Guild Wars 2

Gosh, this is unplayable!

Details:
- Piken
- Eternal Battlegrounds→ Stonemist castle standoffs (not experienced in borderlands)
- ridiculous lag on skill usage – 4 min and more
- affects everyone
- 30men Piken raid, 60-70 Far Shiverers, hundreds of Gendarites

And yes, we are still holding SM and getting hundreds of bags, no precursors yet.

Yeah well despite all my criticisms I gotta say:

Thank you ArenaNet for pimping my GW2!

Lord Kuru.3685:

I thought OP was going to say “Come to my seminar.”

That’s in the works small fee entailed, of course, which you’ll have to pay prior to me posting time, date and location for this spectacular event

Thanks for your info guys!

As for Piken afaik [GH] has abandoned ArchAge and have recently being sighted in full force on the Borderlands.

I’d like to address anyone interested in server pop fluctuations on EU to post their knowledge of any major influx/exodus of players to/from their servers (example: guild [XXX] moved to server A from server B with all their 150 ppl) and generally share their insight into their current server status.

This thread, thus, would allow contemplating players to better prepare for the decision to migrate to another home based on their current game preferences (example: Piken is very good and effective at guild-based WvW but null and void in PvE, and Blacktide has a larger overall pop that is great at PvE and does Wurms and Teq, but is near the bottom of bronze league for WvW). Your input could help others decide whether to invest into the game and move to a 2400gem gold-league server or use the opportunity to take free transfer to another world while Arenanet’s offer still stands.

Thank you for your contribution.

Frankly it’s quite silly to put forward a significant feature patch halfway through a large interserver competitive event. Planning is completely off the mark.

Instead you create an artificial vacuum having ended the LW story and making PvP irrelevant, leaving players with not much to do for 2 weeks before the tournament. Feature patch should have happened on March 18th so that we’d have time to get accustomed. Glory should have been removed on April 15th (or even March 28th) so as to draw PvPers into WvW instead of just leaving them with nothing to do.

Further, as has been stated, traits is just the tip of it, and some other things like, for example, class overhauls (ranger anyone?) could also happen come the 15th. That is not something you’d like to happen to you while you’re standing there fending off blobs of invaders. Not cool.

This is only temporary – the market is still going on bolts which were heavily crafted during and pre-Escape, when silk dropped like cow pies. Keep crafting and expect damask to stabilize within a week.

1. PvE
2. PvP
3. WvW

Anyone on UW or other servers looking to move from their homes would be very welcome on Piken!

We’re sure to have a very fun WvW season, neatly landing into Silver league as of recently, so should you actually consider paying for a transfer within this promotion you should definitely consider it to get some gold-level WvW on a lower tier league!

Oh, and we need PvE people. Drastically. Please. Come. Something like10 ppl per colored knight is not something I’d like to endeavor after expansion comes.

RGB Wars, as it were

Whatever the plans of Arenanet for improving PvP motivation (and I’m sure there are certain ideas), they should not have pulled out current rewards without introducing alternatives. As it stands, pvping now has no benefit whatsoever.

If no action is taken soon there might be consequential reaction from players.

What many of you are saying is that it’s normal to constantly guest for your PvE needs. That should not be the case by any measure. Servers should be designed in a way that allows for acceptable playing experience. It is far from it at present. That is my main point.

What I’m saying is servers need balance for all server-specific activities – i.e. PvE and WvW. There are Pikens that need PvE. There are Desos that want quality WvW (not just giant blobs dying from 10 ppl guilds from my server). It is time to increase server capacity and do merges, and do it with sense and thorough calculation. It is also time to pump up quality of life in all aspects – story, PvE, PvP, WvW.

Piken Square is a high-pop server yet it is impossible to do any of the recent major PvE events here, let alone the associated meta-achievements.

The design of events around specific targets requiring all people in the instance to intelligently approach their elimination is not working with our populace. As a result, our few able players guest to other servers to have a shot at it. As a further result, people just stop attending events. Somehow everyone is suddenly on Desolation, where they stand around for hours just not to get in overflow. As another result, Deso gets enormous overflow queues while Piken’s LA just stands abandoned aside from the couple of loners looking for Peter.

This is true for the last few big LW updates, even more true for Tequatl and Jungle Wurms. Despite all possible efforts I could not get certain LW achievements in the end.

What I ask: please do not bring more fights and achievements like that into PvE. The population is already suffering, and with new games coming up it can well become 6 min. to Pikenfall. Thanks.

