Guild Wars 2

ASB.4295:

Making all ascended gear available in FotM is a no brainer, agreed, but since this gear is pretty much the BiS “elite” type of gear, even allowing it to be acquired through tasks that require a fraction of skill compared to fractals is a little bit offensive. Lowering the price further so every 2-day-a-week-casual(no offense meant) can easily gear up in them defeats one of the main reasons ascended gear was introduced: as a reward for dedicated players. How you define dedicated can be debated, but I’m pretty certain the term is meant to describe players who either spend the time to complete the most difficult PvE content there is at the moment, or at least have the stamina to work a certain about of time grinding their tokens. One has to show their dedication somehow, and whether that is with grinding time or skillful play is a choice every player has to make for himself.

Do you play fractals ? They don’t require that much skill, at least lvl 1 to 19. You can have 2 chars doing the lvl10 fractal everyday and have 2 rings everyday. And if you push it to lvl20 or more, that’s 2 more ascended rings for you, while the player who doesn’t do fractals has to complete the daily everyday like a convict for 1 month to just get ONE RING.

Razgriz.2590:

I thought you could only have 10 mail at a time?

10 from other players.

ASB.4295:

Czinczar.3786:

you have to do the daily and monthly achievements. 1 laurel for daily and 10 for monthly… But, it is not consistent, because you can easily get 3 or 4 ascended rings PER DAY doing fractals, while rings cost 35 laurels and amulets 30…

Uhm, how about being grateful that you are at least allowed to get ascended gear outside of fractals? If you can’t handle the dungeon, you have to grind crowns.

So, one player who does fractals can easily have 3 or 4 ascended rings PER DAY and the one who doesn’t do fractals has to wait 1 month and be forced to complete the daily everyday ? Don’t you see the inconsistency ? And what is really funny is that rings cost more laurels than amulets. They should make amulets available through fractals (vendor or daily chest) AND lower the price in laurels.

you have to do the daily and monthly achievements. 1 laurel for daily and 10 for monthly… But, it is not consistent, because you can easily get 3 or 4 ascended rings PER DAY doing fractals, while rings cost 35 laurels and amulets 30…

or a chance to receive an amulet with the fractals daily chest… SOMETHING.

Coffeebot.3921:

Based on pure stat points, the rings seem to be a bigger upgrade than the amulet, which would attribute to its higher cost.

amulets have more stat than rings, and if you are talking about the upgrade from exotic stats, I just checked and they are no different.

Rings cost 35 laurels and amulets 30, is that “normal”?
Just by doing fractals dailies you can easily get a ring. Some people have their bank full of ascended rings. Also, I thought ascended amulets would also be available from the fractals vendor or from the daily chest, I see this is not the case.. too bad, I thought it was the philosophy to be able to get items the way I want. And 30 laurels is a lot..

I like CoE, and I like Alpha, it has that “resident evil” feel, like nemesis, a monster that you keep killing but that never dies. I often do CoE and I often lure players to path 3. I would love it if Alpha had different transformations with a cutscene to show that.

Hello,
The last 2 days, I have looted 5 pieces of the Armageddon armor set (4 light and 1 intermediary) in fractals (level 12 to 15), is this intended ? Or am I just extremely lucky (or not, seeing you can’t sell those pieces) to have looted pieces of the same set ?
Thanks.

well it works, i joined a NA group, and i have been placed in overflow ! Thanks.

You mean that if I am on a EU server, I can join a US party, and that will place my char in an overflow map ?

come on, you are not going to ban players just because they stand on that little rock that lies in front of them. If standing on that little rock breaks the intended design of the dungeon, then it’s clearly a design flaw.

the dredge fractal : “wheel?”
AC : “stairs?”
CoE : “skip first alpha?”
CM : “come here guys i’ll show you something!”

What does it take for a hotfix? How much time does it take to place a rock in that CM spot for example ?

There are SO MANY exploitable bugs in this game, and this is 6 months after release. If the devs show no respect to the players by creating dungeons full of bugs, players should not show respect to the devs by playing the dungeon the way it was designed. You expect players to not exploit the bugs when there are so many ? Fix the bugs.

Yes, something like that, a monk, and my guardian build is support (0/0/30/30/10)

here is a screen of my current armor (shoulders are from AC because the hotw ones are way too big)

I don’t want to sound harsh, but “serious wow raiders”, who cannot look into the traits and make a build for themselves ? I agree that some of the skills/traits are sometimes badly described, but really it doesn’t take 160IQ to look into that.

i have looked here http://gw2armorgallery.com/norn-heavy.htm and there is really nothing to my taste, same for the draconic set, thanks for the suggestion though.

Hello fellow guardians,
I am actually wearing the hotw heavy armor, because I wanted to look like a “scholar in heavy armor” and it is the only one of this kind between all the dungeons armors that I have found (all other make you look like a warrior with heavy plates and such)), but still I don’t completely feel ok with hotw armor. So, i am asking you, do you know good heavy armors skins that could make me look like a scholar in heavy armor ? My guardian is a big norn with white hairs and beard.
Thanks !

the patch should solve this (hopefully), but one solution could have been to make it so you have to pay something to start the fractal, a bit like paid tournaments, and we can also imagine that if you finish the fractal, what you paid is given back to you.

i find it strange also that there are dungeon paths harder than others while the tokens or gold or loot reward is the same or even smaller than other paths. They really need to come up with something to give the incentive to players to do all those harder paths. For example i like CoE (despite subject alpha being bugged 70% of the time…) and i like path 3, because it is harder and different, and i like the reaction of players that have never tried this path before when we start on that boss who is surrounded by lava (with the lasers..). I often say “hey, let’s do p3” just to lure the players to that boss ! I like the fact that with this boss the players have to do different things (but i agree activating lasers is the most boring thing on earth and that is why i always go down to the boss).

So, good idea, we need a way to give the players the incentive to do story again and all paths.

Something very good would be randomly generated dungeons. Instead of creating 3 paths, designers would design tons of different rooms, hallways, encounters etc., and a dungeon would be generated upon entering it.

About money in game, we can say the exact same things about money in real life, it’s killing everything. I have yet to see a mmo where there is no artificial scarcity.

tokens should be treated liike karma or gold, just a counter

Thief really needs new elite skills, at least one. The ones currently available are pretty useless. For example, there is no elite skill based on stealth.
Also, I was thinking the other day about this : skill customization : it would be great if we could customize the way skills are working. For example, if you have a skill that says “remove one condition every 10 second”, you would be able to chose an order of priority between all the conditions that the skill or trait removes each 10 second. A bit like diablo 3, if you know what I mean.

Those eagles … they are really too strong

I lost approx 20gold due to that bug. I was trading on tp, then i placed a buy order for lvl 80 rares, clicked the button, and nothing happened. Then I went to cancel other buy orders, nothing happened. I had around 179gold and i am now with 159. What can i do ? Support ticket ?

I forgot.. I did change the audio language in game to see how the game would sound in another language.. And now I downloaded 3g of another language…

Give items instead of gold.

I thought maybe Anet decided to make some people download the update earlier to avoid everyone downloading the update at the same time.

My launcher is downloading 18000 files for a total of around 2.5 gig, is this a new update/patch, or is it because of my install (repair or something) ?