Guild Wars 2

On Tarnished Coast server, A balloon in Gendarren Fields (the Western one) was supposed to be under attack by Aetherblades, but there were no mobs spawning at all in the circle around the pirate airship (Same thing as Eldris reports above).

Stormleaf.1769:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Did I somehow get sent back in time to the SWToR forums before the collapse? I swear I read this same post there. Oh, never mind the names are different.

Calling a company on their mistakes doesn’t make you a bad guy. It makes you honest. If the company is worth a kitten they will listen. They might completely dismiss you and say “no this is our game, we are doing it our way”, but they will listen. Companies that don’t, well we’ve all seen the past. Even Blizzard is starting to realize this mistake, and they were so big no one ever thought they would lose out to a free to play game. (LoL)

I’d hardly call it a legitimate “mistake” to not put exactly what some players wanted in a hole in Divinty’s Reach. Something for those players to complain about, obviously, but it’s pretty unfair to title a post “Player wishes disregarded” over a patch that hasn’t even been fully released. Especially when simultaneously admitting that there are already things to be happy about in the patch.

Whenever someone says their opinion is the “obvious” one, it usually isn’t. Conviction does not correlate to correctness.

Who knows if what ArenaNet is doing here will turn out to be a mistake? No one will until later, but certainly not now.

It is absolutely fair to state this as player wishes being disregarded. People have expressed what they’d like to see out of that area of Divinity’s Reach. As far as we can tell, we’re getting absolutely nothing that resembles player speculation in the past. “Disregard” is about as fair and accurate of a description as you can get. If that’s not disregard, I don’t know what is.

ArenaNet put a big hole in Divinity’s Reach. Seems only natural people will want to know what’s down there. I can understand ArenaNet wanting to do something that’s better than expected and better than the product of a first pass at brainstorming. And I’m thrilled about the account wallet and champion loot changes, specifically. But I don’t like having an itch that might never get to be scratched, and I don’t mind saying so.

Latinkuro.9420:

biggs.4702:

If ArenaNet wants to see how a “defense” mission should go, they should ask their devs who happen to play Warframe.

except warframe is an FPS lol !!!!

Except do I even have to say that’s not the part to focus on?

If ArenaNet wants to see how a “defense” mission should go, they should ask their devs who happen to play Warframe.

lordkrall.7241:

And yet we have not seen the area, so we can’t really assume it will be bad, now can we?
By the sound of it I would say it sounds way more fun than just “venturing into a hole and find out stuff”.

Nobody said the content they created for this won’t be fun. I’m sure it will be. Neither does “venturing into a hole to find out stuff” have to be as mundane as you’re trying to portray it (isn’t that pretty much every dungeon crawl, ever? ). We don’t know what goes on during the creative brainstorming sessions for this. It could very well be that they just couldn’t come up with a story they felt was compelling enough compared to the idea of the Queen’s Jubilee/1st-year anniversary of the game. Or it would’ve involved the Dredge, in which case I would have had mixed feelings about it because I simply hate the Dredge.

We have seen the area to an extent: the hole has been simply covered up with the pavilion/arena. I hope maybe there’s a secret entrance to darkness below…

rodadams.5963:

How do you know that some nasty beast won’t come crawling out of the hole and smash the platform to itty bitty pieces, and otherwise fulfill all your darkest fantasies?

Then I will be pleasantly surprised.

For ages, it seems, there was a mysterious gigantic hole in Divinity’s Reach, teasing us with its potential. We wondered, pondered, and speculated. What could it become? A jumping puzzle? A new dungeon? Catacombs and/or sewers to explore? Would we ever find out why the collapse happened? (Never mind the possible ret-conning over the Cantha district that never was and alleged reasons as to why.)

Like others, I wanted to venture down into those depths. I wanted to discover something hidden and mysterious below the city most of my characters call home. The location would have been perfect for a jumping puzzle or a new dungeon or a new episode of the Living Story where we venture below-ground.

Whenever anyone has written about this in the forums, these are the wishes that are most often expressed.

There’s a lot to be happy about in the Queen’s Jubilee update: account currency wallets and better champion and dungeon loot are wonderful improvements.

But I’m disappointed that what many players anticipated and hoped for regarding the chasm in Divinity’s Reach simply appears to be utterly disregarded by ArenaNet.

