Guild Wars 2

Isarii.2804:

johnsheldon.4592:

I mean us solo players paid the same price for our game and we don’t seem to be getting the same game experience for our money.

If you buy a Massively Multiplayer game and are disappointed in the quantity of solo content, that’s entirely your own kittening fault. Do you also go to Chinese food restaurants and complain that they aren’t offering enough Italian on the menu?

One of the best things in this game that you can play it solo.
And i count pugging dungeons/fractals as solo too, cause you don’t need to talk much with people. Just do you job.
We need the same ability for raids too.

Kicket from Hotw p1 because haven’t got runes in my ascendant zrk armor.
Kicked from Arah for faiding to evade lupi leg strike.
Kicked from dungeon(don’t remember which one) for scholar runes instead of Strenght.
Kicked for using Arcane Shield once.

Never join gearcheck groups…

Astralporing.1957:

White Hunter.3416:

What about LFG+10-man squad?
We need ability to list raid squad inside lfg tool, without creating parties in the squad.

From what we know, there will be no such possibility. And since you can’t be in a raid squad and in a party at the same time, there will be no party lfg bypass for that lack.

WAT? Raids only designed for guilds with 10+ member who can hadle them? For whon them designed in that cause? I believe you info is wrong, cause at BWE3 we was able to create party for raids. If not, it is a really crap.

No.
Gw 2 on xbox will mean less flexibilty, less fun, lower graphics, broken interface and so on. Don’t mix computer games and consoles. Console games mostly is simple “press X to win” crap.

Well. Some legendary skins are really awful. But this is not a problem. Just use this:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Charge

What about LFG+10-man squad?
We need ability to list raid squad inside lfg tool, without creating parties in the squad.

1. Join olololometazerk gearcheck fractal lvl 50 run.
2. Use Tempest’s warhorn
3. Watch Lion’s Arch loading screen.

Agree with idea, but i think that enrage should be a bit harder. Something like this:
Lightning AoE becomes unblockable and wipes entire party if activated.
Teleports places 30s slow, cripple and chill.
50% all damage increased.

As i mentioned in this post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Raids-Required-Ascended/page/2#post5580810 people should not think about ascendant armor at all. It is a ~0.5% difference in damage and ~1% difference in defence. But ascendant trinkets and weapon really required. Numbers and nothing more.

Well. There is nothing to talk about. Just compare this two builds:
1. Asc armor+trinkets+weapon
2. Exo armor+asc trinkets+asc weapon.
First: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWAmNMIAY0TYLcEiAQB4AIXySQKA-ThBBABYt/o8DgLAQe6AC4BAUp6PnpEEA-e

Second:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWAmNMIAY0TYLcEiAQB4AIXySQKA-ThBBwAY3fU+B4CAgT9n86AC8AAOrEEA-e

Tl;dr. You don’t need asc armor to run raids.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Ascended gear is really easy to get for free from just playing the content that rewards it. The trick is to not grind for it, but to always do content that has a chance to reward it. Do fractals L50 a bit, or L40 if you think L50 is too hard.

Got ~8 useless gloves chests from fractals, some shoulders and shoes chests. Dropped leg chest only once. After 7 months regular fractal running. Good luck. We need more gloves!
Asc gear is only about grinding.

TexZero.7910:

Because of original technical limitations and Data Centers.

That said, there’s always the possibility that it is removed one day…..
I’m sure its just a matter of money and resources like many things.

There is a more major issue that can not be avoided with any hardware in the Earth. Speed of light limit.

Weapon+trinkets yes. Armor probably not.
But prepare multiple sets with different stats.

Played once with random pugs. We got 5 revenants, druid, reaper, mesmer and someone else. First 3 guardians was easy to beat but condi can take a lot of time. Sinister gear really required, but exo is ok there.
Vile guradian is a bit annoying. Too many bright and blinking effects like a herd of rainbow unicorns running around. Hard to see a thing. Timer is an another thing. It is just another dps fest. Zerg and nothing more. May be remove it finally or increase time?

Asc gear is not a problem itself. Problem is an question “What stats?”. Grinding for multiple sets is a ridiculous idea.
But i think what for certain situations inside the raid(hello condition vulnerable guradian) exo gear is enought. But it will not stop ppl to create elitists lfg with descr like “gearcheck 3 asc full sets with strenght runes”.

Ithir Darkleaf.7923:

dlonie.6547:

…. I’d really hope things like LFG support are planned as well.

Sadly, I remember perfectly that they said on an interview that they won’t be creating a section for Raids on the LFG tool because they want this contente to be only for organized groups of people.

Can’t find the link to the interview atm, I hope someone can paste it here for me, but I’m 100% sure they said that

No. They said that there are no special tools for it and no “find raid” button. You could be able to use LFG as alwayes.
The one thing we need is an ability to list raid squad into LFG. Nothhing more or less.

Trevor Bennett.3691:

While Enhanced Squad UI is enabled you cannot be in a party and a squad at the same time. Reform your squad to take advantage of the full enhanced squad functionality.

