Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Aidan Savage.2078:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

be worth the 50 ectos and 40 laurels.

Um…… only a scrubzores pays laurels for accessories and/or rings. 12 guild commendations and 10 pristine relics, respectively, are infinitely cheaper than laurels.

ROFL, well if I could change my moniker to Scrubzores, it’d still sound better than EW.

I’m a solo player (with the occasional duo w/ my roommate). So I don’t have a guild, and I have only been able to solo/duo a handful of fractals. The few FR I’ve obtained are going to finally creating Mawdrey (I put it off for too long). For me specifically, if I want ascended weapons and armor I craft it; if I want ascended jewelry I buy it w/ Laurels (WvW discounts are really nice to have).

I wouldn’t mind a way to craft ascended jewelry, as the OP suggests, but I’m cool w/ using Laurels… just not on accessories.

~EW

If you are making Mawdrey for the Ascended backpiece, that’s cool…but if you are making it for the (additional) Bloodstone-eater, I think that Herta is much easier to acquire.

Either way, good luck. =)

Herta may be easier to get, but the “loot” you get from it is literally trash. Mawdrey can consume only 50 dust and would give me better loot than herta.

Lambent.6375:

We have a handful of ranged melee weapons.
I thought it would be pretty cool to have a class that utilizes all point blank pistol attacks. (point blank as in the pistol barrels will be in physical contact with the victim or a few inches away)

At which point you might as well NOT use pistols and actually use melee weapons? Categorically speaking, bows, rifles, and pistols are ranged weapons without exception. Thieves will blend the pistol’s role, but it’s still primarily a ranged weapon.

Bogus.1598:

Dear Anet team and forum readers,

For a long time now i have a idea in my head, to play a “tank” based class wich deals damage and becomes lethal with retaliation boon on him.
I would love that to be a guardian, so im leveling one now. While leveling i did some research and found out that Retaliation scales of power.

Wouldnt it be a good idea to let retaliation scale of toughness? By choosing toughness as main stat u wont be able to kill others quick (for pvp for example) but u will become a threat if combined with the boon retaliation. This would open up a lot of new builds, without compromising game stability by a large number.

For pve, u still have to watch your retaliation buff in order to be able to kill something, (high toughness means less damage taken and high retal damage) Btw u cant go afk and think i will kill everything around me, cause u still have to watch your buffs.

for pvp it will mean that u wont be much of a threat UNLESS you are attacked by people who are not watching your boons and go in to battle without thinking. This means that pvp becomes more exciting and more in depth then the current power and condi builds where people just go blindly into battles.

What do u guy’s and ofcourse Anet Devs think? I hope it will be picked up and if it is, maybe look into classes to give more retaliation traits/ skills and maybe boon stripping options??

Cheers!

Retaliation is a “pseudo-counter” in GW2. Someone hits you while you have retal, they suffer backlash as a result. Logically speaking, that would mean it tends off power rather than some other stat.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

be worth the 50 ectos and 40 laurels.

Um…… only a scrubzores pays laurels for accessories and/or rings. 12 guild commendations and 10 pristine relics, respectively, are infinitely cheaper than laurels.

Cybil Song.2359:

“Protect krewe leader Dobbs as the krewe clears the excavation site” Meta Event does not work and is bugged. The Guild Wars Teams was made aware of this problem for a very long time and nothing has been done yet.
It is time for a new approach. It is obvious that the dev group could not find a solution to that problem and it is an unsolvable problem.
Here is my solution to this problem, a simple one, that does not change too many things.
1) Removed this event completely since it is very broken.
2) Make the vendor that appear at the end of the event permanent and let them exchange their goods for Karma
3) Easy solution and it should make everyone happy.
Why bother fixing it and spend time on it when you can just cancel the whole thing and remove a big frustration for peoples that need the stuff from the vendors.
Please… Dev Team, fix that once for all, the easy way…

If it’s the one where you buy something for the fractal backpiece and have to open the gate first, just buy the kitten energy crystal off the TP to get the event started. It works fine.

10. SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

You acknowledge that ArenaNet may in its reasonable discretion provide subsequent versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches related to any part of the Service.
source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/

That’s really all the reason they need. As for the WHYs? Maybe you should make a thread ON that topic rather than some vague, meaningless…. bullkitten that people largely, and imo, correctly, pass over as irrelevant.

Braxton.3926:

Hello again,

I was curious about playing on a laptop I bought to lug around to class with in the fall…

I have a notebook with 8GB RAM, Dual Core 6th gen i5, Intel HD 520 graphics.

It isn’t the end of the world if I cannot get on GW2 with this laptop, being that I really bought it to maximize portability, as it’s a nice portable machine compared to my others and I don’t handwrite so I need something that I can pull out and get going during lectures.

The thing is that I have a 128GB SSD in this machine. Because of that, I did also get a SanDisk Ultafit flash drive, which is a very small form factor USB 3.0 flash drive, which is running amazing and I have most applications on there.

If I get on with the laptop, there is a USB 3.0 1TB HDD that I keep larger files on. Would it work if I were to install GW2 to that drive, or would I run into issues?

I won’t be getting on frequently, I just want to have the ability to get on when I am away from home and have a good amount of downtime. I don’t want to do anything that will mess up the computer, but I do have that USB 3.0 HDD, 1TB.

Thanks again.

Run GW2 on the internal SSD. The RW speed differences alone will translate to performance gains running on an SSD (SATA) vs a USB connection. That aside, the RAM and cpu are definitely enough to run gw2, and the integrated graphics (if I’m reading it right) will certainly be able to give decent graphics even on best performance. I often run GW2 on a toshiba C55 when I’m away from home.

Jack Skywalker.5674:

~snipping much ado about nothing~

Or you can say goodbye to any intention I’ve had of buying into further expansions or gem store.

Bye~

In all seriousness, they limit just how transparent they are because this community has a disgustingly high ability to self-delude exploratory comments (“we may have precursor crafting out by the end of the year [2013 or ’14, cant remember], but things may change plans”) into concrete Word Of God statements (“we WILL have precursor crafting by the end of the year”) and start flipping kitten like brain-addled monkeys who had their banana taken away when their supposed “promises” didnt happen. That resulted in anet more or less staying quiet on projects until they reach the “short of an act of god killing our servers, this IS happening” stage. Primarily because this means that we’ll have a near-zero chance (because some people exist) of misconstruing exactly what’s happening. It also means we can provide feedback that actually means something rather than being as vague as “I hate sword skills on my class, do something.” Or whatever.

ava.1347:

I have the exact same problem.

I have tried restarting the pc, router and modem, disabled other programs,
removed and reinstalled gw2. It doesn’t help.

Before yesterday, everything worked perfectly.
All other games/applications still work perfectly.
All internet tests show a constant low-ping high-speed connection.
How this can be anything other than a fault on ANet’s end?

Because speed tests dont check your speed to every possible location in the world along every possible path. Just because Anet’s servers are on a path between A and M going along BDEHK to get to M, and a speed test poking from A to G going along BCF to get there says you’re fine while your game performance suffers, does not equate “ANET PLIZ FIX YO kitten” when there’s potentially 10-50 points between you and them that can be going wrong.

Thor Isaiah.3027:

Please bring it to Xbox One I begg you!!!!

From: Your Loyal Player :] [SOTD]

It wont happen. Anet’s decidely stamped out any hope for console exports because you would ONLY be able to play with others on the SAME console (no cross-server support) and if there’s gamebreaking bugs introduced, you’ll suffer long delays in fixes (update vetting processes from console parent companies) followed by, or at the same time, rollbacks.

Khisanth.2948:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought I read you now have 2 hours before you’re forced to update.

Yes but that also means you can’t change maps. On the other hand 30 minutes is enough to do all the dailies on most days.

I’ve been able to freely change maps even after a new build is available for a while now. It doesnt necessarily force you to update until that timer expires.

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/characters Dump an API and it’ll give you a list of each character’s craft levels.

mia.8209:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Who sets Gem prices? source

John Smith
There seems to be some confusion:

The currency exchange has a supply of Gems and Gold.

If players are converting Gold to Gems, then the Amount of Gold player will receive for their gems goes up.

If players are converting Gems to Gold, then the amount of Gems players receive for Gold goes up.