There’s too much overlap in weapon usage between professions for that to work. Other classes would get some of those weapons, too, and then where is the need for another profession in that case? A warrior or guardian could use polearms and halberds, for example.

Not that it’s impossible: look at all the exclusive weapons engineers have which no other profession has: turrets, grenades, and bombs.

But I think we’d have to answer the question: what role could be taken by a heavy armor profession that’s not already covered by warrior and guardian?

You know how I know it’s night in GW2? My Ghastly Greatsword glows.

Otherwise, unless I look up and make sure there are stars and a moon in the sky, I could easily not even notice what time of virtual day it is. When your camera is looking across at normal “eye level” in order to move about and play the game, it’s so bright it may as well not even be nighttime.

Nighttime should be darker. It should be scary. We have abilities that proc only at night… how about monsters and events that only spawn at night? It doesn’t have to be pitch black. Nighttime in WoW is much darker than in GW2 but you can still see what you’re doing.

So, please: bring on the night!

Astral Projections.7320:

Orpheal.8263:

Not only this, Anet should make backpieces and aqua breathers finally craftable.

Both by a new Crafting Jobs

Aqua Breathers should be craftable by Anglers, which should also craft Angling Rods and diversive non living angling baits, while living angling baits could be found at shores and in the water or in the ground (wurms)

Back Items should be craftable by “Antiquers” which would also craft “toys” and other usable environmental items

Well, Breathers are considered part of your armor so logically Armorsmiths would make them and backpieces are in a jewelry slot so Jewelers should make those.

Yes, rebreathers should be craftable by armorsmiths, leatherworkers, and tailors respectively for heavy, medium, and light armor types.

Guardians are really more about defensive boons, whereas warriors are more about offensive conditions or boons that buff offensive capabilities (might as opposed to aegis or retaliation, for example).

If anything were to change, I’d want to see guardians have offensive-boosting boons removed from their arsenal such as might or fury, to make the division of labor between guardians and warriors more clear regarding which profession boosts what.

I also want a two-handed axe for Warrior and possibly Necromancer. Since Mesmers get greatsword, why not a two-hander for Necromancers besides staff? You might wonder: what about Elementalists? I feel they should be able to use a one-handed sword (Gandalf says “hi”).

People love to complain, I guess.

I have no problem with the new dailies. The old dailies seemed like you weren’t even doing anything. From a laziness standpoint, I can see why people liked that, but to me it was like getting rewarded for nothing different than you’d do anyway.

Doing a daily should feel like you’re stepping outside the normal range of activity in order to accomplish a goal.

I like the new laurels system and what you can get with them.

All good from my point of view.

Sorry, haters.

The way I understand it is that you can’t have two sigils of the same type, but otherwise you’re good to go. I’ve used dual sigils which have stacking mechanics (condition damage and healing) and I notice their little stack icons above my action bar so I can see they’re working.

As a D/D elementalist, I don’t have any main hand vs. off-hand attacks, though: it’s always with both hands at the same time. If you’re playing a melee profession that has main hand and different off-hand attacks, your sigil procs will only occur when you use attacks for that hand. So if you use your off-hand attacks (#4 and #5 buttons) infrequently you won’t see as much benefit from the sigil you put on your off-hand.

Higher quality sigils also have level requirements so look for any red text in the tooltip to be sure you can use that particular sigil.

Agreed! Great voice acting in these.

I find them enjoyable although a little bit of a fuster-cluck running all over the place. I hate to say it but I also think they could stand to be a little bit more difficult.

I got this last night with a group and we did it after completing the run. The last house took a long time to find and it was some tiny little thing that was very easy to overlook. I don’t think it’s bugged, I think it’s just not as easy as it would at first seem.

This puzzle is definitely easier than the clock tower but for me it’s still a challenge and after about 8 or so tries I haven’t been able to finish it. However if I keep trying I’m sure I’ll get it before Wintersday is over. Jumping puzzles are not my strong suit but I do enjoy the feeling of accomplishment I get when I complete one (even more so than some people, I imagine, since they’re not as easy for me as they are for some people).

I don’t think it’s too hard, I think I need to get better at doing timed jumping puzzles.

brokenserenity.4638:

Even funnier would be if after you die you get mail from them saying happy wintersday!

That would top the email you get from the ettin in Queensdale (which was so awesome I actually saved it for weeks).

Having faster than normal speed should be a trade-off. If you choose it, you sacrifice something else. Or you can have that increased damage or utility but not faster running speed.

