Guild Wars 2

Originally there was the crafted rings (Jeweler).
All crafted rings were based upon a stat and could hold a jewel.
You could have a orichalcum (and lower) band with an exquisite (and lower) gem these could be 2 completely different stats

This was flexible but in ascendeds these 2 values were fixed, and no longer changeable
eventually these stats were listed as 1 set of stats instead of trinket and jewel on ascneded and this is where berserker/valkyrie comes from.

I do not think you can use instant portals anymore due to the need of getting the 3 or 4 checkpoints underway, they are now mandatory. So any portals you see do NOT port ppl up to the top instantly, as you will not get the chest , the completion or the mastery, at least this is what I heard. they arre usedtoport fllen ppl from the last checkpoints at best…

And as a mesmer I use portals anyways so I do have an added securityfeature while jumping, likewise I’d use the Wurm as necro to get back to a place if I’d thinkI’d falldown…. Actually I have 2 mesmers which arre mostly if not solely used to scale JP’s asI find it was more relaxed compared to rerunning long JP’s. I’ve seen ppl use portals and mimic almost since headstart, which is IMHO a perfect use of the mesmers abilities. else there’s also the teleport gun…. which can be used as well….

I remember a time when we did fire ele and it wiped everybody, consequently it was nerfed. then Ascneded came backa and bosses were buffed a bit, then HoT hit and everything gained 10%-25% DPS and stuff stayed the same.

NO bosses were not nerfed, it’s powercreep. This is caused by the wish for peole to grow. Only content now up to date and challenging is t3/4 fractals, solo- or duodungeons and RAIDS.

Now we found the ways to kill raid bosses fast and easy they are pretty simple as well, as are Fractals…

Powercreep. no more, no less. It will happen again when we get the next expansion

For PVE Exploration, events, world bosses and storyline some toughness makes it a lot easier… I have mostly glass characters, but I also have some with -above average toughness,- e.g. trailblazer necro, commanders/cleric guardian and some other nice “non-meta achievement runners.”

I’ve used healers and semi bunkers in quite some cases cause I liked to try it, of because the zerker meta was unavble to stay alive. due to whatever rreason (bad play, bad comp, whatever…) and as you all should know by now raids are not that difficult (at least wing1 is pretty ok…) and you can bring some toughness if needed for some added survivability.

Please do NOT change the appearance on human/norm characters.

The effect is fine on my character and removing the shine or limiting the particle effects will make it seemingly little more then a glowing crystal mask, whcih is a gem store article.

Originally all ppl got together in LA and it was extremely crowded. some ppl fled to the other 5 cities to reduce load / more clear choices in race/ appearance.

And this changed:

Nowadays ppl are split way more between al locations with crafting points and a BLTP, including the queens thingy in DR and the airship or -shop in the map above LA. More people have acces to Anything and all while just running, having (perma) bank acces, and merchants in the ank or shared slots. and from the vanilla area’s we went to HoT and we now have maps whicih are unacessible with a vanilla account, F2P’s and so on.

I notice a lot of ppl loiter in the Aerodrome, and the better part of high end PvE-ers play only RAids and some t4 fractals as it seems meaniong they never get to the old area of LA with the bank, crafting stations and the BLTP…

Mostly cause those ppl have Ascnededs on all (or most of their character) and are earning them through RAIDS anyways. making any need for them to return to the “social area’s” pointless.. Most people play on fixed groups with TS/Discord anyways making the social experience way different compared to the start of gw2.

Of my huge friends list a good portion still logs in daily. Some return for new PvE content, some do not….. Some have found paces in other games as well leaving Gw2 temprarily (well with 8 weeks between new conetnt it means they are playing 1-2 weeks of new content and afterwards they’re gone again.)

JaddynnStarr.5201:

Money is easy here…
1 Do AB meta (salvage all, sell mats)
2 in-between do daily fracs (salvage all, sell ectos and encryption boxes etc)
3 repeat AB meta (salvage all, sell mats)
4 do more fracs till dailys done. (salvage all, sell ectos and encryption boxes etc)
5 do AB meta again (salvage all, sell mats)
6 in-between harvest rich nodes, sell all mats gained.
7 do AB meta again (salvage all, sell mats)
8 in-between craft ascended mats to sell.

if you do it right, in 6 hours(doesn’t have to be consecutive time) you can easily make 70-80 gold… after a month, you got enuff to buy any precursor/legendary (minus eternity of course) you want.

I am at 24k AP, have 5 legendaries, 11 characters in full ascneded now an I ran a few SW trains (maybe a week total time (that’s about 30-35 hours for me)) and I loot AB if I’m in the map, but multiloot is such a sad way of needing to play a game I tend to shun it.

I found I have most things in this game, and with 20 l80s even alts became boring at a point. As such I’ve started to just run around and do what I feel like.

I sometimes join raids, and I have enough experience after close to 10k hours ingame to just wing it… as such I have a few LI’s and ppl sometimes call me as a filler where I generally end up doing specific tasks Condi in VG, or secondary healer in some cases
I do training runs with my guild to learn our happy bunch of casuals a bit of high end gaming.
I sometimesrun a t2-t4 fractal often cause ppl need achievements,
I even started to play PvP just for giggles. I’m dolyak nowand did some ranked games with little succes, mostly cause I refuse to play OP guard at this time as I find ppl only abled to play the easiest proffesion less than capable,And I tell myself I should be better then just cheesing everything, consequently It’s only for giggles as the gamemode is clearly broken.
I notice myself returning to WvW again after HoT lost it’s glamour and the need to get further masteries and expeireince… I find balance here destroyed…as well…
I have 9 times map completion,and I have 10 or 12 gifts left.
I made a guild, captured the hall , leveled it, became scribe and decorated it and sometimes I invite friends or people interested to have a look around.
I do not care for money much anymore and it shows as each time I have a new thing I want to get, I spend the bit of gold I have instantly….

I bought a second account and I’m reliving my glory time… redoing everything from scratch…. running dungeons and fractalsin exotics with basic builds

It’s fun…. again.

Been there Done that, and still loving it

The downscaling has 1 quirk:

Zerker still makes sure you can kill stuff fast, if you look at healthpools and toughness, they are awkwardly low… which tend to be interesting as low levels will be targetted in dungeons primarily then lvl 80’s… further convincing peopleof the awesomeness of the lvl 80. which is just an illusion. If I forget to dodge at the final boss in SE p1 I get oneshotted, same for lupi if I fubar it or at Aplha when you are distracted and forget to dodge after 2 counts.

Of course you still have ascneded, masteries, specialisations..,

Most people do not know there is a power cap in all “below lvl 80 dungeons” most notably in those of 55 and lower…. dungeoneers & dungeon masters should know this cap in power-attrib-points can be trivilized using +x% dmg traits/foods/sigils/runes and so on.

