Guild Wars 2

Tiger Ashante.1792:

It would have been much more fun to have some guild quests that guild members could do together to unlock certain aspects of the guild hall and upgrade it that way.

Didn’t see this part of your post. You made my point, but more succinct.

To me, I had hoped that Guild Halls would be opened AND upgraded via a series of missions for the Guild Hall. Keeping out mobs, winning over NPCs (saving them, doing something for them) out in wider Tyria so they will move to the GH, Guild dungeon missions (different path in a dungeon) to uncover special artifacts. Things like that.

Instead, we got “grind these mats” and “grind mats to level this scribe”. Bleh.

Dead.5829:

misterman.1530:

geek-speak.

He says, on the MMO gaming forum.

So people on MMO gaming forums are supposed to be illiterate?

Crimson Shi.5047:

dem troll posts

I wouldn’t have answered him in the first place, not with all the “teefs”, lack of uppercase letters, and a host of other crap. If you ask a question in english, ask a question in english, not some geek-speak.

I’ve unlocked all the Mastery Points in Maguuma, except for those tied to collections (I think) and those godawful Adventures. Now I’m stuck. Almost completed “training” on one line and don’t have enough Mag Mastery Points. Sigh

Yeah, I noticed some things like that too. One of which is what I worried about early on – when you have collections (like Nevermore) tied to HoT-zone event completions you also tie those collections to map population: the smaller the map population, the less likely you will complete the specific event.

Been trying to do “Destroy the blighting tree” (in the Corpse Grove of Verdant Brink) to get the Protector of Verdance. I know I’ve done it before – several times actually, but now I have my mastery that will give me the item. For a week now I’ve been on VB hoping to get to the 7th stage of the Ordnance Corps outpost meta event (daytime). Finally got close yesterday when a handful of us collected the parts (the 6th stage) but night came and blam, no event.

I haven’t even given a thought about the Tangled Depths requirement (The Great Tree) or Auric Basin (Vinetooth Prime – that one I’ve also been at in the last 2 weeks, and nothing to show for it. Close a few times, but no prize).

I find it odd that someone would pay Gems for a bridal package. What’s next, a pink convertible and a Malibu Dream house?

I’ve suggested this once before, will try again.

Increase the strength (HPs?) of walls, gates, and NPCs (including Lords) and increase the amount of supply required to both build siege and upgrade towers/keeps based on the percentage difference between the number of players from the home server vs the “visiting” server. This would not happen on EB, just the individual BLs.

So, if there are 20 “visitors” attacking an enemy BL and 5 defending:

100%-5/20 = 75% – so all walls/gates/NPCs have 75% more health. Siege costs 75% more. Tough, I know. But too bad. Don’t be living in a timezone 12 hours away from the server’s actual timezone.

Well, you are loading up on Reaper traits that increase the damage of chill, and daggers don’t do chill. As well, you have condition runes on your armor, and daggers/warhorns do little condition damage.

If you are going for a Condi-mancer – or some sort of Hybrid, you might want to look at scepter/focus and staff or even GS and Staff.

In your Reaper trait line you have the first two traits dependent on Critical hits to work. Based on your Crit chance (~40%) this means these two will only proc 4 times out of ten hits. Not too bad, but you might want to increase your crit chance.

I like running Signet of Spite with 2 shouts. Take the Reaper trait: Augury of Death (or Relentless Pursuit in WvW – situation depending).

Ultimately, it’s up to you. What works for you might not work for others.

Personally, I load up on Vitality gear (depending on buffs, I can get up to 35K health).

Where are you all reading about this upcoming change?

Dawdler.8521:

You only set skills once with no option to reset, dont really see the big deal with searching a little. Then again dont see an issue with alphabetical order either.

Well, I run a rotation of 3 to 4 characters. Can never remember which I have maxed out in a certain track and which I haven’t. Once I get them all maxed out, it’s a moot point. It just seems strange to me that it wasn’t in alphabetical order in the first place.

Also, when running a new 80 character in WvW (I don’t run uplevels), I always save some of my points until I need them in specific situations. So, have a bunch, need Catapult. Quickly try to find Catapult Mastery to upgrade the track and spend needless time looking for it.

I have no idea if this has been suggested before, since the search function is not really functional, and Google didn’t return anything.

