Guild Wars 2

Rauderi.8706:

Mal.1670:

I’d agree this is a problem if there were any decent Spirit Shard sinks.

That’s kinda what I’m facing right now. 3000+ and not much to do with them.

With enough willingness to click things, https://gw2efficiency.com/currencies/spirit-shards helps guide you to at least somewhat profitable conversions. (around 3 shards per gold earned, so that would be around 900 gold or so sitting there….)

Faaris.8013:

joneirikb.7506:

And is considering trying to solo the dungeons for the heck of it

Hey, we have that in common, I tried to solo Twilight Arbor in story mode (because I thought that “story” means you can solo it, why the heck do you even let people in when they come alone??) but stopped after dying a few times at the Spider Queen.

Let’s do it together then! :P

FWIW, I did almost every dungeon story mode solo, just for the challenge. Couldn’t get past the wretched bird ability at the end of HoTW yet, but … otherwise, it was possible.

Not saying this to run you down or anything, just a reason why going into story mode alone is something some players would like.

Robert Williams.4872:

And I think you’re skipping over how Thief, as a DPS class, has access to “Heal on Crit damage” (Every other attack with level 80 Berserker exotic). It’s also faster and easier to use on PvE maps than most classes due to mobility AND stealth, and is still Good-Great in raids.

You wouldn’t be the most wanted for in Raids with a thief, but you would be able to pull your weight.

That’s just a self-heal, so yes, it’s convenient in raids, but it’s not the same degree of group support demand that PS Warrior gets.

The Greyhawk.9107:

I am of the opinion that Anet does need to cool it with the Asura Magi-tech. Seems like EVERYTHING is solved with Asura magi-tech, and it kind of diminishes the other races importance.

Only that? I think that the Asura really diminished the significance of other races when they made the decision “will Ebonhawke stand or fall”, by way of allowing humans to ship in supplies and troops, but refusing the charr access to invade.

Once you are deciding which way wars between other races fall out, they are much less significant in the whole picture. They fight their little wars, but they only win if the asura see it to their own advantage…

Dellingr.5063:

Ok I bought a character slot and I think I’ve narrowed down the classes I want to try to warrior and thief. Who is better at soloing and who is better accepted in raids. If possible please give me a build or two for soloing for both characters. Thank you.

Warrior, by way of Phoenix Strength builds, provides a highly demanded set of group support features. Thief, on the other hand, is a great DPS class, but that’s about it.

So, Warrior, if you want “accepted in raids” to be the deciding factor. On the front of “better at soloing” … probably warrior, though both can do wonderfully at it with the correct build.

Finally, builds? https://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

The fractal and raid builds there are focused exclusively on group support and damage output, the WvW builds are more focused on being able to survive being hit by things.

Take your pick, or migrate gradually between a WvW build and a Fractal build depending on if you are dying too much or not…

I think you are mistaking the categories “popular” and “overpowered”, in your question.

I’m pretty sure that “fires on the ground when out of range” is actually caused by “lock ranged indicator at max range” option, exactly like every other ranged attack skill in the game is.

The biggest things that will help here are:

One, use the 64-bit client, not the 32-bit client. Memory fragmentation with the 32-bit client means that it will be unable to allocate memory and will die. This is exacerbated by busy maps, lots of people, etc, which … hey, dragon stand, right?

Two, check for network problems between you and anet. It’s possible it is at their end, in which case this is the information you need to present to anet support to help them fix it. It’s possible it is at your ISP, in which case you may be able to fix it with them. Either way, figuring out if that is the root cause is a good step.

This guide helps doing that: https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network

TheMaverick.6104:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

TheMaverick.6104:

I would have taken a look on the ram. 2 GB is minimum, but vista is a hog itself. The min for ram might have XP in mind.

It’s really, really not that much of a difference.

On 3 GB ram i’d say a 500 MB of ram i’d sat 500 MB is not a small difference.

Vista does not use 500MB of RAM more than XP did.