• sigil of night: +10%
• sigil of x slaying: +10%
• potion of x slaying : +10%
• runes of the scholar: +10%
• GotL: +15%

This is not counting:

• Fury
• 25 stacks of might
• quickness,
• alacrity,
• banners,
• EA, spotter, Assasins Presence
  and so on

Also an optimized lvl 80 group… (PS Zerk, Chrono, Heralds, Druid, Tempest) will outperform a lot of other compositions….. Especially all groups having 1 or more lower levels… or groups not havig acces to HoT….

Still waiting for a map with only elites and champs where all formerly champs are legendary, with boonstrip/corruption, serious condi pressure instead of the 2 stack bleed dangers and of course rising agony…… Mursaat will slay the intruders…

Ring of Fire Here we come!

TL;DR:
Your laptop is probably bottlenecked on the CPU end… not directly at the GPU, this said 630M is no gaming solution either….

Long stories:

For GPU (Graphics Card/Solution):

• A 630M peformance index on PassMark is 675 and is about 3 times Guild Wars 2 minimum requirement being a Geforce 7800 (GTX @ 225, GT @ 193 and GS I @182 passmark).
• The 7800GS was even produced with a AGP buss a long time ago… with 256Mb or 512 Mb of ram.
• The screen matters, the 7800 series was made with resolutions of 800*600 (480 K pixels 1024*768 (820Kpixels) and 1280*960 pixels (1.2M pixels) in mind. Not resolutions of 1600*900 (1.4Mpixels) or 1920*1080…(2M pixels)
• And as such a 7800 GTX would perform on 800*600 or 1024*768 as a 630M will perform on a 1600*900 or a 1920*1080 given all other ardware and bs capabilities woud be the same.

For CPU (Processor)
Facts:

• Most cheaper Laptops use i3 or i5 processors with 2 cores, sometimes hyperthreaded allowing for 4 threads,
• These 4 Hyperthreaded threads are not actual cores so core computing power needs to be shared to allow 4 threads.
• There are i5’s with 4 real cores, most i7’s also have 4 cores, they’ll provide more performance.
• Most of the performance is limited per clockspeed… roughly said total computing capability of a laptop is clockspeed multiplied by the numer of threads.
• In case of gw2 the requirements are such the game-engine is limited to 2 game threads and needs 1 support thread……
• This said 2 basic threads or 2 cores will bottleneck the game somewhere, but having more then 4 cores or hyperthreading on these cores will not substanttially improve performance with the gw2 engine as it is now at this time (sept 2016)
• The forementiones kept in our minds we can say CLOCKSPEED is the only requirement for gw2 on recent PC’s & Laptops.
• This leaves the fact most CPU’s made for mobile platforms have lower power usage and lower clockspeeds to allow for better battery efficiency (comparable to undervolting high end Systems, whcih tends to produce less heat and less power usage AND less need for cooling.
• Cooling being an interesting thing to look at as cooling is achieved through air flow which is restricted in the slim casing of many if not all notebooks.
• The high hardware resource requirements of games mean CPU’s and GPU’s are causing a high load on used components and those components taxed a lot consequently are producing a lot of heat.
• Hotter hardware nowadays is downthrottled to allow lower heat production, AND causes lower PERFORMANCE. (As such undervolted systems tend to run in turbo mode more stable and longer allowing for a performance boost, this goes for OC-able GPU’sand CPU’s alike)
• Laptops tend to get dirty on the inside due to dust and dirt accumelating in the ventilatio ducts inside the laptop case. Due to the confined space this will hamper cooling a lot, with thee unfortunate but logical problem a small case is alsodifficult to clean.

• I cannot look inside your Laptop from afar, but things like AV, and other applications can really slow down a computer, even more when the computer isn’t the high end workbeast.
• Unneccesary software taxes the hardware of your PC further, allowing for less performance still….
• So if you want to maximize performance, do not multitask, or use a clean boot, and -only- run gw2, and your -needed- drivers, if you are lucky you can fit in TS3 or discord and a maybe a browser window….

Gw2 itself:
*As for ingame settings run low(est) settings

• change the camera settings to give yourself the smallest viewarea (you can minimize this with the sliders)
• make sure you have 1 level of postprocessing above minimum, (shows circes and mechanics)
• make sure reflections are terrain and sky only (MAX!),
• no shadows
• limit character limit to minimum and quality to 1 level above minimum….
  In the end you should get a playable framerate.

• for gForce-driver:*
  Make sure your computer uses the 630 and it is set up for maximum performance in your settings…

With regard to the 60FPS
I have a i7 hex core OC-ed @ 4.0 Ghz with 2 GTX 780’s (stock)(passmark 8017 each) in SLi with 32 Gb or Ram and so on and I’m limited to 35-45 FPS in cities and events(and WvW) can bottleneck it even further, Max framerate is around 125-140 FPS but this is by no means standard or representative in maps while mapping I could be around 85-105 FPS but I cap it at 60 to reduce load.

Yes: My system is on high settings, supersampling and with multiple applications running but the System has enough capability to run all this simultaneously.

just for the idea some other comparison numbers for GPU’s
- Highest passmark gaming cards: Geforce 1080: 12164 (approx $600/piece)
- Previous generation high gaming: Geforce 980: 9734 (approx $420)
- Highest mobile gaming: Geforce 1080M
- Previous generation mobile gaming: Geforce 980M: 5584

for affordable cards
- Affordable gaming card Geforce 1060: 9371 (Approx $200)<- compare this with 980 above)
- Previous generation gaming Geforce 960: 5913 (approx $170)
- Affordable mobile gaming: Geforce 1060M: ????
- Previous generation mobile gaming: Geforce 965M: 2935
- Affordable previous generation mobile gaming: Geforce 960M: 1163

Haven’t found numbers for 1060M,1070M,1080M

The numbers are taken from Nvidia GPU’s as I tend to see way more Nvidia mobile GPU’s in gaming laptops then I see AMD solutions. Intel solutions are improving but still not really suited to Gaming, though it is not impossible.

For GW2 on phone: do you have 10 thumbs?

#1 Simply said: All content is end game content.
#2 Simply said: It’s a game so it should be fun… If it isn’t….?

Possibilities to work on:
PVE world:
- Completion (legendaries or not; a golden diot next to my name is precious)
- JP’s & Goggles
- Achievements (Kills, and others)
- Loot runs (SW, Cursed Shore, FGS, Dry Top, Hirathi Hinterlands Centaur farm)
- World Bosses (yes boring, but sometimes nice to do something requiring little to no attention)
- Alts (21 slots, 20 lvl 80s)
- Legendaries (I have 5, scepter, liongbow, back, 2 times sword (Twice told Legend))
- Skin hunt (I own a lot, but not all)
- Masteries (170)
- Specialisations (unlocked on all 20 lvl 80’s)

Instances:
- Story (PS, LS S2, HoT, LS S3)
- Dungeons (DungeonMaster, Dungeoneer)
- Fractals (Ad Infinitum)
- Raids (Legendary Armor, at least precursor for now)

WvW
- Server gain
- Rank Gain (9999?)
- Reward tracks

-PvP
- rank up
- rewards
- E Sports?

