Guild Wars 2

GoldenTruth.2853:

It isn’t very helpful when all US servers are labeled very high population (except one labeled full) when there is a huge difference in population between a server like Tarnished Coast and one like Kaineng.

If you are US, Blackgate is the most populated (though it is full currently). I’d recommend Jade Quarry or Tarnished Coast (go TC we have toast).

Sorry, I am on EU and here there are just a few “high population” servers. my bad >.<

Most I wouldn’t know…you just look at the population and pick one on “very high” it’s the best.
Besides, you should specify whether you are on EU or NA since there might be some differences

kimeekat.2548:

My boyfriend is in the same position for Juggernaut. He even had a character at a certain level that he’d leave at the end of certain jumping puzzles, hoping the chest would drop them for him, but he got nothing. He did that each day for a month. I don’t know what to tell you, except that it seems like one of the hardest high level mats to get your hands on.

Doing that will even give Diminished Return (DR) so really, goodbye hopes…

Farm nodes and yeah, repeat the same world events with all of them when I need an Ascended weapon…
And roleplaying indeed, for it’s the main reason why my alts exist at all!

mtpelion.4562:

It is fine. Different materials drop from different kinds of content.

If you need Dragonite Ore, you will have to do the things that drop Dragonite Ore.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragonite_ore

In other words: make yourself 4-5 lvl 80s making sure to unlock WPs at: Orrian Temples, Shatterer, Golem Mark II, Claw of Jormag etc, grind them whenever they spawn wasting like 10 hours x day, in a week you’ll get enough Dragonite for 1 weapon…

Trust me, give up with the useless RNG in trying to have them dropped, just grind something (Champions, world events, dungeons) and buy them, you’ll waste WAY less money and will gain something back at least…

I the last 3 weeks with 2 FotM runs x day I have received either horrid rings with horrid stats (The only fairly decent I got was Lunaria) OR Empyreal Fragments (And this happened after a dreadfully horrid almost 2-hours long Dredge with a dreadful team -.-) Will to run fractals jump on me please… -.-

CalmestChaos.2463:

the point is, i got glory boosters instead of boosters like strength, experience, magic find, ect from achievment point chests. these things have cost me tons of gems worth of boosters i could actually use. i have gotten well over a dozen of these from my 8.5k achievment points, thats 12 + boosters that could have been something else. and now, arenanet is making them trash items that cannot be used. its ridiculous. they gave these boosters equivalent value to all other boosters, and gave them high drop rate in the achievement chests. to remove them from the game is beyond unfair.

I have 195 of them… ._.

Flissy.4093:

Post #29173 regarding dyes not being account bound is surely the one that will change it all.

All hail post #29173!

^
Plus if that ever happened. “OMG I FOUND ABYSS DYE ON THIS CHAR AND I HAVE IT ALREADY ON MY ACCOUNT, I SELL IT AND I AM RICH” /Opens Trading posts, tries to sell: “Abyss Dye: Higher buyer 23s. Lowest seller: 25.4 s.” / PokerfacegiveusbacksoulbounddyesalreadyANET

VincentDW.9376:

With respect to crafting in general, the reason that the value of inputs often appears greater than that value of outputs is because one of the major outputs (experience) cannot be resold. In fact, I would venture that a very large portion of all crafted items are crafted not because the crafter wanted to own or sell that particular item, but only because crafting gives experience and they wanted to level up their character.

When you think about it this way, the usual flow of value you would expect with regard to an activity like crafting is reversed – instead of the crafter adding value to raw materials through labor (like in real life), the crafter is actually REMOVING value from raw materials by gaining the experience award for combining them. Since there are no barriers to entry (every player account can have access to all crafting professions simultaneously), if the market is functioning efficiently, any crafting activity should result in a net loss of gold value due to the gain in experience value.

Can you tell that I think making crafting give leveling experience was a terrible idea? It shouldn’t be called “crafting” so much as “buying experience.”

I myself craft way more to level alts than to actually craft something worthwhile, unless I should call it “crafting an alt” :P
Overall though, the only thing that would make me happy would be to be able to trade these silly materials…see my point: I run dungeons every day and a lot of them, I drown in Empyreal Fragments. Someone else might instead be more into chasing world events with all of their alts (It happened before the Ascended weapons were added even) and ithese people likely drown into Dragonite Ore, that on the other hand is a pain for me to get. Why can’t we simply exchange these so that both kind of players can actually do what they like to do without being forced in the other side?

