Guild Wars 2

Way too much is locked behind 80 now to tell new players to take it slow. When did they last release any major permanent content that did not require an 80? LS2? Core Tyria? Even those had level 80 areas. Just for something most people almost take for granted now, basic gliding and autoloot, you need an 80. Before HOT you could legitimately advise newbies to take it slow for the first character or two but now …

Thanks, When I saw the price I looked up a couple T6 mats on one of those sites. It did not show it hugely down (although not way up either) but I thought I had usually gotten much more before so wondered where my error was. I am guessing I sold a few at a time and was thinking of the total price. Nice to see it is not like 1/4 the normal price or something.

NemesiS.6749:

Yea i notice, lot of mats are getting so cheap almost worthless, better to throw away. I think is due to now with berries and so many maps full of events people get too many mats for salvaging gear (wood, cloth, leather) and the supply keeps going up so prices will fall. The only thing still kind of expensive is T6 leather because there is still not a way to get it easily. Even T6 mats i think have gone down in price a bit. Now i am no economist, i hate all that actually but no idea if this is good or bad.

T6 mats have gone WAY down!!!!!

I usually sell my laurels for T6 mat bags then convert that to gold. I waited a good long time to have a lot of bags all at once …… then was shocked when I saw how little they now sold for. The fact most were common drops in the labyrinth did not help either though.

edit: Maybe I have my numbers wrong since I do not pay close attention. Anyone want to correct me?

“okay party, monster xyz spawns here in abundance so you will want this tonic”

(send 1)
(send 2)
(se …) KITTEN!!!!!!!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Menadena.7482:

It does make a difference to other people around you though. The ‘f’ is the interact button. I hate hate hate commanding a squad and having someone prematurely interacting with an object. Usually the excuse given is ‘oh, they were just collecting their loot’.

People can easily avoid that, by using only AoE looting and mapping that to a unique key.

They are obviously just trolling the rest of the squad. Saying they hit ‘f’ to do something else gives them just enough credibility for some people to defend them.

Hitting f is not a huge chore. Everyone here pre-hot did it. For a certain amout of time afterwards as you at least needed to get the XP. It is handy but not impossible.

It does make a difference to other people around you though. The ‘f’ is the interact button. I hate hate hate commanding a squad and having someone prematurely interacting with an object. Usually the excuse given is ‘oh, they were just collecting their loot’.

Amaimon.7823:

Do you want a button that unlocks all legendaries, gives you 150AR, fully unlocked wvw skills and a ‘press to win’button for pvp?

Cheat codes are googled pretty often! So yes, I defy you to find someone here who would turn down automatic legendaries!

But to the point I play games to have fun. That definition of fun changes somewhat when you are talking multi-player vs single player though. For example, APs would be pretty much “what is the point” if everyone in the game could have however many they wanted. At the same time though, I consider it a child’s game to compare who has more of them.

Hopefully they will bring back the gathering tools this wintersday. They are not endless (although we can hope!!!) but they give snowflakes and if you do not open the box they are in they are stackable.

You can actually get to a lot of the jungle floor in VB without gliding. It may be a route that makes you want to put your fist through something (hence why the map was not popular) but it is still doable. There are a bunch of events that take place near the entry point though, so if you do not feel like exploring just stay in that area until you have basic gliding.

The last level of gliding is 12 points. Some people who have it have complained it puts up barriers to travel they would not have without it so I do not worry about ‘only’ having the level before it.

Admittedly the mastery system itself is confusing at first but you do not need gliding to get one level of xp. Just do the events you can get to and gliding will unlock more.

Jaxom.7310:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Xiahou Mao.9701:

You do jump the same height/distance whether you tap the space bar or hold it down. You’ll just have to adjust to tapping space bar when you don’t want the glider to come out.

I admit that I am having trouble adjusting to this. I have a habit of holding down the spacebar while jumping (I guess because sometimes I’m holding the [fwd] key).

Still, it’s not that hard to teach myself new tricks.

30 years later… mario is so ingrained in your mind… tap jump for small jump, press and hold to jump farrr

Pretty much what I was thinking. I have had that ingrained since the 80s. Some jumps being easier than others in GW2 does not make that habit easier to break too.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Blude.6812:

playing a new race and their personal story which would involve buying more character spaces.

Again as others have stated, the personal story mastery points can only be earned once. Doing it again on another race will not reward more points. That said, I do wish they would add more mastery points to core.

Plus more mastery tracks. I have pact commander maxed, do not run fractals, and have no plans to forge a legendary any time soon.

