Guild Wars 2

Elbegast.6970:

I love you, Aedil.

I played Guild Wars for ~7 years. I miss Guild Wars. What we got here….it ain’t Guild Wars; not by a long shot. With ‘Guild Wars 2’, there’s no sense of continuity or connection to it’s namesake. It makes me very sad.

I totally agree – Love you too

Ya warrior really needed love, again and again and again -.-"
You just don’t care about elementalists.
ragequit

We – want – more – damage – fullstop.

I’ll be completly honest, when Jonathan says “we did this couse ppl have asked” in a tone like, “they asked it so much that to not hear that again we did it” i just can’t stand that.
To me a good company just do what customers says, becouse we pay for what WE want, not the thing YOU want. This said, the elementalist is totally broken. A LOT of people says that, it needs a total restyle to be in line with other classes, and don’t say it’s couse is a hard class to play and most of eles sucks, you cannot make an elite class usable just by some trained people, especially a popular class like the Ele.
Do that with mesmer, it’s a unique class that belongs only to GW, so mess with it.
The situation is like this since day 1 and you continue not listening to people. And pls, don’t speak about balance, you are paid to balance stuff here not me, i just want to have fun! to use a class i like and have fun, is that so hard to understand? I don’t pay to listen people telling me “make a war to join our party”.
I’m not going to pay anymore Euros for this game until things changes, and trust me there are alot of heavy shoppers like me that think this way.
Please forget all the ideas u have, u need to satisfy your customers! not to stuck to some ideas ruining the game.

Thanks for reading.

I think exactly the same except for the new content, most of it just not related to gw lore, it’s very banal and nonsense lorewise.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Living-World-1-year-later-a-sincere-opinion/first#post2957613

OMG I totally forgot about Bahltek lol that’s a very VERY big mistery :o

Thanks for the support <3

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Hello, I would love to express my sincere opinion about Guild Wars 2 Living World after playing since beta.

I played 7 years of Guild Wars 1, and I’ve always been a very fan of its Lore. In my opinion the best fantasy game world ever. You had tons of secondary stories almost in every corner of Tyria, all of them strictly connected to the world and history, and some of them could easly drive into epic stories that they could change the all the world itself (1 example for all the “scepter of the mists”).

Anyway, since I’m a real appassionate about the Lore of Tyria I’m still wondering why all the amazing stories started in gw1 do not have any continuity in gw2.

I think the living story for what it is now is not telling anything about Tyria, anything related to dragons, or the gods, or any other stories or mysteries we have seen in gw1.
I find these releases kinda banal, and not relevant to tyria at all.
I’m wondering if the living story writers knows anything about the world of tyria to be honest.

The only release that is very interesting and has an immense power lore talking is Fractal of the Mists, becouse you can make everything happens inside there, the timeline is irrelevant, and you are in the mists, the realm of the gods.

I’m gonna remind you some (only the ones happened in Tyria Continent no Elona or Cantha since we don’t have those yet) of the interrupted amazing storylines you left behind:
- first of all the Gods, where the hell they’re gone?
- what happened when Kormir…..? (Spoiler Stop.)
- is abaddon really dead?
- the origins of the pale trees seeds (note the plural – there is a personal story that talks about that and many speculations going on about that, that’s VERY interesting!)
- the castle of Garenhoff?
- Kerrsh quest and the aspect of the Gods – i know u have put his diary in the library at priory but nothing more, and someone translated the inscriptions! (…on distant shores….) + connection between gods and dragons?
- OMG Livia! where’s Livia!!?!?
- The scepter of Orr!?!?
- the tunnel made by dredge that goes into Cantha Kurzick stone forest?
- where the Seer gone?
- omg one word – MURSAAT- !!!!
- the 4 bloodstones + the keystone?
- Lord Odran portals to the mists!?
- Underworld and Fow?
- the tombs of the iconic characters such as Mehnlo, Cynn, Aidan ect ect
- ect ect ect

They are too many to say them all, but u got an idea. You have stories to fill years of releases, and you’re just releasing nonsense stories that has nothing new to say to the world and they neither have any connection to the lore.
In gw1 a simple secondary quest could be so interesting and powerfull that can maybe change the world, whilst now a world release like molten facility or aetherblades is just killed in 1 week with nothing mysterius or intriguing about it and everything come back to normality like anything happened at all.

