Guild Wars 2

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Beorn Raukar.4328:

It should most definitly not be at 12k. There is a clear progression about the Radiant/Hellfire skins. They unlock every 3k AP, first the Helm, Gloves and Shoulders of both (3k, 6k, 9k, 12k, 15k and 18k) and then you will unlock under the same mechanics the Boots, Chest and Pants (21k, 24k, 27k, 30k, 33k, 36k). I’d like to point out I am nowhere close to the 21k mark, but I am happy with the skins progression of the AP.

But that’s not how it works at all. it currently goes

3k- helm
6k- gloves
9k- shoulders
21k- boots

It doesn’t make any sense at all. Basically they decided 21k for the sole reason that the top leaderboards are nearing 21k. It doesn’t follow any logical progression. It should be:

3k- helm
6k- gloves
9k- shoulders
12k- boots
15k- pants
18k-chest

The progression makes sense:

3 – Gloves 1
6 – Shoulders 1
9 – Helm 1
12 – Gloves 2
15 – Shoulders 2
18 – Helm 2
21 – Boots 1

And presumably:

24 – Legs 1
27 – Chest 1
30 – Boots 2
33 – Legs 2
36 – Chest 2

They should do GSHBLC GSHBLC, but with all of the options obtainable by 18k AP, there would be no further prestige associated with the skins obtained above 18k. This problem already exists in Zenith weapons. When a player is rewarded with a Zenith weapon for reaching 23k AP, it bears no more prestige than the same weapon obtained by something with 1k AP.

bhagwad.4281:

I got an engi down while at tranq and was getting ready to stomp. I was low on health, and had saved my last invulnerability to avoid his CC. It was a good fight and though I saw another guy heading to save I calculated he wouldn’t be in time. Until he arrives and puts down shadow refuge.

Poof! He ressed, they killed me, got tranq, and we lost the game.

Thieves are so fond of telling us that stealth =/= not there. Wrong! It’s a huge flag/stake through the heart. Being invisible shouldn’t mean that the target becomes invulnerable. At best, stomp is a channeled skill and we all know those track through stealth. The attack lands. The stomp should be complete.

I can’t believe this discrepancy still exists. Everyone says that if your opponent is stealthed, your attacks will continue to connect. Stomps should connect as well. It’s ridiculous that you can cheat someone of a killing blow right in the same place just because a thief stealths them for whatever reason.

Sounds like good teamwork, I don’t see a problem.

I had this problem about a year ago. One of the enemies was stuck inside the ceiling.

I’m hoping that they add similar properties to the existing and future infinite harvesting tools.

Yamagawa.5941:

Ultimately…
Should dodging be relative to the characters facing, or to camera facing?
//Portable Corpse

Character, although that isn’t the problem. The bug is that sometimes the dodge is relative to the direction from the player to some given enemy.

By the way, this is still happening. Two days ago I was running across the narrow bridge in CoF path 1, while holding W to run forward. An enemy attacked me from my left, so I hit V (while still holding W) and my character dodged to the right. Right off the bridge.

maddoctor.2738:

Hey rangers aren’t bad. They bring Frost Spirit to a group!

Everyone wants a ranger in their party, with no refrigerators in Kryta, Krytans rely on frost spirits to keep their dwarven ale cold!

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

This isn’t Mortal Kombat, although “Finish Him!” seems appropriate.

Braham isn’t actually a guardian, he’s secretly a Sandwichmancer, but doesn’t want to be teased for using Hamstorm.

The dragons consume magic. By defeating the elder dragons, the world’s magic will be able to flow unimpeded. Then, if Scarlet were able to unite the five bloodstones, she would gain control of all magic in the world, and become more powerful than the gods.

But there’s a catch. She would need the blood from a member of the royal lineage of King Doric in order to harness the power of the bloodstones. Only one human with Doric’s blood remains alive: Queen Jennah.

I think I just figured out why Scarlet wants to kidnap Jennah.

