Guild Wars 2

Kinda of Melancholy feeling IDK…

1. While I’m laughing about the expected crying, I see myself to be afraid of doing some certain paths/dungeons. (Until I level up my guard/warrior)

2. Huge Expectation turned into Extremely Huge Disappointment
Without equal modification to balance dungeon,
“Polished dungeons and removed the ability to use waypoints while any player is in combat” thingy had became the worst thing happened ever. (Well, just what I have been afraid of.)

3. I see ZERO effort on the dungeon revamp part. Absolutely no respect for players, every players. While you want to solve the waypoint rezz problem, you did not realize how wrong it is to not consider those who will get one/two hit by the boss and in fact that light/middle armor classes had the toughest time encounter those problems which majority of the classes are wear light/middle armor. But I love scholar classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. The meaning of PUG. I consider myself to PUG all the time. Why? Because I wanted to play with DIFFERENT people and everyone. Now that some dungeons will become legendary and scare the frick out of 50% players.

5. To the SKILLED players. I not that good. I am not that skilled. Do you hate me? It’s not that I don’t curse when I die, but I love my mes/ele/necro. I know how to dodge, ty.

6. Practice makes perfect. How many are willing to endure others’ practice sessions? While dying makes people rage quit, curse on others, and kicks. You just make everything worse.

7. I refuse to be the test subject. I dare the dev team who are resposible for the test of the dungeon change to form a group of mes/ele/necro to go record a video on fighting with Arah explorable path4. Or do you even test them? I want to play with my favorite class just like everyone does, but when I see that the 4/5 of group wear light armor…

8. One day people are going to stop. Stop giving you guys the obvious answers. The stupidity has gone beyond unbelievable.

9. I’m tired. This is probably a break point for me. Offline after FOTM daily.

Thankfully, I have done my dungeon hunt recently with Arah. Thanks you guys for the runs <3, I know dying on Lupi is kinda unavoidable for me, thanks for embracing.
I did not really lose much this time. As for the others who are still working on the tokens….
Well, all I can say is may the god of fortune be with you.

Kinda of Melancholy feeling IDK…

1. While I’m laughing about the expected crying, I see myself to be afraid of doing some certain paths/dungeons. (Until I level up my guard/warrior)

2. Huge Expectation turned into Extremely Huge Disappointment
Without equal modification to balance dungeon,
“Polished dungeons and removed the ability to use waypoints while any player is in combat” thingy had became the worst thing happened ever. (Well, just what I have been afraid of.)

3. I see ZERO effort on the dungeon revamp part. Absolutely no respect for players, every players. While you want to solve the waypoint rezz problem, you did not realize how wrong it is to not consider those who will get one/two hit by the boss and in fact that light/middle armor classes had the toughest time encounter those problems which majority of the classes are wear light/middle armor. But I love scholar classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. The meaning of PUG. I consider myself to PUG all the time. Why? Because I wanted to play with DIFFERENT people and everyone. Now that some dungeons will become legendary and scare the frick out of 50% players.

5. To the SKILLED players. I not that good. I am not that skilled. Do you hate me? It’s not that I don’t curse when I die, but I love my mes/ele/necro. I know how to dodge, ty.

6. Practice makes perfect. How many are willing to endure others’ practice sessions? While dying makes people rage quit, curse on others, and kicks. You just make everything worse.

7. I refuse to be the test subject. I dare the dev team who are resposible for the test of the dungeon change to form a group of mes/ele/necro to go record a video on fighting with Arah explorable path4. Or do you even test them? I want to play with my favorite class just like everyone does, but when I see that the 4/5 of group wear light armor…

8. One day people are going to stop. Stop giving you guys the obvious answers. The stupidity has gone beyond unbelievable.

9. I’m tired. This is probably a break point for me. Offline after FOTM daily.

Thankfully, I have done my dungeon hunt recently with Arah. Thanks you guys for the runs <3, I know dying on Lupi is kinda unavoidable for me, thanks for embracing.
I did not really lose much this time. As for the others who are still working on the tokens….
Well, all I can say is may the god of fortune be with you.

