Guild Wars 2

Ariurotl.3718:

I’ve completed it a few days ago, and I’ve seen others in chat saying it’s on. So it’s definitely not bugged completely. It just appears rarely and the chain has to be completed way beforehand.

I usually see the chain at the last / second last step.

That second to last step has an occasional problem where the chak that needs to killed to make the boss move to the next phase takes too long to spawn or spawns too far away and it looks like that event broke. That is probably causing people to leave it.

You need to complete the Nuhoch event chain first. Then that should be up every 10 or 15 minutes.

spending resources to cause the company to lose money sounds like a great idea …

How about restoring the spawn rate of the doors? :P

TheDevice.2751:

I really wanted to not say anything but i just cant help it.

Why cant you just be honest and say “power growth of the game” instead of “power growth of the playerbase” as if we have some control over the damage abilities do. The game has obviously had a power growth across the board. Its not even a big deal to just admit it. I just don’t even see the necessity to be less truthful in this scenario even.

What does “power growth of the playerbase” even mean? Maybe If i knew what that meant this wouldn’t bother me so much lol. I dont even know why im bothered by this its like when my nephew lies even when there is the smallest degree of chance it might look poorly on him if the truth were to be told.

Why couldn’t you just say the fact?

“Power growth of the game” isn’t being honest or better. “The game is now more powerful!” what does that even mean? “Players are now more powerful” provides an accurate description of what has actually happened.

As someone who doesn’t plan on farming the lab much this is great news. It means I’ll be able to just buy everything for less.

Get to work you minions! :P

PS: Lich can still be very deadly if you are using a Flamethrower.

Tekoneiric.6817:

Do you realize how much it would cost ANet to setup a whole new billing department with all the various billing services and employees needed? Given how few would pay a monthly fee; it would cost them more than money they would take in.

Probably not much since the billing stuff is already outsourced to another company.

It has never played the finisher animation for me. Always the default simply flag on a stick. Haven’t checked if it consumed the finisher.

Scrapper function gyro does play the animation. No idea if it counts. On the other hand Impact Strike is conditional while the gyro isn’t and only has this single purpose.

So basically you are asking for gem discounts …

The only time it was ever an issue was when people didn’t know to use the candy coating.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

You can swap stats without losing infusions.

Stat-swapping on legendaries is done via menu; it doesn’t affect the upgrades.

Stat-swapping on ascended gear is done via the mystic forge, which always destroys the items you sacrifice to Zomorros. You can, however, remove infusions first, using a 42-silver extractor sold in the fractal lobby (to those with the necessary core mastery). (Nothing can be done for sigils and runes applied to weapons and armor, though.)

You got the digits flipped.

The extractor is 24s not 42s.

Danikat.8537:

I really want to know how to get this mini.

I’m starting to suspect it might be the climax of all the cat collecting, but I’m not sure.

Better to prepare to fork over a few hundred gems …

lagrangewei.8516:

don’t you need to do wvw for badges too? what the difference? lol…

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement_rewards

Upgrades and infusions have no impact on other legendaries so there shouldn’t be any issue with that one either.

It’s just the bloodstone stuff that are a problem.

Condi necros also corrupt boons just doing their usual thing.

I am fine with the patch but I play every class … or at least I have every class :P

I play for the playstyle, I don’t have any need to stick to any one class.

It would have been nice to see a bit of adjustment to the rev heals to be less crappy.

That place only has around 5 elementals. Trying to make a profit from that is like squeezing blood from stone.

You forgot Launch

Meh … I just wish they had a better indicator for when they are evading.

Well you get 2g per day just completing the daily.

Fractals is also very good for gold.

If you have you have HoT there is the Auric Basin Octovine thing.

The easiest thing is probably just gathering mid tier wood logs and metal ores.

http://www.dlgamer.us/download-guild_wars_2_heart_of_thorns-pc_games-p-29808.html

25% off almost all the time

Gorani.7205:

WvW could need some softening up on the requirement of people needed with the dolly escorts and land claiming missions, especially as those are tasks usually reserved for a single person, but for the guild mission, you need three players all of a sudden.

It would be nice if the “earn personal score” would not have a requirement of three in PvP, too.

This way each game type would have at least one mission that can be done alone.

That is what I thought this thread was going to be about but the OP seems to be complaining about the opposite.

Spook.5847:

Also, it is clear that Anet’s idea of what an “easy” mission is can be very far removed from the reality of in-game play. So I would suggest you take a look at mission classification, and adding new missions, too.

Easy treks can be done with 1 person.

Easy bounties can be done with 1 or 2 people.

Puzzles and challenges are apparently medium and hard only although Blightwater Shatterstrike should be put into the easy rotation as well.

