Guild Wars 2

Essence Snow.3194:

Quick Mouse.7635:

What they really need is to let casters on twitch and youtube profit from the game. Right now they shut down any page getting money from playing their game. Right now only a handful of hardcore gw2 fanboys will continue to stream. The game needs more streamers and more commentators to even think of becoming an e-sport. The only streamer I know on twitch that gets more than 4 views is bitcloud.

This needs to change.

Wow…do they really do that? It would stand to reason that any press is good press, specially when it’s positive and they don’t have to pay for it. I’m not sure what they have to gain from shutting down those aside from ego.

Their policy is that you cannot make money off of their product. If you think of all the succesful e-sport games (eg. starcraft), people make their living from casting, streaming and posting youtube vids.

This needs to change. There is no motive for people to stream or post youtube vids, since all their time and hard work goes unrewarded.

Definitely needs observer and replay modes.
Ladder is being implimented.

What they really need is to let casters on twitch and youtube profit from the game. Right now they shut down any page getting money from playing their game. Right now only a handful of hardcore gw2 fanboys will continue to stream. The game needs more streamers and more commentators to even think of becoming an e-sport. The only streamer I know on twitch that gets more than 4 views is bitcloud.

This needs to change.

Running dungeons in experienced groups is a good way to make gold.
Cursed shore/southsun cove farming is still a thing.
World events, but this isn’t as good anymore.

Server-side culling in WvW has been eliminated. You have several options on how to render the characters client side. If stuff isn’t rendering for you, you should consider using the “name-plates only” setting.
PvE culling is still there.

Jaga.2084:

My last PuG needed 32 minutes for Lupi. And that was just the one fight they didn’t wipe. My guild is made of friends who are casuals, so I pug. I’m not going to leave my friends for an other guild because I want dungeon tokens. I have no idea were you get your “good” pugs. Mine are always quite exhausting. I just want to hop on any PuG and have fun. This isn’t working. And I do not want to solo Lupi!
There are already enough “noob-barriers”. You don’t encourage people to get better, you drive them off. My guildies don’t want to do the Crucible of Eternity again because of Subject Alpha. Tedious one-mistake-fail encounters are not fun, they are frustrating. I’d like to see our content designers do those dungeons with pugs and without chat for a month.

I have taken tonnes of pugs on arah. Once you get to lupi just explain a few things to them:
Tell them to go ranged: it’s easier and more pug-friendly
Explain the mechanics: 3phases, dodge this, blah blah blah
Take stability and blocking skills a must.
Never had a problem with any of my pugs.

haviz.1340:

Quick Mouse.7635:

Check this out. Warrior solo GL in full berserker gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-WJP0LR5VU

They also have vids of full dungeons runs, where as a team they beat GL full melee in about 1min30sec

Ranged is easier but slower i.e. better for new players. Melee is way faster but requires more skill.

This vid is unfortunately outdated.

Barely. As Strife mentions in the comments, the nerf to reckless dodge means you need to switch frenzy for endure pain or w/e. Still totally doable.

Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top?

Check this out. Warrior solo GL in full berserker gear.

They also have vids of full dungeons runs, where as a team they beat GL full melee in about 1min30sec

Ranged is easier but slower i.e. better for new players. Melee is way faster but requires more skill.

Just wondering if the scavenger hunt idea is something you guys are still working on, or if it’s on the back burner, or if it’s really even a thing.

I was really excited for the world event and guild mission update because I thought this would finally bring down precursor prices. Although there was a drop in the first day or so (due to guesting exploits), they have since returned or surpassed their price before the update.

There have been lots of great ideas on how to impliment it. My personal favorite (too lazy to find original thread) was:
Combining all 8 dungeon gifts into 2 new gifts (requires 500 tokens from each dungeon).
Adding a gift requiring laurels
Adding a gift requiring guild commendations.

Gifts requiring laurels and guild commendations could also include things like gift of ascension, ectos and obsi shards.

Include some lore if at all possible.

Resulting precursor would be account bound.

The requirement for laurels and guild commendations provides a time-gate to getting the precursor, and in addition to being account bound won’t cause the bottom to fall out of the precursor market (though a decrease in price would be expected).

Most of this would simply require adding recipes to the mystic forge.

