Guild Wars 2

Crystal Reid.2481:

cesmode.4257:

Hi, I mentioned this in my first post a few moments ago. I could be out of date as well as this mind set that we were given early on…but isn’t the entire game ‘endgame’ ? Hop in, do whatever you want to do. No pressure, nada. Take your time, the whole thing is your oyster. When you start creating level 80 content only, ala raids, you segregate the playerbase much like other games where its then a rush to max level to do the raids. All of the gorgeous 1-80 content you have in this game becomes completely trivial and a stepping stone to the real game. You might as well just allow people to boost to 80 via potions or something and skip leveling all together because it becomes absolutely meaningless. A meaningless time sink. I didnt need 80 levels to learn my class. Maybe less than two dozen and I had it down. The rest was just enjoyment because the 1-80 content was nice. I leveled through it without any pressure. Put max level content in the game, and we will feel rushed to get to the real stuff. Its human nature.

For this reason, I do not think raids belong in GW2. But if they are to be implemented, I do have suggestions which I have shared

I bolded a section of this that I wanted to inquire about. Do you think the fact the game has been live for over 2 years now change your thoughts on this? This is definitely a common occurrence with new MMO’s that launch with raiding, but what about a game that didn’t launch with raiding? Is there still an issue of players “rushing to 80” when a large percentage of the player base already has at least one 80? Thoughts?

The people who would rush to 80 for endgame content are already rushing to the end for endgame content (fractals, high level dungeons, BiS gear). I also think the poster has completely hyperbolized the scenario. It seems like quite an assumption to say raid content = all 1-79 content trivial. There are people with over 10k AP who have never stepped in a dungeon. So likely “endgame” isn’t too interesting to them. There will still be those players.

And I agree on the fact that the game is 2 years old making it less of an issue. I have 7 80s (sorry necro), and I’m just running out of meaningful content. Most of the AP I can get at this point is either PvP or dailies/monthlies. All I have to work on that interests me is the dungeoneer title, which is completely lacking in the AP department but it at least has a cool title.

The fact is there is plenty in this game for people who enjoy the casual experience, but there is a definite lack of long term endgame content (fractals + 2/3 dungeons). It’d be nice to see a better balance and I just don’t think a game is looking in the long run if the majority of the content is prior to hitting max level.

suffish.4150:

I think the dragon at 1:23 is zhaitan. I thought it was mordy after DR: Part 2, but after looking at it it has the same look as zhaitan does in Arah story mode.

It’s Mordy’s champion that attacked the Grove. You can tell by the big bush on it’s back, which is also present in the opening instance for Sylvari.

As for the new footage, my current theory (hope) is that since it’s said glint’s sanctuary was held in a single grain of sand, what if the hourglass breaking contains the grain of sand (though I believe the single grain of sand was more metaphorical – probably more than 1 grain of sand can grant you access to it), and the crystalline structures is the Sanctuary.

My favorite is when in a dungeon and a boss is being pulled via LoS and the way someone pulls them is with a knockback/fear.

Good good. Get those defiant stacks on it before we’ve even started attacking. Perfect.

Black Frog.9274:

eyestrain.3056:

A city with blocks and alleyways- DR, Ebonhawke or LA. LA is the only place with a bay. The NPCs in LA are also currently hotly punishing looters after the destruction of the city. The object he wanted he had to steal, maybe from the merchants. He’s two blocks away from the bay, and may have come from near the sewers- So near where the mystic forge used to be. This failed theft takes place two days after he acquires the ghostly item from a merchant.

Lion’s Arch is not on a bay. It’s on a harbor. Google GW2 Bay and you’ll see there are a limited number of “bays” in Tyria. However, one of them is notably in Southsun…

Harbors and bays are not mutually exclusive. In fact, a lot of harbors are built on bays – LA included.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

PiTheMathGod.3742:

I think there is a too much reading into the storytelling going on. Synonyms for eldritch include sinister and ghostly (in fact, the definition pulled up by Google is precisely “sinister or ghostly”). Mystic Coins are an everyday item, literally! They are a reward for daily achievements. Finally, I can’t think of anyplace on Tyria that has geysers outside of Southsun. Possible materials that come from karka, reef riders, and gathering include blood vials, venom sacs, karka shells, and passion fruit and flowers (junk items do not appear in the Mystic Forge).

Granted, John could be yanking our chains on this giving misdirected details, but I’m with Occam on this. Simplest answers are the best answers.

And as an aside, my experience with Mystic Forge recipes are that the compatibility highlighting is not an exact science. I have had many instances where the highlighting does not highlight items for which a known recipe does exist. The below screenshot is an example. Eldritch Scroll and Mystic Coins go with the Ancient Focus Cores to make the Mystic Focus, but its not getting highlighted. So the fact that Eldritch Scrolls, Mystic Coins, and those crafting materials don’t all get highlighted does not necessarily mean that they don’t form a recipe. I don’t know if this is bug or intended function (maybe John can provide some enlightenment on that).

