Guild Wars 2

Yes, we are aware of cheats to progress over 49. Don’t expect a congrat to a cheater, soon exploits/ method abused to gain that level will be removed.
Over 49 is just a longer fight, no better reward nor a minimal reason to go further.
(actually, a fractal 49 is the same loot of a lv1 except uberare fractal weapon if happens after 20 , maw’s chest, and ring , daily)

I have the same (and maybe way better) excting dynamic glorious memories of parties without even one of both, go figure.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this is fixed when we keep having the rest bugged. After all Anet priority is always “ruin the gamebase fun at first, then bugs”.
DON’T TOUCH OUR BAGS. WE ALREADY WASTED ENOUGH TIME FARMING ALL BAGS FOR MAIN AND ALTS. FIX THE TEXT.

Well ye, he pointed the lack of design and ai lol. Could have an entire new thread about it

azazil.9541:

I’m loling badly atm..

Why ? Cuz just checked : http://www.arena.net/jobs/

So they are actively looking for motivated people to join their team !

Here,,, one of their reason why working at ArenaNet could be your dream job:

A firm goal to dominate the online gaming industry, and the expertise and resources to do it.

Just a dream and dream within a dream.

And also " Current Job Openings "

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Audio Programmer
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IT – Systems Engineer
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They are recruiting about for months and looks like they need a whole team and i guess no one wants to join them

So guys are you really expecing a quick fix ?

Hiring? They are kicking out people lol

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/04/ncsoft-undergoing-realignment/

Over than that, if you tried to apply, you would laugh discovering the requirements “preferred” (After all the world is always the same everywhere) “who sent you, someone work here yet?” “How many years of experience you have on a successful mmo” lol
Like if i was a dev of a famous mmo i was even going to apply for gw2, right. Meh.
Tt tr it’s fun when people expect/pretend a fix. You have to wait months maybe

Agree, just a tactic like many others. Useful, why not. I can tell you, no need to root, a couple fear on boss and all larva will be dead (or at least most) when he’s charging back out of fear. Fearing larvas same time too, results larva phase is more easy. See, just an other tactic.

Account.9832:

Loggahead.5402:

no matter how fun it is, you will eventually get bored if there isn’t that rewarding feeling of seeing something great drop for you. The loot you receive is half of the addiction.

No. I mean, maybe you will, but I certainly won’t. Maybe that’s because I’m not addicted. People who are will keep playing no matter what (that’s kind of the definition of addiction), so catering to them is a waste. If gameplay is boring, no amount of bribing with “loot” will make me overlook that.

This isn’t a job, it’s a game. It’s what I do in my free time, for entertainment purposes. If someone is using his leisure time to suffer through unpleasant gameplay in exchange for some random virtual reward at the end, he’s doing “fun” wrong, and would probably enjoy himself a lot more doing something less sporadic.

There are no “drops” in most games I play (sports simulations, RTS games, FPS games, etc.); I play them because I enjoy playing. And that’s why I play MMORPGs too, and dungeons in particular. I like the challenge, the teamwork, the teasing, etc..

Having drops is fine, but if the game isn’t enjoyable without them, its gameplay needs to be improved.

As long as players continue to focus on the drops, that gives developers an excuse to keep the same boring / buggy / illogical gameplay mechanics, and just “up the dose” of loot to hang on to the number grinders and addicts.

Like I said above, adjusting dungeon drops is mainly related to the game economy, crafting, and so on. It should never be a concern of the people designing the actual dungeon, coding the behaviour of its inhabitants, writing the NPCs’ lines, etc.. Their job should be to make sure the dungeon is fun to play. And if people play so much that they get bored, then they get bored and go do something else (play a different dungeon, or explore the game world, or turn off their PC and go do something else). There’s no merit to keeping people playing the same thing over and over again (it’s not even like they’re charging a subscription).

Unless the drops are something you use inside the actual dungeon to accomplish something, loot is not part of the dungeon’s design. It doesn’t mean players shouldn’t discuss that too, but always make it very clear to the developers that one thing cannot be used as a replacement for the other.

