Guild Wars 2

It’s pretty obvious that some players are just not very adept at “soloing”. Be it their general build, equipment focus (or lack thereof) or their skill. This is no different than plenty of open world areas in the main game. Soloing is certainly POSSIBLE, but it may require more planning, preparation and strategy than anticipated.

Just because it is possible to engage in an area by yourself (what Anet really means by the comment quoted…..you can try this without need for a party) is by no means a guarantee that ALL players in ALL configurations will be able to survive and complete the content. This is another case of players taking an ANet comment out of context and twisting it to mean what they want (that everyone should easily be able to do this content by themselves).

The hallucinations you see are based on which path you took in your characters personal story. If you didn’t investigate / help recruit the Quaggans on that character (don’t recall what Order has them as an option), they won’t be present.

It’s actually a very nice little touch to the content, but I wonder what appears if you have not progressed your personal story that far yet?

I’m waiting for the thread from the player that bought more than a few sets for Alts….

I do like this change, but I agree there needs to be a perma-set without the silly animations.

DarcShriek.5829:

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They also gave us AC/DC which makes up for about a million crappy bands.

….but someone forgot to tell them when to quit trying (about 1985).

How would someone KNOW your serial #?

Thaddeus.4891:

You should use all the material you harvest and not selling them. This probably won’t gonna get that far in your crafting by the time you get to level 80, but that normal. If you sell your stuff now, you will buy them latter to complete your crafting and you will lose gold by doing so. Also crafting is a good way to level up your character.

That’s one school of thought (tho your statement about loosing money by selling materials now and buying back later is not necessarily true).

The other is to sell ALL materials, ignore crafting and gear up while leveling with a mixture of karma purchased jewelry, drops and maybe a few good TP purchases (tho that is significantly more expensive since the Magic Find update). MANY players swear this is how to reach 80 with a nice Gold stash ready to “gear up”. If you level mostly running Champ Train in Queensdale, you can have some significant coin AND decent Magic Find if you salvage and sell materials (even more if you run everything past the TP before salvaging and selling intelligently).

I personally like the crafting, so I have not gone this route (but it IS a viable option to crafting your own gear).

Keep in mind that 400 crafting in a single craft IS a requirement for obtaining a Legendary Weapon (but crafting to 400 is not that big a deal if you have some coin).

I would suggest trying a -repair to see if your GW2.DAT file needs fixing.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Read the above link and use the -REPAIR option.

Note that this could take some time as if it finds corrupted files, it downloads them again (but at least not he entire +17GB GW2.DAT file).

Sickle.6502:

Thank you – but what about the issue where we use the same name for our forum account as we do in game, and for someone to PM you there, all they have to do is get your name from here.

I see this as a huge problem and a severe breach of privacy, to a point it’s threatening and makes me very uneasy. I don’t know who else has had problems such as this.

It’s basically hate-mail, brought from the forum to the game, by using the same name for both the forum and game account… Can we not do something about this?

Oh, and I DO have a screen shot of the incident.

Have you considered how what you are suggesting plays right into the hands of someone that enjoys harassing others? Trying to hide your own identity works both ways.

There are plenty of tools (both here and in-game) to protect yourself from annoying players. The fact that you are overly concerned about this raises plenty of other questions (that I will not actually pursue).

The time gating of Laurels is very established cornerstone of ANet’s economic plan. Some people do not consider that there is ZERO chance Anet will ever make any additional money from a player if they are NOT in the game. They MUST establish valid reasons for players to log in EVERY day or they will not even have the chance to make any money.

Bottom line is that this current “log in every day”, carrot will not be move to another stick (certainly not one that isn’t time gated in some manner).

I think the issue here is that while they can SEND you a new one in the mail or credit you the Gems, they cannot (or do not) remove the item from the character you mistakenly bound it to.

I guess they could request you destroy the tool, check that was destroyed and then credit Gems, but that’s a lot of work for a mistake you made.

Gaile, are these going to actually be shareable between characters or just Account bound until used the first time? Currently, I would never consider buying any of these simply because I don’t like the idea of a dedicated gatherer among my 10 ALTS (I don’t really consider any of them a MAIN), but I would certainly consider a purchase if I could pass them around freely.

