Guild Wars 2

I don’t get the panic / confusion. They have said hero points(hp) are coming from x number of current skill points. I am only assuming that the skill points where you have to fight to get your skill points(sp), those I would guess are becoming hp, the others will be sp. While they don’t have a name for the currency ready for public record, they did say the excess sp will become a currency and go in the wallet. So use them now, or later, it will be the same thing. Also It will be very easy to adjust hp and non 80 / non 100 mapped toons, by a level + x sp in the hp group completed. Every thing past that gets converted to sp currency.

So the only real difference is, do you want to drive down trading post prices by trying to "dump" your sp that isn’t going any where anyways. Please do, I like cheap stuff on tp cause noob panic/scares like this.

I don’t think the gimme content now people will ever understand the demand it actually puts on an entire dev team to do it. Even if its per-existing. That being said, I was logging in for dungeons and what not and running 13 - 15 paths a day, but now that I got dungeoneer, I really am finally outta content. I have farmed mostly all the non-millennium long ap farms, mapped on 10+ toons, crafted 4+ sets of ascended nearly maxed wvw ranks for purposes or wvw traits, fotm lev 50, and done just about everything in the game there is to do. Now the sad part is there is a lot of people out there in the same boat who play for maybe 10 minutes a day to get their 10 ap and then go else where.

I am personally happy to get an expansion (not for my necro any more), but still happy about most of the other classes. The thing is, I have lost interest in this game because there is nothing to do, and no one to do nothing with any more, cause all my guildies and people I used to run with, moved on to different games. At this rate there wont be a gw2 community if they continue to put 100% into HoT and don’t give us some thing to do soon.

I don’t have a problem with them costing a trait, but I think every trait line for the lowest tier should have an option of fall dmg only, no other buffs so we don’t get screwed into a trait line for fall damage. And necro fall damage should not couple to a skill that adds weakness self debuff on use...

Yes but in the ama they said excess skill points are getting turned into a currency in the wallet. This currency will be for crafting, I agree. I don’t think they are just going to dump a bunch of crafting crap on us randomly.

I am more annoyed at glamor skills no longer causing confusion, that was a great way to tag zergs as a support mes.

They did mention excess skill points will go into the wallet as currency though they didn’t have a new name for skill points picked out. I have not seen any thing on tomes, and wonder if we will get mastery or if they should be burned for sp now. It would be great to know.

Aidan Eighthrain.8612:

1. Wrong : Time is money.

WRONG. time is time, money is money, there maybe a correlation between the 2, but money is NOT time, and time is NOT money

I am annoyed that wells are ground targeted... As a PTV necro I like the wells to be centered on my and now there is extra clicking/worrying about mouse position to double tap skills.

Did i miss see it, or is it now going to be a choice between death nova and fetid consumption?

Lazuli.2098:

Hopefully the upcoming change to dungeons so that they scale to any size party, 1 – 5, will solve all these issues. The OP will not need to call in 3 more members to the party to finish the dungeon. Players who do not have a band of friends or belong to a guild will not need to form a party with possible jerks and trolls.

First, please site where this dungeon scaling is coming from… As far as I heard its only for the conversion of arah story to the final mission of personal story instead of a 5 man disaster of a “dungeon.”

Secondly there are lots of crazy ideas here, including my favorite, is any one in lfg can join any ones group. So your doing CoF, I am doing TA, but I will join your group, because I don’t care about your listing, your just available… This community is not ready to have a real discussion on changes needed to LFG (just look through old threads.)

Personally I like the idea of party leaders, however the solution could be to make group rules editable. As in we have the option of starting the group as a dictatorship or democracy, and instance owner or none. Then over a period of several months Anet could presumably pull some statistics as to the “least trolled” setup and move forward with the best system. This will never crate an actual perfect system, because with entitled people around, and people who have multiple accounts so they can troll on one, or just plain kitten play these games, it is going to not work ideally for any(/every)one.

So instead of getting peoples hopes up with a system that half of us will like, and then removing that system, lets just keep with what we have and understand it sucks. We can follow the rule if we pug, bring the majority, or expect to be screwed… then if your not, something good happened in this game for once.

Maybe you should go against stereo types and make a norn warrior with this name....

I can think of 2 that have ap rewards in the jp category so they should be harder. Also as some stated, they are easy, but not obvious. And thirdly, they are not mandatory.... so if you don’t like them, don’t do them.

Other option is make friends with a mesmer who loves to portal people through jumps they cant make.

Is it just me, or does it seem like newer accounts with lower ap get better drops. My second account has already gotten as many ascended boxes and plenty of exotics as my normal account got in 2+ yrs

Ele is not superior to ranger in every way. That is a very classist thing to say. The truth is rangers are easier to play, but hard to play correctly. This is why rangers are so dreaded in PUGs is they are a noob friendly class.

