Guild Wars 2

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Honestly you didnt miss out on too much. They changed culling so now you see more people on your screen than you did before. You can change the settings in your options. I hope you get used to the changes and stick around. The game hasnt changed too much they have just made some additions and you can look them up all here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

I think they should make ascended gear like rings and earrings saleable on the TP and then make the backpiece and the amulet something you have to work for. Most of the ascended gear isnt too hard to get its just artificially time gated. Dailys take a day and monthlys take a month. Fractals are also gated because you only get pristine once a day per tier. However what they have done with the fractal backpiece in that you need the globs and vials of mist essence in order to get it to asceneded and infuse Is a pretty good idea because it shows you have done multiple fractals. The reason why rings and earrings should be sold is because for people with many alts getting full ascended is a ridiculous task and a gear grind that the devs said we wouldnt have

Yeah where is the carrion ascended. Ive been waiting for a long time. im so sick and tired of killing mobs quickly with my gear. I just want to be able to take my time and slowly kill them with conditions so that i can truly appreciate the modeling work anet artists did to create those beautiful risen mobs.

lol carrion

1) Fix content bugs
2) add good content (fractals, dungeons etc..)
3) get rid of dailys and make weeklys
4) make ascended easier to get or get rid of it entirely
5) stop LS in its tracks

Just do some dungeons on a good day with good groups i can get 30 or so gold. Usually i get tired and make much less.

This is what i did, I tell it to everyone:
for my first character i did all the stuff like hearts and personal story till level 50 or so. then i used almars guide to gathering in blazeridge steppes to get about 2g every 30 min (resets every hour). So i did that got to lvl 65 or so (this is including a couple of random hearts and some personal story levels). Then i used the gold i got to craft to lvl 80. Still havent finished story though :p

Havent done it yet. Might do it on two characters depending on how much gold i make. I almost have enough for one legendary and once i get all the mats ill do exploration last. I find open world pve really really boring.

IMO i think its better to try and get a greatsword precursor because there seems to be more greatsword exotic weapons and they are often times worth more than staves. Then use the money you get from that (if you do get a precursor) to buy the legend. Make sure however to craft the greatswords or the staves as it costs less than buying them.

Elbegast.6970:

Favorite: Wallet

Least Favorite: Living Story…the entire Living Story.

+1

Vayne.8563:

Villious.8530:

The focus on the Gem Store won’t let up until some real competition is released. Then I bet you’ll see some relief in trying to keep players. shrug

And if every game from this time on is focused on the gem store? Do you really think time is going to go backwards? Games are increasingly focused on the gem store, because that’s how they fund development. It’s so competitive that in today’s market, if they want to make more content, which does keep people in game, they need income. One boxed sale price won’t do it.

So what do you do? Have a game with less content like TSW which most people don’t play? Is that the solution? And they do focus on their cash shop.

Most $60 games give you 20 hours of play. An exception game like Skyrim might give you more…but if you want 500 or more hours of play, you can’t just charge $60. Anet said from the beginning their cash shop is a significant part of their business plan.

I’m not sure why that makes them greedy.

Im scarred to argue with vayne…hes such a pain… XD

I have to agree that if you want more content then you have to make purchases in the gem store. The reason why i think anet is greedy is because they focus so much on living story and updating the gem store that they forget to focus on other parts of the game. Dungeons have so many bugs is ridiculous. And they havent added any since Fractals, or at least any good ones. What anet is doing is pandering to the casual players by giving them some new useless goodie on the gem store to waste their money on and a small update that gives some brain numbing content. Yes they give us 500 hrs of content, except its not great content, well imo. Maybe most players enjoy it but that doesnt mean anet should stop focussing on dungeons and the minority of players who dont like LS.
And yes i have spent money in the gem store but im not sure if i will ever again until i see some changes to content i like, and im not the only one who wants to see changes to dungeons and such.

Builds:
Thief d/d s/p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spedHf6R7M8

elementalist no idea but check on gw2guru

honestly if you want a good build go Zerker. Literally everything is better when youre a zerker

yeah gw2lfg.com best place to get a group be weary though some might be horrible. IMO try getting groups at around 5 pm server time (reset) thats usually when better players run dungeons and dont do it before reset like me where u get stuck with terrible players.

