Guild Wars 2

She has no face.

Dont worry, it will come in the gem store for only 99 dollars a piece.

From what I have seen and heard. We have to through several stages of crafting the precursors. Each will probably cost 100+ gold each.

As said by many before, obtaining a precursor from the scavenger hunt will probably cost about the same as just buying it. Its Anet, they run a gem store, gotta make those kittens pay.

What I would rather see, is something completely shut off from the economy of the game. Especially for the new legendaries. If you ever want at least some of the items in your game to mean something. You cannot let it be bought by gems, through the conversion to gold.

What is a legendary worth if you can just buy it with a fat wallet?

Please make these new legendaries truly legendary. Completely shut off from your gem store. Something players have to work for, bleed and sweat. Not some, oh hey farm X gold or just convert your dollars to gems legendary.

But a game has to make money and I have zero confidence that the new legendaries will have much to them other that a gold sink to promote gems purchases.

OwikGall.1607:

Thaddeus.4891:

OwikGall.1607:

Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

Shoutbow and Shouts Frontliner are saying hi. Those are two of the best anti-condition build in the game and both are Warrior build.

Well then, I should get acquainted with them.

Sword/Warhorn with traited warhorn is quite awesome as well.

+ You can get the runes that remove a condi on shouts.

Its an kitten expansion. Buy it or quit, is how I look at it.

Why would you continue playing without buying the expansion?

What you should complain about is the real money into game currency. Way more pay to progress faster/winning.

I dont get the problem, it is an expansion… Did you complain about an expansion in the last MMO you played? OMG ppl buying the expansion will get 10 more levels!! Its P2W!

Because they dont want to split up the player base too much..

I want this too, but probably not gonna happen.

I would rather see HA make a return. Or a 10v10 including siege weapons.

Mysticjedi.6053:

Remember leaderboard rank doesn’t equal skill. Matchmaking believes everything comes out equal with MMR which is why a high MMR can be matched with a low MMR.

Leaderboard should resemble skill, and it clearly does not.

Orangensaft.7139:

looks like Black Citadel to me

edit:
yup just checked ingame “Ligacus Notos” area in Black Citadel
character is looking to the west

i will try to find a spot and give the screenshot for it in a new answer

Good job;) Was AFK, so not able to respond before:P

Little mini game for those who want to do it.

A person posts a screenshot with no UI and you respond with a screenshot yourself showing where I am.

Then you follow up with your own.

Maybe there is a magical portal somewhere in HoT that takes us to Cantha.

Im at like 94% 55 points and met, and beat the number 1 ranked on EU.

kdaddy.5431:

This is such a joke, do you realize how squishy necros have to be all match for lich form to be good? Also rampage makes it so warriors have less movement around the map without having to give up other needed utility skills. Also let me point out today vs a guardian he literally blocked all my attacks while in rampage form. He used his focus blocks with aegis with shelter and his elite which was renewed focus. Literally my rampage did nothing since he was waiting for it.

I love the community ability to literally complain about everything. Seriously turrets are basically dead, you cant use supply crate for anything now in group fights. You get what class is most worthless or worst topics and literally everyone has a different answer. Seriously lich form can even get moa, and rampage is only useful if your build has no stability, cant blind, and if the player puts some power in his build.

I find the many choose what happens to the meta since there in ability to learn how to fight vs other classes/skills/ change there own build. Lets blame anet for rangers ranging freely or the nade engy just free casting since everyone has to fight in the circle with there glassy build. Jeez lets forget that certain builds can have great roles in the game but no lets generalize classes as a whole such as these skills.

I was turned into Moa bird 2 times last game right after I used rampage.

Cracklerjack.4895:

Cygnus.6903:

As a matter of fact, warrior will receive some nerfs.

Not being able to take the Reflection trait and Dogged March is a direct nerf to Mace/Shield+GS builds.

Not being able to take Merciless Hammer and Burst Mastery is a direct nerf to Hambow.

Not being able to take Crack Shot and Warrior’s Sprint is a direct nerf to GS/Rifle builds.

Nerfing the passive of HS is, well, a direct nerf to HS…

So yeah, we do receive nerfs, there is no denying.

However, don’t fear, your warrior will become way more powerful. Because for the minor things we lose, we will mostly gain a lot of sorely needed damage in return. And hopefully, they will adjust our healing skills in such a way that we get more viable builds without being forced to take HS. By the way, the active of HS is getting buffed, so there is that to counter the passive nerf.

