Guild Wars 2

Any plans on making back armour salvageable? Im sitting on a few rares and theyre good for nothing but vendor food as it stands.

It seems only certain mobs in FotM are triggering the +10pow boon for me in FotM. Is this intentional or a bug?

Had a great time partying with these guys and gals tonight… the least I can do is give out a free bump!

This might be a new guild but rest assured that if you join you’ll instantly feel at home.

Have had a couple of great offers so far. While im thinking about whether to accept care to make me some more offers?

Yes im being greedy! In all honesty the only requirement as such is that the guild have a place for me in FotM. Im looking to have fun but also to grind my kitten off in there as much as possible!

Gandara is a great place to be for WvW during the day but we do have a bit of an issue with nightcapping, as the majority of our players are UK based, the rest being from the continent. We often come up against French servers with a population of (id assume) French-Canadians. We tend to lose a lot of ground overnight.

If you can put up with that then Gandara is a pretty good server for both WvW and PvE.

The legendary rifle The Predator has a unique ‘laser gun’ sound when firing so tying a sound to a particular weapon clearly is possible. The issue comes when others say ‘well my rifle looks like it should make xyz sound… can you change that?’. Youd end up with each and every named exotic making a different sound and while this would be amazing I dont think its possible.

Ive been literally stuck on Difficulty 2 due to everyone else moving past me. I made a post about it somewhere so am not going to go into details of the methods ive used to get a party but believe me ive tried most things. No one is willing to do lower fractals so this is a great idea to decrease the segregation of the playerbase.

Thanks for the reply but as I mentioned im looking for an EU based guild.

This idea would encourage people to run other dungeons so yes, its a great idea providing it was balanced. 10-20 per lodestone seems a little cheap in my opinion (even though ive still not got a legendary myself).

Yawg came up with a great idea along the same lines as your idea in this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractals-Difficulty-progression-BAD-design/first#post807136

Admin- two threads on the same subject, feel free to merge and delete my comments that link the two pages.

Another great idea, can add it to the list of alternative difficulty methods at:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/A-way-to-stop-FoTM-splitting-the-community/first#post806425

Weirdly enough you read my mind! Was just coming up with a few possible ways to implement a workable difficulty scale that doesnt segregate the community so much.

1) Reward those with a higher difficulty with a higher amount of FotM tokens the lower the difficulty they do. The difference would have to be balanced but with the upper rewards being 1,350 tokens it will still be a decent grind.

2) Bonus items such as (for example) karma and/or gold to account for some of the difference in loot between levels.

3) A variation of the above- introduce a way of rewarding those that ‘help’ lower difficulty or level players. A karma bonus, mystic coins, some kind of weekly or monthly bonus for partying with those lower than them.

4) Have set difficulty levels that ADD the party’s difficulty levels together to form a single number. The first difficulty level will require any number, the second a total of 10 and so on. This would enable a difficulty 10 to party with four other difficulty 3’s in order to get into the third most difficult dungeon. NOTE- all numbers here are examples and all difficulty levels would have to be visible to the highest ranking member.

Will add if I can think of any more! What does everyone think?

Ive done 4 runs at level 1 and two at level 2 which did not complete.

1st lvl2 run- party leader assumed it was 3 fractals and left after looting the chest
2nd lvl2 run- someone dropped out in fractal 1, we carried on. End of fractal 2 party leader leaves kicking everyone. I hadnt picked up loot from the chest.

Since then ive failed to a get a party.

Yes

… but also a looking for guild function as well! Id quite happily move servers and join a guild if they were running FotM at the same diff as me (a lowly 2).

It is impossible, a few days after the launch of the dungeon, to get a Difficulty 2 party up and running in Gandara. There are already people spamming that theyre looking for Diff 7/8/9+… I fear that because my guild hasnt been active in a while ive been left behind and might never be able to do the dungeon without spending hours advertising.

I have spammed map chat for hours.
I have advertised on the lfg website.
I have advertised that I am looking for a new guild (only reply being from a US based guild).
I have asked friends to log on, all of which are busy/have quit the game.
I have messaged most of the people in my friends list, all of which are above me in level and are unwilling to drop down.
I have considered changing servers but theres no way to guarantee a ‘good’ server (Im ofc willing to change server to get into another guild)

All of the above have so far failed- thats not to say some guild wont come out of the woodwork and snap me up (which would be amazing!).

