Guild Wars 2

I am talking about games in general, meeting deadlines is ‘usually’ not done due to last minute bugs or other events taking precedence. Since this game is 5 months old I will not be upset if they do not do something every month or even every other month.

Danikat.8537:

Yargesh.4965:

NetherDiver.6079:

We’re getting a huuge patch this month, if it’s anything like Lost Shores, there will be an event with the new permanent content.

God I hope it is nothing like lost shores.
It would be nice if they had a big event every month but it usually winds up being pushed back to irregular updates. Keeping a schedule leads to a lot of problems.

“Usually”?

The game came out right at the end of August. They never planned an event for September, or even hinted they would (I assume they wanted to give everyone time to experience the normal game before adding extras). They then did events, on the dates they originally announced, in October, November and December.

We’re only on the first day of January so they’ve got plenty of time to add something this month as well.

When exactly have they missed or delayed even one monthly event, let alone “usually” missed them?

NetherDiver.6079:

We’re getting a huuge patch this month, if it’s anything like Lost Shores, there will be an event with the new permanent content.

God I hope it is nothing like lost shores.
It would be nice if they had a big event every month but it usually winds up being pushed back to irregular updates. Keeping a schedule leads to a lot of problems.

Just pick one and see if you enjoy the looks (race) or playstyle (class). You have 5 character slots to fill so you have options there to see if you enjoy something more than another without creating/delete over and over. I have found that I need to change play style depending on what class I am playing and some days one class is more enjoyable than the next day. Also as with every game I have played so far a high level character plays differently than a low level one. Have not played warrior, mesmer or engineer but the others are all fun in different ways.

No, you can ‘find’ them on any char even if you have already found them.

Zanshin.5379:

Yargesh.4965:

Finding 30 jumping puzzles is not too hard.

What if you’ve already done all the puzzles?
You’re forced to create a new character just to do the monthly…

Finding 30 jumping puzzles is not too hard.
Killing 50 others in WvW is not hard,
Doing t1-2 fractals is not hard.
That said I have only done WvW kills monthly once and that was because I needed to be there for my world completion. It took a couple of hours which is nothing but I will probably never do it again since I hate all forms of pvp. I also did not do fractals because while I enjoy them I don’t like the ‘hamster on a wheel’ idea behind it.

how about you giving a real quote instead.

Nayru.4537:

Yargesh.4965:

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I really don’t get it. I’m such a fanboy.

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He is saying he feels the game would be better with the trinity.

Now how about you post something constructive to add to the discussion instead of just bashing the OP because you disagree?

I really don’t get it. You can play tons of games out there with trinity yet you stand here and say I want something the game is not designed to directly support. You know it is not supported as such, you know they are not going to implement it. Yet you still are here. You can shrug me off as a fanboy, you could read my posts easily and see I am anything but, but that would not fit your world view so you will ignore it.
My advice and advice that has been ignored by you before, find a game with a trinity and play it.

Amra.6028:

Yargesh.4965:

I am not talking about lvl 1. All levels below your level only drop the zone max loot, not your level loot. If you can beat any champ in any lvl up to 80 good for you but that is not the point either. Champs never drop loots as far as I have noticed.

Wrong.

I did not realize I was wrong, thank-you for correcting me. Did you look over my shoulder while I was killing champs?

I am not talking about lvl 1. All levels below your level only drop the zone max loot, not your level loot. If you can beat any champ in any lvl up to 80 good for you but that is not the point either. Champs never drop loots as far as I have noticed.

Amra I really don’t think you understand the concept. You can not steamroll low levels. I have 2 lvl 80s and while I have no problem with mobs at lower levels I am in no way steamrolling anything. The OP is right they claimed that you would be rewarded for your efforts, but if you get a lot less karma and the drops are blue lvl 20 (if in a 20 zone) lvl 80s have no real incentive to go back except for alts, with my alts I am not going for 100% world anymore so I skip 90% of content since it is really not worth it.

Amra.6028:

Dradiin.8935:

Amra.6028:

Why did you choose the starter area? Why would they make it so you could level the whole game there, completely messing up new players’s experiences? Try a higher zone, the starter ones are protected.

I think you are missing the point, if i am downscaled to level 7 and fighting level 7 creatures, i take the exact same risk as a level 7 player.

No, because you have a wider array of skills at your disposal, plus the trait bonuses. That’s why you don’t get the full amount.
Plus, the starter areas are protected, you don’t get the full amount there so they’re not full of high level groups steamrolling the entire areas because they get easy XP there.

It gives much much more for failure than blues from a chest. That is the simple answer. You get good mob drops each run, good karma each run, good silver reward each run.

Gotta wonder where the swordsman is, the giant Toxx is sort of in line.

It is very repetitive and not rewarding at all. I got 4 gifts out of the entire time of 10 waves. no last chest, just the title. Since one of the beasts died early before people had things going I did not get the other title and will not be back to try to get it.

