Guild Wars 2

PERFECT!!! Thank you! That tip about minimap is important for me since I usually forget that.

I never know how to rotate. I play revenant and guardian. Not the best, but decent. What always makes me feel clueless is if it is a good idea to leave a capture point empty. Especially if there is some fast moving character like thief. In the end I either end up AFKing on an empty capture point, or I leave it to join mid and lose the capture point in 10-15 seconds…. any thoughts?

QQ

I just checked The Division and Black Desert Online and now I understand why my guild is almost dead :/

April 19 is the most probable date.
Don’t expect SAB. ever.
PVP balance – possible,
WvW overhaul – MAYBE. Would be cool to have a tournament like in 2014.
Scribing costs fixed – likely, hopefully
Leather fix – doubt it
Dungeons – maybe

I am clueless what will be included in it. We only know it won’t be:
- raid wing 3
- LS s03e01
- more than one new legendaries

I think we can expect something like rework of Claw of Jormag or maybe some other open-world bosses. But from what they said about the update it sounds like there definitely will be some filler content that can be in a way considered a living story.

Adrenal Mushrooms – almost absolute life-saver for Migraine achievement (extreme mode kill of Mordremoth)

No.

I have a great idea! Let us buy the new and now canceled legendaries for gems! Let’s say 10000 gems for off-hand, 12000 gems for main hand and 15000 gems for 2-handed legendaries. I bet that is possible, right? sweet $$$$$$

Considering the current news about legendary weapons, we can safely say SAB is done for good. They literally can’t afford having 6 developers working on a content that was advertised as a part of the expansion. We just have to hope and see if Guild Wars 2 survives the next few years.

Hey, so you have enough recources to create hundreds of gemstore casino weapons and outfits but not enough resources to actually give us what we already paid for? Great… If it is such a big problem to create that acquisition journey, then leave the journey, just give us the skin and recipe for making it like the vanilla legendaries.

Oh! Of course oki thank you

Hey guys, I found a little chamber on the map under Tarir and I wonder what it might be. Is it something from the story instance City of Hope? I don’t think there is access to it in open world.

This is how I was stuck in the final tier of Sapphire for several days. That match-making is completely broken…. After several litres of tears I finally managed to get to Ruby, since then, I lose every match in record time. The team I am in never even tries to make some kind of strategy or react on chat/map during the match. They just run straight to the point and die in less than a minute.

I tried everything and I always failed. I don’t know what to do anymore, so I guess I just consider Ruby being my final goal and say bye-bye to PVP until next league. It is just so frustrating that there is no fun in trying anymore.

The trick is to walk into them, not to try to jump into them and repeatedly pressing space.

Just walk in, it will blow you up. Then activate glider and I suggest pressing dodge immediately, as the falling rocks can kill you instantly.

As I said, I don’t want to rely on playing every day for that stupid 15x daily ranked achiev :/ that is like the worst thing they did

I would understand 7 days, but 15 is just too much.

I missed Season 1, does it mean I can’t finish the precursor (considering I will do just one part of Ascension each season)? I thought there will be more of them.

OMG, ArenaNet, give us at least 5

There are many skins pointing upside-down or from the wrong side (leftside-right?) – mainly bows. I didn’t even consider posting a ticket about it because I know ArenaNet doesn’t have time for simple fixes like that.

Here it comes again. The game became F2P after more than 3 years of the time you could play. F2P is not really FREE, as you have limited character slots, inventory slots, chatting options, and Trading post limitations too.

Your deluxe edition already gave you deluxe stuff, it was some guild influence points, PVP rank points, ability to use 2-week long personal banker on every newly created character and the elite skill Mistfire Wolf. There is no reason for ArenaNet to give you anything more when you buy HoT.

Check out MetaBattle, check out raiding videos on youtube, choose some profession and role, get the gear, join training runs or find a guild. You can start from the second wing of the raid, or even join only for Mathias, but you will be most probably bad. So first join the first wing and get some kills from the bosses there.

