Guild Wars 2

Hahah this thread got me laughing thanks… they should probably fix these kinds of stuff some day.

Final Shielding still doesn’t work properly, if you receive many bursts it simply bypasses activation…

People already hit max level (80)… lol

Btw, LFG FOTM 45, kthxbai.

Content doesn’t only mean new maps, can someone at ArenaNet teach these guys something?

Take your time to improve the game, but please, don’t disappoint us…

@judeobscure, could it be….? :O

I just hate how they made precursor/legendary sellable, it takes the legendary aspect off of it… buying the matts is surely doable, other than that it’s plain nosense, as if you could buy an ancient artifact in a store then combine it with materials and have a legendary weapon at hands.

Buying the matts make sense, buying precursors or the legendaries themselves don’t.

Noid.2871:

DPS meters are notorious for being misused by people who have no clue. It would be nice to have a Master of Damage to test builds against, however.

Schnuffles.5369

Sometimes you get stuck with those magic find users

The proper fix to that is not implementing DPS meters, but removing MF. Or making it affect the whole party.

God, this! Please remove the Magic Find attribute.

People are trying to voice their opinion to make this MMO into every other MMO around, please stop this. No trinity, no add-ons, no aggro meters, they are not needed.

Hahah I like the comments here, I just find dredge very interesting and challenging considering a first sight fight, I mean the very first time I encountered them, I said challenging because it’s not just strong 6-shots or 1-shot stuff, when they’re grouped you have to know how to kite well specially the resonators messing the whole area!

Oh, I feel ashamed for getting downed by asura fractal’s rabbit. blush

This is the biggest issue in Guild Wars 2, I hope they come up with better rewards in this game.

Really. Some may say overpower or too hard to kill, I say they are the most challenging race you can fight!

Whoever programmed them, congrats, they are really hard, most notably when grouped (SE, or dredge fractal), and overall in the game the hardest mobs to kill (I’m not counting Orr, risen are just annoying).

So, what mobs do you find hard to deal with?
Not counting “PvE is too easy” kinds of posts, please, step back.

Make precursors acc-bound.

A friend of mine got under 3h.

Lol man, underwater is one of the most interesting things in the game, I hope they expand it in every possible way and improve the combat, I too think it’s not perfect but it has potential to be.

Please, keep underwater content coming, one of the most horrible things in WoW was that underwater nosense stuff, I just wish you add more depth to the oceans (like reaching darker areas O.O)

Lorana.2468:

LOCO.1785:

I’m going for Bolt and it’s gotta be one of the worst to obtain.

Just for the Gift of Lightning you need 100x Charged Lodestones… You know how rare these things are? It’s ridiculous… I’m not about to fork out 350g to purchase them all on the TP either.

Loving the no grind MMO ANet!

you should try for Mjolnir
it costs 350 Charged Lodestones
it’s actually worth more than any Legendary, same could be said for Infinite Light which requires 250 Lodestones.

I can have Mjolnir anytime cough utility cough

Just jk… hehe

As an Ele, I have to say we eles have strong aoe spells underwater and a super elite, ele is definetely balanced underwater, I just wish we could have some more support-focused skills (maybe another weapon to do that??)

Am I the only one that love the concepts around Primordus? Dude, seriously can’t wait to see his expansion!

Oh and btw, I’d also buy the expansions.

I love so much the open world, but I only appreciate running around in my alts while levelling them since it’s pointless to head back with my main.
As I said once, they must give new goals to people once they achieve something (hitting lvl80, getting an achievement that unlocks new possibilities?).

Overall I’m hopeful and looking forward.

PS.: Please, I beg you, do something about Dragons and their rewards please. >.<

The only thing I disagree is precursor, of course the other gifts will cost more than the precursor itself, but you can manage to get the components by yourself little by little having a sense of progression.
Precursor is just a stacked amount of gold nobody is wishing to pay, 500g for a precursor? No thanks, I’ll pass. For me, this is the only thing that needs to be fixed, making it more progressively attainable, not a huge brick wall.

Fact is, once you get at least one kittening legendary you will enjoy getting others.

Raebfle.5914:

Well that would put Jormag out since it’s hard to NOT go down since he’s the one with the most adds/things to dodge in his fight.

