Guild Wars 2

Unlike other dungeons (aside Arah maybe, Mai Trin and Molten bosses) you can actually be stuck in this one. If your team cannot bring down Sparki and Slick, or can’t figure out how to deal with the last boss, they can be stuck there for quite a long time.

Which discourages PuGs, especially “Anet said I could play how I want and if I want to play an inefficient build, I should be able to complete it” type of players (I’m not saying “zerk or gtfo”, but an engi in full zerk gear with whatever traits who only wants to use his pistol and nothing else is someone I don’t want to end up with ever again).

Add in the Ooze puzzle and this make the dungeon something extremely annoying to carry someone around.
Unlike Arah, where if everyone dies at Lupi you might be able to solo it, good luck fighting the last boss when someone decides to constantly kill the holograms and keep ranging the boss which makes the fight floor full of spinning blades.

biggs.4702:

So I don’t think ArenaNet would be so obvious with one “secret” and so subtle with another. I think we can take the Pale Tree at face value.

Anet seems to take people’s feedback and theories to change their stories.

You can’t really predict things because it can change midway through. You can always try to predict all kind of scenarios but you won’t ever be dead set on one because of this.

For example, look at Scarlet. Either they wrote her in and out terribly on purpose, or they planned to do something better towards the end, but due to terrible feedback they preferred to kill her quickly.
In the dat. file people found another ending for LS1 when Marjory dies, it didn’t happen. We were supposed to learn there that Rox was Rytlock half sister (or something like that) but we didn’t.

There’s nothing wrong with listening to feedback when it’s about the story-writing (this part wasn’t really emotional, the dialogs felt forced, etc.) but they shouldn’t modify their story to try to please people like they did with Scarlet (I still refuse to believe that from the start, this is how Scarlet was supposed to be and end).

Path 2

-Traps

A few months ago, the champion was kind of made immune to traps. If you manage to push it right on top of one as soon as it spawns (by using a hammer guardian for example) it won’t become aggressive and will be damaged by traps.
One of those situation is a bug.

Or maybe he didn’t know because I still fail to see any reason why he should give a kitten and simply attacked because the Pale Tree seems to be full of magic.

If before the wardrobe was implemented you :
-deleted the piece
-used a T-stone and kept the skin or stats, then another T-stone and kept the stats or skin (basically, removing every bit of the cultural armor existence)

you have lost the skin and need to buy it again.

So you guys are going to be 5 players ? Oh you are going to have fun.

Anyway, instead of trying to write something, I’m just going to link you to the wiki where it’s really clearly explained.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide_to_earning_Hall_of_Monuments_rewards

Because the tribal set was never a gem store item.

If they put it in the gem store, aside from the kittening (which always happen, regardless of what they put), they have to create an equivalent for medium and heavy armor.

But people saw Jennah grow up. Unless Anise has been raising an illusion for more than 20 years, from baby to full grown woman, Jennah can’t be an illusion (or else it’s terribly far fetched writing).

Take GW2, make them say it’s everything like it but with more stuff so as to get a lot of GW2’s playerbase interested.

Release a beta for people who pre-order GW3 as to lock as much of the old playerbase, then have them realize it’s pretty much nothing like GW2. Then work on getting players who hated GW2 interested in GW3 by implementing content that would never be in GW2.

So raids and mounts. And holy trinity. More races, 15 professions and completely new lore.

Oh wow, that must have been one of the best read I’ve had.

Barely surprising. They realized that the general level of the community isn’t too great and that if they released something hard, it will barely get played.

So instead of doing something few people will actually enjoy, they actually prefer to cater to the vast majority that loves to “play how I want” (with them it means “I should be able to the same thing as someone geared with full damage gear and traits”) with not too hard content.

Now if only they could fix bugs in the current dungeons (without putting more bugs…) and maybe, just maybe make some encounter more interesting (like Tazza).

Tom Yzf.5872:

anet said something about necro need more survivability 0.o I think the best necro will get is that cleave on dagger :*(

Maybe, just maybe, they meant giving us more easy access to stability and vigor.

I have a question. Because I’ve nearly never did any of the farms (doing 2 rotation of Queensdale doesn’t really count), the whole farming in the open world is kind of an unknown wold for me.

