Guild Wars 2

Way back, when I only had a sylvari necro, I was crazy bored with her armor. On previewing T3 sets, I fell in love with what I saw and I wondered, how come I hadn’t gotten it before. I managed to buy chest and legs, before I realized that it was medium armor…. That was before they put in the warning text…

But I think my biggest goof was when I started my own personal guild, gathered influence for a guild bank by doing Claw Island on several characters, waited the many days it takes to build it. When it was finally ready, I went happily to deposit the tons of fractal trings I had. And it turned out you cannot put account bound things there… So there I was, with a lovely personal guild bank and nothing to put inside..

Another beauty was when I decided to gamble on the mystic forge when the game was relatively new. Bought 100 superior runes of the necromancer (yes superior) with all the gold I had and tried to forge them, hoping for more expensive ones. YAY, the toilet does not take superior runes. So, not only was I stuck with the stupid runes, I managed to mess up their prices for a day or two. Took me quite a while to get rid of them.

Joined today 3 pug parties on lvl 29, 39 and 50. All stuck on Mai Trin, all had rage quitters. Sent around some mango pies and Scarlet potions and we did them all on the first try. People kept dying though because they would walk into the fire field and every time the cannon phase hit we would loose 2 people.

On the lower levels, my guardian was wearing knight’s armor, trooper runes and cleric trinkets.
On lvl 50, I didnt have enough AR, so I had to borrow my warrior’s armor and go all berserker with scholar runes.

Overall I would say they fight is pretty fun now, and if you have 2 people that know what they are doing, you can succeed with pugs.

And I wish people would figure out not to stay close to eachother in the cannon phase…

I wanted to play the update a little, before I could come back with some feedback.

POSITIVE:
The new map looks really nice, the sandstorm is awesome, dying for the first time in the quicksand was hilarious.
The story instances were entertaining and had some nice fights.
I love being able to get dragonite just by opening chests.
The female assassin outfit is amazing.
The events are fun.

A BIT ANNOYING:
Having to listen to Kasmeer and Marjory.
The aspect jumping becomes quite tiring when you want to get to events quickly.

NEGATIVE:
The only nice new item is purchasable with gems.
The area merchants sell only food and gear recepies, no new skins.
The only actual rewards are crafting items.
The fact that the aspects run out after a certain time has been driving me crazy.

Nearlight, you can always play necro until you get the Mai Trin fight, and then relog to another class that makes the fight easier for you….. The Mai Trin fight is a minor part of the fractal run…

The biggest problem people are having with this fight, is that they expect to fight the new mechanic with the same old tricks they used: stack and spam condition removal. Well now you have to range and use blocks and reflects instead. And noone is being forced into the new toughness/healing power gear. Many successful teams had several guards on, not because they were needed, but because people didn’t know what to expect and took the safe way out.

And I see absolutely no problem in having to put away my DPS weapons, and range for a 10 minute fight.

I am sure people will eventually learn this new fight, but until then I see the LFG being filled with: “Last fractal, Mai Trin, need guard”.

Got Mai Trin today at lvl 36, with a group of friends. Since I had been reading this forum, I was horrified and instantly switched to guardian. Ate a mango pie and a Scarlet potion. We all ranged her, used reflects and block. No wipes, no downs, no weird situations. Fight took a bit longer than usual, but nothing too annoying. I am yet to see how it is on lvl 49, but it can’t be that bad. I actually enjoyed it, because I got to use some different weapons.

However, I do not look forward to doing this with pugs.

Another big issue for me is that first you have to hope for a drop, then that it has the right stats, and then that it is a piece that you do not already have.

I did witness someone get the same healer’s ascended shoulder box twice in a row.

I have an issue with celestial stats, because it can be obtained from the other types of armor chests. It still doesn’t give any decent use for the healer chest.

I would like to know if there actualy is a viable build, using healing power, without it being some temporary cheese build.

What annoys me a lot, is that an ascended armor box is a very rare drop that you keep on hoping for. And then you get healers…..

