Guild Wars 2

Asura cultural medium is the worst cultural in the game imo. I love the animations on thieves, but so far the best way to look good as a medium asura is to pretend to be an engineer.

We just got attacked by King Kong over here in NSP..

I just completed an invasion, made sure to deliberately do the invasion events, got gold at least 7 times in them on the last wave, but I’m still not getting credit for them with Vorpp. I’ve double and tirple checked, he tells me to go do invasion events, but I don’t get any credit standing directly under the open portal completing the event on it. Is it bugged?

Having the events on a set global time and no other time wasn’t really a good idea imo.

On WvW sieging SM, when abruptly 3/4 of our commanders and the majority of our troops are simply gone. WvW is literally a ghost town, even in EB theres a whopping 3 accounted people on our side right now. And I can’t be bothered to leave and do something else because I was a bit off..

I go full zerk everything, but I don’t use frailty so I can’t say.
Sword/axe/gs, scholar runes, jaguar/jungle stalker 30-30-10-0-0 Troll Ungent, SoTW, SoS, QZ and Take Root (cultural, I guess you can use RaO or something)
Pop troll unguent right before you go in, start with jungle stalker, Path of Scars from where yo ustand at him to the axe 5, switch to GS and spam stuff till he ports, use Swoop then swap back to sword/axe, swap to jaguar, pop SoTW and QZ. SoS and Take Root I use as precautions.

Finally found a helm that I think I’ll use for my asura, but it has an undyable color on it which is bugging me to no end. I actually like the color, but I’m having trouble finding dyes that go well with it. Anyone use this that can help me out?

For reference; helm color on solid dye

I could care less about destroyers, embers, FG, that’s all legit and totally fine with me.
But Deadeye…
Its classlocked, or close to it, I’d like to see an Engi make as much off Deadeye as a guardian does with little to no effort. I play ranger, and even with 100% zerkity zerk and the most efficient traits, weapons and skills I can’t do it nearly as easy as the more efficient classes. There is no DR and really no difficulty if you are playing certain classes.

I didn’t mean for this to come about like a complaint of “I’m not getting enough money!”

A lot of people aren’t aware of LS as new players or simply aren’t getting the opportunities to get on for this event, whether it be illness or vacation. Non-80 players also are at a disadvantage. With the amount of gold being created, not sold around but created by Dunwell and the like, I have no idea how ANet plans to ‘fix’ the huge amount of inflation that is going to happen.

Wanze.8410:

Its not you class that is bad at farming, its your build.

Pretty much everyone I have asked has told me not to even try farming Dunwell. I ran full zerk everything, soldiers with zerk trinkets, swapping traits and weapons, etc. and I still only made about 2g/hour because I couldn’t do it with multiple gambits. As for Ember farming, I can go full zerk, pop RaO with sword and use my jaguar on a full hp champion ember and occasionally not get it tagged. But that isn’t really my point, either.
I have school on the weekdays and a part-time job. I can get on for maybe an hour on the weekdays, and focus mainly on the weekends. I’m hovering around 20g and have been for a while now, but abruptly it has no value. How do I get enough gold for the value? Spend hours farming embers of the jubilee that I don’t have. If I play WvW now, I just get poorer because of buying structures, armor repairs and the little to no loot you get.

We’re just getting stepped on right now.
I can’t farm Dunwell because I’m a ranger, by the time I heard about embers, people had trolled it in every server I tried. I thought about crafting a warrior up to 80 so I won’t get left behind, but its too late because cooking went from 3g to 6g and it would take me almost 20g to level certain crafts. The only option I have right now would be to buy gold, but the ANet conversion is the same as it was before the inflation and I don’t trust 3rd party sites. They keep saying they have a plan for this, but really, how on earth do you fix this? Add in huge gold sinks, up the gold to gems conversion rate, anything like that would hurt everyone, including the players who didn’t get a chance to farm this stuff. Abyss dye and the like have been skyrocking, ectos have gone up alarmingly, but my gold isn’t going up hardly at all because my class is bad at farming the stuff that gets us money.

