Guild Wars 2

I was just trying to say that random is killing progression for some people (like me), which is not fair. You may say “you spent 900g on mystic forge, why didn’t you rather buy precursor from TP?”. Well, because I didn’t spent all my money at once and also haven’t had them all together.

So yes, when I see someone with legendary I dont say myself “this one must be playing a lot, he deserves it”, but rather “this guy is kittening lucker”

Now someone who got precursor from MF should come here and say me am wrong, stupid etc.

OreoWolf.9564:

Spiky.8403:

I just spent another 600g in mystic toilet. Well, I think am finally done with this game. Can’t stand this stupid RNG in gw2, just can’t.

Wait, so instead of buying the precursor (almost all precursors are around the 600g mark) you went and gambled that gold away? Seems legitimate to me.

I have already wasted too much gold to just buy precursor from TP. When I see guildies getting 3 precursors out of few tries (first two came after ~30 exotics) and another one from 4 rare weapons, I am not OK with buying out of TP. This is probably the only game that is ruled by pure random factor, which is not good. Doesn’t matter what data was made here, you can do same number of attemps and end up with empty hands.

I just spent another 600g in mystic toilet. Well, I think am finally done with this game. Can’t stand this stupid RNG in gw2, just can’t.

Thats pretty nice, I am only few fragments from full set, thank you for confirmation

Are you sure you only need 15 bricks, stars and ingots for full set? Somehow I missed this and though it will be like with weapons, 5 per piece.

Rann.7198:

Ya, no one was able to get a weapon in a single day. The ectoplasm refinements are on a 8 hour timer and you need more than 3 of any one of them to make a weapon…and they are account bound, so no getting them off the TP

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

I think it’s matter of playstyle. I, for example, have tons of dragonite ore (and bloodstone of course) but lack empyreal fragments. What makes me worried more is empty space in bank reserved for Crystalline Ore and Ingot. Just wondering if it will be needed for crafting armor…

Preview of upcoming patch made me very happy, basicaly I am looking forward to every single peace of content. Last year’s Wintersday events comming back, release of ascended armor, class balance, new healing skills, what else could I wish for 2-week-update?

Just amazing, well done.

I know it’s hard to write few lines of text and stuff, but I would really like to know what will the patch bring (ascended armor anyone?). I bet they are busy making another Scarlet LS.

Usually it would be already up for ~4 hours. Probably they have nothing to show us.

Thats pretty cool, but why, for example, white item doesn’t leave Uncommon Fractal box when I press compact?

Title says it all. When I press “compact” in inventory, items from this box don’t move, no matter what rarity. I have this box on third position (1. starter backpack, 2. karka, 3. fractal, 4 and 5 christmas boxes)

“Hoard” of materials indeed. Don’t they feel stupid for such a statement? Because I would.

Story fractal has no waypoint, so once you wipe, there is nothing left to do. You must leave party (instance). Wondering how they did not figure this out.

Excuse me, but do you even test your new content?

Romo.3709:

Spiky.8403:

I am happy for possibility to get more empyreal stars, surely it’s better than some crap one-time-use-skin that everybody has.

You know you can actually park your alt at any puzzle chest and just open it daily?

You know your alt has to be level 80, right? I am not altoholic.

I am happy for possibility to get more empyreal stars, surely it’s better than some crap one-time-use-skin that everybody has.

I have plenty of rings sitting in my bank and I really hope this patch will let us salvage them. Hope Anet did not forget about this -.-

yksdoris.2194:

Spiky.8403:

Adian.8756:

No one wants ascended armor.

Hello, my name is No one.

Hi No one, are we related by any chance? because I’m No one too

No idea.. let’s ask Some one, he will know.

Adian.8756:

No one wants ascended armor.

Hello, my name is No one.

Since it’s more than obvious we will see new fractals in next update, don’t you think it would be the right time to release ascended armor as well? Giving people space for 6 more infusions will increase the max agony resistance that may be needed in new Fractals. Also Ascended tier was introduced with Fractals back in 2012. What do you think?

I hope to get empyreal fragments and some random mini that wont be account bound. But I think it will be bullkitten like always, 4 greens, 1 blue and 89 copper

It was 9 months ago when I soloed something that was worth recording. You can find everything I soloed in GW2 in my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/SpikyGW2/videos
2 full TA paths;
Arah – operative belka, berserker abomination;
AC – Kholer;
Open world – risen priestess of dwayna

I spent more than 300g on MF with no success. It was almost one year ago and fortunately I am not stupid enough to do it again.

You guys always have to bring up something to complain about. This is getting boring already.

Wintersday jumping puzzle is one of the best things in GW2. I hope it will make comeback.

