Guild Wars 2

Taku.6352:

Time to hop on the hype train.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2s9jp8/ncsoft_registers_trademarks_for_guild_wars_2/

“We decided to relaunch the basegame as physical copy and add the episodes of the living story to it so that new players can experience it easily. We also decided on giving it the title ‘Heart of Thorns’. You’re welcome.”

My head just exploded. Thank you.

Dalanor.5387:

Another neat one. Sorry for the double.

…wot.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Annnd… I broke it. GG me. Go back to reddit, you noob.

Lilith, your site was just down! You should at least revert it to free!

Also, you guys can’t tell me this thread had no post for three months. This is sad.

People solo dungeons all the time without many troubles.

Just git gud please.

FerrenoNL.7928:

Novaan, I still have you on there, but you seem to be AFK now and then. I’ll keep shooting you invites.

As of now, that’s pretty much true. I’m basically idling the whole time, sometimes looking at chat while I’m playing other games or doing other things. Nothing that can keep me in GW2 when other games do it better.

Also sorry that I rarely/never reply, I never think about setting my status to away. lol

This whole topic feels awfully deja-vu to me. cough

Uh, if you didn’t delete me I still got you in my list and I may actually run a few dungeons over the holidays. In case I do, I’ll just drop you a whisper.

As for new games, Lost Ark looks pretty friggin neat.

Fennec.2961:

Saw Goku´s Belka kill and decided to beat it, nothing serious just for fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7wpvLfrwQo

Eh, so it’s all about focusing the heavy-hitting AoEs into a single spot now? …wow, game’s surely getting more and more fun all the time.

Anyway, the kill is still nice I guess, also bonus points for music choice, MGR:R is great.

Goose.5196:

Do you guys have any other ideas on how to make an incentive for Anet?

The gems you use for trading them in must be bought with real money and not via gold to gems.

gg.

“I want new dungeons can content but not doing the meta, I.E. exploiting AI in a corner (stacking) and spamming 1 in all zerker gear.”

Oh jesus kittening christ, things really haven’t changed in the slightest.

dlonie.6547:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-new-daily-achievement-system/

Starting 12/16, you literally get a reward just for logging in.

In all honesty though, lots of games do that. It’s simply to reward activity. This however means for me that I can now stand idle at the LA-bank every day and get rewards for it, yaaay.

dlonie.6547:

They probably just used to old list to create the subforum. Hard to understand why they’d not respond to your post — it’d literally take 2 minutes of the FCT’s time to update a sticky.

It’s ANet.

Purple Miku.7032:

Dub.1273:

Guild Wars (not 2).

Oh right, miku! Join us for an amazing potential age 12 underworld, we still need a core t5. We have (well, had) cookies but still have muffins, pepsi and dub(step) left.

I have thought about it but it would likely be difficult to appreciate GW1 the way that you guys do because I never have played it before. All of the times you upload those random shorts of GW1 I watched them, but the combat doesn’t really look like much of an upgrade ._.

I don’t think I can/would understand it, the same way most others didn’t understand what it was about 07scape that had such a strong appeal to me when those servers launched. Dat nostalgia.

The combat is by no means an upgrade/downgrade. It’s vastly different, GW1 is much slower and tactic based imo.

spoj.9672:

That may be true but you should keep in mind that many of us who have already left or play very inactively dont actually have any alternative games to play. So if anet sort their kitten out a lot of us will come back.

And thats why we still linger on the forums. x)

Y’all should start pso2. jk

I too am waiting for ANet to go into a better direction. Not because I have nothing else to play, but because I simply enjoy the world of GW2 in general, the gameplay and of course, all the awesome people I met there.
But I don’t really want to support ANet with their current way of doing things.

Ropechef.6192:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Ropechef.6192:

Stompy.1387:

And we all still hate necros =)

o.o

((sniffle))

I know its true… but… but….

(holds out faith)

We will forever be frowned upon, being kitten-tier in PvE and okay-tier terms of everything else.

