Guild Wars 2

Are there any builds that can spam blind quicker than 4s? Just thinking about “balance”.

(Any class)

eldrin.6471:

Starting from scratch you got 4.8 mill xp to get to lvl 80 then you will be needing 86,000,000 xp to max out your mastery tracks.

Jesus! I knew the curve was high, but never thought to calculate it all. Thought it was bad enough the jump from 80 to T1 Mastery was 1m.

Hey! Those 4000 odd people watching that stream think it’s highly valuable!

Haven’t bought it yet but friends and guild members are already fed up of it.

As long as they get their Ranger nerf in they’ll call it a day.

TheLastNobody.8319:

I remeber coming on here the day of the Druid beta weekend. For the most part everyone was happy, enjoying Druid, some weren’t but that’s to be expected. Now all I see is a land of salt and tears, as rangers are huddled in their trenches, trying to survive the merciless onslaught that is the ANET nerf machine….how did it come to this?

How did it come to this? Come to this… It’s been here for about 3 years, we’re trying to get rid of it.

Broom.2561:

Vayne.8563:

morrolan.9608:

Broom.2561:

PyrateSilly.4710:

This has been answered so many times as it is now ridiculous to even think about bringing up something that was just a “this is what we would like” and as things change and grow things get cut and added.
As for the grinding …… I have been playing since head-start/beta and I have yet to grind. Not once have I grinded and I have played just about every day. I am not only doing the old Bolt but also every other new legendary weapon in the game at the moment. I am collecting as I go and not worrying about how fast I get them done. For me it is not a contest to see how fast I get them done. I am just letting the pieces come when they come. Having too much fun just playing to think about “oh crap I don’t have this legendary yet”

You may remember that just before release, the company making GW2 was taken over by another one, who had a bit of a reputation for being cash hungry. They made all kinds of assurances that they would stick to the original vision of the developers, but pretty much the first thing they did at launch was to start break promises.

Let’s just say I don’t think the original vision for this game is being adhered to anymore.

NCSoft bought Arenanet long before GW2 was released, I think when GW1 was in its prime. And Nexon never took over NCSoft just bought a stake in it which they sold a few months ago.

NcSoft owned Anet before the first Guild Wars 1 was released, long before it was in its prime. By the way, some would argue its in its prime now, at the height of its playerbase.

It’s been years, and I don’t remember the full details but there was a takeover of some sort shortly before launch which concerned a lot of people, it was all over the beta forums. Not NCSoft, maybe it was another company taking a large interest. However it is, there were assurances from ‘above’ that nothing would change. And at launch we found out that dyes were suddenly not per account – as promised – but per character. I know this was reversed about 6 months ago, but still.

Either way, it’s pretty obvious that ‘play how you want’ has gone out the door. Want to do HoT story, do the big meta fights or raids, or get new legendaries? Have to do masteries. Want masteries? Have to do FPS mini adventures. Where it used to be all about making everything accessible to everyone, it’s gradually shifted to ’don’t have ascended? no raids 4u’.

The only thing I can see is Nexon buying 14.7% in NCSoft. Prior to this NCSoft bought 76% of another company.

Which MMO was that? I’m actually looking for something a bit more structured than H1Z1 or DayZ.

morrolan.9608:

Broom.2561:

PyrateSilly.4710:

This has been answered so many times as it is now ridiculous to even think about bringing up something that was just a “this is what we would like” and as things change and grow things get cut and added.
As for the grinding …… I have been playing since head-start/beta and I have yet to grind. Not once have I grinded and I have played just about every day. I am not only doing the old Bolt but also every other new legendary weapon in the game at the moment. I am collecting as I go and not worrying about how fast I get them done. For me it is not a contest to see how fast I get them done. I am just letting the pieces come when they come. Having too much fun just playing to think about “oh crap I don’t have this legendary yet”

You may remember that just before release, the company making GW2 was taken over by another one, who had a bit of a reputation for being cash hungry. They made all kinds of assurances that they would stick to the original vision of the developers, but pretty much the first thing they did at launch was to start break promises.

Let’s just say I don’t think the original vision for this game is being adhered to anymore.

NCSoft bought Arenanet long before GW2 was released, I think when GW1 was in its prime. And Nexon never took over NCSoft just bought a stake in it which they sold a few months ago.

See this is what I thought, oh well easier to blame scary old NCSoft then lay any blame with actual developers.

Going by yesterdays stream, they lost about 2k viewership over the first week of ESL Pro Leagues.

