Guild Wars 2

TexZero.7910:

I remember a time when people who really cared about lore in games, played the games.

It is a shame how the culture of games has shifted to playing to the game to demanding the game change to fit you as a person instead.

No I demand it be changed to fit the audience that played during Core Tyria, the ones that grew up and lost the free time to be part of a raiding guild so they could run short 5 mans in GW2 instead, they could get a placebo raiding experience from Open World Zergs instead, You know kitten well they could provide a repeatable story version of the raid and gut the bosses for us Plebs, looks at Vale Guardian in BSF and Sloth in EB, they don’t need new assets for the Raid Map itself as it already exists.

I do not needs the Ascended pieces that drop, nor do I want the armor precursors because frankly Legendaries are two expensive to bother when I can get something just as flashy off of the Gem Store for $10.

I’m already planning on buying something next Tuesday to reward them for giving us content, now if they gave us story mode raids I might consider making my contributions bi weekly again.

Talindra.4958:

Yeh no means no.. and pls stop begging for change.
I hv recently seen an increase in numbers in new raiders and in lfg. I think a bit more time raids will be like dungeon runs.
Already pug group making no ts full smooth run it’s a matter of time.

That won’t stop us from pushing back, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

Purgatori.3645:

I haven’t done a raid yet. I have no idea what is needed to do a raid. I have asked both guilds I am in about them and no one can give me a straight answer. I haven’t tried to join parties either in the areas they are in or googled the requirements so … believe me this isn’t a complaint ….. But I do want the legendary armor. I love crafting and would like a set for my Ranger. To unlock it you have to kill a raid boss. and so on and so forth …. People like me will only raid to get what they want …. but without a scaling system considering how long they have been out and no help so far from guildies, I dont see this happening anytime soon ( still not complaining) What I will say is that raids and legendary armor so far seem to be for the elite. I am ok with this …. even if it means I will never have legendary armor. If it is supposed to be the hardest content in the game and these players are tackling it and getting legendary armor and loot as a reward AWESOME! Not all content needs to be easily available to all players. Maybe Anet is trying to make sure raids dont end up like dungeons did idk …. I guess what im saying all around is every player has the ability to do ALL content in game including raids if you commit to the goals of doing them. Otherwise you can admire legendary armor and raid rewards on other players and shut it lol Raids dont appear to be for half-assers

Except for GW2’s major competitors that have tiered raids and over a million paying customers each; but I guess ANet doesn’t like money as much as their peers evidently.

TexZero.7910:

You already have said content in both BSF and ROF.

You can mindlessly zerg definetly not VG for a champ bag, and definitely not Sloth for a champ bag.

Additionally, what you call tone deaf is what others call great. Not every piece of content needs to be watered down to the point that it contradicts is design. Raids are designed to be the hardest content in the game such that it requires a bit more than average dedication. There’s nothing wrong with this, however there is a lot wrong with pandering to the perception that everything needs to be for everyone and that those players deserve equal rewards for minimal effort. Which is exactly why those other games raids are a joke.

90% of the rest of major MMO companies disagree, and a lot of them like SWTOR, FF14, and WoW each have million plus players spending money; just saying but I guess being poor while having less money for development is great if you have your extremely dated integrity on this matter.

Sorry ANet but you guys are completely tone deaf and old fashioned about this compared to your major competitors that offer tiered raiding for the plebs and elites alike, tiered raiding never bothered Mythic Raiders in WoW or Nighmare Mode raiders in SWTOR, or what ever passes for top tier in FF14 either but hey what do I know other than the fact that each of those games has players in the millions.

Hey guys I mean it when I say that GW2 is right up there with the current greats for MMOs, you have so much to bring to the table.

However your stance on raiding is incredibly tone deaf, you have many major competitors that bring Tiered Raiding to the table and it does nothing to take prestige away from Mythic in WoW, or Nightmare in SWTOR, or what ever passes for top tier in FF14.

Just throw out a toned down version that us PLEBs can zerg through for fun with just Champ bags like a Champ train, hell put it on a daily timer even so that normal Raiders can still do this for laughs and train newbies on castrated versions of the mechanics.

What’s the big deal folks, you pulled it off for Fractals right?

At the moment I run an AMD 3.8 ghz Quad

This is what I’m looking to buy my self for Christmas.

https://m.newegg.com/Combo/ComboDetail?comboid=3069587&combotype=2

Ayrilana.1396:

There was a thread started today about this and numerous others.

There are currently more mystic coins being generated than what are being used. They have stated that they have no intention at the moment to change anything.

