Guild Wars 2

I was in a group and we completed CM-P1, but we didn’t receive the end chest with the exp and dungeon tokens. We didnt use any exploits that im aware of, we did the dungeon normally, (abit of trouble here and there but we completed it none the less) but we didnt get our reward! (I really needed that 70% exp bar for leveling ;(

@Hamfast: I would play with my own guild(s) expect they do the elistist way to everything as well…and I tried different guilds but none of them seem to be remotely what im after, I dont consider myself a casual player, trust me, I love hard content, back when I played WoW or something, I loved going into new boss’ fights in raids, because it was a challange, (yes I know, that one the biggest eliest games I can name), reguardless, but I cant tollerate your own guild banning you from doing something just because your not the right stuff for it.

@ Archon: All good points, except for your last line, personally I find that statement wrong.

It is true it beyond there control really to say what can and cant be allowed in terms of grouping, yes, and gear is quite balanced, in terms of 80 to 80 exotic armor’s, and other than jumping puzzels (im awful at by the way) in the open world part of the game, its pretty much do as you wish, I have no complaints about open-world type things, its the group-type stuff I have issues with….and other than afew skins or maybe some mini’s you missed out on you can quite and return after a month or two without any issues, yes.

My disagreement: It does matter, to a cetrain degree when that superiority effects your own goals in the game, CoF is the fastest way to make money, (although the most boring) true me, if the anti-farming code didnt smack you faster than a fat kid after a piece of cake, id happily farm all my T6 stuff, and get my legendary and go “WOO~” then throw it into my bank.

@rfd, I dont make my own groups, I have in the past, back when dungeons were new because I got tired of waiting….lets just say..not many good experiences… I dont mind running a group once its main, I know all the dungeons in the game and how to do them without glitching/exploiting them… worst come to worst I can always do that, I suppose.

That is very true Archon, it is in pretty much ever game, which I expect usually, but considering when they were making the game they said they were going to avoid this. kinda a kick to the face, if you know what I mean.

I do that at times Slither, I will stay up in CoF’s area, (I rarely in L.A. tired of seeing those lame meme’s quggan ‘jokes’) but ill be honest, I have no ability to wait on things to show up assuming they do, so ill go there wait around 10-15 minutes and see nothing usually, at that time I just say screw it and log off, I practically stopped playing the game at this point, I log in do dailys, do special event stuff, log out, because I don’t feel like leveling a character I find boring to play.

I was using that as an example sense its the most common use for elistism in the game, I can branch it deeper if you want.
1. TPvP = people requiring at least level 30+, and a certain build
2. Arah P4 (when people use to do it) required a certain build/comp/runes. ect.

So know your facts before you speak “perfection”

Your lucky then Laok, I dont ever see groups that are accepting of others, than the non-cookie-cutters.

@ Laoko: I never said with any class, im sure if I played other class’s I could CoF is easy enough a brain dead chimp could do it with ease. I like playing the races/class’s I enjoy, thats why I picked them, but sadly its not the cookie-cutter type of class that is demanded by groups.

I have looked on there Rfd, but honestly I rarely see those posts only “ONLY WARRIOR1!!!” hell even my own guild’s are elitsts so sick of them honestly, I play games to play with what ever guild im in, imo that is the purpose of a guild. When even they said “Sorry you dont have the right build/class for this bye.” just rather ticks me off, then I go to GW2LFG, and find only looking for warriors, just plain sicking, imo. One thing to be rejected by a pug another to be objected by your own guildies and pugs.

I agree, I actually just made a post about this myself, lol

Anyone else here a “fan” (said sarcastically) of the eliteist game play? If you don’t have this class, of this race, with this weapon and these runes/orbs, your S.O.L. to really do anything, the most used example: CoF, 1 Mesmer 4 warriors, if you aren’t one of those two things your S.O.L. for trying to find a group to do a dungeon that I could do in my sleep.. (almost being literally here, I nearly asleep doing a run and still didn’t mess up) because “Its faster” really I dont notice abit of difference between running a good any-person group, usually it makes up a ranger, mesmer, warrior/guardian, two others…compared to the 4 warrior group, only because 100 blades is overpowered (high damage), people go all slack-jaw for it, and if you don’t have it, you no do nothin.

Another point, when this game was being made, I belive they said they wanted to avoid situations like this, any class could do any dungeon without issues….doesnt seem that way now does it?

no support? :/ kitten I guess i’m the only one who wants multiple achievement/special-related items on my alts.

