Guild Wars 2

This would be an important update. I’m also quite disappointed at the lack of guild management options. Trying to communicate to everyone in your guild is almost punishing with the in-game mail suppression. I think the guild MOTD should pop up on screen at first log in for starters.

Guild leaders should also be able to flash messages on the screens of every guild member. Aion did it and it was fantastic. Most times people aren’t paying attention to guild chat or don’t have the tab up, or don’t see whispers. Having text flash in front of your face is the absolute best way to get their attention.

Recommended party: 5.

Difficulty: Medium

Time requirement: 60-90min

^^^ Just a hunch.

Totally agree with OP, at least for Charr. My Charr necro looks WAY better without his chestpiece. Really gives that animal look. Why even customize his fur color/patterns if he’s going to be in full length robe and hood all the time.

GOSU.9574:

Add all the percentages up for each upgrade over exotic. Now calculate the improvements over exotic for 5 man, 8 man and zerg. Don’t leave out ascended weapons over exotic, trinkets over exotic. Interesting balance.

Each class would be different, but if all else remained the same from OPs calculations and the 5man/8man/zerg teams were in the exact builds he described then it would still only be 5%. 5 people with full exotics and 5 people in full ascended (with condi build) would be 5% difference. What calculating are asking to be done? Are you implying that 5 people with a 5% increase over an exotic team would be like 25% better?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you.

I’m also with Vas here. Killing the krait is more in line with RPing that heart than not. What heart guy would be like “no no, I really really really hate those bandits. Don’t even worry about those significantly more evil, more destructive guys terrorizing my area, I want you to kill those gosh dern bandits!! God I hate bandits!! So smug with their bandanas!”

lol @ 25SP being too much. It’s a skill that is completely unnecessary, who cares if it’s 25SP. Do some world completion, run champ train for scrolls, or plain old level. I’m pretty sure I have 100+ SP worth of scrolls in my bank by now.

I think one of the biggest appeals to GW2 is the fact there is no trinity system. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve played a healer class in almost every MMO and loved it (never had to wait for a group), but it got old.

I like in GW2 how you pretty much have to fend for yourself. The other classes can certainly help you with damage reduction, absorption, slight heals, etc., but at the end of the day if you keep going down you can’t point your finger at the healer and say “omg you suck why didn’t you heal me!!”

I hated when some idiot DPSer yelled at me for not healing them when I’m literally burning all my CDs trying to keep some terrible tank up, or trying to balance healing 3 people because our CCer screwed up or one of the DPSers accidentally broke CC, or I’m trying to keep my kitten self alive because of it.

That’s the worst lol, having some stealth class mad I didn’t heal them when I can barely keep myself alive from the terrible aggro control/CC. We became scapegoats, and now finally in GW2 the bad players have to L2P.

Delvoire.8930:

It also could be a good foreshadowing that we’ll need to charge future crafting components.

Didn’t think about this, but it sounds entirely plausible.

The tower will stay, the toxic spores will be gone and it will a ruined tower with green moss growing and maybe some damaged areas so that future travelers can see that at one point there was a major event here, but now it is peaceful and serene.

I think they will still be able to make it beautiful. We will obviously be able to clear the poison out and then what’s really left, a big ole tower in the middle of a lake.

It would be interesting to see if over time we can see saplings grow where the trees were previously, and then maybe a year or two down the line the trees will be back. I realize that’s fast for trees, but this is Tyria, trees grow super fast.

Mr Quinn.9815:

ah, I did talk to Dolja, must remember to actually read what NPCs have to say … thank you Serras.

Don’t you hate when you have to do that? lol

Sometimes I click through, click through, click through, then the conversation is over and I’m like “wait that can’t be right…” and have to read each option the second time around haha.

I’m so sorry writers, it’s a habit from a decade of MMO playing.

Don’t tell anyone but I also skip pretty much every Personal Story cutscene, I honestly have no idea what is going on other than I need to kill Zhaitan. Phew, that feels good getting off my chest.

I believe the intent was for Quartz crystal charging rather than a free SP every day. Although, I would love a free skill point every day, so yea, Anet get on that.

