Guild Wars 2

Hi, HGH is supposed to give 2 might when using elixirs. It works fine for all elixirs in utility. For tool belt toss elixir B C S R, I seem to get only 1 might instead of 2. Toss elixir H works fine (got 2 might). Please take a look thx

Hi, I am starting to do temple events to get some dragonites. The thing is sometimes the big chests do not appear. So I remember it must be reset every 24 hrs maybe. If so, does it reset at a fixed time (i.e. at daily reset time) or does it reset 24 hrs after you just do it (can’t tell in this case ‘cause I don’t usually remember when I did it yesterday)? Thx for the tip in advance.

Hi,

I was trying flamethrower. The juggernaut trait says to give 200 toughness, but it doesn’t seem to increase in/out combat. Please have a look. Plz ignore me if it’s a known issue. Thx

Hi,

Nature magic – concentration training. The bonus 50% boon duration has no effect in/out combat. I tried it on bird and cat for fury and might, no increase in duration. If you already know this, plz ignore me.

It happens to me very often after this latest patch. I swap traits and change utility skills very often in dungeons and the arrows are often there both in combat/out of combat. It makes it hard/confusing to know if I am ooc. After a few swaps, the skills sometimes cannot be changed any more even after ooc (I am guessing lag failed to update the info feeling like the crystal cage bug in coe dungeon). I am hoping this is a bug. But if this is intentional, I failed to see what was wrong before the change and what is the advantage of this version.

I change builds all the time and I wouldn’t mind if there is a new heavy class that will use sword, mace, and shield more frequently. Currently, the other 2 heavy favor GS, hammer, and axe. Sword, mace, shield are fun and nice looking but somehow I usually play them once in a while and swap back to other more dps weapons (in pve). So yeah perhaps a mercenary class and its utility may have a signet, shout, stealth, heal support, cc, etc. I mention stealth here because mid and light have stealth class, so might as well make one of the heavy stealthy :P

I use phalanx strength greatsword to get might buff if you roll back to the top I said it on my first reply, and I have no idea about the other 2 war ‘casue we are all pug and I don’t care. And they were really not bad (if you pug a lot you would know who is good and who is bad after playing a few minutes). And I also said it was a no description run, so yeah “lv 50 2nd fractal” that’s what it was when I joined. However if they add a few more requirements then I wouldn’t join ’cause it usually means business :O

Anyhow, I do not create this post trying to get someone punished ‘cause I gain nothing of it (revange is “not” sweat ’cause it never worked XD). I wish people to be less aggresive in lanuages ’cause we are playing with real people, not AI. It will give myself and many others including new players a much better experience in this game. Thx ^^ It’s been a days and my fury is gone. XD

Good idea, most people are merc nowadays and they will help if they get paid for their time. This will create a boom on lfg if done right.

Just a note on the lfg requirement. I found AP requirement irrelevant because sometimes I run with <800 AP players and they play like a pro. It’s obvious that they own multiple accounts (quite a lot of them). Sometimes >23k AP players have no idea what’s going on. They are new players playing someone’s accounts.

New players should try the all welcome ones. If you are demanding, plz add the specifics like gear check, will kick if xx, etc. It’s just that sometimes I finsih my runs those demanding posts are still there because obviously no one likes to join those and they end up taking longer to play. XD

I want to clarify. All 3 of the war, 90% of the intire run meele with greatsword, have phalanx strength, all banners and shouts, only 10% of the time we range due to situation required. And all of our range weapons just happen to be rifle. And the other 2 saw the opportunity to start trolling. In stead of focus on the fight, they spend time typing to complain. What do you think he is doing during typing? autoattack of course. And so the result is his dps is at minimum while he complains others have fewer dps from rifile than LB.

