Guild Wars 2

Jeez, if they’re going to place essences on the BLC at least give us the LEGENDARY version…

SkiTz.4590:

Vol.7601:

Traveller.7496:

iStoked.4018:

Seriously! I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor.

C) Selling Tormented weapons on the store just makes me angry that there’s no way to get them besides random. It’s a slap on the face for any GW1 veterans who had them and loved them.

Buy them from the TP?

yayaya farm gold till you fall flat on your face!!! awesome rewarding gameplay!!

/sarcasm off

get real. Stop with this nonsense “buy from TP”… ya farm gold ok, i dont really feel like doing endless and mindless zerg trains to earn something.

Make it rewarding by actual skill. my 3 year old can farm champ zerg trains and eventually buy something off TP. Stop acting like this makes it OK. It doesn’t change the fact that anet only plans to add skins and what not through gem store

lol seriously?

If they go anything like the Lovestruck it’s like ~70g per weapon, you seriously can’t make 70g? Actually that’s like a week of casual dungeon running at most…

Lothirieth.3408:

If the menders things is indeed true, the event needs to give a smidgeon of a hint regarding needing to kill them.

Or actually be like it is now and in every MMO? You know being US the ones that figure things out on the fights?

Otherwise it would become waaaaaaay too easy.

Vol.7601:

If somehow an item required ‘Gift of Oranges’, what do you think people will speculate in?

Bananas!!

Anyway I feel that grapes are a very common item, I try to go to the Fields of Ruin grape field in order to get lucky and earn some unidentified dyes, if it actually goes higher then I’m looking at a lot of profit ^^

Vylor.3276:

If you are dying 1v1 to them. I don’t know what to tell you.

Why? Can’t you share some tactics to help us against the ranger pets? Because I swear I’m sick of that krytan hound that keeps fearing me, way more annoying than a necro.

Everyone keeps underestimating the rangers, just you wait and see.

Mortifer.2946:

ghost.3208:

Obviously she’s drilling a hole in which she may bloom long enough to become the next Pale Tree, after all she’s going to need all that water in Lion’s Arch.

Since when does Pale Tree grow on salt water? :P

It does when you mix Scarlet into it, because Scarlet.

New hybrid alliance, watery salty trees.

Obviously she’s drilling a hole in which she may bloom long enough to become the next Pale Tree, after all she’s going to need all that water in Lion’s Arch.

Mosharn.8357:

They need to give rangers an option to stow pet and gain some of its stats and abilities for those who don’t want to play ranger with pet.

Wouldn’t that make having the pet irrelevant? Since you’re not penalized if your pet dies, don’t really like the idea.

Any proposition on that matter has to be on either how to remove the pets or how to actually improve them and make them useful, and we already know that the current goal is turning them into OP bears or doges with CC.

Offair.2563:

Q: how to deal with rangers pets.

A: keep running around ignore the pet and stress out on ranger throwing everything to his/her face, ranger dead, pet dead, 2 birds ( or bears ) 1 stone story.

If you fail to do that, its not the pet being OP but the player being to stupid to anticipate on very telegraphed skills such as wolfs howl or murrelows poison

Go check on Rangers subforum CDI and read how many people say pet’s AI is broken which is true yet some people come here and complain about it. Maybe the ranger will own u in 1v1 or in small scale fights but any class can do the same.

This is clearly a Learn2Play, heck Learn2Anticipate and not an Overpowered issue

Alright but, can you like make a video of this tactic? Because ever since yesterday everyone has been saying the same advice and so far I haven’t seen much progress.

Teach me how can you beat those bears? I even went underwater to escape from the ranger and his bears but they can go underwater too. I really don’t understand how constantly moving helps if you get CC’ed to the max.

Hmm filtering by a specific part of the armor will only lower those results a bit, how can it be easier for the new players?

Filter by stats? A must one should be filter by armor type (Light, Medium and Heavy), I mean sometimes I shouldn’t even get those results if I’m a Medium armor user.

hobbes.6178:

Vol.7601:

hobbes.6178:

I just find it very odd is all. If I was the lead designer for Guild Wars 2 I wouldn’t even give the ok for a release unless that was in the game. Attention to detail is what really makes an MMO shine. At this point they can’t possibly have a good reason to not have it by this point, and if they DO? I want to hear it.

