Guild Wars 2

Long live [MGK] and [Fun] Hope we’ll repeat it tomorrow :p

lol, I love how most of you just read the topic and respond whatever.
I’m just saying that beating Tequatl doesn’t make you a better player or “elite” like many claim. I beat it today with my guild and wasn’t even downed once, does that make me a better player? No, I just turned on TS and followed commander tags, there’s nothing difficult about it and there isn’t any kind of special skill involved. The most difficult part was actually getting into the right overflow. It is a fun encounter to do, when you have ability to organize a lot of people, but it is not an “ozmg elite content.”

imo they should increase capacity, of how much you can stack of them in your collection, or just put them in the wallet. I don’t really want ascended weapon, as I’m preparing for the legendary and don’t want to waste any additional resources, but I can’t guarantee, that I wouldn’t want to craft ascended armor, when they release it fe, or some other item, which would require ascended mats in the future, so I don’t really want to just destroy them.

I think they moved on, it was a slight chance they’d do something the first week, but now, it’s pretty much a done deal.

XenusTEHG.1965:

You say it like there is no overflows

Which makes situation even worse, as population from low pop servers are not only shifting into high pop servers, but they’re now also afk’ing in overflows, waiting for their chance, preventing people from getting into event on their own server, while low pop servers are left EMPTY.

Yea! No more spamming 1!
…
Oh wait, isn’t it still the case, just with more people? Srsly, the level of skill involved in this fight is still minimal it’s just the matter of organizing people to stand in predefined spaces and spam 1 in “more organized” way, I guess. It’s not difficult at all, you just need a lot of people being able to read/listen to what is told to them.

Rouven.7409:

Does it matter what server you beat him on? Guesting is free I think.

Guesting is intended if you f.e. wanted to play/meet-up with your friends from different server, encouraging guesting, to be able to complete the raid is a horrible practice – highly populated servers become even more populated and low pop servers turn into deserts, I will not guest out of sheer principle.

I think he is angry because only 26 people showed up at AR. I personalty don’t care, I know that my server will never be able to beat it, so I just do my daily and go do other stuff, after I’ll get my wings I’ll never do Tequatl fight again, because it’s pointless and I’m OK with it, I’ll just go do other content, there’s plenty of it.

biofrog.1568:

Sigh.. I agree.

18 hours of LFG and still no one wants an ‘unexperienced’ CoE player. I would rather just play the whole game single player.

Never spent more than 30 mins on lfg before I found a group for anything, this includes story lines, obscure paths like cof p3 and so on. You’re doing something wrong.

In two weeks, one’s living story is over, they’ll nerf him and nerf him a lot.

Aurora glade 95 % zzz….

Meadfreek.6789:

1) Removing the risen fishheads would be a great first step. It’s not fun being one-shotted multiple times (in Heavy lvl 80 Valk exotic/ascended gear) by something you often cannot see and that shows a red AoE circle only AFTER you are dead. Kitten, I died just running from the closest wp to the hylek cannons.

2) The closest wp should not be contested during the event IMO. It just encourages dead players to give up and go do something else instead of quickly returning to the fight.

Agreed on wp, during the fight in AG there were like 50 people laying on the ground after first 5 minutes, shouting “RES, RES, RES.” Most of them chose to stay dead for the rest of the fight, so we got tequatl to 95 % lolz …

At least give us more turrets, at present most of them are controlled by afk’ers…

You are failing to see the bigger picture – if we’re failing to beat him on launch, how do you expect to beat him after a few weeks, when people will either just give up or don’t care anymore? Good luck trying to take him down with 20 people.

rfdarko.4639:

As I understand it this happens to mobs if your standing in a place where they can’t hit you but you are hitting them.

That’s how it should work in theory, but in that fractal this mechanic is completely broken, because they often become invulnerable while clearly still being able to hit you, in any case, it should at least also reset, after you go into melee range, not only after you clear aggro.

How are you guys having trouble with cof p1, if not for the boulders and gates, you could easily solo it, with proper gear and skills.

colesy.8490:

Except experienced players have tried helping people countless times but they don’t want to listen.

