Guild Wars 2

HiddenNick.7206:

Another ‘AC gear is bad’ thread… It’s getting old. It differs from ‘mounts’ threads only by that you get a lot of +1 for making one.

Unfortunately, that means some people agree with it…..

While the entire argument the OP makes brings up valid points and complaints about “the problem”, it must be stated that not everyone agrees there IS “a problem”. Ascended gear is an end game goal that is NOT necessary to play the game. It IS useful to play some aspects (Fractals), but the claim that players are FORCED to grind for this gear or that BiS gear is mandatory is ridiculous. Hailing that idea as absolute truth is the real problem here (just my opinion, but I’m not alone).

I don’t think it can be argued that Exotics are fairly easy to gear up with and I just don’t see the major issue with the highest tier gear being a tier of items that take some time and expense to obtain. I’m still baffled that some seem so surprised that Ascended items are somewhere between Exotic and Legendary Weapons in both time and money to obtain (from what I understood, exactly what we were told they would be).

Dristig.9678:

“Pet HP split between PvE and PvP
We wanted to make pets and summons more viable in PvE/WvW while making sure they didn’t become too strong in PvP.”

Lumping WvW in with PvE is really scary for this change. Summons that can handle PvE levels of damage in smaller scale WvW are going to be very overpowered. If for instance you buff summons to be able to stand in AoE in PvE and that strength is brought to WvW how are you supposed to kill them out in the field?

I think you may be VASTLY overestimating the HP increase being applied. He did not say pets will now be able to stand in AoE in PvE…..they should not be able to (they should be programmed with enough AI to run out of it and not run back into it.).

hedix.1986:

……. Now that Zhaitan is gone, …….

I wish more players would understand that ANet CANNOT build content based on the above statement as it is NOT true for players that have not finished the personal story yet. This is also a major issue with the direction of the Living Story….it can’t assume or even mention Zhaitan is dead, because for many players…..he simply is not.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

How were they able to take that giant tooth with them, with Jormag still alive and kicking? I mean, look at that thing. It’s huge!

20 slot oiled bag?

LordByron.8369:

Hints:

Zap maximum offer 400 G 15 on market at 550+ gold

Now someone for no reason makes an offer from 400 to 520…..gold.
Then another of 530

We need market regulations….macroeconomy can be good but most players have 0 benefit from that and sees the TP as broken as the worst inflated economy.

Your complaint is valid….but only for these items. Precursors are the exception to the normal TP rules and you can’t regulate the TP based on the price fluctuations of them.

No other TP sell-able item has such a limited supply (frankly , they should never have been allowed to be sold….only found as drops or from the Flusher…and account bound). So many post about altering the entire TP because this one class of equipment is so volatile.

OverlordOutpost.5961:

This needs to be rolled back or fixed, it nerfs the best way to level up alts easily and makes crafting leveling to 80 prohibitively expensive.

Why are you assuming this was not part of what they wanted? If you want to “buy” a Level 80, maybe it SHOULD be expensive.

I think any Dev would be the first to admit that being able to buy a LVL 80 that never left it’s home city was NOT the intended use of crafting. I don’t recall anything in the manifesto that ever guaranteed you could buy your way to LVL 80 without ever picking up a weapon. The fact that so many here THINK that is a legit way to level up is pathetic.

Banjal.7328:

This is the only MMO I ever played where having alts is pointless.

Very narrow minded view of the game. If your purpose for having Alts is to just “gear them up”, why have them?

Oh…my bad. I took your original post as indicating you can’t PLAY more than 30 minutes a day.

Good luck on your Legendary quest!

Shouldn’t be any sort of issue playing GW2 or most any game.

Glad to see you aren’t one of those that just HAVE to spend another couple hundred on an unnecessary i7 processor for a gaming rig.

Eclipsiste.3251:

Soft wood is not easy to farm…

Obvious “that’s what she said….”, jokes aside, taking more logs per plank does NOT make it harder to farm….just longer. In fact, it is distributed across more zones than any other basic material (except maybe iron ore). The higher availability is exactly why they changed it from 3 logs to 4 logs per plank quite a while ago.

I fail to see how a LVL 80 in a lower end zone causes anyone a problem. Now if they are trying to “champ train” and are yelling at new players to not kill the Champs they are trying to farm, then that’s different. I go to starter zones with my LVL 80 all the time for various reasons and try to go out of my way to be helpful to lower level players.

