Guild Wars 2

Silk is never going to hit 3s per scrap. The price of silk will rise from it’s measly 15c price. That was the plan, and I agree with that plan. There is no problem with the silk market.

Stars.2179:

Keep them for legendary trinkets and precursor crafting if ascended armor is not enough of a reason. I still need over 19,000 of each and I only have 7 characters.

You NEED ascended armor? For what, might I ask? Going to do a Level 100 FoTM and need the AR infusion slots?

I strongly oppose the transmutation of the ascended refinement mats and the t2-t4 mats. It’s a small stat increase; get over yourselves. You don’t NEED a few extra stat points the day after they come out, you were fine every day before they were released.

Tachii.3506:

Crafting had always been a chore in games. I like GW2’s system though. Discovering stuff remains rewarding since you get a bunch of EXP out of it and leveling had always been tedious in games. And the system itself is pretty intuitive.

Besides, there are craftable items that’s only created through crafting and/or mystic forge (Corrupted weapons). I think it’s fine as is.

The only one that’s pretty confusing is chef. But I never liked any cooking system in games so I dunno a better alternative.

This sums up my feelings about it as well in ways I didn’t describe.

Certainly beats run-away inflation like what happened in Guild Wars 1. There were no gold sinks, so gold became so commonplace and worthless that people started trading other things as a more valuable currency like ectos and armbraces,.

When you’re having bad fps, what does your CPU and GPU usage look like?

Shakkara.2641:

Almost none. I hate vertical progression in all its forms. Levels, should be removed. Stats, please take them out of the game completely. Gear tiers? Rare was good enough to have sufficient differentiation in item drops, remove exotic/ascended/legendary.

And the cooldown for most skills is just way too high. More skills on short cooldowns <5 sec, please. Or tie them to a resource (iniative, adrenaline, etc).

Well I have just crafted some ascended stuff yesterday and I got a full set of ascended trinkets, and I’d be the first one to cheer if you toss them out of the game completely.

The gear threadmill belongs in WoW. This is Guild Wars! You know, that game series where you could go to max level in 3 hours and get max-stat items from killing any monster with a colored aura around it, or just picking up 5 simple collectable items and handing them to an NPC. Wasn’t GW2 supposed to have everything I loved from GW1?

I find it totally unacceptable that T3 cultural, a set that costs over 100 gold, does not have best-in-slot stats.

I find it totally unacceptable that the weapon you get at the completion of your personal storyline does not have best-in-slot stats.

I find it totally unacceptable that when I complete a dungeon a dozens of times to purchase an aesthetically pleasing set of armor, it does not have best-in-slot stats.

Ascended gear invalidated large parts of the game, and made their UNIQUE rewards mostly meaningless. Jewelcrafting and dungeon raiding are now broken

I strongly disagree with these.

I just really want to see more differentiation in my builds. For that, I think we need a lot more skills. Not one healing skill, but at least 50-100 skills more for each class.

I really want to have a pool of weapon skills for each weapon which I can pick 5 from. Don’t even need to tie all of these to specific classes IMO, just tie them to the weapontypes.

I want to see elite skills that synergize with your build. See for example Keystone Signet in GW1. THAT is an awesome elite skill that synergizes with specific other skills (all skills of the signet subtype).

I agree with these.

I like the idea of Trahearne, but he needed to be fleshed out more. The scene at Artisan Waters could have been amazing if we sympathized with him more. And it wasn’t his character that I didn’t like, it was that there was so little to his character.

I think the crafting system is fine as is.

Essence Snow.3194:

lol that’s pretty funny……

“You don’t need 100 bolts per day.”
“I just bought 900,000 scraps on Tuesday.”

And I had zero silk scraps before Tuesday ended because I used them all.

I don’t see a problem.
#1: I purchased ~900,000 silk scraps myself this past Tuesday.
#2: Higher prices encourage people to sell.
#3: You don’t NEED 100 bolts per day, you just WANT it for your slightly-increased-stats equipment and to get it ASAP in a system designed to make it slow and progressive. This just in: Going against the flow of the river the devs designed might be more difficult than going with their plan.

sillypants.5021:

Same here. It says “repeated 1 times.” It appears to be counting it though for the achievement, as I have 8/20 listed but only 7 checkmarks, so I think it’s just a display bug.

Are you sure you didn’t also complete a daily? A Wintersday Daily counts towards the x/20 achievement. I have completed the Snowball Mayhem achievement twice and still don’t have the check-mark. Which may only come after 3/3 tiers completed.

Arcane Wave works fine underwater. I use it to blast fields in the underwater fractal every day.

Electro.4173:

Toroxus.9256:

That’s 20g off the TP buy orders, or you could have just saved up the Silk as you’ve gotten it during normal play.

