Guild Wars 2

something is weird in this game with the loot, i’m sure it’s just the RNG being derpy but for me recently out of all my guildies that i party up with (around 2-4) I always get the extra rare or the extra unidentified dye or in this case the weapon tickets. My first ticket came when me and buddy were doing an event near the shatterer spawn. He had more magic find and we had both opened about 30ish coffers and bam…weapon ticket. Then recently we had been saving the coffers up to sell until I decided to open a couple stacks. Got about 20 into one stack…bam another ticket. Laughed it off and went on playing for a bit, came back an hour or two later and opened 30ish more bam another ticket…friends are now kitten ed. Got on today at lunch and opened around 50 and bam…another ticket. Not to mention this weekend i got some wings off a kitten moa.

It’s not just with this though, it’s almost like everything we do i’m always getting better stuff or more lucky. Salvaging ectos they rarely get multiples and are lucky to get one or two…yet I can pull like 6 from 2 or 3 rares. It’s just strange, you’d think that rng would be in their favor at least some of the time…hell all of them are sitting at more magic find than me lol. I have no idea what’s up with it.

I did 45 of them by waypoint…why? cause i was on my lunch break and only had 40ish min, did 30 on my main and the other 15 on an alt. I actually wish anet would have made us do more and possibly have enemies spawn once the it’s lit, but oh well, not going to complain about FREE content

good tip, i was running up hitting f then opening the map and finding the next waypoint, as soon as you hear the flames and crackle you can tp…but i guess i don’t have to wait for that now

Vayne.8563:

UrMom.4205:

me and a buddy went to Orr for the first time last night…why so much hate for it? We had a blast. All the mobs and events were more challenging then the other areas…we stumbled on a legendary boss in some crazy circular temple, but with no players in sight we had to high tail it out of there. Creepy place.

People are comparing Orr to what it was originally, which was a massive zerg fest of people running from one event chain to the next event chain to the next event chain. It allowed them to relatively quickly farm events, including the karma and silver for them, plus get drops from the mobs in the events.

People would run and tag as many mobs as they could. There were so many people the events would be massively scaled up. But there were so many people it trivilized the event, and you’d just follow the herd, around and around in circles, but you made money doing this.

Anet made changes to Orr because too many people were going it. It’s my belief, and I have no proof for this, that Anet wanted Orr to be end game content, not just a farm/zerg fest. So they keep making changes. One of the first of those was to redo so of the major event chains to introduce more champions into them, making them harder to “farm”. They also nerfed the easy stuff that people could mindlessly do to make money.

It was always, according to Anet supposed to be end game content.

On the other end of the spectrum are the people who insist on soloing it and not finding friends/guildies to go in there with.

We have people in my guild going into Orr relatively often, and we always have a godo time when we do. But it’s no longer the great “farm” that people enjoyed originally, and it’s not real welcoming to new 80 players who try to solo it.

dang…that sucks. we were having fun with some of the first events but then got demolished on the next one, it was just me and him. Too bad they nerfed it, I would love to try out the events in those areas

me and a buddy went to Orr for the first time last night…why so much hate for it? We had a blast. All the mobs and events were more challenging then the other areas…we stumbled on a legendary boss in some crazy circular temple, but with no players in sight we had to high tail it out of there. Creepy place.

went to southsun the other day…saw zero players, all the camps were contested, no chance lol. Southsun is dead

Guns and Giblets.9308:

UrMom.4205:

I’m on Crystal Desert and this week we’re against TC and SOS, while SOS isn’t doing very well either, TC is completely kitten us all. Not going to lie, when I look at wvw and see that we own only like 15% of our own borderlands and like 5% of eternal….i just stay in pve lol. See you guys next week!

Yeah, I’m on TC. I feel bad when we outnumber you guys so much. A good fight is a challenging one with extended back-and-forth, strategic play, clutch moments, etc.

Nothing to feel bad about, you’re just playing the game, it should put more equal servers together. last week when we were against yak and ka the match up was fairly balanced from what I saw, there were a lot of back and forths and tons of last min clutch saves.

I’m on Crystal Desert and this week we’re against TC and SOS, while SOS isn’t doing very well either, TC is completely kitten us all. Not going to lie, when I look at wvw and see that we own only like 15% of our own borderlands and like 5% of eternal….i just stay in pve lol. See you guys next week!