Thank goodness you’re not the lead designer than. Waiting to release a game or any type of software until it’s 100% perfection is impossible. You’ll be dead before then.

Obviously some features would have to be tweaked/added later…but to filter armor types in the trading post, one of the most important features in any MMO? Not to mention filtering has existed in MMO’s since like 1998? Sorry but that SHOULD have been in the game since release ESPECIALLY if it was in beta.

Things like fixing the overflows, ironing out the karma exploits, fixing wall jumping…sure those were things that are a bit common to fix after a release. But filtering in the trading post is day 1 stuff. Obviously when going for attention to detail some things get overlooked…but not this. Not something that was in BETA…dear lord I can’t stress that enough. It was in BETA!

ArenaNet wants to get rid of Player-to-Player trading…which is fine. But if they want to get rid of something that has been in MMO’s since Ultima Online then whatever they have to replace it needs to be pretty darn good. And frankly the TP is basic, primitive and lacks A LOT of features that it should have. Some of which were in BETA!!! I just…what happened? What reason could they have possibly have had to take it out after beta? and for this long?

Disagree all you want, but I know I am right.

Yes you are right, filters are a must have on the TP, but still what is it that you’re searching that gives you such a hard time to find?

Are you not using keywords? Looking on the search bar for the specific armor name? Stats? Level range?

I’m not trying to troll but I honestly don’t have any problems finding a specific armor I want (unless it’s not on the wiki or some place with the name of it). What are you trying to find that gives you that much problem?

I can CAPS some words TOO to make them IMPORTANT

P.D. To reiterate, I want them to upgrade the TP and add better filters.

Oh boy, I come here to bash others not to cry :’(

Just kidding, I also believe Taimi is awesome, best wishes to you Christina.

Offair.2563:

Thought i revealed the secret by saying MOVE AROUND IN COMBAT, but seems people are to stubborn, i really have to laugh when people actually getting knocked downed / poisoned by any of my pet, 99% of encounters they just move around making my pets useless, unlike you.

Please go to rangers subforum and scroll around in the CDI and see how many people actually ask for a better AI for them since theyre utterly useless and yet people like you complain about them being OP, can say 1 thing to that: HA HA HA HA

If your able to deal with a hammer warrior, a rangers pet would be NO offense at all.

So I tried to follow your advice yesterday while roaming, didn’t worked as you and I expected (I fought a ranger with 2 bears, another with 1 doges and 1 spider, and another with 1 bear and a doge):

- First ranger: At first it was working flawlessly, I managed to like evade some of the pets attacks (didn’t knew that was possible) and that helped me to keep attacking the bear, but they’re like gods the ranger ended up killing me before I could kill the second bear.

- Second ranger: Well this one was slightly easier, but each time I tried to evade the pets attacks they kept knocking me down, fearing me or immobilizing me. Such an annoying fight that spider is a hellspawn.

- Third ranger:: Ah my nemesis, the one who tortured me 2 days ago. Your plan didn’t worked at all, the dog kept me CC’ed all the time and then he changed to the bear so that I couldn’t even damage the doge, any other strategy for this combo? Bear and Dog?

Anyway thanks for the tips, I still feel pets are OP with all that CC but moving has saved me from 1 of their hits.

King Amadaeus.8619:

Bear too strong look at pic, it ridic.

I full zerk, got cool cultural armor, I hit bear for only 369!?

Look at pic, after bear run down toward water, no ranger, in stealth (stealth OP). Bear try to get away in water but I died to yellow mobz.

HOW BEAR IN WATER?

OMG mate can’t you see it?? The reason is clearly right in your pic, dat bear belongs to the “Legendary heroes”, you’re fighting a freaking legendary bear.

This explains why I had such a hard time with them yesterday… Wait this means all the ranger pets are legendary? That’s why the doge was smart enough to throw me off a cliff?

#HowBearInWater

If you want to make gold without being on the TP then I would suggest dungeon speed runs, more entertaining than looking at an interface.

If you seriously want to get big amounts of gold then you will need:

1. PATIENCE.

Sorry to burst your bubble but I don’t think anyone would like to post their fast methods of gaining gold via the TP in a public place like the forums, you’re better off with trial and error.