Sarcasmic.6741:

You’ll need to be in melee range to make the most of it, but it’s definitely worth slotting. The bubble will appear at ground level, directly beneath him, provided he is within its maximum casting range. Otherwise, it’ll be on the ground in his general direction at that maximum range (meaning you’ll likely have to blink inside of it to get any benefit).

Well…. this part kinda sucks for me, but thanks for clarifying.

This thought just came to my mind.
Seriously. Why do I have to cast on enemy? They can walk away so easily. The way Mender’s feedback work is more appealing to me. (PbAoE)

Lupi is so large and I really want to know if feedback works on reflecting Lupi’s projectile. I was so busy running that I don’t really see the skill working. I know mender’s feedback works though.

The patch will be at exactly 11:59 pm, 1/28 Monday don’t worry.

Lets see how everything is going tomorrow, shall we?

LordByron.8369:

you don t need to get to 20….for stats…you get ascended items 2-10.

At 20 you should have at least 15 AR that is 5X3.
And the 5 you miss has nothing to do with RNG unless you didn t find any vial but i doubt it.

once you are at 20 with 2-3 shard you can easily upgrade your rings….i dropped even 4 in a single run sometimes…..aside i agree rng is Always a bad thing :|

The thing is I want infused rings from 20+, and in fact I only have one vial. Non-infused rings have little to no use for me now unless I can salvage for fractal mats.

Ok, maybe a lot more than that. I think ANet should have the brain to figure it out.

Starts with level 10 we can get a ring from daily chest as a RNG reward. Eventually, we obtain 2 rings to have basic +10 agony resist. Then I found out that I will 110% die on Jade Maw’s agony attack. (with 19K Life) I know there’s upgrade infusion to the ring and backpiece. Both of them require even more farming/grinding and RNG the fractal mats. I haven’t got enough mats at all. People say you need 15 agony resist for this level. This extra 5 AR to me is hard as hell to get it. (Oh boy, more grinding/farming)

To exchange unwanted rewards for relics or something else.

I think this pretty understandable. Aside from horrible RNG, getting things that have no use to my spec is even more frustrating. Currently 4 condition rings while I go for direct damage…

Be able to sell them on TP is not a bad choice, but this is just a thought.

From the start even in BWE, Anet had stated that you will require gems for world transfer. I didn’t expect so many people to have the I-didn’t-see-this-coming reaction. Did world transfer stay way too long for free that made people forget the fact this will be a paid service? But in fact it had stay too long for free, and rich people became so rich during the time period. Paid world transfer is like no biggie for them anyway.
Anet caused their own problems.

I love to add nice people I meet to the friend list, but I get so used to their character name that I forgot to check their GW2 ID.
Problem 1:
And then I could not find that person in the list because I don’t know who is who anymore if that person is playing with alts.
Problem 2:
Now, I add the nickname next them, but their GW2 ID disappeared.

I don’t have a specific suggestion, but one thing I want is to have at least show the player’s GW2 ID after the nickname is set.

Calsifer.6079:

Remember guys, they also said that they were going to redesign boss encounters both in and outside of dungeons.

Yes, which 99.9% of us are going to have a HUGE expectation on dungeon revamp.
Most of us on the disagree side are stating the worst possible nightmares.

Zephyr Lee.2491:

Sounds like alot of you are whining about dungeons being more difficult.

And all of you crying about “classit” groups, start your own group then ,if that is an issue.
Also blame the “elite status” on ppl who (for better or worse suck) and have given bad impressions on these “elite” players.

Just last night I was running cof path 1 and for the first time ever running that path, it took my group forever to kill that boss, so you can not blame ppl for wanting to take advantage of a type of gear check, to complete dungeons easier.

