you can place a reflect on the wall behind him instantly destroying 50%+ of his health is exploiting.

I have a feeling many people got so used to glithy/cheesy dungeon runs, that they consider that normal now.

And yet there are even more of us “normal” players who do not abuse such glitches. I’m fully ascended on both my main character and main twink and I can count down the times I have been exposed to such a glitch on one hand.

Like I said, it depends on one’s definition of a glitch/exploit.

For me squeezing 5 people in the corner at the end of AC3 (or 1?) so the NPC also stacks on you, thus you avoid the any damage that can be done by done falling ceiling falls under the category of exploiting. You could argue that it is just “smart play”, for me, it’s pretty clear it’s not intentional.

And it’s great that You or Your team/guild don’t use them, and that in your personal experience, rarely encountered them. I have different experiences however. I have redone Arah recently (like 4 months ago) with PuGs, because I have totally forgot about them (I did them 2 years before that). Done all 4 paths once. All 4 times, someone glitched Lupi in above described manner. One time we even skipped half of the dungeon by jumping out of map somewhere.

Unlucky? Maybe, but I have my doubts.

lordkrall.7241:

Which are all those other times where ArenaNet have buckled due to massive amounts of rage? I must have forgotten all about them, because I can’t really recall a single one.

On top of what has been said:

- Nerfing Orr
- Nerfing Teq, TT
- Nerfing SAB 2.0
- Nerfing mordrem

Dear OP!

I am a hoarder of gold. Currently I have 100 g in my inventory and my bank is worth well over 500 g. So far I have collected over 2000 g in the game (guess). I have been playing since day 1. With that said:

- No, it’s not hard to earn money in this game. I earn about 5 g/day and I’m online for what? 1,5 hours? If you are curious currently I’m doing the karka queen and it’s predecessor events, then Melandru or some other temple event/s. That’s 5 g right there by ‘just playing the game’. If you get lucky, maybe even more.

- People playing the TP are exploiting? Really? You should thank those people that they’re in the game instead of bashing them, as they are who actually make the gold go ‘woosh’ disappear from the game via transaction fees, thus making things affordable.

- I have participated in the lost shores events, and have all 3 minies from back then (karka, karka popper, reef drake). They ALL costed above 25 g. Most expensive was 34 g. And that was back in november. The math is done. The current mini is 28,5 g.

- Try not to call people who don’t agree with you ’Jerk’s and/or saying to them that they are using ‘condescending’ tones. Try to be civilized.

Conclusion: Don’t call the ‘majority’ of the people exploiters. And no, it’s not ‘too’ expensive.

Ps.: I don’t play the TP, nor run CoFp1 (been there since day one like 5 times).

Hah… after 4 months this still works this way. Could we just get a confirmation that this is acknowledged as a bug and/or intended?

Let me help my fellow forum readers where they are making a mistake in reading, Circa said:

“A few MMO’s have added a feature to their expansions, allowing new players to “boost” their characters to the level of the expansion so they can play with family and friends in the expansion content from day one.”

There you go.

Dusty Moon.4382:

LOL – you guys always blaming one end pipe but not the middle. Also the servers are housed in an office in Dallas, TX – NCSoft’s server farm.

If it was the servers, EVERYONE would be having issues. I haven’t. I think it is your ISP – have Comcast in the south? Look to see if they are throttling your connection…..

Here is jpg captured just now from pingplotter – notice the one router with 100% packet loss? That could be an issue…..

I’m glad NA servers are working fine. Everything is in order then, cause nothing exists outside ’murica.

Meglobob.8620:

TTS Kills Wurm for Second Time Back To Back

Well done…

But, what are you, the 10th to kill it now?

Also, Anet recently made some changes to the Wurm, I think they fixed some bugs/made it a lot easier.

So all that takes away from your Wurm kills…just saying…

Really, only the 1st Wurm kill matters…

No prizes for 10th, especially when Anet nerf it so you can complete it…

This event beat TTS in its original form.

dat sourness

Finally, the deciding point for buy or not to buy.

