Guild Wars 2

Dondarrion.2748:

So, rather than announcing an expansion, Anet will be announcing something that follows on from the Living World… so, we get the Dying World now…?

More of an in-between place twixt Living World and Dying World called Purgastory.
Or is that where we are now?

A whole platoon of Engi using Drop Armour traited with the one that creates a grenade barrage when taking falling damage.

SALLY FORTH! OVER THE WALLS! FOR TYRIA!!!1

What I want out of this game is simply that feeling of being epic. I am a Hero. I saved the whole land and smashed a dragon. I brought races together and knitted old disagreement into new binding accords.

I don’t want to be the most epically dressed Hero in Tyria. It might turn out that my rather flamboyant cuffs with their gold and lace trim, coupled with my rakishly tilted top hat that becomes a roguish and quizzical mien, makes me the best dressed Asuran ever to grace the presence of Lord Fabulou….Faren.

However, I want that to be a consequence or side event to the fact that what I have done has reverberated throughout the land and heavens and made this plane a better place. In short, I don’t want to play Wardrobe Wars.

Now I know there are a lot of people that will chime in and say that the cosmetic element to this game is basically its End Game…. etc, etc. The reason for these forums is simply to allow a player to advise on the way they would like the game direction to take. I don’t expect a U-turn in game philosophy, maybe just a small drift or veer to the left.

TLDR: More Epic. Less Wardrobe Wars (moar wardrobe, just less Wardrobe Wars2). Darker writing.

Question: No idea how it works, but is it possible for a publisher/game company to increase the rating of a game, from PG to M say, after release? Or is it impossible? Some more adult writing would be awesome.

Nury.3062:

I think everyone agrees that we need more content,EVERYONE,i don’t know someone who woudl say “No we don’t need content”…and i don’t say that.
BUT WHAT I SAY IS :
We don’t need it delivered in big chunks 1 time a year or 2 times a year.

I certainly agree with this. What I (at least personally) would like to see is something more akin to Firefly/Serenity (RIP sadface)

6-8 months of LS release, followed up by a “movie” expansion that builds on the prior releases with an epic ending. Most stories are 95% build up as far as I can see. People love the buildup to something if it’s delivered right.

IKR? What is with Superior Sigil of Mischief? They drop like flies and are, as far as I can see unless there is some weird application in PvP I’m unaware of, absolutely useless.

SkylightMoon.1980:

To my knowledge, which can be summarized as reading 80% of the posts on here, there is pretty much nothing that can satisfy this community. Literally something always has to cause conflict and several rage posts. To add to that, most of the forum posts that do offer criticism, don’t offer it constructively. There is a lot of “This is the last straw Anet”, or “Does Anet even care about their players?” on this forum. We get patches every month! And in the last 2 months, its been twice a month, which is absolutely insane for a game. Obviously its a continual learning process, but I don’t think most of you actually take the time to appreciate the immense work Anet puts into the game, part of which is going on the forums listening to you guys make lousy complaints.

I’m bored. had a beer. I’m going to leave this here. Not for the reasons you think though…. This is from a year ago.
(Sorry for using you as an example Skylight)

It’s because it highlights the way some players, while previously championing the ANet cause, have become a bit jaded. I agree it’s time for an expansion. Maybe not right now, but if Anet were to come out and say “We are hoping for an amazing addition to our product in 2016 that everyone will love, although it may cost $x amount” then it would quiet the fears of a lot of people that are worried the current content is becoming stale.

It’s sad that this type of thing is able to continue with seeming impunity.

Suppose I should put this here, instead of Bug forums

How is this still here???
Stuck on one file left. tried re-opening the client multiple times with and without Client port 80.

Support ticket last time was pointless. I haven’t logged in for 2 weeks… seems I wont be now whether I want to or not.

I would have thought fixing this would be Priority One. :/

Roll the Swamp Fractal and use that? Guaranteed no one can mess with your elementals. Each Maize should get you 5-6 ele’s.

I see a lot of comments about perfectly balances builds/stats/etc implemented in game to end the ‘meta’ idea. I don’t think there is such a thing.

