Guild Wars 2

My problem is not because its on the monthly,its because I can’t do WvW period. My machine is too horrible to even handle the large battles there. If i even try to get into the zerg, I die plain and simple just because the game freezes up completely and I can’t move or react or even see what is in front of me. It was difficult enough to map it all on my ele when I could die in a lag storm at any time.

For people with machines that can barely play gw 2, its even worse as we’ll never complete it. Now that this month has dungeons as well, that’s two things I’ll never be able to do. I wonder what else non low-end machine friendly stuff exists this month?

Odd… I guess it broke even worse than when I had done it a month ago.

I had to visit the Tower for the last mad king world location. The others refreshed on my progress once I left the pvp venues.

I’ve been to all his areas but clock tower and I got no progress past 2 on its a mad king’s world…

Its like alt +f4/backspace but better!!

The only issue I see in the game is no one is willing to help anyone. Sure none of the maps are worth revisiting again and again (except to farm) but why don’t you go out of your way to help others? None of the 60, 70, and 80 maps are getting any love and the lesser skilled players are just giving up.

A new lv 80 map will just give us one more map that will never see the light of day.

If anyone has a problem with this quest I am in Harathi today in Tarnished coast if you are there and on that server or are willing to transfer to have help to keep all the skritt alive (which I pinpointed to have caused this bug when I did it and then got help to keep them alive).

As I said in my previous post it will block progress when one of them dies prematurely.

If I remember right the bug is because the game checks to see if those that are found are still alive and also it needs to be done in the exact order it shows on your log. If either of these conditions are met before all are found, it bugs up and progress is halted. For some reason all the named Skritt cannot die until the very end. Some of them can’t be ressed either when I last did it.

You forget the Wii U and its gyroscopic technology with its new controller… It will make dodging very easy.

Is this the sound that makes a loud metal bang, like, in a large sewer drain/subway tunnel or something? I think an old pre-GW 2 release blog entry about their sound testing had this loud “crack” noise as a normal sound effect. Its probably bugging out and being misplaced. I hear the loud metallic bang occasionally on long loads.

GMs existed at critical moments in Gw 1’s history. When the major 3000 ban wave happened and Dhuum started handing out bans in game, there was a gold message for all to see telling us what occured and to expect more and keep reporting.

In the past year of GW 1, Gaile Grey was in Jade Quarry (Luxon lobby) telling people to continue to fight the pvp bots and keep up with the report efforts and answering various game related questions and bugs.

GMs used to be in GW1 a lot and had their massive green GM logo above their head, but it stopped in favor of being unseen and working in the background as common players, instead of, HERE I AM I’M A GM! ALL YOU BOTS BETTER HIDE NOW! Yeah there is a reason for not showing up uninvited.

Its called a cantrip or similar break stun skill. It basically means… You can’t be tripped.

Its the Miscrosoft IME caused by pressing Left Alt and Left Shift. It allows you to form Asian characters using English letters or makes your keyboard simulate an Asian keyboard on a querty or djvorak, in this case you nee an Asian keyboard layout diagram for the latter option.

Gw 2 originally would crash if you tried to use it.

Digital: The thing was it worked on higher stuff without fail but didn’t work too well on lower stuff and this was one of the unique ones from a karma/heart person or from a recent story location. Platinum is better than iron but I got ruined stuff on iron with it.

I’m not even going to attempt it until next year, why? my machine won’t be able to keep up and I’ll just lag and die and give up. I can get a new machine sure, but it will be months from now when I can afford it. So I’m only doing what I can and making sacrifices as I’m quite used to it by now.

I was logging back in after the recent patch and I noticed my elementalist is not showing her correct world map completion percentage, whereas the rest of my 5 characters have their proper tiny amounts of their progress shown.

It shows it correctly on the medals and in the hero tab though.

Is this just a blurb going on?

The chest spawned before the Modniir Chieftan battle in Harathi Hinterlands can be farmed repeatedly as long as you did the event chain completely every two cycles or so it seems or if you died recently (all interactive objects on non set timers are thus reusable).

Reloading a map in any way also does this. This is what caused all ori nodes to now be once every day per character.

