Guild Wars 2

Astralporing.1957:

Can be soloed easily

No it can’t.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Battle_for_the_Flame_Citadel_and_Senecus_Castrum

The meta is 6 events listed above and includes a Group Event.
Besides, what would you do if you did end up the only person at the door of the dungeon, you can’t solo the dungeon.

Actually you can. Have you bothered to look at the videos dulfy has done? She is soloing in the HoT maps. I have followed her routes and done the same things, got to the same places. We are different people with different co-ordination and tolerances yet we can both do something? Amazing.

Instead of just complaining constantly about how it’s too hard, actually experience the content. Watch a video. Get a build that works. Follow a zerg. Or don’t.. but seriously stop jumping on these threads to complain about how hard it is because it’s all in your head so far.

You buy a code from <retailer> and add it to your account.
So yes, of course it’s possible.

Anka.5086:

What I was trying to do is .. force them to change their BLTC market strategy to be more pro-customer satisfaction orientated.

How’s that working out for you?

Nuggi.7861:

My main suggestion was not to get the money refunded

Nuggi.7861:

We want our gold/gems back.

My guild has an all welcome training raid night.
Later it has an experienced raiding night.
The all welcome relies on you having the right build but doesn’t require ascended.
I’m sure many other guilds also offer such a thing as a way to try raiding, worth looking into if you are being burned by LFG.

Ohoni.6057:

If I want to PvP, I can effortlessly get all three in a single match.

Just do that then.

It’s not about being bored altho people were getting bored of it towards the end.
It’s part of the events package that is run and so will not be made permanent any more than they’d make Wintersday all year round.
Events help drive the economy, sorry you can’t see this.
Finally the devs said SAB is flaky and they had to suspend patching the main game whilst it was running. From that technical point purely this could not be permanent content and even if they resolved that, it’s still an event that happens on a cycle as part of the games calendar.

Safire.9143:

YOU JUST TOOK THE VERY LAST BIT OF PROGRESS OUT OF THE GAME THAT WAS LEFT..

Congratulations, you just won the Internet.
Now get off it because you didn’t earn it.

Astralporing.1957:

General Health.9678:

Soloable means I do not have to group or team. I can play solo and run with a zerg.

If you need to depend on other players (see the “running with zerg” part) it’s not soloable.

I’m solo. I’m soloing. Not in a group. Don’t need a group. At no point am I not soloing.
Where a HoT map has a meta that needs doing to unlock part of the map like in AB, I don’t even need to join in the meta. Sometimes it has gone past me and done everything, I wouldn’t know. I just carry on soloing round the map and getting everywhere. No dependency on anyone.

Parts of some maps rely on other people opening them up for me. Not really any different to parts of core Tyria like getting to the CoF dungeon. That is totally blocked off from me until the meta is complete. Doesn’t mean as a solo player I can’t get there or that HoT is somehow some big bad monster that didn’t exist in core.

In my experience it’s the players 90% more often than the commanders.
Sure you get some bad commanders but it’s not the norm. Takes quite a lot of nerve to be the person who decides to lead up to a whole map in something. Takes nothing to be an kitten.

Did a completely successful Triple Trouble the other day. Could have been tidier at Cobalt, beach wasn’t cleaned early enough, finished it with a minute to spare as opposed to 5 minutes. The number of people that pointed that out was crazy. Could have, should have, I’d have done it differently.. and also “blah blah other guild does it better”. Can’t win with people like that, just have to ignore and move on.

Soloable means I do not have to group or team. I can play solo and run with a zerg. I can stand by a Hkittenil someone else arrives and starts it and join in. I am not grouping, I am not advertising, I am not using LFG, I am playing completely and utterly solo.

What I’m NOT doing is clicking the HC that spawns a champion, dying horribly and then complaining bitterly about how hard something is. Dulfy calls out all the HC’s and says if they are soloable or not. Most are communes. Some might spawn a vet and I might be able to kill that vet and you might not. So don’t try it if you know you can’t beat it for a fact or try it if you want to test your build. But let’s not be silly here, know your strengths and weaknesses.