No new dungeons maybe they will bring it in but prob not for a while. Mostly you just missed out on Living story crap. Oh and they changed a few dungeons since youve been gone. AC was made “harder” (its still really easy).

New gear would be new weapon skins + ascended trinkets although you probably know a little about those unless you left right when fractals were released. Apart from that you should be fine in the game.

Look forward to more things in the upcoming months though. For example they might add new weapons to classes + new skills. So although they havent changed much they might do so very soon.

Welcome back and hopefully you stay for a while

Who sets the prices…ANET..well no kitten thakittens actually NCSOFT. So i dont really think its inflation which pushes these prices up. And if it is:
CMON COLIN GET AHOLD OF YOUR kittenING CURRENCY SYSTEM!!!

Edit/ i like how it censors when you put “that” next to “its”

I was actually wanting to make a similar thread as the op. The past events werent so bad but this new one is really annoying. I havent even participated because of how tedious it is. And the worst part is that i havent even done liadri yet because i procrastinated and now i have to participate in this one in order to even try again. Anyways this 2 week thing is a little much and its sad to hear of great players leaving because of this.

we dont really need another one of these threads but…

1. finish every area you want to (make sure to do all starters). Something i did to make it easier was to do all the low leveled hearts in all the starter areas before starting to actually complete my own. I think after doing all the low leveled hearts i was at lvl 10 or so.
2. Champion trains. This really only works from lvl 10-22 in my opinion. its boring but it gives you loot. After lvl 22 or so the xp you get is much too low. (make sure to save the loot bags you get and open them on a lvl 80 alt or just wait till your lvl 80 bc that way you will get lvl 80 gear out of them which is worth much more).
3. Dynamic events. I think theres a really popular one in harathi hinderlands or whatever the kitten its called. It has to do with defending a town and a bridge and then attacking a harathi fort thing. There are a few others although you might have to solo them because im not sure many people are still doing that.
4. WvW you can get a fair amount of xp from doing wvw a couple of times a day. Make sure to only go on when you know alot of people will be on (afternoons usually) and just stay with the big zergs and aoe as much as you can.
5. Gathering. This is a great way to make gold while leveling. Gathering gives a ton of xp and also gives you goods you can either sell or use to craft. One i recomend is in blazeridge steppes (lvl 50) look it up at almarsguides.com I was able to make about 1.5-2g every 30 min and got my lvl 50 to lvl 63 just by doing that.
6. Crafting – easiest way to level. Take one discipline to 400 and you will have gained 10 lvls. Check out some online guides. IMO you should do cooking – jewelerry – artificing and whatever else is cheap. If you do the blazeridge steppes over and over again (which is what i did) you should have enough gold in a couple of days to get at least two crafting disciplines done. (cooking + jewelery = about 9g)

also check out the crown pavilion (although you have to open it now). You can get quite a bit of xp from farming destroyers.

The reason they dont have free transfers or why the price isnt lowered is because if they do so people will keep bandwagoning on whichever server is more popular. For example lets say a server like blackgate drops to 5th tier in wvw. Then every wvw player on the server with a free transfer would be able to switch to a first tier server.
If you really want to switch a server just pay the money. Or farm and switch gold to gems. Its what 1800 gems and 100 cost like 4g or something. That means you need 72g to switch which isnt really that much…

Living World AKA casual pandering: a ton of people
dungeons: 0 people (well except for that one guy in the office that nobody likes who keeps saying, “Hey colin do you think we should look at making some actually hard dungeons, or at least can we fix some bugs”, he always gets shot down though)
:(

actually i think they are making the new upgrades to address the fact that people transmute weapons to get different stats.
Transmuted legendary for stats = transmuted legendary for character change
Im pretty sure transmuted legendarys will be upgraded.

Just wanted to make a specific thread about this. There have been a few that have popped up recently about whether or not existing weapons would be added to different classes.
So if they actually do this what weapon would you like to see on which class.

I would really like to see legendarys account bound so i can use sunrise on my warrior my guardian my mesmer or my ranger.

