Guild Wars 2

We need a legendary deer event boss near the grove to be fair…

I don’t even suspect any profession to hit a hard nerf, probs some minor tweaking down the line.

Im thinking i’ll have to wait for like januari/februari for a more diverse roll assignment for alot of classes in Spvp.

they really need to change mistform on elementalists, they’re like the only ones that can’t be counterplayed with their downed state as it is.

I just hope wintersday will be as much fun as it was on the GW2s’ winterday.

Don’t seem to have alot of expectations for anything else.
Been enjoying PvE and Spvp since launch, not to mention that i start doing WvW and having a blast as it is.

Max Lexandre.6279:

I heard about DX11 patch in the game but only in some areas, designers wont work it all again with DX11, and they still want it compatible soo there will be huge limitations in how good the game it’s going to look like.

About that Nvidia Perfomance, I know, it’s awfull, i just updated my drivers and game became with unplayable FPS, then I needed to use old drivers.

Also I wonder because Tera Uses DX11 with better graphics than GW2 (GW2 doesn’t got better graphics, but yes ART and Design), and Tera with me ran much but much better than GW2 sadly, and it uses DX11 far I know.

This one looks “late” it’s still a DX9 game, launched in 2012. Ah do what anyway :P

Try disabling the Ambient Occlusion filters they seem pretty stretchy for what its worth just like the actual FXAA filters.
All they did was enable it for the GW2 profile…

Dee Jay.2460:

Rodaquiste.7631:

Hyptesis: if you would get a white item and you have say 30% magic find then you have 30% chance that that item is blue, if you had 130%mf then you would have 30% chance of that being a green

Nah, I’m pretty sure it works as follows:

Whenever you kill a mob, the game rolls a number (say from 1 to 10000 for example).

1-5000: Nothing
5001-8000: White item (generates an item from the common drop list)
8001-9500: Blue item (generates an item from the fine drop list)
9501-9900: Green item (generates an item from the mastercraft drop list)
9901-9999: Yellow item (generates an item from the rare drop list)
10000: Exotic item (generates an items from the exotic drop list)

Now what Magic Find does is bump those chances up accordingly.

So with 100% Magic Find, you’re loot table might look something like:

1-5000: Nothing
5001-8000: Common item
8001-9000: Fine item
9001-9800: Mastercraft item
9801-9998: Rare item
9999-10000: Exotic item

So while you’re not really getting more loot per say, the quality of the loot is being bumped up a notch at the expense of poorer qualities.

Something like that i geuss, pretty sure that the 1-5000 gets reducted pretty hard aswell.
(doomcrier tried the hypothesis of it actually dropping more loot regardless of rarity)

I tried to use a Magic Find booster to hit 200%+
It dropped pretty much greens all over the map.

Dee Jay.2460:

We have this guy in our Guild, a Guardian and Veteran GW1 player who has never touched Magic Find gear in his life.

He has the most insane drop-luck you can imagine. He seems to get a random exotic every 2nd FotM run and at least 2-3 rares on top of that.

Meanwhile I’m averaging about 1.5 rares per FotM run.

As for the actual Magic Find debate.

Until the Nov. 15th patch I was convinced Magic Find worked well. I had direct comparisons between prior to getting my MF set (160%) and after. The difference on drops was huge, averaging about one rare every 20 minutes or so of farming in Orr.

But since that patch, drops have been crap. So bad in fact that I salvaged my entire MF set as it seemed pointless to keep it. I was getting only about 1 rare drop per hour. That simply wasn’t worth it. I still get roughly the same running around with 40% MF (Omnombar + miscellaneous items).

I can’t really say if it works or not or if it has any real value. The fact that you have one person here to counter every supporter just proves that something isn’t right about the stat.

The thing is, I have absolutely no faith in ANet when it comes to having reliable mechanics. This entire game is festered with bugs and in-transparent mechanisms. Hell, even if a developers comes out and specifically states “this is how xyz works” I won’t believe it until it is confirmed by a third party.

