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Map Volunteering broken

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DS closes because of the event.
I don’t think every map closes whilst there are people on it.
Could be entirely wrong but the times I’ve said “later” I’ve managed to stay on and play without the map closing as far as I’m aware.

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I hate HOT but want to enjoy it

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And what would you do with flax?
It has no use to you.

There are not loot crates all over the map. VB has night time events that have airship crates that contain next to nothing useful for you. Some green gear, some account bound stuff you can’t do anything with.

You can craft Auric weapons
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Auric_weapons
You’d need a high crafting profession and tons of mats you probably don’t have.
You can get them from PvP which I don’t think you do.
You can get free ones from doing the story but they are PVTC stats which may not be any use to your build. However all you have to do is the story, not grind Hot.

The list doesn’t really go on. There are new mats. That aren’t worth much. Orr has much better value mats in seaweed, truffle. Orr has much more accessible nodes for ori and ancient wood. Orr has great, farmable events for karma for temple armour that might let you enjoy HoT better.

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Map Volunteering broken

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When you volunteer it’s to go to a more populated map. Not an empty one.

You’re just volunteering to move maps. The map you move to isn’t empty. After all, you are there. The population meets the “is too low” criteria as the one you moved from. So you get another chance to move.

There are various scenarios that mean ultimately you’ll end up on a map that doesn’t close. One option is not moving in the first place and people will end up joining your map.

Tell me, why is it that whenever I waypoint into the Silverwastes by myself, I always end up in a map with only a few players and almost no map progress? And yet, I can open the LFG tool and see people taxiing into a map that is 80% complete. Why the hell does the game always insist on putting me in a dead map when there is obviously room in a more populate map where people are actually doing the events?.

Well the answer is probably soft and hard caps on maps. You will move to an available map due to the map being at the soft cap but can join your team mate via taxi if the hard cap hasn’t been met. I suppose the question if you turned it around would be why aren’t you using the LFG tool to get to an event. And why didn’t you get there a bit earlier?

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Unplayable Solo

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the game is dying as i’ve said

Bye then.

after a 2 year break this game has a tiny population compared to when i left in 2012

You left in 2012. It’s now 2016. Your two year break sure did last a long time.

The other games you mention you’ve started to play also have smaller populations now than when they launched, are you on their forums complaining about them there too?

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I hate HOT but want to enjoy it

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What rewards do you feel you are missing out on?

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Map Volunteering broken

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Because then you’d end up with hundreds of maps with just 5 people on them.

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Map Volunteering broken

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Well not really broken is it. You are the population and you keep leaving. When you get to a new map, rather than staying to build a population, you leave. Then you arrive at a new map and.. well, you get the picture. The first people into a map (you in this case) have to stop leaving it.

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Unplayable Solo

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I want the KI Companions back from Guild Wars 1 and they should delete random enmies out of the game because they are not worth to kill.

They all have a chance to drop a precursor so from that point of view they are worth killing.

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Crafting a precursor vs. buying a precursor

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If you want to craft it nao then you have to look at buy it nao and make a decision.
If you play at weekends and probably don’t even do anything big during that time, the ability to craft a precursor is priceless.
It’s a real shame people get hung up on the costs involved. Gathering mats is free and allows a huge part of the population to progress something they wouldn’t otherwise as they don’t MF hundreds or thousands of gold or farm/do the things that are most likely to drop a precursor.

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Unplayable Solo

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Who are you talking to? I have no trouble soloing what I want to solo and grouping when I need to. I do firmly believe both types of content should exist. My comments here have been exclusively about suggesting the LFG tool when it can’t be used to solo content.
Perhaps if you don’t selectively copy parts of someone else’s post and check to see what the thread is about, you will be able to respond more accurately.

You’re the one saying you can’t solo a waypoint.
And what are you on about?
People aren’t suggesting using the LFG tool to solo content, you use the LFG tool when you CAN’T solo content and want/need some help.

