Guild Wars 2

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TLDR: I think Devs should sticky this WP video somewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TabHvvwuWe8

If you are new to gw2, or aren’t but haven’t tried ReShade (or just sweetfx) yet, you should consider it. I honestly think if the game looked this good upon install, people would kitten themselves.

The simplest sharpen settings effect can be compared to being near sighted then putting glasses on. Open these examples in your browser on separate tabs and switch between the two. You might think the difference it’s too slight but it’s actually huge when playing:
Before1: http://i.imgur.com/gUCXocP.png
After1: http://i.imgur.com/ynDAopo.jpg
Before2: http://i.imgur.com/lsdEjlS.jpg
After2: http://i.imgur.com/m8BWK5k.jpg

Pay close attention to details on close/distant objects, eg the skritt village in set 2.

If you want to try it out WP has a good guide on it. You have to turn of postprocessing (which you should turn off regardless :P), turn off antialiasing, and run windowed fullscreen (which runs smoother than fullscreen anyway).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5i5-2X4wMA

I myself run a very cleaned up ReShade config file which gives 0 fps loss, doesn’t modify any colors, and just sharpens things. (examples above and below) Careful with some settings, you might see huge fps drops on certain effects like Engineer’s smoke bomb or flame wall. So if you see that (you can toggle reshade on or off in game with a key press to check) – play more with settings, simplify.

Attaching config here if anyone wants. I used to run more enhanced settings but when I went to HoT maps my eyes would bleed from how too green everything was

I am actually thinking of going to Lion’s Arch and just broadcasting about Re-Shade in map chat to get more players aware of it.

In conclusion – GW2 looks amazing , and this will make you see just how amazing :P ReShade makes such a huge difference that I sometimes feel it would be a crime to have people playing the game without telling them about this. %))) Thus the post.

Some more screens with my settings:
http://i.imgur.com/J4lUR56.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Oj9SL0V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9iGsPPG.jpg

I think my fractal loot from end chests is back to normal (it fills up the inventory and there’s a few rares in there and plenty greens and blues). Maybe something got fixed?

Still getting kitten all from dailies, got a 3 rings so far though, so hopefully luck will favor me some day My friend got 3 ascended chests in 3 days lolz (2 weapon and 1 shoulders?)

Hmz i’m just going to go ahead and repeat myself, if you’re finding T4 end bosses too long/tedious, look up raid builds, gear out, learn your rotation, consider getting a Viper condi class, and try running 1-4h after reset to get good pugs.

I’ve been doing T4 with peeps I raid with and Cliffside boss drops pretty quick (compared to say Snowblind boss, which takes slightly longer?)

I have to say that after I started raiding my rotations/builds have improved drastically so t4 fractals aren’t a problem now

So if you’re having a lot of trouble you want to look up raid builds and try those out. Check out qT benchmarks on reddit, go into that golem test room check your dps.

For snowblind good party comp is important (I run dragon hunter for the icy part for reclects /pulls) and I think for end boss if you have a condi Viper class fully geared you’ll kill him much faster than if you bring all power classes

Join FOTM guild
You will be required to have ascended Zerker (or Viper if you’re condi) for your class and be decent fractal lvl.

If you not there yet, if time permits run fractals with pugs shortly after reset. Most of the veteral fractalers run fractal dailies shortly after reset (3-4h after reset is also fine) so if you do fracs with them it’ll be quite good.
If you do fracs at the end of the day before reset, you’ll see much less /lower quality traffic.

Okay so from someone who raids (but isn’t a too hardcore player) and has some friends who I play with (so I run zerker and we are all pretty good at surviving):

1. Do this after reset. The pugs you get on LFG right after up to 3-4h after reset tend to be experienced fractalers and that will help you ton. If you have 1 person in a group who constantly dies that’s challenged failed there for you most likely. Drop group try again.

2. Run raid hammer build for DH, run 2 traps and elite trap and a Power knockdown signet. run ur hammer and run bow? Put everything zerker and maybe throw in couple nomads in there if you have a legendary weapon if not maybe eat some Vitality food. You have to be good at surviving. If you go down too often too much dps loss = challenge failed.

