Guild Wars 2

Tormented Weapon Pack
Brings in Shield, Axe, Daggers, Staff, Shortbow, longbow. =D

oh man, where did you find that pic Vizen?
Based on the number of posts on this thread, im sure there will be riots outside anet HQ if Cantha is not delivered within a year lol.

Most of the population already have 2-3 alts at 80 after nearly 10 months since release. These players are now mostly doing wvw, group meta events or in high level farming areas.

The only players you will see now in lower levels are possibly creating newer alts or doing dailies by killing low level mobs, i suggest joining a good pve guild where you can get more of mmo feel.

Excellent job on the cut scene! =)

I just want to emphasize that I know most of the players do nag, cry n scream when something is broken but we also appreciate any time anet pulls a bunny out of the bag.

So once again, great job!

Bright.9160:

If a person stands on the button, but another person goes and stands on them as well, you reset the button.

Only have 1 person stand on the buttons and let everyone else gtfo.

The 2 buttons part is glitched since last patch. We had 9 mins when we got to this room and we made only 1 person per button who stepped on and off to make sure it wasnt the button. But the gas in the middle floor did not dissipate and there were no oozes that spawned either, making it impossible to proceed to the next part.

Lets report this as a bug lol =P
Please fix that all weapons have no option to dye, along with the backpieces! =D

I have the same issue, i have completed daily every day since the new daily system was introduced and on several different characters.

This is a known bug and there has been no response from the dev team on when will they have this fixed.

There is a vendor on the 2nd level of the Black Lion Trading npcs that will allow you to trade the ticket in for fused weapons. (in Lions Arch)

I just purchased the 3 minis just to get this and now it tells me i cannot get it due to content being disabled…
Any word on when will this be made available again?

100k is insane, when i first heard this, i thought anet accidently left an extra 0 in there.

Im hoping that is still the case, i will farm 10k but 100k is out of the question.

Chamone man, cha – mon! c’mon …no sereiously…

No one is forcing you to go to a zone to farm, but having the option is always a good deal.

The op is absolutley right, almost all farms have been nerfed and we are left to run cof p1 over and over. A game should have content for players of all types, whether it is causal players, hardcore ones who want to grind those T6 mats. So good idea +1.

I got this achievement without actually trying to get it lol.
Try to dash into a veterna karka when you are carrying the crab, most people chasing after you will get crushed, you still require a little bit of luck for them to all fall for this.

Well I will explain the logic behind this addition, it is simply to provide you with exotic max dmg weapons with new set of stats which you can transmute.

They want you to buy lvl 80 transmutaion stones if you want these stats at the same time making you waste your gold at the vendor.

It is simply another money sink which ties in with spending gems.

won today 7 times, last win was over 300 points and still did not update my daily….Please give me my achievement point. First the Hints achievement hasnt been fixed for 4 months and now this…

What can you do to make the game better in future?
1. Permanent content – Bring back Elite areas like Underworld, Fissure of Woe or maybe something new. These areas need to be insanely hard but also gives you extremely good rewards for groups that can manage. If you want to continue living story please do but always add permanent content at the end, any dungeons should be left for us to revisit. – Designing this must have been hard work, why Archive this…..
2. Mega Super Duper World Events –
a. Dragon Event- What happened to the awesome beta events we played such as the dragon flying over our heads and turning everyone against each other? That was so freaking awesome, that took my expectations so high and then I play the game and I did not find anything even close to being as epic as this.
b. Hunger Games – Once again….almost a year since we played this, are you seriously not going to recycle any of the content that made people fall in love with this game?
3. Bonus weekends – In Guild wars 1 what you did right was to allow players to get a bonus every weekend to do something, allow us to get double karma/exp/gold during weekends like once a month.
Or double rewards for doing certain things, getting 1 achievement point to kill 50 enemies in Charr zone is not motivation enough.
4. Nicholas the Traveler – I know he must have died but please continue his legacy, surely there has got to be a NPC in all of Tyria that wanted to carry this on?
5. RNG items – No more, I request all players to NEVER buy any more RNG items from the Cash shop, don’t waste your money, if we stop buying them, Anet will get the message. I don’t want a “Chance” at buying something when I am spending my hard earned real life money, no one in their right mind should. While I understand having Mystic forge and other money syncs is needed but those are only for in-game currency, this should not be implemented to real life money.
6. Guild Halls & GvG – Both are absolutely required, having a guild and spending 50k influence on unlocking guild missions was not fun, I did not feel a sense of accomplishment but having a guild hall and equipping it with NPCs and then hosting battles here would be so much more fun. GvG, this should have been an obvious, the sPvP in this game is seriously lacking a whole lot.
7. Hall of Heroes – My favorite past time, this made the game all worth it, having intense battles which only got harder as you battled teams 1v1v1 and finally claim the Hall of Heroes, having your team’s name announced served wide, now that was epic.
8. Ranks – ok I like how there are a lot more tiers and animations but they need to come out of the character and not a lame flag that you throw down. It doesn’t even feel like I threw down my rank when the animation is not coming out of my character.
9. Consumable Dedicated Interface Slots – this is not a very big deal but every MMO/RPG has slots or skills for consumables, let us put our food or elixirs in new dedicated slots, so I don’t have to keep my inventory open.