I am not a fan of ele because they bore me. It will play differently later on. Once you figure out combo fields, blasting mechanics and the sort, eles will be a lot more appealing if you like them. With the trait system how it is, you cant properly trait them and it makes leveling harder than it should be.

The short of it, at 80, I prefer my ranger over my ele for any content I do, but I don’t use either of them for almost anything any more.

Oh and if you need to learn about combo fields, blasting and the likes to make your ele stronger, look me up in game and I will show you.

It would be annoying for us who see them as a waste of gems and don’t have any.

I don’t really get the complaint. There is a mechanic in place for you to start these boss fights as you see fit, you just need to setup your guild to do so. Lots of people farm a personal guild for storage, find a group and set one up so you spawn world bosses.

Your problem is you want the mechanic in place to be free.

Alternatively, bank/mule alt works the best for storing excessive quantities of crap that should get some where else to go or that drop in excess.

I would love more info on the login screen. Also if you don’t want to see it, turn UI off. Now what would be nice, is if char actually fit on the screen for screen shots and what not.

I will also mention, depending on how long you were gone, if yo already had characters created, don’t delete and re-roll your grandfathered into the old system.

Question 1- What is there to do in guild wars 2 when you have 2 level 80s..one has exotic gear and the other is working on it. am I going about it all wrong and thinking that at level 80 that I am done with the game ?. Besides going for Achievements is their anything else I can do ?. ( Besides map Comp and making a legendary )

The only thing to do in this game is farm. You can farm gold, you can farm achieves, you can farm a character pool (one of every thing … five of everything), you can farm pvp rank/rewards, farm dungeons (this is good way for gold). There is no end game content, there is nothing to do after you have done everything but farm and hope one day fresh content comes out so your not bored for an hour.

Question 2 – How does Crafting work and it seems very confusing and I been playing on and off since launch. Any tips about how to make it a little easier ?. I have yet to get into Crafting and I want too so any tips would be nice !

Crafting is… well there is no short explanation I am willing to type out here. All I can say is Google gw2 crafting, and you will find more info than you know what to do with. Crafting is not difficult once you get the basics, nor is it a profitable thing in this game. Unlike other MMO’s where if you max crafting you stand a chance to make some money back on it or have something worth wile, in gw2 this is not the case.

Question 3- Any Good ways of making Gold. Before mega servers I transfer off my favorite server and went to Tarnish Coast because they had a bigger pve community. And Now with Mega servers that does not matter anymore and I want to come back to my favorite server . Only problem is I need a lot of gems to do it. So any good ways of making gold so that I can come back to my server home ?

You can make gold doing anything you like in this game. you can make 20g in less than 2 hours by doing a collection of speed runs in dungeons. This is just daily rewards, not even counting the sale of loot/drops. You can farm EoTM (especially if your green) and just sell/ah everything, or alternatively salvage everything and sale mats. You can look up flipping on Google and work the trading post, though it helps to have capitol to invest vs starting small and building up. This is an over crowded field so all I can say is GL if you choose that path.

On the reason to change servers, if you are not trading servers for WvW content, there is no reason any more to change servers. WvW is the ONLY thing affected by server affiliation now. Well European vs American servers hold a separation as well, but all PVE content, sPVP dungeons and the like are no longer affected by server status.

Question 4 – Is their any challenging content that maybe I have missed ?. Maybe a world boss that is done less often then the others ?. Maybe a challenge that people do ? ( like making a specific class and playing it a certain way ? )

Nothing in this game is hard. Nothing in this game requires more than auto attack to be honest. They have made this game so stupid easy to appeal to casual players, that if you are looking for challenging content, you should look in a different game. The most challenging world boss to me is the one at ogre wars (wiki it), and it is not a “hard” fight, just good luck getting past the bugs to get him dead.

Over all I only still log in daily to get my daily rewards and say hi to some friends. When HoT is released I am sure I will play more, but I am severely bored with this game and currently have a negative view… maybe some one else who is still in love with GW2 can put a positive spin on this.

I feel the blatant disregard for forum rules and naming/shaming is worse than what has already been declared not to be a violation of the ToS, even if its not endorsed or liked. I would remove the names from the screen shot or remove it all together.

On a different note, if you joined a group with a clear description and failed to meet the requirements, I would kick you in a heart beat. You are actually the one abusing the LFG system.

I got the sarcasm, I choose to ignore it so i could complain once again about how stupid April first with Anet is :P

The rage on April 1st had nothing to do with being offended. Those were trolls.... The rage on the 1st was about the lack of choice to turn it off, and that is not an issue. Most people didn’t want to ruin it for people enjoying it, they just wanted the option to turn it off because it was stupid and annoying.

