Guild Wars 2

All from the year 2050:-

-Why is loot so bad?
-Just got all my WvW titles…hello, hello is anybody still here?
-The forum search function does not work.
-Is a expansion being released?
-0.01 gems for 1 gold
-I have played 50,000 hrs (screenshot enclosed) still no precursor drop!
-Can you unnerf Ele’s ride the lightning, please?
-Why are Rangers pets so useless?
-Why are Rangers so useless?
-Got maxium Wxp skills, what do I do with my Wxp now?
-Nerf everything, nerf it now.

The loot in GW2 revolves a lot around the crafting system, if you like crafting then you are probably okay with the loot that drops but if you don’t do crafting then the rng boring drops sucks…

My guess overall EU/NA = 300,000 to 400,000 regular players (that log in and play at least once a month).

With the exception of WoW that’s what the population of all successful MMO’s seems to end up around.

I have been playing green and the keep wp is utterly pointless…

Its far, far too close to the starting spawn wp.

The green keep wp should be moved so its further into the centre.

Spending 95% going from A to B and only 5% fighting is BORING.

The rng loot that drops in GW2 is soooooo boring…

Mainly just endless greens, blues, white trash that’s basically virtually worthless…and crafting materials, that you wait till you get 250 of then just sell for 50c each or something….

Honestly, about the best drops I get is unidentified dyes, wxp container, the occasional rare…

Its all soooo uninspiring and boring…yawn…

if anything, despite our constant complaints the loot gets worse and worse…

Between the two, I would vote for new game mode.

But a new game mode on a new map would be great too.

I personally have always liked conquest thou but more variety is always good.

Seafarers Rest(Eu)

Primetime 1800-2300 hrs

Eternal Borderlands got to 160
The Borderlands map ranged from 20 – 40 ’ish

Of course everyone could enter EoTM well they waited…

I would like to thank the devs for EoTM, I like it…

I think its a 50/50 map 50% PvE and 50% WvW.

Its probably going to be as good, if not a better karma train than EB is…

I am going to get Ultimate Liberator and then tell everyone I captured stonemist 25,000 times…lol

I think GW2 has a lot of ‘end game’ now :-

3 headed wurm
Tequatl

High level (upto 50th lvl) Fractals

Guild Missions

Get a legendary skin, then a full weapon set of legendarys

WvW, endless battles in the mists

PvP, try to be number 1 (or as high as you can go)

I know after playing green on 5 EoTM maps that I would like a chance to play Blue/Red
before the weekly change over…

Does everyone think the colours equally balanced?

Noticed Green, never seem to get the south tower between them and blue. Played 4-5 EoTM maps so far. Also, green seems drawn south to north to always fight red.

Out of one of those maps green were outnumbered…

Kenmei.7138:

Way to big map for only 2 WP’s. After several wipes you’re just tired to waste time on runnin.

^This.

The 2 WP’s are far to close together as well.

Its boring spending 95% of the time running from A to B to C, only to miss the fight completely most of the time.

If they only wanted 2 WP’s, should have put 1 at spawn other near centre.

Didn’t WvW guilds help design this map?

Too early to say what I think of it yet…it may grow on me…

I find lack of wps annoying.
Also, the terrains going to become more annoying the longer you play on it.
I am not really sure the map promotes good fights.

I think I will either come to like it or just find it very annoying…

Anybody able to access the EotM map?

No, its broke…

Good job those guilds tested it so we would have a perfectly flawless patch day update eh…

Oh stop blaming my firewall, you know its your fault…

I bet Brahams wondering where everyone is…

You can see the new skins here:-

http://dulfy.net/

The mace and shield look the best, I think.

Legendarys are superior because:-

1) Look more awesome skin wise.
2) Can select any stat combo you want.
3) A promise from the devs that they will always have the best ingame stats. So if they release anything better than ascended, your legendary will automatically be upgraded.

Your best off making the extra effort to get Legendarys really and ignore ascended.

You can look here for yourself:-

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates

Just take you about half an hour to read through on all the updates you missed.

A lot, was temp and no longer available but there is some permanent stuff still around for you to try.

Yes you should but only dirt cheap stuff.

I bought new cheap blue/green gear off the Trading Post at lvl 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 70.

