Guild Wars 2

Well I disagree with your Bright, but maybe your just better then I am.

As for dungeons, the only thing that makes me want to do them again and again now is new classes. By that I mean playing them as a different class, such as a Necro compared to a Guardian. It just gives me a different perspective. However when I run out of classes or get bored then I guess unless they revamp them or give us knew ones ill stop. Which is sad as I love the combat in this game, even if I think bosses and other things need a rethink.

On Warriors doing the most damage, yes. It is bad that one class can out class the rest in DPS and that DPS is the best way to play. Personally I have some DPS builds but mostly I go for a balanced build as you do not normally get all warriors.

I can think of many paths that take longer then 10 to 15 minutes.

Arah path 1 and 2.
SE path 2 (as you said)
COF path 3 (least 20 to 30 minutes)
HOTW Path 2 and 3. Both long, 3 is the longest.

That is about all I can think of now, but it all depends on your group. For example in my Guild we just ask and get whoever. Which means the groups can be great or bad, and that means it could take a lot longer. That is what my problem is, as it seems like the rewards are based on a 4 warrior 1 mesmer party group.

Again rewards not counting, the dungeons just need to be changed so that just DPS can not speed run you through them. Adding mechanics that prohibit skipping or reward those who do not would be nice. A kill counter or timer with a ratio for bosses killed. Getting rid of defiance so DPS does not always win.

Dungeons need something done to them.

Or reduce the health.

Chasind.3128:

I want an all underwater dungeon, there are not enough underwater scenarios imo & I really enjoy fighting underwater on all classes

I think underwater combat need a revamp before I enjoy it. Things like more weapon choice and changing the utility skills so we get them all, even if they have to change them. It is a bad idea to just lock out skills and force us to use one weapon.

Yea GS is OP in this game. I would like to see more balance when it comes to other weapons such as Axe and Sword for classes in this game. A example might be Axe for Ranger and Sword for Guardian, both are out classed by the GS in these classes.

I did not know about the reassigning of the dungeon team, that might explain why we have not see much int he way of improvements. Why the Reward system they added, seems like it took a very short time to implement. And why they have only just started hinting at adding new fractals.

Personally if Fractals are the way they want to do dungeons in the future I would say we need more. Maybe even more on a regular basis. Such as Themed ones where we use the Mists to interact with the Mad King for Halloween, instead of him destroying the place? They could show us how he got killed in the first place or something.

I wonder if the Playground from Scarlet is going to become a fractal? They said something about a Aetherblade fractal a while back I think.

So a while back they mentioned revamping the dungeons with the living story, or even removing some and giving us new ones. However the game has been out a year, I know they did not say they were going to do it a year ago, yet the newest dungeon we have had was Fractals. Now it has been said we shall be getting some new fractals, but really I would hope the dungeon revamp or creation would come first.

So has any heard anything new about dungeons? New or revamp?

The living story is giving us lots of content, but I would really like to see a new dungeon. The Flame and Frost dungeon was great, but temporary so not counted, and it is meant to be coming back in fractal form. However how about a new dungeon with explorable paths or adding new paths to the existing dungeon?

I did not count the new rewards system as revamping, because it needs work. what I get at the end is great, but I would like to see new content first.

1) Dungeon rewards need to be character bound not account bound. That is the number one problem for me! All my alts are now useless, as I do dungeons every day. Once I have done AC, if someone wants to go after I did, I do not want to go with them as I have no reward for doing it.

2) The current rewards are a step in the correct direction, however they need to be scaled properly. A path that takes 30 minutes, should not be worth the same as COF p1.

3) Dungeons should be the hardest content but the most rewarding. Currently only some dungeons are hard, and none are as rewarding as farming.

4) Champ loot, connected to number 3. Out in the PvE world there are unlimited champs, so why do dungeons if you can get the same reward with out the effort? A solution would be to up the chance of items from the champs bags in dungeons. Fewer champs that are harder to kill, should give better rewards in my opinion.

5) Pets, AI and Minions. They are all useless in some dungeons as they die in seconds. It limits some builds and that is a bad situation. Why take a MM or Phantasm build into COE, the boss does AOE and kills them every 5 seconds. Making them very bad builds to do that dungeon with. That was just a example, but I think these things need to be sorted out.

6) Skipping. Most dungeons need to be revamped. Either incentivise me to kill everything or force me too, however rewarding players for their time is the best way to stop skipping.

7) Newer dungeons! I love the ones we have, but the game is a year old and the only new dungeon was the Fractals.

