Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to bring it up that Legendary Grawl Shaman is one of the easiest bosses in the game. That being said, the only reason that people percieve it as hard are those bloody lava elementals, which in comparison, make Shaman look like a sissy. I never heard of anyone wiping when elementals are not up. xD

Now I know I had this saved somewhere….
Hmm… Oh there it is!

Fine. Still not fair xD

Bumping it back up, hopefully it’ll get resolved. C’mon Anet! You’re normally pretty good and on point with these things!

obal.3218:

Fall of Abaddon

Tentonhammr.7849:

I still don’t understand why any party other than a “derrrrp, HEAVY ONLY” group would roll lvl 38 instead of lvl 37 or 40.

The instability on 37 might as well be “none”. It takes effort to make it proc when fighting trash and it will literally never proc on boss fights since you’re always attacking.

37 with Mai sucks. Since she becomes unattended with every canon phase, she gets regeneration buff now and then giving her ability to regain health. This can be avoided with a mesmer clone, but it’s very situational. Now more than ever since they made Mai harder… (Once again another example of doing something that was not asked)

40 is also heavy in AR requirement, so many people that have just enough for 30s tend to stick to 38.

spoj.9672:

And another reset!

Every time we ask for changes they either break something or reset hours upon hours of hard work. The only positive change in the past year was dredge fractal I guess, but then again the clown car boss is way too easier than he used to be. It’s almost like we ask for one thing, and they give us 2 or 3 more that we didn’t ask for.
But then, ah well… Not like any of us expects anything after Fractured…

Instabilities, even though some are fun, are probably one of the most annoying systems they’ve ever implemented into this game thus far. There is a reason why the the levels OP stated are most commonly asked for. That reason is horrible rewards no matter which instability you go through.
Some people like the challenge, yes. But then most people are there for that one chance at the very end chest. Playing fractals overall is fun, but I’d rather choose levels that I know will go smoothly and we’ll have a fun, stress-less run, rather than a long annoying one.
If they change up instabilities, most fractalers will lean towards the ones they prefer. There is absolutely no reason to do (for example) fractal level 33. Why? I can do 38 and have exact same rewards (plus more relics), but at the same time I’m more familiar with this instability.
And I don’t even want to get into the whole idea of the instabilities that are simply build breaking…

I love it
Even the expression on her face is perfect! Thank you so much!!

NO MORE KARMA SINKS.
You have a lot of Karma? Great. We don’t so, no.

Best place to use it seem to be WvW.

With Scrolls of Knowledge, you can grind for skill points just like you’d grind for gold. Carfting, dungeon running, champ train, eotm, etc. On top of that it would make playing your alts useless, since you’d want to be on that one character at all times.

So… No…

Doesn’t hurt to try xD

Lol! Mini Southsun Kasmeer on a leash. That’d go well with the conservatives in this game xD

Yup… Nobody ever comes to this subforum…

Fractals perhaps?

Send me a whisper tonight if you need an extra for that NA one. We’re overdue on that fractal run anyways xD

They’re amazing! If you have the time I’d love to see my toon drawn by you
:D

spoj.9672:

Im kind of annoyed that duplicate skins are even more useless than before. You use to be able to salvage them for ectos (they were statless exotic weapons). Now you have a useless transmute which only takes up bank space. Really hope we get a fractal vendor that allows trading of skins, rings and ascended boxes soon.

At the very least, they stack now. But I sure miss salvaging them for ectos…

Olba.5376:

Also, colours should never be tied to your rank. The worst of it has resulted in weeks or months of some server having the same colour. Or conversely not having one colour at all. This is a notorious issue with regular WvW.

My server was Green for the entire WvW Tournament, only upon completion of the tournament we were red, now we’re green again.

Colors should rotate, even for the sole fact of being fresh every week or allowing random PvE enthusiasts get their map completion.

How about putting a weekly color rotation in place instead?

Understandable that the rewards for finishing the story are laughable. But the suggestion towards precursors or legendaries is laughable as well. I mean it does take a decent amount of time to complete the whole personal story. And it’s not something you can do in a day (even though it is possible).

The time investment per rewards is a joke. But those rewards were put in place back in the day when Anet thought that exotic gear would be hard to obtain. It sure is overdue for some major overhaul with rewards, but till Anet decides to do something, anything about it, all we can do is wait.

Bringing up the discussion is a first step, but suggestions for rewards should be much more realistic, especially since some people work much harder and longer to obtain that legendary/precursor than you ever did to finish your story.