The exchange rate changes based on the scarcity of each supply. You cannot inflate it, it’s an exchange rate. As players purchase in one direction, it entices purchases in the other direction.

So, what exactly do you want ANet to do?

Lower cost of character slots (or remove cost all together), I suppose. I can wait for the rates to adjust for buying vanity items, but no character slots = fewer things for me to do in game = higher risk of me burning out on the game entirely.

Everything on the gemstore is priced on $$$ NOT gold. You want the gold cost to go down? Get more people to spend money on gems to convert to gold.

PVTMetal Head.6310:

Then I got to the third collection, I gathered carrots for 6 hours.

I loled. So hard. You thought that was bad? GOOD LUCK WITH THE CHILI PEPPERS LOLOLLOLOLOLOL /wrists

page-eating bug fix. again.

Amaxia.5784:

I spent quite a while trying that. I made a new character and spoke with Kimmes in Ascalon, pre-Searing. Neither worked.

And there’s your problem. You dont get there in the tutorial. You get there by reaching level 10 AFTER the Searing.

Q: How do you access the Hall of Monuments in-game?

Guild Wars: Eye of the North expansion. Once a Guild Wars character has reached level 10, they can speak to an NPC who will give them a quest:

Prophecies characters can speak to Len Caldoron in Lion’s Arch.
Factions characters can speak to Minister of Maintenance Raiugyon in Kaineng Center.
Nightfall characters can speak to Bendah in Kamadan.
This quest will send characters to the Eye of the North outpost, which is where they can enter the Hall of Monuments.

https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/faq/

Yes, because you would have made more money doing the t6 craft bags =.=

All I can say to this is:
[img]http://www.automationheroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tumblr_static_cheese_205_1362800142.jpg[/img]

In all honesty, I really dont get why people want to cry about something like this. As far as I care, most of the guild weapons look trashy, as does the guild armor. I have no reason to go for it.

edit- meh… image tags dont want to work for me

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ekarat.1085:

I would like to thank TTS for allowing other people a chance to participate in their events and don’t see a problem here.

Plus, how is this different from any random player who posts about upcoming world boss events? In both cases, I consider it a (vaguely selfish) sort of PSA; it offers people a choice to participate in something that they might have missed without the announcement.

tl;dr on the whole, it’s a good thing (and the downside is temporary and relatively insignificant)

Sometimes we also advertise at the same time that we’re doing MORE than just triple trouble as well. Our PAC time segment for example, will advertise that they’re, for example, starting the KOTJ meta, hopping to teq when it’s finished, and then hopping to TT, a full DS run, meta bosses, temples, event trains, etc.

If I had to guess, OP’s just mad his meta map failed and TTS provides an easy target for their misplaced anger. Not the first time it’s happened.

Monk Tank.5897:

Oh because it’s not YOUR playstyle it’s inappropriate. I love these elitists.
How about the hundreds of players that thought HoT was too hard and cant be solo’d?

You mean the same content that I basically went around on my necro and soloed around 35 hero challenges to unlock reaper? Half of which were the champion spawns I soloed? In an afternoon? Some of it CAN be soloed. Unfortunately, when it’s scrub players trying to fight GROUP EVENTS solo, some of which meant to be done by at least a party, of course you’re going to be tossed around like trash.

Monk Tank.5897:

I’m sure Anet knows how much Gold we have turned into Gems.
How about a command that lets us see what this number is?

What’s the relevance that we even need to bother knowing this info?

Seera.5916:

Danikat.8537:

Orpheal.8263:

5: Account Limit per IP. Every IP should be able to own maximum 3 accounts, this is also a very important aspect against Gold Sellers that should have been done right from the begin on!! Yes, that might be a very frustratign change for all people, which might have already more than 3 accounts, but peopl can (and will) sell them anyways in that case, but for the safely of this games economy and in protection against Gold Selling, this change is long overdue and neccessary.
Even the most hardcore altoholic players should have with 3 Accounts more than enough space for possible characters.
Limiting the maximum number of accoutns, limits extremely also the maximum gold a hoarder can accumulate together in regard of farmed materials/general gold to be able to try to monopolize the game’s economy.
There needs to be borders for such people, a point, where they simply can’t get more anymore. Stop until here and no further, thats the principle that is missing in this game to protect the game’s economy from dagobert duck syndrome players, which don’t know anymore, when it is enough.