BrunoBRS.5178:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

MatthewMedina.5419:

Of course there is a limit: Learning whether or not Braham likes ham, for example (say that five times fast) is probably better left on the cutting room floor, but exploring whether Braham likes Rox, or Taimi, or Logan (does anyone else want to see a guardian duel between these two?), well we believe that there’s real emotion there.

Isn’t Logan a warrior? Also, Braham could beat the snot out of Logan without breaking a sweat.

no, logan’s a guardian. he loves his bubbles.

Haha, I checked the wiki right before you replied, and edited my post. I’ve been thinking he’s a warrior for two years. This is going to take time to adjust.

MatthewMedina.5419:

Of course there is a limit: Learning whether or not Braham likes ham, for example (say that five times fast) is probably better left on the cutting room floor, but exploring whether Braham likes Rox, or Taimi, or Logan (does anyone else want to see a guardian duel between these two?), well we believe that there’s real emotion there.

Braham could beat the snot out of Logan without breaking a sweat.

Hey Noob, I help run a friendly guild on Sorrow’s Furnace.

We primarily do PvE (living story, dungeons, exploration, etc) but we often arrange ad hoc WvW and PvP teams. We have 10-20 members online and representingat any given time on most evenings. We also do guild missions with our ally guild every saturday night (9pm EST).

We’ve been around for more than six years now, originating in the first Guild Wars. We do not require 100% representation, although representing is encouraged. Our members are promoted based on activeness, participation, representation, and helpfulness.

If you’re interested, please send me a message either in game or here on the forums.

Ferik.3127:

WHYYYYYyyyy are you able to churn out amazing new finishers like this and charge us money on a monthly basis while not being able to make small balance hotfixs more often than a quarter-year?

There’s no subscription fee, what are you talking about?

It’s also definitely not the PvP balance team creating the finishers, that would make no sense at all.

All three necromancer elites are great, Lich Form doesn’t need a nerf.

I would love to see Power/Toughness/Healing in PvE and PvP.

I played solo queue up until they buffed the rewards for team queue to be more than double the solo queue rewards, so now I play team queue.

Everything you said applies to team queue too.

Recipes where the insignia comes from salvaging rather than crafting require additional globs of ectoplasm in that fourth slot.

Everyone who comments something like “2 spam more noob” when I kill them as a D/D thief, especially in the fights where I don’t use heartseeker.

I’ve been playing since beta and I’ve never even had a pug ask me to ping gear, let alone kick me for it.

How many gems do I need to buy to get Izzy to come to my door singing Wintersday carols?

Ignoring the rewards, the infiniarium feels pointless because there’s no story or purpose this year, we’re just reliving something from last year.

Since the Skyhammer exploit farmers somehow didn’t get banned, rank means next to nothing these days. I don’t need extra meaningless symbols cluttering my UI.

This happened to me as a guardian in WvW and a thief in tPvP in the past two days.

Yes, you’ll get a “Grandmaster Crafter” title once you reach 500 in all eight.

Aeonblade.8709:

I feel like this is completely the wrong direction. All the stats should be unlockable via something in the game mode you play in, not forcing you to do supposedly optional stuff like crafting.

I’m glad you like the idea, but what you said would actually turn me AWAY from that kind of system.

So you would prefer different accomplishments to unlock each combination within each play style? How far would you take that? Just WvW vs PvE? Then you still have the problem of WvW roamers vs WvW zergers vs WvW defenders. In PvE there’s a whole myriad of play styles: dungeon runners, harvester/crafters, farmers, fractal runners, explorers, role-players, achievement hunters, living story focused players, etc, and they will all inevitably complain if they’re forced outside their usual play area. If you try giving all play styles a way to unlock everything by only doing one thing, you’ll end up giving them nothing but a grind.

VOLKON.1290:

This would, however, really have a negative effect on the “play your way” concept. For example, the dedicated WvW players tend to use PVT gear. However this model required Fractals level 50 to unlock toughness… and many WvW players rarely if ever step foot in Fractals. Forcing unrelated content to get stats desirable for completely unrelated areas will go over like the proverbial lead balloon.

