Guild Wars 2

Essence Snow.3194:

I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to break this one down.

Okay, I gotcha

Okay

Okay, I’m still following

Crap, you lost me……..

So, farming mats is not easy? If it were, it wouldn’t be worthy of a legendary? Farming gold is easy? Even though it is easy, it is more worthy than the harder farming for mats?

When did I say worthless mats wouldn’t be worthy of a legendary? I said worthless mats would make legendaries worthless. Reading comprehension.

At this point, Anet cannot make such radical changes to the legendary process as it would always result in one subset of players being infuriated. However, they may do something like that for future legendaries.

Aytrix.4059:

A good change to go along with this is to make it so only siege can contest objectives (except supply camps).

Yup, definitely. In addition, if the <25 man group decides to auto attack the gate down, it should contest the point either once a certain amount of people start hitting or if the gate has lost a percentage of it’s health.

Essence Snow.3194:

Mada.5319:

Essence Snow.3194:

I think it’s more about the disparity between using the tp vs not using the tp. Basically to gain any “high end” item use of the tp is must.

I didn’t need to use the TP other than for selling junk and buying materials to get my legendary. Your statement is false.

I’m not sure to what means you thought I was referring, but by your own accord you used it to buy mats.

The preemptive sentence noting the disparity, sets up for the second one which follows. What I was referring: Trying to obtain all the materials w/o purchasing any on the tp (this includes wood, metal, t6, etc), is so disproportionate to buying them, that its is basically not accepted as practical at this point in time.

Pretty sure that’s how it’s supposed to be. If materials were easy to farm, they’d be worthless and so would legendaries. Anet doesn’t want that but they’ve given everyone a worthy alternative: farm gold (which is painfully easy) then buy what you need. That’s how you’re supposed to do it.

With T5 mats, mithril and elder wood being so easy to obtain with little effort required, crafting the rares and throwing them into the forge has never been easier. Yea exotics have higher odds but you’ll be at the mercy of the TP as you’re gonna have to buy your exotics.

Essence Snow.3194:

I think it’s more about the disparity between using the tp vs not using the tp. Basically to gain any “high end” item use of the tp is must.

I didn’t need to use the TP other than for selling junk and buying materials to get my legendary. Your statement is false.

If this change goes through they will really need to do something regarding one player tapping the gate to contest and lockdown an entire keep. They should also increase the number of players that need to hit the gate to contest the point. One thief shouldn’t be able to keep a point permanently contested. Should require at least 2-3 people to hit the gate within a few seconds to contest the point. Of course, any siege hitting a point should immediately contest it.

SkeletalLlama.5381:

Depends who’s buying them. It could very well be gold hoarders buying up low priced Dusks just to flip them at a higher price later. If that’s the case, the prices will only continue to rise and people who actually want them for Legendaries will have a harder time acquiring one. Just speculation on my part, but I’m certain that at least some of the sales of Dusk are solely for the purpose of making money.

John just said that it was different individuals purchasing/selling the Dusks. Unless you’re claiming all of them are gold hoarders?

Price of dusk is reasonable. Many people are willing to purchase it for it’s current price.

Wow, this game has been out almost 6 months and only 4 legendaries???? Amateur!!
Huge chunk of players are at 8+ lolololol
Not trying hard enough dude!!!!

Infernia.9847:

wait … how in the world did you get so many precursors? That is a discussion all by itself.
Not that I’ve been farming for one constantly but I would love to know how you got so lucky.

Once you get 1 precursor from the mystic forge then sell it for a lot of gold, you will have enough gold to keep producing them from the mystic forge and beat the odds due to having so much money available.

Here are the problems with stealth:

1)Thieves are able to permanently maintain stealth by using Cloak and Dagger on walls/gates/bridges in towers and keeps. In doing so they can stay hidden for as long as they want and reclaim it on their own (which is very possible). Fix for this would be to restrict the stealth from the skill to only occur when hitting creatures.

2)Thieves can also permanently maintain stealth by using the Heartseeker + smoke field combo which is readily available thanks to the lack of any cooldown on their skills……………

3)Veil can stealth an infinite number of allies meaning an entire zerg can be put into stealth. This can be used to take advantage of culling during large scale fights. Until culling is fixed, this is a problem.

Really, the biggest issue right now is that stealth stacks in duration and that there’s way too many skills that give them. For something so powerful as invisibility, you’d think it wouldn’t be so readily available…..
There should be a max length of time that a thief is able to be in stealth before the revealed effect is forced on.

One idea that I think could be really helpful to help people deal with stealth is that whenever we hit someone who is in stealth, we should still see the numbers on the screen of the damage.

So you think it’s wrong for them to stand in their spawn? since, you know…. that spot is part of their spawn……

standing at that spot is no different than waypointing back to their spawn and coming back….

brains……. use them.

