Guild Wars 2

Conncept.7638:

More like greedy dishonest businessman or hard-working law enforcement officer.

Hard working ? Oh please, we are hard working, she’s just a slacker.

leman.7682:

I would have to be on the edge of a sword to vote for her.

…I’d die for Evon.

I don’t get it, you make 50g/day and you’ve been doing so for weeks. Something costing around 100g shouldn’t even bother you.

(Unless you forgot an “a” as in “I started the whole thing a week ago”)

inazuma.7021:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Your wisdom knows no bounds. Kiel’s only claim to the seat is “family ties”. Evon has experience!

Yeah, experience at conning people out of their money and stabbing his warband leader in the throat. None of that looks good on a resume.

Aspect Arena doesn’t look good on a resume either…But this might be why she prefers to take Evon’s game if she wins.

Wait Kiel won’t even bring back her awful mini game if she wins ? Huh, can you believe how horrible that woman is ? She creates an awful mini game, realizes how much everyone hates it and then decides to steal Evon’s minigame…

Shadowmoon.7986:

Guess there won’t be a update today, so probably won’t be update until the event is over

Guess what ?

“Exit polls show that Ellen Kiel is still in the lead with 52%, while Evon Gnashblade has 48% of the support out of 9,575,484 tokens cast.

Will ?#?TeamKiel? take it all the way? Or can ?#?TeamGnashblade? rally its supporters this weekend? The outcome is in your hands! ~RB2"

You also know why Arah is bad ? Putrid essence and bones are nearly worthless. And the champion loots will probably give us more of them…

Aspect Arena has simply horrible. It came close to being as horrible as dragon ball.

Southsun survival on the other hand was fun. And the RNG liked me there.

Provost.6210:

Sorrow’s Embrace
1) Path 2 is triple the length of the other paths and is filled with nothing but trash mobs.
3) Path 1’s fight with the three golems pretty much requires, by the mechanics of the encounter, two guardians in the party to maintain constant projectile reflection. No dungeon should ever need to have any single class in the party composition for success, let alone two.

Twilight Arbor
1) Waypoints are few and far between.
(1 of 2)

Actually for SE, p2 has 4 champions that give no chest (well 1 chest when you are done with all of them) and have high health. And the dredge takes forever to walk. Those things alone take quite some time.

As for p1, I think it’s doable with just one guardian because he can have access to 4 reflects. But stability is nice to have too.
Also, a mesmer, elementalist, thief or even engineer can bring a reflect.

And didn’t they add more WP for TA ? I despise that dungeon, but the last time I did it, there were a lot of WP.

AndrewSX.3794:

colesy.8490:

Most likely they ask for a gear ping. You have the wrong gear.They kick you.

What is wrong with this?

That bolded thing.

Who decided what’s wrogn and what’s right for me?

inbefore full durrserker everywhere with every build with every team or gtfo.

/sarcasm

Just ping a fake thing. If they think something is wrong, just say you used a T-stone….but apart from CoF gear, I doubt most pugs will be able to recognize the different armor sets.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Also, if this should not me considered an exploit, so… why remove dungeons exploits? It’s exactly the same cases.

So, they don’t had need to bother removing the mossman eploit, the cliffside exploit, the Cof P2 exploit, the Asuran steam golem exploit (Yes, its hard don’t know those exploits when almost half of players do it, and in most cases you need to do it for your party).

Because when you don’t want to exploit in a dungeon, your only option is to leave. When I was doing the Not So Secret JP, I hoped everyone would take the portals so I would finally have a clear view.

I’ll gladly accept portal blocking when we stop dying in JP or they introduce checkpoints (not once every step, but once in a while would be nice).

If you don’t really need to dodge, you will most likely survive, thus not needing assistance from your team. And yes there are no conditions, that was my point.

I guess I forgot about feedback. Maybe if you don’t use it, the warriors will have to dodge :p

But the other things you mention that’s not what I consider to be teamwork. You don’t need any kind of coordination. If someone doesn’t do it correctly you lose what, 3 seconds ?