If we all just ran faster as a matter of course, so would the mobs. Advantage lost, and no thank you.

I just wanted to say “thank you” for the new bank slots! That was a very welcome improvement.

I just had the most hilarious vision of risen running around in bright red and white Santa outfits as they shouted “DEATH, GOOD!” and then chain pulled you twenty times in a row until you’re dead.

Never have bought chest keys, never will. I don’t buy gambles, I buy products.

North American servers are constantly full. What’s the point of being able to transfer if you can’t actually transfer?

And yet… people complain about how zones are empty.

Not sure what’s going on, here, but I don’t like it.

Someone told me today that the whirlwind elite works underwater. So I guess eles are in the same boat as thieves: they get one.

I know ArenaNet has people dedicated to skill and class balance. My WTF-ness at the fact that there is ABSOLUTELY NO profession elite skill which works underwater goes to 11. It’s just… mind boggling.

I hope something is done soon. If I can use fire underwater then I should be able to have a fire elemental underwater. I suppose an earth elemental wouldn’t swim very well, though, lol.

But, c’mon… there has to be SOMETHING. Even if you invent new abilities entirely for underwater. I could envision something that works like the plague necro ability where you go around spreading fire, chilling, electrocuting, sinking, etc. mobs in a similar fashion (instead of giving them plague).

Kyosji.8961:

No. You get exactly as much as the description of the item says. (4500 I believe)

Sorry but this is incorrect. Karma boosts do absolutely affect how much karma you get from jugs and vials. Between Black Lion karma boosts, guild banner karma boosts, and guild upgrade boosts, you can boost your karma increase by 70%.

See this video by Matt Visual for more: http://youtu.be/WP3RmSIPxpE

Ridley.3691:

To make him spawn you need to complete an event chain that begins completely randomly. There’s no way to start this manually and it isn’t on a timer. People have said he’s popped every 30 mins on their realm, and others haven’t seen him for a whole day, it seems you’re just unlucky.

I haven’t seen it since perhaps once after launch. And I play every day.

Impreza.5486:

biggs.4702:

I think we can stop with the “do you even play a mesmer?” BS. Do you honestly think a developer could do anything without actually being able to play the class? And probably better than you can because he freakin’ wrote it.

So, please, just stop. It’s insulting and patronizing and it only makes you look dumb when you do it.

lol nice sarcasm.

LOL NO SARCASM BRO.

I think we can stop with the “do you even play a mesmer?” BS. Do you honestly think a developer could do anything without actually being able to play the class? And probably better than you can because he freakin’ wrote it.

So, please, just stop. It’s insulting and patronizing and it only makes you look dumb when you do it.

BringBackMonks.7068:

I would like to know why Anet would put in a class that can tank a whole team of 5 for 2 to 3 minutes in a game that is supposed to be all balanced classes. Elementalists can’t do this. Warriors can’t do this. Why are Guardians the only one?

You’re not talking about a profession, you’re talking about a player and player skill.

Maybe you don’t realize that, because you’re frustrated, but it’s almost certainly the case. I’ve seen every single profession in this game do amazing things when played with skill. Other day a guildie of mine who plays a rifle engineer soloed two champions for quite some time in the asura disco fractal (I don’t remember what it’s really called, that’s just what I call it for laughs).

We were gobsmacked. We all lay there, dead, while he soloed a golem and an ettin. He would have beat them if some buggy timer hadn’t caused him to just up and reset (we were heartbroken, it was so epic).

I’ve seen elementalists completely shred 3 to 5 opponents in WvW.

So please, don’t come in here saying such things as guardians are “invincible.” You just saw someone with skill playing one, that’s all.

Getting into a friendly guild will make a huge difference. Also, YouTube and Google are your best friends. I learned a lot about crafting and making gold, running dungeons, what traits to pick, and many other things from videos and forum posts and talking with my guildies.

You don’t have a guild? Or no one in your guild forms groups to play together?

Picking a main is hard, if you want to do it. But you don’t have to. Just because others do doesn’t mean you need to. Just do what you want.

Warriors and guardians have access to the same number of weapons:

Warrior:

• sword
• shield
• greatsword
• hammer
• axe
• mace
• rifle
• longbow
• warhorn

Guardian:

• sword
• shield
• hammer
• greatsword
• mace
• scepter
• focus
• torch
• staff

Warriors have a little more flexibility with combining weapons because they can dual-wield swords, maces (not that you’d want dual mace, lol) and axes, whereas guardians cannot dual-wield anything.