AP hunt
Dailies
- PvE,
- WvW,
- PvP,
- Fractals,
- Bloodstone Fen,
- Dungeons,
- Ascneded Mats

Weekly
- Raids
- Guild Missions

Other:
- Build up your home instance (missing any nodes?)
- Build up a personal guild hall (now lvl 17, with some nice decorations.)
- Get all dyes
- Get all skins
- Get a tag and play commander in PvE or EotM, if you know you could try WvW
- Get a guild of you own (could be combined with personal Guild Hall)
- All crafting disciplines on max…

This is a good list to give you some ideas… and no gold farming isn’t in it, This as it is only such a small and unimportant thing ingame. Unless you want to buy everything from the BLTP… I think I sunk 15k gold into my guild hall, and my account is worth ~60k gold according to GW2 Efficiency, I own ~30 gold on myy account though in actual gold.

Simply said:
You need a basic computer with

• highest a speed per core as possible with ~4 REAL cores…
• enough RAM to play the game (8Gb or -maybe- more)
• an SSD for fast load times, (this is a chip based storage unit whcih can replace your HDD, if you store a lot I’d suggest a secondary Hard drive)
• The graphics unit is less important, but a Nivida Geforce GTX1060 (or GTX960) would be perfect note that this still a mid to high end GPU provided you play on 1920*1080 pixel screen(s)

CPU: Central processor (a.k.a. your computer.) (framerate limiter for GW2, the faster the CPU in gw2: the more images the game can provide and consequently: the more fluent it looks, this is quite abnormal.)
Intel i5 or i7 (fastest clock available, within budget) you could choose a i5 6600 K or 17 6700K version but you would likely need to invest in a gaming/enthousiast motherboard

MoBo: (neccesary to join components together)
A motherboard compatible with your CPU, (4th generation is said to be easier to overclock compared to the 6th generation)If you do not want this get a 6600 or 6700. A 6th gen will have all new features (m.2, USB 3.1, DDR4) . Gaming motherboards and high/enthousiant gear can enable overclocking if your processor is unlocked (K thingy) If you do not want to overclock, do not overspend on your motherboard.

RAM: Volatile storage (your computers short term memory, very fast but instantly empty without power(allows the use of your computer)
Check your amount and TYPE of DDR slots! This as the Dimms need to physically fit)
(also important when thinking about coolers…)
min 8 Gb ram (16 optional but not really neccesary) 4th generation was dependent on old hardware if I’m right DDR3 memory and newer on DDR4.
Memory allows for more or bigger programs to be ran.

STORAGE: You computers long term memory… (allows long time storage of your computer)
min 256 GB SSD ( well more if you want to do more on the PC other then playing gw2) M.2 SSD’s will use a direct buss connection and will be significantly faster then basic SATA SSD’s (about a factor 3-4 speedgain in transfers. transfers also dictate you loading times in map. For storage of personal files like photo’s, audio(music) or movies I’d recommend a HDD, as HDD’s are still cheaper per megabyte.

GPU: Graphics Processor (neccesary for images on your screen & Framerate-limiter on all games BUT GW2)
DO NOT DEPEND ON THE INTEGRATED GPU in your CPU!
I’d suggest a Geforce GTX960/1060 or AMD comparable (= for 1920*1080 (full HD)
(GTX 970/1070 if you have a 1440p (2560*1440) or a 980/1080 for a 4k screen. (3840*2160 UHD)) prices will go up rapidly (200-240 for a 960/1060, 400-450 for a 970/1070 , 650-700 for a 980/1080) if you are only playing gw2 for the next 5 years you could get away with a GTX 950 or comparable GPU as well I guess.

in importance for GW2:
CPU>SSD>GPU>MOBO>RAM
in importance for nearly all other games
GPU>CPU>SSD>MOBO>RAM

Lastly: Of course you still need a box to put it in, a fan for cooling you CPU and a powersupply capable to run you PC…

The fuanction might be aware of it but if 365 days is hardscripoted it doesn’t matter

If I’m right the birthday this year is a day early for people who made it before 29 februari.,

Most likely caused by the game not compensating for leap years. so it will be at march 1st for the years to come then on feb 29 next leap year (2020) and afterwards it should be on feb 28th…(2021)
if I extrapolate this correctly. until next leap year (e.g. 2024) when it will shift to february 27th (2025) after the leap year has passed. We’ll see if I’m right in a year or 10…

EULA:

10. SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

You acknowledge that ArenaNet may in its reasonable discretion provide subsequent versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches related to any part of the Service.

Well you actually agreed to the game being changed…. and you did so on accepting teh EULA at 1st install.

QLi.3742:

How much does a 1 copper ore cost in €?

10 euro/dollar = 800 gems and 800 gems = ~200gold so:
10 euro/dollar = ~200 gold

1 copper = ~1 s, so 20000 copper = 200 gold,
so 10 euro = 20000 copper, so1 euro-/dollarcent =20 copper

In teh end I get to this figure:
1 copper = 0.05 euro-/dollarcent.

Not taking into consideration revaluation of the monetary values taken at approx 13:50 CET 27-8-1016 just for completeness actual values 800 gems was 205 gold at the time, and 1 copper ore cost 1 s 4 copper.

We had 4 years of mainly uptime with 2 intermissions,
Most games go offline for a couple of hourse weekly, biweekly or monthly.

I guess you have gotten spoiled, by having this amount of luxury and padding here at A-Net

I agree this doesn’t cover bugs and the occasional disabled event, but still bugs and temp diables happen at any other company.

I’m pretty much against mounts, but if you want to get an overview of the opinions:

Regarding mounts please use this:
http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Mounts-merged
Listing 1600 posts of people somtimes for and mostly against mounts.

General consensus tends to be a minor amount of players wants mounts,
If so, they often, but not always, want speed buffs and sometimes combat options.

The majority is against, most of the time stating as COMMON reasons against mounts:

• Imagine -all- people getting a mount for an achievement….It would be horrid!
• Server lag, Servers lag down to single digt frame rates on high pop numbers as is.
• no need for clutter, People already frown at wings, now imagine placing winged horses griffons and other big beasts underneath them…
• lore violation, (only -enemies- in GW1 used to ride animals, they were used as pack animals however.)
• unfairness (P2W), ESPECIALLY with speedboosts/ combat enhancement /options if gem store.
• the problems with implementation of mounts (A moa for Asura? Then place a Charr on it…. don’t think so….)

