Guild Wars 2

Nope I don’t regret buying it at all.

It was inevitable anyway; I love this game.

However yes, there are some things I will place my discontent with in regards to the way the new content was rolled out – particularly massive XP grind, gold sink guild halls, achievements being locked behind heavy group work OR time gated stuff/difficult events and the seemingly short story (I swear there’s more to it, come on ANet, I got a funny feeling here…) and the new WvW map being unfavorable but MOSTLY content that was changed/implemented “indirectly” near/post HoT – nerfs to certain game modes etc.

Despite all the bumps in the road I am thoroughly pleased with the x-pac and the contents within. Gliding is very fun and new for me – the verticalness in the new maps and how beautiful they are is outstanding and it really wows me how different they are compared to the core maps.

Loving all the shiny new skins, albeit there could’ve been a tad bit more armors added… The mastery system is interesting and I’m glad we actually have a reason for XP now beyond level 80, also partly related, those XP infusions made no sense prior to this change.

I hope for more awesome things and bug fixes/tweaks as there are still some problems I would like to see addressed in the new maps… Mainly the difficulty of TD meta events nd Chak Gerent is off putting in terms of it actually succeeding… Of which I’ve never seen it succeed. I also hope to see auto loot added to wvw, including raids to be challenging & rewarding.

TLDR: I’m having fun although there are some problems but no regrets!

I would like the old BLS map back because:

- very easy, friendly environment to traverse as opposed to the new map’s ridiculous vastness & TIME WASTING windy design
- little to no pve interference as opposed to new map’s laden-heavy in pve gimmicks, silly alternatives and draws focus OFF/AWAY FROM actual fair-fight aspect of WvW
- easy to understand & simple layout as opposed to new map’s intimidating layout/confusing design
- manual upgrades that involed physical human interaction (being present) as opposed to new map’s auto upgrade system (little to no human interaction)

There’s probably many more things I could pick up on but I’d have to give more time in the new BLS, I legit haven’t explored the top left of the map yet because I was disappointed in my initial visit the other day; I got lost and was originally on the hunt for a fight but after 30 mins I only found one enemy in there.

I know, this is all new for us and we’re told by others to “adapt” but I can only hope in the near future things clear up or we find a way to deal with these new changes/map. I for one do not like the new map due to reasons explained above – I would’ve loved a redesign of the alpine BLS for all I care. Not more of this EOTM 2.0 style gameplay.

I will tolerate and give it time, though. First impressions aren’t always sunshine and rainbows.

Whelp, it’s already been turned into EOTM 2.0 aka pve-land, may as well add another function to actually traverse the map.

Slightly related: I legit, for the first time ever, jumped into home BLS and it took me 7 mins traversing from top to bottom and into some fire keep where I got turned into an admittedly cool looking hellhound, and just started running around looking for players to kill. That’s a 15 min transformation running around. Didn’t find any enemies. When it ran out I did encounter ONE enemy and they didn’t wanna fight.

Sigh.

That’s a long time running around in that massive map. It’s a bit too much.

Yes 2 nights ago in EBG, T1, at north SMC we had quite the lagfest going on and the ground was laden in brown bags. I totally forgot that auto-loot didn’t work in wvw (top keks player base no auto loots or yous!) and by then I had the biggest game crash (multiple times) and lost the majority of it. Sigh.

Maybe the devs are hiding from the WvW forums due to the intense backlash, verbally abusive, extreme saltiness and nasty, unhelpful, non-constructive feedback players seem to be giving them.

Not saying your post is laden with nasty things, in fact, it is quite civil and reasonable – I too, share similar thoughts and seek concrete answers… But sadly when the player base can only spew “this content is bad” and demand it to be addressed then no wonder we/those posts don’t get looked at.

A better attempt would be “this content is bad because X, it could be fixed by doing X ect” I believe these are the constructive questions/feedback ANet wants to see/will listen to but sadly many players resort to flame and aggrivation thus we get no where.

However, even though there is quite a handful of good/legitimate feedback, it is puzzling to see such silence from the devs and probes further questions… “Do they even listen to us or furthermore, care?”

In a camp on flat ground trying to hit the last vet that I could’ve killed if it weren’t for OBSTRUCTED OBSTRUCTED OBSTUCTED. Not even kidding I strafed to the right to get into a supposedly better position and it was too late.

I hate it.

Even stuff like teleports that are supposed to tele you to the target or wherever you originally had the cursor down to go and yet…. It teleports you literally a STEP closer or better still, doesn’t even work yet puts that whole skill on CD. Jeeze.

