Guild Wars 2

Got one, got my warrior a GS.

Tim.9850:

I agree, its poorly executed. You don’t stand a chance against the other mobs, and don’t even get a chance to fight the queen.

Then non of the waypoints are open except one a zillion miles away. You then run all the way back only to not be able to get into the camp because of a zillion mobs standing around guarding it.

That is NOT fun.

This…..
Im sorry but the event is created by a bunch of idiots, they do not play the game and have no idea what fun is. This is by far the most frustrating event I have ever played in any game without a doubt. There is not even a small change I could get to the queen with around 50 mobs in the camp next to her. All waypoing but the fartest are contested so before I could even get back around the camp it was over.
Way to fail.
( edit also very fun is to finally get to the waypoint closer only to be run over by a group of karkas killing you yet again…..)

jessikajayne.8157:

I hit 500 in a couple days, you can salvage trophys also you know..

eh wut?

500 is not too high btw, easy to get because of the high drops of loot.

spconder.2489:

So if I collect 7 dragon balls during the event, do I get a wish?

I wish we could race ourselves, I was not very good in beetle racing but it was very popular and fun.

Elona could bring the undead and the demons as playable race. :P

None of the subraces in the game now would have my interest as a playable race tbh.

So you dont want rng, but also they need to be rare. How exactly does this get solved then?

I have the same problem, started out on a low populated server. When I levelled my Ele I sometimes did not see any people. I thought how can this be dead so fast.
I started guesting on higher populates servers and found many people there. But they wil need some major update to attract the large crowd again.

bri.2359:

AndrewSX.3794:

Palu.3405:

Hopefully the price of dust will fall once people stop farming Southsun and return to Orr

It won’t.

Because even if all the farmers get back to Orr, events have been nerfed to the ground.

They spawn more rarely

This^

I was in penit/shelter last Sat., and over the course of 1hr only these spawned
escort the historian – 2
defend shelter – 1
defend penitent – 1
Jofast wp was constantly open because risen were not attacking the base.

The lack of events was so noticeable I took to making note of what was going on (in this, what was not going on …). Just a few weeks ago, you would have had such constant event spawning you couldn’t keep up with it all.

The frightening thing is, I doubt Anet will change penit/shelter/jofast back to the way it was before the Southsun Living Story content appeared.

Now, the only reason to go to Cursed Shore and Malchor’s Leap is to harvest the omnom, ori and sapling nodes, then leave. If anything, T6 dust will become more scarce over time because no one will stay, or go back, to do what few events there are.

Or the prices of dust will be so high that people see money in the farms again. Both things could happen.

Kaaboose.3897:

aspirine.6852:

Guaranteed drops makes weapons, armours you name it worthless, that is not what I would want in a game.

You really believe RNG Casino loot is better?

Yep, even though I am always unlucky in almost every game I play. I do not like guaranteed drops, because they will become worthless in a matter of time.
Ever played Diablo 3 for instance? Not too many here would have I guess, Skorn a two handed axe dropped so much that it became boring, everyone was running with it because there was no better 2 handed weapon at the time.
i would not like to run around with a group where every char has the same stuff :/

I want my Bonedragonstaff. And this time make it look like the concept art because the engine can handle it.
Oh and the obsidian sword would be nice.

You 2 should get your own part of the forum and work it out there.

Moa racing, we cant do any racing ourselves in this mini game right? I think I read it was just for betting on who would win, or did I misread?

Guaranteed drops makes weapons, armours you name it worthless, that is not what I would want in a game.

Makes me wonder how much the blood will be after a few weeks of almost no southsun farming.

skullmount.1758:

GW2Guru has more pics. Theres a pic of the Jade Greatsword and there are pics of the shatterer wings.

Zalani.9827:

Shattered dragon wings is apparently going to be from the achievement meta.
Also, really love how they both look, and im hoping that the Shattered ones are animated also. Couldn’t really tell from the pic.

