Guild Wars 2

@nagr, you’re really true to your name

But it’s true, you’re derailing the original discussion which is ‘how to start raiding’ by making topics of your personal raiding experiences that do not add to the question. Your stories may be valid or not, I’m not going to have that discussion, but they have no validity here because you’re arguing personal experiencies that don’t relate to the original topic. you make matters worse, when you are called out on it, you start an argument which only further derails this whole topic.

so please I am not asking you to pack up and leave, just stick to the topic of OP or make a new topic on the forum for your own experiences.

No, Living Seasons can be considered mini-expansions between the big expansions.. bonus campaigns.. however you like to call them.
When you buy GW2, you buy the core game
That is the Orr Campaign.

So right now, the products are:
Guild Wars 2
Living World Season 2
Heart of Thorns
Living World Season 3

The above are all seperate products and need to be bought seperately. as a reward for loyal and active players, the Living World subchapters are free at the time they are released that means if you’re active during a release, you get it for free. It’s not a punishment for players to buy it, but a reward for being active.
Think of it as a shop selling kitchens. During the opening period, you get free toasters with your kitchen. But people who come by later when the action ends, have to buy the toaster seperately. By that time, you get the waterboiler free. And when they release the microwave, the waterboiler becomes for sale again
Right now you can get Living World Season 3 Chapter 3 for free just by logging in for 2 seconds

Its not a monthly subscription, or anything like it. A monthly subscription would insinuate you have to (re)pay for the core product as well. Here you buy and own a copy of each of the sections of the game. People who bought the initial game have endless access to the initial game

Teniz.5249:

Adry.7512:

Hopes n Dreams about Expac 2

Well there need to be a first expansion before there can be a second…

People are still on the ‘HoT is no (/bad) expansion- bandwagon?
I thought that was settled quite a while ago. HoT turnt out pretty good after it’s postlaunch fixes.

1. Are they set to appear offline? (Or you?).
2. Or are they in an [unknown] location? Then theyre stuck in a loading screen or on character select.
3. do either of you have a free acount?

quaggans are absolutely due the extreme nature of this content, it has been hidden from public eye, and theyre a blight on kryta and should be exterminated as soon as possible

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Amaimon.7823:

To the QOL section
Dodge:
[ ] Double tap to Dodge Roll
WW = no dodge
[X] Double tap to Dodge Roll
WW = dodge roll forward

Glide:
[ ] Double jump to glide
Jump and hold spacebar = glider
[X] Double jump to glide
Jump and hold spacebar = no glider
Jump and press jump again midair = glider

Author’s note:
I’m making this suggestion after reading what felt like the thousandth topic on how the glider messes up jumping puzzles and other traveling menial tasks. I personally do not experience these problems, but I would fully aprove of the setting as mentioned above

You mean like this?

Double-Tap to Evade — Double-pressing a movement key will make your character roll in the same direction. When disabled, you can only evade by binding a key to the Dodge action. Many players recommend disabling this option for those who use non-standard input devices or who find themselves accidentally double-tapping (and thereby wasting endurance), and especially while completing jumping puzzles.

An option that has been in the game since Launch or Close to Launch.

I thought Gliding had a similar setting but I never checked since it never bothered me.

I offered the dodge roll because its actually almost the same.. so I figured maybe the same setting options would work as well.
Glider normal = as now
Glider on command = requires a second key or a double jump
Glider off = it will never open

These seem to be the best three settings given discussion and situations

Ashen.2907:

Arent undead possible without the influence of Zhaitan?

Yes, but not the elder dragons. You need a lich or megalomaniac, and right now, i think only Livia and Palawa Joko come close to redurrecting undead with personalities/souls in large quantities

If you need support, theres a big guild called Raid Training Initiative theyre about the best you can get for a starting point. They do training runs of bosses and events, and practice kill runs (which often result in kills, duh)

OriOri.8724:

I like fighting all 4 at once. I just want the invincible asura to not be the priority when retargetting. Its annoying and pointless to have to retarget twice to get to the next golem if you use the tab key

I complained about that several times, but no reply of anet on the subject yet. Its really annoying. The guy should be green, not red, since we dont fight him anyway

Well, rather, he does fire magic missiles.. maybe make him like one of those untargetable turrets

Westenev.5289:

Amaimon.7823:

AriaFiresong.7023:

I like them. They rank pretty far above humans and norn imo.
For generations they had exactly zero predators and grew complacent, and now that they have predators they aren’t going to lay down and die, they’re adapting and learning from races who generally had nothing better to do except try to creatively murder everything around them. (ie, every other race in the game).