Wait, is that on 10+ FOTM? Because that’s where it starts to do that from what i heard from guildies.

doomcrier.5830:

Nhalx.9735:

I honestly don’t know, when i run around without magic find drops are drastically reduced. Not just the rarity of the items, the actual drop percentage of the mobs dropping items seems to drastically backfire its way to 1 each 4-5 mobs.

That’s a great idea. I just tested your hypothesis, and here are some sample values for the chance to drop any kind of item at various levels of magic find.
+0 MF: 34.9% drop chance
+10 MF: 37.2% drop chance
+20 MF: 39.6% drop chance
+30 MF: 42% drop chance
+40 MF: 44.5% drop chance
+50 MF: 47% drop chance
+60 MF: 49.5% drop chance

Ok, so not drastically but does seem a bit higher. But it might be a fluke aswell. Just thought it felt a bit like that. cheers for the research. =D

Another sidenote. When i attained 200%+ which seems only attainable for me right now with a Magic find booster, i start receiving a ridiculous amount of greens instead of blues and whites.

invizo.5408:

Nhalx.9735:

It doesn’t use a chunk of Vram for processing from my expierence. Uses alot more Dram.

Anyway.
I’m running steady at 1920×1080
With everything maxed
I’ve disabled the ingame FXAA and enabled some different filters in Nvidia control panel, just because i find them less curvy and shraper that way.

Post processing makes the game look too bright, disabling the bloom effect made it look more vivid.
Bloom definitely loses it from HDR.

I’m running;
- AMD Athlon II x4 650 @ OC 3.1ghz – just a minor automated clock for 100 mhz.
- DDR3 1333mhz 4 GB
- Nvidia Geforce 630GT @ OC MemClock – 1020 / ShadClock – 1840 / GPUclock 920

Everything runs stable under heavy workload @ 40-45c

Thing didn’t cost alot, basically runs everything stable at 40 fps from WvW to Cities.
Never see a fps drop, so i don’t exactly know what’s dipping it for alot of people.

Besides that, a lot of effects and shaders work better under DX11

Would love to know what nvidia settings you set in your profile or even the nvidia inspector settings.

Nvidia Inspector
980
1840
1080

- The WvW

- The sylvari hadn’t been for GW2 i wouln’t have seen a plant race. ALthough i’ve read some stories about older MMo’s from the past containing certain plant races? (so can’t state it like that, just a first encounter for me)

- The lore

- Some of the humor is pretty blant, which can turn out pretty funny.

- The Spvp is more based around holding, and defending positions.
Which i like quite alot, might be if they add custom servers with spectator mode it could even be something progressively able to be played on ESL/Whatever else appeases. (Which they are working on!)

- The crafting was pretty refreshing when i had a go at it for the first time.

-So far i DID like haloween, and the lost shore introduction WASN’T a bad attempt (in my opinion)

-PvP Feels very polished, although alot of complaints will fly by because people hardly know how to deal with certain aspects.
Especially with the mere Thieves and 100B warriors which is by far the most easiest thing ever to counterplay.

- THe downed state is also very refreshing like you said <->

- No trinity roles. (Tank,Healer,DPS)

-You are no longer limited to rushing a mob to tag it before someone else does.
Everyone can work together to get a veteran,champion or group of monsters down and still receive everything from the kill.

Vyndetta.6824:

Nhalx.9735:

Yeah, big congratulations on the achievement!

Might just see it pop-up on IGN GOTY for 2k12 =D

I’m sorry, nothing to do with this topic, but why type “2k12”? It’s the same amount of keystrokes as “2012”. Seriously… what is wrong with people these days?

On topic, um, yay for ANet? How many games get named “Game of the Year” in various mediums every single year? Yeah, thought so. Yes, this is a great game, but if it was a monthly subscription game, I wouldn’t be playing it still.

More like what’s your problem?
Pessimistically responding to someone like that, sure. If you don’t agree. But i don’t even see the use of this negativity from your side?
Is your life that much of a complete failure that you have to dive behind the computer because your entire life is a mess?
Please.

