Guild Wars 2

Disagree… let the players take care of this. At least on my Tier 1 world, there are far more Commanders on the field then there are pins turned on. That’s for a reason. We can control and listen to whom we wish. We don’t need Anet acting as the hand of God to force this upon us.

Meanwhile, a good leader doesn’t require a guild at all.

^hahahaha +1 for more emotes!

Now I just need a Guild with more than 2 people!

I’ve never done this but, since Armor repair was mentioned, I wouldn’t mind if Armor repair was removed from WvW. I’m leaving WvW every night with equal to or less silver than I started with. It’s kind of a hindrance to playing hard in there.

Kaimick… I see your point. I’ve given up on ever going after Legendaries. Way to expensive. Again, after 3 moths of 5 hours a day, I don’t even have full exotics on a single toon. Worrying about Legendaries on 5+ is not even conceivable to me.

For me, I can already tell my interest is waning. Ridiculous RNG, precursor drops, and inflation of pricing on the TP have all made my interest go down hill. I’m sticking it out to finish one toon and do the winter event. Come Jan 1, I can’t imagine playing as much anymore. Anet would have to something radical to keep interest going. Getting rid of Map completion, so it’s not a grind x5 would be a good start.

Yes, Map completion should be account based. After 3 months of playing I still don’t have map completion. And, I have absolutely no desire to do a heart again…. and again… and again…. and again….. I mean seriously, it’s still ME behind the screen. Why do I have to do it again? It really wasn’t fun the first time!!!! It’s a freaking chore and a bore….. Am I right or what???

We can do PvE events, crafting, and WvW to level up. The map should be open to us, THE PLAYER/Payer, and not bound to a toon. It’s been a ridiculous notion to begin with.

“I do not count the infinite spawns as a bug because they have ALWAYS spawned if you had done the event the right way to begin with. The trick to this fight is knowing where to pull the boss so that your not fighting the whole entire room of adds.”

Has it ever occurred to you that this IS an exploit too???? Yes, cowardly running into a side room isn’t a bug? Like those Fanatics, by title alone, wouldn’t follow you to the ends of the Earth to defend the Archdiviner? It’s a bug and has been a bug from day one.

I much rather believe the design was a controlled spawn rate that is slow enough that you can stand your ground and handle it. Not run around like little children finding special little corners of a room to hide in.

And yes, I’m being extra sarcastic because we have pages of people complaining this Fractal is broken. Meanwhile, you’re coming in here Ruien and putting everyone down for it. Not Cool!

How about something simple like, UNLOCK, all control mechanism’s and let us wear and equip whatever we want. Just have classes that can UTILIZE them with functinal scaling.

For example, if an ele wants to wear heavy armor, there movement speed and power output tanks.

Another is, if a Warrior wants to wield some Pistols…. I… um… We’re a freak’n Warriors! I think we should be skilled enough that pistols shouldn’t confound us ;-) Why we we’re denied those idk.

Anyway, you get the idea… I want to remove some of the hard roadblocks of the game. To be replace by a more logical system of functional scaled utilization. I think we’d all appreciate more customization. Either that or just make more and more skins and skills so we can create with.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Colossus-Fractal-Successful-Completion-Strat/first#post926867

I’ll bake a fresh batch for everyone that has the 300k in one hit Master of Overkill achievement Don’t know when or how I got mine.

^I’m calling complete and utter BS on you!!!! We wiped to reset it yesterday many times. Finally we started with the barrier over the seal. I clearly remember saying in Map chat that maybe this time it’ll work. IT DID NOT! We had infinity spawns up the butt again and again.

There was nothing wrong with the way it was. If you wanted to AOE the seal, you could. If you wanted to use the hammer, you could! What’s wrong with OPTIONS? If it made someone happy doing it either way, that’s good. Because it’s supposed to be entertaining, it’s a game!!!

Now, because of the whining to the dev’s, it’s a mess……. So stop sucking up and let people have choices in how they wish to play the game. The way that makes them happiest is usually the best way!

Thanks for the feedback on the Legendary Shaman. I’ll try to look closer next time. With all the fireballs and that odd zoomed out camera angle, he’s just a spec on the screen. I never noticed him turning at all

None! Since you asked…

I actually don’t like being stuck LFG’ing and stuck with a group like this. Dungeons actually give me anxiety, I kid you not. I’d much rather it like PvE events where we all enters sporadically and let a natural funneling of people occur. Like a traffic jam, when we meet up with Bosses. We all slow down and build up until we have enough force to take it down. The Dragon events seem to be quite popular still. But, nothing has rewards like dungeons do and that is sad…

Maybe with all these list putting CoE at the top, I might give it a try.

