Guild Wars 2

It looks very nice but npc locations are aweful. Sadly I`d rather have old LA with decent npcs rather than this.

Was “farming” horde everyday for some time and never gotten one and finally i stopped caring and doing teq only once in a while when i was bored. Today I`ve done Teq due to Sparkly Fen event daily and got my first horde. It was a nice surprise, I even forgot i could get special skin there :p

It`s been beaten to death, yeah, but i agree with that. I enjoy fractals but getting little to no rewards is pretty disincentivizing. Sure, I`ll do them once in a while or when there`s double daily but thats all.

When sometimes I have limited time to play I`d rather do SW/few dungeon paths (which I also enjoy) rather than fractals just becouse rewards are non-existent.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

And before someone screams that MMOs are social games, I will point out that instancing in general is an anti-social model.

No, not really. Making instanced group content isn`t anti-social model as you still have to interact and coop with your team to achieve a certain goal, it prevents mindless, boring, zerging snorefest like most of the world bosses are.

The only challanging one left is Tri-Wurm and Vinewrath and it`s becouse they split large zerg into few smaller groups ( kinda like instancing does).

It`s a MMO, there are and there should be things that can only be achieved in group. What would be the point of MMO game if you could get everything solo?

Just join a friendly guild who will do fractals with you without ranting about metabuilds/skills/whatever you dont want to hear about

with most of the sets you can skip the timegate by paying little bit extra money. I`ve just bought all timegated mats from tp and crafted whole berserker set in one day.

I`ve recently purchased few things:
-LS story pack, since i`m relatively new player I only had last episode unlocked, gonna get me some achievments soon:P
-Salvag-o-matic, both copper and silver. I think it`s one of the best item to get, saves so much space and trouble with basic salvage kits.
-Musical Harpy, even if you arent very good at it, it`s very fun for me to try playing some music pieces
-Costumes I liked – Ancestral, Exemplar. I think I`m also gonna get this katana blade and one heavy armor set I like but dont remember names.

Planning to get:
-bank tabs for obvious reasons
-infinite tools

I pretty much like what item shop has to offer, only wish they`d add more items with each update.

From the screenshot he provided it looks like its GPU problem. GTX 960 clocks are about 1200mhz for either memory and core, but his only works at 30-35% power while running gw2. I`d try different/newer driver

In this place with such settings i have about 100fps. I5-4440 r9 270×.
Btw, why your card has such low clocks? It looks like it`s in some sort of power saving mode. Try messing around with your driver

So you crafted legendary to hear “Wow, he has legendary, so cool”, “Nice legendary dude”, “You have legendary, you are awesome!” and so on comments and not becouse you like the look of it ? I mean, are you serious?

You could have looked it up on youtube and decide whether effects are to your liking but instead you made it and now complain that effects are so “weak” that noone is commenting on it.

Besides like above comment said, legendaries are pretty common now. Im pretty sure a lot of people who saw you knew you had legendary but they couldn`t care less.

I myself have a Twilight but i crafted it for my own sake, i just love its looks. Since I have crafted it few months ago, maybe 1 or 2 times someone metioned it to me, which just means that people dont care as much as you expect them to.

Even worse is when you click join but you are too late and game thinks you joined and left group in a split second, even though you didnt join anything. Happened to me twice in 5-6seconds time and I was blocked from LFG for more than 10min… The longest I had to wait to retry LFG was about 30min, even relogs didnt help so I was stuck on empty map without neither chest farm nor events waiting for mercy of LFG,

In my opinion if such system has to be in place (and i certianly understand why), why not just block player from joining the same party, unless invited, after 4-5times instead of blocking every other party from lfg. This way you can still try to join other taxies but keep people away from abusing and griefing one certain party at lfg.

Female characters are much more polished in my opinion and their outfits/armors and much better done that those of male characters. Before GW2 i used to play Tera and male characters were mostly left out when it came to outfits, everytime there was shop update it was more and more skins for females (not to mention gender locking last 2 new classes)

I swear, GW2 has the most moaning community I have ever seen in my time playing MMOs. While in other games players complained about important things, only here you can see someone complain about getting crippled for few seconds from mob that can be dodged/blocked/killed in 2sec.

I mean, are you serious? Becouse i really want to belive it`s trolling thread for funzies.

i saw it when it was datamined, imediately liked it and was waiting for it to wear on my guardian along with ancestral outfit BUT then i saw video on dulfy with this horrible clipping on human female..

There is no way im gonna drop 600gems on item with such pain for the eye. It`s already enaugh for me that when im wearing Twilight and toggle walk animation my character commits suicide by sticking it in her head but now you want me to cut off my legs too? No way..

