Guild Wars 2

The general consensus seems to be that the pve qol changes are good. Shatter is better than before.

The main problem is the class balances. They said on stream that there was a lot more changes to come but everything they talked about in the stream was in the notes. Sure some addition changes but overall there was nothing. They over nerfed classes and over buff I there’s, there is no consistency. They have to split the balance team, one for pve and one for pvp (including WvW). They also need people on the team that actually know the state of the game modes they are balancing for.

There was a ranger video here which I can’t find anyone where the Druid was able to leap in to keeps and towers with his great sword and staff. Imagine if gliding was in WvW how bad it would be if zergs could gliding in to keeps. In order for gliding they would have to change a lot of terrain or put a bunch of invisible walls up which is not one of the things WvW needs right now.

The only alternative is to remove it.

Astralporing.1957:

Sird.4536:

So what is the point of raids if people can just do a collection outside of one?

…good question. Are you trying to imply that the primary point of raids is to gate rewards behind them? Because if so, why we even have them in this game?

Sird.4536:

Are you seriously annoyed you can’t get a skin?

…yes, of course. And if you think that’s weird, why are you annoyed by the very idea that any other way to get that skin can exist?

Point of raids was to introduce challenging group content for the section of the pve community to focus on and drive the game to a different audience. Adding a huge reward to it gave it some type of replay ability otherwise there would not be an incentive to do raids once a guild has cleared it three or four times. Whether or not legendary armour should be gated behind completing all three wings is the discussion but I like that it is. It’s an incentive to get people to do raids and for those that clear it something visible to show off without giving them any huge advantage over anyone else.

This also answers the second question. Titles are not overly visible and you can’t even see your own title. This game is all about skins. There are skins gated behind the gem store because I don’t have the gold to convert to gems or a skin gated behind map reward (bladed chest) etc. But making them obtainable through an easier way will just trivialise the content. Why run Tier 4 VB when I can say collect 2000 airship parts and buy it. The content will be redundant then.

Rewards like these gated behind events such as these just means that person worked bloody hard to get it nothing more.

Also as maddoctor mentioned the reward for the raid collection is a full set of ascended armour. I am not currently in game but does it say it is a precursor for the legendary?

Yargesh.4965:

Sird.4536:

Goatjugsoup.8637:

failure? i dont think it is, not from my perspective and i doubt from anets either since they are sticking to that plan of making more xpacs

it had flaws yes but what we did get was very good

If you remember a few years back they said they weren’t working on an expansion and didn’t not want to as they wanted to do more living story big patch content dumps. Well in order to make money they needed an expansion and finally made one and well it definitely feels rushed.

They did not say they were not working on an expansion. Not even close to that. They said they were not sure how they where going to release the content. The debate was whether to do so entirely through living story or through a traditional paid expansion or through a combination. They choose to do it via the traditional paid expansion route. There were people on the videos explaining various aspects of the expansion pre release who said they had been working on the content since soon after the main GW2 game released.

Even so they didn’t know how they were going to release it. Point being is it seems they have no clue how to release things until it is to late and as a result content seems rushed.

You can see what orders you have selected on your account at the character selection screen

I swapped the gear I had on my guardian I used to tank for VG to my Revenant and it worked very well. I use the same dps build only change is I take Hardening persistence which allowed me to drop some toughness trinkets for more Zerker with jalis/glint stance.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

failure? i dont think it is, not from my perspective and i doubt from anets either since they are sticking to that plan of making more xpacs

it had flaws yes but what we did get was very good

If you remember a few years back they said they weren’t working on an expansion and didn’t not want to as they wanted to do more living story big patch content dumps. Well in order to make money they needed an expansion and finally made one and well it definitely feels rushed.

I have cleared the raid with my guild using a dps hammer guard on Sabetha and a hammer tank on VG.

In an organised guild or group guard is fine if they know what they are doing. For pugging it can be a problem because everyone wants the meta builds and meta classes.

Garambola.2461:

How did you get Agent’s Pack? I have always gotten the one that belongs to the characters order only.

Is its a story reward item, can’t remember which. You can select one of the starter back packs of the 3 Orders. I have no idea if you have to be a member of the 3 orders on your account for them to show up as I have 12 characters and am a member of all 3 across them.

I am doing it for the challenge the reward is a nice bonus. My guild is only a 10 man guild which is currently on a break (I hope it’s on a break or I better look for another guild lol). If I don’t ever get the armour then I won’t be disappointed as what is legendary armour? I can stat swap my ascended for a few gold no big deal.

I remember in WoW they introduced a way for people that did not raid to get 2 pieces of high end raid gear by simply doing dungeons. I spent months trying to get one of those pieces and never got luck and yet some dungeon runner had the piece after one day of running every dungeon. I stopped playing WoW after that.

