Guild Wars 2

So why don’t you make a easy research before you tell us there is no need to buy it?

Make a ticket and talk to support and hope they can help you out.

No there is no need to give asura boobs, you have 3 other races for that.

We do not want mounts in gw2, we never wanted mounts in gw2, mounts are not needed in gw2 because we have over 400 waypoints and it goes faster to waypoint then using a mount.

I understand all you people coming from other mount games that this is a thing, it was for me too when i joined here and i could not really grab how the waypoint system was working, but just drop your mount hopes, they wont happen, use waypoint and speedbuffs.

It just came out, they always send mail to all players when something new is up in game. This is a good thing, and it happen one time, so i am sure it is not to much work for you to delete it if you feel it have no relevance to it.

Would not waste gold on runes if you are lvl 71. At lvl 80 you will have a constant speedbuff through the facet of elements. Just wait for that and it is all solved.

Danikat.8537:

Personally I prefer rangers. The downside for me of the warrior being very straightforward and easy to learn is that I find them quite boring to play. But I know other people love them.

Rangers can be very simple – if you use the stereotypical ‘bear bow’ approach it’s pretty much stand at range firing away with a longbow while your pet (or team mates) keep the enemies away so you don’t have to do anything else. But they can also get quite complicated if you choose weapons and skills that require you to get closer and are more dependant on positioning.

It is possible to just use longbow and shortbow on a ranger, what you can’t do is stay at range all the time. Sometimes there’s not enough space, sometimes you need to share boons and sometimes you just can’t get the enemies to stay away. (That last one is where the bearbow really falls apart because people who are used to it generally aren’t used to moving away from or dodging attacks.)

Unless the short bow for rangers have got a buff that i have not heard off, i would say it is a total waste of weapon slot to add that and i have not seen a ranger ever use it. The rangers melee weapons are not complicated at all.

Rocketmist.5436:

The oasis event was 99/100 times won by the group that had money people in the oasis. It really wasn’t a great comeback mechanic. Anyways glad its gone since it was one of the big demands.

Money people? I am sorry but what the heck are you talking about????

Dusty Moon.4382:

briggah.7910:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Leaa.2943:

Dusty Moon.4382:

WvW is so broken. There are no more fights on the BL’s and EBG. People just sit in keeps and kitten on siege.

1. Get rid of the Airships on SMC – it is too OP and you can’t do anything about it (defensively for the group attacking SMC).

2. As keeps upgrade, make the siege cap lower. It is too easy to protect a keep with one or two people against a blob.

3. Get rid of PvE from the BL’s (the Oasis event comes to mind). It makes dealing with other BL’s too hard if you have always come back to your own BL.

4. Get rid of all Shield Generators. They make getting keeps, etc impossible.

5. Fortified Walls and Gates are too hard to break down – it takes 5 min to get through the walls/gates if you are a small havoc group (using one Superior Cata or Treb).

6. Get rid of the Emergency WP’s – it makes getting keeps impossible for the opposing team as the defending team can just WP in at the end and wipe the opposing team.

There are too many siege kitteners now and that makes WvW no longer fun.

WE NEED THE WVW PATCH NOW! You will end up losing more of the WvW population than you already have.

So what you are asking for is a easier way to take keeps and towers? Sorry but i don’t agree at all. Those should be hard to take and at this point it is way to easy to take out siege in towers and keeps so there is absolutely not need to make it even easier. And it do not take to long to take down a gate or wall that is fortified, in my opinion it is way to easy and should be harder.

I don’t know if you are on a low pop server, then i can understand your points, but on top tiers servers you are taking everything way to fast and way to easy, so people do not even care to scout and siege things because it is easier to just retake it.

I want it back to the way it was. There was nothing wrong bofore, except for the testing done by PvE players, who want more PVE in WvW (like EotM). Hence the buffing of the Keep Lord’s etc. They are now just like EotM.

The problem being, now players hide in keeps behind siege and not fight at all. I mean sieging a T1 tower with 6 Superior or guild arrow carts is just ludicrous.

The game has become ‘Siege Wars’ Not Guild Wars.

This is the complaint about siege that I will never understand. First you are talking about a keep. It shouldn’t be an easy thing to take. As a player and a team, you should never want to lose your keep. I never want to lose anything on our side but that is just the way I play. Its like you’d rather not have siege which would let you take the keep faster.

You claim you want to fight players but you are trying to take their keep. If players are hiding in a keep on siege and not coming out, go hit something else to bring them out. There are ways to bring out players and make the fights come to where you are.. You are not going to force anyone to fight if they do not want to fight. Removing or nerfing the tools used to defend won’t bring you the fights if players do not want to fight. It will only make those players that like to defend not defend anymore which removes a certain type of play style that you do not like to play..

When you get into an objective that has siege it should always be focused first. Most focus the lord first as soon as gate/walls go down. Seen it a zillion times as a few people rush the siege and rest are dying to siege on the lord..

