Guild Wars 2

Pandemoniac,
I too have had little to no time in the past year to keep up with the LS achievements and all in game stuff. A recommendation though, if you are interested in the lore behind the LS and game as a whole is to listen to a youtube video series or podcast. I follow WoodenPotatoes on youtube and he gives great 20-30 min videos as well as hour long podcasts with Matt Visual, 1-2 times a week about the most recent content and updates. For all the early scarlet stuff, I wouldn’t play in game but when I drive or workout I would just put the video/podcast on and still have a chance to know how the game is progressing and it is satisfying.
Don’t let these people tell you MMO’s aren’t for you

In map chat, "I said LFM Tixx’s Infin, about 2 minutes later I said LF2M Tixx’s Infin, then when I went to say LF1M about a minute later, I couldn’t because of excessive messaging. I also couldn’t change my party description. This went on for around 15 minutes, where I couldn’t advertise because of excessive messaging ( nothing was sent out during these fifteen minutes).

I was in no way harassing anyone, or spamming. I’ve seen gold sellers get out more messages than I sent. Please fix the way this suppression is enforced

Yeah for arguing sake, im really getting tired of this kitten

Yeah for arguing sake, im really getting tire of this kitten

JQ is clearing Balth again right now, come for the kill

Jade Quarry is doing path 1 and 2, large groups… come join us or just check back shortly!

Emissary Vex.5690:

Ug that stuff has been wasting tons of space in my bank. I hope they developers answer so I can just finally delete it. They are the effing worst at organizing these event rewards.

Yes please, ANET answer please so I can delete the stuff taking up space in my bag or even better, use my existing frames to craft more miniatures. I have a large section of bank space dedicated to “items ANET has left in the void” where we were not told if they were needed still or not, for instance the jubilee portal keys or whatever. Gotta do something ANET

First off, poorly titled post. Gives readers almost no detail about what the post is actually about. Please retitle.
Second, pretty exaggerated to say you don’t have a large group of friends and that you blame Anet for requiring you have one. Its release day, groups are forming by the second. If its anything like last years you can run with 3-5 comfortably. And utilize the LFG tool if you are in a remote server, just post you are LFG in the living story section and someone will see it and join you. Its not the end of the world

I miss personal story a lot

I’ve started leveling alt characters and doing the story mode dungeon at each of the respective levels and I must say, I really appreciate the content and story in the dungeons much more than the living story that is put out now.
I’m still against the two person dialogue cut scenes and think they’re kind of lazy and don’t paint the picture well but I think the overall story of why we are completing these instances is much better. I love the Sorrows Embrace cinematic right before the end. Give us more of that plus story that talks about destiny’s edge and our characters getting involved with them. For anyone who hasn’t done SE, I recommend doing so because its a really good lore cinematic.
There is no personal feeling or connection with anything going on in Living Story and it really bores me. This is largely due to how it is presented and the black box style of universe that guild wars 2 exists in. I want to hear other people’s input

does Arena net have any comment or are they just going to leave it in the air. Really annoying

Shouldn’t be a problem in PVE, u can block ppl. In Wvw you do not have that option

When do we have until to complete the Season 1 achieve? Please site source, I’ve heard many people say Friday and many say on the 10th. Thanks

I do have a problem with this, only because I didn’t get a chance to earn the Halloween stuff that I missed out

Anet is going to make her the grinch

Of course they update the gem store before releasing the notes

Scarlet is disrupting the announcement, oh dear

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

The main issue is that season 1 achievements were listed under the Living World tab. These achievements really weren’t designed for players like the OP. They should have just been listed under the WvW tab. As WvW players, the old achievements are nearly impossible to get (certain ones would take almost 20 years to complete) so these new ones are for WvW players to obtain. They’re not for PvE players, or sPvP players, they are WvW.

I personally don’t think you should expect rewards and achievement points for a game mode you don’t play seriously. I am wolf rank in sPvP and I only play it once in a while, I don’t think I’m entitled to those achievement points….

