Guild Wars 2

I found ranger + pet to be very handy mapping and able to solo champs etc when needed (due to the pet) but its also a case of 300 hearts worth of longbow pew pew. Not a lot of variety there.
Thief i found harder due to the trash mobs being rather a pain to deal with. However the tradeoff is that you can use the stealth abilities to skip a huge amount of annoying mobs/fights while mapping and in orr you can cap some skillpoints etc that have champs permacamped on them.
PvP sadly i have no idea of the strengths/weaknesses.
Best class i’ve mapped with so far is war, the dps and survivability makes mapping in less than a week easily doable. (except that blasted blackgate eb keep)

yeah but isn’t there going to be a massive influx of new chinese players adding mats to the tp? This could be an emergency economy fix, limiting it before it becomes as common as bloodstone dust.

Wasn’t there mention of the chinese market only being able to open dyes with a tool from the gem store? are they doing that with us too? so you can have a pile of unid’s but have to use the store to buy the tool that “unlocks”.

I’m on TC too and yes theres an overflow all the time – now wait till we’re mixed with blackgate and jade quarry as well. I for one will be amazed if I ever see any familiar names again in a main area.

Buying gems is of course what you’re SUPPOSED to be doing.

Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if the boss research took 1-2 weeks every time. Seems the whole point of this is to actually restrict the ability to do events.

I just mapped the world again – as i stated earlier. If you’re a newbie wanting to map, or a level 80 who’s mapping theres a few things you need to be aware of with the megaserver.
Lets say normally the map (say kessex) is just 3 people. Great, the centaurs are all there, the camps need clearing, doing hearts is easy as pie. Kill a centaur – heart begins to fill.
Now, i’m on TC and the camps had all been done, leaving a few scattered centaurs as the only way to fill the heart.
Now add a megaserver where theres 20 other people all killing the centaurs that are now a very rare spawn.
1) you better be doing enough damage to tag one before it drops. (low level char? denied!)
2) you’d better be kitten fast getting TO the centaur to tag it in the first place. (low level thief or non-haste ability? Denied!)
I had 3 other people farming the centaurs and even as a level 80 this was a kitten long heart to fill.
Now think of every heart that requires kills – grawl/skritt/risen – same situation. Guesting to quieter zones where events aren’t done is EXTREMELY handy while mapping. Now with the megaserver rollout those events will be basically perma-done. You’ll have to sit there and wait an hour for the event to reset.
Having a large chunk of people on every map is not actually a good thing, new players will be frustrated even in the very first queensdale event – kick a wurm mound – gets one-shotted by an 80 before you can touch it.
Huge frustration.
Also – revives for the heart, underwater kills for daily. Anything that requires kills in an area that suddenly has a load of extra people there for the same thing.

Going to be quite interesting when you have multiple guilds all trying to pop teq at the same time. Taxi nightmare.

The thing is – no-one from anet has stated that you will be able to get into a zone with your friends 100%. With the caps on maps and the guild events etc that go on all over the world you will constantly be bumped into different areas and split up. If you’re planning on doing shadow behemoth with your mates – theres how many champ farms running?
Suddenly all those people are in your queue, if their shard is full – their overflow gets dropped down to the next shard.
The algorithm will try to get you into a spot on your home server but queens will fill in seconds. This will be the same with large world bosses, and with a timer every complete newbie knows where to go to get in on it.
The chances of getting anything guild related done in any fairly populated area will be a complete pain in the kitten .
Also – as your guild starts filling a zone – suddenly its a popular zone (due to numbers) so now any people zoning in get bumped into your area you’re trying to fill (its not a seperate overflow its now an area with a growing population).
edit: Also – when the new zergy content LS2 shows up, those areas are going to be hit with the same issues. Good luck trying to do a guild event when the ls has 90% of the population zerging the area your guild events in.
Imagine trying to do a mega boss while another guild is trying to get their rush/jumping done in the same zone? trying to do teq while there’s 40 people wandering around doing mapping or dynamic events. The overflow system enabled you to get the people you needed, where you needed them. If i’m harvesting nodes and helping 6 guildies map sparkfly and teq pops – i’m dead weight. I’m not interested in doing teq, they’re all minimum level guildies in cheap gear with low dps. Guilds like TTS suddenly are STUCK with me and my roving band, so yes, we are dead weight and eating up slots that would help them succeed. The system is a shocking idea. Dead zones will still be dead because theres no kitten reason to be in there, nothing has changed for the better.