I agree LB is good in terms of control and bonus and I use it too all the time. But spending 90% of time in meele, it really does not matter much. I use rifle because that particular build I play there happens to have a crack shot trait that give rifles aoe pierce. It actually does more damages than LB during the 10% of the time I use range weapon. ie the wolfs with Mossman or any other boss that has adds.

I feel the need to expalin at this point because I realized no one read the entire post and just start making up their own “truth” the moment they saw a “rifle war” and they start assuming people camp ranging in a lv 50 fractal. I have never seen camp ranging in lv 50 pug fractal myself. Those who says this never really played it with pug at lv 50.

If you are demanding in other people’s playstyle, you should be in a guild looking for people with your like mind. Pug using lfg tool that has no description in it is exactly for casual player who don’t care. All 3 of the war could have kicked those 2 instead (kicking won’t cause instance closing anymore) but we were nice and the run was fast so no need for that. The result is nice people often get trolled. My point remains, verbal abuse should not be allowed. A good community is not judged by the opinions from famous guild players but instead should be from how random pugs is treated.

I write this post to remind people to respect others and don’t verbal abuse people ‘cause it’s an internet and there is no law so you can do whatever. Look at some of the replies and this turned into an anti-build and anti-pug posts. The focus was shifted. My point stands. A lot who left the game were because they have bad experiences with other players but not the game no matter how good the game is.

My experience from lots of pug playing to fail a dungeon run in 3 steps. 1. people chat 2. party wipe (because they are too busy chating/typing and not focus on playing) 3. disband. It’s always like this no exception. This 3 steps applies to everything in real life too not just in a game. People talk and get into argument, lose focus, work failed always these 3 steps.

People say nothing is real on internet. I say however you behave under no law is the very real you.

I want to make a suggestion. Each account can only do a kick 3 times a week, if kicking more than that, the account is suspended for a period of time. This will discourage un-friendly kicking.

If the party is simply bad for any reason, you can just leave party yourself not using kick. If someone goes dc/afk, add a new function called warning timer that other players can init. If the guy who dc/afk does not respond to the timer within 180 sec, system kicks him so no one needs to use his kick. So if you really needs to go afk during a dungeon and others approve, they won’t init the timer and will wait for you.

Normal players would not kick people often. Kick couner will only limit those who get used to do it often without thinking.

tAzz.8497:

Rifle warrs and staff mesmer . MUAHAHAHAHa

Get a bow mate. Same dps if not better, fire field, blaster, immobilize, blind. A party weapon. Go blast ur rifle in the open world.
Not to mention most of the above range lovers join lfgs that ask for melee so we can understand the flame and rage.

U dont like it? make ur own lfg like some1 above just said and just type ur relaxed range camp lover etc and u will have fun.
I dont like it either when in harpy fractal the mesmer is shooting staff autos when all we need is his focus warden for those reflects so we dont keep falling down again and again after 2 mobs cus the guardian has his reflects on cooldown. Or Mai Trin lvl 50 and the warrior is down on his knees for a KillShot, dies to boss autos and then we have two more dying just to res that warrior. AINT FUN

This story always has 2 versions, but after all its just a l2p issue even if u want to admit it or not.
Nobody wants a 2h run when it can be done in just 1. And keep in mind some of us are doing those fractals for 2 years now so we like to rush it as much as we can.

It’s hopeless…

I have a feeling that they do this to stop/slow people from key farming. I just saw a key farming video and I thought these are related. But they could just implement a time gate on the character slot so that one one can create and delete char every 24 hour of th same slot.

I have PS using GS and make sure we are pretty much might buffed if not already 25 stacks. It’s only when there are certain situation swaping to range is better and also when I have low life and need to back away. It’s not because of no concern for the party (I did mention we ran fractal 50 and we finsihed the runs so hopefully we are not new players). But that is not totally the point. I play different builds all the time and I find most of them can do any dungeon/wvw no problem. Whether or not I join a party and be on their terrain, verbal abuse should not be allowed.

