Guild Wars 2

Can make more gold per hour farming certain personal story missions than this open world content. Sad.

Story instance one is actually fine in my opinion except for one jump that others have already explained where you have to jump sort of sideways around a bamboo pole. The issue is that the hitbox of the pole seems to extend invisibly sideways and kills your momentum so it can be difficult making the jump (took me around 3 tries).

I’m just annoyed I did it once and now 7 of my alts suddenly have the annoying green star in the upper right corner of the screen again. I worked hard to make that go away. Why is it back again? Please let me turn it off. And no I don’t want to replay this episode 7 times; the first 2 times were enough.

Hardest achievement by far, thanks to chest RNG.

internet super fast, but game completely unplayable atm. Teleporting around, skills not working, random d/c’s, everything. Oh well.

Realist.5812:

The ones telling you to buy a legendary out right from the TP, are the people who are flipping them, causing the ridiculous prices.

Make it yourself, you’ll have left over money.

Once you factor in the opportunity cost of the karma, skill points, badges, tokens and map completion(time) it’s not all that ridiculous. Especially the map completion. If you value farming at 10g/hour and map completion takes 40-50 hours that’s an easy 400-500g you could have made.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Lamir.6702:

And who’s the disrespectful one? The person who waits patiently searching for an empty gauntlet and not ruining arenas where farmers already are or where people are trying to do liadri, or the person who queues without giving a kitten about the other people who are using the arena?

Odds are there weren’t any empty arenas. You obviously were able to farm your 4000g just fine, even with these terrible, terrible people trying to play the game at a less-populated arena.

That’s basically bullkitten. Half of the time theres an unused arena somewhere on the map; the other times I guest to other servers and relog (taking ME time instead of the disrespectful kitten) to get a different map and find an empty arena very soon.

People in this game lack common decency and respect, and anet likes to encourage that with gauntlets.

And who’s the disrespectful one? The person who waits patiently searching for an empty gauntlet and not ruining arenas where farmers already are or where people are trying to do liadri, or the person who queues without giving a kitten about the other people who are using the arena?

lakdav.3694:

-sigh- Im not going to explain again how condition skills need to hit your foe as much as Direct damage skills. This is not that topic.

Teach me oh master. 8 orb liadri on thief, keep dodging and apply caltrops. Profit. But I guess being a condescending kitten is more entertaining than actually posting something substantive.

Zaxares.5419:

It’s not so much heavies that have it easier at Liadri (although their increased toughness/sustain makes it easier to get through the first phase, I agree.) Rather, the Liadri fight favours condition users. A condi Necro, for example, can slaughter Liadri so, so easily by dropping conditions behind them and just running in small circles near the center of the map.

I also agree with this. The timer is not a big deal at all on Liadri – you have to just stay alive while applying DoTs on the second phase. Condition users have a big advantage because they can just apply DoTs to her and then focus on dodging the Shadowfall/Clones instead of having to constantly target her and direct damage.

Don’t worry, it’s still better than slaying one million dolyaks.

Buttercup.5871:

Lamir.6702:

[…] only to have it taken by people who don’t listen or don’t care
[…] even when you tell them to please leave and find an empty one on their own

It’s too bad there’s no thread downvote option on this forum.

Your special farming powers do not grant you any arena privileges. None. And by the looks of it, that is a very good thing.

Jealous I made over 4000g worth off of the gauntlet getting lucky and getting empty maps this past week farming tickets?

If the gauntlet wasn’t made for farming, why do you get a bajillion stacks of tickets from boss blitz? I literally would have had to delete over 100 stacks of tickets otherwise.

I see casuals like to report every post they disagree with about farming in this forum. Moving on.

Wisp.2634:

You are all ridiculous. You dont know kitten about [Inc] ppl so dont blame them!

Are you so sure? I’m not going to stoop to your level and moan about how skilless WvW is but maybe you could try forming your own team and showing us all.

Wisp.2634:

This “tournament” is a joke, that’s why the teams just left. DnT organised, this crap to be more famous, because nobody cares about thier and the community records. You dont need skill to stand in the corner and use FGS or switch skills while running in stealth. The “competition”, or anything you call it, will be the random factor. I think the organizers of this tournament and the “speed clear” community, just wants more fame.