Another thing: most people new to GW says that this game don’t have a Lore at all, so once a week we have the “lore night” were i am the storyteller and i tell a story about something happened in the world of Tyria, to make them understand better the world itself and why some things are this way.

You left new players without any info about the story of GW. There are some amazing videos on youtube made by WoodenPotatoes that narrates the story of gw very well and imitating the stylish way of your videos, but the point is, was that difficult to make this youself inside the game without force someone else to do that in your place?

People needs to know how wonderful and intense the story of Tyria is, but you’re doing the exactly opposite, I can’t really understand why.

Forgive me for the very long post, I hope you will considerate what i’m saying, Thank you so much for your time!

A very affectionate player
Aedil

Hi! I wanted to ask your help please Eles community, I’m a bit tired to not be taken in party couse I don’t have a war. I would love to do dungeons but everyone says eles don’t do any damage and they say i should make a war.

Is possibile to make an ele with an output damage similiar to a war and with similar defence? I really don’t like to play a war i tried but i just don’t like it.

Thank you all for your help!

what u suggest to buy?

I’m looking at TP right now and i’m late to buy ecto XD they already going to 40s as time ago, every t6 is increasing and since the crystalline dust is now used in many stages of ascended weapons craft and you cannot get em recyling ectos anymore they should follow ectos to the stars right?
Omg I’ll never do my legendary T_T

Another day (as many MANY others) putting 20g in exo staves into the mystic toilet and got nothing. I miss only The Legend to make Bifrost since march and well….I really have enough of this. Is this going to be changed or am I just wasting my time and better change game to feel “rewarded”?

This made me think of Arthur winning Excalibur at a casino. No journey, no quest, no epic moments, just putting A LOT of money into a f….. slot machine.

I wish I could have all my money and my time spent in this game back.
Seriously.
Anyone else feeling this way?

EDIT: please don’t tell me to buy from TP becouse I’m not gonna pay anyone else for having more luck than me, or I drop it or I forge it, it’s a matter of principles.

Hello, I was wondering if the new runes and sigil recipes can be bought at the Crown Pavillion will disappear after the new release so we cannot buy them after that?

Thank you!

Ok I’ll admit it, I was so nervous and in a total rage state. But after about 70-100 try I finally killed Liadri. It was very very HARD thing to do, but after that i found a great feeling of pride and happyness.

So I just say sorry about the hate xD

+1 i want this with ele…..

ele needs help with everything.

214 try here, and no success yet, just speding tons of gold on repair. This is just stupid.

I totally agree with your post, this is not what i was expecting after 7 years of GW1.

Worst update ever. All in my guilds are saying a normal player cannot do this, and I agree. Fortunatly Anet stated GW2 was for casual players….woooooot!?!?!?

a casual player will NEVER do this. most of hardcore games too are having serious problems.

I’ll be honest with you, I wanted to fill this thread with insults for who created this boss, and for who decided the achievement should now be impossibile for normal players to be completed, but I won’t break the rules.

So, just one thing, please remove the pulling orb on fase 2, so maybe some normal player as me can complete the achiement since now completing achievement is important for the rewards.

Thanks.

Every gw1 player should be morally bound to vote for Evon to discover what the hell happened to Abaddon! plsssssssssssss

Vote for Evon T_T

The team who created the dye system did a really great job. I love we can use so many wonderful colors for out gear but it would be more gorgeous to make weapons match the armors, so why don’t make weapons dyeable?

Pls, we could do that in gw1 why not now?

- an attached player

Kamui.3150:

Glyph of (Lesser) Elementals: No limited duration on the summon. Basically make them function like a Necromancer minion and keep them around until they die. In addition, have their special attack be what replaces the Glyph skill itself (Necro minions, Ranger spirits, and Guardian spirit weapons all get this) so that we can fire them on command instead of them being used randomly.

totally agree.