That only leaves race as being potentially difficult for a small number of people but those can be done with other guilds at the same time.

It’s the same with all those troll items ANet decided to add to the game.

Works fine here in PvE …

Recharge time for the 2-5 skills without the trait
12 25 18 25

Recharge time for the 2-5 skills with the trait
8 17 12 17

You can have one for piles of gold

Depends on the material but Pyre works well on a variety of things.

nagr.1593:

One last thing to remember and its useful to know is that swapping stance is also a stun break, that few classes have access to unless they trait for or get utility for it (I.e. warrior).

That is also from a trait …

The only no-replayable bit I noticed is the part where you go around looking for the Itzel scouts.

Thos are all races with the usual racing strategies like figuring out the optimal line through the course and finding shortcuts.

They might have heavily nerfed this when they fixed the AoE circles or fixing the circles just made it easier or this just happens to be very easy for my elementalist’s build …

It is not part of a chain. There are 2 or 3 NPCs around posing as the usual NPC looking for help but they lead you to the drake instead. The drake is also around even if you ignore those disguised bandits though. It’s around the bandit camp when the event is up.

That is probably the second least useful Mussel food.

There are some account bound food. Whether or not they are worth it is up to you to decide, most aren’t all that useful.

There is also flying circus, sanctum scramble and ley line run.

Beetle feast deviates a bit further from a typical race.

Works fine for me in my mesmer’s sword. You just have to be using the sword when the mob dies and the mob has to give exp. There are mobs that never count for on kill effects.

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Khisanth.2948:

Necromancer in the charr personal story dual wields Infinite Light …

You mean Soure Doomsday? He’s actually a Mesmer although everyone refers to him as a Necromancer.

That is just more inconsistency.

Galtrix.7369:

Vayne.8563:

Galtrix.7369:

I’m with ya. I absolutely despise TD. I love the rest of HoT, but TD just makes me want to bash my face into the computer monitor.

The reason TD sucks is because:
1. There are no players there. Ever.
2. The map is confusing as crap. More so than the other HoT maps.
3. Events are nearly impossible to complete due to low player population.

1. There are players there, because the meta gets done. So I don’t know how you can say this. Of course, if you belonged to an active guild that did that sort of content, you’d bring players with you when you went. 2-3 people can do about 90% of that zone without any issues at all.

2. The maps are only confusing if you don’t “get them”. I could show someone how to understand the map in a very short amount of time and have done so repeatedly.

3. I’ve completed everyone event in that zone multiple times. I STILL complete most events in that zone. Again, you need a tiny handful of people to do 90% of them.

By the way seems like your #1 and #3 complaint are pretty much the same complaint so I don’t know why they need seperate numbers.

I’m almost 100% positive you think you need more people to complete content in that zone than you do.

Of course, we’re both speaking from experience here. I play during the day on weekdays, so I guess everyone’s at work or at school? I see maybe 8 people in TD on a good day. I know the events can be completed. It’s just a matter of how long it takes to complete them with a party of two that kills me. I teamed up with another chronomancer, and our survivability was legendary, but it took ages to kill anything or do a single event. We wandered around TD for 4 1/2 hours and saw 6 people the entire time.

I don’t know if you’ve ever had this experience, but I sometimes look at something, like quantum physic equations, and think to myself, “Nope!”. TD is the equivalent of quantum physic equations for me. The other HoT maps are like trigonometry and calculus – I understand them just fine and enjoy them.

Except for the gerent and the young mushroom HP everything else should be relatively easy with 2 people. I’ve been around TD on a hammer guardian wearing cleric’s gear. Can’t be any slower than that …

RoseofGilead.8907:

Before Rytlock disappeared into the mists, he wielded a pistol and sword as a warrior. So, yup. NPCs can just do things we can’t. No bug, though.

Necromancer in the charr personal story dual wields Infinite Light …

Since you only need them for the mastery points you can just do the low level ones. At those levels you don’t even need a full party.

Eval.2371:

cpchow.7416:

I spent 1000+G on my boonsharing mesmer yesterday and you are going to nerf it to the ground? It is stupid as they don’t care what we want and just destroy our dreams. In addition, i have to farm for another 100 hours in the ember bay and bloodstone Fen for my berserker trinkets.

The game isnt just about what you want. It’s much bigger than pve raids. If you have season 3 trinkets you can re-spec them at will for 100 map currency. Ascended armor can also be re-spec for a cost that is much lower than creating a single piece of armor. I agree with the other poster, don’t spend large amounts of gold gearing right before a balance pass. We’ve known this was coming since about January that balance changes would be quarterly. It is no ones fault but your own.