Legendary armour will not give the wearer any boost (maybe a ego boost) over someone who does not. If the armour skin is terrible people are going to transmute it anyway. If I see someone with the armour and I don’t have it then no big deal because my ascended set is exactly the same as his legendary armour set.

I have tank VG for my guild and what I have learned is there is a pattern to when he is just about to CC. I have not done raids for a few weeks but if I remember correctly every 4th blue he will Need to be CC (it could be after every 3rd as said I have not done raid for a few weeks due to collection complete a long time ago). If it is after every 3rd blue, next blue going to be his 4th have your CC guys ready and insta break the bar, at this point the tank should be moving to the other zone.

So am I correct in saying that if Anet think of the guardian as a support/tank role that they should balance for that instead of trying to bring it in line with other profession and actually give a reason for people to play and accept in to groups etc?

Vayne.8563:

maddoctor.2738:

Vayne.8563:

My answer is an alternate path for content that, by Anet’s own admission, most people aren’t going to finish. And if that’s the case, they’re taking developer resources, which are spread thin already, to add something to the game of no value whatsoever, to people who play like me.

Where do you draw the line with this “alternative” path(s) of yours? And I’m more interested in the why you’d exclude anyone below that line. Or you want everyone to get all the rewards regardless of their personal skill level, time commitment or any other attribute they might have.

So which is it? Should everyone have access to all the rewards or not? And if yes, we go back to the moa of Queensdale, if no, then why not?

If you don’t want to do the raid, you should have a path to get the rewards, even if it’s expensive, or long, or contains some RNG.

My real solution was to make the gear sellable, just like most of the gear was sellable in GW 1. You could sell tormented weapons. Rare minis. Destroyer Weapons. Voltaic SPears, Celestial compasses.

Raiders could get extra cash, and everyone else could save their pennies. That’s a better solution to me.

So what is the point of raids if people can just do a collection outside of one? Are you seriously annoyed you can’t get a skin?

Vayne.8563:

I wouldn’t mind titles given to people who achieve hard content. But unique skins or the only way to get a specific class of armor…that I do mind. Raids are too hard to lock stuff like that behind.

The raid collection only awards a full set of ascended gear. That is obtainable by anyone. We have no word on how the gifts will be obtained. If your problem is you can’t get a full ascended set because you can’t kill the first boss then you need to find a better set of people to do raids with or just accept that this type of content is not suited to you. Whether that is wrong or not is another thing.

For a long time there has been nothing for people dedicated to certain game modes to really focus on and show that they worked hard for a title, weapon or armour etc because if you look in front of you you would see another player with the exact same thing.

So John Corpening is going to be on guild chat today talking about the upcoming WvW changes on the 26th of January. If you are reading the his John please talk even a little about the overhaul or where WvW is going and not just the small changes coming up this Tuesday.

Jon Olson.8439:

Subgroups and squadmates have different dots already. Though the difference is subtle. see attachment — subgroup is on the left

I’ll pass on the feedback to the team.

Thank you coming on and posting.

Pleasantries out the way, have you joined a squad of let’s say 15 people and looked on your mini map and been able to tell the difference?

If I am correct it is a level 30 story step so not to much to level. Faster if you have tomes or a 3 yer birthday gift.

It is a lot cheaper. If you run fractals enough and have a good drop rate on ascended chest then it removes the whole crafting process.

There are 11 pages to many to read but am I correct in saying that OP doesn’t like content gated behind raids and esports etc?

If that is the case I can’t help but laugh. The legendary armour is not in game yet and even if it were it is only worth obtaining for the skin alone. Ascended armour and the use of stat swapping in the MF allows players to have legendary style armour already. It is just a prestige thing for players that can clear the raid and if the skin is horrible then people will transmute them anyway.

About pvp, the only thing obtainable through pvp with any ‘hardcore’ element is the back item. Given enough time spent in pvp you can get to legendary tier without having to be pro at pvp. Also guess what there is a pve version of the back piece as well through fractals and you don’t need to do a single fractal over 50 to obtain it.

Casuals cry about everything they can’t get and are blind to everything that they can. Look at the amount of cheap ascended weapons you can get through the elite specialisation collection tracks, legendary weapons old and new, various amulets from story achievements.

I like that they are putting in challenging group content as the only way this game is going to survive is if they keep the ‘hardcore’ community still playing. I hate the game being dumbed down to accommodate for casuals. We have had 3 years of casual content, it’s time for a challenge.

If the devs are listening to people like you then no wonder WvW is dead. Bad idea after bad idea.

There is no urgency. They have said that they are working on an overhaul for over a year but only tell us 2 weeks ago. Add that the only persons who they have talked to are pug commanders in NA lol.

Plus before HoT they mentioned WvW being no1 priority…bringing back PPK and reverting upgrade changes is high priority? I have only been in WvW maybe three times after HoT released and looks like I won’t be stepping back in for a long time to come.

