Guild Wars 2

And yes before anyone says.. I know that the Gift of Blades recipe can be bought from Miyami for 5 gold versus the 3 from the possession vendor

OK so my bad for not checking in with the forums to know that Found possession vendor would be going away..
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Alliance-Supplies-Found-Items/first#post3750166

But it has been stated that spinal Blade back piece would be not only creatable but upgradeable all the way after the event…

But wait The found possession vendor is gone, so those Possessions I was saving til I had enough gold to buy the book to Gift of blades recipe for slightly cheaper so I can afford other stuff as I’m a casual gamer and don’t have but tons of gold laying around.

Anet, if you are pulling something, that was kind of implied would exist after an event, you should really notify people in game, or at least in the launcher notices.

As I am married, and have a job and a life and don’t have time to spend lots of time here, I come to the forums for 2 reasons only, find specific information, aka ask a question, or complain about a specific issue, Which I will check the post only a couple of times before I give up on it due that time thing. I am not going to read through 1000s of posts, or pop in to see if there is some note. I will often pull up the updates and links in the launcher, because it is right in front of me.

Ok I’m a casual player, Mostly solo due to odd hours and limited play time.
I’m working my Engi through the story line.
On Land I like the engineers, underwater they suck kitten poo.

Tips tricks and usefuls wanted.

Ok some people love the new LS, others hate it.

Me it is a mixed bag, The content in LA it’s self great.

However getting to Scarlett. not so much.

Anet please take some notes for future LS.

The events in LA prime no problems with, sure there are bug and those have been identified and are being worked on great. Please for the love of kittens DO NOT REPEAT the design elements of the Hologram and scarlet fights. I will put actual chat items from earlier, that I scrolled back through and typed out.

The criticisms of it.

I understand that it was planed to be anti-zerg, no problem, but you made it anti-fun.
Sure it’s complete-able, but you get a bunch of people that are not coordinated and RAID mentality… It is not do able. I’ve made it to the ship twice, and both times were not fun. Both failures, not even getting the Holo to 25% health

Too much time is spent fighting the RNG. All the attacks are random, the power ups are random, so to do damage against the HOLO, you are spending all your time running around searching for the spots to get the buff, or Rezing other participants and gods forbid if your trying for the mythical achievement. Again need people that are actively in RAID mode and are in sync. This was neither of the attempts I was in

Both events had about 70+ people zerging to kill Knights, only about 25-30 went up to fight Scarlett.

The event makes certain class builds almost useless, once you get to the ship. This is confirmed in the Hints about getting the achievements. So not only are my Necro’s minions almost useless, because they die almost immediately after summoning because they will go directly into the death rays. But Oh wait If I debuff and a minion happens to still miraculously be alive, I can’t get that mythical achievement… Or An engineer with turrets. Which the only way to find out is the forum.

The classes were originally designed to be played in many different way to fit the players play style, and ditch the traditional Oh you have to fit X role. But in this event I’m basically told that I need to completely reskill at least 3 character classes I have,
Because how I play is wrong for this????

I am not saying it should be easy. But I am saying it should be doable by a random groups of people playing the character builds that they like and know how to play.

Here is actual items from the my chat log…

*Why is no one doing Holo

*U get better loot out of blue bags still then the boss so why bother

*I mean think about it people already bought the zodiac gears so why tthe hell kill scarlet for a generic looking version of the helm

*U kill scarlet for power cores and her rifle

*Can we try and kill the holo at the same time please so much easier to deal with
get each holo close to death but don’t kill it

*this is ridiculous

*bring all to 10% then kill
*there is like a 20 second window when killing all 3 the same time

*braham u kitten don’t rez me IN the death ray

*we lost this

*this is annoying

*f#$% this event. I hope lions arch burns

*sucks this event is 45min long… no loot and we usually fail

*is anyone getting loot at all from this event

*I havent for the past 2 days… so I stoped trying

*nada

*get loot from the generals

Ok I’m going to put my 2 cents in.

Is the Atlas cool.. sort of.
Is it functional, not really
What is it…. Heck if I know.

As a marketing tool, it’s not very effective. You’ve come up with the idea of the “Living World” so you have events that won’t be repeated. and so far this is showing pictures with really brief synapses of those events. Sure for the players that played through that content it’s a reminder. But players who are new or missed the content, there is not enough information for it to be useful. I know this has all been said and whined about above and probably below.

How I see this could be used for marketing, Have it with repeatable events, for new or perspective players as hey this happens every Halloween, or wintersday, Or the Air bazaar comes back in summer.

