Guild Wars 2

zamrai.3784:

drkn.3429:

I know it’s getting really old, but it really is the solution – find a decent guild.

This is actually not a solution in long term. The segregation of players will progress deeper and deeper with every week. If you haven’t been playing GW2 for lets say a week for whatever reason, or been doing anything else like leveling an alt you will have a hard time finding a group, and this chance will decrease each week.

I’m very concerned about direction this game comes into. It was advertised as an MMO revolution and with recent content I see more and more WoW patterns have come into this game.

Fractals are generally fun but only few days after it’s been released it’s getting obvious playerbase has been strongly divided if it comes to accessing game content. Hardcore guildmates are now running dungeon only with hardcore ones at lvl 10+, rest is left behind. Time will only make it worse as there is absolutely no incentive for lvl 10+ players to run lower levels. They will become lvl 20+ soon, etc.

Since fractals release I realized I won’t get any chance to go there with 5-8 of my guildmates I ran dungeons so far, enjoying their company, as they are lvl 12+ already while I am still lvl 3. That’s very sad.

Guildchat becomes more and more like this:
A: lfg fractals lvl 3
B: lfg fractals lvl 5
C: we are doing lvl 12 atm
D: lfg fractals lvl 8
E: I could do lvl 8 with you but I need to do lvl 7 first can you help me
D: No, sorry mate, I dont have so much time
F: Hi guys, I just come back to this game after some break, could we do fractals lvl 1?
All: LOL!

I was hoping GW2 is the first MMO I can like and play it for a long time. Recent changes Anet did made me doubt that.

I thought that each week the Lv resets and you go back to 1?

xiv.7136:

So there is a lot of complaining about the new ascended backpiece and rings. Lots of very emo people about a change that really is very minor in terms of the impact of the 3 gearslots on the game itself. No, it is not some kind of insane grind, not at all.

(On a separate note, it actually feels like some people are “grinding” the whine-o-meter on the forums, if you get my meaning.)

However, in game, I notice something very different to what is on the forums.

I see people making groups for FOM, all the time, day and night. Right now, there’s just line after line of people making groups in LA to do FOM at varying difficulty levels ranging from 1 to 6, and groups going to AC and CM explorable.

I see people talking about the new dungeon and enjoying it a lot, as it is probably the best dungeon in the game.

People are playing more. They are not running Orr for the 100,000th time. They are in fact, having fun, and feel like they’re progressing by going up the difficulty levels of FOM.

No one is talking much about their ascended items. The occasional person links an item and everyone says grats. It has no impact on WvW, and no one cares what you’re wearing when doing the new dungeon.

People wear their “FOM level” with a degree of pride. There is a sense of progression and ego, like being a hardcore raider, but it’s not about the gear: it’s about the skill in going up the levels and being a level 10+ FOM player.

But here’s the main thing.

Just consider if you will what things would be like without the FOM level, without this new sense of progression.

We would still be in Orr farming karma. Please tell me that wasn’t starting to get old, or would have gotten old by December.

We actually have been given something new to do. And we don’t need to do it, but we can – and it is fun to do. This strikes me as a very good thing.

The game is progressing, and continuing to develop and add new things.

I don’t want a stagnant game. I do not want for gear to matter, it should be a game of skill before all – and it still is. All they have done is add a bit of “dungeon level” progression for those who want to go a bit further in their PVE.

- Agony is pretty much a mechanic just to add to this sense of progression.

- Agony does not affect fights against other players in WvW. People with ascended gear will not two shot you in WvW.

- It doesn’t make people more powerful than you outside of that 1 dungeon.

They will not do 2x your dps, or fly like rockets into the sky leaving you behind. They have a tiny bit more stats on 3 item slots, and the ability to slot for agony resistance to do 1 dungeon at level 10+.

That is all that has happened. Let’s take a deep breath, put away the handbags and stop acting like children. No one came to your house and lied to you and slept with your sister.

All they did was add a new backpiece (btw it feels like that’s the “event upgrade slot”, I bet every new event has a new backpiece of some sort) and rings, and a way of progressing up the levels of a new and well designed, fun FOM dungeon, to which they can add fractals later to add even more variety.