Yet again people make threads about precursors knowing that something will get done about it. Anet knows okay . . .

Stop crying and wait. If you’re so impatient about getting the legendary then tough luck, gotta get the precursor the old fashioned way just like everyone else who already has one.

Peace in a pvp map? You gotta be joking.

jportell.2197:

dreztina.4820:

jportell.2197:

OG refuses to hang around for a fight that has an opponent with half their numbers. With them its “insta-gank” or run. Just my experiences with them. If I am in a small group of 3 then at least 8 OG will roll through and insta kill cuz they can, mean while their entire BL is being owned by another server but they could care less.

Well, ya. That’s the idea. Kill the 3 man and get out of there before the 30 man that is seconds away gets there to help.

Not that you’ll see us with 8 particularly often. Think we currently have one group of five and my duo running separately, and that’s more than usual for this time.

Quick question does that guild run anything besides thieves and d/d eles? I don’t think I have had a fight with them where I saw anything else.

They’ve got mesmers too.

The rarity of charged lodestones is not too high. Their demand is high due to them being used to make almost everything. If you want to talk in terms of rarity, crystal lodestones would be the rarest. But crystal lodestones are useless.

There are 3 spots outside CoE that I know of that charged lodestones can be farmed from.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Mada.5319:

ddak.3150:

THuGaNoMiX.5036:

Seriously, just save your gold and buy one. It really isn’t that hard. I just farmed 60 gold in a week. It’s an MMO. Take your time and if you want it then work for it and stop complaining. You can farm 500 gold in Orr in 2 months with ease.

Ye, in 2 months someone will have 500 gold, but by then – precursors will be 2000 gold… Prices are going high every day…

False. The only precursors that have gone up in price the past month are those that got updated. Everything else has been relatively stable.

False. I’ve been keeping track on Tooth of Frostfang’s price (Frostfang recieved no update) and it has risen in price by 100 gold in the last 2 weeks.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29166
Nice try. Going back down no?

Shanna.4762:

Aedil.1296:

First, it’s pretty weird an asian company make such an autoracism on asian ppl.
Second, Cantha is a very important part of Tyria, I’m sure most gw1 players loved it and we can’t wait to see the shing jea island, echovald forest and jade sea or the imperial palace rendered with the new gw2 engine, it would be just amazing.
Third, gw1 was general themed, there were ppl from all around the word, ascalonian (est europe), kryta (mediterranean), elona (african and arabic), cantha (asian).
If they want gw2 not being related to their other asian grindy games style they just need to NOT make gw2 a game like that, no need to remove a whole continent, our beloved cantha, like this.

The great collapse (originally the canthan district) is the meaning of what happened to cantha content in gw2, as Josh Foreman (a dev) said we should really shake the things up to have Cantha back.

Cantha of no dollars :P

Tyria (<3) must stay united.

Nice map, where did you find it??

It’s a fan-made map. Can be found on the gw1 wiki.

ddak.3150:

THuGaNoMiX.5036:

Seriously, just save your gold and buy one. It really isn’t that hard. I just farmed 60 gold in a week. It’s an MMO. Take your time and if you want it then work for it and stop complaining. You can farm 500 gold in Orr in 2 months with ease.

Ye, in 2 months someone will have 500 gold, but by then – precursors will be 2000 gold… Prices are going high every day…

False. The only precursors that have gone up in price the past month are those that got updated. Everything else has been relatively stable.

I miss my monk! =(
And that sexy staff
And that armor

Also, one thing I’m sure many of us gw1 players miss: shield sets
Dear god I also miss Fort Aspenwood, real mesmers, click-to-move, real rangers and BIG AXES and HAMMERS!
time to reminisce…..

VOLKON.1290:

Nothing to do with playstyle, instances, any of that… things. What things do you miss that you had from GW1. There’s one thing that I’m most nostalgic for from the old days that I would love to find on the HoM vendor… way back before inscriptions in GW1 I found a req 7 (I’m pretty sure it’s 7, could have been 8 but pretty sure 7…) max damage 15/50 Platinum bow. That bow I still have on the account to this day. If I could have the skin from that bow brought forwards to today… I wuvved that bow.

Max q7 bows never existed. Yours is most likely q8.

Mada.5319:

I’m going for Twilight. Just got Dusk today!!
So all I have left to do is get the Icy Runestones and a few more ectos, which I’m 50g away from getting complete. Sooo close!!

Well, the above post is now irrelevant.

I’m going for Twilight. Just got Dusk today!!
So all I have left to do is get the Icy Runestones and a few more ectos, which I’m 50g away from getting complete. Sooo close!!

