Guild Wars 2

“Yeah I meant BG has done it once, but was not able to replicate it. TC actually got below 25% (we had 3 seconds when the third battery event triggered). Then we tried to dps it but failed. Oh well, it was still fun.”

Congrats on getting him close. I presume you know how the fight “works” now and will have a kill shortly. Knowing this is the secret to beating him.

BG will replicated it again today I am sure of it. Many of us were there for many attempts yesterday and after the kill most went to bed / WvW / Other.

“If there’s a guarantee I’m going to finish the fight with 2-3 exotics from the chest, then I’ll truck on through, but if not, then I’d rather just go make some money.”

Which current fight or content gives you this as a reward?

Extremely serious. Maybe I am Delusional.

I love this fight, please do not nerf it.

As was said above the majority of the players got a rare or 2, some champ boxes, dragonite ore, greens and karma. (A nice amount of karma).

No one was linking the new skins or the mini’s.

If you want to beat this, or have a solid shot then try to get people on voice chat and work as a team. There were plenty of people in the fight not on TS but a fair number of them were and it made it much easier.

1 leader with communication was extremely helpful.

Got a rare and about 34 dragonite. for boss chest and last chest from boss. Don’t remember the other few chests.

Rewards are a little underwhelming. Fight is awesome, I love it.

I seen a lot of others in overflow talking about this. We all crashed to character screen during Teq. Don’t know if this is legit or not, but If it is. please fix asap. Do not post codes here for those who know it. And I would stop “testing” if I were you guys.

they will see a small spike like we seen when set 2 was released.

There is a post on reddit about data mining recent patch.

One of the things that stuck out was new Dye pack. Just like flame and frost. 6 New dyes, you have a 1 of 6 in 25 chance of getting one. so a pool of 25 dyes where 6 are new. This will be like flame and frost packs all over again. Please, please, please just make it 1 in 6 of getting one of these dyes and not a pool of 25 dyes most of which no one cares about. Or just sell the Dye pack directly instead of more RNG boxes.

I realize that this could all be wrong info and nothing is concrete until it’s released. But if you are considering this A net or this is true please rethink it.

Players would easily buy new dyes. But as far as I can tell personal experience or not, players do not like RNG chances at new dyes.

thanks for reading.

Bump. Also rift used to offer in game rewards like mini pets and titles if you simply signed up to play. Was a fun time.

Don’t tell people that Astral. Shhh :P

In a day stormcrow :P
Regardless cobalt looks nice. I am happy with mine. :P

How’d you get 2 Entropy’s? :P Yeah RNG is RNG. And RNG hates me :P
I guess I am doing the wrong activities to earn gold in this game.

Sad but true Kojast. Wish this wasn’t so. I love mini’s in almost all other MMOs. Did like SWTORS for whatever reason.

I earn way less than 2g an hour. I must be playing poorly. Even farming champions I was never making much to be honest. I have yet to see a good skin drop from those boxes. Which probably aren’t worth much now.

If I am in WVW I am definitely not making 2g an hour.

so all you did was transmute the look on to a terrible GS?

thanks for all the advice I’ll look into them and see which I do best with. Which pets do you often use?

In regards to PVE and WVW. Is this a popular choice? Up until now I’ve been using either bow and sword/dagger // axe/ torch.

I have used GS a little but do not favor it as much as I would have thought. Trying to figure out why not.

daros: Whats the solution then? What rewards do players want? Rares are no good. Back pieces are no good. Ascended is good because you can skip having the gather anything or craft. But then the complaint is they are going to be too rare. Yet if it was a common drop players would have their fill within the week and this would be more perma content no one ever does. So what is the solution then? Honestly asking.

As for those saying you’ll never have enough players. I don’t know what to tell you about your server if this is true. Blackgate had no issue completing scarlet events. Even with farming for boxes. Perhaps in a few weeks when the hype dies down there will be less people but you’ll get some sort of reward every 25%. If that 25% is roughly = to the current normal bosses then I don’t see an issue.

Right now we simply have to wait and see. Another day or so.

Yes it would be nice to at least have the meta achievement skins in some sort of locker like the achievement skin currently are. (not really a locker but re-useable)

Can’t please everyone. Some will like it and others will hate it. They have a new weapon skin type with ascended weapons (some I like, some I do not), so we can expect a few re-skins I think.

Wondering if we could maybe get a response on this please Anet? Is this a convention / fan site only give away Mini? Might he be fore sale in the gem store at some point?

