Guild Wars 2

I have been thinking about the Teq fight and it is awesome and I love trying but I mostly play on Eurpean early mornings and well when Teq is attacking there are more or less only max 10 players out defending the south turrets and the bone wall is up… I waypointed in when there where 3min left of the fight and there where no dent on him

We all “know” why he is so “hard” and yadayada but what I am thinking about is that; Was this intended? Do we need a Tequatil slaying guild or guilds joining forces to kill him when they feel the need too?

Why should I try to fight Teq alone? I wan’t a cookie for trying atleast… I can’t get him down to 75% alone or with the other ten poor souls out there trying and we get our first cookie at 75%… I know I know Teq will get farmed and AFK’ed more if we get a cookie just too join in a little and that is not good, maby we could get together and figure out how to solve it? Need a minimum 80 players :P
(Edit: If there was a cookie just for trying, maby more players would come to try and take him down just as players come to all other metas and as we are more players we have a better chance of getting more cookies)

Maby Teq isn’t made for me, but since this was once a boss I could join in on and I fealt like a part of the server I now feel a little worried that all other Dragons or even all metas will be like this… Just to make it clear, I would not like that at all.

TL;DR: Teq event is awesome but as it is aimed to big servers and big guilds and alliances I can’t enjoy this content, I don’t mind that it is just one boss but I hope the other metas will not be like this in the future.

I used it yesterday and I love it!

I was looking to do something in 40min before work so I tried it out and found a group for CM going ‘All welcome’, I was hoping for a Expl run but I knew I winged it and it was a story mode run. It was silent rookie players but what can I expect, that wasn’t the LFGtools fault. Anyway they where all kind and I had fun

When I created a LFGpost later that evening I found a group in no time.
I posted in HotW ‘Expl p1’ and 4 seconds later we had a full group.

atm I realy like the tools.

Why are people so bothered with words?

Let’s face it that Teq isn’t easy to defeat.

Why? Becouse of many reasons and we can’t realy pinpoint the true reason yet.

I beleave the Turrets are the reason becouse that is where I beleave you have to have knowlage of what to do, so you don’t just shoot skill 1 all the time.
I have seen on every fight I have been on that there have always been someone spamming skill 1 or maby 2.

I can immagine that people not ressing and people not using WP is a big issue to, everything has to be done the right way, if a full group dies they all have to WP but if a single player or two gets downed it be best to ress him/her.

Also people who are bad at dodging puddles and waves also ruins it.

So in the end it all has to work for the event to be succesfull and that is hard to achieve without Voice and good leaders and people who listens.

Again in my opinion no MMO-world content should be made to have TS, Mumble or whatever to be succesfull, and I don’t see any hopes on this event being interesting for enough players once this LS has ended.

Difficult or not, Teq requires to much from to many and in the end many will give up trying.
I think Anet has a tough cookie to chew here, to make the metas hard enough to not be easely farmed but also not to hard to be fun enough to be repeated.

zamalek.2154:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Like the server I play on (Gunnars Hold), imo we did a darn good job yesterday when I was playing, we had everything, a leader for each possition, good communication and 50+ where active on mumble (what I know of, I wasn’t one of them -_- sorry)…
We where able to get him down to about 51-55% …

Keep trying, you will get him to the 25% mark quite easily with that determination. Once you get there 0% is basically guaranteed in a few more attempts (the trick is balancing DPS with defense, TKS found that ~10 at each turret group was a nice balance).

50 on Mumble might be something you need to work on though. 100% of the turret teams/defenders need to be on VOIP at the very least.

Ye, I am quite sure that Gunnars Hold will make it but will the same ammount of commitment be there for the rest of the game or will it linger in a few days and make this boss impossible due to do?

zamalek.2154:

Groups are killing it with time to spare ([TKS] had 2:24), once everyone is coordinated 15 minutes is actually a generous amount of time. The issue is communication (message suppression).

I don’t want to sound like the one to complain I am happy how Teq is but I could enjoy a increase in time more, but we will see when it has been active for a few weeks how it works.

Though what I want to comment to the quote is that some servers can do it not only becouse they are coordinated but they are many and maby have more coordinated players than other servers.

Like the server I play on (Gunnars Hold), imo we did a darn good job yesterday when I was playing, we had everything, a leader for each possition, good communication and 50+ where active on mumble (what I know of, I wasn’t one of them -_- sorry)…
We where able to get him down to about 51-55% …

I can only imagine what will happen in a few weeks when everyone is tired of trying and others have compleated their deeds or whatever and tops one Guild is engaging to lead and use mumble, teamspeak or something.

Devs said that you need atleast 80 players to compleate this event and maby when players have learned the machanics of him maby a few less.
Atm we can’t even get him to less than 90% on an overflow and that is how I think at best servers will look like in a few weeks.

It came out as a whine anyway, sorry but I want to have it “said”.

I havent been in the assault team so I don’t know antthing about the first thing.