Thank god, I thought I was starting to have a hard drive issue or something. I recently defragged the gw2.exe and was worried

Thank you for the post. Will try this tomorrow for certain! We almost had this but, couldn’t get past the infinite spawns. For me, as a Warrior, I’d pop Vengeance and run back to the entrance and drop dead as far from the action as possible for an easy rez. A party mate was a thief so he had no trouble coming back to rez me.

I had a Whispers spy kit I think. The ones you’ve mentioned seem much easier to get. I’m also guessing the hallway you’re speaking of is the one we enter through? It was great using a rifle with piercing down the hallway, that I do know

Thanks again for the help!

Haven’t tried this yet, does the kit bring up the original character creation screen showing the sliders, as they were, when the character was created?

It would be nice if hitting “Alt” illuminated the zone map like it does for NPC names. Good idea OP!

^this….. SO this!

Yeah, if I’m spiked through the roof with boons and the target is bust with stacks on him (or an extremely light target) then, yes. Maybe they don’t know the damage count in cumulative for multi hit skills?

Oh and…. ENOUGH with the control freakness of the game. Drop Unique items, equipment limits, and let US have fun in here!!!! <end of line>

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AS I’ve said many times this week, you broke it!!!!!!!!!! What the heck did the dev’s do? What are you guys and gals THINKING???

Again, almost 3 hours of my life gone and STILL not one daily pass completed. I just finished another incomplete lvl 12 daily with a pretty decent group. Got through the dredge with little issue. Except the insane “DEATH SPAWN” once you break down the door. Yet, that wasn’t the issue. Next up was the Cliff’s and the boss fight is INSANE. How many add’s do you put in there? We kept beating him down to zero and it was a spawn fest. And, they don’t clear out as someone already mentioned. I was beating on a Fanatic, like beating on, and then it split into two! I was like, “WTK????” This mess of a Fractal is getting worse…… Remove it from the rotation, please??

All I know is, Dec 14th…. Ascended gear better hit the regular zones or this has been nothing but Bull Kittens. Honestly…. ENOUGH!!! Don’t add Fractals to the monthly achievement in January either.

As a Warrior, I use the Rifle and Axe/Warhorn. The Warhorn cripples, speed buffs, and adds vulnerability. The Rifle cripples and hit’s hard. So, I just keep swapping weapons crippling, clockwise back peddling between positions, as another pulls the lever to superheat, we all hit hard, and then evade bombs.
Rinse and repeat.

I find this and the elemental equally pleasant and easy. I’m not even close to a power build and volley shot’s cumulative damage count is around 60k.

For all the leet’s about to say, “That’s it???” Yeah, I’m built for support not power

I think this past week, I’ve achieved my level 10 daily 3 times. Not that I haven’t tried multiple times every day. It’s that people are still being booted from Fractals. Then, there’s the occasional player whom rage drop’s out on the party. All of these point to a required solution, variable scaling based on party size. It’s becoming a must have for every dungeon!

Fractals already takes an hour out of my day. Spending 3 hours for that, plus running zones for the daily, then time for the monthly, and lastly taking some time to fulfill my obligation to help my world in WvW, is adding up to WAY too many hours in the day. No matter how fast I can manage it all.

So please Anet, scaling!….. So in the (frequent) event we lose a player, we can continue on in Fractals. Especially, if you’re going to make it SOooo damnably important for us to do. We can’t even get the monthly without it!

Oh, how about options for the monthly too! Like 4 out of 6 things to do, maybe??? Some choice would be nice, right? AND…. list them all UPFRONT! What’s this withholding two of them from us bs? Seriously???? Am I the only one who dislikes this?

I really like the game but, some design elements make it annoying and not in a good way. For all the other elements I like, good job!

For skill, how do you evade the legendary imbued shaman? That’s the hardest one in all of Fractals to me. As a shout warrior build with knights armor, I’m all kinds of squishy that I do not like at all. Needing pretty much a complete retooling of my build to advance any further.

I see it as, Squishy + Gear Grind = Gold Sink.
More money for Anet makes them happy.

I just hit Arah on my personal story too. Asked on Map chat if this was really requiring 5 people to do or if it was just “in” the dungeon. Stunned they chose this route.

