Guild Wars 2

Zaroua.2714:

The problem with DPS meters is the players. Players tend to only look at total damage done (or total healing done in other games) to see how performs the best without thought as to what the numbers mean and without the ability to interpret them.

HEY GUYS I HAVE HIGHEST DPS LOL! SWAP TO ADDS THAT NEED TO DIE QUICK? HELL NO I’LL LOSE DPS TIME ON THE BOSS AND I WON’T BE ON TOP OF THE DPS METER!!!!!ONEONE!!

That kind of behavior is all too common and cancerous and I’m certain this is the kind of behavior anet wants to avoid bringing into their game – which is about cooperation – because it would help create a toxic environment.

People already did that for the last 3 years without any dps meters and will continue doing that in raids no matter what.

Lendruil.9061:

Iris Ng.9845:

• Have they fixed the glitch when you can zip through the dorm room in Thaumanova and get the cooling rod without the need to rescue the Inquests?

This is not a bug but some lazy workaround. In higher levels you have to complete all 4 rooms of thaumanova for beeing able to fight the endboss. If you fail the prisoner-room however, it would no longer be possible to finish the fractal.
In lower levels, the door to the cooling rod is not yet open, and if you fail the event then you cannot longer complete it. This won’t stop progress, because you dont have to clear all 4 rooms in lower levels anyway.

I hope they remove this workaround with fractal rework. It will become first pve instance with legit failure state.

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Been a while since someone insisted on stacking under the pillar.

Wow I feel like I just visited a museum. FGS nerf is about the same age to us as it was to that spot.

Astralporing.1957:

Then why not give him the access to those skins, and keep the challenge for yourself?

Because those legendary skins are designed to be a raid reward duh.

#CharrLife

Looks like backitem “mounting” point is not scaling with your character’s model. Had same problems in Skyrim. Fixed only with mods.

Not sure if this are bugs or features.

Snowblind Fractal:

• Elemental Source’s top has death animation and a HP bar but cannot be damaged for almost a year now because his hitbox was moved somewhere. Same bug was introduced to the final dragon battle of season 2 but later it got fixed. It was never commented on as far as I am aware.
• When ice wall is half way down warmth no longer reapplies when you stand near the fire. Only way to get the buff past that point is to run far away from it and come back.

Volcanic Fractal:

• During the fight with Champion Grawl Shaman rocks that you are supposed to throw at him during his shield phase have extremely low spawn chance. In 9/10 fights we have to wait for shield to time out or pick one rock before he phases because rock never spawn past that point.
• There is a chance that Legendary Imbued Shaman will heal from the prisoners while he is chilled in the middle of the arena.

Captain Mai Trin Boss Fractal:

• There is a small chance that after cannon phase Mai will stay near her cannon and do nothing. Only way to continue is to kill Horrik. After he dies she will teleport back to the arena to rez him but she will never move till you kill phase her again. No idea how to reproduce it. It happened 2 times in 6-7 months.

RapidSausage.4620:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

WvW is most elitist and PvE is most ignorant.

Interesting.
In what ways is WvW elitist and PvE ignorant??

Just join any serious wvw only guild that does regular raids. “9000k ap zerk” are definition of freedom and friendliness compared to them. It is just pvp on a bigger scale after all.
As for PvE you can just check reddit or forums or even mapchat to see what is wrong with it.

The most “toxic” is PvP. WvW is most elitist and PvE is most ignorant.

Trepidation Lost.3469:

Better suggestion?

Balance split, CDI, force balance team to get gud at the game they are trying to balance.

Have they ever said why pvp/pve balance is not split?

Angelica Dream.7103:

Why is Silverwastes better? What do you do there to earn gold?

Tag events and press f. When you will get some crests and a couple shovels from the events you can buy some keys and look for “chestfarm” silverwastes maps on the lfg. After you join one all you need to do is follow commander tag and press f and use your shovel if zerg is standing in 1 spot for too long. Result is stacks of champ bags, gear boxes and mats.

