Guild Wars 2

It is really hard for Anet right now, the whole changing world, dynamic events, action combat is alot harder to and more complex than the usual MMO, it may be why we don’t see as many update for other things such as guild. Their main concern is around the new mecanic they are working on.

Just think about how hard it is to make a dynamic event instead of a npc that ask you to kill 25 Behemoth.

Though I would like to see Guild hall, guilds alliance I think it wouldn’t take too much time and effort to implement them. They seems to focus on making absolutely everything different and better but things like those need to stay the same :P.

Well, Warrior are slowly moving away from greatsword to a Axe/Off hand build, but they still use it for the Whirldwind and hundred blade. While on the other hand, It look like guardian pull with the #5 is too good to be ignore unless you are on single target. I wish guardian would priorize something that has a shield as off hand.

Mirta.5029:

tolunart.2095:

Regardless, anyone who wants a Legendary would be well-served to prepare for those changes by buffing his crafting skill and creating an ascended weapon or two.

I’m two stacks of T6 away from a Legendary and I see on reason to level your crafting profession at all. The whole ascended thing is more painful than actually making a legendary.

• It should not be time gated
• It should not be limited to crafting only. Crafting should only get exclusive skins.
• Precursor crafting will not be in the game just yet. We won’t be able to craft a precursor with crafting to 500.
• blues and greens won’t get that much more worth it, because of how often they drop. If the price will increase it will only bump up for a short while, because all of the impatient will try to get to mf cap on the first day.
• 11% stat increase is not little at all.

One big reason why they time gated the ascended crafting is probably to avoid a “bigger” market crash. Look at what happened to glob of ectoplasm during the livestream. If it wasn’t time gated people who just empty the whole TPand price would totally explode.

here’s a fast forward of the price of Globs during the livestream.

Though I agree that there should be new way to obtain them, such as hard mode dungeon.

Seriously, what the kitten is wrong with you people.

How in the world is making the weapon by crafting a way for Anet to sell gems? Can’t you kitten do dungeons for gold? or do events? There is so many way to make gold in this game.

And also, crafted Ascended weapon are account bound and probably the dropped one so I don’t think you will be able to buy them.

Seriously, if there’s a game where I never felt the need to use the cash shop it’s GW2, it’s not even close to being pay to win.

What concern me the most is that every time there is a way to make Gold in this game, something you can farm, exploit or not, they nerf it. I run my dungeons, which take 2 hours then I’m left with nothing to farm, they nerfed my karkas, then Orr, then CoF, then Deadeye and we are left with Invasion handing out an average of 4-6 gold an hour while the price keep getting higher…

What behellagh said, what most people do is use the supersample render option in the graphic settings, then crop in using Sony vegas/Adobe premiere or any other video editing software. I don’t think Youtube allow you to do this and even if they did, the quality would probably suffer alot from it.

Something like a 1 second daze would fit it very well, or a cripple, for close combat property. But I think we all agree it does require a little boost.

I am red/green coulorblind which is probably the worst thing that can happen in GW2, it is almost impossible for me to see red circle depending on the ground color. I would really like a colorblind option.

I do remember a Dev talking about some monster being meant to be skip in Arah Path after some guy made a post about how strong they were. I know this doesn’t apply to every dungeons but it’s something.

…. ONCE

They also recently changed the effect on my Kraitkin the day after I got mine, there was a patch and my Kraitkin was never the same, it doesn’t glow the same way anymore.

Xista.7391:

I created my main as soon as servers were up during headstart. Still no birthday present..

I made mine a little before my brother who got his present, still havn’t got mine, maybe it will take a little while before all the gift are handed.

I for one, believe every guardian should be wearing sword/shield just like every guardian are weidling a Greatsword. The shield skills are really lacking compared to focus, or even torch.

For shield of absorbtion, I’d make it so that when you detonate it, it knockback again causing damage (the longer you wait, the less damage it does), I also believe that duration need to be a little longer, I hardly ever block any projectile when I use it (I believe no one use is for projectile absorb, every one use it to knockback or heal). No need to change the cooldown. When compared to wall of reflection or shield of the avenger, it’s extremely weak and useless.

The Shield of judgement should definitely cause more damage, something near Shield of wrath detonation or torch flame, not as much, just better than what it is at.