Keeps are not easy to take, anymore – period. If a keep is T3, then it is almost a guarantee that you cannot take it with one 5 man havoc group, like you could before the changes. Try trebbing a T3 gari with one superior treb (as an example,) you are guaranteed to take 10 minutes or more just to get through the outer wall. That is ridiculous.

A.Net said they wanted to have people defend keeps, well now they made it TOO EASY to defend keeps and almost impossible for a havoc group to take one.

You are not suppose to be able to take it with a 5 man havok group. It is suppose to be hard and it is flat out stupid if havoks could take them. You focus towers and camps, that is what is up for you to take and you have plenty of them.

Ricky.4706:

“what if”

Hypothetically – wvw was broken up into races – I’m thinking this would open up doors for gvg in wvw – because different guilds can agree to a variety of matchups by simply logging on to different races. Something that can’t easily be done now without an all out guild transfer to a different server.

a special competitive mode can be made where all 3 guilds join up for competition – like old gw1 gvg challenge – and when they go into wvw, they enter the same map, a criteria could be set, such as – who captures sm first and puts their guild banner on it! – AND they come into the game with a special marker letting the whole map know they are doing competitive gvg…- further only competing guilds can throw up tags in those matches and when they enter a match, sm grays out – other players can partake in the competition and make things even more interesting! It wouldn’t be unfair either, because as races the matches would default to full or at least relatively balanced maps. – except maybe the last map with 50 asurans 1 norn, and 5 humans lol this would also highlight the guilds prowess to direct a whole server to victory, not just their own guild…this would also count in the score – guild wvw influence. A rockstar guild would control the blob du jour! Cue the top commander ladder and top wvw guilds ladder. there could be a variety of criteria as well, such as highest score, or who turns the entire map one color, or who ran the most karma for the event, you can even have clandestine events, where all 3 guilds are roaming thieve specialists and their competition is based on how many kills they get as roamers, no tag and none even know of a competition…. if you look at wvw as a pvp sandbox, then the possibilities are endless. The non competing players become part of the environment!

think about it for a moment, there would be a never ending story related to lore of what race holds the highest score, so the actual race scores would mean something, and since players can change races, they can arrange competitions. Plus it would encourage game related role play. – plus it would make the war more aesthetically entertaining as well as encourage server wide race strategies – asurans with their golems, humans with their healings, char with their flamethrowers, sylvari with their root/trapping specialties, it could be interesting strategies. I’m guessing this would also empower anet to balance the server numbers more effectively – since server pride is now about race, and not general population. Not exactly a mega-server, because you can organize competitions with it. Cheating / trolling wouldn’t be easy because unless you are in a match, or with a squad, you can’t control being in your gvg map. you can watch it though, wvw could now be watched in spectator mode depending on what matches are happening! Anet Official Mods can come in and referee important title matches ( basically to remove trolls ) – And is probably the best fitting resolution as the next level of gw1 HA and GVG. – fort aspenwood fights was all about lore, and it was fun! This would be a hybrid of HA, GVG, Fort Aspenwood and of course wvw.

and it would probably encourage a new race for the next expac so we can have 6 races in rotations of 1v1v1 – frog people maybe ? you get that tongue lash thing as a racial skill to make up for being ugly :x

-puts up tomato shield just in case-

Been done in other game already and ended up with people joining the team that wins and they faceroll the others until they feel it is not fun anymore and also move to winning server or quit game. The point is that wvw is something that no other game have and why it is good. Change to whats already been tried in other games and nothing will be different in this game about it.

Rangers are not only about bows and ranged, you can use melee weapos as your second weapon set, a lot of players do. You can even go only melee if that is what you would like.

This video show you that it is very possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah7idN0fYW0

Using warrior as a ranged class sound very much backwards to me. I don’t see how you can not struggle as a killshot warrior in PvE. I seen rifle builds in PvP and in WvW, but PVE not so much unless it is a ranged boss that you can not melee.

joneirikb.7506:

Leaa.2943:

With that said this was then, as in the past, as in not now, not today, not this minute, but passed time. Passed time you can not do a single kitten about. It is impossible since we do not have time travel. What we have now, is today. And today new attempt been done with a new (or rather “for now”) Game Director.

Couldn’t resist…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drjr9PmTMA

Hahaha that made me laugh

Omg it finally happen :O

After months of borderlands freezing whilst the event were going. All we could do was standing there looking at each other wondering who would get one skill off first. After 10 sec or so it could happen….
Strange it was no announced since this is something we asked for since new borders came out and we realized how much lag it created. This is good news, we need good news.

I saw runes still being on TP for lower then the vendor prize. Why is that?

Loosmaster.8263:

Leaa.2943:

DeWolfe.2174:

Leaa.2943:

lil devils x.6071:

Leaa.2943:

rchu.8945:

Leaa.2943:

It is a change we have asked for, it is out in the open and they given us information, and they shall have credit for this. Them talking to us giving info is a big step, that we have asked and begged for, for years.

