Guild Wars 2

Consider you will miss out of birthday gifts when you delete it, i would rather buy a new character slot and make a new warrior

I always do them to the first step of lvl 40 to have the 2 keys you get from the story. There are also crafting material to gain from it so for me it is worth it. I guess if you want all skins from the orders and also the last story quest you will have to make them. Those from the very last quest you can buy from the trading company though.

So answer if you don’t care about the different racial stories or keys, crafting materials, achievements and skins, then you don’t have to do it

Mea.5491:

So in SW is it better just to do events before breach and join an other event map when breach starts?

Well you also get xp from killing the champs under the keeps and from vw as well and it is quite a lot of xp. Other things to think about is to use food with 15% xp gain, and also the pumpkin old which give you 15% more xp. And if you have buffs then throw them in as well. Might not seem so much but in the end those buffs and food will give a lot.

Meh i forgot to remind about the fireworks from lunar event. They are still on Trading company and cheap. They also add extra xp and they stack so you can get a 2 hours duration with them.

Khisanth.2948:

Leaa.2943:

I would say that SW will provide with the most mobs and events in shortest period of time. Cursed shore is on a scedual and you have to run around a lot and wait for temple and what not which the train usually don’t even do since they farm champ bags.

In SW you are provided with loads of mobs nonstop more or less and events over and over.

Need to be careful when considering mob density. Not all mobs give experience.

All mobs in the events before breach that you damage enough do give you xp.
How ever i do assume you mean the mobs around the champ bosses like the small ones under the red keep or the like? If so then you are right they do not give xp. But you should not focus them anyway so my guess is that is why they don’t give xp. Can’t think of any others but possible i missed something.

I would say that SW will provide with the most mobs and events in shortest period of time. Cursed shore is on a scedual and you have to run around a lot and wait for temple and what not which the train usually don’t even do since they farm champ bags.

In SW you are provided with loads of mobs nonstop more or less and events over and over.

Consider EotM have nothing what so ever to do with wvw then no the suggestion is absurd and tbh if they prefer EotM from WvW by all means stay there. Having upscaled karma trains that are not able to move outside of a keep or tower if there are no com on the map and only know how to autoattack and scream cheat when being rolled over moving to wvw would be a disaster for wvw.

EotM obviously is filling a purpose for the players that enjoy doing it, so let them have that purpose. It might not be what it was intended to be but it was super easy to see that it would go that way. I mean it was not long ago were you could get 22 badges for capping a worm, whilst you got 1-2 for capping SM the biggest thin in wvw to cap.
It change like half a year back or so, but my point is when EotM came out they made it so that the pve part in that area gave you more then the wvw part.
Ofc there will be a pve train there, it is in every other aspect of the game were such thing can be added

Walk through video will show you how to make it. And the reason why that block is not mentioned is because it vanish when you kill the mob in the room.

As for the other blocks, the rule is to face the glove mark and push it forward. If the lines around the blocks are white they are not on the right position so you keep on pushing it until the white marks vanish. In that particular situation with the pic on the last post you also have the lazors to think about and it can be tricky first time you are there to push the blocks to the right spot so you can use the jump pad in the middle.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_Super_Adventure_Box_upgrades_and_skills
Look at the skill gloves of wisdom

Wiki is always your best friend in game

TheHeretic.3529:

Aezyr.5304:

TheHeretic.3529:

You know, it’s kinda funny. EotM has balance and none of the problems that EB and the Desert BLs have.

We could get rid of those and just make EotM the main WvW and we’d solve everything.

In which way is EotM balanced? (honest question)

Rotating servers takes care of population and there’s no tactics (at least I dont think they’re there, Ive never seen them used)

And how is that related to wvw? Why would we want this to be the new wvw?

EotM is the most unballanced game mode there is. You just get thrown in to a map with people you have no clue who they are running with a tag you know nothing about together with 500 upscaled pve players or farmers avoiding fights. You my dear need to understand what it is we want in wvw, and it is not what there is in EotM. Adding teams/alliances/whateveryouwanttocallit will blead out the last of the wvw players and the game mode will die and probably become what EotM is today after a while.

