Guild Wars 2

here’s the thing in your own post you simultaneously complain about people who only want 80s AND complain about noobs(implying non 80s).

Dungeons were originally meant to be difficult content, so yes they are meant to be difficult. That being said a lot of the paths these days are not difficult because people have played them enough to work out optimal paths/shortcuts and figured out the mechanics of the boss fights.

I bring multiple sets of gear on all characters so I can switch builds and gear as needed.

fairly sure the point behind this event is to act as a gold/badges sink

I agree. They should also rework some of the guild missions related permission (I suspect they will anyway considering the changes coming to Guild Missions).

From what i gather based on the OP’s post, he likes gear treadmills and he likes the old Tank – Healer – DPS trinity. So GW2 is not the game for him.

There’s nothing wrong with him liking those things, but I’m not sure what ever made him think that GW2 is the game for him. Any comments and videos he watched/read likely would’ve mentioned the above two things since they are considered a feature of the game.

1. Dusk – Dropped by a YB thief I killed in WvW
2. The Bard – Sharkmaw JP chest.

some people just got tired of fighting the YB blob, while others are thinking it would be a good idea to let YB PPT like crazy and push themselves into T1 that way they’ll be out of our matchup

i think it’s safe to assume that guild halls will be megaserver. I mean there is no point whatsoever in making them server based

main hand torch for warriors

a couple questions for OP:

1. Do you want small scale fighting or large zerg fights?
2. Do you want to be on the side that’s facerolling? Or do you like being the underdog?

This will determine which server is best for you.

took me a couple tries, but i completed it first time on a shatter mesmer built for wvw scouting. I had to look at the wiki to actually figure out the exact mechanics though.

depends, the profession is clearly unfinished and I personally am not a theory crafter, so I did quite bad with it. But on the other hand I’ve seen other people who are theorycrafters, who do know what they’re doing do quite well with it.

it’s the NPE. The WvW shortcut I think only works if you have at least 1 character above that level, it’s Anet’s attempt at streamlining stuff and guiding new players, personally I find it annoying, but I don’t know how people new to GW2 or MMOs in general would find it.

There is a workaround, have him go to LA and just jump into one of the portals to WvW

scerevisiae.1972:

I still think it’s appalling/shady behaviour not to include a character slot FOR ALL in an expansion that adds a new class, akin to me buying a second car and the retailer not providing a steering wheel because my first car came with one.

DODGY ANET, DODGY.

game came with 8 professions and only 5 character slots, one for each race. Your example also doesn’t match. A better example would be you got your existing car new engines, a new paint job and new aircon, then complain that the mechanic didn’t add in an extra seat so you can fit in an extra person in your car.

alliances while it sounds great has an obvious problem. Players can belong to multiple guilds. What if one guild you belong to wants to fight for Green, while another guild wants to fight for Red? It’s not going to work.

if by montage you mean me dying continuously even against sentries, then yes :p

real skill = naked warrior with a shield

but if you are more skilled than your opponent, then they shouldn’t be able to hit you as often as you are currently getting hit. I mean I melted pretty quickly the first couple days after the patch, but I’ve already adjusted my build and my playstyle and I melt less often now.

TJgalon.5012:

what does K trainer mean?

people who only eat Special K while they’re training

would it be really convenient? yes. Would it completely screw up the economy, crafting etc in more ways than one? yes.

As convenient as it would be for me personally. My vote on this would be a no.

you do get a slot for the standard edition if your account is old enough. But they already mentioned that it won’t be added straight away

Astralporing.1957:

lordkrall.7241:

It says nothing at all about all tests. It specifically names Beta Weekend Events. Beta Weekend Events is not stress test, nor is it every single beta test ever.
It is Beta Weekend Events.

Ah, yes, wondered when someone will bring this up. Especially, since, (by your claim in other topics) the current Anet standard for betas is them happening NOT on weekends.

Does that mean that Anet purposefully worded their purchase info in such a way, that they suggested they will be giving beta access, but in fact they wouldn’t? That would be really low behaviour (though not unexpected in Anet’s case).

Also, by your own reasoning in this and the beta access portal drop thread, since portal drop offered access to the next beta, and the next event was a stress test (which you claim is not beta), shouldn’t all beta access portals be still valid?

No, those beta portals are for PvE beta. This is the WvW beta.

Also, Beta Weekend Event = Marketing weekend. Always has been

actually the aegis one is quite useful. I don’t use a hammer, so I use the aegis one myself. With the correct team setup or even solo, you can use that for spiking someone down.

spread out across 3 accounts, I have 19 level 80s. Two of most classes, three guards, necros and warriors.

I also have 2 level 20 keyfarmer/name saver characters, I don’t really count them though

if you have that many stacks on you, then you’re fighting multiple people on condi builds. If you’re not equipped for that I would suggest just running away

Coyote.7031:

Aussie.6897:

The main problem I see with eotm is JQ server bag farming, it turns a lot of new people off the the prospects of ever going wvw so we loose out, sure, cant stop 20+ lvl 80 killing inexperienced low lvl characters. But we should get rid of eotm completely

I guess that’s what’s going? I’ve been trying to do EoTM to get to 80 on my engineer all week and get a few extra badges for some quick gear, but OG is hunting relentlessly. Every time we came out to capture a point we’d die either on the champion or at the door, if we didn’t run away first. Eventually everyone gave up and left. I feel weird complaining about PVP in EotM. That’s what you’re supposed to do, but it also seems grossly unfair. We wiped them once in our keep, which was the best feeling ever. But most of the time it was 20 versus 60. And even if you don’t have up levels in a group, that’s a fight you aren’t going to win.

