Guild Wars 2

and fighting dhuum wud be epic too

this topic is the lulz

Drakkon.4782:

I’ve never understood why I needed to leave the game to find a group.

press alt+tab and play in windowed mode, you don’t have to leave the game, you just switch windows

yep i totally agree, it’s gonna be a fail if it’s a 80 man zerg with a time limit

seanpenn.7364:

Game Update Notes – September 17, 2013

Fake Patch Notes:
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Claw of Jormag: Will now freeze up to 50 random players on the Frostgorge map three times during the encounter, frozen players will die instantly and lose 1 random piece of equipped armor which will be completely destroyed (beyond repair due to chill) Also Jormag will penalize all the afk players by raining ice shards over Lions arch which will last until it is slain. All other players running champ trains will be frozen as well and will be unable to move for 24 hrs.
Chance of precursor drop from its chest is now doubled to 0.00002% to compensate for the added difficulty.

Shadow Behemoth: Will now have 10 total phases, Each phase will now spawn additional portals accompanied by Aatxes. 5 random players will be sent into Underworld during the final phase and have a chance to fight Dhuum. If they 5 players fail to kill Dhuum, Shadow Behemoth will slay all enemies in Queensdale causing all equipped armor to break on all players. Dhuum will also randomly slay players 20 players per minute all over Tyria till the Shadow Behemoth event re-starts. Dhuum’s Scythe is now added to the chest with a chance of 0.00003% to compensate for the added difficulty.

Fire Elemental: Will now cause your fps to drop below 5 and will make this fight nearly impossible. If somehow players manage to slay this creature, it will now reward each players with a title: “My Pc is better than yours!” Upon failing, it will award the title: “Buy a better pc”

Great Jungle Wurm: Now will take up to 2 mins to kill, versus the previous 1 min to increase the difficulty. Players will receive an extra blue drop from the chest of lvl 15 to compensate for the extra time and effort.

The Shatterer: Can no longer be attacked by standing on the left side rock formation, players will now have to stand on the right side to auto-attack instead. Players standing in the old rock formation will instead turn into Branded creatures and will be forced to attack other players.

Tequatl the Sunless: will now require 80 man zergs wearing exotics or better, a cool minipet has been added to the chest which will be account bound and will have a slightly higher chance to drop than a precursor. Although we might make it more rare during a ninja patch soon after the update.
Upon failing this event, Lions Arch will be transformed to an underwater city, Risen Sharks will have their way with all that dare to enter.

Inquest Golem Mark II: will now transform into Mark III and perform a new spinning move which may knock your character all the way to cursed shore or possibly even to the Fire Island Chain (who knows this will be RNG based), knockback can be avoided if you character performs precision jump-dodge roll. This boss can no longer be defeated, instead last person standing on the platform will now be rewarded with 10g. All other Knocked off characters will lose 1g from their account wallet.

Hope you all enjoyed =)!

Looking forward to the revamp of all bosses, hope Anet implements some of the above changes =D!

LOLLOLO!!! I read all of it hahahhahaha ROFLMAO so funny LOLOL fire ele and jorlagg most hilarious LOL

but i would love a underwater lions arch, i made a suggestion in the suggestion forums for a ’’flood’’ living story content

lucky for me, i come from a place where words are pronounced and spelled the way they are written

unlike english where they’re written one way, pronounced another, and spelled a third, i just read things the way they’re written…

kat tru d wuords sou tu spik
cut through the words so to speak

Fischer.5690:

Hi,

i got a question about the old mini pet trio. Does Anet think about to bring back the first pet trio too? I forgot to buy it at the last time… Any chance we can buy them again?

Already asked in the german forum, but only some ppl wrote that they want to buy it too. No answer from anet :/. Anyone here want to buy them too?

(sry for my bad english, i tried my best :o)

Your English is excellent

I think they should come back too. They actually did bring all of it back for 10 days I think, every day there was a different ’’limited’’ item for sale. I hope it comes back again too.

It most likely will come back at some point or another.

Eowin Of Rohan.2619:

gw2events.me tells you which Scarlet meta event is up.
Go to “Scarlet Attacks”, the last menu item.

