Guild Wars 2

I’m not getting credit for most of the daily achievements I’m doing while supporting my candidate of choice. Is this bugged? Or does this achievement refer to opening the daily achievement chest? Thanks.

Shiren.9532:

The shortbow got kitten on when it didn’t need to be for sure, but the longbow needed this stealth more.

Needed this stealth? Or needed something? Take stealth out of the equation and ask yourself “does Hunter’s Shot need to be changed?”

Darkstar.6178:

Herein lies the problem…who says that achievements, in a general sense, are PvE content? If an achievement involves going into WvW, then it’s not PvE content.

Aside from one lore-less “fetch this” achievement, the entirety of the content takes place in PvE. It’s story driven (or it’s supposed to be). It start’s with mail sent from a PvE NPC. Its impact is localized to PvE. And 99% of it takes place within PvE. If you want to split hairs, go for it. But if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck I’m going be okay with calling it a duck.

Axesome.1025:

Got it from my first survival game

/starts sharpening knife

That’s a cool story. Tell it again.

/continues to sharpen knife

Evon said he supports the Flame Legion’s attempts to destroy humanity in Ascalon, so I doubt he’s going to care about Cantha.

Arkham Creed.7358:

I’ll just leave it at this; I am very disappointed. What happened to you Arena Net?

Nexon and/or Kristin Cox?

I hate you all.

Not really, but I am 0/37 on the rose and some of you have gone 2/<20. -.-

of the Desert Rose? I want to get it before I hit up some of the other content, but I don’t want to tether myself to this one event in the hopes something with a slim drop rate is going to fall.

The activities you’ve added lately (Sanctum Sprint and Survivor Games) have been a ton of fun!

Raeyne.5086:

It’s just another post exclaiming “Why are these changes not tailor made to me and only me.”

They get on my nerves :P

No, it’s not.

As a LB guy who loved the 20 stacks of vulnerability I opened every fight with, I sorely wish they’d have made the SB the stealth weapon.

lordkrall.7241:

So I basically need to play and support my candidate for 1 hour instead of 30 minutes in order to give him/her the same amount of votes?

Don’t really see the issue, this does go quite clearly under convenience and it is not like they will get automatic support just because you buy the package. You still have to actually support them.

Do the math of what the difference of half an hour vs one hour over the course of two weeks multiplied by thousands or tens of thousands of players works out being.

Juclesia Elcritian.8410:

We’re still missing a “salvage materials” bag I believe – where salvage items are placed in it first.

True. I’ve personally always used my backpack to collect salvage materials, but you’re right.

Tadayoshi.2815:

darkace.8925:

Linguistically Inept.6583:

rapid fire is 10 vuln now… i think it sounds like a pretty good change

… gonna have some fun in wvw

It’s 1 vulnerability per shot. It’s 10 seconds of vulnerability spread out over 4.5 seconds. And that’s assuming all the shots hit. And even if they do, the first vulnerability is going to wear off before the last does, so it’s not a straight 10% damage increase like it was with Hunter’s Shot…my poor, dear Hunter’s Shot.

So your own build doesn’t work and you are to lazy to think of a new one adapting the crit chance, stealth and so one ? Well that’s bad for you, than you will never be good at this class

Tell you what. You reply to me like a grown up and I’ll respond to you like one. That’s how “discussions” work in the land of maturity.

Raven.9603:

darkace.8925:

RIP Hunter’s Shot. You’ll be missed.

What part of half a dozen people telling you that the vulnerability is still there, its just moved to rapid fire, did you not understand? what part of “even more vulnerability via hunters shot+remorseless” did you not understand?

What part of vulnerability on Rapid Fire is not the same as vulnerability on Hunter’s Shot do you not understand? What part of “not everyone runs Remorseless” do you not understand?

Linguistically Inept.6583:

rapid fire is 10 vuln now… i think it sounds like a pretty good change

… gonna have some fun in wvw

It’s 1 vulnerability per shot. It’s 10 seconds of vulnerability spread out over 4.5 seconds. And that’s assuming all the shots hit. And even if they do, the first vulnerability is going to wear off before the last does, so it’s not a straight 10% damage increase like it was with Hunter’s Shot…my poor, dear Hunter’s Shot.

