Guild Wars 2

Minos.3450:

Nop he’s right, when Sorrow’s Furnace was first released there weren’t any minnion cap at this time. As long as you could keep them alive you could keep spawning new ones ad vitum eternam, that’s why minnion master were all monk as secondary, to use aoe heal.
If I remember well, the standart farming party was made of one of these lovely MM, a warrior , an elementalist and a monk to keep everyone alive.

Good ol’ times

I beg you pardon good sir but I never used a secondary profession on my necro. Too powerful to be taint with an inferior profession (ok, ok, I did it sometimes but never as MM; 8 skill wasn’t enough :P).

By the way, the 4-men team was an MM, and SS (necro of course), a warrior and a monk. And the monk task was to keep the tank alive, no mob had time to even lie a finger on the necros :P

Minos.3450:

PS : needless to mention using verata’s skills at this stage equaled comitting suicide.

Oh god! I just remember the first time I used Verata’s Aura. I was doing the the previously mentioned farm and I had like 15 bone minions (it was one of my first times and I was trying to capture the bone minions summoned by the stone summit) and when the enchantment ends I was like WTH! Dead in 1 second!

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Of course, being capped at 10 minions [in GW1] (you could only run 16 death magic between with runes, to get higher you needed boosters like the +1 on a weapon and consumables) after the change to MMs was a bummer too. Still was a blast in AB, FA, and JQ though. Until people started bringing Verata’s Gaze and Verata’s Aura to screw with the MMs. -scowl-

I remember when they cap the MM. I was so angry I bashed Anet in a forum I used to visit (I thought the MM was finished). Then I started to play and found a build with Aura of the Lich (the original) and Dark Bond and IT WAS AWESOME! The closes thing to Grenth the world as ever know.
Seriously, I remember people asking for a 3rd monk to complete the then-apparently-hard-to-beat Vizunah Square and my MM just going there killing everything without a scratch.
Then Anet change AotL, cap Soul Reaping and nerf the necro over and over and still, the necro remained as the undoubtedly king of PvE.

Seriously?

I was upset because I don’t have gold to buy it when it come out but now I’m glad.

Really Anet, a little respect for your customers would be nice (yes, many will buy it with in-game money but still, a lot of them will use real money so don’t be that cheap).

Justdeifyme.9387:

You are not alone in the world. Okay, the respawn timers might be a bit too low, but respawning is a feature every MMO needs to have in order to provide the same content for every player.

So, you telling me people can’t mine the ore I just depleted because it doesn’t re-spawn right away?

Buddy.7563:

Just for anyone who is viewing this thread that didn’t play GW1… Behold the glory that the title of Minion Master used to have.

That remind me the 4-man Sorrow’s Furnace farming. I still miss the times when I was able to summon +30 Bone Fiends combined with Mark of Pain and those hundreds of yellow numbers covering my screen… Ah good old times

Marcus The Cube.3872:

I would have hoped for a more intelligent environment behavior like seamless micro instances in the open world.

Oh, that would be a dream come true. I’m still waiting for a game with such characteristic. I mean, if the old green marks over NPCs has been always “instanced” for each player, why mobs can’t be like that?

I don’t want to fight the same mob again and again. If at the end, the world become empty of enemies good, I’ll start a new char or move to the next map.

Also, mobs re-spawn and people still complain about having nothing to do, so, what’s the point of re-spawning anyway?

Comparing the MM from GW with the MM from GW2 is like comparing a lion with a dog in a lion costume.

Ain’t nobody got gold for that!

Grats. Also, if you wanna sell it fast and the cheapest is 225g, just put it on the TP for 150g and it will be gone in minutes or just wait ages for someone desperate or with too much gold and sell it for 250g

Note: I used to want one (and the other permanent contracts) but since going to WvW is free and there is access to everything, I just change my mind but anyway, good luck if you decide to sell it.

We already had trial periods so I don’t see why we couldn’t have more in the future.