The thing is – no-one from anet has stated that you will be able to get into a zone with your friends 100%. With the caps on maps and the guild events etc that go on all over the world you will constantly be bumped into different areas and split up. If you’re planning on doing shadow behemoth with your mates – theres how many champ farms running?
Suddenly all those people are in your queue, if their shard is full – their overflow gets dropped down to the next shard.
The algorithm will try to get you into a spot on your home server but queens will fill in seconds.
The chances of getting anything guild related done in any fairly populated area will be a complete pain in the kitten .
Also – as your guild starts filling a zone – suddenly its a popular zone (due to numbers) so now any people zoning in get bumped into your area you’re trying to fill (its not a seperate overflow its now an area with a growing population).
edit: Also – when the new zergy content LS2 shows up, those areas are going to be hit with the same issues. Good luck trying to do a guild event when the ls has 90% of the population zerging the area your guild events in.

Megaserver queensdale is going to be the hell lagfest. New players who choose human are gonna think the games borked.

OtakuDFifty.2965

I’m seriously reading all these complaints and thinking to myself “please ANet don’t backpedal on this issue and ruin this for me.” I was promised a schedule, and I’m expecting you to live up to that promise.

Love your posts. Best trolling ever.

Love it how anything negative/awesome/shines light on game flaws becomes a “just give us three ideas” by a passing mod then gets forgotten and ignored.

Konig was successfully summoned. You were worthy.

The ability to do a dungeon with just heroes and being able to take a loo break or have a cup of tea or answer the phone with no screaming.
Being able to do hard mode vanquishing with heroes.
Being able to take on any boss at my leisure using heroes as backup.
pre-ascalon. the waterfall and the music. loved that to bits.
build diversity – when new skills made you want to re-explore the world to try em out and to cap em.
20% fast cast/recharge.

Do these guys even play the game? come on anet – are you trying to destroy this game?
A lot of low/mid hearts have a requirement of “kill centaurs or spiders etc” by forcing everyone into the same zones you get a pile of 80’s one shotting everything while doing map completion while the new players can’t tag. I’m now mapping for the 4th time (at this point as a goodbye to the game) and i’m hitting this issue in a few places since i switched to TC and frankly, its annoying.
Organising teq etc is going to be much, much worse as now you’re literally trapped with every peanut in there doing mapping/harvesting.
Ori prices and mats are going to spike freaking hardcore, you’re literally imposing a scarcity – its 4.5 silver a nugget now and thats WITH people farming every node every day, when they can’t find the nodes – hello unnattainable ore. (salvaging is not exactly guaranteed) twilights going to be a hell kitten to craft now.
The waypoint fiasco is an absolute killer for me I check the temples etc to see if they’re uncontested for mapping/karma purchases/skillpoints in orr. Yay, you screwed that up too.
I’m just…appalled at the idiocy you’re showing here.

Not sure i like the use of “odds” and “likely” in the chances of being on same map as friends.

Thats the point though, if you really want that legendary you’d better treat it as the job it is. When i made kudzu the ember farm and the scarlet events were still running and i was farming those things every spare minute i had to get that kudzu. 3 weeks it took from having nothing but a pile of karma. You need to have that grim determination to pull it off.

Had a great run in it last night, had people from blackgate and jade quarry who just watched my little upleveled self pass. had a guy in the arena beckoning to anyone who passed if they wanted a duel. Fell a few times and still they just let me pass. was awesome, ty guys.

And now you have learnt the painful truth – a wild konig rarely appears.

Its always bugged me too. Every time i see it i think “oooh a green!” but no.

“That’s how old these stereotypes are.” – Great, now get with the future and move forward. Be strong in your own sexuality and stop preaching, frothing at the mouth and generally being loathsome to others trying to get them to vote for your viewpoint at the cost of theirs.
Also – remember that some stereotypes exist due to people wanting to be like that. I’ve had friends who are the stereotypical flamboyant, loud colourful homosexual and the bush shirt wearing, sailor level swearing hardcore feminist. They won’t change just because you want them to. They’d probably get extremely angry at you for calling their lifestyle choices a stereotype.
Also – once again, shriketalon is amazing, i literally tear up and get goosebumps when i read what the story could have been.

