Guild Wars 2

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Please let us wear these items and future ones in combat. I will never buy town clothes only.

Me either, they are pointless.

Our group never has trouble with any other fractal, only this one. The end boss heals way too fast, he heals before he gets to next dark spot. The lava hits him just fine. Our whole group hates it, I never thought 5 people could become so upset over a game, but after we spent a while on the first 2, having to abandon this causes our entire run to be ruined, no credit, and that is so kittening upsetting! We should get to skip 1 fractal without any penalty…better yet, please fix this! It is not fun. We have tried many times and no matter how hard we try, we cant damage the boss enough.

The biggest thing ruining GW for me is this DR mechanic, it punishes everyone including the bots.

Yes, we did kill 2 of them before we started hammering on the boss, but we had at least 6 Oakhearts chasing us at any one given time. Their binding and damage dropped us like flies.

What about the extra Oakhearts?

Yes, I believe that I was. A nuisance is putting it mildly.

The Nightmare Tree, spawned more than 6 Oakhearts, and the WIKI said it is only supposed to spawn 3, there were so many, resulting in an impossible fight.
Is the WIKI wrong, or is there a bug? Also, why is it that when I left to change characters, the entire party was kicked from the dungeon? That should get fixed.

They need to put a confirmation on this, I mistakenly gambled my money too, when I realized what happened, I was mad, however I won a mad cow token and made a nice profit.

It would be great if the slots were universal, that way we could customize them to our liking.

PVE, damage and support, dungeons, fractals.

I waited with the group outside the lab quite awhile, but we never entered the lab, why? Also after a few more minutes the NPC’s all went through the wall when chasing a Golem, attached is a picture. The Golems sometimes chase the NPC’s in the wall and get stuck too.

What is the best (most useful) sigil for a Guardian’s staff, and why?

Thanks!

When the Greatsaw skin came out, I really did not pay much attention to it, after they fixed the sound in January, Someone was using one in Orr, and I fell in love with it, it sounded great, and for me, it is like an affordable legendary. I keep checking patch notes, hoping for the sound to be restored again.

I do a lot of Orr farming at penitent/shelter, all of my characters seem to have developed DR after just 2 or 3 days of farming there, in order to try and shake off the DR, I take my characters other places, I do dungeons occasionally, fractals, dragons etc. with all my characters, but the DR does not seem to ever go away. I use over 100% MF all the time. Is it possible that MF is not working as intended?

Because of the above, I am grateful for the change to chests loot.

There are a lot of weapon sounds that I do not like, many of them are far worse than the chainsaw which they recently nerfed. People should have the option of setting the desired loudness of weapons, that way, I can enjoy my chainsaw once again, and lower the volume on the ones that I do not like.
People will never come to a happy medium on sounds and volume levels, we need to set this ourselves, please!

Brave Sir Ryan.1240:

Thanks for the replies all, glad I’m not the only one who misses this. Almost put this puppy in the bank for a Volcanus, but I think I’ll hold out.

Currently can’t hear over a waypoint, even.

If it helps in the troubleshooting or even matters – my GS was transmuted onto a skybringer.

That is the same sword that I put mine on, I doubt though that it could be the cause.

Same thing yesterday, all greens and blues

XxTAFxX.6741:

Katai.6240:

I don’t understand how guesting really gets you around that limit. I mean, you can do this with all your alts. Does that count as getting around the limit?

Even with guesting, you can only guest on 2 servers per day. That in itself limits you to each event 3 times in a single day (which is equivalent to just doing the events with two more alts).

I agree.
i tried a few events today on my main and alt,and tbh it was a waste of time.
standing around for over 50 mins for the event to start as the timer can be up to an hour.
I could not do many in the time frame even with alts tbh,but bah.

I earn more cash and gold items in orr.
why ppl are complaining about the chest drops i don’t know,only thing that comes to mind is the farmers and tp controllers.
it’s prob hurting there real money income and so it should.

I agree, also people with multiple stacks of ecto are trying to get it nerfed, because ecto prices are deteriorating their wealth. Since my characters seem to have permanent DR, these chests are a welcome sight for me, it’s great to see some rares again!

I would not know if they are worth it or not, I will never be able to own one. I thought that I had a chance right after the Karka event, but they shot right back up into the stratosphere, and totally out of my grasp.