Relax and enjoy.

Or don’t. It’s not like you’re paying a sub. Just go play something else till you cool off and want to play GW2 again, it’s not going anywhere.

Believe me, after playing WoW or Rift for a week, you’ll be wanting to return. Or go play Black Ops 2, now that is one seriously bug-ridden game. Anyway.

11/14 of your gear slots remain exotics.

Flame on!

You made some valid points.

I love the new gear and new dungeon idea its great!.

Luculus.9860:

Do people think, in general, that these forums (and game forums in general) are so negative because the people who are really enjoying themselves just play and don’t come here to whine?

I mean this seriously.

When I talk about the various topics in guild that are brought up on these boards, the responses are totally different.

Some recent examples:

Ascended armour: forums consensus = bad, a treadmill. Guild consensus = could be good, let’s wait and see, only a “must have” for deep Fractal adventures.

Event: forums consensus = laggy, unfair, skews the economy etc. Guild consensus = one of the best events in online gaming ever.

Fractals: forum consensus = elitist, gated, treadmill etc. Guild consensus = excellent fun, innovative and rewarding.

On my guild forums, negative posters just get ignored or asked to stop being so attention seeking. We can all spot them. They enjoy dragging things down and foreseeing doom.

These forums seem to be riddled with this type of post like a cancer. It’s depressing. I come here to read about the game – people’s thoughts and experiences, some tips and info. But the majority of thread titles are just doom.

According to this forum – the game died 4 weeks after release, no one is playing except for hardcore grinders and treadmill lovers. My experience in game is the total opposite. Players that are casual, like to explore, to “potter”, to craft, to try a bit-of-this, a-bit-of-that are seeing this as the best game in years to cater to their playstyle.

Anyway, I’ll leave it there.

Although, if my theory is true, the following responses will be mainly negative as the forum population will see and answer this, whilst the regular players will miss it because they’re online and having fun

This is an excellent post.
I share the exact same theory as you.
My entry guild loves the new dungeon and all the casual gamers I play with.
It seems the people I play with at least and the people I speak to share the complete opposite view to the negative view on the forums.
I do believe that the majority of the players do not look on the forum at all.
It is true that some people will never be happy unless their complaining.

I think they forgot:-(

Can you still get healing power/power/toughness on the ascended items?

Massive thank you from the Jozans! its epic. I can see how much work has gone in to the new dungeon.

It soo good!

Can you still get healing power/power/toughness on the ascending items?

HERO.2057

It took them 5 years to develop GW2, that is a very long time for a game that is empty.

Not sure where you got this information from. Did you make it up?

The game is far from empty.

Derk.3189:

“I hope you are all as excited about these new items as I am!” – Linsey Murdock

Who actually thinks these items are ‘exciting’. Its just a stat upgrade and a color change. Theres nothing exciting about that. At least the thought of infusions MIGHT have been exciting, like the 6th rune effects on some runes, but nope, just another stat increase.

Maybe our definitions of ‘exciting’ are different. This is clearly not exciting imo.

Me and my guild are very excited! In fact every one I play with in came are very excited but they don’t use the forum they cant take the moaners.

Eain.7825:

Here’s what I don’t get.

Levelling in GW2 is easy, especially if you’re lucky enough to find a few crafting boosters in your black lion chests. Yesterday I logged in to my level 74 necromancer and had enough mats in the back from levelling my warrior to 80 and getting her decked out that I could level my necro’s artificing and tailoring to 400 from 350ish in one go, thereby getting me all the experience I needed to hit 80.

I went from 74 to 80 in ~25 minutes time, counting the minutes spent running back and forth between black lion and the hoelbrak crafting stations to get additional mats for discoveries (putrid essences and such).

I now own the game for just over a month and a half and I have two level 80’s, my warrior who’s decked in exotics and my necromancer who when I woke up was level 74 in assorted greens and blues and 25 minutes later was 80 wearing all rares. For my necromancer all I now have left to do is, basically, get exotics, but I’ve got enough karma to buy the ones I need from the temple vendors in Orr and I’ve got enough ectos and gossamer stored to craft the ones I need from tailoring. If I want I can be kitted out in full exotics a week from now, days even, and then I’d still have cash to spare to buy orichalcum rings on black lion.

