Guild Wars 2

Trait Points : before we could earn 70, now we could earn 14 of those points.

Don’t know what you don’t understand.

TheDaiBish.9735:

What have skill points to do with trait points?

To buy traits you need to pay money and skill points now.

hannah mee.7925:

Ozzy Toxin.3074:

there is some magical source of scrolls that you can gather in less then a day apparently.

EotM K-Train. I got 38 scrolls since Sunday and I’ve only gotten on to do the dailies.

So .. after all the hate against the QD Train and the “newcomers are getting a bad impression” of the game, the answer to all things now is that they should do the EotM Train instead ?

What about people that really want to play like what the reason was, why the QD train was nerfed ? Noo .. don’t explore .. go EoTM and train there the whole day.

Gear grind .. really ? The only character i had to grind a little for gear was my very first 80, all later had full exotic sets as soon as they were 80.

Also a full exotic set now is maybe even cheaper than in the first months and new player can earn much more money now, so its maybe even not a big problem now with the first character.

Would it also be OP to request a feature from EQ2 instead, that we can flag items for “no sale” ?

Because .. in the end the main problem is just the inventory sorting and hassle with invisible boxes so that we don’t sell maybe a dagger because after a switch it lands in a normal box.

Behellagh.1468:

And now one of the axes are available.

Sadly wood isn’t worth harvesting it since ascended armor patch, so my 7 axes are enough for the moment, and my other chars carry only ori axes.

Maybe if we get a new axe skin someday ..

DarcShriek.5829:

How is any skin in the gem store worth buying? At least this has more value than any armor skin because it reduces future costs. Armor skin adds nothing. This smells like a troll thread. Why complain about the cost of the pick and not the armor or weapon skins. The musical instruments are the same. They are nothing more than a bad investment by the OP’s logic. By his logic, why buy anything. You should just hoard your gold like a dragon would. But then, what’s the point of earning the gold, if you’re not going to use it.

I think many don’t see them as a skin because they are not visible all the time.
Personally i also always have seen them as a skin and so another part to complete
my characters and before the wardrobe i always thought : i’d better buy these tools
for ALL my characters instead of buying one legendary for just ONE character.

I would also check if you system time and date is correct. This can also lead to strange problems.

ofLegends.9853:

Last thing is that I used gw2db for some builds before I realized that it’s out-of-date… Most of the skills are the same, but there are maybe 1-2 that aren’t anymore. Think the builds there are still okay to use? http://www.gw2db.com/skill-builds/950-last-man-standing

That build constructor looks pretty outdated. For solo / open world play i play this :

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAnXTjMd05ZjHWewJagggycBEAJw5P4EmeVrBA-ThSDwA9UiNT9n87PQ4BAk4EA8U5BItALUCCXXAATcAA-e

Amnariel.3659:

and the walls to be translucent if I watch my character from behind a pillar

Yeah .. instead of looking into our transparent heads when to near a wall at vistas or JPs.

My tip is still that they should simply allow us to use other login-names as our email addresses.
So even if a hacker has our email-address and password, he still don’t knows the login-name.

Josh Foreman.8250:

As such, JPs were never advertised as primary content, never included in world complete

But what about Vistas ? They are needed for world complete and they also suffer from camera problems.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Beldin.5498:

callidus.7085:

I think I agree with pretty much everything the OP said.. Except for rewards I’d like to add that unique skins would be nice too.

However .. if they are tradeable its maybe ok. I’m still used to those raid-games where everything is bind on pickup .. so if you don’t raid no chance to get it.

I don’t see what’s so bad about making them not tradable. This game has enough buyable shinies as it is, heck, legendaries are buyable if you got enough money. We need more skins to display achievement.

If you don’t raid, why should you get it? It’s a skin so you don’t need it for progress.

The problem is exactly that you then feel forced to raid, even if you hate it if the skin are nice looking. And in a game where skins are endgame its nothing else to lock them behind raids, then lock more powerful gear behind raids in other games.

Also i already see that the next step is that for others also those skins are not enough and they want more powerful gear since thats whats raiding all about in every other MMO-

And thats exactly the reason why i play GW2 since here i’m not forced to raid.

Let me say that i personally hate raiding, so i won’t play a game anymore where i am forced to raid because you only get the best stuff with raiding.

So i’m fine with what you said here :

4. This goes with number 3 really. Raid rewards in GW2 should probably not consist of anything outstanding that could not be obtained in some other way. Most rewards in the game “bleed over” in to other areas. It gives players options and keeps them from being forced in to certain content. I don’t think non-raiders should be forced to raid in order to get things like ascended gear. With that said, I don’t think it’s unfair to throw in exclusive vanity rewards like a tonic or minipet.

