Guild Wars 2

Nobody is playing that silly game much, so matches with very few people are a sad reality. And why should people play it? It’s moderately fun at best and the rewards are… oh, wait, there are no rewards, unless you win 10 matches. Granted, the reward for 10 wins is nice, but 10 wins can take hours to obtain. Even the achievements are bad, you either get them in the first 2-3 matches, after a long grind, or basically never for the 100 interrupts one.

Okay, I got a reply from Support (I also submitted a ticket when I made this thread) stating that this collection reward does not let you choose your weapon, but are given one randomly. It sucks, but apparetnly it’s working as intended. So I guess we just have to cross our fingers and hope RNGesus chooses to smile upon us that day.

:(

I support this, there is no reason why this should not be available in unranked.

This, or remove asuras from PvP.

Seera.5916:

I figure the key thing is to be up front that you’re inexperienced or not the best at something. That way, if they have a problem with it, you at least get kicked or can voluntarily leave before you put any real effort into it.

This right here would make for a much better community and would improve player interactions a lot. In my experience, however, this happens about 1% of the time, or less.

Existencex.9712:

Vert.5041:

No. Be a good little warrior and use your kitten GS.

because kitten meta?

Because efficiency, which is the thing you want when farming. But if you really want a longbow, then trait for it and then run around and shoot it at things. What build can there be for such a thing? It will be a lot slower, though.

Rauderi.8706:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

There is no reason to make legends easier to obtain than they already are.

Spite.
Equity.
Telling RNG to sod off.
Yeah, there’s plenty of reasons.

You can avoid all RNG by buying the precursor. It’s what I think 99% of the people who made legends did, the chances to get a drop of the exact precursor you want are… wow (although a friend did get his exact precursor, that lucky kitten!). And the people who wasted fortunes on the MF and got nothing are victims of their own greed, not of RNG.

Egg Shennn.6240:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Egg Shennn.6240:

Sebastian.4610:

Grinding gold is easy, they are handing out legendarys now because social casual gamers cry. They dont want to put the time in to earn what everybody else has. They want it now and without a challenge.

Perhaps for those that don’t actually have lives but for people who aren’t able to play several hours every day of the year, grinding the amount of gold needed for Legendary weapons is far from “easy”. Some people want to play the game without it being like a job (MUST grind for hours everyday to earn enough gold!!).

Trying to make casual players seem like whiners is pretty elitist of you. With work, a wife, life, I probably average an hour of gaming per day each week. I’ll normally try and do a couple dungeon paths and other things, making progress on alts, etc, and that means I make a few gold in a day. A year of steady play like that wouldn’t even get me close to what 1 Legendary costs. As for drops, I’ve never had a precursor drop, let alone even have anything worth more than 3 gold drop.

I’ve been playing since the pre-launch and had initially hoped to work towards being able to get one, but have just felt the legendary dream get farther and farther out of reach as time has progressed. I’m no closer now than a year ago. I do hope that getting a precursor does end up more doable in HoT. With the current “ease” of getting a legendary, I won’t have one before 2020.

Playing only 1h per day makes obtaining a legendary harder, yes, but if you don’t have the time to undertake such a large project, why do it in the first place? Also, making only a few gold in 1h is rather little, you can get a good deal more if you focus your efforts a bit and not waste time. You can easily make 6.5g hard cash (not to mention cash from tokens and drops) in 30-35 mins of running CoF p1, SE p1 and CM all paths, then spend a few mins crafting to take advantage of the gated items to add a few more gold and you easily get to ~10g/day hard cash with some 15-20 mins to go faff around on alts or play PvP or stare at the cool sights this pretty game has to offer. 10g per day in 1 year gets you any legend with money to spare, provided you don’t squander the money on other stuff (and the temptation is stroooooong, I know).

Learn to be more efficient if time is short and stop asking for things that are already easy to be made even easier just to accomodate you. Even though legends are not what they were supposed to be since they can be bought off the TP, a critical flaw in their design, they are still prestigious items and therefore should have heavy requirements. Let’s hope they learned this lesson with the HoT legends. I’m really hoping they add PvP requirements as well, since legends can now be used in PvP.