Blude.6812:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Blude.6812:

If they would introduce more mastery points to the core game, I wouldn’t mind. But the points I need to to complete the only mastery left are tied to personal story repeats and a lot of activities that are nothing more than a grind.
They have added new points to the living story, how about making the next few batches red instead of green.

There are no Mastery Points tied to Personal Story ‘repeats’. One can earn 8 Mastery Points (1 for each Level arc), and 8 MPs only.

Perhaps, you are confusing the Personal Story with the Living World Episodes.

Sorry, mixed up the story label. (but playing the personal story with races I haven’t used would also qualify—but would have to buy character slots). But the point is when I look at what I need to get 8 more MPs, I see nothing but grinds, obscure collections, repeating each episode many times for a to get 1 point. A few more points added to the core game maps would be easy to do. My mistake was picking the legendary mastery with my MPs instead of the auto-loot.

Doing the PS on another race does not give you more points. The wiki goofed how they said that at first and I went back and forth with support for months trying to find my ‘missing’ points.

Conncept.7638:

Developers stated that they debated internally whether or not to add autoloot at all, because automating frequently used actions like this makes botters jobs easier and the security teams job harder.

And in the end locking it behind a mastery was the compromise they came to.

That makes sense. Still though, I would have preferred to see it maybe a level of MPs earlier. A bot will not get there but it would not hold up humans who have put time in in any mode. Getting the MPs for that last level was not automatic because I do plenty of PVE but had skipped the living story (I came in partway through season 2 so it was a what-is-the-point).

Rare? Any time you do dailies (at least in PVE) you get 3 of the things. They come in so fast I have given up making a special trip to the bank to dump them because it only takes one to start a new stack.

Amaimon.7823:

More luck for people who haven’t maxed it yet.

I highly doubt a majority of the community is at MF level 300. Plus, if they were, there would be no need for this, right?

Ayrilana.1396:

Khisanth.2948:

Ayrilana.1396:

Menadena.7482:

Huh? I thought once one character got there all your characters got in so you do not have to repeat the story? You mean they found ANOTHER way to gate it? Kitten.

Why would they make part of the LS account bound?

Well they did make the ability to collect unbound magic account bound…

Which has nothing to do with the story. The stories have always been character bound. Loot and such varies and the choices made for specific ones, such as unbound magic, are separate from that made for the story.

If you do the PS or LS with a character you only get an achievement for doing it once, not twice. For example, you do not get both the achievements for doing the norn PS and the charr PS.

In the first two chapters the big thing was access to the zone. They sold teleport scrolls so you you only had to do it with one character. It was my understanding that once one character could use the zone portal for the chapter 3 zone any of your characters could.

True, in chapter 2 if you do not have the dwarf thumb you can not get into the area with the head but that is hardly something major. After you do the story there is not much need to go in there again unless you want to wake the skritt that are there.

Huh? I thought once one character got there all your characters got in so you do not have to repeat the story? You mean they found ANOTHER way to gate it? Kitten.

OriOri.8724:

Other than organized maps, in my experience VB is pretty bad at being filled with a bunch of people doing their own little thing (usually on their way to map completion)

It is those kittening adventures. Recently I went there for a VB daily and almost everyone on it was doing the adventure daily. It was a slog for awhile (with people complaining about the adventure) but eventually we all started going to the same events so we could get our 4.

Adventures have to be among the worst thing that happened to HOT maps. Only surpassed by crashing after spending over an hour doing a meta.

Turn all your graphics settings to the minimum. Yes, it is kittened, but whenever there is major action (everyone rushing forward in a boss event to get a chest say) it causes an extra drain spike and …. boom.

My home instance has the bloodstone node because I tried to buy the petrified wood node. Now I can not buy the petrified wood node and get what I should have.

Yep, looks like I have the bloodstone ore in my home. So I still can not buy the petrified node.

I downloaded the patch. I just looked in Bloodfen and the bloodstone node is not listed as something I can buy and neither is the petrified node available to buy. The UB and gold are gone but I have yet to look in my instance to see which I have. Either way though, I would assume I still should be able to buy the other one?

Yes, did not have the bloodstone node but this seemed to feel I should have it.

I just ran into this as well. I bought the petrified wood node and got the bloodstone node for my 50 gold.

We have to do some of the story to get there AGAIN? This time dealing with AB metas too? Kitten. Kitten. Kitten.

Please say we do not have to do initial stuff in the LS just to get on the new map!!!!!

ChrizZcE.5981:

If they nerf the multiloot I´ll be leaving the game. At least in the ML there is communication and you fight things. Only other thing worth doing in the game is silverwastes or farming materials. I´d rather scratch out my eyes than do either of these two activites everydays for hours.