LilBiM.3581:

Over the past hour or so there have been reports of persons from NSP (one of which is a ranger) solo capping towers in EBG and the DHBL in our match-up (DH vs NSP vs HoD). The last recent take was a fully upgraded Jerrifer’s Slough (at ~21:00 EST) in EBG without any siege at all.

Before that about 10mins before a Ranger was spotted in Aldon’s Ledge, again no walls down, no gates down, no siege on the ground either but at Lords attempting to take the tower by itself.

I’m not going to ask for the best way to report this since not everyone who plays WvW has recording software ready under the assumption that they are going to run into someone who abnormally gained access to a tower or Keep.

This kind of activity has been going on for years at this stage. What I want to know is whether this is business as usual or will this too be fixed in the up-coming major WvW patch?

Well how do you suggest for it to be solved? I mean come on do you really think that Arena Net have the means to monitor every person inside of wvw to be able to stop them? We need to help them, and they ofc need solid proof for it or it could be abused to a point were players would be banned for something they never done, just getting trolled.

Now i get it that you are not able to make the proof, but ask in mapchat for someone that can and then send it to exploits@arena.net
The better proof the easier it is for A-Net to find them.

gavyne.6847:

Nice token gesture, just a bit late I have no characters that still even need this. It’s funny we get all so happy when Anet is simply giving us back what we had before they took it away.

Just because you have no use of it does not mean that others do and obviously it is a good change and i find it silly to complain about changes that actually going in the right direction after years of nothingness towards wvw.
But hey if complaining make you feel good by all means go on doing it.

Dawdler.8521:

Warcry.1596:

Why should I be able to max Scrapper while playing nothing but Necromancer, despite not ever really playing Engineer at all?

Same reason you can level a character you never played from 1-80 in a minute or two.

That said, I honestly fail to see the point. Not even the most hardcore WvWer will die from spending a couple hours in PvE, which is all it take to max an elite. At least I dont think so. Well, maybe a few of them.

There are players that never do anything else but wvw and they should not have to leave it just to make PvE. And it is not just leave and go do it, you actually have to move to the HoT maps, you actually have to unlock masteries which demands that you do the first step in the story and so on which takes quite a while if you have not done any PvE before.

PvP player never had to do anything outside of PvP if they do not want too, they get all they need and then some through reward tracks, WvW players who do not want to PvE should not be treated any different and finally Arena Net begin to move in this direction.

Revenants are extremely good classes in pretty much all game modes and should not feel clunky to play at all. In wvw specific they are a good class as well. How ever you need to learn how to use the skills and when to use them and also have the right builds.

Reaspers and Dragon Hunters are also good choices, so it is more about what class you feel you can master in a better way if you feel Revenant is to hard.

Well it is very easy to avoid this by simply don’t write in map or guild chats if you are unsure that people will be offended. If i feel the need to scream out frustration i simply write to friends that i know will not feel to fuzzed about it or i swear here infront of my screan and deal with my own frustration.

As a answer to your question, there are no chat that you are 100% safe in. If you break the rules and a log is sent to a-net there is for sure a chance that you can be banned due to it, hense you should either use your friends or simply don’t use the chat to get rid of your personal frustration.

There is no reason to remove the tactivators, only thing that need to be done is to nerf or remake the buffs that are to op. There is really only 2 buffs that are gamebrea king which is the stealth fountain and the dragon banner.
The airships are way way to op today, but nerfing and adding a longer cd and it will just be a fun gimmick.
The chillfog though, my god that kittenes me off, and i could deal with it until they came up with the idea to add them outside of sm as well. I mean wtf, there are people just moving on the map and suddenly a whole area is impossible to pass through because there are fights inside of SM lords room. Remove the god kitten chill fog outside of sm walls, they should not be outside SM. Outside of keeps are fine, but SM are simply not fine.

Everything else on the tactivators are fine to have and we even want to have them on the alpine border because they simply are good for for keeps and towers which should be hard to take and tbh it is easier to take them on the alpine borders and especially on the higher tiers servers. I mean hardened gates, the watchtowers well all of this are great things that should stay.

