Guild Wars 2

30 mins? Brilliant solution.
That´s barely enough to start of and go though some of the longer and more interesting event chains.

As somebody else stated, botters are already outsmarting DR by employing exactly YOUR (&ANets) solution. Reported one just yesterday who smartly teleported from one underwater mob to the next in Orr.
So normal players who actually try to craft something on level have to go on the TP and buy the mats that are clearly farmed by just these kitten botters!

Krosslite.1950:

The "end-game for the billionth time IS Dynamic Events. Do them or stay gone

Stop quoting marketing fluff and admit that there´s a pretty big elephant in the room.
And it´s called Fractal Dungeons.
That and the current FotM Dungeon to rake up the Gold IS the only “endgame”
(for the non PvP crowd!).
Dynamic Events are only used for the Daily grind.

I´m one of those “smell the pixels” types of players and after 8 months I still only bothered to get one of my 8 characters to 80.
The slots I excitedly bought in the beginning to experience all this game has to offer quickly became parking space for inventory mules.

I could now start into my own epic diatribe as to why, but it´s all been said all too often. And it would take away from the OP´s truly epic one.
And the Devs don´t seem to care anyway as they busy with creating even more temporary content that´s vanished and gone this time next month.

This engine is still buggy as hell in its hardware detection and usage.
I´m about to do a core hardware upgrade from AMD (PhenomII 965) to Intel(3570k), and if this crappy & buggy performance still persists this game will be dead to me.

Plain and simple.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Pirates too, but I’ve never seen that vendor.

He´s at the end of a somewhat hidden jumping puzzle in the SW corner of Lion´s Arch.
Search the wiki.

Saulius.8430:

verdant theme.. and any other theme actually goes perfectly with asura.

Actually not at all. The clear theme for Asura is crystaline based “techno magic”.
ANet did drop the ball on those two main races.

Heck even the fricken Dredge and Centaurs have their own weapons. Mind you, not at all criticizing that they do. The more skins, the merrier.
Looks is basically the only reason to play this game past a certain point, when you´re not into PvP.

Temporary content is FLUFF, plain and simple.
A waste of precious dev time IMHO.

ANet has to start getting much smarter with their Living Story Event system. So that all this content doesn´t just vanish uselessly after some time.

How?
As I´m the one paying ANet to come up with good gamedesign, I don´t really see why I should do their job in this regard too.

CMF.5461:

What I don’t understand is why don’t they have dynamic events in the cities?

Because they have to make a temporary Halloween event, then a temporary Karka event, then a temporary Wintersday event and now a much too long Flame&Frost event that drags on for AGES in areas that are already chock full with normal events.

Right, don´t forget Guild events and the already mentioned coming Pay2Play Arena.

There´s simply more important stuff to do than flesh out the part that´s basically most important to the first impression of the game.

And to the OP, jeez dude. Live dangerously, try exploring.

Orr is the only endgame (if you don´t count the Icebear/Dredge map up north) us non PvPer, Dungeon/Fractal haters have and it is abysmal.

The ridiculous state it was in before “the nerf” was among my main reasons to slow down leveling on my main and run around with twinks alot.
But not for that long either.

I very much get the lore reason. The desolate look makes total sense for a place recently relocated from the bottom of the sea.

But it simply isn´t fun and doesn´t generate the appropriate atmosphere either.
Almost like a Zombie/(non sprakly tyvm)Vampire movie where they forgot to dim the lights and switched of the fog machine.

I love mixed sets!
And they don´t have to cost an arm and a leg either.

My Guardian with Ascalon arms & shoulder, normal Orr karma boots & pants and the T2 Human Breastplate which fits perfectly with the Story Helm.
Mithril and Sky dyes.

!http://i.imgur.com/0p0qEkP.jpg!

My Norn Ranger with Pirate hat and Nobel boots & gloves. Rest is T1 Norn cultural.