Fiddlestyx.9714:

I joined a 50% SW map, they were taxi-ing people in for Breach and VW. When VW started a Commander started a chest train and VW failed horribly. Nothing like having all that work go to waste.

Wait… is that why it’s called silverWASTEs?

I dont belive a word in here. 1 commander doesnt have power to turn event map into chest farm when people are focused on events, it sounds like map was chest farm not events for the whole time.

I`ve literally done more than 300 event maps and never saw that happen once, it`s the other way around, when people chest farm and map progress is close to 80% they start taxing people for final events or sometimes they ignore VW and keep farming without taxing anyone in hope for events.

Cultural armors unlock in wardrobe – yes, but only that race can use them eg. Once you unlock human cultural armors then only other human characters can use that skin.

Order skins unlock for all characters of any race/order i belive.

If fees were lower then overall price of all items would be higher. TP is one of the main gold sinks in the game.

It`s pretty easy. Just avoid anything like “speed run, x k ap, experienced” for the time being and look for “all welcome” parties, if there isnt one, create it yourself. When me and my friend did it at low levels we didnt have any problems finding people who are nice enaugh to explain and teach us some stuff about dungeon as we go through it.

You pay 5% fee for posting item from your own pocket. Only sale fee of 10% is reduced from sale price.

That is terrible idea imo. You like some spec thats norn only but hate playing as giant? Well too bad you are either forced to play a race that you find unapealling or miss on piece of content you would otherwise enjoy. I`d absolutely hate to see some cool spec locked for example for char when I dont like it`s appearance.

DarkSpirit.7046:

Therefore, chest farming wins

Yeah It`s true that it`s fast way to make gold that doesnt require any effort…

which explains why events fail so badly as nobody cares to do the less rewarding stuff anyway. Let’s just rename the area as “Chest Farming Waste” where all people get to do is chest farming all day long.

… but this is just not true. Seems like you are frustraded becouse some map failed. I`ve been doing a lot of SW recently and 1. I NEVER had any problem with finding event map 2. failed maybe 2 maps out of 50+ becouse people didnt listen. Some maps have failed breaches but that`s also not becouse nobody does events or nobody cares but becouse some people are kitten ignorant and dont know strats and never bother to read map chat.

Do I think event rewards are bad? Yeah, kinda, wish they were improved but now you are just exaggerating.

DarkSpirit.7046:

ChoChoBo.6503:

They dropped that gold amount several times since launch, in order to work out the games economy. Increasing gold drops for base game events would being going backwards and just doesn’t make much sense in my opinion and could really do a number on the games inflation.

In that case, the only way to solve this problem is to add Heroes as in GW1 then.

They`d have to rework event system so you have to do more than just kill 1 mob and voila. Also they dont have to increase GOLD rewards but give more items via bonus chest so they`d more or less match chest farm.

DarkSpirit.7046:

Otherwise why would so many forts fail during prime time Saturday night? And there was no event LFG shown on the LFG tool, only chest farmings and 1 guild mission.

I`ve been playing lots of SW during the weekend (EU) and saturday “night” was full of LFGs, more than 10-15 in Open World tab and by “night” i mean time between 8pm-2am(CET) . Either you are playing EU from NA or vice versa or your definition of “night” is like 3-4am for that time zone.

Add an npc that after talking would spawn a private dungeon-like instance for 20-30people max that only ones in the party of someone who`s inside could enter. Once you taxied your buddies in you could then spawn boss. Scale bosses so that they would be a bit stronger than number of people inside to offer some challange (20 people in? make it have 30-40people stats)

Of course all those open World Bosses on schedule would remain as they are so people who want to zerg them down would be able to.

Both open and private ones would share daily reward chest as they are the same boss.

However lot`s of bosses have pre-events so I dont know how would that have to be resolved :P

Basically it would make them a “simple” raids :P

I despise chest farm too so I always do event maps BUT I NEVER had any problem finding event map after event map. The longest I had to wait for some taxi was about 10min during TEQ time or late at night for EU timezone (but that`s to be expected). They just need to increase event rewards to match those in chest farm so both ways are equally good.

DarkSpirit.7046:

If they don’t provide heroes as in GW1 then what is the solution?

Make the events more rewarding so players will do them more often? Which is the whole point of this thread.

From under water :P Search on youtube, it`s a jumping puzzle.

Prototypemind.4026:

Pretty lame way to play, and no worse than the players who make sure they’re in the area for VW, get a tag, then go afk. Why even play the game if you’re not going to participate?

I enjoy final events much more than deffing forts/colletng rubbles becouse the fights are much more interesting and rewards are ok. I do whole map from time to time when Im in mood to do so or when some of my friends/guildies want to tag along. When I`m playing alone I`d rather play final events and do something else inbetween.

