Guild Wars 2

Lol. The vapor doesn’t even last 3 seconds. 99 times out of 100 the downed elementalist NEVER can reach the entrance…

Once the Claw of Jormag hits 50% it will crash and lose its wings. Now we are supposed to defend the golems who will stun the Claw, when he his stunned, you don’t receive damage when you’re nearing him, his feets can be targetted as well, and he takes a lot more damage.
However, I’m confused how exactly this works, because the Claw gets stunned at random moments and is not triggered by a golem explosion. Useally somewhere at the beginning of the second part, and when the Claw is almost killed (useally half of the participants just grab out their ranged weapons instead of defending the Golems).
Is there any point in defending the golems? And if the golems does not cause a stun, what is their purpose and what causes the stun then?

I play WvW alot as Elementalist.
First at all, the fact that ele’s don’t have weapon swaps really pisses me off sometimes. Ok, we can change attuments, but it doesn’t change our effective range.
If I encounter one or two enemies, I useally use the combo lightning ride, then go to earth and use that Earth Grab (can’t remember how the skill is callen), switch to fire and use all of its skills, switch to water and heal myself if necessary, and then Earth, fire, water, earth, fire, water, … until my enemies are dead (or I’m dead :P). Elementalist damage is nice, but it’s not that much higher as other classes, if you focus on fire/prec you really lack a lot of vitality and toughness and you die easy.

Toversletje.9345:

i think that this wont happen becouse Arena net makes their money on selling the game and selling gems. if the price for gems are to cheap ingame than every1 is going to buy them ingame instead of buying them with real money.

Not necessarely, the gem prices once were even lower than this. And as I said, the prices at the vendor are optinional and could be raised or lowered to fit Anet’s financial plan

Yes, every time you level up you get one skill point and every time you get another full exp bar once you hit Lv80 you get one skill point. However, theoretical you can only create two legendaries for every character. One of the components is the Gift of Exploration, this is the award for having 100% world completition. You will only receive two of them and they are account bound. Ofcourse this is more or less avoidable, because you can also get 100% on other characters.

A combination of Black Friday sales and the new Makeover kits caused that the gem prices insanely increased. The five day high for 100 gems is 2g20s atm. Ofcourse, none of us wants to pay over 6g for something that you could get for like only 1g one month ago. It’s obvious this game needs some kind of cash currency control.
This is my idea how to control it: Add a merchant called ‘Gem Vendor’. At this vendor you can both sell and buy gems for a fixed price that will never (or rarely) change.
You can buy 100 gems for 90s (this is supposed to be a high price once). Once the price/100 gems nears 90s, people will start buying more and more gems from the vendor instead of buying from TP —-> less demand for gems —-> prices will drop.
The same goes for selling. You will be able to sell 100 gems for 35s. Once the selling price is nearing 35s on TP, people will start selling their gems at this vendor —-> Less supply —-> Prices will raise.

What do you think?

Actually, the pre-cursor drop really got buffed. Not in Southsun Cove and the chest after the Ancient Karka battle only, but more generally. The prices that dropped these weeks proofs it, and for the first time, Precursors drop in places they have never done before, WvW for example, I looted ‘Zap’ (Pre-Cursor for Legendary Sword) in WvW

Pyrial.2917:

Riselight.3695:

When 50% of the players in a match is a thief, and the other 50% is a mesmer. Oh wait there was one person not a thief nor mesmer. It was an elementalist and it was me…
Maybe you could offer players a class change scroll, so I could become one of this two OP classes as well

What’s stopping you from being a thief or a mesmer?

I started PvP’ing and WvW’s actively once I hitted 80. I’m not going to level a new character again all the way to 80 again, because I didn’t choose the right class.

