Guild Wars 2

wtf? WTF?
I just made a clean install of windows yesterday and downloaded the 13.3 Beta3 and just one day after they released the 13.4? Just my luck

By the way, GW2 does work better with the 13.3 Beta3 (the last working driver for me was the 12.11 beta 11). Lets see how it does with the 13.4 (it supposed to be the same but sometimes the beta work better, at least for me). Also, I’ll try the 13.5 beta

Yep, impressive, I haven’t been so excited since the last end of the world O-O

Get to lvl 80, get armor/weapons lvl 0 (white quality), no traits, no trinkets, no runes.

There is your hardcore mode, enjoy.

Sigh… Here we go again with those pros showing us how idiot and unworthy are everyone else but them…

Still funny how they proclaim all other MMOs have “unique” items with such meaning yet they don’t provide proofs.
Also, someone made a “research” in the other post and nope, unique mean nothing in most MMOs and even if all have such meaning, what make them think everyone else is a lifeless nerd who has played every single MMO?

Finally, the fact Anet give the other person a new ring is enough to prove how “self-explanatory” the word “unique” is.

Swagg.9236:

Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Skipping is simply the result of bad dungeon design. Just lower enemy health in the areas that are typically skipped. Problem solved.

Or just add tokens to trash mobs and increase the number of tokens earned by killing some bosses (like Kholer and the troll on AC).
This way, people will love to kill those and also, will reduce the times you need to run a dungeon, hence, reducing you desire to skip (yep, people like OP may want to enjoy the run but most people run for gold and tokens and that require a kittenload of runs and after doing the same over and over, people just want to do it in the fast and easy way).

Good old memories, I really miss that screen but people on GW1 asked for the original screen for a long time and nothing change so I don’t think GW2 is going to be the exception (I think someone said that screen implied some technical problems but I’m not sure).

$80 Game + gems (to get the Halloween costume).

However, I’m not spending a single coin on this game anytime soon. I’m not willing to sponsor some super unnecessary box of kitten or crap like that when things really needed like bugs, unbalanced classes and lack of necessary tools are in the bottom of Anet priorities.

Note: I like the game, I really do but Anet gave me a very unfinished product so they have yet to earn my money.

Besides, I spent a lot of money in GW1 after Anet move to work on GW2 and since the people in charge of GW1 always whined about not having enough resources to do anything, I assume all these money went to GW2 so I already paid a lot for this game.

Good news indeed, I’m a little bored of AC :P

Mungrul.9358:

Now you’ve made gear more easily attainable through WvW, I never have to set foot in one of those godsawful dungeons again.

Really?
How easy exactly?
Can you get a full set in 10 days or less?

Hurr durr, me know “unique” means, kitten ima pro!

Hey OP, don’t feed the trolls and thx for the post. I’m planning to get ascended items and for different reasons, I was planing to get different items with the same stats so this is not really a problem but anyways, thanks to you, I now know this little “feature” (yep, Anet sux when giving explanations, maybe they think we all are super-pro-fanboys unworthy of better explanations).

Sir Vincent III.1286:

It is admirable to see that Anet have solved the culling issue in WvW, but it seems that the culling issue in other part of the game were ignored.

During dynamic event events, especially those when fighting a dragon, a large number of players shows up to participate. One particular even when culling is really bad is the 2nd phase of Claw of Jormag where Ice Pillars goes invisible and killing a lot of players due to frost/chill DoT. On top of that, literally, we were being bombarded by Ice Elementals that we cannot see from behind. Again prolonging the fight, not because of our mistake or something we overlooked, but instead due to the mobs we simply do not see.

So my question is, what is the recommended settings that allows us to see EVERYTHING? Because no matter what setting I choose, it doesn’t solve the issue of invisible mobs or structures.

Addressing the culling issue in WvW is a big step in the right direction and I would like to know when will this feature going to be extended to the rest of Tyria? But if this is already been extended, what is the prefered setting? Maxing everything out doesn’t solve it either.

Thank you.

I think they said something about having some “issues” with the new system on PvE and that’s why it wasn’t implemented just yet but, if I’m not wrong, they are working on it.

Just don’t get your hopes too high. Anet is not known for doing things fast and even if they take time you can always expect a kittenload of bugs.

You sure?
I was planning to save my laurels. I only have 35 so I’m not close to 100 yet but it will be good to know if this is true.

Morgiana.7154:

Speaking of necro weapon ranges, is it just me or did the staff auto-attack range got smaller?

Yep, it’s smaller (I think the original have 1500). A shame but oh well, I guess some mesmers complain and Anet had to do something.