I guess with all that being the case maybe I’m in a good position of not being used to the current HS “meta” for warrior.

Might be wrong, but the number on the “nerf on HS” on stream was like what 10hp/s? + when you use it now you are immune to conditions for 6 seconds? And the active heal is larger?

I fail to see the nerf.

What I hope for is something fast paced mid range damage weapon, and some sort of ground AoE skills.

At the moment the warrior lacks both of that. All we have is the F1 on longbow, and we have zero skills that has some form of AoE ground effect other than that.

I would love if we get the spear to use on land. But somehow I doubt that will happen. If it does, the spear would have a fast attack speed, maybe somewhat like Ranger short bow? And one utility attack, and the third be some form of AoE targeted damaging skill.

I would be super happy with that.

lordkrall.7241:

Pandeh.5248:

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

No one is buying it to earn money. People buy them for the convenience of never having to worry about having the right tool again.

Or you could just convert the gems to gold, and “for a long time, not have to worry about collecting anything at all”

The convenience!

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

Anyone got a video of it?

So will having equipped bolt and howler result in both effects and footprints?

In the same weapon set, not separate.

Thanks.

eekzie.5640:

Pandeh.5248:

lordkrall.7241:

They will be turned into a currency that you can use to buy Mystic Forge stuff. Exactly like you can do now.

Can you give us a source for that statement?

It was in the stream. Pretty much it will maintain it’s current functionality, just that it’s going to be turned into an account wide currency.

So how will we obtain this new currency going forward?

lordkrall.7241:

They will be turned into a currency that you can use to buy Mystic Forge stuff. Exactly like you can do now.

Can you give us a source for that statement?

I dont know if you have read the forums, the twitch chat or the comments on Youtube.

So I ask: What will I get from the 500 skill points I have? They will be turned into “mystic forge materials”, but that can be so much.

Can you PLEASE clarify exactly what we will get?

Got a bunch of mystic forge stones lying around. Just gonna make myself 5 mystic salvage kits. The cost per salvage is 10 copper so yea. A cheaper middle ground. Wont bother with it.

Got my 10k achievement chest and 400 gems. This costs 500, so 15 gold to gems.

But what I am wondering if its worth it to use this on normal greens and blue over normal salvage kits?

Since each salvage costs 60 copper, compared to 3,5 when you buy the basic salvage kit.

Anyone?

I know its more of a convenience thing, but yea.

So ANET, should I buy 2x Bloodstone Shards? Or should I save my skillpoints? You really need to give us more info on this. Wiping hundreds of hours of saving up skill points? And all you give is this vague info? REALLY? H O K A Y.

Old skill points in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges will be converted into crafting materials for the Mystic Forge. Items and activities that were previously repeatable sources of skill points will now also provide that same crafting material.

So yea, what should I do? Very limited information we have gotten, should I spend them asap? Or wait? Crafting materials can be so much… I have enough of the kittenty ascended materials they throw around everywhere.. Turn them into 500 T6 mats, sure I would love that. But I dont see that happening.

So what to do?

I would recommend Ele, Thief or Mesmer. Those are the classes that have the most depth/most complex mechanics, and moving away from any of those will make it easy to learn a new one.

Belzebu.3912:

nGumball.1283:

pdavis.8031:

I thought they did a sequal bit called Guild Wars beyond. It bridges the gap between Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2.

This might be what you are looking for.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Beyond

It was meant to be an ’’expansion’’ and it was cancelled.

What do you mean exactly?
I played GW Beyond. Maybe you mean that was supposed to be an expansion but in the end was released as free content?

Pretty sure GW Beyond was all developed after EOTN Release.

The Utopia expansion was salvaged and reused some assets on EOTN expansion.

I tried to do it, this is where I ended up..

Hands down GW1 is the best PvP “MMO” (they did not want to call GW1 an MMO) I have ever seen.

Then we have the “burden of knowledge”, I personally prefer remembering skills over a cluster kitten of animations. Maybe I am too old for the twitch GW2 chaos happening all over the place when a 3v3 occurs.

But game play aside. Conquest is kitten, and I think every player agrees on that. I cannot understand why we still do not have a TA? Why do we not have a HA?

