Guild Wars 2

nah it would make them hit 3 hit boxes if they can use the second example.
and it would be easier to avoid waves, + the poison might spread out abit more.

But fractals are pve.

And you got pve in WvW aswell.
Like the ruins for bloodlust you need to capture one take afew seconds.
Land claimer you need to kill one bronze ring npc marked as a flag.
veteran creature another bronze ring npc.
5 guard slayer total of 5 bronze rings
disrupt the supplies. you need to kill a dollyak that walk bettwen objectives, it dont even fight back while walking.

Keep, tower and camps can be harder to do alone. ( usualy there are plenty of people around to help cap stuff)

as usual there are 2 easy 2 hard each day if you got a 80 on the account.

xarallei.4279:

Anet you need to fix that guardian bug. It’s absolutely ridiculous. We melted Teq with like 12 and change left on the clock. -_-

Screenshot please that sound to good to be true

Edit
On a side note I wonder if a ranger with piercing arrows hit the crit spot if he aim for head and stand at an angle behind one of Teq front paws. Maybe ranger can even hit two paws and crit spot if standing right.

You need to earn the favor from members doing guild missions.
You need to extract the aetherium from the guild building I would guess every day.

And finaly you need crafting materials I guess this is the ones that are abundant in supply atm like leather 350, mithril and elder wood.

Dont you level up doing spvp now? + you get tomes from that aswell

what level were you?
i think hero challenges open up at same level as skill challenges used to and thats lvl 13 if i remember right

Riku.4821:

sorry but the point for the elite spec, for example the Reaper trait line, is to BE the Reaper spec. I am sure as a normal necro you can use a Greatsword.

Im not so sure about that since the elite specs brings new weapon, elite, utility and heal skill never have they said you would be able to use any of those without elite spec.

comprisedpuma.1324:

keelaunaw.3285:

most mmo xpacs give you huge maps, and things to do. anet tries to make you think a free toon slot for a new class is something to behold, when other mmo xpacs give those to you FREE.

and this xpac only opens up 3 areas in maguuma, out of the HUGE tyrian world atlas. this maguuma isnt even maps, it is areas because they are much smaller, like dry top.

and after leaving the broken personal stories to linger rotting like no one cares abt the game for nearly 3yrs, wtf makes you think this game/xpac is worth even $20, let alone $50….?

Behold, the prophet of HoT, privvied to information the rest of us can only dream of.

Seriously, raging about price and throwing out some completely unverified “facts” as justification only makes you look like a kitten .

Maybe it should play the game before it spout nonsence. There will be Maps ( unknown how many but more then 1) each map will have 3 layers, underground, ground floor, and top of trees.
The personal story its attacking was fixed not to long ago aswell. ( and they werent broken for 3 years I played it just fine in early 2013)

Edit
Quoted wrong person but oh well

Edit 2
Here is the link if you want to read about it

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-June-23-2015/

you get hero points. for 1-80 and from the former skill challenges

Deli.1302:

I’ve done Teq twice since they doubled the hp and succeeded them both. I don’t get the problem?

Did you use the old tactic stand at left foot with melee ball off to side of right foot ranged

Burn phases right foot?

If so I applaud you since that have only worked for me during reset teq once since the change.

Was unlucky and dident get into 2 of my communitys teq runs yesterday third was chanceled due to guild missions.

oh but its here already southsun survival is your thing

or you can make a guild research guild bank and transfer stuff through there

Thanks for a fun adventure found all but 1 myself couldent for the life of me find the house with the view i thought the area was the harbor not western ward =)

Yes Anet knows exactly. But heres the kicker they wont tell you and why should they?

they are account bound so you cant sell them, people who want it now will buy the pre instead of working towards it.
People like me will work towards the pre they want and feel rewarded for doing so.

Edit
It wont be bam I got legendary collection locked up ding here is my precursor.

yea but have the basic deluxe ever been on sale?

It was implemented since people ran mf gear in dungeons and draged their teams down.

