Guild Wars 2

They already ruined the game for many, so why not to you too?

ANet is not loyal to itself so get ready, your game will be ruined sooner or later.

Sps.7862:

This move does not make sense to me. The art team of ArenaNet has incredible talent, I think we can all agree on that. It seems a little far fetched that they couldn’t design a new armor.

This seems like a decision solely made by the marketing team with the effects added by an outsourcer or a sole employee that is not necessarily connected to the art team.

Also, what is the point of having a “cultural” armor if it is available to anyone and everyone? The logical fix or make-up move here seems to be limiting the armor to humans, at least. It’ll still undermine the effort of people having gone through the trouble of farming the (arguably less cool looking) set, but that is personally fine with me.

They have to make money, so if one has the choice between farming it and giving money, I think that’s fine as long as it is for cosmetics. ANet has been oddly silent though, not a good sign… Then again, they haven’t deleted the thread and they’ve even merged it, so perhaps they will address the issue.

Wait and see.

When you refer to ANet Art Team, I think you are talking about a looooong time ago when this game was being made and real art was on the table…

Remove all fire armor and whatever have ridiculous particle effects from the game!

or at the very least, just give me a button on my options to remove particle fx from equipment on my screen…

Farzo.8410:

It will hurt to see other races than humans wearing the Grenth hood.

So it is for us Norns to see the Stag helm on others even if it’s not the same helm.

(why think something new right?, just copy cat old work).

As a customer I feel insulted by their lack of work on their new models. I feel like they thought “yeah, just add some shinny, the stupid will buy it anyway cause it has flamezzz and flamez are cawl”

Also, please ANet, get your World of Warcraft armors elsewhere. You are ruining my and many others game. (Yes, some of us entered GW because it has beatiful art).

Such a HUGE step backwards… and a huge step back you wont be able to erase…

Tier 3 Chest and legs, rest is Vigil armor

Increasing the lvl cap its a long way of constant updates that leads directly to the game’s death, in a way or another.

don’t get fooled by the snow and blizzards outside… its summer! hot as hell and the poor norn couldn’t stand the hot furs on the bed

unless they changed the recipe as well and you can now infuse the items with 2 apples and a lollipop.

EverythingXen.1835:

Neb.4170:

Mesket.5728:

Neb.4170:

Mesket.5728:

Even if at the end an Elder Dragon was behind Scarlet

Scarlet is behind the Elder Dragons.

Ha.

That would be the end of GW2 for me (and many others) at least lorewise. I will just play the arcade then.

Funny enough, Scarlet makes the Elder Dragons look like ‘good’ bad guys and they are also pretty bland and uninteresting.

Really, what point is there to the Dragons? Do they have any goals? All they seem to do is destroy. They have the personality of a Tornado/Earthquake.

Without a doubt in my mind she’ll end up jabbing another one into more aggressive action. If for no other reason the forumbase continues to clamor for more dragon-based content.

As to the Dragon’s purpose… they exist to consume the magic that builds up in Tyria naturally over hundreds of years. They awake, consume almost all of it (with often catastrophic results) and go back to sleep until the build up wakes them up/they get hungry again. It’s very much a natural part of the planet’s cycle. (this stuff is also provided in game through your personal story… most of it anyway)

Which when you think about it, raises some interesting ramifications about our actions when we basically kill one… think like magical global warming or something…

Which, in turn, shows how even a brainless force of nature style enemy can provide more interesting and compelling story content than Scarlet has provided with a year behind her.

hmmm then why arent we seeing them having epic fights against each other to be the top predator of the world’s magic?

If they need to sleep for eons waiting for the magic to build up,… wouldn’t they be annoyed as hell if another dragon waked up first and consumed it already?

Axe MH is the most powerfull weapon a warrior can have for DPS. The meta was last month at Axe/(mace, sword or another axe as offhand) and GS as secondary weapon.

You only use GS for 100b burst or evade/shorten the gap but not for DPS.