No cheating, too. Crafting is profitable
Disclaimer: that is not my video, I’ve not tried this myself.

The necessity to finish the obsolete and inferior temple event to get shards for karma is inexplicable and appalling as they are either way available for laurels and belongings without restriction.

As things are now, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting them ’til LA stuff ends at the very minimum.

This should be fixed asap as a lot of ppl only hoard karma for shards and nothing else, myself included. Yet we should wait weeks for LW to pass to even have a shot at the event. Pathetic.

I think Lion’s Arch served its due in Guild Wars 2. I’d say it will become an questing/exploration locale with a memorial significance not befouled by any hub amenities. Maybe the giant drill will open up a tunnel that leads to another continent across the world.

I think we will see a full-on expansion following the Spring-2014 tournament (possibly first paid sequel add on, possibly a standalone in itself (refer to GW1) etc. etc.).

With two major (but IMO inferior to GW2) western MMOs being launched Spring & early Summer, Arenanet would not be the company I believe them to be if they propose that we continue to flock around the Traders Forum.

@scorpia.2041, please PM your strategies for getting this, I need your help drastically!

On topic – this is MAD! But your efforts have earned you at least a ‘Gratz’ from the community to recognize your ability and saturate your vanity! So GRATZ indeed! MAD!

My 2 cent:

Future events should not be designed in a manner that requires 150 people to always be present and fully knowledgeable about all event details. At present, there is no means to play Teq, jungle worms or the LA event (meaning to achieve 6 min to Knightfall) on my server Piken Square. Anyone who aims to get these has to guest to Desolation, and such is the picture each time there is a boss or achievement that implies high coordination among a vast number of random players. Recent examples include:

- Marionette stage 4 and 5 achievements were unattainable a week after the patch, two weeks in there was no one to be seen there at all;
- Escape from LA achievement for simultaneous miasma deterrence was unattainable a week after the patch;
- 6 minutes to knightfall isn’t attainable at all as we get 25 players max. per knight on prime time and we’re very lucky if we get them down at all. The mechanics that hate cnd-damagers contribute to this by a good margin too.

It is obvious that such goals in the present picture do not promote anything other than frustration and disinterest in the events whatsoever (off topic: of course, poor general plot with inexplicable and misplaced emphasis on homosexual relations between NPCs multiply this by a score – I never return to the backroom of the drill ship just to avoid the horrid cut scenes). And that means fewer and fewer people playing them with each passing day. To a certain extent – fewer people logging in whatsoever. And that’s a ‘High’- populated server.

So just an observation. I hope some thoughts get noted and considered while planning future content.

P.S.: plot-wise: Scarlet? Molten/Toxic/Aetherblade? Inferior NPCs with superficial sexual issues? What is this, why is it called Guild Wars? I just bough Guild Wars Trilogy, now THAT has story! Charr destroying human realm of Ascalon – heart-breaking! There is plenty of story to expand on in this game, that can easily make people engaged and feel epic about participating in the World’s development, including through large scale events. Current story just feels repulsive.

Hey, thanks for your stats!

I too farmed LA for both weekends, but instead opened everything up straight after exiting, so can’t offer such a nice breakdown.

I got 2 characters from 0 to 80, approx. 25 levels of MF, and otherwise similar drops to yours, with the exception that I’d never seen a single exotic drop from bags or mobs, and the peculiar difference that I seemed to get a lot more minis and tonics than you and nearly twice less blueprint pieces. My MF is only 110% now though, maybe that’s the reason.

What’s really bugging me, though, is that I have an extra 21 stack of blades after getting backpieces for all the chars I wanted them on, so I wish Anet could unbind them or find another use for them in the last patch – doubt i’ll need even half of them for the colored version.

Very much for this. The amounts of armor you have to go through are ridiculous. Expanding on OP, filters for equipment stats should be put in place too.

Further, I hate how you filter 80-80 lvl, exotic quality, and type “berserker emblazoned” and STILL get a hundred pages of armors that are neither berserker nor medium type. Plain silly, that is.

I missed the Marionette 4th and 5th stage achievements because everyone who cared got them in the first couple of days, and then it was just hopeless overflow runs with a max of 3 stages completed, and then everyone quit entirely.

I learned my lesson the hard way so got this patch’s achievements the first two runs. Just a thought on how to approach these in the future.

Kalarchis.8635:

…has remained underneath the surface since its awakening, clearing huge tracts of the underground regions….

…Scarlet’s drill….

Guys! Could we be going UNDERGROUND for season 2?

