Guild Wars 2

Comments like yours op, makes me angry. For real.

I am 22 myself. I wake up on morning ( 6am ) to start working at 7:30. I stay at work for the whole day until 6 pm. I don’t go home then, I go to university, where there I stay until 10:30 pm. I get back on home around of 11:00 Pm, play for half hour to do my dailys cause I find it my “Time of fun” on the day.

At wekeend, I must split my time between Family, GF, University jobs and even give attention to my nephews that lives with me, sometimes acting as “Babysitter”.

I play the game probably far less than you do, and still I have crafted myself a few legendarys, I am dragon ranked On pvp, I have a good income of gold to keep all my needs on the game, and I am even at 22,5k Achievments atm, making myself on “Top 1000 ap players” of NA.

So, even with so few time left to play, and enver spending more than maybe 20 U$$ on the last 3 years playing the game, how do you think I got able to attain all of it? I mean, there’s nothing in this game that I did not got able to play, or experience. Just because this game IS COMPLETELY made for “Casuals” like me.

Pay some respect to other players, or “L2P” before coming to forums making such shaming statement that “The game isnot properly rewarding your 3 or 4 HOURS player per day”.

For real..

• Orphan Laine’s Letter – no more use, delete
• Krait Obelisk Shard Transcriber – no more use, delete
• Evon Gnashblade Representation Buttons (are these going to reappear at some point) – Still visual effect for Role pley or Lol’s
• Ellen Kiel Representation Buttons (as above) – Same as above
• Fortune Scrap (I have 209 – are these going to reappear in game again?) – You can trade those for goods at festivals vendors
• Marjory’s Journal – This always server for lore purposes, it will not change. CLick to watch a cute cutscene with asian themed cute girl detetive
• Queen’s Gauntlet Entrance Tickets – Those you can hold, Queens gauntlet is a recurrent event and will likely reapper at some point

Yw.

Have you noticed you need 80 HoT mastery points to unlock all HoT masterys?

Aviators cap seens to be brought up too.

4 New maps, Loads of adventures, New set of personal History, Masteries, Achievments.

There is content for solo playing.

What are you talking about? Guild halls ALLOW both duels, guild fights, and more.

If you wan to “Open-world” duel with someone (Unfair, due to food/armor diference, but whatever), you can just invite him to your guild hall, set your own rules and duel into the arena. This is the best thing they couldn’t potentitally do, and seens to be ignored by most part of the comunity atm.

You are being unfair here OP. Every content you stated, have RNG Factors that may, or may not add in your final reward, but all of then have guaranteed rewards.

• Fractals : You may get ascended drops in final, or exotic/rares on the course of the run, pure RNG. Bt you will guaranteed get 1,5g on the end run, plus all the fractal relics adjusted witih your level, with this token you can grab a choice of ascended rings, backpiece, 20-slots bags and more.

• Dungeons: Same situation as Fractals, run reward may add in your loot exotics/rares, but you will guaranteed get The final reward cache (1,5g~ 3g) plus dungeons specific tokens that can be used to buy lv80 exotic armor.

• World Bosses : Finah Chest have a RNG based rewards that may add in your total rewards, but you will guaranteed receive a daily chest with a guaranteed rare or 2 depending on the boss.

• WxW : On the course of playing, you will get Badges of honor and drops. Drops are RNG, Badges of honor are a currency you can use to buy exotig gear or cheaper ascended amulets without any RNG involved.

• PvP : Each reward track gives very straight rewards on final cache without any RNG involved (It even allow you to CHOOSE what weapon/armor you want on dungeons tracks).

TL;DR – Every aspect of the game have guaranteed rewards and currency, and all of then have RNG aspects that may or may not add in your total end reward.

Thats how any game works Btw, and helps to keep economy fine, its sad if you have bad luck, but thats don’t mean that the game is not rewarding you.

C’mom people, this is a live game. They could pretty much release the expansions without allowing us test any specialization, and adjust/fix it after based on feedback.

Being there “Before” to have more time for feedback don’t change anything, tempest is the prove of it.

Anet will attend and show off something new about gw2 there?