Wait…no she didn’t say that about me….

Crescendoll.7612:

We havn’t had an answer for this in more than 5 months now, so I’d suspect none is coming now either.

It got to the point where I shelved my engineer when ascended weapons hit the ground, and went back to my warrior instead. The kit mechanic has so many issues that go unaddressed that I just want to scream at someone, we need an answer, any answer, just a “we’re working on it” or similar.

A retired engineer is a sad engineer

Funny, My Engineer works just fine. Then again, I don’t care one bit if some stupid backpack clips a bit nor for any of the Turrets (sans Healing). I don’t disagree that the Turret issues have been neglected for a long time and need to be addressed, but a multitude of clipping issues exist in the game, so throwing a tantrum in Lions Arch about that is rather childish (IMO).

I also agree this is not the forum for a “fix the Engineer” rant.

I would go with Sword/dagger & Sword/Pistol. You seem to be discounting Sword #2 because it’s not a direct attack, but it’s an instant escape and condition removal and the Sword auto-attack is one of the highest DPS chains out there. Dagger gives you a ranged cripple (multi-target) and stealth while the pistol gives you access to TWO stuns (one melee, one ranged) and a mass blind that drops a dark field for combos.

With the right trait setup, those are some powerful tools.

RogueTigeR.3160:

it was in a WvW thread…if that clarifies or narrows down the options…

I’m guessing it was either a typo or an intentional insult to PvE? Never heard the term myself.

The only PLAN you can have to obtain a precursor right now is to buy it off the Trading Post (very high price, as I understand). My current thought on a Legendary for myself is that if I get a lucky Precursor drop I will consider (based on weapon type) if it’s worth starting the painful process to craft one or earn some big money on the TP with it (one option is to flip it for a precursor for weapon I WOULD want to craft a Legendary of).

Personally, I think they should NEVER have allowed Precursors (or crafted Legendary’s) to be trade-able (account bound on aquire). That would make the weapons actually something “Legendary” to obtain within the game.

Maybe this will help:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explorable_area

There is a table on this page that links to the wiki page for ALL exploitable areas in the game that is broken down by suggested level and grouped by Tyrian geographic areas that lots of Achievements specify (i.e. Krytan Killer – Kill 50 enemies in Kryta).

Just click on the area name in that table and just about EVERY piece of information about that zone is available. A nice map, list of NPCs,, renown hearts, event chains in the zone, etc. VERY useful page (even for those that are familiar with most zones).

Also, keep in mind that as long as you are not dead or in combat, you can use the PvP or WvW icons in the upper left to travel to PvP areas….and then to Lions Arch free of charge. From there you can reach any of the 5 race cities.

errr… +4 condition damage is = 5% damage?

Either I don’t understand how condition damage works at all or you are using some might strange “new” math there. If you mean it’s a 5% increase in the condition damage number….well ok, but that does NOT translate to +5% DPS (as I understand how condition damage applies to actual DPS).

Budchgon.2108:

…..so wondering if the +4 cond damage on the weapons also translates to 5-10% extra damage per tick?

No. Wiki has info on how Condition Damage actually applies damage and it is different for almost all conditions. Ex: For Bleeding, I think you need about +50 condition damage increase to get a +5% increase in actual damage per tick. Other conditions vary in how that would work and it depends on how conditions actually stack.

Details are here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage

I’m guessing you are seeing a Video Card Driver issue with the HT enabled, nothing to do with GW2 other than the video calls it is making to the driver (that may be causing the driver to have an issue with HT enabled).

Update your video drivers would be my first suggestion.

If you are having actual hardware memory errors, try lowering the memory speed settings on your MB to the safe default levels (could be overclocked and you don’t know it).

There are other places this could be caused…..like your ISP throttling UPLOAD speeds drastically. Most ISPs have a guaranteed download speed they advertise then hide that they can almost completely cut off your upload speeds (and will, if they detect that you are running a file sharing server on your residential connection).

Ricky Da Man.5064:

Another question, wiki says I need 400 weaponsmith and armorsmith. is that an account bound req?

Crafting level is per character, not account.

I don’t want to be discouraging, but trying to craft a Legendary while playing the limited amount of time you are indicating and with might be a biting off more than you want to chew. Do you even have a LVL 80 with full RARE gear yet?

On the Karma issue….if you haven’t been saving your Karma to this point, you picked a BAD time to start wanting to farm it. The Devs have recently made quite a number of changes that is designed to make Karma more “valuable” and less easy to obtain quickly.

