Guild Wars 2

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

Alacrity.4312:

Give him a Fear-chain and that will extend the fight a little.
I know that several other world bosses use Fear as part of their rotation, but of all of them, Fear fits SB’s theme the most.

Not a big fan of the Fear option. All it does is extend the battle for 5 seconds at a pop with no other results. Extending the time just to extend the time seems like a waste to me.

If one of those spawned Elites tag you in a crowd and you are not paying attention it can take you down. The Champions on the otherhand go down fast due to everyone wanting to tag for the drop.

What if instead of the portals always popping up in the same spot each time, they moved them in random locations All Around him so that everyone is not bunched up. Also giving him some more constant AOE red circles all throughout the battle would get people moving more.

And to stop the mass of people just standing in the swamp beforehand instead of doing the pre-events; all those people get sucked into the underworld and can’t get back till SB is dead… That will put an end to that nonsense.

hahaha I love that!

Which back pieces are you after?
The catcher ones?
they should still be on the trading post

this happens to me a lot
not 100g

but mats etc

I always send it back

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

The fights are meant to be balanced around people their level. The lower level fights do a good job of this but the higher level fights fall short of this. The SB was never meant to be fought by a horde of level 80s in full exotics/ascended and it isn’t balanced for this.

If scaling was better on players it’d be fine but a downscaled 80 is much stronger than a true level 14.

And yet- look at the other starter bosses.
they are much much more dangerous.
It is just SB

I have killed him on a lvl14 btw

I don’t think I want to try Fire Ele on a lvl 14- even the way it is now

edit- you can’t say it was never intended to be fought by lvl 80’s- it drops Final Rest

Travis the Terrible.4739:

SB, FE and jungle wurm (not the three headed one) are all introductory world bosses making them tequatl level would be silly and unneeded.

Giving SB a bigger hp pool might just be right up his alley though.

Last thing he needs is more health- maybe actually doing damage?

FE is not in his class, even Jungle Wurm has more bite, Maw has the ice storms.

He is probably the weakest starter boss even if he looks the coolest.
I have seen new players see him the first time- go oh cool, and then -what just happened?

I know- the first time Shadow Behemoth spawned on top of me when I was level 9, I almost has a heart attack.

the other day 2 of us killed him.

It is just sad- he is such an awesome looking boss but his bark is so much worse than his bite

Substance E.4852:

Anyone really shocked by this? The champ train was incredibly degenerate game design and I’m sure Anet has been looking for a justified reason to nerf it for some time just as they nerfed the Cursed Shore farm train. Evidently, nixing armor repair costs was the best they could come up with.*

*I am actually in great favor of no more repaire costs from a WvW perspective, but it’s a pretty weak reason to nerf champ loot.

I hate to break it to you but this does not nerf the champ train- no one does the champ train for the money in the bags.

What it does do is nerf events out in the world – those events give no incentive as it is.

I like doing them for fun but if they actually end up costing you money in the end, you would have to be a masochist to do them.
I am poor as it is so there goes my playing hero and clearing maps for kicks.

It is a really stupid idea and I would like to ask the person who came up with it what he thought he was accomplishing.

I think it is an awesome idea and very well thought out- I never knew how much I needed a pygmy moa untill I read this

I love the idea if catching them out in the world- it would be so much fun

Make it so- please

I don’t really break my armor at all- (ok maybe one piece, in big events)- not since the wild days of betas when no- one had a clue, and I was leveling my first Mesmer, then I broke armor ;P
before the circus master was fixed in the human story he had me butt naked twice

Champ bags gave silver?
but seriously- It is really not a good idea to nerf loot form events.

I am probably the only person who runs events for fun

- what you needed to do was give unique items, crafting materials, skills and skins for running events.
Not nerf them- why?
Armour repairs ?
that is nothing- give people a reason to play in your world kitten!

Ram Banson.4081:

Guys, it is soloable.
Read Gw2dungeons.net for boss info, and do it yourself.
Its no free reward ofc, and u may have to improve yourself, change weapons and maybe change gear, but its rly not that hard at all.
Just the part with the dragons is tricky, and long.

but it is soloable.
OP asked to make it soloable..
It is. Soloable.
HF

btw: it was the first dungeon ive ever solo’ed , with my engineer
very fun, even it took quite long

you are missing the point- we want to finish the personal story- not qualify for the Olympics :P

I don’t mind most recent played but I do mind that I can’t see them all

Blude.6812:

laokoko.7403:

Blude.6812:

laokoko.7403:

Blude.6812:

laokoko.7403:

AesirValkyr.7418:

I’ve tried sitting in LFG for “a few hours” for a group to form, but by then, my few hours of game time are up and I have real life to take care of.