This above is just a short list, I hope my feedback will actually be read and given proper thought, overall this is an amazing game and I hope it will go in the right direction.

My opinion on this living story and I will try and explain both sides, things that were done right and then things those were just handled wrong.

Living Story
Initially this was quite interesting and exciting to say the least as we are given a full game and then on top of it new content every month which changes the world – That is an extremely cool idea.
How has it progressed?
With Flame & Frost, I saw a lot of things that were done right, the MF dungeon was both fun, challenging and rewarding for some. I am not the biggest fan of RNG but its natural when it comes to MMO and having some items that only a few players can achieve gives me all the more reason to grind a dungeon. This was still done right!
Last Update -
The transition from F&F to Southsun was quite poor in terms of story, not much made sense even after reading all the content patch.
The actual events, Crab toss and initial activities that require you to search for items was good and reasonable.
The new Canach Lair – solo and explorable mode, I am sad to say is one of the most poorly designed dungeons in the game, if you want to call it a dungeon, it is one room.
Issues with it are as follows, (you will find ideas how to improve):
1. Replay Content – once again you have placed a restriction where repeating it gives us no reward.
(Allow there to be a repeat reward where we might still earn some reward, which is less than the “daily” but still gives us some motivation)
2. Size of the Dungeon – (Anything less than 5 rooms should not be a dungeon unless it is done in a smart manner, just laying 20 mines which u can run past does not make a dungeon)
3. Boss Mechanics – Requires you to drag the boss to a mine
(This is fine is story mode but in explorable, it just gets annoying, I did not find joy in dragging the boss and then get hit by major degen when his hp was under 25% along with stupid invulnerable sparks that also do 2500 dps if you find yourself in their range)

Crab Toss
Initially I found this very annoying and challenging till I mastered it and found myself winning 5 games in a row. A lot of mechanics in this are broken although one would argue that it is not, overall, it’s fun and you get a reward for repeating it. The best thing about this was that I was able to max all its achievements in 2 hrs, which is how these mini games should be and I hope this is left in the game permanently. The only complain is, I do not agree with putting this as party of a the daily achievement every single day of the event.

Adding Temporary Content
This is one of the worst ideas, why is the development teams spending time in making some amazing content such as SAP, MF and then it is taken out of the game….Let the content be permanent it will make the game more rich. What can be temporary is some of the BLT items, promotions which come along.
Leaving this content as permanent will not hurt the game, it will only attract new players who get such a rich game.

Black Lion Chests – RNG System
Ok I understand some items like Everlasting tonics etc which are utterly useless can be kept in the chest for RNG purposes but please do not add weapon, armor skins in the chest. I will gladly buy the skins for a set gem price if you want money on a monthly basis but I refuse to buy it from a RNG system where I am not guaranteed a drop.

I have the same issue, there hasnt been an official answer by the devs, this was reported about 2 months ago.

DirtyRich.4903:

EverythingXen.1835:

Well I hope they were summarily smacked upside the head.

Or maybe they can experience diminishing rewards with their paycheck…

DR with the paycheck ROFL!

How about people stop buying the keys and boycott this RNG system then they will be forced to change it.

yea i hate this boss, my guild had nearly 30 players and we could not kill him, we tried condition removal, CC and the fire shield just did not seem to go off.

some people said that we need to stop attacking but that is nearly impossible to coordinate with 30+ players when half of them are not on voip.

We have beaten him a few times but once it was with just 5 people and another was when we had over 50. So yes i agree there is some scaling issues with him.

If this cant be fixed then they should remove the achievement points from everyone since some people got it and have extra 10-20 points.

bump! can a dev please confirm this is being worked on?

This has been bugged for over 7 months, basically since this was added in the game. Some people have been lucky enough to get 83/83 but i am also stuck at 82/83.
The only thing missing is Laurels for me after i have completed my daily and spent laurels over 60 times.

Bumping the post, Laurel Achievement is still Bugged.

Please see i am stuck at 82/83 achievement points. When i looked under the Hints menu, it showed me that the Laurels part was not checked. I have 74 laurels in the screenshot and i have spent around 40 or 50 on an Ascended Amulet already so…not sure why this is not checked. Can someone please help!!!