Underwater is indeed lacking love, it is a big part of the game that is being ignored, they need to balance, update and add new content. I’d really like a alternate trait line for underwater, where you could adapt your trait to underwater.

I am a big fan of the underwater combat, it is extremely fun once you start getting ahold of it.

Though, underwater water need some more mechanic involve, instead of just huge health pool and higher damage to make up the difficulty.

I remember throwing the pebbles, for 4000 pebbles, it gave something like 23 doubloons. You make profits, but you waste countless hours that you could have made more gold.

I used to park 3 character at LA jumping puzzle, and my brothers helped me. It gave me a nice 3-4 doubloons everyday from doing nothing. Bought the rest.

Be careful for flipper, dont buy them at 0,80-1,00 Gold, i know some people who buy 200-300 of them and them just put them all for 1 gold.

Or at least when you complete the achievement, you should get a title. But the border around the name is kittening awesome though, would require the 5 legendary achievement to get it though, because many people have 1 legendary already.

What I like about deadeye is that it was a farm that didn’t rely on luck, it was pure time based farm. Every hour spent would give me the same outcome. I would not even mind if they would have just reduce the amount of silver in half. I just want a steady farm that don’t rely on luck.

Flameseeker Prophecie done <3 Thanks Fort Aspenwood!

I can believe the 11k, I’d be ready to believe up to 30-50k but anything above that even with bots/exploit I wouldn’t.

I have about 9-10k worth of gold on my character, including 5 legendaries, permanent shop/trader/bank/stylist and it was made with intense farm. 2500 hours which at least 2000 of them are actively farming, which mean; not sitting in lion’s arch or doing sPvP/WvW, but purely what’s the most effective to farm at the time.

I have a friend Actively flipping things in the market and he’s insanely good at it, yet he only got 6k out of it, it is not easy to make profit with trading post the way fees and taxes are. People think that because things like the Sentinel intricate are 30G now and they used to be 1G that some people made thousand out of it. It’s not the case, nobody’s buys them at 30G, let alone at 10G it was hard to sell. And if people would of grabbed thousand before they went up, they wouldn’t have went up this high because the supply would have been higher than the demand.

Everytime I teach someone how to Farm Deadeye I make sure to tell them to be nice and ressurect.

I freaking love gold and farming, yet I make sure to ressurect even the guy who just tried to fight the 4 pirates. And if I was alreayd queued and the person Waypointed, I make sure to apologize for it.

Also, it won’t slow you down too much, Iv’e never been an kitten to anyone and I am probably richer than 99% of the people who play this game.

Going for Flameseeker prophecies ( currently rocking, The Moot, Sunrise, Juggernault )

Got,
-The Chosen
-Gift of Flameseeker
-250 Ecto
-Gift of Magic
-Gift of Might 25%
-17 mustic Clover
-Gift of Exploration
-Gift of Battle
-250 Obsidian shards

Need,

-Bloodstone shard (134 Skillpoints)
-60 Mystic Clover
-75% of T6 needed for Gift of Might

I’m always lacking skillpoints Had a bad luck on my third legendaries and ended up wasting 500 skillpoints in total which screwed me up for this one.

Isn’t that the beauty of this game? if you are not confident with a fight, you can use gear with more health and toughness but if you trust your skills, you can switch and use stronger gear. isn’t that what action MMO are all about?

Cold Hearted Person.6154:

TheDaiBish.9735:

They can’t simply make a weapon ‘a must have’ based on you considering it being an iconic weapon.

If they make the shield useful in all cases, there wouldn’t be any point in them having Focus and Torch.

You are kinda right here but currently Shield is less than usefull, right now Shield on a Guardian is like any legendary on a player, simply rare sight.
Maybe not “a must have” but at least more than what we have now, i mean the Shield for Guardian is not even used to block.

Its really strange that Focus have more…or rather is the only off-hand weapon for Guardian that have block on it.

And yea if i had a choice of Shield(weapon) or Shield of Avenger(Spirit weapon) i would definitely chose Shield of Avenger cus it do more than normal Shield.

Pretty much what I meant, just like everyone is using the greatsword because it’s a good weapon.