Turrets: But about turrets, I think that a big reason to extreme failure on Overflows is becouse of inexperienced players are spamming skill 1 on turrets(I only think it is becouse of that).
That leads to low extra DPS, no poison cleansing and no support.
I don’t agree to buff skill 1 since then people will use it even more and then the point of turrets will go away again… Maybie lock skill 1 until megalaser has hit when Teq is stunned and then lock skill 1 once he becomes active… Like a friendly helper :P

Losing conditions: When I watched a live-stream if I remember correct the timer was 45min or something… I guess that’s becouse I assume Teq way harder then and people where complaining about a 45min fight so they tuned it down a bit… But I could agree that just a little more time would suffice since as it looks now overflows and servers where only a few good leaders are active manage to get him below 75%… So no reward for overflows, I usually don’t care about rewards that much but last night when I forgot to go to sparkfly a little earlier I got to overflow and asked my fiancee if we should do something else becouse we will not get anything from doing this (Daily was already done).

I am not realy saying that is needed, but I would have thought that this content had been more enjoyable if we could have an little bit of chance to succeed.
Like when you play with a cat or dog, I learned that I have to let it catch it’s “pray” sometime or else it looses interest and… well I guess we work the same way.

Ventrue.5731:

marnick.4305:

Why then don’t you play WoW for the gear progression and GW2 for the real content? Seems like win-win.

The issue with wow is not weather or not the game is bad, its simple the same as it always was. I played wow for my share of years, I enjoyed it, I don’t regret it. But the problem is that I am a pve hero so I can’t play it casually, I had to do hard mode raids and after a while it became rinse and repeat. New raid came out – clear normal/clear hard/repeat for gear grind/get some achievements/wait for new content.

I could say that wow raiding is like gw2 fractals, after lv50 it probably gets too familiar to enjoy. I’ve quit wow back in cataclysm and mostly play dota2. The examples I use with wow is simple because people who play wow would understand them better, its easier for me to know of those examples as a wow player, and no matter how much people might hate wow here, its very hard to argue that wow has very well thought out mechanics. While gw2 is a great game with so many mechanics that need fixing.

I played many games, I can always criticize any game I played, I am sure that goes for every one here, we all know what we would like to see improve in the game, but when we see some one else complain but not have same ideals we think “he is not complaining because of the right reasons”, if you add any of your ideals to that persons complain its like your supporting he’s ideals too, and since you like the game its so much easier to just defend it.

If GW2 was more like WoW then you would end up saying ‘But the problem is that I am a pve hero so I can’t play it casually, I had to do hard mode raids and after a while it became rinse and repeat.’

By having GW2 as it is and being so different than other MMO’s makes it interesting and just like any other MMO this game is growing and the more we give constructive feedback and not just only bash it we can have an improved version of the game we love but it will never fit everyone so I am sorry to say that you may be the one who got the short end of the stick.

Me on the other hand, I love the combat system, I like the stats and I have 8 chars and most of them is using Carrion but also Cleric, HotW stats (Pow, Vit, Tough) and also I am fixing Celestial for my Elementalist (Yes, even now after they discarded MF) and my Ele is rocking there is nothing she can do exellent in PvE.
Everything is about how you build you character, I have found lots of viable builds myself but reading forums where people are saying that there is only one or two per char is just BS.

Skills may always be worked on but some skills are made to be used in the right moment, it is not meant to be stronger than the other it is meant to be used when it is needed for example Warriors Cyclone Axe has a combo finisher than can inflict extra bonns or conditions and more.

Nah I’m gonna play GW2 instead of sitting here falling for a Troll.

You know what I think is funny with things like this?

First complainers on forums say ‘There is no need to fight champions, champions need good loot to make them more rewarding’.
Then Anet makes Champions more rewarding and now it’s time to see these posts

When the devs steer a game away from entertaining play and toward grinding for loot, this is exactly what you get.

Or did you mean Ascended stuff? Well still you don’t need it, I have played the game doing the stuff I like and I almost have enough mats for one ascended weapon, the point with ascended weapons was that it was supposed to take time to get becouse Exotics where too easy (easier than Anet had imagined). The point was not to grind mats so you could craft a full set for a main and all alts in two weeks.

If you didn’t mean Ascended stuff, well then I stand with ‘we asked for it and we got it, champions are rewarding’ or are you saying that Anet should put a once daily reward per champion kind instead?

They didn’t make it so you have to grind or farm, they made it so you have to play the game a little longer before you get what you wan’t, there are actually players that enjoy the content of the game and not just only needs the best gear asap so I can brag my head of.

On to topic, it is rather sad to see players telling you what not to do or what to do so people can farm in a game that isn’t supposed to be farmed.
Making champions not rewarding at starter zones is not good imo, but maby make champions have a DR atleast in Starter Zones.