Don’t forget that champ boxes were added because no-one was touching the champs anywhere. They just stood there all day with the occasional one being downed in low level areas by a passing 80.
The orr champs like the baroness, eye etc just never got cleared, as you know if you wander in there to map. The boxes were added as a “hey! go explore and kill!, help each other kill them” if they get nerfed too bad it’ll be back to square one but with all the other events nerfed as well (embers, shelter, plinx etc etc).
We do need a new carrot of some sort out in the world i must agree, they’ve been using ls zerg content as filler for the absense of world farmable areas.

Ripped off feeling or not, it will still achieve its main aim – you’ll be using a lot more stones/charges. Which means more gem sales. Lot of folks will throw a tenner into the store to get that legendary on their alts.

Well done for taking over yet another thread with “omg, my sexuality is being denied”. The op wrote a fantastic post and you’re so wrapped up in making the world fit your exact balanced stereotype you missed the point of the op post. Kindly take your gender wars 2 elsewhere. Keep it on topic.

Normal Mode / Hard Mode
Leave the existing world bosses as-is with the same loot tables but add instanced raid only versions with ramped difficulty and skins/weapons only gettable from that versions chest.
People feel special for being hard enough to pass them while normal folks get that amazing first feeling of “wow! a dragon! look at all these people!” when exploring zones for the first time.
note: by hard i mean like the new teq, get enough people, make them stand in the right spots then auto-attack with the occasional dodge (although max range rangers can autoattack without even having to dodge the waves) , realistically teq is just a big dps check you have to stand in multi zones to pass. He’s harder though…right?

The trains bring mats, skins and cheap exotics into the tp. Its all fun saying “nerf em!” then suddenly “wtf? why can’t i get my crafting done? i need 250 tiny claws but there are none! is no-one farming these anymore?!” Bonettis rapier – “wtf! why is this now 250g?!”
Be very, very careful what you wish for in nerfs.

Lets say it is a new city. Better be zones attached or its just a switchout for lions. Does that count as new content?

The world will be full of footprints and things like jormags breath, vision of the mists, BLC skins will crowd up the tp. No point buying on multi chars now – just 1 purchase…ever. Bit worried about that “3 crystals = 1 charge” part though, thats a lot of crystals.

Actually i’m quite concerned about the impact on the market too. No more buying jormags breath x2 or any other exotic you like the look of. Buy one, arm 8 chars with the same skin after the one purchase. going to be a bit of a surplus of some items on the tp.

Or add other ways to attain things – what if 10k achieve points gave you an instant account bound legendary of your choice? thats a year+ worth of gaming to hit that ap level, if you’ve been unlucky in the precursor drop/forge stakes or doing the wrong things to generate cash but having a ton of fun that would be a great reward. Also its account based so its a one-time deal.

But don’t worry, it’s only patch one towards the zerk bashing, there will be a patch 2! just like the dungeon patch was going to be in parts, remember how that went?

Thats all well and cool but my mouse has a little button on it marked 2x that automatically does 2 clicks. Bannable?

I left my computer on while the event was going, watched movies with my char not moving then joined in when the knights popped and fought the holo for the chest then back to afk while waiting on next spawn. Bet i got reported a ton.

You’re expecting a new zone? heres hoping.

The problem with posting on the forums is that you’ll get pounced on by anyone looking just to run someone else down to make their own bitter lives slightly better for a while.
Personally I think having to check the forums for in-game content is rather idiotic and lazy design. If its going to happen in-game, let people know in-game. I didn’t even know the forums existed for the first 9 months of play. Also – the ministories and backstories? should have been in-game, haven’t read them, never will. Why spend time browsing forums and interviews when it could quite easily have been explained in-game. Theres a lot of folks that say people only come to the forums to complain. Its more that the only people who decided to be vocal rather than just drop the game went looking for them.
You’re wanting to play the game to unwind, relax and have fun with friends, not have to search the weband research dates because the devs were too lazy to add a line to the merchants.

