Guild Wars 2

Two things missing from that list which makes home instances pretty useless .. no bank or TP access except paid-for ‘services’.

I’d LOVE to get away from demented five-year-olds bouncing around, spamming AoEs and now flying inanely in the cities in order to use those facilities.

Operator.6523:

it takes maybe 30 minutes to do 38 diving locations? ok

LOL, yeah, if you’re happy to exploit Mesmer porting especially the Not So Secret, otherwise you’re just trolling.

I have the game on two PCs, both have always remembered the User Name and Password if those options were set, and also remembered Auto-Play.

BUT, since the January update last week ONE PC no longer remembers them after a patch, the other PC carries on remembering them quite happily.

There is no obvious difference that I can see between the to PCs which makes one fail and the other not.

Kind of begs the question why adding flying .. sorry, gliding .. to Tyria so many invisible walls had to be erected to restrict it to avoid ‘exploits’, to use Anet’s own word.

Lolyta.4582:

This was just absurdly hard for me, well beyond “challenging” and not fun at all. Tried it on Herald (Exotic Zerker Shiro/ Glint) and Ranger (Ascended Zerker LB/S+A Marksman). Can’t even get past Eir and Gorm or Garp or Grup or Gurgle or wtf-ever his face is. Just stupid hard.

So, I just won’t do it. There is no reward in the game worth this level of aggravation.

My view too, there is no fun in this, failed 5 times, every time in the flying phase somehow running out of updrafts or some other reason.

At least the Living Story allowed you to carry on from where you died so eventually the bosses died, forcing this to restart at the very beginning is simply two fingers from the devs to any but the hardcore.

Basically every MMO suffers from this and no MMO has a solution which doesn’t treat legit players having a short, necessary break, as collateral damage.

Anti-cheats only go so far, clearly the’AFKers’ the OP’s taking about weren’t AFK at all, they were simply watching YouTube while waiting for the boss to die.

Accept it, it’s a fact of life, there are always leechers and no MMO designer has found a solution which entirely eliminates them.

Qugi.2653:

Last patch note say fix a server crash. Should Anet not fix crash and wait for next day?

I admit that I posted this before I found that note, however I would still argue that a problem is either a real emergency in which case it needs dealing with ASAP or it isn’t in which case, given the typical two-hour content cycle Anet are now in love with they need to extend the 1-hour kick time.

Before HOT 1 hour was fine, you didn’t lose all progress in something over that period of time, HOT changed that and Anet’s policies need to take that into account.

Eneldiar.9670:

Make parts of the story that are extremely difficult or require others to do and eventually – at the end – somebody gets their legendary.

No thanks, leave entirely optional stuff out of the core story content. Why anyone wants a legendary is beyond me considering they’re no better than Ascended .. yeah, I know why, ‘bragging rights’ (I’d use the ‘e’ word but it’s censored) .. but I don’t mind as long as it doesn’t affect the core content of the game, which is and always has been the Story, by Anet’s own words and designs.

Now that your main content is zone-wide metas taking 2hr or so you can’t keep releasing patch after patch and forcing our games to restart, it destroys an entire evening’s gaming, twice now we’ve lost meta completions in only a handful of hours.

I’ll now lose a second VB meta due to this.

Either bundle up the fixes to ONE patch a day at most or increase the 1-hour force disconnect!!!

Lawton Campbell.8517:

Gilj.6304:

Is there any news about having external access to game chat?

It’s still something I really want to do, but haven’t yet been able to commit time to.

The main crux is just budgeting out a solid month for a feature when there’s a bunch of lower-hanging features and bugs. When I get around to implementing it, pretty much everything else is gonna come to a standstill for awhile, so I want to find a good place for a long pause.

Agree with your priorities, in other MMOs the logs are really only of interest for those (usually raiders) who want kitten ed parsers so they can flaunt their uber-DPS numbers and kick those who don’t measure up, if it’s going to take a month to do then as far as I’m concerned Hell can freeze over before you do it.