Fortus.6175:

Mesket.5728:

Warriors are not best dps, are not best bunker, are not best at range (?), are not the best at evading, are not the best at escaping, are not the best at jumping puzzles (why not), they don’t exceed at everything as you think. They are good overall, that’s what they do, they fight and fight well; its obvious.

I beg to differ. Try catching a warrior with a GS traited to remove roots and dolyak signet, healing signet and rage signet. And dont tell me thats a weird build, because minus the root removing part, all warriors run that in WvW, and dont tell me they dont do damage, a nice root from a cripple followed by a nice 100b isnt exactly my definition of comfortable, specially when they made me burn dodges and conditions cleanses with their low CD gap closers and intense damage/healing capabilities. Add a hammer on top of that to sweeten the deal and you have the WvW warrior, which escapes anything and engages anything and kills most things, and if it fails to do that….run away in a blink.

Sounds a lot of like D/D ele right? Well, even old D/D ele cant compare to current power-creeped warrior, which has been getting steadily at least a buff in every patch, several ones at a time sometimes, al while all other classes have been seen nothing but net nerfs for the most part

So no, try other classes in WvW seriously and fight lots of these “balanced” warriors and come talk to us again.

My main is a warrior. I leveled 3 other 80s because I hate warrior in WvW (besides I believe WvW is horrible in this game but that’s another topic).

A GS Warrior have some weapon skills that when combed with some traits gives lot of mobility… so what? Will his mobility kill you? or your zerg? Is he the only one around with mobility? Doesn’t the ranger have another long range (1200) charge? frikin ranger has like 30 seconds stability!!! Does the guardian have something similar in his GS 3? what about all the classes that has teleports? stealths? Necrotic Transversal? Illusions? Every pony can do some tricks… don’t take it on the warrior because it is the easiest to recognize its strong points.

and for god sake stop crying about the hammer… ANet already realized players don’t have enough combat awareness to use stability so they nerfed the hammer 30%… I’m waiting to see people keep dying to hammer and realize they have the problem…

Can I start crying because my warrior can’t land 3-5 AOEs at the same time at around 1K range? Many classes can, I have to stick my nose in the middle of the fight if I want to hit something; and no, bow F1 is not something you can spam as effective as: mesmer/necro/ele staff, ranger traps/barrage, engies grenades, thief SB, even guardian with scepter and concecrations has more range aoe than a warrior.

Neb.4170:

Mesket.5728:

Even if at the end an Elder Dragon was behind Scarlet

Scarlet is behind the Elder Dragons.

Ha.

That would be the end of GW2 for me (and many others) at least lorewise. I will just play the arcade then.

Whatever you enjoy the most during your online hours….

or try this lol

eisberg.2379:

Get 1 part A and 1 part u, put them together and you get Gold =P

Phadde.7362:

Once they’ve done that, I’d be absolutely thrilled to see another awesome Elder Dragon to slay.

Who needs elder dragons when you can have spoiled teenagers crashing parties.

digiowl.9620:

I think the issue with the mob density is within the mob respawn mechanic.

No, its because players still think this is Mario Kart instead of a mob slaying game. They still want to skip everything to “maximize” their efficiency… Zerk players, built to kill, not killing and dying because of it.

that depends… if I pay 40 dollars for an expansion (don’t be ridiculous expansions are never over the original box prize, it makes no sense) and get Scarlet as the story I would’ve asked for a refund. The tower is amazing but the story behind with scarlet as main villain is horrible. I wouldn’t pay to get something like that.

VOLKON.1290:

Mesket.5728:

VOLKON.1290:

Four words.

You’re doing it wrong.

1) You
2) are
3) doing
4) it
5) wrong

I’m sorry, I had to

Isn’t the contraction counted as a single word even though it’s a combination of two?

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/80635/counting-contractions-as-one-or-two-words

We will never know, not even dictionaries agree. Lets say we are both right/wrong (?)

The event should remain shut until a guild activates it.

