Guild Wars 2

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Told you guys they would nerf fractals. The old fractal 50 is probably the new fractal 90 (or might even be 100, but I hope not kitten it)

Bosses nerfed but encounters were much harder IMO. It was fun. Only at 61 for now though.

Totally broken. Will probably be fixed in the next fractals patch when leaderboards are released in a few years.

Pinkey Flowery.7018:

I’m pretty sure it’s the regular relics.

I think there is a price for either.

Ryn.6459:

Care to share this last bug? I know the throw one

It’s the throw bug.

Shaman kit bug still not fixed.

Fractal shaman engineer kit throw bug still not fixed.

Nash.2681:

You telling me that the price for a 25 stack salvage kit is 20g + relics? What the kittening kitten?!
That would be at least 120 gold for me to get rid of those pesky rings, not to mention the tons of gems I spent on extra bank tabs to be able to somehow store them in the meantime.
If that’s true- totally not cool, especially when assuming that the output will be accountbound anyway.
25 silver for a 25 stack kit would be ok imo, that’s 1 silver per charge for an item worth 4 silver 95 copper.

Was looking forward to clearing my hundreds of rings but I’m too poor. So sad.

Please fix wep achievement and I will be super happy

They are in the game. Beat level 50, Buy merch has them.

RedDeadFred.1256:

The other one that is surely going to make inexperienced players stumble is the Elemental Source now resetting after wipes.

This is going to be brutal

Iris Ng.9845:

Steven, grab ur torch, we have 2 witches to burn!

Wanna join Lang and I tonight?

Also where is this news that the patch is 20 gigs?

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

On this fine pre-launch day I just received a Fractal Greatsword, one of the last two skins I needed. I am looking forward to the patch so I can purchase my last skin and finally complete the collection after three years.

I too am planning on spamming fractals from launch until I drop from exhaustion. I’ve got a few people who are joining me but we don’t have a full party. If any of you experienced pros want to join in we’re going to try to do them hard and fast. Message me on forums or in game. Might see some of you tonight!

Can’t exactly say I’m a pro, but I wouldn’t mind joining given it’s EU. I’m mainly Nec but can roll a Warrior.

Unfortunately I’m NA

On this fine pre-launch day I just received a Fractal Greatsword, one of the last two skins I needed. I am looking forward to the patch so I can purchase my last skin and finally complete the collection after three years.

I too am planning on spamming fractals from launch until I drop from exhaustion. I’ve got a few people who are joining me but we don’t have a full party. If any of you experienced pros want to join in we’re going to try to do them hard and fast. Message me on forums or in game. Might see some of you tonight!

Hi Cameron, thanks for the update! When you guys announced the HoT fractals update you stated the following:

“The one final step of taking your precursor and transforming it into the legendary backpack is called Ad Infinitum. However, we’ll come back to discuss how that component works—and how it ties into our next steps for the Fractals of the Mists within Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns—in the future. For now, though, I can tell you that just like existing legendary items, players will need to collect components from all over Tyria. To craft each stage of the precursor backpack, players will need to obtain a new salvage item from ascended equipment. And that leads us to our next topic…”

Are you guys going to follow up on this?

“The one final step of taking your precursor and transforming it into the legendary backpack is called Ad Infinitum. However, we’ll come back to discuss how that component works—and how it ties into our next steps for the Fractals of the Mists within Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns—in the future. For now, though, I can tell you that just like existing legendary items, players will need to collect components from all over Tyria. To craft each stage of the precursor backpack, players will need to obtain a new salvage item from ascended equipment. And that leads us to our next topic…”

Was this ever discussed?

Sarahfull.4930:

Why in such a rush? With the elite specializations out and the re-scale difficulty, There will be a lot to do in fractals when HoT comes out.

I am inbetween blocks in school right now. I will literally have the weekend to play and then I won’t be able to play for a month. I wanna enjoy the content as much as possible in those 2-3 days. That’s all.