Warriors have better ranged damage in my opinion: rifle and longbow outshine staff and scepter any day.

Guardians, however, are unbelievably tough and utilitarian. Their condition/boon abilities are, in my opinion more flexible and powerful than a warrior’s. And condition/boon management is a very big deal in this game, especially at higher levels and in dungeons/pvp.

Food (apple icon) and tech (wrench icon) are not a waste at all considering how cheap they are. Each gives you a 10% experience boost. You may think that doesn’t matter if you’re 80 but it does because your “fake levels” give you new skill points and you’ll need those to buy mats for a legendary weapon in the future.

The main reason, however, is magic find or a buff for a specific purpose. I love to boost my magic find. On the tech food side, you have potions and oils and stones. There are two groups of mobs in this game I hate more than anything: risen and dredge. I have potions that give me 10% extra damage to these mobs and also reduce my incoming damage from them by 10%.

That is nothing to sneeze at.

If you don’t want to use food buffs, then you don’t need good armor or weapons, either, because, hey, what’s a few percentage points, right?

Of course that’s stupid. So eat your food.

It’s good for you.

CC Meinke.2749:

Don’t forget to write a ticket if you experience insults, rude behaviour and verbal abuse via name calling in the game, to support a friendly community.

Thank you.

This.

So much.

The community is not something “other people” take care of, manage, or moderate.

We do this.

Or we don’t. In either case, we get the community we deserve.

I’ve seen Reddit threads in the past on why people got suspended or banned, and it comes down to what players say to each other directly instead of to the public. For example if you swear in map chat as a general statement “Those F-word karka!” that’s not too big of a deal. But if you call someone a name (“You F-word C-word, etc.”) that is reportable and action will be taken. That’s the gist of it, anyway (correct me if I’m wrong).

So if you really value any possibility of having a decent community in this game and keeping it that way, do not be afraid to report people. It takes all of 5 seconds to do so. Nothing about it needs to be said to anyone else, just do it and keep it to yourself.

I love the idea of being able to buy a bulk waypoint “pass.”

But look, seriously, if waypoint costs are that much of a problem for you, then I politely suggest you need to reexamine your gameplay. If you don’t have enough money to waypoint, it’s not that waypoints cost too much. It’s because you are not earning enough money, and that responsibility is entirely upon your shoulders (no, sorry, the game is not badly designed ). There are a great many tips online for how to make more money in this game and it might be worth your time to look that up.

I realize this probably isn’t what you want to hear, but I believe it to be true and I’m not calling you a nub or laughing at you or looking down on you. This is a sincere effort to help.

There are plenty of nice people in this community. As others have suggested, finding the right guild can make ALL the difference in your experience.

Probably the biggest tips I can give people for make sure things stay nice:

• Don’t react immediately and emotionally
• Discuss the ideas, not the person and avoid accusatory language
• Always remember you may be wrong and that there’s other ways to look at things
• Consider whether what you’re about to say or do will make another player’s game experience less enjoyable or more enjoyable and go for “more enjoyable.”

NinjaEd.3946:

I’m just curious as to why nothing like energy from GW1 was transfered over to GW2. There is thief initiative, and Warrior adrenaline but adrenaline is only for their profesion skill. I feel like there is too little influence over resource for skills which have soo much to offer.

I’m very glad there is no mana in this game. I love the class resource mechanics just as they are.

I second this. Also, can there be more variety in looks? In my opinion some of them are just awful-looking.

Same for guild armor. Really boring-looking stuff for how much it costs.

I like this idea as well. While ranger, thief, and engineer all wear medium armor, it’s silly they all run around looking like pirates. The sexy armor a lot of thieves wear seems wrong for an engineer, and so forth.

Yeah, I REALLY like this idea.

Fruppi.7516:

Yes, i already have 8 bankslots. And i’d like to buy more.

Ohhh… gotcha. Yeah, I could definitely agree with that!

I somehow missed this little tidbit from the AMA but the folks on Guildcast of Gamebreaker TV were talking about it and it really got me thinking.

In the AMA Chris mentioned the idea of “cities as dungeons” as something the devs were kicking around, so I just have to offer up my suggestion for this.

