Guild Wars 2

PUG – Pickup group
A pickup group, or pug, is a group of random players that are grouped together via the matchmaking system, usually to do an dungeon or quest.

ArenaNet has said that Exploration Dungeons are NOT for PUGS. When you look at the PUG players, they are a good chunk of the player base. Why would you want to restrict them from that? I understand that you need to make things challenging but in the state that some of these dungeons are in, they are almost impossible to get thru using a PUG.

When I play late a night, most of my guild mates are not online and I will join a PUG. I like to meet new people and play with new people. But just because I am in a PUG that means I can’t do the harder exploration dungeons. Or its going to take many hours and a lot of repair bills just to get thru that explorable dungeon. Is that fair to people who play in PUGS?

If there where actual Raids that needed 8-10-16-20-25 people then yes I could understand the NEED for communication. But these are just 5 man dungeons!

I just feel like there is a flaw with that type of system, and I know people are going to disagree but this is how I feel.

I started with a Ranger. I am a have good range DPS with some healing. Those are my main 2 things I focus on atm.

I could switch it up and go to melee damage and have more crowd control but I like my other option more right now!

I thought we where supposed to “play the way we want to play”. But I am now seeing that is totally false….

Look I like to run dungeons, hell I even like to run with PUGS in dungeons. I sat in LA watching for LFG tonight and i saw maybe 3 people asking in those 2 hours. I would have even took a CoF Explore run…. but those are now gone.

I don’t get it……

Curuniel.4830:

Why do you have to grind something? Why do you have to farm the same area for 2-3 hours to be doing well? I understand wanting to get what you need for fancy armour/weapons/etc as soon as possible, but I really think that GW2 is discourgaing this mentality that you should be able to mechanically grind your way to success. They want you to have fun, if they want anything.

I’ve seen so many people power-level and grind their way to achieving everything in an MMO, then leave complaining loudly that there’s nothing for them to do. GW2 has no subscription. You can take your time. This is in large part personal preference though – I understand that I’m a pretty casual player.

Because people want to make their legendary weapons or people want a ceratin armor from a certain dungeon. The way things are now is you have to grind grind grind. That is the ONLY way to get these items.

And this post isn’t about being bored or have nothing to do at 80, its about the limitations they are putting on use normal players to stop bots and exploiters.

Meeooww.3742:

I’m staying away from dungeons for the time being, until all this gets straightened out. I don’t feel like losing money.
I’m also hoping ANet will take care of this, otherwise it will be yet another generic mmo.

But they did “take care of it” with the DECREASE of rewards.

That is their answer…… which is BS.

1/10
more risk with less reward.
I understand some of the CoF buffs but have you guys even tested these changes? Some of them are buggy as kitten!!!

And how is spending 3 hours in a dungeon and getting only 5 silver out of it rewarding? And if I want to keep doing that dungeon for the a piece of armor I have to do it MANY times, but according to the latest patch you don’t want us doing that?
WHAT?

Man I was really hoping ArenaNet listened to its players but its starting to seem like you really don’t give akitten!

I usally don’t come on the forums and complain but these changes make no sense to me. They tell us they don’t want us to farm or grind, but then make stuff very hard to get. And when we do have an “easier” time with something, they just make it harder or more grindy to get it.

I don’t get it…..

I “farm” 3 of them… not just CoF. I like the looks of the CoF set the most tho. So bug off!

And moving to a new server would have the same issue. LATE NIGHT less people on.

I don’t want to cancel the event, not sure how you got that from what I said….. Just increase the time of it.

So a group of us late nighters run CoF Explorable but every time we finish the dungeon we have to do the event all over again because there is not enough people around to do it.

During the day we have no problems, but with the lack of people on it becomes a PIA. It seems like every 15mins the event starts up again.

Would like to see this changed, at least for the late night crowd.

Thanks

What server you on mate?

Agree also how much this sucks. My memory sucks so I have to think of a new name if I want to switch to a new pet, and I hate thinking of a name!!! :P

SteveK.5827:

What is thekittengame ?

When you type a swear word it replaces it with “kitten”

I understand that in ANY MMO launched their will be bugs. And thankfully I haven’t ran into many of them and have had a good time so far.

But with the 60-80 zones, there was not enough testing done. I knew this when ArenaNet didn’t have a full Beta test and only kept it to the weekends or on some select days. I knew these zones where going to feel buggy and they are.

Time will tell to see how fast they can get to these problems. If they can fix them in a timly manner than I will be very happy!
ATM I LOVE Guild Wars 2 and think it has been one of the best MMO launches yet. (Besides Rift which was almost flawless).

Fetus.9376:

sPvP matches you with people? I thought it has a server browser?

Is that what the tournament are for? Not sure if that matches you up or not, I have not used my Tournament ticket yet.

Agree 100%! I actually don’t care for PVP but in GW2 I am having a BLAST and I am acutally good at it.

I like how it’s more skill than gear! Puts everyone on the same playing field, almost.

sPVP even has its own bank! lol!

I can understand that Legendary gear is going to be hard to get.

The culture armor isn’t anything close to legendary gear stats wise. Just looks. I shouldn’t cost that much for a “downgrade”. IMO

Something just feels very wrong about this. When I look at the tier 3 culture armor and see each piece costs anywhere from 20gold and up and I only have 5g to my name at level 80, something feels wrong.

Since this is a Buy2Play game, is it intended for me to buy gems and sell them for gold?

The level 70-80 mobs and zones don’t drop squat for money.
Now I am used to games like WoW, SWTOR, LotRO, ect where I would have atleast some money to buy a couple of cool things and the level cap, but this feels like I have to do a hell of a lot of grinding just to make any kind of money in this game.

Don’t get me wrong I really enjoy Guild Wars 2 but with all these high costs it’s really frustrating.

Edit: And another thing that REALLY bugs me is when I do a Heart quest, I get 2 something silver for it. But if I want to teleport anywhere on the map it costs me 2-3 silver! How does this make any sense?

World: Tarnished Coast
Guild: Destined Souls (Lees) Leader
Issue: Cant access guild bank or guild armorer.

I still shows me as represented, I can talk in guild chat, but I can’t see the time left on upgrades but I can make more upgrades.

Having this issues since 9-10-12

Hello!

Quick question, or perhaps its a bug?

I am the leader of our guild. I was promoting another member to officer rank but instead I accidently made him Leader. Is there any way to demote that person back down to Officer or Member? When I try to demote, nothing will come up. I can demote all other players and ranks except another Leader rank.

Is this working as intended or a bug?