This game needs a vender like the Festival Hat Vender in GW1, show them achievement items, or special items (like the celebration hat) and he will remember how to design them, so you can get them on your alts, I don’t know about you guys, I loved the tentacle back piece from the southsun event, and the wings look incredible, but sense they only give you one of each item, you have to choose “who do I use this one…” I want my warrior and guardian to have wings so when they leap or something, it looks like there flying using there wings,. sadly due to no way to reclaim achievement items, there is no way to do this

Bring back the festival hat vender and make him Achievement Item Vender or Special Item Vender

Tachenon.5270:

Rimu.7105:

Just like in guild wars 1, where rangers were practically only nerfed, you cant take away our awesomeness!!!!!!

Nerf my bow
Nerf my pet
Nerf stuff I ain’t thought of yet
We don’t care
We won’t fuss
You can’t take the awe from us!

Hell yea! -high fives-

So healing spirit huh? Alright. Isn’t the spirits heal dependent on your currently healing power?

Just like in guild wars 1, where rangers were practically only nerfed, you cant take away our awesomeness!!!!!!

What elite skill do you guys use? I do bit of dungeons/fractals, but I usually notice the elites for our kind are a bit….weak for an elite… on boss fights, I dont play any other classes personally, but I read a few elites on other class’s they seem useful to me, example: War-banner gives buffs and revives people, and can be used as a speed booster if someone is holding it.

Examples: Rampage as one: good but your pet dies instantly on most bosses, so you don’t gain might or bonus damage for your pet… easier just to use the war-horn to get the same buffs

Entangle: Boss usually is immune to your skill or breaks out instantly so thus no damage from the bleeding added to him, useless

Seed Turrets (I’m a salvari), destroyed to fast like entangle

The healing/damage spirit summon: I guess these are decent if your a spirit ranger? :/

I don’t think it would be possible, because of personal story’s/cultural armor would have an effect, if your a human wearing T3 cultural, and change to a norn, it wouldn’t work because T3 cultural is only for that race, and your personal story would be all screwed up though really past a certain point, it doesn’t matter what race you are sense all the story’s rather blend together. (I.E. getting to choose what faction to join)

Alright, so what I am seeing is:
Outside World Armor (MF): Pirate/Noble combo
Dungeon Armor: Scavenging

Alright, sounds good to me.
@Mercury, I know berserk is good for speed running dungeons because of its high damage output, to bring down things much faster in result they cant hit you much and thus you win, for sacrificing protection/health you make up for it in pure raw damage, I been running the condition verson to it, but logic hit me i’m using a longbow/short-bow at 1200 range…my traps are only a 800~ range…someone showed me the math its actually more damage to not bother with condition damage boosting, and stick with pure raw damage.

I have two sets of armor, 1 is a magic find set (for PvE stuff) the second is a berserk set (for Dungeons) I’m thinking about using scavenging runes in them because it gives bonus gold find (15%) but i’m also unsure on it as well. I am a ranger, (I swap my spec. around, trying to find the right thing for my play style)

What do you guys think? Go with Scavenging runes, on both sets, one set? Use (type of rune here)?

My reasoning: Use scavenging on the dungeon set, (I do CoF on and off) id get more gold, and not lose much magic find, 15% from runes + necklace in fusion + food + banner = nice bit of bonus gold.
Using it on the PvE set (again much like the dungeon set, more money without losing to much magic find using them)

My math: PvE set: 18% using armor, the rune: 35%, = 53% extra….using other MF runes would give 18% from armor 50/60 (depending on combo) = 68/78% so..only about a 25% loss, using Scavenging runes, but it makes up for bonus gold.

I like this idea, (I said something about it in my clan a few days ago actually) I love my mini-firestorm, but I am alwaykittenting the deposite collectables when my inventory is full and this bye bye firestorm, he should have his own little spot.

I think they should add a new NPC, much like the Guild Wars 1, Festival Hat Merchant…. I like these new achievement-type items, such as the new back pieces, but the downside to them you only get one, when you have one of every character, its hard to decide what one to use the item on. In Guild Wars 1, the festival hat merchant you take a special item to him, and he remembered it for you so you could have it on all your characters.

Naturally not all items would be allowed inside of that, but items like the Celebration Hat and Devil Horns (free items from the Black Lion items long ago) should be added to the list of what the NPC can make, there basically Festival Hats, along with achievement-themed, items.

Say what you want, I want some fresh blood to kill…SoR and Blackgate are the only things I get to murder in WvW, (well more so them killing me), but its nearly to the point where there movements are predictable because we fought them so many times you just know where there heading.

Gabal, they changed that, go look, it saids Title: Yakslapper now.

I agree with you there VLN, I been saying that myself in my guild for quite some time.