Who would ever save 43 stacks of a single material 0.0

Traders. But 43 stacks of silk scrap = 14 stacks of silk bolts.

I agree, there needs to be a more streamline method for mass forging. And it IS a serious problem for forgers.

That’s 20g off the TP buy orders, or you could have just saved up the Silk as you’ve gotten it during normal play.

I expected Gossamer to behave how it is. Same with all the other mats involved in Ascended armor-crafting. One thing I was very surprised about was what happened to Ancient wood. I knew the mats would move in price the way they did a few days after ascended weapon-crafting, but I never would have figured Ancient wood to do what it did.

Happy to hear you’re playing with the Trading Post, LorVan. Ori and Ancient Wood are a great way to build up money for serious investments should you choose that route. As you have noticed, Orichalcum and Ancient Wood have bounced all over the place in the last week.

Orichalcum is used in Armorsmithing, and people stocked up on it heavily and then, like most mats, dumped a ton of it onto the trading post and undercut each other severely until the price fell to what it is. Also, those people salvaging the exotics they make to level up armorsmithing further dumped even more orichalcum onto the market, crashing it even further.

Ancient Wood is used it the creation of weapons. The price fell because people, again, dumped large amounts of it and undercut each other until it’s price fell to what it is. I have absolutely no idea what what made people think they could stocked up and dumped Ancient wood onto the market for Ascended armor crafting and somehow make money. As clearly evident, they crashed the market and crushed their profits.

Legendaries, which offer no-stat increases over other weapons, cost a lot of time, effort, and money to make? I’m so shocked. Maybe, gasp, Anet doesn’t want everyone running around with Bifrosts and Twilights. They want them to be prestigious. Meanwhile, in other MMOs, Legendary weapons would be such a stat increase that anyone with a legendary could solo any dungeon asleep. Be happy they are just a skin.

SoPP.7034:

Precursors….. blind luck (RNG) or grinding champions to pay TP flippers is your only way. There’s nothing legendary about that.
The whole concept of precursors in their current state is fundamentally flawed.
This must change.

I’ve gotten four precursors in my days. 2 as drops from enemies in WvW, and 1 from the forge and TP each. As for the The Legend I bought on the trading post, I got that gold from smart buying and selling. I’d buy a ton of something and sit on it until it went up and price and than I sold it. I never flipped because that’s boring and bad for the economy. I only like to spend ~1hr a week working on the TP.

36 days to get the best armor in the game? And the alternative (exotic) is just barely below it in stats. I think the ascended/exotic system is a great mix between casual and hardcore. If you don’t think so, you should play any other MMO. Let me know how long it takes you to get best-in-slot gear which is REQUIRED to play all end-game content in those games. Let us know when you get back, because I’m sure we will have forgotten your quest for knowledge more than a year after it started.

ArkAngel.7940:

How about next time you make Snowball Mayhem like Random Arenas and Team Arenas in GW1?

As in
If a random group of people win 10 consecutive matches, they get bumped against pre-made team. If they lose, they get shuffled.

Team Arenas would just consist of pre-made groups. For the competitive snowball fighting.

I support this.

I think a lot of people need to play other MMOs to really appreciate how Anet did the Ascended and Exotic gear systems.
Best in slot gear? In any other MMO system, it would come from a level 50 Fractal and drop at random from the end boss, and usually not drop at all. Then, you’d have to roll over it with your other party members. And then, you’d go back and do it all over again for the rest of your equipment. Meanwhile, if you didn’t get that Ascended Armor, the next best things, exotics, would have such terrible stats that you wouldn’t be able to play most of the game. Without grinding for those Ascended, your stats would be so poor in WvW, PvP, and you wouldn’t even be able to set foot in Orr without a fully-ascended party.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Amar.1547:

I can see why they wont let you join mayem with a group, easy to dominate and becomes to competitive. But the bell one would be cool, same with the puzzle, set up a group race thing!

Correct. Specifically for Snowball Mayhem (a PvP activity), allowing group join would allow pre-made parties to face-off against random match-ups, which would result in very lopsided matches. While a matchmaking system for Snowball Mayhem would be nice, it was outside the scope for this release.

I think a system where you can enter as a pre-made duo would be a sound solution for pre-mades while not having to think about a balancing system for matches.
However, I feel that pre-mades should be a system that should exist, maybe in a system where it’s pre-made 5 vs. pre-made 5. Group play and communication should be encouraged.

I don’t see a problem with the clown-car fight now that they’ve reduced the boss’ damage. The main problem stems from the infinite spawning mobs by a gimmick troll mechanic instead of actually a challenging and entertaining mechanic.

I disagree:

1. Button room: Remove entirely
2. Bomb room: Remove entirely, replace with already-implemented cannon-room.
3. Keep clown car boss the same.
4. Keep end bosses the same.

