Guild Wars 2

yakuza snowdragon.4639:

I’ve been playing since first beta and I’m currently sitting on 5575 points

It’s you. I’ve been playing for about 7/8 months and I’m close to 6.5k, and I’m not a big achievement hog and I’ve missed huge “achievement point fests” like the halloween one.

That said, Achievement point rewards are supposed to take a while to do. They’re fine as they are. They’re supposed to be landmarks, not dailies.

Galen Grey.4709:

Like this its a simple and elegant way to put casuals and hardcore players on the same page and have them both take 30 days to craft a piece of kitten gear rather then have a situations where a hardcore player can get it done in 20 – 30 days and a casual need 6 months to craft the same thing.

Here’s the problem: That should never happen. Why should someone who has a lot of time to dedicate to the game be artificially crippled because someone else doesn’t?

Imagine you’re running a marathon, and you’re really good. Running is one thing you love, and fortunately you can do it all the time, so evidently, you’re really good. But because you’re better, the organization of the event fits you with lead shoes to “even it up” with those who aren’t as good.

It’s the polar opposite, but exactly just as bad, as most MMOs, where someone with more time to play is inherently better, regardless of their skill, because their gear and level will be so insanely overpowering. GW2 makes a very good job of avoiding this, with easy leveling and, at least until ascended gear comes around, basically no vertical progression. Unfortunately it’s falling a bit too much into the opposite trap, creating an inverse, but equally obnoxious problem.

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

If you want to do this PvP thing, then instead of forcing those that do not wish to PvP just not be on the list and those that do want to PvP should be the ones paying the small fee to be on the list.

People that do not wish to PvP should not be forced in any way to do so and they should not be forced to pay a fee to avoid what they do not wish in the first place.

If anyone wants to do this, they should have to sign up and give their own consent, not because someone decided to put them on the list to have some fun.

Actually this is a brilliant idea. Reminds me of Shadow play from Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space universe. Bored of immortality? The challenges of life are just too easy for you? Hire a gunman to inject some thrill in your day!

You pay the fee, you get put on the board. Anyone who wants can pay a small amount (say 10% of your prize) to try, gets told in which map the target is (general location or map only, no specifics) and tries to take you down.

First to die loses. If the hunter dies, the “fee” goes to the hunted. If the target dies, the hunter gets his prize.

You can even have leaderboards for both most assassination attempts survived, and most targets assassinated.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how we turn a horrible suggestion into an awesome one.

Don’t be ignorant.

The issue has nothing to do with races and everything to do with the game camera.

The devs have already mentioned several times that they aren’t quite happy with the way the camera interacts with many of the jumping puzzles (and other places). This is because the way the actual game camera works had to be almost entirely redone very close to the game’s release – long after most maps, and jumping puzzles, were either done or well on their way. The side effect is that tall characters on cramped spaces got the shaft harder than Paris Hilton.

They also said that moving forward they’d consider the new camera specs…. Clearly something they utterly forgot during the Aetherblade jumping puzzle, but whatever.

At first I thought this was for WvW, which could be amusing. You could set a bounty to someone on one of the enemy servers, and if someone killed them you’d be notified (with an automatic screenshot included) and they’d receive their reward.

If this is for PvE, it’s incredibly kittening stupid. ANet purposely worked quite hard to remove any and all forms of griefing from the game, and you want to add a huge one? How about no. PvP happens in PvP. PvE is PvE. The game is pretty clear about this.

As someone that has 100% map completion, and has seen the entire map several dozen times by now, I can only think of 1 spot that you absolutely need help to get – The Temple of Balthazar Skill Point if the Temple is contested. You need someone to leash the vets away, because due to their numbers (and the fact that they’re vets) they tend to respawn and annoyingly interrupt you faster than you can channel. And even then it might be possible to solo, it’s just usually not worth it.

Everything else can be done solo with either fancy footwork or a little ingenuity.

What you’re experiencing is most likely just the result of you being new and, naturally, relatively unskilled at the game yet and becoming frustrated instead of looking for a different solution.

