Guild Wars 2

They didn’t announce it until after I bought these commendations. And I shouldn’t need to scan the forum to see if they are going to remove things from vendors before I buy. Most players don’t visit the forums.

I expected new items because they said she was restocking her goods. Since hearing keys were gone, I thought since they took away the item that a lot of people bought commendations for, they would replace it with something not in the gem store. That way they could still make their money but not leave so many of us shafted.

Seriously what am I supposed to do with 60 Sturdy Axes? Can I have a free bank tab to hold them?

Please add something new to the store as a gesture of respect for non-exploiting players.

Before you salute anyone… have you tried TA and SE since the patch? Your credibility depends on this.

I thought dailies were supposed to be :complete any 4 of these 6 progress bars. Looks like we still have to do all of them.

I also see now reason why this would bring people into the open world.

I knew to prepare to be disappointed by this update, but still it’s underwhelming in so many ways.

I’m just flabbergasted that they promised this so clearly, and so evidently it was a lie. There’s no arguing it.

They were aware, they said they’d talk it over at the end of November in a meeting and we’ve been dealing with it for 2 months. No fix and nothing to give us what we should have been getting all this time.

So many slaps in the face playing this game. I can’t believe how badly we’re being treated.

I guess this proves the promise is still broken.

Soloed this Vet, no loot.

Taken today (you can see the Flame & Frost icon at the top right.

I feel kind of cheated.

Lyns was said to be available throughout wintersday. Cool. Except she was disabled… wha?

I didn’t use exploits or use exotic trinkets to get them, I just spent money on getting 2000 commendations (not the big boxes, the stacks of 250). I’ve been down 9 storage slots waiting for her return. I planned to buy 6-7 keys + salvage kits & tools.

She comes back with no keys, and nothing new added to give me something to spend those 1500 commendations on. I can’t store 2000 comms worth of salvage kits.

To make matters worse, at the same time, better gathering tools are introduced through laurels, making the ones Lyns gives pretty useless.

The weapons are unappealing, can’t be salvaged, forged, transmuted.

We need something added to lyns that we can spend commendations on, most importantly so we don’t feel like we were intentionally scammed.

Could you give us a limited amount of keys, so the legit users aren’t the ones being penalized? Or a 2 keys traded per week deal?

There have been too many times where exploiters got away with bad deeds, and the punishment affects innocent players. Please change this pattern here.

They said they would make dungeons easier to compensate for this change, but the patch notes didn’t indicate that they would all be easier. TA and SE are avoided, and there’s nothing in there to encourage people to do them. This has made it even harder and less fun to play them.

I haven’t seen anything in the patch notes about it. Have you noticed it returned to how it was pre-Lost Shores?

Is the promise of Vets & Champ giving guaranteed loot fixed yet?

I was under the impression that taking away dungeon waypoints would be mitigated by making dungeons easier. I was looking forward to this especially for TA and SE, the two NOBODY every wants to do. The patch notes don’t look like much was done to improve them. A waypoint is needed in the F/F path that didn’t get added.

Another month I guess before I can actually move past SE…
motivation shot

Attribute UI was revamped… yet no Magic Find % was given. Why??

Agreed. It would help build back the trust that has been broken between so many players and Anet. When they make fixes, chances are we’d love to hear about them. By showing reluctance in telling us what the fixes were, it naturally causes suspicion.

We went through all of this frustration in last patch. The answer was clear to everyone:
Just announce the time zone
“By end of day Jan 28th PST”

Clear to everyone, even people who can’t intuit that it will be in Anet’s office time zone. Then at least complaints would be limited to “tell us an exact hour”. I can’t believe they didn’t do this this time after learning from last time.

If we have a question that players can’t answer, should it go into Players Helping Players or in General Discussion?

If I make a topic, and consider putting it here, I think “If I put it there, the devs might not even read it, and players will just be speculating because the info isn’t known yet.”

What to do?

That may be true, but they didn’t announce that the keys would be gone.

So what followed was snowflake exploiters getting tons of commendations, and creating the necessity to kill the keys. Because of the exploiters, I lose out.

It kind of sucks for those of us who got commendations via other items (not the snowflake exploit, but loot we found). The exploiters ruined it and I don’t get to buy the 5 or so keys I had saved 10 inventory slots of 250 commendations up for.

I wish they made it so you could get up to 5 more keys with commendations, so the exploiters would be no better off than the fair-players.

Since that’s not happening, I just hope there’s something else I can spend them on. 2,000 commendations buys too many kits & tools for me to carry. And the weapons don’t appeal to me at all. Please add something useful for all players that is worth spending bigger amounts of commendations on.

You’d be putting yourself at a disadvantage by allowing levelling to go even faster than it already is. This is because you gain skill as you get to 80. You would be a lv 80 character with lv 50 ability.

Also, there are more lv 1-30 zones and the only reason to do them is to get new characters up to the higher level zones that become more streamlined. Some mats are only gathered in those zones too, and it’s important to supply them.

Also, by learning skills one by one, you’re more likely to try different ones and learn how they are each useful. If you’re given all of them at once, it’s overwhelming.

this thread was locked and directed here for the answer to “what time?”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Whats-the-time-for-Flame-n-Frost/first#post1300492

I come here and a designer even posted but there’s no official time given.

