Guild Wars 2

Firstly, there are no “home servers”.

Secondly, my guild organises for it about 20-30min early, so it’s not that long a camp either.

The main reason teq is failing, is there’s a load of people who just want to press 1 and don’t realise/refuse to listen/ask about what to do.

It is very important to have defence parties, but a party at each defence spot, you don’t 20 people at one.
And to have people manning the turrets and 2 people (the defence party also helps) protecting them.

Then you have the zerg, that absolutely MUST stay together when fighting teq, you have to kill fingers, and guards should spam reflect,

And then of course, there’s the dead who just lie there rather than wp and swim back. Because lord paying under 2silver for being bad enough to die is such an expense.

Hamfast.8719:

So is this also the reason that I seem to get rerouted to a different WP a lot whenever I try to enter LA? It’s a TOWN… there’s nothing to make a WP contested, yet I don’t always go where I want.

(Can’t believe this is intentional!)

I believe that’s a glitch from LA’s demise living story. Alot of the wp in LA were contested during the fight. And although now aren’t. Even before megaserver, I found alot of the times if I chose a wp that “was” contested, it send me to the north-most wp.

but hey, at least wp’s are free there, and it always sends you to the one you clicked when you’re IN the city.

I’d rather the option to change say cleric to bezerker, if you happen to make the wrong gear. (it happens). Or to properly make use of a drop.

No 1 time limits, and no stat limits. But armour for armour, weapon for weapon(specifically, dagger for dagger, this will allow people to try different stats without too much hassle.)

Time gate it, can only change gear once a week. Or once a month. (at this point you have to change all your gear at the same time or change some of it and wait til the time gate is up.)
Charge 20g per gear stat change.

serylin.2894:

I never know how to thank the kind hearted Mesmers so I send 2 of whatever MF food I have on me. If currency is preferred, how much?

Would depend on the mesmer or difficulty of the puzzle I think.

I never send anything, as I play a mesmer and do my own share of jp portaling. I used to dislike seeing “portal to jp. x gold” Glad you don’t really see that anymore.

I suppose a fair “price”, would be, what you can afford. If you’re loaded with 900 gold, I think you can afford giving a gold or 2, if you on the other hand have 20g,..might want to keep it at silver.

the reason above 10 is so high in price.
Is that it takes 512 +1AR to craft it.

However you first need to forge an infusion slot on your gear to use crafted ar.
http://dulfy.net/2013/11/28/gw2-agony-infusions-slot-and-agony-resist-guide/

It’s advised to have about 10AR higher than the level you plan on doing, but at level will suffice.
(basically if you want to do level 20-having 30 AR would be perfect, but having 20 ar is manageable.)

Fractals are meant to be a grind, just keep playing at the level you have enough ar for and work on progressing slowly.

Lalangamena.3694:

going to the dungeon at its level is hard mode,
ever tried to run AC1 on level 35?
ever tried to run SE on levl 65?
caucedus manor on level 45?

the dungeon design in the game is severely lacking.
it is hard to impossible to do on its designed level,
and ridiculously easy to run as a exotic geared 80 level group.

This.

for one the stacking tactic is instant fail on ac spider XD

they cant start mixing skills from different classes, they’re still struggling with balancing issues >.>
_______
I would also like to be able to change my characters voice a little. That would help make my character more unique

Gearbox.2748:

The value of coins in any system real or fictive have only shortly been related to the metal value of coinage.

Besides. how do you know the amount -weight of said gold you have harvested. I mean sure. it look s like a huge chunk when you harvest- I mean big enough to be visible on a map—— now thats big-.-
Perhaps as you pick-axe through the node. (and it should be in a vein) you find that most of that node is Quarts- (realistic) or other impurities or that the InterestGnomes takes its cut before you do,.-
It might be that Unicorns make a dump in pile shaped cones around the world and – you just -think- that – that- is gold.

Just wanted to say..brilliant post! thanks for the laugh.

Tigerlily.3765:

I would be perfectly happy if ascended items salvaged exactly like exotics; for a chance at dark matter, ecto and orichalcum (or equivalent depending on what you’re salvaging).

Doesn’t even need to be better than exotics, just let me salvage them, especially to recover runes, sigils, infusions, etc.

This, they don’t have to be better than exotics. I’d be happy with this.

you’d be better off at looking through reddit. major difference is there’s more pay2win there.
They alos have more things locked behind levels. (jumping puzzles/insta death til lv10 etc)

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1wqsf7/guild_wars_2_china_server_difference/

Monod.3562:

It’s not just the reduction of choices for dailies that concerns me, it’s the reduction of variety too.