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get rid of confirmation when salvaging rares

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I support more options but it gets ridiculous going “yeah and they could have this menu with these 20 submenus” for every single thing that really is just in the players remit to do for themselves.
I can’t imagine they’d over-complicate the code for this because it’s too many options and people are too different in their “needs”

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ANET: Why Boxes inside Boxes inside Boxes....

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No, open until every slot is filled is no good. You could end up with every bag slot filled with a box you then couldn’t open without going to a bank and dropping some boxes off. And then you’d spend hours transferring boxes between bags and the bank and a vendor for trash and salvaging would still need to be done..

Auto-salvage isn’t great either, first you’d really need infinite salvaging tools and then a whole new set of options of what to salvage and what not to salvage and you could still end up with all your bags full of runes and sigils that you’d need to vendor.

So then you’d need a new set of vendor auto-sell rules to get rid of the trash..

The problem is loot tables don’t combine for the player.
[box of gear] has inside it armour and [box of fruit]
[box of fruit] has inside it apples and [purse of coins]
[purse of coins] has inside it 2 copper

Why can’t I just open [sack of crap] and get armour, apples and 2 copper? All the same loot rolls can be made just dump it into one ultimate container. I guess the game thinks it’s more fun to open boxes which contain a surprise than to just give you the usually terrible reward.

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Unplayable Solo

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When the original poster (Not me, or the game) wants to solo specific content, whether that content is a waypoint or a mastery point or a whole map, how can suggesting they use the LFG tool help them SOLO the content?

But thanks for offering it once again.

“I can’t get to that waypoint” – change your build to add swiftness or toughness or stealth.
“I can’t solo this mastery point” – change your build, pick a different point to commune at.
“I can’t solo the whole map” – change your build, watch some videos, accept that some content is group content in an MMO.

I’m sorry you want to solo everything and it’s not possible. No wait, I’m not. Group for group content. Group for content you can’t solo. Group for fun and profit.

“I should be able to solo”
I’m sorry you can’t but I’ve done most of it solo and it wasn’t that hard. You might just not be very good at something. Without specific examples it’s hard to say but not being able to solo a waypoint or commune at a hero point amused me.

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Unplayable Solo

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Hasn’t lost anything. Fractals are exceedingly simple and lots of fun. You can knock low level ones out in a few minutes with an average PUG. Ascended is just a type of gear you craft. If you’ve been playing casually for any length of time you should have enough mats / gold to level a profession. The highest level of crafting can actually be used to make money.
Once you have the crafting level up you should still have mats to make ascended items. If not go gather them. Gathering is incredibly casual, you do it whilst you’re playing the game, nodes are in every map and you can just sell the ones you don’t need to make some money.

p.s. my friend says MOBA or MMORPG are pay to win – its very true.

No your friend is an idiot. You don’t win anything.

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How to make raid fights more accessible

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What we need is a fully realized ALTERNATIVE to the existing raids.

Fractals and dungeons

And by “we” you mean “me, Ohoni”
Only Anet know what the raiding community is like in terms of size and enthusiasm. Everything else in these several threads, some locked, is you demanding something they have shown no interest in developing.

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Black Lion Keys?

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There was a certain excitement from making a new character and dressing it up in a different outfit and different look from the last character I made.

That isn’t key farming. That’s something else completely.
Key farming was selecting specific choices at startup, using chef to get to 10, doing the first mission, deleting and repeating. Half an hour at most. People farmed thousands and thousands of keys.

You can still do what you want once a week.

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get rid of confirmation when salvaging rares

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The number of times I’ve been mass salvaging with copper o matic and clicked on a rare.. that confirmation has saved me wasting the item. With the current price of ecto you don’t wanna end up with wvw tokens instead of the ecto.

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Black Lion Keys?

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I think they should let us key farm again,(more than once a week)I’m really running out of things I like to do on this game so much to the point I just log on do the daily then leave. Key farming was 1 of those things I really enjoyed.

You can’t enjoy key farming. You must mean you like opening boxes. Otherwise you’d be farming something else like silverwastes and turning gold into gems to buy keys. Same diff if you really liked farming.

And I’m sure you can see why it was stopped, it’s a major revenue stream.

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What Happened to Hardened Leather?

