Guild Wars 2

Brother Grimm.5176:

Just to relate my take on this (personal experience): Prior to MegaServer, I would likely spend a good portion of my time playing in Frostgorge harvesting nodes with 6 to 8 characters on a semi-daily basis. Mostly running routes for the “mapped out” T6 nodes. I gathered a rather healthy stockpile of T5 and T6 metal and wood during that time. I thing I sold some T5 stacks (very few) but I have always just horded the T6 materials. That daily farming of nodes ended with MegaServer.

I still do that with 13 characters on daily base.

Go to http://www.gw2nodes.com .. it still works, you only need to type in the IP now.

And .. you have to avoid the time around Claw of Jormag spawn, since then the maps
change all the time. Else however there are mostly only 1-2 maps .. at least in Europe.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Zackie.8923:

i have a dream… one day bearbow will dominate gw2

Far away and long ago, in the land of Norrath, people who rolled Shadowknights as main tanks were told to uninstall and lrn2play.

Time passed, and there came a time in the land of Norrath when people who were not Shadowknight main tanks were also told to uninstall and lrn2play.

Karma is only a balance pass away.

Loved my SK .. until RoK nerfed them indirectly through encounter design
I heared they got better again in later expansions .. but then i already left the game.

Also .. today a veteran Svanir nearly killed my beloved Icewolf .. and then .. oh my gawd
i used my bear ..

Brother Grimm.5176:

Note that since we are not given any details of exactly HOW DR works (for obvious reasons), tossing around info like “it goes away in about an hour”, are in no way guaranteed accurate. I have seen numerous reports that players parking Alts near events and logging in daily to do said events are seeing continual DR on those events for weeks after it first started (not sure WHY they would continue to do those events if they noticed this ??).

As a I recall, the reports were that you needed to zone out and do a few events in another area and then when you load back in to the original zone and do the events again, the DR will be removed. I’m not sure there isn’t some RNG aspect to how DR gets applied and even possibly to reset it (if technically possible, that’s what I would do to keep gold farmers from easily figuring out how to get around it).

I can say from my experience that DR has also changed since the feature-patch.
Before it was really quick after an hour that you get nearly no exp at all, now
it goes down slower so you even don’t notice it at first .. and also it takes longer
that it goes back to normal .. just don’t play for an hour for example doesn’t
fix it now, like it did before.
Also after just doing 2-3 events in another zone i really fast got again less exp
after each event on my old farming-events.

proviticus.4183:

also, all precursors share skins with cheaper exotics. Dawn being one of the cheapest alternatives, sharing the skin with khrysoar (however that’s spelled), the golden sword. You can get it for like 5g.

I got an unlock for khrysoar when i equipped my Sunrise btw.

What about this :
http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/207s81/023_of_players_defeated_heroic_garrosh_after_four/

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1185107-How-many-WoW-players-actually-raid
or simply look a little here :
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=wow+percentage+of+raiders

Vayne.8563:

Beldin.5498:

Godzzila.3752:

If by a bunch of people you mean something 5. And as far as Im noticing there are equally the amount of people supporting this idea. And by the way: At no point in time does having end-game features change at all the game, other than expand its longetivity and giving something to do when waiting for content.

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

And i’ve read similiar things often also for games like EQ2 or WoW.

Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve been saying this very thing to people for a very long time. It’s nice to see a dev say it.

Funny thing was when i read a little about that in the Lotro forums i again still had
the feeling that 95% of the players were kittened of by that decision

Morsus.5106:

I just want to get an exotic aqua breather with the right stat combos.

I wish they get rid of them and let us just use our normal headgear instead.

Godzzila.3752:

If by a bunch of people you mean something 5. And as far as Im noticing there are equally the amount of people supporting this idea. And by the way: At no point in time does having end-game features change at all the game, other than expand its longetivity and giving something to do when waiting for content.

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

And i’ve read similiar things often also for games like EQ2 or WoW.

Jungle-Worm since last update is a lot more deadly but dies quicker .. its still a boss in Starterzones so i don’t think he needs even more updates and he really doesn’t need to be a bag of Gazillions of Hitpoints like before.

Behemoth .. the portals now only made him more boring and annoying .. and i bet everything else they would do to him would make it even more boring. Especially removing loot from champs that may spawn for me made him now totally uninteresting .. just a waste of time.

Svanir Shaman .. that one is totally fine .. only problem is Mega-Server .. fighting him before that with 3-4 people had made you move and dodge quite a lot.

If you want to make all lvl 15 bosses a loooong fight like Jormag they should also drop more than just 3-5 dragonite.