You may have bugged out the mystic forge by placing items in even after they are greyed out…. the focus component does not get greyed out for me at all

I went to test this for myself, put in the eldritch scroll, and the core greyed out. I should have taken a screenshot but wasn’t thinking. I took out the scroll, put in the core, and then the scroll was not greyed out. So I went back to nothing in, and put in the scroll, and this time the core did not grey out. So…I’m not sure how to reproduce it greying out….?

Type in eldritch into google and it defines it as:

‘weird and sinister or ghostly’

Lemark says it feels weird to hold something so sinister..ghostly. Unless this is deliberately misleading, I think it’s pretty obvious the first item is the eldritch scroll.

The mystic coins literally say “one of zommoros’ favorites”. The crystals say loved. The elonian wines say nothing. Coins seem to be the best guess for the moment.

As for the dull blades clue, not sure yet.

One of the most baffling things about this system, besides the fact that gemstore item prices don’t match up to the increments you can buy, is why the “buy” button is next to the currency you are selling. A guildie last night acted quickly and clicked the right column buy because she thought she was buying that much gold with the gems she had.

Should she have read the big “buy gems” at the top? Sure. The same how new players using the old system should have read what they were doing.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Really? You’re 100% certain there’s never been such a post? Good for you, then!

Concerns of this nature come in via tickets, when someone takes the wrong step, buys too many times, isn’t able to process the acquistion or exchange, etc. By the time someone’s on the forums, they’re usually comfortable with the systems.

The gemstore was too confusing? Oh well then just level gate it with all the other confusing content that new players are overwhelmed with. Put it at level 80. Hopefully by then the new players will understand things like mining, vistas, skill points, etc, so they won’t have to deal with more than one confusing topic at a time.

I’m still playing mostly because I enjoy spending time with the people in my guild, regardless of what we’re doing. However, we seem to spend more time in the guild skype than we do in game at the moment. Game has become a bit stale. But Halloween is always fun and S2, which I’ve enjoyed so far, starts up again soon. I do hope something quite big is in the works though.

My guardian. Mix of HotW dungeon armor and ascended.

I don’t believe the OP is saying they are OP (tehe), but rather that he is tired of getting them on his team because he doesn’t find them useful.

It definitely has a spot when utility is needed. If you are asking for runs like CoF p1 then no technically it would be faster without the guardian. But regardless of that, they’re still really good. I would imagine only high caliber guilds who are trying to break speed clear records would ever choose to forbid a guardian from coming.

I don’t believe this is a bug. This is likely a consequence of no one owning the dungeon any longer. With no one owning an instance and no one being in the instance, the servers likely “close it (idk what the appropriate term would be here)”.

Some of the mats are no longer showing the required level for the relevant crafting disciplines. Screenshots showing two different mats, one with and one without:

3 points in tactics gave me 15% boon duration, and both tooltips for skills and actual boon duration were increased by 15%. Were you in a scaled down area?

The price change, at least for the Manifesto, occurred the day before the September 3rd announcement. I would link the gw2spidy chart but it resets the image everytime you link it, so here’s a pic of it. Feel free to set it up the same way on spidy if you don’t just trust a pic (understandable)

I think a decent amount of the spikes can be attributed to people being speculative + that article, but some of it just seems like it’s too…coincidental.

I’m not sure I have much of an opinion on this, but there has been an interesting discussion going on on reddit and within my guild.

Wooden Potatoes (a prominent GW2 player) was given a preview of the feature pack, and posted this video:

It was the first video to show some of the collections, namely the meta events’ exotic trinkets that can drop is one such collections. Well someone noticed, and pointed it out on reddit, that some of these trinkets in prices have skyrocketed in price before this video came out. (read: the people who got early previews took advantage of what they were shown. Also I’m not accusing WP of anything. the few experiences I’ve had with him during Tequatl events have been nice, and I enjoy his videos. I imagine several different people were shown these new collections).

Here’s the reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2fu2pn/lets_look_at_the_tp_prices_of_some_of_the_rare/

Again I’m not sure what to make of it. Perhaps people are using their “insider knowledge” to profit crazy amounts, or maybe certain people had the idea that these would be in the collections without actually knowing (like myself – I’ve been holding onto the ones I’ve gotten for the past couple weeks..only got blues/greens though whomp), and others saw it rising and joined on the bandwagon.

Regardless, thought it might be worth discussing.

How detailed will these warnings be? Will it be more like “you need to stop what you are doing.” or more like "At ##:## you started “doing such” and is in violation due to “such rule”, or somewhere in between?

