Guild Wars 2

Servers really aren’t a big deal apart from world versus world. So don’t worry about so much about picking one. You can still group and party and guild with anyone from any server.

One thing I’m really starting to get annoyed by is the events in this game.

When a new event happens it’ll add something to work on that is really only doable during the event. Look at the blades backpiece. It’s so hard to get it now because of it’s massive need for blade shards that aren’t easy to get apart from parking 10 characters at no so secret jp.

I hate one time only events that MMO’s seem to be all about these days. One time only events that give out things so people can feel like special snowflakes and show off. It aggravates me.

VodCom.6924:

New maps that are well designed. Dry top and the Silverwastes. you should check them out, they shower you with loot and are action packed. The mobs in the silverwastes are actually trying to kill you (as opposed to mobs found in other maps).

Living story that you’ll have to pay to have access that is more interesting than the Scarlet extravaganza.

PvP overhaul, that thing is much better now.

New log-in reward system and new dailies that force you to do WvW for 2 min each day. It’s not so bad in the end.

New Player Experience system that is designed to drive you mad. Seriously, they really screwed up here.

Pretty much, though just avoid pvp. It’s a total mess. There isn’t any match making in place because there isn’t any people doing it. It’s a total unbalanced mess, though it’s awesome if you play an engineer as they’re the love child of A-net and will continue to be such it seems.

Other then silverwastes, which will get old pretty quick because of all the people taxi’ing in and out and not helping to progress the map at all and the shovel farmers.

NPE is the worst thing thats ever happened to game and literally the developers didn’t think at all about it and kneejerked it into game. It’s some awful crap. As you can see the countless threads about the awful awful trait system all over the place.

Most people are just sitting around not doing much waiting for HoT information.

Ayrilana.1396:

heartless.6803:

LucosTheDutch.4819:

heartless.6803:

My first map completion was Guardian. Which I highly recommend against. They’re probably the slowest moving class, they have horrible health pool and can’t really solo with zerker gear because of said low health pool. Did I mention they’re slow? Staff sucks balls, lets be honest here staff as a weapon blows. You only see so many guardians with one because of it’s lootstick qualities and might stack.

My first map completion was with a guardian too and it’s honestly not as bad as you make it seem.

Yes, I used staff. No, it doesn’t suck balls. It gives you perma swiftness if you combine it with the ‘retreat!’ shout and the might-stacks are really good. When you’re up against a group of mobs simply open the fight with staff 4, switch to your greatsword and kill everything. It’s really super easy.

I also used Berserker gear with Scholar runes. I could easily solo anything I wanted in open-world PvE. I mean come on, open-world PvE is so extremely easy that if you honestly die a lot in open-world PvE you’re probably just really bad (or at least a really bad guardian).

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s the slowest moving class in game with the lowest health pool. I’m looking forward to specializations to maybe get to be a damage guardian without giving up literally everything that makes my class desirable and having no defense to be less then what a warrior is. Cause right now without support a guardian is a half-kitten warrior.

I actually leveled up doing world completion on guardian and had no issue whatsoever with speed, killing thinghs, and staying alive. Guardian also does not have the worst mobility in the game as you can have 100% up-time swiftness. I always went with berserker related stats and uses greatsword/staff. Your issue here may have been that you did not know how to play the class after a few hours and used mediocre weapons. I get the feeling from your post that you camped staff.

I’ve done world completion on every class but thief and engineer. I’m slowly working on thief and have zero desire to ever play engineer. Of the ones that I have done, mesmer was the slowest.

No, I hate staff never use it. Most I use staff for is to swap to it for Teq prior to burn phase. I find it a boring weapon and serves little point or use. I much rather prefer a scepter/focus and greatsword. Greatsword because it’s required as it’s the only damage weapon we have. We have other weapons that deal damage, but it’s the only high damage option.

The guardian profession confuses me, why am I the only class who’s profession skills effect everyone around me? Mesmers shatters only effect them. Engi tool belt only effects them. Necro only effects them. Why does all virtue have to effect everyone around me? It seems to be the prime reason our health is so low and damage is so low, to offset the stupid high amounts of support.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

heartless.6803:

My first map completion was Guardian. Which I highly recommend against. They’re probably the slowest moving class, they have horrible health pool and can’t really solo with zerker gear because of said low health pool. Did I mention they’re slow? Staff sucks balls, lets be honest here staff as a weapon blows. You only see so many guardians with one because of it’s lootstick qualities and might stack.

