Guild Wars 2

Red Falcon.8257:

Dodge, stability, stunbreak.
They are there for this reason, use them.

I can only use those things so many times…

Can we get a limit on how often we can be knocked down (in a certain period of time) in PvE.

Quite frustrating to have 5+ mobs all use knockdown on me and then proceed to have their way with my body while I’m unable to do anything.

God… I wrote out a long reply and explanation as to why I’d like dyes to be account bound, but ANet’s crap forums decided to bug out and lose my post.

So, all I will say is; this would be a very welcome change.

Dow.5312:

Craft. Its as simple as that. I w ent from 35 to 46 in 30 mins.

That’s only going to make things more boring…

Got two level 80s and a level 28, so I guess not.

Boots, shoulders and gloves are Vigil.

Had DX11 for a couple of years now.
Saying they don’t want people to feel left out makes no sense. Not our fault if some people can’t/won’t upgrade. Better to have the features for people who can use them, then not have them at all.

If they said there isn’t enough people with DX11 hardware to justify DX11 features (I doubt this would be the case), I could understand that.

Eveningstar.6940:

Just bought a new (my first ever gaming PC!) rig from Falcon Northwest. It comes with an NVidia GE Force GTX 550ti =) Very happy with it.

Bet they ripped you for that.

Some bosses do have stupidly high HP. The annoying thing is; it doesn’t make them harder, it just draws the fight out and makes some boss fights incredibly boring.

Naming my character.

I’m terrible with character names and whenever I come up with one I like, despite how obscure it may be, it’s always taken.

I was thinking of just smashing my face on the keyboard but I’m sure whatever comes up would already be taken.

All of this made me think of something; when an account is banned for botting, are the character names released?
Some botting characters have a random string of letters for their names but a lot also have proper names, it’d be great if those names didn’t just go to waste…

Redx.4230:

Well the gold can’t be account bound seeing as i can only see the gold on the toon i made it on.

Also if it is why do i get mails from people that want to sell me gold all the time

You can deposit money into the bank. All of your characters can then see and withdraw that money from the bank.

Gold is already account-bound. I don’t understand the question…

Maybe if an account as been reported (for botting) X number of times, they could be prompted with a Captcha box.

To prevent this being used against people who aren’t botting, you could limit it to once an hour (or so), only allow the Captcha to come up when the account is outside of combat or an active event and maybe some other stuffs.

Sure it may not be the best system and something like this should not be permanent, but it’d be a hell of a lot better than nothing.

Thanks for the advice guys, I’ll get strength focused gear for level 70 and see how that goes.

The high precision seemed to work great at lower levels, at which I could hit higher (GS second attack) than my HP.

Kierlak.5209:

The damage ‘plateau’ you seem to notice was there for me too. Despite regularly upgrading gear and never ignoring power, between levels ~45 to 65 my damage seemed to just barely increase, and it wasn’t until probably 75 or so that I definitely felt like I was dealing more damage than before.

Yes it’s a bit odd. When I had ~5k HP (no vitality gear)(not sure what level that was, but it must have been some time ago if I now have ~12k) I was doing over 5k damage, now at level 67 I’m lucky if I hit 7k with the second attack with greatsword.

Got my warrior to level 66 and I’m starting to wonder if it’s still worth it to keep a high critical chance.

When you’re around level 20, you can easily get a high critical (over 100%) chance just by using the trait that gives +40 precision for each signet, but of course as you get higher in level, that 200 precision (with 5 signets) becomes less and less effective.

Now, with all my gear (green) weighted towards precision, 30 points in arms and the +40 for each signet trait, I only have 92% critical chance.

Sounds a bit strange, but despite being higher level and having more strength stat, I don’t seem to be hitting any more than I was 10 levels ago.

Should I just forget about precision based gear and go for strength + critical damage?
What have people found to be better?

Ahdeeyah.1342:

Elementalist is hard to play.

Warrior is easy to play.

Bad Player = Bad at elementalist, Good at warrior

Good Player = Good at elementalist, Good at warrior

Well, you can’t argue with that logic.

Hellmood.2097:

You’re all like “man, I got the high ground, gonna rain death on that charlie”. But Arenanet doesn’t seem to like people using the terrain to their advantage.

More often than not, it’s not like that.

Ravenblade.7685:

Clem.2963:

exphryl.3857:

This alone makes me hate underwater combat 99.9% of the time.