The first time I saw the cutscene I thought it was a mistake, then at the end I realized it was a voice-over during a flashback scene.

Yea I have been unaffected by this. It’s almost as though you guys are mad just because they are in WvW in general and not because you had to do anything with it. I played WvW all day yesterday and didn’t once have to deal once with the spores even though they were on the map. I just avoided that area…

I still think that SAB bauble collection without tracking was by far the worst. Nothing like spending 2 hours hunting baubles, get to the end of the zone, and no achievement. And you have no idea which one(s) you missed.

Adding tracking is such an obvious quality of life feature, I can’t believe they haven’t added it yet.

Guess I’ll throw in that I like the downed state in PvE. I like it in PvP and in WvW and it naturally fits in PvE. Not all mobs, but the ones that are to be considered as intelligent as we are. Why should only our characters have a downed state, Nightmare Court is as much a Sylvari as I am. It takes what, 2-3 secs to do a finisher? Find something else to complain about.

You also don’t have to do a finisher, you can keep DPSing if you really want to. Just imagine it has an addition 20k HP and is stationary. I’m sure that’s what most of you would prefer anyway. Mindless button mashing.

I just can’t stand them flapping constantly, it completely ruins it for me, to the point I never equip them, even though my character would look awesome with static wings.

I say turn off the flapping, or maybe only flap when you’re running or something. Why my wings need to flap incessantly while I’m at a vendor is beyond me.

They are 100% designed as skins. Disregard the stats on them, they mean nothing.

devessi.3154:

If I was copy and pasting, I’d understand it better, but I was intentionally varying the message a little in each mail to try and not get suppressed. Grr.

Gotta vary them more. Do a different subject for each message, do a different intro “Hi XXXX!” then “Hello there XXXX!” then “Congratulations XXXX!!!” Change your outtro as well “Thanks – XXXX”, “Regards – XXXX”, “Warm regards – XXXX”. Also pick a random sentence in the body of the message and reword it each time. “You have won XXX, congratulations!” “Hooray, you just won our contest and will receive XXXX!” “OMG you WON!! WOOOO!”

As a guild officer who has had to send many many messages in game you get better and better at getting around the suppression. Even with all of these changes I still sometimes get suppressed, maybe after 7-8 messages. I go and do whatever the Activity is that day and then continue when I’m done.

Honestly it sucks that it requires this effort to send effing messages, but it’s that or send two messages then get stuck. They need to have inter-guild messages that cannot be suppressed. Some kind of mass-guild mailing system.

digiowl.9620:

krixis.9538:

you got hit by a special attack.

learn the attack animations

and learn to dodge / not stand still

do this and you will see how easy things are to fight. this is not wow dont just stand still hitting it thinking you can out dps it.

First time fighting it, and didn’t notice any tell. It just kinda did a spin in front of me and i watched the globe drop sharply.

And with the varied number of mobs in this game i do not have the capacity to learn every last attack pattern unless i spend my day farming the same kitten champs over and over.

Whoa wait, you’re talking about the Elite mob? You’re saying that they do too much damage? They are between Veteran and Champion! They should borderline one shot you, which is exactly what you described…

Sounds like everything is working normally then. Silver mobs are meant for groups, not solo. If you can solo it more power to you, but if you can’t you don’t get to complain about it.

Dawdler.8521:

When we do the champ run in Frostgorge (which actually gives decent loot instead of crap like the downleveled champs in Queensdale) sure we sometimes see people “interrupting” the chain. But it doesnt happen that often and if it does, its like meh just continue to the next champ, faster than typing in chat

This. The FG champ train just seems overall more mature and friendly. We have playful banter, aren’t jerks when someone asks “where’s the train!?” even though there are like 3 commander tags up on one spot (if only people would look at their maps lol), if someone kills a champ out of order, no one seems to care, they just move on to the next one. I dunno, it just seems more easy-going in Frostgorge.

As far as Qdale farming goes: my guildies do it for two reasons: 1) to do the monthly or daily event completion as it is pretty much the fastest method and 2) for loot/money. Not one of them does it for karma.

