Guild Wars 2

I would totally spend some gems if I could just get one of the Frost dyes (even if it was a random frost dye). But it’s just not worth putting gems towards dye kits that most likely will give me a dye I could have easily purchased on the TP.

They’ve been working on performance quite a bit. I do think all the culling changes made a pretty big difference in big encounters.(so long as you’re willing to look at a bunch of the same character models.)

The Eternal Grace.3157:

Sorry man, but since everyone paid for 5 character slots, they’re technically able to get 5 gifts. If I buy more character slots, I should be able to get more gifts. Plain and simple.

And people with all those character slots did get more gifts. A very useful Birthday Booster, and a mini Queen Jenna.

Yes. It’s not a random mini. But wait, aren’t people complaining about RNG anyway?

I can see it now. Arenanet makes a birthday gift that has 150 different minis, but then there’s the guy who had 15 characters and only got 4 different minis and feels cheated by it.

Knote.2904:

Um…. it’s not about turning GW2 into GW1, it’s about taking a small THING from GW1 that was far superior to the relative THING in GW2.

In this case the anniversary gifts.

You did get an Anniversary gift. It just wasn’t the anniversary gift you wanted. Don’t look a gifthorse in the mouth.

No idea, and most people in LA didn’t know either.

Worst comes to worst, they don’t, and you still have a stash of Blue and Green items to salvage for Magic Find.

So I guess the Birthday Booster which gives you a 100% boost to everything for 24 hours wasn’t exciting?

Instead of all those Queen Jennas, you’d rather have a random selection of the current minis? Did you really only play those 14 characters with the hopes of getting 14 different minis? Did all the content over the last year become invalid because the birthday gift was not good enough?

I’m willing to bet part of the reason they gave players just 1 kind of mini is because people coming from GW1 anticipated getting birthday gifts. In GW1 it was a surprise, so players really couldn’t take advantage of it. That wouldn’t be true in GW2, so everyone gets the same gift. Maybe they could have done more, but I think what they gave out was still pretty nice.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Masterwork crafter.

I’m saving masterwork crafter for all the Ascended I’m going to make.

(Though I’m not really surprised someone finished off all the monthlies already. The Scarlet invasions alone make it incredible easy to get Champions + Group Events)

The time gates are just on the first refining process, correct?

Once you get to the step to make the ingots, those are unbound and tradeable. So while it may take you 2 weeks to make the gear just by yourself, it would take much less time if you were willing to purchase those materials from other players.

The timegates are likely there to prevent the market from suddenly being flooded with materials, and quickly devaluing Ascended Gear as soon as it comes out.

(Just realized I never made a full post about how I beat her beyond my traits. )

It was pretty dicy, but I beat her just moments before she killed me.

I actually used a surprising build for her, that changed a bit as I progressed. 10/30/0/30/0

I started out using Bow, but after some time, I switched over to Dual Pistols. I used Steal to get rid of the orbs and to give myself a bit of healing. I had Withdraw and Roll for Initiative to give myself some extra dodges., and Shadow Refuge to prepare for Phase 2. Vigor of healing meant that I had a few extra dodges to work with as well. +2 Initiative every 10 seconds, and Healing on Initiative Spent.

The rest of it was DPS traits. +10% pistol damage. Fury when target reaches 50%. +20% damage when target reaches 50%.

Phase 2 was basically all just a kiting fest, stacking bleeds and vulnerability and railing into her with Unload when I got a chance. Using my dodges when I needed to, but mostly staying close to the center to quickly get out of the AOEs.

I’m not really sure if I could have beat her with Shortbow. Simply was not dealing enough DPS against her to beat the timer.

I think I’ll be showing her off for a while as I go about Tyria.

Technically, it’s libel.

And I actually didn’t lie about anything. You killed me, I didn’t fight back.

That’s fine, I know I’m not the only one that gets killed in the jumping puzzle. Though, I do kind of wish there would be a bit of common courtesy when in the jumping puzzle if someone doesn’t fight you, you don’t fight them.

Oh, and I did just get it done. So much easier when no one is around.