I also very much hope the sentries will be moved over to alpine as well. Those were the best thing that came out of HoT, they are simply great.

Think your first 10 levels or so will contain buffs and badges and some silver. Not sure exactly when this stops, but i would guess around lvl 5-10.
Use the buffs you got and it goes faster

Well they are in EB so ofc they will be on alpine too. I asume all upgrades found on eb will be found in alpine borders. I certainly hope the sentries will move there since those were the best thing with the HoT.

LetoII.3782:

X T D.6458:

Also why is anet or anyone else supposed to stop people from transferring servers, people are free to go wherever they want.

It isn’t free
Which is part of the problem

You can move completely free if you wish to do so. It will require for you to delete your characters (you can still save your account bound stuff in the bank) and then start over again. Not optimal but it is totally free. You can also farm gold and then exchange to gems, which might take a while, but if you really want then this is also doable.

As topic started i don’t get why you blaming a-net over moves done by players. I mean what is it you feel A-Net should have done? Chain the players to a server and force them to stay or quit the game? Players should always have a choice.

In EU server status changes all the time. What was the top server one day, is down at the bottom another, and then it goes up again. Guilds are moving around, players are moving around, it is a part of the game. If you want your server to recover then work for it. Will be hard work and take a while, but in the end it mostly solves somehow and if it does not, then stay or move, your choice, but blaming Arena Net for something that us players do is silly,

What are you talking about, they are awesome, and a good way to make sure that the players inside of wvw also get their gathering done. I never heard of anyone feeling they are bad, it is a second reward for capping something and you can also earn gold on it if you keep on harvest them when passing them.
And tbh if i do something in wvw that require my attention then i leave the nodes until after, this is possible to do

Also kill the monkeys and they wont be able to attack you. If you catch them from behind or the side they wont get time to attack you before you killed it. And as someone already said, dodge is the key to avoid monkeys, and also the x on the ground will tell you were it will hit, so you can just move away as well.

Well the core game is still there, and there is still activity in the old regions so you can ofc play it and enjoy those parts.
Without HoT you will not be able to use the elitespecs or the new revenant class. You can not glide and you don’t have access to the new maps and you are not as competitive in wvw and pvp. You can not enter guildhalls either i think nor use the crafting profession scribing. And the mastery system is ofc also off limits for you.

A lot that you miss out on, but the core game is as i said still there for you to play as it was when you left it.

Omg is there any point where you guys will stop moaning. We got what we wanted what we asked since expansion, well even in beta, it is a happy day. Quit the moaning and let us have this moment, let us players that are in wvw every day and still enjoy it have our moment.

Alpine border omg, finally, i am just so happy!

I hope you can move the sentries over to alpine, and the dolly system because that would probably be the only thing i would miss from the border. The sentries is awesome and i believe we all feel that way.

Well what worries me is that they are not talking to us how they are going to change it. There have been talk about not having servers at all, which will destroy the last piece of wvw and what it was. WvW is based on the servers, and servers have their own community, destroying that will destroy wvw and something else will come out of it that already exist in other games and have not been able to keep up the interest for as long as wvw have so far.
We seen this in gw2 already through EotM and it did not work. And it will not work, even if they would call it factions or what ever other fancy word, this simply is not the solution and a new kittenstorm will fall on wvw and we have had so many for so long that this will really kill the game mode if it comes out this way.

There really are only one way to solve this and that is to remove the lower servers with no population and no community left and give the players on it a free transfer to any server of their choice. Some will want to move in bigger groups and they should be allowed to do so. Overall i believe it will even out after a while.

We did it with 3 players, but we did it differently. One of us focused on the dodge and avoiding whilst the other two tanked as much as possible. We did the instance 3 times and it worked pretty ok and did not really take that much time. I had that food in my backpack already and used it, but i switched to mango pie for health regen and vitality.

Any word on whats going on and estimated time on how long it will take to fix?