My first map completion was with a guardian too and it’s honestly not as bad as you make it seem.

Yes, I used staff. No, it doesn’t suck balls. It gives you perma swiftness if you combine it with the ‘retreat!’ shout and the might-stacks are really good. When you’re up against a group of mobs simply open the fight with staff 4, switch to your greatsword and kill everything. It’s really super easy.

I also used Berserker gear with Scholar runes. I could easily solo anything I wanted in open-world PvE. I mean come on, open-world PvE is so extremely easy that if you honestly die a lot in open-world PvE you’re probably just really bad (or at least a really bad guardian).

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s the slowest moving class in game with the lowest health pool. I’m looking forward to specializations to maybe get to be a damage guardian without giving up literally everything that makes my class desirable and having no defense to be less then what a warrior is. Cause right now without support a guardian is a half-kitten warrior.

My first map completion was Guardian. Which I highly recommend against. They’re probably the slowest moving class, they have horrible health pool and can’t really solo with zerker gear because of said low health pool. Did I mention they’re slow? Staff sucks balls, lets be honest here staff as a weapon blows. You only see so many guardians with one because of it’s lootstick qualities and might stack.

I’ve been guildless most of the 2 years I’ve played and only recently got into a guild. For the most part I don’t do anything with them and still consider the entire guild thing to be worthless.

I’m a very big solo player and honestly guilds don’t do anything. The only thing you need to be in a guild for is missions. Triple Trouble gets done by TTS and other large guilds that exist solely for world bosses, and they usually post when they do it. So I just go and tag along.

Guilds are useless and really only there for social aspects, and if you’re asocial like me they’re useless entirely.

I got a Spark on my second forge attempt. Spent a total of like 14g. I’m still making it since I don’t have nearly enough dungeon tokens, and LFG crowd scare me, or obsidian.

Yeah want to know the kicker? I hate every class that uses daggers. Thief, I’m like the worst thief on the planet. Eles? I’m horrible at them and hate them. Necro’s? Meh really, they have like zero appeal to me.

So I’ll end up selling it on the TP and using the gold towards twilight, the legendary I actually want.

RoRo.8270:

Make an engineer spec turrets= profit

Problem with turret engi is the good build requires the locked grand master trait. Which I don’t understand, why give me all traits in spvp by one? Not to mention Engineers bore the crap outta me. I hate the lack of weapon choice, and I really can’t stand that stupid hobo backpack with literally every kit. I don’t want a hobo satchel.

I have a warrior but don’t really play it because I don’t have any traits. The new trait system is without a doubt my most hated change in MMO video game history. I’m waiting patiently for account wide unlocks so I can play more then just my 3 grand fathered classes.

Berry Pun Pup.6904:

heartless.6803:

There isn’t MMR. The match making system is to wait 2 mins and then throw literally everyone into the same pile and go from there.

MMR doesn’t exist because nobody pvp’s for it to match people. People don’t pvp because there is no MMR.

Look at the game browser on literally any day at any time, there isn’t a single full map. There is literally like a few hundred people pvping. Thats it. The games pvp is so kitten that nobody does it.

IMO, get rid of this 5v5 arena kitten and move to 8v8 by default. Things become more interesting now that it’s no so individual based.

Lol yer lookin at the hotjoin servers, but I agree bring back 8v8 hotjoin. Leave ranked/unranked 5v5, but dear god fix the matchmaking.

Hotjoin is where the changes need to start though. Thats where new players join first and where it drives them away. The fact that nearly 75% of all matches I join are 400 to 50 and the game is over pretty much. Things like 8v8 will help newer players get better by the match not being so reliant on individual actions but more team oriented.

Also, group queue and solo queue really needs to be separated again. I don’t care if the group queuers have a 20 mins queue time, suck it up.

There isn’t MMR. The match making system is to wait 2 mins and then throw literally everyone into the same pile and go from there.

MMR doesn’t exist because nobody pvp’s for it to match people. People don’t pvp because there is no MMR.

Look at the game browser on literally any day at any time, there isn’t a single full map. There is literally like a few hundred people pvping. Thats it. The games pvp is so kitten that nobody does it.

