Guild Wars 2

Just an FYI for the Devs. Couldn’t help but notice the PPT incorrectly showing in T1 right now. Hoping this get’s fixed before the season starts.

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lordhelmos.7623:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0n8N98mpes

I have an extremely hard time with thieves. I hate them and the dev’s whom created and cater to them with a burning passion. Just a few hours ago I had a pair of tick-tac sized Asura thieves, ended up being condi no less, kill me. I went back and did pretty much exactly what was in the video. It was very satisfying. Think I still have a bit of them on my boots

UltraElectroMagnetic.2187:

Slapping the faces of all the defensive players

Because you’re supposed to be fighting to the death for the lulz and tearz, and blah blah blah…. whatever those kitten ishes say all the time.

Yes, this is a bad idea. Though it was a BADLY DESIGNED structures that force players to be so creative with siege.

Thank you for this long and detailed post. The first response I can think of is, who’s overnight? Every minute of the day is another’s night time. I ask this because you keep using the term “overnight”.

The next issue is, what if you have the coverage for more than just EB?

Zerging is fun, stop the whining about it already. /thread

Eyelusion.8205:

Event loot is just bad when there’s such a great reward for only a few and most get junk.

See, the thing that bothers me more is that the few seem to get something not only once but, multiple times. There has to be hidden account loot modifiers/tables.

^ this is what makes the game feel horrible. One person can get such amounts while most of us get only Greens. I’ve killed the holo at least 30+ times with nothing to show for it. In fact, I’ve lost money during this event because I care about my map and servers performance and buy pots of food and help out when I can.

More so, I’d bet my damage/contribution is higher than most receiving great drops. Heck, several have claimed to have gotten several Scarlet Kisses already. Again, the disproportionate rewards from RNG make some players feel great, while others feel like kitten.

Wanze.8410:

DeWolfe.2174:

Case in point, I’ve defeated the Scarlet holo far more times than I can count.

If you cant count past 240 (~max attempts at Scarlet since release), you shouldnt argue the rng difference between 130% and 300% Magic find.

hue.. hue.. hue.. you know the reference is used to describe a point in which you’ve cared to keep track of further. Don’t you have a TP to troll?

Ynot.8397:

Fuzzion.2504:

JQ can do blackouts to allow folks in but u need to talk to the ministers of communication. I think folks are really gearing up of an all out war in season 2. It will be a make or break situation for Anet if there is blunder.

Ministers of communication…
And you all thought T1 was crazy before…

Not crazy, we just like giving funny labels to everyone.

Zerker, Zerker, and more Zerker. Dodge, dodge, dodge. How people can’t dodge this still, idk.

Announce and place a pot of curry butternut squash soup inside the mystic forge at about 0:45 after the hr. Tell people to come and get the vigil buff and eat. Also, that’s about the time when the guard event pops. Which makes it a great place to fill up your 25 stacks of bloodlust. Hopefully people won’t get overzealous and scale up the event where lvl 84’s spawn. Because they’ll drop people and there goes the buff and stacks.

Afterward, spread out to the Knights equally. Melee is not the best course of action because Melee will get you downed without question. Which the results of being downed is a significant lose in power! That’s 250 power from bloodlust and the vigil buff gone! I hold onto my stacks well into the holo fight. Noticed that’s why the food is precision and crit because we’ll have plenty of power from the two buffs.

Staff Ele’s…. you can’t have enough Staff ele’s for this fight. Beside blasting our own fire fields for might, we bring conjured weapons and healing. GS 30/30/-/-/10 Mantra Mesmer’s work very well too. Mesmer’s have of course Time Warp to use during the burn phase. What most overlook is that we have a great source of stability for this fight as well.

Yes, there are other consumables like the Ember’s and such. Though on JQ we’ve been getting under 6 minutes without them. So I don’t think they are needed to succeed, though can help.

GJ! I broke out my Staff Ele after being parked for a long time. Primarily for the Scarlet Knight’s fight in LA to really rain down some hell on them. Really inspiring to see your video. I have Exotic Celestial armor I never even equipped yet. Think I’ll give it a try.

