Guild Wars 2

lordkrall.7241:

Morsus.5106:

6 months ago, I found it incredibly easy to get into FotM. There will be a huge influx of new players. And now people will be running multiple times for dailies. New to FotM? (If you have exotics) get in a 10 run. The only time that’s a problem is when your idiot friend in the pug tells you “oh you just became 80? quick lets go on a fotm run so you can get better gear!” Don’t think just because your 80 it’s time to start fotm. Last time this happened to me the guy was in assorted blues, and had barely any idea what he was doing. Since we were trying to rez him, it was harder than doing a four man run.

Well since you are scaled up you could technically start FoTM much earlier.
I have personally been in runs when we have finished it with a lvl 35 guy.

Oh don’t get me wrong, we finished it, it’s just the guy had no idea what he was doing, and started on 10 because his friend told him it was a good idea. If you know what your doing at 35, I think you can make it, but I’d much prefer an exotic’d up 80.

krixis.9538:

well get used to it the ascended mats are designed to make u play all aspects of this game.

don’t like it ? don’t get ascended !

Last time I went to the Shatterer I was one of two people there. Now I can’t get ascended because Fort Aspenwood is empty. Zergs are horribly unreliable, and making the top tier of weapons in the game directly tied to it was a bad idea. If regular events dropped 1-2, then it would be fine, but ones that require zergs are not.

6 months ago, I found it incredibly easy to get into FotM. There will be a huge influx of new players. And now people will be running multiple times for dailies. New to FotM? (If you have exotics) get in a 10 run. The only time that’s a problem is when your idiot friend in the pug tells you “oh you just became 80? quick lets go on a fotm run so you can get better gear!” Don’t think just because your 80 it’s time to start fotm. Last time this happened to me the guy was in assorted blues, and had barely any idea what he was doing. Since we were trying to rez him, it was harder than doing a four man run.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Heck no, the frags are the best reward from fractals by far. I have 60 stacks of dragonite ore and <100 fragments. We need more fragments, not less.

How did you pull that off? I don’t think I even have one dragonite ingot, but plenty of emp. I guess that’s what I get for running dungeons instead of zerging content.

Keep the difficulty but shorten the length. 15m*3=45m. 45 minutes for a fotm run sounds good to me (plus boss fotm). If each one is 20-30 like Anet has said that means we can expect to spend 75m per run (25m average) which sounds long to me. Try to keep dungeons under an hour please. If overall they’re supposed to equal a dungeon, why not try to balance it out so if you get dredge/cliffside, you’ll get swamp/snow next, and a higher chance for a medium fotm next. Or better yet, each one is categorized into short/medium/long and you have to get one of each. Then it’ll average it out versus having those short ones where you get swamp, snow and volcanic, and then the long one with cliffside, asura, and dredge.

If you both get stunned, then you’re doing it wrong, or maybe I’m just doing it right. When I did that stuff, I (the guardian) took pretty much all of the stuns. Thieves have 5 stun breaks, (guards have 4) so if your guard doesn’t know how to play and let’s you get stunned, he/she should use “Stand your ground” and break your stun. Team work!

@Stooperdale Why not just give other classes different utilities? Add more skills? You seem to be missing the whole “roles” thing. As a guardian, I realize I’m supposed to aggro bosses/mobs in dungeons while the other players damage without aggroing. Take Blinding Powder for example. Partner yourself with a Water Ele making water fields and you can AoE heal everyone as well as blinding the enemy and stealthing your allies. Guardians/Warriors are good with PUG because they are easily measurable and don’t require much know how or planning to get right. With a little planing, thieves can save you in a fotm.

Well if they make a different class useless each time, it would be balanced. If 31 makes necros weak (immune to conditions), and 32 makes warriors weak (EG can’t be criticalled ), and 33 makes guards weak (EG reduces regeneration), 34 makes Mesmers weak (chain attacks), etc. As long as classes are all targetted the same amount of times, it’s not unbalanced.

I really hope we can salvage or Mystic Forge the rings soon. Salvaging for deldrimor steel ingots wouldn’t be bad. Making them tradeable wouldn’t either.

/me puts tinfoil hat on.
Did anyone else notice that throughout the election the votes were split 48/52? Anet even said it was a pirate election O__O

Soulstar.7812:

My favorite thing to see on a PUG.

You sir win the thread.

If you’re using the tower as the benchmark, then duh, heavy builds will be better. Half of the time you just run right through it, and the survivability of Guardians makes a world of difference. Of course, that’s just one instance. Those timed fights in the Crown Pavillion? I was PVT at the time, and mine and the bosses health stayed pretty high throughout the fight, and since it was timed I would fall to my death.

MastaNeenja.1537:

As long as they know what they are doing I don’t care what they run.

I run a Guard so i’ll worry about the projectiles and stability.

