Guild Wars 2

Magnus Robotfighter.9678:

I’m all for it.
I would be willing to pay real $ for a race change. Hmm 800gems or $10 sounds fair.

Did you see that ANet ?
I typed a $….
You like that don’t you..
$$$$$$$

Give me a reason to give you some $$ besides a Box o’ Fun & Town Clothes.

A life change for $10…that’s pretty cheap. Anyways, I guess there’s no harm in implementing one, but lore-wise it makes no sense at all nor in-game does it make sense or seem right. It sort of de-values a character, because they lose their foundation. But it doesn’t affect me so whatevs. But as a coder, I can tell you that this if ever put into motion will be on their low priority list because it’s a huge amount of work for very little rewards unless they get a guranteed huge revenue boost from it. But I guess that can be best determined by a pre-order poll—if you want it, you pre-order it putting in your card #, if it exceeds a certain threshold, they will work on it. Best way to do things for gurantee instead of a whim of possibly a small population.

Yes. As far as it goes now, you can do everything in the game in exotics. But it really depends on how in depth you go. You can do FoTM but at lvl20+ you’ll probably need to update your gear (but hopefully it happens as you finish levels which is the point). You can do WvW too, but if you wanted to keep track on how many 1v1s you win, then that’s a meta game that shouldn’t exist. But as far as new content goes, unless they raise the level cap. You can do everything in exotics.

If you enjoy dungeons, doing ac exp can get you about 1g for all 3 runs let alone the tokens and extra goodie bags they drop now. Use tokens to get exotics and either use them or salvage them for ectos and make even more money. Plinx is okay, you may need to find an alternative route while it’s on cool-down. Black Lion is like stocks, gotta keep up to date about new releases and craftables to know which items will spike when recipes are released.

/edit
most people know how to run ac exp pretty well, but if you are new to it i can show you the ropes…and done well you can get 3 paths done in 1 hour or so

Kelvingts.2035:

Okay, any hardcore players around willing to suggest great games that you would leave gw2 for?

Wouldn’t say leave because I enjoy gw2, but Blade & Soul looks good and I hear BlackOps and Halo 4 are doing well. Personally, I’m waiting for the next super smash bros :O

Hi, for you guys who didn’t know how to get 200 kills easily without spending more than an hour on this. Go find a veteran karka that lays eggs, and kill the lil’ critters before they latch on to your faces but after they hatch.

There are tons of them so AoEs will get your kill count up rapidly.

Your welcome~

I like the team aspect of GW2, but it’s conflicting to see AreaNet give you a team required content, but by no means do they provide you a good networking tool to get a fast/high-quality group together. Come on AreaNet, where you at with a LFG tool?

Depends. If you like what you are wearing now, go for the craft. Even if vigil armor is unique in stats…it’s not the best of its kind (there are exotics with better pow/tough/vit stats). But if you want to look cool, get vigil armor and then transmute it later.

I say if mounts are put into the game, they should be limited. Basically, what most people dislike about having mounts in game is that it’s ridiculous to see so many people on mounts roaming about the place. So what’s the best way to do this? Have an NPC have a ranch of a limited number of mounts and it’s first come first serve.

If you leave the map, the mount appears back on the ranch, if you get off the mount, it has a timer of 10-20 seconds before it runs or teleports back to the ranch. That way, we have mounts, but they don’t look as silly with tons of people riding them. Maybe throw a 10 min limit on riding mounts ontop of another 10 min cd before you can rent one again to avoid mount campers.

Hey Guys, plain and simple—If you are a master of Tyria and would like to give a helping hand through sheer kindness or even due to boredom, please list yourself in this thread! I appreciate Operation Union in it’s efforts but to extend upon Players helping Players but I thought it’d be nice to have a friend list you know you can whisper and they’ll try to be there for you without having to join a guild as well.

Server: Sanctum of Rall
Class(es): Guardian lvl80
Services: Dungeon, Exploring, Skill Points, Jump Puzzles, Farming
Time Available: Almost everyday 6pm-midnight EST

Guardian, hero of all

Small guild in Sanctum of Rall! I’d love to help you on your ventures personally and we just like having fun in general. Even if you don’t want to join, hit me up for some party friendly ventures!

Sky Avalon
Guild name: Arkania.
Location: Sanctum of Rall

Sanctum of Rall over here. PvE all the way Let me know if you need help with anything in general even if you don’t want to join the guild.

