Guild Wars 2

Vox Hollow.2736:

Well, in their defense, it’s not all that intuitive?

Sure, people posting on this forum might have some idea that Personal Defense options are just sort of these unspoken deadzones in PvE character building. But it’s not the game itself does anything to make it clear those options are PvP only.

Imagine how confusing that is for somebody new?

And before anybody pulls the Meta card on me. This would also be true even in the ideal scenario where the Support/Control/DPS trinity existed. Because personal defense doesn’t seemingly have anymore relevancy on those two lost roles than it does DPS.

I do agree with you. I guess the idea is that people with 10k+ AP who are obviously not new are still arguing that tank spec is the way to go. I think THAT is more confusing to new players.

Nobody posted any data mined information.

I know I do it to help others who have questions. Also, there are some great people to chat with here.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Doesn’t matter to me what day it’s released, as long as I have something to do while I should be working.

Haha, yup this is me to a T.

lazy workers high five

If only my work computer was a high end gaming rig. sad head shake

I really adore oil slick on medium armors.

Draknar.5748:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Miku Lawrence.6329:

stale.9785:

Picking nits here, but the legendary weapons all require pvp to get them – so they’re not at all pve exclusive. (Yes, WvW is players fighting players, thus is PvP – not PvE though quite often it appears to be Player vs. Door)

Wrong, you get badges from Achievement chests. This hyperbola is out of place.

Just wanted to say: you can’t get WvW maps from achievement chests.

But you can certainly map without engaging in any kind of player vs. player whatsoever.

EoTM —>badges, tons of badges, without really ever needing to fight unless two zergs collide.
WvW -->map completion, only explore what your side controls. This will avoid any possible PvP encounters. Anything left over (POIs/SPs that are in open-ish areas), just grab them on off hours or whenever your side controls the closest tower/keep/supply camp. It may take a while since you need to rotate to all 3 colors, but that’s price you pay for refusing to engage in any kind of PvP: inconvenience.

WvW really is a good balance of PvE and PvP whereas you can do one, the other, or both if you want to.

I could never claim with 100% certainty you won’t encounter another human in combat, but with the above method you will avoid 99% of encounters. (Some thieves are extremely persistent)

I wasn’t arguing that mapping wvw is difficult or anything (it wasn’t easy for me since I’m not good at pvp and did consistently run into roamers, but I do think it was a valuable part of building my legendaries) just that it is an aspect of wvw that you need for a legendary and it isn’t just given to you via achieve chests.

It would be a nice feature. In addition, a way to navigate through long threads to get to the developer post straight away would also be helpful.

I do know they have been working in bettering the forums, but it does seem like more could be done.

Healix.5819:

Flamekissed v2 ~

Lame. Might be the colors, but now I know I wasted new makeover kit and expensive dyes on my norn for nothing. why couldn’t it have been winged???

sigh

Calvin.5380:

‘Berzerker’ is too long. I’d rather call it either Burger, or Burglar. Reminds me of food, and The Hobbit. Can’t beat that.

Other suggestions include Stacker, Slacker, Whacker and Tom Bombadil.

Ber*S*erker. Say it with me. Berserker.

@Cookie: I’m a pleb? QQ

Bloody prince should return for halloween. It has a mask but it doesn’t cover hair or anything and is pretty awesome looking.

tigirius.9014:

Sogradde.8016:

coglin.1867:

Sogradde.8016:

Mike, what boggles our minds is, how you say you want to work with the community but you don’t do it. I didn’t read every CDI in its full entirety but did any of the features you “liked” ever see the light of day?
When you ask us for suggestions, we expect you to try and work on these.

People like this are the problem. The fact that you are so self centered that you feel you speak for the whole community says a lot about your misconceptions.

As well, they get tons of extremely varying suggestions at times. Which ones are they supposed to implement, and which ones should they not. What gives one persons suggestion more value?

Prove me wrong.

Also, you’re clearly missing the point. It’s not about favoring a suggestion, it’s about not stagnating and chosing to do nothing instead.
If you really want to argue they didn’t fix the scoring system because they couldn’t decide for about 2 years which fix was the best, you are as naive as ignorant.

I have to agree with them Coglin you can’t fanboy this one away. The fact of the matter is this. Their Feature Pack 2 is addressing 0 of the concerns players have almost unanimously in the forums. It shouldn’t take that long to reach a decision about things the people you’re making the game for are having trouble with. Many of these requests are very simple from a programmers pov, I know I’ve checked. For example, Hobosacks.

