Guild Wars 2

What class I find hard to fight, has a lot to do with what class I’m playing, and how good I am with said class, and how good the other person is with there’s. It normally need to be 2-3 people vis me on my own for me to go down, and then I can normally get one of them down before I get downed.

say your going to do it in map chat, and you’ll find people to help you, you can also pull it away from where it spawns so you have more room.

Rauderi.8706:

BrotherBelial.3094:

So the one thing we had to show we where ’old timers" has been taken away, good job I still have my GW2 launch baseball cap………

I don’t. I tried, but Support gave me the brush-off when I tried to reclaim it after the wardrobe shift. I didn’t even care for it that much, it’s just a “I had it when..” for me.

but it was town clothes…..

Ivantreil.3092:

if we want to be honest HOT specs are kind of broken in raids/PvE/ WvW and PvP.

I think that was already clear for everyone, a power creep nerf patch is needed, a heavy one

I agreed, elite specs, do make the game easy mode. Core is so easy with them. But then, you need them for the HoT maps. As core builds lack the power for the groups in HoT.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I hated HoT at launch. I didn’t really start playing the maps till the “fixes” in April. I hate adventures and grinding out achievements with the power of infinite suns. Getting the XP is easy, getting the points is just busy work. There is no reason for them other than to slow your progress to make the content last longer. It’s really poor to think they put something like that in to eek out interest in HoT and to make it seem bigger.

HoT was a failure for most, and the fact the first year launch went by with zero celebration speaks volumes for how much they want to brush the whole thing under the carpet.

They don’t even celebrate the original launch of the game, except maybe putting stuff in the gemstore. If they don’t celebrate launch then what makes you think they’ll celebrate an expansion or that lack of celebration means it was a failure.

No, failure to celebrate has nothing to do with it being a failure or success. It only means that they don’t celebrate launch, for whatever reasons.

ProtoGunner.4953:

I was max mastery 3 or 4 weeks after release and I wasn’t even the fastest in our guild. I really don’t understand how one can not be max. level. Especially people who are online all the time. If you really want to do it, just join an escort group in the raid. It’s really no big deal to finish that one.

Because it’s not a goal for everyone? Because not all “really want to do it?”

I got the ones that interested me. After that, I had no interest in getting Masteries that did not offer me anything that I valued for unlocking them. And having a high mastery number isn’t something that’s important to me.

Not everyone is the same and not all are going to value what you value.

They do celebrate launches, GW2 launch has a festival in GW. Buy at least they mark the launch or GW2 with gems store discounts and sales, HoT got nothing. I fond it odd. I mean why not? Drum up interest in HoT and GW2 for people who do not have it, or upgraded to HoT.

PvP needs a tutorial. The amount of players that do not know the basics is crazy, people don’t known how to, or the importance of calling a target, how to focus on a called target, even though the game tells them to! How important. It is to stomp, and not try to dps someone down when someone on your team is down also. The amount of times I’ve seen people down someone and not stomp so there down team mate gets stomped is just sad. Reading the mini map and rotation. And finally, understanding that conquest is not TDM. People chasing others around the map to get a kill over playing the game mode correctly is also just sad, and people wonder why there is so much salt in PvP.

NotASmurf.1725:

Ranael.6423:

NotASmurf.1725:

I’m all for variety but as you said, they should be adding more modes to PvP. Problem is Stronghold is PvE.

We need rewards that matter and make people care. Why should anyone in the world care about PvP titles as long as you can get them by grinding PvE on stronghold? It was a kittenty gamemode that had to go.

I do not understand why people use always the label PvE for Stronghold? Is that only coming from NPC? Then are MOBA’s consider PvE games as well? Was GvG in GW1 a PvE game mode because of how defending NPCs (attacking those of the other team) was an important part of the game?

I do not want to start a strong argument but I would like to understand the difference, if there is one.

Literally the best way to win on stronghold is to do nothing but heal the first 5 doorbreakers, kill the guards, make it to the lord room and kill the lord, ignoring any form of PvP. Match is over in 3 minutes and you do nothing but heal and kill NPCs.

It’s not a moba nor GW1 GvG, it’s an abomination.

So remove the ability to heal NPC’s and we are golden? If a team con not take out 5 other players while they waste time healing NPC’s then they where probably not very good at PvP to begin with. I’ve never seen what you talked about happen. I think the problem with stronghold is that it is one map, so it gets old fast, Stronghold should have lunched with 2-3 maps. Same as TDM. Courtyard should not have been the only map. Even conquest gets boring after a while. PvP really needs more game modes, not less.

flarezi.9381:

Wardrobe Unlocks… For free accounts Royal Guard Outfit is also included. A reward for accounts created before August 29, 2015.

