Guild Wars 2

Yeah… I’m from JQ and guested to Devona’s Rest to get power cores and saw Shatterer up at full health with 0 people even attempting to kill him and thought “very high population my kitten ” lol.

ALL those people that thought that the server pop was based on active players and not just accounts must be eating serious crow these days.

TehPwnerer.7215:

This Queensdale champion loot train needs to stop. Since the update, level 80s flock Queensdale all day and night and own the events in less than 20 seconds. It’s making it extremely difficult to level up in these zones when none of the events are doable because level 80s steam roll them before you can even get there.

I’ve been called a troll all night for requesting the level 80s to go somewhere more appropriate for them since I can’t go anywhere. “Go to other starter zones to level!” “Go to another zone!” “Craft!”

So because I’m leveling human characters all of which are under level 10, I now can’t do any of the Queensdale events because Anet has made them so appealing for level 80s to farm.

The people calling me a troll tell me that they log on and kill the champions all day – that’s all they do. Because it’s more profitable and easier than doing stuff like Orr or Frostgorge event farming.

So why does Orr keep getting nerfed but places like Queensdale have champions spawning every 3 minutes? Why do level 80 zones feel the need to populate ONLY QUEENSDALE (none of the other starters have this many convenient and this number of champions)??

Something needs to be done to motivate players to populate more maps in the game world – not just have everyone flock to Queensdale 24/7 to farm champions. Usually I’m doing dungeons or fractals with the guild to notice this but even at launch it wasn’t this bad.

Please tell me there’s a better way.

There were plenty of threads and concerns about this and it has happened, the community all knew about the queensdale zerg and voiced it; they were left completely ignored. Look what happened…

Anet should have made it so that any champion under lvl 30 would not drop a golden loot bag.

They’ve said a few time they won’t make it account wide because of character progression or some such, even though PvP glory is account wide its like they’re biting their own tongue in that regard lol.

Who knows maybe if it was account bound and after it adds up everyone’s alts it would show up as a clear power creep since some people would have lots of lines maxed.

Erasculio.2914:

Mikau.6920:

First of all, why they need to be fixed? The game just encourages you to go full damage (zerker) becouse the other options aren’t so good as fast killing possible. Wanna be defensive? Kill fast as possible so you wont take too much dmg.

I disagree with your points. The reason why people claim that Berzeker is the best gear available is because they assume all sources of damage can be avoided by dodging. If you can’t avoid all kinds of damage through dodge, they say, you are just a bad player who doesn’t really matter.

Ergo, increasing healing power, vitality or toughness would not be the answer. The same argument would stay – you don’t need any of those things, just dodge and you become invulnerable, that’s it. Doesn’t matter how much health you have or how much healing you can do.

Said point of view is wrong – there are some circunstances in which dodging is not the solution, such as when facing multiple enemies who can apply Immobilize in intervals shorter than a profession’s available condition removal. But this kind of scenario only happens in specific places on the open world, not dungeons, so people simply don’t care.

What ArenaNet should do is remove the crutch. Make the most profitable dungeon one in which there’s some kind of environmental effect reducing endurance to zero, so people cannot dodge. Suddenly, the entire argument of “anything but Power, Precision and Critical Damage doesn’t matter because you can dodge” goes away, and people see the need for defensive attributes (as well as a stronger need for support roles in dungeons).

In a game designed around PvE 1 shot mechanics taking out dodging would be a horrible idea, the reason zerker is mostly better is because no matter if you’re PVT or zerk a 1 shot is still going to be a 1 shot.

Leo Paul.1659:

Ask us to stack all the time? Doesn’t it make us more susceptible to AOE attacks? :/

Actually no, the AoE cap))) is 5 players so stacking gives everyone buffs/heals and reduces the death toll.

cap + is = kitty

One of the biggest nails in the coffin for WvW.

My only question is why is this information only on facebook..?

Thank you OP for giving us the numbers, but most of us figured this out just by first impressions almost a year ago.

Sadly some people will keep the argument of the validity of zerker gear alive for a long time to come.. (Yes you can run anything which shows either how skilled you are or how easy the game is, your pick. But its common knowledge that zerker is the best and no one is stopping anyone from buying a set..)

Mackodlak.7961:

Erm…. so as long as only like 5-10% of the players have issues with this game it’s ok if ANET doesn’t fix it?
Whoever uses this argument, I wish sth happens with characters you play and ANET doesn’t fix them EVER. How can you be such kittens? You all should request ANET to fix EVERY issue, not only the ones that affect majority of people. When Collin says “we have no intention of adding&+/fixing sth cause our statistics says there are only 15% of the players that use that race/class” there should be a bunch of "BOOOOO"s from the audience, not bunch of head nods in a sign of approval.

^This a million times this.

Anet needs to get it drilled into their heads that its better to have quality over quantity the game was rushed out the door and launched without being completed yet they refuse to polish the game on any real level (compare all of GW2’s patch notes with games like Rift or WoW, just 1 year)

Sure they “fix” a bug here and there but they never really make the game itself improve in minor areas that would show pride in their craft.