Dont blame the teams left, they just lost the fun factor, because there wont be any.

This tournament is just for this “speed clear” crew, boring kitten will flow from the streams!

But this is my opinion, have fun…

Yes, because clearly [Inc] pavilion farm records like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYaMrpL4l0 takes so much skill as well. Your pro guild obviously just made that video to become more famous; nobody cares about your kitten records either obviously. Wait what?

Nobody likes spending half an hour trying to find a good arena only to have it taken by people who don’t listen or don’t care. Trying to find a different empty map is near impossible with megaservers, and even if you do find another one people tend to pop up and queue in your arena anyway. It’s insulting that for all the feedback anet received last year about gauntlet, one of the biggest issues (queue for gauntlet, absolutely ridiculous wait times) was ignored. Is it really so hard to give players the option to farm the gauntlet alone, in peace, without people constantly queueing with you and wasting your time even when you tell them to please leave and find an empty one on their own?

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

They will refund this, if you send a ticket. They did it for me once. 11 tabs is maximum (that includes the free one you start with), just count it again and again to be sure Xd more is pointless.

Basically if there is no ‘buy bank tab’ button under your bank, with gem icon (blue), then you can’t expand. NEVER EXPAND VIA TP itself. Cause TP can’t detect if your bank is maxed.

12 Tabs is maximum if you include the free one you start with. Source: I have 12 tabs.

I don’t know what Anet does around reset time but I always get extreme lag right after reset that persists for ~5h, every day. Do they backup their servers then or something?

Rising Dusk.2408:

Right now PDT is UTC-7, and they mistakenly put PST instead of PDT. That’s the only way those times make sense (given that PDT is active right now).

Yes, I know what Daylight Saving Time is. That’s why I’m saying they should put PDT there…

PST is UTC-8 hours.

Hardcore Rotation—The three world events in this rotation now activate more frequently, at the following times:

03:30 PST / 10:30 UTC – Karka Queen
04:30 PST / 11:30 UTC – Tequatl
05:30 PST / 12:30 UTC – Evolved Jungle Wurm
08:00 PST / 15:00 UTC – Karka Queen
09:00 PST / 16:00 UTC – Tequatl
10:00 PST / 17:00 UTC – Evolved Jungle Wurm
11:00 PST / 19:00 UTC – Karka Queen
12:00 PST / 20:00 UTC – Tequatl
13:00 PST / 21:00 UTC – Evolved Jungle Wurm
16:00 PST / 23:00 UTC – Karka Queen
17:00 PST / 24:00 UTC – Tequatl
18:00 PST / 01:00 UTC – Evolved Jungle Wurm
19:00 PST / 02:00 UTC – Karka Queen
20:00 PST / 03:00 UTC – Tequatl
21:00 PST / 04:00 UTC – Evolved Jungle Wurm
23:00 PST / 06:00 UTC – Karka Queen
24:00 PST / 07:00 UTC – Tequatl
01:00 PST / 08:00 UTC – Evolved Jungle Wurm

Please can a dev explain this? I think it should be PDT, but just want to be sure…

What happens if a dungeon path gets bugged/stuck?

It was a drop from Aspect Arena rewards during Cutthroat Politics patch (Rare version, not account bound).

Unfortunately most organized pavilions are very competitive to get into. The only real working solution is to be there at the start when they are forming and you can either end up in the right map or taxi in fast.

One experienced elementalist can still block all eggs by rotating Obsidian Flesh with Fortify+Mist Form off cool down while standing in the correct spot inside of the wurm.

Wethospu.6437:

And if people use tank specs / conditions on zerg / ranged / autoattack that’s who knows how many seconds of bad damage.

This is the correct answer.

More information is always good. If people are using it to harass others (read: people who don’t read the LFG requirements and join anyway), don’t join their parties. They clearly don’t want you in theirs either. If you really want to leech from a group’s run by wearing gear that makes it take 20% longer, then it should be known by all members.