Shall those of us that are losing our enjoyment of the game because the economy is getting destroyed by cheaters hold the door for you?

Arden.7480:

Menadena.7482:

I am hoping the new map is not gated behind the story again. Not only is it annoying to get there but it makes it feel not part of Tyria.

Yeah, it should be like in Heart of Thorns’ story, few hints to explore, but story covers our journey if it is like in Bloodstone Fen or Ember Bay.

I also like doing stories/parts of stories when I want to do them. Not ‘I need to do part of this story so I can play with the new stuff’ or ‘I need to finish this chapter before the next chapter comes out’ (which also means less people are around if you need help because they already moved on).

I thought it meant someone at anet really likes Pink Floyd?

I am hoping the new map is not gated behind the story again. Not only is it annoying to get there but it makes it feel not part of Tyria.

DoctorDing.5890:

If you are commanding a squad, and someone not in your squad opens a door before you get to it, don’t automatically assume they are trolling. They might be in a different squad, or just be playing on their own. Your squad does not have exclusive rights to the map.

I am talking when a bunch of people are running to a door and the first person to get there triggers it. Or when a group is doing a viscount fight and someone opens the door next to it. Since it does not report who opened the door I usually can not say for certain it was someone in the squad if multiple people were near it but I do know it was someone running with the group.

I have seen deliberate trolling with other people opening doors when a group is not around. The details are unimportant but I was not talking about that.

Oh, and there is no reason to have more than one tag per lab map. I tagged up once last year and had missed there was already a tag on the map. Then rightly got dressed down for doing so because I was making the farm less efficient. If you think it is a status thing? After a week of lab runs pretty much any commander is more than happy to let someone else command.

Danikat.8537:

If you do fight the Viscount either use reflect skills to protect yourself from his ranged attack or stand in the candy pools to get a special reflect skill. But watch the boon because if it builds up to 10 stacks it will knock you down, so get to 8 or so and then move out. (This used to be common knowledge but I guess since people aren’t fighting him as much it’s been forgotten.).

Thanks, I have heard to stand in the goo for stability but nothing about the 10 stacks knocking you down.

Since we have another week left I figured I would pass on some observations from someone commanding runs and that I have picked up while someone else was commanding.

Squad up. Squad up. Put up a command tag if there is not one on your map and put up a LFG (people will join you fast). Oh, and did I mention to squad up?

Find out the current common knowledge. Last year Lich was a royal pain. This year: skip the viscount because it takes too long for the reward. You can better better loot with a large crowd running and spamming weapon skills at every passing mob so time is not your friend.

The more people near a door when it is triggered the higher it will scale so the better the reward. There always is someone that will trigger a door when they first get to it (with the party a few secs behind them) for some reason, maybe they think they will get extra credit?

You do not want to fight 2 bosses at once and you especially do not want to fight 3. If you ignored the advice about skipping the viscount do the other door (if it appears) first as someone will trigger it during the fight. Also The Labyrinthine Horror appears every 20 minutes so keep an eye on the clock.

When waiting for your party at a door kill the nearby mobs. Not only is it free loot but they get in the way during the fight.

There are a lot of spiders that rez near the nw corner of the map. They appreciate some AOE attacks when you are running by.

Any other suggestions for people?

Draziert.9508:

KRERz.7304:

Perhaps disable hard-cap full maps from appearing on LFG?
A problem not exclusive to TD, having half the squads on LFG not actually permit joining kind of defeats the purpose.

You cannot post an LFG for a dungeon/fractal group that has 5 members (full), and notably the existing advertisement is taken down automatically when the group is filled. Something that turns off LFG for filled overworld maps would improve the LFG tool by quite a lot tbh.

I don’t own HoT and completely agree that this would be a huge QoL improvement. Having to manually join 10 different squads for The Mad King’s Labyrinth and finding that all of them are full maps was just a waste of time. I’d imagine the stakes are higher for maps with non-trivial events tied to specific timers.

Having a listing expire in some way would be ideal. For example, I lead squads in the lab. Usually when someone whispers to me that the lab is full I am busy doing a dozen things at once already (I like it when I can just join another cmdr’s squad but will command if nobody is already there) so even pressing a button in lfg will not get done.

chris.9142:

improvement?
how is reducing the number of drops to 2 items per chest good when all you have added is a worthless loot bag from of trash worth almost nothing

guess i wont buy keys any more

Yeah, not like I am looking a gift horse in the mouth or anything but almost every chest I have read about today listed a tot bag. Really, you can get one of those easily during the festival or buying them off the TP. Am I the only one who will not use my key until next week? I assume it will revert to a normal chest after the festival is done?

