Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking about buying GW1 to unlock some of the skins and other items in GW2. About how long would it take to unlock everything?

Agreed. Frankly I don’t think ANYTHING in the game should be soul bound but something like a legendary that takes all that work really shouldn’t be.

Yeah the ‘2’ looks really good.

I’ve leveled a ranger, warrior, thief, necro, mesmer, and guardian and I’ve yet to find a character that I truly love for everything.

Warrior is by far the best class for PVE content, IMO and thief is by far the best for PVP. Guardian and mesmer would be my 2nd choices for PVE and PVP respectively. Necro and ranger are worthless. I haven’t bothered with ele or engi yet.

I just wish there was 1 class that I could really fall in love with.

Will the fused weapon skins only be available during the flame & frost event or are they permanently added to the game?

Have they fixed the guesting issue yet? Its been a month.

Have they fixed the issues with guesting yet? I don’t have any incentive to run these missions with my guild because I can’t get any rewards since my guild’s home is on another server.

I completely agree. I can’t wait for this living story crap to be over and we get some real content again like the stuff we got last year.

My warrior has full knight’s gear and whenever I run a dungeon every enemy is on me. I can stay alive because I’m spec’d as tank/healer but I get comments all the time about getting all of the aggro. Yes, I do tend to run in ahead a lot of times but I’ve even tried staying way back and mobs will just run past the other party members and come straight at me. It’s pretty kitten funny.

Notice the dev never actually said that it wasn’t coming any time soon like the title of the article claims. “We’ll look into it” and “no timetable” just means they aren’t ready to talk about it yet. They definitely have people working on it. Last I heard they split the team in half and are hiring for the expansion. I would not be surprised if the end of year rumors were accurate.

So when can we expect it to be fixed? This week? Next year?

It shouldn’t have gone out if it hadn’t been tested.

What about the people who were screwed over? The folks that did the mission but didn’t get anything. Are they going to have to wait a week even though they didn’t get squat?

I would like to see Tengu as a playable race, but not before Skritt.

Yes, if it means more trait points. I’d also be fine with leaving it at level 80 provided they built in a way for us to earn additional trait points past the 70 we have now. Why do I want more trait points? For the stats of course and because it will make more builds viable.

The level cap increase is pretty much a lock at this point. They have indicated several times there will be some vertical progression when the expansion comes out.

Shizzlenit.7648:

Thief A in WvW? I disagree.

WvW is not about small scale ganking its about Zerg vs Zerg which the Thief is lackluster in. It’s definetly the best ganking class but again, thats not what WvW is about.

Thief is incredibly strong vs a zerg.

Step 1: Get into the middle of a zerg
Step 2: Drop a smoke combo field (e.g. pistol 5)
Step 3: Use dagger storm (which does tons of damage, reflects projectiles and blinds everyone around you when you stand in your smoke field)
Step 4: As soon as it is over use stealth and get out.
Step 5: Profit

Thoughtless.7148:

i have seen at least 15 precursors drop over the last 2-3 months, 1 of which was mine. i don’t advocate for them to be impossible to get, they are not at this time.

It’s not impossible to hit the lottery either.

By the way, the WvW complaints are valid as those requirements are not solely dependent on the player. I got my world completion but it took me several months. I did not cheat and switch servers to do it. I wasn’t able to get it until I was able to amass 50+ people who needed the same points that I did. Not an easy task and not something that should be required of anyone. You talk about patience but you yourself changed servers to get it done sooner. Pot, meet kettle?

Heijincks.9267:

That comparison is a really bad one. Legendaries aren’t bound by such things. They’re static.

So if they released new legendaries the prices should drop? Is that what you are saying? Just curious if you think they should ever go down and at what point you think that should be.

Fact is, if they were truly static they prices wouldn’t keep going up nonsensically b/c of greedy players and flippers. They have the same stats as exotics. The only difference is the skin and right now, for most people the juice isn’t worth the squeeze and it is becoming less and less so as time goes on. I’m not saying they should go rock bottom, but there needs to be something in place to keep the prices in check. They need to drop more often.