Regardless, exotic gear would be a nice start, maybe an ascended trinket would be another idea. Ascended Armor / Weapon would be borderline too much considering how little effort (effort, not time) it takes to complete the personal story.

I used to do Jumping Puzzles with friends on my Ele, but it always took forever to wait for them at every “checkpoint”, so I took it upon myself to make my Asuran mesmer named Scotty Beamer. His sole purpose is exceeding in jumping and port people everywhere. Wouldn’t trade his name for the world

“Beam me up Scotty”

Yay
Let me know if it’s still 10g

Yeah on top of that they updated the WP system so they’re all uncontested now until u get to the map. So the megaserver argument is not valid.

IrishPotato.6327:

….No. Someone post that beating a dead horse pic this guy hasn’t seen it enough.

One “mount” coming up!

Fror.2163:

Romo.3709:

On top of that I completely agree that the merchant price is laughable. Being the highest tier of a ring item it should definitely have much higher vendor value that it does right now.

Maybe the merchants give so little because they also have lots of those rings and don’t especially want more! :o

Mind = Blown

xD

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

If they give an inch, players are going to demand a mile.

Hear, hear!

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

While they are better (and trinkets offer better stat increases than armor and weapon) it’s still nothing you really need, exotic is sufficient enough.

Also, your comparison is lacking imo. Trashloot drops while doing everything, the rings are a reward for finishing something that usually takes a hour AND gives you less gold than AC, even on the highest difficulty (Not sure if 50 gives 1g50) while having some of the more difficult encounters in the game.

It’s not about “not wanting” the 5s, it’s just a slap in the face on higher levels. “Here, you got your crappy 20th apothecary ring for a 49 run, it’s not even infused but whatever”. To this day I don’t understand why amulets and accessories can’t be gained by playing fractals, since they were made for them.

While I agree it’s a slap in the face when you get that 20th ring that you don’t need, it’s still something other than not getting anything. It’s fully understood that rings are somewhat of a abundance to us regular fractalers. I’ve been selling mines for months since I feel that one banktab full of them is sufficient.

The problem lays with the way we want it to be “fixed” and how Anet sees it.

I believe by now we witnessed quite a widespread in nerfs throughout the game let it be champion boxes, fractal skins or even the horrid Karma nerf…

You see with Karma, people complained they have too much of it and that they would love to have other uses for it. What Anet did? Nerfed it so bad that we get roughly less than 10% of what we used to be able to get. Then months later they gave us more use for Karma (which by then was scarce) for ascended crafting etc.

While rings drop quite frequently and tend to be disliked by many that already have all their toons equipped with them, like yourself or myself, they still something of a great use for other players that are yet getting into the whole fractals idea. To get a ring that actually matters is not an easy task from so many available, and to make it infused takes quite a big amount of essences that are still (despite the huge amount of them in my bank) rather a rare drop.

Rather than removing them completely it would be a wise idea to have other uses for them before we start making it harder to obtain. Salvaging, mystic forge, ring trader are some of the many options given to Anet to battle this “problem” yet none were incorporated to the game (yet). So we can only sit back, get some extra silver and wait for something that would be a meaningful change rather than completely removing the drop.

Since removing the drop from loot table would not affect the drops of other items that are sought after. So removing something would be completely meaningless.

Plus speaking from comparison comment you’ve made, with that point of view Rare or even Masterwork is sufficient enough. Since to be honest anything can be completed with no armor at all. Since me and quite a few friends of mine used to do naked dungeon/fractal runs. But as long as it has better stats, it should be sought after to better your toon.

On top of that I completely agree that the merchant price is laughable. Being the highest tier of a ring item it should definitely have much higher vendor value that it does right now.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

I have 13 Lv80 characters, all have ascended rings with stats I want. Yet, I still have every kind of ring you can get infused on my bank. Also, you don’t need ascended gear if you don’t run fractals. Exotic is good enough.
5s bonus as an end reward is a joke, especially for high level fractals. If the rings would give more money at the vendors, 50s or even 1g, that’d be fine.

-Stares-
Ascended Stats > Exotic Stats
I don’t understand why you don’t want that 5s… It’s like selling Junk at merchant. Junk takes up way more space than that 1 ring, and rings sells for much more.
On top of that, you end up AT the merchant the moment you get that “forsaken” ring…

Anet would never replace rings with something more valuable, nor would they increase other drops because of removal of rings. So treat it as a bonus.