For european servers, the API is bugged so sometimes an event is marked as Active even if it is finished. So, only go to scarlet’s attacks that have been up for less than 40 minutes

found it, ty hope it works, wish arena would implement something like that into the UI, like event trackers or dungeon lfg systems

i did it a few hours ago and i got both achievements, for the secret rooms and the baubbles, i used dulfys video guide step by step

Suth.8567:

As far as the old discussion goes, there is a Arenanet policy called “one action per one keystroke”. Please have a look at the linked thread for more information.
Concerning me, dodge jump is actually one action that is triggered by two input commands, but I’d like to have a confirmation to avoid doing a theoretically bannable offense.

So his thumb is breaking the rules of policy and terms of agreement?

You removed the UI marker for ‘’Scarlet is attacking -this and this- place’‘, and replaced it with the Super Adventure Funbox UI. Which is nice and well but here’s the thing. When the chat box notifies you now ‘’Scarlet is attacking this and this place’’ and then you zone to that place. The invasions aren’t there, the invasions are somewhere else.

So here’s an example, the chat box sais ‘’Scarlet is attacking Timberline Falls ’’ . I zone in, map chat is lively, no invasions. Then a guy sais the invasions are in Blazeridge, I feel like the guy is pulling my leg, but hey, it’s just 3 silver. So I zone to Blazeridge and bam, the invasions are in Blazeridge….

CryxTryx.9208:

Good post. I am hoping that the more content at this difficulty level that is introduced into the game players will understand that all content doesn’t have to be for everyone.

Most content should be for everyone, and then little elements of the game can be catered towards niche groups.

I mean I hate crab toss and keg brawl. I don’t think they are designed wrong, they are just not to my taste. I love Sanctum Sprint and Southsun Survial. I don’t post rants on the forums about the content I don’t like and demand it changed. I stick to the content I do like.

That is what erks me about all the SAB whining.

As long as they separate hard content from casual chill relaxed fun loving easy going no stress content, like SAB chievs for normal people and Tribulation chievs for challengered people, I’m cool.

I didn’t like Liadri bcause it forced casual players to do stupid content.

Force.2841:

Shpongle.6025:

Or Pay2Participat. Pay2Play. Either way, that infinite coin move was not cool, maan.

I felt it at gauntlet and Liadri. When I spent about 60g on the tickets and gearing my warrior into a zerker, because I don’t like playing as a zerker. Of Course, I got all achievements except the two Liadri ones. I wouldn’t get the other ones without spending 30g on zerk stuff.

But that was gauntlet.

SAB = Pure. Pay. To. Win.

No Infinite Coin = no achievements

It’s one thing to give people a choice to buy cosmetics and such, but when you try to force us to buy something that’s not just cosmetic, that is needed and required in order to finish tribulation mode, well that’s just not cool.

But, I learned my lesson with gauntlet and liadri.

No coin for me, and after only one single try of tribulation mode, I’ve decided to ignore it completly as if you’ve never made it. I wish I would’ve done that with Gauntlets.

I will however finish the normal achievements for the normal people, the ones that are in style with LS achievements since launch. The fun,easy,laid back n relaxed ones.

I will say this though, I’m happy that you told people in advance it’s super hard and only made for 1337 players, lol. I wish you would’ve said so with Liadri so I wouldn’t have even bothered with it in the first place and just done the fun easy stuff.

Other than that, the whole thing is allright.

I see where the game is going though.
You want to bury casual players.

Btw, if this was permanent content, I wouldn’t complain.
If Gauntlet was permanent, I wouldn’t complain either.

It’s the temporary-ness of the whole thing that makes it unpleasant and a huge turn off to even try doing it. The 1337 content like tribulation mode and liadri, i mean.

Farm the first world for baubbles, there are plenty of guides out that can help you decide how to go about it. Also you need to download Perfect World, Forsaken World, or Conquer or games like that and you will know the true meaning of pay2win.

In my personal opinion if you need the infinite coin to beat tribulation mode then this mode isn’t and wasn’t made for your skill level. Also there are youtube videos on how to pass tribulation mode easily, so no real excuse here but lack of skill.

