Guild Wars 2

Cant you upgrade the tiny snowflakes like any other material?

FrostSpectre.4198:

I hope this challenging content also applies to open world PvE too.

Since majority of open world PvE foes can’t deal damage or pretty much incapable of doing anything at all than die under “full berserker DPS”.

Hopefully, they update all maps, except starter maps, to contain foes that are not possible to kill with just “full berserker DPS” and just “spam 111111 and rely on passive defense”. This is a problem in vanilla maps, which makes critical game mechanics useless. (for me, this flaw has rusted my ability to dodge and now I’m trying to relearn them…)

Like the foes in Southsun Cove, Dry Top and Silverwastes, you can fight 1vs1 and win, as long as you use active defenses, dodging and attack them with more than just “spam 1111”.

Atleast I’ve heard that ANet plans to do so with HoT coming out.

So you dont want them possible to defeat with berserker gear that use active defence.
Then turn around and dont want them to be defeated by tough vitiality players that rely on passive defence.

So who exactly are going to defeat these new monsters?

adRocZ.2019:

Liet Talen.7284:

DR = diminished returns (mechanism Anet uses to discourage prolonged farming).

I suggest you break it out into a checklist. List all components required. Focus on one until complete, then move to the next.

Both times I made a legendary T6 mats took the longest to acquire. So I left those for last.

Focus on the easy ones, Gift of Exploration, Gift of Thorns or Gift of Wood.

Oh wow, I never knew about that. So the people farming SW all day, are they suffering that? So many people stay they and make up to 20-30g a day on it. Just curious.

Also, right now I am working on Gift of Exploration and Gift of Thorns, but spending gold to do the MF recipe to get clovers and T6 mats. My buddy actually gave me all his without even asking him, so he gave me a great head start. Last night I was 2 Deadly Blooms short of Gift of Thorns -_- And while map completing, I am like a fiend hitting up every tree I see.

No they dont since they chest farm that drop items not mob farm that have dr tied to it

And if you dident know always salvage your gear for essence of luck and materials sell the materials instead of the gear.

eamax.1268:

My account is active, it was all a big misunderstanding.

I hope we have learned to send in a ticket to support instead of rage posting in the forums.

So the post just below wasent enough you needed to start your own thread?

what rock have you been hiding under its been confirmed since the they told us we were getting a expansion.

Curae.1837:

Tapioca.9062:

Can you not just use the age command to figure out your character’s birthday?

Some people have a lot of characters. I myself have 12 slots for characters, and writing all their birthdays down, or logging in on each to see and figure out when they have their birthday would be quite tedious. There’s people with their slots filled to the max, for them especially it would be horrendous.

I too would love to be able to see the date on the character select screen.

They only have to do it once, there is this thing called a notepad that you can write down stuff you want to remember.

you can use a personal bank and give the gold to convert to gems aswell

Evans.6347:

You know, they’d get more money out of me by making the unlimited tools as an account unlock for all toons, but with buy-able skins for those tools .

I’d like different harvesting animations on different toons, but I’m not going to buy more tools for it.

just becouse you like that, you dont know if they will earn more there might be 10 to the other ones like you that are lazy and buy multiple for their chars.

yea becouse its so hard to go to bank in pvp lobby from anywere but wvw and even there you can get them from the crafting stations.

No you need to prepurchase

if map is full and a orgianized tt or teq usualy are you should drop taxis when all are split up into teams to avoid people taking spots from people who dc.’

What if 1 or 2 of your dps commanders drop and cant get back in?

Morfedel.4165:

Necrotic.7820:

I find it interesting that many of the folks here apparently siding with the OP are condoning and encouraging the very same behavior they claim to be reporting.

Is it the players fault that re-taking a temple is more rewarding than holding it? And why is their definition of having fun (getting loot) somehow empirically less honorable or worthwhile than your definition of having fun (playing the game as you think it was intended)?

Maybe what those players should do in response to your desire to hold out is call in all of their friends to scale up the event without actually contributing to its defense. How would one or two parties fair against five champions at once?

I want to know why so many of you people who claim to be playing the game “the way it was intended to be played” insist on delivering all manner of grief on those players that aren’t playing it your way?

There is a huge difference. He was minding his own business playing the game. Another was rude and ordered him how to play instead.

If he had been going in first moment just to troll that would be another story. But that wasn’t the initial case.

and they know that he aint trolling how?

