Guild Wars 2

Danikat.8537:

Shinzan.2908:

You think that’s bad? I bought the base game and now they give that way for free.

I’ve got a paid account (with HoT) and a free account and even without the expansion I think buying the base game was well worth it.

There are so many restrictions on free accounts. The worst for me are having just 2 character slots and being unable to use map chat. But you also basically can’t use the TP for anything but basics, can’t use guild banks, can’t enter WvW until you’re level 60, can’t use the gold to gems exchange and a bunch of other stuff.

It’s a good way to try out the game if you want to see what the gameplay is like before buying, but there’s no way I could play like that long-term.

I agree with Danikat, I created a free account to see what it was like. The only thing I could use it for was to sell basic materials (no processed wood, leather etc.) and then buy something with the gold to put in my guild hall. If I had no guild hall all of that stuff would be worthless and the gold unusable.

Zenith.7301:

zakuruchi.4086:

elfgirl.4058:

Thank you for this map. I got a late start playing Heart of Thorns. I’m going to try this soon! I hope it works for me. I’ve been trying for a few days to get to Dragons Stand, with no luck. There is a way to fly there, but one needs level 6 gliding. I’m only at level 3, don’t want to wait. I’ll report back and let you know if I’ve gotten there. I really want to go to tame a tiger. :-)

If you have nuhoch wallows, the easiest way would be go to the wallows west of the starting WP, then go up the tunnels to another wallow to Teku Nuhoch. From Teku Nuhoch, take the wallow to Nuhoch Lane, then follow the tunnel south to Ley Line Confluence waypoint.

Once you get there, it’s just a straight run to the west (Ogre Lane), dodging past chaks and mordrem until you get to Dragon’s Passage.

An alternative is to take the updrafts to the great tree and then just spiral down outside the tree to the ogre camp and take the wallow to ogre lane.

The same route but going south takes you right to the wp without running through mobs, well 2 vampire things. Much faster, also is part of a chest route and passes 2 hero challenges and a mastery point.

If by key binds you mean the ui then push cntl shift H at the same time.

Unless you have your game menu open all the time and/or are live streaming showing your hands how is it possible for people to know what you have bound to what? If you have macros your problems go deeper since Anet does not need to see your keybinds to spot macros if they are suspicious.

Angelica Dream.7103:

OK I have zero Crystalline Ingots won Dragon Stand 4 times. What am I missing?

@Donari. What are JC’s?

Are you looting the final big chest? Sometimes people miss that. Also do as many noxious pods as possible.

Zeem.2564:

Search isn’t bringing up any other topics on the subject, so here I am. Has this been fixed? Is there a way to hide the EXP bar to get rid of the flashing once you fill it?

Have never seen the bar flash at any time and I am sitting at 154 points with no reason to get max. You might as well have started a new thread since this one will be locked as a necro.

Rachma.2059:

Oh I see thanks… but i still didn’t recieved any answer from GW2 team since 9h ago. Does it takes at least 24h to answer?

It is the weekend, things are always slower. Should have received an auto response though. If nothing happens within 3 days go to the https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support and put your ticket number there to be looked at. Do not make multiple customer service tickets as it slows down the help you may receive.

Kitten in the wall? Man that censor is cruel to kittens.

elfgirl.4058:

Thank you for this map. I got a late start playing Heart of Thorns. I’m going to try this soon! I hope it works for me. I’ve been trying for a few days to get to Dragons Stand, with no luck. There is a way to fly there, but one needs level 6 gliding. I’m only at level 3, don’t want to wait. I’ll report back and let you know if I’ve gotten there. I really want to go to tame a tiger. :-)

Go to Dulfy or youtube and find out how to get the vista above the wp at the entrance to tangled depths. Instead of using the updrafts to go to the vista instead head toward the waterfall to the south, there is an entrance to the cave system. Continue using the updrafts south and hit a ledge with vampires, run this to the end south and you will find kitten in the wall and that goes all the way down to the dragon strand wp.

No idea it will be between you and customer service to work out.