I fail to see how the Champ Trains are morally wrong (the ranting is just rude and potentially against ToC if using profanity or racial slurs).

Now trying to organize an “uprising” to intentionally grief another group of players might fall into the “morally wrong” category.

unleashed.8679:

My plan is to salvage everything until i get about 70-75% MF. then i sell the greens and salvage only the blues i think.

This is what I plan to do. I usually collect up a bunch of greens first and then run them by the TP sell screen to see if anything jumps out or if I have enough of one type to flush down the Mystic Loo (don’t do that much any longer). Usually just salvage them on the spot at this point. I’m at 35% MF at the moment.

So for now I’m selling anything that goes for more than the merchant price and salvaging anything left over.

Keep in mind that you need to look at the PROFIT number, not the buy order price when doing this. Don’t loose money because of the TP commission.

They added one in Divinity’s Reach about 2 months ago. Eastern Commons, near the outside wall at about 5:00 (if DR was a clock face).

There are also the few that have been added to Lions Arch, but if you have been doing the Living Story lines, you picked those up.

Keep in mind the Chantry of Secrets (Bloodtide Coast) on mentioned above can SHOW the PoI colored in from the map but if you haven’t actually entered the portal and gone to the PoI in the instance, it will not actually be counted.

Solkard.5136:

It’s always funny when lvl 80’s call people noobs for killing a champ and ruining their rotation. They are farming in a noob zone. What the kitten were they expecting?

Ok…there is a big difference between LVL 80s killing Champs so fast, lower levels can’t get in on the kill and LVL 80’s ranting and raving when they don’t get to kill 1 champ….that’s just idiotic on their part and I can see where that is off-putting for a new player. They should obviously not be subjected to verbal abuse for playing the game normally.

Games (as in all areas of life) are never jerk-free zones.

There are Champions in other starter zones and those are not being trained like Queensdale……

Exactly how many dailies do you miss while you are still in Queensdale as a low level…3 or 4….maybe 5? If they are story item farmers, just create a different race character to farm with.

Silvercyclone.1462:

I dont actually go from one champ to the next i stay at the champ and kill it when it spawns.

I must say that sounds truly boring as hell and not very efficient, but whatever floats your boat.

What server are you on? I run into players in all areas of the game all the time. You don’t have to join in a party to play with other players (that’s one of the things I find great about GW2).

I’m not sure I understand WHY you have to have a party to play the game? Beyond taking on Champion level enemies, the game is almost fully solo-able. I get you may WANT to be in a party, but it’s not a requirement to play (or succeed).

Also, all players scale down to the area they are in, so while LVL 80s will have some skill advantages in lower areas, they will not be uber-powerful 1 hit killers either. There are also plenty of reasons for higher level players to be in lower level areas (mostly Champion farming at this point, however).

People start new characters all the time. You really should not be having problems finding other players. Granted there are likely scarcely populated areas, but I’ve been in all the starter areas recently and run into other players quite often. If you are on a predominately PvP server, that could present a population issue in PvE areas (or visa versa).

TooBz.3065:

I highly recommend choosing a main and abandoning all other toons to standing at the end of jumping puzzles. It makes gearing up less painful.

Jeez, I’d shoot myself if I had to play the same character class day after day…. “Gearing Up”, while you are sub-level 80 is for suckers…there is no reason for gear better than greens (masterwork) while leveling. Hell, you can stick to NPC karma gear and save even more during level up.

I’m guessing OP is now more confused that before he posted….

They are the highest stat equipment….why is a week “a long time” to obtain them?

The Ascended armor via crafting is planned to be released before the end of the year (I’ve read).

Hey Ryan! I’m on Yak’s Bend most nights and early AM (Central US time). I have all characters and while I don’t have any that low, I certainly have a few that need to clear the starter areas, so that works for me.

I’ll add you to my friends list and you can add me….hopefully we can get a chance to play together!

BTW, best to add the user name on this forum (account name in-game) as then it doesn’t matter what character either of us are playing.

Why exactly do you have define a “main”? I play all 8 classes and while I have several favorites that I return to again and again, I don’t consider any of them my “main” character.

Contiguous.1345:

No, no, no.

Salvage nothing except for recovering valuable runes and sigils. (Use a Black Lion kit only)

Sell everything on the TP at ‘match lowest seller’. If it doesn’t sell after a month re-list it.