To be honest, I never land the first hit. When I go to WvW JP, I want to complete the task and go away. Many people don’t attack you unless you start hiting them, but I have also met few people that wait for rest of their group to outnumber you. It’s also fair to say that last time I did EB puzzle, group of 5-6 enemies run through me and didn’t attack, that was really surprising and good for me, as I was almost at the end :P

Zoltreez.6435:

yes it works just Avoid the groups that have these description.

speed run
selling p2,1,3 for 2 gold
only 80s ( if your not 80 )
no noobs
only wars and guardians

basically just avoid 80% of the groups that are on the LFG……..

Some people like me don’t like wasting time with newbies, so I am actually looking for 80 only and experienced players. Class restriction is another story and I don’t really care if I am playing with ranger, engi or any other class.

So we have the Clocktower back, buggy and less fun. Regardless of difficulty, I have to say I liked Wintersday puzzle much more. Maybe because of the minigame at waiting area together with possibility to watch other players doing their run. Or maybe just the Xmas feeling. Anyway, I would like to see it back this year!

What’s your opition, will we see Wintersday JP this year again? (some response from devs also wouldn’t hurt :P)

matoxx.7023:

Spiky.8403:

You should blame yourself. I got my wings 3 days after update and it didn’t take longer than 2 hours. Things never end well when you wait for the last possible moment to finish them. If you had no chance to log in is another story of course – all you can do is HOOORAY another temporary content I missed!

You don’t even get the point. Some people don’t have the time to finish this crap after 3 days. Some people can only play a few hours per week and I can understand if they spend that time on some other stuff than get wrecked by tequatl because overflows can’t handle him.

It just doesn’t make sense that there is no daily when the meta is still active.

8/9 here, too. Would also like an official response to that.

Actually I think it’s you who don’t get the point. Boss week was very easy to complete, even with few hours per week. You didn’t even have to see Tequatl to finish it.

You should blame yourself. I got my wings 3 days after update and it didn’t take longer than 2 hours. Things never end well when you wait for the last possible moment to finish them. If you had no chance to log in is another story of course – all you can do is HOOORAY another temporary content I missed!

Same problem here, I am always defending turrets on one side, just to make sure none of them goes low on HP and repair when needed, we also had 6 turrets up all the time, but at the end we got no achievement.

On Gunnar’s Hold we had few decent tries, but we lack in dps. Getting to 75% could take 2 mins less as well. After first defending phase at 75%, it takes too long to get back to boss, people somehow overlook 20 caps locked messages in chat saying “leave at 20 sec left.” Also they don’t see potential of some support skills, if you are looking for time wrap order or something like that on Gunnar’s you are in wrong place

With little help, we would be fine. Also turret men are sometimes sleepy or don’t do their job very well.

The worst thing that can happen you in overflow after minutes or even hours of waiting is getting connection error when click on Travel button. Not only that you won’t get anywhere, you will be stuck on current overflow until you relog – which also means being the last one in queue again.

The overflow system is obviously not working at all. I spent hours trying to get to main map, but instead of moving forward, game was sending me to random overflows. I know it because I saw the same overflows again and again and didn’t get to my main at all. Also when you get connection error pressing Travel button, you can log out and enter queue again.

You can be sarcastic as much as you want, but the truth is, if you stand close to each other in dps zerg, turrets will have easier job and reviving downed people will be much faster

Yes I got same problem.

So I spent several hours yesterday trying to get to Elona Reach Sparkfly Fen, just to see how it’s supposed to be done. When I finally got there, me and my guildies spent another 3-4 hours in 2 tries that Elona did. I have to say I was impressed by german’s coordination and elegance in fight. Once again they proved how good they are in mmos. (I didn’t have have chance to see US players or any other successful EU server yet, so please don’t feel injured :P )

What I wanted to say is, I think I know why we fail so often in overflows and many servers. I won’t repeat tactic already known. Instead of that, I will talk about differences that I saw.

First, almost nobody died in DPS group during whole fight. Zerg has to make one big group standing in as small area as possible. You cannot expect turrets cleanse big area, so this makes things much easier for them and for you as well. Sure, few people will go downed, but you can give turrets few seconds to shoot by dodging, immunity skills etc. Also reviving downed players help. 5 seconds and everyone is back on his feet and fight continues.

Another problem, people that are not part of big participating group, squad or whatever often feel very selfish, deny to use any food for example. Considering how cheap the food against undead is, I simply don’t understand. Many of these “random” guys often stay lying dead on the surface, rather saying “we will fail again” or “this sucks” and take place of players that could be much more helpful. Please, if you don’t like the fight or “wasting” your time, move along to another zone and give your server chance to succeed.

