Guild Wars 2

There are no doors in Queensdale, Kessix Hills, or Gendarran Fields. I repeat, there are no doors in Queensdale, Kessix Hills, or Gendarran Fields. At least not on my server. And everyone is confused about it, according to map chat on all three of those maps.

Crap. Well I guess I will… run around in a circle until something turns up.

Can’t find a gate to his labyrinth anywhere. Not in Queensdale or Kessex Hills. Did they move somewhere else?

The only time I ever got mad enough to break something was Vice City, and the firetruck missions. I took the CD out of the drive and put it back in its case, then broke it over my knee. That was years ago, and I have yet to see anything in this game or any other compare to that amount of aggravation.

I saw a video on YouTube of the jumping puzzle. Apparently, the creator of the tower posted there, proclaiming to be the designer. Um… I won’t repeat what was said to him, there.

The point is, those ANET bloggers should not have claimed that level wouldn’t be a factor, when it clearly is.

I wonder if it will be an all-day event, or last mere minutes?

I don’t know if anyone knows. I think it’s supposed to be in Lion’s Arch. I suspect that it’s the “Attend the Party” part of the achievement.

Some people have nowhere to go. How do you think people living near kittenushima feel?

Hurricane Sandy is headed right for me, actually. It’s a bit more serious than simply losing my internet connection.

What waypoint would that be?

Is this working as intended? I’m not even 1/2 down with that part of the achievement.

Love the Troll 2 reference.
You won’t have any problems killing my lousy thief.

Well, I don’t understand it. I’ve tried all the advice here. I still can’t take a hit. The Risen are like steroid-injected PCP crackheads that run around at blazing speeds, punching holes through brick walls. And I am not made of brick, I’m made of Thief.

The reason I haven’t been using a short bow… is because it has always taken much longer to kill something with one, whereas at least with a pistol I can bleed something down. I never understood the love for short bows, but then I never understood the love for elementalists, either.

My current gear is crafted level 80 greens. All rampager. My jewelry is level 80 greens, made of coral.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYEQRAoY6alUmaPXey5E95EBXhi694roNsaPcZLfJA

That’s my spec. My condition damage is great, but I die in about 5 seconds.
I’m heading into the Cursed Shore, and Malchor’s Leap has been a nightmare for me. Those zombies hit like a mack truck, and this is getting on my nerves. All I really want to do is be able to run around and kill things, farm metal and wood, and mats from enemies, until I have enough to make rare and exotic gear. Or at least sell trash for gold until I can afford to buy it. Right now, I suck. Bad.

No. I was excited for the game during beta, but now I understand why we were only allowed to play for 2 days out of the month. This game is pointless. It looks pretty, I’ll give it that. But essentially the game never changes from the first map, leveling is pointless, crafting is a joke, rewards are nonexistent, and the developers don’t seem to have a freaking clue what they’re doing with the updates (example: Ranger, and the lie about an animation bug that never existed—an excuse to nerf them). My interest in the game started dwindling around level 60. Now I can barely be bothered to play the game at all. Why? Because Guild Wars 2 is like a bad girlfriend who never, ever puts out. So in the end, it’s all a waste of time. There is no satisfaction to be found!

I spent 2 hours trying to get 2 large fangs in Straits of Devastation, and got nothing but broken claws and dirty rags. Consider yourself lucky if you get anything to drop at all in this game.

No! No! No! No! No!
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Well I tried to report them all in-game, but chasing them around wasn’t fun, and since they all look exactly the same (don’t think they bothered to actually create a face?) and have the same pet, and the same name, I am not sure I tagged them all.

I don’t know what it is considered. Here’s a link to a thread where an ANET person states that it isn’t allowed…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/There-were-people-multi-boxing-is-it-allowed

They’ve already said in multiple threads that it is, and to report them.

Last night I saw about 6 or 7 Rangers running around together in Sparkfly Fen. They all have a juvenile brown bear as a pet, and they all have the same name, except each one ends with a different letter. They are still in Sparkfly Fen today. I took some screenshots of them, but I still don’t think I managed to get them all in the same picture, there are so many.

I think most of those populations are bots and gold spammers.

I kid, a little bit.

I kind of have to agree. This is not a subscription-based game, and there’s no reason to suck all the hours out of our day just to keep us paying 15$ a month anymore. So what is the point? All I’ve been seeing is, as my better half puts it, “the many being punished for the actions of a few”.

Gotta agree. Start resetting at least once daily, until all the bugs are ironed out. This is getting ridiculous.

Wow, this thread was started on Sept. 5, and it’s October 1st. The skill is still bugged, as of this moment, on Tarnished Coast. And all of Timberline Falls is bugged to hell. Literally, all of it.