I seem to get a lot of stuff (too much) on my lv 18 guardian, yet nothing or just ToT bags and junk stuff on my lv 80 ele. Its like The game favors newly created characters and not veterans of the game when it comes to drops. Its probably hows I am able to get nearly a gold in two maps in the main pve areas.

I used them on platinum but they had a chance of failure on iron for some reason bug maybe?

The latest one I got I used and it worked on mythril, then I wasted it on low level mats and candy corn.

Yet Gunnar’s Hold is a Eu server. I’m American, so I need to stay in my region. I’m beginning to not like this whole world crap.

I’m looking for a guild that can help me finish the game. If you seen most of my complaints on the forums, its all about the community and lack of help usually in the very high level maps with no one around. I’m currently in Sea of Sorrow and I need a change of pace. No one even asks me in my current guilds if I need help with anything.

I tried making my own guild, and it didn’t last 4 days as its way too hard to get the influence to build it up like yours (as from reading the OP, its exactly what I;ve been trying to do) so I can get like minded people to help each other and not “the game is easy and able to be soloed, do it on your own!”

I’ll go to tarnished coast after I log on and ask for an invite and give you all a chance.

Is there any server that has people that actively go to vacant maps to help you? If not I may just quit GW 2 for good (until I get a machine that works better so I can “SOLO”) as I’m sick of it.

The new order sucks! I can’t survive at all as I relied on grasping earth to down my enemy with conditions (bleed). Lightning flash is no good and mist form always recharges on down and is not immediately available. I just try to not die at all now yet that is impossible when you’re all alone like I am in every kittening map!

Will any of this add more players to lv 50, 60, 70, 80 areas and not just for ori nodes and dungeon runs?

I’m for all of this and everything, but we need to consider how it will help and not scare off players.

I just don’t want to have any of these suggests that will reinforce the notion its all soloable.

What we need is more players doing stuff together, but how do we go about that?

NO SCALING DOWN!! Get in a kittening group like your supposed to and help us out! I’m sick of this “Just solo it!” kitten. Also, there no need to make it easier for solo as it will just make everyone able to solo the game and make the community worse.

I don’t even hear it. I only hear normal year round music if my machine can even load it.

They keep throwing it at us in LA when we are not even in costume so that we lag up and fall off the platforms… I just gave up for the day. My machine can’t even handle all the new stuff in that it takes forever to render everything anyhow. I might just make Divinity my new crafting home until all this blows over.

I just want to know what the hell to do and what is going on without someone saying kitten comments like, “Google it!” and still kitten like, “Do it yourself, its an easy solo game.” I need to find a new server that has people that really care (if it exists).

I don’t QQ about anything else, as I know my limits as to what i can get or not get within a certain amount of playtime/ event time. I just wish the way people are treating others will stop. What I want to see is a ban for anyone that does this kitten, then maybe it will stop. Maybe GW 2 should be more like these forums. The slightest mean thing or anti-community building rhetoric should be banned or silenced from the game.

what needs to be done is make exceptions to the word parser. It seems to ignore letters on either side and spaces.

This will fix the age old issue with every “shi” and a “t” in asian languages!

“Boo Berry” is one example because its just parsing text to filter. Remove the parsing function and you have less erroneous filtering.

Dracones.9105:

Well, in the old school MMO’s like EQ, you had downtime. The game’s a lot more social when you’re sitting on the ground with your group waiting 5 minutes for your mana to regen. At that point zone chat becomes more of an attraction.

I really don’t like the zone chat “social” stuff. Barrens Chat in WoW will remain my worst MMO chat experience in nearly 15 years of online gaming.

GW2 to me seems to be a pretty helpful and friendly place. If you die someone will run along and help you back up. Even NPCs will do it sometimes.

I think what I’d like to see though is more guild stuff. I think modern MMO’s work best when they have good guild systems. There’s a lot that could be done on guild levels and the gem store even. Guilds could rent training areas, message boards, guild halls even VOIP servers.

The nice thing about guilds is they let you find players that really fit your personality.

Not so everyone tells me that I should solo everything alone and they don’t want to redo a map that is already done.

I’m lv 80 on an ele and can’t do anymore then 10% of a lv 60-70 map with full lv 75-80 gear in the best dual dagger build I can make. There are mobs everywhere and unfinished DEs everywhere that can’t be soloed without breaking your kitten every time. no one comes to res me and no one ever talks on map chat.

