Guild Wars 2

HiddenNick.7206:

Cassius.4831:

Tiger.7506:

Sorry but I did not buy an MMO for minigames.

Well, GW2 was announced with minigames (bar brawl? polymock?) and no grind

No grind? lol! Gw1 had a lot of grinding. What did you expect? And why?

Where was that grind, so I can log in – I still have GW1 installed – and see it? Because I was able to get BiS gear in less than a week. Of course, you could farm for an Obsidian armor (I did) or GWAMM title (I did it too). But if you were a casual gamer or simply you didn’t want to farm that day, you could play with total freedom knowing that you would never been left behind.

Because, in GW1, you could have GWAMM, torment weapons, obsidian armor… but the only difference between you and a player with regular gear was you skill.

And, some of us, still enjoyed that game and purchased this because they promised us it would be the same

jayb.1329:

So you put several hundred hours into the game, beat every dungeon and most of the hard content……you sound skilled, so skilled in fact that you should be able to get ascended gear just like all the characters in the zerg train that you’re worried about.

The main problem is that ascended are not about skill but time sink and grind. I’m sorry you aren’t able to understand this concept, although OP has explained it superb

I’ve opened it. 50 baubles

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab-bts/shiny-5-keys-chest-found-playing-solo/first#post2783606

Tiger.7506:

Sorry but I did not buy an MMO for minigames.

Well, GW2 was announced with minigames (bar brawl? polymock?) and no grind

quaniesan.8497:

Grinding sucks, I get that part. Now, all this frustration is because people are so eager and want to obtain the ascended gear as early as possible. We have been doing just fine with exotics and thus there’s no reason why we couldn’t fight anymore with exotics gear just because there’s ascended weapons out there.

We don’t want ascended nor power creep, we want easy max stats gear so we can explore the game thrhough our skill instead through grinded/farmed stats.

Some of us have played several hundred of hours at this game, have done every dungeon, have beaten almost every hard content… and we are punished with grind and power creep.

How can I enjoy WvW if there’s a zerg train looting champions that will kill me easily in two weeks because they are more powerful than me? Where are skills rewarded, when an unskilled farmer can beat you because of his gear? Is it fair?

The answer: not for me, at least. That’s the reason I’ll quit this game (again, as I did at November although finally returned in January with laurels. But not this time) when I finishes all SAB challenges.

aspirine.6852:

I’m having 100 times more fun in wvwvw than in any part of the pve. Even though it’s zerg fest most of the time. But this weeks matchup for my server so far has been great.
For me wvw is the endgame, i’m not even going to finish the sp part after doing that just once.

I usually play WvW when there’s no new content. IMHO It’s one of the best designed zones of the permanent content, because I enjoy playing there although “real” rewards are low (compared with doing any other thing as temples or farming in PvE). But I think it’s broken now, because of ascended items. I usually play solo (taking flags, dolyaks or even camps) and sometimes I must fight 1v1. Now, with they new tier of weapons, I’m punished for not grinding them.

Sil.4560:

I don’t give a kitten about most of the “endgame” posted in the screenshot, myself. I don’t even have any interest in SAB this time around. Liadri wasn’t hard. Dungeon Master isn’t a feat. I’ve got over 10k AP and don’t feel particularly accomplished from that.

WvW is something I’d consider good endgame…if they’d make it more balanced and less of a zergfest. As it is, roaming is about the only way for me to enjoy it. I feel like the game is lacking in endgame “raid” like content and actual Guild vs. Guild deathmatch stuff.

I agree about WvW, I simply put this screenshot because this is what I have now. Of course, my pic isn’t a good example to define endgame. I only wanted to show that there’s people (like me) that have played almost every content of this game and doesn’t need to fill the endgame with more tiers of gear. Furthermore, although I would like a lot more new content, nowadays I consider it’s fair enough for me what we have. So, when I hear people with only a couple of thousands of AP are complaining about this topic and asking for new gear, I think… have they explored this game enough far as they can??