Levelling in this game is easy.

Getting max gear at level 80 is easy.

Aesthetic upgrades would be interesting if there were enough armour models to go around, but even then, why would I want to keep transmuting different looks onto the same armour? Not to mention that at some point you’re going to run out of transmutation stones because you’ve got all zones explored.

Basically the only thing you can really do in this game is level a new char, but if you went for 100% world explore on your first like I did then it becomes an exercise in repetition.

The only thing I could possibly want to achieve at this point is a legendary weapon. I could get one by not logging in more than one to two hours a day over the coming months and just gradually working my way towards it.

I don’t consider logging in for one to two hours a day to get a weapon I’ll never actually really use (because when I have it I have everything and the last thing I want to do is grind places with it that have nothing left to offer) as ‘playing’ a game. I want to play guild wars 2. I don’t want to meander through it.

Power creep is the only solution. There always has to be something to chase. There have to be better items, better upgrades, more things to do. As it stands Guild Wars 2 is a game where I could within 3 to 4 months have 5 exoticed 80’s, all of different classes. If I achieve that I’m done. I literally have nothing more to do.

It seems to me that people fear power creep because they’re afraid they might not be able to get those items while others are. I’ll tell you something about these supposed ‘others’: in a game where there’s nothing to do, they don’t exist. Even in my own guild people are pretty much only online when we agree to do a dungeon to give ourselves the illusion we’re still playing this game. It’s dead otherwise. What’s wrong with giving people an incentive to keep playing? Because I promise you that your single item-level gear utopia is going to be a very deserted one.

Agree with you.

showatt.9413:

NoobOnSteroid.7192:

showatt.9413:

Whether or not this game is heading towards a bad direction or not depends entirely players and not the design itself, as none of the new designs are actually game breaking.

If their new choices go directly against everything they’ve said about the game in the years leading up to release, you might say it’s going in a bad direction.

Not so much because it completely ruins the game (I’m pretty sure a lot of people will just keep on playing), but because you’re undermining the trust your own audience has in you. I’m disappointed, and I cannot see any reason for buffed stats on the new items. Ascended could just as well be a copy of exotic/legendary, outfitted for the new dungeon (with the addition of a “harmless” dungeon-only infusion slot).

I for one CAN see the reason for a buffed stat – to accommodate harder dungeons and make existing dungeons SLIGHTLY easier to do.

Naysayer will be the only reason why this game fails – if it ever does.
Not the design.

Because – as much as everyone of you hated what’s coming – you have to admit gw2 is a well designed game, unlike Swtor, where you start lagging when more than 20 people are playing in the same area.

The game works perfectly.
Players who welcome the changes will help the game open to new possibility and venture into the unknown, while the naysayer who keep repeating how they’ve been cheated or how gear progression is bad like a broken record, will lead the game to its downfall.

So?

Are you gonna come on board and enjoy the ride, regardless of the direction that the ship is heading and constructively helping the developers to navigate this ship?

Or are you gonna stand on the shore and screaming and shouting ‘traitors’ and cling onto your belief that Gw2 is better off as just another GW1 clone and that no change is best change?

I’m on board! Cant wait much needed end game patch!

Kyosji.8961:

So far I only see this:
Introducing Ascended items, artifacts of great power that can be improved by a special new type of upgrade called Infusions, which can be found in dungeons. Look for more information about Ascended gear soon!

and..

One of the primary design purposes for the Ascended item tier is to bridge the gap between Exotic gear (which fairly casual players can have a reasonable certainty of acquiring without too much angst) and Legendaries (which are for the hardest of hardcores). Specifically, Ascended items will be used specifically to combat new endgame mechanics. Foes within the new Fractals of the Mists dungeon will inflict Agony on players. Agony can only be mitigated by Infusions, which can be put only into Ascended armor. As players get to higher levels of difficulty within the dungeon, they will eventually find a point at which they have to counter Agony (by Infusions) before they can hope to proceed. Rather than being upgraded with normal components, Ascended gear has upgrades built-in, and upgrade slots have been repurposed into Infusion slots.

