Guild Wars 2

So I just got to sapphire by solo-queueing, and I have a total of 35 PvP League Tickets, if I spent the next month getting to Ruby I would have a total of 55 tickets earned this league season. It takes a total of 270 tickets to get a lavish llama, and assuming I only get to ruby every league season I would only get 55 tickets every 2 months, meaning it would take a year for me to get a lavish llama.

Is there any way to get tickets other than moving up a league level? Seems like requiring a year for casual players (assuming getting to Ruby is casual) to get the lavish llama is a bit much.

So, is there any way to earn PvP League Tickets other than going up a league? I’m at sapphire and only have 35. Since you need a total of 270 tickets to get the Lavish Llama, assuming I get to Ruby every league, it would take a total of 6 league seasons (or about a year) just to get the lavish llama.

Is this the only option for those of us who have no intention to grind out past Ruby?

ProtoGunner.4953:

Er what? Do events, play the game. I don’t even get why people would do a mindless kitten like spider farming when they just can do the meta events; more variety, less monotone.

Cause it’s slower.

Where are people doing it now for HoT masteries since Anet (pointlessly) nerfed the spiders?

Anet, could you make it to where we can dye back pieces? If not all of them, just specific ones like the new fractal and PvP legendary back pieces, gem store back pieces, etc. I love working towards these new legendaries, but not being able to dye them to a color that matches my armor and weapons really ruins them for me.

PS: if we could dye the wizards hat that would be great too!

Meh, TTS runs this several times a week, AND downs it almost every time, AND lets people into their guild, AND posts the ACTUAL times of the raids on their website, not on some vague forum post.

This post seems like more of a LUCK brag post than anything else, as in “hey ppl you’d all be LUCKy to be able to run with us!” If you want to down Gerent go join TTS from their website people, just google them.

What’s the best software to use to set up keybindings for an xbox one controller?

Jayjaydee.3827:

I’m going to piggy back on this… to attune a ring, you need an agonized essence, sold by “dessa’s krew” according to the wiki. I’ve unlocked all my fractal masteries, but nobody is selling this agonized essence. what gives? I’ve only been doing the low and mid level fractals. Does that have something to do with it?

Talk to the golem under the ledge Dessa is on, he’ll teleport you to a merchant.

Quick questions about infusions and attunements

1. what pieces of ascended gear can be attuned?
2. what pieces of ascended gear can be infused?

Thanks haven’t had a straight answer about this from anyone.

I’d like them to be MUCH more faint, black and red instead of rainbow colored, or a combination of both. Preferably both.

Oh and no more humming sound to go along with it.

How many ways are there to get hero points? What’s the fastest way? The only way I know of right now is map completion.

I wanted to run druid but have been hearing a lot of QQ about them, found this offensive druid build which I’ve been running with great success. Basically replaced the long bow with the staff since surprisingly their auto-attack does similar damage. The extra heals, the escape, the root, it all comes together very nicely in this marauder build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJARWjEqQJL2wCusAVLWWEM4paW9ruc5CADumyVHYEUwqG-TphFABA8AA8Z/BwLD47hAYhjAgBXAAA

Baldrick.8967:

OS was an awful place full of gankers and other pond life who got their jollies preventing others from finishing a JP.

I’m glad it got removed from the maps and also glad the rewards were nerfed hard.

They should remove it entirely and tack it on to one of the new maps as a pve area/JP.

It’s not the fault of the players who loved OS that you couldn’t perform at a level that allowed you to be successful there. If you don’t like it then stay out, but there was a huge amount of players that loved it.

Dawdler.8521:

No Walking.6349:

GvG will be done in guild halls from here on out, yet another reason to add OS to EotM.

Afaik, we still dont know if that function is fit for purpose? Personally I dont care – it was a long time since I lag did GvG – but I am not so sure we should toss it out just yet.

That’s what it’s there for. The guild halls have arenas that you can invite other guilds to in order to fight against one another.

Dawdler.8521:

OS is still used for the Arena every now and then though. With it being megaserver, that is gone.

But then again we are no longer really crowded on normal maps, even in high tier.

GvG will be done in guild halls from here on out, yet another reason to add OS to EotM.

