Guild Wars 2

R.I.P Evasive Arcana
However, we still have Arcane Wave and Eruption to use as a blast finisher. It’s just not as fun.

I’m more worried about the fact that Jon told us that Sword and Longbow are fine.

Are we….playing the same game? o___0

Awful.

As a Ranger who had high hopes for this patch, I atleast thought they’d do something good for Spirits and Signets. NOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPE. Have an underwater buff!

I enjoyed reading your post. I share your opinion as well. It’s hard to read all of the “jump-the-gun-ragers” who don’t know all the facts yet and their “doom-and-gloom-im-going-to-quit” comments. If only more people thought about it more logically than automatically assuming for the worse and that Anet wants to destroy their game. Then again, I think a lot of this could have been avoided if Anet would tell us their intentions.

Anyone know if there will be a special skin / token set (exotic quality most likely) associated with this dungeon besides the Ascended gear? It’d be nice if it wasn’t just rings/backpack to work towards for another month before they add in more skins

Dear Anet,

Will Character Re-customization be in the November patch? If not, any idea when we can expect it?

PS: I only ask because I heard rumors that it was up for a very short time in the Gem Store awhile back.

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I’m not going to take in a full Rare character over a full Exotic character when it comes to the new Dungeon progression. You’re only holding down the team because you think you can take shortcuts.

I guess some people think the dungeon will be a cake walk and you’ll all clear it no problem in Rare gear when you’re on the more difficult levels of the dungeon. Let’s be serious. Most people can’t even clear Arah. Get your d*mn exotic gear imo.

PS:
Running in Rare gear means you have Major sigils/runes. Take into consideration the Exotic stat difference in addition to the Superior Sigils/runes you’re missing out on.

lol I’ve decided that there will be a bullet for each individual Signet and Spirit. The rest will be typo corrections.

-.-" I’m excited but at the same time I’m setting myself up for a let down. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong. —crossesfingers--

Ahh! This looks exciting.

The only part I’m iffy about is the underwater cutscene. Good God, please don’t have an underwater fractal.

The Ascended armor is a rewards for completing very difficult paths of the new dungeon.

It will NOT be required to do the previous dungeons, it’s only a stat boost because THE DUNGEON GETS HARDER. Thus, you get better gear rewards. Why? Because how are you expected to complete such harder content with gear that wasn’t balanced for the content that they’re creating now? I doubt their intent was to ever make the PVE this difficult, but they wanted to appeal to the hardcore PVErs and since so many complained it wasn’t hard enough. Which it wasn’t.

Yes, they could technically give you artificial “buffs” the farther you progress in the new dungeon. But how many would complain “lack luster rewards for beating the hardest dungeon?”

I mean, don’t even worry about it. I doubt 70% of the people posting in this thread will even see the end of the hardest route. Then the complaints will be “it’s too hard, we can’t get max gear!”

I’m thrilled about the new dungeon, about the slight vertical progression of gear. We’re not talking about 100+ stat upgrades, we’re probably going to be looking at minor stat upgrades (ie: Rare stats to Exotic). I doubt they’ll let it become as bloated as World of Warcraft. Everyone seems to be overly dramatic about what the future holds. The game is still a baby, a year from now people won’t even think twice about this change.

Anyways, as a PVE player, I’m bored with GW2’s PVE progression system. I have 4 80s, all with exotic gear and I’m not quite sure what to do with myself when I log in (WvWvW bores me, SPVP feels imbalanced). I have full Arah gear and none of the dungeons are challenging and the rewards from chests are terrible.

I’m happy they’re doing this. I’m not a casual player and I feel like up until now, the PVE has been geared towards casuals with no real longevity.

My doom and gloom isn’t from the SB nerf because I personally never used SB in PVE / dungeons. I hate Shortbow, honestly. I actually went Longbow with Axe/Warhorn offhand.

