Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

instead of jumping the hype-train and getting my hopes up. I thought I should just put some more or less random predictions out there.

If I predict something and it won’t be there it’s more like a game lost and less like a hope dimissed.

Feel free to predict along, we’ll know better tomorrow…

Sariel V.7024:

I predict a collection based on having the skin unlocked.

Let’s hope so

Points to sig.

Always 1+ for key-ring in our inventory.

ANet did the right thing once, introducing the Wallet for currencies and dungeon tokens and expanded the system. Great success. I hope they listen and do it again.

Sure, they make money on bank- and bag-space, on shared inventory slots, additional character slots and the salvage-trons. But as it was with the map currencies now found in the wallet, things start to get ridiculuos when they introduce a new token/key with every map of every update, to a level where i think it’s even too much for the devs. At least that’s how it felt when they brought the wallet into the game.

Just do it, m8s

Missions aren’t the only thing lacking for guilds to do. I’d support solo’able missions or something along the lines of guild monthlies or weeklies, where a guild needs to complete 25 events in Timberline Falls during a week or where a guildmembers need to kill a certain amount of champ mobs in Ascalon maps during a week.

How about upgrades to the Marketplace, to bring in new NPCs for the already existing minigames? Instead of a daily rotation, there could be various NPCs, one for each minigame, where a guild group could chose what game to play. Maybe add a guild intern leaderboard and we’re set.

Generally the GH could use more stuff to do for the guild members. It would help to justify the cost for the upgrades and would make the GH a living hub area for a guild where ppl actually hang out. Crafting stations come to mind(as an upgrade to the workstation) or the possibility to add custom waypoints to the guild portal(making the portal a structure of its own with a proprietor and upgrades) or a DPS testing area like in the Aerodrome(as an upgrade to the arena)…

Said it before, will say it again

Easy-Mode for Raids, with less difficulty and smaller rewards.
Hard-Mode for Dungeons, with higher difficulty/added mechanics and maybe Legendary trinkets as long term rewards, Hard-Mode gets you there faster of course.

Achievements for doing stuff in Hard-Mode(s), so ppl still get fancy titles/minis/skins and APs if they did it the hard way.

Everyone can do all the content at their own pace, get all the stuff yadda yadda yadda… Everyone is a happy camper.

Are these the new “Mount-Thread”s?

Everything has been said multiple times now.

If you want what you mentioned, buy it with gems.

If you want to support ANet on a monthly basis, buy gems on a monthly basis.

If you can’t play a game that not let’s you be super special snowflake VIP, leave the game.
(In which case, can I have your stuff?)

Just from the top of my head and the first thing that came to mind reading the title.

How would it be ifRunes/Sigils slottet in Legendaries would not override the present item but replace it, meaning that the previously slottet Rune/Sigil ends up in the users Inventory?

It wouldn’t help with Legendaries beeing a must have in WvW. An argument i doubt since the step to making the stats swappable should have placed them there already…but they haven’t.
Maybe, by making the replaced Rune/Sigil account bound on accuire, the impact on the market would be softened because still, you would need to own/carry all the Runes/Sigils you need/like.

Anyway. Not having Legendary upgrades with swappable stats is sad but I want ANet to first implement Legendary rings, amulets and ascessories.

Then It would be nice if they gave us a second Legendary armor to be earned in WvW, the other “third of the game” where swappable stats on an item actually matter.
ANet so far gave us/is planning to give us Legendary non-weapon items in Raids(content designed for a small group of players), Fractals(content designed for a broader audience still not for everybody) and PvP(at least this time it’s “one third of the game”, but having an Item with swappable stats for PvE makes a bad reward in PvP. imho).

Broke the breakbar 5 times in a row, in two attempts, on patch-day.

Since then? Not. A. Single. Time.

I wonder how ANet could give the mobs loot, after their history of removing lootbags from world-boss ads to ensure that ppl focus the darn boss. Organizing and telling ppl what to do, where to stand and when to go for it also doesn’t help. I understand that the players go for the bags, I really do, but it would be best to remove the loot just like the ads at Claw of Jormag don’t give bags/loot.

I think, as soon as they remove the loot from the ads it will be possible to break the brbeakbar again.

Thanks a lot for the clarification, Dara.

So, no harm done, everything at its place.

Hello,

we (Juckzirpen) had the same issue. The bug pushed our level to 37 and made some upgrades available. Players dumped materials into the treasury and now, that the bug has been fixed and the upgrades are no longer available the materials seem lost as well.

