Guild Wars 2

You worry too much. Dungeons are not as scary and difficult as some claim. Don’t fall into their “you must be max level in full exotic and watch youtube spoilers” crap.

Don’t be afraid to join “story” groups, they are usually new as well. Don’t be afraid to start your own groups either, it’s what you are intended to do. Put a “first timer” description and let other people find you. Kick all the people that can’t fit with the group.

For most dungeon, your typical PvE setup should do fine. Stability skills and condition removal are very useful to have, especially if you can apply the effects to the whole party.

Some pieces look very nice, but others are pretty ugly and impractical.

Would it help if the tool gave certain privileges to the person that created the listing?

Such as being able to select a dungeon path or story mode without voting.

Zacchary.6183:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I think you’ve confused Gaia with GW2, OP.

Perhaps one day GW2 may degenerate to that. Or perhaps they may go and ascend to a new tier, and reach that revolutionary goal they spoke off. It’s too soon to say though.

Its not to late to speculate.

If a car is headed towards a cliff and it keeps heading toward a cliff, then its safe to assume the car might actually fly off the cliff.

It actually is too late.

It’s been an entire year since launch, and the worst item in the cash shop is the 5% damage booster, that has been there since the beginning. At this point, speculation is not enough. Proof, or gtfo.

Xcom.1926:

You think people will read it? They never will. This will be a big problem in the current iteration of the LFG FOREVER.

This is why developers should make the LFG tool idiot proof. Unfortunately, ANet didn’t make it idiot proof so we all will suffer.

This is not a problem, big or small, and will not be. People that don’t read will eventually get tired of being kicked and suspended from joining groups.

Izaya.2906:

Anet really needs to force people to read the description when joining.

Adding a confirmation button with the party text/description above it and a 5 second delay before enabling it would probably do the job.

And what happens while the person is looking at the confirmation button? Does the group get removed from the list for 5 seconds, or are people still able to see it and also click join? What if many people start clicking join at the same time, do they get placed into a queue or something?

The tool was designed to find you a group fast, and your idea doesn’t help that (I had thought of something like that myself, before discarding it for the same reasons).

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

AntiGw.9367:

Nothing in GW2 was designed to require respec. No instance requires it.

Brilliant!…or maybe not. If that’s how you put it then maybe we shouldn’t be allowed to change Trait Skills either.

Switching utility skills or major traits is not a respec. It’s switching utilities.

A respec gives you an entirely different build, and should not be available in the middle of nowhere without restrictions. And now you either go to town for a cheap respec, or do it on the spot in the extremely rare cases where paying a prohibitively large amount of money for it would make sense.

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

On the other hand GW2 was designed with skill change since the beginning and if you require trait changes during an instance all one has to do is > go to LA from the Mists and back to the instance area, meaning he has to load 4 times. That is all this item does, eliminate loading times.

Nothing in GW2 was designed to require respec. No instance requires it.

If your build is terrible and you only find it out in the middle of an instance you have two options. Each of them expensive in its own way. Pay up real money, or port to LA.

champ.7021:

You think the description in the lfg tool was supposed to be used?!?!? wheres anitgw when you need him to instill some sense in these entitled elitists

Ironically, I never claimed that the description was not supposed to be used.

It’s funny that you didn’t actually read my posts and still talk, after complaining about “rabble” that doesn’t read your descriptions.

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

The hassle here that most people don’t take into consideration is the loading times between areas just to do something so small such as this.

Then don’t do something small such as this. Plan your builds to be versatile, and don’t expect that a free respec in the middle of nowhere is going to cover your mistakes and faulty builds.

Kosmo.5187:

This is one of those odd items I’m never going to buy. It seems way too bizarre to me that people are willing to pay more than 3 gold for the “convenience” of being able to reset their traits anywhere. Seriously, even with waypoint and time cost included, it takes all of two minutes and a few measly silver to reset your traits now – color me surprised that some people find the cost of this item justified to save such little time. I can’t really think of any area in the game where you’re not better off economically just porting back to town. You could redo some dungeons entirely and still come out on top financially. Who finds themselves in such a pickle, with a sudden outrageous need to hemorrhage currency so they can change their traits right now? It’s just really weird to me.