- conjure weapons as bundle like engi kits
- rework almost all traits
- give celestial some attributes for each arcane point or at least increase the damage.

ele should have the most damage of all classes since it has the lowest armor and lowest heal, not war that has the most heal and armor toghether…will you ever understand this dear developers?

r u crazy? it’s the best insta heal we have and it also remove a condition! -.-" no need for another crap chill skill imho.

Good Build for noob ele levelling?

>>> Swith to Mesmer!<<<

Trust me, it’s the better thing u can do)

One word: Abaddon!

traying to save 615g for The Legend, I had 152g in my bank, spent 52g to buy rich dragon chests and NO WEAPON TICKETS, r u kidding?

You robbed me! at least put directly the ticket for sale at 800 gems would be much much more honest!

Peace
a robbed player.

Edit: really I’m so deluded, i’m not gonna spend anymore real money with this game, and for sure i’ll share my story with others. Ya i know this is useless, you just don’t give a kitten about it, bah…you sucks.

Edit: the fact is, i spend 52g (my time) on gems to buy 17 rich dragon chests, make them drop 1 ticket every 10 chests, or put the ticket for sale at 800gems each, I would spend the money anyway and i get what i want and i am satisfied, and u get your money sink or real money revenue anyway! why making this so random? this feels like robbing and cheating people. I spent a lot of RL money too in gw2 shop and i don’t feel i’m gonna spend anymore on a system promoting random stuff using REAL money.

Please try to stay on topic and say your thought in a polite and constructive way guys, just share your feeling respecting others

And if you’re thinking of a new build pls share, i’ll give at least a try before passing to easy breezy beautiful guardian/mesmer play.

Me and all my friends will change from ele to other classes thanks to people complaining about our long cd cantrips, skills we must have to stay alive since we have the most little healt pool and lowest armor. But ppl never take this in account, they just complain about eles and this beautiful class is going worst and worst at each patch.

Peace

What do u guys think about this?

Fuzzion.2504:

Ele mist form locks you out of utilities (No more #6 healing in Mist form HUGE change)
RTL Changed to be 40 seconds, but if it hits something it will be 20 seconds (Blocks/invul ect count as a hit).
Signet of Restoration passive nerfed slightly.
30 Point trait that removes a condi upon gaining regen will have a 5 second CD (Trait is dead).
Conjure Duration increased (Still useless).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/30th-April-Patch-Update/first

I’m gonna choose another class definatly. this sucks after all the time and money and gold invested on my main toon.

I don’t care about pvp, but healing in mistform is the only thing keeping me alive during high lvl fractals (50+) also putting a 5s cd on the only viable build for the ele is just nonsense. Pls don’t force us to use those (useless) conjure weapons outside AC p1 instead of the cantrip build?
At least give us something else, new options to play the ele.

Why you didn’t touched the guardian? 10-0-30-30-0 condition remove with shouts + soldiers rune, hold the line 28s cd, stand your ground 24s cd, retreat48s cd, every shout removes 2 conditions and transform 1 condi in 1 boon.
Our cantrips recharge in double this time and remove only 1 condition.
Pls reconsider these changes.

This is my personal opinion about this, hope this can help you reconsider these changes.

For now Ele is dead.

Peace

Edit: I don’t u se D/D Ele I use a staff 0 10 0 30 30 Pve Cantrips Ele full soldier armor + figther runes. I use it almost everywhere, dg, WvW, general pve and it was great (altought was the only viable build in my opinion).

Edit: the patch note released right now faded some doubts, but i can’t still think about not using heal with mistform hehe

Fuzzion.2504:

Ele mist form locks you out of utilities (No more #6 healing in Mist form HUGE change)
RTL Changed to be 40 seconds, but if it hits something it will be 20 seconds (Blocks/invul ect count as a hit).
Signet of Restoration passive nerfed slightly.
30 Point trait that removes a condi upon gaining regen will have a 5 second CD (Trait is dead).
Conjure Duration increased (Still useless).

Ele is dead, I’m gonna choose another class definatly. this sucks after all the time and money and gold invested on my main toon.

keep in mind you have only 1 chance to restore your account if i remember well what Anet said about it, and so i highly suggest you to save this solution if you really need it example if your account get hacked.

10g is not a big money, i know it takes time to do this but trust me is not worth spend the account restore for just 10g.

wish you good luck mate!