Kythan Myr.4719:

I get Spirit Shards, and I understand we’ll know more about Mastery points when HoT is released, but once you’ve unlocked all utilities and specializations, what to do with Hero Points? My main currently has 213 Hero Points, will I really need that many to unlock the elite spec?

there will come more elite specs further down the line

I bought the game and have got gems in payment for gold to gem conversion if my friend wanted something from the store

if he already bought hot ultimiate why would he wait for a sale?

equip minions and dagger warhorn and go woop those mounds mate

Aerlen.5326:

I’m getting sick of being told to ‘suck it up’ and called ‘lazy’. Remember when TC first defeated Teq? Yeah, I was there. And I was there the second time. And I was there when TTS formed. And I was there after every nerf, every tweak, every buff and debuff. I was there sometimes three times in a day depending on if I had insomnia or if I was struggling that night with illness or depression. I learned every part of that fight to the best of my ability and geared accordingly. I am not a Hardcore Elite Meta Player but I’m not a lazy scrub either, Teq and I have clashed over a hundred times. Those runs at 3am where the map was kittening? Yeah, it was me telling them to not give up because I’d been in groups that took Teq down with seconds to spare. I arrive 30 minutes early, I often volunteer for the defense jobs no one wants. The zerg is a dodge fest, a jump fest, picking up the downed (not dead) players before more poison drops, shaking off the fear breath, I don’t know who you think is afking and just pressing 11111 because it’s not me and it’s not anyone who genuinely does Teq.

And I am going to tell you right now… the health pool is too high and all I am seeing are failures. Two people who said it was ‘fun’ that I know and to ‘get over it’? They were on defense and not in the zerg, trying to burn down that extra 100% HP and stand in the tiny tiny spot you can crit him in while he isn’t stunned. Defense hasn’t changed at all so I can see why it would seem ‘fun’ when you’re not standing in three poison fields screaming for a cleanse. Phase one isn’t ‘fun’ unless you’re a masochist or unless you have very very good turreters. Being in the zerg is brutal.

Teq has always also been borderline content to me. It has requirements but they could be fudged a bit. Whatever debuff made it too easy to send him into the second and third battery phases from burn probably needed a small tweak but nothing like this. When content gets to the point where 100 people all have to be playing with perfect skill and no one can mess up, then you’ve pushed it from challenging into a chore. I can’t control how SoHrdCre on the turret plays or force Bearbow to wp and not lay there dead, scaling Teq up further. I can’t count on making it to a map full of just players like me. I don’t have hours to waste waiting in Sparkfly for a spoon. Now I’ve watched someone stream a successful Teq so yes, it can be done… but that was a guild map full of people from a single guild and maybe five PUGs. All three of the attempts I went to failed. Failed. In two of them, people left after the first burn because there wasn’t enough time left. Obviously something is wrong here and needs to be balanced.

Unless you have 200% extra damage from critical strike on the majority of the dps ball, ask commanders to find the two damage spot bettwen the legs when you face the head. ( seem to be easiest to find if you dont have anything targeted)

That one do twice the normal damage since it hit two spots and is acctualy higher then crit spot.

Cylokin.2560:

Kasteros.9847:

white wings that tbh are much better than black ones( they aren;t moving at all!)

Both wings have the same animation, only difference is the color.

Yea the black ones were updated alright, I guess you will see them sometime in the next 1½ years

You will be able to get 1 account bound precursor of every legendary yes….
But iI dont expect it will be easy just that you can chose what weapon to work towards instead of praying to the rngjesus for the correct drop

just updating got a spirit shard killing a normal risen mob waiting for teq to spawn.

If wer not going to have mounts why would you get it into your head that there would be flying ones?

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Jana.6831:

Play the game and you’ll find that there is no compensation.

If there is no compensation, then file a bug in the bug forum. Based on their own comments, there should be. However, like I said, I have no idea what the drop rate is. Eventually that data should make it onto the wiki though.

Jana.6831:

The question was where one gets spiritshards from, the answer: from doing all stuff that formerly gave scrolls of knowledge.

As well as from simply killing monsters as a lvl 80, once the system works they way they said it should.

Jana.6831:

Level up is called level up by the game , not by me. So, complain to them about the “technically unjustified name”.

Now lets go back to your original complaint:

“I could level up by doing anything in game "
And you still can. This has not changed. That’s what I said originally, and have been saying since. You can still level up (even after 80) by doing anything you please.

“now I can only obtain shards (former skillpoints) by doing stuff that formerly gave me scrolls of knowledge”
This is not accurate, which I pointed out. I stated that its true you no longer get one from leveling up after 80, but supposedly they compensated for that. So it’s not “just” stuff that formerly gave scrolls

Yes but your taking it out of context aswell before you got skillpoints from filling your bar doing what ever you wanted in the game…..

Now were suposed to get shards drop from monsters, but they never stated what monsters can i get it from a level 2 moa? or is it only elites and champions?

