Guild Wars 2

Couple more screen shots (don’t think this was posted here yet): http://massively.joystiq.com/screenshots/guild-wars-2-dragon-bash

miriforst.1290:

Oh boy do i love how they managed to avoid mentioning cantha completely in the dragon bash page. They only mention ancient Tyrian tradition as most (but not where it is from).

Yeah, I am glad for new updates, but am pretty disappointed that there is nothing (so far) mentioned about the actual dragon festival. Not even some small celebration in Divinity’s Reach? Ah, well. I guess there is always RPing for that…

ColinJohanson.2394:

You don’t get to be a Moa for this specific activity, though you never know what might pop up in future festivals! As one of the people who built roller beetle racing I’d love to see its spiritual successor in Gw2 someday, we might need to wait for beetles to pop up in game though

Roller beetle racing was my favorite mini game! Please, please, please bring it back.

Districts. All open world PvE zones are no longer on servers but instead are all on one server that can create districts as needed.

This is what they get for nerfing open world farming spots into oblivion. Sure, you can farm COF for money, but who is going to sell the mats you need on the TP with that money? This is getting out of hand.

I’ve solely played my ranger since launch (tried other classes, though). Rangers are excellent in solo PvE content for farming, leveling, getting achievements/dailies, etc. However, right now more than ever the ranger class is getting a lot of flack for a few different reasons.

- Our pets were just buffed so some people feel they are OP in PvP.
- Rangers can be a difficult class in group play content (dungeons). Our pets can screw up encounters and our longbow is pretty worthless there. You will need to be very aware of any present situation and be prepared to constantly switch out skills/traits/weapons. You will also be babysitting your pet all the time.

So, to answer the OP’s question it’s not a “bad” idea to roll a ranger, just know that right now we’re in a “transitional” state. I highly expect more ranger updates at some point. Shortbow is a good idea. Greatsword or axe/axe would be my suggestion for your other weapon set (although you probably want to bring along both in your bags to swap out). I love my longbow, but it doesn’t have much use in PvE/PvP right now (WvW, however, it can be useful). Aim for DPS stats (critical and power) for the most part. Try to be useful to other members in your group if you do dungeons with either spirits (frost, flame) and with healing spring. Bring along quickening zephyr for DPS if you don’t have it on any skill bars yet.

Also, for your pet consider looking at the moas or drakes. I like the red moa bird for the buff it gives to you and nearby people. They aren’t as hardy, so if you are just soloing/leveling a bear pet will do. However, when you get into dungeon play just know there is a stigma with rangers bringing bear pets into dungeons because they bring little DPS.

Being a “good” ranger right now brings a little challenge, but it’s still possible. I often pug dungeons, fractals, and WvW and have never been kicked or given crap for anything. However, if you are looking for a class free of stigmas or one that’s in a solid place right now you might want to play something else.

Nope, I would be horrified if they added raiding into this game. I am an “old” EQ franchise player as well as a GW1 player. I did a LOT of raiding in EQ/EQOA/EQ2 and would hate to see another new grind introduced to this game. If they want to add new challenging content I would highly suggest group elite dungeons, not raiding.

Raiyan.9140:

Shanna.4762:

I really hope that at some point they allow us to choose the heritage of our characters like they had originally intended, and that they do something with that because the different cultures are a massive part of what makes this IP interesting.

Well, if you play a human, you are asked at some point by Thackeray about your nationality, and you can choose to answer ascalonian, krytan, canthan and elonian..if i remember correctly.

That only happens in one of the story lines. I think it’s the “dead sister” one, which ends up being the most interesting story because of that one little bit.

Glad to know it’s not just me with this problem. My ecto salvage rates have become terrible. I don’t get them nearly as often as I used to.

Thanks for looking into it.

Mkalafut.1273:

I also stumbled upon a Guru thread where I saw early screenshots of Canthan Quarters in Divinity’s Reach. It’s such a shame to see them scrape so much art work and time. Shame indeed.

I’ve heard about these screenshots a few times now, but I can’t find them. Does anyone have a link?

Nope, not buying them. These RNG chests and the gem store is getting out of hand.