IMO, get rid of this 5v5 arena kitten and move to 8v8 by default. Things become more interesting now that it’s no so individual based.

The three 80’s I have are Guardian, Mesmer and thief. I’ve done a lot of WvW and it’s absolutely nothing, not even remotely close, to spvp. I know how my class works but it doesn’t mean I’m good. I have poor reaction time and when you start shoving everything on me at once I start just pressing random buttons. Youtube doesn’t help, guides don’t help. Thats not my problem, my problem isn’t know what I should be doing. It’d actually doing it. I’m not good, remember?, I’m never a person that can or will get to anywhere near decent level of play.

All I’m asking, is can we put in something for pure kittened noobs? Something that automatically restricts over a certain rank? Something that doesn’t have daily progression or rank progression or track progression. That is purely for bad people to play against other bad people.

Right now I feel like I’m so terrible I shouldn’t even be playing the game. I get so extremely frustrated when I play that I honestly don’t know why I even play the game. I’m not good, I know that. It’s not news to me. I’m really really really terrible. The more I watch videos or read things doesn’t help. I can watch every video in the entire universe and it still won’t help. All I want, literally the only thing. Is a chance to go up against people equally as terrible as me. I’m really really really really really reallyreally really really really really reallyreally really really really really reallyreally really really really really reallyreally really really really really reallyreally really really really really reallyreally really really really really reallyreally really really really really really bad. Like whenever I queue in at that current moment I’m the single worst player in queue I’m that terrible.

It’s so frustrating I’m ready to give up. I just want some kind of anything that says things will get better. We’re fixing this god awful mess of spvp.

God I really kittening wish MMO devs would get it through their thick fat skulls that less is worse.

Right now structured pvp is near unplayable. I’m not good and frankly everywhere the game itself directs me to is just do hotjoin it’s for new players. Hot join is literally 99% of the time you go into a map that is 400 to 20 and guess what you’re on the 20 side and you end the match and get literally nothing.

I’ve tried unranked and it’s not much better, I get stomped something fierce literally most of the time. I’m really bad, read very bad like ridiculously bad at pvp. There isn’t a single thing in game that teaches or introduces or eases into pvp. It’s like if they had a short this is basic game mechanics okay you got the hand now go into fractal 50 you’ll be fine you got the basic examples remember.

Why is it that any time of day on any week I go into the pvp server browser and not see a single full server? That tells you something about the status of structured pvp. It needs a complete overhaul. Screw those 120 people that play and redue the entire thing for Heart of Thorns and make it easier for new and all players. Get rid of this 5v5 arena kitten and go to a 10v10 style where individual is less important and you don’t feel like you sucking brings down the entire team.

Only thing that bugs me about run speed is how it slows down in combat. I’d rather run speed be normalized to be the same both in and out of combat.

cthaeh.2168:

I’m confused. Why do these materials need to cost the same? I would understand if ascended equipment gave you some advantage over other players, but it doesn’t. The minuscule stat bonus means nothing in ZergVZerg, and you don’t use equipment in PvP. What exactly is the problem?

The only real reason you need ascended gear is for Fractals and agony resistance. It’s a common heated debate item because people get frustrated with the very concept of agony damage. Honestly if they removed agony damage entirely from fractals and agony resistance I wouldn’t care at all about ascended gear. Leave it as unbalanced as it is now, without needing to farm it for agony I no longer care at all about rushing to get it.

I don’t understand why silk is the highest amount cost. Silk should be lowered to 50 per since you can’t reliably farm it. Mithril should be upped to 100 per since it’s easily obtainable.

On a side note, best way to farm silk? Opening Edge of the mists bags on a level 51-55? or just opening them on an 80 and salvaging only cloth?

Watchwerk procs quite often really.

WvW has been stagnant for a great long time.

I think a great idea to change things up is a new map similar to EB only an NPC faction defaultly controls the center keep. So it becomes a battle of defeating the keep, while also attacking opposing servers to stall their own progress.

People think overgrowth is overpowered so whenever a server has it you see a lot more people play overgrowth. FR is seen as weak and BL is seen as a middle of the pack.

Personally I think BL is the best option due to close proximity to scorps and wurm which I find to be key to a good karma train.

It doesn’t really matter, as the chances of getting one of the unique dye’s is very very low from that.