I just hope there won’t be a huge open event like Karka’s one this time, or I won’t even be seeing it falling. I want to keep this new G-card alive for a while.

draconx.3102:

Purple Miku.7032:

Just ragequit a pug 38 group because everyone was ranging the champ ettin in the harpy fractal in PVT. The other warrior was also camping rifle and WASN’T using banners.

Christ…

That feeling… when you realize that in a group of 5 players you are the only one actually doing any damage.

100% aggro on you 24/7 even if you are afk and didn’t attack a thing yet - #Exaggerating for fun but close to reality, off

CC Danicia.1394:

nicolas.9045:

Every class but ranger and nécro.

it doesn t surprise me anymore that is srill a broken class. Who cares? Not dev….

Hanging out on my necro with friends.

She looks adorable

Jack Daniels.
He drinks only Tennessee whiskey and sings Whiskey in the Jar only. B|

Heavy armor all the way

eldris.8461:

I wasn’t really looking to buy a particular one. My ele is nearly level 80, I was bored and threw some money at the problem. Not looking to get the gold back, just want that person to get a warning for scamming (since they blocked me before I could send them a typically british passive-aggressive complaint letter)

Just a tip for next time you get to need this: try out some sPvP, since through the glory you gain from it, you can buy PvE levels for your character. One level is 20 silvers and 1500 glory, not a difficult deal and way cheaper and less risky than buying paths!

slamb.4781:

There are a lot of players are willing to help including myself as long as the new player will speak up and say “i am new to this dungeon/path” there is nothing more annoying when you have 1 player running around doing random crap.

Same here, and not just if he/she will admit to be new. He/she will have to listen, because when I get in a team of newbies and I give them a strategy, and none of them give a kitten of what I say, causing team to fail 10000 times, (And happens too often sadly) I lose ANY POSSIBLE WILL to decide to join to lean a hand. True, many veteran players are just totally not interested in helping newbies, they kick and claim only experienced, but in same time, there are many new players to be blamed for their behaviours as well. If you are new and know nothing about something, you can’t claim that your own made-up-just-now-out-of-no-rational-thinking strategy could possibly be better than the strategy a veteran who played for almost 2 years, knowing dungeons by heart, gives to you.
In brief: true, many veterans can be “jerks” but in a way, they too have to be understood (sometimes), because most likely, when they were the newbies, they had no one teaching them, (not even as many Youtube videos that are now available) they teamed up with other newbies, had to suffer through dungeons paths taking hours and hours, knowing no strategy nor anything (as did I) and now, after mastering, they (we) have the right to have smooth, fast runs as well sometimes. Don’t you agree?
Don’t say “new players can’t run dungeons” because it’s false. There is not only one new player, there are thousands. If you advertise a team of newbies, many others will join, and fast. But if your claiming is to join those players who don’t want to help, for whatever reason, then you are in the wrong. If not for anything else, for the fact everyone must be allowed to play the way he/she wants. If wants a speedrun with no talking, explaining and wiping, he has all the right to ask for it.
And true, many new players are BETTER players than many veterans, and will listen to you when you explain and do everything as alright as if they were masters of that dungeon, but in same time there are some I wish no one will ever have to team up with in life.

Opinion? Pure love If they added something like this I would stop complaining forever, I swear

Francis.9415:

Pip.2094:

They know well wat Exp means, they will join and won’t make their own party for unexperienced, simply because they want to “exploit” experienced players to carry them to the end, rather than go through a two hours long run that could as well fail.

I don’t think its an exploit, rather an option. They just choose not to care on what you post but for sure they understood it.

But if I force a person to give me help despite said person didn’t offer it to me and even denied it to me by saying “exp only”, I am exploiting that person in a way…

They know well wat Exp means, they will join and won’t make their own party for unexperienced, simply because they want to “exploit” experienced players to carry them to the end, rather than go through a two hours long run that could as well fail. We veterans, who back back then (Over 1 year ago) had to get our experience the hard way, being ALL unexperienced, having to forge strategies ourselves and hit our teeth hard into these paths; the newbies of nowadays instead, simply claim everything to be done and served to them. If it doesn’t happen, they insult you even.

