Guild Wars 2

Take the portal from DR to Ebonhawk and then north and you are at shatterer in about 5-10 mins…

Took me weeks til I got my 2nd and last coat box from VW. After that you get them constantly :-)

bladex.9502:

I’m sorry, but where exactly did you see me “screaming, whining, qqing and whatever else”?
I just said I was surprised that he didn’t know it after 3000 hours of gametime.
Also, whenever I see someone in my group that doesn’t understand pathing, I explain it to them.
Stop assuming things that you don’t know kitten about, makes you look dumb

You’re probably just a filthy zerk elitist Kappa

I think I just misinterpreted this. I know the mechanic, but didn’t know the name of it. Just to place enemies to a different point, we even did that in GW1 (i.e. Kanaxai boss spawns).

LOL, just read ‘harassment’ by bouncing around on you, haha, made my day. Dude, seriously?

Honestly, it’s a game, get a thick skin man. Unfortunately, it’s quite common. Usually, that’s some under 20 year olds with a kittenload of testosterone, short temper and they don’t understand what they do. Just tell them to kitten off and put them on ignore list.

People these days… get depressed when their dog has diarrhea. Guys, the world is tough, you get harassed, people mob you, just hit back. Eventually, you will come back stronger.

Honestly, I don’t care about the personal story. That said: it’s quite common that the main story of most games is easy. Only the ‘end game’ – which admittedly does not exist here – should provide this. Final Fantasies usually were quite easy to finish, only the hard stuff was locked behind side quests. So I don’t get WPs rant. Maybe make it a tad harder, but that’s it. Besides the season 2 story stuff is significantly harder than the personal story.

The second article talks about something we don’t know yet. The “Challenging Group Content” will be hopefully get a detailed article soon.

It’s a) summer, people go outside, b) no additional content and c) tons of other good games. I barely log in atm. I am extremely bored and even don’t care about the daily reward. We all wait for HOT release.

Times change, look all the f2p and mobile games. There are people paying hundreds of €/$ just to play Candy Crush.

When I started to play online 15 years ago you got free maps from the developers and everything was free. No stupid season pass, no horrendous DLC prices etc.

1. Boring armor, nostalgia aside, never had this.
2. Clipping is normal, just get used to it and don’t spam all the new armor threads full with it.

Ansau.7326:

skowcia.8257:

I agree that graphic is outdated, anyone who says otherwise never played anything outside of f2p mmos. But its okay..graphic is not everything. Howered when it perform like a crap with outdated graphic and then you see another mmo with even more effects, really beautiful graphic with little nice details you know something is wrong. And that is a bit sad for AAA game.

You’re comparing a game released in 2012 and started being developed in 2007 with a game still in beta and started in 2010.
Btw, if you played Black Desert (that game) you’d know the crazy and ucceptable popping the game has. You should prefer lower graphics than insane ones near you, but lower than gw2 far from you and a freaking bad popping.
Just look at those screenshots and see the downgrade done in not so far graphics.

VaLee.5102:

Max quality with supersample at 1080p:

http://s29.postimg.org/8ildglq6u/gw020.jpg
http://s22.postimg.org/qqznrrsc0/gw021.jpg
http://s29.postimg.org/lt98a4gr9/gw022.jpg

Now tell me again how amazing the graphics are.

That’s because dx9 doesn’t support tessellation, which would bump a lot the quality of stone buildings and walls.
It could also be improved with better textures, but the game already weights +25GB and the new expansion is about 35GB of space. If devs put better textures for all buildings in the game (tons of them), game could easily need +100GB of space.

Hurrakan.4259:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The game is 3-years old; I expect it to have 2012 graphics, not 2015.

DirectX 11 was released in 2009. I expect a 2012 game (Guild Wars 2) to have at least 2012 graphics :p

There are many DX 11 games that were released years earlier than Guild Wars 2. Here is a small selection, including some other MMOs:

Aliens vs. Predator (2010)
Battlefield Bad Company 2 (2010)
Battle Forge (2009)
Civilization V (2010)
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (2009)
Dungeons and Dragons Online (released 2006, DX11 support added 2010)
Lord of The Rings Online (released 2007, DX 11 support added 2010)
Star Trek Online (released 2010, DX 11 support added 2012)
The Secret World (2012)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_11_support

It’s perfectly possible for a DX 11 game to be backwards-compatible and also support DX 9 and/or DX 10.

DX 10 is not much better than DX 9. but DX 11 features a lot of real improvements such as tessellation.