Boom! Fixed. Skillful play is rewarded (as in most of the game), and the honest difficulty is retained while removing the gimmicky trash mechanics.

I support this suggestion, and each passing day it goes undone is a compounding disappointment. Every day I do fractals, every day I get dredge with the bomb path. Every day, I have to choose between something unfun, or just restarting the fractal and hoping I don’t get unlucky again.

I don’t know who thought that standing on buttons with infinite respawns or planting glitchy bombs with infinite repsawns and then AFKing while the bombs respawn was fun in any way. If we get dredge about lvl 30, we just abandon the fractal. It’s not worth the frustration. IT’S NOT FUN.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Lord Kuru.3685:

The Living Story has basically become a parody of itself. Just give up and don’t try to rationalize the plot points.

pretty much this. It doesn’t need to make sense, it just has to scarlet.

Pretty much this.

Short version:
Add updated skill visual effects to the Bifrost. The best suggestion my friends and I agree upon is making Meteor Shower a rainbow meteor shower that explodes larger versions of the Bifrost footfalls.

Long version: I’m an Elementalist who has owned Bifrost for a few months now. While I love every part of the staff and the new modifications to it that came with the stat upgrade. However, from Day 1 to today, there is one that my friends and I have unanimously been dying to see: A rainbow meteor shower! While wielding the Bifrost, the Elementalist Meteor Shower should be falling vertical rainbows that explode rainbow light on impact. You could use a bigger version of the already-implemented footfall animation for the impact.

Other popular suggestions (but none as epic as the meteor shower) were a rainbow recoloring of Magnetic Aura, Static Field (Maybe bad idea in PvP and WvW), Healing Rain, and last, but certainly not least was a rainbow recoloring of Tornado. Could you imagine a rainbow meteor shower and a rainbow tornado dancing around the battlefield? Talk about visually stunning.

I agree with this. You can hardly tell the difference between night and day in the game unless you have an Ascalonian Catacombs weapon.

HippoLogic.2519:

Exactly what im saying there is no weak server in this match up maybe SBI thinks its a 2 v1 because they are not used to 2 other strong servers in a match. Im not calling SBI unskilled they got several very strong/skilled guilds like [TE] [DDLG] [BEAST] and [ABYS] to name a few. Will the weekdays be able to catch up, will turkey week play its roll as many people are out of school/work only time will tell. Do I think this week will be full of many awesome fights, pushes, and hold I think so. Lets all just give thanks for a week not full of karma trains and 3 good servers matched up at the same time.

Having gone from Tier 1 to where we are now, we know the difference between being caught between a rock and hard place, and two different server zergs running side-by-side into our garrison.

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Really? The site looks so…. poor compared to the old support, I must have mistaken it for an illegitimate redirect.
And no, my EoTM email is separate from this one, but maybe it’s talking about my EoTM account.

Hey everyone, I got an email today from “noreply@guildwars2.com” saying that my email has been changed and to confirm it with the link below, or, if that is wrong, contact the GW support team at the site.

Well, #1, I didn’t change my email on my account.
#2: Whenever a friend or I try to go to support.guildswars2.com it goes to some completely bogus zendesk website. “Please enter your account name and the credit card you used to purchase it for verification.”
I laughed.

This glitch is still happening. Our SBI zerg just walked through the north gate of Anvil Rock’s Keep in EB. We took the keep without even taking down any structure. Wooden gates on a Keep that are taking damage seems to be the theme. You might want to fix it.

Jigain.8231:

Was the door at 0 HP but not graphically breached, or did it actually have health left when you passed through? I see in the picture that there were reports of the gate losing HP, going below 10% at least, that’s why I’m asking. Not critical if it’s just a graphical glitch, but if the gate still had health left, that’s quite the exploitable bug.

People were getting teleported in at all gate healths. We weren’t “walking” through smoothly, we got teleported to the other side. Many people of our SBI zerg were unable to get through the gate, while others did, including me. No ideas on how some of us did and some of us didn’t.

Someone posted a picture in the SBI vs. BP vs. AR thread:

SirV.7245:

Explain the following in a complete sentence.

We posted a thread here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Severe-Walk-through-closed-enemy-gates-in-EB

We, SBI, weren’t even sure what was happening. We were just getting ported in without any kind attempting or knowing it could be done. We posted a bug report above so it’ll hopefully be fixed ASAP before someone uses this as a tactic.

In taking back our LowLands Keep in Eternal BattleGrounds as SBI from BP, a large portion of our zerg pushed against the south gate and many of us got teleported to the other, internal, side of the door, completely defeating the function of the gate as we were now inside the keep without even breaking down the doors.

