Guild Wars 2

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

There have been a number of questions about when the CDI will spin up again.

The answer is shortly after our next Feature Pack is released.

Looking forward to collaborating with you all and having some awesome discussions.

Chris

Yay! Excited to spend my work days talking with you again! hehe

Closing now! Thanks for the entries everyone! I’m going to need a little time to choose my favorite! <3

Thanks for the info. Are we getting CDIs back soon?

JasmineLong.6514:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Let me give you perspective…. 2 months on a document on a procedure on how to write a different document on how to test a script.

Yeah it’s like that where I work as well but I tend to wish that my company is the only one that is that kittened up. I forget most companies are as kittened up as mine.

Well… I work in Redacted

Trice.4598:

Make me think, some dude commented on the fact that arenanet only has 300+ employees, he said out of those probably only 100-125 or so of them work on the game, the rest are pr, marketing, community manager, etc. Made me realize, we live in a time where image of the games is more important that the quality of the game itself

That’s true. Any tech company is so run by who funds them it’s hard to just roll with talent and good ideas.

Let me give you perspective…. 2 months on a document on a procedure on how to write a different document on how to test a script.

JasmineLong.6514:

Probably 30 mins of programming but 2weeks of meetings to decide

If anet is anything like my company it’s more literally 3 months of meetings and 5 failed programming tries.

Silberfisch.3046:

Jerus.4350:

Silberfisch.3046:

While I love the idea, I am afraid this is extremely unlikely because without the competitive aspect, it’s just a souped up monthly.

Exactly but that’s why I think it’d be cool. Right now we’re on break in the LS, this would be a perfect time to have something like this. “we’re on break from the LS, but while that’s happening here’s some extra incentive to go and play things you might otherwise not. Have fun everyone!”

And on a second thought (painting rooms leaves time to think), the new concept for the Season 3 in WvW actually also sounds like a souped up monthly/weekly, truth be told.

That’s what made me think of it.

JasmineLong.6514:

Craft leveling has become too expensive to be feasible anymore IMO. I only craft level like 2-3 of the professions which get me 21 levels. I struggle all those other levels since most of the time I spend it either doing personal story or eotm for exp. I don’t buy paths on NA for exp since the only paths really being sold are Arah and I don’t feel like running a char down there.

I used the twisted portals.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

vespers.1759:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

vespers.1759:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Vespers… if you didn’t say one thing then contradict your post 5 posts down people wouldn’t troll you.

Lets start over

Arah exp is easy to find a group for. Agree?

Where did I contradict myself?

Exhibit a:

Arah is now full of people that skip the bosses and then sell at the end. Even more sadly, there’s enough terrible players willing to pay 7-20g per path to support this.

Then:

I couldn’t care less about people selling paths… providing they are not skipping things like lupicus to do so.

You assert that arah is full of people who skip bosses (this is false). (Then you say MOST sellers are exploiting) (also false). You also assert that people buying them are people who can’t run them themselves (also false). Then you say you don’t mind sellers. Which is obviously untrue based on your first comment.

POINT IS. you wanna learn arah? Join [Noob]. Join [Ares]. Make your own LFGs. Go with Ivan. So many options.

After seeing this I’m not sure you know how to read…

I never said the word “MOST” (you put that in caps for some reason even though I never said “MOST” in any of the quotes you pulled).

I specifically said I have a problem with people exploiting and selling paths, but not the ones that do it legitimately. Unfortunately, there are still lots of people that are exploiting it.

Based on the people I have talked to ingame, the majority of them are buying because they can’t/won’t run the dungeon and simply want the tokens and title. I said I’m sure some people do it to level faster, but based on my experiences, they are the minority.

It must be nice to spend 7g to get a level when you could do Cof p1 in 8 minutes and get paid to do so. it makes very little sense to buy dungeon paths for that much unless you have gold to throw away.

Sometimes, I have a lvl 40, 50, 60 toon that I really don’t want to spend the time leveling, and I don’t like to switch toons in pugs @ last boss, so I’ll buy runs. Doesn’t happen all the time (rarely in fact), but I’m allowed to pay gold to be lazy too

I buy dungeons for levels, I buy keys for chances for tomes, I craft level, and if I’m going to explore I use A MILLION exp boosts.

How lovely ! Yay colesy!

That’s a fair point. I guess I’d just like to see something more structured I can work toward. Because I’m a casual player, I can sign in a few days a week for like 45 minutes and sometimes get on for a few hours. For those 45 minutes I do struggle figuring out what to do, even though I could obviously do a few dungeons, I just get a little indecisive. I end up RPing instead.

