Guild Wars 2

The villian of GW3 will be the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.

Serale.9314:

There you go. Evil bird.

What dye combo is that, the red really sticks out? I’m using Shadow Abyss, and an Enamaled Light Blue but that blue dye does not pop, I was trying to get it to work with my Spectral GS to make a Tyrian version of WoWs Lich King.

I would like to thank Just a flesh wound for helping me get up on that platform. The funny thing is it wasn’t actually a POI even though it looks like an undiscovered POI on the map since the platform is a dark square exactly the same size as a POI.

Sorry for the drama folks, and thank you for all of the responses.

It’s in an under water Inquest lab in northern part of the zone

What is with the BS that is required to get the Sorrowful POI in Bloodtide Coast or what ever the name of that zone is with the worm. I spent almost two hours trying to get that POI, screw it I’m playing/spending money some where else for the next month; what is this The Secret World with their Investigation Quests?

I stand by my previous statement, don’t put out limited edition glider skins unless you account for players that are paid BiWeekly.

The last time I talked to Vayne in guild chat/ Mumble about this it’s still bugged.

No S3 until late this year means no more money from me, I do not care about Raiding, I do not PVP, I swapped to this game only because of the Open World PVE. It’s bad enough we went almost a year between the end of Season 2 to HoT which was considerably short on narrative compared to S2 but now we have to wait just as long for S3? I sure hope you cashed in on PVP and Raiding because those of us that are your actual base the casual player are tired of being shafted by your company.

We were killing The Mouth, there was no reason to kill the map, we had basically beaten the Meta!

It was populated, we were finishing off the meta boss.

I’ve grown to like this expansion as well, that said it’s still riddled with bugs and it’s been out for 4 months; for example my DS map kicked us out with over ten minutes to spare when we were on the cusp of killing the Mouth.

I’ve got a suggestion, stop putting up one week limited items like these Golden Wings; I would have bought these things out right provided they fell into a week that I get paid; you see the vast amount of employers in the USA are cheap and they look to save money by paying their employees biweekly. Your marketing team needs to take biweekly paychecks into consideration because these 7 day limited items are not just costing you money from people like me they also build a sense of resentment towards your company because now I feel cheated.

Since the item I’m talking about is a Glider technically I am on topic.

Look this expansion has been out for 4 months which means quite frankly you should be well past the bug phase. I do not appreciate putting an hour plus into a Meta event in Dragon Stand only to have the map randomly close with time to spare on the clock because your programmers are amateurs.

Please get your crap together, I frankly feel embarrassed for your staff.

schmu.4630:

Shout GS Longbow (perma buffs, survivability, dmg is okay)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJARTnUqA1Ci9CCWsActgh9g6jjj4p3bPAGd+CC4RoEpfG-TxRBABUq+De6aA4JF8wlU4KlfPt/gZKBBA-e

For open world and casual fractals this is an easy to use and fun to play build in my opinion.

I dig it, does it offer any utility to other players?

PVE open World, casual Fractals, if useful in raids why not.

Looking for a GS/Druid Hybrid feel that feels like a Beastmaster from Rift.

So far I’ve been leveling a Ranger and I love using the Great Sword, I’m hoping that at lvl 80 I can find a build that allows me to still use a Great Sword, offers me survivability, some passive healing and buffing.

Perhaps Tera then.

Looking for a Thong or GString look for my female Reaper.

I’m willing to pay good money for this ANet.

Torque.2948:

Maguuma is dead because there nothing to do and the event rewards well they just suck. I log into Destiny and Wow and completely skip over this game. Maybe if it was worth Logging in and staying people might actually do that but with the rng god and playing for two years with no precursor drop people got better things to do then waste the years away.

Yet you had enough time playing WoW and Destiny/reading about them on web sites to come here and post; we feel blessed by your presence.

The only map I’ve found difficulty finding a Meta group through LFG is Verdant Brink because of all the dead weight hanging out near the raid portal; but still 3 Meta maps to choose from is better than what we had which was the Silver Wastes merry go round.

On a side note are any old world metas being done still, in Orr for example; never see anything in LFG for that?

Don’t worry, in the end the money won’t lie; if the lose money ANet will change it back.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

You need ascended trinkets and weapons. The armor is the smallest gain so you can skimp on that for now.

As far as soldiers, I can’t imagine that is the optimal choice for tanking.

It has Vitality for HP/ and Toughness for aggro/damage reduction that seems like exactly what it was made for.

With that said I have a Guardian sitting around with Soldiers Exotic armor, Soldiers Exotic back/Trinkets, and Ascended Zerker Rings/Neck/Hammer/GS.

