Guild Wars 2

I totally tell organisations I’m a member of that I’ll come and do stuff when I feel like. Most organisations publish schedules of events and you can’t go to them all, often there’s a clash with something else or you just don’t feel like doing that event this year.

He doesn’t get anything, he is just saying something you agree with.

The vendors usually hang around a bit longer.
They may get moved or merged.
If a guild vendor has the item on a tab, I don’t see why that would get removed.

I don’t think they can fix the exploit without patching the main game which would break SAB. Which is different to saying “yeah we’re ok with it” but I don’t know what else they could really do at this point except improve for next time.

Tigaseye.2047:

I don’t want tons of green runes and sigils piling up, endlessly, in my personal bank and I’m certainly not going to be listing them, one by one, on the TP.

Vendor them.

KuroiArt.7349:

suggestion – get mastery points by playing the game

Yep, agreed.

KuroiArt.7349:

I have spent over 1,100 hours into this game. I play to have fun & relax!

Yet you don’t sound relaxed. You might be playing it wrong.

KuroiArt.7349:

Now I got to ~110 mastery points I don’t want to farm/grind all the achivements.

So erm.. .don’t then? Do something else?

Highness.9061:

HoT maps should all be soloable

They are.
Except the meta and world bosses which also aren’t soloable in core Tyria.

Poll needs an “I’ve already preordered!!” option.
For extra pre-order enthusiasm.

I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
There is no grind to level 80.
You seem to believe that the endgame is the fun part you need to rush towards. It isn’t.
There isn’t a problem here you need to fix.

Yep plus 12 other characters

This thread needs a proper GM look. Inconsistencies all round.
Pets and turrets are fine to attack mobs whether you are there to make them do it or not. The problem seems to be that people are finding a way round the auto log out.

I would not feel comfortable logging both my accounts in, setting something to auto and going to work or sleep but clearly some people are and that needs looking at and some retroactive work done to deprive them of undeserved gains.

The way to check whether toughness is useful FOR YOU is to run a full zerker build v running a slightly less zerker build with some toughness.

If you can run full zerker without dying, you didn’t need that toughness.
If you can’t then add some toughness via trinkets until you can.
If you still can’t, start swapping in armour pieces until you can.

Personally I run full zerkers on all toons and I’ve got one of each and they all have their elite specs and play quite happily in HoT. Some play better solo than others sure but I take that into account when deciding when and which one to play.

As stated earlier, it’s better to have a quickly dead mob so you can move on to the next one than still be standing there hitting it in ten minutes time. It’s a bit of a waste of your time for a start and you run the risk of something else spawning nearby and coming to join in. Finding the middle ground if you can’t run full zerker is up to you. Trinkets are easy to swap in / out whilst testing.

BreakLeg.5429:

I am very worried for any promises that ANET might make in the future

BreakLeg.5429:

I think once they finish it, it could actually become part of the game and can contain one of the most enjoyable precursor hunts ever.

Well you’d better just hope they don’t promise that then, right?

Crise.9401:

No-one would lose in any way if a piece of temporary content is made more accessible or permanent.

You keep saying that and it’s still not going to change anything. Festivals and events are meant to be temporary content that gets rotated in. Anything new quickly becomes old and dull, the complaints about there not being enough to do in SAB would start in the third week of it being permanent.

And you’re completely forgetting that anet benefits from this style of event rotation. Every festival brings people back, gets people talking, introduces new themed gemstore items or has new skins people can earn and sell. It’s part of the economy of the game.

lonthor.5046:

You know I was very upset today

You shouldn’t buy HoT. Not because it’s bad but because you’ll just spend all your time generically complaining about it.

The alternative to what Anet has done is what WoW does where you have to buy 112 different expansions and the core game and apply them one at a time until your PC runs out of room. Oh and then you have to pay a sub to play it.

Making a single install is something Anet should be praised for instead of this whine every time someone comes on looking for misplaced sympathy.