Goo.7926:

Yeap of course Legendaries won’t only be new skins…there will be a path to get our precursor and everything…but seriously how hard you think create Mawdrey path was for A.net? We get specifics items at a specifics places that will be melt with water from another specific hellish fountain place……all thoses places and events already existed before Mawdrey so….I’m guessing that precursor path, recipes and all will be the same.. And I don’t think it’s hard for them to create it because all the mechanics, characters and items are already in the game :’(

A.net is 300 employees over the world: 284 marketing robots and 6 devs. That’s the only explanation of how they are so slow… Skynet please, can you end this? HoT release will be 2017-Judgement-Day. -

what are the last 10 people then?

adormtil.1605:

I always considered the value of a game the value per hour of my first job when I was in college. So I won 200$ a month working 48 hours a week. So I will have to spend a total of 96 hours in this game to get my moneys worth. Which is not gonna happen because I do not grind for things I do not need legendaries. I play only for the story and maybe try the dungeon once. That will take me at most 10 hours.

single player games are your best bet then mate they are made for players that play like that.

but all the professions got a backitem they can craft dont they?

and the watchwork portal item some people can craft

Healix.5819:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Why not go the EA route like the Battlefield series…..? The premium pack. $50 for all current DLC and any future DLC.

That is what they’re probably doing. You’re not buying HoT by itself, you’re buying a season pass for the next ~2 years of DLC, aka the living story. They could have gone the DLC route and sold HoT and the seasons individually for $20 each, but that would have been a mess, plus people didn’t like the idea of having to pay for season 2. This is simply another step in their experimental living world model.

Yes a dlc thats free if your actively playing.

Chrispy.5641:

Vayne.8563:

Look, WoW charges $50 for an expansion and a sub. The price of an expansion is not just the price of an expansion. It’s part of a business plan.

In WoW, you play $15 a month and $50 for an expansion . That last year where you got no content for your $15 a month goes to paying for the expansion. That means you’re paying $175 for your WoW expansion. $50, when no monthly fee is charged is quite reasonable.

Reasonable is entirely based on perspective, and how large the expansion is. We knew how large “That game’s” expansion was going to be before it released, and as promised, it was freaking huge! In addition to the graphical upgrades, the dungeons raids and thousands of new pieces of gear, there was a massive graphical update.

You’re also totally off base when you said no content when paying $15 a month to paying for the expansion. WoW, LOTRO, Secret World, Archeage, FFXIV, and pretty much every other MMO out there, whether its free to play, buy to play, or monthly, puts out regular content updates not part of an expansion. GW2 is not, and has never been unique when it comes to that.

I get it, you like GW2, and will defend it to your character’s graves. Go on ahead and keep doing that. You need to stop spreading around misinformation under the guise of it being pro GW2 and Anti-everything else. I get that too, this is the GW2 forum. Still doesn’t mean you get a free pass when it comes to lying.

How can you with a straight face say gw2 havent put out any content before this expansion?
True some of it was temporary they wanted a evolving world people complained.

Then they made it free for 2 weeks but access it forever and new players can get it no matter when they join for a fee.

Sure they make cash shop stuff but so do all the other games you mentioned.

starlinvf.1358:

I see no issues with the reward cycles for Pre, or the daily pay out (which is a rare and champ bags, like most Asuran ran WBs).

But the event itself could use some sprucing up. Ranged attacks being a requirement, for major safety reasons, is a problem it shares with Shatterer, making both such a dull event. And the vet spawns are only a stop gap to get people to move around…. only to converge on the chest side again because its the only outcropping that manages to stay in range of his spawn point.

Some environmental mechanics like the ones used on destoyers in Dungeons (cool them to make them vulnerable), better integrating the Vet killing process, and tweaks to area traversal (like rotating safe walking spots over the lava) can make for a more engaging fight. You can even look to Pre-events and Renown hearts, with the Magma krewe’s research, and the Inquest’s Destroyer containment technology, as something that can be leveraged for the fight.

Off the top of my head, the entire battle could be intended to do a controlled bleed off of MD, rather then DPS race it to prevent an explosion. Use that explosion risk through out the fight to set the cadence for the burn phase (pun partially intended). It starts out invulnerable with a Flame shield burning direct attacks against it. Random cryo bombs being launched to make platforms on the Lava, allowing players to move around. Pre-burn phase spawning destroyer minions intent on rapidly building MD’s heat level, and players using cryo spray kits to reduce energy delivery of the approaching minions. While this is going on, players are collecting destoyer energy to power a containment device.

From here you have 2 trigger events.

If the MD reaches phase 2 destablized (gained too much energy), it radiates a magma stream that sweeps slowly across the surrounding area, leaving a massive AOE field in its wake. This concept is borrowed from Forgemen 2.0 during the story fight. The players can survive by running to a nearby “Emergency Thermal insulating Field nodes”, and fighting swarming mini destroyers trying to break it. Eventually it resets, incurring a time cost for the event, and a long run back for players who died.