By the way, keep updating that Reddit Anet, don’t use your own forums. That wouldn’t make sense, right?

nosleepdemon.1368:

Khristophoros.7194:

Oh I also want to comment on this.

Belenus.9132:

What sort of slime wrapped in human skin does that to another human being? Let alone a child; not that they seemed to know or care.

Almost certainly 14-16 year old boys.

You meant to say children, right? Mx sexist.

Mx. Cause Mr and Ms are offensive.

AnniMira.2506:

If I have followed tagless guild, I have tagged up when we are about to take something bigger.

Ouch, that’s a bad idea.

They are running tagless cause they want to be tagless. If you tag up for them to be seen, you really are just trolling them.

lordkrall.7241:

“Who did Gnashblade ever revive?”

Everyone that used the Rez orb?

Well Kiel sure didn’t pickpocket me while ressing….

@OP:

Nope.

Remember that time when “Antitoxin Spray” healing skill was announced and everyone went apekitten because it was gonne be too OP?

So… in the world of Tyria…

What happens if your intimate partner uses a Total makeover kit mid action?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Is anyone actually playing this game as designed? Like actually tying to capture crystals and charge you’re own conduits, while stopping the other guys from doing the same thing?

So far all I’ve seen is PK Kiddies running in circles around that middle grassy area trying to knock each other off the sides. Ah well, I probably only need 20 “games played” for that achievement. I can probably AFK most of it.

Huh?

I’m playing it. I’m winning. Got all achievments real quick. I am having fun with it.
If you really go afk, I do hope the server kicks you. Or even worse.

@Incu: If we are thinking about the same comments/threads, then those are about that it would be a good idea to announce removal of certain vendors (eg.: holiday vendors) in advance so people can sell up/exchange. Cause sometimes they stay, sometimes they don’t.

And I agree, changes can be new, but this is just removal, nothing new.

With an analogy, it’s like:
You are going to your favorite theme park, when a guy at the entrance says:
- Have we got exciting news for you!
- ?
- We demolished two of our roller coasters!
- Uhm…
- Not only that, but you cannot take anyomore photos on those rollercoasters!
- Ooookay..
- We also fired the staff working there!
- I gotta go now…
- Have fun!

Edit: Hah, I’m a funny guy, I made myself smile.

Well if he is, he is wrong. It’s actually cheaper than other ascended backpieces.

I wish they would reintroduce armor repair costs. I’m serious.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

Yep, and then by misstake eat 250 omnomberries on one click. Definitely need this feature, because ppl are too lazy in their freetime. You ever salvaged PvP-Chests? I don’t think so, otherwise you would have never ever brought up this topic.

1. You can’t eat omnomberries.
2. Right click → use all
And if that’s not good enough:
3. Right click → use all → are you sure pop-up

Solved. Wasn’t too hard.

Bag of Gear from Silverwastes dropped me an Energizer.

What was weird that I didn’t even notice it at first. I linked it in Guild chat to brag (as I do with most exotics).

I only realized it was a pre when guildies replied “VERY NICE!” and “you lucky kitten” and such. I was surprised as usually they don’t care or say “gz”, so I checked again thinking maybe the rune is pricey or something.

If not for my guildies, I would have probably salvaged it, as I didn’t have the skin yet.

I agree with the title 100%. This thread is absolutly not worth bothering with.

“i do ele i go war ooops w t f war nerfes
69% and down
gf dont impresss say she leaving now
all is vain”

Astralporing.1957:

Since there’s no way to accidentally delete a character, i wouldn’t expect any help from support.

But what if your cat jumps on your keyboard, accidentally logs into your account, accidentally hits delete, then accidentally types your char’s name, and then hits enter?

Can’t really add much to this thread.

I’m in the exact same shoes as OP.

Done every LS achievment so far, including Liadri 8 orb, Merc camp capper, and others that probably no one did.

And all I am missing is the Volcanic fractal from Fractured!

I’ve done about 20+ runs during the Fractured! Weeks (mind you, these are usually around 1,5 hours each – some less, some way more), not Volcanic once.

I might add I’ve done over 700 Fractals before the patch, was reset from lv 52.

