Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to get public test realms before a large update, like they do for diablo?
Might save them some headaches.

I always give speed buffs to randoms with my ele or my guardian.
You’re welcome

Click on Laurel vendor for achievement is too hard too. This should be nerfed.

fractals 20+ drops exotics relatively frequently, but most likely not something you need. The best way to get exotic gear is from dungeons imo, since you’ll be making money in the process.
The fastest way is to buy from trading post or craft it.

So if they made this possible, I could drop all my aoes on staff, quickly run out of combat, switch to dd ele, drop my burst, run out of combat, switch to staff, drop all my aoes, run out of combat…
Yeah that’s not broken. I have no problem pressing [I] or [H] and equipping different weapons on any of my characters.

Full berserkers. Traits up to you.

Staff ele is most effective in zergs and large battles. You don’t need defense since the zerg is your defense. Staff ele is best used to provide area denial with huge aoes (put 20 in arcane for bigger aoe radius) and area healing with water.

IMO, the only signet worth anything is signet of restoration. Otherwise, cantrips >>> signets.

you can always test out builds and armor in the mists, to save some money. Not quite the same, but it will give you a good idea of your damage/survivability.
From what I can tell, it seems like you want berserker armor with celestial accessories. I think this would be a good setup for you. If you want to spend some gold, you can buy runes of the divinity. This way, you should have nice damage with enough survivability to get by.
My opinion is that in gw2 you want enough survivability to take a couple hits and not die. Everything else should be damage. I would suggest around 14k hp and 2k+ armor. Putting 30 points in water magic gives you the 14k health, and I choose the traits cantrips give you regen+vigor, cantrips recharge 20% faster, and applying regeneration removes a condition. Put mist form and either armor of earth or cleansing fire on your bar, and you’ll have plenty of survivability. Everything else goes into more deeps.

That’s kinda kitten

Just did the megadestroyer world event with my guild last night and we all got garbage loot.
Has this world event not been updated like the rest of them? Or is this intended?

Depending on what you want to do, different stat combinations are better suited for different situations.
If you want to play mostly wvw, full berserkers is probably the way to go because the zerg will be your defense.
If you want to play dungeons, you’ll need some survivability, so Pow/Tough/Vit armor with berserker accesories are good.
For open world pve, use the pow/precision/magic find gear since the zerg will be your defense.
I personally run berserker armor and Pow/Tough/Crit Damage accessories (ascended gear) with 30 in water. I find this to give me the best mix of high damage and survivability.

yeah it’d be nice if you could trade them for mist essence. Or at least salvage rings for mist essence. If you don’t get mist essence as a drop, your progress is stuck. I’ve been farming fotm for months to try to get my mist essence to infuse my rings and haven’t seen one drop.

I am an elementalist. I swap weapons around. Never salvaged any of my weapons by accident because I’m careful. Invisible bags are also a thing.

Let’s be clear about a few things.
1) you cannot get extra chests by doing events on other servers.
2) When everyone on your server tries to enter the same map, you are going to get an overflow on high and even medium population servers. Eg. Lion’s Arch, Karka event.
3) Overflows are now prominent for world events because everyone and their uncles are all trying to enter the same map at the same time. This is to be expected, and has little to do with guesting because guests only makes up a very small percentage of the people on your server.

Guesting is not the problem. The problem is everyone -native- to a given server are all watching dragon timers and all entering the same zones at the same time to get buffed loots.

A suggestion that would help:
Remove all guild missions from areas that have world events.

You can also go to the mists and enter wvw from there. No overflow, and it will show you the borderlands.

Open inventory → equip alternate weapons. Problem solved.

MrInfinit.1864:

critickitten.1498:

It’s the guesting that’s causing the overflow. They’re abusing an exploit that allows them to break the one-chest-per-day limit on World Events. If they hadn’t bothered implementing that ridiculous policy in the first place, it wouldn’t be happening.

Pretty sure you can only get one chest per day per character. There was a bug that let people work around that for certain events, but it was fixed days ago.

This is correct. You cannot get extra chests by guesting to different servers. It’s per day per character, regardless of which server you do it on.

The reason for getting sent to overflow has very little to do with guesting.

Sure, guests make up a -small- part of the population problem, but the real issue at hand is that now everyone on a server are jumping into the same map at the same time because everyone wants to do world events now.

If this is really a problem for you, either guest in- or move to- a low population server.

Problem solved.

Before this thread gets burried in the mists, I just wanted Anet employees to know something:
The vast majority of your playerbase are loving this game. So far it has been a wonderful journey, and you have done a great job of listening to individual players needs but at the same time satisfying diverse groups and their playstyles.