However, i think in the end that will maybe just create content that nobody uses, since in the end most people i have met in raid-centric games always said : why do we should do all that “hard work” if we can get the same stuff easier ?

And also here we go with what it mostly will turn out :

callidus.7085:

I think I agree with pretty much everything the OP said.. Except for rewards I’d like to add that unique skins would be nice too.

However .. if they are tradeable its maybe ok. I’m still used to those raid-games where everything is bind on pickup .. so if you don’t raid no chance to get it.

MrPersons.1560:

I hate how when you unlock a skin from an exotic it binds it. I only wanted the skin…not the item

With the old transmutation system you had to destroy the item, now you can at least salvage them and get maybe some ectos and dark matters.

Yeah, why not always have the possibilty to zoom as far out as when Shadow Behemoth appears ?

I would also like to have a more stepless zooming instead of those big steps it takes now.

Vagrant.9105:

If you see anyone that owns a gathering tool, point at them and laugh.

Have fun

After leveling a new Ele to 80 i bought her directly also a Bone Pick ..
now i have 10 picks, 8 axes and 7 sickles in total

The longbow .. its was that decent yellow glow for me .. especially since there are
not that much longbows with particle effects, and its something different than
the usual red/fire or blue/ice stuff.

I really liked that bow after playing with it for nearly a year and it wasn’t even that
easy for me to replace it with Kudzu

My new Elementalist

Ok I Did It.2854:

Remember the fire ele’s that you could spam then anet “patched it for lag reasons UH HUH” that it can only be spawned once per 30 mins now, yet can die in 5 seconds in some fights, and now you don’t see them about.

That problem however only came up with the new Teq when people wrote guides where is was already more or less mandatory to use them.

And i don’t think any developer has ever expected that 120 people stand in a zone with 120 fire eles when they designed that item. In my eyes all these items are just more “fun stuff”, that you maybe buy when you explore the world and see them at an NPC and use them now and then, but not all the time.

Flatley.1620:

Here’s what I get in Div. Reach. Have a look at the settings and see if they help.

There are also not that many character on your screen.

No go with that settings to the Karka Queen. That is at least where my frames drop down the most. Even when i just stand around on Pearl Isle the FPS goes down a lot.

thaooo.5320:

Beldin.5498:

chronus.1326:

EQ2 is free-to-play now, bro. Has been for a while, along with EQ1.

Only that it has the worst F2P system ever, and you directly have to pay if you don’t want to play with naked characters.

Some people like naked characters, someone should inform the guys in this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-would-really-like-some-sexy-gear-skins/first

They’d uninstall GW2 in a second.

What i meant with “naked” was, that you can’t wear legendary/fabled armor in EQ2 F2P until you pay to unlock each piece.

Thats like if you can’t wear your exotics or ascended stuff here and have to spent $$ for each single item to wear it first.

chronus.1326:

Finding Sanity.1283:

If it wasnt for the sub

EQ2 is free-to-play now, bro. Has been for a while, along with EQ1.

Only that it has the worst F2P system ever, and you directly have to pay if you don’t want to play with naked characters.

Draknar.5748:

Get 500 armor smith (initial investment—you will make back this money), craft bolts of damask, sell bolts of damask. You can only do 1/day because of the daily cap, but even when you buy all the mats on the TP, you are netting almost 4g per transaction.

Actually its 1g17s .. and it seldem was much higher if you don’t use buy-orders.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/46741

thaooo.5320:

The Norn elite, Bear Form.

Imagine the cry of the casuals when lfg’s become “ZERK NORNS ONLY”. Hahahahahaha.

Lol .. that really made me laugh out loud in the office

laokoko.7403:

And even with the trait locks… you don’t need to unlock every traits, but you probably need to do some research before to know which traits is useful that is worth unlocking.

But that in the end lets you just use a cookie cutter build you found somewhere in the internet instead of trying to experiment with different builds yourself.

Especially since we now can experiment more because we can respec for free everywhere in the world, what is really good for old chars now. I used that a lot in the last time to make me builds that fit my playstyle for the classes i didn’t liked that much till now like Ele and Mesmer .. but for the second Ele i have leveled the last days i just bought exactly what my first Ele has actually equipped.
But at least i am in the lucky situation that i have one with all traits unlocked so i can test with that character.

Purple Miku.7032:

Keiel.7489:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Victros.8154:

LOL, well I have no idea what I’m doing, so I better go with Warrior!

Disregarding troll posts…. in PvE the entire game is centered around DPS. You have to do damage. You will never get great DPS out of a guardian without heavy trade offs. Warrior is simply the complete package, whether people care to admit that or not.

