Guild Wars 2

The only issue I think it could have caused was a performance hit for other players and maybe the server as well. Since you could endlessly stack auras until you were glowing as bright as the sun. Previously I did enjoy being able to have both of my equiped auras active at the same time. Especially with Juggernaut and other legendary weapons.

Personally I’d like to see an effects tab in the hero menu or on the legendaries that allow you to keep the aura on or off while the legendary is equiped but not active. That way you could combine your effects if you wanted too.

nicknamenick.2437:

So your SLI with also the more expensive 980 is a huge waste for atleast gw2.
(why not sli 970.. For real the 980 is just a marketing stunt)

The card might be wasted on gw2, but the 970 is more of a joke than the 980. The 970 suffers from performance issues when it uses over 3.5gb of its available memory.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-memory-issue-fully-explained/

Unfortunately even if you can push your processor into the 4.0+ ghz range you probably won’t see a consistent 60fps across the entirety of game modes. Your gpu can handle the graphics, but your processor has to deal with the gw2 main thread bottlenecking everything else that happens related to the game. The more players that need to be accounted for on screen, the worse this becomes.

I have a a similar setup with a 4.4ghz processor and gtx 980 at 2560×1440 resolution fullscreen window, since I run with a second monitor. With player quantity and quality at low I can run all other settings on max (smaa) and maintain 60fps or higher in all situations except with zergs, where I will see my framerate drop to around 40-50 fps.

Basically, unless you can push a processor close to 5.0ghz you aren’t going to run this game at max setting and higher resolutions with 60fps at all times. Without zergs, sure 60+fps is easily attainable. Unfortunately a lot of the content revolves around zergs, so you better be ready for the framerate drop.

I have Eternity and I prefer Sunrise. I’d take a look at the blades for each from different angles to determine which you prefer. Sunrise has a much more colorful skybox and trail, but Twilight has better footsteps imo, since you can actually see the stars/nebula rotating relative to your angle of view. At the end of the day it is personal preference though, and I am glad to have both, but I made Sunrise first and have never regretted it.

Yeah, maybe they should just make two versions and let people decide if they are okay with the minor clipping of the original or the balloon skirt and missing feet. I almost bought this, but the “fix” completely changed my mind.

Yep, looks like you used your blue/greens the wrong way. Started selling them on the TP so you don’t use up more space. Considering the majority of players probably haven’t even reached 200% luck I think it is safe to say anet has no good reason to start making it a major requirement for other items.

Casual relaxing game I don’t have to invest a lot of time into and the combat is more intersting than traditional mmos. Also waiting for Black Desert while this game slowly gets more and more boring.

Hopefully after HoT they can get around to this kind of stuff. The story is one of the least compelling reasons for me to play gw2 and I would prefer to see the return of human female idle animation and the human female run animation as opposed to seeing more living story.

Arkanthor.2307:

IMO no they don´t.

Black lion chests are a kind of lottery, you can get any “exclusive” item from the Black lion pool. It is only RNG if you get a goodie or not. There are really good things, that´s true but you need a divine blessing in order to get one .We all know how RNG works on this game. I t probably wouldn´t bother me… if Black Lion chests were the only way to get Black Lion skins (aside from an absurd grinding).

When I´m aiming for a skin I want I´m not interested on the boosters (who does) or the chance that stars align and I get something really good. I´m simply not willing on spending a simple gem on a lion chest key for a chance to get a part of a tciket I need. Well I normally need more than a single ticket so I could open A LOT of them and waste a lot of my resources getting things I don´t want.

This system makes the customer feel frustrated and feel that they time they invested on the thing he wanted was worthless because he ended up with nothing but things he doesn´t care.

Right now I´m doing a few keyruns and by the results I´m getting I wonder why would anyone buy these keys. Please share your opinion maybe we could figure out something.

From a statistics point of view they could be worth it now or in the future. Maybe you need at least $2000 invested to guarantee a reasonable return. Most people invest a little at a time and don’t see much and then stop investing, some people get lucky and others break even. It is all supply and demand though if less people buy keys then the cost of skins goes up and vis versa. It could be worth it, but maybe not for the amount you are willing to invest.

Legendary armor would be nice but think about runes. Seems so great to be able to swap stats until your runes don’t work with your build. If anet came out with legendary armor I’d make it for the skins not stat swapping. Replacing my strength runes everytime I felt like doing something different would be stupid expensive. At the end of the day if you don’t make a legendary for the skin it is a waste of money, because you could make multiple ascended with runes for each situation and it would cost far less gold.

Kodiak.3281:

I think my signature video is more relevant to how most of us feel about the Warhorn.