Star Ace.5207:

Latinkuro.9420:

you are aware that the triple wurm event is what is called an open world RAID right ?
as such it is designed with meta builds in mind and made as hard as possible to beat using mentioned meta builds, now imagine trying to beat that kind of content with your idea of fun build? from that perspective I say if you wanna run your cookie have fun build don’t go trying to join a RAID !

The designers attached the word “raid” to these events to attract players like you, but these are not raids like those you crave for. And I am sure they disagree with your intolerance for people playing non-meta builds-almost 100% sure that is a community problem, and not ANet’s choice in designing them.

Even GW1 harder missions were more strict about builds than this game. This game has a very “whatever works for you” feel to it, which I readily embrace-meta builds have their place of course, but should not be forced on those who dislike them.

But again, my point is that in no way these events we designed to enforce specific builds. That’s a community’s choice, not the designer’s.

Exactly. Besides, just to add to what you said: If devs wanted to promote these builds (or better, Zerker build) even more than the community already does, they would not be about to give a nerf on Crit damage, don’t you think?

Almost every dungeon now consists in people stacking one over another in a corner while spamming dps against foes which are kinda stuck and barely manage to hit you back.
You best get yourself a full berserker gear, even on your guardian if you want to have no problems with pugs. Otherwise, only join parties which don’t ask for zerkers only and such…
There are a few new Fractals that were copy-pasted by old temporary-dungeons that living story brought. I’d suggest you to run 1-5 a few times until you get to have an idea what these are like.
There is a new actually extremely cool WvW map if you are into it, you may want to give it a shot…
It won’t be hard for you, just don’t join teams which have high requirement, stuff like “LF ZERK GUARD/WAR/MES ONY 5K+ AP SPEEDRUN”, at least until you learn where to stack and what it is like…

It doesn’t take long to take a screenshot with your party members’ names though…

Ayrilana.1396:

There’s nothing wrong with it so no need to be fixed. If you want to do a fractal/dungeon without stacking then form your own group. Don’t force players to play how you feel they should play. Stacking is a legitimate technique and does not break any rules.

There is an activity you may find extremely exciting considering the way you think: Champion trains in Queensdale. Or it takes too much effort to do it, since there is no stacking but just spam #1? o.O

I just know that if they’ll seriously add Quaggan and Skritt as playable races, the game would reach the bottom, truly couldn’t fall lower than that.
The only race that will surely be added some time, is Tengu. They are already designed, as well as their main city Dominion of Winds. This was supposed to be in game since release, that’s why it’s the only sure option.
Largos might be dropped in as well some time, probably when and if, the Deep Sea Dragon will be fought. If you visit Lore forum, you’ll have all of your question answered, and if having hopes about centaurs, quaggan, skritt etc, you’ll have your heart broken.
(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/6th-playable-race-what-s-your-top-3-pick/page/9#post2020947) Very well explained why your beloved races won’t be in game.

“Prooove the sunshine through you, face me as another form!” Joking.

Warrior, all the way! (If getting zerker armor and not some kind of ptv whatever, that is)

It’s beautiful and one of the best maps in game! It could manage to get me into WvW a little actually, despite I got such a feeling of hate towards it once I realized I was forced to complete EB and borderlands for map completion…

XacTactX.6709:

Agreed, IDK how it affects the game’s economy but if they can find a way to not harm it so there isn’t a downside this would be amazing.

The only harm could come for exotics, since people would basically buy WAY less if could simply “equip on the char I am playing-unequip-place in bank-switch char-equip-repeat forever”.
We all would be affected because when we would find that shiny exotic ring as a drop (once in 99 billion drops) and would open the LT all happy like “- Gotta get 2-3 golds out of this” and see that its value is 10s it would be quite disappointing…and would also kill everyone’s will to craft for earning gold.

I think they did this because this SP kept bugging like once each two days, with sharks getting stuck inside the rock wall too. Maybe they could not find a way so that it would be permanently fixed so it turned out like this. I honestly don’t mind it, faster map completion :P

I would be 10000000 times happier if they simply implemented weapon-dyeing to be honest…so that they would not even need to “re-skin”, I would be able to do it myself. making weapons the colour I like, the colour they match with my character and armors choices.