I know it has been said many time already, but I believe shield skill need work on guardian, every guardian should have a shield in his weapon swap, it is like a trademark.

I know shield skill can be useful, but not nearly as it should be. The cooldown are enormous and if you compare you #5 with shield of the avenger, it just doesn’t cut it.

I have been using shield for a while only because I like how it fit my character, but everytime I run a dungeon or fractal or almost everything, I end up switching it for a focus or even a torch.

Just think about how every guardian you see is running a Greatsword, it should be a shield instead, make shield the most useful guardian weapon.

TL;DR Shield should be a must for guardian, not just a weapon that can be useful in 1 or 2 cases.

Haha, I remember trying to get a Vista near a bunch of Hylek, since then I hold an infinite grudge against them and everytime I see a village of Hylek, I make it a duty to exterminate every single of them.

May I ask why we havn’t heard of [Deth] yet? They seems to be ranked #2 and soon to be #1 for NA ranking. I know the NA server arn’t as interesting GvG wise but I’d be nice to know our good guild.

Nuzt.7894:

Curious, why doesn’t FC use those numbers your sporting right now and go get your BL back ? Personally don’t care, if it wasn’t you taking AR it would have been SF, I’m just trying to figure out the thought process ?

Also, when we try to bring a Zerg to another BL it often end splitting the Zerg into half, 1 half of PUG which end up leaving WvW and the other half who is stuck with 10-15 people. That being said that’s usually how our the whole Zerg end up leaving WvW.

Erasculio.2914:

Trice.4598:

And what’s wrong with farming to get a Legendary? I know you guys want something HARD not long, but then 1 year later everyone is going to be holding one. While it takes a real dedicated player to decide to invest 300 hours into one weapon, not everyone is able to do so.

It’s the other way around.

Were a Legendary something that required skill, not everyone would get one – players don’t become more skilled linearly as time goes by, considering how many people don’t even bother to improve their skills.

But Legendaries are just time gated. The guy who plays 10 hours per day every day could dedicate 30 days farming to get a Legendary… But the guy who players one hour per day will have played the same amount of time in 300 days. Which means, given enough time playing, anyone could have a Legendary.

But then skilled player would keep getting Legendaries over and over, sell them until they reach a ridiculous price that any player could affort, which Iv’e seen happening in every MMO I played. Only difference with other MMO ( God bless A Net) we don’t have a ridiculous Upgrade system with failure and break that make the top Gear stay expensive because they are +10 or whatever.

Morten.5387:

This latest implementation of the living story has, if not soon corrected (doubtful), left me with a stain on my once perfect track record; one that I will not soon forget or forgive. Lazily overpowered (anyone can add x more units and + hp) and repeated content that came about as a “fix” after the fact leaves a really bad aftertaste. Not to mention the rate at which these events cycle there is no reasonable way to comfortably attempt it. We didn’t all roll the golden boy classes (for those that say they can solo it), unfortunately.

The fast pace of it all will produce burnout sooner rather than later. I for one am beginning to feel worn out by it all; crushing failure is not a good motivator either, lol. Also, is it just me or the “kill 10 rats” achievements have been increasing in size over each release? As far as time required is concerned at least. 2,500 points anyone?

I have the same problem, I am a big Fan of living story, but this one didn’t get me. The achievements are either easy like finish a daily while representing or do a dungeon run to make 2500 points which took me 6 hours of playing a game I didn’t really enjoy. And unlike the sanctum sprint minigame which I did for fun, I (and a couple of my friends) didn’t do this one for fun, we did it for the achievements points.

ESKan.6782:

I always thought the second heal came from Monk’s Focus. Does it heal twice without the trait?

Yes, without monk fucos, it heals you, then teleport to the nearest allies and creat a Healing AoE which heal you again. Now when traited with monk focus, you get a total of 3 heals. Most of people believe it is a glitch right now and I kinda agree with that :P

Where does this idea of people buying Legendary come from? I have yet to come across someone who bought his Legendary.

People who hold such weapon are often very skilled player because they played A LOT and that’s how you become good at something, by doing it over and over.

And what’s wrong with farming to get a Legendary? I know you guys want something HARD not long, but then 1 year later everyone is going to be holding one. While it takes a real dedicated player to decide to invest 300 hours into one weapon, not everyone is able to do so.