My personal Ranger DUNGEON complaints :
- Lack of viable weapon options and there’s a lack of synergy between weapon swapping.
- Spirits are worthless / die instantly / short buff range.
- Pets are unresponsive, they can’t attack while the NPC is moving, their F2 is unresponsive / long animation, they die almost instantly in most battles (unless you have a “tanky” pet). There’s also no way to stow pets. so in WVWVW, your pet will probably just stand next to you and die from random AOES on top of a keep.
- Our self damage is “nerfed” because it takes into consideration the damage from our Pets. The problem is, our pet AI is terrible in addition to their lack of survivability, even with constant recalls/returns/passive/controlling who they do/don’t attack.
- Physical Projectiles get obstructed for no reason, thus lowering our overall DPS (ie: Rapid Fire ticks 10 times, however only 8/10 of those ticks will hit. So instead of hitting for 10k, you’ll only hit for 8k).
- Very few viable builds. A lot of our traits and utilities circle around pets, which is why there are very few good Ranger builds.

However, yes, they’re fun to level with which is why I fell in love with mine. The problem is, leveling is only a small percentage of the game (for me). I prefer to do explorable dungeons / wvwvw and I think that’s when their problems/bugs really start to shine. It’s not about whether or not I’m a good player, it’s the fact that even though I am, bugs are holding me back from achieving my full potential as a Ranger. I’m limited.

I guess I’ve become bitter now that the honeymoon leveling phase is over.

As a Guardian, I “tank” him while our two melee DPS man-mode him (after Phase 1 & 2). I can block/reflect a big chunk of his projectiles. When he does his dome of doom, I just pop group stability and we all casually walk out of it.

I enjoy this boss a lot. There needs to be more bosses like him. He’s the reason why Arah gear is more “prestigious” than all the other Dungeon sets.

My suggestions :
Phase 1, stack in ranged away from him. Have your melee DPS the grubs immediately (if the DPS is too low, then have ranged help). No grubs should reach him. Ever. When he starts getting close to Phase 2, it’s important that everyone turns and helps kill the last 2 grubs.

Phase 2, Spread out. Take care of yourselves. If you have a Guardian, then his Wall of Reflection will help tremendously. Bring defensive cooldowns such as reflect, regen, protection, blinks/teleports, stability and whatever else will keep you alive longer. Everyone should still be at ranged, spread out and DPS him down to Phase 3. Dodge, dodge, dodge!

Phase 3, He’ll pick someone to “siphon” health from, that person needs to dodge 2 times with out fail or use defensive cooldowns when he begins to siphon them. If you’re caught in his AOE life drain, then dodge twice to avoid damage. When you’re trapped in his dome, you can use stability to walk right out of it but things like Blink/Teleport/Endure Pain will work as well. Mesmer Clones and Ranger Pets work wonders for this phase as well, since he will more often than not pick a clone or pet to focus on.

That’s pretty much the best advice I can give.
Oh, and if you have a good Rezz, then I suggest your team brings several (Warbanners, Ele glyph, etc).

Maybe. You can try it, I don’t think a lot of the core problems will be fixed with Ranger because of this update, but we’ll have more viable utilities at the very least. As someone said before, your pet is a nuisance in most areas of the game, except for leveling.

My biggest problem with my Ranger is the fact that our arrows / physical projectiles get “Obstructed” or “Out of Range” for no reason. Apparently it’s because of the terrain and they stated that it’s a step-by-step process to fix (which means it’ll be adjusted over time).

I don’t think anyone knows what exactly they’re fixing/changing with the new Ranger ‘buffs.’ I’m not holding my breath for anything amazing but it’s a start. So, ask yourself, do you have the patience to put up with it all?

Though, when I’m given the chance to recustomize, I’m jumping on that. I’m over my Eir phase lol.

I don’t think I’ll ever go back to default GW2 again.

Despite lackluster rewards and RNG, which I’ve grown use to expecting, this is the most high quality Halloween event I’ve participated in an MMO.

Next year, I hope they have a Halloween Token Vendor instead.

Inside the chests, you get rewarded with a Halloween Token (you get more for harder events such as the Clocktower) which can be redeemed at vendors for cool rewards. Maybe even have the tokens inside Black Lion Chests.

For example, cheap rewards could be things like Halloween exclusive mini pets, temporary skins, different style backpacks and so forth. “Big” and more expensive rewards could be special permanent skins and so forth. You get the idea.

But yes, I have nothing to show for this Halloween event other than my backpacks. Black Lion Chests and the Forge were a rip off and I have 0 luck. It’s like playing the Lottery, I know I’m not going to win lol.

The introduction to The Underworld.