There is a link elsewhere offering it for $40 that I can’t be bothered to dig out for you.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Don’t you think if it was “just” that easy, they would have already done it?

lol no
I’m thinking
“we can’t make new dungeons or fix the old ones, it’s too hard”
“no new worlds, sab work is too hard”
“new wintersday stuff would be too hard”
“new legendaries are too hard”
“new fractals very much too hard”

Everything always seems too hard for Anet recently

Tanought.5428:

it was a big factor in my purchase.

Have you made all the others?

I was really hoping that obnoxious guy from the other day had got suspended from posting on the forums for a really long time and this was a post to tell us all about it.

Then I realised today is the day we post what some streamer says. Quite disappointed.

Valento.9852:

Mo will turn the tide

What?
I want him to part it like the red sea!

There isn’t a tide, there is no turning it. No matter what is decided if it comes down to having to choose which part of the playerbase to cheer up first, somebody else will take it the wrong way and say they’re leaving the game.

If they suddenly hired a bunch of people at great cost and we got legendaries and pvp balances and wvw maps and hot got easier/harder/smaller (who knows what people really want, right..) and raids got lfr and we got new dungeons and more fractals.. there would STILL be someone saying
“yeah but it’s too late for me, anet didn’t deliver it on time”
and someone agreeing with them.

Sidizen.9048:

If woodenpotatoes leaves then I’m out. If someone so passionate for the game and it’s lore decides to quit then that’s a pretty big sign the game’s going downhill.

When I quit, that will be the sign and I won’t be doing that any time soon.

serialkicker.5274:

I’m already sad and disappointed. I don’t see a single glider skin that is available to unlock or earn as reward for playing the game.
Default glider is intentionally incredibly ugly, not even fully dyeable, just so you are “forced” buy a new one. Especially since they put gliding in Tyria.
This is of course just one little thing.

Er yeah that might be smallest thing ever.
You get a free glider.
You can glide in HoT and Tyria.
You have enough money to buy a better glider.
You choose not to so you haven’t been “forced” to do anything.
How about not using it?
Problem, surely, solved.

If the OP can’t buy in-game items for his wife and kids.. maybe he could just give them the money in real life and they could make their own purchases?

Otherwise it just sounds like someone is trying to garner some sympathy for the gold sellers out there.

Jahroots.6791:

General Health.9678:

But you should be able to do them, just get on an organised map and either pay attention to teamspeak, join a squad and pay attention to squad chat and just follow the zerg

I think the gist of the OP is that zergs are inherently chaotic and un-fun. Some people simply don’t have a taste for it.

A zerg is anything but chaotic, if it was chaotic people would be firing their lasers randomly at all sorts of things and running in different directions without focus. The OP seems to have a problem with organised events.

METALROCKS.6097:

so far i failed to get hero points since you have to fight a bunch of enemies.

In VB you can solo all but 3 of them if memory serves and there are ALWAYS people in map chat who are doing those. Look at the guide on dulfy.net.

METALROCKS.6097:

for some reason my character walks slower after she pulls out her sword instead of keeping the steady speed. making it easier for enemies to catch up or kill me.

This is not a HoT thing.

METALROCKS.6097:

i already have reached level 80 and all my gear im wearing are level 80, enemies are just too over powered. not suited for my class.

Level doesn’t mean your gear is any good. Are you wearing rare/exotic gear or fine/masterwork? Rangers are absolutely fine in HoT maps, consider changing your build by looking at a site like metabattle.com

METALROCKS.6097:

this now, is a turn off.

More than happy to take people round VB if I’m on. I regularly see (non-guild) trains in mapchat or join a guild and get people to take you round.
You will need gliding, mushrooms and wallows so work on those for the best map experience.

Gele.2048:

dont you think i have not tried ?

I suspect this is true.

You may want to move servers if WvW is your thing and you’re not a server that WvW’s very much any more.

Otherwise the game is absolutely fine to return to. I did the same thing a while back and there’s tons of achievements and story to get stuck into and all the old stuff you may have done (farming in Orr, fractals, dailies, jumping puzzles) are all still there.