Pretty pretty please

You will need to learn to dodge.

scavenger hunt. that is all.

short answer is never
long answer is someday…kind of.
by controlling what stats are available at any given time means that when they release new stat combinations, players will have to spend x and y to get new stat combinations, even on characters that are years old. If all stat combinations were available now you would gear your character once and never again. It’s actually pretty smart imo, but also a little frustrating.

Esya.3427:

This happens on server resets. After server reset everyone will be listed as unknown until they log in. I use this as a tool to track activity, but be careful not to do it shortly after a server reset.

this

Mine are:
1→4 – attunements
QWERT – skills 6-10
ASDFG – skills 1-5
ZXC – strafe left, move back, strafe right
Move forward and look around with mouse.

This is my go to build for staff ele in pve

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEQQFAWhImSbyR4wjDAkHn4CLCFVQRRxM7A;TMAg0CnM+A

(may need to copy paste into browser)

Full berserker set, ruby orbs instead of runes, superior sigil of force or energy.

There is no recipe yet but one will likely be added in a future patch. They are limiting player progression in fractals by controlling max AR achievable.

As opposed to games with a ‘holy trinity’, where only the healers need to be situationally aware, this game requires everyone to be situationally aware. Everyone needs to kite, everyone needs to dodge the big attacks, everyone needs to know the mechanics. It takes practice. It’s easy to get into at the beginning, but there is a huge learning curve with lots of room for improvement. This is one of the things I love most about this game.

Completely agree.

Safe zones need to be removed. This would make jormag phase 1 waaaayyyy more interesting, for example.
They need more AI and more mobility. For example, if Tequatl had a brain he would just wind up and b—ch slap the zerg standing 45 degrees to his right. It doesn’t have to do a lot of damage, just a big knockback would make the fight more interesting.

since several daily rewards are character specific, and DR is character specific, it definitely have alts.
Some people say that this game is not alt-friendly. I completely disagree. The more alts you have the more times you can do the once per day per char events

Theres a sigil that removes boon on criticals, and there are several trait lines that remove boons, as well as direct skills that remove boons…

Cantrips. 30 in water. Cantrips grant regen+vigor, cantrips recharge 20% faster, regen removes a condition as traits.
You can be full glass cannon and still have decent survivability with this setup.
Dodge.

The best thing you can do in this situation is to put up swiftness and run around in circles to keep the zergs aoe on him. Don’t even worry about damaging him (maybe drop aoes at your feet as you run for him to run over). Don’t run back and forth as he will exit aoe.

This is what the wvw jumping puzzles are for. If you get lucky and your side has a mesmer porting in EB, you’ll have no difficulty getting your badges.

Rukia.4802:

Because they didn’t actually test or optimize the game at all before it was released, and they didn’t listen to ANYONE during the beta tests (obviously)

Culling, lag in groups, etc. was reported since day 1.

Not sure if you’re serious.

They did an extensive ammount of optimization during beta. I know, I was there.

Culling was introduced as a measure to make slower computers run smoother. This was intentional, not a bug.

scepter dagger is the new dagger dagger

I understand people’s frustration about getting map completion in WvW. But the thing is that you will get map completion way, way ,waaaaaaaayyyyy before you are even close to the other gifts for your legendary.

It would be nice if jumping puzzles were more profitable, I agree. But once you know how to do them, they are very easy – even bottable I imagine. For this reason they probably won’t change the loot tables.

Exotics drop very rarely from mobs (exceedingly rarely) however it does happen.
Exotics drop fairly frequently in high-level fractals. Not all the time, but you will get quite a few if you’re running them every day.
Exotics drop from world event chests more frequently than regular mobs but less frequently than fractals.

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This game does not want you to attack mobs from a location on the map where they can’t fight back. They had a lot of problems with this in gw1. As a result, they introduced this. I think this is fair.

I hope its like eotn. No level cap changes.
I’m not really digging this flame and frost stuff. I’d rather have a whole bunch of new content that I can get involved in for a while and reach a conclusion, rather than this living story where i do it for 5min, get bored and forget about it for two weeks.

The truth is that when ascended weapons are released, legendary weapons will be scaled up to match ascended gear.
at the moment they are just glorified exotics, stats-wise.

MF gear is for open pve farming. Make sure you get good at tagging mobs in events. It takes a while to learn their spawns. A lot of times youo won’t get loot because you’re not getting credit for kills.
I definitely notice the difference between non-mf gear and mf gear when farming pve.