November’s update will include only Ascended rings and back items. More Infusions and Ascended item types will be added with time. When Ascended items are added to the game, Legendary weapons will be updated so they are still the best available option (as opposed to being on-par with Exotic weapons, as they currently are).

To me it sounds like armor you find that really only works in this dungeon.

The stats will also be slightly higher then then current exotics if you look at the picture comparing the two rings you can see.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

Took me about a week to get full set of exotics from AC for the stats.

I also got a full set of different exotics just for the appearance, still missing the feet from arah thou as its always bugged.

Still girding for legendary looking froward to getting that.

Valhallen.1693:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

Arguments about gear treadmills and how GW2 wasn’t supposed to have one aside, I don’t like Agony. I don’t like how it works (from the article), I don’t like needing to mitigate it with new gear, and I don’t like the idea of grinding a dungeon for gear so I can do…the dungeon. In my opinion this is a mechanic best left in the past where it belongs, like resistance gear 5 years ago in World of Warcraft.

It’s not interesting, it doesn’t add anything to the gameplay, and it’s certainly not fun. The only reason for its existence is to encourage people to play more to upgrade their current gear.

What do you dungeon crawlers think of Agony, both the idea and implementation?

Couldn’t disagree more.
I am very existed about the new agony gear looks very promising.
Thanks Arena Net.

IcarusMelody.5312:

While I know its pretty inconvenient; have any of you guys considered server hopping to where it does work? It’s free but the downside is that you will have to wait a week before you can do it again to get back to your server.

Arrah has for the most part; been functional on Fort Aspenwood server. Only time it is closed is when no one defends it from the risen events. It’s inconvenient but if you really want to finish story or just run explorable its an option.

Unfortunately this is not an option for me as I run a guild and do not want to lose all progress.

I have made posts about this and one previously got deleted and I got a temporary ban because it was deemed as a petition “apparently”.
So I will be careful what say as I don’t want to be banned again.

Arena Net please can you fix this!

I am really looking forward to the new content you are releasing, it sounds really promising. However this bug has been here since day one and no one has said anything about it or even acknowledged it.

Guys please add to the below topic. I want to try and get as many post as possible to see if Arena Net will actually take notice.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/ARAH-door-bug-is-now-unacceptable/first#post652692

Dear Arena Net

I am writing this post as I fill it is now completely unacceptable that we are still having the Arah door bug.

For those of you who are lucky enough not to be on a server who is not affected by this issue I will explain.

There is an event outside Arah what spawns; while this event is active Arah door is locked. This in theory should not be an issue. However what happens is this event bugs and the door does not open, preventing you from doing the dungeon until a server re-start.

I am on Underworld server and I am not joking when I say since release Arah is bugged 90% of the time.

Arena Net seems to be incapable of resolving this issue, all they do is re-start the server and not resolve the issue.

To me it is simple they have three options.

1. Delete the door.
2. Delete the event.
3. Fix the bug.

This is one of the only end game dungeons and we can only do it 10% of the time!

I love this game but this is really not on Arena Net, we have suffered enough now please resolve the issue by next patch.

Please post if you also share the same opinion as me, it would be good to get as many posts as possible so Arena Net realise the seriousness of this bug.

Kind Regards,

James

ilr.9675:

What do you call it when a small elite group of people take it upon themselves to decide that almost everyone else who doesn’t think like them should be excluded from something really important?.

Winners!

What do you call it when a bunch of whinny cry babies post on the forums demanding nerfs on the only end game content because they are too lazy to work out or read the tact’s to kill the boss?

You do not need to be an elite to kill the boss. Its not rocket sciences to dodge the massive red circles.

Lupicus is not too hard and does not require a nerf! This is your typical noob response. I cant kill him so he needs to be nerfed.

When in fact what should happen is the player your improve his skills and learn how to beat the boss.

In my opinion Lupicus is the best boss currently in Guild Wars, i would like to see more bosses like him and perhaps some harder bosses.

