Guild Wars 2

Ascended armor is coming soon, and quartz will almost certainly be used to craft celestial ascended armor. People are buying it out of speculation that the price will go up, which is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Azraelle.1683:

Dredge fractal sucks, because dredges sucks. It’s a fail gamedesign. They make my thief almost useless — blind immune, dazes, knockbacks, protection boons, unreflectable ranged attacks. So kittening great.

Thieves are great for the dredge fractal because thy can do the control panel while stealth.

As for how agony resistance affects you, see http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony

As for how to attain agony resistance after the patch:

• Existing infusion slots will continue to allow for normal infusions that may or may not have +5 AR.
• Infused rings and back items will no longer have an inherent +5 AR, but rather an AR-only infusion slot that will start with a +5 AR-only infusion
• AR-only infusions can be combined with Thermocatalytic Reagent (TR) as follows:
  • (1 AR) + (1 AR) + TR = (2 AR)
  • (2 AR) + (2 AR) + TR = (3 AR)
  • (3 AR) + (3 AR) + TR = (4 AR)
  • etc

mercury ranique.2170:

Keep in mind the guardian often plays ranged

What? Guardian only has one real ranged weapon, and that’s scepter.

The WvW Season One achievement “Mists Merc Camp Vanquisher” currently only gives credit if you help claim a mercenary camp for your server. It’s bad enough that the current living story NPCs are in the mercenary camps stealing all of the kills that could progress the events, but it’s difficult to actually find a neutral mercenary camp to be able to claim (especially since mercenary camps were removed from the borderlands).

I suggest changing requirement to progress this achievement from “Mercenary Camps Taken” to “Mercenary Camps Taken or Neutralized” for future seasons or other achievements.

I like that the ones standing in the roads provide some variety and keep WvW tied in with the living story.

I hate the ones that have taken over the mercenary camps though. The mercenary camps were already frustrating enough without other NPCs killing everything that could have possibly progressed the events.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Well you said that if she wanted to run with an organized group, she should expect them to expect her to use VOIP.

My own group is organized enough to do well in fractals and have fun, and doesn’t expect anybody to use VOIP.

Seeing as the OP originally said that she prefers not to use VOIP, I felt it important to let her know that this is not a prerequisite with all organized groups – so contrary to her own conclusions (and possibly yours), I am saying that fractals might in fact be “for her” after all and she might not have to miss out on content.

Oh, where you said “d) never even brought up the subject of fractals” did you mean “voip” instead of “fractals”?

Anyway, I think I included everything you’re saying in my first post. Maybe it didn’t come out as clearly as I thought.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

1 and 4: You can’t just do part of a dungeon, walk away, and expect to get credit. Every dungeon path is split into parts, FotM just randomizes those parts and makes them easier to distinguish. Doing all four only takes about an hour, which is 1/3500 of the time you’ve spent in game so far.

2. You don’t need friends to play FotM with, the LFG tool makes it very easy to just find a group and go. If you insist on playing in an organized group, then join a guild with other players who want to do fractals.

3. You don’t need to use voip by any means, but if you’re expecting an organized group, expect them to require voip. You don’t need a microphone to listen.

Or she could run with people that take it easy… ?

My own group of GW2 friends that I run fractals with has some top-tier pros in it and many casuals (levels 5 – 20) and we a) do absolutely fine in fractals, b) have fun doing it, c) are not in the same guild, d) never even brought up the subject of fractals. Not once. Not by the pros either.

Some people are just more relaxed about the whole thing and play with a social focus rather than a competitive one, which I believe the OP is looking for.

I don’t think anything that you’re saying disagrees with anything I said, but your main paragraph doesn’t make much sense to me either. It made sense until “d”; could you please clarify?

Snoctopus.7084:

I usually stay away from forum posting unless it’s big related, but this has to be said.

The proposed changes to fractal level and infusions are completely unfair, and show a lack of appreciation and understanding for what players have had to deal with in fractals.

Anyone with a personal level of 49 or higher has had to endure some of the buggiest, most poorly tuned content on the game. Be it the invincible immune harpies on uncategorized, the 15 minute clown car on dredge, or the flat out hard grawl shaman, we persevered and advanced, playing over and over, month after month, to farm skins and make our agony sets and raise our personal level to 49.

