Guild Wars 2

When you say no one joins your team if you advertise your own party allowing any profession to join is a lie. You. Are. Not. The. Only. One. Necro/Ranger/Engi. In. This. Game.
Whenever I play my ranger doesn’t take me more than 2 minutes to fill a team. Takes longer when you claim specific builds/professions.
Whenever I joined a team with my Ranger and Necro I was never kicked. Use some thinking before joining a party, you can easily tell the teams that will allow you to stay or kick you. If you join a team that states “Guard only” you deserve not one, but 10 kicks. If you join a team that states “SPED RSUH ZERK ONLY 5K++++AP GOGOGOO” /Average dumb noobs adv -mistakes included-/ it’s your own risk.
It’s useless to complain in here. Act smarter than them, you’ll run dungeons and have no problems. They say no x profession? You make your own party saying “no warriors”.
But if the problem is, that people playing “less good professions” with less good builds than the meta, claim to join a party of Guard/War/Mes zerk players and would never join people with as less good builds and professions, there the problem comes and 10000000 rants on the forum appears.

Xenon.4537:

Many of us want an expansion because it would mean far more substantial content than what the living story seems capable of.

I’ll try to list what we have gained since launch (in terms of permanent stuff), please correct me if I forget anything:
- ascended gear
- crafting to 500
- a new dungeon path to TA
- 1 new unique dungeon; fractals
- the LFG tool
- a smattering of QoL improvements such as the currency wallet
- 1 new wvw map
- 1 new zone
- a very scarce few new weapon and armor skins that weren’t temporary/gem store
- 1 new world boss (and one revamped old one)
- a couple new spvp maps

Looking back I’m actually kind of surprised by the list, but it’s still not what people expect in an expansion. Personally I (and I think most people) expect something like:
- a whole new continent
- a whole new personal story chain just as long (or close) as the original
- at least 10 new zones
- at least 5 new dungeons
- new armor and weapon skins for each of those dungeons and/or new events
- new open world dynamic events
- at least 3-5 new spvp maps
- a new (relevant to the new campaign) wvw map
—-And above all—-
- New playable race
- New class (or at least a slew of new weapon and utility skills, like 8-10 new skills and/or traits per class)

Not to mention all of this should be wrapped together in an overall package with a unifying theme, story, experience, etc. Not a disjointed series of unrelated patches that have nothing to do with each other until the last 4 or 5 patches where we find out the main villain is this crazy chick who we find out doesn’t even matter what her motives were…

I’ve said it before, but I think Anet simply doesn’t have the revenue to pursue such an expansion. NCSoft probably takes the lionshare of their gem store profits. I’m not mad at NCSoft though. I just wish they would see that GW2 has a passionate fanbase that deserves more and will pay for more if the content is up to par. But NCSoft is more interested in Wowstar it seems…

To answer the question of the title of this thread, we shout for an expansion because if we don’t, it might never happen. The higher-ups need to see demand before they invest the funds to create the supply.

You said it perfectly. +1

Pariah.8506:

Obviously Rangers.

And Necros :P

Here my thief

They should definitely remove that dragon and replace it with a Quaggan saying “Coooo Quaggan likes poo”

When it actually does it’s attack and doesn’t just stand still C:

TBH when I play my thief Mesmer is the one profession I prefer to run away from rather than fight… :S

sephiroth.4217:

Ok…

I started as a PU mesmer, my team raged at me for not holding cap points while in stealth, fair enough…

Changed to illsuion/shatter sorta build, enemy team told me to take “my meta build back to hotjoin”

So changed my build again to condi, again enemy team thinks "that my cheese build is all I have and I should l2p b4 q and go back to hotjoin…

Now I’m using a zerker lockdown build with insane amount of stuns and boon stripping and both the enemy team and friendly team think I’m using a “broken Build that takes no skill”

What build can I use to shut everyone up? (not keen on blocking all chat either)
Gets a bit old that every match there is someone constantly crying about something wrong with a mesmer build….

I’m rank 27 so I’m not a “pro” but I’ve had my mes for over a year as a solo roamer in WvW so I know my class well enough to know how to fight other people.

