Guild Wars 2

I dont find the requirements insane. They are just impossible for the next 1-3 years depending if Anet brings an expansion or not.

I dont think it would cost Anet a bomb if you can rent a reliable 512 TeamSpeak server as low as 50€ per month. 512 slots of bandwith would probably cover the entire pvp community considering how small it is :p
Bandwith is dirt cheap nowadays. Saving on this is just profit maximisation.
If I download a 30GB game on Steam it will cost Valve probably less than 10 cents for the bandwith. I dont see them complaining if I decide to install and uninstall games all day and causing 100GB bandwith per day.

Most environmental weapons are totally useless for lvl 80 exotic equipped people. This would be just something you work off with a Dulfy guide asap and be done with it imho.

Crysto.7089:

Malediktus.9250:

Depths.4051:

No instance owner is the best thing to ever happen to dungeons, I’m sorry but I 100% disagree with OP. If your in a long and difficult dungeon, and the the pug leader who opened has to leave, the dungeons over. Even if the opener doesn’t leave party and disconnects the instance eventually times out and people are forced to leave. The new system is a god send in my opinion and I hope it never reverts.

There are no long and difficult dungeons in this game. Even Arah p4 can be done without skipping/exploiting in a hour or less.

an hour straight of playing a video game isn’t a long time? you must be old.

Not really. I remember times when you raided 6+ hours non stop. Good old times.
1h is really not very long.

Tachenon.5270:

This seems like a good place to repost this screenshot.

That looks outrageous

Over a year later still nothing has been changed about the mesmer moa skill

GW2 will never be esports Anet, bury your dream.

Rezzet.3614:

I Demand Crossdressing to be allowed

O tempora, o mores.

I dont think that would be appropirate for a PEGI 12 game at all.

Even WoW sells max lvl for real money. I cant see any harm about this unless it comes with best in slot items.

Depths.4051:

No instance owner is the best thing to ever happen to dungeons, I’m sorry but I 100% disagree with OP. If your in a long and difficult dungeon, and the the pug leader who opened has to leave, the dungeons over. Even if the opener doesn’t leave party and disconnects the instance eventually times out and people are forced to leave. The new system is a god send in my opinion and I hope it never reverts.

There are no long and difficult dungeons in this game. Even Arah p4 can be done without skipping/exploiting in a hour or less.

But everyone knows the bank will win in the long run if you gamble
Also the chance for exotic minis out of these packs is really low, I wouldnt be suprised if you get no exotic mini at all in 32 packs, so you most likely need to mystic forge gamble after it, too.

Thats about 120€ if you convert gems to gold. I think buying these packs would cost a multiple of that.

Of course the average is pretty low. A lot of people dont have any interest in collecting achievements. They only play whats fun to them or little effort.
If you want high up you have to do all the demanding ones such as having 2 of the same legendaries. The average wont ever do that.
Its only interesting to see the average of people who actively try to hunt achievements. And considering how little competition there is in the top 20 (I am ranked 15 despite 3 months of break), I doubt the number of AP collectors is very large.

Another related bug resulting from being able to move before the round starts: If you move away too far away from the camp fire, will be immobilized until someone kills you because it wont be removed

I like the follower list. There are about 1000 people following me if I had to give a rough guess about it since there is no counter.

Daily cap was introduced because top 25 people were burning out on feeling forced to have to do all dailies every day.

Bri.8354:

They really need to improve these rewards.

Monetary rewards are very low, ascended chests mostly give you an inefficient stat you have no use for, you can’t do anything with your spare ascended rings/armor/weapons, tonic drop rate is so low its like winning the lottery, and once you get the fractal skins/tonic there’s no point of running it anymore because the non-exclusive rewards suck.

Thats why they a made the exclusive rewards extremly low chance, so you never stop having a reason to run them again :p

Tom Yzf.5872:

I don’t understand why you guys are giving him kitten for this request. His LFG description was clear, however the players joining didn’t have the common courtesy to read and comply before they joined. The OP should be able to have complete control over his instance, so he can protect himself from players like this.

I agree OP, and I’ll take it even further. Allow parties to have an official leader who has the sole ability to kick/invite at will. This way you can completely protect your instance and make sure all party members are on the same page before continuing.

at least one person who agrees

No smart person would buy these packs at this time anyway. You would need so many gems to buy enough of the packs, that convertig gems to gold and buying the minis from TP is the far better option.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

In Guild Wars 2, the monsters raid you.

Also, check out Guild Missions

You must be joking if you consider guild missions raid content. Its only remotely challenging if you do it in undersized guilds and the rewards are boring.

You didnt loose progress. You had the option to 4 man it or wait until the person is back. It was only a problem if the instance owner tried to switch chars or left the party.
I think its completly fair to punish people if they choose to ignore the description you made for the group. If they dont agree with it they can make their own group. Now I have no ways to take action other than hoping people agree to kick all the people who cant read or deliberately ignore it.
Before I had the option to say do as the group description advertised or I will disband the instance. Completly fair.

Sanderinoa.8065:

Posts like these are why we can’t have nice things

What do you mean?
I cant find any good reason to have no instance owners. Its a griefers and kickers paradise to have it like this. And yes I count people who ignore the lfg descriptions as griefers. If you try to kick them you run the risk of getting kicked yourself if there is someone in the group who is on that persons side.
Not to mention your instance will get deleted immediatly now if everyone left it. Very bad if there is server lag and everyone gets a network error.

Please bring back instance owners. I am tired of advertising my group as “no skipping” or “all champions” or similar and then people skip everything anyway even if you remind them of the description. Before the update I could just leave to punish them with having to start over. I want this option back because I have no other means as enforcing my advertised preferences.