Gambino.2109:

Problem with this…

You are doing crazy events… with hard hitting enemies.. you die.. wp back and try to run back. Oh guess what you don’t deserve credit because you went off

Indeed, events are already made more painful than they need be because people are too lazy to WP and run back when dead in places like the Blighted Towers.

I will help someone who’s downed but not if they’re dead, too much wasted time and loss of DPS when several people stop to revive someone.

God, there are even people who’ll happily lay dead for minutes on end at the Pact Encampment in VB when it’s been lost, which of course is 10 seconds away from the WP.

BellatorDeus.2310:

There is another factor: I have found that if I get disconnected I cannot rejoin the map. I presume that shows me as afk — even though I am not. Permitting a rejoin to the same map following a disconnect would help.

This has been asked for so many times, and ignored equally so many times by Anet, it’s clearly never going to happen.

Just another massive fail of the mega-server system.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Riku.4821:

I think the shatterer needs buffs. I beat him with pugs first try and had like 5 minutes left. But so far I enjoyed what I’ve seen, gliding and lunar year.

Please read this dev post to better understand your experience.

Gaile, I’ve sent in bug reports on this already, but the jump pads around mount maelstrom are currently seriously borked. Every time you jump on them, they prompt you to “train the basic gliding mastery” in order to use them.

Have you posted this somewhere here on the forums? May I have that link? I’d like to point to a thread when I pass this along. Thanks.

Just for a different experience, I’m using them just fine so per se they’re not broken for everyone.

For me that dropdown seems to do nothing, I select “Hide Events and Personal Story” and I still see everything.

Selecting ‘Off’ and Default hides the bit the OP’s asking about but everything else stays there,

So if they’re not in the game and it’s mere speculation they will be added at some unknown and entirely theoretical time they should be REMOVED from the achievement!!!

Thanks for the comments.

Sadly I was amiss in not making it clear that my context is meta events rather than soloing, I only solo to explore and get map completion. My original thread title mentioned events but I had to shorten it for the 45-limit and forgot to add it into the text.

That said, all your points are of course applicable and they’re very useful thoughts.

I use Axe for the multi-target damage .. and in meta events I like to ‘tag’ as many mobs as possible in the zerg to get per-mob kill XP .. and also skill 3, I like the Warhorn skill 5 for the Swiftness and also some regen.

Given that GW2 in general and HoT in particular is very unfriendly to melee-distance fighting the axe keeps me away .. yes, I’m a bit of a coward .. which is why I’ve not done much with either type of sword.

My second pet is usually the boring brown bear for those times when I need something to tank a loose mob. I have both wyverns, both obtained in the last few days, so I’ll look into those.

As often is the case, they replied to this on Reddit and ignored your post here:

“This note snuck in early and shouldn’t have, this is a long term thing our FX team is playing with that isn’t live yet.”

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/42sfe0/game_update_notes_jan_26_2016/czct23m?context=1000

Yup, glad Anet did this .. it demonstrates more than words can ever say how much of the game it trivialises and why Blizzard took flying out of leveling content in WOW before the cries of the weenies forced them to bring it back.

Specifically, breakbars.

I don’t play Ranger much at all in group content so I’ve not bothered too much about dealing with these efficiently, clearly the HOT events require some attention here.

I used LB (of course!) and Axe/Horn, so LB4 and Axe3 are my two obvious CC contributors weapon-wise.

For a pet I’m using the Kryta Drakehound for two reasons: first, his F2 skill does Immobilize and is on a 16 sec. CD which makes it sort of spammable, kinda, and he has the Crippling Leap on 16 secs as well.

I’m not good at theorycrafting, frankly numbers bore me, but this is the combination I’m using based on what I think I understand about CCs and Breakbars.

Since I don’t see any other Rangers using this pet and few seem to switch from LB I’m assuming either I’m doing it wrong, or they are.

Anyone have suggestions about what I could change with respect to this aspect of HOT events?