All I need is the 3 Coats and I’ll have finished this collection. No drops yet. Not sure how to go about getting one either but I’ll give the events a go.

For anyone wondering – just search Nuhoch on the TP and you can literally buy all map currencies, hence acquiring all the purchasable bladed skins. It’s kinda… Weird when you think about it – Bandit Crests and Geodes are never tradable yet these new map currencies are.

Hey guys, just wondering what your experiences are with racking up decent XP in the Maguuma Jungle areas for HoT Masteries?

I’ve tried doing events but the past 2 days it’s been rather… I hate to say this… But dead? Any DS maps I get into are either dead, failed or I disconnect/game crash too frequently and get put on an empty one. Yes I heard the events in DS gives good XP.

Tangled Depths is one of the harder maps to configure and I often show up when the events have ended. I’ve tried killing the Chak mobs whenever they’re around and it’s ok XP.. I just wish there were hoards or more mobs/waves of these things around.

I’ve tried the so called “spider farm” in Verdant Brink and it was marginally disappointing and horribly repetitive.

Auric Basin all I know of is the meta event and minute bosses on the outer skirts that give some XP but it feels minimal.

I’m enjoying the game though, it’s been great so far. Mind you, this is with many boosters too but I feel like I’m doing something wrong or I’m not in the right places at the right time?

I see people walking around with Mastery level 100+ and it really makes you wonder.. How? Haha.

Thoughts/suggestions?

I bought all the Fractal Boxes for the achievement to finish the collection because I like finishing collections – does this make me a bad person?

I see it as a way for fractal runners to make money by selling their boxes (skins) they already may have to others to make some income, just as PvPers and WvWers have been yearning for alternate ways to make money in their respective game modes.

Maybe as more people do fractals and get boxes the prices for Gold ones will go down and I can merrily buy those to finish the gold collection (if there is one, can’t remember)… Does that make me doubly bad?

BUG Description:

Nothing happens/progresses after killing the vision of the Pale Tree in the story instance Hearts and Minds, Act 4.

BUG Scenario:

- I downed whilst getting the Pale Tree to about 5% HP left.
- Caithe started rezzing me.
- I killed the Pale Tree at pretty much the same time as Caithe had rezzed me.
- Pale Tree vision disappears and nothing happens.
- Only things left are respawning firstborn NPCs to kill and the damaging pulses/attacks left by the Pale Tree vision

What I then tried:

- Killed myself in the left over pulses of the Pale Tree.
- Spawned back to ‘re-try’ mode area.
- As soon as I went back in it was WORSE as there is nothing to interact with in there. No Enemies. No NPCs. Simply “Defeat the Vision of the Pale Tree” when there is nothing around to interact with.

Please fix this; I had to quit the game to get out and now I’m about to try again and hope it doesn’t bug out once more…

Turamarth.3248:

Crashes can have many different causes.
If you don’t post the text that appears if you click on “Show details >>” no one here can help you.

Sorry here is another one. This is one that was caused by the Pact Mastery auto loot bug.

But this is the EXACT SAME problem that’s been happening months prior on an often basis for me and it is so puzzling.

If I had 1g for every time I encountered one of these in the past WEEK, even occasionally months prior only worsening come HoT, then I’d be rich. Legit.

Yes I am fully aware of the current thread open “Pact Mastery – AutoLoot can cause crashes” …

source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Pact-Mastery-AutoLoot-can-cause-crashes

… yet I’ve had this particular error SO. MANY. TIMES. in the past few months and it’s the most irritating thing. Yes I send through the report then start up my game and boom again same thing shortly after in the day.

Now post HoT (prior obtaining Pact Mastery auto loot) I kept getting this game crash about 4 times throughout the day in WvW. This is where I’m very annoyed because it’s not my internet as everything else worked fine during those times. No other programs open; just playing GW2. (Yepp I’m 100% FINE on max settings etc if that helps) … exact same problem occurs on lowest settings.

It is the worst thing ever.

Does anyone know a solution or is experiencing similar issues?

Attached picture of what the error looks like (upon sending a report in)…

… I legit crashed over 10 times during the span of Jungle Wurm -> Shadow Behemoth -> Golem Mark II world bosses, that was WITH pact mastery auto loot but jeeeeeze I feel like I can’t even log into the game without it happening again within 2 mins.

EDIT: added pic of what the actual error looks like BEFORE sending a report.

From the wiki:

“Double-click to apply to an item with an unused utility infusion slot.

+20% Experience from Kills"

Source: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experienced_Infusion

QUESTION: If I had more than one of these infusions slotted & equipped would it stack or is it flat 20% only no matter how many I have?

