Guild Wars 2

5 pages of people whining about literally the worst place to use crafting stations (LA).

Save your time and go to Ebonhawke or Rata Sum, you won’t miss LA, even DR is better than LA.

And please stop complaining just for the sake of it, this is why GW2 community is so bad, people crying for every single change they make. Adapt or leave.

Just make another alt and use them, you’re not restricted to 5 characters.

CHIPS.6018:

Alukah.2063:

I’m perplexed with the overall responses here.

I’m kinda hoping for a level cap increase (20 levels or so?) to get rid of all these gw1 fans that still can’t get over the fact that this is not gw1.

If you want to play Grind Wars, there are already plenty of other games like that out there.

20 levels is not a grind, you are overreacting.

Until you actually try what’s real grinding (months to reach certain level) you don’t have the right to call a level cap increase as “grinding”, specially in a game where there’s no exp curve, the exp needed to level up is always the same.

This is not guild wars 1 and this was not meant to have a level set for a lifetime, it will happen and just quit the game now if you won’t deal with it. Stay away from all MMORPGs if you don’t want to deal with level cap increase.

Go to EOTM, there’s your PvP server.

I’m perplexed with the overall responses here.

I’m kinda hoping for a level cap increase (20 levels or so?) to get rid of all these gw1 fans that still can’t get over the fact that this is not gw1.

I think OP is from Blackgate.

People are tired of extreme queues and decided to have fun with their guild in EOTM, where they can PvP without having to worry about queues.

@Teofa Tsavo There’s no fragmentation, everything will be moved to the Vigil Keep.

And why would the dialog of every NPC in game have to make reference to this? Were they talking about LA before? Why would someone in a completely different region randomly start talking about LA when it has nothing to do with them?

And why are you so afraid of big changes? How about wait and see how it turns out?

Lindbur.2537:

There’s nothing a birthday booster and WXP booster can’t solve. I’m serious.

Serious question, how many birthday rewards do people get? I’ve seen people recommend them in other instances as if one would have an unlimited amount of birthday gifts ready to use for any situation, it makes me wonder how exactly they work.

ikiturso.4026:

Openin make’s no sence. Im pure wvw player wheres my legendary? Why i must grind pve for it so long?

Because Anet doesn’t recognize WvW as a real game mode, for them it’s just something to lure PvE players to like PvP, so all WvW players still have to deal with PvE.

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Alukah.2063:

Azure Prower.8701:

Legendaries are a WvW weapon. WvW participation should be required.

Legendaries are a PvE weapon. PvE should be the only requirement.

Legendaries are weapons for those areas where they can be used. That means both PvE and WvW at this time. There is talk about adding sPvP, but unsure as to how it will work.

Oh I know, I was just picking on the “Legendaries are a WvW weapon” he pulled off his rear.

Astralporing.1957:

Alukah.2063:

Azure Prower.8701:

Legendaries are a WvW weapon. WvW participation should be required.

Legendaries are a PvE weapon. PvE should be the only requirement.

I have even better suggestion. No legendaries for people below 20k achievements. You just aren’t legendary enough with anything less.

Why stop at 20k? Any random no-lifer can get to 20k AP, the weapons would lose their prestige and exclusivity. 50k AP seems reasonable.

Azure Prower.8701:

Alukah.2063:

Azure Prower.8701:

Legendaries are a WvW weapon. WvW participation should be required.

Legendaries are a PvE weapon. PvE should be the only requirement.

Which one is the more selfish statement?

Yours.

Didn’t they take down LFG some weeks ago to fix this? Or what exactly did they fix?

How to fix it: Don’t buy gems, stop rewarding them every time they make a bad decision, that’s the only way to hurt a company, then send a little mail to NCSOFT so they know why the gem sales went down.

Azure Prower.8701:

Legendaries are a WvW weapon. WvW participation should be required.

Legendaries are a PvE weapon. PvE should be the only requirement.

selan.8354:

so they basically turned the feathered armor skin into the new flamekissed armor instead of designing a new one?