Don’t forget housing! I’ve said it before on here, not everything should involve killing in game. Enough with the 24/7 Lulz… skillz… tearz, crud! Some of us want to relax and build in game. Instead of running around raiding other people crops, give us our own place to plant and grow crops. There’s soooo… much more to life and games than what GW2 is limiting us to.

Time to expand the game in play style, not just more of the same!

Case in point, I’ve defeated the Scarlet holo far more times than I can count. For all those times I have not gotten a Scarlet’s Kiss or any good drop. Meanwhile, another person on our server has been doing it frequently too. Yet, he just received his 4th earlier today. His magic find is maxed out and I’m about 130%. So either MF does affect chest or A/B accounts exists. I believe in both actually. Oh, and he wasn’t the first person on map to be claiming to have received multiple Scarlet Kisses already. Either way, I left LA after being kinda disgusted with the games RNG. Once again it leaves you feeling pretty bad after a while.

Lishtenbird.2814:

• ANet, Please Teach Your Players How to Play Your Game.

Irrelevant! Irrelevant… irelevant… irrelevant…!!!! Who cares about player skill when we’re loosing players? Anet should be focusing on creating a more enjoyable game. Focusing on creating more play styles and associative content that makes players happy and feeling more fulfilled. The general population is decreasing because players aren’t having fun anymore. Increasing difficulty in an attempt to PUSH the players to be better is more than likely just going to push them away. This isn’t a job and we don’t have to play the game at all. That really needs to be kept as the first though here.

With that said, yes, Anet could make more training areas in game. There should be a training area in WvW and in each city. Much better versions than those practice dummies in LA. One that gives you feed back with a damage report or dps meter. Anet also could make more tutorial video’s on how damage scaling works with food, etc. They truly leave players in the dark too much. /wiki isn’t viable when players don’t even know what to look for. Not to mention have the time to research for days

Considering that I’m sitting in outnumbered maps tonight with this server full status, I have a feeling our lovely living world content has topped off our server with PvE’ers. I’ve always been proud of JQ’s “Hub of NA” status but, I’d love more consistent WvW’er too.

I don’t care about stealth. What makes thieves OP is the immense burst capacity they have. Who cares about stealth when they’ll kill you in their initial rotation. This is purely in WvW where scaling is ridiculous. And no, the 10% crit nerf won’t help much. In WvW thieves need a minimum of 25% damage reduction. Especially on Heartseeker which takes no skill at all to use. Also, Initiative makes thieves WAY too macro friendly.

Thieves remind me of 3-5 year old little boys. Play fight with your kids and you’ll see they put their heads down and charge at you. Flailing and swinging as you usually just put you hand on their head and hold them at bay. That’s kinda the way dagger Thieves are. Even the animation is that way. The exception is, 3-5 year olds don’t hit like the Incredible Hulk! Thieves should be annoying and fast, with stealth. Not all that and being a powerhouse too. That’s why they are OP in WvW.

My original character, the Wonder Norn

IDK…. I’ve never been big on getting big numbers on the screen until now. This event has brought out a different side in me. We’re actually having fun seeing whom can do the most damage. It’s not even that bad now that the bugs are getting fixed. At least we got the achievement tonight.

A friend and I have been having fun seeing whom can hit the holo the hardest. He’s winning with a 15k and I’m in the mid 13k range for our one shared skill. I was taking screen shots and figured out one of my Prime Light Attunement rotations. In the 45 seconds it last, I hit the holo for a total of 443,000 damage. That’s blowing my elite too but, I only went into the portal with 16 stacks of bloodlust. So, I can do better still. Though I’m hoping it illustrates why I’m saying the 325 points from life steal isn’t the best option.

We got the achievement on Jade Quarry two hours ago. Everything ran pretty smooth actually.

Aveneo, 5 signet rifle with vitality, no food or vigil buff ….???…..
Not much HOPE in that build

Jade Quarry just did it the under 6 minutes achievement 2 hrs ago. We’re pretty consistent with winning. Make certain you bring your A game though.

TatsuKan.5412:

Autumn Frazee.3158:

Update of the ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’ achievement: we’ve identified the issue and are currently working on a fix. Thank you for the information on only two people from the successful maps getting the achievement, that was the final clue we needed! I’ll keep this thread updated as we work on the fix.