Anything locked behind a meta.
I am still solo in the map, I am running round AB getting stuff I don’t have and then the meta starts. I don’t have Northwatch unlocked or I don’t have Balth done. I go do them. I don’t join a group, I’m joining an underway event just like I’d join a world boss event.

Speaking of which.. if there was a collection for instance that required you to kill Tequatl and get a drop. Would you start complaining on the forums that Teq doesn’t spawn enough, that you can’t solo it, that it requires other people, LFG’s, taxis, forces you to group, have the right gear..

No. The meta on the map is meant to be fun. Some of that fun can be planned by looking at a timer, by gearing appropriately (which can be as simple as getting some food, not forcing you to get ascended armour..), getting there early, having map chat on. You’re now in a good place to be able to do the meta, to do it easily, to maybe even enjoy it but even if you hate it.. it should be pretty smooth.

First time I did DS.. it had been out a couple of months probably, I was busy playing 9 toons with already fixed routines that I had to break out of to start doing the new story / content. It was pretty well figured out by people at this point and I was in a map that got busy. Wasn’t planned on my part. When a tag ran past me followed by a whole bunch of other people I was like.. yeah I’m following that! Did I solo DS on my own? No. I was playing solo and opportunistically followed a zerg. And we won. No idea what I was doing.. running round a tree and dying mostly. Jumping towards islands and missing.. so relieved when it was all over and the adrenaline kicked back out. Not been back since as I just haven’t added going there into my routine still but as my main now has Gift of the previous three maps, soon as I’ve got the Rata Novus achievement and the mini.. I’ll be taking my main there to do map complete and the meta when it starts up.

Dante.1508:

I can’t even consider trying my warrior or guardian there…

Why? The most survivable classes would, you’d expect, survive the most.
My guardian (now dragonhunter) is my main, grab a dungeon build from metabattle.com and faceroll round hot maps. Build zerker and gs/bow. Add traps as desired. My trinkets and weapons are ascended but my gear is all exotic. Wouldn’t say I never die as I do but it’s minimal, far less than I expect I would on my scrapper or herald or druid.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Technically Impossible.

/Buys forums
Dislikes forums
/Buys some new ones
/Adds IRC rooms
/Adds Reddit module for Q&A
Removes IRC rooms as they were a terrible idea

Technically impossible? They coded an entire game and they can’t get new / better forums and / or add mods?

Please.

curtegg.5216:

1) Mini-adventures – have no business in an MMO. Masteries should be related to the MMO content itself not mario like games.

They were meant to be fun. Many people did/do find them fun. Can’t blame the devs for trying to add a bit of fun. Sorry you don’t find them fun.

curtegg.5216:

2) Meta-event locking of resources – no one hardly does Octovine anymore, why is this event gating the gathering of Auric sand. Stupid design.

Have you tried using the LFG tool and checking when the meta is running using a timer site? Have you tried joining a guild to see when they are running it? I see it run a lot which doesn’t tie in with what you’re saying.
- there is a team in LFG taxi’ing people into a brand new DS right now, you posted about 3/4 of an hour ago so you should be able to see this and join it. -

curtegg.5216:

3) Adaptive scaling so HoT event chains can be sole-able or can be done with the present design zerg-fest.

I don’t see how you can have it be soloable without instanced versions which we don’t have. Also don’t know why you’d want to solo a massive meta event.. how would just you cover all sides of octovine or all lanes in TD..

curtegg.5216:

Don’t you love doing dragon stand for nearly an hour then get DC’d on the final fight and lose your chest.

Have you tried the 64bit client, people are reporting that it fixes this issue for them.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

Uhm, actually I’m not worried or embarassed about making factual mistakes in my posts.

So you’re happy to just talk utter nonsense, cause trouble and then just carry on because the sound of your own voice is so appealing to you?

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

The forum is here for information sharing and you can also learn things. I don’t care about getting things wrong.