Have in depth, historical points where events happened between GW1 and GW2, to give the back story of the transition, of those 200-300 + years, Which can even be expanded into future releases and expansions, Ie Cantha and Elona. Cause while some of the player base is new to the world with GW2 there are a bunch of players that went through All the GW1 content, and want to know, Hey what ever happened to that mummy in the Crystal Desert, or the Kurziks and Luxons

I have been asked by coworkers “Hey is GW2 cool or another WOW, (like insert generic newer MMORPG)?” This could be used, to show the cool stuff that the game has to offer for events.

In the first couple of months I played gw2 you guys at ANET put out more content updates, then a couple other MMOs did in there first year, This is what keeps people in the game, and with the atlas showing those along with in depth history it can be used to bring new people to the game.

So that’s my 2 cents, everyone continue one and don’t mind the crazy dude with the flamethrower.

Yeah I don’t like opening those boxes. I solo, and am punished for doing so with them. so far I’ve been insta downed by 3 out of the 5 I’ve opened. Thank you golems, and centaurs. I finished a mixed box OK. Toy soldiers took a little bit, but really AOE chills and stuns on repeat. Solo players are pretty much dead unless we happen to get away right away. and the dropped presents disapear if you don’t grab them soon enough. really?!!? It friggin takes me 5 minutes of seperate from group kill and repeat until theres only 2 that I can mash simultaneous other wise I’m overran… :<

My problem is not the difficulty of the Skeleton lich. He is do able, I’ve been part of many zergs that have killed him. My problem is that his minions reflect( you damager takes same damage they do) damage.

This was not a bleed, My eng used a flame thrower on a fresh spawned batch of skeletons minions, and was effectively downed in 1 burst of the flame thrower.

Pistol shot, ranged on a skeleton, singlely, Damage each hit, lightning that hits three much larger drop in my health.

Difficult is one thing minions with this is rediculous, especially with the number of minions he can spawn, I have seen an entire zerg wiped from the a multi group spawn.

Geekfox.4267:

You have to directly attack Shatterer to get contribution. Minions doesn’t count.

Ah but that’s the point of my OP. They’ve made the Bosses harder, thus the need of people cleaning up the minions.

If you can’t get credit for the minions or the Enviromental weapons, why have them.
Just give the Boss more AOE damage. and have people attack the boss directly.

Minions add a layer of complexity to the attack.. If people do not defend against the minions they will die. Before you could kill the minions as part of an AOE attack on the boss or toss a ground based attack at the minions while still attacking the boss and all was good. Now you really can’t do that.

Now I don’t know if it was a bug, or an over sight.

I fought Tequatl and failed. but this isn’t about that, Jump over to Burning steppes to continue getting the clues for the Living story achievements, Just happened to hit Shatterer spawn.

Yay, go to the event and got swarmed by Banded at the waypoint. Fought those killed 4 Veteran Banded Lieutenants and a few dozen dogs. Worked at protecting the cannons and the Mortars. A cannon became free, so I manned it and bombarded Shatterer for the rest of the combat. Shatterer was killed and I got….

Nada
Nothing
Zilch

No chest, no participation event notice, nothing.

Now based on what I read in the update notes, the Bosses had their HP increased and would attack more areas so there is no more safe zones, making them harder, and encouraging people to use the Enviromental weapons available, such as the Mortars, Cannons, Charzookas and the like.

*If my no credit was a bug, please fix
*An oversight, please fix, supporting roles are just as important in a battle as the people on the front line, Cause your can’t fight a dragon if it’s minions are slaughtering your flanks.
*Working as intended, “kitten” “kitten” “KITTEN!” I’m out.

Otherwise keep up the good work. Shatter was fun with the changes. Teq not so much but there’s a whole section ranting about that.

I like Both Ideas personally.
I mean really What I am I going to do with 80 pieces of cultural armor???
Basically it’s skins and an achievement, I really don’t care about the cultural armor or the achievement.

Now if we could do something like the Hall of monuments in GW1 and display our skins and collections that would be great, But the instant withdrawn of them Like the current achievement skins is nice too. I actually forget about the Hall of monuments stuff I have unlocked and just need to port up there to get it.

Of course this would probably require a seperate UI section, as the number of skins for my hall of monuments is decently sized.

So once MF goes away they will be used for 2 crafting items, a sigil and a legendary prereq.

Unless they are shifted to a gold find stat.

I believe the point the OP was making is the Teir drops should match the level of the zone. IE teir 2 drops should begin to appear in the 20-25 zone and teir 3 in it’s appropriate level zones. Not getting Teir 2 materials in a level 45 zone.

Someone should be able to farm mats in an appropriate zone if they want to spend the time farming. Stating that the best way to craft is to grind to 80 then grind crafting to be able to make 80 is kinda stupid. If someone wants to craft as they level that should be an option.