I use a hide-chat build, very effective against any kind of PvE-PvP-WvW jerk. I suggest you to give it a shout

Well, anyhow don’t worry, I’m on 200% MF still trying to sort out what’s the difference from when I had 0%.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Berserker warriors were only the go-to class in the PvE meta during the heyday of CoF1. Nowadays, while one warrior is a good addition to a party, multiples bring less efficiency than bringing a mix of professions, including, possibly, a sword ranger.

Totally true. The only problem is that pugs most of the time are dumb and ignorant, they’d rather bring 5 warriors than even accept one good ranger.

I’ve player over 5k hours and didn’t get a legendary weapon, nor have any will or wish to work on one. Maybe when they will be something rare and legendary to have, not something every single next dude can simply get with a month of grinding, then I could consider working towards one.

Well…to answer your “is it worth it” question we should know what’s the reason that made you stop playing for that long…and what you actually consider worth

Onisuo.8607:

Does not affect me at all(maybe I should have mentioned that in my post) but I would imagine it affects Anet’s bottom line. If more players use this method I’m sure some adjustments will be made. If not, somewhere down the line it will affect me because Anet will make less money. That’s not something I want to happen.

It’s just that it is an horridly boring activity to do, most of players rather go farm QD for a couple of weeks to get the money to simply buy skins sold in TP, so that’s not much of a problem in any way. I kinda admire their courage to repeat a blasted tutorial 10-20 times just for these keys :S I refuse to even make myself some PvP only new char until they give me a chance to skip that -.-

Anyway I doubt they are even considering reports anymore, seeing how people who really deserve a ban are always there is my blocked list, day by day as well as all the great “heroes” who “teach how to solo AC p1/Arah p2 thief/ele/mes/etc only”.

Tanith.5264:

My guild rooster crows every time someone comes online.

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. But on topic…I guess it wasn’t possible to include everything in the guild panel. I do like that it tracks everything that is done in the guild stash, for example.

It was probably impossible to include everything..but one thing I really would like to know is: what in the world is the point/meaning to be able to see a guild member’s crafting level from guild panel? WHAT?!
Considering hoooooooooooooooow much influence crafting brings to a guild (0.000), it’s normal every guild leader needs to make sure all of his guildies are at least lvl 300 Huntsman or else kick. This is way more important, you don’t want a dude that never even maxed cook with a character!
The ones who don’t connect since 3 months are fine where they are really, just let me kick who doesn’t craft. -.- Sarcarm/rant off.

I am missing the icone too though

I don’t have earth attunement O.o

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Are you saying there was grinding in GW1? Ack!

I have some weapons in my HoM, but it doesn’t bother me if they appear here in GW2. Seems lots of people have been asking for skins from GW1. So, I guess ArenaNet listened to the playerbase. =)

What kittens people off is not that they add GW1 skins, but that they add them as horrid RNG money sink for them instead of making them an “achievement” for working hard, as they were in GW1.

papryk.6273:

dont worry…anet is aware that conditions are a problem in this game…for like a year. So maybe let’s wait another year so they will update us on the status of conditions.

ps. and one more year to fix the problem

Let’s say in 1 year there will be a CDI here about the problem, then after an year or two the problem will…start to be worked on

I totally agree it should be removed from story mode. It is simple for a player who has faced it several times already and who is quite experienced of the game. A person on level 30 that wants to try dungeons for the first time won’t find it easy. Loads of teams simply breaks as troll spawns. It’s simply ridiculous to have it in a story mode.

Melfice.5091:

So some guys of a server blocked some other guys from another server from a chest with free siege that they could use to attack their stuff, and you call them trolls? Maybe they didn’t want to kill you (save you the repair bill) but also didn’t want you to reach the chest, then fearing, knockbacking etc is the only thing they can do

I’ll add you to friend list and do it to you if by any chance you’ll ever go to OS so that you can see how fair and awesome such things are.
They had no “noble” intention, they only wanted to troll people and grief them, preventing them from getting an achievement point in puzzles list. Because as much as I know, you can get siege blueprints from TP for a few coppers, in a second without having to struggle that much, not to mention you get tons from achievement boxes and for doing WvW itself. Maybe in your dreams people enter such a long and annoying puzzle just for that trash reward.

Hebee.8460:

Depending on if you are a Human Warrior – then you have highest priority, & it will be taken care of soon.

