Guild Wars 2

tfwzyko.3516:

remember trading?

a good feature.

Didn’t actually help with scams. If you browsed the GW1 wiki you would run into warnings about various items being related/used in scams or see mercury’s post.

More bank/inventory slots(I mean more than 8 bags/bank tabs) but this seems like it would be least likely out of all the things mentioned here.

Bought the gems for the axe when I bought the gems for the sickle.

‘Meh’. As long as it functions properly, don’t care. Actually I would rather it didn’t have any different/extra animation at all. It serves its purpose as a convenience tool so you never had to buy another sickle or care about whether you have the right one equipped or getting out of combat so you can equip the right one.

Anna Kruse.3941:

arah gear. legendaries. titles. achivement points. fractal weps.

can be “bought”, can be bought, some can be bought, some can be bought, RNG

Aberrant.6749:

Gear and achievement points can give you a little indication, but you really would have to watch them in action and see how well they do in a dung/match. I’ve seen warriors in full arah gear get downed over and over in SE. I’ve seen rangers in rares be a large asset to the party. It just comes down to skill… which you really can’t quantify.

You have no way of knowing if that ranger’s alt is in full arah gear and multiple legendaries either and while arah can be long and possibly more difficult than some of the other dungeons it is not as hard as some people seem to be trying to imply. Some paths are also easier than others. You can get a full set of arah gear by doing nothing but easiest path.

There is little point in wasting time with the Ash Horizon just for the skill point. The follow up to retake Fort Cadence is not hard but easy to fail because as usual the NPCs are weak and made of tissue paper. It is fairly easy to reach from the south or the east.

BBMouse.6510:

I played it the past few days wanting to level up my low level and get some tokens at the same time, but CM P1 just cannot end properly. After killing the final boss, nothing happens and no passing chest with the token (the one given after the final video). It’s about 50% of the time I don’t get it, and we didn’t skip any stuff (the bandits) and still happened. So plz fix it ‘cause it’s a good dungeon to level up. Thx

We tried relogs (even the game host, the one who opened the dungeon), but still bugged. It’s interesting that the game host leaves game but we don’t get kicked like we usually do.

You would only get kicked if the person leaves the party. You do not get kicked if they just log out.

Also https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/CM-Exp-Path-1-Glitched

ilr.9675:

There’s a place for it. But I don’t think CM’s armor set was that place.
I’m having trouble coming up with a better design myself, but once I think the sketches feel “complete”, it’ll get fully Maya rendered and then hopefully Anet will one day follow Skyrim’s lead and let us “cotribute” such projects to their Art resources through Steam-Workshop…

That would be unlikely. Consider the fact that GW2 itself is not even available on steam.

Only if they really want to kitten people off for no good reason.

Once for Crusader Michiele but I think that was because we ended up pulling it too far from her activation point while trying to avoid her attacks.

penatbater.4710:

Did you guys ever consider that anet WANTS t6 mats to be that expensive? :o

/conspiracytheory

I don’t know about ANet but I certainly do.

Probably scaling. How many players were around? Ever around it? This is a problem with scaling, it seems incapable of scaling back down.

Vol.5241:

This is what I dreaded after the ecto fix.

After each patch people will always doubt.

You say that like people weren’t making threads about that everything single BEFORE that bug. This is not a change this is just how people have been for a long time.

Then you have targets like Anders. We had one time where we had THREE people pass by before it made any noise. Now we just have be paranoid and stand around for even longer at each karka. That naturally eats into the time you have for doing the bounty.

The new patch is also going to make thing target potentially hellish to do. A veteran karka, a champion target then a million crazed wildlife and of course all but 1 WP will be contested.

Mimir.4690:

Does anybody know what new WPs and POIs have been added?

wayfarer foothills, straits of devastation, cursed shore, plains of ashford, brisban wildlands, snowden drifts, diessa plateau

I am running out of space anyway even though I haven’t bought any of the town clothes. I haven’t bought any because I knew this was going to be a problem and because moving them from character to character would be a hassle. I do not pay to be inconvenienced!

digiowl.9620:

Armageddis.9148:

I think three things need to be done: 1) Lengthen the cooldown on mob power moves. 2) Improve the telegraph animation or perhaps add an audio cue to warn the player when the 1-shot kill is coming. 3) Add an graphics option to turn off spell particle effects. I think these things would greatly improve the player experience.