Having Condition Applier / Remover / Dodger / Reviver on a four-day loop seems strange to me. They are just not that interesting to be so frequent.

Is Mystic Forgesmith coming back? Is Ambient Killer? A whole bunch of different dailies from before are now rare or missing. It makes doing dailies now seem a bit repetitive and boring.

And I really miss the Daily Activity Participation. I did an activity every day before April 15th, and I enjoyed doing them, but I’ve hardly done any since then, and it seems weird to say this but without the 1 AP maybe they don’t really seem worthwhile to do anymore.

I think mystic forgesmith did roll round, havent seen ambient yet.

I also dont bother with activity anymore, was nice to know could always count that towards the daily.

PvP has a new “reward track”, nothing has changed in PvE.

There’s the wardrobe feature if you like collecting/changing skins. And if you roll a new character trait acquisition is kitten.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Dusty Moon.4382:

I can’t help but feel this would be the wrong message to give out – a school girl outfit? No- sorry no.

Capes? Yeap, not a problem.

Nearly topless Marvel heroes/Avatars? Sure, here you go.

Outfits of executioners with skulls and axes designed to chop off victim’s heads? Come on, that’s just a game!

School uniform? OHMYGAWDNO-WRONGMESSAGE-YOUPERVERTSGOTOJAIL!!!!111

/shrug

I LOL’d, xD

Dusty Moon.4382:

I can’t help but feel this would be the wrong message to give out – a school girl outfit? No- sorry no.

Why would it send out a wrong message? what message?

Because you can get married and have kids in game….oh wait.
because you’re a hero? (wait isn’t taimi a kid?)
because only adults play this game……..no, not that either.

no, nothings changed..
as these posts will make obvious
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Precursor-Rage/page/9#post3978874

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Anet-just-add-Precursor-vendor/first#post3978862

Aidenwolf.5964:

Taygus.4571:

WHY did you throw so many in??? Even with the pre’s increasing in cost, you’re better off saving and waiting

Precursors are increasing in price so buy the time you save 1000 gold the precursor you want might be 1500g. Also, people like myself won’t buy a precursor.

because gambling on the mystic forge is so much more epic.

seriously? Didnt get much feedback (and what you did get is negative) so “please dev, please listen to me”.

jciardha.1936:

As I understand it, Chinese players will be able to buy precursors and legendaries from the the gem shop in the GW2 China release. So, there’s your solution.

I’d rather keep the pay to win to a minimum in the NA/EU region.

It’s hardly p2w, considering legendaries aren’t much better stat wise. (they do have the stat swapping though.) Maybe just pre’s on the gem store. So people still have to make it.
The fact is, the current implementation of getting pre’s kittenes off ALOT of players. And means the majority of players have no hope of getting a pre. (And also alot of players dislike the whole luck factor and want something more challenging.)

But, anet knows all this.
They’re either working on something, or couldn’t care less. Only time will tell.

I love the naysayers,

but to be fair, everyone. WvW should not have to mix into PvE and PvE shouldnt have to mix with WvW. Anet has a thing of pushing players into modes they don’t want to do. Because obviously “we don’t know what we want”

fractals are endgame dungeons.

even for lv 1-9, exotic is a must! (also not necessarily bezerker, as it’s more a case of staying alive long enough, rather than kill fast enough).
But exotic is a must. (also, please please don’t be one of those ele’s in fracs who picked zerk gear and keeps going down…>.>)

Look at dungeon gear and save the tokens for the ones you want.
__
On your guild point. I also noticed it’s difficult to get players for the lower fracs. And I’ve noticed players jumping into lv19 frac (with 0 ar..and no clue of fractals). Anet needs to add an explanation when you cross server tiers. (or join a tier thats higher than your reward level).
Maybe even lock people out of the lfg tier if their reward level is below it. (much like characters are locked out of lfg for dungeons below their level. You can still enter if with a party already, but this would lessen the bad players hopping into higher fracs.)

If you want a friendly/helpful guild, join a small one. Large guilds are handy for the ease of guild missions, and thats normally about it. If you want a group of players who’ll be willing to help you out, join a small guild.

Oogabooga.9138:

I’m getting ridiculous lag since the megaserver that I’ve not experienced before, well since beta anyway. I don’t lose fps, just the ability to control my character at all for 4-5 seconds at a time.

I wonder if this new Blob Champion has anything to do with it?

yes, make sure to set graphics to “best performance”..and other than that, hope you get enough hits in despite lag.