After doing countless fractal runs for months I finally got my first ascended armor box. And it was healer’s….

Imagine the disappointment when I can’t figure out what to do with it, which poor alt to get stuck with it.

I am wondering what people do with their healer’s chests. Are they just using them as a placeholder until something better comes along?

I was planning on equipping a necromancer with all my unwanted chests, but that healing power stat seams like such a waste.

So, people, what stat combos do you choose from the healer’s chest and what classes do you give it to?

Doing those 4 bosses each day, requires several hours of camping maps, waiting for spawns and not being able to do anything meaningful in game in between (dungeons, fractals etc).

If people are complaining about its availability in the game, then there is a problem and the issue must be addressed.

Let me tell you the story of Fading Frost, a sylvari necromancer, created at release, that somehow managed to get to lvl 80, using only staff and trident. She had no idea about combo fields, might stacking, skipping nor did she know what vigor or fury were. At level 80, she began aquiring her exotic armor, an activity better described as dying in Twilight Arbor.

My life would have been much easier if there had been some in game tutorial explaining those things. I was lucky that I met people willing to teach me, but not everyone has that.

Guild Wars 2 tries so hard to differentiate from other games, yet assumes that everyone has played them and should learn on their own or rely on random access to player knowledge.

We cannot play other content, when the content is already done (read Orr temples) or gives you only a couple of dragonite orr.

Before the Megaservers, I would dedicate a couple of hours a day and would have completed most world bosses and temples and ending up with almost a stack of dragonite ore.

Now, if I want the ore, I must dedicate all my playtime to gathering it, thus I don’t have time to play the parts of the game that I actually like.

This stuff is completely inbalanced. While you don’t have any Empyreals, I am sitting on about 10 000 of them, and 10 000 of bloodstone dust, but can barely scrape enough dragonite to make a lesser vision crystal…

“If you want Dragonite, go farm World Bosses.”

Most of the world bosses give 3-5 dragonite ore and farming the ore that way is extremely unefficient.

Every time I show up in Orr, all the temples are done and this used to be the only safe way to get the ore.

Am I supposed to spend hours in Edge of the Mists, flipping the Red Keep in order to get ore?

Arena net should either increase the dragonite drop rate, or put the temples on a timetable together with the world bosses. Not to mention that the Megadestroyer doesn’t even drop ore.

It is extremely frustrating to be sitting on all the mats needed to craft an ascended weapon or armor piece, and not being able to do so because of the kittenty dragonite ore.

I hate the megaservers and how they messed up the Temple Events

This is a really good idea, I hope to see it implemented in the future.

That’s how I got the rest of the items…

Well, half my stuff is lvl 80, the rest is 55..

I sold a Spark to buy Dawn. I also sold The Legend and used the gold to buy mats for Frostfang.

I really wish this gets fixed soon. I need to buy so much stuff for my new lvl 80 and have been waiting since last night. It is getting really frustrating…

I want this armor so much! With the short skirt version and the black feathers.

It is not useless at all. Think of all the amulets, earrings, backpieces, rings you can share….

Malchior.5042:

Tub.4560:

sigh I don’t want to abandon the game, but the burden of grind is no longer bearable. Mostly, even if I went through with it all, there will inevitably be a higher level cap or new item tier someday, and then I’d have to do it all over again – 8 times. That’s not healthy. That’s not fun.

Don’t share your ascended then?

Let the Mesmer play with its ascended and let the Necro continue on with the specific exotic gear with just the right stats.

No harm done.

This change may not be so useful for armors, but for trinkets it is amazing! Not having to do guild missions ever again

This is so awesome!!! Now I can switch around the ascended earrings!

But I am wondering how this is going to work. Let’s take the Light of Dwayna for example. It is an original ascended item with a special skin. Can I move it around my characters without having to use transmutation charges for the skin?