Wanze.8410:

Beldin.5498:

Btw.: does somebody know whats up with T4 wood ? I think it was around 1.50-1.60s
in the last weeks, but last thursday it suddenly went up to 3s

Due to foxfire clusters being farmed, the price for t5 wood crashed. That might have led to more spiritwood planks than usual being crafted, which put a higher than usual demand on t2-4 wood.

Usually t4 is the bottleneck as it has the lowest supply compared to t2 and 3, so t4 wood spiked a bit harder.

The funny fact for me was that some of the best spots for T4 wood are next to
Concordia .. and a lot more people than usually hang around there now because
of Chapter 2 ^^

Its a driver issue .. i bet you get an error like “your drivers have been reset due to an arror .. blabla” ..

I installed the latest Beta-Drivers some weeks ago and since then i also experienced
those driver crashes for 5-6 times.

Or .. you GPU is slowly dying .. i remember i had that also some years ago more and
more often .. and then suddenly when i rebootet there was no more red visible and
it was time for a new card.

Btw.: does somebody know whats up with T4 wood ? I think it was around 1.50-1.60s
in the last weeks, but last thursday it suddenly went up to 3s

Its calles diminshing return .. it kicks in if you do the same events in a small area for
maybe 1 hour.

Without reading your whole wall of text .. what do you believe happens when each
and everytime someone asks how to get T6 mats the answer is : do dungeons and
buy them ?

Because .. the TP creates them when you buy them .. right ? No it doesn’t so if nobody
farms them they get of cause rarer and more expensive .. and maybe some day people
will notice that there are other ways to make money beside dungeons.

Lucky Shot.7650:

Vayne.8563:

Quality is opinion not fact

Quality being an opinion? Are you even serious?

So .. what song is of higher Quality .. “Suppers Ready” or “Close to the Edge” ?

What books .. Dragonlance or Midkemia Saga ?

Of course quality is a matter of opinion when we talk about artistic work, and an
MMO for me is more artistic work than just something like making a chair and
table with wood, hammer and nails.

Danikat.8537:

To me it’s basically that after level 80 this game becomes more like a sandbox game where you have a whole range of different activities and you don’t have to do any of them, you can pick and choose what to do.

Pretty much this .. in other MMOs at max level i always just rolled the next char or
maybe did “grey” content solo but i never was very much interestet in running the
same dungeons over and over and else there was not really much left to do.

Here i can do whatever i want and everything still gives me at least a small reward.

Godzzila.3752:

Beldin.5498:

Godzzila.3752:

Beldin.5498:

This is not the gear-grinder you are looking for .. please move on instead of trying
to turn it into one.

Yes it is. This game is all about grind.
Fractals are grind.
Champion run is grind.
Zerging around in new content is grind.

Only diffrence is that you are grinding for no progress

I said GEAR-grinder .. with that i meant the endless spiral of better gear and
that never makes you really better because as soon as you have it you go to
the next higher raid where you do the same damage to the mobs like in the
dungeon before, because the mobs have higher armor and they hit harder so
you also get the same damage .. so in the end your progress is no progress at
all ..

You can do the same here .. do one dungeon 100-200 time .. then buy a new set
from tokens .. and delete all your old stuff .. now take another dungeon .. do it
200 times .. buy set from tokens .. delete all old stuff … move on to next

That is in the end what you do in all those gear-grinders.

What the hell are you even talking about? This game is all about grind, gear-grind too, except only for cosmetic porposes. While in other games you grind to have better gear to do a certain thing better, here you are grinding for NOTHING only than looking slightly better. You don’t grind because weapon X will deal more damage, you grind because weapon X looks better. Nevertheless you are grinding.

Every MMO is about grind .. Endgame is just another word for grind.

However here i can grind whererver and whatever i want, while in other games i’m
doomed to grind stuff that i hate (aka raids) else i get nothing than crap.

CureForLiving.5360:

Well other than fractals, ascended gear, the tequatl revamp, Southsun, skill acquisition changes, megaserver, wardrobe, account wallet, account dye, combining pvp and pve wardrobes… and several other’s I’m sure. Maybe it’s more accurate to say that the ideas you like haven’t been implemented.

This reminds me of Life of Brian :

Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace – shut up!

And thats why we also have no duelz and no open-pvp .. blame the romans for that

If i want a good story i read a book.

At the moment again Midkemia Saga from Raymond Feist

14 chars .. no Charr, no Sylvari, no Asura .. so who am i to convince you ?

And at least i had a Sylvari in Beta .. and played an Asura Engi till 30 .. but Charr .. never

Godzzila.3752:

Beldin.5498:

This is not the gear-grinder you are looking for .. please move on instead of trying
to turn it into one.

Yes it is. This game is all about grind.
Fractals are grind.
Champion run is grind.
Zerging around in new content is grind.