Astralporing.1957:

Taygus.4571:

As sometimes no wp is contested, and sometimes most of them are. (wp’s that never ‘actually’ got contested begin with.)

Before megaserver, i didn’t even know that the waypoint next to Ascalonian Catacombs was contestable. And no, whole map contested is not a glitch – it is the megaserver “working as intended”. Remember, according to blog, any potentially contestable waypoint should be locked when viewed from outside the zone.

but ALL those wp’s don’t get contested. That was my point. ..

Also, what about the times where it shows no wp contested. (when I’m not on map). It’s random. sometimes they’re contested, sometimes not.
It’s glitched.

WHY did you throw so many in??? Even with the pre’s increasing in cost, you’re better off saving and waiting

no, everything n your bank and wallet, stays with you.

However with megaserver there isn’t any major reason to transfer unless you want to WvW.

yes, please, please this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baine.9650:

“#1 Engi NA” -> This is so weird and funny on so many different levels I don’t even.

Yeah why can’t we salvage ascended stuff? IDK, maybe to prevent hackers from lynching older accounts and stripping them?

yeah because possible thievery > than no use at all XD

^^^^ lolz.

If you want recognition as a pve player, start recording yourself….

Lucyfer.9517:

Before megafail i used to kill nearly all boses daily, was taking me about 3 hours. After megafail about a week ago i found myself playing for 6 hours and still not being anywhere near the end of the list. I just loged off and didn’t log since then in looking for new game to move to atm.
I can see how people from small servers can be excited if killing world bosses was rare to them.
But for me it’s total crap. I was on deso i could go to any boss at any time i wished (as long as it was up on timer site) and get it done with no problem without need for megafail.
Megafail totally ruined it to me. Now the events are overcrowded, temples cant be done, server comunity shatered and lost.
From my point of view i cant find a single positive aspect of megafail.

I don’t think they were ever intended to do them all in a play turn tbf.

I see one benefit of megaserver from a large pop server. I havent had to queue an hour early for a server.
We start organising about 30 min early and join people into the correct server. Thats a benefit to me.

Also, I run around empty maps alot, its nice to see people there now.

guesting won’t help you get into another instance. Just reload the map for that.

Secondly, if you want to test if there is still a guesting limi, log out and guest twice, then try to guest to a 3rd server.

Chances are there’s already multiple servers on your instance, are you going to aks in map everytimg before guesting to make sure you don’t pick one of them? o0

Guesting to another server doesnt gurantuee you’ll be on that instance, it’s supposed to increase you chance of being with others from that server, thats all.

Katai.6240:

They should at least have some perceived value greater than a Rare or Exotic of the same type. People really shouldn’t be going “Dang it, another ascended…”

LOL, this!

I really am ok with them being salvaged into account bound stuff, but some use for them would be really nice.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

thanks anet. I really enjoy having every single waypoint in a zone I want to enter contested.

That plains of ashford?
There are 2 wp’s not contested on the left. I believe this map is glitched. As sometimes no wp is contested, and sometimes most of them are. (wp’s that never ‘actually’ got contested begin with.)
So that’s just a major glitch and I’m sure they want to fix it.

eotm, until lv 40, then running lower level dungeons. multiple times a day.

salvaging, has been asked over and over again. If anet is listening. They either don’t care. or are working on something.

We don’t know because they don’t say what they’re thinking.

But they surely know by now that people want something more to be done with ascended gear. \=

Niko Stark.8932:

Lol. Took me 5 weeks to make a legendary from nothing. That includes getting map completion and about 1M karma and running dungeons/events for the gold. I have a full-time job and I go out on some of my days off. It’s not a grind and even if it was, it’s a Legendary — they’re not supposed to just fall into your lap when you make a wish for it.

It’s pretty easy to gain levels and top-tier items in GW2 in comparison with other MMOs. You have no idea what a real “grind” is XD

5 weeks means nothing. If I spent an hour a day, I’d be no where near in 5 weeks. Saying all the other things you do, doesn’t mean you don’t spend 8hours a day in game. or do 24hour runs on weekends.

Don’t say weeks, tell us how many hours it took you to get the legendary, for an actual measurement of time spent.

Vesuvius.9874:

Triston.7639:

I think it’s stupid that you have to go out in PvE and get them! I’m a WvW / PvP player and I dislike PvE much.

You know you can just buy them right? Also, correct me if I’m wrong but don’t PvP players have everything unlocked to begin with?

they don’t have the new traits unlocked.