Prototypemind.4026:

You could work an extra hour at work here and there, convert the real world money to gems, and just stay away. It would save you the hassle of finding a map and paying attention to breach.

As for converting money to gold, yeah I could do that but why? I dont need gold that much and it would take that little sense of achievment away (eg. from crafting legendary). I only purchase gems when i see item that i think is worth my money in Gem Store.

Prototypemind.4026:

If everyone else took that route breaches would literally never happen.

Some people like doing events, some maps come from chest farms. I`m leeching here until breach/vw yeah, Im not gonna deny that. But if rewards were better then I`d be more interested in doing events even though I`m not much of a fan of them.

Prototypemind.4026:

That said, you’re probably watching tv or whatever at the same time, so it’s no big thing to mooch while you do so in terms of taking away from whatever else you’re doing. Regardless, it seems kind of a waste to even spend the time in game if it’s spent that way.

Sometimes I do, yeah but I usually do my little projects and I dont mind taking a break from time to time to play breach/VW events/maze. It`s not a waste of time for me becouse I get to do what i enjoy as well as some decent rewards.

Summing up, I`d do events much more frequently If rewards were decent. As of now I rather jump into final events and do something else during pre-events.

SHM.7628:

I disagree on the heroes. I thought they were fun. I could adjust and synergize their builds with eachother and with my toon. It added depth. You runed and geared them too. It was like managing a small army.

I found it amazingly fun. You built up their skill base and their gear. Talk about progression. You became a more masterful player in the process.

If you could run a little army of your own then you wouldnt need other players anymore looking how easy most of GW2 content is. Why play an MMO then? You can do that stuff in single player games. I`d rather see something done with rewards system than this added to the game.

I`ve never had a problem finding map in SW unless some other major event was happening (Teq, Triple Wurm) or I`m playing off hours for europe but if there is no lfg at given time there always pops up one in next 5 minutes / (10+ when playing during off hours) which is fine by me.

However I usually jump to 40-60% map and stay afk doing something else until breach. The in-between events are utter non-rewarding garbage for me that are not worth the time.

I`d love to see better rewards from events, it would actually give me a reason to do them.

And GW1 heroes idea is bad IMO.. I dont play MMO to run around with bunch of AI meatbags :p

Elias.3204:

Third, can transmutation charges still be found in the game world? Or are they by purchase-only from the gem store now?

They can be obrained in game.
1. You get 1 charge for completing town map (eg. Lion`s Arch, Divinity`s Reach etc)
2. You can get 1 charge for completing any other map (it`s either BLC key or charge)
3. You get 3 charges at some point from daily login chest.
4. You can convert gold to gems and buy them (atm. ~~20-25g for 5 of them).

Creating character and completing town map gets you 1 charge in about 15min, then you can delete this character and repeat process.

It could be done with a checkbox that if checked makes your cursor locked inside borders while window is in focus so it wouldnt affect you in any way.

And why do other things? Well sometimes you need some gold and one of the easiest way is to run a chest farm in SW but it`s so utterly boring and mindless thing to do that I see no reason why I shouldnt watch something along the way.

I`m not saying that feature like this is necessary becouse i can get by but having options is never bad.

I`d love to see this. I often play on windowed when I do some mindless stuff that doesnt require much attention from me and watch movies at the same time but every god kitten time at least once I dont notice my mouse moving outside of GW window when moving camera and end up making tons of gestures in chrome and close my tabs and such. Pretty annoying.

Orpheal.8263:

Shouldnt it be somehow possible between PC and Smart TV to bring the game from the PC Screen to the TV?
(…)
The Game would then run further on your PC in the back ground,, but everythign would just get displayed on your TV.
(…)
So the best thing is to keep the game for everyone just on PC, but improve the gamign experince by gettign the game over to TV screen format by linking the PC with the Smart TV (wSmart TV would be a natural requirement for that, cause only those can be used for Internet due to having LAN Ports on their backside.

Everything like that is possible, connect your pc to your HDTV. All modern GPUs have HDMI ports.

Orpheal.8263:

Everythign thats needed after that basically is only integrated support for Game Controlers by Anet, so that if we start the game from PC first and then start the console with some specific game disc inside an log in to our accounts from the console, while beign logged in on PC already, we can then take over the game from PC to Console to play further on console.

It doesnt make sense, for that to work it would either need ported game for console or said console to support games being streamed to it from PC which most likely will never happen. Again, you can achieve the same by connecting pc to your TV.