For one thing I hate elite players (who received this title): I know you are good, but I’m not sure if you’re nice. If I’m not good, 90% of you curse on me. So, should I respect you(s)?
I do enjoy people who have the experience and can be nice to anyone who doesn’t/not that good.

This is kind of unrelated to the topic here, but I can’t stand this attitude sorry.

infrequentia.3465:

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

First week in Cof p2 when this comes will be hilarious.

ye cause cof 2 is soooo hard ( rolls eyes)
it never was a waypoint zerg befor so why would it be now?
its just a dps race

Cause im not warrior, the end.

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

First week in Cof p2 when this comes will be hilarious.

I will be on the disagree side as well for this. Unless they make the dungeon revamp really promising. Yes, it will be like fotm and most people are used to checkpoint wipe. But there is one boss at around LV 18+ that drive me crazy with this feature, the Imbued Shaman. The zerg of Lava Elemental made me decide to avoid this path from now on as much as possible (Was an easy boss in lower level). Imagine CoF, and TA Nightmare Vine, CoE Alpha, SE, and probably AC ghost zerg of path 2. Well, almost every single dungeon has at least one path for the revamp. Oh and don’t forget some of story modes.
Or it’s a NIGHTMARE.
Or we will be requiring 5 Warriors for every single dungeon.
So when the feature is implemented, I will be really expecting a Really good dungeon revamp

obal.3218:

I made a post exactly for this.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Arah-Vet-here-to-help-you-with-Arah-runs/first#post1216920

I’ll add you as well

And thanks everyone for the advice.

Mantra of… what is that?

randomfightfan.4091:

Arah is very easy with an experienced group. If you really only want those 3 runs I’ll help you out. PM me and I’ll do a p3 speed run (no exploits since they were fixed… I mean, cause they’re bad :P) with you if I have the time (NA server). The dungeon is fun, but only cause Lupi is a fun boss, the rest are pretty tedious or annoying.

Thanks, I’ll pm you for the run

I just need 3 kittening runs of arah exp to get 180 tokens for shoulder, then I’m done with it forever. I couldnt find anyone who can actually teach me without rage quit at any moment. First time we finished Lupicus at path 4 then quit at simin.

The second time people quit at Lupicus path 3.

What is going on? I though this is this easiest among the 4 paths……………………..

OK, so now I have the experience (ironically) a little bit.
Lupicus take a bit of luck to finish because of the bouncing AoE at phase two.

The most important tip is if you dont have patience for the fight, Please stay away from people who are serious about finish the dungeon.
I still need to learn path 1 and 2. I’m so desperate to find a group who can bear through everything with me.

Danigar.3795:

One thing I learned form the forum is that every class can do everything that every other class can do, except every other class can do it better.

My answer is TIME.
I played necro a little bit. It is a fun class indeed, but time has consumed my positiveness.
Yes, other classes can do better. I wondered if this investment is worth it or not. I cannot come to a clear conclusion, and that’s why I don’t have the motivation to boost it to lvl80. That’s my perspective. ( and my ranger is in Sealed Mode)

If OP think it is fun, then it is FUN to you. As long as you enjoy it, there is nothing wrong with it. Maybe it will be fun for me someday. (I hope)

The thing I see is…. well… yeah, nerfs. But its not about that “nerf”.
What I am depressed about the patch is that there is no so-called Changes AKA Modifications such as making GS#3 more usable by making the radius larger.
It’s always “the number” on damages going down/up. These aren’t impressive at all. I find no thoughts/care about the change they made from the patches.
But again, seeing the number going down every time is not something I can be positive about.

Darnis.4056:

I don’t know why Time warp was brought up in reference to wvwvw,
if timewarp is in need of a nerf it’s in tpvp not pve or Pve Plus. .
You have separate skills in PVE+ for a reason you’re not actually playing Pvp.

Timewarp is crazy good, if you slot it out for mass invis or even moa you’re bad, and you should feel bad end of story, it doesn’t matter if there’s another mesmer running Timewarp or if you can’t bother to switch weapons and summon more phantasms, but rather hurr durr for 8 seconds auto attacking. Slot it, and Use it.