Thoughtless.7148:

why not invest that money into a precursor? everything for a legendary is farmable, as i stated people complain about the precursor while paying 500+ for the mats for the gifts…in for a penny in for a pound, wouldn’t you say

Because not everyone has 500g lying around? Have you been reading what folks have been typing? The prices are going up faster than people can save. And its not an investment if you aren’t going to sell it by the way. And why would he waste money on a precursor as an investment if it wasn’t the one that he wants? How does that get him any closer to his goal? As the precursor he boughts value increases so will the one that he actually wants (probably by more actually since he couldn’t afford it to begin with so the base prices was higher).

Thoughtless.7148:

if everyone has it, is it really legendary? of course you want a Lamborghini for the price of a civic…everyone would jump at that chance.

So now we know why you really made this post, you made a legendary and you don’t want other people to get theirs because then you wouldn’t feel special. Tough. Why should the fact that other people have something affect your enjoyment of the game? Here’s a hint: it shouldn’t. You my friend may have what’s known as a superiority complex.

If you bought a car for 50k last year, should someone looking to buy the same car months or years down the line pay more than you did? That’s not how it works in the real world. Part of the reason people pay more when stuff is new is because there is a premium attached to new items. Its no different here. You paid a premium to get your legendary before most people. The premium was your time and money. And you got to use it for weeks/months before most other people. Now prices should come down.

Thoughtless.7148:

im guessing you havent farmed much? you are right, there was no gun to my head, it was my choice. BUT consider the time involved, 600 dragons over a month or over 5 monthes is still 600 dragons. why should everyone be able to get in 5 dragons down rthe line because a small group complained hard enough

I’ve farmed enough to know that something’s got to give. It isn’t a small group of people either. Most folks don’t have legendaries therefore I bet if you asked the majority would be in favor of such a change.

Vol.5241:

Precursor prices are absolutely fine. Those who complain about it just want things cheaper and easier.

And? You are kitten right some want it cheaper and easier. Some of us weren’t around to take advantage of cheap lodestones and whatnot when the game came out and the inflation is running rampant.

You folks kill me. I wonder how you feel about prices dropping in the real world. When you pay $50k for a new car do you get mad when someone can buy the same car for less a year later?

Thoughtless.7148:

and how many people on the forums have actually put in this much effort into obtaining one? i assure you most haven’t. and i probably did close to 600 dragons to get my dusk, not to mention the toilet and fractals.

So basically you are saying that because you decided to put in the work that they should never ever make them easier to obtain? Why? Because it wouldn’t be fair (in your mind) to you? No one put a gun to your head and made you do 600 dungeons. That was your choice. The vast majority would prefer not to have to do that because the game was advertised as not grindy. There will be a change made a some point. Every MMO does it. Stuff always gets easier to get the longer the game has been out. You should have known that going in. If you didn’t that’s not anyone else’s problem. Stop trying to take away from other people’s enjoyment just so that you can feel superior.

The OP’s post can basically be summed up as “screw you, I gots mine”.

No one is arguing against people putting in more work getting things sooner than casual players. The issue is the amount of work and RNG at play to begin with. If they doubled the rate at which precursors dropped then people who spent 5 hours a day doing dungeons would still get them faster than casuals. The only difference is that casuals might be able to actually get one before the expansion comes out.

A level cap increase is coming at some point. It has been mentioned by the devs on more than 1 occasion. It will likely arrive with the expansion.

The devs have also stated that when ascended weapons come out that legendaries would have their stats changed to match those ascended weapons.

My question is, will the level of the legendaries increase as well? Or will they remain level 80? The reason I ask is because if they don’t, then I could easily see a level 85 exotic beating a level 80 ascended item. This is bad b/c it will make the legendaries that people spent so much time obtaining worthless. I already know that if you transmute a legendary it will lose its legendary status (turns to exotic). So if you were to transmute to a level 85 exotic then you would forgo any future automatic upgrades to the stats.