Bad mesmers and warriors have nothing to do with teamwork. Of course you need your team and their DPS : if the Slave Driver fight takes too long, the warriors will probably die….and wow, every time I think about CoF p1 it amazes me at how short and trivial it is. Is there a team out there who failed this dungeon ? Who took ages to complete this dungeon ? The biggest challenge in this path is probably the first mobs…

Sure if you want to be the fastest you need some kind of teamwork (thankfully, because if a random pug could do as fast, there would be a problem), but how many seconds is the gap between the perfect team and a team of total strangers who aren’t optimized ? Let’s not exaggerate and compare with a team of necromancers in full cleric gear, but when a team of 5 random players with random profession/gear/skills can get together not say a single word and finish the path without troubles, this path doesn’t require teamwork.

colesy.8490:

How does it not require teamwork?

Because you don’t need to do anything else except kill quickly. You don’t need to pull, you barely need to dodge, you don’t need to take care of conditions, you don’t need to take care of damage mitigation. All you need to do is attack and run around.

Start the path, kill the first enemies,kill the boss, skip the mobs, kill the acolytes and wait for them to respawn at a safe spot, take a boulder and the portal, stand around a pillar/burst the controller, run to the boss and kill it.

SoLeciTO.3490:

1.- Dungeons
2.- Meta SPVP
3.- WvW zergs
4.- Fractas
5.- JP

JP…you really mentioned JP ? At least a thief can stealth when there are monsters.

As for dungeons and fractals, some thieves are beyond terrible : they want to play like a little ninja, jumping around with two daggers, never knowing how to dodge.
Also did I miss the tip about using shadow refuge in the middle of every fight when you are not in danger ? Because it’s something a lot of thieves like to do.

Thieves can be useful, it’s just that it’s probably the class played by the most horrible players, thus giving a horrible image to every PuG.

Dailies were not too bad. You did general content, got a few silvers and a coin that could be traded.

Then came laurels. Only way to get them was through dailies to buy unique rewards. Thankfully they added guild commendations as an other way to get those rewards, which unfortunately are still time-gated, but it’s not as bad.

The charged quartz however…that’s the kind of thing that made me chuckle in other games because it was so dumb. You have everything, but you still need to wait days to be able to craft something.

I’d prefer having to run whatever dungeon/meta-event chain you find to be the most annoying to be able to craft more than one in the same day.

In GW1 I was afraid of creating certain professions because I’d have to buy so many armor sets. In GW2 I can barely find one combination I like for each profession/race combination…

Once upon a time, carrots used to be cheap. And stock was probably cited in a crafting guide. A lot of people crafted it and slowly the value of stock became lower while the number of items continue to increase.

Then one day, someone finds a more useful use for carrots, everyone jumps in and the price becomes higher. Stock on the other hand never found an interesting use, thus staying at the same low price.

This isn’t a isolated case.

morrolan.9608:

TY, that makes it a 100 times worse. Seriously, forcing players to crafting!!! This is just a bizarre decision.

If it was locked to dungeons, players would complain how it’s unfair because they are bad at dungeons. Same thing for WvW, same thing for events, same thing for JP, same thing for anything. Except crafting. Because no matter how bad you are you can craft and gather the T6 mats, especially with the new crafting rewards they want to add.

Mirta.5029:

so I guess in your opinion agony resistance is not needed either?

You can get to level 20 without any AR. With laurels and guild commendations, getting AR is incredibly easy. And above level 20 the only thing you can get are account bound weapon skins…you aren’t missing a lot (especially when you get weapons that you don’t want over and over again).

The challenge in GW2 is getting things done in a short amount of time. Every thing can be done by anyone if they have enough time (except Guild Missions).

HawkMeister.4758:

Let´s complain how to craft the new stuff when we actually know what ANet has planed for us to do.

And btw, your example is pretty much what everybody is already doing in game.
Running CoF endlessly to buy stuff from the market or other Dungeons for their specific gear.
Orr´s karma gear is actually the only exception to the grind.

People aren’t farming CoF to buy stats. They are farming for skins.

And the WvW gear is a better exception, since Anet is handing out medals every day.