I took a moment to review your posts on this issue and from what I can see you certainly WERE given a run-around (assuming all your comments are fair and accurate and I have no reason to think you they were not). Without knowing the details of your situation, however, I cannot fully form an opinion concerning some of the issues you were having with support (personal information provided multiple times, etc.).

I can fully understand that your situation was frustrating but this certainly appears to me (looking from the outside) that this was a situation of growing pains with their new support system. Certainly the fact that instructions you were being sent by Agents did not match what was available or possible at the actual sites you were sent to is a horrible error that needs to be resolved (if not already fixed) ASAP. Hopefully this post will help alert the right people to close that hole if it still exists.

Just so you know, I have dealt with Customer Support on several occasions in the past (pre-new system) and never had any issue (beyond it possibly taking a bit longer to resolve the issues than I liked….but I get they are busy). On the other hand, the fact that they WERE attempting to communicate and help you get a resolution is something you should NOT take for granted (certainly that should be what Customer Service does) as I HAVE had much worse experiences with companies that simply do NOT respond, have gaping dead ends in their support process and resulted in me finally just giving up and tossing the product in the trash. I guess what I mean is, it could certainly be worse….take my word for it (not that I intend that to be an excuse for you having a bad experience).

I thought I smelled something ….. ripe.

From my experience (no structured testing), both Rich nodes and T6 nodes have a longer timer than other nodes…..

F I R S T.3976:

Thank you jedi master. You solve my problem.

@dreamy there are a lot of healer in this game. Know your game

He means there is no Class DEDICATED to healing…..all classes can heal themselves and most can provide some sort of support that results in healing nearby allies.

NO CLASS targets an ally and uses a HEAL skill on them….that’s what he meant by it being different in GW2.

If you actively attempt to clear all the zones from lowest to highest, you will reach 80 before starting on any LVL 70 zones (w/o any boosters). Beyond getting to explore all the areas of the game, there are numerous benefits to clearing zones.

Doing this in combination with Daily Achievements will get you in a great position to gear up your character when you DO reach 80.

It’s the journey, not the destination.

DiamondMeteor.8345:

It’s funny actually. One of my guildies needs his armor full Celestial, requested by his high-end WvW guild. He’s a Staff Ele.

I really don’t know why people seriously bother with celestial. If you wanted stat variance use a combination of different nomenclatures. No need to make this game any more of a job than it already is.

I think if you did the math, the Celestial full set is far superior to anything you could combine from the other easily available sets.

Celestial gives you 930 total points AND 21% crit damage.
Standard 3 stats can give you 844 total points OR 597 points w/ 18% crit damage.

In terms of RAW stat addition, Celestial is numerically superior.

VidGhost.3215:

Its Pearl weapons all over again.. they want us to buy skins!

Not sure I would EVER buy a skin…..but Transmutation Crystals are the other solution to FUGLY high level stuff…..and where do you get those?

Your complaint is valid and I don’t disagree that if this kind of thing happens as you describe, someone should look at the methods being used to try and eliminate “false-positives” is possible.

If you are suggesting that ANet make their detection methods public for scrutiny….that’s not going to happen (and I support that policy decision).

As mentioned above, you assumption that you were banned for what you were doing at the moment you were banned or even up to a week in the past is simply not valid. I’ve seen plenty of threads like this and while false positives are certainly possible, it is also possible that your account is compromised and you just don’t realize it yet (and the hacker was botting on it).

ReallyItchy.1630:

It’s not a reference to a sexual act, which is the only thing I think they could possibly perceive it as.

I would say your guess is exactly right. Keep in mind your “intention” of what the reference is has NO bearing on the decision to take action on the name. I have no doubt you are being 100% truthful, but that does not change the fact that the name COULD be considered offensive (to whom…I have no idea….).

I’ve seen lots of these ban threads and if it IS in fact your name that was the source of the ban, you will know it when you have to change it. If you want to post a ticket with support, you just might get it reversed (as that name being offensive is QUITE a stretch, IMO).

On the other hand, if it was some other incident (“Inappropriate Behavior”, indicates that it was NOT your name), you won’t be asked to change the name and you obviously did something (verbal, etc.) that the review of your activity made someone fell a ban was warranted.