Autumn Frazee.3158:

All of the Battle for Lion’s Arch achievements have been tested for their functionality and do unlock correctly

Nice work. It’s obvious, players are wrong, they knows nothing…

Well, she did say they unlock and function. Obviously if two people on map have been getting them, they are in fact unlocking and functioning. Simply not for everyone involved in the fight. I’m assuming there is some mitigating factor to prevent everyone on map from getting the achievement passively.

For all the snarky remarks and complaints, relax! I’d bet even now most maps aren’t killing all 3 knights under 6 minutes. So YOU still have work to do to get ready too.

Seras.5702:

DeWolfe.2174:

I’m assuming most players are in PTV

I hope not. Why would you need survival gear in this fight? I’d hope that more people are running Berserker gear or something like it.

Only Anet may know what build composition is on a map at any given time. I never wished to see a gear inspect function in game. At the moment though, I’d be really curious to see what everyone on map is running. Considering I’ve seen people without any food or utility buffs. Then some I’ve seen running cheap magic find food. Then the best of the worst was two running naked during the Holo fight yesterday. It’s shameful people would troll the event like that. Either being too cheap to pay for armor repair or simply to be obnoxious. But, if people are taking the event so lightly, it wouldn’t surprise me at all that people aren’t running Zerker builds. Honestly, except for a small portion of the player base, I wonder how many are actually running specific builds at all.

OP, it’s a good thought and I actually carry a tray at all times. I’ve been looking into what Feast’s I can share with the map. Since it’s getting annoying to see so many without food buffs.

I’m assuming most players are in PTV or other gear not spec’d for high crit chance or damage. Thus, I wonder how often this would proc the 325 life steal. More than likely it wouldn’t be frequent enough to overcome the power scaling benefits of power/crit foods. “Feast of Truffle Steak” for 100 power & 80 precision, also a “Pot of Butternut Squash Soup” for 80 precision & 8% crit, are likely the best options.

defrule.7236:

During the condition reflection stage, damage is low

I’d just like to say, my Ranged auto is about 2k with my better attacks about 6k. Our DPS isn’t that bad if we choose the right profession and build. That’s why 325 from life steal isn’t much of a benefit. Unless people are Zerker or Assassin geared.

There’s a new season upon us! For some, a new spring season in real life. For all players, a new season is about to begin in Tyria. With that, may I ask for a new artistic style to usher in this new season? A style both clean and pristine and filled with life! Winter is over and I say enough with the cold darkness of our present day style.

Anyone else looking for something to renew our spirits in game?

Minos.5168:

Autumn Frazee.3158:

We are currently working on the difficulty of the Assault Knight fights; I realize that sometimes its hard to get a full overflow or that there are non peak hours where server populations will be lighter. Hopefully with the difficulty changes, it will also make it easier for a good server to get ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’.

You mean a server that has 150 people in Lion’s Arch (all in full Zerker gear with Vigil’s boon) completely focused on the Knights?

Right. Like that’s going to happen for anyone but TTS.

I’ll have to admit, the lack of seriousness in other players is starting to grind on me. Here I went and bought new gear and “Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup” isn’t cheap. Yet, even though it’s expensive, I’m geared and ready to rumble. Then I look around and see people without food at all or magic find food. I can see missing the dodge as a skill issue but, not having food and gear is just not taking the event seriously. Making the whole LA experience infuriating!

Otokomae.9356:

Oh noes! A Ranger got killed in WvW by 3 Thieves!!! HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED, THIEVES MUST BE SO OVERPOWERED!!!!!

Thank you for this, Baroness, I really needed a good laugh today (^_^).

Wow, a thief coming to insta-defend the profession. Who could have imagined that?

I’ve done this fight more times than I can recall. Yet, fun was never a feeling I had afterwards. Now the first Mad King’s realm, when you’d all get feared off and splat on top of each other, that was funny!

Felkes.2759:

DeWolfe.2174:

I’d like the game to bring in more flavor from franchises like “the Sims” and “Farmville”.

With this single sentence you made everything else in your post invalid. To even suggest Guild Wars be in any way, shape, or form like Farmville is pure blasphemy.