I had a better much experience in an old MMO Ragnarok Online which I was alone for most of the time and had an open world and some dynamicness to its spawns. Yet that game is over 15 years old and pretty much everything can be done alone. Yet people still work together! Everything but the MVPs (big bosses similar to our champions/world bosses) can be soloed mostly as long as your level and gear was up to par.

Gw 2 on the other hand is a more social game but it seems not to be that way when you have no one but 4 people on a lv 60-70 map all day and only about 4 or 5 on lv 70-80 maps. I don’t even have my cries for help answered when I’m dead in a surprise spawn or DE. I eventually give up and go back to Lions Arch all butthurt and bruised.

In the above example with RO, I do get help usually when a boss appears or whatnot.

I should not have to go to another and much older game to get a better experience in high level content. GW 2 is not as hunky-dory as everyone sees it to be.

I’m still finding no one in lv 60+ maps This content is hard for me to solo even with the best build for an ele Dagger/Dagger I was lucky that someone came to help me (another ele) when I stumbled upon a Champion Jungle skelk in a small corner of a minor jump puzzle for a vista. One of us could not kill it but two of us can.

If she wasn’t there, I would have died and damaged my armor again. I have to constantly repair stuff as there is no one to do events in 60+ maps, so its basically try your luck to solo it, avoid the events entirely, or die being boxed in with no way out.

Usually I’ll die constantly and I get frustrated and want to just rage quit. I wish players would start appearing in these map to get events cleared so I can just worry about mapping it out/ and farming platinum/mithril/etc.

Heck, there are zones I haven’t even set foot in yet. But I guess since we all are not doing the same DE you are, we are all at fault. Let us know next time so we can all drop what we are doing and accommodate you. I apologize for having fun with my guild in WvW this morning, next time we will abandon such frivolous fun so we can go do dynamic events in PvE to take you feel crowded.

Its not that anyone is expecting anyone to drop what they are doing and come to these vacant 60-70 and 70-80 maps, its that most of us that are upset here are expecting people to be more friendly and help out when they are on the maps not being an kitten and saying, “I do not want to help you because you can’t play like I can, and solo everything, which I seem to be seeing a lot of lately.”

I am a fan of the game but, I can at least see its glaring flaws and weaknesses and speak out against them. I’m not no blind kool aid drinking fanboy.

If anything add in Elementalist Aziure’s armor set that was never released in GW 1.

I was thinking of dungeon crawler games like Gauntlet and other adventure games like Legend of Zelda and I was thinking, “why not have more beautiful dungeons with vast puzzles your party will have to do all the whole being attacked by elite mobs at every turn as usual?”

Basically some dungeons will be like the mini dungeon in Diessia Plateau that was under water where players had to get a monster to melt a frozen wall to get to a jump puzzle to get a sword and freeze flame jets to open a stature-based lock with said sword to a boss with a chest?

Why can’t our big dungeons be more like this in design where you have to split tasks up or split up your party of 5 (also have weaker easily manageable mobs attack the lone members as they hold down a switch or something in 5 seperate areas)? And if you lose people, it will accommodate for smaller parties so you don’t get stuck unable to progress for lacking 5 people until someone hot joins?

Also things like pushing terrain/blocks into certain places and stuff to open doors while monsters come out of holes and things. Like instead of destroying the gravelings in AC, have a large block of stone be pushed by one person or two as others protect him/her to cover that hole in the wall.

Make good use of that kittening F key Anet! You can make this game really shine!

When you apply a sigil of luck (any level and rarity), you get the suffix of the applied sigil of accuracy ( for precision/critical per kill) yet you are still getting luck’s effect (.6% magic find per kill for superior not sure about minor and major).

The effect of the sigils don’t change, just the mix up of text/naming on weapons.

The game confuses luck with that of the critical sigils.

All maps have two forms of 100% completion, the one you see in game and your explorer tab on hero window.

Getting every POI, WP, SP, VISTA, and Heart only goes towards your been there done that title and your huge world map completion star in log in. Areas that say so-and-so area discovered when you run through them, are the explorer title track for each region of Tyria. All regions (exceopt orr) have 175 areas to uncover. This may include normal map completion or not.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Xericor.9103:

With the exception of World Events, most Dynamic Events are playable solo. Even some champions can be killed solo.