Axelwarrior.9084:

Tybalt and Tonn. You will be missed, friends.

I… I never did the Claw Island story with my Priory character. I couldn’t bare to see Sieran die ;_;

She’s not dead.

dlonie.6547:

deSade.9437:

Awwww. /pat
It was worth it, man.

Glad folks enjoyed it :-D

Lesson learned, clipboard wall-of-text snark posts before hitting submit!

I have to do this with all posts on my phone because if it takes more than 30 seconds to type, the page won’t load to reply and I have to refresh. Sometimes it saves the text but usually it loses it

RIP TONN QQ

Yes that was my saddest part… as an Asura having to tell his Asura wife. Man. Heavy

EcoRI.9273:

How many of you guys kill the mini destroyer crablings in coe p3 for vicious claws? I know I always do because killing them is worth.

I definitely do. With 1 single dagger fire 3.

Silberfisch.3046:

Lilith, you’re a girl, please explain to me how something encased in plates of solid metal still bounces.
Makes me question the quality of the metal somehow. Or my knowledge about physics.

It’s a soft metal. And softer boobies. Of course when you run your boobs with wobble and bounce within a metal plate. If you don’t want bouncing and prefer comfort as a female, you use tight sports bras in order to stop movement.

Unfortunately for us busty women… they don’t make tight enough sports bras.

dlonie.6547:

I actually agree with point one. They need to add some anti-stacking mechanics to Lupi.

For instance, what if he did some really high damage attacks, but only at melee range? You know, like kick or claw at them? And to drive home that players shouldn’t be stacking, the attacks could knock them back 300-600 units. “Go range, folks!” :-) Some adds that swarm the players while they’re knocked down and at like 10% health might be overkill, but ANet could add them if they really wanted to send a message.

Or a giant, like 600 radius area attack where he shoots a hundred of his projectile bolts at about 200 range? It should instadown any player who stays in it, or at least those zerkers (lol, they’re not even proper tanks with that gear, why should they get that close? That’s DPS gear!!). Make it have like a 0.15s tell so that those elitists that rely on abusing evades can’t just easily dodge out of it.

And to really make sure that nobody tries to stack, a giant (like 900 radius) PBAoE attack, powerful enough to down a zerkerburger, could pop up during the fight. To punish those “players” that just want to finish the runs fast instead of having fun, they could make the attack actually heal Lupi back up. I know, I know, I’m evil >:-) But that would just make those grievers who are ruining the game take longer! Man, I hate those guys. >.<

Maybe someone at ANet will read this and realize how easily they can keep cheaters from meleeing and using what they call “combos” (bugged interactions between skills that somehow give them more damage) to exploit Lupi, and finally implement some of these ideas!

Hire this man.

….LOL

Hrouda ily.

My mr. Sparkles is definitely larger than my tiny Asura unless her helm is off, since she has big Taimi hair.

My human mesmer has norn boobs in her trickster coat. Lol

I love the idea of a daily story dungeon for a gold and a pittance of tokens. But yeah you understood right. I get that these kinds of achievements can’t be every month but it would be cool if between living story stuff or wvw tourneys where we have some lull in achievements they had something for us to work toward ^^

Rauderi.8706:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Mmm… idk. I go out of my way to massacre moas whenever I get the opportunity >.>

I can’t be alone in this.

They’re not moas.

They’re “poultry nodes.” Farm those nodes.

Buahahahaaha. I love it.

In the spirit of the neat WvW tourneys, I would like to suggest a similar thing to PvE (not a tourney exactly).

Every few months, maybe a list of dungeon/fractal/open world specific achievements, something akin to:

• “Complete x dungeon in x time.”
• “Complete at least 30 fractals.”
• “Do every story path of every dungeon.”
• “Defeat Tequatl.”
• “Complete 50 events in open world.”
• “Complete x dungeon with at least 3 different classes”
• “Complete 10 personal story levels”

Etc. There could be a number of these achievements, as example, 15 of them, and say 10 of them are required to complete the achievement. The reward for the “meta” could be something along the lines of, some ascended materials like dragonite, or a number of dungeon tokens, or a number of fractal relics, whatever. (A special exclusive mini maybe? ;D )

Obviously, there’s no person v person or server v server competition here. It’s more of like Anet saying “PvE month!” (or week, or fortnight, whatever!). To encourage more people to say, attempt some fractals, or some dungeons. And for those of us who hate open world (ahem, me.) to give us some sort of incentive to go out and do the open world content.