With balanced maps, adequate protection to the guild lord and right mechanics. This can work quite well.

Will definately make being in guilds that focus on organized pvp more viable.

Targetted heals is not a good idea and healing powere is fine where it is, dont try to fix what is not broken. I would be happy with actual Gvg or HA, along with actually making the rank emotes come out of the character rather than a lame flag.

For the people who did not get the achievement, this happens when you do the dungeon before all the other achievements.
Make sure you do all the previous parts of the living story first, once all achievements above the Rage against war machine are checked then come back and do the dungeon.

The people who got disconnected and did not get it due to a new build, you were just unlucky.

You can use many continue coins as long as you dont leave the instance. Use the dulfy guide he has a youtube vid as well just follow it.

If the living story is now over, can we call it a dead story?
Or will this be going forward be known as “Temporary Story”

Tagus Eleuthera.7305:

top 10? let’s see off the top of my head in no particular order…

10. More variety of skins for weapons and armor

-pretty self explanatory. When you can identify by sight every piece of armor in the game, there needs to be more variety. People need a goal in an MMO to keep them playing. I’d love for there to be so many freaking skins that you don’t see the same weapon or armor for days at a time. Why not?

09. WvW exclusive skins

-I love WvW, but there’s no reward. Server pride is moderately fun for a while, but ultimately there’s nothing tying you to the people who just so happen to play on the same server as you. There needs to be rewards for doing WvW to get people interested. I’d love to wear a helmet or body piece that was WvW exclusive and displayed my accomplishments.

…….

02. Great Axe

Where is the GA? You have a Norn holding a great axe on your first promo pictures from before the game came out. How is this not a weapon in the game? It is honestly a travesty of justice that this weapon was not included in this game from the moment it went live. A travesty of freaking justice.

01. Dwarves

I’m not even sure how to say this in a way that isn’t terribly insulting…. but I’ll try. Whoever decided that Dwarves should be “extinct” and not play a role in this game should really feel bad about that decision. Not only are they non-existent as a race, but their ruins provide perhaps the greatest single opportunity for you guys to develop an amazing historical approach to your story writing and game development. They’re extinct? How did they go extinct? Where are their underground Moria-esque ruins? If they’re not extinct, where are they now? Can I play one? Do they have armor and weapons for me to wear? These are the questions that beg for answers.

Now get to work, Anet! We’re almost a year in. Announce a expansion or something… people are leaving your game in droves. There’s nothing much to do once you hit 80 and have spent a decent amount of time farming, in WvW, or doing PvP. Your game is stagnating. I just spent 45 minutes typing this instead of playing it, because I HAVE NO IN GAME GOAL LEFT. Give me some awesomeness, please and thank you!!!

Excellent suggestions, i love the part about the dwarves lol.

scizwig.5492
have to commend you for posting this thread and making us aware of this. I have to say i would shell out full game price $$ without a second thought if anet was to release cantha in the coming months.
I played Gw1 three months after it first launched till the end and loved every aspect of it, sure part of each campaign had its quarks but which game is absolutely perfect?
Was it amazing? heck yes!
Along with Cantha, i also really hope UW and Fow is somewhere in the making since those were 2 areas that were also amazing.

I honestly think they need to add a device which u can buy with influence or via a quest that allows u to track 1 boss, when you activate it, it pings the location of the boss. This item can be a random drop or even an auction house item if the first 2 options are not viable. This will help alot of smaller guilds who dont have the man power to find these bosses.

1UP
There has been a heck of a lot of effort put in it, it deserves to be permanent.

Glaxthor.1358:

Dingle.2743:

(6+6+7) * 3 = 57 chests.

No skins.

A guildmember I did most of the runs with has opened 45 chests, and gotten 4 skins.

Some people just have all the luck…

Some people lie all the time.

Kakeru.2873:

I’ve finally realised why I can’t enjoy or begin to enjoy this game even though it’s amazing and is in my favorite genre.

I’m not the demographic at which they are aiming for.

With the “Super Box Adventure” commercial I realised GW2 is made for the 35 year old gamers, or gamers generally older than me in their late 20s to 30s, who love this nostalgic feeling of 8bit games and bad american commercials. I didn’t grow up with this so to me it’s just not something I can relate to on any level.

With no time constrains and content available to anyone at any skill level, they are aiming this game at ppl who have a wife and possibly kids, gamers who don’t have that much time in the day to actually play games in general, in another term casual players who don’t have all the hours in the day to play. That isn’t me i’m not a casual gamer, I have hours for college work (not uni), and games. I’m not constrain by casual hours.