And just a little spice to my sad little story:

I actually did get Volcanic once. At the very minute before the patch. 3 hours until your application restarts. Alright, that should be enough, no?
Well after failing once on the last boss, a guy got dc-d (or dc-d intentionally, who knows), we waited for him to return to no avail. Then suddenly the Instance owner decided, that he wants to see the new update, so he will just restart his game. So I got thrown out.

End so ends my pityful story. And I’m sad.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Why does the mesmer need such a strong weakness in PvE then?

What is the weakness of warriors?
What is the weakness of the guardian?
The thief? And so on.

Can you find anything comparable to the mesmers weakness?
Is there any benefit if you outplay the weakness? Like doing way more damage than the other classes?

This argument is flawed. If other professions do not have such a weakness, why it is ok for the mesmer to have it, even though there is no real benefit if you overcome it, but just being on par?

What you are describing here are balance ‘issues’. There are thousands of threads on it in the Class, PvP and WvW sections on it. Suming that up, is a task beyond me, but I will give it a go:

Without going into calculations I will take the educated guess that a mesmer with 3 Phantasms active is most likely the highest single target damage (3 duelists + mesmer AA > warrior AA). That is the benefit of the mesmer. If you manage to maintain 3 phantasms throught the fight, you will outdamage any enemy (given equal ground meaning – traits, gear, might stacks etc). That is far from “on par”.

All classes have weaknesses, and as I mentioned above, hit up the thousands of threads about this if you want to go in detail, excuse me if I try to be done with it with 2-3 words:

Mesmer → relies on AI
Ele → Low survivability
Necro → Slow
Engie → Does everything, but never does anything as good as other classes
Ranger → is Ranger
Thief → Low survivability
Guardian → Support, low damage
Warrior → Well… altough many posts will claim has no weaknesses, thus it’s the most OP class (which is somewhat true), it is fairly predictable and kiteable, however that only is a weakness in competitive enviroment, no wonder dungeon groups need “FULL ZERK 10k+ AP WARR GEAR OR KICK”

And all this would make sense/have a meaning, if OPs claims would be ture. Which they are not.

Shinzan.2908:

I got my gift of battle by running the WvW jumping puzzle in stealth. If I had to grind rank too I’d probably do it naked following a zerg and standing in circles, so basically not contributing to the WvW effort and taking away slots for those who actually care to PvP. Basically glad I don’t have to do this because I was lucky to get my gift before this patch. :p

Why? Just, why?

Wow, what a kittening joke.

For t6 you can only miss a few events or bonuses (like 4-5 I think). You need more organization then just trying with randoms on the map.

As you said, you can get it “solo” (tagging up and commanding) to t5 with a bit of effort. For t6 you need TS and/or 10 people who know exactly what to do. I think it’s fine that way, more organization, higher rewards, but even with t4 you can get everything you want.

If you can organize it yourself, go for it, if not, there are many communites organizing such events. I don’t know if you are from EU or not, but EU has ts.gw2community.com (that’s a teamspeak adress), I think they do t6 daily.

We on WSR (Whiteside Ridge) do t6 2 times a week (one being today), you are more than welcome to join in our efforts. You can check out details on the site: http://www.whitesideridge.com

hedix.1986:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The timer + the overflows really kill this event I agree.

That is the main reason why people rush to big servers like Desolation or Blackgate (brand only) which creates even more problems for those servers that suddenly have bazillion overflows and people on their home server can’t get into the main.
Plus waiting for X hours because you might wind up in the wrong overflow is just simply not fun gamepay.

This thread does have some points, but come on!

People guest over to the biggest servers on the first day of the patch and find themselves in overflows? What a shock!

I have to agree with the OP here.
Let’s remove all ‘farms’, so people can actually focus on the game itself and not do chores.

Wonder why people quit the game after 2 months of farming?

Ps.: And btw, it’s not like there aren’t hundreds of other places/paths wehre you could do your grindfest (read: farm).

Mesmer main here.

GS skill #5, Focus skill #4 EXTREMLY useful in this fight.