Our personal level should not be rolled back to 30, and we should not lose agony resistance. These are statistics and achievements that we, as players, have EARNED, in spite of the abysmal rewards provided by fractals.

New content should not come from undoing the achievements of players and making them redo something for no legitimate reason. I have never in my ten years of playing mmorpgs seen something as disgraceful as a “content patch” specifically designed to punish the high skill players such as this.

I think you misunderstood the update notes. No one is losing any agony resistance. Players with infused equipment are gaining the ability to increase that +5 to higher numbers.

Fractal levels 30 and higher are being replaced with more difficult and varied content. I think players with fractal levels should receive some compensation for their levels earned between 30 and 50, but it wouldn’t make sense to give those players credit for completing content that they haven’t even played.

You said both “we persevered and advanced, playing over and over, month after month, to farm skins” and that you played “in spite of the abysmal rewards provided by fractals”? So were you playing for rewards or in spite of them? It can’t be both.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Looks like some awesome stuff here, but each time I’ve tried fractals, I’ve ended up not loving them because:

1. the bonus fractal was a hindrance, I wanted to be done, not given more to do
2. I don’t have enough friends who play the game regularly to make a non-pug team
3. I don’t like the need to use audio chat. (I do well running a northern defense team for tequatl without a microphone)
4. I would much prefer to do one at a time instead of 3, so I can make less time commitment.

(please keep in mind I am on quite often, so it’s not about being a casual player .. eh hem… 11k AP and 3500+hr 9 level 80s 4 legendaries)

I am a PvE lover.

Sure, “fractals may not be for me,” but I am sad that I am missing out on the content.

1 and 4: You can’t just do part of a dungeon, walk away, and expect to get credit. Every dungeon path is split into parts, FotM just randomizes those parts and makes them easier to distinguish. Doing all four only takes about an hour, which is 1/3500 of the time you’ve spent in game so far.

2. You don’t need friends to play FotM with, the LFG tool makes it very easy to just find a group and go. If you insist on playing in an organized group, then join a guild with other players who want to do fractals.

3. You don’t need to use voip by any means, but if you’re expecting an organized group, expect them to require voip. You don’t need a microphone to listen.

Will we be able to upgrade infused items’ inscriptions, or only individual infusions? It doesn’t make much sense to be able to either use it or upgrade it, but not both.

Dcads.5382:

any news if the level cap is going to increase? as i am level 80 and only 50% through the map. whats the point in going on lol

Off topic (this topic is about Fractals of the Mists), but no, that would break everything.

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AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Just keep in mind that AR infusions slots are still limited to Infused Ascended Rings and Back Items. The slot is the real value here, as it has unlimited potential.

So these are different from the existing infusion slots? These new ones only allow AR? Or will I be able to put another WvW infusion in it’s place?

Romo.3709:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You will start with a +5 if you already have one.

Can u define on how high can Agony Resistance really go? And if players with a base 55 agony resistance will loose any agony in the process?

I’m guessing it will be a very high cap, but when you consider that you’ll need (2^(x-1)) 1-AR infusions and ((2^(x-1))-1) thermocatalytic reagent (about 1.50 silver each) for an inscription with x agony resistance (assuming you only use 1-AR infusions), it’ll be a very steep progression.

I’ve won about 75% of my solo queue matches in the past few weeks, all as a thief, and most of them had at least one other thief on my team.

I actually had one match where we had 4 thieves and a warrior against a balanced team with none afk, and they had higher ranks. We won with a score of about 500-120, so we made a guild with just the five of us and entered team arena and won three matches in a row (the first of which was about 500-80) before someone had to leave. This was with no voip and no plan.

There was also a solo queue match where my team was 2 thieves, a warrior, and a mesmer, (and no fifth player) vs a balanced team of five. It was close, but we actually won.

Don’t underestimate good thieves.

I think this is going in to good direction, but I don’t like that people are losing their progress (even though it doesn’t affect me).

I think players with fractal reward levels above 30 should be compensated with something like five 1-AR infusions per level above 30 (up to 100 infusions).

Raion.5280:

Why cant Anet just add these to the freaking wallet!? This would solve SOOO many problems.

Because they’re crafting components and not currency. You can’t craft with currencies, so that would actually break every use for them.