If you get angry at a little bit of pink text on your screen every once in a while maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your life. Report and move on.

Remove npcs…yes please. Permanently. They are so cancerous, cause so many bugs, cause dungeons to get stuck frequently and are so incredibly infuriating. Delete them. Thank you.

Orpheal.8263:

Crovax.7854:

The difference between your examples and 8orbs is skill. What you listed were all just time consuming.
Tbh the whole post just reeks of ’ I know i can’t do it, so others shouldn’t get something i’ll never be able to obtain myself’.

edit: so what? just make a cloned achievement with title for this year. I doubt anyone who could do it last year will be furious about having to do it another time.

FYI, I’ven beaten Liadri yesterday, I could care less about 8 orbs. If I will get it, good, nice, if not, I won’t be whiney over it …
If now skill is required or not, is absolutely irrelvant.
Fact is, ANet decided not to give her a title for 8 orbs last time, they decided to give her not a title extra for that also this time, Instead they gave her a title to beat her just normally and just beating her normally requires already enough skill.

My Examples I made there did I made only, to show that in regard of titles, theres ALOT of other things, which deserve first to get titles, before some kind of silly temporary content, that most likely will return also next year again should get any attention at all.
Its far more important to fix and add things first to the permanent content of this game, than to please a stupid minority of elitists, just so that they get something with that they can boast with that title, how superior they am over many others, when basically the minipet and the title Blazing Light are already enough for that as a reward for sucessfulyl doing something, where very alot of other people miserably fail at already.

Besides of my examples above, theres tons of other things, that are far more important to be looked at first. Some people really should set their priorities right…

Also by the way, Jumping Puzzles isn’t time consuming, they require also skill, a different type of skill, but it requires skill to do them all. Just wanted to mention that.

Are you mad you can’t do the achievement? Please calm down. Anet can add titles to other things too; this thread was just a suggestion to add a title for an achievement that actually takes some degree of skill.

Consider that if people want you to be filtered out of a group, maybe it’s actually for a good reason instead of instantly responding “WTF elitist!” and refusing to make your own group.

It’s not really that hard. But I’d assume a lot of people are going for the ‘kill 30 players’ achievement mixed in with others so there’ll probably be going around looking for kills.

Unfortunately, the game mode as a whole is somewhat flawed in that once a person with full HP grabs a crystal in Wind Aspect, they’re basically guaranteed a free cap.

The method of acquisition is absolutely awful. A few lucky lottery winners will get it just like precursors. Why couldn’t it be something like trade in 500 Gauntlet tokens (Example) for the recipe? Everything locked behind mindless RNG for which there are clear winners and far more losers is really depressing.

Keep D/Cing right before Boss Blitz ends. Wow, very annoying.

Iris Ng.9845:

Even without a thief, a guardian with sanctuary can help the group with the suicidal bombing, then rinse and repeat.

I don’t even think you need to wait for the bombs to explode now. You just run ahead with like 30s of stealth and place them in a pipe.

whiteflower.9425:

I just saw a necromancer killing liadri with the 3 shrouded by darkness buffs.
Is that even possible?
That buff specifically says: “Immunity to damage from incoming attacks”
So how can he even damage her?
He killed her with all 3 shrouded by darkness buffs.

Lifesteal.

LordEnki.9283:

I enjoy zergs, and I enjoy organized content. Why destroy one aspect of the game for those that prefer another?

Risk vs reward. And it’s not destroying an aspect of the game, it’s balancing the relative risk/reward ratios.

In my honest opinion the title is too easy to get. I think it should have been restricted to the 8 orbs achievement which is a bit harder.

No more lootbag farm at clown car?

Nice job Miku. Special thanks to Nova for daily reviver at end.

This has been an issue since the game released, in fact one of my first posts was about it.

hendo.1940:

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Some people just like to play a caster class as a ranged character. While I personally don’t mind (I like to optimize my build depending on what I am doing), I know people that only play ranged.

In the end, only few players ever come to the forums and fewer care about any meta or “best dps” builds.
They play because it is fun, and if they have fun playing ranged, they a) either continue playing ranged or if ranged is no longer viable b) stop playing.