No matter how the game changes, it’s still a good game to enjoy. The only time I feel bad is when party with people and they start complain about others and how others should play. As if they can talk all they like to hurt people without constraint.

I was in a fractal 50 and I joined late at 2nd fractal (someone left I thought). There are 3 war using rifles as range weapon including me. 2 others just compalin about rifle war non-stop till we finish the runs. Any fault/wipe/bad things were because of rifle war they keep saying. They keep threatening if we do something they don’t approve they will kick (so someone before me was kicked). I’d not have joined this group if it’s on the description that they’d kick people. Anyway, if I quit the game someday, it’s not because the patches are bad, it’s definitely one of those games with these jerks that make me quit when I am out of patience. I pug using lfg all the time and I am afraid that kind of people are increasing. Why do I play a game and end up having a bad mood everyday?

I played full heal spec but got criticised by people in the guild in pug runs. I take it people don’t care about healers but want dps so I kill all my healing builds. XD The thing I like about healing spec is it’s easy to play and easy to survive when I am in no brainer mode. All I do is spaming healing in the blob and run around ~

Change the wvw name to gvg name and keep eotm. No worry about server pride, just have your guild pride. The name is called “guild war” not server war. Players should really not care about where a guild is located in which server physically in the first place.

What a player does represents his/her guild image. And keeping you guild in good/bad/special/whatever image is really all the incentive you need to play if you don’t have other incentive. And all the sieges/tactics are the tools to help you do that. WvW maps should be renamed to gvg maps and you do your guild wars there. No more coverage issue and no lack of number (because lacking number means the guild didn’t put up effort to recruit people or it’s a failed guild people don’t like to rep).

Making it a consumable might be a good idea. It can be crafted by mistic forge with ingridents only achievable by some sort of wvw guild commendations. Can have different (pve) ingridents for pve commander tags. This is on top of the already existed 1 time purchase solution with high gold price. Someone suggested the lease to own is good idea too for long time players who do not have much gold but play wvw often. And colored tags indicate how the player acquires the tag from the above ways or more other ways.

The experience scroll is to level a new char to lv 20. Although it’s possible I will never use them, I am still keeping them just in case they change functions in the future.

Best example is the yellow transmutation stones (for level 1 -79). I remember I got 500+ of them from rewards of completing maps. Since all my characters reach 80, I thought they were of no use any more and destroy them to clear bank space. Then the later patche changed them to transmutation charge (3:1). I was like so heart broken And now the transmutation charge is so expansive (relatively). Regretful destroying what seems to be useless items atm.

Hi,
I recently receive a birthday gift from email on one of my char. It has an experience scroll. I have some of those in my bank from other characters. They are the same thing except a minor difference that make them different and they cannot be put into 1 stack.

The old one says account bound on aquire. The new one says account bound. Please make them the same. I have no plan of using them soon but they are occupying my limited bank space. Thx

Hi, my fps is 70+ indicated from the manu option, but the lag is still serious (people are teleporting around me constantly) and I can never finish a dungeon anymore starting recently ’cause I completely freeze at some point.

My internet connection seems ok. My computer and video card are making great noises so I assume gw2 help them to ascend to another plain (I only play gw2, the computer was bought at the time gw2 was released). Can it be my computer hardware deteriorate and cause the lag? Thx

So it’s going to be multi-color tag in 300G next. How about adding another option renting a tag with 20 silver for 3 hours. Might be good for some people in some occasion. :P

Ok I just realize the suggestion option is under archive now XD. So I guess no more new posts under suggestion.