She is stating that he had 7 mastery points, and after acquiring the last one through diving goggles achievement, she went from 7 (8) to 5.

While I don’t think she is lying, I highly doubt there is any bug on her account. It works perfectly on everybody’s else.

For some inexplicable reason, there is so much confusion with masteries that we can see this kind of topics popping up every week. There probably needs to be some tutorial for: click here, get XP, get MP, click again, select next.

What I think happened is, that she thinks those mastery points are getting assigned after acquisition to whichever mastery track currently activated, which is of course not the case. Thus, she spent 3 of those points on fractal mastery, clicked back to pact commander, acquired the mastery point, and only then she realized she is missing 3 more.

Edit: You cannot select “AT ALL” pact commander line, because you earned all the XP required in it. However, when you have enough mastery points, you can spend them to learn the pact commander mastery.
Now you can have selected only ONE mastery track, and that is Fractal mastery because you still didn’t level it up to the maximum.

You can spend those points on pact commander even without having it selected. Remember that. Also remember that acquiring mastery points gives them to you onto one pile of mastery points, like in wallet. (there are 2 piles> one for HoT points, one for central tyria points). You can spend them according to your wishes. You DO NOT acquire them for a specific trait line that you have selected.

If you don’t want to risk and go with what is the best at this moment, go with berserk ascended armor. As Sourde said above, you can use it with every heavy class in raids (for guardian and revenant, use scholar runes, for warrior too, but it depends on a party composition [runes of strength might be necessary for 25 stacks]).

You can experiment with Mallyx Revenant even with exotic armor+ weapons and ascended condi trinkets. It is not that big deal. If you see that it can work for you, build another ascended, but I wouldn’t believe it will. Condi warrior was nerfed big time, I don’t see any reason to take him to raid instead of engi/necro. Condi guardian is also meh. From my perspective, it might have some play in WvW.

When 2 sides collide

Cogratz. But the streamer guy should chill a little.

I already earned 166 mastery points. It was quite fun.

What I didn’t need to do:
- majority of hard/medium difficulty adventures on gold medal
- any raid boss except for VG and Gorseval
- any hard farming achievements like Luminate Backplate
- any HoT story meta achievement (I didn’t reopen HoT story after doing it once)

What I had to do:
- play the meta event chains on all maps
- check achievement panel and learn what jobs I have to do during those meta
- explore the maps, learn to navigate them
- Complete DS couple of times, doing every possible event during the progression, going back to some hero points after the meta completion
- TD> exploration points + participation on meta chain events
- AB> the same
- VB> the same

Overall experience:
It was fun. Thank you ArenaNet, this was a good idea and this point acquisition helped me with learning to navigate the maps, understanding the meta chain, and overally having fun. I still am only 134 mastery level, so it will take some time to spend those points, but my journey for them is over. Now I can, if I feel like it, try out gold medal adventures or HoT story achievements, so I have even more things to do.

edit: I already had enough of central Tyria points at the launch of HoT. I believe doing Season 2, personal story on all races, Bioluminescence, and fractal achievements over the 3 years of playing got me majority of them. Central Tyria points were never supposed to be easily maxed out, but rather a reward for veteran players. And it is not like they are overly important to max out.

Time to move on man, you are too old for this kitten.

And btw, you don’t need 8 hours a day to do raids…you really don’t. Just watch some video of some guild killing the boss, learn from them, go into game, group up, get the kill, do the collection stuff, log off. Also, you can slowly work on it. There is no rush.

Also, Harpy Feathers are something that helps a lot

Good for you I do what I can and I get between 15-20

Good for you I do what I can and I get between 15-20

The ones that are comparing Airship Oil/ Ley sparks / Auric dust with Crystalline Ore are totally off. Crystalline ore is also a currency, and while it is not that hard to obtain first 250 for a legendary, it is very hard to obtain thousands of them for the vedor items. While I am overflowing with more than 2500 airship parts, and hundreds of tokes from AB and TD, I am always below 200 with crystalline ore. And getting 15 of them after playing DS for more than one hour is just a complete nonsense.