You validated my point entirely, so thank you. What you suggest is to play the game like it’s work, don’t play for fun, play for being as efficient and fast to earn coin as possible. Your example describes the exact opposite of what players that play to enjoy the game want to do. I’m not going to be a “80 Zerkers only , ping gear or kick, Fast fast fast run!!!” 30-35 minutes to run 6 dungeons isn’t the typical player’s reality. There’s times I’ve waited that long just to find a group for 1 dungeon, let along the time to do it.

I offered you advice on how to obtain what you want given your severe time limitations and now you imply that I am some sort of monster who bashes on the little casual players. How very nice, thank you.

It’s not work. You work because you have to, if you don’t you will starve and die. I doubt the same applies to getting a legend in-game.

Here is a truth that you and others like you will have to learn to accept: if you don’t do the thing, you won’t get the shiny. Simple as that (credit card excluded, ofc). Complaining that there is no way to obtain a legend for chatting in Divinity’s Reach, viewing 2 vistas or completing 5 events a week is ridiculous. Legends are in no way mandatory, you can play and enjoy the game just fine without one. People are not entitled to having them handed over just for buying the game. You want the shiny, you do the thing. Tens of thousands of people have managed it, if not more, and many for much more than just one legend.

I can sympathise with your situation but the hard fact is that you are faced with 2 options: either become efficient, or renounce this goal until you get a (very) lucky drop. There is no reason to make legends easier to obtain than they already are.

Wait, what? Stronghold in the same queue as Conquest? Is this a joke?! Why would they do this, it’s a horrible ideea! I missed the last pvp news, did they announce this and it’s set in stone?

Hello,

The Dungeoneer collection awards one unique exotic weapon (namely, one from the champion boxes exclusive weapons). However, a little while ago a guildie finished this collection but this weapon was awarded to him randomly, he did not get to choose which weapon he was getting from the list (he got the silly Twin Talons, unfortunately).

This seems a bug to me, since this collection takes so long to complete and the other collection which awards you such a weapon lets you choose which one you get.

Is this a bug, or is this working as intended?

Has there ever been an official response to this? I know wiki says that you don’t get to choose, but the wiki is not exactly official. I looked a bit in the bugs forum but could not find another thread about this.

I am close to finishing it myself and I want to know before I finish my final dungeon collection if this is how it’s supposed to work or it’s a bug, and if there is a fix incoming (though I bet a lot of people who already finished this would be annoyed by it, and rightly so, if there is no subsequent compensation).

The reward is little as it is, I wouldn’t want to finish what is possibly the lengthiest collection in the game until I am sure it is not bugged…

Egg Shennn.6240:

Sebastian.4610:

Grinding gold is easy, they are handing out legendarys now because social casual gamers cry. They dont want to put the time in to earn what everybody else has. They want it now and without a challenge.

Perhaps for those that don’t actually have lives but for people who aren’t able to play several hours every day of the year, grinding the amount of gold needed for Legendary weapons is far from “easy”. Some people want to play the game without it being like a job (MUST grind for hours everyday to earn enough gold!!).

Trying to make casual players seem like whiners is pretty elitist of you. With work, a wife, life, I probably average an hour of gaming per day each week. I’ll normally try and do a couple dungeon paths and other things, making progress on alts, etc, and that means I make a few gold in a day. A year of steady play like that wouldn’t even get me close to what 1 Legendary costs. As for drops, I’ve never had a precursor drop, let alone even have anything worth more than 3 gold drop.

I’ve been playing since the pre-launch and had initially hoped to work towards being able to get one, but have just felt the legendary dream get farther and farther out of reach as time has progressed. I’m no closer now than a year ago. I do hope that getting a precursor does end up more doable in HoT. With the current “ease” of getting a legendary, I won’t have one before 2020.

Playing only 1h per day makes obtaining a legendary harder, yes, but if you don’t have the time to undertake such a large project, why do it in the first place? Also, making only a few gold in 1h is rather little, you can get a good deal more if you focus your efforts a bit and not waste time. You can easily make 6.5g hard cash (not to mention cash from tokens and drops) in 30-35 mins of running CoF p1, SE p1 and CM all paths, then spend a few mins crafting to take advantage of the gated items to add a few more gold and you easily get to ~10g/day hard cash with some 15-20 mins to go faff around on alts or play PvP or stare at the cool sights this pretty game has to offer. 10g per day in 1 year gets you any legend with money to spare, provided you don’t squander the money on other stuff (and the temptation is stroooooong, I know).