Will I be able to tank with a Hammer?

If I need Scepter/Shield can they be exotic?

Do I have to invest in Ascended Armor which would require power leveling Armor smithing and a ton of time gating?

What masteries should I be leveling up?

Personally I don’t have a dog in the race so to speak as I unlocked them all as they came out.

I would like to add some other benefits to bundling S2 with HoT.

Folks coming into this game for the first time (if there are any left that haven’t already) might criticize the content amount with out considering the density.

By bundling S2 with HoT PS you have a pretty big narrative there.

Since a ton of S2 takes place in Dry Top and Silver Wastes then Heart of Thorns all of a sudden looks like a 6 zone expansion, just saying.

@Vayne, new players bring more money, which means more content in the future by perhaps adding more staff; we’ve had this conversation where you’ve mentioned the 300 strong ANet staff has been working non stop since the expansion dropped.

I didn’t agree with ANet charging gems for Season 2 Living World if you missed the release window because I felt it should have been included in the original box price as a typical content patch update.

Now with Heart of Thrones ANet is including Season 3 Living World with the box price, so since the core game is free they should include S2 as part of the PS of the HoT expansion.

By making Vanilla GW2 F2P, and including LWS3 (and beyond) with the cost of HoT ANet leaves LWS2 in a limbo which frankly doesn’t make sense to the current business model unless that model includes an akward additional cost.

Ok I Did It.2854:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

You need to find a decent guild, there’s no reason why you should have to pay people gold to navigate a frigging map. I my self just joined a really decent guild with helpful casual/ hardcore players (meaning folks that play a lot but don’t min max like DnT). Feel free to look me up and I’ll have our GM Vayne throw you an invite, you might be familiar with with him he’s got quite the forum presence; he’s active during off ours as am I (though I’m just as much of a HoT noob as you are). Look we can’t expect ANet to fix any problems over night, they’ve got a work force of 300, but our guild likes to find solutions to work around those problems so look us up Wardens of Destiny ( I hope I know the abreviation is WoD).

Was this actually about this topic or a guild recruitment topic for Vayne’s guild? You almost sound like him too, is you on an alt account?

Anyway, moving threw the map is no an issue, I did it with 3 zerker classes without any great issues, the problems that people are having is trying to get an item locked behind a meta that no one wants to do.

uhohhotdog.3598

What’s your point? As I said there’s still lots of people that haven’t made it that far. Auric basin is very populated. Many of them will be moving on towards the rest soon. The ones in dragon stand are those who rushed through everything. The people that are actually playing through at a normal pace are still catching up.

I think you’ll find a lot of people have indeed got to this map, and bypassed it at rapid speed, you just see more in AB because the meta is more rewarding there, and if you ever get to DS you will see 5x as many people there as VB/AB together.

Seriously?

The OP was complaining about not having any one to run him through TD with out paying any one gold; are you just mad brah because I attempted to block a way for you to make gold?

I’m not sure if people like you can remember back more than a few days but I had a pretty high traffic thread where I was bitterly critical about the open world difficulty, so I decided if I couldn’t beat the white knights join them.

If I sound a little like Vayne perhaps it’s because I learned a little bit and showed some growth, left that Plato cave where the rest of you are stuck; at least I took the time out of enjoying my self to come back and offer up a solution, I didn’t see any up in your previous post.

So tell me ‘Ok I Did It’ where exactly is your contribution to the actual topic, is this something you’re cognitively capable of?

Distaste.4801:

Umm in the first 19 days FFXIV had 3 hotfix patches, 2 of which rivaled what you would see in a GW2 major patch, and a content patch that released their raid normal mode as well as another long list of fixes. In the first month they released 5 hotfix patches and 2 major patches. Let’s also not forget that Heavensward released in a far better state with far more content.

“Give them time” is the most ill-informed thing that anyone could say about ArenaNet right now. They had 3 years and STILL haven’t fixed a lot of the major issues the game has. It took them 2.5 years to finally make changes to conditions so they weren’t useless in dynamic events. Let that sink in for a moment. 1 of the only 2 ways to do damage was absolutely useless in dynamic events. Events that were supposed to be a major portion of the content. Oh but it’s even worse when you consider their combo system, a major game mechanic, actually made the situation worse. That is a gigantic mammoth issue that should have been dealt with in the first few months…2.5 years later and they finally got around to it. I realize that technical issues could be at play, but when other MMO’s had already fixed that issue LONG ago(nearly a decade) that’s a BS excuse. Of course after dev(s?) had said as one of their excuses for not changing it that allowing everyone to place condiitions on a boss would kill it too quick…

The good will and faith are gone. They burned those bridges multiple times. The way HoT has been handled from start to finish has only reinforced that.