Well I just finished world 1 tribulation mode with 54 lives(used 11 continue coins), and I also got the honeycomb achievement in the same run

skill? LOL there’s no skill here, just repetition, still better than Liadri tho, Liadri was stupid,poorly designed and just a horrible disaster

I thought it was easy too. Much easier than Liadri.

need update on what works and whats bugged

Aramilion.6709:

So… as u know… you can’t join your team if it is already in game…
I understand it… people won’t join at the end to get rewards. it’s smart. I agree…

But there’s one little problem. Listen to my story:
I was doing Super Adventure Box, World 2, Zone 3! was at the end! about 3,5 hours of playing… And i got crash! But not lost connection… No… normal Crash! game just crashed! happend to me first time!

And i wanna ask… what do i have to do?!? i’ve just wasted this time! Couse i can’t get back to my teammates! I’m just sad… a bit angry… wanted to share it with u. AN please do something with it.

So.. i greet my friends i was playing with: Logoss; Dario; Calliburnus; Gobe…
Just… i go to bed…
like i said… i’m just sad…

I knew things like this would happen, which is why I don’t even bother playing it or trying it. I learned my lesson with Liadri, not doing that again, lol

Quaggan does not like Asura child rearing oooOOOOOoooo

BobbyStein.2315:

This is a cool idea. Thanks for sharing.

We’re currently discussing ideas on how to “catch people up” with past Living World events to give them context on current events and recent history. The system that’s currently in development will hopefully go a long way in presenting a clearer picture of some of the story content in the game. That stated, having a newspaper is a neat concept.

You know what would be cool. If all the temporary content, would be made accessible with newspapers. And you could read the Lore and replay everything. You could constantly play Gauntlet, Aetherblade dungeon, halloween, christmas stuff. All of it, via an interactive book.

Like the mission books in gw1

I still have a stack of Evon Gnashblade Support Buttons….Lol Arena don’t care.

Give us ‘’The Flood’’ . With an underwater dungeon.

Liadri was way too hard, and stupid and not fun at all.

But this is fun and not too hard at all. All you need is repetitivness.

Fun times.

Still better than Liadri, though. And easier too. Tribulation mode much easier and more fun then Liadri.

Nilkemia.8507:

9: From what I’ve read, Tribulation mode is like I Want To Be The Guy, or any game designed to kill you off in cheap ways and 1 hit kills. I don’t consider that challenging or difficult in a good way.

11: The Infinite Continue Coin. I see no reason for this to exist at all. I’m not using gems on something that only works with temporary content.

This. The game is going this way, I’ve noticed this at Liadri.

This is where it’s going.

yep, happens alot to me, LOL i remember in world 2 zone 1, right at the end boss where the flowers are, I jump with the flower and I see myself falling own and then the next second i’m standing on the cube as if i didn’t fall down and fail, first time i was like this was awesome lol cuz usually you see yourself succeeding but then it throws u down cuz of the rubberband, finally at least once it was in my favor

bookman.9260:

I fell under the map in world 1 zone 1 in tribulation mode wile playing with a friend. it really sucked having to restart the whole level because you can’t rejoin and you can’t even enter your own solo tribulation mode run, so I was forced to either wait until he finished it solo and do something else because I couldn’t leave the party to do any other worlds.

I’m not even gonna bother with tribulation mode, i made that mistake with liadri, not doing it again lol

world 1 best world, so much fun and so easy and chill and relaxed

Reacted.8190:

matthewr.3980:

When can we expect to see the changes to World 2?

Hopefully never!
I hope world 3 progresses in the same direction, I like it when I have to die repeatedly and find whacky ways to climb!
Completing Tribulation was a blast!

You can lie to us but you can’t lie to yourself. You hated it, just like everyone else, because hard content is stupid and pointless and hard, while easy content(talking about pre-gauntlet times here) was Supah-Awesome . I don’t believe anyone that ‘’likes a challenge’‘. That’s like… masochism, lol

Josh Foreman.8250:

Monkey Fritz.9052:

W1 was a fun, colorful lighthearted and challenging homage. W2 could be but isn’t.
W2 suffers from the “Lets make it as hard as we remember those games being when we were five and sucked at playing video games.”

