Guild Wars 2

I have more issue with the living story, that after it is done. It vanishes out of the game and players who do not take part just miss out on that part of the story.

Take for example the Molten Alliance. So how would people know about the story of Rox and Braham without doing those story missions that are not aviable anymore?

With the personal story, or other story elements they stay int he world but the living story just vanishes and thats what I don’t like the most about this new living story stuff. It should add more permanent things into the world where you can explore the lore step by step even if you are a late comer to the game. Imagine a year from now if this continues like that. Someone just starting to play then will have no clue about what happened with the molten alliance, southshun etc.

Those light armors are absolutely stunning. I love both the male and female version (The Female isnt that the one Lady Kasmeer is wearing?)

I hope A-Net puts both of those Armors really soon into the cash shop because they will have me buy 4 of those (2x light so i can have them both on my male mage and female mesmer both in pve as in pvp.)

I get the feel T4 is bugged. Our group did fine, we just had tons of mobs. Still had 2500/2500 supplies and then suddenly “event failed” out of nowhere. This has happened now 3 times in a row at the 3 minute mark.

None of the supplies were stolen. Most of us were alive and we still got the event failed.

Mesmer: Main hand pistol!

my norn guardian looks hilarious with them. Its like he is carrying 2 mountains of silver on his shoulder.

Ranger simply demolishes anyting in 1v1. The issue is there you rarely see any 1v1 situations in pvp or wvw ^^

I liked the rewards so far. I was happy with the Orb and Repair canister and the boosts. I am looking foward to the next chests and that big chest at 2500 points Makes me want to complete some more jp’s so i can get up to 6k archiev points.

What about Necromancers? I currently run a power/prec build (yes unusual but I like it) But it wastes alot of the opportunities with conditions. Celestial gear might be good for that no?

How can doing pvp in a pvp Zone be grieving?

Some people here should try out EvE online, then they know the true meaning of the word grieving :P

Ranger!

On no other class (and I have all 8 at 80 and properly equipped with multiple equips and play at least 4 of them regularly) than the Ranger I often get so mad with the shortcomings of the class that I log to another class within 10 minutes of playing it because I get completly frustratet. (This applies to WvW, Spvp and Dungeons).

The only area that I can stand the Ranger is if i go solo around in the open world for jumping puzzles and aesthetically.

I like new content, but it looks like its some mini games (which is good) but the sky trader stuff will be yet again TEMPORARY (because of that last paragraph, the Floating Sky thing you can look at after the real thing went away)

My advice:

If you do not care that you cannot compete with all the other classes in the slightest in any field be it WvW, Pve or PvP. Then go ahead and level your ranger. He is good enough to play in the open world albeit a bit hard.

If you want to be needed in groups in any kind of gameplay then immediatly reroll to pretty much any other class (Guardian is currently the best group character).

This comes from a long time ranger player, but it seems Arenanets design philosophy for the ranger is nerfing any good build until we can use any build because our choices are bad, worse and useless…

And the Ranger is as bad as people say, to a big extend even worse. Because many here only play a ranger or maybe another class. I got all 8 classes to max and play most of them regularly (my most time beside the Ranger is on Guardian, Necro and Engineer). I keep up with the builds and abilities all 8 classes get and what changes and the Ranger is simply lackluster and badly designed if you compare them to the other 8 classes.

The Ranger is currently in a really sad state. I ran the new story dungeon today. After 10 minutes I logged out of my Ranger in disgust and went with my Guardian. After that we progressed fine trough the dungeon.

My Ranger was my first character. I love the Artstyle and how it plays. But in PVE the Ranger is simply annoying me so much that I need to log out before I do bad things to my Keyboard/Mouse/Monitor.

I simply quit playing when there is no new story content or new dungeon content to do once. I have completly quit grinding and only log in for new stuff then I don’t spend anymore time ingame since I feel its a complete waste.

