Guild Wars 2

The “GLFhealz then gtg” is only one problem, the other is the “dude, we need a healer, get off your bloody warrior and onto your priest NOAW or GKICKz!!”, i.e. being forced to play a class/role you don’t want to play.

I do agree that the different things classes bring to the table in GW2 aren’t all utilized equally well. One improvement would be to make boon removal more of a “thing” in PvE, which would make several class abilities more important.

Instead of buying bank tabs maybe you should just make your own bank guild. Especially with gem costs rising, it becomes much more attractive to make a guild and buy some influence that you then use to buy the upgrade to guild bank, vault, etc. I did the simple math for it a few months back, when gem costs were about 75% of what they are now, and even back then it was more attractive to have a guild bank vs buying more bank slots.

Only downside to guild bank is it doesn’t store account bound mats, but it will take all your other stuff.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Honestly, WvW is doomed because new players or casuals soon won’t be able to compete with veteran players. Without new players WvW dies.

If you think casuals can compete with veteran players if they only had the same gear…, you are going to have a bad time.

As mentioned above, WvW isn’t designed to be “fair”. If you wanted to make it fair we’d get into the whole nonsense of limiting populations, so every server would bring in the same amount of people, no siege, because the guys with 20 arrow carts have an advantage, no walls, because they give an advantage to defenders, etc, etc.

Think of WvW more as trying to beat the odds.

With the ascended update, I do pop into those zones quite often now.
Jumping puzzles there are typically easy and fast: empyreal mats
Iron ore: 1+silver
Soft logs: 2+silver

But, yea, I typically don’t do any events, unless I see someone doing one and they need help.

Maybe if ANet would normalize the champs across the zones. I mean, compare the Ascalon Nageling champ giant to pretty much any other champ, lol. You should get 2 or 3 bags from him!

Also, scale rewards with zone levels. Eg, lvl1-15 zone only give white level champ bags, 15-25 gives blue level, etc, so that you need to do at least level 50 zone champs to get rare or exotic bags.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Thrumdi.9216:

Good question.

My hope is not until ESO is released.

But seriously, Ascended armor would be far more work to design than trinkets or weapons, as the stats on armor are fundamental to builds and traits.

So it will all depend on when they started designing the armor. If it was at the time of the November Ascended bombshell, it might be close to being done. But if they completed the other gear first, I would guess January 2014.

Armor doesn’t take a year to model. If I were on a full-time wage, I’d be able to pump out quality armor sets based off of concept art each week, for each race and armor class. Since I’m not though, I take much more time for my clients. See diagram below:

“Pick any two of the following: cheap, fast, high quality.”

Don’t foll yourself, “I could knock out an armor set every week”, lol. Notice that even today’s armor still has clipping issues. If they design a new set, it has to be done for all three armor classes, for at least three body types (asura, charr, human, if we make the ludicrous assumption sylvari are identical to humans and norn are just humans*1.25, which they are cleary not).

Flame Ram Mastery #5 is a shout skill? Did I hear that correctly? Will it trigger Soldier Runes and stuff like that?

Aberrant.6749:

Tyaen.5148:

Vash.9183:

Tyaen.5148:

Vash.9183:

assasin of warr.9517:

can i got a respond from anyone of KH?
Are you guys moanign about the fatc we use things like the windmill in a gvg?(its just a question i wanna know what you guys say we doing to cheat?)

I seriously lol’d when I heard about this. It is a guild vs guild fight. If you consider those tactics legit, then you’re saying it’s legit to tuck your tail and run to safety when you think you’re gonna go down. Honestly, if the other guild has your members to where they are DYING and have to run away… then they win. Running away to recuperate and hide is some lame stuff.

Also, I don’t care if this conversation ended yesterday.

Resetting is a legitimate tactic. If you have a problem with it, maybe you should learn how to keep your target in combat.

Maybe legitimate in any fight besides a guild vs guild showdown. I think what needs to be “learned” is how to properly survive and win. My target in a gvg should be staying in combat with his guild without me having to chase him down and finish what was already done. If you’re dying, then you’re losing.

Wrong. Resetting is a legitimate tactic. Maybe you should learn to keep your target in combat.

Err… in a duel it’s considered an automatic forfeit… same with 1v1 tournies… but this is WvW/GvG…

Wow, so all those thieves have been forfeiting to me?? Cool!!