My question is, what the heck are all the NPC’s we met in the story for then? How is this supposed to feel like the culmination of MY PERSONAL story if I need to find 4 random people to do it with? It just doesn’t make sense…… The NPC’s should be my backup and my team. Not to mention, the ending can be completely ruined by these now 4 random elements….

Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad….idea Anet!

Kismet, I feel the pain in your words. Sorry to hear you missed your monthly bonus.

It’s been mentioned but, it goes by UTC. My time zone (EST) is 5 hours later than UTC. That why is listed as UTC-05:00. Thus, 12am on Dec 1 happens 5 hours earlier, which is Nov 30th 7pm. Or, for those on the west coast, 4pm PST. Also known as UTC -08:00.

Wildcode, thank you for pointing that out. I thought loot drops was just my luck.

Your probably a good person to ask. Does MF stack from all gear, including the under water gear? I’ve only been running +3% MF from an Ancient Karka Shell and +3% from an exotic Harpoon gun. Do they combine???

Arc the Fallen, see…. I didn’t even know Legendaries were unique. Thank you for pointing this out. Being a bit OCD (surprising I know) I mapped the requirements for my dream build. One of them is with two Frostfangs. The wiki doesn’t list it as unique, just soulbound. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Frostfang Which is absolutely no sweat off my brow because I haven’t even leveled up to being full exotic’s yet.

The person in billing that’s been helping me was kind enough to forward my suggestions for a new mystic forge recipe to the dev team. Though expressed the more we discuss it on the forums, the more it will be considered by the dev team. Which leaves me hopeful that they do listen to our needs and concerns. #crossesfingers

-.- are you the enemy??? <sniff, sniff> I smell zerg…..

All good ideas and I’d welcome them. Especially when I’m still new to TS and get confused who’s voice is who’s

It’s pretty obvious they wish to frustrate the player to the point they’d rather just buy Gems, instead of playing to get whatever the want.

Great idea! Even easier would be to allow them to color code there name in map chat. This way multiple commanders can differentiate themselves between each other too.

The ultimate problem is, commanders are on the battle field and do not have the time to type. That’s why most use team speak.

That’s why you would designate the intention before building a group. This is for advanced farming of Fractals. You realize you can reset fractals as many times as you like until you arrive at the one you’re looking for. You also do not have to do all 3 of them in a row. You can do one and keep resetting it.

Besides, anything beyond level 20 just gives diminishing returns. That’s why daily’s are mostly level 10 and 20.

This is my first MMO actually I would have appreciated a heads up tool tip before purchasing. Because what makes this “unique” is in introducing a brand new item format without it being mentioned ahead of time.

The fix for me would be to removed this “unique” concept completely. Or, another idea is to simply make a Mystic Forge recipe so we can transmute the item. Something of equal value that can be worn beside the Ancient Karka shell would be great. I’m not asking for anything beyond what I paid for. Which is being quite fair in my eyes.

This, without question, has been a mistake by Arenanet. As it is their duty to inform the customer of changes in the game. For those without sympathy, I doubt you’d have any for most situations in life.

For me, the easiest and most satisfactory response from Arenanet would be to make a Mystic Forge recipe that requires an Ancient Karka Shell. Which then gives us a “non unique” Ascended accessory item or something equivalent of the 60g value. Then I’d have the two accessories which I originally sought out to have. It would also liven up the Zone as farming Karka shells would become something to do.

How about you OP, would that be good for you? I know for me it would be and I actually gave Arenanet money for this.

I can see both sides of the argument here. BUT, I think instead of labeling and blaming our fellow gamer, we should stay focused on discussing the mechanic’s of it with Anet.

For example, look two post above where he said, “It’s fueling a greedy, leaching attitude.” That’s quite a glass half empty point of view and I completely disagree. Maybe, it enhances sharing and cooperation! Fore magic find is simply the BEST gear to accomplish the goal of obtain items. Which, is mostly why we’re even in a dungeon, for treasure. Now, Explorers and Knights are equal in power and precision. It’s designed to easily switch between the two sets without a DPS loss. You should be building a party with at least one in explorers, that swaps to knights if and when needed. Afterwards, share all the loot equally. That’s what Guild banks are for.

Globally, Magic Find also helps the entire economy. It helps by keeping supply higher in the Trading Post which lowers prices across the board. For the casual player, the Trading Post is the only real solution to obtaining mat’s for crafting or directly purchasing exotic items.