“melee the tree in TAFU, evading the spawns and put up reflects”

“no”

“uhhh….ok dont then :/”

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“berserker gear is the strongest gear for dungeons”

“I play how I want, my mace/shield cleric guardian does big heals”

“uhhh….ok then :/”

It’s ok to point out which skills may help in one or other situation, however expecting everyone, especially newbies, to run in zerker gear is a total nonsense, because
a) most people are not good enough for pure zerker gear, maybe suggestible for cof p1, but stilll, not necessary and there’s NOTHING worse than a zerker wannabe, who faceplants every 10 seconds, which often may lead to group-wipes, until everyone just stops ressing him altogether.
b) in harder dungeons and higher fractals zerker gear is just not good enough, no matter how good you are, sooner or later you’ll mess up, yea, with zerker gear you’ll kill everything quicker, but if one mistake = being downed it simply just not worth it, it’s much more advantageous to have a balanced build in the long run.

To clear “invulnerable” you need to get out of combat.
Imo it’s a bug, because once invulnerable harpy stays like that, even if you stand on the same platform and try to melee it. Most classes have stability or invisibility so rushing through after you kill a few may be the best solution for the beginning sequence. IMO beginning sequence of this fractal needs to be reworked as from lv 20+ it’s buggy and annoying as kitten.

Adamantium.3682:

Yeah you can’t be in infantile mode… I understand your frustration at just wanting to experience the content, but you can’t expect to have done hardly anything in World 1 and still proceed right?

I mean I can’t just create a character and expect to jump straight into dungeons, I have to do a bit of work to get prepared even if I only want to casually experience the content.

That would be fine, if this was permanent content, however since it will disappear again after a month I don’t exactly have a lot of time to “get good at it” or “prepare.”

Adamantium.3682:

Seveleniumus.5973:

So I get to last level of world 2 in infantile mode and I find out, that I need 400 baubles to get the torch to progress, too bad I have only 100, as I already spent 180 on the candle and bosses just don’t give you enough, how was I supposed to know that? Do I need a guide to play infantile? O.o So now I have to GRIND just to see the rest of the worlds

The candle is free. If you paid for it, I’m sorry you didn’t find the hidden shop where you get it for free.

You do not have to GRIND just to see the rest of the worlds. Do the dig spots in 1-1 and 1-2 alone and you’ll have enough to buy the torch. That takes about 15 minutes.

Thanks for the info, but my point is, that if play infantile, I probably just want to experience the content, which is already hard enough, because I keep getting knocked off the level on the way to my rainbows, now I’ll have o go to dulfy, to look for the dig spots, where to get the shovel and so on, most of the more casual peeps won’t even bother going to the forums, they’ll just quit and never play SAB again.

I bought the candle because I didn’t know I needed it, before I encountered some trees in world 2, and then the only option intuitive for me was to buy it from the shop, if I was supposed to get it for free why was it selling for 180 baubbles?

Edit : you said “it takes 15 minutes” , even with a guide it took me 3 hours seeking for the dig spots and dying repeatedly and that’s only to get 150 bubbles, because apparently you can’t dig in infantile mode.
After almost throwing my keyboard out the window I’m still 100 bubbles short of buying the torch…

I usually just politely ask if I can bring my low level alt and if that fails, I just ask if I can switch at the end of the dungeon, most are ok with this, now this will be a problem if you don’t already have lv 80 toon, but imo for your first character there’s plenty of new content besides dungeons and you always can just do dungeon stories – there people usually are just happy to find someone and they don’t care if you’re not lv 80.

I run shout warrior so any improvements are welcomed, I also like being able to break launch as I often waste my shake it off, by using it while I’m still in the air

So I get to last level of world 2 in infantile mode and I find out, that I need 400 baubles to get the torch to progress, too bad I have only 100, as I already spent 180 on the candle and bosses just don’t give you enough, how was I supposed to know that? Do I need a guide to play infantile? O.o So now I have to GRIND just to see the rest of the worlds

I never had a problem finding groups, but sometimes I DID resort to using lfg website for finding groupies, so, I guess, it will be nice to be able to have it in the game.

