Guild Wars 2

a t s e.9614:

If I wanted to Solo I wouldn’t play an MMO . So your argument is invalid . What’s wrong with doing diffuclt content with tons of people ? If you are bad it’s not my fault .

If you can’t solo it, maybe YOU are bad at it ? (I never will understand that people really think they are “good” just for clicking mouse-keys and pressing keyboard-keys)

Wrong with difficult content is, that the constant cry for it from persons like you, gave us Southsun and new Tequatl. Both content that nearly nobody plays anymore.

So if ANet think that all they need are the player from TTS, than yes they should hear to people of your kind. If they think they better want more players, then they should stop listen to the “make it harder” crowd.

a t s e.9614:

there’s nobody on the lower level maps and im on Tarnished coast , and they must make content way harder on level 70+ zones or otherwise people are reward for braindead clicking .

And there is nearly nobody on all Server at Southsun Cove, so why can’t you just stop to wanting them to create even more such Maps that noone wants to play ?

If you want it harder .. fine .. just solo naked Vets and Champs on Southsun, but just stop to force everyone into something they don’t want to play.

Yeah .. lets make the whole Game like Southsun Cove .. that will of course be good for the game since everyone likes to play there.

Southsun is the best example that ANet should NOT listen to the “make it harder” fraction.

thefantasticg.3984:

I love in this thread the “I don’t like the way you play the game. I’m glad they nerfed it so you don’t play the game how you want to.” replies. Fark you guys. I like to farm. I enjoy it. Quit trying to make me quit playing this game, Anet!

Yeah .. maybe its time to start a “nerf Dungeon rewards” Thread, since i don’t like Dungeons, so its time to nerf them also.

Dramen Maidria.1034:

There is also the issue with Frostgorge Sound specifically when they redo Claw of Jormag the same way as Tequatl. If you can’t even get into the map due to a champ train how are you going to get enough people to do the revamped event?

That would only help the JTS Guild to create their own personal Raid instance.

But why not shut down the whole Open World, if some people think this is just an Instance Grinder, and only Dungeons and turning World Events to instancend Raids should be rewarding ?

I would follow Kasmeer so much more than Trahearne

Personally i dislike the Bloodstone nerf the most, since i don’t do Dungeons, and mainly did Champs now and then for Bloodstones. Now with this nerf i have to do even more Champs if i wanted to craft more ascended Weapons.

And yes .. i know the dungeon runners drown in that stuff .. i however have much more Dragonite and Fragments than Bloodstone.

Maybe its just that these Elite Mobs need other Icons, since the Icon simply doesn’t look much different to normal mobs and so you don’t expect that damage. And also that this type of mob runs nowhere else around in the open World. At least i never noticed them beside Zerg Events before.

digiowl.9620:

The silver toxic krait patroling the tower walkways in Kessex.

There are also Nightmare Court ? Elite Mobs in the events and some of them do really bad ranged damage mixed with constant spam of conditions.

BobbyT.7192:

Out of curiosity, what armour are you wearing.

Edit: I should add, 1300 is not a how lot of damage, what it the melee krait or the caster.

Its a lot damage when you are maybe downleveled to 20-25 or whatever in Kessex.
And yes these Elite Mobs do absurd damage often and it isn’t visible at all, took sometimes only 2-3 seconds to loose 90% of my life on my warrior with Knights gear.

Fasyx.9347:

Not mentioning all the GW2.exe crashes all the players on my server have when in WvW.

32-Bit Windows is clearly outdatet the same like Win95 or Win3.11 was at some point.

What hardware do you use ? I remember for example that the combination of NVidia Drivers and SB-Life Soundcards have lead to many many black/bluescreen problems in the past in MMOs like Age of Conan or LotRO

Zanshin.5379:

Yes, that’s what I’m saying.
Either :
1) the description is wrong and should say “Harvest 20 toxic seedlings” or
2) the achievement is bugged and every pristine toxic spore sample should be counted, not just one.

I vote for 1. since its much easier/quicker like it is actually to just harvest 20 seedlings than to get 20 pristine spores

Hard to decide .. maybe this one at the moment

I would also like that.

Doggie.3184:

Bleh, I don’t even feel like doing it anytime soon. Kind of tired of these go to this map and collect this and that node, requiring a Dulfy guide. Collected the ones in Kessex and then realized there’s more in other maps. -.- /sigh

Yeah, very much this. I did at least the Event in 5 zones, but i simply ignore the Obelisk stuff, and will just try to finish the Meta via dailys

/agree

Its just annoying for me.