Learn to be more efficient if time is short and stop asking for things that are already easy to be made even easier just to accomodate you. Even though legends are not what they were supposed to be since they can be bought off the TP, a critical flaw in their design, they are still prestigious items and therefore should have heavy requirements. Let’s hope they learned this lesson with the HoT legends. I’m really hoping they add PvP requirements as well, since legends can now be used in PvP.

sorudo.9054:

Iretha.7625:

sorudo.9054:

so you’re proud of something you know close to nothing about with the only info released is a cryptic blog about masteries?
…each there own i guess.

At least it’s better than the people who have been constantly coming up with preconceived notions of the expansion and then complaining about things they know next to nothing about.

same thing, i am on the side of “don’t know so don’t care”.
if i know the correct info then by all means, until then i can’t be happy about anything HoT related.

Soooo much this!

I want a longbow and a mace that are not overly girly or made as jokes…

In SW it’s even better when you click on a party to join but it fills before you can join, as it often happens. Guess what? You are still credited with “joining too many parties” if this happens 3-4 times in a row and then you are locked out of the LFG tool. Even if you didn’t actually get into any parties because they filled in right before you clicked on the join button.

GREAT FEATURE, PLZ GIB MOAR ANET!!

Yes, it would be awesome! Also, instanced, please.

Oshelotae.4176:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Do not buy the precursor even if you have the money, HoT is coming and every precursor will be obtainable through a collection – it may be cheaper/easier to just complete the collection rather than buy the precursor.

Im sorry but could you explain im still pretty fresh?

They announced about 2 weeks ago that an expansion will be released soon, called Heart of Thorns. With it there will come new legendary weapons and each precursor, for the old legends and for the new, we will be able to acquire by completing a set of given tasks and/or collecting various objects in the game. They did not elaborate further yet, but more news are bound to come soon. If I understood it correctly, there will be a collection for each precursor, just like there are now collections for dungeon skins or beers or bandit weapons, for example (see your Hero pannel, achievements tab, there is a category there for collections – you can see how they look).

In short, there will be a guaranteed way to obtain every precursor without buying it, once per account.

Dungeon tokens = gold. Every dungeon except CoF has at least one stat combo that, when salvaged, has a 60-70% to give you an insignia/inscription, which sell for ~2g on the TP. If all you want is cash, the best way is to just buy headgear/gloves/boots, since those are only 180 tokens per, and salvage with BLSK (if you have too many) or mystic kit. Not to mention the ectos and dark matter you will get.

I wouldn’t throw in 4 dungeon greatswords (4 * 390 = 1560 tokens!!!) for a guaranteed 3g return with a very slight chance at the precursor, but that’s just me; you can do what you want. I crafted Twilight, Sunrise and Frostfang so far and I bought the precursors for all; MF is the great deceiver and the breaker of dreams, I do not trust it and only throw in the exotics I absolutely have no other use for (like the Azureflame I made for the skin since it has useless stats, or old soulbound weapons which I replaced with Ascended and had no more use for).

IMO, though, I would not finish any legends atm until HoT comes out, or at least until they announce the new stuff and the ways to get it, particularly the precursor collections. It may well be worth it to get them that way and you can save a lot of cash, but I have a feeling that completing those collections will not be an easy task…

Do not buy the precursor even if you have the money, HoT is coming and every precursor will be obtainable through a collection – it may be cheaper/easier to just complete the collection rather than buy the precursor.

Minigrump.4961:

i just wanna get something besides the speargun ;_;

I dunno why you’re upset. It’s a gun that shoots spears, that’s pretty awesome! And if you get more, even better, you can really up your spears/minute ratio!

:(

Shield mainhand and dagger or short sword in offhand, this would be great! Beat your enemies into oblivion with your shield, then impale them with the dagger!

I got this as well some while back and submitted a request for clarifications and my missing chest. Their response for the issue was something along the lines of “we are looking into it”, but when it came to getting me my missing chest, the response was a hard “no”. Apparently it can’t be generated by them or something. Fine, I can deal with that, even though I’m not quite sure I believe them. What about some compensation, then? I did just spend 90 minutes of my life and received only half (-ish) of the reward because of their faulty product. Guess what the answer was again? ANet support is “awesome”…

ALT+TAB, then 9gag. ALT+TAB again when bar icon turns orange.

