Guild Wars 2

Hey Xar,
don’t mind them. They should learn that telling someone their opinion is not always a good thing, even though “I have the right to state my opinion” (nobody cares really).
They are just being rude.
bites – thats your consciences!

ZeroArmada.9426:

It always bothers me whenever I play any of my charr characters. How exactly CAN they have a firm grip on anything when they have such giant claws? Obviously they can’t completely ball up their fist like every other race. I try to imitate the way they “ball up” their fists by closing by hand but instead of curling in the fingers, I leave them straight out. I don’t know about you, but that isn’t comfortable at all and I don’t see how to have a firm grip on things.

If you look at Rytlock in any dialogue videos, you can see his bottom tooth/teeth piercing through top of his muzzle.
When you get through that, you get through any design flaw.

Raven.3248:

its getting out of control

“…and Im concerned that this will ruin the economy or even the whole game for me. So I feel like I should police what people do in their spare time in a game.”

Obviously a troll post.

Black Teagan.9215:

Who cares!?

That name.. is stolen ._.

layzoe.6035:

It’s a bit disheartening to see so many people running around with a legendary without even the map completion star to their name

I stoped reading from this point.
Wardrobe.
My level 2 guardian immediately had sunrise, be cause I love that weapon.

Malediktus.9250:

I am going to build 2 torches for the title and 25 AP lol

Its your 3.5k gold, not mine.
Good.

@OP: its actually the other way around.
They implemented new, global, indirect gold sinks.
Thats a good thing.
Stop alarming players around you.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

No Walking.6349:

I’ve done almost every achievement for every release since launch and only have 13k AP. If someone has 20k it’s not because they got to get all the content release achievements, it’s cause they have no life.

So when someone have more then 13k AP, he automaticly has no life?
Or are you just jalours?

I agree with his statement, but I can still say Im a bit jealous.
But I’m not 16 anymore.

But 10% boon duration OP!
I once had a warrior arguing with me that placing a warbanner just b4 the fight starts to gain fury is the best thing to do.
When I explained him its not, he insisted fury OP, so we need the warbanner.

Many MMOs of this format prooven that they can last 10 or more years.

Look at what Malediktus.9250 said.
I totally see him super impatient of getting the leggings skin as one of the first 5 – 30 players in the world later next year (deppending on how many of the high-AP players will quit or come back). Well deserved.

BTW I looked at the wiki page a while ago. My reaction?
“Awww Im never gonna get the full set. Pity”. Then I moved on.

People, stop thinking all rewards should be for everyone.
Anet wanted to make the set super uber rare, to have its first owner after 4, 5 or even 6 years of after launch (AP gain drops over time + LS2 has less AP then LS1 etc.).

Jerus.4350:

Harny.6012:

SYPHA.9283:

This games dungeons need no strategy. Just hack and slash. The dungeons were pitifully done and are stupid easy.

Hello,

I’ve enjoyed GW2’s dungeon but I would like to move to a next level.
Do you have any suggestions which MMO should I try if I want a challenging, well-designed dungeons which are fun to do?

Except wow. I want something good actually.

Thx

Every game I’ve played has fallen into the same situation. Content is somewhat difficult at first, people figure out some strategies and they get easier, people refine the strategies and they get even easier, people perfect the strategies and they get down right boring. Only difference is in those other games we would get more content about the time that they got so boring that we were about to quit the game. But… then again we also had the gear treadmill and that hamster wheel is not something I’d ever want to go back to.

The point was to provoke answers like this one.
Thank you

Hey there, you can add me.
We are 3 guys playing together almost every day (sorta a small semi-perma group).
I’m maining a warrior, and the other two maining thief + guardian, and engi + ele basically. But we have more classess if needed. Running meta, full ascended zerkers, using potions and that sort of things. Trying to run effectively but having fun. Often haning on TS.