Tequatl and Shatterer would be on farm, since they’re super EZ mode.

However, if it’s still RNG for tokens to drop, then is there much point?
And if it’s a guaranteed drop, you can easily farm them once every 2-3 hours. So if you play for long periods of time, you can get a few in a day and take maybe 3 weeks (or a bit longer, but not much) to get a precursor.

That’s not really a long time frame at all.

Suggestions are appreciated, those 2 tokens could be 10% chance, and maybe 500 tokens overall?
People just zerg them pointlessly by now and don’t get anything useful, maybe that would an extra usefulness reward-wise just like FotM Pristine Relics, but it has a quest flavor to it.

How would you extend the time frame? =)

Here’s my idea for a quest to obtain a precursor, it’s a long-term idea but it’s not 1-year since it’s just a part of the process to attain a legendary.

1st: There would be two types of [Gift of Fortune], [Gift of Mastery], and Gift of [Weapon], the first type would be just as it is now, the other would have a glow effect on the icon, maybe a display message “This artifact is illuminated.”, I’ll explain why this is necessary.

2nd: I thought about this place in kodan territory, it would be The Stone of Silent Voice, the stone holds three locks that fit three special “keys”, the gifts would be these keys: Gift of Fortune, Gift of Mastery and a gift to a specific precursor (Dusk, Dawn, The Lover, etc). Putting the three gifts would give you a long-term buff: Infinite Enlightenment. When you gain this buff, you will be enlightened and new things will be available for you, the gifts will now lose the extra glow they came with, this prevents one from gaining this buff over and over effectively farming precursors nonstop.

3rd: This is the farming part, and also the effective quest part. There will be NPCs in each map the dragons spawn: Servants of Light. These NPCs will only be visible by those who have the Infinite Enlightenment buff and only when the dragon is about to spawn (they’ll stay there for 15min. before the dragon lands, then disappear), they’ll grant the players the Inspired Soul buff, this buff allows the players to receive 1-2 (random chance) [Crystallized Dragon Essence] but they’ll only receive these tokens if they defeat the dragon with the buff activated. To spice things a little bit, if you’re downed you lose the buff and, therefore, won’t have any chances to get the tokens. You will be required to have 250 [Crystallized Dragon Essences] later on.

4th: Shadow Behemoth will now hold a mysterious portal upon its death, a mystical floating stone door-like portal with glyphic writings in it that will lead ONLY enlightened players to the: Maze of Chaos. I don’t know exactly how this could be scaled for solo players, or parties, but this would be a labyrinth with confusing doors that leads you ahead, each door will progress you further or push you back and they’ll have a veteran inside each room guarding the exit. At the end of this labyrinth you will find the Priestess of Light, she’ll be exchanging the hard-earned [Crystallized Dragon Essences] for one of her magical weapons (precursors) and, unlike dropped ones, these will be acc-bound. The portal to the Maze of Chaos could also require a map-wide collection dynamic event.

Notes:
- The Infinite Enlightenment is triggered upon using your three gifts in the locks on The Stone of Silent Voice;
- Each precursor would cost 250 [Crystallized Dragon Essences];
- As stated before, there would be two different gifts of each one to separate illuminated ones from ordinary ones, the illuminated would trigger the buff on a player so that they’ll be able to quest for the precursor. The illumination would disappear from the gifts to ensure the player won’t be able to farm a lot of precursors for free, it’s intended to be a 1-time long-term buff;
- The Infinite Enlightenment buff would disappear upon leaving the Maze of Chaos.

I know they’ll have a scavenger hunt, but it doesn’t hurt to suggest something using what the game has to offer. :P

I agree with OP. o_o
It’s creepy, from a single grub to a lurking champion, every mob has a 40% chance of dropping nothing, and this is like 90% in champions…

Please. Make it stop seriously. o_o

Vol.5241:

Even though I have a legendary already and 400g in the bank, it doesn’t hurt to ask…

can I haz omnomnom berry bar donations?

That’s pretty much enough to buy that freaking The Legend, you know?