@Pod. True combat healer was a bit much, but it was inside the realm of possibility, many heart missions you can revive people, dungeons people go down a lot…camp jormag (before they nerfed the chest) You got atleast 20 revives easy from noobs on the hill. So that wasn’t to bad…now the WvW achievements takes years to complete.

Other than grandpa yakslapper

Anyone else have any input on this?

Give me a call when your officially a yakslapper..I be sure to tell your children. “Your father was a might slapper of yaks.”

Does anyone else think the WvW achievements are a little…excessive?
Yakslapper (the coolest title ever) Requires some huge amount slain, (I heard 1,000,000 killed) One for escorting Yaks is like 500,000. The King of the Castle 25,000 times.

I don’t think a lifetime achievement should actually take a lifetime to complete.

Haha Geo, I wish i had 80g to blow myself, <— poor person. A few people I talked too were having bad ecto luck as well, so was curious if it was a nerf or just horrid luck on our behalf. (well horrid luck is my luck…so.)

I think this game does not want me to get a legendary…. T6 materials never drop, Ecto’s never come into my bags, Badges of Honor hate me… -hands head- stupid weapon…

I noticed recently using my Master Salvage Kit on 75+ rares/exotics, I am not getting ecto’s anymore, I get 1 ecto maybe every 6-8 salvages… I salvaged 13 rare’s last night got 2 ecto’s from it…did they nerf the rate on you obtain them or do I just have horrid luck (well more so than usual for me)….Weeks ago, (2+), I would salavge 10 rares, and get maybe 8 ecto’s~ or if it was a bad day. 5-6, but now… im thinkin it be cheaper to sell the rares and just buy the ecto’s…any thoughts?

Where is that at? It sounds like an item you’d have to talk to someone to get but I didn’t see anyone to talk too…or is it an item inside a hidden shop? (if so how many babbles?)

Are some of the achivements bugged in SAB?
I got the 6/7 bug all the items I have
Stick, Slingshot, Bomb, Candle Stick, Health Potion, Extra Heart, Upgraded Wallet, Shovel, Whip

I am fairly sure that’s more than 7 items, but I see other posts saying its bugged too just curious to if anyone knows a way to fix it (I got the free candle)

Also are any of the other achivements bugged?

Third question: When your doing the babble hunting achievement (collect all of the ones inside a zone), do the ones you get from smashing items inside the shops count?

I tried completeing zone 2 and failed

To me that seems rather… cheap… of an tatic (if you can even call it that), throw it right under your score keeper from mid-ground or 25% into enemy territory and thats an instant score.

I been playing a few games of Keg Brawl, and I notice people throwing the Keg 50-70% of the map, when the throw ability on the keg is far from that much, and that bug is giving an unfair advantage to those who know how to do it throwing it so far, and mad-rushing over to get it when its right next to there scorekeeper.

@Royal, the way I see it, its not used for mid-battle swapping, more of an outside of battle change up, so like I said I could have a set for WvW without hogging up 6-10 spaces of inventory, just have it set in the secendary armor slots.

@Atroras: Full MF set, alright, I tend to work solo, but I dont really have issues dieing unless im running though an army of mobs (even then I usually come out alive without lag), Rampager, alright, that gives me something to think about.

Sky, I love your post.

To the first post, I think leveling another charater is interesting, I enjoy the story-line of the game personally, (atleast up to where it merges into one) After I hit 80, and did alittle crafting to 400, I made another charater a different race just to read there story, getting a legendary is quite time (and gold) consumeing so if your farm dungeons or something go for that.

Get all crafting professions to 400
Run around LA dropping bee hives (Saw someone doing that a few days ago made me laugh)
SPvP in truth, has no real rewards, but imo, its accually kinda fun, its like doing JQ (in GW1) all over again which alot of people did yet had no real rewards, other than a title (which SPvP has titles too so no real difference from the GW1 equilivent)
WvW, is something alot of people do, (I find it kinda boring, but to each is there own)
Do all the jumping puzzles in the game (If your bad at jumping bring alot of energy soda, something shinny to keep your attention, wear no armor, get a falling 50% damage decrease perk, and some headache meds and something to calm your throat from yelling “GOD kitten JP I HATE YOU!” 301 times.
Or go find all the easter eggs in the game, some of them are quite amuseing like the Zelda Chicken.

I need some others imput on what kinda gear to use mainly, sense there isnt a gear swap option like there is weapon swap (I personally wouldnt mind that, so I could have a WvW set and a PvE set, with a click of a button), but I need an general build, I mainly use conditions (Traps), but the armor im useing I think is a mix of MF/Condition (MF runes/rings/accesseries) and Condition armor, though I have no problems PvEing or dungeons, but I think I want a more solid set-up…what are yall input on runes/gear stats for a general overall gear?
I use a shortbow/longbow mostly, if thats at all needed information
I think of just makeing a MF set for farming/dungeon/fractal purposes, but the ranger is my favorite class, but to my knowolage MF doesnt help in the slightly in WvW, or does it help with obtaining badges from kills?