And please, no matter what you say, Legendary skin are great, unless you’re one of those hipster who wants something not every “everyone” has aka not worth the bang like Mjolnir and Infinite light. There is no way Mjolnir looks better than Juggernault. And Sunrise and Twilight are probably one of the best greatsword skin in the history of MMO and there isn’t that many out there, the 5-10 you see in lion arch are nothing compare to the 250K player loggin on everyday (number from China Report on GW2)

I’m not going to say anything about Aion, but seriously, tera!? better than GW2 you got to be kidding me. Get in a zone, kill 20 easy monster 5 hard and 3 elite, do the dungeon. Get in a new zone, ooh 20 easy monster, 5 hard 3 elite, dungeon. It’s fun at first but get boring and i know pretty much every game can be simplified like this but Tera is good at it. Also not being able to move when attacking in an action MMO just doesn’t make sense.

The one thing I like about GW2 right now is the gear threadmill, end game Armor/weapon are easy to come by. If you want good skin? grind for it.

In other games, you grind for the end game. 2 months later new gears come out. Grind again. 1 months later, new expansion, you gear are useless.

While Legendary weapon are complete grindfest, it’s a one time grind not a grind every time a new patch come by.

Also even if you grinded for a nice skin and new end game gear comes out, you can alway get the easy to get ugly skin and transmute you own nice skin you grinded for.

Small things make this game success!

And i wanted to share one of these smalls things with you today. Which is my favorite waypoint in the game.

nothing special about a waypoint you may say but if you look at the scenery of the Viathan waypoint, you can see the they spend to make it gorgeous.

Everytime you will waypoint there, you get a nice scenery and depending on the hour of the day, it look amazing.

My Guardian, Draconic gloves are my favorite gloves in the game, and I think Kodan chest is gorgeous

In the mail we received it said they will be available soon in the Gems store.

Using knight’s armor with Melandru’s rune. Trinket are half Celestial half berserker.
Food are Sharpening stone with bowl of lemongrass poultry soup. Weapon is PVT, I would probably change it but I’m still scared of transmuting my legendaries XD

Also traits are 0 5 30 30 5

My front line Guardian build

congrats! I am also crafting my Moot tonight, and it is my third legendaries also :P!

I believe everyone goes through this state once they get their first level 80 exotic set.
At first you think that you have reach the end. But then some of us wants more, we want to become someone in this game. How do we do so? Some decide to grind for unique looking skins, tiers 3 Armor, Legendary weapon. Other decide to lead in WvW, try to get their server to win against other. Other will form a group and try to become the best PvP team. Other will try to master every dungeons to become some kind of elite player.

Some people will say these are mostly about bragging, but I didn’t make my 3 legendaries weapons to brag, I did it because I wanted my character to look good to me. I like the whole roleplaying, becoming a hero of tyria.

And also one of my favorite, help newer player, teach them how to do things, you can’t imagine how fun it can be.

Hello Ferg’s!

Deathclock is planning a Hide N seek Event in fergusson’s crossing, everyone is welcome to join! There’s no fee to join. We will start at the event at reset in Lion’s Arch ( 8PM )

How will it work?

You will have to find 3 different persons hiding in Tyria.
We will tell in which map the person is hiding along with a hint.
Once you find the first person hiding, he’s going to give you the name of the second map along with a new hint.
Same goes for the second person hiding, he will tell you in which map is hiding the last person.

Prize!?

We have some nice prize for you!

1st : 30 Gold
2nd: 10 Gold
3rd: Exotic weapon
4-10th : 5 Glob of ectoplasms each

For any more information, you can whisper Snow Farrun in game or post here.

Have a good one guys!

Update

Hide And Seek was a success Thanks everyone for participating

Here’s the top 3 winner

1st (30 Gold) : Jethro Gibbs
2nd (10 Gold) : Tylos Woodspires
3rd (Naga Fang Exotic) : Hero Farrun

Once again, thanks everyone.

Next on the list is a jumping puzzle marathon! stay tuned!

It has probably been proposed before but due to the amount of result I’ve got from my research, I couldn’t find anything on this.