Only diffrence is that you are grinding for no progress

I said GEAR-grinder .. with that i meant the endless spiral of better gear and
that never makes you really better because as soon as you have it you go to
the next higher raid where you do the same damage to the mobs like in the
dungeon before, because the mobs have higher armor and they hit harder so
you also get the same damage .. so in the end your progress is no progress at
all ..

You can do the same here .. do one dungeon 100-200 time .. then buy a new set
from tokens .. and delete all your old stuff .. now take another dungeon .. do it
200 times .. buy set from tokens .. delete all old stuff … move on to next

That is in the end what you do in all those gear-grinders.

Lambent.6375:

I seem to now be under the impression that when people say “Bearbow”, they mean any ranger with a bow, regardless of what pet or bow type they’re using.

As a “wolfbow” i also wonder if i am a “bearbow” for those people ?

Aha .. and of course i have bear on second slot for things like Jormag event
when my poor wolf is near dead

This is not the gear-grinder you are looking for .. please move on instead of trying
to turn it into one.

JuneBug.5972:

Yes the issue is resolved by using google public DNS. But I have been using my ISP’s DNS since GW2 started. Problem only occurred 2 days ago and my ISP stated that there has not been any change to the DNS or blocked any ports that GW2 needs in order to function properly.

So . you believe that ANet has done something with their patch that has made the
DNS of a specific Malaysian ISP don’t work correctly .. and ANet should fix that ?

No problem .. would have only fitted better under crafting, or even general.

This forum is more for computer related problems.

If you totally remove it then even your normal explorer wouldnt work anymore,
also Awesonium uses the Internet Explorer API and Settings so of course your
TP wouldn’t work. Also a ton of MMOs use IE for their launchers, these also all
wouldn’t work.

You can’t discover them .. you need to buy the receipes in Dry Top at Rank 4 or 5.

Also : wrong forum

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, OP did say WvW and World Bosses. He is either extraordinarily fortunate, or confused/mistaken.

So much about the fact how much you can trust what people say in forums

Lodius.5392:

I think ascended jewelcrafting should NEVER be a part of the game.

For some of us… like myself… saved laurels for months to get trinkets, and some rings…

While nothing is fair… I still believe this type of change only caters to new players. They don’t have to experience the time gated laurel savings that the rest of us had to do.

And i think ascended gear should have never been part of the game.

But since we have it .. i have 13 80s .. i don’t do fractals so i only can get that stuff
from laurels. How many years should it take to get jewlery for all your characters ?
And i don’t even talk about having more sets with different stats.

vpchelko.4261:

Ashley Segovia

What if user uninstall Internet Explorer from the system?
FYI: Windows 7 or higher allows to uninstall Internet Explorer.

You cant uninstall IE .. any try will only mess up your windows. If there is an uninstall
option this is maybe just downgrading to an older version.

And if setting manually another DNS-Server fixes the problem then the problem is
simply that the DNS-Server of your ISP is not working correctly. So contact your
ISP and tell them to fix their DNS Servers.

IndigoSundown.5419:

SoLeciTO.3490:

am i the only one that is amazed about this stats?

How you get that much of everything!?

I mean you are a warrior and so . . . but is not that a lot? even for a warrior? even using food?

The OP is using the Norn elite Become the Wolf, which adds points to one’s base attributes of 2.5x Power and 2x Precision, Toughness and Vitality. For example, I’ll post before and afters…

Thats the only answer that make sense. Else it is simply not possible .. those are stats
as if you wear zerker and soldiers gear together.

Rauderi.8706:

Tommyknocker.6089:

Thank you for making yet another thread to request features that have not only been requested in the past but literally beaten to death by a very vocal minority. I am grateful that you put in the request for these three features within a single thread so it makes it easier to say:

NO

It was WAY tl;dr, but at least I didn’t see the word “mount”. Right?

/ker-flee!

What about capes ? Duelz was the first i saw and then i knew reading further is just a waste of times.

I wouldn’t even agree with myself about fashion if my actual ego would be discussion with my ego from the 70s .. lol

EthanLightheart.9168:

IT’s not even true. Human instance also only has fruit and alcohol sellers….

Hmm .. i remember i bought some white lowlevel armor and weapons there in Beta or shortly after release when the TP was not working.

phys.7689:

Whats important is not what we each THINK dynamic means, but what any body actually wants or doesnt want from the questing system. So instead of arguing (even though i am guilty as well) about the semantics of the word dynamic. How about people say what they expect, or actually want

I think they all want Sherlock Data Holmes

Vayne.8563:

At least no one can say it’s pay to win. lol

I wouldn’t be too surprised if someone finds out also a reason for that

Danikat.8537:

Although I may possibly be the only person to make ascended armor for the skin. Specially the medium coat on a human female.