Even saying “We don’t have a time.. just sometime before the 29th in PST, probably in the later part of the day” would count as an answer and would make us feel communicated to.

I think this will eventually happen. We might as well speed it along by deciding from the start.

I had a lot of trouble with my male ele finding pants that didn’t look like a skirt. The choices were:
Aladdin pants
miniskirt
long skirt with a strip removed at the front
spandex leggings (AC armor)

I have asked about this and gotten no answer. Lots of others have too.

I’ve pondered and really don’t think it’ll happen. You gain influence for your home server’s version of the guild, therefore the perks/banks you have access to should be the ones you bought with that influence.

I really wish they made a way to transfer influence from an old server to a new one, like buying Drinks with old server inf and taking them to the new server.

A dev appeared in game and the only question he answered about the game was about “Last on”. He said it was something they were going to talk about in a meeting soon, and left us with the impression that it could happen not too far down the road. This was a week or 2 ago.

I’d post his name but I’d probably get infracted somehow.

Before launch, the rates were:
500 – To a low population server
1000 – To a medium population server
1800 – To a high population server

At launch, and for the first couple of weeks the gem price was 26s for 100 gems. That means:
1g30s – To a low population server
2g60s – To a medium population server
4g68s – To a high population server

Fast forward to now, where the gem price is currently 1g80s for 100 gems. That means:
9g – To a low population server
18g – To a medium population server
32g40s – To a high population server

That’s a pretty inappropriate cost for the game as it is today, I think you’ll agree! To make it worse, all NA servers are either High or Very High, which I’m afraid to imagine the cost.

There are several things in the TP that are no longer make sense to buy because of the skyrocketed gem price. Mystic forge stone, repair cannister for example. I hope these old rates will be reworked and announced ahead of time to reflect what is reasonable with the current game.

I dont’ see how it’s any different. If you join another guild and guest on their server, you will gain influence for their guild, but it will be added to YOUR home server’s side of their guild.

What is still not being answered, even though it would take just a couple of words by someone who knows, is whether you can access old guild banks and perks while guesting on your old server. It’s a very big issue for some and could be solved so easily if someone in the know would just pop their head in. This seems to happen a lot around here. Burning questions that have known answers but we never get them. Why??

I was downtown and I kept hearing something that sounded like a /w message alert.
“But this is the real world! How??”

You wouldn’t gain their guild perks if they’re on a different server, even if you’re representing their guild. (This may change while guesting on Server B, I don’t know) While you are on Server A, you contribute to that guild’s influence to be used for Server A.

I don’t know about whether you will get guild benefits or WvW bonuses while guesting on Server B.

But I do know your influence gained goes to your home server, not to the server you are guesting on.

Majestic Matthew.7132:

AcFiBu.9624:

While guesting, I assume that means you only … have access to your home world guild bank as well. Am I correct in this assumption?

If i stay in the other world, will i be able to access the bank and guild upgrades/buffs while im guested to my Guilds Server?.

+1 I NEED to know this before I decide if I’m moving with my guild or staying put. 250 build bank slots is a lot to lose!
If we can access it (even if it’s a bother) via guesting to the old server, it makes all the difference in the world.

Clark Kent and Peter Parker always disappear at the exact moment that Superman and Spiderman appear.

REVELATION: The Wintersday Merchant IS Lionguard Lyns!!

Need to know this soon.

There is still a hard cap of +33% out of combat speed. A thief using blinding powder to gain stealth out of combat with this trait still only moves 33% faster since it’s a hard cap. In combat though it does work +50% because it’s no where near the hard cap of +33% of out of combat speed.

Kind of backward that combat speed is faster than non-combat speed. But ok.

It’s not a comparison. It’ s a list of which aren’t blocking and which aren’t reflecting, when the descriptions say they should.

Still happening. Got kicked just for going afk for a few mins while I read the forum on my laptop. Not an inactivity kick.

Only in this map.

Also, do WvW bonuses affect you when you’re guesting? (as I think it’s been said they don’t when you’re on overflow)

If you move servers and guest to your old servers, will you have access to your old guild’s bank? And can you use the old guild’s influence still?

If I am on CD and guest onto HoD…

Does my guild influence go to the CD version of my guild or to the HoD version of my guild?

Ugh another one.

The Coil events in Mount Maelstrom.

Too many enemies, in small quarters, all getting aggroed together.
The one in the NorthWest (it’s a circle on the minimap) has a champion, 4 turrets, a group of inquest that you have to kill first, and while fighting the champ they respawn.

2 players couldn’t do this. It wasn’t marked as an event or group event, just an insane area that is totally not worth exploring.

I have tried 4 skills:
Ele – Swirling Winds on Focus – blocks projectiles
Ele – Magnetic something on Staff 3 -Reflects projectiles
Guardian – Wall of Reflection utility – reflects projectiles
Guardian – Zealot’s Defense on Sword – blocks ranged attacks

Skritt lobbers projectiles don’t get blocked by Wall of Reflection.
Trebuchets get blocked by Swirling Winds, but neither reflected or blocked by Magnetic.
Trebuchets don’t get blocked or reflected with Wall of Reflection or Zealot’s Defense.