I just wish we could get those achievement back pieces more than once. I have a bunch of characters I’ll want to use either the shatterer wings and the tentacle one (not so much the flower one), but will only be able to use them on one character.

VOLKON.1290:

That jade axe too… can’t wait to see the Jade Greatsword!

Dat sword….. drools.

It looks great, I cant wait for next week to start.

Vayne.8563:

locoman.1974:

Circling Skies.1872:

Hate to be the debbie-downer, but it looks like yet again more lousy cash for chest and horrible RNG for new skins. I have beat around Southsun Coast the entire time it has been updated and have found probably 6 crates in total and zero ticket for weapon skins. I just don’t understand why they keep repeating this method for obtaining new skins. Especially so dang soon on the heels of the Southsun Crates! Is this the way it is always going to be???

Simple, people keep buying the lottery items a LOT. For every complain on the forum they see players buying them on the tenths or even hundreds, so from their point of view, there’s an audience that must love these kind of things, and it’s an audience that spends lots of money on the gem store.

Well I know this is terrible, but I wish they’d stop. Because I would prefer a whole lot less RNG in my game.

Wow I finally found one of those people who always got a bds from shards of orr. Or a froggy, or a r8 gothic defender.

That quote is not saying very much, change, new it makes quite a difference.

Not sure if troll…

I kinda miss it most of it, except for the great things GW2 has. Open world, beautiful maps, dodging and way more active gameplay instead of standing still. Even the jumping puzzles are a very nice, sometimes an anoying touch.

One was looking at me funny

The first part along with the champs instigators was fun imo. But the dungeon meh, skip it or maybe do it once to annoy yourself.

Drysdale.3826:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Hey folks,

I main a ranger and I’ve done this fight a few times… so here’s a few little tips and such that I’ve found worked for me and my pets.

Bring devourer or spider. Position yourself nearby but in a safe spot free of traps, and either swap or f3 your pet to your position. Try to keep near NULL so that your pet doesn’t get pulled due to NULL running off after a fleeing player while your pet chases him/it. I found ranged pets were good in this instance since it meant they weren’t running off triggering things nearly as often as my drake/wolf was.
I tried it once with a Moa for the heals, but eventually gave up on Adrien Beaky as I found my devourer Citizen Snips to be more useful for DPS in the burst moments.

Bring Search and Rescue. It is especially useful if your group is struggling at the last 25% and you need help picking someone up quickly. Pet swap next to the body of the person before using it if there are multiple people going down and you need some focus.

The fact we need a separate guide for Rangers cause we can’t permanetly store our pets means two things; 1. It’s f’n stupid we can’t perma store our pet and 2. It’s f’n stupid you can’t code a dungeon to avoid an issue like this.

Way to fail.

Harsh words but I kinda agree. I find it annoying that when I store my pet 2 seconds later its back again.

ensoriki.5789:

Pongmei Valley and the Shin je mountains were the best things in GW1 except for maybe Tihark Orchard.
Then there was than Tengu mission with Togo in the Bonus mission pack? Those heights, that vista….
I never liked the tyria country wasn’t till factions that I really liked GW1 (surprised I even bought Factions considering how negative I felt about tyria at the time).
Itching to go back there hard.

Bonus missions did have great maps, not just the Cantha one.

The canach dungeon is so bad I do not even want to try it with 5 other people. Shame I liked the rest on the island.

Rama.6439:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

so why should I have to pay for exploring, can you tell me that? I’d gladly pay for travelling because it’s there to let people play with their friends at any time, but eploring via waypointing is just immersionbreaking.

You pretty much have to pay for everything in this stupid game, and now they are starting to nerf most the mobs in orr so they don’t even drop loot, soon orr is gonna be empty and this game will be to, might as well quit asking for crap from this stupid game cause even if you get it they will post it on the kittening gem store for some insane price and it will be temporary and then eventually be nerfed like everything else. RUN WHILE YOU CAN, THERE’S BETTER GAMES COMING OUT SOON AND WE DON’T NEED THIS STRESS.

