Guild Wars 2

Kiel all the way. Evon just appeared out of nowhere, and we knew her from previous missions.

Shakki.3219:

CharrGirl.7896:

LHound.8964:

VOLKON.1290:

For anyone that’s complaining about the increase in APs from GW1 contributions, answer me this.

How many APs did I receive and how did that affect you?

I don’t know how many you received…

But then answer me this: If you by doing nothing, you passed someone in the leaderboards due to your said gain, then was it fair to that player (let’s assume he cared about his position)?

I spent over a year getting my HoM I wouldn’t call that doing nothing Now you’re just making silly excuses and insulting people because you feel hurt you didn’t get “free stuff”. Jeez

No you were getting it either for yourself, or the stuff which was promised before.

You didn’t know about either Achievement Chests nor Achieve Point increase.

Dont call BS here.

Nope I didn’t know about em but what is essentially wrong with that? How in the world are you competing with other players but getting few gold and weapon skins? You know who cares? Only people who like to show off stuff and have to prove by any cost they have better shinies then the rest.

If it’s so important to you, or any1 – buy GW1, log in and work on those points. And try getting 50 points – I can guarantee you that it’s almost like making a legendary if not harder.

LHound.8964:

VOLKON.1290:

For anyone that’s complaining about the increase in APs from GW1 contributions, answer me this.

How many APs did I receive and how did that affect you?

I don’t know how many you received…

But then answer me this: If you by doing nothing, you passed someone in the leaderboards due to your said gain, then was it fair to that player (let’s assume he cared about his position)?

I spent over a year getting my HoM I wouldn’t call that doing nothing Now you’re just making silly excuses and insulting people because you feel hurt you didn’t get “free stuff”. Jeez

^
Why are you making so much fuss over mere 500 points? Earning achievement or title in GW2 is 100x easier then anything in GW1.

Kaveck.1532:

I really do feel like people who didn’t or havn’t played GW1 just don’t understand how much time and effort went into trying to fill out the Hall of Monuments.

Agree, I was playing for a whole year to get the achievement HoM points and it’s really nice to get rewarded for it. Worked a whole month just to get one title. And for complainers, it’s bonus content, you’re not being competitive in any way

If I fits, i Sits.

So there is something I noticed during large events for the past few days. When you used AoE looting on lots of mobs before, it usually displayed all loot on the right side in a quick fashion (that is, if you have auto-loot option enabled). But now it displays every item I loot in a very slow manner, 1 by 1.

Is this a bug? Because the loot display before was just fine, and I’d much rather see all loot I get at once, rather then slowly wait till all loot displays before I can loot the next group of mobs. I asked around in the chat, and other people seem to be having same issue.

To be completely honest, it’s kinda annoying that I have to wait to see what I got now.

Well, now I know which place is going to be nerfed next!

Balkanwarrior.5132:

CharrGirl.7896:

It’s aimed at all audiences. That doesn’t mean it has to be gritty and violent and bloody and I really don’t understand what’s the problem with it either. Just because it doesn’t suit your dark and maaaanly tastes doesn’t mean its ok for you to insult it either. Find a game that suits your tastes better or grow up.

Except it isn’t aimed at all audiences. It’s aimed at people who love particle affects and sparkly things

Whatever you say.

It’s aimed at all audiences. That doesn’t mean it has to be gritty and violent and bloody and I really don’t understand what’s the problem with it either. Just because it doesn’t suit your dark and maaaanly tastes doesn’t mean its ok for you to insult it either. Find a game that suits your tastes better or grow up.

I really REALLY liked the cutscene with Margory and Logan from Dragon Bash and id love to see this style of cutscenes return! So I was tiny bit dissapointed not to find anything like that in the newest update. For example, first cutscene between Kiel and that norn in LA (forgot his name sorry)

Anyway, introduce more of those please!