3. I myself never use wall to reflect her as it’s too hard she keeps moving all the time. The key like people here mentioned is that your party CCs her when she stands in lightning field. THis has to be done quite fast so as dragonhunter you ’ll want to do this:

- she stands in lightning
- you pop your F3 for blocks, run the durp in there, lay your elite trap, your 2 traps (have traps Daze DH trait), smash her with hammer 4, do hammer 3, dodge the heck out of there.

At this point you should have cced or almost cced her all by yourself. important to have good group to also cc with you in case some of your stuff’s on cool down.

As long as her aggro is not on you you can melee her if not use bow pretty decent dmg.

You ideally want an elementalist or two in your group for icebow good cc, for good dps, and chrono will help you ton.

Good luck

PS: oh ye forgot, the knockdown power signet is real good cc that can be done at 1200 range in case you need that last bit of cc on her

PSS: due to the instability in this fractal you can’t have too many melee classes in one group as 2 ppl cannot melee her at the same time due to agony stacking on them. So having more than 1 DragonHunter could be quite detrimental. I did do challenge with 2 necro and 1 DH and 1 guardian, myself as a tempest, dps was on the lower side but we did it. Not sure what builds they were running.

I’d love to see their RNG algorithm. There’s been multiple indications it uses current time, ie looting items during certain time (close to within a second?) gives you same item.

Probably they never going to show it to us, and there might even be multiple RNG methods for different content in the game, but this right now is just pretty aweful. Some people get everything, some get nothing.

Hopefully it evens out in the long run, and fingers crossed there’s no bug in there.

Doesn’t change though the question => was loot from end chests nerfed? When I ran fractal dailies before my inventory was bursting, and there were a lot of rares. Now I get close to no loot, and 1 rare. I do realize I only run 3 T4 fractals and 2 lower, instead of 9 total fracs, but that’s still 5 vs 9, so I shouldn’t be seeing 1/9 th of what I was seeing before

+1

Loot nerfed for sure. I’ve been doing T4 since patch, I got nothing whatsoever out of any (T4 to T1) chests. Not a single ring, not a single ascended. Nada.

Is my account bugged? Sure starts feeling that way.

Before I’d run fracs I’d get a lot of rares. Say 3 per 1 frac at least??? Now I’m lucky if I get one.

What’s up? Official response?

I also lose all my participation when that happens. Eg right now I got landed in another map that’s also doing the event (yay) but my participation is 0.

I consistently get disconnected once the second big vine is killed, as is half the squad I’m in. I can never get back in and am eventually locked out of the map.

Hey, at least finish Ad Infinitum! The precursor is done all you have to do is slap in a formula to let us make the item? 250 of x, 250 of y, 250 of Z, precursor, done?

The biggest part on legendaries is the precursor crafting and the looks, and Ad Infinitum has those implemented. Pls let us make that heh.

I do feel bad, people are going to quit. I myself love this game to death and will keep playing it even if no release ever was done starting now. It looks too good with sweet fx and the game’s great :P Just keep the servers up pls :P

First time posting lfg works fine; once you complete a fractal, unless you disband party and regroup and post in LA (not from within frac), LFG does either nothing, or ignores your text, magically resurrecting your old post text, or posts an invisible post (with empty text).

This is making running daily fractals super annoying. I thinnk it’s been like this since Tue.

Pls look into this is driving me bananas.

!!!

For next Halloween:

A Bouncing Pumpkin outfit.
You are naked inside a pumpkin and your arms and legs stick out. (Would look super cute on azura and super funny on a charr).

IF you jump off and do not deploy glider, you BOUNCE. The greater the height you jump off from, the higher/further you bounce and you keep bouncing according to physics laws yada yada.

Whilst bouncing you curl up into some believable ball or even pull your arms/legs in but keep that head sticking out.

Makes a BOING BOING bouncing noise while bouncing!

Can be packaged with a Bouncing pumpkin mini and a pumpkin helmet!
Still thinking on what Pumpkin Glider would look like…

For a mere price of 450 Gems (due to its simplicity), packaged with mini and helmet for 700 gems.

