Guild Wars 2

Oh yea! A lobby would be perfect as the work on the lfg is being done. I just don’t know if it’s easier, harder, or more time consuming to create. I definitely would love an in game raid lobby to find other raiders though.

The question is we can, but why would we?

I have no elitist restrictions on any of my lfg parties, but I do expect the bare minimum. Have adequate Agony, ask questions if you’re unfamiliar with the fractal, and apparently don’t be under leveled. I’ve seen many low level fractals where the people who just want their daily done fast leave when inexperienced players trip on certain mechanics in low level fractals. I just sigh and reopen lfg as I think spending an extra moment to teach the fractal helps with my personal goal of also getting my dailies done. As I not only increase the amount of players who know what to do, but players who saw how I taught it.

Anyway taking a low level person is just out the question, because you just can’t know what kind of time commitment it will be. Plus the giant amount of other ways to level in the game. I think the option for low level players to join fractals is just there so that guilds can show their members what a fractal is like at any time and for them to not feel excluded when they here them talking about it in guild chat.

So I hope you find groups that are fine helping you level, but since I don’t agree I unfortunately can’t help.

It truly does feel like a waste of time, unfortunately. When in low level maps that I’ve completed on an 80 I can’t help, but avoid events, downed players surrounded by vets in hard to reach areas, and any and every mob for the most part. Then it’s the opposite spectrum in HoT maps, at least until I finish all the masteries :/

Even if the reward is one spirit shard per bar I’d be happy. It just feels awful seeing the XP go nowhere, but also the bonus XP that just adds to that bad feeling.

So I had a random dream, day dream, maybe nightmare about the origins of the first dragons, specifically Zhaitan. This coming from a dream makes it a bit hard to keep the story straight, but here goes.

It was in the deep past close to the time of the first civilizations, before the dragons rose. There were dragons, but they were complete forces of nature. They still are and always will be but most of them were slumbering, and the few that weren’t, didn’t bother learning how to converse with any races, seeing then as a passing fad. Like the many other animals and areas they’ve seen change and go extinct.

Zhaitan was human! Definitely not true in the lore as far as we know currently, but again dream. So here’s the confusing part, he was a dragon, but he thought he was human. He looked like a human with long black hair in my dream so that’s understandable. Anyway when he was growing up he had the sorry end of the stick growing up in the slums. He also felt cursed as everyone who met him felt there was something inherently wrong with him. Mostly just them scoring anything that was different. Due to this mistrust and his status he was openly ridiculed, beaten, and harassed growing up. Then when he was an adult his impromptu family in the slums finally got really lucky and had their status improved to somewhat of a middle class. However they ended up being forced to make the choice between breaking all ties with Zhaitan or letting their status go to someone else. Deathly concerned of their families future with the hardships of living day by day in the slums, they chose status.

Zhaitan having the final dagger thrust into his heart by the only people he’s ever loved couldn’t cope. He ran to a cove near the ocean. His breathing was labored, and corruption was puffing out in some of his exhales. He kept thinking how people could be so cruel to him without reason! How they could make assumptions about entire peoples they haven’t met. He hated them. He thought he knew a small number of kind souls that made things different, but he was wrong. Every labored exhale was creating corruption now, and he could see it linger in the air. Finally Zhaitan couldn’t hold his hate in any longer. If he was doomed to be mistreated for the rest of his life, then they can deal with the feeling they had instilled, and then Zhaitan roared engulfing the magic of the entire area, destroying his human form, and instilling fear across the land. There the first connection between mortals and dragons was made and it was horrible. Zhaitan’s rage and feelings were directly communicated to all the other active dragons. And so the dragons rose for the first time, seemingly wiping out all the races, and instilling corruption magic into most if not all the dragons.

So that was hard to write as I mostly was trying to remember what was happening in the dream, and try and get it to make a lick of sense. Anyway I think it’s very interesting, because when Zhaitan awakes in our time he could of awoke not only because of that huge spell going off, but from the feelings of the humans of that time. It also kind of explains his horrible fighting style of making people fight and destroy their loved ones as he feels any form of humanity is disgusting now, and they all need to be punished and enslaved forever.

