Guild Wars 2

nelphegor.5029:

Sunrise 3

the light in gendarran fields (not so secrect puzzdle) “ilusory light” doesnt work for me, i reached the top and the item doestn work, im very dissapointed actually….

it worked for somebody?

the platform you need to be at is not the top one, it is actually 3 platforms down.
you will see a small ball of white light, that is the correct spot.

I kept trying new maps and at some point got a map in which ancient energy source was working.

picture.

Bolt T3, the kitten Luminates plant HP doesn’t give me the kitten collection item.
I’ve done everything related to this kitten event chain to no avail.

reclaimed the power plant, defended the plant and adjacent reactors from saboteurs.

NOTHING WORKS !

I’m getting tired of these kitten road blocks !!!

EDIT

- Ancient energy source Sparkfly fen broken !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Strange energy source Timberland falls broken !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, in the future, refrain from placing coveted collection items for precursors in kitten jumping puzzles THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here is the thing,

Short bow 5 on thieves has been a thing for kitten years….
they never added a CD to it, and that skill doesn’t require a target at all !

Here is revenant, and days into it they added a kitten CD to one of the only gap closers revenants have, even though the skill requires a kitten target to actually be used.

This is why I don’t understand a.net !!!

Shortbow 5 has been abused for years as a disengage by kitten thieves….
and they never prevented it’s continuous use, by adding a CD.

But God forbid revenants can keep up with a thief, hell no that is an outrage !
let’s nerf that kitten !

TJG.8345:

Our instance just did the quest for Loana but again she bugged out we couldn’t buy anything from her? Did your instance talk to her a lot as soon as the Risen King died? Do you still have the instance open now for me to hop in?

my instance got to the 3rd event, the defense event, that had never happened before in days. she turned into a vendor right away, bought all items offered, she sadly disappeared within a minute, not even my guildies got a chance to get to her :S

Explorer loana, I just got the item !

if you need it go get it NOW NOW NOW !

you people that say the change is fine forget, this skill cannot be used willy nilly…..

1 this skill requires a target !
2 it has a high energy cost !
3 and now it has a [kitten] CD to boot !

that is just NO ! NO !

If you wanna add a CD reduced the energy cost. [DRASTICALLY]
if you want high energy cost remove the CD.

This is classic anet at work !

Hmm leather price is to low, oh I know, let’s make it so an ascended insignias require 1 elonian leather that will solve the issue

Forgetting to at least lower the damask requirement in the process.

And let’s not even talk about the whole silk requirement fiasco !

Ok, now, you added a [kitten] CD to phase traversal despite the high energy cost it has !

Ok, cool !

What is the point of the energy system now ?

At least…..

reduce the energy cost to compensate for the added [kitten] CD

Or………..

Better yet, remove that BAD change what the H

There is no mention of them anywhere
and they do not highlight or show up anywhere

The only reason I found out about this neat addition was youtube !

FAIL !

Cursed Shore.
Legendary collection items bugs.

NPC: Explorer Loana BUGGED

- NPC does not turn into a vendor after event, doesn’t offer legendary collection items
- Event doesn’t reset, it runs once when there is a new patch, gets to the end and nothing else happens.

wolfram.8291:

Please please please ANET. Stand your ground. Weren’t Masteries and Unlocking Elite Spec supposed to take longer than getting to level 80 in the base game? Why are you folding to the elite spec complaints and not doing anything about the mastery farming?

say that again once you have to unlock elite spec for 13 toons :S

400hp means grinding to get to the point where you can have fun.

250hp is balanced enough that it takes time but you can actually have fun while doing it, instead of thinking about this massive grind you still need to do, in order to have fun.

This change is inline with their philosophy of:

- No grind.
- No waiting to have fun.

oh there is a collection for each specialization, each gives you a collection for a single piece of the revenant skin armor. look at your specializations collections more closely.