DX12 is amazing because it drastically reduces the amount of draw calls, but it will only work on Windows 10. Although Microsoft are offering Windows 10 for free to current owners of Windows 7.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8962/the-directx-12-performance-preview-amd-nvidia-star-swarm
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9112/exploring-dx12-3dmark-api-overhead-feature-test

Gw2 was released in 2012, but started to be developed in 2007. Back then dx10 was just released, but nearly everyone were running XP. Dx11 came years later and the game was way more developed.
Few months before the release devs were thinking about moving to dx11, but they preferred to stay with dx9, as still a lot of people was running the game in XP (which doesn’t even support dx10).

Very strange statements and English… 100 GB…

Two points:
- imo I had the easiest time doing this (including all achievements) as a ranger. I soloed all of it.

-I read there is a bug; during the burning phase some AoE attacks won’t hit. I had a hard time as ele since ice bow and meteor shower didn’t hit a lot. It was super easy with ranger longbow though. Always killed him after two burn phases.

There are two decisions with imo were implemented in a questionable way: making season 1 in non-instanced areas, aka open world which makes an implementation rather complicated and season 2 making a think you have to pay in case you missed it.

bladex.9502:

ProtoGunner.4953:

That ‘pathing’ you described, sorry but that is so super specific… I read the forums almost every day, have played 3’000 hours and started in betas and didn’t know about this. I knew at the beginning thiefs de-aggroed while stealthed – this got nerfed.

How can you NOT know about this if you have played 3000 hours?
I would imagine when you’re stealthed, and you still see mobs following you, you wonder why that happens, and search for a solution, no?
I guess you play PvP, which doesn’t have any mechanics at all

No, you misunderstood me. I know that they follow you during stealth. As I already mentioned, I know that this was a change way back at the beginning. Before that change you lost aggro and got out of combat immediately after stealthing. But what I didn’t know was, if you stand still during stealth the enemies stay there, even if you de aggro and WP to another place? Is that correct? Thought all enemies in dungeons have a leash in GW2?

I haven’t played stealth classes in dungeons though. Maybe a few runs with thief. But also I never did speed clearing, I run mainly rather fast casual runs without any specific group compositions doing most dungeons in the 10-15mins time span.

Wooden Patatoes has a made a very good summary about HOT and what we know about it on his channel. Check it out:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

ProtoGunner.4953:

The original price of the Nightfall CE was much more expensive than 50.

I don’t think so.

Yeah, I think so.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Don’t compare a 9 year old game’s price with an upcoming expansion.

Why not? Same company, same price. It is entirely justified to compare the value for the same price.
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Be cause in a couple years you can buy the addon for 10€ i am sure.

Also you get a ton of updates in the future.

You are not paying for the updates, you are paying for the expansion. Besides, Nightfall also got plenty of updates, including a whole endgame area. So that argument is void.

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Yes you are. That’s the point

I payed around 200€ for the CE and 100 for the Addon. So it’s half the price for me. I can afford 100 CEs if I want. I don’t care, really. I feel sorry for those who can’t though…

That ‘pathing’ you described, sorry but that is so super specific… I read the forums almost every day, have played 3’000 hours and started in betas and didn’t know about this. I knew at the beginning thiefs de-aggroed while stealthed – this got nerfed.

Don’t get too kitteny about such specific mechanics. Under the term ‘pathing’ usually you mean the way your figure walks in RTS and MOBAs and or the mobs in Games patrol path.

The original price of the Nightfall CE was much more expensive than 50. I think something between 100 or 150. Don’t compare a 9 year old game’s price with an upcoming expansion. Also you get a ton of updates in the future. You forgot some other features. Just check wooden patatoes youtube channel.

Anyway, there is one thin you were right: I don’t get a physical collector’s edition which sucks.

Nothing new at all. In WoW they release an expansion and you can’t fight the main antagonist for about 1.5 years. Only with the last updates you can fight it.

Azure.8670:

All of my characters have the name Tyr in them. I got the name from Breath Of Fire 1, it was the main of the end boss at the (which was actually a girl) but years later the changed it to Maria because Tyr was just a bad translation. However ive been using the name for almost 20 years now and almost legally had a name change (yep).

Tyr XIII
Tyr X I I I (tattood on me)

…

I really hope you know the origin of the name ‘Tyr’ – it’s a norse god.

I always use a first and last name and try to combine them thematically to the character. So for example my Charr Engineer is called “Ratchet Ironwrench”. “Ratchet” for being a fan of the series ratchet and clank and thematically the technophile attitude. “Ironwrench” – well “iron” fits to Charr stuff and “wrench” and engineer… you get the picture ^^

I always thought the golem was in a good spot HP wise. Maybe took a bit too long. But honestly, I am baffled how many people go down when the electric field shows up or his smash attack, 90% of the people get knocked away and don’t get the right dodging and this after three years. New players aside ofc.