Crystal Reid.2481:

Just wanted to post and let you guys know the FX artist has been looking into this. For starters we’re going to swap the Distributed Magic orange telegraph to a different colour (since orange usually denotes “GTFO” and not “You should stand here”). Secondly, he’s looking into adding more “height” to the Unstable Magic Spike attack to help give more visual cue that you need to move/dodge. Hopefully some of this will help the messaging!

Would be nice if you could change all aoe indicators from barely visible red circles to solid orange aoes. His aoe spam when he gets a breakbar is barely visible. Red circles blend with seekers and the terrain.

Avectius.3271:

Agemnon.4608:

Physical copy? Welcome to the 10’s buddy where we can directly download a game from the comfort of our home. We have Steam and other excellent online stores that outright obsolete places like Gamestop.

Welcome to Steam and other digital game-selling platforms, buddy, where you’ll never truly own the games you paid for, and where they’re not obligated to provide you with another copy of a title should something happen. You bought it through Steam, it’s on a games library that’s part of Steam. Heck, sometimes you can’t even play certain games outside of Steam. Steam practically owns half of “your” stuff.

Yeah, I’ll take physical purchases any day.

If game has online drm activation (almost all of them) you don’t really own it even if you have the cd.

@OP from what I heard boxed copy only contains HoT key which must be activated online. I would not bother with boxed copy since you don’t even get a cd.

Mem no Fushia.7604:

Many won’t even glance at game, cuz they need to give email, register etc..

If random Billy can’t be bothered to enter an email, password and press big red button, then downloading the client and creating a character will be even more work than studying string theory.

How well you can see depends on the party comp. Mesmers and engineers make it very hard to see anything. Also looking at the videos and playing are 2 kinda different things.

TheFantasticGman.9451:

Purple Miku.7032:

Drop rate differences are abysmally low.

There’s also pretty rare chance of getting weapon/armor chests, so doing 2 weeks and not getting any chests is very common and to be expected.

What? Seriously? It’s extremely abnormal for me to go a week with zero ascended chest drops from 50s. I usually get 1-3 chests a week from 50s even more if you factor in 30s and 40s. I get fractal weapons and boxes at least 1/3 of the time, and rings or nothing 2/3 of the time. Take last night as an example. I did my regular 50 and got a fractal mace. Right after did my 40 and got the fractal longbow. Sadly already had both… Only missing the harpoon gun to complete the fractal weapon collection.

My rng is all over the place. One week I can get 2+ skins, couple of armor/weapon zojja chests, fractal tonic, 10 gold+ exotics and then nothing for months.

Finally got a chance to fight the boss without disconnects and bugged ui. It does not feel like gw2 boss at all. Where did our cool combat system go? Everything feels way too passive now. It is challenging but not in a way I was hoping :/

dlonie.6547:

That guy had to be a troll. No way.

You never can be sure in this forum.

7 berserker, 2 sinister, 1 cele. 9 glass cannons and 1 celestial for some reason. Probably as an experiment for aggro control.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeated
“During the beta stages this status was referred as “death” in several descriptions. This change reflects the fact in lore that resurrections are no longer as easy since the Human Gods pulled back their avatars and ceased direct interaction with Tyria. Because of this, defeated players are never considered to be dead in lore."

Kinda meh but it is official lore.

/deaths command is there because game runs on gw1 engine.

Can someone summon a mod and ask him for a merge pls? We have at least 4 threads about feedback and 2 of them even have the same name.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

I think the Blue Guardian should have enough “boon stacks” that an autoattacking mesmer couldnt dispell on his own.

Let’s make it a conscious decision and not a passive one.

First time when I saw him I honestly thought that in order to remove his boon you had to kite him into the aoe which will strip the boon and will give a short damage boost against him. But NOPE. You just boon strip and hit it till it dies and aoe turns out to be just additional busy work for ranged builds.

I would say 22 hours since squad UI was dead on arrival.

Vyce.2014:

2) increase toughness/vitality conversions (more armor/hp per point).
3) increase healing power coefficients across the board, but reduce base healing numbers to compensate.

