Guild Wars 2

Fluffball.8307:

Raids are self-inflicted torture, open world HoT has so much to do I haven’t even done half of it after however many weeks. It’s not like casuals have nothing to do. And I don’t consider myself a casual.

Raids have been pretty consistently advertised as hardcore PvE. If anet backs down at this point, what hop is there for the future? Open world has WAAAAAAY more to do than raids.

There’s not so much to be honest, but what there is of it you’ll need to do many many times.

ANET will take a look at the player metrics for raid participation every week as they do with other parts of the game, as weeks turn into months they will come to the same conclusion every successful mmo developer has.

Difficulty options for raids are inevitable.

The thing raid fans like us need to be concerned with is what will happen to raids 6 months to a year from now. I’m hoping they won’t be left to languish like WvW or straight off killed like dungeons and SAB. Time will tell.

ANET are focusing on Raids for the next few months, it’s important that the 200 people left doing them in a months time have content to play.

The forums were filled with complaints during the beta the lack of imagination with rage timers and the obvious issues those timers would create with needing to go zerker.

They either don’t have the resources or time to revisit this content, the same happened with dungeons, fractals and wvw over the years. My suggestion is check back in with raids 8 months at the earliest and see what’s changed.

You got to remember they had people helping them test that were actually practicing instead, they most likely have little useful feedback right now.

I know of one pug group that has beaten the first boss, def needs a LFG

It’s possible they’re trying to pick up the massive Wildstar crowd with HoT, it’s a courageous strategy I hope it works out for them.

When raids fail they’ll have to retune them (example: all mmos) to try to lure people back to them, the problem will return.

Def needs its own instance.

It’s possible the person who coded LFG has left Arenanet, that’s the only reasonable reason it would be left out imo

LFG turned to out to be an awesome tool but right now its so messey!

More things to do would be nice, the zone is pretty boring for the majority of the event

Downwood.3192:

Okay, we now have access to the WvW schematics of chilling fog, armored dolyaks, and guild arrow carts. These all are apparently level 150 schematics and are not valid routes to level scribing with. At levl 140, the only methods available to level are either discovery (good luck) or colored balloons, which require guild hall decorations merchant level 3.

Right now WvW guilds cannot viably level their ability to provide WvW supplies without extensive PvE content and the acquisition of decoration merchant level 3. If either chilling fog or armored dolyaks were 125 instead of 150, this would be a viable route, as supply drop is 75 and depot sabotage is 100. There is a gap at 125 however which destroys the WvW scribe progression (and, let’s be honest, everyone else’s) without venturing into decorations and merchants.

Right now, if dulfy is to be believed, resonating fragments unlock at 150. That means that literally the only viable route from 140 to 150 is by crafting colored balloons. That’s it.

I wouldn’t worry about that, the wvw abilities are one use only and cost 40+ gold each.

No one is ever going to use active or passive items on claimable objects in wvw, only auras.

Why put absurd gold sinks in wvw, you want people to play it right. ANET tried it with commander tag colours and this is even worse, atleast you can keep those.

The tactics and improvements are temporary, chilling fog costs 42gold each and you can use it ONE TIME BEFORE ITS GONE

Some lucky guild has unlocked the guild mini trader with chat codes!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3skkef/guild_miniature_merchant/

The cost of these like most guild hall items is completely busted but its cool to have your guild emblem on a bird man.

What’s your favourite?

Any word of a fix? There’s hundreds of reddit posts about this and people are not running guild missions anymore out of frustration.

Angvars, proxemetics and the wolf rush are all bugged to hell and back. Out of 100 people doing this maybe 15 of us got rewards.

Also the guild hall changing sizes bugs the arena teams up, people start becoming invunerable

This is by far the biggest issue I have with the guild hall atm, the 5 person limit is waaaaay to low

It’s waaaaay to small for gvg

Has anyone unlocked any of the decorations? I’m dreading that they need a scribe

Anyone else got this? It seems a tad unfairly tuned for anyone outside NA

Why do masteries require both XP and mastery points to unlock.

Guild of 493 members, 150 online, hundreds more logged in since launch. Not one person has talked positively about this Hero Challenge situation.

We ain’t a wvw only guild either

Just to add to my previous post, I’ve played these characters for 3 years already.

People want to use the new specs for the new content not play the old ones for 20+ hours then finally have the new spec only to have nothing to do.

To use the new classes we need to beat the new content with our old classes.

Yeah, no thanks. What do I do after I beaten the new stuff? There’s nothing left for the newly specialized characters to do.

Okay it makes more sense if it was to do with patches for the expansion, fair enough.

Thanks for the responses!

This is a worse reset time than the original change, 11am reset raids? Not going to happen. Completely kills ocx and sea too.