FWIW, the easiest way to get full time 33% movement speed is to use a druid, as they have a passive trait that grants it to them.

That sounds like a perfect plan to me. Welcome back!

Ardid.7203:

I’m so glad my commander is an Asura. I can dismiss all this mess as mere human (even divine-human) incompetence. It all makes much more sense this way.

I am so so not looking forward to the moment that some asura meddling goes outside of reasonable, in the same way this god did for humans. I’m sure it’ll happen, eventually…

Your requests are about a year too late for the next xpac, at least for everything that requires additional coding. It’s not impossible that if things run ahead of schedule, maybe possibly some additional assets like hair and face might show up, but highly unlikely.

So, don’t be disappointed when those get missed: it’s just too far down the development track for xpac 2 to contain them.

I’m gonna vote for fox a million times. Though preferably as miniatures as well, because I don’t run ranger.

Djinn.9245:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Ookamikun.6472:

I actually like HMS Divinity

So did the developers, and they were all O_o that players put it into the “silly” bucket!

I’ll bet they’re also surprised that there are players that put this one in the “silly” category.

I can’t speak for anet, but I’m certainly shocked at the angry responses. I love the look of it, and honestly, I was more disappointed when it turns out to be cultists rather than just candles.

Improvised weapons for magic are awesome. I wish I used a focus on my necro so I could use the improvised one, that lil voodoo doll look, so good!

Not everything needs to be giant swords done in blacker than black to turn up the serious.

…but then, abyss black or whatever the dye is gets so much love, and I think it looks dreadful because all the detail vanishes into nothing but gloom…

RedDeadFred.1256:

OriOri.8724:

We don’t even need an overhaul so much as just a proper balance patch. Give the balance team enough time, and enough devs, to balance all skills, all traitlines, in all classes, along with runes and sigils.

This. So many traits probably just require some numbers tweaks or maybe added functionality. We don’t need a rework. We just need a very large balance patch.

To actually say that we do really need this, we need large scale performance numbers — something that only anet have at this point in time.

Given that arcdps is now permitted enough, and can record combat traces, though, it’s something that someone in the community could work on.

Build a system like the various raid logging tools over in WoW that gather those traces, and can provide aggregate statistics on real world performance of classes, as well as information on builds, and when we have multiple thousands of performance records … we have a convincing base on which to build our case that balance is wrong.

It’s entirely possible that traits that look “out of balance” to you and I are actually performing just fine in the real world, either in some area we don’t see, for playing using a different combination of gear, stats and rotation that has better synergy with it, or simply is actually fine in the real world and is just believed to be poor.

We can assert that balance sucks across the board all we want, but without some actual facts to back that up, all we end up with is a vaguely insulting “the balance team sucks”, and no actionable results.

If you have individual cases where something performs poorly, that’s maybe got a lower burden of proof, but … remember that at the end of the day mechanical performance has to be significant enough to matter.

A concrete example of that is the reaper greatsword auto-attack chain. Technically the third attack causes a very small drop in power output per second in damage. Practically, I’m pretty sure that difference is actually small enough that it is lost in the noise — mistime one single action in a fight, and you lost more DPS than you could possibly gain by cancelling the AA chain after two swings and avoiding the third.

Without concrete real world numbers, though, I can’t prove that. It’s a theory that I would have to get evidence to support, if I wanted to convince someone. I would especially not expect someone who did have numbers to be convinced by my assertion … and the only people who do, right now, have those numbers are the anet developers.

A second concrete series of examples can be found all over these forums, and reddit, from the time when DPS meters were first “permitted” by anet. Suddenly, posts about the fact that the average elementalist in a pug performing at 1/3 or less of the theoretical DPS golem rotation in the real world were everywhere, shocking everyone except people who know from places like WoW that, yes, theory is great and all, but the real world is never so simple.

That certainly supports the thesis that player perception of balance, compared to actual balance, is … not as accurate as you might hope.