And the whole working by the statistics thing is ridiculous only 15% of players approx would play a charr/engi (I dont for the clipping reasons, funny eh?) so there isn’t a reason to polish them? Really? Look at all the polish legendaries have gotten even though only the 1% have them. smh.

Sadly yes its zerg vs zerg vs zerg, I would love to see 30 teams of 10 people running around doing different stuff and roaming. But the mechanics and mainly the general populace are stuck in a zerg mode of 1 team of 300. :/

LordByron.8369:

KingClash.3186:

Better question, is it possible for these weeds to stop sprouting up and trying to cause unnecessary drama for no reason?

you are on a forum.

Labeling feedback you don t like, drama and just accepting compliments its not much democratic nor useful.

Gather feedback, see the reasons behind things and see if they are acceptable or baseless trolling.

You can even ignore the part “i like/dislike this….” and just read the part “because XYZ”

But just saying if you don t agree with me you are a whiner is just useless and unrespectful.

My post was directed towards the OP >.>

Ayrilana.1396:

thisisit.6954:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Please never remove the daily AP limit. It is an important milestone for an account and serves as an upper threshold so that new players have something attainable with immense effort so that they can compete with other older veterans on the AP leaderboard.

See, you just proved one of my points, you can NEVER compete, because they have APs from events long retired that you can never get.

And not having the cap would only make it worse.

Assuming that any veteran players still actively play and are fooled by the chore known as dailies.

Yeah its a bit ludicrous, a couple months back I got a friend hooked on GW2 and I was witness to the very 1st time he spoke in chat at something in map chat and he got the suppressed message warning pop up, this was his FIRST time typing in chat and.. well.. regardless to say but we busted up laughing.

Wasn’t really a big deal but there is something clearly wrong with the message system :P

I find it a bit funny that this is posted in the sub forum that has the most front page developer responses.

I can’t guarantee you will finish it, but here are some useful tips and how I did it moments ago.

Traits:
15, III
10, II
30, II,IV,IX (IV is in case you get a lucky rally off an orb, it can/has happened)
0
15, III

Sword/Warhorn and Longbow.
Force on sword Energy on warhorn
Had Rage on the bow (I used my MF bow)

Food: Bowl of Orrian Truffles and Meat Stew, and Potent Master Maintenance Oils.

Gear: I used full zerker.

Utilities: Healing Signet, Signet of Stamina, Fear Me!, Endure Pain, and Signet of Rage.

Start phase 1 with sword/warhorn quickly merc the pulling orb (melee 1 shots it, always try to kill these as soon as they pop up) Kite the darkness clones to the white cyclones and toss the light at the main one, the second cyclone can be tricky (yes it is a pattern more on this soon) its usually right up against the wall you can kite/stand on it while fighting with the terribad camera and as soon as you see one get turned into light use Fear Me! to safely grab/toss it. (You can also fear them INTO it with a bit of positioning.) The 3rd is easy its near the middle of the room just stand behind it.
(If you over dodged or something use endure pain to save you from AoE, keep in mind endure pain WILL NOT save you from the 1 touch killers.)

2nd phase, as soon as you toss that 3rd light look for the safe spot. There will be 1/4 of the arena edge not covered in AoE find it, once you do keep moving clockwise and you’ll always be on that safe spot (sometimes you may have to dodge to the safe spot, just count 1 2 dodge!) use the longbows F1 and 3 as much as possible even use F1 with 1 charge just to remove cripple or weakness because of cleansing ire BUT DON’T STOP RUNNING AROUND CLOCKWISE! unless its for a secure pop shot.

And of course if you’re out of energy swap to sword/warhorn for 50% and a life saving dodge followed immediately with 4-5.

Took me about 20 tries (had her under 5% a lot..) right when I was about to rage quit I got it, do it enough and you’ll see the patterns now that you know they’re there.
Hope this helps.

Vol.5241:

TA f/u is bugged so it’s not really about difficulty and more like it’s broken.

I agree SE path 2 should give 3G, not because it’s difficult but because it’s too long

CoF path 3 I never ran

What I think Anet should have done was announce that all dungeons would have a fixed gold reward for 2 weeks at 1.5G each. After that, they would enter a ‘alpha’ phase where they would look at the dungeon metrics and see the popular/unpopular ones and the amount of time each completed. Based on that, they would enter a ‘beta’ phase with further refinement, this time with appropriate rewards. After that, they would end up with the true gold reward.

^Anet! Hire this man naoww!

I’m nowhere near casual and I voted for Kiel lol.
I’m happy the $ to Gems to Gold folks are upset their Gems being increased in value didn’t quite happen. (BL keys 50% off with the addition of the new scrap reward had “buyer” written all over it :P)

Disclaimer—→ Not saying all that voted for Evon did it for the above reason, but I personally know quite a few that did.

AoE loot bind it to Shift+F.
Fixed it and didn’t waste any developer time.
Only takes you about 10 seconds.

1. Idiotic “content” updates.
2. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Some of the same ones since launch (Most temple events come to mind…) and new ones every single patch.
3. The boring grind that is sPvP where the rank point cap for each game is 350ish.