Will we be able to respond to the GM’s comment, assuming we are polite and courteous?

Duke Nukem.6783:

i do not pug and i do things my own way.

You don’t PUG and yet you are concerned about getting kicked out of groups when using the LFG system. Am I missing something?

I find your hostility in this thread ironic, considering your first sentence in your original post. Just shows there are jerks in every aspect of the game. I use the LFG tool to do 4-5 dungeons a day usually, and not once have I ever seen a person get yelled at/kicked for not running “metas”, except for in cases where the LFG clearly stated the “ping gear, know skips” stuff. I do see people getting kicked when they refuse to do things like stand in a brazier in CoF and not telling us that it’s their first time there, despite us trying to explain it. IMO, this is an okay kick. This isn’t “not following the meta”, this is just bad playing and you’ll get kicked for it.

And nothing is stopping you from making our own LFG with “no skips, casual, play how you want” groups. Trust me, the speed clearing people don’t want to play with you and will avoid that group. There will be plenty of people interested in that, seeing as how a “I hate zerk” thread opens up on this forum every 17 minutes.

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

It doesn’t matter if it’s pvp or wvw or pve. The fact of the matter is that having high toughness is supposed to stop the 3k+ crit damage on you. And it isn’t. My ranger has just a little over 1k toughness and the most crit ever done to her by a glassy thief was around 2k. My warrior who has all pvt armor and dolyak runes etc etc takes 3k crit hits almost every time. Same goes for my guardian having high toughness. She takes high crit damage. My mesmer who has barely any toughness only takes damage in the 1k range. Seems the less toughness the lower the crit damage.

Sorry but any of your critiques/complaints lose all credibility with this post. This isn’t happening, or you aren’t understanding who you are facing. 3k crit is nothing.

Dawn: TP. Mystic toilet doesn’t interest me.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Lodius.5392:

Here is a screenshot of all the WPs across the maps that are not working / blinking / contested, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/RC34Noy.jpg

Think about it… The story line mentioned the place where “ley lines” intersect was considered very important. Notice the epicenter (if you will) is located between Lions Arch and Kessex hills empty zone.

I think this is where the end of this living story will take us…

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! … your thoughts?

Or it could be that tegue don’t have/use way points so this it’s just what we can see. If we had a full picture(of the dominion)we might have a better idea of what’s going on.

The tengu have closed off their walls to everyone else, and nothing in the lore suggests that a tall wall would stop people from being able to WP to something past it (example: can WP into DR), together which suggests to me that the tengu simply don’t have WPs.

Fornax.7928:

I like Jumping Puzzles, they are fun but optional.

Not a well known fact: Dry top is optional also.

And yes, I see your part about “content designed around jumping” but I’m choosing to ignore it because it’s wrong.

The guide is good. Could you make a guide for convincing pugs that this is the way to do it? That’s where I’m struggling.

I should have looked at the OP before reading the rest of the comments.

frifox.5283:

Tom Yzf.5872:

If you’re quick enough you can also evade it. The animation is quick though.

You can’t evade it. Only skills that “evade” it are ones that make you invulnerable, dodging however does not.

this is my experience as well, because I routinely get the bug while FGS skill #3. It’s frustrating as hell on something like an ele where a single missed dodge while bugged is rip.

Some bosses can’t realistically be melee’d 100% of the time. I’ve always just rotated between range and melee for the boss. And when he whirling axes just ignore him for the most part. You certainly can’t melee him during then and he’s reflecting projectiles so most ranged stuff is moot.

I can’t wait to get another non-tradeable mini again.

I’m confused do you not know what zone it is in? If you tab over each name of a zone, it’ll tell you if you are missing a POI (even if you completed a zone and then they added a POI, it’ll show you have completed the zone but it’ll be like 17/18 for POIs….I think). Otherwise, it’s gotta be what Ayrilana said. The OoW POI.

I liked this fight (and most of the LS S2 fights) a lot more than the original personal story ones. Those were mostly stand in 1 spot and DPS them quicker than they DPS you. Having to actually actively play is nice. Bringing more than just DPS boosting skills in 6-9 adds more depth imo. I find myself bringing cleanses and stun breakers.

And I think what’s nice about them also is that they are all completely soloable, but for those that are struggling, they are a lot easier with a couple people, so it allows for some skilled play if you want to solo but still available with a group to those who may not be as good.

For me, these fights are heading absolutely in the right direction.

Done the instance twice, solo, and had the icon above skills saying I could still get achievement, but as the boss was defeated both times it has instantly gone away without rewarding achievement. Will edit with more information if requested.