Will chests opened during wintersday include a wintersday present as one of the 3 items? Yikes!

The description does not say to fight them it just says to wake them.

Rognik.2579:

I’m pretty sure none of the starting cities will ever be seriously hit, just because it’d be very unfair for new players to suddenly be thrust into an area they will visit frequently in the early game and then have to fight off creatures that were never there before. They will stay as safe zones for people relax in when they don’t feel like fighting horrible monsters, but any of the other parts of the world are free to be attacked and changed in different ways.

Yes, it would probably be something like another zone connected to it. Two of the areas (norn and charr) have that already but the other 3 have only 1. Since we just did Maguuma my money is on something next to/under DR if something like this were to happen.

azizul.8469:

Steve Job……………………….

Then people say macs are not for gamers …..

Gaile Gray.6029:

If you have your animations setting on “Low,” consider bumping it to medium or high. We have found that this eliminates the crash issues connected to preview the new outfit or to seeing others wearing it.

Unfortunately the fix for the current client crashing macs is to keep graphics settings on low.

Grr! Their ‘fix’ for macs not crash in general is to turn graphics down so we are just kittened I guess.

I have been crashing all the time. Frustrating because I was commanding a zerg in the lab until I gave up trying to come back and catch up with everyone every other minute.

Sartharina.3542:

Olba.5376:

There is currently no enemy that would target Lion’s Arch.

None of the dragons are anywhere close to Lion’s Arch and we don’t have a villain that would be interested in destroying Lion’s Arch.

How about we destroy something else next? Maybe Divinity’s Reach?

Divinity’s Reach being destroyed would be great. The problem is they’d probably try to rebuild it again.

Nooo …. the human home area there is awesome …. zap the grove as I can never find my nodes in that thing.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I love Mad King Says personally.

I do not love spawning into LA unaware that it’s going on and suddenly being basically dead haha. That takes a minute to figure out wtf is happening.

Same here, I love having the option to play it. I do not like being punished for not playing it. Sure, it only takes a second to figure out, but if you are actually doing something (crafting, sorting inventory, whatever) it is frustrating to have something decide you are part of the event and toss you around like a rag doll. Cities are safe spaces and should be so. Why not just confine the range of MKS to something reasonable?

To get rid of DR should you go to another zone entirely or just to the normal, non-instanced LA?

I have been doing the latter but am not sure I am removing DR. Please anet, if you will give us this insane mechanic at least document it!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

After reading another post about a f2p player who got into the labyrinth and didn’t know how to leave it occured to me that this might be the reason. The portal leads to LA and that is blocked to f2p below level 35. WvW is blocked until they have a level 60. They might not have a guild or the guild might not have a guild hall so they might be blocked that way. That leaves PvP and if they are low level they might not know that they can leave from the PvP lobby, how to get there or how to leave once they do. Plus restrictions on map chat and whisper might mean they can’t speak to anyone to ask or if they do ask those people don’t know either. So maybe it’s because of the possibility of players getting stuck in the labyrinth that low level maps don’t have doors.

You think that was strange I encountered someone who just rolled an account in Ember Bay who had used a TP to friend. Somehow they did not have any waypoints in central tyria (I am guessing they did it while the initial intro was playing). Unfortunately they logged out while a couple of us were trying to figure out what they could do.

Sort of stories as an early access thing then throwing the doors open? That would work. Not ideal but it would solve some problems. I still am not sure why they felt the need to story-gate zones at all though as they did not do it in season 2.

The only problem with MKS is the range. You can be doing something else near it and get tossed for not typing the right thing.

They did a wintersday presents nerf just last year. The home-node trees no longer drop the giant gifts, only the small ones. Not to mention that what is in the gifts is more limited (no gathering tools, wooly garments, etc).

Yes, I know. However a fraction of any level’s xp is still a fraction of the xp.

One trick to other ppl trying to level up there. Nobody wants to lead the zerg. Tag up (assuming nobody else has) and you will get a crowd of people with exotic weaponry around you pretty fast. Just run towards doors and spam weapon skills constantly.

They already have pretty much the same trying to walk from the SW to VB. Connecting BF to VB would be obvious near the village. I am not sure about where EB would connect but presumably Orr since they were moving the fire islands anyway. No need for a story unlock, if you owned HOT you could use the gates.

Think about it looking at HOT itself. While we needed to do the prequel to get into VB you did not need to do any more of the story to get into the other zones.