That said, we are still having some stability issues…

Wait… What? Will we l not be able to use party system in squad? And how to find people to play?

dlonie.6547:

White Hunter.3416:

Raids squads is hard to use, finding ppl via LFG is not fast and time waste. Raids just need a normal 10-man partyes and special tab in LFG panel. No squads, no commanders, nothing. Just party.

It looks like the raid squad system is (thankfully!) their implementation of an actual party leader system. We’ve been wanting this for years, because it cuts down on opportunities to grief tremendously over the current “majority kick” system.

The party system won’t work well for raids — they’re limited to 5 people, the UI doesn’t scale well to large groups, there’s no leader or party control, no ready checks, etc.

So why not just expand the party system to include those things? Well, that’s exactly what they’re doing, they just killed two birds with one stone and revamped the WvW squad system at the same time since there’s a lot of overlap between the needs of both.

The current UI is clunky, buggy, and hard to use, for sure. They’ve mentioned a few times that the UI team is still working on the final version and that what we’re seeing during the beta is just a temporary “barebones” implementation.

Colored Guardians look like a dummy to hide real appearance.

Can you expand on this? It’s not clear what you’re trying to say. You don’t like their aesthetics?

I can’t agree. You still can’t list your squad into LFG and find people. Unitl they implement this, it will not be good/comfortable for use. Let us list 10 man squads in lfg, nothing more. Of cource you can create party inside the squad and find 4 people for it. But it not ok, isn’kitten

Raids squads is hard to use, finding ppl via LFG is not fast and time waste. Raids just need a normal 10-man partyes and special tab in LFG panel. No squads, no commanders, nothing. Just party.
Colored Guardians look like a dummy to hide real appearance.

Terra.8571:

Astralporing.1957:

Terra.8571:

But simply basing the encounter’s so that the bosses/ mobs do damage against players assuming they had the BiS gear available, for the hardest content in game, seems logical.

Ascended acquisition was so far balanced around it not being required for any content beyond fractals – and even fractals weren’t balanced around ascended stats, merely around AR.
If the above doesn’t hold true, then all the acquisition methods need to be rebalanced in order to make that tier more easily obtainable.

They’re not required now afaik. The tweet never said it was physically impossible to do in exotics, she just said she think’s ascended will be needed because that’s what the Dev’s have required to beat them.

These are the same Dev’s that constantly underestimate the player base – who would have though most dungeons could be done in under 10mins, many under 5mins. They never thought legendaries would be made within 6 weeks or that all their content would be chewed through in a couple of months. Some of the hardest bosses this game are even being soloed e.g. fractal 50 bosses or Lupicus.

Even recently, they release a skill like WHaO without realising the infinite boon uptime that can be gotten with it. Dev’s make mistakes, I think at the very least, they needed to balance this content around ascended stats. I bet, unless there’s some physical link to ascended gear e.g. % damage mitigation, in time, some of this raid content will be farmable with pug exotics. We’ll see, but bottom line is they are balancing content on ascended, that’s a logical thing for the most difficult content.

Ascended are not needed to enter the raid. Just expect many wipes until the community masters them.

TA Aether sayes hello.
Still hard, really hard to find group without firsttimers, or crazy elitists.

Turamarth.3248:

White Hunter.3416:

Looks like we will get money gate too. To start raid run you will need a commander tag, if Anet will not change current players amount in a party, or create a special party type for raids.
But i am not sure about that for now.

“Squads are necessary to enter raids, so don’t worry—if you don’t have access to a commander tag, you’ll still be able to create a leaderless, raid-ready, invite-only squad of 10 players.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-enhanced-squad-ui/

Ok, ok, sorry. missunderstanding.
But it is not ok too. We could not be able to create current LFG style PUG groups. It is just bad.
Why to use it like current LFG will need a 300g?

Kaiyanwan.8521:

So the raids are :

1. Gear gated
2. Mastery gated
3. Skill gated

Thank god ANet decided to make them easier to access as you do not need any attunements…

lol

Looks like we will get money gate too. To start raid run you will need a commander tag, if Anet will not change current players amount in a party, or create a special party type for raids.
But i am not sure about that for now.

They just should add Agony damage into raids. It will prevent non exp players to enter it. They will just die in a moment, and learn.
I think, at start it will be too hard to find a normal party to run it, because everyone who hit lvl 80 few dayes ago will think that he is a good player and can handle everything. The same problem have TA Aether now for example(a lot of ppl who just don’t know what to do there, and even how to play).
Difference between asc and exo gear is 4-6%. The only reason to have asc gear NOW—Agony.

If you want open world PvP join WvWvW or find another game. There aro no place for it in a current game design.

Cliffside. Too long, bugged. The boss is annoying ping and reflexes dependent kitten.

Zenith.7301:

White Hunter.3416:

Ele’s water attunement on staff is healing too. Where is a 500+ posts of weeping about it?
No one forces ppl to use this spec. Just think: Tempest and Dragonhunter absolutly useless in current PvE.

This is so dumb, it’s not even funny. Ele water attunement healing comes from laying a water field that people blast and the ele just switches back to high damage fire attunement to continue possessing the highest dps and utility in the game.