Broom.2561:

PyrateSilly.4710:

This has been answered so many times as it is now ridiculous to even think about bringing up something that was just a “this is what we would like” and as things change and grow things get cut and added.
As for the grinding …… I have been playing since head-start/beta and I have yet to grind. Not once have I grinded and I have played just about every day. I am not only doing the old Bolt but also every other new legendary weapon in the game at the moment. I am collecting as I go and not worrying about how fast I get them done. For me it is not a contest to see how fast I get them done. I am just letting the pieces come when they come. Having too much fun just playing to think about “oh crap I don’t have this legendary yet”

You may remember that just before release, the company making GW2 was taken over by another one, who had a bit of a reputation for being cash hungry. They made all kinds of assurances that they would stick to the original vision of the developers, but pretty much the first thing they did at launch was to start break promises.

Let’s just say I don’t think the original vision for this game is being adhered to anymore.

Who took them over Nexon?

Always know your audience.

Now we’ve all acknowledged base Ranger isn’t in a good spot, let’s wait for Anet to do something about it. Oh but please don’t hold your breath, I fear for your safety.

Kal Spiro.9745:

This seems to be another instance of people not having the right mentality for the material. Rather than just playing the game and gaining Masteries in a fluid and gradual manner, they grind them out to complete them as fast as possible, then get frustrated when there is nothing left to do.

Well it really depends on what arbitrary numbers Anet have plucked out the air for the levelling doesn’kitten I mean level 80 is what 250k exp, what is the first level of a mastery? 1m? What’s the last? 4m? Is there enough content to make it feel like you’re not progressing like a slug for no other reason than just numbers? That’s one hell of a curve for a team who originally wanted a set time levelling curve to make it feel fun.

Draknar.5748:

Wander.5780:

meta grinds and gutted wvw are leading to the early death of this game

You can’t possibly believe “gutted” WvW is a leading factor of anything in GW2. WvW was already a small subset of the GW2 population. Yes, it is dead for the most part (compared to years 1-2 when it was still sorta fresh), but it’s hardly dead from being gutted. I’m not even sure what you mean by that. They’ve only added content to WvW, not taken anything away. WvW died because it sat stagnant for too long and the serious WvWers got bored and moved on.

Either way, they could eliminate WvW entirely and it would likely do very little to the overall GW2 population.

There isn’t a lot of population to play with, let’s not cast off a group of people when the game is trying to retain everyone.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Given the huge amount of bugs still on the ranger and druid list, I’m not holding my breath for any fast fixes. Now, if people demanded we needed a nerf, a fast ‘fix’ would definitely be on the way.

T-minus 48 hours…

You’re locked in, but people would rather not be? I don’t see why people couldn’t choose to level anywhere.

I think those numbers are low though, plus it doesn’t factor in people watch LoL through Youtube as well.

misterman.1530:

Sicarius.4639:

GUN EM DOWN.4078:

Pretty sure everyone on the forums feels like this.. Wheres all the gem money going? Obviously not wages ayylmao feels like Anet consist of 5 people who don’t have enough time to talk to their players. Must be drowning in all that content devlopment

I’ll have you know about 4,000 people are watching the Pro League right now!

Is that a good number? I mean, I have no frame of reference here. That sounds less like a “pro” turnout and more like a crowd at a high school football game.

Though, it boggles my mind that even 1 person would want to watch someone play a video game for any length of time.

Well, it gets them to about 21st spot on Twitch, despite the claims of them being a Top 20 mainstay. If you want to compare it to say LoL, Dota or CS:GO they usually get anywhere between 150,000-250,000 people watching.

Let’s just say there are around the same amount of people watching one person play H1Z1 right now.

My achievements are a bit of a mess, I don’t have any heads killed yet I was part of Desolations World First TT kill.

Haven’t done it since due to lack of people. The scaling seems off.

Well you have to remember that they would of had a lot more time to finish / polish it when it was released as LS3 months down the line, it’s inevitable that they’d not have enough time given it came out so soon.

GUN EM DOWN.4078:

Pretty sure everyone on the forums feels like this.. Wheres all the gem money going? Obviously not wages ayylmao feels like Anet consist of 5 people who don’t have enough time to talk to their players. Must be drowning in all that content devlopment

I’ll have you know about 4,000 people are watching the Pro League right now!

Aidenwolf.5964:

This paid “expansion” has declared war on liquid gold and introduced outrageous time and gold sinks. They said the liquid gold rewards from dungeons were being moved to fractals and they absolutely weren’t.