A simple tip: Buy low, sell high. Check the supply of items.

Cantur Soulfyre.5409:

deal damage from a distance can then call a companion to further slow me down and deal more damage?

Oh that happened to me yesterday too, so annoying. After I killed the tanky bear when the ranger brought up his dog he went to the top of some ruins and started ranging me.

So I tried to go straight to him but the dog kept knocking me down and even feared me from a ledge, that combo is way too OP

Osu.6307:

Any post that argues rangers are overpowered in any aspect of the game, is trolling. If you seriously think rangers are overpowered compared to other proffs, I really have to wonder how much time you have been in wvw.

wth are you even reading the thread? The problem in here is not the ranger, it’s the OP PETS that they carry with them.

And to make matters worse rangers can bring 2 OP pets to battle, yesterday I was roaming on the borderland until a ranger came across, I now know that I should had ran that day from the very beggining.

He sent out his brown bear and let me tell you proudly that, after a good amount of conditions and CC I finally managed to kill it. But what was my surprise? He spawned a dog that kept fearing me and knocking me down, I seriously don’t get this they have so much CC >.<

I see mini pets as a really long investment (time depends on how many are available), with each patch I gather some of the exclusive minis, wait some months and then sell them for a much higher value.

But as I said, it’s a really long investment to me.

Now Anet I have only single request: PLEASE bring back Foostivoo and the other Wintersday minis, they’re technically the only minis that I need to complete my miniature collection, please

Opened 31 chests on patch day, got 1 scarlet and 1 caithe, they do drop but seems to be rarer…

No Mai Trin tho, hopefully she’ll be very cheap since it’s the only mini that I actually care of, long live Mai!!

khani.4786:

Now we get complaints from people who gave up hope on the chests coming back and they deleted all their keys….

I gave up hope on the chests coming back and deleted all my keys, but I’m not going to complain since it’s a futile effort, I mean I thought it was fairly obvious that you had to use the keys for an event that was going to be removed BEFORE it got removed.

No biggie anyway, only losing a few greens and a pair of yellows

And again they’re making achievements meaningless to please the PvE crowd, seriously what’s the point of gaining them if you can’t challenge yourself??

As of now there’s been no hard achievements in this game (at most Liadri but still), only thing they’re good for is for chests (thanks PvErs for continuing to ruin this game). -_-

Thaddeus.4891:

There is already an hypothesis about Mordremoth being the 6th Elder Dragon, a Jungle Dragon and that Sylvari could be Mordremoth’s minions. What if Mordremoth use a different strategy than the other Elder Dragon.

You know what would be awesome?

That Sylvari hypothesis being true, how cool would it be that Trahearne is a minion of Mordremoth and uses the Pact resources with his fellow Sylvaries against us, now THAT would be a great plot twist.

But I don’t think it’s possible given that we can actually play as a Sylvari, they’ll have to come up with a story of the Pale Tree being similar to Glint.

Marc.8496:

Now the question, will they keep going into more exciting lore during all the year ? Or will they just make another year of poor content/writing Living content and hope the hype machine will restart again between Season 2 and 3 ?

I think it’s currently the latter, with the recent ways they’ve been introducing the story people have been re-hyped with the game. Plus the upcoming Dragon and the improvements with each update will surely make some come back.

But, who know we’ll have to wait and see.

Delvoire.8930:

lordkrall.7241:

Indeed, it looks very interesting.
And adding on the information from massively it does indeed seem that LA WILL get destroyed.

link please? Curiosity has struck me.

Google Google Google Google Google Google Google Google Google…

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/02/11/prepare-to-escape-from-lions-arch-in-guild-wars-2s-next-conten/

Ravious.4269:

I don’t like this theory, which is admittedly gaining strength, because the ED’s have never been “one to talk”. In the novels they were forces of nature…. it’s hard to see how Scarlet would have an ED voice in her head. I can see Mordremoth corrupting her and Scarlet acting towards the ED’s end, but this always seemed more like what a god would do.

The other thing is that she opened this window by checking out the Eternal Alchemy. I just find it hard to believe that a “force of nature” was waiting for this window to be opened. Assuming in the first place that ED’s exist beyond the threshold of Tyria (i.e., in the Eternal Alchemy more like a god), I just find it weird that it would be able to pinpoint a person.