Oh, and sorry. I’m not natively english.
It’s easier to pronounce 2-k-12 rather than Two-Thousand and Twelve.
Same goes for the name of IGN’s ‘’IGN GOTY Nominee 2012 (GW2)’’ Which is what it’s called when they got nominated.
So whatever man.

I think well see the first flying squirrels (Skritt) trying to rob the presents from Tixx’s Air balloon. =s

Yeah, big congratulations on the achievement!

Might just see it pop-up on IGN GOTY for 2k12 =D

I honestly don’t know, when i run around without magic find drops are drastically reduced. Not just the rarity of the items, the actual drop percentage of the mobs dropping items seems to drastically backfire its way to 1 each 4-5 mobs.

Noobkaka.5067:

Zid.4196:

It’s not about sightseeing, it’s about making money.

You see, you have one problem.

Legendaries are best obtained thru the Trading Post. However, money in this game, as well as the real world, naturally come in the hands of a very select elite. Do you understand the consequences of this fact?

It’s no wonder that the two people I know that have the most legendaries (yes, each has multiples on multiple alts) are the two people who made the most money on the TP. Legendaries have become the plaything of the TP masters. Paying 1000 gold for lodestones is a joke for them. Their ability to pay lots for legendary ingredients drives the prices out of the reach of the average players…forever. Good luck!

Yes I understand what you are saying, but, If so, why did Anet nerf the drop rates? before you didnt need to buy stuff from the TP, the drop rates were reasonable for everything back then, so everyone, even the elitists and the average player was happy. Now only the elitists are happy because they have secured themselves with tp manipulation since the beginning.

Btw, Infinite light isnt a legendary, and so it shouldn’t kitten be harder to get than a ugly legendary like bolt. 250 t6 is still alot, but I would be ok with it if it was still possible to get 5 lodestones a week…

It just seems that Anet reduced the drop rates to; prevent boting (boting isnt bad, it actualy helps the economy alot because there is more of everything). And to mayby push people into buying gems.

You forget the part where charged lodestones are on high demand for alot of items.
In theory highest on par demand.
Doesn’t just simply have to do anything with drop-rates.

Avatar.1923:

i want all weapon they can put in!

would love the axe.

and whips.

and claw cloves.

and flails.

all of them.
and lot of love for wvwvw.

WvW was hinted around januari-februari-march i believe?

Anyway, why would you want whips?! xD

RedBaron.6058:

The other half will go to TESO in 2013..:)

No thanks, Guild wars 2 is by far good enough, might take Blade & soul as a secondary MMO but that’s about it.
I don’t see a need to exaggerate because i didn’t have a golden spoon, expected a silver one. got a two sided spoon.
=0

So far there’s only keg brawl.
Been notices that you can expect alot more mini-games soonish.
And good job on coming back before december 14th, because winters coming. =p

And er yeah, alot of the leveling areas aren’t as flourished as it used to be.
But i do so people around here and there, jumping puzzles can be pretty enjoyable aswell.

I still level my alts to 80 and find it still pretty enjoyable although, i’m doing the same stuff 8 times in a row. =0

Crafting is pretty nice to catch some levels, and it’s pretty decent to use all of the materials you gather instead of selling them. Which as it stands right now aren’t worth alot because alot of people already hit cap.

Make sure you use the discoveries because they give way more XP and progress to the next craft profession levels.

They have separate teams for that, so yeah.

Every time i have to bring around gold seller letters…

To be fair, I have no idea how the sigils work around low level areas. I’d assume they do.
Everything gets adjusted including armor, don’t think sigils do…

TheUndefined.1720:

So much wonderful feedback in this thread. Great posts everyone!

I’m not going to say I’ve ‘quit,’ Guild Wars 2, because really I’m just taking a break.

I have a sour taste in my mouth with how ArenaNet handled this whole situation. However, I honestly couldn’t think of a better way to have handled the community’s outcry myself. So in the end I don’t necessarily hold them entirely accountable.