Yeah I figured, the one above Lions Arch. I’ve been there right now, killed 2 Aetherblades and they didn’t count towards achievement. Come on! :/

Kal Spiro.9745:

More than that, there are still Aetherblades in the world. The Aetherblade jumping puzzle hasn’t gone anywhere, as such acheivements for killing them in general and killing them in Kryta should still be completable.

The Aetherblade jumping puzzle? Where is that?

As it is for now, you can only get +1% in coin boost, karma gain and magic find.

Don’t wanna sound picky but is that a bit…underwhelming? It’s a really tiny amount that doesn’t really change anything. I was really expecting +5% or something.

So will this change, will these boosts increase or ? Because as for now, they’re pretty useless.

I was about to complete my sky pirate achievements for mini and it kicked me out because of update. Needless to say I had to kill 2 more pirates (248 out of 250) but there is no way i can complete it now whenits over and it kinda makes me feel frustrated.

Just to note, I don’t have much time to play. I don’t know if I can keep up with so much achievements every few weeks.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

All of them are events that hardly anyone ever does, and Plains of Ashford is the only starter zone without a world boss in it.

Yeah but those bosses in Plains of Ashford are difficult enough to be world bosses, even tho Calhaan ghost can be done with several people, if they made him more difficult it could pass as world boss event

While I really appreciate something like this, I can’t help but wonder will it cause more damage to the performance. You’re probably running it on lowest settings, but I’m just stating my concern here, since they announced official removal of culling in PvE.

GW2 is so badly optimized, unlike newest games, which I can crank up on highest graphics + some really demanding options like tessellation, still run tons better then GW2, and I’ve heard lots of people complain how it just plain strains their ultra performance systems.

You should by all means include option to hide player models. Aion did this, and I remember it not entirely fixing lag issues and stuff, but it did reduce it. I think it can be activated by pressing Shift + F12 or something.

Another thing for PvE, limit particle effects, there is too much of them = more lag.

Hi,

As you can see on gw2stuff.com some world bosses have been updated to contain a daily chest, like Fire Shaman, Dredge Commissar and few others.

There are still other world bosses that should also get a daily chest.

The two that come across my mind are:

- Megadestroyer in Mount Maelstrom
- Giant Branded Devourer in Fields of Ruin

Feel free to ad your suggestion:)

Or how about instead of nerfing CoF we get boosted rewards elsewhere? Like nerfing one dungeon will achieve anything. Besides haven’t the prices of ectos and dust/other mats gone down?

Nick.6972:

Quick! Sue Arena Net for offensive use of Asian elements!

No no, Apple will sue them because those lanterns resemble apples by their circular shape, only without bites in them :P

Sephius.2876:

What I’ve loved about expansions in the past is getting 3 or 4 new zones open and released at once. It really was a breath of fresh air, and gave me a new perspective on the game as an adventurer, rather then just re-visiting old zones with slightly different mobs.

The problem, I think, with the living story updates is that there’s no real ground breaking change. It’s like 1 small area, a couple of small events and then waiting a couple of weeks until the next update. There’s no brand new sweeping forests to explore, or new towns or villages, or no new castles/mountains/jungles. And for me that makes the new content just seem a bit hollow.

An expansion would change everything.

Yeah this, pretty much this

Hm I don’t know. I have mixed feeling about it – on one hand it’s a cool idea, but I would really love to see a full expansion like GW Factions/Nightfall was with brand new continents released each time. This way it sounds, till we get all zones, and Elona/Cantha it will take forever and half.

I really wanted to see those continents added in paid expansion, but if they can pull it of, well we’ll see.

It looks just like CoF armor to me

This was quite fun to watch

But I really have to ask 1 thing – Colin, are there any plans to fix the current state of Southsun ? It’s been empty and contested on every EU server I visited so far..

Pifil.5193:

In my opinion they should change it so that the four camps flip to be karka infested then an event chain kicks off that requires escorting an NPC group to liberate the four camps (in a set order) and afterwards the queen should spawn. This pattern works quite well in Orr.