Use cleanse skills. Get rid of conditions.
Use break stuns. Bing feared into spores or knocked with mobs on you is a death sentence.
Use regen food.
Use vigor.
Don’t rush, fight. Turning around the corner to find yourself immobilized so the 3 guys you left behind can catch up and kill you is your own fault. This is the main mistake of glass cannon players… if you are built to kill, then kill. There are way to many mobs with many control skills.

I did it solo 3 times. It’s not only the initial version, you can solo the repeatable version too and yes, the fight is the same (though I think the champ as less HP).-

I would pay to get her removed from the game and let the story of Tyria continue.-

If she IS the new story of Tyria… then I’m finally understanding the harm done. God she is evil… she ruined a game.

Cina Reas.6938:

Just guesting on a high pop server ( to finish ), even here its dieing.

The tower is essentially a no go zone for many hours in the day. This is bad design.

You know you can go solo right?

VOLKON.1290:

Four words.

You’re doing it wrong.

1) You
2) are
3) doing
4) it
5) wrong

I’m sorry, I had to

BeoErgon.9107:

I saw lots of times many players asking for raid content in instances for their guild.

I believe this tower might be the answer from Anet. It is still open world, but if you ever enter and there is a group of twenty ahead do not even try catching on them. The enemies will bee way to hard for you solo.

If there is an (organized) group ‘raiding’ the place better just follow them or let them get way ahead and hope the difficulty will scale down by the time you enter.

all we need now its a raiding interface…

Arikyali.5804:

Poor Trahearne…everyone hates him, and no one ever gives him a chance.

On the contrary… we always give him a chance… with every character we have… and he always do the same!

Skarpa.8203:

First level chambers drops Mysterious Blue Key
Second level chambers drops Mysterious Green key
Third level chambers drops Mysterious Pink key

This is not true. It was confirmed not to be true by many others. All key parts drops at any level.

OP, if you have problems finding one color in particular; its just bad luck. Outside the tower in Mar’s camp you can buy key fragments (1 per day). Buy the color you are missing.

ps I completed 4 keys the first day and the 5th one the second… its not hard if you stay within the tower roaming and killing stuff.

They can give Scarlet all the depth they want and even if they end up making an interesting story, it doesn’t have to like me.

I don’t like her conceptually, I don’t like made up on the go “armies”, I don’t like her smile, her joker wanna be attitude. I don’t like what she might be looking for, I’m just not interested. She behaves like a spoiled teenager, desperate to get some attention. Everything around her was forced in the story, her knowledge, her way of manipulating factions, her powers… nothing is believable and it has to be explained through very unlikely scenarios. It’s a character I simply cannot buy.

The only damage she is really causing is to the game lore if this character ever becomes representative of the Guild Wars franchise. For all we know, Scarlet had much more impact on the world than Zhaitan, many times more; it just doesn’t make any sense. Even if at the end an Elder Dragon was behind Scarlet, it can’t be more powerful than she already is. She controls everything from everywhere at any time, it’s stupid. It’s also stupid that we are still beating her, just let us finish her and move on with a real story about Tyria.

It is an instance, not a dungeon. It behaves the same as the personal story instances. If you want to do stuff after, start it yourself.

Go solo

hahah I saw it too, taking little damage while going down. I didn’t take thousands of damage but more on the hundreds.

Another warriors thread… this one more biased than another.-

Warrior exceed at combat. Period. It is the easiest class to see its advantages. Just equip it and auto attack. Other classes has other goodies that are harder to see but it doesn’t mean they are not on par with Warrior.

Warriors are not best dps, are not best bunker, are not best at range (?), are not the best at evading, are not the best at escaping, are not the best at jumping puzzles (why not), they don’t exceed at everything as you think. They are good overall, that’s what they do, they fight and fight well; its obvious.

PS: I would trade my warrior downed skills for any other class any other day of the week. I HATE vengeance. It’s horrible.

PS2: Don’t ask ANet for balance or even coherence. One patch, warriors are fine so we will just tweak their support traits. Second patch, warriors are OP! we have to nerf hammer… yeah right… they are a) listening to too much whining or b) clueless about their own game… can’t tell which one is worst.