Edit: Posted before all the threads were merged.

Yup, this one just isn’t for me. The constant knockdown, snare (from the hatchlings), fear (from the conch), lag, etc made me rage and smash a mouse (I’m female IRL). I think the worst part is one of my biggest pet peeves about this game – everything relies on the F key. Pick up the karka? F key. Smash a box? Also F key. Several times now while smashing my F key for the karka I have instead smashed a box.

I’ve enjoyed all the mini games thus far in GW2, but this one isn’t fun for me. I’m getting the achievements and never going back.

You know the dragon festival is coming in next month. Roller beetles…. ?

Like several other people on this thread I didn’t pay for anything. I got a random key drop, opened a chest, and got the ticket for a skin. Otherwise I would have never paid for something like it. Don’t judge everyone you see with one of the skins because of the RNG.

I think the real problem here is how crazy they went with the gemstore in this game. They went overboard. In GW1 it was more or less just the basics like bank slots, character slots, and the occasional fluff skin set. Too much here is in the gemstore instead of in game.

I have to say this is my LEAST favorite mini game ever between GW1 and GW2.

For the OP – good to see another EQ player enjoy GW1 for similar reasons as myself.

Although I played GW1 when it launched and stopped playing for GW2, I’ve started to miss it lately. I realize that skills were much harder to balance in GW1, but I miss the large range of options we had there. I have the same two or so skill sets I use everyday and beyond that I can’t be creative and mix and match builds like I did when GW1 was young. I can mess around with my traits, but it’s not quite the same and in the end I am more or less stuck with the same skills. I used to love going to RA and playing around with skills. For a while I was decent at making builds (especially elementalist, ranger, and later rit).

And horizontal progression in GW2? It’s not there. I wish they had never introduced some of the things they did in GW2 to kill horizontal progression. When they first announced 80 levels for GW2 my heart sank. Levels add nothing to this game except for zones filled with content we will never go back to, just like in every other MMO out there. And don’t even get me started on the tiers of armor we have… it drives me crazy. In GW1 you could obtain the max stat armor very quickly.

I realize they wanted to break away from GW1 to make what they considered a “real” MMO, but they could have done that without killing the better aspects of GW1. Sometimes I feel like they just wanted to attract former WoW players. o.O

Ah well, I’m glad you are getting to enjoy GW1, anyway. I would highly suggest anyone else not familiar with it to give it a shot. It’s pretty cheap to get the first three campaigns now.

I’m not a new gamer by any means. I’ve grinded in games like EQ and FFXI, which most games don’t hold a candle to. I just enjoy farming. I already have my legendary, but I enjoy the simple act of farming crap after a long day at work. This game right now only has a couple of spots where you can actually farm and I dearly hope they don’t nerf them.

Mouhappai.5406:

I posted this about several pages back, but I think what we want to see of Cantha is less poverty stricken and more culturally accurate, like an Asian Divinity’s Reach; with falling petals, people travelling in and out of the city, playful children, shops, mansions, and the usual city hustles. Comapre:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Divinity%27s_Reach_loading_screen.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVOB9oD97I

Aye, I imagine Cantha could be beautiful now 250 years after the plague. And, your video totally reminded me that Factions had some of the best music.

http://youtu.be/4LtSMlkBAFE?t=26m36s (the best)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LtSMlkBAFE

So, the only way we (NSP server raid) can do the cannon event is to zerg (in the old school sense – attack, die, rez, attack, die, rez, etc) the champion wraith long enough for the cannon to be built. After that we have to skip the cannon event and go do something else to let the champion wraith despawn.

You can’t tell me that’s not broken.

Grenth is now impossible. NSP does a server wide zerg every day at 5PM PST. Ever since the update the server cannot kill the wraith on the cannon event. We have at least 50+ people, although it’s hard to say with culling. This needs to be fixed.

Aberrant.6749:

brandon.6735:

And here is why we need a public test server to test stuff out with the community. You guys always seem to put stuff out that is very weird and questionable in every patch and most of the time revert it back.

OMG THIS x1,000!!!!