~~Goes from worst 1v1 player to “undefeated NA” in 0.2 seconds~~

It’s even more ridiculous now, when you have to spend a good deal of time to scrounge up T7 mats, or the lower tier mats which are ridonculously expensive on TP now. Rich platinum ore node in Bloodtide says Hi!

On the note about clockwork recipes — please come up with a better way to handle stacks of 250 in pretty much anything. I’d be happy if I could just order them on the TP more easily.

And next time, for the love of all that’s good and holy , if you think there’ll be so many sprockets that you need to require 250 for a recipe, add an extra token you trade for 250 and then use that on the TP and in the recipes.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Superior_Blood

When you level it causes a huge blowback to enemies around. I think that’s still the case in WvW, so it should be noticeable to you if you are on top of the guy.

Wolfheart.1938:

Spread around the pact NPCs and pull the Risen with Guardian’s GS and Mesmer Focus/GS. Keep the NPCs as far away as possible from combat, focus the mobs who use AoEs and equip as many blinds as you can. This will make the last escort mission a breeze, we did it with 9 guys yesterday on SFR.

9 might be close to a sweet spot. If you being 30 people the event ramps up and spawns more of the escort killer mobs, too many to control if the group isn’t coordinated.

TexRob.5183:

I don’t know how to explain this any more than I have. You guys don’t seem to get that 3x something is still 3x the number. So if there are 100 precursors on the TP, there will be roughly 300 if everyone has 300% magic find, taking nothing else into consideration and simplifying. It doesn’t matter if it’s 0.000000000001 percent, because the multiplication is relative. Do you guys get it yet?

*Mystic Forge. You are assuming all pre’s come from drops, but some percentage is MF’d and isn’t affected by Mf gear (anymore).

zeromius.1604:

They’re essentially turning Tequatl into a massive open world raid boss. I don’t know if it’s too little too late since any hardcore raiders would have moved on already.

The beauty of the thing is they can come back anytime and check things out without paying for a month of play time.

Neural.1824:

nmoral.3876:

it was said by a dev that quality of salvage kit didnt affect on getting essences of luck form blues/greens. Is Dark matter affected by salvage kit quality?

Have a link to that quote? I’d like to know that one. Would save a lot to use basic over something better on greens.

Too lazy to dig up quote, but I read the same thing. Can use your copper-infinito-salavago-matic to get luck.

Neeho.3859:

Wife is 150ish, she got exotics from 2 ranks in a row at 140ish. Some before that as well.

Also, I have 3 characters at 30-40ish, have looted an exotic once that i noticed, but I don’t usually look too much; it’s open and hit accept while running/scanning.

Haven’t seen or heard about ascended, but I was only on for 2-3hrs last night.

EDIT: and none of my small group that i play with has gotten an ascended ring or anything before the patch.

You have heard of AOE loot, right…?

Indo plays a necro. They, like, never die.

Yep. MF bar goes up pretty quickly. All those blues and greens you are complaining about? Salvage for luck. MF goes up, get less blues and greens.

And the qq about needing drops to craft vision crystal: all those mats are guaranteed drops from the boss chests.

Keep calm and play on…

Walabone.6713:

(…) YET, you have proposed introducing a competitive league, which would imply some sort level playing field where everyone has a shot of participating and winning.

Obviously, a league does not imply a level playing field. Just look at your favorite sport’s league and compare first to last ranked. There will likely be MASSIVE imbalance between the teams/players. Typically it boils down to money in the professional leagues.

Navi.7142:

Adine.2184:

If Teq will require 80 i loath to think what a revamped Jormag would take

2000?

BG, JQ, TC and SoR working together. lulz

Kaizer.7135:

Knote.2904:

I like to just sit there with 1 on autocast and watch the pretty explosions, gives the combat so much depth.

I think I laughed harder at this than I should have XD

That was great

It’s like making your own Michael Bay movie!

It’s “tea kettle”. And I don’t care for SAB, but it’s cool for people who like it. I am excited about the Teq changes. Looks like this dragon fight will finally be worthwhile.

renmei.3102:

Those lag from those massive 3 ways (tee-hee) is crazy, sometimes the auto-attack goes into machine-gun mode, I die from 45 second delayed fall damage, rubber band all over the place and can’t get through portals. I’m sure players from all 3 servers have experienced this before.

