Guild Wars 2

darkace.8925:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Only took over a year… at that pace we may receive end game by 2016.

If the game is half as bad as you’ve made it out to be over the last ten months, then I can’t help but wonder why you’re sticking around. Some of us complain about what Guild Wars 2 was, some complain about what it’s becoming. You’re the only person I’ve seen complaining nonstop from the beginning until now.

If you’re that unsatisfied with the game, then why not look elsewhere for one you might actually enjoy? I can think of a few reasons, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and let you answer the question for yourself.

He won’t ever answer you just like he didn’t answer me when I asked. His only real purpose is trolling and polluting the forums. The only thing one can do is stop replying him, but I’m afraid we (myself included) are too slow to pick up.

Also please don’t compare him to Vayne because that guy actually makes some sense in his posts.

ON TOPIC:
Doesn’t look bad, but doesn’t look that great either. For how much we waited I expected a little bit more. Hopefully now they can work on guild management features!

Erasculio.2914:

TehPwnerer.7215:

and require more than just mindlessly shooting at his foot

How?

I have missed the beginning of the stream, so I’m wondering if there’s any mechanic I haven’t seen yet. But from what I saw, the new mechanics are:

1. Turrets around the dragon. The (rather cute) QA girl mentioned they are not really needed to defeat Teq, and they don’t appear to make much of a difference. They remind me of the Shatterer and Jormag turrets, that no one care about.

2. Sometimes the dragons teleport players to underwater, where they take damage over time if they don’t swim up. Since people can just swim up and go back to the fight, doesn’t look like much to me.

3. There’s a new wave attack that people can jump over. It looks like it does damage, but nothing too complex.

…And that’s it? The other mechanics (bone walls, the fingers, the fear-inducing breath) were there already.

I have seen in the stream a couple groups trying and failing to kill Teq – which is a good thing, we want challenging content – but not because they weren’t coordinated enough or didn’t multitask important things while doing damage to the dragon or anything like that, no; rather because they didn’t do enough damage to what is basically a massive damage sponge.

Was there more to the fight, something I missed from the earlier comments? Or is this something like the HotW boss fights, just doing a lot of damage to a sponge?

1) The turrets help prevent the bone walls that significantly slow down the event, and need to be protected from hordes of Risen that will destroy them. Also I didn’t see what they do, but they said that people will definitely want to receive the buffs they give.

2) That attack looks kinda lackluster but it may kill low HP players, its damage didn’t look bad at all

3) When he flies up you have to protect 4 different batteries that charge up a laser. It spawns some particularly slow Risen that explode on death, thus you will have to avoid killing them near the batteries.

That’s it from what I’ve seen.

More WvW updates? (coming, they are gonna be previewed on stream soon enough) LFG? There it is. Precursor crafting? Didn’t they announce it?

The point is, dear geikamir, unless you have interviewed at least 20% of the playerbase (this forum is less than 5% and I doubt you know the opinion of every single poster) you don’t know jack kitten about what the playerbase wants. For example, I couldn’t give two kittens about more legendaries yet you mention them in your post ( by the way, they will update most of the legendaries on the 3rd of September and they have announced new Legendaries before 2014).

Again, no point in arguing with the whinearmy. Bubye.

Definitely, timers and/or high health pools are a no-no in my book. But how else would you make it challenging as long as people who die can get back into the fight relatively fast? (They will deactivate some waypoints, but still)

Geikamir.6329:

The line that keeps being used is “We hear what the community is asking for”. That actually makes matters worse because they hear us but they just don’t actually care what we think.

And impartial observer would’ve noted that revamping the loot pinatas we call world bosses was something many players asked for, me included. Didn’t a recent thread about making the open world harder get upvoted?

Why do I even bother posting here with the whiner army all up in arms?

Oh and I presume they are gonna show the WvW changes too, so Tequatl is not all that there’s to it.

rjnemer.7816:

Wolfheart.1938:

New Tequatl + LFG on the 17th of september Gotta say the Tequatl fight looked really nice and certainly not mindlessly zergable. We will see

Are you serious? Not mindlessly zergable? THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. They only have like 50 people their and on there FIRST TRY they almost beat it.

Think about when the map is maxed out with people killing it. This is a joke.

I really thought we were getting raids…………..

Yes I am. They didn’t even bring it to less than 60% of his life and we know there’s different phases based on percentage of HP.

Even if it ends up dying easily, from what I see it’s still ten times better than what it used to be. But again, I’ll have to fight it before judging.