If you have one guy opening the fractal lvl to your guild group, that one guy should step forward and increase his level to open the dungeon for you. It shouldn’t be this way but if you just want to do 1 fractal a day and keep the progress while getting the chest at the same time… well.. someone has to pay the price for that luxury.

Morrigan.2809:

So I have been on a fairly populated PvE server since beta. Last night I hit up Shatterer, first time since Teq redone. We are 4 people, we think it is a good way to die and then he didn’t show, at all. I enjoy empty maps sometimes, but a world boss? no show? this is new to me. Btw I am complaining about lack of people showing for a Dragon, not the fact that the Dragon gave up in digust : p

Shatterer pre event has been bugging out for the last couple of weeks.

Because the proud Charr’s will never allow the humans to have any kind of power over Ascalonian lands. Even if that power is the power to save their own lands.

I don’t want to see Scarlet suffer because that would be to endure another lame story about her… just delete her from the database. Pretend she never existed.

She is 60’s comic villain, she belongs to an Adam West batman’s episode, not to this epic game.

Draknar.5748:

Not sure if this was discussed anywhere, but I was speaking with some guildies about Scarlet and all of these story arcs they are putting together.

Does anyone else notice that:

Molten Alliance, Aetherblades, Toxic Alliance = Vigil, Durmand Priory, Order of Whispers? The evil versions obviously. They are even growing an evil Pale Tree. Scarlet is creating evil versions of what we got going on.

The LS up until now doesn’t sound so random when you think about it with this in mind.

Someone must have rolled a dice… where is Evil Abed?

(not all will get the reference).

Phy.2913:

Mesket.5728:

Phy.2913:

The only problem with defensive/healing specs/builds/gear is that it takes forever to kill anything, which becomes a problem when fighting groups.

Those builds are not built towards killing as a primary objective. Some of them even build their characters thinking they can assist and support those zerkers who build for the killing. I know, they are naive as hell and this is not the game for them; there is no team play here and trying to help is actually considered selfish (gw2 lologic).

Point is, what you see as a problem, it is not for them. They expect the fight to last longer but to reduce the casualties. They get excited not by looking at the enemy bar going down quickly but looking as their friend hp bar not doing it.

Besides, the tower is not a scripted boss fight where you can play Simon and predict their attacks. You never know when an elite mob might spawn at your back and that unpredictability is what makes it fun. In this kind of playground, zerk players are finally experiencing some real risk (in some points of the tower) they don’t really experience in dungeons they know by hard.

And when you’re running around by yourself fights are boring and excessively long, hence the reason everyone runs dps builds in open world.

How long and boring fights are, is still a matter of personal opinion. Not everyone consider fun the same things. I, myself, like to play full zerk as well but I also enjoy using my WvW build in PVE and pull 26348724 mobs on my head. For me it is fun and there is no place for arguments. I won’t drag others into this on a dungeon for example, but this Living Story opens the door for other builds to be perfectly viable and enjoyable.

Black Box.9312:

laharl.8435:

Nothing to elaborate on the bolded, I simply don’t believe it to be true. Feel free to post a video proving me wrong and I’ll gladly admit error.

I’m pretty sure he means that he was unable to interpret what you meant with that sentence due to poor grammar structure, and he was just asking for a rephrasing of it that is easier to understand.

Exactly, thanks. English is not my first language and sometimes I get lost.

I don’t understand what he said.

they have to do it.

I don’t like it either but they must do it.

The game will remain untidy and incomplete unless they finish all crafting professions to 500 and have ascended items to every slot.

having 50/50 is unprofessional.

I love the tower, the maze, the endless fighting… but i hate we have to face scarlet again… she has no taste, no fun, no charisma… its not even a villain one learn to hate, it’s just a boring, spoiled teenager.

People don’t like dying, that’s it. Some zerk players got spoiled by the easier content and now suffer. The Tower itself is great. It was a good update.

What a waste they use that take on Scarlet.