I feel trolled at times.

Get the veteran mob underwater down to 5%, “lol nope! Invuln”.

:(

Myself and another person had a champ shark under 25% HP when is suddenly went invulnerable and healed to full HP.

kitten that… Walked away.

Let me guess it was a follow-up on that Inquest champion? I’ve had this as well. I was about to rant over yet another broken even when after like 45s I suddenly got the credit for it.

Was in Branded area and was the last part of a dynamic event (not last event in the chain, but last part of the single event), so after spending a fair bit of time doing the event and then a HELL of a lot of time fighting this shark with just one other player, I got nothing…

exphryl.3857:

This alone makes me hate underwater combat 99.9% of the time.

I feel trolled at times.

Get the veteran mob underwater down to 5%, “lol nope! Invuln”.

:(

Myself and another person had a champ shark under 25% HP when is suddenly went invulnerable and healed to full HP.

kitten that… Walked away.

Run into this multiple times a day.

I really wish this mechanic was removed until it is fixed, I’m sick of having to take 150%+ off something because of a stupid and broken mechanic like this.

And have only just noticed that a carrier pigeon flies over your head when you receive mail.

Please tell me this is a recent addition and I have not played a character through to 80 and another to 55 without noticing this…

I used Pitch on my light armour for a while, before I came across ‘Oil Slick’.

Oil Slick is a better black on light armour.

ChaosKirin.1328:

I really don’t die in my story missions at all anymore, although I have to do a looooot of kiting.

I found at about level 60, the personal story got significantly easier (the NPC allies actually became helpful). It wasn’t until ‘The Source of Orr’ that personal story gave me a headache, again.

My first character I played was an Elementalist, which I’ve gotten to level 80.
On my Elementalist, I found parts of the personal story incredibly hard and died many times.
After reading a bit on the forums and seeing some people saying they had the same problems as myself and others saying they had no problem with the personal story, I just put it down to the player’s skill.

However, now that I’ve put time into a new class, the Warrior, I’ve found it’s certainly not the player, but the class.

I’m currently level 48 on my Warrior and before I completed the level 50 personal story (1st Claw Island stage), I had not died once (during personal story). I’m sure that if I waited till I was level 50 to do that stage, I would not have died at all.

On my Elementalist, I was having trouble doing the personal story I was the right level for, on my Warrior, I can do stages a few levels above mine.

Elementalist has some serious balance issues, it can lay down a crap load of AOE damage, but that’s rarely useful outside of Vets and Champs. The survivability of Elementalist is kitten and it’s short range damage is rubbish when compared to the Warrior.

Joshewwah.2956:

I semi-support this, I worked hard for my Icon so the least that should be disabled would be on the minimap and not the icon above people’s heads. I know this may get annoying, but if you complain that the icons above people’s heads are annoying and want them removed, you may as well remove the icons from the merchants and karma merchants.

Why do you need it on outside of PvP (really, most ‘commanders’ should never have it on)?

I don’t need my minimap cluttered with people who want everyone to know they spent 100g on something.

Vindrael.4961:

everything just feels more “natural”.

Yeah, dem bezels look really natural.

God kitten what re you people taking screen-shots of?

Ooohhh, now I remember. In the first day of playing, I tried to get a cap cause they were free, but it didn’t work. I guess that’s where the came from.

Amazing, that was over a month ago.

Dabu.1258:

I’ve found a skin compilation in Google, but those skins can be found in ‘Heart of the Mist’ opening the ‘PvP Locker’ and click on Preview

Thanks, never knew that was there (have not done any PvP yet (just WvW)).

What exactly is the problem?

Some of those skins look pretty cool.

Side note, is there a skin compilation like this for other weps/armour?

BeardedCoder.7358:

Clem.2963:

Just a thought, but did you guys (and anyone else experiencing this) lose money in one of the Trading Post crashes?

No, that didn’t happen to me.

Ah, ok. Thought it might have been some sort of compensation.

Guess it’s just another glitch.

Just a thought, but did you guys (and anyone else experiencing this) lose money in one of the Trading Post crashes?

I just jumped on to find two deliveries for one (each delivery) celebration hat (which I did not order).
Thankfully, gems were not deducted from my account.

Yeah, you’re planning an appreciation day now, but just wait until you’ve sunk some more time into the game, you’ll be planning an attack on ANet HQ in no time.