Could this be a developer intervention to set up an artificial ceiling for Ecto prices? I cannot visualize a single player posting that many.

Patch brought important economical changes, roughly equalizing leather to cloth price disbalance, adding value to some ores and the sprockets etc., but I’m guessing that inflating Ectos up to 10 silver (30→nearly 40) apiece was not part of the intention

Offtopic: my prediction is that Gift of Wine will definitely include Elonian wine (obvious gold sink) and not Grapes (which has been very speculated upon lately) – because the latter is not a system-forming resource and as such does not require artificial intervention from developers.

Returning into GW2 at Wintersday, I’ve done all worldbosses daily (Teq and Triple Trouble excluded) on various chars. Best I ever got was a random-named exotic worth 17g and a ascended weapon box both from Shatterer (weapons look cool but have kitten stats (pwr, h/pwr, toughness), still haven’t decided which to pick).

My MF has approached 100% now but drops aren’t getting any better, I wonder if it’s really worth to scavenge anything for Luck anymore.

I have spent over 200$ on Gems, hasn’t improved much in terms of my drops either.

Same request here! A plea to some millionaire gamers to PM some of their strategies on TP – I would be very interested in a winning MF precursor gambling tactic in particular (having issues with getting my first Pre).

Thank you to anyone who is kind enough.

Need to be tradable.. I have Spinegurds for all characters I wanted them on, and still 7 extra stacks are cluttering my bank. I’m sure that there are players who will unintentionally miss the event and i’d be glad to sell mine to them. After all, event is great in itself and the BP is just a little something extra.

More ideas:

A) fishing as a way to work on cooking 400-500 (separate food gathering profession is pointless):
– gathering tool for the range level is a variety of fishing rods/poles with differing drop rate characteristics (white/blue/green/yellow/orange/ascended), with a variety of ways to obtain rare variations of rods through fishing achievements and/or rare random drops for running top tire content + a version for the gem store (see Black Lion Salvage Kit);
– all 400-500 cooking recipes are based on fish; some of them can only be obtained through lengthy fishing achievements;
– only new recipe discoveries grant cooking level progression – one level per recipe discovery;
– variety of fisherman attire (casual clothes) with characteristics to boost fishing capability (speed, drop rates, etc.) with versions for gem store;

B) There are innumerable picturesque water masses around Tyria, why not utilize them to full extent:
– hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly dynamic fishing events (contests) with scaling rewards per event rarity – rare achievements and titles included;
– complex achievement system to encompass geography of fishing, rarity of catches, quantitive accomplishments;
– Living World timed fishing events.

Would be really irresponsible to miss out on what Fishing can offer to a horizontal progression-based game focused on exploration and socialization.
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Why on earth is everyone ASSUMING that LA will be permanently obliterated? Everything is shaping out to be a TEMPORARY (i.e. for the time this Living World event lasts) escape from Lion’s Arch because:
a) Vigil Keep is clearly unsuitable even as a temporary hub, having scarce territory, no amenities whatsoever, and sharing same instance as a popular questing zone;
b) there is no viable alternative to LA at this time for the pure fact of its geographical location. Anet would basically have to drop a new zone (city) atop LA completely to substitute it OR (which sounds even less likely) expand the world map in a manner that would move the geographical center further away to the east/west OR give a meaningful purpose to racial cities and have 5 hubs of equal significance (unlikely at all).

Sol, stepping in to say thanks for you trap build.

I previously couldn’t imagine a Ranger being only melee, and ran PvP with shortbow as main weapon with a set of survival skills and a build to accompany those. I did ok but would lose in 50% of 1vs1 to some thieves/guardians/mesmers who knew what they’re doing. I had never-ever tried a trap build or went bow-less into the field.

So what I did is edited your traps build, changing some traits and sigils, went with chill pets (owl+snow cat) and – kittening hell – my name is Devastation now! It took 3 players to just down me, and even then 2 of them followed me to the Mysts. 1vs1 I cannot be stopped anymore. So thanks for your idea.

Edit: and yeah, many opponents freeze in disarray when they see Ranger coming at them heads-on in melee! Such great fun!

1. Ranger
2. Engineer
3. Don’t care (optional: nerf some “OP” classes before they become the only ones around)

What I really miss is hunting down rares like in WoW. All you have to do here to get a pet is check the wiki, TP to location and tame.

I’d love a long, challenging quest to find and subdue an exquisite beast, one that only the most persistent of Rangers can accomplish. Give us a superquest for Legendary pets!