You guys had such a kitten good PvP in GW1 and in your sequel you dumb it down and go for a three point king of the hill.. I just do not get it. How many hours did we GW1 PvPers put into your PvP modes? I know I put 2k++ alone in PvP.

Yes, it was hard to get into another PvP mode sort of, but does that justify one single PvP mode in your next game?

I think if you had made HA 2.0 PvP in this game would of been way more popular. I have no idea why this has not been implemented.

Why no 5v5 death matches? Just add a ladder, some rewards a few emotes/armor or skins and a ladder? You would then have a community and groups of people and guilds.

But no, we are stuck with 3 point capture maps which is no fun at all IMO. And seemingly the interest in PvP in all my GW1 PvP friends no longer plays GW2. So something must have gone wrong some where…

I might sound angry, and I am to an degree but how hard can it be to make some ladders with different game modes? Your current game mode does not work and is not any sorts of fun.

And for the love of “insert X god” stop trying to cater to E sports, your game will never be e sports friendly. It is way to chaotic. Make fun PvP modes, you will never be able to compete with other real e sports.

I have enjoyed the newest map, it is the first I have played of the season 2 since I was not really interested in coming back. But it sure is better than Orr or whatever other map has ever been.

And finally we get some decent rewards for the time we put into the events! Ran around for and hour and I suddenly had 20 champ bags. I have gained 5+ % magic find from all the greens and blues in the last couple of days alone.(110% ish atm).

Thumbs up. One minor thing, I see that we now get XP for “infinite” mob spawns during events, it is a nice step and I do realize we get the chests and stuff after the event. But let them at least drop trash items:)

Now to my original intention of the post. When I transferred from EU to NA, resulted in my personal Guild bank to “loose” all its items. But I was happy to see that they had now returned. Was around 200g worth of materials in there.

For now I am pleased by the content and I like all the new collections.

As for paying around 150 gold for the episodes I have missed I do not really see me doing though. I prefer to follow the story through a Youtuber and get my fix of it there.

It is coming to a gem store near you, as with everything else this game has to offer. A gem store.

PowerCat.5738:

Kurrilino.2706:

How comes you guys are able to find time to answer to something incredible unimportant like playing an instrument but we don’t hear anything about the future
or status of the game??

Because stop asking questions and go buy gems.

Gem Stores 2

Did you see the latest Gem Store 2 update? They decided not to include their main feature Dollars to gold. Wierd huh.

Next step is to remove it and design the game around something other than RMT.

They have no way to check if you are using Keyboard/script to press buttons. So unless you do not use it to bot, you are safe.

Make a macro to click on a WP in dungeons and it acts likes you are falling :P

Maxite.6102:

So about that whole "Queensdale didn’t make people stupid!’ thing. . .

What?

Sold all my mats for 290 gold and donated them to the mystic forge.

Considering deleting my characters due to the way Gem Stores 2 is focusing all their time on the gem store.

Would love to make a video of it but I cant set it up without having terribad fps.

Sobat.8650:

Pandeh.5248:

No, but soon there might be some items in gem store to do so.

lol. Judging by your previous thread it sounds like you mystic forged a bit more than just your gold!
(To OP just buy condition duration reduction food, costs silver not gems)

It might, but no. It was 2 weeks worth of doing dungeons and world “bosses” till I got bored.

And I decided it was earned illegally since we clearly shouldn’t get rewards for doing content anymore. Just look at the latest patch, the DE’s don’t even give XP. Trash don’t drop anything, don’t care about champ train in starter zones but thats another type of content removed.

Add that to all the other DR systems in place and you have Gem Stores 2.

Sube Dai.8496:

Pandeh.5248:

No, but soon there might be some items in gem store to do so.

Wtf are you talking about?

@op no. Just direct damage. Same as protection boon which is a 33% reduction in direct damage.

Gem Store ofc, It’s the most updated feature in GW2.

No, but soon there might be some items in gem store to do so.

Darkobra.6439:

Pandeh.5248:

Please share all the spots so we can get rid of them. So GW2 can finally be the game it’s supposed to be.

HAHAHA! You mean they’ll finally get rid of Ascended, remove the grind and make combat challenging instead of just AFK and press 1? If you think THIS will make the game “the way it’s supposed to be”, you’ve never seen the manifesto or even played Guild Wars 1.