Also, let me take this oportunity to offer https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/MF-is-recruiting-for-dungeon-runs/first

SYPHA.9283:

This games dungeons need no strategy. Just hack and slash. The dungeons were pitifully done and are stupid easy.

Hello,

I’ve enjoyed GW2’s dungeon but I would like to move to a next level.
Do you have any suggestions which MMO should I try if I want a challenging, well-designed dungeons which are fun to do?

Except wow. I want something good actually.

Thx

laokoko, what mini games?
Are they adding new and new mini games? Is there a list?
I just know about few, empty and boring mini games.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Vol.7601:

You’re right, let’s just have everything in the game handed out for free or at vendor price and hope Anet someone ends up with millions of dollars in revenue from box sales to sustain itself

I wonder why you don’t want to understand that they don’t have lock every new skin behind a paywall. Not to mention that they could’ve pushed for an expansion to get new money.

Expansion money would cover development plus something on top. Maybe.
You sound like you NEED all those skins accessible to be able to enjoy the game.
Why? Arent few skins / month enough? Just play the game! Or start collecting something outside of the game. Aaah, it costs money right? Then you can buy gems instead.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

It’s for low levels only no?

Thats for the “New Leveling Items” only.
For “Profession Loot”, level wasn’t mentioned.
I HOPE profession loot will only apply to characters lvl 79 and lower.

Afya.5842:

Sadly, I agree to most of it. Have a legendary, some fractal weapons, a bit of money. Dungeon I only see as way to get exotic armors. The 1g reward is just so low consider how much legendaries now cost. It doesn’t feel like progression at all.

I have 170+ MF, play everyday since release, and not a single precursor dropped. They said GW1 is title grind war. Sadly, GW2 is now worse.

500-900g a month (if you sell everything you get there) for 3h of your time a day, if you have decent group and dont slack. How are dungeons no progression? And they are fun, too!
Combine this with 2h of world bossess a day, and you can add like 250g to that pile each month.
Oh wait, it takes you half hour to complete one AC path? Less effort, less gold.
I started with 0 gold when I came back.
It took me about 550h to fully gear up – armor, trinkets, weapons. At first all exo. Then all except weapons ascended. Then sunrise. + alot of other content, including most of the jumping puzzless, commanding PvE, slacking in LA.

If you can’t get a legendary with 2k+ hours on your account, that is your choice.
You are not playing as me, trying to do your best to be as effective as possible. OK.
But don’t expect as many rewards then.

Lishtenbird.2814:

A supposedly easy band-aid fix:

• Dungeon owner cannot be kicked. I.e. has an “instance owner” buff icon or has no “Kick from party” option or that option shows an error alert. “Instance owner” will exist in the database anyway because you need someone to show in the cutscenes.
• If the dungeon owner leaves, instance is preserved as the patch suggests. Whether the new “person for cutscenes” is kickable or not is another matter and can be addressed later on.

Meanwhile I will be cautious of doing any dungeons with PUGs after this change goes live, even though this is a good change per se.

I agree with this one.

Ryan Diederich.8179:

Asmodeus.5782:

As I mentioned in my thread on the topic, it would be great to have the number of needed kick votes increased to 3, to minimize griefing resulting from this change. Personally I always started my own dungeon parties to avoid kick-happy couples. Now there’s nothing to kep me safe. 2 votes have always been a bad idea, anyway. Not even a majority.

I actually agree with you. I would have liked to increase the vote count a majority with this change, but unfortunately not all the pieces of code around party votes are set up in a way to make this a quick and easy change.

We were aware of this issue, but felt that holding back an improvement to the base experience on account of trolls was unfair to users that are playing nice.

Stealing instances using the LFG tool, or booting people for no reason (or to give your buddy the rewards for no work) at the end of a run are bannable offenses and should be reported.

Hello Ryan,
thanks for this information.

Any tips on how to get name of those trolls that kick you from your own isntance quickly?
There usually isnt time to write anything down or to make any screenshots.