Theftwind.8976:

Considering I require 1 more Dive point for Dive Master (World wide) and also considering that they tie Achievement points to such dive locations (Dive Master, Prospect Valley) is it truly optional? If they tie achievement points to eye/hand coordination is it fair to others that lack that twitch skill? If they want to make it truly optional then give a title for it without the achievement points.

Yes. It’s still optional. How could it being tied to an achievement point in any such way ever make it not optional? It’s a game. You choose what you want to do. You want the achievement point work for it like the rest of us. If you can’t do it, bummer. That may seem harsh but can you imagine how pointlessly trivial this game would be if they made every single bit of content possible by every single person?

EvanTeicheira.3962:

• What game client are you using? (Windows / Mac)
• What are your current graphics settings?
• Are you playing in full screen or windowed mode?
• Is your inventory full or maxed out?
• Do you play with bags displayed or hidden?

• Windows
• Max Appearance except model limit set to medium
• Windowed fullscreen
• I’m assuming you mean are all slots taken up? Then no.
• Hidden

Just wanted to say that final cutscene is fantastic! Probably my favorite in GW2 so far. Overall, Season 2 has been much better imo and in the opinion of my guildies. Nice work!

350mb for me.

15char

Sylvari: Turntup Turnip

Locce.8405:

Plus, Europeans got the short end of the stick with the new hardcore rotation, placing Tequatl at really inconvenient times. Now it is quite biased towards Americans who get one of the “big three” every hour during their main online times.

Most of Europe is on the same exact time frame as the time zone that Arenanet is based in (Tequatl @ 6PM & 10PM), but sure?

Auroma.9126:

Free transfer to NA (for claiming Season 2 rewards) and then free transfer back to current EU server will be appreciated.

File a support ticket. You are a continually paying costumer (you just bought $100 worth of gems – more than most players will ever spend) and you deserve much better support than just “transfer back” like it’s free or something.

I don’t believe that is the only reason for this bug to occur. My guildmates and I have noticed this will also sometimes happen when you try to pick up something while moving. I’ve had it occur on items that don’t expire (items in a PS instance), but I was moving.

John Smith.4610:

The point I made a long time ago about precursor rates increasing price was speaking to an anomaly that can/did occur with a very specific set of market circumstances. It does not automatically applies to other markets or changes.

One of those market circumstances is the % increase of the precursor rates. Whatever increases the precursor drop chance has changed by, it is clearly not comparable to the Chaos of Lyssa changes, so the two aren’t comparable.

I’m with Indigo on this one. If you think Anet would ever implement a mechanic like this based solely on what gear people are wearing, you have no idea as to their stance on designing content.

You are complaining about people trying to force you into a certain team composition (zerk) and then your solution is to force a team composition (diverse). Your solution is not better. If people want to run full zerker groups, let them and stop joining them. Play with people who are of the same mindset as you. Clearly there’s plenty of you because this thread pops up from new people every 17 minutes.

This not okay.

just give Citri 200g+ item plus exp for survivor + item to summon carrot infinity

Nalia Ironstar.5470:

Guild Wars 2 was originally slotted to release in 2007. Just sayin’…

Umm what? It was announced 2007 in its near infancy. Ideal release date was 2010. Realistic date was 2011-2012, which is what it was. It was 4-5 years in development, which is typical for a large scale MMO.

On topic: Can’t wait to get my mistforged weapon. Thanks for the update!

Yea after scrolling through the thread it seems more likely there was a bug awarding the achievement too soon.

Chris Barrett.3280:

We’re investigating a bug or bugs involved with delivering this tournament’s rewards to some players. We’ll update this thread when we have more information available.

I didn’t read all the pages, so if someone has pointed this out sorry. But my guildmates and I have noticed a pattern for who got the chest and who didn’t. Under the WvW —> World vs World achievements tab, anyone whose S2 achievement matched the actual rank the server got, was rewarded a chest. Those of us who didn’t get a chest, the place did not match up with what the server got – instead it matched up with S1 placement.

I feel like I do that much damage autoattacking with staff in PVT gear.

RubiBayer.8134:

This bug affecting time-gated features has been addressed as of today’s hotfix. If you are being affected by it, you will need to log in to this build before the next reset of that time-gated feature. At the next reset for that time-gated feature it will reset properly.

Not even a “sorry for the week long inconvenience”, or “sorry we couldn’t push this literally 15 minutes faster”?

It’s not so much a bug as a design flaw.

Same situation. I imagine this is why I can only progress my PvP rewards in solo/team queue, also, instead of the 2 tiers per daily in the “server 0##” ones as all my other guildies are able to do so. The fixes people are offering must be working for a reason other than what we think, since it’s not working for everyone. Getting a bit tired of it at least another dev post with an update would be nice.

To which meta do you refer to, because I feel like this is about the ferocity change. Don’t worry, zerker gear is still BiS for PvE.