Sousui, go earlier. Don’t expect to have a spot reserved for you when everyone and their uncles on your server (not just the 5-10 guests) want to go to the same zone at same time. I never have a problem getting all my events done on both my characters.

No lag. I’ve been playing on wireless connection last couple weeks without any lag.

A lot of people are confusing the fps drops they are getting with world events with lag. It’s cuz your cpu can’t handle everything that’s going on. But if you notice, all your skills are still activating right when you press them (ie no lag).

It’s not guesting

Also, get a friend. If they’re in the main server, you can usually get in with them by selecting “join player x in area y”

maguni if you’re making 7g a day you have nothing to complain about. Ecto prices have been going down since last patch. t6 mats are stable. What are you even trying to buy that you cant afford at 7g a day?

OP has a point. You should be told that you’re going to enter an overflow before you teleport there.

ProxyDamage.9826:

Fair enough. I honestly can’t stand when people typo their own names. I can understand when they’re really obscure references and such, but when it’s simple stuff… “Vincemt”, “Alocard”, “Narotu!”, etc…

People do this because the name they want was already chosen. A ‘typo’ will be invisible to most people who read names quickly.

I know in guild wars 1 i did this and I would assume it would work in a similar fashion. First, download the client into another folder in program files, call it say Gu1ld W4rs 2, and rename the exe Gu1ld W4rs 2 once it’s installed. You may have to play around with the other files, but this is how I multiboxed in gw1

Edge.4180:

If I’m a level 80 character that is just beginning crafting, I need to be able to go to low level zones and obtain low level crafting resources. Obtaining T6 mats would be of no direct use to me.

Aside from that, you can already obtain equipment drops suitable for your actual level no matter how low your level is being downscaled. My level 80 character received a level 80 shield off a level 4 spider just a few days ago.

This is somewhat true, but lower level mats are so cheap your time is probably better spent doing 1 run of CoF and just buying the mats you need, and probably still have gold left over

Also, like the above poster said you can get lvl 80 items in low-level zones, but you also get mostly low-level items.
The loot table could work in a similar way, in which you mostly get lower-level items but can still roll higher level mats.

Jemmi.6058:

Sounds like a suggestion forum post?

Moderator thought so too

But if you log in just after jormag finishes, 4 hours is a long time to wait. 30min for the lower-level world events is good I think (ie stay as is for maw and fire ele, decrease for wurm). Maybe 1hr30min for the larger world events with a 30min window. I think this makes more sense, and would make it easier for people to do events on their home server instead of having to guest on the server where jormag is gonna spawn in 10min.

TLDR: Read title
Imo down scaling is a good idea if the loot rewards are there to give incentive to play in lower level areas. They’ve done a good job with the world events and guild missions to bring people back to lower level areas. But once that event is done, there’s no reason to stick around.
If you were down-scaled to the point that it actually felt like you were a level 15 playing in a level 15 zone, then it would be justifiable to increase the loot accordingly. So you can farm a level 15 area and still get t6 mats as a level 80. And the difficulty would be similar to being a level 80 in a level 80 zone. This would make it more
appealing to actually stick around in the lower level zones and justify down-scaling. It may take some playing around with the loot tables, but i think this would be a great way to get people to play in all corners of tyria, not just load in for a world event and port back to LA as soon as it’s done.

I was wondering if Anet would consider increasing the spawn rate of world events. Since the chests are once per day, this wouldn’t have any impact on the market. But it would make it so people would have a better chance to do events on their own server without having to guest to get them done in a reasonable time.
3hrs between jormag spawns with a 1hr15min window is a little long imo.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Everything was nerfed, though.

whaaaaat have you been smoking and can I have some lol.

Honestly, anet has done TOO good a job banning bots.
Bots help provide a stable amount of materials to the trading post. You can immediately see the massive effect of the huge ban-waves on the trading post. Honestly, I prefer having bots in game because otherwise everything on the tp becomes 10xs as expensive.

I like the increased difficulty of the bosses. But they did not need to give everyt single f-ing mob in the dungeokittensecond knockdown. lol.

Holy rage fest. Amun Ra, you have posted this several times already under different thread names. I ahve no problem doing ALL of the world events on BOTH my characters WITHOUT guesting, and I’m on a high population server.

The thing about PTR is that it’s a completely separate server, and anything that happens on that server have nothing to do with the actual game.