They posted a long detailed response to the fans, and answered honestly in the reddit Q/A.

This very much seems to be what ArenaNet wants to do with their game. The difference between other game corporations, and ArenaNet is ArenaNet can be incredibly stubborn. They’re going to do what they want with this game after all is said and done. I can really respect that attitude even if it does tick me off.

My break is caused by a few factors though, and I can’t attribute my pause entirely towards the introduction of ascended gear.

• I really dislike how imbalanced the classes are atm. (Some classes are fun to play while others are just a chore, or feel terribly ineffective)
• I absolutly abhor how they’ve taken out skill capping from Guild Wars 1. (In all honesty going out, and hunting dozens of skills in GW1 kept me playing that game for a very long time. That was my personal horizontal progression.)
• I’ve grown very tired of reading nerf nerf nerf! from patch notes instead of balancing skills, or just down right fixing them.
• The amount of work I put into this game doesn’t equal the reward I’m given.

Sure the ascended armor really left a sting, and especially a few comments on the Q/A. Yet, ultimately what’s driven me away from this game is the nagging feeling Arena Net aren’t managing Guild Wars 2’s priorities properly.

Just my opinion though.

• I really dislike how imbalanced the classes are atm. (Some classes are fun to play while others are just a chore, or feel terribly ineffective)

This is not entirely true, alot of players just don’t know how to play a certain profession correctly.
Might be a little bit more role diversity, but i can’t notice a bar difference between professions at it’s current state.

Definitly some PvP things, like a ranger being a little bit of a let down.
Atleast out of all the 7 classes don’t see to be afraid any ranger.

Alot of minor things that shouln’t make a difference by that count, maybe mist form when in downed state…

In PvE it doesn’t make a crack of a difference.

By far the fractals are fun, just with the disconnects every now and then you might end up being stuck on the lower brackets.
On level 15 it’s still doable without any agony resistance.
It’s totally artificial that people just want the best items like in an eye blink.
Which is being worked on, so you might aswell wait.
It’s just a bit sad to complain about it, just because you feel that it’s too grindy.
Some of the players might have it, but hey. You’ll get it aswell!
Just takes a little longer.

50G from farming 3 days straight.
MF gear with Food —- 161%

Best bet is, to farm the events in orr, or other possible locations.

Aside of that dungeons can lift quite a remarkable amount aswell if you get decent groups.

There’s plenty of other alternatives, just wouln’t know of them right now.

Another possibility is investing in Magic Find gear, and farming certain event areas. Great cash hob lift between 10-25 g a day. Should keep you going.
Totally depends what drops ofcourse but with current TP Prices, its a bless.
Was pretty skeptical about MF at first…
(MF) —- ( Magic Find)

Id rather want them to fix fractals. been dropped multiple times on the last boss fights without specific reason, totally ruins progression. =/

Just give me your Zeppelin Tixx. Pretty Please! =X

I don’t feel very comfortable about rangers in Spvp at the moment.

It feels like they’re allright, but everytime i play on my warrior, mesmer or thief i basically swoop rangers miles away.

Haven’t even fully tested the other professions as of yet.

I know they’re probably on par, but seeing alot of our pet damage and pet skills aren’t exactly working as i feel intended.
Atleast, not for Spvp i do feel a bit left out of the loop sometimes.

Well, atleast keep us posted about it. =)

I faceroll everytime i get 25 bleed stacks / fire / poison on PvE content.
Not to mention your pet does like damage aswell =X
I cant even remotely think of a class that can get to 25 stacks so very often as a ranger.

I thought it was ment to drop the prices? That is, if you guys still want that?

[02:37:31] Gw2.exe (3748) – 206.127.159.159:6112 error : Accept() failed with error 10054
[02:37:37] Gw2.exe (3748) – 206.127.159.159:6112 GetSockName : 10.0.0.6:50947

Can anyone clarify this for me?
It’s a major issue locks my gameplay up with a frozen world. But lets me move through it as i please.
Yet no reaction ever from the server.