Hi I was trying to post a suggestion but it says I cannot make posts. Just wondering what happens.

play an elixir gun healing build. It works ok in zerg :P Though I have to say the 3 weapons it has are usually for defensive/escape purpose. Most people use kits and it makes it hard to control when the big fight starts and you can’t find your mouse pointer to swap kits XD

I play fractal a lot lately. It seems there is a really high chance that we fail cliffside and have to quit it whenever someone who holds the hammer dies and it disappears during the left and right hand event. It is especially flustrating when cliffside is the 3rd fractal and you have to quit after an average hour of playing. Please do something. XD

I am also GMT+8 time zone. It started last weekend (2 days ago). PVE dungeons wvw all the same. One moment I am here, then other party members freeze somewhere they are heading to, 10-20 secs later the game just super speed getting updated and people are miles away while I am either dead or got kicked from the dungeons or still in a stacked spot downed, rally, downed, rally, battle continues XD.

The super speed update is just funny. But getting kicked, being yelled at, being called noob are not fun. Because while you stand still during the lagdoing nothing, others think you are lost and trying to show you paths in minimap and then start yelling while losing patience. You get what I mean XD.

It’s the only world event I am doing now and 4 out 7 days I dc. Sometimes I got the small chest on the side, but sometimes not. I never got the big chest when dc although the chest is shown on the minimap. Please tell me there is nothing you can do because it’s an internet thing and I will stop wasting time on this. thx

I have been in BP since launch, but took a break for 7-8 months and recently came back to the game for some fun. All I can say is I feel you XD.

Ok, didn’t know the 20 sec internal cd. So I was probably looking at the party boons during the cd. Thx for the info

Hi,

I was trying a mace focus build with blocks coming from focus 2 and the healing Shelter. I tried it in 3 dungeon plays and didn’t see my teammates got aegis when I sucessfully blocked attacks with those 2 skills.

The radius is 360 so it’s possible that we had to be very close. But dungeons runs are in tight area so I was expecting it to work. Maybe I am wrong, but please take a look.

I have not played the game seriously for months except doing the daily. So this week I suddenly feel like to play some dungeons. I used the LFG and joined a random group that did not have any requirement. As I enter the dungeon with my ranger (I have all 8 class sitting at each dungeon and I just feel like to play ranger atm), one of the guy asked me what weapon I use for dungeons and I answered anything I feel like to play right now. Guess what I got kicked from a random group XD. Seriously any build I play (as long as it’s zerker) will end up fast for any dungeon as long as the group knows the path. I don’t know why after 2 years of game release people still tell how others should play XD.

That’s say everyone knows the path and no one dies and everyone equips the “right” weapon zerker build, takes 8 min to finish cof p1. And a ranger use a different weapon and the game finished within 10 min instead of 8 min. What is the big deal? XD People prease don’t forget it’s a game… Next time make sure in the LFG tool do mention you are the kind of group who only want some specifics in the description.

So this lag only happens at a certain hour but not all day. Just wondering why…

Any competition needs a fair rule and a goal to start with. For wvw, ptt should be everything people are fighting for to win. For those who don’t care about ptt but just do gvg stuff, it’s Anet’s fault that there is not a gvg section separated from wvw. Current wvw has too many people with too many goals to play in it, while there should only be 1 goal, ptt. That is the inbalance apart from population and coverage.

Straegen.2938:

I can only speak for myself on a mid tier server. Leagues are killing a lot of the hardcore players on BP.

Long queues, the inability to coordinate attacks due to the queue, guilds are struggling to run together on NA Prime, far to many wall warriors, dozens of PvE commanders who refuse to coordinate, overall skill of the average player has been really poor and relatively few good skill group fights. Some of our better commanders have logged out of frustration and sometimes stop running their hats when they are on.

BP used to be a lot of fun but lately a lot of frustration has seeped in even more so than when we were stuck in a tier with a dominate server and no way to escape.

You are still doing good on ptt during NA prime, and that’s why the bigger server focus on you during the low coverage oceanic hour trying to keep a good lead in ptt in case they lose more in NA time. They will follow you everywhere to suppress and demorale you to gain more ptt difference. So abandon your bl but going for the 3rd bl has no use ‘cause they are always on your tail the moment you cap something. If I were on the bigger server, that’s what I would do to the 2nd and ignore the non-resisted 3rd. Put pressure on the resisted force.