No. Dynamic events were not designed to be solo-able. This has been stated many times during the development in interviews when ArenaNet made reference to their scaling mechanics. The minimum number they scale down to is three and most scale up to accommodate ten, but some up to a hundred. They are group events. Certain professions can solo most events, others have a much more difficult time.

The bottom line is dynamic events were not designed to be solo-able. So when other players are making very valid complaint about not having enough people to do them it’s a bit annoying to see some one continue to say oh you can solo those. Regardless of what profession you are you can not solo all of them, they were not designed to be soloed at all. Please stop trying to defend a very serious flaw.

If you are in sea of sorrows, please spread the word as we need people like you to help us that can’t do it SOLO like people above me say.

If fact I would need you to help me raise my guild that will be designed for group play not guilds that tout they are for the common person, but then tell you to your face to “Go do it your self! Its so easy, its soloable!”

My old guild [Nite] advertises daily for new members because they keep doing this to the new players that join and expect what they say to be true— that they will help you in each and every map and do group play then find out they are expected to solo it all and then leave and possibly complain here or quit GW 2 altogether! All you see on there is a sea of grey offline players…

Just as in GW 1, if you do not help your members often or do stuff daily with them they will leave or quit the game and your guild will die or be reduced to just a small clique of your close friends.

They need to be more considerate to certain individuals and not a one size fits all boxed-in approach to things then.

You notice I purposely circumvented the kitten thing just to prove my point ( it did this in GW 1 as well with symbols).

Xericor.9103:

Last post here, as I dont like to get dragged into discussion with peoples whose minds are already made up…

With the exception of World Events, most Dynamic Events are playable solo. Even some champions can be killed solo.

In any other game that requires ‘group’ activity, be that 8 man raids or whatever, its GROUP activity. You may as well complain to the Football Federation that you cant play football by yourself.

They are not soloable. Pure lies by elitists. Maybe for a guardian which seems to be what everyone is playing.

You cannot not solo Champion Giant Kol in Harathi Hinterlands or the big event chain with the centaurs or the centaur leader and his champ war beasts before the fight vs him.

You will fail in any lv 60+ map even with the right build and best gear.

You obviously are drinking the kool aid or just haven’t been to the real maps.

Before being released, guild wars 2 went into a state religion (as I say), wich means, theres no point coming here and posting facts, however sad they are, there always come believers to say that the game is great, all are having fun, and there’s nothing wrong going on, the problem is only with yourself.

This^

But its lv 60+ maps in Sea of Sorrows. No one around no one to help you and if you ask for help, 9 times out of 10, they tell you, you suck and l2p and refuse to help.

Seeing you can only hold up to 10 user generated mail (and an unlimited amount of npc generated mail)…this seems impractical.

I’m going to guess no, you don’t need to.

Sankofa Jimiyu.1567:

The censoring on the forums is more insane than in-game.

“kitten” A baby cat/rabbit
“kittenakke” A Japanese mushroom
“oh for kitten’s sake" Really bad words

Why kitten? Why not just “#$@#%!” everything, or censored/black box. Why not have a filter that sorts words so a sentence can still have coherence:
“I don’t believe this garbage”
“What the heck/hell?”
(But heck and hell are okay words for the filter…)

The filter system is lazy and oversensitive. Checking to see what smattering of syllables spliced together make naughty words from all over the world when there are players having far more problems with the game itself.

Butchering the romaji version of the Japanese language is disheartening as you can’t use certain languages in their pure form in certain districts (as in gw 1) or certain servers ( IME doesn’t work on NA or EU servers), and we do not have any ASIA servers. I haven’t seen any non latin character based languages users on GW 2 probably because of this.

God forbid you had a couple of Japanese friends in GW 2 and they can’t even use their localization properly let alone communicate with them/you (if you/they could) . As the English pronunciation form (romaji) of their language is censored and the Asian characters themselves are not supported either.

Note: I am being hypotheitical here…

The above poster’s shi……..ta-ke (how its pronounced yet how its spelled in English is what causes the problem) example proves this problem clearly.

Seeing ANET is owned by NCSOFT (a Korean company) You’d think they’d catch this oversight?

ai-shi…..te-ru (I love you) is another one.

