Guild Wars 2

I run Guardian main and I speak from my experience. Funnily enough my Healing Power is 1,337 at the moment. It’s far from useless imo. I’m running a shout based healing build and it works well. Mace/Focus, Scepter/Shield. Scepter needs buffing but the immobile is extremely useful when someone’s getting hit on hard by a vet or champ. Also the knockback and heal from SoA is nice. I’m not entirely sure if it’s working correctly though. Arrows seem to go through it are they supposed too???

I posted in a couple of other threads about this. Drop rate is either bugged or has been nerfed. Can a dev please confirm or give some kind of feedback to the community as to what’s happening? Many players are reporting the same thing.. O_O

I think when I kill a bunch of enemies (via farming or killing them during DE’s) I should be rewarded with at least some drops.. That’s not happening, I understand both arguments. Yes a Legendary shouldn’t be achieved in a month but if I’m out there killing enemies and investing my time I would really like some acknowledgement of that in the form of a decent return (as many others would I’m sure). You can throw names at me like entitled, spoilt whatever. When there is no incentive there is really no point. There’s an 11 page thread which has been ignored addressing the problems with loot drops. I’m not a farmer and I don’t spend 10 hours per day sitting in front of my computer. For the time that I do spend in front of it playing Guild Wars 2 I would love to get a return on what I’m doing in game. That’s not happening and it’s not happening for many other players as evident by that 11 page thread..

I think the devs may be a bit pre-occupied with broken professions/traits/skills/bugged dungeons etc.

Raithron.1582:

Unfortunately people will try to fault the event, but dont listen to them guys

Yeah that’s what usually happens and usually broken things don’t get fixed and improvements aren’t made……..

Dante.1508:

Try reading any of the “Tier 3 Cultural gear is too expensive” Threads, yeah that brings out the elitists in droves, ask for "rare gear that costs 119 gold " to be lowered or made cheaper and you’ll see the prestige side of Guildwars 2 raise its ugly head..

Ask for Legendaries to be made easier to get and watch those same elitists jump in and e-thug their way through the thread…

Yes for so many its all about the kitten..

It’s funny because they’re the vocal minority that exist in many other games that have the potential to be great but usually flop through developers/designers not listening to the majority… *cough

I hopped on just after the update. Was the same as usual (nothing).. Killed the dwayna boss and then the statue (no drops from the boss) got 1 green and a couple of blues from the chest that spawned.. That’s it lol…

Ross Biddle there is a simple solution to your problem. Don’t come here. Anet get’s quite a lot of praise from the community, however that praise starts to turn into constructive criticism (gets ignored). Then it turns into frustration (gets ignored). Go troll somewhere else if you don’t like what’s posted here. Yes people will complain when something in game (which they’ve paid for) is not working as it’s intended too and hasn’t for weeks. When things like Goggles not being in the right place or too high drop rates (which are not game breaking) get hot fixed faster than light speed.. Kitten off.

rootnode.9546:

mulch.2586:

I’m still trying to figure out what the first sentence was supposed to say. In lure of…

I think the communication is actually typical for a MMO. They don’t have much to say, largely because there’s basically no bug fixes. If you’re moving at glacial pace, there’s no reason to keep updating us. You wanna hear weekly “still broken” “still broken” “still broken” … ?

Nope, it would suffice to say “We know about the problems, we’re going to fix this, this and that next, and this is what we’re planning to do. What are your opinions and are there any other issues we should look at while we’re at it?”. This would please A LOT of people.

I’ve said in another thread. It feels like that “When it’s ready” attitude :/ I could respect that then because the game was still in development. But with things as they are it feels like we’re back at the development stage…

I don’t really like speaking out against anet because they did help me very quickly with an issue a few weeks ago. However I have noticed that priorities in regards to game breaking bugs and minor bugs are way off. What I mean is earlier on being an example: Earlier on just after the patch Mesmer’s and other professions that transform have a game breaking bug that can kill them and other players/null traits etc. Another thread was about diving goggles being missing. The goggle thread was responded to first. Another example: A thread about loot dropping too much which had I think 5 posts in it gets attention immediately from anet. There is an ongoing thread which has been active for about 2 weeks now and is reaching close to the 11 page mark. 1 response from a grey tag… That thread is about the lack of loot and a possible problem with the loot tables… Yeah I’m a little frustrated at the priorities tbh… They need adjusting :/

Hockmed.9417:

Taking my experience in GW1 into consideration, this is honestly what you could expect. In GW1, each class had something like 100 skills (just an example, i dont know the actual number, nor do i care. it was a significant number though). If one was either too buggy or was getting abused in the meta, instead of fixing it, they broke it into nothingness.

Someone should point out that if they do that in this game, there will be no usable skills in a couple more patches, because we only have about 40 per class this time. (again, not counting the actual number. just making a point)

It really seems like there is no care put into these changes. Knee jerk reactions based on crying, lack of skill and laziness. I cant fathom how things this big could be released to a live environment. I understand the no-lifers that blast through content in 4 hours cry and whine for more stuff to do, but how about fixing the current content rather than pushing out more bugged/broken crap?

