Guild Wars 2

Reciprocity.8021:

I’ve been entering WvW and I never see anything going on. I see a battle on the map, spend 10 minutes running there and its gone. No one in sight. There is another one, run for 10min, nada.

None of the waypoins work because they are contested. So I run to one. No one around.

What gives…

I’ve never really been much of a pvper but being bored stiff with Wow’s expac, and now LOTRO’s expac I thought I’d give this game a try.. the PVE is boring the hell out of me so where is the PVP?

I’ve spent 2 nights during peak checking out WvW and its been a yawnfest.

WPvP is hit and miss just like any game, First you want to make sure you on a server that is highly activive in WPvP but even then one one side is getting crushed they will stop showing up at times.

This game Hates Condition damage, It will never be put with other stats you actual want.

Greyfeld.7104:

Xarog.3172:

I don’t think its quite as simple as you make it out to be. For example, you have some dyes that are “metallic” others that are “natural leather” and yet more that are in the “vibrant” category.

I think the game’s rendering engine renders things differently based on the kind of material it is supposed to be rendering, and that in turn changes the way it renders a particular colour as well.

In other words, the same yellow is going to be brighter on a shiny surface compared to a dull surface.

While you have a point, this doesn’t explain why one color can look like various shades on different pieces of armor from the same set.

Also, some colors just blatantly don’t look like the colors that they’re previewed to be, which can be a huge pain in the butt when you’re shopping for them on the TP. The Midnight Red that I recently got for my necromancer looked reddish black on her last set of gear as it’s supposed to, but on her new set it’s a lot brighter than the preview would indicate.

It also doesn’t explain why the developers thought it was a good idea to grant a “gradient” effect to some armor, making the colors you come up with a total crapshoot.

There are more textures then just the one that applies the color. those textures effect different colors in different ways.

It is a pain when only piece of your Armour clearly comes out a different color then everything else you are wearing using the same color dye though.

I guess it is a mistake in matching the dye to the color the Armour gets

Ele needs so balance work.

They are a glass cannon with no cannon

Grimm.8236:

KuiShanya.2645:

Grimm.8236:

No… They WILL be adding Guild Wars. ANet just decided to sell us an unfinished product and will implement it later.

you do realize that this was never promised as being part of the game right?
stop being so mother kittening entitled

I’m entitled to a game I payed full price for, that isn’t even finished.

Saying that there is no Sub fee. You get your moneys worth compared to most other games. MMOs

This game is not perfect, But they give more then enough stuff for the 60 bunks

Knote.2904:

Ditton.3149:

Sooo..by this logic I should get glory for farming Orr right?

Badges are exclusive to WvW yet they get PvE loot off players.

Point?

It wouldn’t matter at all if people got a measely bit of extra money or loot from Spvp, as long as the loot gained has to do with the PvE level of the character used so people can instantly start farming on a fresh lvl 80 out of no where.

Or it could be based off glory level as well, So you have to be level 80 glory to buy items of level 80

EliteZ.1682:

I give up even trying with you anymore.. Spvp and the rest of the game are completely DIFFERENT. All the top armor skins you can get from PVE are in Spvp, but Spvp has no stats (which makes them USELESS anywhere else in the game) No you should not be able to take your pve skins to pvp because you’re suppose to work for them. You do PVE for PVE rewards (WvW links in with PVE as it’s PvX, not PVE or PVP) you so Spvp for the Spvp rewards, yes new better looking skins ARE reward. A reward isn’t just something that’s more powerful… It is harder to get some of the armor skins in PVE then it is in SPVP which would completely remove them as a reward for pve because you wouldn’t have to spend hours doing dungeons because there is no other way to get that gears skin

Because you have to give a reason why it makes the game better.

Not let me get more powerful in the play style I like best, When ever other play style can will simple make me stop playing the game sooner.

How does keep them separate Improve the game in anyway??

You did work for them you got them from other style, SPvP is about kick the crap out of your enemies and standing over there dead bodies.