That would be fine in a game such as WoW, i.e. the best raiders have the top raid gear and the best pvp’ers have the gladiator mounts. This is GW2, where everyone should be capable of achieving everything. If ANET wants to make an achievement section solely for the hardcore WVW community, then they will need to make achievements for the hardcore PVE and SPVP community.

& When I play WvW I play it very seriously, that’s why I contribute myself to the zerg or havoc group that needs me and not trying to spike the guard/yak/lord that will give me achievement points.

For killing guards, right now, I would need to sit in a borderland and just farm guards outside an enemy tower. Granted a zerg doesn’t come by and pick me off, That’s still kitten ton of guards I need to kill because my build doesn’t allow me to get more than 1 hit on a guard before they drop when I run with a zerg.

As for yak’s, I rarely get to a yak before the zerg gets to it if I’m running with them. Therefore, its more beneficial for me to kill yak’s on my own and for many people they too prefer to yak hunt in groups or on their own. The number of people farming yak’s greatly exceeds the number of yak’s unless you are playing at the dead of night which won’t exist if you play on a server with oceanic as well.

Granted we had 10 or so weeks to complete the living world achievement, it has been so difficult for me as a casual WvW player to get these achievements done. I am a very well rounded player, as I play spvp, run dungeons/fractals and do open world pve. I try to play 2-3 hours a day (some with more, others with none).

My first obstacle is the que, some nights I wait up to an hour to get onto a map, and by then I don’t have time to get much done, some nights nothing.

Second obstacle, state of the match. I play for JQ and except for the 3 weeks we faced BG WvW has been pretty dull, we’d cap almost everything in the first night. The rest of the weeks there is little resistance and the map I’d be on would either be full of enemeies and no JQ or we’d own as much as we can. As for other matches, I’m sure there are times when no one on your server is pushing on your map and you can’t even make an effort to make progress on the achievements.

Third obstacle, going for achievements by actually WvWing. WvW is a lot of busy work, most of the time is spent fighting off zergs in the field, attempting to take a tower or preparing an offense/defense. An entire night can be spent in WvW where nothing but camps gets flipped and its a war between zergs; 5 hours spent in WvW & barely any achievement progress

A question is, are they extending the duration for completing the achievement to go on past the first season? I like the difficulty of the achievements, and I wouldn’t ask to reduce the number but I honestly can’t complete some of these with the way WvW is set up and I think there are others out there.

Thank you for reading

I’ve been looking around the forums today, and I constantly see people kitten ed off with the Scarlet surprise. Earlier patch releases there were people somewhat supporting her trying to give her a chance, but this patch I just see anger everywhere.

Yes Scarlet ruined another patch, but at least we found out that the reactor had something to do with Dragons. This seemed to be completely overlooked because people stopped paying attention after Scarlet showed her face.

I’m annoyed too, but I want to hear if there is anyone who is thinking “Gee, I really like this villain” and is supporting Anet along this path of (at this point) disappointment.

This allows Anet to say that their content isn’t too easy…they’ll fix in a week or two. Super disappointed in the quality of everything this patch

Good thing Kiel won or we would’ve encountered Scarlett while facing Abaddon

Give me back my +5 infusion. I have no idea what improvements were made, but when I was given a +1 infusion from the kitten story, I added it to an empty offensive slot, like I would have before this patch…and the game asked me if I would like to add this infusion. And I said yes, and it replaced the +5 infusion on there.

1) It didn’t ask me if I wanted to replace the existing infusion on there and,
2) Before the patch I would be able to add general infusions to offensive/defensive slots

so wtf…give me back my +5 because I don’t have time to work for another

If people want to “opt out”, fine. As for me, I’d rather achievement for lvls 30, 40 and 50…something I can show off. Who looks at the leaderboard online and remembers that person in game, I don’t really. I want to show my character off there and then!

lvl 40+ drops the tonic. As for the other ten levels you worked for, I don’t know what to say, they have to think reasonable when it asking themselves how many people will be achieving this. I do think something at 50 would be nice, like a tittle or something to note one of the most difficult achievements in the game

The harpy invulnerability needs to be fixed, takes a fractal that could be enjoyable and unique ( I enjoy the jumping puzzles and encounters), and makes it annoying and stressful, trying to kill mobs or otherwise sneak pass them. Unless that’s is what Anet wanted us to do? I doubt it. Has this been looked at or does the community who run fractals just have to deal with it