It’s the easiest way to create hours of content without actually creating any content.

Astralporing.1957:

Sicarius.4639:

Edit: Ah, here we go sorry: http://fortune.com/2015/11/24/areanet-investing-in-esports/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE

5 Million Sold.
2 Million F2P
1.5 Million daily actives
Another 1.6 Million in F2P

That’s not “daily actives”. That’s monthly actives – so people that logged in at least once in a given month. Which happened to be October (so the month of launch). Notice by the way, that it means only slightly over 1 million of paid accounts logged in at least once in that month (3.1 million total, 2 million f2p). And the launch brought back a lot of players that logged at least once to check things out (many of whose left again soon after).

Auralae.7482:

Biggest thing slowing it down is people unwilling to use their shovels because they want to hoard them for guild halls but still want to grab loot.

Well, the guild halls do require some massive numbers of them.

Ah! You are indeed correct, that’ll teach me for posting with little sleep and coffee! I’ll edit to make this apparent.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Fix:
Spirits prioritize players first, that’s it.
Anything more than that, like applying their buffs to more ‘entities’ would be welcome, but isn’t a fix to the core issue.

Fix: “We’ve updated the tooltip to reflect in-game mechanics”.

To be honest, had they not preordered the game they may not be in this situation.

There is a reason people keep telling you to stop throwing away your consumer power.

I’m curious about the “Warman says Guild Wars 2 has remained a Top 20 game streamed on Twitch” statistic, the average I see daily (when I scroll down the page a bit) is around 400-1000.

Edit: I think I remember that on a subreddit, they said even Riot isn’t making money from their Esports scene and look at the scale and coverage of that game. (But this is extremely vague, maybe someone who also saw it could verify / elaborate).

Lord Kuru.3685:

Sicarius.4639:

There are a few different things that require HoT in subtle ways some just to make it a little “easier”. For instance Toxic Spores, 250 needed for a recipe +1 gold or HoT vendor 25k Karma.

Seriously? What else is there?

I’d have to take another look at the achievement panel, but I know whilst running fractals in our group of four, the two people with the expansion have twice as many infusions as the two who don’t.

Lucky Shot.7650:

BadBoyz.4153:

There are less people playing GW

Source?

Wasn’t there a big infographic saying 7m accounts created, before that 3.5m sold, now the most recent statistic was 3.1m active accounts (1.5m being non-f2p).

Edit: Ah, here we go sorry: http://fortune.com/2015/11/24/areanet-investing-in-esports/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE

5 Million Sold.
2 Million F2P
1.5 Million daily Monthly actives (As pointed out by Astralporing.)
Another 1.6 Million in F2P

So we’ve seen an upturn, but thanks to F2P. Otherwise yes, a decline in player base before HoT.

Taggerung.5364:

Dadnir.5038:

Ah!

All professions are more or less usefull, but the ranger will especially benefit from :

- chief : food
- hunter : ascended bows, warhorn, torch, harpoongun
-weaponsmith : ascended axe, sword, dagger, greatsword, harpoon
- leatherwork : ascended armor set

All other professions still have value due to “gift” craft for legendary weapons.

Thanks, that clears up everything.

Yeah the term Profession in GW2 is normally what other games would refer to as Class. What you were referring to were crafting disciplines i.e. Cooking, Leather working. Might help clear up some misunderstandings a little in future as well.

Well I guess Anet will know when it comes to financial support from their community.

Usually the hardcore high invested players spend in the gem store, these players being so invested are more likely to turn a blind eye to things that might annoy them about the game (“I’ve already come so far, can’t turn around now” attitude). As long as those players continue to get their wallets out, HoT will be a success. It really depends how many of this type of player exist.

There are a few different things that require HoT in subtle ways some just to make it a little “easier”. For instance Toxic Spores, 250 needed for a recipe +1 gold or HoT vendor 25k Karma.

Lack of queues and Anet clamouring to make some WvW updates would point to this not going down well with the overall majority of the WvW playerbase.

Really surprised to know we’re “full” best I’ve seen in terms of queues is 30-man queue on EB at reset.

Jayne.9251:

lil devils x.6071:

… maybe they should do a poll when you log into WvW to put it to a vote.

That would be the smart thing to do, instead of relying on the forums.

But it’d have to be people who log into WvW on a regular basis. Say it counts up the hours you spent in a given week, then a poll comes up if you pass a threshold?