I have two level 80 Revenants with ALL normal specializations unlocked but I did NOT get the collection unlock item for them….

One more of these annoying bugs.

This NPC has been bugged for days now,

At the end of the event she doesn’t turn into a vendor for the legendary collection items.

This is annoying !!!

It is the last item I need to finish my T1 collection, this is blocking my progress so hard right now.

It’s been 2 days please fix !

I don’t expect to be clearing raids anytime soon myself but…..

Selling easy to do dungeons is one thing, I mean sure why not profit off of their lazyness.

But, it is another thing altogether to allow selling of the “hardest content” in the game.

They should really make a stand against this, as it does two bad things primarily:

1 – it cheapens the content.
2 – it incentivices kicking people from raids to get others in and all that annoying stuff.

It should be a simple matter of, if you want legendary armor you run the raids yourself ! PERIOD !

They should monitor this, and give offenders infractions galore, keep doing it and you shall be banned PERMANENTLY !

Before anything else, Joel Helmich you’re my hero.
I always found the 3rd party action mod very interesting but…..
wished it was fully supported by the engine, so, thank you very much for that.

Ok, so…….

I haven’t seen this asked yet, but I’m sure it came up at some point.

The minimalistic reticle, is gonna be an issue with all of the particle effect going around.

I’m sure you thought of it, at some point.
Just asking what your thoughts are on that topic.

Also,

Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone is secretly working on:

- Build templates.
- Capes.

We can dream, right ?

Now, with these min maxers involved, full T7 equipment will be requirement for clearing raids.

Is this a good thing ? might be.

if the balance is not done to a 1% margin that is.

if it ain’t broke don’t fix it

You got your grubby little paws on it, and now it is broken !

TWICE !

1st change was controversial but still swallow-able, why ?
Because it was still an evening time reset !

This midday reset is such a bad idea, I cannot fathom who in their right mind came up with this [kitten] idea.

EDIT

This midday change means I will almost NEVER be able to attend WvW reset raiding anymore, except for the one Saturday a month I’m off from work !

Thank you very much a.net I love you. [sarcasm]

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,

There are a couple of reasons for the change to reset time. One is for the overall quality of the game. The last few years we have been careful to not disrupt the WvW reset time but this has at times made it difficult for our team to address issues during reset day. This change will give our team an extra day of the week that they can use to respond to issues that may occur with WvW or any other area of the game if it is necessary. In the early days we wanted reset to be during a weekday to ensure we had people available to monitor the game at reset time, but at this point we have seen the ongoing stability of World vs. World and resetting on a weekday is no longer necessary.

Another reason is the emergent gameplay that has come from reset. It has become one of the most exciting times for WvW and we would really love for more players to have the opportunity to experience it. We have many more players logging in on Saturday than on Friday which means with this change many more people will be available to experience the rush of claiming objectives for their world during reset.

However, given the concerns posted here we will be moving the Saturday reset to earlier in the day to give most players the majority of the day to enjoy the start of the new match. Immediately after launch the new time will be 11am PDT / 2pm EDT (6 pm UTC) for NA and 11am BST / 12 pm CEST (10 am UTC) for EU. Keep in mind that the following week with the end of Daylight Savings Time / Summer Time the reset times will be pushed even earlier to 10am PST/ 1pm EST and 10am GMT / 11am CET.

Thank you for your feedback. We realize that no time we pick is going to work for everyone but this change is going to benefit even more players overall while at the same time giving us a little more breathing room to improve the quality of the game during the week.

Thanks,
John

Just when I was about to be happy for a Saturday night reset @ 9 p.m EST

You pull this [kitten] on me !!!

What is this [kitten] 1 p.m reset time ?@!$%^&*

From today’s official blog post called the final countdown.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/its-the-final-countdown/

“Our journey is nearly over—very soon, you will be gliding through the jungle canopy, battling to level 100 in fractals, building a guild hall with your friends, overcoming challenges in the jungle to unlock your elite specialization.”