0 of the concerns? We’re only 1/3 of the way through their blogs. And their first third is stuff that not everyone WILL care about because it’s pvp and wvw based. Come on.

Ravenmoon.5318:

Emanuel.9781:

There was arah selling back in 2012 already…

You should seriously stop posting here now.

You should seriously stop making things up.
Even if there was dungeon selling at the time, it wasn’t a thing! And it’s so nasty today that even in guild chat I see guildies asking gold from other guildies for a dungeon run >_<

The only reason you see it now is because of the implementation of the new lfg system….

But I remember several Arah selling and buying threads on here and on gw2lfg.

Edit: then you should get new guildies, too.

In the spirit of the neat WvW tourneys, I would like to suggest a similar thing to PvE (not a tourney exactly).

Every few months, maybe a list of dungeon/fractal/open world specific achievements, something akin to:

• “Complete x dungeon in x time.”
• “Complete at least 30 fractals.”
• “Do every story path of every dungeon.”
• “Defeat Tequatl.”
• “Complete 50 events in open world.”
• “Complete x dungeon with at least 3 different classes”
• “Complete 10 personal story levels”

Etc. There could be a number of these achievements, as example, 15 of them, and say 10 of them are required to complete the achievement. The reward for the “meta” could be something along the lines of, some ascended materials like dragonite, or a number of dungeon tokens, or a number of fractal relics, whatever. (A special exclusive mini maybe? ;D )

Obviously, there’s no person v person or server v server competition here. It’s more of like Anet saying “PvE month!” (or week, or fortnight, whatever!). To encourage more people to say, attempt some fractals, or some dungeons. And for those of us who hate open world (ahem, me.) to give us some sort of incentive to go out and do the open world content.

I’d like to hear some ideas on how to make this neat and as uncontroversial as possible (I know we will get people saying “PVE DOESN’T NEED ANYTHING WAAAAAAAH.” But I’m just throwing it out there.

I’d love some thoughts and criticism!

Question for yall. I’m going to be making another ascended backpiece for the skin, as I already have… well several berserker ascended backpieces, is there another Stat combo you find even slightly useful? Mainly talking fractals. i know berserker is king, but as I already have so many, I’m really looking to make some use out of this thing outside of the skin. Any ideas?

I only had enough glory and paid tournament tokens for 2 attempts at the longbow (Dwayna’s) I don’t pvp much. Second try was Dwayna’s, I am ecstatic!

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Traveller.7496:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

I don’t like to see ANY romance in MAIN story plot.

I’ve seen people say this kind of thing.
granted, they've all been boys under the age of 14... But to each their own.

I enjoy love stories a lot. They make me feel squishy inside. I’m glad to see them in a game I love.

When I said that it’s generally the ladies who enjoy romance subplots more than gents, I was warned about sexism. So be careful!

I get that, but honestly… Literature and storytelling has romance. The only people I’ve met (apart from Knight, now) who are openly disgusted or against these things being incorporated into a story generally fit that demographic. And also, that’s why I put it blacked out.

You didn’t met a lot of hardcore gamers, didn’t you? We’ve seen too much things.

I didn’t think hardcore gamers cared about the story at all, tbh.

I was right, you didn’t.

So you’re saying that hardcore, say, dungeon runners, care about the dungeon cut scenes? They actively role play?

trunks.5249:

Kaiser.8504:

Aaaaaand… BINGO!

if it is that easy you would think Anet could do toughs type of changes without to many problems

I’m not sure you get his meaning.

I digress.

Sure upping the range of boons could make ranging more viable but melee weapons and attacks for the most part are always going to have more damage. There has to be a balance there. So melee range is risky but has a high reward. Kiting is not so risky and takes longer. Having a higher boon range would not really change that, but it could be a pretty huge imbalance in wvw or pvp.

Ethics.4519:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Omg please, please stop necro ing the glory days of this forum. X.x

I post how I want.

Well, you win the thread. GG.

XApocalypse.8739:

Don’t worry anet ruins everything that is fun to do that is completely harmless, look what they did to the infinite spin with greatsword, completely harmless yet they made it impossible to do now.

And the dance book glitch.

RIP

I’m pretty sure nothing anyone says that is actually logical or reasonable is going to get noticed here by those whiners.

I stand by my comments.

TL;DR: It should be 12 times as hard to gear 12 alts as it is to gear 1. That’s the way math works. They’re already nice enough to let our insignia recipes and armor recipes remain as they are. So you only need 30 laurels for 1, 5, 12, or 100 characters. (Or if you are really stubborn and have to have different stats you should only really need 2-3 different types of stats because most stat sets are useless and terrible).