Making the most op stats even more op because 3 years old content is now considered easy. Cool cool.

dlonie.6547:

Heh, yeah. Something really needs to be done about that if we’re expected to be reacting to tells during a challenging encounter.

It is extra fun with a couple of engis and mesmers in a party. You can barely see the boss. Spotting arrow under him is more challenging than all his mechanics combined lol.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Healix.5819:

They likely did it due to feedback and it’ll probably release this way. They did the same thing back during the original final BWEs. An ettin’s club smash or a moa’s peck for example used to kill you.

I can’t believe this. Where is that feedback? I also talked with people in mapchat, and not a single one disagreed with me that content is too easy now. Reddit-threads have tons of feedback, 90% of players agree (based on upvotes).

I saw like 1 or 2 threads where people complained that they die too much. That’s about it.

Icebow 5 removes full breakbar in 1 hit. A bit op for a 10 man “end game”.

Only “blue mechanic” is somewhat fun. Unavoidable damage is extremely lazy. Got to the last boss in 2 attempts and whole party got disconnect.

Main builds with energy sigil. I will try to swap traits/utilities around first. Maaaaybe will use some tanky pieces if nothing will work.

MikaHR.1978:

Tongku.5326:

1. You dont need full ascended. Full ascended is recommended only for final bosses of final wing which will not even be available straight away.

2. They specifically stated on twitch and youtube that you will get ascended via doing the lower wings which do not require it to complete them. So obtaining more ascended prior to that final wing is guaranteed via the path of raid progression.

3. This is a progression raid, not a dungeon. You do not zone in and expect to finish in 15 minutes to 1 hour and be done with it like the tower of nightmares or a mini dungeon in LS. You go boss by boss, phase by phase, it may take you many weeks to complete it, hence many chances to get more guaranteed ascended prior to final wing where it is recommended as they are on weekly lockouts.

4. If you skimp on ascended for whatever reasons you can optimize. Obviously weapons take priority regardless if crafted, gotten via drops or whatever, while you can leave armor behind and let it fill itself out. If you can’t figure this out then this content is too complicated for you and you shouldn’t be attempting it.

5. Rings, trinkets, amulets, are extremely easy to get, its really right down stupid just how easy. Backpieces a bit more difficult but they have lowest stats and hence lowest stat difference, not worth the effort for the most part stat wise except for AR for upper fractals.

6. This is high end content meant for either higher skilled that grasp these concepts and / or experienced players. New players will not have the experience to complete the content in the 1st place, and by the time they get the experience they will have a good build ready, gear included and the experienced portion of the team will be well ahead of them thus bringing up the teamwide totals bar.

Read my freaking sig.

Old PR line said before release.

Still icebow. Disabling bosses for 10 seconds is no joke.

Jerus.4350:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

thrag.9740:

UBcktieDL.5318:

Playing on EU, maybe it is slightly different in NA

- If guard fails to OS lupi, the whole party wipes. These parties generally struggle if someone does not go the “zerker” way.

Is zerker gear and exploiting considered synonymous now?

That’s pretty much standard pugmeta. From what I heard it does not matter if exploit is wasting time or is harder to execute than legit way. “Zerk way or go home”.

Reading these forums I have to consider myself lucky. Now I generally play outside prime time, but overall I’ve had a pleasant set of PUGing recently. Fractal last night was good, they did do the mai trin revive thing a couple times, but nothing else. Arah I did 2 of the runs without any naughtiness, heck we didn’t even have much reflect.

I can’t help but feel that the forums overexaggerate a bit, but if not then I’m just lucky.

Pug roulette . It is good party with nice people or worst run in the gaming history. I stopped doing that long time ago but I don’t think it changed that much.

thrag.9740:

UBcktieDL.5318:

Playing on EU, maybe it is slightly different in NA

- If guard fails to OS lupi, the whole party wipes. These parties generally struggle if someone does not go the “zerker” way.