This needs more clarification, Colin.

Thx you.

Tapioca.9062:

From what we were shown in the betas it doesn’t look like it. Instead of places having Hero Points they had Mastery Points.

I know that much, I’ve closely followed all released info for HoT, this is kind of an advanced topic question……

Can we earn Hero Points in Maguuma ?

I dislike the idea of having to choose between playing the new content or playing the old content in order to unlock the new elite specs.

I only have world comp on two characters, all my remaining classes would need to do HP hunts in old content in order to unlock their elite specs.

EDIT

From today’s official blog post called the final countdown.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/its-the-final-countdown/

“Our journey is nearly over—very soon, you will be gliding through the jungle canopy, battling to level 100 in fractals, building a guild hall with your friends, overcoming challenges in the jungle to unlock your elite specialization.”

This needs more clarification, Colin.

Thx you.

John Smith.4610:

Swagger.1459:

Howdy John! Any plans to reduce the amount of bolts of silk required for crafting spools of silk weaving thread?

Nope

This response is unacceptable without elaborating about adding a means not RNG related for acquiring these materials.

For that matter, what is gonna be done about low level material acquisition ?
I mean as a level cap player it is harder to get low level mats than it is to acquire level 80 materials.

Thank you QQers [sarcasm] that demanded for loot in low level zones to be level 80 instead of map specific level !!!

As long as they reintroduce a way of acquiring it I have no objections to this.
Emphasis on the word reintroduce

Paul Ella.2037:

Ok you should be able to try it now .

commanders in wvw can still NOT login to the game !!!

commanders in WvW that were tagged up b4 the update cannot log back into the game.

What you fought was not a Raid Boss…..
they were just cannon fodder…..and ONE mini Boss !

Why don’t people actually play the content for some extended time before writing [censored] about it !!!

I’m Already tired of seeing people jumping to conclusions, just because they were allowed to play a single encounter, which by the way consists of just:

cannon fodder and ONE MINI BOSS !!!

Stop claiming [censored]

The jury is still out on challenging content until we get to play the WHOLE RAID !!!

as adorable as it is, it is also very annoying !
I can’t wait to not have this giant thing occupying so much of my screen !

no raiding for today guess I’ll go play something else for now.

restart will fix it but you will lose squad commands :S ALL OF THEM

Ayrilana.1396:

latinkuro.7304:

Nike.2631:

They’re increasing the spread between Exotic and Ascended stats to 10% with HoT. Anyone who thought “Challenging Content” meant it would be designed so you can do it comfortably while missing the top 10% of available effectiveness was fooling themselves.

didn’t they retract from this increase after the lash out from the “casual” community ?

It was never planned.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Gear-Anet-please-fix-this/first#post5173842

oh, it was planned, they simply made it sound like rumors in order to test the waters and the casual community made sure to make a splash and crush it right there and than.

[censored] casuals !

Sadly I have no source for this anymore, near impossible to find the posts now.

Ganathar.4956:

Why only make these usable on legendary armor? Make them usable on ascended gear as well, because ascended can also be stat-swapped with mats. I also think that it should be more expensive to get permanent account runes than what you are suggesting.

you kind of answered your own question there.

Only on legendary armor for two reasons,

1 – the cost is not that high but to get to use them is a high cost, since you can only use them on legend armor.

2 – even though ascended has stat swapping, you LOSE all upgrades in order to do so, what would be the point of getting these runes on an armor set that makes you lose the rune once you stat swap ?

It is pointless to add such runes to ascended, hence legendary armor only.

Shoe.5821:

…there should be SOMETHING resembling commitment to a build in the game.

sure, there is. When you find that one build you enjoy playing you’ve found your build commitment

There SHOULD also be a way to try out a vast amount of builds without having to lose all your gold in the process, just for testing.