1) could be built into the scaling mechanism i guess. Meaning that as the events scale up, the cooldown on mob attacks lengthen.

2) in mass events that will just add to the cacophony of battle

3) already coming i think, at least i swear there was some dev statement to that effect recently.

3 was mentioned in the latest SotG but that is just for sPvP then WvW and MAYBE probably PvE. Oh and it is just a plan, that isn’t the same as coming. That is not even
“working on”.

Bright.9160:

Vox Hollow.2736:

Honestly, our efforts are better focused directing the discussion towards what we’d like to see to elevate the dungeon experience to a higher standard

A higher standard for YOU maybe, but you fail to realize that some people don’t mind skipping. Stop forcing your perception of how the game should be on other people. There is plenty of other stuff broken with dungeons: bugs, terrible rewards etc. Forcing people to do unrewarding content =/= fun.

Did the OP actually mean skipping? I totally did not read it that way. I am not a huge fan of it but I have no problem with people doing it. I thought it was more about people doing stuff like standing on certain spots where mobs can’t hit them but they can still hit the mob(various dungeons and paths at different points in time) or jumping around places where they are basically outside the map(the ship in Arah).

AresOnasis.4703:

Leave it as is. Having some events failing is part of the fun. What the hell is the point of these events if they don’t fail?

I want to see The Shatterer completely decimate a group, and then progress to take over the entire map unless people band together to stop him. I want to login one day and be told in guild chat that the entire map is lost and we should help try to take it back.

There is failing and then there is failing because everything even the lowlies mob will kill you in one hit. What next? Ambient creatures that attack for 5000 per hit?

Wiki page looks a bit weird. Crafted with Sigil of Purity but ends up with Sigil of Life?

Zaxares.5419:

I don’t doubt that Ascalon tried to replenish its numbers over the 20 years between the Searing and the Foefire, but there were just too many factors against it working. The Searing not only demolished much of the Great Wall, but it also turned the land into a burnt, smoking hellhole. Coupled with the destruction of valuable infrastructure like aquaducts, it would have made farming almost impossible in Ascalon. Since the key to a population boom is a surplus of food, that setback alone means that Ascalon would have struggled to repopulate.

It could still have worked had trade routes to Kryta and other nations still been open, but Adelbern’s deep distrust of Kryta likely meant that he also rejected all aid from the closest human kingdom capable of supporting him. (Indeed, I seem to recall Ambassador Zain saying he came to offer the White Mantle’s support and aid to Ascalon, but Adelbern rebuffed him.)

Then there is the other issue … “all this war, death, starvation and hellhole of a landscape is such a big turn on, anyone else feeling highly motivated to replenish our numbers?”

Phaedryn.3698:

darkace.8925:

DeWolfe.2174:

Dev’s…. lower the damage to defense ratio. You are out of control!

Or you can try something other than 30/30/x/x/x with full Berserker’s.

j/k. I’d wager it’s not the damage output that’s killing people in most cases, it’s the sheer number of mobs that spawn and bumrush the settlements.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but this (highlighted part) is certainly true for me. IF I die, it isn’t to one mob, and rarely to two (unless they are drakes and I am caught off guard, sucked in to a ring of death then chain stunned there with my stun breaker on CD). There really aren’t many mobs outside of event Champions that are going to kill my Ranger or my Guardian, even if I miss a lot of dodges. My Warrior (yes, full zerker) has to be a little more careful, but then again most things die before than have a chance to kill me on that toon.

Really? I’d like to know what sort of build you are using to survive going 1v10 against crazed karkas. That seems to be what the devs is appropriate scaling for the settlement event in the Steampipe Steading event. It’s okay if the build won’t survive the crazed reef riders that also happen to show up …

SkyChef.5432:

lorazcyk.8927:

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That’s why I don’t skip or use gimmicks, I fight honorably.
…

Right now I’m doing dungeons for armor and loot (SE and CM), and I’ll always fight honorably.