- No Firewall
- No ports blocked
- No Virus scanner
- Business Line from ISP

Nevermind, not even going to bother with you. Let the numbers do the talking.

There will be changes.
It’s not even balanced having the ability to do so.
It’s hard to notice certain aspects when there’s certain factors that were in place before the patch hit.

But yeah, i’m full of it.

Im not lieing its the fact that might stacks so ridicilious much and it actually is noticeable on warriors.

I agree with the OP, getting oneshotted with one evade roll whilst you cant avoid his killshot.

having 3k armor and 21k hp and still dieing instantly without anything doesn’t seem legit.

Don’t get me wrong i had the same problem with thieves, but atleast they were killable.

A Buff to rangers woulnt change alot i find the pet element very buggy half of the time.
works fine for pve just dont expect it to work wonders for Spvp.
And yeah, if the Engineers Thieves and Bunker guradians get changed around a bit. I dont think rangers would even remotely need a buff

Interesting… Has something to do with Spvp? =p
havent seen these notes yet.
Shame about that!
(The class changes)

Same problem, but it only occurs on tournament games…
Really don’t understand why it only occurs on there…

Recently start playing some free tournaments to check out if i’d have any lag issues.

It appears that only on Tournament games i get lagspikes and just compeltely end up timed out.
Not even getting back on my log-in screen.

This doesn’t occur on normal SPvP servers or any PvE server.

I have no diea what the cause of this could be. But might be good to know what’s causing it.

Steve.5034:

First time I’ve felt the need to make a post on these forums but this really is a sad development for this game and is a huge mistake. Want evidence Arenanet?
Speak to LOTRO developers/players about the grind that was Radiance.

High end content inflicted Dread on you and the only way to counter it was Radiance on your gear. How did you get it? A long slow grind over months or forget ever seeing high end content.

LOTRO Dread = AGONY, LOTRO Radiance = INFUSIONS.

A huge grind to allow gated access to high end content which is exactly what this and was WITHDRAWN due to the huge exodus of people who were sick of not being able to do high end content without a huge amount of radiance that took months to grind.
Eventually, but for many players way too late, they recognised the joke this was and removed it.

Why on earth have you gone down any route like this when this game was supposed not pander to the 24/7 hardcore types and now does so in the worst possible way and a proven total FAILURE.

I fail to see your message.

Except that you capitalized Failure.

Sorry, but the who said anything about it being a game for 24/7 hardcore types?
For all you know it can be crafted the same way you can craft runes… with a new type of material we can gather…?
Hell, last time i checked i could craft a rune with jsut one lodestone not to mention the other materials you could use to craft one…

Foremostly, it’s definitly accessible to everyone. (Mystic Forge)

Secondly, what do we even know about the actual materials required to craft it? (Nothing?)

Thirdly, ‘’able to acquire Ascended Rings in the Fractals of the Mists dungeon, and Ascended items worn on the back can be acquired through special Mystic Forge recipes.’’ Where does it state you you get armor right now?

Last i checked you couln’t GET ring and backpacks from dungeons and not to mention being able to craft better backslots. =/

Better question would be, did you actually not play guild wars1?

I know right! I’m absolutely excited about the new content!
The lost shores information looks terrific!

And Christmas is on the way aswell!
Used to be epic in Guild wars 1, can’t even imagine what they have in store for us @ December.

I’m not positive but at some point it was counting it like that.
Couple ago it changed, i dont know why to be fair.

The way i see it, with knowing what happened in Guild wars 1.
Sure, 300 spartanian dwarves defending some bunkered asuran gateways would be possible.
But 2 million dwarves running around because they’re palyable, not so much. =d

Don’t worry about it, just read their statement.
They got a team on it now, so wouln’t worry as much about it.

Making gold account bound has it’s downsides aswell, but going in detail on that wouln’t be worthwhile.