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/16/gw2-colin-johanson-livestream-transcript/
just putting this link up because someone made a similar thread a few days ago and wanted a better source than mmorpg.com
This is the transcript for the livestream they had about their blog post looking ahead. Colin “The Main Man” Johanson says that they may add new weapons to classes. So kind of an official response already( that is if you count “maybe” as an official response)

This has never happened to me yet. However in the dungeon forums there is one thread about being kicked right before the reward. Of course no mods are going to look at it and its kind of derailed into a thread trolling pugs. But anyways i just wanted to bring this up because last night i saw a gw2lfg post asking for 4g for a spot in a arah p2 run where they were at the last boss. I thought there was already a thread about this but i couldnt see any so i decided to make this. Unfortunately i cant remember the guys name…. but anyways there should be some way to properly report people in groups that kick. For example the guy in the other thread was explaining that after being kicked the whole party chat log was gone so he couldnt report any of the people. There should be some way to report as this behavior is truly despicable.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/kitten-Bags-who-kicks-b4-dungeons-rewards/first#post2684568

barbaric armor looks like a gladiators armor….pretty cheap too

idk if this has been posted before but a guy in my guild is named (drumroll plz)
tony the charr
great name <3

There is something wrong with your post that i think is troubling most of us

Nightarch.2943:

I would definitely pollinate her with gentle passion. She is a flower after all and she does need her pollen since there is no bees in Tyria.

Pretty sure it should be: “since there are no bees in tyria”

OK found it. Nothing for sure another vague answer but this is the transcript from the livestream they had after posting the looking ahead blogpost.
http://dulfy.net/2013/07/16/gw2-colin-johanson-livestream-transcript/
he says they might do additional weapons/skills.
If you really want a dev to answer you should make a new topic or at least change the name of this topic because they have already said that they wont be focussing attention on new classes or races so i doubt any devs would look at this topic atm

Well they are planning to add ascended armor as colin stated. + new legendary weapons and new weapons to different classes. In fact it seems that they will be bringing in alot of new items for us to spend our growing wealth on.

FORTUS heres a source :
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7597/Guild-Wars-2-ArenaNets-Master-Plan-for-2013.html
its under the progression at level 80 paragraph.

u might get your greatsword elemenalist some time soon…maybe

Dont have a legendary but i did get a precursor.
Spark
TA last chest you can get (the one before the tree guy).
Then my luck ran out havent gotten an exotic in a very long time.

Yeah i felt bad when doing the invasions because they were kittening boring. What i dont feel bad about is making tons of gold from different dungeons…alot more gold than before.

Cant wait to see new skins!!! (hopefully they are new ones coming)

Dont know if id call myself a knowledgeable warrior but i use nikes build and it works great. Greatsword/Axe/Mace full berserker stats.
Heres his video:

i would just go with this and only really change things in certain situations like tougher solo play or specific bosses.

also check out his rotation video if you need help with that. The most powerful part of this build is rotating between axe/mace and greatsword and keeping max dps the whole time.

cant you run higher level fractals if you have enough ar and someone else with higher level starts the instance?

still doesnt work just got it today without even looking at this. probably wouldnt have if i had seen this. Really dissapointed that this hasnt been sorted out yet

moot is great…but its expensive. We should have more options that are less expensive and dont look like huge cubes. plus most maces outshadow axes which is kind of….weird since axe is on my main hand most of the time

aah thank you so much

Not hoping for it to end because i procrastinated for the last 2 weeks and havent done liadri yet. today i got through all the t3 guys but i still havent done liadri. Just wondering whether the gauntlet will be gone tomorrow when the new update comes in.

f/u is doable and alot of people have done it. first off Dont do it in a pug. be an elitist and get some zerker warriors guardians mesmer and maybe elementalist. Then dps the boss down while the guardian / mesmer reflect. you can also solo the boss as one engineer has shown by kiting around the adds.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fix-the-Twilight-Arbor-Forward-Up-Path/first

dont complain just get better people on your team.

exploration + waste your time in the crown pavilion. doing that to lvl 40 and then crafting is what i do

cant use compact or deposit collectables on those bags i think anyways doesnt matter that much because they are way cheaper than anything else.

