Guild Wars 2

I think instead of doing 3 swamps, you can do 57, 60, 67. Throw in that jade instead of a swamp, saves your sanity of running wisps. Usually I’m all wisped out after running 2.

Belzebu.3912:

OH! By the way:

- Intel Core i7 5960X CPU
- 32GB DDR4 2666MHz Memory
- 3x SLI NVIDIA TITAN X 12GB
- Exotic Custom Liquid Cooling
- 400GB NVM PCIe Intel SSD
- 2TB 7200RPM Storage HDD
- X99 Motherboard
- 1500W Corsair AX PSU
- Microsoft Windows 10

i know nothing about the inside of pc

You should upgrade for an Ascended Custom Liquid Cooling

So is that like, the precursor to Legendary Custom Liquid Cooling?

Crouching tiger hidden Leohart.4610

My routine is: do the story first. After story, do all 7 HPs in VB. After VB, do all 6 or w/e HPs in DS. After DS, do 4-ish in AB, people usually come to mushroom king and then the rotten bacon. After that, do a few in TD, the soloable ones. TADAAAAAAA specialization complete. 1 HoT map complete. Story for the specialization complete.

“Anet sends their regards.”

DaShi.1368:

I hope not. I’d rather Anet focus on making this game fun again than trying to rush out poorly coded, ill-conceived content. If we learned anything from the series of major missteps in 2015, it’s that Anet doesn’t know what it’s doing and needs to take a long look at their current game before adding something new.

I agree. We don’t need Living Story 3 if it kicks you out and freezes your laptop every 20 minutes.

zenleto.6179:

I’m quite proud of my 1

I’m not bad at jump puzzles but this one I find a bit tough.

AAAAAMEN. I did it once and I was so kitten surprised.

:o <—- my face when I jumped into the huge gift box full of light.

Lets just settle this by having Anet put every single JP + goggles achievement + 3000 gold + 100 fractals + 25,000 achievement points as a prereq for the next awesome skin. That way, everyone will be kittened instead of just some people.

Oh, and THEN, maybe players will stop fighting each other and actually look at who’s creating the problems. Maybe.

Sorry I didn’t mean to spam your post, but here’s his name thingy: Daclaw.5107

I nominate Daclaw. He’s really helpful and also plays daily. He jokes around when doing fractals and is a very positive person!

Celtic Lady.3729:

Fancypants.9705:

Hey all I dont ever really complain on forums i just keep it to myself but this really put a bad taste in my mouth.

Anet, wanted to make the game less grindy and less gold orientated. Being able to obtain legionaries and higher end items just by playing the game. So they decreased the amount rewarded given by dungeons… horrible idea…

Now to be able to obtain skins like the Wintersday skin, we have to do endless grinding for 10k alcohol points or stuck paying 800g+ on the TP….. so… where/when is this less grinding and less gold orientated come in to play?

Even doing these new legendary achievements… sure you can do it all by just playing… but you will be spending countless hours farming resources. Is this suppose to be more fun then grinding/playing dungeons?

None of this makes sense…. if I am wrong please tell me, I welcome all types of criticism and hope that I am wrong in all of these cases. If you are going to say I am cheap just dont bother posting, I think anyone expected to spend over 800g+ to have some snowflake effects has some screws loose.

I can only imagine they’re desperately trying to keep people busy and this is something else that might take players some time. Also, it seems like they’re actively looking for major gold sinks, like they think players have too much gold in general. The gold sink aspect isn’t working on me, though, since I’m not planning to sink any gold at all into the shoulders.

JP and bell grind all day ^.^

Malediktus.9250:

Berserk Steve.1530:

achievements now confirmed working on all lanes just hold dmg and kill in 3rd.

Sound like badly designed achievements if they force you to play bad. Especially in open world environments where other people do what they want.

Seriously what the hell. This is a little similar to how you have to FAIL events to get some achievements for precursor collection. It’s going to promote people yelling at other people to stop attacking. Good one, Anet, way to get players to aggro against each other.