New Tequatl + LFG on the 17th of september Gotta say the Tequatl fight looked really nice and certainly not mindlessly zergable. We will see

The descendents of Gwen have one of the most pathetic warriorw I’ve ever seen. Keep it up, while your build allows you to. How Dogged March is allowed to stay the way it is for months is beyond me but whatever.

I may have been not careful enough, but I didn’t see huge quantities of ectoplasms being used up in the creation of Ascended Weapons. The recipe I saw required only 1.

Good luck everyone Winzunah seems off on a good start!

Excited to see Piken, too bad I’ll be inside the SAB for half of the matchup!

I reluctantly accepted the introduction of the Ascended bullcrap a while ago, but I’m not gonna accept another step in this direction once the armors & weapons are released. No levelcap increase and no stupid “stronger infusions” they mentioned back in november.

I am bad at X, thus Arenanet should never introduce anything for people that like and/or are proficient at X, else I will open a pointless complain thread on the forums even though they went as far as introducing an easy mode for less able players.

Well you have Foefire’s Essence, I doubt gold is an issue for you.

I seriously hope we are gonna craft something nice in those 100 levels <.<

LampGhost.9658:

I know Vinzunah is a server that hides in towers with 30 guys and 30 arrow carts, but this week i don’t think i’ve seen any respectable fight against vizunah.

Ahahah, Winzunah! Why didn’t I think of this earlier?

Anyways, I don’t know about fights with Deso, but we on SFR had plenty of fights with them on Vizunah map. FY capped Hills with like 10 players and another guild (VSS?) got pushed out of bay Lord at the last second with a fight that involved in total less than 10 players

Nuka Cola.8520:

No endgame August 28th 2012, no endgame August 29th 2013.

GW1 best endgame ever rofl

No we don’t. We need to make the current ones better, more engaging and dare I say overall a little bit more difficult.

Besides, they are already adding 3 fractals to FotM by the end of 2013

Kingface.9781:

I have a few questions between all of your huge e-kittens:

Does GoD die badly on a 1v1 or 2v1?
Does GoD feel so crap that they need to band together to kill one single people (at a guess, 5-6)?
Does GoD has it biggest one? (sword, of course)
Does GoD know the “D” answer “Obiwan Kenobi”?

For the low-motion, yes I’m trolling SFR.

PS: <3xD<3<3xD (it’s fashioning actually, isn’t it Wemil?)

I’ll try to asnwer your questions:
1) I don’t know, I haven’t met many of them. I heard they die pretty easily when together though, and that reminds me of a certain guild of yours
2) I don’t underestand what you mean, please clarify
3) I doubt it, my sword isn’t particularly big but it has flames on it
4) Your obscure reference confuzzles me

Now back to you:
1) Is only PPT talk allowed on this board?
2) Is being like a robot 24/7 perched ontop of cragtop boring?
3) What is the best AC rotation?

Trashbob.2743:

Hey! This is a pirate themed movie made for the Gw2 anniversary! It is made for the server SFR and its awesome community!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ0NcvpFwXk

Greetz Effendyr

The asuraball game was the best GvG I’ve ever watched, make it happen Arenanet!

I fought him melee with all gambits except Crowd Favorite. Anyways, since his attacks hurt a lot Wall of Reflection and sword 3rd skill weren’t enough to protect me, so I brought SoA and popped it right ontop of him. The shield blocks the projectiles even when they are fired INSIDE the bubble. When he teleported, I used the shield command attack (had the trait that didn’t make them disappear on attack) to reposition it. With the shield lasting 30s, this made the fight extremely easy provided you could blind/block the overkill kick. Shelter was used to heal while blocking his Volley (don’t confuse it with Sanctuary).

Stealth is awesome when downed or about to die. Spammable blinds help a lot with anything that’s not a champion or a boss. I would rate your “projectile protection” abilities at the 3rd or 4th spot right behind Guardian’s, Mesmer’s and maybe Elementalist’s. Shortbow offers the best blast finisher in the game. What do you need more?

Free total makeover kit at 5k AP chest? Thanks Arenanet!

Karizee.8076:

My wild speculation guess is between Devon’s teaser about the PAX announcement and Hugh’s teaser in the livestream the other day, that the big announcement will be…..

GvG

Don’t count on it. It will be about the new “Bloodlust in the borderlands” mechanic in WvW. The WvW crew works with the goal of improving WvW, not GvG. As far as I know, they are only considering the idea of GvG ( outside of WvW, mind you ) but not actively working on it.