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Ohoni.6057:

Because the existing rewards are “fair,” they are plenty of incentive to run dungeons for people who want to run dungeons. Adding any additional incentive would only cause some people to think “I don’t particularly want to run dungeons, but the loot is so good I guess I’ll do it anyway.” There’s no benefits to that. Sure, they could add bonus incentive to ANY aspect of the game and get some people to run that content more than others, but why should they? Why should they encourage players to run dungeons, instead of letting them do whatever they would be doing when not running dungeons?.

Nothing stops the players who play what they want to play, so I think your entire argument is just a moot point. We want dungeons added to the daily rotation so that we at least have one day where it’s easy to find groups to do them. Also making the rewards in dungeons equal or close to the rewards for mid range fractals is just something that makes sense. Lastly none of this would harm you or the game in any way so the only reason I can see why you’re so against it is that you grind in the Silverwastes or fractal dailies, or were burned by some of the bothersome “leet” dungeon runners.

Creating incentive to play a part of the game that used to have quite the player population wouldn’t be a bribe. I don’t see how rewarding any part of the game where traffic has been low would be bad. That kind of strategy potentially opens the in game world a little more as people who want to gather and grind efficiently for maybe their limited time get more options, and people see the cool areas they may have forgotten about again.

And truly the easy fix would be to add it into the daily rotation, or make it like the fractal masteries and dailies like others have been saying.

:D

Yea you’ll have to suggest which bosses you prefer so that they know what kind of content you enjoy. I think updating what you play on and maybe getting a better internet service provider will renew the whole game for you if you can be on the best maps with little to no risk of lagging out. Since all of your dislikes seem to just be lag related.

Yea it must of been glitched when I got it in the past. I just bought one with pristine fractal relics.

Also I somehow got Rhendak’s signet my first fight with him a good while back. Now he refuses to drop his chalice. Don’t know if that’s a seperate bug for my account or if it also doesn’t drop that much, but it’s bothersome. If I get another ring before the chalice I’ll just have to cry into my new pile of gold, and then I’ll cry for real when my Nevermore crafting immediately makes it vanish.

Oh and side note I had to add the Royal Signet of Doric with the add to collection drop down, but my guildie had it added automatically. So I don’t know, just a weird bug I didn’t see a point to waiting on. I still think the other three versions of the ring need the option to be added to the collection. Seems weird to punish players for being more lucky. It’s like you got it! But you got it too well sorry, this ring you don’t like is just slightly too good.

Also the other tabs at any of the merchants in Dry Top are completely useless except for the sell tab, since it automatically puts you in the proper favor tab. If you’re in a tier four Dry Top map it’ll put you in the T4 discount tab when you open the merchant. The only random use I could see if I’d you fell asleep for a moment with the merchant open and your map went up another tier, but even then you might be forced to close the merchant window to refresh it if going into the next tab didn’t work.

I would block or report people right away, reporting only if they are truly breaking gw2 policies of course. You don’t deserve to be put down by anyone, so I would highly recommend doing this actively. If you were doing it in map chat I would probably be bothered, and it’s a bit rude to spam a ton of dialogue at literally everyone in that map.

If it was in /say then more power to you. /say I think is more of street performance ground, and if people don’t like the performance/RPing there’s multiple easy things for them to do to not hear it. Genuinely harassing someone openly in a video game is just tasteless.

I’d mention just using party chat, but I’m pretty positive you’re aware. I also imagine that being forced to use only party chat might be bad since RPers want to attract other RPers.

But yea I would definitely avoid map chat as even if the performance is amazing you’ll only generate negative responses as people don’t like spam of any kind >_< Hope you still have fun RPing with your friends!

Spoon-fed items must be pooped out when you are done with them

Decaying Seart.6793:

So I just do it? By spending laurels on recipes from the vendor?