Meglobob.8620:

You are getting vulnerability on rapid fire instead…

3 secs of stealth has loads more uses than the vulnerability…

For once its actually a good change…

Rapid Fire is the poor man’s (close ranged) Long Range Shot. Or it was…

3 seconds of stealth is worth next to nothing for a non-thief PvEer.

OGDeadHead.8326:

:)

What NemesiS said! I like the change, especially in combination with Remorseless!

It used to be good for everyone who used the longbow. Now it’s decent for PvPers who use the longbow and the whatever percentage of PvPers who use both longbow and Remorseless.

RIP Hunter’s Shot. You’ll be missed.

Hunter’s Shot now grants 3 seconds on stealth instead inflicting 10 vulnerability for 10 seconds. This skill just went from a mainstay to “dead to me”. Thanks, Anet. Thanks a lot.

Wukunlin.8461:

Time gating and DR = makes sure people who spent time in the game doesn’t go too far ahead of those who spent little time.

I don’t buy that with regards to charged quartz crystals. The gear it’s used to make is of the same tier and the stats offered give no competitive advantage over someone wearing any other exotic-tiered gear. And even if they were better than the other exotic gear (they’re not), letting players sell them on the Trading Post would have instantly leveled the playing field.

kahzee.6042:

you should not be rewarded more just because you have more alts end of discussion

We should not be held back because you refuse to level more than one character. End of discussion.

Vayne.8563:

But saying only PvE people deserve jumping puzzles, so putting them in PvP is not fun because it’s not fun to you isn’t great. Dungeons aren’t that much fun to me, but I acknowledge there are people that like it.

I don’t think too many people (any?) are saying WvW shouldn’t get Jumping Puzzles. The complaint, I believe, is that PvE content is being tied to WvW Jumping Puzzles.

For someone who has never done the OS JP before, getting through is a difficult enough task. For them to do it with dozens of other players trying to kill them is virtually impossible. By asking PvE players who would have otherwise never set foot in WvW to enter this jumping puzzle to complete PvE content, Anet is essentially leading lambs to slaughter.

“You don’t need it to get the meta achievement,” I hear you say. “Get some people to help you,” I hear you say. Both of those are fair enough responses, but they don’t answer the question of why Anet feels it necessary to tie PvE content to WvW jumping puzzles.

Celtic Lady.3729:

I suppose it would work that way for some people, but even on the weeks that I actually log in every day, I still never spend any money, so that logic definitely doesn’t work for me.

Ultimately, I think that’s exactly the idea behind it. That you or I don’t fall for it doesn’t matter, Zynga has taught us that LOTS of people do fall for it.

Zaxares.5419:

Because she has a Legendary character designation and you don’t.

Oh yeah!? Well at least I still have a guild.

Nick.6972:

Seriously,who cares about keys or wps.
Are you really that poor in-game to be all exited for reduced WP costs?
And I doubt anyone here is exited for more RNG keys either.

The point is, 4 week price reductions doesn’t matter, neither do silly mini-games, they’re irrelevant, the question should be : which dungeon is better? *
*And, I think we already know the answer for that : Abaddon.

Knowing the Abaddon Fractal is the better of the two would not only require a time machine allowing you to travel forward in time to see the finished result, but also a dimensional portal allowing you to visit an alternate reality where Kiel wins the election since Anet has stated they will not make both.

Since apparently posses both, will you use your time machine to tell me how my Houston Texans will fare this season? Then will you use your dimensional portal to travel to a reality where Matt Schaub didn’t get injured against the TB Buccs two years ago and let me know if my Texans would have got passed the Ravens in the playoffs? Thanks.

Esplen.3940:

Because Focus #5 is an offensive skill and Shield #4 is a defensive skill.

Focus #5 is one of the strongest (in raw damage) attacks a Guardian has.

Shield #4 applies Protection in an AoE with damage as a sort of after-thought.

I would argue Focus #5 is a defensive skill and Shield #4 is a group support skill.

