Guild Wars 2

Something like class quests do not exist. If you talk about the personal story, that is
totally optional and you don’t loose anything if you don’t play it at all or just later.

Warrior, Guardian and Ranger are maybe the “easiests” class to start with and learn
how the game works.
If you get used to how the game works its much less frustrating when you try the
“not so easy” classes like elementalist or thief.

Yeah .. i really overuse the embroiderd pants for light armor, aetherblade pants
for heavy, and krytan or duellists chest for medium because of that

Lower some of your graphics settings, especially detail and number of shown players.

Its mostly that you reach the critical point of 3.6 – 3.7 GB Ram usage if you have
everything on max.

You can also post your crash.log here

Maybe it is somewhere out of you visible window.
Rename or delete the file local.dat in your user directory under
AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2
That resets all your settings to default.

Boysenberry.1869:

I’ll play!

Unloveableone.6082:

Let’s play a game of unpopular opinions.
-Season 1 was much better than Season 2

I really do think Season 1 was better because:
1. It was significantly longer.
2. The added length led to many more skins (too many backpacks though), items, and achievement points.
3. The Achievements were more varied, more extensive, and more interactive.
4. With much of the content on the open world, many of the updates had a more epic feel to them like the Marionette, the finale weeks in Lion’s Arch, the Toxic Tower, and even Scarlet’s hourly invasions.

Season 2 just seems like a continuation of the personal story in that everything is designed to be quietly and easily solo’d. I feel the story of season 2 has been fine, it’s just been kind of bland with most of it being instanced.

And : Season 1 felt like a living world .. it changed the world. In Season 2 all we have
are some tendrils and destroyed WPs .. and everything else just happens in some
kind of parallel universe.

Brim.9841:

Thanks for the quick reply, but which gathering tools should I go with? There’s a few different ones for each tool.

Watchwork pick of course because it makes you earn extra money.
Sickle i would buy the consortium or molten because they are the fastest.
Axes don’t have anything special .. so its only the animation.

Its mostly that you have overwritten those skins before the wardrobe patch, so you
didn’t really owned that skins anymore at that time.

Looks like a problem with the font-file that the launcher is using.
However can’t say much more to that .. so yeah .. best ask support.

Chackan.2813:

Here is some info when the stutter spikes happen!

The HDD is 100%, the RAM is 95%.

The CPU is at 44% with only 56º temperature.

I would say the 95% ram usage is the problem because windows then starts to swap
to your HDD.
Upgrading to 8GB would be the best.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

But weirder things happen in the metal market. Darksteel Ingots 4s 27c versus Steel Ingots, 4s 42c . . . very weird it costs less for Tier 4 than Tier 3. Even more curious is how Iron Ingots are 4s 7c.

You need 3 iron for steel and iron ingots but only 2 platinum for darksteel ingots.

Also you need to buy extra mats from the crafting NPC for steel but not for iron ingots.

So its not really that weird.

If they have the ressources for a project like that i’d rather see them put that
into a 64-bit client and DX-11

This has been posted very often in the forums as help against the fear spam.

So i think ANet are aware of that and since it hasn’t been changed they are
mostly fine with it.

There is also that one vista in Dredgehaunt Cliffs that is more or less a jumping puzzle.

In my opinion (based on farming a lot of Arctodus in FGS) the drop of crafting mats
is not based on MF .. even if some people say it is. At least i still get the same amount
when farming today with over 200% mf than what i got when i only had 30%.

One argument is also that crafting mats drops are not hit by diminishing return
while weapons and armor are.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

santso.9201:

i kinda like the arah axe skin….or corrupted one, and dreamthistle is nice as well, just hope it would go a ’’bit’’ cheaper on tp so that i could actually afford it…

is it on TP? i checked and didnt see one. The Dreamthisle greatsword i really wanted was like 1k gold, but disappeared

Also, is tp server based? Im on darkhaven

TP is worldwide.

I think the Dreamthistle weapons were removed from the black lion trader a while
ago, and so there is no way to get them anymore beside some skins that other
players have horded.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Chaialyna.1023:

Personally I like the Phoenix Reborn axe skin, but the effect is slightly more subtle.

I use this axe skin too on my female characters. It is actually really pretty.

I also like that one .. its the best “cheap” skins in my opinion.
Else i use the ambrite axe on one of my chars and the pactfleet axe.

Its simply an old RPG rule that mages can only wear cloth armor that gives not
much protection and only knights / warriors wear plate that give the best protection.

GW2 broke with a lot of typical MMO stuff but not with all RPG stuff.

Vayne.8563:

Playing an online game isn’t anywhere near the same as using the Internet, or a search engine, or researching something.1

Very true .. it always baffles me how many people simply are not able to use google
and ask again and again some simply questions and i have to play google for them.