Edit: The number of coins needed can also be brought down by doing reward tracks and the chest from the daily rewards at the end of 28 days.

How many Mystic coins do you get in that chest, what option do you pick the Legendary chest?

So I have a dream, it’s not optimal, it’s not practical but it is a Dream nonetheless!

I am envisioning a Reaper wielding a Great Sword, with an army of Minions, with Vampiric Presence.

How would I go about doing this?

Thank’s for the reply, glad I’m not the only forum dweller that’s happy.

I’ve come back from a long hiatus from your biggest competitor that put out stellar expansion. They stole a lot of ideas from you, improved them as well. There happens to be a ton of content that requires a very large investment of time in one character, There’s so much to do that it’s quite frankly impossible to keep up in any reasonable fashion unless you neglect your family, your wife, your career; and Six Gods forbid you try to play it with moderation you will never feel like you’ve made any progress.

Coming back to Guild Wars 2 I’ve found there’s still plenty of end game Open World content that’s frankly more engaging, the Fractals are less stressful than Mythic 5 Mans and require less of a time commitment. I’ve yet to get into Raiding yet however I did get an invite recently from a Guild that raids every day, provides training, and I’m sure has multiple groups to accommodate that kind of schedule. Frankly if I really want a long term goal like this time sink Artifacts turned into I can craft a Legendary.

I’ve just come to the conclusion that I’m no longer young enough, committed enough, free enough to play a game like World of Warcraft.

Guild Wars 2 however seems to be the game you play after you realize that you’re a grown up, and the community reflects that with their level of decency and maturity.

Here’s a thought, since Jormag is active have the next LS episode tie into Wintersday. Imagine if you will we get no information regarding the episode and we just get the normal bland Wintersday patch notes, and then while we’re going through the routine

BAM!!!

Jormag strikes!!!

With augmented powers from Mord and Zai you see an invasion of ice corpses and Ice Corrupted Mordrem crash your Wintersday festivities and they grab Plix that toy guy and turn him to Jormag.

I just got picked up by a guild that trains raiders and Raids supposedly every day of the week. They seemed wary when I mentioned I was a Support Power Reaper but then I pointed out there was a build on I Metabattle that calmed them down.

Wow, this forum’s dead; if I had posted a question any where else and no one responded my question might be buried on page 2 by now; I guess the balance team better take a look at this class.

I just started dabbling in Fractals using a Blood/Spite/Reaper build from a Brazil video and I seem to do well at lower lvls, how are they at Higher lvls? All of my Armor is Exotic Valk, my GS is Zerker Ascended, my alt wep set is Exotic Zerker Axe/WH, the non armor pieces are all Ascended 2 Valk/Zerk Combo, and 4 Zerk. Sigils are Force and Air, Runes are Wurm.

Farming BSF to get two more Valk/Zerk Combo pieces.

Here’s Brazil’s video

Bummer, I guess I could just go bonkers with it
And drop 3 at a time.

Is. there any way that I can be a bannerless PVE Warrior and still provide utility through shouts instead. I can’t stand banners they’re so clunky they’re only up 75% of time any way and you can only carry one at a time yet you can drop tons of them?

I would like to propose a new feature for banners which would make them work more like Shaman totems used to work in WoW, have a recall button that puts them away so
that you can easily place them in a different location.

Here’s the deal, I ran into this a little with my guild but I just had a misconception. In this game if some one on a map is chatting it’s because they are not contributing actively to a map meta event. If no ones chatting in guild chat it is because they are too busy paying attention to their surroundings. In GW2 this combat requires people to pay attention and actively dodge all the time. That said if you want to be social you need to get on a voice chat program for your guild.

Let me get this straight sure they cut out a slot in the chest by making the third slot a holiday only slot but if you can preview every chest you open before opening one can’t you ensure that you only open chests that have favorable conditions; that sounds like a win win situation to me.

I assume it’s because it clips on Revenants, Theifs, and Necros so that’s why it’s only available in Raids?

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Any one else’s character decked out for the season?

This guys got all bladed armor except the Reaper hood and carapace top, Mursaat back piece dyes are Harrowing Maroon, Molten, and Shadow Abyss, Gargoyle Great Sword.

Here’s another one

Any one else’s character decked out for the season?

This guys got all bladed armor except the Reaper hood and carapace top, Mursaat back piece dyes are Harrowing Maroon, Molten, and Shadow Abyss, Gargoyle Great Sword.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

I was just poking around on every single Profession Forum I give a kitten about and it looks like Rev’s are either grabbing pitchforks or quiting the game, Engineers claim they’re walking out the door, Guardians are ambivalent regarding the changes, Elementalists seem to be feeling meh, Necros are angry and even though Power has been buffed it doesn’t make Great Sword ideal which quite frankly is the only weapon I use on my Necro other than staff for range, I guess Warriors didn’t seem to notice there was a balance patch, Mesmers seemed to be confused.