I ran my Sinister Necro with some friends the other day through AC. Just for giggles. I will be honest I had alot of fun playing.

and I was the biggest leech…

casual or not. I dont think I could describe how terrible I felt standing in their fire fields for might stacks…. just.. standing there… Or leaving the shiney Ice bow on the ground because I knew me picking it up was pointless. Or the dispair I had when I finished my “rotation” and got 20 bleed stacks on the Spider queen as it dies……

It was casual. It was fun. but man do I feel like a leech……

Profound Sadness.

Yes, it’s horrible how the Necro lacks any kind of decent support in PvE and damaging conditions are just utterly useless. I had to stop using my Necro for fractals at some point because I helped my team so much less and on top of that, I actually had a harder time because of the lack of bonus-evades, vigor etc. (Since I pugged mainly, it usually doesn’t go all that smooth)

Ropechef.6192:

Stompy.1387:

And we all still hate necros =)

o.o

((sniffle))

I know its true… but… but….

(holds out faith)

We will forever be frowned upon, being kitten-tier in PvE and okay-tier terms of everything else.

spoj.9672:

I think at this point we need a demonstration to show that it isnt berserker that is the problem. Its player skill and coordination.

My suggestion is for someone to do a speedrun using all nomads gear but doing it as fast as possible. I expect the path to only take a few extra mins to complete.

I think at this point people would still be BHBs, just because they always are and would never want to accept that they are just horrible players even with the puffer their defensive gear gives them.

Nilkemia.8507:

As a result, the boss is nigh unkillable alone.

So how did I nuke it then on the first try without even caring for the healing pods?

Obvious cause of l2p. Heck, even if he heals so that he’s back over 25/50/75%, you can just keep nuking him because the invulnerability one triggers once. You could basically burn him down from 100% to 0% in one go if you once had him below 25%.

The only thing I agree with is that it is stupid that you have to get caught by the vines to get the buff.

Didn’t play the new parts of the story yet, so I’m not gonna comment on that.

garcialak.9215:

Thank you to the [SC]guard that opened arah so i could practice lupi on engi, after 2-3 hours and with tips from a guidie (and SR’s and reses so i could reset faster) I finally got my first solo.
http://i.imgur.com/utiALpr.jpg

If someone from SC sees this thank that guard for me (sorry i forgot the name).

Congrats, the first Lupi solo is always special.

spoj.9672:

Im still a little confused that they put resources into making mail carriers. I dont remember anyone suggesting such a thing on the forums. The popularity of that must be pretty low compared to their other gem store ventures so why did they waste resources on it?

Most people didn’t even know mail carriers existed before they added the gemstore item.

Wait, you guys seriously had a “Forum Aggressor” guild?

Hennessey.2985:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

I’m surprised they didn’t fix that yet.

It’s too far down in the code, they don’t scroll down that much.

10/10

I’m surprised they didn’t fix that yet.

Dalanor.5387:

J Eberle.9312:

“I’m not traited to use reflect! I cant use with or without trait anyway. What do you think I am, some kind of exploiter guardian? I am traited for heals to keep the zerkers up. srsly get with the times.”

Please be sarcastic and not quote an actual person … ( ._.)

The worst thing is that this could be very well true.

So I guess nothing at all changed?

Cheezy.2039:

RIP

Let’s go to the sylvari subforum, no sane person I know plays a sylvari

Was about to say something, but then I remembered that I’m not sane.

spoj.9672:

Sarcasm is the highest form of humour.

Indeed it is.

So. This is still a thing.
Dungeoneers still stand united and are sarcastic as hell.

Wonderful.

winterchillz.2564:

Yes, close ALL the suggestions and feedback threads!

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

:D

Nah, they actually talked about that with us when the kittenstorm went on and we created that deadline. While I don’t like it we can’t blame them.

Hm… Didn’t the ANet staff/Regina want to close all suggestion-threads yesterday?

Crystal Reid.2481:

This is actually a separate bug from the one that was fixed in the feature pack. Investigating this issue, but I can’t offer an ETA on a fix.

Thanks for the response & informing us.