That’s not a terrible idea if only 1 person per household plays the game. But it’s really not uncommon to encounter people who play together with their whole family, or with their housemates.

Do you really think it’s fair to say only the first 3 of them can have accounts and anyone else is out of luck (bear in mind it’s against the EULA to share an account, even with another person at the same IP address) because you’re concerned that someone else somewhere in the world may be using their 4th account to get an additional 2g from dailies?

Also, some people have dynamic IP’s.

And gold sellers probably spoof their IPs in the first place (which makes blanket IP range bans sorta useless).

Heibi.4251:

You nay-sayers miss the point though.

YOU are missing the point. You’re asking to be able to store intermediate components, NOT materials. The point you’re missing is DONT CRAFT THEM if you dont need them immediately. You wont need to store them if you arent hoarding them.

DeceiverX.8361:

Really, it’s just perplexity runes that are the biggest offender (passive proc 3 stacks from being hit, passive CC reflection/CC, AoE CC and CC overload from elite specs makes it VERY easy to stack huge confusion just from runes). Get rid of those runes and most of the issues vanish. Get rid of these and dire gear together and all WvW-related condition issues for the most part vanish, too.

4 piece effect has a 25 second cooldown with a 25% chance of 3 stacks for 5 seconds. Full set is 5 stacks for 8 seconds with a 15 second cooldown. Cooldowns exist in wvw too. So…. Yea, get good.

page-eating bug fix/bump

Dawdler.8521:

Ayrilana.1396:

Stealth.8150:

what is the point in posting screenshots of fps u get in game where there is barely anyone on map. those just mean you in game and mean nothing.

if you want to post meaningful screenshots go into a at least 20v20 fight in wvw or a populated LA and post the fps u get.

Go to Shaman in Wayfayer Hills when the entire map is doing that world boss. There’s a good test.

Shaman in particular is good proof that the visual effects engine in GW2 is actually broken and the reason for many slowdowns.

You can have 100 peeps in front with a clusterkitten of sparkly effects at 20 fps (expected) when it suddenly – often for about 5 seconds – will go to buttery smooth 60 fps. I’m not even joking, the sudden performance jump is jarring with no noticable visual change, its still 100 peeps tossing effects in front. Then it goes back to “normal”.

For the most part, GW2 is often bottlenecked at the cpu iirc. That’s why some people still cant get above a certain threshold even if they have the “newest and bestest” gfx card.

Do whatever you want. DONT follow the guide if you dont want to. Those guides merely tell you what the current CHEAPEST path to leveling the craft is.

Chyanne Waters.8719:

Deleting accounts will free up space on the servers it will also free up character names that others can use.

Considering they retain information on banned accounts, I sincerely doubt database space is enough of a consideration for Anet to do this.

Tekoneiric.6817:

They are limited by space, it’s not like you can add additional skill slots on the screen. Moving the health skill to the health indicator would allow one more existing skill to be active during combat. That’s one less skill swapping the player has to do before combat. Visually the health indicator would stay the same. As it is when you click the upper half of the red circle your character just jumps backwards.

You have 5 skill slots aside from weapons. Plan accordingly. That planning may or may not involve going to some other game for your needs.

Razor.9872:

It is kinda painful to think that there are thousands of awesome names out there that will inevitably just gain dust…

But I also understand that a simple “wipe” isn’t so easily definable.

It is simple. Because it’s not going to happen. Frankly, the reason people ask for this is because they’re either crap at coming up with names that arent from pop culture or are too lazy to put in any effort.

Or you could just put stuff in the text boxes? They know ips as well. I’ve send gold and items back and forth between my two accounts and…. well, I’m not banned for it.

As mystflower points out, if you’re looking at Huntsley, go north.

It’s not necessarily a bug. The longbow’s auto attack doesnt hit two people INSTANTLY like aoes/cleaves can. It hits one person, then travels and hits the second person. An aoe, on the other hand, hits 1-5 people at the same time. One is two procs of damage, the other is only one.

edit: also, learn the difference between piercing, cleaving, and aoe attacks.

khul.7692:

General Health.9678:

Because then you’d end up with hundreds of maps with just 5 people on them.