When this item was released they stated :
“To celebrate this special three-year anniversary of Guild Wars 2, we’re giving current players an all-new Royal Guard Outfit. Wear it with pride whenever you want to show that you were there early on, and that you’re someone that new players can go to for help.”

This was reward of buying the game for 50€/$ since it didn’t require you to play the game, if you had account you got outfit. The outfit was the only thing we really got. We still had to pay for expansion the same price.

What the hell, Anet?

They still didn’t include ALL the items in these RNG unlocks, so you say they actually picked these? Including Mini Clockheart, Mini First Mate Horrik, Scarlet’s Veil Skin, Mini Candy Corn Ghoulemental and Mini Queen Jennah?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/play-for-free-today/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5ar4mm/achievement_rewards_in_the_guaranteed_wardrobe/

So the one thing we had to show we where ’old timers" has been taken away, good job I still have my GW2 launch baseball cap………

Abelisk.4527:

I thought we got 4 items?
Guaranteed ToT bag + 2 items + 1 uncommon item.

I got a revive orb, a toy miniature egg (Mini Shade), and the new glider on my first chest! Win!! Definitely love this one far more than the previous BL chest.

Me too, guess I need to re read the patch notes.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

BrotherBelial.3094:

So because he holds a booster at higher value than a ToT bag he’s wrong?

No, he’s wrong because he asserted that boosters have an inherent value, when they don’t… therefore his supposition that there’s a value loss is incorrect. If he wants to personally value boosters higher than ToT bags that’s his choice, but even that means it’s a subjective loss in value he’s arguing, not an objective inherent loss.

~EW

I can see your point, but he also has a point. A booster if you used it had a value greater than that of a ToT bag. A booster potentially saved you time, like an XP one could help you finish a PvP track faster, or a mastery. 5s from a single ToT is nothing when you think about it. Compared to the time saved/rewards gained faster, I’d lose the 5s. For the boosters.

ProtoGunner.4953:

I was max mastery 3 or 4 weeks after release and I wasn’t even the fastest in our guild. I really don’t understand how one can not be max. level. Especially people who are online all the time. If you really want to do it, just join an escort group in the raid. It’s really no big deal to finish that one.

I hated HoT at launch. I didn’t really start playing the maps till the “fixes” in April. I hate adventures and grinding out achievements with the power of infinite suns. Getting the XP is easy, getting the points is just busy work. There is no reason for them other than to slow your progress to make the content last longer. It’s really poor to think they put something like that in to eek out interest in HoT and to make it seem bigger.

HoT was a failure for most, and the fact the first year launch went by with zero celebration speaks volumes for how much they want to brush the whole thing under the carpet.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

obastable.5231:

The issue people in general have is even if they didn’t want boosters they are inherently more valuable, as per the game economy, than a ToT bag.

Boosters value is 100-150 gems, approximately 30g.

ToT value is currently around 5 and a half silver, or less than 1 gem.

There is a value loss of nearly 100%, that’s a huge disparity, and the other QoL improvements don’t make up for that loss of value.

That’s not an inherent value. ANet artificially sets the prices of the boosters… if they set them to 1 gem, you’re argument would be completely invalidated. Also, boosters cannot be sold in the TP, where as the ToT bags can. So the ToT bags are more valuable for the game economy because boosters have 0 value. Your reasoning makes no sense.

For me personally, even if the boosters were set at 1 gem, I still wouldn’t buy or use them…. the ToT bags have more value for me than any booster does.

~EW

So because he holds a booster at higher value than a ToT bag he’s wrong? Sorry but boosters are way more useful than 5s. I mean you can kill a mob and potentially get more than 5s.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

BrotherBelial.3094:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

If ToT bags were so worthless, people wouldn’t be spending hours on hours of their lives farming them.

I’ll be waiting on my BL chests for easter when I (hope) there’ll be the miniature-giving eggs… I wanna crack at my grail mini, the jack-a-lop.

~EW

(darn you IWN for convincing me that minis were worth having. :P )

ToT bags are worthless, unless you open thousands. I’ve opened around 1000, and have nothing note worthy. BLC, like all things in this game depend on your “luck”. But then from playing PvP for a year and a half off and on, I’ve had 12 ascended armor chests, 7 weapon chests and 14 ascended rings. I guess my luck is going else where.