As far as I know this game wasn’t sold as MMMORPG (the extra M is for melee). Min-maxers gonna min-max, haters gonna hate, most people don’t give a kitten on what other people think as long as they enjoy what they do.

There is really not any more to that topic. People will do what they enjoy.

The OP is looking for practical reasons, not “play how you want” reasons.

The conflict arises where people try to claim it’s an objectively good weapon, and not just “I like lasers”.

I like lasers

I’m still annoyed that 16 page or so GS Thread was deleted. xD

Purple Miku.7032:

They can be farmed in WvW, open world, AND PvP, yet they’re too hard for you to get?

No support.

Do you regularly PvP and WvW? EotM you only really get dragonite from flipping keeps which isn’t always guaranteed to happen and wasn’t really all that fast last time I tried it. I’m not sure how much dragonite PvP gives but again it’s not PvE. You saying that it can be farmed in open world basically misses the point that the megaserver drastically reduced the rate of dragonite ore acquisition (temples are near impossible to get now unless you camp them for 1+h, can’t use guesting to triple your rate, and ore is now restricted by the new timers on Golem/etc.).

Hi, just a note about the consumables section: It says both harpy feathers and Ash Legion Spy Kits have a CD of 60 seconds. IIRC Harpy feathers have a 6 second cooldown; it’s the Order of Whispers Spykit that’s on a 60s CD.

The megaserver has a very negative impact on the dungeon CoE. This dungeon is in Mount Maelstrom, which happens to also be the map where two megaserver bosses are located (megadestroyer and Mark II Inquest Golem). As a result, I’ve constantly been uncontesting CoE, go in to do a path only to be thrown out in a different megaserver shard where the dungeon is contested from the very beginning. This is so incredibly unfair, unreasonable, and there’s nothing you can really do about it because guesting is pointless and you have no control over getting back to the map you actually uncontested the dungeon on. We need a solution for this please…posting because it’s happened daily for the past week and is a majorly unnecessary time sink.

GS also got an extra sigil.

I’ve noticed this happens frequently during the Tequatl fight for me.

Shake your magic 8-ball like Anet, and you might just get lucky.

Anet, please consider removing megaserver for Orr at least. At the moment the temple situation is out of control. Of course Tequatl and Wurm should have a better private instance solution instead of a Guild World Event solution which is a disappointment as well.

You forgot to mention: Since when if I don’t want to skip mobs, I get kicked from the dungeon?

The megaserver is a “mega” disappointment for me. My problems:

- Orr is constantly open with no way to check when/where it’s actually closed so I can open it for dragonite (previously I could use up to guest on 2 servers and all the temples on different toons for a ton of dragonite). This is a major disappointment – why did you have to make orr on megaserver? The way it works now only one group of people opens the Orr temples with no way to check where or when (thanks to event API now being useless), and any other groups have now nowhere to guest to open the temples for dragonite because it’s all on megaserver.
- World boss timers, especially for karka queen and Tequatl, alienate players who can’t conveniently show up to their designated times. Furthermore, it used to be fun and fast to go on a train visiting all the world events in succession – like from Maw to Wurm to Behe to Jormag (etc.) utilizing guesting when they’re all up. Now you have to wait an arbitrary 15 minutes in between events – that’s a lot of downtime and very boring imo. I stopped doing multiple world events in succession altogether after this patch.
- I uncontested a dungeon, immediately went inside and completed a path, then my party got put inside ANOTHER megaserver shard which had the dungeon contested. That’s unacceptable to me.
- I can’t say whether leveling is better as you meet more people, but I will say this – leveling alone used to be easy and efficient as nobody was killing all the mobs before I was there or stealing/upscaling all the events.

Benefits? I’m not seeing any. The populated PvE servers like Deso or Gandara always had a large train doing world bosses, and if you wanted a small group ‘private-like’ server you could always guest to Vabbi, etc.

I’m sorry Anet, I know you spent time working on this feature to improve gameplay, but at this point my only recommendation for it is to completely remove it from the game.

The “difficulty” is tagging mobs.