I know there is much that is broken with WvW but…for simple QoL…can we have the WXP Tracks put in alphabetical order? This is how it is currently ordered:

• Burning Oil Mastery
• Catapult Mastery
• Mercenary’s Bane
• Guard Killer
• Siege Bunker
• Shield Generator Mastery
• Build Mastery
• Cannon Mastery
• Supply Master
• Supply Capacity
• Arrow Cart Mastery
• Siege Golem Mastery
• Ballista Mastery
• Defense Against Guards
• Mortar Mastery
• Siege Might
• Repair Mastery
• Trebuchet Mastery
• Flame Ram Mastery

This is easier to read and find what you are looking for:

• Arrow Cart Mastery
• Ballista Mastery
• Build Mastery
• Burning Oil Mastery
• Cannon Mastery
• Catapult Mastery
• Defense Against Guards
• Flame Ram Mastery
• Guard Killer
• Mercenary’s Bane
• Mortar Mastery
• Repair Mastery
• Shield Generator Mastery
• Siege Bunker
• Siege Golem Mastery
• Siege Might
• Supply Capacity
• Supply Master
• Trebuchet Mastery

Frankly, I can’t believe it isn’t ordered this way already.

Oh, and don’t get me started searching my mats bank for a particular component.

IMHO, that is a bad idea. It makes over-populated servers that much more powerful. So, if there are tons of siege in a tower, and only 5 people defending, only 5 pieces of siege will be used.

I don’t see any issue there.

In reality, 5 people in a fortified tower should be able to hold off/kill a lot more than 30-40 attackers.

Urdfexe.9147:

misterman.1530:

Sorry…have to ask…what’s a “wb”?

World Boss.
Tequatl & co.

Thanks! I really couldn’t figure out the acronym.

Khisanth.2948:

Dragonite is only rare if you have wb allergies. I only do those occasionally these days but they still refill my dragonite supply extremely fast.

Sorry…have to ask…what’s a “wb”?

You can also get them from WvW. Quite easily

Not sure why such a problem. I leveled a new character all the way up to 80 using tomes, then went and got enough for the elites in Maguuma after…what….12 or 13 HPs. Most in VB…some in AB…and a couple right at the beginning of TD.

You don’t have to do the story to explore Mag. Nor do you have to do the meta. Just follow Dulfy’s guide and done.

The only way this makes any sense is to re-release the Permanent Bank Access Contract. Buy one slot, put the Contract in it and voila.

Even though you have the slots, you have to remember to unequip the perma harvesting tools from one character if you want it available for another.

Combined with the perma bank, you would have unfettered access to anything you want. You can leave ALL food in your bank, all boosts, all salvaging items. It’s like having a crap ton more bag slots.

But without the perma bank…bleh

All ascended items, even if equipped on another character, should be available to be used by another character without having to:

1. Go to a bank
2. Take armor/weapons/trinkets off one character and put into bank
3. Log off character
4. Log onto character 2
5. Go to bank and equip the ascended armor/weapons/trinkets.

There should be an ascended items (and legendary, I suppose) tab each character can access (like the wardrobe tab). Done and done.

I would love to get that staff. I won’t, however, invest the time in the steps to get it. I hate jps and I rarely, if ever, do fractals. Nor do I want to spend hours hoping a series of events happen correctly.

But kudos for getting it. Looks good.

I’m with you both. Achievements are…well…I saw a meme a few years ago that showed a picture of achievements in WoW with the caption:

“Achievements! When you have nothing going on in your real life”

Or something like that.

Astralporing.1957:

misterman.1530:

Nevermind. The Collection description needs to change. Agent’s pack is for people in the Order of Whispers. The Crusader’s pack is for Vigil. So, I assume, you have to do the story on a character that is in the Vigil.

Nope, you just need to select the earlier version (Rectuit’s Pack) as a reward when it is offered in the story. It seems you have selected the Whispers’ version (Initiate’s Pack) instead?

Ah. That must be it. I really thought it was Order related. Thanks. Again, would have been nice to see that in the descriptions for the Ascended collections.

Something like: To unlock this, you must have completed the story step Prisoners of the Dragon and have selected the Recruit’s Pack.

Nevermind. The Collection description needs to change. Agent’s pack is for people in the Order of Whispers. The Crusader’s pack is for Vigil. So, I assume, you have to do the story on a character that is in the Vigil.

That is something that should be added to the description of the collection. Anet, please take note…ha..hahaha…sorry. Well, maybe…this has nothing to do with WvW…maybe they will notice this post

Ok. The wiki, naturally, is of no help. Neither has Googling….

I have completed the Prisoners of the Dragon story (got all the achievements and Abbadon’s Cowl). But the Crusader’s Pack collection is still locked. All it says is: To unlock, complete the story step “Prisoners of the Dragon”.

Is there some undocumented bit I have to do to get this unlocked?

Name: Scythia Sigh
Gender: Female
Race: Human

Sigh – all my characters have this last name.

Buy Some Apples.6390:

Still no red post after 13 pages of posts?

It’s nice to see anet showing the same commitment to WvW as they did before HoT release, even though they said they would prioritise WvW are HoT release.