Of course, if they just raise the level of the items to 85 or whatever the new cap is that will create problems too since people won’t be able to use their weapons until they hit the new cap.

There are issues all around.

Just curious as to how the devs plan on addressing these issues.

I’d ask this question in the General forum as it seems to apply to any class and it may get more views/replies. I’d like to know if there is a PVE build calc as well.

Thief is more useful in dungeons than ranger. They have higher DPS and group stealth to make skipping parts easier. You don’t have to worry about getting killed if you stay ranged and use stealth intelligently. Use short bow for groups and unload on single targets.

Thief is so OP! </sarcasm>

What server is this?

Edit: Looks like Elona Reach?

Had a blast in EB tonight. I tip my hat to Chiooppa. He’s one hell of a commander. Managed to get everything I need for map completion except 1 vista and we came very close to getting that.

Jeknar.6184:

Why don’t you simply go in there and capture the enemy base? That’s what’s the WvWvW is about isn’t?

Yeah, because taking a keep in EB is so easy. If I could do it by myself I would have done it ages ago. The problem is you need a lot of help/coordination to take a keep and nobody has the stomach to do it when I’m on.

I’m in the same boat as the op. Have like 1000 kills and 67 badges… most of them are from map completion.

Edit: I get XP, but bags don’t drop.

JQ hasn’t been red in a very, very long time. I doubt I’ll ever see world completion b/c of it. It should rotate color within each tier every week independent of rank so if your server is in the same tier for 3 weeks you will have been every color. If you move tiers the other 2 servers switch colors and you get assigned whatever is left.

Worse for me and other folks I know.

I haven’t seen very many people playing for JQ all weekend. Queue times have been nearly non existent and we are lucky to have 1 commander per map. EB had 0 commanders for a very long time today. I’m amazed we’ve been able to keep it as close as we have. It’s been a near ghost town all weekend.

I’ve 100% Dredgehaunt with several characters. Are you sure that you are taking the best route to the vista? Reason I ask is because in all those times of completing that map (it is the most annoying one in the game by far by the way) I can’t recall ever needing to open a gate. Matter of fact I’m closing in on world completion w/ my warrior and I’m struggling to think of a single thing that was closed off.

Edit: Is this the annoying one where you go up the scaffolding? You need to take your time and kill everything and heal to full after each fight. I know you can sometimes get the urge to rush after a failed attempt but you really need to take your time with this one.

I’ve gotten this one solo w/ a warrior, necro, ranger, thief, and guardian. None of them had an easy time w/ it. They key for all of them was to take it slow.

I’d personally love to see this. Unfortunately it probably won’t happen until the expansion (level cap increase?). And even then I doubt it would be the full 150. Probably another 20 at best.

It would be cool if we could earn trait points like we can earn skill points (but not as easy).

Katz.5143:

I think that 8 classes need 8 races to balance out. I’d love from them to add more classes later.

Skritt, Kodan, and Tengu would be my choices to add to the 5 we have.

IAWTP. Skritt, Kodan, and Tengu are the 3 races I’d like to see fleshed out. I really want to play as Skritt.

I’ve played WvW for hours and hours before and I only got 2 badges the entire time and I killed a bunch of people and defending and took towers. The drop rate is way to low. The issue isn’t the jumping puzzle, its everything else.

It is kind of ridiculous how legendaries require 2 things from WvW (badges and world completion). If ANet insist on keeping this requirement for legendaries, why not implement overflow maps for WvW? Can’t be that hard.

Basically anything that happened in a WvW overflow map would be just for kittens and giggles and not affect the ranking but it would allow people who want to do stuff to get their legendary the chance to complete their objectives without having to sit in a queue for several hours.

I’ve been trying to get into WvW since Monday and I’ve waited for 3 hours each night and never gotten in. Pretty frustrating.

I still have all my mail but I did not see the karma shown in any of the letters. Where are you guys seeing this?