Is zerker gear and exploiting considered synonymous now?

That’s pretty much standard pugmeta. From what I heard it does not matter if exploit is wasting time or is harder to execute than legit way. “Zerk way or go home”.

Calcifire.1864:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

130 scraps per hour is very little if you salvage stuff you get and sell mats you don’t need. And “silk has exploded in cost since then”. Other mats did so too and will continue exploding with hot. This combined with how easy you can get them will allow you to get 130 scrap in few minutes. By the time you write your post some random Billy equipped with harvesting tools can hop around the world, get some gold, do his daily ascended crafting and log off.

ok, you’ve said it’s possible, but HOW?

everyone always says how easy it is to do things then never says how!

yesterday I tallied up the silk I got from salvaging my stuff from vinewrath and the subsequent champ farm, it resulted in 53 scraps.

am I just supernaturally unlucky? am I missing out on a big secret?

Planning. Sell what you don’t need right now, do some rich node farming, vendor medium armor and so on. Also since you want to raid from the day they are available you should be able to do dungeons. Full AC will already cover your daily crafting.

Calcifire.1864:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Calcifire.1864:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

It is not that large now as it was 2 or even 1 year ago. And it will be even less of a grind in hot. Amount of gold game just throws at people for barely doing anything is going up every few months.

if you are wearing light armor, you need 10800 scraps of silk.

currently silk is selling for 2s 79c

that means that you need to spend 301g 32s to make the armor.

now let’s add the rest of the materials, shall we?

according to gw2spidy, the current cost to make the damask is 467g 63s 64c
the cost for the leather is 18g 67s 74c
crystalline dust is 28g 51s 20c

so a minimum of 514g 82s 58c

and that’s not including the cost of exotics for dark matter, the insignias you need for the stats (hope you don’t want celestial, because that’s an unavoidable 30 day time gate), or vendor bought materials like thermocatalytic reagents or gossamer thread

over 515g and 36 days to make a set of armor, even more expensive if you want to skip the time gating

and you say that that ISN’T a grind?

when you start measuring things in quantities of TEN THOUSAND in a game with a stack size of 250, the devs need to re-evaluate their recipe costs

compared to a few years ago, the grind is WORSE, silk has exploded in cost since then.

And if you actually play this game for at least 2 hours/day you can drop this price to less than 100 gold.

oh? how is that? by gathering the ten thousand scraps of silk yourself?

how many days are we talking? to do it within the month you’d need to get 130 scraps of silk per hour at that rate.

two hours a day of doing nothing but farming silk. god that DEFINITELY doesn’t sound like a grind.

PvE raids shouldn’t stand for “player versus economy”

130 scraps per hour is very little if you salvage stuff you get and sell mats you don’t need. And “silk has exploded in cost since then”. Other mats did so too and will continue exploding with hot. This combined with how easy you can get them will allow you to get 130 scrap in few minutes. By the time you write your post some random Billy equipped with harvesting tools can hop around the world, get some gold, do his daily ascended crafting and log off.

Calcifire.1864:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

It is not that large now as it was 2 or even 1 year ago. And it will be even less of a grind in hot. Amount of gold game just throws at people for barely doing anything is going up every few months.

if you are wearing light armor, you need 10800 scraps of silk.

currently silk is selling for 2s 79c

that means that you need to spend 301g 32s to make the armor.

now let’s add the rest of the materials, shall we?

according to gw2spidy, the current cost to make the damask is 467g 63s 64c
the cost for the leather is 18g 67s 74c
crystalline dust is 28g 51s 20c

so a minimum of 514g 82s 58c

and that’s not including the cost of exotics for dark matter, the insignias you need for the stats (hope you don’t want celestial, because that’s an unavoidable 30 day time gate), or vendor bought materials like thermocatalytic reagents or gossamer thread

over 515g and 36 days to make a set of armor, even more expensive if you want to skip the time gating

and you say that that ISN’T a grind?

when you start measuring things in quantities of TEN THOUSAND in a game with a stack size of 250, the devs need to re-evaluate their recipe costs

compared to a few years ago, the grind is WORSE, silk has exploded in cost since then.