I hope I’ve states my opinion in a better way now. I’m not native english, so it’s a bit difficult for me to express it

Everything is endgame. But, as I’ve stated before, if you have more than 10k AP and rewards for doing the hard content of this game, I’ll close my mouth

“Guild wars is for everybody, freedom is ascended, zerg is strength”

~ G. Orrwell, great shaman of the new flame legion, 1984 AE.

Vayne.8563:

I used to say all the time on the Rift forums, if I’d wanted gear grind, I’d have become a watchmaker.

There is grind in this game, but for the most part it’s optional grind. Ascended items push that boundary quite far, particularly the new ascended weapons. I personally have no problem with them, but it does up the power curve and for casual players, they’re not all that easy to get.

Still, I think the problem is everyone wants everything now. If you take these as long term goals, they’re really not that bad.

I have eight characters and I’d like to alternate builds too. I will have arthritis in my fingers before I get enough ascended gear for all of them. And, as you can see, I’ve played enough to deserve max stats.

Visual grind is ok, because you don’t get any benefit and you don’t feel you are worse than other players (I liked legendaries as exotics, and I’d like to see more legendary gear). But if grind leads to better stats, you feel punished until you get it. And this is unpleasant because you feel you’ll never work enough to get your rest, as Sisyphus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus )

Wolfheart.1938:

The question is…with a guide or without? :P

hahaha, well, I try to avoid guides, but sometimes I use them. Anyway, the most important is that I’ve spent a lot of time playing this game, I’ve earned 9500 points and I still enjoy to play this game without new endgear (I’m trying SAB TM 2-2 tonight). So, when I read about people complaining about this, saying that they need this ascended tier to continue playing, I hope they have at least 12-13K AP.

… I would like to know if all of these people can attach a screenshot like this.

This game doesn’t have a lack of content. This game has a lack of people who know how to enjoy it without grinding, ascended items or carrots in a stick. Because if you, people, are only able to get fun grinding, I suggest you to apply for a job in a cardboard box factory instead of wasting your time playing. It something like gathering materials and you earn some real money at the same time.

So thanks to every dev who has made possible all the fun content. Specially Josh Foreman and his team, who has been able to add new enojoyable content despite isn’t farmable and his “only” reward is the fun. You are a genius, tyvm.

Gibson.4036:

I was conflicted. I’m a fan of getting to the power plateau and being able to just enjoy the game. It’s what I hoped for when coming to GW2. I don’t like the new ascended weapons. I hate how alt-unfriendly they are.

But I really love a lot of things about GW2. There’s certainly no MMO currently running or launching in the near future that looks like it will be nearly as good.

So how do I keep playing while letting ANet know that I hate their new level of gear?

I’ve been the occasional gem buyer. I don’t mind supporting a game that I really enjoy. I want, however, to play a game where I don’t have to keep updating gear to keep my set BiS.

So I’ve decided I won’t be buying any more gems until the three characters I have decked out in full exotics and ascended jewelry once again have a complete set of BiS gear. I’ll work toward replacing all of my exotic weapons (about 11 across the three characters), but not farm, because farming bores me to tears.

Since we’re getting ascended armor before the end of the year, it doesn’t look like I’ll have those 11 weapons before that patch hits, so I’ll continue to work toward the weapons and add the ascended armor to my GW2 to-do list.

Eventually, when those three characters have their full Ascended set, I will go back to supporting GW2 through the gem store.

Hopefully Colin’s dream of Ascended being final will come true, and there won’t be a new tier dropped into the game at that point.

Same. But we cannot be sure that there won’t be a new tier, since they’ve lied us before introducing the ascended tier.

Actually, we only can expect to get things worse because they have spoken several times about allowing characters to raise their level cap (source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13tuac/im_the_studio_design_director_on_guild_wars_2_ama/c7762pk ). So someday we will find that there will be a new tier or maybe lvl 90 gear. And we will be forced to throw out all our equipment – again – for the glory of the Eternal Grinding.

The sooner we accept this, the better for us.