The T6 mats you speak off, do you get them directly as monster drops or are they for th most part from champion boxes. And if champion boxes are the main income, what’s the average box/minute ?

Thank you Angel for the reply ^^.

Silvia.9130:

JasmineLong.6514:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

I’m seriously laughing at the people saying dungeons will suddenly become fun now that FGS is nerfed. Guys, the mechanics are still the same.

If anything already boring encounters will only become even more awful…

I agree with this. It’ll be fun for a week or month but after that back to the same thing.

Why would it be fun for a week or even more? It won’t be fun at all, average dumb pugs will simply ask for one more warrior rather than an ele. Not to mention that seriously, you only and always had an ele in your team when speedrunning? I didn’t and I can tell you, it’s even more boring and 0-skillful gameplay.

Wait, you had PuG eles that use FGS ? Don’t tell me they might stacked too.

Jokes aside, for pugs that’s not going do that much. FGS nerf is probably the least of their worries.

Can’t play right now. Did this change already happen ?

It’s always nice seeing you post here ^^.

Could I ask something ? Does a sylvari know (like really knows) when it has completed it’s Wyld hunt ?

Or is the Wyld hunt more like a hunch ? Like they feel this need to achieve it and once they do, or simply think they did, they feel at peace ? Even if they didn’t actually complete it for real.
For example : let’s say my wyld hunt is to kill Countess Anise. I finally pin her down and kill her. But actually, without me knowing at all, it was only a clone. Would I feel that my wyld hunt still isn’t completed ?

Yeah that’s exactly how we fight him. Just move around him. The closest you are to him, the faster it is to simply move away from his frost ray of death.

And when he switches aggro right out of nowhere, it can be really funny xD.

Since you’ve never done it, play with whatever you feel comfortable with. Once you get the hang of it, feel free to switch survivability for more damages.

Yet another tournament with barely nothing new. They must really think that the new trick is going to completely alter WvW and solve a lot of problem.
Let’s hope they aren’t too wrong.

Swamurabi.7890:

I really wish they would have changed the reward structure so that

1st 100 tickets
2nd 150 tickets
3rd 200 tickets

so as to discourage server stacking.

So…EotM for 4 weeks is what you want ?

dlonie.6547:

RedStar.4218:

Btw : can Frost still be ranged from the safety of the rocks ?

Affirmative.

I’d just wish Anet would get around to fixing that. Not out of spite, but so players can finally learn how to do this hard-at-first-but-actually-easy fight.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Typical Anet… can’t have players enjoying themselves and having fun now can we…

Thing is, they aren’t enjoying themselves. Both sides are kittening about the other.

If it was kept down, Anet would be a bit slower to take action.

Purple Miku.7032:

CM was pretty brutal before ferocity if you didn’t have reflects/stealth. In bad teams, it’s a pretty ugly dungeon to be in because of all the trash mobs.

But guardians, mesmers, engis, thieves, even rangers have reflects (the first two have more, true). I understand, the first time you do a dungeon that it can be horrible.

Hell, after spending 2 hours in AC p1 back when the game was launched I said “no” to AC for 2 months and my guildies had to force me to do CM a week after that terrible, terrible experience. And CM was just a blast compared to AC (1 mesmer, 1 warrior, 1 guardian and 1 necro. We didn’t even have a 5th player because we always landed on raging kittens).
But now the game is 2 years old. Sure for some people, they are still doing their first runs. But really, in worst case scenario all you need is 1 good guardian who knows how to skip the middle group without even aggroing them and without stealth.

Btw : can Frost still be ranged from the safety of the rocks ?

Carter.1034:

I agree that the prices are imbalanced. Here is my “what I think would be nice” on the dungeons I have done many times: (I use AC 1+3 as my “base”)
AC:
1: 1g5s
2: 1g30s (Never actually ran this one before because of bugs. Are they REALLY all fixed?)
3: 1g5s

CM:
All paths: 1g55s

TA:
Up: 1g5s
Forward: 1g30s
Aetherpath: 3g5s (being a little generous here)

CoF:
1: 80s
2: 1g5s
3: 1g80s/2g5s (last one pushing it a bit, but if everyone in your group isn’t really good at it it will take 2+hrs)

Hopefully you all don’t think I’m crazy. Basically the problem is that the price for each path isn’t balanced relative to other paths.