And hey, there’s a dragon, no problem, Quaggans are ready to fight that, too. They may not be strong, but now many Norn are out swimming to patrol for Tequatl?
(Useless Norn…)

Good idea, lets round up all the quaggans and launch them at the next ED. With a bit of luck they wipe eachother out, and all else, they’ll weaken the dragon for us. No downsides to this plan

Orr they come back as to haunt us as super zombie-plant-whatever quaggan. You know, the sort of elder spawn that puts you to sleep with nightmares.

Zhaitan is dead, no new risen are being born. All Primordus and Jormag are capable of is imbueing their own minions with death magic, but they can’t make risen.
Zombie quaggans are no longer possible.

They’ll just die, and just stay dead, and we;ll be just rid of them

I think the festivals will never be hard because to have to be including ‘everyone’
and by everyone they mean even people born without limbs need to have enough time to do it.

what would fix it, is a difficulty setting:

Tixx: I’m gonna reactivate the production core. Let me know how much you can handle. Supply line has three settings; slow, normal and fast.

(public vote like they used in dungeons)

Tixx: alright gonna crank open the supply lines, be ready!

haha, so instead of all 4 resurecting they merge for a big golem?
could be a cool idea

There are a few helmets that abscure the shoulders. Have you checked with hiding pieces to reveal the obscured piece?

AriaFiresong.7023:

I like them. They rank pretty far above humans and norn imo.
For generations they had exactly zero predators and grew complacent, and now that they have predators they aren’t going to lay down and die, they’re adapting and learning from races who generally had nothing better to do except try to creatively murder everything around them. (ie, every other race in the game).

And hey, there’s a dragon, no problem, Quaggans are ready to fight that, too. They may not be strong, but now many Norn are out swimming to patrol for Tequatl?
(Useless Norn…)

Good idea, lets round up all the quaggans and launch them at the next ED. With a bit of luck they wipe eachother out, and all else, they’ll weaken the dragon for us. No downsides to this plan

or hear me out here, or you can use them?

Always glad to read some uplifting stories here. So much negativity on the forums, so believe me when I say thank you as well

onevstheworld.2419:

Amaimon.7823:

Famine.7915:

And here I was thinking I was getting so many ascended boxes that my bank is becoming full.

Can i have some? Havent seen a single drop in my entire fractal carreer

If you’re mostly doing T3, that’s why you’re not seeing any. There is a small chance from T3 dailies, but T4 has a much higher chance.

My T4 career isnt as long as the T3 career, but its pretty long.
I found an Occams weapons box :o

joneirikb.7506:

Some weapons are less dependent on targeting than others (Guardian GS for ex), wish they moved more towards that style for more weapons, especially under water combat. That would hide a lot of the problems with the targeting.

Pretty similar to the warrior’s GS. When I play as a warrior, I always disable the targetting assistent, because having no target as a warrior means you can place and aim your swings as free as you please. Kinda like a hack and slash or metroidvania style. Gotta learn the reach of your sword and then use it

Famine.7915:

And here I was thinking I was getting so many ascended boxes that my bank is becoming full.

Can i have some? Havent seen a single drop in my entire fractal carreer

Sharm made an awesome cover of it, with vocals, check it out!
Battle for the breachmaker is the right name for the music, but it doesnt actually belong to that boss. The breachmaker and the toxic court were like half a year apart in LS1

Just like the Shatterer and Tequatl, now more than ever, does this great colossus deserve an update.

He doesn’t yet have a real destroyer name, nor does he have the abilities to live up to his name.
So how about this:
We rename him:
Destroyer of Origins

We update the pre-events to require a little more coordination. Say, 4 seperate duo-events around the volcano.
Then we make our way into the volcano, where we will fight the colossus.
Imbued with Plant and Death, this is to be an epic fight.

Those with gliders can ride the thermal currents and drop bombs.
Those without gliders can continue the assault from the ground.