The gold you make will more than cover the cost of anything you need to buy. Trust me

Edit: And of course – never pay the asking price – haggle.

This is obsolete since you now NEED to salvage to raise your account wide MF.

I salvage all Blues now to boost MF and rotate greens / yellows between salvage, TP sale and flushing down Mystic Toilet. Then again, I HATE to buy everything.

Since ANet now gifts all of us with plenty of Mystic Stones, there is no current reason to use any salvage kits but Mystic (save the Black Lions for salvaging high end upgrades when you update equipment). If you just can’t bring yourself to use a Mystic on some trash, use a Basic kit for that.

DelayTheDecay.2675:

……at this point in the story, Zhaitan is dead,
…….

I found the flaw in your way too long theory. YOU assume Zhaitan is dead but all other players that have not finished the Personal Story don’t quite see it that way (so your theory is based on a kittenumption).

The LS saga intentionally NEVER assumes that it occurs after the end of the existing Personal Story because not all players have yet completed it. This does lead to plenty of confusion and questions as to the direction the LS is actually headed.

EDIT: Kittenumption is my new favorite word….

Tom Gore.4035:

GW2 is good, no doubt, but the latest trend of grindy updates is worrying me. How long until you can start buying items that skip the grind from the gem store?

So option 3 is that they just give out all the best stuff when you log in for the first time?

I’m not sure how any game can have “rare” equipment that players want and not have ANY grind to obtain them? The Devs have NEVER said grind does not exist, just that is not NEEDED to play all aspects of the game. You don’t NEED full Ascended gear and Legendary weapons to actually play end game areas.

I knew they took the confirmation off salvaging Greens (due to repeated pleading by the community, I will add), but didn’t consider the situation your mention. Thanks for the heads up and I will keep your warning in mind.

It is possible that a suggestion needs to be made for a change to how the salvage warning looks at an item before displaying. The text is still +YELLOW on the transmuted item so there must be SOME way for the game to know the item is still Rare or better and display the warning dialog.

I’m thinking that if the transmuted item was merged with a white item (often the case when changing from Soulbound to Account Bound), this would have been an issue even before the most recent patch….or did the patch change what the warning dialog “looks at” on an item being salvaged?

Crafting can be a gold sink…..but if you are using it to level, why would that matter? I seriously doubt you can level up a character in WvW as fast as you can via crafting (not that I suggest using crafting for that purpose).

Since you scale up in WvW, it is a viable place to level if that is your ultimate goal anyway.

If you are wanting some PvE and exploration (doesn’t sound like the OP does, however), running thru zones doing the Renown Hearts is the best XP for your time.

Trying to find a Dungeon or Fractal group with a Ranger will be in stark contrast to your experiences with a Guardian. Ranger Pet mechanic is a liability to any group in any area where high damage, single hits are abundant. (Pet’s don’t dodge big hits. so they quickly die to them).

Dont’ get me wrong, Rangers are fun to play and I love mine, they just have a distinct disadvantage that makes them less effective than other classes in certain areas of the game.

Not 100% sure that Engineer is the best choice to start this with….they can be fairly complex to be effective with (tho there are “simplier” builds with them).

The only issue I am aware of with Engineers that is “broken” are the turret skills, so if you avoid them (sans healing turret), you should be ok in that area.

Engineers are lacking in both (self) condition removal and stability, so there are opposing builds that they lack an effective counter against.

I’m guessing they wanted to keep SAB more of a separate activity from normal dailies activities. It does seem to be a bit of a change from some previous LS content, but SAB IS very different from standard GW2 content.

I’m not sure it’s right for ANY of LS releases to allow for the META achievement to be obtained without actually DOING any of the LS content.

showtime.9175:

I’m permanently carrying 750 baubles and have now started to deposit them in my bank whenever I get out of SAB. I bought the ICC initially, but I realize it wasn’t at all necessary. 750 baubles represents 150 lives. You can max out on coins in a single tribulation mode level. Do you really die more than 150 times per level? If the answer is yes, I would recommend trying infantile or normal mode.

I don’t believe that you couldn’t get past the rapids, since those were nerfed extremely hard by the recent update. They’re a joke now.

Tribulation Mode is meant to be challenging. It doesn’t reward anything gamebreaking. You don’t even get a new skin, only a new color. Why do so many people complain on the forums until the challenging content gets removed from those it was made for. I liked it much better pre-nerf.