We are small, name is Arkania, but we have come to master most of the content thus far.

I suggest waypointing per map to cost money, but inside a map shouldn’t cost you anything given that you need to repair most of the time.

PM me or send me an ingame mail if you want to run some of FoTM. I usually run with guildies on dungeons so I don’t run into this problem but I like helping people who just want to experience it and don’t have the “credits” (which is stupid for elitists to do that) to do it. Anyways, hope future partying goes well otherwise with Pick up groups.

Online (6pm-midnight Est)

eisberg.2379:

Brutaly.6257:

Didnt participate myself but it was described to me by a friend, its sounded truly awesome and its great that there are “unique” experiences that not every one has.

Keep them, it keeps me thrilled about the game and i will definitely be there next time.

I’m going to quote someone else here:
“The better question is WHY, in a game genre with persistent worlds, 24/7 gameplay, people in time zones all over the world, people with varying schedules and play time, would you EVER have events that occur one time at specific times that works for a small number of players?”

Hopefully Arenanet gets enough feedback and data to show that they really need to make sure their events can include the vast majority of the player base, in other words, get rid of the one time event, have it repeatable, and have it repeatable over a matter of days.

It would lose it’s uniqueness and people who could make all of those days would get a lot of good rewards, so they’d have to dumb down rewards…..andd…..then we have another complaint thread about rewards.

Suggestion: People who want to do the event for fun…Anet could add some lore and give us an Asuran NPC who will allow you to time-travel and stop a time traveler from starting the events again such as Halloween or the Karka attack and you do the event with no or very small rewards. But if you are doing it for the rewards…not a good reason for them to make it more than one-time because there will ALWAYS be people who can’t make it. But the people who can should deserve a good experience. For those who can’t…just get over it and wait for the next one. I wish I could go to all the free events in the world and get free stuff, but I can’t. Life moves on and you make it to whatever you can make it to.

karma.8763:

ProphetSword.5427:

karma.8763:

This i could understand…….BUT it is like this the last month or 2.

Then you should change servers. I’m not having these issues at all.

What server you on? because i would gladly leave anvil rock, that server is the armpit of GW2.

Btw, you both should mentioned your timezones just in case if you decide to move @karma.

karma.8763:

Shootsfoot.9276:

karma.8763:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Shootsfoot.9276:

karma.8763:

Just because its a monday morning, doesnt mean the servers should be literally ghost towns, theres no excuse.

You can’t be serious.

Hope you didn’t shoot your foot on that statement (LOL). Anyways, @karma, it is because the game is catered towards a population that would more than not…have school and work during these hours that it’s more or less…not as populated. It’s not an excuse but maybe some people who are taking paid days off or a year off from school are on a different server? Who knows.

That is sad lol, lol a server SHOULD be populated 24 hours a day, if its not supposed to why not shut the server down at 10 o clock at night? ^^, this is such a shame.

Now I think you’re just trolling.

no im not trolling, that was just a sarcasm, what im saying is, a server should have plenty of people on 24 hours a day, so that certain night when you just can’t sleep at night? there will allways be party’s in dungeons waiting for you.

Hm…I think what you want isn’t people on, but I guess a group that you can party with for dungeons aka more sole-able content? Heroes (npcs that you can party with from what I heard about in gw1), would be a nice addition imo. But if you just want people running around…Idk man, that’s kinda hard to ask for given that Anet has not control over that lol

Shootsfoot.9276:

karma.8763:

Just because its a monday morning, doesnt mean the servers should be literally ghost towns, theres no excuse.

You can’t be serious.

Hope you didn’t shoot your foot on that statement (LOL). Anyways, @karma, it is because the game is catered towards a population that would more than not…have school and work during these hours that it’s more or less…not as populated. It’s not an excuse but maybe some people who are taking paid days off or a year off from school are on a different server? Who knows.

GADefence.5634:

“They should not be punished for following a management directive.”

Actually, considering nexon basically forced ANet to hire someone to make the game more “profit centric” (read: what people think people will spend money on) and that she basically made the game take the same steps every other game took 1-3 months before they horribly horribly died, I think I agree that she need a good bout of the old firing.

