Guild Wars 2

World one should be easy enough to complete without needing any tips, at least on normal mode. Tribulation (hard) mode is new to everyone, so I can’t help with that (yet). We also don’t know if the maps or mechanics have changed.

The only suggestion I can give you is buy the bombs early and start looking for hidden secrets, there are plenty :p

Oh and on the topic, yes, the looks are way closer to 16bit games than 8bit, but I don’t think most people notice.

Correct, Skullmount. I’m also particularly surprised that they seem to be releasing most/all the goodies outside of the cash shop!

I’m not too sure I like what Nintendo is today

Stop with your “liadri sucks” agenda. We’ve heard enough of it, and we already have that thread of yours in which anyone but you states that they liked Liadri. Let’s not derail this thread, thanks

Shpongle.6025:

‘’resilience and non-linear thinking. ’’

‘’ridiculously difficult ’’

if this means it’s gonna be like Liadri, lol fk dat

Good thing SAB also has normal mode and easy mode, so all different kind of players can find a mode suitable to their needs.

Looks like this thread got turned on its head

Well I’d buy SAB as a stand-alone game but we can’t ask too much now can we? There’s loads of players that don’t like it

Yes, we only get 3 new levels, but I expect Tribulation Mode to be more than just increased damage on enemies

Don’t disappoint me SAB!

Zeldain.5710:

Karizee.8076:

I will NEVER pay a fee just to log in a game again. GW2 has proven that you don’t need sub fees to maintain and grow a MMO, heck they are putting out more content than sub based games.

It has actually kind of proven you DO need subscription fees to deliver large, meaty content updates on a regular schedule. Compare what WoW has released over the past year to what GW2 has and there’s simply no comparison — WoW wins hands down.

Considering how much bigger Blizz is, their content output is laughable. Not to mention it’s always dungeons raids and more raids. Regular schedule? Like the 6+ months without any update prior to the release of MoP? It’s not like they gave you MoP for free now is it

Subscription fees are the biggest scam of videogaming. Only EVE deserves one, because you can pay for it with in-game gold and because their meaty updates are FREE, like they should.

Tribulation mode :Q_

But the balance in SPvP is pretty good. I think the only class that’s not represented is Warrior.

Healix.5819:

fyi, the 400k peak concurrency information is from the launch of the game. It’s not even known how many total copies of the game they’ve currently sold, since the 3 million number is from January. Since they didn’t give an updated number with the last release (China), I assume they probably sold less than 100k.

On the Chinese site, they had some details that claimed there was 2.5 million logins (not unique) per week and ~500k hours played per day. That information was taken down however.

The information was about GW2 in EU/US. GW2 has not yet released in China. Geez.

kitten Axle you are..whatever. Is english your first language?

“One more thing I would like to add is that we had an outmanned buff while we were facing ZB so that made it even more difficult.” (quoted from original post)

This implies that once you have the outnumbered buff, ALL your fights are harder. Wrong. For all you know, we had a commander gathering the pugs somewhere else against VS, so our “excess” players weren’t at the fight. It is perfectly possible that two guild raids clash in close to equal numbers with no randoms around (I’ve seen it happen, was there at the clash. Should I check the screens?). In those situations, having the outnumbered buff doesn’t change anything.

I guess what I’m trying to say is the buff doesn’t automatically mean that every fight of yours is gonna be uphill. In fact say AFTL are the only force on a map while we have KoA, ECL and pugs. AFTL are 20, KoA are 15. They clash. Are AFTL gonna boast that they won while outnumbered?

Anyways, this whole discussion about logic is getting boring so I’ll stop here. Thanks to whoever translated that french sentence, but I’m keeping the circumstances a secret :P

jusef.5261:

Scarlet is Harley Quinn. It’s as simple as that.

Instead of getting antagonist that makes sense (like another dragon), we got fem!Joker villain sue out of nothing. It’s an a$$pull like no other.

Good, the Elder Dragons suck as antagonists anyway. They have close to no personality. For example, what is the personality of Zhaitan? His plans, his motives?

There, I said it.

“Dans to brun ça c’est sur”

Anyone care to translate? Appreciated.

Zacchary.6183:

OP should try arguing with my mother.

Or fighting a thief in WvW

Bright.9160:

Thrumdi.9216:

Some of the more organized guilds in WvW are using unintended game mechanics (Trinity class set-ups, buffs/healing on demand) to play at a very high skill level, mostly in GvG matches. But at best Anet seems ambivalent that this is happening, if not actively hostile. Their vision for WvW is casual siege dominated zerg warfare.

Lol, people consider the GvG format in this game a very high skill level?

To me that sentiment honestly defecates on the legacy of the top-tier GvG players in GW1, where GvG was a true matter of skill. Not only player skill in combat, but also theory-crafting skill where making team builds and synergies was a huge part of the challenge.

Stacking on your commander and spamming AoE attacks in the hopes of killing a few of the other guys is not high skill level. It’s dumb, takes no skill and is insulting to the true format of GvG.

If this is your vision of GvG then too bad, you are missing out. I guess that the reason why guilds like RG or ZDs are capable of winning 5-0 consistently or taking on double their numbers in WvW is because they just stack on commander and spam AoEs. I’m sure you could beat them, since it takes no skill, it’s just that you couldn’t be bothered, amirite?

Well, sorry for the off topic.

They’ve already told that they will significantly slowed down after the current LS arc is over ( that is, with the next patch ). And I assume they won’t be so crowded once people get used to them, providing a decent challenge for the (lower) amount of players.