I actually really enjoy the daily, i work 8-5 everyday, and the daily+world bosses are a perfect amount of stuff to do before I have to get off. Maybe throw in some wvw or map exploration if i have time, but I really enjoy it. With that being said I’ve seen that the game offers lots of endgame options (work on legendary, get map completion, achievement hunt, spvp, wvw, fractals, mini games) and if you truly aren’t having fun, maybe just try another game for awhile then come back.

lol well done, if i wasn’t at work i’d hop on there with some guildies and do the same thing.

Shmee.8921:

They are people on a stage, are you not entertained?

lol throws tomatos

i’m sure this has nothing to do with it but….when i reached a stack of ectos in my collection, my ecto rate plummeted. I moved that stack to my bank so my collection was empty and my ecto rate went back up. I’m superstitious so I think it helps lol.

I still don’t understand why they aren’t the greenish color to match the jade weapon skins. My jade short bow caused me to change my whole look and the blue doesn’t match at all….oh well first world problems right?

not going to lie after reading other players stories….i feel really bad about the weapon ticket i got from a regular coffer after opening about 30…

Payne.1250:

AngryYoda.1345:

i agree, the designs on the jade weps are actually very nice, but when u start taking a closer look, u start to notice just how “plain” and “bad quality” it actually really is

Same problem here !

going off of those two pics the first one looks pretty dang good, the second one obviously looks bad but you are zoomed way in…does anyone in this game actually play fully zoomed in? I know i don’t, my jade short bow looks great. Maybe i’m just not as nit picky as some on here.

ok i’m confused…should we be impressed?

def more power, added that invulnerable period so you can spawn camp them with traps or turrets (the invulnerable part gives people time to run up on freshly spawned so i’m ok with it). Pretty tough to solo if you’re not prepared, on my ranger i just throw traps and run in circles if i’m in trouble lol. The killers of the bunch are the ones that drop all those conditions on you, those suck.

this is a terrible idea, why on earth would a player be entitled to loot for doing nothing. I can’t believe this is even a topic. This would lead to akitten players everywhere, no one would help anyone, they’d just roll up and loot bodies then move on. So what if you didn’t get a hit on the mob, thats life, move on. If you don’t put in the effort or time or risk to kill the enemies then you shouldn’t receive any loot of any kind. Actually i retract that let them loot the bodies but it gives them coal, that can’t be destroyed and costs 10 silver to remove from your bag or bank.

On to the dragon bash issue, i do think that it sucks thakittens a race to the holo projector thing. They should have the cool down of the activation of the holos very short, but have the loot drop cool down like it is now. So you run up and activate it and kill all the mobs and get all the drop. Once you leave another player runs up 2-3 seconds after and activates it. For you on the map it shows no icon but you can still kill the mobs for xp, but none of the mobs drop anything. Once that loot drop cool down expires the icon shows back up on the map and you can go do it again. This would prevent the crazy competition there is for them right now.

it might also be a personality thing…a few of my guildies have burnt out on gw2 and rarely play…for me i’ve got a lvl 80 toon and lvl 50 toon and lvl 7 toon, i set a goal for myself to make a legendary weapon for my lvl 80 (had the game for a few months), and i find some of the grinds very relaxing. I can get off work and farm some materials and the daily if i want, if i’m not in the mood, no sub so no worries…but gw2 is currently the only game i’m playing simply because i set that personal goal for myself and i’m going all in to achieve it.

i just got the game a couple months ago, i’m on Crystal Desert and there are tons of people running around pve. I play everyday for the most part and have one lvl 80 toon, a lvl 50 and a lvl 7 so there is still lots of fun to be had. A new living story event started for the month too. Not sure about pvp or wvw or thieves

do world bosses ever fail? like what if few people show up to a dragon fight and everyone dies, what happens? is the dragon just standing there waiting for some poor sap to come along or do they just fly away?

lordkrall.7241:

UrMom.4205:

why not just do 10 out of the 14 achievements to get the wings instead….that’s easy as crap

Different wings.

derp, my bad lol

why not just do 10 out of the 14 achievements to get the wings instead….that’s easy as crap