I think I found a bug in the loottables. The aetherblades seem to drop drytop only items like Zephyrite lockpicks and Piles of Silky Sand. I am not sure if this bug only appears in the fractals or outside of fractals, too.

Maybe in December we have to buy 50€ of gems to get it. Just like what happened to Mr Sparkles.

Wanze.8410:

Do you really expect someone from Anet to come here and say:
Wow, thats a great idea, we will implement this some time in the future?

Yes, considering they also announced other market changing updates like ascended armors weeks before, I wouldnt see any issue with this. Better than changing something in a sneaky way and hit people unprepared.

If they would let us demote gossamer they would fix 2 problems: Too much gossamer and too few silk in one go. Plus also sink skillpoints and other stuff in the mystic forge recipe.

Or they could introduce some prestige armors which need 250 gossamer bolts per part. That would be 1500 Gossamer Bolts per set which would make the price stabilize at a fair point again.

Dont gamble with stuff you arent willing to loose.

Are there any plans to make gossamer more useful? The value is at 1-1.5s per bolt (compared to 10s per silk bolt) already since there is barely any sink for it. Everytime I salvage something and get gossamer instead of I have to sigh instead being happy although its a higher tier material. At the very least let us demote gossamer to silk at the ratio of 1 gossamer = 3 silk or something.

kokiman.2364:

Malediktus.9250:

kokiman.2364:

Really bad idea..

My personal hater visits every thread of me. How cute.

What? Who do you think you are?

Seemingly important enough that you keep coming into my threads, hating my suggestions and even faked my signature in the past I think I still have screenshots of it somewhere

You might have a point there. I often wondered why sometimes chests of the same name and quality do not stack, but its hard to test your hypothesis since the droprate of these exotics is so low.

Just had 3 people disconnect after a lag at the same time during fractals again

/ip = 206.127.159.231

kokiman.2364:

Really bad idea..

My personal hater visits every thread of me. How cute.

Dont get peoples hope up for nothing.

nekretaal.6485:

No thanks.

I have completed the let line, Phoenix, chaos and tempest collections already and I am very happy with the reward of 7 black lion tickets.

Leave the titles for somebody who actually did something ingame.

I completed 5 sets so far, too. I see no harm in giving titles for it since you can buy the skins for gold on TP.

He has 22504 AP (yes I just looked him up on the leaderboards), he most likely hit the cap and doesnt know about it.

Haha! Anet should totally make a leaderboard for that.

Then you would make it easier to craft said skins because it would become easier for people who farm their materials instead of buying.

It would be nice if Black Lion weapon collection achievements would give titles you can show as proof for owning a whole collection since they are very expensive:
Example:
Chaos collection – The Chaotic
Tempest collection – The Tempest
Phoenix collection – The Phoenix

As you can see nothing special, just a little something.

Other collections which deserve a title:
Spirit Crafter – The Ghostsmith
Jormag Defense Guide – Jormag Specialist
Treasure Hunter – Treasure Hunter
Ambrite Weapon collection – Ambrite connoisseur

Messing with precursor and T6 mat droprates would mess up the whole game. Every skin worth having needs a lot of t6 mats, even if you just want lets say Infinte Light. If legendaries would become easier to make due to easier precursors, the non legendary skins would go up in price, too.

That would be news to me, pretty sure I bought mine on the TP.

His name is Tequatl and yes the RNG sucks. I am at 100+ kills and not even a Tequatl mini.

Since a few days I and my groups have noticed regular server side freezes on the EU side. For 1-10 seconds all combat is frozen, but text chat is still working (as is TeamSpeak). This doesnt seem specific to any /ip, time but noticed in tPvP, open world content, dungeons and fractals. Often it also causes several people of the group to receive a network error at the same time.
I realize there already is a topic about lag, but I dont feel like specifying my country or anything is going to help if its affecting everyone in an international group/map.

Anet doesnt want to make new sets every few months, so they made the requirements high enough that they will only have to make these 2 sets for the lifetime of the game. Learn to deal with it already or act as if they werent there.

Dulfy drops the Utility Backpack which only contains the special exotic “Twin Talons”. Not really worth farming imho.

The boosts do not work against players I believe. Only against NPCs last time I checked

Narkodx.1472:

Are these on the TP yet? Anyone got some prices for me in-game? Still at work

Buy orders are around 70-80g each, sell prices around 100-110g.

I finished the collection, cant wait for the next set.

Maybe its also good to take into account which champion bags they drop, because some drop more valuable exotics than others.
The ones in SE p1 drop exotic luxury bags, Ac story drops gilded chests (not always exotic),
The fractal instance I mentioned gives 1x Fallen Adventurer’s Backpack (Arthropoda, Cobalt, Crustacea, Lord Taeres’s Shadow, Stardust, Twin Talons, Scepter of the Highborn, Song of the Temptress, King’s Remembrance and Impaler), 1x Oversized Rucksack (Poyaqui’s Noggin, Mecha Anchor, Guild Defender) and 1x Elaborate Ritualist Bag (Razah’s Nightmare, Cobalt)

For comparison: Luxury chests drop Arc, Levvi’s Detector, X6-31 Beta, Mecha Anchor and Gilded Chests Crystal Guardian, Scepter of the Highborn, Shiverstone, Cobalt, Monsoon, Rockweed Spire, Combustion

I was wondering since farming champions in the open world is often connected with toxic behaviors such as failing events on purpose or complaining to others because they have an other rotation, if fractals would be an alternative?
At the start of the uncategorized fractal are 3 champions which can be killed relatively fast, especially at level 1 difficulty. Solo players could even just keep farming the Champion Rabbit.
Lets say you could pull killing off all 3 champs every 3 minutes (including rerolling the fractal with people who have fast loading times), it would yield 60 champion boxes per hour.

Easy way to normalize all precursor costs: Let us put 4 random precursors into the forge for a new one.