Seriously FF14, the game that went F2P for a year plus because they rebuilt it, and rereleased it as FF14ARR?

You need to find a decent guild, there’s no reason why you should have to pay people gold to navigate a frigging map. I my self just joined a really decent guild with helpful casual/ hardcore players (meaning folks that play a lot but don’t min max like DnT). Feel free to look me up and I’ll have our GM Vayne throw you an invite, you might be familiar with with him he’s got quite the forum presence; he’s active during off ours as am I (though I’m just as much of a HoT noob as you are). Look we can’t expect ANet to fix any problems over night, they’ve got a work force of 300, but our guild likes to find solutions to work around those problems so look us up Wardens of Destiny ( I hope I know the abreviation is WoD).

It boils down to having a good guild. When the expansion was released I had a horrible experience, I had even contemplated getting a refund.

Recently I had an epiphany, instead of arguing with White Knights why not try to join one of their guilds because they’re obviously having fun right?

I sent an in game mail to Vayne asking for a guild invite, get an invitation and proceed to have one of the best nights I’ve ever had playing this game, even prior to HoT when I was having fun.

With a laid back group of knowledgeable people HoT becomes a lot more enjoyable and immersive.

Vayne.8563:

OP if you’re on a US server and want some help learning how to get around I’d be happy to help. And that goes for anyone else on US servers.

I’ve had to do this for a portion of my guild and once they get it, they like the expansion a lot better. Just hit me up in game if you want. It really looks harder than it actually is in a lot of cases.

I just played for about 3 hours, got lucky and landed in an AB with TTS, super organized way less stressful than anything out of VB, managed to finish the meta, got a few Hero Points, restored some good will.

I’m assuming you must be in a decent guild since your one of the vocal white knights, mind if I take you up on that offer you gave to the OP?

I’m with you OP, this wouldn’t bother me so much if the content were free, but as it is it feels like I burned kitten bill; I have not logged in for days, barely played when I did (ANet knows this since I’m sure they can follow my account activity).

In the end I just went back to the devil I’m most familiar with, $15 a month is a small price to pay for a non stressful gaming experience.

In conclusion ANet should have set the benchmark at current Orr/Drytop/SW difficulty levels.

On the bright side I’m leveling a Protection Paladin and it feels better than the Guardian ever did to me.

To the OP, the old ways are gone; we have to adapt or leave.

I my self after some self reflection have decided it’s time to get my hands dirty.

With that being said for the benefit of the OP as well as my self I would like to find what ever passes for TTS in the HoT regions so that we can learn, adapt, and enjoy the content as the rest of you clearly have.

Those that offer suggestions or guild invites I appreciate and thank you, any one that’s just here to be jerks I’ll just flag the comment and not engage.

I would open my own thread except for the fact I am restricted at this time, so I am forced to endorse and expand upon other peoples threads for my own purposes.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Still, it would not be fair to allow some Guilds to advertise in the main discussion forums, and not others.

And, if all others can advertise in the main discussion forums, then discussion topics will disappear off the front page even faster. The discussion sub-forums would become filled with Guilds advertising, and there would be little difference between the two sub-forums.

I’m sure you understand. Good luck.

Personally I’m glad he did because I looked for a HoT guild on the LFG forum and literally only saw one game mode dominating it, with one Fractal guild; at least this guild focuses exclusively on HoT Map Meta events.

With the amount of people like my self that have complained of difficulty being told to find a guild wouldn’t it be in the best interests of the forum if there was a place you could direct them towards such as this guild which seems to cater to the kinda of events that are predominantly discussed in this very forum?

cosmos.9532:

??????
WRONG FORUM CATEGORY
Why does the hell this guild advertise themself here?
Go to LOOKING FOR…
not here :[

To be fair the guild forum seems to be more focused on WvWvW

I might give it a go, are you guys running these events around the clock with different people because I have a sporadic work schedule and work nights, naturally if you have set times I’ll have issues I suppose but one would hope with it being Open World that you would have people running all the time depending on their schedules.

Are there any TTS type guilds out there that are focusing on these Meta events?

This sums up my opinion.

keeganrms.6301:

Honestly, the community is going to be responsible for the life or death of this game. for an MMO, community is everything. Ever been to a Video Game news site lately? See the comments on GW2-related posts? Disgraceful.

What’s most puzzling to me is the posters on those comments and especially here on this forum seem to reflect the scum of the GW2 community. Bottom-feeders with no self-esteem picking fights for no reason and acting like children… All while making these hilarious claims like, “I’ve been gaming since before you were born!”