But as the OP stated taking a weapon and armor craft is nearly impossible to do on the same char without spending lots of gold

I haven’t gotten one of them yet, so only 3 for me but yeah 4 for others

OK I got a question for the DEVs.

Now that some point in the future MF gear is going away.

What is going to happen to all those Doubloons that are sitting in my bank taking up 3 Bank slots (copper, silver, and gold) as they are not proper crafting materials?

Also
So what happens to the existing recipes for MF gear?
A simple stat swap for the MF portion of the recipe?
The recipe goes away?

OK, I’m in Malchor Leap, and there are a couple of champions wandering around right on the top of Skill Points, These champions have been there for the past 3 days.

Why, because There is only like 5 people in the zone and they’re not a group.

I like the champions don’t get me wrong but Please move them slightly so Solo people have a chance at getting Skill points that they spawn over.

Spawning over chests no problem, But don’t make it impossible for solo people to complete a map because a champion is spawned over the path to a vista, or skill point.

Veterans not a problem, they are soloable, Champions are not.

Add another to the list for this patch.
7:11:3:189:101
Have been running flawlessly, since Beta.
Support was even sent a crash report, from the client due to repeated crash on login.

Keep up the good work,

I believe the Problem, AKA complaint is the Daily reset is occurring during prime game time.

Ive played several other MMOs with daily resets, They mannaged to have the resets occur during off hours, for the region the server was configured for.

Meaning if the server was setup for Europe the daily reset would occur at around 5:00 GMT, American servers would reset around 10:00 GMT and Asia would be 15:00 GMT

OR about 5 am for UK, EST, Toyko Locals times. We have the technologies to do such. I mean on weekends yeah I can get a daily complete before the reset, but week days 1 1/12 hours is kinda hard to complete everything for me.

I’m a casual gamer, get home from work, deal with daily stuff, maybe get 2 hours of game time, then it’s spend time with the family.

I mean I don’t think I’ve ever completed a monthly.
But that’s because I don’t PVP. And I sure the heck don’t go looking for JPs, If I find one during an exploration I do it, and think Hey cool, But I don’t go out of my way.

OK I have to ask.

I’ve found and submitted 8-10 holes in the world I found now, cause well I really like exploring.

Can I get a title

Goes where no-one should or something similar, because really I’m the type that I’m going to keep finding them, like the end of the world here…

It’s a really scary place

I’ve seen several Threads on the error issue.

After some research, I think I may have a Cause. That is cause of the issue not the solution.

I have Uverse. No I’m not blaming ATT keep reading to the end :P

Being a network admin I’ve done a few tests.

I’ve found that There are 7 connections GW2 makes using my firewall connection info.
I’ve found more then the IP’s listed but these are the ones I wrote down.

64.25.40.117: 6112 two connections that refresh ~30 seconds
64.25.38.72:6112 Two connections that refresh ~ 2minutes
64.25.33.65:6112 Two continuous connections
Local host:9222 no data just a connection

Now I have my Home network connected to a NEW Dlink DIR-655 (bought for IPv6 compatibility) router which in turn is connected to 2wire box from ATT. I also have a 4 year old DIR-655

Connecting through the New DLink, I get random DC, This can from between 2 minutes to over an hour. The connection will drop the Continuous Data streams And I am left with 4 data streams which I believe are to the login servers, that become continuous streams instead of refreshing every 30 sec to 2 min.

Connected to the old DIR-655 or the ATT 2wire box also about 4 yr old, I don’t seem to have an Issue with DC. Now that being said, Both of these 4 yr old routers are not IPv6 compliant, and also Do not follow the latest TCP Networking protocols where as the New DIR has firmware that is less then a year old.

This would indicate that there is an issue in regards to the streaming packets from the play servers, Which is causing the newer router to Drop the connection.

As IPv6 pushes forward and More people switch to newer routers or ISPs update router firmware, and network equipment, The Error:(code=7:11:3:189:101) could possibly increase.

I hope this helps the Anet network team find a solution.

Also getting this error now.

I just replaced my Firewall. Opened ports 6112, and 6600 based off recommendations elsewhere.

Still randomly dropped from between 5 min and 30 min of play

IP and Domain XX’d out of attached file due to not wanting bored children trying to hack my server.

Game was running fine up until 3 hrs. before this post

Agree, that was one of the nice things about the costumes in GW1 is it sat over your regular Armour. Which was kind of odd as you could see it every where, and everything outside of town was instanced, so unless you were in a group no one saw it but you.

Now, you can only see the items in town. which seems a step back.

I know that some items have special skills, how about make the costume skinable and the abilities only work in certain areas???

I don’t know about collectible but I do wish the characters had more then 1 dance tied to your race.

