Have they implemented the fractal leaderboards yet?
I stopped playing GW2 since megaservers ruined the game, but I keep popping back here with the hope of some good news but I see we’re still being ignored!
Same here.
I quit playing due to the mess the Megaservers created but I keep popping back in to see if any improvements have been made.
For me, Megaservers:
1- Ruined guild events. Near impossible to get into the same shard as the rest of the guild and guild missions like rushes are clogged with other guilds waiting to do them.
2- Caused severe performance issues. So much lag. Worse than a T1 WvW three way battle.
3- World boss trains were killed. The timers became all messed up and the events were way too overpopulated. It became hard to even get ‘credit’ for participating in events.
4- Too many strange faces on maps. The maps became cluttered with TOO many people for my liking, and their faces were unfamiliar. No longer had that feeling of a community when I did run into others.
5- Temple runs were ruined. Pretty much the same reasons as the world boss train.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-the-first-year/
A little old now, but that has the numbers as far as race/class breakdown.
It’s really sad that there appears to be an easy solution to the problem of hobosacks (elementalist style icons) but there has been no word on any interest in this issue.
I’ve been experiencing this terrible lag also.
It is literally unplayable. Logged on again last night after about a 2 week break to see if it had improved to become playable, but it has not.
I’ve got both Quip and Frenzy.
Frenzy is a beautiful weapon. Unfortunately, due to ANet constantly removing underwater content and not promoting it and due to the fact that grenades are so powerful underwater, my Frenzy doesn’t get viewed very often.
I can confirm, cooking 1-400 only gives 7 levels.
If there really is such concern about being able to distinguish which kit we are in, the simplest solution would appear to be to use the Icons similar to what Elementalist have.
The framework is already in the game. Opponents would now know which kit we were in (not that I buy this excuse). Hobosacks could then he ‘hidden’ and backpieces shown.
as long as the autoclicker macro doesnt enable you to do anything else while clicking.
Wat?
A.net is okay with a macro that does 1 action per keystroke. 1 click counts as 1 action
Yeah, this has always been their stance.
If you have an auto-clicker running that does the job of 1,000 clicks without you having to push a button 1,000 times it would seem you are violating their policy.
Remapping the left click button to the scroll wheel as Vol described is a clever way around it that seems to meet their policy. Every scroll counts as one keystroke/button and performs one action.
It’s not up to me to decide if anyone is violating their policy, but I personally wouldn’t recommend anyone using an autoclicker as that sounds like it is against their policy.
I’m all for it.
But make it more realistic.
Have the ‘buff’ slowly drain the life out of you.
Great news!!!
They fixed the Six Minutes to Knightfall achievement issue.
Because, you know, achievements are higher priority and further reaching.
Engie is insanely good underwater.
I swear my Sylvari Engie is half fish by now.
They are still working on higher priority and wider reaching issues.
Have patience.
For PvE, DPS is king.
If you have been doing fine with knight’s gear, stick with it. If you think you can survive switching to full zerker or even a zerker/knights mix do that.
fractals 49 and 50 are very good for farming and very easy, tequatl with a random group or the zerg that goes there usually nets around 50g/hour and is VERY easy.
other easy things include Arah dungeon and WvW
Total troll post. 100% false.
If you used to enjoy running COF P1, try running dungeons for the easy daily gold reward per path. There are lots of paths that are very easy and ~15 minutes or less per run with most PUGs.
HEY WvW is easy… sometimes… at 3AM…
Not saying WvW is hard or easy. Claiming WvW is rewarding (as in loot) is a joke! :P
I find mystic clover recipe more profitable than the orrian boxes.
But I’d honestly just hold onto that karma. It is so hard to get these days that accumulating any amount up again will take some time.
fractals 49 and 50 are very good for farming and very easy, tequatl with a random group or the zerg that goes there usually nets around 50g/hour and is VERY easy.
other easy things include Arah dungeon and WvW
Total troll post. 100% false.
If you used to enjoy running COF P1, try running dungeons for the easy daily gold reward per path. There are lots of paths that are very easy and ~15 minutes or less per run with most PUGs.
Map completion is still one of the best ways to level. If you don’t like doing the heart quests (which give a good chunk of XP) you can just run through maps and grab WPs, POIs, vistas, and SPs. All this will give you quite a bit of XP.
I recommend harvesting/mining/chopping all trees/ores/plants you come across. Not only do these grant you additional XP, the resources you gather can be used to craft and help level up or sold for some serious coin.
The most important thing to do when trying to level is find something you enjoy and do it. You gain XP from just about everything in this game so your options are wide open.
Running lower level fractals is currently one of the best ways to get karma.
And once you finish your fractal back, you can use the extra fractal relics you get to purchase obsidian shards.
