Guild Wars 2

There was a time when people were farming bags from each other at the starting point, but that was justifiably nerfed. I don’t recall if the chest was always a per account situation, but would be surprised if it was related to this.

Back in the good ol’ days, I ran the borderland puzzles every day, on all of my toons, to earn the badges I needed for my first two legendaries. That isn’t even an option, now.

I’m afraid of posting to Reddit because it seems to be the central rage machine, since PvP League started, and don’t want to attract that kind of feedback. The responses in this thread have been positively joyous to read, and well thought out.

It does feel sad to see all the traps, rusty from lack of use. I set the odd one of, just to remind myself what they do!

Any kind dev reading provide any input on whether ‘per character" is a possibility with the chest? It won’t reduce my interest in playing wvw, I swear.

Apparently, I’m the only person who still enjoys playing all of GW2.

I have recently rekindled my love for the Obsidian Sanctum jumping puzzle.. and discovered something that I should have known before:

The chest is account-wide.

Is this the only jumping puzzle chest that is account bound instead of character bound?

I have a humble request.. since, going by my experience running it now, there are no other people doing this puzzle.. is it possible to change this to a per character chest instead of per account?

I admit – it’s for farming wvw badges, which are apparently must less generously supplied than in the past.

But, it’s not like I can park characters – I do have to run it each time – and if it becomes a per character thing, perhaps we’ll see more action in this quiet map?

I know this is not Reddit, but I will be very happy to hear any developer input on the possibility of this.

My son is 9 years old.

He is extremely casual with Guild Wars 2, though he has been playing since launch.

In the few hours that he has played Heart of Thorns, he has explored all of the new maps and enjoyed every moment. He doesn’t think about min/maxing and having ascended gear, he gradually gains gold because he doesn’t spend anything (and I help him sell materials at the right time..)

But other than that, for him, it’s not hard. He dies less than I do.

You know why? Because he doesn’t run around in a damage-focused build. He can stand up to most of the bosses , and has enough healing power to save others when they go down.

If he is doing fine with his 3 year old exotic set, why aren’t you?

Expansionists got what they asked for.

Congrats for thinking inside the box.

As you #1 fan, I think I’m just going to wait until you succumb to casual complaints and nerf Guild upgrades and Raid limitations, like you did with Masteries et al..

Thanks and see you soon!

..and that’s how it has been since the first computer. They get better, programmers take advantage to make better programs, repeat.

The good news is that we are guaranteed access to that increase – how much we are willing to pay for it determines how quickly we are able to adopt it. Eventually, you will be able to pick a 980gtx out of someone’s garbage, if you wait long enough.

So, if you can’t play the game to the level you wish, today, then wait until the PC you need is affordable. There will always be people with machines that don’t meet the specs to play the latest games.

If this cycle didn’t happen, we’d still be playing games with pong-quality resolution.

And we’d still be walking to school… uphill.. both ways..

hardy.7469:

Kind of sad and pathetic that you do this AFTER the launch of an expansion and make people play the game with a clearly inferior and extremely unstable 32bit client.

Terrible terrible planning on your part.

Unless wasting hours of peoples times with your bad programming and servers was part of the “experience”.
Maybe the threat of Modremoth crashing the game or disconnecting you and making you lose all participation (whoever thought of the idea of linking participation to the map is an idiot, or a bunch of idiots period) was you trying to make him feel more threatening…

Better late then never I suppose, though at least this teaches me the lesson never to buy software from you company again until at least a month or more later when you clearly figure out what you’re even doing.

…

Next time we’ll put you in charge of it.

You could try fixing your broken old computer too…

i7 32GB Windows 10 64. No crashes, and smooth. Thanks.

42. Farm CoF just enough to go from 2 to 5 in Pact, to get the ohhhh soooo beautiful autoloot. All the rest are from regular gameplay.

I love the core game. HoT has only increased that love.

The only thing I don’t love about this game is listening to cranky pants players in map chat.

Oh, wait, there’s /ignore in game.. reminded why I love this game so much. <3

What’s a rogue? do you mean thief? BoA? Are these Wow terms because I’ve never played WoW… I assume you’re meaning the same thing as I’m saying though

And this got buried under bug complaints, that are best posted to the bug forums

Hey, I made one friend today because of this. That’s a start!

Hi!

I just completed to Mistward armor pieces, only to discover that what I receive from both is soulbound heavy armor. This doesn’t do much for my ranger..

Can you switch this to account bound, so it’s possible to switch to a toon that is able to make use for it?

phys.7689:

which is why its anti social.

trust me, i live in a big city, taking the train is not a social experience, even though there is often 20-40 people in the same car.

its basically the difference between a work/friend car pool, and taking a bus.

Excellent point.