People used to cry about Moa, now it’s gutted but still useable
Even then when it was “Op”, I never slotted moa, you know why? Using Moa to win 2v1 is kitten compared to winning the game after hastily-crushing a whole team at mid twice.

Timewarp = One big win on a node, it could be a 2v3 3v3 4v4 3v4 and that’s huge in a tournament, you basically redefined the course of the game (Usually TWICE during a game) with one button!

But Darnis!

Timewarp can fail, your team might be kitten I don’t use voip to tell my teammates, So it’s not OP! You can drop Confusion/+retaliation so the other team feels bad while haste stomping and quick rezzing!

One ability on a large cooldown well timed or not, should never be a redefining point in combat for a team based game.

Time warp needs a nerf, and mesmer needs a variety of versatile elite skills not a One-elite-to-rule-them-all , and _Not in seperate patches__

Time Warp is not the rule-them-all skill.
It is the ONLY WORTHY SKILL TO KEEP AT ALL TIME in PVE.
Can I cast moa morph on champion? NO
Mass Invis is just invisibility, and a bad version of thief refuge.

Overall, the weapon called scepter is the most worthless weapon for all professions that can equip it. Looks like the creator(s) did not put much thought into it.
Elementalist: Every attunement
-Fire
1: why is it this way?
2: dragon tooth’s got good dmg, but every moving target is able walk away from it because of its slowness.
3: good but slow
-Water
1: why?
2: why?
-Air
1: dmg from stage 1&2 are too low
2&3 are basically same skills: one with dmg only, and one with blind only. Such a waste.
-Earth
1: Acceptable condition dmg, but I just hate its slowness.
3: Centaurs have a much better version of this, and its awesome.

Mesmer:
1: Too slow
3: Too slow

Necromancer:
3: Dmg too low

Guardian:
1: I know we need this 1200 range weapon, but its dmg is kinda low.
2: Same as skill 1
3: 900 range? No dmg?

The OP’s idea was what I had in mind for centuries. Except that we should maintain the specialty of thief at some point. Not all class have to have the reveal ability but some.
If you know Ragnarok Online, the scholar classes (mage and acolyte) have this kind of ability to reveal stealth thief class, which brings some fairness in fighting. While the rendering issue is still a problem. This is a more achievable fix to the current stealth problem. I really don’t want to wait for stealth to go off forever.
Rendering issue + group stealth = Goodluck

While I partly agree with the OP, I have to say we players should take part of the blame. Selfish ones (Dead and none rez), rage quitters (you guys are stupid, bye) , speed runners (too slow kick with bunch offensive language), unnecessary requirement maniac (AKA heavy classes NO necro, theif, etc.) , ….. actions all made by players. If negative behaviors continues, nothing ANet do will be enough to fix anything. Not to mention fractals will be harder to join from time to time consider people that are so demanding and inconsiderate.

Just doing the old fractals daily. Unfortunately, I encountered a group of very rude and unfriendly people. During the Giant part, where we use hammer to break seals, one of the member did not make it through the boss falling and instant death. After the boss die I was thinking we should wipe and let that guy get the chest. Apparently, the others don’t think so.

One replied, " Would you pay my repair bill?"
The other one replied," -.- "
The last one replied, " nowhere to die. It’s blocked."

That was really mean, and ridiculously kitten #8217;d.

1. Repair bill? sure if you are THAT poor.
2. “-.-” as well as “= =” these emoticons are frequently used in Asian country. (which one? go figure) It means the person is kitten off by whatever just happened. People who understand the meaning of it can be really offended. You can type “gan ni ma” and test their reactions.
3. Can we go back to the bomb stairs?

I know how it feels because I receive instant death in this part very often. I was just lucky this time. Do you know during your falling if you hit an object, you pass right from down state to death? Just hate those selfish inconsiderate people who destroy my enjoyment from playing the game. I want to play, not rush through.