+1
I finally gave up on my beloved Ranger who I played through the game with from the first day of release, and rerolled a warrior.
I can’t make money because rangers suck at farming things like Dunwell, or doing enough AoE damage to tag multiple mobs in huge zergs. I can’t WvW with my guild because I’m the sole ranger in our numbers and we all know that all I can really do is scout and carry supply. I can’t do PvE content because when someone has the choice between a ranger or a warrior in their pub, its bye bye to the ranger.

I’m sick and tired of being the only person who can’t do whatever strategies there are to do living story because I’m a ranger and I might as well just sell everything I have on me and use it to hit 80 on another class.

When I started the game, I used to crash every 20 minutes-hour for no specific reason, I heard somewhere that it was a NVidia issue they were trying to resolve. It went away, never crashed at all for a few months. But recently its back, and its completely ruining my gameplay. I can’t do WvW, I miss out on most event rewards and even soloing content is difficult and borderline pointless when I crash after 5 minutes of kiting a champ and he resets himself again. There is no real pattern I can tell, I got one when farming embers, one leveling up, one in WvW roaming, etc.

Any idea how to farm him as a ranger? I go full zerker, but I can’t do anything but 1 gambit (hamstring) or I die instantly. GS/LB atm

This could possibly be the best thing to happen in the game.

Just to clarify, 2 players, 1 Deadeye. I got both the Humble and Risk Taker achievements, but not the triple threat even though we had a total of 3 gambits.

Happened to me twice now, I’ve fought a round with another person in the gauntlet with me. The gambits they have count for me too, and we got the achievements the other person was going for along with ours. Is this repeatable or just flat chance? The only thing we had the same were who we were challenging.

MassDelusion.9130:

She has some hard lessons to teach

To the people of Divinity’s Reach

“Grow the kitten up and go fight some dragons.”

Now, with the QS page getting destroyed and the trolly, lackluster birthday announcement, I don’t think the Queen Jennah mini will BE the birthday mini. I’m going to say its more likely to be Scarlet, or someone/thing else entirely.
It might just be wishful thinking, but this whole event is getting flipped upside down and gutted out from what we thought it was, and even Arenanet is aware of how lackluster a QJ mini is.

The Spiral King.2483:

Celebratty.1632:

I just want some story coverage of the Sylvari.
We got Canach, the bad guy who is now gone without a trace, now we have ‘Scarlet’, another bad guy. Can we have some storyline based around the Nightmare Court attacking, or around sylvari themselves? So far, we’ve just been the bad guys.

The Sylvari got loads of spotlight in the personal story for every race, I don’t want to hear it. Everyone had to follow Trahearne, everyone had to go see the Pale Tree.

Sylvari based=/=Sylvari in it
The only thing based around the sylvari in the personal story if you were not a sylvari was going to the pale tree, iirc. I want a living story based around problems in the Magumaa or the Nightmare Court allying with the inquest.

I just want some story coverage of the Sylvari.
We got Canach, the bad guy who is now gone without a trace, now we have ‘Scarlet’, another bad guy. Can we have some storyline based around the Nightmare Court attacking, or around sylvari themselves? So far, we’ve just been the bad guys.

Random between Zojja, Caithe, QJ, Eir, or some not-rytlock Charr guy (don’t play Charrs at all), make them not account bound.
People can get gold, or a mini of their choice, with their birthday gift.
I have 4 sylvaris and 2 asuras, no I do not want Queen Jenna, I already just got Ellen.

I was wondering if anyone was interested in this/if its possible to hit 80 doing so.
More or less a runthrough of map completion without getting hearts from level 2-80. PoIs, vistas, waypoints and maybe skill points depending on your class and if more people cooperate.

Obviously going to get a lot harder running through as you get to higher level maps, but could you hit 80 without doing 95% of meta events, no hearts and just grabbing PoIs and things?

After I read the book, definitely a shame.
Potentially awesome character is of course the one who dies, leaving behind five flat characters that are all so flat mainly because of his demise.