I’ve said it several times in this thread so far but I’ll keep repeating it since I don’t expect anyone to read the whole thing. The design intent was NOT to make Normal Mode as hard as it is. There are a combination of factors that are making it so, and we’re currently working on a fix. We want W2 Normal Mode to be slightly more challenging than W1. There are several obvious difficulty spikes that we are addressing by adding check points, removing the buggy waterspouts, making dart traps easier to spot, removing some of them, etc.

All the complaints about the randomness of the rapids, floaty platforming, camera issues, etc. are things I would literally pay a thousand dollars to fix. Maybe even two. I’d cut my salary if we had a way to fix them. We hate them as much as you do. We simply accept the pain of these engine limitations because we feel like the overall content is worth it. I totally understand if other’s find them too annoying to be able to enjoy the content.
I said earlier, we have a great engine for GW2. But making it do platforming stuff is like getting a powerful heavy elephant to win a horse race. It’s not always pretty. Finding the sweet spot between pushing the boundaries of the engine to create new old-school mechanics and keeping the gameplay perfectly smooth is a constant game of compromise. I’m not claiming we’re perfect at it. But we’re trying. Check back after we get the changes in and see if we addressed most of the difficulty spikes.
I’m really appreciative to have this interchange with you guys. Some of your ideas are going directly into our fix. Though most of the warranted complaints are just a limitation of what we can and can’t do with our engine. (Like making the dart traps knock back instead of kill. That was our initial intent, but there’s no way to make it work.)

What you need to do, is this:

Go back to the old ways of pre-Gauntlet. Where achievements were fun and relaxing and easy and interesting. Those were the days. Not this gauntlet, Liadri, Tribulation stuff when it’s just stupidly hard content.

GW2 was so much fun when it was nice and casual.

ElenaDragon.8401:

I was able to get this achievement today, so if it’s bugged, it’s not bugged for everyone. I was solo and on infantile mode. I didn’t use any continues.

What? Well then it’s been bugged for me twice, I did world 2 zone 3 solo, yesterday, in infantile mode …not frozen once, no achievemt, this needs to be fixed

Or Pay2Participat. Pay2Play. Either way, that infinite coin move was not cool, maan.

I felt it at gauntlet and Liadri. When I spent about 60g on the tickets and gearing my warrior into a zerker, because I don’t like playing as a zerker. Of Course, I got all achievements except the two Liadri ones. I wouldn’t get the other ones without spending 30g on zerk stuff.

But that was gauntlet.

SAB = Pure. Pay. To. Win.

No Infinite Coin = no achievements

It’s one thing to give people a choice to buy cosmetics and such, but when you try to force us to buy something that’s not just cosmetic, that is needed and required in order to finish tribulation mode, well that’s just not cool.

But, I learned my lesson with gauntlet and liadri.

No coin for me, and after only one single try of tribulation mode, I’ve decided to ignore it completly as if you’ve never made it. I wish I would’ve done that with Gauntlets.

I will however finish the normal achievements for the normal people, the ones that are in style with LS achievements since launch. The fun,easy,laid back n relaxed ones.

I will say this though, I’m happy that you told people in advance it’s super hard and only made for 1337 players, lol. I wish you would’ve said so with Liadri so I wouldn’t have even bothered with it in the first place and just done the fun easy stuff.

Other than that, the whole thing is allright.

I see where the game is going though.
You want to bury casual players.

Btw, if this was permanent content, I wouldn’t complain.
If Gauntlet was permanent, I wouldn’t complain either.

It’s the temporary-ness of the whole thing that makes it unpleasant and a huge turn off to even try doing it. The 1337 content like tribulation mode and liadri, i mean.

I just finished World 2 zone 3 and I didn’t get it. I didn’t get frozen once, and I used Continue Coins whenever I ran out of lives. I was in a party with 2 other people.