When 50% of the players in a match is a thief, and the other 50% is a mesmer. Oh wait there was one person not a thief nor mesmer. It was an elementalist and it was me…
Maybe you could offer players a class change scroll, so I could become one of this two OP classes as well

Lol, I only have i3 quad core and —-→INTEL HD GRAPHICS <—— And I run this game on low and NEVER crash, not even at the Karka events, I had many lagg, what is normal if there are many people close to eachother but I never crash.
And what do you expect, about 50 people in one small area and no lagg? Please, name me only one MMORPG that doesn’t have a 10 year old engige that does not have this problem

skullmount.1758:

Another question. Where the kitten has that airship been hiding? It seems like we should have been able to spot it somewhere

Maybe Rata Sum is the ship :P

LordNat.4963:

At least all the major cities will be used in place of having a million LA overflows filled.

I believe it will take place at LA at the end of the event

And it’s live

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-2012/

still no info :|

Shanna.4762:

Where’s the post about January?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/november-2012/

Look on the top, next to Wintersday you can see ‘January 2013’, with a lock, just like the December update was a few minutes ago

Waiting for more info atm
EDIT: a January update is confirmed as well.
EDIT2: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-2012/ For more info

FluffyDoe.7539:

What I do Now:
- Try to do FotM lvl 1 dungeon and finally get one party after 30-45 mins, but never being able to get pass the swamp level (failed 4 times now). TREE TRUNKS OP!
- Join WvWvW and realize that the whole map is blue; 100k pts for our server, 6k & 3k pts for other servers…. cape a few point and realize that there are zero resistance -> aww…
- Play on toons occasionally for a spam between 5-10 mins per day…. (dunno why but, low level areas have very soft/soothing graphics, quite relaxing visually).

You need 30-45 minutes to find yourself a Lv1 fractals party? Your server probably must be really inactive, what I doubt because you have 100k points in WvW. If you really are that much better as your opponents, you can or do a server transfer or wait because such a good server will probably raise in the ranks in no-time so you will face higher skilled enemies.
And nothing wrong with playing on alts. You are granted with 5 characters slots for a reason.

me2, two times in not even 30 minutes. Once in Legacy of the Foefire and another on Raid on the Capricorn. It useally happens when I get killed and WP back to my base.

The wispers hideout is easy to access. Just go to Fort Trinity and use the Asura gate there that will link you to their hideout.

Mesmers have some major advantages in WvW, not only portals can be very annoying, also when you are defending a tower, keep or castle, a mesmer can just pull you off the wall which frustated me often. The pull also pisses me off in the JP’s where random invading mesmers just pull me off for fun :/

Thieves are very OP indeed, and they really need a nerf. I get frustrated many times when I’m fighting Thieves in WvW. If you say that ele can hit you with 7-8k, do you realise that this is only possible when he/she is using dual dagger? And unlike a dual dagger thief, an Elementalist can’t just sneak to the tarhet, use its most awesome skills on the target then go invisible and run while switching to dual pistols and finish it. If you say that Elementalists are more powerfull then thieves you need to think again. We can’t use a 2nd weapon set, so we’re forced to use long ranged, medium ranged or short ranged and can’t switch while fighting. Ok, we can switch attuments, but they have a CD and still doesn’t change the range you have.

Check the screenshot where a Thief killed me in 5 seconds in WvW

Thieves are gamebreaking and I hope to see a nerf in the future

Many complains about this already + wrong forum.

You’re complaining you’re not getting something for free, but your forget that you are not paying any subscription fee, unlike any other decent MMORPG. Yet, Anet’s servers ALSO need to be maintained…

Yes, there were many Lv84 karkas as well

Was doing JP this evening, and I got pissed off because Abaddon and Aurora were working and camping together to take out Gandara…

It’s funny how the final Ancient Karka battle was easier than fighting 2 / 3 veteran Karka. Many people died only because of the strange green poison stuff the vet karka can throw at you

Ok, the charges explode and the ancient karka falls into a deep lava sea. There spawns a chest with some pretty epic loot, some rare’s and exotics.

I couldn’t complete the entire event because I got stuck@ loading screen, what were the rewards?

The Lost Shores was supposed to be an awesome update, with a new map, new enemies and lots of potential. But it turned out to be more of a failure.