If it is Mordremoth it will be really interesting to see how ANet gets around that force of nature ideal.

Scarlet came out crazy from the machine, what if for some reason the machine accidentally interacted with Mordremoth?

The ED got his chance and corrupted Scarlet driving her crazy, all that “speaking” she thinks she’s hearing on her head is just part of her… “allucinations” or madness.

Wanze.8410:

If you think im rude, report my post. If a Mod agrees with you and deletes my post, thats fine with me. From all posters, i was the only one pointing the OP into the right direction, while you just repeated what others already said before you.

QFT, show ’em man/girl!!

Um…. 3 wurm heads?

carabidus.6214:

EragamerLG.2390:

And it is much better than not doing the event at all or instanced content, if you want instanced content play an SP RPG not an MMORPG.

You are aware that the most successful MMORPG on the planet has instanced content?

And still you’ll have people complaining that the game has too much instances, it’s a vicious circle you won’t be able to satisfy everyone.

288 ectos? Oh well, I’ll just change my goal of 300% MF to 2030.

Leshain.6720:

Q1: Who are the Voice actors? Is there a List somewhere? Because there are quite a few i hear that i heard from other games, cartoons, and anime. I know there be some Troy Baker action be goin on here, as well as Tara Strong but who else? racters?

Google is your friend, I believe the “most important characters” are here.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Voice_actor

Leshain.6720:

Q2: Why so few male NPC characters?
Q3: Why so many female NPC characters?

“Important” males that had actually participated with us in instances:
Mad King Thorn, Toymaker Tixx, Braham, Moto, Canah, Evon Gnashblade, Marcello DiGiacomo, Logan Thackeray, Rytlock Brimstone, Prince Edrick Thorn. (10 total).

“Important” females that had actually participated with us in instances:
Dessa, Roxx, Ellen Kiel, Mai Trin (wooot Mai), Marjory Delaqua, Kasmeer Meade, Queen Jenna, Countess Anise, Scarlet, Caithe, Magister Tassi, Taimi. (12 total).

I know that I’m probably missing quite some more, but it seems pretty balanced to me, an edge of 2 is not that much.

Leshain.6720:

Q4: Whats with the whole lesbian thing? Are the writers teenage boys or sumthin?

And what’s wrong with that? They’re partners and they’re pretty much going through tough times.

Leshain.6720:

Q5: Who DESIGNS these characters!? If i recall, this game like the original is South Korean made, so for the most part better taste than western designs but still would like to know who calls the shots here, NCSoft or Arena Net.

ArenaNet (NA company) is the one that makes the game, they work for NCsoft but I think they’ve said a couple of times that they give them much freedom to do their things.

Leshain.6720:

Q6: Why the lack of that one kitten character? Select anyone from Capcom’s list of games. If credit is gonna go to someone besides us the players *cough Trahherne/Ellen cough i’d rather it go to someone who at least is a kitten.

I’m afraid that I don’t understand this one, are you wondering why isn’t there a single character that appears in every story and is the “leader”? Beats me but we’ve gone to totally different places in almost each release, against different foes, might be due to that.

Leshain.6720:

Q7: Who is “E”?

Dunno there, we’ll have to wait.

Leshain.6720:

Q8: Why is it as we the player still have little to no impact on the main story when we interact with the NPC’s.

Aside from everyone praising you from all the help you’ve given them in the past? What are you expecting? Having a statue emerged in our name on every town?

Leshain.6720:

Q9: Why is there no Scythe Wielding character yet? I remember one of the original Guild wars expansions having a scythe wielding class.

I honestly don’t know, but I would suspect it’s because it’s too improbable that the other races will worship the Six Gods. Still, having a scythe would be kitten.

PS: In case this seems like I’m trying to bash you or protect Anet, I’m not. I’m providing answers but I hate when people post without searching or backing up on information. Hope this helps you and doesn’t seems like a rude response.

Vol.7601:

Neek.9531:

Vol.7601:

MF works, read my sig

-hardcore farmer with +300 MF

Oh my god vol how….