It was really popular in Guild Wars 1 and you had to get there near Lion’s Arch. It was big on farming and it was hard. It’d be too perfect if the Mad King opened up a permanent portal to it, making this event like the http://www.wowwiki.com/Gates_of_Ahn'Qiraj in WoW. A one time event.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Underworld

Mad King Exotics are recycled skins. They’re not special.

80% of the Female Human hairstyles clip so bad, you can see their scalp when their hair is in motion. This was a problem in Beta too and it seems to have gotten worse with time.

Just a few examples.
!http://i.imgur.com/HzJq9.jpg!
!http://i.imgur.com/osukm.jpg!

You get the idea.

This is good news. I may have to take my poor 80 ranger off the shelf.

Though, my biggest problem with Ranger is our “Obstructed” bug with Longbow and most ranged attacks. Will this be fixed? It’s nice our utilities are getting tweaked, but it sucks even more that most of our attacks won’t hit for no reason.

Leather armor is terrible in GW2.

There’s only a few good sets that aren’t trench coats. If you don’t count Cultural Armor that is race specific, then we’re down to maybe 2 or 3 sets (not counting lowbie armor)? You see most Female Medium wearers in Human T3 and Duelist.

The Medium armor in GW1 was much better.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ranger_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Assassin_armor

This is coming from a female player. I personally hate the trench coats.

I agree. Right now my 80 Ranger is on the back burner right now. I’m really kitten off I put it in full exotic gear. It was my second character and I intended it to be pure PVE DPS (my first 80 was a Support Ele). Unfortunately though, it’s done nothing but kitten me off.

- My Rapid Fire’s hit for “Obstructed” 90% of the time.
- My pet is kitten and is dead 95% of the time in Dungeons, even when I manage/swap them on a regular basis. Most of the time I don’t send them in because it’s too dangerous and they’ll just die.
- Spirits are garbage.
- Greatsword damage doesn’t justify being in Melee range.
- 1h Sword locks me in place with it’s auto attack, making it difficult to dodge/stop.
- Longbow’s damage doesn’t justify it’s 1000+ placement requirement. It hits for ‘Obstructed’ regardless and is out DPS’d by the Shortbow with no min/max range requirement.
- My damage is split with my pet, whom is dead. A lot. The only place where my pet is useful is while leveling, otherwise it’s only a nuisance. I don’t feel “as one” with it, I just want it to go the kitten away. Worst part? I can’t even stow it.

My first 80 was an Elementalist, I found little to no problems with it and I found a lot of viable builds, so I don’t find them weak or crippled. Fast forward to my second 80, my Ranger. I’m overwhelmed by the amount of bugs and problems. Some of these things just don’t make sense.

- PETS : They shouldn’t be effected by AoE’s or they should take reduced damage from AoE’s. They get one shot in most situations and even when I recall them, chances are they won’t make it out in time. This makes Pet builds unviable in both PVE, PVP and WVWVW. Also, their AI is terrible and their F2 skills take too long to use which makes it clunky. I also hate how I can’t control all of my pet skills and I can only tell them how to use their F2 ability. I’d like to time the rest of their skills too please! (Knockdowns, burst damage, etc). I’d be all for a “stow your pet” option for boosted stats. I don’t care if I lose the utility of my dead pet’s skills, since it’s just laying on it’s back most of the time or standing next to me dying from AOE’s on the Keep walls in WVWVW.

- SPIRITS : Worthless. The only way to make these things work is if you use them for CC / want them to die. Otherwise, their buff range is too short for no good reason and they die the second anything looks at them.

- RANDOM OBSTRUCTION : Physical Projectiles will randomly get Obstructed / missed / out of range for NO reason. None. Zip. Notta. Channeling a Rapid Fire? Obstructed. Why? -shrugs- Because there’s apparently an invisible obstruction in the way of course! This is my biggest problem with my Ranger and this happens with all Physical Projectiles as far as I know (Engineers, Thieves, Warriors). It might have something to do with the hit boxes.

- LONGBOW : The auto attack requirements really turn me off. The Longbow is my favorite weapon for it’s aesthetics, however it’s auto attack requirement doesn’t seem justified by it’s slow and low damage output. Maybe if it hit more like a truck and less like a wet noodle, I’d see the justification.