If you’re not in one, join a guild and get (back) into guild missions and grab those guild hall goodies. They’re very tasty!

Cambios.7451:

If I paid $100 for a game, why should I be LIMITED in my ability to enjoy and play it? That makes no sense.

The outraged cry of the entitled. It’s like that time you bought that car racing game and got all the cars unlocked, all the tracks unlocked and the winning times on all the races because you paid the most.

Your Twitter handle in your profile links to a games company and you mention you are going to PAX with that company. Is this really how you want to professionally portray yourself? Is this how YOUR game works?

If not.. trolling.
Have a waaahmbulance.
And some cheese.
To go with that whine.

Cambios.7451:

I won’t be able to game much at all in April

Well the good news is that when you get back your restrictions will be gone.

Julischka Bean.7491:

Hmmm….I can’t play it as I keep getting killed as soon as I poke my nose in there

I’ve solo explored all of VB so your build maybe needs some toughness (altho I’d personally recommend more speed). You may need to join a party/zerg/guild/group/other player in order to get comfortable getting round. Or maybe stop running into the same pack of raptors every time.. dunno. The maps are really not that hard to get around as watching the videos on dulfy.net will demonstrate.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

one questions why they’re doing them and why they’re there in the first place.

You are free to question yourself all you want, just don’t go to them if they bother you that much. Do you turn up regularly at Shatterer and think “I don’t even know why I’m here, how I got here, why does this keep happening to me?”

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Most of the bosses, have no background or personality, or reason to be there.

Or you just don’ t read the wiki / lore.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Shatterer

Tiger Ashante.1792:

I’ve often heard streamers on twitch refer to it as such and being the main reason why they don’t play and can’t get into gw2.

Why are you listening to people who can’t / don’t / won’t play gw2? This seems really self-defeating. If you agree with them so much, join them in not playing.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

They expect players to do too much in a short time in such a hectic set up. Often times, people are left frustrated trying to achieve even some simple tasks, as there are too many mobs that use annoying overdone CC’s, purely designed to stop you completing those tasks.

What? You get ages at Shatterer. There’s a whole bunch of achievements now you can work on at your leisure. Kill mobs, break bar, drop grenades, fire health packs. Those people you mention who are getting frustrated (you mean yourself, right?), they don’t need to get good or anything, just get on an organised map of which I see plenty in LFG all the time.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

I don’t find most of these events fun, but an extreme frustrating exercise, yet one has to do them at least sometimes if one wants to accomplish things in the game and progress their characters. And most importantly, if u don’t do these events, there isn’t much else left for you to do in the game anyway.

Ok you don’t find them fun, don’t do them maybe?
But you should be able to do them, just get on an organised map and either pay attention to teamspeak, join a squad and pay attention to squad chat and just follow the zerg or learn the pretty simple mechanics that so many others have learned already. By not doing these things you are frustrating yourself, it’s not the games fault.

As for “not much else to do in the game”.. really?
This game may not be for you any longer, take a break, there’s still a lot of fun to be had when you’re in the mood.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

I’m getting more and more tired of all the chaos that occurs in gw2 events. It really is over the top. Each new addition of content adds more and more layers of chaos and multi-tasking, with complete disregard for people with poor internet and/or without super gaming computers.

You are playing an always-on online game, you are at the world boss event that requires a lot of people. You are always going to have issues there with poor internet, always. This is about you, not the game. There is some regard in that you can downgrade your graphics (really easily too) but at some point you will need a better computer / internet to participate in such things, minimum specs for the game will not suffice for these massive events.

As for chaos – hardly. All these events are clearly mapped out in the wiki and on sites such as dulfy and are well video’d over on youtube. Your example of TT is one of the best examples of why the player needs to get more prepared, Cobalt is all about the zerg and hopping around with barrels.. I only ever run it as an organized guild and it’s organized to within an inch of its life.