However, I did get:
-Academic(as soon as dragon died in w2z3)
-Tiptoe
-It was an Ambush
-Super Adventure Secret (right after Academic)
-Special Instruction (when I zoned out after the geenie in the 3rd house and used the password and then watched the cinematic)

So…Professional Ice Skater is bugged. Pls fix. I wasted 7 continue coins, and I wasn’t frozen by a banana monkey one single time. Which means it’s 100% bugged.

the map is basically inside a pinkg box lol

btw, i have no idea why the portret’s have distortet rainbow colors, it just happens randomly usually after patches, sometimes the chat log is like that too and the numbers of the items or crating mats, no idea why, only in gw2 tho

and i walked to the edge of the map ;P

And the 2nd one is when a buddy got stuck in a log and had to exit and re-enter. if youre soloing its horrible

First one is in zone 1 in world 2, at the checkpoint with the turtles and waterfall, you fall into the water and you go under the map. And you don’t die. And then you can run under it

Radio Isotope.3045:

Its official! Guild Wars 2 is officially pay to win. Infinite coin and tribulation mode makes it so. Sorry if you don’t see it that way but I do. Even world 2 zone 2 on infantile mode is way too hard for majority of people “who end up running out of continue coins (pay for this kitten kitten Infinite Continue Coin to keep playing)”. I speak for my guild and the things they have brought to my attention. I love SAB and have Distinction in Applied Jumping. But World 2 zone 2 seems a bit too long and too hard for most people and not enough baubles to make it worth the effort. When we can just farm World 1 easy peasy and get several bubbles in just one run….

I concurr.

Getefix.9150:

I’m still carrying 105 gnashblade tokens – (still think he’d have made a better council member)

LOL same here, i had two stacks i destroyed yesterday, lucky I kept baubbles from april ^^

Everything we had last year, and then some !

is power,toughnett and crit dmg in the rings better than power, prec, crit dmg ?

so many different builds, now i don’t know which one to choose ;_;

awesome, thx dude

Liadri was much harder, this is easy mode compared to Liadri.

wait for dulfy to do it and then use her guide, it’s what i always do

currently my 3rd character i ’’allmost’’ got to 80 with the invasions(1 level and a half left), and I’m asking myself…

what build should I go, I also got a mesmer and a ranger now, and i kinda know what to do with them, but I’m totally lost with what I should do with thief?

what stats shuld I use? zerker? what traits? should i use fotm rings as in power, toughness, crit strikes, or zerker?

what weapon? pistol, pistol ?

I heard something about them being good if you spec them into conditions, is a condition thief any good?

tbh my idea was to go with a 30,30,10,0,0 build and full zerk gear, ruby orbs and all with pistol/pistol and dagger/dagger

how well would that do in dungeons and wvw ? I heard it’s a very ‘’anti-social’’ class to play

so, what are good builds for a mesmer for dungeons and wvw?

I thought about going full berzerker with greatsword, ruby orbs and all, with a phantasm build

I recently got it to 80 with invasions

any advice?

and I dunno what build to give him, how to equip him, which stats ,orbs etc…

my intention is wvw and dungeons, some pvp

so…any advice? I thought about going precision,toughness, condition dmg with a shortbow and an axe+torch, and a strong pet build, kinda like 10,0,30,0,30

Josh Foreman.8250:

Cliff.8679:

My feeling is, I don’t necessarily think nerfing the difficulty of World 2 is absolutely needed, and that this isn’t the disaster that many impatient players are proclaiming. However, based on what you’ve said about your intention for Normal mode, it might be a good idea to tone down some of the more difficult areas. Especially if the difficulty is going to continue ramping up in worlds 3 and 4.

Overall, I’m really impressed with how well you’ve designed SAB. It’s difficult, but it’s fun, and the sense of accomplishment you were going for is certainly there. I’m planning on finishing World 2 this week, and I’m looking forward to having a horrible, horrible weekend trying to make it through Tribulation Mode!

Thanks Cliff. Good feedback. It’s very helpful to have people who enjoy it, beat it, replay it, and STILL confirm that the difficulty still spikes.

Well I beat Liadri and got 8 orbs and I’m telling you it was too hard and you need to nerf it.

kahzee.6042:

the community farmed an insane amount of money and people are complaining? this is not pay to win since it costs 30g which is easily obtained…

you didn’t farm anything, silly

you get 300 gold from farming, then you spend 300 gold to level crafting from 400-500 on 3 characters, and you buy an infinite coin and miniatures and finisher

you didn’t farm anything, lol

SAB is Living Story.

Still a better love story then Liadri.