Why is it the only one??? It should be like this for EVERYTHING then.

You only where dogoun gear in dogouns
You only where Wpvp gear in Wpvp
You only where PvE gear in PvE.

If you switch styles you can’t wear any gear not from that style. Sounds pretty crap doesn’t it??? Thats because it is. and for some reason it only affects one aspect of the game

Yes rewards don’t just have to be about power,

But if Grind sPvP and come you your play style, You are way more powerful them me,
If you grind your style and come to my style we are the same.

And you can’t get the feathered crafting gear in PvP so there are not all there

EliteZ.1682:

No any other style can’t take their gear everywhere else.. I can’t take my pve gear to spvp can i? Spvp items have no stats this means they can’t be taken anywhere else, well they could but they’d just make you even weaker. As i’ve already stated. Spvp is completely different part of the game, it’s not linked with the rest of the game. WvW and PVE are linked together still.

Glory gets you new skins for Spvp..

Can you take your Instance gear to PVE, WPvP, YES
Can you take your PvE gear to WPvP, Instance YES
Can you take your WPvP gear to Instance or PVE YES.

In ALL 3 of these cases you are stronger in any aspect because of it. They only style that doesn’t get to do this is Spvp.

And yes you should be able to bring your skins from other modes into SPvP. One of my favorite skins is a PvE one and I hate that I don’t get to where it in SPvP because it’s not available there

EliteZ.1682:

That’s because Spvp and the rest of the game are completely different… In pve all lvl 80 exotics have max stats, only difference is you can choose which 3 stats you want so like Spvp gear isn’t really a massive deal. Yes you are rewarded in spvp, you get new skins. If you ran around in the starting armor in Spvp for the rest of your GW2 life i’m pretty sure you’d moan about that.

So basically.. what you’re saying is, you want to get the best gear in PVE without ever having to do PVE.. well sorry but that’s never going to happen, just like you can’t get Spvp items without ever doing Spvp. You can’t here in GW2 and i’ve never known any other MMO to let you do this either. As i’ve already said it costs 15-20g which really isn’t alot for full exotic gear now surely you can manage that?

This is like saying i don’t want to farm 1 million karma or however much it is for the legendary weapon that i want so instead can i use gold as it’s easier to farm, heck i can even spend real money on it if i want to. Or like saying, i find the exp dungeons too hard on this game and i can’t do them, so can i just do story mode instead and get the tokens still, let’s even go a step further and say let me get CM gear by runing AC just because i prefer AC but the stats on CM are better

Never said that,

Said we should get rewards useable anywhere if thats PvP gear that is fine. I’m still going to be stronger in any part of the game because of it, Even if it’s not the best for PvE or dogouns just like any other play style can farm there stuff and take it somewhere else.

It’s not the best but it better then nothing.

Right now we get nothing to help us once we leave EVERYONE else does.

Both gold and karma can get you legendary.

You use gold at the MF you use karam at the vendor

Glory……..Well that gets you nothing.

EliteZ.1682:

Lt Latency.7415:

Some people like ORR let them farm Orr
Some people like Dungeons let them farm Dungeons
Some people like WPvP let them farm Wpvp.
Some people like to buy there gear with real life money let them buy there gear

Some people like Spvp and for some reason we get totally shafted. Why is this play style the expection

Some people like to Spvp let them farm Spvp for rewards for Spvp. how are you getting shafted? If you invest hundreds of hours into Spvp then obviously you enjoy it and therefore get rewards for playing the style you want..

They are no rewards for Spvp, The stats are all the same.

If I grind anything else. I Increase my power ever where in the game accept Spvp but we are always on equal footing so that doesn’t matter gear wise because everyone uses the same stats.

If I grind SPvP. I increase my power no where

That is a pretty big difference

For Spvp to be good gear shouldn’t count for nothing which is why our rewards can’t make us more powerful there. But like every other play style it should help with other things but it does not.