Since you mentioned laurels, no. You do not need the ascended recipe to change the stats on your ascended armor. What you need is the exotic recipe for the stats you want if you don’t have it already. Most of, if not all of them, are behind a newer map merchant. Sinister stat stuff being with the Siverwastes merchant, and blocked a bit by Living World Season 2, as an example. You can of course just buy the intricate gossamer insignias outright, but I get the feeling the new and four stat ones are account bound.

Anyway, all you need to do is throw the following items in the mystic forge:

Any piece of ascended armor
An intricate gossamer insignia with the stats you want
Children
Anthology of Heroes (sold by Miyami right next to the mystic forge)
5 globs of ectoplasm

Oxidia.8103:

zakuruchi.4086:

Before you throw money at it, I think the 18 skin is only for the first tier of the achievement. For the mastery point, I think you have to buy ALL the cultural skins. So if you’re doing it for the whole tier of the achievement (and for the mastery point), it will take a lot of money.

at least google before spreading false information. 18 per race and that’s it. Light, medium or heavy, it doesn’t matter. Just have a whole set of that tier. Not sure if you can mix and match tiers but i’m sure it’s possible also.

You need to purchase all 90 cultural armors for the mastery point and the title. The one spreading misinformation is you. It’s a very expensive mastery point, costing 644G and 90S unfortunately.

I would like to mix my water and earth chakras to perform wood style.

-ignore me

Hello. I’m trying to finish my Viper armor and I need 10 more black diamonds I have all the leaf fossils. So if anyone has some lying around I’d really appreciate being able to finish off my character. I have 3 flax blossoms I got that I can send as a small thank you bouquet.

I think the Nevermore is the most expensive legendary except for maybe Eternity, but I’m not positive about this at all >_<. Anyway If you intend on any new generation legendary you need the new HoT map completion item for HoT maps. You also need all the non raid masteries completed in HoT, Tyria masteries aren’t involved except of course the legendary one. You also will need 250 crystalline ingots, which require 250 of the specialty items from each map, 250 obsidian shards, and 250 amalgamated gems.

I just crafted the Ravenswood Branch the first tier of the Nevermore. Just be very careful on what end tier items you craft. The new generation uses a few different Mystic forge gifts.

Treasure hunter isn’t a new collection. I salvaged these rings and they didn’t knock the ring off the list of things I need for the collection. So now I need them to fix it so the new infused Royal Signet of Doric I got can be added to the collection since there is no option.

So I had an oh kitten moment today where I saw that I need the Royal Signet of Doric for the treasure hunter achievement. So i thought to myself, i’ve had so many of this one ring, how do i not have it apart of the collection? I’ve salvaged this ring many times and have never thrown out a ring. Then today got it again, but it was infused so i can’t make it apart of the collection which is lame.

So please add the infused, attuned, and attuned and infused doric’s rings to the collection options. I can’t uninfuse it. Also if you could please make it so that when you salvage the ring it automatically goes into the collection so that this doesn’t happen to someone else.

I learned a lot of ele history. Tons of interesting opinions and new concepts! I may not agree with Mad and Grim, but I did like some of their points.

I also forgot how against tempest I was when I first unlocked it to be honest. After playing tempest a pretty long while now I completely agree with Leo that it breaks that wizard trope, which I was very into as a staff ele. And I don’t miss it, I can always go back to it in pve, but figuring out the best place for aoe that’s has the danger of being me and vulnerable was a really fun mechanic to learn. I’m trying to just save it as an op stun break in pvp since it can make an amazing turn around, but I keep end up usually eating it before a sweet spot in a fight.

This item is absurdly rare for what it is, and I’m very glad I don’t have plans to make this stat set yet. I also find the people in this forum out of their minds. Farm Silverwastes, buy it with gems, use the flax farm method with chests? It’s an item that really should be less expensive than powerful blood! How is that not a glaring problem?

There are successful roundabout methods and you can get anything from Silverwastes. But if you can’t go to the main source of the item and get some, then that’s a huge problem and design flaw.