The fastest way to 300 MF is to salvage ectos. It is, however, the most expensive, as the loss you get from salvaging a stack of ectos then selling the dust costs you 10-20G.

You can if you wish, buy lvl 20-50 green items through buy orders, but that is extremely time consuming and will give you carpal tunnel.

Overall I think maxing magic find costs you at least 2kg, up to 3kg. Is it worth it for the average GW2 player? Absolutely not. But as a hardcore farmer, it is absolutely worth the investment considering I can make back 2-3KG in less than 2 months. I got my luck to around 278 yesterday and I got 4 exotic drops yesterday in about 6 hours. It’s an outlier of course, but things are looking good so far.

When did you started salvaging the ectos for MF? Since the MF update began (when you had around 0-10% MF) or when you reached some sort of “dull spot” when you can’t earn good MF without ectos (like 100%)?

I want to reach 150% MF (currently at 106%) and then start salvaging ectos to boost my way to 300%, I feel like blues and greens hardly give me any progress for the next percentage

Adligaspgh.5492:

and i now have 100% completion of the PvE map (including Chantry Of Secrets, which i remembered as being something everyone forgets about). now on to WvWvW whens its back up

Congrats!! Just in case, there’s some sort of bug that happens sometimes with map completion:

Even if you have both 100% completion in PvE and WvW it might not give you the rewards (gift of exploration and all that), to fix it just go back to the Chantry of Secrets and it might show up.

Simple, buy the precursor, craft everything else.

Even with the RNG of Mystic Clovers you gain T6 mats, sadly my love for miniatures prevents me from saving enough gold to outright buy Dusk… but one day I’ll finish my legendary…

If you want the Gift of BATTLE you should get your hands dirty, now go out there, help your server and kill those walking loot bags!!!

Again, it’s battle = fight.

Dunno but ever since I got my MF to 100% I’ve been getting at least 1-3 unidentified dyes each day I play, boy this will surely make it easy to get Bifrost

Hi,

Yes you need to have them all the the same time in your collectibles tab, so either deposit that mini for it to count or search for the character which has it.

Some of the exotic minis have lowered in price, so now would be a great time to buy them. Also this mini counts and you can get it with karma (save some gold):

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Risen_Priest_of_Balthazar

Best of luck future collector!!

Traveller.7496:

cortin.9174:

That’s an issue PvE players have, you are all too used to getting things done by yourselves. Getting ganged up on? Gather some friends, guildies, look for a commander, or simply ask for help in the zone! I saw PvE players complain about getting killed last night all night, and not one of them, not one, asked for help.

And yet over the last update PvE players had no troubles joining forces in beating the Marionette encounter (well, your mileage may vary). But this here isn’t an epic encounter, people just want the part and get out.

For me, it’s Obsidian sanctum all over again. I just want to do this Jump puzzle and people attack me. Let me be. I can’t always get a guild group protecting my kitten to do a JP. I don’t blame the opponents, I blame ANet for putting a PvE objective in a WvW environment.

Again, that’s the problem with PvErs, now think:

Marionette: You fight as a whole against NPCs.
EotM: You fight as a whole against Players.

Now, do you see the difference? The problem in here is that PvErs are afraid of someone else breaking your armor. For example someone said before that this isn’t the best way to introduce players to WvW, then which one is the best way?

Create a map with towers and castles with a bunch of NPCs that stay idle and wait until you attack them? I’m pretty sure that the first time one of them sets foot on the real maps they’ll get slaughtered.

The problem in here is not about PvE objectives in WvW, the problem in here is that everyone is so spoiled that they expect to get everything handed to them with minimum effort.

Yeah at first the map looked like a hazzle to run from point to point, but it’s actually really small compared to the other WvW maps. At least with all the fighting going on yesterday there were battles everywhere.

Wetpaw.3487:

Savoy.6824:

Guess the original poster has never heard of this utility skill “Well of Power” GG

1 sec stability, 50 sec cd……

It seems no one really knows in here about that 1 second… That stability is placed there to ensure that you can cast the kill, it’s not meant to be a resourceful source of the boon, just like the Warrior Stomp skill.

I don’t really see the complaining in here, with all the array of fears and + condi duration I’m having a blast with my necro on this map, there’s just so many ways to make someone fall (which has also happened to me >.>).