Yet every instance in every map I’ve ever played on GW2 has been the polar opposite. People seem eager to help each other. Almost no name-calling or holier-than-thou B.S.

I don’t think this game will die, per se. I think the 11-year-old keyboard warriors posing as 30-year-old sex gods will be just annoying enough to make the adults leave. The demographic will quickly shift and from there it only goes downhill.

Perhaps you mean people like me, though I am 37 but I have never claimed to be a sex god. I have been very very critical on Massively OP, and MMORPG because of my frustration over HoT Open World difficulty, the hostility I received when I dared to make a forum post venting my frustration regarding said difficulty, followed by jeering Trolls sprinkled with legitimate comments, followed by a deluge of abuse after I had the audacity to give it right back, followed by an enforced leave of absence.

So yeah, I took it upon my self to spread my message out to the gaming websites where I’m untouchable.

I’ve been keeping tabs on the forum posts though and I found it very satisfying when people started complaining about empty maps, I assumed folks like me started doing Champ Trains, or The World Boss circuit, or SW; the path of least resistance. Or left to try other games as my fiercest critics have suggested I should do.

If the White Knights turn nasty don’t be surprised if we take it out side the forums, especially if we lose our voice.

From my experience most Open Worlders are used to a certain difficulty setting, that’s why your Meta’s don’t progress far in VB, and why there are so many failed Meta events in AB,TD, and DS; add to that the fact that Meta Event fails do not provide rewards you might ask your self why bother playing the new maps.

I remember when I first started playing GW2 two years ago and I found that the Open World end game was the Queensdale Champ train, after I hit level 80 and went through an empty Orr I wondered why no one was chilling in the old end game area.

Turns out when GW2 was first released Orr used to be a grueling punishing place, if you wanted to chill and just kill big bosses, or open loot you could find a much easier time in Champ Trains, or the World Boss circuit.

Do you think history might be repeating it’s self?

Beats me I’m playing something else now, but I’ve still been keeping tabs.

This whole expansion is depressing from an Open Worlder’s perspective. Arenanet decides to nerf dungeon rewards to encourage elitists to expand into other areas of the game, while skill capping your typical Open Worlder out of their play styles.

Why when the Zerg purchased the expac and they can bring it to the Jungle?

I remember when the Wrath babies were talked down to back when we complained about the new Heroic/Raid difficulty hell even Ghost Crawler was giving us crap, you know what happened, we quit and the subscriptions tanked; then the Dragon Soul patch hit with 3 easier 5 mans and Raid Finder, less of us came back than left because we found other options. Then Pandy Land came out and they realllly over corrected.

ANets got a chance to learn from other company’s failures including the Goliath I was referring to. The only thing you guys are going to do is discourage us and then ANet will have less capital; this leads to crappier expansions with less content (this is actual history I’m referring to it happened).

Well that’s what I’ve been referring to as my people ‘the silent majority’ that liked the old ways and the old world and frankly hate the new way.

I know the feeling dude, just get a refund; that’s what I did I spoke with my wallet.

All I can say is if you were happy with the difficulty level in the original zones then you are going to hate HoT, as far as I’m concerned they skill capped me out of the game; I got a refund.

The music, and zones are the only good things I can compliment this expansion on.

If you really enjoyed the core game the way that it was with that level of difficulty then you will hate Heart of Thorns, Heart of Thorns requires you to have a skill level on par with an action based console game, if you are bad at reading enemy mechanics then you will either be one shoted or dead within seconds even with tanky builds/gear. I’m currently in the process of getting a refund as we speak.

P.S. If you do buy it and have trouble adapting to the difficulty level any thread you open in the forums will be flamed by jerks that will call you a baddie and learn to play; similar to what your going through now just asking for simple testimonials; this community is toxic as you can clearly see.

Who needs that kind of abuse play something else.

I’m done guys, you skill capped me out of the game, I’ve got a refund request in there for Heart of Thorns, hopefully you comply since it was a prepurchase and not within 30 days (though it is within 30 days of release).

I don’t think you guys have any conception of how betrayed and excluded I feel, nice looking game, you just failed to keep your average every day World Boss, Silver Waste, Champ Train player in mind.

Obviously you were looking to hook some one like me, expecting me to engage in a flame war.

I’ve decided to get back into the jungle, to become a great swords master like Lord Faren!

I only need 4 trustworthy compadres to follow me around and drag my skill deficient corpse around because I’ll be dead within seconds of being rezzed, who wants in on this fulfilling exciting opportunity?

Yes It shall be renamed Marshalltron