Well if all you want is a reply... then there. Maybe you could just be patient and get a good answer.

Pretty sure that was a joke, but lets not forget the most important fix. Maybe the only fix to focus on, is broken necro minion AI.... I would love to see those guys actually do something.

You must set the resolution to your desired window size (smaller than current res gives a smaller section) then you can toggle with alt + enter in and out of full screened/ windowed mode. There is also an option you can set in the drop down to be windowed.

This allows the interaction with the rest of the monitor(s). Windows key + D will minimize all windows (including gw2) if you need whats under it.

Wait.... I’m still caught on people watching cut scenes...

If you don’t claim it will one still show up the following day?

Yes, they fixed the issues with the same guild on different servers in that past. WvW is the only thing that is different.

FinalPatriot.8034:

skullmount.1758:

RoseofGilead.8907:

No, you can’t transfer characters or any items that are account bound or soul bound. You’d have to level a character on your new account to 80.

And unlock everything (skins/ap/etc) again. Thats the only reason I don’t really want a second account.

Yeah, I’m starting to not see the appeal so much anymore. The main reason I wanted one is that I really wanted to try out the revenant w/o buying a new character slot. I’ve been using my current account since shortly after release and so it’s got TONS of junk on it now.

Didn’t gw1 give free char slots for new classes and such? Unless you have the 255 slots open and used to hit max, you may be worrying over nothing. Also a char slot is only 120ish gold.

So if it is “elitism” or class exclusion when your trying to run a dungeon and pug a group, then no one should ever kick a low level again. I mean seriously that level 35 dude in blues who joins your ac group 8 times because he has done this dungeon 100 times on his main shouldn’t be required to leave, you should include him….

Screw that logic. With the extra vote needed to kick now and people more willing to run with crap groups than wait for the requested group to form, LFG is not reliable to form the group specified by the poster.

As an experiment today, i ran a group for CM. Simply put “80’s exp 1 per class.” Not hard, but being a warrior, I had to kick the first 2 people who joined and restart the LFG. After getting 3 people we got a second guardian who the group refused to kick and after a debate he switched to a ranger, followed by another duplicate class an ele who finally decided to leave even though the group wouldn’t kick.

You cant tell me that all it takes is to put a message in lfg and kick if you don’t like the results, it simply doesn’t work that way. If I had a filter in which I could set a limit of 1 per class…. hey now where talking a sure bet for that group formation.

Can this idealistic tool be used to discriminate with, sure, but who cares. This is a great ideal to refine lfg, because you will not always have guildies or friends to run with, and lfg may be your best option to knock out some quick dungeons.

So in short don’t hate on the tool, because, the tool wouldn’t affect the opinions of any one who already refuses to run with necros and rangers, it just makes it easier for everyone who would like to specify a build based on gear / level / class / or anything meaningful (no AP is pointless except to make me laugh when I see it.)

I see some one want it to discriminate with; however, since this already happens The utility of it could be nice. If you could limit class counts so when I make a LFG I don’t get 4 more warriors… how messed up are you? Sure some would set necros and rangers to 0, but it beats having 4 of them pop up because you didn’t specify. Just think how nice it would be to not have to type out the biography in LFG to get your exact team build, then have moronic people who refuse to read and join your group 7 times to get kicked 7 times for not being 80 when that’s pretty much the only thing listed.

Just wondering, whats to stop some one from switching toons after jumping through your filter hoops? I can see the appeal of this system, but i can’t see anything realistically coming from this idea if you actually think it through. Your best option is already there, type out what you want and if some one fails to read kick them.

You can disable the sound affects by turning off dialog in sounds, and you can turn off the fill grain by turning off post processing. You can not turn off stupid at anet apparently doing this again instead of putting time into fixing bugs dating back to beta.

This is a major issue for MM builds… it means I can’t run across any map with out suddenly being screwed cause no minion army any more. I have confirmed with a few minion master guildies, that this happens to everyone. I can confirm it happens across boundaries that level changes in reduced level zones. I believe this may be related to the fix for the exploit / creative use of the flesh of the master trait…. but minions already are almost useless… this takes the straw. With AI that lets them stand around doing nothing cause they don’t feel like helping, and random behavior with an amazing lack of any control, to have them just evaporate now is more frustrating than ever. ANet, please fix ASAP!!

I also have this same problem. Previously I made mine a week ago. Not sure why I wasted the time for those stats but that’s a different matter. I also had mine tucked safely away in the bank. I didn’t pay attention to it so who knows when it went wrong, but I have finished the story and also infused the other 3 items. I only discovered it when I went to pull out the right item and see this one there now.