And some people really sit before a computer and ask you how late it is .. no joke.

In Rift it could look like this :
(sadly i lost my own screenshots of a bossfight so i had to use this low quality image)

Tevesh.1265:

Now WoW armor are nothing to write home about, either, but at least they have far more diversity.

Did they also had more diversity before the first expansion ?

Lifestealer.4910:

Beldin.5498:

KGS.9842:

I meant a reward that is tied directly to your skill instead of luck; those were the two parts of the equations
challenge <—> reward; in this case it is
challenge <— lots of luck —> reward

So .. the faster you can click your mouse the more gold you get ?
Because what is “skill” mostly in a game like GW2 ? You need to be fast on your mouse
and keyboard .. if your old and have never learned typing and thus are a mouse-clicker
you simply are less skilled.

I am pretty sure thats how all the games work. Being slow and “mouse clicker” means you get left behind, this goes with anything in real life as well. Theres is no reason why games have to make their content near idiot proof for those type of people.

Knowledge + prediction + reaction are what dictates skill in games and it has done a good job so far.

Ever heared of chess ? Or old round based RPGs? There strategy was more asked
then just be a fast clicker.

And in real life beeing a fast typer is maybe usefull as a secretary .. so yeah you can
show your leet skills there.

But of course it would be nice if the secretary drives a Ferrari while her boss only
drives a 20 year old Ford ^^

And give us also an account wide key-ring .. for the current keys and whatever keys
we will get in future .. lol

KGS.9842:

I meant a reward that is tied directly to your skill instead of luck; those were the two parts of the equations
challenge <—> reward; in this case it is
challenge <— lots of luck —> reward

So .. the faster you can click your mouse the more gold you get ?
Because what is “skill” mostly in a game like GW2 ? You need to be fast on your mouse
and keyboard .. if your old and have never learned typing and thus are a mouse-clicker
you simply are less skilled.

Varrg.2704:

Grandmarshall set from WoW is better than any plate armor in GW2.

Ok .. so its 85% that is ugly in GW2 .. and only 99,9% is ugly in WoW

My personal vote for still goes AION with the lowest percentage of ugly armor.

Edit :
ok .. must have googled it .. really ? Are you WoW players blind or what the heck is the problem ? That wasn’t even good 10 years ago .. take a look at Lineage 2 armor maybe.

KGS.9842:

I am simply amazed people saying “i like muh world bosses and champion trains”
your actions do not matter in the zerg, and guess what people want their actions to matter and seek a challenge too
which brings me to point 2: how often do you guys play the aetherpath in TA?
I can anticipate it’s not much, and I can tell you why – the difficulty is higher, and all you get in return are a couple of bent lockpicks form the aether-chests
GW2 needs some kind of high difficulty – high reward pve content, call it magic-group-adventure for all I care since people are so afraid of the word ‘raid’
I am sure people feel nice when they show off their dragon rank finishers in pvp, so why can’t we have something like that in pve
I never got into hardcore raiding in wow, but whenever I saw a guy with the Liberator of Orgrimmar title for example, I thought ‘nice this person has achieved something’; and whenever I see the be-all and the end-all title here I think “wow this person got lucky enough so those bosses spawned on his map”

Funny … look at the prices of the weapons you can get from aetherpath path ..
there is your high reward .. if you play it often enough to get one of those.

And hey .. that exactly is what i read hundreds of times from all those old GW1
players : Oh .. GW1 was soooo great .. we played zone X for 8 years again and
again .. just to get those special drops there.

So .. there you have exactly what “players” wanted .. challenge .. and the high reward
that motivates you to play the content forever .. at least if you believe what people
posts on the forums.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I remember the …discussions… about Boosters being in the Gem Store before launch, and how heated the comments about how the game would be pay-to-win, etc. Lol.

Now look at Boosters. It would probably be difficult to give them away.

Oh yeah .. always funny what people call P2W these days

I mostly don’t even use the boosters i’ve got now and then .. only recently on my last
characters i transmuted some into kill-streak boosters to level faster on yellow mobs.

Ahh .. and i used the crafting booster whenever i leveled a new character.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Sounds like a case of entitled children expecting it to be spoon fed to them when it suits.

Sadly this is more common than common sense. I don’t what’s with this aversion to doing a little research before an event, but it’s also common.

Sites like Dulfy are a godsend, but useless if the players don’t partake. Yet, all that said, I’m still trying to tell players to stop standing in the big red circles.

Most player just play the game very casual .. only 5% of the players read the forums
and only 1% actually post in the forums for example.

So why do you expect more people to read the wiki or Dulfy ?

If you ask about the numbers .. they were posted by our german CM a while ago.

The task was maybe put in with not enough thinking about the alternates to
crafting something like armor, weapons or jewlery that actually also consumes ectos.