Bearhugger.4326:

If farming Orr and running explorable dungeons take no skill then why don’t you do that instead of trying to convince the devs to change the game?

If you do only PvP you don’t get to look good in PvE, as simple as that. If you didn’t explore any dungeons, you didn’t level your crafting, you never ran events, and you never ran reknown hearts, then I’m sorry but you don’t deserve to look good in PvE.

WvW is another thing though. I think you should be able to export your gear from either sPvP or PvE, however Arenanet needs to consider that PvE players won’t always have level 80 items so that could be problematic for balance.

Because it’s boring, I’m saying they should let you play the style you LIKE.

Some people like ORR let them farm Orr
Some people like Dungeons let them farm Dungeons
Some people like WPvP let them farm Wpvp.
Some people like to buy there gear with real life money let them buy there gear

Some people like Spvp and for some reason we get totally shafted. Why is this play style the expection

Ditton.3149:

Sooo..by this logic I should get glory for farming Orr right?

Sure, Glory is worthless. What does it do for you???

Glory will actually hurt you because the match making system will match you with other players who have tons and tons of glory instead of new players who are new to Spvp

That is the difference, When you come to SPvP you simple pick the gear you want and play.

I like to do world pvp sometimes, but you need gear to do that. In order to get that gear you have to grind hundreds of hours of of WPvP or PvE to be effective. Which I would like to do in Spvp.

If you want to do SPvP, You just zone in pick your loot and play

Ditton.3149:

Sooo..by this logic I should get glory for farming Orr right?

Sure, Glory is worthless. What does it do for you???

Thats the difference, When you come to SPvP you simple pick the gear you want and play.

I like to do world pvp sometimes, but you need gear to do that. In order to get that gear you have to grind hundreds of hours of of WPvP or PvE to be effective. Which I would like to do in Spvp.

If you want to do SPvP, You just zone in pick your loot and play

Cerulean.5142:

Fritz.5026:

i am sorry, but all i read is “700 hours played” then see pointless complaints.

if you stuck with this game for 700 hours, which is the equivilent of 17.5 work weeks at 40 hours a week… the game is obviously pretty good.

not trying to be a troll, but seriously, you need some variation in your life. its no wonder you are not happy right now.

Its funny, you and others in this thread comment that since the OP has stuck with the game for so long then it must be good or the OP just likes punishment. I can remember people posting their comments saying they had under 400 hours played and people complained saying they didnt have enough time in game to make any comments.

Basically what you are saying is that no matter how many hours you play you cant comment. Well for one I welcome OPs comments, even though they are more of complaints, but he has played the game more then long enough to have developed these opinions.

Whether I agree with them or not, the game needs them. GW2 is not perfect, most of what OP has said has been said many, many times before. Maybe it is time Anet looks at these comments and starts making changes to fixing them.

No they are right,

If you rack up 700+ hours on a game you can’t stand something is really really wrong.

EliteZ.1682:

MMO games are farming, grinding the same things daily. If you do 100 hours of SPvP you do 100 hours of pvp because you like it not because you’re bored of farming orr. You should not get rewarded in PVE because you play PVP they are two completly differnet aspects of the game and if they did it so you could get rewarded from spvp in pve, then they’d also have to reward pvp rewards from pve. If you want pve rewards and don’t want to farm orr then find other ways of farming, maybe they wont be as effective, but atleast they’d be abit more fun.

You can still.

A) farm Orr which takes no skill at all
or
b) just fork over cash to buy gems which is even easier.

If these are acceptable ways to get gear how is Spvp not. Who cares where you farm.

It doesn’t even have to be PvE gear, You don’t get gear in SPvP you can take outside. If it’s PvP gear that is even better cause i just want it to do WvW anyways

There gear is basically the same anyways except some stats are moved around to toughness which you can fix buy spending you points and gems differently to reorganize your stat distributions

They dye drop ratios have changed, the bots have been banned heavily.