Also the lack of neccesity for mounts due to:

• WP’s
• speed buffs/ perma speed/sigil speed
• gliding/ teleports and and so on, as alternative modes of travel
  Is a fair point,

Waiting to have fun…. maybe…?

this would cover it better. I cannot do anythig with this detector, it tells me something is up, but doesn’t give me a direction, or a distance, it doesnt give a map indication so… How am I to figure out where to go? RNG it? Pls, no… As that would be pretty bad.

I wouldn’t mind the gift of last year o be modified to include more dyes, or get another dye pack with recent dyes. I had all dyes except 2 when I got my gift… Now I’ve got some left… could salvage those for pigments, but I doubt it would be a good choice.

I’d like to compare the LS S3 now released, to the other content…

Living story 3 -part 1- was released with 4 story steps, a new map piece, a new PvP map, a new mastery and options to get new ascended trinkets in -any- existing stat you want…. it is infinitely repeatable.

HoT was released with 4 new maps all being event maps…. it added 1 PvP map and quite some stats both in PvE and in PvP it contains 14 story steps. options for 8 new stats and it is infinitely repeatable

Living story season 2 (parts 1-8) were released with 8*3 story steps, 2 new maps (SW and DT), and options to get ascneded trinkets in 2 stats(nomad, sinister). it is infinitely repeatable

Living story season 1 saw the introduction of 1 permanent map (Southsun Cove), and 2 event maps (Queens Gauntlet and Labyrinthine Cliffs) which both returned once and were then removed unill this point in time… 3 new stats (apothecary, celestial, zealot) All these Living Season 1 story steps AND events are gone and will (likely) never be repeatable.

I’m happy with the content released, this was good after a bad drought, I prefer more content and ANY content based upon a schedule would be a good thing again…

Lack of builds only exists for those only logging into Metabattle for builds, instead of concepts…..
Bringing your own ideas and buids tends to be fun. Variants on the basic concept will catch people offguard in PvP and WvW.

In PvE Berserker will stay Meta for DPS builds as the stat combination is optimal for DPS builds
In PvE Viper’s surpassed Sinister as the main DOT solution.
In PvE Commanders and several other types of gear found their way into tanking

In PvE Zealots tends to work nicely for healing support builds with DPS
Magi’s (no offensive stats) became meta for maxed out healing with no DPS, in group content. Healing contributes now to paticipation.
Healing in combination with condition builds is now a viable option though condition main /healing main /precision and concentration would be a worthwhile addition.

CC has gained performance, and lost performance…. CC’s are usefull for breakbar’s but interupts tend to be diificult if not impossible on champions now.

I haven’t been as active in WvW but it’s very much ALIVE… with th expected influx of new and returning players for LS S3 this will get a minor boost

HoT added a lot of other interesting options though…. GL.

Donari.5237:

Pax, that’s awful. I’ll take my motion sickness from that spinning helix any day over seizures. I think the solution for you is to go in with others, as suggested above. You stand and face your camera at the wall at the bottom while the others clear the helix. Make one of them a mesmer (if you’re NA, I can help there). Then before Faolain is engaged at the top, the mesmer portals you up so you never need to look at the helix.

I don’t know this will work, as I have not seen a portal used in that location, but it could get you further on in the story. And you can shut your eyes during the cinematics, some of which have some fairly trippy flashing parts. Perhaps be on voice chat so a friend can tell you when it’s time to move on.

I have found a lot of ways to work around my condition in the last 20 years, while gameing, lowering contrast and brightness being 1 of the methods and sunglasses being another.

I actually finished all content in PvE except some RAIDS bosses , am rank 800+ in wvw, and a m a pretty bad PvP player sometimes loityering for a few seconds and then returning to gameplay beause my brain isn’t working

I actually did migraine and prefer condi builds as a couple of seconds of downtime still allow me to provide dmg… in lingering conditions.

And even though I appreciate the offer: I have my account in EU….

Thanks for reading the story and it is not to ask for sympathy but to show the effects of Epilepsy in daily life.

Concrete the things causing PHOTOSENSITIVE seizures are:

(repeditive) changing of colors and intensity of images….

This exites the ocular centers. Causing “stress” which in itself OR when gone tends to cause the attacks. As such there are people who have the same reaction to smell, or sounds , tastes, being scared or even touch… perceived by the person whcih cause a unwanted agitation of the nervous system causing an invoulountary release of neurotransmitters causing a chain reaction in a part or the whole brain, effectively disrupting normal functionality of the brain. The location of the reaction also dictates the type of seizure and the amount of brain tissue affected the severity.

This can trigger a seizure whcih can depend in severity from loss of consiousnes for a few seconds in light cases to complete convulsing with total loss of consiousness for minutes for people affected in bad cases.

I personally suffer both types of attacks but the bad scenario is triggered by a more mild form and there is no idea in the medical community why my attcks sometimes progress into worse forms and why they sometimes do not.

No 2 forms of epilepsy are the same, thus due to the fact everybodies brain is unique and the location dictates the effects, and noone has any knowledge how the deeper mechanics function at this time… (brains are still terra incognita)

Epilepsy has more then 2 forms, actually most are classifiable in 5-6 forms. The precise mechanics are unknown, as are precise triggers and reasons it occurs, in all cases the form of epilepsy is unique to the individual suffering form this disorder.

People with epilepsy are not sick, unless when having a seizure. It cannot be transmitted, and tends to be related to either natural occurance or damage to the nervous-system due to physical damage, trauma, lack of oxygen, substance use, genetic sensitivity is said to be a factor in the chance of developing epilepsy during a lifetime. Epilepsy attacks can be fatal in very rare cases.

Nordom.3485:

Video games are generally something you shouldn’t be doing at all if you have any form of epilepsy, as far as I’m aware. Hell, simply staring at a screen is discouraged and I doubt you didn’t know that. When you willingly do something that can trigger your condition, then that’s on you unfortunately

Well… I suffer from regular seizures… I did for the last 18 years, and they’ll not go away.

• I’m not allowed to drive vehicles, by law
• I’m not allowed to work (heavy) machinery, by law
• I’m not allowed to go out at night to go and have fun till 02:00 in the morning (I need to live a nice organized life with enough sleep)
• I’m not allowed to suffer stress, cause the -removal- of stress tends to trigger seizures
• I’m not allowed to drink more then 3-4 cups of coffee a day as I tend to react to it
• I cannot travel -alone- in public transportation due to chances of seizures, I’ve been robbed once while in a state of seizure… I got a fine when I reported it cause I couldn’t show my ticket, guy got caught and fine was invalidated, I even got an apology from the conductor of the train. Mostly thanks to people paying attention…
• I shouldn’t be outside when there is a thunderstorm
• I shouldn’t go to bars/disco’s/festivals/concerts
• I shouldn’t drink alcohol or use anything mildly stimulating (I know ppl who get seizures after 2 cans ofd energy drink, 0.5l, but still) no drugs, when recieving medication I need to doublecheck the side effects If I can use it.
• I’ve been prescribed medication by physicians which could have killed me in quite a few cases.
• I cannot go swimming without supervision. nor take a bath alone.
• Car headlights and other strange lighting effects tend to dangerous after sundown.
• I shouldn’t go to the cinema or watch TV, especially no videoclips….
• I shouldn’t be in place people make photographs with flashlights/ phones w. flash
• I’ve been in hospital emergency rooms due to seizures repeating well over 40 times, and my wife has been asked to come and say goodbye for the last time twice now.