8) One shot killing. Two things really, make it easier to see them coming or stop them altogether. There is no skill in being one shotted by something you could not see coming. A example of this is cliffside, where the boss with the hammer just randomly jumps at you. At higher levels he just one shots most, reinforcing the DPS first idea.

9) Why do anything but DPS? Defiance! Please let other types of players have more of a role in dungeons. Currently DPS is the best way to play, and that is disheartening.

All of these are just my opinions and I still love dungeons, however a year after the game has come out and most of these have not been addressed.

On the pets thing, Mesmers and Necros have a similar issue. It is not as bad, but still not good. In a lot of dungeons or just bosses with AOE, my Phantasm Mesmer and Minion Master necro both use minions to do more DPS. Yet in most cases they are dead just a few seconds later. They can be recast in just a short time, however with a lot of AOE I tend not too bother. Perfering to use a Well build Necro in those cases. It sucks for AI, pets and minions in this game currently.

Also AOE seems to be the answer to large scale content, so expect more in my opinion. Though fights like Laidri and dungeons it needs to be more balanced.

“Tick tock goes the clock
It’s almost time for time to stop
Something you all must understand
Your world is built on fog and sand”

For me this means the mists. That either something is going to happen to connect something to the mists or that something is going to happen in the mists. All that talk of “time”, just hints at the mists for me.

“You’re out of time, your jig is done
It’s time for Scarlet to have her fun
She has some hard lessons to teach
To the people of Divinity’s Reach”

I guess this just means the current festivity is going to stop, and “Scarlet” is going to show up: what will happen when she shows I am now sure.

Third. “So mark the date in permanent ink
The hour is later than you think
On the twentieth day she’ll start her games
And warm her hands over Kryta’s flames!”

I think this is more of a message to the player base then anything ingame related: though the “warm her hands over Kryta’s flames!” bit does seem to hit at destruction happening. Also if you combine it with “To the people of Divinity’s Reach” from the second section, then I guess we know the target.

Overall just guessing, I think a big explosion is going to happen, that is some how going to be connected to the mists? Maybe connecting the Asura gate to the mists just like in LA, when they tried to get to Southsun?

This nerf is having a bigger issue also btw. If you do AC, all paths, with say pugs. Then your guild comes online and wants to do AC. You can join them, but your not going to get the reward.
Simple put, this divides guilds. Just like fractals did at the start. Before you could play with other fractal level players.

My thoughts on this, GW2 player with far too many alts.

It is simple to me, why do people do not events out in the world for fun?
First people like rewards, I do not see a reason why people can not have both. Personally I have started doing Arah recently only because of the rewards. I am now starting to find it fun, when it does not take too long. Is this because I never gave it a chance or of the rewards? I feel the same thing has happened with Dynamic events.
They give you very little reward for a experience that takes a while in some cases.

If I can do a dungeon in lets say 30 minutes and I get 1 gold reward for that, I know you get tokens and the 26 silver + drops but lets keep it simple; and i can keep doing that for say 2 hours at peek time: then why would I do Dynamic events in say the Shiverpeeks for 2 silver per event, instead? Even if I find them fun.

So for me the problem is rewards, but there are other issues. I like events, they have great stories and I have learn t more about the game and came to care more about the world because of them; as when I was leveling one of my many alts I just decided to listen to the dialog and I have loved the little stories ever since: however look at what champion rewards are doing now. For a long time I did not kill champs, why bother? They gave you nothing and took time away from me. Now, the possibility of a nice reward, with the new silver I get per champ, is enough for me to insist I kill all the champs I see lol. I mean it, it made a huge difference. This of course is only one issue, the other being lack of impact.

A lot of events have fail mechanics, some do not, however not all of those with fail events properly fail: for example if the undead take Haven in Gandara fields, the first fort when you come from Kessexs Hils, then it fills with undead; this is fine but anyone can come along and completely change it back by killing a hand full of enemies. Assume it is empty and the undead have it though. Then the undead simply stop! They take it and decide they have had enough, LA is close by as are the centaurs and a few other places. Why not take them?. This is the problem, even when events fail it does not matter.

Another problem is similar to the fail event, where winning ends up being boring. You kill all the centaurs and push them out of the Human areas, then you stop? In Gandara there are those two, or maybe one split by a river, centaur camps. Once you have killed the champ leader and pushed back the invasion, all you do is do a event to kill some rock dogs? Why not have some bigger events that impact the world?

Anyway those are my main reasons for events not being played too often. I feel if they look at them, then maybe we can move away from level 80 content. Oh another thing, while I know I can get level appropriate drops when out in the world, I fight less and so I get less then in a dungeon or WvW. All these things are related. Rewards, impact and fun.