Ashabhi.1365:

1. People who quit the game but find it necessary to troll the forums long after they’ve left…

2. Everyone with the “I want it nao for no effortz!!!” attitude…

The game is a beautiful game, and there are so many fun things to do I can hardly count them all, but when I come to the forums for information or to see what’s up with the meta, all I see is people who seem to think that trolling a forum for a game game they don’t play any more makes them look intelligent, or people who are unhappy that they can’t have everything handed to them on a silver platter.

To be honest, I see way more people complaining not to have enough challenges and that everything is to easy, than the opposite. Basically, the only challenge you have in this game is remain mentally sane while grinding for (a promised-not-to-be-in-game) gear grind.

I think it is because most of the playerbase is actually unable to read at all. Just look at how everybody ignores whatever you write in your LFG advs and you’ll get the proof. “P1 GUARDIAN”? Warrior joins and picks p2. True story.

I am unsure to have understood you properly…you actually leave after completing one fractal? Because to complete 1 level you have to run the 3+1 fractals…basically, all the maps that will spawn until you are teleported back outside…
Every level you complete (that is higher than your current level) will allow you to advance…

Elitist.8701:

Hamstar.9421:

My thief :P Just made her 3 days ago.

OMG. What medium armor is this??? I MUST KNOW! THE FATE OF ME MAKING AN ENGINEER DEPENDS ON IT!

Top armor is surely from Krytan set (Gem store) and legs too are from another Gem store set, the Magitech one Boots look like the Assassin set, can’t tell for the other parts…

Oh please…I’m completing map on my 5th character (99% if it wasn’t for kitten ed colour swapping always on the same two colour in WvW I would be done ages ago), always did it ALL alone, never needed to ask anyone to help. Think of some strategy, don’t always claim others to help at the first, slight difficulty and you’ll see it can be done!

-WvW needed for map completion (Still waiting for that freaky last PoI in red borderland after THREE weeks.)
-Too few PvE end-game options. Dungeons (FotM included) are old, repetitive and got boring.
-LS. Please get rid of it forever after Scarlet is dead and don’t bring it up ever again.

Mochann.5298:

Weapon drop rates weren’t lowered from what I understood of the patch notes. Drop rates were increased, with armor rates increased even more than weapon rates.

Dunno how anyone can claim ANet isn’t giving fractals attention when they released a massive update to it just a couple of months back.

If copy-pasting some old temporary dungeons bits into fractals can be considered a “massive update”…
Besides, there are more annoying things happening and never mentioned into patch notes than what you realize….
And I am still to see how these drop rates were increased, for it looks totally the opposite and not just to me.

I believe the NPCs needs to be challenged in an order according to their difficulty and Norn should be the last. As you defeat the easier ones, you get special skills that help you win against the next, harder NPC. First one should be the Sylvari followed by Asura and Human (At least, that’s how I did it.)
Plus, a tip (which worked long time ago, not sure if it still works) is to use nourishment (Mango pies) that give you regeneration, and if you have a spare rejuvenating booster it does its job as well there.

It makes no difference really…according to my experience, I found more exotics opening bags on low levels, than on my level 80s. For low level I mean 15-40…

JustTrogdor.7892:

Ahh I see we are sticking to the rotation in the forum. Mounts > Duels > Race change. All aboard the suggestion train.

To be honest, by the time if there ever is a race change option you could probably go ahead and level up and gear up an alt of the race by the time it happens.

Don’t forget the “make soulbound things accountbound” ones! xD

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

lordkrall.7241:

The Holy Advenger.1758:

now theyre going to be reworking armors, runes, and sigils. This is something that shouldve happened before launch.

If they were going to hold off a game until it was at perfect balance they would never release anything at all.

Balancing takes time, and it changes with every release, so either they will have to spend years for balance and never add anything at all after the game is released, or they would have to use the current system.

The mechanics. A “rework” in GW1 meant swapping a few runes out, rethinking your skills set, perhaps a new weapons set. Often a pvp “rework” meant nothing in terms of PvE. Armors, weapons, runes were, for the most part, cheap and basic in GW1, and expensive was skin only. Once you purchased a set of max level armor in GW1 you were set, stat wise, for the life of the game.

Not like here.. where swapping a set of ascended armor is a major expense and time issue. Not like here, where expense is tied up in stats instead of appearance unless you want to argue that blue is an acceptable substitute for rare/exotic/ascended.