This forum has always had a “drive-by” style presence from Anet.

My thoughts on the PVE Oasis event in the middle of the BLs. I think , if they insist on keeping it, that the area is a small keep/tower. A server has to OWN the cannon to successfully do the event. Enemy servers could, then, try to stop them from collecting the stones/orbs…whatever. Then it becomes something that provides PPT AND becomes a borderland-wide weapon.

As it exists now, it’s ridiculous.

Ayrilana.1396:

There’s an option to turn off the camera shaking. I’m trying to think back to what else it could be but nothing comes to mind. Hopefully it’s that.

and

Rhomulos.2089:

Try turning off camera shake in general options

Thank you! I was looking for something like that! Hopefully that will work. Just took a Gravol. Will wait a bit. And I don’t normally suffer from motion sickness, so it was a shock. Still sitting here feeling clammy. Ugh.

Wow.

That final battle – I can’t do it. I am literally getting motion sickness from the jerkiness of Mordremoth’s actions. I am sitting here right now feeling nauseated and I can feel a migraine coming on. I can’t imagine anyone playing this who suffers from that.

What was the thought process here? Is that part of the “challenging content”?? Jiggle the screen so people go cross-eyed?

I had him down to his final few bars of health and I just about puked over my keyboard when trying to fly. Got hit by a rock, and died. And the wonderful thing is, I get to start that horrible battle all over.

Yeah…I don’t think so.

I am not asking for a nerf – but could we get a change to the craptacular visuals effects? Please?

The guy who got me into the GW2 a few years ago, has not played in over a year. He asked me about HoT on Sunday and I showed him some of the features – he’s been reading the forums, and was concerned. I gave him my opinions on the expansion, especially the Elites. But I didn’t gloss over some of the major issues I have with it (Masteries tied to XP, being a prominent one). He hasn’t made a final decision yet, which is a typical response, as far as I have seen.

But it was definitely the forums that gave him pause. In fact, it was the “white knight” responses that made him even more concerned. In his words “It seems they are making excuses, much like a victim of spousal abuse: in denial of the major problems”. <—- please, he was not equating spousal abuse with something as trivial as a game, and neither am I.

Yeah, finally tried the last bit yesterday, and it bugged out on Blighted Canach.

My favorite thing is when a cut-scene in the story starts, and you can hear you and your friends being hit by some mobs. Happened near the end of Bitter Harvest (I think it’s called). Fortunately, I could “skip scene” to go to the fight.

Here’s the problem. For most people, getting to this boss is almost an accident, since that was the chopper they were near. They get up there and then…boom…dead via an invisible enemy. No where, in game, does it say that you probably shouldn’t try this boss if you don’t have the Stealth Detection mastery. At first, I thought it was a bug (the boss being invisible to me, I mean). I then never bothered to go to it again. I only found out about the mastery requirement when I accidentally read something about it in these forums. That isn’t good game design. Nope.

Oooo…part of tower/keep upgrades is a Barrier Dome. The site always has a basic Dome (like walls), then Reinforced, then Fortified. Enemies can try to disable the dome by pummeling it like they do a wall, with the added ability to drop bombs while Gliding!

So…new level in Gliding:

50 pts: Glide bombing

Notice that they removed the ability for a Necro to pop Spectral Walk in mid-air just before hitting the ground, and then pop the Spectral Return so there is no damage taken JUST before HoT dropped. They said because it wasn’t supposed to work that way (though, it was really the only – Oh Crap, gotta get away skill – that Necros had short of the lame Wurm teleport). In all honesty, I believe they removed it because they didn’t want Necros to be able to get through the new maps by dropping down massive cliffs.

So gliding? I wish…never going to happen though.

But it would be awesome – ACs and Ballistas that could hit mid-air objects. Trebs and catas firing what amounts to anti-aircraft barrages. Enemies trying to glide over walls could be shot down by new NPCs using big rifles (bazookas???).

That would be so sweet.

And, Anet could certainly make gliding a part of WvW without HoT. It would have nothing to do with HoT Masteries – there could be a new category in WvW skills – Gliding (similar to HoT):

1 pt: Basic Gliding
4 pts: Lean Techniques
10 pts: Advanced Gliding
25 pts: Stealth Gliding

Vayne.8563:

It is a learn to play thing. Open up gw2timer.com and see what events are active when you’re looking. You have to start looking before those events come up. That’s how people get onto those maps. You can’t do an event that’s in the middle on full maps, because you weren’t there for the start of it.

Problem # 1: At no point should people be forced to look outside the game for answers.

Vayne.8563:

There’s no reason to advertise a dragon stand map late, because it won’t fill up and you need the time to finish the event anyway.