Terrible forum pvp when this is what it comes down to.

I made Dreamer very recently. My first legendary, playing since beta. Just decided one day I should have a goal and then got the precursor so rather than sell it figured I’d make it.

Not half the grind people imagine it is in their heads.
Expensive enough tho, maybe 1,000 gold for the mats I didn’t have.
I got the precursor as a drop from the MF for about 90 gold of throwing stuff in.
I also got a bunch of other stuff drop that I resold so I got some of that 90 back.

I made the mistake of wandering up to the wvw vendor and spotting a bunch of skins I could buy with wvw tokens before I started making Dreamer because I was level 6 and figured tokens probably drop like candy. Yeah not so much.. took me until level 16 or so before I had enough tokens again. Pretty terrible time getting them given that my server had everything capped and nobody from the other servers seemed interested in retaking them so I could flip them back.

Other drag was getting TA tokens but PUGged and Guilded a few runs and I already had some from earlier so less annoying than wvw, this may get easier with dungeon un-nerfs.

Sirendor.1394:

if people enjoy themselves they will keep playing even if there’s nothing to grind for.

And by nothing to grind for you just mean no goals. In that case a lot of people will not just keep playing because they are goal oriented.

Sirendor.1394:

there really should be more tools for the players to entertain themselves with (i.e. sandbox elements).

There is a whole game out there full of maps, dungeons, mobs, mats, npcs, dialogue, cool gear, guilds, events, hidden areas, jumping puzzles.. those are the tools you use to entertain you. Decide you want to spend 50 gold on rare daggers and throw them in the mystic forge. Gather the mats you need for one or more of the Gifts, do map and world complete, gather the tokens from wvwv or dungeons you need. Plenty there to entertain you and if that isn’t enough.. there’s always RP.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

Guild Wars 2’s over-reliance on stats for a player’s position in the world has turned the game into nothing more than an apple-store iphone game replica.

Player’s position in the world? Slightly to the left of Shaemoor? Possibly north of Ascalon? On an island in a lake in Queensdale?

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

I guess you get what you pay for though, right? Perhaps it would be a better quality game if it was pay-per-month?

Getting what you pay for is a good goal. Also.. no. If it was pay per month you’d probably just get an allowance of gems.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

all the rubbish I had to go through

The game?

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

Reliance on stats for weapons, armour etc…is also not a good way to manage player progress.

What are you talking about? You level up, you get new gear your level. Some of that gear can be tuned so you are all berserker or all rabid or all knights or whatever. OTOH you can just wear any old mish-mash of gear and still complete all the content.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

what is the purpose of the trophy collection system?

Fun?

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

And why are there a million dyes to choose from? And why does my character have to ‘discover’ each dye before using it? This seems a bit pointless.

Also fun?

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

The producers really should find a way to make the game enjoyable for each individual player, without resorting to over-balancing, and extending the world of Tyria and what you have available.

Just like in real life where everything suits everyone, where birds sing and roses bloom as I pass by. Because just like me, they long to be, close to you.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

One of my biggest gripes is how player stats are changed based on zone levels. I feel this is a great injustice to the fantasy MMORPG genre!

I have no idea what you mean. This game only has for great justice.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

At the end of the day, a game should be fun to play, and I have to want to go back to it to enjoy my experience.

If you’re not enjoying it then you are in luck because there are many games out there to choose from and this one allows you to return when you feel ready to without penalising you.

Clearly the answer is guardian. Faceroll clears with speedboost utility to get between faceroll clears. Greatsword and zerker. That’s how I got my first world complete, back when you also had to wvw.

Dante.1508:

Can i possible ask what you guys find fun in that challenge you stated, doesn’t it kitten you off to not be able to complete stuff due to others mistakes or not being able to complete stuff solo… because.. padded challenge..

Ok separate the two things here. You don’t want to be trying to complete things solo unless you are on really specific builds. You can explore solo and by and large get map complete whilst solo, use dulfys video guides and maps to see how to do this.