There are many reasons for a person to choose a certain race, don’t like it, but keep on gearing the character up. When I first made my Sylvari necromancer, I thought it was very cool. She was my first character, I made her at release and it took me a month of leveling to get it to 80. During that time it became obvious to me that Sylvari look good only in leaf armor and that while it looks nice and shiny, you can grow incredibly quickly tired of it. After many total makeover kits, I gave up on the character and it has been laying around abbandoned.

By the time I realized that I could’t handle playing my walking tree anymore, it had map completion, T3 armor, Zodiac weapon skins, Ascended weapons and trinkets and a lvl 50 in the old fractals. I always kept hoping that new Sylvari themed armor would be released, but it never happened.

I would gladly pay over 3000 gems to get rid of my race and switch it to human. I do not care for the personal story, I would even replay the entire Human story arc, just to be able to get rid of my Sylvari.

I have been playing Tera the last month and I love how for a fee of 10-15 euro you can change your race if you are willing to do so.

Now, with the new wardrobe being introduced, there is an extremely easy way to give us the race change without having to deal with the personal story problems:

PLEASE: let us buy thomes of knowledge with gems so we can quickly get to lvl 80 and have a character with the race we prefer.

Now that some time has passed, I am even more excited about the update. I have 9 level 80 characters, all equipped with rare and expensive items and now all of them can share them.

1) My 4 legendaries were split between 3 characters – now all can have them.

2) My Foefire’s Essence, Vision of the Mists, Illya etc can be used by the alts.

3) Less expensive, but still costly items, such as Jormag’s breath, The Anomaly etc can be shared.

4) All my characters can use my special and expensive backpiece skins: The Light of Dwayna, The Wind and Lightning ones etc. I may even recover the Dragons wings that I transmuted over a long time ago.

5) I have every fractal skin to share with my alts. The fractal sword!!! And I get to recover the axe skin that I transmuted.

6) I get to recover all Corrupted, Mystic and Arah skins that I got tired of and transmuted over. I will even get my Arah heavy amors back

7) I get to share all my Zodiac, Tormented, Lovestruck and Jade skins.

8) I get to share all the gemstore amors I bought and recover some of them.

9) I get to share all the T3 Cultural armors and recover the lower tiers that I destroyed.

10) I get to use all the expensive (80+ gold) dyes that I have unlocked on my mains.

11) I can give white acended skins to all the regular weapons I have.

Now I see people complain that they bought Abyss dye on several alts and that they had the same T3 light armor etc. Well, you got to use those for over 1,5 years and now you get to give them to even more characters. And this comes from a person who has 6 Celestial dyes and 3 Abyss, and crafted the Ebonmade white skinned ascended dagger 4 times just for the look.

And while I am extremely happy with the new wardrobe and dye system, I still feel that new special armor and weapon skins need to be introduced so that I can have something to work for. As it is right now, I see myself logging in on the 15th of April to play dress up for a while and then running out of things to do again. Doing fractals 49 for the 1000th time and getting another healing power weapon chest does not really do it for me anymore.

I am really excited about the update and can’t wait for it to happen. I am looking forward to be able to give the Light of Dwayna to some of my alts and to recover some older transmuted skins-

As for the dyes, it is geat! I have expensive rare dyes spread over my alts and now all of them can use them. And I do have 6 characters with Celestial dye and 3 with Abyss but I could care less that I won’t be needing them anymore.

For the people that are complaining that all the cheap dyes got expensive: if you really liked/needed/wanted those dyes, you would have gotten them already. Ask yourself if you are ever going to use them and then get a few hues that you like. The special set dyes still cost what they used to….

I would love a new race but I do not want it to be based on a animal. No tengus, kodans, skritts etc. I can’t even make myself play a sylvari. For my taste it has to be a new humanoid race but unfortunately there is nothing like that left in the game lore.

I would be crazy happy if a dark elf race was somehow implemented but I do not think it will ever happen. They gave us the sylvari and now we are stuck with them.