Ahahahaha… hey, I’m certain Anet wouldn’t mind those franchises earnings on their balance sheets. Also, I did say “flavor”. Think of the game like a menu, it should have some diversity, right? Well, right now GW2 has very little in that regard. It’s either combat, combat with gathering, and/or trading. Because outside of trading, everything requires combat. The game should have peaceful zones beyond the cities for building, planting, harvesting, and gathering. This would be a great way to introduce housing instances and mounts. Think about how huge the Chocobo’s are to the Final Fantasy franchise. This game can be way more than it is now.

Coldin.2840:

I’d rather have Arenanet fix this event so it doesn’t require this 50 person cap, the event scales down when less people are there, and they give use a fair amount of loot for spending 20 minutes in a boring DPS race.

Well yeah, I’d like that too! In the mean time, certainly there’s something we can do to help ourselves. I already burnt myself out on this event for the day. Something about the new LA that triggers headaches for me.

Let’s guest to Ehmry Bay then for tomorrow/Monday nights reset! Try to get a good run in.

Kumu Honua.2751:

Also you can buy the buff that corresponds to the faction you joined and it’s only 1s.

Who does the personal story …???…. noob! jk

Anyways, considering how they made the NPC’s like Kiel, Heal-o-Tron, Jory, etc. ready to rez us, the dev’s obvious designed this fight to down a lot of us. Thus, the best buff in game for this fight should be persistent. I’d also like them to increased the duration to 45m or 1h. Since the combined knight to scarlet fight last longer than 30 minutes.

Aerinndis.2730:

Sadly, over and over and over, I have seen folk not paying attention to what they need to do -snip- not standing in the colored circles to do damage.

I’d like to point out, you do not have to stand in the colored circles any more. Just get the buff once and it’s good for the duration of the fight. Just fyi

Ashabhi.1365:

After all, we’ve been complaining for a year that there’s no “hard” content. I would hate to see it made care-bear easy.

Please do not included everyone in a “we” statement. I’ve been asking for more interesting and soulful content. Also, content that has us building! I’d like the game to bring in more flavor from franchises like “the Sims” and “Farmville”. All this game really is is a FPS. Really, there’s more to life than killing all day every day.

For the Knight s fight itself, I don’t know why it’s so hard to figure out. I do my best to be informative in map chat. I’m full Zerker Ele and I hold my stacks until about phase 3 of the holo fight. That’s the biggest barrier is this content really requires full Zerker and holding your stacks and food buffs. Though that’s not asking a lot really.

Ohoni.6057:

But they weren’t patching it for us, they were patching it for themselves. Each change they made made things worse for the players.

I can see where one can say that. Though I think of the updates this week similarly to removing the Flame Kiss light armor from the TP. It appears to be a knee jerk reaction to complaints on the forums. Because already on Tuesday evening there were numerous threads complaining about zerging, the amount of loot, and people being afk. Which I’d argue are the reasons behind all the revisions to the content. If we all came on here and gave praise, they wouldn’t have changed a thing, because we would have been happy customers.

All I can do as a player is get into LA and help defeat the Knights. Which I’ve already done most of the day

Nooo… accidentally deleted my op. I should know better than to edit a post from my phone

Anyway, like the title states, how about we rally (guest) to different servers to help everyone beat the Knights. Instead of everyone guesting to JQ or BG? Which worlds have been having trouble?

Soulstar.7812:

Shhh, it’s ok… A-Net doesn’t listen to us, it’s time for GW2 to die…

I’ve been critical and quite vocal of the living story the past two weeks. Considering how many of us have been, I think the Dev’s have been doing a good job of responding. We had not only received bug fixes, we received actual revisions to the events every day this week. Can’t ask for much more than that. And, I don’t think we should expect them to be working over the weekends either. I’m assuming we’ll have another revision on Tuesday. That’s doing a pretty good job of listening and responding. I know we’re all supposed to be OCD gamer’s with little patience but, we have to be semi-reasonable about it.

To the OP’s question, yes I’m very unhappy with the amount of choice in game. Especially when my taste in art and fashion varies greatly from whomever is running the Art Dept.

people check leader boards?

No, achievement hunting is all about being the early bird. There’s no way you can make it up later or really work harder at it.

May I add, I do not feel Mesmer illusions should be getting pulled by the Knights.

Also, what the heck is pulling us down in the water??? This is on the east side of the drill and it’s not the Kraits. If a dev added this to just to troll people swimming from Red Knight to Green Knight, that’s going too far. When there isn’t 50 at each, we have to run it! Grrr….