And buying all the traits you have to ove to get for WvW, isn’t exactly cheap

Beorn Saxon.4762:

I’m a guy and I’ve converted most of my characters to guys bc I hate getting sexual PMs from other guys that think I’m a chick IRL. -.-

seriously?
I’ve played only female chars and I’ve yet to get a “sexual pm”. Considering it’s a game that kids can play. I’d assume pms like that are grounds for a ban.

Donari.5237:

I don’t mind the hidden nature but I live in fear that I’ll hit Compact Bags instead (it happened once) and undo all my careful sorting by category and location. So I have to spend extra time carefully positioning my mouse, and if I -do- compact in error, well, there’s 15-30 minutes of fixing that. (It happened on the alt with most every variation of Light Armor carried in her bags, sorted by type of garment and going from skimpiest to fullest. I need that if I’m quickly tossing an outfit together for RP).

fractal boxes/invisbile bags/safe boxes = no more copacting worries

timmyf.1490:

It’s okay for ArenaNet to test different prices to see what their sales look like.

It’d also be best if everybody avoided buying the mini at this price to ensure they get the message.

This,…. I really hope not many people buy this. So anet never tries this price again.

Personally, I’d like to see MORE endless tokens, like endless owl tonic, endless fiery tonic etc ….more of them, in the mix, with slightly higher chance of getting one would be great

they want it everywhere, don’t know why.

Cities should belong to the server people signed on to, just for communities sakes

Dahkeus.8243:

notebene.3190:

Taygus.4571:

well at 400 gems it better \=

It’s terribly inconsistent, which is why I wanted to know.

The plush griffon used to, then it couldn’t, with a developer saying it was “immersion breaking”, which aside from being a great pun, is just plain silly. It’s laziness.

The mini black bear, lion and white kitten from last March’s “here’s a pet a week, hope you all go broke” event all swim.

The awesome puppy (was that from around the holiday? I forget.) does ‘not’ swim. He’s basically the same frame as the lion cub. What is up with that?

So thus my question, and hope for proof, before I get the pet.

That’s funny considering that I can do deep sea combat with a cat at my side when playing ranger.

While I don’t think that it makes sense for a dog to go scuba diving either, it’s just plain bizarre that the designers find it perfectly rational for the cat to be totally water friendly, while the dog is totally hydrophobic.

But yea, a mini pet being able to follow you underwater would totally break immersion. (sarcasm)

LOL, that is funny.

And of all the things that could break immersion in this game, I really doubt the mini is one of them …oh anet you’re an odd bunch.

(I really agree about the mechanics, I have hope that witht he new hero panel, there’s a chance they could odd a mini pet slot thats always active., and maybe also be able to switch your mini without having to go to bank.
Probably wishful thinking, but it’d really make minis more worth while.)

yeah, I didn’t mean to make is sound like your question wasn’t fair. But it’d be really disappointing if there wasn’t something special with these mini’s other than “yeah, everyone will want a kitten, lets put the price up”

grind should not be synonmous with mmo, how about we stop comparing, and maybe say what we like/dislike about the “grind” here and what could make it better.

Shorter levels or more interesting levels would do it for me.
I don’t mind the ascended grind (and I’m working on it because of fractals…) but it’s actually alright, I can work on it bit by bit and do fractal levels accordingly, it doesn’t prevent me from taking part in fracs so thats ok.

Legendary grind is something I have no intention of chasing (though stat swapping appeals to me). It’s too boring, too long, for a look I dislike. (I would like the stat swapping ability, wish they made that possible with ascended gear, even if you had to forge your gear in some way to make it stat swappable. (It would the account bound aspect of them, actually useful.)

Leap Of Faith.8263:

i want butterfly wings! or something mesmer or chaos themed

<3

well at 400 gems it better \=

archdemonXIII.7063:

For the record I find saying the levelling up process is faster/easier than another MMO is kinda flawed logic. The absence of a negative is not a positive. That’s like saying it’s OK for someone to hit you in the face because they could’ve hit you in the privates.

It takes ~20 hours to fully level a toon in DCUO. It’s still an arduous task.

The simple fact is you aren’t just less powerful. You don’t just have less tools to work with. You are less powerful and lack tools. The biggest challenge for me at early levels is trying to enjoy myself with a kitten character who poorly represents his chosen class.

thanks, said it better than I could.

I takes on average (leveling ‘normally’) 40-80 hours, which is quite long. and I don’t think it’s necessary at all to make the game “last longer” as some say.