Leave then, and have fun with your next locust game.

Einlanzer.1627:

I really don’t them to raise the level cap. 80 is already too many and it just isn’t necessary. The expansions should focus on adding new horizontal content and new zones you can explore while leveling that also provide fun rewards for characters already at the level cap.

Agreed, the level is high enough. They themselves said no stand alone content so there is room for what you said. Just lvl 80 toon stuff.

Of course they get outdated, they will be with every expansion.

Vayne.8563:

Paul.4081:

Vayne it was different for me, I loved doing the dungeons and always felt rewarded. Especially when it was the daily, even when I got a green drop ( worth 1k) from the chest my heart beat a little faster and the one and only time I got a froggy sceptre in Bogroots I almost had a heart attack. Sadly it was crappy stats but still had fun selling in Spamadan.

But realistically how often did you get a green drop that was worth 1k. Surely you remember doing dungeons and just getting a gold drop that was worth crap. For every ten dunegons you did, maybe you go one decent drop. That was it.

In later days, once the HoM calculator was out, at least the onyx and diamonds were worth something but most of the yellow drops and even most of the green drops become worthless. There were so many green drops you had to merch because no one wanted them. Cyndr’s Heart anyone?

Still, even how slim, you had the chance that something awesome dropped in the dungeons.
And if you were not good in shards for instance you could do another dungeon to save up for those bds you wanted.

LilMcGinley.3890:

If anyone is familiar with Runescape and the Completionist cape (both regular and trimmed) know that is the “end-game item achievement”. This takes YEARS of grinding and 1 of the items on the checklist takes 5,000 games of a mini-game at 20 minutes each. I agree with Vol. Any Precursor checklist should be long, it should be hard, it should be a grind.

Legendary weapons should be legendary. Pay the cash or do the time for your precursor.

Titles can be a grind, legendaries should never take years to get. They should be raredrops.

Knight.1084:

skullfire.6503:

’Not every inch of the game should be filled with action"

I support you in that. But what makes you go back to a zone? Usually it’s to actually play the game. And walking around for a few minutes and not really do anything but smell the flowers and look at the skybox wouldn’t really work for a lot of people.

You would be very tired of a zone very quickly. There is a thing as too much action. But too little would be very bad as well.

:)

Think of Cursed Shore.
Have you ever ever gong to Cursed Shore because of its “beauty” .
Cursed Shore is a hell zone, so dark and dirty.

Even in WoW you would have the amazing Uldum which is AWESOME. The whole feeling of it, to colorful. The artists/designers in WoW really captured some amazing zones in WoW.

Where would you radar go? Cursed Shore or Uldum in WoW. Think of Mount Hyjal too in WoW, and even the city Darlan. And don’t you forget:
Grizzly Hills.
Zangarmarsh
etc…

I’d rather chew of both my feet than to look at anything in wow. I despise the game with a passion.

Add the chest for every champ slain like it is now on southsun and they could very well be back. For orr I just ignore the champs because I cannot see them(culling??) and therefor have no idea what skill to dodge. And they instagib me with any of my chars so vets and normal mobs are better. Who wants to die from a champion chicken anyway.

Casual slow, I have started a few months ago, and none of my chars have finished the game. There is just something about the last part of the game that i do not like to finikitten. The dungeon and the dragon fight does not sound fun at all.

Donutdude.9582:

I personally hope ArenaNet continue with the tradition of releasing minipets. I was an avid mini collector in GW & I’d love to be the same here in GW2.

Normally I kinda liked them, but there are so many around right now. I’d rather see some old GW1 weapon skins, some of the popular ones but better looking with the new game.

Why would they make large open areas with no action, for those few people that would like it but 99% of the time these places would be completly empty. Sounds like a waste of resources to be honest.