How ever i will wait this out. I been disappointed before and until the talks turn in to actions i wont put much effort in to hopes and hypes. It is definitely a good start and something we wanted for so long and i appreciate it so far and that is as much as you get from me at this point.

no, why credit should be given when all they gave are talks? We need results, no kittening words that mean nothing.

You need to re-read what i wrote because your answer do not in any way or situation suit the context. In the grown up world when you been argue for a long while about things, there has to be a time were you break off and something changes, and the people involved need to give time for the changes to fall in to place, as in give time for them to prove their talk.
Throwing your self on the floor screaming i want to see changes NAOW is not going to make a difference, the changes will fall in to place and we will then see if they can deliver or if the talk was just cheap. In mean while you have to accept that it wont solve in 2 min.

Players venting here have been waiting years, not 2 minutes. This is just their " final stand" before they all give up and leave. The HoT maps were deserted during Beta testing, and they knew this and still released them. That was their bad call and they still have not corrected it, It isn’t like these problems started yesterday.

I been waiting for 3.5 years, so it is not that i don’t understand what you are asking for, if you read my old messages you will see that i am one of them that also have asked for it for long. But never the less, what we have asked for, have happened, it might be that it will fail in the end and talk is cheap, but we do need to give time and see if they follow through. Throwing garbage at them when they took the first step, is not going to work. It is like a relationship that gone bad, it need work and patience from both sides. and if you don’t have the patience, then maybe it is time you break up with the game or at least take a break.

I am not saying that i am blindly believing in this and that all is buried and forgotten, but time will tell if what they started is lasting and something that will be a norm in future. For that they need more then 2 min.

Maybe people are ruffled because of Anet’s lack of urgency? If Anet stated something along the lines of “Wow, you folks really hate the new map, huh? Well don’t worry, we heard you and are working hard to give you back the Alpine Borderlands back! You can expect it within a month.” See, that would have went over extremely well. Instead they spoke of population imbalance which should be at a far less priority than fixing the maps.

They spoke of a lot of things including the alpine border and why it was not in rotation as it was suppose to be.

It is not that i don’t understand the argument or why people are upset, i am just as upset and been for a long while. But even so, we have asked an begged for years for them to communicate with us. This have now happened, and it might not been the greatest way they said things, and it might be that all goes to kitten and it was just empty words again, but there lies my point, this wont happen over night, they need time to show us they mean it.

I prefer giving them this time, then that the communication we begged for never happen and we would be at the same spot frustrated asking why do they not talk to us.

What they could/would/should have done is not interesting, what is interesting is if this will be something they will continue to do. If they will involve us before things are written in stone, if the beta tests will matter, if they will listen to us when we tell them what we need and what we don’t need and so on.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Invitational-Statement-from-John-Corpening-game-director-for-World-vs-World/first

Sticky up top back from August. Pretty much the same thing said on Rededit, lol.

Ok you clearly do not get my point, so i am going to talk to you as if you were very very very young. I have read every single post about wvw since the beginning of the game. I played wvw since the beginning of the game, and it is my first choice of game mode. So posting something that have been said from today and 3.5 years back is not going to change my point. I know whats been said, whats been promised, whats been done because i been there all that time.

I agree that the passed have been kitten. Communication have been total kitten, next to nothing and devs have not listen to the core players of the game mode. This have hurt wvw and the reason to why we bleed players today. There have been attempt of talks a few times (easy counted on my two hands and mostly about kittenty little things that changed nothing) and after that nothing.

With that said this was then, as in the past, as in not now, not today, not this minute, but passed time. Passed time you can not do a single kitten about. It is impossible since we do not have time travel. What we have now, is today. And today new attempt been done with a new (or rather “for now”) Game Director. It is obvious that they want to make sure that the players that was worried about Collin leaving would not mean that the game is gonna go down. But even with this in mind, their talks have been more transparent then ever before. This is a good thing. It does not mean that all is forgotten and that we buy everything they say, nor does it mean it can not be done better, but the thing is with the grown up world is that you can simply not make a 100% change in one go and expect anyone to believe in this. We need time to prove to us that they did mean something, that they do want to be more transparent and have more communication. We need time, they need time, nothing will be proven or changed without time.

You do not have to earn any hero points what so ever outside of wvw. Just join wvw, play it and you will get Proof of Heroic. For this you buy random HoT hero points from a vendor in spawn. If you are a frequent players on a populated server this should not take that long at all.

Ricky.4706:

the more i think about it, the less i like the mega server idea – ( despite how much i suggested it at first )

It’s still not a good solution because the wvw score would still be meaningless.
It would mean more to beat the servers that host your biggest adversary guilds.

A megaserver is just a placebo to a greater problem in wvw – the score is meaningless, it will still be just as meaningless if random people were slapped together to fight. fun, but meaningless, it does nothing for the bigger picture of being appealing to the hardcore pvp community. it will balance the numbers, but not in a meaningful way.

