Guild Wars 2

bravoart.5308:

This is the current state of the game. Unless you get incredulously lucky in drops, or grind all day it is impossible to be better off versus players that transfer from gems to gold. Even then, players that convert to gold can compete better than you in farming because they can buy ectos for the luck salvage.

If you guys are trying to look like corporate shills, then congratulations, you succeeded.

First, the MF thing is kind of a scam. When RNG is involved, those 300% will barely matter.
Second, what’s the purpose of farming ? To get more gold to buy what ? The only thing excessive farming is needed for are Legendaries. It will take less time and money to get an Ascended Weapon than a Legendary if you only want one for the skin.
If you want to buy an armor skin on the TP, it takes less than 2 hours per day for a week to get the necessary gold if you really want it. Instead of coming here and saying that this game is p2w.

I don’t recall experience boosters having any effect on the experience gained from crafting. As for the crafting booster, it only makes you level up more quickly, but you won’t get more experience at the end.

They said that it should be put in the game before the end of the year. But Anet has said a lot of things.

This is probably the case.

EricL.5861:

Yeah that worked for you. This TACTIC is used by all servers. No one likes it when you’re on your high horse.

This is as much a tactic as the one used to get into QL without destroying the gate or wall.

For the first 15 minutes, you are abusing at best an oversight from Anet. After 15 minutes you are using a cheat to get by the afk timer.

Once upon a time, Anet said that Abaddon was dead and done and that we won’t hear anything from him ever again.

Of course, by now, we learned that Anet loves to play with words and they are the kings of retcons.

On the bay exploit : there are actually two kind of exploits. If you think that get resurrected through a gate is fine, then know that theirs a respawn timer of 15 minutes in this game. Toying with this timer can be considered exploiting a bug.
So there you have it : however you put, most people are exploiting something because most of them stay for more than 15 minutes.

Foulbear is horrible. The event can be done so quickly and by the time it appears in GW2stuff, it can already be too late to get there on time.
But if you can get a friend or two, you can easily start the chain and complete it without any troubles, unlike that annoying Fire Shaman.

chemiclord.3978:

One half the fanbase gripes that armor sets are too revealing and that they should cover up more.

The other half would rather run around half naked.

It’s not a question of skimpy. It’s that most armors are ill-fitted.

But, with some sets, it’s pretty clear that Anet is trying to please “both sides” (because I don’t care about a skirt that shows my character underwear when I move around, or one that gives here a huge behind) which results in the weird stuff that we have.
In GW1 I most of my characters had 3-4 armor combination to choose from, and I only stopped there because it took too much space. In GW2 I have trouble even finding 1.

I remember when people were whining that 5 dragons will be annoying to fight if they were only the main villain.

I’m pretty sure that’s why the created Scarlet, to create a villain that isn’t a dragon and that probably won’t be tied to any, until at least the very end. Too bad, that like most part of the recent lore, she was probably written in at the last minute.

Hey, you guys got how the wording works around here

Rising Dusk.2408:

For the same reason ANet doesn’t let light armor classes use medium armor or heavy armor models: they want players to, at a glance, be able to identify a player model as some range of possible classes.

You honestly can’t believe this is true. With all the effects and the pace of the fights, you aren’t looking at the armor to determine what class you have in front of you. Especially when their defensive stats vary greatly, like elementalist and necromancer.

I personally think that it’s because they decided that most light armor will have huge skirts and almost every medium armor will have trench coats. Since those two will clip, they didn’t and will never allow armor to be mixed between classes.
Some of you “well we don’t care about it, we’ll just use the ones that do not clip” except that as a company, releasing a more than half-a**ed update is unacceptable.

nicknamenick.2437:

Hope we get something like this for Charrs.. looks epic!

That won’t ever happen.

urdriel.8496:

RedStar.4218:

So you want to add the 1 second it will take for someone to get killed by a zerg ?

second line players with melee weapons, cant hit enemies with melee attacks.

I’m talking about enemies body blocking. Allies body blocking will never happen because of all the griefing it can (and will without doubt) cause.

And every classes has access to ranged AoE attacks.

So you want to add the 1 second it will take for someone to get killed by a zerg ?