Thanks in advance!

Jerus.4350:

Sublimatio.6981:

Gw2 should have a party leader system. Leader being the only one able to kick others. When leader leaves, somebody else gets the leader rank. It’s not perfect, one person can troll or be jerk, but it’s the best option possible.

I really wish they would do this. I’ve seen multiple different systems, dabbled in many, really played a lot of 3 different MMOs and the one that did this was easily the most controlled situation with the least amount of griefing.

I vote for this one!
I also played different MMOs with such system, and it worked.
What Anet needs to do, is to make it obvious who is the leader and what it means – by icon in the party interface.

I wanna play with like-minded people only.
If that means I’ll wait for 10 minutes for my party to fill, and then leave the dungeon because nobody came, I’m fine with that!

Ravion Hawk.4736:

Last time I talked with a staff member in game, they said it was not reportable. It did come off as the in game staff would like it reportable AND ban-able.

I’ve caught wind that some of the “X gold” listings is code for “X usd” which means these players are making REAL money off the sale of dungeon paths.

Eventually ANet will have to set up the dungeons to have henchmen to fill in the party gaps so people can play the dungeons.

That, sir, is a fantasy…

ipan.4356:

Epic loot was supposed to be indicative of completing epic challenges – hence, once you defeated a really difficult boss, you got an incredibly powerful weapon for doing so.

It’s an indication that you have done something very difficult.

Not an indication of how much time you spent repeating easy content.

Legendaries currently cost, what, like about 3K gold or so (varying depending on weapon)?

Anyone can farm mats, or dungeons, or anything else until they have 3K gold and then buy a legendary.

You can get anything in this game through farming (or buying gems).

But can you get anything by achieving something difficult (such as defeating a really hard boss?).

Nope.

This game is all about farming – it’s not about difficulty or challenge. It’s a treadmill/slot machine.

It all deppends from which angle you look at it.
I was talking to a friend. Actually, two friends.
I told them “no matter what you do and enjoy in this game, you always progress. Sometimes more, sometimes less, just dont worry about it, play what you enjoy.”
You think its not awesome, I think it is.

Yeah, those few sentences I’ve heard in boss fractal are a good job.

Wow, that looks really bad. And considring you see it basically 99% of your time spent ingame, it’s really sad they release armors like that all the time

Try charr. They are the only good race to play…..

Don’t forget to share!

Galen Grey.4709:

SkylightMoon.2098:

Ye I understand what you’re saying. The players for a long time have been quite against the whole living story thing, especially during season 1, yet the devs pushed with it. I think they are being too stubborn about the choices they make. Make the game the players want, not the game you want.

Im sure Anet had certain visions for the game when creating it, yet some of these sadly won’t come true because they are unrealistic and have certain problems with them that don’t sit well with the players. Temporary content is a perfect example of this. Everyone hated it, and they changed that, so thats good on their part. Yet they still take so long on so many features/content that are massively requested from the community and say “ye we’re looking into it”. Don’t just look into it, actually do it. Players want that more than anything from the living story, so put the living story on hold and give the players something they want. Guild halls for example are one of these.

Major course correcting takes time and thus is tricky to do . Assuming they’re not doing an expansion (which we dont know if they are or are not) now imagine the impact it would have if right after season 1 they decided to listen to the players and focus exclusively on an expansion. It would take a few months to design an expansion and about another year and 1/2 to finish it. So thats switching your game from providing new content every 2 weeks to potentially 2 years of drought with a few things sprinkled in if even! Do you think that would make people happy?

Thats considering they can match your average mmo development speed. Like it or not Gw2 isnt like your average MMO. Designing a Dynamic event which branches, has NPC scripting and animation, has NPCs activley involved in the action of that Dynamic event as well as scaling. undoubtly all that takes a lot more time to develop then your average quest which just has a static npc that does nothing more then show / speak some text with no animation / activity whatsoever. At the end of the day I doubt Arenanet have been sitting and staring at the wall. The amount of content they developed so far is all the output they can produce in this amount of time. Living story or expansion doesnt matter (provided they’re not secretly developing an expansion in the background of course) What takes other mmos 2 years to develop might take twice as long for arenanet to develop because of the added complexity to put in their game.