I’m wondering how much worse it gets, really. It takes 96 fine materials (venom sacs) for my thief to make 6 pieces of armor, two daggers, two pistols, a spear and a harpoon gun at green level. But now that I’m 300, and soon will be moving onto the 70-80 zones, I am wondering just how much worse it will get. So far, it has been every 15 levels, I have to grind that much out, since level 20. Then at level 35, 50, 65… so I would assume at 80, I will have to grind out yet another 96 venom sacs. But wait… there’s rare and exotic, still, which is another tier of mats? Let me guess… it will jump from 8 mats, to 16?

This is why I’ve been wondering what the use of crafting is. It isn’t to make money, obviously, when you can make more selling the mats because they’re so difficult to get. I’m starting to think vjek is on to something.

No, and the reason I have not is because my Chef has been stuck at level 200 for a very long time, probably because things like chili peppers and vanilla beans are so difficult to come by. I have two bank tabs filled with cooking mats that say they can be used to discover new recipes, but I am missing exactly 1 ingredient for all of them. Just one more thing to love about crafting in this game -sarcasm-.

So making money isn’t the purpose of crafting, and it’s probably easier to just buy gear. I am still wondering what the point of it all is? I wonder if ANET even knows.

Everyone seems hung up on the money-making thing. That was never even something I was concerned about. I make money selling trash, and doing events. And if anyone ever expected to make money from crafting, the only way to do that is with things that get depleted. i.e., food and potions. Am I wrong? Because you only hit 80 once, and once you have your 80 gear, what else could you possibly need?

I never expected to make money from it. From all the research I did about Guild Wars 2 before launch, I was under the impression that there were several ways put in place to get your endgame gear: Dungeons, paying for it (with gold, not real money) from the cultural armor and weapon vendors, or crafting. This was practically shouted from every corner, before launch. That’s all I ever heard about.

Now set aside all this money-making stuff for a second… if my choices are dungeons, paying gold, or making it myself, clearly I would rather make it myself, just because, hey, why else have crafting in the game, at all?

BUT…

As it stands now, just getting the mats to level the stupid crafting disciplines has basically sucked the fun right out of the game for me. I am about to walk away from Guild Wars 2, simply because I am sick to death of killing the same garbage over and over again, for hours and hours and hours, putting up with bots in the same area, no matter where I go, and putting up with the barely existing drop rate. It has been this way every 15 levels, for every character. Yet ANET seems determined to slow progress down, for whatever reason. And here I was thinking GW2 was different from all the other MMOs that did this. At least those other MMOs have a reason to do this: it’s called monthly subscriptions, and keeping the players paying for as long as possible. So… what excuse does ANET have?

And as for the XP? I can do something more fun than crafting for that, such as… WvW, or complete another map—even a low-level map. Why punish myself with this? What is the freaking point of crafting?

It would be an idea to let us use lifeforce to heal our minions. Maybe with an F2 added ability. Would that be a fair tradeoff?

I blame all the hackers. Scum of the earth basically trashed the game, and we’re still infested with botters and gold spammers out the whazoo. I swear, no matter which MMO I play, there they are. Like a shadow, and there’s always a street lamp somewhere, so there’s no escape. If they hadn’t brought their slimy taint to GW2, we’d have a lot more fixes in the game right now, I betcha.

At least make the blood fiend heal out of combat. Or make his drain which heals us, also heal himself.

Do you bother with the blood fiend? It seems to die pretty awful quick, and then I have no way to heal for 20 seconds. This usually gets me killed every time. But the well of blood has a 40 second cooldown There is another option, but I forget what it was… feast of corruption, maybe?
I would always have the staff, but I initially started off with a scepter/horn. Now I am trying scepter/dagger. I see a lot of Necromancers running around with two daggers, but they have every single minion in the game running around with them. I am only level 15, for now, so I can’t do that yet.

All I ever really wanted to do, was to make my own end-game gear, so I can get on with playing the game… which for me, would be WvWvW. But… I am starting to question the point. The unpleasantness of grinding for mats, and all the work I have put into crafting disciplines does not seem to be actually worth it. I am not even taking into consideration, that some people take up crafting to make money. I was never in it for the money. But I am seriously starting to think that crafting is 100% a pointless waste of time, since I would eventually get all my gear from drops, rather than bang my head against a brick wall, killing things for materials, which have a next to nonexistent drop rate, because for whatever reason, ANET is determined to make this a living nightmare.

I’ve been playing this game since day 1, and before that, since the first BWE. I have 8 characters. :-/ I think I had to do this, simply because of how my brain works… or doesn’t work. I did it to determine which profession I really wanted to play, just by exploring them all. And I have 5 of them up near to Orr, around level 65. Every one of them has 2 crafting disciplines, around level 300. So I’m nearing the final stages. I think. I am not sure. It seems there is one more tier of gear, but still 2 more after that—rare and exotic. I don’t know how that works, because I’ve never gotten that far.