Can we get confirmation from Colin about this? I’m assuming that because he said we could start working on the back piece that means tiers 50-100 are coming on day 1. But confirmation would be nice.

Tentonhammr.7849:

They did the fractal reveal like, months ago.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-brand-new-fractals-of-the-mists-legendary-backpacks-ascended-salvaging-and-more/

Exactly, months ago. No word about the mastery track and today they said they’re pulling the leaderboards until later. Colin said that we can still start working on our legendary back piece so I guess that’s sort of like a confirmation…

This is a good question. If not I’d like a refund.

I thought the Fractal Leaderboard post was Colin trolling.

Surely, surely, after the disaster of the Fractured! patch oh so many years ago they would have spent developer time building the content that was used as justification to reset my fractal level 50 tiers… I mean that should have been designed before HoT development even started if they were serious about what they promised in that patch, right? Right? Bueller?

This is the last time I prepurchase an ANET product

nacario.9417:

So if we finished season two and are lvl fifty in frac by release we get headstart xp to use in masteries?

To unlock masteries you do the following:

1. Select mastery track on your hero panel.
2. Get enough experience to level your bar.
3. Spend mastey points to reach the next level.

If you finished season two you’ll have enough mastery points for step three but you still have to achieve step 2 at each new tier.

“Fractal Dungeon Leaderboards…”

Dude. Just… dude…

Sarahfull.4930:

Yes, I also will be maxing the fractal one first. Not sure how I’m gona go about doing it though ^ ^

Do you have a team together Sarah? I haven’t been on in months and was hoping to get a solid group together.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I believe crafting won’t count towards mastery.

Source? If true that leaves like… open world monster killing.

Seems like this could be a painful process if they nerf dungeons, crafting, tomes.

If you’ve done all the Season 2 living story instances you should start with 32 Pact Tyria Mastery Points:

http://dulfy.net/2015/08/07/gw2-central-tyrian-masteries-livestream-notes/

To fully max your Fractal track you need exactly 32 points:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Tyria_mastery_track#Fractal_Attunement_Mastery

That leaves roughly ~5-5.5 million exp to be accumulated.

The question now is how to attain that exp the fastest. Powerleveling has traditionally been done through:

1. dungeons
2. tomes
3. crafting

They may be nerfing dungeon exp, we were told that tomes probably wouldn’t work, so that leaves crafting if you want to power level your fractal mastery track.

Thoughts? Anyone else going to pursue this track first?

I’m hoping to power through as many fractals as I can this weekend before I return to school.

Tuthan.3250:

The achievement isn’t bugged, you probably did not do it correctly. To get this achievement, you must not get burned by fire, not get downed during the encounter or not get attacked by the oozes.

Not true.

rapthorne.7345:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

blakdoxa.7520:

There’s going to be a lot of problems if the raid is tweaked according to the top 1% of players… Meaning that the two guilds and others similar will only be capable of even completing the raid. Cause that makes the raid all but impossible for anyone not at their level.
See where I’m going with this?
Expecting a lot of complaining and raid nerfing in the near future.

Are you incapable of improving yourself?

Raids are meant to be hard content, a type GW2 has been sorely lacking. There will always be SW-like maps for people who aren’t good and have no desire to get better.

This sort of attitude is the type I’m sad to start seeing when it comes to raiding. Toxicity stemming from elitism is something that has never been a huge issue in GW2, but after raid content I fear it will be rampant

This game has little hard content and lots of easy content to please the casual player.

I think anyone who wants to can improve and complete hard content. That attitude is neither toxic nor elitist.

Those players who have put in an effort to become good at this game are being thrown a bone through raids.

To that end I sincerely hope DnT tests this content and tunes it to be challenging.

