Guild Wars 2

Matty.7395:

Really, it’s no way near 10 gold hour, you have to make a character, complete the first mission, use “go to heart of the mist” tab, go to southsun cove, walk all your way to canach lair (you don’t have any waypoint whit a new char), complete the dungeon, return to LA or go to the bank at the ship to deposit your 1 gold, delete and start again, it’s not 6 min, all this takes 15-20 min. Faming cof it’s much much more faster, try yourself.

Even if every word you say it true, I still wouldn’t do it. I don’t see how anyone can pretend recycling new characters through the Canach fight is anything other than an exploit.

AsmallChicken.9634:

New patch still nothing.

I’m starting to believe they’re just trolling us with the continued broken state that is the Scope perk.

Khisanth.2948:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Can we get a picture of the change for those of us not at our game computers?

That’s…not easily identifiable as a hostile area of effect. Is this new thing an option? I think I’d prefer the old red ring over this.

Dolphins.

/15 characters

I’ve always wanted the option to label bank tabs. We can do so with guild bank tabs, why not personal bank tabs?

I ran a full glass cannon staff Elementalist from 7-ish to 80. Things were a bit tougher in the middle levels, before the traits all came together and Power/Precision/Critical Damage gear became available. But after that soloing PvE became a cakewalk.

Here’s my thoughts on soloing as a staff Elementalist. When more than minimal effort is required to kill an enemy (i.e veterans, skill challenges, large packs of trash mobs), I start the fight with Meteor Shower. The instant an enemy is struck and aggro is established I pop Flame Burst and start the following rotation:
– Water Attunement
– Frozen Ground
– Ice Spike
– Earth Attunement
– Eruption
– Unsteady Ground
– Eruption (against veterans and other individual enemies)
– Air Attunement
– Lightning Surge
– Static Field (against a group of enemies)
– Gust (against veterans and other individual enemies)
– Fire Attunement
– Flame Burst
– Lava Font (if the enemy has managed to close to melee-ish range)
– Arcane Wave (good damage and a self-combo for Might)
– Burning Retreat (if anything is still standing with more than a sliver of health)
– Repeat as necessary (it rarely is)

The Chill and Cripple from Frozen Ground and Unsteady Ground keep enemies at bay, while the damage from Ice Spike, Eruption, Lightning Surge, Lava Font, and the Burning from Flame Burst make short work of whatever is in your spells’ area of effect.

At any point in this rotation I can pop Glyph of Storms. I usually use GoS in Water Attunement for the extra Chill when fighting a group of enemies and in Fire or Air for the extra damage when fighting a tougher individual enemy. GoS can help against packs of enemies who stay at range and attack with ranged attacks, while Magnetic Aura works against individual enemies who do the same

I run the Glyph of Elementals, but I only ever pop it against veterans or skill challenges (always as an Earth Elemental) when playing solo.

As far as traits go, I went with:
Fire – 30
– Ember’s Might
– Internal Fire
– Pyromancer’s Puissance

Air – 20
– Quick Glyphs
– Bolt to the Heart

Arcane – 20
– Elemental Attunement
– Blasting Staff

As for self combos, I just don’t see the point in wasting the effort. Your staff is a ranged weapon. The combo fields are attacks that should be near your enemies, not yourself. And you shouldn’t engage your enemies from anything but maximum range. Might from a Fire Blast has its uses (as does Swiftness from a Lightning Blast when roaming), but Frost Aura only matters if you’re being hit. And if you play your cards right, enemies will rarely get the opportunity to hit you.

I find the number of characters donning Abyss and Celestial dyes dreadfully dull. I can’t believe I’m about to suggest you be unique in choosing metallic colors (silver, iron, gunmetal, bronze, tin, etc) for your warrior’s armor, as you’d think those colors would be commonplace for heavy armor, but there it is…

I owe a great deal of my 30/50 Hall of Monuments score to feathers. In Guild Wars I farmed these things more than I wanted to, and they funded virtually all of my HoM. And now we’ve got an actual crafting system, and no feathers. It just doesn’t seem…complete…without them.

I propose adding Feathers as a fine crafting material. Harpies, griffons, raptors, and moas jump out as obvious candidates to drop them. They could be used to make Sentinel inscriptions and insignias, new potions if/when new enemies are added to the game, and a host of other possibilities (stuffing for beds/chairs if Furniture crafting is added if/when we’re ever given player housing, for example).