No to any kind of defensive achievements.

You think repair is bad (and wth, it’s been 3 weeks and your PvErs still don’t have the achievement ?!) but it will be nothing compared to every other suggestion of defensive achievements.

-What’s that ? No supplies in the the tower and someone launched the fortify upgrade (doesn’t even need an achievement for people to do that)
-Dozens of people escorting a yak
-People clamming stuff when they don’t have any active buffs (which already happens way too much)

As for the ram master debate : I’m pretty sure they don’t mean level 5. Level 3 is enough and they can’t even see if you are level 5 or not aside from standing right next to you and not seeing the buff, which would mean that the other rammer (because it’s rare that only one ram is down) also isn’t level 5.

urdriel.8496:

i know how to play WvW, but blob VS blob / zerg VS zerg is boring, i have 80 you have 20, your towers/keeps are mine, we can run TROUGH you, you cant defend your gates because we can run TROUGH you, you cant hold a place because we can runTROUGH you.

I don’t see how body blocking, even if it’s just enemies, is going to change that too much. And honestly, if 20 people can’t hold 80 people, then learn how to plan accordingly and use siege correctly.

I actually hoped the Charr cultural armor would solve that. But no, they are the worst racial armor. I mean in GW1 some Charr had skimpier outfits than elementalists. Now they have a cultural nun armor.

Ashabhi.1365:

There are a LOT of “revelaling” armor in the game (ever seen Human Med. Female T3?) but yes, i agree. Charr armor isn’t the bext for showing off your character customization.

Onto this again….There aren’t a “LOT”. There’s a few that a lot of people seem to wear because a LOT of the other choices are making your character look too fat in certain areas for her body shape.
Our of all the light armor there are :
-13 tops that fully cover the upper body
-26 tops that show some skin (most of them being pretty tame) with only 9 that can be honestly considered skimpy
-9 leggings that show a bit of the legs with only 3 that can be considered skimpy.

Hey would you look at that ? There are most choices in light armor to make your character look like a nun (there’s even an armor set for that). And I’ve been pretty nice in my list. Some of the armor in the “show some skin” category are only a inch of cloth from being authorized in the Vatican.

We can do the same for medium armor and it’s going to be incredibly shorter : only 1 top that isn’t in the cash shop or a racial armor is skimpy.

Gahzirra.8639:

This is more of a new problem cause people want their Demo Expert achieve…will die back down when Season is over

I don’t get this excuse. If you are slowing things down for everybody because you want your achievement now, you probably are in WvW just for the achievements. Which means you are also after the 50 ranks.
What does it cost you to give 25 freaking points into ram mastery then ? Hell even just 5 to make people think that you have it. But nope, it seems they prefer to give their points to something else (or worse, they don’t even know about it).

However, when I’m on a siege (not ram or cata) and someone tells me “get out, I have mastery” I either ignore it or say “no”. Unless the situation is pretty bad, but most of the time, I don’t get why I should sacrifice my loot for them.
And luckily, I have the necessary points in nearly all mastery.

But I think that the siege thrower should get to decide who has priority on the siege. Because some people don’t know how to correctly aim those trebs, or they are being trolls.

I didn’t read all 24 pages. And I know I’m going to repeat things that have already been said.

The world of GW2 has enough problem as it is. There was no need to bring Scarlet in if you wanted to make the world evolve.
Most zones have meta events that, at the end of the day, aren’t going anywhere : the centaur chieftains come back again, the separatists keep making things harder at Fields of Ruins, the sons of Svanir keep retaking the settlement.
I understand that mechanic wise, you can’t have an event that concludes forever once it’s completed. And that’s where the LS should come in. It should be a way of saying “well you guys have seen the situation in that zone and now we are going to move forward and maybe reach a conclusion”. Instead we have “well you guys have never seen that situation and there won’t be a real conclusion because the bad guy keeps getting away”.

And this also brings another problem that should be address to, at least for those who care even a little about the lore (the ones the LS should be aimed at) : create a blog post somewhere where you write the timeline. There needs to be one, because everything gets confusing. And if you messed up, well do it like you know how to : ret cons. But at least, once and for all, we’ll have a real timeline to work with instead of wondering if Zhaitan has already been defeated or not.