I dont want to demand an answer from anyone, merely ask what the powers that be think I should do next to get a party. What do the devs and/or admin think of the current situation with difficulty levels splitting the playerbase? Am I in a minority here? If thats the case then im just unlucky I guess but ive got a ton of free time on my hands, I love GW2 to bits but im unable to access the new content for any significant period of time due to the fact that ive played GW2 on my own up until this point.

Ive advertised to try and get myself into an active guild. I figure its the only thing I can do otherwise time will just tick away and less and less people will be on the lower difficulties of the dungeon.

Summary (for those that quickly get bored!): Full exotic Warrior looking for a FotM, WvW and dungeon running active guild. EU server wanted! Lots of time free, one of the few that enjoys grinding!

Im a very active GW2 player(770 hours logged so far?) that is currently sitting in an inactive guild.While not being totally happy I was content with the quiet life until FotM opened up. I am unable to get a party because I am on the 2nd difficulty so essentially im looking for a fun group of players to experience this dungeon with. By experience I mean that ideally im looking to ‘grind’ FotM, getting at least two or three difficulty levels per day until such a point that it becomes impossible to do with our current gear set. I have the time and the willingness to grind GW2 but lack the group of friends needed to make it happen!

Im a full exotic 80 Warrior, Axe+Shield / Rifle being my prefered weaponry. Dungeon armour set as well as a DPS armour set.

Also im available for WvW. I enjoy the concept but I dont run with a group. Could be fun to team up rather than just blindly zerg. Also being part of a group of the major PvE events would be nice as ive been on my own for both Halloween and The Lost Shores.

Other mentions- im not usually that talkative in game but im not rude and help when I can and im always up for a laugh. Oh, and im willing to swap servers providing the server does fairly well in WvW, approximately equal to (or above) Gandara in overall rankings. English speaking guild on an EU server needed but obviously dont mind a nice mix of nationalities and cultures.

Contact me here or in game!

Ive got a friends list full of people already above me in difficulty and unwilling to go lower. My guild is dead but I dont enjoy talking a lot in games so am not sure I want to join a more active guild (id feel out of place) and Gandara’s idiot population seems to be growing by the second.

I dont know what it is but people just arent getting that once im past level 2 i’ll grind as high as possible! Ive PMd so many people on diff 3 and still theyre unwilling.

Ok im close to giving up on FotM. Ive spent a total of 4 hours looking for a party AND used that lfg site to finally get a party together. I get 5 people….one offlines at the end of the 1st fractal, the four of us complete and complete the second and then the party leader leaves without allowing me to loot the chest (ie: whole party kicked to LA). I’ve got a FULL DAY to waste and yet because of a combination of a stupid difficulty system and stupid people I get 5 tokens for 5 hours work.

This is no longer fun and something needs to be changed.

Used the site, still waiting for replies.

Gone is the random chatter I used to hear in LA, instead replaced by an unsightly wall of ‘lfg’ posts. The entrance portal needs to be moved away from LA in my opinion.

Also this is another call to re-evaluate the difficulty system. With so many people unwilling to step down to a lower level its become a nightmare getting a party for everyone.

They coincide events with peak numbers logging on to maximise the amount of people playing. I feel for you if that means you miss out in the timezone that you are in but thats the way of it. Cater to the majority, not the minority.

… that being said a fix would be to give those in other parts of the world an instance to themselves. I would think that it would be pretty easy to check from which timezone a player comes from. Implement a way to give all of those players a separate instance of the same map to complete at a more logical gaming hour.

Im someone that did get a chance to complete the quest but would relish the chance of doing it again. I dont require any loot/final chest, just would like to do it for the fun of it.

Any chance they could run the event again though? I think its more likely that they’ll look at those that DC’d and place a chest somewhere in the world that only they can loot.

Its still an ‘instanced’ map (like WvW) until a new patch comes out. I presume then they’ll have some extra bits to put in. Im pretty shocked to see only Pasiflora as the unique node so maybe they’ll introduce some more flora nodes. Events are a little few and far between so id hope to see a few more introduced now that the Ancient Karka is no longer a threat.

Anyone know when the patch is coming btw?

Im annoyed, disappointed and troubled by how the event unfolded for me. So picture this… the event is going smoothly (and I mean completely without trouble) and im recording for my youtube channel with commentary. The event carries on running smoothly, becomes a joy to be a part of and the best two hours spent in GW2 thus far. I get to the end and receive more loot than I was expecting. Im perfectly happy….then it all goes wrong when I realise that I hadnt in fact recorded the run!