Alissah.9281:

But I love the phalanx for female :’(

We already have enough ‘realistic’ and full-covering heavy armor, anyway.

I like it also. Finally something else than Norn T3 or Barbarian Armor that too much of my chars wear.

Haven’t looked really at Marjory but i liked the Staff that Kasmeer used in the Story Instance very much.

Galen Grey.4709:

I have a honest question… Why do so many people play games for rewards rather then well for the game?

Maybe because some of the nice skins in this game simply use absurd masses of mats / gold ?

And in the end Skins are the endgame in GW2, and since a lot of skins are very expensive you need to farm a lot if you want them.

Danikat.8537:

I’m not convinced the Consortium Scythe is faster (assuming we’re talking about the one that makes a spring appear and not the freaky clown one). I think the animation looks faster because it starts with you swinging the scythe instead of bending down but the actual process of gathering is the same speed.

It is faster, because you don’t do the kneel first like with normal gathering tools.

However i bought the first one when it was brand new, and at that time it was not faster and a little buggy i think, and it was changed 2 times until we got the faster version.

So the faster harvesting is really nice, but was not the reason why i bought it in the first place.

I bought 14 of them till now
4 characters have all 3, 1 has only the Consortium Harvesting Scythe and my Necro had to got the latest pick.

And @Bastien
That was maybe 400 Gold at in total. Now what about all the rich Gamers that have Legendarys that cost 2000 gold, and thats just one item for ONE character ?

The problem is that aggro works different here on different mobs. For example on my Ranger i can most the time in the open World just start fighting and my pet grabs aggro fast. However there are some mobs like Arctodus, where i can even send my pet in first and don’t to any damage, and they directly run to me.

Mostly also high toughness should generate more aggro, however it has also been said that some mobs prefer players with low toughness or low health.

Offair.2563:

i would say get a ranger with a longbow, may not be the highest damage output but still lots of fun and shiny crits

Yeah, i also play my Ranger with longbow and like it. I have also Sword / Torch equipped for melee, but i prefer ranged most of the time

And before somebody says something about bad longbow rangers, i only play open World so i don’t care for max dps.

I assume you still use 32-bit Windows. Upgrade to 64-bit and the problem is solved.

Mesmer is the only profession that don’t has a runbuff without using specific weapons. Ok Guardian has also to use 2 skills and they don’t last as long for permanent runspeed without a lot +boon duration.

Personally i mostly had a problem with the troll, and now i just port to fish after worm and take a break there when i don’t want to get stressed

There are quite some arguments for Frostgorge

- The zone is flat and easy to navigate
- Level 80 champs so best lootchance
- The champs do NOT SCALE !! because they are not part of Events, and so they are killed very much faster.

A 64-bit clients doesn’t exist, so you don’t have to change anything.

hektor.5642:

TODAY IS 26 October 2013. are there any new hairstyles?

Today is clearly not tomorrow to the threads date. So why do you you push this thread when the hairstyles are already out for nearly a month ?

You have to buy the receipe and craft the weapon of course on your character that has 500 in weaponcrafting, what else would be the sense that you need 500 ?

The weapon is account-bound after that, so you can transfer it to your alt via your bank.

Rezz.8019:

Worst thing is that they add daily achiev for doing him.

For the daily, if you want to do it, all you have to do is kill a risen and then wait in the Pyramid or wherever until the timer runs out.

Xehanort.4589:

I have Windows 7 32 bit. Just reporting in hope this gets fixed because it’s really annoying.

Upgrade to Win7-64 and your problem is gone. 32-Bit can only handle 2 gig of memory per application, and if the applications wants more it crashes. 64-Bit can handle at least 4 gig even for 32-bit applications.

rizzo.1079:

It is sad, an event that I once had a lot of fun with sitting totally empty on most servers. A strange plan but it was so obvious that would happen I have to think this is what a.net intended. Can’t wait to see how they plan to make us desert the rest of the game world…

My idea is that they want to bring in instanced raids for all these ex-WoW players that can’t love without that , but most of the players were always against that.

So now they give us Tequatl and wait that suddenly a lot of players cry to make that an instanced raid instead of what we have now, and bring back old Teq to the Open World.