The Boz.2038:

Farzo.8410:

I don’t really like these permanent speed increase signets and traits.

Why? Well to begin with, these professions that do have them, already have loads of escape abilites and what not.

Necromancer says hi.

High health and DS. It’s not the best escape abilities, but it’s not bad.

If you have 8 alts in exotics (I have 6), you are out of whatever “casual gamer” means. You have weeks if not months to get ready for this update.

Only thing I’m hopping is that Anet isn’t ridiculous with T7 mats. It’d be annoying if they do it like quartz (25 T6 for one T7 and 5 T7 for one piece).

Broadicea.8294:

Or, they could make the reward dynamic. Start rewarding 10 silver at 5 minutes and climb upwards like a reverse timer, capping out at 1G after an hour, something like that. If the reward is per account per day, there might be some optimal timing for completion. Say you get to the boss, it might be worth taking 5 for a smoke break then finishing out. Speculating is fun.

It would be incredibly dumb for them to do something like that.

Anyway, being Anet, I’m sure they’ll messed up and the results will be on par with loot scaling in GW1 : instead of having one good farming spot, they leave us with dozens of bad ones.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I don’t really understand why you would want to cap the points earned on dailies or monthlies. It is what brings many people into the game each day. To me, that seems better than a large population only on patch day, or a couple of days after.

I think that it has to do with the HoM points increase. For some players, the leaderboard seems to be an important thing. With this increase in points, those that don’t have a full HoM are annoyed by this update because they are no longer “competitive”…

Thing is, the only way to be competitive is to completely do your dailies every single day. Except that it’s something a little too easy… So it renders a leaderboard useless because it simply shows who was able to log in everyday. And if you miss a single day, you won’t ever be able to get back unless those in front you have a real life problem…

Amadan.9451:

i think the problem is when there is a new update with a gem scavenger hunt all based on skills your profession normally doesn’t have and require no thinking only skilled jumping with no lag.

the halloween scavenger hunt for the mad memories didn’t require any jump at all and was wonderful to undertake!

Except that you barely need any skilled jumping with no lag. All you need is to aim a little green circle correctly.

Why would you care about AP ? Honestly, for those above 10k, more than half your achievement points come from dailies…If there was a true maximum, then yes maybe it could be nice to know how close you are when compared to others. But when the only way to progress is to do your dailies every single day, there isn’t any race.

Just look at the WvW achievements. Probably the most painful achievements to get and you are only rewarded by 851 achievements points. That 43 dailies, 2 monthly PvP and 2 monthly PvE…Since the game has almost been out for a year and the only achievement that has been obtained is Ultimate dominator, I think it’s safe to say that you need more than 2 months to get those achievements.

Everything that rewards AP is badly scaled. Been there done that ? Less than 2 daily PvE…Eating 800 food buffs ? Nearly twice the AP…

So let me get this right : you hate the “Respected achiever” title, and think that if today you buy GW1, you can get the “Champion of the Gods” title in 6 months?

Without using real cash to buy gold and without being extremely lucky, good luck on that.

I have 7k achievement points. I missed around 2 months of laurels and sometime don’t even do the daily pve (and rarely more than the 5 required).

Just play the game and you’ll get your AP one day.

CryxTryx.9208:

I’m not sure it hurts to ask. Depening on the person though it might hurt to be TOLD what to do.

Oops, used the wrong word, I meant “no one has the right to force you” xD

I don’t troll a lot. But when someone tells me to stop playing the game for the achievement, I decide to completely ruin it for them. And when I’m tired of reading the chat, or their “I’ll report you to Anet”, they join the dozens of players already on my ignore list.

For Sanctum Sprint, no one has the right to ask player to stop before the finish line. If they want to stop they will, if they don’t want to, try to beat them.

Those that say that JP are horrible, could I get a few names ? Because Skipping Stone cannot be compared to Vizier Tower.

First time I saw it I thought it would be the case. Then I remembered the pvp locker and realized that it wasn’t and probably never will be.

I got a skin, I wasn’t first. Same for my friend.

I also got an exotic and 2-3 rares when I wasn’t first.