There is nothing worth doing since all you can do is grind for RNG which is stupid. I did tons of fractals but quit those alltogether and will never do one ever again until the mechanics in there are not changed.

Its too bad, i like logging in and exploring the world, finding some new jump puzzle I have never seen before. But most of the content is just grind, but grind that is just more RNG instead of anything tangible i can reach to feel good about.

Yeah chance is as abysmal as with any other rng chest. Tried 50 coffers and only got that candy stuff. Well that was my first time ever using gold to spend it on gems for those rng chests. This will teach me to never ever again any of those rng chests.

I would convert it all to gold and then get me the Eternal Light sword which is the most beautiful sword in the game. It would look absolutely stunning on my mesmer

A tip from me. Just dont run higher than 26. It simply is not worth it.

I can tell you with 99% certainity that the drop rate was NOT increased.

I have done 4x 48 and 4x 38 runs and NOT ONE SINGLE SKIN OR RING dropped for me.

I hate this stupid RNG.

I still believe that DR is completly bugged for some of us.

I was farming in southsun cove. After 10 minutes I got the feeling that full DR had kicked in. I only got loot from every 5th mob and that was usually gray stuff or ocassionally some crafting mat.

I toughd Id see if DR reset would work for me. I went 1 hour into bisbane wildlands doing some stuff hoping DR would reset. Then I logged off for the next 14 hours. After login I went back to southshun cove with 340 MF.

In the 1 hour I farmed there I got:

2 Green Items
4 Blue Items
5 T5 Scales
5 T5 Blood
2 T5 Claws

small chunks of grey crap.

[img]http://s22.postimg.org/q8ao6h0wh/crap_loot.jpg[/img]

Thanks A-Net for those really nice back pieces.

The flower works perfect for my Sylvari Ranger and the Karka backpiece just looks menancing on my Necromancer.

Now all I would love to see would be some angel wings for my Guardian

Fractals should reward alot more on higher levels. At level 40+ you get the same crap as on level 10 mostly but it takes 5x as long to do it.

Also fractal weapons. I see like everyone else getting some but I get nothing of course. This is such a stupid thing and needs change really soon.

Uncategorized coug ; Dredge cough, cough… dies from cough attack

I HATE IT!
I HATE IT!
I HATE IT!

its like night impossible on 40+ its simply the worst fractal ever

I had groups we rerolled the whole fractal cycle on 40+ even if dredge was our 3rd because its so stupid. We were faster doing 1+2 again instead of doing dredge.

Please simply nuke it from orbit.

I do not mind a grind. What I loathe is the stupid RNG with everything. Fractal weapons are a stupid grind. If I had to do 50 fractals for a Weapon that would be ok. But i could do 500 (i am nearing 800 or so done and no weapon I want and only 3 total)

same for the rocket backpack. I would do that underground instance 50 times-100 times for a backpack but it will probably never drop with my rng “luck”

Must be pretty low. Did 10 runs now and nobdy got one.

Also I hate this stupid speculation. Those backpacks cost 50 gold yesterday. I had 20, grinded 35 more now looking back into the trade post… 100 gold, looking back 5 minutes later 150 gold. bleh I wish that skin was also in the Black Lion company for 600 gems.

Its way too long for a fractal as it is right now. It takes around 20-30 minutes to clear. Now Imagine this with 1 hitting mobs all around that have 20x more hp on level 40+ of fractals. Where one aoe of the end boss or 1 wave not dodged downs and kills you instantly.

But yes please make this a permanent dungeon. Give it a new set of armor skin and let us have some more fun with it.

I would rate this patch 10/10 excellent.

Why?

1) A real new Dungeon. A good one too one with excellent encounters that are not that easy and need good movement abilities and some coordination

2) Finally a well made Skin for something that is NOT in a kittening RNG lockbox. This is a fundamental improvement. I want skins that I can buy for a certain amount of gems and not just a chance for nothing in stupid lockboxes

3) Good class changes all around

4) New item stat combination and cooking recipes

5) JETPACK!!!!! i can not stress this enough. Once i scrap together all the money I can get my Asura Engineer is getting one (when you are on it can we please have our kit backpacks set to the default one we war in some options PLEASE!)