Regardless of the answer I think a lot of us would simply like one at this point. It’s not that we feel owed an answer but it would be nice.

Jordy: That statement seems rather opinionated doesn’kitten If someone spends 200 dollars or more on any game I would think they thought it was worth their cash. How do you place a 30 dollar max value on the content? What MMO that isn’t F2P cost 30 dollars. All of the new MMO in development for next year will all be SUB + BOX and all more than 30 to get invested before you even play.

Daywolf:
The Infinite continue coin: I can understand why people don’t like this item. I can understand why they call it Pay 2 Win. It certainly can feel that way. I feel though you are being a little misleading in your post. You do not need to buy this coin to access anything. It makes players feel like Tribulation is a breeze once they do buy it because the value of 1 life is now meaningless. But you do not have to buy anything to access SAB. (I assume that is what you were referencing? )

I agree such an item can certainly look like and feel like a slippery slope, time will tell. I had a similar feeling with RNG boxes. Spending tons of cash and gold trying to get a fusion skin and a mini at Christmas. I got the fusion skin at a high cost, and all but 1 Christmas Mini. It did not leave me with a good feeling either time. I was fooled by myself twice. Never again trust me.

I feel like there should be a fix for this. Maybe they are working on it already in the back ground. This does seem rather unsavory. However I would also say that this is a poor reason to quit the game over. Unless this was the straw that broke the camels back sort of thing.

Seems like you got sorted out though by other posters.

It is ok to have both in my opinion, but we need some new ones in the open world to get. Making armor is expensive resource wise though and that is why we don’t see enough variety.

I am not sure I would call what you described a F2P game. There are elements there, but if anything it’s some weird hybrid. There is an entry cost (buy the game) and until it’s free then It’s not a real f2p. Difference of opinion I suppose.

I do agree with some of your points, but there is nothing in the gem store I ever feel like I need in order to complete the content. Or in order to enjoy the game. Nothing is stopping me from experiencing the new content every 2 weeks.

Nuka: You could very well be right about however much profit was made. I am sure with gem sales and such they could afford to make a boxed expansion. Sadly we’ll have to wait and see how that pans out. They spent much of the last year setting the foundation and smoothing the building bricks, guess we’ll see where that leads us this year.

Did you submit a report on this? I am sure this in not intentional. I would also be upset if I had done the same thing.

“Zero. I will only support Anet with expansions and not kittening flutes and stupid Boom Boxes.” This is a fair statement. But how can they make an expansion without players spending some money?

Granted there are plenty paying in the gemstore and they are clearly doing ok per some interviews.

I’ve spent several hundred. No idea how much, both me and the wife play so my costs often double. Sometimes I use gold to gems, but often don’t have the gold. Christmas I spent 100, and I spent 95 alone for a fusion bow RNG chest crap. Wasn’t happy but I am a compulsive like that. So 200 plus everything else. 10 Toons slots, some bags space, some bank space etc.

“But, I don’t like f2p’s and RMT as a means to support a game, it’s always fail in the long run imo.”

Explain why you think this is a F2P game now? You still have to buy the game and you don’t need to spend anything on it, as you now do not.

“No… the change isn’t good whatsoever (aside from bad footsteps)”

Seems like an opinion. One I do not share.

“Cons

-Footsteps are lame
-Glow is a bit translucent
-Sheathed weapon looks stupid
-YOU REMOVED THE TRAIL
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Footsteps are an opinion. Sheathed is an opinion. Did sheathed change?
I agree it should have a trail and or get it back. I don’t mind the glow but it could be better.

No game is perfect. I am not a game designer and so many things I want or feel should be in the game or be a certain way are very possibly my self interests.

That being said; I love the core of this game. I play more than casually, but less than “hard core”.

When I look at other MMOs currently out or coming out soon I instantly start to compare them to GW2. Even if those games do not have a direct comparison to GW2 I try to make one.

Does it have WVW?
What is the art style like?
What is the combat like?
How much is it going to cost me?
How frequent are the updates going to be?
Raiding / Dungeons? How many?
Lore / Story?

Etc, etc. I think you get the idea. There are lots of place for improvements. But currently and in the foreseeable future it’kittenting all the right notes.

