Guild Wars 2

No problems here.

In turn, some people think Zerging is dull and boring and wonder why people do it.

IMO, it certainly is a lot more exciting to duel and get the blood pumping than it is to mindlessly zerg and spam 1 every over 9000 times.

Not sure what Twitch has to do with anything.

SinisterSeven.2781:

Well, they created this EVENT with this problem, which causes people to be able to use an exploit, and therefore it follows that if they ban people, they’re doing two wrongs.

Rather than reverting/retracting the dumb, poorly executed event, and also removing the bug, they’re allowing it to remain.

Your logic is flawed.

I believe Anet has stated in multiple times in POIs, that you need about 65 hero point.

Did we really need another stupid thread about this?

If you don’t think that ANet has delivered $50 worth of value with the core game for the past 3 years, and you don’t think they will give you another 3 years worth of value for an additional $50, then don’t purchase the expansion and move onto another game.

I’ve done some of my best coding while buzzed.

penelopehannibal.8947:

What happens if you buy a book from the TP and it’s filled with childish obscenities?
What happens if someone sells a book with graphical eroticism in it, bearing in mind this is a 12+ game?
What happens if you spend 1 gold on a book with only two sentences in it?
What happens if someone creatively manages to use the font to create naughty pictures?

I’m sorry, I don’t think it’s a good idea. Firstly because you wouldn’t always get what you pay for, and secondly, it’d just blow the doors wide open to 4chan style puerility, that the customer has ended up paying for in gold.

Probably not any worse than what you read any number of map chats at any given time.

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your kitten lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

Good Post.

It isn’t often that I read a post anywhere on these forums where I don’t come away feeling dumber and wondering why I read these forums.

I’m excited to see what new mechanics come with the elite spec and warhorn.

I love playing my Ele. Maybe I’ll like the Elite Spec and maybe I wont. If I don’t care for the playstyle, I’ll just keep playing the same Ele I’ve always played and loved.

Kinda hard to give you advice since we can’t see specifically why you are having problems.

Maybe change up your build and try different weapons and strategies.

I completed All S2 with all 8 classes, solo. Make a a playthru video that we can watch and provide feedback.

Edit: The achievements for S2 are not all designed to be completed solo. You will need a group and it will take multiple attempts to get them all.

I played Revenant in a ranged/support role in WvW. Here are a few thought on how it played, specifically with the Hammer equipped.

First, my Revenant WvW build:
Jalis/Ventari;
Retribution, Invocation, Salvation;
Full Ascended Sentinel Armor with Traveler Runes and WvW Infusions;
Ascended Sentinel Hammer w/ +5 Damage, +10 power stacks, WvW Infusions;
Ascended Soldiers Back w/ WvW Infusions;
Ascended Cleric Rings, Accessories, Amulet w/ WvW Infusions.

General Thoughts:

Hammer is not a DPS type weapon. It is not a weapon for solo play. It is a ranged, group support weapon and needs to be played as such. No amount of Zerker gear or anything else is going to change that. If you use it for the role it was designed for, you will not be disappointed.

The obvious advantages to running a this build is 1200 Range AoE Chill and AoE Knockback. Cooldowns are short, drop them on the front line and when the Tag calls out to “Bomb Here”. Also, ANet gave the Hammer three 1200 range, short cooldown finishers for a reason, they want you to use them a lot. In fights, your job is going to be Chills, Knockbacks, Blast Finishers, and collecting bags. If you properly support the frontliners, you will get lots of bags.

Issues:

Hammer 1 is meant to be used as a projectile finisher for optimal results. That being said, I do concede a little boost to damage may be in order even though this weapon isn’t intended to have high direct damage attacks. Anyways, not showstopper issue.

Hammer 2 hits thru gates. I used it to take out siege and unsuspecting players inside towers. I’m not sure if ANet intended this to be a 1200 Range Line AoE that ignores LOS thru gates. This probably needs to be fixed. The damage dealt is perfect. Finally, consider making this AoE another combo field.

Hammer 4 is a Reflect but it is also a Dark Field. Using Hammer 1, you will combo Life Stealing. Unfortunately, you cannot blast your own dark field to cause AoE Blindness since the field moves with the Revenant. However, your teammates can blast it for the AoE blindness. Hopefully this is not intended and ANet will fix it so Revenants can blast their own dark fields.

