Guild Wars 2

Had a 5 thief team yesterday. Needless to say we lost although the opponents had 2 people sub rank 10.
Cant wait for finnaly having the thief champion title.

you dont have to time much with retaliation, guardians have a pretty high uptime by just using their standard skills
I spent roughly 4760 hours of my gameplay with guardian so I know well about the class

Elrey.5472:

The chest is great, you are just aiming for the wrong reward.

It happens that i’m actually after my first legendary and i needed 250 obsidian items… http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_Shard …and the only way to get them is through an insane amount of Laurels or fractals currency or 500k karma. That’s TOO much imo, but then i noticed… every scarlet chest drops 3 obsidian items and i love that.

I did Scarlet 74 succesful times, enough to save me more than 450.000 karma! and i got 222/250 of the obsidian items needed to craft my legendary The chest is worth it every single time.

If you play WvW 450k karma is nothing.

Dosvidaniya.3260:

Based off another players comment, I just wanted to offer two solutions that are 100% viable for the devs. Let players trade in 15 glory boosters for 1 pvp unidentified dye. Alternatively, let players turn in 1 glory booster for 20 magic find.

I know that glory is being removed, so that conversion won’t work. So, it has to be converted into something we can already get from glory. Two things that you can always get are luck and dyes. Use them. Of course the devs have the real numbers, the above are based on my own research.

Right now, one glory booster should average around 500 glory in hotjoin. (162.5 glory/game * .50 boost * 6 games). So, it’s roughly equivalent to one 500 glory chest. I just opened 60 of them so I could have a basis for numbers.

I averaged one dye per 15 chests; so 1 dye per 15 glory boosters is roughly equivalent; but the player loses finishers and gear drops.

I averaged around 3.75 luck per salvage. So, close to 20 (18.75) luck per chest; assuming no finishers or dye.

In the end run, you gain less than boosters that are used; however, players still can do something with the stockpiles they’ve accumulated.

you must be joking.

runeblade.7514:

How about no?

You didn’t say why it is a stupid mechanic.

Because its passive play and when I fight a battle where someone distributes a lot of retaliation and look in the damage log after death often 40-70% of damage come from retaliation. It doest feel right.

Please remove retaliation from pvp its a stupid mechanic for competive play.

Considering glory boosters still come out of chests I am getting them in about the same ratio as I use them up…

Wanze.8410:

You also get quartz crystal rewards for placing in sanctum sprint, btw.

I dont think so. I never get quartz in sanctum sprint. I got 1st like 100 times already and never saw quartz there.

I created around 175 dragonite bars already. I am expecting to need a stack of them for future legendaries.

Desolation is the server with the largest PVE population in EU. Dont leave it if you like PVE.

Carighan.6758:

Equinox.4968:

Again, it’s about completionism, not rewards. I could care less about meta-rewards, because all I care about is getting 100% on every time-limited set of achievements. But I (very narrowly) got the achievement yesterday, so it’s a moot point.

I’ll admit I don’t quite get that.
Really don’t. Achievements are so… arbitrary. There’s no rhyme or reason or theme to them really, they cover various types of a game, but not equally so, and it varies per game.

It’s like a stamp collector wanting to collect all red-ish stamps, basically.

Good for you. Some people like this kind of stuff. Stop being narrow minded.

No, so people who horded chests get rewarded?

I rather spend glory on Tomes of Knowledge. Also its a terrible amount of clicking to make dyes. No thanks.

Terrible idea. Dailies are annoying enough already

Mordremoth awoke and he is hungry for magic. He ate them.

Liewec.2896:

if you have Titianic in your movie collection skip to the bit where everyone is diving overboard as the ship starts to really sink.

insaneseagull.7063:

Pie Flavor.1647:

kokiman.2364:

Win what?               

win guild missions by being able to port to a friend when you found the objective of a guild bounty for example

HA-HA-HA-HA
Seriously?….Is this what you call pay to win? Who excactly do you win over?
I’m curious. Humour me.

pay to win is different for everyone. if its the goal to look pretty (horizontal progression) cosmetics like in GW2 are pay to win too.