I made a support ticket and would highly appreciate a comment on the forums by Anet.

Thax for looking into it.

Edit:
- Added screenshot where it is visible that: 1) Items have been deposited(f.e. 500 Vials of Potent Blood, 50 Gold Ingots, 20 Shards of Obsidian, 2) No Upgrades requiring the deposited items has been queued and 3) the items are not visible in the treasury of our guild.
- To fix this I see one of three soltutions: 1) Reimburse all depostited materials to the donors. 2) As soon as our guild reaches Lvl37 the depsited materials will return to our treasury. 3) None of the above(which would be kinda sad).

Ok, that sounds reasonable.

Hell, then I might get that fancy backpiece nonetheless as I don’t have to fight my way up to diamond in a single season.

Thx a lot:)

Hi

I actually think it is working as intended which means that the wording of thehint might be a bit misleading. If, on the other hand, the achievement should account for what is said in the hint, it is not working as intended i think.

As you can see in the screenshot, I have made my way to ruby division within this season, crossing three division thresholds, as requested by the achievement. However, I only crossed one division threshold after unlocking the Year of the Ascension Part III meta. The first two thresholds I crossed completed the league Veteran achievement.
As it works now, if I want to finish the third meta achievement within this season,I would have to rank up to legend, which is not going to happen. It also means that I have to work my way up to ruby again next season if I want to finish the meta achievement.

Anyway, might take a look into it.

edit: added a screenshot that showed the hint text of the achievement in question

Hi

having played guard a lot i can tel you that most of your survivability lies in your skills.

You stay alive in this game by dodging(available for all classes) and utility or weapon skills that let you block, evade or interrupt an incomming attack. Outhealing damage is not so much a thing in this game as everybody as some skills that heal, and other classes are better suited for a dedicated healer use in raids or WvW. Guardian offers lots of blocks, some blinds and good projectile defence but you need to adapt to the given situation. Wall of reflection is a great skill, better even if traited, but only if there are projectiles to reflect. If there are not it’s better to use another skill that gives you stability for example. I’d say guardians have high survivability if you know what you’re doing. They still have rather low HP, and can feel squishy if you don’t time your heals and bocks and whatnot.
Concerning the gear you wear. The better you put your skills to use the less defensive stats you need on your gear. That’s true at least for the PvE side of things. I started with knights stats(Pow, Prec, Tough) but made my way to full berserkers gear now.

Mace/Shield gives you one block, a heal field, some projectile defence and a heal as part of your AA. Focus however is more tanky in most ppls oppinion since it offers you an additional block that will also damage foes if not broken and a bouncing projectile that blinds foes, making their next attack miss.
I never really got used to guardians one-hand sword so i might be a bit biased about it. I personnaly prefer hammer as melee weapon of choice. It provides a protection field, has good CC skills and a low CD blast finisher.

Your other weaponset should be a ranged option for general PvE. Scepter and Longbow(Elite spec available once you reach Lvl80) are more DPS oriented while staff is not as good in regards of support/tankyness as one might wish. However, staff provides you with near permanent swiftness which makes it faster to get around. Skill 2 hits quite hard and has a low CD, line of warding is a very sitational skill and empower may give you the temporary burst needed for some situations but also has a long casting time that roots you. Every now and then it comes in handy that the AA is an AoE cone in front of you that passes through walls. I’d still go for staff for leveling.

For traits, you want to find something that suits your playstyle and that’s fun for you to play with. I liked shouts and there’s a traitline to improve them, shorten CD’s, make them remove condis. I went with that and virtues to improve my F1-F3 skills. Since shouts, and a lot of other things a guard does, grants boons to myself and allies I went for the trait with Altruistic Healing. Topped that with Runes of the Trooper to further improve shouts and stack a little bit of Tough/Vita. That’s it. But you can go for what you most enjoy doing and go from there if you really don’t care how fast a mob dies or long something will take.

gl and hf

Hi,

basically what’s in the title

kthxbye

Hi,

I started the day in the 2nd division. Having 9/11 of the achievements for the second meta achievement. I play a bit, get lucky and get to team up with a good player, eventually I make it to 3rd division(10/11). I receive the League Tickets I needed to buy the next tier of wings. 11/11, the next meta achievement opens up. I keep on playing, since I’m in the mood for it, keep winning, getting the first things done in the third meta achievement.