-Too many lagg: Many people had very bad lagg during any event, especially at phase 1. I think I had the luck to be on my home server, I supposed overflow would have been even worse.
-One time event, why? This sucks, you dissapoint many people who also wants to join this, but they can’t, many because their time zone doesn’t allow it, or they had to do something important and now they can’t attend.
-Southsun Cove was not so exciting as we expected. There are balancing issues with mobs, but the worse thing is: There is nothing to do but some meta events that give the same rewards as any other event for your level.
-Stupid rewards: I expected some interesting rewards from Phase 1 / 2 events, but no, as mentioned above, the same useal rewards from any other event for your level, maybe the one time event would give some nice stuff, but I guess I’ll never know, because I died, WP’d back and now stuck on the loading screen for about 10 minutes already

I hope you’ll keep all of this in your mind when you’re going to introduce the December update.

Same here, I’m all raging right here… This is completly ruining the entire event :/

The one time event of the 3rd phae is in Southsun Cove, not LA

I’ve been farming some Karka lately to see if they drop something nice and ofcourse for my monthly, I also participated in a various amount of events on Southsun Cove and to my opinion, the Karka deserve a nerf.
The “young” karka has a skill that shoots projectiles, I’m using full exotic light armor and I take about 1500 dmg every hit, and it shoots about 6~8 times in 2 seconds, so I lose almost all my HP if I don’t dodge in time, which is hard because this attack is unpredictable, I don’t believe I can win against 2 “young” Karka’s atm.
The Veteran Karka are more champion already, in the first event on Southsun, when we take over locations and activate WP’s, I notice that many, including myself, die while they’re just fighting one single Veteran Karka, sometimes I’m confused when I die, because I have no idea how I’ve died, it seems these Veteran Karka have some kind of super AoE.
The champion Karka seems to be the only balanced karka and are hardly any better than the veteran Karka, the only time I’ve seen him now is in the first event. He only hitted hard when he landed (There were aprox 10 people standing near his landing location, they all died).

There are other new mobs like the Reef Dragon who seem to be pretty skilled as well, compare the new mobs to some older mobs that also can be found on the island, like I did and come to the conclusion that they deserve a nerf.

There was an event, but it was so easy, it was done in 5 minutes, and now we’re all running around like headless chickens

penatbater.4710:

did you try all of you guys commiting suicide so all get back to the checkpoint?

This means you have to restart all over again, and it not an option to my opinion.
I’m doing the Grawl dungeon, fell of a high bridge, just near a lake of lava.
The no WP system looks interesting, but the dungeons aren’t designed for this.

Thanks to some ridiculous bug I just fell (dredge version) and I can’t get back to the surface because there is not even one single waypoint….

Not even the best game developers can make your game lagg free with about 100 other people around you. Also, the big karka’s are supposed to take that less damage, it’s the whole point of this event. Their armor now is uninpenetrable, but the researchers in LA are working on a way to penetrate it, so they can defeat the karka for good.

Zoid.2568:

So if i put 4 mystic coins in forge i will get new items?

I combined one of that item from MF NPC and three weapons, got 12 tokens that you have to trade for rewards at an unfindable NPC

Also searching.
No results so far

I didn’t know spaces were allowed when I created my character (I could make way more cooler character names if I did), it would be nice to have a character name change in the future for those who don’t like there current character name, like me.

Nihilus.3015:

No, the Deep Sea Dragon would be in a dungeon. I don’t think they’d have him appear only once. I think the Kraka’s and the Dragon are unrelated.

Because Zhaitan was in a dungeon, all the other Elder Dragons will be dungeoned?

The lost shores is this weekend, ankittenep wondering what will happen during the events.
I think it will have to do something with Bubbles / DSD, the Elder Dragon from the unending ocean who forced the Quaggan, krait, etc. to flee to central Tyria.
Why?
One of the new warning signs clearly shows some kind of octopus sea monster, or a Kraken. Also the new mobs who will invade Lion’s Arch are callen ‘Karka’ (derived from Kraken). We know less of the DSD, but this concept art might be interesting. It shows, just like that warning sign, a sea creature that looks like a big mean octopus, a Kraken, or some might call it ‘Leviathan’ (Mythical sea monster creature from the Bible). I suppose the one time only event will be that we will have to kill the DSD.
Also the Sea of sorrows is the most obvious choice for the DSD to send his minions. The Ring of Fire and Orr are under Zhaitan’s control and are crowded with Undead. Maguuma is a desert, I don’t think DSD’s minions would survive in a hot dry desert. So the Sea of Sorrows is the most obvious choice.