So they are dropping less and the supply is way down

I think this is more of a IT structure thing then anything else. I know alot of MMOs tend to have this. I think keeping track of hundreds of players stacks of buffs drains the system

mulch.2586:

They made the decision to have them be completely separate games. It’s the way it is.

What I wonder is if there’s legendary skins for spvp that you get the usual way (from getting rank chests and using pvp salvage on the items inside). Or perhaps you can only get the ingredients from paid/rank tournaments.

That fine it doesn’t means it’s not a mistake and something that they can’t fix. In MMOs people like to earn new gear they can use anywhere.

They is no reason not to allow saying one of the most popular ways is grinding Orr. Right now I earn loot buy spamming 2 AoE spells with my eng all day long. If this gives end game rewards. there is no reason not to open it up.

Espcially saying Spvp WAS guild wars 1

I don’t want better loot or anything like that. But if I spend 100 hours in hour. I should be able to get around the same spending 100 hours is Spvp. Players tend to go to the path that is easiet to get loot, Right now it’s Orr and they are getting bored.

Why, Cause rolling my face in the tunnel at Orr takes skill????

If I have to play for 100 hours to get something. Not letting you do it in the game style you enjoy is a big mistake.

You can earn PvE gear and take it to World PvP or the other way around. All the gear I use in World PvP came from PvE

They should make a system where you can earn loot for the rest of the game from sPvP.

Lets face if you want some of the legendaries you going to have to do ALOT of grinding. sPvP is my favorite play style but it seems what we earn in sPvP we can’t take to wPvP or PvE.

Grinding out Tunnel/Pik in Orr is getting old, I would much rather be grinding sPvP matches.

I don’t think it too bad,

Now you just have to talk to each other and work together to complete some of the objectives instead of rolling your face on the keyboard and beating everything with your eyes closed.

Because where the devs say they are working on something and it does end up happening for one reason or another everyone freaks out big time.

Most MMOs don’t talk about future stuff until it’s almost done, Because people will quote some old dev post for 3 years ago and freak about how it didn’t happen

How is it deceptive??? It’s just a video game toon like any other.

The only time it would be deceptive is if you are looking at toons and trying to pick them up in real life based on their toons avtar.

mulch.2586:

Don’t call me mean names, you nasty Jabberwock.

That’s exactly what I was posting. pvp amulets are very different from pve, because pvp and pve, by design, don’t intersect. PvP is carefully balanced and PvE is carefully balanced. There’s no reason to expect them to match up, cuz they were divorced early in development.

But can’t you just farm the PvE version and take it to wvw so they do.

It just a pain having to farm stuff outside the play style you like best

GW2 has a much bigger player base the GW1,

GW has the same problem even MMO does when it launches compared to WoW they have alot less content at launch because WoW has been building content for 7 years

800 hours already, of course your bored.

They don’t make MMOs for people who log this type of play time anymore because the average player can’t play that much

Because the whole Story is about not being able to take on the dragaon alone and requiring all of Tiraia as well as building alliances to team up with to stop the dragaon???

Name any game, Where you are not doing the same thing over and over again.

There are not many of them

No one does it because at the end of the day in MMOs You are doing the same thing over and over and over again.

It’s hard to RP we are going to grind these same mobs out again today.

Nice info, But you are still playing a TON more then the average person.

A 20 gold pool??? At 25% that means you had 100 gold to start. I just got to 20 gold total and I play alot more then the average player I know.

Is there any links talking about DR on loot drops and how it works in game??

Or does anyone know there current status and how it works??

I think the difference is some people think they are there toon. Some people just like to make a cool looking toon and don’t try to connect with it.

I have one friend that thinks making female toons is weird but every single toon he makes it every single game always looks just like him in real life. So to him the toon is supose to be him.

To me it just a image on the screen. It’s just a computer image that I want to look cool, Some times It’s a image of a guy some times it a girl.

DigitalKirin.9714:

I wouldn’t say awful, they’re just not the stats you’re looking for.
However, fear not! Don’t worry about a few percent points of MF. Instead, eat MF food, and enjoy your run up to level 80. Then build an Magic Find set that you will enjoy. o_o)-b

Well for mesmer it hard.