If you are a Charr Mesmer/Engineer – then you are lowest priority, & your better off asking for a refund (which wont happen, just like clipping will not be taken care of for Charr)

Isn’t Profane a light armor? o.O

What would be the best fix here would be people to understand the goal of this whole thing is to rescue citizen, not upscale events-die in mass-lie on the ground until the event fails-teleport to the next event. Then, yes, in overflows you would start to see some people working, achieving the 1200…not finding like 4 people rescuing in all the map, asking for help, and hundreds dead people in a circle inside an event that is failing like it is now…and then, people would not longer struggle in any way to enter the portal…
Not that I justify them, but I understand..because I have just struggled for almost an hour with not more than 4 people in rescuing citizen on an overflow, and being only insulted by zergers when asking for some help. Now on I sure will just leave whenever I find myself in an overflow and wait for the next.

Just let us throw them to a merch for a few silvers x stack and free our inventories…or lower their drop rate for real, not for joke…only God knows how many are spamming my inv.. -.-

Nage.1520:

According to patch notes, glory boosters were removed from black lion chests in the last patch.

But they still drop from Achievement chests. I know because I got my latest chest after the patch and 2 dropped from it.

I wish we had some cool title indeed…something that actually shows we worked towards it but worked for real…not like Dungeon Master…: grind whatever you want, hot choices Queensdale and Frostgorge champs+buy the paths you are missing because too hard=get your title.
This made the title totally worthless, I, who struggled through every dungeon path, as new player with new players, having 3,5 hours long Arah p2 first run and such, don’t find it appealing anymore to show a title I struggled to conquer, because everyone has that same title now, and for doing barely anything. And people who see me, unless they know me, will think I probably bought that title like most of the others. And this pretty much sucks.

The ones I truly see the most are Twilight, Sunrise, the Dreamer and on top, the Juggernaut…but lately I am seeing a few more Quip around tbh. Guess as people made their 3-4 main legendaries they started making these other ones as well.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Anet has shown zero interest in this issue so:

1. Don’t fractal in a pug that has two members from the same guild.
2. If you must violate 1, always be the first person to enter the instance.
3. If you must violate 1 and 2, write down the account names of everyone in your party. When you get kicked by them, don’t party with them again.

How can you even know the two people are from the same guild until you enter the dungeon? It happens like once each 100 that the other people are in your same server…one should leave asap I guess…which will be like a “kick in the face” for people who are just aiming to fill a team, maybe two friends who have no bad intention (Like it happens with me and my friend)
I find such situation sickening though. Never happened to me, rare or not, it sucks. I find it shameful how the best thing one can do is “Always start the dungeon yourself”…hope at some point every person in game will claim to start instance and no team will even possibly fill again, we’ll just see like 30000000 1-person-teams “Lvl xx/Px already inside”. Maybe then something will actually be done.

Dee Jay.2460:

The problem isn’t that Zerker gear is somehow superior to other gear, it’s just that DPS is the ONLY thing that matters in dungeons and high-level fractals.

DPS also has the side-effect of making things a lot easier thanks to the vastly higher kill-speed.

I recently had the pleasure of doing Fractals level 49 on my Thief. I have 16.000 HP which is quite significant for a Thief.

But guess what, it made no difference whatsoever. Basically anything that hit you was a 1-shot. The Vitality was completely wasted. The most extreme example are the mobs in the Char Fractal where the Mages kill you instantly before there’s even any sort of animation.

4000 extra HP in that scenario made little to no difference.

15% extra Precision however would have.

The appeal of Zerker gear is because of stupid game-design and its obsession with instant-gibs. No amount of stat shuffling is going to change that.

That’s why every PvE class guide is basically about how to maximize your DPS/group DPS.

Just to give another proof.
I have tried to solo Arah p2 first boss a few time. Started with my full zerk warrior…always failed when the boss was about 30% hp… 1 hit by the ball-thing that she casts (since puts red circle in a place and the ball goes to a totally different place) After a few failures like that, I was like “Let’s see if I go full Ptv!” So I went to throw a few AC and HotW tokens into a full PTV armor (power toughness vitality). Guess what? 1 hit by the ball, only difference was that I never managed to bring the boss below 70% hp with such a lowered damage, which made my chances to defeat it way lower. (I am no pro, I can’t dodge everything forever, if the fight lasts 20 mins I can’t get to the end).