The new shield Skin is actually the first Item, that I really wanted to buy from the Gemstore. The very first item I was interested in that looked awesome. Already got it for both my Guardian (perfect match) and for my Engineer.

That shield is incredible. Also thinking about getting a quiver if i can scrap together some more gold.

Looking at your pic makes me jealous. I made like 80 runs and all i can show for it is 1 mace, 1 trident and 1 gs… in 80 runs above 28, 38, 40.

You topic starter shoudl not complain, you are not at the end spectrum of bad luck there is.

I do agree this stupid rng needs to go.

1. THE CASH SHOP

how to fix?
Introduce many many more costumes, gadgets and non combat clothes for the store and remove the kittening random lock boxes.

2. THE RNG

I personally hate RNG. I like to work towards goals but everywhere are those stupid roadblocks in the game called random drop chance, random whatever. Its annoying.

3. Class Balance

Split PVP and PVE skills. I want my character to feel powerfull in PVE and not have to suffer because it would unbalance PVP (Best example currently are Rangers, quit borken in pve, ok’ish in pvp)

I predict same as most other patches. Around 02:00 (UTC+1) (should be 01:00 British Standard Time) on the 01st May for us euros.

Or just make yourself nerf proof by getting all classes to 80 and equipping them with at least 2 sets of equipment. Then you can play whatever you fancy. And if A-Net nerfs something into oblivion (like rangers for pve) you can switch to something more enjoyable. (because right now ranger is really in a sad state.)

At first when I read about the multiple guild system, I was really happy. It sounded simply awesome. You would be able to have more than 1 guild which means my Guild that focuses on pve and some wvw but doesnt really do Spvp. I could still be with them and then just join a guild that wants to do Spvp alot.

However the system went from being awesome to a nightmare.

I tought I would get 2 chat channels for both guilds. But no you need to represent one of them. This was the first huge mistake they made when designing this system. It stops me from communicating with my guildmates.

Ok you can switch easily so you might think it not so bad. But then there is the small issue of the new guild content which requires a HUGE amount of Guildpoints which require representation.

So now nearly every guild out there requires you to represent 24/7 and if you do not you get kicked out. Death of small good guilds in favor of the humongous 500 man guilds.
I am still in my small nice guild but I see maybe 1-2 people at all. I wish I could have another bigger guild while nobody is online in my guild. But those guilds always require you to represent 24/7 which sucks.

Please keep this and expand on it. What can we the players do so we get World 2- 3 and even more?

Its refreshing and nice content. Awesome dungeon and I would love to see more. I havent had that much fun in GW 2 since November when much went downhill. But now, I have incentive again to log in. Do stuff with my guild.

(Also not related but whoever was responsible for bringing Laurel rewards for PVP Dailies was Genius! Never did much Spvp but now I have incentive and actually find the experience fun. Would probably never have touched Spvp again if not for that little change)

THANK YOU A-NET!

Now I do not have to mindlessly grind 100 Events anymore for my 10 Monthly laurels. Instead I can have some fun sPvP matches and get them. Cheers.

I have to agree the Dredge Fractal on higher levels is just too long. As far as time goes, It would be enough if after the Lever Room even before you have to do the tedious rezz death Doors of stupidness to get the Endboss.

Swamp is good because its short and interesting. Same goes for Volcano, its hard but not so obnoxious long.

But the Dredge and the Uncategorized Fractal (Asura) simply take way too long on high levels.

Even more so Uncategorized, even if you have a group that can do the harpies quick. The Prison room is simply mind numbing, hacking away forever on those 4, especially the kitten Ettin! But then you also have Mad Tom and finally after another Harpy ordeal you get the end boss.