I check sometimes other players. And I am shocked that those ‘1,1,1,1’-ers really exist. I can’t imagine just standing there and doing literally nothing. From this perspective I think it is good, the zerg learns how the mechanics actually work. In the future though, keep those for instanced raid content.

Well, Blizzard updated their graphics a lot. Compare vanilla with now, it’s a huge difference, also they let you choose the renderer; either dx9 or 10 I believe (last time I checked was Cataclysm…).

Anyway, for an MMO, GW2 looks rather good. Though I think they could update a couple of things. Lots of environmental textures have horribly low rez textures and a lot of structures have very low polygon count. Especially in the outer areas of a map. Also, I think they should add a new direct x. Imho using a 10 year old renderer is outdated. They should’ve introduced dx10 from the beginning and have it included during the development of the game engine.

I haven’t even noticed it is a trap, it works exactly the same? Don’t get it.

CC is still super strong. The CD can be lowered and hte 10 vuln is only 4s and you take 10% more damage which is negligible. It still removes poison and is the only heal that isn’t affected by poison which is still very strong.

A shield should reduce the damage taken by 10-20% – all the time. It is a kitten shield for god’s sake and it is a guardian. It should give something very strong. Like the crusader in Diablo 3 or the Paladin in WoW. He should be the one soaking damage. Yeah I know dodging and no trinity blabla. But for kitten’s sake, let him take the damage of others and reduce it. It would be a cool mechanic.

Er. I don’t get it, just hit the number you mapped the skill? If you want it faster use fast casting on release or instant. I myself just have it mapped on my Logitech G600, I hit the button and cast it on release.

Press F.

Message Body length must at least be 15.

…and there you will complain again. Just stop to complain, accept status quo.

Humans are creatures of habit. If something changes general resentment is quite normal. After a couple of weeks/months no one will ever ask about old trait system (which was actually rather bad imo). And yes, Vayne already mentioned it: a lot of traits were never used and underpowered.

I bought the ultimate myself, especially since you get 4k gems for “half the price”*. But at the moment, I only play very sporadically, only tried the new trait system a bit. Very busy with Heroes of the Storm. Will be back though for betas and release ofc.

*well it’s in a bundle, so assuming the additional fluff is worth 25$/€

I am so happy, I didn’t farm my kitten off for this short ridiculous one time event lol. Now I have prepurchased the ultimate edition and getting access to the betas anyway.

This “what if…”-thread is redundant and unnecessary – they won’t change it again. Besides, the “Ultimate” Edition is way too much. The only good addition in this whole post is the Season 2.

The big fail was that they sticked to this old dx version in the first place. They at least should’ve considered DX10 during development of the original game…

Lol, what a post. You gamble and if someone doesn’t notice it after 2 minutes it’s his own fault.

fixing forum bug

That reminds me of when WoW introduced new content and the old got easy as kitten. I hope the new content will be much harder since we got stronger.

Imho 2 people isn’t a guild. Just join a guild and you have your guild hall. A guild should consist of at least 10 people.

Be cause between the the two expansion there is a time span of a couple of years you can’t play the new stuff. If you are fine with this tradeoff only to safe 45€ it’s your decision.

Tax in the US is not shown here. And it’s different from state to state. They pay more than USD 99. It is a rather complex system and varies by jurisdiction :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States

Have fun with the read :-)

Point granted, Kill, but imo the CoCo skill was extremely strong, if not the best heal in the game – especially that it is not affected by poison which is still a great plus. We’ll see how it works out.

Do not forget that these changes are made with the new reaper in mind. I am quite excited about the whole update since – finally – we have new ways to skill and it takes weeks until the community finds the new meta.

It’s not a strong nerf. The vulnerability won’t really affect me. Just cleanse it with something else or send it to a foe etc.

BTW: Wrong sub forum. Move it to the necro threads.

Accountzeroone.7291:

I first experienced random kicking with the dungeon community upon reaching level 80. Every single time I joined a dungeon group, here’s how it would go, after clicking the group advert, I would place my hands on the keyboard to begin to greet everyone, then I’d see:
Moron no. 1 has voted to kick (my character) out of the group.
Moron no. 2 has voted to kick (my character) out of the group.
Moron no. 3 has voted to kick (my character) out of the group.
(my character) has been kicked out of the group.