Answered by support. thanks

One word: “Simin”

Go kill the priestess of Dwayna in Arah p4 without 4 war+1mesmer party, go with 4 elementalist.

Waiting for your video.

Today my friends and me we did our first guild mission: the bounty.
We organized very well and complete the event killing all the wanted mobs.
Too bad my friends are on Aurora Glade whilst I am on Gandara, and i didn’t get any reward from this event.

I am now forced to search for another guild on Gandara since i cannot afford for pay 1800 gems to change server and i’m not gonna waste any precious laurel on the earrings.

This guild system that u earn influence and u get reward from guild mission only if you are on the same server of the guild just don’t works and devide people.

I’m disappointed.
Thanks.

Edit:
to who said we should have choosen the same server i’ll answer that i met these friends during a fractal and after the update in wich changing server became so expensive.
to who said i should change game or my guildmates should collect money to let me make transfer i’m gonna say i like my server and i don’t want to change it, and my friends should not be forced to collect money for this since in the Anet manifesto was extremely clear that guild wars 2 is a community game in wich everyone should always be able to play with their friends.
Im my opinion they should just change this restriction in wich i cannot earn influence for my guild since i’m on another server, is just nonsense. one guild should be cross server as it was in gw1.

Thanks.

i’m using 2xsup monk and 2xsup water + 2xmajor water as in Daphoenix build, i have 70% boon duration in H panel but all boons lasts exactly as in description as i have no runes at all.

neither runes of water and runes of the monk apply boon duration in gameplay despite increasing the boon duration value shown in the hero panel.

this is for both versions superior and major.

EDIT: I’m sorry the skill description updates when u use a boon duration update, i didn’t knew that. so sorry guys.

First, it’s pretty weird an asian company make such an autoracism on asian ppl.
Second, Cantha is a very important part of Tyria, I’m sure most gw1 players loved it and we can’t wait to see the shing jea island, echovald forest and jade sea or the imperial palace rendered with the new gw2 engine, it would be just amazing.
Third, gw1 was general themed, there were ppl from all around the word, ascalonian (est europe), kryta (mediterranean), elona (african and arabic), cantha (asian).
If they want gw2 not being related to their other asian grindy games style they just need to NOT make gw2 a game like that, no need to remove a whole continent, our beloved cantha, like this.

The great collapse (originally the canthan district) is the meaning of what happened to cantha content in gw2, as Josh Foreman (a dev) said we should really shake the things up to have Cantha back.

Cantha of no dollars :P

Tyria (<3) must stay united.

I don’t remember the post, but someone suggested to make quests for legedary precursors, i think is great idea, to also add some legend to items that hand nothing legendary but instead all of grindy.

I’m doing the priory personal story line again with my mesmer alt, and meeting again Sieran, and living with her new adventures it’s so exciting and so so sad at the same time. She is the best npc in gw2 imho and the person who gave her a voice really gave her also a soul.
[spoiler]I miss Sieran so much and knowing i will be shortly loose her again makes me so sad

Is there a way to convince Grenth to give us Sieran back? pls

I feel the same with tybalt, they are really the best npc ever
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critickitten.1498:

Celtic Lady.3729:

-snip-

This poster nailed it.

This is why I scoff when people claim that there’s no grinding in GW2, because there most certainly is. Leveling a craft is grinding. Getting money at any rate beyond a snail’s pace is grinding. Getting materials is grinding. Running dailies is grinding. Doing JPs is grinding. Doing anything beyond Lvl 80 is a grind of some sort.

Grinding doesn’t mean “activity that you do over and over even though it’s not fun”, it means “any repetitive task, usually performed for the sake of rewards”. There are plenty of grinds in GW2.

And the common response to this is always “but all those things are optional”.

• JPs are optional.
• Legendaries and Ascended items are optional.
• Fractals and all dungeons are optional.
• WvW is optional.
• sPvP is optional.
• Crafting is optional.
• Achievements are optional.

And so on. To which I say….well, yes, all of those things are optional in the broadest sense of the term, in that no one is forcing you to do them.

