Guild Wars 2

Just got DC’d at 25% left on Teq on an overflow map after one bone wall. We managed to pull it together. Really not happy about this.

Which guild are you in again? I couldn’t tell.

Joking aside, I also hope that HoT brings big bosses with changing mechanics that are challenging even with an organizer group. Ideally it would be nice if it was contained to a limited number of people, smaller than a Zerg but larger than a group; a squad of 15 would be great.

Excludee.3850:

At best it’s gonna be, “Workers are building the guild halls”

“At best” they could discuss the new features with halls, how to get them, and look into them in game and give more information about them. Just saying “btw the big reveal are npc workers!!” is foolish to think that is what the whole stream would be.

Ephemiel.5694:

cocowoushi.7150:

Lol you’re all silly if you think this is the “big news” they are going to talk about on Friday. They have been covering HoT stuff the past 3 weeks or so; I’m positive it will be HoT related.

….so the rebuilding of Lion’s Arch will not happen in HoT according to you?

You know exactly what I’m saying; why would you even ask that?

Regarding frogs: was still HoT related. Taking Master tracks with those tribes opens up abilities you will use in HoT.

But I don’t think that would count as a “big” reveal.

Lol you’re all silly if you think this is the “big news” they are going to talk about on Friday. They have been covering HoT stuff the past 3 weeks or so; I’m positive it will be HoT related.

Oxidia.8103:

edit: also: i once transmuted 2 armor sets to look the same, one was zerk, one was soliders and joined the most elitists party on lfg fractals lvl 50 who required meta zerk, i pinged zerk one but wore soliders. None of those pros noticed i run soliders.

This made me laugh.

Confessions:
- I solo’d the last 30% of Mai one time and felt so accomplished even though it was only a scale 3.

- I’m so bad at jumping puzzles because my connection can be choppy and unpredictable and I want to cry everytime I roll Uncatorgrized/ Cliffside/ Jade Maw fractals.

- I recently learnt how to solo the Reactor Room and I assure my party I can do it, but everytime my hands are shaking because I feel there is so much pressure to get it right the first time.

- I can’t take Asura melee characters seriously at all.

- I’ve come back from a 2 year break and haven’t done most of the dungeons/paths. When I do join a new one I rarely know where to go, so I silently wait and watch everyone else so I can learn. Which doesn’t work when I’m the only 80 in a AC group and they are expecting me to lead.

ZilentNight.5089:

Also please consider making Bloodstone dust, Dragonite Ore and Emperial Fragments into a wallet currency already.

But they aren’t currency. Bandit Crests/Geodes though….

Honestly I just want something to use Dragonite Ore on other than Vision Crystals. At least Bloodstone dust you can feed to Mawdrey II. Same for Star of Gratitude, if you have it.

There is the Rytlock HoT shirt they were giving away at PAX/other promo stuff.

I think mine is more grey though, than olive, with the HoT logo in the back.

heartless.6803:

phys.7689:

Behellagh.1468:

carabidus.6214:

GIVE US HARD MODE!!!

USE WHITE GEAR!!!

thats not hard mode, thats slow mode.

Okay, GW2 Ironman challenge

-no gear other then white
-no traits
-no accessories of any kind
-no professions
-no instances
-no wvw
-no deaths, you die you delete
-no downed state, it’s a death delete
-no de-level must level in appropriate areas
-no grouping

Hard enough for yeah?

GW2 Nuzlocke challenge.

You can carry Long Bow, Skill 4 also blinds. Sometimes if you need to get some distance because your HP is hurting, I usually turn to Bow. Skill 5, burst fire field on boss, skill 3 for area might, skill 4 to blind, swap back to GS and Rush back in. By then your HP should be a little more manageable.

Beldin.5498:

rapthorne.7345:

You can target specific mobs for T6 mats. 80 skelks/skales drop t6 blood, 80 moa’s drop t6 claws, etc

Skelks and Arctodus are dropping Blood, Claws and Fangs btw.

Shhhhh!!!