I think the idea is that Orr is a battlefield and contested waypoints are a part of it. The lack of population in these zones is directly the problem. They need to give incentive for going to Orr outside of map completion, Personal Story, or running Arah.

There’s only so many Risen I can kill in a sitting before I really need a change of scenery.

Event reset is the other problem. I’ve been that guy who has tried to clear WPs, I duo with my GF and we can clear a nice path through the Risen and open WPs. We move on to the next area and 5-10min I look back at the map and it’s contested again. It’s very demotivating for someone who actually enjoys doing DEs and wants to make an impact on the map for the benefit of everyone only to realize that I really just wasted my time.

I also dislike the number of DEs that require a group, and not the kind of Group Event that can be easily duo’d, because I do DEs like that all the time, it’s the kind of Group Event where you absolutely need a group and if you don’t have one, then I guess it’s just staying contested because it just cannot be completed. <—- directly related to low pop in Orr.

As someone who has also spent well over 200g in the toilet trying to get a precursor, I would agree that the RNG is terrible and quite demoralizing. I don’t agree with it somehow being a scheme to maximize profits though. I didn’t give Anet any money by throwing dozens upon dozens of greatswords into the toilet. That was money I had earned over time.

It costs me roughly 8g for 5 attempts in the toilet, at this point I don’t spend any money on the toilet unless it is a daily category. Then I do my 5 tries (6 technically as you get swords back) and move on with my life. I get an exotic 15-20% of my attempts, but they are the lame exotics that get me super excited when I see gold text then I read the text and am disappointed all over again.

I am looking forward to the alternative method to get precursors.

What did your combat log say?

I believe it was stated at some point that precursors will be obtainable in ways outside of the toilet or TP, or the very off-chance it drops for you.

I have no source, but I’m pretty sure this was stated at some point. I think it is a 2014 plan though.

Yea, I’m gonna have to disagree with you, OP. I like frequent content like this. Blood and Madness you should have completed by now, because honestly, most people finished it in 1 or 2 days. Tower of Madness came out YESTERDAY. WvW Season 1 isn’t even Living Story, I’m not sure why they put it in the LS category, but that’s normal WvW but now with more achievement point opportunities. The WvWers deserved this.

So to recap: WvW Season 1 isn’t part of LS. Blood and Madness is available for an entire MONTH, you have two weeks to finish those simple achievements. Tower of Madness has been out one day. Which one exactly are you having trouble with?

Do you just get confused because there are three different items and you assume it’s overwhelming so you don’t even try?

Aeolus.3615:

GW2 audience are players that never played any kind of mmo’s.

GW2 is my 8th MMO since 1998 and I think GW2 is great. My taste in MMOs has evolved significantly over time. In my younger days I played games like UO and AC: constant grinding, it didn’t bother me, I loved it, and honestly I still find grinding somewhat therapeutic. Just throw on some headphones and drift away mindlessly grinding. You wanted to level? You go out and “hunt”, literally just kill things until you level, Lineage2 worked like this too.

Then WoW came along and OMG no more “hunting” to level, I just need to do these quests! It really did change the genre completely and I loved it. What I stopped liking pretty quick was the gear treadmill. Months of hard work is now gone because this patch has the next tier of gear. Grind more months to get it, new patch, now my armor is garbage again. It got old after 4 years. (I don’t care what your thoughts on Ascended gear is, it still isn’t a gear treadmill and those that insist it is really don’t understand what a gear treadmill is and/or haven’t played a game with a real gear treadmill).

Fast forward through various MMOs and now here we are in GW2. I’ve grinded and have run on gear treadmills for years at this point in my MMO gaming life. I’m through schooling and have been in the workforce for years, I just don’t have the time to game like I used to. GW2 completely nails it as far as my player type. I can get on, play an hour or two at night and still not feel as though I’m falling behind. Ascended gear can be my “long-term” goal, and by long-term I guess I mean a couple of months, which apparently is WTF TOO LONG for many people on the forums. To me personally that is completely reasonable, and if anything it’s a little too fast for BiS gear.

I think regardless of age, this game is geared towards people that don’t have the time to play hard-core.