Many thanks for the 2 vs 2s to CTRL and INVI, and apologies for the abrupt ending but a number of reason made me greatly kitten ed off. Hopefully next time I keep my cool!

Oh and feel free to /w me in game if you want to set up more fights in WvW or SPvP! I’ve taken a liking to everlasting duels

Always glad to help if it involves killing mos. They want fights right? I give them fights. That’s why after OSC & BOOM moped the floor up with them at hills twice they camped lordroom at our spawntower with 5+ ACs

Anyways, @Troma: is this why I’ve seen some guild raids going on their own? Because in my book that’s a good thing, and should be encouraged.

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

that game was unique. now i read people on forum defending what GW2 is, saying its completely different game. well one thing is sure… GW2 is not unique, so it can’t be anything else then a different game from GW1.

so back to beginning: is this game gonna happen?

SAB is the single most unique thing I’ve ever seen in an MMO. GW1 didn’t have SAB, therefore GW2 is more unique then GW1 to me :O

Galtrix.7369:

Vol.5241:

Galtrix.7369:

Even WoW had more world-changing events in it when a dragon landed in a field and put fissures in the ground forever. I’ll continue to wait for better content, but I won’t hold my breath.

Well you could ignore the landscape changes in Southsun, the lighthouse being obliterated in LA, the Lion statue being destroyed by the Mad King..

Were those permanent changes?

Yes other than the statue in LA that has been rebuilt after a few months.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I’ve finally completed every Queen’s Gauntlet achievement and you helped me greatly

Here’s the setup I used for those wondering:

30/30/0/0/10
increased spirit weapon duration is a must
GS/ Sword+focus
Shelter, Shield of the Avenger, Wall of Reflection, Judge’s Intervention, Renewed Focus

It took 3 attempts because he kept oneshotting me with a 15k kick, but I got lucky on the 3rd try and blinded it.

Avatara.1042:

If they are not going to compensate for the loss of MF, then they need to give the option to completely refund the mats, sigils, runes, and transmutation items. Because Celestial just became pointless.

No Celestial was and still is one of the best choices for different situations such as Guardian frontliner in WvW (as someone pointed out, people in RG use it). In fact considering I use a mixture of zerk/knight/soldier I am considering getting celestial ascended armor when it comes out!

It’s also great on Elementalists for anything other than bidimensional zerker speedruns.

Tom Gore.4035:

Sleuth.7964:

Morrigan.2809:

Sleuth.7964:

Morrigan.2809:

so you still have made no comment on Liadri mini?
Did you play in the gauntlet at all?
and now you want ascended armour?
So you do want better stats after all

I haven’t been viewing this thread at the moment and I don’t know what the mini is and I did play gauntlet it was easy some of the stuff was a little tedious though the wind lady was not designed very well to me

And yes I want better stats but that’s just me I understand that they are adding ascended armor to the game which should be earned by raid style content IMO that’s very difficult then having some more grindy way for casuals

They are adding ascended armor so i don’t exactly know why your asking me that question in the first place.

oK I find it very hard to believe that you played the gauntlet and don’t know what the Liadri mini is.
It is the reward you get for defeating the final boss- Liadri the concealing darkness.
It is also currently the most prestigious item in the game, since they don’t have a title for doing that light up the darkness achievement.
It can only be earned by your own skill- no one else’s

I brought up the gauntlet because it is a very good example of skill based hard content that not everyone is able to do.
If a player found it too easy there are gambits to make it harder.
The reward is a mini- but it carries a lot of bragging rights because it means you did it yourself.
Unlike your example of Ascended armour which likely will be crafted just like the weapons.

You also mention Windcaller Kieldia
how was she badly designed?
Keep in mind that she is a tier 1 boss and fairly easy- I killed her in one try.

I killed all the bosses in one try except for the guy with the dog

Calling BS on killing Liadri in one try.

Same here. OP post a link of your achievement tab plz? Don’t forget to show the “light up the darkness” achievement Sorry for being doubtful of your prowess.

P.s. I dreamt of doing WvW raids while listening to Individual Thought Patterns, is that dream close to reality Direk?
P.p.s. Stop giving labels to people such as hardcore or casual since everyone has their own definition of it anyways.

Vol.5241:

I think it’s time we have Josh Foreman transition from SAB to dungeons.