If there’s Wintersday Chest available on BLTC or all of the new skins are in the black lion chest. What is your reaction? For me, I think I will go spend money on the other games I have in mind. I don’t think I can tolerate any longer. RNG is starting to be irritating. I just have the ultimate bad luck.

It really depends on the player skill. Many new players complained about how hard it is to level a mesmer. But after we get to lvl 80, that’s where the fun starts.
We get to try out different build and play style, and we learn how our skills work together. I learn a new thing or two every time I play my mesmer.

That. killed. me.
2 month ago, I sold my abyss dye for 5g ;_;

the gold to gem and gem to gold rates are always different in case u don’t know….

You cannot, Anet removed it.

Geewoody.2017:

The OP sounds like a “new” player making a post because he had no idea what to do in an exploration run, got left behind, and died. Even without skipping, there’s no excuse for dying that many times. You aren’t supposed to die in (most) dungeons. Can’t remember the last time I wiped.

NOTE: Bosses did not give trophies up until a few weeks ago. Only completing the dungeon did. Don’t know how killing a boss “back in the day” would help you get a weapon/armor set. Also probably worth noting that it’s near impossible to complete a run without your bag overflowing with items, assuming you know enough to use omnomberry bars, even when skipping parts.

What are you talking about?

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

I tell my groups to not skip Kohler or any boss as I’m trying to get as much tokens and money out of the dungeons and their bosses as possible, and Kohler is easy to beat with the walls in his way. Also If you can get the troll to fight Kohler, the troll will win almost every time. We usually use range to tag both the troll and Kohler and get both prizes from them simultaneously.

Exactly, people only fight Kohler when troll is there.

um.. I’m “old” player, and I got 99% of the sets I want from this dungeon. I just want to have fun doing the dungeon, but skipping to me is no fun at all.
I can’t believe these many people still saying Kohloer is OP.
Have you been in CoE with Alpha?
My point is this new “skip” trend pretty much prevents me to do AC exp for now.

This is the first dungeon many of us went through. I used to farm every possible weapon set for my main. Thank god I did that early!! The “new generation” is just so sad in my opinion. 99% of the groups now skip Kohler for whatever reasons they can think of. I remembered used to die 10+ times, but still manage to finish him. It’s not that long, it’s not that hard, and I enjoy fighting him. I was with a group that decide to take on Kolher. One ele still complained about not skipping. Even though we got him down to 30%, one guy said his guild is calling him (WTF?) and left. The other three players then left immediately.
In the previous runs, I had a group that skipped every possible gravelings, and left them beat the crap out of me because I have to rez and run back.
I suppose “skip” and “dying is intolerable” are the new trend of dungeon play?
The most ridiculous answer is “I don’t have time.” If you don’t have time, why are you playing?

I’ve been researching for the server posts, but none of the answers are satisfying. I think I should list my requirements and see which server fits the best.
- I play mainly PvE, dungeons, sometimes WvW (not really important here).
- My time zone is NA pst, but I’m more active at night time throughout midnight even afterwards.
- Friendly community and map chat of course.
So far the servers I have in mind are SoS, TC, and Yak’s Bend, but what I’m worried about now is the emptiness of the server during night time.
I really don’t know where I should go. Please enlighten me.

I was interested to know the actual difference between them, so I went youtube the video. I found out that in GW2, mesmers got nerfed big time
How lucky there’s a video of skill description comparison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6G1hiysn4
sigh…

I just bought 6 runes of pack several minutes ago, and applied them to my armors.
After applied to the 4th armor and about the 5th one, I couldn’t find any in bag. The rest just disappeared. I check bank and pick up tab, the rest are nowhere to be found.
I even check the transaction to make sure the quantity I bought. There were 3 separated transactions of one rune and one transactions of 3 runes.

Kanthor.2094:

I don’t like it.