Snakes hits to hard.

sifwolfsif.2514:

So after i bought GW2 i played it for a week and haven’t really touched it since i only have one problem i love the storytelling and combat but leveling in general has been a problem for me. I want to go straight to threw the personal character story content because i enjoy a good story and the story is the main reason i play a game, the combat/game play usually comes second to me. Now of course to continue the main/personal story quests and such you have to level in order to be able to even do more story quests. That in and of itself doesn’t bother me too much, i like the tasks and random events for exp but i rather don’t like the points of interest and vistas nearly as much i prefer combat to get exp. but from what i can tell you have to do every side thing in order to level at a decent pace. i would prefer if i could solely level form story quest and other combat related things, its more entertaining for me but i cant grind because the pace of leveling would be too slow. But my main question is am i missing something? is there more to leveling than doing EVERYTHING in an area then moving on, i feel like you should be able to choose ur style of leveling, so you dont have to do a certain part that you dont want to.

Compared to many other MMO’s this game is not made around leveling so you shouldn’t think about that too much but I see your problem.

But there has to be more fun for you to level on since you get exp from almost everything in this game, Crafting, exploring, defeating enemies (Incl other players in WvW), breaking stuff, compleating events and tasks.

Events: Also you can visit “old” outleveled maps and still get good exp and just go around and look for event and tasks if you like the story, some event’s are realy interesting and fun

Dungeons: As soon as you are level 30 you can start doing Story mode Ascalon Catacombs and next story dungeon at level 40 and so on, and if you find a good team you can do Explorer modes on these dungeons as soon as you are level 35, 45 and so on (also these gives you good exp even if you have outleveled them).
I think you get something like 75% level from a compleation of a Dungeon no matter what.

WvW: Don’t bother if you arent level 80, try WvW.
IMO it is fun and it is quite easy just to dive in to and leave whenever you wan’t, I always goes to WvW when I don’t have anything “better” to do and only got an hour to play or so.
Even though you are up level to 80, you can still gain levels by doing just participating in WvW activities.

Crafting: The this game has the most enjoyable crafting of any MMO imo but it is still booring, sadly at the moment Anet have made crafting necessary if you wan’t an Ascended weapon in the future so by leveling your crafting from 0- 400 is 15 levels just by crafting no matter what level you are on.
(There will be other means to aquire Ascended weapons)

By the way you don’t have to do everything in an area to move on, there are enough maps to do to level you to level 80 two times around, atleast.

Realy nice post!

Even though I am one of those who complained about the Rapids (Lag, annoying water pillars knocking you etc) and gong tower but I just love how the rest of W2 was, and I can’t complain about the fix iether, it shows you that Devs listens and I know it wasn’t Josh’s intent but I realy feel sorry for him putting down so much work and then gets a showel up his face… Can you imagine how many other in Anet that this happens too?

Saviourslave I agree with you to the fullest
But I also have to say that there has to be complaints and suggestions otherwise there won’t be fixes to stuff, but it is rather sad to see that every update get’s complaints…
Looking at Classes forums I see that more or less every class is complaining about the possible next update and looking at Tequatl Living story there are even people complaining that he is to hard before they have even tried it! Sick…

Sorry for my rant, my point was; Good post Saviourslave! XD

Zero Day.2594:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

And you good sir is not looking at the whole picture of the reason to say ‘not needed’.

I say you don’t need Ascended, Exotic nor rare gear to participate or give oponents a challange.

In usuall MMO’s you need best or near best gear to do a dungeon or something, you need to be max level to do end game content or else people will kick you and so on.

So why “we” are saying ‘you don’t need to have Ascended’ is becouse you actually don’t need Ascended to do or enjoy what the game has to offer.

On the other hand atm you need to craft your desired Ascended weapon yourself, you can’t buy it or find it untill teuseday but as many has said is that you don’t need Ascended weapons to enjoy the game and be in par with most others.

So… if you read the second (mini) paragraph/chunk, I started by saying “He wanted (not needed…)”.
Yes, like you’ve pointed out, and like others have pointed you don’t need (not to be confused with want) ascended to do what’s already have been released.
However most people want ascended gear, may or may not be because they think they need it. Yes, you could look at what the OP has said “… Ascendeds, I know they would just be a drag on my teammates in WvW.” as him thinking he needs ascended gear to do WvW (otherwise he can’t)… When really it he wants to pull his weight in his team so he feels like he needs to get Ascended. So he wants (and to statify it, he needs) to get Ascended gear so that he can pull his own weight. He has a reason to both want and need it. (And wanting to do better(though it’s an artificial improvement, not skill wise), is a good reason, I would say)

In a blunt way:
I don’t NEED to eat… But I may want to eat so I can stay alive. So to stay alive I need to eat.

Perhaps some people, may not have a reason (or a want) for their NEED, which leads to people easily throwing around “You don’t need…”

Sounds to me like a childish way to think… In a way.

What I mean with ‘not need’ is when you don’t need it to continue forward or survive.

I mean, what you say last ‘I don’t NEED to eat…’ Well you need to eat to survive, but for me as a musician I would want a 12-stringed guitar to make my music sound even better but I don’t need it to survive, I got my 6-stringed guitar and it works fine, I have to work a few month’s to be able to buy myself a new 12-stringed guitar.