Nope, works fine for me. I’d suggest trying a `-repair` on the client to see if maybe some texture or map data got corrupted or something like that.

You sure it isn’t another raptor charging you and hitting in melee range? They do love to zoom around, and they sometimes spawn over a few seconds, so hitting one ends up with more popping into existence and being angry with you.

Narmoriel.2938:

I had the same issue. I use RTSS and Afterburner, and if I have them running before or after I launch GW2, it will crash. Thanks @SlippyCheeze.

At least for the former there is some beta or other — 7.0 or something, I think? — that fixes the issue. No idea about the later, but check for the latest versions.

Something in Windows 10 changed in a way that led to this crash in them, and they are updating to adjust for it.

Thanks for providing the source links. Very interesting.

I’ve hit this in more places that I would have called “a handful”, but … definitely it’s inconsistent. (or, rather, the rules for triggering it are complex enough that I can’t work them out.)

I’m pretty sure there is an “in combat vs out of combat” in the rules somewhere, though.

I kinda like the look of Flames of War from the screenshots, but that is because it’s kinda in the same bucket as the “Improvised Focus” skin: looks like you picked up a candalabra and are using it as a weapon.

Combine with the wedding dress for great victory.

Lorcet.6325:

My bad I meant player count. Like more players player ele over necro. I’m an old school WoW player and was able to see for example (made up reference) 20% of the players play Druid.

I just don’t want to player an over populated class.

I … think you might be bringing some unnecessary baggage in from WoW. I know I did when I first made the move.

I’d strongly suggest that you play around with the classes, find out what you think is fun, and play that. It’s really not that big of a deal if lots of other people play the same class, or hardly any.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Warrior – 14%
Ranger – 13%
Guardian, Revenant, Necromancer – 12% (each)
Elementalist – 11%
Mesmer – 10%
Engineer, Thief – 8% (each)

What is your source for this?

Marjory does listen to our input, discuss things with us, but does not always agree. Not blindly obeying is probably the biggest difference between the guild, and the vigil, whispers, or priory — it’s not a military based group, so obedience is not required in the same way.

You are not wrong, though, that various forces outside of just the dragons (and associated things) have kept a number of parts of the guild out.

Uh, and I tend to agree on Braham, though perhaps not for the same reasons; I mostly look at his actions as pretty much exactly what a traumatised 16 year old boy would do in the situation and culture. He needs therapy, not to be dragged into fighting the next dragon.

When he is on a bit more stable a footing, then he might be a great member of the team, but right now his pain and trauma mean he is nothing but a liability — to himself, and to anyone he drags along on his downward spiral to death.

…or just swam too long in the now boiling water, and died, then got carried into here by the flow of heated water upwards. Not that I might consider this a possibility based on personal deaths or anything.

Mal.1670:

Conspiracy theory: Anet haven’t prioritized build templates because players who REALLY want to can spend gold/gems on a character slot and gear to manually create their own template on a new character. If so, that is kind of a kitten move.

Honestly that isn’t even a feature that would need to be tied into an expansion either (read: feature pack). I’d play the game more if I could save build templates on a single character.

It’s pretty much zero times that a major studio makes decisions on that basis.

Yeah, it’s not useful to point at the name of the game and ask for new features based on it.

Instead, focus on what the developers have communicated is helpful: why is this fun? How do you envision it working?

Xenon.4537:

Donari.5237:

Sadly, they’ve told us before that dyeing weapons and backpacks just isn’t doable with the structure of the game code. At least they elected to give us (some) dyeable gliders rather than force the gliders to locked-in colors just to match the back.

It’s not exactly impossible (and it’s not exactly the “game code’s” fault). It’s a matter of the shader artists going back and redoing all the shaders to include dye channels. Basically it’s way too much work with little payoff.

Not just that — game code, data storage, and network all need adjusting too, since you have to have UI to select the dyes, somewhere to store the information, communicate it to every other client so they can draw your dyed backpack, etc.