We used rams on the door. All professions got inside, including, me as a Ranger who just walked against the gate, no skill usage or dodging. Not really sure how to recreate the bug that got so many of us through the gate, we weren’t expecting it, aware of the possibility, nor attempting to.

Inner wasn’t breached by the enemy. So discuss the first picture please.
The next two are purely for academic reasons.

I’m a full boon duration guardian in WvW with a complete Giver’s set and Winter accessories. I can keep Retaliation up 50% of the time, but because I have only ~800 power, it does ~250 damage. I use “Stand Your Ground!” for the stability since the Retaliation is negligible.

I don’t need to convince you about the AC’kittenting impossible places. The video sent to Arenanet is all they will need.

grifflyman.8102:

I think a lot of people on SBI were really looking forward to having a good fair opponent. For the last 2 months or so we had been stuck fighting the same servers, and SoS had such a massive oceanic population there was no way for us to even compete.

So to have to face the same situation another week is very frustrating.

We’re used to get steamrolled by a server like SoS, we weren’t used to dozens of sieges doing impossible things.

Kvothe.1467:

2v1 DB all week. I’m sure DB wouldn’t be kitten y about it, its already a cakewalk for them I’m sure they are gonna get bored with the lack of challenge. 2v1 against DB would be the only way for all of us to have any fun in this matchup this week.

Normally, this is what I’d try to do. Unfortunately, not many of the prominent SBI players still have morale to fight after what happened with DB’s “Well placed siege.” We were hoping to battle tactics that a Tier 2 uses, and oh did we ever.

Zalani.9827:

Look, next time you see the hacking and stuff going on just report it and move on.
Best thing to do.
Also, I agree with the fact that Anet needs to start going after hackers more. Don’t just give them a small suspension or something similar. Strait up ban them permanently.
On another note, can you just not go generalizing an entire server for a few hackers.

I laugh at the people who think that SBI has never seen an AC and think we have no clue how they work. But you’re right Zalani, we reported and moved on, as in, moved out of WvW. At least until we fight servers that don’t have rampant “ACs in just the right spots.” Or until we get word that it’s no longer possible via game update or word of mouth. Sorry Maguuma.

Actually, I have a better idea, Anet should find a way to detect these players, implement it in a secret patch, and then round up all the hackers and banned them forever. Then, they should put the heads of those characters on pikes outside of WvW. Well, maybe not the pike-part.

Elano.2014:

Please report them, and let ANet decide whether it’s a hack or not.

Video included. Anet needs to put the fix of this as priority #1

No one can control who plays on the server, so it’s pretty unfair to generalize actions of a few on the whole server.

But DB can control who they report, and when all the siege in a DB zerg is doing impossible things, things that have been popular with popular hacks, it’s pretty fair to blame the server. I’m not sure how DB couldn’t notice that all their siege is in places that can’t hit anything at Hills, yet SBI has to hide in the lords room to escape AC fire. Or how we are in SE tower lord’s room, on siege. The siege is dying and we are getting lifted off the ground by catapult fire from a catapult inside the tunnel.

Or maybe simply you just don’t know it is doable until now.

Vertical-firing catapults and AC’s that can hit anything, anywhere inside their range regardless of walls, buildings, and other obstacles that prevent targetting, please do share the video guide on how we can do these things without hacking. Because, remember, at SBI, we don’t endorse hacking, however, some servers seem to.

Drek Thalon.5490:

Until last night I had no idea this kind of stuff even existed. Until we watched our trebs get eaten by AC from down the side of a suicide cliff (so tall fall damage would kill you) we realized that something was up. Normal players cant zoom their camera back far enough to land those shots..

It’s like he said, we didn’t expect to come out on top, but all we wanted was the opportunity to fight it out in a fair and balanced setting. This is really discouraging and disappointing.

Personally, I think Anet needs to just disable WvW until they can find a fix to prevent this field of view and zoom hacking. Because as it is, DB is just racking up points riding on the cheating wave while almost all prominent SBI WvWers have no interest in playing WvW now. And not because the server matchups are quite unfair, but because the hacks employed by our enemies are a little bit more than “quite unfair.”

In fact, they are game-breaking. And it was one thing to tolerate CD’s “few bad apples in the bunch” but it’s a totally different thing to see a zerg employ that.

If you read the patchnotes, it says there will be new WvW Dailies, making getting the daily for laurels very easy. As is, WvW can complete 2-4/5 of the categories depending on the day. Ascended gear is supposed to be difficult to acquire, making you choosey about which you get. Gosh forbid there be something to strive for in the game.
As is, I feel Ascended gear is too easily acquired since it’s only a matter of 10 minutes a day to get your choice of a guaranteed best in slot item in the game.

Same for Snowflake Giver’s set