Devildoc.6721:

It’s a minor trait. The trait that is competing with Evasive Aracana is Elemental Surge, which gives your arcane skills the guaranteed ability to cause conditions.

Oops, completely missed that. As a minor trait it’s not as nearly as bad as I thought it was. It’s still not great, but it’s not terrible either.

I was sure this was going to be a post about player housing and was ready to throw my support behind it. Oh well.

kahzee.6042:

Wouldn’t be a discussion if people didn’t want their hand held and feel entitled to everything.

Care to explain how hand-holding or entitlement are relevant to time gating?

Arcane Precision, particularly the fire attunement effect (7.5% chance for a 1 second Burn on critical hit) seems fairly underwhelming for a grandmaster trait (especially one competing with Evasive Arcana). This trait badly needs an overhaul, in my humble opinion.

I’m just getting my feet wet in WvW, and I noticed there was a skill that increases your repair capabilities. I was wondering why there isn’t a similar skill that increases your revive effectiveness. I was also thinking a skill that decreases the range at which enemies could identify you via name to give scouts something useful.

Ratty.5176:

Yeah I wouldn’t mind a teleport stone that allows you to TP into your home instance from anywhere in the world being added as a Living story reward, especially if more an more stuff gradually gets built into your home instance

I was going to suggest the same thing, though they’d probably want to put a CD timer on it.

What about a “coin purse” that receives all tokens?

bewhatever.2390:

…so someone has to actually work for the Celestial gear

What work? Running to a Place of Power once a day isn’t work. Well, it’s busy work, but not work work.

bewhatever.2390:

do things themselves over a period of time using their own 400 level crafters

They’ve already done it for themselves since they’ve got their craft to 400. Crafting exotics is supposed to be the fruit of one’s labor, but now we’re being told we can only enjoy that fruit one grape per day.

bewhatever.2390:

not just buy a full set off the TP five minutes after they ding 80.

Celestial is account bound…no one is going to buy a full set off the TP whether the charged crystals are time-gated or not.

bewhatever.2390:

After all, they can buy the quartz off the TP…

Why does the ability to purchase quartz off the TP mean we should be limited to obtaining charged quartz, used to make account bound gear, once per day?

bewhatever.2390:

I think this is testing concepts toward the pink-con level 500 craftables. Which had better take a lot of work over a long time, if they are not to cheapen epic gear.

How does possession of something cheapen it?

xerokitsune.5094:

Why does a char care about gods? Why does the human want to care about technical research way above her ability to comprehend?

It would seem to make more sense for Evanto be interested in the reactor.

He doesn’t. He’s a typical politician; he’s a populist. He found a cause the people supported and he latched himself to it to ensure he gets a bunch of cheap votes.

I’m finding it really tedious to run to a place of power everyday just to get this one crystal. Anet, surely you can think of a better solution than this? Actually, sense all the gear made with the charged crystals are account bound, I’d argue you already have done something. Is this really just a case of you guys wanting to time gate us? Are the daily achievements not enough incentive for players to log in once a day? You’re better than this.

Ratty.5176:

I personally don’t want to see every weapon for every class. A Class is as much defined by what it can’t do as what it can do. And I think you would lose a lot of class style by giving every class every weapon.

I agree. In fact, I think the professions are already overly homogenized as is. Letting everyone use every weapon doesn’t bring much to the table other than more for the sake of more. And more isn’t always a good thing.

kahzee.6042:

Game is fine stop crying.

If you don’t want to contribute to the discussion, you don’t have to. But posts like this are a waste of all our time.

Sylv.5324:

I apologise for sounding negative, but: this was the most aggravating cheevo ever. As a mainhand weapon, this thing is slow, there is even a pause before the clone is generated, and is lacking in every way in comparison to the sword, staff, GS etc.

I love this game, but working with this weapon makes me hate it more every time I try. It is extremely clunky and inefficient and its slowness means I can generate clones far faster with other weapons, utilities, or even just dodging.

I realise folks have a lot on their plate, so I don’t expect an immediate fix (obviously folks would not over one complaint anyway), but I probably will never use this weapon again once I’m done the achievement, just because every other weapon does things better and faster.