I say Snaff isn’t dead regardless of if I had seen it with my own eyes, because hes a freakish genius, and they always have a backup plan for their backup plan.
Perhaps some inter-dimensional contact with another Snaff from an almost identical world, or he could have pulled some serious watchknight skills and not gone at all.

One thing very unique to GW2 is the fact that there is no ‘exclamation point’ questing. You can level via WvW, world completion or meta events, However, why can’t we have some old fashioned quests?

Obviously GW2 tried to avoid the old fashioned KILL X COLLECT X quests (albeit hearts are kind of like that), but I would personally love some story quests, that have less to do with kill X and more of explore and talk to people. There are so many people you can stop and talk too who you could easily volunteer to help. The norn planning to drag his friend out to avenge his brother by killing Sons of Svanir, the construction workers that need tools, all the asuras who are trying to finish experiments to no avail, why can’t we help them instead of just saying ‘goodbye’ and running off? The only NPCs you actually get something from talking too are the ones who start meta events, and then they start over, and over, and over. It’d be nice to help someone avenge their family or find their lost keepsakes and to have them remember you instead of losing it in the same place.

Honestly I’d like it just to be more immersive and make it less frustrating to talk to interesting NPCs, so the reward aspect isn’t something I’m very concerned about. Perhaps a few coin and karma, obviously no experience, maybe some food or a random T1 dye. All completely optional content, but something people who are interested in roleplaying or in the storyline of GW2 and their character could do.

Fortus.6175:

thats what you get for playing ugly races :/

Play sylvari, get the best out of all worlds; humn figure, all colors available, glow (!!!!!), some armorshave exclusive glow just because we glow!

This has been bugging me.
Every time I try and reroll, I end up with a sylvari.
Humans look too similar, charr armor and run is so screwy, Norn animations are meh and its hard to make a normal looking female, I like asura but they miss out on so much stuff I could get just by picking a pretty glowy tree.

Revamp water fighting, make 3 water-based maps with little land, release Largos as a playable class.

We can dream..

Well another dragon is not planned for this year, so we have a good number of festivals to go..
I’m honestly disappointed in the living story team, instead of anything serious we get lighthearted events with some goofy enemies (aetherblades have been here for what, 3 months or so?) and no good conclusions.

Turmoil.7380:

i beat him by using whirlwind on my warrior to dodge his killshot so id assume you can use sword #3 and/or dagger #4 on ranger to dodge it. he always use killshot after he teleported so that is a good cue for you to use evasion

Dodging the skill isn’t really a problem, but the fact that I instantly explode with no indication and that the spell apparently bugs out and channels before he teleports and then he teleports and shoots at the same time. I’ve tried this over fifteen times on two different characters and I keep randomly dying not from traps or by any visual indication from him..

I’ve seen that before, turned me off of the 110g for that set.
Snapdragon helm has a similar bug, it doesn’t track your head and will clip through your eye and slide along your face.

Sticking by traditional, sorry.
December was the end of ‘good’ temporary content for me. And I missed out on SAB and Halloween because I was a nooblet who didn’t check the updates in the corner of my screen.

Southsun was people grinding the two bosses in zergs, then was promptly never mentioned again, Dragon Bash(?) was break these piñatas X times and buy 3,000 coffers for these skins, Aetherblades were, er, they suddenly appeared and killed some people for some reason and then they had a ship and I honestly don’t have a clue. The bazaar/council election was just a weird, impractical, buggy event and the only upside was the scavenger hunt was fairly fun. Then we were forced to grind through the minigames for shinies.
QJ is the worst of the worst. Its a laggy joke, with the most backwards, stupid storyline I’ve seen in the game. Can’t say much on gauntlet because I’m only up to Deadeye, but the only ‘skills’ I’ve had were luck and kiting at this point.

I just can’t beat this boss.
I die within the first 30s of being in the ring. He goes through my blocks/reflection, and I get oneshot without even having the spell channeled on me. I thought something was screwing up, so I switched from ranger to Mesmer to try it out. He charges his spell, I stun him or distortion, he ports and I instantly am downed. Does he have another oneshot mechanic? Am I just too squishy running knights/zerker? If I’m not directly on top of him I get instantly downed when I run full knights with SOS on my ranger.