I am a fairly poor player, I would be more than happy to help you spend your money! wink

I always thought that if they had weapon skins like the legendary weapons in the store, people would not be able to unload their pockets quick enough. I would buy gems if some sweet weapon skin cane to the store.

So you want to nerf it back to its original blue/green only again? NO!
This can be fixed by cutting the time in between events, creating more opportunities for people to get the chests. And for the guesting, assuming it is a problem, only allow guesting via an invite, or someone on your friends list. Nerfs are not the answer, and are only going to ruin the game for a very large population. This game has been nerfed into the ground enough already!

It is not a bot, for some reason the LOD in this game is terrible, In Orr, sometimes I never see the enemy approaching, until its too late. Also, I too find some players do not always show up, unless you are right on top of them. In Lions Arch, whenever I go into the bank, it takes several seconds before any people will appear. I have a very fast computer and video card, so it is some server setting.

Infernia.9847:

After all that time with next to nothing to show for it; I am so glad they fixed the loot. I am beginning to feel rewarded.
For people complaining about ectos and the TP, it will stabilize.
The devs are adding ecto sinks with every patch.

Amen! To get an idea as to just how many people really appreciate the recent loot chest increase, just look at the crowded areas now! For me, this was the best update since the onetime Karka event. I don’t mind my permanent DR so much now, I can at least get some rares, which I salvage for ecto, so that my characters can get decent armor until I can afford Exotics on them! I am happy!

Why in the hell are people calling for nerfs? They either want it so that it’s one chest per account, instead of per character, and they now want the rarity of the drops reduced.
Did it ever occur to anyone that if the time between events were halved, this would help tremendously, except peak usage hours? That can be done without ruining the experience / fun of others. Another great idea, assuming that guesting is a problem, why not make it so that you can only guest on a server, if someone from that server is on your friends list (mutual friends of course), or with an invite.

I have worked very hard to get my alt to 80, and I am sick and tired of having my game worthlessly nerfed, every time someone starts sniveling, there is a better solution!
Please do not cripple my efforts that I have worked so hard for with my alt.

And BTW: I am one of those people that almost never got a rare before, my main character and my alts have had DR on them since November, and I can not shake it, so I vote HELL NO to nerfing these chests, I am far from rich, I will never be able to afford a Legendary, so little things like this are very helpful and appreciated by me!

FateZero.8536:

I also remember suggesting that Overflow maps events follow the exact same timer as the normal map, so players who got kicked to overflow would not miss out on events and party members will be able to right click > Join in overflow.

Another great idea!

Sharkinu.8096:

Is not just Gandara or Tarnished Coast or some other server. Most servers have overflow on all 3 dragon events and Shadow Behemoth. people are too lazy/impacient to wait for the event to spawn on their home server so they check the dragon timer websites and guest on a server where th event is just about to spawn.

Since the event chest can be looted only once a day per character that means the 3 hours waiting time to stop the farmers is unnecessary. They should lower the waiting time for those events to something like 1 hour. 3 hours is too much. Frozen Maw and Fire elemental don’t have overflow servers because they reset every 30-45 minutes.

Making the dragon events spawn more often would help spread the population a little bit so the event would have less lag and less people at the same time, therefore no overflow.

This would be a great solution! I do not see why the events can not take place more often, perhaps twice as often would help?

Removing guesting is not the answer, that will only upset a very large crowd that would like to play with friends on another server. The number of servers needs to grow, or the capacity of each server needs to grow. They could also further limit the number of people per map, allowing more overflow servers to open.

There is one area in Timberline falls, where there is a cave with grawl. Inside the cave is a skill point. Try taking all of the grawl out before they respawn, I could not get in the cave without help.

I have almost 300 Black Lion Chests, I have had less than 5 keys drop for me since the 3 day head start.

kRiza krimos.1637:

Why shouldnt people that spent time and resources to make more lvl 80 alts benefit more from having them? Jealous?
There are more world event chests than you can do with 1 char in few hours, so im sure its impossible to do whole cycle of world events with more than 1 char. If somebody wants to do 6 Jormag events instead of 4 different temples and 2 dragon so be it. Its 18 hours timespan.

Yep, seems there are a few jealous peeps that want to ruin it for others, I’m not at all surprised.

tigirius.9014:

Vinny.6924:

There is no hope for the human race.

People actually complain about better rewards? Lmao.
You gonna cry at work when you get a raise for working the same amount of hours, doing the same job?

No. Just no. End thread.