Did the same .. also the medium coat for my female norn ranger

But i agree that medium armor is really lacking on variety with all those trenchoats
and so mostly people use Duelists, T3 or Krytan.

You need to delete a folder called gw2-cache{some random numbers} in your % temp % folder, since thats the cache of the ingame-browser.

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

no perception (1 gold) => accuracy, (1.6 gold)

I already replaced most of those sigills .. only not sure what to do with those chars
that use both. But the problems with the stacking sigills are really getting more and
more annyoing.

I think you are in the achievement tab .. the journal is the tab with the Star.

Ohoni.6057:

I’m baffled at the logic that running while trailing a parachute-like kite behind you somehow makes you run FASTER. XD

Yeah, what they should do is make it so that the kites try to predict your movement and tug ahead of where you’re running, and so long as they are ahead of you, you get the huge boost.

Haha .. yeah .. i already thought the same.

Kite behind you → run slower
Kite in front → run faster

^^

Wanderer.3248:

Beldin.5498:

Xenon.4537:

For example I would rather wear this in to battle:

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/1520/2443069-elite.jpg

Than this:

http://s3.goodfon.su/wallpaper/previews-middle/120994.jpg

I don’t really believe the first picture is from GW2 (WoW maybe? ).. and quite some of
the armor here looks more like picture 2 than like the first picture.

No way that is from WoW. It doesn’t look like a cartoon, and the pauldrons would be about 5 times larger.

I now corrected that post to :

I don’t really believe the second picture is from GW2 (WoW maybe? ).. and quite some of
the armor here looks more like picture 1 than like the first picture.

But of course it should have been clear that i meant this one :
http://s3.goodfon.su/wallpaper/previews-middle/120994.jpg
as WoW Style.

Bloodlust.3672:

so you guys think anet is just too lazy to program the skill bar to be more customizable

Personally as a programmer i’m always to lazy to do things like that where you
have to create 100s of new variables and then program the save and load functions
to set the correct values to every single one of them.

Its simply tedious and the the danger to fall asleep and forget one or load a wrong
value is very big

I prefer much more writing real code instead .. don’t know if its lazy or not .. maybe ..

In the end they must create configuration settings for each possible weapon
combination x 2 for both slots + 2 × 2 × 5 for underwater weapons since you ckittene of cause 2 ranged or 2 melee (ok ele and engi need less)

If we take warrior that would be a hell lot of different configuration bits you have to create.

Draknar.5748:

Plus they set the price at 900gems so you are forced to buy 1600 gems (if you are strictly using real money and not gold). It’s kind of insulting actually.

Even then i wouldn’t buy it .. only if its an accountwide achievement.
Spent enough gold already for my 13 endless mining picks, 7 sickles and 8 axes ^^

Ignavia.7420:

If so many people tell you that it’s capped at 100%, the chance that they are right is pretty high. I’d say about 53%. The chance that a dev will answer is certainly lower than that.

53% however has tripple chance to backfire and thats why it only a 20% chance .. i think ..

Ashen.2907:

My claim regarding Ursan was that not everyone used/relied on it. That is a fact and was posted solely to counter a claim by another poster that every player used and/or relied on it.

Doesn’t it get old at some point to (mostly) always (imho) start the same discussions
about words like “all” ,“everyone”, “always” and so on because (mostly) everyone (imho)
know that this normally (imho) means something like “mostly everyone imho” even without
those disclaimers.

Or is it better to use a disclaimer legend like that in every single post ?
1. always always means “most of the time”
2. all and everyone means “a very large part / the majority (imho) of a given group”

Have you seen anywhere something that says double-crit ? Have you ever seen that
any of your crits does double damage ?

You get a double-crit if you ferocity is enogh to reach 100% crit damage, with 150% crit damage you get triple-crits.

A 100% chance however can not get higher .. you always crit 100% or 1000% .. its the same.

Lévis.5489:

What i fear is not the lack of expansions and other things. What i fear is the NA and EUR players becoming second rated citizens now that the Chinese market is opened. See monkey king tonic, new back piece hidden behind jumping through fiery loops to get it, while previous back pieces were easier to get, because Chinese players lik that kind of overly complicated stuff and, of course, Chinese decorations at the cliff, when we never got the DR Canthan District.

Don’t forget we got dragons in the game .. just because chinese people love dragons.

We also need a new run-roll animation then for charr since they will constantly
tap with their feets on the cape that hangs down to the ground when they run
and so fall to their face and roll a while .. lol

We need Incredibles 2 where Edna shows a video about Charrs with capes