Just a word of warning, if a dread pirate offers you a Wintersday drink, don’t take it.

There have been a few times with no gift from the box that goes boom or from the mobs (toys or skritt), cut your losses and run when you want to. If someone else is doing the fighting it is always nice to stick around and help, hate people who just run through while I am in the middle of a fight, doesn’t matter if I am winning it.

Morgax Warrior.5728:

Velocity.4950:

u can just grab the gift and run

Not exactly the getting my point, sometimes i only see gift as drop from spawned mobs.

Velocity.4950:

u can just grab the gift and run

this,
Skritt are ok, they drop extra packages sometimes. toys don’t drop enough extra goodies to be worth the effort to kill them.

would love to get only skritt, they drop gifts as well. Have once with luck solo’d the toys (another mob took their aggro), have been trashed with another player helping me. The skritt have at times made me close to zero at the end of a long fight but as someone else said you get them all to half hitpoints and you are dead. When they heal up as you are attacking in a downed state is not fun either.
Wonder what the toys are going to be today?

Missed it completely

the mini centaurs that help Trixx have come out. Much nastier than skrit.

InfamousBrad.5879:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

InfamousBrad.5879:

There’s one of those by Ascalon Catacombs in Fields of Ashford: level 12 area, spawns level 31 Skritt about half the time.

Yep, got that one on my radar as well. Basically I’m checking the entire game. Should be able to get this addressed before….other things…start coming out of those boxes.

ooooo, a hint OTHER THINGS will come out of boxes!

why when you decided to introduce the seasonal ‘giver’ weapons did you decide to use the ugliest skin (pearl) for the exotic?

That was the last patch, others where maintenance.

Agree,
I have world complete and really hate all aspects of pvp, also do not see the point at all of 3 clone maps in wvw to get it. Even drop it to home boarder and eternal, would still hate it but would make slightly more sense.

The dragon timer is a great help and I thank Guild Wars temple for setting it up. I only works with valid data unfortunately and this is not always available. frequently people put in either by mistake or on purpose wrong times of spawn and completion. This mean we either get there much too early and wait around or just after event and have wasted a trip.
Would a-net consider using their own game data in a way to give a much clearer picture of when large/group events are occurring?

I have been getting not connected to server in the middle of doing things. The game then does not exit, just stays as the black screen. I has happened several times today and started yesterday.

wookie slayer.4259:

LordYz.8941:

One does not simply run on the plains of Orr.

Unless thou happen to be a guardian

Or ranger or ele as far as I have seen lol.

Forgot to mention the second toon was an ele, unlike the poster above me I see no problem with my damage output and can take out vets solo, it does not take much longer to do so than on my ranger. Never took a warrior to max so no idea how many seconds faster they are at taking things down.

I have done orr now on 2 toons. The second time was much easier since I learned a lot and you will as well. Grenth you need to wait for a zerg, this happens regularly since it gives really good loot and karma (especially when it fails which people don’t seem to understand). there are a couple of champs guarding skill points that you either need to shout out to guild or map to finish, don’t be afraid to shout many people are willing to help. If not wait a day and they will be. The leashes are not that long in this area and you can run your way out of most trouble, have a shield skill available for the pulls and you will be up in no time. Greens actually will get you far in orr, just make sure you jewellery is also up to give you good defence. As was mentioned by someone else tune to air and have the speed boost going until you get into combat then switch around attunements as you desire.

on my ele it is usually, ’I’ll just ride the lightning to this nearby mob’. This usually means I ride the lightning to the middle of a group of mobs past the one I thought I was targeting.

Orr is full now. Every day at even off peak they are clearing temples. Have not seen so many cleared temples in months actually.

The problem is not lack of teamwork, zero teamwork in anything other than a zerg is a wipe. The problem is you want to focus on one small aspect of the game that has been spread out over all classes. So this game is not for you and move on. Why do you really think they will change this? It works for the majority of people, some better than others true but it does work.

A lie is only a lie when the person giving the information knows it is wrong. You personally don’t believe it is fun, I think it is fun, the ones who wrote it think it is fun. It is no where near a lie.

I don’t really think anything, I hope I can use them as a marker for events but this is not always the case. I just move around where I see in chat events are, the commander tag is no guarantee of quality unfortunately.

to me kitten insert just makes people look like psychopaths instead of nasty mean and ugly, will take nasty any day.

CC Meinke.2749:

Oxstar.7643:

Most of us can figure out what a word was when it was written just by reading the context and the amount of filtered letters, and if we can do that anyways then there is no reason to try and protect us from bad words because we already know them. And use them. A lot.

Yes, it’s true that filtered words still may be obvious in context. If the use of a kittened word is identified as an insult or as off-topic, it will be moderated anyway.
But most importantly, the filtered words shouldn’t be shown on this forum.
Basically, users may feel even more insulted when they see which kind of insult has been used – “kitten” is much less aggressive, isn’t it?
Another thing is, imagine you’re constantly confronted with inappropriate language all over the forums – or you’re a new user who will be disturbed by the forums because of the use of such words.