If anything it really encourages players to swap sides and go Green or to bandwagon on to stronger servers. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ’em. I’m seriously thinking of bandwagoning to an always green server higher up the tier now. Why? I don’t have time for this. I’m not going to waste my playtime being someone else’s bag. Fair fights, or I’ll stack on the side that wins.

That’s HK, beating them is simple enough:

1. Find their commander, probably Shintto
2. Driver snipe him 3-4 times
3. He will rage quit
4. His blob disperses

It always works.

can’t you just buy those boxes with bandit crests anyway?

gold in this game is pretty easy to make, not sure what you’re complaining about templar

I imagine if true, that is a bug, I haven’t personally noticed that myself, but will definitely check tonight

Josh XT.6053:

People have been complaining about Grenade Barrage and Symbolic Avenger since the patch happened. What does Anet do? They decide to add outfits to the cash shop, push the expansion some more, double HP of world bosses and refuse to reply to any mention of these bugs making our game play in WvW incredibly bad..

if you are actually a developer yourself like you claimed, you would know that the people working on bug fixes are not the same people working on new outfits, which again would be different to the people in charge of marketing the expansion and again not the same as the people working on general balance changes.

Grenade and hammer are both bugs. Burn damage is more a balancing numbers thing. And outfits I imagine are handled by the art team.

I think it’s a good idea to be able to set up monuments in your guild hall where you can add your own text to it. The only risk I see is people putting in inappropriate text, but if it’s only displayed in your guild hall, then only people who know about it will see it anyway, so it should be fine.

why would asura ride moas? they should be riding charr

that’s only for drops from kills. Not drops from rank up chests i believe.

nope, just RNG. I went through hundreds of ranks getting nothing, then multiple asc pieces within 20 ranks of each other, then hundreds more with nothing etc.

it’s a significant feature introduction though

you guys know that Guild Halls will have an arena right? Duelers who want strictly 1v1 fights can just go there, on the other hand roamers who are fine with 1vX can stay around in WvW.

can I just point out that all this offensive AC stuff placement locations are all stuff we learned from YB

with the new leveling experience i believe it’s 18 or 20. But I think she can bypass that by pressing ‘B’ and just going into one of the maps?

The price of a hamburger in 2006 was roughly $1, the price of a hamburger today is roughly $1.50

just for you guys, today I bought the scarf and put it on my thief, previously my thief just had regular shoulderpads

do you like big fights? or small fights? when you say balanced are you referring to overall PPT score or balanced in your specific timezone?

ok see that is what i genuinely didn’t know. Never had to deal with serious queues during reset

again, can I ask why you need to stand close to the portals in the first place? I genuinely don’t understand why that would be such an issue when you can enter WvW from anywhere?

here’s the thing thrag, whenever any announcement is made, you need to make sure you read it all properly. This is the news post:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/claim-your-spot-in-the-next-heart-of-thorns-closed-beta/

it says clearly right there:

“Looting one of these special trophy items grants you access to the next Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ PvE closed beta event!”

There are no implications of multiple, nor are there implications of access to the BWE. As I said before the test was a stress test, it needs to be at a time that is convenient for the devs. That does mean that some people will miss out.

You posted your post while I was typing mine. So here is the other announcement that you didn’t link:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/closed-beta-testing-on-may-26/

DeWolfe.2174:

Nate.3927:

no offense, but those numbers are perfectly possible even before the patch, so it doesn’t really have anything to do with the patch. To give you an example from my personal experience, this was like late last year, I had a full PVT guardian, with all the tanky trait lines as well. Full glass thief took me by surprise and spiked me for 36k damage in a split second.

Had to be lag or something else. No one is doing 36k damage to a PTV Guardian in a second. Seriously, the first pop is Aegis even.

For the OP, yes the power creep is absurd in this patch. Every live stream I’d ask “where’s the defense?” The darn dev’s made combat a troll’ish joke of who melts whom first. Nothing fun or skillful about this.

Being OCX, yes I am quite sure that lag is a part of it. But at the time, my aegis wasn’t on since I had just finished fighting a sentry so his first hit wasn’t blocked. My HP had just finished refilling ooc, max HP at the time would’ve been around 28k including stacks. I remember this very well because I was surprised myself that he can kill me so quickly.

And I have tried glassy thieves myself pre-patch. As an average skill player I can easily pull off a 15-20k opening burst on unsuspecting enemy players. So it doesn’t surprise me if a thief with better latency, skill and build can pull off higher numbers.

the portal to maguuma was always a stress test beta event thing. Which is separate from beta weekends. Beta weekends are really more marketing weekends where the game is pretty much done and they’re just tweaking numbers. Whereas the stress test was an actual stress test.

it’ll never end until people like you learn to grow up tbh

2C this morning when I woke up, so yeah I wear a scarf to work

TF has been on SoS for a while haven’t they? I wouldn’t call them new.

no offense, but those numbers are perfectly possible even before the patch, so it doesn’t really have anything to do with the patch. To give you an example from my personal experience, this was like late last year, I had a full PVT guardian, with all the tanky trait lines as well. Full glass thief took me by surprise and spiked me for 36k damage in a split second.