Make sure you fully equip yourself full, armour, weapons, runes, sigils, trinkets, fill trinket slots. Use food + spanner buffs all the time. Spend all your trait pts.

Do this and you will virtually never die, also you can push to fight foes 5+ lvls above your level. Also, be reasonably competitive in WvW if you go in there.

Really, PvP in PvE would be a very, very bad idea.

Just look at this update where that’s going to happen, already loads of PvE players are crying foul.

I honestly don’t blame them…I am a dedicated WvW player and have every intention of farming all the PvE and achievement hunters until the pips squeak. I and all my WvW dedicated friends have MASSIVE advantages.

-We don’t care about living story.
-We don’t care about achievements.
-We have 100’s to 1,000’s of Wxp ranks.
-Our builds are WvW optimised.
-We know how to use siege arrowcarts, trebs and have developed expert aiming skills from repeated use.

In short it will be a nighmare’ish place for any pure PvE or achievement hunter to go.

Best to keep PvE, PvP completely separate.

Dorfeus.4962:

Wynne.3908:

BUMP!!! Anet give us some news please! We need something to look forward to!

From official wiki:
“In January 14th, 2014, it has been stated that the content of an expansion is being developed, but whether it will be sold as an traditional expansion or freely integrated into the game has not been decided.”

Oh…great news…

Missed that.

Honestly, personally speaking I would prefer to pay…not a lot of stuff appeals to me in the gemstore, so I would like to pay for a expansion, just to give Arena Net some more of my money because GW2 is a very, very good game.

Anyway, if a pre-order option becomes available, I am there at the front of the queue, no questions asked…

No.

The GW2 model suits me perfectly and I am very happy with it.

B2P + gemstore works great in my opinion. The only slight negative is by now 18 months after initial release I would have liked to see a B2P expansion come out.

ESO for example is B2P then subscription, it would not surprise me if they also had a shop as well. I have looked at there pricing and it seems aimed to extract every $ out of there players. So I will be giving that a BIG MISS. ESO will need to be OUT OF THIS WORLD AMAZING at those prices or your going to have a lot of upset players…

We will be able to judge ESO’s success in how soon it goes Free To Play…just saying…

Skyhammer should be a map on its own, not in any cycle of maps.

Players who tailor there characters for that map have a HUGE advantage and just farm other players with general PvP builds.

Visit http://mos.millenium.org/eu (can view North American servers too)

You can get a idea of the overall strength of the different colours.

Looking at it, overall on the EoTM’s map overflows I think:-

Europe

Green strongest
Red middle
Blue weakest

North America

Green strongest
Red/Blue kinda the same

Do you think it will play out across the different overflows this way? With Green generally dominating?

Visit http://mos.millenium.org/eu (can view North American servers too)

You can get a idea of the overall strength of the different colours.

Looking at it, overall on the EoTM’s map overflows I think:-

Europe

Green strongest
Red middle
Blue weakest

North America

Green strongest
Red/Blue kinda the same

Do you think it will play out across the different overflows this way? With Green generally dominating?

Personally, I would prefer the individual 1v1 boss fights that they had in the original Queens jubilee…I did not fail those because of other bad players…

I would not mind some 5 player group vs boss arenas thou, its fairly easy to get a group of 5 together that are half decent…

But a 100+, is a total headache, its like herding cats…virtually impossible…

No one knows the exact date when glory is going to be removed…

They could incorporate it into one of the living story updates like with EOTM or it could be in the ‘big’ balance/features patch at the end of March/April time or even later in the year.

Who knows?

Yep glory is being scrapped.

Go to PvP and spend your glory, there’s a new vendor with new stuff.

The devs have said about glory boosters, “use them or lose them”, no compo…

The reason there are less players playing WvW now is after season 1, where they overdosed on WvW, they went on a WvW break. Pretty much all of them said they would be back for Season 2.

Chances are a lot will be back 4.2.14 to play EOTM…

Going back to same old match ups after season 1 was kinda boring after the excitement of the league…

As I am approaching the 2,000 hrs mark, I agree completely…

Never had a precursor drop.

Never had a ascended drop.

Had perhaps 10 exotics drop in all that time.

Most valuble drop a dye worth 40 gold.

2nd most valuble drop a exotic worth 3-4 gold.