It has been said several times, all other flamekissed are re-skinned versions of existing armor, if they designed a totally new armor as a replacement for the light version then you would have another uproar of people who bought the re-skinned medium and heavy versions.

They can have different requirements for activating them (not buying)

So anyone still can buy them, with the warning about requirement to activate them, but only those who meet the requirement can make a squad.

Why put the restriction to making a squad and not to purchasing it?

Because if PvE also has a requirement (let’s say 5k AP) and someone meets the PvE requirement but has never set a foot in WvW, that person would be able to tag in WvW without knowing what’s going on, fixing absolutely nothing.

Why make another thread about the same topic?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Absolutely-LOVING-the-new-Flamekissed

Alukah.2063:

I didn’t buy flamekissed before but now I’m having the urge to buy this version, it looks amazing.

…And then I saw the huge gold-to-gem price and LOLNOPE, I can totally wait until the last few days.

But seriously holy kitten, I guess many people did like the new set + quaggan finishers.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

I didn’t buy flamekissed before but now I’m having the urge to buy this version, it looks amazing.

Why people talk like if there has never been PvE content in WvW? The living story always reaches WvW and all serious WvW players despise it.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

I stated this during the Ready Up livestream earlier today, but I’ll repeat it again here.

While we are releasing new story related content with the Edge of the Mists update, very little of that content actually occurs inside of the EotM map. Hopefully that alleviates some of your concerns!

I love you.

chronometria.3708:

You say griefing, we say war.

WvW players get poor loot and are forced into content they often don’t like just to get the very weapons they fight with. Long have we been the second class citizens of guildwars 2 and when content is added for us, its usually when something (orbs, quaggans) is taken away.

WvW keeps this game alive. The transfer fees paid by wvw guild migration are considerable and as structured-pvp is rapidly dieing out, wvw is where the pvp side of this game is headed. When Wildstar comes out, WvW will be what holds this game together, or what sinks it if a better home for us is offered. Its about time we got some kudos for the things we do to keep the pve side of the game alive.

So I say unto those venturing into the edge of the mists – come armed and come determined enough that when you fall, you get back up and you hunt out the one who felled you so that you can drive him or her from the mists and into the hands of Grenth himself.

The time to ignore us is over – you`re in our world now.

You have to be a terrible player if you go after easy targets instead of the challenging ones.

Wait and see, if it will be what I’m thinking I’m not doing this LS.

“Little ants, little ants. Running for your lives.” – Scarlet Briar

Join your world’s world boss train (starts every night with reset), there’s usually a commander pointing waypoints in map chat, add that guy to your friends list to know where it starts, as there’s no specific order.

Also check in WvW if there’s a commander that does karma train.

sminkiottone.6972:

Corpus Christi.2057:

Best update ever? Please, explain why.

1) It’s a new map
2) It brings new Pve contend and PvP content, not that I like the boring idea of killing mobs but it should please both comunities.
3) For the first week or so PvErs will give us WvWers a bunch of free lootbags
4) It’s maybe a start in the right direction, less Pve and more Pvp content !!11!!

>2) It brings new Pve contend and PvP content, not that I like the boring idea of killing mobs but it should please both comunities.

You must be new to PvP, because most PvPers I’ve seen both in game and on the forums despise all PvE crap in WvW maps. This doesn’t really please anyone.

>3) For the first week or so PvErs will give us WvWers a bunch of free lootbags

Wasn’t PvP about challenge?

What kinda bothers me is that the LS will happen in a PvP map.

The animation isn’t that good but I bought it anyways.

Nothing else to do with gold.

“Is this just a cash grab move by you since it cost 1800 gems to transfer to a very high server. "

Yes.

/thread

brokenrabbit.6538:

Riot Inducer.8964:

If you’re in Queensdale that looks exactly like the human tutorial boss minus the hands holding it up. I’ve not encountered this but I’m guessing it’s some sort of bizarre bug causing a distance imposter of it to appear outside the tutorial.

