Guild Wars 2

Nephziel.6053:

10 Minutes you get for some of them is more than enough.
I and I am sure a lot of other players do not want everything made easy.

You people keep complaining how the game is too casual and how we are losing players because of that but the moment something challenging appears you made countless crying posts begging for it to be nerfed.

This has already been nerfed enough.

GW2 Is an MMO. Play it as such
Make friends, form parties and guilds and help each-others

Thats my two cents…

The Base Game (Story + 100%map) was entirely possible solo (execept Arah story mission)
HoT is stuck with a lot -You can’t do it Solo- and with a story mission unlock behind EXP Grid/Mastery

If Arena.net would have warned us about this meta PvE gameplay changes, I would have not pre-pushing HoT

Maria Murtor.7253:

Full headline: Hero Points: Champions vs. time limit vs. missing players

First something about me: I’m a Veteran, played Guild Wars nearly since the very beginning and have about 25 characters. I’m really enjoying it to play my characters through all the campaigns and to all places on the map. All of my characters are able to travel to all cities/outposts in a second. This is especially convenient for helping guild mates or friends.

As for Guild Wars 2, I do the same thing: 100 % Map with all of my characters. Yeah, I might take every waypoint instead, but it feels … incomplete. So all of my characters have 100 % of the main game. I even took all the Vistas and Points of Interests of Silverwastes, Southstone Cove and Dry Top, even there is no reward for it. It’s just for the sake of completeness and no profit motive.

Now there is Heart of Thorns with it’s (partially) new mechanic of Hero Points. Now you have to defeat champions instead of just Veterans. Some of them are fine. You can take them out/solo them, if you are stubborn and your skills are high enough and maybe some other players join the fight = easy going. At least most the time. Because there are at least two exceptions: Verdant Brink: Vampire Beasts. Tangled Depths: Mushroom Queen. Maybe there is one or two more, but especially these two challenges are hefty. At the moment there are luckily enough players to deal with them. But very soon the time will come you have do deal with them on your very own.

Today my second character has his 100 % HoT. And the most time I had exactly this problem: No players. So I used the LfG and luckily players joined the fight. But I guess, it’s just a question of time, until most people will lose interest. In both cases (see above). I had to wait, until we had enough players. The Mushroom Queen requires at least 5 players and even then, it’s more luck beating this kitten. I guess she even could easily take out Modremoth. But there is more: You have to deal with them under a time limit.
I noticed, my Condition classes are way more effective against them. More CC, more damage, easier to recover. Direct damage classes need often longer. But so far I just played my strong characters; characters I do have much practise playing them. Soon I will play less offensive classes like supporting or healing classes. I managed it to do 100 % in the main game, but this Hero Points are one size too big. Way too tough Champions with tons of HP and a time limit. I’m afraid of dealing with them in the near future.

As I said: At the moment there are enough players for the most time. But time will pass very quick. With locations like Dragon’s Stand and Tangled Depths I assume players won’t complete HoT as often as the rest of Tyria. Probably they will skip hard Hero Points. I would suggest to consider the difficulty of the Champion hero points in the interest of most of the players. Remove the time limit, make them easier. I don’t mind, if they upscale to Champion level, but only if there are enough players around. And btw: The Mushroom king just spams his AoE’s and there is simply not enough space.

+ 1
Hot PvE = Bad Design

Linfang.1087:

TheArtOfMouts.7468:

Ok thank for answers!
1000 Candy Corn for 5000 karma, this is not tempting for me.

One thing to remember is getting the 8 achievements done for the final achievement that gives you one cob as a reward. I was 7/8 , invested 1k candy corn, got the achievement and a cob back.

I got the final archivement without doing the 1000 Candy Corn.

Ohoni.6057:

Ok thank for answers!
1000 Candy Corn for 5000 karma, this is not tempting for me.

You’re not doing it for the karma, you’re doing it for the karma. You’re doing it to give a poor, down on his luck dead Quaggan a chance at a better afterlife. . . somehow that involves awful candy.

Lol !

Ok thank for answers!
1000 Candy Corn for 5000 karma, this is not tempting for me.

From Halloween Achivements ‘’New afterlife for Quaggan’’ (Give1000 candy corn to Quaggan)
Reward : Nan’s Candy Corn Cookie

What is the purpose/use of this Nan’s Candy Corn Cookie ?

Thanks.

I’m also affected by FPS drop since 1-2 weeks.
I have no clues.
Yesterday, I reinstalled graphic card driver and everything went well, but after a reboot the fps drop was back again.

FPS issue also.
Running same PC, same spec, same drivers, same OS.
And suddently a huge FPS drop. around -20 fps than usual.
Since 1-2 weeks ago.

Why I agree with both ? O_o

Mafusail.9305:

I found the best way that in 2 weeks of relaxed farming gave me:
Volcanus (from scratch, bought everything+lvled a cooking, but cooking is cheapish)~400 gold
Living World Season 2 (bought gems) ~200 gold
Balthazar Outfit (again, bought more gems =) )~150 gold
Tempered Spinal Blades ~250 gold (just bought watchwork sprockets and toileted them into Blade Shards). Also, i lvled an Armorsmith to craft Gift of Blades, coins included in 250.
Ofcourse i did buy what i could via orders on TP (some items like lodestones saved me like 50 gold). So you can see that i made ~1000 gold in 2 weeks. And i really didnt do anything over-extendable. I just had lots of free time to do it these weeks.