Actually when you consider some factors, it’s not that hard to guess they are working on an expansion of some sort.

We don’t know how many things will be released in the upcoming feature pack, but it might be weaker then the last one, from what we know right now (speculation).
If that’s true, then consider:
- how many things were released during LS1 season (including fractals, ascended armor sets etc and many more). Consider how much resources that took.
- how many (not THAT many) years it took them to develop GW2 worth of content
- how “rich” the new LS is. 1 map, few events
- check PoI series, you will find out only smaller poirtion of their team is working on the content. It looks like the environment was designed by few ppl. Then you have two or three guys for events…

My guess is they really are working on much more content as we speak. But even if that’s true, we all know it won’t be released this year.

Every time they call me Commander, or Commander Harny, I tag up and feel more important to the story. Try it, it’s only 100g. But hurry up!

Look at this thread, it’s connected:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/at-least-make-your-game-work/first#post4309792

Alright.
We had similar problem in Lineage 2, where a percentage of players was affected by lag. Different parts of europe, different ISPs.
NCSoft actually looked into the issue and had something done about this. Lags stopped.

IDC whos problem it is. It’s not my ISP and its not my PC, its europe-wide. Anet has to look into this.

No, it’s natural. Although, I usually give a chance even to lower AP guys.
We had this about 1.6k AP thief in FotM 19. Considering his AP, he was amazing. Still much worse then our friend thief, but a very good player.

If this is a routing problem somewhere in between, how is it possible we can chat with each other?
I don’t think their chat servers are handled by a different ISP in different location so different route would be used.

simplesimon.2084:

game runs fine for me, so it must be somewhat a personal issue

Maybe try doing much more content, to even see the lags spikes?

It seems lags are mostly affecting instanced content, we mainly experienced them in FotM.
I’m playing on EU server (Deso). When lag spike hits, it affects either whole party, or most of us (usually 4, but whole party more often).
We are from different countries, sometimes all friends, sometimes half pug.

The odd thing is that you CAN talk in chat (we were always on TS so we have it confirmed the other part have seen the msg, too), but you cant use skills and mobs/bossess just stop.

Then you get out of FotM where this happened several times, each time for 8-10 seconds, and ppl rant about it in LA map chat.
This happened several different days, different content, different players.

EDIT: by receiving and sending all chat messages instantly with no delay, ever, while this “lag” happends, this doesn’t really seem like a connection issue.
More like problem on some part of their server, either sw, or hw.
If chat is handled by a different machine, there might be problem with one of their machines.

When we all had lags in FotM except one guy in our party, us four in lag were all friends from Desolation. The fifth guy without lags was a random, most likely not from Deso.
So either some of their servers have problems and some not, or it simply occures in different times.

There are also DCs happening. You lag for a second or two, and then the game kicks you to login screen. Over last week or two, it never happened to a single party member only, always to at least 2 of us at once.
Yeah, PC problem…

Bathos.6341:

Hmm. Reminds me of this fanart I found a while back.
http://d.facdn.net/art/eldrikke/1364436268.eldrikke_asurariderbyneo-small.png

thats amazing. Thanks

Alfieb, my car is broken. It makes sounds. What do I do to repair it?

On a more serious note, whats your PC setup and which system do you use?
Have you tried another, new games?
Also this should be moved to technical issues forum.