This is the last time I impart my knowledge and logic onto this useless thread. If you can’t accept the ascended armor being difficult to get, play a different game.

I have a snow day today, so I’m hopping on soon, if anyone wants to have any fun fashionable dungeon action with meeeeee!

And here, look at something funny

I think Ena is completely accurate.

Meanwhile, I’m the fashion queen, I just teach style. Weth needs to learn this, but refuses. Lolololol

khani.4786:

Grats to the winners.

Still kinda sad I didn’t even get a mention, but that’s okay. Grats to everyone!

I’m sorry! It’s hard to get mentions for everyone who truly deserves them. There were so many fabulous entries! I did my best to recognize as many as seemed appropriate, and I do hope you participate in my next contest ^^

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Berserker gear dominates very little of this game, I wish you’d get through your head.

Are you serious? You can’t be serious.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Condition builds dominate heavily in pvp too, right? Is that a bad thing?

Why don’t you ask the pvp crowd how they feel about condition builds. Yes, it is a bad thing.

I am quite serious, and this is what we were arguing with you about yesterday. You keep saying berserker gear runs the entire gear and it doesnt. It is only mandatory for speed running dungeons. Do I need to say it again?

Also, if people hate the condition pvp meta, that’s too bad. That means people just hate necros, apparently, because they don’t want them to have any place in any game mode.

kylwilson.9137:

Suck it up and play the other third (extrapolation here I know) of the game.

You’ll only get better at the game as a whole for doing so.

Exclusive PvE’ers don’t deserve extra treatment on top of what exclusives you already have; the PvP community has gotten diddly-squat. Even in the sad state that it is in, PvP is the only actual demonstration of any level of player skill (yes we’re all aware that this is arguable but the general basis still stands); the solution? Play PvP and get better. You won’t regret it whatsoever and that’s a promise.

I assume some people are scared of their self-assumed skill at the game being disproved, but it’s happened to all PvP’ers at some point and it’s only done us good.

That being said I play both PvP and PvE in equal amounts (with my heart closest to PvP of course).

People like you need to stop making this pvp vs pve. It’s not a competition. Why can’t pve have an exclusive armor set? All the reasoning pvpers are giving is that pvp deserves it more. What the heck? Why does that matter?

No one thinks pvp shouldn’t have exclusive armor. No one. But this whole “I’m a pvper we get nothing!” Which isn’t true (WvW gets nothing and I’m not even biased, I only pve and I can see how little they get) should not be the reason pve doesn’t get a grind exclusive armor we can work on. I mean… why is this about pvp versus pve? Why are we fighting? That’s so stupid.

I really love the hammer, but I have no toon to put it on. Lol.

Rising Dusk.2408:

The only thing I’ll say, Lilith, is that there is a reason there isn’t a solo queue SPvP tournament, and it’s because everyone is going to get frustrated with the weakest link in their party, and even if they’re good sports about it, they’re going to feel like they are wasting their time or not waste their time and quit the tournament or act out and ruin it for the team. At the end of the day, no one in those groups will ever play the tournament a second time around.

I don’t necessarily know if there’s a good solution for that, or if we maybe just need to grind it into peoples’ heads that it’s just the way it is.

The only other thing I really dislike about a tournament like this is that it’s so RNG-based. What if some group rolls a bunch of pros? They’ll clean house on a bunch of pub-rife groups. Is that fun to watch / participate in?

You make great points, many I hadn’t considered and that’s why I posted asking. But I’m just trying to figure out why an advertised PUG tournament (which implies RNG and the like) would be hurt by RNG.

It’s impossible to please everyone… but that’s why there’s the elite tournament. Players who do not have a static team or elite guild often can’t get a group to compete with. Having a tournament that gives the most fair shot that is possible for a solo pug is probably the only way some people could ever compete in something like a tournament.

A player should not go into a tournament like this and expect to have the best players in the game. If they aren’t okay with that I don’t know why they’d sign up.

@Nyspar, I agree but I prefer 15 minutes of them knowing. Less time, more pug like!

Flissy.4093:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Flissy.4093:

It may be a seasonal thing (although I don’t see the correlation), but when money is involved, I’m sure it’ll spring back out of season soon.

I agree with Flissy although I do understand why it is seasonal.

It’s been out for 1 wintersday. We don’t even know if they intend on bringing it back for next wintersday. Regardless because of the shear volume of people asking for it I think it is likely we will see it again.