Many of these “bugs” are resolved if you just listen to the NPCs that are talking with you inside the instance. (or read the chat, their lines appear there).

The portal thing is not a bug, its a lottery between 3 gates, one will take you forward the other 2 will get you downed (until you use #4 to get up and try another one).

Phy.2913:

The only problem with defensive/healing specs/builds/gear is that it takes forever to kill anything, which becomes a problem when fighting groups.

Those builds are not built towards killing as a primary objective. Some of them even build their characters thinking they can assist and support those zerkers who build for the killing. I know, they are naive as hell and this is not the game for them; there is no team play here and trying to help is actually considered selfish (gw2 lologic).

Point is, what you see as a problem, it is not for them. They expect the fight to last longer but to reduce the casualties. They get excited not by looking at the enemy bar going down quickly but looking as their friend hp bar not doing it.

Besides, the tower is not a scripted boss fight where you can play Simon and predict their attacks. You never know when an elite mob might spawn at your back and that unpredictability is what makes it fun. In this kind of playground, zerk players are finally experiencing some real risk (in some points of the tower) they don’t really experience in dungeons they know by hard.

Dr Ritter.1327:

Mesket.5728:

the story is as lame as expected… but the content is amazing. That tower is so much fun.

I beat it in under an hour and don’t even want to go back and grind the achievements for the combine helm. Another boring zergfest with no challenge in my opinion.

Zergfest?

I’ve been roaming the tower up and down alone looking for events and entering instances as I found them. The only zerg I’ve seen is the ones that can’t pass through alone and seek companionship. Zergs last minutes before they disband.

I got the mask in like 3? 4? hours… This event doesnt have much grind fest (thought the chambers get a bit repetitive but its not that bad).

I don’t find it a problem… I mean, it is representing a fortress invasion, so I expect to be overrun by their defenses.

ContraBit.9174:

if you go PVT warrior you can basicly do everything except champions who are blocking the routes on your own. Hp regen+shout healing is just too kitten broken.

You can do champs too, but its hard to find one to fight alone except those where everyone else is dead.

that build is not broken, every class has its way. Rangers has insane HP regen too, Necros has the same vitality and can build to be extreme tanks; same goes for eles and of course, guards… only ones I can’t tell for sure are Engies and Mesmers. Have no idea if those 2 have regenerative/tank builds as well.

I was shocked and dissapointed to see Scarlet’s annoying face again at the end of this LS.

cesmode.4257:

Mesket.5728:

cesmode.4257:

Mesket.5728:

I did it solo.

Climbed the 3 levels, entered all the mini instances; completed the explorer achievement and killed the last champ without dying a single time.

Pro-tip: Hang that zerk gear in the wardrobe and use your pvp set.

Ill say it again…this better not be some ill-conceived attemp at making me get another gear set. I geared my thief for zerker. I don’t want to get a PVT set or something.

Note: I do support different gear sets and builds to promote diversity. I just chose zerker for my thief and I dont want to have to acquire another set to complete this content. What happened to playing the way I want to play?

You are doing it; and, as consequence, are effective as your choice is.

Don’t get a defensive set if you don’t want to, but as it should always be and unfortunately it is not; using a pure dps set is putting you up to some real risk. Get friends or go slowly.

Going slowly does not help. Running into a pack of 8 regular mobs and 2 vets is punishing if I am alone. Or running into a champ.. Yes people have soloed the champs, but not everyone.

Last night I was with a group, but was seperated because we all went into an instance. Came out and I was alone. So I waited 10 minutes to see if more people would come. None did. I trecked on and found my self surrounded by the scenario I told above.

So this tells me that if I cant stay up with the zerg, I need to build defensive to run solo. So again I ask, why is arenanet suddenly making open world content like this largely unattainable for zerker builds?

Read from the other thieves on this same sub forum saying they did it with full zerk build but moving slowly using stealth.

You won’t be able to just advance slaying anything on your way, at least not that easy now.

the story is as lame as expected… but the content is amazing. That tower is so much fun.