Sure i would. Running around in this world alone was worth every penny for me :/

It should be the nr. 1 thing on the to-fix list. It’s annoying as hell and affecting gameplay a lot.

ColinJohanson.2394:

We still plan to do both new legendary weapons, as well as a clear path (on top of the current random chance) to gain precursors which players can see their progress and understand how much work they have left to do to gain it.

It’s highly likely the precursor concept will involve playing varied different content all over the game to gather numerous content specific materials that are combined together to make a precursor.

We do also want to maintain that chance you could get lucky and earn one earlier through random drops, so when we add the new system we will not remove the current one to ensure players have multiple ways to gain the items. Also with the upcoming update to WvW, there will be a chance players can earn precursors from the WvW rank reward chests as well.

That is great news… Thanks.

The only thing that does not seem very well balanced is the event in driftglass, a stampede of karkas and reef riders come in wiping the whole group/camp, no matter how many or not many at all it always seems to be a complete wipe?…

He is nothing compared to the idiot that was master togo in gw1. Master of stuck behind a rock and fail the mission.

nonono group event ok, but no dungeon.

I guess Anet should check your schedule for the coming months to see if it suits you…

Morrigan.2809:

PvE culling is my biggest complaint atm

That about sums it up. I imagine if they fix this I might be able to see what type of foe I am fighting, and dodge once in a while.

If I did have a lvl 80 mesmer I’d do the portal once in a while. I would not expect anything but a thanks.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Anyone who isn’t good at JP’s is probably using W,A,S,D for movement.

What do you still use the arrow keys? Dont worry, you will get better after a few years kid.

HawkMeister.4758:

Pretty sure Devs stated multiple times that MF doesn´t work on chests or even Vet/Champ+ Mobs. Just normal lootdrops where it is definitely noticeable.

Well the no chest part seems right, I got 2 the first fgew minutes it was released so I thought ohhh that’s not too bad, after that none, I hear that from a lot of players on my server :/

Chaotic Storm.2815:

so basically the complaint is you have to be active in your fights instead of walking up, hitting auto and maybe 1 or 2 skills to kill mobs? I love the whole idea that you can’t run around mowing down groups like they are nothing. Here in the south players are the prey not the wildlife.

No not really, do you see any people there just doing that? I dont, what I do see is warriors and guardians trying their kitten best to get in melee range and not getting hit by all the snares and so on. Also like myself the d/d ele’s are right in there but I am not mowing anyone down.
I imagine it being way easier if you are a ranged char yeah.

I am bad in them, no doubt about that. And some chars do it better than others, my ranger with it’s constant speed boost has it easy on most. But I kinda like them, Anet can add a few more or even more than a few.

She looks great, no doubt about that. Why do I run around in bad looking armour Anet, gimme some love

frogshake.2419:

Debois Guilbert.6413:

• Veteran Karka retaliation that lasts forever: annoying
• Veteran Karka life bar reset: annoying
• Reef drake confusion that lasts forever: annoying, especially for mesmers after the 50% WvW confusion nerf.
• Karka hatchling effects: annoying and repulsive

1. Strip the boon.
2. The reset has a reason: remove the shell, then you can kill it. Pretty cool to me. Plus it’s a type of veteran that is at least somewhat challenging to fight. Also, you do understand that you don’t have to fight them, if you don’t like their mechanics, right?
4. Annoying? I think it’s a pretty neat machanic, it’s a veteran after all. Also, just dodge to remove them. Repulsive? Never play Half Life. Seriously.

1. Ok I have an ele and warrior there, How do I strip the boon? I am not a very good player but since I hear other people saying it I think it’s not just me.
2 Agreed, that is one of the nice things, Anet could have made it clearer to us by giving the armour health another colour. I did not know that and even see(must be blind or something) that the armor came of during the fight. I just thought wtf happend to this health.
4 Agreed, it’s more annoying than doing anything else, and I also thought about HL, and that is never a bad thing