Now wouldn’t it suck if someone were to post some spoilers in this thread ^.^

Healix.5819:

Running the JP, I can easily do ~25 runs in an hour, 30 if nothing goes wrong. Each run gives 10 presents and ~1000 karma (~5k for the first run). In 1 hour, once a day, that’s (@25 runs) 250 presents and another 25 presents purchased with just the karma earned from that. The repeatable achievement awards another 5 personalized presents per 15 runs, however much they’re worth. I personally sell my presents for ~10s each (~27.5g in an hour). Considering drinks are around 9s, so 900g for the achievement, it would take 33 days by just spending an hour a day farming the jumping puzzle, or 27 days if you can do 30 runs in that hour. Spend an extra hour per day and it’s down to 17 days.

Any dedicated player should easily be able to acquire this achievement in the remaining ~25 days (assuming it’s similar to last year).

Good for you.

“Tis but a flesh wound!”

Conny Nightwind.2019:

actually Gaile my question is why do we have to redo the 10k drinks again. alrdy did the ale hound achievement for gw2. or did the devs forget about that little achievement already in the game? rounding the karma req. to spend on gifts up to 4k from the vendor would require 38- 40 million karma. who has that amount of karma on their accounts? My beef with the collection requirements is not the jp, its the snowball mayhem. absolutely detest pvp. I tolerate wvw, but did it for karma train. I don’t understand why we are forced to pvp.

Newer devs probably wasn’t even hired back then. Anet got rid of their entire dungeon team so … probably the new ones don’t know much about the game if they don’t hardcore play it themselves.

Conundra.1920:

Using the MAC beta and annoyingly mine keeps resetting every day (auto-loot, field of view, mouse gestures, item rarity in bags, etc.). You mention you are working on a fix, was it in the update I just received on 17th December, if so unfortunately it didn’t work? If not do we have an ETA on this patch please?

I really do love how after 3 years and an expansion, we don’t even have a NON-BETA client to use. Totally off topic, sorry.

I’ve heard someone tell me to first go to character selection screen, then log out completely from there and it stops this issue. Works for me so far!

How long is wintersday this year, anyone know where to find out?

kratan.4619:

Whether or not they let it continue after the event, or continue next wintersday, or not continue at all there will be people that are mad. There is no “win” in this situation with gamers.

:(

But as someone said on another thread (very similar to mine but not exactly the same), it’s taking a huge risk with gold to ASSUME that it’s not obtainable after this wintersday. A clear answer from Gaile about the discontinuity of this item would be nice. If it’s not coming back ever, then $$ to gems to gold to drinks. If it’s coming back next Xmas, then gems to gold. If we can still get drinks from our home x-mas trees, then no gems to gold. It all depends on what Gaile and Anet says. Just need that clear confirmation tho, so there’s an accountability

QUESTION: So the achievement to get shoulders WILL DEFINITELY get removed once wintersday is over?

Redenaz.8631:

Thanks for the update!

What update :|

:( If you do it with some friends, I’m sure they don’t mind carrying you through the fight. The ending’s worth it because you get Leyline armor of your choice. I mean … repeating the story over and over basically gets you the Leyline armor collection! Ask someone to carry you!!!

QUESTION: do we have to finish 10k drinks by end of Wintersday, or do we get all year to try and finish it?

NiffyinaJiffy.1532:

Methods.4023:

The portal is bugged. Click on the guy to the left and he will port you in

That doesn’t work. I get sent back to DR each time I try.

Ditto. Not that I can do the JP anyways, but this time around I’m not even allowed to try because of this.

DrMORO.4627:

Please merge with this thread:
“Options reset every time I log in”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Options-reset-every-time-I-log-in/page/3#post5860680

And, I look forward to having the fix soon.

Yea seriously don’t we all. For me my whole front page of Options get unset. I have to go through and check/uncheck every box. I’m scared to log out >.>

Celtic Lady.3729:

SgtOVERKILL.4701:

I really don’t get what all the complaints are about? It’s been the same for three years just because they tied an item to it? Just do the kitten puzzle you’re bound to get it. I ran it 3x in about 10min. This puzzle is easy compared to some in the current game or previous celebrations ex. mad kings clocktower.