I don’t care, because I’m leaving this game as soon as SAB finishes. It’s frustrating to reach 500 in crafting because the huge amount of gold and effort required. I don’t want to spen all my gold in upgrading my gear because I’ve spent enough time doing that and hence I DESERVE it.

I’m not a casual player, I have +9k AP, 2 legendaries (quip & bolt) and about 400g now. But, although I spend a lot of time playing GW2, I conceive this game for fun, not as a job. It’s ok, we should make an effort in order to get a good gear… but I’ve done it yet.

If the devs don’t understand this, I think I must resign and leave GW2 looking for a more rewarding game

LilMcGinley.3890:

Refine T6 Mats.
Craft Oils (sharp stone, crystals, maintenance oils) – Got me to 436
Craft 2-4 Exotics.

450 – 500
Refine T7 Mats for Weapon.

Which mats do you refine when you reach 475?? Because they don’t give almost any experience once you are over this level

The abyss are not what they seem.

(The counterpart is that now I’m looking for dying… anyway, this was infantile mode )

It was visual, you are right. I’ve returned and there was only one lock. There’s one purple bauble inside (50 baubles), btw

Is this a bug? if not, has anyone opened it?

I don’t know how can it be opened, but there’s something inside that room. It might be a better coins bag

Once you’ve played TM, you realize that there’s nothing unintended :P

If you follow the gong, I think it’s safer to change your side crossing his path instead of doing akittens back. Anyway, it’s very hard and you still need to know the position of every trap

2-2 is a pain if you don’t take the shortcut

But… how is method 2?

Finally done, ty. But now my game is bugged after dying (jumping at the bonsai tree) and I cannot move nor camera neither character. Several hours wasted for nothing ._.

OMFG I’ve cleaned this tower going into from that place ad nauseam.

Thank you very much

I’m a bit disappointed with SAB World 2. I expected death traps in TM, and perhaps a bunch of them in normal mode. But normal mode is covered by those arrow traps (I’m stuck at the great castle with a gong since 2 hours ago, fun disappear some time ago, now I only want to finish it)

World 1 is well balanced, but in Word 2:

- Infantile mode is too easy
- Normal mode is too hard
- TM …

I tried Liadri until I beat her, but this time I think I’ll give up some of the achievements. World 2-2, killing every assassin and finding every bauble might be longer than Arah p4 for me.

Anyway, the main problem here is that SAB is not permanent. If SAB were permanent I could give a try sometimes. But since it will only last for several days, I’m forced to try it more times that I would do it

I’ve jumped to that rock several times, but the ratio success/failure is about 1/20. So I’m starting to think that perhaps it’s a better path

This is epic. I did this JP, all four flags, waiting for a chest. There was nothing at the end, but who cares.

I’m playing again for fun, not for farming. Thank you very much for SAB.

Grileenor.1497:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Like before, I’ll throw out the caveat that I’m not claiming that the SAB team is that master craftsman pushing the medium forward in dramatic brilliant ways. Only that we are THINKING about the design choices we make, we recognize when we are breaking rules, and we have a reason for doing so. Because SAB exists within the ecosystem of Guild Wars 2 it’s not going to be an exact replica of IWTBTG. We’re a hybrid, and that brings lots of interesting challenges with it. I’m sure we’ll learn a lot from this first TM release, and incorporate those lessons into the next round.

You might rethink your choices, when real competition will show up next year and those RPG type of GW2 fans, lured here by some manifesto, will leave for other games with more fantasy and less SAB. Hybrids tend to have the flaw to become ‘neither – nor’ very fast and without prior announcements. Hybrids are often done by people who don’t really know how to do either really well. But perhaps I am only prattling as well

SAB isn’t against the manifesto. Actually, it fits perfectly in it: it’s an activity, it’s about skill (not gear) and there’s no grind (only for cosmetic items)

I’m very excited about this new update. Foreman didn’t dissapoint me before (Clock Tower, SAB 1st world) and TM seems pretty sadist for me

Moss.5371:

Josh Foreman.8250:

blah blah

That explains a lot. You do indeed sound sadistic, which is troubling. What’s the point of investing this much time and effort of development in content that only a handful will enjoy AND come here and brag about it? Can only be sadism. Maybe you could try to make more popular content for the people that bought your game(1), which certainly didn’t buy it expecting this.