Exactly this. Nothing will mean anything, noone will care about anything but winning, which means like in EotM people will join the winning team, the team with the most people and then they will faceroll the other team who will give up, because there is nothing to care about so why should you be in the loosing team, why should you make effort, you want to have loot. wvw-players will leave, more pvd, more karma, a good way to lvl up, trains going, noone cares about what was wvw before. The last of what was wvw will die.

DeWolfe.2174:

Leaa.2943:

lil devils x.6071:

Leaa.2943:

rchu.8945:

Leaa.2943:

It is a change we have asked for, it is out in the open and they given us information, and they shall have credit for this. Them talking to us giving info is a big step, that we have asked and begged for, for years.

How ever i will wait this out. I been disappointed before and until the talks turn in to actions i wont put much effort in to hopes and hypes. It is definitely a good start and something we wanted for so long and i appreciate it so far and that is as much as you get from me at this point.

no, why credit should be given when all they gave are talks? We need results, no kittening words that mean nothing.

You need to re-read what i wrote because your answer do not in any way or situation suit the context. In the grown up world when you been argue for a long while about things, there has to be a time were you break off and something changes, and the people involved need to give time for the changes to fall in to place, as in give time for them to prove their talk.
Throwing your self on the floor screaming i want to see changes NAOW is not going to make a difference, the changes will fall in to place and we will then see if they can deliver or if the talk was just cheap. In mean while you have to accept that it wont solve in 2 min.

Players venting here have been waiting years, not 2 minutes. This is just their " final stand" before they all give up and leave. The HoT maps were deserted during Beta testing, and they knew this and still released them. That was their bad call and they still have not corrected it, It isn’t like these problems started yesterday.

I been waiting for 3.5 years, so it is not that i don’t understand what you are asking for, if you read my old messages you will see that i am one of them that also have asked for it for long. But never the less, what we have asked for, have happened, it might be that it will fail in the end and talk is cheap, but we do need to give time and see if they follow through. Throwing garbage at them when they took the first step, is not going to work. It is like a relationship that gone bad, it need work and patience from both sides. and if you don’t have the patience, then maybe it is time you break up with the game or at least take a break.

I am not saying that i am blindly believing in this and that all is buried and forgotten, but time will tell if what they started is lasting and something that will be a norm in future. For that they need more then 2 min.

Maybe people are ruffled because of Anet’s lack of urgency? If Anet stated something along the lines of “Wow, you folks really hate the new map, huh? Well don’t worry, we heard you and are working hard to give you back the Alpine Borderlands back! You can expect it within a month.” See, that would have went over extremely well. Instead they spoke of population imbalance which should be at a far less priority than fixing the maps.

They spoke of a lot of things including the alpine border and why it was not in rotation as it was suppose to be.

It is not that i don’t understand the argument or why people are upset, i am just as upset and been for a long while. But even so, we have asked an begged for years for them to communicate with us. This have now happened, and it might not been the greatest way they said things, and it might be that all goes to kitten and it was just empty words again, but there lies my point, this wont happen over night, they need time to show us they mean it.

I prefer giving them this time, then that the communication we begged for never happen and we would be at the same spot frustrated asking why do they not talk to us.

What they could/would/should have done is not interesting, what is interesting is if this will be something they will continue to do. If they will involve us before things are written in stone, if the beta tests will matter, if they will listen to us when we tell them what we need and what we don’t need and so on.

Just make sure you get a legit version of it. Many have had their accounts banned who did not buy from the right sellers.

lil devils x.6071:

Leaa.2943:

rchu.8945:

Leaa.2943:

It is a change we have asked for, it is out in the open and they given us information, and they shall have credit for this. Them talking to us giving info is a big step, that we have asked and begged for, for years.

How ever i will wait this out. I been disappointed before and until the talks turn in to actions i wont put much effort in to hopes and hypes. It is definitely a good start and something we wanted for so long and i appreciate it so far and that is as much as you get from me at this point.

no, why credit should be given when all they gave are talks? We need results, no kittening words that mean nothing.

You need to re-read what i wrote because your answer do not in any way or situation suit the context. In the grown up world when you been argue for a long while about things, there has to be a time were you break off and something changes, and the people involved need to give time for the changes to fall in to place, as in give time for them to prove their talk.
Throwing your self on the floor screaming i want to see changes NAOW is not going to make a difference, the changes will fall in to place and we will then see if they can deliver or if the talk was just cheap. In mean while you have to accept that it wont solve in 2 min.

Players venting here have been waiting years, not 2 minutes. This is just their " final stand" before they all give up and leave. The HoT maps were deserted during Beta testing, and they knew this and still released them. That was their bad call and they still have not corrected it, It isn’t like these problems started yesterday.

I been waiting for 3.5 years, so it is not that i don’t understand what you are asking for, if you read my old messages you will see that i am one of them that also have asked for it for long. But never the less, what we have asked for, have happened, it might be that it will fail in the end and talk is cheap, but we do need to give time and see if they follow through. Throwing garbage at them when they took the first step, is not going to work. It is like a relationship that gone bad, it need work and patience from both sides. and if you don’t have the patience, then maybe it is time you break up with the game or at least take a break.