It’s not really that simple. For some players, JPs aren’t something they’re going to “just get” no matter how many times they do it. Some just don’t have the aptitude for it and no amount of time thrown at it is going to change that.

Also, “easy” is a subjective term. For plenty, this puzzle isn’t “easy” compared to others at all.

Just sayin’.

Yea. I’m not the best a JPs but I can get them done if I can reposition/realign myself once in a while. It might be really “ezpz” for some people but for me getting through in one go is difficult.

This was very eloquent and I applaud your ability to write so concisely about these issues. I agree with you and erm … hope things change. Otherwise if there’s a better mmo coming out let me know o.o

The new wintersday shoulder piece: will it still be obtainable AFTER wintersday events are over? Or will it be locked into “Historicals” forever? Or will it be unlocked again next year?

Everyone’s saying something different and I would really like an answer on this.

Ya fractals are providing ascended pieces for Ascended salvage craze … oh wait.

Skyline Crash.6254:

Wanze.8410:

I could use a gold eater.

I have so much of that stuff because its so easy to come by and i have very little to spend it on.
It would be great to be able to feed it a couple of gold every day and get account bound mats and currencies in return.

I’ll be your gold eater SRS. In return, I would be your slave.

OK WOW that’s a lot of gold. Last time I checked I had about 100 gold. 2nd, I’ll also be your gold eater.

Please give MAC users a non-beta client. I don’t even know why this is still an issue after 3 years and an expansion.

This was very well put. Imbalance is a HUGE issue and at this moment, if you did not play the way others want you to, you will not get to raid. If Anet does not plan to fix this imbalance, they might as well just take out the other class (namely thief). I would really like to see a group take some thieves but at this time, thief is like pluto —- it used to be a class but now it’s a grade above NPCs. Not the good ones like in HoT either.

So I’m not the only one that thought Mordre is Barney the Dinosaur Version 2!!!!!!! Woooo!!!! The chubby Barney was hilarious tho :P

Sublimatio.6981:

Cheap way from anet to make people buy hot to get more rewards and earn more gold. Oh wait rewards are kitten nvm, better to run and cut trees in gendarran, so in the end you dont have to buy hot

Surprisingly, this is very accurate, even if you have HoT :P

It’s true. They broke thieves’ traits for Acrobatics. They gave it back to us for HoT specialization. For the thieves who do NOT have daredevil trait … well I don’t know any thieves that still play w/o daredevil.

Fallout 4 stealing my mapmates >:O
Raid pugs stealing my mapmate spots >:O

Celtic Lady.3729:

Manasa Devi.7958:

The LFG system is due for an overhaul anyway.

I don’t know if it’s because the list is so clogged with so many different groups or what, but I’m having an increasingly hard time getting people to answer ads for taxiing them into maps attempting metas. People simply aren’t answering them or joining up in the numbers they would earlier on.

Or maybe they’re just tired of ads for metas they believe will fail anyway or they’ve seen too many groups claiming “organized map” only to enter and find out how far from the truth that was. shrugs I dunno, but it’s getting to be discouraging.

Getting lied to on the LFG sucks. Sucks more when you leave the party and try to use LFG again it says you’ve joined too many parties. Like jeez I’m sorry LFG my bad I can’t just magically tell that some parties are lying.

And I agree with you about the people not joining part. I try to taxi people in on VB/AB/DS maps that have a decent chance. Noone joins.

My guild tried to do an alliance event with another guild. It worked out semi-decently except the meta failed at the end. Maybe your guild can group with another and try the same thing?

Leap.4869:

I feel the same as you OP.