They are nice, but I’ll probably never use them due to their color and for some of them, their shape.

That and they all look the same. Unlike the jade weapons which shared a common thing, the zenith weapon are basically the same thing with a few crystals different.

But aside from the first place achievement, there isn’t any other achievement tied to doing good in this race. You can take the maximum amount of time to get to the top and get every other achievement plus the chest.

Khai.6435:

Humans develop tools to make life easier; like electrons we take the path of least resistance.. a race who creates some mundane magic which “might” get you to the objective when a frigg’n ladder or set of stairs would suffice is just pantently ridiculous.

Building stuff and making it stable is probably harder than touching a crystal and jumping of the ground.

digiowl.9620:

Twitch gamers in general seems to be favored with this one, as two thirds of the achievements demand manual dexterity and quick reflexes.

Except that you barely need those. Thanks to lightning ability all you need to do is aim somewhat to get your crystals and diving googles. And you can take all your time in order to do the Sanctum Sprint.

Thobek.1730:

wrong, its like trying out for the Olympic 400m and failing then telling the organizers “I just want to race with my friends and still get a gold medal”

If you can pick your competition then you shouldn’t get rewards or achievements.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for having an option of racing with your friends, just with no achievements or rewards attached. Then see how popular that feature is.

Cute, as if that achievement is worth anything. As if strangers are incredible racers and your friends will let you.

As for the rewards : if you take 1 or 7 minutes to get to the end, you still get the achievement. Friends or not.

BlueSoda.6297:

It’s match fixing, it’s not allowed in pvp or wvw, so why is it suddenly okay here?

Servers forming an alliance to attack the same server, or commanders deciding to let other servers win is not uncommon in wvw. And it has never been punished.

Letting someone win is not match fixing in the sprint because you have no control on who will be the one behind you.
I’d rather play the sprint with players that actually want to play it, then with players that just want to get their achievement to leave.

I don’t see why they should take away anything (except maybe the top player achievement, but even then…) : you are still doing the race, and making it to the end. The only thing your friends can do to help you is nothing.

Wanderer.3248:

Because you could all just take turns “winning”, rendering two of the achievements meaningless?

Aside from the luck with boosters and luck with lag, you can get on a map, all alone. And some players who are nice enough and got their achievement will let someone else get to first place.

Yesterday I tried to join around 10 games (enter and leave) to be with a guidly…I gave up. We also tried synching and it didn’t work.

Kind of sad that we can’t play this with friends.

Before the update you could get 6-7 quartz. Now you get a bag containing 9-11 silver. Yesterday, a few hours after the update 7 quartz was around 8 silver on the TP.

Ronah.2869:

dungeon based on jumping of boxes in the laser room from the previous living story.

Really ? You consider jumping on a box to be sort of JP ?

I like being able to use portal. Be it to help others or for myself in case I fall.

If someone is annoying you, just put him on your block list.

If you are suffering those problems, then it means that you suffer from that in regular gameplay too ?

But to give you a solution for completing the achievements even if you have a horrible connection : be extremely patient. You can travel all the way to the sky without using the wind skill. All you have to do is use the lightning skill, wait a few seconds until you landed, then continue to use it.
You could even get the sky crystal achievement that way.

The dive achievement can also be obtained without too much trouble. The most annoying part would be getting up on the last roof using wind, but since you can’t fall, it’s a matter of patience. Once you are there use lightning on the bamboo (may take a few tries to really see where you need to point).

As for the race, I think it’s annoying for nearly everyone…But aside from the top racer one, it’s just a matter of repeating the race 25 times to get the achievement, and with light travel you’ll probably get to the end and who knows, maybe get extremely lucky and win.

I got to 13 achievements you can do without any kind of real jumping that you can take really slowly. Maybe 2 more but I got lost and I’m playing the game xD

SpyderArachnid.5619:

What other achievements am I missing? I’m sure that is all of them.

It seems you didn’t take into account the kites, and 3 of them do not require jumping.

Actually if you can’t even do that, you can use the lightning skill to get across. All you need to do is to place your cursor and yourself correctly.