Yeah, it’s Queensdale. I could be mistaken but I swear I’ve seen it a time or two in Gendarran Fields as well.

I don’t recall Gendarran having an Earth Elemental, perhaps you’re thinking about Harathi Hinterlands? There’s an Earth Elemental part of Modniir Ulgoth boss fight.

Nike.2631:

The vista at the SW Keep (green) in Eternal Battlegrounds.

Hands down. No contest.

Hate that thing.

Took me two months to get that one, at 99.99999999%

And I’m not even one of those who just check every often, I actively tried several times with my server, I only managed to get it after the bloody S1 ended and my server finally got green.

I tried two marionettes this morning, in each case my platform couldn’t kill the champ in time. We were three in the platform, neither of us got downed, we all kept doing as much damage as we could and we still ran out of time before we could kill the boss.

At this point I’m hoping Josh Foreman was confused about platform champions scaling to the number of players in them and I do hope they check them again, using non-warrior classes without full zerker.

These new bosses and Anet’s responses (mainly Josh Foreman’s) have been giving me a wave of mixed feelings that prevent me from logging in regularily. I don’t hate them, but I don’t like them either, I feel like I want to do them but after countless fails I don’t know how I feel.

Mixed feelings here, while I like the design this is yet another event that requires a full map to be completed, that is not good.

“In EQ2 it is 24 people, in an instance, all knowing their roles, skills, knowledge of scripting, tells, etc. They also know what mechanics to look for. There are no randoms wandering in, no players who just “happened” to be there. In that context it is appropriate to force the learning of the “strat”. Everyone in a serious Raid is expected to know exactly what where when and how to do things.”

Have you ever done a raid when it’s first released? (aka “exploration mode”)
Don’t people use online guides to know what mechanics to look for, to know what to do and where to do it?

Or do you expect people in that game to know exactly what to expect from the AI without reading about it or without previous practice, even if the raid was just released?

Have you ever played a game with a raid system?

If you do end up uninstalling, don’t go to games where raids are end game content.

At least they rotate the daily achievements and there are enough to let you pick which ones to do, in most other games you’re stuck with a predetermined amount of dailies that never change.

I’m not sure if you’re expecting something completely new and different every single day.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Errannar.8263:

An interesting thought. What if she were to try disconnecting the Sylvari from the Dream of Dreams and the Nightmare instead, to destroy fate and free her people from the paths determined for them (Wyld Hunt/Dark Hunt)?

Possible, but it doesn’t seem in line with Scarlet’s behavior so far. So far she comes across as insane, anti social, and homicidal. I don’t really see how some lofty goal to free Sylvari fits into that line of thought. That’s not to say that it isn’t possible (in fact, I hope she has a noble reason for her violent behavior), but it doesn’t seem to match the Scarlet we’ve seen so far. That’s also one of my biggest arguments against the “Scarlet wants to destroy the Pale Tree” hypothesis. It’s not impossible, but does it fit the character of Scarlet?

I don’t know but

“My people don’t have to take what we’re given, or be what we were “born to be.” No people do. We can change the rules…well, I can. And I’m going to.”

sounds like she does care about the Sylvari having a predetermined fate, or that’s what I get from “my people” and “we can change the rules” instead of “I don’t have to take what I’m given”.

Raine.1394:

Alukah.2063:

Because this is pretty much a “dress up game” when it comes to end-game content, stats don’t really matter, only the skin of all those weapons matter.

And where have you been since lost shores? Just check out a laurels vendor. What are they selling? Right, more powerful gear. You can now advance your crafting. Why? Again, more powerful gear. This game is not a “dress up game”. It’s simply about grinding for ever more powerful gear.

The game is not about “grinding for ever more powerful gear”, there is a reason why the power gain from exotic → ascended is so pathetically low, the game was built around exotics and that did not and will not change even after having Ascended out.

Because this is pretty much a “dress up game” when it comes to end-game content, stats don’t really matter, only the skin of all those weapons matter.