Or if you are in a guild that has a guild hall then go to it and leave through the portal leading into HoT.

When is the gorse all video up? ????

HoT for me is boring and stressful.

Boring in the sense that there is not much do to. I have maxed out all mastered fairly quickly, I have all the new armour sets, all elite specs unlocked, all HoT achievements done and all in the first month of release without any real effort in farming for those things. I am left with nothing to do when I log in. I am waiting for new legendary that I like and when they are released I have pretty much got most of the materials for the core gifts ready.

My guild cleared the raid with Eternal titles and collection complete what seems like a long time ago now and the guild is dead. Repeating raids is pointless when the rewards are garbage so they are off playing different games while I am now looking for a new guild.

HoT is also stressful because of the timers the maps are on. If you log on during a meta that you want to take part in well good luck trying to get into a full map. That leaves you with 2 hours to wait for it to start over again and at that point it’s stressful because the taxi war begins. Which leads to boredom again, what do you do for 2 hours? The meta event chain, well why would anyone bother doing that and get 200% participation when you will most likely have to taxi therefor losing it.

While I am here ranting might as well add WvW is dead. Since GW2 launch I have been in WvW, after HoT I have probably only set foot in WvW three times. Why if Anet have been working on a WvW overhaul for a year have we not heard about it till a week ago.

I ask this because Zhaitain was killed by cannon fire.
Mordy was killed by …. A spike?

At the end of the Dragon Stand event the cutscene shows Mordy impaling himself on a spike which kills it.

So have we actually physically killed an Elder Dragon yet? Can we the players claim to or just say a cannon and spike did the job for us?

I have completed the story twice now and second time round it felt the story is way to short for an expansion. With the mastery poison nerf it only takes a few hours to go through the whole thing.

I understand the Living story will follow but if past living story are anything to go by they won’t take long to complete either.

Don’t get me wrong I liked the dream fight but the rest was a bit of a let down. There was no build up I felt.

Sorry if this has been brought up before but I was wondering, where did the gold from dungeons go? I don’t see fractals giving a huge amount and nothing in the HoT maps gives decent coin per event. Will we have to wait for raids to seeing it all went there?

If you look at part one you can see you need the current fractal back piece. I would not be surprised if you needed part one for part two and part two for part three. Part four I think is the actual legendary as they said they will bring it in once they are happy with it which I believe to be Ad Infinitum (same back the Asura in the instance is wearing).

Meaning you need Finite Result to make Upper bound. Then upper bound to make Unbound and finally unbound to make ad Infinitum. Just like the spinal blade back pieces.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

HoT can be brutal when you are doing a group event and some chupa cabra comes out of nowhere and kicks you in the nuts.

I have a full sentinel set just for those mordremoth snipers …

As a Guardian they said Dragon Hunter was a high concept name. Braham picking up Eirs longbow doesn’t seem high concept if indeed that is the idea behind that.

The way me and my guild did it was to attune a new ring and then infuse that using the old method. Wasn’t to bad as we had multiple back up rings.

DylanLucas.6058:

Btwsince when did VcY turned into a nightcapping PvD guild? They afraid to take on real players instead of NPC’s?

The Velocity corporation have recently decided to change it’s business model to reflect current market shifts.

After extensive research we have concluded that NPC’s are much easier to fight than players. It took us an extraordinarily long time to realize this (over a year). The reason for this is that we got so caught up in trying to kill real players; working on builds, tactics and seriousness that we completely and utterly lost focus. It took one Ascalon fractals to open our eyes to what we could achieve with just stacking and hitting a gate.

Gone are the days of killing, gone are the days of GvG, gone are the days of seriousness. Hence forth we shall wait till our enemies go to bed so that we can embrace the cold hard wood of their towers.

Long live PPT! Long live the Ascalon fractals!

Sird – Head of Doors at VcY.

hihey.1075:

I d like to thank the AG Commander in El for letting me solo their T3 Quentin during prime time as a Staff Ele. Cheers!

Your prime time must be a little different then EU. No one took QL during prime time yesterday. We made sure of that.

Had a blast in EB during reset. Time to shake off the Christmas weight.

Can I get a list of the EU guilds in this league and what server they are on and future potential transfers.

Nemesys.7251:

hey vyc just kick someone out u are really too many!

We take matters of blobing very seriously and as a result we have made over 20 employees redundant. As a serious corporation we have reached agreements on redundancy packages to minimize backlash.

When we raid as a company we always try to coordinate with other guilds to ensure that we are roaming with equal numbers. In the event that we can’t coordinate our accountants try to carry out on the field mathematics to ensure that we are fighting on equal terms. This has obviously failed and as a result we have taken the action described above.

This has obviously crippled our growth as an organisation and the road to economic recovery and stability starts now. As long as our employees and management maintain a strict work ethic and rigorous working schedule then we should be back up and running in 2 -3 working days.