Totally agree. GW2 is so much more complicated than GW1 was. A dedicated test server that you can’t transfer to/from open to everyone would make these updates so much better. I really miss that from EQ2 (although I know other games do that as well). The small handful of internal testers for GW2 isn’t enough IMO.

Sandra Martino.3870:

Same thing, i click on the gw2 icon and the laucher just sits there with "downloading 0kB (0.00 kb/sec). when i click anywhere i get the windows prompt with “program does not respond: shut down or wait”.

I’m having this problem today. But, I was able to log in yesterday just fine. It says “Downloading 50 KB(0/KB/sec)”. I’ve left the patcher open for an hour now and nada. Restarted my computer and that did not help either.

Edit: Nevermind, I reset my modem/router then did a reinstall and it seems to be working now. Weird :p

I really enjoyed the dungeon. It wasn’t too long and the boss fight was great. It’s a shame that this is going away, but I enjoy being able to do it multiple times a day in the mean time. :p

Personally, I hope they never increase the level cap. All that does is make current content outdated and not as viable anymore. I’ve seen that problem happen in every game I have played that increases level caps. Sure, there is the side kick system, but really how many of us would go back to Orr to farm/for the events if there were 20 levels between it and the highest level content? It will still be dropping materials for the lower tier. And, with a new cap means you will need to re-do all of your armor as well. They used to have a “no grind” policy, and new gear would certainly be a huge grind. GW doesn’t need more levels imo, although I totally understand I have little say in what the devs think is best.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

somewhere on those 13 pages there is a developer post… but where?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-is-getting-rid-of-Cantha-a-universal-representation-of-humanity/page/2#post1385108

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-is-getting-rid-of-Cantha-a-universal-representation-of-humanity/page/4#post1395531

FrouFrou.4958:

Robert explained in some other topic earlier that the Jade Maw targetting is there to give your group some extra time to rescue your downed friends while your pet gets turned into a sausage. It has helped me and my group few times, but it gets rather irritating when my pet keeps on getting targetted several times in a row tho.

That seems weak to me. I’ve had a few pug groups complain about pets on Maw. It’s even worse when you get two rangers and/or mesmers in the same group. I guess I will try to explain to everyone that it’s an “intended feature”.

I have a pet question that I don’t think has been brought up yet, although I did not read every post in great detail…

Pets and dungeons don’t mix very well and they become a big pain in the butt for any group I’m in. A lot of bosses have skills that target a single player in the group. For example, the Jade Maw boss in fractals will often choose pets to place the skull icon on. Obviously my pet can’t pick up a crystal and toss it at the Maw like a player is supposed to. I can’t hide my pet in combat, so there is no way around this time sink for my group. Another example is the jelly fish boss in the Aquatic Ruins Fractal. My pet will sometimes get eaten, but can’t “fight” his way out. My only way around this is to switch pets, but if my swap is on cool down it’s pointless. So, I have to leave my pet on passive the entire fight, crippling my DPS.

I’m sure there are other situations like this I am not listing off the top of my head. Can we please consider changing these type of skills to not target pets?

I’m actually really concerned about this one. Can you let us know what happened? Like the OP my GW1 account was hacked a few years ago (I suspect it was because my account email at the time was used on several GW fan websites and one of them was compromised). I’m curious if you were able to find out any more info… I never want my account hacked again. Good luck, OP!

The Maw spawn window since the update is a little ridiculous. The last time he was killed was 2.5 hours ago and I’m still waiting. I came here looking for what the pre reqs are… guess I’m gonna kill those mobs in the cave for a while.

Olaf.8241:

1) Tengu, since guild wars 1.
2) Kodan, armored polar bears guys, c’mon.
3) Largos, underwater race, and cause i REALLY don’t like the Krait.

Yep, my 3 picks exactly.

Oh my goodness, how have I missed this thread before? I am very bummed about the choice to remove Cantha. I mean, to the point that I’m no longer excited about the first or any expansions.