What do you think? Discuss

I still need vista’s and poi in FR Garisson.
Yeah it sucks that it’s exactly the same setting again, the least I expected is that the colors would have been changed…

Didji.4973:

Darque Intent.1674:

Are there many NA players on the FR servers in the EU?

Not on FR (or they’re very silent).

How can you know? There are French in NA as well

Btw: French topic where there is a FR JS alliance proposal

Taiance.6213:

Gilandred.9870:

Why do you need to know ahead of time?

It’s standard practice in almost every other mmo I have played (even non mmo’s often have patch notes ahead of patch day eg Civ V), to offer patch notes befaor the patch goes live, GW2 is the first, that I have seen, that offers patch notes post patch.

It’s not that patch notes are released days before the patch. Useally a few hours.

Parthenos Polias.5683:

Riselight.3695:

French people in Canada rather pick a French server then a NA sever

Wrong

French people in Canada rather pick a NA server than a French server.
And this is how it works since years.
French people in Canada have very few reasons to play on a French server.
French server have a different timezone, that’s why they prefer to play on NA server.

So if you would live in Canada, you speak French, you’ll still go for a NA server? I won’t, if there were servers for my native language, I would certainly play on one of them.

So is it fair that a European server has to play against two international servers?

European server speak English and English is international, isn’t it ?
So European server are more international.
Just look Desolation and BlackTide, international servers.

Desolation & Blacktide are not the only two EU servers out there, and EU servers are meant for Europeans, and French servers are meant for French speaking people, and not all of them live in France

I play on Gandara, and we have to play against two French servers: Fort Ranik and Jade Sea. Gandara is a European server, and most of its members are European as well. French servers are more international, French people in Canada rather pick a French server then a NA sever, and French is a common language in major parts of Africa and minor parts in South America and Asia. So is it fair that a European server has to play against two international servers?
Just because the French language finds its origins in France, doesn’t mean that only Europeans will play on it.
Same goes for Spanish, it is not only spoken in Spain, it’s the most common language in South America.

I agree, Jumping puzzles and map completition don’t belong to PvP maps. Enemies who kill you while you are doing the Puzzle, or when you’re trying to get something for your map, are probably kill hunters and seriously have no respect whatsoever to any other player from any other server. I mean, do you really don’t have any skill that you can only farm kills by targetting lone players? That’s very low.

I’m in such a situation myself, server Gandara. The enemies are kitten, when I see someone in the jumping puzzle, I’ll let him live, but they camp near every single vista, skill point, PoI and Jumping Puzzle….

The Balthazar in my server seems to be bugged as well; The pact team you are supposed to escort, is stuck just outside the base north of the temple…

I’ve been trying to complete the last borderland for a few days now, but the server who owns the Citadel in this borderlands are all (sorry for the bad word) kitten! They camp in groups of 3, 4 or more at skills points in the Centaur camp and Skritt Cave.

One hour ago I tried to get the skill point, but I got killed by a camping group, they weren’t getting the skill point thereselves, because they were not near it, they were killing mobs, but the event was not active.

Recently, I wanted to get a vista, but it was guarded by 2 Thiefs who were continuously scouting the area around the vista in stealth, and killed a lone target when they could, or go hide when they encounter a larger group

I find this kind of kill farming kinda pathetic. I understand that Anet needs to change the system of completing WvW maps, but the community itself also needs to do an effort. I often let an invader get a skill point / vista / PoI, if I see he/she is alone, I don’t see any reason why not, because a lone invader is no threat.

The dragons give good rewards and you can easily track its spawn times, thanks to the Dragon Spawn timer. This makes the dragons popular so there are way more players to kill one, than at any other world boss. That’s why the dragons sometimes might feel easy, it’s just because there are maybe 50 other people killing it with you.
A friend of mine has once killed Tequatl with only 2 other people, and it took them about 40~50 minutes