SykkoB.9465:

YA i dont get this post, your unhappy that someone in a pvp area did some pvping ?

Just venting a little.

SheerBlood.5687:

I did apologize to you, and even invited you back to finish the JP.

Well, I would come back to try again, but now there’s a queue for the EB.

Probably not. It wouldn’t be so bad if I had a change of fighting back and winning, but when you don’t really practice 1v1s and don’t have all the zerker gear and ascended equipment and scholar runes….there’s really just no contest.

(Maybe someday I’ll actually get a WvW set of gear that’s for the explicit purpose of killing anyone who decides to fight me while I try to do my jumping puzzles.)

Yeah. I don’t really expect anyone to really care. There’s just always been a certain level of toxicity when it comes to PVP and griefing comes with the territory. I just wonder about the kind of people who enjoy spending time having one sided battles.

Two guys from Blackgate now just camping at the arena part of the puzzle. So…that’s great of them.

Why did you have to kill me in the EB Jumping Puzzle? I was doing nothing to you, and just trying to get away. Did it make you feel good to kill someone not fighting back?

Titan.3472:

The gift for legendaries HAVE TO BE SET UP AT 500 (instead of 400 actually) CRAFTING SKILL in every professions now if not it doesn’t makes sense.

I’m not sure why this has to be the case. 400 crafting is when you can start making level 80 exotic items, and there’s a lot more to making a Legendary than the gifts.

I suppose 450 might make some sense, because that’s when the ascended materials start opening up, and Legendaries are now equivalent to Ascended. Still, this seems like kind of a needless requirement.

LostInSmoke.2590:

I think most of the people in this thread complaining never played anything in the 8bit generation or earlier. Not everyone thinks candyland-easy games are fun. That’s why ultra-hard games exist in the first place.

You know, 8-bit generation games were hard. But the good ones were usually fair.

Games like IWBTG and it’s like are designed to not be fair at all, and to punish player who might rely on accepted gameplay mechanic. (Like you certainly never expect an apple to fly sideways after the previous 3 apples fell downwards)

(Also, what is “earlier” than 8 bit games? Pong?)

Pretty much what the previous poster said.

1. Tier 6 materials will be needed for Ascended Crafting
2. Legendaries got some graphic updates, so more demand for legendaries themselves.
3. Legendary weapons are getting some stat upgrades, making them more desirable.

Ugh. I Wanna be the Guy level of cheap gameplay mechanics and artificial frustrating difficulty?

Yeah, I don’t consider that kind of gameplay fun when things kill you instantly and unexpectedly, and the only way to win is to know the entire thing before hand perfectly.

I get that some people like that kind of thing. I don’t really get it. I don’t really consider it good game design, but I guess I can agree there’s an art to figuring out ways to actively trick players into falling into traps. I guess it’s the same type of people who like playing with DMs who have unwinnable encounters.

Nope. The music is one of the best parts of GW2 in my opinion. I actually have my settings to have music louder than most of the sound effects and to play more frequently.

I think instead of selling my mats now, I will use those mats to craft ascended mats and sell those instead.

Not sure if I missed this in the video, but according to Dulfy, there will also be a chance for Ascended Weapons to drop anywhere that Ascended Materials drop. I would think that would make a pretty big difference in the potential grind for people considering making 5+ of these.

Also, since it looks like the materials near the end of the crafting process are unbound, the two week timer may not actually be two weeks at all. Really need to start playing with this first hand to see how it all shakes out.

CuRtoKy.8576:

I wish it was easy to view nodes on the big map like within your radius of course. I hate haven’t to move the map around to see if there is anything good far away from my current position.

Use your min map and increase the zoom distance. You can pretty much see all the nodes on the minimap that you would normally be able to see.

I do wish the would add a few more nodes of Ori and Ancient Wood around the zones. It probably won’t happen, but it would be nice.

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Essence Snow.3194:

Coldin.2840:

And really, you don’t need an Ascended Weapon. Yes, they’re better than exotics, but the whole idea is you don’t need Ascended stuff to play GW2. We kind of all knew there was going to be a bit of time related grind to Ascended items, kind of like there was for getting the Laurel ascended equipment as well.