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For new players this is an absurd amount of gold to spend, and they are being priced out by players who do have the means to farm all day to buy these materials.

There’s always temple armour which takes karma instead of cash.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Temple_armor

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Why can't we buy crowbars?

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Because what would you purchase them with? Frogskins? Flax flowers? Dried beetle essence?

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Unplayable Solo

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It’s just garbage design because it means as soon as the population drops or loses interest in farming those events, latecomers/returning players are screwed as they can’t complete events/achievements/masteries, including some rather vital steps for their legendaries.

Good job there’s still a great population then.

In core Tyria you could pretty much do EVERYTHING for your legendary by yourself, and if some hero point like in Arah might feature a silver mob you could just grab 2-3 other people and take care of it.

Wait.. isn’t this the exact same design you’ve just criticised? You are a returning player, you need to kill a silver mob in Arah but nooooo the population has died out or lost interest or moved on. Yep. Same but worse because now you need to do the really, really old content and everyone is doing the new stuff.

HoT is basically the fatal design flaw of creating content that’s dependent on permanent player density, which obviously won’t happen as the game ages.

You’ve just described an MMO.

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Unplayable Solo

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the intent is to solo the content.

Whose intent? Yours or the games? If there is content you can’t solo then you use the LFG tool. You can often use the LFG tool to get somewhere – a taxi – and then leave the group so you are in a populated map but still able to do your own thing.

I’ve played a bunch of fps games where I just couldn’t solo the last boss. How I wish someone could co-op join and help me. Yet here where there are hundreds of people who just want to help, some people insist on failing to solo well.

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Unplayable Solo

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Well since playing this game i have leveled 2 characters to 80, and almost finished getting my elite for thief. Hero points in HoT are reaelly biased towards groups.
Theif is really bad, my character cannot solo the Champion hero challenges, i cannot even solo a tier 1 fractal…

Thief is excellent, soloing Champion hero challenges is really bad. Clue is kinda in the name, you’re not meant to solo them. You also can’t solo a tier 1 fractal because you’re not meant to. I’m sure some people can but why are you trying to when they are labelled group content, when Champion hero points clearly need a couple (or more) players to go them? Look at the list on dulfy.net to see what you can solo and what you can not.

ANother pain point is how much effort and money is needed to ascend gear – fractals get you rings, laurels get you amulets – crafting gets you your armour and weapons, im level 457 weaponsmith – materials cost too much – yet vendor price only costs copper?

You don’t need money to ascend, you need mats. You can gather them for free. If you find you don’t have them then go gather what you need before crafting. Crafting is meant to be a time/money sink. If you have mats you don’t need then use the TP to exchange them for what you do need. Take the time to find a guide to crafting so you know what mats you need and how much it is going to cost to do. Why would you sell crafted gear to the vendor? Salvage it for more mats or sell it on the TP. Alternatively farm SilverWastes and use the gold to buy the mats you need.

Areanet – says they want this game casual friendly and it is totally the opposite.

Your definition and mine might differ here but the game is great for casual players. Look at all the f2p’ers who just play at the weekend. What you are complaining about is getting end game content without making any more effort than before and you can’t, there is more effort required for the top tier end game content. Such that it is.

Too much grind and time is needed, just for 1 character – let alone 4 others….

You say “grind” but you mean “playing”. If you’re not enjoying it, do something else. I’ve loved levelling one of each character and did so without tomes or xp boosts. I got world complete twice back when you still needed wvwvw. All my characters have all their elites and are in exotic gear except my main who is full ascended. If you think levelling is grind, use the tomes and XP boosts, that’s what they are for.

No, ArenaNet – you need to fix this game, you need to make it for people who prefer to go solo – so in your game client – have it selectable – solo mode – or open world group mode = i.e. with group mode – you join groups – and if you dont join a group in 10 minutes your kicked off…

Just no. The resources needed to spin up a copy of each map for each person who wanted to solo would be ridiculous. As for join a group or get kicked off.. what are you on about? I do some fractals with my guild then go craft for 10 minutes and then get kicked out of my group server?

i just want this game to be fun, i want to have a bit of a challenge – and i want fractals to go solo – so i can play at my own pace – dungeons are more a group thing, raids well ive never evn done one because whats the poiint ? the bosses dont drop ascended gear like mathildes razor do they?