I think that should be the sound of eles new warhorn skills.

I guess anet can’t deny warhorn is going to blow. Ele hype train just crashed for me, I guess I’ll be playing Revenant unless Tempest functions well without warhorn.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Okay, I understand you now. I thought you meant that the weapons would be a set fix to the Legend. For example, Jalis has to be a hammer only or Ventair has to be staff only.

Personally, I’d rather Revenant stick to a mode/stance rather than a rotation. I hate the way D/D Elems have to rotate their attunements to be effective as it is. Another class doing that wouldn’t be that fun either.

That’s what makes elementalist fun if you ask me. I don’t think it will work for revenant though unless they plan on adding a an equal amount of skills. Right now Revenant has the short end of the stick with no weapon swapping and static util swapping giving it overall lower total skills than any other profession.

While I am not particularly looking forward to Revenant at this point, I do have my look picked out.

Wish I could disable those horrible looking flying monkey wings. Also you don’t need a potato PC to get massive frame rate drops in WvW or at world bosses. You can get massive drops with a solid gaming PC. I’d love to be able to disable all those garish backpieces and gain a few frames.

Ignavia.7420:

I think if you are healing the guys, who are killing a mob, you should get credit for the kill.

Then people could be even lazier on world bosses than they are now. Just go water attunment on a ele and let soothing mist get them credit while they afk.

How about a way to see who the boss is actually targeting and a better effect or animation to show when a boss starts an attack animation. This could be added to the UI as text that shows who is being targeted. If it is targeting you the text and boss portrait are highlighted in red. Maybe add an additional UI component near the boss bar that indicates an attack being in progress.

I think having no trinity has lead to exactly the opposite if you consider that each player gets to play all 3 roles simultaneously regardless of gear if they choose too. Every class has healing, support, and dps abilities. Any combination works in any dungeons.

The only way to ensure tanks and healers have a place is to make encounters impossible to complete without x defense on one character and y healing on the other. Making passive stats more important than positioning and active defenses reduces the number of viable builds for content completion.

Nothing stops you from playing support or tanky in game currently, unless you try and join groups that don’t want a tank/healer and they kick you. Easily remedied by making your own group.

Gern.2978:

hazenvirus.8154:

Gern.2978:

CantiCooly.8271:

I really hope we get rifle so i can finally use my hunter rifle skin since it would fit a thief more than a warrior or engi

While I am very much in the pro thief-rifle camp: how exactly does a rifle not fit an engineer?

Well it doesn’t fit engineer because the auto attack fires from the hip, which is a pretty bad way to aim a precision firearm. Warrior it makes some sense though. Somone who isn’t an amazing archer might opt for a firearm, since they require less training to be effective with a firearm.

Don’t think of it as a rifle when Engineers are using it, it’s meant to be a shotgun, as the #3 skill can attest to.

Which is precisely why The Hunter, which looks like a sniper rifle doesn’t fit at all. It is hard to think of it as a shotgun when it looks like a sniper rifle.

Just like when they refunded legendary weapons after the wardrobe change. Everyone has the same problem, but anet seemingly randomly decides who gets a refund or who doesn’t.

Maybe you’d feel better if anet simply disabled the precursors for the beta? Then you’d have to ask yourself if you would have gotten a precursor if you weren’t playing the beta. Then you don’t play the beta and go do something outside and wonder if you would have gotten a precursor if you weren’t outside… then you can’t sleep because you might have gotten a precusor if you weren’t sleeping.

Beta is for testing and you aren’t required to participate in it.

What you get to keep is experience with the new features and the knowledge that your feedback and actions taken on the beta server might help to make the product you have already or intend to invest in better.

Gern.2978:

CantiCooly.8271:

I really hope we get rifle so i can finally use my hunter rifle skin since it would fit a thief more than a warrior or engi

While I am very much in the pro thief-rifle camp: how exactly does a rifle not fit an engineer?

Well it doesn’t fit engineer because the auto attack fires from the hip, which is a pretty bad way to aim a precision firearm. Warrior it makes some sense though. Somone who isn’t an amazing archer might opt for a firearm, since they require less training to be effective with a firearm.

Must be bad luck. I think I have 20+ in my bank from VW chest and I don’t even play that much.

Yep, let her go with what she wants and do not micro-manage her gameplay time. Also as much as you might want to do everything together, it is okay to split up at times if you both want to do different things. Supporting each other during gameplay is great, but you can learn a lot solo and still chat and enjoy each others company.

Crystal ball? You mean tempered glass quicksilver reservoir strong enough to survive anything you decide to smash with it.