Flame and Frost and SouthSun are “Living Story” not dynamic events (they include dynamic events but that don’t make them DE).
Those are temporal and you will never be able to do it again once finished unless Anet add them again in the future (F&F are gone forever).
DE around the world will repeat over and over until they get bugged and you will be able to do them now, tomorrow or in a few years.

The thing is, why would we need more professions?
Ritualist? We have many summoners already.
Paragon? They were useless in GW1, why should be different in GW2?
Another heavy? For what? More zerkers?

Conncept.7638:

She’s a mesmer, the dress is an illusory projection, and therefore not bound by gravity. So essentially queen Jennah walks around naked. She’s queen, she can do what she wants.

LMAO

Anet say many things and 90% of the time are lies.

So, who cares? If they are working on an expansion, let them. If not, what’s the problem?

Jemmi.6058:

Can’t disagree with this more. This game hardly feels like beta, and I rarely if ever run in to bugs. I am focused entirely on PvE though. +1 for expansion and more story.

Which game did you play?

No bugs on PvE?????

So all those bugs on dynamic event, traits, skills, parties, BLTC, ui interface, etc, etc are just my imagination? Good to know

I hope the lack of needed tools, profession balance and PvE balance is also my imagination.

We first need to leave the beta phase of the game, then enjoy a finished game (if you enjoy the beta, imagine the game with all events and activities working at 100%) and then, we can finally think on a expansion

Einlanzer.1627:

It seems intuitive to me that anything that’s only temporarily available should be account bound.

Even permanent content should be AB but well, maybe someday Anet will release one pack with the three gathering tools (I don’t care the effect, just the utility) or maybe some kind of item to transmute SB items into AB.

I just wish the Molten Alliance Mining Pick were permanent. I bought 2 then, I deleted one character and get bored of the other one so now I have 2 useless MAMP and no way to get another one for my new main

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Either way, I feel really bad for the people who invested in Ectos when they were 35 Silver.

They fault. Since the new rewards for doing world bosses was implemented, everybody knew ectos prices will drop. If they bought a kittenload of ectos intentionally to play with the TP and make money, then I’m glad ectos prices will drop even more.

lynspottery.6529:

I have not seen any improvement. I run my necro with pets all the time, but have not seen where there have been any changes to the pet AI at all.

Sometimes my Flesh Golem will attack, more often than not, he just stands there watching the enemy come for us. Occasionally, all pets will just swirl behind me and not do anything in the fighting except perhaps die.

I really like the idea of a pet necro build but am getting frustrated because I cannot do anything in this build.

We are 3 months away from the first anniversary and we have absolutely no improvement so my advice is: Let it go, this is not going to change ever.

Nah, I used to think the same but people don’t care about empty zones. Some only do events if they see people around and some others just don’t give a kitten (they can farm the same event over and over).

Nothing, that’s an exploit (a well known exploit Anet refuse to address) so I don’t use it.

Note: I don’t have nothing against people using this kind of exploits, is their problem, not my, so this is not a complaint.

timidobserver.7925:

It’s been there for a long time. You failed because you waited until the last minute. Take some responsibility for your own failure.

And what about those who can’t play for other reasons?

After the 30/5 update, GW screw my modem so I spent 3 days without internet (yes GW did it, very old issue, no need to explain here). Lucky me, it was after completing the dungeon and all the remaining achievements but, what if the problem persist for more time like after the dungeons was shut down? It would be my failure?

What if a can’t played for more important reasons? It would be a failure too?

I remember the first time I tried that event long ago. I was pretty new to the game so I didn’t know about runes or builds so it was really hard.
But yes, the spawn rate in this game is to kitten fast, despite what Anet says.

Quakeman.9378:

Omg dude you’re 100% right. For one, it’s hard to find at first first (took me a long while to actually find where the freakin guy is), and even then since no one even tries to do it, it’s basically impossible to do. Kinda reminds of the fire shaman from the charr starting area (forget exactly where). It’s not that I don’t like challenges, but, this one’s a little outrageous I think.