Behellagh.1468:

Pip.2094:

Nike.2631:

I think it was absolutely core to the design of this new gear that you GET INTO LIONS ARCH AND DO SOME HEROING to get the shiny. The blade backpacks are for heroes, not the shopping network.

Meanwhile in Lornar’s…

Do you like live in LA? I only got 2 shards for the time I was in there.

How many bags you opened? 3? Because I get like 10-15 each 2 bags at the very least. And you know some mobs drop up to 5 bags right?
I don’t live there, I barely spend two hours x day there, just because I want heirlooms. I will never want that rejected abomination on my characters’ back, so I would very prefer you got all of my shards and I got the 2. It was just to show how this system is actually ridiculous. For everyone who , like me, doesn’t want that backpack, these shards have less value than trash items. At least you can sell spikes & co for a few coppers at merch. -.-

jroshq.8645:

for me im being deprived of that two shield skill only two! once deploy that two skill you have to fend yourself with main weapon and 6-to-0 specials or run around! im not talking pvp or spvp, im talking about pve…

Problem is that here there is no difference between PvP and PvE, they are one. That’s why many professions keep getting nerfs that make them fairly useless in PvE just to make them less OP in PvP.

Nike.2631:

I think it was absolutely core to the design of this new gear that you GET INTO LIONS ARCH AND DO SOME HEROING to get the shiny. The blade backpacks are for heroes, not the shopping network.

Meanwhile in Lornar’s…

He doesn’t mean the normal skipping, he means the out of map cheats that allow you to skip..oh, whole dungeon till last boss and sell it. If it was allowed ANet wouldn’t be banning accounts.

Come Gandara, lots of fun :P

It’s pointless to speak of this. The only serious answers you will get are “Start the dungeon yourself” (As if every player could start the dungeon every time) or “Enter a big guild so that you won’t need to pug”.
ANet knows of this issue more than well, over 1 year ago a dev even said they were working on fixing this. Maybe when and if they’ll form a dungeons team again something will be done. Till then, just pray.

Vol.7601:

Blame it all on Kiel.

It’s all your fault, Kiel supporters.

So true…hope you guys are actually going to be punished for supporting her, truly…

The Smurfs came to Tyria!!

The complaints (for the most) are just being so many for one reason: people are disappointed. And due to disappointment, they find every little excuse to use it as a complaint, as if even an Asura’s line is the greatest issue in the world.
Some are very rightful though, like the complaints about Fractals rewards, dungeon owner leaves and whole team is kicked, kick system abuses, out of map cheats to sell dungeons…

Brewergamer.8357:

JayyxDawg.5081:

Sadly, I don’t think that’ll ever happen. The achievement items aren’t bought, they’re earned (even though I really don’t like the skins, and would love another option to choose from).
ArenaNet would lose out on money if they allowed everyone to buy one armour set, and then have access to it on every character for free. I could see them reducing the price of an armour set if you’ve already bought it X-amount of times, but never just handing it out for free.

It is NOT free if i spend 20 dollars on an armor set for 1 character. I could go to any other f2p mmorpg out there and get an outfit for 50 cents account-wide. Also no intelligent person is going to pay 20 dollars 10 times for the same armor set on all of their characters. I am potentially discouraged from making purchases because I know I’d have to buy it 5 times (potentially paying 100 dollars) just to have 1 armor set on all of my characters. I will never purchase gems again unless I get account unlocks. And anyone that isn’t a moron will do the same.

EDIT: Like I said, it is NOT free if you’re paying 20 dollars for an outfit. So don’t act like they’d be losing out on money it would encourage more people to buy them if it was a permanent unlock (that is also more fair to customers, they shouldn’t ask TWENTY DOLLARS for ONE OUTFIT and not give you it account-wide). Everyone I know ingame refuses to purchase gems because they know the outfits are not account unlocks. And who do you know that would spend 200 dollars just to get 1 outfit on all of their characters? No one. They’ve done EVERYTHING else account-wide there is no logical excuse they can’t do it with things from the gem shop.

If someone pays 20 dollars for a cosmetic outfit on a game.. I think they deserve at the VERY LEAST to have it account-wide.

It’s not free indeed, but if you can spend 60 $ to buy more why would a company (whose achievement by definition is earning the most possible) prefer to receive just 20? Even if this is a game, we are in a real world and all the love and unicorns mean nothing in front of money.
Besides, who tells you no one buys a skin for more characters? I have seen people having two characters with same skin. Not to mention some could have female and male characters, and like the skin for both gender so buy it twice.