^

So iZerker is easier to kill than iWarden I suppose? It even copied the “standing technique” from iWarden.
R.I.P. Phantasmal build.
Goodbye build diversity, I going for shatter build.
Kind of Déjà vu isn’t it?
What was the game I was gonna mention?
hmm….I remembered it was voted The Worst Game of 2012.

So today I was playing with staff in a dungeon, but something feels very wrong.
It was very hard to stack bleeding. Later I went to test the clone on mobs.
I found out that staff clone’s wind of chaos only do burning condition damage now.
I hope this is bug…. It made my condition gear set so worthless…

zachbolt.6304:

I have to speak my 2 cents worth on this. For those that think that the chests are not worth it and think that it is just a sham to get more money; think about where ANet have themselves. They are giving us an extremely entertaining, fun and enjoyable gift that none of us has to pay for every month. We bought this game 1 time and then we can have all the game has to offer. Would you rather it be like a Subscription based game? Or would you like them to give items in the market to give an unfair advantage over another player. Everybody has to make money to survive, and that is just what they are doing. Those chests may not be 100% what you want them to be, but it’s not like they are forcing anybody to buy them. Whomever buy’s the chests are doing so from their own free will.

TLDR: Everybody needs to make money, and this is just one way ArenaNet has of doing so.

I’d be giving them money if I have 100% chance to buy directly from the gem store.

When you guys decided to put new nice skins we were waiting for in the black lion chests.
I give lotto-system a big F-.

Before the patch, I was thinking, “Oh, they look nice. I will buy gems even if I don’t have enough gold to get them.”

After the patch, I was like, “Meh, I will use the key I got from personal story.”

I will never get them not because I don’t want it, but because it’s no longer possible for me to get it.

Now, I am really glad the consortium chest is full of garbage. No need to get jealous.

You targeted a portion of players (AKA rich players) instead of the general public. That was really really really really stupid.

If these items are available on the gem store, I bet the majority of players buy them right away.

GW2 is not the first online game that come up with lotto-related content, and I thought ANet would not be stupid (I really wanted to use the R word here) to go this direction.

My willingness to spend will continue to decrease, if this happens in every single festival event.

I will simply delete this game if megaphone is created.

What’s the difference? I rather go back to my other MMO.

yeah I’ve been wondering about this too. Unless its a lie.

The first thing I would do is Delete the Black Lion Chest and any other lotto-related content from the gem store.

I am willing to spend money to enjoy, but I am not willing to spend my fortune to buy a Chance. Simply discouraging people.

I too feel that its kind of unfair for precursor to even be dropping, but maybe the problem is precursor itself: sky high price and the appropriate drop rate. I’m not going to rage or anything.

It’s just that for people like me to achieve even 50 gold is sort of a hard to almost-impossible task, and I really want those mystic forge weapons.

I know that luck is never at my side, but you don’t need to rub it in my face.:(

Then I lol’d at the patch notes. I expected something big to happen, but this is so sad.
Necro: getting sick of condition spec with no dps. Staff marks are great expect auto-attack too slow.

Ranger: short bow is fine, longbow’s not. trap only at my location can’t throw it at the mobs? Just wish I can have more AoE skill on longbow.

Engineer: turrets recharge takes too long. tool kit grenade#1 can I have auto-attack?
Because my finger is tired.

Here’s a question: If you have to delete one of them, who would you choose?

Because I’ve seen the ghost rangers from AC.

I’ve always hoped to have main hand pistol.

To cosplay my iDuelist.

Ascended gear level, I’m not sure about this. As long as it doesn’t make my exotic gear garbage, I’m fine with it.

What worries me more is the way to obtain it, and the price gonna be on TP. Is it sky high? Do I have to grind gold?

To defend against the new condition agony, we need Infusion. How hard is it gonna be? What’s the cost? several gold?

But the most important thing for me to know is:

Are these new contents meant for both the Casual players and the 24/7 players, or just the 24/7 players?