I think Legendary weapon should be add’ed to story line eventually, or dungeon story. I’d be fun I think if they we’re told to be legend. I’m not talking about the actual weapon, I just want to see some npc talking about them. I.E. About how that hero saved tyria 5000 years ago with that sword crafted by zammoros, the sunrise!

Sorry for the bad grammar, I’m having a hard time expressing myself right now XD.

Jscull.2514:

subcrazy.1098:

Was fun last night. We got a message saying deth was going to own us in a GvG fight, we found them and here are the results. Found out later they want to run 6 guards vs us tho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Mt628kNcU

Thanks to [KoM]‘s Awakened and [GT]’s Tetra for running as our fifth last night, some great fights. Especially against that “We’d smash them GvG”, thanks for the evidence.

That wasn’t our GvG group, believe me, it’s really different when you fight the good people.! But you guys do look pretty strong, I’d really like to get into an organized GvG agianst you.

Also, sorry about the arrogance of that player, Deth is not an arrogant guild and we don’t approve such behavior.

Snow Farrun [Deth]

From my experience, lower tiers WvW tend to be a little more organized, mostly because it is easier to coordinate a group of 20-25 people, than it is to coordinate 50-60 people. Also, lower amount mean you have to think harder and elaborate strategy to overcome larger number. What I dislike though, is the importance of the siege against when in smaller zerg.

Thanks [End] For the great fight tonight, we are really looking forward another match against you guys.

Kindly, Snow Farrun [Deth]

Here’s a little highlight of the GvG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0tvgpnHiPI&fmt=22

Havvik Nightseeker.3485:

LK did its first GvG today. after a month of starting hardcore WvW we felt confidant that we were ready for GvG :P.

needless to say..we got owned. i am not embaressed to admit it. from a guild who rarely wipes in even numbers combat (or even if we have less numbers). the GvG experience was very humbling. so this shout out goes out to DETH for there fair play in the GvG. and sportsmenship even after they kicked our kitten LK is now going to work its kitten off and perpare for future GvG’s so it wont be so one sided :P

thank you to everyone who participated and for the good matchup this week. we hope to see you on the field soon
Regards
Havvik
LK

Was great, sorry about the confusion though, I know it’s always hard to coordinate the whole things, specially the first time. I really hope to see you guys on the field next week for a rematch!

Thanks again for the great match.

Snow Farrun [Deth]

Seras.5702:

While I like the lack of Trinity and the ability for all professions to tackle all aspects of combat (damage, heals, control, support, rez), I agree that this creates a rather non-team-oriented style of play. Everyone takes care of themselves. They self-heal, self-buff, self-combo…there’s a serious lack of cooperation.

In dungeons, all you need to know are the mechanics. But I don’t see “dropping heal spring. blast blast blast” very often, or players calling their cc and making sure there are synergistic builds at work. An engi can say, “hey I’ll thow Elixir U for reflect on the 1st barrage. Who’s taking barrage #2? Stack up on me.” but alas, it just doesn’t happen because everyone just brings their own reflect and handles themselves.

I agree that this is a big problem but that’s where getting yourself a daily group for dungeons come handy, not only do you guys know each other, but you end up knowing their build/their playstyle. With my daily group I play a Guardian hammer, because we have an ele, and 2 warrior, this way I can constantly give protection/stability to the warrior who DPS while giving them constant regen, but the ele use field attack for me to blast in. It’s all about communication, which doesn’t happen too much in PUG.

nice to see other people doing this, my guildmate and I have been running with first-timer for while, it’s alot of fun, and this way new player don’t get discouraged the first time they run a dungeon. i remember my first time, took so much time, so many repair, i never wanted to run again, but this way they see how easily feasible it is.

If you ever need a 5th player, don’t hesitate to wishper me! Snow Farrun / Aeron Nix

Just wanted to bring this up in case anyone here is interested we are recruiting again. guild forum is up ( new of today so no post yet :P ) eidolons.net

Don’t be afraid, we are extremely friendly to new player

I guess I have been pretty lucky, Got my frist precursor 2 months ago with 210 gold of rare, couple days later, got a dawn by throwing a couples of Exotic I had from dungeons tokens. And last week I got a colossus by throwing in 300 golds of rare., 3 of my guildies got their within 300 golds too. But doesn’t mean everyone will get their that easily.