(1) New permanent content such as areas, skills, classes, skins, dungeons.

Why do you know people won’t enjoy SAB TM? Some years ago, in NES era, almost every game used this kind of design to offer fun. And people enjoyed those games a lot (Ninja Gaiden – as stated above -, Werewolf… even Super Mario Bros -those falling platforms! -). Megaman or Metroid were very hard too and I don’t think they can be considered a fail

I have eight characters at level 80. In a few days, I’ll have:

- 8 mini queen Jennah (1 is fine, 7 are useless)
- 8 XP scrolls (I had one more, so 9. Useless, all of them)
- 8 boosters (8 days with +100%mf… well, not bad?)

Seriously, who has created this gift? There are plenty of better gifts, for example:

- 1 random miniature from pack 2 (a not very expensive gift)
- 1 new random tonic with infinite uses (not very expensive, and funny)
- 1 random ascended trinket (account bound, so it doesn’t affect market)
- a birthday cupcake (come on, this is 100 thousand times better than a booster, even if they give us the same buff)
- some clothes
- some toys for clothes
- …

I don’t know, there are a lot of things better than the thing we have received.

Suddenly, nobody offers it and its price has risen since some days ago

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/39467

Finally done with my engineer:

20: III – VIII
0
10: I
30: I – IX -X
10: VI

Berserker gear (5 runes of citadel + beryl orb)

Skills: [Elixir H – Exlixir B, Flamethrower, Bomb Kit – Supply Crate]

Phase 1: flamethrower for orbs
Phase 2: Running in circles and dropping bombs

I thought I had beeen defeated when I saw the reward. I was never able to see how much life she had.

Liadri is epic. Anyway, I think there are some design flaws here, as I’ve pointed just some days ago —> https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/I-like-Liadri-a-lot/first#post2606124

P.S.: 8 orbs? nah, perhaps in 2014

Viking Jorun.5413:

Astralporing.1957:

Sythus.2396:

^ Ascended Armour was nothing we didn’t know about already though, was it? Why are you being so upset?

He likely had hope that they realized how bad decision introducing ascended was, and that they won’t follow through with it to the bitter end.
Just as some people still have hope that ascended really will be the end of item progression.

I don’t understand why there is still any doubt. It’s been explicitly stated on countless occasions that they don’t plan on releasing any tiers above ascended stats. Ascended was a missing link between exotic and legendary. There won’t be more.

It could be nice if you could explain that thing about missing link, since:

- There are legendary weapons since launch, but not ascended yet, and they have same stats than exotics
- There are ascended trinkets since Nov 15th, but legendaries have never existed
- Best armor has always been exotic.

As an altoholic with 8 characters (and wanting to create new ones when new professions/races appear), I hope you (ANET) think about us when you finally implement this.

I know, this is not GW1 (this is a new game, blah blah blah, I got it) but i miss a lot how easy was to change my build there and to dress up all my characters. Here, everytime some new content appears (as Liadri) I regret that I purchased this armor instead another one (for instance, applying new rune set implies destroying the old one or the armor). If we are so punished equipping and changing our characters with exotics, I can only be terrified of thinking about this same thing with ascended items (more expensive or – please don’t do this – time gated). And, since I have 8 characters, I feel punished x8.

… but I think I’m resigning on beating her because:

- It implies farming tickets. Fuerthermore, it implies farming them with the same character you want to combat Liadri.

- I’ve lost enough time entering/leaving the Pavillion and respawning/reaching her after being killed.

- I’ve lost enough money changing build, buying new items, repairing my gear and using a WP when there’s no people to resurrect me

So, in other words: Liadri’s challenge is awesome, but I’m getting annoyed because all of these things. In fact, I’m here and not playing because I can only think in beating her. And since I don’t have tickets and I’m bored of farming them, I feel annoyed and waste my time in other things instead of playing gw2.