And now I’m not allowed to play a game behind my PC or sit and watch a nice romantic movie with my wife or a nice cartoon with my kids? Please… I shouldn’t play 24/7…

What should I do with my time? Sit behind daisies and read a book? The seizures will not go away. Problem is unneccesary triggers… I have 4 places in Tyria I avoid. I’ve played this game for 9600 hours (granted there are pretty many afk hours included in that figure) and suffered a seizure twice…. both were directly related to on screen effects. I’ve played computergames for the past 34 years now, sometimes there are bad games, I find I cannot play first person shooters, Simulators (racing/ flying and so on) and sometimes (in-game) movies tend to be particularly horrid.

Outside gaming I have a seizure every couple of hours (absences) when I’m okay, every couple of dozen minutes when not obiding by the rules, and (generalising) partial complex attacks every couple of weeks, mostly after triggers in most cases, most often -NOT- related to computers, I have a life , a family, a wifew and 2 kids and I cannot just sit and do nothing.

My worst seizure was in februari 2008 when I got 8 tonic clonic attacks in series… I nearly died that time… Doctors tried to stop attacks and at the 5th one my wife was called to say goodbye, and after 7 they saw no hope… at all… I lost more then 5kg of bodyweight in 7,5 hours, mostly loss of fluid. Like I said I had 8 that time and I suffered muscle aches for 5 weeks, and leaving unable to walk for 14 days.

I’ve crushed molars, broken ribs and other bones, destroyed my shoulders and knees during seizures. It’s has been deemed impossible to find a decent medicaton in my case and its inoperable. Alternative options have been evaluted a longer time ago and recently and have been rejected twice.

I have severe photoseensitive epilepsy as well and I’m having way less problems compared to 2 -3 years ago….. my nemisis stil is the flamethrower engi in tunnels…. this as they turn light on light off, remarkebly I do not have much problems with air ele’ss while normal (real-life) lightning ends to send me into seizures extremely often especially in dawn/dusk or nights…..

Decent solutions are lowering brightness/contrast on screen allowing for less agitation, and giving you more treshold. Other options are filters, (like wearing sunglasses) while gaming and taking breaks every 30 minutes, being well rested and so on… You should know most of these yourself. Arenanet cannot understand the implications of what you’re saying. and I reported this a very long time ago.

I feel for you , and I am aware of the cosequences of what you bringing to light

some background:
1 in every 150 people have epilepsy, but photosensitive epilepsy is pretty rare, about 1-1.25% of people having epilepsy have photosensitive triggering so 1 in 15000 people have our condition.

However studies report 7-10% of all healthy children and adolescents having clear measurable reactions to phototriggering which have reported as fast switching between light and shadow (driving a vehicle or bike under trees), lightning , stroboscopes, flashlight from camera’s and phones, fast switching images especially with wide varying lighting conditions. Sufficient triggering can cause seizure like effects, loss of consiousness, memory loss and potentially convulsions… These effects have little chance to cause significant damage other then falling damage or a bite on tongue or cheek and a lot of muscle aches in case of actual convulsions.

WikiPedia link regarding Photosensitive epilepsy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy
More concrete numbers can be found on the German page…

Well if you look at it all:

• only the basic vanilla stats are available easily
• then you have the dungeon stats: rabid/dire/shaman/magi, stats easily available from salvaged dungeon gear
• then you have southsun release stat Aphotecary, which is account bound if I’m correct, but I’m notsure about it tbh…
• then you have the zephyrite introduced all stat Celestial, not tradable and TIMEGATED
• then you have “new stats” Zealot, Sinister, Nomads for LS S2 and previous story parts, crafted only, but since LSS2 account bound.
• then you have HoT stats, new stats v2.0 Commander, Minstrel, Viper, Trailblazer, Wanderer, Crusader, and some. account bound to minimize non HoT people getting new stats…

Celestial has proven to be virtually indestructible in PvP and WvW, Time gate was there to not make it easy for ppl to aquire the set. then again 2 months to make gear for 1 character purely based on timegate is beyond me.
HoT is required for easy acces to HoT stats… the jewels are tradable,but the rest is a pain, but HoT. I can imagine Arenanet making a way to incentivize players to buy HoT…..

I use Plain recipe’s to craft HoT armor and change stats where needed… this works for me, saving me 60 linseed oils and the some

I understand you seem have problems wanting to start crafting stuff, My suggestion would be get your Asncended weapons, join raidin’ groups which allow exotic armor (few/training guilds and earn money until you an buy your armor and trinkets. It’s a very long way around, but you do not want the easy way…..

Said being a level 500 weaponsmith, Huntsman, Artificer, Armorsmith, leatherworker & tailor, while also being lvl 400 Scribe, Jeweler and cook.

The crafting system in gw2 is pretty easy, except for scribe and cook which have a lot of chained recipe’s…
Jeweler is mostly useless, as ascneded trinkets/amulets and rings can be earned so fast in normal gameplay

So for 60% of the stats you’ll be crafting, or a very fanatical RNG box hunter.
If you make ascneded or get ascended via alternate routed you’ll still need lvl 400 crafting to make insignia’s or inscriptions… more weapons and trinkets can be earned in raids.. and will likely appear with ls s3,

I doubt your post has any use just before a new release being a major part of PvE story and lore.

When everything is played and all has been seen we can objectively say this game is dead. Whcih IMHO it isn’t. Yes many people are playing other things, are on holidays or are login in less frequent, but as this isnt a subscription bound game it is never dead, it will die when the servers are shut down, not before.

They have had the honor of showing them for the past 2 years… Actually I have one and haven’t showed it… I tried 75 times and got it in the end. that’s no act of accomplishment, but pure RNG in my case.

I found her in the vicinity if I remember… but Who knows… strange things happen

you can sell it back and regain a bit of the lost cash… the vendor value is higher then the salvage or forge value. And it ’s a skin unlock but the skin will need to be transmuted whcih is a leftover form the old system where you neeeded a second item to fuse them for stats from 1 and visual/skin from the other.

I actually lost most of the originals by transmuting them onto armors

I think the system works okay, is more transparant compared to the old methods. And the “We need the elite spec to survive” might be a reality looking at META builds but for WvW, PvP and honestly in PvE world/exploring you tend to find decent builds in the classic vanilla builds which will lose 2-10% dmg but are often WAYYY more sustainable.