You might want to do some research on that info, cause currently Guardian DPS > Warrior DPS (please don’t show me videos of 80k+ 100b, it’s not proving anything). Guardian has higher survivability as long as you stay active and engage. Warrior play is lazier, easier with good output. Only reason I would take a warrior over a guardian is mobility.

That’s not the case in solo play. Most classes out-do warrior in DPS in optimal conditions, but provided we’re talking about straight up direct damage in a solo setting warrior will deal more than a guardian will unless you’re reflecting some crazy 1-shot mechanic from a boss.

Yepp .. just try to farm for example some Arctodus in Frostgorge, and look who can kill them the fastest without breaks. Axe Warrior has 6s cooldown on skill #2 and can mostly kill one mob so that #2 isn’t even up again when the next mob is not to far to run. No other class in my opinion can top that because most needed to use some skills with much higher cooldowns and can’t autoattack a mob down that fast.

A guardian is faster if i can use “Save Yourself” but in soloplay that doesn’t help much since it is only up every 48 seconds.

Or Elementalist .. Dragons-Tooth, Ring of Fire, Phoenix .. bamm .. Mob death .. but for the next ? Oh .. cooldowns. Ok .. switch to Lightninghammer .. after that again Dragons-Tooth, Ring of Fire, Phoenix .. now Lighninghammer is also still on Cooldown .. and to grab your second one you need to run 10+ seconds back.

You simply can’t compare Dungeon Burst-DPS where everything is buffed as high as possible with what you do when you run through the open world from one mob to the next.

Hey … my Ranger really loved the longbow (before she had Kudzu), and i also bought her the sword and torch from that set last year

Belzebu.3912:

Beldin.5498:

Yeah .. the key is that you mostly have some NPCs that help you and do even most of the work at the lvl 10 quest so that you can do that already with lvl 5 or 6.

Most can do that lvl 10 mission easily at lvl 4 (I rarely do at lvl 5), I never tried at lvl 3 because the exp from the PS alone makes you at least lvl 4.

Ah .. i just thought i was 5 or 6 when i did it the last time, maybe it was also 4. Its over a year since i did it, and i was whatever level you are if you do nothing than the story quests

Hardest was always the part in the hospital for me.

Brother Grimm.5176:

You get a guaranteed BL key at the end of the LVL 10 personal story mission. Takes about 20 minutes of rushing to get it (Human, Guardian / Warrior, Commoner).

Other races, combos can also get the key (at end of LVL 10 personal story mission), but generally take longer.

Yeah .. the key is that you mostly have some NPCs that help you and do even most of the work at the lvl 10 quest so that you can do that already with lvl 5 or 6.

Relativity.3695:

Thanks for the feedback guys, I’m going to upgrade my gear at the TP when I hit 20, get a little more defensive stats and try that 2h sword.

Axe is great .. personally i love it much more than 2-handed sword meanwhile since you have much higher autoattack, while 2h sword is just mainly 100blades and when you miss that because you need to dodge or mob moves, then your damage goes really down.
With axe thats no problem since your main damage source is simply autoattacking.

Just leveled a new elementalist to 80 in the last days .. and she has exactly now 7 traits since i only bought those that i wanted to use, so no place for experiments until you want to pay. Yeah .. really sooo much better than the old system

The good thing was, that thanks to birthday-booster i could in the end level up with grinding mobs that gave bonus exp while waiting for some events to refresh. Before Megaserver i just switched servers instead.

However i also noticed that the changed the way that DR works. Before i could maybe farm 2 specific events for an hour and then suddenly i got nearly 0 exp anymore.
Now i made the event and got 6500 exp .. after a while i noticed it was 6000, then 5800 .. and somewhere arount 3500 i stopped playing for 1-2 hours, that has normally resettet the DR before. Now i still got 3500 after the break. Since i was not 100% what was happening here i went then to a starter area and did some events there, and get there also 3500+
After playing there a while i got back to the other place and got there again 6500 but it was again quickly going down each time i did the events.

Just keep you equipment up to date mostly every 5 levels, and personally i would
go for 50% offensive and 50% defense stuff, so at your level str / vit maybe or str / toughness.

Katai.6240:

Death penalties tend to impact games like this rather negatively. It creates an environment where people are much more careful, as well as make people much more hostile towards one another.

Yeah .. but no death penality creates players that always scream for harder content and that all is too easy when there is content where you are NOT dying at least 50 times a day or whatever.

Personally i’m also normally against death penalities, but i still hate dying and try to avoid it, and i wished there would be a way to hold those people that cry for 1000 deaths a day a little under control.