Most of those look generic. I’m sorry but I wouldn’t miss 90% of all medium armor. They’re all generic ugly as hell tenchcoats. The heavy armor looks ugly too that were discontinued.

Tribal is only missed because it’s gone, if it never left you wouldn’t see much people with it.

With Heart of Thorns coming out can we retune Orr and other high level zones? Right now in Orr more then half of all way points are contested nearly all the time and there is around 15 million events going on with the 12 people total in the zones not doing any of them.

Can we make it a little bit less, endgamey? It was tuned and designed with the idea that a lot of max levels hang out there. We have Silverwastes for that now. Can we retune the zones to be a bit easier and less headache inducing for world completion?

I’m betting each precursor will be like getting a complete set of luminescent gear. You won’t be suddenly getting each and every one of the legendaries now that you have the precursor.

Only thing I use my personal guild bank for is transfering between my two accounts, which this will make it a bit harder. But not really, I mainly use it to move items and gold from my mule account to my main. Gold is never going to be over 500 a week so it doesn’t bother me.

It’ll bother some but really only a very small percentage will be bothered beyond buying gold. That of which you can do through Anet and gem conversion.

The only thing I felt that was harder to craft now then before is the Blades back piece and Mawdrey. Mainly the Blades back piece as blade shards are nowhere near as easy to come by now and you need like 750 of them. The only reliable way to get them is getting the watchwerk pickaxe and converting clockworks to blade shards or parking 15 characters at not so secret.

Yesterday I put in 4 self crafted giver’s pearl daggers, got some random named exotic. Used that named dagger and three more crafted daggers and got Spark on my second attempt.

So I’m happy with the forge, but results may vary.

BrooksP.4318:

I love Silverwastes, but hate chest farms as well. Mainly people spamming map chat asking for one. There is nothing really wrong with bandit chests in of themselves, after taking a fort, Ill use a shovel and find a few while I wait.

Funny however because in the same way you see chest farms making SW bad, I see WvW as fail due to champ trains. A “pvp zone” where people just blob and kill NPCs is what has steered me away from WvW in this game, and giggle to myself when I hear people talk about how great WvW/EOTM is.

Edge is a karma train, it’s just there for leveling. WvW will hopefully change with stability changes and other factors of HoT hopefully reduce the size of the zergs.

I wouldn’t say it’s innovative. I think it’s annoying because of what players have done with taxi’ing. I think the event need to be changed a bit to discourage people from hoping from one map server to another and not even trying.

Doggie.3184:

Anet is happy to allow it, but they made it slightly harder after NGE to tease us.
They didn’t remove it because they love us very much. Even more when we buy a character slot for it. And the ‘compensation for the impact’ was the addition of tomes of knowledge farming.

Key farming was the main reason that they changed NPE. Before you can get a key every 5 mins or so. Now it takes considerably longer. Though it’s a waste of time really, since you get mostly crap in BLC anyway. The only valuable thing is contracts and I’ve opened hundreds of chests and got not a single one.

Mea.5491:

I’d kill for some of the Stalwart armor pieces. =_=

They look like literally 90% of all medium armor. Generic trenchcoat, generic hat with bandit mask = medium armor.

Hell no, then people would know I’m lying about having full beserker gear for instances. Until they realize that meta isn’t required I’m gonna continue to lie about it and keep wearing my preferred soldiers gears.

All these options going from a pure min maxing point of view.

Realistically you can do every instance in the game with 5 rangers. It’s not as fast or as optimal but it’s entirely doable. Instances, outside fractals, are essentially really easy.

Play what you enjoy, keep in mind guardians have to work way harder for damage. When they want to be damage, they end up giving up nearly all of their utility for it and become glass cannons. Which is why you seen more hybrid support damage guardians.

The profession I play most is guardian but not because it’s the most fun. I have all the traits unlocked for it, and have most of the world unlocked.

Truth is I find guardians hit or miss. Their damage is low, their health is low and they can’t solo in beserker gear due to low health and so it’s always a toss up of which of the low aspects do you want to buff up. The health or the damage? Cause you can’t have both, if you wanted both you should have been a warrior.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Zealot is pretty good on some builds on each profession. Best for WvW, though.

Sinister is pretty good for Necro and Engineer as well. Really any condition build.