DevonCarver.5370:

Chuck Zitto.2367:

We need more things to use them on or to atleast be able to sell them. Myself and tons and tons of other people have gotten to the point we just destroy them. They take up inventory space.

Without giving any specifics, I’d highly recommend you change that strategy. There are things coming soon that will give you lots to spend it on.

I get a ton of empyreal fragments from WvW. I’m glad we’re starting to see new uses for bloodstone dust, but I hope we see new uses for empyreal fragments too.

The Trahearne fight is one of the easiest. He’s got nothing on the Spider Queen.

I’m glad he has a downed state though. Finishing him was gratifying.

They have made changes to help colorbind players:

• Enemy AoE circles were visually changed to look different from friendly circles (so that being red instead of white wasn’t the only difference).
• WvW and sPvP team colors were changed to be higher contrast for colorblind players (which made them an eyesore for those of us who aren’t colorblind).

An option to make AoE fields more obvious is a good idea, but if they would tone down animations and particle effects like they’ve been saying they would, it would probably make it easier (for everyone, but especially colorblind people) to spot the circles among the distractions.

You could stop farming champions in Queensdale.

On a more serious note, it would be nice if they would salvage into 1-2 Rawhide Leather Sections, with something like a 0.5% chance of also giving a common Unidentified <bag color> Dye.

I understand the reasoning between rotating which minigames are available, but I feel like Keg Brawl is bugged. It only seems to be the daily minigame once per week, while the other three each appear twice per week.

Also, why did the Norn of Hoelbrak decide to stop playing their favorite game for 6 days a week just because a Human was elected to the Captains Council of Lion’s Arch? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

This thread again?

Anything beyond cosmetics gets a overwhelming NO from me.

I’m starting to think Anet has completely forgotten about traps.

Still not fixed…

Shonie.5297:

lazorexplosion.9602:

If you honestly cannot notice a stat difference equivalent to several slots of ascended trinkets or think that is ‘slight’ I don’t know what to say. You might be completely oblivious.

WvW is a large-scale team objective based game.
I honestly could care less about your 1v1’ing or how balanced it is.

Soloing objectives while coordinating with larger groups is an important part of fighting on lower population servers.

Alavance.9130:

So before i realized they were bringing out ascended armor, i thought i was ready to use my Sentinel Insignias to make my exotic armor. Turns out a few weeks later, i find out ascended armor is coming out. Now that this new armor might have higher stats, the entire grind i did for my Insignias seems like a waste. Exactly how does ArenaNet expect us to feel about this. Players that saved their Sentinel sets simply to craft the highest armor rank, only to find that all the work they did went down the quaggan toilet.

Use them to level to 500 and equip them until you’re able to make ascended armor to replace it (I assume crafting 6 pieces of ascended armor is going to take a while).

None of the enemies in the tower will 1-shot you, although the spider queen does hurt a lot. Everything except the group events are solo-able, so if you get to a group event that’s blocking the way, just wait until more people show up. Once you learn to avoid the mines the tower is actually fairly easy.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Good catch. We should do something about that so it’s less annoying. Or make it so the extra temporary uses are worth something.

I suggest making them salvageable.

Neither type of guild back banner is available from from glory vendors anymore. I don’t remember reading that they were removed in any of the patch notes, but I think the removal coincided with the addition of Toxic Seed Boxes.

It’s really random.

What they’re trying to say is true, but I think it came out wrong.

What they mean is that you can progress all 8 crafting disciplines on one character, but you can only have 2 active at a time. It costs money to switch back to one that you already have progress in based on your crafting level, but its not very expensive.

Only 3 of the 8 can get to 500, so “you can actually move all 8 of the learning abilities to 500” isn’t true yet, but it should be once the other 5 can.

This year’s Halloween felt anticlimactic. It wasn’t really bad, I just expected a battle between the Mad King and Bloody Prince, or new scavenger hunts, or something. I did enjoy fighting the Bloody Prince, but was literally only one minute out of a four week event.

I turn all of mine into PvP skins, since those are multi-use. I don’t see them as often, but at least it gives me three copies and I don’t have to commit.

I agree that gem store skins and achievement skins (like the Gas Mask or Slickpack) should be unlimited like Hall of Monuments or Achievement Rewards skins.