Game is still downloading the new content but I could log in annnnd… instant 10k AP chest due to these wvw achievement changes. Very pleased with the changes to some; I will have to get used to the new titles… some sound a bit… weird.

Gotta go to work now so I’ll leave it on downloadin… hope to get into this new WvW map when I get back!

ArchonWing.9480:

I’m not a fan of the auto daily boosters, as the timing has to be pretty coincidental, especially involving the more out of the way dailies.

I would have really liked it if you could choose when to use the booster, as no other daily has ever required you to immediately use the reward.

If they should keep this, then I would suggest more tangible things also be included as well. Otherwise, please just give me 250 wxp or whatnot.

This so so so much.

From what I read over and over again I am under the impression those liquid drops are converted automatically and furthermore automatically consumed on the spot.

This could simply be avoided by not automatically consuming the newly acquired boosters (so that we may choose which toon to make use of them on; variety).

The only positive thing I can think of out of this whole concept is at least ANet is finding a way to give incentive for players to stay/play in WvW via giving them boosters, however, as you’ve already stated – there are times where you will want to use them or not and this is key for the success of the motive behind this change.

As others have stated, until further information, if any at all… we may see a spike in population in regards to EOTM ‘k-train’ farming for fast WvW ranks/badges etc (good luck being any other side but OG during that time though, folks.)

I have this achievement too. It would be funny to have a title associated with it “Drunk” or simply “Thirst Slayer” just for the lolz.

Hi ANet,

Currently if we want to check the age of our account alongside the age of our character we’re playing we have to log into that character and type /age.

Quite frequently I find myself wishing we could just pan through our list of characters from the log in screen and the information would alternatively be displayed there (See picture for example).

Is it possible to implement a feature such as this?

I feel these kinds of details should already have been implemented into the UI log in screen since day one, along with stuff such as WvW Rank, present list of all available Dailies and maybe some other interesting points.

Feel free to discuss this topic amongst yourselves.

Haleydawn.3764:

Narrrz.7532:

the new xp booster gives +50% exp in wvw as well.

The WvW boosters give WxP boost, not a levelling Exp boost. Are you sure the new booster give increased WxP? As it doesn’t state they do.

Agreed OP, I’d like some more of these if the new boosters don’t effect WxP
Edit: just checked wiki, these are under Historical/Discontinued

I just did some testing.

First picture: Without no new booster: 100 WvW exp upon capping a Sentry
Second picture: With new booster: 150 WvW exp upon capping a Sentry

Pretty sure it rewards WvW exp due to those pics I took.

I might be able to further test if it stacks with the old (discontinued) WvW exp booster (when the others run out haha).

But in a nutshell: All those boosters (including old discontinued WvW booster) nets me over 2,600 WvW exp when I cap a single keep. I will provide a screenshot if you need when I get around to capping one on this other toon.

If we’re remotely lucky at all; ANet will bring back the lottery system where we have a massive RNG chance to get a RANDOM Halloween skin.

I still have Shiny Foil things left over tbh.

But as usual; tough cookies those items are kinda rare and have value but ANet will do whatever they want.

Absolutely 100% agreed here.

Some logo emblems do not show up nicely with the current colors.

Either:

a) make it customizable colors
b) make other versions of the BP in varied colors available
c) make it part of the guild emblem creator in that you choose and save the flag’s background colors and can even choose different designs (checkered background, striped etc)

First 3 toons on map completion in full zerk gear… Starting my 4th map comp but this time on my engi using condi gear. A tad but slower at times… I just feel like the underwater weapons/CB needs a serious overhaul. It’s not condi-friendly/cleave with just the single target harpoon gun thing. Sigh.

Either way, grate on making Sunrise.

Surely I am not the only one that feels like Warrior is missing out on an elite shout of sorts, let’s face it – Guardian was blessed with one, and a very interesting one it is.

What do YOU think would make a good ELITE SHOUT skill for the Warrior if ANet were to ever implement one?

Some people have suggested a shout that applies Taunt; I deem that fitting for a Warrior of all professions.

Feel free to discuss this topic amongst yourselves.

Narrrz.7532:

the new xp booster gives +50% exp in wvw as well.

Oh it does? I never knew this, will try one out – thanks!

I am wondering, would it stack with the old WvW Booster then (I have some left over on a toon already).

When the new HoT WvW map goes live is it possible to bring back the 50% WvW Booster on sale for a limited time?

I’ve seen it too long ago in T2,

I THINk you buy them from an NPC in Rata Sum; just try researching it or look up something like “consumables useable in wvw”. That might help.