I do not care for a new class atm. But I think many people will appreciate a race-change option and will pay quite a bit for it.

I am curious if the new wardrobe will show only the skins unlocked via pve content and the gemstore or will it even give us access to the our pvp skins and vice versa.

I am really excited about the upcoming wardrobe and I would like to have answers to certain questions.

1) My guardian has Twilight, my warrior has Sunrise. Will I be able to craft Eternity after the update and give it to both of them?

2) At a certain point I used to have several Corrupted weapons. I got tired of the skins and transmuted others over them. Will the Corrupted skins suddenly appear for me?

3) Same goes to some Gemstore armors, I bought them, used them and then transmuted over newer things.

4) If I have unlocked rare skins in pvp, can I use them in pve? Thinking of Dwayna’s longbow here.

Bright.9160:9

The biggest issue with their reward ‘improvement’ is that they added insufficient gold reward, but mainly, and this is the big culprit, they increased the drop rates of rings and more importantly uninfused rings in lvl30+ fractals, and drastically reduced the rate of weapons you get. Not to mention a nerf to relics and the dailies being account bound. To be honest, no uninfused rings should drop above level 30, and no rings should drop at all at lvl 40+. If you’re at Fractal level 40, you don’t need rings. You don’t want rings. And especially not uninfused rings for the only daily you can do on your account now, because some scrubs wanted to be able to do Fractals on more than just their Cleric’s Guardian.

This is so true. Before the patch I had two characters at level 48+ and was doing one daily 48 run. If friends would ask me, I would sometimes do a 38 as well. We were usually a fixed group and every run 3 people were getting a fractal weapon. I had a banktab full of unwanted fractal weapons that I eventually salvaged for ectos.

5 days after the patch was released, I was back to level 50 and have been doing a daily 49 since then. Sometimes a 36 as well, out of curiosity to see what drops I would get.

What I have noticed is:

- I get a lot less account bound exotics than before.
- I rarely see a fractal skin drop. In the over 50 runs I have done so far, I got 2 pistol skins and saw a guy get a torch.
- I got two weapon chests with useless stats but pretty white colors so now I got ascended underwater weapons…
- Rares still drop left and right but that is mostly due to my high magic find.
- Every time we take in a pug to fill a spot at 49, we get a freeloader that wants to level without going through the other instabilities.

Appart from that, the most annoying thing, that also does not make any sence is:
- I do a level 36, two people get a weapon chest, one gets an armor chest, two get infused rings.
- I do a level 49, the highest possible without buying agony with gold: two people get uninfused rings, UNINFUSED, the rest get nothing.

Now I wonder, how is this fair?

We were reset 20 levels because of leaderboards. No leaderboars are yet to be seen.

We were reset because we had to prove that we can pass the new instabilities. Yet all we did was pass them, only to carry others who didn’t want to and couldn’t pass them.

We got account bound fractal level that limits us to only one daily with worse rewards than before.

On top of that, we still have to convince stubborn players, that our deleted progress must be compensated. People that question our right for compensation whose motives are entirely based on envy: “If I can’t have it, why should you”.

I believe the ascended armor has its current look so that everybody won’t be running around looking the same. Plenty of people have already invested in other expensive skins, and it is obvious that they will transmute them.

And if someone has crafted an ascended set and does not like the looks, he/she sure has enough gold to invest in some transmutation stones without having to pay real money.

Apart from cosmetic looks on armors and weapons, I believe that the rewards from dungeons and fractals should be reworked.

Let’s say that a fully efficient and experienced group of 5 players decides to play some instances:

- Fractals lvl 49 – if they don’t get the dredge fractal, they can be done with that level in about 1 hour. Pure gold reward: 1.4.
– Any fractal from 0-30 can be finished in 30-40 mins. Pure gold reward: 1.2-1.3 g. Almost the same as above, requiring a fracture of the effort.
- The same group can complete the entire AC dungeon in the time it takes to finish fractal 49, and have a pure gold reward of 5.5 Gold + almost enough tokens to buy an exotic offhand weapon for the forge.
- In less than an hour the entire COE can be completed, a higher level dungeon but it gives only 3 gold.
- Honor of the waves – the most beautiful dungeon in game, the only one that includes underwater combat, also gives only 3 gold. Definitely not enough to make people do it regularely.