The liberated camps should not be attacked by karka while the event chain is running and a chest of some sort should spawn in all four camps to entice people to do the pre-event (no guaranteed rares or anything just a regular chest) and not just pop to the nearest waypoint when the queen spawns.

Yeah I made the same suggestion and the more I think about it, this would be the ideal solution. Same thing happens in Orr (particularly in Malchor’s Leap) and even though it fails most of the time you can always resume it, not waiting helplessly aside while all the camps are being overrun and you need tons of players non-stop to keep them non-infested with enemies.

Darwinius.4195:

My friend who I got this game for his birthday barely plays and then he went back to WoW. After me forcing him to play he finally made his way to level 80 and he has gotten 6 exotics, 2 of them being precursors and he hasn’t even reached 150 hours. Worse I need Dawn for Sunrise and when he got it he started laughing at me and sold it. I have 700 hours and I have never gotten an exotic and only get rares from the bonus chest. I have thrown in about 1,500 greatswords into the toilet and still have gotten nothing.

That’s rotten, I could never do that lol

Looks like something in Southsun cove to me

The link is not working for me but if this is true then great news =)

Although I would personally like to see GUILD HALLS more then anything!

Ok thanks got it working

I just remembered that AoE looting option was added, so I checked it in the options during temple of Melandru pre-event and there were hoards of mobs, most of them dropped loot, pressed F and it didn’t loot more then one?

Am I doing something wrong here…I mean how do I get AoE loot to work?

killcannon.2576:

CharrGirl.7896:

True, but Southsun is dead on my server. Nobody goes there anymore, no events are being done, constantly contested. They did something very wrong there and I hope they fix it.

lol, that was their fix.

Well they made it worse, nobody wants to go there now more then ever

Whenever I go there its emtpy and contested.

True, but Southsun is dead on my server. Nobody goes there anymore, no events are being done, constantly contested. They did something very wrong there and I hope they fix it.

lorazcyk.8927:

one question is all I need to ask:

was it fun?

To me it was. When I ask around people are mostly complaining its too difficult…maybe it is. But yeah i I had fun and id like to get more ppl to do it.

Hi.

I’m writing this because I want to get the developers attention to Southsun Cove again, because now, as many predicted, now that the living story chapter of Southsun is over, it’s completely empty again.

I don’t have much time to play, but every time I logged in for the past week the zone was completely deserted. Since I usually log in bit later in the evening I thought maybe that was the problem, since I logged outside the peak hours but it’s not the case. Everywhere else on the map, people are massively doing world boss events like Shadow Behemoth, Golem Mark II, even freaking claw of Jormag!

Many players, including myself, were really pleased with changes you have done to Southsun, with introducing new events and a world boss there, because it really felt like the zone needed something like this. It was empty and boring, and during the living story arc, for a brief period of time it was FULL of players, repeating events and kicking some karka kitten . The big MF boost was probably also a large motivator.

I’ve been asking around on my server (Desolation) why people don’t go there anymore. Some said it’s because the MF boost is gone. Others that the event chain is too hard compared to other events. I agree – even Orr events are easier then this.

My problem with the current state of Southsun is now it’s not only deserted again, it’s just more annoying, the camps are constantly under karka control and nobody is even bothering to go there.

So I’ll pop in few suggestions how to make it more lively and less empty because let’s face it, it’s really sad as it is…

- Nerf Reef Drakes. Good god, this is by far the worst monster in game. Constant pulls and several stacks of confusion…I can’t remember the last time I died/went in downed mode fighting a veteran or even champion mob, but plain old reef drake can kill almost instantly. And considering there are lot of em swarming these camps I suggest that you nerf em because every time I WP there I end up being KILLED before I even load to the zone!

