Guild Wars 2

Emissary Vex.5690:

Protoavis.9107:

I don’t understand the logic either, I mean people were running around in half dungeon sets for awhile too. If a player doesn’t want to look “funky” (and lets be honest, based on the ascended armor skins most people will be transmuting the appearance of an exotic over it) they can just park the ascended gear into their bank.

Thats a weak argument, as it takes only a few days to get a full set of exotic as opposed to weeks/months it takes to get ascended due to all the time locks. Also, I dont have enough bank space for a full set of armor because the games storage limits are so rediculess.

Ermmm, difference of opinion =/= weak argument. Either way if you’re crafting to 500 to get ascended gear you’d have the gold required to get transtones or extra bank tabs. Also the lack of bank space is probably more of a player issue than a game issue since in all honesty there’s really not much worth storing.

TA and lighting is pretty terrible, it’s one of those things where at night you really can’t mix and match it with sylvari culturals since the culturals retain their colour while TA armor just loses 99% of it and turns super dark.

eg. Set is pretty much the same colour during the day…but as soon as it gets dark :\

ronpierce.2760:

My only question is; what makes mesmers so special? Not to be rude, but… I mean, necro mobility isn’t that great neither unless you give up a utility slot for a speed signet, but in the long run, it still doesn’t add up to Perma-Swiftness, teleports, leaps etc. I’m not saying Mesmer doesn’t have it bad, but at least you’re not alone. Necros also have no escape power. x.X

Spectral Walk, 50% uptime of swiftness.

but but but pony bow and rainbows!

isn’t the end goal of the devs for all classes to pretty much have every weapon

Phy.2913:

Does anyone actually like the ascended gear?

I like medium….but not more than I like some of the other medium armor in game

Depends what’s happening, in general guardian, can be eng with flame thrower (but you’re not being especially useful) if you know when to pull out (ROCKET BOOTS!) . the 1 skill on both tends to hit pretty much everything in the zerg if you’re running around in the middle of the other zerg (and you don’t need to target anyone hurray!).

I don’t understand the logic either, I mean people were running around in half dungeon sets for awhile too. If a player doesn’t want to look “funky” (and lets be honest, based on the ascended armor skins most people will be transmuting the appearance of an exotic over it) they can just park the ascended gear into their bank.

I just went into sPvP for the first time and even I tend to agree a bit. The rest of the team and opposition appeared more experienced than I based on armor (if you’ve got a full set of gear you’ve probably acquired a bit of glory and boxes), with that in mind there wasn’t any reason I should have gotten first place given my complete lack of experience and exposure (ie until I saw the mini map with it’s a b c I didn’t even realise pvp in this game was capture points).

So I can see how go solo queue but being permanently attached to the mishaps of other players is not a particularly great system. Solo queue ranking should be based entirely on how the individual performs.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

what level? only above 40 (I think? maybe 30) drops the new boxes where you get to pick a skin. The lower levels still use the old method as far as i’m aware.

False, the boxes aren’t in game. Regina said as much the other day. The boxes will be in higher levels past 50…..yep…I know what you’re thinking.

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

Aaron.4807:

What BG did was destroy Tier one, how anet allows that crap is beyond me but…

Luckily, I don’t wvw for rewards.

JQ helped with their recruitment. SoR would have also had you all gotten more so don’t try to play any kind of victim. You are all just as culpable.

There are more than just those three serers in gold tier, lets not much assumptions of where Aaron is from.

It’s not wrong and to be honest, we do get gold. Sure it’s a bit lower than aggressive farming in pve but even after buying a bunch of siege to donate to the commander after an hour play session I still normally walk away with a 1g. The rewards seem to mirror a normal lvl 80 zone without farming.

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

lordkrall.7241:

NargofWoV.4267:

yup, I feel bad for the number 1 server, not even a permanent finisher? Or a title saying season 1 best or something. A chance at a skin of some sort??? disappointing considering the effort involved.

The thing however is that being the number one server doesn’t really have that much to do with effort, but rather having a stacked server.

And if they did give very special and cool items for the winners only (not counting the finisher) people would stack even more for season 2, and thus destroying WvW even more.

That is so much bull about no effort.

BG put in a lot of effort. The server organized and people stayed up late or logged on earlier than normal. Lots of people did boring stuff with escorting dolyaks and placing siege. There was a lot of effort put into ensuring the win.

You should just crawl back into your hole.

If it was that much every week, you’re not being honest with yourself.

A lot of weeks were blowout weeks based on scoring.

Dreadforce.6980:

I have never used TS and some common sense and awareness will serve anyone better than people yelling in my opinion.

Pretty much

TS often signals up the red flag of people taking things too seriously, I really don’t want to turn recreation into a second job or be abused because people are having tantrums.

It’s never gone well so I just stay away from it.