RNG sucks big time in Guild Wars 2. GW2 is just plain unrewarding.

If you care about rewards why bother with GW2? Your just wasting your time…

Btw I never AFK. So the nearly 2,000 hrs is real active play time…

Lord Kuru.3685:

Meglobob.8620:

Devon said its was a success and players in WvW reached levels not seen since game launch for the entire 7 week period.

PvE achievement hunters.

What about weeks 5-7? There were still a lot more players playing WvW then than there are now. By then everyone had there achievements.

No players liked the competitive element and felt the outcome could be influenced by them playing.

Fuzzion.2504:

The leagues might be a once a year event or nothing at all. Most folks did not really want a season 2 as per the community poll.

I would not take much notice of that…

Majority of players on this forum have a negative attitude and will vote no to anything.

Devon said its was a success and players in WvW reached levels not seen since game launch for the entire 7 week period.

So hopefully there will be a league season 2, just need a few tweaks, better rewards, a handicapping system so its competitive and the achievements need tweaking a little.

I agree with the OP.

STOP NERFING CURRENT BUILDS TO BEING USELESS

They have been doing this for 18 months, across all classes but some have been hit harder than others, like Ranger, Ele and now Necro, possibly Engineer & Mesmer.

Anet should try to CREATE BUILDS so all players have more choice, rather than be reduced to only 1 or 2 viable builds for each class.

Finally, its great for PvP where players can change everything on there characters in 10 minutes for free. Terrible for PvE & WvW players where changing your build can take months via timegating, 100’s of gold and 100’s of hours of playing time.

500+ ranks no ascended, 3 exotics, perhaps two dozen rares.

Its a welcome change that we will have a increased chance of getting ascended drops but how much is the increase?

If its 1 in 10,000 chance of a ascended drop now and you have changed it to 1 in 9,000. Then 99% of us will notice no change whatsoever, ie…still no ascended drops.

It would be better if you had a npc who you could buy them from, the cost could be in badges of honour and raw ascended materials.

So a ascended chest piece would be 10,000 badges of honour and 5,000 Bloodstone Dust or 1,000 Empyreal Fragment or 1,000 Dragonite Ore. Just guessing on those numbers based on how many ascended (junk) materials I have gathering dust in my inventory.

It would also mean you get the stats you want vs a ascended drop now which can have stats you don’t want, so your best option is right click destroy.

I think alerts like with scarlets invasions would be a good idea.

It should be restricted to T3 SM, Keeps, Towers thou so you know its worth your time trying to defend them/come to there rescue.

Anything less then T3 is just flipping material for the karma train, we don’t need to know about those.

What is the focus of the living story?

To sell gem store stuff every 2 weeks when everyone logs in to check the latest instalment…

Simple as that!

Nothing wrong in that at all, it beats a monthly subscription.

They don’t want to drop a precursor for the player that killed them…

Ha!Ha! PvE noob, not only did I kill you but I looted Dawn from your corpse…Ha!Ha!

AFAIK there are no new weapons in the pipeline for any class.

Just wishful thinking from players.

However something that may interest you, end of March/April there is a ‘balance’ patch which will have a revamp of runes and any 2h weapon can have 2 sigils in it.

Also, more than 1 dev has said there is a ‘surprise’ for us all later in the year…

But no one has a clue what it is!

I am hoping for a expansion…

Ele – Greatsword.
Mesmer – Pistol main hand.
Warrior – A big polearm, halberd. Or Morning Star.
Guardian – Rifle.
Necro – Greatsword (because every class should be able to have Dawn, Dusk, Eternity).
Engineer – Hammer(time).
Ranger – Sling.
Thief – Crossbow.

I aim for 2,800 toughness, this reduces direct damge by approx. 33%.

20,000 health, higher the better but you still want to do decent damage.

When it comes to damage in WvW I prefer AoE damage or weapon skills that hit multiple targets ie…3 bounces or guardians staff, can hit 5 targets. This also gets you more loot.

Other important basic stuff

Mobility is important, try to have 25% to 33% movement speed buff. Also, any leap, side stepping abilities are pure gold.

Conditions will kill you, because you can have half a dozen in secs, so make sure you can deal with conditions in some way. There are loads of different ways.