What are you not completing due to others mistakes?
Silverwastes is the farm map of choice. People literally spend all day doing this so what mistakes are you talking about? Things failing such as the meta is largely down to not enough or good enough commanders and not enough or good enough zerg. This is the same in core Tyria – think Triple Trouble and Tequatl and WvW.

Dante.1508:

I personally do not feel fulfilled or amazing when i complete these overpowered events, i just think finally that annoyance is beyond me now lets hope the rest aren’t as painful as that was..

I don’t feel fulfilled or amazed either.. Silverwastes and VB are just a series of events same as in core Tyria, they’re not going to fill you with a sense of accomplishment. The big meta’s however such as a co-ordinated octo takedown or successful TD or DS, those can be a bit of a rush. Same as a really good TT. And to answer your hope.. unlucky, the rest will feel as painful to you. Not to me, I love the big meta events but to you, if you didn’t like the easy stuff, the (not really) harder stuff may be tough for you to deal with. Especially as you struggle to get round maps and use taxi’s.

Dante.1508:

I understand people are different but for me tedious content just upsets me.

Probably upsets most people but we have different thresholds. Someone said a while back to me that Tangled Depths was their favourite map. I refrained from commenting because that map is messed up, I was really concerned that I’d need to map complete on it at some point. Watched the dulfy guide, now love it. So much going on, all stacked on top of itself. You can find yourself at a really high mastery point and look down and below you is the hero point you got earlier.

I left YouTube.
No good new content to speak of, some reality stuff that most people don’t like. Tons of new lolcat videos so there is that.. the lolcat community is doing ok.
Otherwise not really any new content for about a year, there were some new music videos but even in my own family, not everyone likes the same music.
YouTube failed greatly on content altho you can replay it, over and over if you want. Thing is it has NO storyline. NONE. Also not many dungeons, what’s up with that?

The LFG – looking for group – tool is at the top left of your main screen, it’s the second symbol, it’s next to the cogs and looks like a person with two people behind them. Possibly.. You probably also have the Y key bound to it.

Click it and look for the second option, looks like people behind a magnifying glass and is called looking for group.

You should open by default on Open World Content, you can browse other options if you wish and look for a fractal or dungeon group or whatever.

For now.. on the right you will see lists of groups. Join something with sw, vw, breach, shovel, chest – those words are what you want. A lot will say j/l which means join then leave. If you join one and you are not in their instance then right click on their picture and choose “join in silverwastes”

Even if it doesn’t say j/l you may prefer to. This is fine. Then you can start playing on a busy map. Follow a zerg, look for a commander, learn the map by looking at what you need to do on wiki/dulfy/guildchat/whatever. Silverwastes has a mechanic and achievements. You need to learn one and may wish to get the other. People in map chat are usually helpful so see what is being said and see if you can figure a way to enjoy the new content.

Also vote for reaper. It’s just deliciously evil and awesome. On legs. So many undead pets, so many dead mobs.

You’re on a non-EU server then. So your instances are shared with all the other non-EU servers.
You are not meant to solo Silverwastes. You can play in it solo. I am not forcing you to group. However to take or keep a camp you will need to be in or around a group of other players. As you have just responded, I am going to assume you can get in game right now. So you can see exactly the same thing I am seeing right now as I am also on a non-EU server.
I’ve just moved from VB to SW, I am now in Camp Resolve.
The map says 3/4 fortresses held, there are several people running out of camp, I assume to go do stuff, a message has just flashed up to say the Pact retains Indigo Cave so people are playing.
In the LFG tool there is a “don’t do sab, shovel farm instead” team, one saying SW breach soon, and another two offering chest / shovel farms.
So a busy map right now whilst you are on. Might be different instances but joining one of those LFG or just the map I randomly entered will get you people to play with / near.

VB.
I have solo explored all of VB on each profession. Sure I didn’t solo all the HP’s because some you can’t. I joined in other people doing those. Check out dulfy.net for what is soloable and what is not. The whole of VB can be explored solo, I think 2? of the HPs can’t be obtained solo. All my toons are berserker geared.