Now, I have completely quit dungeons, and when I look for groups doing random things in the open world, even when I make sure the group advert is described as “Doing heart events” or “Join me!” or “Doing Orr events” I’ll click the “join party” button, then as I greet everyone, or as I attempt to great everyone, here’s what happens in the first nanosecond:

Moron no. 1 has voted to kick (my character) out of the group.
Moron no. 2 has voted to kick (my character) out of the group.
Moron no. 3 has voted to kick (my character) out of the group.
(my character) has been kicked out of the group.

This sort of asinine behavior makes everyone in the party look like their I.Q. is somewhere around 70…… and it probably is.

I literally cannot join a single group without witnessing the above behavior, my friends list has only 4 people on it, as the direct result of this behavior 99.9 percent of the time I join a group, I swear I’m not even making this up, it’s like this every time I log in GW2, and attempt to join a group, it’s gotten to the point to where I insult the offending kickers, letting them know they’ve all been blocked.

What the h*ll kind of asinine community is this? Oddly enough, I think it might have something to do with the type of people who would advertise for a group in the first place, they must tend to be idiots.

I’ve played mmos since 1996, and GW2 is the first modern MMO I have played, even DAOC’s community is nowhere near this bad, kicking in that game is still extremely rare. Oh wait, I have played AOC as well, I forgot. anyway, I never got kicked on that game either, the month or so I played it, mainly around Tortage, I grouped with quite a few people there, and never got kicked there either…. so what gives here in GW2? On a side note, I’ve played GW2 off and on since 2013

Maybe it’s on your end? I never get kicked.

Broom.2561:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Lol, I love posts that start with “my wife and I” or “my husband and I” – who the kitten cares that you’re married.

Well, here’s the thing… generally, there’s only one active poster in a household, if that. I’d say they basically say ‘this is 2 people playing this game who have this same opinion’.

Yeah of course. But where I came from fathers didn’t play games and especially not their wives. Those are the people who casualize the game community since the huge commercial success of games. Where are the days of pizza eating nerds playing games? Ah, I miss those times… (not so serious)

The problem is they can’t change the price anyway. They can however offer a discount in the future and I highly doubt people are gonna wait that long to buy it.

…and at the end they’ll buy it anyways.

Lol, I love posts that start with “my wife and I” or “my husband and I” – who the kitten cares that you’re married.

Anyway… the outrage is kinda comprehensible especially the lack of a character slot… but I think you are completely forgetting that you won’t just pay 50 for one static expansion. It’s rather a financing of a long term game that will evolve after the expansion rolls out. You get a lot of additional stuff in future free releases at no additional costs and no shady pay to win stuff as seen in other online games.

50 is not that much. And if it is, then I wonder how you can survive and even have a PC to play this game and a connection to the internet.

There was a thread; how much real money you invested in this game, mainly in Gems. And there were numerous people who didn’t pay one cent! And I am sure the outrage is the highest amongst those people.

Sham.4175:

God kitten , so thats the sound of this game now? Are yhese pugs for real? I was planning on coming back to play but if pugs act that way…no fun…

Actually, 90% of my run experiences are good. People tend to push the negatives.

Not even vanilla WoW had raids ending on wipe. This is just stupid and makes the game more annoying. There are great single player games, where a player death means something (Bloodborne, Souls series…) and I appreciate it. Be cause death means something. But please not in a MMO. Even in GW1 they noticed that and added resurrection temples in their dungeons.

And again the outrage in the forums only is like they announced they will shut down the game and we all have to pay 100 $/€ for nothing. The real life and even in game feeling is this: “Okay, the price is a bit steep and/or they could have added at least one character slot to the cheapest expansion option but nonetheless I will buy it.”

For kitten’s sake: just calm down, and chill. It’s not the end of the world and it’s especially not needed to open a kittenload of threads and complaining and whining. Especially from people who played this game and never ever bought anything with real money.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Where Anet made a serious error imo and the opinion of many others is they decided to gouge the current players just that little bit extra by not including a character slot or two as they did in every expansion in GW save EOTN with the base HoT expansion. I mean seriously, there is zero incentive for a current player to pre purchase the base package.

Thank you, that’s what I think. The price would be okay if we get at least one additional character slot in the normal edition.

I think most of the rage could’ve be been prevented when they included an additional character slot in the standard edition for veterans/people who own the original game.

Yes, you played the game for nearly 3 years. Why is that ‘not anything’? A new player didn’t enjoy the game for 3 years. It’s like you would complain that a TV in 2012 was a lot more expensive than today and moan that people who buy this TV today got it cheaper.

The constant complaining about nitpicking and greedy behaviour of our kittening society kills my nerves.