Anyway, I like how the WoW fanbase that game hops in between WoW updates and kills them off so only their favored holy game/religion succeed is kittening at all of us (I’m sure most of us being people who pre ordered and supported ANet in development. . .) that we’re the ones who don’t get it. I’m just hoping that ANet can recover after the inevitable fail in a few months.

Technically, both sides kill the game. The side who (may or may not have) pushed for the changes and gives up over short time exposure and the side who gives up due to the changes. So both sides killed it. The only population who keeps a game alive are not the guys who claim they “support” the game and say they’ll quit because of these updates. It’s the people who still enjoy the game for what it is while posting bugs, feedback, etc along the way. So…yeah. The game is alive with people who play (doesn’t matter who they are).

Hey guys

How many people here are still having a hard time getting a party for FoTM?
On a side note…
If you are having a hard time getting a party for FoTM, send me an ingame mail or PM and I’ll help you get through some of the new levels with my guildmates! I’d like to encourage players helping players through this manner. No, you don’t have to rep my guild either—but you can be my friend (Online 6pm-midnight EST)

Best.

Man…really thought orb of light was the scepter attack and got excited…gg

Thanks for not counting me as part of the community…

Sad that my guild is only 2 men strong XD, but I guess it could go both ways.

Put this in the suggestions forum. That should definitely be looked into (but as a side note, if you want to dungeon with a friendly guild, let me know

krookie.6378:

Here we go. Gear progression whiners got what they wanted, so now we’re starting with the holy trinity.

Oh hell, why not? Give us raids and pandas while you’re at it too, Anet!

Whoa…not cool. Do not just label people without any proof. He has a debate and a suggestion and an explanation, this is valid. if you want argue with him that’s fine, but try to make it more productive instead of name calling. I for one do not care about the holy trinity and like playing any role and still believe that there are roles than can be specifically played if you choose the right class/build. Anyways, I disagree with the OP. But guys, if you are against it, state your reasons, not only your feelings.

lol, doubt it. If you haven’t seen the other posts; a decent-sized amount of people would oppose this kind of idea because it encourages the concept of elitism, ganking, and gear-treadmills aka the “I’m better than you so I’m going to pwn you lmao” and plus I don’t think it’s AreaNet’s cup of tea. Tyria wasn’t meant for a place for pvp at all imo. That’s why they gave us WvW

I think if you are interested in community, probably join a guild? But most maps I’m on have some people run by (that aren’t botters..or dont seem like one) like every minute or so.

Edit: But the low density is a problem stated by many. So there is room for improvement.

I think you can “hide” the per bag view the invetory view by clicking the arrow. Also, if you get “safe” type boxes/bags, any items in those won’t be shown when you are selling stuff.

tl;dr ARKA is a 2-man guild right now looking for members XD. Me and my friend help anybody who comes are way and we’ve pretty much done a good part of everything there is to offer in this game, so if you want a tight group, pm me!

To each class their own. Not saying I agree with this. But it’s to make legendaries unique to a character, so you don’t see a player with the legendary across multiple characters whenever they wanted to switch it.

Does anyone out there not have credit for it that has a legendary? jw, it’s not coming up for me.

GADefence.5634:

“If this is a GW1 clone, then it will be a niche game just like the first and later mmo titles will steal the majority of player time.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_games

I love how this “niche game” is in the top games sold of all time. . .

Do realize, WoW (all combined) has sold less then the Sims 2.

There’s no item progression in the Sims 2.

Hm…but considering the fact that people who bought Gw1 bought the expansion packs accounts

every sale divided by number of expansions + original game = actual number of individuals

It’s like including all the Halo games into one and saying it outbeat Battfield 3.

If you need some help with learning the common dungeons (AC,COF,TA,COE) let me know! I can help you learn the parts to make running more efficient and enjoyable.

I don’t care about the new gear. But taking literally from what they said and matching it to the game right now.

No. “..that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game..”

This new gear set does add power which does differentiate the existing tiers by power and not skins.

No. “..but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too..”

Kind of nit-picky on the wording. Peopel who acquire the new gear won’t be on a whole new level so to speak, but yes, having an exotic set compared to an ascended set does not make you just as powerful.

Yes. “It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it
doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun.”