Guardinas elite spec is not as much about boonsharing as the old guard is. You can still play old guard and the support they have with boonsharing if this is what you want to focus on. Elite guard is about traps and you still have a bit of support to give, but not in the way the old guard do.

Revenants are the new boonmachines and they also have some healing to give out through the Centaur legend. Revenants is overall a good class with a lot of choices.

Medium classes i would say go for ranger. Their elite spec druid is very supportive with heal, cleanse and also ress downed by pulling them to you which is very useful at points when someone goes down in a bad spot.

I believe engy can also be supportive, and they do have a heal kit that should give support, but tbh i have not seen many of this and most use the dispenser instead and i guess there is a reason for it. I have never played with the heal kit either so can’t say more about it.

Elementalist are also a good support class and can provide heal, protection and cleanse and on top of that they also have good cc and awsome dps. Ele can be hard to play if you are not the sort of person that can keep 20 cooldowns in your head and knowing when to switch attunament and rotate it well to keep boons up. Ele do also have auras they share that is very nice.

Messmers can be played as support, but not in a heal/cleanse kind of way, but more supports as in reducing cooldowns, boonshare and cc.

In the end it all depends on were you are using your class. There are more then pve raids in gw2. Infact there have been raids in gw2 for years but all the pve people seem to have missed that part. WvW raids are just as exciting and challenging.
All classes above also works fine in open world and in dungeons. In the end it is all about who is driving the class and how well they know their skills and traits.

I placed an account on Black Gate when i wanted to see how NA and wvw worked. I admit that i did not know much about it and thought wvw would be like in EU, but i was so wrong. The account have been on BG for over a year and i am waiting for A-Net to open up transfers so i can move it. Until then the account is sleeping on BG because i get so frustrated each time i log in there watching the hand holding which is flat out the worst case of hand holding i ever seen and i feel embarrassed to watch it. Meanwhile i started a f2p account on another server which works some what better, but still it is miles away from how wvw is played in EU. BG was dead before HoT came out though, they had push weeks one time a month or so, something i never even heard of until i joined them more then a year back,

http://gw2timer.com/ Or use this one with a map that shows exactly were to go

First things first and something you need to understand with this game. There are no dedicated tanks and there are no dedicated healers. So all classes are dps and some classes are better at support then other and some are better at damage mittigation, but this do not mean you can tank. So forget everything you ever done in a mmo, and forget about the extra +2 attackpower that will give you 5 more dps. This is not how GW2 works.
What you need to focus on is learning your skills and what they really do. What is pure dps, what is cc (huge thing in this game) what is your combofields, what buffs you can share and what debuffs you have and how do you stay alive (you manage your own health noone manage it for you).

So when you pick a class rather consider what you like to play. All classes have weapon switch in combat (except for ele and engy who do switch but not weapons) so you can be both ranged and melee.

If you are used to how it worked in other mmo’s then you might take a while to get used to it, but when you have you will realize how much better this way is and can never go back

Welcome to gw2. Yes the game is very different compared to other mmo’s. We do not have the holy trinity as tank/heal/dps and you will have to look after your hp your self because noone else will.

Other things that is good to know about is that the damage in this game is important, but as equal important are the cc (crowd control) buffs and debuffs, heal for your self boons to others, damage mitigation and so on, so knowing exactly what your skills are doing is very important. There are no macro system so you need to know what combo to throw and when.

As for servers. They are not at all important if you are only gonna play PvE, because we have something called mega servers. This means that all players and servers are mixed together on the maps. This means that it does not matter what server your guild are on, as long as it does not involve wvw.

If you do want to join World verses World then servers are really important but i believe that SFR have a good wvw situation and probably a good server to start on.
World verses world is a instansed open world pvp, were 3 servers meet eachother and fight for points and land. The fights goes on 24/7 and resets every week.