The good ol’ “going from 100% hp to dead-as-a-door-nail in 0.2 seconds”. Check the log, nope, no 20k back stab, no 25k kill shots, just a gazillion 300, 400 points hits. Too bad that stuff isn’t timetagged. Though I love the perma-speed buff and its evil cousin, perma-immobilize better still.

Nonsense. Everybody knows cliffs are the #1 killer.

At least the players over NPC part is right, as you can easily see when trying to speed up a yak with 10 people sitting on it, soaking up the buffs.

Didn’t you know, sentries have the awesome ability “immobilize zerg”. Last 10 seconds, can’t be removed and has no AOE cap!

Some commanders supposedly can remove the debuff with a special shout skill, called “OMFG, everyone, GTF off the sentry NOAW, or I’ll g-kick all your a$$es!!!”

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Upgrade the rank chests to include one guaranteed rare like world boss chests,

With the increase in WXP that would be overkill, but throw in one guaranteed rare+ every 5 levels, or at whatever level your actual “rank” increases would be cool, and make it retroactive, ploxorz!!

and hook us up with dungeon tokens from rank/champion chests and random drops so we can get our cool-looking armor and legendaries without grinding PvE content. Or at least let us buy tokens with badges of honor if that’s easier to implement. That’d be a good start.

That would be a great step towards maxing out “play as you like”. Make it 10Boh per token, maybe scale with difficulty, though don’t go overboard, since dungeons still throw gold at you for running them.

Not stop, but a slow down would be nice, maybe 3 instead of 2 weeks.

Hey, back in the day you had to pay extra to use more than 4 colors in your eytch-tee-em-el.

ANet has said for a long time now that they screwed up by not having ascended stuff in game at launch. Ascended was always supposed to be there as a stepping stone from the easy-peasy exotics to the hard-as-all-F to get legendaries.

Any thoughts about gear treadmill rank up there with "what if they shut down all servers tomorrow!?!? OMGWTFburn-all-the-thingsGGto-the-forums-NOAW!!11!’

Rouven.7409:

Imagine – new skins? No clue, how far will the 400 recipes get us? To 450? Then there would be only need for one batch of things until 500.

The sucky thing is that my crafters have unlocked most of the 400-level recipes, so I won’t get the huge XP chunks you usually get for unlocking recipes. I’d have to plain craft stuff to get through the 400s, which is mighty expensive.

The green scribbles (FPS meter and ping it looks like?) – are they an overlay from a 3rd party tool, or part of the dev build he is using?

Sukor.1236:

I don’t know why people are surprised about this. Stat buffs were in at launch, the only reason they were removed is because it was too hard for a losing server to fight back for them.

What? No. They removed them because the orbs (givers of the stat bonus) were prime targets for hackers, and ANet couldn’t stop them fast enough.

Zindrix.1750:

Imo, they could fix some of the dungeons/paths/bosses before they try adding in any new ones. Besides Arah, there’s no need for the rest of the dungeons to have such varied durations to complete them when they all reward the same.

They adjusted all rewards in relation to the length and difficulty of the paths now, right? That’s why CoF p1 now gives 50 coppers.

Mawzen.8325:

Not sure if troll, serious or laughable.

It’s probably a (very valid) critique that Anet keeps adding stuff that has easy exploits (use a regen food during Belcher’s, keep killing Deadeye for easy gold, etc) only to remove them a day or two or 10 later.

The upshot is: any – ANY AND ALL – LS stuff should be done on day 1, maybe 2 if you feel lucky. Scour forums and map chat to find the easy exploits, go do it and then /point and lol at anyone who went and tried it after ANet tightened the screws and now actually has to work for it.

Really, ANet, if you can’t find and fix the exploits beforehand (and I’ll grant you that that’s not easy, though if you run this stuff on an PTS you’d probably catch most of them) then leave them in and fix it the next time you add LS.

Camps should actually give you a ton of rewards for defending them, since they are so easy to flip (camps is guarded by 5 weak dudes, unless at max upgrade they can be solo’d in a few minutes) and so hard to defend, (half of them are out of the way, few chokes, no wall/gates, no safe spots for siege).