I want everyone in this thread who is insisting that previous achievements will be turned into laurels to go back and read what was actually said by the Arena net dev and what’s on the web site:

Web Site Quote: Down the road, we’ll also be adding a reward structure to total achievement points.

The dev quote is in one of the threads here.

They will be adding a reward structure, meaning IT IS NEW, i.e. not based on laurels.

They are purposefully being very COY in their responses. They never specifically said we would be getting LAURELS for past achievements.

Combo finish was finicky as heck before the reset now the dodge one is buggy for me too. The evade is popping up and I’m getting nothing.

That’s exactly why they changed it. It has nothing to do with exploring all the zones.

Its another gold sink (as if the game didn’t have enough). The reason is b/c crafted items are mostly worth less than the sum of the materials required to make them.

Everything is becoming more difficult and grindy to do. I barely have time to log on during the week and now I come on today and see these ridiculous dailies. Oh, and dungeons are going to be a lot harder now so I won’t be able to gear up my characters as easily as the people who played the game for 5 months prior to this month (I’m new to the game). Let see what else, another currency that I have to keep track of, great.

From my point of view, it would seem like the bulk of these changes were put in to halt/limit progression.

I bought the game because the original Guild Wars wasn’t so grindy and GW2 was advertised as the non-MMO MMO. Well I can see now that GW2 is about as much of a sequel to GW1 as Diablo III was to Diablo II, as in a sequel in name only that completely misses what made the previous game good.

The new dailies are TERRIBLE. The old ones need to come back immediately.

mnguyen.5142:

I have to say no to this. I like the way it is right now. Transferring dye to account-wide would take away one aspect of a RPG and remove another thing to “collect”.

Such a thing would be WELCOME in this game.

Make it so that when you remove a condition, for example, immobilize, you are immune to immobilize for 5 seconds.

Condition removal is such a joke in this game, especially PVE, because the darn things get reapplied IMMEDIATELY. This will make condition removal worth something.

I propose either full immunity from said condition from all sources or immunity from the same mob/player upon removal.

For example, let’s say we are in PVP in a 2 v 1 situation. For simplicity let’s say its 2 warriors vs a random profession. Warrior #1 applies immobilize, his opponent removes the condition, then Warrior #2 immediately applies immobilize and his opponent is caught again. Under the first scenario, Warrior #2’s immobilize does not work b/c it is in the 5 second window of the condition removal from Warrior #1’s immobilize. Under the second scenario, Warrior #2’s immobilize works, but if Warrior #1 were to try and immobilize again in that 5 second window it would not work.

For PVE, this prevents you from repeated poisonings, etc from mobs that just spam them. For PVP (especially scenario #2) it would encourage more coordination between teams.

I know for condition damage builds it would hurt them a lot so if it just applied to CC conditions, I’d be satisfied.

Thoughts?

Transferred at 6pm EST when everything went to Very High. I was on SBI. I hate to go but it is a sinking ship, and has been on a decline for a while now, sad to say.

Looking forward to WvW on the new server. I’m not in a guild on JQ yet but I ran with PRX and SF groups for a while and you could really feel the energy. It was great. People on the server are hungry for victory. I definitely think we will see JQ on top in the coming weeks.

Hope more people join us.

This topic is spot on. Made a similar topic a while ago.

Me and several others have been trying to transfer for a while now. Some of us have even gotten it to show “Very High” on the screen but when you hit the button to transfer you get a message about your connection and then the client shuts down. When you log back in, the transfer does not go through.

I definitely feel that there is some shenanigans afoot here on ANet’s part. Watch on 1/28 nothing will be full.

As bas as this issue is, and it is bad (I completely support the OP)… the badges needed for legendaries are MUCH, MUCH, MUCH worse. The only reliable way to obtain them is the jumping puzzles. My server (SBI) basically died over the past week so now I’m screwed on a legendary because the jumping puzzles are all locked up. They need to make the badges obtainable in PVE as well IMO.