I would say screw and just go power build, But all our AoEs are condition based and we can’t tag large group of enemies as power build. We need to use the staff.

Then with condition build we can’t get stats for it and get no magic find.

I know it’s not a huge deal, But have magic find at least for both types of damage would be a improvement IMO.

Whargoul.9613:

If you’re a Necro I would go with Rabid gear because you already have a high vit pool and if you’re running a condition build you already have multiple ways to dump/transfer your conditions. so you shouldn’t even need to worry about them killing you.

is rabid a type of armour.

I checked that ah and there is no rabid only seals

I would assume this is build up to the lost shores

Any way long story short, The condition gear from 60-pre orange has awful stats and no magic find.

This would be easy to fix, Just add a few more emblems that are made from a combination of crafting gear.

Say for gear that is

+ con + precision + MF

You need 4 venom sacks and 4 fangs. instead of 8 of one.

I am pretty sure ravaging stops once you get to higher levels and becomes rampagin.

Which is con prec and power.

I could be wrong i will go check the ah, if I can buy green ravaging I will be happy

To understand if you play a power toon pick the gear you have now, Look at one of those stats and change it to conditions. You stats go from ones you like to Why do I have con damage on these.

Ari Kagura.9182:

Carrion works great if you do straight-up conditions and don’t rely on crit-based procs.

However, if a majority of your conditions activate based on your critical attacks, then Rabid and Rampager are suitable alternatives. Rabid can at least give you some survivability with the added Toughness (at the cost of Power), while Rampager is more glass cannon-ish.

Currently, Rabid gear cannot be crafted. It must be purchased from dungeon vendors, karma vendors, or found as a drop.

Based on some moderate experience with condition builds, the only time I would get bent out of shape about it is when I have to destroy siege and destructible objects, since conditions do not affect them right now. Other than that, I wouldn’t mind condition builds, as long you do more than one condition to the enemy. Personally, I find playing condition builds to be fun and interesting.

I know there is some good condition gear but why can’t you get it before end game. It’s there in final sets but there is no weaker versions of it that are easy to get.

I doubt people would be happy, If they start swapping out stats for condition damage on their power gear.

It the same for people who play condition

The thing I don’t like the most. Is not having a crafted magic find set with condition damage it.

So Instead of
+Power + precision + MF
There is no
+con + precision + MF

Ravager and Carrion seem ok, But would it be better if it was
+ con + prec + vit

I play a confusion Messmer. So almost all my damage comes from me spamming abilities that cause confusion so I don’t need power to much

Why do people care what sex people are playing in a video game.

I play guy and girl toons and it always based on what I think looks cool.

There is 0 difference in how I interact with anyone whether I am playing a guy or girl.

Why is getting condition gear with good stats so hard.

For example.
You can craft a +Power + Precision + Magic Find set but there is nothing for condition

Anything with condition always comes with a stat I don’t want if I’m trying to go full condition damage like + power.

I feel like I have to play a Power build because all the gear with condition is terrible until high end exotic.

It seems they put alot of though in the what items power builds need and total forgot the game has condition builds as well.

lvl 60 eng 9/10.

They need to smooth out the event bugs and add a group finder

At around 50+ The events start being really buggy.

I thought they said well before launch that there wasn’t even going to be a PvE end game. That they wanted you to feel like you were doing more at from level 1 so there wouldn’t be a major pve end game at launch

Why buy a game that says their are not going to focus on something then ask were is it???

Huh, Why don’t you just find a good Event Chain and keep following it around if you want to grind.

Many many Chains, The NPC will go in event to event to event and you can just keep following them and grinding the events.

Just because the event ends doesn’t mean it’s over. If there are NPC going somewhere. 8 or of 10 times they are going to trigger the next event..

Lots of them spawn pretty fast so you might have to kill mobs for 5 mins before they pop again.