Guild Wars 2

Today I had to upscale events and told people to not DPS so we barely made it with less than 2% into last phase :/ At least I got 2 lane defender achievements now. 2 to go!

Personally I gave up on maximizing shards per week

It is a horrible overnerf.

Esonver.8470:

Is that AFKer an Engineer?

yes

Berserk Steve.1530:

achievements now confirmed working on all lanes just hold dmg and kill in 3rd.

Sound like badly designed achievements if they force you to play bad. Especially in open world environments where other people do what they want.

We just had an afker on our team and barely reached 100 points because of it. 3 Pips gone. How is this any fair? 3 Pips I worked very hard for in ruby league…

If only you could not loose tiers in Ruby+. I was Tier 2 and now Tier 1 with 2 pips. So far the most frustrating experience I had in PvP since this season started…

Zaxares.5419:

Same here. The moment I got Exalted Gathering, the very next node I went to (I think it was just a common Mithril Ore) gave me all 9 Auric Lodestones for the 9 collections at once. It was quite amusing.

Auric Lodestones =! Auric Sharpening Stones for specialisation collection

Would be a good idea. At least the 4g per boss should be daily.

Cyrotek.7019:

The Gerent did simply not fit in where it was. Compared to every other HoT Map Meta it was simply ridiculous while beeing connected to “casual” stuff.

I do not have a problem with “hard” events if they are an entirely seperate thing like Triple Trouble. But the balancing of the Gerent event was just kittened for where it ist.

Malediktus.9250:

Rewarding the bad players with undeserved rewards will just lower their incentive to optimise their builds and equipment.

I actually doubt that the majority of the player base is “optimising” their builds and equipment in ways you’d like. Does this make the majority of the playerbase “bad”? Do you not see the problem with this? Why balancing something on a minority?

I for example like to play some of my characters with something else than an Zerker build. It is fun for me. Am I not allowed to have fun in your world?

Malediktus.9250:

You already get rewards for showing up and playing, in this case ley line crystals and chak acid. You just do not get the main price if you fail.

Yeah, those 15 Ley Line Crystals are really worth my time … not. I get more in the same time by doing two adventures or just randomly killing mobs.

Malediktus.9250:

People who dont run full DPS builds are a dead weight. Why should people who optimise their equipment be punished with boring encounters just because of some unteachable players? Because lets face it, if you arent running full DPS builds in anywhere in PVE (except niche roles in raids) you are doing it wrong.

I cleared most of the dungeons at release withhout exploiting (!), withhout graveyard zerg and withhout a zerker build in most of my parties. Interestingly enough we mostly failed when we had “too much” Zerkers.
How did you fare?

Seriously, just stop your wannabee elitist crap. There is basically not a single thing in the whole game, which needs everyone to run around in zerker gear except raids. Why should there be ONE event, that isn’t seperated from everything else, requiring that? It makes zero sense and goes against the actual playerbase, of which not all are wannabee elitists.

If you only get 15 ley line crystals while preparing for the chak gerent to arrive you must be doing something wrong.

39k is impossible at the moment. You can get around 32k if you did every historic achievement since release and all other permanent ones + 15k daily/monthly.

I got this bug from time to time (around 25% chance?): Despite having 110%+ map participation, my end reward chest only counts ~30% of my map participation resulting in 1 key and 15 aurillium instead of 75 aurillium and 7 keys.
My guess is that the game sometimes calculates the chest too early, because you can get 80% map participation from helping out in all 4 lanes.

They are still not working.

“Fixed a bug that prevented players from getting the Lane Defender achievements available during the King of the Jungle meta-event.”
The recent patchnotes lied.

Looks like normal loot from salvaging amulets. I salvaged over 20 amulets and it was always that crappy.

Why would Anet take action? There is no rule against spoilers from other franchises.

Agemnon.4608:

Malediktus.9250:

The achievement would be too easy and unpunishing if you would not have to replay everything.