Wreave.2138:

5 (Bonus Points)) Allow me a revenge punt on the guard. Or replace them with new guards whose dialog says the old guys got fired for incompetence.

This! Soooo much this!

Rozbuska.5263:

I have only wish. Dont make new leges tradeable on TP.

Soooooo much this, legends should never have been tradeable…

Human. Always human.

I really really really wish I could send you some of my ~150 stacks of each…

Wanze.8410:

nekretaal.6485:

Silverwastes Chests > Edge of the Mists > Doing mid level fractals if you are fractal lvl 50 > dungeons > open world chests (but parking alts at jump puzzles is good)

Dragonite and Fragments were removed from EotM rewards.

They added them back, at least Fragments – did EotM 2 days ago and I got Fragments for each cap. I can’t remember if the keeps awarded Dragonite again, but I think they did.

EotM in the wvw rotation would be bad IMO. Blue keep could never be capped, red keep would be very easy to cap and the green side would have a huge advantage for map movement/scouting from the Altar…

Kuunavang.

And Pyre Fierceshot. Because some of us are more evil than others…

I am torn on this… I like the new system, but it sure is nice to get loot from the mobs you kill… But I think it may be better overall for the health of the game if loot is given as reward for doing events etc. However, it invalidates Magic Find, since atm it does not affect containers.

Please let Magic Find affect containers…

lujate.5432:

KryTiKaL.3125:

…
The short of it is; don’t discount it simply because “you don’t get it” because from where I’m sitting…it kind of seems like you’re a bit more of a solo MMORPG player than a social one.

True enough. Given the choice, I would have opted for a non-MMO version of GW2. That being said, I know that a lot of people highly value the social aspect of gaming. If someone says, “guild halls are for socializing”, I’m OK with that. On the other hand, if someone says “guild halls are great”, I’m left wondering what’s so great about them.

So far, here are the reasons I’m hearing:
1. GW1 nostalgia
2. Amenities, most of what are already in-game
3. Social/RP

I think you can add to that list a sense of belonging. At the moment, the guild is just a roster. There are guild missions, true enough, and you can get buffs from guilds, but it seems so impersonal. With guild halls, the guild has a place of its own where the members can gather privately, like a personal town. It has a cosy feeling about it.

Griffin as pet would be soooo cool, this alone could get me into playing my ranger more…

I sure hope they don’t add trinity to gw2, the combat system is very nice as it is.

adormtil.1605:

First of all considering that a races in this game have their own zone, city and story we are not gonna have a new race in this game. Arenanet is not Blizzard who is the only company that has the resources to add a new class and a new race and a new area for it and new skills and new stories and another area besides that in one expansion. It sucks but when you are small you do small things.

This post is so ignorant that I’m not even mad; it’s amazing. Yeah, ArenaNet is not Blizzard (thank god for that!) so they surely could not release new classes and new races and new areas – Nightfall and Factions are illusions, everyone, those did not ever exist and we never played them! What’s that, you say, they even came with tons of new skills for the existing classes? Lies, all lies I tell you!

Well, granted, they did not have new races since in GW1 you could only play as human, but you got to play with africans and asians, which was pretty cool.

@poster – plz go back to WoW kthxbye!

More on topic, HoT seems small because they have shown us so very little. IMO, and this is just a guess, we will get at least 4-6 new maps which will each have 3 levels. And they did mention they completely changed the content of these maps as opposed to the current maps, so this could be an epic win. ANet has shown us that they learn from past experiences (even though not always, sadly) and I am actually hopeful for this expansion.

This right here is the reason why the video games of today are so dumbed-down.

Become Hero of Shaemoor, scroll up to level 20 then Tomes to level 80. Transfer ascended gear and whichever legends he can use from my warrior, then it’s time to rock the jungle!

My hopes are for landspear or two-handed axe, but it will probably be a dagger or a torch.

I think it was the Fractured update and the way they handled the situation regarding it afterwards, that really made me sad and shattered my respect for ANet. To see that ANet is capable of such things… I got back to PR 50 and I occasionally do a fractal every now and then, but not like before. There were other things that made me sad along the way, but this is foremost.

They drop like candy from AP chests.