Utility skills/traits, go with group ones unless your roaming, the more group buffs the better. Its simple picking traits for WvW, its either got to help you survive or deal more damage, no ifs or buts.

Try to have some ‘escape’ buttons, for when you are outnumbered and after run away.

I have not played EOTM’s yet but players that have, say you will need stability to avoid being knocked off cliffs and obviously abilities like fear, knockback etc will be good for sending other players over the cliffs to go splat as in Skyhammer (pvp map).

You are going to be matched up with all servers of your colour that week.

You will have hundreds of allies but also hundreds of enemy players. The enemy players will try to kill you, because to them your a walking loot bag…no offence…I will be a walking loot bag to the other 2 enemy colours.

Its fun.

You may die a lot but you will eventually get your achievements done and who knows you may like it and have fun.

WvW players will have a advantage, as they will be used to the fighting in large zergs, also some are excellent at using siege weapons and they do not care about achievements or living story. So there main aim is to farm the enemy zergs for loot bags.

See you on the battlefield…

Vol.7601:

-account bound wxp not coming in this patch

Goes off and crys in a corner…

The advert next to Devon Carvers blog is lol funny…

I after say that any players who have spent all there time on lower tier WvW servers where 20+ people is seen as a ‘big’ zerg are in for a shock to the system when they play EOTM.

The zergs there are going to be upto 100 vs 100 vs 100 given that the maps will be full or near full for all 3 colours.

EOTM being new will obviously have everybody playing it next week and for some time because its NEW.

Longer term EOTM is good because:-

1) No more queues. Awesome for Asia/China when GW2 releases, they will never know queues in WvW. Also, awesome if there’s ever a season 2 of WvW. Its just good that you can always play WvW even at primetime when all maps are full.

2) Sometimes nothing much is happening on the main 4 maps, especially on servers with low WvW populations. So no point playing WvW. But with EOTM because it groups multiple servers together, you will always have a map full of allies and enemies. So non-stop excitement.

My Feedback

Runes

The revamping of runes makes me most exicited about this balance patch and will probably have the most effect on the overall meta. Hopefully, it will create a lot more builds then it destroys. Looking forward to it.

Sigils

Looking forward to 2-h weapons having 2 sigils and being able to combine more sigils with each another is another great, positive change. Looking forward to it.

One note of caution, when you balance the sigils, remember if you nerf any its a nerf for any player currently with 2 1-h weapons. They already use 2 sigils, so any decreasing of sigils power equals nerf for them.

Crit Dam %

Hate it. Uncalled for. Don’t know why your doing it. You deserve the negative reaction you have got/will get in the future. You don’t care about the amount of time/effort your players put in to getting there gear in PvE/WvW.

All Classes Balancing

I am indifferent, those changes on there own will make little to no difference to the current meta. By and large pointless…

Well I am looking forward to EOTM…

All I want to know about is account bound WXP…like when?

A lot of players are trolling the event…

Its really, really easy to make those big group events fail than succeed.

The loots rubbish at them, so they are seeing it as a excellent chance to fail it on purpose and troll upto 100 other players.

A significant % of GW2 players see that as far more fun then trying to succeed the event.

Arashiookami.2896:

If it wasn’t for that detail I might be farming Marionette since the rewards are good.

The rewards are poor for the event, compared to other stuff you can do in GW2.

You get on average 1.5 cyphers per Marrionette event which equals 1.5 rares + 10 greens + a few mats. Total value 40-50 silver. That’s not good.

You could do 3 easy world bosses in that time for 6 rares + greens, probably 1.5 gold.

Or run a dungeon for gold.

Or do fractals for a few gold.

The scarlet invasions were far, far more rewarding, you could get 5-10 gold from those.

PvP is equally as rewarding.

Even WvW may be more rewarding.

You don’t do Marionette for the rewards…

Healix.5819:

Evon is funding Scarlet using the profits earned from TP taxes. War is an investment.

^This…

Basically via Evon we are funding Scarlet…

Its very de-moralising when you successfully complete 2-3 platforms in a marionette run and after watch other platforms fail around you.

I like marionette but with a 100 player pug your chance of success is near 0%, no matter how hard you try.

Also, sadly, there’s a small % of players going to those events who are failing on purpose, because its a great chance to grief upto a 100+ other players.