It’s weird because I just tried the lfg tool. It’s filled in 10 minutes. 2pm server time USA.

I tried 4 am server time. Give up after 10 minutes because no one joins.

I’m not sure how bad the problem is on EU server. What time you play probably make a big difference.

It’s like people telling me they can’t find a party for AC. I can afk for 1 hour and there are 60 AC listing.

Sure lfg works for SOME events and a group can be formed fairly fast—-your response says it can work/ but are you talking about this specific event??? or just in general?
2nd—lfg has nothing at all to do with the topic. Which is why the devs changed the rules of the story for the last instance? And asking them to consider changing it at very least respond.

ya take 10 minutes at 2 pm to fill the party. I’ll get another character to lvl80 and try again. I have 8 character which complete personal story by the way.

beside you guys complaining can fill a party already. Base on the complaint.

What—makes no sense what so ever and has nothing to do with the op request or with what i said.

I’m not sure what the topic is about.

I thought people are saying they can’t find a party for arah story. Which I have no problem finding party.

So if you want to do arah story, it shouldn’t be hard to find a party, at least on NA server. But if you insist that the personal story should be soloable, that’s fine, that’s your opinion.

Yes that’s what this is all about—the entire story is soloable. Then you get to the last instance and the rules are changed by someone’s arbitrary (and very poor) decision. Anet should change the last instance to be line with the rest of the personal story.

Actually they should change all story mode dungeons to be solo-able.
but Arah is the very least

FrostSpectre.4198:

Well, now it’s clear, your problem is not headgear, it’s the hairstyle you’ve chosen for your character,
which, as others have already said, can be chosen during character creation and can be changed with makeover kits bought from gem store…

that is not a hairstyle available in character creation though, it is only available in the hair kit

here is a screenie- you can see the check box on the helm, are you not seeing this?
I only show head gear on one of my characters and hide it on all the rest

runeblade.7514:

Morrigan.2809:

runeblade.7514:

Can you see yourself as that? Because I see you as that. You are restricting me from dueling even if you are not in one iota forced to duel. You are about You, you, you. “I don’t want dueling. The hell with anyone else that want dueling.”

I even went all the way to debunk on the myths of the side-effects, what they can do to stop it, or why it won’t even be bad as we have currently.

You seem completely blind to the fact that this game does not have PvE dueling.
It never had and no where was it ever indicated that it would have outside of designated arenas

So who exactly is going me me me here?
’
The people who keep insisting on dueling in a game it was never intended in- or the people who say that they are happy the game has no dueling?

think a moment before answering please

• GW2 does not have dueling in PvE. So, think about why am I here trying to convince people that it will be a good thing to have it added.
• I never claim that it will have designated arenas.
• So who exactly is going me me me here? That would be you. You are still insistent in being against dueling even if you get the choice to not fight them.
• It was never intended to have unlockables in sPvP, it was never intended for best in slot gear to be hard to get, and there are many things Devs did not intended to add in the beginning yet they added them anyways.

since you seem to have a problem with either reading comprehension or logical thinking- I will leave you to spam your dual requests then.

I won’t reply on this thread again

runeblade.7514:

Can you see yourself as that? Because I see you as that. You are restricting me from dueling even if you are not in one iota forced to duel. You are about You, you, you. “I don’t want dueling. The hell with anyone else that want dueling.”

I even went all the way to debunk on the myths of the side-effects, what they can do to stop it, or why it won’t even be bad as we have currently.

You seem completely blind to the fact that this game does not have PvE dueling.
It never had and nowhere was it ever indicated that it would have, outside of designated arenas

So who exactly is going me me me here?
’
The people who keep insisting on dueling in a game it was never intended in- or the people who say that they are happy the game has no dueling?

think a moment before answering please

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Morrigan.2809:

dude, you keep saying that
It is not helping your case at all

Has dueling been implemented in PvE? No? I guess my comments are helping my case.