However, in order to “play the game you want to” and “have fun”, many of these tasks are most certainly not optional. If going after max crafting is something you enjoy doing, you’ll be grinding to get there. If you have fun killing Orrians, you’re grinding. If you enjoy dungeon runs on a regular basis, you’re grinding. If you like Southsun Cove and go there regularly, you’re grinding. Avid WvW players are grinding, and so are sPvP players. Are you an Achievement hog? Then you’re grinding. There is no activity in the entire game that does not demand some form of repetition in order to continue “enjoying it” and “playing the game the way you want to”.

Grinding is merely defined as repetition. And there is plenty of repetition in GW2, no matter what activities you enjoy doing. The question you should be asking is not if there is grind in GW2 or not (because there is), the real question is “at what point is my grinding no longer fun?”, and that depends on the person. But for a game that proclaimed itself a “zero grind” game, it’s nowhere near being devoid of grind. And things like the weaker loot tables and in-game penalties applied to anyone who tries to farm an event only make the situation even worse.

Thank you to have expressed my thoughts in a polite way and perfect english!

Gandara – Never met one not even in betas

To be honest i totally agree, I remember the drop in gw1 was a way more balanced than in gw2, if u do a dungeon u could get 3-4 golds, and if u open the chests too with lockpicks u could get even more….in gw2 i drop 1-2 rares only in fractals and i got only 5 exotic drop since release!

Honestly, the first time I saw Ralena, Nente, Adelbern, Vassar, etc in that scary enraged ghostform during the beta, i felt a stick in my heart T_T

I remember another life, where those people were my friends, they were kind, gentle, we were fighting for our home, for our lifes and our family, and now….they are just mindless killers

GW1 lives! <3

ArashiKai.2496:

you’re complaining about the lodestone requirement for Infinite Light? take one look at Mjolnir (the hammer i want for my guardian) and you should stop complaining.

That weapon should be at least an ascended one, omg

My main is ele and my secondary is Thief, tbh i really love thief althogh i still have to master it, i’m running a full berserk gear couse i want to be deadly but i’m also very very weak in armor and healt ofc. I just wanted to point out that i love to use deception skills that are the most strong in my opinion but i have some concerns about traps. They feel kinda weak and hard to use with a very mobile class that never stops moving, i like sigils altough there are not enough traits for them imo. Venoms looks unusable or too weak to be dunno why i reading the effects i don’t see any good reason to use them.
Caltrops is the most useless utility to me since the primary trait cam make them spawn on dodge although they are more weak that the one with the utility.
Personally i like thief but i never tried it on a more balanced gear, i feel that the damage will decrease too much while the defence will be poor anyway but that’s just a feeling i never tried it i just can compare that with my eles that has both a balanced set (p, t+v) and a more dmg oriented one.

Just a thing imho the only really cool armor for thief is tier 3 human, is that really necessary to have those armor for that much money? i mean they are rares not even exotics, for that price should be at least exo! :P

Thanks

EDIT: I forgot the most important thing, pls give thief more ways to remove conditions!!

CassieGold.7460:

Aedil.1296:

Zephyr Lee.2491:

Aedil.1296:

Awesome.6120:

Farm cash and buy lodestones like everyone else does.

GW2 manifesto is dead, and you’re saying the truth.

Okay so we are back again crying about “the grind”
This game has no grind.
Getting max gear takes no time to get.

The only “grind” comes from people who want the “cool” “flashy” weapons.

I like a balanced set (Power, though+vit) for my characters to use for pve, I have all professions so 8 chars.

Taking in account the Ascalon Catacombs is the fastest and easier dg to do to get tokens for a full exo gear i made this calculation:

Armor: 1200 tokens for 1 set
2h Weapon: 390 for 1 weapon
1h Weapons: 2 weapons can cost from 210 to 300 tokens -> (300+210/2)x2= 510
2h underwater weapon: 390

Every char should have an armor, offhand weapon, secondary weapon and an underwater weapon so:

1200+390+510 = 2100 tokens for every char (16800 tokens for 8 chars)

Let’s say i do Ascalon Catacombs path 1-2-3 one time every day (just 1 time to still have a life) so i get 66 tokens every path = 60+6 from bags => 198 tokens a day

2100/66= 31,8 times i need to do AC to give exotic equip to just 1 char

31,8 × 8 = 254,5 times i need to do AC to give all chars an exotic equipment.