I do also wish the drop rates were a little better. I grew up playing Korean MMOs so mindless grind doesn’t bother me; sometimes I actually crave that repetitive action. But I can also see why DR is in place and the T6 mats aren’t quick to drop.

I just wish things like Fine Infusions didn’t cost 250/100 of a given resource. Like, geez.

I second HotW data. If I should bother using Svanir potions in it or something else.

No thank you. I’d rather encourage anet to make new mini dungeons via fractals insead of recycling again and again.

The only frustrating thing about someone getting more than one is they can’t gift it to someone else. But them having more than one doesn’t mean they are stealing extra seats from people. Chill.

I came back to GW2 after a 2 year break because I was getting a hankering for MMOs again. I went to PAX and played their FF14 Hardmode Shiva Challenge and I totally loved it. I remembered I love fighting big bosses with changing mechanics in a moderate sized group.

I left before fractals were a thing but they’re what I’ve been doing mostly. I’d love to see more of these (small “dungeons”) but with more challenging fights. And I don’t mean harder hitting but mechanics wise. Everyone hates Cliffside Fractal but it’s honestly my favorite one because of the teamwork needed.

People have mentioned in this thread that they want raids akin to other MMOs; that’s fine but I don’t want fights based around the old “Tank and Spank” format the Trinity provided.

Albadaran.1283:

Hmmm, but isn’t this expansion only? I mean, vanilla players won’t get expansion skills, so not everything can change in the core game…

No, it’s the whole game. The changes to traits, skills, and hero points are going to roll out before HoT is released.

Seera.5916:

Hidori.3472:

here is an unorthodox thought for some of you out here:

Just rez the ppl as soon they are down kitten and don’t pretend you haven’t seen it.
It happened to me a lot that some poor brained, lousy, selfish player stands beside me without helping me to rezz myself up after getting downed. In an hostile environment that means death and leads to fruitless discussions like this one.

At vw lane one I manage to help rez 6-10 downed players, fill up the bee hive and dps the friggin boss. the rezzed players can now dps again.

remember: dead dps is no dps.

If you die too quickly after getting up from downed, you immediately die.

Sometimes people get downed in areas that are currently unsafe to be in.

Adding to what Seera said, it’s way too situational to bash on players who don’t rezz you when you go downed. It heavily depends on the event, if it’s timed (short like VW champs), rezzing player’s hp/armor, hell even their rotation.

If I’m in the middle of Hammer interrupt rotation in one of the lanes, I’m going to finish that rotation before I help anyone, because I need to burn my Burst skill FAST or my adrenaline output takes a hit. I try very hard to rezz everyone I can in SW but I won’t let myself be killed over it, because that won’t help anyone. If I’m getting jacked up by Trasher vines while trying to Rez someone I’m going to bail if I’m too much in the red. And this is me, a warrior, in heavy armor and shield half the time with defense traited in SW. I can’t imagine a light armored person staying in as long as I do sometimes to try and Rez.

Again, it depends on the event. Jormag downs tons of people but I never see a single person NOT getting helped. Teq is harder. You have massive AOEs that last a long time and waves that can knock you down into them, away from downed players.

Placeholders. Q4 would be a reasonable timeframe though.

How are you forced to do Fractals via dailies? Even if you get a double fractal day, you can scoot over to WvW and do some of those Dailies; or PvP’s.

Boro.7359:

This idea is bad because resurrection is a key part of the game. In fact, resurrection should be encouraged more than leaving/walking back from a wp. Delay the downscale of “gone” players by a minute or two, that way if you res a player, you’ll be beating the fight sooner than with them being away.

Sometime this isn’t an option though, and you’d fail the event (VW) or get more people killed (Teq) if they take the time to rezz a lot of dead players. Not saying it shouldn’t be an option, but defeated players need to realize rezzing them is not a priority in many high risk cases.

Why would you respawn at the Camp if you die at VW when you could respawn at the Labyrinth entrance?? Sure you can’t go back and fight that champ you died on but as long as all 3 die, you get the chest anyways.

27 pages omg…
I don’t mind Dragon Hunter, but I do like Warden better.