You don’t need anything beyond whites. Same premise, but does it fly….nope.

I have one ascended trinket, on all of my characters. I just wanted the +gold infusion amulet on my guardian, for no good reason. I still have 200ish laurels. I really don’t think it affects my roaming WvW characters in the least bit. I’m not going to notice this at all. Bringing up whites is just trying way too hard.

Not agreeing/disagreeing with time gating, but don’t pull that and to try dispute something :P Exotics are still fine for everything sub high level fractals.

Pretty much the same reason I went for an Ascended Amulet. I eventually bought an Ascended Ring as well, but that was mostly from the windfall of Laurels and Badges I got from achievement chests.

Essence Snow.3194:

Coldin.2840:

And really, you don’t need an Ascended Weapon. Yes, they’re better than exotics, but the whole idea is you don’t need Ascended stuff to play GW2. We kind of all knew there was going to be a bit of time related grind to Ascended items, kind of like there was for getting the Laurel ascended equipment as well.

You don’t need anything beyond whites. Same premise, but does it fly….nope.

Big difference between Whites ->Exotics compared to Exotics -> Ascended.

Exotics are relatively easy to get with a medium degree of playing and are vastly superior to white equipment. Ascended is much large investment but a small increase compared to exotics. It’s just not a good comparison to make because the investment of time and resources is vastly different.

Honestly, while it may take 2 weeks (time gated) to get the materials to craft those weapons, the rest of it’s not really time gated. You can spend that time leveling your crafting, gathering mats, doing other stuff.

And really, you don’t need an Ascended Weapon. Yes, they’re better than exotics, but the whole idea is you don’t need Ascended stuff to play GW2. We kind of all knew there was going to be a bit of time related grind to Ascended items, kind of like there was for getting the Laurel ascended equipment as well.

Yeah, I guess so. Maybe if crit damage was a main stat people would look at it.

It looks like the Explorer stat combo will be changing into the Assassin stats of Precision, Power, Crit Damage.

You guys think it will become a popular alternative to Berserker’s?

I’m not a fan of cheap deaths. If there are places in Tribulation where you get killed “just because” I will very likely stay far away.

Still, maybe it won’t be so bad. I mean, I did beat Liadri and the Clocktower. This might just be like trying to do both at once…

I really don’t understand why there’s a confirmation for greens either. Sure, they’re slightly more valuable than blues, but they’re still common as dirt compared to other items.

Yep. I’ve had this happen as well. The entire time on Fireheart Rise, she was always appearing right on top of me, even if I was miles away from any other group.

I do wonder if it’s intentional. If Scarlet is indeed supposed to be our nemesis, making her constantly harass one player for the whole map invasion is a good way to make her very frustrating.

I wish it was Crit Damage. We don’t have any crit damage sigils, right?

What we could see happening is that dungeon tokens will be a way to purchase materials for ascended gear. So it won’t give ascended gear itself, but provide a path to it.

I’m not too worried. Ascended gear isn’t really required for anything.

100 more crafting levels is going to take a while….

Guess I better finish my weaponsmith to 400.

I don’t mind the downed state too much, but I wish the abilities between classes was more balanced.

On a thief, I basically just have to hope and pray I can burn a monster down faster enough to rally. My other skills barely help at all since players and mobs alike are barely effected by them.

On the other side, my ranger feels pretty invincible when downed because I can just rez my pet and have him heal me through any monster beating on me.

I’m mostly curious about the runes. I have a set of Pirate/Traveler runes in my armor to give me a bit of Magic Find boosts. Are those going to be changing as well?

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The waves of Scarlet’s minions are depleted by killing creatures that emerge from the portals. Kills count, not necessarily events.

The pirate and molten waves are depleted by completing events.

I’m skeptical.

I’ve seen the minion meta event deplete much faster when the group is quickly moving from one event to the next, rather than lingering around. This could be because a lot more minions simply spawn during the first few waves of a new event, but I’m think even completing itself takes off a significant chunk as well.

Now, the pirate and molten waves, that does match up with my experience. In particular, you have to complete the Pirate Captain events to advance the Aetherblades meta event.