If it can be shown that the person is using a macro to keep pets up and stop disconnecting then yes in theory you could be banned. If you do not prevent log out and allow pets to die and not auto fix if you are offline then not a problem from what I have read.

Dragon Stand

The benefit of the ultimate is the extra slot and the gems, which are great but not anything play wise different than the base.
Gems, just saw a post the other day so it should be close or on the front page of this forum.
Profession is a personal preference thing. I don’t PvP and so have no opinion on it. I do however really, really enjoy 5 of the proffs in PvE not in order ranger, mesmer, revenant, ele, necro and their elites (except ranger which I have not tried since the base ranger works really well for me). Others have completely different likes and dislikes and it works either way.

The best is always the one you personally like. Easy enough to go to the wardrobe and pick which you like. Then find out how to get it either by making it yourself, doing collections or buying it off the TP.

TheArtOfMouts.7468:

Guess, next time, I will go directly where the Regurgitant should spawn and wait there O_O

Note .. I don’t (yet) how to get there.

If you followed all of the lines you will already know where it spawns since it spawns directly after the escort. There is enough information if you pay attention.

I was able to change a family members by contacting support. You need access to your old e-mail to confirm or proof that it is your account.
Top of page submit ticket.

Not afraid of HoT

CMM.6712:

Riku.4821:

Personally, I feel you guys need to find a plan and stick with it. You’ve changed how and when you release content, how much and what type of content so much it is extremely inconsistent.

I think Quarterly Updates were a nice medium, if given enough content to make up for the lack of updates. Good luck with the new format I hope you find something you can stick with.

Like it or not, a part of what changed things was forum goers complaints… ya know… Anet listening?
Maybe Anet should be more selective at listening and some forum goers should figure out what it is they want?

Just a thought. Not directed at you specifically, just in general.

Would be nice, never going to happen though.
Also thanks for the heads up about S3.

You can buy 13 in total for access to 14 (1 free from ANET with HoT purchase).

I did not know your child, I am also sorry for your loss.

Profession trainers where removed from the game a couple of years ago.

It never did.

They were thinking what a great map to explore. It is.

morrolan.9608:

This is now a general QOL issue for crafters and not a WvW issue, so I suggest it might be better off raised in the general forum.

The moderators do not allow it to be discussed outside of this wvw forum.

I am thinking this will either be deleted or locked because it is pointing something out. Why I want a more formal type of thing.

There is a post in PvP forum where a dev has stated that some PvP/PvE skills will be split in some form stating next fix patch. Could a copy of that post be put on this forum page?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Insert-Dev-Bait-Here/first#post6227666

Just came to me that there is a solution to a lot of crap that fills up over time. Items that are account bound for whatever reason or at junk status. Add a wildcard option in the guild halls material storage so you can say add 100 blade shards (just and example) and get 10 of some item you need in the guild hall. Or a 1 to 1 ratio, would be good either way.
Benefit is getting some items going faster in the guild hall while removing un-needed items without destroying/throwing them away.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

DGraves.3720:

Ashen.2907:

DGraves.3720:

Ashen.2907:

curtegg.5216:

Solution is way more simpler than what was proposed above. Simply remove the time-gates and add tier loot based upon the time the raid takes down the boss.

Simple. Elegant. I like it.

Doesn’t work because there’s no value to the “limit” placed unless you get absolutely nothing after a certain time and if that’s the case then you’re back at square one. So either the lazy gain rewards or the elite overprofit. This model hasn’t worked well in other games either.

Having a baseline reward for completing the raid at all, and improving rewards for improved time could work.

There is nothing, “lazy,” about less, “elite,” players spending hours grinding their way through content that other players can complete in a fraction of the time.

It is also not, “overprofit,” for a skilled team to earn greater rewards for performing better at the raid.

No. Because what you’re looking at is the integrity of the system from an honest vantage point. Players aren’t honest though, take the “elite players”, throw in some gold for the run, give the lesser players the ability to get through the thing for “base” rewards, and voila you’ve got an overprofit problem on two ends.