I am not saying that i am blindly believing in this and that all is buried and forgotten, but time will tell if what they started is lasting and something that will be a norm in future. For that they need more then 2 min.

Dusty Moon.4382:

WvW is so broken. There are no more fights on the BL’s and EBG. People just sit in keeps and kitten on siege.

1. Get rid of the Airships on SMC – it is too OP and you can’t do anything about it (defensively for the group attacking SMC).

2. As keeps upgrade, make the siege cap lower. It is too easy to protect a keep with one or two people against a blob.

3. Get rid of PvE from the BL’s (the Oasis event comes to mind). It makes dealing with other BL’s too hard if you have always come back to your own BL.

4. Get rid of all Shield Generators. They make getting keeps, etc impossible.

5. Fortified Walls and Gates are too hard to break down – it takes 5 min to get through the walls/gates if you are a small havoc group (using one Superior Cata or Treb).

6. Get rid of the Emergency WP’s – it makes getting keeps impossible for the opposing team as the defending team can just WP in at the end and wipe the opposing team.

There are too many siege kitteners now and that makes WvW no longer fun.

WE NEED THE WVW PATCH NOW! You will end up losing more of the WvW population than you already have.

So what you are asking for is a easier way to take keeps and towers? Sorry but i don’t agree at all. Those should be hard to take and at this point it is way to easy to take out siege in towers and keeps so there is absolutely not need to make it even easier. And it do not take to long to take down a gate or wall that is fortified, in my opinion it is way to easy and should be harder.

I don’t know if you are on a low pop server, then i can understand your points, but on top tiers servers you are taking everything way to fast and way to easy, so people do not even care to scout and siege things because it is easier to just retake it.

rchu.8945:

Leaa.2943:

It is a change we have asked for, it is out in the open and they given us information, and they shall have credit for this. Them talking to us giving info is a big step, that we have asked and begged for, for years.

How ever i will wait this out. I been disappointed before and until the talks turn in to actions i wont put much effort in to hopes and hypes. It is definitely a good start and something we wanted for so long and i appreciate it so far and that is as much as you get from me at this point.

no, why credit should be given when all they gave are talks? We need results, no kittening words that mean nothing.

You need to re-read what i wrote because your answer do not in any way or situation suit the context. In the grown up world when you been argue for a long while about things, there has to be a time were you break off and something changes, and the people involved need to give time for the changes to fall in to place, as in give time for them to prove their talk.
Throwing your self on the floor screaming i want to see changes NAOW is not going to make a difference, the changes will fall in to place and we will then see if they can deliver or if the talk was just cheap. In mean while you have to accept that it wont solve in 2 min.

Well here is the thing, they have now open up communication which is what we have asked and begged them to do for years. They done it now so how about you stop being babies and give them a chance to prove them self before you tell them they are doing it wrong..

Noone have to praise them or worship everything they say, but they turned around, they started to communicate, which was what we always asked for, now you be the bigger person and let them do it and see were that leads. If you are not the bigger person and just keep on repeating what we said for years nothing will ever change, and maybe if that is how you feel it might be time for you to throw in the towel and take a break.

It is a change we have asked for, it is out in the open and they given us information, and they shall have credit for this. Them talking to us giving info is a big step, that we have asked and begged for, for years.

How ever i will wait this out. I been disappointed before and until the talks turn in to actions i wont put much effort in to hopes and hypes. It is definitely a good start and something we wanted for so long and i appreciate it so far and that is as much as you get from me at this point.

Well i am slightly optimistic about whats been said on the wvw topic. BUT, yes there is a big BUT, we had beta tests on HoT maps and all the things that we the players felt was wrong with it was reported back and nothing was changed. If this beta is going to follow the same road, then it is a dead end. But if they are really following up on what we are saying, and make changes if needed so that it matches what the wvw players want with their game mode, then this might be a good thing. So yeah slightly optimistic. A bit disappointed about the time line, i thought the changes would come through in April, i am fairly fed up with not having waypoints in “hills” and “bay” and if they at least fixed that thing, it would probably improve wvw hugely.

Ricky.4706:

i’m sure the hardcore players could easily come back if anet set the right stage for them.

keep wvw away from pve – it’s really that simple….make it balanced and anything on those maps should be for fighting or defending vs opponents – anything else is a distraction from player vs player.

Anet does have the advantage of buy it once, it’s yours forever…so if wvw suddenly decided to be all pvp rules – people don’t have to re-buy.

