Guild Wars 2

Shouldn’t the headline be:
“Youtuber seeks attention, and hits, by loudly quitting a game” ?

If your whole guild do the silverwaste event cycle 2 or 3 times each you’ll not be far off the 50 shovels. Guild stuff is aimed at large guilds now so many things you need for upgrades will be a bit of a pain.

Please don’t “buy” the shovels off the lfg people – they are not supposed to sell on there and you will only encourage them (and they might rip you off).

They always refuse to condone or condemn any third-party tool:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/first#post6000431

So you use them at your own risk. DPS meters are one of those things that divide opinion…

ZeftheWicked.3076:

<snip> but in maguuma all heart givers would be dead nearly all the time, given even hylek village isn’t safe.

That might sum up nicely the problem with open world HoT.

Problem is that everyone will have a different definition of junk. I’d like the “sell junk” button to include minor runes/sigils but not major ones as I always MF the majors and I only discard stuff that cannot be sold for anything at all. Even if it is only worth 1 copper I’ll sell it.

I’d guess that Xpac 2 will include core and HoT in the price but XPac2 could easily be a year or two away. So you’d get “better value” by waiting but you would not be able to play HoT in the meantime. It’s a bit like not wanting to buy a PC today because you’ll a better one for the same money next year.

I only play PvE. “Win” is meaningless in PvE.

General Health.9678:

How would you solo meta..

I’d solo meta with a very, very sharp pointy stick and a grim and slightly crazed expression.

Houseplants would tremble at the very mention of my name, for I am an epic hero, I am… oh… dead again…. darn it…. contested waypoints…. grrr… <run run run run run run>

I have direct experience of the downside to PTR stuff in another game. Each major patch would hit the test server a couple of weeks before release, obviously the idea is to test it before it hits the masses.

Three problems:

1. Players would use the experience to gain a trading advantage by buying, selling and collecting stuff on the live server before the official launch.

2. Some players would burn out on the new content before it was even launched so the forum was full of “bored” posts and spoiler posts almost on launch day.

3. This is the biggie. Hardly any of the reported bugs/exploits were fixed before launch because that would have delayed the launch day.

The first two points meant that instead of a feeling of excitement at launch many players felt that they had already missed the boat, especially when it came to making a quick profit on the auction house. Anyone was free to create an account on the test server but most did not simply because you don’t keep any progress you make there so you have to have the time to “waste”.

And in games of this type it’s hard to offer players a preview of Christmas Day without spoiling the real day for everyone.

From a realism standpoint I’m pretty sure someone wishing to make a timely tactical withdrawal from a fight (aka “RUN AWAY!”) would be sprinting full on to break contact then would slow to a more sustainable speed once clear.

But for game purposes I’d much rather have faster map running instead. If you think it is too slow, switch to walking for a while then switch back…

If you seek out MO’s post about suspending development of legendaries you’ll see him refer to the content pipeline being empty. A pipeline takes time to fill so I’m not expecting too much in this update. We need to look towards the next one for that.

The important thing is that he has recognised the problem and acted to address it but it will not be an instant fix. It requires that most elusive of all masteries: patience.

For me, a tank is absolutely about taking the hits.
The tank’s job is to attract as many enemies as possible and use the terrain to keep them gathered together at a pinch point or corner then to spam as many self protection/healing buffs as possible whilst keeping their attention. The only time a tank should hit something is when it is necessary to keep the agro.

Done well it’s a joy to behold, but it still does not belong in GW2.

There would effectively only be one healing class, one tank and one dps, because for each role there would be one class and build that is considered meta, even if it isn’t. The forums would be flooded with complaints that their special guardian/ritualist/druid can’t get a team place even though they can out heal the monk/healer/whatever. Even content that does not need the absolute optimum team would start to have people demanding those “perfect” classes and builds. The other classes will hardly ever be accepted into groups.

With a trinity there is always a shortage of healers, because it is a thankless and sometimes tedious task. Healers can end up not even looking at the main part of the screen and the most exciting part of their job is deciding who to sacrifice when the pressure rises (clue: never the tank…)

That is what the trinity does for a game.

A major, major plus point for GW2 is the lack of a trinity imho.

For an example of what is wrong with trinity, go try to join a party in GW1 as a smiter monk or, even better, as a ranger.

Good comms from the man I think.
I’m sure they will release it when it is ready™.

So, he mentioned hints. Have we seen any yet?