As long as we don’t have another Smiters Boon incident!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/

It’s not just you and it’s been going on for a while…

Beachead.4127:

Anet only responds to posts about missing diving goggles.

This LOL!!!

If you haven’t posted in this thread about your loot concerns please do and bump it up.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/

AcE.3418:

Zappix.7928:

The problem isn’t the skill nerfs it’s the nerfs to loot drops. If in fact it is a nerf and not a bug?

Absolutely. They make the drops so impossible to get that you have no incentive to play.

And its not a bug

Oh right. There’s like a 10 page thread asking what’s happened to the loot drops. I myself have noticed a noticeable reduction in drops. It’s quite saddening that making an income a legitimate way has taking a beating and the community is just left in the dark. It’s the whole “When it’s ready” attitude. -_-

I have GW2 pinned to my task bar and it never brings up any prompts for me? I’m on Windows 7 64-bit.

The problem isn’t the skill nerfs it’s the nerfs to loot drops. If in fact it is a nerf and not a bug?

I created a thread a while ago. I noticed that my character would get stuck whilst trying to jump. Glad I’m not alone in this

voidelysium.7285:

I’m currently running around Fractals level 7 to 9, helping level guildies and pugs up and whatnot. For anyone that has run fractals: Is it me, or is the loot much better than any other mode of play?

Dungeons, WvW, Events, Dragons, everything else seems to drop pittance in comparison. I get at least one rare from every fractal level I run (usually about 20mins each) and I’ve had far too many exotics there to boot. Never, I repeat, never had an exotic drop in regular PvE, and that’s with 500 hours played.

Thing is, I was getting rares and whatnot before in events like Claw of Jormag and such, until they started doing this dodgy loot balancing business. Surely they’d do unit testing and test case scenarios on the drops so that they could see if they were dropping correctly.

Like simulating the drops a level 80 would get from killing 50,000 Risen (49,999 porous bones, probably) and making sure the system was spewing out the right ratios of loot? Or maybe there is some grand interference between the loot system and the ‘anti-bot’ Diminishing Returns system. Still, proper testing would have shown that something was wrong right?

You’d think so, but the guardian staff skill empower, which is meant to give 10s of might according to the tooltip (which was noted in the patch notes, in Lost Shores) still does only 8s.. It appears that inadequate testing is certainly not out of the question.

Yes. Although I am only on Fractals lvl 2 I have noticed that fractals drop a reasonable amount of loot in comparison to the open world. But I really don’t want to do Fractals constantly.. Also you are correct, Fractals are giving me more returns than other dungeons…

Rottaran Owain.6789:

Zaxares.5419:

Zappix.7928:

I couldn’t stand the phrases Asura Warriors say. “You’re really good at riling me up”. “I’M ALL WOUND UP”. “FULLY ADRENALISED”. Annoying as hell lol..

What do they say when they get Might applied on them?

“I feel 6 feet tall!”

I don’t mind that one. It’s cute lol.

Hi all, I’m afraid to report that I am in the same boat as everyone in this thread. I logged in this morning to do some farming in Orr. Farmed a group of 6 mobs (no drops) though okay let’s try some events. Tagged enemies got the XP and 2 drops out of I think 6-9 waves of enemies. 2 drops? One was a white pistol and the other was one of them Porous Bones. I asked in WC and someone said I could have hit DR but I stated that I just started so how could that be? Yeah something is really wrong with the drop rate. The amount of enemies that I’ve killed and the amount of drops don’t add up. Also there was 3 Veterans that spawned during this event. Not one of them dropped anything. Despite tagging and getting the XP from the kill.. O_O Help Arenanet???

I couldn’t stand the phrases Asura Warriors say. “You’re really good at riling me up”. “I’M ALL WOUND UP”. “FULLY ADRENALISED”. Annoying as hell lol..

Captain Cucumber, Madame Mango, Sergeant Salad, Commander Carrot and a few others to throw back at them.

Luck* not look lol..

Vanilla beans you can get (or at least I do) from the Sylvari starting area Caledon Forest. The herb patches there usually give me 3-5 Vanilla beans per harvest. Good look on your cooking!

Give me all the other Fractals no problem can do them fine without dying. The Swampland one I and many others that I group up with decide to restart. The other thread that someone linked too had people wanting it harder? O.o What’s worse is the positive feedback is the only thing the designer bothered to respond to. This is why potentially great games fall. The vocal minority…

I don’t exactly know how to word this right so bare with me lol. Basically in the fractal were you have to kill the kitty robots there are two phases were you have to jump from ledges. I’ve never had a problem with this part until today. Basically as I do my little run up to jump from ledge to ledge I noticed that as I went to jump my character got stuck which made her jump right off the cliff instead of to the other ledge. A similar sort of thing happens if you’re jumping and you get attacked, you end up un holstering your weapons and that slows you down in your jump and you usually miss. However my weapons were holstered as we’d killed the harpy’s. Other people also said that it was like being stuck on the ground. Has anyone else encountered this?