Edit: After running it today, I noticed the 2nd puzzle of harpies isn’t as bad as the first part in terms of invulnerability, granted we had 2 guardians and a warrior

I had fun, but I see Tumult’s point. I think that SAB Tribulation mode, queens gauntlet, and high level fractals are good examples of difficult content. Then again, high level fractals needs better rewards and the other two aren’t in game anymore

I was hoping to go in and have a fun time, and I did. Ran it solo when I got home and did it in a small group shortly after. I don’t even remember what I got from the chest but at least 1 rare each time. Seeing as you had a difficult time going through I can understand if you didn’t have fun, but if you think of the game as “What is the reward in the end”, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Yeah, its too difficult to get a group of people together for that. Especially when you need a group fit for taking down the Horror or you have to deal with the stress of avoiding it over and over.

If you want the specific achievements, ANET made it such that you’re SOL without 10 or so PUGS . So unless there can be some uniform effort to get people together you are better off just doing dailies and Lunatic game (both dull options).

There are PLENTY of people who still need the door closes and boss kills, but the zone is designed such that its so hard to get people to rally. Players who have the content done but may want to help out can’t just port there to see if groups are forming, no. They have to run around Kryta for ~5 minutes, get in, then check if something is happening. Now doing this once is no sweat. But lets say no one is there the first time and u start checking back every 15 minutes, well now its just boring and tedious. Some balancing NEEDS to go in if they are going to have 2 living stories taking place at the same time and they do this such that people have more time to get the achievements.

Good luck though, I understand your struggle

Reason for logging off tonight, got two 4v5’s in a row. I have to work for rank and then I lose it in a fraction of the time. You can keep people in game Anet by making sure their time isn’t wasted in unfair matches

Nothing in this thread, even the OP, has anything to do with the title… I was expecting to see an argument against leagues but I see talk about class balance. pretty confused

I know its been brought up before but I couldn’t find an older or related post. I just got out of the tournament that had a level 2. And yes I know spvp rank means next to nothing but come on this person didn’t talk and had zero points by the end of the match. They had no idea what they were doing and it was just a burden on the rest of the team

I agree, do something about it ANET

Nvm, fixed it..was the drivers.. if anyone else has this problem here is the link to update yours! up vote if you find this helpful :]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn344644.aspx

Idk what to do to fix this…. (goes to upload picture). Alright even worse, the screenshot I took of it looks regular. ANYWAYS, when I upgraded to Windows 8.1 my GW2 does this thing where the screen looks like it should be viewed with 3D glasses…there are three images; an off-colored main one and a red and a blue one nearby. I assume its drivers but shouldn’t windows download it for me? I’ll look into drivers but any details could help or if its a game setting please update me

1) Save talent / skill setups
2) balanced tourneys
3) Lessen the need for environment focused builds (skyhammer)

Could someone explain stealth a little better to me. I would go in stealth, and still be hit by single target auto attacks(i.e. Ranger ShortBow). I wouldn’t be directly in front of them, but off centered and their toon would still do that auto adjust to hit my char as if I had been visible and targeted. I feel like damage in stealth should only come from AOE and existing conditions and to my understanding that’s what is was

Yeah they’re system makes it very difficult to progress or know what to expect with players you go against

This map is an extreme version of “awareness” to the point that it sucks and is no fun what so ever. Cut it out of solo que until its fixed

Not advertising this so that people can exploit it but so that devs can look into what the problem is and community can see if this is something that can be recreated . At this exact location on the minimap I clicked Mesmer Staff skill 2 and fell through the map and into water. Wasn’t recording at the time so I just took a screen shot

Cheers

They have it in gw1, it would really help in every respect.