For many people, including myself, OS wasn’t just a side distraction, wasn’t just a fun thing to do once or twice to get an achievement, it was a major gameplay style of GW2 that we spend literally hundreds of hours in, engaging in PvP as shown in this video: https://youtu.be/6IFhSPWMlMU

Sadly this isn’t possible now that the rewards and accessibility of OS has been nerfed to extremely. OS is dead, and a huge form of gameplay has been needlessly eliminated. There’s a way it can be fixed though, add OS to EotM. This will do several things while will bring life back to OS and bring back our loved PvP area.

1. OS and EotM will share the same map chat, as EBG and OS used to. This will let people call out when they are porting through the JP, or when they need help to clear it, or to fight in it
2. It will allow all the players in the game to fight there, instead of just the players from 3 servers, drastically increasing the population
3. It will bring back rewards for player kills with diminishing returns, like EotM has, making abuse impossible

Many players who played a majority of their time in OS would really appreciate an Anet response on this issue. We really feel like this is an amazing way to bring back a great PvP map.

Everyone saying the reason for OS was the loot have probably spent very VERY little time there. The reason for OS was to have a challenge trying to get to the top while being able to fight other players in environment influenced PvP.

They NEED to make it cross-server like EotM
They NEED to make the reward worth the climb again

Some of the best PvP moments in GW2 happened in OS. It used to ALWAYS be packed and full of life, and now Anet has nerfed it into an outright useless area…

1. make the reward better, think world boss level
2. make it game-wide like EotM
3. Make the reward a character daily, not an account daily
4. Bring back bags for kills, but only on the first kill of a person per day

Don’t abandon OS Anet, it would take very little work to make this place great again!

Been purposefully avoiding the betas so that I have lots to do and explore at launch, very happy to hear that raids are good though.

SrebX.6498:

Why would you pick earth line over Aracana?

Because of Stone Heart, and the massive survivability that it gives you, especially when wielding Ice Bow or FGS. It’s really the only way you can survive when you’re being focused.

I wanted to share a build that isn’t part of the meta, but which I’ve been finding extremely fun to play because I prefer zerker builds, and find D/D extremely boring.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWhMMozhVOw6B8RMQAYRBIAMAmdwLoIKTyOQJA-TJBFABCcBAEvMgO7PAwDAAA

• try to always fight with another person or group while standing off point and spam AoE for massive damage
• if you are taking damage or get into a 1v1 go into earth attunement and use fiery greatsword. In earth the enemy won’t be able to crit you, giving you great survivability, and with the FGS you’ll still do amazing zerker level damage
• spam fire staff 2, fire staff 5, and ice-bow 4 on downed targets to bring all the pain

Like I said, it’s definitely not meta, but I’ve been having a blast and wining fights. If you prefer zerker builds and hate D/D like me, then this may work out for you!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

About point 2, no more loot bags after being killed X number of times.

What about farming loot bags and those with multiple level 80s? I currently have 9 level 80s and with the Revenant I’ll have 10. There are people with more than that. What’s to stop someone from hitting the limit and switching to another level 80, rinse and repeat till they’ve cycled all their 80s through.

if you add in my non level 80s on my main account and all the chars on my 3 alt accounts, I could cycle them through also and take turns with someone else to farm loot bags by “you kill me then I kill you.” There is one guy that posts on this forum that has 30 accounts. If he even has just level 5 level 2s per account he could do a lot of loot bag farming per day.

That’s a hell of a lot of work to farm kills… I think that concern is a bit unrealistic.

Even so there’s a simple fix, make the diminishing returns apply to your account name, not the character name, easy fix. Even if that’s not possible, make each person you kill drop only 1 loot bag per day, even if you have 30 toons that wouldn’t be worth the time.

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

Constant nerfs to Obsidian Sanctum?
Genuinely curious… what have they nerfed there?

They removed it from WvW map chat
They nerfed loot bags
They nerfed the reward

This caused it to go from a bustling area where many regulars played, to a wasteland.