What point are you getting stuck on and what class are you using?

I will never understand these thread…

Hey, what should I have for dinner tomorrow? Potatoes or macaroni?

… How the kitten should anyone else know? Do you want to play a ranger or an engineer? Make the one you answered with.

Alternatively try both in Heart of the Mists and see which one resonates better with you.

xerokitsune.5094:

I only brought it up because for Warriors or Elementalists can gain their all of their (non-aquatic) skills in less than 2 minutes. It’s purely because the player is a lvl 20 vs lvl 1 mobs without a adjustment cap.
It would only be a bit longer on the outside in a level caped area where each mob takes more hits to die. My apologies for bringing up something inconsequential.

It’s a legitimate issue mind you. I’m guessing they just forgot to level cap the starting mission zones because, before now, there was no way to be there at any level higher than whatever you acquired in that zone alone.

I’m just saying don’t sweat it, it’s, indeed, not something of much consequence. Particularly when you remember that only “veterans” (i.e.: people with 6k achievement points) will even be able to make use of it at all. More of a small overlook that they should correct eventually, like a slightly out of place texture.

realloc.5846:

False.

Necro’s Locust Swarm does aoe damage enough to kill a pack of white critters.

So, necro with warhorn 5 autoattacking + idea incubation lab = epic win

Interesting, I could have sworn I tested it and Locust Swarm’s kills didn’t count towards Weapon Master.

Still the worse weapon master to level.

Pro tip: Don’t do scepter master with a mesmer then. Try a Guardian, Elementalist or Necro.

Astral Projections.7320:

Try killing things with a shield if you think scepter is bad.

Warhorn. Ranger is the only class that does any damage with it, so the only class that can even complete that weapon master, and it’s one attack every 25 seconds.

Enjoy.

Honestly, it’s one of those “who cares” issues.

Oh no, something that was pathetically easy is now slightly more so! Oh the horror!

For PvE: Doesn’t matter. Anything in full berserker is survivable enough.

For PvP: Depends a lot.

If we’re talking about pure staying power, then either a Guardian or Ranger with full clerics. Possibly Guardian due to better condition removal, but it’s pretty close.

In sPvP, this is mostly what matters. In WvW, if we’re talking about roaming, a perma-stealth thief with more defensive gear is immortal unless they kitten up extremely hard. Won’t necessarily kill much, but can’t be killed, which means you can go around and take camps, kill dolyaks and such, unless they station someone everywhere.

Man, I’ve been waiting for the return of SAB since roughly the day it closed…

It was meant to go away for one month. Then it was “Next month”, then it was “After Dragon Bash”, then it was just AWOL.

Don’t get me wrong, I know SAB is totally a side project, and better have it later and more polished than rushed, but I’m really twitching for some SAB about now.

Clockradio.3257:

ProxyDamage.9826:

I’m saving it, using it when I want exotic weapons/gear. Might save 500 for a Gift of Battle if I ever feel like a legendary.

With the announced changes to legendary weapons, I’d start saving up your mats.

The problem remains the same: The Precursor.

That and most of the legendaries looking like utter crap, but that’s a different issue…

I’m saving it, using it when I want exotic weapons/gear. Might save 500 for a Gift of Battle if I ever feel like a legendary.

There is no known cap. However you only get 5 slots for free, and must buy each slot after that.

I swear this question is asked and answered every week…

Runes of Scholar will give you the absolute highest DPS while you’re over 90% health. However, if your health dips bellow those 90%, ruby orbs will win.

Given that both of these are generally used in DPS-oriented characters, characters that usually don’t have a lot of damage mitigation, and given how easy it is to just hit someone in this game, I’d say the crushing majority of the time you get more bang for your buck out of Ruby Orbs, unless your build is really oriented towards delivering most of its damage before the enemy can even do anything.

Furesy.6935:

Correct me if I’m wrong but for some reason there’s something in my head reminding me that the max. Gold in your inventory is 100G.

Incorrect. I’ve held over that in my inventory.