How so? If you can reach it you already know you can clear everything that comes before it anyway. It’s just artificial longevity. It was the second hardest achievement I did behind it’s all about time and that one required some serious outside the box thinking like bringing along fire elemental powder for the second phase.

To punish you for failing.

Please give me spoilers. Saves me money so I dont have to visit the cinema.

DoctorDing.5890:

Malediktus.9250:

I would assume the top 10% of the active playerbase puts in over 50% of the total hours played.

That’s one heck of an assumption.

No it isnt, Anet said a while ago, that on average an active account plays less than 1 hour a day (way before 10€ accounts and f2p, but cant find the source right now), but most of my friendlist plays many hours a day. So there must be many people who play a lot less than 1h / day average to result in less than 1h/day average for the whole playerbase.

This bug is unacceptable

I think it is unacceptable that this bug has not been hotfixed yet. The settings on all of my 30 accounts keep resetting and it is making me furious.

Windows 10 64bit – 64bit client

Tommyknocker.6089:

Malediktus.9250:

It is still very casual friendly, just not friendly to bad players who are unwilling to improve. Casual does not equal bad player. Even players with a low amount of time can play very well if they desire.

And that in a nutshell is the problem with the direction ANet has taken. When it was first introduced it was advertised as the game for those that don’t like the traditional MMO. Friendly atmosphere, no grind, no “I swing a sword again”.

But the current iteration is EXACTLY what many of us were running away from!

The entire “get gud” attitude was something I never wanted to see in this game, now it seems that GW2 is no better than any other WOW clone out there.

Anet is making a game for everyone. I would assume the top 10% of the active playerbase puts in over 50% of the total hours played. So if Anet would bore them away, the (ultra) casuals would have much less people to play with.

I Forgot.1684:

I invest in Black Lion skins. If they do this, then I will lose thousands of gold. There are many people who also invest in Black Lion skins. I don’t think it would be a good idea to cause many people to lose gold just so other people can make more gold.

To better express my point, let’s say I spend $100 on gems which I then use to purchase Black Lion keys. I use those keys to open chests, and I get several tickets. I then spend those tickets on several skins that I keep in my bank, in hopes that they will go up in value, as most Black Lion skins do. After a little while, you come along and suggests that the items, for which I paid real money, should be available to you by other means, so that you will have an enhanced game experience. Now let’s assume that you have never purchased any gems. Your idea effectively enhances the game for people who have potentially spent less to enjoy the game, while simultaneously causes others, who have most likely spent more to enjoy the game, to suffer a loss.

Black Lion skins should hold their value, or people will be more hesitant to buy them, and as a result, people will be more hesitant to buy keys.

Investing is always a risk. I got 25 black lion sets complete, so my suggestion has the potential to devalue my achievements, but I still think there needs to be a rotation.

It is still very casual friendly, just not friendly to bad players who are unwilling to improve. Casual does not equal bad player. Even players with a low amount of time can play very well if they desire.

2 matrices is the minimum you can get per salvage, infused rings give a minimum of 4 matrices. I think the maximum is 20 for non infused and 40 for infused, at least I got 20 out of a non infused ring more than once.

People who vendor their rings are wasting profit. With just 1g per salvage I make good profit on average with matrices being at almost 40s.
Also you should get the ascended salvaging achievement done. I got 3x 20 ascended salvage charges and 1x 1 salvage charge for free (= merely 25 regular fractal relics) from the fractal reliquiary so far.

You already get rewards for showing up and playing, in this case ley line crystals and chak acid. You just do not get the main price if you fail.

No then my ele will no longer look special. Reward tracks are boring and too easy. Maybe if it would cost 50 league tickets per piece I would be ok with it.

League Veteran does not unlock until you completed League Recruit. So it makes sense that it starts from scratch like any other achievement you have to unlock first.

Coldtart.4785:

Malediktus.9250:

Why should people who optimise their equipment be punished with boring encounters just because of some unteachable players?