Wait….you bought the ICC and are now PAYING for regular ones? Might I ask why you are jumping through inventory and merchant hoops when you already bought the keys to the store?

Also… when ip of a last server that is registered to nc has a 92% packet loss… elaborate how that is a problem on my end. I also would like to hear that. I get no packet loss anywhere else on 25 servers before that one.

That would be the fault of the route AFTER the NC server (granted….that would be NCs responsibility to get fixed). However, If you have 25 router hops between the server and you, there may be another issue here….have you investigated using another server world that has LESS connection hops? I have no idea where you are located, but English is obviously not your primary language (and your posts ARE very difficult to understand…..but you are doing an ok job of verbalizing your frustration). Your complaint about your specific lag issues are not actually relevant to the original discussion, however.

Fasyx.9347:

Thank you!

Is the coninue Coin the same thing which is available on the gemstore for 600gems?

No. The ones from chests & other drops are single use (give you 5 lives). The one you buy from the Gem Store is an infinite use item (must be in current character inventory).

I submitted a ticket 2 days ago about simply NOT getting either the MF items nor the Continue Coins. Got a response yesterday asking me to run some system analysis utility and send them the results (I know this is an automated, “please gather this info for a user side issue debug”, response). I’m not installing that utility on my system as it has nothing to do with the issue I reported.

The mail system is messed up and all I really want right now is someone to tell me MY particular issue will be resolved (I’m not even in a huge hurry to get these items, tho sooner would be better than later on the MF items).

The method to avoid this mistake is already in place. A confirmation dialog box (requiring another click) accompanies any large purchase in the game (well, I think there is an exception in the Trading Post).

NEVER rush through a purchase.

I have to ask how he got access to the account? Did you leave GW2 running and not lock the computer? Win button + L is your best friend in an insecure environment.

You are seeing a standard automated response from Customer Service so just keep pleading your case. Posting this here will not assist and do NOT open multiple tickets as that will certainly slow down the process.

If it lingers for a week or so, there is a thread at the top of this forum that is reviewed by a Community Lead at Anet and she may be able to assist you (so post in that thread after a few days).

I would debate your claim of GW2 being pay-to-play, but so many people have different ideas of what that term actually means, I won’t bother.

Either find the gate in your home city to travel to Lions Arch or Click the PVP icon at the top left and travel to the Heart of the Mists. There is a gate right in front of you that takes you to Lions Arch.

Clear Lions Arch and then travel through the gates at the hub to any of the other race cities (and clear all those). You can then access the other race starter areas and not have to worry about being too low level.

From my understanding:

1) Crafting – requires gold and / or materials.
2) Renowned Hearts – Most XP on the maps.
3) Personal Story – Gives good XP.

Wow….every content release these posters show up with some twisted definition of what Pay 2 Win is (and how GW2 is now OFFICIALLY P2W).

Reasons it is not P2W:
1) Content you are “winning” is optional and not required to progress in the actual game.
2) “Paying” in this case gives you no actual gameplay advantage in the actual game itself.
3) Content CAN be completed without PAYING at all (so I’ve read….have no intention of entering SAB at all).

So this is NOT Pay 2 Win….at all.

lemone.5867:

1. Yep it doesnt include this content at release but now it does. When i bought this game there was said that i will get new content every month.

Sorry, but you are going to have to produce a Dev comment prior to release that backs up that statement or you are just not being truthful. Content updates were certainly something that was not wrong to expect, but this kind of twisted expectations and exaggerations of what was said or not said are why Devs never talk about “possible” future content.

2.I understand but right now when meta is destroyed in sPvP and i need to w8 two weeks i really would like to end this mode to get skins which i like.

So this boils down to you wanting a skin, but not wanting to pay for it. This has NOTHING to do with playing the game.

3.Yes there are other ways but if i remember Devs says this game will not have that much grid. If i want more Coins i will need to Grid.

Again, the statement about Grind is that you will not NEED to grind to play the game normally. I don’t think SAB Trib mode qualifies as normal gameplay by any stretch of the imagination.

4. There should be other way to get skins imo even armor skins shouldnt be sold in gemshop. Right now you need to grid a lot to get 800 gems +- 45 gold. I know for some ppl it isnt big number but i got other things to do than grid. If there is event everyone should have chance to get one skin that they want imo.

The chance to get them is when they sell them on the gemstore. Until then, they should require some effort to obtain or they have no rarity value. Kites and Balloons are event “participation” items, not skins.