Edit: now that I think of it, most Japanese computer users are more inclined to use Romaji instead of Kanji/Kana to communicate as its much easier on non native spears to communicate /understand that do not have a wide knowledge of individual characters. As I met a Japanese girl once in GW 1 that confirmed this. She rather use the Romaji form rather than attempt to remember each and every symbol/character, yet doing so will have to cause her to risk ban by circumventing the word filter for every “shi” and t- syllable in her language.

How is this fair? I had this question in GW 1 as well.

They did localize GW 1 for Japanese, but it still had this word filter problem in American English and international districts as everyone is going to go to the most populated districts/servers and not be segregated by their own region then realize they can’t even communicate if they could.

Trust me, I seen it in PVP (even though Asian characters were allowed in pvp as you were not governed by your district’s restrictions yet they still didn’t bother to communicate aside from calling targets).

Go to harathi hinterlands and farm bags from centaurs and sell them at 30 c a piece. People buy them to get certain crafting materials in bulk (Namely tier 3).

Another thing to do is farm platinum in timberline falls or bloodtide getting a stack of ore will sell pretty well + the shards can be used by all tier 4, 5, and 6 jewelers. They respawn as soon as you finish hitting the last node.

There is always textmod, (if it works in gw 2 at all).

Maybe we’ll see a lv 85 area… we all know that certain monsters and npcs in wvw are above lv 80. Will we see pure lv 80+ maps?

I never got a key ever (except story mode/map completion) since Beta 2 when they were still mystic chests and keys.

Why aren’t they dropping anymore? They should drop for everyone at a reasonable rate not just low levels. Not everyone can pay on credit for gems or get enough gold for gems. Granted we have cards now…

Mine are all more immersion than funny… but most of you can see that…

I had a funny name for a Sylvari but forgot it.

Most of my names don’t fit with GW 2 as they are all OC names for a series of books I want to write. They all carried over from GW 1 with some modification to go with the ancestry thing. I was hoping for us to choose our heritage at the beginning of character creation and not at the lv 20 point of the Personal Story.

My elementalist is named Yumiko Emi Ishida as her ancestors were supposed to be Canthan (Yet I had to start in pre-searing as I must always do things in lore/story/older to newest order.) in GW 1. And my name on the forums is my GW 1 ele’s name.

The rest of my characters are also named after OCs.

The only one that really fits will probably be my charr engineer.

His name is Calrath Vilefur.

I chose a more elf-like name for my Female Sylvari ranger, Silfina Heimdisia.

Calavera.1086:

Blacklight.2871:

I only get that in Orr really. Nowhere else is it as thick with fast respawning mobs. Usually its manageable, but I recall one POI I was trying to reach up a hill, and there were no less than three veterans along the path, with accompanying escorts of trash. Managed to get the second one down to about a quarter health before the first had reappeared and jumped me. By the time the second was down, all the previous trash had popped and I had to deal with them again. I should have split when I saw what was happening but stupidly, decided to press on. The first vet still had plenty of health left by the time the second one reappeared. They didn’t take long to double team me into oblivion.

I never did get a single shot in on the third vet and that POI is still unvisited. Every time I think of it, I hear calliope music in the background and some baritone announcer shouting “SEND IN THE CLOWNS!”. Not sure when I’m going to try it again.

Have you tried asking for help? It’s probably doable with 2-3 players.

Go read every comment I made about the lack of community and help around here and see that its not that simple as asking for help…

They will say the same thing, that veterans are easy to beat solo and why should they go back to a map they clearly done 100% to help you get one poi? Also calling me a whiner that doesn’t know how to play the game or needs to change my build.

This game will not last more than a year at this rate unless ANET does something about the spawn rates and the lack of working together…

I’m pretty sure ANET wanted us to work together on all maps and not every man/woman for themselves…

@ Shoopa

Why, I’m on Sea of Sorrows. Only people that are on this server are in Lions Arch and in lv 1-15 maps. I want to be able to get parties together and do every map as a community. The same sentiment is heard from others in many 15, 25 and 40 maps. Once you reach lv 50 and higher maps, no one is around except for the usual lfg for the local dungeon spam. My own guild tells me to do it alone (and change my play style/build) as they believe its a solo game as well. If its that easy, why can’t I fac roll a Champion every time I see one?