I make this post every so often to keep the issue in the light. Obsidian Sanctum was my, and many others, favorite place in the game to PvP for a long time. I spent countless hours there holding blockades while people called out their guilds to try and push through, doing the same while trying to push past other people’s blockades, helping new people through the puzzle, porting people to the end for tips, participating in massive melees right at the spawn, etc. It was a truly unique and amazing form of PvP, which is now sadly gone because of the constant nerfs to OS. Here are my suggestions to bring life back to this forgotten gem, in order of importance.

1. Make OS cross-server, like EotM
2. Bring back loot bags for killing players, but with diminishing returns (no loot after you’ve killed a player X times), and make these kills not add to your WvW kill count.
3. Make the reward at the end better, world boss or Teq level at least, make it something fun to be done daily.

Feel free to add your own suggestions, and lets hope for a Anet response on this issue

On fire cause of a sale and feature announcements? Want to know what would make GW2 really “on fire?”

1. make dungeon, champ farming, world bosses, WvW roaming, and SPvP rewards the same as Silverwastes so people can actually choose what they want to do endgame.
2. bring good rewards back to Obsidian Sanctum, and make it cross server like EotM
3. Bring back Raid on the Capricorn and balance underwater combat for PvP, instead of this weird PvP/PvE mashup with the new SPvP map…

I usually roam around Obsidian Sanctum looking for a fight or some fun, and today when I zoned in I saw a sub-80 Mesmer there hopping around messing with the crystal. I asked him if he needed a hand through the puzzle, he said yes, so I hopped on my Mesmer to port him and off we went.

We got through the whole puzzle, both of us fell once or twice, I ported him back up when I could, and we made it all the way through to the chest. Chatted a bit, talked about how he was new and loving the game, then went our separate ways.

About 10 minutes later I get an in-game mail saying “thanks for helping me through the jumping puzzle,” and attached to that mail was 5 black-lion keys!!!

This is by far the best thank you I’ve ever gotten for helping someone out. When I took the keys it deleted the email (which is a shame because I didn’t have a chance to write back or get his name), so I wanted to say thanks here. Thank you! And I hope you keep having fun in Guild Wars 2

Could we get an option to hide minis when we enter combat? Minis are great but I don’t use them at all because they remain visible and follow you closely when in stealth, allowing enemies to track your movements.

An option to hide them in combat in the options or in the mini screen would be greatly appreciated.

Honestly the only suggestion I care about is #1. The rest are secondary ideas, but the BIG one that matters for bringing life back to it is making it cross-server.

I have over 1000 of these in my wallet right now, no idea from what.

You’ll be fine.

I pre-ordered HoT last Friday and still haven’t gotten my free character slot, despite having played since launch. Is there something I need to do in order to claim it?

I make this post every so often just to keep the issue out there. I loved the PvP in the OS, as did many others, and I am very sad to see it as dead as it has been now for a very long time. Here are my suggestions to breathe some life back into it.

1. Make it cross-server like Edge of the Mists
2. Move the OS button on the WvW screen to the right side of the menu, under EotM
3. Make the reward comparable to a world boss reward
4. Bring back loot bags for kills in OS

Thanks all for listening, and feel free to add in your own thoughts so we can keep this issue in the light.

Ran into this build in WvW, he couldn’t kill me but he kept doing the same thing.

1) he was perma stealthed, this went on for about 20 minutes, he was never out of stealth unless he wanted to be.

2) He could load you up with condis really quick, one with a big circular AoE, and another with a trip wire looking trap that rooted you.

3) He would just stay perma-stealthed and repeat this AoE/tripwire combo. Never came out of stealth once.

Is this an exploit? A hacker? Or is it just an OP build? As far as I knew thieves didn’t have literal perma stealth. Wasn’t a problem because I had condi removal and he was going full force coward cheese mode, but still… kind of ridiculous.

“Mantras: Fixed a bug that caused mantras to begin recharging as soon as the preparation skill was complete instead of when the last charge was expended.”

First of all, ‘bug fix?’ Yeah right. This is the biggest slap in the face to Mesmers that I’ve seen happen in a long time. Mantras were finally useful, they were finally being used in PvP and PvE, and now they’re back to being useless.

ades.1386:

oh yay the whole “Why no WvW tourny again??” See every post about having another tourny the general consensus is people hated it. It destroyed server population balance, burnt out wvw commanders, mass exodus of guilds being bought by T1, low tiers couldnt compete at all meaning there was no incentive to try because the reward system was horrible.