RGN is RNG? The anecdote about you not getting anything and the other guy getting 2 is pretty much what RNG is all about.

And hating that pre’s are dropping via RNG.., well, how else would you like it? No drops, but you can buy them for gold/gems (really the same) at a merch? Then you’d hate on the people who trade a lot or farm a lot, or buy gems. If you get a pre when your char turns 1yr? then you’d hate on people who have been playing longer than you. Just give everyone all the pres at any time? Yea, not so legendary anymore.

Dropping via RNG at least gives you that “cool, I got sweet loot” feeling.

Remember also that legendaries were supposed to take you a loooong time to get. Of course, ANet, like any other MMO company ever, underestimated the tenacity of their players.

I’m sorry you haven’t got lucky yet, but you are in good and plentiful company.

You used to be able to hit the garri trebs with ACs before ACs had the radius increased. Are the increased AC and treb radius cancelling each other out? Meaning, yea, you can move the trebs back, but the larger AC radius can still hit them? Given of course you have someone with AC mastery.

This might not be a bad idea for your alts, or rather for all your chars but the one at the highest WXP level. This would lessen the pain a bit when playing on multiple characters.

But there are better solutions for that, like making WXP account-bound…

For the most part, SP products can be transferred, like clovers. And now we have the SP scrolls, too.

Deamhan.9538:

I agree completely. There are multiple ways now to get the other ascended trinkets but only one way to get the backpiece.

In addition to this, the only way to get (infused) ascended is still through fractals.

Could be worse though, just look at the state of water masks.

I don’t mind so much that infused ascended stuff requires fractal runs. You only need AR in fractals, if you want AR you probably want to run fractals, so run fractals, so you can run more fractals.

WTB ascended BP, 5g, 2,500 BoH, plztxkbai

Exceptionl.8972:

I don’t think they will ever let us buy WXP with Karma because the model for WvW is supposed to encourage players to be able to do WvW without restricting them to play PvE right? (…)

But…, but…, we already have to do PvE to get stuff for WvW. Like any of the Orr armor pieces, or dungeon armor.

Is there any chance we can get the reason for the “no changes” policy? I hope it’s not just because someone wrote something in a design document some time ago. It’s pure curiosity, though if you’d say “limitations in the code”, there might be hope it’d be a “all siege is soul bound” type limitation (got changed a couple months later) and not a “5 AoE targets” type limitation (won’t change until GW3).

When ANet adds them to WvW, I hope they won’t make them hilariously expensive, 75 laurels and something silly like that. 50 for the accessories is painful enough already.

Unless they also add in many more ways to earn APs in WvW besides dailies, and I laugh in your face if you dare to mention that you can do the slayer stuff in WvW.

(APs get you laurels through the rewards chests.)

You know, in a “smart” community, we’d designate some (one? two?) servers to pass the event to get the merch and some servers to fail, so people can continue to farm. With free guesting you just go where it’s you kind of deal.

Can we also get a MF recipe that changes liquid karma in to liquid WXP?

Liquid karma container (level X) + X * 100 badges of honors + X * 2 crystalline dust + X * 10 spikes= liquid WXP container (level X)

Once is not bad, fun for the most part, after that it’s a slog.

I hope ANet relents and just drops the exploration item into the achievement tab, so you can just withdraw one (soul/account-bound of course) when you need one.

Direct siege damage does show up in the logs. Park yourself in an arrow cart rain and you’ll see it.

On the note of targeting, it’d also be swell if we’d have a key to drop target, and no, the ESC key doesn’t count, unless I can remove the “bring up the options menu” function from it and I don’t have to sometimes press it twice to work.

I used to go with the target circle, because you can place stuff more accurately and see who you’d hit, but in large, laggy fights, you’re lucky to get one click/key press to register. The two needed key presses to do this killed it for me. I’m doing ok with the fast AOE now, it just takes some getting used to.

simplesimon.2084:

theguildless.1386:

Guys… 3 coppers means 3¢, not 3 copper ore. Just look at the tooltip on the screen shot…

Well don’t I look like a horsesbutt. I think they should add pieces after the copper cause I can’t be the only one that thought they were talking about ore.

I thought they were talking about copper ore as well. lol I thought, great, I save space with the salvage o-matic, but I have to lug around stacks of copper ore?? WTF?!