Meh. In Explorable Dungeons, my Rapid Fire’s end crit will hit for anywhere between 10k to 15k. I’ve never seen it hit higher than that yet. My auto attacks can hit from anywhere between 2.2k and 3k. In WvWvW, I’ve seen my Rapid Fire crit for around 14k on light armor after a full uninterrupted channel (very rare).

The point is, if I want to see big 15k numbers, I’ll have to coordinate my active signets with my pet and my Elite (Rampage as One). I also have to take into consideration my Sigil stacks and so forth. Also, if you get any kind of “Obstructed” or “Out or Range” while channeling your Rapid Fire, it’ll dramatically drop it’s total DPS. When people are constantly rolling around in WvWvW, it’s hard to land a fully channeled Rapid Fire. I wish it was more…Rapid.

Bumping. Ugh.

I’m worried I’m going to commit too much time into my Ranger and just get screwed over for months on end because this problem isn’t even acknowledged. I don’t see anything on it anywhere. -.-"

With Rapid Fire and sometime’s my auto attack with my Longbow, I will randomly get “Obstructed” while channeling it. It also happens with “Out of Range” even though the mob is running towards me. However, nothing is in front of the target except for friendly players and/or my pet, etc (no objects, flooring, hills, etc). This happens in both PVE and WvWvW. I have not tested it in Spvp.

Please fix this. It happens on a regular basis.

Screenshots included.
http://i.imgur.com/7DkS4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VzIMh.jpg

I’ve played 300hrs and I’m not bored yet. :> Tbh though, when I first dinged 80, I was bored/lost/confused because I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Now that I’ve figured it out, there’s no way I can go back to a standard MMO. I can’t believe how encoded my brain was from traditional MMOs. I can’t wait for more level 80 content.

LFG SYSTEM -
Just as a suggestion, it’d be greatly appreciated if the Anet team could look into a more functional and useful LFG system. At the moment, the best possible way to find a party is by asking /map in Lion’s Arch. The current LFG system is confusing to use and it’s unclear as to what you’re looking for group for. I’m also unsure if it’s cross server. Regardless, no one uses it which makes finding a party difficult.

RAIDS
I know everyone is probably tired of this suggestion, but I’ll put it here anyways. My guild and I were discussing that we wanted “special” armor sets. I really think adding 8 to 10 player raids with the reward of “special armor sets” would be a good solution (When I say “special”, I mean Exotic with cool looking skins).

The dungeon armor is fine, but it feels like there’s no progression and the PvE outside of that feels unrewarding. It doesn’t have to be like a WoW raid, it’s more like a “status symbol” so to speak. Not to mention it’d be nice to have PVE designed for more challenging/hardcore players such as myself. Even though the dungeons seem too hard for a lot of people, my guild found them really easy. I believe Anet could possibly make an amazing Raid above any other game I’ve played. To see those large world dragon bosses in an instanced area with a controlled amount of people would be …epic.

As a woman, I’m going to have to agree with more attractive looking armor. I like my character to look pretty and dare I say, sexy. Not like a kitten, but just…feminine. For example, the Twilight Armor set for Cloth on female is feminine and beautiful (it’s like a ball gown made of leaves. It’s barely revealing, yet it still has that feminine delicacy to it.) Yet, other than that set, I have little to no desire for any of the other dungeon set. They’re all too masculine and unflattering, not to mention uninteresting.

So again, I’ll say that I’m all for more feminine/pretty female armor. However, I don’t want anything kittenty like Tera. Tasteful would be the word for it.

Personally, I would try to make the dungeons more rewarding / interesting. At the moment, for completing Explorable modes, you’re always rewarded 20 tokens flat (30 for daily). In the chests, you get some random blues and every now and then, a rare. In order to get 5 pieces of Token gear, you need to run the dungeon 60 or so times. On top of that, dungeons such as Arah Explorable are too long to justify 20-30 token rewards, which is why most people avoid that set (for now). There’s also a difference in difficulty level between each dungeon, for example, Citadel of Flame is probably the welfare gear of GW2 at the moment since a full run takes only 15 to 20 minutes.