Nike.2631:

They’re increasing the spread between Exotic and Ascended stats to 10% with HoT. Anyone who thought “Challenging Content” meant it would be designed so you can do it comfortably while missing the top 10% of available effectiveness was fooling themselves.

didn’t they retract from this increase after the lash out from the “casual” community ?

You know I love how in PVP you only need the one rune for a complete setup so…..

Here it is a.net,

Exotic rune upgrading.

Take the following to the mystic forge:

6 x superior runes of the same type.
1x elonian wine
1x crystal
1x mystic stone

And out comes a single account bound ascended quality rune of the same type you put in.

Now you might ask, why is this an ascended rune ?

- Well you only need the one rune to get all benefits.
- This rune can be taken out and replaced w/o the need for salvaging, but is only usable on legendary armor

There you go, now build swapping is so much more convenient in PVE as it is in PVP.

With raids incoming it would be really great to have testing dummies in the home instance.

Dummies we can set to do specific things like for example.

- attack with lots of high frequent direct crit dmg.
- attack with lots of flat sustained direct dmg.
- attack and stack loads of conditions with high condi dmg.

just to name a few options I’d like.

Are the finishers that drop from BLT chests permanent or single use ?
It doesn’t say, and if you right click it doesn’t say unlock it says use.

for visibility’s sake, I’m glad they have a bright color easily seen from a far.

Let me give you an example,

How fractals work: we all know this but still.

Say you go in and run a level 1 fractal, which you didn’t open but participated.
after clearing it, you’d be able to open a level 2 fractal, cause progress is tracked individually.

But the way they made it sound on stream was more like this:

You go in and clear Boss 1, you participated but didn’t open.
next time you wanna raid as an opener you’d NOT get the option for Boss 2 since progress is tracked ONLY by opener.

What this says to me is this:

You need someone that cleared and was also THE opener in order to actually get that progress recorded, as a participant only, your progress is NEVER saved.

That’s what it sounds like to me, and it is why I was asking for some clarification on the matter.

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s like how fractal progression is tracked. The one who enters first (instance starter) sets the level. For raids, they set which boss.

https://youtu.be/tM8cgQ42bMQ?t=6m54s

Nope, fractal progression is tracked individually regardless of who opens it.
the only thing determined by opener is the level you will be running.

I have an issue with your usage of the words next time
This is exactly the issue, how about track my raid progress regardless of who opened the kitten raid !

Why is that so difficult ? Technical limitation ? if yes, you should work on that very quickly.

So as I understand it and correct me if I’m wrong.
Raid progress tracking is only done on the 1st person that opens the raid.

Pardon me a.net but……

What if that person is not available next week ?

It sounds like I would have no option but to replay that 1st Boss all over again, or find someone that has done Boss 1 and has that progress tracked, instead of making progress on Boss 2 !

Isn’t this odd ?

How about tracking individual progress……..haza [mind blown sarcasm]

Tommyknocker.6089:

Roll a sylvari, or better yet just wait a week and people will post the vids on youtube. I see nothing wrong with a race being unique, and seeing as it fits the dragon/plot in this case I say good job ANet.

Are you a [censored] I wanna play the story myself NOT watch some lame video about it !!!

I do NOT want to be forced to play a sylvari to hear this amazing actor’s work as mordremoth ! and NEITHER should anyone else !!!

This is bad design !

From gamespot article, so Nolan North is voicing Mordremoth but…..

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-uncharted-actor-nolan-north-voicing-guild-/1100-6430811/

" What’s especially interesting about Mordremoth is that the only player race who can hear him are the Sylvari characters. The game’s other races only hear dragon-like noises. It’s a nice touch that fans will no doubt recognize and appreciate."

This is BAD design !

The idea that such a huge voice actor lines can ONLy be heard by a single race is LUDICROUS !

I understand you want to give this race something unique but this is offensive to the rest of the player base that cares about the story.

I don’t wanna be forced to play a sylvari to actually get the full experience and intent of the story !!!