You don’t want it to be fun, no idea what you want but your idea will not make it fun. If you’re not having fun go do something else. Fractals can’t be soloed, I guess some people can solo some of them but they are meant to be group events and there’s one at least that requires group co-ordination. And you can’t solo a level 1 by your own admission so you know.. make sense first.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mathilde's_Razor
If you want it, you’ll craft it. You may get a chance from an Ascended weapon box but I don’t know if you’re doing any of the content that has a chance to drop them.

its too difficult and it needs to be more fun and less grind. Let me buy ascended gear – gems? yes 2000 gems for like 3 piece armour set – anyway this will prbably get a lot of hate idk, im just expressing how i feel. please respect that.

It isn’t too difficult. If you are finding something hard you need to look at why that is and maybe change your build and attitude. There are build guides and videos, you could try using food and utility items before fights, pick up pseudo pets like rock dog from runes of the ogre or fire elemental powder or ogre pet whistle.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Utility_item
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Ogre
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fire_Elemental_Powder
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ogre_Pet_Whistle

Enough with the wanting to buy your way through the game, the content isn’t that hard if you use the tools provided. If you can’t solo then stop soloing! Join a HP train for your hero and mastery points, join a guild for help doing anything you are stuck with – mine does mapping for guildies in both core Tyria and in HoT. We do fractals all the time. Not solo but as guild groups. We dungeon, running a lot of TA A at the moment. It can be fun with a group. Along the way you’ll get all the money and mats you need to create your ascended gear.

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How to make raid fights more accessible

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Get rid of the elitist raiding community.

How? And why? There are guilds that just raid together. Guilds that just RP together. Hardcore farming guilds. How would you get rid of them? Surely you’d be better joining them if you want a good raid..

you can’t set food inside without people gatekeeping because they want their raids to be easy, and simultaneously call you lazy for not having ascended gear.

So you are pugging, you are not being dissed by the elite raiders, you are raiding with completely the opposite. You should stop doing that if it offends you.

Of course people want the raid to be easy/smooth. I doubt anyone is calling you lazy, ascended is an expensive time and money sink and not required for most content.
If however every time you try and PUG you find a hostile environment because you don’t have ascended gear then you have a couple of options. Get ascended gear! Stop PUGging Raids!

Join a guild that does training and clearing runs. Make sure you have exotic gear and the recommended metabattle build.

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How to make raid fights more accessible

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we have no group so we join a raid guild, not once have we done a raid with them, they either do it respond when we ask about doing a raid, fill up the party before asking in guild or just sit around showing off that they beat the raids 10 or more times.

Join a different guild.

Atm I have just stopped playing gw2 apart from doing my dailies since I do not have high hopes of raiding on this game and as I have done everything else.

Join a different guild

Think that covers it.

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MAY THE STARS GUIDE YOU *gag*

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thats why this thread exists so anet can change it FINALLY

Change what exactly?
There’s some dialogue you don’t like and some you apparently need. This is pretty much down to you to manage, if it’s such a major inconvenience to turn your sound up / down in-game, turn your speaker sound up / down or even off when you don’t need it. I usually play with my sound off all the time so I have no idea what important cues you think you are missing out on.

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Unplayable Solo

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Maybe if you want to play with people you should go where people are.

Which may sound obvious but a lot of this “too hard solo” and “empty maps” could be solved by joining a guild and using the a couple of tools – the LFG tool, a timer site, a build site and maybe even watching a couple of videos to see how the content is done.

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Things you should know before buying HoT

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chances are if you want to max tyrian masteries for legendary crafting and max level fractals, $20 isn’t a lot either in rl money or in game money.

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Tequatl Whirlpools and Achievements

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You gotta trust him, he’s a doctor!

The fact you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
I mean.. invisible shoes.. come on!