To OP who feels the fart joke Marjory made was immature. Do you only think that because of the word fart? You are 18 years old and what, you think just because the word “fart” was used that clearly it is geared toward children? As a college freshman, you are simply to sophisticated to appreciate anything like that I imagine. (HEADS UP: this is your first semester, if you haven’t realized by now that college is four years of doing whatever the heck you want with schoolwork in between, then you sure will. College students are by and far some of the most immature idiots that have ever graced our planet, and God freaking bless them. Best four years of my life lol)

Her comment fits with the character: a crude, rough around the edges sorta gal. It wasn’t meant to be a ha-ha moment, it’s not even a joke, really. If you think it was written to get a laugh from children, I don’t think you quite understand what they were going for. I’m sure if they could, they’d have Marjory swearing like a Navy SEAL, but you simply can’t do that in a game that could be played by children, so they have to find a way to portray her crude side without offensive language.

Robinschultz.9652:

10 minute solo instance, Orr-like overhaul on Kessex Hills, RNG Black Lion chest weapon skins, 3 new armor skins ( Gemstore ), New healing skill, PVP Finisher, Tool-tip fixes with minimal balance changes.

Really? This disappoints you for a 2-week update? I mean really? Is this a troll attempt? They changed a giant section of a zone, added a solo instance complete with voice acting and new (albeit only slightly modified) enemies, a new healing skill, PvP finisher, weapon skins, armor skins, new events, new TYPE of monster (Elite).

I mean, OP……seriously?…..

For every one person that says content is too easy, there are like five that say its too hard. I can tell you that last night my GF and I were playing together and went to Kessex Hills. We didn’t realize it would start the solo story instance immediately, but whatever we didn’t care. I finished it without difficulty. My GF quit not even halfway through because she thought it was too hard.

Not everyone wants to play in a manner that requires dodging, watching conditions carefully, etc. Some people want to be able to mindlessly target things and burn them down with skill rotations. Personally as a gamer I prefer the former, but since this game is supposedly casual friendly, they need to cater to those that don’t want to have to think too much about combat.

I love the new downed state on these Toxic sylvari! I find myself actually targetting certain mobs over others now instead of a complete DPS fest. I leave the ones that downed state for last, kill the adds first. So much better!

Yea, rallying is the real problem. Fits in PvE for casuals but in PvP it really becomes quite enraging. We are both seemingly crippled on the ground, struggling to survive, life draining from our bodies, blood is oh god blood is everywhere, just a sliver of HP left on both of us, the end is close, I feel so cold, grandma is that y— WOW I feel great! I’m back on my feet dodging around, healing, busting out some moves, this is amazing!

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Most high lvl players are NOT doing the QD champ train for gold. The QD champs, with the exception of spider, are EVENTS which provide karma. The champs in Frostgorge, with the exception of quaggon, are NOT events and so only go there if you want gold and not karma.

How much karma are they making in 1hr with DR? I really do think most high level players are doing QD champ train for gold and not for karma. As a high level player with millions of karma, and I assume others are like me, there’s no other reason to do Qdale outside of gold and/or Monthly Event completer if you’re running out of time. Which is why I go to Frostgorge.

2/5 of them I always do anyway, the gathering one and the Activity Participation one. Those are tasks I just get done regardless if there was a daily category for them or not. Luckily there is.

Then I take a look at the actual daily before I start my exploration. I’m currently working on Orr and WvW maps to finish up 100% on my alt so I try to kill two birds. If there’s something like Skill Point or Leveler, those are directly in line with my Orr exploration and so I can do those without even thinking about it. Same goes with Veteran killer, Daily kills, or Champion Slayer. Those are all categories I can complete while I explore normally. The zone-specific ones are where I actually go out of my way, if I even need them for the 5/5, which most of the time I don’t. At this point I can do them super fast so why pass up the AP when I can knock them out in 5min.

WvW daily gets done from playing in general, no thinking about that one. Same goes for PvP daily. I enjoy sPvP, so I play at least 5 games, which is plenty to finish the daily category and I don’t have to think about it either.