No thanks, please reconsider turning the weekend of all things into dead play time.

I really hope so.

Anyone got any info on this?

MFranco.9514:

If some of you can show a away of getting ride of the timer and somehow keep the challenge

I’ll let the devs rise to that challenge.

Manu.6078:

Hello, I write here, hoping that my post will be read by the right people.
I haven’t participated in any raid but I’ve seen a few high quality videos, in HD.
I won’t comment on anything about arena, mechanics, difficulty and so.
I just want to stress that, after so many posts about visibility, particle effects, ambiguous animations , then seeing Norn sized opponents, translucent(!!!), covered all over by explosion of colors, it made me very sad.
Please, challenge my mind not my eyes.

I’ve never really had a problem with spell effects or I’m just used to them by now but I’m guessing doing this is really time intensive as people have been asking for an option since beta.

Would be nice tho.

Enrage timer reinforces the zerker/kick this class meta, pure and simple, good ole boring DPS check. It’s a shame we are seeing a common encounter fall back of traditional mmo raids in the very first fight.

I’m still hoping Vale is the only boss with one, some of the other mechanics in the fight were pretty good. The mentions of gliding make me believe the next bosses won’t be as lame.

Ditch the enrage timers, it’s so played out by now. Enrage timers reinforces certain builds and stats which doesn’t fit this particular mmo at all. I can only think the team was short on time cause it feels like a placeholder (which would make sense it’s a beta) and doesn’t even fit the theme of the fight.

The break bar mechanic was kind of just there, i thought it was going to be implemented differently when I first hear about it but it’s effectively a tiny amount of extra health.

Those first 3 trash mobs are a good idea to teach a few mechanics of the fight but should probably have their health reduced and damage increased or something, they’re kinda boring.

People told me about it today and I thought it was a lie but checking my titles I now have it.

I dunno if it’s fixed yet but I made new characters a few days ago

Weird bug!

This happened a few weeks ago, dunno if it was a bug but pretty cool anyway.

I’m seeing no disorder in the economy, I’m willing to be convinced if there’s compelling evidence.

[SFD] Starfleet Dental presents

- Adopt a Dev Progression Diary – Pat Cavit Edition

Week 1 With Pat in tow we Immediately set out to EBG to prep an attack on Maguumas arch nemesis, the Ghost Grub.
http://i.imgur.com/B4qvJEs.jpg

Sea of Sorrows struck from behind a tall hillock. Pat popped his anet tag in defiance.
http://i.imgur.com/Zx6gmIo.jpg

We failed, surely this was because Pat didn’t have a commander tag! So we decided to start a fund raiser which lasted 97 seconds, Pat recieved over 300g, 2 swim boosters, the flag backpack thing and 27 stacks of black lion chests.

Pat was short a few badges needed for the tag so we decided on a trip to the source of all badges, EoTM.
http://i.imgur.com/Z58IDVl.jpg

We got them in no time.
http://i.imgur.com/IIsnFn3.jpg

Pat joins the ranks of SFD’s elite commander club, member size: 500
http://i.imgur.com/ehsDJhH.jpg

Commander Pat, cake gun in hand leads a small squad of llama owners on a kill mission. Result: 7 dead to fall damage, 2 survivors.
http://i.imgur.com/sshncvJ.jpg

Victory.
http://i.imgur.com/7Ghtxoc.jpg

Next Week, we aim to get Pat his Diamond Legend rank.

http://www.starfleetdental.com/about/
Starfleet Dental.
Maguumas oldest and largest WvW guild, #1 NA Guild vs GvG.
Inventor of culling era stack-n-go-invisible and lord room siege fest.

1. Guild Chat API
2. Guild mission activation
3. Guild hall

Cheers mate..
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Yeah, you really need to post in the bug thread. No dev will read it here.

Tested after the last few hotfixes, still broken.

The Chosen Link.3247:

Cletus Van Damme.2795:

Looks like this is being overlooked in all the patch hooplah, I’d hate to see this wait till the september 2015 balance patch

Has anyoned re-tested with the new patch/hotfix that came out yesterday?

Still broken

Looks like this is being overlooked in all the patch hooplah, I’d hate to see this wait till the september 2015 balance patch

Broken still.
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Still broken post patch.

Still broken post patch.

Tested, still bugged.

Currently one stack of vulnerability is better than traited frost spirit.

Reddit thread had 300 replies, guess the forums aren’t as popular.

Wasbunny.6531:

Thanks for shedding light on this. This needs to be fixed, and fast. At the very least it must be immediately acknowledged by the devs as something that will be corrected in the upcoming patch.

Or that it is intended, dun dun dunnnnnn.

The hope is that it’s a bug due to comments made previously by devs on its use.

If it isn’t a bug rangers are will be seriously weak in any non solo setting even post patch.