This part of the manifesto is still in the game. You aren’t forced to a grinding treadmill. No matter what you say, you aren’t. This game has much more than simple competition between players and all current content can be done with pre-ascended gear it doesn’t a gate you from anything except bad elitsit groups dungeons, 1v1s in WvW which happens if the guy has a butt-load of boosters but how can you tell?..So nope, I don’t feel forced into doing anything, I’m going to stick with my exotics and happily do the new content no matter what. So it can’t be forced right? If “I”, myself can do all of the content still without the ascended gear. You can say it’s encourages you to get better gear but you are not forced, so literally, this still holds.

Anyways, my literal analysis on their manifesto. Still don’t care about the release, and think people need to just calm down.

Wasselin.1235:

Kana.6793:

Wasselin.1235:

Personally I feel your pain. I think the daily achievements for both sPvP and PvE should be modified to either be easier to complete or more varied. Honestly, I think it would be more fair to players who really care about completing everything if the “dailies” were changed to “weeklies” so there wasn’t that pressure to log in every day.

Everyone else must lose out on 6 jugs of karma / sets of pvp rewards to suit your inexplicable need to gain achievement points whilst not wanting to play the game?

That’s rather unreasonable.

No.

I just think that they should multiple the requirements by 7, multiple the rewards by 7 and have it reset weekly instead of daily. That way if you couldn’t play on one day, you could catch up the next day.

Or maybe they could change it so that you could only earn the achievement 7 times in one week but it would reset every time you finished it, regardless of the time.

I know my OCD is my own problem, but I think that implementing a system like one of the above could be fun for a lot of people, without negatively impacting the game.

But…I want karma faster :\

Pretty sure they are soulbound on use so you can change them when you make them before equipping. And yes, you’d have to do another 100% on another character to be able to make more than 2 legendaries.

Edit: To answer you question, you can have 100% completion with more than 1 char.

Yep. I think Anet has done a good job thus far but needs some work on communication/bug fixing.

And I think it was said most things in the chest can be made/found through other means.

Eddie Van Grog.7095:

What will kill GW2 is, most likely, a negative, deconstructive, irrational, petty and tiring outcry of so many people!

Do you really want GW2 to succeed and do well, or you would love to see it fail? Very often I think most of the people posting in these threads belong to the second group of people!

If you want it to do well, be positive and constructive! That is the ONLY way to make things go further and develop. Try to be mature, try to give a meaningful contribution and try to enjoy! Don’t just try with all your guts to hate everything and then something more!

I LOVE this game. I don’t like everything about it, but I don’t like everything about most of everything in life! What do I do? I can choose to destroy, to corrupt, to undermine and implode… or I can do what I would think a decent human being would do… Try to contribute, look at things positively and make CONSTRUCTIVE comments!

Your comments are creating a catastrophic vision/reality of a game that is not perfect, but its really good and has enormous potential! GW2 could be much more, no doubt… But no one wants to give it time! Everyone starts running around shouting, like a crazy chicken… Most of the times, not really knowing why they shout! But if everyone around shouts… Why shouldn’t they?

So that’s it… What will kill my loved GW2 is most of you and your comments! And that is just sad…

ps: and all this hate, dark hanger, destructive rage for what? For a bloody computer game? Oh well…

Agreed. The scares me about the real world.

Soulbound on Use, so yes, you can transfer to another char via bank.

I swear, if they change our weapon skill order again…I’m gonna go kill a thief.

Hey fellow guardian!

So the best options for 2-handed weapon preference and tanking abilities is

0/0/30/20/5

5 in Virtues at the last for the extra boon effects upon activation.
20 in Honor for 2-handed mastery with the skill cd reduction.
30 in Valor for Altruistic Healing, it does wonders for all your boon application especially with that 5 in Virtues with might/protection/etc application. You can actually find that using all 3 virtues could heal almost equivalent—if not more—to your healing skill. This also combos well with the staff which is by far the best support tool.

Staff #4 is great for healing yourself and applying 10+ stacks of might on you and your allies.

I’m not much of a hammer player so I don’t know what else you would want, but you have about 15 points left to spare in any kind of specific focus.

Due to this build, power may be low, so you should aim for Knight gear if you want more balanced traits, or Berserker gear if you want more dps. But generally your trait build should give you access to quite a few tanky options.

For skills, I highly suggest retreat for aegis and speed. The best parts (imo) about a guardian is aegis from virtue of courage, aegis from retreat, and 3 seconds of invulnerability from renewed focus. Good thing about our aegis skills is it helps all of your teammates while helping yourself.