I’m not looking for an arcade game or an adventure game to play, a 8 bit platformer or a platformer in general. I’m looking to play an mmorpg. Mini games are fun but when the bulk of my fun from the game is coming from mini games, i might aswell be playing a real adventure, platformer or arcade game than a water downed version of such in an MMORPG.

Id like to report a bug, there is no dislike button anywhere!!!

Point is its definately a good farm but not anywhere close to 10g/hr which is the thread title and very misleadeing.

Scootabuser.4915:

60 minutes / 7 minutes per run = 8.5 runs per hour
10 Gold / 8.5 Runs = 1.18 Gold Per run

Are you saying that you don’t get 1.18 Gold Per run?

Rofl 1.18g per run? hahahaha
You must be on some sort of high…

Slave driver: 16s (thats 10s + 4s(omnom) + 2s (Gilded Amulet)
Bonus Acolyte event: 10s
Final Boss: 16s
End Dungeon: 26s
16+ 10 + 16+26 = 68s

Also this is considering the end dungeon reward is 26s run afte run which is obviously not true, after first 2 runs you get DRed to half or less. Also the chests dont always drop you anything good, the average drop rate for rare/cores/lodestones is 1 in ever 3 runs. At the very most you walk away with 80s and thats your first run. This is after I give you an high estimate for everything.

Just because you love to do cof p1 doesnt mean it makes u 10g, whats more realistic is 4-5g per hr. This is simply due to ppl leaving after 1-2 runs, making groups, dungeon getting contested, people not always skipping cutscenes in time, People falling off cliffs.
Also now that quickness is nerfed, its going to be much closer to 4g/hr average from here on out. You obviously can get lucky with lodestones and exotics but thats not how you calculate average.

10g/hr is a lie, you can show me the math n do w/e hypothetical 8 consecutive runs in 6 mins each. You are lying to youself.

Since this thread was moved to the Junk yard cough suggestions part of the forums, all our talk is going to be ignored and left to be eventually closed without Robert H ever getting to read it.

Our only hope was if Robert H would read this but its too late, was a good idea but oh well.

Wasnt there a claim made before the start of Guild wars 2 that you would not have to grind a dungeon over and have a “Chance” at a weapon or armor.
I am pretty sure i was promised that i would get some tokens that could be traded in for these rare weapons.
Why was this philosophy dropped when it came to fotm?
Why is it that i can do over a 100 lvl 26+ fractals and still not get a single fractal skin?

I feel when i play or grind for such items, i should see some progress and if people worry that the skins will be very common, then make them worth 2000 fotm tokens, even 3000 but atleast this way we will have a sense of progress. Not a mindless grind and playing with RNG.

the exact # will be hard to determine but in order to not break the game and keep the price reasonable. Here is my suggestion:

Currently 30 cof tokens can be traded in to get 1 rare that typically can be salavaged for 1 ecto and maybe 2-3 mithril. (Sometimes more than 1 ecto)
so 30 tokens = 30s more or less.

Now if we want to keep a price of a lodestone around 1-1.5g, it should be 100-150 tokens per.

I think this would make dungeons worth doing again. I remember the last time i ran any other dungeon except Cof and Fotm for some ascended rings.
With this addition, i would actually start doing dungeons more.

Gz on completion, not to ruin your parade but my guild did this a few days ago, took us a total of 1 hr 3 mins for the entire path, guild name is in the signature if anyone needs help.
This is my personal 6th run for this path so id say very familiar with all the bosses.
Not much of a challenge anymore.

It’s funny, up until now you had no complaints, now suddenly JQ starts to play seriously and the accusations begin.

Score update please?! This is a nail bitter.

Ok so this issue has been around since the beginning of the game.

How often is it that you get a rare and get all excited only to find out it was a back piece with terribad stats.
Now the item can be sold to a merchant but why are we not allowed to salvage it?

Also, you cannot throw these in the forge…. I wouldnt mind saving up 4 and throwing them in the forge but even that isnt possible….

I am going to consider this a bug since we havent heard an official response yet.

Anyone else frustrated with this?

Ok guys so i have helped about half a dozen groups with this now. But please only pm me once you get to simian. I will only help your group with her fight and then leave right after, please dont expect me to run the entire dungeon before this fight.

I agree with the OP, I was looking forward to this but seems like this will lead to smaller guilds disbanding and joining larger ones.

We have about 10 people online during pacific evening hours but im not sure if that will be enough to do such missions.

Better suggestion is to find servers that has Balthazar and then Guest to them.
You have 2 Guest privileges every 24 hour period so make your choice wisely.

I have noticed this as well and this is very annoyning.
I hope they remove the cooldown from banners.

You need to fix the date on your computer. Either manually update or use the windows Update Time/Date to do it for your timezone.

Once done, re-launch the game. That should fix the issue.