Spirited Was Eceni.3869:

I use a Samsung T27B300 LED HDMI monitor with an HD lead from my graphics card which is a Sapphire Dual-X AMD Radeon R9 280X OC 3GB GDDR5 model. There are better items available but for the money they give really good crystal clear images and the colour shading is excellent even during highly populated boss fights.

I’ll definitely check it out – thank you very much for your time! Also yes, crystal clear smooth quality is my intention; my current monitor is a bit foggy and some skills show up odd to me.

Hi guys,

I’m looking at upgrading my current ASUS monitor to a new one. My current one is rather small (desktop 1,400 × 900) and I’m interested in getting something more widescreen/larger of good quality – price does not matter.

Do any of you have recommendations or even suggestions on any GOOD gaming monitors?

Sorry if this is not in the right forum thread; please feel free to adjust it as such.

Thank you in advance.

People complain about too much loot: “waaaa nerf the loot plz”
People complain about not enough loot: “waaaa increase loot plz”
People complain about everything and anything.
You should just be happy you’re even GETTING loot in that place.

Very nice; I didn’t get to watch the whole vid as I have to leave for work now but at the end, gratz!

I am certain I can solo just about everything (have not tried SMC yet) on my condi ranger but that took some time with your build; kudos!

Liston.9708:

Hmmm eotm for diamond rank? I am almost bear in pvp and have done 0 real matches……

A lot of it is EOTM based. Not gonna’ lie – when farming karma you get WvW exp too in what seems like an abundance so there’s a lot of ‘high ranked’ players out there these days but if this guy genuinely reached it via regular WvW then gratz to him, very nice.

As for PvP ranks I’m Bear too and I rarely EVER choose ranked let alone not even knowing what I’m supposed to be doing half the time..

Same on every profession.

Happens on my guardian frequently, wasting my downed state skill(s). Sigh.

The amount of time I spent in the queue wanting to play pvp I could’ve played a hot join game.

As mentioned by others already;

- ANet is “looking into” doing something with ascended rings/trinkets
- Stat changing seems to be limited to weps/armor only at this stage

I would give anything in the world for ANet to make stay switching happen with back pieces and trinkets/rings etc… Salvaging just sounds like such a waste…

I would give anything for the SAB Finisher to make a come back.

It would be nice to see finishers related to what side we chose in the PS like an Order of Whispers one for example.

I better snatch a few finishers up then, didn’t even notice a lot are being taken away.

But yes – llama is majestic finisher… Must stay available forever…

Here is mine:

• When viewing materials on the TP it should have a hover pop-up informing us of how many we ALREADY HAVE stored:

a) in the bank
b) in the materials section
c) “total” of both banked + stored mats

So that we may simply calculate how many more we wish to buy instead of the usual; “oh, I forgot to check how many of these I have, better run all the way back to the bank…”

Hope that helps.

1. Get a troll guild of players together
2. Make a circle around the banker or TP
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!

No seriously, collision, or whatever you’re suggesting can and WILL be abused by players. So no. Just. No.

Maybe I need to buy a bigger monitor but lately I’ve been trying to be more situationally aware map-wise when it comes to wvw; I just wish I could have the big full map on another screen somehow so I can simply glance at it and not have to open up the big one, haha.

But yes, I watch for orange swords or white ones. It’s annoying though when one person can simply hit a gate, run away and it pops swords making you waste your time going over there for practically nothing.

I’ve been keeping an eye on sentries, too, for they often depict movement.

Thank goodness they changed it.

I’ll take the whispery barely noticeable sound over flatulent sounds any day.

I will admit though; if anything they could’ve at least listened to a batch of REAL war horn sounds being played as it feels like they haven’t even bothered. It is probably all electronically made up, too. Would be nice to have legit warhorn sounds.

+1

Especially the plant looking one (Melandru? Correct me if I’m wrong) because wow more Sylvari armor/outfits please and thank you!

ANet Design Team,

As myself and many other players welcome the addition of any new faces/hairstyles to the game regarding the Makeover Kit(s), I would like to humbly request some faces, in regards to Charrs, that resemble Lynxes (for males) and Tigers. There is one that looks like a lion but it lacks the cheek fluffiness that Tigers often have and some hairstyles don’t dye well.

So could we possibly see more detailed, fuzzy faces in the future?

Also, it would be really cool to see additional dye options for the ‘accessory’ section as in it’s current form; most of the newer hairstyles portray them as different hues or there really is no decent black/white, as an example, color to choose from.

Thank you very much for your time.

Same here except been disconnecting frequently for the past week. Sucks big time.

When people complain about Courtyard yet it’s the only TRUE actual legit PvP map in the entire game aka no lame PvE stuff. Wot.