Hammer 5: Maybe slightly speed up the cast time. Not a huge issue.

Overall, I had a great time on this build. I rarely died, got a ton of bags, and felt like I was able significantly contribute to some very successful fights.

ShadowCatz.8437:

Chobits.2430:

Only because people running around in celestial and not knowing how to play.

I ran full ascended sentinel armor/weapons with WvW infusions and all ascended cleric trinkets with WvW infusions.
I ran Jalis/Ventari with Hammer and specced properly and played the class how it was supposed to be played, a ranged support role (CC & heals)
I almost never died.

How did you get Ascended armor/weapons or even ascended trinkets? Did you make or bought those weapons? Are those items not lost when BWE will be over? (WvW trinkets cost laurels, if I am not wrong.)

I had most everything pre-staged in the bank.

Only because people running around in celestial and not knowing how to play.

I ran full ascended sentinel armor/weapons with WvW infusions and all ascended cleric trinkets with WvW infusions.
I ran Jalis/Ventari with Hammer and specced properly and played the class how it was supposed to be played, a ranged support role (CC & heals)
I almost never died.

Saved my butt a number of times in WvW today.

The class is only 50% complete for this beta test. What you are looking for isn’t currently available. The general consensus predicts that we will get more dps/zerker geared legends, specializations, and weapons down the line.

Most PUG maps can down Teq as long as you get into a map early enough.

If you want to do and organized TT, then do it with TTS Gamers.

Most people complain that there is too much PvE in WvW currently.

ANet’s response, new WvW maps with even more PvE.

Doesn’t make any sense.

Same thing happened to me over and over again in WvW. I would have to Legend Swap to fix it.

I’ve experienced the complete opposite of what OP is saying.

/wiki world boss

Check the schedule and hop into the next world boss event on the list, then go thru the rotation. You can easily get a group once you are in rotation.

You can also check LFG for a group.

PlatinumMember.5274:

Considering this is a hardware issue, unless arena net either buys new servers or changes the way skills communicate with the server with the xpac then no.

cillard.3986:

Chobits.2430:

DX12 will not help skill lag because the skill lag has nothing to do with graphics performance or optimizations in Windows. It has to do with the back-end server’s capability to process data.

They put optimizations in a while back that helped the issue, but all the changes since that time have caused the problem to return with a vengeance.

I wonder how they expect their WvW population to purchase on xPac for a broken game mode if it will remain broken. /shrug

Everything you said is wrong. It is because the server cannot handle processing all the communication. The skills send a command to the server telling it that player X has used skill 1.

DX 12 only benefits FPS drops, so again, you are wrong and it is a good idea to avoid spreading false information.

Given that you quoted me, how is what I said any different than what you said? False information? What you said is basically what I said just with a bit more meat on the bones?

In fact, nothing you quoted is false.

DX12 will not help skill lag because the skill lag has nothing to do with graphics performance or optimizations in Windows. It has to do with the back-end server’s capability to process data.

The game’s graphics performance (which isn’t lag) is partially due to the user’s computer but also partially because the game engine isn’t optimized.

However, the skill lag experienced quite frequently in game is completely and 100% server-side. ANet’s systems can’t handle large numbers of people all simultaneously activating their skills in one area.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Chobits.2430:

I know exactly how it works from participating in beta.

There list of Mastery Lines each with its own experience progression bar. Select the mastery you wish to level, i.e. gliding, and all experience earned goes towards progressing that Mastery. You can only progress one Mastery at time but the Mastery can be change while out of combat.

Level the selected Mastery thru normal game play, doing events and killing mobs. All the things that you normally do to level your character now will level your mastery once you hit 80. Keep in mind that HoT masteries can only be progressed in HoT.

Each mastery line has multiple tiers. Each tier grants you a new ability or increased proficiency in an ability. After you level up the a tier, you are able to unlock the ability by spending a Mastery Point.

The Mastery Points are earned by exploration, completing challenging events, killing bosses, getting achievements, etc.

All Mastery progression is account bound. All Mastery Points earned are account bound. Everything you unlock or progress is account wide.