AC p2 requires more organization than p1 and the ever so boring p3.

After 2 years I still cannot understand how people still fail CM.

My only problem with the dungeon rewards is how nearly everything is worth as much as the easiest dungeon path in the whole game (CoF p1). Even SE p2 which takes so much more time.

Thank you guys ^^

Here’s how kittening too much about people not failing an event is going to work out for you : Anet is going to end up nerfing your event.

They can do so by completely changing the event or simply giving the event a 30 minute reset time if failed.

One of the newest sylvari hairstyle, which you can only get by using a hairstyle kit, has horn-like hair

http://dulfy.net/2014/07/15/gw2-entanglement-new-hairstyles-in-makeover-kit/

Brutal Augus.5917:

At this point, I wish they would. Do you have any idea how happy this would make people? If you don’t have the slightest clue, I suggest you visit youtube and simply type “GW2 unfixed bugs.”

Believe, I do know how people would be happy.

But again, you don’t gloat about fixing bugs that have been reported for years. You simply do it without expecting a big fanfare.

style.6173:

I’ll say it again: There has to be more to the commander tags than just new colors. During the CDI last year, the leader of WvW asked if we just wanted new colors in the short term or if we wanted to wait longer term and get a more complete overhaul. Given that they didn’t release the new tags in the short term, he would seem quite silly if they only release new colors now. I like to think he is better than that.

Sorry. Really.

The “Big Changes are Coming to the Commander System” are account-bound tag and new colors. Nothing else.

Don’t wait for anything else until another year.

Moving forward, we’ll be evaluating future possibilities for recognizing experienced and prestigious commanders. Right now, we’re excited to empower commanders with the ability to use all of their characters and choose the color that best fits their needs!

You’re going to have to check the color, body shape, face and haircut yourself.

As for the armor and dyes. I can try to help you but you’ll have to see for yourself in-game since my Sylvari isn’t the right color.

For the leggings, the best skirt option I found was the T1.
For the shoulders, maybe the Orrian or the Barbaric (with the gloves too).
And if you want a bare chest, you don’t have a lot of options. There’s the Gladiator, Pit Figther or Barbaric.

Ettanin.8271:

Dark.1208:

• If person referred is banned for gold spamming during trial, so is referee

No. Just. Don’t.
Collective punishment is not a good approach to deter this behavior as your friends or whosoever can try to get you banned out of spite. Instead, permanently remove the referral privileges.

What kind of friend do you have ?

SkylightMoon.2098:

Ye thats exactly what we need. Another tournament to burn people out, have servers become stacked, and give achievement points to pve’ers to come and que up maps and do nothing but hunt jp achievements. Im only open for another tournament if there are serious changes.

They launched Season 2 with no changes regarding any problems brought up with Season 1 aside from the queues with EotM.
And midway through we got account wide WXP.

Now they are giving us a new mastery, a new trick and rainbow tags ! It is the perfect opportunity !
…
I really hope the next two days bring someday important.

Brutal Augus.5917:

Wow. This feature patch was so called for. We have tons of unfixed bugs,

Do you really think Anet is going to gloat about fixing 2 years old bugs ?

Well that was a funny read. Trolling people isn’t a smart thing (no matter the case), but creating a thread because some people are “trolling” your farm (by doing something intended) and you want to gank them ?
…

Wait actually, this could be funny.
Imagine for a second : a zerg is farming sort of afk, only spamming 1, when out of nowhere 20 players who are bent on killing them appears. Now that’s something that can be funny.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

At this point, the person in question is affecting everyone on the map at least briefly.
Which can be prevented by keeping the PVP in the mists
Not everyone goes by the “just ignore it if you do not like it” rule on mmos.

Meh I’m not going to waste my time. Arguments happens anyways. If you are bothered by it Anet gave you the tools (block, report, turn off chat).
It’s your choice to use them or not.