“Double-click to add an additional bag slot to this character. Each character can have up to 8 bag slots”

“Double-click to add an additional bag slot to this character. Each character can have up to 8 bag slots”

“Double-click to add an additional bag slot to this character. Each character can have up to 8 bag slots”

“to this character”

“TO THIS CHARACTER”

“TO”
“THIS”
“CHARACTER”

Yeah man, if only they told you…

That’s Winged Spatha

Fenrir.3609:

By handing out so many free badges, people can essentially, completely avoid one of these activities.

I can’t even begin to give half a kitten about this complaint. How about you play however you want, and let other people play how they want? If you wanna grind WvW for your legendary, go ahead. Feel free to delete the tokens and do it by hand (it’s not like it’s the hardest part of the legendary is it? You can farm 500 badges in a week at most). It’s like the people complaining some other guy read the spoilers. What do you care? Don’t read them. You can’t sell legendaries, so they’re not affecting you in any way.

Fenrir.3609:

If you are going to allow pve players to completely bypass w3, then you should offer w3 players the chance to bypass dungeon runs.

Yes. I’m sure the piles of gold, bonuses and free gems do not help WvW players in PvE at all.

I have very mixed feelings on this issue.

On the one hand, if you’ve had your MF stats for over a week or so of farming, they’ve probably already paid for themselves… Given that the probability is overwhelming that you didn’t just sit in a corner farming by yourself, the fact that you were present in events with other people with your mf gear makes you a leech. So, all in all, my sympathy in this case is pretty low by default.

On the other hand, change happens all the time, and everyone has to deal with it. What about the money/laurels/resources of any kind people invested in one set of armor or character before a balance patch removed the reason of their investment (because, for example, they were overpowered)? Most people don’t complain. It’s just part of the game’s life while striving towards better balance. kitten happens. Conversely MF is one of the single most cancerous and destructive things in the game, so excising it from the game should be at least as high a priority as balancing an overpowered build. I don’t see how the outcome should fall outside the purview of the common “kitten happens” attitude accepted when someone invested in a full set of gear for their, previously OP, build.

At the end of the day, ANet will come up with something. Either the ability to trade in gear with MF stats for equal rarity gear with any other stat assortment, or turning MF gear into a different set of stats, or something… Either ways, even if they simply erased it from the game, I’m finding it extremely hard to care about the people complaining about their MF “investments” anymore than I would for someone complaining about how they invested in a build because it was OP. That’s nice dear…. Get over it.

You know, one of the things I like to do every day when I wake up, as part of my morning routine, is to just browse “the internet”. Forums, facebook, regular spots… You know… I saw this thread after I woke up. I had to just turn my browser off and walk away, get on with my day.

OP, you are complaining that among the sea of free kitten you’re getting, in which were included 400 gems free of charge yesterday if you had the achievements for it, is one item you don’t like, and that, therefore, it sucks that you need to go through 2 button presses once a day, for about 2 weeks at most to remove the one thing you don’t like from the rest of the free kitten you’re getting…

…You’re one of those kids. You know the ones. The ones that complain on twitter that their parents suck and should die and are the worst parents ever because they got them the wrong color newest iPhone, or BMW, or whatever the kitten.

I don’t know how to react to this… I don’t. I don’t have a witty one liner, or a reaction pic in my folder or anything. Just… Please don’t have kids. Please. Best thing you can ever hope to do for mankind…

“We don’t make grindy games”

Just poped into my head for some reason… Probably nothing…

Since a few updates ago transmuted items retain the highest quality between them. All transmuted legendary weapons should, in fact, be legendary quality. So… I don’t see the issue here… The change they’ll do will apply to legendary quality items, where transmuted legendary weapons will be included.

At least, that’d be the reasonable way to do it.

Doing achievements.

Seriously, this thread is the epitome of lazy. Look at the achievements you have left and what you have to do dor them and decide.

Jemmi.6058:

I refer you to this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bazaar/Experiance-Scroll-for-5k-point-chest/first#post2445695

… All the fury…

JustTrogdor.7892:

I’m waiting for someone to drop in any minute and complain about the rewards from the chest.