That only works with the bloodstone stuff. The accessory and backpack from Ember Bay can’t be reset.

Ayrilana.1396:

maddoctor.2738:

Ayrilana.1396:

Sloth Queen does have some skills but they are ignorable when there’s a lot of players. I don’t think the scaling was balanced with the possibility of having 20+ players attacking her.

I haven’t seen her do anything even when there were about 7 players hitting her. She was just casually following a slubling (which we have no way of “saving” if she tried to eat it – add a breakbar at least!)

Maybe there’s a bug then that prevents her from using attacks sometimes. It was definitely before the food delivery timer ran out where she supposedly gets additional skills. Perhaps that could be changed where she gets additional skills when she eats a slubling and then pump her HP scaling a bit so she lasts longer than 15 seconds but not where she takes 5 minutes.

She definitely has attacks. I’ve seen people get downed by the ground pound thing. There is also the fire breath but that seems so high I am not sure it it can hit any player.

Electro.4173:

I wonder if the Dominator going down faster has anything to do with the increased damage when chillled. I know its description doesn’t say it shares that trait with lesser “new” Destroyers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did anyway.

Doubtful. The difference isn’t all that dramatic on the normal destroyers with that weakness and it still goes down at the same speed even on a character without any source of chill.

Looks like the wurm is immune to crits.

Simpler to ignore it. There isn’t any content where it matters.

Ayrilana.1396:

Sloth Queen does have some skills but they are ignorable when there’s a lot of players. I don’t think the scaling was balanced with the possibility of having 20+ players attacking her.

Wurm is probably the most boring to me as it’s just a timed defend event. There’s absolutely no interaction with the boss. I believe I read somewhere that we could range it but I haven’t personally tried.

You can range AND melee the wurm but you only do like 1/10th your normal damage so probably not worth it. The best you can do to speed up that fight is to apply vuln to the boss and buff the golem.

When you are attacking from near the edge of the lava(I only have 900 range) it will slam its head down on/near you. After it does that you can melee it for a while before it switches back. The hitbox might be weird enough that you can melee it the whole time. I haven’t checked.

Amaimon.7823:

Same with Warrior, I always carry the signet because the rest just don’t really seem to do anything. nothing to justify the cooldowns at least. The headbutt is nice, especially in pvp, but other than that. in PvE it’s extremely underwheling because you A) don’t need it /or/ it’s needed, but the creature needs multiple hits on his bar

It is also a stun break.

Randulf.7614:

Do you mean the option to stat swap ascended jewellery like armour/weapons?

I actually want to see transmuting for trinkets because of the trinkets with selectable stats. Since they all have the same name and icon it would make it easier to tell them apart.

You might want to wait for the upcoming patch before spending anything if those are the determining factors for you.

Escadin.9482:

Khisanth.2948:

Mortar kit is also the only thing with a 100% projectile finisher on the autoattack. In theory that could make it interesting in combination with all the fields you get from the other skills but in practice I never found a reason to care.

Apparently, that has only an effect if you directly hit with the shell – not the area of effect.

That is the same as any other projectile finisher. It just means you need to leave some room for the projectile to fly through a field before it hits the target.

There is an exotic one with selectable stats buy getting one outside of Wintersday isn’t practical and even then you need to do PvP(WvW will probably work as well for this year).

Many people have done it so that would be incorrect.

You might just be running into the usual issue where the forge sometimes get finicky about the order you place stuff in.

Escadin.9482:

Rauderi.8706:

Ele’s mortar is.. conditionally decent. Huge range, so I’m not sure where the lacking comparison to ranger longbow comes in. No really, absurd range, like half-White-Mantle-Knight range. And it can lob a healing shell. Elixir and Supply Crate are grab-bags of utility.

I’m just saying the okittenoesn’t feel like an elite weapon at all. It’s not stronger than any other kit you have – it just has more range but that range is kitten hard to utilize. At the same time, I have a ranger with the same gear and level and his long bow does more damage and has more range than the mortar.
So the mortar kit fails to be actually better than other kits but it is also not a very strong weapon when compared to what else the game offers in it’s category. Unless of course that water field is so strong it can make up for the lack of damage, range and projectile speed. I wouldn’t know about that…

At least it doesn’t have an excessive cooldown and having a long range option can’t hurt. Still it’s far from being a game changer with that kind of balance – in my opinion at least.

Anyway, considering the mokittenoes not have a disproportionately high cool down it probably wasn’t the best example to bring up.

PS can anybody explain how “mortar” + ‘space’ + “does” is a bad word and needs to be censored?

Mortar kit is also the only thing with a 100% projectile finisher on the autoattack. In theory that could make it interesting in combination with all the fields you get from the other skills but in practice I never found a reason to care.