Blaeys.3102:

They desperately need to squash or confirm some rumors (no focus at all on dungeons, SAB canned or put on indefinite hold, etc) and give us some kind of tacit reassurance that they haven’t forgotten certain aspects of the game (new guild missions, new pvp maps, new objectives – like the old orbs – in wvw, precursor crafting, new dungeons) and whether or not we might see any of those things in 2014 (or even 2015).

Anet doesn’t squash rumors.

But here’s something simple : if by the feature pack they haven’t released any of things you mentioned, you can rest assured that aren’t working on them.
Anet likes to make big things of even the most mundane kitten, if something major comes, it’s going to be with that feature pack.

Unless, maybe (but I doubt) a new dungeon tied to the LS (which again I doubt).

Is it so hard to ignore people ? A simple left click and “Block” and all that angry person is left with is taking to a wall.

If there are no rewards for duels (and there won’t) what do you really think is going to happen to you a random guy asks you for a duel and you refuse ?

Let’s say he gets angry and starts calling you names (what a short temper dude) and you, being smart, simply block him and report him, what next ? You think he’s going to stalk you ?
And I doubt the map chat is going stay silent with only that idiot insulting you (which you won’t see, unless of course you actually care what a random stranger on a game thinks of you base on your refusal to duel with him). He’s going to get reported and not too soon someone is simply going to tell him “If you want to prove you’re tough, what the hell are you doing in PvE ?”

I’m sorry to say, but some people are scared way too much. Getting threatened can be scary, but again, block and report. If you are scared, don’t let things get out of control, as soon as someone barely starts harassing you hit the block button so you won’t get to see their tries at intimidating you.

Hmmm now that I read what I wrote again, I really didn’t make myself clear.

What I meant was that there’s absolutely no point in trying to fit real life with in-game time.

But I completely agree with needing at least an estimate of when everything is taking place. Are all the LS quests in an episode supposed to take place in a day or spread out between two weeks or even more ? (I like to think the latter)

With wanting to have a really immerse game by thinking that what makes immersion is calendar and putting WP in lore, Anet just made their story writing even more confusing.
With those two things, you unfortunately have to take them as they are and try to make the most sense out of them (until Anet says something else). Sometimes it’s not too hard, sometimes it is, and sometimes you’re left wondering “Was that NPC really that dumb or did Anet forgot what they wrote before ?”.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It’s no different than trying to burn down a gate while people repair it.

You won’t get in until the castle/tower/keep is out of supply. Once you are out of supply you can’t throw anymore traps and the gate comes down.

With 10 supplies, you aren’t really repairing a gate that much. At least not 45 seconds worth of even 1 regular ram damages.

But I’m going to wait and see if this is a good idea or not. Some people are surely going to use and abuse them. It’s going to be funny for the first few weeks.

And I really hope this isn’t it…We’ve known about the golem mastery for what ? A year ? A blog post containing only those two things is really really small.

Seeing the threads popping up about SAB, they should maybe say something unless they want it to become the new mount things.

As for the commander tags, I’m waiting until the blog post.

Anyway, when you look at the recent interview, you simply cannot call that an “interview”. "Meh no, we don’t think about doing it. But maybe. But meh. But maybe. Who knows ? “When it’s ready”"…
This is what we’ll end up getting anyway : “Yeah maybe, or not. But if maybe, then someday”.

It never made sense and never will and it shouldn’t be a problem (well except that Anet decided to make a big thing of changing the calendar, so yes, now it is a problem).

The stupidest thing is that if RL time = IG time, every 2 Tuesdays, Tyrian would be really really afraid because they know something is going to go wrong. As such, why place the world Summit on a Tuesday ? Why not Sunday ? Nothing ever goes wrong on a Sunday.

DarksunG.9537:

Make it close & high, not big & wide.

Have you never noticed ? A lot of sets are like that.

Someone at Anet is bent on making our character look fatter than they really are.

I have never been part of the Trahearne hate club, or even the Kormir one.

It’s simply that right after we gold told “kitten humans and the lore you liked, everyone is going to be equal”, they decided “well everyone except Sylvari. They are going to take everything and we’ll leave Charr as big fluffy wuvvy cats and Norns as drunken idiots”.

Ice of Dragons.1637:

Kalarchis.8635:

Obsidian armor. NOT in the gemstore. Please. Never in the gemstore.