I feel as though the dungeon mechanics are exactly that – dungeon mechanics. Some are tank and spank easy, others are difficult. Either way, an average player shouldn’t have difficulty completing it. It get’s easier once you’ve done the fight a few times too, so by the time you reach your 50th run, you’ll most likely be doing the dungeon in your sleep. Not fun.

Getting to the point
I think they should add 10 man raids to make the PVE more interesting. This does NOT mean adding “bigger” stats or another tier of stats, this means making a higher player cap “dungeon” with a difficulty of a “raid” with the length of something like the current dungeon Arah. The rewards can be completely cosmetic, it could be

- Titles (for achievements)
- Special Recipe drops for professions (ie: Tailoring, Jewelcrafting, etc)
- Cosmetic gear only available from that raid
- Cosmetic weapons only available from that raid
- Necklace/Accessories/Rings available from that raid (since the only way to make Exotic accessories at the moment is by crafting. It’d be nice if there were another option)

It’d also make PVE players, such as me, feel like they’re doing more than running dungeons 60 times for cool looking gear. The raid can be challenging, no tank and spank mechanics and give players something to aim for. The bosses could be as epic and amazing as the World Boss dragons you see every now and then. Personally, I think if GW2 were to make a Raid, they’d be the best ones to bring back that “Omg That was beeping epic..” feel that so many raids now don’t have in other games.

The only problem is, people skipping the other dungeons in order to jump straight to the raid. They could put an attunement on the raid, such as “you need to do all of the dungeons atleast once in order to enter” – That way, it limits the amount of “I’m just going to say screw everything and jump straight into raiding” people. Also, they could make the difficulty high enough to where Exotic gear is mandatory, so people don’t try to run it in greens and blues.

Just my two cents. :P

Yeah, dungeons are just screwed at the moment. I’ve tried every trick in the book and I can’t get them to work.

- Twilight Arbor (Explorable)

- Some of us are joining through pop up, others have tried just walking through. However, some people -can- get into the instance by walking through (who have done Story mode) but they are put into different instances from each other.

- One person usually invites to the party and one person enters when we are zoned into Caledon Forest, the rest of us try to enter through pop up, and if it does not succeed then we have to relog to try again. Immediately upon relogging, we’re prompted to join the Explorable dungeon but with no progress of getting in.

- Other details : Server transferring doesn’t work, nor does relogging, nor does signing on an alternate toon and finally, remaking the party does not work. It’s like we’re all saved to an instance that doesn’t exist. For example, when 1 person enters and exits, any new people who join the party are asked to join the instance, even though no one is inside one anymore.

Hope that helps and that it’s resolved soon.

PS: I’ve tried with 3 different groups yesterday. One in the morning, one in the afternoon and again after daily restart. All have the same problem with no solution. I tried again today, no luck.

Just as an update, the players who have done story mode could not get into the same Explorable instance.

I’m not sure if this is happening to other dungeons, but I’ve been in 2 different parties where none of us could enter Twilight Arbor explorable unless we did the Story Mode. It prompts us to enter Explorable Mode, but when accepted, nothing happens. It’s not mandatory to do Story mode as long as 1 person has done it in the party and enters first to pick Explorable. Even so, it won’t let anyone in who hasn’t done Story.

Also, if the people who got in leave the instance, they can not get back in unless they relog. Reforming party does not work, nor does logging onto an alternate character.

This problem started happening today and was fine yesterday.

Anyone else have a very difficult time finding groups for token farming? I’m in a guild, but not everyone can / always wants to do dungeons. Which is fine, I don’t want to force people to do something they don’t want to do. Especially since it takes over 1k tokens for a set of gear and over 50 runs of the same dungeon. However, I find it terribly difficult to find a group outside of my guild. I’m not 100% sure on where to look. I’m struggling to do the content in this game because they didn’t make it easy to find a group, nor to find guilds (I think Tera did it right when it came to guild searches).

No one uses the LFG system that’s currently implemented, I’m pretty positive most people don’t even know there was one to begin with. I feel like this game needs an LFG chat channel, somewhere people can see anywhere in the world and not just /map. Whether it’s across all servers or just on your home server is debatable, but as it is right now, asking in Lion’s Arch /map is not cutting it. In fact, /map is normally quiet. Scary quiet.

I can’t be the only one who feels this way.

TLDR; All I want is a global LFG channel.