I spec Marks/BM/Nature Magic for the soloing and CBA switching around specs given the UI provides no ‘store and reload’ method. Under BM I spec Beastly Warden so my pet’s F2 also does Taunt which is also a BB CC skill I think.

Yeah, good, hopefully around all the open world jumping puzzles, but how do we KNOW when gliding isn’t enabled?

As far as I can see right now there’s no on-screen indication that gliding isn’t enabled, only the ‘death’ scene tells you after the fact.

Don’t see how this idea helps “random players”, but maybe I don’t understand Guild World Events, never done one.

OtterPaws.2036:

Idk why you expected it to work, its just a normal world boss like SB, FE and such.

I’ve never understood why KQ was an event seeing as how it’s a totally free-form DPS zerg with zero group tactics, at last the other two require a modicum of organisation, albeit not a great amount.

I can see why Blaeys is thinking the new Shatterer should be, Anet’s description seems to imply it will need some coordination along the lines of Teq. if it isn’t to fail.

Suck those of us who did the dailies before the patch lose out on the event goodies.

Oh right .. thank you muchly.

:)

I don’t understand how a Mesmer provides this even though I know they do, all day, every day, so can someone tell me what I’m missing.

On my Mesmer I see the skill with two stages: Portal Entre and Portal Exeunt, I’ll call them A and B. The first use of the skill drops A which lasts 60 seconds, the second use of the skill drops B which exists for 10 seconds.

So I can easily see how this skill lets Mesmers do the jumping puzzles a lot easier than other classes (so long as they don’t die) as it gives them the ability to ‘redo’ a failed jump as long as they drop A beforehand.

But I utterly fail to see how a Mesmer can get to top of a JP with either portal at the bottom, given the short duration of A and the even shorter duration of B.

I have to assume I’m missing something here, can someone please tell me what?

Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion but that didn’t fix it, it only progressed when I went back to a HOT zone .. kind of a weird link between the zone you’re in and the story’s progression based on event completion.

Thanks for the comments.

I can see the point perhaps about target points on the boss as being the basic cause as I see ranged pets such as spiders and bristlebacks attacking while my bear/cat sits passively .. and no, they’re not in ‘passive’ mode.

I’ll take more notice on Teq. later today, but just now my cat was again happily slapping Claw around.

Since map closing has been stupid since mega-servers came into existence one has to assume Anet don’t care how badly players are affected by it.

Ah, yeah, of course.

Thanks.

Okay, I know DS = Dragon stand, I know what a ‘taxi’ is … but what does ‘comm’ mean?

So I ground out XP and unlocked Glider Basics Mastery and have glided many times, but the Story is still stuck on Step 3 “Earn you Glider Basics Mastery” after I re-started the Hot Story as active.

Right now I have Glider Basics and Bouncing Mushrooms unlocked and short of half-way through Updrafts Use.

Have I screwed it by not having the HoT storyline active at the time I unlocked the Mastery?

What broke it? How do I fix it?

What’s the secret to managing to get this Vista?

I can get there easy enough, I’ve been there 6 times, and every time died within 3 seconds due to taking 11k+ per tick DOT off the green gas, yet I’ve seen three people run up and get it and two people were stood by me for over a minute trying to revive me.

Why do I die and they don’t?

I can’t figure out the difference between, say, Tequatl and Claw but my Ranger’s pets attack one but not the other.

This morning the Jungle Stalker quite happily went off to slap Claw around but stood resolutely by my side when invited to do the same with Teq.

I’ve often wondered about this, just what determines whether a pet will or won’t attack a boss? Are all class pets the same or will some attack, say a Necro’s pets while a Ranger’s doesn’t?

Grimface.3807:

Am I the only one that’s annoyed by this? I mean really… Guild wars is mostly about playing in an open world, right? Therefore you seek parties, that are well organized and have decent commanders.

I’ve never seen the point of joining parties for open-world content .. meaning anyone can take part in it .. why bother?

Azure Prower.8701:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4149jf/til_using_the_trading_post_is_buying_gold_rmt/

TL;DR: Person sells expensive item on TP, gold seller buys said item. Anet takes away the gold from the person who sold the item and doesn’t refund the item.