Things that can happen may include:
offensive phases: The beast is vulnerable, strike with all force
defensive phases: The beast is toughened up. protect the megalaser and its batteries from waves of destroyers (of three attunements).

Chaos mode: (last 10%) the beast has tumbled over and from his body emerge to destroyer wurms, one dedicated to the death magic, and one to the vine magic. Both must be killed simoultanously. The breakdown of the main body is causing erratic behavior of the volcano, so rolling fire and raining magma is to be expected.

.

In any event, give the champion of Primordius a proper name, and a proper makeup, right now, he’s just target practice

theoretical dropchance I dont know, but the practical one is 0.000%, give or take millionth of 0%

Well, when it comes to swings or bullets, it’s just a collision box. However, some attacks don’t actually attack the creature, but rather their position. On land this is easily done. X Y coordinates on a solid ground. But underwater you also have the Z coordinate, and its not just in GW2, its a difficult thing to program in any game. When underwater, every model simply carries a 1,1,1 point ‘ground’ that the skills can focus on.

Its not really easy to explain or understand, it’s just that coding such a thing is tricky, and its often easier to make a roundabout that removes the symptom rather than make a fix or cure

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You might consider posting in the ‘official’ QoL Suggestions Sticky, where the Devs are more apt to see your suggestion(s).

Good luck.

Good b8, m8, I r8 your reply 8/8. I’m on the 12th page, though, not the 8th.
It has been done.

Support this page and maybe we’ll see the change someday

Neyensb.2581:

https://gw2efficiency.com/currencies/karma
Wintersday gifts are not that good for karma-to-gold
But the Wintersday orphans net you about 85k karma (without the +50% bonfire), That means 50-60 free gifts/day

really? I never bothered with the orphans because it seemed like such a hassle, but if the reward for that daily is that much karma, it would surely beat the Tixx Infinirarium daily completion

Original Post

Dodge:
[ ] Double tap to Dodge Roll
WW = no dodge
[X] Double tap to Dodge Roll
WW = dodge roll forward

Glide:
[ ] Double jump to glide
Jump and hold spacebar = glider
[X] Double jump to glide
Jump and hold spacebar = no glider
Jump and press jump again midair = glider

Author’s note:
I’m making this suggestion after reading what felt like the thousandth topic on how the glider messes up jumping puzzles and other traveling menial tasks. I personally do not experience these problems, but I would fully aprove of the setting as mentioned above

To the QOL section
Dodge:
[ ] Double tap to Dodge Roll
WW = no dodge
[X] Double tap to Dodge Roll
WW = dodge roll forward

Glide:
[ ] Double jump to glide
Jump and hold spacebar = glider
[X] Double jump to glide
Jump and hold spacebar = no glider
Jump and press jump again midair = glider

Author’s note:
I’m making this suggestion after reading what felt like the thousandth topic on how the glider messes up jumping puzzles and other traveling menial tasks. I personally do not experience these problems, but I would fully aprove of the setting as mentioned above

Tap the space bar, no matter how you press it, the jump is the same.
Don’t keep holding the spacebar while jumping.

It’s a matter of practice, but you’ll be fine.

(but yea, I agree that the glider shouldn’t be opening from a press and hold space, or it should have a toggle option like dodging has)

Lately there hasn’t been much life in the Activities. There aren’t really real rewards to earn, after you’ve gotten the easy achievements.
Replaying some content with friends, we found it fun to enter the Weapons Testing Facility fractal and enter the last stage and make bets. Every round we put in 1g (so the reward was 5g) and then we’d do the fractal. if anyone got hit by a fire whirl, a shockwave or an explosion, they lose their share of the reward. Then we’d die to reset and repeat the process several times.

So I figured, wouldn’t this be a fun activity?
Like, 20 people enter that cage. Followed by the traps activating.
The first 3×30 seconds it’s 1 trap. So 30 seconds of shockwaves, then 30 seconds of fire-whirls and then 30 seconds of raining explosions.
during those 30 seconds the time it takes between two charges will decrease, so blasts will come in faster and faster.
Then after the initial 90 seconds all traps start running wild, and slowly increase in speed. Every time you get his you gain a point, and at the end the winners are the people with the fewest points.