Just opened the 10k chest and got some PvP Glory boosters.
I thought I had heard they were being removed entirely from the game very soon. If they have made this decision, why in the world are there still ways to acquire these things?
They should have been removed from any sources like BLTC chests and achievement chests. The period of time before they are totally removed from the game should have been allocated for people to use up existing boosters they already had. Not to give out more. This is just crazy.
You could always reroll those character slots, equip them with some cheap 15 slot bags, and use them as mules.
If you have no other use for the slots atm.
Award-winning Strategy for Knight loots
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
Your strategy doesn’t work.
You can try your strategy, and still not receive and loot. Doesn’t matter if you are among the first to tag blue. Doesn’t matter if you DPS the whole fight.
There is definately an issue that should be addressed here.
Report AFK people under "botting"?
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
No where is there an ingame law that says i must be fighting whilst im in game, whats next no afk or hanging about in towns.
It’s time people stopped acting like kids and grow upBut this isn’t a town. That’s the point. If you want to afk, play TP, etc, don’t do it in the middle of a large scale battle.
My events DID fail last night with 3-5 AFKers. (Did it twice, both failed.) That could be in part because I’m a “bad” or something, or it could be that 10-20% of the players were standing in a corner. Luckily, I had guild members in a different zone of the fight and went into the instance with them.
No offense to you personally, but zoning out with your guildies when they defeat theirs leaves your platform empty handed. I’ve heard reports of several people doing this, leaving that one last platform short handed at the end and ultimately fails.
A bigger problem than the 3-5 AFKers are the 5-6 active players that are trying to DPS without the proper buff, thereby accomplishing nothing.
Teach everyone the proper method of beating it, have everyone stay on their platform until the end, and your chances of success will be a lot higher. Those 3-4 AFKers are just the scapegoats for the other real issues.
Report AFK people under "botting"?
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
I report everyone who makes threatening and harassing comments in map chat toward AFKers. Any mention of the term ‘leech’ gets reported immediately.
Harassment is most definately against the CoC, while AFK is not.
OP, please do not let threats like this keep you from reporting leechers using the Botting option.
Not a threat.
Report anyone you like. If you are abusing the report button, ANet will do something about that themselves.
If you are making harassing comments in map chat towards other players, that is against the CoC and you will be reported if I see it.
Sure. I usually say something along the lines of “Please don’t just AFK in the corner. Please help us with the event.” before reporting.
That is CLEARLY not harassment.
That is not harassment and I would not report that. Anyone can ask someone to help or do something in a friendly manner.
Calling somebody a leech or other derogatory term is harassment and will get reported.
The other alternative is to actually earn the achievement by playing the content properly.
Sorry, I missed the guide that ANet issued detailing how to play the content properly.
Oh yeah, right, they didn’t put one out.
Play how you want, I’ll play how I want.
Except you’re not playing. You’re hiding in a corner.
Actually, you have no way of knowing what I am doing.
It has been said many times by the devs that playing the TP is a legit way of playing the game. You have no idea of what I am doing during this time, and I could very legitly be playing the TP for a bit. Among other things.
Report AFK people under "botting"?
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
I report everyone who makes threatening and harassing comments in map chat toward AFKers. Any mention of the term ‘leech’ gets reported immediately.
Harassment is most definately against the CoC, while AFK is not.
OP, please do not let threats like this keep you from reporting leechers using the Botting option.
Not a threat.
Report anyone you like. If you are abusing the report button, ANet will do something about that themselves.
If you are making harassing comments in map chat towards other players, that is against the CoC and you will be reported if I see it.
The other alternative is to actually earn the achievement by playing the content properly.
Sorry, I missed the guide that ANet issued detailing how to play the content properly.
Oh yeah, right, they didn’t put one out.
Play how you want, I’ll play how I want.
Report AFK people under "botting"?
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
I report everyone who makes threatening and harassing comments in map chat toward AFKers. Any mention of the term ‘leech’ gets reported immediately.
Harassment is most definately against the CoC, while AFK is not.
“How is everyone dying? Just look for the animation and dodge.”
Yeah…..right.
Price increases may have to do with the knights being bugged for a large portion of the playerbase and not dropping any loot.
Move on.
Find another guild with players that you would actually enjoy playing with.
No sense in spending your time in game surrounded by others who either you do not like or they do not like you.
You are here to have fun. When that stops happening, time for a change.
MF should help you see more greens/blues along with more higher tiered crafting materials (ie, T6 vs T5).
You will occasionally see an additional rare or exotic, but their drop rates are still pretty low so you will not notice a huge difference probably.
Knights aren't dropping loot [Resolved]
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
It’s should be obvious by now that there is a real issue and it’s not just a L2P issue for players.
This lack of loot coupled with the massive DC issue is making this finale of the Living Story sit sour in a lot of players mouths.
