Guild Wars 2

I like the dungeon. First boss is very good. Trash is good. Difficulty everything is pretty fine. Last boss is way too long though, less phases or something.

Overall, absolutely abysmal with clueless people that probably haven’t done any dungeons before and don’t listen to explanations. I’ve tried finding a group to finish with since my first time (and good group) had glitch and couldn’t finish first fight and it fell apart. Every group since doesn’t even make it through the first pack of trash without dying. Pretty much I don’t think scaled up people should attempt this, I think it may be very hard unless they are getting carried.

Maybe in the future make a dungeon for low levels and one for level 80s. So then we can maybe just split the difficulties for them. Scaling up is not a cure all.

Thanks for the warning. I haven’t started the book yet. And was curious if these were spoilers or not. So good to know not to touch it until I finish.

I just wonder why they chose the longest puzzle that is known for terrible amounts of griefing.

I’ll probably try for it again. But I was SO GLAD to be done with that puzzle when I did it before for the achievement. It may be better now who knows.

Good luck to everyone trying.

I really enjoyed it up to the end where it glitched out for my group and we were unable to complete. First boss was pretty much awesome. And liked the steam pipe platforming as well.

I liked the last boss fight too, mechanics wise. I wish it wasn’t so long as well. It seemed rather tedious, but the cannon wave almost always killed someone for some reason. >.>

" I think the last boss needs a better and more efficient way to get her into the cannon."
Agreed though.

+1 She got stuck at end of dungeon at Mai’s door. Infinitely attacking the npc there.

Can’t reset dungeon. Tried rebanding, etc.

Edit: okay after rebanding (the dungeon didnt reset) she fixed herself.

Be prepared to be instantly ambushed before you load though.

Now I keep respawning inside the fight when I waypoiint. T_T

Nice to see finally. I’m sure it will get quite a bit of use.

I’m just hoping its not as broken as they have been being lately. There is a lot to break in this patch. GL ANet.

626 hrs 50 mins for the past 9 months on main.

743hrs 28 mins in total.

Delete would require manual confirmation where you physically have to type out the name. If it gets that far then it was on purpose.

Since you can’t sell it, like others have said it probably is in your bank somewhere.

I’d probably try contacting support through a ticket. They may be able to help you since it is a pretty terrible accident.

I’ve had the “problem” with making clones of myself when using shapeshifting items lately or being changed by npcs. xD But they usually aren’t standing and are stuck in combat stance.

Got mine today too. Saving it for when I get stuck in the hospital for a good month soon and can’t play GW2 so It’ll be an interesting read.

Really enjoy the lore books and hope there are more in the future.

Ugh that Obsidian jumping puzzle is going to be hell isn’t it. :P I forsee lots of happy WvWers camping that.

Other then that everything sounds pretty fun.

Glad to see some reuse of jumping puzzles though. A reason for me to go back to them other then monthlies/dailies.

Edit: after further reading your trials through the dungeon. It sounds like a lot of fun. Some of the gimmicks may take a bit to get used to, but I will definitely try to complete it since it sounds like fun. I’ve gotten rusty from the GW2 dungeons so something with mechanics like old MMOs scares me a bit. :P

I look to have an idea of the time before I get on. There are times that I will be in that void where nothing is spawning. And times when everything is spawning. So after wasting a lot of money (and time, mostly all that time) in the beginning I would rather have an idea of what I am working with.

I usually only do about 2 or 3 bosses then I go do whatever I want to do. And usually only if it helps with dailies. Its probably one of the fastest ways to do the Group Event daily so I prefer to do it that way.

I wish there was more options then just running around waiting on timers all day or running dungeons. But in the current moment its still one of the better ways to generate income or ectos. Guaranteed rares are hard to pass up.

I don’t think its hurting the game so much. As it just makes it seem that way. Even if they all seem to come in surges every hour or so. When I go to Orr there is still quite a few people (granted less then before) that are there all the time. And I still run into quite a few people leveling alts in mid-level maps. Still tons of people that run dungeons every day lfg’s, etc. I don’t think everyone chooses to play the timers as much as it seems.

I’d say those comics sum it up pretty well. Especially the last one.