I wouldn’t say she’s a Soundless. Those Sylvari don’t feel the Dream (or they try to avoid it), but they were also not really shown to have an malice either. She also did communicate with the Pale Tree, and the Pale Tree knew of her.

I would say more she’s like the Nightmare Court, but rejects that authority as well. Scarlet very much wants to be the one in control of everything, including nature herself. She also appears to have very little concern for everyone outside of herself as well which is a bit unusual for a Sylvari. (Even the Nightmare Court just wants to convert Sylvari, not kill them.)

Actually, I was talking about the hotjoin….

She’s supposed to be sexy?

She seems pretty insane if you ask me. Not saying all Sylvari are unattractive, but even her look isn’t all that appealing.

It’s kind of funny actually.

Both sides are really calling the other selfish, while not thinking they are being selfish themselves.

That’s more than a little frustrating. Been waiting the past couple days for the Invasion to trigger on a new map, and on Frostgorge specifically. But the second it did, the lag on the map was just crazy. I was getting 20 seconds of everything just staying still, and then it would catch back up. Funny thing is when I got booted, I wasn’t even lagged as long as I was previously.

Never had this problem before either, and from the chatter on the new overflow map, I’m not the only one who had this issue.

Really frustrating.

Seems like every time I venture into SPVP lately, the matches are just really unbalanced. Either I’m getting blown away by other team, or my team is the one doing the stomping. Either way, there appears to be a huge discrepancy between the skill levels of the players.

I’ll come out and say that I’m not really good at it. I haven’t really played much PVP and I’m still trying to figure out a build/rotation that works well for me. Still struggling through the rabbit ranks, so obviously I haven’t put a lot of time in. So when I’m going up against players that are ranked wolf or tiger, it just doesn’t seem very fair.

So, should I just give up trying to find matches against players at my same skill level?

I’m a little sad it’s gone. I only got a couple nights worth of farming in.

I’m more sad that making money through the gauntlets is gone completely. Combined with the new hourly zerg invasions, I bet the Pavilion will be a ghost town for the next two weeks.

I’ve had this happen a few times. It’s a bit annoying that Deadeye starts the fight before you aggro him. Most of the other fights don’t start until you do the first attack.

I’ve also had Deadeye teleport during his charge up attack, just to hit me as soon as he’s clear across the arena. Or shrug off a blind despite being in a blind field. It’s more than a little frustrating at how random this fight can be.

There is a small degree of luck in Phase 2. Where the various orbs spawn, and what abilities Liadri herself chooses to use can cause a lot of problems.

That said, I would say that Phase 2 is at least easier to understand that Phase 1 once you get there and survive a bit. Of course, it’s also a lot harder to stay alive.

I would love to see some more uses for karma. As an alternative to gold/tokens for obtaining certain loot.

Astralporing.1957:

Absconditus.6804:

To me, the way you can weasel your way up through very specific jump boosts up behind the finish line, is what I would consider a map exploit. It is something that was unlikely intended, and something they have been too lazy(?) to patch up.

It was definitely intended. At this point n the race, there is simply no other use for that jump boost crystal – the only jump you can take is up that cliff.

That seems silly logic if you ask me. Just because something is there does not mean it’s intended. There’s also a Lightning Powerup there, and that provides absolutely no benefit. I’d really say that whoever designed the race just said “I’ll place all these powerups here at the end in a row”, and did not think about the implications of jumping over the cliff.

By the way, I ran Signet of Malice instead of Withdraw on my run. Since I’m constantly spamming attacks, the healing balances out the damage being taken (mostly). Though that does leave one without any evades at all in the fight, which can be trouble.

Thief, 10, 30, 0, 30, 0. Dual pistols. Withdraw, Shadow Refuge, Roll for Intiative, Shadow Signet, Thief’s Guild.

Mix of gear, but mostly Berserker or Valkyrie stats. Just lots and lots of kiting once hitting phase two, using vulnerability and bleeds to keep the damage high.

Crovax.7854:

how could you dodge when you took every gambit except crowd favourite?

Withdraw let him dodge.