I still run my PU condi mesmer, Terrormancer, Hammer/ mace&focus shout guardian, There is a slight preference for tempest over ele, herald over rev and daredevil over thief but shout heal warrior has it uses still, and can be combined with berserker if you really want to, quickness and fast attacks for CC’s work, though you’ll lose out on support.

I think There is a huge list of builds whcih are still nice, and If you are not solely focussed on “RAID is all” you’ll see…
You can still use foods and runes from HoT, or stats… Viper PU condimesmer? Is nice, in PvE as well… Real bunker necro for WvW? Trailblazer/rabid necro… your dire idea’s just became obsolete … or Minstrels/clerics Guardian for WVW frontlining & healing… it can be done.

Vanilla is more then vanilla was. at least for condi and support

I’d like an option to add some critters.

Whites or greens/yellows No loot/xp but at least something to allow some basic movements and practice hits on, other then the arena of course.

I could see use for a menagerie and allow pets…&/ animals give people to add a pet in the guild hall so they can have their own pet bunny or dog or whatever. these should be bigger then mini’s but not have the combat functionality of ranger pets. These pets should in no way interfere with the arena of course.

I play what I want when I want it.
I play most things how I want it, except for instanced content.
I am fully aware of the differenced between PvE, PvP and WvW.
I am aware there are meta builds, focussed on maximum DPS.
I am also aware there are times you need to “experiment” and as such I’ve ran my elementalist fire/water/tempest if my party was struggling to stay alive, or used Arms/tactics/berserker on my warrior if I lacked a PS warrior. It’s also why I have accces to healing food on my ranger, as well as 2 staves.

I have Power and condition builds for all proffesions except engineer and revenant. This includes a condi ele, and other semi usefull build I like to play. I have a bunker necro and abunker guardian, a support warrio an support necro, just because sometimes I do not wan to be full meta…. but just a(ny) player of a game.

Meta is powerfull if you can understand the concepts. You yourself are mopre powerfull also understanding there is an end to META. meta begins where you need someting the builds were made for. Meta ends if you need to be creative in makling a solution which is out of the box…

Meta is good. The ability to go beyond basic meta even more so. It creates a full player from a copycat, a copycat being able to deal max dmg, but still a copycat
And I agree: better you stole it good, then made it bad.

Old dungeon meta showed you needed different builds to optimize kills. swap;ping weapons skills and even traits was more normal then weird…

This final remark shows meta is boss dependent, not class dependant… but not only boss, also party dependant… whcih is something most forget,

IndigoSundown.5419:

If the unlimited harvesting tools are account based, what’s my motivation to buy shared slots?

Or more tools ?

I made a guild hall (actally I had a guild for storage already), and am trying, at the moment to unlock my arena… the guild hall is now lvl 13.

It’s a huge time and mat sink and sometimes really frustrating, but I made a room and planted some trees…. And I feel at peace while cultivating my personal area… I’m wondering if I should open it up…

IMGUR link to some imgs…
http://imgur.com/a/Hx2eC

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

2 gold for dailies is not much…. It’s the same as doing 1 dungeon path a day 18 months ago… (before nerf), thisnetted 1.26 gold and gear generally worth more then 2 gold and took about 10 minutes (CoF1 ?) whcih is the same duration as Dailies.

It doesn’t compare to basic income of dungeon/ story/ Fractals /Raids
Having 100 or 1000 gold doesn’t say anything either, but people only see the main stats…

I make about 10-25 gold/ day doing dungeon and dailies, I don’t raid much, play little WvW and less PvP…
I own generally less then 100 gold, most of the time I have 25-50 gold…

However I have an account value of ~ 70k gold according to GW2 efficiency, having:

• 21 slots with
• 20 lvl 80’s
• 20 with ascended weapons/trinkets and backs and
• 10 chars full ascneded armor,
• 5 legendaries,
• a lvl 10+ personal guildbank with guildhall,
• a mostly unlocked homeinstance
• all but 18 dyes unlocked
• all crafting unlocked (yes including scribe 400)

I doubt money is really interesting…. If I would have stayed with 1 character or 4 or 5, maining only my first not being interested in more I could have had 100k gold by now, but I didn’t. I played the game…

As for inflation…

3 months in I bought Storm, to make the meteorologicus for 38 gold….
15 months in I bought the Leaf of Kudzu for 350 gold
44 months in (3 weeks ago I finished 2 bolts well acctually the second)this precursor was bought and set me back ~ 950 gold , the crafted one just a bit less expensive (800 gold or so) these are axpensive, but not to extremes….

And armor…. yes….
At start Armor was expensive so ppl started running CoF and got Berserker which was mostly free… runes were not a real issue and meta was 6 ruby orbs… and scholar if you were rich. this was ~ 3 gold for an armor and runes… Weapons from dungeons….Basic ideas about sigils was force and bloodlust these sigils were 3-4 gold… for the set.
Gearing your character was mostly expensive due to trinkets. ruby jewels cost 20 gold a set… for about 30-50 gold you could gear you level 80…..

Nowadays we have ascendeds. And ascended armor costs 550-800 gold, or you do raids and buy ’m cheap, weapons 100-120 gold each, sigil of force now costs 12 gold. runes are 25-60 gold,or dungeon bound.
trinkets can be bought just by logging in…. doing some guild missions and fractals…
for about 1250-1600 gold you can gear a level 80… unless you want HoT-stat trinkets then you need to grind out content like a tunneldrill. it feels how it seems a long dark process…
If you do not wish Ascneded you can go exotic with ascneded trinkets, but if you want ne stats you will pay ~120 gold for your armor and 20 gold per exotic weapon not counting trinkets and runes, in the end you now pay 250 gold for an exotic character…

So compared with start of the game stuff rose in price by 500-2500% only to be Meta…

2 gold for dailies is not much…. It’s the same as doing 1 dungeon path a day 18 months ago… (before nerf), thisnetted 1.26 gold and gear generally worth more then 2 gold and took about 10 minutes (CoF1 ?) whcih is the same duration as Dailies.

