Guild Wars 2

Ever since Scarlet was introduced, there has been outlandish speculation of her role in the Lunatic Court. Seeing the time frame for the updates, and the technology used by Scarlet, as well as her personality, it doesn’t seem all that farfetched now that she is in fact somehow related to MKT.

My biggest realization was the Clocktower, and how perfectly Scarlet fits the theme of Guild Wars Halloween.

Thoughts?

Most powerful foe in TA?

I think a miniature Game Mechanic Where the Boss Won’t Reset on Forward/Up Path would look awkward following me around.

I think one of the biggest issues last year (and one that the developer addressed very sincerely) was the difficulty that Norn/Charr were having with the jumps. Hopefully those players are rectified this year.

A large part of the appeal for me was the fact that it was public. The king of the hill style JP was a lot of fun.

The only change I would like to see is the enabling of costume brawl during the tower:)

The madness would be fantastic.

Grenth (and the human gods in general) are not as relevant to lore in GW2 since there are more races.

People have to understand that ANet has stated time and time again that Ascended weapons are a long-term goal for players. People log in, see they can’t buy everything on the first day, and come in the forums to complain about how bad ANet is. But they are also the same people that blast through content to be amongst the first to do so, and then complain how there is nothing to do.

If I’ve learned nothing else from the hours I’ve spent in the forums, I’ve learned that you can never please this vocal minority. Ascended is the last tier of gear that they will likely ever implement. There are a lot of fun activities that get you the materials to craft them (you know, playing the game). If you don’t want to do it, don’t. There is only one very niche type of content that even requires the weapons, and an argument can be made about that as well.

This has been the way ANet conducts business since launch. Stop complaining or find another game.

OP I assume you’re here because you want to find a reason to play. Honestly the forums are the worst place to get advice from other players. I played GW1 for 5 years and though it was an awkward transition, it’s a good game once you realize it’s not the same game.

As someone said, forums here are used as a platform to complain. I suggest you find yourself a good guild. That’s a very important aspect of getting the most out of the game. And take your time. Start a new character maybe and enjoy the leveling process instead of catapulting to 80 as fast as possible. Send me a PM if you want to play with some good people.

At home on Sorrow’s Furnace, [Gaki] is looking for dedicated PvE players to help the guild become a prime PvE force on the server.

Founded by a group that ran the same guild in GW1 for 5 years, [Gaki] is looking for players who want to be recognized.

Message me, Damage Per Suki in game, or leave a PM/comment in this forum.

See you soon!

Merrex.5384:

Ranger
Sick ‘Em will now apply ‘Revealed” to enemies they target.

Ok I am missing something here, If your target uses stealth you no longer have a Target correct ? So then does the pet just go after that last thing you had targeted or do you need to use it before they stealth ? Or maybe its a AOE Ground target…..

I’m guessing this will play on skill priority.
If you use the pet skill, the target will not be able to stealth in the first place. If they stealth before you are able to get off your Sic ’Em, then maybe you are SOL

I love the Short Bow, for all of the reasons listen above. It’s such a versatile utility

I really hope they sort it out, it’s incredibly frustrating to see the Teq at 20% during your first would-be kill and then have the game crash to log in to a full overflow.

I also just made a thread about crashing during bosses. It hasn’t been this way until the invasion patch and I know for a fact it isn’t my computer.

This game lately, I can’t wait for EQ Next

Is there an internal problem with game crashes after last patch? i can’t finish a single world boss without my client going down at least once during the fight, and now I lost a tequatl kill because of it. My computer is specced very well and I have not had any problems like this until the Invasion update.

Scarz

I think Tequatl will follow the pattern of extremely low payout for an extremely time consuming and difficult event. ANETs only obligation to players after buying the game is to give them little enough reward to keep coming back hoping for more.

Not sure if this thread is elsewhere, so let’s start one here.

The only gripe I have with the system is that the party leader has no control once the LFG is created. Rather than allowing others to simply join the party (unannounced) the leader should be notified that he/she has a hit and allow the leader to see who is attempting to join, and giving a choice as to whether or not to accept that player.

Also, I’d like a fractal category for 20-29 and 30-39 rather than 20-39.

Otherwise, the system is a great tool. I appreciate the effort put into the artwork and

Raising caps isn’t as easy as simply increasing the number. The problem with bleed stacks, and the reason it is capped at 25 is a bandwidth issue on ANet’s servers. Until they acquire better technology to track bleed stacks of all players applying bleeds, the cap will not raise.