This… Sadly, I’m expecting one of those “MY PARENTs, GOT ME THE WRONG COLOUR iPOD! WORST PARENTS EVER!” situations.

“WHAT?! ONLY 400 GEMS!? WORST. COMPANY. EVER!!”.

LilMcGinley.3890:

None. I leveled my ranger from 11 to 21 this week.. gf me.

Why is a lvl 20 in a 5k chest anyway? Shouldn’t it have been in the 500 or 1000 chest as those people are more than likely to be new players with less than 8 toons?

I’m guessing that’s extensively the point. It’s not meant to make your first leveling run easier, just a bonus for alts.

No use for it currently. 7 of my 8 characters are level 80. The one missing is lvl 40+.

Wish it offered some benefit to characters bellow level 80. Maybe offer “fewer” levels, so it wouldn’t be a “save till lvl 60” thing, but something.

That said, free is free. Maybe one day I’ll feel like leveling another character for some reason or another.

Sil.4560:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Simple: He’s a leech.

Or a free bag, depending on what side you’re on.

Thus the term “Rally machine”.

Sil.4560:

emendez.3705:

I choose magic find because I only do wvw and magic find build really makes sense.

Does not compute.

Simple: He’s a leech.

Genavelle.9516:

I don’t think gold find exists on a stat on any gear the way mf does..so it’s not really the same. Also I don’t know that it’s even possible to get 200% gold find without the southsun boost

This.

MF is being removed from gear, not from the game. Gold find does not exist in gear.

It’s an issue, should be fixed, but honestly doesn’t matter.

Let’s be honest for one minute here: There’s only 1 reason anyone would make Eternity instead of just having both Twilight and Sunrise and equipping each whenever you want it – to say you have Eternity.

You can still say you have Eternity, so the only real purpose of the weapon is unaffected.

Sacrifices have to be made sometimes. Mf gear was a cancer in this game. Killing it is the best thing ANet could do.

That said, given their history, ANet will probably compensate players in some fashion. Gear “trade in” spots, new, relevant, stats or someting.

But even if they don’t and they simply delete all mf gear in the game I’ll gladly see it go for the sake of the game. If the loss of that gear buries the useless leeches with it, I’ll watch it go with a grin on my face.

“By Ogden’s beard! What savings!”

There were a couple more, but that’s the one that pops up in my head immediately when I think of memorable GW2 NPC lines.

…And I heard one once that knocked me on my kitten laughing for a few minutes, but for the love of me I can’t find it again. Maybe it’ll pop up in this thread.

I like playing friends and people I come to accept. I don’t mind having other players around, it’s interesting sometimes, but mostly they’re just ambient. I rather not rely on them.

I’ve met a lot of interesting people in this game and other games like it. However the crushing majority are uninteresting, ignorant, and terrible at the game – at best . At worst they’re the kind of people I wish would simply stop existing entirely.

But hey, just like real life. Count and treasure the good ones you find as precious gems in an endless sea of fecal matter and waste, cause that’s mostly what it is.

Kryptonite.9376:

So you’re saying that a 2 person vote kick is the best system we can have right now?

Yes. Make your own party to completely bypass your problem. You can probably still report them for it and they’ll, possibly, be sanctioned.

Don’t get me wrong, the people you played with were utter kittens, and I’d sleep better at night knowing them and people like them contracted some incurable and hopefully horrible disease (or just died in a fire), but there’s really no system they can put in place that can’t be abused. Most of them more so than the current one.

That said, party leaders can’t be kicked. Make the party yourself (or have someone you trust do it) and you’re invulnerable to that kind of abuse. It’s not as comfortable as sitting back and letting someone else do the work, but that’s just a matter of how much laziness you’re willing to sacrifice for your “security”, if you will.

Zoid.2568:

Make the whole gauntlet shine instead. No point in leaving a part of the gauntlet silver or whatever colour it is and then don’t let us dye it.