The only way anyone is every going to know if your Legendary bears the “antique” prefix is if you ping it for them. And to that end, I have to wonder why people feel the need to inform others that they spent a bunch of time/gold or got lucky in procuring a precursor. TC, ask yourself how much you really care to know if that random dude spamming up the /map chat in LA got his precursor pre- or post-scavenger hunt.

Chamolin.4530:

I was dumbfounded when I found out it was a t3 set. Nothing interesting about it at all. The female version is a copy+past of the male. Nothing feminine about it. Can we please have something that looks worthy of our gold?

Because there’s no possible way to convey my thoughts on this post without getting infracted, I’ll just keep quiet.

My personal guidelines go like this:
– if my character isn’t level 80, I harvest everything for the experience
– I harvest anything I don’t have 250 of in my Collectibles tab
– I harvest all root and herb nodes for a chance at rarer ingredients or unidentified dyes
– I harvest all T6 nodes (orichalcum, ancient/orrian, omnomberries, etc)
– everything else I skip

Vayne.8563:

People say they want challenging content, but by percentage, most people want challenging content that gives them better loot than any other area of the game.

This is true, and it’s also the launching point for another problem. Unless all eight professions are perfectly balanced for PvE (an impossibility) then some players, regardless of skill, might be shunned by those wanting to run the more difficult content based solely on their character’s profession.

Next step? Craft another. Duel wield them clown guns!

kishter.9578:

If they listen the players and stop doing useless puffy backpack, less gems item and temporaly content maybe, just maybe they can fix 75% of all the bugs around.

Community need a stable game, no a gambling parade.

In case you didn’t already know, the people working on “useless puffy backpacks” and temporary content and not the same people who work on bugs. I’ll bet that little nugget just blew your mind, huh?

Serophous.9085:

List of things people want asap:

New /fixed traits
Skills fixed / changed
New skills
New weapons
New skins
More content
Fix event bugs
Buff world bosses
Balance world boss events
Balance other events
Make wvw better
Make spvp better and balance the class skills
Make tpvp more rewarding
More dragons
Better loot
Change magic find
Precursor scavenger hunt
New / improve legendaries
Achieves to give laurals.
Ascended gear
Legendary armor

You have one month. Go.

I’m sorry, was there something I was supposed to say in response to this nonsense?

Serophous.9085:

I believe i read somewhere from someone who was in beta that the trait system was last thing implemented before release, so didnt get much testing.

Anet said they are going to be going over traits and redoing some, so why fix something bugged that may not be there in the future?

Because it’s the professional thing to do.

I’ll echo the sentiment that you’d be better off pumping the brakes than flooring the gas. Taking a break, at least from grinding for what’s left of your Legendary materials, could do much to recharge your batteries.

I don’t suffer from altoholism, I enjoy every minute of it.

zenleto.6179:

I came to the conclusion months ago that kill or be killed comes first and then support a far second but I keep on trying to see if I can get it to work.

I came to that conclusion very early when I realized my crowd control Engineer was what amounted to a cat playing with a mouse before killing it. I asked myself “why am I slapping all these crowd control conditions on my enemies when I could just kill them outright instead?”

The one area where polish is the most needed is the one thing you didn’t have on your list…broken/bugged traits. Nine months after release, the fact that traits (Scope comes to mind) still don’t work at all is bad.

People already spam CoF for gold. I’d hate to see them spam it for dungeon tokens for other dungeons as well as gold. So I’m going to have to vote against this idea.

I’ve noticed dill and chili peppers have jumped quite a bit recently, too.

I’ve always built my characters like Guild Wars 2 was a dungeon crawler. That is, all of my characters are built with two primary functions in mind: kill stuff, and don’t die. Each character is built to fit a different play style, but all are built as if I were the only player in the game. With the mechanics of the game being what they are, I feel that’s just the best way to approach character builds.

I’ve no doubt some of you want to or enjoy playing support characters, though. I’m primarily a PvEer, so things like +Healing and +Boon Duration gear just don’t have the impact they might in PvP or WvW. I particularly see how important crowd control, a specialized type of support, can be valuable in PvP and WvW; but for the purposes of this conversation I’m talking more about healing and boons than I am crowd control.

So I’m wondering how many of you willingly sacrifice your ability to deal and withstand damage so that you can better support other players with heals, boons, and crowd control? By whatever measure you deem it worthwhile to play support, does the game allow you to achieve that mark? If not, how would you change things to make support a more worthwhile endeavor?