Depends on your playstyle. If you’re a pver, any server should do fine. For pvp, any gw1 player who called themselves a pvper went to Stormbluff Isle or Fort Aspenwood if they were American and Far Shiverpeaks if they were European.

Supreme.4051:

I think your best option would be to go back to GW1 for gvg :]

This. The gvg scene in gw1 is more active and competitive than what is left of gw2 pvp. It’s still alive and kicking, unlike this game’s pvp. No point anet try to bring gvg over when a) it would take them another 7 years, b) it’s already available in gw1 and c) it’s not the same anet that made gw1.

They’ve already said that the scavenger hunt or something similar to get a precursor will be introduced in the future. Stop crying already… it’s getting old. As long as there are people willing to pay current prices for the precursors (which is the case), they are not overpriced.

If you feel a legendary is out of reach for you, there are plenty of crafted exotics that are a worthy alternative and much cheaper too. Foefire weapons, Volcanus, Anomaly, Mjolnir to name a few…

Any NA server with an uncontested temple of balthazar?

Hellian.8103:

Hey it’s always nice to see the update pics with the castle in our column, but then looking at the number to the right of the castle icon being much lower than BG or TC I seriously wonder about the priorities of most of our players in EB.

Score update would like to have a word with you

I can tell you one thing: the vast majority of top gvg players do not play gw2 anymore. They knew even before release that gw2 pvp would suck. No one believed them and they got a lot of hate by non gw1 pvpers because of it. Remember those threads on guru about QQ?

Well, turns out they were right. A lot of them went back to gw1 and to this day, the pvp scene in gw1 is more active and lively than the gw2 pvp scene. 7 year old game vs brand new game and the oldie game wins. If anet were smart they would pour all their pvp attention back to gw1 and rebuild it, since it’s actually a game that can keep people interested for years. But they won’t, Anet never admits a mistake no matter how obvious. Kinda sad

ColinJohanson.2394:

There are no “stealth nerfs”, any changes will be covered directly in the release notes, of which there are none.

“Adjusted Orr Undead loot drops” – this tells us nothing. For all we know, this DR “bug” is the adjustment you made, so obviously you would think nothing is wrong. ^^

Unless ofcourse you want to enlighten us on what these adjustments are.

Also, there have been plenty of stealth nerfs. Evasive arcana springs to mind immediately

Treb the other wall next time

Anet has no problems with this. Anet guys have camped jumping puzzles as well.
You’re supposed to have to pvp in order to get the Gift of BATTLE. Legendary weapons are to show that you have mastered all aspects of the game…..

kylia.4813:

Score update for those few of us having to work this weekend

There you go!

At this rate, Maguuma will be in T3 next week and either FA or DB will be dropping :o

Best of luck to those staying in IoJ. Here’s hoping the server is able to recover and find a tier it can be competitive in.

Score Update:

Hexin.5603:

We have many players from top 75 guilds from GvG in GW1 already. It’s nostalgia and I enjoy the environment. We also have multiple guilds from each of the top 4 tiers.

The vast majority of top GvGers from GW1 were in SBI or FA. The vast majority of them have also quit gw2. All that’s left is WM.

Actually, are any of the WM members that got gold in gw1 still playing gw2???

Foss.4830:

At the rate theyre pushing at. They will probably pass us in a few hours. Well played FA :P

How can you make a statement like this without posting a score update???? :p

What’s so bad about T4??? T4 has Maguuma and they’re the most fun server to play against. Who wouldn’t want to play against them? Maguuma <3

Score Update! Great fights so far. Keep it up!

BronzeDealer.9857:

AH Sir Ukridge yes indeed by far thus was a good battle or moment if u shall care to call it so, i do have to say as well TC has been more of a thorn than yak’s but! why give up the opportunity to take some easier lands from yaks but instead go for the harder lands, and as for yaks when TC was attacking us (FA) why not take from TC, granted TC is by far the fastest BL to upgrade keeps and such.

Yak’s Bend’s BL was the hardest map to cap any points on, I think that’s why it stayed in their hands for almost the entire week. Their defense is incredibly strong. Too strong :P

The 5 dungeons a month is fine. It’s easy to get done.
The fractals requirement is just for this month. It will change next month (possibly to something wintersday related..)

Can we please get an update on what Anet is doing regarding this issue? I’ve been crashing fairly consistently since launch. Is this ever going to get fixed?

Esrever.8613:

Mada.5319:

Esrever.8613:

not the people who had precursors before this.

Oh, you mean those guys who bought precursors during the first month when they were dirt cheap? Or the guys who bought them over the past few weeks when it was already painfully obvious that changes were on the way? Linsey stated several days ago the scavenger hunt is on its way, anyone who bought a precursor after that (but before today) should kick themselves.

how about anyone who gathered money from their entire clan to craft a legendary a couple weeks ago?