A ToT bag you don’t want is worth at least 5s+ on the TP, where as account bound junk you don’t want is worth 0. I’ll take the 5s over 0c any day.

~EW

Yeah, ok, 5s is showing it’s worth, green leather armor is going for more.

And Ascended gear is hardly junk, seeing as you need to salvage it for legendary weapons these days.

morrolan.9608:

Shaogin.2679:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ithilwen.1529:

They tried it. Courtyard really didn’t work.

Deathmatch as a mode is still feasible, that map wasn’t the best setup for it, or at least to me it seemed too small for that game mode. Double its size and that might have changed it up.

Yeah, I really feel they just didn’t put any work into that map. Compared to other maps, it’s just so plain. And it is way to small. Death match can still work, they just have to get more creative with the map.

Deathmatch also needs to be round based.

I miss Court yard.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

If ToT bags were so worthless, people wouldn’t be spending hours on hours of their lives farming them.

I’ll be waiting on my BL chests for easter when I (hope) there’ll be the miniature-giving eggs… I wanna crack at my grail mini, the jack-a-lop.

~EW

(darn you IWN for convincing me that minis were worth having. :P )

ToT bags are worthless, unless you open thousands. I’ve opened around 1000, and have nothing note worthy. BLC, like all things in this game depend on your “luck”. But then from playing PvP for a year and a half off and on, I’ve had 12 ascended armor chests, 7 weapon chests and 14 ascended rings. I guess my luck is going else where.

I know some one who has 16 gifts, must enjoy doing it.

Rolisteel.1375:

He probably means if the score is something like 100 for his team and 250-300 for enemy team.

I’ve been part of teams that have pulled it back from a 50-300 score. And that’s with out any voice coms.

I don’t really care about the legendary armor. It is ugly in my personal opinion. Seeing as you can get legendary weapons by doing anything(they can be bought off the trad post so they are not locked to one game type, only the crafting is).i think you should have to play a little of all game modes to get it.

Personally I don’t have time to raid, and I never liked raids in other MMO’s. As I said I don’t care about the armoe, but I do think there should be more options to get it.

The only reason legendary armor is tied to raids is to get people in to the raids. I’m willing to bet, with out the armor, raids would not be that popular. The only reason people did dungeons was because they where the fastest way to get gold. Look what happened to dungeons when HoT launched. The gold Nerf killed them. Give a way to get the armor another way, watch raids die. It will never happen. Raids are the new thing. They will probably be what will kill fractals, like fractals killed dungeons.

Cynova.7406:

It’s very disappointing to find skins you like in the wardrobe for your character’s design only to find that it’s not even available in the game anymore. Then you go and look for another and find that one is also unavailable. There are plenty of ugly skins in the game, why take out the great ones but manage to keep them still listed in the wardrobe?

Plz put them in the game or take them out. Quit teasin’ me!

For example, Viper’s, Aetherblade, Phalanx, Strider, ect.

All you have listed are from the gem store, they come back every now and then, so they are not gone. Check the wiki, it has lots of information.

If you want any free levelling food let me know. I have loads of it.

KyreneZA.8617:

I don’t own HoT. I still think gliding is awesome and rag on my wife who has HoT and glides at every opportunity because I am indeed envious.

What I can’t understand is that people still bring up the “do what you want however you want” broken promises manifesto after we all know by now that ANet lied, and continue to do so in the name of profit. C’mon folks, you should have come to that “shame on me” part of the old saw by now. I’m not saying all of the great people working for ANet are kittens, but ANet is after all a company interested in separating you from your cash. As often and expeditiously as possible. If that involves making certain things in the game gated in order to force you to experience what they laid out salaries to bring to you, I can understand that. If it means that other pieces of the game are gated behind a whole expansion/system, then that’s just to force you to spend money. Deal with it: GW2 is not a free game and never will be.

I think your confusing the “play how you want” with what some people twisted it into. I always read that as, I could get the same progression as everyone else regardless or what game mode I played, just some ways would take longer than others. And it still holds true for 99% of things in game. There are quite a few ways to get a lot of things in game, just some are very quick one way and really slow another. For instance the quickest way to get ascended weapons and armor is to craft it. You can get it as drops from pvp/wvw tracks and fractels, but crafting is by far the quickest, but if you don’t want to do crafting you don’t have to.

Sure the same could be said for the mastery points. But the truth is, it is not the same. At some point you will have to do something you don’t want to. I don’t want to spend hours of my game time doing something I don’t want to do just to “progress”. I don’t find it fun at all. Playing adventures or achievement hunting have never been a “thing” for me. The only time they where was during season 1 of LW. And that was more of not wanting to miss out than wanting to have those things. Most now can be picked up from a vendor, and everything else will always be there, so I’m not fussed anymore. Might also just be that I want my game time to be fun, and not feel like work.