They should have strived to deliver a better product for a finale that players would have been talking about and looking forward to the next chapter.
As it stands, I don’t even want to attempt this content again. Risk the DC at the end for no loot from the knights? No thanks. It’s not that fun.
The server/instance wide DCs coupled with the knights not dropping loot like they should make this content not worth the trouble of playing in it’s current state.
I am very disappointed with the big finale of the first Living Story season. To end the LS on such a sour note just leaves a bad taste in many Tyrian mouths.
These DCs lately are not on the player side.
Whole servers/instances are being DCed at the same time.
This is not an issue of computer specs or connection issues. This is an issue on the server side.
At any rate, it is another huge issue that they are seemingly ignoring.
Still no loot from the knights last night.
I have officially quit doing them at this point. Wasting hours of my time to only be DCed or get no loot? No thanks.
It is almost inexcusable that they have not fixed this issue yet.
This is obviously not a perceived issue where a few people are not tagging properly. This issue is real. If they think this is normal or if this is the new normal than Tyria is in trouble.
A big finale to the Living Story season and a large portion of the player base is not even receiving any rewards for participating and completing it.
Server wide DCs have become a normal occurance lately. It’s really getting out of hand.
Kept getting DCed during the knight fights or the one time I managed to make it to the hologram, only to log back into a different OF.
Not fun at all.
That’s the Hrouda I was referring to!
Immortalized in the game at least.
Still missing Robert.
I often go to Metrica Province just to visit with him.
I agree with OP.
The server wide crashes have become more prominent recently. Most of these recent crashes has zero to do with player’s computer specs/connection issues.
This is a real issue and is causing a lot of things, especially the new content, to be nearly unplayable. There is nothing like the feel of wasting 3-4 hours for no loot and no rewards and no progress.
Well I dunno about too much loot.. killed 6 knights last night and got loot from one so it is total 5 boxes from 6 kills so I think it is fine.
This was pretty much my experience too.
Coupled with the server wide DCs, this event is really killing my spirit.
I’m not sure they have learned anything at all over the last 16 months.
Knights aren't dropping loot [Resolved]
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Mad Rasputin.7809
Between these knights dropping loot only about half the time, and the constant server wide DCs, this event is really taking a toll on me.
Wait around an hour for the knights to spawn only to have a server wide DC that kicks you to another OF when you relog. Have to wait around again.
One time, get DC during the knights and get into an OF that is on the last knight. Great, at least I can try to get to the hologram now. Get up to the hologram and try that, only to have everyone DCed up there.
Wait around for nearly an hour just to MAYBE get some loot and MAYBE get the chance to actually fight the hologram? Waste of three of my hours last night is what it was.
The infusions and food that give MF are not being nerfed or going anywhere.
But as it’s been pointed out, MF infusion is an omni infusion and requires an amulet with an omni infusion slot. If you don’t have one, don’t waste your laurels.
Zerg farming is great for loot, as mentioned.
Also farming broken events that spawn endless mobs is great for loot too, evidently.
A little ‘hint’ that ANet added in for locations like these is that the entrances to these caves and underwater caves most often have a resource node like ore located at their entrance.
Find the resource on your map, and quite often that is an entrance to the spot you are trying to get.
Agreed, it’s been acting quirky since the Escape From LA update.
Leeching??
Taimi asks for first hand accounts of what is going on in Lion’s Arch. I’m doing the Living Story and bringing back first hand reports of all the action taking place in LA.
I will not stand for this harassment by other players and devs calling me a leech for doing the living story. I will report all harassment promptly.
Done it twice with no credit.
Guildie in group with me got the credit, while I did not.
I’ll try it again tonight! Hopefully it’ll work.
I’m having the hardest time grabbing the vista near Trader’s Forum for some reason. Trying to finish LA map completion on an ALT while doing the invasion and I just can’t seem to get up there to it.
If it’s the one on the end of the mast that is just a really tedious jump. There is nothing special about it, you don’t have to find some convoluted path to jump down onto it. It’s just not easy to actually get up the rubble at the base of the mast.
Just keep trying and you should get it eventually.
Thanks for the tip. I wasn’t making the jumps around the base, so I was looking for a way further up to drop down.
I’ll try it out tonight!
ANET does indeed listen to it’s customers, but they don’t give a kitten about Engineers. Almost 1 year and nothing done about multiple Engi issues.
This is what they care about. 9 months ago and 2 responses in the thread and they made it happen. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Please-make-an-endless-quaggan-tonic
11 months and almost 600 replies and close to 50,000 views and nothing.
As Colin once said, “We’re currently focusing our engineering (programmers, not guys with net guns) resources that could work on solutions to issues like kits/skins on major systems that address issues higher priority and wider reaching”