Nope, the buffs are fine. Perhaps even slightly underpowered for the work it takes to get them.

1500 units is not tall enough, I think there are player skills with 1500 range

Making them forgeable would totally crash the mini market. Maybe demote Magnus to white or blue quality.

I heared Scarlet cloned herself a few dozen times before attacking LA. Stay tuned!

Population is based on the amount of accounts on a server… even inactive ones. Anet just raises the treshold for the low/med/high status every few months.

Sariel V.7024:

CC Danicia.1394:

An update I just posted:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Alliance-Supplies-Found-Items

As of March 18th, Alliance Supplies will stop dropping and you will not be able to receive any new Found Belongings or Found Heirlooms. Related to this, you will no longer be able to turn in Found Belongings and Found Heirlooms for items.

Thank you for making that one unambiguous… speaking of which, I still have cyphers to turn in…

Chests in scarlets lair are back since 4th march, turned in 20+ keys and deleted all cyphers which didnt make a key anymore

Even double gold from tournaments would make the reward terrible compared to PVE.

Romek.4201:

What class you play in TESO?

best question in this thread so far

Lordrosicky.5813:

Nova Stiker.8396:

ArenaNet Developers need to understand that when we complain, it also means we care.
My 10+ infractions means I care a lot. That’s not a joke. It may seem I hate the developers, which is not true, I love them, I just hate the decisions.

What I don’t understand why ArenaNet doesn’t mix living world with balance?

Living World + sPvP

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Have a bunch of NPC’s to raise funds for the new debt Lions Arch has accumulated thanks to it’s destruction and be a major part of the PvP matches.

These NPC’s will also be ‘in charge’ of balance, have fun, RP as these NPC’s in updates!

These NPC’s will be raising funds in PvP games. Taking a step further, these NPC’s can get balance feedback without people flooding the forums.

Hell, this is an excuse to bring back the Guild Wars, except instead of battling for the bloodstones, make it a popular game event in Tyria where the people can enjoy the games, a morale boost and economic boost.

Just recently WvW was involved with the living world, it’s time for sPvP to do the same.

As game developers ArenaNet, you need to step back and examine every mechanic closely and determine if it is good, bad or ugly.

I can tell you for a fact, traits can be removed entirely for a different system that can be more fun, more engaging and more freedom for balancing.

Look at League of Legends, they went through plenty of mechanics changes. THERE IS NO SHAME! Roit knows full well when they kitten hard, admit their kitten s ON CAMERA and they have the most played game of all time.

Don’t treat us like we are toxic, don’t treat us like we are a massive group. Don’t be afraid to talk to us individually and often. We bite but it’s because we don’t want to let go. Embrace the loving pain XD

10+ infractions is child’s play. I have 50+ infractions. I can’t post new topics and I can’t post more than once every 10 minutes. And this for no personal attacks or anything on anyone at anet. Just for calling out the fails in the game. IMO they had a moderator meeting about a month ago and decided to crack down on the “toxic” pvp community (as they see it). Censorship on here is currently rampant. I even got an infraction for saying I had got an infraction.

I have never been in a forum of any kind with such an amount of censorship. Luckily I am only at one post 120seconds yet, but it gets worse steadily

Its past midnight in EU, so not anywhere close to primetime.

I think the patch times are just perfect.

Will probably be saved for the big feature patch lmao

no, I tried on my guardian, he definatly got no pets in his build

It works in PVE just like any other finisher does.

Shiren.9532:

Beldin.5498:

timmyf.1490:

From comments I’ve seen here when they added the options for dailies, they DON’T see it as fun. They feel the irrational (to us, but rational to them) desire to get every chivo to be “the best.” They mostly feel like it’s a gigantic, horrible grind.

Its however a problem of the players if they don’t understand the meaning of OPTIONS and think more options mean you have to do ALL of them.