It’s obvious that one person is pushing a personal vision of where they want pve – and I would hope the “hardcore Pvp / developers” would speak up for us vs the person(s) that are forcing an unpopular idea. I refuse to believe that all the developers who claim to be hardcore pvp aren’t aware of the obvious issues….what I believe is that they are trying to make one person happy who doesn’t get it and insists on forcing certain issues for corporate reasons…

we just want wvw maps and their borders to follow the same pvp only rules found in spvp.

give the new borderlands and the edge of the mists to the pve-pvprs. and wvw to the hardcore pvprs. spvp isn’t enough for a hardcore pvp community, and obviously wvw appeals to the hardcore pvp community. You are shooting your esports goal in the foot otherwise. spvp is a very very tiny area of the game….it should funnel down the best fighters wvw has to offer. server pride is a fantasy held by pvers that want a safe fight …-the hand-

If mega servers is introduced in any sort of way, wvw is lost forever. All veterans and core players are saying the same thing. No mega server! We have seen it already in EotM, it did not work, it will not work because it is not what makes wvw special. A new mega system is already tired in other games as well, all dead today. Wvw kept on living because it was special, and no other game had it.

Fuzzion.2504:

Are we talking about EU servers?

Why not come to T1 NA servers where the game is balanced in the sense that all servers have the same or similar pops at night.

So ditch your eu servers and come on down!

No thank you, the hand holding between two of the servers against the third is so embarrassing that any EU player would reject such thing and leave the servers letting them die out. Each time i join my NA account and see this it just sickens me and i am so happy i am in EU with my main account.

EU might have issues with night capping but we don’t handhold in the way you guys do and we do also have different matchups each week, which means we don’t meet the same server over and over.

Necrotic.7820:

Leaa.2943:

In the end you will have everything unlocked both skills and traits, so there is no reason to start over, just go on playing and keep on adding. Just make sure you add to both skills and traits so you can start using the traits as well.

In the end yes, until then just trudge along in whatever trait and skill line you put points into first because of course you were new and didn’t know any better. Heaven forbid we should actually have a way of resetting those points and skills to something more useful while leveling up. Not like we were ever capable of doing that before.

That’s right you’re just supposed to spend money on gems to buy gold to spend on mats to level up by crafting.

Anyway, yeah…sorry but maybe if you don’t have much invested into the character right now, remaking them might make leveling a bit more fun if you have a good idea what sort of build you want to use while leveling.

Why are you barking at me, i am answering a question, i did not make the game so get that out on someone else

lvl? Blue/Green/Rare/Exotic/Ascended?

I am going to assume you mean lvl 80 and exotic gear. And i would not know what is cheapest for you it all depends on what you are sitting on. But you can buy Exotic zerker gear for Karma (and then buy gear for it in grenths temple in orr if zerker), gold, dungeons marks, WvW-marks. You can obtain exotic gear through pvp reward tracks. You can also craft your own exotic gear if you have your crafting proffesion to lvl 400 and above. At 500 you can craft ascended.
There are some stories in HoT and also class and elite specialization collections that give you exotic gear.

I might have missed something, but this are the ways to get gear and as you probably realize it will not really be that hard to get your first exotic gear.
To get better then exotics, you have to get ascended which is 5% better then exotic. After that there are no gear that give more stats.

In the end you will have everything unlocked both skills and traits, so there is no reason to start over, just go on playing and keep on adding. Just make sure you add to both skills and traits so you can start using the traits as well.

Also if you feel lost you can always start up a second character and level it whilst you catch up with the game. Having more then one class in this game is very rewarding.
As for your guardian, then maybe start with relearning your skills and which skill do what and just try it out in the core game. Making the HoT story will get you in to the new areas, but you should probably be aware of that the new areas are a bit harder then old GW2 so make sure you really are up to date with your class.

Black Desert is coming, and their open world pvp will probably take a big chunk of GW2 wvw players. Unless GW2 comes up with something good for wvw that actaully suits the wvw players, and in a very short time spam, it is most possible they will be lost forever.

You can never feel the class until you are lvl 80. Lower level are not very powerful and lack of pretty much everything to show it’s full potential. How ever you can still try out the skills, the weapons and you will see were your class is moving and see the differences between them.

You can not try out the specialization for each class until you reach lvl 80 and those pretty much change everything to the better.

If you really want to try them all out you can join pvp and you will get everything added to your character that a lvl 80 character have. This only works inside of pvp game mode though.

Also someone wrote necros are minion masters, and this is correct they can be that, but most necros do not go with minion master, just putting that out there because i know some players don’t like pet specs and there is no reason to turn down necro because thinking this is the only thing they can be, it is not.

There are no tanks and healers in this game, not in the way you are used too anyway. All classes are able to provide for them self, and it is up to you to take care of your health rather then depending on someone else.

There are classes that can provide support heal more then other classes can. Elementalists are one of them and Druids (ranger) another, but also guardians can provide support heal. But the thing is, you can not pick elementalist and decide that you are now a healer, move in to a dungeon and stay in water atunament all dungeon through. You will most probably get kicked off very fast, because 1, there is no use of healers in the dungeons 2, a elementalist camping in wateratunament is rather worthless.

Playing ele is hard, or i should say, playing ele in a good way is really hard. You have to rotate your atunament after whats needed, and keep 20 cooldowns in your head, make sure to understand and how to combine your skills and how to blast and so on. If you can, then ele is great to play and very rewarding.