But put Elite Luxon in the gemstore and I’ll buy that up in a second.

Elite armours like obsidian should never be in the gem store. Luxon on the other hand would be cool to se and don’t forget the curzicks.

Tormented weapons got put in the gemstore, don’t think that it will be any different with Obsidian armor.

Oh our rich commanders, will pretty much only use superior sieges. Except if really there’s no rush at all. Even our poorer commander will use sup siege unless it’s on a paper tower and there’s absolutely no rush.

Esplen.3940:

RedStar.4218:

Azure The Heartless.3261:

I don’t know about anyone else, but seeing a commander with a vanity tag will lead me to question why he did not just spend that gold on siege and food.

Do you have poor commanders ? It’s so common to see a commander run around with a legendary.

Only one? Man, your comms are poor.

Oh hell no ! Our commanders are glowing as bright as thousand stars with all their legendaries. And their Mjölnir.
Never saw one wielding Infinite light though : /

Is that thing still available ?

Or do you think that you will get a refund even though you got to using it ?

Countess Aire.9410:

If you look at it this way. They are a young race. They appeared for a reason. We also know there is more than just the one community. So if they were meant to be dragon minions. How else are you going to develops that except by showing the back story a little at a time.

The gods especially brought the humans to Tyria. And they are, well, the gods. (Of course, then retcons came and I stopped following what got reduced and retconned).

Asuras, lived underground for who knows how long and no human and charr ever saw them. We barely know anything about them.

They could develop on all races, but instead, they told us “nope, we want broad shallow lore” and now they are forcing us to eat Sylvari with everything.

Pretty much every armor aside from the one I bet Anet will actually release.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

I don’t know about anyone else, but seeing a commander with a vanity tag will lead me to question why he did not just spend that gold on siege and food.

Do you have poor commanders ? It’s so common to see a commander run around with a legendary.

Liewec.2896:

just be glad they haven’t (yet) added the “Raiment of the Lich” GW1 set that was data-mined.
otherwise literally every female char would be wearing it!
the sexiest most bad-kitten look in the game.

imho outfits need to be broken into armour pieces like they were before wardrobe so we can utilize parts into our appearance.
plus it’d make anet a ton of money

Big kitten , hooves, and more kittenty than sexy. Somewhere between EotN and when they started releasing costumes in GW1 they must have change designers because since then, I’ve barely found any armor/outfit to be something I really like. Most of the armor my characters are wearing aren’t something I really like, it’s just the less worse pieces I could find.

Beldin.5498:

Btw.: somebody now has also datamined new “real” armor sets

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2dv4ev/update_armor_viewer_bonus_datamined_armor/

Huh, another female light skirt and another medium coat. It’s like their goal is to give a middle finger to all threads asking for something else than exactly that.

Vesuvius.9874:

Speaking with Avatar of the Tree
Come closer…yes. Yes, I can sense you clearly now. I am…weakened.
Are you okay? What happened to you?
I…I can’t take much more. The assault was…fierce. These Mordrem tore at my roots and battered my branches.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_World_Summit

Yes the avatar tells it to you too, because you’re trapped in a chamber and you see it on the ground. Of course you are going to wonder what’s wrong with her.

But for everyone else, especially Sylvari responsible for tending to the Pale Tree, if they can’t see the damages to roots and branches, they are terrible, terrible gardeners.

Lasica.5068:

Nil.6289:

Fractals is the most neglected piece of content in GW2. There are only a few people that run them anymore.

And this should tell you what people think of fractals. A very tiny majority like them, but they are being forced on us as a requirement to complete a living world crafted item for no good reason other than Arenanet is annoyed no one is doing their crappy fractal content they spent so much time making.

Fractals give the worst time vs reward. Even worse than WvW.

Coupled with the fact that for months it was plagued with game breaking bugs (which is why I stopped playing them for more than a year, because when there’s a bug, it’s going to find me).

And some players simply hate it because “it’s when Anet introduced ascended items”.

The only main difference between fractals and dungeons is that you can’t take a break between fractals and do the rest later (you can still go back to LA to repair your armor).

I doubt a lot of people like world events where you just afk the boss. Yet they do it because it’s somewhat rewarding (or a nice place to sort of afk).