This is though a discussion that could go on forever since the word of ‘need’ isn’t that clear. So I am going to say I give up you are right, it is wrong to say ‘You don’t need it’ but still it is a way to tell someone that their visions are blurred becouse of their “need” to get it, some may quit becouse of it.

People with a mindset of ‘I need 10% better stats to be able to lead’ is imo realy bad leaders, you don’t have to have best stats, you have to be able to lead and have skills wich lot’s are missing in WvW even though they have Ascended gear.
Since he wants ascended weapons, he has to work for it. There are ways for WvW only players to aquire it to by only doing what he/she finds fun, the only problem is that you have to level and darn crafting to 500 yourself to be able to do it and that is crappy as mud would be better if they did a MF way to craft them instead.

Why most of my friends left 2weeks – 1 month later:
No so called “End game content”; they left becouse when they have reached level 80 and tried Story mode dungeons and realized that there where only fluff rewards for doing dungeons and meta event’s. They didn’t feel the need to do any content becouse they powerleveled, farmed gold and bought Exotics and they fealt compleate.
WoW-ish players will be WoW players I guess.

Why few others of my friends left:
They just got bored of the game, just like any other game they have played.

Why I and the rest of my friends havent left:
- The lore of the world is amazing.
- We enjoy the so active combat mechanics and I am so tired of the stale and some old Trinity.
- Guild Wars 2 can be enjoyed in so many ways, there isn’t just one way to play it, it isn’t only about leveling and aquiring the best gear and brag about it.
- There is almost always something new everyday, you find a new event you never done, you find a little cave with no purpose that you have never seen but it is still interesting.
- Whatever others say, in my opinion there is not (at the moment) any reason to farm or giving me the “I need to do this”-feeling, I just play the game and it comes to me in time unlike other games where I have to farm a dungeon over and over again to get the good gear to be able to even join other groups in other dungeons.
- Living Story; it is wonderfull and I love most of it, I am always eager to see what comes next ‘Game Releases’ button is the most pressed button in GW2-site after ‘Forums’ button
Only one LS has disupointed me but with the promise to make more permanent content (And it has been showing) it will get even better ^^
- I like the idéa of making the existing world more interesting and keeping players in the zones that exist instead of making new ones. I hope A-net can make it even better so all zones gets crouded and not only Zerg Wars in one Zone at a time, but it is a good start.
- Ofcourse the constant 2 weeks update is just as I said in the Living Story part, it’s not only interesting to see what happens next in the world but also reading the Update notes on my break is the best thing for me on Teusedays

Ohhh there is so many more reasons I just can’t stop playing GW2.

Zero Day.2594:

No Walking.6349:

Since when do you NEED ascended items?

Lol. Ignorant posters are ignorant

Nothing is needed (you dont need to get exotics, you dont need to get yellows, blues…, you dont need to play the game). I think a lot of people like you troll with that word… You don’t NEED to post.

And you good sir is not looking at the whole picture of the reason to say ‘not needed’.

I say you don’t need Ascended, Exotic nor rare gear to participate or give oponents a challange.

In usuall MMO’s you need best or near best gear to do a dungeon or something, you need to be max level to do end game content or else people will kick you and so on.

So why “we” are saying ‘you don’t need to have Ascended’ is becouse you actually don’t need Ascended to do or enjoy what the game has to offer.

On the other hand atm you need to craft your desired Ascended weapon yourself, you can’t buy it or find it untill teuseday but as many has said is that you don’t need Ascended weapons to enjoy the game and be in par with most others.

slayer.1083:

what is the quickest way to get my character to level eighty?

This game isn’t about level 80.

If you aim for level 80 and think that is end game then I can say that this game is the easiest MMO in the World.

This game isn’t about leveling. Alot of my WoW-ish playing friends Started playing this game when it was released but quit one week later after they reached level 80 and said that was easy and now it is no point to keep on playing and they never returned.

slayer.1083:

is there enough blood and gore in the game???

Can you have a forum account but no game? Hmm… Anyway that question can’t be answered since it is very depending on who you ask, but I would say; it is enough blood and gore but not much.

Think you havent done W1 on iether difficulty than normal.
You have to do w1 on Infant mode and TM to unlock them for w2 I think.

You have to do a Indiana Jones move and move with the gong down to shield you form the arrows. Don’t forget to switch sides.

I have succesfully gotten to W2 Z3 to the part where there are a lot of teleporters, I honestly didn’t try all routes but I managed to get to a place with small Pillars and trampolines … I had to quit becouse I had too write this :P And I have to get ready for work. I have played World 2 this whole morning, that is 4 hours… 4 hours of death and continues, as I said before I bought the Infinte Continue coin knowing TM should be impossible and would probably need that but I never imagined that I would need it this much for World 2 O_o

Sorry but I honstly most say that to compleate World 2 you would have to farm Continue coins like a monkey or you have to pay 2 win.

No one is this good, to manage World 2 in just a few continues.

- Lagy buggy Currents.
- Instakill Darts that isn’t very visible until you have died once and get’s an aha.
- Levels filled with instakill darts.
- 2nd world is to early for fall and die IMO.
- Repeated content and to long levels (I can’t imagine the last level in this game and I wanna see someone do that on TM in the future).