I seriously would rather play GW at this point.
After killing 600 mobs and running through the pavilion achievements, I grabbed my whopping 18 tickets and had a lot of fun with the gauntlet. Then I was out, oops. Grinded another 2 hours, played gauntlet again, decided to try some of the other achievements.
Ran up to 10 balloons, racking maybe 50 pirate kills on the way then realized I wasn’t even done with the tiers of those yet.
30 freaking balloons? What is this adding to the content? 100 ablade pirates? People are just camping events. Its a giant to-do list that makes me exhausted, and all I get is some crappy mini.
But I do it anyway because if I don’t I’ll lose the opportunity to..

I honestly thought this was a joke when I first heard of it.
A.. a party? Instead of spending all that gold to supply their military or fund defense against the centaurs or research on the dragons, you send balloons to everywhere in the world and invite them to hit machines (that could be used as guards in those places instead of giving them balloon rides) and ignore the aetherblades attacking? Yea, lets send those amazing fighters off to fight random people instead of defending from the atherblades or helping out the locals..

This entire update is just full of wat. Hey guys… dragons, centaurs, aetherblades, krait kidnapping innocent people and using them as slaves… nah, lets party!

I did it the first time with a ranger longbow easily. Try going full damage and just kiting him ranged.

60 per account per path per day.
This huge nerf, along with overhyped gold rewards (that are insignificant besides Arah), and throwing us a new temporary super farming zone seems more like keeping us quiet about the huge dungeon nerfs.

Zacchaeed.2834:

Get a better computer.

My computer worked perfectly fine with little to no loading times before this patch. I’m not going to buy a new computer because the game abruptly got 100x longer loading times.

I literally can’t fight the gauntlet because the mobs don’t load when they spawn. Its ridiculous that of all the mobs to get culled, its the ones with specific animations that you rely on dodging that are culled. I randomly die from nametags within the first 30s.

Not only does it take 2x as long, I come onto the map with stuff STILL rendering. I end up walking off cliffs/into walls I can’t see for a good 5m.

I can’t play the gauntlet right now, because the champions I fight don’t load. I’ve tried 3 times and have seen a nametag come at me, then ohko me. How can I fight if I can’t see who I’m fighting?

I’ve been longing to play a healer for quite some time, and Staff Ele doesn’t seem very satisfactory. I’ve rerolled a guard, grabbed a staff and ran with some lower level guildies and have been loving it so far. I’m primarily an open PVE/WvWvW person, and was wondering what the best build would be as a primary healer/offtank.

Well for me honestly I loved being a healer class and it was fun relying on heals and buffing your teammates instead of everyone trying to do the highest dps they can. Can’t say I know much about any trinity, but I do know that every dungeon team outside of fractals wants flat dps, dps, dps and nothing else.

-White trash
-Blue trash
-Green trash
-Yellow toilet food

Everyone and their mother has an exotic set, why do you even bother dropping masterwork/blues/whites when no one ever uses, needs, or wants them?

I don’t care.
I don’t care about the Bazaar. I don’t care about the Dragon Bash and I certainly don’t care about the Jubilee.

Why? Because I’m going to spend 2 weeks frantically grinding, grab my shinies and leave like nothing ever happened.

This is getting worse and worse ANet. I’m not staying for your bloody kittening time gated RNG gated shinies that don’t give me any pleasure in doing or getting them. I’m staying because of the stuff you released at the beginning of the game, you know, that whole MMO game thing with five (not 3!) races heavily involved and there were dragons? That thing is alright, shame no one plays anymore.

Do we have any word on this? I can’t look my ranger in the face at this point when she has a greatsword or longbow halfway through her butt all the time. Even the Whisper greatsword cannot escape the gravity of the sylvari booty.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Celebratty.1632:

But then why do they give us experimental teleportation guns, or let warriors use savage leap, or necros negate fall damage?