But even though I have won 8 matches today, 5 of them after getting into 3rd div and unlocking the third meta achievement, I still haven’t gotten the Dominator achievement.

Did I miss something? Is it impossible to get the dominator achi the day you switch divisions or unlock the next tier of meta achievemenets?

(edit: added a second screen of today showing i have won 5 matches since the third tier was unlocked)

Easy-Mode for Raids and Hard-Mode for Dungeons = Lots of fun and playtime for everyone…except the WvW’ers, the PvP’ers, the “I don’t run dungeons beacuse ppl might be mean. No, I never tried it but heard of it” sort of PvE’ers and some others, but you get the idea.

I’m playing Rev as well and been enjoying it a lot. Still, playing a Revenant won’t get me my Warrior Wins or a Champion Legionnaire Title any time soon

“Warris can’t bunk” does it really boil down to this?

thanks^^

Is there some sort of middle ground? A build that let’s me hold a point in Conquest against 1 or 2 players until help arrives? Or is DPS/Glasscannon the only way to go?

I sometimes find myself holding mid alone when I’m playing Mesmer or Thief(#puglife). As classes strong in 1Vs1 situations I end up defending the point, against one sometimes two attackers, by being evasive and bursting the sorry sobs down.

Is there a build for Warrior that could work like this? That was the idea when I tried using banners to bunker down a point.

Hi,

I’ve been casually playing PvP for the last two and a half years now. Tried and played various classes, but never really figured out how or what to play as a Warrior.

I mostly enjoyed playing bunker-stuff like Turret-Engi(when it was still a thing), Staff-Ele(when diamond skin was OP) or MM-Necro. I played more aggressive roles with my Ranger, Thief or Mesmer but since I mostly soloQ, I made the experience that, running with a somewhat-bunker build, I at least get one bunker every match

Recently I have played around with different things on Warrior. I tried to be a Condi-Bunker(Berserker-stuff, Sword/Torch, LB), i tried to bunker with stances and banners, i tried to be a mindless Hambow. But nothing really worked for me.

Maybe Worrior isn’t for me, but I really like to have a build I enjoy playing, at least for the dailies maybe for the other PvP-Warrior-Achievements…

Long story short: Does anyone has a good Idea what build I could try that’s somewhat tanky and fun to play?

Thanks a lot in advance and have a nice day

Hi,

before HoT this item dropped randomly from the end chests, i think.

How do I get it after HoT? Does anyone know if it drops somewhere? Has anyone got it droppped after HoT release?

Would be a nice addition to one of the vendors in the main hub

Thx a lot in advance and have a nice day.

What if I deleted one of the packs and did the HoT story with all my chars? Is there a way to get a new one?

I’m having the same issue here.

- bought 3 slots for 1890 gems
- shared slot, 20-slot basic bag and random bag on 3rd bag slot are open when i open the inventory, open/close toggle works perfectly on all bags and open/close status on bags does not save when closing the window
- opened shared slot delivery on my main
- main is the only character showing this behavior
- main is the only character with maxed out inventory/bag slots

I think the idea of shared inventory space is great, that’s why i bought the item and i’m not complaining about the price. Would buy again, but would be very happy if this could get a hotfix.

Thx a lot

Although I was one of the lucky ones to get the Phial eventually I still want to +1 this thread. I had a char parked at the temple of lyssa andjumped into it every now and then to see if the even is running. Finally, after two weeks of waiting at 3 in the morning it was possible to get the wraith to spawn…

Players should not be forced to beg and persuade other players to not play the way they want. Pls adress this as it is blocking people from their progress.

Waited…waited a lot…got 2 more tries. And even if I got a lot of ppl waiting for the champ at Union WP to spawn, 3 ppl would still kill the priestess before the defense event spawned. Out of grief? Or Ignorance? I don’t know but it’s very frustrating…yeah…I’ll wait since waiting is the solution for me who wants the collection….

pls fix it anet, it is blocking my progress

One more request to fix the Risen Crystalline Phial(HOPE IV). Just impossible to reason with ppl to wait for the defense event to spawn. Tried it numerous times now and it’s always the same. You tell them to wait, they ignore it, you tell them that there will be more loot if they wait, “no way” “spam 1 harer on the priestess”, tell them that they will still get the loot for the meta-event even if they wait, to no avail the priestess must die asap.

pls fix this, suggesting to make the phial drop from the priestess instead of the champion wraith.