Also, I was the last man standing when we downed it:)

Tom Gore.4035:

clint.5681:

Tom Gore.4035:

You all are missing the fact that the gem store is the only place to reliable get those Transmutation Crystals.

That fact wasnt missed.

What was missed by the op was the fact that dungeon armor is actually used as armor.

Well with the ascended tier coming, it’s only a matter of time before it will only be used as a skin, albeit that time might be long(ish).

Huh? What about new players? I doubt they start with ascended gear, or have the gold to buy the crafting mats needed. I don’t really see a point in this thread.

Celtic Lady.3729:

It seemed like there was a way to get rid of the bobble heads last year. I think I just logged off and on and it was gone? Something like that.

Nope, people went berserk last year too, caust it “it made the game unplayable” and many “reported it as a bug”.

Same threats to leaving the game as last year, same “worst april1st evaaaah!!14!!’”, same “turn off options needed!!!63215!”. Just cause 1 animation is different, and there is a filter for 24 hours.

Everything is the same, really. I’m quite enjoying the forums however.

Actually some of these rage posters remind me of this kid:

Hey!

So I was leveling my necro, when I found that my minions just die whenever they feel like it. Whitout a warning, all minions skills just go on cooldown, and each of you minions die.

So after this has gotten me mad quite a few times, my friend helped me investigate the issue, here is what we got:

Issue: Minions die for no reason, all minion skills go no cooldown (like on normal death)

Occurance: As far as I know it only occurs in PvE (altough haven’t tested in PvP or WvW). When you are traveling around, your minions suddenly collapse – notable in low level areas. After some investigation, we found that it happens when the map scales you down, and assigns you with a new level (eg.: your real level is 80, but you are scaled down to 16 in one area, and you enter in another area where you are scaled down to 18).

Cause: It seems to be an issue with the Death Magic traitline X trait (Flesh of the Master). I’m guessing the game reassigns the trait every time to adjust it to your current level, thus causing all minions to die.

Suggestion: Hire me to Anet QA. I need a new job

maddoctor.2738:

And here is the main problem with gaming in general, not just Guild Wars 2. Players not wanting to use brain power to get better at playing them, leading to more and more dumbed down games. And now the only way to find a worthy game is through a kickstarter campaign, an indie developer or some miracle. Most of them devolve into a bazillion cutscenes with a few interactive moments in-between and QTEs. If I want to watch a movie, I’d watch a movie, there is no necessity to play a video game for a similar experience with far worse graphics.

In GW2 you don’t have cutscenes in most content, but it has the same difficulty as watching a cutscene in other video games. It’s a “watch this bar move until you get your loot” kind of experience. I can understand how for the “newer” generation of gamers who want to watch their game and not play it, HoT would be frustrating because you can’t put it on auto-pilot like in Core Tyria. But is “watching” really “playing”? I’d say not. You’d probably disagree.

Well said.

There are games out there where you have to click on monsters to do damage (Click heroes or something). But you can automate this by buying upgrades, and the game even runs when you are not “online”. So it basically boils down to: Log in → Buy upgrade → Log out. Fun fun fun.

Also, just as a little story, I got a great title from one of my friends for christmas on Steam called: “Shower with your dad simulator 2015: Do you still shower with your dad?” After playing it (yes, I actually played it), and finishing it in one mode, I got the following “you win” screen: http://i67.tinypic.com/jt565e.png

After playing with this game, I think it’s super fitting.

warbignime.4610:

draugris.9872:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

The irony is that Arenanet self created that environment with their refusal to communication. And it seems that they understood that they can´t fool the people here any longer.

Point proven, people here are just so much more toxic and complain about every little thing in GW2 since day 1 of launch. I mean if some new player just read forum and don’t play the game they would think GW2 is one of the worst game ever made.

So the awnser to critisism is to ignore it and go to a shiny happy place? That’s some messed up thinking right there.

What if Reddit also gets “toxic”? Just move on to the next platform?

I mean, why not just have a closed circle for Anet, where they can pat eachother on the back.

Oh noes! Anet has taken away the oppertunity to run around for hours withink a 20 meter area for days! I am so lost now, I have no idea what to do:(

If they don’t stop this, maybe I will be forced to actually play the game! That is a direct threat!