Play Reaper. Done.

Video was 100% better than DH’s. Thank you.

Now that Reaper is announced, I think it’s likely we will be getting info soon. They stayed they wanted to do 3 spec reveals, which they have. They already announced they have a new WvW test coming up too, so they might focus on some closed beta stuff first before announcing more Specs, then perhaps repeat?

Just speculation.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

They still have to release that big feature pack with new traits and conditions. And then they will have to fix all the mess they made with it. That will take some time.

This. We might see new Trait system hit in August after they are all revealed, but I’m very sure they will find bugs with it once it’s live and need balancing. Only after they do that and give final release info on Rev will we see HoT. Q4 sounds much more likely.

Purple Miku.7032:

cocowoushi.7150:

Does Warriors Sprint still apply in the room? I’m usually set up for PS so I don’t have enough traits for it when I’m supporting.

There is no point to use warrior’s sprint because it gives less movement speed than swiftness does.

Just swap to shoutheal traits for the heat room and swap back to your normal traits after, it’s free to change traits so there is no reason to avoid doing it

Thanks! I wasn’t sure it made a difference and should bother doing it while switching to shout heal.

Nice, I was just looking for a back item skin.

Still wish they do Dragon Bash again so I could get Shatterer wings.

Kraljevo.2801:

I always do it this way, pretty easy. Use warhorn #4 at the beginning and at the end to remove immobilize. Use shoutheal traits and sure-footed for longer defiant stance.
Signet of stamina for more dodges and to remove 2nd immobilize.

Even if you go down, you can use vengeance and get to the console in time.

Ah, okay, this does seem easier than what I posted. I was wondering why they hit Shake It Off in the room, so thanks for the explanation. I suppose there is no reason to swap back to GS after using WH? It didn’t look like they tried to Rush the first gate at least.

Does Warriors Sprint still apply in the room? I’m usually set up for PS so I don’t have enough traits for it when I’m supporting.

I’ve gotten back into GW2 recently, particularly Fractals. I know this room is soloable with a Warrior, which I have, and want to help be better for my group by knowing how.

Character is Human so no Norn Bear form. Assuming no cooling rods, I assume it’s something like:
- Rampage, Rush and Leap
- Defiant Stance to Heal
- Bulls Rush
- Dodge Roll/Spam 1 as needed
- Vengence
- Shake it off to break imoblize for first panel – OR, can I pop Zerk Stance and hit both panels one after another?

Just looking for advice or better tactics for this. Is Rampage’s 3 sec swiftness enough? I never use the skill so I don’t know if it would overwrite someone else’s swiftness dropped on me beforehand.

Thank you for the help in advance.

I’d love to see a melee staff, especially for warrior. We can already pick up Banners and smack people with them.

I have no problem with Rev getting pistol but I hate how people base it completely on Rytlock. I saw this argument for possible Warrior weapon too in map chat the other day.

Charrs have Hidden Pistol. It’s just a given that a Charr can shoot you in the face regardless of class.

The only thing I had a problem with is that the reveal video was very boring. Didn’t feel exciting at all.

Knighthonor.4061:

I have a question for anybody that got a Beta drop.

What class were you playing when it dropped?

Warrior, SW on a drake.

Also this thread is ridiculous. Closed Beta and Open Beta are two different things.

Got mine tonight. Did a map all the way up to start of VW then had to leave for dinner. Logged back in and did a run from 20%, actually remembered to pop an extractor and was running through the map after Lab to find the NPC to turn in a part. Killed some drakes on the way and there it was.

People who are farming and getting burnt out need to mix up their playing. Take a break and do other things you’d normally do. The RNG is going to be the same no matter what. Plus you still have like 5 days, including the weekend.

Basically any Morderm that spawns at a fort defense or during VW will not drop it, since they spawn MANY mobs VERY frequently. You CAN get the portal from Mordrem mobs that wander the SW map, or that appear during Bull Supply runs.

You can also get them from regular mobs on the map (Drakes, dust mites, destroyers etc).