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JETPACKS

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It is however the definition of gliding. You should be able to get everywhere with your glider that you are meant to get to, a random boost function may leave you stranded somewhere you can’t get back from. I’m fine with how it is once the trait line is fully unlocked.

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Puzzling recipes and merchants.

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Couldn’t you just put all the requirements in that first recipe, so once I buy the recipe, I can see exactly what mats I need?

I’m unclear because I don’t have any interest in making this item myself but is this on the wiki what you want? If so it’s all in one place so everyone can see exactly what they need up front.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ornate_Guild_armor

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Unplayable Solo

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Outside of instances that could check your race/class/level/gear etc there isn’t a way to make content personal. As the maps are completely open to anyone, it’s up to YOU, on YOUR toon to get across them. Necro or thief or ranger or mesmer a bit squishy? Get more vitality on your gear, grab some toughness. Engineer a bit slow on the old running / dodging? Grab slick shoes. Guardian, Warrior take too long? Add some berserker gear. It’s up to you to change your character, not for the map to change to what you brought. Don’t take a knife to a gun fight and all that.

All classes should be able to face roll hot, the whole map not just some.

Clearly the problem here is your face. It just doesn’t roll.

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Who will be the villain in the 2nd expansion?

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There will be two villains. You will need to split into teams of three to defeat them within a time frame. Team one and team two will need to get on a platform and team three will hold back waves of incoming mobs.

The platforms will initially be reached by a simple jumping puzzle. Later this will be nerfed into a ramp.

The incoming waves for team 3 will be large mixed groups. This will later get nerfed into small mixed groups, then small groups of the same mob and finally the mobs will just run into your spears. Following further complaints the mobs will now rebound themselves off your hammer.

Later the time requirement will be removed and it will be enough to just complete the event. A bunch of people go out of their way to do it as slowly as possible and set up an anti-speed run website to record the slowest people to finish any events.

The journey to the final event will be epic. Then hard. Then soloable. Someone will still complain. Shortly before the game closes a teleporter will appear at the start of the map, you will teleport to a jump pad, the jump pad will automatically autoclick your 1 button and both event bosses will die. There will still be complaints that the graphics as you whizz forward aren’t very good and that with a 300 ping you can’t see the end fight until after it has happened.

There will be a terrain hole that never gets fixed. This will lead to mesmers charging tips to get you out. That will lead to a split in the mesmer group with half opposed to any tips and who portal people out for free and a second group that will only do it for money. Neither side will ever agree to disagree about the right way to do this. There will be portal on portal action and portal trolling.

A late glitch will reveal that if everyone puts their mentor apple on, the server can’t cope and doesn’t send any team three mobs, allowing the event to be done by just two teams. There will still be a bunch of afk’ers who stand in the team 3 spot every time with pets out and traps set to auto.

Even tho the event can be done in exotics, people will insist you need ascended or higher. The ever rising cost of mats makes the top 1% of people ever richer and they become so wealthy they eventually end up buying anet using Zomorros as a middle man. Or genie. Or whatever.

Between now and then the people actually running the event have a really good time but the forums obviously erupt in outrage cos why would you let the truth ruin a really good lie.

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What's the point of 1 shared inventory slot?

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1 copper-o-matic
2 infinite gathering tool
3 infinite logging tool
4 infinite mining too
5 pact crowbars
6 – still have the boost in it
7 – not settled on what is going to go here
8 – sometimes it might be shoves
9 – sometimes it might be chak acid
10 – depends what shared activity by 9 80s are going to do next
11 – boosters or food to go with 7-10. Will vary depending on any all-alt activity

This isn’t about swapping armour. This is about taking a bunch of alts into TD to map or do events or round VB. So annoying when you’re on character 3 and surrounded by airship cargo and no idea where all those crowbars are. Meanwhile character 8 is weighed down by 180 crowbars and has no idea that character 3 could really do with them.

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Mesmer vs Warrior - Solo & Casual Play

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I always wanted a warrior at 80 because they looked so good when the game came out.
Mine now just sits at a flax farm and rarely gets played.
Mes / Chrono however.. wow what a blast.
As has been said, go zerker, go shatter clones, get the metabattle build, can’t remember if it has decoy in it or not but decoy is nice if you feel you are being singled out by mobs.