Of course it wouldn’t be as much fun if you couldn’t sabotage each other. So there’ll be iron rods and rocks lying around. You could slap someone with the rod, or throw the rock. Or throw the bar to trip a moving player.

Would be a fun activity? I know I would play it

Kantid.3571:

Amaimon.7823:

1. doesnt work because after 5 seconds of staying in base you get zapped out. an afk player is just a free christmas tree of points to the enemy

well, may be i don’t remmeber this correct
But main problem was ppl, who leaving matches when loose

>that< is indeed a problem. but in that case as I said, the enemy just gets a christmas tree of points. since the afk players get zapped outside to a fixed spot on the middle of the bridge until theyré dead

Arylide.4910:

Up to what price is it worth it to buy the gifts with karma?

Depends on how easy you make the karma. I’d say.. look at how much karma you can make in a day, and buy that amount, so you can find an equilibrium that you never exceed how much karma you spend.

If you spend all your karma on one day, and can’t make half the gifts the next day (karma’s worth) then you bought too much. It really varries from person to person.
I’d say.. try with fully buying up to the 6th tier, and see if you can easily resupply that karma. if you can get that karma back easily, then you can spend some more the next day

I do get where you’re coming from. Lately I’m doing Tier 3’s because they’re slightly easier than T4 and you practically get the same reward. If it’s an easy T4 fractal, I still do it for the extra 15 relics

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

Amaimon.7823:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

do not hope anet gets super foolish and tries to make Twitter part of this game like

wow did . that would be a very bad move in so many ways !!

did I miss something? played legion for 3 months, never once was I pushed to use twitter??

yeah you got to have a Twitter acount and logged into that and the game itself for that

to happen

oh? and pray do tell, what happens then? if its anything worthwhile it’s strange for blizzard to not to advertise it anywhere

so.. this whole topic boils down to
> OP wants all content to be equally accessible everywhere, effectively nullifying any sense of accomplishment or value?

icy.9250:

I agree with most of this and I might have a solution.
— new raid coming
-- not enough Giants in the game
— Mystic coins are expensive and don’t have much of a drop source

Solution: new raid wing should be filled with Giants who kitten out Mystic coins!

ty ty
icy`

WEEEEH!!!
MUH CASUAL PLAYAHS CAN’T GET INTAH RAIDS!!!
WEEEEH!!!!
WE CANNAY FIGHT THA GI-YANTS IN RAID WINGS!!!!

(trust me, if your idea comes to pass, that summarized a 5 page forum topic)

Blude.6812:

Just curious, are both accounts the paid for version/accounts or are you using Free to Play accounts.?

If the send button logs him out I don’t think acount validation is the issue. If either acount is F2P or (very)-new, you’d just get an error as such

lokh.2695:

Alright so let’s rephrase. You might have been there and if the item would have been a reward for being present at the time, you should have gotten it and if you haven’t you should send ANet a report that you have missed something you are eligible for.

But…the item was not a reward for being there, but for doing the achievement, which you didn’t, for whatever reason. So why should you get an item, meant as a reward for an achievement, which you didn’t do?

You prioritized RL over a vdeo game, which is a smart choice, but by doing so, by deciding to do RL stuff, you also decided to not play video games by which you also decided to not get the rewards.

Players who have the item, have it because they did the achievement. Why should having a few laurels/karma/gold/whatever to spend entitle you to the item in the same way some one who did the achievemet earned it?

Because its not a sake of effort or money. I know it wasnt hard to get the selfless potion, but you had to redo the same stuff several days which I couldnt do. I agree the item shouldnt have been put into the game for laurels lr gold, but rather something of equal or greater effort.

How would you feel for a marionette/tricolor hologram Fractal with the selfless potion being a meta-reward? That would be effort exceeding the one in LS1

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

do not hope anet gets super foolish and tries to make Twitter part of this game like

wow did . that would be a very bad move in so many ways !!

did I miss something? played legion for 3 months, never once was I pushed to use twitter??

1. doesnt work because after 5 seconds of staying in base you get zapped out. an afk player is just a free christmas tree of points to the enemy

2. agreed, leaving the starting area is rather glitchy, that could use a rework

Danikat.8537:

I would have thought if you’re on the internet you’d be aware of the existence of twitter and the term ‘retweet’. I have never had a twitter account and I don’t think I’ve ever even been to the site, but even I know that because it gets talked about elsewhere on a regular basis.