LoneWolfie.1852:

I hope this means it’s a 20000 range grab loot. Yup 20000 range.

lol finish a map, hit’s f, inventory instantly full

Not as detailed as the op but, played a couple hours after work

Server: Crystal Desert
MF: 109%

20-30ish coffers
some candy
a few fireworks
a couple random food consumables
and…..this……

i got a ticket on my like 25th dragon coffer during an event near the shatterer spawn. At the time I had 109% mf, that event all the enemies seemed to be dropping the coffers. Snagged like 9 or 10 during that one event, then opened them all right then, boom ticket…rng is rng lol. Does anyone know if mf affects the contents of the coffers?

Vol.5241:

You can’t put legendaries in the forge. It does not show up as an option and you cannot drag them in.

The only legendaries you can put in are Sunrise and Twilight – combining both gives you Eternity.

/case closed

well….party pooper..

I agree to some extent, for me in Southsun with my 80 ranger, I can solo pretty much everything minus the veterans. As stated earlier the reef drakes are a bit more tough. However if i accidentally agro two karka’s or something….i’m totally screwed. I still have some of the southern level 75-80 areas yet to explore, (farthest i’ve gotten down to is the first couple waypoints of straits of devistation) but so far every area i’ve explored i’ve been able to handle everything solo. Veterans I have to clear all the regular enemies first (pick em off from a far trying not to pull agro on anything else) then I can attack the veteran. But in some cases it just happens and I agro a veteran and a couple enemies. I like that the game is hard and challenging, I would maybe look to your build? If you aren’t very effective against enemies it could maybe be an issue with the build. I’ve literally spent hours googling through ranger builds and trying new things.

My gripe with the game that is sort of similar to your issue is when they drop a champion on a vista or something. I’ll use map chat to see if anyone wants to help….nothing. So great, i’ll just get that vista….never.

sure ill help! lets do mine first, send me all your t6 mats..

yup the art in this game is really great. As a graphic designer I really really can appreciate all the wallpapers and little touches here and there.

just got the sickle and i’m kicking myself for not getting the pick, not having to deal with tools anymore is legit. hopefully they’ll re offer a pick at some point.

Crystal Desert always has people running around in pve areas, the higher level areas are slightly less populated. I’ll usually always encounter at least 3-4 players at events and hearts and such. Sometimes when I port to an area with a dragon or world boss active i’ll get dumped to overflow (during peak hours though)

this is pretty awesome, I wanna see this on like a scrolling ticker display like the stock market lol. Breaking apart form the website ideas, i’d love to see a gadget or some stand alone app for the computer that would display the times, instead of having to pull up a website every time.

pretty much every video game forum is just a huge whine and rage fest. Like others have said, happy players are in game, and when they get off for the night, they don’t even think about going on the forums. If they have a question, they’ll ask it in game or go to the wiki. kitten players want to vent so they get on the forums in hopes that people will listen and rage with them. I also play Planetside 2, an FPSMMO and my god the rage and whine on their forums is insane, yet in game the community is humming along as usual.

I’m in a weird spot, i’m happy with the game yet I work during the day and often finish my work early so i’m left to browse the internet….and here I am lol

The issue I have with knock back in its current form is based on a couple points, which throw the balance way outta whack, and basically makes it if you get hit once you’re lucky if you aren’t downed (at least from higher level areas). Most knock back/knock down/stun breakers have a cooldown, fine fair enough…however most mob’s stun/knock back attacks don’t have a cooldown. I’ve come across many mobs that literally just spam their knock back attacks. It’s bad enough we only have two dodges….but you let the mobs spam their attacks too?

Which leads to the next thing (that’s been touched on before) you get knocked down and they spam their attack and your basically locked out till down…how are you suppose to evade, and overcome..once i get knocked down it’s basically a “opp looks like time to find the nearest waypoint”.

Sometimes the knock down time seems a tad long…many times a mob will do it’s knock down attack, then as my character is waiting to get back up the mob does it’s other attack and once i’m up it’s time for the knock down again…ok well gg.

I feel like Anet is trying to make the mobs hard, which is a good thing but they’re going about it from the wrong way. Anyways just my observations as i’ve been playing.