I was the same in Gw1 for seven YEARS, so no, thwt’s why I know I’ll never resort to speed run cheap gimmicks like you say I will.

You are too serious of your skills & opinions judging that you just started doing dungeons a couple weeks lately. I really like to see you fight honorably through Arah especially p1 & p2, if you ever get there or find any honorable group that like to do the same thing as you do.

That challenge is about as fair as most dungeon mechanics. :P
Even if you were simply to running through all dungeons with mobs remove Arah would still take longer. Skipping in Arah can be more of a necessity than a convenience given the large distance you have to cover. The distance between some of the bosses in Arah feel like they are farther apart than then entire path of certain dungeons.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

shambo.3842:

Thank You for the response!!
any idea if we are going to have to kill her again to get it? some of us might not be able to because, the people who have gotten the achievement won’t do it again. Thus making it a lot harder to get all 4 camps cleaned out to make her spawn

I’m pretty sure a world boss with 2 guaranteed rares or exotics, plus a chest and a drop off a legendary mob will inspire people to do it. It is similar to a dragon event meta in that regard, but with more guaranteed drops due to it’s higher difficulty.

My hope would be that it is done by guilds, and that players can use the API info to time when the queen is up to go do it like they do the dragons now.

edit:
To answer your question though, yes you will have to kill the karka queen again once we resolve the problem.

I would like to point to Orr temples and Grenth temple in particular as counter argument. The reward to effort ratio of these things do not really feel like the work out at all. Two rares is about 30s, possibly less with more rares being thrown at players. The instigator events seems to have gone too far in the other extreme. Skills aren’t the only thing that needs balancing in this game …

ShinraGuardian.8053:

Shhhhhh! Don’t start a thread about farming areas. If you do all the good areas will be listed and put on a checklist to be nerfed!

The skelk spot in southsun is still decent … the problem is that they now seem to drop blood and fangs in equal quantities instead of more blood than fangs.

Mechanico.3194:

I’ve been considering them, thye look like alot of fun, but I heard they are difficult to level. Still I think I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the reply

Difficult to level? Got 9 lv80 with two of them being elementalists. I don’t agree with that assertion at all. Some professions are better at soloing certain events/skill challenges than others but actual leveling isn’t all that different.

darkar necrosphere.1328:

Well difficulty is relitive to the players, and although I agree most are rediculous cheap or over powered, with only 4 active members my guild has only ever failed a training once.

Well a lot of that comes down to luck. Most of the fights aren’t too bad if you’ve fought them at least once and figured out their mechanics(reading about them helps but actually being in a fights is still important for figuring out how the various bits affects your class and build).

In most cases the challenge is in the search not the fight. I thought the Short Fused Felix(the one in Diessa) was one of the easiest to fight but finding him can be a matter of luck given the very large path. With small number of people and large paths you can get lucky find the target on loading the map or you can spend 15 minutes and not find it.

Emopandagurke.3497:

Bugged again, -.-
btw: we didn’t skip the last chest.

That is not what I meant at all. There are a bunch of stuff to fight between the last chest and Frost.

So the important thing here did the cutscene between Traffa and Frost play BEFORE you started fighting Frost?

darkace.8925:

tigirius.9014:

Mikau sorry, it’s why I left the game, no rewards man.

Now if only you’d leave the boards…

I’m all for criticism. I’m all for voicing discontent. I’ve done plenty myself. But some of you guys wail in every other post about how bad the game is. If it’s half as bad as you some of you guys make it out to be, then it’s probably not worth playing. And if the developers are half as evil or incompetent as some of you guys make them out to be, then they’re not going to listen to what you’ve got to say anyway. So you’d probably be a lot happier if you just moved on with your life.

I can half agree with you there but the bug thing is hard to argue against when so many bugs have been left unfixed and it seems we are getting MORE!

As for the effectiveness of MF. Unless they just increased the drop rates of everything(note chests from instigators do not count since MF doesn’t work on chests and they are supposed to have higher drop rates anyway) in Southsun to fake it then I am pretty sure it does work.