On a side note, I was under the impression that trait templates were not only on the table but pretty much a given for a future update. If that’s true, I’m even more perplexed that anyone feels the need for an item like this. But hey, to each their own.

It’s no more odd than $10 single use outfits. I’m going to follow up on that some time.

Gold is worthless. You are asking why would someone not hoard something worthless.

Nuka Cola.8520:

i was asking myself why the hell do i need to pay 4s every time to reset traits… that’s cuz anet try to monetize even trait resets rofl soon you’ll be paying 50gems to be in LA for longer than 30 minutes

That’s quite an extreme exaggeration, just like every single post you make.

There hasn’t been anything in the history of the game that does anything remotely like what you suggest. An optional and practically useless convenience money-sink item is just that, not the end of the universe.

This is the new Flavor of the Week Complaint topic.

Can’t wait for the next patch…

Everything is much more complicated than that.

OP thinks he’s dealing with some cheap no-name MMO.

Eridani.8317:

xephire.8324:

Ultimate Dominator: Get 250,000 total kills in WvW.
Yakslapper: Destroy 1,000,000 total caravans in WvW.
Ultimate Chaperone: Escort 500,000 total caravans in WvW.
Ultimate Fabricator: Use 2,500,000 total supply in WvW.
Ultimate Technician: Use 1,000,000 total supply for repairs in WvW.
Ultimate Besieger: Use 1,000,000 total supply to build siege weapons in WvW.
Ultimate Conqueror: Capture 1,000,000 total objectives in WvW.
Ultimate Raider: Capture 100,000 total supply camps in WvW.
Ultimate Aggressor: Capture 100,000 total towers in WvW.
Ultimate Subjugator: Capture 100,000 total keeps in WvW.
Ultimate Liberator: Capture Stonemist Castle 25,000 times in WvW.
Ultimate Vanquisher: Defend 1,000,000 total objectives in WvW.
Ultimate Stalwart: Defend 500,000 total supply camps in WvW.
Ultimate Protector: Defend 500,000 keeps in WvW.
Ultimate Defender: Defend 500,000 total towers in WvW.
Ultimate Sentinel: Defend Stonemist Castle 500,000 times in WvW
Yep seriously a lot of things to do.

This forum needs a facepalm emoticon for posts like this.

No facepalm emoticon would be enough for posts like this.

There is more than one way to do something, and you do things differently based on different goals you might have.

The reset item is fine.

There’s actually a surprising amount of people that buy the manuals to respec…

Lafiel.9372:

Yes and no. Are you spoiled now that you have clean water running out of every tap in your house instead of having to hike a mile to the closest well. Are you spoiled that your mum drives you to school instead of having to walk there? Is it “normal” or “entitled” or “spoiled” to expect clean running water to flow out of your taps or products to be not expired in the supermarket?

Well that depends. Do you demand that your mother buys a limousine to drive you around, now that you are used to your typical family car?

Many GW2 complainers are doing just that. They throw a tantrum for meaningless reasons and threaten to quit school.

Simply get there and start fighting You can level to 80 inside WvW if you want to.

Stick to larger groups of players, don’t run around by yourself, until you know how to avoid or fight other players.

Some servers have huge organized WvW communities, see if yours is one of them. It really helps to work with others.

Entitled, is the word I’d choose.

quaniesan.8497:

I understand what you are saying. The LFG thing is not a novel feature. I’d agree fully with you if the feature come out at the same time with the game. I’m trying to stress the point that after more than one year (why now?), at least it’s something more complete. Looks like they are more focused on those monthly dynamic events thing and delay all the well-known shortcomings that players been calling them out for.

Those monthly dynamic events thing arebeing developed by entirely separate teams of developers. They have nothing to do with LFG, bugs or the game itself.