They’re are many people like me who just dont bother to have/use alts because it just takes too long to get to what they want. So what are these people doing in game if leveling is so important to the life of an mmo?(rhetorical question)

Basket of Boxes.1976:

I like the idea of the new trait system although I already had every class at 80 so I only have to unlock 5 traits on each class. That being said they should really think about making the unlocks account bound being as it is the same feats required to unlock the traits on every class. Even just needing the 5 new traits on every class it is taking pretty long due to the mega server and the temples and events required always being completed. I could not imagine unlocking every trait on all classes as a player starting today, it would be a nightmare.

yeah I think alot of people wouldnt mind it so much if they were acc.bound, doing the same unlock over and over again…..blah boring, and puts me off alts anyway. I’m sure it puts others off as well

laokoko.7403:

Taygus.4571:

laokoko.7403:

Taygus.4571:

laokoko.7403:

ya just buy your way to lvl80 or dungeon switch alt like so many *. I honestly hope Anet would do something about people dungeon switching at the end of the run.

What is it with people wanting to change thing that dont affect them in the least?????

You don’t like switching, then don’t switch…

laokoko.7403:

yBut I think majority of the people are just farmers, weather that is legendary, or farming eotm, or fractal skin farmers.

Honestly just look at what people is doing in eotm. If there is any confrontation, people either port back and walk the other way so they can continue their farm, there isn’t even much fighting.

Well if you put it that way, everything in the game outside of rp is farming. >.>
again, how does people doing this affect you?

(btw, I’m actually not all that interested in fractal skins/drops. I just like the idea of being able content that few do.)

So why complain. You are just farming level instead of whatever you are farming at lvl80.

ok…lets put it this way
farming hearts may be fun to you, it isnt to me. I want to do fractals/dungeons and WvW.
You can call everything farming, doesn’t mean the method of farming is the same.

Is it so wrong for people to not enjoy leveling, but do enjoy the rest of the game, and just want to do that part of the game?

You mean Anet being a **** by forcing people to swing a sword 1 million time before they can enjoy their self?

Welcome to mmorpg my friend.

you make it sound like it’s ok and something should just deal with rather than complain about and hope gets improved in some way.

laokoko.7403:

Taygus.4571:

notebene.3190:

Taygus.4571:

Nike.2631:

I’ve gotta say… GW2 has the most casual (and FAST) leveling of any MMO I’ve played in the last decade. If you find this “painful” you may want to find another genre entirely.

You do remember gw2 was advertised as “if you’ve never played an mmo this is the one for you.”

Many people here dislike other mmo’s for that exact reason. Things take too long to get to what people actually want to play.

That is an interesting question and distinction.

Is the original post about the process of leveling itself? Examples of better rewards for leveling? Speed (compared to)? Other?

Or…is this about leveling as a concept? Meaning, you want to come in Call of Duty on day one, gear up, and play ‘the end game’?

I’d like to skip leveling altogether. Chase gears/chase traits but forget the leveling.
Or make it shorter. This is my first mmo, and I find leveling to be quite dull, it’s just not what I’m after in this game.

I hope they can make chase gears shorter and make leveling longer. And I find farming legendary dull. It’s just not what I’m after in this game.

No ones forcing you to farm a legendary. But can’t you do at lv80 that you can ONLY do while leveling. (in terms of playing the game/not gaining stats/levels)
Leveling taking longer affects players like me. But being quicker stops you from doing what?

laokoko.7403:

Taygus.4571:

laokoko.7403:

ya just buy your way to lvl80 or dungeon switch alt like so many *. I honestly hope Anet would do something about people dungeon switching at the end of the run.

What is it with people wanting to change thing that dont affect them in the least?????

You don’t like switching, then don’t switch…

laokoko.7403:

yBut I think majority of the people are just farmers, weather that is legendary, or farming eotm, or fractal skin farmers.

Honestly just look at what people is doing in eotm. If there is any confrontation, people either port back and walk the other way so they can continue their farm, there isn’t even much fighting.

Well if you put it that way, everything in the game outside of rp is farming. >.>
again, how does people doing this affect you?

(btw, I’m actually not all that interested in fractal skins/drops. I just like the idea of being able content that few do.)

So why complain. You are just farming level instead of whatever you are farming at lvl80.

ok…lets put it this way
farming hearts may be fun to you, it isnt to me. I want to do fractals/dungeons and WvW.
You can call everything farming, doesn’t mean the method of farming is the same.

Is it so wrong for people to not enjoy leveling, but do enjoy the rest of the game, and just want to do that part of the game?