@OP – you may be experiencing this since they changed the daily reward – before, you had a chance each day at a BL item and more often than not that item was a stone; now the daily reward is just AP, so no more BL drops except the 4 you get from login rewards per month.

Laurels are the best choice by far, all the other items you can easily get by other means. If it’s only cash you’re looking for, then getting 2 Damask is the highest cash return you’ll get, but it’s more than the return from the 20 laurels only by a few gold and, most importantly, it’s a huge gamble.

There will be QQ regardless of what they announce, but if it’s not an expansion then there will be a lot of real dissapointment and not-so-real threats of quitting the game. For me, about the only thing that ccould make me quit is them raising the level cap and forcing us to re-gear; this would break the game for me. Otherwise, I have mixed expectations – they shown us that they can deliver good stuff, but at the same time they made some horrid changes along the way, so anything is on the table. In other words, I am hoping for the good stuff but would not be overly surprised to see some very bad changes coming. Not long now…

~10 kills, maybe a bit more, still no coat. I’ll keep doing it since its rewards are not overly bad and I kinda like how this fight is (I was a big fan of the Marionette fight). I think I’ll get them at some point, they seem to drop at a decent-ish rate – rare but not too rare.

a t s e.9614:

Some people said it takes forever to convert SP’s to gold. And if you dont wait long enough for your kitten to sell, you lose money. They should definitly get rid of tomes and skillpoints or make a way to convert it EASELY without risking to lose money.

I have 5k skillpoints and im sure if I tried to convert, I would end up losing money cuz I dont like waiting for items to sell.

Then perhaps the problem is with you and not the system? LOL.

More to the point, you can use your extra useless tomes of knowledge in another way: create a new char, level him up, get the level-up rewards, perhaps do even story until level 10 to get that black lion key, then use his skill points for something, delete the char and repeat. This seems like the best way to use extra tomes, at least at the moment.

I only have this problem when I hit Loot All and there are items that can’t be looted because there is no more space in my inventory and they appear in a small window besides my inventory: if I try salvaging something without closing that window, it does not work. Other than that I had no issues.

OP, you are clueless. Most people (myself included) give praise to what ANet does and is praiseworthy, and complain when what they do is bad. Does that make us hypocrites? Are you serious?! Do you even know what that word means?!

Yes, the new update ANet gave us is amazing and I commended them for it because they earned it, but at the same time I am still annoyed by the Fractured update from a long time ago and I still call them out on that with each opportunity I get. Does that make me a hypocrite? If you think so, then you might have a problem.

It’s nice to see legends getting a bit of love. Now, if they only changed the movement of the jaw of Frostfang so that it’s slower and rarer instead of the current gibbering madness…

It’s the Executioner (Legendary Mordremoth Executioner).

It’s ~500 MB, but the last 2 files took forever to download.

Rasimir.6239:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

I don’t think the Tree can be taken by Mordremoth unless he exerts huge and close influence on it personally, but the individual sylvari are a totally different thing. Let’s not forget that in the cinematic almost all sylvari in the Pact fleet were instantly taken by Mordremoth and they started attacking their fellow Pact members of other races.

Are you sure those were pact Sylvari? They don’t seem to wear the usual pact uniforms. I would’ve guessed that those were in fact Sylvari from other trees (as we know from the Sylvari personal story that there are other trees further west) who are the dragon’s minions and attack the pact to defend their dragon.

There is validity in what you say, but in the cinematic there is clearly at least one Lionguard sylvari going berserk (and there were Lionguard on the ships since all cities sent troops to help the war effort) and some other sylvari are shown blowing up the ships they are on. The truth might be in the middle since it’s almost certain we will fight sylvari of different trees in the jungles, who will be joined by Pale Tree sylvari taken by the dragon and definitely the Nightmare Court (since we see Faolain killing a Pact trooper in the cinematic with a spear).

Malyck, my friend, yours is a woeful destiny…

A while ago there were people complaining on the forum that stuff was not announced in-game and that people had to come to the forum or website to get information. Now they announce it in-game and people are upset about this.

Sigh…

I would not mind increasing the level cap but only if the exotic and ascended weapons that are currently at level 80 get bumped to that particular level. Otherwise, if new gear needs to be made, then it will be bad. Really bad…

Overall I think it would be best if they did not increase the level cap at all.