Btw, the use of the word “carebear” is also helping my case. It shows exactly the attitude that non-duelers would have to deal with in PvE, if Anet were to develop that.

The toxic environment would break this game for a lot of PvE players. The constant “duel me, dude” and “what are you afraid of…” and after I mute you, your guild gets in on it, “c’mon dude, duel him. duel me too” and “what, are ya to chicken to fight?” and “kitten carebears everywhere here…”

I’ve seen it in too many other MMO’s and it was part of the reason why I came here. I love dueling in WvW, but I don’t ever want to see it in PvE.

Don’t worry I agree with you
I never want to see dueling in pvE
I was referring to Runeblade’s repeated posts about griefing other players

runeblade.7514:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

What do you mean, “Still no dueling”? There is plenty of dueling here, and it’s right where it belongs, in an sPvP room or in WvW. Please get your jollies there and leave PvE as it is.

Dueling Servers exist for me to grief in!

dude, you keep saying that
It is not helping your case at all

I loved dye drops- it makes me very very happy and I am so sad to see them go.

There was a time when I spent all my laurels on dyes too.

I will never buy dyes from the gems shop- so I guess I will have to be happy with what I have collected by now

I liked the Wardrobe when I first heard about it.
I still like it- I think it is awesome but I am unhappy about my town clothes.

I see it as a trade off however
- I get to use any skin I have across my account and I lose my special town clothes combo
- I get the ability to wear my Lennies on my Engi

It balances out- and I can always get a refund for the tonics and turn them in for charges.

To me it is still an overall win
Also Mystic Forge skins

Linnael.1069:

Open world dueling is a basic function that needs to exist but doesn’t because a vocal minority of uninformed people who’ve blinded themselves to the reality of dueling systems because they’ve never participated in any is busy trying to deny people a game feature that would have literally no impact on anybody who chooses not to participate, and which lack of presence harms the pro-dueling community far more than the incredibly minor objections of the anti-dueling community would do to them.

In short, I feel you bro, but there’s too many dumb people out there.

the feature does not exist because the game in PvE is based on co- operation.

It is built into the core mechanics of the game see:
individual loot,
no kill steals,
individual nodes,
Combo’s in combat,
dynamic events- that scale according to how many people are in the vicinity
etc etc

No where was it ever implied that this game would ever have dueling in PvE
next time inform yourself about the game you are buying before saying people who do not want dueling are denying you anything.

Caramel Ham.4891:

Reading the responses here made me LOL. Almost makes me think some accounts are Anet employees…..

I understand if some people don’t like WS because they are just not a fan of the art design. GW2, has THE nicest art designs around, its what made me stick around for so long (until a couple of months ago). It’s a beautiful mix of cartoonish and realistic designs. Though if you ask me, it has more cartoonish design than realistic….so I find it hard to believe that you don’t like WS because of its cartoonish visuals. To each their own I guess.

I have played every single class in WS. Admittedly, not all to the degree i wanted to, but enough to make a solid first impression (my highest leveled toon being a lvl 14 or 15). Unlike some of you here who never even got past the TUTORIAL areas.

Here are the things WS has over GW2:

1) Trinity – GW2 drew me in because of the lack of trinity. Ends up…you need trinity to make combat more complicated and challenging.

2) Sub Fee – If anyone still is arguing for no sub fees, then you either not played the same game I did or you have so much money that you can buy all you want because you dont want to put effort into a game or that you are so poor that you cannot afford $15 a month. Sub fee is necessary for any serious mmo.

3) Action combat system is a wash. WS has en edge because of trinity. The skills are just implemented better. The underlying combat system itself though is similar enough. Though with the telegraphs, it makes combat a lot more fast paced which I preferred.

4) A lot more quests. DE’s and heart quests in GW2 are just standard quests with a different dress. Nothing to brag about. In fact, DE’s even get repetitive because its the same thing over and over. I rather have more quests than do the same quests over and over again.

5) A lot better PvP. GW2 PvP is the biggest joke of this gen. This includes their sPvP and WvW….sorry…i mean ZvZ.

6) No Living Story crap that then gets taken away.

7) Two opposing faction system with open world PvP.

8) Will not revolve around the cash shop.

9) Will have a real end game. Sorry but GW2’s entire game is not endgame like Anet wants you to believe.