And the Axe… Well, more range will not help IMO but yes, a base range of 900 with a range of 1200 with Axe Training trait will be nice.

Sannhet.8745:

I’m not sure you know what vulnerability is. Defiant stacks have absolutely no effect on it and it is ALWAYS useful in PvE due to the fact that every stack increases the damage of everyone hitting your target by %s related to the number of stacks. Also, it bounces to multiple targets – therefore it is AoE.

Now if you’re talking about solo’ing, you should draw a distinction between that and PvE.

Sorry, my bad. I mean unshakable (they are related hence the confusion :P) which make vulnerability last 50% less time.

And as I said, they way Reaper’s Touch bounce is not optimal (now if it worked like Deathly Swarm then I will not complain).

And why will I need 12% extra dmg when teaming with others? I alone can bring down vets and champs quiet fast and the big bosses have so many ppl killing them with their own sources of vulnerability than my Reaper’s Touch is useless.

All legendary weapons are hideous IMO and I will never carry one even if they were free (and I mean all, including the GS).

Criselli.7462:

I was under the impression healing power scaled very poorly. IMO PVT is the way to go then you can maintain some form of damage. I do know that Regen does scale fairly well with hp but the stat loss vs healing gain just isn’t worth it.

It scaled very poorly but not so bad really and since necros have a lot of ways to heal themselves, having full healing (cleric/magi/apothecary) does heal you a lot.

I always used D/D and I loved it. However I made the terrible mistake to reroll and I bought a focus instead (I farmed AC for tears to get the soldier stats) and I hate it.

Reaper’s Touch: Vulnerability is useless in PvE, trash mobs die to fast without it so is a waste if you use it on them and champs have Defiant which make it less effective on the only mobs on which my be useful. The bounces don’t work for me (yes, it work as intended but for me the mechanism is pretty lame).
The regeneration is nice but is not like I need it. Finally it can be easily dogde/missed and the worst, it’s single target and don’t allow you to tank several mobs at one.
Also, the trait related to focus don’t work on this.

Spinal Shivers: Chilled is as useless or more than vulnerability in PvE. Also, it have all the same weakness but at least, ST work on this.
And about the boons, not many mobs have boons so…

Now dagger: Both are multi-target. Dagger means melee so, applying blinding and weakness on several mobs is just the best (unlike vulnerability, these conditions are the best against trash mobs and both allow you to tank several mobs with pretty good AoE dmg). Also, transfer conditions are way more useful than regeneration IMO.
Finally, all trait related to daggers work on both.

In conclusion: You SHOULD use the one you like the most. I have no problems on any PvE aspect of the game (open world, dungeons, FotM) with D/D not with D/F but as I said, focus is not my style and I just love D/D.

That will be a OP tank.

With soldier/knight gear and a MM build I can tank pretty much anything and do a very good dmg.
With H/T/V your dmg will be very lame but yes, you will be a tank (despite the fact GW2 don’t have tanks).

But as Bhawb said, there is no H/T/V gear (at least I had never hear/read/seen anything with such stats) so how exactly are you planning to do that?

ThiBash.5634:

…for ascended earrings. Because after trying for 2 months to do the bounty, I’ve discovered that unless we somehow magically gain 50 members, our guild just isn’t gonna complete the bounties. Not that the bosses are too hard you know…just that even with 7 people using google maps, we still can’t find them in time.

And with the recent (and ongoing) drop of prices on rares, soon the TP will be filled with very cheap ectos

Brutal Arts.6307:

Fortunately fractals is completely pointless and I don’t need the extra stats since I don’t WvW. If I had to have BiS gear I’d be a lot more passionate about how terrible G. Missions are, especially after the latest rework.

Not everyone want ascended items for fractals.
I want ascended items cause it’s the only way to get real/full set of trinkets with certain stats like full soldier (Pow/t/v), real knight (T/pow/pre) or “emerald” (Pre/pow/t) which doesn’t exist in exotic version (soldier don’t have exotic jewels/crest and knight/emerald are mixed).

But yes, apart from that, they are very pointless ATM.

Don’t waste your laurels just yet. I recommend you to get cheap gear (green) and try all the stats you can.

And don’t follow guides/builds you found online since each players is very different and what may work for someone, may be your worst nightmare.
I will never use a CD build since it’s the worst/useless build IMO but if that work for you then you should use it despite what I said.
And I can do pretty much everything as a MM and sure, I can give you my build but just because it work great for me, don’t means it going to work for you.