This topic has been discussed several times now, but always ends up under lots of other threads…

Greetings

No, you are a troll

Obed.7629:

After I read this post, I set autocast to true on “For Great Justice” and also for my Signet of Rage.

Sorry about that. Guess I’m now part of the problem, but I expect to do a bit better.

FWIW, I can be methodical at times, but I’m not a bot.

I don’t think it is leashing, I usually get this underwater. I can swim up to the mob attack, not move at all and it is invulnerable. It does not move but resets health, then attacks me again. If I wait around through a few cycles I can usually kill it. If I am on my hunter my pet can keep damaging it while my attacks are not allowed. Again no line of site issues, not travelling back out of range just being invulnerable to attacks by me.

Female light can be ok, Male light looks for the most part what Elton John was wearing in the 70s.

For me it is not bad since it is in the early evening Europe time. People in the Americas have work at 10 in the morning people in Asia have it in the middle of the night. One time for a short period rather than over 24 hours is not going to work out well.

Mimizu.7340:

i have never won the Lottery in RL, have i been “flagged” for that time in the pub that i mentioned that all lotteries were a con?

Yeah, and the ones that win multiple times are fan-boys.

I really hope that a-net have not done this. The events over various days are marked at specific times. If this means a cut scene and people can watch this at any time, great. If it means you need to be there to do events and get even cosmetic items it is just going to blow up in your face.

There is no reason to have a mechanism in game to repeat endlessly the same phrase. If you have the desire to hear the same phrase or weapon action by a character over and over again maybe a-net could sell these on the gem store and people to listen to then at home. Just have an endless loop of your phrase or action of choice and have those who need it supplied with the sound while others never have to hear them again.

Attended/looted/no mail,
did not know until now there was anything sent out.

Why do you assume the op wants to add to the problem? I have also run into groups like this, one kept crashing because they left the trash and then had to run through it and again left it. The next run when we took out the straight line trash we finished in about half the time. Arah is just spread out and horrible, you run more than you fight and most mobs are just hp. Add to that the fact it is not open very often and you have serious problems. They could give a boost to runs by ANet dropping some distance and trash and having a good smooth dungeon. Don’t see why the concept of hours long dungeon runs is considered fun.

Vinny.6924:

300 tokens for arah axe is what I was after most recently.

I dual wield axes. 600 tokens.

Do that without skipping certain areas will take years. The arah dungeon is already next to impossible to access. Why are you qqing about this? So Anet can nerf speed runs into the ground and add barriers of impossible to kill mobs?

Great idea OP. Fail/thread

If they had built him up as the story went it would not be so bad. Start with a “wooden” character then as the story says, open his potential and show him as a true leader of all races. Did not happen though, at the end he was still sending you around to find out if the cute girl really liked him and would she go out on a date.

I did not like this set up at all. I actually did story mode before I knew I needed it for personal story, it did not get counted so I needed to do it again. That took me about a month to do including time before fractals came out.
As to forced WvW for monthlies and world complete, I will never get either. Just absolutely hate pvp even on large scales.

I would like ANET to provide better info on which events are available. As you said it is really expensive to port around just to see you missed something by 10 min. A section of this website with live and pending information would be great in my opinion.

I don’t believe you are making it up but I also have never once seen this on server or overflow, there are always level 1/2 being formed and if they are asking for conformation of equip at below level 10 just don’t go with them since they don’t know what they are doing.

xiv.7136:

I have literally never been asked to link gear or anything like that.

I’ve been in PUGs starting from overflow and my own server, and nothing remotely like that ever happens in map chat. People just make groups and go, even for the lower levels.

Gear does not even matter for level 1-5 fractals, you could clear them in green masterwork gear easily.

I do think you’re making this all up in a desperate bid for attention, OP.

If you’re trying to PUG level 10+, fine, gear does become an issue. But let’s face it, you’ve already done the content a bunch of times before that point.

This was the start of the first line of the post by Chris Whiteside.

-"Last weekend we released our free Lost Shores mini-expansion,*

Am I reading too much into this or is this an indication that they will soon introduce pay to play updates?

Yesterday was the first time I have seen the Arah dungeon uncontested in weeks. I did the run story mode a couple of months ago then I caught up on my personal story and found out I needed to run it again. It was not a joy when people are so uninterested in content it can stay contested so long.

Lag has only been an issue for me once and that was on a big dragon kill (claw of jornag) had never seen anything like it before and have fought these dragons on a regular basis with as many people on it at the same time.
My problem is that I keep getting disconnected from the game at random intervals in the middle of battle, crafting, running around just get a connection to server lost and client resets.

Today the game repeatedly crashed. The first time the music when fighting the Claw of Jormag stopped and just heard feedback. The game continued for several minutes and just gave an error and report option. Since then I have been randomly disconnected from the game server. It has happened before that the game crashes, never this often or regularly though.

Anyone else getting this?