Again I though TM where for those who needed extreme Battle Toads challange and worse… I though normal mode was supposed to be Mario World challange.
World 1 fealt so good and World 2 Zone 1 was also wonderfull and I love the parodies, well the idéa is so awesome it makes me wanna play more and I wan’t to play it with my friends… but no offence to them but they are not as good as little old geeky me so we will have to play on infant mode.

Edit: And I bet my friends won’t buy a Infinite continue token.

I am sorry but I do not find World 2 Zone 2 any fun at all
I bought Infinite countine coin to get griefed in TM, but I having a Harder time compleating World 2 Zone 2 than World 1 Zone 1 in TM and it is making me even more angry since in TM I can make progress and plan ahead what to do different but in World 2 Zone 2 I am hit with bad framrate, miliseconds short lagspikes making my jumps kitten, not only I find the water pillars hard to jump on but they also knocks you back if you are a little off, adding the lag and some delay on grafics respons to where I actually am and it makes it even trickier.

And also when I fall down in to the current and I try to get myself to a safe spot then sometimes the character wont jump, sometimes the character flicks away to another place in the current and my orientation is totaly off and sometime my character does a mighty bounce in the current and bounces down all the way down the current.

Ah, and also the camera here is messed up, please don’t do Jumping scenarios inside cramp places.

I loved SAB World 1 and World 2 Zone 1, they are perfect and I love how it get’s harder… but actually this is a brick wall and this isn’t fun. You did TM to grief us so let it stay there ^^

Pyroatheist.9031:

While there are obviously still some hitbox and lag issues remaining in some spots of World 2, the complaining from all of you people is absolutely disproportionate to that.

Tribulation mode is designed to be absurdly hard, unfair in every way, and challenging to get through.

Josh Foreman should be feeding on the tears of you whiners, and reveling in the satisfaction of a job well done!

As I get it is that you are protecting TM as you should be and it should be “Impossible” that’s the thing about it but I think you get the complaits wrong no? The complaint isn’t for tribulation mode, it fis for Normal mode.

I tried world 1 in TM and almost made it before I thought ‘I have to take a break from dieing 100 times’ so i started World 2 since I have done World 1 in normal mode last time, I got to World 2 Zone 2 a few checkpoints in and I have used up more lives than I did in World 1 TM. Lucky I bought Infinte Continue coin becouse I prepared for TM.

World 1 TM I could learn what to do and what not to do, in World 2 Zone 2 Normal modes there is lag, there is iregular pillars, there is un-prepared knockbacks when you are “safe”, there is lag small almost unoticable lag spikes that makes you character jump like a kitten and so on.

I play TM I am prepared to be griefed with un-prepared knockbacks and iregular pillars without any safe spots, but c’mon this is Normal mode and I guess Josh didn’t plan to have his game on normal mode like Battle Toads?

I am sorry but I don’t understand what you mean at all?

This game is more of an MMO than GW1 is and GW1 is still livng and IMO GW2 is awesome and will live on alot longer than any ‘Doom and gloomer’ thinks.

I gave you my opinion on what I think you meant but I am not sure if I was on topic >.<

I love the Living Story, I hope they continue with it and with more permanent content as they have promised.

But soon I would like to see a sequel to the presonal story, I would like to fight more dragons.

Agree, time gating sucks big time!

Dailies is fine with me, that isn’t realy time gating, it is something you get from just playing.

But Celestial (Quartz Crystal) and Ascended Weapons! That realy stinks!

Peets.8529:

I see people complaining that there isn’t enough to do and then I see people complaining about that there is too much to do.
I’m going to give up on humanity.

The hard truth about an MMO forum, no one is happy and ‘Doom and Gloom’ Threads/comments fills the forums.
….
Anyway, OP I would say you have to prioritize what you wan’t to do.
Play the game for fun and do what you find most enjoyment in, don’t go ‘I have to get that achievement before Teuseday’ if you don’t have the time to play that much, if there is more in this game for you accept for Living Story then do that becouse no one is forcing you to do the living story.

Most Living Stories stories has been rather fast to compleate, I think Chaos Invasion is the one with most time required to finnish the story since you have to participate in a few Invasions :-/

But next week there is SAB and there is no specific story to that one yet, so there you have your time to “relax and play the other stuff” in GW2

IMO the best thing they did with the Achievement screen rewamp was that when a Living Story ends and you look in History achievement the unfinnished achievement’s isn’t shown wich makes my Achievement tab not to look unfinnished.

Kyel.7180:

Moderator.2608:

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Moderator.2608:

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Moss.5371:

Josh Foreman.8250:

blah blah

That explains a lot. You do indeed sound sadistic, which is troubling. What’s the point of investing this much time and effort of development in content that only a handful will enjoy AND come here and brag about it? Can only be sadism. Maybe you could try to make more popular content for the people that bought your game(1), which certainly didn’t buy it expecting this.

(1) New permanent content such as areas, skills, classes, skins, dungeons.