The only perfect balance I believe the OP to be after is a community mentality balance, where all builds are accepted. Some may be better at some things, but that’s the way of life really.

Isn’t there a crafted one-time use teleporter? Pretty sure I have 3 or 4 or so in the bank

8-orb’ing Liadri on my Asuran Engi.

Got to the very, very end but I got downed by a clone. BUT! Managed to kill her from downed just before Shadowfall got me with about 2 seconds to spare.
That made my whole week.

Superior Sigil of Anet Sigil:
97% chance to brand Anets logo into the armor of foes you hit. Permanently.

(Can be removed with an Armour Polishing Kit – 700 gems)

pixie.5940:

Here my pic of winning one http://imgur.com/fg2usUH <3

Really? It says ‘Replacement Item’. I remain unconvinced. It looks like an accidentally deleted item (or similar) that they gave back to you. :P

If the whole skritt thing is handled with a message like this in the in-game mail it’s horribly disappointing and just lazy,

Do you run AVG? If so, right click it in the taskbar and disable for 5 mins. Then restart the client and see if it updates.

Worked for me, sorry if you don’t run AVG of it doesn’t work for you.
You could always tray changing the Target for the GW2 Execute ( under properties ) and add ‘-clientport 80’ (without the " ’ "s) to attempt it.

Possibly an Asuran/Charr/(insert) War Academy could take new players through an initiation into the current situation. Showing them the previous arena of war and allowing them to experience it first hand, to allow greater insight into the current LS.

Basically, allow new players a “Hindsight Wargame Arena” to appreciate the current emergency. Like a Star Trek academy holo-suite test.

Just tried Fractal Swamp this morning. It works just fine, one jar will get you about 7-8 candy corn creatures. No kill stealing. No messing with other peoples PVE experience.

I do wonder if, with the NPE, they should limit the MF capabilities.

If I was a NPE person, got lucky and had 200G to blow… the MF would kitten me off big time.

darkaheart.4265:

sweet!

…

Because it’s bought with candy corn… XD

Quick question as I’m not planning on being in-game in the near future, does this work in the Swamp Fractal? I think there’s big groups of ambients there, yes?

Devata.6589:

Scoundrel.2139:

I’m all for locking things behind a skill wall. But not behind an RNG wall. Can’t jump up the tower? Then no. Can’t kill Liadri? Then no. That type of thing.

I think it’s time for a breather til they get their act together in a year or so.

I think you will always need RNG to some extent in an MMO. The question is more how you do it.

In this game though, the RNG is now dominated by: 99.9999% chance of crap loot (and I mean that, it’s absolute trash. If I put it on the sidewalk, the local council would fine me instead of picking it up) that you can get outside the thing that you opened in the first place, or a thing worth a bazillion gold.

I’m all for locking things behind a skill wall. But not behind an RNG wall. Can’t jump up the tower? Then no. Can’t kill Liadri? Then no. That type of thing.

I think it’s time for a breather til they get their act together in a year or so.

Hope you find a good game to play. And maybe we’lls ee you around in the months/years ahead.

Although, have to say, isn’t a lot of stuff in these SS account-bound? I mean, you can’t give away your stacks of Dragonite Ore, for example.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

You can use them, and then store them in your finisher ‘vault’. I still had more than a few from last year. But, even if you have the permanent versions, I’d hold onto them.

ANet has a funny way of making something obsolete into something needed for crafting or the like later. . . .

Ah yes, this is probably about right. How well we all remember the “I deleted 100 stacks of BSD… then Mawdry happened”.

Good point, I’ll keep them.

I already have the Scarecrow and Mad King finishers, but have about 50 each of the limited Use ones as well now.

Just destroy? Or is there another use for them?

It’s called Ministerial Treachery… Is this a nod towards Yes Minister?

If so, my hat is doffed in your general direction.

Incoming Patch:

“Due to player feedback we have created a new PVE Toxin map. All PS and LS end instances will now be played out in the Toxin Map capital: ToxiCity.