I don’t want to be mean, nor discuss at all your “personal view of what fun is”.
Just… your post makes no sense at all on a fantasy mmo, maybe (as you explained) on an fps, where the fun to run around and kill or be killed is everything. The fun of it.
A fantasy mmo is related to content and fun yes, but still ,the shiny drop is what we chase and play for. My arah fullset is the only armor i desired, i chased it collecting tokens and completing it doing full paths when 60 tokens per path didn’t exists.
For what it matters, if was an uber rare drop from arah bosses piece by piece, still i was keeping my love for it and farming arah like mad until complete.
Shortly, you cannot play a dungeon wasting 6/8 hours (arah path 4) coming back to LA with.. a bunch of blues, some green, if lucky 1-2 rares, if uberlucky a lode, and a bunch of T5 junk? The time and effort spent on a particular, harder and harder task, should reward on a fantasy mmo way better reward compared to a stupid lv80 mob outworld killed in 1 minute. Simple concept of an mmo, clear from when the first fantasy mmo was even created, guess. Obiouvsly i don’t mean with my post “let’s grind”. Just a concept of “meaning to spend some effort on something harder and longer”. Noone asked a stupid “gimme precursor” nor “gimme fullset arah at the end”.
We have the same junk with fractals, reason becasue i don’t waste one minute more to progress, just making things longer without a minimal difference of drop compared to a lv1 fractal run ,except the daily reward

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Thanks for the report on this. It is caused from our new tech that keeps party leaders from disbanding parties without being punished (we close the instance if the party leader disbands so he can’t re-invite friends/guildies after using PUGs to get to the final boss)
We’re investigating solutions to this.

Nice. How many months more we have to wait to put an end on this trolling attempt ruining the gameplay?

WE have an other thread where a moderator is asking feedback, stick to that one.

Simple answer: the skin is exotic, the weapon you use reskinning is exotic.
You ends up with an exotic longbow. If tomorrow an ascended longbow is released but the “status” is not (sorta fo what happens using transmutation of a legendary weapon with stats you need, lowering the legendary to a normal exotic weapon losing all the property and future ascended instaboost) you will end up using an ascended longbow, with exotic status (no more pink), ascended property (infusion slot only), ascended skin, marked as exotic. Even if you didn’t use the skin at beginning, you would end up on the same result i explained. Wait a fix of legendaries not downclassed to exotic, then use your skin. If you used it yet, and a future patch (as dev explained yet) doesn’t provide any form of rollback or refund to the original status, you will end up with the result explained: an ascended weapon reskinned, turning to be an exotic weapon with ascended stats+skin.

Because tokens are related to the gift and gear set of that particular dungeon. Variety, something to chase, something to dream, like arah armor. This keeps the player interested.

We have other threads about this topic yet.

Considering fractals is the most played content ingame by 98% of the population, and fractals begins with an overflow, as someone explained if your main server is not full, you arrive to LA ending up on main server. So you need a “taxi” to an overflow. Clearly, who programmed the “all player on same overflow or the run doesn’t start” idiocity, didn’t tought we maybe was needing a “go to overflow” command. But well
Now, add players leaving bored of the content/bugs/etc, not so hard to figure out how easy is find LA empty in a sec.

Whatever you like, and feeling you’re having fun with. No class is better than others at all, who answer you is a fanboy of his class or pretend to tell you “we need healers/tanks!”

If unsure, try a bit all of them, if you’re having fun at beginning with that class, later is better. Necro minionmaster is a good example, or ranger. About both, there is a key to learn for both, who makes the class hard to manage, or hated by others like Trungalung: pets management. Learn properly how to deal with them or you’re hated and an useless bag. If you’re not having fun/ not willing to give a bit of your time learning their behaviour/commands, and more in a mood to spam buttons spanking enemies, maybe melee, go melee like warriors etc. Up to you, as you see. Ignore suggestions and “we need guardians”. We don’t

Passing stage 9 and reaching 10, there is a passage of difficulty, switching the daily and agony damage dealt by bosses.
More visible on x3 levels.
13-23-33-43-53. Reaching the x3 of every tier, you will feel a sensible higher difficulty, compared to what you was used to.

