Guild Wars 2

Been doing Tequatl for the past 2 years almost every day. Total of 2 hoards and a couple of random ascended weapons so far.

Legendary armor needs to be acquirable another way, not exclusive to raids. Why? Because every other legendary requires you to do everything else in the game.

Similarly, ascended gear comes from multiple sources:
Rings drop in fractals, but can also be obtained from PvP reward tracks, WvW rank up chests, and bought via laurels. The story goes on with the other pieces of ascended gear. They all have multiple sources. So should legendary. I don’t see the old legendaries being locked to one specific mode such as WvW, do you?

No. It is not worth coming back. I used to recommend the game to friends but not anymore.

As others have said, everything since HoT’s launch has been MASSIVE timegates and/or lots of grind. Coupled with the past couple of patches and the recent WvW leaks, the future of GW2 looks bleak. Most certainly a completely and utterly different game than at launch in 2012.

The best gear shouldnt have existed in the first place. It was only added because of people that complained about nothing to do.

No one complained in GW1 when you could buy from the NPC in the city the best gear in the game statwise. And it basically cost the equivalent of 5g.

There were NO fractal changes today.

Also I did get my commander’s spoon after all.

Except newer ascended combinations such as viper are much better than older combinations like sinister. Which is still a creep.

To make it easier for spectators to watch PvP Leagues.

Yes, you don’t care about PVP, and neither do I. But ANET makes money off it, so they prioritize that over their actual playerbase.

The issue is your Infused rings are from BEFORE the Fractured patch in 2013. ANET has ignored this issue despite all the threads about it, so likely not going to be fixed.

ferdi.1452:

Do we really have to wait that long for legendary armor?

Yes. I believe Lux Dominatoris’ post is pretty spot on and a better appraisal of the state of legendary armor than mine. I did not know about the missing collection items for tier 1, because I do not do raids, nor do I plan to. Raids are content for the elite only (and a lucky PUG I suppose, if we have to judge based on posts on reddit). A scarce minority in my opinion, regardless. And ANET will realize that sooner or later. They have their tools to measure how many people do a certain part of the game.

Samnang.1879:

Start crafting mithrillium thingies… because I’m sure this armor will require 250 deldrimor steel

You can bet your sweet momma’s behind that it will require a stack of ascended materials. Everything HoT related is a massive timegate. That’s the only way they can keep people from complaining about “content drought” without actually having to produce anything of substance.

It’s not in the game yet. Only the first tier collection is. If they follow the Legendary Backpack design, then it will be 1 collection per Raid Wing. And there are still 2 raid wings to be added. Which means 2-3 months at least before you can have legendary armor.

Nate.3927:

I never had any kind of black border so not sure what you’re talking about. I have screenshots from all the way back in early access.

You clearly never paid attention then. The game had a subtle black border for the past 3 years. It is definitely gone now.

No, I did not get the same rewards. I got 6 pieces of berserker’s light armor (from southsun, dry top, and silverwastes completion). Too bad the only use for exotic armor is salvaging really.

You can change language for audio to German for example if you’d like to change it up a little. Even if you don’t speak German, it’s a breath of fresh air after hearing the same lines over and over again. Changing languages requires restarting the game, because it downloads the new voice packs.

I think I am experiencing a similar bug with the spoon collection. Fairly sure I completed it and now I only get Broken Spoons. But it says I am missing the Siege Commander’s Spoon from WvW. I’ll wait until I get a Broken Spoon from there and file a ticket for this.

5k+ at launch. Minimum. And 2 months of time gating for good measure.

Hannelore.8153:

Just play at exactly half the display’s resolution and you won’t get blurring. Playing at native resolution in MMOs is usually not possible because they use a kind of UI that does not scale with screen size, its not just GW2 either.

To make it scalable to large sizes ANet would have to redo all of the UI textures because they are likely 1-2k in size and would become distorted.

That would mean I couldn’t use Windowed Fullscreen. If you play at a smaller than native resolution then tabbing in and out of the game will cause black screen flickering as the computer transitions between the 2 different resolutions (that of the desktop and that of the game).

But yes, I agree that ANET would likely have to redo the UI textures as they probably did not anticipate 4K, which should be more widespread next year with nVidia fully supporting it with the Pascal architecture of video cards.

As for why did I get a 4k 15" screen? It’s my work laptop and I use it for designing. And the 4k upgrade of the panel was on promotion.^^

It’s pretty but it’s unplayable on a 15" 4K screen. Please add better UI scaling, ANET!

Hawken son of Z.1367:

I was under the impression legendary armor WILL ONLY DROP IN RAIDS, and would not be craftable. Am I wrong?

