Guild Wars 2

It is actually another small reason why I don’t think premades should get matched up against solo queuers, even if the solo queue players are just as good most premade groups have a good set up and soloers could end up with 5 mesmers.

Blade shards and Pristine Fractals are also no longer stacking

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Add mystic clovers to that list

Today has been extra bad for me, several times I have had people on my team who have absolutely no idea what they are doing and the worst part is I don’t even think they are new to the game, they just refuse to learn. It is to the point where if takes more than 3 minutes to get a match you are either going to stomp or get stomped because one team is getting some terrible players.

The match up system is kind of bogus, if you are highest rated MMR player on your team (which we can’t even tell at the moment) there is a good chance you will lose as they expect you to carry one or two other players which is not possible

If they would just bring back solo queue I would be happy with the new system. I don’t care how long team queuers have to wait that is their problem.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Basket of Boxes.1976:

Even though I main an engineer I despise turrets but at least they can’t move. There is no way spirit weapons should get a buff like that being as they follow the guardian around.

Maybe the turrets can’t move but the engie can. To the other side of the map while his turrets stay alive and active.

Tie the Engie to the turrets so he can’t run away and lets call it even ;D

As much as I hate turret engis if they leave their turrets they are as good as free kills, even on point its not that they are hard to kill more that you can’t really fight them on point without getting flung around the map so its easy for them to hold the point. In a non conquest mode people probably wouldn’t have such a problem with turret engis but in the current game mode we have they are annoying.

Problem with Elixir S is you usually end up losing the point if you use it as a stun breaker whereas slick shoes also has the advantage of being a very short cooldown stun break that won’t cause you to get decapped in a 1 v 1 situation. They both have their plus and minuses but if slick shoes wouldn’t perma knock you down without stability I fell less people would complain.

My one beef with slick shoes is that it knocks you down even when you stand still which means you cant even block to avoid some of the damage. It is actually best used on other engis because of their lack of stability.

Even though I main an engineer I despise turrets but at least they can’t move. There is no way spirit weapons should get a buff like that being as they follow the guardian around.

There should be an option to choose to wait longer in the queue if it means you only face other solos, if i have to wait twice as long to get a true solo queue match im okay with that

Grump.7069:

IF they added such a track, you’d know a lot of players would use charged track to get quicker income.

There would be no reason to add every track because nobody in the right mind would use any track but charged lodestones. Unless the rewards between the final reward are a lot better for say the Crystal Lodestone track why would someone do that track when they could do the Charged track and buy almost 10 times as many Crystal Lodestones after selling the Charged.

For the record the dungeon tracks already do reward lodestones if you are lucky, you just need to do the dungeon you want lodestones for. Off the top of my head I believe you can get (don’t quote me):

Charged-CoE
Onyx-TA
Molten-CoF
Destroyer-SE
Corrupt-HotW

In most cases short duration stabilities won’t be affected, you are better off waiting a few seconds for the stability to run out than you will be burning all your cc to remove it and then have no cc left. What it will do is give classes with no boon removal a chance to remove long lasting stabilities.

Slick shoes doesn’t need nerfed just fixed, it shouldn’t knock down when you are standing still and it does meaning if you don’t have stability you are hooped. If you use a stun break you just fall back over and its absurd.

More joke legendaries

Like it was said above now that I got my 100 interrupts I play the game normally and actually focus on winning. If you can focus on giving your team an an early lead it just snowballs because you will all have max power ups while the other team runs around with gimpy fire balls. Of course if your team has a couple afks you are better off leaving and rejoining because its a lost cause.

Aomine.5012:

These ugly masks require gem 300? For real?
It used to be event base reward items..

If they are so ugly why do you care that they are 300 gems you obviously wont be getting them.

Even if something costs gems that in no way means you have to use real money to obtain them, there is this thing called gold you can convert. Yes it was free in GW1 but if you don’t want to spend real money get farming.

I don’t see Anet changing this achievement although I agree with the majority of you thinking it is a ridiculous achievement. The number wouldn’t even be that bad if the kick was more reliable, the amount of wind up, short range and bugginess make it horrible for interrupts.

