Guild Wars 2

Been sitting here for nearly 5 hours with 2 other people. several night cycles have passed. NOTHING.

They did something in the patch which was supposed to fix the respawn….by “fix” did they mean “break?”

such an utter failure.

Never do another expansion go back to the clumsy living world.

Relshdan.6854:

meh…..go back to the base game or play another game if you just want to stroll along without any challenge or meaningful progression.

i really like the new content (so far)…..earning mastery levels/points and hero points in the new area isn’t just a given like in the base game….it is a reward for being a semi-competent player. it feels the exact opposite of a grind…its the exact opposite of mindless repetition.

Nothing about this is challenging.

Show me 1 thing in the new expac that requires anything BUT mindless repetition?

You haven’t even earned any mastery levels. highest I’ve seen so far is 8. or 9.

beastie.4536:

And here’s the famous quote from Mike O’Brien:

“We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”

yeah well he lied.

should quit game making and go into politics.

Where do you go to start this RNG grind to replace the old RNG grind?

Devildoc.6721:

in a game that has a core “no grind” philosophy.

psh, whoever said they have a ‘no grind’ philosophy?

Considering Guild Wars is an inaccurate and completely misleading game name. The only name that fits is Grind wars.

EVERYTHING is RNG and Grind.

Name me one ONE single thing you can do without hours of grinding! just one. Dont worry i’ll wait.

You can’t do it. Everything in this game is a grind. Aside from leveling (a grind) The ONLY thing you have to do at level 80 is GRIND!

want better gear? VERY low ceiling and GRIND! with stupid absurd RNG thrown in there to kitten you off.

when was this game ever not meant to be a grind? its policy at Anet.

“uh, tom, players are tired of grinding what are we going to do?”

“Nerf viable options to do other things, and introduce content that forces them to grind….we’ll just call it something else.”

Sell more games,
reduce support costs.

two very good financial arguments.

you can do this, but graves can’t have a cigar….

To make things worse, if its possible, Graves can’t even have a cigar anymore!

someone needs to let anet know that a berzerker isn’t going to be running around with no kitten candle. Give me 2 2 hand weapons!

Bearded.6485:

The entire concept behind these new maps is ridiciuosly stupid. Instead of making decent content that is slightly difficult and fun to play they have decided to make it take longer to do by just making it diffcult to find. I put off buying this expansion because I knew anet was going to something like this, now I am full on regretting buying it. I really don’t mind grinding stuff out to get my gear and other things I want in game. But I shouldn’t have to spend hours looking for 1 hero point. Who ever designed these map should Never design another map because they clearly have no clue what they are doing. It the same type of content they made for Eotm and we see how much people use it.

Maps need to flow. There should be some direction that generally pushes people to where they need to go. Some maze type terrain is fine, but every map that anet has come out with since original launch has been this type multiple level BS.

This. make the maps like they made the charr lands maps. Those are legit =)

I like it, dont like it to be required. Reward me for doing difficult things, but dont make them mandatory.

Exciton.8942:

Hexalot.8194:

MattyP.6954:

Divinity.3641:

My friend bought the HOT several days ago according to my recommendation and he decide to quit this game already. We tried to unlock the elite specialization by collecting hero points on new map and failed. The two hours we spent only gave us 3 hero points and 20+ times of death. The jumping puzzle like map is trash, so don’t force ppl to play it!

It should be difficult. They’re called “Elite” Specializations… they should take a certain level of skill. If you are not good enough to unlock the content, then you shouldn’t get to unlock the content.

Also, if he quit the game because he couldn’t unlock “Elite” content mere days after starting the game, then that is really, really sad. Sad as in “Pathetic”

You know you guys LOVE to mock the casuals, but the irony is that if enough of them start quitting over this hero point fiasco, ANET will bend over backwards to get them to stay, INCLUDING changing the HP requirements. And if the hardcores in turn complain ?

Well ANET will have no problems telling you to Kitten off…

Exactly this.

I am not sure about the quality of whole gw2 community. But the gw2 forum community is in general terrible to new players.

Which is why most of us spend time on other forums which remain hidden from the general populace. The people here are A) elitist kittens here to mock and kitten people rather than help. or people come to vent about something they find irritating.
then there is the C) group. People who are sitting at work and want something to read.