10) Mentoring system. This system works better than GW2’s auto down level system. The auto down level system doesn’t even work correctly. I destroy stuff if i go to a lower level area (so what the point of having it?). Where as when I mentored a lvl 8 on my lvl 14 character, it felt as if i really was a lvl 8.

11) Difficulty. GW2 difficulty is a joke. The only reason a group wipes in GW2 is because the group is full of noobs wearing tanking and/or healing gear. Higher end fractals being the only exception.

12) This has to do with point 2. Since there is a sub fee in WS, then everything can be earned. No need to keep everything behind imaginary once a day timers, no need to have ridiculously low drop rates, etc etc etc. You get the point…i hope.

Now I’m not saying WS is perfect. Far from it actually. It still needs a lot of polishing.

1)The UI in the current build is horrible. (new build with updated UI incoming)
2) Grouping to do quests is horrible with the way the UI group features are implemented. (new build with updated UI incoming)
3) From what I have gathered. Their warplots PvP mode is still a in progress work and is broken atm.
4) Some trouble with keybinds to mouse.
5) Server stability still not there.
6) Game still needs optimizing.
7) The game doesn’t come to life until around lvl 13.

But still, so far from what I have played. It’s going to be a much better game than GW2. I have faith that their problems will be ironed out before or shortly after launch. Why do i have so much faith? Its simple, Sub Fee. Players pay and devs work. In GW2, it’s “How do we keep our players using our cash shop?”

tldr version. WS much better than GW2.

All those things you list is precisely why I think GW2 is a better game.

It all comes down to preference and this is also why WildStar appeals to a completely different audience.

It is not a bad game at all- it is just not for me
GW2 is the game for me

can’t you craft dyes for the gift?
crafted dyes are not affected t all as far as I understand

Malchior.5042:

Morrigan.2809:

I would love to know how this is going to work now?

and how about toys like the broom / flowers/ kite / balloon etc?

I love my toys

I see no reason why they would be changed. Most of them are tonics/transforms anyway. They change your skillbar, so I see them being unaffected by anything wardrobe-related.

those I listed yes- but it also said that outfits are all or nothing so what happens to costumes like the witch etc that have a toy attached when you use it as armor?

- surely you would then loose the toy?

Malchior.5042:

It looks like the hats are staying.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Fuzzy-Bear-Hats-ARE-armor-now/first#post3808857

As for all of the individual town clothes pieces (khaki pants, sweaters, hoodies), I guess those are the ones to be turned into tonics.

gods I just realized that if I read that right I can now use my Lennons on my Engi? as armor?
Yay!

I would love to know how this is going to work now?

and how about toys like the broom / flowers/ kite / balloon etc?

I love my toys

aww geez- didn’t think about that- shouldn’t have sold that one Lovestruck pistol I had because it didn’t match. lol
Good question.

I wonder if it goes for the Gems Skins?
that would make a lot of people very happy and promote a lot of skin sales from the Gem Store in the future since people didn’t like buying them for one time use

Wardrobe!
At Last
heeeeehaaaaaaa
:D

Can you tell I am pleased?

I don’t want new classes so much as new ways to play the classes we have currently- adding new flavor, or expanding the current archetypes if you will.
I already have multiples, give me reason to make more

new race?- yes please: Largos

RedCobra.7693:

lmfao, youre all special, you are all so desperate to find something cool in anets bad story writing that you didnt even realise that the Mr.E name is a play on words (letters)

Mister E
Misteree
Mystery

just wow at this playerbase xD

Dude this is hardly a mystery- we have known it since Dragon Bash.

E is a person however- see Marjory’s back Story- she also asked Logan recently at the Beach scene if he knew who E was.
So E is very much a person- question is who.

no doubt the “mr E” is a pun- I would be incredibly surprised if the persons name actually starts with E.

just remember when we find out it is Faren- I called it :P

I need player housing it is a must have for me.

don’t care about Guild Halls and GvG at all- but people who do are free to have it.

Just don’t tell me I can’t get my housing because your Halls are more important

the only thing that WildStar has on GW2 is housing atm.

For the rest – it appeals to two completely different crowds.
This is as it should be, considering NC Soft publishes both games.