I also don’t have that achievement by the way. I’ve done Cobalt maybe twice and have zero kegs placed. It’s on my short term goal list now, plan on getting it over the next few weekends. For me things like TT break up the simpler things (that I also enjoy doing) such as gathering round Orr or completing a story achievement I never got round to doing or finishing off an outpost chain in VB or running a dungeon or two for tokens towards the ascended rewards.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

I really hope that future expansions have more sedate events with more clear mechanics and lesser amount of mobs, which in turn would require less zergy crowds. It’s ok to have an event like Dragon Sand Boss, but having to spend 1.5 hours fighting 1000’s of mobs to get to it, is not.

The achievements in the living story should be more your level, especially if they scale so you can solo them. I am not sure it’s really 1.5 hours or 1,000’s of mobs for DS.

I was running a dungeon last night with a guildie and he said something that has been mentioned here. He said “I love running this as I get to use four weapons”.
And I think it is very easy to just run round as the meta pressing 1 but not as much fun.

Knowing when you should kite and when you can pull out the old hammer, knowing how useful a well placed of wall of reflect is, popping all the minions when they’ll do the most good.. that is what makes any toon fun for me.

Manasa Devi.7958:

It’s all too easy to miss out on a once-every-two-hour opportunity because of this dreadful system.

It’s also really simple to use a timer site and get to the event you want early. Organised maps set up at least ten minutes early, that’s what being organised means.

There are other issues with lfg and parties and groups I’m sure but being on time is a player issue.

dubstax.9102:

However, trash mobs in open world maps could easily have been balanced to bring something new to the table for the game while at the same time not ruining the enjoyment of solo players who just want to get mastery points, work on HPs for their elite spec, gather the currency they need to craft gear they are working on, or just explore the beautiful maps ANet created.

They were balanced to bring something new while at the same time not ruining the enjoyment of solo players. I’ve run round solo avoiding some mobs because they’re harder than the easy trash mobs.

If I wanted to work on my WvW stuff should Anet provide me with an empty instance so I can cap everything? Should they add more WP’s because walking is tiring? I get some people don’t like PvE but that isn’t HoT’s fault, you just don’t like PvE.

You don’t need viper or trailblazer recipes so you’re setting yourself targets that you can’t meet just so you can complain.
Your definition of hardcore is completely wrong.
I’ve solo explored all of VB several times, solo’ed all the HP’s and MP’s (as per Dulfy’s guide) that you can solo and then grouped for the ones you need a group for.

DS I happened to be in when the meta started and joined a squad and we completed it.

AB I’ve done the meta a few times but haven’t got map complete on any toon there yet. Need to spend more time there for that.

You can’t make everything enjoyable for everyone.

Mmm hmm. I was re-doing one of the HoT episodes last night where you escort an Itzel and Nuhoch back to their base. They do not escort well, constantly stopping and leaving you wondering where they are. According to the story, they are in a rush to warn the base.. doesn’t feel like it.

And then the leader waffles on for an aeon, blah blah this weaving post, blah blah that carving station. Seriously.

However there’s a HoT escort, Master at Arms Neary maybe, he walks to the very edge of the walkway and it really looks like he’s going to jump down / fly off but he stops dead and turns 90 degress and I’ve seen people fly off at that point assuming he’ll be joining them. That amuses me.

Isn’t that what the Pact Commander line kinda already does?
If you get the Mapping Materials you get a map bonus.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Scout's_Mapping_Materials

There’s already enough good stuff easily available as map bonus items (t6 blood, unidentified dye) without increasing the drop rates.

As for karma gains / gold / etc – use guild boosts for that on top of banners, food, BL boosts and login rewards. Doesn’t need to be associated with masteries.

I’ve done the story a ton of times on lower than I should really have done characters who were nowhere near as well geared as they could be.

And it never got hard.
If you die because you are swarmed by mobs like at Claw Island, it’s no big deal to just respawn and carry on.
If you really, really can’t get past something.. ask for help in map chat or guild.