Ronah.2869:

Ok, this will brack the fun for most of you but this is why I don’t play pvp or WvW.
Let’s say it is ok to kill a character as the main goal of these “games” but mocking over his/her death with these finishers – most of them- feels really inappropriate.
Remember those soldiers from the news bulletins who were mocking their victims of war. Blah

What? The only reason there is to play PvP is to humiliate in the best way possible your opponent, there’s no hugs and kisses there just pure /laughs and /dances, this finisher is the much needed addition to this.

Oh boy I can already see the tears, this will be glorious.

KazzMadd.3052:

Am I the only one who thinks the Nightmare court are minions to Mordremoth and like Amineo said the dragon at the start was one of his/her/its offshoots!

Um well.. the Pale Tree says otherwise… and you know the tree “never goes wrong”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Dragon

“Although Caithe attributes its presence to the Nightmare Court, the Pale Tree believes it to be a manifestation of the player’s Wyld Hunt to defeat Zhaitan.”

I know “believes”, still the dragon is in the Dream.

Dawdler.8521:

ghost.3208:

Dawdler.8521:

Trebuchets historically you built at a fixed position, due to their size. They dont have wheels ingame either.

AoE 2 would like to have a word with you, I expect Anet to create the same animation for this bad guys, hopefully we’ll get a new mini-game WvW exclusive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yn2pjvmhA8

You know, the moving boat isnt a trebuchet. See those big fixed sieges firing stones from a static position? That’s the trebs. Just like I said. I dont get what you’re responding to.

Let’s say from a pool of 13 players:

1 unfortunate player handles the boat and has to live for like 2 minutes, the other 12 players each take one of the trebs and try to take down the boat… Now do you see the “mini-game” in that?

It was a joke mate -_-

Hmm I wonder if they could do the same as with the necromancer Death Shroud #1 (Life Blast), it gains more damage depending on the weapon that you equipped.

And if you don’t believe me take a look for yourself, pick an ascended staff (468) and then pick an exotic one (442). Could it be somewhat the same with engineer tool kits?

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/

Still, I’m not implying it’s going to be that easy, it might be complex to do a change like this. Who knows just wondered….

Really nice guide with good screenies, great work! Gonna spread the word about your guide :o

How could this become a pay to win?? The sprockets value are a meaningless 38 copper, even with a full stack you’re hardly earning something of value. On top of that there’s now a permanent way to obtain them so the sprockets will hardly reach the silver value.

This addition is nice but now I won’t ever have to rely on the TP to craft things like Sigil of Bursting for example, sorry for you sprocket hoarders :P

Dawdler.8521:

Trebuchets historically you built at a fixed position, due to their size. They dont have wheels ingame either.

AoE 2 would like to have a word with you, I expect Anet to create the same animation for this bad guys, hopefully we’ll get a new mini-game WvW exclusive:

Aeolus.3615:

ghost.3208:

(…)
They’re placing the PvE on a secluded map. All the Living Story will be there and we won’t have to deal with unnecessary NPCs on the “real maps”. To me they actually listened to us.

Show me the information where LS stuff ont be more in WvW map?

That’s what I hope, at least it’s what it looks like. The next chapter will be centered on the Edge of the Mists, so why bother adding something to the other maps when you have this huge PvE/PvP map?

Being the showcase of the update everything would had to be there, or maybe I’m giving too much credit to it?

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/28/journey-to-the-edge-of-the-mists-in-guild-wars-2s-next-content/

I don’t see the problem in here, in fact this is much better for us since all the PvE players will have a map that won’t affect us. Instead of being rage-blinded to see the whole picture look at it this way:

They’re placing the PvE on a secluded map. All the Living Story will be there and we won’t have to deal with unnecessary NPCs on the “real maps”. To me they actually listened to us.

Beated her 5 times out of 6 in overflows, in main my ratio is 0 out of 2 xD

Can you pick the stats on the armor piece? I would see it as a free piece of ascended armor (if it ever drops), saves some gold with those pricey mats.

Buuuuuuut before anyone comes in here and bashes me, yeah at least they could had added the full set, hopefully this makes it a bit easier to acquire that gear (which I have no intent to get since I change my build a lot ).