Also I do feel like I made my characters to play dungeons and WvW and such, so why play where I leveled? I need that incentive. Even if it is in Achievements, and I do not mean the daily. You can do that in WvW or most places.

For a helpful and friendly guild, join Vanishing Legacy. We are bunch of mature gamers who love to play Guild Wars 2 together and help each other. It is a great guild for hard core and casual as we have a good mix of both. We understand real life comes first, but we also understand people like to play Guild Wars 2! So if you are on at the correct time for events, go to our forums for them, then anyone in the guild is welcome to come along.

Also for a long time we have done fractal nights and dungeon nights; while we still run these from time to time, we just runt them most nights now. So if you come online and people are on, then most likely people will run world events or dungeons with you. As a guild, we try to do lots of activities together.

So if you are a mature gamer, who wants to join a mature guild that is very active and does lots of events then apply at our forums. Thanks and see you ingame.
http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/

Vayne.8563:

So your problem is the game is giving you too much to do? Horrors. lol

Gear grinding has never made a game last longer, in the long term. You get the people who like that to come back, and leave for the next MMO to grind more.
Leave gear treadmills out of this MMO Anet, please stop.
I doubt anything can be done to stop the ascended gear level being added now, though I am completely against it, but please do not add another beyond that. There is already talk of legendary trinkets.
Please stop the gear treadmill.

The gear grind tread mill is now in full swing.

I am against gear grind, we do not need ascended armour. It should not be added to the game.

If we are forced to have it though, I would like them to add ascended gear to dungeons. As this new gear grind is going to make Exotics worthless and they should let us get the new level of armour from dungeons. At least then it wont seem too bad as long as you do dungeons you could get some ascended gear quickly.

Also I want skins not new levels of armour about exotics. No new skins, no new armour.

After reading the new blog post I found myself wondering why are they adding ascended weapons and armour? Im my opinion, a long time player of GW and GW2, I do not see the need. Currently we have 5 types of armour: white; blue; green; rare; and exotic. I have a lot of characters, so maybe unlock some people I find a use for some of these: for example I use masterwork, green, for getting the general idea of a build on a alt before investing in exotics. So even though they are cheap, I seen a use for them: they are also useful while leveling. However once I have figured out a build and I like what I see I get all my exotic gear together and make the character: meaning I skip the rare armour set.

Why? No point in using it, I can get exotics for free from dungeons which I do everyday; meaning we have a set of gear that is very under used. Infact the only use for rares are to salvage them for extos. So why add ascended and do the same to exotics? Also unless we can get ascended in dungeons, the exotics we get from dungeons are going to be worth even less then they are now. Please do not add ascended gear to GW2.

Btw I did like the idea of only being about to get one piece of ascended a day, and I wonder why this can not be done retroactively to exotics? It might make them worth something.

I know some may disagree with me but I felt I should make a thread for those who are against this to post on. Thanks.

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Vanishing Legacy are still looking for mature players, so if you have read this thread and are interested please go to our site and apply.
http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/

Currently we have all the guild missions every week along with a few other type of guild events, such as Fractal night and sPvP. Many of us do WvW every day, along with dungeons, and we also have a WvW event for the whole guild every week.

So if you want to join a active mature guild then apply. I hope to see you on our site and ingame.

They did it.
https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/guild-wars-2-dragon-bash-main

I wanted to ask if the new music on the Character select screen would be put onto the soundcloud?

Also a second question, why is the Dragon Bash song not played in the character select screen or LA? I have not heard either ingame yet. Which is a pity as I love them lol.

Thanks for responding, loving GW2!

Vanishing Legacy is doing more WvW and PvP then before, while still doing all our PvE and guild missions events, so join now to join us as we start to enjoy and team up for PvP and WvW every weekend.

Apply and fill out a application to joins us. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/

Challenge Missions have been unlocked at Vanishing Legacy, if you are looking for a good active guild that has progressed far in the Guild Missions then now is the time to join.
Simply make a application on our forums. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/

Vanishing Legacy is starting to do a lot more new events, such as Group Leveling to get those alts or mains up and other events. Soon in 2 week we shall have Challenge missions, which shall mean that in our guild we can earn 5 commendations week if you do all the events.
Just fill out a application and wait for our response. Thanks and see you soon.
http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

Vanishing Legacy is starting to do a lot more new events, such as Group Leveling to get those alts or mains up and other events. Soon in 2 week we shall have Challenge missions, which shall mean that in our guild we can earn 5 commendations week if you do all the events.
Just fill out a application and wait for our response. Thanks and see you soon.
http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

I would also like Cantha, it would be amazing to see it in GW2 and I do not see why they consider not adding it.