None of this is making me feel remotely confident in returning to this game full time.

PS Gives me a nicer appreciation for balance in WoW I’ll never complain about my Vengance Demon Hunter nerf again.

if you don’t think the WoW forumites don’t scream about balance and nerfs then you don’t read their forum. If you read it they’re constantly complaining about tank balance, healer balance and flavor of the day spec balance as well as how [whatever class being discussed] is awful and is at the bottom of the dps charts and should never have been nerfed. Their forums have multiple complaint threads before a balance patch and after a balance patch. Reading it will let you see that all forums are always unhappy when something is changed, or not changed for that matter.

I was being facetious.

So Greatsword Reaper is viable again, if so that made my day.

I guess I’ll check Metabattle then

Substance E.4852:

I’m not sure what the problem is? You’re describing a normal GW2 balance patch.

Well if this is considered normal then that’s a problem from everything I’ve been reading, it seems like no one has anything remotely positive to say and frankly I don’t want to take the chance leveling up a profession that’s going to be kitten.

I was just poking around on every single Profession Forum I give a kitten about and it looks like Rev’s are either grabbing pitchforks or quiting the game, Engineers claim they’re walking out the door, Guardians are ambivalent regarding the changes, Elementalists seem to be feeling meh, Necros are angry and even though Power has been buffed it doesn’t make Great Sword ideal which quite frankly is the only weapon I use on my Necro other than staff for range, I guess Warriors didn’t seem to notice there was a balance patch, Mesmers seemed to be confused.

None of this is making me feel remotely confident in returning to this game full time.

PS Gives me a nicer appreciation for balance in WoW I’ll never complain about my Vengance Demon Hunter nerf again.

I read an article on MassivelyOP that suggested that video game voice actors were going on strike next month because I guess apparently $200 an hour is way to cheap to be a living wage let alone live a comfortable life. What gets me is why do these guys that give wooden lifeless performances half the time think they’re even worth $200 an hour even?

Ultimately though this is going to lead to content droughts a cross the whole video game industry, as well as crappy truncated content for the year in all games.

Don’t believe me, remember the writers strike from ten or so years ago that gave us LOST season 4, Heroes Season 2?

Vayne.8563:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Vayne.8563:

LoL NooBs.5076:

Finally! +1 for this thread.
Guilds dead. Builds dead. What is there to do in this game? Glide? Chat? Wow. Such features.

Your guild may in fact be dead, but you can’t speak for all guilds. My guild is definitely not dead.

I know this is anecdotal but it sure seems quiet to me but then I might just be the weirdo that every one ignores when I type in Guild chat perhaps.

Couple of simple questions? Do you play during the prime time of your guild? Do you participate in guild events? Do you log into your guild’s voice chat program?

There are certainly times when my guild isn’t busy. Right now it’s 7:41 am EST and there’s only four people online repping the guild. and one person online repping a different guild. I certainly wouldn’t judge how active a guild is if I logged in right now, because how would I know? Most people would be sleeping or getting ready for work. In fact the only reason we have five people online is because two of them are in Australia.

Guilds all have times at which they have traffic and times at which fewer people play. But you can at least look at how many people log in every day in the guild panel and get some idea if your guild is active.

You can show up to scheduled events and see how many people participate.

Ah I see so most of The socialization might be occurring on a 3rd party chat server, during prime time.

If I were to guess he probably hates navigating it, once you get the Wallows traversing it is pretty straight forward.

Vayne.8563:

LoL NooBs.5076:

Finally! +1 for this thread.
Guilds dead. Builds dead. What is there to do in this game? Glide? Chat? Wow. Such features.

Your guild may in fact be dead, but you can’t speak for all guilds. My guild is definitely not dead.

I know this is anecdotal but it sure seems quiet to me but then I might just be the weirdo that every one ignores when I type in Guild chat perhaps.

If you’re looking for complexity and variety then play an Elementalist or
Engineer.

I’m running the Meta site Support build from the raid section, armor is Clerics with travelers, Zerker Ascended Hammer and accessories, exotic Longbow.

Hoping the Clerics would offer enough heals to offset the DPS loss because I need a survivability cushion if I ever bother with Fractals.

mysticsicness.7598:

I cheered when Trahearne finally bit the dust, because he was ruining the story for far too long. Lets all be honest, only one that would pull at our heart strings, is Taimi. Arenanet wouldn’t dare touch her adorable Asuran head though, right?