And finally, there is way more things besides CD or MM, you just need to find them and most important, try them by yourself.

dinominator.9862:

What the cost to level a character this way, assuming you buy the highest level components needed for each new recipe?

Depends, I followed the guides at gw2crafts.net which have 3 different guides with different costs each.

Also depends on prices, sometimes the cheapest guide cost 50g and sometimes 70g, also if you have some mats, it may be way more cheap.

Khisanth.2948:

WvW bonus? Still not sure if a “critical success” gives you more character exp or crafting exp.

I’m not sure either but as I said, last time I earned 1 extra “level” and since I finished most crafting on Tuesday, we had 13% of crafting bonus (still may be totally unrelated).

Bug perhaps?
You are supposed to earn 10 lvls per craft. Of course this is not entirely true since you may earn more exp.
I already did it 3 times and I always earned 3 extra levels with the first craft (from level 2 to 15) so I ended being lvl 80 with 5 extra “levels” (the last time I earned and extra level in the last craft so I ended with 6 extra “levels”).
Of course, for some reason I always did this on Monday so I had 10% crafting bonus from WvW but even without the bonus you are supposed to earn 10 guaranteed levels per craft so as I said, it may be a bug.

I’m not doing WvW not FotM and yet, this month is easy even without those but just because is easy for some people don’t mean everyone else have to rush and finish them in one day.
I’m half way of everything but I’m playing the game. I’m not farming events, only doing those in my path. Obviously, I can’t finish 4 dailies in less than 4 days. I killed a lot of vets in a row but only because I was looking for the key in the reactor on Metrica. And while I know where to find several JP, I’m not rushing to those zones to complete them.

So yes, if you play the game as I do, it take just a few days but, I play a lot. And if the monthly was really easy for you is your fault, not mine, not anyone else.
So please, don’t ask for something harder because then you going to rush anyways and finish them in one day and still complaining about how easy was for you and everyone else is going to complain about how hard it is for them.

Don’t get your hopes high. As you may be aware already, Anet is focused mainly to useless non-required content and as you may have noticed, they have a big success with it so, why spend money and time solving all the problems in this game (7 months old bugs, skill/classes balance, lack of needed content/tools like the one you mentioned) when they can add a simple jumping puzzle and have the majority of players happy (at least until those players start complaining about the lack of challenge/reward)?

Or at least give us another option to get exotic crests (or a new jewel with such stats) so we can feel less “weak” until weare able to get the already upgraded ascended.

Here is my story: I was doing AC P1 with a decent party, only 1 was dead weight but still we manage to carry him without problems.
Due the success we decide to do P2. Derpa got bugged as always but we finish the first trap and then everything went to hell, Derpa die in the middle of the second trap and someone rez her so more ghosts spawned and we got wiped.
This is not a problem if you have either a OP party with massive DPS or if you are smart enough to pull the ghosts. Unfortunately my party had neither. I insisted on pulling since we didn’t have enough DPS but the “bad” player wanted to rez Derpa without killing the ghost and for some reason, the rest of the party decide to follow him and of course, Derpa died right away (she finish the second trap so she got stuck in combat mode as always therefore she was never going to set the last trap). I refused to waste my time and insisted on pulling and then they kittening kicked me.

So OP, it wasn’t your fault. Just because someone useless get frustrated and he/she had a friend or someone else is stupid enough to think that useless person is the heart of the party don’t mean you have to stand and see how all your time is wasted only because Anet refuse to remove that stupid kick system

We need a kick system but one that require all other party members to vote, not only 2.

Rennoko.5731:

Necromancer
•Bone Fiend: This creature now properly fires two projectiles while underwater.
•Dark Path skill: Now unblockable.
•Epidemic skill: Now requires line of sight of the main target to spread conditions to nearby enemies.
•Spiteful Talisman trait: Properly grants bonus damage to Spinal Shivers for each boon removed.
•Staffs now correctly play the visual effects of necromancer staff skills at the tip of the staff rather than at the player’s hands.
•Life Siphon skill: Updated skill facts.
•Death Shroud skill: No longer uses a custom skill bar interface, thereby allowing players using Death Shroud to see buffs, health, and endurance. The screen and sound effects are unchanged.
•Necromancer trait: Now allows life-stealing on walls in World vs. World.