Come on, bring us Cantha!

Hello DOW here, now is a great time to join Vanishing Legacy. We have many new recruits and are busy helping them understand how we do things. For example how we run loads of events and you can feel free to show up to any or none. This is a casual guild if you do not have the time, as many of our members are casual, and it is a hard core guild for those who like to be active every day. I personally run most of them but with more active people willing to run events we now have a event almost every night. So far Thursday is free if you want to run one lol.

Really though now is a good time to join, we can help you in the game and teach you how things work: and if you a active player and want to do a event every night then now is the perfect time to join us.
We also run dungeons and fractals every night, and have a event for them separately, to bring everyone together. It both benefits the casual players in our guild and the hard core. As the casual player can come on then and get guaranteed a dungeon run with guildies who are friendly and helpful, and the hard core player can run dungeons all night!

Apply and fill in a application for to join us, a mature GW2 guild for 21+. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

Hello DOW here, now is a great time to join Vanishing Legacy. We have many new recruits and are busy helping them understand how we do things. For example how we run loads of events and you can feel free to show up to any or none. This is a casual guild if you do not have the time, as many of our members are casual, and it is a hard core guild for those who like to be active every day. I personally run most of them but with more active people willing to run events we now have a event almost every night. So far Thursday is free if you want to run one lol.

Really though now is a good time to join, we can help you in the game and teach you how things work: and if you a active player and want to do a event every night then now is the perfect time to join us.
We also run dungeons and fractals every night, and have a event for them separately, to bring everyone together. It both benefits the casual players in our guild and the hard core. As the casual player can come on then and get guaranteed a dungeon run with guildies who are friendly and helpful, and the hard core player can run dungeons all night!

Apply and fill in a application for to join us, a mature GW2 guild for 21+. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

You have to apply. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

Read and fill in the form.

Thanks.

Diablos.2834:

do you have online people to play with at around 21.30GMT and still?

Yes many because most of our events start at about 7pm or 7:30pm UK time and last for about a hour to a hour and half. Which means we have a lot of people on at those time most days.
Plus people generally play until about midnight. We are evening people lol.

This is a big week for Vanishing Legacy, we have many events on this that we are very busy. If you are looking for a great active Guild Wars 2 guild, then check out our forums.
http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

We now have 3 type’s of guild mission and are well on our way to the next. We plan to do them all every week, plus loads of others such as WvW.
Many of our events take part in the weekend, as a lot of players can make it then, however we are also running Guild missions and other events in the week for those who can make it.

So apply and join a great friendly community.

It is a free Weekend currently, and if you decide to buy the game and are new, you should defiantly check us out.

We are a helpful, active guild that wants Casual and Hard Core players. We do events almost every day, dungeons and Fractals are the same.
Out guild is gearing up the Guild Missions now also, as we have Guild Rush. That means it is only a short time before we get the others, and our guild is growing more and more each day.
WvW is now a big part, we have a event this evening and are teaming up with other big guilds.
Vanishing Legacy is a Gandara server for everyone, go to our site and see if you want to join us. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home

I am DOW and I will see you ingame.

I am DOW from Vanishing Legacy, a good active friendly guild!
We are on the Gandara server and do events almost every night, when we are not running events such as WvW and Guild Missions we do fractals and dungeons.
Everyone is welcome, just fill in a application and if you get accepted then we invite you.

Upcoming events.
Friday fractals, we do these every night anyway but it gives the more casual players a chance to join in. We can help you do them if you are new, or if you just loving running high level fractals join some of our more hard core group who are at very high fractal levels.
Saturday is going to be great, not only do we have Bounty and Trek but we will have Rush also. So join now so you do not miss the guilds first Rush Missions, the first of many.
Then we group up as a guild and take the fight to WvW and show off what organized Gandaran’s can do!

http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/

See you there.

Now is a great time to join us, we are very close to unlocking Guild Rush Missions and have started doing loads of WvW.
Vanishing Legacy is a guild for the casual and the hard core player. We run events every week, such as WvW and Guild Missions: pluse dungeon nights and fractal evenings.

So apply now. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home
A fun active and friendly guild.

Yes, bring back Cantha!

Periscopes, those annoying things you find around the world, do you like them? What do you think of the rewards?
For me, I really dislike them for two reasons. The first being they are annoying, there range is so long and if getting hit when you are just trying to get past is not annoying enough: they then knock you down. I mean I do not even want to fight them but they just hit you down, without you going near them or attacking them.