I hope this is NOT how it works, if it ain’t you need to clarify this very very QUICKLY !!!

except, if I see a sneak gyro I will be asking my backline to drop massive AOE damage around it !!! doesn’t matter how many players there are, they will be hurting long before they can follow through on any plans they had.

nikdik.1934:

A lot of salty Thief haters on this thread. Sounds like a Lrn 2 Play issue to me.

Thaddeus.4891:

Yup, Some people probably got killed by a Mesmer or Thief and didn’t like it. L2P

No, how about you leanr 2 play w/o using broken mechanics to gain advantage !
thief players always claim it’s l2p issue, it is not ! a.net has known for well over a year that stealth is a broken mechanic, that up to now has had no active counters.

stealth disengage /reengage is way powerful, other players have had no way of actively scanning for them pesky annoying stealth users…
Now we will have an active way to actively scan an area for YOU !
prepare yourselves !!!

Kirnale.5914:

1. Aoe’s are not reliable enough against stealth. Not everyone can perma spam aoe skills. Mesmer and thief’s can stay in stealth a really really long time.
2. Traps are also not good, they can simply dodge into it. Also, they are still invisible even if they receive damage from it.
3. Howl is too slow
4. Channel skills will follow them, but that’s it. They can still dodge while in stealth, or outrun you. Also, don’t expect to kill them with this. They can also heal while in stealth.

The only way to truly counter them is “Revealed”. This debuff should be available to any class.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Agreed Kirnale.

I main a Warrior, I am useless against MI & SR, and I am willing to accept that if more classes had reveals. Usually my party consists of a Guardian, 2 Cele Eles, myself, and a Engineer, who doesn’t usually slot goggles.

One mesmer, definitely two will not wipe us but just sit in a keep or a castle for 15-20 minutes irritating the kitten out of us.

It’s not fun for them, it’s not for us.

And that is meta for you.

These are all valid criticisms for the most part about what is wrong with stealth.

2 mesmers being able to keep 10 players in a tower for a fairly long amount of time due to stealth BS is NOT skill, it is taking advantage of broken mechanics.

Coulter.2315:

Monk Tank.5897:

You don’t keep bag slot upgrades when you remake a character do you?

Don’t buy the upgrades for the placeholder character then… duh.

You can do both actually,
I have a placeholder guardian to make sure my name is saved, bought bag slot expansion items and placed them in my bank ready for when HoT launches, plus a set of t7 trinkets and weapons ready for him as well. Not to mention a whole lot of experience boosters for mastery track leveling.

Torenn.2598:

latinkuro.7304:

Good players take advantage of game mechanics, eventually they naturally migrate into beserker builds.

Bad players don’t care to take advantage of game mechanics, and their primary excuses are:

“I want to play how I like to play”
“I want team play helping each other and cohesiveness”

Your metric for good/bad players is a tad arbitrary. There are some awful players that run berserker builds simply because they’re better at Googling meta builds then they are at actually playing the game. It has little to do with actual knowledge/experience of game mechanics, and more to do with blindly following the Keepers of the Almighty Spreadsheet.

I see you chose to ignore the part about “good players make good use of game mechanics”

Just pasting on full glass beserker armor while not understanding game mechanics is what leads to : “I don’t see how this full damage armor is better than my PVT armor, the boss touches me and I die” My PVT is far superior. Meta be [kitten]

This mentoring thing is in the same track as speed boost while in cities and automatic looting.

My question is:

Is this mentor batch / marker something I can activate and deactivate on command ?

See, I’m not interested in these markers / badges at all, but the speed boost and the automatic looting options ? oh yes I want them.

It would be nice to have an official response to this, since anything else would be useless and pure speculation.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

I would love to have open world pvp against every player and npc Sylvari and kill them on sight!

I’m ready to burn them all with my ele!

How can I say this politely ?

NOPE ! NEXT !

WvW is our version of open world PVP, if you wish to kill players go there or play sPVP !