It is possible, but not very practical for a single (first) character to craft usable equipment while leveling. As you have found, the problem is obtaining suitable level materials to craft items for your current character level. You CAN buy them off the TP, but unless you have access to some coin (not normally possible with a first character), that’s hard to pull off.

I was able to craft a good bit of relative level equipment, but I leveled about 4 characters at the same time (took a while for any of them to hit 80), harvesting every node I saw and conserving gold as I went. I would have never gotten them all in Rares, except for the Scarlet Invasion LS come up right when most of them were reaching 80….I geared them all up in rares over that month (and kept a good number of Rares for new characters I started as well).

Trueshots.9456:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Your complaint is the reason that most intelligent players are not falling all over themselves to craft Ascended weapons….

You act like its an act of God to craft ascended, its not difficult. and yes the elite players are crafting ascended especially dps build….

My comment wasn’t about the difficulty to craft. I was stating that the performance increase is relatively small compared to Exotics, so there is no reason to rush the process.

Ascended equipment is a valid long term goal for any player. Sorry if my “intelligent” adjective struck a nerve, but “Elite” != “Smart” in all cases.

If you don’t do high level fractals there is really no reason to strain for ascended. And even then you can live without it, people have been doing so. It’s an illusion of progression that is conveniently a MASSIVE gold sink.

100% correct assessment.

Your complaint is the reason that most intelligent players are not falling all over themselves to craft Ascended weapons….

Exactly. The key to promoting is using refined materials (if you are planning to craft with them).

I do think ANet will in some way relax the time-gating for Celestial items in the near future. It is a crafting anomaly that is difficult to justify WHY it still exist as it does.

I do hope they fix by letting me sell my charged crystals…. I only ever make a few Celestial weapons and a piece of jewelry now and then.

There is a stickied thread at the top of this forum section that addresses this issue:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/So-You-Hit-80-A-Quick-Endgame-Handbook/page/2#post1941572

I also suggest the OMG tips thread….been playing since Beta and there was stuff in there I had no idea existed:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OMG-If-you-only-knew-this-tips-for-new-players/page/5#post2490494

aspirine.6852:

I want it for that particular reason, 60 gold for the utility slot seems like much. And I got 3 chars that need the runes badly in wvw

So does everyone else which is why they are +60 gold a set.

Luckily I had 2 Exotics drop with the runes over the course of the past few months, so I only had to buy 4 of them (not sure I would have considered them except for that).

Gorrog.9103:

…. spending up to 20 months to get your chars equipped is insane.

If you have 20 characters to “gear up”, I’ve got to disagree. (and if you have less than 10 I have to wonder what you are doing with your time playing?)

The idea that you should be able to gear up multiple characters in the same time to equip a single one is what is insane. BTW, I have 10 characters and I GET the concept that it is going to be a long haul process to equip them.

All the “Anet hates ALT-aholics!” is bullocks….the simple truth is that time-gating is an economic decision to keep players logging into the game every day. This is not a greed issue, but a survival issue as ANet HAS to make money to continue to function.

Despite all the arguments about this time-gating, the bottom line is this is an economic decision by ANet to keep players logged on every day. Lots of players do not consider ANet’s current income model when ripping on these decsions but keep in mind that unless you are IN the game, ANet has ZERO chance of obtaining ANY income from you as a player. Thier only source of new income (besides your original purchase of the game), is getting you to spend RL cash in the Gem Store…..PERIOD. Keeping Servers running costs money. Putting out new content (no matter your opinion of the quality or quantity) costs money.

You can hate the model or accept it, but it’s what is sustaining the game for now and I don’t see it changing in the near future. There is nothing wrong with expressing your distaste for it or even requesting that ANet consider changing it. but painting yourself as a martyr intentionally being persecuted by ANet because you don’t fully understand how the financial model of this game works is either a very ignorant view or one that simply wants to bash Anet without any actual consideration as to why they have gone in the direction they have.

MokoToko.6890:

Brother Grimm.5176:

All content in the is game CAN be played with Green items.

Anyone attempting to be a viable part of WvW using all greens should just quit while they’re ahead.