Bouncing pumpkin minigame! New halloween minigame!
I stop now

Lucked out on a screenshot and can’t resist sharing :P
Direct link: http://i.imgur.com/Liyp9ST.jpg

+1 Finally someone asking for time frame on this!
I’ve been sort of stuck as far as my goals go, I know I need to do map completion because I’m clean out of Gift of Exploration, but without any decent time frame on when this backpack’s coming into this game I’ve just sorta been logging on doing my dailies.

Paaaalease can we have some sort of estimate if one exists? I know Colin said ‘we just need to throw it in as soon as it’s ready’ and that just made it sound like some sort of project that got bogged down amongst other things, which makes me a little bit worried yet very hopeful because it sounded like it’s almost done and should be dropped soon?

In which case => could we pleeeease have a very approximate date/month?

I’m loving fractals as they are now, daily doable in 1h. Don’t care if it’s all swamp => I can do other fractals extra if I want, no problem.

To say that you hate the low level skill of players is a very short sited thing to say, new fractal system is bringing in a lot of new players, which means more fractalers. And they’ll learn.

And fractals is great content for practicing for raids (new builds new classes or just being new). It’s not too easy, it’s not too difficult once you got the skill.

I ran a 99 once with a party of 5 tempests. So goooood ^^ I think there’s so many viable comps though. If people know their class well/do excellent dmg, doesn’t matter to me. Chrono alacrity is insane boost to dmg, of course.

NikeEU.7690:

There isn’t a single fight or encounter in the fractals that is even close to as fun, challenging or interesting as the worst of the 3 raid bosses.

And why on earth would you compare a raid boss fight to a fractal fight? If every fight in the game was as challenging/fun/engaging as raid boss, game would be the size of a walnut and population of 10.

This is becoming yet again ‘oh I ran fractals 4000 times and the fight isn’t challenging now’ type of complaint. Once you learn it, yes it’s easy.

I went through every fractal from 1 to 100 recently, some of them were very challenging. But now when I run dailies yeah I feel good about myself, I feel like I know what I’m doing.

I still find fights fun though and am still learning new things about the bosses, if you have the eyes to see and willingness to learn. Sometimes you get into a group with low dps, and you have to learn tells (for instance Molten Duo => Jump over wave, no jump over horizontal burst kinda sound explosion thing => I learned that recently on 99, and now I’m enjoy the hell out of fights where the Minotaur doesn’t go down instantly).

People whine too much, as usual. Really looking forward to fractal updates too, and I think current fractal daily and rewards are in great shape. Run dailies every day, takes me just over an hour, great stuff. Decent time put in, decent reward, and I can still play the rest of the game each day.

JTGuevara.9018:

reikken.4961:

what was the hit they took?

The rewards got greatly reduced, even at the higher levels.

They fixed the rewards though; even if you aren’t lucky to get ascended, you get very decent gold from encryptions now. Not sure what you on about. Rewards are actually better than they used to be.

Not sure what you are talking about, when I use lean technique my endurance goes to 0 but my glider doesn’t close (do you actively close it? Why?). When it’s at 0 lean technique stops, glider remains open, and endurance refills and I just glide without lean for a while. So it’s still infinite.

Your number 1 is already in game. Go to video options, set Model Limit (or something like that) to minimal. When you are at an event, you will see most players won’t be drawn at all. Furthermore, if you turn off player nameplates, you’ll be under impression there are only about 12 people at any zergie event

Another limit is character model quality, which determines whether you want to draw armor details on every person you can see. I set it not to lowest but low. Lowest will draw anyone you don’t have targeted as generic pink armor XD

12 – Fishing – YES! Please. I’m wondering how one could solve the botting problem this’d entail, maybe fishing that requires some sort of random interaction, some indicator you can reel in that’s near impossible to read in with undetectable software?

Lore System => please please please, journals scattered on every map you can collect, hidden notes, etc. That’d all add up into a nice Lore system by map, and then General with stories about world, and then section on animals, and god knows what not (Wildstar has a very nice lore system, I don’t play the game , but the Lore system is nice).