- Lower the requirements for Karka Queen spawn. Granted, the idea of controlling all camps is exciting, and it was definitely more doable when there were hoards of players repeating it during living story arc, but now it’s difficult to control em all at the same time now that is over. I don’t have problems with lots of mobs, in fact – the more the better (shiny loot) but it can be a problem. It’s scaling really badly.
My suggestion – keep the camp events but let Karka Queen as other world bosses spawn in a set amount of time. Like, every hour or two. OR, create an escort team of NPC-s that you will accompany in order to take 1 camp at the time across the map, leading up to Karka Queen event (similar to camp control in Malchor’s Leap)

So, that would be it from me. I really like this zone, and I hate to see it empty again. I liked doing Queen event, 2 rares +chest was a really good deal. Now just figure out how to bring back players there because nobody wants to go back there now.

On my server, Desolation, this event hasn’t been done in days, and this makes me sad cuz i really enjoyed it. It-s just that all timers are horribly outdated. So maybe that’s why nobody does it. Southsun is empty again :/

As usual, I would buy it with gold, not with real money. But the skins are so ugly imo, especially on charr, I don’t know why Anet can’t seem to make normal headgear and pauldrons + tail clipping.

I respectfully disagree. This way you pay to get your skin, instead of grinding for hours or spending way more money then you should on stupid RNG boxes.

And don’t forget the new aetherblade armors! They also clip. COME ON Anet, is it so hard to assign 1 person to cut a hole in the armors for the tail? It’s so ugly :/

Yeah I started disliking that word as well. Really getting tired of all cool stuff having a miniscule chance of obtaining them.

Well good for you, I opened over 500 and still nothing.

I have no problem with living story as an idea but I would prefer a proper expansion-like content soon no?
And 1 problem with stories so far is that they have pretty forgettable characters ,example. Southsun, i never ran Canach dungeon nor I knew who he was – the game didn’t suck me into it, and most people I know didn’t even bother with it because the new chars and lore are not presented in a interesting fashion.
Except the cutscene with Marjory and Logan, that was COOL. Even tho we had no idea who she is I immediately got interested.

Introduce more of original DE to the story please. We can’t get invested in the new stories and characters if it vanishes so quickly and if you didn’t develop storytelling enough.

oh and you said about new skins. Sure but most of them can be acquired only through RNG…which sucks. I opened over 600 dragon coffers and still got no ticket. How am I experiencing the content to its fullest then, if trivial things like new weapons skins aren’t available for all?

Ayrilana.1396:

I don’t get why you need a group for the story instance. It’s incredibly easy.

Yes it is, but that wasn’t the point of my post, otherwise I wouldn’t bother writing it.

douceline.2741:

MAI TRIN
First name has 3 letters
Last name contains TRI = “three”

Halflife 3 confirmed!

You sir, have my like!

Possibly. If so, I hope it will be a permanent addition to the game. Bit tired of temporary solo content really.

Seriously, why are they single player only? I’d like to play them with my guildies/friends and boyfriend but can’t do because surprise another singe player instance :/

I know it’s not technically a dungeon but if this is supposed “continuation of the story” where we left of with Zhaitan then they SHOULD play out as story missions, and don’t tell me they are too small or something because there is ton of story missions that take less then a minute (talk to NPC, exit instance).

I know it’s not a big deal but some of us play together with friends/family and we don’t like each member doing those separately. Isn’t the point of GW2 bringing players together?

I think it would be nice if we could exchange 20 or so taffies for green coffers. This is just a suggestion and it would be nice if you took it into account:)

I agree, was going to make a suggestion thread about it but you beat me to it, add jade weapon skins to gem store pretty please.

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Everything that they’ve added since launch (even though most of it has been temporary/annual content) you haven’t paid for.

I did – I paid for bank slots and extra character slots, but I’m not here to argue about that.

Inb4 “you got a free dragon helm so shut up” argument

Anet, just put those skins in gem store will ya?

ferr.6403:

ninetales.5208:

Cheer up, you’re playing an mmo for free.

I paid for it 60$.

Yep, I paid 150$. CE + shipping and other costs.
So yeah it’s a valid point nobody got it for free lol

Eh if they keep those RNG chests with each new event that just means that people are buying them a LOT. Shame, i think it’s a stupid waste of money on gamble