@Ameepa

I’m not sure what level you are or what part of the game you’re up to, but it won’t be an issue for most people until they’ve hit level 80, completed world & story and are looking to achieve some ‘goals’ like karma armour and such.

@Kaizer

Basically a mechanic which prevents players from farming stuff. After about half an hour of farming mobs or DEs, drops, karma and XP are all reduced.

I really don’t understand ANet’s thinking for this. Yeah, they want to prevent farming, but why? There’s little else to do after you’ve done story and map completion, why stop people from farming if they want to?

A full set of karma armour is 252K. After completing personal story and the world, I had less than half the required karma, so if I want to get one of these sets, I have to farm DEs. For some reason however, ANet doesn’t want players doing this. After ~30 minutes of doing DEs I was getting 151 karma, down from ~350 (what ever the usual amount is).

Same goes for drops and XP, after that ~30 minutes, you start to get rubbish drops and reduced XP.

Makes no sense to me, it’s just another thing (on the already lengthy list) to frustrate you.

You expect people to pay real money for Karma/XP/Magic find boosters which last one hour, but you punish people if they use them for more than 30 minutes?

What.

Did the person running this show have a brain seizure between release and implementing DR?

Are you transmuting armour every hour or something?

How long will it take for this relatively simple addition to be implemented. :\

Eochaidh.4106:

I really would rather see them spend time and money on actual content for the game.

Yep, there’s plenty more important things to do rather than spending time on support for an inferior (for this genre) input device.

It is pretty obnoxious.

Even if they just had the chat message and not the in-your-face on-screen message, surely that would be enough.

I think ANet are running their forums off a netbook.

They’re sooooo slow and always timing out.

This thread is bad and you should feel bad.

Eochaidh.4106:

Soothsayer.9476:

I completed it a few days ago. The toughest part will be getting all the WvWvW maps complete

Fortunately my server is winning and I’m almost done with those. :p

Yeah, theses will be very frustrating to get if your server isn’t doing well in WvWvW.

Before the rotation, FA had 90%+ map control for the majority of the day, so it was just as easy to get all the stuff as it is in the normal world.

abzilla.8367:

I mean using a website, not the in-game access. heeeeeeelp

Do not believe the browser based trading post has be rolled out yet.

None of the vista are hard to get to, once you know the right path.

Ouroboros.5076:

Strongback.6420:

The way I’ve seen it over 80% of the criticism is valid, if often poorly articulated, 15% is apologist stuff like this and 5% is the trolls and moronic posts.

And 32% of the numbers found on the Internet are made up.

Honestly there are too many people that have at least tried this game, we’re talking about millions here. That will give us thousands of people who won’t like this game for various reasons. And that will give us hundreds of trolls who like to whine on official forums of games they don’t even play anymore. Not even including people that like the game but like to whine even more, and complain about small things like if this was the end of the world.

So yes, the official forums are full of negativity, but hopefully Anet knows how to filter all that laughable crap to get the interesting feedback (which is really a very, very small fraction of what is said here).

I actually look at it the other way.

You don’t experience all the problems until you spend a lot of time in the game and get to the high level areas.

I imagine the majority of the praise is coming from the casuals who haven’t spent much time at all in the game and a lot of the criticism is coming from the people who actually have put a lot of time into the game and know what they’re talking about.

PS. “And 32% of the numbers found on the Internet are made up. " is a pretty daft thing to say when he’s telling you how he sees it, he’s not trying to pass his numbers off as facts.

Ignorant praise is not better than meaningless negativity.

Now that I’ve leveled my elementalist to 80, completed the personal story and got 100% on the world map, there’s two things I’d like to do.

1: Get 252K karma for exotic set (got 121K at the moment).

2: Start a new character.

Why can’t I combine these two and start a new character which I’d gain karma on and could use for exotic armour on my elementalist.

I don’t see why not…

RizziVanizzi.1532:

Zenith.6403:

Escorting supply caravans in WvW has no reward.

he meant grabbing supply from the camps and repairing kitten.

I’ll try that tomorrow.

Zenith.6403:

Escorting supply caravans in WvW has no reward.

And killing one only gave me 87. :\

Guess I’ll have to stick with Orr.

Ugh, what a chore.

minikiller.8475:

Wvw Supply runs
Orr Zerg groups

I’ll try the WvW one, thanks.

PS. thanks for the thread move, forgot about this forum.