Still not useable after taking the trait.
First one in says “Torch Proficiency: You can wield torches in your off hand”

can’t. It still says “weapon type unusable by your profession”

yeah, no, its going 2kb for me right now lol

after release lol
working as intended? lol boy did they EARN that level 80 =D

/rant on

EQ1 allows this! its like a 500 year old MMO! they programmed it on the freaking apple 2e

We have been asking for this since beta! please for the love of all that is holy give us a viable way to completely TURN OFF other players obnoxious, blinding, seizure inducing, way over done, flashy, skills and abilities!

It seriously ruins melee play!

Not only can’t you see your abilities, you can’t see the bosses, you cant even see your own toon!

“…yeah im somewhere under all that flash….oh wait im dead wtf happened? i didn’t even know the mob -who is also hidden under the screen filling spam of unidentifiable stuff was hitting me!”

Oh but thank divinity that we have butterfly wings now!

/rant off.

If I understand this correctly you can train in legendary crafting to gain the ability to make a precursor?

So rather than a lucky drop, or fork over a year of hard earnings to a chinese bot on the TP,

its going to be a huge grind?

Not sure how I feel about that.

I guess it depends on how much of a “crafting grind” it will be.

speaking of which, in regards to masteries once you hit 80, you will be able to choose what your XP bar does? by that I mean it becomes your gliding mastery xp bar? or legendary crafting xp bar?

or will just doing ‘stuff’ in the game be auto assigned to a specific mastery track?

I detest grinds, and I detest luck.

Where is your favorite place in game?

Whether it be for looks, farming, or just some place you frequent because it agrees with you.

For me it would have to be the end of the jumping puzzle in dreamdark enclave, in the Caledon Forest.

One of the last jumping puzzles i was able to complete, but for some reason now, I just like to be up there. Nice view. good atmosphere. I’d build a home up there if I could!

Personally id rather see about 15x the amount of armors and outfits on there.
and price them lower. 700 is too much, 400-500 seems reasonable.

Behellagh.1468:

Methal.9045:

Phy.2913:

Are you trying to say the new precurser mastery’s will be botted?

If you can do it, a bot can do it.

There are video’s of bots doing jumping puzzles first time every time faster than a human.

Honestly I’ve never seen a bot in game in nearly 3 years.

are you looking?

sigh…add me in game if you would like, i"ll show you a dozen in less than an hour.

Phy.2913:

Methal.9045:

Phy.2913:

Are you trying to say the new precurser mastery’s will be botted?

If you can do it, a bot can do it.

Those precursers are account bond. The effort it would take to program a bot to do the activities required to complete the mastery would far exceed the effort to do it manually. This is literally a none issue.

you….it….wat?

1 guy programs them, 90000 buy it/the bot/plugin/profile from him. How is that not worth it?

Phy.2913:

Are you trying to say the new precurser mastery’s will be botted?

If you can do it, a bot can do it.

There are video’s of bots doing jumping puzzles first time every time faster than a human.

Preface:
- This is my opinion, but not one made in ignorance or rage. I have played MMOs for 15 years. I have botted myself hundreds of accounts across 7 MMOs. 100% honest when I say I have NOT botted in GW2. Partly because the need isn’t there, the desire isn’t there, and quite frankly there isn’t a good bot (what I would consider good) on the market. This speaks volumes as the quality of the staff at Anet.

I Been away for a while. 10 months to be exact.

Back when I played a lot, you knew OF bots, but never really ran into them. Sometimes you would see them flash into view, mine a node, and disappear again.
You heard of places they would frequent. off the shores of Southsun, or underwater in orr.
You could even go down and watch them. all 1 or 2 of them….

That was then…..

Now you can’t walk 10 feet into Orr without seeing trains of 5-15 toons all running the same routes, mining the same nodes, harvesting the same ghost peppers, and chopping down the same trees all in neat, organized rows. Many of which are Engineers – one major bots recommended class!

How did it get this way? this bad! Its rather angering.
Especially when I look at prices for items. The prices have virtually DOUBLED on almost EVERYTHING!