Each of those has risk that something goes wrong, and even adding a single set of fields for dye channels on the backpack adds up to a lot of outbound data from the servers to all the client out there…

Ookamikun.6472:

I actually like HMS Divinity

So did the developers, and they were all O_o that players put it into the “silly” bucket!

Koolaidius.2580:

I’ve been searching around for if there was a way to see your allies health over their heads and I’ve seen threads from years ago talking about how it’s not possible and suggesting this feature.

It’s incredibly disheartening as someone who likes to play support roles that this is pretty much never going to be addressed.

My own theory is this: anet actually do care a great deal about this, but what they care is that it remains the way it is, quite deliberately to avoid the classic “healer” click-the-low-bar model in the game.

So, it’s not that they don’t care, it’s that they don’t agree that this is good for the game they want to build.

ipaukil.9420:

I really want to try the elite specs but 250 hp seems daunting after the hot difficulty complaints.

HoT hero points award 10, not just 1, points per location, so it’s not that bad.

There are enough of those, and enough spare points in central tyria, that you can do this with just HoT communes in VB, which is not super-hard to achieve.

To the rest of your questions, I’d suggest … don’t kill yourself getting one of each class to 80. Just play what you enjoy, do stuff that is fun, instead.

If you raid with a team, you could ask them what they would prefer you to bring.

If you pug, just make a PS condi warrior, and be done with it.

If you care about enjoying the game, play whatever you enjoy, which is something that we cannot tell you — because we can’t know what you enjoy.

I’m not sure that making it look like those boots cut off my toe-claws would be better…

Anyway, most boots behave like this: out stick the asura claws/toes on the sides.

All the classes are completely capable of being useful and effective in all the content the game offers, including top tier fractals, raids, pvp, and wvw. You should play what you enjoy, and focus on it — because for most players skill differences are more significant than any mechanical differences between the classes.

If you read the forums and reddit, yes, it sounds like everything is dead — pve, pvp, wvw, raiding, all dead. dead as a dodo. dead as the game is. ditto classes: every one is completely useless, unloved, and trivially beaten by everyone else.

This is … depressingly standard, honestly, even when players have access to good information. I remember many times in WoW where a class was suddenly unwanted in raids because it was “nerfed into the ground” according to the forums.

On the flip side, according to the actual raid logs and performance numbers across tens of thousands of runs, they moved less than two percent down in DPS, or they now performed similarly to other classes instead of being grossly overpowered.

So… yeah, people gonna hate. Ditch the haters, play what you want.

The legendary armor is released. Your suggestion is far too late, and unlike the actual implementation, would involve significantly more work from anet for very little practical gain.

Also, putting the runes back in your bag means you don’t have a limit of three sets to choose from, but as many as you want to dedicate inventory slots.

FWIW, I really, really want this. Back when what became the “restricted” functions were available in arcdps, one of them was “auto-accept loot chests”, and … I really, really miss that.

Early on it was nice to see that I got rewards for events and stuff. Now? I know I get rewards. I don’t even look at the summary, I just double click the chest, click the accept button, and carry on playing.

It feels like a very intrusive waste of time — like the “buy now now now” adverts you get in free to play games — to have the bouncy, wiggly, distracting chest down there, and worse that I have to click through a dialog afterwards.

FanRetri.7219:

Just a few ideas about the next elite specs we are getting. I really want to see new weapons introduced in the game. It’s been almost 5 years since GW2 was released and we haven’t seen any new weapons.

First, you are somewhere between 6 and 18 months late with these suggestions: at this point in development, given the timeframe anet have told us, they are fine tuning the existing design.

Second, it’s almost certainly not going to happen, because it adds extra mechanical complexity, and it also means that you either get “class specific weapons”, or you get multiple elites using the same weapon, neither of which seems like a great way to enthuse people about them.

Plus, it’s not like adding “shortbow” to a class that didn’t have it results in anything even remotely resembling the existing shortbow skills the class had.