But you CAN play WvW even in whites….I agree not as effectively as a character “geared up” in the hands of the same player, but it is possible.

Thus, your statement that the equipment is NEEDED is just not true.

I get this is a point of the semantics of NEED vs WANT, but it is also the foundation of your entire argument.

BTW, I don’t disagree that someone in WvW in full Greens is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine, but the “gearing up” process has to start somewhere.

EDIT: I think if you look at the total stats of Celestial (even after the MF removal) you will find that it provides MORE stat bonuses (overall) than existing Exotic armors and is actually (stat wise) in the Ascended Armor range (sans whatever infusion slots or extras that Ascended armor my provide).

That depends on what you are trying to bring in terms of support. In general, I would say a Ranger is more supportive (Healing, Traps, Spirits, extra target via pet, etc.) but a Thief can be traited to put out some great buffs to nearby allies and constantly keep helpful conditions on foes.

If you are talking about direct use in Dungeons, then the Ranger is going to be at a disadvantage when getting into a PUG group. All the bad publicity AND the fact that Ranger with a dead Pet (happens a LOT in Dungeons) just cannot be as effective as most other classes in a similar situation has put Rangers at the bottom of the LFG list in Dungeons (or really any situation where high single hit damage / high damage AoE is common).

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Hmm.. still convinced. Thief have so many mobility and stealth skills and weapons without cooldown, thats scares me a bit, i don’t think i can use it good in fight +ping really matters here.

Your last point is valid. 80% of the time my Thief dies there is some sort of lag issue involved (I refuse to discuss the other 20% in public). Despite the popular belief, Thief attacks DO have limitations (even if it’s only a self imposed CD). I LOVE being able to combine attacks as needed (and sometimes 2,2,2,2 is the best way to end a fight quickly).

Again, if you are looking for “safe”, Ranger is your class. Keep in mind that most other players KNOW that and lots of lazy players take advantage of it and have given the class a reputation because of it.

EDIT: I play a Ranger as well and play one of the Bows and a Greatsword as I seriously can’t stand pure ranged play style (I find it very boring).

Emmande.8492:

……
Hey! Stop laughing at me!

Not gonna happen….

Keep in mind that you STILL have to convert the Quartz to Charged Quartz Crystals (at 25 Quartz each) and can only do that operation once per day. THATs what is going to be expensive (time wise). Full set will take you roughly a month if you log in EVERY day.

MokoToko.6890:

Razor.9872:

Or they can just craft with the time-gate. It’s not like they need the weapons right now anyway. As you have said, “most players don’t have the money to just buy all the materials to skip the time-gates.” I would say even more don’t have the money to buy all the materials to begin with. With most people, the time-gate won’t be a hindrance, but rather a pacer to help them not feel inferior.

But some of us DO need the gear right now at this moment, and it’s kind of a really big pain when the minimal wait time to use a certain build is an entire month.

Please provide evidence that you NEED this NOW.

As mentioned above, your WANTs are completely separate from actual NEEDs.

All content in the is game CAN be played with Green items.

Wanze.8410:

Brother Grimm.5176:

What loot bags are we talking about? I have yet to see THAT info posted anywhere.

I’m guessing anything with SMALL or regular bags? Are they specific types of bags?

Is this kind of “loot table” info available for consumption on the internet? I have yet to locate this data myself.

I get this may be info people are trying to keep secret, but I’m generally just curious for a variety of reasons (I certainly don’t have the gold to buy stacks of loot bags on the TP even if they were available).

I’d appreciate a PM if nobody wants to post it public.

Zorric mentioned it in his OP, you cant have looked very hard.

My bad. I did not see that list in the original post (it IS 3 posts down).

If you aren’t short of character slots, why in the World would you even consider deleting a LVL 80 you admit to enjoying?

I think there may be some other underlying issues here that are completely unrelated to any video games….

Sorry, but I run my Guardian with Hammer / Great Sword and don’t see the complimentary issue you do. If you are just looking for a carved in stone skill rotation, I try to avoid those and just use the best option available for the situation.

Scepter / Torch is a good combo if you want to attack at range and then have some options when you or the target closes to melee or you want to provide some party support. Guardian doesn’t really have a good “stay at range” off-hand….that’s one of the reasons they are likely listed last if you rank classes with good ranged capability.