Hobocop, I’m with you on it being worth those few extra seconds to kill of a couple of add’s first. Mat’s are money

drkn, thanks for asking. The deviation comes from dissimilar goals and expectations. I think having a descriptive term to designate which one we want before partying up can help alleviate some of the tension and frustration people are expressing while in FotM. Some folks are getting down right ornery if you don’t play the way “they” deem best! Forget it if you try to use magic find, anything. Just look at some of the forum threads.

Heck, yesterday I ran a Dungeon with a group of strangers. I was actually barked, Cap Monster style, for watching the cut scenes. Cut scenes, I kid you not! Meanwhile, I clearly stated before entering the dungeon that I had not done this dungeon exploration before. Their barking about this and yet, it obviously never occurred to them that there was no way for me to even know they weren’t watching the cut scenes. It’s this lack of communication I’m trying to help by coming up with new terms to express our intentions upfront.

Here is the response I received from Arenanet. Also, a link to another thread where someone else has done the same thing as I did and purchased two of them.

“Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team. We would like to be able to offer refunds or exchanges for purchases, but at this time we’re unable to make these kinds of adjustments to characters. We simply do not have the tools to provide this service.

I’m sorry that there’s not more that we can do in this case. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns."

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Can-t-equip-2-Ancient-Karka-Shells/first#post874834

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Now-we-have-unique-gear/first#post865288

Here’s is a post I started last week as I did the same thing. Unique is indiscriminate in this case as it does not reveal what quality makes it unique. I felt it was for the stats alone. Since they obviously deviate from any other exotic accessory. Making them “unique”.

Any accessory item, for which there are two receiving slots on the character, should have had an extra tool tip to prevent a secondary purchase. Just like on the Trading Post when purchasing Dye’s. And, quite frankly, why should I have even questioned this purchase to have checked the wiki? Two slots, two items, should be simple enough…. It’s the mechanic that’s been in place since day one.

You are not alone OP. I have found others who have done the same thing. Thus, it is not an isolated incident. Anet should at the very least, allow us to trade in the items for our 1k in Karka shells each. We can’t even flush them down the Mystic Forge.

Arenanet was quite quick in replying to my request on the matter. Here’s the response:

“Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team. We would like to be able to offer refunds or exchanges for purchases, but at this time we’re unable to make these kinds of adjustments to characters. We simply do not have the tools to provide this service.

I’m sorry that there’s not more that we can do in this case. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns."

As I said, it’s nice of them to let me know they can’t. For those (one) giving excuses for Arenanet, may I add that I began buying the Karka shells directly after the event. I mentioned wanting another on map chat right beside the Ancient Karka still. That’s how I found out how to purchase them. Obviously no one at the time knew of this “unique” classification. Otherwise someone would have raised a red flag and warned us all at the time. For the wiki, there wasn’t an entry until a day later.

I want to believe Arenanet has the best of intentions here. But, a part of me is going to be reluctant in buying more Gems on the TP in the future.

I posted this as a reply on another post and think it might help in partying up. Let’s classify our intended style of running FotM.

Either you’re speed running with no MF for relics and treasure chest. Or, you’re in need of Mist and Ring drops that MF will help with mob drops. Because it seems the RNG (random number generator) has been unkind to many.

Hunter = MF and looting
Runner = No MF and speed running.

Any thoughts???

Shouldn’t we use a new classification while LFG’ing like, “Mob Hunter”? This way we’re aware of each others intentions to loot mobs or skip mobs. Also, goes along with the designers intention of using Magic Find in FotM. I’m thinking this is a solution.

Mob Hunter = MF and looting
Mob Runner = No MF and speed running.

^ I think the frustration is placed exactly where it should be, at the Designer. They should have known the customer base well enough by now. FotM appears to be a rushed response from them realizing, “ZOMG…. they blew through all our content in a couple of months???”

I will agree it’s how we, the community of players, has responded to this update that is making it far far worse. It’s pretty well documented on the forums that our behavior toward each other has become strained and more hostile. I’ve never experienced such rudeness and appalling behavior until FotM came out. We could and should be a much more tolerant, generous, and thoughtful community.

To the Op, lead by example is the best advice I can give. With hope, our efforts will be rewarded. Otherwise, it’s knowing we’re doing good, that will be the reward in itself.

Hopefully, at some point FotM is going to become a bore or people will obtain every item in there. Then they’ll start roaming around again. Though it would be helpful if Anet puts some new content in Orr and other zones to get some map activity.