“Grandmother! What big binoculars you have!”

“All the better to see giant zerg in front of our door with, my dear!”

I would suggest making the Living Story category region-wide. The tool would let us see what server is everyone on and where we would have to guest to team up.

Being region-wide would let us make parties and guest on other servers for less common activities, such as seeing who is doing a temple run and where.

Not going to happen for technical reasons.

Sometimes, a lack of answer is an answer.

Xcom.1926:

So GW2 realized that the “fun” was retaining players and they had to switch their game plan. And started using what other MMOs do. Dailies, weeklies, farming, time gating etc. Why? Because it works.

No, they added dailies to assist players who did not have a lot of time to play. The idea of the dailies was to encourage you to do a variety of things, instead of grinding the same thing over and over. Because at that time a lot of people grinded stuff in one zone, since traveling was perceived as being penalized.

So they added rewards for doing normal things in a variety of zones. And to make things even easier, we got dailies like visiting the laurel vendor.

Of course people simply forgot that, and decided that they have to do dailies, like they previously had to grind.

Adine.2184:

when is stalking ever rule abiding ?

Whenever you try to do rules-lawyering without actually understanding the rules.

As people banned for snowflakes found out.

Those are indeed beautiful.

Btw, if you are swimming, and use a transformation tonic, you might make your character invisible. At least it happens to me.

Gabby.3205:

If they are not going to punish scammers, why is “scamming” even an option when reporting someone?

There are many types of scams, and reports do get looked at. Just don’t expect them to refund your 150g that you lost because you were being greedy.

Wiseman.4075:

With that said though, I still think there should be someway to hold people that do this accountable. Other than me spending the time to ensure that their guilds and community know what this person is doing.

Are you willing to personally pay for 50/100/1000 employees whose only task would be to constantly analyze transaction logs and figure out if someone indeed was scammed?

If not, use the tp, or do anything at your own risk. Even though you were indeed scammed, you were actually at fault for not using a provided secure tp.

It’s a problem if you have to dedicate staff resources (pay people) to do something that can be, and is, automated by the game.

Maybe they are making a new TP interface that lets you buy stuff “as fast as possible”

Couldn’t resist.

While scamming is wrong, wasting Arena.net’s time is also wrong.

They let you trade securely on TP, but they also let you mail things to people you trust at your own risk.

They have better things to do than dealing with 2.000.000 people that might suddenly decide to stop using the automated TP to save a few coppers.

ptitminou.6489:

Kind of like talking a 5 year old into jumping from a bridge.

call 911

The potions are more for when you know what you are going to be doing beforehand, such as dungeons or a map you’re familiar with. If you have to choose between the two, the sharpening stones are more practical overall. If you prefer to min-max, you’ll need to see how much damage you gain from a sharpening stone yourself, and compare it with the potions.

I prefer to haul like 12 different potion stacks myself. It’s even more practical, especially being able to share with the rest of the party that hasn’t brought any Nightmare Court slaying potions.

From dulfy: GW2 Greatsword Skin gallery

You’ll probably find more groups for AC.

Xandror.2356:

I love dungeons but absolutely hate being in a guild, so I pug 100% of the time. I probably get kicked out of 5% the dungeon groups I don’t start. The typical scenario is I join a fractals 38 group LF1M, they are in the same guild, chat will be silent. The run will go smoothly but suddenly out of nowhere I’m looking at an LA loading screen. I assume there were only 4, but they wanted to get the run started before a 5th logged in. There is nothing the game to even discourage people from doing this.

You can report them. If everything happened as you say, it’s not allowed.

After waking up I realized how stupid this idea is.

There would be issues like what happens when multiple people are trying to join the same group within the 3-5 seconds.

I’ve been thinking that a small delay that allows you to cancel joining a party would be useful. You click join/merge, you have 3-5 seconds to cancel the decision.

That basically forces you to read the description and gives you some room for error when misclicking or making other mistakes.