And where should have I read about it? Wiki? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Captain%27s_Airship_Pass_

there is nothing about it, anywhere. It doesn’t really make sense because your position in PVE maps is always saved. This thing is probably the only exception.

And my feedback is not irrelevant. The topic clearly states FEEDBACK about the airship pass. The fact that the OP has a totally different and unimportant problem with it IS IRRELEVANT.

You, the ones against the easy mode, you still don’t get it! Easy mode is not for replaying, it is to EXPERIENCE it once! It is obvious that raid is an introduction to the Mursaat and White Mantle Season 3 story line. Why should be people who are just not good enough players entitled to experience this part of the story from a youtube video? Why do they have to skip all the bosses and events because they are just unbeatable for them?

Simple damage nerf with some changes to boss cooldowns would be good enough for an easy mode. It just needs to be forgiving for making several mistakes (the big ones). Removal of timers is also something that might help.

Rewards? what rewards? There are MANY people who just want to see it, or will want to see it when the S3 is out. If they will be specifically told in the journal panel, that raids are the highest difficulty content aimed for the most dedicated players and that they can try out easy mode if they want to have just a taste of it and experience the story, I believe it is a good enough argument for the players to understand that they don’t deserve any raid-specific rewards if they can’t beat it in the normal mode. Simple box with green loot with some chance of getting some exotic loot would be more than enough.

I just don’t believe Guild Wars 2 should have story-driven content that is not beatable by everyone. Personal story, S1, S2, Personal story 2: everything was doable by any player. Up until raids.

People who don’t want this implementation are just selfish. It wouldn’t touch them at all. They would still be the only ones having the boss loot, titles, legendary armor.

edit: low level fractals and story dungeons are also beatable by everyone

TexZero.7910:

Thaddeus.4891:

TexZero.7910:

You must not be reading the same thread i am then, where in people are indeed asking for them to gut the raids by adding an easy mode.

ADDING an easy mode. You still have the normal mode, which is as hard as the current raid. The raid would still be 100% the same. There is just another mode that is easier with less reward.

Ever heard of subtraction by addition ?

That’s exactly what adding an Easy mode does.
Since you like to use games and game principals as examples i’ll use one you should be familiar with.

Have you ever wondered why as you climb in ranks for PvP your time to play becomes longer and longer ? It’s because as you climb the selection pool gets thinner and thinner. The same can be said in this case when add a mode to Raids which already has (if you believe the fantasy numbers) only 5% of the player base doing it.

Now does adding an easy mode actually add to people doing the current content ? No. Pretty straightforward.

What it does do, is add more time to development. Which if you are to go by what the general forum consensus believes is a bad idea for something that would be underutilized, especially when there’s not enough “Casual” content.

Making an easy mode of the raid doesn’t change the core problems these players are facing. Lack of Time / Proper Grouping Resources.

So again, why is this needed instead of the actual tools that would solve the problem and why should Anet spend extra resources trying to balance 2 modes. Better yet, what happens when that easy mode isn’t easy enough….are we going to have to make a SUPER EASY/TUTORIAL mode ?

Lets be real about this. Anyone who has put the time and effort into raiding can tell you an easy mode is not needed. People just need the proper tools to be developed to facilitate them getting into the right Guilds for them, into Raids (general), and tools to help them visually discern why they failed and what they can improve on.

What you wrote is a total nonsense.

This is exactly what I was talking about back when wing 1 was released. Raids need easy mode without raid rewards. Period. There is nothing more to discuss.

Yeah I bought it too and thought o will be happy about it. I took my crafter and put him inside the ship, then I moved the pass so I can use it on my main. And then I find out my crafter gets teleported out if he doesn’t have it in his inventory…..really? Why? Why is it not stated on the pass? A clear strategy to sell account inventory slot, right? Well, you won, I will buy it, but with gold. No way I will spend 20€ on being able to keep my crafter on the ship while keeping the pass on my main.