Ascended gear has it’s place in the game. Playing content that is not rewarding due to gem store does not.

Things should take time, but nerf upon nerf time and time again clearly proves> That Anet wants a strict themepark game where every single reward is daily and you are not allowed to do content more than one time each day. If you do you will be punished.

I played GW1 on and off for 5+ years and there I could do whatever content that was made by the devs, how often I wanted and when I wanted to, and get the rewards.

Gem Stores 2, the game on rails. GW1 is my favorite MMO of all the ones I’ve played.
It started as a indie company that got funded by NCsoft. Sadly they got greedy and you see the results, a mediocre gaming experience that could of been so much more if they went with expansions and did not design their sequel around RMT.

I just put my 300g into mystic forge. It was obtained through playing the game and it is no longer allowed to earn gold in GW2, without using the gem store.

So I went ahead and donated it to the forge.

Thank you Anet, for at least making you’r stance on gaining gold in game clear.

Please share all the spots so we can get rid of them. So GW2 can finally be the game it’s supposed to be.

krisztian.6513:

Its kind of not true actually. I used to do it with 226/276 mf and I even got times when i barely hit 4-5g a hour. Once i had like 8rare with a lot of scales but that happened once…

Last time I did it I had around 30 T6 and 60+ scales. + A few golds, and trash, net worth around 14g. I does rely a bit on RNG, but it is a good farm. Every time I’ve done it, it has resulted in around the same amount of mats. Gold gained depends on TP prices.

Lambent.6375:

KarateKid.5648:

That’s a decent one – I am SO tempted to post a screenshot of mine as well once I get off work – though it’s much less than yours: 5-7 GPH at current TP prices.

I’m so fed up of ANET’s unclear position on farming that it’s starting to make me not care if they nerf it.

Don’t do it.

Why not? Don’t ANET want to make a good game for the players? Or do they have something higher on the priority list behind the scenes?

Would make a video how to farm this properly. But I can’t, if a streamer/youtuber want a tour I’ll show you.

Already 3+ people here doing it, but they are doing it wrong. Too slow and ineffective to reach the said gold from title.

KarateKid.5648:

That’s a decent one – I am SO tempted to post a screenshot of mine as well once I get off work – though it’s much less than yours: 5-7 GPH at current TP prices.

I’m so fed up of ANET’s unclear position on farming that it’s starting to make me not care if they nerf it.

Go ahead, so we can finally play what the devs want. Disney land on rails. The funniest ride is capped at once a day. Here in Gem Stores 2 you, replace fun with rewards.

JustTrogdor.7892:

What is that in your screen cap where I drew the lines? Does it mean we get the shaft? LOL

Haha, nice one. Never saw it that way before^^

Already see people here in my zone, can’t wait till get get the shaft.

Recent updates clearly state we are not allowed to farm. So I will post my best farm as of now. It’s boring, it’s tedious, but It is rewarding.

150 Magic find nets me 10-15 gold per hour. I only do it 1 hour at a time when I do it. Using a magic find boost to get 150 magic find. Due to DR, I haven’t bothered trying more than an hour or two at a time. The longer you do it, the more you feel like DR is hitting in. But I think it’s just RNG, you can go 3+ rotations w/o a single T6 mat, then in two mobs you can get 3.

Adds spawns does not reward XP or drop items. I think they did at launch, not sure though.

So Anet please, nerf this as well. Can’t let us players farm these Barracuda. I think Warrior is the best way of doing this farm, you agro 5-6 mobs at a time and press 5.

Takes some time to learn how and which you can agro before they run back.

Can we get Cantha now that we have a Chinese audience that will be 2-5x times the size the rest of the world?

Never going to happen why even get you’r hopes up.

Outlaw.3421:

The one thing I am guessing is that we did not have Ascended Armor last time or Ascended Weapons I believe. So that definitely may have helped

I have one Ascended piece(Armor)(Probably 1 or 2 more accessory), and my HP was full, just like last time. I guess it might be the same and I just confuse it with the bad builds I tried before using what I did now and last time I did it.

Made it on my 4th try. However I did make it quite fast last time as well, but I just seem to think it was harder last time.

Googled the old build I used and went in, changed to the actual build I used last time and did it on the 2nd attempt.

Just wondering, it seemed harder last time.