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

It’s a reference to the most recent leaks. It’s consistent with earlier leaks, and doesn’t contain any prediction that has yet been disproven, so … it’s legitimate that people believe it. (Though I’d prefer they note that it’s info from a leak, and subject to change.)

PS: I’m pretty sure that anet would also love to know who gave it out.

Huh. Well, good demo of the bug. Hopefully anet QA can reproduce it and get a fix done soon! That certainly eliminates the latency thing I was wondering about, because that’s a static target…

The first half of your complaint is a reasonable, if very non-specific, way to describe a problem you found.

The second half consists of you just insulting the developers, which I assure you is not the best way to motivate them to work on your problems.

Your best bet, instead of insults here, is to use the in-game `/bug` tool to report this every time you hit it. Set the “blocking progress” flag to make sure it’s appropriately flagged.

Ashantara.8731:

(P.S. I am certain that I am not the first one complaining, so why hasn’t anything been done yet?)

Perhaps this is considered a lower priority issue than, for example, fixing shadows on NVIDIA graphics cards, or fixing client crashes related to the legendary armor, and so it hasn’t yet made it to the top of the almost infinitely large list of things that could be fixed?

PaladinVII.1647:

Thank you for the suggestion, but from my personal experience with /bug, I have concluded that reports made with that feature are sent to the void rather than to A.net for review.

The in-game tool explicitly tells you that you will not get a response to the bug report; the forums are in the same bucket: players may respond to you, but you have no confirmation that anet have either read, or acted on, the bug report.

It sounds like you are mistaking “fixed the bug” for “reviewed”, and I assure you that the two are absolutely not the same.

Tomaszz.5069:

PLEASE Anet , I’m stuck in map results 4 a week already , I tried everything, reinstall as much as adding -repair to exe file , and nothing works out

That’s a heck of a time to wait! Anyway, if you file a ticket with support you should get this resolved within three days.

Nah, Ashantara is right: this happens for any essence, it just happens more with those ones. I don’t know what the rules are, but several essences I ran near doing the very first heart, helping the pact, did this — and others didn’t.

You should contact support via a ticket and discuss it with them.

Blude.6812:

Open your nvidia control panel (right click on window screen), click ‘manage 3d settings’ then select the program setting tab. Use the drop down menu to see your games. Find and click on gw2 and you will the games settings ( which can adjust/customize them if you want] . If you can see GW2 there it is obviously an experience issue.

Uninstall GeForce experience. You don’t need it. Too many issues regarding it to get into here , but you can google the program to see the pros and cons.

I suspect most people use it for the “what graphics settings do NVIDIA recommend, given my hardware, for this game”, rather than to override 3D settings. (Which, TBH, I’m not even sure the “nvidia experience” can do.

So … this is “you want an apple? just grab a banana instead, it’s just as good…”

TheMaverick.6104:

I would have taken a look on the ram. 2 GB is minimum, but vista is a hog itself. The min for ram might have XP in mind.

It’s really, really not that much of a difference.

onix.9027:

Any news or fixes for this?

The forums are for player to player support. If you want a personal response from anet, file a support ticket.

Most of the crashes described sound exactly like the results of an incompatible overlay injected into the rendering path, such as RivaStatisticsServer, Afterburner, etc, or a memory reading DPS meter that has not been updated.

There were changes in the latest windows 10 update that have causes the former to begin crashing, which shows up as gw2 crashing because, well, they inject their code into the process to show FPS overlays, monitor performance, etc.

Amaimon.7823:

I asked for this feature several times since launch, and gave suggestions of organizing events as well, but I have yet to see proof anet has seen any of the topics at all

I’d guess part of that comes from the tone, suggesting that they owe you a personal response for making suggestions about how to “improve” their game while not having any skin in the game. You know they are, like, hiring people to work full time on making it better, right?

Anyway, you won’t get proof they saw your idea, and even if something similar is implemented, no credit … if they saw it or not. (In part because when you suggest things here, you explicitly give them to anet, and when you suggest them anywhere else the developers are required to not look at all…)