As for rewards : do not put any more rewards, except weapon and armor skins, until you figured out a place to store them.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I think you got your dating a little messed up there… 11/12, 11/26, 12/10, and 12/24

I’m not writing any other posts when it’s past 4 am >.>

The next LS updates are : 12/05, 26/05, 10/12 and 24/12.

The next fractal will supposedly be completed by the end of the year.
12/05 is going to be part 2 of what we currently have and 10/12 is going to be wintersday because 24/12 is way too late.

Which leaves 26/05 and 24/12. If it’s the latter, well Anet is really taking it by the letter and releasing the fractal at the end of the year. If it’s the former, I don’t see a fractal about the TR will fit in the current LS (but then again, Scarlet can give a sense to everything) and even less how a fractal about Abaddon would have fitted.
The point is : they are probably writing the story as they go and I doubt the fractals and Evon had anything to do with each other (at the time of the vote at least, they can always try to make something up, like Scarlet).

Even if I’m extremely annoyed due to what happened during the past days, yeah this was the only balanced match up.

At this level of play, no one really has the numbers or the coverage to adequately defend anything other than during prime time.

Actually, I’m thinking the opposite. We should defend stuff instead of just taking stuff and losing it before the next tick.
“It’s to make it paper so it’s easier to take back”…yeah right, that almost never happens.
It’s not that hard to defend stuff. Last night I nearly raged at someone because he was saying “we don’t have enough to defend Bay against 10 FC” when it had supplies and we had 10 of us around. Even if we end up losing it, we can at least try to slow them down instead of giving up way too soon.
(Of course, I didn’t rage at that dude because we have enough problems so let’s not fight with each other).
The problem is : no one wants to defend. No one wants to upgrade. No one wants to run yaks. No one wants to do the most ungrateful job and not get any kind of reward (server thanks ? Yeah, that doesn’t happen to often, and personally I’m not doing for thanks, I’m doing it so when I say “attack in 3 minutes” people actually show up to man the siege) while there is a “zerg” taking camps/towers/keeps and getting rewards.
When I say “no one” I know some people do it. But an incredibly small amount of us bothers with that. So much that when that small amount of us do not want to do it anymore, no one does it.

This isn’t to say “play defensive !” because we also need to attack. Luckily, it doesn’t take more than 5 people to defend something, or at least slow down the attacking force until our side can save us. Unlucky, there’s never 5 people to defend it.

And to come back to Hills, yes we shouldn’t have been that focused on it.

Colt.9051:

In my point of view as a GoM, based on recent events, ofc we wouldn’t want both teams to win at this point over the other, as most GoM see it this way;

Yeah pretty much. At this point I couldn’t care less about which one of them wins.

styx.7294:

Not surprised we’re not doin so good. I dunno about other people but I thought about staying up all night but it wasn’t close enough that I could justify to myself showin up to work half asleep, heh.

But for all the warriors in Ferguson’s Crossing and Darkhaven, keep at it! To the finish line! Still less than 1k apart!

A few of us have put crazy hours during the past 48+ hours. 24 hours ago there was still hope, especially after we got back our BL. But then we realized that nothing was going to change. DH was still going to push us for “easy” points (that 80 man at Hills would have been put to better use somewhere else) while FC was enjoying the whole situation where we were busy defending and DH busy attacking us.

That tower was probably QL. And even reporting people doesn’t do anything.

Samhaim.8956:

Would be great if gom actually took care of their bl instead of rushing smc whenever we have it…..

Would be. But then again, GoM doesn’t have a BL anymore.

Lord Rager.8543:

On a side note, this is the only match up in NA that first place is not decided yet and is still anyones game. Our next reset is going to be ugly with everyone staying on late to push for a W.

Good luck FC,GoM, and DH

No it’s not. It’s just between DH and FC. What’s left is for GoM to decide who to hit to make them lose points.

Arius.7031:

I just really wish some of your folks on the forums wouldn’t start insulting/hating just because we picked the right targets, tbh. We can’t apologize for picking strategic targets, sorry…

Hey, you can talk our Hills, but you can’t talk our right to QQ :p

We have been ganked on for the past 24 hours. We have been the losing server for 14 hours. And yet things didn’t changed, at all. And frankly I doubt they will.