Champion chests can drop it and reward chests for events can contain it, too.

These are all the ways I know. As far as I know lab chests will not contain it (but reward chest for completing tiers can), nor do Lost Bandit Chests.

The mobs don’t. But you can still get event chests with successful champion defeats. Someone in North lane got one yesterday after middle lane killed foe.

Azala Yar.7693:

sir edgar.3946:

so ive been literally grinding dry top for 20 hours straight and still fail to get beta access am i doing something wrong?

I’ve easily done more than 36 hours and still no luck.

One thing for sure I’ve killed so many kitten mobs that I really wish there was more variety of mobs there.

Since you have just as much luck hunting the map for 2 hours as someone who has done it for 10, I think you need to consider doing other things so you don’t burn out. Take a break. Or do other events or dungeons. Come back to it later and try again. There’s still at least 5 more days to hunt.

Got mine after a VW run. Finally remembered to use an extractor so I was on my way to the Cryptologist, killing some mobs as I go. Got portal drop off a Drake.

Honestly I’m enjoying making the money and all the chest runs that will happen after this week is over.

I dislike underwater combat in general. It’s just too slow and clunky and I hate mobs getting stuck in rocks so you can’t do damage but can’t get out of combat either.

Wethospu.6437:

I heard all precursor drops have been replaced with these keys.

I laughed.

But really people need to stop assuming that chat link = total and only number found. Last night one dropped for someone at North Lane and they linked it in /say, not /map. I saw at least 3 others linked in /map over a couple of VW runs and another on a different map for chest farming. Not to mention people who would link it in guild chat instead.

Some people do have visual quirks that are distracting to them. I know I absolutely can NOT have Skype in anything but Do Not Disturb mode because I can’t focus on anything else if I see something flashing on my toolbar. Chest wiggle isn’t too distracting for me, it’s when they flash that gets me.

I can get what you’re asking OP but sadly I don’t think they will change it unless it’s just changed all together in HoT.

Eurhetemec.9052:

cocowoushi.7150:

Someone asked for it in the Specialization stream and one of the devs said “that’s a good idea, we should look into that.” So there you go.

Which is bananas, because they’ve said that before, so why is it news to them now? It shouldn’t be “a good idea”, it should be “part of the plan”.

I believe they felt the new system will be quick and easy enough that one wouldn’t need presets. It is, generally, a lot more streamline than the current system, if only due to lack of choices in comparison. But now we might get both.

Someone asked for it in the Specialization stream and one of the devs said “that’s a good idea, we should look into that.” So there you go.

You want to test for them so badly you want to pay for access, but only if it’s new content? Are you sure it’s just about testing for them?

Man, I remember back when the game was still new and we had to fight on the bridge because it was impossible to fight in the room itself without dying. How times have changed. But I agree, HP needs a huge boost.

Conncept.7638:

Zetsumei.4975:

Conncept.7638:

I’ve seen one person get one so far, and then that same person got another ten minutes later…

You can get more than one? And are they account bound?

The second is worthless, they are account bound and a second nets you nothing the first didn’t.

25s though.
This is interesting to know, though. I was wondering if it was possible to get more than one.

Reddit people have reported getting them in SW from the event reward chest that appears on the bottom right hand part of you screen, as well as a Husk Slinger near the middle lane during VW event.

Ok I Did It.2854:

lordkrall.7241:

TurtleofPower.5641:

Tried it for an hour. Nobody got one. Looks like they expect you to grind all week for the “chance” which is fairly lame, especially with the zerg around and everyone competing over targets.

And yet there are multiple reports on reddit already about people getting it. Less than two hours after release.

You are also assuming that every single user in the map would post in map chat if they got one.

Unless there are screenshots to back up the reports.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/346dhk/portal_to_heart_of_maguuma/
If you don’t think it’s worth the risk vs reward then don’t do it. Wait for Open Beta.
Can’t win if you don’t play.

So instead of players taking an active role to get a closed beta key, it is better for them to RNG emails from a list of potentially dead accounts? Access that could have gone to active players instead?