Sitkaz.5463:

I don’t understand people who thought we’d get ascended weapons. That’s totally off the scale.

I did (indirectly), the liquid wxp rank’d me up and the chest had an occam’s ascended chest :P

Vatlaaw Fierceshot.5713:

Whether or not you agree or disagree with the strategies used by the participating players is an entirely different subject.

I dunno if being on a server that has a population that greatly outnumbers the competition counts as strategy

it was never going to be permanent, it was only going to be available until season 2.

My 5th place rewards were acceptable.

Hi liquid world experience
Oh wvw rank up
Oh Occam’s Weapon Chest

:)

people not getting the achievements weren’t going for the achievements. I did it in 5 days of following the zerg (made banging on doors easier) and was unable to play for 11hr’s out of the day (work and traveling to and from it) so it wasn’t like I was sitting there 24/7.

you’re ignoring the 7 weeks of loot from wvw

Little.1635:

Seriously there should be other ways to obtain it rather than wait 8-9 days just to have enough to make ONE charged quartz not to mention it being account bound and craft-able once per day. Not to mention it takes 42 days mining that node in your home instance just to make 1 exotic inscription.

at least you have the node…

morrolan.9608:

So the reward chests have been sent? Before the season is over?

EU servers

ghostrunners.2437:

I’d like to suggest dwarf. ArenaNet has done so many things right with GW2, I would love to see their take on traditional lore. It’s weird, but with so many new rpgs/mmos, the trend is to move away from what people are used to, to constantly innovate, but through subtraction, not addition. I had to go back for a while and play World of Warcraft just so I can experience what an Elf, or Dwarf are about again. Take it with a grain of salt, but I couldn’t get into Charr, I like ugly – Orcs, Ogres, trolls – but those things are like a barge of goats. I wish they werent allowed to use weapons/armors.

Dwarves exist in the original (and 1 exists in gw2 if you look around for him). They all turned into living stone and are fighting the molten elder dragon under ground. By lore standards they shouldn’t be playable since they pretty much sacrificed themselves

It’ll be something that can just use the existing animations and armor. This is why we won’t ever get something like centaurs since it will require the armor to be entirely redone, whereas Tengu can just reuse the Charr armor meshes and stretch them appropriately.

LordByron.8369:

but its really risky… ._.
What if they will just ask me to delete my celestial armor?
its 30 day without being able to go www….

I just hope they will preview the new armor before 10 december….or i will be in troubles

If they won t i will be forced to ask support…..
I hope i will get back at least what i had before….seems only few could have that back

For sure if the will preview the new armor before the 10 dec we will have at least a chance to see how to proceed.

Since you mentioned WvW, you can easily reskin the whole armor set with just 45 – 180 (some skin sets are more expensive than others) badges of armor. The armor master, last tab is other, this is just cheap skins.

DIdn’t transfer since no point with it tying my reward to the server I started on.

Randomly where is the chest? Or is just bonus chest when leveling up, I have the key but didn’t see any obvious chest anywhere and nothing in game is directing me.

It’s possible, the rate is incredibly low, you’re better on throwing all the weapon loot you get into the forge though. (greens become rares 1/5th of the time. Rares have an approx 0.2% chance to be a precursor but a 1/5th chance to become an exotic, exotics have an approx 1% chance of returning precursor)

morrolan.9608:

Protoavis.9107:

To be honest, this really depends on how you play, especially now. It was fairer in the earlier days but now there are so many guaranteed lvl 80 rare drops each day that you could be collecting and dumping in the MF. I’m averaging around 2 exotics (hurray free dark matter!) each day just from running some world bosses and a couple dungeon path runs and dumping the rare weapons in the forge. One thing I have noticed, which admittedly may be a fluke, compared with the early mystic forge is that I’ve only been getting named exotics returned when I know crafted pearl skinned weapons use to drop quite frequently. There does appear to be some changes in what the forge is putting out and i know in the past 6 weeks I’ve had 2 very unexpected precursor drops all without spending anything.

Suggest you look at the thread he referenced.

Suggest you read the first line of what I wrote within the context of what I quoted.

It only becomes a giant gold sink if you actively spend gold on it, this is player choice and a poor one at that.

Given the guaranteed rare drops (who’s only real purpose is to salvage into ecto’s or upgrade in the MF to exotics) there really isn’t any reason to be spending that much gold on it. The people that lose on the MF are people who want everything NOW or believe if they spend all their gold they’ll get it cheaper than just buying it off the TP which statistically will only ever be some of the time. If you want a specific precursor and want it now, buy it off the TP. It’s never been smart to spend all your gold on gear to forge. If you’re playing smart and patient the forge doesn’t eat your money, especially now with the large number of guaranteed rare drops each day.