This is entirely possible and.. if you are on right now.. I’d happily take you round SW or VB or shoot you a guild invite and you can explore/play with others who are on at your time (assuming that time is now)

- the map I randomly joined to start this post has just completed all outposts and is now about to start VW so “too hard” and “too empty” are clearly not true. -
- and successfully cleared vw so that’s three lanes of people on this one instance of this random map I joined at a time you play -

You also need to stop complaining about HoT maps and how hard and grindy they are when you haven’t even been in one yet.
You are complaining about SilverWastes which is the current farm map of choice.
You also don’t seem to realise that for PvE the maps aren’t on “your” server. They are shared instances across all either EU or non-EU servers. If you are in a dead instanced map, join another with the LFG tool, there’s usually a few advertising shovel farms, or showing what % of the map is done or that vw is up. Grab a taxi and join the groups there.

The “maps” are not dead. Use LFG to find a busy Silverwastes if you are in an empty one.
Don’t solo bases in SW just like you wouldn’t solo a world boss.
If your ranger is squishee, try playing on something else until you get a feel for the world.
If you absolutely insist it has to be your ranger or nothing.. change your build so you are more survivable.

I really wouldn’t seek medical help on a gaming forum.
If you are spending too long staring at a monitor it could be affecting you visually and mentally. Spending some time away from monitor/game could help.
In case it’s an embolism or something my advice would be to see an actual doctor.

I’m still unsure how that relates to map completion or soloing.
You can do the whole of HoT without grouping.
I’ve done some of the adventures in VB to have a look at them, didn’t affect my map completion. Not done them in any other map.

Banaghran.7510:

Feel free to replace the mentioned issues with more fitting ones, does it make the depicted situation less preposterous to you? If yes, why?

Why? Why does it matter, why are we still going on about this, it changes nothing.
Asking someone to come up with an analogy that will appease you is pointless.
Anet paused development on Legendaries for stated reasons and people need to let it go.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Astralporing.1957:

General Health.9678:

Highness.9061:

HoT maps should all be soloable

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

Considering that in HoT practically whole map is part of the meta, that’s a really, really huge exception.

Yeah, some parts of the map can only be accessed with meta events being completed, as are all the challenges. So yeah, HoT is not solo friendly. I really don’t think challenges should be tied to the meta at all.

Some parts of some maps are locked behind the meta. Someone has to do the meta to reach those areas. I do those bits of those maps when the meta is going on, either by tagging along with a group or joining a group if there’s a party or squad.

Some maps. Not all HoT. There is no need in VB or TD to do any meta events.

I’m not sure what challenges tied to the meta means.

Imagine that really happened.
You’d go to a different hotel.
So.. there’s that.

I was punished the most for this I feel. I was sucked into buying the pre-Beta by my social guild and one of our members was a big fan of dungeons. “Fungeons” he called them. He forced me to learn mechanics that recent players don’t even need any more. I had to learn complex skill rotations and swap out weapons. Free accounts just press 1 now.
I later joined a Singapore based guild. More like a cult! They groomed me with WvW and zergs and before I knew it we were sucking back on Quaggan tonics and doing synchronised moves in LA and.. I’m ashamed to say.. I was lured back into dungeons where I was forced to perform unspeakable acts of stacking and blasting combo finishers from behind doors and luring enemies by breaking line of sight and pulling them to us.
I wish I’d just waited three years and then I’d have got the base game for free.
But no. A few months ago I joined a really big guild. Things have gotten steadily worse. They do missions where you get turned into things, unspeakable things and you have to run round and round these places and I have no idea where I’m going and try to make my excuses but they put up these markers that float in the air and people stand in set places and my cries fall on deaf ears. I’ve now got all these commendation things that just make me feel cheap. And they do mapping runs, yesterday it was Timberline Falls. Ten or so of us just roaming around this map getting waypoints and points of interest.
I just feel beaten by all the wonders. Next time I’m going to wait.