I been healer in another game, and i play ele as main in this game and i love it. But there are also other classes that i really enjoy like necro (and you don’t have to use pets, most good builds do not involve loads of pets) or messmer which both are as good but different. Messmers can bring support to the table as well but not in a healing kind of way. They have other skills that really is great support skills.
Necros are not really a support class at all. They are the only class in game who do not share much with others. But this do not mean it is a bad class, it is a freaking awsome class as well, with good damage, good cc, and can be played in many different ways. It have a high hp pool and also a extra hp pool for death/reaper shroud.

Just try the classes you think about. At very low levels you wont see them shine, but you get a idea how they work.

- Repetitive quests
Consider each quest give you at least 3 different ways of doing it, i can’t really see it is that repetitive. You are also suppose to be doing the event chains around the quest to get more xp.
- Movement way too slow + too much walking (i cant TP if i dont have the WP obviously)
You add waypoints as you come in to the new area. There are no reason what so ever to stay in low level areas, who ever gave you that idea, is limiting them self hugely.

- Stuck with movement speed as secundairy, using 2 skills all the time on primary/
If i understood you right you are a warrior. Your signet elite skill give you speedbuffs, and the warhorn do as well. Swapping skills and weapons should be something you get used too, so don’t avoid that. Add waypoints and USE them.

- Gear looks the same for countless hours
Whilst leveling your gear will change all the time, so thinking of how you look at this point is not really usefull. When you get to lvl 80 you can make your wardrobe with lots of options. If you really can not wait that long, then i guess you can buy an outfit in the gemshop, which unlocks for all characters on your account regardless of level. Imo a bit silly, since it does not matter when you level, but ok you can do it if you really can’t stand the looks now

- Dont have the resources / money to lvl up crafter (i pickup / harvest anything i can)
Well i don’t really get how you are thinking here. In any mmo with crafting you must first get the materials and then craft. GW2 is no different. So gather and most important of all, salvage stuff you don’t need for more crafting materials.

- Need to lvl faster, heard i should stick with lower lvl places so im doing that and got a tip i should do dungeons gonna try that today
Already answered this, but i say it again, who ever told you this, must have trolled you. GW2 is about exploring so get out there and start doing just that. You gain no favors in not doing it.
As for leveling well there is a milion things to do.
Doing heartquest and follow up events. Stop skipping things, you get enough xp from events all whilst you also get loot and karma. Karma is really important later in game so stop skipping.
Worldbosses. Many maps have world events that happens every 3 hour. Use bosstimers like this http://gw2timer.com/ And make sure to add waypoints around them so you can get there fast enough.
Dungeons give good xp and loot
Crafting give you xp for everything you craft
Gathering give you xp
Killing mobs that have not been killed for a long while give you bonus xp, so don’s skip mobs on strange palces, they can give you the tripple normal xp.
Try other game modes like world verses world (if you are f2p you can join wvw when lvl 60 any other account at any level you want). WvW can be superexciting if you are on a good populated server. 3 servers fighting over maps for a week and then reset. You gain a lot of xp and karma here.
PvP you can try at lvl 2 already. You gain no xp by killing, but you gain level scrolls as reward.
Map completion. If you complete everything on a map (all waypoints, all heartquests, all points of interest and all vistas) you will get a big pile of xp, very nice loot and crafting material and some gear for the level of the map as reward.

- I barely ever see a random quest happen and mini bosses i preffer to skip because im basicly 1 v 1 against boss almost everytime, takes too long so it takes away from my XP, coulved “walked” atleast to another area in the meanwhile and completed several hearts in the same time.
This i don’t understand at all. This game have events happening all over the place. It give you xp for doing/killing the stuff and when the event is done you also get a big pile of xp and you get karma which is very important and you get coins.

So again, get out there, explore, change game modes, do what you feel like doing for the day. Change game mode when bored and just enjoy it.

Danikat.8537:

I really would not recommend making a free account to play WvW. There are a lot of limitations on free accounts. You can see a full list here but the most important ones in this situation are:

• Cannot choose their server or transfer server (you can pick NA or EU but that’s it).
• Cannot enter WvW until level 60.
• Cannot use map chat at all.

If you’d be ok with losing your current characters a better option might be to delete all your existing characters, which enables you to transfer to a different server for free. Anything in your bank and anything tied to the account as a whole (like achievement points, gold, things unlocked in your wardrobe etc.) are saved so you wouldn’t be starting completely from scratch.

But I also think it’s worth bearing in mind that they changed how server populations work a while ago – it used to be based on the number of people who had chosen that server as their home world. But since they introduced the megaserver system for PvE server population is now entirely based on the number of people actively playing WvW on that server.

So while it looks like the population has dropped across the board not much has really changed in terms of the total number of people on each server and in PvE you’re much more likely to encounter other people regardless of what server you’re on.

WvW is in a bit of an odd situation at the moment because they introduced new maps with HoT and apparently they’re not very popular, although I don’t play it enough to know the details. Apparently there are more changes coming in the next few months though, so you might want to hold off on switching servers until after that.

Actually in wvw you can use mapchat even if you have a f2p account, you can not whisper anyone though.