I really like the idea and your post is more refined then my blatherings in the other forum. However I still think that you shouldn’t know which fractal you’re heading to until you get there in this more difficult mode. Also the instabilities should be random with more instabilities being introduced with this mode.

So here are some new instabilities and a tiny bit of story to go with them. My thoughts are that Mad King Thorn somehow becomes aware of the more dangerous more rewarding testing done by Dessa, and tries to influence them as a person with his own dimension.

Mad King Thorn series
You’re not a ghost! yet
Passing through allies downs them

Why do people call me salty?
Everyone is negatively charged (players are knocked down in opposite directions if they get too close)

Dance!
Dance or perish! (disco ball appears above a random players head every 7 minutes. If they don’t type /dance they get downed)

Why does everyone like Dwayna?
I can give things (randomly receive a boon and condition every so often)

Mad hops
I wish I had a pet rabbit growing up (constantly get stacks similar to frostbite in the elemental core fight that can only be cleansed by jumping.)

I think more light hearted instabilities like Mad Hops would be good, but I can’t think of anymore and typing on a phone is hard.

I’d prefer just new fractals. Hampering people who want to play swamps of the mists seems unnecessary. I really like the idea of a random mode / dev pick mode with a slight bonus to rewards! I think such a mode would get a lot of people fractal levels they may need and it just seems like it would fit perfectly with the fractal lore. * It kind of bothered me that we always knew where we were going when Dessa is doing something as amazing as stabilizing places in the past.

How I think it should work:

• has to be a random number and random instabilities, or dev picked
• can only do it once per day!
  -you get exploding Cliffside, then that’s what you got
  -no 10 reroll nonsense
• if the mode is exclusively random number then I suggest it goes by the difficulty and range already set up by current fractal lfg system with scaling rewards.
  - meaning you can go 1-20 for easie peasie with surprise instabilities that aren’t normally there like when you know which fractal you’re going to. Or if you go for 76-100 range you have the chance of the best rewards, but you could end up with 100 whether you’re ready or not.
  -So I’m wondering, but what if they get a hard level with easy new instabilities. I’ll just leave that to whoever would work on balancing this if it ever came true. If it’s truly random I think you should be able to roll a 20 like in D&D since a 1 will definitely be possible and apart of the the challenge and reward.
• Everyone in the party has to agree to the mode and range when it pops up and the same for leaving since its only once per day, is a gamble, and could potentially whisk people off before the reward.

Well I personally just didn’t agree with you demanding change of something that isn’t broken, and not suggesting anything to replace it.

It doesn’t affect your drops or your ability to tag at all. Groups and squads just make it easier to get a gold medal in participation for events, which in turn gives you better rewards. If you’re a solo player at the same event you’re being compared to the group and that could explain the weird reason for getting a bronze.

For me the easiest way to get gold is to do fractal dailies. I get around 14 gold everyday, and It has netted me my only three ascended armor chests. I even got my first one during that time everyone was complaining about fractals being nerfed and not giving out good rewards.

If you’re just starting out do the daily number if you can manage it and two fractals you haven’t completed for your core fractal achievements. I’m always on the lookout for numbers in missing in lfg. So I do the cookie cutter 77 Mossman swamp, 67 Mossman swamp, 56 Bloomhunger swamp, and I recommend trying to get to these levels as fast as possible, and being honest about your agony resistance. I was slightly lower then the required AR for 77, so I bought a defense potion each time just to make sure.

Then I do 40 molten boss, 32 Bloomhunger swamp, # daily number. 21 Mossman is more common then 32, but my personal preference is to face Bloomhunger with better rewards since it’s a higher level.

Then I finish strong with 10 molten boss, # daily number, 2 Bloomhunger swamp. If the daily number is 10 or 2 people usually do 5 the elemental core Sons of Snow lizard one. Also if the daily number is 40 or 32, 40 or 21, or 21 or 32 then do all of them 40, 32, 21. On another note I suggest doing the fractals in descending order and making that trend popular in lfg. It just makes finishing on a fractal like 2 really satisfying.