The Flame Shaman (as well as the Bandit Lieutenant on Queensdale) are nearly impossible for low lvls (despite the fact they are low lvl) BUT there is a way to beat them (once you know how, it may take time but is possible and easy). Others like the Troll on Caledon or the Ooze on Metrica are really hard but again, there is a way (an a lvl 80 can fight them face to face without problem).
Then we have the real heavyweight champions like the Kraith Witch on Caledon or the Troll on Queensdale. Again, those can kill even a lvl 80 with full exotics but a good player can beat them alone (although there is always a kittenload of people doing the troll so there is no need).

But the kittening Blood Witch… THERE IS NO WAY! No strategies, no luck, no gear, no build, no profession will help and even a group can be easily defeated.

I also like challenges, I really do. The only reason I learn how to play was to defeat the champions I mentioned before (specially the Bandit Lt. and the Ooze) but this is far beyond being a challenge.

Geotherma.2395:

Armor sets do look different on different races though. Not always for the best, but they differ based on who is wearing them. Some gear I never liked on my asura or charr, then I had that gear in my bank and previews on my human and it is totally different.

But that’s true only for an asura or a charr. Humans, silvary and norn have the same base model and therefore, the same armor which make our salad people look ridiculous at best and the norn look just like overgrown humans.

Agreed, a sylvari with human clothes is one of the reason I don’t play a sylvari.

Too long, didn’t read :P

Now seriously, my eyes hurt only while scrolling. You should do a resume or something.

SnoodBeAR.5286:

Noone said 20-50 persons and I never said 2-3 hours, just not under 1 hour. People have been wanting 12 man….

We have 12 man instances in GW1. I think I saw one person once in 6 years (and we weren’t separated by servers).

SnoodBeAR.5286:

Some peoples idea of fun is a challenge and not sitting there brain dead mashing 1 and then occasionally every other skill with no thought put into it. Believe it or not I think content should require tactics.

(gasp)

Because tactics can only being applied when you have to spend 2-3 hours in a dungeon with 20-50 persons right?

I’m the only one who regret farming gold to buy this?
I mean, I know what I was paying for but, I don’t know. I bought the tunneling thing and as I said to someone, it’s the more useless thing ever an yet, I love it but this, it just feel like a total waste.

I came here to have fun, not to impress a random stranger and show the world how awesome I’m when playing a game.
Also, many people have families, REAL FRIENDS, business in the real world so, a single dungeon lasting for 2-3 hours may be much; if you are seriously about hardcore content, then 1 single AFK should be the doom of the whole party, no kitten like “lets wait for him” or “lets just get going without him”.
If not, then we will just have more of the same and people will come here asking for a more hardcore content.

Many, MANY event get bugged soon after a server reset. The wiki is very incomplete so you will be unable to find all the events with this problem but if you check Queensdale for example, a lot of low level events are marked as easily bugged or presumably removed from the game.
The event you mentioned may be in this situation .Last time I did it was like 1 o 2 months ago but, if you wanna know for sure, check it after a server reset.

I don’t care about fighting in town clothes but I would like to remain in them when falling or being attacked (instead of switching to my combat gear right away).

Good think Anet clearly said DE will promoting player cooperation and will never encourage player conflict.

Randulf.7614:

I think this was always going to be an issue having culminated the Zhaitan part of our adventure so soon. I really expected this to take a year, not a couple of months. Hopefully a lesson learned for future Dragons.

They can always fix things. They just need to say we fought a simple minion sent to test our strength and the real Zaithan is still hidden, waiting to strike for real (which would explain why we are still overrun by risen).