Autumn Frazee.3158:

Thank you for your continued reports, I’d like to update that we are currently working on issues with:

• The ‘In Tune’ achievement
• The map wide Health Display for the three Assault Knights
• The ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’ achievement
• Assault Knight rewards

TY for again updating this content. You are all trying and it’s appreciated. May I suggest, JUST MAKE IT EASIER! Honestly, this isn’t supposed to be an “Us vs Them” mentality between the Dev’s and players. Stop trying so hard to make the events fail. Difficulty, in itself, doesn’t add anything to the story.

This should have been an immersed living story ending. Though an extremely high percentage of the attention to and take away from the living story revolves around game mechanics, bugs, and failure rates. The forums should be filled with conversations about the story but, aren’t.

Also, as a WvW player, updating during reset night to tweak preexisting living story content is never appreciated. Not all siege survives updates.

DonRobeez.3560:

CC Danicia.1394:

Please don’t delete them!

You can hold on to your extra blade shards, as the team will be adding something later which will allow you to convert the shards to something of value. Dev will be announcing more on that later. Thanks!

Are you kidding me?
I deleted a ton of stacks.

I was convinced they were just there for the backpiece.
Something like this should have been a public announcement or anything obvious so players know not to delete them.

Or, know to farm them because they’ll have value. Instead of making a dozen back packs because they made the soul bound. GRrrrrr…….

As much as I complain, I’ll give it a Pass just for the attempt. I believe they need to learn to focus the Living Story as an experience. Not to try to make gameplay statements with them. All the game mechanics and obstacles put in place completely overshadowed and broke any immersion we could have had.

Carighan.6758:

Assume for a moment that each knight has 5,5 million HP.

Before:

• In 6 minutes, a group of up to 150 players has to produce 16,5 million damage.

Now:

• In 6 minutes, a group of up to 150 players has to produce 16,5 million damage.

Now:

• In 6 minutes, a group of up to 150 players has to produce the equivalent of 33 million damage.

Since dps output was cut in half by increasing the Knights Armor. The armor is not even a scaling issue. You can have 5 people at a Knight and your damage, post patch, is still less than half of what it was.

Just not interested in doing Lottery content. Any content, especially temporary content, with drop rates under .5% can and should just go unplayed.

If I want bags or to fill a bloodlust stack, I’ll take a swipe at a Miasma event. That is if I’m running past one to begin with.

Agree’d with both post as these changes actually made LA worse. Not to mention nothing else in LA is getting done. There simply isn’t enough time in between.

And yes, the title is sarcasm! Please fix the HP regen, perma hammer stun, and the Knights Armor buff. TY…

Hey Dev’s, I know we’ve been complaining A LOT lately. Though at least you know we’re playing the content you made and passionate about it. So, it’s a win for you, right?

Onisuo.8607:

So yeah, this is not a complaint or anything but

So yeah, when you say something followed by a “but”, you really just negated anything previously written in the sentence. Thus, you really were just complaining.

btw…. some of us buy gems with real money AND key farm too. Because, it’s a thing to do to make some gold. Also, it’s more fun then running a Dunegon or FotM.

[quote=3735662;Healix.5819:ArenaNet simply has higher expectations[/quote]

I’d point out to any Dev that Zerker isn’t a higher form of playing. Nor is Zerker a harder or more skillful form of playing. Especially when bosses can one shot you! Such high damage Boss attacks make every gear stat have virtually the same survivability.

Meanwhile, with the Zerker nerf incoming, why would anyone wish to buy more of it???

The recent updates did not improve the events at all. If anything, it was as step in the wrong direction. Because now those of us in Zerker are just getting annoyed that the events are still failing.

Knighthonor.4061:

not sure if this thread is serious or not.

Then you must not be a Ranger. As, if you were, you’d know this isn’t serious. I think I’ll park any of my other professions and run Bearbow tonight just for comedic purposes

Yeah… I’d say this was bugged. I’ve fought a Knight where it just magically melted before. Especially after they increased the Knights Armor.

btw, can TTS do anything without Fire Elementals? You’re the reason we have this stupid timer on them now! Grrrrr……