I wish there were more maps like CY, just not so unwaveringly clustered/tiny spaced.

Reasons I’ve not bothered PvPing in about a month now:

- hot join gone; sometimes I just wanna jump straight in
- premades premades premades premades that’s all I ever get matches up with…. And this is in UN-RANKED
- Ridiculous D/D ele taking on more than 2 players at once is grossly imbalanced
- new maps are basically PvE orientated or incorporate such gameplay style
- no new runes/sigils added to list of build diversity

I really just want solo queue. So sick of being matches up against premades and the horribly long queue times.

I keep getting constant disconnects this week, along with work I won’t have time to finish any more of these events… Not that I could most of the time due to random D/Cs but I will suggest my piece of constructive feedback on how to counter the following:

• Disconnecting means you lose all your stacks resulting in zero reward

Possible solution:

• The stacking buff should stay active (up to most recent stack achieved) even when you disconnect so long as the event is active and you are in the same zone regardless of instance(s) e.g; Brisban Wildlands

Problem(s) with my suggestion:

• What happens to players who achieve a certain level of stacking buffs but reconnect AFTER the event has finished?
• Could the stacking buff stay active after the event for briefly 10 minutes for those who reconnect to unlock their bloom rewards?

That’s about all I could think of. Hope that helps.

Yepp happened last night, twice.

Stuck on LA loading screen and then WvW one, both of which I could hear regular audio, people running around but the loading screen just stayed there.

- Frequent lag
- constant disconnects
- very slow load times

Gaile Gray.6029:

Lucis.3156:

I rarely come here to post or reply but I just want the devs to know how important it is for us players to not be punished in any way by having a disconnect in the middle of a play session, more importantly if we are going to lose any progress we have made in a said event. If there was a way to “save” that progress for a few minutes so we have the time to log back in, it would be great, and yes I know we can do the next event in 30 minutes but for some 30 min are alot and dont have time for more.

We completely agree with you. The team will be working on a way to address this. I don’t know if progress would be saved, that’s a question for a designer or programmer. However, at the least, we don’t want someone to lose their rewards!

Past week has been full of lag/disconnects and I’ve lost the stacking buff TWICE now over the past 2 days that I have free time after work inevitably resulting in getting zero reward. Nothing. Absolute zilch.

This is wrong.

There should be a system/feature in place that saves your stack of buffs for at least 2 minutes or so in order to reconnect.

As much as I really want to work for a particular reward, it is simply impossible due to the constant lagging/disconnects.

This thread applicable: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Absolutely-Insane-Lag-Spikes/first#post5473541

Still happening.

Tosh.2741:

I have 2 jobs. I buy gems to feed your kids and I want this event to extend plx. At least increase the reward or reduce the cost of the items from the merchant. I spend like $200 every 2 weeks on gems. Thanks! Luv Toshi.

Same boat here; I will be working heavily and as others have stated this event does not last that long.

I wish they would extend it.

+1 please extend the event, even make it a 7 day week-long one as I will be working.

I rarely complain about lag, “but when I do…”

The March-wide lag-fest was irritating enough. I held through it and it passed by, eventually.

But right now for the past few days I’ve experienced unbearably annoying game lag. By game lag I mean Guild Wars 2 in it’s sole stand-alone entirety. Nothing else. My internet is fine. The web works great. YT videos work instantly. It is NOT my connection, NOT my internet problem – it is solely GW2 and even to the EXTENT of the GW2 website. That’s right folks – the GW2 website doesn’t even load when this happens. Of all the websites… this one at the same time as experiencing game lag, fails to load.

• I frequently get the grey error message that minimizes the game requesting you to send an error report. My game crashes.
• Extreme 1.5k+ ping lag (on average)
• Disgustingly slow UI load times (including but not limited to hero panel, gem store, map instances etc)
• ~5 second skill delay or more
• WvW un-playable (including ANY content related to a competitive environment e.g; PvP)

Right now the lag feels like this game is being run on a potato.

I live in Australia. My ping on average is around 250-280. The game runs just fine at that pace and I am content, however, I am beginning to think is it because I live here that the game lags like a dinosaur frequently?

I literally cannot press skill #1 in WvW because guess what – 10 second skill delay. Yepp. All characters on screen freeze or simultaniously run in the direction they were heading and then it snaps in superspeed to where everyone is and you’re left thinking what just happened?

It is the most inconvenient, frustrating thing and I really want to simply say “please fix this” but it’s not something easy to fix, I can understand that.

I hope I’m not the only one experiencing frequent game lag like this… I’ll be surprised if this thread even manages to post successfully.