So many of us wish to thank you but do not take the time to do so on forums.

I doubt that this will make it to any dev’s computer, but I sincerely hope it does.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the new AC. Much more fun. Minus the knockdowns. Holy kitten knockdowns.

BUT WHAT IS WITH THE MASSIVE FPS DROPS???

srsly. I’ve played AC 100xs before the path and never had any fps problems. Now, when 5 gravelings show up on my screen, My fps drops from 35+ to <10.

What gives?
Post here if you also experience massive fps drops in new AC.

vince.5937:

It’s guesting. TC is overflowing. Every zone that has a chest-related boss event now has an overflow. Wasn’t like this before the Guaranteed Rare chests. Coincidence? No.

Exactly. It’s not a coincidence. It’s because now, your massive server population, everyone is following the world event timers and hundreds+ are all showing up for the same world event at the same time.
It has nothing to do with guesting.
Before, everyone was in fractals. Now, everyone is doing world events. Flavour of the month.

You do not need to delete your character. Please don’t (unless he/she is so low level you don’t care…even then, don’t). Try to find out which server they are on. Barring that, the only thing server counts for is WvW, since you can do everything else together.

Some of the most beautiful map designs I have ever seen. And I have played a lot of final fantasy.

yes, please.

No More Currencies

signed.

NoTrigger.8396:

Quick Mouse.7635:

It isn’t a bug. If she regens too much health then she will reset to stealthing at 50%. It took us a few tries but we managed to get the sparks in fast enough.
Overall, much better now.
Finally got my dungeon master title!!!
Thanks so much Anet! A much needed nerf.

you cant be serious dude. it was already easy before the nerfs if u were smart enough to think about fast ways to put the sparks into the circles.
you didnt need high dps.
you had like 50 seconds every time you made simin visible to deal damage.
this nerf wasnt needed at all.
if you couldnt do simin before the january patch, it wasnt because it was op and needed a nerf. it was because you were just bad.

january patch bugged simin. she disappeared after 10 seconds etc.
thats why people couldnt do it.
and instead of thinking that its a bug everyone cried for nerfs, unnecessarily nerfs.
i ran p4 over 40 times, before january patch.
and i can tell you, even now simin is bugged because she keeps disappearing at 50%hp.
sometimes sparks spawn, even when simin is still visible.

i reported that bs 3 or 4 times ingame. i sent a supportticket.
nice job that this player support is doing.
if they would do their job, p4 would still be the same, without bugs.

bug fixes to fix the bugs that were introduced with the january patch would have been enough.
now we have free dungeon masters for everyone because even 5 braindead monkeys will be able to do it now (and yes, without bananas in the chest).

Iam dead serious. My guild and I tried this fight 20xs before they nerfed it. Never beat it once. This was the only encounter preventing me from getting my dungeon master title.
Since the nerf, I beat it on my first try.
Sure, it took a few tries before we managed to get the sparks in quick enough that she wouldn’t invis at 50% hp. But once we did, it went quite smoothly.

Thank you Arena Net!

For everything…really

I played beta. I played since pre-release.
I just wanted say what an awesome job you have done so far

I’ll admit, there were some ups and downs. But right now I think that the game is in a great spot.

You have fixed the majority of the bugs across the lands of tyria and rune bonuses
You have made dungeons challenging but fun.
You made world events actually worth doing.
You made guild missions that take us across the land.
You have made an awesome massive pvp environment where I’ve had some of my most memorable moments
You have made a pvp gametype and combat system that I think have potential to become an esport.
You have created content and rewards that cater to both casuals and hardcores.
You have made every part of the world wonderful and rewarding to play.

I love everything, from dungeons to open world to WvW to PvP.

I just wanted to say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for everything you have done and all your hard work. I wish I could buy you all a round of beers

Take a minute and reflect upon the wonderful world you have created. I, for one, never cease to be amazed at its beauty.

Sincerely
Mouse

Yes, but according to your own personal reward level. i.e. no fractal weapons or infused rings.

Completely agree. The new mechanics are awesome. Not sure why the gave the baby gravelings knockdown though. It’s worse than orr was :P

The rock fall seems to be unblockable. No aegis nothing. Pretty sure it’s intentional though. Stability defintely works though. Try to stay out of the red circles (I know there’s alot) and stay aware of which circles are hitting when so you can time your dodges appropriately.
We wiped the first few times we were hit by rockfall and it was lols. There are some “safe spots”

Overall the mechanics are a lot more fun and interesting and challenging.
The problem is the gave EVERYTHING knockdown. It’s worse than orr was before they nerfed that.
The other problem is that people are experiencing huge drops in fps when there are several gravelings around (which is always). I have run AC several times before this patch and never had this problem. Don’t know what it is but I’m going from >35fps to <10fps when theres any sort of graveling group around.