Hello

Please let us choose Login-Names that are differen from our email-addresses, since in my eyes that is one of the biggest security problems.

If the hacker have an email-addresse they already know the login-name and only need the password.

If they have a password from my email-address, but my loginnmare here is “xRandomguy234xyz” or whatever, they still don’t know how to login with my password.

Most MMOs i played worked like that, and not everything that Blizzard does must be good.

Naevius.3185:

>>Without a difficult death system nothing is truly difficult in the game.

If I pose the problem “What is 2+2?”, it does not get harder just because I threaten to shoot you for a wrong answer. Your logic is flawed.

Not really .. people always complain how easy this game is, while they have maybe died already 100+ times. With permadeath 1 single death will suddenly make the game feel much harder.

If you play the way that you really avoid death in any way, you will notice that there are quite some mobs that can really be very nasty and you can die fast if you don’t expect that.

Permadeath all the way .. maybe then some people will stop complaining how easy this game is.

Important : don’t do votes in the forums, else we end with an open world where all solo mobs are champions and champions will need 10 hours to kill while one-hitting 50% of the players in the zone, and at the end drop 20 copper, because people here only want hard challenges all the time and are not interestet in rewards.

And after that 95% or more leave the game.

Mystic.5934:

Carpboy.7145:

Omar Aschi Popp.7496:

Keys drop in-game? Since when?

Since launch. From your level 10, level 30, and level 50 personal story quest

they also are a random drop from mobs. used to be a lot more common 1.5 years ago, then they got nerfed. in the past year, I’ve found roughly 3 keys from mobs. so only slightly more common than precursors.

Keys maybe 10 .. Precuror : 0 … so muuuuch more common.

Axe-Warrior .. Guardian is however also fine

Personally i have the feeling that they don’t really have any dedicated web-programmers at ANet if i look how archaic the whole TP interface still is, and also if i just look at the forums where they can’t even manage to fix the search function after all that time.

Carbon Footprint.3421:

Another advantage is that you never have to feel guilty about using an ori pick on a copper node.

Yeah .. or like me change to mithril picks when farming in lower zones, and then forget to equip the ori pick again in Frostgorge

Personally i have now 9 picks, 8 axes and 7 sickles .. bought most of them however for around 30g at that time.

Sometimes scanners just give false alarms, Kapersky is famous for that. Either tell AVG to whitelist your GW2 directory or try another scanner. Avast for example

Try to rename your local.dat file, that is where all your settings are save. The file is somewhere in you documents folder where also your screenshots are.

I dont think i do 5-10 % damage at all if there a 50+ people and when i just use Scepter.

Also a while ago someone posted that when he did Ulgoth event he tagged the first warbeast for 1-2 hits, then went to another and did damage all the time on the second, and in the end he got a bag from the first but not from the second.

Why do you mix here disconnect problems that are mostly ISP/Network problems, with OOM crashes that are more problems with either to high graphics setting at crowded places or other hardware issues ?

Its really not possible to give helpful answers if 10 people are posting different problems in one thread instead of making their own thread.

For OOM : try lower graphics settings
for disconnet : trace IP / check ISP

Check the SMART state of your harddisk, also look in your windows event-log for errors.
Could be a defect harddrive, or wit luck only your SATA cable, but if the crash always happens always at the same address it looks more like harddrive has unrecoverable errors.

Buy a new PC. And this time not a crappy laptop but at least a medium desktop :p

What do you expect as answer if you don’t even post what your current PC has as hardware ?

Halcyon.7352:

But it is a matter of damage. Everything I’ve experienced has indicated this, and I’ve never experienced any sort of ‘cap’ on the amount of bags it drops to the amount of players participating.

I think its not the damage but a maximum cap of people who first tag. I’ve done the Maw Event quite some times after Megaserver, and normally just did the 3 portals and then got to the Shaman. Never got a bag from him at that time since the Megaserver. Then i just ignored the Portals and startet already to attack him before the portals were down, and suddenly i again always got the bag.

I also always did that wit my guardian with scepter so damage should always be more or less the same.

Hmm .. not sure what i think about that. I was more in hope of new maps with permanent LS content.

This however looks as if we more or less get a Personal Story 2 instead, so all just some instaned stuff, since i don’t see that any temporary content in the actual open world could be made replayable.

thaooo.5320:

Beldin.5498:

Have you ever played Diablo 2 ? Made 100s of Mephisto or Pindle runs at one day ?
Okay you haven’t done it with 100s of other players, but that was totally common in a really really successful game.

Apples and oranges.

D2 is a hack and slash. GW2 is a MMO.

Not really a big difference, in the end in both you mostly kill mobs for loot.