DresdenAllblack.1249:

…and the Daredevil looks absolutely amazing.

As someone that is actually playing thief (I cycle trough alts to complete everything on each one), I found Daredevil pretty amazing.

Fox.3469:

So basicly you are saying change this entire class to my idea with only 50 days left till launch. I mean no offense but that’s pretty ignorant, give feedback they can use, you know, on the class, not on what you think the class should be.

Give feedback that they don’ hear you mean uh?

There is a kittenton of detailed feedback into this particular spec on elementalist forum, detailing all the problems and how terrible it is.

What we get as “Changes” is some changes into numbers and thats all. Well, at least finally necro have some love since reaper has all the attention.

I got 5 full set of ascended (Completely full, armor, weapons and trinkets), without EVER spending a single laurel.

So, no – This is not locked out for F2P players.

So, I know that it might be just me being dumb, or just my mouse being such a troll, but i get constantly complely closing the game when all I want is to swap my alts.

Why? Because “Exit to character selec screen”, and “Exit game” are 10 pixels from each another, and the second option don’t have a second-ask confirmation, leading me to sometimes misclick on the exit game button, automatic shutting down my game.

Solution: Please, can you add a double confirmation to the button “Exit game” ? You would still be able to insta close the ame trough alt+f4 either way

TY!

Yeah, its a lame and anet is just losing money doing it. I would for sure pay another 50 bucks this month for this upgrade, just couldn’t afford 100(!!) into a single month, that would break me.

So, here am I, not spending another dollar for it, since I already bought the standard expansion.

So, if I try to teleport to a friend instance that is full, it don’t le me teleport, but it consumes the item.

There are also other things that make you consume the item and not work. Since its a item generated from black lions chest, that mostly come from real money it is quite messy that this gets consumed without work hm?

Just alerting you up, if you guys can fix it, I’ll be grateful, right now I am very fear to waypoint my alt directly to silverwastes, because I just don’t know if the instance is full or not.

hoewhoew.4619:

You can go in the instance, then go to character select and relog. It should get you in the new map, without having done the story

Didn’t tried that, if thats true its my salvation. Tyvm.

I dunno, i completely hate the whole SW event to simple get acess to VB every time I create a new beta character. You can say that’s only 5~10 minutes, but that mulpliyed by 10 times (More in my case) to someone with very limited time to play and test each profession, it starts to get boring and time-consuming :|

Please, I really want to roll and try every spec this time, but its terrible boring HAVE to complete the 1st story instance in order to get acess to verdant brink every time I roll up a new beta character.

And this time, I’ll have 7 elite specs to try (And possible jump from one another a couple of times), and Its horribly time-consuming have to re-do the whole first story instance in order to be able to play up on verdant brink.

Thank You, hope to see some changes to this for BWE2, cya!

PS: I am talking about the very first on SW, not the one on VB already. the one at VB is skipabble, the one at SW is not if you want acess to VB.

1% ?
I think its more likely 0,0000000000001% x) . Either way, i second Eponet.4829. Sadly, things like that happens :|

I didn’t played a lof of MMO’s, but from the ones that I played, there was only one that I never got tired of opevn-world pve, and it was ragnarok online.

Gw2 is a totally different game, and it is my most loved game of all times, dont gonna lie about it. But yes, I feel like there is a missing feeling of thrilling to explore. Enter in hard-level areas, where is fun and frightneing to explore.

I blame part of it to the casuality the game have been built in, and another part in the waypoint system that allows fast travel, so its easy to rush trough any area and if I die there is no problem on it – I can res up 15 feets away from where I died and keep going.

I just think its not worth it, because gliding is super restricted to hot maps, and as far we know it can be only 4 pve maps + 2GH maps.

Serious, i rather prefer they work on dungeon backpieces than glider skins.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

How does a person check their leaderboard status? I tried to log in but that sent me off to my account page and no way to get back to the leaderboard site.

It is bugged atm, and you can’t log in. But if are actually into the leaderboard, you can see your position there by looking up your name.

Example:
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/achievements?page=40
I can see my acc name at position 997.

Hi.