Spent 2 hours farming with a friend. I had 0% MF, she had around 180%. The differences were certainly noticeable. Spent another two where I had 143% and she still had the 180% and there was around a 20% difference in the number of loot bags. Except for a couple of enemies we were always hitting the same enemies.

That being said MF needs to be balanced with a your damage output and survival. This also means that the ideal way to use MF gear is with a group. This does NOT mean using MF in dungeons, that is just a waste of time/MF food/booster/etc.

It would probably help if you included pictures and I hope you are not referring to the parts that are basically transparent …

We also ran into this bug the other day but it took me a while to find this thread again because it doesn’t mention Caudecus anywhere.

Anyway we are pretty sure we figured out what the problem was. There is a cutscene that is supposed to play between Traffa and Frost when Traffa gets to the bottom of the stair/ramp. Make sure you are actually walking down the stairs and not jumping off the side. Don’t aggro Frost before the cutscene plays. In order for that to happen Traffa has to be alive. This means no skipping after the last chest.

We’ve repeated the path two more times(skippeds a lot on one and killed everything besides Seamus on the other) after that and haven’t had any problem.

Edit: If you DIDN’T skip that part and that still happened then please mention it here.

MrRuin.9740:

Blaeys.3102:

http://us.gw2stuff.com

It is not dependent on players to update (uses data directly from the game) so it isn’t subject to trolls.

This, hands down. Excellent timer. It also updates to tell to you at which point any pre-events are in. (Grawl attacking, or the totem, etc for Maw, for example. So you know if you have time to make it. Saves from having to sit around in a low level map waiting out the window as well)
They’ve recently put out an overlay that you can up over your client all the time without needing to tab out to check as well.

Works better with http://dragons.udba.org/
The overlay looks nice but it wants windowed/full screen windowed mode.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Isn’t the scaling of events still bugged? Meaning that events like the temples are being scaled horribly making them nearly impossible to do?

I haven’t heard of a fix for this issue yet, and until then I personally will be avoiding the Cursed Shore. Not worth the aggravation.

The last patch CLAIMS to have fixed the Lyssa temple event but it doesn’t feel any different.

Melandru is tolerable with a zerg but still annoying with the priest healing to full health.

Haven’t bothered with Grenth in ages.

Dante.1508:

What is a Dragon Bash….

And with current world boss timers isn’t that effectively what we are doing now..

It sounds like a Canthan thing. Maybe they will bring back Dragon Arena. That was very popular in GW1.

AB was fun … but all the waiting between matches was not.

Invulnerability:
Walk in the park and mostly ignorable for some party composition.
Very hard to impossible for others.

Boss debuff:
Better version already exists, see dredge fractal and underwater fractal.

Player debuff:
Did you forget there are Elementalist and Engineer in this game? Either they get to ignore this debuff or you go and break class mechanics. Still shares the same problem as Invulnerability mentioned above.

Esplen.3940:

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GS Mesmer

Free bug with every patch?

Sube Dai.8496:

Grenth and balthazar aren’t easy, they almost always fail. Jungle worm and frost maw need to be harder.

Grenth – I don’t do it much so I could easily be missing something but it seems to be mostly RNG based death. Player skill or lack of it doesn’t seem to matter much here. There may be a tiny bit of skill involved with the various bits but it is mostly random.

Balthazar – the best way to succeed is not to try at all? Since the NPCs do not seem to scale but the enemies do then the obviously solution is to not do the event(the escort) and only have the minimum number of players involved. This isn’t a very good solution since people will end up joining the event just because it is up. Telling people to not join is never going to end well. Finally who likes escorting useless NPCs?

Canach’s Lair(both versions) seems poorly implemented. The one time where actual voiceovers would have been useful(for the warnings about the traps) they didn’t bother adding it. Why do disabled traps detonate? The pace of both battles also feels extremely sluggish. Disable trap → run over to trap → watch NPC completely ignore you and there is nothing you can do about it sequence makes it ‘play it once then forget it exists’ content.

Someone also needs to rein in the designers’ excessive love for CC.