I like the concept of masteries but the main problem with the HoT ones is the fact that most of the masteries are only useful in HoT maps. By the time you have earned the masteries you are probably done with the maps where they are useful. I’m hoping future content/expansions/stuff will find further uses for the HoT masteries.

Folks, if the best thing you can find to do in the game is bicker with the devs on the forum then, truly, you are done with the game.

I’ve got almost 30 years as a software engineer and I can assure you that software is definitely not magic. It’s way more complicated than that.

It’s ironic but guilds really are not particularly useful in Guild Wars 2.
Most of ’em seem to be an ego trip for their leaders and small guilds were all but killed off with the HoT changes.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Well they managed to kill this thread using their typical means. It’s sad that we won’t even get the dignity of a response after almost 3000 posts. This thread was more active than the whole game and yet nothing.

Which response would you like them to dignify you with? Choose from:

1. There will be no u-turn or refunds and we will be pressing ahead with our other priorities.

Make your selection by typing 1, 1 or 1 and then pressing enter.

An absolute no to open pvp.
Neverwinter had some zones which mixed pve and pvp and guess what dominated map chat. Yes, that’s right, an endless stream of expletives, insults, goading, gloating, challenges and abuse. You could put them on ignore but it made those maps unpleasant to be on, even is you were only there for the pve part of it.

Unless you receive an official reply, assume that you will not be able to buy them after the festival ends.

I loved GW1 and clocked up far too many hours but I know that if I went back to it now I’d be driven nuts by the very limiting fixed map routes and lack of jumping.

Mind you, I’d love to have heroes again.

Trinity?
No.
No no no no no no no no.
No.
No thanks.

Gomes.5643:

Well with Beta-Event 3 (I think?) we had the situation of nerved HoT-zones. Was really boring. And everyone wanted the difficulty back.

In my opinion you can critisize a lot on HoT. But not the overall enemy design and difficulty.

The problem with any beta is that it does not attract a balanced cross-section of the players. It’s always going to be heavily biassed towards the fanatical end of the player spectrum. It’s a bit like going to a gym to do a survey on fitness habits.

HoT needs to be more inclusive.

I think it’s just to keep the grown-ups confused. lel.

If they make the open world mobs a little easier I believe that we’ll see more folks in the maps, that the meta events will not need players to engage in the taxi lottery and that the megaserver will be able to function properly, like it does across the rest of the game.

It does not need nerfing to the ground, it just needs nerfing enough to make it a little more survivable for the casual gaming majority that GW and GW2 traditionally attracts.

The really difficult stuff needs to stay in raids, high-level fractals etc.

TAB just cycles through targets. There is a command to select the nearest target. It is not bound to a key by default but you can bind it to a key in the options. I bound it to J. Can’t remember what the command is called but it is selectable from a list.

Damio Roncartia.7041:

In short, it’s not a problem of game difficulty. It’s an issue of player enjoyment cultivated through years of fun content.

Fixed that for ya. Enjoy your next game.

I’m a bit worried that all you owners of multiple cars don’t seem to know their make and model and have to keep using their colour to differentiate them.

Damio Roncartia.7041:

I always kind of laugh at these threads, because I was on the minute HoT went live, and the nerfs have been real. Current HoT is a cakewalk compared to what it was when it first went live. HP difficulty has been nerfed into the floor, enemy damage and numbers have been reduced, terrain hazards have been all but removed in some areas. I recently revisited a few a few HPs on alts I had been actively avoiding because of how maddeningly frustrating they were at release, like the champion frog in the canopy over VB, or the Mordrem in the abandoned temple at the low area of the start of VB, only to find that the frog had been turned into a commune, and the champion Mordrem had been turned into a vet. Let’s not forget the Vampire Broodmother who could insta-heal herself to full in the canopy too. There have already been plenty of nerfs, and the difficulty scale has reached a point where it’s fun, but not unbearable. Anymore, and it’s going to become as mind-numbingly easy as the rest of Tyria. I’m not normally one to say this seriously, but guys, git gud.

Yeah, you are a real hero. See above.

There are two problems with the CC thing:

1. It’s not very intuitive that you need to use CCs to break those bars. I understand that it is a mechanic of various fights but it does not make really much sense.

2. This is the biggie. Even if you know you need to CC, and you know what it stands for, there is absolutely no indication in the skill descriptions regarding which skills count as CC.

So you are relying on players seeking information outside of the game: wiki, youtube, forums, and most people are just not going to do that. Which is why we often see someone completely losing it in chat at events like The Shatterer, abusing all and sundry for their lack of CC.