I think you misunderstood something. I listed a number of options equal to the number of ascended stat combinations. For example, achieving any of the 3 options in the “Power” section would let players pick between unlocking Berserker, Soldier, or Valkyrie stats. Also, each weapon/armor would always be able to switch back to its original stat combo, even if it is not one that the player has unlocked.

PVT armor would be under the Power section, where one of the options is to achieve WvW rank 100 (which should be easy for any primarily WvW player, especially after ranks become account-bound). Choosing one of the Toughness options would by no means force players to get to rank 50 fractal rewards. Most WvW players would likely attain a Toughness combination via the 5000 AP option.

Also note that this is only an example. In this example, getting a main Vitality stat combo would be a pain for WvW players, so it’s obviously not perfect.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Aeonblade.8709:

Lheimroo.2947:

Moshari.8570:

Give the ascended gear either “limited” stat swapping or full stat swapping like legendaries…or a way (a quest for instance) that would allow you to Add a stat for stat swapping.

If there were epic quests in place where you could unlock stat combinations for your gear that’d be.. awesome. That would be unbelievably awesome.

No more grind; make it about challenges.

I agree, would love to hear from Chris on this idea specifically, epic quest chains to unlock swappable item stats and new item stat combos.

This is a cool idea. Lots of logic problems to think about in regard to it. Need more time to think (-:

Chris

I like this idea. This would work best if each combo was account-bound. Each eligible item (possibly an upgraded ascended, similar to infused) would be able to switch to its original stat combo or any of the unlocked combos.

You could group stats combinations by primary attribute and allow players to unlock one in a specific group upon completing certain achievements. This way players could unlock the combo they want without having to play outside their norm, but to unlock all of them players would have to play all PvE/WvW aspects of the game. For example:

Power:

• Reach WvW rank 100
• Achieve “Dungeon Master”
• Complete 4 “Slayer” achievements

Precision:

• Complete 40 unique jumping puzzles
• Complete 3 “Weapon Master” achievements

Condition Damage:

• Achieve “The Sunbringer”
• Kill 2500 enemy players in WvW
• Complete one tier of the “Regular” achievement for four unique activities

Toughness:

• Reach fractal reward level 50
• Reach 5000 total achievement points
• Achieve “Been There, Done That”

Vitality:

• Complete “Victory or Death”
• Achieve “Master Crafter”

Healing Power:

• Earn 1000 achievement points from living story achievements
• Defend 500 objectives in WvW
• Complete the “Dive Master” achievement

Celestial:

• Unlock one stat combo from each of the other six groups.

I submitted my guild’s roster over a week ago and haven’t heard back yet (yes, I’ve been checking my spam folder). Our ally guild submitted their roster the day after we submitted ours, and they received responses and began playing 3 or 4 days ago. What should I do?

Edit: I just got a seemingly automated reply saying that my roster has been received.

zerotwo.4731:

If your fast enough you can complete the JP 20 times before the timer runs out. I found the clock tower much more difficult. TBH, this puzzle ends after the gift boxes that explode. From there its a cake walk.

The exploding gift boxes are the easiest part, you can just run up the middle.

Dahkeus.8243:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Most of the solo queue players seem to be entering team queue alone now because it’s much more profitable. Discrimination against solo queue is starting to make it obsolete.

I doubt this will keep up when people start to realize that they have a much lower chance of winning against a team of coordinated players. I mean, there are tremendous advantages to picking the class/builds of your team composition, being able to communicate over TS/Mumble/Vent, as well as playing with people that you have played with before.

Out of about 10 matches, I only encountered 3 enemy guild teams, and my random teams beat two of them. Winning 25% in team queue rewards better than winning 50% in solo queue, so it’s still worthwhile even if you fight organized teams half the time.