!http://i.imgur.com/ymuWO4c.jpg! !http://i.imgur.com/ye1BJsg.jpg!

Edit: Guess this forum is just too smart for me. Here´s the gallery.

Electro.4173:

Yes, its a vanity item, but why does it have to be crap on top of that? Can’t it be a good vanity item?

This and not this.

Frankly I´m getting a bit fed up with the constant vanity label!

When I´m spending hours looking at that kitten amalgam of pixels and it´s basically a bum(pirate outfit – looking at you), then my enjoyment of this game is rapidly approaching ZERO.

Of course what looks nice is very subjective, but for example the Trench Coat look in the medium armor bracket has been extensively exhausted IMHO.
And if you don´t want your Rangeress to rock that top basically everybody else´s is poured into, then cultural sets are the only way out ATM.

So please ANet, give us more Tier 1&2 sets!
Don´t care much about T3, those prices are indeed ridiculous for a semi casual like me.

Chickan good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tg3-93jKvc

No.

We should get at least one proper event for ALL the major cities.
The new “Crab Island” has to be kinda fleshed out this year too. Also there´s no telling how far they will take Flame&Frost and if it´s gona get a “sequel”.

This may very well be the best thread on this forum.

Make sure your GForce is actually running the game by disabling the integrated graphic in the BIOS.

Nobody really knows but odds are pretty good that, NO.

Remember, there´s two types of culling in this game(relevant to us).
The culling of other players(which is beeing rewritten) and the culling of “everything else”.
Which is done by an out of house tool, namely Umbra´s Occlusion Culling.

And is one of the major reasons this client´s performance is so kitten-droppings bad.

So far I find that interviewer less than stellar and this odd attempt to paint the game into the “failing” corner very unfair.
Just because ANet isn´t releasing some type of “Panda” this year but instead following their own design goals.

Hope the actual interview will show more competence by the “reporter”.

BTW, next time post THE SOURCE not the umpteenth copy of the article stump.

Yes. I´m on the next mission now.

Though we 1st killed all the mobs at the cave tunnels mouth and while she(lvl80 Ranger) entered them I (lvl80 Guardian) got the caravan started, the caravan and I caught up to her before the 1st tower.

So we ended up together, quickly killing all the mobs.

I managed to get this done by inviting a pal and she went ahead of me killing the mobs while I stayed with the caravan.
Though I quickly caught up.
Seems the two of us together managed to kill fast enough before the towers were blown up early or something.

On this 2nd run the two escorts also didn´t get stuck, so that may be a factor.

P.S. with “getting stuck” I rather mean just stopped moving. There was nothing whatsoever that hindered them.

Also in my 1st post I angrily forgot to add, that at some point before that 3rd tower blast for a while the Asura-demo-guy somehow found a levitation spell or something.
As we came down the hill to the 3rd tower.

These new problems might been connected to that fresh bug?

Now that it´s Monday I really hope we get a little heads up soon on Rumblus and Grast.

Or try getting into Tera or Lord of the Rings even.
This kitten client is useless for your hardware level.

Silver Halliwell.4735:

@OP Can I have your stuff?

Kittentinkels!
Why do I always miss my chance saying this?

+1

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Now does 46 runs in one dungeon sound reasonable for an armor set? No, it doesn’t.

True, but your numbers are wrong.

The first completion of any given path each day will give 60 tokens; subsequent runs will give 20, 15, and 10, respectively.
Completing the path again with a different character will grant the full reward again. Completing one path does not affect the reward from other paths; as such, it is possible to acquire 180 tokens per day per character, from each dungeon without any penalty.

So that makes 23 runs(hope at least your math for the set is right).
If you keep doing your daily 3 runs on one character only, it´ll take about 8 days.

That´s kinda acceptable IMHO, if the Dungeon isn´t bugged (looking at you AC!).

Rumblus is broken.
The parties that actually managed that most likely exploited or got lucky on the first try, when Shield Dude was full HP so his “Kamikaze Style” still worked.