For me, I wish WildStar the best of luck because it is not a bad game at all ( sub aside- what the hell were they thinking)

but I much prefer the freedom and yes, the Living World of GW2.
I love the fact that the game is always changing and evolving
GW2 is and will remain my nr1 choice of MMO

Give us housing already-
if you had I would not have spent $99 on EQ Landmark just last week- I would have spent it here to scratch my building itch ;P
( that is great btw)

oh oh and the coconuts with the gallop emote !

mmmm as much as I am against traditional mounts, I do like the broom very much.
Your ideas are very good OP

I just love toys
I would pay money for a flying carpet for my Mesmer and a hoverboard for my Engi

OP
during the Horizontal Progression CDI there was quite a big discussion about different factions like the Seraph etc and making missions tied to that as well as the Orders.
There was a lot of support for that on the thread.

I think it is a nice addition to PvE and will be a way for our characters to be more tied to the world.
A nice form of character progression.

While nothing proposed in the CDI is guaranteed or promised- I would certainly not rule out the possibility that we might see something like this in the future

depends a lot on the time of day too- last night for instance (actually the whole weekend) DR was packing and there were people hanging out by Shaemoor, Krannak’s.
by hanging out I mean chatting and playing games and goofing off.

This morning 2 of us killed Shadow Behemoth.

moral of the story- the game is not dead, time and server makes a difference

Mesmer- they are the kings of 1v1

if you are taking about the white raven. owl etc they are HOM awards

I really really liked the Queens Gauntlet- I loved the fights
I liked most of the LS though- my least favourite was probably the invasions

oK fine
I just had to have the branch style with the flowers.

So I gave it to my Ele- it goes beautifully with the Desert rose back- but it clips when she turns her head.
Not the worst

I use the term all the the time and in PvE.
I think you are over thinking it a bit
What would you prefer? Less qq and more pew pew?

there is also Largos mini
Largos confirmed!!!
:P

40g?
OP I have been playing since betas and I never had 40 g at one time.
I play casually and I am an altholic and I don’t not do dungeons.

Yet I have crafted Eye of Rodgort and Vision of the Mists from scratch.
bought several character slots, makeover kits etc all by converting gold.

You just have to realize that as a casual player it will take you longer
It took me a month to craft Eye of Rodgort.

All I really did was sell mats, t6 for laurels per day, salvage everything I picked up and sell mats.
I never felt like I was grinding my behind off for gold- pretty much everything gives you gold in one form or another.

Oh and hit a world boss or two a day- rares=ecto’s=money
throw your runes and sigils in the forge

Always always put in buy orders

Most of this stuff is just bring us up to date with the Chinese client

I am very mixed about it- because while I understand their position I am not that thrilled about a lot of it.

Frankly I would have liked to see improvement on our game.

Mad Pig.2890:

Sylvari are originally dragon minions and supposedly belong to a certain dragon that hasn’t awoken(of course, now it has). Which is probably the reason that Sylvari cannot become risen. The reason that the Sylvari that aren’t killing machines is probably because of “The tablet at the base of the tree and the Dream of Dreams that guide the sylvari, who are imprinted by the morality and ethics of Ventari and the bravery of Ronan.”

A Sylvari without the protection of the tablet fall under the dragons influence (imminently?), this is proved where the first Sylvari born outside the pale tree (Cadeyrn) formed the nightmare court. Scarlet was probably turned by the dragons influence when she entered the sensory deprivation chamber.

So yeah, they kind of do have a reason to be hated and carefully watched.

Cadeyrn is the first of the Second born Sylvari of the Pale Tree.
He has reasons for starting the Nightmare court that is quite complex.

The Sylvari you meet who is not born of the Tree is Malyck and he despises the court and shows no evil tendencies at all.

dota2 has a system where players can create cosmetics- it makes a ton of money
I see no problem since Anet can still veto anything

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Morrigan.2809:

I personally want the same shade as Lipstick dye

And a really really red- preferably in dreads
oh oh and orange- lets have some Leeloo

some streaks would also be amazing

Hot pink with robin colored streaks. O.O

hehe I was thinking hot pink with orange streaks or the other way around

I personally want the same shade as Lipstick dye

And a really really red- preferably in dreads
oh oh and orange- lets have some Leeloo

some streaks would also be amazing

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Biohazard.7523:

I think its not that hard to implement a hair colors… They have a lots of collors in game. I approve OP message

Do want dyeable hair now. xD

(Can you imagine the choices, if hair color could be dyed with all of your armor dyes?)

Now I’ve gone off the deepend.

oh by the six!
that would be so amazing