Orpheal.8263:

For that to work, we would have to create first accounts for our consoles, that we than have to link together with our PC accounts (best would be to make the console account then a different named one, not the same)
if we log in then from the consoel with an console account, that is linked to a PC account, it would enable us then to play our PC account further on the console.

Again, why involve another hardware(console) when you can just plugin pc to your TV.

Anything viable from your idea is only a controller support.

I often play games on my 55" LED TV, even GW2. I use wireless M+K though.

Self build are best and cheapest. You can look some builds on hardware forums and then just order parts with build service (they`ll send you PC built with parts you have chosen).

I dont know the dell`s build quality but it`s no way that game/driver would fry a GPU, worst thing that happens if GPU is too weak is that you get bad framerate. It`s most likely cooling/PSU problem.

It sounds like you`re super unlucky with your graphics cards or using some poor no-name PSU that is just few batteries glued together.

I like double fractal daily cuz i can get more pristine tokens. Also you can finish your daily easily just doing 1 fractal so I don`t see the problem here. For today you can do:
-lv1 swamp fractal – like 5min
-pick 4 plants in kryta – like 1min
-4 events in brisban – like 10min
or change one from above to:
-capture ruins (even though is in pvp map its very easy to get, just run and stay there for a minute, havent been killed once doing that daily yet)

UnitedChaos.8364:

Sorry, couldn’t get an image, only a link. Could someone share how to upload picture?

You have to open full reply editor("More posting & formating options…) and there is an option called “Attachments”, you tick it and browse pic from your pc. If you want to attach more than one you simply hit “preview” after you pick each picture.

This is my guardian. Currently saving for Chaos Sword Skin :p

I`d make another character with looks you want. 170+gold just to change looks of your first character that you havent invested much time in is just too much, you could get some equips or cool looking skins for that toon instead. Gambling for it is also a bad idea, out of like 50 keys i`ve gotten only 1 makeover kit (take note it doesnt include name change).

I get it might be a bit tedious repeating everything from scratch especially when it`s your first character but it`s way more time and gold efficient to just create a new character instead of gambling/investing gems

1. Look for maps that are 50-70%
2. Once in map, go to each fortress that`s under attack, kill few mobs and move to the next one to get more bonus chests.
3. Finish the map (VW boss)
4. Go to labirynth and pick little chests (can open big one if you feel like spending your nightmare keys) or search for another map.
5. Once you have enaugh keys (let`s say 200+) join a chest farm map and follow commander. (Verryyy dulll)
6. Open bags, salvage all greens and blues, sell rares/exo and all mats you dont need.

All the time combined i`d say 10-20g / h depending on your RNG while opening champ bags

Since like 8pm CET yesterday i have a problem with Trading Post. Whenever I choose any item to bring up buy/sell page there is a little circle in the top left corner that looks like it is loading and loading. I can see buy/sell/order prices but buttons to do so are greyed out. I can somehow place orders and such but only when i quickly click on the listing and hover mouse asap on buy/sell/order button becouse i`m able to click it only for a split second and then it greys out. Does anyone else have this problem ?

I also like spinnig face more, i`d probably go for fractal back if i wanted the glow. What annoys me now is that backpieces are closer to character back and now my hair clips with chaos of lyssa spinning head

Tasks for Hearth missions are displayed in top right corner of the screen when you are in their range.
Binocular icons arent any missions, they are only to show you a close undiscovered area which contains hearths,vistas,pois etc and to give some of the “story”

Oh sorry, then i just have misunderstood it becouse of lots of posts about it not coming back on april fools. If you say it`s been mentioned to return, then i can`t wait to play it :P

As a new player I just googled what SAB is and now I`m pretty sad from looking at this thread that I`m probably never gonna get to play this content which looks beyond amazing. Bring it back, pretty please?

So of all things it may reference like:
-some old movies
-pioners of flight
-children pretending to be flying a plane

It reminds people of:
-recent plane crash
-crucifixion

just wow

What Weirwynn said. I was under that impression too until i opened more than100 keys for each, tier 1 (right after it opens) and during tier that`s unlocked after collecting 150 essences(t3 i belive?) . Rewards were always the same and as follows:
3 champ bags
1 yellow or exotic (exo very rare)
1 green or yellow (2nd yellow was somewhat rare )
1 green
some ascended mats (dragonite i belive)

It`s a very little thing but it hurts my eyes now when i look at my character. I wonder why this change was even made. I hope it was a mistake and they`ll revert it back.

Is it just me or it`s some new “feature” after recent update? My backpiece is now way closer to the character`s back and clips with hair which it didn`t do before. I`m using Chaos of Lyssa backpiece.

Sorry if it`s wrong sub-forum. Wasn`t sure where to put this :p