The second reason would be the reward, I really thing giving Karma as a reward is silly. Who doesn’t have more Karma then they know what to do with? If you do not, then you probably used it to get your legendary but then you don’t really need any. So if you want me to want to kill these, they need to have something I want to get. For example a chance to get a token to get one of those nice F&F weapons.

So what do you think?

Lets see who wants these to be use more and who hates them!

Post “1up” for keeping them.

Post “FAIL”, if you want them removed.

Now is a great time to join us, we are very close to unlocking Guild Rush Missions and have started doing loads of WvW.
Vanishing Legacy is a guild for the casual and the hard core player. We run events every week, such as WvW and Guild Missions: pluse dungeon nights and fractal evenings.

So apply now. http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home
A fun active and friendly guild.

I am DOW from Vanishing Legacy and I just wanted to post on here to let everyone know about us.

We are a great guild to join for Guild Wars 2, we are active and do many group events together: we do these group events every week and it not only helps build a community but we do them because we have fun.

In VaLe everyone is welcome casual or hardcore, we have something for everyone even if it is just to play the game while talking to people. If you want more, and you want team play, we do many of these also: such as Random Dungeon night and Friday Fractals! Now we do these on most nights anyway, but this is so everyone can get together and do these even the casual players: and if you need help because your not experienced we are there. This is a community!

On the progression side of things we are really ramping up the guild missions, soon we will have unlocked Rush and then it is just a short time away till we get Challenge and the next one. The only thing holding us back now is commendations and we do as many as we can each week: both for the guild and for all who participate.

So sign up on the forums and fill out a application, we have some rules and requirements but read them and you probably will find you fit in well. See you ingame.

http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home
We are on the Gandara server, and are a EU guild.

I am DOW from Vanishing Legacy and I just wanted to post on here to let everyone know about us.

We are a great guild to join for Guild Wars 2, we are active and do many group events together: we do these group events every week and it not only helps build a community but we do them because we have fun.

In VaLe everyone is welcome casual or hardcore, we have something for everyone even if it is just to play the game while talking to people. If you want more, and you want team play, we do many of these also: such as Random Dungeon night and Friday Fractals! Now we do these on most nights anyway, but this is so everyone can get together and do these even the casual players: and if you need help because your not experienced we are there. This is a community!

On the progression side of things we are really ramping up the guild missions, soon we will have unlocked Rush and then it is just a short time away till we get Challenge and the next one. The only thing holding us back now is commendations and we do as many as we can each week: both for the guild and for all who participate.

So sign up on the forums and fill out a application, we have some rules and requirements but read them and you probably will find you fit in well. See you ingame.

http://www.vanishing-legacy.com/home
We are on the Gandara server, and are a EU guild.

Josh Foreman.8250:

No no no!!! <:o Not this month. At an unspecified time. Certainly not in the next month.

Oh so does that mean when this content is taken away at the end of April, we won’t have seen any of the other worlds?
I am disappointed at that.

Also does this mean this content was released before it was finished? I thought with the way Anet have been doing the Living story they were not doing that any more?

Personally I would rather wait till it is all done and experience it all at the same time: because after playing the F&F which has taken 3 months to get some story out, I feel I would have enjoyed it more if they finished it and released it within a month instead. Now we have a similar thing with the Super Adventure Box, some of the best content in GW2 so far, and I want to play more but it is not ready.

Can I ask, are you going to bring the Box back before next April fools?

Thank you for the GW2 Music

This was linked on Guru and I am listening to it now, and like all the music in GW2 it is great. So I just wanted to put this in a thread for people to find, if you did not know about it already, and say a big thank you to Guild Wars 2: because for it has some of the best music in games ever, I love it.

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet

1UP.

Loving this event so far, it is the second best for me. The first being Halloween.

I like this event for a few reasons and one of them is the amount of content in these little worlds and how much is coming. I am sort of surprised and wonder if this can be done for normal dungeons adding paths, but I am getting off topic.

The style, I think it is great. I am aiming to get most of the weapons just because I like them all.

Giving me a reason to run around in the PvE world again, I have been waiting for this as we had it in Halloween and Christmas but not the F&F thing. Well now I have a reason and when I get to 250 I get anothe bubble bauble. It is great.

The extra’s, such as the mini pets and the time you spent on every little thing. You could have just made it straight forward but instead you added hidden rooms and such: that to me makes the difference and it is one of the things I like the most.

So all in all, for me, this is a great piece of content and I would love to see it stay.

Loving it, thank you Anet!