It’s pretty rare that I have to stop what I’m doing to get a daily done. I just decide what I want to do, then look at daily and see how many of them will get done in the course of what I’m doing.

The JP completer one I have a toon logged out in Pearl Islet at Southsun Cove, so that’s a no-brainer.

I just don’t think there should be champ farming in a starting zone like Qdale. All champ farmers should use Frostgorge to avoid this very issue.

balrog.1307:

Noted Also i’ve heard that the dungeons are uber hard, so another question – if i try them(for example Ascalonian Catacombs) with my group(80 lvl thief, 45 lvl thief, 70 lvl elementalist, 45 lvl Guardian, 45 lvl engineer, gear is mostly mw and rares), what is the chance of being torn apart(both in story & exploration modes)?

Eh…would be tough with that set-up. If everyone had the best possible gear for their respective level it would be much easier. Rare gear is cheap, urge them to buy the BiS for their level and you will be in a much better position. I’ve done AC with a full group of 35s, so it can be done.

Guardian: passive speed buff

OP sounds as though he’s upset that the specific build he has that clearly he thinks is awesome has a hard counter to it. If you hate bunker builds so much, play a class and build that can counter it. With different armor types and class skills there’s always going to be a rock, paper, scissors system to some degree. It really sounds like you are scissors trying to fight rock and complaining about it not being fair.

Good condition necros will melt a bunker build warrior for example. Just waiting for the thread from warriors claiming that’s unfair. Unless it already exists, I haven’t checked.

sPvP isn’t simply a DPS check as much as people would have you believe.

And the debate rages on!

I just don’t get why this WvW crowd is clamoring for WvW to be sPvP but large scale, because honestly that’s what is being described here. If you want to test your “skills” in duels or 1v2s, that’s what sPvP is for. I play it every day constantly and I’m always in 1v1s and 1v2s and have a blast. I can change my setup and weapons for free if I want and everyone has the same level of gear. That’s the whole point of sPvP!! It’s meant for those that want skirmishes, heck you get points for skirmishing for crying out loud!!

WvW was not intended to be a bunch of roaming 1v1 or 1v2s. It just wasn’t. I can’t imagine Anet wants to balance it around those specific scenarios when the idea of WvWvW is a large scale meta based on armies clashing. Everyone needs to just accept it for what it is.

Sure it is a disadvantage to thosewho insist that WvW is small scale skirmishes and that they literally can’t compete unless it is completely balanced on that level, but honestly, if all you’re doing in WvW is roaming around looking for small skirmishes, then you’re probably doing your server a disadvantage.

In sPvP, pretty much a good Necro or Mesmer is the only thing that gives me trouble, and I would classify maybe 5% of Necros or Mesmers as good. Any other ranged class gets destroyed. They can’t take the damage I deal and I can easily teleport to them with at minimum two different skills, not to mention an Immobilize as well.

If you are getting “destroyed” as a Guardian by ranged, that’s completely on you.

Kaleban.9834:

a t s e.9614:

Losers? What if im rich and have cash to waste? The loser is
The guy who stays in the basement and farm champs for
15 hours a day .

If you have cash to waste I suggest donating it to a charity or good cause, such as the Humane Society or Christmas time toy drives for underprivileged children. I realize that the gem store helps pay for new content in GW2, but dropping several hundred dollars on a single virtual item that you’ll eventually get bored with and move on from is ridiculous when you consider the good that money could do elsewhere.

You could also argue that you should give money to charity instead of spending it on video games…

There are plenty of things people could do with their money that is more beneficial to society, but that’s really their business now isn’kitten

I have a really, really strong suspicion that you don’t practice what you preach.

Mackdose.6504:

Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

This. I’m seriously at a loss for words at this point when I just see both sides reiterate the exact same thing over and over. They are preaching to their own choirs and nothing either side says will convince the other.

DocHolliday.5921:

Scrambles.2604:

DocHolliday.5921:

eisberg.2379:

DocHolliday.5921:

eisberg.2379:

DocHolliday.5921:

Scrambles.2604:

There are too many things to account for in almost every WvW situation to conclude that the difference between victory and defeat solely came down to a gear stat advantage.

Nice straw man.

