Guild Wars 2

Stooperdale.3560:

The Karka Queen was at the end of a single time event with Ellen Kiel leading the Lionguard across Southsun slaughtering the karka. As you can imagine, the server loading was dreadful and the designers haven’t repeated single occasion events since.

I am personally very glad of that.

seabhac.5346:

I have a boat load of gems to buy once the veil of secrecy is lifted on what they are actually working on at the moment, and what they are currently working on for the immediate future. A BOAT LOAD OF GEMS WAITING TO BE PURCHASED.

There are many other F2P games that have this sort of transparency about their projects. It actually keeps both their veteran interested (retention) and potential new players intrigued (attracted).

Other players gave examples (other than OP) of what they consider good communication. I could say I am the king of kengsington and will give knighthoods if they give an outline, as meaningless as boatloads of gems. I personally have not seen a game that kept a good steady (over years) stream of interaction.

dace.8019:

Yargesh.4965:

GW2 was doing the same thing prior to release. Find examples of companies that have a released product.

The same company. Check out Planetside 2’s Roadmap.

Then the op should have used planetside 2 for any comparisons.

We pushed the queen into the lava to finish her off. That was her death scene. I don’t know if it is deliberate.

GW2 was doing the same thing prior to release. Find examples of companies that have a released product.

Don’t understand. You are out in the beautiful world go to the mists 1v1 leave directly to the beautiful spot you left. What lobby?

Only if you leave. Not the same as not reping.

The whole philosophy of pve in this game is cooperation. The last POI reinforced this. You can now this minute 1v1 PvP with two clicks. What benefit would rewriting the game code from the ground up give to the game?

As was said above many are viable. Sceptre/focus and axe/dagger work well for me. Use zero minions though.

Also check your toughness, that combined with high damage is a strong agro pull.

As was mentioned the only real way is to get another account.

I never understood that mindset personally. If I don’t understand then frankly it was not directed at me.
For those saying NA servers should only have english I would point out that for a large chunk of NA english is not the main language used. Even in the US there are several states that have more Spanish native speakers than English including California where the company is based.

Esplen.3940:

There are rogues and hunters in GW2 that aren’t NPCs?

If Ele and Mesmer aren’t your playstyle, you’re not going to enjoy Engineer.

If Warrior and Thief are not your playstyle, you’re not going to enjoy Ranger.

Ranger doesn’t really play like warrior and thief so don’t see the connection.
OP give necro and ranger a shot. For me minions are distracting and so I play without on necro, others love them.

CureForLiving.5360:

VodCom.6924:

azizul.8469:

raid content = pve raid content when it comes to ANET.

Noob-ish question : do you say “pve raid content” because there are games that feature pvp raid content ? (sounds weird)

As far as I know there are only pve raids.

Isn’t wvw pvp raid content? :P

It is. It just isn’t buried behind a weekly unlock.

The beauty of so many games being a free(ish) model is you can play many games to get any type of fix you require.

From job posting to job being filled can be as little as a month to as long as a year. Then that person needs to be brought up to speed on current plans. Then that person needs to design and code whatever is thought up. Then the design and code needs to be fleshed out and tested. This is not something that will show up in game for at least 6-8 months.

Ohoni.6057:

Man, I came into this thread thinking maybe they’d added belt slots to the game. . .

Nah, just that Karma is not a weight loss item.

My feeling is that there is a fixed number of people in any game who will do dungeons. Now people need to do regular dungeons for specific items (armour, weapons, legendary recipe items etc) most doing high fractals do so because they want to but the numbers are a tiny fraction of total game players. You add an alternate system targeted at that same tiny percentage you only dilute what is in game.

Why not just ask for it to be incorporated into fractals? Creating a parallel event for a relatively small number of people maybe is not cost effective.

Both. It comes down to your own feelings.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Astral Projections.7320:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Astral Projections.7320:

IndigoSundown.5419:

fellyn.5083:

How bad is your internet that it takes so long to download a few hundred mb?

That was my question. My download took about 30 seconds.

Until about a month ago, because I live out in the country, I only had 3G (usually 1 or 2 bars) and sometimes no better than 2G. It typically took about an hour to download a patch. Typical download speed, 30Kbps to 70Kbps.