Or we´re getting a new Healer class on Monday.

Jeez Peeps L2P!

Just put the 2nd Healer full-time on Grast and get a proper Tank for Rumblus!
Can´t you people do anything right?

Seriously though, either our esteemed(Non ironic! I <3 the guy!) “Mr. Dungeon” Hrouda gets his own Q&A team and one preferably two sidekicks, or it´s about kitten time for a Test Server!

Influence sink, I´m not liking this much either.
Just view it as a common goal your guild has to strive for.

Celestina.2894:

Honestly so far the dailies since I started playing again have been hilariously easy, hell even this monthly is.

This.

Though this Monthly seems to miss one category, but I´m definitely not complaining.
A nice touch by ANet to give us a little laurel boost, IMHO.

It´s a total, complete, utter, über RNG thing, that simple guys.

I found about 4 keys since beta. Last one was just the other day and I had a wierd run of 4 more keys in the chests itself.
Aaand .. got utter crap.
A 50 influence Potion, 3 Armor boosters, lots of mystery tonics. Only half usable drop was a Bank Access.

They sucked and did NOT happen naturally?

Seriously you people, complain about the Sun getting up too brightly, why don´t ya?

Yeah, this current Rumblus mechanic is a very good way to teach a noob to never set foot in a GW2 Dungeon again.
It almost convinced me.

So anybody actually managed to interrupt the now supposedly interruptible Rumblus?

My random post-patch 1st timers PUG, mostly 80ies, couldn´t finish as the “shield NPC” kept dying pretty quick and nobody could figure out this mysterious interrupt mechanic.

Random hilarious facepalm: Making that shield look kinda exactly like the Mesmer Time-thingy didn´t make our Mesmer the favorite MVP either, before he had to switch.

Lots of good ideas here, like the laurels one very much.
Heck, even if it would be just once a week.

But the “stupid hat” issue really irks me. Why the Kitten is that thing not scaled to level?!
A first run only sure rare(maybe even exotic?) hat drop would at least alleviate many issues people have with story mode.

This is still not fixed or newly bugged!

Pretty sure all the mobs were dead but the unnamed escorts would just stand there and do nothing anymore.

Was going downhill on the 2nd tower where two of my Vigil fighters just stood there.

The 3rd tower explosion wouldn´t trigger after the mobs were dead, as the pack animal just stood on the top of the hill at some suddenly spawned Vigil(Wyld Hunt?) camp.

Cost me a kitten daily.
In hindsight, kill all the innocent!

Laz0rs .. I LOLed.

That wasn´t a joke?

So what the heck happens now when I(server A) guest on a different server(B) and represent the guild there to help with the bounty mission?

Is still the same “bug” active, that adds the gained guild influence to server A instead of B?

And what happens when I don´t represent the Guild on server B, that started of the Bounty event?

Very confusing stuff, hope somebody knows.

ProxyDamage.9826:

And you’ve come to that conclusion in 30 minutes?

This!

You people cannot be serious.

Kono.5947:

I didn’t get a laurel for the second one, so I suppose it still counts the first.

Oh, thank you.
I didn´t make that new “old” daily and was getting a bit miffed about it. But I guess it would´ve been useless anyway.
Finding out about the new dailies for Tuesday was interesting though.
That is, if they keep repeating these every week like they did with the old ones.

Here in EuroLand the 26th is almost over. Everything on schedule with the Patch or am I having timezone issues?

It´s basically one of the main monetization items and only ANet´s smart decision to hammer out WvW first is responsible for having the free switch “grace period”.

Pay up and keep ANet afloat.

Turgon.8625:

There are many games out there that use this system already.

Indeed and sadly their bank accounts say they are doing it right.
I have nothing to concede as I don´t like this practice very much either, but at this point it´s a pretty much done deal and I just hope ANet will be smart about it.
Maybe by only giving us 5 more levels and only new runes&sigils to grind for.