Uhm, then I will contact the support, tell them post-patch this and that node started to be problematic and they tell me it is not their fault and I should contact my ISP. Happened to me before, and I don’t believe it. When everything runs fine and then there is some patch that ruins everything, it can’t be a coincidence.

Edit: well, anyway, I just logged in now, and it looks the problem is gone. Hopefully it stays like that

I agree. The concept of noxious pods is just obnoxious. Please change this. Double or triple the crystalline ore quantity, triple the amount of spawned pods along the meta (no random spawning!!!) and actually award at least 5 ore on every map progress, 20 for killing Mordremoth with 100% participation.

Hey guys,

I would just like to let you know that my game is now filled with lagging and DCs.
I don’t know what happened, but it started yesterday after Wing 2 patch.

I’m experiencing latency spikes as high as 500.
Edit: Now it is 3000.
edit 2: almost 5000

would be nice if you could finally reserve spots for 120 seconds

This made my day again

What was the obsession with fractal leaderboards anyway??? Such a useless thing to spend resources on. The speedclearing crowd record their run on youtube, and the ones who care about it watch it and see that ‘wou, that guy is top in fractals’, but why should it be a part of the game? General gamers don’t care.

I’m glad it got suspended and I hope it won’t be continued on.

I don’t know about other dungeons, but I tried AC with my guild and it was so freaking easy. Power creep created from not having split skills from PvP and the new profession specializations made everything in AC a total faceroll experience. 60 silver + lots of blue/green loot is actually a good value. However, I do think they should look at Arah and other higher tier dungeons.

Give it more time. Raids will be ran by many many more people.

What it basically means is that with each killed dragon, the surviving ones become stronger. The final surviving one will have all of the Tyria’s magic at his disposal. And I have a strange feeling it will be Kralkatorrik. And that Rytlock, Logan and Zojja will have an important role in the campaign against him.

It sounds more like the map instance crashed. Some guy was kicked out of the final PS right before killing Mordy. There is something funny going on….

I agree. When precursors through collections cost several hundred gold more than from TP, it kills the need for the collection. I sold all my T7 mats and bought it straight away. Saved myself a full month of farming for more mats and things like that coral thingy.

The worst decision ArenaNet made was using T7 on legendaries and tying the quantities through pre-hot prices of T7 and precursors. ….I don’t get how can someone think this is a good idea and he/she is actually paid for such a rubbish thinking

Living World Season 3
You can look forward to the return of our Living World updates and the story picking back up in the world of Tyria. Warning: There are story spoilers ahead if you haven’t yet finished
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.
With the recent death of Mordremoth, the Pact and its armies are in disarray with the vast majority of its troops dead or missing. Survivors have begun to regroup or gone home to mourn the dead while the heroes of the great invasion into the jungle investigate a strange disturbance to the north. Within the golden city of Tarir, the last known dragon egg rests protected by the Exalted—but the egg begins to crack. What creature lies within the egg? An enemy or an ally? In other corners of Tyria, the remaining powerful elder dragons continue to expand their control—but what impact will the death of the two of the elder dragons have on them and on Tyria itself? What impact will being held by Mordremoth have on Zojja and Logan? What research will Taimi uncover at Rata Novus? What plans do Anise and the Shining Blade have for Canach? How will the Black Citadel react when they learn of the return of Rytlock? These questions and more await you in season three of Living World! We’ll give you more details as we get closer to its launch.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/state-of-the-game-update-q1-2016/

It sounds like you even skipped season 2 story. Some of the instances actually train you to get better. Then you shouldn’t have problems in the jungle. But be prepared that the initial phase without masteries is difficult, so get you XP buffs ready and farm Verdant Brink events couple of dozen times like we all did
LFG tool is your friend. Look for “VB T4”

No

It is a very hard adventure and takes a lot of practice. I tried for several hours and managed only silver even though I copied people on youtube. Just be patient and you can get silver….gold is however very hardcore.

So this thing is real? Not just Anet trolling?