In divinity’s reach , an awful lot of space is unusable because of a gigantic, mysterious sinkhole which we know nothing about. We don’t know how it happened, when it happened, or why.

But if that thing’s not a grand opportunity for an instance, I don’t know what is!

Other possibilities:

• The sewers under Lion’s Arch (involving skritt or quaggan)
• The arena in the Black Citadel (think “tournament of champions”)
• A dungeon to repair the apparatus in Rata Sum
• Sons of Svanir secret cult headquarters in Hoelbrak
• Saving the Pale Tree from attack/infection

If by “cities as dungeons” what was meant was that there is some kind of city-wide catastrophe which must me overcome, and players have free reign within an instanced version of the entire city, well that would be totally awesome, also. Something on that scale may even be a great opportunity to have parties of greater than 5 people, or perhaps more than one party of 5 in the instance simultaneously.

One more thing: if that floating castle at Wizard’s Fief doesn’t ever become a dungeon I am going to be sorely disappointed!

Fruppi.7516:

More hairstyles would be awesome and the ability to dye ribbons in the hair. Also i’d very much like to be able to buy more bankslots, mine are already starting to fill up quick and im only at my 2nd of 6 chars.. Also i’d like bigger stacks in the collectible tab. Like 500, 750 or 1000. Im sure plenty people would pay for the extra room. (for people that will say, hoard less i say no, i like doing it ingame and it keeps my rl. livingroom tidy.)

Did you know that you can already buy more bank slots? Just click on the little padlock icon in the bank interface and you can buy additional bank slots with gems. As someone who has every crafting discipline spread across multiple characters, this was a necessity for me to store crafted items and components.

I too would love to see higher stacks. I currently have about 8 bank slots each filled with 250 candy corn.

Here are some ideas of what I’d like to see introduced into the game at some point:

• New hairstyles & colors, faces, and tattoos not available in original character creation. I’m sure many people would want more choice built into the game anyway, and I certainly wouldn’t disagree with that, but if it’s a matter of justifying devoting the resources to such a thing, increased profits might do it for ya, ArenaNet.
• Survival Pack: A three-stack each of Revive Orbs, Repair Cannisters, Trading Post merchants, and “normal” item merchants, all in one package.
• More town clothes. Honestly I can’t fathom why these aren’t in there, already, since models already exist and are already in use on NPCs throughout the game. It doesn’t always have to be something spectacular with special powers. Some people just want to put town pants on their female characters instead of a dress, or wear something more formal or more casual. Won’t somebody think of the roleplayers?
• Party boxes, similar to the fun chests. You could have a picnic party box, a beach party box, a camping trip box. Click on the box and it spawns a little tableau and creates temporary costume effects for players (like a Mystery Tonic). Again, roleplayers especially would just eat these up.

I’ll be a little different here and suggest necromancer. Why? Because you played either casters or “dark” magic users in most of your previous games and because necros not only do great damage but via condition management can support allies as well.

And for what it’s worth, I hated warlocks in WoW. But necros in GW2 are awesome.

Sounds to me like it’s WvW maps you need. The reason I say that is because I found myself in the same place with the same percentage of completion. I did WvW maps and got my 100% last night. If you’re impatient, you can transfer to another server which is dominating the WvW maps for a much easier and faster time completing them. Do your research and choose carefully though, as you cannot transfer again for another 7 days.

Bloodlust.3672:

Anyone know what is currently the fastest way to level up to 80? [Without expensive boosters, etc.]

I already have a level 80 character that has completed the story. It was a slow and tedious grind that I found very boring. I’m starting a second character [currently level 10-20] and all I want is for it to max to level 80 as soon as possible so it can play the funner end game [dungeons, etc].

I need some tips for this…

The absolute biggest experience dealers are:

1) Dungeons
2) Story quests
3) Dynamic events
4) Crafting

Use food and potions to give you an xp boost as you level (no need for xp boosts).

I very much like ranged on a warrior: both the rifle and the longbow rock. However since you’ve said that’s not an option for you, I’d suggest ranger, elementalist or necromancer. I see others speaking about rangers and eles but no one saying much about necros.

In short, necros rule. You have really sick (in some cases, literally, lol) attacks and everything is ranged. Of course as with eles, daggers are the shortest range, axes and scepters are mid range (although I have to say on necros, scepter is really good) and staff has the longest range.

If you dislike the whole minion thing you can still totally kick butt without using minions.