NO! Why invest time and money on a dead horse?
There is like 1 guy working on GW1 and he already started to doing moves to screw the game so people quit (in my case it worked).
So, unless Anet decide to sell some kind of “support GW1 tickets to finish GWB” I don’t see any future for our beloved game

Oh, I remember the first time I fought it, very WTF? But once you learn to fight it, is very easy.

Unlimited logging axes

All minions have shorter CT underwater.

Maybe you already have your answer but in my case, I can play for months without a single UDs and sometimes, I just play for few minutes and I get 5 or 6 UDs (generally, this last for 2 or 3 days and then again, no drops at all).

Raine.1394:

On my server, I’ve noticed mapchat around the event that would indicate little interest in doing this event. I’ve done it a couple times and won’t do it again. It has a high failure rate and a high chance of death. The rewards are like rewards everywhere; if you are lucky you might get a blue item.

This is just one of the examples of imbalance in open world PvE in the game. Unbalanced events are sprinkled throughout the game and are pervasive in Orr. Most players are aware of this and simply avoid those events. This is simply one of those events. After months of comment on this and observing the game only get worse, I don’t have high hopes of anything changing. I’d suggest that you, like others, add it to your high risk/low reward list and don’t attempt it.

Unlike most people, I’m not after the reward. Like I said, I love to do everything and that means doing every single event just for the fun.
I’m already lvl 80 with full exotics on my way to ascended items (I already own 2) so the promise of better reward means nothing to me. I don’t farm world event bosses events despite the fact those are warranted to drop a rare and a small chance of a precursor (I’m not remotely interested on legendaries). Also, I have better ways to get gold/exp so that’s not the point.

Yes, it’s easy to move on (I already give up with the eternal bugged events on Queensdale) but I know there is more events like this and that really destroy my interest on playing (when I failed to get a group for the Witch the first time I tried, I was so disappointed I quit for the whole day missing one daily and therefore, one laurel which is pretty much the only meaningful reward I can get).

So yes, you may be you are right and I should skip those events, I may also just quit the game since PvP and WvW aren’t what I want to do but if that’s the case, I don’t lost anything trying to ask for a solution, after all, a man can dream

Mathemagician.1836:

You might attempt it on days where the daily achievement includes group events and/or daily revives. Usually if you advertise that you’re putting a group together for it and mention that it’s a great way to progress on those two achievements, you can reasonably quickly get a group to take her down.

Today is one of those days and nope, didn’t work.

Hey Anet, as you may be aware, in Kessex Hills there is a very annoying group event no one want to do. I’m talking of the Blood Witch.
Now, this is not the only OP champion around the world, Kessex Hills alone have some very challenging champions. The problem is, being underwater, along with her OP/ridiculously short CD range attack, make her impossible to solo her and as I said, no one want to fight her.
Yes, is a “GROUP” event and yes, some times people kill her, but as you may be aware, I can’t be online all day/night 7 days a week to catch one of those brave groups.

As someone who really love to do EVERYTHING in PvE, being unable to do a single event like this is very frustrating.

So, I was wondering if you can do something about this, not only about this Witch, but any other similar event (like her cousin in Caledon or Horace in Ashford, although I can solo those, with a little practice/patience of course).

Now, I’m not asking to add special rewards like you did with the World Bosses (let’s face it, you really screw it with those and now they aren’t funny anymore). I’m not even asking for a nerf, just a solution, and there is a simple solution.

I was wondering if we could have some kind of mercenaries like in GW1 but instead of being available all the time, made them available only for the event but then, while exploring the rest of Kessex, I encounter the Harathi overlord and I realize we already have that kind of mercenaries. If you forgot/don’t know, on that event we can ask for help to a group of seraphs.
Draithor the Drill (on Kessex also) is another example, on that event, if we can’t stop him, a new event add a NPC who summon minions and that make a big difference.

So, the point is: It’s possible to add more NPCs like those to help with event like the Blood Witch?
Or, it will be easy to screw them adding more relevant reward like rares?
And if none of this is possible, can you at least put her outside the water? That would be a great help also.