Specifically Legendary Precursors. (yes lets beat this horse again!)
Back “then” they cost about 500g, which was a lot, but you could do it in a month or so. Now they are 1100+ gold, yet legitimate means to make gold have not changed, nor yielded better results.
Essentially doubling the amount of work you have to do.

oh sure, you can toss stuff into the mystic toilet, and hope you are one of the lucky to get a precursor before you reach the estimated 2900 gold average that it takes.

With the changes being introduced in HOT some would say this is a moot point. No, that is not so. The time and effort are mearly being moved from a “lucky drop” or flush away everything. To more farming.

which perfectly suites botting.

I say all this for the reason I mentioned at the start of this thread. I am no stranger to botting. They are very recognizable once you know what to look for.

I think i speak for the vast amount of the community when I ask – wtf anet? -

You can read the bot forums and you will read things like “you still need to be careful, even with anets lack of action against botting”
and “bout the only way to get banned is to have multiple people report you -And then anet usually doesn’t do anything.”

So whats up guys?

Until I came to see this forum.

lol JOKING GUYS JOKING. Stop throwing things.

seriously though, why is it, that when someone gets squished they think running to the forum to cry is the way to go?

Then again I dont PvP so my opinions in that matter are moot =)

I dont even WVW very often, i find it chaotic, and unrewarding.

Oh sure there are things I would change. I find the new weapon limits just plain anti fun and stupid – why can’t my off weapon set be a mace/shield? why do I need to change specialization to swap to a hammer? Its purely a limitation for limitations sake. Nothing else.
I like berzerker gear! i find it more fitting for a dual wielding berzerker style play I dont see a reason to change it. Give bosses high single target damage, and logical target priorities. Some people like to tank, I would be one, but I dont see a need.

anyway just my 2c.

Fermi.2409:

How is a subscription pay to win? And the game doesn’t even have a subscription. You can just play the game for free now, with some limitations

well you could always PLAY the game for free, getting the game was a different story.

Glad to see you can at least get the core game without forking over your first born. Though i’ve never agreed with applying account restrictions.

I do like a lot of the changes i’m reading about though.

ah ok good. I’ve already paid for the core game, and just pre-ordered the HoT expack =D

I dont recall ever seeing and announcement that the game was going to a subscription aka pay to win type style.

I must be missing something.

anything Anet? plox?

I dont mind that its there. Its just that its all people do. There isn’t another event on the map that can gather more than 4 or 5 people.
Fail or not, set the re-try timer to 10-15 minutes so that there is room for other events to be done during the down time.

Odin of Ark.4860:

Bring popcorn for the rage.

Pretty much this. I’ve seen less rage in League of Legends

nah its more like 1 minute to restart it.

Trying to raise awareness.

And its not that good. Unless you got hella range expect to die a lot and not get much even if you think you tag something, you may still not get any loot.
Its about 7 champs per run though. and its a 7-8 minute run.

Cursed Shore 50+ people intentionally failing this event so they can wow farm it, and raging like animals at people who want to finish it…

Claims of 100+gold and hour luring more people to it all the time.

None of the other events are doable because of the amount of jerks farming this thing.
Not to mention it screws up people who want to actually finish the event so they can do the next one.

Yeah I don’t like that. Not one bit. TBH if they didn’t drop loot that would be fine…maybe, but not being able to get sigil stacks is rather irritating.

Or stacks?

Just wondering if this is a bug? or something extra-ultra lame….

nobody? any theory? anet spank me and take away my birthday for asking?

Like what happens after someone is reported for botting?

I used to report all the time. But now I just sit back and watch the same people do it. I’ve played many MMOs, and seen my fair share of bots. I even spent a hot minute tinkering around with one called glider in world of warcrap. So its not like I’m ignorant when it comes to identifying a botter.

Yet I can hit a wp in GW2 and a stone throw away will be 6-12 people swimming/running the same route over and over again, the names of toons will change over a 2 week period, but its the same story, same accounts, same people, same names.

I must have reported them 10 times, yet they are always there.

anet says there is an ‘in depth complex behind the scenes’ investigation that goes on, but i’m beginning to think, that’s code for “We have 1 part time guy looking into it when he’s not printing shipping labels”

would it hurt to know more about what kind of things we SHOULD be reporting that will actually get LOOKED at when they do this top secret bot investigation?

so….nice way to say it, but wtf is going on? I dont get a lot of time to play and would like to actually you konw, play when I can…..