Arena Net’s response on said reddit thread:

We monitor all incoming and outgoing sources of wealth. The gold that was used to purchase your arcane slivers (4 of them) for a total of 499.99 Gold originated from a RMT source and while your item listings may have been setup 8 months ago, that doesn’t change where the wealth originated (which was banned).

While the transactions completed, and do not appear to be any fault of yours, we still needed to reclaim the gains from it to remove the wealth from the economy that you should not have gained in the first place. Since we only removed 300g, it looks like you are netting about a positive 166 gold from this. We’ll let you keep that, and I’ll take the strike off your account for buying gold.

Should we avoid using the trading post with expensive items, just in case some one who violates TOS may end up buying it?

Totally agree, Clairy’s response is frightening it its implications .. and appalling as a policy statement.

I just got level 70 Trackless Boots (rare) from Source of Orr .. that penultimate quest in the level 80 chapter!

woofie.5603:

Are there any gay charr?

What does it matter?

I’ve logged in three times on two PCs and can’t see this popup .. when during login/character loading did it appear?

Given that doing all the world bosses take 4-5 hours depending on when you start and those that conflict with time slots (eg. Teq. plus Jormag) a three hour reward nerf is crass.

Not sure, but I think that maybe Anet have reduced the view distance, in Mretrica right now I see fog where I don’t recall seeing it before .. or maybe I just never looked hard enough.

Raziel.4216:

Marketing strategy for HoT.
Not related to mounts at all.
Merge time…. again.

This!

I suspect Anet have looked at the stats and seen just what a small % of players have actually bothered to unlock this skill as they [the players] have little or no interest in HOT at all.

Kraljevo.2801:

Same story with the extractor. Incredibly useful item but overpriced as hell.

If they made it 300 or 350 per slot and allow 10 slots, it would sell like hotcakes, believe me.

They could make so much more money.

Tend to agree with this, I nearly choked when I saw it was 700 for a single slot.

It’s a really neat feature, as others have said one which many have asked for for a long time, but this price is simply taking the p.

Hmm, seems it took three attempts before all the patch came down, each time I got 100% but only after the third time did I manage to get into Sparkfly Fen,

Trying to Waypoint into Sparkfly Fen .. getting “This region has not yet downloaded” after applying the patch. Can’t zone in either.

Why?

Yes, I’ve exited the game entirely and applied the patch.

HoT is S3, silly.

Not sure why these Collections are more special than map completions to warrant the drop rate increasing only now.

First priority: remove the gate that prevents small guilds being able to enjoy this content.

Yeah, it’s the banks, anyone who’s heard of the ‘Libor scandal’ knows that the banks make money off your money before passing it on to the account you’re trying to pay it into.

IMO HoT stuff doesn’t belong in pre-HoT zones unless it’s also available in those zones, especially when as is clear in this thread it trivialises some pre-HoT content.

RandomWolf.3986:

when I tried my best to explain that all my friend is going to do is buy me the game, or in this case, the serial key.

What clearer example of ‘selling of accounts’ (or keys, same thing) did CS need?

Sorry, I get what you’re trying to do and there’s nothing nefarious about it, seemingly, but from CS’ PoV you’re basically trying to sell a key.

Jaxom.7310:

if u really need reasons, recall only 1 reason should matter, its fun for a lot of people. another, it gives players something to do while they sit around waiting for bosses, events, etc to spawn. it lets people have a pvp option in a more varied setting. there are little arena style locations around tyria that would be fun places for setting up dueling tourneys.

A classic example of what’s fun for some, in this case two, is a PITA for others, in this case many.

If you want to duel, aka. 1v1 PVP, then do it in PVP zones where such things belong.

MarkoNS.3261:

I would really like an inspect option then i woudnt have to kick people who dont want to link gear.

Mea.5491:

We already have too many elitists, the inspect feature would make them go ever crazier… -shudders-