I was playing for fun, achievements and events but, you know, if you want to dress up properly your 8 characters you must farm, farm, farm.

Furthermore, for some achievements like Liadri, you must farm too (those kitten tickets).

So perhaps I’m disappointing Anet with my gameplay, but previously they disappointed me breaking their manifesto. Hence I was forced to adapt my gameplay.

I know, a lot of people hate underweater areas, but imho this is because underwater gameplay isn’t enough developed:

- too few skills are usable
- best breather is green

A new 100% oceanic area, for everybody that has defeated Zhaitan could be great to push people to finish their personal stories and to add new unique skills that could be used only when diving

Again, although this time was quite different: I was challenging subject 7 (with 3 gambits – fire, exhausted and hamstring -) and Liadri appeared too. Bye 4 tickets.

I didn’t have time to get a screenshot (crippled and exhausted is not a good combo for avoiding special guest Liadri’s areas)

Thanks everyone for the answers. Then I can get the achievement, although anyway it’s a thing that ANET should fix, imho.

I’ve done twice the Krytan torchbearer daily achievement but I don’t obtain it

Same here, It has happened to me 3 times, it’s a too common issue in my opinion

Here is attached a screnshot of it, sorry for kitten words (I was typing “this” fast but… meh, who cares, I was dying)

By the way, Impaler fits perfectly with my warrior

Another one: Scepter of the Highborn

Thanks everbody, then I’ll continue salvaging these items

Nikkle.4013:

Salvage for parts and deposit them. That’s it. You can use the mats to craft new gear if you rank up but sounds like you don’t pvp.

I play PvP, but not so much (I’m lvl 9 there)

I mean, because of the rewards of the achievements, now I have a lot of duplicated PvP gear. What can I do with it? And what’s the best option?

I know I can salvage it, but nothing more. I’ve tried to throw it to the mystic forge but this gear doesn’t seem to match with anything

Thanks

50 points per achievement in HoM is fair. It takes a lot of time and it’s a reward for loyal fan base. Furthermore, I would add an achievement for GWAMM title and I would give it 50 points more (or 100).

Yes, I know it, but hammer seems too slow, so I hardly hit a disabled foe. On the other hand, I would like to have that +20% recharge bonus. But

- 15 in Strength implies extra endurance
- VII in Strength applies confusion(4) for 8s (I can apply confusion to 3-4 foes simultanoeusly)

- Tactics (VIII and XII) improves my shouts so they can heal and recharge faster. This, used with Discipline IV and soldier runes, make shouts the “fuel” of the build (heal, cure conditions, gain adrenaline)

Finally, 20 points in Discipline reduce recharge of Burst to 8 secs.

So… yes, damage isn’t as high as it could be. But life pool is huge (30k), endurance is good (1664) and interrupts are common. Anyway, I feel a lack of healing. And extra critical damage is underused unless I apply fury with the elite signet.

I’m trying to make a hammer warrior too, trying to make a build that stunts as much as possible

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIUQJASTncOk8YUQOPwEZgwo4HiXpYOwJ9oMoJNA-jAyAorhoRFU0IEAZvioxWZLiGreBTXSEV7PKiWNA-e

Shouts would heal, give adrenaline and cure conditions. I think it can be fun to play although I didn’t try it yet because I’m lvl 73 (so if anyone thinks it’s crap, please say it! ^^)

This is one of the best updates by far, imho it’s as good as Halloween (or better, if it’s possible)

Puzzles, minigames, cool skins, fantastic artwork… this is why I purchased this game, thanks for this update.

FryChikN.5280:

Honestly, i have not heard CRAP about this game ANYWHERE. Is this game basically slowly digging its grave? Is this game an undiscovered gem? Has there been really big changes since last year?

I am REALLY bored and checked my email today and saw a GW2 email so i decided i might as well check it out again.

Why exactly does this game not get publicity anymore?

So… do you have the game? Then log in and try it. I don’t get the point to ask this in the forum, really