I’m sure my ps warrior is appreciated for its banners in group/team play but if I want solo destroy all in my path fun, Chrono would be my choice of the two.

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''Casual Pug"

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How is it bull?
Seems to me like a fact, if he had been better at the fractal, nobody would have spoken, which is how most pugs run. In complete silence.
No idea where your victim blaming rant is coming from.
maybe if we see it as a genuine question : are you a casual pug?
Then it changes everything.
I ran Cliffside the other day with two people who had no idea, the leader explained every step, was refreshing.
Maybe the guy the op is talking about wanted to help.

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Now i get why Braham is bald

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An eir-brained scheme if ever I eard one.
Canach get a witness.
Caithe I kick it?
No harm, no Faolain.

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HoT End Game? Should I return?

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I couldn’t get in EB the other day, I often go from <current map> to wvw to LA to avoid paying to travel just because it still amuses me. And it was full for the first time in forever so I’m guessing at least a few people were checking out / enjoying something there.

PvE and new legendaries are fun and the old stuff didn’t stop being fun, population is good, always get fractal groups, see a lot of raid groups but I’d advise joining a guild and getting a metabattle build to raid with. Dungeons are still being run, nice to do aether path again.

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ANET please nerf HoT

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I’ll be really hapy if someone can confirm I’m an “above average” player, but I really doubt it.

You are.
You haven’t completed a Triple Trouble? Not a massive surprise. It’s quite an undertaking and pugs can’t do it. The “trick” is to use the LFG tool when a timer site says TT is due and if you see a guild such as TTS or RnT or Luck or .. well I’m sure there’s loads at different timezones that I’m not aware of.. running it then join. That’s all there is to it. I bet tons of people haven’t done it and I bet it’s largely the same people week in, week out turning up to fight it because it’s not faceroll and that’s unusual for PvE content.

I also haven’t done those jumping puzzles. Again I’d bet the thousands of completed runs are done by hundreds of people. Same with SAB, went in once never again yet people in my guild spent the entire time it was open doing nothing else. I think between us we probably form some kind of average.

Getting a Legendary is pretty easy. If you want one it’s a thing you can work on or buy. I have one. I spent three years thinking about it then a week actually doing it. A month later it’s still sat in my bank.. not everyone’s cup of tea including me it seems.

Maps in HoT are harder for which I’m incredibly grateful having played in them. Hated them after VB (loved VB from the start) and hated TD the most after spending days unable to do story progression because I couldn’t find the next stupid waypoint. Best thing.. dulfys mastery / hero point / strongboxes maps. Can’t recommend them enough.

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ANET please nerf HoT

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Why can’t you play it casual?
Casually log in, casually select character, casually go to a HoT map, casually do events, gather mats, passively get XP for masteries, get HPs. What doesn’t fit in with you playing casually?

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HoT Expansion Price

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You cannot buy a full featured Core game without HoT.

Well you can but not from Anet. But don’t let that get in the way of a misplaced rant.

The actual content added is worth far less than a full game price.

So the new stuff you haven’t played isn’t worth full price? I don’t know where you’re getting your information from but HoT is pretty kitten good and will keep you busy for quite a while.

Particularly when part of that content is something I already had, Guild Upgrades, that were taken away and needed to be repurchased. I’m not fond of that type of business model.

I still have my personal guild for storage and guild banners. I also have a very large maxed out guild hall full of new guildies that I love playing with, something personal guilds lack.

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Easiest way to max Elite spec ?

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HoT Expansion Price

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You can still buy core, what are you on about?
It now comes with a free copy of HoT which you are under NO OBLIGATION to play.

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ANET please nerf HoT

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actually, most of the maps have very low populations now
finding a HP train will take up to a couple of hours
it can still be done , if you have that kind of patience
most players dont have that patience, considering this is supposed to be their
happy time, which they worked and paid for
many players will just go to another game, or quit playing

Great name, suits you as all you do is drone on and on about absolutely nothing in a game you say you don’t even play.