Even though I main an engineer and use rocket boots a lot I find the timing is tricky even though everyone is spamming. Then again rocket boots you don’t need to really time it just land the kick, which is hard enough in itself with that animation.

Anet trying to make the leader board “fair” with the caps already slowed AP progress for lots of people who have finished most of the permanent achievements and relied on the dailies to slowly increase their progress to achievement skins.

The truth is new players will never catch up to people playing from release anyway because of previous living stories and festivals being unobtainable now. Even lots of veterans won’t be able to catch up in theory because they may not have grinded many of the repeatable festival APs.

I don’t speak for everyone on the AP leader boards but personally I just want to unlock more of the AP skins, I don’t care about the leader board so I really wish Anet would stop limiting APs. Don’t punish people for playing almost everyday just so people who don’t can catch up to them on some leader board that lots of people don’t even know exists.

I thought the complete opposite (of these being good achievements) the health is just super grindy albeit doable. The interrupts could be a little troublesome being as the kick can be hard to land, although everyone just spams one so its an interrupt at least half the time if it hits.

Instead of those two being super grindy they could have included some of the other abilities into the achievements and toned those two down.

I just wish they would take the repair canisters out of the black lion chest loot table, there is nothing worse than opening a chest and finding one of those in it, those things are useless. Better yet they are 35 gems or so on the gem store for something that has no real value.

Why would you get one now unless you wanted to use it for key farming or something while you wait for the expansion? If you buy that slot and it sits empty till the expansion is released what was the point? There is a chance the expansion gives you a slot or character slots could go on sale in that time and you would have wasted money for nothing. You will likely not be given a refund if you buy one now and the expansion comes with one so if you don’t need the slot now just wait.

someone.7485:

I do not see how this would negatively affect roamers.

Maybe they are worried people will be able to switch out of their zerg builds before the encounters and actually put up a fight in 1 v 1’s. Personally I run my WvW roaming build in all PvE so this wouldn’t really effect me but I still feel it is a feature that should be in every game mode.

Lots of the time people saying that are just trolling, they will even wear the starter armour to really ham it up. Sad thing is when there is a new player its hard to tell if they are new or just someone purposely screwing up ranked matches by playing badly.

I would hope for at least 10v10 otherwise what really makes this map any different from a glorified Legacy of the Foefire?

How are so many of you complaining about something that hasn’t even been implemented. For all we know hammer won’t be another control weapon, being as engi already has rifle for that and nobody knows exactly what these drones do.

Shadelang.3012:

TBH I think theyl stay seperate from turrets. I imagine thely be untargetable support drones. One may slow, Another may damage, A third may periodically strip boons…etc..etc..

So theyl be more mobile. But probably less persistent acting instead to make the engineer himself a power node in the team formation. Which would fit a melee engineer very well.

I would actually hope for something more like this than more turrets to be honest, seems like a fun little mechanic. Turrets are something that plague PvP but are useless for almost everything else whereas something like this could see play in all game modes and not be over powered.

The problem isn’t how much damage conditions do its how easy they are to apply and how fast bosses reach max condi stacks for zerg content. I don’t think conditions will ever be viable for zerg content unless access to conditions is severely limited and the damage is buffed by a huge amount, which would require a complete overhaul and isn’t likely to happen.

I think they could make some changes to make conditions more useful for dungeons and other small group content, but it would have to be changes mechanic wise. Conditions are already highly effective for WvW roaming and lots of solo content so straight up buffing the damage isn’t a solution.

I think warriors are in a good place now, they used to be a little over the top but with the adrenaline change they are fine in my opinion. The warriors that just rush into battle and blow all their stances are essentially a free kill if you have a way to out last the 8 seconds of face roll.

Exo.2965:

Hector.1408:

3 days straight 70+ runs and NOTHING. QQ

is it possible ? 70+ succesefully completed events in 72 hours ? don’t lie to us

Although this sounds a little far fetched I do think he could be close, with good instance hopping you can get 3 or 4 VW kills an hour. I think he is over estimating a bit but even 20 runs without a coat box would be pretty horrible.

Took me 13 for the first and I still don’t have my second.

I thought my luck was bad at 0/11 but it looks like some people are having it even worse, it seems like people get it in 2 runs or it takes like 15… doesnt help that the last run I didn’t even get a rare.