MakkeOnMies.4718:

Alukah.2063:

Bombsaway.7198:

Is there anything easy that a simple layman can do without messing with hardware or doing things way beyond a normal person’s capacity?

If your problem is the same as mine (can be checked with CPU-Z, doesn’t need much knowledge for this) I don’t think there’s an easy solution other than physically re-seating your GPU, but we cannot be sure until you check.

yes there is, open CPU-Z AFTER you have started “rendering test” from GPU-Z, WOOHOO u have 16x link width, cpu-z obviously shows 1x link width when theres nothing happening while you open it.(tip. its called power saving) proplem is CPU-Z only update link width info when its opened, after that it wont update this info again even if you pushed pci-e off from power saving.

E: and heres the proof -> http://imgur.com/CQk0h5D
someone who got power savings on can easily test it himself.

You’re missing the point by a landslide, the symptom here is not that the info shown on CPU-Z is wrong, but the huge loss of FPS in game, unless you’re implying that opening CPU-Z would have fixed it.

When I was trying to solve this I did read about power saving and that was not my issue at all, if it was power saving then after starting the game it would have fixed by itself.

The only thing I disagree about is the last part

The Distant Future: A new Pale Tree seed is left after the destruction, and the next arc of the Living Story centers around the germination of a new Pale Tree in the newly-cleansed Orr. This will serve as the new Sylvari starting area.

I really doubt that would happen, they wont change the current Orr because it plays a huge role in the personal story, and anything that involves the personal story will not be touched by the living story, the personal story is set in stone unless they rewrite it, Orr being poisoned is part of it.

I did read your response above but (no offense) it’s a complete nonsense, the amount of resources wasted and all the possible cons makes it very unlikely that they would implement two versions of the same map just for the living story.

If they didn’t cleanse Orr when the personal story ended, they wont for a living story.

Semi off-topic, is there any summary of all changes mentioned in that live stream? I’m kinda lost with the crit nerf ._.

JBDanger.2603:

I wouldn’t be surprised if the dungeon sellers and abusers of the tool ruined it for everyone else. Sucks for them, looks like they’ll have to earn their gold like the rest of us.

Except that they can still sell runs using other tools like gw2lfg.com

Bombsaway.7198:

Is there anything easy that a simple layman can do without messing with hardware or doing things way beyond a normal person’s capacity?

If your problem is the same as mine (can be checked with CPU-Z, doesn’t need much knowledge for this) I don’t think there’s an easy solution other than physically re-seating your GPU, but we cannot be sure until you check.

Farm champions or world bosses, neither of them require you to have good gear and give a decent income, with world bosses you also have chance to get a precursor.

Reseating fixed the link, it’s at x16 again and gw2 is running smoothly, I wonder how it went down to x1.

Thank you guys

chris.9142:

Download cpuz and check pcie link is 16x

Also get GPU and set it to log GPU useage its should be ,60-70+ if no problems

CPU-Z http://puu.sh/6kWtT.png

in GPU-Z the usage is 100% when running gw2.

Not sure about this, people rarely read pop-ups, if both exit to desktop and logout have a pop-up people will just rush and press the button before noticing they clicked exit instead of logout.

Either way, they haven’t even fixed the lack of warning when buying something “unique”, I doubt they would do anything for this :/

timidobserver.7925:

Frostfang.5109:

I’ll answer a couple of u… If I do Teq (wich I do once ina great while for fun).. I DO spend that waiting hour doing other stuff. Then I’m hoping not to get an error and end up on overflow being (most likely) unable to sucess….

The farm. Whenever u enter Frsostgorge there is a HUGE train there farming Champs (wich I hate and never take part of). I have been there a couple of times to get some Dragonites for ascended craftng lately. Same goes for the Epyrial shards wich happened to be located at the Troll…. Many ppl in that farm train are Guests. Talk around listen to chat etc and u’ll find out.

I’m perfectly fine with Guild missions… Its an activity that takes part, not just some abusing crazed mega-zerg hysterical farming 24/7.