One final note:
COMMUNITY. While at times I shake my head with the best of them, or can be astounded with some actions I see. This Community here in GW2 and on my server is excellent. We all want to sit and talk personally with Devs 1 on 1, but overall I would say we get a fair amount of response and feedback from them, from the community managers, etc. Even though some of my MMO experiences are perhaps a fair more limited than others here, I would be hard pressed to think of another MMO where I felt as engaged.

edit: Sorry I left out that “I enjoy GW2”

Now I wish my necro could use GS. lol. I like the effect. Hopefully all weapons get this treatment? maybe? I hope :P

Even when we get this PVE locker for back skins all of mine will be locked in the sPVP locker. Simply could not wait any longer on this. So when and IF it ever gets released then I guess I am kittened. lol

I missed the SAB 1 Mini’s and one of the RNG Christmas mini’s. Here is hoping at some point they resell them. Maybe not, but it could happen :P

There was another post about this somewhere on here. Someone claimed to have made it just a few days ago. The OP of that thread also could not find it on the TP.

I apologize Helenorz; I gave you the wrong impression in my post. I didn’t say they don’t exist. I do not know anyone who would go to PAX and not want one for themselves.

I said “I’d say you were either fortunate to go to PAX or have a friend that went and didn’t care to keep the mini themselves.”

So I said they were fortunate. Which Is what I would call any person who has a friend willing to grab them anything from a convention or has friends that go to conventions.

for us noobs can you explain Chokolata?

thanks for clearing that up on Givers. Didn’t know that had commented before on that subject.

I did this twice before the last major patch. About 400 rares. Stones were mixed in there somewhere and did not notice a difference. I still have a little over 100 left. Maybe I’ll grab 50 rares and see how it goes.

Even if I knew someone going to PAX, which I didn’t. It’s unlikely they would have given me theirs. I’d say you were either fortunate to go to PAX or have a friend that went and didn’t care to keep the mini themselves. Not sure I would call that “planning ahead” if that Is what happened.

edit: I realize this sounds like a boo hoo I don’t have the mini. But I found that post to have a… rude or elitist attitude to it. Perhaps those are the wrong words.

I don’t know, or really understand this. (noob in this field)

“Or maybe Givers was considered a mistake in hindsight due to the overly balance-changing effect Expertise already has right now, in general?”

going to get ascended weapons for this? I am still trying to get the jewelry.

I have a charr Engineer. I don’t play him very often.
1: Dislike the run animation. I am kinda used to it now, but still dislike it and he often feels slow
2: Med armor looks terrible on him. Simple can not find a good set, helmets are even worse. I have he has claws for feet, but all shoes / boots also look terrible and lose almost all their details.
3: Pistol quip effects look bad on him, can barley see them, especially the footprints. And this is after the update. I had this on an asura as well and it was simply more noticeable.

I did something similar earlier in the month stein. Bought 2 Char slots and now on sale. But that’s how the cookie crumbles I guess

’They have deliberately not added Givers to Ascended/Legandary. This isnt an oversight, they did it on purpose.

So, enjoy transmuting you’re legendary down to an Exotic because of the stats you want.
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Why was it left out on purpose? Those are the stats I want sadly.

I don’t understand. How did you plan ahead?

“Thanks for the praise but this is the stuff that bugs the hell out of me. Go test for yourself and you’ll see that zerk guards can match warriors. There is too much speculation on these boards, very little fact.”

Help some of us out and tell us what you guys are running? I run a zerker Guard now as well. But I am not out damaging a warrior.

It is clear that many players do not like time gated things. Yet complain that it’s too easy to gear a toon etc. For those who don’t have the capital then getting these weapons is a small feat.

If you have the capital to level to 500 (expensive) then making the weapon itself is not difficult at all. You can gather the mats in a few days of fairly casual play, and everything else can be bought fairly cheap from the TP. Took me a week and 1/2 and I wasn’t rushing. Had a guild get an ascended box drop from champion farm, twice now.

Have to say that is a little disheartening lol.

edit: Wanted to add how I got stars, and dragonite ore. I did jumping puzzles park and Queensdale run on 8 lv 80s. Dragonite took me a little longer but I did temple events and other world boss events. Probably faster if I was doing dungeons but haven’t had a group to go with.

Not even sure if anyone looks here much anymore from the Anet side. I hope they do, and would guess they look from time to time.

New Legendary system with choosing stats. I own QUIP. On a Charr Engineer the footsteps are barley noticeable. This is after the update. I didn’t even know it had footsteps before they were so unnoticeable.

Stats selector. Pretty good. Except. I was surprised when I went to look for Givers stats. (Prec. Vit. Cond Duration) and found I can not choose that? Why not, please add this. I own a legendary but still need to transmute it to get the stats I want.

Finished my 1 handed sword today. Not sure if Focus or Staff is next.