You are wrong. The PRECURSOR will drop from raids. It will be used in a collection similar to the legendary backpiece Ad Infinitum and will likely cost 5k-10k to complete at release (I do not trust ANET even one bit about what they said that it would cost 1 legendary weapon for a full set of legendary armor, they are dirty liars as seen with fractal rewards and other stuff).

Answer us, please ANET!

I had to salvage my infused Red Ring of Death, because it wouldn’t go into the forge for upgrading to Attuned.

Ended up infusing a brand new Red Ring of Death AND then it would work for Attuned upgrade.

What a waste of time. So many rings are now apparently useless because they’ve already been infused before HoT, and thus they’re not eligible for upgrading to Attuned.

Raithwall.8201:

Majic.4801:

So instead of tagging a few mobs at the beginning, running off and getting gold, now we can run in, tag a few mobs at the end and get gold.

I guess that’s progress.

this.
and people who dont wanna upscale events when dead and wp away get punished.
do they even think before pushing in changes?

Thanks for the info. Now I’m not gonna waypoint anymore when dead. Exp is too valuable to miss event reward.

Thank you very much for the 64bit client ANET!

Can you also add UI scaling option “Largest” please for 4k displays? The UI is tiny on my 15" 4k laptop even with the new client

Yes, ANET said next year there will be a collection that will award the Mad MEMOIRES (not memories) skin.

It was a stretch goal for this year’s Halloween, but they couldn’t make it in time.

Topic.

I see no reason why it should not be in the wallet as its only purpose is purchasing items. Therefore it is a currency.

Also interested to know if everything the halloween NPCs sell will carry over to the Festival NPC.

I have a Samsung 3D monitor but this option is greyed out to me. I am assuming my card isn’t 3D capable though… it’s an old GTX 570.

I wanted it to be GW1 with better graphics and QoL improvements. Most specifically, I wanted max tier armor to be bought from the NPC just like in GW1. Not the ridiculous soup of stats and tiers we have nowadays. Elite armor should have had the same stats as NPC armor, but epic skins. That’s how it worked in GW1 and it was just fine.

And… many other things but meh. Don’t feel like typing out words that will not be read, plus others have already been detailed enough.

I’m not sure what the resistance ranges are now, but before you enter a fractal you can see the suggested agony resistance in the top right corner of the screen.

Yes. They are available.

Eye of Tequatl cannot be used the forge. Unless there is a recipe that enables that.. I believe the eye is for precursor collection.

It’s currently bugged.

Confirming I got my veteran slot as well just now.

yorick.1305:

I got that 2nd slot. Which I thought was for Deluxe+, unless it was^. Either way it’s a bonus ’cos I was expecting just the one.

I think you misunderstand.
I should have gotten 2 slots: 1 for veteran pre-purchase, and 1 for digital deluxe.
I only got the 1 for digital deluxe. Still missing veteran slot.

Also did not receive my veteran pre-purchase character slot. I received 1 slot from upgrading to digital deluxe in-game. But I should have received a 2nd slot for having registered the game before the start of this year, according to their promotion.

I have not opened a ticket yet, I’ll give them a breather because of the launch. But I will open a ticket on tuesday if I still don’t have it.

Underwater combat will probably be revamped completely once they tackle Steve (the Deep Sea Dragon) in a future expansion.

Maybe if you searched before making this thread, you would have found the answer. This has been talked about since the day they were added to the gem store.

The reason is they are not new skins. They are returning skins. Only new, never before released skins, get to cost 1 ticket. Returning skins will always cost more.

So what about underwater precursors that are only worth 50-100g? Why would I do a collection that takes more time and money than spending 50g on the TP?

Noa.7490:

It has been 3 years since the release of Guild Wars 2 and what do we have apart from the core game? An upcoming expansion which opens a small part of the Maguuma. Within the same time frame and with a smaller team, we got Factions and Nightfall.

Yep. And at this pace it will be 12~15 years to deal with all the dragons and their aftermaths. Especially if Mordremoth isn’t killed in HoT, but is dragged out into season 3 and maybe beyond as they let slip in one of the twitch streams… And frankly, I seriously doubt GW2 will be developed for that long. GW3 will happen before GW2’s story is wrapped up imo.

Well I guess I’ll just wait till halloween for a possible sale, and then for Wintersday sale. The items I want are not worth spending full price on.

This topic should be in the lore forum. And it’s already been asked many times. Unfortunately the forum has never had a working search function so it will just keep being asked.