I chose my guardian because I specced my warrior for high damage. Defense and support good to have as a commander. You should really go with whichever you enjoy playing more though.

Regular catapults shoot gifts.

Use blind fields and don’t hit them when they’re in Defiant Stance.

Hammer time? Can’t touch this!

Krayiss.4926:

Alot of us dont have 8 char slots so we delete a char when we want to play another class.

The problem could be alleviated by making skill unlocks account-wide. This change would also help PvE/WvW players with a lot of alts (like those of us who don’t want to pay 200 skill points to get Antitoxin Spray on all eight classes).

In addition to what other people are saying, check to make sure your computer’s power supply has a high enough wattage to handle all of your computer’s components. If you built the computer yourself or if you overclocked your CPU or GPU you could be trying to pull too much power when you run something intensive (like GW2) and overloading your power supply.

Kincaidia.3192:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Ok I Did It.2854:

We know Anet prefer heavy classes to light, ……

You really typed that….and believe it?

shakes head and wanders off into the morass of these forums

He’s talking about the warrior love.

Which is as true as the pope is catholic.

Posted the day after warriors were nerfed and every other class was buffed.

Most of the solo queue players seem to be entering team queue alone now because it’s much more profitable. Discrimination against solo queue is starting to make it obsolete.

Should I submit a support ticket?

They are dropping, they’re just very rare.

Witham.5621:

I must be lucky because i got 1 in the first 100 gifts i opened.

What size? Giant?

Ya, the “any quantity” part is a bit misleading.

HappyDale.5398:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Time gating favors casual players who don’t have have a lot of time to play every day. Without it, the materials required would be too expensive for casual players to buy.

I don’t want to get into a debate on definitions of hardcore / casual…. But from a market stand point, MORE competition would cause prices to fall, therefore benefiting more people with less money. Then all consumers would benefit.

More competition would cause the prices of the time gated mats to fall, but cause the price of the materials required to make them to rise. Currently the materials required to make deldrimor steel, spiritwood, damask, and elonian leather are much cheaper than the resultant materials. This price difference is because of the time gate, and it is the reason casual players can afford ascended crafting at all. If the time gates were removed, demand would quickly overtake supply on materials such as cotton scraps, cotton prices would skyrocket, and casual players wouldn’t be able to afford crafting damask.

HappyDale.5398:

Also if player A plays 7 days, and player B plays 3 days with the current time gate, player B is 4 days behind, thus creating a larger gap between “casuals” and “hardcore” If anything time gating hurts the casual player more.

Hardcore players will typically play for hours/day while casual players play for minutes/day. If a hardcore player plays for 6 hours/day and a casual player plays for 20 minutes per day, the time gate allows that casual player to keep up.

HappyDale.5398:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

There is absolutely nothing even remotely time gated about the obsidian refinement materials.

Dragonite:

Temple x 6, Karka Queen = 180
Mid bosses ie: dragons = 75-125
low bosses ie: wurm, maw = 24-40

not counting guild quest, and wvw…so a minimum of 279 dragonite ore / day. BUT requiring a large time commitment spread out through the day. The same can be said for empyreal.

That is why i labeled it as time gated

Dragonite:
And Scarlet invasions in addition to those. Also, those rewards are daily character-bound, so you can get all that times the number of characters. Plus you get dragonite from killing keep lords in WvW.

Empyreal Fragments:
You can get these from each jumping puzzle once per day per character, and from every WvW tower lord and supply camp supervisor limitlessly.

All 3:
This is all not to mention that they now also drop from Wintersday gifts (which are really common), and are rewarded for certain living story achievements.

I think they actually made it a little too easy this year.

And that’s coming from someone who plays a max size male charr on a four year old laptop.

Aircool.9527:

Ok, I know it’s not supposed to be easy. However, I’m having three problems that are a long way from fun and beyond frustration, so some help and sympathy would be appreciated.