Well thing is there are nothing you can do about it except for either talk to the guy and see if you can reason with them, and if that do not work, then blocking is probably the only option left. Might not be what you want, but then again why should you let other people who really means nothing to you, destroy your fun in game? As you said there are people that simply don’t have all the horses in the stable and have problems understanding that the world do not move around them. This should not be something that you drag your self in too. Report him if it gets to bad and to stalky and/or block them if it is just annoying. It is not likely you will role play with them anyway

zhonnika.1784:

2. Rock walls fly up in your face, totally breaking the flow of the fight.

This is actually one of the dumbest additions, because not does it only break up the flow in the fight on the enemies, but if you own the keep you loose access to the enemies with it and you can loose a fight with something that is suppose to help your cause, since yeah it is your keep, your defense.

I don’t know how many times we waited for enemies to break through to jump out and hit them in the back, to then get our own stone wall in our faces that breaks us up instead.

Said it before, there are no way to solve this but close servers in the bottom and offer them a free transfer to any server they want to join. The issues on those servers will never be fixed because no one wants to join a empty server, most players want to join the top 10 and around to be able to have fights when they can be online. Closing them, will fill up more servers.

It is harsh to say and i understand your pain because i made this choice my self long time ago when i was on one of the bottom servers in EU. It was one of the best choices i made for my self and i still get a kick of logging in to wvw and do fights.

Asrat.2645:

- You have the crafting professions you need for necro.
-crafting is considered to be a good way to level up, so if you want to do it, do it before you get to 80
-I believe cooking is cheap if you just want it for the levels.

-There is no need for heart of thorns before you hit 80, but not really a reason not to buy it either. Unless you are not sure if you want to get back into the game permanently.
-@leaa, there was no f2p 2 years ago ^^

Another suggestion that I would give to any returning player: check your alts inventory and your bank, there might be some very valuable stuff like event exclusive items.

Which is why i also specifically said that he probably is not a f2p player, were probably was me adding it since he could actually be on a f2p account anyway even though he had a core game

I say what i said in another thread, the problem is not the DBL it self but how they are made. If they were remade to fit our purpose of the game mode then i can live with either or.

The issues with DBL are first and most of all the waypoints in fire and air keep. Why only enemies can use this and not us when we own it, is well to be frank i don’t know any other word to use but stupid. Together with the size of the border makes DBL a bad map. All three keeps are TOO big. I like how they are made, but i don’t like that it takes me like 5 min to move from one side to the other. There are also to many blocking walls all over the map to get were you want to go which makes the map confusing. And add the PvE event in the middle well that is just crap. Why should i have to fight pve mobs to gain such powerful rewards for it.

So if the DBL gets a remake were you scale down the map, scale down the keeps, make the middle and out more accessible (keep the canyons on the outer towards camps and the like). Maybe remake the middle (don’t add back the pve event) and flatten it a bit add more space there for groups to fight each other.
Make towers and keeps more connected to each other so that towers actually matters.

What is good and what i think we can keep are the entries. They are probably the only thing that we are all very happy about. They really make a lot of difference and flipping them is important.
I don’t mind the monuments so much. The stealth to earth is kind of a fun thing, and make all sides wanting to capture them. Airkeep buff is fun and i was thinking it would be to op, but imo it isn’t really since it is easy to capture the monuments.
I like the syntherzisers, and i think we all do tbh.

I am very divided about the Lords. They are quite annoying, but at the same time, this actaully make take overs and fights inside of keeps longer and more interesting. Well not the lord fights, but the fights with the enemies. They have to think about how to make it and in the top tiers this is actually a good thing. It is not always about the biggest zerg will take it. I would probably want to keep the lords as they are, but i believe not all players feel the same about this.

I don’t see a issue here. Every comunity have their own team speak, and you join that and then the map channel you are on.

The day we would have forced voice com inside of the game is when i will leave it. There are so many angry trolling kids out there that i do not want to be forced to listen too. And i also do not wish to wait for Arena Net to deal with all those issues that would come with it, the communities are doing this job just fine.

Hayato.4718:

It might be a bit difficult since they’ve stated that they won’t respond to any new ticket related to his accounts.

My point is still valid, he asked questions that we can not answer, nor can we make a difference because we have no option to decide in this case.