It doesn’t compare to basic income of dungeon/ story/ Fractals /Raids
Having 100 or 1000 gold doesn’t say anything either, but people only see the main stats…

I make about 10-25 gold/ day doing dungeon and dailies, I don’t raid much, play little WvW and less PvP…
I own generally less then 100 gold, most of the time I have 25-50 gold…

However I have an account value of ~ 70k gold according to GW2 efficiency, having:

• 21 slots with
• 20 lvl 80’s
• 20 with ascended weapons/trinkets and backs and
• 10 chars full ascneded armor,
• 5 legendaries,
• a lvl 10+ personal guildbank with guildhall,
• a mostly unlocked homeinstance
• all but 18 dyes unlocked
• all crafting unlocked (yes including scribe 400)

I doubt money is really interesting…. If I would have stayed with 1 character or 4 or 5, maining only my first not being interested in more I could have had 100k gold by now, but I didn’t. I played the game…

As for inflation…

3 months in I bought Storm, to make the meteorologicus for 38 gold….
15 months in I bought the Leaf of Kudzu for 350 gold
44 months in (3 weeks ago I finished 2 bolts well acctually the second)this precursor was bought and set me back ~ 950 gold , the crafted one just a bit less expensive (800 gold or so)

And armor…. yes….
At start Armor was expensive so ppl started running CoF and got Berserker which was mostly free… runes were not a real issue and meta was 6 ruby orbs… and scholar if you were rich. this was ~ 3 gold for an armor and runes… Weapons from dungeons….Basic ideas about sigils was force and bloodlust these sigils were 3-4 gold… for the set.
Gearing your character was mostly expensive due to trinkets. ruby jewels cost 20 gold a set… for about 30-50 gold you could gear you level 80…..

Nowadays we have ascendeds. And ascended armor costs 550-800 gold, or you do raids and buy ’m cheap, weapons 100-120 gold each, sigil of force now costs 12 gold. runes are 25-60 gold,or dungeon bound.
trinkets can be bought just by logging in…. doing some guild missions and fractals…
for about 1250-1600 gold you can gear a level 80… unless you want HoT-stat trinkets then you need to grind out content like a tunneldrill. it feels how it seems a long dark process…
If you do not wish Ascneded you can go exotic with ascneded trinkets, but if you want ne stats you will pay ~120 gold for your armor and 20 gold per exotic weapon not counting trinkets and runes, in the end you now pay 250 gold for an exotic character…

So compared with start of the game stuff rose in price by 500-2500% only to be Meta…

No , if you want the QoL invest in

• more Perma tools, and/or
• Shared account slots, or get a
• Permanent bank contract…

The skins… yes you might have all the skins, but then use them. I do not care for the skins on character that much… Functionality for my main farmers is the point, somy main classes have perma tools all 10 of them and those include my 3 or 4 farmers.

I payed for a tool providing me with sprockets, I own 3 , maybe 4 even. I do not want to farm a mastery track for something I payed for.

My problems is different I have 2 of those dye packs lying around and I cnanot use them, as the 18 missing dyes ,whcih are not unlocked on my account, are not included in the selection options… as for the dyes being account bound the only thing left is to get 2 brown ones and ue it for my scribe -.-

Great celebration.

WvW is playing PvP in your PvE gear.

If you are a pure WvW-er you’ll have a bunker like setup with 2400-2800 toughness and a defensive build so you can stand up to being hit by 20-65 ppl at least for some amount of time.

if you are a PvE player chances are you swap out some zerk trinkets for some soldier or knoights and jump right in. build will be more offensive and you will need to be a biut more careful

As for WvW: there are sometimes 100 opponents to fight at 1 time, so your build isn’t focusses on killing, but rather on NOT BE KILLED.

As for PvP you want ppl to be killable in a sensible amont of time, if you’re fighting a bunker who gets no dmg at all…. no points, no caps and so on.
In wvw you just take him last and kill them with 10, 20 or 50 ppl. Nothing can withstand the zerg…. maybe he will not die for 30 stacks of conditions maybe he will from 500, maybe he can deminish 10k dps, but can he deminish 200k?

As such balance in WvW and PvE are nothing alike. I hope they do not get clotted together as it would severely impede the present status of WvW.

@ Ellie maybe this is your thing

I’d like to see: Scar Pattern armor

Preferably the elite editions, see gw1, I can see usage of the basic version as well, though the dye channels were particularly bad in gw1

elite scar pattern
female:
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/f/ff/Necromancer_Elite_Scar_Pattern_armor_f.jpg
male":
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/6/61/Necromancer_Elite_Scar_Pattern_armor_m.jpg

basic scar pattern (feels like naked norn bikini shows?)
female
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/3/3f/Necromancer_Scar_Pattern_armor_f.jpg
male
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/8/80/Necromancer_Scar_Pattern_armor_m.jpg

mini’s already tax the game a lot, mini’s get hidden if maps are close to full to relax load on computers/server adding a second for almost every person ingame would be a weird decision.

Quarktastic.1027:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Alex Shatter.7956:

The infinite harvesting tools in the gem store have always seemed like a bad deal to me, even for 1 character. A copper-o-matic is 800 gems, which is a flat $10, for something I use every 30 seconds. The harvesting tools are 1000 gems, so a $20 minimum each, and I use them much less frequently.

In addition, unlike the copper-o-matic, which I use regularly in all game modes, the harvesting tools only get used when I’m about to burst farm an area. Since I have to prepare for the burst anyway (usually by switching characters to my speedy thief, using speed boosts, et cetera), going to the kodan merchant in LA to pick up some spare harvesting tools for like 20 silver really isnt that inconvenient.

I addition, you really need all 3 on one character for it to be convenient at all, since if you have 1 or 2, you will make the same number of trips to a merchant to refill on tools.

I am confused…how is 800 Gems 10 dollars, and 1000 Gems 20 dollars? For me, anyway, 1000 Gems is $12.50.

I think the point there is: Since you can’t buy 1000 gems, you have to spend $20 to get enough gems for an unlimited gathering tool. Then you have a bunch of gems leftover that you didn’t necessarily need. It’s an underhanded marketing tactic that I wish MMO developers would move away from.

I think you can buy 3 tools for 3000 gems which is about 40 euro…. so you will pay 40 euro get 3 tools for about 13.33 euro/dollar/piece… and have a whopping 200 gems left over to do…. well?? dunno…. with present gold to gems that’s pretty much gold….

tuesday… likely…

I’ve got perma tools on 10, maybe 11 characters, it was an investment from years ago, I do not own most modern skins.

If they extrapolate the sets to other characters that’s fine by me but I’s want a refund for ~30 *800 or 1000 gems, for the sets I do not need to use anymore. whcih is about 300-350 euro’s or dollars in lost revenue due to returns.

I know quite some people with 2 or more sets most of those bought the sets when they were still character bound. If they’d implement this I’d get a refund on my 19 of my 20 copper feds as well, as the need to change stuff from char to char could easily be solves by exchanging some of the gems to other shared slots, or just using my perma bank contract (is two additional double clicks. meh….)

19*800 + 20*800 +10*1000 = 41.200 gems or so… for my account alone… or 515 euro’s/dollar

You DO want new content do you??

Your characters celebrate birthdays, it’s not for account age or your personal birthday.
And I prefer this system I have 20 characters atm, I rather celebrate 20 birthdays a year then 1.