I’d like to hear some ideas on how to make this neat and as uncontroversial as possible (I know we will get people saying “PVE DOESN’T NEED ANYTHING WAAAAAAAH.” But I’m just throwing it out there.

I’d love some thoughts and criticism!

So few of you have posted. Lets go bros!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ninja-Fashion-Contest-Open/page/3#post4316659

vespers.1759:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Vespers… if you didn’t say one thing then contradict your post 5 posts down people wouldn’t troll you.

Lets start over

Arah exp is easy to find a group for. Agree?

Where did I contradict myself?

Exhibit a:

Arah is now full of people that skip the bosses and then sell at the end. Even more sadly, there’s enough terrible players willing to pay 7-20g per path to support this.

Then:

I couldn’t care less about people selling paths… providing they are not skipping things like lupicus to do so.

You assert that arah is full of people who skip bosses (this is false). (Then you say MOST sellers are exploiting) (also false). You also assert that people buying them are people who can’t run them themselves (also false). Then you say you don’t mind sellers. Which is obviously untrue based on your first comment.

POINT IS. you wanna learn arah? Join [Noob]. Join [Ares]. Make your own LFGs. Go with Ivan. So many options.

Vespers… if you didn’t say one thing then contradict your post 5 posts down people wouldn’t troll you.

Lets start over

Arah exp is easy to find a group for. Agree?

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Creatures gain an exploration XP bonus when they have not been killed recently. Try killing yellow creatures you find on the less traveled areas of the map; they don’t get killed very often.

Mmm… idk. I go out of my way to massacre moas whenever I get the opportunity >.>

I can’t be alone in this.

One more day! Hope to see moar entries!

Also I registered us on this site

http://gw2.guildsregister.com/index.php

maha.7902:

J Eberle.9312:

Trice.4598:

Anyone who trolls on the internet deserve a real good beating IRL.

Ok.

ol uncle colesy gon b giving u a guuuuuud beating gurl

Colesy! What are you getting your commission of?

Laulajatar.4253:

May I cry a bit about my PUGs? Just a bit? Please?

They never bring cake

I give up. No matter what I write, I always get some <1000 AP guy that has never done this path before. Any better ideas? I tried pink dye, bearbows, cookies and ascended minipets.

It was fun, though. It’s been a while since someone managed to pull Volkov out of the stack and get the whole party tunneled

On EU I write “only mentally challenged” (using words banned on the forum lol) and I get some fun goof balls who read my description and find it funny enough to join

Just wanted to let everyone know on TC’s version of Noob, we have unlocked the armor and weapon specialist, and in 88 short hours we’ll have an additional 100 slots in our guild bank. Feel free to use any perks at your discretion. If you’re a mentor looking to create some goodies on YOUR server and you don’t have permissions (I think all mentors do, though) let me know and I can change the rank permissions accordingly.

Behellagh.1468:

It’s very ornate. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

To late for the devs who are armor artists to visit the Higgins Armor Museum in Worcester, MA next time they’re in New England. Went their with friends once, back when we were doing the whole 20 somethings weekend getaway thing. Ah to be young again. But some of the collection is now shown at the Worcester Art Museum.

http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/knights/

My home town <333333

Really great museum fo sho. They rent out their fab great hall for weddings so it’s my dream venue. Hehe

vespers.1759:

Not sure why everyone is disagreeing so hard. I very very rarely see people selling paths other than Arah, but open the LFg to Arah and I guarantee you’ll see a bunch of paths being sold.

I’ve seen many being sold on eu.

And that isn’t even the point.

You’re basically grouping 2 groups of people into 2 negative biased sections. Dungeon path sellers are bad and exploiting and dungeon buyers are terrible players. Neither assertion is actually true.

I buy paths to power level. I can assure you I’m a fine player.

People who sell me the paths (at least recently) do not exploit or skip bosses. Because no one wants to be Perma banned for this.

You need to come down from your high horse and see reality. The reason you see all sellers is because non selling lfgs fill 5 times faster than selling does.

If you toggle off your armor helm it will not show the helm on the ceremonial outfit.

I’m actually really confused about what you’re asking for

I just want to say that the reason I’m arguing is because you’re getting information from excessively outdated guides. Dekeyz is from December 30th and Zelyhn ’ s (in that link) is from July 2013 at the earliest. The guide I linked is from July 11 2014 (a little over a month ago) the meta evolves with every patch. It is not the same as it was 6 months ago.