I speak only for myself in that HoT has absolutely destroyed what I loved about Guild Wars. I spent $100 on HoT. Regret. I used to spend at minimum $20 a month. Regret. I used to buy all outfits and cool skins that I liked (19 outfits right now.) Regret. Why? I cannot use any of items I spent my hard earned cash on because the game I bought them for is DEAD. Hell, I don’t even play since the awesome new vertically element of this expansion is just so dumb for a MMO. I want flat ground and to not be confused and running for my life nonstop. I hate it. Yes, I’m salty and no you can’t have my stuff. Also, heaven forbid I make gold to buy gemstore stuff because some times I get bored of instantly buying with my RL gems. I miss the good times. RIP dungeons and 4 layer fractals. DIAF HoT.

This is a really depressing post to read and you sound defeated. I choose the anger path instead!!!! Much easier to get angry about Anet’s decision-making skills than be sad.

GUILDS will take you to raids if you don’t have meta equipment!!!!!!!!

Saturn.4810 is correct in saying pugs have almost 0 chance. It’s too bad that pugs HAVE NOT given up and are still actively standing around in VB preventing VB Tier 4s while knowing they have 0 chance of success.

I liked VB as content. Then raids came out and completely trashed VB metas. So they literally have new content trashing new content. Give raids a different entrance and STOP RUINING VB.

Oh, and that TD boss. Great new content. So great noone’s finished.

Where’s mac 64-bit beta/alpha/whatever?

regular + 64bit (both non-beta)

Join a guild that does raids!!! Condi engi is hotcakes right now o.o

Once again. 2 non-beta clients for windows. 0 non-beta clients for macs. STOP ADVERTISING THAT IT IS MAC USEABLE WHEN IT CLEARLY ISN’T B/C OF CRASHING AND D/C IF YOU’RE KEEPING IT IN BETA ANET.

Kraggy.4169:

Actually, IIRC, you need to fail TWO consecutive events to get the spawn and the required item is NOT a 100% drop.

That’s the sort of asinine game mechanic Square Enix love in FFXI, from 13 years ago.

OH DANG. I can see how the atmosphere can turn really toxic really quick. Anet literally divided the goals for events. It’s not only for the moot either, I’ve been hearing things in my guild about how there’s a temple event you have to FAIL to get an item for precursor.

By the way, my worlds have still been trying for T4. The chopper point almost next to the raid door is literally CRAZY right now and you’re SOL if you try to clear it solo/duo. Also, players that WANT to get in on T4 world cannot because of hard-cap because of people trying to “organize” their raids. Like “our group just needs 5 more condis”. Lol like NO, you need to LFG in Lion’s Arch.

I don’t know why pugs think it’s a good idea to stand in a map for 2 hours looking for 5+ people with specific builds. They waste their time and simultaneous ruin the map. I just literally cannot.

Inoki.6048:

I’d like to get back to the technical aspect here – the Mac client is Beta and I do believe, that it is ANet’s fault, especially when talking about Mac computers, because Apple has dedicated hardware, there is no such thing as mixed hardware components like with most Windows PCs that are customized from the ground up. With a Mac they could test easily on the same environment a user has and they have the resources to do so (c’mon, I’ve heard this game is played by millions, so do the math: 45 EUR x several millions = how much money you get?).

It’s the same reason why they could easily afford to build a Linux client, but they simply don’t want to. They say the community is not big enough, but I assure you the community would grow exponentially if vendors started making native Linux clients. VALVe’s Steam is a great example and Steam machines will rock!

Yes, lets talk about the Mac BETA still. Literally do not have an official server BUT they advertise to Mac users too sooo … windows get 2 non-beta clients and mac gets 0 non-beta clients when they’re BOTH being advertised to.

I DO BELIEVE it is Anet’s problem and before they fix other bugs, fix THIS.

Christina.7926:

Second this. Leather mats are ridiculously overpriced right now and there’s almost no way to get them in-game short of wasting a character slot on a perpetually level 40 toon who will be used expressly to open chests and salvage.

Something needs to change.

I have that

Mortifer.2946:

RustyMech.9876:

Require T4 to open the raid, problem solved.

Omg I love you man! This would solve everything.
Colin please make this happen! It would be similar to crucible of eternity and CoF

PA-RAISE RUSTY!!!! This WOULD actually solve problems LOLOLOLOL