PS – This is not a call for return of healing classes or the Holy Trinity, so please try to keep the discussion relevant to Guild Wars 2’s current design philosophy. Thanks.

Rama.6439:

Who cares, it will be here for another month next april to add some skins to the gem store probably, then it will be gone again, big deal.

OP cares, or he/she wouldn’t have asked. I care, or I wouldn’t have replied.

I don’t play a necromancer, so correct me if I’m wrong. The problem I see with siphon not scaling with anything is that slower attacking weapons can’t benefit from it as much as quicker attacking weapons. Or is my inexperience with the profession and ignorance on the mechanic clouding my view?

Right now the Consortium members look too similar to Lions Guard members. I’d like to see them get a more unique look.

I don’t know, but the unused Bauble Bubbles I’d like to exchange for Obsidian Shards gives me a vested interest in finding out.

Palador.2170:

I wanted to quote these two lines right here, because they go together so well.

Tell me, if a group of people was beating on you, and you had to decide who to take down first, who would you go for? The guy that’s doing the least damage, but will be the hardest to take out of the fight? No, you’d go for the guy kicking your face in, and sporting a glass jaw.

Mobs should target high power first, not high toughness. No, this doesn’t fix much of anything in a group where everyone’s full ‘zerker, but it’s how I’d think things should work in general. Right?

I agree with you in principle, but without thread/aggro system wherein tanks can keep the mobs off the most vulnerable party members, your proposal wouldn’t do much. The guy who invested in Toughness/Vitality gear wouldn’t get to use it because he’d never be targeted and the masses who invested in Power/Precision gear wouldn’t get to use theirs because they’d be dead. It’s a lose/lose situation.

tigirius.9014:

Mikau sorry, it’s why I left the game, no rewards man.

Now if only you’d leave the boards…

I’m all for criticism. I’m all for voicing discontent. I’ve done plenty myself. But some of you guys wail in every other post about how bad the game is. If it’s half as bad as you some of you guys make it out to be, then it’s probably not worth playing. And if the developers are half as evil or incompetent as some of you guys make them out to be, then they’re not going to listen to what you’ve got to say anyway. So you’d probably be a lot happier if you just moved on with your life.

Captain Bulldozer.9028:

You might not be among them, but if you ever perused PvX, you should be aware that one of the most popular sections was the farming builds section. In a broad sense, almost everyone plays these games because of “farming” whether they’re farming for loot, prestige items, kitten, or jukittenn.

I’m not saying people didn’t farm in Guild Wars. I’m not even saying people didn’t enjoy farming in Guild Wars. But the popularity of PvX’s farming subsection isn’t any more proof that farming in Guild Wars was fun than the popularity of Pent/Shelt events or CoF speed runs is proof that farming in Guild Wars 2 is fun.

Ronah.2869:

As long as the GW2 economy wants to mimic the real wolrd economy and they take taxes as listing fees and teleportation costs, why isn’t there a bank interest for the money we store in the bank? It doesn’t seem very fair, does it?

Gold sinks are a necessary part of MMO economies. The trading post listing fees and way point costs are not only fair, they’re actually doing you a favor.

phabby.8945:

I think the op means bring back the fun of farming to gw2 that we had in gw1.

I don’t know who “we” is, but I’m certainly not one of them. I played through all four campaigns and earned enough 30/50 HoM points, and I never once had fun farming in Guild Wars.

Mirta.5029:

Events are not meant to be stopped. If you want to farm the event itself and complete it be my guest.

Yep. Events were designed around a succeed/fail system, not suspend in perpetuity so people can farm. But, as I’ve said, the malcontents that infest this forum don’t want to hear reason or logic. They’re here to complain, and nothing is going to stop them from doing so.

You spent 30-40 minutes doing something that was “very fun and enjoyable”, and you’re upset because you weren’t properly rewarded?

I remember a day when “very fun and enjoyable” games were enough reason enough to play, but evidently having fun and enjoying oneself isn’t the reason people play video games these days. Sad. So sad.

laokoko.7403:

darkace.8925:

“Too much toughness ftl”

So he blamed his death on you having too much Toughness? Not himself having too little? But you having too much?

/scratches head

nah you don’t understand. THe point is ironically it is safer to kill faster with no defense gear.

That’s same as dungeon. Most of the time it is better to go all out berserker because if you don’t kill fast enough it doesn’t matter if you are in full soldier gear, you’ll still die.