Don’t. It’s extremely unlikely you will be able to get a skin, the drop rate is insanely low.

Deamhan.9538:

I’m also beginning to see that in game cash shops in addition to the B2P model makes the content released even worse since, not only does the cash shop have to be managed, the content designed and released is done so with the shop in mind.

What about content released with subs in mind? As in, arbitrary time-gating and artificial extension of whatever you are trying to do? I think that’s as bad as content released with the shop in mind (which generally means less shinies for people).

A message to FY, from Vizunah. F Y!

No seriously, very well played! Finally I see some skillfull “small” groups, keep it up!

If you relog while in WvW, you go back to PvE in the spot you were before. If you relog while in the heart of the mists, you are still in the heart of the mists

But apparently you can exit heart of the mists through the button you used to join it and be ported back in the exact same spot you were. :O

Wait, are you telling me that I have played this game for 1 year without knowing I can leave SPvP without using the portal to LA?

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Azure Prower.8701:

Would rather pay a sub. That way I know quality is assured (snip)

Are you implying that every game with a sub releases only quality content? Because I keep hearing this argument really often and I wonder how paying monthly assures anything.

Vayne.8563:

Get out of combat, go to the mists, chat as long as you like. When you’re done chatting, leave the mists, you’ll be back where you were. It doesn’t cost you anything and it’s not much different from pausing the game.

If by the mists you mean WvW, sure. If you mean the SPvP lobby, you can only exit them through a portal to LA afaik.

Thanks for the strategies guys, will try them asap! Appreciate it a lot and keep them coming!

Today I witnessed (and took part in) my first GoD wipe! You surely talk a lot for how hard ZD destroyed you! (I am not from ZD, but jumped in the carnage).

Anyways…

I can’t believe this worked, lol:

I am against the proposition of this thread. More Liadri I say. It’s not the end of the world if we have 2% of content released not aimed at casuals.

So I’m trying to get the 5 gambits achievement and, being a Guardian, I thought that Deadeye would be the easiest to do. After all we got plenty of defense from projectiles and enough blinds to keep negate his killshot. Then what you see in the screenshot happened.

….

What am I supposed to do? It has no obvious tell, I can’t dodge it (gambit) and he uses it quite often. Not to mention I have 3k+ armor. And it’s not like his other attacks don’t hurt. Should I pick Outnumbered instead of Exhausted and kill him with single target attacks from range (Scepter)? Any help is appreciated.

Whole event. message body lenght

7 tickets? NOTY

Score update!

(sensitive information taken out)

Boring evening today in VS borderland

Nerfs to retaliation? Undeserved, I say!

Got the achievement yesterday, so maybe it doesn’t bug out every time?

0/5/30/30/5 Guardian with scepter/focus + GS, AH + shout build. Took a lot of tries but beat her and later on managed to get “light up the darkness” achievement.

Really though fight, if a bit infuriating at start with all the oneshots. Generally a very nice piece of content, would like to see more like this. Love the idea of harder to get achievements, more should be implemented in general PvE!

I am really conflicted on this very issue, Tobias. I think that way more story should be in game, but as you have mentioned, the effort could go unnoticed by the great majority of the players.

We had story snippets here and there during F&F, how many players bothered piecing them together?

6/10 for the effort, but it was way more fun and beliavable when you were rambling about Elementalists.

While this update, promoted as the one that would “tie up all the story” really lacks enough story, I think it’s not unreasonable for us to not know much about a villain that just showed up.

Why are the Molten Alliance there? Who knows, but we knew someone was behind their alliance. In game, we were told that it was unlikely for two different and xenophobic factions to join forces spontaneously. Later on, a captured dredge mentioned a “silver-tongued” character that had tricked them.

Why would she do that, or attack DR? Why are these Aetherblades thugs doing whatever she says? And how can she manipulate space (and time?) so easily? We don’t know yet, but it doesn’t mean that there’s no story planned for it.

Oh, and since she’s taken a lot of interest in us, I suppose she’ll stick around for a while. So it’s totally reasonable that we will answer those questions in due time. The recent blog post is a start, for example.

It just went live or I’m going crazy.

P.s. what the heck did you watch feli bro

zengara.8301:

PvE:
we all know that we dont want that stupid token system

OH RLY?

Let’s pool all of it in the same thread!

penatbater.4710:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I do believe I read somewhere that minimally, they’re adding new weapons to classes.

Personally, I’m after a dual focus engineer. ANet pls.

Screw that, dual shield engineers are the best!

Dual shield guardians would like to have a word with you.

Not to be a party pooper, I love SAB, but there have been at least 4 threads that said the exact same thing in the last few days

You are wrong, we were two. A thief and a guardian, BSE tag. I tend to play batkitten insane when I have the outmanend buff. We almost got your thief, grrr.

It all depends on what the LS updates bring. If they manage to release fleshed out zones/dungeons/weapons and heck, a playable race maybe, more power to them!

If they don’t…uh…not sure about this.

The link you posted shows a search with 0 results. Am I doing something wrong? Did he remove “his merchandise”?

Dem [Irae] and [GD] small groups are making me earn a lot more respect for Elona (and paying a lot of repair bills…). Well played!

Hopefully not. We have a site that works as a LFG tool, but we have no site that replaces SAB.

Now that you are all roused up, please keep in mind that people working on an LFG tool probably have entirely different skillsets then people working on SAB. As such, it’s likely there’s little to no correlation to the development of the two.

Oh and the sigil you mentioned: no it’s still not fixed.

Amuse me Josh!