I would like to know:

- Why do we get the same gold reward for doing fractals 49 as for running a 6 minute COF path one? Not to mention that the reward is the same for the extremely horrible 43 and 46.

- What made AC harder than all the other dungeons so that it gives more gold per path?

- Why would players choose to do lesser dungeons (CM, TA, SE), if they take the same amount of time as the ones that provide better rewards and there is no real use for their tokens unless you want to forge some weapons?

Horizontal progression

I would like to see more armor skins available through other ways than buying them with gems or gold. They should mean more than a simple “look what I bought”. The skins could be crafted once you reach level 500, or acquired after some sort of difficult scavenger hunt. Every time I have purchased a skin from the gem store, I have just as easily replaced it with something else. I know that this is a way to make people buy gems, but in the end none of those skins feel special enough, no matter how pretty they may look.

Please give us armor with icy-look

I would also like to see more weapons with particle effects and with different color schemes.

Vertical progression

I support the ascended weapons, armors etc and think that they are needed. We need smaller pojects like this, that are not as overwhelming as creating a new legendary. The problem is that they can also drop anywhere and with complete random stats. If I have decided to get ascended armor for my guardian and warrior, I do not want an ascended RAMPAGERS box to drop for me in fractals. I want my main characters to have the stats that I need, it feels pointless that my first character with ascended armor would be a retired necro.

A solution would be that the ascended chests have selectable stats. If you get an ascended weapon with the wrong stats, you can still use it as underwater weapon and it would not matter. But if your amor is knight’s, you do not want a box with magi’s or rabid’s etc.

Another option is to have an NPC that trades in unwanted ascended boxes to stats of your own choosing.

I have been getting a lot less ectos this past week. Many unnecessary major runes and sigils though…

I just went through 13 rares and got 4 ectos…

Upon completing the Wintersday meta achievement, you get to choose between a mini and this generous wintersday gift. Does anyone know what’s inside that gift? Does anything good come out of it or just a bunch of socks and snowflakes?

I can confirm that the Superior Sigil of Generosity drops from giant wintersday gifts, as I already got one of those. However this happened before the patch that fixed the charged quartz crystal drops.

I opened about 1500 giant gifts which gave me one of those sigils, 5 Grenth recepies and 1 Dwayna recepy.

From what I have gained from other players, once you craft Light of Dwayna, you cannot put it in the mystic forge to infuse it, thus limiting it’s AR to a fixed 5.

I am wondering, is this a bug and if not, what is the purpose of this extremely expensive item other than the looks? Why do we get to choose stats on it, if we cannot use it in high fractals without transmuting it and loosing those stats?

I understand that many people never enter fractals and would not care and will be happy with the selection of ascended stats, but it is a pity for other to have to choose between sacrificing their AR or the item’s stats.

Or has anyone managed to infuse it since last night?

Hi, my ranger just made it to level 80 and I am a bit confused about what stats to pick up for my armor. All my trinkets will be berserker because I already have them ready.

I am using longbow/ axe and warhorn and I can’t decide between assassin or berserker.

My traits are 20/25/0/25/0.

Thanks for the help

He/she obviously got kicked as the other people instantly blocked him. I am sorry that this happened to you but unfortunately there is very little that can be done.

A friend of mine joined the other day a really bad pug and tried to help them with a 30 something fractal. I think they spent over 30 mins trying to kill the Molten bosses because everyone but him and another guy were instantly wiping. When the boss is finally dead, he saw how the other guy got kicked, and he found himself kicked immeditely after. None of them got the reward chest.

After reporting them to support, about 3 days later he got a reply that nothing can be done.