That’s not what it is. It would be options if there was a hard cap at five achievement points a day and you could choose to do any dailies you wanted. That’s not the case.

Indeed its not a viable option if they give additional rewards (achievement points) which are required for exclusive titles and skins.

1. New t7 mats like dragonite contain obsidian shards (=karma sink)
2. New t7 mats like deldrimor steel use ectos
3. Many people dislike getting Gifts of Exploration and Gift of Battle got a joke due to achievement chests

So I can see them replace Gift of Fortune and Gift of Mastery with something new. 250 bloodstone bricks, empyreal stars, dragonite bars, 250 deldrimor steel, do not seem unlikely to me.

Also why would you waste a huge premium on getting the precursors fast? If you wait you surely save 100s of gold.

So personally I will wait and see before assuming the recipes for new legendaries will be identical to the old ones.

Good luck making 2 of the new legendaries on patchday. We dont even know the recipes for them. I wouldnt be suprised if they would be completly different recipes with ascended mats and the precursors will cost more than the old legendaries in the first days.

One more reason to avoid living in China. Their laws are stupid.

More and more people reach the point where they can afford to build one or multiple legendaries. Even Eternity and multiple legendaries arent a rare sight anymore.

In that case I hope their new ship sails even faster than the EU/NA ship.

silvermember.8941:

Malediktus.9250:

Never. One day they will just close down the sPvP part of the game.

Or if you truly feel that way, you could always NOT play it. I mean the show will go on.

Too fix sPvP they would have to devote more than 1% (my guess) of their development budget for it. Which is not going to happen unless Anet finds a way to better monetize (what a word) sPvP players.

Xia.3485:

The longest dailys take me is 15 minutes, sometimes they are as fast kitten minutes. You can chain dialy’s by doing them 20 minutes before reset then doing the new ones after reset. This way you only have to be on once every two days if you’re just doing dailys.

On nights I play normally they practically do themselves.

I think you failed to read the thread properly.

Low customization would make the game boring. There are reasons why I find games like League of Legends completly terrible.

More proof that this needs to be nerfed.

runeblade.7514:

I rather that they just remove aqua breathers.

Same. Aqua breathers are just useless in the game. Nothing happens if you take them off or play with a broken one. They are probably a remnant of a pre beta stage.

If my internet would suddenly be gone or my computer broke I would have no backup solution for it. So I would sadly be out of luck. But considering the low competition at the top of the leaderboard it wouldnt really matter.

Danikat.8537:

Tl;dr
I’m not asking why people do it, or how they do it when they have time to play for 3+ hours a day. I’m asking how they can make that time every single day, 365 days a year since the game came out and how they managed to avoid unforeseen circumstances stopping them from playing.

I didnt do every single daily or monthly since release. If I would have to guess I left out a month worth of dailies and monthlies by personal choice. Illness, broken hardware or other stuff were not a reason for me to skip dailies yet.
Despite skipping a month or so worth of dailies/monthlies I am still ranked somewhere in top 25 EU. If I would transfer to NA I would be ranked 8th even. So the amount of people who do all dailies every day is abysmal. And the competition is close to zero.

Black lion chests are a waste of money. I wouldnt even consider spending gems for them if there were a 99% discount.

Never. One day they will just close down the sPvP part of the game.

Magnus is worthless because he drops like candy. I think I had like 5 of them and I do not actively farm for the alliance bags, only taking the ones I get while playing normally.

If he would be forgeable he would create the biggest crash to the mini market ever.

I do it because I have nothing else left to do in this game. PvE dailies take 1-2 hour a day, PvP dailies 2-6 hours a day (2 if 100% win rate, 6 if 1/3rd winrate, SoloQ is highly random).
But I am nearing a GW2 burnout so I preordered TESO to get rid of this.

I wish Anet would have sticked with the original 4 dailies everyone could complete in 20 minutes.

Its Sunrise as far as I can see.

I agree. I recently had to throw away a 60€ premium mouse because it was completly worn out after 5000 hours of GW2.