Challenging doesn’t mean exclusive. Please remember this.

blakdoxa.7520:

There’s going to be a lot of problems if the raid is tweaked according to the top 1% of players… Meaning that the two guilds and others similar will only be capable of even completing the raid. Cause that makes the raid all but impossible for anyone not at their level.
See where I’m going with this?
Expecting a lot of complaining and raid nerfing in the near future.

Are you incapable of improving yourself?

Raids are meant to be hard content, a type GW2 has been sorely lacking. There will always be SW-like maps for people who aren’t good and have no desire to get better.

This is great news, thanks Gaile.

To Nike and others at DnT – make sure it’s hard

It’s fun to speculate on the reasons for this.

Did they all dislike Hrouda?
Are dungeons too unpopular?
Are the devs salty because they got kicked for being bads?

At this point it’s not like this is a surprise. Oh well.

I just want to express my disappointment that Mr. Smith has sided with the PHIW casuals (often illiterates or individuals guilty of willful neglect) rather than people who are passionate about dungeon content and who have taken the time and energy to master it. See the Reddit thread for reference.

Iris Ng.9845:

Also, this is a good time to partake in the discussion with John Smith himself, instead of swallowing our own pity about the incoming dungeon gold cut.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ogusa/the_guild_wars_2_heart_of_thorns_economy/cvx7bhb

Maybe, there may be other better reasons to the decision of nerfing the dungeon rewards than just ANet being an evil company (which people never feel tired of condemning) and sneakily attempting to remove Dungeons from the game.

I’ve read his comments there. I’ve chatted with him in the game.

We’re in strong disagreement and I don’t think we’ll ever see eye to eye.

Ranael.6423:

Don’t know if the guy is serious but this oO https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ogusa/the_guild_wars_2_heart_of_thorns_economy/cvx7mtk

Look at Smith’s responses to that thread. The noob lowest common denominator illiterates have won.

Cool, thanks for the responses guys. Glad you enjoyed the fight, looking forward to eventually playing it when I’ve got a break from school

Nice kill.

Lold here:

https://youtu.be/-poOgTxwxfY?t=7m28s

When over half your party went down at the end. I thought it would be a downed state kill but most of you got up

Glad to see zerker still meta. Did you really need cele guard?

My favorite parts were the ice bow engineer and the engineer wipe at foreman spur. And you guys still beat your previous record by almost a whole minute. Nice run

Are you using healing turret to block the axe after he comes back from stealth?

Awesome run.

Glad to see people are still confused about this years later.

Never forget.

DarkSyze.8627:

eduardo.1436:

claps
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/21/guild-wars-2-sales-figures-revealed?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Congratulations!

Congratulations?

7.3 million(3.5 million+3.8 million+January 2015-Present)= 5 million (2015)?. Arena net lost 2.3 million+. Where is the sale figure from January 2015 to present? This is not congratulation at all!

“Guild Wars 2 Sales More Than Double Thanks To Chinese Launch: Guild Wars 2 has over 3.8 million Chinese players according to a census uploaded to Reddit, all accrued in just two months after launch”.

“This means ArenaNet’s MMO has more than doubled its global playerbase since launching in the new territory. The last update we got on Western sales was back in August 2013, when the figure stood at 3.5 million. This figure is likely to have risen since then but, even if we assume it hasn’t, this means global sales of Guild Wars 2 should now be well past the 7 million mark.”

I missed it- see: “Guild Wars 2 sells 3.8 million in China in 2 months time, tops 7 million worldwide in less than 2 years”.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2a5x4x/guild_wars_2_sells_38_million_in_china_in_2/

GW2 sales

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/10/guild-wars-2-sales-more-than-double-thanks-to-chinese-launch

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2014-07-10/guild_wars_2_has_sold_38m_in_china.shtml

Huh, I wonder how the numbers reconcile with each other.

Hi, I’m having the same issue. I purchased HoT yesterday after the Fractals announcement, I linked my accounts, and I made a new character with the new slot I purchased.

As soon as I logged in, all my HoM achievements were gone and I received the GM letter saying that I got them accidentally.