The first time for example i really crafted an exotic earring .. all in all it only costed
me 2 instead of 5 ectos .. so that was a good deal .. and maybe a dev just though
about something like that .. and then it was too complicated to make all the
other stuff NOT work ..

GiraffeRampage.6420:

Beldin.5498:

Talking about ugly armor in GW2 and then compare it with WoW .. im speechless.

I could understand if you compare it maybe with AION … but WoW .. really ?

Lol im not sure if troll or serious….for real, you need to go take a long hard look at all the tier death knight armor and early tier paladin armor then comeback to this post with an opinion.

And you should just try to compare the difference in detail of the armor in GW2
against the flat textures that they have in WoW.

Talking about ugly armor in GW2 and then compare it with WoW .. im speechless.

I could understand if you compare it maybe with AION … but WoW .. really ?

Don’t forget that mounts that should do duelz needs to wear proper capes ^^

Zergs.9715:

@Beldin
And wouldn’t it be a glorious day if you defeated that bully and sent him packing instead of cowering in your parallel universe. Nothing against you personally, but strongly against your attitude. There’s a worse things out there than dieing in a video game.

I’m bad at PvP and i never win if i’m already half on my life and the characters that
are 15 level higher jump on me .. mostly in a horde of 5+ ..
That was what i encountered all day in AION when the game was over 6 months out
and after i was ganked the last time 3 times in 40 minutes i just logged out and
never logged in again. And i will never ever set a foot in any game that forces me
into PvP.

Ashen.2907:

Beldin.5498:

edgarallanpwn.8739:

I like the concept and the fun it create, i also understand it creates camping and unfun “questing” etc.

The fun is only on side of the school bullys that like to grief other players and jump
in their back when they are already nearly dead from fighting against mobs.

So NO .. for the 10.000th time.

These games may work in Korea, but not in the west.

And here is an example that makes me wonder if the toxicity ad griefing might be not on the side of the PvPers after all. Calling the OP a school bully for expressing an opinion and asking a question ?

You should learn to read correctly. I have NOT called the OP a school bully, but
only people who like to grief and gank other players.
So all you wrote is just a strawman argument.

But good to know that in your world it is more evil to say : That guy beat me in the face
as to actual beat someone into the face.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

I like the concept and the fun it create, i also understand it creates camping and unfun “questing” etc.

The fun is only on side of the school bullys that like to grief other players and jump
in their back when they are already nearly dead from fighting against mobs.

So NO .. for the 10.000th time.

These games may work in Korea, but not in the west.

Cherokeewill.7504:

The look of the festival area in DR is beautifull. I only wish there was more reason to hang out there and explore/enjoy it.

^ This

The WvW Homeland looks also nice now

Avster.1935:

Beldin.5498:

Developer ressources are limited so we can’t have endless new content.

Right. How is your need for a particular content more justifiable against those who want raids?

Beldin.5498:

Using those ressources to create content for only maybe 5% of the playerbase
leads to less new content for the other 95%.

Where are you pulling the 5% player base number from? At this point in time, if you look at the poll, 63% (126) are interested and 37% (75) are not interested. Obviously it’s reflective of those who have come to visit the official forums, and not that of the entire player base.

Beldin.5498:

And in the ends it comes down to something like : Why the hell should i play
that kitten if i don’t get better stuff .. and not : Oh .. playing that great content
is reward itself enough.
Or better said : Raiding itself sucks .. but i play it because i can show off my exclusive stuff .

Are you new to MMOs?

My first quote was answered by my second quote.

And to the question where those numbers are from i can ask you :
Are you new to MMOs ?

The latest where when Lotro canceld raids, but i read number like that in the
years i played Everquest 2 .. and you can google and find those number also
for WoW (http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1185107-How-many-WoW-players-actually-raid )
Heck in EQ2 it was normally just 1 single guild that has beaten the hardest raid
before we got a new expansion.

Also Raider are overrepresented in Forums, that why the numbers here didn’t
say anything. Our german CM just postet a while ago that only 1% of the
players post in the forums .. and i think 3 or 5% read it.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/07/03/turbine-raiders-make-up-the-smallest-player-group-in-lotro/#comments

Raiders comprise the smallest, by far, group in our game. PvMP players are far larger and even they are small. in fact together the two groups wouldn’t comprise 10% of the total player base and never have (this is important. it’s not a new thing, it’s a long standing historical fact).

Forum posters comprise a slightly larger group than the combined group of PvMP and Raiders. However, Raiders and PvMP players make up the overwhelming majority of forum posters (More than half. Though raiders are the smaller group of the two (PvMP/Raiders)). So you have a tiny group, inside a small group that is grossly disproportionately represented on the forums.