Yes the ls did work in zephyr sanctum. But it worked because it added A WHOLE NEW AREA TO EXPLORE. It was like a mini expansion.

The fact is, no matter what you think, no one knows…except Anet.
and they’re holding those numbers super tight to their chest. I think they’d be crowing those numbers to all if they were good.

The replies are always the same – its being worked on. We’re looking into its feasibility. End result – have some more zerg content and some more gem store shinies.

If you need to complain about a pr issue such as character sexual portrayals or someone saying gay in map chat its the best place to get a super fast response from a dev.

As to the changed forever – they’re adding a fence to keep future invaders out. With a sign.

For me? uninstalling till zephyrs next showup. Scarlets death enticed me to login for a few days but as usual the story wrapup was a pitiful bar conversation. See you at zephyrs unless a new area pops up to explore.

basically they tacked on the dragon in a rush because four months ago we all complained we wanted dragons and now the four month cycle is up and “oh hey, we added a dragon – please buy our new minis” But they didn’t expect to add a dragon so theres no signs or important dragon themed npc dialogue.

I think basically it boils down to – we expected a story that would be intriguing and fairly believable. we were silly to expect anything beyond zergable content and new shinies.

Pretty sure theres been a crapload of posts about how gay should be a bannable word in-game. Nice you use it so openly and no-one complains though.

The problem with making tags invisible unless in a squad is that currently guilds run tagless anyway as a makeshift way of achieving this.
Which means that you’ll have the “if not in my guild gtfo” problem. Lots of new players etc login to wvw and ask “wheres the commander? no players on the map?” and get greeted with silence because theres two guild teams currently in there doing stuff and don’t want any other players (or as they call them “rallybots”).
Making guilds able to have a tag only seeable by their guildmates/squaddies will simply make wvw a gvg only area as no-one will bother tagging up for the newbies to follow which will in turn just force them to logout.
Which already happens a lot due to the guilds running tagless.
You jump in a queue, wait 30 mins and then arrive into a borderland that seems empty with no commander and no answer in map/teamchat.
Then you either wander around hoping to fluke across a group or mapout.

The thing is – WvW is basically pointless as a gamemode unless you’re in there for the ZvZ/GvG fights.
Say you’re hardcore? cool, who won in the matchup you had 9 weeks ago? by how many points?
Now take a hockey fan – he’ll know who his team faced and lost to right off the bat.
WvW simply doesn’t count as a competition its too random.
Its just an extra pve area with different objectives.
Saying you’re a hardcore WvW just because you play that area more than the others is just silly, it has no real meaning to it. If you get bored of exploration and just login to play wvw for 2 weeks you’re hardcore WvW. Theres no server pride over wins or losses beyond reset night.

Its also good to remember that the biggest source of wxp is flipping things, which is extremely fast and easy as a large zerg, so yes a large zerg tier will get wxp much faster by flipping the whole map in one burst while a lower tier will then ninja it back but that takes time and over time you get different players logging on so its gets spread vs the horde getting it all very fast.

So you’re saying you want me to publicly name the guy? Then name my guild so you can then bash that into the ground too? The db forums are moderated by the same people that don’t like to hear the criticism my post there was removed within 30 mins. After posting this – which was to point out that we need to be active when we have the manpower, a wood tower is still points vs nothing if we just run in circles – i’ve received quite a bit of abusive pm’s and emails in game. The thing is, our guild wants db to be great, we want to have the manpower to take the points while you sleep and you wake up to t3 towers fully sieged up but you’re waking up to wood and a handful at best. We just don’t have the manpower at night. So the best time is during the day and the one time i get to see this in action its a joke of a display. Most of the oceanic guilds have apparently left and from the messages and feedback i’ve received I can see why. We’re not a large guild we field 20 – 25 max and only have 2 commanders but if we’re not wanted (judging by the get off our server idiot messages) then fine, we’ll take our dedicated team elsewhere. If you’re an oceanic team looking for a good community server, db isn’t it. Sorry if you thought this was a troll post but if you’re trying your best and then see that to the main force its just a joke, that really gets to you.

Wasn’t a troll post guys, kinda sad but its a serious one. That video was it – perfect. I’m grinning my chops off.