Best would be to redo Dredge and cut out the Rabsovich fight and cut the Prison fight from Uncategorized. And take away mid seal from Cliffside then all the fractals would be fun and not take forever on some of them.

I had runs where we would get 2nd Dredge and simply went back to the beginning and redid it waiting for Swamp or Underwater, because that was still faster hoping for something else as 2nd, instead of doing Dredge on 30+

Maybe you are getting rings like candy. But the last 20 Fractal level 30+ Dailies I have done did not net either a ring or a skin. So yes those pristine relics do have some uses. However I would also love to see more uses for them since by now all my characters have their rings (Over 500 fractal runs so far).

Yes but imagine everyone has the same 0.01% whatever chance of that rare.

Before my support Guardian would only get loot on every 5th mob, 90% porous bones because he was not full Berserker and Damage specced. I saw how everyone looted like every mob.

Of course everyone else would get 5x more yellows because the had 5x as often the chance to get one.

Also if loot rarity / quality is governed by who deals the most damage (I have to assume that since I got the opiniated feeling from my over 500 fractal runs that usually the high dps chars/players would get way more loot than anyone else).
Fixing that will fix alot of issues of people feeling they get no drops at all forever. (Because I played 80% of my time on my guardian in fractals where I did the least damage of the Group – however provided my Group with 2x more damage in buffs in what they lost with my reduced damage).

This is great news!

I have been one of those players that felt “there is no loot dropping at all for me”

One of those that saw all the other 4 players in my Fractal run get 4-6 yellows per run while I went without anything noteworthy and only porous bones.

I have always been playing a Support Guardian. So I do guess that its simply that my character did not qualify for 80% of loot because he did less damage than the pure damage classes.

At last I hope this will be changed so I will not be loot crippled because I like to support my Team porperly.

(I switched to high DPS mesmer for a bit and the Mesmer would get awesome Loot but I would just miss the Utility my Guard brings to my groups)

Guildmate that has played with us for a long time?

I do not think all my Guildmates wear full MF or we would not be able to complete Dungeons and Fractals in a reasonable time. Also you kinda feel if someone has full MF because runs are dragging slower and he will die all the time because he has no defensive stats.

But my Guildmates don’t die too often to suspect MF gear.

TLDR:
Loot feels really bad for some of us.
We need more uses for Fractal Relics and Pristine Relics
(Why can we not buy Ascended Amulets for 10 Pristine Relics)
And Fractal weapon Skins for 1-2k Fractal Relics??

To the post above. I would be delighted to get ANY epic reward (for me currently that are the Fractal Weapon skins because I spend 80% of my playtime in fractals because I want them so bad) Really any skin primary weapon Skin (bar underwater because I rarely see those) would be awesome if it ever happened to be in the chest I open.

Even if A-Net tells me that there is no “Flag for bad loot”. I can not really believe it. I have run fractals hundreds of times. Everytime I run with my guild I will see the other 4 post at least 4-5 Yellows and maybe 1-2 exotics every other run and tons of cores.

If i get lucky I gain 3-4 yellows and 1-2 cores and really rarely (probably every 20th run) an exotic.

My usual fare is 1-3 yellows per whole fractal run (including Maw) and that is it.

Can you feel it when you work 2 hours trough level 30 Dredge fractal and beat that stupid ice elemental (sometimes 3 players simply have no clue how to dodge ) and then you open that chest and … 2 green 1 blue is the reward for your hard work? Then you continue with Uncategorized (yay falling down) and get… guess.. 2 green 1 blue from the chest of the Asura. Then finnish off with Ice and get yet another 2 green 1 blue and then at the Maw chest I get 1 yellow. And then someone else in the group links 2 Lodestones 1 Core and 2 Yellows out of his maw chest and a ring.

Oh sure I got 110 Fractal Relics and 1 Pristine Relic. They are nice but after your bank is piling 7000 relics and 50 Pristine Relics you get really really bored of them.