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

snort

I love how people assume it’s women kittening about this. Stereotypical assumptions much people?

FYI, I am 30 year old, married woman. Mother of 1. Full time career in java development, and guess what. I don’t take issue with any of the armor in the game.

Does some of it make the player look like a nun? Hello Devout….
Does some of it make the player look like a call girl from an old western? Hello Masquerade (minus the head gear)…
And we have everything in between. Toss in the ability to mix and match and you can be as skimpy, or not, as you so choose.

In regards to the armor in question, I don’t consider it that skimpy. It has some skimp sure, but there’s worse out there. Personally I love the top, but don’t care for the skirt. I would not be opposed to having an additional set more closely modeled after the male set, but that’s not a reason to remove or redo the one that exists. More options, not less.

Above and beyond all that, ‘sexy’ is not the only reason female sets are less bulky. Sex sells might be high on the list, but take a look at how female warriors dressed over the ages. Typically speaking they don’t wear as bulky gear because we lack the muscle mass (typically) to haul it. While I am not saying women are weak, I am pointing out that we tend to be a bit more lithe and agile than our male counterparts. Our “strength” doesn’t come from brute force. There is some logic in not wrapping yourself in a tin can.

^
/thread

Your build will depend more on your play style than anything.

having all the DPS in the world don’t help you if you can’t take 1 hit.

To be honest I really don’t care what others are casting at the mob. Unless it effects me directly (boons, ground heal aoe, effect fields, etc.) I’d prefer to turn them off completely
Save some life on my system, and save a bit of heat that my AC doesn’t have to counter =D

Been waiting for this, (and more armor looks) since 2 days after release.

Good job on making them bold and amazing looking….but I wish I could turn them off sometimes.

At least for other people.

I play in melee range quite often, and for those of us who do, I ‘m sure I’m not alone in wishing I could actually SEE my toon, (and at times the mob we are fighting) through the spell effects of the 900 other people.

If you don’t know what I mean, head down to Cursed Shore and try to see the Champ ooze with 50 people fighting it. That thing completely disappears in the chaos of spell effects.

Thanks for all the info. I spent about 7 hours yesterday (much to the dismay of my wife) testing these.
Very good suggestions, I have found however, that all wep sets offer pretty good survival.
The thing is I can’t just afk attack like I could on my warrior and ranger.

Action and Reaction seems to be the key to playing the thief well. Watching for specific animations from the mobs, knowing where I will end up when I hit an ability, etc.

What kind of runes, and wep augments would you suggest?

Couple questions.
I haven’t used sword in so long I forget if its an AoE attack.

Also with AoE attacks will Sig of Mal heal me for each attack? or each target?

and could the same logic be applied to short bow? or dagger 4 when it bounces off more than 1 mob?

I’ve been running mostly groups to get to 80. doing champ rotations in Queens till I hit 80, did some wvwvw, but found it boring. (ahmergerd!) What i’m having a hard time with now is staying alive! (do do do do staying alliiiiiiveee…stupid song)

In all seriousness. What is a good build to go to not die so much? Also what Runes, and sigils are good now?

Note I haven’t played much since the end of February so few things have changed….except that I’m still squish as a kitten under a cement truck….

Thanks =D

Oh if I didn’t mention it, I really just do PvE solo/grouping and WvW.

I’ve played all the classes, and I consistently come back to my Ranger.
It seems to be the most rounded class in the game. I can enjoy either a stand back and casually nuke, or get up-close and personal play style.

Or both if I want.

And It seems that FINALLY my bear will take the beating for me when I melee with him.

Well done Anet. Well done indeed.

Now if only I had more than 4 gold to my name….Any chance I could rent my pets out to other classes? ive got like 20 i’m not using. Or at least have them go out and get a job?

As I recall, ax main hand was the first wep we get exposed to upon starting a ranger, I remember it being very underwhelming and down right off putting.
1h sword was like eating a sour candy you expected to be sweet…after a while you got a taste for it.

Running sword/axe/horn with short bow off right now.

I was thinking about revisiting the axe main hand horn off or something build and was wondering if anyone has been rolling with that who could point me in the right direction.

Plus what are your thoughts on it?>

11b 1/75th Ranger.

I’ll check out the axe/mace thing