I’ve found my long lost twin! Same goes for me. Know what you’re doing and I don’t care what you’re running, every class has a use in FotM. I don’t play high level FotMs but low level (10-19) volcanic fotm is probably my favorite so far. All my reflects keep the slimes dead (group ’em up and throw down a wall of reflection) and then melee the boss.

@Sarathor I guess I misread your post. I read it as “play a zerker you’ll survive longer” not “play better you’ll survive longer”. I was referring to you like most of the people I meet in PUGs. “Play zerker or you’re ruining the run” is their typical statement despite the fact they’re dying on the floor half of the time. That part wasn’t direct at you, more at elitist-zerkers who think that’s the best answer for everything in the game.

Just taking a quick survey of what players are interested in seeing in GW2. It covers updates and Living Story material. If there is something you think needs to be added, let me know and I’ll add it! I’ll post the results here later. Thanks!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HK5ylRJgcAVZNk2q-L8A1VM_FarP2GVAZ8DSHV6qnIc/viewform

(I hope this is the right forum for this, wasn’t sure between this and LS discussion)

Warrior, Thief, Elementalist. Or really anyone with high damage and low survivability. I can dodge/roll pretty well and I main a Guardian so anyone that needs me to take a little fire away from ‘em is welcome in my group (unless they’re completely incompetent, in which case don’t bother joining my group).

Shorten the darn Dredge Fractal. If my group get’s it, people will complain or even leave.

@Walhalla Dang you, you just had to go and ruin everything for me, didn’t you?

I don’t play high level fotms, but in other dungeons I have found warriors to be the worst class to bring along. They brag about DPS, but spend half of the fight on the floor bleeding everywhere. I’ve been told that by playing a knight/zerker guard I’m hurting my group and should reroll as a warrior. Every class is helpful in specific situations, and in others you’ll want something else.
At the end of my Sorrow’s Embrace (Story) run 3 of the people in my group wiped at the first magma drop and the other didn’t want to help me because he thought I would go down and he’d have to pay a couple silver more for repair. Little did he know I know my class, and the extra toughness kept me alive. It let me get the boss to 50% HP by myself my first time fighting him. The others cheered, (one shouted “I want to have your baby” which was pretty awkward for me…) and he joined in. Due to a diversity on the typical zerker run we survived. If I had been a zerker we would’ve wiped and had to respawn. Zerkers groups are only good for certain things, and other classes can catch up by knowing where their speciality is needed.

As a guardian, lemme just say I go down plenty in the tower. The only “class-ism” I’ve felt in the game is from other players and their Warrior only groups. I’ve never felt rewarded for playing a Guardian. I can see why you’re frustrated, but if I get attacked I’ll still go down to those torments in a couple seconds. You’re overestimating the Guardian by a lot. Most of my DPS reduction comes from dodging.

CuRtoKy.8576:

Morsus.5106:

Maybe this will help you understand how it works. (It’s my understanding of it, so it could be pretty far off of how it actually works.) Sorry for my horrid art, but it’s all I can do with my low level of skill.

Great simple graph to help the OP. And yes that is how it works except you just have to add in Thermocatalytic Reagent for the left side since you need that as a material to upgrade to higher AR infusions.

Lol, I didn’t realize I forgot about the Thermocatalytic Reagent until after I’d made it. Here’s the updated version that includes it.

Maybe this will help you understand how it works. (It’s my understanding of it, so it could be pretty far off of how it actually works.) Sorry for my horrid art, but it’s all I can do with my low level of skill.

@ZudetGameous Considering we’ll be keeping our current AR (or so it would seem according to Anet) a lot of us will skip right over the first 5 categories. Since it seems the new cap is 50, just use the 5AR infusions you have until you find the most efficient infusion number to replace them with.

They said +1 would always drop, more will probably drop.

So will normal Ring of Red Death keep the +5 AR Infusion it has, or will I need to infuse it to get it back?

@JayMack I’ll be playing on the 24th. I mean, my consciousness was uploaded onto my PC so I would never have to stop playing GW2, why should a holiday for mortals affect that?

Erebus.9276:

You guys don’t understand.. starting out at square one with nothing… I have to get to level 30 this week or I’ll be behind my friends and we won’t be able to play together? I thought I could play how I want?

You can play how you want, but if you want to play that way you have to play with people who play that way too. Makes sense to me. Would you prefer it if people advanced for running fotm 1, and they could get to 50 without having to do anything remotely challenging? If your friend plays different than you, that’s your fault, not Anets.