Now there is this one fellow that posts continuously 6+ yellows and 1-2 exotics per run. They are different ones and those that drop in the dungeon. I do not believe he would just mock up old stuff for the giggles. So my perception is that I get just a few yellows while all others get 2x as much as I do and one is getting 3-4x as much.

And this happens every run I do with them. Maybe its just bad luck for a year? and next year ill get some good loot? I have lost my will to play because it doesn’t seem rewarding at all to me. I know others have fantastic loot, but I simply never have that. Every run I have done in the past 2 month’s has left a bad taste in my mouth afterwards and a “oh well just crap loot again and no skin I want yet again”

I have done the level 28 and level 30+ daily nearly every day since the 2nd week of fractals and have 1 underwater Spear to show for it (nearing my 500th fractal completed). Also I will always get tons of Darkened Claws, Stones and all that gray worthless vendor trash. When other teammembers get yellows, cores and other green quality stuff.

Yes I do believe my account is permanently flagged for poor loot even if it may not be but I simply perceive my continuous bad drops as such because it always seems my other team members get 3x as much yellows/loot.

I am at a point where I simply have quit playing for 3 weeks, went back to the game mid January and did a fractal run and all I got was Darkened Claws and the other kitten. I had not 1 yellow that run. Even the level 30 maw chest contained 2 green 1 blue and 3 coin bags… and of course I havent seen a ring or a fractal weapon for 2 weeks now.

I am at the point where I will probably toss out the game and play something else and never bother to come back here ever again because it just doesn’t feel rewarding enough to play.

Ok there are a plethora of other issues with the game like the feeling of less choice with any class every other big patch. But the single biggest one is IT FEELS NOT REWARDING.

I do not know if its just a few, if its an unknown deep buried but or simply really really really really bad luck, but it is there and seems to not go away.

Guardians are awesome and everyone that does Fractals will LOVE you for doing the support role. You have so many awesome abilities that are unfortunately mostly wasted in easy content (aka most dungeons) because its a stomp dps fest where everything just dies so fast it does not matter much to use supports alot.

However once you get to harder stuff like Arah and Fractals you can shine. Reflects, tons of Boons especially long Protection and the Hammer damage is also quit nice. In addition you get holds and the Spirit Shield is one of the best abilities in the game for pve imho.

On the healing gear part, it depends really, its not a very good stat but in some moderate amounts (500) i find it quit good. You have alot of healing abilities for your team if you go with Staff/x and use your F2 alot and have the proper spec for support (0/0/30/30/10 or a variation there of).

But this just applies to harder content aka Fractals ( I pray A-Net will implement more demanding pve content to challenge us).

So just find a group that is good and not just wants to speed zerg a dungeon.

I really like the Dredge Fractal. It requires coordination and is not easy sneeze fest like Swamp or Underwater. (There is too little challenging content in the game anyways imho). Then there is tons of loot and the Suit boss is always fun to watch if you have a good mesmer in your team.

I also like Volcano alot because its hard and requires good coordination and its short too.

What I really hate with a passion is cliffside and probably everyone I know hates it too. This is 90% because its bug ridden like hell and never worked properly from the start and still bugs out alot killing people randomly, cages, mobs respawning without reason etc. But its also long.

So usually higher level groups will roll their first fractal until you get 1 of the easy 3 because that reduces the chance to get the long and tedious ones by 1 fractal which is big.

On lower levels I think all fractals are fine. The issue starts around 14+ and gets increasingly more so at 30+ because the mobs just have so much HP, the trash gets tedious³.

One of those is Uncategorized , really the Prison Encounter could use the HP of both the Shaman and Etting halved, maybe even more HP reduction. Or simply cut it out, its just a boring snoozefest of hitting those mobs for 10 minutes.

But here is the main problem of Fractals and why they are badly designed past Tier 2.

A-Net has handled increasing difficulty in the laziest and worst way possible after Tier 2.