All the maps have great populations when I play, finding a HP train is simple. You say “starting a HP train”. Problem solved.
Seems to me most people have enough patience as the metas are being run regularly and those things take a lot of patience to set up and do.
Those people are having a very happy time, they aren’t working or in school, they’re playing this game and not going to another game and not quitting anything.

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ANET please nerf HoT

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So we must watch videos just to play a game now, what if you aren’t using her build or class, does she do a video for each of the classes right through hot, every weapon style…

What you are saying isn’t practical..

Well you know, if you just watched the videos.
She plays a mesmer and runs round the map on the mesmer. Why would you need to see one of every class doing this? What sense would that make? A warrior running round or a ranger running round is a character running round. Tell you what.. watch the videos. You’ll enjoy the game more.

In Core tyria yes but they are on a timer and when that happens everyone goes there to complete that, in HoT its everywhere 24/7 you cannot survive solo on 75% of those maps on exotic gears, and for those that can its a nightmare, you never get a breather or any casual play.. Tyria you can..

The meta events in DS and AB are on timers so there goes that theory. You can survive in exotics, all my toons are berserker geared and I have now got 9 gifts of VB, one for each profession. If what you were saying was even remotely true, I’d not have any gifts of anything. Currently working on getting all my toons through AB, have done a couple already and I have one doing DS and one waiting to start TD. Obviously this is a nightmare for me and I never get a breather or any casual play. Oh no wait.. it’s not.

So how do you enjoy HoT? Did I mention the great video guides? I did? Awesome. I’d also say that just because you’re in exotic gear doesn’t mean much. Are you in terrible exotics with non-matching stats? Did you go all soldiers, all cleric or a mix that makes no sense? Did you look at metabattle to see how to set your toon up? Do you use food or utilities?

If you actively don’t want to enjoy HoT then don’t keep going there and then coming here to tell us all about it. You have the tools to improve your build and your fun. Use them.

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Hero points still spawn champions

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Was hoping they’d change this but looks not, most of the hero points still have you fight champions even if solo. Happy with most of the patch but this bit still sucks, I want to actually play with the new specializations but unlocking them is still a pain.

Most?
http://dulfy.net/2015/10/25/gw2-verdant-brinks-hero-points-guide/
tl;dr 7/11 are soloable

http://dulfy.net/2015/10/26/gw2-auric-basin-hero-points-guide/
4/11 are soloable

http://dulfy.net/2015/10/27/gw2-tangled-depths-hero-points-guide/
5/11 are soloable

http://dulfy.net/2015/11/02/gw2-dragons-stand-hero-points-and-strongboxes-guide/
doesn’t say so assuming all are soloable

so 23 soloable hero points?

The rest require another person altho more people generally makes it go quicker especially if the one other person you are relying on isn’t very good. I’ve yet to find a map that doesn’t help you if you ask or just wait. I afke’d a bit at Notice to Trespassers (it’s pretty remote, there was nobody else here and I didn’t fancy having to come back here in a hurry) and did some inventory management, got the strongbox, mined some ori and then three people turned up and we nailed it in about a minute.

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Unplayable Solo

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Surely there’s a reason why almost all MMOs are incredibly easy when it comes to open world/solo content.

Because they are instanced based?
All we have are dungeons and fractals so it makes sense that open world itself has some easy bits and some hard bits.

nerf HoT’s difficulty

At some point, what makes the maps difficult is their vertical nature. A HoT with no mobs in it and pots of gold next to the HPs would still be too hard for some people.

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Why I believe gw2 fails miserably...

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I have the best armour and stats at the moment, and i’m happy with everything.

Really pleased to hear that!

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Question about buying on G2A

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never had any trouble buying from them.
the UK has additional protection for online purchases, there is the paypal protection and you can always buy the g2a shield protection if you want to.

What you get from any website is a code and if it’s a legitimate code that comes with perks then you get the perks. The perks aren’t reseller specific, if you buy a HoT key, you get the HoT rewards.

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Purchasing HOT

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Not sure what you want anyone on here to say.
You’ve got a link right there on the official site.

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