Why the OP ask. Here is the answer: it’s not account bound for a simple reason: agony.
I’ll make you a simple example.
Accordingly to the rng of rings, the “alt” shouldn’t have yet enough agony res to deal a lv40-49 fractal run. (Rest is cheating, at 50 you cannot deal with agony not using some exploits soon removed).
Ye, you can tell me: well i’m on my 400th fractal run, i got loads of clones/extra rings.
Some can tell it, some are still chasing his stats having maybe a few more to spare with perfect stats for an alt and loads of clones. Can happens ,cannot too. And the “sense of progression” is lost, you run your main to 49, all your account is 49, chasing your rings you got enough extra rings for every alt (and maybe funnily all of them will have their stats except your main, accordingly to the Murphy’s Law ) then what?
Different would be ask a title, showing over your name with a tiny number or a particular color, whatever, your real “knowledge” of fractals. So when you play with your alt, joning a lv23 group, every other with you will not assume you’re the noob of the day with 0/minimum agony or pretending a ping because he wrote “agony res is required to join”. Sorta of dungeon master title, just a clown can pretend to teach him something about how dungeons works and how to deal with a battle (assuming he wasn’t a carried player, but i doubt).

The problem is not RNG and if gw1 was rng based or not. The problem is the RNG routine, complete junk. It’s not expected for example to run 400 fractals to get 1 fractal weapon skin, i will find easier a precursor than one of those skins lol. Or giant eye, i can make million examples. It’s how rng on this game is programmed the problem, not rng per se, every mmo have his rng, or you wouldn’t chase nothing at all more than do some predetermined tasks and bored leave.

stof.9341:

I’ve killed the boss “correctly” plenty if times before the “fix” before we knew about the bug.

Correctly for me is just killing the first adds, DPSing 25% of the boss, picking hammer, killing one of the now fast (but reasonable) spawning mobs to charge hammer, hitting seal, EVERY MOB except boss despawns and we are stunned, then restarting from the DPSing 25% of the boss part until victory.

The current situation where adds spawn very quickly and don’t despawn on seal hit look like a bug to me no matter how you say it.

That’s exactly how i remember was this fight, not exploiting, who had a sense. I’m still wondering who was the genius to put loads adds not despawning, but well, considering even the cage doesn’t work properly, it’s enough clear the entire fight is just a bugged fractral, and if lucky to not get one of the bugs, you will pass. Shrugs.

RobinotX.1604:

I believe they stated somewhere they where going to change the whole RNG. I am NOT sure about this and have to look up where they stated this.

You was dreaming, trust me.
RNG is what it is, roll your dice, maybe is your day, you find your recipe.

Thanks? Who are you talking with? Mods to throw a ban or what? I guess you didn’t notice, no dev is gonna read any thread at all, expecially one of this kind
Luckly we have alternatives, quite valid too to just shrugs and forget this bad experience buying this game and how it turned to be ^^

Didn’t you say “He (one guy) was a troll”? He got a buddy too to save him? I doubt. If happens, you attempting the kick take a picture of who save him ( votes window pops), report both behaviour, both are banned after a ticket report explaining all. Kick out the trash from this game, not from your group

stof.9341:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Except the gun doesnt work at all if you’re inside the cage, tested yet.

I think the way to get people out of such “stuck” situations is that someone outside makes a portal entrance as close to the obstacle as possible, and the stuck player should be close enough to that entrance that he can activate it. LoS isn’t checked for that.

Yes, if someone makes a portal/use a gun outside saving the caged one, helps. Except when this kind of behaviour begins, in a matter of seconds every other member goes inside. The life saver have to go out of combat by the boss, to save himself to be caged triggering the bug. On some rare cases the portal is still up ,someone/ all can escape and continue, but is rare.