Lets take Uncategorized as an example:

Tier 1 is straightforward
Tier 2 increases the difficulty by slightly increasing mob hp but adding new mechanics to encounters. For Tom its the Fan Mechanic and for the Boss its his agony.
Tier 3: More hp, more damage
Tier 4: More hp, more damage
Tier 5: see above

See whats happening? From Tier 1 to Tier 2 the design is nice because to make it more difficult we have to learn something new from the bosses. But after that its just stupidly increasing HP and Damage of the mobs. It makes the encounters not really harder, just more tedious and longer. You know it is hard to concentrate for 15+ minutes on an encounter. Then maybe someone messes up at dredge suit and I have seen that one go for 30 min + on some groups.

So stop increasing HP and Damage as a means of difficulty please A-Net and think of some new ways of making encounters harder.

Why cant we simply get a button “join overflow” in the menu and then be moved over to the next overflow. If no overflow is present then create one. Or just give us the ability to move to non overflows.

Its the same for the long fractals versus the fast ones. Every high level group simply rolls the first till they get swamp or underwater because thats 1 out of 3 you cant get one of the crappy long ones everyone loathes at that point. Because instead of making it harder the higher you go up by giving encounters new intersting mechanics.

A-Net simply reverted to doubling or tripling the HP pool so the fight takes forever without any change. Best examples are dredge and uncategorized.

With dredge Rabsowitch takes forever just staying there, occasionally dodging his 1 shot down attack. A-Net could simply cut out that portion of the fight or let him be the last boss. Would be much better.

Then the 3 Champs+Vet on uncategorized. That Ettin….. just hitting it for minutes is not fun, nor challenging and in 10 levels where it will take 5 minutes more it wont be any more challenging.

Its simply really bad game design. From 1-9 and then the jump over at 10 it was really well done. Lets take uncategorized for example. At Tom you get the fan part and the last boss gets his agony attack on 10 which makes the encounter clearly more challenging but not boring long.

But then its just more HP, more 1 shot kills and even more HP which is awefull.

MORE HP IS NOT MORE CHALLENGE its simply more of the same challenge which makes some of the fractals absolutely obnoxious and whenever cliffside or uncategorized pops up I hear the moaning on TS because they are not fun at 30+, just a time drag with tons of rep costs possibly.

Of course then there is the trash that has more HP than your usualy champion in the open world and just 1 hits you (Ascalon anyone?)

Id rather be able to trade useless rings for fractal skins. I really would love some other way as stupid RNG to aquire fractal skins.

Yeah that would be so nice, Id take a Guardian/Mesmer in a heartbeat ^^

Imagine the joy of being able to utilizie Guardians Support with Timewarp from Mesmer with Guardians Staff and Guardian Scepter/Mesmer Pistol.

You would only see those classes doing dungeons

I really think I must be cursed since I never find anything decent in either maw or battlefield when killing those mobs

I was not able to play the last 2 days because of holidays. So by that my DR should have reset plenty. However I did my daily level 30 for Fractals and again I mostly got porous bones and greens/blues. The exception was the boss maw chest which dropped 2 yellows and 1 core.

I have not gotten one of the Shards of Mist Essence for 2 weeks now. I have not seen a mob drop a yellow since the game update 4? days ago.

After the update the level 30 run I did I got around 6 yellows and 5 cores. The next run was 4 yellows. Next day 2 Yellows from maw chest, mostly porous bones and 2green 1 blue item in every non maw chest.

Today out of 6 boss chests (non maw) I got a total of 1 yellow. Other teammember got 12 yellows, another 7.

So I do think there is not only a DR on chest loot and mob drops but its simply bugged for my Guardian. I will try to level up my Mesmer to see if there is a difference in character or if this issue is account wide.

Yes, for whatever reason your Credit Card is flagged as being used in illegal activity and there is nothing A-Net will do about it. You cannot buy gems.

No clue how you get on that list because I bought my 2 Games just fine with the same card.