As much as I love the man behind SAB and Clocktower, if I recall correctly he’s a map artist? I’d think Arenanet have people with more appropiate skillsets for the dungeons?

Anyways, back on topic. While I’m not a huge fan of the Southsun stuff, I’m really sad to see Hrouda leave the company I hope him the best!

I’ll dream about your guild <3

I love challenge and I hate your corrupted kind (woah that came across somewhat too melodramatic!). Challenge in and of itself is the reward: anything more is just a bonus. If you don’t think so, then you like to tell yourself that you want to overcome challenges when in reality you just crave to feel superior due to your “videogame achievements” which is honestly laughable.

And Arenanet recently started giving us challenging content: Candidate Trials t3 (done the intended way), Liadri + gambits, and now SAB hard mode. You are just upset that it’s not a dungeon (every MMo should be based on dungeons y’kno) and it doesn’t shower you more powerful gear.

MoS guild against GvG? I think I know the reason

No but seriously, learn the friggin game. You are rank 90+ for god’s sake. Here, let me help: don’t spam flamethrower autoattack on enemies with retaliation!

You don’t consider it a bug? To me it was obviously a bug, or an unintended mechanic at best.

Oh and speaking of damage mitigation, wasn’t Spectral Armor considerably buffed too when they made it so that Death Shroud didn’t remove it?

^ What Erasculio said.

Legendary WEAPONS (not gear, there’s only weapons) are extremely expensive and time consuming items to make that have unique and flashy looks with effects like footsteps or unique sounds. They are more like a long-term goal that shows dedication to the game. This link will explain a bit more:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_weapon

If you like gearing up, have you gotten every Ascended item yet? Yes? Good, the next patch will introduce the weapons.

Have you tried Fractal of the Mists?

I think a big part of it being sought after is the fact that’s totally different from the rest of the updates, but not enough to be something out of place.

From a gameplay perspective, as the user above me pointed out, it’s not really different from the core of GW2. There’s loads of jumping and platforming (JP), dodging, fighting enemies and bosses, exploring and finding secrets, playing solo or with friends no matter their level or class.

Also worth nothing that the SAB updates have been the most kind and dare I say, honest with the playerbase regarding shinies. No RNG skins or minis, every weapon available in the game with no insane grind, and a cheap pack of 3 GUARANTEED minis. And from the looks of the release page, the next one will keep the same philosophy!

P.s. I’m just as excited for the “Bloodlust in the borderlands” change and the dungeons/fractals changes. Who said that people are interested in the SAB rather then the rest of the game? I enjoy both.

What? Hit necromancer in PVE hard? How so? I thought that making weakness work on crits and non-crits was a huge buff for Necromancers. Granted I don’t know exactly how it works on champions/legendary mobs, but still.

I’ve never heard anyone complain about any of this but somehow SAB always sparks these kind of discussions. That is not to discredit anyone’s opinion, just me wondering why.

Nope, not yet. I think they’d announce if it was ready.

Same here. What do? 48h+ of double WPX per character is a scary thought.

Avatara.1042:

Lol…

It is not as easy as 1 + 1 = 2. You are very rarely using all the offensive stats at the same time.

This is why theorycrafting is useless on its on.

Really? If I land an hit in a fight I’m already using power, precision and critical damage. If I take a hit I’m using toughness and vitality. That’s 5 stats and the fight doesn’t look like any bizarre situation now does it?

I agree, but let’s also take out Halloween and Christmas mobs out of the open world Oh and holograms from Dragon Bash too.

No but seriously, I can agree with the chests might be overkill. The rest however (Boxes of Fun, Minis and whatnot) are something most players (it seems) enjoy.

Why are you implying that we don’t report our cheaters? You just send me proof of them cheating and I’ll gladly do it! And I’m 100% that the rest of my comrades loathe hackers as much as you do, no matter the server.

Paul Belz.7351:

The original SAB achievement list will return, along with a new, separate achievement list for world 2.

There may even be a new special surprise for folks who finished the original list of achievements (which will also be available for folks who finish the original list while it is available)…

Why you be teasing me Arenanet! Tell me the surprise already!

You forgot about engineers.

Out of curiosity, do CTRL do anything other than spam conditions, or they have a strategy but I just don’t see it?

I’m sure you can enjoy the SAB too, seeing how you like challenges!

Pronk, the removal of magic find was announced some weeks ago in a blog post. We don’t know the details yet, but they said they will try to make the transition as good as possible for people that have invested in MF gear. Don’t worry, they won’t vanish.