PPl who stream or you tube GW2 content usually invest some time into it that they can’t invest in crafting/grinding. I think that’s what justifies them getting donations by their crowd.
Random ppl who beg in mapchat or on the forums don’t get anything from me. Grind it your own or spend some $$$ on it. I have made a few legendaries so far and all w/o help of the community.

So…I waited, had the event spawn two times. And ppl are just not able to wait(see it, lot’s of waiting here) before killing the priestess of Lyssa.

Can’t wait to get their hands on the blues and greens, not a few minutes, the priestess must die within seconds or else…well, who knows what would happen to all those players if they waited, but as eager as they’re ignoring the many messages in mapchat, it must be a horrible fate that awaits them…

pls fix it anet, merry wintersday

Dadnir.5038:

…The trick is simple : wait …

Congratz to you.

The trick should not be waiting and eventualy getting lucky.

It takes the defense event in question sometimes more than 10 minutes to begin and a single player with an apple tag who wants to do the event can spoil it for everyone waiting, resulting in waiting another 2-3 hours for the temple to be contested again.

With other collecetions, this sort of issue has been adressed. I’m hoping to see it fixed here as well, pun intended

I’d suggest moving the item from the champ wraith to the priestess of lyssa herself.

Until then, I will +1 any of these threads I come across and keep on trying and hoping

One more try today: after beging in mapchat, ppl stopped and waited….we waited for 10+ minutes after the first event at union point(destroy the risen structures) was done, no defense event spawned, no champ, no item…pply killed the priestess. gg.

just tie it to the priestess and we’re good. thx

Will second this.

Experienced the above today. After two sessions in the days beforeof waiting for the temple to be contested at all. Highly frustrating.

Going for the vinetooth item felt great, the map was organized to do the east-chain last and we got the thing done with only a few seconds left.
Doing the devouring the brand chain was a great experience, been playing the game for three years now, still havet done this chain much and it’salways fun to (re)discover these event-chains.

However, if I ever get the item of the champ wraith i will probably remember the waiting, the failed events and the hundreds of elementals I killed while waiting…

I think the legendary scavanger hunts are well executed besides events like these.

Another suggestion would be to make the defense event for Lyssa spawn more often and on a timer similar to how the new maps or world bosses work.

…or tie te item to the corrupted high priestess of lyssa.

pls look into this

Hi,

as th title suggests, I’m crafting HOPE, the new legendary pistol. One of the Items requires you to “Corrupt a Pure Crystalline Phial in your inventory by defeating the Champion Risen Wraith at the Cathedral of Eternal Radiance in Malchor’s Leap”

The Champ in Question is part of defense event, as I understand the Wiki, that is part of the meta event in that area.

I have never in the last few weeks seen the temple contested. Which means the event I need to complete the collection was never available to me.

Is there anyway to better my chances? What needs to happen to make the temple contested?

I have seen the defense event at Village of Wren being done by a single player, or better said, it only takes a player passing by to kill a few mobs and the NPCs of the outpost succeed the event on their own. I don’t know if this event has anything to do with the meta though, i.e. if failing the defense of Wren Waypoint would somehow start the meta event at the Cathedral of Eternal Radiance.

Thanks in advance and have a nice day

Had the same issue and made a post about it.

Seems like it always spawns at the same location outside of the platform.

Can’t aNet just remove that location from the possible spawns?

…so, went for my third attempt…

Canach stalls instead of breaking down and progressing the encounter..

4th one, this will be it.

The game gave me this(see att.).

is it more common than it should be or is it just bad luck?

Hi,

Yesterday I wanted to finish the story.

In the hub I was asked if I wanted to join a group for it, thought it was a good idea so we went as a group of 5, I was not the one who openedd the fight.

We fought our way through, made it to the end and I accepted this to proceed/finish my story. I got the mastery point and the rewards but it did change anything in the story tab. It still told me to finish the last mission…

Oh well… Today, going for the second attempt this time alone, something strange and frustrating happed. While fightinig the final fight, the Rift I was supposed to interact with spawned outside of the arena hanging in the air(see att.).

This left me unable to proceed the mission and kept me from ending the story.

Happened to others?

thought i’d give this a bump…

c’mon, I can’t be the only one missing this item

any news?

Hi there,

I was wondering how this item can be obtained after the changes HoT brought us.