I just got into top 1000 NA achiever (Weee), and noticed that the first guys are at 28850 mark (!!).

I checked my panel and noticed i am still nearly 8k ap away from hit the 15k cap, what makes me think that I am still on the hunt to get on first tiers, as long I still do my dailyes 4ever.

So i was thinking, any of you with high ap numbers has hit the daily cap already? Seens a huge task x)

I think it depends on your way to see what “Reward” you are looking for. Obvisouly, SW get more gold per hour, but fractals have the highest rate of ascended drops into the game.

I am near to complete all my 9 characters with full ascended armor+weapons just with fractal ascended box’s. I usually get at least 1 box every 6 runs or so (Playing fractals 40 and 50), and while playing fractals, I usually make around of 8g per run (Final reward + exotic drops + Random loots). So yeah, I personally still find more rewarding playing fractals than SW, but I don’t mind a littl eimprovment on rewards either

Imho, if anet could be able to keep upgrading gw2 (Like the mastery system is trying to do), I really believe that gw2 will last as long as no other technology acessible appear.

I Only really would trade gw2 gameplay style for something like virtual reality with neuro-controlabilty or something like that. Things we see in sci-fi movies or animes (I Hate to compare to it, but yeah – I am talking about SAO style of gaming >_> )

Aenesthesia.1697:

to the OP: anything you farm in this game to get gold is just wasted time.

Play how you want, dont worry about stupid pixel rewards.

I am this close to getting the gold needed to buy the precursor (like, 100g away) but i am just too bored by farming to spend a single more minute doing it. I now do some pvp and will eventually learn to Arah, and that’s all i care about right now.

Cheers up for this.

I really only play what I find fun atm, and this means fractals and pvp. Admitedly, i still do boring tasks such SW farm or Giant farm while i am too lazy to do anything else.

Tongku.5326:

MauricioCezar.2673:

I am sure you can get 100g per day, but that would take ~8 hours in map swapping to take benefict of Final cache rewards for breach + Vw + Maze + Chest runs.

inb4 : LFG > SW80%

You will hit massive DR long before 8 hours, not just what you get but the chest / bag loot as well. Do not go more then 2-3 hours or so, except maybe on the days when you do your processing.

Except that SW final cache has not DR. (Breach = 1key+3bag of rare gear+5 champ bags), Chest farm also have not DR (chest farm is mostly about champ bags, wich have no DR upon receiving then), VW can’t be hit by DR AFAIK, but still, who cares about the green/blues it drops? The real reward here are the extra key and champions bags.

I made it back before NPE, at that time it was quite easy to the point i could make it without dying at all.

Interesting to try it with all NPE restrictions tough.

Go for the challenge!

Loads of repeated accBound SAB mini’s on Black Lion chests.

How fast people forget..

On another note, the unidentified are acc bound, that doesn’t means that the resulted dye is acc bound too. I imagine that you can sell whatever drops out of it (Celestial for example if you are that lucky).

I am sure you can get 100g per day, but that would take ~8 hours in map swapping to take benefict of Final cache rewards for breach + Vw + Maze + Chest runs.

inb4 : LFG > SW80%

I run a very similar set as yours, but with lower ram (Only 8gb) and higher Vga (Gtx 970).

I’ve been running in max setting very smoothly and no problems at all. Even in teq, my dps go down to a minimum of ~25 fps, what is still fine enough for a ultra settings.

Kidel.2057:

Ele has always been in the top 3 since launch basically.
It is no exception with elite spec, with tempest and chronomancer being the only good elite specs in the last BW. Well, chronomancer was even more OP then mesmer is at the moment. that perma stealth lol.

Makes me laugh more.

Tempest is the most hated elite spec, and the one that had most complains about as the worst elite spec out there.

Chronomancer, no one can blame I think, it was just kitten well made.

Is this some sort of bad taste joke, or you just don’t care about your playerbase and feedback?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/The-Elite
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Rebound-Tempest-elite-skill
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Tempest-Beta-Feedback-Thread

Are you really going to give a middle finger and spit on our faces? Ignore the most discussed problems (Elite, Time LoadingxReward, Traits) and make a dirt “Fix” to the smallest problems that most don’t care about?