Simple answer, just reading this forum, even more playing a bit:
If players was enough bored of gw2 before geargrind update, ended up forced by tons of reasons.
Geargrind in a game sold as not geargrind based, made fans and who buy a game with a bit of brain choosing this game on what the advertisement say, not paid by daddy, leave/ ask a refund

Agony, splitting the community.
One single place where farm ascended gear trillion times, growing without a sense clones of the ring you don’t need, chasing the ring you want, loads of ascended mats without a meaning, when capacitor is crafted, and an endless number of tokens. When you bough capacitor, upgrade of it, all bags, except if planning a legendary, buying shards, what we should do with them?

A new exciting map!!! Lost shores, an abandoned junk project in the same state of launch without a minimal reason to go there except a quick gathering for daily and farm T6 mats of the only DE available, hoping noone turns commendations so we farm more mats.

Over bugged patches, releasing new junk ingame, making dungeons unplayable (finally coe path 1 is fixed huh), even fractals unplayable plus DC (cliffside’s bugs, with the funniest 5 players caged forcing to leave). Triggering old bugs (sound bug doing a siren until client is closed is back). I didn’t knew i was a QA beta testers, i want a salary now lol.

TP without control, the company simply ignore where TP holes are and patch appropriately to increase by 200% that mat, stabilizing it. Precursors included.

The endgame, a legendary. Just a matter of follow some cheats/exploits/ methods/goldsellers and you’re done. Nothing to be proud of, except being a lifeless/ goldseller customer etc. Funniest clowns are players with 3+ legendaries lol , i met a couple recently , talking about who paid less the goldseller

Dev team ignoring the community, ending up (as we saw on other games) on a shrugs, leaving.

Let’s not mention junk design ending up on a dev sandbox. (picture attached, maw’s fight, falled and intead of die, swimming, not allowed to touch the surface).

Full diciture is a fake and not real time. Who didn’t left for the reason i wrote ( and i didn’t cover all of them), log a couple hours for a quick 20+30 daily chasing his ring, 20 more minutes for gathering at lost shores and get his jug, then logoff. You will still be illuded to be on a fullpower server always full of active players, it’s not.
And frankly, when you get both rings you need, and you did the capacitor yet (if so fond on it), why the hassle to log back.
Doing what. A daily?

Thank you all for your feedback I appreciate it and look forward to hearing more on this matter.

YW. Except the only one who care of this thread are mods, reading every post with a ban button in case you was a bit over rules and shuts your mouth for some days.
No dev is gonna read this thread, nor any other, except rare pearls.

Hevosin.9187

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• Will likely be part of a big content update, Can be used to sell more copies of GW2. Big Updates from a Free game is a great selling point showing how much better Anet is, and how ahead of the curve they truly are.

Just this part, fail your hopes. Wrong company, wrong game

Expect new senseless (and without any lore bound) content, like those stupid karkas and lost shores. I mean, seriously?
Agree about uw and fow as a great return of the glory of gw1 in a gw2 manner. Meh, i guess we will never see something barely similar.

bojangles.6912:

Eldiora.5836:

This happened to me too. Was in a Fractal run, had to endure this group for 2 hours because they just died all the time. I tried to help them honestly, telling them how they can avoid dieing 10x on the Asura Fractal against the harpyes.

Then at the boss Fractal when the boss had 10% hp I got kicked out.

This is absolute disgusting behaviour. In 15 years of mmo’s this is the first time I have seen this behaviour. I don’t know if communities in general simply are getting worse and worse or if its just this new generation that seems to lack social behaviour by a big part.

Yeah never seen that happen either. Even in WoW and ToR never seen or heard that happen. Sure in WoW sometimes people get kicked but it is more about them being afk, pulling for no reason, qued as a tank but in dps gear, things like that. But to kick someone as the boss is about to die is ridiculous and to hear this happens to a lot of people says a lot about this game. WoW at least implements a no kick while in combat. ANet should at least use that as a start.

Totally agree. It’s the first mmo i ever seen with this kind of junk community.
We are asking to Anet from launch a solution, completely ignored. As expected.
When is not so hard to just:
A remove kick from the game
B allow kick just with 4 votes, and a written justification, who will appear on every player’s screen, and who promoted it. When 4 votes are up, the 5th player will be kicked after 30 seconds. So he has time to take a picture, report the abusing team, clean this game of this kind of trashy players.