Romo.3709:

But Mystic Forge is practically a money waster. The term “Mystic Toilet” didn’t just came out for no reason. The amount of gold used to get a precursor out of it is ridiculous.

To be honest, this really depends on how you play, especially now. It was fairer in the earlier days but now there are so many guaranteed lvl 80 rare drops each day that you could be collecting and dumping in the MF. I’m averaging around 2 exotics (hurray free dark matter!) each day just from running some world bosses and a couple dungeon path runs and dumping the rare weapons in the forge. One thing I have noticed, which admittedly may be a fluke, compared with the early mystic forge is that I’ve only been getting named exotics returned when I know crafted pearl skinned weapons use to drop quite frequently. There does appear to be some changes in what the forge is putting out and i know in the past 6 weeks I’ve had 2 very unexpected precursor drops all without spending anything.

Septemptus.7164:

Now its datamined and that means that it will be out in few months. And since the start it was said that whey wont be faster than end of the year.

not really

there’s things that have been datamined since launch that still aren’t in the game.

I imagine this is there to provide a passive sustained heal which for the most part was lacking when compared with other professions the active effect was just to jazz it up a bit.

Female: 8
Male: 1 and 1

While I don’t RP, my toons have loose back stories in my head and my female is a bit of an anti-hero and face 8 seems the most fitting when it’s sliders are pulled around a bit, needs to be properly geared and skinned.

Male I just use face 1, I don’t really like the other faces and well the available body types don’t really line up. Like 3 has a bark skin but none of the body patterns really match up at all, 9 is a cactus but there’s no cactus body skin, etc.

Oghier.7419:

Right now, they are better off transferring before S2 to ensure they will win, get heaps of karma, complete whatever the meta is with ease etc.

I know I will be. I’m on a server that will never win in it’s league, making it pointless to stick around especially with the queue issue becoming redundant with edge of the mist.

Alukah.2063:

“A new player joining GW2 in late 2014 would still be a good 6 months away from acquiring the base set of ascended gear”

Does it really take 6 months to craft all 6 pieces?

a new player won’t have amassed any wealth in game which will make the initial part of crafting expensive (since next to nothing below exotic at the moment can be crafted to break even or generate a profit and if most players have ascended I imagine exotic will have no buyers either making crafting all together unprofitable)

EnemyCrusher.7324:

They haven’t said anything about new legendary weapons beyond “we plan to add more in the future”.

while the following doesn’t confirm or deny anything, in a beta build that guilds were invited to test out the new wvw map, the following was found. It has a purple name (can be seen in the lower left of the image) with the name TEST RAVEN STAFF DO NOT USE

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

How many people really want to shoot unicorns? Finally the imbalance of difficulty for the dungeon tokens to get the gifts is not very fair. Arah is just a bit to difficult compared with the other dungeons where people farm them daily.

I’d shoot ponies all day on my mesmer if shortbow is ever added to their weapon set :P

To be fair, you only need to run 9 dungeon paths to get enough tokens, even if you only do path 2 of arah (the shortest path and can be solo’d) it’s just 9 days.

teheria.1290:

Assuming the drop in fractals, I will just wait to get them there. Crafting is not really well done in gw2…it’s going to cost way too much to get to 500 crafting, I’d rather just enjoy some fractals and wait for drops.

Depends on how you do it, I made a profit on the three weapon crafts, if you rush it and need it RIGHT NOW you’re going to lose cash, if on the other hand you only craft things that sell and at a profit you’ll pretty easily get to 500 in a couple weeks.

On a slightly different note.

I’ve been paying more attention to what I get from the MF from my daily bonus chests rare weapon dump, .they’ve all been named exotics, no more pearl weapons. Dunno if that’s happening with anyone else, just something that’s caught my attention.

118 seems like a perfectly normal number to upload out of 5000+ video’s right? I mean lets not go 50 or 100, we need a nice normal number like 118 when there’s over 5000 entries….

/sarcasm

Lord Kuru.3685:

Protoavis.9107:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Just pray your build doesn’t get nerfed or that there won’t be a more fun build developed for your profession (both are likely because of skill balances and new skills on the horizon).

eh, zerker is always going to be max dps (or close to it) so whatev’s everything else is just weapons/traits/skills which are easily changed.

Don’t be so sure. It looks like Anet is starting to add some boss mechanics that hurt zerker builds — or at least make zerker builds less effective. If you look at the mistlock instabilities, there’s a couple that affect critical damage negatively (levels 34, 44). Even if these are currently ineffective at their goal, the point is that Anet is actively trying to reduce the universal effectiveness of the zerker build.

(Imagine, for example if Anet added more “structure” bosses that don’t even take critical damage.)

The instabilities are situational and doesn’t mean that zerker isn’t top dps

If things were structures it wouldn’t really change anything anyway since there’s no Power primary with secondary condition damage gear (there’s condition primary with power secondary but if everyone stacks condition gear overall is lowered due to max condition stacks). With the other Power primary gear only providing defensive stats it doesn’t alter the DPS.