In all seriousness im both annoyed that it didnt record and overjoyed at what a good event it was. Its not often I experience ambivalence of this magnitude! 4.30am and im still too annoyed to sleep sigh…

(FYI I didnt get a pre-legendary but meh, had an extreme amount of fun today before coming down to earth with a bang)

Also let me know what you think and/or any improvements I can make.

… when you record the final Lost Shores event for your Youtube channel and afterwards realise that Fraps stopped the recording 2 minutes in. Anyone feel like hearing 2 hours of audio with a black screen?

Urgh kinda sickened but these things happen I guess. My channel isnt exactly popular so its not as if many people will miss the video…. I just feel annoyed that I spent all that effort talking for 2 hours, melting in my bedroom (have to close all doors and windows due to noise) and going without food because I hadnt eaten a meal before the event happened. Know that feeling where you dont know whether you want to cry or smash something? Youre only halfway to feeling what im feeling right now!

Care to brighten my otherwise gloomy night and give my channel an extra sub or two? Link is in my sig below, let me know what you think and/or any improvements I can make.

So what youre suggesting is we use immersion breaking waypoints that make the event easier for those that cant handle the content?

Our group ‘wiped’ three times as well and it was funny as hell! The run back was not too far and it was interesting to get back there and see who was still fighting for their lives and who were survivors. They were usually those at the back ranging the veterans, predictably enough!

FYI id happily have spent 2g on repair costs for that event. The experience for me was worth that (not including the chest which was a massive bonus!)

What choices do you have if you remove RNG? Youd end up with even more of a grind.

Ive gone through countless MMOs always being the ‘unlucky one’ To date the only exotics ive got from GW2 have been from the Ascent to Madness Halloween dungeon and this event and yet I dont hate the fact RNG is in the game. In fact many a time have I played on this fact, selling rares instead of combining them in the forge for a guaranteed amount of money as opposed to gambling. On occasions I have gambled and ive never got anywhere. But I did it for the thrill of gambling!

My original point was to bring to light the fact that no one is entitled to anything in this game. By rights that chest didnt have to be included and the players shouldve completed the event for the fun of doing so. ANET saw that some people would moan so put a chest in there (thanks!) but still some are moaning.

…not with the event however- it was the most fun ive had in GW2 to date and the devs should be applauded for what they have achieved! I am most disappointed about those bemoaning the fact that other people got pre-legendaries and about some saying that it was a waste of their 2 hours!

Anyone who moans about getting a 20 slot box plus extras is clearly just jealous of others. I didnt get a pre-legendary and yet my drops exceeded 15g for a two hour once in a lifetime event that was smart, clever, at times funny but overall very, very fun to be a part of. For me id have been happy with a single rare at the end- I did the event for the experience (not exp, just for fun and lore). I know some people are only there for the loots and most I cant blame entirely. But to moan about the fact youve ONLY got 15g worth of stuff is an insult to the devs that created this event and I personally think you should be ashamed.

Also it doesnt make sense to moan about RNG. If you do not take into account MF then every player has the chance to get lucky. Some will seem luckier than others but if you do enough events, use the Forge enough times etc etc then you will get lucky eventually. If you do take into account MF then youre just saying ‘oh that player shouldnt get better drops than me just for putting in more time and effort than me to get a MF set’. Need I explain why this is stupid?

Its not often I say that im ashamed of anyone but seriously complaining about drops totalling 15g at the end of a unique and, in my opinion, amazing event is slapping the devs around the face for putting time and effort into creating this. I dont think any rational GW2…no, any rational MMO player can side with you guys.

Ive honestly no choice but to post here. Ive been in one party in the last 3 hours and couldnt get through a single run because of two cry-babies who blamed their failings on the rest of the party. I need a dedicated party who are willing to spend a large chunk of time in the dungeons to level up. Im free most days, GMT time.

This difficulty system is a great way of segregating players for no reason whatsoever. There needs to be a system in place to give incentives for higher levels to join up with lower levels otherwise youre going to have everyone in LA constantly shouting for specific level dungeons, not willing to give anything away. The dungeons are great but the difficulty mechanic is very badly implemented.

They are now a drop, at least from the FotM dungeon. Ive got a couple of basic green ‘straps’ or whatever theyre called from there. The best for the moment at least are the Guild Backpacks but ascended quality backpacks will become available once people start grinding out the FotM dungeon.