Also the Arcane Shield on ele doesn’t block the damage from the treb hit.

I think it would be cool if jumping in front of the siege projectile would lessen the damage to walls. It’s hard to time, and could be a risk, but would be funny and useful.

What about Speed Boosters. Are they boosting on top of swiftness, or things like Sigil of Air, or Air attunement speed increase?

2 more events that aren’t scaled well are:

Caledon Forest, around the crafting tables. This event is ALWAYS active, and it blocks the use of the crafting tables/bank. So annoying. More annoying because you have to run back and forth retrieving ooze to complete it, and each ooze increases the bar by a sliver. People start the event by talking to the NPC with the symbol above their heads, and they have no idea what they are about to inflict on the area. So it just sits there being undone. It’s not worthwhile. Also, it probably includes people crafting in its scaling instead of just those who are doing the event. And the repetitive audio jokes the robot makes make me want to take up cutting.

The other is the underwater quaggan event in Sparkfly (I think it was sparkfly if not Bloodtide. There’s a huge event with undead krait constantly invading this underwater village. There are a number of guards you have to keep alive. The event is soloable but takes about an hour to do. Really not worthwhile, and considering it’s underwater, won’t get done.

Sort of like the Frostgorge underwater event to rez and escort kodan. Survivors are adrift in the water!! Way too much boring work for 1 person to have fun doing. The icebrood can bunch up in their looped pathway and if their zerg approaches you, you’re probably going to die.

It doesn’t make me feel better. I’m not interested that much in WvW, I just wanted an explanation about what happened earlier. You didn’t say before that CD reduced FA to 0 before. That would make sense. Although it’s still not showing CD up by doing the exact same thing.

Also, as a person who isn’t involved in this gloating in the forums, please consider me and the other non-anitfun players who are not a part of this grudge but getting punished just the same. There are jerks on every server. If one of ours is on the forum being a jerk, punish him/her here.

That’s all I have to say. Off to bed.

Hmm. I didn’t notice anyone lording or spitting on anyone. I saw a teammate dancing over a corpse once so i /no @ my teammate to show disaproval and the dishonourable behaviour. But the /m and /t don’t have people talking down about other servers.

Also, we have had the same matchups roughly for a few weeks now. Anet placed us together because we were the closest matched. Only last week did we actually have a strong lead.

This week is an anomaly because FA with it’s turbocharge should be in the next tier up. It actually IS an unfair matchup this week. If you think CD behaved poorly having a slight edge in population, how does FA prove they handle being in power better if they behave exactly the same way?

Cord.5371:

Karma, it’s called karma.

For what?

Also, it wasn’t DB who wiped them as said above. It was a huge FA zerg with 5 omega golems. I was on the wall looking down at them, trying to get a hit or 2 in before the wall collapsed at my feet.

I don’t follow these forums or WvW very much.

But I was just playing for a couple of hours and saw CD get totally wiped out by FA, and DB didn’t seem to be attacked at all. What’s that about?

It ended up being about 50% DB, 50% FA.

What were the pets?

Could be a rune that summons a minion with 5% chance.

The fact that we have to kill the same thing twice is the problem here. The concept of a dead creature respawning is ridiculous, but necessary since other players will need to fight the same monsters when passing through an area.

But you know there’s a problem when players have to FREQUENTLY re-kill the same mob, regardless of which spot it respawned in. It should almost never happen. We’re essentially killing the next player’s spawned enemies. And on top of that we get no exploration XP.

those ar ethrown spears from recent battles that hover in the water. It’s due to the event in that area.

I’m not sure if you made a typo somewhere.

FYI crit chance doesn’t appear in the stat page but it still takes effect.
Power increases when you switch to sword (force).

What’s not working?

I have played there over the last 3 days. I’ve never lagged as bad as this. By lag I mean the fight will pause and my skill icons will animate as if they’re casting, but no people will move. If it recovers in a few seconds, I just have to hope I survived. Otherwise I get disconnected.

This doesn’t happen with hours in other maps or wvw. Has only started in Mount Maelstrom, and it’s pretty barren, not a slowdown issue. My internet is wired and doesn’t give me issues at any time.

A guildie played with me there for about an hour and the same was happening with him.

I remember reading around September that the max run speed was the 33% that came from swiftness. I was looking then to see if it stacked with elementalist air traits and the Signet of Air.

I’m wondering if it’s still true that it can’t get over 33%. Especially because of the thief speed boost done recently, and speed boosters.

I won’t be taking part. I don’t believe they are actually interested in our data. I believe the loot rates were intentionally decreased dramatically despite how much we would hate it. I believe the thread asking us to “prove it” is a way to make us feel like giving up complaining, because there’s no way to prove it concretely.

If I was going to dedicate my time to logging all of this loot (which Anet can definitely log themselves), I would only do it if I knew it wasn’t going to be tossed in the trash without being read.

Or they could be salvaged to get the kinds of mats used to craft superior runes (ore/scrap + chance at lodestone)