This doesn’t tell us if the progressions are account bound like PvP or character bound like WvW, which is what we are discussing here.

For example on the day that the expansion opens lets say I have 30 points in Tyrian Masteries to assign from doing old content and it’s character bound like WvW. I could have one char put all those points on fractals, because it’s my fractals char. A second char could put all 30 points towards a particular precursor and a 3rd char puts those 30 points on a second, different Precursor. A 4th puts those points on another, completely different Mastery line.

If progress is account bound like PvP and I have 30 points to assign, if I put all 30 on fractals, then that’s it. I have no points I can put elsewhere for Precursor mastery on another char. It’s a much more rigid system.

At this time, it does not work that way. Once you progress a mastery and assign points to it, it is locked in for your entire account.

Maybe later they will let you reassign mastery points at will, but that wasn’t a feature in beta.

I know exactly how it works from participating in beta.

There list of Mastery Lines each with its own experience progression bar. Select the mastery you wish to level, i.e. gliding, and all experience earned goes towards progressing that Mastery. You can only progress one Mastery at time but the Mastery can be change while out of combat.

Level the selected Mastery thru normal game play, doing events and killing mobs. All the things that you normally do to level your character now will level your mastery once you hit 80. Keep in mind that HoT masteries can only be progressed in HoT.

Each mastery line has multiple tiers. Each tier grants you a new ability or increased proficiency in an ability. After you level up the a tier, you are able to unlock the ability by spending a Mastery Point.

The Mastery Points are earned by exploration, completing challenging events, killing bosses, getting achievements, etc.

All Mastery progression is account bound. All Mastery Points earned are account bound. Everything you unlock or progress is account wide.

Silverwastes farming. Tons and tons of dust, shards, and ore.

The things they banned for were for excessive botting and breaking the economy with money making exploits.

They have always and still do swing the ban hammer for these things.

They haven’t usually banned for use of broken skills unless it somehow breaks the game in some way, like the economy.

You will see people running them more in WvW. I use them in WvW on my Warrior since I’m in full Soldiers gear to help boost my power. It fills up really quick with player kills and I go long stretches between deaths so I get a lot of milage out of the extra power.

Linken.6345:

Charrbeque.8729:

Hmm…I did pay attention. When my XP bar was almost filled on a level 80 character I checked the amount of hero points I had before and after ‘leveling up’. There was no change. It seems that we still go through the level up process and animation post level 80 but it doesn’t do anything or give us any kind of points.

I forgot to check my spirit shard count, but to my understanding for level 80 characters the only way to get them is as random loot drops from enemies, daily rewards, tomes of knowledge, etc., and not automatically granted once we fill our XP bar. And also to my understanding we were suppose to stop leveling once we reached level 80. Anything else that comes after that, like masteries and elite specializations, have to be obtained in a new way.

You will level up the mastery line bar with normal exp and unlock the skills from said line with hero points when expansion hits.

You are right atm nor will you ever gain hero or spirit shards from leveling at 80-
Atleast how it stands at this time.

This is incorrect.

The Mastery System is completely separate and has nothing to do with Hero Points. You select a Mastery to level such as Gliding. Then all experience you earn goes towards leveling that mastery. Once you level the selected Mastery by earning enough experience through kills and events, then you spend a Mastery Point to unlock the Mastery Skill. You earn Mastery Points by completing challenges, exploring certain areas, or completing a specific task. Hero Points have absolutely nothing to do with the mastery system.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Mordalus.8146:

So I took another look at the cultural armor and I love it. Unfortunately, it’s too expensive in terms of gold. Why not reduce the gold cost, or better yet, make it a karma only reward? Hell there are enough gold sinks in the game already with legendary grind, crafting grind, ascended items, sigils, runes, etc. Why not let us use some of this worthless karma on something that’s nice for once. I have a gazillion karma with nothing worthwhile to spend it on.

If they make them cheaper I want the difference in gold back for the sets I bought. But really, they are not that expensive. I bought mine by using laurals to buy T6 mats then selling them.

Yeah! A months worth of Laurels would likely pay for a T3 set.

Andraus.3874:

Chobits.2430:

There amount of gold required to purchase the armor really isn’t that much. I had 7 million karma at one point and converted it all to linen scraps (most profitable karma conversion atm).