The league offers AP for pve players. Because of this, servers with good pve population suddenly grow in number in wvw and this totally beat a lot of previous prediction of the matchup results. Being hardcore is not enough any more, you need numbers from casual pve players even more now in mid/low tier servers. The new wvw map will help the pve casuals to do their daily while the hardcore gain ptt in the original maps in high tiers and solve their queue problem. But in the mid/low tiers I am afraid the force will spread even thinner. Anyway, with every new stuff Anet trys, there are always new problems. Only time will tell…

Yeah my server is NA mid server who have been double teamed by nature (This should happen in EU I imagine) on week 1 and I imagine it will remain this way for the rest of the weeks.

The bigger server focuses on the 2nd place server because it has much resistance. The weaker server doesn’t want to get attention from the big server and always go pull the 2nd place server leg. This results in those 2 server occupy our BL 247 and the weaker server bl remain intact. And at the mid of the matchup we dropped to 3rd place. But our resistance is still high, so our bl is occupied by them 247 till the end. Do we indeed deserve the 3rd place fighting 2 servers?

This week is the same as last week. We are 2nd atm, and I don’t know how long we will remain 2nd. So at the end of the 7 weeks, if we are 3rd place for all matches, are we really conclused bad server? What is this league trying to prove? To tell us to transfer to big servers/bottom servers for easy wxp/AP?

Wukunlin.8461:

Molch.2078:

Make your own group. Write what you want in the description, eg. “AC path 1, everyone welcome, no skiping, no stacking”. You’ll find people in no time.

Just because a majority of players prefer the speedrun/skip version doesn’t mean everyone does.

to be fair with the amount of morons who don’t read the lfg descriptions this can be problematic at times.

You are referring to the non-English speaker who only recongnize “P1/P2/P3” in the whole sentance? XD

You can see from the thread everyone has different opinion over doing anything. Generally, don’t tell people what to do, if they don’t ask, is the way to go. Melee or range crusher, who cares, as long as it’s done. Unlike certain bosses, I don’t think one player down in crusher fight will cause the team to wipe. What causes the team to wipe usually is from some players arguing with each other, making the run unpleasant and eventually fail dungeon most of the time.

risenlord.2035:

Julie Yann.5379:

if you want some alt friendliness just get rid of the Soulbound on use and leave it to account bound. There are many pieces that could be shared with your alts instead of wasting time grinding out copies of the sames thing.

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this is a great idea. It would really free up a lot of space having multiple sets of gear for each of your alts plus whatever else is in your bank ends up being a huge pain. Not having to pick and choose what I need to throw away would be great.

Might not technically be possible since skins with heavy, mid, and light armors do not mix. If it’s indeed possible, it means a lot of previous art works for the skins will be laid to waste. Cross your finger

lordkrall.7241:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Someone in full ascended with guard leech and applied fortitude will have a very large stats advantage over you if you meet him one on one. That’s the direction this game is going.

But then again, why would you meet him one on one?
The game is not built around one on one fights after a..

One on one happens no matter what. For example, you are running to rally with your commander. A thief suddenly appears and there you go, got to have to run from spwan again. XD

GW2 strength as a game imo is its large scale battles, gvg, pvp, based on combat stretagy combined by different professions using different builds and combos. Yes, playing different builds in a team fight is the core.

Vertical gear grinding is not supposed to be in the picture since the choices of gear mods are made limited sets (berserker, soldier, etc). Unlike some other ARPG whose gears have huge random mods that some true grinder/crafter players can actually get lucky and get some godly items better than legendaries, which make those kinds of games worth grinding. Yes, push your luck for gg items is the core of those games.