Either crafte Asended Rare materials or Promote them via MF recipe.

What loot bags are we talking about? I have yet to see THAT info posted anywhere.

I’m guessing anything with SMALL or regular bags? Are they specific types of bags?

Is this kind of “loot table” info available for consumption on the internet? I have yet to locate this data myself.

I get this may be info people are trying to keep secret, but I’m generally just curious for a variety of reasons (I certainly don’t have the gold to buy stacks of loot bags on the TP even if they were available).

I’d appreciate a PM if nobody wants to post it public.

Wait….you are complaining that Exotics aren’t special enough (or “desirable”) since Ascended came out, but you want to increase the drop rate and make them even MORE common (and LESS desired)?

It sounds like you just want more for less effort (or are you attempting to demote Exotics to become the “new Rare”?).

Isn’t it possible that many of the reports here that people are not getting a response from CS are due to the YAHOO mail issue?

While that’s a great idea, I think those individual class guides would best be assigned to their Class specific forums (with links to them from this Guide?). Just a thought.

This is a very helpful and informative Guide no matter what your GW2 experience level.

Keep in mind that due to the general randomness of how the Cooking discovery works, its quite easy to forget you have already discovered something….check the crafting lists (especially tiered ingredients).

I know I have wasted plenty of time trying to figure out why I can’t discover the needed ingredient to craft a new recipe only to find out I’ve discovered the ingredient previously. You usually do not run into that possibility in the other crafting skills.

There are always those that claim money can be made crafting but it requires proper planning and monitoring of TP prices (and availablity of items and materials) to make any real profits. Those that make these claims do NOT reveal the details of their process (that I have ever seen). If they are legit, can’t say I blame them on keeping their process to themselves.

I find my Thief is much more enjoyable to play as the “Dancing on the Edge” style of gameplay required is much more interesting than the safer and more survivable style the Ranger presents.

I have to disagree with the negative Thief comments on Ranged capabilities. Both Shortbow and Pistols offer good ranged abilities and damage while both Stealing and Shadow stepping skills offer ranged offensive (and defensive) closing capability that can be traited for added effect. It’s certainly a "different’ ranged experience than the Ranger offers, but I don’t see it as limited (no more so than the standard short bow or Longbow used by most Rangers).

promisebreaer.4967:

you can also get ori ore and ancient logs from deconstructing weapons. Use the master(?) lvl decon equip..

Never buy Master. Salvage kits to salvage…..forge Mystic Salvage kits (unless you are short on skill points and don’t have some Mystic forge stones).

I’m guessing they may be used in some future recipes like the Toxic ones and Bloodstone Dust? Holding them for crafting XP is the best plan (IMO).

Esplen.3940:

If you’re vendoring them, you might as well just take up some bank space and start mystic forging them. There is that off chance that you pull something useful and/or profitable. It also counts towards a daily.

I do this with about half my greens and vendor everything above 1s50c. Still salvaging the majority of low vendor price for Luck (after checking the TP profit numbers for everything up front….not much profit on TP for greens these days, however).

Keep the runes and sigils until you Daily Forge Smith pops up and toss them in the Mystic Flusher too. Majors can net much better gold.

Only advantage to salvaging crafted exotics is the Dark Matter potential.

aspirine.6852:

The Sixteenth.2561:

10g ? looking for divine or traveler rune ? Yeah, it’s very expensive… But that’s because all the warrior in WvW baught it when it was 6g, emptying the stock.

Traveller because some professions have a severe lack of speed. And speed can be very handy in wvw.

Speaking as a thief that just bought a full set, it’s very useful to have an entire utility skill slot back for whatever I want. Expensive, but worth it in the long run…..and not just in WvW (tho speed boost is definitely NEEDED there).

lcpdragonslayer.7895:

Far enough, the logistics of hosting a truly ‘international’ competition can be daunting to comply with all the local laws. But you’d think that they would say that this competition was only for residents of the US/some EU countries instead of burying it in clause #1 of the fine print page.

While your complaint is not unreasonable from an individual point of view, pointing out limitations of a product is not considered smart promotion. There is a REASON “fine print” exists (and this is it).