Something that helps me stay alive is a good keyboard setup. make sure your dodge button is easy to hit. Also if you check out brazil’s guardian dps build he talks about elementalists working with guardians to increase might stacks. Could be useful. Also as said by some previous ppl theyre are no healers in this game and ah for guard is imo horrible. Healing is left up to players themselves. Make sure you as a guard are using skills that get rid of conditions and block projectiles (i.e. shield of reflec and then i forget what the condition removals are called).

Main point find a good dps build and dodge a bunch. I do that and i take on vets all the time. its not too bad if u just move around a bunch.

Im fairly new to the game. I joined in may and at the moment im getting very bored of running with pugs. Arah runs take me hr +sometimes because ppl dont run together or they dont understand lupicus. At the moment im in a living story focused guild. The people in my guild love getting ap and farming easy areas like frostgorge. They only do dungeons really casually.

I really want to get better at gw2 and the only way i can see how is to join a guild that teaches speed runs and what not. I cant say im the best player or a great player but i would like to get better and to actually test my skills. If any such guilds actually exist i would be very delighted to join one.

this is the best thread ive seen in a long time lol

im much more impressed by people who have arah weapons and armor on thier main and alts bc that actually is hard to get (well not rly but def harder than a legendary).

You know you can just forget the world exploration and just farm like crazy and buy one of the tp. yeah more work but if u dont like world exploration u still have that option to get a legendary. Also world exploration isnt so bad if u use it to level up alts not just for the legendary. and its really easy too especially wvw. I found that to be the easiest because i did it slowly.

Maybe im behind the times or maybe this isnt true at all i was just checking out gw2db and i looked for helm in order to find the zephyrite helm because i forgot what it was called. Anyways long story short i found this which looked like legendary armor. Are they coming out with it? or is this some glitch.

heavy armor looks like heavy plate karma so idk

http://www.gw2db.com/search?search=mist+warrior
http://www.gw2db.com/search?search=mist+walker
http://www.gw2db.com/search?search=mist+weaver

Guardian has support and can help out the team. They bring much needed skills while also doing pretty good dps. They are also way more interesting to play. Warriors are boring because you just do dps. You can try to change it up with condition damage and shout heal but really warriors just do dps. The dps is great though and with 25 stacks of might you can see really great numbers. IMO guardian is still better and more versatile as every group should have a guardian for most scenarios to cure conditions and for wall of reflect and the other absorby thing (forget the name).

yes yes thanks for bringing this up they should do this because many exotic weapons are quite difficult to craft. Mjolnir is pretty much a legendary on its own. I think they will let you make them ascended in a similar wayt to the triforge pendant or to how prototype fractal capacitor is taken in stages.

So with the recent nerf i was thinking about how anet have recently started time gating things. For example now you have a limit to how many dungeon tokens you can get regardless of how many alts you have. You also have a limit to how much gold you can get. Cof p1 will really only give you 1g once a day and after thakittens much much less. however i saw that there is a pattern of time gating. Dr is a form of time gating obviously. And with the new crafting it seems they will be time gating that as well (im pretty sure the crystals from the bazaar of the four winds patch were a test of how it would work out).

Now this might all sound obvious but my main point is that the time gating that Anet is using is a cheap tactic and it might ruin the game for many people. At the moment it has become much more difficult for people to get groups for dungeons because people only want to do it once per day. It seems as if Anet wants to keep us from doing dungeons. From what i can see it is simply in order to make acquiring gear and gold a longer process. But not because of a challenge but an artificial block. This is really not in the spirit of the game. we shouldnt have these gates that keep us from gear we need. If they really want to make things hard to get make them a challenge. They did the same with DR where they just simply limited drops and gold instead of providing a tougher alternative.

I feel like if this time gating stuff continues it will hurt the game. People who have odd work hours or have long work hours will miss out on dungeons and most players will stop playing as much each day because they cant repeat things. honestly they should focus on making the game better i.e. fixing dungeon paths like ta f/u and cof p2 glitch and AC p2 glitch instead of making these artificial time blocks

Yup the honeycomb floor is super annoying