Luckily I am clever enough to find a new farming spot, so I still don’t have to go with ‘normal’ gameplay. Jokes on you Anet! (Or is it?)

I’m sure this is discussed somewhere, but hey, no forum search so:

I know some of you think that Nightcapping is “k”, but deep down in your hearts you know thtait is wrong.

So, here are my 2 ideas in solving that:

Method 1:

Adjust point gain to Prime times. You could just halve the points gained in non-prime time. This would make the night capping still worthwhile, but reduce it’s significance.

You could also adjust it to hours.

Here’s an example:

You are playing an on EU server.

You gain 100% points from 10:00 GMT to 23:00 GMT.
You gain 75% points from 7:00 GMT to 10:00 GMT, and from 23:00 GMT to 02:00 GMT.
You gain 50% points from 02:00 GMT to 7:00 GMT.

Ta-da! No one is hurt, nightlifers and people from the US (and vice versa on US servers) are not hurt, they can still work for their beloved server.

Method 2:

Add additional defenses to camps, towers and keeps that are actually worth something, and buff defenses at nighttime.

You could have an additional row of upgrades in every establishment (camps, towers, etc..). These upgrades would only activate at nighttime (say from 23:00 GMT to 7:00 GMT).

The upgrades would be the following:

t1: Nightwatch – Adds Elite tier NPCs to the walls, to the gates, and inside the lord room

t2: Nightshift – Damegad walls and keeps autorepair over time, if they are untouched

t3: Night preservance – Gates and walls gain bonus health and all siege inside towers, keeps gain an additional hour before they decay.

So Those are my ideas, they may have been discussed before, but hey, like I said in the beginning, no forum search.

Edit: Wow, a similar thread just popped up while I was typing this.

Valdemas.4960:

This is one of the better changes for tournaments and I aplaud it.

Any wvw player worth his salt does not give jack about achievements or militia that crawls out of whatever pve hole they were hiding in all the weeks prior to the season.

We do what we do because WE are just plain stupid and we love it.

Let me just quote this, cause this comment is the prime example of ignorance (don’t want to offend, but yeah).

Here is a few things wrong with this:

1. Not all people are (like) you. Can you imagine someone actually liking WvW AND liking do to achievments?

2. There are people outside the hardcore-pure-only-(insert Man-o-war lyrics here) WvWers. Some PvP-ers and PvE-ers actually like to pop in WvW for 2-3 hours a week and that’s it.

3. WvW keeps crying about dying, and when there’s a chance for influx on new players, you send them away. Brilliant.

4. When the ever-so-stale (that is target to many tears) WvW is gonna get a little seasoning (pun intended), you say you don’t need it cause… sorry why again?

And as I said, this post is not meant for you only, I know a huge % of WvW players think like this. Which is quite frankly: ignorant and sad.

I love the fact that people are hiding behind server population numbers just to cover up them being lazy to organize a fight properly.

For the 3rd or 4th time now: Whiteside Ridge is killing it on a regular basis (medium pop).

zen.6091:

Skeletor.9360:

So where are these threads he mentions…seems to be a non-honest response…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Sick-of-condi-builds-when-roaming/page/6#post4128732
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Nasty-WvW-condi-builds/first#post3966254
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Feedback-regarding-Conditions/page/15#post3934508
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-meta-condis/first#post3905975
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/RIP-Power-Builds/first#post3905789
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Game-health-power-vs-condi/first#post3813825
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/RIP-power-builds-in-roaming/page/5#post3556164

Those are just some of the threads I’ve posted in because oh…the search is still broken.

But yeah, I get it that most ppl have quit or rerolled bunk by now.

I would at least have some decency to take out the other threads that I started. Just saiyan :P

Just an add to OP: Kefka was ok in my oppinion…. but Sepiroth in FFVII… my god I hated that guy by the end. And there was a VERY satisfying battle with him at the end.

And yes. Give us bad guys. Good bad guys, if you know what I mean.

And yeah, JRPGs tend to build up bad guys well (mostly).