The Hidden Garden jumping puzzle has so many beautiful spots. And you can easily hide yourself away from the handful of agressive mobs. I also like how its kind of mysterious to get to. Of course my favorite spot is probably near the Sun spot. (Don’t really have an screenshots of the area, but I do have a stupid video I made of my diving hijinks there. http://youtu.be/_VHcLyGjKHA)

Also the bamboo forest in the Grove is another favorite spot of mine. You have to like swim through a pond to get to the area, its quite hidden as well. Great for screenshots.

Got one randomly leveling my Guardian in Lornar’s Pass. Was doing some dredge event.

I admit I don’t want to buy more [Fine] transmutation stones. I have my alts to consider once they get to 80 and thats already too much gems to spend on that. I’d rather spend the gems on other things then something like that, that I should get in game easier then I do at 80 or on the way to 80.

But if they are able to get through Laurels or decent amount of means for PvE and PvP players then I guess in the end I would end up giving in. Personally I never enjoyed fractals so I still never completed my back piece. So if they come solely from fractals again I might be a bit miffed. But I think (hope) ANet knows better then to put them from solely one source.

Heck, I’d love to just get them as a chance drop from world bosses or something. Granted people are able to sell them (for extraordinary high prices I bet ._.). Crafting would also be a good idea. But I don’t think ANet knows what reasonable amount of materials is. Especially when it comes to t6.

Overall though, no. I would not like to see it.

Yeah I can’t wait myself. I wouldn’t say I’m amazing at JP but I love the challenge that the Holiday ones in the past have given. The permanent in-game ones are not difficult at all in comparison for me.

Can’t wait to see what gimmicks will be around this one to kill you. xD

I know a lot of people really wanted a item like this yesterday. I think things like this are always interesting rewards in MMOs. Because it helps you look back on a experience (and the game creators hard work) that you may or may not ever see again.

Sure another skin or item can do that as well. But you can tell that they put more effort in that cutscene then a lot of the others we’ve seen in the past few months. Its nice that they want to see it stick around even after the event.

As far as bag space and such. If you aren’t a collector of oddities and every random worthless item from events then I can understand the complaint. But if anything we still need a skin storage for all the holiday skins. >.< Then we can have more space to keep these trinkets.

b) jump always. xD

Just have to do it. Never know whats on the other side waiting to trip you. :P

I also thought it was Inspector Ellen.

Maybe it still is, and Marjory and Kasmeer just think it is a male. There is really no distinction that it is a male or not in the letters as far as I can recall.

Agreed. Felt very 50s Noir to me. I loved it. Definitely nice to see.
Cutscene if anyone wants to watch again: http://youtu.be/vzfVsrJkx08

I have to agree. She looks a lot more asian then you can make the default humans. Her hair is the best though. Totally want.

Of course Lady Kasmeer is nice too.

Really the only timed thing was the fireworks display which was 14 – 17 (thought this was 18th but apparently it ended today).

Everything else you have until July 9th to do. The story content starts tomorrow so not sure how much it entails in terms of time. But its about 5 achievements.

You can still do the holo hunting and the coffer hunting and the dragon pinatas and dragonball all up to the 9th.

And I know all about the monthly content is all kinds of crazy for a busy person. :P I have surgery soon so I’ll be out of the game for at least two months. No telling what I’ll end up missing. lol

While it would make them a lot easier for a majority of people to complete I’m not sure allowing all the options is a great idea.

I say add a couple more of the randomly generated options though. There is usually 5 or 6 PvE options. One almost always being group event related. Two dungeon options. And 2 or 3 WvW options. This isn’t necessarily bad but I’d say a bigger range is better, but all 46 options? nah.

Like others have stated if you add all the options you literally could or almost complete the daily without leaving LA and thats no fun. I think it should require a bit more input then that.

I’d try restarting your pc first. Sometimes that helps flushing out any strange hang ups programs have when they crash/error out.

But there is a thread about this in the bug issues forum, seems something might be up:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Connection-Error-s-Retrying

I think I spent about 3g for the achievement. I didn’t win at all the first 3 or 4 times. Then I won three in a row.

30g for the mini though. Voting for the same moa the entire time. Average seems to be around 28 – 30 + give or take “luck.”

Its very annoying though because it seems the moas generally get a time frame where that particular one is going to lose constantly for like 4 or 5 turns then as soon as you get fed up they become 1st place winner or start placing in the top three.