The precursors were never dirt cheap, cost was proportional to the money in the game. 99% of people could not get them just as 99% of people before this weekend.

When something like that is done, everyone who pitches in does so knowing the consequences. There is always a risk, they chose to take it, and they lost out. That’s life, deal with it.

Those 99% of people would be happy with what has happened today so you’re not really making any sense anymore.

Esrever.8613:

not the people who had precursors before this.

Oh, you mean those guys who bought precursors during the first month when they were dirt cheap? Or the guys who bought them over the past few weeks when it was already painfully obvious that changes were on the way? Linsey stated several days ago the scavenger hunt is on its way, anyone who bought a precursor after that (but before today) should kick themselves.

Amodin.1092:

Mada.5319:

The price of precursors have significantly dropped. Everybody wins. Some more than others but still……..

Again, completely missing the point as to why people are upset.

We aren’t participating to lower the cost – we are participating to better our characters, to have a good time and for this instance, yes, have a fair shot at something that most of us can’t afford.

For me, I just wanted to have some fun and I never ever would expect a pre-cursor to just fall from the sky and into my bag space.

The point was, lot of people got cheated out of even having a chance at completion, a chance at a pre-cursor, a chance at some gold. The technical limitations of Arenanet cheated out a lot of people out of all of it – the build update in the middle of the kittening raids, invisible mobs (you calling that content now, Anet?) the poor implementations, and the fact that this is not the first time. They spent hours of their time to come in and play, not be a testing ground, like we have been for 3 months. In return, they (we) got insane repair costs, no chest to loot, kicked from the game and had no fun in the process.

I don’t know why you log in – but I log in to enjoy myself. When I got booted, that was the end of the fun for me. The whole point was utter, epic failure.

Then they say they are going to compensate us for it. Mark my words – it will be nothing like the chance at what we had earlier today. The only thing it will be missing, will be everything that we were trying to accomplish and retrieve from that long, drawn out crab fight. It will be salvage.

You should re-read the op. Nothing to do with what you’re complaining about. Anet has already said that those who disconnected will get compensated. If you wanna jump to conclusions now about that compensation, you’re just creating the problem yourself.

The price of precursors have significantly dropped. Everybody wins. Some more than others but still……..

I’ve been having this problem aswell for quite a while. I’ve tried reducing my ram but it did not work. Is there any solution to this problem other than changing to a 64 bit os? I’ve already updated my drivers and have limitted the amount of processes that run in the background. A friend of mine has a 32 bit os aswell and he has no problems. What else can I do?

Based on the system requirements, I should be able to play this game fine but obviously there’s something wrong.

New zone was a nice challenge at first but after figuring out the karka’s attack pattern, it’s a cake walk. Don’t make this zone any easier please.

This zone is kinda boring in terms of events though…. heading back to Orr.

This is turning out to be the best matchup I’ve ever played in. First time FA has been in a real three way match since the 1 week matches started. Hope the fight stays this close all week.

He complemented you saying you guys are headed to t1? How is that an insult?

Reading comprehension has failed you.

Still missing some achievement points.

Just wait for the guesting feature to be implemented.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill. Our goal is to ensure we have a proper progression for players from exotic up to legendary without a massive jump in reward between the two. We will slowly add the remaining ascended gear items and legendary items in future updates to allow people time to acquire them as we add exciting new content that deserves exciting rewards. We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.

The bolded part is where you’ve lost me. Are you aware that legendary weapons have the same stats as exotics? Legendary weapons ARE NOT a higher tiered reward. Sure, they got a different coloured text, better looking and take more time but they are purely COSMETIC. They are the equivalent of obsidian armor in gw1. Lots of work to get them, but you get them for their looks, not their stats. There is no gap between exotics and legendaries other than time and money. What anet is doing is artificially creating the gap by raising the power of legendaries so that they now have an excuse to add a gear treadmill to this game. You can say that your GOAL isn’t to have a gear treadmill but the REALITY is that you are, in fact, creating it.

AcidicVision.5498:

Plague.5329:

Acidic, you really just don’t get it. There’s no hope for you. Greens were just perfect rares meant for non-hardcore players to obtain so they could avoid grinding for a perfect weapon, which was a big problem at the time for most players. This is the opposite of that situation in every way. You obviously are blinded by something, and can’t see that. A shame for all of us, I suppose.

A shame for you? I have an entire room of engineers that understand exactly what I am saying and I didn’t need to explain it more than once. I already ran my logic through the ringer just to make sure I wasn’t being an unreasonable nut-job because some of you honestly had me doubting myself. But I passed with flying colors. So I know i’m good. I just can’t think of how to better communicate it to some of you people. Immensely frustrating.

Oh dear. A lost cause remains a lost cause.