That’s exactly how it works in almost every system where there is someone who can profit off of another person’s ineptitude and that person can profit off of their professionalism. Let’s say that we have a team of 8 players who are OP, they know their stuff, and they can easily earn mid-level rewards by themselves and then you have the two who pay to get in to get the mid-level reward and then you’ve got the raid itself.

The elites get mid-level rewards + gold (or whatever the currency they want) and the “less than useful” get more rewards than the honest casual team because of the set-up. I can guarantee that’ll be the outcome.

I hope ANet reads this and releases a lower difficulty map, hell make an open world zerg map that functions the same way as the current open world metas with the same open world rewards; if Trion can figure it out with their even more limited resources ANet has no excuse.

ANET did not make raids because they could not make open world content. They made raids because that is what was asked for by players. There was a CDI about it, I would have preferred open world, always have but the limitation was not on ANETs part.

Tekoneiric.6817:

Yargesh.4965:

Tekoneiric.6817:

TheMagicFace.9854:

Wait, did I miss an announcement here? Are they adding Story to raids?

It’d my understanding that they have a story element to them that connects with the greater story in GW2. This is why some of us are a little upset with it. Currently the only way to access that content is via a party of players. Single players are excluded.

You can enter the instances solo, there are story summaries to read.
YouTube is also your friend if you really want to experience the story but not actually participate.

I tried to enter raids and it says it has to be as part of a party. Single players aren’t allowed.

Commander tag then set it to raids, you will enter. If no commander tag ask someone to let you in there are tons in the lobby. At raid release there was an option to talk to the NPC to allow you to set up a raid group, not sure if still in game but that also got you into the zones.
EDIT: the person who let you in can leave at any time and the instance will not close until the last person has left. No tag required after opening.

Tekoneiric.6817:

TheMagicFace.9854:

Wait, did I miss an announcement here? Are they adding Story to raids?

It’d my understanding that they have a story element to them that connects with the greater story in GW2. This is why some of us are a little upset with it. Currently the only way to access that content is via a party of players. Single players are excluded.

You can enter the instances solo, there are story summaries to read.
YouTube is also your friend if you really want to experience the story but not actually participate.

It is a bug the fix for which will probably appear in the next patch.

Astralporing.1957:

Yargesh.4965:

There is no half way to meet at.

So, if no compromise is possible, you are saying that people should argue to stop further Raid development and nerf current raids, instead of trying to find a solution that would leave Raiders with their content?

How the heck do you read that into what I wrote?

There is no half way to meet at. Raids are a thing, people who play casually can and probably do, do them. I don’t, I also don’t sPvP so no leg back (not missing it). Get over it please.

lil devils x.6071:

Yargesh.4965:

From the posts on the subject of removing crafting stations it is clear that a large fraction of forum goers do not want new people nor do they want to be bothered by people who do not 100% wvwvw accessing their game.
Your ideas would be horrible to them.

WvW players WANT new Players, they don’t want players in WvW that are not there to play WvW.

Things like Crafting, farming, map completion are HORRIBLE. IDEAS ( I don’t think I can stress that enough) because that doesn’t make players come into WvW to become part of the community and actually play WvW, that just sets up a knitting club right in ht middle of the basketball court during the game. Just like Basketball teams want basketball players, WvW wants WvW players, not knitters, or quilters, or rock collectors coming on to the court during the match.

The best way to advertise WvW would be by making cities server based again and making a server wide chat so WvW players can talk about WvW and recruit from those and bring in players to actually play the game mode not come onto the court just to start chasing butterflies instead of play the game.

WvW PvP ads in gaming magazines and sites would help as well as long as they focus on the PvP aspects of WvW and not on rock collecting..

The Players coming in to WvW need to be players who want to get on voice coms and join their server websites as soon as they get there so they can start really learning how to play the game mode immediately and find out what it is really about instead of wandering around blind to what is really going on in the match. Getting involved in the Wvw community is the easiest and fastest way to get access to the many server resources available to help new players.

Cool, a rather verbose way of saying what I said though.