I hate the fact that I love this freaking game, and still i can get so much disappointed with some actions like this.

Congratz dev team, for upseting your playerbase once again.

Putting its simple : This time, we are paying for it. Most of ppl choice in buying the expansion or not, its based on if they get their main profession expanded or not.

" This is just one aspect of the expansion, you can’t judge about it "
Yes, we can. The game mechanic is all around our profession gameplay, its the only part of the expansion that we will use regardles of gametype.

If they are adding a useless “Elite” specialization to the main profession of people, so this specific specialization can’t even be considered part of the expansion we are buying, since it adds nothing to the gameplay.

Also, it is a super restricted expansion to each profession. You need to sacrifica one trait line in order to use anything of the new elite specialization, so if they want to lock you all that much in order to advance in your profession, it need to be at minimum good and usable.

Thats not possible.

Pax is in 2 weeks (Actually 1, if you consder that pax happens in mid of the second week).

We still have 3 elite specs to be revealed. I would wait for 1 more next week, and the last two within september, leading up to a beta late september, and launch late october.

(I will reference to this post in future if all of it turns right).

I just think that there should be a further mastery that allow you to perform jumping’s with perfection(No matter your stat/postion on the mushrrom) , while the first tiers can result in strange behaviors if you are not centered on the mushroom. (Like jumping away, or not making the full jump.

Arietta The Broken.1875:

Content would be nice.

Wait, you meant that 4pve maps, 1 wxw map and 1 new pvp map is not enough for 50 bucks?

Well, I agree.

I want a wooden stick to pretend my ele have a sword.

/ cry into a corner blowing up a warhorn.

Before HoT Launchs, please.

• Event mobs not giving proper XP – I just didn’t care killing stuff on evenst in VB, because they weren’t helping progress into my mastery. I tagged something and moved along to kill mobs that actually rewarded xp (Raptor farming is back!!)

• Craft XP Ftw – Yeah, its cheating, and its easy. Carry along a crafting table to VB + Bonus to craft xp and progress tons of xp trough crafting. No, thanks.

• Map completion rewards carrying over – So I imagine that everyone that got the tier 3/4/5 into mastery tracks used this little trick. 25k xp per city map completion, then moving up to verdant brink. Sums up to 150k xp per character.

• How dungeon XP will affect this? – This is more a question, since atm dungeons gives 70% experience towards next level. How will it work on masterys?

• Harder mobs = Higher XP – Since Xp will be a big part of the mastery in gw2, can we have big bulks of xp awarded for killing harder mobs? Vet/elite/champions. Maybe this can be a form of incentive to kill then.

Thankx in advance, I am sure that there are more cheat ways to get big bulks of xp without effort, and wayst to play the game that laxks this reward. So please report it here!

I second that.

I got a dozen of time that used it and it tossed me into the abysm, killing me.

On a particular note my general rate on the books:
Sea of sorrows – By far the best. Love you Ree Soesbee, this book it amongst my yop 5 ever read. And I’ve read a lot of books.
Edge of destiny – A great book, I enjoyed reading it. has some lacking points, but still great and obligatory tied into gw2 story.
Ghosts of ascalon – Not a bad book, but way too generic. Don’t have the drama feeling of the other two, neither the great story concept + progression. Still, a good book.

I got a lot of fun, and a lot of sadness during the beta. What I tried and my feedback on it:

• Story – It feels great so far. A little of challenge, and good acting plus the awesome cutscene makes it feels very good. I hope that this feeling is not only on firt stpe, but it is taken to the whole story.