“Play the way you want” shouldn’t be “I’m so angry at the world” or “I’m mad because I die all the time”, try “people will help me with my goals” and “a build and proper gear will make harder things a lot easier”

Ah forum pvp.
For everything else there is teamspeak.

LunaDeviner.6514:

blc = Black Lion Clam Tickets right? Then. You’ve got a point there. They re-run almost every Event, They should probably give this one a shot, However there is probably still people that used to Key Farm and thus have a Load of Tickets waiting

And?
A release that takes tickets out of circulation would be a good thing, surely.

But that wouldn’t make it hard mode.
Just marginally harder because it would take a bit longer to kill it.
For one person. You.
That isn’t a new game mode.

If you’d wanted HoT Monster new tactics I could understand it but you aren’t describing a hard mode and the devs wouldn’t implement that. They already gave us harder with the expansion.

I honestly have no idea what you want.
Downscale a monster to 74 not 73..
You can’t have that and you can’t keep claiming there is even a playerbase that wants that. Do you even have the expansion?

You are trying to fix an issue that is only an issue for you.
The solution? YOU fix it.
Make 5 accounts. Log them in and go afk on them. Now fight near them, everything will scale up and be hard for you.
Still not hard?
Reduce your gear.

The original Cursed Shore was NOT fun. You literally couldn’t get anywhere without wading through mobs, it was like Serious Sam without any gear because nobody had exotics at that point, none of the meta had been worked out and not that many people had even got there at this point. NOT fun. Also full of bots. So no thanks.

I love you think you’re the epitome of casual.
People in your guild who have burned through thousands of dollars are not casual.
Do raiders buy more keys? Who knows.. isn’t that the point?

Say we swap “raider” for “guild hall”. Did you “casually” max out yours? No.
Did the game shaft the “actual base” when they introduced guild halls? No.

Your point seems to be “my guild and i blew thousands of dollars on this game and we’re casuals” which I don’t really think adds anything.

How is it hard to get hold of ascended equipment?
Also not sure why you think exotic is easy to get.
Also not sure why you think you can’t raid in exotics.

There aren’t any of those things in Central Tyria.

Back to balance..
I feel there is some effort made for some of the game types some of the time, there has been some rebalancing.
There are no doubt some genuine complaints that it’s too hard in pvp to do something but if you fixed that would you not make it too easy in wvw?
I see a large part of it as just being player led flavour of the month type fixes. If your bear bow ranger is op in pve, play it in pve. You can’t play it in pvp where condi thief rules. But what about your useless DH who keeps getting rolled in pvp now (to heck with those condi thieves, right?)? Turns out it’s awesome in WvWvW.
Swings and roundabouts maybe, devs provide a framework and players figure out how to make it work? With gear and personal food and utility items or group items like feasts and thesis of things and changing the traits per encounter and swapping skills and weapons..
How can you balance all of those things? Surely it’s better for the players to figure out a build from those things. Also better for players to figure out which game types their theory crafting should work best in, it’s good that you need different builds for the different gametypes, would be pretty bad if viper ele was op in all game modes. Except for those people with viper ele’s obviously.

Raids are accessible to everyone, the whole average player base.
Last night the new raid wing dropped and whilst I was farming flax I saw a ton of people lfg in map chat (probably more in the LFG tool) with no criteria.
“all welcome, no experience required”

How could it be more accessible?

“you have to be experienced ascended meta”
“nobody wants a necro in their party”
“you have to be in a guild”

None of those things are true all the time.

If you want to decide, as a player, as you have stated then take off your exotic berserker gear and run round in some green gear with a healer weapon. Heck, run round naked!

Actually.. I imagine a naked group of staff wielders could be a lot of fun.. I might try this out later.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The lack of official responses to people’s complaints on the forum acerbates these feelings.

Completely agree. Doesn’t mean that the devs are not listening or working, they are in fact replying.. just not here. I applaud the work done to try and bring those comments here but deplore that it has to be done.

Plus there needs to be more merging of [complaint] threads, if the complaints aren’t going to be addressed then at least reduce the clutter.