I have completed several JP completely on accident, sort of a hey whats over here, Oh I can go up here cool.

I do not like the new jump puzzle because it requires twitch gaming skills.

I AM NOT A TWITCH GAMER!!!!!! I do not play FPS.

I don’t mind the concept it is actually very cool.

But make them for us older or handicapped gamers that cannot twitch game anymore. This is possible to do.

Basically put in rest area’s that once you reach that point if you fail later on you only restart at that point not the beginning. The new JP I made it to the mid point, after tooo many tries and failed on the second half. and OH gee I get to start over… Not really fun

Also the camera shifting made it harder at times

Yep keep up the good works, Can’t wait to see future events.

OK to get this achievement you need to complete 5 of the others in this special event line.

Is Pumpkin carving not included?

I ask because I have completed it and it is not counting towards.

And I’m old and slow so I really suck at the tower JP…

No really I’m old and can’t do twitch gaming any more so don’t yell at me about how easy the JP is or isn’t, In fact Don’t complain either way about it here this thread is about the pumpkin carving and the Emisarry achievement…

Back to puking up candy corns… :P

NoizeMaker.8367:

High drop rate = low prices.
… snip..
Grow up and look at why they did it instead of kittening and complaining constantly.

Your babies make me sick.

If you read the thread you will see currently the drop rates are so low that people cannot even level their crafting skill.

And while you have a level 80, I only have a lvl 30 and can’t afford the 6-10 silver it would cost to make 1 item let alone the 40-80sp to make 7 items for my level in material that are currently overly inflated because of the exceptionally low drop rate.

Let me add my 0.02 cents worth here.

The plus side. I have played a lot of MMOs in my time going back to EQ and ultima online… yes I’m 40(mumble mumble) I’ve played F2P P2P and even a couple P2W ones. So far the Crafting system in GW2 is one of the better ones I’ve seen. It encourages discovery, and is easy to stay level current with the character…

But with the recent changes. This is no longer the case. The original design was for a character to be able to craft in 2 areas. Pre patch it was difficult for a character to keep their crafting skill level = to their character level if they tried to Craft both a weapon and armor without some grinding. The reason is simply weapons and armor both pull ingredients from the same Fine Crafting materials pools.

Before the patch I was able to Get Tailor/Artifice up to crafting level 20 gear with a bit of farming in the bandit cave in human starting area. ( I am horrible with names) Post patch I was barely able to make 3 of 5 LVL 25 armor pieces after completing the next lvl zone, Because the fine material drops just are not there. I had to buy materials from TP to complete those.

I gained another 5 char levels trying to gather enough materials in a new 1-15 zone to get artifice up to 75 skill level and have not collected enough fine materials to make more then 1 banded mark for to craft an item.

unfortunately using the TP for someone trying to level a char is not viable base fine materials that have a vendor value of 5cp-40cp are selling for 1-2 silver because the drop rate is now so low and the demand is so high, being every armor and weapon crafting skill requires them.

My suggested solutions.

1. as many other people have suggested – Greatly adjust the drop tables

2. Adjust the recipes, lower the required number of fine crafting materials, 3 →1, 8→4
3. Adjust the fine material pools in recipes, Instead of every armor and weapon recipe using the same fine material for a given stat. ( this probably isn’t doable due to massive change in coding that would be required)
4. Make fine ingredients available from a vendor. want to stop farming. boom make your common ingredients/materials available from a vendor for karma or silver. Yeah the items will still be available on TP but the value will be regulated by vendor. And crafters that feel the need power to level 400 crafting can.

As stated The question is “Is it fun?” and currently the crafting of weapons and armor are not fun. A person simply cannot get enough fine crafting materials to even keep the crafting skill on par with character level. Or even gear for a single craft. Let alone enough materials to craft for others or sell for profit.

Dear ArenaNet,

Is there an ETA of when we will be able to purchase Gem Codes (cards) offline from our local retailers, IE Gamestop, Bestbuy etc?

I would really like to buy more bank slots, and well Don’t want to deal with the CC company calling me to aprove the charges and my wife answering the phone .

I will preface this with a simple fact I have not purchased gems so I do not know the GEM=$$$ rate.

But I would say that similar to GW1 the skins or costumes, should be account bound and have a “Vendor” that they can be picked up from at any time (AKA reusable and available to all chars). I mean for those of use With GWEoN, and HoM rewards we have a skin vendor that we can port to and pick them up on any character.

So the mechanics already exist in game.

As for the price I would say that it should be similar to the GW1 price of costumes however that works out in Gems.

Personally I don’t know what people’s issue is with using e-mail as account info.

I’ve played many MMO over the past couple years and a large selection of them used e-mail address as the account. The answer is simple use different passwords and strong passwords at that.