Guild Wars 2

I really liked this, i hope they add this to all the friendly npc guards and patrols. Also noticed though that when they get downed they don’t do anything, just sit there until you finish them rather than throw stuff at you like you can when downed.

But ya, i wouldn’t mind this at all if they used it more throughout the game on special types of enemies.

My only issue is i used up the last of my scarecrow finishers on them so i was unable to finish the scarecrow finisher achievement. They didn’t really think that thing through when they added these mobs.

I have no problem with it being hard, what i have a problem with is how it relies too much on the turrets when every server i have tried teq on has people who have no idea what to do jumping on them and not getting off or doing what they need to do. I have tried him about a dozen times so far since he came out and have yet to be in a group to get him below 75% percent because of morons on the turrets. Not to mention the fact i now have to guest on other servers to even attempt him because on my server there is absolutely no one there.

I hope in the future they they don’t make the fight rely so heavily on a couple people on turrets to do their job without some way to get them off so people who know how to do it can. They can make it as hard as they want and i will be fine with it, just come up with better ways to make it hard.

It would be cool if they expanded it for duo fights as well.

The wind chick is the worst for this, if you get touched by a single tornado it is pretty much game over, they just keep tossing you all around the arena until you get downed then it tosses you more till you are completely dead.

The issue is 100% because they are too lazy to split skills in wvw, pvp and pve. They attempt to balance it for one of them and it will cripple the class in the other areas. No class will EVER be remotely close to being balanced until they split skills.

Bad idea to release this, specially with it only being available for a short time.

The biggest issue with addons, imo, is that groups/guilds start requiring them if you want to run with them. But there isn’t really a need for them in this game, the only thing i really used addons for in wow are ones that change up the ui making it easier to locate your countless skills and in lotro i only use ones that change the skin of the ui. With the fairly minimal ui and few skills, there isn’t really a need for addons.

Whenever there is an update go to the wiki and there is a link to patch notes on the right side under “News & Updates”.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page

Smooth Penguin.5294:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The final boss event is at the end of a 4 event chain, so when you say “it hasn’t started” it might simply mean that one of the earlier events hasn’t been completed yet. Camping at the final boss location and waiting for the event to start won’t do anything unless other players are running the other events.

Considering 200-300 people are at that event waiting for it at any given time I think it would be fairly obvious that is not what he was talking about.

I’ll rephrase his question to a more direct version:

Why was the timer on the Maw event chain reduced to happen significantly less often?

300 people waiting for the event does not equal 300 people doing the pre-events.

Hard to do a pre-event when the pre-events don’t trigger. The little thing on the side showing the status of the chain never changes.

FateOmega.9601:

Vinny.6924:

The patch comes out right when dailies reset. Every. Single. Time.

Yet people still ask this question.

Except it doesn’t. The fact that people are able to do 2 dailies on update days means that update happens some time after dailies reset abeit a short time.

It coming out before the daily reset would also result in people being able to do them twice.

I agree, getting laurels will take way to long with us only getting 1 per day. They should add other ways to get them and just up the price for some of the lower end things a bit to compensate. Possibly make all achievements give them, or just ones like completing jumping puzzle achieves and the new discover secret areas ones. Or make it where we get 1 for each sub daily we do, and like 5 per thing for the monthly rather than a single one for doing all parts. But other than that the things you can get with them are pretty nice.

The biggest ui issue i have that should have been fixed before launch is how the ah text is completely unreadable with small ui.

Just noticed this as well, with all the talk lately about them trying to better communicate with the community, i find it odd how they completely stop updating their rss feed.

irrimn.3192:

Bad Wolf.1879:

You can do all 5 events everyday (till the event is over) after Tixx gets to lions arch. So technically you can make all the minis.

See https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday/Tixx-Minipets/first

He said you can only make 2 if you play all 5 days. He never said anything about redoing the dungeons once it gets to la.

The worst issue for me with the forums is when i view a picture on say the first page of a thread and hit the back button it goes to the last page instead of where i was at before. This has been a problem since day 1 with the forums and needs to be fixed. I am sick of losing my place in a thread because of this. If they can’t fix the back button issue then they should at least make pictures open in a little popup like the main site when you view pictures.

I have been getting this as well, but what fixes it for me is alt tabbing out then back in. But it seems to be tied to the waypoints and/or loading screens. I was waypointing all over getting the snowmen and it seemed like almost every waypoint my fps would drop to anywhere from 4-48 (usually a constant 60 fps) until i alt tab then alt tab back.

They should have made it where using a skill that makes them drop the gift gave credit.

I hope they add some town clothes we can earn in game through a new zones karma vendors or something. At the very least each capital should have a special town clothes set that any race can buy and wear.

I got the bag, karka shell, 2 of the named exotic armors (can’t remember the exact ones off the top of my head) a rare armor piece and a rare bow.

Very happy i got the bag, i logged in the first day but decided to skip the rest of the event because the lag was unbearable the entire first day. Would have been happy with just getting the bag lol. My only complaint still is missing out on the final boss itself but i guess i’ll live.

Thank you so much Arena Net for giving these out to us.