Conclusion: Repeating Ascalon Catacombs 254,5 times to give a basic equipment to my character.

Basic becouse jewelry and back piece and other avaliable weapons are not included.

Font Wikipedia:

Grinding is a term used in video gaming to describe the process of engaging in repetitive tasks during video games. […] One reason that is less influenced by player choice is a lack of game content or to be able to battle stronger enemies. […] While grinding’s potential to cause players to stop being entertained may be seen as contradictory to good game design. etc etc etc.

In you opinion, is repeating 254,5 times AC dungeon suitable to represent this description?

Repeating AC for 84,85 days, every day path 1,2, and 3, is grind or not?

Thanks for reading sorry for the wall of text.
Sincerly

I read the wall of text, wanted to throw a few things in there for you though:

Good methods to get exotics:
1) Dungeons (CoF is faster than AC if you want to acquire exotics)
2) Crafting
3) Mystic Forge

The reason I mention things like this is because if all you did is run dungeons you would have a wealth of pure gold + skill points + crafting mats from doing your runs.

Last alt I kitted out wears armor that was blended from AC and CoF because I like balanced stats, but don’t stack 100% of the same armor type to get the balance I want. For weapons, I tossed 50 skill points at the mystic forge and a few crafting bits and made a mystic GS.

One of the problems with running AC ad-nausium is that you don’t come away with as much in terms of t5 / t6 mats…. sure, it’s somewhat fast, and anyone can do it, but it’s hardly the best return for your time.

Salvage or sell your rares as you go (if you dungeon a lot, you’ll have plenty) and if you sell, use the proceeds of selling your rares to buy the ecto you could have got from salvaging…. craft your own exotics with said ectos.

I tend to pick up at least half my orichalcum hitting nodes on my way to HotW……

Okay…. that’s too much wall of text from me, sorry for the ramble, but I really want to encourage people to get the kitten out of AC as a ‘good’ source of gear…. because it’s not. It’s just an easy source of gear.

Tbh my daily routine is:

AC 123
CoF 1-2
Fractals 20 and Fractals to increase the actual lvl (suspended until update)
30 minutes farming lodestones (1 food duration)
wvw

Yes I’m a nerd…i would love to have a RL

Here lies VargraV and his guildmates, he didn’t know how glamour could be so fatal, his last words still echoes in the mists: “Portal Exeunt! …oh nooo zerg ZERG!!! AAAHHHHH!!”

Malediktus.9250:

Of course the ascalonians can drop precursors, like any other opponent which can drop lvl 80 equipment.

I’ve heard about this too but…come on, this is a 1 in a million thing :’D

Malediktus.9250:

Ascalon fractal end chest can drop charged lodestones and cores.

I’ve heard of ppl getting precursors during Ascalon fractal O_o dunno if is true tho

synch.2980:

kRiza krimos.1637:

If you want 8 chars to be fully equiped you can expect it to take time. Afterall they didnt level themselves in 3 days either.

This – while I, as a fellow altaholic sympathize – you can’t really base the grindyness of a task on “having” to do it for every character.

And in all honesty, completely equipping a character with exotic weapons and armor at level 80 in a month of doing Ascalon isn’t too grindy – especially as it’s ignoring all the other rewards from the dungeon, which might well allow you to purchase gear from the trading post and avoid some of that.

And since you don’t “need” a complete set of exotics for any of the regular content in the game, there’s no great rush there, either. Run Ascalaon with a character whenever you feel like it and since the tears are account bound, by and by you’ll get full sets of armor/weapons for everyone, and it won’t be a grind.

If you feel you’ve got to rush through and get them as quickly as possible for all your characters, then yeah, you’re going to be doing a whole lot of whatever the “optimal” thing is for quite a while, but that’s your decision – the game doesn’t seem (to me) to be forcing it on you by making your character unable to participate unless you do so.

I cannot spend the money earned from selling trash at merch and from dg reward for exo gear if i can get it doing dg xD especially couse i have to save every single gold for legendary and to buy precursor O_o

omg i feel bad thinking of precursors prices on TP xD