“Soft CC’s” are even less logical. Why does chilled count when burning and poison do not count?

Trying to explain this stuff in the chaos of chat before a world boss is rarely going to work.

Difficulty is a problem for some players. That’s why they keep mentioning it. Telling them how easy you personally find it is not especially helpful.

I think that the difficulty level of open world HoT is too hard and that adjusting it will make HoT more inclusive and more fun, and thus probably improve it for everyone except a small minority who seem to want to keep it for themselves.

Why care about what others do?

Chill matey. The good news is that we think that some sort of nerf is on it’s way in the big quarterly update, due sometime this month but we don’t really know the details.

And if you don’t want to do it, don’t do it.
Once you have done the very first part of it you can get access to all the new maps.

I must confess I find it hard to take man-eating vegetables seriously…

cosmicegg.8502:

Obtena.7952:

cosmicegg.8502:

56 pages on this thread and no response, everyone must be busy writing advertisements for expansion number 2.

You got a response in the very first post from THE head guy. Maybe you missed it.

actually that wasn’t a response that was an announcement, they have yet to respond to our reactions to that announcement but I can understand your confusion over complex concepts such as this one.

Are you just ignoring his replies then?

I bought 5 when they first came out. First two slots are for the copper and silver salvage o trons.The other three are a really handy way of transferring stuff to/from toons who are parked at various places.

I’m completely happy with my purchase but I’m wondering if I should join the unreasonable forum mob that always seems to demand a refund or compensation whenever any price changes.

(Boo hoo. It’s so unfair etc etc.)

When you first start off in HoT you don’t have gliding, or mushroom bouncing and you end up “inside” an orange event circle on the map but not at the event, because it is above or below you. So you run around and just as you find a way up or down the event finishes and another one starts on another unknown level.

And it’s hard to learn the map by walking around it because you get trounced by most of the mobs.

Are you sure it still needs to fail? I thought they had changed that.

Anyhow, be assured that Anet have suspended all work on new legendary weapons so you will be saved the pain of another one….

Wozniak.7304:

Can’t wait to see the morning news on tv.

Headline: Butt hurt people mad over a company’s stance on a bug.
In other news Flint still in water crisis.

That might not be enough. We might have to start one of those dumb internet petitions.

I thought we were just talking about the price of fish…

I don’t believe they are going to reverse the decision and I don’t believe there will be any full refunds, partial refunds or compensation. In fact I’m expecting them to completely ignore this thread and just wait for it to fizzle out.

So I guess we might as well talk about fish, or some other ill-fitting analogy.

And it really, really does not matter. /shrug

They told me I was a hero, a God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals, Wurm’s Bane, The Executioner, a Trailblazer, Golden, Chosen, The Sunbringer. Then I got pwned by a short guy dressed as a mushroom and beaten up by a house plant.

Firedancer.8350:

Besides, if that is the case why don’t they just SAY so? It would be so simple.

They have said, if you bother to go and find the thread.

The official line is that you are allowed to sell dungeon runs and services so it is legit, even if you don’t agree with it.

It is not legit to sell, for example, shovels for the guild hall stuff.

There is an official thread about it somewhere.

A refund for something you bought “ages ago” because the price has changed?
Of course not. Suck it up man!

I can’t help but think that if you spend 2 years away from the game you should probably expect to be a bit behind.
Just play the bits of the game you enjoy and save up for the ascended stuff.

penelopehannibal.8947:

DoctorDing.5890:

I think the fastest way is to farm gold, buy gems and get the keys from the shop. Not very exciting but probably fastest.

If we’re going for speed, without considering cost, then surely the fastest way is to get one’s credit card out? :P

Hehe. Of course, you are correct. You win the Internet.

I never considered the CC method because I am far too tight to spent RL cash on gems but I love the challenge of earning gold to buy them.

However the OP gets the keys, I hope they get better stuff out of those chests than I do.

I think the fastest way is to farm gold, buy gems and get the keys from the shop. Not very exciting but probably fastest.

I’d be very surprised if the megaserver and disconnect recovery stuff is not very high on the dev priority list.

It seems a fairly obvious thing to “reserve” a slot for a few minutes for anyone who disconnects and then try to place them back in that slot when they reconnect, even if they were not in a party. Maybe there is a technical issue with doing this but surely someone will be looking into it, especially as we now have hugely long event chains in HoT.