Glad this was the only week with DH and too bad this won’t be the last with FC.

“Oh look we are attacking each other, we are so not double teaming”.
Yeah, 2 zergs in our BL waved at each other in front of Woodhaven. FC roamers weren’t even getting attacked in DH’s BL.

Now of course, some people in DH probably don’t feel like being FC’s puppy and are going to attack FC, just like some people in FC don’t want to win this because DH is just happy to be second.

And finally, the teams changed. The team that is playing right now probably isn’t the double team that was playing 16 hours ago.

So Bronze Knight from [WZ] how is the water in Bay ? You seem kind of downed :/

rhodoc.2381:

Since they put the same PvE kitten into WvW, it is still same.

Are the PvErs on your server that dumb ?

And we’ll have to find the 24 shinies spread out across Tyria !

Groonz.7825:

I like how Anet used to talk about server pride and such during the early days but with how the league works, essentially it kills T1 servers communities by forcing them to leave for another server just to be able to play WvW again.

And with the league this will most likely just be a continuous repeat that will occur over and over for whoever becomes the new T1 servers.

You forgot that before, it killed T2 and T3 servers communities because those persons transferred to higher tiers.

DH is using its necroes to form fake zergs :p
Sometimes I’m like “15+ inc ! … oh wait, it’s just 3 necroes”.

You want to know why I hate buying the gem store armor ? Because I need to buy the full set. I never care about the helmet or shoulder pads and very rarely about the boots and gloves. So at most, that leaves me with 2 pieces I want and 4 others I’m probably going to put in the PvP locker even if I won’t ever use them.

Actually GoM ended up with FC’s garrison. And hitting you guys when you were pushing for OL was extremely funny. But not as funny as when we did it a few minutes later at Ogrewatch and actually got it :p.

And the LS is hitting us hard too. Luckily, there’s not too many things to do and achievements are easy to get.

Well blue also has a certain exploit that makes capping one of the tower easy as hell.

So Blue is still the worse.

You guys need to start realizing that the non WvW players already got their keys. Or they really can’t follow a zerg, because let’s admit it, they probably aren’t running yaks and upgrading towers.
What you are witnessing are players that are new to WvW because they enjoy it, and veterans that want to play more because of the league.

And a 7 hours queue ?! How many hours did you play in WvW after that ? And what did you even do during all this time ?

How does getting ascended weapons (or rares…) assure a balanced match-up ?

Chuck Zitto.2367:

Just so all you gom know we (DR) had the outmanned buff in eb 2 hours after Friday night restart. We have had outmanned buff pretty much atleast 70% of this matchup so far in eb which is all I really play.

When I play, DR is very rarely in EB and instead in the BLs. For example on Sunday we’d go and cap everything on DR’s side in EB, then 5 minutes later, a 50+ zerg will come, take everything back and leave. We did that 3-4 times.
I rarely see any attack from DR in EB. Most of the time they just retake their stuff and leave.

(Depending on when you play, your experience might not have been the same).

People whining about queues : before next week, all the supposedly PvErs people should be done with their achievements. I’m pretty sure most of them are nearly done with them (or else they are kind of bad).
By next week, the queues won’t have anything to do with the achievements and you’ll get to see if they are that shorter.

Obsidian.1328:

pulls hair out

We
don’t
want
to
do
them
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At the risk of making you bald, why do you even care about the JP ? You don’t need to do them to get your key (if you care about that).
And don’t even say “PvErs are taking all the spots to do them !!” because it’s been 4 days. All those PvErs would have to be pretty terrible to not have completed those JP yet.

Like it has already been mentioned, capping 50 ruins is a more annoying problem.

Meglobob.8620:

But I would like to add, why no DEFENSIVE achievements like:

Defend sm 3 times
Defend keeps 10 times
Defend 20 towers
Build 10 AC’s in a sm/keep/tower
Pay for a ugrade at any fortification/supply camp

There are no defensive achievements at all, its no wonder most players assume defense is worthless…

Oh please Anet, never do something like that. First, getting defend rewards is extremely easy, you just have to repair a gate/wall by using at least 2 supplies every 3 minutes.
But that won’t create problems, unlike the last two of your list…Best ways to get supplies wasted and annoying everyone by throwing a useless upgrade at the worst time.