1. Huge hairy tigers and chunky Norn’s – My toons aren’t large, and I can’t see when the big chaps are jumping around at the same time. Wouldn’t be a problem if there was no timer and melting snowflakes. However, it’s much worse…

2. At the stairs of exploding presents. Even if I wait a looong time until there’s no one else around, as jumping with other people is extreeemely difficult and totally random, I can’t seem to press the jump button fast enough, my old, war wounded hands just can’t take it :’(

3. And what do old people suffer from the most? WIND! Yep, it doesn’t help that I’m freezing to death (and we’re not just talking about the price of electricity in the UK here), with my health running low, but random gusts of wind keep blowing me out of safe spots.

The exploding presents and random winds are just too random, and way too frustrating. I really like jumping puzzles; as a test of skill, but the random nature of the latter part of this puzzle is provoking my PTSD….

RAAAAAAAGGGEEEEE!!!

Thankyou

This JP is actually much, much easier than it was last year. Anyway I hope these help:

1. You get to pick when and where you start. There are three different starting points, so if there are too many players on one of them, pick a different one. Playing at any time other than peak hours should also help.
2. Just go up the middle. You have to jump either right or left at the second to last one, but you should easily make it up the middle before any of the ones you need explode. It’s not random.
3. The wind gusts only blow on the candy cane bridge after the checkpoint. You can dodge through them, but if they’re hitting you while you wait for a snowball to pass, try standing closer to the snowball path.

And also:

• If you’re having trouble, have Tixx set the checkpoint for you.
• Don’t get caught in the red circles on the snowball path. These are snowballs thrown by skritt that will chill you. It’s still possible to complete the puzzle after being chilled, but barely.

Oghier.7419:

Yoji.1420:

… you have become NPC filler text in his single player GW2 forums experience!.

So… find any bargains today?

Today and every day. You just have to know where to look… and how to ask.

I think it’s nice that they added charged quartz to the Wintersday gifts to balance out the market and help players who missed the Bazaar of the Four Winds living story.

The problem is that the drop rate is so high that it greatly depreciates the hard work put in by players who have been making charged quartz crystals every day in preparation for ascended crafting.

HappyDale.5398:

1. You made a game for all types of people, hardcore and casual. Not everyone can log in every day. This pushes getting a full set, further and further down the line. There is no progression other than waiting for time to pass.

Time gating favors casual players who don’t have have a lot of time to play every day. Without it, the materials required would be too expensive for casual players to buy.

HappyDale.5398:

4 You already have another time gate (at least potential) in place. With empyreal and dragonite being limited in the amount that you could get by time, and events, there is no need to place another one on ecto refiment.

There is absolutely nothing even remotely time gated about the obsidian refinement materials.

vonhellsing.2819:

http://imageshack.com/a/img34/4258/m7b0.jpg

#saynotogrindwars

i find this jpg on internet and i support this idea!

Then you should be in favor of time gating. Without it, the prices on the materials that go into ectoplasm refinement would skyrocket and most players would be forced to grind for them rather than just buy them from the trading post.

I’m really hoping to hear from Anet on this one.

Ed Guardian.4825:

So what do people think about the Ascended Armor crafting and Gossamer’s current tank of about 40-50% from yesterday’s pre-patch value? Did you see it coming? How much Gossamer do you think was stockpiled in the economy?

Yes, I saw it coming, which is why I kept warning my guildies not to buy it after ascended armor crafting was announced last week (and why I bought myself a stack the night before that). Everyone thinks they can stock up on materials when it’s announced and sell them when it’s released, so they end up with more demand before release and more supply (that was previously hidden) after release.

Mystic.5934:

three mini 3-pack for 800 gems = 2400 gems
gift 1 mini 3-pack for 800 gems + three mini 3-pack for 480 = 2240 gems
both result in the same number of minis for you, plus you get to give more to your friends.

What? Their base price is 500 gems and I only had 800 gems to start. And I’m not buying four of them.

It sounds like it’s affecting more than just the OP, which means someone probably accidentally removed the texture. Hopefully Anet will add it back in a hotfix.