First time I beat Zhaitan and returned to town for victory celebration, with confetti falling all around, everyone dancing and that awesome “fear not this night” song in the background. THAT was truly amazing, I even got shivers going through my body.

I suppose lv 1 fractals would be a good place to start, you could solo all of them except
Underground Facility Fractal,
Swampland Fractal and
Cliffside Fractal.
Urban Battlegrounds Fractal is especially easy to solo, because you have npc’s.

rjnemer.7816:

Seveleniumus.5973:

If you do nothing but press 1 and dodge, you’re doing it wrong. Most of the people who are whining, about how easy everything is, never even been to any dungeons past cof p1/p2 or fotm 20+.
Even if 1 + dodge would be the case, that would be one more action than you need to do in the situation of trinity.

I do fotm 48 everyday and i speed clear Arah. Let me tell you, neither is hard. Its just stack in a corner and stack might so you kill whatever it is faster then it kills you.

For many of the casuals, even AC is too hard.
Please show me a video of you completing fotm lv 48, doing nothing but stacking in one place.
Everything is easy if you “do it everyday.”
In any case, do you really think, that trinity makes for harder gameplay?

If you do nothing but press 1 and dodge, you’re doing it wrong. Most of the people who are whining, about how easy everything is, never even been to any dungeons past cof p1/p2 or fotm 20+.
Even if 1 + dodge would be the case, that would be one more action than you need to do in the situation of trinity.

Quit if you want.

“I find this game extremely unrewarding. I can handle punishing because practice and skill can usually overcome that. But where are the rewards?”

Each minute I spend in this game is a reward to me, I personally just enjoy playing it, I pretty much enjoyed most of those ~1k hours I spent in gw2. I don’t care about grinding/whatever, I reached level 48 of fractals, because I genuinely enjoy running fractals, not because I wanted skins/rings/backpack, those things came by themselves. I’ll continue to play it and sooner or later, precursor and then legendary will come too, but I ain’t gonna spend any extra hours doing something I don’t necessarily like to get it, you shouldn’t too.

Even if they don’t fix this I would at least like if they implemented some way to make soulbound items account bound, at least those, which were previously non-bound/account-bound, I would actually pay gems for those, I would really hate to sell ascended trinkets to the merchant.

I can confirm, that I too sometimes auto target someone, when it’s close to me, I most commonly see this while talking to npc’s in towns.

Most people come to forum to complain/troll, whine is to be expected.

No, you might as well go for the legendary, at least if you get the legendary you’ll have a guarantee, that there won’t be anymore higher tier weapons.

I don’t like temporary content every two weeks, usually I miss most of it, even a month is often not enough to get all the achievements for a casual player, I would rather like to see them adding improvements to existing content or add new permanent content.

Like mentioned before, most people come to forums to complain, so majority of opinions you’ll read here, won’t reflect the actual state of the game.

Whatever trolls say,
GW2 is undeniably the best MMO out there, so you might as well give it another go.

I leveled two characters from 1 to 80 without crafting and without buying anything from TP. I bought items from TP on my third char, just because I wanted to rush through content. If you’re not running in into mobs guns blazing you’ll do just fine even with the gear 10 levels lower of your own, anyways, if you’re doing personal story then you’re constantly getting free gear upgrades anyways.

same thing is happening to me

sarcasm is strong with this one

At this point I think I’m pretty much ready to move on. I think some of you guys are being a little over dramatic – gw2 is still a great game, probably the best mmo out there, I’ve spent like a thousand hours on it and I ain’t gonna quit over a lost trinket set.
Yea, they messed up and I strongly believe they know it and while I don’t like the method they handled it (by not handling it at all), I hope that they’ll put a great effort in the future for it to not happen again, though it may take a long time for them to earn my trust again.

Frost.2908:

But I found it odd that as I was complaining to my friend earlier, on my end the items are shown as soul bound and other characters cannot equip them, but when I ping them in chat it only shows an account bound item… so figure that one out.