That’s not enough. I play twice as much and am actually consiering second ccount for dungeons and crafting.
I’m only afraid of one thing – joining a dung runs with 300 AP. Ill have to be prepared to paste-spam something like “second account, please dont kick” >.<

floude.5291:

The only thing that i can say about an expansion: Anet please don’t make one.
The game is far beyond mediocre, pvp is not competitive and no one really cares your competitive tournments (look at the twitch watch numbers). In turn you don’t really care for pvp (especially wvwvw) too. Even if i want to do some wvwvw i collide with imbalance barrier, and log of immediately (still didn’t changed OP abilities that everyone can see).
In Pve there is no real content but saving some collectibles which does not really make a change whether you build them or not. Dungeons has same repetitive stacking behaviour and world bosses are not so unique when compared the other games. Actually game is like a wardrobe simulator, nothing more.
The story and lore is especially pathetic in my opinion. It’s not a groundbreaking story and you can find a band of races which everyone has one class to represent, actually only difference of your band of heroes is the leader has no sense of leading and makes no real sense of epicness. Even the big bad dragon killed by a ship not the leader itself, nice difference from other games…
Just like I said in the beginning, don’t release an expansion because if you do, i won’t buy it and only thing that makes me stay in the not being have to pay you money for the game time. After the expansion i’ll lose my ability to stand in the same ground with other people and this is gonna make me uninstal the game and never come back. Especially a while there is a lot of good games to play around.

So you dump hundreds of hours in a game, and you plan to continue to do so if it stays free.
But once they release an optional expansion (“optional”, because most ppl will play it and you will stay alone) you could buy for maybe 50 bucks? You aren’t gonna play anomre.
Hundreds of hours… 50 bucks…
If I spend that much time doing something, its worth the time, effort and the money.
Nothing is worth that much time if it’s not worth a little money, too.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

How do you know that it’s not enough to keep people playing, or come back?

Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?

I am perfectly happy with the current quantity and quality of the content they produce.
And it’s getting better and better.

I’ll answer instead of him.
NO, it’s all perfectly fine, and enjoyable. I’ve spent whole 8-10 hours doing all LS2 parts. And I know I could have spent more. In 2 months… or 4 untill they continue. To grind a back? OK, but I could have..
We all know its enjoyable and most of us do enjoy the new content. But we want more.
3-4x more would be fine, 10x more would be great.

This is my favourite game and I dump tons of hours in it. And I’m willing to pay for content, but I can’t.
I’ve spent more on this game than I would have if it was P2P model, and I don’t mind. But there’s no motivation to spent my money anymore.

Awww OP so cute. Sending hugs, fluff!

Isn’t laurel like 1g in average nowadays? or maybe even more now when T6 got up that much.
Get 1000 laurels, get 1000 – 1100 gold by cashing them and buy a precursor.

Dalanor.5387:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Or, you could do what Liahm and I did a couple months back: Put a math problem in the lfg. If they can’t solve it, kick ’em.

Yeah, those usually end like this. The math was 2+3x2.

He’s the greatest.

… I had to.

Have you tried to PM/mail to all the nick variations?

His name sounds like he’s fun.

haviz.1340:

Noah.4756:

Also stacking needs to go. Make NPC’s smarter. Mark T-B34RC3 works as intended, great fight, copy/paste to other bosses.

Seriously?

It’s a bit more annoying, meaning not as boring anymore.

Guys,
how active is the guild during different parts of the day?
Work time, prime time, night (mid to 4AM).

Thanks

I wonder if they will implement a reminder to let players know that excessive amounts of time spent in game are unhealthy.

@OP
I had similar problem.
Try uninstalling your current gpu drivers + clean up properly! (google)
Download 1.5 year old drivers, install and try again.

Its 15 minutes of work + testing. Worth trying. Might be a driver bug with your setup running gw2. Not game’s fault tho.

Also, 3 days are alright.
We all know it’s not your fault, but dont be selfish. Think about it.

AESOkami.1072:

I’m currently at level 12 but I wish there was a way to at least get to level 40(or 80).

If anyone knows, please help me out.
(Also sorry for taking up your time)

Please don’t rush. Learn how to play the game and your class. Otherwise you might be pain to be around.