And if you actually play this game for at least 2 hours/day you can drop this price to less than 100 gold.

Straylight.7529:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

This is internet. I would be more surprised if this did not happen.

Everytime I hear this pathetically lazy excuse I have to think of Tyrion from GoT:

It is not excuse. It is how things work.

phys.7689:

Lian Olsam.9541:

Agree with linfang

No one force u to raid if u dont like harder content, no one force u to get ascended gear, just do something else for one year then go on youtube and look how to do it naked
Pretty easy

I hope ascended will be REQUIRED for higher wings, and even with full ascended will be harder, because when u fail once twice etc etc isnt beauty, but when u do the “impossible” the sensation is awesome.
This game has too many noobs stuff, grind maps, 1111111 on boss etc etc… I’m ok with this variety is ever the best way, but this game need something really hard, and i hope raids will be

problem with your theory, is ascended armor is a fairly large grind. And funny part is the solution is legendary armor/trinkets/weapon. But in order to get legendary armor you will need to invest in ascended armor, which will then become obsolete.
genius

gw2 throws away the gear treadmil, and creates the gear skyscraper stair.

It is not that large now as it was 2 or even 1 year ago. And it will be even less of a grind in hot. Amount of gold game just throws at people for barely doing anything is going up every few months.

Siphaed.9235:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Scandi.5693:

How in the world would anyone think it appropriate to discuss sexual things and some rather perverted and abusive sexual things in map chat?

This is internet. I would be more surprised if this did not happen.

I had to pop into this thread to mention how this EXCUSE needs to end. “This is the internet” does not excuse a person for being an anti-social neanderthal. Hiding behind a wall of anonymity shouldn’t be a viable way of saying things that your family would be ashamed off, your boss would fire you for, and sometimes could get you thrown in jail if at all it was publicly said.

Unfortunately thanks to the “it’s the internet, dude” attitude, some of this had bled through the 4th wall into actual day-to-day conversation by children/teens who have grown up knowing the internet their entire life. It is getting way out of hand and social morality has been crumbling because of it. Respect, something that used to be normal, is becoming a scarcity.

Tl;dr Back in my days….

Question. Materials bank is copied too?

Scandi.5693:

How in the world would anyone think it appropriate to discuss sexual things and some rather perverted and abusive sexual things in map chat?

This is internet. I would be more surprised if this did not happen.

All this red posts and hype…

Purple Miku.7032:

Pretty much anything using either black feather wings, white feather wings, or the dragon mask skins will make my stomach turn.

Anyways, this is certainly one of my least favorite getup that I’ve seen ingame, ever. I’ve seen worse, but it’s definitely up there as an eyesore.

I call it the “Cringe-Inducing Starter Pack”:

Add that emotionless asian face and you got yourself the Human Female Meta.

Plot twitst! “Unavoidable damage that must be healed” is agony-like condition that can be mitigated with higher gear tiers.

Jaxom.7310:

hence the direction anet seems to want to go w/ the game

GW2 is an MMO (Massively multiplayer online) game. There is really only one direction to go. Adding AI companions and options to go solo makes sense only if player count have dropped to critical level.

ekkue.3754:

So apparently the dreamer was updated in the last patch, some changes were made to the sound.

My jaw actually fell open when I read that, I don’t think I have seen any posts about the dreamer’s sound, yet it gets a tweak and howler gets nothing.

The frustration is real.

New dreamer sounds like someone is killing horses. Long sound effect + constant sound overlap created quip 2.0. I would not call that a good change.

It is some new bug. Not all guildies in my party are yellow and sometimes dots just change color or disappear completely. Probably because of new squad UI they have added.

Never heard about this bug.

Don’t bother. All mmo expansions make game unplayable for a day or so. You will not miss anything other than bugs and crashes.

Rising Dusk.2408:

rewards are “really awesome”

I wonder if they are willing to change their mind if it is not true.