Either way they made you require to do 1 thing instead of what ever you wanted crafting dungeon gathering map exploring tomes or writs or even scrolls

Quarktastic.1027:

Kudzu still has that ugly looking generic bowstring that sometimes doesn’t even render (I much prefer when it fails to render).

Fortunately, anet decided that rangers shouldn’t be using longbows by making their melee builds so much stronger.

Melee have always been stronger then ranged.

Jana.6831:

Gator.5729:

I got about 80 in just one day, since they automatically add to you wallet now I can’t be to sure exactly where I got them from. So they seem to be rather easy to get. Just occasionally check your wallet you may be getting them faster than you think.

No, not that easy as you have to kill champs/bosses, you can’t get them otherwise – so it’s not “play as you like” which is what people could do before this patch.

Maybe he spvp alot i remember them droping there fairly often.

I mean if you aint going to buy it before release so your there at start you might aswell wait for a sale after launch and save enough money to buy the character slot anyway.

Im quite intrested if anyone got any from a mob so far

Yea its a prebuy insentive, but i think aslong as you buy it before launch and apply it as soon as 30 mins before launch you should get the slot.

kleisthenes.6247:

I lost some utility skills as well, which messes with my build planning, and I don’t feel in control of my character any more.

Also, my ranger didn’t get hero point for lvl 27 & 29.

You dont get hero points every level just like you dident get skill point every level after the npe was implemented.

Havent leveled a char myself after that hit but useing a level 20 scrolls dont give you 20 points it gives you 8

RiShardV.8456:

Linken.6345:

Yea I think you got burned you saw it selling for high and hoped to sell it for higher, its human nature

Honestly, rather than hoping to sell for higher I was just hoping it would keep its value. I never had any use for such a big pile gold at anytime and I enjoyed having the item.
If only I was good at economics, I could have made thousands of gold over the years like many others.

If your not going to sell it why do you even care if it drops in value?
You still have your item and just becouse average joe got 1 to dont make you have it any less

Let me get this straight zerkers have been saying we sacrifice passive defence for damage and we do it well ( learn to play 2 everyone else)

If you learned to play without passive defence how would them giving you more make you suddenly unable to play? ( power precision toughness vitality was buffed) and then your armor is suposed to be 30% better

Lidle.2679:

dietzero.3514:

Burning sucks for the master of fire, the Elementalist…

I have an ele and I’m doing 8k+ burn ticks, it’s not that bad

Yea and thas one of the problems condi players doing high physical in conjuction to their now high conditions.

Yea I think you got burned you saw it selling for high and hoped to sell it for higher, its human nature

Not hero points no but spirit shards

whisper to eachother

Yes and maybe it was needed since class was to strong ever thought about that bud?

And your forgetting Howler that have been broken since forever why?

Easy prepurchase or wait for a sale were you feel its low enough you can afford game and a char slot

Or buy it for gold if you are a veteran you should have enough

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I suppose it depends on what you mean by ‘new’ players. If someone has not purchased Guild War2 core game, and pre-purchases HoT, they will not get any ‘refund’. The refund only applies to existing customers (those who purchased GW2 core game prior to June 16th, I believe the cut-off date is).

Yea its hard to get a refund for a game you havent bought.

Khristophoros.7194:

This is a low hanging fruit idea for your ANet. Add an extra path to each dungeon which would be a “challenge mode” version of the story mode with unique rewards.

I just think it’s a shame that there’s a path in each dungeon that we have no reason to run after the first time. This would be like adding another path without having to change the dungeon master achievement and without having to go through the dev process of creating the new path. This would give us more content to farm!

Why stop there do it to all the explorable paths aswell.

Oblongata.3819:

Thank Linken!! Didn’t realize it was not additive. Got it now…Whew!!

Yea I made the same misstake myself at first

Miss Lana.5276:

It was said on the livestream that a level 80 would only need 60 points captured from world completion to unlock everything except the elite specs

Get out there and do some mapping!

Its changed.

Skill points and Spirit Shards?
Posted by: ColinJohanson

A quick update on this one → After feedback from presenting the original hero point count – we decided getting to level 80 will give you enough hero points to unlock all the core skills and traits entirely. Doing hero challenges (aka skill challenges) will simply allow you to earn all the skills/traits earlier before level 80. With the release of HoT, there will be options to spend the excess hero points earned from doing hero challenges in the world.

There are a number of other changes on 6/23 to make the experience from 1-80 more exciting, better-paced, rewarding, and fun as well after having the time to evaluate and player feedback from the updates last year.