Ouch, you have my belated condolences.

A month ago they brought 4G in to the area. Now the download is 1 to 2 Mbps and the game isn’t lagging. Its amazing. ^^

It’s nice when life hands you a lobster instead of a crawdad. >.>

You have never been at a Swedish crayfish party.

As long as things are not soulbound you are fine. Since I can’t think of a soulbound booster currently in game everything should be fine.

You mean guild vault? Before the Sept update you did, now that guilds are server wide you should not.
If you mean your account bank then it always transferred without a problem.

You need an attitude adjustment. Does that help?

Why are people so upset about the cows? Just don’t get the horror of it all. As for storytelling games now remind me of penny dteadfuls, all games. You put out content to be mass consumed, take it for what it is.

She has valid points, casting it aside because it is a she in front of the camera is just dumb.
Four years is a long time in a company, that she did not trash them after leaving has got to say something positive.

Cobalt, use as skin,
Entropy probably the same,
Sunless is good for condi builds
Angchu not sure.

I also think ele would be what you are looking for. I would seriously suggest you do not use staff if you are just running in PvE without a group. Go daggers or scepter/dagger.

shakes head, moves along.

kill yellow tagged mobs, they are often not killed so they would have the highest bonus.

you can only minimize it not get rid of it.

You need to join a group on Teamspeak, no guild required. Most groups that do it have an open TS so anyone can know what is going on. The event requires too much co-ordination to be a drop in event. Maybe in the future it will be but so far not.

The sigils that are the same (fire/fire) will not give double effect. Likewise the sigils that increase in power (bloodlust, condi, precision) can’t be used together at all. You can’t use a bloodlust and Corruption together, only one will build a stack.

kokiman.2364:

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

Faereilos.5106:

well, the farmers keep the champs occupied. When they’re left alone, they kill people taking down the ice wall and the golems.

Nope and this is where you are wrong. Farmers usually go to one side, kill the champs that give boxes and then run over to the other side, by doing that they drag the mobs over to the other side. Which most of the time results in the death of at least 2 golems that just spawned.

You don’t contribute to the event you just leech and get the same reward as the people who do the actual work. It’s a shame that you actually think that this is okay.

Add champion loot bags to all champion mobs. Problem solved.

Ban leechers, Problem solved

Then they should ban those who afk auto attack Jormag with Pact Bazookas during Phase 2 while standing at the safe spot. Those are far worse leechers as they contribute nothing, those who kill the champions kill them so they don’t attack the golems, if everyone did that then everyone would have their extra lootbags, smaller mobs would die as well from aoe/cleave and golems would run safely to Jormag and explode. You don’t have to dps Jormag when he is not stunned, attacking him when he is stunned is enough to kill him, but the leechers want to afk the fight and get the same rewards.

Did you actually read what you quoted like 3 posts earlier? These leechers drag mobs right into the middle to the golems when they change the side.

Also funny that you mention it, you rarely see the leechers running to the claw when there is a burn phase, they rather stay behind.

Why do you say that? All mobs die when it is stunned.

kokiman.2364:

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

Faereilos.5106:

well, the farmers keep the champs occupied. When they’re left alone, they kill people taking down the ice wall and the golems.

Nope and this is where you are wrong. Farmers usually go to one side, kill the champs that give boxes and then run over to the other side, by doing that they drag the mobs over to the other side. Which most of the time results in the death of at least 2 golems that just spawned.

You don’t contribute to the event you just leech and get the same reward as the people who do the actual work. It’s a shame that you actually think that this is okay.

Add champion loot bags to all champion mobs. Problem solved.

Ban leechers, Problem solved

Define leecher problem returns.

Is it just me or are there only a handful of topics on forums and about 10 people nattering back and forth at each other?

Shantyi.9374:

I do agree that Claw of Jormag is fine and really hope they dont make changes like they did in Tequati and Triple Wurm. Both events are a huge fail now … even starting organizing 30 minutes before they start we fail one after another try! Number of mobs spawing is so high we can barely hit the boss!!! Anet need to make changes ASAP to both events again.