Problem with sinister is the same problem with any condi build. Sure necro’s and engi’s and thieves can make it work pretty good, but it isn’t as good as zerker. No matter what gear you’re in there is a power build better in zerker.

Except pvp, that crap is gonna be all into the condi builds.

Those stats were new stats added fairly recently. They were added only to crafting to give it something to offer.

Reality of those stats, they’re all kinda sucky. Celestial is a pvp thing, and nomad is a wvw thing, and sinister isn’t really good for anyone but kinda thief and zealot I haven’t a clue who uses.

Good to see burns still at 1, gg guardians.

I got the one that gives me clockwork sprockets. Cause yeah know free extra money.

I’d be happy, I have nothing going for me in this world. I have nothing going for me in my life and don’t enjoy it. My past mistakes haunt me and never let me go. I have a habit of playing MMO’s to escape this reality which I’ve grown to hate. I would love nothing more then to escape it for good.

JustTrogdor.7892:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/NPE-Feedback-Merged-Please-read-1st-post/

More visibility needs to happen beyond one ignored thread for this god horrible system to be reverted. This is without a doubt the absolute worst system ever put in place in a major MMO. It needs to be changed and it needs to be changed soon. Not Heart of Thorns, now. It’s absolutely kittening unplayable horrible

The new player experience is absolutely without a doubt horrible in nearly every single way. I bought a second account on the PAX special and honestly playing through it, the game is a horrible mess. You’re locked out of nearly the entire game and have to unlock everyone in time in a very convoluted mess that doesn’t seem well thought out in the slightest. You don’t have next to any abilities at first and it makes leveling a boring tedious mess.

The trait system, is without a doubt the very worst system put in place by an MMO to date. It’s just absolutely horrible and I have to commend you on finding a way the sucks more then any other system that has ever been put in place before. I don’t know whoever came up with that idea of unlocking traits or the ones who deemed which things to unlock which traits but the lot of them really should be terminated and you really need to rehire new people as they’re only going to make the game worse.

Can we get the old system back? One that isn’t so unfriendly to new accounts? One that doesn’t lock the entire game away?

I imagine there will be new ascended gear added with HoT that are easier to produce that doesn’t cost a screwy system to craft.

Running dungeons at 80 will net more gold then farming. By and large farming materials is a waste of time, as they go for so little it’s not worth the time to farm. Even leveling professions you’re better option is to farm dungeons for gold and buy all the materials rather then farm the materials.

While leveling though gather anything around you and sell it all, it’s added profit. Don’t really worry about gold until 80 and even then it’s not exactly something you need to worry about.

I like the hilt of twilight so I won’t even go for eternity anyway. I don’t like how it uses sunrises hilt and doesn’t have any choice.

Crafting is worthwhile if you’re concerned about any of the following:

Crafting legendary weapons
crafting ascended gear
achievement points

Outside those, not really. Cooking is really cheap to level and can potentially make food for you, but the food isn’t all that required unless you’re a min maxer.

Neural.1824:

A properly run test server will root out bugs, especially the blatantly obvious ones like the green downed state health bar, and so on.
Smaller things like a broken sigil or rune might slip through because you need a lot of people to figure that out, but really guys, stop making excuses for Arenanet on this one.

I don’t think the green downed state bar was a bug. That was an intentional change that was just not very well received so they called it a bug and reverted it. Either that or it was a bug resulting from fixing Necros.

I honestly don’t see the point of crafting ascended gear apart from a completionist stand. The stat difference is marginally better and not worth the cost. It’s really only required for high level fractals which is hardly an endgame since the reward gain isn’t really there.

No Walking.6349:

There’s probably no footprints because if you had a legendary main-hand as well it would use the footprints for that.

And you think the effect of it is mundane? When that thing is wielded it turns into a giant pulsing forcefield on your arm… Hardly mundane.

I main a guardian, it’s a mundane and boring legendary. I already have a pulsy forcefield without a shield.

Astralporing.1957:

Drachenjager.7420:

scepter works great for that fight , seems a shame to have to buy one just for one fight tho.

Yep, it’s a shame, because any decent guardian should have a backup scepter/focus already They are just too useful not to have them.

It’s less as such that they’re useful and more as such they’re the only ranged option guardians have, which is quite terrible really. But hey any range is better then no range I guess.