Of course it is, because he is right, but you have no good counter argument for it. Talking about everything that is possible in WvWvW proves that gear is not a deciding factor that can be proven, and since you have nothing to refute that you would rather just ignore it all together.

You do know what a straw man argument is, right? Because your post here indicates that you clearly do not.

Actually I do, I suspect that it is you that does not.

So then, tell me what the straw man argument was.

“The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.”

i’m not quite sure that i’m guilty of that

You are.

“There are too many things to account for in almost every WvW situation to conclude that the difference between victory and defeat solely came down to a gear stat advantage”

No one has argued, at any point, that the difference between victory and defeat in WvW came down solely to a gear stat advantage. The argument has always been that it’s an extra advantage that hurts the game, and should be removed.

I dunno, man, I’ve read all comments thus far and the general consensus for those against Ascended gear in WvW is in line with his comment. The argument being that the gear stat difference is going to imbalance WvW, so much so that it actually hurts the game. I think the cooler heads here are all on the same page that this stat difference is negligible when factored in with all of the other imbalances in WvW.

WvW isn’t PvP. Everyone needs to get their heads out of the mindset that things need to be balanced as if PvPing is the point of WvW, because it isn’t. When PvP happens in WvW it’s generally ZvZ. Largest zerg will win. If a group of 10 people in absolute BiS comes across a group of 20 people in full Exotic/Ascended accessories, it will still be a faceroll on that group of 10. BL populations play a far more major role in WvW than anything else. Why should Anet balance something on the off-chance people happen upon a completely equal 1v1 fight? That would be such a waste of time because that rarely happens if ever and isn’t even the point of WvW. It’s a meta.

If you want equal PvP, do sPvP/tPvP. For all else do WvW or PvE.

DocHolliday.5921:

For this game, it absolutely is. This is the successor to Guild Wars. A game where you could get gear with best possible stats for the equivalent of about 5 gold in GW2. A game where gear was supposed to be a non-issue. And you know what they told us about GW2 before release? That it would be exactly the same in that regard: gear would be a non-issue; there would be no gear treadmill and there would be no gear disparity in PvP. Well, guess where we’re at now. Not at all where the game was supposed to be in regards to gear. And people are complaining about it. What a surprise!

That’s the worst argument I’ve ever heard. Time spent isn’t relative to game title. Two months is two months, either you think it’s too long or you think it’s too short. Any person who has played MMOs for any considerable amount of time would consider two months a short time to get fully geared. You can’t say, “well it’s long for this game.” That makes no sense…

I find the length of time to get fully geared in this game to be one of the shortest if not the shortest of any MMO, except GW1 apparently. But who really cares? Short is short.

UserError.7150:

if its a problem in the game, and not intentionally by design, then it is in fact a BUG
and this fits just that. If its nt, then anet has a legal issue dealing with false advertisement (and im sure they dont want to admit that)

I can assure you that the gem purchase prices are working as intended. It’s based on supply and demand.

You are completely off the mark with the false advertisement claim. If you can show me the advertisement that Anet made claiming you can get anything in this game that you want without grinding and/or paying real money then you would be the first.

What seems more likely is that you made some pretty poor assumptions based on something you may have read in passing, briefly, paraphrased it in your own head, and are now claiming possible legal issues Anet may be facing for false advertisement.

Anet claimed you would not ever have to grind to experience content. They never said you wouldn’t have to grind in general. Optional skins or other accessory items are not necessary to complete any content in the game. You didn’t need transmute stones, you literally don’t need anything in the gem store. Those are items that you want, not need and there will be a cost associated with them, either in time spent grinding or through RMT.

It’s actually very simple.

Mackdose.6504:

DocHolliday.5921:

Mackdose.6504:

Bastien.1645:

That logic is flawed.

So let’s take 2 of the best spvp players in this game ever, top guilds etc.

They duel each other and the one who loses is now terrible at this game ?! That makes 0 sense, in a duel/1v1 there will always be a victor and a loser, doesn’t mean the loser is terrible just because he was outmatched!

By the way guys, there’s a similar thread in the WvWvW forums if you want to check that out as well.