If the containment devices are powered up; its used to anchor the MD in place, and the cryo bombs create several platforms surrounding it to let players approach. Part 1 of this burn phase is delivering cooling bombs and spraying it to deactivate the Invulnerability its had up until this point; with part 2 having cooled it enough to deal direct damage.

After a time, its core reignites. As it exits the burn phase, it radiates a huge AOE blast around it, restores its flame shield/invulnerability, and floods the center area of the chamber with lava again (destroying all platforms). The process then repeats until dead.

You dont need a ranged weapon for shatterer get bettwen his legs and cleave him with melee weapon

Wanze.8410:

Julie Yann.5379:

Wanze.8410:

Julie Yann.5379:

Did level after 80 really have a point before the patch? Seriously, I had hundreds of skill points that we never used before the changes. Now you get shards as drops, I still have hundreds of shards that probably will never get used. I don’t see why people are making such a big deal out of this.

Because clearly other people consume skill points/shards on a more regular basis than you.

Last year, i made an average of 3g profit for skillpoints by promoting t1 common mats and used up thousands of skill points in the process. Some people craft superior siege for wvw on a regular basis, craft lots of legendaries or ascended gear.

But you still get shards, I get them from drops fairly regularly and you get them from dailies as well. Shard supply hasn’t changed with the patch, I just get them differently.

Last year, i would make at least 10 per day (and also use 10 per day), i didnt really adjust my play style but i get far less than that now (I also stopped using them for profit since they announced HoT, so i built up a nice supply in the last 6 months).

As Wanze and others are pointing out you dont seem to get them as often now, if you ran dungeon paths you got almost 1 each path and cant say i do that now drop from bags seems to have gone down aswell.

New Legendary Weapons

I know you’re all dying for more information on new legendary weapons, but we’d like to delve into them more with a dedicated blog post in the future. For now, I’ll say that we’ve been working kitten new legendary weapons, the first handful of which will be introduced in Heart of Thorns

I think 6 is abit optemistic i guess 2-5.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/

or craft superior seige to get rid of your badges aswell.

I dont think the que thing would work to well and we dont know the server structure or program enough to know if a grace period is easy to implement or not. ( ofcourse i would like it aswell those crashes at teq and tt arent fun)

ZoiN.4280:

Electra.7530:

I can’t speak for Everquest. But, most players, like most populations, don’t consider the costs of subsidizing goods and services.

This would not be an issue if those who are being forced to subsidize others were given value for their money.

The veteran character slot is an example of providing value to the veteran. But, I think it is a very small value. I’d like to see some more value. Anet and I disagree on the value of the veteran character slot. I’d like to see some gems included in the deal for the veteran player purchasing the standard edition.

In short, I want to see more value for my subsidizing new players.

Problem with the character slot in my case is that I already got a slot for every single class there is, now we’re getting two character slots, and only one new class, so im setting here with a character slot I can’t use for anything, atleast not that I know of :s

key farming or pack mule.

that shouldent happen last time my friends story progressed but i had to do mission

Emberfoot.6847:

Sorry if this has already been asked, but I did search and can’t find an answer.
Is there any word from devs on whether we will/may/won’t ever get the maximum number of slots lifted? I am currently sat on 40 lv80 characters (one of each race/profession), but I would love to get one of each gender too. This means with HoT coming I would need 90 slots. I COULD put them onto two accounts, but this comes with problems of its own (not least that all my skins/dyes/perma-hairkit is on my main). Is it limited by technical issues, or might we get a cap lift one day? If it lifted I know that I for one would be getting far more slots, but I also understand it wouldn’t benefit most players so may well not happen.
TL;DR: Are char slot limits getting lifted one day?
Thanks

Search function never worked so use the link in the sticky
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Searching-the-Forums/first#post4701411

Seems they upped the limit to 66 characters slots now so people who were at 64 could get the 2 slots added for deluxe and ultimate editions of hot

Menadena.7482:

Verbal abuse is never okay but some events throughout the world actually reward failure of the event. For example, I have been told there is a hidden achievement if teq fails and you use the pads to jump over the wave (suppose I need to look that one up someday). The problem is exasperated when not everyone is ‘in the know’ that it is being purposefully failed this time.

Yes there is a hidden achievement that grant you zero ap =)

Scar.1793:

Carighan.6758:

Scar.1793:

Oh sorry about that, and no I didn’t know nor do I really care. Like most people we come for daily/loot and that’s it. Just like dungeons cutscenes.

Yes, so it’s just the right thing to do to attack people who do care. Foor for thought.

Actually what made me “agressive” was the old wow/gw comparison (started since gw1), it’s like comparing apples and oranges, both are fruits but not the same taste. Just like they’re mmos but not the same target audience.