We take such extreme measures to keep our name clean and away from negativity. We have always maintained a good working relationships with our partners and we aim to continue that as we grow in this sector.

Sird, Blob Administrator and head mathematician.

Zumos.2056:

VcY came out of nowhere ofc … If anyone of your guild told them to come in map chat, as a guild leader you should have told them not to. And no you didn’t make it public, but you did ruin the gvg and still accuse us of cheating. And how come that 5 mins after it happend people in VII already knew?

Thought I’d clear this up.

We were at South camp when someone in say chat told us that WBC were at the windmill. We knew there was a GvG v FIRE so we asked in map chat for the score. We were told that the GvG was over so we headed to the windmill for a one of fight.

We were not sent to kill you, which is kinda funny.

Anyway looking forward to our GvG with WBC

So why is it that I don’t have the achievement? I have done all 13 zones multiple times.

I am on AG and people on this server farm the aetherblades before trying to complete the invasions. I don’t mind farming as I do it myself, but I am looking to guest on a EU server that completes invasions. Especially in Frostgorge Sound as that is the only zone I am missing for the achievement.

Any EU server fit the bill?

Ok so tried this again and after my third attempt of doing 8 orbs (and the 3 the day before) I finally got the achievement. So I had to kill her with 8 orbs 6 times to get the achievement and…….4 sprockets from the bonus chest!!!!!

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Gear I used was knights with soldier runes, can us scholar if you have the gold.

Pop VoJ, VoC SYG and SYS to stack retaliation. Tank her while you wait for the visions to cross the light. Empower to buff retal damage. Her HP should be at 85/90% when you enter phase 2. For a normal kill kite her round the room, a little tricky to explain a 8 orb strategy. You just have to know the shadow fall pattern.

Use shelter and renewed focus when you don’t have any endurance to escape from shadow fall. Staff – Sceptor/focus is what I used and retreat as your last shout.

I killed Liadri 3 times by throwing 8 or more orbs and failed to get the achievement. I have a guild mate who was counting with me to verify.

Has anyone done this achievement after the new content patch?

Ok so I thought I would try and get liadri 8 orb done since they made the tickets account bound. I transferred all the tickets I had to my guardian and set out to get this achievement as it is the only one I need. I killed Liadri 3 times throwing 8 or more blazing things at her and not once did I get the achievement. I had a guild mate with me who was counting the orbs as I threw them and he also counted 8 for those 3 kills.

Has anyone tried this and got the achievement after the new content?

I don’t think we (GvG community) need a list of rules. Guilds on the ladder already know what the rules are and new guilds are being educated by vets. Ogros beginner guide video was short and to the point.

On the topic of arranging matches on reset. That is a bad idea. Guilds should not be forced to do GvG that they don’t want to. I think outlining what guilds you can face in your new match up would be better. Also think guilds on the ladder need to update their status. Some guilds have moved to other servers permanently but no updated that on the site. Some guilds have also disbanded but are still on the ladder.

This is a community driven scene so we as a community need to update and keep this growing.

A quick note on guilds avoiding others. Yes it is frustrating to see guilds running around in WvW with 20 plus and yet they decline a 15/20v and guilds saying no to you yet they have several GvGs arranged with ‘easier’ opponents. Guilds that do this will on their own create a bad reputation. No need to black list them or anything of that sort.

Gj Surmia well deserved win. Thanks for having us on RoS and can’t wait to fight you guys in the future.

Ok i made a role play post like we at VcY normally do but seems no one got it. I even put a smiley face on it.

VcY never complain about blobs, never have done. We enjoy the challenge of trying to take numbers higher then us. I agree rolling through enemies when we outnumber is not fun. That is why we run past smaller groups if we don’t see the point in fighting them.

As for grouping with WAR and pugs. We did not say ‘Hey join us we need help’. They were defending bay as well and saw us and tagged along.

As for our conduct on this forum, sure Bloin did break our only rule in VcY but apart from him who from VcY has said anything negative? Songs post explained how to get the extra range on AC with the window mode thing and Rmyr backed that up and my earlier post was about how VcY was looking forward to fighting our very first server.

And for future reference we have 31 in TS not 35-40.

Maybe people are confusing RiOT post with ours :/

Velocity Corporation would like to thank the FSP community for showing up at Bay this evening on FR BL. It was fun fighting your collective guilds that had assembled in that enclosed space.

We tried fighting you individually and had great success and fun. It is a shame that it came down to what it did with your collective push but as you said this is WvWvW right?

Had a great /laugh xD

Small homecoming for VcY and FSP. Seemed along time ago when we fought in T1 with the Russians and EU powerhouse prime time.

Also looking for gvg with punk and fsv, check your gvg.com.

our new destination

the airport for