Oh I have about 9 or 10 mains atm… they are just mains for different purposes.
Just for your understanding 20 queen jennah’s might be a bit well… strange.
But 20 dye packs and 20+ leveling scrolls are pretty nice. Even if it’s just for Keyfarm

I have 2 characters very close to 4th Birthdays (8 weeks to go) and another 5 within 5 months of the 1st 2 (13-20 weeks). the others are 0-2 years old and will get gifts corresponding to their age.

I have a 196 hours in lost/waisted play time because of deleted characters. (difference Gw2 and Gw2Efficiency) which is about 2% of my total playing time (being 9437 Hours in the last 1404 days) (57 days to 4th birthday)

Had a lovely DC during the event. server lost it.

It’s ascended so it really doesn’t matter cause you could change it anywyas.

I used to play Shadowrun as a “Tabletop-fantasy-RPG” that’s 20+ years ago I was 15-20 at thee time now I’m 41, I left RL RPG, mostly cause I couldn’t find stable groups… RPG-ing was very popular in Germany and France, problem in the Netherlands it never took off… I am a crazy gamer, I loved tabletopstrategy and tactics games (battletech, and warhammer for example), but equally interested in D&D and such.

So yes I tried RP-ing, but not in a MMO, it tends to be disrupted so easily by <censored> little <censored><censored><censored>‘s I cannot stay in character for more then 5 minutes before raging hard…. Even though I’m a fanatic berserker player… I do not see the options…

I have been waiting for a decent part of story since before HoT, I finished the first storyline in HoT in 3 days… so 3 days of new content (lore wise) in over 1.5 years now… and the content drought is no longer a warm sunny day, but more like the saltdeserts, being baked in 65 C for way too long, 1.5 years to be exact….with one weekend you noticing a halffull canteen (halffull not halfempty)

I remember bi weekly updates and LS S1, and the LS after a while but I’m hungry for LS 3,4,5 all within weeks of each other…. I like the raids yes, but my personal life doesn’t allow me to go and farm 150 LI’s, IMHO 15 would have been enough, and even this is rediculous….. requiring me to either cheat/beg/buy myself into a group able to carry me or to spend 100’s of hours and spend 100’s of gold todo content whcih I find interesting but a very small part of the game…I like to run through new areas, find new critters, new JP’s, new legendaries, new DUNGEONS/FRACTALS (5 man) and maybe reworked instanced 10-12 man content like the gw1 dungeons.

And I’ve got 9.5K hours in… some things tend to bore me….

Just finished my second Bolt, Twice Told Legend now….
This doesn’t mean the game is over. You can repeat it as often as you want… Incentive to replay does water down with limited content being added in your field of play….

But: What to do now?

I’m:

• no PvP player (rank 12 so I tried a little)
• a bit WvW minded, yes…., (rank 865, Silver Scout)
• PvE: mastery 169, 9 map, 1 HoT map, 9 specialisations unlocked, 20 chars unlocked
• 5 legendaries incl. 2 Bolt , Kudzu, Meteorologicus, Ad Infinitum
• story (finished personal on 10+, finished HoT on 5+, finished all achievs on LS s2)
• dungeon (still working on dungeoneer, but ran some dungeons 1000+ times)
• fractals mostly fine everything above 75 tends to get a pain now (lvl 100, Ad infinitum)
• 23.5k+ AP….

SO my experience is:

• Seen the stories tried most/all arcs… got them achievs even Migraine….
• PvE-er with no thing for raids? You are probably gone by now, the recent 3 limited achievement sets are nice but extremely dry content. it’s also not replayable….
• Dungeon PvE-er? Either you went to Fractals and Raids…
• Fractals are not boring after redoing those for the last months… Really they are not… Who am I trying to kid here….
• WvW -> work in progress since 2012,
• PvP Either you love it, and take imbalance and the only 2 played maps and the second game mode with 1 map…You accept it’s pretty bare and imblanced…I do not…
  
  And if…. if I’m lucky; I get into a raid; if I can find time, but it’s not “epic”:

Raid:
It’s mostly a 10 people dungeon which is fubarred from the get go by 1 or more people knowing nothing, being dishonest about experience or gear, elitists shouting: “Everything is garbage anyways!” if ppl are 10 second behind times made by Youtube raid guilds, and much much more, ofcourse people not wanting to use (decent) food, and I’m almost forgetting waiting times for PuG’s…, which generally last longer then actual tries….

I do not care for the ascended/legendary armor anyways, I have 9 ascended armors already, I just care for the new rings and the fact the HoT stats are behind a raid wall is dumb. You are forced to do raids to be able to adjust to the meta… it seems….
Yes A-net introduces content and make half the content unavailable.

I would like to unlock a viper’s set, preferably more. I like running viper’s on multiple classes and am forced to shift Ad Ifinitum, my malicious band and my mordrem loop from character to character which is a problem for me at least. I made 7 sets of infused attuned sinister rings to fit to the Mea before HoT and I’m frustrated I cannot obtain gear to make my characters as I want.

I’m working on a PS/Condi warrior, and it owns:

• Ascended Viper’s (Yassith) Armor
• Legendary Swords: 2 Bolt’s
• Ascended Viper’s (Yassith) Longbow
• Ascended Viper’s (Yassith) Warhorn
• Ascended Viper’s (Yassith) Torch
• Mordrem Loop (Viper’s stats)
• Malicious Band (Viper’s stats)
• Legendary back: Ad Infinitum
• rest of gear is SINISTER, it has 150 ar)
  Leaving me at 94.95 Condition duration my prefferred setup has 100.06% condition duration which tends to be of use adding 1 second of bleeding on a couple of skills..

Present: (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsfTnMdAdfgtgA+dAElilpA74IEAGZvn2XbtVJIED6BA-TBSGQBJU5QuODAA4RAkP1fU3+DpTfAwUy9RlgkCYRlVA-e)
Preferred: (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsfDWmCsjjQAYkl8BOBzu3T7rt2C-TBSGQB56MAAMlIeUJY+U/Rd7PkO9BA4RAkQlXkCYRlVA-e)

I have 2 children and a wife (= a life), a 350+ person guild (second life?) and raids tend to suffer…

The amounts of ppl playing is drying up so hard it’s now efffectively impossible to find a dungeon party within 5 minutes outside prime time, CoF and CoE are closed 90% of the time outside primetime, most people cannot run dungeons anymore as all dungeoneers are raiding….

I asked for a lvl 80 EXP party 2 days ago and I got a lvl 35, a lvl 38 and a lvl 42 in my group with a combined total of 900 AP.

Fractals is BORING. at least I cannot find much joy in it atm, I’m fed up with 5k AP ragequitting on lvls 90+ and leechers without AR…

Raids, while gratifying, are extremely closed and -most- people will do guild raids only provided they are in raid guilds, which also tend to reek of 1337 musk.

GW2 -> gw2 , it dried up….. like a shriveled little carebear in the crystal desert….

This is my sentiment… And I’m biassed…