A few of the dungeon event, for example burrow in AC, or mag bomb event, it is much safer to go all out berserker. Infact most of my dungeon failure is because people don’t have enough dps.

I think the best idea is just have 2 differnet set for pve. One offensive set and one deffensive set. I still use defensive set for some situation. But most of the time I go berserker.

I was certain I deleted that post before anyone replied to it, lol. Yeah, I misread what OP was saying.

cranked.3812:

What is the purpose of this? Isn’t there enough map space to hang out in? I’d rather have anet add content (i.e. dungeons, living story) than waste the time on this.

Just because you don’t want it doesn’t mean it’s a waste of time. You may not know this, but not every aspect of the game is designed around what you do and don’t like.

dcypher.2590:

EASY MODE?? I guarantee people farming are putting more time into the game than you. You think the droprates are good or something? People spend days on end out there…you obviously don’t know what you are talking about.

Time and difficulty are not synonymous. It takes far less skill to farm Pent/Shelt for 250 [insert T6 material here] than it does to complete the Mad King’s Tower jumping puzzle, even if the former takes significantly longer to do.

DaniGiret.6924:

Drew.1865:

This isn’t GW1 so people should stop expecting it to be.

You are right, this isn’t GW1, however, GW2 should be better than GW1.

Better is subjective. I think GW2 is better than its predecessor in almost every subjective measure. And I know it’s better in many objective measures, too.

LoneWolfie.1852:

My sarcasm meter is acting up when Vayne states he got lucky with his hunter precursor. I personally know my guild member who has over 7000 achievement points, but he has no precursor to speak of. His in-game hours is tremendous, doesn’t do cof farming because he’s an ele, and camps the chests every single day with a few dungeons + fotm.

He hasn’t got a precursor yet.

There are people who spend hundreds of dollars a month on lottery tickets and never win, and there are people very rarely buy even one who get lucky. rng is rng.

Mirta.5029:

Boyd.5438:

lol i knew that “botting” was “related”. so, is there another way to prevent this botting issue instead of punishing everyone else?

Allowing people to complete the event as normal instead of having players fight players seems like a good situation to me.

Yep, but don’t tell the malcontents that…they’re not looking for reason or logic when they come here to kitten and moan.

cesmode.4257:

So, you’re trying to make a point that you got one of the easiest legendaries in the game? Then your point becomes that much weaker.

If you tried telling us that you acquired The Dreamer, Twilight, Incinerator, or Bolt…one of the legendaries where the buyout on the TP is 500-600+, then thats a different story and Id call BS on you not farming it(or being one of the few lucky ones).

So sure I can go and buy three or four aquatic precursors if I truely wanted. But not many people place high value on them. So when you come here and justify your point of “I dont grind” with the fact that you acquired the easiest legendary in the game, I consider your words very light and without weight. Yes, the gifts might have taken sometime but like you said you can play the game at your pace for those.

Lots of people farm certain events for T6 drops.

Then people farm the chest events for rares for ectos AND precursors.

Its the farm and the grind for the precursor and the ecto requirement that people are finding most tedious.
You bought yours for a mere 22 gold. Big whoop.

If I went to the TP now, bought my aquatic precursor for under 50g..I would have my legendary in a month or so.

You’re missing the point. He’s not saying “I got a Legendary, so can you.” He’s saying “I enjoyed the game without grinding for a Legendary, so can you.” If the only thing standing between you and the ability to enjoy this game is owning a Legendary, then ownership of a Legendary isn’t going to change much for you.

Vol.5241:

Stop nerfing farming since it’s a player choice, farmers will just find the next best thing.

I suspect the problem isn’t farming, it’s gold-to-gem conversion. If there were no conversion, and the only thing impacted by endless farming was the in-game economy, I doubt we’d see so many nerfs to popular/efficient farming spots. But because of the conversion, ArenaNet’s revenue are also impacted by a player’s ability to quickly accrue gold. And so they’ve got a financial incentive to inhibit our ability to accumulate currency.

I’m not a hardcore farmer; I spend probably 30 minutes or so a week farming Orr for T6 materials should the day ever come I decide to go for a Legendary weapon. But I can certainly see where those of you who do it hours a day, day after day, would be perturbed at the constant nerfs to farming spots. But do keep in mind it’s probably a bit of a necessary evil because they implemented the player-friendly currency exchange. To what degree it’s necessary is certainly up for debate, but I suspect the reasonably-minded among us do recognize it is necessary.