However “escort a dolyak” yeah, that will be helpful. Even if PvE players want to farm that, at least the dolyaks will safely get to SM.

So this annoying and borderline exploit bug (the dodge really works, I dodged my way through a zerg for 30 seconds and came out with more than half of my health) can also get sort of randomly fixed.

You can use siege weapons. After using a canon for 10 minutes, when I went back to my weapons, the bug stopped.
Also if you get dazed (or maybe other CC), it seems to fix it.

And sometime it seems to get fixed for no reason.

I’ve had that bug 4 times this week-end, and generally in the most annoying times…Like defending/attacking SM or a keep.

ArkAngel.7940:

You could also buy 50 ranks with 100(?) Laurels and all those badges you got in achieve chest. Ha…ha…

I was gonna say that :p And maybe if you are lucky you’ll get a keg of Wxp in one of the reward chest (how funny would it be if it’s in the last one ?).

Also, the first ranks in WvW do not require as much experience. If you are that lazy and have that many laurels, you could always created a new character, use laurels to buy the ranks, delete it when it gets to r4 (or 5 ?) and repeat.

Loki.8793:

And nothing else. What happened to Underworld or Fissure of WoE? What happened to elite missions? What happened to hard mode?

I’m not saying we should forget the casuals. I just think there should be some “extra” challenging content that is put on the side and is completely optional for those who wish to do it. There needs to be something in the game to push the players to try. Right now, the only thing close to that is Tequatle and you need a super zerg to even have a chance. That’s not good design.

Well Aetherblade and new TA (to a lesser extent) brought many to tears. Of course, especially new TA, if you have time to spare you can beat it. But the challenge in dungeon is to not take 2 hours to beat something that barely takes 30 minutes.

And the difficulty of FoW and UW was that you got kicked if you failed a quest or everyone died.

Mad King has a twisted sense of humor. I bet he can find a “funny” reason to have done that.

For anyone who wants an “easier” JP but similar, try this one : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spekks%27s_Laboratory
The goal is to do it flawlessly. And repeatedly. With time you’ll get the assurance, the rhythm and you’ll even understand how to deal if things that seem to block your way for no reason.

akamon.2769:

forgive the double post, but just saw these exchanges. heh, it’s more than possible to fail the last jump. others who’ve made it up there said they saw me jump on-time for sure, and they make it in. all i get is loading screen, but i hear the hands grabbing me and i end up down at the start. other times they say they didn’t see me jump at all, when i did.

note: even last year, you never visually jump through the broken glass. it always looks like you don’t make the jump and fall (at least, that’s how i made it last year).

it’s extremely laggy. haven’t tried jumping two panels before the clock yet though ahah so i’ll give it a shot. but that’s MASSIVE lag. and you jump straight into the wall as it spins, but two panels before the clock face comes up? and there are a total of 6 “walls”, correct? including the clock face.

I jump once I see the glass being broken. Does the goo gets higher once it’s broken ? Never tried it and don’t want to xD.
All I know is, the first time I got on top, I was terribly stressed. If I had failed there I would have been more than mad >.> I mean…I focus so much on that JP that I start getting a headache after 3 tries (and my face, which I saw reflected on my computer is way too tense during that…) but then again, this JP scared me. Last year, for two weeks I stopped playing the game and tried that JP over and over again.

Lurch.9517:

To be fair, if he is a mainly WvW player on a fairly busy server then 10 mins of PVE could then incur a lengthy queue to get back to what he actually enjoys doing.
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Well if he is on a server with such a lengthy queue, he had to wait to get there in the first place. Now of course this means that you have to stay on the same server and be lucky with events.

But if I had to kill time to get in WvW, I’d do meta events. Of course, I’m a server where there hasn’t been a queue for WvW in a while.

Of course I understand that if you want to play WvW, it’s not pleasant to have to do something else you don’t really care about. But if it took someone 6 hours to only get 22 dragonite ores, he would have been better off taking less than 30 minutes to possibly get more than 100.