It depends on your world server, but, WvW can be rewarding. Once you hit lvl 40’ish, you can quickly level up with crafting. Taking all crafts to only the 275 ish range. It’s cheaper than taking them to 375-40o range because mat’s get expensive quick. Though, if you desire to use this toon to create any gear, then save the two crafts you want to take to 400 for last. Since switching back and forth crafts at lvl 400 cost 40 silver. Crafting booster works wonders.

I’m about to do the same on a couple of new alts too.

Thank you all for the suggestions. I followed your suggestion and filed a support question. I’ll keep this updated as to any responses.

Though I did find another asking the same question on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13rfe8/what_do_i_do_with_two_ancient_karka_shells/

So it does appear I wasn’t they only one to fall into this trap as well. I’m reading on the forums about Ascended Rings now being the same way, you can have only one of them. But, at least those are drops and people aren’t spending 30 gold on them

The reason why I would not keep it is, since it’s account bound, all you do is bounce it between characters. Which take less than 30 seconds. Surely holding on to 30 gold is worth 30 seconds, right?

I even tried tossing two dissimilar orbs into the upgrade slot to get the names to be different. Hoping it might help but, nothing….

I must point out the raging ego’s in the player base, in general, and specifically in this and other threads regarding FotM. This update certainly has brought out the worst in many of you.

Do any of you realize there is no “right way” to play this game. It’s like the petty arguing I’ve experienced and read about over fighting the Legendary Dredge Powersuit. Running point to point clockwise, counter clockwise, or between two points doesn’t matter at all. Just do it and enjoy!!!

Most of you defending the kick are being quite rude and labeling. How about being nice and saying, “Well… imho…. doing it this way might not be as fun without the sword but, more advantageous because <insert opinion>” Like an adult should respectfully communicate their views.

As far as the kick and subsequent rudeness afterwards, that behavior is unwarranted.

Sorry to hear OP. I received my first last night from I believe a wolf during the Snowblind Fractal.

Random thought, could we solo in at lvl 1. Keep reseting it until we get a fractal we like, like “Snowblind”. Range Svanir at the very beginning and reset it again. Just keep killing low level mobs with MF gear to get it.

Right now on most runs, people are running passed low level mobs which are the ones that drop Mist essence and globs. Everyone’s focused on treasure chest instead.

Just a thought…..

I wish Dungeons would scale in scope and difficulty with party size too. Though I think it should be from 1-12. We may be able to tun dungeons solo right now but, it’s not survivable AFAIK. I like being amongst everyone in WvW and PvE. Though Dungeons, not so much. Everyone’s taking them WAY too seriously and it’s becoming a negative environment.

Dungeons could be available to us as an extension of our personal story line missions too. It just needs to scale properly. I think it would be a lot of fun if in solo mode there were secret passages, things to subvert to our advantage like turrets/weapons/bombs, that kind of thing. Who would like going all Ninja in a dungeon????

Please help promote scaling up and also down to solo

What kills dungeons more than magic find, more than anything else, is attitude. Many of you are exhibiting pretty bad attitudes. Elitism, snobbery, and labeling galore. For those feeling left out, that another is stealing your time, or even diminishing “your” team, it’s this attitude and expectation that ruins dungeons more than anything. Because you become demanding, pushy, and quite obnoxious.

I started a party of random players last night for FotM lvl 6. Seemed straight forward enough. Done it successfully 5 times earlier. Until, our first Fractal was “Underground Facility Fractal”. I haven’t done this one before. I stated for another to take lead and talk us through it. Communications was lacking to say the least. Cap filled short tempered barking and arguments. It’s that that ruins dungeons more than anything.

Stop with all the expectations of others, focus on YOUR contributions, and have fun!

Thanks everyone!. Even if the situation is still the same, at least you’re making me feel better about it

Seriously though…. I’m not the only one to do this? That many of us have multiples of AKS too?

^Actually that’s not a bad idea! I’m taking both of them to the forge and….. “Oh crap, the forge doesn’t even SEE them!!!” Ugh, at least I could have had some morbid pleasure in flushing them down the drain

For the love of all things kitten, I HOPE someone from Anet reads this post. And, if they were smart (they are) they’d know not to reply. I have some really colorful metaphors to share

Applekwisp, believe me when I say, “I know” When I think about what I could have bought instead, I feel the “Urge to Kill Rising!!!!” And, I could have killed a lot more if I bought exotic weapons instead.

It’s a complete waste, a kittening gold sink, a literal shell game that I fell for. We can’t even get rid of them. Either sell to an NPC for 3 silver or destroy it. Which irks me even more. That’s why I’m making sure no one else does this…