I am at 0/9 for coat boxes myself and its pretty ridiculous when people are finishing it in two runs. People spending the fight dead or auto attacking from behind a beehive half afk are getting coat boxes when people actually dealing damage are getting 2 rares in some cases.

With the reward like this I am going to start getting credit for one boss then afking for the rest of the event while I do something else, I tried for the first two days to help people with achievements (hardly anyone fills the beehives) but with my rotten luck I am just in it for the grind now, have to be efficient.

I was running the last crystal back on my fifth try when time ran out so then just made a group to finish it, I know it would be possible but really why bother when there is no way that achievement was designed to be done solo. The only way to even come close solo is to make Turai fight one of the mobs outside the circle in the first event to avoid spawning more, if you can get out of there with about 5:30 remaining you have a chance.

Preyar.6783:

John Lightning.6293:

Any chance of this getting fixed? Still 53/54 set one minis even though I have 54/54 unlocked on my account.

I don’t know about OP but I probably know how to fix your problem. See, the Mini Risen Priest of Balthazar was put into the game in a later state but it showed up in the set 1 collection for some reason. It upped the count to 55 minis and made for an easier achievement back then. But with the introduction of the new minipet system this was fixed so that the 55th mini, the Mini Risen Priest of Balthazar does not count towards the set achievement meaning that if you had been missing the original 54th mini and replaced it with the new 55th one you would be at 53 minis with the new system.

There is an issue with all 3 mini sets not just set 1 so this is not exactly a fix.

The day someone gets banned for using an autoclicker to open bags is the day I give up on Guild War 2. There are blatant hackers and siege trolls logging on everyday into WvW for years on end that are completely ignored by Anet staff and some of you really think people will get banned for opening bags a little bit faster?

This is still a bug, I am having the same issue with Mini Set 3, AP is taking longer and longer to come by for me as I close in on the radiant or hellfire legs and being locked out of this 10 AP does make a difference.

Also that constant 48/49 on the Nearly Completed list for achievements is annoying when you can’t do anything to complete it.

I don’t get why so many tendons drop with the extractor when there is a guaranteed tendon extractor. At least take the tendons out of the loot table for the experimental extractor.

They don’t need to worry about this zone being empty as people will have to grind for another two weeks to have enough crests to buy all the armour pieces.

I will say the one nice thing about people being able to swap is how extremely satisfying it is when some baddie forces auto and ends up losing because a good player volunteered and made a comeback.

All they need to do is make it so when you join spectate you are locked out of picking a new team for some period of time or even the match. If you don’t like losing you should be able to leave the game or just watch but you shouldn’t be able to join the winning team.

DanzBurG.8635:

Basket of Boxes.1976:

If anything he should have been able to be bought with foil wrapper scraps, if you are unlucky enough to not get one in the time you acquired 1k wrappers you aren’t going to win a halloween skin in the lottery either. On the off chance you do happen to win a skin you still can’t trade it for the mini you were after… go figure.

with all the wrappers we’ve gotten out of the bags we should be able to trade those for the mini… knowing my luck with all the bags i’ve opened and the wrappers submitted.. well.. only time will tell but more than likely RNGesus will not go easy on us. This will probably be the last time I purchase gems..

That is kind of what I was suggesting, it is a pretty fair way of doing it for an account bound mini. People with a lot of luck can get the mini in under 1k bags and be happy, people who opened 10’s of thousands of bags can turn in their wrappers for the mini instead of wasting them on a chance to win a skin.

I think is the only account bound item in the game hidden behind this much RNG and I hope its not a sign of things to come. If there is another item like this I would love to know what it is.

If anything he should have been able to be bought with foil wrapper scraps, if you are unlucky enough to not get one in the time you acquired 1k wrappers you aren’t going to win a halloween skin in the lottery either. On the off chance you do happen to win a skin you still can’t trade it for the mini you were after… go figure.

jihm.2315:

if you dont like it why you dont u join solo arena?

I am guessing lots of people are like me and don’t want to take sub par or new builds they aren’t familiar with into solo que so they use hot join to practice… it is a little difficult at the moment when you get auto’d 4 times a match because people can’t take a loss.