It takes me 8+ months to grinds dungeons (for gold, not really fun) to gear up all my 8 alts with exotics for many possible good builds I can think of, just to try them in wvw. Do I want to do the grinding in fotm for all my alts to get ascended? Not really, considering the time I may end up spending and gain so little stat improvement in return. Plus I never got any impressive items from dungeons anyway. For general players, you get what you want in this game with gold. I think gold grinding in any game is no fun.

My point in this long paragraph? You devide your play time among alts, which result more time in dungeon grinding and less time in wvw. If wxp ranks skills were introduced at launch, I might have tried to max 1 char before I make another. It’s all about efficiency and smart play. Everyone eventually will take a break from any game. The point is how soon they feel like to come back for its replayability. If I have an army of upscale wxp ranked alts, I will always feel it’s a long way to go and don’t want to bother XD. I really think GW2 should focus on add new trait lines and new combo finisher/fields, which results in more builds. This adds more combat stretagy on the field. Instead of going for gear grinding, which is what it is …

There are bots in this game who might like this idea XD.

The people who have positive feedback are probably from server with good zergs and coverage. If you are not on those kind of server, but instead get double teamed for the rest of the 7 weeks (The potential 2nd place server in any match usually get double teamed), I would image some server wide rage quit of the game. I don’t know how league is rated if not by ptt, truth is half of the servers will lose by whatever reasons. Those people may not want to do this league again.

Hi I have similiar experience. Sometimes the client automatically asks me to do a check/repair when I start it. The client asks me to do this 3 times in the past month. I got a lot of dc from boss fight, dungeon run, wvw zerg, etc.

For example, boss alpha from coe dungeon uses crystal and I am still frozen for 5+ seconds after teammates broke it (usually got me killed). Someone told me it’s a lag issue and the server might not know the crystal is broken. If it happens occasionally, it’s ok. But it happens every single time now when I do coe.

I dc almost 50% of time when I do boss fights and got nothing in return when I sit there for an hour for it to happen. Every time I dc, the client asks if I want to submit a report. I must have submitted those reports countless times.

I like the game, but the tech issue is getting worst somehow as it goes. Many freinds who used to play wvw now they don’t want to do raiding party any more because they lag out too much to play. I cannot give any proof of lags in wvw because when it happens you just dc. I only get a choice to submit problem report when lag out from big zerg fights, not the kind that you just suddenly dc. Anyway, just want to say this.

1. account bound wvw xp and ranks
2. skill lags and dc when zerg is nearby
3. get rid of death scouting and change defeated player color

They can make anything more difficult and require more zerging. Truth is many of these events cannot be done without zerg, which makes mid low servers fail these events often. And truth is I am about to rage quit the game because I always have to guest to high tier servers to do these events in order to get dc after spending a long time in jormag and gain nothing.

Sounds good, I will try disable auto attack. If not, it seems I cannot use dodge during the skill 1 chain.

Today I use ranger sword for the first time. All the jumping around make me feel like a monkey XD. All that is good except I find it hard to use. It seems to me skill 1 has to finish all 3 chain before another skill you clicked will start. I assume it is good in pvp since the movement is hard to predict. But I as the controller cannot predict it either XD. And skill 3 make a big circle along with the camara spinning around makes me lose direction XD. Maybe I am new to this sword skills and not used to it yet. It’s just hard to use I think.

Plz add something like what the title suggests. I am really sick of getting dc 50% of boss events I do after waiting an hour for them to happen. Then you enter again only to find yourself in overflow. Getting dc probably cannot be solved due to tech reason, but at least find a way to help players back to the event (somehow). Thx

BTW, I find myself guesting to top tier server more nowadays because they succeed the events, but the risk is dc. Lower tier servers fail events often. This is a problem.

I was in the necro plague form while accidently man a ac (was trying to pick up roots). Then I was stuck at the ac even after I change back to normal form. Then I was dead so I don’t know if that stuck would last longer or it was just like the same stuck when u build/man sieges. Basically you get stuck for a long time just like when you normally build sieges and cannot move at all.