I don’t think this works anymore?

That would be incorrect. I converted a bunch of karma into 4 stacks of linen just today.

There amount of gold required to purchase the armor really isn’t that much, easy to obtain with 1 or 2 days of work. I had 7 million karma at one point and converted it all to linen scraps (most profitable karma conversion atm).

A day or two in Silverwastes will net you the money to purchase a T3 Culture armor set.

I’m really excited out the possibility of Warhorn myself.

I would buy it! Maybe the ears could be scaled down a bit though.

Teq is not impossible. My pug map downed Teq this evening without issue.

I’m excited about the possibility of Ele getting warhorn. I would like to see them make it main hand rather than offhand for Ele. How hard could that be?

Did Teq on a pug map tonight and we downed him without issue. Although, I did hear some guildies cursing from alternate IPs. Seemed fine when my map killed him.

If space becomes an issue, perhaps you can upgrade the drive on your Mac. Check out Other World Computing for upgrade options.

In my Mid 2012 MBP, I installed a 250GB Samsung EVO and replaced the ODD with a 1TB Seagate Hybrid Drive.

When you get one, your account is automatically flagged for beta access. When A-Net reaches their flagged account target number, they estimate a week time frame, they will turn off the drops.

So, it doesn’t matter if someone 1 or 100 drops, it will not change the number that drop or the drop rate. Also, if you accidentally sell it to a vendor or destroy it, your account is still flagged for beta access so no worries there.

I have already played and geared every other class to 80, so I’ll be rolling an Asura Rev at launch. Immediately after creation, I’ll be popping my Golem Banker, insta-leveling to 80, equipping myself head to toe in Ascended Gear, and hitting the new content.

My Warrior is geared and traited for zerg busting. That is what I do. I know I can’t beat anyone 1v1, but I can split a zerg in half and come out practically unscathed. I don’t see anything in dishonorable in that. It is something that is needed if you want to win a match.

There are plenty of warrior specs that are good for roaming but they aren’t insta-wins, it takes practice and timing. You can’t just spam skills as they come off cool down. Look at effective SPvP Warrior builds.

I think I would rather have 48-72 hours matchups. Week long matchups get kinda stale IMO. You could probably rally the PvE troops into a 48 hours match, but anything longer than that and you will lose them. How many servers queue every maps on Friday/Sat night and are competitive only to have it completely drop off come Sunday?

The only think we can queue consistently on SBI after Friday night is EB.

I’m not a hardcore player, nor am I a casual, somewhere in-between I guess. I don’t really think there is much of a grind for Ascended mats. I certainly haven’t gone out of my way to farm the mats. I spend about 2 hours daily doing Boss Events and Temples. The rest of my time is spent in WvW. That alone has earned me enough Dragonite to for 16 weapons.

I do think they should increase the quantity of Dragonite that drops from keep lords in WvW to satisfy the people who absolutely don’t want to do any PvE. Maybe instead of 3-5, it should be more like 8-10.

Cuddlepie.8109:

Gudradain.3892:

Title says it all.

You know what the big problem about scoring is? It’s some random server ticking at 600 PPT while you sleep gaining so much points that there is no way you can come back even if you play all day long.

Limit PPT to 230 max per server and problem solve.

If you want to win a match up, you have to put constant effort. Not just PvDooring while everyone is asleep.

Every child gets a prize?

Or every child who plays when I do gets a prize?

Or the irony of complaining about servers who have coverage while claiming ‘If you want to win a match up, you have to put constant effort’.

Recruit, move, or play for the fights.

This is exactly the “Every child gets a prize” generation that is complaining here. You are getting a new map to play on in a few weeks where score doesn’t matter.
Problem solved.

Killing Trahearne was the highlight for me.

Finished the meta in the first week playing about 4-5 hours of WvW per night. Easily doable the most casual WvW players over a 7 week period.

I’ve never been in there and had it fail. I didn’t know it was possible not to kill it until I came to the forums.

Maybe my results are atypical but I picked up about 30 ranks in the opening weekend.

@SOR in SOS BL last night and tonight. Thanks for the awesome fights. The most fun I’ve had in WvW in months.