While this may appear to be not exactly in agreement with the “as fast as possible” design of the tool, it would actually save some time and lessen the amount of work for people that are apparently besieged by hordes of players that keep joining the wrong group.

BlueZone.4236:

Vayne.8563:

BlueZone.4236:

Don’t complain! They haven’t announced anything like this yet!

Don’t complain! They’ve already announced it! You should have complained before hand!

Don’t complain! It’s already in the game! You can’t stop the ball from rolling!

Or you could say how you feel without actually “complaining”. I did.

You mean like what the OP wrote, and still got this type of response?
Shocking!

I don’t know about the op, but everybody else has brought pitchforks and torches. A bit premature perhaps?

When you resize the LFG tool, it resizes equally both halves of the interface.

That is a waste of real estate, that would be better used on the right part of the tool. That way it would be more convenient to read the group descriptions, since more characters would be visible by default.

colesy.8490:

Joined one party today through LFG, it either got disbanded or I got kicked before we even entered the instance and then I got told that I’d joined too many parties

what

Maybe your past actions caught up with you.

Oh I see, it’s like saying “bomb” on an airplane.

Again, has there been an announcement, or is everyone just b**ing for no reason?

Was there an announcement about a level cap increase or something?

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

AntiGw.9367:

marnick.4305:

You have an implicit obligation to teach people.

You are going to the other extreme end of this debate. Nobody owes teaching to anyone. Best you can ask for is that everyone works as a team.

Where “work as a team” doesn’t mean taking orders from the “experienced” guy who thinks his way is “best”, but rather figuring out ways to do something together. That way even if you wipe, you still have fun doing the dungeon, as opposed to merely being a sidekick to an elitist farming his gold.

Conversely, having someone who has never done a Fractal insist he melee’s the Lava Shaman is just frustrating.

I understand that some dungeon runs can be frustrating.

However, no lfg tool will ever solve that. The filters people suggest don’t do that either, they are minimally effective.

The tool currently does exactly what it’s supposed to do. There is no “chance”, no “minimally effective” options. It works 100% for what it was made for.

marnick.4305:

You have an implicit obligation to teach people.

You are going to the other extreme end of this debate. Nobody owes teaching to anyone. Best you can ask for is that everyone works as a team.

Where “work as a team” doesn’t mean taking orders from the “experienced” guy who thinks his way is “best”, but rather figuring out ways to do something together. That way even if you wipe, you still have fun doing the dungeon, as opposed to merely being a sidekick to an elitist farming his gold.

Seen it before, terrible idea.

Errant Venture.9371:

Stop playing on machines from the late 90s. A 3rd gen intel i5 and a GTX 640 GPU will run Tequatl on max settings without breaking a sweat. The problem isn’t the servers or even the engine. It’s YOUR machine.

Source: Running Teq with no lag on max settings on a Dell XPS 8500 with a 3rd Gen i5 processor and GTX640 GPU

The game wasn’t developed for the new i7 rigs. It was developed when machines like mine were rather close to high-end gaming systems.

Furthermore, the game’s performance at launch was radically different from what it is now, and my gaming rig has not changed.

It’s not my machine, it’s the game.

Decrypter.1785:

3. Is it X server ? or only your own server ? not sure But it needs to be cross server atm nobodys using the tool and its still hard to find groups for dungeons/story mode dungeons

Any category that searches only your server displays your server in its name. Like “General Personal Story (Tarnished Coast)”.

Everything else is region-wide (NA or EU).

digitalghost.7891:

i know that you get down leveled when youre in a low level zone and you still get exp for quests and stuff. my question is, is that exp you get comparable to your own levels zone?

like if i finish the first human zone and im 20 or so, will i level just as quickly if i go to the nord starter zone rather than going to the next human zone?

its just more fun, imo, to level in the starter zones since there’s more players. makes it feel more like an mmo than the other zones

You level almost as quickly, because you get slightly more experience for your level appropriate zone.

Still, you will not be penalized by staying in a low-level area longer. You get scaling amounts of experience for everything you do.