-CJ

June 22nd, 17:54

Oblongata.3819:

Hi Everyone,
As I understand it, lvl 80’s should have enough hero points to train all five of their core specializations.
However, I am not seeing this to be the case. My Lvl 80 Ranger has 232 hero points after logging on. Each core specialization (if originally empty) needs about 307 hero points to train completely. That’s 604 hero points for my two untrained core specializations.
It is the same for all my lvl 80 alts. Not enough hero points to train in all core specializations.

So, what am I missing?
Thanks

You are missing that the points you spent are counted in towards the next buy in so total is 60 for a whole core specilisation

You got enough points with the ones automaticly trained to get all skills and all traits now at 80

Mighty Turtle.6520:

My hero points seem to be bugged, I do not get any when I level up! Went from lvl 25 to lvl 28 with my ele and I got nothing. It sucks

You dont get hero points every level only those levels that previously awarded skillpoints.
By level 20 for example you would have 8 hero points.

SirDrygan.1823:

Dear Jon,

All you need to do is tweak condi dmg across the board downwards about 8% and you are good to go.
And buff the resistance of the World Bosses
Like for Example:
Make Teq
Immune totally to Poison. Teq spits poisons, why isn’t it Immune to poison?
Immune to bleeds when there are stacks of Hardened Scales
Make Teq use a tail attack when blinded.

Just to mention a few.

Shadow Behemoth
Immune to poison
Immune to siphon health type attacks.
Immune to bleeds as it is NOT a physical type creature.
75% immunity to direct damage its not a physical type creature and immune to crit

Maw Shaman whatever it’s name is.
Immune to chill.
Immune to bleeds (add a Ice Scales stack for it)
Raise dmg output.
Tornado attack chills and freeze attackers
Ice scales 50% immunity physical damage and 50% less critical damage

Fire Elemental
Immune to Burn (already there)
Immune to bleeds
Immune to Poison
Susceptible to chills and ice attacks.
75% Immune to physical attacks not a physical creature and immune to crits

Shatterer
Immune to bleeds
Immune to poison
Explosive Shards attack at random around the area.
Drop Shards and Shards pulsing damage in random area.
50% immune physical damage and immune crit due to crystal skin

Modnir Ulgoth
Full HP after Pre-events and fights
Charging attack (just like the one in the Personal story for humans)
Summon minions Champs (NO LOOT)

Golem Mark II
Immune to bleeds
Immune to poison
(hey, it’s a machine, how can it be affected by bleed and poison)?
Immune to health siphon.
Armor degradation over time if melee attacks. Range attackers do not contribute to that.
*Armor add 99% reduction in direct damage and crit damage & degrade as armor degrade)

Megadestoryer
Immune to burn (maintained)
Add a Burning Explosion stacks if people continue to burn it with burns.
Immune to poison
Susceptible to chills and freeze attacks.
being on fire ranged attacks should be diminished by 50%

Karka Queen
Armor Scales buff
Full hp second phase.
Immune to bleed during first phase.
Resistance to bleeds during second phase.
Immune to poison
Poison attacks increase by 100% to attackers
harden scale 75% reduction in physical damage immune to crit

Claw of Jormag
Immune to chills
Immune to Freeze
More susceptible to burning
Frigid breath ticks longer by 2 to 3 seconds
Fear cannot be blocked or remove.
Fear at random and at reduced frequency. (you can’t have it cast fear 3 times in a roll, seen it before.)
50% immune to physical damage and immune to crit

Wizard guarding Arah
Tornado swing attack reflects ranged attacks
HP buff and Armor buff
Resistance to poison
Resistance to health siphon

VineWrath
South Lane – Beekeeper increase bees attacks more
Middle Lane – Thrasher adds tendrils attacks (but only if attackers are in line of sight), if you are behind it, it won’t be able to attack you).
North lane – Terragriff charge attacks BUFF. Gets stunned if hits the vine walls.

Great Jungle Wurm (Caledon Forest)
Immune to poison
Immune critical hits

Three Headed Legendary Jungle Wurm (Bloodtide Coast)
buff condi resistance. The fight is already hard as it is.

Just my suggestion.

Added some boldened parts since all your suggestions seem to affect only 1 side of damage

Rai.9625:

Somehow it feels like Zerker = Condi DMG… and not like it should be: Zerker=Sinister

Yes please let condition scale of power and condition damage + be able to crit