The ele is flexible because he has the equivalent of four weapons worth of skills. You are stuck with a support staff while the ele staff is top dps, top support, and top CC all at the same time so the ele is never forced into a gimmick role because he can seamlessly switch through them.

No one force you to camp cele avatar and/or staff. I saw a lot of eles camping water all the time. It is a same issue.
Ranger get’s a bit of flexibility, and that’s all.

Finally.
Meteor Shower needs a nerf too….

Ele’s water attunement on staff is healing too. Where is a 500+ posts of weeping about it?
No one forces ppl to use this spec. Just think: Tempest and Dragonhunter absolutly useless in current PvE.

Someone ask you to share API key? Block + leave party + move on.
I never join gearcheckbufoodololozerk partyes. Game playable without this crap. Just ignore such ppl.
This site uses public API. Anyone can create something like this. This is just JSON parsing.

No.
Only after ele nerf. There are no reason to pick up necro instead of ele.
Reaper will be useful, but anyway people will kick you for playing necro anyway. Regardless of your skill/gear/AP/lfg description.
Well, i think, metazerkoloololgearcheck crap will be here even after HoT release, without ANY changes at all.

This is actually great that gameplay features sacrifised for lore. Lore is very important thing, that makes game intresting.
I beleive, in the future we will see many another things like that.

Phalanx Strenght need 1s internal cd. And that’s all.
Why another professions have their cd in the might stacking skills, but Warriors doesn’t?

It is a group achievement. Just find 2-4ppl to help you.

Chellenging Group Content? Ok. Hardcore content? Ok
But please, no more annoying reaction/reflexes based content. No more something like Lupi, Marlona or Archidiviner where you need good reflexes and nothing more. AOE oneshots what you can evade less than 0.5 seconds? No, thanks. This is a bad design. What was a little worry about Raids…

Jax.4903:

tagging an enemy and immediately waypointing to the next battle.

2 entire maps working like that. No one cares. (SW and DT)
4-day small event have this mechanic. 1000+ posts in forums. WTF?

StrangerDanger.3496:

I don’t see a problem with them adding Russian hieroglyphics.

Lol? Cyrillic symbols exists in game and you can type it for example, in the TP search field.
It looks like artifical symbols restriction. Nothing more.

Glouryian.3765:

A Russian localization would be great, I agree on that.

Regarding linux I would recommend to improve the Mac Client first, which still is utterly flawed.

No. It would be bad.
But cyrillic fonts would be good. Not only for Russian people.

Evans.6347:

You can apply it to your existing account, many have done so already.

I believe they mean that you cannot buy the ultimate edition in the in-game store as an update.

How can I apply key? I should go My account → link account, and enter key there? Or I should do something else?
In-game purchase don’t work for me(don’t know why).

F4 → Sandstorm
Arcane Shield + Icebow 4

Use Sandstorm for crasy-damage trash mobs and it will be ok. It is VERY overpowered skill.

Just try to do all Arah paths/Aether and 50 FOTM as necro with PUG groups.
Or run FOTM 43-44(the hardest levels). 50 level is easy.
Hardcore mod: 43-44 level with PUG group as necro.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

White Hunter.3416:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Central Europe and their translations …

Can’t you people just learn English?! I mean its an MMO after all… What’s the point of playing one if you can’t communicate with other people?!

Tranlations? No, no need. But WHY people from, for example, Eastern Europe(yes, we exists), cannot speak and normally communicate to each over on their languages?
Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, etc languages dont work in chat. WHY?

Because then the chat would be a joke. Everyone would be speaking in their language and you would have to scroll up to actually see stuff you want.

Again, the global speaking language is English

If you can’t communicate in English, then you should not really be playing an MMO.

All you’re good for is get in a group be a burden to the rest of the team because you can’t talk to them.

People already speak in their languages in chat. French, German, Spanish, Italian, English and many overs. Plus ugly translitted Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian. So, why some people need transliteration to speak their native language and some not?

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Central Europe and their translations …

Can’t you people just learn English?! I mean its an MMO after all… What’s the point of playing one if you can’t communicate with other people?!

Tranlations? No, no need. But WHY people from, for example, Eastern Europe(yes, we exists), cannot speak and normally communicate to each over on their languages?
Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, etc languages dont work in chat. WHY?

Duffs.7054:

Hi all,

Is the class really that bad? Is there hope for the future that it’ll be fixed etc and do you guys actually enjoy playing your Necro even with all this?

Thanks in advance.

No. Its not so bad. But over people dont agree with it. Enjoy kicks and full party leaves when u join, regardless your skill/gear.
Sad but true.

Dont need to tranlate. Just add Cyrillic alphabet and some another alphabets into the chat. I really cannot understand why they are restricted. Chat supports Unicode symbols. It looks like an intentional restriction.

dicrim.8913:

also how come i got feared/rooted/knockbacked while in plague form? is there something wrong with game mechanics? and btw there is no lich form in pvp

You can be feared in plague form by Corrupt Boon which converts stability into the fear.

Yes. It appeared only once since patch. Its… unfair.

1. Joined Arah group
2. Oneshot from Lupi
3. Cursed Shore loading screen.
Most crazy kickers runs Arah.