I believe when you “ping” something it doesn’t show your actual item, it shows default value of the item, f.e. it doesn’t show infusions on ascended rings, so index database probably just doesn’t hold “soulbound” image of your item, or rather doesn’t distinguish between those two, if that makes sense and default value of it as of now is account bound, so it shows that instead,

They should add some option to sell back your ascended trinkets, maybe not the rings, because if you run higher level fractals you can get hundreds of them, but for accessories and amulets there should be an option to sell them back for at least a few gold, because 5 silver is pretty much a joke, you’re more compelled to just destroy those items, than do that.

It’s funny how they seem incapable of realizing, that problem is not with patch notes, no one cares about patch notes, the problem is with news fed economy-report, which up to this day still holds faulty information.
If you went to economy report and would search for word “soul” you would get 0 results…
Yes, it may as well been a misunderstanding, but a misunderstanding on their end, not ours…

At this point I’m just waiting for one more confirmation, that they ain’t gonna admit their mistake, before selling my ascended trinkets to merchant and moving on.

“We messed up, but we don’t care, now bugger off”

Would be good enough for me. It would at least be better than silence and ignorant denial.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

I can’t tell if you want a FULL COMMENDATIONS AND LAURELS REFUND, or to be able to move the gear to an alt.

If its the former, it won’t happen, because you already have compensation. Turn it into a second of of trinkets, like soldiers for wvw gear.

There are plenty of options at your disposal.

You’re saying “plenty,” but offering only one option and not a very good one.
What if I don’t play WvW?
What if I play WvW with other character?
What if I already have second trinket set and this was my third set?
What if I simply just don’t like to switch my stats around?
Who are you to tell me how to play?

As for compensation, at this point, I’m pretty much looking for anything better than selling my trinkets to merchant for 5 silver, which I’ll have to do, because I don’t need another trinket set on this character and atm it’s wasting valuable space in my bank.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

Nearly no refunds?
- I bought six 1-2 gold exo’s and made them berserker when patch hit (for alts and even main)

- My guardian had full soldier and full magic find sets, the magic find set has been turned entirely into berserker (ascended trinkets and exotic armour/4 exotic weapons).

- A set of yakkington’s that I bought cheaply with the intent of turning it into sentinels, did not pay off (can’t choose sentinel), but I can choose to put it onto either of my 2 warriors or my guardian with a stat type of my choosing, or salvage it.

Exotic armour stats are very easily obtained, so even if the compensation somehow doesn’t work out for you due to it staying soul bound, you’re really not losing much, considering that character already has a proper set of gear (if it didn’t you wouldn’t be complaining) you are not hindered in any way.

Also, laurels are not the only method of obtaining the rings and accessories. The high laurel price for rings and accessories is because there are other ways of getting them. I bought a ring with laurels once because I was desperate for it, regretted my decision immediately, and I think that’s where your frustration is coming from. Not that a trinket you got from fractals, or guild commendations is unable to be moved to an alt, but because you wasted expensive laurels on them.

But don’t say there are ‘nearly no refunds’, because that’s not even close to the truth.

Well we all can be happy, that it turned out great for you, but how about the rest of us, who don’t need another pve trinket set and will have to sell our accessories + amulet to the merchant for 5 silver, when we paid 10 gold + guild commendations + laurels for them, so yeah, there are NO REFUNDS, absolute zero, I’m not even counting my exotic magic find armor set + weapon I had to salvage, at least I got some ectos from those…

At least let me salvage my ascended trinkets, so I don’t have to sell them to the merchant…

So now I have basically useless ascended accessories/amulets which I paid laurels and guild commendations to get, because I already have accessories I want for pve on my main, great, why not just make everything account bound, soulbound on equiptment?

Weren’t they supposed to become account bound? I already have other items with stats I need on this character, so now I basically have useless Ambrace of Truth, Golden Lotus and Egg of Crystal queen with no way to transfer them to other characters which may need them? Didn’t they say, that they’ll give us ability to choose stats AND make items account bound?

I doubt they’ll do anything with Trehearne, because it would spoil the personal story for the newcomers.