Raine.1394:

Either one of two things is true; either they made it like this because they don’t want people to play there, or they haven’t a clue about game balance in open world PvE in an MMO.

I think the problem is Anet strongly believed the game will be full with a kittenload of people on every single map and with all the lvl 80 spending their time in places like Orr.
They also may think every single player is willing to help with everything at any time without asking something in change.

So, when we have maps nearly empty with selfish player who are unwilling to help unless the have a warranted “rare”, we are left with unbalanced events/maps impossible/unfunny to do.

So my guess is: They haven’t a clue about game balance in open world PvE in an MMO.

Unfortunately, they also are too proud, so for Anet, anything wrong with the game is our fault, not theirs. People has been complaining about spawn rates/number of mobs (not only in Orr) or ridiculously OP group event bosses (like the blood and krait witch) and the only answer is: We check and is working as intended.

Moa morph should be removed from the game, simple as that.
People whined a lot when Anet announced “fear” and how they hate losing control of their characters (and even more since they said fear would be for necros only).
Then why add a stupid skill who turn you into a worthless bird? Yes, you can move and have a special set of useless skills but you don’t chose to have them so you are still losing control of you character.
Also, I didn’t paid $60 to play as a stupid bird so no, is not only about minions or necros, it’s about everything.

Flissy.4093:

You mean because I’m a competent player you expect me to carry the incapable ones? Not happening my friend, why should I spend twice as long inside a dungeon than I need to because everybody else isn’t up to par? Lemme guess, you want to make GL a 10 minute ranged fight too instead of a 1:30 melee?

It’s definitely a good job I have a like-minded, sensible guild and usually only have to pug 1 player or maybe 2.

“Watch out, we got a kitten over here”

And yes, sure… Claiming to be a good player on forums, it must true

Mmh, the “kitten” is not and insult by the way, just the filter being to fussy

Anyone else have this problem since the 30/04 patch?
I spend 3 day without internet but I think it was a problem with my ISP but suddenly, my connection come back and then I remembered this problem (I had the same problem when I bought GW2 back in October and this last time, I just logged in when my connection die).
Also, this seems to affect the modem only since reinstalling/restoring windows don’t fix it.

Useless for you, wanted for many. Just because you don’t like it don’t mean everyone else think the same (personally I’ll stick with soldier).

Besides, we already have Knight (T/p/p) and Emerald (P/t/p) so, why we can’t have Soldier and Sentinel?

Well of Corruption skill: Updated damage skill fact to indicate the correct number of attacks.
Well of Suffering skill:
Updated damage skill fact to indicate the correct number of attacks.
Updated the number of attacks to be consistent when affected by Focused Rituals.
Spinal Shivers skill: Updated damage facts to indicate damage dealt based on boons removed.

Meh. At least One hadn’t forgotten we have a necromancer profession :P

Signet of Spite skill: Updated the skill facts to indicate the passive effect of this skill. Increased the passive power boost by 100%.

Woot, just because people is obsessed with condition damage and don’t like power builds don’t mean SoS was useless, now is awesome

Corrupt Boon skill: No longer causes odd interactions with Aegis. Now unblockable.
Epidemic skill: Now unblockable.

Meh.

Flesh Wurm minion: Increased health by 25%.
Flesh Golem minion: Increased health by 25% and toughness by 10%.

Mmh, minions are useless if you don’t have all minion traits so although welcome, those changes are pretty useless.

Lich Form skill: The Grim Specter skill now strips boons from enemies and conditions from allies when it reaches its target point instead of only when the missile hits a target.

Mmh, maybe next path…

Just like always, the final version is crap. I installed it and it took second to finish which is obviously not right and in effect, no change was made to the driver or the CCC. Then I installed the BETA driver and it work flawless so just like always, I’ll stay with the BETA.

PearlGore.7419:

I’m not understanding how a GPU driver effects latency.

Who cares? If it works, enjoy it :P