Anet position on this issue? Write a report. Ye, ye. Except if you smartly didn’t took a picture of the team, how are we supposed to remember names, considering when kicked the party char is wiped (and not everyone talks)? Such a game huh.

Some paths are shared, you would find the path empty clearing a path then an other one in a particular sequence. Also, no more adds protecting lupicus door. Shortly, forget it and be used to the “reset aka exit”

Except the gun doesnt work at all if you’re inside the cage, tested yet.

We will talk again about a thank you, but for now ye, let’s see.

Miseris.7498:

It’s insanity that Robert Hrouda has to spot a random forum post on the subject before it gets changed.

Where is the QA, where is the system to bring this sort of thing to your attention without needing a forum post from the community weeks after it’s already live?
And this isn’t even the first forum post about the Simple vs Versatile infusion.

Get a Public Beta Environment going already so you can get proper testing!
World of Warcraft has one, League of Legends has one, everybody has one but us!

Hey ,we are testers, didn’t you see “beta tester” near your name? Ah no wait, it’s live, we are paid customers..

Still waiting an answer about a change of crafted infusions and if it’s planned, considering they realize the senseless of it between merch and crafted resources needed, when patched

Let’s see if last update fixed it

Doesn’t work. Tried yet.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Iruwen.3164:

You’d better be careful with such statements, this can easily result in an excrement storm considering the latest mesmer “bugfixes”.

True enough. I don’t do skill balancing, I do content work, so I can’t speak for the system designers who do that stuff. But having shown this off to them and made them aware of it, they just saw it as good play, not about an OP skill. So I don’t think there are any nerfs coming to mesmers due to this video, or to warriors about the Lupicus video.

Cool, now do you mind to ask to who designed every other class to overpower/make our skills able to do the exact same kind of performance dodging properly etc?

haviz.1340:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Nope, no issue. The point is the balance and unbalance of some classes, and why this class can do it and not a necro, or a thief etc. Considering Robert is (not accordingly to Anet attitude we had on gw1) amazed of those solo fight, i’m still curious if he’s gonna fix every class to overpower them to be able to do the same , or get rid at all of solofights. I quoted him waiting his answer, not your pointless question of why i ask something. No offence.

There are no issues with necros, you still haven’t mastered death shroud ;P

Haha Wondering how long we have to wait our necro skills fixed working as intented, at least.

Actually it is a big loss. I don’t want to lose all the slots i got. Just remove the unique text, because maybe players confuse the meaning “unique” as “just with fractal tokens, and available just here” with unique bag not able to be worn more than one of a kind.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Hey folks!

Here’s the update. I talked with folks about the discrepancy between the defensive Simple Infusion and Versatile Simple Infusion cost differences and application, and we all came to the conclusion that a more fair vendor solution is the following:
-Remove the Simple Infusion for defensive slots from the vendor (currently costs 75 tokens)
-Lower the cost of the Versatile Simple Infusion to 75 tokens (from 225).

Since the versatile can fill both the defensive/offensive slots, we found this to be the least confusing resolution to the problem. There won’t be any refunds (to my knowledge) to the people who bought the Versatile Simple Infusion for 225 tokens.

I see. And tell us now, are you gonna fix the crafted infusion too lowering it to an acceptable level, when someone decide to craft defensive ( or offensive) only infusion and versatile counterpart? Because i doubt if you keep the actual mat difference, someone would craft + 5 +5 infusions at all, just buying a 75 token one instead.
Example?
Malign Infusion (offensive slot)

1 Eldritch Scroll, 20 Mystic Coin, 250 Passion Fruits, 100 Powerful Venom Sacs

Versatile Malign Infusion (both offensive and defensive slots)

2 Eldritch Scroll , 50 Mystic Coin ,100 Passion Flowers, 250 Powerful Venom Sac

I see, anomalies are the way, thanks, i was looking for how get those 2 poi too.

I hope will be nothing neither similar to the boring , stressful kind of jp we had during halloween.