I would recommend to never let other people open the instance unless you know them.

Again, I said the arguments in the previous posts. You are just quoting random sentences of mine, that I used to explain something different to someone else.

If you had read my previous comments, you’d know that my arguments are very solid. It does not matter how long time has passed, the armor piece is just as distasteful now, as it was when it was introduced.

Thank you for your advice, but I choose to remain here and defend my position.

Alice.8694:

Putting aside that you haven’t even made an argument as to why it isn’t acceptable. The point of a freedom of expression and artistic license is that you don’t get to judge what is and isn’t in your own words “the best way” to express it, as it is a freedom and what would be the point.

I like the way you try to arrogantly railroad over your opposition by simply claiming they are wrong. But frankly you lack the substance to even form an argument, let alone counter the one I just posed.

You lose, good day sir.

Plenty of people, myself included, have already agumented why showing underboob on an armor is distastefull.

Also the designers of Arena net, obviously have no problem in redesigning they works of art, as they already changed the Arah heavy female one several times.

I think that is is horrible that the moderators would place our topic within another one that has over 44 pages to it irrelevant comments.

We have spent several days argumenting on our case about the MEDIUM ARMOR, and now all that is being lost in between posts about the flamekissed one…

Pleople new to the thread, don’t even have an idea what the discussion is about. How is anyone going to catch up on 44 pages of writing. I can’t even find the original post…

This is a very ugly move

This merger is very strange as those are two unrelated topics. I am afraid that the valid aguments consercning the Medium Female Armor will get lost in the conversation about people wanting compensation for their flamekissed armor.

megakittytron.5971:

For instance, Michelangelo’s famous sculpture “David” shows full fledged nudity, where some people may take offense to exposed privates; but because some people take offense should his sculpture be changed? Should there be a leaf over his private section even though this change would be slight? Consider this analogy and then consider what you are asking here today. I think you will understand why many people are against your proposed changes.

I see your point. However, “David” is a masterpiece and a scuplture. It is something to behold, admire and also take distance from.

In our case we are talking about a role playing game, where people are playing a character and many of them are identifying with it. The character represents you, and many players do not want it to be showing certain body parts.

In the early days of the game, the Heavy female Arah armor, was showing a fleshy boob and what was edited to the current eddition of the armor with metal covering the entire chest. I do not see how a small alteration to the tier 3 medium armor is different from that.

A very easy solution would be that the people who already purchased the armor keep it as it is, and after a certain update, all newly required armor has the new slightly modified design. With enough notice, the people craving underboob could still have time to purchase the old armor for their alts.

Not referring to anyone in particular, but I would be great if the people who disagree with the OP would refrain from the condecending tone in their comments.

Playing a female human is one of the most popular character choice that people make. Just go to LA and look around. There are people that like humanoid characters and do not want to play other races but human and norns. When making a thief, many of those same people would prefer a human because they are more agile, tiny etc.

Me and others should not be prevented from playing the race we like and getting a high end armor for it, just because its racial armor was purposely made to provoke.

As a person who strongly opposed the introduction of the flamekissed armor, I can assure you that I am not trying to get back on anyone.

If people hadn’t gotten rude in the original thread and gotten it closed, you would have seen the suggestions for a SEPARATE armor piece, looking just like the current one but covering the underboob.

This seems like a fair solution to me.

How many people bought the armor because they liked its general design and decided to accept the underboob?

How many people bought it because of the lack of anything else good looking?

How many people bought it only for the underboob?

How many people would have still gotten it had the underboob been not exposed to beguin with (like in the OPs design suggestion?)

How many people are refraining from buying the armor because of said underboob?

It is a completely different thing to not buy certain armor because you consider it ugly (as the poster above puts it), compared to refraining from buying armor because of the message it sends.

Telling me to not have made a human in the first place is as unconstructive advice as telling me to don’t buy the armor if I don’t like it.

Also, ridiculing the OP and the people that support him does not help your posts to be taken seriously.