Its been 2 years and WvW is still a mess, if you want any proof look at the ppt/glicko scores for T2 -T3 going on for the past 7 months. People are crying for balance changes but Anet refuses to aknowledge or dare step foot in a wvw thread.

Then they should make a new way to get the tournament ticket weapon skins.

Zalladi.4652:

See this thread for a discussion already on the topic.

From that, Inculpatas cedo has a perfect explanation for the reason:

“I think I’d rather the Devs not take time out to develop something that would likely only entertain players the same amount of time it would push back the release of Heart of Thorns, leaving us exactly where we started.”

That’s a pretty BS answer… activating another tournament or reactivating the SAB takes the push of a button, they’re not being asked to make new content. Wouldn’t take up any dev resources at all.

It’s been months since we’ve gotten a content update, when we were all used to getting one bi-weekly for over 2 years. Why haven’t we gotten a WvW tournament or a SAB return during this down time? It would literally be the perfect time to bring either of these back and give us a chance to get some weapon skins in this down time before the expansion.

For instance, I should have 3 of the jade weapons, and almost all of the original super blue weapons in my wardrobe, but I lost them all because the wardrobe wasn’t out at the time, and I swapped those skins for others using the old fine xmute stones. Some of those skins I lost are now going for thousands of gold, and the chances I get to get another shot at them are slim.

Anyone else frustrated at this? Any Anet employee want to give some info on if this will ever be rectified, or if these skins will be easily attainable again?

Having a hard time in GW2 PvP?

http://i.imgur.com/3khiHwP.gif

Been seeing some amazing Mesmers in PvP, and was wanting to know a good shatter rotation. I seem to lose my clones too quickly to do much shattering in SPvP, yet I see mesmers come in and absolutely dominate using the meta shatter build.

Any rotations or tips would be greatly appreciated. Everyone has that one class that they have a hard time mastering, Mesmer is that class for me.

Haven’t seen a thread yet where actual builds for SPvP are being posted, so post them here. Please include

1. the build
2. what it’s used for
3. how efficient you’ve found it so far

I have the champion title for 5 of the 8 classes, and am getting close to getting my 6th. As someone who has been working towards champ titles for a while, I’d love to see a title for getting the champ title for every class in the game, something like Ultimate Champion, or similar. It would be a great goal for PvP players to work towards.

The artificing “fix” is useless…

By the time I bank all my luck, swap toons, and craft it all into the bigger essences I may as well of just clicked through them all.

Right click > consume all… That’ll fix it.

Relevant

http://i.imgur.com/3khiHwP.gif

Many people are saying that outfits are nice because it provides lots of new armor, but the inability to mix and match an outfit with normal armor is a big negative, one that I agree with. Instead of having the outfit screen as it is on the left, it should be made to be like on the right, where each individual piece of the outfit can be checked or unchecked, allowing only certain pieces of it to be shown.

The Obsidian Sanctum (OS) is an amazing and unique PvP map for the players who enjoy that style of PvP. In the past it has been the locations of some of my most memorable PvP moments not just in GW2, but in any game! Sadly, with the nerfing of the loot in OS to once a day per account, and the further nerfing of it by moving it to its own WvW map, OS has become a truly desolate place, which is a shame because of the fun that used to be had there.
Anet killed it, and this is a request for them to do something to bring it back! Move OS to a Heart of the Mists (HOTM) style server, where everyone across ALL the servers in the game are thrown into it depending on their WvW team. This will bring some life back into an amazing PvP area that so many of us have spent countless hours in.

Turret engis were getting too ridiculous, trollish, and OP… I’m perfectly happy seeing all the engi tears flowing.

Are you really complaining that you have to learn new things? Seriously?

http://i.imgur.com/3khiHwP.gif

SAB3 Confirmed!

I want this too, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be added, as it doesn’t hurt anyone at all. Sadly I doubt it will come with the xpansion, maybe one day though.