Dante.1508:

Hopefully make it easier to solo..

How would you solo meta..

I wasn’t trying to cover what other threads have discussed.
I don’t agree that they need lots of work or reworking either.
I was posting below Dante saying they hadn’t seen a huge lot PvE with a list of PvE changes.

Ours is heavily used.
Individually it’s so handy to press g, hop to guild hall, empty bags, pick up boosts, harvest, press g and end up back where you started.
We run guild missions three times a week so meet up there and use the portal.
We will be starting guild pvp shortly so it will be the place to be for that as well soon.

As for creativity, ours is amazing, we have several guildie made jumping puzzles that were pumpkins and clouds and now there’s a whole Sab themed thing going on.

Why would you want to buy design packs with gems when you could do what our guild has done? That would just lead to a pay to decorate situation.

Shylock.4653:

General Health.9678:

This thread needs a proper GM look.

How much more you want as the post of Michael Henninger (Game Support Lead)?

The extra clarity subsequently posted.

I’m in a large guild with everything maxed. They’re anything but worthless. They are too large however. You can do a LOT with guild decorations and my guild is full of wonders (none of which I made.. ) but it didn’ t need to be the size of a whole map.

If you can’t see the point of a guild and prefer a city, up to you. I have heard people saying that cities are largely useless now thanks to guild halls so ymmv.

“in order to max out everything with a scew of 20-30 active players… each player will have to donation 2 legendary worth of material and that is just stupid.”
Why is it stupid?

There was tons for PvE. New maps, new metas, new currency, masteries, elites, improved world bosses, gliding, guild halls.. how have you not seen all of that?

Just make a new elementalist.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So the issue clearly isn’t technical.

Clearly /s
Despite the redname post above.
Clearly /s

Ophidia Moonstone.2587:

I am highly upset about legendary weapons. I may even quit the game over it eventually. I put in too many hours and bought the game for the expanded legendaries to quit before I make one.

Hard to be highly upset over something you haven’t even made one of.
Now if you were a serial legendary crafter and had all the others then I’d concede you had a point, that part of the game is currently closed off to you. But if you haven’t even made one yet? Not so much.

the image shows someone with the number 149 which is how many mastery points they have

Xillllix.3485:

Making them buy the original game twice when HoT was released was just insulting.

This dead horse doesn’t need beating any further.

If you didn’t check what it did before you upgraded then why did you upgrade?
The upgrade costs are here:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mine_Excavation_3

That does NOT list any ley line infused tools

However THIS does:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mining_Rate_3

So it looks like you upgraded mining rate

Why does it matter to you what “western people” do or know?
You say how bad they are yet here you are with a paid for account.

bad forum pvp is bad.

The key line there is not understanding.
Anet aren’t doing this on purpose so there is something going on that they haven’t got to the bottom of yet or it would already be fixed.

There is a patch coming out that may (or not) address this.
If it doesn’t, they will fix it when it’s figured out.
To me this is probably the biggest legitimate issue we have right now.

I on the other hand have no idea what you mean. Have you been in any dungeons recently? They aren’t full of trees and mobs and other people.

MadRabbit.3179:

However, the way they are avoided requires some degree of luck and isn’t a well thought mechanic.

It’s very well thought out. Most of us are managing to avoid most attacks because they are so well telegraphed and the mechanics are well known.

If you never been hit with this mechanic, then you are just incredibly lucky.

Would be a bloody miracle. The trick is to learn how to avoid it next time.

Is it all manageable if you devote time to learning how to exploit the AI?

What on earth are you talking about? Exploiting the AI?

just how imbalanced it is and done with little care or testing?

I’m sure lots of care and testing was done and it’s just you who is mad about how it turned out.

Shylock.4653:

Sartharina.3542:

Power: 1326
Precision: (To critcap)
Ferocity: (Everything else)
Condition Damage: 132

This

Yep