In every update there are theories of this kind…I wouldn’t get too high hopes if I were you, I doubt we’ll see any new race/profession/big (non-Southsun-like-) area until an expansion is actually released.

Norjena.5172:

Arah story is soloable…

To open the very first door to kill the first boss you need two people to stand on two pressing plates. And I want to see you killing the dragons on cannons, while holding the 10000000000000 risen that spawn on airship. -.- Please, go run it then come teach us.

It should be soloable indeed…or actually made somehow interesting to be repeated. Right now, the very thought to get into that story makes me sick. It bores me beyond anything else, it’s long, boring and buggy. No wonder it’s hard for people to find a team, if you have finished story with your main then farewell Zaithan, live well!

There we go, got too many to post them all ^^

It is a nice idea indeed, it would be cool if they did it for they look pretty fine that way!

How can I report people I suspect to be exploting? (Like: 10000000 thieves who “solo” AC p1 and sell, 1000000000000 thieves who sell the teaching of “soloing” path 1 and such? So far I’ve been reporting as abuse of the LFG…)

DeathPanel.8362:

Doggie.3184:

There’s a vote when someone kicks though, why were the other party members voting with him? ;/

Because people click without thinking.

^ And it’s true.
Was in a team once…a guy misclicks somehow, requesting a kick. He writes it was a mistake, but even before he could revoke it, someone accepted the kick which really was meaningless. It’s just like when you enter a specific path of a dungeon, someone chooses the wrong path by mistake and other people pick the wrong one as well.

Mazreal Blackknight.1564:

I downloaded an app on my phone so I could watch when we owned what I needed. Took me four days to finish WvW mapping. That saved me tons of time not having to take space in EB when someone who likes WvW could be there. Selfish I know but I’d ratherb e selfish then hate what I was doing.

I logged in the borderland as soon as a friend notified me that the point was taken. By the time I ran from my home WP (The only one in the map, how fair) to half-way to Cliffs, it was red again.
I had no hope to break in in my own. At some point, I simply ran there, and stayed behind it, for hours, until someone would go to capture it.
This mechanic was meant to get people to try WvW. After this experience I feel sick of Wvw and will NEVER, EVER set a foot in there again. I hate it for the anger it caused me and I won’t be giving it a chance.

I think it’s random what color your server will be next round…or it has to do with score/rank…no clue…
All I know is that I was waiting for 4 weeks to complete map (only due to WvW) waiting to be red…missing only ONE point of Interest in the red borderland in Cliffside keep. Color switched this way: Blue, green, blue, green. If yesterday a zerg wouldn’t have been so awesome to finally decide to give a shot to Cliffside, I would STILL be missing that.
That’s why I will ALWAYS complain about WvW maps for map completion.

captainteemo.6537:

The new drop rates are terrible. I much prefer the chances of drops I had before. The worst is yet to come for you. Finish a few fractal 49 runs (dredge and all) and you might pick up that non infused ring at the end. That’s like an extra 4s for your troubles!

I’ve run all 3 ac paths in 45 minutes with a pug group. I can spend over an hour just on dredge with a pug. Then finish with the molten duo just to earn that non infused ring bonus.

I loved pushing myself to do fractals before, but the updates really took the enjoyment (rewards) out of it. They were quick to improve dredge so you couldn’t run it any faster than intended. Not so quick to listen to comments about rewards.

^ This.
And no wonder I find less and less people on the LFG to team up with. Dare to even ask for “zerkers” or require specific professions/build to make it less painful, and you can wait 23 hours to fill your team -.-
And by the time it takes with the worst pugs to finish a FotM (let’s say Cliffside and Dredge+Molten duo) you’ll actually run full AC, full CoE (with just random pugs who know how to stack) and maybe even a CoF 1 and 2. -.- Rewards from the FotM nightmare=1.50+toughness/healing power/condition damage non-infused ring.
Random dungeons rewards=not less than 12 golds. (if RNG hates you)

Oh please give us Cantha, we badly need new maps and something different to roam into! It would be like fresh air to be there instead of being in some very-likely-necessarely-close-to-other-existing-maps enviroments…I mean, it’s not that you can add a new chunk of Kryta and make it look like a sandy desert..right? o.o