The monk outfit is another great example of why a test server would be good. Then players wouldn’t have to deal with knee jerk fixes that alter items they paid for with real money. You are letting your playerbase pay to test these items and then altering them after the fact. People should not have to log on to find out their favorite new outfit just got altered, it would also save your support team some time, since they are probably dealing with a lot of refunds now.

Maybe there should just be two different versions in the gem store. Traditional Monk Outfit and Balloon Monk Outfit.

Lol, I thought this outfit looked good before but now it is hideous. Support better get ready for mass refunds.

I think rather than summoning storms being the focus of tempest, that is was named because the ele more so became the tempest or it looked that way, add spinning attacks and teleports that leave a trail along with a storm aura that grows stronger as the ele fights. Each sword attunement gains a different effect for sword, which combined with the spinning and tele/leap attacks makes the ele itself look like a tempest.

Fire/Lightning/Earth(Sand)/Water/Arcane trails of the sword leaving aoe field behind as the ele swings the sword, whirlwind style attacks that build a storm around the ele as they fight. Switching attunements doesn’t stop the storm, it simply changes the element and the damage type. If the ele could be the heart of the tempest I’d be happy, calling a storm with a warhorn feels like a stupid mechanic. I’d rather see storms as a form of aura that the ele can use with utility spells that enhance it based on the level of the storm, maybe it has three phases and you build the storm by rotating attunments and fighting enemies. At level one of storm a utility might cause less duration and depend on the element. Fire destroys projectiles, sand reduces incoming damage, lighting lashes back with forks of lightning, water heals for each projectile absorbed, arcane reflects.

The idea is to make melee combat feed the storm, each attunment having a different whirlwind style spell that will help build it. Then the ele uses utilities and other sword skills to utilize the storm, which depend on the strength and attunment.

Well that is a rough sketch of my vision of a tempest sword ele.

Rifle builds are even worse than before the patch. If you get hit by Kill Shot you probably deserved it.

Dinks.2478:

Did you join a zerker only LFG? Are you a power necro or a condi necro? A lot of this stuff matters. Also Ralanost, just because you don’t want the dungeon to take longer than it needs to doesn’t mean you’re an elitist.

Except the amount of time the average zerker PuG shaves off is so minimal compared to a zerker PuG with one necro that you probably make up the difference waiting for someone to replace the necro. Real speed run groups might shave mins off, but PuG zerkers often don’t gain more than seconds.

It is rude and more. A good rule of thumb for determining if something is immoral is to ask what would happen if everyone did it. If everyone decided to swap without notice on the last boss then the outcome would be no net gain for the group, in fact a loss.

Inform your group or don’t do it.

On a side note it is funny when someone swaps without warning and we kill the boss before they can load in.

Game is fine in small to medium size groups of players usually. The problem is for a game that focuses on large scale open world content the engine is simply not up to the task of supplying a reasonable frame rate, even on the most powerful machines. Large zergs can tank the framerate well below 20 fps on the best gaming machines.

Game focuses on large scale open world content – Engine can’t handle said content well

I think I’d rather see dagger. Then grant the ability to wield it in offhand with a 2-hand weapon. Not quite “titan’s grip” but still cool. Have it add some skills that deal with using it as a parrying dagger that counters with conditions, punishing opponents with quick counter attacks that weaken and bleed them to death. Could be interesting for hybrid builds.

Also have the mainhand deal slower speed but heavy blows kind of like necromancer/reaper and have the offhand work as part of the heavy combos, heavy blow quick condition slash.

This happened to me while doing the new JP. I was just walking along a plank and dropped dead. There was nothing in the combat log and I just logged off because of I had just spent an hour working my way through the puzzle to learn it.

GG Anet, you win.

You took a risk in holding onto it. The mystic conduit recipe was introduced to remove large amounts low level crafting mats from the economy that were not being used. Assuming that the recipe would never be needed again to control the amount of mats was foolish and anet isn’t stealing from you.

Now we have seagull and crows wings for people who like to role play as birds. Good cash grab for anet and they can release wings in a different color anytime they need more money.

Omega Zoa.3859:

Lol these still exist? alright let us disable visual races, let a option for everyone to be human form, because this encourages uh racial tensions and what not, also some races supposedly have a advantage like short asuras in pvp…so please let racial toggles included too.

Deal with it bruh, people bought these to be seen with, if this is such a big problem i think there’s a option where everyone has some default armor or something and everyone looks like a clone.

Back items always get loaded despite lowest character model settings. I mentioned it in my post above. Anet also made PvP models universally human for the opposing team so it was easy to recognise animations (asura animations were a real issue for competition because they were so difficult to see.