Ascended weapons and armor are a great idea but the only reason to actually use them in PvE is Fractals. Why aren’t they available through Prestine Relics? Are there plans to add purchasable Ascended items other than rings in future Fractal Rewards updates?

That build looks interesting Nay. I have a few questions if you don’t mind.

What do you generally achieve as far as bleed stacks go?
This is a clear hybrid build and I’ve only seen the one Nemesis offered so I don’t have a huge perspective on variants.

As far as gear goes, did you choose rabid over rampager for a particular reason? Have you tried it with a berserker mix in the trinkets?

Have you used staff as offset with this build?
Thanks!

Actually it’s quite the opposite. Necro sits near the top in PvP whereas Mesmer always shines in PvE with all of the group utility it brings.

Personally, I main Necro because it’s the coolest in my opinion. I played Necro all through GW1 and I love it.

In PvE, Necromancer shines brightest through AoE condition bombing through the skill Epidemic.

Mesmer, like I mentioned, brings a lot to the party, more than Necro, and does decent damage as well.

The answer to this question will always come down to playstyle, so if youb have questions the Necromancer forum is a very advanced community in regards to Necro gameplay and there are a lot of helpful individuals there.

Also, feel free to ask me any questions about Necro and I’ll do my best to help you out.

Required Items:
-2 Fine transmutation stones
-Soulbound item that you wish to make account bound
-Item of white quality (white text) of the same item class (e.g. if you’re unbinding an exotic greatsword, have a greatsword of white quality available)

Process:
Use the transmutation stone
-Place the item you want to be unbound (e.g. exotic Greatsword) in one window
-Place the white quality item of the same item class (e.g. white quality greatsword) in the second window
-Choose the skin of the item you want to be unbound (e.g. exotic greatsword)
-Choose the stats of the white quality item
Press okay.

You should now have an account bound, white quality version of the skin you wanted to unbind that can be placed in the bank for use on any applicable character.
Enjoy!

Okay many are interested so I’ll post here:

Required Items:
-2 Fine transmutation stones
-Soulbound item that you wish to make account bound
-Item of white quality (white text) of the same item class (e.g. if you’re unbinding an exotic greatsword, have a greatsword of white quality available)

Process:
Use the transmutation stone

-Place the item you want to be unbound (e.g. exotic Greatsword) in one window

-Place the white quality item of the same item class (e.g. white quality greatsword) in the second window

-Choose the skin of the item you want to be unbound (e.g. exotic greatsword)

-Choose the stats of the white quality item

Press okay.

You should now have an account bound, white quality version of the skin you wanted to unbind that can be placed in the bank for use on any applicable character.

Enjoy!

When I get home I’ll pm you how to do it

While I wouldn’t tell newcomers not to try the game, what I would do is suggest for them to play it much differently than I did. GW2 is a much different game than anything we’ve seen before in terms of content. A lot of games offer filler quests and fancy things to catapult you to the end game, whereas Guild Wars 2 focuses on enjoying that content up to end game, and regularly revisiting lower level content.

The problem and the disconnect occurs when you don’t find that out until level 80. If I would have known how fast that plateau slams into me, I would have paced my experience much differently. Now as an en game player, the last thing I want to do is go back on an alt and play the content as if I’m playin it for the first time. That experience is lost. And this ties in to your OP about race change – no one wants to reroll and have to do all of that content again.

As for the game killing itself, I agree in some regards. One being that they push this mediocre content over legitimate quality of life changes. One thing that makes me want to play a game is knowing I’m playing it, and not working in it. Sometimes it seems GW2 has many revolutionary yet conflicting ideas, such as single use, exclusive skins and time gated infinite progression dungeons (fractals).

But im agree, this game can be made absolutely astounding with the right quality of life changes.

I think it’s important to mention that she is not the ruler of Tyria, but the human queen of Kryta

You’re right, and I apologize for derailing.

I am amongst many who have posted here with ideas for race change since the first weeks of reaching level 80. We have not seen or heard even a mention of this matter being addressed. If you have the gold or gems to get all crafting professions leveled to 400 after using a level 20 scroll I would suggest that. It should get you around 75. Most efficient method by far

Way to take my words out of context.