!! I completely misunderstood the structure a guildie just enlightened me
Back on track hoho I guess I’ll go do the 15 day to unlock part II

WOopsie

:( Well gg then. I was gonna go for the backpack, but now won’t bother because I’m set back by what, 2-3 months? Might as well wait for the fractal one. Screw the leagues! W/e

Thx for the info.

Hi, I’m trying for year of ascension part 1 , 11/11, and I had 10/11

I completed my 3rd profession win achieve, for guardian, just now, and i’m still 10/11 ???

I’d do the 15 days participation one but I only noticed it on Jan 12th, which gave me 13 days so I didn’t bother. I figured I"ll fill in with 1 extra 5 wins on profession.

Is there a cap on profession wins that contribute? :O Is it impossible for me now to get the meta achieve?(((((( This’d be pretty ridiculous. I mean the achieve says it advances the meta.

Fishing!
Lore system :P
Player-owned decorations that drop from mobs and/or are easy to craft (chairs, bookshelves, mugs, books,cushions, etc)

I am VERY hyped for the check box feature that’ll permanently show all interactable objects Thank you!

As I’m mostly PVE, very happy to see upcoming festival, Fractal news, LS3 news, raiding news.

I’m a tad sad on certain features game could have but completely agree with focusing on existing stuff strategy. Guild decorations aren’t in a place right now where a regular player would be interested in them atm. If they belonged to Player (not guild) and dropped from more mobs/events, I think that’d bring a lot of fun into the game. I’m currently using Sims 4 and Landmark to quench my ‘I want to build/decorate’ desires that Anet awoke with guild hall :P

Also => did not see a word on when next batch of legendaries is coming in? Would love to have them soon to have that big goal. I don’t want any of the hope/axe/staff at the moment, in fact went and made Bifrost and Quip as I like those better, I’m really excited to see though what you have for sword and dagger! as I’m no fan of incinerator or bolt.

Also => big koodoes on year-long brew quest :P GG on keeping players around for a whole year :P Not that I was going anywhere but it’s a nice little tidbit.

What is this! I DO want gliding in CT. I’m hopping on my lvl 3 character or creating a new one and gliding my way TO GREATNESS!

:D

TexZero.7910:

1) It’s a bug
2) To prevent the fail farm state of only running VG and gaming the system.

But there’s nothing wrong with only failing VG to get shards. It takes time, it’s a fail attempt, it’s legit, You still gotta be good to get to last phase to max out shards you get, and it still takes a while to cap your 100. Any sane person would clear the raid and then either fail VG repeatedly, or help other people and fail VG/Gors/Sab repeatedly. Don’t see any issues. Cap’s there for a reason.

If people ONLY farm VG, that’s their choice. They don’t even want a shot at any loot on Sab/Gors. And as I said it takes 3 months to get a full ascended set => where’s the issue?

Once cap is above 100, ppl will still clear all the raids, then farm the easiest boss. Unless they want to give 0 shards to people who cleared which would discourage people from going in again to help others, which’d be a bad thing imho.

The only issue I see here is Anet being opposed to people getting any reward whatsoever for doing content. Horrifying isn’t it :P
As long as VG isn’t being cheesed and Akitten in one place to get shards => people are doing stuff. Who cares which boss it is. And it’s a nice way for those who can’t clear VG to keep trying at it.

I thought Arena net did a really neat thing with previous magnetite shard drops:
1. Wiki said cap of 100 is per wing? So you cap out by:
a) killing bosses if you can
b) helping your friends kill bosses
c) trying to kill bosses

It took a lot of raiding to cap out with previous drops, but it was feasible. I had to raid maybe 3 nights per week extensively.

If you capped out 100 per week, it’ll take you 3 months approximately to be able to buy a full ascended set from merchant. So I had this brilliant idea:

Anet made 1st wing dps-oriented, aka zerk required. (or condi) Knowing that current meta is zerk, which meant majority of the community could try the raids and have a good chance to participate/beat them in current gear => no gear grind to get into raid.