It’s still a bit hard for me to sPvP on Ranger against guardians and mesmers, and i’d sometimes (around 50%) loose 1vs1. However, I always take the scoreboards in a match and get most Top Player scores.

It’s not at all hard to Ranger through all aspects of WvW. It’s easy and fun to pug Fractals and Dungeons, and I don’t ever have to use spirits or precision buff to prove my worth.

I have most other classes topped and the only other one that is as fun to play in all environments is the Engie (which is harder in some solo content, though).

I can’t understand your complaints, really. If you want to be mainstream and follow some ‘meta’, ‘OP class’ or whatever theories, why come to the Ranger forums to bash the profession? WoW used to be just the same like that when I played it years back, but my hunter was always top dps in a raid and huge pain to counter on BGs. But that’s WoW, GW2 isn’t as half as competitive, everything is designed for enjoyment, not frustration. It’s a lot easier to find synergies on any class and play it to its full extent in all environments.

Sounds like you didn’t master the class and got dominated by some other profession way to often. This abhorring loser-whiner attitude is why there’ll soon only be 2-3 classes seen played, as stupidity only breeds more stupidity.

As for changing the class, I wouldn’t see the need for ‘upping’ it, but some diversity in weapons and/or pet control (i.e. more pet abilities and synergies with weapon and slot skills) would be welcome.

I have two norns for my 80s (they’re very cool on lowest height settings and not at all clumsy), and very happy with them. My 2 other upcoming characters are humans, and I only just came up with a nice looking Sylvari after countless exterior experiments. I cannot, however, force myself to play Asuras (rat ppl with invisible details), and I absolutely despise the giant doggish tailed pests that run around on all fours.

As per second post, I recommend checking http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/ for a preview of how armor look on different races. For the most arguable ones I think: Chair look best in medium armor, Sylvari – in light armor (and males have richer costumes then females), and Auras look pretty much the same in anything.

I’d also like to see a new race added to the game, preferably a new class, too. It’d buy them for gems the same instance.

This topic widely reminded me of the time I started a similar petition on SW:TOR forums a year back, only our opponents thought of more imaginative arguments than those seen here. The sheer numbers of the opposition were a huge challenge to overcome! Of course, in the end we prevailed, and BioWare finally introduced the feature and made a fortune overnight for very little cosmetic work.

Now, to the “no, never-eres”: who gave you the microphone? Can’t believe OP expected to receive your valuable input and not that of devs, and there’s no crimson banner over your profiles. I never stop getting amused at the confidence with which you make obliging statements on matters far beyond your reach. If you don’t want the feature – stay away from it! Simple!

Approaches to easily implement race change feature and not cripple existing content:

- story-wise: no changes are made to initial story accomplishments, character keeps them and associated achievements. Instead, at any point of personal story development a new ‘event’ can be noted down to the story tab (numerous times): character slipped and fell down the Mystic Forge, turning from race A to race B. Story then progresses (if needed). Race change can only be applied after associated character creation screen story options have been executed in-game (around levels 20-30, starting from your pick of an Order);
- equipment-wise: any previously purchased cultural armor automatically switches to new race’s appropriate armor type & tier, whereas previous cultural merchants automatically lock off and new ones open;
- skill-wise: race skills automatically apply to a race, what’s there to recode?? Who actually uses them, be honest!
- what else is there to change?

So, in short, not that hard to do, hope we’ll see it coming soon, and no, don’t thank me.
You negative people could have come up with this yourselves, just learn to think broadly and not in a straight kittens line which you set yourselves to.

Hello! Expanding on the topic of this thread I would like to ask someone from the devs’ lore designers team to comment why the Sylvari race is generally presented as homosexual!

I astutely believe that every person’s bedroom business is their own, and one should not, in anyway, be humiliated or offended for the fact of having an unconventional orientation. On the other hand, I never understood the necessity to share these very private matters with the whole wide world! What is the motivation behind (goal to) this?

Now I really like the game, the stories, etc. I’d like to explore all charachters, races and storylines but I can’t! I can’t play a Sylvari because most general story arcs imply that characters around me lift each other’s togas! I can’t watch dialogues in Twilight Arbor! I am scared of Trahearne and skip all his dialogue speeches, and for all i know his next Wild Hunt could be after my poor giant Norn’s buttocks!

So is there really any need to put these topics up in a game? Should hetero- or kitten - or dendra- or any other sexual relations influence anyone’s gaming experience, and impede a person’s capability to experience content?

Thank you for answering these rhetorical questions!