Dawnstrider.3570:

They said solo or group in patch notes. But it cannot be soloed at least u need 2or3 ppl with u to run through the maze. those tree plants are death trap, they do aoe dmg. mobs spawn kind of quick.

That was referring to the end instance, they clearly stated that the first three floors are intended to require teamwork.

I think it would make the most sense to just give 600 gems to each unlimited tool beyond the first of each type. The players with unlimited tools have already been using them for a while so it’s not like they didn’t get anything from buying them. Also the new account-bound versions are 1000 gems each, so refunding 600 of the original 800 paid for each would mean that they are getting 1000 gem items for 200g each (that are really just better versions of the ones they already decided were worth 800g each). Letting them keep the tools would be much more convenient than passing them through the bank every time they switch characters.

It’s always interesting to read a post that I agree with and then realize that it’s one of my friends who wrote it.

As for Bobby’s concern about your use of caps, I suggest bold instead.

By the way, the toxin in those rooms is bugged. I encountered two of the rooms with the air purifiers while playing with two friends, and both times the toxin was only able to affect our necro, even when we were nowhere near a purifier.

Or maybe make them available for Pristine Fractal Relics.

I like it, especially if it changes attack flame colors to match.

Capturing ruins in the WvW doesn’t reward anything because it could be easily abused, which is fine, but the players who do this for the good of the server get no reward.

My suggestion: Add an event reward (with WXP) for capturing Borderlands Bloodlust (not an individual ruin) from an enemy team.

Heroes were great for GW1 because everything was everything was instanced, content didn’t scale, and the mechanics were simple. They just wouldn’t work in GW2.

I’ve gotten 20 drops and a thimble in the last two weeks. I saw someone get a keg (worth 25k wxp) too. It’s definitely not nerfed, but I hope your luck improves.

Currently players earn an armor skin every 3k points, up to 18k (since there are only 6 total). That means 21k is going to be the first point where there aren’t available armor skins where there would be if the trend continues.

As of now, the highest AP is 17413 by Dyne Tianjin.8605 of Blackgate. At the current rate that the top players are earning AP, Anet has about 2.5 months before something needs to be implemented.

Meglobob.8620:

Just like to make a point about loot.

In the recent feedback threads on the general discussion forum, WvW and PvP forums, about 80-90% of players listed LACK OF REWARDS, as a MAJOR problem with GW2.

Anets response? NERF rewards even more…

They ask for feedback and then ignore it all.

Its no wonder the forums get toxic…those feedback threads are just PR, looks like they have no intention of listening.

Those people are specifically talking about sPvP and WvW, which does not pertain at all to the “champ train”. Most of those people were actually saying that it isn’t fair that PvE farmers get such better rewards than WvW/sPvP players, so this change actually appeals to them.

Charak.9761:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

GW2 isn’t supposed to be about grinding or farming, so this change is a positive step to help move away from that.

You must be new, you find out why its Grind Wars 2 after a bit longer.

I have over 12,700 AP. Go ahead, enlighten me.

In response to you and the others saying pretty much the same thing, I said that it isn’t supposed to be about grinding. I’m not saying that there isn’t a ton of grinding in the game currently, but that this is a step away from that, which is the right direction.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

You can also go in through Timberline Falls (A <L60 zone). The run to the story start does skirt by some L68 mobs (don’t try to take the shortcut through the troll cave!) but it’s quite doable at L66.

You’re referring to the “Talk to Warmaster Grunn near Gallant’s Folly” part of the quest, while the OP is referring to the “Talk to Ignavus Ridgerunner” part, which happens in the northwest section of Fireheart Rise.

@OP You can get to Fireheart Rise by going from Wayfarer Foothills to Frostgorge Sound to Fireheart Rise (as you currently are) or by going from Plains of Ashford to Iron Marches to Fireheart Rise. Taking this second route should avoid any enemies over level 70.

Aza.2105:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Please don’t ruin the synergy between Shattered Aegis and Fiery Wrath!

I personally never heard of anyone who uses shattered aegis.

Shattered Aegis’s effect triggers on any aegis that you applied, even if it’s not on you, so it works really well with Virtue of Courage and “Retreat!”. I use this combination to great effect in WvW.

Please don’t ruin the synergy between Shattered Aegis and Fiery Wrath!