Oh god this puzzle is good. For the first 20 minutes I toiled, got frustrated and swore my kitten off (which will all be in my youtube video posted tomorrow sometime!). My heart was beating, I was kicking myself at missing easy jumps…it felt just like the clocktower all over again. Finding out there was a second set of stepping stones….agony. Went for a break, came back refreshed.

Third try I made it to the second set….fell down into stack and got stuck! Found a way out and to a place where I couldnt get knocked off. Jumped, my way to a point where I could get back on the stones…fell off onto the stack, jumped some more, got a little lucky with a jump or two and made it. Got lost up top, eventually stumbled my way around to the chest…sheer joy.

This puzzle is simple in design but also challenging… but not so much so that youre spending hours on it. It was a joy to complete it so I tip my hat to the designer and ask that he/she/they make more jumping puzzles in the future. From what ive seen so far we’ve got some great puzzles to look forward to.

Its possible, just takes time. Just think though that once you complete all you have to do is kill Mossman. Its not exactly hard, just annoying and I like the fact its included in the fractals. Less fighting, more jumping like a crazy man and avoiding mobs and traps!

Id like to also mention what a delight the Fractal dungeon is APART from the difficulty mechanic which I personally think has the potential to split up the playerbase. I also think that the Phase 2 event and subsequent ‘evolution’ of Southsun Cove event was a masterstroke and one of the best things ive seen in any MMO (a small gripe would be that no one knew when the event finished and were left hanging at the end).

Ok praise over im afraid. I am usually not one to moan, im one to praise but I feel some constructive criticism is needed here. The lag for the phase 1 event should have been anticipated and dealt with in testing, and the way in which the unresponsive quest NPCs were dealt with was poor in my opinion. I, like many others, came across the bugged Canach and it took away a large chunk of the magic, a large part of the immersion for me. I like getting wrapped up in events but this reminded me that I was merely playing a game and that id given my weekend away to do so. Canach got fixed within a day and I immersed myself in the event again. I then ran into the bugged NPCs of the Miyani quest. Again immersion broken but was looking forward to a fix…only to be told that because I was on a broken server I wasnt allowed to do the quest (ie: no fix, NPCs deleted). This to me is unacceptable for a major event. A fix shouldve been done as there was plenty of time between the bug being reported and the end of the phase. Many have mentioned the reward being only 5 commendations…this is besides the point. Keep the reward, I was doing it for the immersive fun and the fact I record for my youtube channel.

Lessons need to be learnt here because I think GW2 is going to have an issue going forward. These events draw people in but after two events that havent gone exactly to plan there will be many questioning whether future events will be worth attending. I cant see into the future but its common sense to think that a game relying so heavily on monthly events and then releasing buggy content is going to lose players.

Id like to finish with the fact that im pleased with the additions and the majority of the event, but that the bugs and issues have disappointed me a little and in my opinion improvements need to be made to keep OTHERS in the game. Im happy with playing GW2 for a while yet…just am a little worried by what ive seen in game and have read on the forums.

In particular the way in which it deliberately segregates players?

In my opinion yes, the way in which the difficulty has been implemented is flawed and requires change. As it is currently each level of difficulty splits the dungeon into separate dungeons if you catch my drift. Those that have played up until difficulty 5 feel the need to only play with those at level 5 and so on. This is just over a day after launch…how long will it be before you fail to get a dungeon group if youre below a difficulty of, say, 10? 20? 30? Introducing the dungeon was meant as a way of giving those at 80 something to grind in. I like to grind myself…but cannot get a party because I have only completed difficulty 2. Again can I stress this is ONE DAY after launch.

Also if I wish to play with my friends or guildies, whom I know can handle a tough dungeon but dont have the time that I do, I have to play through the lower difficulties again. Why is it again that im tied to what other people are doing? I understand the idea of the dungeons but not why this mechanic is in place. Im happy to grind in GW2 but am being prevented from doing so and im sure its the same for many others and its only going to get worse. New players of GW2 will potentially never play the dungeon unless they find players in the same situation as themselves. New content that not everyone can experience.

How to fix? Encourage players to party with those lower than them by offering incentives. A small amount of karma, coin or whatever per level they step down. Would need to be balanced but enough to encourage stepping down a level or more.

Pastkeeper Saballa was bugged for me and I was recording for my youtube channel. I presumed the bugged content would be fixed during the patch, not removed.