On the flip side of that; why should good players be punished by losing fights they deserved to win because of bad players?

At the end of the day I’d rather the bad players get rewards they don’t deserve than good players be denied rewards they do deserve.

Rewarding the bad players with undeserved rewards will just lower their incentive to optimise their builds and equipment.

I think it would be nice if the black lion set inside the Fractal Encryptions would be rotated around every month. Despite the rarity of the aetherised skins, the price already dropped below the value of a black lion ticket for most of them. To keep the value of these black lion weapons and to make sure the fractal encryptions stay worth opening, the set should be rotated.
There have been a few sets which were never available for tickets for a long time now such as fused, zodiac and sclerite which would be ideal candidates for being rotated in.

CrimmsonWind.1475:

Malediktus.9250:

You need 1 league cross for the first meta achievement. After crossing 1 league division the achievement for the 2nd meta unlocks. That one requires 2 division crossings. In total you need 1+2+3+4 = 10 division crossings if you want to do all 4 metas.

I crossed into sapphire while still in the first meta. I have not crossed a division threshold yet while in the second meta.

So one division cross carried over upon unlocking the second meta. But not the other.

Counting the Legendary division, there are 6 divisions. Unless you can bounce between ruby, diamond, and legendary, the achievement requires more division crossings than are actually available. And forcing people to lose in order to cross backwards into previous divisions (if that’s even possible) seems like a bad idea. Unless repeating Legendary also counts as crossing a division, even though it’s Legendary into Legendary.

So I’m more inclined to believe that something is bugged, or something has yet to be revealed. Or it’s just really badly worded and needs to be explained by someone in Anet.

1) Legendary Division is repeatable
2) Anet said even the best player will not be able to complete all requirements for the legendary backpack in one season.

Andred.1087:

skullmount.1758:

DeWolfe.2174:

Malediktus.9250:

Would be sad to see it nerfed. The game needs more challenging content. Even raids (with Eternal) are too easy.

No, the game doesn’t need more challenging content, it needs more FUN content. Challenge =/= fun

Thats just your own opinion. For some people the challenge is the fun part. I for one enjoyed it the way it was (after the nuhoch fix, before that it was a bit too much). It wasn’t a guaranteed win, but it was close (with a coordinated group). Now if what op and other say is true, it’ll be just as easy as DS

You guys are really missing the point here. I think we can all agree that a good challenge is fun, but the problem was that Gerent wasn’t challenging. It just had a ridiculous amount of health, requiring everyone in the event to be full-on DPS, and counter-intuitively avoid using CC just to maximize burn time.

Is it too easy now? Maybe. But now anybody can participate, even if they don’t run DPS builds, and it will still be possible to win, as long as nobody screws up the lane mechanics, and you don’t have entire groups wiping to the jelly donut.

People who dont run full DPS builds are a dead weight. Why should people who optimise their equipment be punished with boring encounters just because of some unteachable players? Because lets face it, if you arent running full DPS builds in anywhere in PVE (except niche roles in raids) you are doing it wrong.

I am at 18/18 with only 17 achievements ticket off in the list, so the 18th must be coming from the repeatable

You need 1 league cross for the first meta achievement. After crossing 1 league division the achievement for the 2nd meta unlocks. That one requires 2 division crossings. In total you need 1+2+3+4 = 10 division crossings if you want to do all 4 metas.

I got the same issue, but maybe you need to max the AP out for it to progress the meta?

EDIT: Nevermind it seems to give +1 to the achievement even if it does not tick off the thing from the meta.