I love voice casting on these mobs man, I know I should “fear the rotten corpses rushing towards me!!!” but… hahahahah it’s so freaking funny! xD

I believe Lupicus or some other soloed bosses weren’t designed for such, and even if they were soloed it truly required some player skill, just think about how the bosses hit you hard in GW2 so that you cannot just stand still (holy trinity is gone, no tanking!).

I hope they surprise me with January/February patches regarding REWARD system though, it needs some serious care.

deSade.9437:

I… am speechless.

This!

I think ANet should only leave MF as a food buff + gemstore item, it’s enough, and balance loot tables accordingly.
What do you guys think?

Neb.4170:

Death… Good!

Everyone… Come!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Hahah I love how they manage to make me mad at many times, and now I’ll be laughing everytime I remember this post. xD

People are allowed to spend their time in whatever they want. Next.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

FateOmega.9601:

Valento.9852:

FateOmega.9601:

Ok, managed to get the skip, hop and jump achievement by soloing the instance. Swamp fractal however cannot be soloed so still awaiting an answer from Anet.

I got that one by running a whisp AND not tripping on traps.

Did you get the achievement upon the path opening or upon fractal completion?

I got mine upon fractal completion

As soon as I got to the boss. (?)

Horheristo.3607:

All Anet need to do to make the whole world not lose its viability is to do the same they did with general drops from mobs (lv80 will get lv75+ drops from low lv mobs)
But instead give a daily champion coin reward like in Dungeons, from world champs.
DE’s got SAME difficulty all over the world, only problem is that we aren’t scaled down enough and most enemies will die in 1 or a very few hits – scale us lower and increase Karma rewards.

I think increasing rewards from world champs alone will be enough encouragement to revive all the world maps.

This gave me an idea. So to prevent people from creating chars just to zerg champion killing, having them drop something extra would require 100% world completion (another use for Gift of Exploration?) or another achievement-wise requirement, could be unlocked daily or weekly as long as the reward(s) matched accordingly.

Never thought about it that way! :O

kiba.2768:

George Steel.1804:

kiba.2768:

George Steel.1804:

Your outlook on the situation is completely correct. Legendaries should be difficult to attain; not through means of farming, no-lifing, and spending real life money on gems. It should be difficult through the means of content required to clear in order to attain the items.

ANet really screwed their wonderful game with the implementation of Legendaries. A huge grind, with 0 emphasis on skill.

And this is why in WvW, when I completely stomp over a guy with a Legendary weapon 1v1, I wonder.. did he really deserve it?

In my eyes, no. A legendary should require few select materials – All attained through the hardest dungeon or world fights in the game. I don’t even know if any of the Arah paths qualify for a degree of difficulty that I am looking for. These fights should be:

-Incredibly difficult
-Require preparation, planning, and teamwork
-100% drop chance on the item if the final boss is dispatched
-Take into account food buffs, conditions, precise dodge timing, and mechanics that not only stress teamplay but individual prowess

I mean come on, they’re legendaries. And as of right now, what I think when I see someone with a legendary is – Wow, he spent $1000 real life money OR kitten that person loves to no-life farm.

EDIT/ADDITION: I’m looking for something on par with Naxxramas 40-man in WoW. Naxxramas took two and a half months for the first guild to clear. That’s called difficulty. Why can’t we see fights designed so well?? That was in 2006… it’s almost 2013 ANet.

funny that you should think that way. i can only guess you’re not interested in a legendary yourself?

Absolutely correct. I’d rather devote my time in-game to something enjoyable, not grinding. I play for fun.

But what’s so funny about my thought process?

If you were to face me in WvW 1v1, you would realize my non-legendary hammer feels quite legendary when I’m putting you to the ground.

your thought process isn’t funny..it’s what you think of legendaries and their owners that i find amusing.

not a place for wvw discussion, but a couple of points:

i am a casual.
i just made my legendary.
i am extremely competent in all areas of the game, wvw included. my skill level does not diminish nor is it nonexistent in any area of the game. i blame this on my taking 4 months to earn my legendary. there was no rush, but i can’t speak for all everyone who has a legendary. i will say that people who lump all legendary owners together into a goldbuyer/nolifer/noskiller niche are equally wrong as they are right.

How’d you get the precursor?

Elthurien.8356:

Farzo.8410:

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

It’s an MMO without a subscription, they need to generate revenue from somewhere.