What about no. That would look stupid. Fortunately the designers seem to have the aesthetic sense you lack…

You knew how the gloves looked beforehand. While the information was readily available if you looked, I can understand your disappointment at the inability to dye them.

That said, if you don’t like them don’t use them. The fact that you don’t personally like them is, ultimately, irrelevant, and your suggestion is not an objective fact, but merely a question of (terrible) taste.

You’ll have the chance to get the Hellfire version later.

Guessing it’s just a “flavor text” thing.

“It’s wine, therefore it’s consumable”… Yeah, I know…

My only problem with the flute is that I have the musical prowess of a dead fish being slapped on a out of tune guitar… Other than that, it’s quite a nice sound and, unlike most of the other instruments, not very prune to “abuse”. Even if it’s spammed it’s still nice and soft, if incoherent, ambient noise at best.

…Wish I did know how to play music though… would buy one in a heartbeat. Sadly, that’s not something ANet has any fault in or is in any way able to fix.

/block

Best thing in any game where interaction with another humans is possible.

I guess a potential (huge) downside of the Abaddon mission is that, well, Abaddon is the god of water … This might mean a good part of the bloody thing might be underwater…

On the one hand, I like Kiel more.

Also, “cheaper black lion keys” is a completely worthless “bonus” as far as I’m concerned, and cheaper waypoints would be useful…

…On the other hand, the fall of Abaddon sounds quite interesting.

locoman.1974:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Such options exist (pit fighter, for example).

If anything, and for the sake of equality, I’d like to see some equally top less female armor. But of course “equality” is usually just a word people like to throw around when they need some token to leverage their lacking argument.

There are several topless female armor in the game already…

http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=3&race=0&color=10&sex=1&armorSet=gladi
http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=3&race=0&color=10&sex=1&armorSet=blacknighti
http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=3&race=0&color=10&sex=1&armorSet=piratehi
http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=3&race=1&color=10&sex=1&armorSet=barbarici
http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=3&race=1&color=10&sex=1&armorSet=blacknighti

You didn’t specify race..

Could you link the pictures directly? (Right click > copy img url)

The website seems to break links for some reason…

Also: For the same races that the male versions are available.

Such options exist (pit fighter, for example).

If anything, and for the sake of equality, I’d like to see some equally top less female armor. But of course “equality” is usually just a word people like to throw around when they need some token to leverage their lacking argument.

Edit: kitten it. The webpage sees to default to medium human armor regardless of the link… Just go to the top and choose “Male” > “Heavy” > “Norn”

Given that the game hasn’t lost anything since launch, merely added options that you are in no way forced to partake in, the OP is objectively and demonstrable wrong.

Simple answer: Time gating is a way to artificially inflate content.

It makes 10 minute content look like a week’s worth!

Grok Krog.9581:

I think the problem with armor in this game is almost everything has a skirt of some sort or it’s a very bulky trenchcoat as far as medium armor goes. Now, I like trenchcoats, but many of them are ugly and there’s too many of them. Some less inflated armor would be nice

Yeah, this is true. I like the general design of the medium karma set (minus the “hair-removig” hat…), but it seems like it comes with a mandatory order of cheeseburgers cause, good heavens, my character gains about 50 kgs everytime he puts it on… Is the armor leather or concrete?

Additionally, a lot of “trench coats” suffer from “cardboarditis”. They’re not affected by physics, so they stay rigidly in place when you move. Cue feeling like I’m wearing cardboard cutouts.

While I’d like a non-trench coat option, I can’t say I don’t enjoy a good looking trench coat … But could we have one this time that actually looks good?

You know … Or maybe this … Or even this

While we do have some interesting medium armors, and even some decent trench coats… We have a lot of “lacking” ones as well… For example Conquest armor looks patently stupid, Studded armor makes any character look like an offspring of the michelin man, and Pirate armor has a nasty tendency to ruin any colour you use on it.

But then again this is a normal GW2 tendency when it comes to weapon and armor design. There’s so much concern with the overly exotic and flamboyant that the more “normal” stuff gets neglected.