Its quite possible the team you went up agenst was a pre-made team, ever consider that? So that wasnt a fault in the match-makeing system, and I think the system is more of getting you into the game itself, rather than waiting for an approate level of team-mates to balance themselfs out which would take alot longer to get in, but I agree with you also, the match makeing system does seem to be abit unbalanced in terms of real pug v pug groups, I often have Pug v Pug matchs where the enemys have 3+ level 30’s while my team is bearly pushing 20’s (im level 9 myself, so I cant talk much, but im pretty good for an r9 I think)

Ingame name: Rimu Hitomi
Main Class / Potential Classes (Incase team requires): Ranger
Region: US
Practice Times: Anytime im online and not in a dungeon
Experience: Rank 9
Other (Anything else that you would like to add): I have a pretty good idea of what im doing, I can hold my own one on one agenst most enemys I have encounted TPvPing, (assumeing im not double teamed), Thiefs and Mesmers give me the most trouble, though I have improved quite abit agenst thiefs, thanks to the help of some people I asked, Mesmers still give me some trouble, I run a trap build mostly….PM me in-game if your intereted or need to ask me something else.

as the name implys, Im looking for a guild (or a group idc) to do Spvp with (perfered touraments for better xp),
Im currently rank 9, in Spvp, (I just started a few days ago) I been doing mostly pug groups, and well… after loseing 500-120, im done with them and would have atleast a group that puts up a fight,
im not asking for top league, elitest team or anything of the sort, just a group that has a chance of winning a few matchs….

feel free to message me in-game, mail me in game, or post here.

Alright, one other thing, I was testing out a build, in a match…lets just say…the match accually made me depressed looking at the score….500-120…naturally guess what side I was one (It was a Tpvp match)…if anyone knows where I can find a group to go with… my win/loss raito with pugs just makes me sad…, I messed around with rolls a few times in other matchs, I think I got the hang of 1 on 1 fighting (1v2 still working on improveing)

Alright, Shortbow/Longbow, same as my PvE mode, a large group of enemys -.-’ a single mesmer… urg..hate mesmers and thiefs… but alright, ill give both a shot and see what one works best with me.

Where should I remove 10 to put the new 10 in? and what traits specifily should I be useing?
Really? Odd, but okay, I been useing white, ill change him up. Thanks for the heads up.
Torch, instead of axe..alright, no problems there changeing it up, I just figured useing the WD keep a stealthie out away for a few moments.
I think I am running power/crt, with coniditions..ill have to double check, haveing abit of trouble figureing out whats what on PvP armor sense they only provide armor, no stats.

If any fellow rangers and provide some tips on how to improve my game id apperate it.
I use a shortbow as my main weapon, sword/axe as my off-hand (I rarely use unless a thief is stealhing around for whirling defence if he gets close with a melee weapon), I use traps as my skills, A white raven and a bear as my pets (change up bear with wolf sometimes) one on one, I tend to hold my own (some expections) Im getting alittle better takeing down those annoying stealthers (thiefs, expect when they stealth, heal to full, stealth, down me, stealth and flag) but mesmers are still a pain (mainly because of the obessive summoning of clones and them stealthing when I do get a target on them), currently running afflicted, runes (death nova when dead for a suprise for my attackers), and earth on my weapons (for more bleeding)
My traits are at 20/30/20/0/0 currently.

True Monsoon, but sometimes when you go there some mesmers dont port people all the way to the chest, and only port you up half way, those are the mesmers I usually get.

Where do I report them Niim? Id be happy to report that to whom ever I need to.

Timespace, its kinda hard to grief another player from another server, useing something as it was designed to do… its annoying but not causeing grief for them sense it is something they can do about it (i.e. kill the guy), but team killers, you cant do anything about other than work around there annoyance wasteing your time to do something that takes 9 seconds to something that takes like 2 minutes…and I dont know what games you play, but usually team killing is agenst the rules, and you usually get remanded for repeated offences, once or twice is fine by accident but doing it on purpose to your own team, thats cause for grief.

Those Kappa in guild wars 1 didnt seem to have an issue hunting me down dispite being turtles. I know there abit different but a Kappa is really just a turtle, useing the same basic method, would maybe make it workable…I personally wouldnt mind haveing my Hound of Balthazar or Panda again I miss them so much.

Oh…on an unrelated note…Pet Undead Chicken…that is all.