I get your frustration, but either way it can only be settled between him and A-Net. How to do that i have no answer to.

Well if you have armorsmith, weapon smith, tailor, jewler and artificier, then it is not that much to choose from but chef, huntsman and leatherworker.

As for upgrading, well i assume you are not a f2p character, so this means you have core game and access to everything but the new class Revenant. So unless you want to play pvp with the new elite specs before you hit lvl 80 then there is no need to upgrade until you find that you want to make that upgrade.

As said above, if you enjoy pve then get heropoints in the new HoT maps since they give you 10 points for each done. If you don’t like pve or don’t like the maps or what ever other reason, then join World verses world, play the game mode, and for each rank up chest you will get Proof of Heroics which you take the the npc in spawn http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heroics_Notary#vendor1 And he will sell random Hero points from HoT to you without you having to go there. You buy them and double click and you got it.

Consider we have no clue how this really did work out, how everything was acquired and with what gold from were, or how anything else was done, it is not up to us to tell if this is right or not. Only the people will the information will be able to tell you this.

Also it might be a wrong ban, or it might simply be so that the people involved are not really telling the full story which is very common. Either way the person who are banned should be talking to Arena Net about it and try to sort it out.

Wait until you get to the achievements in the last story quest of HoT and then fight the bugs all whilst it take you 15 min to reset each time a bug destroy you, because you have to restart the whole quest and kill everything on the way to this and go through cinematics and then the fight it self is very long and tedious. Not very hard just annoyingly long with lots of things that can bug out, and will bug out.

We were 3 players doing it all 3 on ts and we tried it 5 times making every step perfect and should have managed on the first try, but one bug after the other hit us. After 5 tries we were so upset that we left the instance and i don’t think we will ever go back again and have to live with that bugs beat us down and the last achievements in that story will never be done.

It does not help that the fences are invisible in bigger group fights. I am stuck and i can watch the ground and there is literally nothing there but my feets. Fenses invisible and no red rings. And you can crash a whole group with those fences and i start to rage just by writing this. I tell you those need a nerf for wvw. What you do in pve i don’t care, but in wvw they NEED a nerf and they need to be visible.

I missed the puzzle in Mount Maelstrom, the one in north west close to the waypoint.

As was already asked do you have them in a invisible bag or any other bag that keep them from showing? If not then yeah did you activate the achievement?

Franke.8147:

I would prefer this changed back to Friday because some of my guildies are OCX and their weekend is gone by saturday for them to feel like they have made a contribution. In fact open it up earlier on friday to say 2 hours earlier than it was before HoT. I know Anet is commited to getting those fixes out on friday, but its in general a bad time to bring anything to launch. You all leave for the weekend, and leave a large portion of the player base to suffer a bug through the weekend. Impliment those changes on a monday even if it means delaying it out 3 days.

Thank You Anet for listening.

Do not work for EU since people are driving him from work and some have not even left work.

I want to get it back to friday evening (EU) as it was before it changed to Saturday.
As it is now, fridays are just useless because the mu is mostly already settled and all are tired of it and want a new mu. Especially here in EU were we have different mu every week. Saturday evenings are also mostly dedicated for family stuff, gf/bf, going out with friends and so on, and Fridays was easier to attend to then Saturdays because of this.

I hate that sound too and always put my headset down on the table when i am on the airship, it just give me headaches.

Only thing that would be possible to do is to close servers that have to little population and offer free transfer to server of your like. It is not the best way, but the only way.

I also understand that you want to move your whole server, i do how ever believe that not many servers would be interested in taking in a whole server (well depending on numbers ofc) in since every server you move to have their own community and you would have to join that.

I never understood why we still have so many servers when those in the bottom are undermanned and the wvw you know about have nothing to do with the wvw we have in the top tiers. In EU you have populated servers up to rank 14, and some even above that.

Anyway, pick a server, make the move and hope that you will get as many to move there as possible. You will meet something totally different and hopefully this will make your game more fun

You can have over 70 character slots in this game

You buy a slot for gems which you can either use your in game gold to exchange to gems, or real money, which ever suits you better.