DeWolfe.2174:

Or, should I start another thread on mounts too????

Don’t forget capes !!

You get water, air and earth attunement later when you have made some level-ups.

Else we have now a “mega-server”, so in PvE everyone plays on the same maps and
servers are not really important.
The only thing where servers are still important is WvW.

Avster.1935:

Mala.3861:

No, a thousand times, no.

Many of us came to GW2 to escape that very thing.

Why are you so haunted by raids? It’s not going to be a conventional raid.

Before you reply, please read the previous posts that I’ve made on this thread. I’m naturally curious.

EDIT: This goes to others as well. Don’t just say “No.” give an explanation, but before you do read the posts that have been made on this thread.

Developer ressources are limited so we can’t have endless new content.
Using those ressources to create content for only maybe 5% of the playerbase
leads to less new content for the other 95%.

And of course there is always the thing that raiders think they are better and
need to get “exclusive rewards”. So 95% will also maybe get less new armor skin
because the developers have to create “exclusive” stuff for those 5%.

Then there will be all the drama that people feel they are forced to play stuff
they don’t enjoy to get that exclusive stuff .. and so on and so on ..

And yes .. even if people here maybe don’t want a gear treadmill .. the words
“exclusive rewards” were used in most of the posts in the Raid-CDI

And in the ends it comes down to something like : Why the hell should i play
that kitten if i don’t get better stuff .. and not : Oh .. playing that great content
is reward itself enough.
Or better said : Raiding itself sucks .. but i play it because i can show off my exclusive stuff .

Khisanth.2948:

Arkinos.7245:

And yes you shouldnt do the event dailies.
Its typically a horrible experience to do them.

That is mostly because of broken events … also depends on how well you know the events on the map.

Yeah .. today events in Wayfarer Foothils for example is quite easy .. just do the Svanir Shaman and pre-events ^^

This is still the best designed World Boss in regards of the pre-events.

Astral Projections.7320:

Coat: wiki says its a drop from defeating the Mordrem Vinewrath. It says nothing about needing the story first, which may be an omission.

No need to do the story. Also you get one guaranteed coat for achievement when
you kill Vinewrath the first time.

Blaeys.3102:

Avster.1935:

Blaeys.3102:

…Now, if they can pull off raids in such a way that the numbers are flexible, the rewards are no better than any other content in the game and they are still extremely challenging, then Im all for them…

But then no one would do them…We already know our player base is more prone to doing easy things for high rewards. Let this, for a change, be a hard thing for higher reward…

If the content isnt fun/enticing enough to stand on its own sans higher rewards, then adding higher rewards would just create a “have to do that” atmosphere – yet another element of raids that lends to the hate and toxicity I referenced.

The bigger issue is the group size flexibility, imo (must have for larger groups), but creating better rewards for something only a small percentage of the population wants to do is just as toxic – leading to the have/have not mentality that drove many of us (even previous hard core raiders like me) away from other games.

Im not against them adding more challenging content, but not in ways that lead to divides between players and greater drama.

^^ Very much this.

Lauree Akhtar.3205:

Could you give us any more information? I was not able to repro this. I tried unchecking the helm on land, going into the water, and coming out, and I tried unchecking the helm underwater and then coming out. Are there any consistent steps you can do to make this bug occur?

Thanks!

Try the following :
-uncheck helm
-go into water
-log out while you are under water
-login again
-leave the water

I think that was what i did when it happend to me wearing the Shadow Assassin Outfit on my Asura.

Tachenon.5270:

Not really a worry, but an expectation: that HoT will be a glorified Living Story chapter combining the most player-unfriendly and mind-numbingly repetitive aspects of Dry Top and the Silverwastes with system updates that will make the trait system redesign and NPE look like fun-filled frolics in wonderland.

Haha .. yeah .. exactly this ^^

The Desert Rose was only available from the Zephyr Sanctum event AFAIK.

I bought mine last year when the event was again online, and the prices were
falling down.

So .. new system :
- Traits can now be earned starting at level 80
- people wanted more challenges, so traits are now only awarded for beating special
challenges like beeing the best dungeon / fractal speedrunners
- you can also win some traits if you win in an E-Sports tournament

Is that the reason of this new thread to speculate how you can change the traits
to make them even worse than now ?

Just a tip for the future : get an invisible bag.

Xhyros.1340:

Next time the watchwork pick goes on sale, BUY IT. It pretty much doubles the gold you get from mining or so.

As far as i see it all endless tools can still be bought and it doesn’t look as if they are going away at any time.

No .. never

Buttercup.5871:

Yes. Absolutely yes. Open world PvP is fantastic.

Maybe in Korea .. in the west it works as good as giving players the rights to
perma-ban every player they don’t like.

Just take a look of the success of Lineage 2 and Aion in Korea and in the West.