At least then you would have a reasonable chance of getting educated feedback.

That would target those who only enjoy it, I have the vast majority of my game time in WvW, actually I’d say my guild does, since the new maps I’d be classified as not a WvW player. I suppose my server would seeing as we’re a T1 that doesn’t have a single queue for the borderlands anymore at anytime of day. EB does though.

Grim West.3194:

You are complaining about people complaining.

We gave Anet a bunch of money for this product. We have every right to complain about it’s failings.

Unless you preordered.

Don’t see where the effort is. It’s just boring imo.

Game just runs like crap, all there really is to it.

Ephemiel.5694:

I love how people are comparing TIME GATING with simply taking the process slowly.

Hurr, i got a legendary in a year, i got it in 2 years, hurr kitten .

That’s not the point and each and every one of you know it.

Yes but if you don’t deflect the issue then it will look bad lol

Just a flesh wound.3589:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

To those argueing about it be changed or not becouse people will be angry.

First of all some outfits has actually got changed after that they have been available in the store, the monks outfit for example so it is perfectly possible that the skin will get a better glow.

On the other hand with the monks outfit still as an example, people raged at the forums becouse they changed it and people had spent real money for the old look.

Does it matter that Just a flesh wound.3589 does not think that the change will happen? No.

I will probably never get the skin for myself but I agree with OP it looks alot better with the glow and it fits the icon immage alot better too.

The Monk outfit was changed because the legs were clipping through the dress, so it was a bug fix. It was not a change to make it prettier after people had already purchased it and liked the look.

In addition, I didn’t say that the change would not happen. I said it was too late for them to do it for a reason that is not to fix a problem.

What I’m getting from this thread is, “if I like it then that’s too bad for the people who already bought it and who wouldnt like the change. What I want is more important.”

I had a shortbow on my Ranger once…

Remember when Anet told us they didn’t like people making an event fail on purpose? Now we see these collections lol

Lord Kuru.3685:

Sicarius.4639:

I wonder how many players in the tournament would qualify for free to play? (Running classes / builds not a part of HoT).

In this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/EU-Pro-League-Meta is a list of professions used in the EU Pro League. There’s only one player not using an HoT specialization. So P2W is a real thing now.

Appreciate the link, thank you.

Can we please just fix the spirits prioritisation please.

Maybe go back to the swapping of stances, the shaman-esq (Udyr) thing.

I thought there was going to be some “epic quest” that involved a number of different aspects including the “scavenger hunt”.

Personally I’d like to see them bring back all of the LS episodes (S1) and then do something like “Get all the achievements (or extras) through all story elements of the game.” Get people doing things, rather than just farming.

This could be one part of it, possibly even account locked so you could do an epic journey for a soulbound precursor.

I wonder how many players in the tournament would qualify for free to play? (Running classes / builds not a part of HoT).

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

In HoT you get the rewards by exploring/playing the content new maps have to offer. It’s a different thing completely.

So once I’m finished with the content, I should have everything I need? Or am I going to have to complete it multiple times?

Firelysm.4967:

If you think WoW is so much better then go for it. Ty

I agree WvW is kittened up, but every thing else is false.
Raids will get own sub-LFG search soon.
If you want easy Raids, go play Fractals, no easy mode, no nerf, get better, get good.

I did play your content, easy content for 3 years, now welcome to my world, where i love hard content, if you want to play my content, get good, get better.

Not bought the expansion yet, but this shouldn’t obstruct my view.

3 years they had an audience for their content, now they’ve changed that, let’s see if they have an audience for it.

Wildstar also set this “get good” audience for their content, we saw how well that went for them.

kuritsutian.2987:

I tried WvW recently and feels more like a farming PvE area … farming because I found it very rewarding.. since the lack of players it’s very unlikely to find resistance to take an area… you just need a small group of peeps, some cheap blue prints.. and have the snowball take over half the map …. lots of rewards given, better than hours of PvE content.

T1 server here, used to spend at least 20-30mins a night in queues for random borderlands on Guild Raids, now every map is open to jump in any time I like, EB I might need to wait 10mins on reset. It’s desolate.

warbignime.4610:

2)WVW is not empty, it’s simply because alot of players are still enjoying the pve content as well that new borderlands are so huge that it still feels empty even the server reached player cap.

That’s weird, where have all my queues gone then? Used to find every borderland queued most days / nights, now you’ll barely have to wait 10mins for EB on reset. It’s dead.