Experimental teleportation guns and their ilk are supposed to be used in the immediate vicinity, making them part of level design. Necros lost their ability to negate fall damage with DS in this latest patch (to our eternal sadness because of how much fun it was). Dunno about Savage Leap.

Personally, I think blinks would be substantially more satisfying if they had no limitations on landing location. You could do all sorts of clever things with them if you got good at their use. But the problem with that is, you then put professions with targeted blinks (just Thief, Mesmer, and Ele, I think) on a completely different playing field from everyone else, making it potentially impossible for other professions to compete.

Do you play League of Legends, by any chance? Every character in that game is given two spells per game chosen from a small pool available to everyone. These abilities are on very long cooldowns and are typically quite high-impact. One of them is called Flash, and it works pretty much like blinks in GW2 except it can cross terrain gaps, and it is far and away stronger than all the other options, some of which are pretty strong in their own right. Buffing blinks in GW2 to ignore terrain gaps is an extremely powerful advantage with hundreds of possible uses. Even though it would make them feel so much better to use, it would also almost certainly make them hilariously overpowered.

Flash in LoL has a 300 second cooldown, and it’s still overpowered. How much of an increase to Lightning Flash’s cooldown would you tolerate for this kind of buff?

Necros can negate fall damage still, double clicking spectral walk. Experimental teleportation gun is used all throughout the game. There are at the moment ways to jump over terrain gaps, and only Guardian, Ranger and Necro don’t have blinks (and once again, they can completely negate fall damage), and guardians can(?) use their JI to get across gaps if an enemy is there. This leaves behind ranger, and well I don’t want to go on about how they’re already horribly left behind.

I posted on this thread before it was moved to Elementalist, and I was mainly here to talk about the poorness of blinks in general. But, in response to your LoL post, yes I do play League of Legends, quite extensively over four years in fact. But it is nothing like Guild Wars 2 except that people fight eachother. Combo fields, zerging, mass amounts of player grouping, capping (TTT is very uncomparable) ‘Obstruction’, vulnerability, and the like don’t even exist. The blink restrictions are unnecessary and negate the usefulness of said spells, because if you can’t literally walk in a straight line, you will not blink.

I think GW2 tried to remove questing as a thing by removing traditional kill X quests and adding in meta events, but then turned around and added mandatory press F 80 times per quests. Its worse than regular MMOs because its forced down your throat. GW2 did a lot of things right in my opinion, but every heart falls into one of three categories and becomes boring after the first world.
-Press F on X
-Kill things to press F on X
-Transform into a slow, clunky, low damage mob to press F on X

Quite fond of this one, fell and died in Rata Sum in a pretty spot.

Blaine Tog.8304:

tekfan.3179:

Hi folks.
Lately I’m wondering more and more why the blinks/teleports have been nerfed to uselessness. As far as I knew, it was about the jumping puzzles.

Actually, it’s to preserve map design. They don’t want us using blinks to get to sections of the map they didn’t intend, so they limited their ability to cross gaps.

But then why do they give us experimental teleportation guns, or let warriors use savage leap, or necros negate fall damage?
There is already a billion and one ways to get out of the map and into unintended areas, the blink issue isn’t going to stop us from getting places when we can go just as far with WH4/S2 on a warrior.

That’s what excited me about having blinks and such, being able to reach areas and assassinate people. Now its like, why bother even putting them on when you have much better stunbreakers, and that’s all they can do.
Unless you can walk a straight path too the location you targeted, it does nothing. I’ve been screwed over by small cliffs or “well, you can’t blink there but you can use the 3 stairs a couple feet away if you want!”.

Getting all the camp POIs is ridiculously simple and any class can walk into it (Spectral Walk, Mist Form, Blink, Stealth are all skills that will get you to it, Signet of Stone when traited, Guardians, Engis, Warriors and Rangers can fairly easily just use gapclosers to get in there or tank a couple of shots.), skill points, all but SM you can get regardless of your world’s influence, keeps swap almost every reset so getting the keeps/towers shouldn’t be a problem, along with BLs.

We’ve all had to do it, I’d much rather get another BL completion than go through Orr again. It really isn’t that difficult.