In 3 months => wing 2 comes out, that requires some new funky builds, but if you raided in a dedicated way, you could get that new stat ascended set from merchant and try new things!
If 100 shards is per wing, and you got 200 per week, who cares anymore all that stuff is account bount and after gearing out 9 toons in 3 sets, you just hoard them and spend them on minis. Or salvage them down to build legendary armor. All that would take a few years, and I thought a few years is enough time to dedicate to a game (how much more time can a game ask for?)

And I thought that was amazing. Getting shards still felt like a lot of work in raids, but it felt rewarding, and I had a nice goal to work towards => having that extra set to play with.

Now => after spending 7h in Sabetha in 2 nights I got 2 shards. Which is basically equivalent to 0.
:|

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3xe1dp/change_to_magnetite_shards_drop/

What this tells me is there was no calculation targeted at 3 month to get ascended armor set, or even 6 months, and that next wing will most likely be zerk as well. Disappointing. Not to mention annoying because I want to get those shards even if I fail because that felt deserved. We got Sab to 25% consistently during the night and getting nada for it => bad change.

Is this going to get fixed? Will shards we earned be given to us?
I had 120 after Monday VG/GS/Sab tries; spent 3h today trying still at 120. And I’m 100% certain my shards were at 85 after raid reset, so my cap is 185.

I had 85 after raid reset; We got VG and Gorseval on Monday and had some tries at Sabatha. I’m at 120 now, we are trying sabatha and i’m getting 0 shards (we had 2h worth of attempts getting her to after 2nd and to 3rd add)

I have a hard time remembering what mist essence is to be honest, and I have the backpack.
If it’s globs and shards => yeah if you ran fractals before, which I made a point of getting to 50 before HoT, so I had 3 month of regular fractaling, I have ton of those and never needed extra for this.

What my biggest issue was is stabilizing matrices. THe RNG on ring salvaging is horrendous. Salvaged 30+ rings hoping for that 10-20 rate, got couple 10s but that was it. Got 170 I think. so had to buy 100+ matrices which was around 100 gold.

Hawks.5736:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Engineer_-_Condition_Grenadier

Scroll down to the “Optimal DPS Rotation” bit.

Bwehehehe I actually learned almost the entire rotation.
I immensely enjoy how Engi azura was my very first early start character, playing him now and loving it! The cooldowns are quite nice to keep track of, keeps you on ur toes, and Anet => koodoes to that skill queueing! I love how in the raid I switch between kits/pistols all the time at top speed, I c a seeker coming I just queue up a frost granade at it, then queue up 3 more skills and I see my engi turn away from seeker yet those magic frost balls fly and hit it in the face.. So good.

And then mesmer comes with alacrity and u just go ‘omg everything off cooldown now go wild time’ XD

Versatility on this class is so good! And Condi dmg is a very nice break from straight dmg classes.

For new players I would recommend starting on a much simpler class, eg Warrior. That’s how I got into end game => get warrior to 80, get good gear, start running Dungeons/Fractals. I learned fast runs and value of meta from pugs, while not ever being kicked because getting great DPS from a warrior is easy.

Then once you understand things a bit better/know runs => try it on a more complicated class. Lots of fun, learning curves are quite enjoyable. There’s always plenty to learn still even when you think you know everything.

E.l.e.m.e.n.t.a.l.i.s.t

That begs the question, how do I obtain a second set? :O Would there be another collection in say Wing2?

Okay, I REALLY want to know this. I haven’t been able to find any info on it yet, but maybe someone out there knows/will be willing to share. Or at least confirm for me this isn’t known:

Will legendary armor be split into heavy/medium/light?
That is, to cover all classes, will I have to craft 3 sets?

Or will it actually be so legendary that there’s one set for all? :O

YaYa.5879:

I want them to think “kitten , that man must be really rich in real life to spend real money for fake items, i hope he lives near me and is single”.

Excuse me! “I hope SHE lives near me and is single” :P

Dude it’s a store. Store has new items, store has sales. People who add items to the store aren’t the same people who do fractal changes. Seriously 2 very different things. Go work at a start up dev shop.