Another player who thinks all employees of Anet could put their extratime to suddenly jump over to another team and do a few maps, skills and dungeons just becouse they are devs or something.

Josh’s team is working on SAB, so if they wouldn’t be working on TM then there would be something else for SAB.
I myself don’t think I will be able to handle TM but I will try and I hope I am good enough but I won’t whine since I know it will be back so that I can give another try, I love SAB and if I don’t have something better to do I could atleast try… Again… And again.

Just becouse Josh thinks TM isn’t as popular as a regular Hard Mode (less lives and stronger enemies) doesn’t mean “only a handfull of people will like it”, it is also about making everyone happy, not just the majority.

Last update with champion loot we got quite alot new permanent skins, Ascended weapons is comming and probably they have new skins.

I got lot’s to say about not needing Permanent Classes and Areas but this is not the thread for that.

My brother also have this problem, started today (30th August).

Alot on map chat is also talking about crashes, something is defo wrong, me on the other hand has no problems like this.

Edit: If it is of any help, playing from Sweden.

Sorry for reviving this thread while it’s in Downed state :P
But I just wanna say I am sorry and I feel ashamed since I honestly thought that Legendary have better stats than Exotic as it is now but after reading some comment’s to this thread I checked that up on Wiki and… Well… Sorry… I am terrebly sorry

This change that will happen is good and ok, it is actually in a way exactly as I would wan’t it to be O_o

nacario.9417:

“legendary even more powerful”.. what does this mean OP, they are just on par with other exotics as of today.

As I said, I usually don’t complain before I have seen the update but how I interpretate the text is that Legendaries will be boosted to leave room for Ascended stats, that means, ascended will be as good or almost as good as Legendaries is now and the Legendaries will be boosted to be better than before.

Ex: (Now: Exotic = 3, Legendary = 4) (Next update: Exotic = 3, Ascended = 4, Legendary = 5) I would be pretty okay if they did something like this (IMO: Exotic = 3, Ascended = 3½, Legendary = 4)

Edit: Don’t bother with this OP, I made a mistake and didn’t get the facts clearly before I went to “attack”.

I rarely whine and even worse I usually don’t whine before the update is out.

But no matter what the reasons are, increasing the stats of legendary will mean that they will be even stronger and more “needed”, isn’t it enough that these ugly weapons get’s a re-trait function? I am heavely against gear grind, and if you will keep boosting Legendary stats how will we know that there will be no other tier Between Ascended and Legendary?

Anyway I hope that if I transmigate Legendary stats to another skin will let me have the re-trait ability and vice versa becouse I find Legendary skin ugly.

Dunno if it’s realy on topic but, this weekend I announced about GW2 free-trial to my old guild friends from another MMO and I got one (That I know of) to play.

I let him play alone for a while to carefully get to know the game mechanics and after he reached level 5 I told him that if he needs help or just wan’t to play together he just have to ask me, but I got the aswer something like ‘This game isn’t realy fun’, so I asked ‘why is that?’ and the answer I got was ‘It isn’t dynamic’.

I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t want to start an agrue with him since I think this game is more Dynamic than any other MMO I have played but then I realized that he has made his opinion at level 5, he havent even done one part of the personal story after the first Task, he haven’t played a Dungeon, he havent played a different race or class, he haven’t gotten to another map, he didn’t even know that he could store crafting materials in a specific bank slot, c’mon he havent even been able to get the 7,8,9 skills!

C’mon! Some people make their decission about a game to fast, it doesn’t matter if we have a dungeon at level 5, those who don’t give more time to judge a game has already made up their mind.

I group with friends and I have no point in grouping with others even though I need help with a group event, and mostly on low pop EU server I play on there are always enough players around to help me with the group events without the need to ask for help in map chat.

But I notice alot rudness and childish chat sometimes on the mapchat so when that happens I usually click on my friendchat tab where I have; Whisper, Guild, Party and Team.

And as many said before me, Guild chat is full of life.

Minami Kaori.2548:

In GW1, I have never heard it from anyone in my guild or in local chat that people complained about their birthday gifts. Not once. Even though I was a whole year behind everyone in GW1, never did I think that I should be entitled to the same thing as those who started the game at launch.

GW1 didn’t have birthday gifts from a GW sequel to compare to.

But actually I complained about my B-day gifts in GW1 becouse I was always so unlucky so I never got any cool minipets and I got alot of duplicates while my friend got realy awesome Mini’s and he was only logging in for opening the gifts and didn’t actually play the game.

This way it is not unfair and no one will get the shorter straw.

I agree though level bosster to level 20 is kinda huh? I mean I have been playing for a year!

I got my Jennah Mini and I like it and the booster isn’t bad iether.

BTW it isn’t realy our characters birthdays, it is Guild Wars 2 birthday, we should be giving Anet presents.

Before update there where no problems.

After update my Fiancee has had lots of lag and also a few Crashes…
Also I have crashed twice since update but have no lag problems.

Anyway, my fiancee has lowered Character Model limit to Low and texture to low and that should be worse than before Culling fix no?