But is it actually seasonal, can you explain how, or are people just assuming it is because it happened to be Wintersday when it was released?

Lorewise, grenth is one of 2 or 3 gods typically associated with wintersday in Tyria. Grenth and Dwayna are the main gods, but I did see someone mention balth but I don’t know that lore. Anyway that’s why they are considered festival hats.

I agree with this, except if they outright refused to do anything with them, I would be okay if they added accessories and amulets as rewards WITH the rings. Sure, eventually you have more than you need and nothing to do with them, but at least then you’re not stuck with 1000 rings when all you need is an earring.

I really like your various forge ideas, and the salvage. I would love to see a way to convert my rings into nice agony infusions or dragonite ore. I think we will see it in 6 months when they decide to increase the level cap again (and hopefully not put us all back to 30 again… ^^;;;;).

Ps 6 months was just a random amount of time, I’m not pretending to know when anet is doing it.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

It’s an overused look and looks meh. Go for sylvari, can’t do wrong :>

It wouldn’t be so overused if light males had better coat options.

But this is the reality in which we live; butt capes, butt capes everywhere.

The bright side is that there is always the female human meta.

I’m kidding, Asura master race k.

Omg please, please stop necro ing the glory days of this forum. X.x

dutchiez.7502:

“You would think that out of all the people me, Dontain, WoodenPotatoes and MattVisual are least likely to get hacked because we are popular youtubers that give free promotion for the game and help the community.”

Does he really think those hackers from China target specific people? Or does he think ArenaNet hacked his email, changed his GW2 pass, then deleted his characters and then aided him in the recovery of his account over multiple weeks? What the hell…

I have no idea if he actually has brain cells with his head so far up his kitty.

Yeah, when you no longer have the time to progress like you did when you were unemployed in the summer, it does really hurt. that’s how I feel anyway.

Stephen McBeaven.5640:

Are you asking me how to fit more than one melee player on a boss without them overlapping? Incidentally overlapping is not stacking. Stacking is when everyone in the party intentionally stands on the same space for the duration of the fight.

I uh… um.

Okay.

8th worst: Arah before I had berserker gear.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

xallever.1874:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

PuGLOCK

-snip-

+1111111111111111111111111

So happy someone got my random Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice monologue!!

You just might be the genius we are all looking for.

This is on par with swifty ’ s patch notes, if only I had read the merchant of Venice…

I read so much. I think I should take a break from GW2 and crack open my Shakespeare collection.

Wethospu.6437:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Wethospu.6437:

IrisTheCasual.3742:

Do you even have any, Weth?

Stop pressuring me!

You’re not fashionable enough for students to take you seriously.

I hate you elitists.

Remember their manifesto? “Dress how you want”

Jealousy is like that.

And the real manifesto is #DressHowLilithWants.

Rasimir.6239:

Well, I learned something new about my preferences yesterday: I realized that I actually prefer to run dungeons with mediocre players that are nice and friendly, instead of with good players that don’t communicate at all and treat you like an npc.

Not a single word in chat all through the run, and not so much as a “bye” before kicking me out of the group once the run was finished … never thought I’d be upset by that so much, but I guess I play this game to play with people. If I wanted no communication I could just as well go back to single player games …

I sort of agree (though I guess it would be ideal for it to be super nice good players). One time I had a really awesome fractal 50 pug. You know, the kind with 0 wipes, really smooth, super quick. Every time I tried to initiate conversation or a little bit of levity, I was met with silence. That made me feel pretty awkward, since I’m used to a much more social group and run. I don’t know if I’d wish for a significantly longer run in exchange for more social players but I can say it wasn’t as fun for me.

J Eberle.9312:

winterchillz.2564:

I’m a girl.

/15chars

I’m a closet guy.

Well. In my closet I have things that can emulate you being a guy… if you know what I mean. Still need to teach you the meaning of “filthy”.

Sorry you were kicked. There isn’t a way to get that info atm though.

This said, people don’t usually range molten. I find it interesting that you say that’s how you do it always. But that’s fine, whatever lol.

I get why they kicked you though. I hate hearing “I told you so” No matter the situation.

I’ve never failed a mission.

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I just know my loot has gone down so I am getting much less awesome than I used to. This makes me a sad Asura. I can’t afford the chaos gun I want. That sucks.