I agree we worked and worked with them to remove the DR and the crappy drops and now some people who obviously wanna keep control over the messed up excuse of an economy we have now want DR implemented again?! two words

NO WAY

If you guys want to manipulate the market for easy gold you’re going to have to find a better way and actually work for it now, the loot system was bad enough before, and the Devs should not allow a few early launchers to manipulate them into making the loot go backwards to a time when 50% of the population of this game received nothing for their time easy or not.

You know and here’s another problem. None of the dungeoneers had a single problem with this title when the Devs made almost all of the loot drop in Fractals but now that people are culminating in areas to try to catch up from what was effectively Tyria’s Great Depression NOW everyone has a problem with it.

Sorry not buying it.

I couldn’t have said it better myself!

Vinny.6924:

There is no hope for the human race.

People actually complain about better rewards? Lmao.
You gonna cry at work when you get a raise for working the same amount of hours, doing the same job?

No. Just no. End thread.

LOL, it really is amazing isn’t it, I guess you really can’t satisfy some people .

Why not let them just nerf it right back into the ground like everything else.

They need to add more normal mobs, and make them spawn at new locations, that is how it should scale. Now, all I end up with is a few worthless items, because of the Champs and Veterans, also when the event is over, everything dies, why not let the existing mobs finish? Almost every time there is at least one Champ, that survives past the event end, and all the effort is wasted. Also, why not add an extra 2 minutes to the events?

Thank you Yalora! You are awesome!

That news is somewhat pleasing!

I think the best thing that they could do to please everyone, is to have a weapon sound slider, let people choose the right weapon level volume for their own tastes.

There are a lot of weapons that sound far worse than the Great Saw, but I have never once complained, because, even though I may not like a sound, I have respect for the people that do. I spent a lot of money to get this weapon, a big selling point for me was the chainsaw sounds, it really made this into an awesome beast, and for me, this is “my legendary”, since I will never be able to afford a real legendary.

Signet of Forums.4397:

I don’t really understand how someone got it in their heads that changing the looks (or sounds, unless they were just using standard sounds) of legendaries people already have is a good idea. Surely they most have known that some people would be unhappy that the item they spent so much time acquiring is no longer the thing they have.

I think, as was suggested, if you are going to do this sort of thing, then it should just be a toggle on the item. I don’t think you should go changing some of the hardest-to-acquire items in the game on people, unless there is a compelling gameplay reason. It just seems kind of wrong, frankly. Obviously, what is “better,” as looks and sounds go, is always going to be subjective and will vary from person to person. The bottom line is that people worked towards one thing and now they have essentially had it exchanged for something else without their consent.

(I guess that there are probably not many people who will complain about additional particle effects where there were none before, however, though I’m sure even that has its limits.)

I feel for ya bro, they nerfed my Greatsaw sound into the ground, and now I can’t hear it at all. I know that everyone worked very hard to get their weapons, and it is devastating to one day discover that the weapon that you worked so hard for has suddenly been made into a joke. They really need toggles for these kinds of changes, so as to not ruin anyone’s hard earned prize.

Hector.5981:

i honestly don’t know why do they keep nerfing penit/shelt/plinx when people already farmed the kitten out of them in earlier months the new penit/shelt/plinx is not even worth doing anymore imo i was already farming my legendary weapon there just fine but now with this change i don’t even want to go back there please change it back the way it was, i’m sure alot of people feel the same wya

Yeah, this change is probably the worst thing they have done to the game, next to the DR system, which I can’t shake. Please change it back!

What is the best way to set up to farm Karma at Penetent / Shelters Gate?
My Mesmer just turned 80, and my current build just sucks at farming.

This is just my opinion, of course. The new scaling system now unleashes Champions and many more Veterans, and it ruined the farming. Many people getting downed, too few normal mobs.
It would have been much better if the mob normal mob numbers were increased, and perhaps one Champion. I asked for scaling, but this is NOT what I had in mind.
Personally, I would rather have it the way it was before, than the way it is now.
The quantity of drops seems dismal now.
What does everyone else think?

I am on the Jade Quarry server. There is no way to click on him, it does not give me the option to speak to him at all.

The BLT has not worked there in a long time.

Magnus Robotfighter.9678:

I agree that the original sound was too loud/too often. After the nerf, you can hardly hear it at all. My opinion is that the nerf took it from one extreme to the other. Was there no middle ground? I am rewarded with this awesome greatsaw skin during the Halloween event only to have it reduced to an electric weedeater. I too would have sold it for 150gold if I had known this would happen.