I know there has been a fix to some crashes so my problems may be gone I hope but my fiancee just crashed twice in a row while we where fighting the Champion Ooze in Mole’s Head wich lead to our defeat since I could fight alone through two crashes

Tagus Eleuthera.7305:

I think its pretty easy to see that the majority of voices on the forums are whiners. Just look at the number of whiny posts and threads, versus the number of people complaining in game in map chat. In here its much more accepted by others, whereas in game the complainers are told to shut up. Its like in real life.. if somebody is complaining you might tell them to shut up, but you wouldn’t go into a room down the hall and tell a group of whiners to shut up, because its not worth the hassle. Like it or not, official forums are where people go to kitten. Anet was actually smart to allow official forums, because it keeps all the kittening in one place.

Also still on map chat… In my little group of friends 7 (Me included) only I would have been the one to answer and the six others would just have ignored the complainer.

Gizmo.8623:

Vayne.8563:

It hasn’t evolved in the direction the majority of players like? What majority? Where do you get your information? Have you polled all the players?

Comments like this are much weaker, because you can’t substantiate your point. It’s true you might be right, but you can’t know, and saying you do brings the entire post into question.

Ok – majority of ppl who answered in latest big topics related to the issue

This is pretty much useless statistics to use since as Vayne says forums isn’t even used by half of GW2 playerbase and also if you read a “Anet sucks GW2 will fail” thread then you will see alot of disapointed players flocking around it and a few proud GW2 players defending it, but if you see threads like this one well it will be contrary.

In every game that has Forums there is always “doom and gloom” threads becouse if you are displeased you complain but if you are pleased you shut up and play, it is very rare that someone mentions if something is good.

I have played many MMO’s and been Fanboy to atleast two (This included) and I have always seen posts saying “This game is flawed, devs do nothing, I get no respons, Devs don’t care, I hate latest update, merge servers, the servers are empty and much more”

Anyway sorry for derailing…

Very well said OP, very much what I would say but I come from Lotro and not WoW and can do almost the same comparison.

Well and PvE armor not for PvP?

For example the Masquerade (Light) Armor for PvE looks like dung but the Masquerade (light) Armor looks realy cool in PvP well yea thats what I think atleast but why is it that this armor looks different in PvP and PvE?

Also the commando armor in PvP is available for PvE but it is only from Personal Story rewards?

Also starter gear… Some starter gear is only aquired through start and choosing the “right” gear in the beginning, when I started my Engineer in the Pre-release of this game I never thought so much about the gear but about the story…
I know I can start a new char and experement with withe gear and Transmugation stones but I have 8 chars at level 80 and I don’t wanna start a new char and have no space left for one.

So I would suggest that we get some more alternative ways to aquire those armors for PvE and PvP.

Sagramor.7395:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Thank you for responses.

I like experementing with builds so it is good to know that power is not totaly useless with pistols

They’re not totally useless, but I’d use Pistol/Shield over dual Pistols for a power setup. Especially if using Bomb Kit. You’ll get a lot more bang for your buck.

Yea I have made myself a shield now and trying it out ^^ thank you.

Thank you for responses.

I like experementing with builds so it is good to know that power is not totaly useless with pistols

I read somewhere someone wrote that Pistols on engineer isn’t affected by Power…

I myself have used Carrion gear for my Engineer build with two Pistols and Bombs, I realy like it and it feels like power does a differens but maby I should aim to switch power for something else if that is true.

Sil.4560:

That’s just it, a number of us do have the time, but find it aggravating that we are unable to actually accomplish something in a decent time because of unnecessary restrictions imposed by the developers. It’s just time gating to get us to play longer.

But there is much more to do than just farm tokens, gold and whatever, since I have alts I try to get 100% map compleation with all 8 of them, I enjoy the bit’s of living story that is comming every two weeks, I do dungeons for fun and to help guilmates, I join guild in WvW and I do some sPvP.
I have two chars with 3 ascended jewelety each and I can get another 3 jewelry with laurels if I wanted, I have dungeon tokens to buy me atleast a few parts of armor or a weapon for each dungeon accept SE and much more and I have never fealt that there is no point in playing my alt’s and that it would take longer time.

But also I agree about tokens as I said in another thread, tokens can’t be traded and don’t have that much of an impact on the game so they should not be affected by any DR.

Tokens has always been account bound.

Why are people so eager to get everything in one day?
If you don’t have time to play games you should not choose an MMO.

I like that I have to progress with all my characters, I play my 8 different characters becouse I want to enjoy them as much as my main character so this is defo not the death of my alts but the beginning of a storage I can fit my new stuff and not all millions of tokens and Karma “potions”.

Also I don’t have to go to the bank everytime I need something, atlast all my chars has a creditcard :P

Hehe maby it is actually a bug since they got account shared, that’s why it did get posted in the update but also “they” want it this way hence no change.

Don’t take everything as a ‘stealth nerf’ or stupid ‘A-net who hates us’.