• Pve, Map, Mobs and masterys – I really like how enemy’s are a threat into the jungle. Smokescale is the best and most frightening mob there, I really like how it is challenging pass trough. The events are still buggy, so hard to take feedback, but I like the concept of needing coordination to complete (i.e. the even where all shielders need to go down at same time to be able to hit the giant monster). Masteries completely have a “Metroidvania” feeling, I love it and it seens well places on ammount of xp recquired for each tier. I feel that some of the further masterys are not worth to take tough. I really thik that the end-line mastery’s should be something really nice that makes us want to get it. but as far I’ve seen, most of end-line masteries are not very interesting.
• Revenant – Ok, here things get salty. The revenant is very terrible to play with, I feel it like being my necro 2.0 in therms of play style. Energy management shared trough all skills are very strange and limiting. There is a huge lack of movement skills, and so revenant seens a like a dumb slow profession. The ebst setup I found was Jalis/Shiro, with the combo Hammer/ Sw+Axe. Hammer have the highest priority and it is fun to play with, all other weapons are not really nice to go.
• Tempes – Full sadness mixed with awesomeness. I LOVE the overloads. I really like to fight large mobs, and the overloads seens to be designed for that. The general recharge is not so bad, and don’t lock me out too much, the problem is: Its weak. Far too weak. Shouts are mostly not that great, and I couldn’t seen then replacing my usual set if utilitys. I use feel the burn, and thats all. And finally, the worst of the worst : The elite “Rebound” ist so awnful useless, that it don’t need a rework, it need to be completely replaced. I gave specific feedback on it on elementalist forum, so will not take longe here, but take note – rebound is the worst elite I’ve seen so far.

EDIT: A little note, THANKS AND CONGRATS to the leven design team. Verdant brink is godful well make, a kittenon of details, and no matter how much I play, every time I log in there I am amazed by how great it is, and amazing/beautiful.

I think that it should give something elementalist have not:

Aegis – Elementalist don’t hav any viable aegis, maybe an aoe aegis would be nice here.
Quickness – Other point that elementalist lacks completely.
Slow – Its a new condition that would be useful for eles.

But still, neither of then fits elemental theme, but if “Rebound” can be arcane, I think that any quickness application can be too

The elite is just as bad as I imagined it would be.

Timing on use : it is consumed upon auto attack, its very hard to coordinate with team mates to be a helpful skill in groups, its very useless to play solo.
Incridible long cd : 60s for a skill that reduces miserably 25% cd of other skills? “Feel my wrath!” is laughing hard at how idiotic this cd is compared to how useless the effecs are.
Functionality: Nobody cares with 25% reduction. There are a lot of traits that permanently reduces 20% of the Cd on the usefull skills, this 25% once every ages makes absolute nothing.
Theme: Arcane? for serious, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with arcanery power. Its moslty fited into chronomancy than anything about elementalist.

I’ve tried the whole beta to use this elite to see it be useful some way, but there is nothing good on it. As already being discussed, this skill don’t need to be reworked, it need to be replaced.

Just take note that Rubi Is not the dev responsible for this are in particular, she is just a helpful team member that look up around every forum, and try to help the way she can.

She just can’t awnser here in elementalist forum because she is not a dev responsible for it, so she can’t acurately awnser or direclty take feedback about this issue. As you guys can see, her response on the HoT thread was very “General” about feedback, not about tempest itself.

So please, don’t take rubi wrong for posting there and not here, and also don’t expect that just because she awnsered there it means she can do anything to change tempest.

What we really need is a awnser and response for the team/developer that is taking care of tempest.

Btw, just notice that the “Map reward” rotate every time you get it.

I.E : The map reward is t6 blood – You complete a event, you get a t6 blood it automatically rotate for the next reward on the list (Destroyer core for example).

I noticed that there is around of 3~4 types of reward per map, but on maps that award the new item (Shiny baubble) it seens to not work at all.

Knowing in-game bs as I know, I am pretty sure that will probably be very divided 50/50 between people that really wants to help and ppl that really wants to troll.

Sadly, the community of this game is no longer the one it was 2 years ago. We still have a lot of very good receptive ppl playing, but there are just as many numbers in troll and ppl that really like to just bother other people.

Tenrai Senshi.2017:

You could always just sign up, to stop the messages? O_o

Except that signing up makes thing even worse.

For serious, no matter that I choosed to “Remember this network”, every 4-5 days it asks me to re-input the code.

In the foruns it just don’t remember ever, and every time I need to log-in, I need to check my phone the new code.

I just think it would be fair to have the weapon use free from the specialization.

The elite specs are more locking us on specific builds than opening up for more variations.

Just saying