Is it a random drop from the chest you get for completing Daily Fractal Journeyman/Master acheivements? Can you get it from Encryptions? Does it drop from the reward chests at the end of fractals above lvl x?

Thanks in advance and have a nice day.

happening here as well. on thief and guard

Seconding this.

I had a few skins unlocked before HoT release and none of them has been unlocked for the collection.

Only the ones bought after HoT release are.

Hi,

I haven’t done much WvW in my three years of GW2 but if I do it’s EotM. It’s the only “Train” I get myself to following for more than 40min without being bored, the loot is good and it’s one of the best places to farm karma, imho.

However, my home server, Abaddon’s Mouth, is not at a good spot when it comes to WvW, we usually place 2nd or 3rd and so I end up being mopped whenever I try to do some runs in EotM.

I have come to a point, where cashing in some gems to transfer to a server that has higher EotM population has become an alternative, instead of waiting for that one week every two months where EotM would be worth playing. I just don’t know what server to join.

So the question is: Is there a EU server, well known to have a high population in EotM? I’ve learnt that SFR alone can make the difference which color has the biggest zerg in EotM, is that true? Are there other servers worth considering and why?

-inb4play"real"WvW
“Real” WvW is not my cup of tea, tried it many times and I still think the maps and gameplay are too boring for how unrewarding the gamemode is.

Thanks a lot in advance and have a nice evening

If you look really close, you’ll see that the book on the face of the shield flips a page if you use a skill.

that’s about it.

Still I like the shield a lot and never regretted building it

I thought the idea of underwater combat was great and simply “realistic” to have in an open world. Unfortunately it was decided to not further develop the idea and balance the system but to move away from it in the past three years. Raid on the Capricorn – gone, new maps with underwater regions – nope, will it change for HoT – don’t think so(roughly remembering anet even confirming no uw content in HoT, can’t quote it atm).

I liked having it around and would have loved it if they ever got to make it on par with combat on land

…pls bring back Raid on the Capricorn as an unranked map…btw…

Also: What has been said about aquabreathers^^ would have helped a lot, even the “you don’t wear’em – you’re not breathin” part might have been interesting and not a big deal, i.e. not hindering players a lot concerning current uw content

playing a Sylvari main, loved the race from day one so….

#meangreenkillingmachine, #treepridetyriawide

Thx a lot

#stupid15charsrule

Hi there,

maybe i missed something on the FAQ, if so, sorry for wasting your time

If I were to buy the boxed pre purchase(see attachment), …

…what pckage will I get, standard, deluxe or ultimate?
…will I be able to link the registry code to my existing account or is it automatically bound to the account that is included in the pre purchase box?
…is there a way to get some sort of in-game refund(gems f.e.) for the original game i would have bought twice? Since the pre purchase box includes the original game but I already bought the original game like three years ago. (not getting my hopes up on this one)

So much for that. Thanks in advance and have a nice beta-weekend

I’d never spend that amount of money in the MF. Occasionally I drop in what i find(rare 80 drops) or buy cheap rares from the Tp for less than 50g just for the fun of it.

Gave me 4 pre drops in the last 4 months: horn, harpoongun, longbow and shortbow.

RNG is RNG, but if anything is broken, keep it that way, it’s working out for me ;P

^^this, very much this

would like to second this. adjustable or back to the way it was pls

The “dark green for downed” is harder to distinguish from “light green, all is good” than dark red.

Green text is, well, weird but i could get used to it. Still seeing the issues other have as it is harder to read. If it at least reflected the channel you’re talking in, but let’s not go there

I’ve come to a point where I wished I could throw 4 random ascended rings at Zommoros for a guaranteed infused ring with RNG stats…we could at least gamble with all the surplus…

Otherwise: Haven’t done as many fractals as most of the guys/gals here I still think the weapon skins should be buyable for relics/pristine relics, also Asc. Earrings would be a nice addition as well as recipes.

@Tom: I’ve been living in a world where girls do play video games for more than 20 years now, thank you.
I’m not a native english speaker so I might not have been aware of haw attrociously abusive my name must have been.
I was implying with the name that it is an easy class to play easy content with, was meant as a joke an certainly not to upset anyone

@Renn: What are you? Tom’s personal fanboy?

Anyway, renamed the char so who cares.

Have a nice day.

Ach nevermind…just renamed her to Lazy Ludmilla, hope that fits the narrow perspective of whoever reported me(I guess this was the reason) xD