Having said that I don’t quite see why retweeting someone’s mother is funny, other than that some people think adding ‘your mum’ to the end of anything makes it amusing.

we’re aware of what twitter or retweeting is, but if you’re not on the inner circle there’s no joke to it.
It’s like saying ‘i forwarded that email’ or ‘resend that message’
apparantly there’s something funny if it’s about twitter, though

It’s not just new people, people in general seem to completely ignore the chat.
When I ask for strategies, or recommend an approach, I get one reply, and then chaos ensues because there was no communication.

I’m starting to feel like 75% of the playerbase has their chat 24/7 disabled.. and its not just in fractals either..

Most maps are kinda braindead, so unless some form of organization is needed, you’ll rarely see squads.
Most squads are for world events, HP trains in HoT and the HoT meta events..

Rukia.9860:

Endless Soul.5178:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Ahh…one never can be sure. Players love to expose bugs as humor, I guess, as well.

Not sure I get the ‘joke’ in this one, though. Must be one of those ‘kids today’ things.

That’s exactly what I’m thinking, because I don’t see the joke either. ~shrugs~

Oh you two are sooo edgy, as if you didn’t know what twitter is nearly impossible unless you live under a rock and don’t view television or use the internet… and obviously you do the latter.

Not everyone uses twitter, some people still use normal mail or cell phone messages (whatsapp)

(You might want to change your title to “if you’re new to pvp”, because now you might attract people who want to help you rather than the ones who want your help)

you could try to watch a youtube video and see if they do anything different from what you do

I don’t see any difference between your two.

So the first is within a sentence like so

also a few occasions where the spoiler doesn’t work altogether

It’s a ‘bit’ buggy yea, but it should be doable with some tries.

when you have the sun charge, you need to target him, and dash into him, not through him. Then when you’re on him, you need to press the same skill again so you stop dashing.
Dashing through him without stopping or not having targeted him tends to make it not work.

kurfu.5623:

Amaimon.7823:

kurfu.5623:

@Devs… underwater combat is horrible, please don’t waste your time producing any more.

@devs, please don’t listen to these people, you don’t need this kind of negativity in your waters. Please spend all your efforts on remaking what could be the most unique and greatest battle platform of all RPGs

@devs please don’t listen to these people, you don’t need this kind of time wasting suggestion clogging up your productivity. Please spend all of your efforts continuing to make decent above ground content, which is truly your greatest battle platform.

touche’

@devs, please don’t give in to the people who want you to stay monotonous on one rail that works decently, instead of trying to make a difference and truly become something great. something more, something you were meant to be.
People will want us to stay on land. Who are these people? they’re minions of DSD, of course. They don’t want us to get used to the UW world. Are we gonna give in to the demands of dragon minions, or are we gonna be great and make UW-combat great again!

electricwater.1572:

Liewec.2896:

they’d also have to make a whole ton of new story content up to lv 30.
complete with dialogue.
a starting zone, and if they wanted to make it a real race they’d need to make a main city too to match divinities reach, Black Citadel, Hoelbrak, Grove and Rata Sum.

its a hell of a lot more work than simply rigging/animating a model and making the armours fit.

Not if the new race starts at 80 right away and follows some living story – kind of development instead of the usual leveling in low zones. They give new players lvl 80 boost nowadays anyway, so what’s the difference?

Also if it comes in expansion, then of course they would have to make new zones/creatures/etc, that’s what expansion is for – new content. People act like making ANY new content is a big problem, but that’s what anet is supposed to be doing? Since we are chasing fire/ice/crystal/underwater dragons nowadays, then it’s obvious the new maps will have to fit the theme. Besides, you pretty much have a dragon for each race. Norn – Jormag, Asura – Primordus, Sylvari -Mordremoth, Charr – Kralk and Humans-Zhaitan. And if you need to beat DSD (who still exists, even though he is heavily ignored/kept in secret), then who would you ask for help to defeat him if not some underwater assassin race?

Like the lazy way WoW does (hero classes, which start at lv 65 or 90)