Also luck has nothing to do with the boss, I kill him every time with out fail.

man I know you pain so bad!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Send-our-tokens-Arah-Path-1-Bug/first#post578118

Just a quick one,

The last event is tomorrow night; I’m not going to get home from work until late?.

When does the event finish I need to get the last achievement “attend the party”.

This is indeed a joke, and not a funny one.
Arena Net please ether delete the event, delete the door, or fix the bug.
I am a massive fan boy of the game, but even I am losing my patience now.

I would also like to know this.

Currently farming for legendary.

Good idea.

I would love a hardcore mode option, that would be so awesome for end game hardcore pve fans.

A mode where you really need a lot of skill and top gear to do be able to complete.

I would love to see this.

Tim.9850:

I can’t believe some here actually think they are great. Many have complained about them in the past.

I can believe people think they are great. I for one certainty do.

Renewed focus being my favourite it is amazing!

I can accurately see good uses for all of them, when you combined them with the correct combination, and not just expect to hit the elite button and win.

Unfortunately I think a lot of the problem is that some people do not use them correctly.

Still bugged.

A warning to all, it is best not to do this path at all at the moment.

Hello,

Completed Arah Path 1 killed the last boss where you need to use the reflecting crystals to reflect his shots back at him and he puts a ring of fire around him what gets smaller and smaller.

Once he has been killed the door is meant to open and you go through and the dungeon is over and you get the token ect…….

HOWEVER to our despair the door bugged and did not open, meaning we all wasted 2 hours of our time doing the dungeon!

We have all done a bug report and sent a screen shot asking for our tokens to be awarded. I know it is unlikely we will get them or even have a response from Arena net but if you are reading this Arena Net please send them!

What makes this worst is firstly it took us two weeks to be able to do the dungeon because of the stupid event bugging outside the door of Arah! And secondly I’m now too scared to run Arah path 1 in case this happens again.

I hope you can understand our frustration here at the very end of this long path we finally get to the end ready to collect our reward and bang door bugged!

To top it all of it was the last 60 tokens I needed to collect my legs for the final part of my appearance!

Please send our tokens Arena Net!

Kind Regards,

James

Ron Bergundy.3169:

The event is bugged.

Not for me, done it twice now once with a 3 man group then a 2 man.

Firstly all the moaners out there please do not comment on this topic, there is all ready enough moaners out there.

This is a topic to say thanks to Areanet for providing such a great event!

I am really pleased with this event so far and I would like to say a big thank you to the developers for creating this event!

I must say I did not expect this from a game what has only been released a couple of months ago.

WELL DONE!!!!!!

Haven’t been able to do arah for 2 weeks now this is not acceptable.

The event out side arah bugs and prevents access.

Please do not just reset the server, ether fix this issue correctly or remove the event all together.

To be honest who really cares for the event any way, you get nothing for it.

I have never complained before but this takes the piss now its the only end game dungeon and never seems to be working.

This should be a priority fix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DanH.5879
Hi.
I would like to complain that some classes like the guardian are OP in pvp kitten if i can kill them with anything really, other than X vs 1). Also some classes are too kittened to play in pvp/spvp like elementalists/engineers. Can we get some sort of balance please ?:)
thank you.

Have you ever considered that you may just be a very bad player?

Maybe you are too lazy or just quite simply lack the skill to learn to fight Guardians?

And because of this you would rather complain for classes to be nefted instead of actually learning how to play the game.

sapiorion.3247:

RaZaC.1963:

Go sit in a corner and cry, if your incompetent brain cant understand an event as simple as this and you are to lazy to go to the wiki then hell, i’m not sure what you are doing here on the forums. You could have been on the wiki.

This guy says all I was going to say really.

Yeah he summed it up nicely.

If you can’t work out this event, then I personally would love to see you rage quit this game and NEVER come back.

I really can’t see why people are complaining that is too confusing.
I thought it was very simple to work out what to do.
It’s like some people need to be spoon fed every bit of information. What’s the problem with using your brain?

Ynna.8769:

Of course not everyone, but it seems to be all too common.

I do agree it is too common, there is a lot of complainers on the forum.