I personally think this isn’t WAI becouse there are some players who want for example the same gear for more than one character and thus this player has to play this dungeon twice as much, but with this so called “stealth nerf” it makes the player suffer for having two chars or more and want to gear them with the same armor.

But in another point of view it could be used to “farm” tokens for one single character just becouse you have more that one character, but IMO these tokens can’t be traded and you can’t trade what you exchange so they don’t unbalance anything by letting some farm their favorit gear or rune/sigil or whatever.
Also if they didn’t want you to farm the dungeons why did they put such a silly number of tokens to exchange to get a full armor set and weapons?
I mean how many times do you have to do the dungeons to get a full set?
My fiancee want the HotW armor so we did all three path for fun (we have never done them), she can now afford her Leggings “Yay!”

True true but…
Is it realy? I think there is a way…

buttons could be made personal, like if I wanna go forward I have to press all buttons in the correct order and if I have pressed a few buttons then the buttons isn’t pressed for other players, just like these tasks works (If I pick a flower to deliver to the taskheart it won’t get picked for other players).

Maby?

But also it could be kinda cool with multiple sulotions depending how many players participating and are communicating, like it is possible to do it the solo way or a guild could solve it together and get a little bigger reward?

I just got an idea for new puzzles in the world, though I have no plan for a reason fo them to exist I would like to see them anyway.

There are jumping puzzles in this game and most of the times they only aquire jumping skills and to see the next step but I want more puzzles like blocks to be moved to the right places so you can get to the other side, buttons pressed in the correct order to turn of trapdoors, beams to be pointed with morrors in a dark room to light it up, riddles scattered in a room with a few enemies that leads to a solution in the end of the room and so much more

I know I know, these things already exists in the JP’s but it would be nice to actually have these without any kind of jumping.
I don’t mind jumping Puzzles but I do have a few friends who have no platform gaming experience whatsoever and they can’t even compleate the dark room in Weyandt’s Revenge

I realy love to solve puzzles so I hope there will be more and ofc I then mean more puzzles, not find the way.

My personal opinion about this update:

I like the idea of massive player activity when fighting the bosses, well they are not that hard or complex and what makes them hard is gigantic pike-damage and that is realy not what I like. It would be mutch cooler if the bosses was more like dungeon bosses or even like the gauntlet bosses with a little more strategy than just burn them down and dodge their pike damage. I know it is hard to do as a Zerg content but I know A-net team can do it
Also about that zerg part, I think it is cool but the culling effect takes away alot of fun and there is to much red circles and you don’t see who is hitting you, you get bleed and poison and blown away out of the blue.

The Gauntlet are perfect, I am pretty sure that I won’t be able to do them all in two weeks but all bosses have been realy nicely done and they are cool and good challange. They have no real story so I don’t feel “Forced” to compleate it and the rewards are perfect imo, I wan’t a mini but it won’t affect my char in anyway if I don’t get it (Stats or cosmetic).

The Baloons is like the usual stuff in the world and I like them for the explorers.

Tourch runs was cool and I hope we will get more, they are almost like jumping puzzles and I like that
Also that gave me an idea that I am going to post in the sugestion forum
Edit: That idea " https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Puzzling-Puzzles "

The vendor and “tokens”, these new Crafting component will they disupear after this jubilee?
Anyway, we get them pretty easy atm from doing the event’s in the pavilion and it’s pretty easy/cheap to get the new weapon skins it is actually more expencive to make a superior rune (of the new stuff) than to buy a skin :P
I do like the idea that the “tokens” are easy to get but it will also cost a few silver to gold to get. It’s a good gold sink and it will make it easier and not feel so random to get the cool gear.

I have liked all the living stories, the only thing I was realy disupointed with was the Aetherblade dungeon that was realy fun and hard but temporary so even though I tried every weakend for hours each night I never managed to compleate it and the Aetherblade kills on maps was so rare and random so I gave up that whole living story part.

I understand OP, I didn’t miss to support a candidate but I was worried I would so I very often used a button to try and always have it on, I missed one event though hehe.

I don’t think it will be “fixed” before Monday but if there will be something like this another time… Though I would find it annoying to have this question popping up everytime I compleate a full daily. And if this was to be changed it should have a question for compleating an even and a dungeon also

I think the coding is a problem, from resetting all skills and so on, but I know nothing of it.

Not a thing I would use atm but if I where to be in OP’s possition I would realy like it so I support this idea.

I realy like this game and this is the best MMO at the moment, it has the most aspects I like but there are stuff I don’t like but there is always something new and cool to look farward too

Realy, this game is ++++++++++ and I hope they will keep on making me enjoy this game.

But sadly threads like this just trolls haters, they won’t change their mind and “we fan boys” will not iether.

Edit: Sorry, thank you again Anet for another wonderfull game!

lol I wanna take a break but then I can’t get items for my charecter XD

Spend time in the game and earn your gear or take a break and earn your gear when you are itching to play again
It’s no different from any other game, if you don’t play them you can’t earn that you want… It’s not like the Laurels are running away.

I hope that pesky dueling system will have an ‘auto-decline duel requests’ when it goes live.