Would be nice.

I got a ticket off a random coffer drop tonight and even though I like the skins I didn’t really think it matched any of my characters, especially not my main. So I ended up just picking out a dagger for my necro I sometimes play and know I won’t delete.

I would of much rather gave it to someone that really wanted one or sold it straight up.

At least with the overall regular coffer drop rate there is a higher chance for people to get tickets in general then before. So they went one step in the right direction this time.

Motti was my ticket haul, stuck with her all the way through. S/he won pretty good, but got the losing streak like all the others. But s/he tended to at least place in the top 3 pretty often. Doubt anyone was boosting her/him either, everyone on overflow was too lazy for that.

30g later I gots mini racing moa though. <3

Yeah I’m guessing its tied to the story around Dragon Bash that we haven’t been able to see yet. Which makes it slightly spoilery or just confusing in this sense. But I guess they need to have it up as long as possible so people can get it.

As far as its “purpose” its just a free accessory for your alts or new players. Which is not a bad gesture.

I know the Zhaitaffy doesn’t show up in the discovery pane for chef so I doubt there is any you can make sadly.

As far as recipes I haven’t seen any new ones on the trading post or heard of any new ones from people in chat,etc.

Its possible there is some recipes but I don’t think any number of people are buying the rich coffers since the normal ones drop so common. Maybe someone at ANet will clarify if there is or not.

Flick of the vale.2065:

Did that. hoping its just an issue that is fixed. Does this count for ppl that spend coin to buy gems, or just the ppl that pay cash for gems?

I believe its cash only.

Flick of the vale.2065:

I have probably bought close to 50,000 gems. I never received this mini pack. kinda wierd since ppl i play with say they never bought any gems and they have received.

Do i get one?

Try deleting some old mail and see if that works. Sometimes it gets full.

Otherwise might just be behind. If you still don’t have it by tomorrow then might be an issue.

You can use the on use fireworks (what I did). You just have to use the spells like the OP mentioned. So you get like 9 charges out of 1 firework. Or you can use any of the fireworks launchers around LA.

This is why I felt incredibly uncomfortable doing this achievement. It sounds pretty silly I know, but I am not a competitive person and don’t want to be in PvE. But there was multiple times I like instantly kill the spawned holograms and then someone runs up like a second later.

I got to the point where I looked around and if someone was near then I waited, but then its a competition to actually get credit for the kills. So you either hold back or one shot. I did eventually join a group and it helped a bit. But that was when we the only 3 people on the map.

It does seem significantly worse then the Halloween or Wintersday spawn things though. I do recall they did do community drops but they seemed to not die so easy either so there was a time frame longer then a couple of seconds for some.

Or they should make it like for Halloween when events would spawn out of the doors instead. So then it could scale properly and you could do them in groups better. And large groups would allow better farming for people. So it’d be a win win.

I’m thinking there might be some in the locked achievements that deal with story. It seems likely there is at least one in there.

RoterFuchs.9216:

Just asking, I won my first moa race but didn’t get any achievement contribution. Am I the only one? :<

If you bet on the Mystery moa that one doesn’t seem to give credit for whatever reason.

I had the same bug. I think they eventually respawn daily, and you can do them again in overflows.

It shouldn’t affect your achievement though, there should be plenty of pinatas that you run across in the month. They aren’t one-time only they just take a long time to respawn.

Other cities are supposed to have some too, but I haven’t really hunted them down yet.

I am quite close myself.

But I think people found some kind of abuse for the birds. Ie. using certain spells were affecting them.

So I guess they are working on a fix. Hopefully its soon.

Dragonball seems to be disabled too.

I dunno I was doing the holo killing achievement and got a ton of coffers to drop. Granted its probably harder now with more people do it then it was earlier today.

But I managed to get around 500 pieces from that alone. And a little bit of barely touching the pinatas. I’d say its doable but the holo farming was a pita for me. Parties definitely make it easier if people wait before starting them and stuff.

It could be taking a while to generate to everyone. I got mine just now. And it seemed to be pretty delayed compared to everyone else I knew and that was around me.

Either way, Thank you ANet. I really appreciate it. <3

Make sure your mail isn’t full though. Since that is always a issue with TP stuff it might cause this not to show up either.