Fuz.5621:

First point is kinda void, he joined guilds randomly.

Second point… he is 1000% right. It’s absolutely unconceivable for a mmo in 2012 to come out without an auto-grouping LFG tool.

It doesn’t even need to be auto grouping. We just need an easy way to find others looking to do the same content we want to do without having to spam chat in multiple zones, sometimes for hours without finding a single person to do anything with.

One of the reasons i LOVED the first Guild Wars was because there ware no “servers”, each zone had it’s own sub-sections that you could jump between on the fly. They should find a way to integrate that system here. For wvw they can just make the servers teams which you pay to switch between or on a cooldown like it is now. Doing this will completely eliminate all grouping and empty zone issues and no one would have problems getting all their friends together.

Whoever decided to switch from the system they used for the first game is dumb. The only reason they would do this is because of wvw which like i stated could have easily been fixed by making them teams that you could join. The other reason they could have chose to do it like they did would be to eliminate people from one team telling their people on another team what their team is planning, but this can already be done very easily.

What the game should do is once you get 100% completion it should give you the gifts and unlock them to be purchased from the skill point vendor.

DevonPaul.7495:

One hour in Fractals – Bag full of goodies (maybe some rare)
One hour in Orr – Bones……….. One or two goodies

Go figure….

as for people getting bored with fractals when they have all the gear…. Not going for the gear, going for the drops, which are at least 50% higher (although kitten knows if I have ever proof, tell you what, do 1 hour of fractals, and put all those things to one side, and then do one hour of open map grinding…….)

And to be honest, every fractal is easier than crossing Orr these days

Too bad this thread has nothing to do with drops. It is about the lack of players pretty much everywhere in this game.

I love this game but every time i try to get on and play something i can never get a group for anything. Everywhere i go is completely dead. Have only been able to do story mode for 2 dungeons and haven’t been able to get a group for fractal and can’t find groups for anything else either. Sat in la for a good 2 hours trying to find a group for any dungeon and went to each dungeon entrance and didn’t see a single person sitting outside them. Something needs to be done about this, i don’t care if they piss off half the game’s population to do it.

Would like to know as well seeing as the announcement for it made me bite the bullet on getting a tablet. They said it would be out around the time the game launched but we haven’t heard a thing about it since it was announced.

Bots are far from gone, they just all moved elsewhere. I don’t see them in starter zones anymore, they are all in orr.

I have like 8 of them but always forget to use them.

I have never gotten a ruined mat when using the orich tools, you may have just encountered a bug.

They really should make a new jumping puzzle like the tower as a permanent jumping puzzle.

This whole problem would be solved if they made this game like the first and had no servers at all. It was essentially 1 giant server and a bunch of overflow servers. The only reason i could see why they would think about switching from that system is wvw which can easily be fixed.

But honestly, the only real problem right now making the servers full 24/7 are bots. The best solution is to just not play with friends at all until they find a way to deal with bots effectively. Otherwise you will just be causing yourself grief.

I gave up after the first week trying to get all my buddies on the same server. Several of which stopped playing once they hit 80 cause this game is so boring solo and it is too hard to get groups of friends together.

You need a boat load of skill points if you want to make a legendary, but other than that there isn’t really much use for it. It would be cool if they had more things to trade skill points in for, like jugs of karma or possibly another way to get black lion keys. Like 25 skill points for a jug of karma and 5-10 skill points for a black lion key.

But here is a better mystic forge recipe list.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AvQFBweLyTK7dGNoTm1oWVI2NkkwY2VlTlZINURPeWc&f=true&noheader=true&gid=0

Has to do with lag, happens all the time for me when lagging and i drop far enough to fall face first. At least it is not as bad as when the game launched where if you moved while face planted like that it would keep re-dealing the fall dmg until you died.

The stick around part only means to report the issue as close to where it occurs as possible so the ticket system gets a better location reading. Once you report something just move on, if you can’t continue something in a dungeon or quest then i think the only thing you can do is leave and try again later.

From my experience the clipping like that only happens when previewing shields but shows up fine when you actually wear it.

Hate when this happens to several mobs at once. Try to attack and it sits there being immune so i move onto another and that one is bugged too so i go to another and that one bugs out so i got to another and its fine but then the previous bugged ones come out of nowhere and attack me. Have had this happen on land as well and seems to be occuring way more often than it did at launch.

Dignity.1389:

All I can make out of this is, person that attacks first gets aggro.
“You do more dmg than other people – you get aggro”

I have gotten aggro on things i haven’t touched at all. For me aggro is completely random and just randomly picks someone to go after no matter what.

Range has never made a difference for me, i have seen mobs run past several people who are all attacking him to go after someone who hasn’t touched him. I have seen mobs jump around between people. So ya, for me, aggro is completely random.

I used gs while leveling to 80 but recently switched to axe and shield and have been loving it. Killing stuff just as fast if not faster and not as squishy. Have always had a bow as my secondary and don’t think i will ever switch it out.