Without radically changing the core combat mechanics zerker in pve will always be at the top or equal with others at the top in regards to dps.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Just pray your build doesn’t get nerfed or that there won’t be a more fun build developed for your profession (both are likely because of skill balances and new skills on the horizon).

eh, zerker is always going to be max dps (or close to it) so whatev’s everything else is just weapons/traits/skills which are easily changed.

ascended armor next tuesday, expect all leather, metal and fabric mats to spike

It’s not like it’s going to slow down anyone grinding achievements if they add a few more, between dungeon master and the salvage one which are infinite anyone who’s grinding them can easily catch up just by speed running a path over and over and over and salvaging all the loot that comes up.

Mikuchan.7261:

Besides it’s not the actual precursor that is desired.
It’s the legendary weapon that comes from it.
And that still requires an immense effort to get.
You need to do 100% world exploration, you need to do quite a bit of WvW, you need to do dungeons, you need to get quite alot of karma.

no wvw is required anymore apart from the map completion….achievement chests will drop more than enough badge of honor quite quickly
You need to run a dungeon 9 times…which isn’t a significant effort since most dungeons have a least one path that is easily speed run in less than 15 minutes

the only difficult thing about legendary is the grind for the gifts due to how many mats that requires, and for the most part the mats aren’t difficult to acquire, it’s just time consuming or expensive.

Belenwyn.8674:

. Maybe we will see Jeweler and cook at level 500 in future, but in principle we are done.

I believe someone datamined something that highlighted cooking going to 500.

I dunno why you’ll are broke from crafting, there are still a lot of exotic gear that turn a profit if you’re paying attention.

AngelMouse.7345:

A lot of players, me included, were sad they didn’t bring back Mad King’s dungeon this year for Halloween. I am happy that most of this looks like copy pasta from last year. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed that Scarlet doesn’t make an appearance in Toypocalypse or The Workshop.

I know I was…the mad king dungeon was king, accessible to everyone and decently rewarding. I would have been leveling my last 2 alts like crazy.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

LordByron.8369:

Because i don t have option 1…..

And i m stuck with a temporary skin until they decide what the new will be.

If they will release it after ascended armors will be even more painful

Why do you not have option 1? It’s a perfectly reasonable way to keep your armor and runes that you have said you do not want to lose.
If it’s because support will ask you to delete the old skin, have you bothered to ask if overwriting it with a new skin would be accepted as destroying it?

I doubt it given some people have already gone after their refund and received T3 to replace their flamekissed with.

Support may be being inconsistent, possibly in how they are approached, but there’s a lot of people getting their old skins back on one side and then there’s a bunch of others who just seem to want to post the same misinformation over and over without actually going after their refund…these are also the same people that seem determined to keep their flamekissed so I’m not sure of how much stock to place in what they say since it doesn’t seem like they’ve actually tried to get the refund that suits them, just want to complain on the forums.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I have to chuckle. People had a hissy fit because the light is the same as the t3 cultural design wise, just reskinned. Yet no one had an issue with the fact that medium and heavy are exactly that as well (at least for females).

I’ve seen the medium armor…but I can’t think of what the heck it’s called. I’ll have to check when I can log in later. However, the heavy (flamewrath) is simply a dead on pit fighter reskin. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pit_Fighter_armor#Human_female Nobody seems to be up in arms over those two. Just too funny…

Personally I didn’t mind the reskins, heck I think I liked the flame kissed better than the t3.

The light was only available to humans previously, the others are available to all races…that’s the main jist of the issue.

depends on stat differences, if insignificant I really can’t be bothered spending trans stones

I’m not sure the complaints can be warranted without actually testing out the MF in it’s current state. I’ve been grinding out world bosses for dragonite ore which also nets me rare weapons, I’ve been throwing them in the forge for exotics (dark matter) and have had two precursors thus far in the last month and a bit of farming. I may be extremely lucky but on the other hand it may also be the result of the change.

Minos.5168:

Honestly…
I saw someone with at least 3 legendaries lately (he switched from Sunrise to Rodgort and Frostfang)

I asked how he got them and his response was simply “I spend my time wisely.”

I can’t imagine how anyone, by simply playing the game legitimately, could have 3 legendaries at this point.

Until recently with the advent of the daily chest which cut down profits running the easy dungeons over and over (like people do champ trains) would need a lot of $$$ for time invested, you’ll notice a lot of people with quite high attachment points and a couple legendaries were likely doing it that way (dungeon master, after that every 5 dungeons = 5 achievement points). Either way, with grinding and speed runs it’s still relatively easy to turn 20g in around 2 hours a day, over 30 days thats 600g.