Thank you in advance!

-.- My meow meow is fine..

My Charr/Warrior is called Sir Meowalot

What’s complicated mean?

Well giving out all those precursors is potentially lost $$ for Arenanet in terms of people buying gem cards in order to trade them in for gold (to buy them the quick way) as quite a few people hit the jackpot.. Not to mention the amount of posts from really kitten’d off people that were DC’d/new build’d during the event and lost out on any kind of chance to partake in this loot lottery. Arenanet please look at the forums and listen to your players. I’m going to reiterate what most people have said. Don’t do one time events ever again unless you are 100% certain players will not encounter the lag fest, disconnect disco and bugged quests we’ve had during this one. It’s really not good and what’s worse is, is that this was done in front of lots of potentially new players. What do you think their first impressions of the game were? I cringe for Arenanet now. Many players have remained loyal after the hacking spree that took place at launch, the numerous bugged quests, the botting problem, the Halloween bugs and the time zones that some players are in that sort of rule them out to take part.

Gimmeh lootz nao!

Signed~~ Could not log in during the finale of this event =(

I have a level 80 Guardian that uses a Mace/Focus and Scepter/Shield with full exotic cleric. My heal output is very high! It is a challenge and I have had no problems killing stuff in this area and haven’t died yet. Yes they hit hard and tactical dodging is important. However I agree that the loot is most likely bugged as I’ve not had a single drop. Not even junk.. Also others may find this challenging yes as others may find Orr challenging or hell a new player that has no idea wtf is going on may find Divinity’s reach a challenge, I don’t think it’s fair to start flaming and insulting people for bringing their legitimate feedback to the forum or dismissing their concerns as whining. Feedback helps developers improve the game however I’ve found that the vocal minority seem to be catered to a bit too much which was a negative point about the first game. I’m starting to think that none of the constructive criticism from the Halloween event was actually taken into consideration which is why this event has been a bit of a let down for many players which if you actually look at the forum make up the majority.. So instead of siding with the vocal minority just look through the forum and see what your players really want..!

Once again, the area is great some numbers need adjusting and the loot table looking at.
To those saying change your skills to adjust to the area, that’s great advice for players I would add that you look at the thing Arenanet has been promoting “Cross profession combo’s”. Many skills will remove conditions from you with each hit if you range attack through it.

Ahh that would explain it then. Because when my norn character was doing it I was trying to pick up the bunny food while he was running. Thank you for your help

Oh I know that I mean usually when you take your hands off the WASD it stops your character from moving totally. I did that but my characters kept running. O_O

To add my keyboard isn’t sticky LOL!!!

Hi everyone I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this but on two different characters this has happened. First was a human female guardian. She was running along all fine and happy after killing some enemy. I took my hand off the run key and she carried on running. I tried pressing V to make her dodge but she didn’t. She stopped once she ran into a tree lol. It’s happened again with a norn male warrior. I was doing the quest were you have to pick up the bunny food and scare away the hungry bunnies. My character was running to pick up one of the foods and he wouldn’t stop running. I took my hand off the forward running key and he ran right off the cliff to his death. Haha has this happened to anyone else?

Also a big thank you to the support team for resolving my previous issue! =D

This is great! Thank you!! Also Mad Queen you have great taste

Hi I’m not sure if this belongs in Audio or here so apologies if it’s in the wrong place. I really love the music to the clock tower jumping puzzle, is there a name for it or any place I can listen to it aside from doing the puzzle?

Thank you in advance!

I answered this in another thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGuaDwFVCvA this is the song you want. It’s not in nightfall but it sounds quite similar to a track in nightfall where you fight abaddon.

I like the clock tower. However! I think that it should be a solo event or if you’re going to group us all together then make the other players invisible. Personally I don’t find jumping puzzles hard if I’m doing them alone. I can better focus on the path to take and get from A to B to C without the distractions of other players. Of course the puzzle should be a challenge that isn’t the problem. For me personally the problem lies in having to focus on the path whilst having several other characters putting me off. It’s a mindset that I cannot shake and I think many others cannot shake either. The puzzle is an excellent feature but the grouping aspect of should have been better thought out…. I’m not going to ask for it to be changed because that would be unfair to the players that have already achieved it. Hopefully arenanet take this into account when they implement another JP (maybe for Christmas)?

I think this is the one you’re looking for. =) It’s pretty good!

Oh okay thank you.

Hi there I have no idea what has happened? Just over a week ago I achieved rank 400 in chef and crafted Omnomberry bars and now I check that character and go to craft more and I couldn’t. I checked my rank and it’s saying I’m rank 280 in chef? What? Help? Thank you.