@Blude, I have posted this a bunch of times before but here it goes again. I have yet to get a single key drop since the first week the game was out which i got at least 1 per day. Now keys don’t drop at all for me, almost to the point where i just give up with boxes altogether and just drop them all or throw them all up on the tp. But i have even seen a huge decrease in the chest drop rate as well, the chest drop rate seems to be slowly falling to the point of basically none.

Noticed an increase as well, over the entire halloween event i got maybe 2 dye drops the entire time. But did a single dungeon earlier today and got 3 dye drops in it.

Northlander.4619:

I’m 2 vistas and 4 PoIs short of full map exploration but can’t get those as the keeps in Eternal battleground are unavailable. I did a server hop to catch some of the remaining spots today and planned to hop servers again tomorrow but apparently I have really kitten timing with these since just few days ago it changed to 7(!) days for transfers instead of 1…

Please confirm the map won’t expand so I can still get my full map exploration next time I transfer servers without having to run through gazillion new areas…

It is only 1 new map and apparently it is going to be smaller than the zones we already have. Can’t say whether or not it will be needed for exploration or not.

Ameepa.6793:

This “punishing PVE players” thing is confusing me a bit..

I guess I’m doing something wrong then because I have never changed server or felt the need to.

What am I missing here?

You just got lucky that all of your friends were able to get on the same server. Many of us aren’t as lucky.

Sals.9534:

Fine then change it back to every 24, but now it cost money for the service. Happy?

This is a B2P game, all the monthly subscription games I have played in the past make you pay for the server transfer service.
You would think If I’m paying you monthly I would not have to pay for a server transfers. But NO!

You should be happy they do it for free period!

You have obviously never played the first guild wars which went years without any sort of outside payment things like costumes. They went purely off game sales. Right now guild wars is still completely free with only costumes and things like name changes costing money.

All other mmos charge for server transfer because they are cheapskates trying to milk more money out of you even with making you pay monthly fees.

Yes the bots are being banned but they are just being replaced as fast as they are banned and moving to new areas.

@Drunken Mad King

When my buddy got the game the other day he had to pick another server because mine was full, so i went to go to his only to find that EVERY SINGLE server was at high or full status. It is a real chore trying to get all of my friends and their friends all on the same server so we can play together specially since we are never all on at the same time.

I am all fine and dandy with them charging for server transfers or limiting to 7 days a week, but not until guesting is available. As it is now, it is next to impossible to get an entire group of friends on the same server.

The best course of action for them would have been to lock people out of wvw for a week until guesting is up. Heck, the whole thing would have been better if they set this game up like the first guild wars where there was no “server” you joined, specially since zones are broken up into instances like the first game. The only difference would be to pick a “team” for wvw that you can only change for a price or once every week or so.

Fritz.5026:

Finaldeath.1059:

ostracize.8316:

Leave vertical sync optional = people burn out their video cards

No, people putting high end cards in junky premade pc cases or cheap after market cases with crappy cooling = burned out video cards.

I almost always leave vsync disabled unless it is absolutely needed like in elder scrolls games where disabling it causes game breaking bugs and never have overheating problems.

having ridiculous FPS has not mattered since people stopped using CRT monitors.
you might as well set it to vertical sync because modern flat screen monitors have very real limits that supersede your FPS rate.

Then i have issues in areas like wvw when alot is going on. My biggest problem with vsync is when something big happens all of a sudden you card cant speed itself up fast enough to keep a constant framerate. I would rather be at a high frame rate so when that “big thing” happens i don’t have my framerate drop low enough to get stutters.

ostracize.8316:

Leave vertical sync optional = people burn out their video cards

No, people putting high end cards in junky premade pc cases or cheap after market cases with crappy cooling = burned out video cards.

I almost always leave vsync disabled unless it is absolutely needed like in elder scrolls games where disabling it causes game breaking bugs and never have overheating problems.

Really disappointed about them not asking about the app anet showed off at pax back in 2010.

http://www.curse.com/news/guild-wars-2/15866-pax-coverage-gw2-ipad-application

I think it is crits. When i had it on a shield with it i noticed the green numbers pop up on allies occasionally when i did crits. I don’t believe it is when getting hit because at the time i wasn’t taking any damage.

They said the event ends today not that the new patch is today. They said the big update is on the 15th on the stream. Nothing was mentioned on the stream about classes.

Anet said they are adding a new dungeon this month so i am sure that is the reason they added dungeons to the monthly.

The scaling in this game is terrible. A level 80 will always do way better than say a level 40 at lvl 40 content. If the scaling worked better this wouldn’t be an issue. The reason 80s are always better is because of several reasons.

1) Traits make a huge difference and are something that straight up stat reduction cannot make up for it.
2) A level 80 in even low end 80 gear has higher stats than someone in top end gear for their level, even after scaling. (this part may be wrong but this is what i have noticed)
3) A level 80 usually has more experience at their class and usually knows how to play their class better than someone at say lvl 40.

When i was doing the mad king dungeon during the event, every person who was not 80 was just holding us back and often did little to nothing to actually help. This could however have been since it was scaled up rather than down so they were way less effective than if the 80s were scaled down. Not to mention the fact that they may dislike the idea of having to run the dungeons as well so they want all the best people for the job as they can get so they can plow through it easier and faster to get it over with.