Exactly the problem !

When you volunteer it’s to go to a more populated map. Not an empty one.

But when you get to that map its also empty….

Your suggestion is to stay on the empty map in hopes that people fill the map. Does this not make the volunteering system then null and void?

Again : you will still be stuck on an empty map cluster.

It only becomes an issue when it’s TWO mostly empty maps for a zone. I’ve noticed this in AB for the last week, with the two maps you bounce between being maps that have existed for probably over a week now.

katniss.6735:

Add an organize/view by (and or search term) item level.
A good example for me would be able to just type “400” in the search bar to show all the top created foods I can make.

I can never remember all the good foods I can make with my chef. Please create this.

Already exists. Click the dropdown arrow. You can hide/show recipes according to tier.

Korunos.4758:

it’s time to add some chat filter function! it’s already implemented in black desert online and it makes so fun without that gold seller!

Chat filters do not work. Anyone who thinks otherwise is so naive they border on being criminal. For example, for JUST “www” there’s a large number of variations that can and will bypass filters- vvvvvv, wwvv, wwvvvv, wvvw, vvww, \/\/ \/\/ \/\/, etc.

Iceash.8356:

hello guy’s just wondering have arenanet been hacked recently as over the last 2 days I have been recieving sms messages with an access code, so I presume someone is trying to access my account.

Anyone else with this issue?

It’s not Anet. If it was, they’d have announced it, and made a vast majority of people to change their pass. Change your password, first of all. Then contact support to change your email tied to the account so whoever this is cant keep trying.

DirtDowney.5187:

I’ve just decided to start crafting the legendary axe, Frostfang and at first, it seemed obvious that it would be cheaper to obtain the precursor, Tooth of Frostfang by completing the collection as oppose to buying it off the TP. After some research however, I am under the impression that for this precursor at least, it is much cheaper just to buy it off the TP. According to GW2Efficiency, crafting Tooth of Frostfang costs over 200 gold more than buying it off the TP, or 150 gold more even when buying from sell orders. Furthermore, not only does crafting a precursor cost a lot more, it also takes hours of grinding. So my question is……… WTF???

I thought the whole point of Legendary Collections was for there to be a cheaper and alternative way to obtain a precursor weapon than buying it off the TP.

Hopefully someone can shed some light on my situation for me.

It was NEVER about having a guaranteed cheaper alternative. It was for an alternative to outright BUYING the precursor. Only a fool would expect collections to be fast. The collections are meant to be a time-intensive alternative.

There isnt a point to this. If you want to be level 1 again purely for the sake of being level 1, just make another character.

Randulf.7614:

Ayrilana.1396:

There’s no issue with supply since they are not making anymore new legendaries.

I thought they were indefinitely suspended, not cancelled forever?

You realize those two phrases are functionally identical right?

Dahmerkitten.1385:

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Playing unattended is not allowed, and this was settled years ago

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Has-there-ever-been-an-official-response-on-what-is-considered-botting/first#post204144

from Regina.

“Anything that automates game play to the point where you are able to not actually play the game as-intended (example: you can walk away from it) is considered a breach of the User Agreement.”

That was from years ago.

By automated she is referring to a 3rd party program

The reality is- With mastery’s as they are – Any Necro/Guard/Ranger can afk loot farm. Without any automation on the players end.

I’ve reported the same person for afk farming since before Christmas. Nothing has ever been done. The person is still in game, and still using the same spot to afk farm.

No, she wasnt. The fact she said “ANYTHING” means she’s referring to literally ANYTHING. I dont need to use anything outside of the game to automate the ability to farm.

If you’re against censorship, I’m certain anet wont care if you move off to reddit. Besides, you’re in effect in their “house” where their rules are basically law.

Hamfast.8719:

I have found a number of things in GW2 that juuuuuust aren’t named quite right.

• One of the harvestable wood nodes is called an “Ancient Sapling”. A sapling is a young tree. How can a young tree also be “ancient”? And why is it one of the physically largest?