What matters is the final chest and what contains. Speaking of which, looking forward to it..

A new giveaway of precursors for 1% of the population and exploits to get more, my speculation.

Nope you can’t, that special effect wasting 250 ectos is reserved to that particular backpiece

Yup, failed attempt to say design is amazing and every class can do it, while we all know they don’t, ( much less naked) not a matter of a skilled player but balance and skills.

haviz.1340:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It’s just solid gameplay. Congrats on the feat!

Now if you wouldn’t mind explaining what exploits you did with the terrain to get there…

Let us know when you’re planning to put an end on solo runs ( or make every class able to do the exact same fight he did)

You really have some issues with people soloing some bosses? It’s not like the masses are doing that, just some inviduals. I soloed few bosses and it isn’t really something anet should look into because it’s only done for challenge. Also, you can do that on your glorious necro. I have a friend playing one who isn’t mega-super-skill0rz yet he can handle lupicus alone just fine in phase 2 and 3. With a bit of a practice he could do that.

Nope, no issue. The point is the balance and unbalance of some classes, and why this class can do it and not a necro, or a thief etc. Considering Robert is (not accordingly to Anet attitude we had on gw1) amazed of those solo fight, i’m still curious if he’s gonna fix every class to overpower them to be able to do the same , or get rid at all of solofights. I quoted him waiting his answer, not your pointless question of why i ask something. No offence.

Atrophied.8725:

This DoA solo was NOT done for speed or loot, but to show what can be done with the game. You’d get way more loot from running group DoA clears in that time. It’s not always about farming, sometimes it’s about the prestige…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKB7oVuBCR8

It’s a prestige when every class can do it , and it’s a matter of player’s skills.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

The poins is unbalanced classes. some can, some cannot. Regardless of how many time you can dodge, switch blah blah.

Proof that any professions can’t solo a boss that HAS been solo-ed by other professions?Or is this just baseless conjecture about a “problem” that doesn’t exist yet.

Some professions may be more efficient at accomplishing it (i.e. more quickly) but I see no evidence to show that any profession can not.

To be completely honest, that solo on the Queen Spider was rather lackluster in terms of understanding how the mesmer profession works.

That elementalist soloing Kohler however (or especially that warrior soloing Lupicus) shows those players definitely know how their profession works. If other players had the same knowledge of their professions, I stand by that they should be equally capable at soloing the same bosses.

I didn’t see a thief, a necro etc doing this solo fight alone “with smart usage of skills, dodge, blah blah”
I’ll try with my MM, why not. I’ll let you know.

Curious title , this thread: when you lost we customers are the tester of a patch, bugged/ exploitable/whatever?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It’s just solid gameplay. Congrats on the feat!

Now if you wouldn’t mind explaining what exploits you did with the terrain to get there…

Let us know when you’re planning to put an end on solo runs ( or make every class able to do the exact same fight he did)

You can use some cheats too. Rez orb is the legit one.

haviz.1340:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Actually he’s perfectly right, so your twist of words attempting to down him are pointless But if you want a realistic example, open your map and tell me how many non contested waypoint you see Hey, it’s just the easiest example

If you open your map in LA in overflow, than yes, a lot of them will be contested. But that’s because the map will show you overflow version of other areas which don’t mirror actual situation.

Curious, i tried again on main server, jade quarry, same map and same contested area. One less, at least on the overflow where i was, coe was open by someone who did the DE lol

Yes it does reset the soulbound status and infusion, fresh made.
Wait until you’re done, if you can deal with agony

Lt Surge.3275:

I was wondering this earlier, when I got my leatherworking to around 395. I noticed that the bags I can make barely go for anything more than it costs to make; more often than not I would even lose money if I sold them. So what is the best way to earn money, or at least break even, with a profession?

As Toast wrote, noone, you’re wasting your hopes. Much less about bags, now we have 20 slot bags with a few fractal tokens , no need to waste 1 copper on crafted bags. Now add karka bag from lost shores event and well..

A karka fractal. Considering they are ingame without any lore or minimal sense more than a fast daily distraction for gathering