It isn’t a bug. If she regens too much health then she will reset to stealthing at 50%. It took us a few tries but we managed to get the sparks in fast enough.
Overall, much better now.
Finally got my dungeon master title!!!
Thanks so much Anet! A much needed nerf.

Nope. Just install the client on the second computer. You just can’t logon to gw2 on both computers simultaneously unless you buy a second gw2 account.

CoRtex.2157:

anti casual? i went into a dungeon, i had nooo idea what to do. We cleared the dungeon in 15min. I didn’t even die. It was so easy, i just stopped doing dungeons because it was so boring.

teehee you got carried
Go into even the most basic dungeon with 4 other people who have no idea what’s going on and see how long it takes you

they are there, you just have to find them

I’ve thought of this before but it would make it too easy to run dungeons by simply adding people right before the chest (not that it’s super-hard now). This coming from a guy who made his ‘living’ in gw1 running dungeons for people

fractalsssaaaaaaass!

Hellzfire.7105:

Quick Mouse.7635:

so some of guild quests are going to take place in southun cove…great! This area needs more activity. Obviously this won’t be the only area they take place.

We hope not but if it is any indication i bet it is a zone wide multiple event quest.. and please next time you doubt someone check some internet chatter… colin speaks on many forums… this is usually the last stop for information. And can you give me that plus 1 you have cause it was probably earned in error.

Thanks!!!!

ummmm….re-read your own initial post? doesn’t indicate that you read any of this ‘chatter’

so some of guild quests are going to take place in southun cove…great! This area needs more activity. Obviously this won’t be the only area they take place.

when I played gw2 since beta the first thing I thought was that this was a mmo designed to be released on consoles some day. And in fact several people have made it possible to play gw2 with console controllers. It’s probably gonna happen

yeah, I must admit, because I played since pre-release, whenever I see a ranger witha bear the first thing I think is “bot!”. But tbh I haven’t seen a bot in months. They did a really good job of getting rid of them ( to my dismay) minus perhaps the teleport botters, of which I haven’t seen any, again, for months.
GJ anet on bots, but since I’m a buyer on the trading post this sucks lol

Hellzfire.7105:

MattCoy.3098:

You know, guild quests = PvE content

from what i see its 5 quests in the Southsun Cove that will kill about a day.. and they will be revamping AC bosses.. after 5 months if you have not beat this dungeun with every explorable path then you dont really need a update for content.

how do you know this? they havent released ANYTHING about guild quests.

positioning is still just as important in gw1 as in gw2, if not more important. squishy characters still have to keep range, and tankier characters still have to try to stay up front. The difference is now EVERYONE has to watch their positioning, not just the backline. And without red dots on the radar, this is even more difficult now. This coming from someone who played monk everywhere in gw1 from high-end pve to high-end gvg

I love having rangers necros and engis in my party. Rangers are combo finisher bosses, necros are condi bosses and engis are utility bosses. Every class in this game is strong if you l2p it

if you have been following anything about the flame and frost update, this one is going to take a while. I expect large changes to the pve world from this update.

if you’re going glass cannon I would suggest air. More precision and crit damage is nice. I like glyphs recharge 20% faster and glyphs give boons. Then I take healing glyph and glyph of storms.
I originally went 30 in fire but found it way less useful than 30 in water for boosting the effectiveness of my cantrips. cantrips grant regen and vigor, cantrips recharge 20% faster, and regeneration removes a condition. It is slightly less damage but the boost to survivability while still being full zerkers is tremendous

you can totally get through most pve content without ever swapping out of fire, especially when leveling.
Once you get to higher level content, though, you;ll find you NEED to swap. Water has heals and snares, air has blinds and knockdowns, earth has bleeds and combo finishers.
I can dish out a crazy amount of damage while keeping crowd control while healing my party while initiating/finishing a crazy number of combo fields.

staff is better for pve imo

from gw2w
Ice Storm inflicts Chilled with each shard.
Sandstorm causes bleeding each second (for two seconds) and blindness every three seconds (for three seconds) over Sandstorm’s 10 second duration.
Fire Storm and Sandstorm hit everything (up to 5 targets) inside the AoE on every tick, Ice Storm and Lightning Storm create many smaller AoE blasts.
seems i was mistaken

if you’re dieing a lot try running with the power/vitality/toughness amulet (knights I think) until you are more familiar with how to play. You’ll do less damage but you’ll survive long enough to learn how to react better

I dont recall sandstorm ever causing bleeds. This was probably your auto attack