I think this discussion has run its course during the Ascended gear histrionics and I´m a bit fed up with it by now.
I want real data and screenshot of live in game items to get my panties in a bunch over.

Wow, are we going into hysterics over this AGAIN?

I could use 20 more points to spend on traits and by now pretty much everybody has maxed out his exotics and has no reason whatsoever to see the inside of that specific dungeon ever again.

In my mind it´s a done deal that we´re getting lvl90 at least on the expansion sometime later this year and ascended armor somewhere in between.

Deal with it.

unum.6209:

But loot?

Heh, right. What´s so important about one of the main reasons to play a CRPG and the very foundation Diablo 3 was built upon. :P

But you´re both right and there´s no reason whatsoever to argue about it. For some days Metrica is optimal while Wayfarer is for others.
Or just plain simple a change of view, when one gets fed up with snow or jungle.

BTW Dulfy has again a very spot on guide about this.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

its sad but, the fact is, to anet, its pretty clear, quagan backpacks>fixing problems with their game..

To be fair, guys building quagan backpacks CANNOT fix the engine, just like “engine-fixer Devs” cannot build proper quagan backpacks.

And they are simply overworked because they ARE fixing the engine. It seems just not the part that is a major problem for everybody not doing WWW.

UMBRA KITTEN is now my favorite GW2 code phrase.

BobbyStein.2315:

I’d also like to say that the teams that handled those other content types worked really hard and were under some intense deadlines.

Ha. Say no more.

It was the bean counters again, wasn´t it?

So it seems not only the writing could´ve used another month or two in beta, but definitely the rest of the game too.

Housing is the least of this game´s problems is totally useless and doesn´t fit into the general theme of this game.

The only acceptable excuse for “housing” would be for ANet to flesh out the home instance an thus make good on their promise of us having an “oh so unique” personal story.

Zolpidem.2851:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LukEq643Mk

nuff said hehehehehe

You´re right! That IS offensive.

I don´t want anything like that near my Guild Wars. Good call, badly programmed censoring filter!
:p
/sarcasm (for those that need a 2×4 to get a joke)

I don´t even want LA´s special perks like the MF in every city.
This would end up diminishing LA.

As Vorch said, we need unique content in every city.

Hoelbrak has the brawl but it´s pretty much useless ATM ( or does it count towards the Event Daily? ), and I was hoping for the Winterevent to center in there.
But ANet decided to mainly copy the GW1 event, again making LA host it.
Oh well.

Lets hope they wisen up a bit and let the cities exclusively host separate seasonal events, so that they can wake up at least once a year.

And that thread is back again.

Yeah, we already had this discussion a couple of times.

And yes it´s indeed prudent to at least give us a port stone to a character´s home instance WP. If nothing else this would stop the abuse of the PvP server for cheap ports.

But it seems ANet likes lag and wants us to experience loading screens and overflow servers till we love them.
So get to it!

LOVE THE OVERFLOW !
;)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Update-on-Loot-Drops-Investigation/first#post1462956

I love it when Colin sez stuff!

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

Jandus: they said months ago they where working on the culling system.

the problem with culling in gw2 is they 100% rely on Umbra, and intended/expected umbra to be run on gpu.

Indeed, but we have to be precise.

ANet is rewriting and fixing player culling, that´s the appearance/disappearance of player models during PvP(&PvE).

AFAIK this has very little to do with the actual game performance problems that Umbra´s Occlusion Culling is somehow borking up!

So as long as ANet is busy fixing another totally unrelated problem we can pretty much say good bye to this game.
While the ornery Umbra Icelanders could care less for fixing their own software, as they already cashed their check from ANet.

ANet is currently rewriting culling as they only noticed a short 2-3 months after the beta that it´s broken.

So they are basically rewriting major portions of the game and if they ever get done with it then maybe they will try writing a client that properly utilizes the actual hardware.