I would make a second account out of your HoT. Why you wonder, because your core game (and ofc HoT expac) give you log in rewards every day, and having more then account, means you get two log in rewards every day. And when you reach the laurel part you can make some nice gold out of it and transfer to your main account.
You can also place your character on the account you don’t play on a good spot, say on a rich mining node, a jumpingpuzzle chest or the like, and you can also get gold for this.

Further more there are sometimes holiday events were you can pick up special rewards or use the goodies in the event and feed your main account with it.

There are many other ways that you can use accounts, like keyfarm and what not.

None of this is possible with f2p accounts since they do not have log in rewards and they can not send anything to any other account. So don’t upgrade your core account, save it and make a new account with your HoT account so you have two.

Please add information of were you are now, what you did before you ended up there and were you want to go more exactly and we can help you.

dps is only interesting in pve, and even here you seem to forget that skills are not only about get the most dps out, skills are also about knowing when to interrupt, knowing when to use your buffs, to cleans your conditions, to share the buffs and when, to imobalize, to heal up and so on. This is not a WoW game were you stand stacked on one spot and hitting a macro to get 10 more dps out of your build.

Try them out, having more then one character is not a bad thing, you are able to adjust to any situation and can pick the flavor of the day that you want to play.

What you should pick is hard to say and noone can really tell, like Dean above said he don’t like mesmers, whilst for me it my third most played character and i have all classes and also several of each (yes i am a altoholic)

Make use of your slots and try it. Although remember that your class is never as good as it will be at lvl 80 when you have all your traits and gear and elitespec. But you will get a clue when trying them out and can go from there

My mainaccount is on a EU server but i have account in NA too. Up to about a month back i had never had any lag issues at all. Together with a patch roughly a month back, maybe more, i now suffer from lag every now and then. Sometimes to a point were it gets unplayable. It happens anywere in game, so it is not depending on to many players or events around. You can solve it by relog and then it is totally ok when you log back in but yeah this has been a issue for me. All though i have friends in EU playing from EU who have this issue as well, so might not be related with region.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

Rangers are Solely the Number one class for Ranged Single target damage , almost all of our Trait damage increases effect our personal damage , unless you trait for druid which is more Group damage support than improving personal single target dps.
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Um what? My ele do by far more st damage then my ranger. Adding to that ele also have a lot more aoe damage then a ranger have.

Revenant is a exceptional good class at this point. A bit overtuned and i am sure it will have a few more nerfs, or so i hope for wvw sake since their hammer is stupidly op there. But it do well in all game modes pretty much. It is fun to play and have both ranged and melee weapons all depending in what build you wish to play.

If you are totally new and unsure about builds and how to play a class have a look at http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki were you will find various builds for all classes. A good start for new players to learn more about your class.

Can’t really help you with that since it is all about personal feelings when it comes to fashion

Allthought outifts are nice you should also look at wardrobe options. There is a lot more to mix and match there.

Qugi.2653:

Leaa.2943:

Yeah it is not how to unequip that is my issue, it is the fact that i have to do it that bothers me. They should be added to all your characters when you buy those perma thingys. I been playing since the beginning of the game and for me it is more important at this point that my game works smoothly. Having to unequip and equip is just annoying and a little bit of my game time were i have to remember doing something that should work better. Especially since i am old, and i forget things, and having to log out and back and out and back because forgetting, yeah you get the picture

Unlimited tool use to soul bound when first sold. People complain so Anet make account bound. They also give gem back to people who by same tool when they make change. I do not think Anet will make tool for all character.

Regardless if they change it or not i can still wish for it

You can craft for any level, but as people already told here, it is probably cheaper to buy on the Trading Post since they cost a few silver for green and blue gear. Later on in game if you level your crafting profession to at least 400 you can craft exotic gear as well. If you want to craft your own ascended gear you must level it to 500.

Each person craft their own ascended gear/weapons and why you always level your crafting proffesions up so you have access when you reach a point were you want to make them.

As already been said you can sell the crafting materials for it though, but make sure to check first, some insignias are for example account bound and some are not and so on.

What you sell them for you can see when you open the Trading Post. It will tell you what the highest ordered buyers price is and what the highest sellers price is.

Yeah it is not how to unequip that is my issue, it is the fact that i have to do it that bothers me. They should be added to all your characters when you buy those perma thingys. I been playing since the beginning of the game and for me it is more important at this point that my game works smoothly. Having to unequip and equip is just annoying and a little bit of my game time were i have to remember doing something that should work better. Especially since i am old, and i forget things, and having to log out and back and out and back because forgetting, yeah you get the picture

I have salvage kit, the airship pass and mystic forge. The other two is keys for AB and TD, but i would really want to have my gathering tools there too, but not enough slots, and even if there was it is annoying to removing them for the character you are on and add to window, they should really just be reachable for all characters when you buy them.

The thing he have on his head is wardrobe and could be bought in gem store, not sure you can right now, you have to check the store.

You could also not pick a name that is offensive and never have to think about this at all