Yeah seems like the oveflow system that should send players towards their home/guesting servers is not working at all.

So now I am stuck for 1-2 hours in overflows and I am wondering what happens when I press “Travel” when it pops up. Am I moving towards my server’s map, or the game is moving me randomly?

What’s more, sometimes it asks me to check my connection and don’t let me travel to another map/overflow, while my connection is perfectly ok.

In another mmo game I played before Guild Wars 2, we had one special boss at the end of the dungeon that we couldn’t kill for weeks. After 2-3 months we luckily did it for the first time and the feeling of accomplishment was just amazing. That helped us and we soon figured out the tactic. I am pretty sure everyone will know the tactic for new Tequatl within next 24 hours, but I wish you would experience what I did, something that trivial content will never provide. Don’t be so strict against harder content, it can only help to bring our game more attention and fun!

So the patch notes say we get unique Ascended Weapon Skins. That’s pretty cool, but what does it mean? Is it only a skin that needs to be applied to real weapon? If so, does it need to be at least ascended tier weapon or suitable for exotics as well?

You didn’t really get my point. It doesn’t matter to them if you have berserker gear or not, unless you are not warrior, they don’t want you. I am also playing my guardian with high crit and dps setup, do you think anyone cares? Nah, change to warrior or gtfo. And whoever says guardian or any other class that is geared offensively with skilled person behind the keyboard will be slowing down whole party, must be stupid. Dungeons are quite short anyway, so we are talking about seconds or few minutes max. Thats all you lose.

But I am not so naive to think that speed runners will ever change their mind, unless class balance happens. Otherwise this problem will last forever.

Not sure if I am the only one who isn’t playing berserker warrior, but it’s harder and harder to find group that doesn’t require change of my guardian to warrior or mesmer. Even in my own group, I was asked to change my class. Yes, I know that everyone can choose to run dungeon with whoever he wants and require x y z gear and blablabla, but isn’t it enough already?

I mean, it’s not like you must be kittened if you are not playing warrior or being extremely bad damage dealer. But as soon as you join party and some fat child on the other side is asking you to change class or leave, something is wrong. This is well known problem in many F2P mmos where one dps class is overpowered and everything else is useless, but wasn’t GW2 meant to be a different game? It has been quite long since these so called speed runs with 4 war + mesmer started, and nothing has been done yet. If you wanted to make game that doesn’t have trinity, you shouldn’t have made one class better in DPS than others.

I am actually scared how long can this game survive without expansion? Sure, currently there are still many players and newbies are comming, but what will the situation be in 2 or 3 years? Will they still have money to run servers and make a profit as well?

I saw many sources and articles, everyone saying something different and I would like to know the truth finally. Guild Missions obviously reset every week. In sunday, I finished guild bounty mission TIER 2 with guild X. Well, we actually failed, but I got personal reward for killing one npc. Yesterday, I participated in bounty TIER 1 with guild Y, but I ended with no reward.

Does it mean we get only one reward for each type of mission during the week, no matter what tier it is?

Finally good update!

I also don’t understand what he said. Truth is that it’s really bad option to let everyone vote for kick. There are too many trolls out there for such possibility. Sure, you can avoid it, play with your guildies, but why should you be afraid of kicking at last boss every time you join PUG?

I really hope devs will cut this crap soon. This 4 zerk war + mesmer BS is around too long. Very good example of “balanced” classes. Not like it would be a problem itself, but little brains of some individuals cannot stand anyone except party formation stated above, as it might take 20 seconds longer to finish the path.

Urvanis.2985:

Hardcore players are a minority, devs pamper to the masses. Every hardcore player could up and leave all at once, Anet wouldn’t even notice. If you haven’t noticed, this game, as do many other mainstream games have progression ceilings, things that can only be done at a certain rate, dailies, weeklies, monthlies. So no matter how many hours you sink into a game, your progression can only efficiency advance at a certain rate. Even farming has diminishing returns.

Its people like you who have caused developers to have to impose these measures. To see people complain even about this really confirms many of my thoughts about where the gaming industry is going.

I’m going to assume you only recently got into the mmo genre considering your perspective. So you don’t know the things people who spent a quarter, half, all of their day playing used to achieve over average players. Back when gamers in general were a minority, and when there were no progression ceilings.

btw, I work 50+ hours a week, and have no trouble keeping up with the progression cealing in this game with 15 hours a week gameplay.

Wise man, couldn’t say it better.

You don’t say.. elitists? really? I mean, REALLY?

Just because someone decide to run with 80’s and not you must be elitist? You are the elitist, not them.