Add in the fact that for many people, along with replacement costs of the armors there will be associated transmutation costs and possible costs of removing higher priced sigil and rune sets.

They are balance passing as if this were GW1.. and taking no consideration of the fact that gear grind wise.. it is not.

I honestly think that those costs for removing sigils and runes, to transmute and so on are exactly the point, if you consider those are all Gem Store items. Am I the only one thinking there is quite a bound between these facts? How many people will spend money to trasmute and so on? An armor is 6 fine transmutation stones, I also doubt that it is a case that these new ascended armors look so less appealing than the other armors in game. I think the problem that occurred in the passage from Gw1 to Gw2 is greediness.

Immensus.9732:

my server is very highly populated but only areas such as queensdale and frostgorge have people, and of course LA and wvw. the population is not low, the problem is that theres nothing to make people go back and explore or roam around the world

Events are absolutely unrewarding..most of all after karma nerf. Back then, one could even consider spending some time chasing some events around, now it’s totally meaningless, the only reward events offer is a bit of Xp, making them appealing only to those who are levelling a character nearby. As for an example, I’ve been maxing some PvE areas in the past days to get map completion on my new main. Had events spawning all around me, didn’t stop to make them, didn’t even consider that, unless the events matched with the some heart completion. People stopped to even chase events in Orr, if you want to do events your only chance are world events.

3 (or 4?) waypoints were added as well as a few points of interest all over the maps, more or less what is left as perma-content from all the living story grinds we got these past months.

What makes these grinds so bad is that this game was promised not to have such things (in the manifesto) and it miserably failed the expectations of everyone who trusted that.

I’d say add all of the dyes I have unlocked on that character for the kits already! The only hairstyle I like on female-Norn is the one with bandana, deleted my character because there was no way in the world that thing could fit with the total-white style I wanted to give her, less of all those brownish-greyish horrors -.-

chemiclord.3978:

Arena.net wants you to play WvW in order to get a legendary.

Deal with it.

To finish your map too…

If there was a 10€ month sub I would quit the game the same second. Besides, I doubt that it would make the gem store disappear, why would a company get rid of extra income? o.O

angelpaladin.7921:

chemiclord.3978:

Stark.1350:

First it was rage how the first one was terrible and now the second one is terrible. Can’t win.

Well, they were both terrible for different reasons.

The first one was “terrible” because it was “stealing” an exclusive skin, because God forbid players not feel like quite as special of a unique little snowflake (for the record, that same fury was why previous buyers of the Flamekissed skin were simply NOT going to be allowed to keep what they had… it was a explicitly expressed demand of that first group of protesters).

The second one is “terrible” because people who liked the look of the first one had it changed to something they like a lot less. Now that second group of people are righteously kittened off and are setting the forums alight like the first group did earlier.

Whats the point of the game if its not for the unique armor skins???? Seriously you cant be so naive to think that the game would survive with no purpose. That’s what taking away unique skins does it kills the entire purpose of the game.

In World of Warcraft the purpose of the game is to grind gear to ascended to higher levels to beat more difficult bosses. Guildwars 2 does not have anything like that. I understand they released armor that’s 5% better then what we had but for what? There is no newer harder content. They could have released armor that was 100% better and it still be pointless unless they upped the difficulty. That leaves Guildwars 2 as a Dress up game. Taking away someones ability to be unique makes the game pointless and even if you don’t agree it kill the game faster then the living story has.

The problem here is that they promised this game wouldn’t have vertical progression, or any grind.
But people kept claiming a gear grind while others kept shouting against it (Me included).
hey made it like this, thinking that this sliiiiightly better gear is going to be enough to shut up those who wanted gear grind, but not good enough to make people who didn’t want it, to start to cry too loud.
At some point, they will eventually be forced to add harder content to balance to the new tier, and that’s when the "War for “I was unrightfully kicked from x y z”" will be replaced by the epic war “I DIDN’T BUY THIS GAME TO HAVE THE NTH GEAR GRIND war”.

Iris Ng.9845:

Of all things they could have fixed, they just made the worst thing worse. What are their logics? For the love of trolls…

They fixed an “out of map” in Rata Sum that now leads your character into an asuran cell, can you think of anything more useful than this to waste time on? (I didn’t even know this thing existed if a friend didn’t make me notice it to have a laugh)