1) Why would you want to skip the boss fractal? It’s the best part of every FotM run! Pretty easy compared to the rest of the fractals (granted I don’t run FotM very high, typically around 10 while I get my AR higher) and gives the best reward. It’s really a bonus, not an extra.
2) If you want to PUG stick around level 10 until you make some friends. You still have a chance for ascended weapons, so it’ll be a good introduction (bring some exotics if you don’t have AR, teaching a newbie who’s in blues on the volcanic fractal is a pain. Don’t listen to what others say, you won’t get rings ‘till your personal is 10, so stay in pre10 until you have exotics).
3) Again, I run FotM 12 (1st AR bracket) and I love it. I haven’t needed to install any voice software yet.
4) That is your real problem. Leave your PUG after 1 fotm, but don’t expect rewards. Other than your lack of commitment (not really a game problem, I run it in about an hour. That’s not bad for endgame content IMO) if you just run fotm 12 you’ll be good.

I hope short. I’m sick of spending an hour and a half to get my daily run simply because of RNG.

Mystic forge ’em with a chance of an ascended weapon (same chance you get of getting an exotic weapon with exotic rings, not 0.05%).

anabasis.7346:

“Possible Patch Notes for 26th of November” yesterday on reddit.

I really, really hope those patch notes aren’t accurate. RNG drop for the recipe for the precursor weapon? They better be TPable ANet!

Mortifer.2946:

Send me your Dawn, I will send you Dusk. I promise.

3 indian princes want to make you rich. Post your bank account details and they will make a $1,000,000 deposit on the condition you spend it all on Guild Wars 2 gem cards.

It’ll probably be player input for awhile, but as time goes on the amount of bar per injection will change. (For example, if one injection is 0.01% now, it could be 0.02% later, or 0.005% depending on how fast we fill it up. I think they want to release the next patch on schedule.)

Yamagawa.5941:

Esplen.3940:

Personally, I never wear a full set of just one type of armor. I always, always mix and match.

Bingo. I mix/match armor bits to not look like a clone in a sea of clones.

One of my armor sets incorporates key elements from starter armor (perish the thought — starter armor that looks good?)

Another includes 2 bits from 2 dungeons, 2 bits of racial armor, and 2 bits from random karma vendors (or will, once I finish getting the bits assembled).
//Portable Corpse

Y’know what the problem with looking good is? Then everyone copies you. Not kidding, I was pugging a dungeon and a guy (same class as me) asked me to mail him a list of the armor I had on.

Flame & Frost was actually a pretty great series of updates. Then they decided to try and do it over, and over again, each time worse than the last.

If I was compensating people for helping me around the farm, killing etins, etc. I’d gladly compensate them the same for holding back any army.

As a guy, I’m a little sick of GW2 (and lot’s of other games) have guys in huge awesome armor, and girls in stripped down versions.

I like it. Lot’s more fun than normal. I think vets+ should go down like that as a standard feature.

Well what’s stopping you from not using the node? Why do you want everyone to have to do it your way?

No Walking.6349:

Universal healing skill?
Cures you and all nearby allies of several critical conditions?

Anyone else see the forming of the trinity here? Someone will have to carry this healing skill in groups, being the “healer” so to speak.

Not saying this is a bad thing, I think GW2 could seriously benefit from a trinity, but it’s funny that they sell the game on having no trinity, then start slowly working it in later because it allows for more interesting fights.

I’m torn with the idea of a trinity. I’m sick of the lack of roles, and I wouldn’t mind a trinity. On the other hand, it would severely annoy everyone who doesn’t like the trinity.

Don’t mock Flame & Frost. It was pretty awesome

I’m saving judgement until I see the cooldown and healing amount. If it only heals 100 health I can see it being balanced. If it takes 120-180 seconds to cooldown I can see it being balanced.

I don’t get where all this “frustration” is coming from. I ran it for maybe 45 mins, and didn’t feel frustrated. I actually laughed pretty hard when I died some of the time. Maybe I didn’t play it long enough but I actually enjoyed it.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

No offense but I hope to god they do NOT come back EVER… These should be something that people who have been around since the beginning have a priviledge of owning. They can go ahead and make new weapons but I will be EXTREMELY kittened off if they bring these back…

What about those who played the game at that time but never got the drop? If you logged onto GW2 before Nov. 1 I think they should have a chance to drop for you. Makes sense to me considering it’s RNG.

I haven’t played Guild Wars 1, but a lot of the ideas sound pretty cool. Guild vs Guild in particular.

I was unaware of just how bad the whole “everyone-but-this-class” thing was. I’ve only ever seen Warrior only groups, not ones that felt that there were “noob” classes.

I think everyone should still be kicked if noone else has completed story. If someone else has though, then they should be cycled to leader.

Will we still be able to get dungeon master? If not, I need to run this path by 1 pm tomorrow.

I prefer one 12 small updates over 6 months, than one big update over 6 months. What people forget when they say they want a big update is that it would take just as long to get the one big update as it would to add up to that total content. Then I can play the content the whole time.

Considering that we get updates every 2 weeks for free, I can’t complain