You need to reach Ruby to progress it

Dont forget Tangled Depths. It went from the hardest to the easiest of the 4 HoT maps in one patch

There seem to be quite a few bugs with the achievement API (based on comparing my achievements to what is getting shown on gw2efficiency):

Daily/Monthly AP not included (probably missing in the API?)
Daily achievements not getting reported as completed
Repeatable achievements not working properly
Hero achievements (1st ,2nd and 3rd birthday achievement missing)
Hall of Monuments (“God walking amongst mere mortals” achievement missing)
Tangled Depths (4 achievements missing, the 4 hidden ones)
Basic Collections (41 of 68 detected)
Rare Collections (9 of 16 detected)
Black Lion Collections (1 of 29 detected)
Legendary Weapons (23 of 72 detected)
Edge of the Mist (15 of 20 detected)
Boss Week (6 of 7 detected)
Retired Achievements (3 of 6 detected)
6 out of 37 historical achievement categories missing entirely (Blood and Madness 2013 and 2014, A very marry Wintersday 2013 and 2014 and Shadow of the Mad King 2012 and 2015)
Escape from Lion’s Arch (15 out of 20 detected, the 5 repeatables are missing)
Queen Jennah’s Jubilee (13 out of 14 detected, Opening Ceremony Attendee missing)
Support Evon Gnashblade/Support Ellen Kiel (11 out of 12 detected each, repeatable minigame achievements missing)

I think most of the missing achievements are achievements which are invisible until you reached at least 1 goal of it.

Also I heared from other players, that some achievements (such as Undefeated from Spirit Vale category, possibly needs 1 of the 3 goals completed) report as completed in the API, even if you have not completed it in reality. Cannot confirm this though, since I got most achievements done.

Opened 18+ of each chest after patch 1 normal skin and 0 gold skin. Terrible.

So essentially people will still be able to keep several teams in the top 25.

quaniesan.8497:

oh serious now? just shut it. first “it’s too hard, tone it down”, now “it’s too easy” when they answer the demand. There’s something called Raid if people want to try something challenging. DS was tough, virtually impossble, at first, now people learning it and it rarely failed. If DS rarely fails, why TD should be any more challenging. TD was extremely tough and you really have to have organized guild people doing it with a good map to finish it, thus people generally never bother spending time.

Different players who are complaining before and now. The TD meta event was the only fun part of the 4 new maps. The other map meta events felt way too easy and rewarding.

Would be sad to see it nerfed. The game needs more challenging content. Even raids (with Eternal) are too easy.

I have 25 sets completed, 2 started and 3 missing completly. Trying to collect these can burn one out.
I miss the times when these collection achievements did not exist, because most of these skins are so ugly I would never wear them

Yes, there are way too many. It is every 2 weeks instead of 4-6 weeks since HoT got released

Just salvage the old ones and be done with it. It is easy enough to get new ones.

-1 easy achievements should not give titles
You can tag all 5 bosses in one night cycle if you know what you are doing. There is no inactivity timer on these events.

You need to reach 6x legendary 1 or legendary x6

kuritsutian.2987:

There’s a mastery that allows you to get crystal drops for random mobs.

Where you using the acid keys to open the map treasures? that alone should give you some extra crystals

acid keys are a ley line crystal sink. they never ever give any crystals back

Balance patches need to come every 2 weeks if Anet wants GW2 to become eSports.

HoT brought PvP in GW2 to a whole new level of horribleness. I came to this realisation after playing through the leagues upto saphir tier 2. Basically there was already too much of everything before HoT, but the elite specialisations made everything even worse. Chronomancers (too much alacrity, evades, blocks), Scrappers (the drones are a bad joke, they need to go), Dragonhunters, Herolds etc are all things which never should have made it into PvP.
Basically the only reason I and many people I know just keep playing PvP for the new achievements and the legendary backpack. If your metrics show an increase in player activity it is not because people enjoy pvp, it is because they want these rewards. I will bet real money on this.
I must say playing this frustrating and horrible game mode so many hours in 57 days just to get the rewards feels like torture and and not fun at all.

Hakuryuu.8634:

Are you serious?
If you really are, it’ll bring the meaning of “Revenant is broken” to a whole new level

Yes, I am serious. Coming across asura, charr and basically everything revenants in ranked tpvp matches despite having standard models on. I wonder how this oversight can be possible.