Spvp: allows players to adapt to whatever comp they have and what comp the other team has. Usually whatever build you and your team go in with is what you run. So when ANET’s kittenty solo que puts 4 thieves together who are all running glass builds you aren’t SOL against anything with a legitimate bunker. Same thing goes for maps…. I need an entirely different build for Skyhammer and Spirit Watch and its just irritating to have to redo all the traits

WvW and PVE: The two are put together because whatever I’m currently running dungeons with, I’m also running WvW with and vice versa. It will usually be in favor of a solo pvp build because my build is more important to me when I’m fighting someone 1 on 1 than when I’m running a dungeon or in a zerg. Doesn’t mean I don’t want to contribute more to dungeons and wvw groups, I just don’t feel like retraiting every time I decide to do something else in the game.

I don’t care how you offer it to us, just put it in the game so that I can switch traits on a whim (not within an actually tournament). Give us a single saved build on each char and charge us on the gem store for additional ones, I don’t care and I’m sure many others don’t either

I hate this map and dread every time I get it in Tpvp. Want to hear how other people feel about it

I agree, id buy em

I enjoyed the dungeon as well, love the story and cinematics. Took a long time because we were learning all the mechanics but Im sure with an experienced group it will be much faster. Thanks Anet

So the Mega Laser was the first finisher that I saw and knew right away that I wanted it. So I purchased it. Unfortunately, when I stomp people, it takes so long for the animation to take place, everyone has already left and no one gets to see it !!! Can you speed it up some how so that the blasting takes place shortly after the stomp… I love the animation how it lands and positions itself…but its soooo long. Thanks

NA Jadequarry is up….not sure how long because I just logged in and saw it open

I agree, as should other achievements. Sure you can write down the zones you complete for this achievement since you will most likely complete them in a short time period, but it is seen in other achievement categories as well so its something that should be implemented on a whole.

I think there should be a leaderboard for the events, one calculated by how much time remains when Scarlet shows up. It’ll require more coordination amongst the players on the servers and set up an actual raid experience, Not just spam WP’s and farming champions. I was thinking of something like the challenges in GW1 that had players clear mobs and the fastest groups were rewarded. It can be restricted to the server instances (not the overflow) so that the people and guilds participating are somewhat consistent from invasion to invasion. I’m sure there will be certain maps easier than others, but it’d also be cool to see how our server is doing with respect to others and see if we can beat our existing time

I support this, should have this implemented throughout the game (sPvp / WvW / PvE) I had so many builds in gw and it allowed me to experiment between builds so much more

My argument:
Create Solo Only and Premade Only Tournament Ques, and create a Solo Only MMR and a Premade MMR

Reasons:

1)Affecting personal MMR when in Solo Que
A lot of my friends wont solo que because they don’t want to hurt their MMR, and quite frankly if one persons MMR meant anything I wouldn’t want to either. Despite going into a tourney solo que’d and losing a bunch of matches I’ll still be able to meet up with my friends and face appropriate teams later on due to their unaffected ratings. I believe many more people will feel inclined to solo que tourney in doing so

2) Being Appropriately Matched for Solo
If there were solo que MMR and Premade MMR then people could solo que and be matched appropriately against other players with solo MMR around yours. As of right now, I will que solo in Tourneys and will face many premade teams just because someone on their teams has a rating similar to mine. Tournaments would be more fun if they are on level playing fields

ARGUMENTS)
So there are some arguments against this like,
“Why not just do hotjoins if you want pugs vs. pugs?”

-Well myself and many others enjoy the full-game experience, that allows a much higher degree of coordination than hotjoins do; with people leaving and going and no MMR what so ever.

“Why don’t you form a team?”

-Forming teams takes time, and I (or anyone else) may have a quick hour to spend playing and we don’t mind being put with pugs as long as they’re around the same level. Not all servers are like Anvil Rock NA where there are people readily in the HotM so it’ll make queing from outer servers easier.

“Rewards would be given out too easily”

-Well there are a lot of people that like to solo que as it, and if people are assured they will be put against fair solo qued players I’m sure it will increase. This would lower the value of already inflated “Paid tourney chests”. So why not make solo que people partake in the 3-Map tournaments, where those spots can be filled by the large numbers OR just reduce the reward on the Solo Que win chest.

I’m sure these ideas can be optimized and that’s why I ask the community to give input based on what I offered here and hopefully ANET will decide to balance the way tournaments are played currently to make a more enjoyable experience and rating system.