Just be patient, they said fractal changes coming December, so I have my fingers crossed next week. Even if not that, there’s plenty stuff to do meantime, and Wintersday is coming, yay!

What on earth are fractal leaderboards, and why’d you lock a legendary behind a leaderboard? :O

I’m still reserving opinion on this, funny fact is though that I bought GW2 only because it was a game that had no raids. I hated spending sooo many hours raiding/waiting.

Well now it has raids. And I spent too many hours trying them XD If I can’t get kitten I want in time I find acceptable => I ’ll stop doing them, w/e.

I won’t pay any more money to Anet though until I know i can get legendary armor in reasonable time. Because this infinite stat nonsense isn’t something I want to waste my time on, esp with how for every raid boss I need a different durping class.

webtoehobbit.4201:

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I have been having the hardest time trying to get into a guild group for raids. These guilds I am in seem to have a “core” group, of which I can’t get into since it’s the Leader/Officers of the guilds, and then the second group that they want to form never has enough people for it.

lol that’s word for word what my guild is like. Nothing came out of a guy forming a raid group i signed up for, officers raid with their buddies from leet guild, group that’s running often is a learn group which never gets enough people and never downs the boss

I just went pugging and found a few people I killed VG with. so now i’m capped on guilds, running with one guild of 20 people when they raid, join other people i found when they raid, and just get as far as i can trying to find good ppl to raid with

It’s pretty much become a game of ‘which class and build i need to be for this next boss’? I’m not about to make 2nd heavy ascended for warrior so i’ll stick on my condi engi which i built ascended for just before hot, going okay so far

They need to nerf raids a bit, make them more puggable. give hardmode to elitists.

Okay this made my day. I am looking through things I need to do and I can’t stop laughin.
Anet => such a good job on this one. Lots of kisses.

Cletus Van Damme.2795:

It’s possible they’re trying to pick up the massive Wildstar crowd with HoT, it’s a courageous strategy I hope it works out for them.

XD bwahahahahahaa that’s hilarious, nice

Eirdyne.9843:

The general statements against the OP are pretty ignorant. By and large most of this community is probably too young to remember what it was like to play games like EQ in 1999. In that era everything the OP is writing about actually was the mainstay experience of the MMO.

That being said when we see posts like this we ought to understand them as Orwellian Concerns. That is, you’re being told here there’s a real danger that:
- Raids have the potential to turn this game into a gear-treadmill
- Legendary armor may only come from raids making an elite class of players that firmly divide the game between the ‘have’ and ‘have nots’: something that per-dominates all other MMOs, but which Guild Wars 2 was known for not involving itself with.

These two small factors in the concerns which the OP is trying to voice leave good reason to watch very carefully where this goes. Already we’re seeing the injection in a item acquisition through trophies which are actually the same old mechanic as Dragon Kill Points (DKP) that in newer MMOs and later years of WoW are various types of tokens.

This is called an “edge” or “ledge”. If we tip a bit further into this the firm divide between those with Legendary Armor and allowed access to it isn’t going to be about how good you are as a player, but simply how old you are. If you’re above 21 you may want to seriously consider these concerns because you’re going to have a job, a family, and college that will be eating up your time. 6 hours a night to be jerked around with a raid to have a chance at Legendary Component 6 of 19 should really be taken for what it is: the end of your access to Guild Wars 2.

Why? Because once it becomes pre-supposed that a sufficient minority of the population has Legendary Gear that the Devs can swap over to making Legendary armor the new required armor to play every one of us that doesn’t have it which is all of us at the moment are out. We’re not longer the company’s demographic.

So, despite how you might thing “oh they’d never do that” keep in mind this has been the only game design running since the very first MMO.

+1000 to you sir. While your writing will probably be incomprehensible to a certain percentage of readers, very nicely explained, I’d never be able to explain the issues troubling me half so well

Okay, you know how Anet say we can’t change race on our characters?
Great.

Now we know that they have the ability to make us ‘look’ as a different race (fractals), without making us that race. This was already suggested I think.

So why not Race tonic? (Infinite) Charr tonic (1000 gems), Human tonic (1000 gems) etc?