A little surprised and disappointed in that answer. I think most people would just be satisfied if the mini was made trade-able instead of account bound.

I am holding off on opening any more bags until Anet fixes the drop rate. I haven’t opened 10’s of thousands of bags like some people but I have yet to see a decent drop from the bags I have opened. Even if I believe some people are exaggerating the amount of bags they have opened I do believe the drop rate seems a little low for an account bound mini. They have increased drop rates before so I would expect to see them change this in the next few days.

I have tried a few things to get this event rolling and nothing works, when I actually got him attacked my enemies he just started swimming back and forth aimlessly after they died.

If this has been broken for a month and is that difficult to fix why don’t you just turn him into a merchant so people can get the achievement item.

Pretty sure the tournament was 4 weeks and ET beat Kain on the last week which would put them ahead. That wiki looks unfinished.

xusa.4021:

Basket of Boxes.1976:

You guys are currently in a match up with ET and Kaineng, their numbers are not a whole lot better. At the moment you guys are probably the worst server but if you look back even two weeks it was ET. Put on your big boy pants and just keep playing, things will turn around.

The devs aren’t going to play on the lowest ranked server or any of the server’s currently getting stomped and the reason is they don’t even play WvW. At least I hope they don’t because if they do and this is how things have been for the last two years I am disappointed.

You clearly don’t understand the situation. Our problem isn’t that we have low pop, the problem is that we don’t have any pop at all.

I don’t know if there’s any ET here, but they are generally worse, and I say that based in the fact that I myself suck and still get to spike some of them. We’ve won lots of battles against them being low on numbers even outnumbered by far. This ain’t a simple matter of “you’ll win next round”. We’ve been losing for 2 consecutive rounds because they simply have players in every map and take everything while there’s no one defending. People in AR don’t play WvW, and when they do, they see how pointless it is to do it alone and leave.

Not only that, but for 4 consecutive weeks we’ve been playing with a matchup where at least one server stomp the others, the only week this didn’t happen is this current week where kain and ET are competing against each other while we’re being their food.

If this is how you feel after just two weeks on the bottom you better transfer now. ET was on the bottom for months and months and the devs did nothing. It was up to ET to pull themselves out of it.

If you really are stomping so many ET players stop worrying about the scores and keep having fun winning the fights. That is the only reason I stayed on ET for so long, the scores don’t really matter just enjoy stomping people.

You guys are currently in a match up with ET and Kaineng, their numbers are not a whole lot better. At the moment you guys are probably the worst server but if you look back even two weeks it was ET. Put on your big boy pants and just keep playing, things will turn around.

The devs aren’t going to play on the lowest ranked server or any of the server’s currently getting stomped and the reason is they don’t even play WvW. At least I hope they don’t because if they do and this is how things have been for the last two years I am disappointed.

VeeWee is the reason this forum needs a block function, or if there is one make it easier to find.

TheArsonistInMe.6817:

My engi’s name is Six Gun Quota. Yes named after the Seether song for you fans out there. Thought is was a fitting name for an asuran engi.

Seether has fans?

Yeah I opened about 700 or so after the patch and got 2 favors and the rest tokens, good for the people who opened less than 100 and got them but why couldnt these bags drop a currency used to buy the recipe so at least if you didnt get one after opening thousands of bags you could just buy one with the alternate currency. It would be nice if these bags werent all or nothing, it seem you are either gifted with luck or you farm for hours to be rewarded with trash. Either way the recipes are dropping now and you might see more people attempting the gauntlet which means the prices will hopefully continue to drop.

People on the forums already had a huge advantage because they knew the drop rate on the chances was horrendous. I personally saved up about 700 chances after seeing how bad the drop rate was in hopes of them fixing it. People who frequent the forums knew their chances of getting anything from the gauntlet chances was extremely low but they were all chasing the Lyssa Backpiece jackpot.

Ive opened around 200 so far which all rewarded me with single tokens. I have another 300 unopened and about 200 more gauntlet tickets remaining. I will probably save the last 100 tickets and leave the chances unopened in hopes that they do something with the drop rates.

Even though I still have a ton of tickets left I dont agree with allowing it to be bought with the tickets. It screws over people who actually took the time to grind out wins in the gauntlet in hopes of getting the recipe.