More aggravating that Giant Slayer? I’m at 7/1000 on that particular achievement.

Oh yeah!? Well, Evon has fleas!!

kingslayer.1342:

Sadly I don’t think anyone cares for character development or story. There could be strong implications that Evon eats children and is a Jormag worshipper but players would still vote for him because of that fractal.

It’s really just about the fractals in the end.

That’s the way I feel, too. I suspect most people are going to vote Abaddon vs Reactor, fewer will vote BL Keys vs WP Fees, and fewer still will vote characters/lore. I like that ANet is letting us make an impact on the world through Living Story, but I don’t like that they’ve made the lore a backseat passenger to rewards.

If charged quartz crystals are any indicator of the design direction this game’s taking you be safe to assume new Legendary gear will be time-gated.

Fortus.6175:

yah i was actually quite disaappointed that the focus was doing a better jb at defending than the shield, in fact i run sword/focus with GS instead of sword shiled which is what i would have liked visually

I do the opposite, I run the shield for aesthetic reasons even though I die inside every time I remember the focus has Shield of Wrath.

I have no idea how they could do this and 1) balance all the skills, 2) avoid redundancy.

I run a power/crowd control rifle build. I’m wondering if you guys think I should trade my coral trinkets in for celestial ones? As is, I’ve got +70% condition duration for longer cripples and vulnerabilities, but my burns and bleeds also benefit from this. If I made the swap my crit chance would go from 52 to 40%, but my crit damage would go from 29 to 52%.

I’d lose a bit of damage on my bleeds and burns, but the condition damage is bonus damage for my build. Sharpshooter, Incendiary Powder and Sigil of Fire are the only on-crit effects I’m using in this build. So, is the swap an advised one? Or would you guys stick with coral?

kahzee.6042:

Don’t see Nything wrong with thiz. You should not be instantly geared. If you were where would the fun be

I don’t know, open-world pve? Dungeons? Fractals? WvW? Jumping Puzzles? You know, the same sort of stuff we’ve had fun doing before a new tier of gear was added to the game.

diamondgirl.6315:

My problem with one a day limits is real life. Some days I have hours to blow on GW2… some days I don’t get to log on. I’d love to spend a lazy Saturday grinding for mats, and nor feel panicky about missing the next six chances.

I suspect that’s the whole intent. It’s a very Zynga-esque method of making people feel they’re missing out if they’re not logging in on a daily basis.

Evans.6347:

One thing to keep in mind is that once all your characters at lv80 are fully equiped with ascended stuff, there’s pretty much nothing left to do with them. Unless you want to go legendary on all them.

There are people who actually enjoy games in spite of carrots. Their enjoyment of a game stems from the game play and doesn’t cease the moment they’ve got the best gear in the game. Some of these people will be able to continue to enjoying the game play whether they’re in ascended gear or not. But some of these people also want to run dungeons, Fractals, WvW, etc. optimally. And they’re going to prevented from doing so for a long time because of time-gating…the laziest design philosophy a developer can implement.

As someone with five level 80 characters and almost two full stacks of Transmutation Stones, I’d very much appreciate the ability to convert them to Transmutation Crystals. I wouldn’t even mind if the conversion rate was harsh, say 10:1 or 25:1. Anything is better than them sitting in my bank collecting dust.

Nightarch.2943:

I’m only voting for him because of the story behind Abaddon’s Fall.

There’s no way Anet won’t give us that Fractal regardless of the election’s outcome. It’s too good an idea to waste and they’ve shown plenty of times they can break under public pressure. You’ll get that Fractal either way…vote for other reasons.

Is there anyone on the planet who actually likes those ridiculous looking things?

Villious.8530:

I like em!
+1 for big shoulders with particle effects!

Never mind…

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

The asura were driven out of the caves like the skritt were, and the krait and largos were from the deep ocean. Don’t blame anet, blame the dragons.

The asura, in their infinite ingenuity, would have easily devised a way to hold on to their homeland if Anet hadn’t mucked things up. The blame is squarely on Anet’s shoulders.