During my fractal run today, Mai Trin got stuck in place after one of the cannon phases. She refused to come down (while Horrik obviously did), the only way to get her get to us was killing Horrik, thus letting her teleport down.
Afterwards, she still did not move for the whole phase and did all her attacks while standing still (she was still able to port using teleporting shot, but even that didn’t unbug her). Once she ported back up and down again however, everything was back to normal.

Please investigate this bug as this is a potential gamebreaker in case Horrik does not come down either.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

That is annoying.

My hope is that, instead of “fixing” this, they add a way to manually replace the hammer. I suspect it’s impossible to identify every scenario in which the hammer could get lost, disappear, or otherwise be unavailable to the party — any one of which will prevent completion of the level. The only guaranteed solution is to give the party a way to get it back, even if they have to run all the way to the bottom and back up.

Yes, I would love that too. Losing progress is extremely frustrating.

Yep both Aetherblade-Parts are connected, in fact the door behind you is open and you can go all the way back to Frizz’s lab. The same applies to Molten Facility and its boss fractal.

Sadly, there are not many good fractals to goat in. Uncategorized may work somewhat, but meh.

I’m probably going to get hanged but… I never liked the gameplay of DA or ME.

Wait you can get rewards inside fractals?

My sides have been 360° noscoped, ty.

The hammer in cliffside despawns when the person who is carrying the hammer gets disconnected and does not respawn. If the group wipes, the hammer respawns for a second and the vanishes, leaving groups unable to complete this fractal.

Please fix this, it is utterly annoying.

NeoVaris.4806:

To be honest considering the rewards you get in Fractals, it reflects the achievement pretty well.

By the way it is indeed under Flame and Frost for some weird reason and purple instead of green. Pretty sure if someone would actually be bothered to put so much effort to Photoshop it, they would realise what the correct colour is. Unless it’s real of course.

Also you need all of them to be able to right-click an unused Fractal skin and view the collection. Jerem tested it but didn’t get the option since he’s only missing the Axe. xD

In That_Shaman’s datamining I read something about “gain a certain amount of EXP in a map without dying or changing the map” for the fractal collection… But then again, I wouldn’t be surprised by such a stupid thing.

oxtred.7658:

Dalanor.5387:

Staff on the guardian is pretty viable, but very hard to play.

This makes the staff one of the hardest weapons to handle.

Although in my eyes, the scepter focus is slightly inferior, you might want to consider sticking to that most of the times and using staff in good training situations.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2g7rhf/so_i_play_a_guardian_and_i_started_using_a_staff/ckggapb

That guy is the main reason for the new players experience system. :/

This guy is.

DonQuack.9025:

do they know they fixed it?

Oh god this made me laugh harder than it should.

Arah p2 is fixed. Don’t know why they didn’t add it to the patch notes.

Jiyn.3158:

While it sucks that this is happening, I don’t blame you one bit. Lately, it’s just been one kick in the face after another for the dungeon community. You were always the “white knight” in the group…and I do mean that in a positive way so don’t hurt me. For you and Dan to both be leaving the forum and you leaving the game, it shows just how negative of an impact things have occurred.

Hopefully things will get better. I honestly don’t see many people staying the way things are going now.

Can’t do anything else than to +1 that.

I however have no hope left. All is vain.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

@Novaan Verdiano:
I found a recent developer post on this topic in another thread.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-owner-sometimes-required/page/2#post4398351

Not sure if you’ve seen it yet, but I am guessing it is about the same issue, and it already has a thread dedicated to it (in the Dungeon subforum).

This is the post I originally linked in the OP (which is now a few posts below because I messed up), but the link is gone (also because I messed up). However, at the time I posted, that response wasn’t up.

kitten, I misclicked. Gonna put up the OP in a sec again… Gonna edit this post then.

I have the need to bring this up. If it gets me banned, so be it.