GENERAL:
•Fixed a bug that caused several pieces of gear to not apply their bonus boon or condition durations.
•Disabled the use of some consumable items in dungeons.
•Pets now benefit from their owner’s agony resistance. (not sure if this applies to minions)

•Bone Fiend: Does this thing actually attack???
•Dark Path: Good, an useless skill now less useless
•Epidemic: Do we have something called epidemic?
•Spiteful Talisman: So this thing is still bugged? Jeez, I was considering to use a focus along with this trait but well, maybe next year.
•Staffs: Good lord, now we are finally OP
•Life Siphon skill: Fact.- 9 or 10 male human necros have long white hair… wait what?
•Death Shroud skill: I’m the only one around here who never have a problem with the DS UI?
•Necromancer trait: Necromancer trait? What’s that?

GW need a daily reset IMO but unfortunately that’s not gonna happen so we just can wait for the monthly reset.

I used to play in HM in GW2 (if I die I just re-roll and I did it like 50 o more times) but unfortunately the lag and some failures in the game design make this very frustrating (being able to survive group event bosses, vets and champs to die because you fall like 30cm or just by running over a ramp is not funny).

So this is a common thing now? lol
But yes, invulnerability until the wurm has fully spawned may solve the problem but I think all this kind of boss may need a serious re-work like, if you don’t complete at least 1 of the pre-event then no chest for you or like the SB, turn the wurm invulnerable until players kill some adds (you can make it hide like pretty much any other wurm).

Oglaf.1074:

Sorry to double post, but it is back.

Now I get an “Network Error: please check internet connection” when trying to enter a dungeon. Which is hilarious, cause, y’know, I am in the game trying this.

You are trying to play with someone from a different region. If you are from NA and someone in your party is from EU you get that error (lately there is a lot of players from EU trying to party with NA players).

I wish we can party with anyone but for now that’s not possible so just be sure to play with people from your own region.

1.- Will you ever fix/buff the necromancer?
2.- Can you remove the annoying scream made by a female Sylvari (the one that sound like an oooooooooooooh made by a mentally challenged person)?
3.- Will you add more “cultural” armors (I hate human clothes on my Silvary)?
4.- What the heck are the Anet Points for?
5.- Will you stop fixing bugs on the mesmer to fix bugs from other professions?

By the way, the manifesto is not filled with lies. Daniel Dociu speak the true.
This is the most beautiful virtual world EVER. I have tried several new MMO’s (and re-tried several old MMO’s) since I bought GW2 (due the disappointment on all changes) and after walk a few steps (literally) I quit immediately. Why? Because I can’t longer stand the graphics or the animation, so yes, at least someone stay true to his words (all my respects to the man).

lol with those fanboys. If you don’t like something you PAY for, you have the right to express your opinion. If the owner disagree, then the owner is free to return the expended money.

Anyway, are you telling me all those things don’t exist ingame?

Jeez, I was hoping to see that creature or found that dragon corpse. I mean, Anet is know for unfinished/scraped ideas (like the giant statue in GW1) but seriously, why they do that? Yes, they are a bunch of liars but they already have the models, they already did the job! They abandon GW to work for years in GW2 only to discard his already made work?

9/10 only because is hard to pronounce but vey nice :P

Mine is Athanri (necro) wich is an anagram of Arianth, the name of my main in GW1 and my human in GW2 (and the name I always choose in any mmorpg whenever is possible) and since my original idea was to have a Sylvari as a main in GW2 and I can’t use the name Arianth without adding a surname I just came with this (besides I don’t really wanted a Sylvari named Arianth, a name too human for my taste).

Why people miss this WP? Don’t they feel the need to enter the cave and kill all the ghost in there?

Morena.9604:

*If you like gear progression… this game isn’t for you
*If you like playing a certain role in trinity… this game isn’t for you
*If you like raids… this game isn’t for you
*If you like mounts… this game isn’t for you
*If you like amateur pvp with different modes… this game isn’t for you
*If you like semi-amateur pvp with ladders etc like wow… this game isn’t for you
*If you like pro-pvp like moba… this game isn’t for you
*If you like real open world pvp… this game isn’t for you
*Most importantly if you like to have a goal… this game isn’t for you

‘this game isn’t for you’ is a common reply to many posts and it is sadly and actually a true reply for the most posts. I really believe that devs prepared this game for a really specific(even unique) type of a player base.

And I thank Anet every day for this (well, not really but you get my meaning).

Yes, they betray their beliefs in so many ways but at least we don’t have another stupid WoW clon (although lately they seem to be trying really hard to do it).

Gear progression? Because playing for days, weeks or months to get a stupid gear only to wait for the next more powerful gear is definitely the right thing to do. Besides we already have ascended items so there is your gear progression.

Raids? People can’t even get 4 other players to do a kittening dungeon and yet, WoW**** still insist on this?