And while I would love to see Orr and the gods return, ANET has been reluctant to add a divide in the playerbase between those who have completed the story and those who still haven’t. Although, with LA being rebuild and the old LA still being present in the Personal Story now, it might happen one day.

Jaymee.1560”

Considering MMOs of the past, was FFXI’s story so awesome it overrides this one?

Yes. FFXI’s story is leaps and bounds above GW2’s quality of writing. Especially the Zilart and Chains of Promathia arcs which exemplify some of the best storylines in the FF series to date. They easily prove that actual thought and care went into the design of the world. They are interconnected with the core game by referencing and explaining some of the greatest mysteries of Vana’diel (such as the cermet crags, leading back to the creation of the world).

In comparison, my opinion as a 10 year player of the GW franchise is, that GW2’s disjointed lore that only started referencing GW1 properly in season 2 (thanks to people complaining), and the cliche cast of characters, that forcefully call you “boss”, are nowhere near my quality standards of a good story. But hey, this is an MMO. In most MMOs, including FFXI, people don’t care about the story.

Marketing psychology:

1. They put the most desired tool on sale, but not the rest.
2. Players are now 1/3 on permanent tools so they feel the need to “complete” the set at any cost.
3. Players buy the other 2 tools at full price out of desperation/frustration at no sale.
4. ANET profits.

ON SALE = Discount
FOR SALE = Items being sold

People need to learn English.

Arenanet never said it’s “on sale”. They just said Anniversary Sale. This is ambiguous enough to mean both discounts and no discounts.

Ikon.1934:

I do believe they are already building this up due to several events taking place at some of these walls. Additionally I remember some of these Tengu saying that the destroyers recently became a problem due to them digging through and under the wall… So I’m positive it will be added soon!

1. You’re bumping a 10-month-old thread
2. You’re basing your assumption on events that have been in the game since the release three years ago.
3. It’s not happening. Not anytime soon anyway.

I was actually thinking of making a thread like that a long time ago. But it would have come out as a complaint.

I have not done dailies since they changed them. Sometimes they’d complete themselves, but very rarely.

As it is, the dailies don’t exist for me, as they force me out of my daily play routine and I just don’t want to be told what to do.

Hmm, I guess I’ve been really unlucky then, or it’s just not true that upgrade rate is 20% for sigils. It definitely works for runes and crests. Just never seen it work for a sigil.

Selling them might be a better option then.

So I’ve been casually throwing Major Sigils in the Mystic Forge for the past few months, and I don’t remember ever getting a Superior Sigil out of it.

The upgrade rate is supposed to be ~20%. In comparison, I get Superior Runes pretty often.

The question is: Can you or can you not get Superior Sigils from the Mystic Forge by combining 4 Major Sigils? Is it a bug if you are not able to get any but should be able to just like runes?

I am considering throwing in 10,000 sigils just to prove that you cannot.

Can we nerf zerker stats instead?

Cele was nerfed in the past already. As already mentioned, it’s a problem with the traits/skills the classes that use it have. Not the set itself.

Stop wanting to nerf the hardest set to craft in the game, due to the stupid quartz timegate.

/signed

Also have this issue.

Fairly certain they mean new precursors will not drop and must be obtained through collections only.

What he’s trying to say is the Training tab has been completely locked. All my skills have been un-learned (but they are still available in the skill bar, just greyed out in the Training tab of the Hero Panel).

It’s a bug. Tons of bugs in this release. Season 2 is completely locked and asking me to buy it again, even though I have all the achievements from it already.

Currently Temple events are inconsistent in when they award the chest. Melandru and Grenth award it after Defend event, whereas Dwayna, Lyssa, Balthazar, and Arah award it after the “priest” dies.

Can we move the chest for all of them either after priest or after defense? If I could choose, I’d say make them all award the chest after the Defend event, otherwise people are encouraged to fail it just to reset the event chain.

Unrelated to this, can we have crafting materials such as Doubloons added to the collections pane of the Bank? I don’t understand why Giant Eye has a slot, which I haven’t gotten even one of in ~3 years of playing, yet the 4 doubloons do not have slots.

Walhalla.5473”

Last Boss being killed in the first Week of an MMO Expansion, this isn’t going to end well.

Instead we’ll get a cliffhanger after 4 days in the first Week of an MMO Expansion. And people are still going to complain there’s no content. In fact, that will be worse as it will highlight just how little substance there is to HoT.

For pity’s sake people! You paid $60 for ~30 explorable areas (counting cities) in the base game. And now ANET is asking you to pay $50 for a THIRD of that MAYBE. And you’re perfectly fine with it. I just don’t understand.