I’ll offer one counter to this… everyone in our train is doing the same thing, so there is benefit to meeting and playing with those 20-40 people vs. random commuters in your real world comparison.

It’s as simple as that.

Content becomes less difficult with a few people working together.

Metas are more likely to complete with teamwork.

Fine, you don’t want to make friends.. but why not? It’s so much easier than making friends “IRL” and just as rewarding.

When you meet someone who calls for help on a hero point, and you successfully win it – together – take a second to say hi and add them as a friend. Ask what they’re after next, or point to one that you need done.

For me, the new friends I’ve made in this game are a far greater reward than a random precursor drop ever would be. (no, none for me in all my hours).

Whatever you do, don’t wait for someone to make friends with you first. Put that first foot forward and it will encourage others to do the same.

For Tyra!

Turza.5193:

I’m not complaining about playing with strangers, I’m complaining about the lack of payout for the effort put into participating in the events. It’s a matter of mutual respect and doing all that you can to help the group succeed. A lot, not all, but a lot of players choose to neither listen nor try to understand how trying certain events can be. It’s about at least being reflexive enough to learn by watching others or asking for help. I would never have complained about this if I hadn’t seen this very thing happen over and over again. It’s not an issue with being forced to play with strangers, but rather how punishing it is for those of us who get snubbed on rewards because of others.

I think I understand better. My own experience suggests that people are just waiting for good leaders, and what may be needed is just more of that.

When I went from “I play by myself” mode to “Fine, I’ll join a guild to kill Tequatl” my experience with successful events grew exponentially, to the point where I am comfortable throwing myself into a pug Teq map and leading them all to victory.

It’s not an easy first step to find that guild, but it is critical to having regular successes in the map metas.

Now, that said…

I like that it is possible to explore the maps without regard for the meta events, but perhaps that’s what makes them more difficult? Not everyone is there for the same reason.

Which brings me back to the same experiential conclusion: when players discover that there is a well organized attempt being made on the meta event, they are more likely to jump in where they can.

.. and the benefit is that having people around, helping you kill monsters, makes the content a lot easier to play.

As for failure of the meta. I watch my son play Geometry Dash — 1,000 attempts to win a level? We know nothing of persisting through failure.

Strangers are friends you haven’t introduced yourself too, yet. Meet some and learn that the incompetence was your unwillingness to do so.

The DAT file is right there, unobfuscated. Please extract all of the content and import it into UE4. It sounds like you know what you’re doing and the community will be very appreciative of your effort.

Precursors and “rare” exotics are icing.

Want gold? Speculate.

I love underwater combat.

There -is- underwater combat in the expansion.

Why no more underwater legendaries? Because of all the unwarranted QQ over uverwater combat.

<3 6 DOF.

Maybe underwater combat will be revived when we face Susan?

3D TV Play is horrible though, because of the low resolution. A pox on you, nVidia!

Keitaro Dragonheart.9047:

Oh, it’s hilarious to see the elites throwing their little tantrums. They always complain about casuals whining and and crying, but the minute they don’t get their way, they cry and scream louder than everyone else and are always blaming casual players for everything..

It’s not about being elite, it’s about having eyes. There are paths around the monsters through all of the maps, just like Cursed Shores. Being Casual doesn’t mean you don’t have a brain – come on!

Autoloot for the win. My interact finger loves me.

That said, this happens every time there is an update to the game. I’m sad to see that it has turned into such a battle, which spills out into the non-GW2 community and makes us all look bad. ALL of us.

2,000+ message threads by people who get into circle arguments doesn’t make the thread right.

Go bloody play, and come back to me about grind when you’ve cross the 7000 hour line.

done.

Dashingsteel.3410:

You’re demonstrating stereotypical white knight rhetoric…… I guess that is just my stereotypical internet rage talking.

Yep, I slay stereotypical dragons like you for breakfast.

markot.3946:

In what univserse does having to take time to do something equals a challenge?

Driving a formula 1 car around a track for one lap is a challenge.

Driving a toyota on a 10 hour car journey is a chore.

This amuses me most, because I have a chest full of trophies that includes a season champion at the highest class of motorsports I competed in.

Ask Mr. Loeb if a 15 minute sprint through the backwoods of Finland is less challenging than a lap of Silverstone.

Sounds to me like someone putting a lot of effort into propping up the precursor market..

I bought all the level 1 .. recipies? .. just so I could get the achievement points for completing them!

I think that this was either done, or there is a big bug with skills not activating regularly.

The expansion is incredibly awesomely overwhelmingly fantastic.

What disappoints me is the number of posts on this forum, claiming exactly the opposite. These wonderful devs poured their heart and soul into this rich experience, and you’re all kittening on it because there is the slightest bit of challenge.

No one on here is asking “How do I do this?” It’s all “I can’t do this.”