Pardon? There are maps where people don’t bother organizing Teq and they fail. I was late one day and decided to see what happens if I arrive 5 minutes before the event. It succeeded. Is the common, no but it have gotten to the stage where people know Teq well enough that if you are getting 100% failure you might reconsider what it is you personally are doing.
Wurm was done last night in Europe where there was so much lag you had several second between seeing something and needing to do anything about it. Get on one of the many TS servers, listen to when and where to arrive, hope you are on the right one or get a taxi (that is the only way really to fail wurm now).

Olvendred.3027:

OP must hate Star Wars.

“What?! When I buy a movie called Star Wars, I kitten well expect to see stars fighting stars. All they do is sit in the background and twinkle!”

+1 very funny.

Child drawing, made the mistake of using it from very first LS event. Very glad they had them again in the Lions Arch arch of the LS.

Straw burns very easily.

they are not blocked just not visible on mini-map. Can still use them if you find them.

duckideva.6358:

I’m sorry if this is off topic, but a couple of people have mentioned either “spawning an instance” or changing instances at will.

I feel like a doof for asking, because I’ve been playing for some time, but how does one do those things?

What usually happens is you have everyone on TS jump into the zone at the same time. This causes the open instances to fill and new ones to spawn. You can find your ip by typing /ip in chat to see if you are on the one considered empty by the commanders in TS. Taxi onto those who are in the empty instance to change it.

You people are whining about a year old promotion?

It is possible that I could disagree more, I am just not sure how. The system could be improved to get more access, making it easier should not be one of the options looked at.

Tman.6349:

You can’t combine weapons and armor in the forge. A Mystic Stone at best.

Rare level items you can combine everything, jewellery/weapons/armour and get every possible thing back. Problem is you are as likely to get an exotic armour or trinket as a weapon. The chance of precursor is then slightly less than the impossible it is with just weapons.

Yujin.1785:

I think they must have a leeway of a few hours. No way was this person stupid enough to be screwing around with his main account.

Want to bet?

Rabe.2456:

Yargesh.4965:

Don’t understand your point, you can dodge in the exact same way now as before.

He was making a point of why veteran players shouldn’t try to reevaluate the NPE.

But why not dodge though? New players are introduced to the fact you can dodge at lvl 5, it takes 10 or so minutes of play to get to lvl 5 and not a lot of champs/bosses are in that area.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

The problem with a Vet player reevaluating the NPE

I was considering an attempt at just such a thing; however, I realized that I would be unable to unlearn that which I already knew about the game no matter now I try.

One of the first sobering principles I learned in my Cultural Anthropology class was the restrictions of the evaluator on enculturation.

• Enculturation is defined as: the process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values.
• Now in this case the reference is: the process by which an individual learns the traditional content of The Game and assimilates its practices and values.

The main restriction in developing an equitable opinion and thus a subsequent unprejudiced evaluation lies in a person’s inability to slough off our engrained learnings and experiences established throughout our personal development.

An Example: No matter how hard I try, when I get to that first big boss with the scary looking attack skill about to target me, no force in the universe will be able to stop me from involuntarily hitting my “dodge” key. It has been committed to muscle memory over the past 2 years and the fact that I knew that my actions should have alleviated the perceived threat; the inability to get the expected results will doubtless leave me with a negative impression. Even if ones later logical mind tells you otherwise, your first response has been sorted, filed, stored and archived.

In conclusion: No matter how hard those good intentioned souls try to ignore their previous thoughts, beliefs and considerations, they are unconsciously bound to influence their attempt to deliver an unbiased evaluation of the NPE.

Don’t understand your point, you can dodge in the exact same way now as before.

mylifeinwords.5210:

Someone suggested that in game, but since I don’t know the dungeons, I assumed trying to lead one would be a very very bad idea, thanks for the advice tho, appreciate it

Don’t need to lead it just start it. Talk in team chat, ask who has done it before, usually someone has. If not just run for the fun of it, AC is not that bad to learn on.

Khisanth.2948:

The simplest solution for that type of situation is to start your own group.

This, just type your level, that you want to learn/have fun and you should get a full group.