Random note don’t make an lfg that goes 77, 67, 56 then 40, #, 32, then 10, #, 2. Since it starts off with hard wisps it just makes half your party leave when one guy won’t stop trying to pick up wisps when he doesn’t know which trees to climb. It just attracted the wrong people, definitely stick with making a separate lfg for champ, veteran, and adept.

My last tip is to salvage the immense amount of ascended rings you’re going to get. You’re ultimately going to run out of storage for stabilizing matrices like I have, but then it’s like you payed everything forward and you’re getting pure profit buying keys with them. With the added benefit of having them if you ever need them. So ends my long spiel about mostly common knowledge.

TL,DR All of this requires Heart of Thorns and Tyria fractal masteries.

What would you rather be doing as your most damaging spell that stays with your character goes off?

Also as others have stated you don’t need to use tempest in your builds/the overload spell while you’re playing. It’s not running off to play baseball with your bat at home unless you don’t know how the other builds work.

You don’t explain what’s boring about overloads or what kind of new interesting mechanic you think should replace it, nobody would be against pushing a new interesting mechanic. If anything I think your argument would be better suited for staff number 5 in fire attunement, meteor shower. With the damaging overloads you’re at least moving and keeping your aoe on something, plus applying conditions, and buffing yourself and allies. At the bare minimum it can be saved as an over powered stun break.

I suggest reading the spells you’re rolling your forehead across, and not saying something as cringey as “Do not tell me you enjoy how overloads work, you really think this is the best design there is to offer? how dare you even try and defend such a boring mechanic just for the sake of arguing.”

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God this boss is terrible! Those shoes with that outfit and hairstyle?! And she even tripped on the runway shakes head. Didn’t she know that thee Gorseval was going to be here? Hmph.

Sloths live in the jungle? Nice try Areanet! I saw a sloth in a zoo. :<

• satire sticker *

It’s a giant game with unavoidable bugs. The people developing and making the game you enjoy can’t knock out every random error before game testers or players even find it. When it is found it’s joining a massive list of other things to work on, not only bugs, such as 10 man raid LFG UI. So it’s obviously not a simple fix from the information Gaile has provided, and it’s simply not something that needs an immediate fix.

So I’m just repeating what’s been said a bit, but I don’t like it when people are being negative about an addressed issue. It just feels like pushing someone down for being on the ground as they try and get up.

Strange bully analogies and me probably making the problem I badly addressed and most likely made worse aside I’m glad it’ll eventually he fixed. They could of just said no we think this’ll get more new players into fractals as they won’t feel they’ll make a mistake buying keys.

I’ve recently finished 21-50 core fractals and have been doing adept, veteran, and champion dailies daily. So the issue has affected me quite a bit as I get more and more encryptions from the higher level fractals as I do 51-75. Side note: I somehow got Cliffside done again immediately. Only one more evil Cliffside to go T^T. So even though I’ve been doing fractals so often I don’t think it’s that horrible since most people are there for the daily and the daily chests give a good chunk of keys.

P.S. Can emoticons be used as punctuation or is it too confusing?

It’s great for anything involving keeping npcs alive. I used it today in the 78 Urban Battleground fractal. That fractal isn’t nice since the constant arrow cart rain supplies a ton of random conditions, and the boss is a really heavy hitter that can one shot most builds. The fight became who can stay alive long enough for the rest to run back so my sudden thought of changing spells saved the day as we had some lovely agro sponges to finish the boss off.

So the glyph of renewal’s gigantic cast time and cool down make it pretty useless on people though. There’s the occasional idea and success of rebounding then glyph of renewaling those that fell in a raid. However, when you think about how you’re not using an entire spell slot for a situation that could end up not happening at all it becomes a waste.

So personally I love and hate it. One thing I really hate about it is that the spell gives no information to new players that it doesn’t work on fully downed players. After playing the game for a long time it out course makes sense, but when you first start you think you just missed. So you end up waiting for a huge spell, and may end up putting yourself in danger with the long cast time again.