This is obnoxious, especially because I no longer have GW1 installed on my computer. Please fix ANET.

Hi, I’m having the same issue. I purchased HoT yesterday after the Fractals announcement, I linked my accounts, and I made a new character with the new slot I purchased.

As soon as I logged in, all my HoM achievements were gone and I received the GM letter saying that I got them accidentally.

This is obnoxious, especially because I no longer have GW1 installed on my computer. Please fix ANET.

Hi, I’m having the same issue. I purchased HoT yesterday after the Fractals announcement, I linked my accounts, and I made a new character with the new slot I purchased.

As soon as I logged in, all my HoM achievements were gone and I received the GM letter saying that I got them accidentally.

This is obnoxious, especially because I no longer have GW1 installed on my computer. Please fix ANET.

Pretty sure mortar 1 is plasma if you have legendary equipped.

Jerus.4350:

Rocket Boots or Jump Shot from Engi not work?

It works. Why use them when you can RNGeesus elixir U?

Marthkus.4615:

Behellagh.1468:

Then be clear in your LFG comment. Also if it take 50 minutes to run inefficiently when it takes 30 to run efficiently then spending more than 20 minutes vetting players is silly. It’s like cruising the parking lot for a close spot for your health club because the extra 50 yards to walk is so tiring.

Well too be fair. Arah path 4 takes like 1.5 hours in a good but non meta group. 40 minutes for a meta group, or well over 4 hours cycling through various people as attempts to “speed run” fail.

That leaves A LOT of time for vetting before negative returns.

EDIT: Interesting to see that some people are willing to admit that they are willing to take LONGER to finish a dungeon as long as they can exclude players.

If I’m not already, please add me to your block list.

Tristan.5678:

As the title says: Fractals of the Mists in Heart of Thorns any improvements additional content ? or Fractal Armor maybe ? Or Fractal skin chest at last after a year since it it was announced?

Fractals have their own mastery.

I’m personally guessing they will give us back some of the levels they took from us and implement content they had built years ago, announced for the Fractured! patch, but then never implemented like leaderboards, fractal weapon boxes etc.

I recently kicked someone for his build. Let me tell you the story.

I started an Aetherpath group with a buddy. I main an engineer. I was playing engineer. I wrote “Aether: Zerk Exp Only or Kick” as the LFG description. The group gets to 4 people. We get to Sparki and Slick. We wipe.

I sigh, and the next attempt I pay attention to what people are doing so I can see what’s going wrong. I notice that the other engineer in my group has been camping flamethrower the whole fight. He hasn’t switched kits once. He has only been using the auto-attack. He hasn’t used skills 2 (the high damage one) or 4 (the fire field) the whole fight.

We wipe.

I kindly ask him, “Hey, as a fellow engineer flamethrower is a bad dps kit and is really only used for utility. Can you bring grenades, elixir gun, and a rifle please?”

We try the fight a third time. He flamethrower auto-attacks the whole fight. We wipe. I initiate a vote kick. The group seconds. Two others join to fill the party and we clear it easily.

A few seconds later he starts rage whispering me. I block him.

Could he have had zerk gear and been experienced and technically met the LFG requirements? Sure. But he was complete trash and wouldn’t listen and so I kicked him for his build.

Edit: Yeah, I know, 3 zerk players should have been able to beat Sparki and Slick so there were other coordination issues at play, but that was the big and obvious one.

Marthkus.4615:

You don’t get to just ban classes regardless of LFG entry. Its why zerk pugs are seen as people of questionable character.

Oh? Why CAN’T I ban classes based on my LFG entry? Why are YOU entitled to come and ruin MY experience and the experience of others who want to play my way by not reading the LFG?

This is why non-reading leeches are seen as people of questionable character.

This is a work of art.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Joining a party and someone “not reading the LFG” is not an excuse for verbal abuse.

Joining a party without reading the LFG is a form of abuse.