Put your fingers to use learning how to rise to the challenge, instead of demonstrating your stereotypical Internet rage.

You might just find not only this game, but life, more enjoyable.

It’s too easy to follow the herd. There’s no value in being that kind of person.

Play the game for a while. Once you know the maps better, your opinion will have some value… and you’ll realize there are plenty of ways to safely traverse the maps, and that it’s quite amazing. This isn’t Dragonvale.

Do all 3 guild members have to do the guild mission at the same time to get credit, or do individuals add toward the totals?

Keep it as it is. These kids no not of the joys of challenge.

Just ducked in to let the wonderful devs know that HoT has exceeded my expectations in all areas.

Back to the fun!

Very happy that I won’t be able to finish this in a week

runeblade.7514:

Slowpokeking.8720:

nikdik.1934:

And yet there is still no update on Elite Specs and Hero Points.

So much for this being a GRIND FREE game.

I think the Elite Spec require bigger change to work, so they need more time.

It takes 15 or fewer seconds to type, “We understand that Elite specialization progression is terrible. We’ll change it.”

Or “Entitlement is not becoming of anyone. Earn it or visit the Apple Store for a massive selection of casual games for people without motivation.”

Retroactive on my 11 world completed toons ;D

If not, still lots more to finish those maps with but it would be nice!

Hi everyone!

This weekend, I got together with three close friends that I used to play Guild Wars 1 with. In fact, one of them was the person who introduced me to it.

Since Guild Wars 2 launch, I could never get it to “stick” with any of them. Even daily login to level up their first 80’s (and they all have 3rd birthday gifts!) didn’t do it.

It dawned on me, last week, that Dungeons were what they were looking for. Only us involved (instanced), a clear start-to-finish path and somewhat challenging encounters.

We ran story mode of Ascalon Catacombs, with 3 (and then 4, half way through), which was not particularly had but still not a speed run. They had a fantastic time, and all agreed that this was the content they were looking for back when the game launched.

The following morning, I did story mode for Sorrow’s Embrace with just one of them. I think it took us somewhere between 2 1/2 and 3 hours, partially because I had never played any paths of that dungeon! Once again, a fantastic adventure.

Today, I have learned about the future of dungeons… what timing!

Fortunately, they aren’t in it for farming, so lowering the gold rewards won’t really impact them.

One of my favourite parts of dungeons is that you can pick what you want to do. If the new Fractals system makes it possible to pick, then maybe it will take over for dungeon runs…. I’d definitely not want to see it work like dailies, where Friday night comes around and there is only one choice for the groups’ weekly Guild Wars 2 experience.

Anyhow, I’m not complaining about something that hasn’t happened yet.. just amused that this news coincided with me getting 3 old GW1 vets back into the game.

Don’t forget to take a group photo of the team bleeding from the fingers, trying to get the raids going at midnight on a Saturday.

Thanks so much for your tireless efforts.

Thumbs up. Love it.

Mervinas.9482:

Recently made changes to Dreamer were really upsetting.
From my point of view this is very bad practice, which shows certain disrespect to players.

I could say the same thing about the first time it was changed… but I don’t. If I was going to be upset about something, it would be how the original shortbow range was hobbled back shortly after I made my Dreamer.

Disagree. <3 my ponies again.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Especially the ‘divine magic’ for lack of better term sound, is now gone (pure unicorn, not a magical glowing projectile) anymore. .

What do you mean by pure unicorn vs. glowing projectile?

I’m confused.

When I first crafted by Dreamer, sometime in the first year of the game, I was somewhat concerned that the “neighing” sound would get annoying. Fortunately, after a days, the concern turned to satisfaction that my legendary had a unique sound, much different than the typical pew-pews.

When the sound was changed to its most previous incarnation, I was very disappointed that the difference between Dreamer and other bows was watered down. But, I accepted it.

Now that the unicorns are back.. it is quite obvious, and I can imagine giving some people the same impression I first had.

My advice: wait.. be patient, it will grow on you

Thank you for the stealth update to the Dreamer sounds.

Hey you, didn’t you get the memo? The world revolves around ME, not you

Find nvapps.xml on your computer and save it for when you need recover your profiles.

I have 2375 left from my HoT pre purchase and I want to spend them all on character slots… ?? Sale please?

Ya, I used to use it to level a tutorial toon to 80 (into wvw via pvp), before the level scrolls came about, but this doesn’t let you into wvw anymore with its own level limit.

Ok, because there’s supposed to be a level 3 entry limitation on new accounts, but there’s a way around it (don’t ask me to tell you if you can’t make red posts).

So if it doesn’t hurt… well then it doesn’t matter

Is there a reason that having a F2P account character able to access PvP immediately at level 1 may be exploitative? .. because it’s still possible.