Solely bots and account theft, with the exception of credit card fraud on false accounts would make the fluctuations possible, narrowing it down to a part that the gem system will work better next year. I wouldn’t see this becoming a tense issue anymore.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lets-talk-about-that-GW2-Article-on-Gamespy/page/1#post558147

CT Zeal.9812:

I’m also in NJ and without power and internet access due to the hurricane (I’m typing this from a computer at work right now), and would like to echo the concerns over the 24-hour timetable. I’ve absolutely loved the Shadow of the Mad King event and am disheartened at the prospect of missing the grand finale (yes, I know there are far worse things to worry about, but I take my joy where I can get it.) Does Anet have any plans to extend the ending to give those affected by the hurricane a break?

Official statement;
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Hurricane-Sandy-Interrupts-our-Halloween-Event-Merged/page/3#post581419

As far as the event goes. Did you manage to do the actual Mad Kings dungeon?
If so, im more then certain you can get the full achievement tab before nov 5th

I didn’t get any Halloween Endless tonics either.
But, in my case i got extremely lucky on the Endless Mystery Tonic.
Didn’t expect anything if all.
Sure as enjoyed the event though. ^^

Yeah in approx 2 and a half hour = 16.00 GMT
It’s 13.32 GMT atm

So for anyone that’s confused it’s just 2 hours and 26 minutes.
Edit:13:34 GMT

It was awesome to expierence halloween on GW2. Especially since they wouln’t celebrate it over here. =D

Voqar.2349:

According to a post by one of the developers, the Clock Tower and the Pumpkin Carving achievements are not counted

I love puzzles so I wanted to do that anyways…but why the hell am I wasting my life carving pumpkins if it’s not necessary. Holy kitten. I’m feeling like punching something now.

Haha, i did the same thing. guess i just wanted to complete the whole tab.

Some people are trying to max out Costume brawling.
Can’t see myslef doing that. =D

Well, frustration can lead to many things.
Just as much as in actual situations or any other Multiplayer Game.
Some people might actually curse towards A.I. or Game mechanics. (The things people scream through the call of duty comms) =D
But, that doesn’t change the fact that they’re solving their frustration on towards some/(one)(thing) else.

My opinion on it though;
Honestly, i think you should report people for being verbally abusive,
but sometimes you should let it slip through your fingers.

So point being, i don’t think it’s because flawed game mechanics.
You’d receive it wherever you go.

People would typically repeatedly do it and when 1 person goes, 4 more come back in his/her place.
Applying strict behavior to a person would only make it worse.

//
Changing the game mechanics would just make it to easy, but there’s far too much people that might actually enjoy the result when they hit the finish line.

// >- Which, i think arena net wants. //

At least that’s what i experienced when the achievement popped up.
Although, it might just be me.
//

I find myself eyeballing chat a lot whilst doing the puzzle, but when i just minimize it and focus on the actual routine you have to follow to get it correctly, with as much speed as i can process between the puzzle jumps.
//
There was a guy with a video around, where he opened his inventory blocked the entire character area and jumped it with a huge inventory blocking his view.
//

Two things that worked for me though, were;
- Disabling the (shaking) (seriously, i forgot what they called it.) of the camera
- Lowering the graphical detail
- Changing to Free Camera mode.
- Minimizing Chat

Honestly i wouldn’t know if it would help you, since you can’t finish the puzzle.
But thought it would’ve been worth mentioning.

Plutonian Lynx.8274:

We had a dance party at the top to motivate others to make it in. Worked well, as you can see. Hah.

Haha, that’s epic. I just had some random naked guy spam cheer all the time. xD

I kept bumping against the stone near the start couln’t see it with the huge flock of people trampling me. xD

But eventually, i got it done! =D

MikeRocks.9243:

Aura.1645:

<3 The market noobs that cry when their investment is now useless.

Well, apparently, crying is the only way to get things done around here, ’cause ANET caves into everyone else and punishes people who play intelligently.

You’re right, just like the major q.q calling clock tower puzzle dumb when they can’t finish it. //sarcasm