Svarty.8019:

Ragion.2831:

6. Still no ingame voice chat system. Honestly there is no excuse for this, there is an MMORPG released in 2009 that has it.

Eve online was released in 2003.

But I don’t agree. I think in-game voice would be an extravagance. Having seen what they ARE working on, though, (legendary armour) I don’t care anymore. I give up.

Even if there was in game voice chat, id turn it off. Don’t want to listen to some teen waiting for his voice to brake screaming down the mic how noob people are.

Lavexis.5360:

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Venom thieves destroy… bad guardians…

guess all guardians are bad then, cause i destroy them all

Or your better at thief than they are at guardian. In the end that’s how you won a fight in pvp, my being better than the guy your fighting. Not going to beat them otherwise.

Randulf.7614:

Exclusivity should be more associated with skill or time investment than being present for a 1 week event 4 years ago, which not everyone was able to attend imo. GW2 is not the sort of game that should be bogged down on exclusivity based on being there at the right time. It’s one of the reasons LS1 and the Karka Event were unpopular.

The only thing that was unpopular was the fact they where limited time releases. You couldn’t play them in your own time. You have to devote your game time to them or miss out. That’s what people didn’t like.

Malediktus.3740:

I am glad that it didnt come back, being exclusive to being there at Halloween 2012 is what makes it special.

Yes its so special you hardly see it. In fact the only time I see it is when I’m on my necron because I have both skins. No one cares at all. No one has ever asked me what it is.

All I see is this.

sophiewhite.3149:

Zoid.2568:

Seriously who cares about winning in WvW anyway? Everytime I’m in WvW no one takes it seriously and everyone runs in a main zerg with a commander to conquer castles etc to get xp and some rewards. It’s not like they play WvW to win and just obliterate the other worlds.

WvW is a joke so stop trying to balance it when it doesn’t needs balancing.

honestly the way i see wvw is no skill just numbers. your 1 endure pain doesnt matter when your surrounded by 20 people or more.

Indeed, the people with the biggest numbers win. You are not going to win a 6vs10 in WvW.

Oh this again.

ANet will not do it because the armors where not meant to be mixed past there type. They have different joins for different types. To put it simple. Some combinations’ would not work. You could end up having gaps and clipping issues. This has been explained in great length many times before, and much better than I have here.

There has to be reasons to get an Xpac OP. Do you even lift bro?

Condi warrior is awesome damage. Maybe you should learn to play warrior better? Mace shield sword torch = unstoppable death machine.

I love when people say DH is OP, with out traps and there blocks DH’s are toast. Traps are natural selection. If you die to them it’s your own fault. There are enough skills that can set off the traps with out taking damage rendering the DH’s dps reduced significantly. Some players ate just bad at there class. I mean I won a 3vs1 in middle on col with sword artifact. Now that is OP. Getting stomps without doing anything.

Best change ever. Makes a rez valuable.

Squishing forum bug.

Epic! I love the lab map it’s probably my favorite part of Halloween.

SRoode.7318:

Jaken.6801:

I don`t mind recycling.
Halloween 2012 was an event. Something to be excited about.
Halloween 2013 was a step backwards, but it added to the experience

I agree with much of what you say, but at least in 2013 there was a new story (Bloody Prince). On top of that, his outfit was sold at the Gem Shop (I bought one). Then, he’s never to be seen again, so most current players have no idea who he is.

I have to say, I am disappointed with this years event.

He’s been there to fight every year since, just not this year. So this year we have less Halloween content.

Well, kinda looks cool, but not legendary cool. But then I’m not even making it, and won’t even start now.

Can you fight the bloody prince this year? I’ve not gone to the citadel to check. There is no achievements for him this year, so there could be less this year.

Really? I was looking forward to my ToT bad farm. Halloween is the only yearly festival I like.

Yeah a lot of these “bosses” melt really fast. the sloth go’s down really fast. Once there where about 10 of us vs her, we put a call out on to map chat to say she was up. only to say 5 seconds later she was down.

The longest boss fights are the Jade and worm, but that’s only because the work is unkillable unless your a giant golem, and the jade and go invulnerable.

Glad I used T2F stone before they stopped it from working. I hate JP’s like this.

My biggest problem with HoT was How the Mastery system works, I don’t see why I need to get XP and points to unlock them. The points block progression.