Make it choose all random settings for that race when you use it (including gender => so you can use it until you get desired gender/look)
Would be really fun to see the random looks!

Make it include all the custom kit styles, randomize that, make it cost 2000 gems.

I sympathize with OP. I shouldn’t be left feeling that my class is worthless for raid, I shouldn’t be forced to make second set of heavy ascended armor, I shouldn’t be forced to Revenant zerk raid while i Guard zerk fractal.

Their statements of no gear grind are very false now because ascended has a locked stats you can’t swap on fly, and they just keep adding those stat sets. What they should have done to keep this accessible to casuals is give us a way to craft legendary armor outside of raids. Then you go into raid, and stat swap all you like.

And apparently gw2 being balanced around pvp made thieves useless in raids? tough luck.

Sooo yeah. Meh. I’ll try doing raids with my main, if it doesn’t work, whatever. I think I’ll also try tanking in exotics on a guardian and see how that goes.

But my overall playtime will be reduced because of raids simply because it puts things in perspective. I can’t be good at the game anymore unless I’m hardcore. Well I liked being good. But I don’ thave hours to put in. So I’ll go put the hours I do have somewhere else. Some place that doesn’t make me feel inadequate.

OP is right in that casuals who don’t have a group to do this with/time to do this will start feeling like they are left out and start leaving. Some of them at least.

Ugh Anet fix your stuff. Or post decent command guides on how people need to do this.

Someone invited me to squad, I left that squad, then another squad could not invite me. Said no option when right clicking on my name? I myself have no clue how to invite ppl to squad, suggesting /invite to them didn’t seem to work.

/squadjoin name doesn’t work because most likely they made their squad private.

Also I heard you can’t invite people to squad from within raid instance? Why? Meaning raid squads can’t go lfg?

The upshot is, gg me trying to join a squad that’s looking for my build.
Thx

I was really incensed by this when I just found out, posted some furious posts about balls of dark energy not being salvageable from rings. Now that I cooled down a bit, I think:
- the thing they are shooting for here is personal achievement, so balls of dark energy are gettable only from account bound stuff, and that’s great.
- legendary armour should be very hard to make. Now I agree that salvaging ascended armor is very painful however as long as getting ball out of weapon/armor is 100% chance, I think I’m actually okay. At least I know what I"m going for here and that it won’t be a waste.

The only thing remaining is => you need a way for a person to get that ascended item which involves as little RNG as possible. Currently that isn’t there because they murdered ascended drop rate in Fractals. I’m hoping it gets fixed in December. The only way is to grind gold and make it (which lets face it isn’t fun for some people).

Then there’ll be raids, which I don’t think I"ll be able to clear any time soon (though I’ll try!), but ascended drop rate there should be good.

I salvaged ascended heavy chest piece so far, got 1 ball and actually got deldrimore steel chestplate which I sold for 55 gold, so that wasn’t bad at all. My second ball I got from buying 4 amulets for guild commendations/gold and salvaging them. My friend doing this same time got 0 balls. So that kinda sucks.

I think it’s actually in an okay place or will be soon with fractal rewards patch, and I surprise myself saying that. But the main reason is => if I know what I’m going for, and I know what I need, I know what I need to do to get there:
- do teq daily
- do fractal dailies as much as I can and stack those chests without opening them until December patch and ascended drop rate is confirmed to be good
- do ascended daily crafting, earn some gold for when I need that last ball.
- try to do raids.

It will take ages yes, and tons of effort, but I guess that’s what legendary armor is about? It’s that final thing that’ll make your game really easy-breezy, as you won’t ever have to worry about stat sets/armor for 3 classes ever again (heavy/medium/light?) or 9? (i’m not clear on that, is legendary armor heavy/medium/light differentiated).

And it’s not too RNG to get to that goal, and that works for me.

Yeah I’m back in

I got banned as well, and I can’t think of a good reason. I created a support ticket.

Hhaahaha, this is hilarious. Very excited to explore some jungle all over again XD wish I had some map compltion to cash in rewards twice, but oh well. Can we get this as a feature? :P TO reset map progress on all maps on a character?