This thread was opened yesterday and got responses from Chris Cleary. We were told that action will be taken against griefers who blackmail you into paying to keep your instance or straightout steal it (seen in quotes in the linked post). Now Chris clearly states that they won’t do anything about griefing, as long as it is not “habitual” – Basically allowing everyone to grief “every now and then”, because the Customer Support doesn’t want to expose itself to “my word against his word” discussions. This on its own is already outrageous, we’re basically not safe against all kinds of griefers.

In about the same time frame, another thread was posted. In this thread, someone complained about getting his instance stolen by a full group, everything laid out with evidence and whatnot. It even went so far that one of the griefers posted inside that thread and admitted on his own that he’s done it. This thread has now been deleted without anyone being informed and – apparently – without any actions taken. //The griefers have been sanctioned, however the main reason seemed to be GM impersonating.

ArenaNet, WHAT THE kitten are you trying to accomplish with this? Getting rid of everyone?! This is a serious issue which robs players of time and is frustrating beyond normal levels! And even if you deleted that thread because names were visible, you could’ve deleted all screenshots and let the thread alive. ONE OF THE GRIEFERS ADMITTED HE’S DONE IT, why are you not punishing him and show us that you’re actually doing something against such behaviour? Instead you’re reinforcing the fact that griefers can do what they want – as long as it’s in moderation?

Out of all ridiculous things you pulled, this has to be the saddest move I’ve ever seen. Good job at “communicating with us”.

dlonie.6547:

Silvia.9130:

Sesshi.2610:

Thaumanova reactor – the golems in the turret room seems to have their dmg increased, and when you kill the endboss you don’t get teleported to a chest anymore (may be a bug , tho I did it twice today and it happened both times)

Ah…as soon as one gets to think “phew, finally might have a relaxed FotM run without risking to get Cliff as third with some idiot -every single time- pulling that kitten ed hammer to oblivion, yay!” there we go…

Haha, I completely agree — I’ve been avoiding fractals because of the hammer bug >.<

But at least, AIUI, the new issue isn’t progress blocking — you just miss out on sweet boss loot two blues and a green.

If it is progress blocking, let me know so I can avoid fractals for another month.

No it isn’t, you just don’t get ported to the chest at the end. You’ll still get the prompt to move on to the next fractal and everything else is fine.
Funny thing is that you can even see the chest on the map along with the room it is in.

YouThisReadWrong.8429:

hey, so you just right click and choose this option then you should get to the fractal weapon collection achievment.

I tried, I can’t do that. It doesn’t show the option.

illo.5106:

winterchillz.2564:

So, as you’ve probably noticed ANet, a very big part of the community is unhappy about some of the changes introduced by the feature pack, including:

Ah, another self-elected community manager… Well, I’m quite happy about the recent changes – not about everything, but all in all they did a pretty good job. Didn’t notice so far anyone in my guild or in mapchat complaining heavily…

winterchillz.2564:

• Stealth changes to HotW story mode, CoE story mode, Arah Path 2, toggling the paths to be impossible to complete

Errr, no. Nothing new and what they changed doesn’t bother experienced dungeon runners at all. There are other ways to fix/avoid it btw (no nomad-bla required).

winterchillz.2564:

There’s no way, a person could miss the newly introduced Arah pt2 bug.

As a passionate GW player and QA member… how could you miss the forum posts about this old bug?

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

Please turn the mapchat on then or look around the forums. They did not do a good job, they made a lot of things worse (while adding some genuinely good things). < This is up to opinions.
The fact that they broke DOZENS of things isn’t arguable and should NOT happen and is NOT up to opinions. I’m fine with minor bugs or bugs relating to the new content, but please QA kitten .

Arah p2, HotW and CoE Story are BUGGED OUT, you CAN’T complete them no matter what. This has been acknowledged by the devs, if you say otherwise, you’re sprouting bullkitten. Arah p2 had a chance to bug out before this patch, but you were able to not let it bug. As it is now, it bugs every time, no matter what you do.

YouThisReadWrong.8429:

right click on a fractal skin and choose ‘’item collection achievment’’
its the only way i get to that category ..

I can’t do that.

ANet obviously caters to everything casual, even casual griefers.