Cantha means a lot to the GW universe because it was the first added campaign and has so much to do with it’s story. Does this mean we’ll never get to see the Jade Sea in it’s real form? Or revisit my most favorite part in all of GW – the Kurzick’s Echovald Forest? Holy crap. Where do I send an angry letter to?

GW/GW2 are the first games I have played where having ANYTHING Asian themed is a problem. I can think of a lot of other games that have such themes. Hello, the WoW expansion Mists of Pandaria? I don’t even play WoW and I know that has Asian themes and I know that WoW is played in China. I was an EQ2 player and we had a race of Pandas called the “Hua Mein” which were heavily Asian themed.

Heck, even the Kodan in GW2 have Asian undertones. Just look at their architectural designs. Couldn’t the design of Cantha look a little bit like the Kodan buildings? A lot could have changed in 250 years. Could we get Cantha back with some creative art changes? GW/GW2 has some of the best artists I have seen. I’m sure they could come up with some way to make it more “universal”.

DevonCarver.5370:

We are looking into what it will take to split the times out on a per region basis and we’ll do everything we can to make that the case as soon as possible. In the meantime, this change will make things better for European players, who have been dealing with a very inconvenient time since launch.

Yay! I think it would be best to split the regions reset times. I live on the west coast and am bummed now the reset will be during work hours.

Glaeser.8015:

Wow. That was intense, nice portal bombs. A true display of skill… OUTPLAYED!!!

MoB videos were amusing too btw.

Yeah seeing how the old thread was closed with our awesome videos of yesterday…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F49X8X27T8
http://youtu.be/EOzEFPYXXNw

dank.3680:

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

Kilaelya.1420:

Groovy man. Let’s hang out together again some time.

This must be photoshopped, this many people from opposing servers in T7 cant possibly be getting along

NSP and HOD get along just fine.

I had to put it together as a video, we had a pretty good time.

http://youtu.be/EOzEFPYXXNw

Groovy man. Let’s hang out together again some time.

Half the time I can’t even physically see the loot bags or chest on the ground. I think I miss most of the loot I get in WvW. I second having a real “auto” loot for at least this type of game play.

After 5 minutes of being dead it could auto revive them at the nearest WP. It’s free in WvW anyway.

Edit: This topic was originally in the WvW forums. Not sure why it was moved to the general suggestion forums when it was for WvW gameplay.

Yes, NSP has two Anet “tagged” people who run around from time to time. I’ve talked to one of them before. It’s only an artist and his girlfriend. They aren’t giving us anything special, they are just playing on their own time. If you ask them, they’ll tell you.

Looking at millenium I think the ratings are still a little messed up. We’ll have to see what it does at reset this week I guess?

Ridiculous. Both GoM and HoD chilling together at our spawn after splitting the map between them. Guess they couldn’t take being in second and third place.

I logged in today to find several of my previously completed achievements had been reset. Most noticeably was my “Lifetime Survivor” and “Gold Hoarder”. My gold hoarder title was reset to “1,999,999” and my Lifetime was reset to “499,999/500,000”. I haven’t noticed if anything else has reset, but I’m a little concerned. It seems that my lifetime survivor is not updating with new kills as well.

If it helps, my main character is also one of those “older” characters who was affected by the monthly achievements resetting after completing. Thanks.

Yup, this has been bugged on my server (NSP). The ice spawns below the ground, making it impossible to directly target. AEs can hit it, but it takes a very long time.

Sort of weird… they bugged the swamp behemoth during the Halloween update, too. But, the behemoth still isn’t working.

If it helps to know… I have not seen this guy spawn on NSP for some time now. I spent several evenings sitting at the spawn waiting for him to spawn and have not seen him. Thanks.

I’ve been camping this guy for days now on NSP. The only thing I’ve gotten during my time here is a serious case of trench foot.

I am pretty sure this guy is not working as intended. The other level 15 events aren’t like this.

Wow I am very surprised all those names are still reserved. I went to make an alt today and had a heck of a time coming up with a name for her. Several of the ones I tried (that I thought were even unique) were “reserved” names.

This bugged out for us today, too. The same problem, one of the undead was stuck inside the rubble and couldn’t be killed.

Bugged on Northern Shiverpeaks.