I was thinking of saving up for pet moa (I do want one). But with my luck, heck I’ve been betting the same one and it is definitnely about 20% chance of winning anything. But thinking of just throwing all my tickets at some bags to get my money back.

That or save the tickets for the coming years till one day I can afford it. Wonder if that is their intent.

Betting with candy would be nice, but I doubt they’ll go for that.

I’m not sure how this bugged out. But I bet on Meep and he won third place and at the same time I got the event completion pop up I got a Order Cryptotranslator spawned into my inventory. O.o

Are the Whisper agents up to something strange? :P But really I think this is just some strange bug indeed. It looks like the item we got for the Flame and Frost event.

More then likely we’ll see them next week. Since the event has a second set of unlocks in terms of things to do, etc.

The bladed stuff is quite nice.

Actually it all looks quite nice, but all the dragon stuff doesn’t fit any of my characters. But the jade bladed stuff is quite nice indeed…

I honestly still adore the Gryphon from Wintersday. Though I like a majority of the ones I have he still is snuggly and I want to squish him. I wish I’d stop being lazy and finish my HoM so I an get the Raccoon though, hes so adorable.

Probably the one that intrigues me the most is the jack-a-lop but at that price, I don’t care how cute you are. No thanks.

I like collecting the elemental ones (I wish there was an earth one :<) on my Elementalist. Even though I still use the Gryphon on her a majority of the time.

The past couple of mini baby pets were pretty awesome too.

I’m not a huge fan of wings but they still look cool. Not sure I would put them on anything but would be nice to have.

As far as everything else. I can’t wait. I’m excited to see an actually holiday again after all this time. So it should be quite fun.

Really is disappointing if you are putting all the weapon skins in the RNG boxes again. Though it sounds like you can at least get some by other means that are more static at least (this probably won’t last long and will get nerfed within the first few days). >.<

Overall, still excited.

Also, love the catchy song in the video and the artwork. Really like the theme and the paper mache/pinata dragons idea.

Mirta.5029:

I’m just judging from my own friends and family. There wasn’t a single player that payed for a 30 day WoW subscription and then didn’t feel guilty for not playing WoW before his subscription ran out. It would be kind of different if subscriptions would take a day away every time you play a day, but the ones that we have right now run out no matter you play or not, so most people try to get their money’s worth.

I miss this this. Some games used to have a hourly subscription. Would take out time to the minute how long you played. It was a steal if you played very little. But if you played more then 30 hrs in a 2 weeks you’d be losing money so you’d opt for the monthly sub.

But honestly I prefer the GW2 system because I can control what I pay. Sometimes I want to play but I don’t have the money to spend on a sub or in this case gems (I have a ton of medical bills, and student loans to boot). So being able to enjoy the game without worrying about wasting money unless I have it to waste is always a good thing, for me.

On topic: I don’t think that it is ruining the game. Guild Wars has always been a “different” MMO, with a following no less. While GW2 strayed from the original they still have the same mindset in some areas.

Sure they added Ascended gear and you have the Legendary grind (but this is something that is intended to take a long period of time, something a ‘casual’ could easily do). But overall it is still a quite friendly game to anyone that wants to play it.

If you play hours upon hours it is definitely noticeable that there is less to do then you may be used to.

As far as “Hardcore” vs. “Casual” I can say that most people have probably argued that enough. lol

I will agree that the combat speed seems like a bad idea with the system. I definitely feel like the snares are more then enough especially with the length that some last. Some classes and weapons it is more noticeable then others. While I don’t have a lot of serious issues with it on my characters – I play at mostly ranged and have enough evasive weapon skills or otherwise for me personally (dodge exists for quick move options, but at the same time wasting a dodge when you could easily run out of an attack or area is a nuisance). I have a feeling that if they did get rid of the speed decrease that there would be some changes to the current combat system probably.

I know they did it partially to ‘prevent’ people from running through mobs and skipping them. But people do that anyway; besides its super easy to outrun a mob when you have a single speed boost even with the decrease. Might as well get rid of the hindrance.

As far as general run speed and using skills and traits to increase it I don’t see it as a huge deal. Most classes have a skill or weapon skill that increases speed decently enough without having to waste trait points/slot or use a skill slot if you don’t want. Of course if you want to go all out there is the option to do that as well.