What you guys are missing is the way Anet does things. In your eyes, removing a ring from loot tables will improve chances of getting fractal skin / ascended box, or rings will be replaced with something else.
Knowing how Anet been dealing with complains about having too much of something in the past, we can very easily conclude what would happen if thus situation would come to reality:

- Rings – removed
- Ascended boxes – unchanged
- Fractal Skins – unchanged
- Adding additional drops to loot table? Nah.

Don’t complain you’re getting something. Use it or sell it. The only problem I see is that the rings that drop are the ones that are NOT infused.

Buying rings with pristine relics? I don’t feel like Infusing it every time I make an alt. (Have 12 80s)

Rather than complaining about rings actually dropping, why don’t we complain about the uninfused rings dropping and the ridiculous nerf on fractal weapon skins that took place? Or have some other use for rings like a trade system or mystic forge recipe.

P.S. Lilith you mailbox is full

Let me know if you’re available again, I’d love it if you could do my Norn Guardian

:D

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

After all, it needs to be fair: older players’ progression must be slowed down so that newer players who just start fractals don’t feel left out and have a shot at ranking high on the leaderboard. Actually, I think it would be better if fractals progression would be reset back to 0 periodically (say, every 2 months or so?). 100% fairness. Yessir.

I’d love to enter, but I’m not big on speed-running =/

Great job

I’m sorry I left my game on >.<
Won’t happen again. And I was in the mood for fractals yesterday too >_>
My entire guild went to WvW instead…

1. At least one new map with PoIs, Vistas and Hearts, not like Southsun… Please, not like Southsun…

2. New Jumping Puzzles, anywhere in the world.

3. Story that captivates me even remotely close to what LS1 last 3-4 updates were (not zerg-wise, but story-wise)

4. Expand more on the characters’ stories and their individual pasts.

5. SAB would be nice before the end of summer.

6. New Race to play around with.

7. Fractals done right without screwing anyone over this time.

8. Expanding on the story with Dessa.

9. More X-Tron.

10. More rewarding content.

Dawn – 899 g 99 s 99 c
Dusk – 1038 g 99 s 99 c
————————————-
Difference – 139 g

Nobody in their right mind will trade you even if there was an option.
Sell Dawn, work up some gold and buy Dusk.

Ascendant.5746:

I love ele and thieves, but the aesthetic looks of mesmer and guards rly catch me too -

You practically said what you want to do in this sentence.

“Aesthetic looks” = skins [be it Twilight or Sunrise]

And the love for thieves and eles speak for itself since they won’t get any love from Eternity.

You seem to have made up your mind already but looking for affirmation.

Simply put:

2 Legendaries + 2 Skins

or

1 Legendary + 2 Skins

This is why My Charr has an Endless Princess Doll Tonic on him at all times! Makes jumping a breeze.

Thieves and their stealth are so OP that parties of 4 or 5 basically give up on fighting them 5 on 1 in WvW, because it’s so annoying.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Of course!

Excellent xD

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Your party would surely have an unfair advantage

You know it would xD

Now big question! Fractals included?

I am intrigued by the idea o.O
And to be honest, I kind of want to 4-man just so I can come up with something interesting about our 5th.
:D

Now to find fashionable friends… I suppose ur not available for this Lilith? xD

deSade.9437:

Before that disgusting patch I could at least get a skin 10-15% of times… but now…

Now you barely see one drop… Been like 3 months now since anyone from my party had a skin drop. Ascended boxes are a different story.
They were hard to get back in the day, but now it’s ridiculous. Thankfully I kept all mines from back then…

Shakki.3219:

the statement soon was almost a year ago..

Soon™

I would like to convert my Gold to Karma….

._.

Great additions! WvW and PvP are both account bound which makes them awesome candidates!

At the moment Guild Roster shows the following information:

Name, Location, World, Profession, Level, 2 crafting professions, and Achievement score. And other tab now shows the last login date.

I can see how these are very useful information. But crafting professions change with every character and are kind of useless information on the Roster.

Replacing it with a current fractal level would be much more helpful in many different ways. Especially since at the moment there is no way to check your fractal level, other than running up to the fractal portal.

It’s just a suggestion, but figured I’d put it out there.

So why is Chaos of Lyssa soulbound on Acquire? Especially since it’s an ascended backpiece. Is this intended?