And then they can finally make instanced Raids and say : Hey we only did that because all the players wanted that.

Guesting and then go into the overflow .. that is exactly how the game was designed to play. How can you really think that content should be played on your own server in the “normal” Zone ?

I really really just hope they change their mind an leave Jormags Claw how it is. Shatterer could maybe use some changes, but when more in the direction of Jormag and not like Teq.

If they want to make more of this stuff they should create NEW encounters but don’t destroy the old ones that are played regulary for 99% of the players.

TSaxby.1864:

Is there a way to bypass the DR?

Do some events in an other area before it kicks in. The big problem is only that nobody knows exactly the rules how it works.

For example i often did a double event in Dredgehaunt Cliffs for leveling that i can do 3 times in 12 minutes when i do it on 3 different servers. I can do that maybe an hour and then i get no longer exp.

I once did just one single event on 3 servers and then when i tried it the 4th time i already had DR.

So there seems to be things like how many different events you do and maybe even how far they are away from each other that also make a difference.

Shadowknight was a class in Everquest 2 .. in WoW it was called Death Knight i think.

So as a longtime EQ2 SK-Player .. no i have no Problems with Shadowknights

I always have the feeling that dyes drop in phases. I can play a month and nearly get no dye at all, and then suddenly there are some days where i get 1-2 dyes each hour or so for a while.

Simply put the dyes into your bank and take them out with your Mesmer.

Brother Grimm.5176:

There were actually 3 updates over the past few days that cause a LOT of confusion on these nodes. The site above (gw2nodes.com) was VERY incorrect for my server (Yak’s Bend) for quite a while during the confusion.

As of last night, all locations checked out for me.

The spots on that page have of course to be updated by players. So short after a patch you should maybe wait for a while and click on the spots to check the date when it was last updated.

Pages like this are often helpful to look where the nodes are after an update.

http://www.gw2nodes.com/

And thats why Las Vegas is a Ghost Town now

Not a bug, its the diminishing return that kicks in when you do the same events in a small area to often.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Looks like you were linking WPs which will get suppressed pretty quick from my experience.

The same happens also when i use preview-code from weapons or armor. After the third line i always get suppressed.

If i wanted to raid in a big organized guild i would maybe still play Everquest 2 or Rift, but i hate raiding and thats one of the big reasons i play GW2 .. because there were no raids.

I would try if i could maybe login when guesting on another server.

I’m a little unsure about what i want for that fight, since i see the biggest problem for me is that the area is so dark that you can hardly see anything.

I hope they get it that Tequatl in the open world was just a fail and leave Jormag alone because i think he is fine for the open world.

Shatterer could maybe need some love but when more in Jormag direction and not like Teq.

Ohoni.6057:

They could reduce the drop rate, I’d be fine with that, but then players who really needed a lot of Bloodstone Dust would have to do a lot of deliberate champ farming, which I don’t think would be a good idea.

Yeah .. at the moment i have over 1000 Fragments and Dragonite, but barely 300 Bloodstone, so now i have to go farm champions again .. and i don’t really like it that much that i could do it for longer than an hour.

If people have to much they should just destroy it instead of asking for a drop nerf.

Hitman.8930:

Dear Anet, please make all champions an event (e. Frostgorge sound champions=event)
it will be nice to get karma while farming these champions…for those that want to farm karma and also champ farm

You forget one thing .. Event Bosses scale .. normal mobs not. So if they make the champs in Frostgorge to Events it may take 10 times longer to kill them.

If you want Karma go to Queensdale, there are quite some Event-Champs, and you will notice that those low-level mobs will often take longer than the FG champs.

wasted.6817:

Guys, what’s the problem here? There are 21(!) other meta events in this game, most of them are not “frustrating” for anyone, even for bots, do them and enjoy. Does Teq really have to be among those events as well?! Is this the only fish in the sea for you, that you’re so frustrated about being unable to do it (for whatever reason)?

The problem is that we have to make a statement that we don’t want them to destroy these other 21 meta events in the same way for us.

THAT is the problem. I can ignore Tequatl .. no problem. But if they want to do the same to Jormag and Shatterer then i have a big problem.

Jormag is totally fine for me and that is what an Open World Meta Event with random players should be. Shatterer could of course made a little harder .. but when more like Jormag but not like Teq.