The class is great, and is still extremely powerful if you know how to play them.

LOVING IT!!!!

Natas.1306:

You guys fail at guardian if you think renewed focus is not awesome.

Well said renewed focus is amazing, when used correctly.

It was amazing before the patch and now it is every more amazing!

Thanks for this buff Areanet!

LOVING IT!

Ynna.8769:

People who play Guardian seem to heavily underestimate the power of the Guardian.

Not all people!

As far as I am concerned this is a very very good patch for me!

Still loving and owning on my Gaurdian!

“to be fair I never used “Save yourself”

I do like the fact they did not change the move for PVE thou that was a good idea.

ReaverKane.7598:

Hey.
So this issue has been bugging me for a while, and i wanted to see if i’m alone in this or not.
So i have a lvl 80 Guardian, geared/traited for Power, Toughness and Vitality. Its done to be a tankish thing, and generally it works nice, thanks to my high defense stat. But when i go vs condition damage dealers my character tends to drop like a fly.
The reason for this is that Guardians are hard-coded to be one of the classes with the lowest health (which for a melee, heavy armor wearing defensive class is nothing but odd). So i compared notes with some guildmates and specially my brother (who has a lvl 80 Crit warrior), i came up with the sad conclusion that even though i have a fair ammount of vitality more than my brother (about 200 or so) he still outmatches my HP by something like 3000HP. This is true for many other characters and classes.
So i wanna know, does this bother anyone else?

Logged about 400 hours on my Guardian now and this does not bother me at all.

I do run a defensive build, and I am extremely tough. In PVE it is extremely rare that I get downed.

In WvWvW I have not been in a 1v1 where I have died.

If we had the same health pool as warriors we would be extremely over powered. We simply do not need any more health as we have so many defensive abilities to choice from. If you are having problems with your survivability I would question your build/setup or skill.

IMO ArenaNet had done a good job on the Guardians health pool.

I am still loving my Guardian!

runeblade.7514:

omgwtflolbbl.7142:

Honestly, if a group of 80s kicks you because you’re too “low level”, chances are that group was going to suck anyways and you’ll probably be faster finding another group.

I disagree. I joined both a full party of level 80s and underleveled players. I want to go with your ideology that an elitist group like that is inferior but it is far from the truth.

The low level has less experience and tend to die a lot if they are focused down on, they do not have the superior gear, they don’t have the toughness, they don’t have the damage, they don’t have the traits, they don’t have the specs, and they may not have the experience. They are vastly inferior to level 80 in exotics. What could take 20 mins in a run could take several hours. If the group succeeded, it was because the level 80 carried the low levels through.

In a full level 80 party, the boss could be a snoozefest.

I still recruit any players that are in level regardless of what I said above.

I agree with this comment.

I want to state that I run a guild and have plenty of less experiences players in it.
I am very happy to take the less experience players on runs and take my time and explain to them what to do.

However sometimes I want to do a speed run, for myself. I do not see the problem in requesting only Lv 80s for my party. I don’t always want to carry the less experience players though the dungeons.

I also only boot people when I quite clearly mention I am looking for 80s only.

What is the problem in this? If they don’t like it join another party there are always plenty of other groups doing runs outside AC.

I never have an issue getting groups on my Alts.

omgwtflolbbl.7142:

Honestly, if a group of 80s kicks you because you’re too “low level”, chances are that group was going to suck anyways and you’ll probably be faster finding another group.

Guess not.

As about 4 hours ago, i just kicked someone from a group for being Lv 50 something. I did clearly state I was looking for Lv 80s.

I do understand that being lv 80 does not mean you have skill, however it does help reduced the odds of getting less experience players (as I like to call them the noobies).

For your record I did complete my run in great time (as per usual).

I have a lv80 Guardian in full exotics amour (vital, toughness, power) and full exotics jewel and weapons (healing, power, toughness)
I mainly play PVE.
I just want to say the Guardians HP pool does not require any changes.
We have so much survivability and I am insanely tough, I love it!
I honestly feel if you are complaining that the Guardian has to low HP pool, you should not be playing a Guardian or you are just a very bad player.