The points make you do things you don’t want to do.
I don’t want to do adventures, I really don’t like them at all.
I don’t want to have to chase achievements to be able to progress.
I don’t want to run back and forth 50 times giving an NPC an apple to get appoint.
I don’t want to play a game modes I don’t enjoy all that much to progress.

GW2 was supposed to be a game of, you can do what you want and get to the same place as everyone else, just some ways are quicker than others. I’m not saying that I want all mastery points unlocked for me now. they are here, and there is nothing I can do about it, I have to accept that I’ll never complete them because I will not wast my time doing content I do not like so I can fully “progress”.

The mastery system is a great Idea, and a great addition to the game. needing XP and points is a very bad idea I feel.

With that said, I find I spend most of my time playing in non HoT (launch) maps. maybe when my next toon gets to the HoT story I’ll find my self playing the maps again.

People have put it quite simply. I don’t see why people are having a hard time understanding it.

The living world is not part of the “core” game. It’s a new story from what came with the core game, and as season 3 is a different story set after HoT. People payed for the Core game and got what they paid for, people got paid for HoT and got what they paid for.

Living world was not advertised as a part of the core game or HoT. We where told how ever that to access the new living world you would need to own HoT and season 2 could be bought from the gem store. The best thing about the gem store is that you can buy things from there using Gold you get in game, so it is still free, the only thing you spend to get it is time. Or if you are short oj time, spend some money. Those are the options. And the truth of the matter.

He just said the same thing over and over. I do agree with him. But he made is point after 5 minutes.

Arden.7480:

So the Egg absorbed death’s magic, when it was with Master of Peace.

But it means that we will see changed Icebrood and Branded as well. But why these changes appeared after Mordremoth’s death?

Why didn’t Mordrems were changed by Zhaitan’s death?

It was, that’s why it could use dead bodys to make mordrim as explained in game…………

This is why all but one of my characters had zerker gear. Why spend gold on hear that’s going tonne trash next patch.

They said when they have the time to do it they will, but as it stands I can’t see it happening anytime soon. But then ANet can blindside you, like they did with the legendary weapons.

Arden.7480:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvMobxY2IQ

This vision is very weird.

I mean this moment: https://youtu.be/7FvMobxY2IQ?t=28

The vines came to the Egg with Ley Line energy. And we can hear a lot of screams of the dragon, I think. We can hear Mordremoth’s and after Aurene’s sounds.

But in the last chapter the destroyers attacked the hatching,

So this vision shows the last Ley Line energy’s portion with the vines. So maybe this is why Aurene has “weird” head, I mean very similar to Mordremoth.

I think, that the corruption came to Aurene and I guess something will wrong with her.

What do you think?

You could have a point, or you could be reading way too much in to artistic licence.

DanseMacabre.9506:

I think we should have mounts in guild wars because they would be fun and beneficial.. The new expansion should come with a Mount Riding Mastery. i think a lot of people would enjoy this feature as well as a great way for Arena net to make more money by selling mounts.

There are mounts. Riding broom, magic carpet. Sonic tunneling device. There is another nut I cant remember the name, seeing I’ve I’ve only seen a hand full of these used ever, they must not sell well. So no mounts. As they are not popular enough to ne worth the effort.

Too BaD.3941:

i was working on it and pretty close to finishing this title but i had night shifts so i couldn’t play for a while an extension would be awesome plus it being a voted map you cant blame people for not getting the title if they can’t get the map to begin with

You had 3 months. It will be the same for the new one. Best get on it.

xeonage.1253:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DH’s have bad mobility. they are very slow, and need a Rev or something to put swiftness on them to get around or a team with out 3 DH’s can just out rotate the team stacked with DH’s. people need to remember this game is a take and Hold game. if a team is too slow to react to the rotation of points, then it’s game over.

Having 3-4 guards camping middle and the other team just running in to die, has nothing to do with a DH being OP, it has to do with the players understanding of how PvP works. people seem to think that you haver to have the middle point to win a game. I’ve won plenty where middle was never held, we just rotated middle and far the other team spent most of there time trying to retake there home. instead of sending someone off to de-cap far then move to middle they just pilled in to middle or there home. also people not looking at the mini map to see where they are needed.

There are two things that make a PvP game hard, skill(someone is always going to be better than you, we all have to face it.) and the lack on knowledge/understanding of how the game modes/classes work.

DH’s have GOOD/CRAZY mobility. If you know how to use sword 2. lock target ->leave target ->sword 2 back.

You need a target. This is what I am referring too.