This. No problem with transmutation stones tbh.

@George Steel.1804
The point is that there are a lot of people that like and want REWARDS, and since the game is about cosmetic stuff…
Time to think more about reward systems I suppose.

Waraxx.4286:

can’t agree more. I’d like to see more of the legendary done on the dungeon / wvw / from karma and less from " oh look i’ve been successful on the TP" why is it that there are people with more than 3 or even 4 legendarys and its only 4 month into the game … and some people who have played the game longer isn’t even halfway on the way to legendarys…

to much emphasis on gold and to little on actually playing the game (karma) and being skillful at it ( tokens / badges) so much for “representing what we have achieved”

I agree with you, they could implement other things to sink gold than legendaries, it’s funny how everything revolves around it OR cultural armor (though I agree with the last one).
I truly believe in ArenaNet even though I’m getting tired of struggling against the precursor, and I do farm whenever I can, and it’s still far, unreachable, that is so frustrating.

Ivonbeton.6814:

Valento.9852:

Or bought gold from goldsellers.

Feels rather unfair. Felt the same in GW1, play by the rules : be the little kitten in the economy.

Well, I know about 15 people who bought the gold from goldseller to buy the precursor, and also to take advantage of wintersday’s Bell Choir and stuff.

The Black Market exists, some people just act blind towards it.

FateOmega.9601:

Ok, managed to get the skip, hop and jump achievement by soloing the instance. Swamp fractal however cannot be soloed so still awaiting an answer from Anet.

I got that one by running a whisp AND not tripping on traps.

Ivonbeton.6814:

I’m just curious, how did some of these people come by such a huge amount of ingame gold? I managed to make a few 100 gold by playing the trade post when I had time to do so. This required a lot of effort and time on my part.

By normal play or playing tp like I did, I’d guess that some one could have gotten upto 2k gold by now. I’ve missed a few opportunities aswell, but most of those great opportunities were risky at the time and were only great opportunities in hindsight.

So I’m wondering, how could you get to 9.5k gold or even higher than 2-3k by normal play or even by playing the trading post? I could only see this happen if they either found a loophole in the tp economy, abused a glitch or botted

Or bought gold from goldsellers.

This is the only thing left for my legendary, if I could I’d gladly exchange my Gift of Bifrost or Gift of Mastery for it (Gift of Fortune is too sick to exchange).

They make things hard to reach through grinding, not challenge, I will repeat this for the thousandth time: grinding is not challenge, and playing the TP also has nothing to do with getting a “legendary”.

Even Priston Tale was better in this sense. lolz

Just put the fractal level into the agony damage algorithm, it’s the most fair thing to do.

Nike.2631:

I just has an insane Fractals of the Mist run on difficulty 10.

3 exotics
3 rares
1 lodestone
4+ cores

…oh, and an ascended ring for good measure.

This was wearing about 60% MF and running peach tarts because I had some laying around.

(I got more oranges and yellows than I got blues!)

Only thing I didn’t get was a precursor .

Pesky ol’ RNG!

I’ve dropped more items in lvl10 fractal than lvl30-40, I DON’T know what is going on, REALLY. It’s so much intriguing, weird for my mere human mind.

I am still lacking a precursor, seeing these legendaries being sold is a royal punch in the face. Thanks for that, ANet.

Call Me A Legend.4109:

I agree its stupid, but it is his money and if he wants to place an offer that might get filled eventually (happened with lemons) then good for him.

Surely a gold seller will gladly fill it.

That’s a nice idea, sadly my pc won’t help much but still, hope others get to do it! +1

Decrypter.1785:

2 important issues here …

1. Already not enough good karma sinks in game ( hoping for better karma rewards )
2. End of January ,

Maybe… maybe this is a hint for upcoming great karma rewards!!! :O

I didn’t read all the posts, but I’ve played lot of MMOs in the past and there wouldn’t be a way to skip because the dungeon was linear progression, like, you would have to kill Kholer for the next part to “open”. This sounds like a solution IMO.

I’ve done 400 fractals (tier 13 finished!), still no weapon skins.

I’m afraid the drop rate affects player to player in a buggy way, I’ve gotten a nice amount of yellows at the fractals. World drops, though, are horrible no matter how much time I spend.