Those of us that preferred another race at one point does not comprise 90% of the player base. For you to begin to argue that is completely ridiculous

The sooner you (and others) realize that GW2 is a game about personal discovery, exploration, and astounding in game revelations, rather than a farm train, the sooner you will be satisfied with the content and its presentation.

Stopped reading at “90% of the players regrets the race they chose for their first main”

Come on guy if you want people to take this wall of text seriously and read past where I stopped, stop making sweeping generalizations using made up (absurd) statistics because you don’t like what race YOU made. Take it a a lesson and reroll like the rest of us.

This process of taking soulbound armor from on character and binding them to another is currently possible with fine transmutation stones

I know that, but I’ve been wanting to explore some more builds. Was hoping there was some kind of distribution that made this weapon set viable. Thanks

I was wondering if anyone has found any viable Scepter/focus PvE builds for use in places like fractals, dungeons, etc.

I’ve been running fractals lower than my level when I need karma. It’s a great way to get a lot of currencies at once, and not to mention the loot.

The strategy is for people to listen, and not lay there dead for the whole fight.

I think after a few days, when the kids back off and the griefers get bored, there will be much more opportunity to defeat Teq on a more regular basis.

One can hope, because those weapons are gonna be glorious for my Necro

WvW maps hold that many because they are vast, and typically every player isn’t in one area. In a zone like Sparkfly, every player would be on the same objective and then the server would crash and you would make a forum post about that.

Browsing the forum, it seems a common denominator in player agitation is the effectiveness of players on the turrets. Be it a turret operator has performance issues, or is genuinely griefing, the overwhelming importance of those 6 players is surprising to see in such a large scale event.

This will be an unpopular suggestion, but I think it is necessary to have, or something similar.

Players on turrets receive a stacking debuff that forces turret operator rotation. I know it’s a clunky mechanic and can cause issues that don’t exist, but the fact is that players on turrets decide the success of this event.

Any thoughts or other suggestions as to how to deal with turret griefing?

Ascended weapons are designed to be long term goals.

I’m still holding out hope that someone will stay on topic and provide any info as to who will receive the first look at the LFG, considering the LiveStream is having technical issues. I guess we’d rather talk about WoW though.

Thanks anyway guys.

Hey everyone,
With Tuesday’s release we are gearing up to launch the new Looking For Group tool for Guild Wars 2. As the system comes online, our primary focus is with the quality and the stability. To ensure a solid rollout, we’ll turn on the LFG tool in beta form to a subset of players. As the week goes on, we’ll periodically unlock the system to additional groups of players.
In Tuesday’s release notes, you’ll see the complete list of what the feature will do once we’ve fully unlocked the system. However, during the beta rollout not everyone will be able to use the LFG tool and the World vs. World subcategories will be disabled.
The Looking for Group feature has been highly requested and we’re excited to be this close to its final release, but quality is paramount. Therefore, we ask for your patience and understanding while we work through this phased beta rollout and with any problems we encounter.
Thanks,
Mike Zadorojny
& the Looking For Group team

Just curious as to how this subset was determined, and whether or not it will be rotating as the beta progresses.

I run 30/30/0/10/0 for the bit of Vitality from the blood line as I am running Dire armor/scavenger runes. I think the 30 in spite with koi cakes/crystals is sufficient.

Also to get the most out of your damage run two daggers: one to stack corruption and one with Bursting sigil for the juicy 6% on top of your 25 stacks

Gimme hammer

BlueStoat.9157:

Why is this in the tequila forum? Guardians are more fun with a mace if you want to heal.. also, can someone please explain why I keep making all my alts gardians? Is there a support group I can join? I think I make have a problem.

Sounds like you have a support group already

Or play what you want, participate in the mechanics, and get a few hits in

You should also consider the fact that they gave us these ascended weapons to work on which is no easy task if you’re not buried in gold. I don’t think they’d want to drop another QJ/Scarlet sized load on us before people take it all in.

With Champ farms, ascended material gathering, invasions still occurring, and the school season back in, Arenanet has some very busy players on their servers.

I appreciate this update and am looking forward to it.

Haha man, that sucks. Well thanks for the response.

And that comes as drops I suppose?

I don’t think they are unique

Where do we get the tailoring insignias needed for this stat set?

Now I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the biggest lore connoisseur, but isn’t it a bit odd that the Bloodstone is so trivialized?

There’s a fragment of it that it used as a focus and now this dust…

Where to we get the insignias to create armor with the new stats?

Dire specifically