If you only read topic title i can understand the rant but read the OP aswell bud

I actualy like it your charr before stood unnaturaly straight, they now stand more like they do in game.

Edit
Can i ask why you turned him to the left abit to make him stand oddly on after pic?

nassaya.7109:

Ok i feel allot of hostility here i was never mad and i do not complain it’s just kinda fun that it happens. Hopefully this doesn’t deminish my real account possiblity. Again it thought it was fun to share and i get this.

read the topics on general and heart of thorns page 1 to page 4 and count how many topics about people geting precursors there are and come back again.

Hence why you get this as you call it people are tierd of the same topic poping up all the time.

Berelious.3290:

Actually I like this idea. I have multiple permanent harvesting tools that I wouldn’t mind putting on other toons if possible. Also, I have a good many frosty harvesting tools that the charge idea would take care of nicely. Please consider this one, ANet!

Well since the harvesting tools are account bound go and use your bank to transfer them to other chars.

If you somehow still got a soulbound go exchange them at black lion weapon specialist

Yea you used the forge with free rare/exotics you can get again by remaking character.
Go do the same in the real game get exotics/rares and use the forge and get your pre after awhile.

One of them yes its the one currently in the beta tests.

Toramar.6231:

No mate I am only level 11, and this problem has been there since I started the game.

Your to low level mate keep gaining levels and the map will open up.

It was deemed to much info for the new people to digest so it was locked out to level 18-20 if I remember right.
Same with hero points you wont get to gather those to 13 or so.

Edit
I would revert the changes to ignore personal story since you wont get a star on map to show you that you can continue story at level 20 if you do so.

Kosmo.5187:

What about making harvesting tools selectable from a menu similar to the ones for selecting skills? It would, first of all, be significantly more convenient for people who have purchased unlimited tools who presently have to swap them between characters, and it would allow people with multiple skins to select which one they want to use on the fly.

Secondarily, regular harvesting tools could be turned into “charges” where the proper one for each node you’re harvesting is either automatically selected, or at least also available for selection without having to clutter your inventory depending on which zone you’re in. I know the latter would probably cause more people to only buy the particular charges they need (rather than just use the highest level everywhere), but the added convenience, especially for paying users, would be worthwhile.

The paid tools are already account bound, why not take the last step and remove the remnants of restrictions that only existed to increase sales when they were soulbound?

Becouse then lazy people wouldent buy 1-9 to have 1 for each char instead of moving 1

4:40 they start to talk about it and 6:02 he specificaly answer it.

FrizzFreston.5290:

I personaly think that the lore of Guild Wars 2 is pretty good because it is a descendant of Guild Wars 1.

Also, are we really making a thread with a dozen people responding to Scar? …

ofcourse miss informers should be exterminated

Scar.1793:

/facepalm
Please fanboy stop comparing these 2 games, they are very different and not for the same audience.

I’ve been quitting gw2 many times for break because I was bored, you say you never quit, yet you don’t even know that Jormag is a worldboss event and is dead…? After 3 years.

You dont even know after almost 3 years that its the Claw of jormag a lieutenant that we kill, quite sad really that you jump into this thread spreading wrong information.

Only elder dragon we killed so far are zhaitan.

So they shouldent fix the bug that let anyone get the hardest title from gw1 without having earned it?

hoewhoew.4619:

Actually no, you can’t go based on that as the Revenant doesn’t have everything unlocked in the map. AFAIK they don’t have the hearts completed which counts for the other 27%.

there arent any hearts in the expansion but looks to me that hes in the silverwaste map and havent unlocked all wayoints/poi/hero challenges etc

skowcia.8257:

Slapinator.4196:

Not before he fixes necros!

Robert Gee is a boss, Robert Gee is a way of life. Robert Gee is the way its meant to be played. Robert Gee for president.

He really need to take over revenant first. Necro is not even close to the poor state of revenant. Praise the sun Robert Gee!

Might be becouse revenant is like half done atm necromancer have been finished and crap for years in pve.

So with healing/damage mitigation and condition legends your not doing enough physical damage. Can you see why that might be when reading what legends you have available to you?

Yes

or just delete it yourself

Kreejaffa.3682:

I know amazon.com has copies of the core game still for sale. They are around $22.

Cant see why one would like to buy core 22+ expasion including core for 50 total of 72

as already stated you do get both items already some tuned to your effective level and some to your actual level.
Only works down from what I remember dont think you will get 80 gear going to Orr as level 10

Yea and how are we suposed to know that they dident 4 manned it properly and sells it for profit.
You cant punish everyone for what some/majority do, it dont work like that.

buy it of the homepage get code to email and send it to friend.

From a random green champion bag