But all I can say is that I would have 8 80s already, if it weren’t for crafting. I would say about 40% of my time has been devoted to leveling, and 60% gathering materials. That’s just a guess, really. But I do know that the majority of my time has been spent gathering fine ingredients, and it’s about as fun as biting my fingernails down to the bone, and then dipping my fingertips into lemon juice. What I’m trying to figure out is… why is ANET so determined to slow our progress down? You can buy your gear, get it from dungeons, or even drops, right? So why the adamant determination to make this so unpleasant? It’s not as though the gear looks amazing. Well, I do like the rare light armor set (not so much the exotic). The leather armor doesn’t look that great. So what’s the deal, here? It’s not about keeping us from looking so good, and gear can be gotten many ways. What’s the point?

You’ll have to bear with me, because I’m a bit stupid today. For instance, I made tea in a microwave, put sugar in it, and the tea bags, and then forgot that I already put it in the microwave. Needless to say, there was a bit of fire. And I would say this game has rotted my brains away, just a little bit. So… I have the Well of Suffering. I like it, but what other skills are must-have? Should I just kick minions out? If not, which ones should I bring? I really hate that minions do not heal after a fight. :-/

I’m not having much luck. I like the staff, and all, and I don’t know how any Necromancer could live without one, but it’s not the end-all, be-all weapon, obviously. And minions… bleh. Soft, squishy, useless dolts. Surely there is a way to level up to 80 that isn’t so excruciating? And I mean a build, weapons to use, slot skills, etc. Help, please?

I saw my very first bot today. This player’s character was just standing there, swinging their dagger, but the enemy they were attacking was about 50 feet away. Then they would just vanish and reappear right next to the enemy, sometimes facing the opposite direction, and yet somehow they could continue swinging at the empty air, and manage to kill it. I was out in Mount Maelstrom, trying to kill spiders for venom sacs. This is where I encountered a bot, doing exactly the same thing. /report

But the sad part? This is probably someone’s hacked account. Banning them just means the hacker will use a different hacked account, and in the end, it was the player who got hacked who suffers for it.

May as well bring in some NPCs like SW:TOR, that do all of the farming for you, while you’re at it.

I think at least educating people on how to prevent being hacked would have helped. Downloading Avast! antivirus (which is free) and Mozilla Firefox with the NoScript add-on (also free) has kept key-logger trojans from infecting me for about 5 years, now. I tried to post about this here during the BWE days, but the forum was either shut down as soon as the event was over, or it got deleted for some reason. And if it’s true that these hackers were using old password and e-mail combinations that were previously hacked, well… there’s not much they can do about that, I suppose. I change my password every week, now, it seems, just out of sheer paranoia. And the gold spammers are so out of control in this game, I think they even beat Warhammer Online, for once.

I suggest you don’t play an Elementalist. You will die more often than any other class, and your damage will disappoint you to the brink of suicide.

I’ve said this before, but I’ll go ahead and say it again. I’ve been leveling my crafting with my level, to keep up. Sure, it isn’t what most people do, but it’s logical. Make your own gear, as you go. But if you do this, you’ll be punished for it. Severely. At first you only need 18 fine ingredients to make 6 pieces of armor, but every time you hit the (master) level of that tier, it jumps to 48 instead of 18. Add to that what you need for your weapons (8 ingredients per weapon, some classes get off light if they use mostly two-handed weapons, but still…). It takes 96 for my thief. After going through this a few times, I wanted to shoot myself in the face and die, and never see Guild Wars 2 again. The mindless killing things over and over again to gather these things up takes many, many hours. It’s the worst part of the game, by far, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

My human commoner/circus story has been pretty much the same. Half the time, at least in the cut scenes, the actors have subtitles, but no spoken dialogue. They stand there, nod, but no lip movement, and no voice over. I feel a bit cheated, too. I’m not going to delete my character and start over just to get the whole experience, so kitten it.

I’ve heard about this. I’ve heard of people choosing to join the Order of Whispers, and then ending up siding with the Priory, instead. I’m just going to hold off on the 3rd part of my story until this crap is fixed.

I didn’t have this problem on my Street Rat human, but on my Commoner, pretty much every cut scene is missing voice over from one or more characters. They just stand there all silent, nodding and staring at my character. What’s up with that?

Well, as someone who’s rolled all 8 classes, I can tell you that the downed abilities are not balanced. Period. And by far, I would say the Elementalist’s downed abilities are the most useless of the bunch. I do play solo. No one is going to play with me all the way to level 80. Not even my girlfriend, for that matter. Sure, in WvW or sPvP, you’d be right. But it’s a bit unfair, for now.

The thief’s downed abilities were nerfed into the ground due to complaining, but I think they went a bit overboard on the cooldown. Basically my thief is always dead before he ever gets a chance to use it. But even still, my thief gets to bleed enemies to death, and I usually manage to survive. Usually. The elementalist, however… as I said, just please give me a (5) Kill Self ability so I can spare myself the humiliation of being molested to death every time. Because there’s no hope. Once I’m down, it’s over. Maybe if they added burning to the (1), that would make a difference, but still the squishy factor pretty much dooms me.