No one would have the balls to kill off a handicapped character except for The X Men with Xavier and maybe South Park since they don’t give a crap who they offend.

To the people suggesting that Taimi couldn’t possibly know Stevie Wonder’s name keep in mind she’s sitting on a trove of ancient Elder Dragon knowledge in Rata Novus that the Priory never had access to.

Something like this?

I’ve enjoyed the whole update except for the Mursat fortress which can feel excessively punishing ( lore wise I can see why though).

How ever as another thread has asked when will we learn more about the mysterious Glowing Man that keeps appearing?

I’ve seen him too

Swagger.1459:

Chalice of Tears… Last thing I remember is Vayne saying “Jump you fools!”…

You remind me of a similar dude that posts memes over at MassivelyOP you even have a similar name.

Seriously I take one month off from GW2, have been perusing the forums for a week and one name is precariously missing; did something happen to Vayne?

I thought Vayne on this forum was sort of like Cliff or Norm from Cheers.

Seriously the dude helped me get through Heart of Thorns and kept me from quitting the game; regardless of people’s differences with him he’s a strong mentor if you need him.

Steve-Zissou actually

Randulf.7614:

Really? I thought the problem was with our character to be honest. Usually we are more willing to let our team members do their own thing and meet back later. Now it suddenly was an issue.

Personally i don’t think my toon should be ordering everyone around and having Marjory go off with Lazarus to keep an eye on him seemed like a good idea. Not sure what our objection was – she can clearly handle herself and Lazarus wanted to harm her, well he would have done so by now.

Except for the fact that we’re all ‘The Commander’.

Amaimon.7823:

ProtoGunner.4953:

It’s open world and it should be easy. Do I have to remind you of all the whining in the forum of ‘too hard’ mobs in HOT? It’s fine like this. We will get harder enemies in instances (hopefully). Oh and the Jade Armors/Bows are on the right spot. Especially if you ignore the Ether Seals :-)

HoT Mobs are fine, they’re not too weak nor too strong. These destroyers are actually WEAKER than the average HoT mob. this is a decline, not a maintaining of force. The people who whined that HOT was too difficult should’ve adapted by now to that level

More likely they left, that’s why we had that long content drought; they spent months hot fixing HoT so that they could get people to come back. Fortunately I found a good guild willing to walk me through the HoT zones and get me acclimated. Personally I think that 99% of the content that’s been released for open world requires others to be around to handle it, for example the Blood Crazed loony tunes on the ground are almost impossible to solo because they come in packs. However most of Ember Bay’s mobs are a joke except for that Mursat fortress which I’ll never approach again unless I’m in a Zerg.

I’m sure this has been brought up but you still need old zones to get mats for Legendaries as well as mystic forge recipe components. There are also event chains such as Ogre Wars that drop rare items. There are plenty of lengthy event chains that lead up to World Bosses spawning such as That Centuar Chief in For the Pannini Highlands. Mats in the older zones, especially the middle leveling zones will bring you serious bank in the BLTP. All of the recent current events take place in lvling zones such as The Anamoly, Blood Crazed Beasts for example.

But then I’m sure you probably know that stuff and just want a WoW Clone which this game should not be (despite the raids).

Heya folks my Warrior is currently 69, so far I’ve done none of the personal story and was wondering if there’s enough XP in the PS to carry me to 80?

I’m not an expert but I play one on TV. With that said I’ve read through out numerous forum posts that if you want to raid you’re better off with a Warrior. A Thief though will be welcome in all 5 Man content, and has a lot more viability in PVP than a Warrior which I’ve heard gets kited.

Personally I think you should play both to lvl 20-30 and pick the one you love.

Thank very much for your detailed reply that was extremely helpful. So basically just camp GS using 100 Blades off cd, then hit f2 when adrenaline is full and the. Spam f1 until empty.

Only swap to Hammer when there’s a break bar.

For utilities use the two DPS banners, Head But, a heal, and the precision signet?

To all those gloomy tunes forum dwellers check this out, we surged last month financially!

http://massivelyop.com/2016/08/25/superdatas-july-2016-data-show-guild-wars-2-surging-pokemon-go-on-top/

There is a test server but it’s just reserved for alpha type testing for the people that ANet trusts explicitly, I don’t fall into that catagory but I know some one that does; out of respect for his precarious situation I can’t mention them by name not that it matters though because they respect ANets NDA not letting any thing slip.

Why do the Herald builds not feature shield on the Metabattle website when ANet designed the legend to favor the weapon since that legend unlocks its use?