Now here’s the way i did it.
1)Find a good 4 ppl group. I just friended dude at ToT farming. He throws maize balms very often, and do it fast.
2)ToT farming, look for a good mirror that have not too much ppl.
3)lvl a mesmer. I could get Mantra of Pain and both teleports on lvl 17 (lvled him after prepatch, so… yeah). If you didnt find a mirror that have a thrower on – throw urself. But dont do it alone, cuz people will rage on you. They will. No other variants.
4)If you do not have ppl at all – taxi a full group and throw for them. Most of the times you will have donations that will compensate you cost of balms and, usually, even more. Be more talkable with ppl, do not blame them for anything and maby tell some jokes in process
5)When you got DR (go wiki for Diminishing Return mechanics), usually @260-280 bags, you go into dungeon with ppl from p1.
6)You make dungeons in this order:
-Ascalon full
-CoF p1+p2 (maybe p3, its really easy and takes 15 minutes to do CoF p3 if you have a thief)
-HotW p1 (p2-3 are not eligeble cuz underwater bosses take too long for them to die).
It will take you two diminishing brakes.
7)After third and therefore DR fades do whatever you want =) I found personal Ireo Ore rich nodes farming (there are 100% nodes every 24 hours, and you can make 4 gold per 20 mins with 1 your char. Also, you can repeat it with another characters that you want). Also, IMO, Vinewrath WAY better by reward then cf. But i think im just unlucky, since most money comes from T6mats and exos from cf and i didnt get them enough.

Here’s a little guide to you mate. Pick up this or something from before =)

Nice Post. Thx.

We all know what is ‘’supply & demand’’
I’m asking for a fixed price for extra storage/character inventory space.
Something else than with gems !
I mean, why I should pay 10x more than 2 month ago to increase my new character inventory space ? I have now to do more grinding …
I’m a casual gamer and I don’t have this extra time which was not required at the beginning.

… I have a friend who started to play the game 2 weeks ago. He do not have enough in-game currency for gems conversion. Have to use the mailing system, sending email to my account for ‘’extra storage’’ space. This is ridiculous.
The game is now harder (general items storage) for newcomer & casual player.

Edited Note : Makeover kit , pet or costume don’t affect the actual gameplay … Inventory space : YES !

Indeed, this is ridiculous
I can’t upgrade my Storage / Inventory slot Characters
I have stops playing because of that …

Idea → Be able to buy extra storage with in-game currency (gold) or Karma !
Thanks

My friends currently leave GW2 because of this bug.
Not cool …

I would like a post from Arena.net on the subject
Thanks

From Valca :
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Now that I’ve realised it, all that time doing WvWvW was just a waste of time.
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This is exactly why. This issue is really near to a ‘Game Breaker’
We know, this is not a showstopper, as players can still play the game.
But this is so frustating …

Please …
This issue is REAL and really a ‘’Game Breaker’’
Yes lots of player are affected since day one. With 0 server switch.

What’s the point of the whole W3 battle bonus when not getting them?
What’s the point for lots of player to contribute W3 battle when they aren’t getting the bonus ?
They lose motivation of playing the game when they are not getting same reward as others.
> Which is a game breaker <

Please take this issue more seriously than forwarding wiki page or automatic Email reply.

Thanks and strongly waiting for an official post

Following my previous post :
My friend got this bug (he never received any WvWvW bonuses). He never switched server. He is on the same server (Northern Shiverpeaks) since day 1 of the “headstart”. Unfortunately, because of another bug (Error 401), he can’t post on this forum. His account name is WingsMage.5718

He will attempt forum login this week-end

Hi Tyler;
This is what happen to my friend.
Not working since day 1 !

I will ask him to write a msg here.
(He had some issue at the forum log-in)

The easiest way to know if ‘’power of the mists’’ bonus are working for you.
Take note of your current health and when the % of Robust increase , check again the difference !

I’m pretty sure, lots of players are affected, but are not aware.

Friends affected by this issues (I know 2 people)
Are currently leaving GW2 because of that

This is indeed frustrating for them.

Let me know if you need their account name, for investigation.

I have to say : Why !!?

Note:
This issue is still true & affecting a bunch of players.
Feedback would be greatly pleased.

The Last mission has to be a single player quest.
I mean .. I can’t finished the sinplge player story line.. (Since 2 weeks)
1. Have to create a good 5 players team. Only getting a team of 5 is hard.
2. Have to hope of no ‘’Instance Bug’’
3. Have enough time to complete the whole quest.

Suggestion :
When entering inside the portal as ’’Quest’’
Adjust the level difficulty following the number of players.

Note : This is my third walkthrough showstopper … and I did not started to play the game from day one.

Walkthrough break here.
This is a major showstopper ‘’as stated in video game industrie’’