Mounts? I’m on a horse, fear me, muahahahaha (because pressing the same button to do exactly the same action definitely worth whining about this over and over).

PvP? I don’t give a kitten about over-ego, spoiled children with a hollow life trying to compensate their frustration in a game calling other players noobs for not being good at something so trivial like a game so, no opinion on this part.

No goals? Because goals a definitely dictated only for others. I mean, why have the goal to have every single legendary if Anet don’t give the order to do it?

And yes, this game is not for everyone, not perfect, but the hundreds of players I see every day in one single servers seems to be enjoying the game, including those who whine about the changes in AC or about the ascended items and yet keep playing.

I don’t know if this has been pointed yet (I made a search and find nothing), but when you use Minion Master (Death Magic III), Chilblains (staff #3) become locked.

Lightsbane.9012:

on any server.
1.) what made you choose and stay on the server you’re on?(guilds and friends aren’t a valid reason since transfers were free for four months)
2.) what will it take for the wvw players to get you into wvw?
3.) wvw benefits your dungeon runs, do you not agree that helping us get the buffs you benefit from is the right thing to do?
4.)is it the repair bill that scares you out?(i know pve players with upwards of 200g, so the fact that they’re scared of a 10s repair bill is confusing)
5.) why would a risen priestess of milandru be impressed with your Sunrise?
6.) to my GOM bros specifically, some of the PvE guilds on our server are upwards of 300+(and active), can you grasp how much of a difference just 1/10 of your guild members would make if they were active in wvw daily?
k, gripe over.

1) Probably my guild, never do nothing with them but they seem nice.
2) Like 500 BoH warranted per day
3) How am I benefited from WvWvW when in dungeons? Anyway, I didn’t ask for nothing, don’t expect something in return.
4) I don’t have 200g
5) Who the heck is milandru?
6)…

Greatsword for high AoE dps on melee and longbow for high dps on long ranged (for single target).

Sarrs.4831:

Ummm.

Since when could you change utilities while they were on cooldown?

You can’t but you can change any other skill and if you switch to SotL (or Signet of Spite), this will have the same CD as the recharging skill.

If you still don’t get it, go in-game, equip Signet of Undeath and Signet of Spite, then cast SoU and change SoP for SotL and see what OP is talking about (the same happens when you cast Well of Suffering).

Detha bug (or any in P2) is easy to bypass. Grast on other hand…
It took me like 4 or 5 wipes to finish in the last 5 or 6 runs because of him and now, I just finish the boss a few minutes ago and no reward, no drop and just a waste of time.
Please Anet, fix ASAP (you killed AC for newbs and bad players and you make the few that can do it grind over and over and for what? A bunch of death mobs? Hours and hours of time wasted?).

Not a bug but a bad design.

AC remain the same. Just because most people don’t like it or is too hard for them don’t means it is.
The real problem are the bad players who never listen o never pay attention to their surroundings.
I already know exactly what to do but just as before the patch; a really bad team make everything really hard or plain impossible.
The trash mobs are the new Kholer, just dodge them. Yes, the lag didn’t help much and everybody is going to die 1 or 2 times just because we can see what’s going on. Hodgins die faster because people can’t see the swam of mobs coming from the burrows yet this is more a problem with the person on charge to protect him (people keep standing next to him which is pretty dumb).
So is not about profession or lvl, just your luck with your team and your own skills (even with a bad team a good player can solo the spider or Kholer yet that isn’t fun not fair).
If anyone have problems find a guide to learn what’s new (someone in my last team mentioned a video) or find someone willing to explain when doing a run (seriously, there are nice people willing to help, the problem is when someone is not willing to listen).

Unholy Feast: Agreed, although life stealing make more sense than crippled.

Dark Pact: Have you seen the animation? It’s totally for daggers. The only problem I see is the lack of self bleeding but well, we are a very pathetic kind of necros without much self sacrifice (what is really offensive IMO).

Also, Necrotic Slash should apply 2 stack of bleeding, Necrotic Stab should apply crippled and Necrotic Bite should siphon health.

OK, I’m not sure if the bug is back or is a new one but it already happened to me several times since the last patch (you know, the one where you dodge without moving at all).

lol, those moas are out of control

Welcome to LagWars 2

Now, this has been reported already with an official answer from Robert Hrouda:

“We are currently looking into this issue.”

Necros no longer have teleport in GW1 so don’t get excited.
They probably going to add this on a thief or guardian (you know, they are highly UP so they need a buff -_-).

I had to solo the queen in my last couple of runs just because PUG’s can’t handle those little critters (and much less the queen).