I’m pretty sure that in a fight between equally skilled opponents, the one that makes a mistake first loses.

I mean, equally skilled opponents mean that one sides wins 50% of the time.

Sure, if they have equal equipment. It’s not that hard to not make mistakes though, especially if it’s one vs one, which means the player with the better equipment will always win.

Bottom line, you’re basing your entire argument off the assumption that the player with ascended gear will make a mistake the other player can exploit, BEFORE the player in the worse gear makes a mistake, or that he will make more mistakes than the player with worse gear. In fact, you’re not actually arguing equal skill at all. In your scenario, the player in the worse gear has better skill. That’s such an unbelievably bad argument to make in defense of gear upgrades.

I’m making the argument that the better class/build/player will change the outcome before gear came into play, a concept that no one seems to grasp.

I grasp it. And any intelligent person grasps it. The anti-Ascended crowd is just trying to get others up in arms over something that sounds terrible on paper (OMG 6-13% difference in stats!!) but in reality makes little to no difference. It’s the same crowd that keeps referring to the manifesto and how Anet is a bunch of liars.

Class/build/player will always trump 6-13% of stat boost. Unless OP and others who are really trying to beat this dead horse think that WvWvW consists of completely equal 1v1 fights, as in, same exact class, same exact build, same exact skill level……but that would be stupid. Just like their argument….

In the context of WvWvW specifically Ascended gear makes little difference. If you want to completely strip the WvW part out of it and then compare on paper the stats of one person and then the stats of another person and point out that there is an increase and then go on a tirade about it, then sure I guess Ascended armor is OP and OMG if you don’t have Ascended there’s no point to even go into WvW oh woe is me!!!

But intelligent people understand how WvW works and how little this will matter, which is why this debate rages on to this day. Intelligent big-picture thinkers versus unintelligent small-picture thinkers. Neither side will give.

Finnway.2183:

The Arena Net devs said “Kitten it! We’ll make one more update with the craziest ideas we can think of. If the players don’t love it we’ll make an expansion.”

And that’s why the Tower of Nightmares is…

• Dynamic events that must be completed to even enter.

• Multiple Jumping Puzzles on your way to the top.

• Two Dungeons along the way.

• An epic Zerg Boss Battle at the top (think Orr rather than Teq)

• A portal opens to a brand new Zone where ascended armor drops.

• No WP’s. At all.

Basically, they said “Let’s just take the hardest version of every type of content and mash it all together.”

Gotta say, this sounds awesome!! If this is what is planned I can’t wait!!!!!

eisberg.2379:

Azure Prower.8701:

Paying $600+ USD for a virtual item that instantly becomes valueless the moment you leave/stop playing/servers shut down in Guild Wars 2.

I don’t call that winning.

I call that a bad investment.

If you’re willing to throw away money that easily. Give it to me. I assure it will be better spent.

To be fair, you already spent money on something that will instantly becomes valueless the moment you leave/stop playing/servers shut down in Guild Wars 2.

There are plenty of things in this world you can spend money on that is valueless. Anything consumable for example. You consume it, it is now gone, and you have nothing to show for it. How is this any different?

I was recently at Halloween Horror Nights, tickets cost $100, fast pass another $100, inside the park everything is ridiculously expensive, I easily spent $300+ for an evening of standing in line and walking through a few haunted houses. Now I’m back and I have nothing to show for it except -$300 in my bank account. I would honestly get more enjoyment out of a Legendary weapon I can run around with for years to come than one night of sweaty walking and standing.

People can spend their money any way they like. If they want to spend $600 on a Legendary, who cares. Why start to call them weak and losers. I mean, if they can afford it, who freaking cares? My GF has spent more on a pair of shoes….like seriously. I’d rather my money go to a legendary than a pair of shoes she will wear like twice…

Also, make sure you have the pre-req meta achievement. If you haven’t finished that you get no credit.

Do the achievement in any combination other than solo and you will find it significantly easier.

Second confirmation. It does not count for daily.

So, uh, people actually like masquerade masks as a look?

I’m honestly shocked.

Here I am thinking it is by far the laziest possible skin you could design.