Esplen.3940:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I disagree with esplen but that’s because I use this guide:

http://dulfy.net/2014/07/11/gw2-elementalist-pve-class-guide-by-haviz-and-zelyhn/

Which explicitly says berserker and not assassins. Assassins is more for high damage reflects iirc.

Pulled from the Elementalist forums section:

Armor
Exotic: The most cost effective choice is full Zerk armor due to its availability. Full Assassin’s armor can sometimes give you higher DPS for some builds, but the difference between the two with appropriate stacks and food is often less than 1%. While learning to play, use Knight’s armor, swapping out to Zerk/Assassin shoulders, gloves, boots, chest, pants, and helm, in that order, as you become more comfortable with content. Try to keep your gear one step out of your comfort zone.
Ascended: Full Zerk, full Assassin, and a mix of Zerk shoulders, gloves, and boots with Assassin helm, chest, and pants each pull ahead for different builds. My favorite is full Zerk because it’s best for some builds by a large margin, but when it isn’t, it isn’t too far behind.

And for PvE Speedruns (assuming group play and team synergy is met):

Therefore our gear is best as:
- Armor: assassin
- Weapons: berserker
- Trinkets: berserker
Note however that such mix is only slightly better than a full berserker set. In addition, going full berserker may be a more efficient choice for less optimal situations (out of speedruns)

[src1] [src2]

The author, Zelyhn, recently (past 2 months) wrote that guide for dulfy.net that I linked. I believe the dulfy.net one is more recent. Oh and ps. Darox (who has dulfy.net guide in his signature is one of Zelyhns alt accounts. He has a few.)

His most recent account: (see signature)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/Zelyhn-Lekovitch-2867/showposts

Basically AC 2 is much harder than the other so fix that first haha

deSade.9437:

GUYS GUYS Imma buy a dorito as soon as I get out of Arah… who wants to be dom… commanded… by me?

Me! But you’re too busy being cute right here.

Guys! Xandra.is.amazing. and quick ! Pay her monies for art and be as cool as I am.

Omgosh. Freaking adorable. Tysm!

I disagree with esplen but that’s because I use this guide:

http://dulfy.net/2014/07/11/gw2-elementalist-pve-class-guide-by-haviz-and-zelyhn/

Which explicitly says berserker and not assassins. Assassins is more for high damage reflects iirc.

If I end up getting more than 4 pages of entries I’ll likely offer 2 prizes. There are already some amazingly done characters and I’m not sure I can choose one!

Utomneian.9013:

yes ^ and there are a lot of gold sinks ^.^ hehe. i will add that my wvw guild mostly avoids dungeons, either finding pve boring, or dungeons as easy kitten and CoF to being too difficult for some reason (though running wvw bunker builds doesn’t help either, lol). but even aside from that, i have had frequent issues with dungeons that i am suggesting the gold raises on, with people who are supposed to be experienced in general. so hopefully this post can stay alive long enough for Anet to catch it

I love your optimism.

Just so you know… anet devs don’t come here. Only mods. Occasionally.

If you’re focused on pve, berserker (Zojjas) is definitely the way to go assuming you’re up for the active melee damage mitigation it requires. You should be fine if you can learn encounters and dodge at the right times.

Hope this helps ^^

I’d love to see a rebalance of dungeon rewards, as I recall, AC is only high to encourage running it after they revamped it however many months ago.

However… a daily dungeon (which I think should actually be a story dungeon) to complete and say add a token and gold reward to get it would encourage more people to run them. I like the idea of signing on and say “oh, cof story is the daily dungeon, lemme find some noobs to teach”. It would encourage people who aren’t so dungeon savvy to dip their toe in. I like that.

But for no reason ever should the gold reward be taken away from the dungeons. Gold faucets are important and good for our economy given the excessive gold sinks.

Very nice looking!.

Very true. I play in a few campaigns. My current one I’m a bard story teller half elf, the last one a wizard halfling… also for some non standard dnd where I’m a superhero catimorph and another where I’m a fairy mage. I try to switch it up.

But I struggle sticking with my alignment. In RP in GW2 it’s a bit different because we don’t really have random encounters, and I can be whoever I’m playing. But as party leader in my pathfinder campaign if I’m even slightly …not lawful, I get in trouble with the GM. So I find RP harder in normal tabletops.

In dungeons blah blah blah

ticktickboom.9513:

Assuming that they will totally kill the fgs rush, would that reset all dungeon speedrun records?

I would guess any that have an ele…