If you want more specifically what I use
I use Greatsword + Staff for most cases.
Utilities include, Retreat, Save Yourselves, and Judge’s intervention, and Renewed Focus

I built my guardian on dps and “all-around” prevention. Equipped with 3 condition removers + the lightcombo-whirlfinisher cond removal + 2 stun breaks + 2 aegis activations + 3 sec invulnerability usually helps me in all situations. The only thing I lack is stability but using Rune of Lyssa helps a lot with its #6 effect.

Other combos include rune of the soldier for the shout condition removal, 2xmonk2xwater for boon duration.

Hope that helps!

stof.9341:

mulch.2586:

If you buy with gold, sure. But my 80s mostly wear gear they got for “free.”

Nothing is free. And in all cases you cannot get exotic jewelry without paying 2.5g piece which adds up to 12-13g in total, unless you use a LOT of WvWvW badges.

Hey guys. Let’s try to keep on topic please. Did you guys go for the stats or the looks? Thanks!

Hi guys,

I’ve been around for awhile…haha XD been advertising different guild posts to help people but no bites thus far. So I’m here to offer yet again a different approach to our guild.

Welcome to Arkania Academy! If you are new, or haven’t mastered all aspects of the game or even a little bit please consider joining Arkania. We are a very small guild so making everything fun and personal is our first goal. Then my aim is to show you all the neat discoveries around the world of Tyria, all routes in most common dungeons, and help you party up for any DEs, or story quests you need to complete.

If you want to join a place where you can learn and have someone you know who will be there for you when you need it, please contact me on Sanctum of Rall.

I apologize beforehand but you need to be in Sanctum of Rall to join because it’s hard to help cross-server especially with the 7-day waiting period.

PM me in-game, send me a mail in game, or PM via forums for more info or if you want to join! Best wishes.

Sky Avalon.

I love the guardian, anything you use to help yourself benefits others. And you have so much power and capabilities to protect others. Dropping a sanctuary ontop of a downed opponent in WvW and getting a thank you is one of the best feelings ever.

stof.9341:

Onshidesigns.1069:

It’s hard to get legendaries with no exotics. And, it will be hard to get ascended items with no exotics. So it is worth it to get exotics.

Baseless speculation. If you can get ascended items with an exotic MF set, you can get them with a non MF rare set.

Eh, let’s try not to use such negative terms. It has a base that in fact, exotics have better stats and can hold better upgrades. So in some cases, exotics make attaining things more frequently statisically. But any set works depending on the situation. But more MF does increase chances, and better upgrades for MF/base stats are in exotics.

Edit: and he mentioned difficulty, he didn’t say it wasn’t near impossible ><

stof.9341:

ComeAndSee.1356:

You know they’re only adding Backpacks and Rings starting off?

Next month, they’ll add another two. Will it be the earrings and necklace? Maybe the first pair of gloves and boots? Will you buy any exotic item at all before you know that?

What we know is that sooner or later, we’ll be able to get a full set of ascended items. Why get any exotics for stats if you don’t want their looks and you know you’ll replace them in the short term?

Aw, what rarity items below exotic look good? :O jw

Hi guys,

Question to you all—because it just hit me. This thread is in regards to people who think due to the ascended gear addition, exotics were not worth it to get. But through my eyes, they were worth it to me—why? Because I went for them for the skin majorly, most of the basis for my armor stats comes from transmutation. In Gw2 currently pre-patch, exotics have the widest range of skins to date. Hearing the ascended additions, I doubt the releases would amount to the number of exotic skins out there right now and who knows if they even look good.

Anyways, I just hope everyone got their exotics based on looks and you’ll probably want to keep those looks if the ascended gear looks ugly. Just saying exotics haven’t lost their value.

So the question is now: Why did you get your exotic? I got mine for the skin because stat-wise, they didn’t have the stats I wanted so I had to grind specifically for them or go buy them from the TP.

Let’s refrain from turning this into a stat/ascended gear/broken promise/manifesto debate. Please and thank you!

Webba.3071:

This thread is valuable, simple because it shows how many different definitions of casual there are out there. All you people talking about casual and hardcore players? You are all talking about different things. No wonder its impossible to have a discussion on the topic.

Amen to that.

I bought this game because my friend told me it was good. I looked up the gameplay, I liked the combat system, so I bought it. As long as there’s combat, and things to do for combat. I’m fine.