Can we get a dev to confirm that these NPCs have been removed and if so a reason why they were removed despite many servers not being able to complete?

She isnt on the main server of Gandara but is on the overflow…except she’s missing the items soo you still cannot complete it.

Im not usually one to complain but this isnt exactly my idea of fun so far and thats due to the bugs.

Same for Gandara. Im not normally one to complain but how are we meant to enjoy these events when theyre full of bugs? Surely this shouldve been tested for?

Any word on a fix?

Could the powers that be possibly make a statement regarding this please?

Im away all day and when I get back i’ll report my findings on how hard it is to get a party (less than one day after launch may I add). Im hoping everything will be fine.

Ive done 6 fractals so far and had very few issues. The difficulty scaling isnt what im talking about its the fact that the maximum difficulty level you can choose is the highest common one….which is essentially scaling it to the lowest in the group. This is making it hard to find a party when everyone is shouting ‘lf1m Frac 3’ or worse and im only ‘Frac 2’. I know for a fact im good for another few difficulty levels yet as the content hasnt been too challenging so far.

Give it a few weeks and I think youve got a huge issue on your hands. A lot of people will have reached a set difficulty (call it 10). Any new players, whether theyre low level or 80 with full exotics, wont be able to easily form a dungeon group and will therefore miss out on content. Chances are theyre good enough for difficulty 10 but will never get the chance to even experience the dungeon unless they run into people in the same situation as them.

First off i’ll start by saying that the dungeon is, by far, the best thing in GW2 and the team behind it should be commended. I just have one huge issue and thats the difficulty scaling to the lowest in the group.

Already (a few hours after launch) im seeing minimum requirements for being in the party. The very fact that each difficulty level takes upwards of 90mins means that most wont let lower difficulty levels in. What difference does it make whether someone has completed the 2nd or 3rd difficulty? Its just needlessly segregating players in my opinion. Personally I would allow the party leader to see the group’s difficulty level and allow anyone to join. I have a few ‘dungeon buddies’ that are already ahead of me and they know im a competent enough player to handle what they can handle yet we cannot join the same party. The same for guildies….one was below me and so the party I got myself into wouldnt accept the lower difficulty player.

Remove this stupid idea please because its the game mechanic thats causing horrible amounts of elitism for no reason whatsoever.

One thing ive been wondering for a while- how do people process, render and then post a video on youtube in under 10 mins while also taking part in the actual event? Literally just because its a minute or so long?

I think youre looking at GW2 the wrong way. I see the game as so different to WoW that it shouldnt be classed in the same bracket. Its a hell of a lot more casual, even with the ascended ‘grind’ and has a very different feel, look and content structure. We should stop looking at GW2 as one of the potential ‘WoW killers’ and start looking at it from a casual standpoint.

The vanilla game is designed so that if you wish you could play both WoW and GW2. Its pick up and play. The new content may encourage a few people to quit WoW but thats not its intended purpose. Its main job is to give those that want it more to do post-80 to keep them in the game more than anything while also having the effect of encouraging more WoW(or other standard model MMOs) to try GW2 out.

I cant believe everyone here hasnt seen what im about to say- how do you know that Warriors arent ArenaNET’s ‘control’ class? In order to balance classes you need a reference and it seems that all other have been balanced but Warriors who have had very few changes since launch. Warriors are the reference and all other classes have been changed to be balanced with Warrior skills.

FYI im a warrior and while I would like a few changes just for the fun of it, they arent needed. I think Warriors are pretty balanced personally.

I’ll add that while ive vendored all of the drops, feel free to take the silver out of my account. Totaled about 8s + the rare amulet.

Havent seen the bug in action since but its certainly an issue so if someone can check it out ASAP that would be great.

Ok weirdly enough these Brackish Scale were ‘red’ in an area where there should only be ‘yellow’ named mobs. They havent respawned in 5mins or so.

Ok so I went to Queensdale and messing around killed a few Brackish Scale while running through. 8 of them dropped level 80 equipment including two greens and a rare amulet.

This could be a bug that you need to check out before it gets out of hand

Huge patch but im sure 15 minutes of your life could be spent doing something else….

1) ‘Withdraw All’ button for the gold in your bank.
2) Ability to move the contents of one bag into another using one button.
3) Split WvW scoring into day and night (based on EU and US I guess). Would curb nightcapping.

…oh wait, #3 isnt that ‘little’