Keep at it. Several things can happen:

You’ll save up enough money to get one.
The market will shift and the price will drop to what you have already set aside.
New precursors/Legendaries will be introduced and the old ones will drop in price due to decreased demand.
An alternate method of obtaining a precursor will be introduced, depending on the specifics you may reach that goal quickly just because you have been playing the game.
You’ll get a precursor as a random drop, and if it’s not the one you want, you can sell it to buy the chaos gun.

Dusk dropped for me randomly last year, so I know that it can happen. Personally, I don’t care at all about Legendaries, the added graphics annoy me and the skins themselves are not that impressive. And I couldn’t care less whether or not people get jealous or are impressed when I walk by them and leave glowing footprints or shoot unicorns past their heads or whatever.

So I sold it and used the gold to gear up several alts and get the things I did want. I have sixteen toons and not one of them has anything more valuable than Tier 2 cultural armor, because I only buy the gear I like.

I know I can wait and all that. I have 2 legendaries as it is and over the course of my playtime have had 6 precursors drop. I know. The issue is that in the same amount of playtime, I’m just not getting anything. Could be rng. But it’s like… I hit a group of mobs. I kill all 10. By myself. And I get a trophy junk item. Now I know that it’s rng and my 300% mf isn’t going to rain precursors down on me, but I don’t see any reason to believe that these prices will go down or that whatever new method they come up with for precursor acquisition will actually be less time consuming. I just.. have to let it go, you know? That’s how I feel. My enjoyment of the game is somewhat contingent on whether I get some loot or not. If i don’t think I’m going to get anything I might as well stay in DR RPing. Which I do.

Hi all!

I have a suggestion for the gem store transaction history: it should also show recent gifting transactions. Even if it’s still a limited quantity like it is currently. I gift a lot of things to friends and that sort of thing, and sometimes I forget if I, say, got that mini pack for my husband yet. And he doesn’t log on often so I can’t usually just ask him. This would be extremely helpful to me so I don’t send duplicates!

Ps. Thank you for the gifting capability. It’s the only way I get to spoil my bashful friends who send anything I send via mail back to me. NO RETURNS muahahaha.

:D

Scorpion Over Lord.9036:

hmmmm

You know…. now that I’m thinking about it….

terrifying realization keanu

I like it! My husband and I would have more reason to play together…. And that would be nice.

Same issue here. AND I MUST CHAT ELSE I DIE.

Kidding plox fix ^^

TurtleDragon.3108:

draconx.3102:

Wethospu.6437:

Yes I agree. They need to compensate people and reset everyone to 20.

Don’t forget to also remove fractal levels 41 and up from the game.

And decrease the drop rate of fractal skins.

We could also make all terrestrial weapons discontinued and only the coveted trident spear and spear gun are available

Thanks Regina.

I also want to say that it’s better (in my very biased opinion) for our Feedback to not be in a CDI. None of us wants a repeat of the Fractal CDI, where people who knew 0 about fractals submitted feedback about… like, crafting in a fractal, to make content they’ve never played better. We don’t need that.

Our suggestion threads, assuming they yet to the proper hands, do not have this issue ^^

Imagine it: a developer post gets closed by a moderator due to excessive trolling, off topic posts and inappropriate forum conduct.

#Win.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

This thread is amazing.

Kicking pugs at end bosses is crappy. Especially in fractals. If they’re really bad players, you know this by the first boss of the first fractal, sometimes before, so you should kick then then. If I have a pug being a kitten to me, no matter when, if it’s my instance and my party and it is disrupting the run they will be kicked, whether it’s in swamp or right at the second phase of jade maw.

Kicking is something that is often misunderstood as griefing. If you’re consistently getting kicked from parties you might want to look at yourself before laying the blame on others. My 2 coppers.

Sometimes it doesn’t show up till the end for example:

I was doing Arah P2 with a guildy we both got to last boss, no probs. Our group was failing at skip (even boat) so he and I try to duo. He goes in dies at about 45% HP left to the random 9k aoe then I as a ranger try to solo the rest (I cant cuz of the kitten ed pet). Then our pugs FINALLY get there and the first one says out of no where he says “oh great this f****t ranger started to kill the boss” I vote to kick and my other guildy (we only had two pugs) seconds, then our other pug got upset because we kicked this guy at last boss and that makes us one of those scumbag guilds and promptly left. Being an kitten is NOT okay. PERIOD. Some people really need to learn that.

+1

But like I said, if a pugs being a kitten, he’s going to be kicked. Doesn’t matter how much of the path they think they’ve “carried” me through (ever notice that this is almost ALWAYS the case in these threads? Lol). If they are going to be rude and disrupt a run, I won’t tolerate it. I play how I want.