• In Wayfarer Foothills a “Passed Out Warrior” walked right by me. Hmm… I suppose he could have been sleepwalking.

• I found a bunch of dead “Pact Survivors” while running around in Heart of Thorns. I’m no expert, but shouldn’t survivors be – you know – alive?

• My Charr Warrior uses a rifle. The animations for his shooting skills show him bringing his weapon up to his shoulder, and sighting down the barrel to fire. …All except skill number two – “Aimed Shot” – which has him shooting from the hip.

What oxymorons and contradictions have you found in the game?

1: A plain sapling is a young, LIVING tree. Ancient saplings that we chop down are [b]definitely[/i] not living anymore, and their age is measured in numbers big enough to classify them as being ancient (the age definition). Additionally, it could also be the largest because… well, those saplings were quite likely immature versions of trees similar to redwoods.

2. It’s fine. They’re probably walking back to the point on the map in that heart area where they lie down so someone else can dump water on them.

3. You arent getting the train of thought here. They SURVIVED the reprisal against the pact fleet, hence Pact Survivors. They didnt necessarily survive what came afterwards.

The light armor is the Stately Armor.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Ven Zehn.6573:

I was thinking “Legendary Sucker” – from Naruto although, since we can’t use Sucker, “Legendary Fool” ?

Not to insult those who managed to get it, I quit after I did like 20 or so lol…. but how many profited, and how many lost incredible amounts of gold by going for it?

I never actually intended to go for it but I made a significant amount of gold while getting it. I tried it to see what the fuss was all about and kept going because I kept winning. I only stopped when I hit the “100 times” achievement.

I disagree with the OPs numbers. It didn’t take me 10,000 gold and 25,000 ectoplasm. Just 100 gold, 250 ectoplasm, and a whole lot of luck.

Just because you were getting gold and ectos BACK does not mean it didnt cost you what amounts to 20k gold.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Duckie.7241:

That’s actually one thing that really turns me off from playing one character over the other. I spruced up one guy to have max bags, and now he’s practically one of the only guys I want to play on.

I just decided to accept that it was never going to change and bought slots for all my 80s (at least, those I had before HoT). I’m very happy that I spent that extra gems/gold — the convenience of extra slots is every bit as valuable to me as that I get from infinite-use tools and salvage kits.

Same here. Eventually I’ll stop my boredom-inspired ecto gambling and buy some bag slots for my rev.

Why? None of those things are affected by masteries. Why should they contribute?

Wetpaw.3487:

Just that.

Stopped playing GW2 sometime back for two reasons,

-lack of effort/resources into WvW
-I’m too kitten old to spend my leisure time at the computer desk…(my problem)

After years in school, and now working behind a computer making up around 60% of my work week I can’t bring myself to sit at my desk anymore than necessary..I can assume others (some/little) feel the same?

So I moved on to X1 ESO, and wow what a great experience that has been! Always populated in every zone and time of day. Now this is not to say ESO>GW2, as I find both to be equally great mmo’s…just different.

With xplatform (console=pc) communities, GW2 limited action bar, my couch…and a better future/opportunity for Anet, GW2, and players I can’t foresee this not being a win?

my 2cents, and no you can’t have my “stuff”, already gave it away.

Wont happen. Ever. Consoles would be REQUIRED to be separate from PC servers, and updates would be few and far between because of the vetting process they’d have to go through to get updates through. That poses problems with crucial bugfixes that need to go out within hours of a larger patch being released.

It’s just like speed boosts. Only the most powerful will be in effect, others will be ignored.

rebellion.2473:

Hello.
As i noticed,some use forums as a tool for negative speech,unconstructive “feedback”,and worst of all,political and ideological beliefs

Please try not to post such stuff,it hurts us as community and Anet devs.
I really want to see us as community evolve into more jolly and happy group,not a bitter group.
Like myself,there are probably a lot of people who want to help Anet in watching over boards and making sure we dont have bad repbas a community.
Thank you for your attention and i hope you wont turn this topic in another murder fest.

Your crappy post offends my democratic christian beliefs! /s

Truth be told, just submit reports and/or ignore such posts/threads and move on to things that arent those.