Sold Out.7625:

Eurhetemec.9052:

There literally is no way to solve this problem except letting us turn off

Lelno. Just deal with it. That’s like asking Anet to turn everyone into an Asura.

They turned everyone into a human for pvp.

Sold Out.7625:

Fix your camera settings to not stare at the floor with your camera an inch behind your character at the lowest possible height! An increased FoV, character height scaling, and a vertical notch up go a long way for something as mundane as wings to not take away from your field of vision for dungeon bosses at all!

Here, have some recommended settings. Maybe you’ll be less issued by a few backpieces then.

Try doing that in the halls of CM, still can’t see anything because there is a ceiling. Any dungeon where the camera gets forced into close quarters and there will be a problem. Also the wings don’t go away when players models are turned to low, back items always load up. I’ll be running no wing dungeon groups for awhile.

I doubt it. 64 seems like a pretty generous limit. If they up it then they will have to for everyone since it is probably just a binary number keeping track. Adding another place value would make the limit 128.

You could always use the change to your advantage. If you run dagger offhand you can dump those 10 stacks onto an enemy after you heal.

Considering you can easily make every useful ascended weapon stat combo for much less that a legendary, ascended is a much better value and has more utility because you can slot each weapon individually with sigils that revolve around weapon stat and use.

We used to be able to do this on demand with legendary weapons by swapping them a certain way. You would keep the aura of the non active weapon as long as you didn’t swap back and stow/unstow it once the effect was applied. It would stay indefinitely for the current zone.

Laughing so hard right now. Someone find the picture that guy posted of his stacks of ascended zealot armor recipes. He just lost a fortune on that investment.

Ayrilana.1396:

Palindrome.8904:

Ayrilana.1396:

Weylin.6478:

If you buy GW2 now, it comes with HoT.
If you already have the game, you are losing out if you just go with an upgrade.
If you get it as a separate account, you get 4 character slots + HoT.
If you get it as an upgrade, you get HoT, nothing else.

Just a week ago, GW2 was $40.

Everyone who just purchased GW2 for $40 will now have to buy it AGAIN for $50.
Anyone who’s just now showing up will have to pay the $50 for GW+HoT, that’s fine.

So veterans and intermediates alike got massively ripped off as they are having to pay the equivalent of $90 to get the full package.

This is punishing early adopters and recent buyers of the game, a friend of mine has been trying to get money set aside for weeks to buy GW2 and he finally gets it, and then this happens… If he had known, he would have just waited a few weeks and paid the extra $10 for all of the content.

The base game is a bonus. Would you still be this upset had it not been included and the expansion was still $50 nonetheless like the had planned for it to be?

The only reason to be upset (rather than simply not buy the game) is that new players get far more for the same price. So if it wasn’t included, then no, many people wouldn’t be upset.

The thing is, Heart of Thorns standard is the new base game. You can’t just buy vanilla now.

Two things would have made this all moot:
- If an account is being upgraded, it gets something extra (e.g. character slots).
- The base game can be played with zero purchase of any kind. This would mean that the bundling into the HoT standard means nothing and no one is upset (except people that bought vanilla recently, but that’s a slightly different issue).

So let’s say you have a PS4/Xbox game that’s been out for awhile. You paid $60 for it originally. They later release a GOTY edition which has the base game and all of the expansion for $60. Would you be upset? Would you think that you got ripped off?

Adding promotions for new accounts is nothing new. This situation appears just like the arguments people had awhile back regarding the different editions of this game that became standard and how “veteran” players deserved those items that were included with the newer editions and not the ones that they bought at release.

The question going through the minds of a lot of people is if the base game was factored in as part of the cost. Anet says that it wasn’t, but all we have is their word. No proof one way or the other. It simply bothers people even if they can’t prove it.

chemiclord.3978:

See, a lot of this reminds of the smaller firestorm from people with two legendaries losing their minds that they weren’t going to get anything special with the new wardrobe.

They aren’t kittened about what they’re getting. They’re kittened because they think someone else is getting more, which is honestly a VERY kittenty way to approach anything. Those people need to be ignored.

You know they caved in some cases and refunded people legendary weapons of their choice… the more you know.

Probably just people fired up over the HoT’s pre-purchase. Hopefully things will calm down in the coming weeks and players will be more friendly toward you.

Support for this game is completely random in my experience. They might give one player a refund and another nothing for the same issue, or they might change their policy on an issue suddenly.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

Is the free core game its own separate key?

I wish, in game it shows a picture of those plant based ones from the preview.