Failing the event will spawn 40 Champs per 5mins.
Succeeding is the only way to open Level 80 for new characters."

Yeah, it’s gotten to the point where I’m on a 12+ second skill lag with the sheer number of people there, even with all settings on Low.

People get toxic if you want to progress the living story. Some real low characters out there in the GW community for sure. It’s up to them how they play, of course. They just will have to like it or lump it if I drag groups to them down the hill. :P

That, or they can get the devs to point LS at something else.

That’s Khrysoar, The Golden Sword yes? I’d go with Khrysoar.

Thanks

Hi all!

Just wondering if someone can confirm if (necro) Speed of Shadows stack with Signet of the Locust? Or is it only one or the other?

Cheers!

Please tell me there’s a Rusty Spoon…

Salad Fingers

From the Game Update notes:
“7-series golems caused excessive damage…”

I love this line. The wording just makes me think of Golems beginning an uprising against their technological overlords. Sure, they were beaten back this time. But time, as ever, marches on.

And the Golems are good at waiting…

This happened in Australia thanks to my ISP being idiots. Try adding “/clientport 80” at the end of the shortcut target in the meantime. Without the "s

I wonder if the Dredge dungeon that featured in LS1 will make a comeback with the jetpack. If it does, I’m coming back to the forums with popcorn.

Have you tried creating another shortcut?

Right click your shortcut. See if there’s a “-repair” at the end of the target. If there is, remove it.

I am with you on this. Optus – Melbourne. I restarted the modem, flushed the dns, set Google as my DNS provider, restarted PC… even did a system restore for 2 days prior. Nothing. Did port forwarding, allowed UPnP to do it all for me. Nothing.

Ive submitted a ticket.

Same thing here. Just thinks for ages then says contact Support. I raised a ticket. We’ll see how it goes.

I think the thing is, allowing only kicks to end dungeons still allows for instance owners to have control. At the moment, you enter an instance first to ensure you don’t get stuffed around. Right now, a party leader still has immunity from kicks because it kills the dungeon and they can still be trolls.

With the system I said earlier, where only a kick ends the dungeon, you can still enter first and be the instance owner. It still allows power to fall in the hands of the instance owner in that regard.

Kick = dungeon end. This is still how it is presently.
Disc/Leave = owner change.

Actually, as said earlier in the thread, is it possible to flag a difference between kick and leave?

So if the Dungeon Instance owner is kicked the dungeon ends, the kick flags the dungeon to end completely.

But if the instance owner leaves for some other reason then it passes to the next player as the flag was not triggered.

I main an Engineer and have never been kicked from a group. Ever.
Every race and class have their place and if played well is capable of more than playing their part.

Can I have a bowtie? I’d like a bowtie.

LFG Tool:

Advertise your party: 35s

:/

Chase.8415:

Walls spawn at the location of where it was casted, the presumption is if a wall is nearby the enemy zerg then an educated guess would be that it is not a friendly wall.

You can trait to use ground targeting for WoR. Not sure the range from memory, I think it’s 900.

Check them all for the old Magic Find rings. You can double click those to select stats. I have a full tab of old MF rings I’m keeping in case I decide to play with my build.

Prophet.6257:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Do not post personal speculation as fact… All of the dragons are now awake, if there are more they aren’t going to be introduced for years to come.

O_o

Double O_o

Also make sure that, if there is only a seconds or so until Shadowfall, dodge towards where ti will land. This gives you breathing room and you end up in a clear spot because it will strike elsewhere next time. Then dodge towards that one, and so on.

So instead of changing Legendaries if they introduced a retroactive title: Legendary Crafter, they could keep everything the same but allow those who crafted (instead of bought one) an avenue to proclaim this?

Is a tricky problem. Perhaps make the Dead Time cumulative?
So if you die more than once, and lie there for 3 mins after each time, if you get to 5 minutes (or other number) total death-time during an event then you don’t get a reward?

So it’s in your best interests to WP straightaway, but if you are dead when the event finishes as long as you weren’t dead for longer than X-minutes you still get it, so as not to punish those who might unfortunately die close to the finish line.