I generally follow the Personal Story. This means finishing the starter map then do the story until it goes to a different map. Then finish that map and then repeating the same thing.

Geotherma.2395:

Khisanth.2948:

Geotherma.2395:

Of all the bosses/events, I’d say Fire Shaman by far is the most annoying to me.

More than Lyssas gorilla? or a more recent version, Champion Settler and their “red circles are bigger than they appear and oh by the way I got homing rocks too”

Aside from temples and LS stuff :P Hes just straight annoying lol Multiple changes, aoe’s everywhere, quick damage because your capped. I’ve never seen more than 5-10 people do that event :P

I have. Just did it the other day. It’s pretty much unplayable. The most enjoyable experience doing Lyssa temple was when we did it with 3 people. It was challenging in that misusing a skill or failing to help someone who is down probably would have meant failure but it was not stupidly difficult because everything kills/downs you in one hit that you probably didn’t/couldn’t see because of the particle effects and just from having all the people around. Having to deal with summons and then to have another thing one shot you from behind is not anywhere near a fun experience.

I think the designers are just being too lazy and using the downed state and one shot skills as a crutch for “press button to make difficult content”.

I am still waiting for them to implement the horizontal scaling they mentioned before launch. When they mentioned “new scaling” I was hoping that would be the case but it turns out it was just “hits harders and has more HP”.

Looks fine to me.
The MF is occasionally a bit stupid in that you have to put the items in a certain order even though orders doesn’t matter.

Geotherma.2395:

Of all the bosses/events, I’d say Fire Shaman by far is the most annoying to me.

More than Lyssas gorilla? or a more recent version, Champion Settler and their “red circles are bigger than they appear and oh by the way I got homing rocks too”

That is going to depend a lot of the server and the time you play. As for why they get ignored, in my opinion that is probably because the effort vs reward is not worth it for most of them.

Just tested this as well.
Since you mention lv80 I assume this is not in sPvP but was in in PvE or WvW?
I tested by standing next to a contested Grenth statue in Curse Shore. Easy and safe health loss.

I tried Healing Surge, Healing Signet, Mending, Prayer to Dwayna. Having them on cooldown did not have any effect on Adrenal Health.

mercury ranique.2170:

There is more info: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros

So lets go through the three questions:
“Does this program allow someone to play faster, better, longer, or more accurately than someone who doesn’t use it?”

No!

“Does this program allow someone to ‘play’ when he/she is not at the computer?”

No!

“Does this program allow the user to gain undeserved rewards?”

No!

So nobody will answer you officially it’s ok to use it, and you use it at your own risk. But in this case I wouldn’t worry bout legal consequences.

Actually in this case https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/Is-this-API-allowed/first#post2118969

It’s our intent to allow API-derived apps like GW2Stuff’s overlay to be used by players. From our perspective, having an overlay is just a different way of presenting content. We are not currently banning players simply for using overlays, and have no plans to do so.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-May-14-2013

Timberline Falls:

Fixed a stalling bug in the event “Protect krewe leader Dobbs as the krewe clears the excavation site.”

This is still broken.

Server: Desolation
Date/Time: 2013-06-01 12:43 PM server time.

Risa Aerulight.3914:

I notice this bug most frequently in SSC, I will gather a passiflora and suddenly all nodes on the map disappear. It can happen on the very first node, or halfway thru the amount of nodes on the map. I’ve submitted in-game tickets as much and as accurately as I possibly can. I am sad to hear it is happening to the ori too, and would explain why I can’t find the second one in Frostgorge today. The nodes there can be far enough apart that I would miss the bug going off most of the time.

Well that is slightly different since it seems to happen for everyone. The consensus is that there is a per account limit on how many passiflora nodes you can harvest with in a particular time span. From my own experience so far it seems getting extra uses out of a node does NOT count against that limit.

That is NOT an in game overlay. It is just a partially transparent window sitting on top of the GW2 window. No different than having a browser window open sitting on top of GW2.

If they do it is likely another 800 gem item. Same as name change contract. The biggest problem here is whether or not there is enough demand for it for them to allocate developer time on it.