Tequatl. Most ppl ther are guests as their own server have too few ppl doing it in order to suceed…

Yesterday I ran onto a big Group pf french ppl farming linen on an event that they used (read “abused” instead). I came there and finished the event and that kittened them off quite badly….

Ppl find all ways of using the game, that are not the ways it was intended. When u act in a normal way, like killing a champ because u happened to pass by, doing an event because u pass by, try to get to a World boss on u’r own server… either u kitten ppl off or end up on an oveflow…

My experience is that these things tend to happen to me more often and in more places lately….

I have to play devil’s advocate and say that I find issue with you going out of your way to interrupt them. I could understand entirely if you genuinely intended to do that event because you wanted to do the event. If that was your intent, then tough to them. However, you are no better than them if you went out of your way just to interrupt or troll them them.

This is really Anet’s fault honestly. They are the ones introducing new gear that requires a level of farming that even WoW would be disgusted with. Clearly Anet supports the needs for MASS farming to improve your gear, therefore it is their fault that people are doing whatever they can to farm it.

He’s not doing anything wrong by going out of his way to complete events because they are meant to be completed, those farming them are exploiting the system.

Lightsbane.9012:

Wreave.2138:

I’ve recently started focusing on map completion, planning to get to 100% before too long. Then today I ran into this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1uvnye/dolyak_express_first_answers_to_our_questions/

Achievements: Are you going to change the Map Completion to remove the requirement of WvW?
”We currently have no plans to do this. We’ve been doing a lot of work lately to try and bring our three core game types: PvP, WvW, and PvE more together in their systems of progression, rewards, and unlocking to try and give the game more of a sense of everything you do ties back into the growth of your character. We feel like WvW is a really good middle-ground between PvE and PvP and want to encourage people to think of the mists as part of our world they should explore and experience, we might consider adding the PvP lobby to world exploration for future characters for example to help give more incentive to visit there as well.

That being said, we’re always looking at the systems and features we have in place, and as you’ve seen since we launched if we find something we think is better, we’re not shy about replacing a current system if we find something better for the players, but accomplishes our same goals. Our over-all goal is to encourage all players to experience WvW, to have goals that keep them there long enough they might fall in love with it and take that on as a separate game time; should we find other ways that are as effective as we’ve seen world complete is for encouraging play there to see the different maps, that is just as easy to understand and uses existing systems like world complete, we’ll certainly consider them. It’s something fun to brainstorm on our forums and see what kind of ideas players might!” ~Colin Johanson

Wait. Map completion requires WvW maps too? WTF? Okay, starting to get ticked off.

Googling around finds more threads on people unhappy about this. E.g.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/100-map-completion-not-going-to-happen/first

And this in particular stands out:
http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/211/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson-Part-II.aspx

What are your thoughts on the PvE aspect of WvW, including jumping puzzles and world completion?

Colin: For the jumping puzzle, I would prefer that they not be in the WvW map and it’s a separate thing. Especially when there’s a queue like that and people are trying to get in. It disconnects players from the content that they are trying to play. How we answer that is going to be interesting. There’s a lot of different ways that we can separate that out, but in long run it’s very unlikely that that will stay in the WvW map where it’s eating up population queue. We’ll go somewhere else and we’ll have to figure out the best way to do that. “World Complete” is an interesting one. We’ve seen from our data metrics, that because [WvW] is on “World Complete”, there’s a bunch of people who play WvW because it takes them there to actually get to know it and they end up having so much fun, that they stay.

why shouldn’t it require you to get wvw maps? i mean do you have any clue how many more badges of honor pure pve players(achievement points are often drastically higher on pve players) get over pure wvw players? it’s seriously exponential what the difference is because of the fact that achievement chests give 300+ badges of honor. (the drop rate of badges of honor in wvw is so negligible you’d think unicef would be doing a commercial to raise awareness) and how does that even make sense?
before you go and say that they’re not connected; how many wvw players do you know that have 100% map completion? i know maybe a few.

Apples and pears, I heard they are not the same.