CrimeMaker.8612:

Yargesh.4965:

From the posts on the subject of removing crafting stations it is clear that a large fraction of forum goers do not want new people nor do they want to be bothered by people who do not 100% wvwvw accessing their game.
Your ideas would be horrible to them.

I understand your point but with these ideas I am pretty sure every 1/10 person who will enter WvW will become hardcore WvWer that’s how I was introduced and I know so many other hardcore WvW players that were introduced this way. If we want to keep the gamemode alive we can’t rely on those players returning because they aren’t so we need new blood.

Yes, but that was my point. Several on forums cannot see this. The person at ANET who agreed with them also cannot see this.

From the posts on the subject of removing crafting stations it is clear that a large fraction of forum goers do not want new people nor do they want to be bothered by people who do not 100% wvwvw accessing their game.
Your ideas would be horrible to them.

You taxi into the map where you are standing not to where the person/people in group are. You can use the teleport to friend which will take you to the specific spot of one person.
All wp for dragon stand unlock as you do the event chain from start to finish so you should have them all unlocked if you do it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

It’s a nice idea but you know it would be put in game through a black lion chest with a very rare drop rate and cost 2 -3k gold, thus being unavailable to the majority of players both by rarity and by cost.

I’d rather they put crafting tables in the HoTM or sell a crafting table upgrade in the gem store for the home instance (together with selling the home instance portal stone) rather than having a conduit that’s not really available because of price.

Which is why I made the parallel with the mystic forge conduit. It was at one time BL drop only and stupidly expensive. Now it is well within everyone’s range if they actually know about it and plan to buy it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Maybe this should just be offered once again:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Consortium_Mobile_Crafting_Station

In a way, yes. The problem is it is a one off consumable and takes up space on the map (not a huge deal but ascetically unappealing to me).
Modified it would be fine.
EDIT: I think I still have one floating around either on a mule or buried in my bank. With WvW it was more trouble than it was benefit but I guess now it would be useful if it was actually still in game.

Knowing anet they would set the requirements to be lvl 60 guild and thousands of mats. That is a dumb way to go but so is removing convenience systems. Also not everyone is in a guild with hall and non HoT people would be inconvenienced.

ShasOrange.9876:

Got to love how all these hardcore WvW’s think this is somehow going to give them the edge they need to win. I only ever see BL’s have to queue up once a week, an it’s only ever one BL at a time. The rest of the week it’s practically empty, meaning anyone banking, crafting, or even going afk isn’t really affecting much. Anet literally has smashed together different WvW servers to get map populations up, but sure “it’s those pesky PvE crafters that are ruining WvW, lets chase them out, because that will totally fix WvW’s problems”.

And sure, you guys may think those random PvE players jumping in to help occasionally are useless, but last time I checked, there was no food item or buff for carrying another +10-15 supply. So if WvW is absolutely only for the hardcore, enjoy burning more time running to get more supply to get siege weapons up.

Gotta agree

What I want is the convenience of WvW back. That is not going to happen so this is what I think would be similar convenience.

They could somehow tie it into the current permanent airship or pavilion by making a NPC that gives a conduit if you have that permanent pass. This would not be the only way to get a conduit but would be fair to people who already bought them, and a incentive to people who don’t want to get it via a similar method to the mystic conduit.

I am sure people thought that about the mystic conduit before it was available in game instead of just from chests.

It does not need to be usable in WvW. Many items are not usable so there should be a standard system in place to prevent it.

Since the incredible convenience of WvW crafting has been removed how about adding a conduit like the Mystic Forge Conduit?
You would get direct access to a crafting station from wherever you are currently. Like the mystic forge conduit you would not get a cluttering NPC for others to be annoyed at (which I really like by the way).
Could make it one for each craft or a super craft does not matter to me.

Yeah, I will miss them as well. Was the main reason I went to WvW.

There is a patch of some sort roughly every two weeks. It is never less than two weeks but has been more.

Since the OP is one of the few still clinging to the idea of said meta I guess when they change the meta will as well.

Once per account per story segment. Has been discussed and responded to by ANET, since forum search does not work you need to use another search engine with key words.