Please tale another look at this.
Add a combat sound effects volume slider or something…

Yes, please add a slider, this would solve this and other issues once and for all.
And, like you, I never would have spend almost every penny that I had to get this if I had known that the sound would be eliminated.

Dungorthb.3281:

I am also upset that the noise is totally lowered to oblivion. There has to be a better way to solve this.

Before it was too loud for most people but now its almost non-existent, its all white noise to me.

Perhaps we could adjust our own weapon noise? The public doesn’t have to hear my weapon but I would like to.

I 100% agree, I would like to enjoy the weapon that I purchased, not what it has become now.
If people had options of controlling this, it would not be an issue for anyone. Personally, I would leave the option on to hear other peoples chainsaws, because I think it adds a great effect to the game, that is what sold me on getting one in the first place.

Cody Crichton.7516:

Hello everyone. Thank you for bringing up your thoughts about the chainsaw sounds for the Great Saw and Chain Sword weapon skins from Halloween.

Due to a bug, the sounds for this weapon were not playing originally, and this was fixed after the Wintersday content update. However, due to very popular demand, these sounds were turned down. See this thread for an example of some feedback that we received.

There have been concerns in this thread that the sounds are gone in their entirety, but internal testing has shown that this is not the case. While they are quieter now, they are audible at default volume levels except during intense combat, and the impact sounds for the weapon are also intact. That said, if you know of a way that the sounds for this weapon can be reliably and consistently shown to not cue, we are interested in that—please let us know with a detailed reply in this thread!

We hope you agree that erring on the side of caution is for the best.

As always, we thank you for feedback about issues like this which concern you, the players!

Cody, I appreciate your reply, however, I am unable to hear my chainsaw anymore, I have fiddled with everyone of my sliders.
incorrect cuing does not matter to me, I don’t care how often it triggers, just as long as I can at least hear my saw. Why not add an option where we can set this level, and then everyone should be happy? At least bump it up a little to at least make it audible for some of us that enjoy the sound.
I tried to reset to defaults as you suggested, but I am still unable to hear it.
Surely, there must be a way that this can be fixed as to satisfy everyone.
I purchased my Greatsaw because I liked it more than the legendarys, however one of my biggest reasons for purchase, was because I heard someone using one of these, and I fell in love with its sound and awesome looks.
Please give us some kind of fix, so that is audible again.

Thank you for your time.

Talon.3189:

Ok I’m very dissapointed with this change.. for those of you who do not like loud weapons then do not use them. Also a chainsaw is sapposed to be loud it’s a chainsaw! the whole reason people get them is because they look cool and they make alot of noise that’s the point so please Anet change it back i bought two of them a while back just for the fun of having loud weapons and now it’s hardly noticeable. -.-

I agree with you 100%. I bought mine, partially for the sound effects, and this nerf has ruined it for me all together.
Why can’t we have control over effects like the chainsaw? Please, at least bump it up a little bit!

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, thanks for your input on this. The chainsaw sound was not intended to trigger as often or play as loud as it is currently. Apologies for the auditory discomfort. A fix is in the works and we will be addressing these issues in a future patch. Thanks for understanding.

No disrespect Mark, but,
Your recent Greatsaw “FIX” has now eliminated the sound all together for me.
Whatever you have done to “FIX” the Greatsaw, has now made it so that I am unable to even hear it at all anymore.

Please, either notch it up a a little bit, or allow the players to be able to set the volume of various items like this themselves. The later option would make everyone happy because people could customize their sounds the way they like it.
The way it is for me now, without sound, has ruined the Greatsaw for me.

MisterEction.9382:

Please bring the volume of the Chainsaw/Chainsword up to an audible level comparable to that of other effects and environmental sounds. Prior to the patch it was too loud, but now it is inaudible unless the volume is turned up so loud that other effects are ear-splitting.

I hope they fix the sound on the Greatsaw, I can not even tell that it is there except every now and then it sounds like a faint vibration.
Is there any information or indication that they are going to fix the low sound issue in the future?

Since bots are mostly eradicated, please remove DR !

Never have and never will. I have a stack of chests just collecting dust. since day one, I have had 2 keys drop and a couple from completion of story mode. They simply are not worth the Gems for the reward.

Jumping puzzles are the worst aspect of GW2 that I have found to date, besides DR, of course.