The Battle in the Vaults meta event is the zone’s world boss event, isn’t it?

Where to…

Blakvalhalla.6170:

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TC’s post is so far of base that I’m not even going to bother with addressing each of the points individually. I’ll simply say that most of the points raised in your thread are objectively baseless.

Icelin.8412:

People can keep pretending like we have many pve options out there but we don’t. Dungeons, Fractals, Map completions, Story and World boss every 2-3 hours. That’s it for pve. Not many people farm events and the ones that we do, Arena net tends to shut them down in some way or tamper with the loot.

I am starting to think they don’t want a Pve community. Pve content is suffering, but I honestly think they care more for WvW.

PvE content includes: dungeons, Fractals, map completion, personal story, world bosses, crafting, farming, mini-games, achievements, jumping puzzles, socializing with the community… “That’s it for PvE”? What more do you want?

realloc.5846:

Blakvalhalla.6170:

The game is fun from a general sense, but we get zero rewards for having fun.

I don’t get it. Isn’t fun the reward itself?

Not only is fun itself the reward, it’s the ENTIRE point of video games. Well said on your part, but I feel it will be lost on the malcontents that plague this board.

Athena.3579:

Don’t feel bad. Even while playing a lot you most likely won’t see a legendary. I have about 1,500 hours in the game and have never gotten an exotic drop that wasn’t from an event chest (Mad King’s Slippers).

Unless you’re the type to sit around LA chit-chatting in /map all day long then I this is very hard to believe.

The odds of logging 1,500 hours of play time without looting an exotic item are so statistically improbable they’re virtually nil. And completion of higher level zones rewards players with guaranteed exotic items. Finally, you can obtain exotic items with karma with just a minimal amount of effort on your part.

If you’ve ever only obtained one exotic item in 1,500 hours of play time then you have no one to blame but yourself.

Zacchary.6183:

I lost my desire for fun when all of the fun things were crowded by campers and farmers. I am talking about bossing.

That’s a “state of mind” problem, not a “design problem”.

funkylovemonkey.3097:

I’ll probably never get a legendary, but I don’t really care. They’re just vanity items.

Here is an actual “casual”. Someone who enjoys the game in spite of the fact that he doesn’t have the “look at me” items. I both applaud and share your approach, sir/madam.

Curae.1837:

A guild that doesn’t help you right away isn’t a bad guild, and a big guild doesn’t have to be a good guild; or not a good guild for you personally.
I’d say give it another go

Every word of this quote is truth.

Could someone explain to me how five character slots, five playable races, eight playable professions, 18 personal story lines, and account based Achievements discourage playing multiple characters?

The Spiral King.2483:

I just hope it’s not too easy to obtain. There’s not a whole lot of skill required in this game, so the only real way is to make it a time grind. It should take months at the very least.

There is no correlation between “difficult” and “time consuming”. The Mad King’s Tower jumping puzzle only took a few minutes and was incredible difficult. Getting 250 of each T6 material for the Gift of Might and Gift of Magic requires almost no skill at all but takes weeks or months to achieve.

Chasind.3128:

Personal story can be completed within a week or less- that would be alot of people with precursors & legendaries. Not necessarily a good thing….. There shouldn’t be an easier way to obtain a precursor just more alternatives! People need to stop being so kitten & actually work for it, not saying people aren’t but easier way? No thanks, I actually like to work for what I get, that way I feel somewhat that I ‘earned’ it.

Again, there’s a HUGE gap between having a precursor and having a Legendary weapon.

Every time I craft something or discover a new recipe in a crafting discipline I’ve already mastered I wonder how bad all that lost experience is going to hurt if the level cap is ever increased beyond 400.

I’d like this change.

Shezu Tsukai.8291:

Everything else is farming anywhere you want to buy the t6, lodestones, ectos, and precursor. Why shouldn’t at least one more of those encourage more actual game play instead of farming?

Don’t forget the 100 gold for Icy Runestones and 20 gold for crafting recipes.

Shezu Tsukai.8291:

The areas of play left out in current Legendary quest are sPvP and JP’s. These need a portion in the quest somewhere.

Depending on whether or not you consider dungeons as personal story (I don’t, the story in dungeons is Destiny’s Edge’s), then story is also an aspect of the game not included in the quest for a Legendary weapon.