The meta events are all on timers. Randomly looking at LFG shows a need to learn to understand the game better. It’s like going to a movie and hoping you get there at the beginning, instead of looking up online when it starts.

Problem #2: No, it’s like getting home from a long day of work and plopping in a DVD to watch your favorite movie only to find out that, for some godawful reason, you can only start the movie in the middle at that specific time and you need to have 17 people over to hold in various buttons on your DVD player at the same time or you can’t watch the movie.

Vayne.8563:

Now, for some people having that schedule is problematic, which is a valid complaint. Randomly trying to find groups instead of getting into the zone early and setting up though is very much not understanding how the system works.

If you don’t like that system, that’s fair enough however.

First fair thing you’ve said, and it shows the beginnings of understanding that people can’t schedule their game playing. Juggling work, familial commitments, and every other aspect of regular life leaves many of us on a tight time constraint. I was fortunate that, finally, I was able to get onto an organized DS map – totally by accident and totally within the time I had scheduled to play the game. It was like winning the lottery. Other than that one time, all I ever see is a bunch of people standing around at the Pact WP.

Lord Kuru.3685:

misterman.1530:

So…wait…cata cost was a main complaint on this forum? Really? I think if we rank the complaints, it wouldn’t even hit the top 20 let alone be one of the top 5 that are being addressed. Sigh.

Cat cost change indicates they’re sticking with the desert BL. Even at the cost of unbalancing EB gameplay. It’s a good sign they’re not listening at all.

My thoughts exactly. I can’t remember EVER seeing a post saying “Wow..cata costs are too high and we have to run back and forth a whole bunch of times to get supply.” I do, however, see a bunch of posts saying the new BLs are crap.

So…wait…cata cost was a main complaint on this forum? Really? I think if we rank the complaints, it wouldn’t even hit the top 20 let alone be one of the top 5 that are being addressed. Sigh.

Misguided.5139:

Tangled Depths can definitely be confusing. One of my gripes is that events don’t indicate whether they are above or below you. Despite that, the map is really growing on me. I just wish there were people actually trying to do the meta event, but other events are easier and have better rewards or simply don’t fail as easily.

I’m no expert on getting around the map, but if somebody needs help getting somewhere, I’m happy to try.

A couple of weeks ago, I was in TD when someone who was tagged up called for help on some mob that was seemingly part of the meta. No directions, just “come help kill this thing”. When I asked for directions he wrote: “At the Teku Nuhoch Waypoint go left”.

Yup. “Left”.

Not North, South, East, or West…up or down…but “left”.

Slow clap.

And that was when I could find someone actually trying to do the meta.

Zerikin.1593:

misterman.1530:

But as fewer and fewer people are spending their time in AB, for instance, there will be fewer and fewer chances to get that HP.

You can usually find a taxi into an AB that is winning if you look at the right time.

Yeah, that’s the trick…I need to be looking “…at the right time”.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Zephyra.4709:

As much as I like the title and am working on completing the achievement… I still think a different title would best suite it from GW1..

• Incorrigable Alehound
• Drunkard

Coz you know… 10k drinks speaks for itself.

/agree

How about the title for that achievement being:

- Nothing Happening in Real Life

Well, I have this on a couple of characters but while working on my Thief recently, am finding it incredibly difficult to get the HP under Tarir – for the obvious reason that I cannot find a map that will open it up.

This is what I was worried about from day one. When you block HPs (anything) behind the completion of the meta, that spells trouble.

Sure…I know…“you” did the whole map meta solo with a Warrior wearing trash gear while watching Netflix. Awesome for you. Or “you” always find a map with a full contingent of dedicated people working toward completing the meta. Again, awesome-sauce for you.

But as fewer and fewer people are spending their time in AB, for instance, there will be fewer and fewer chances to get that HP.
I am, however, hoping that the Maguuma Scrolls I buy using Heroic Proofs in WvW randomly selects that HP to complete. But given my incredible lack of luck with RNG, I am not holding out any hope.

I agree. Thought it was just me. I have a set of armor with Travellers, didn’t seem to make much of a difference.

Nike.2631:

misterman.1530:

Why was this posted in the HoT section? Just curious.

Why don’t people concerned that a thread is in the wrong place not use the report button? Just curious.

Because in reality I couldn’t care less. Just thought it odd that someone believed the HoT forum was the place to put this. Find it even odder that it, and several other Wintersday topics in this forum, haven’t been officially moved and/or merged with similar topics in the main GW2 Discussion forum.

Why was this posted in the HoT section? Just curious.

1F9C1B85-72E3-4A87-96F1-1B232A6FF1A7:

Like an idiot and not paying attention I got karma greedy as soon as I obtained the Winter Music Score and consumed it straight away for the karma. I haven’t unlocked the collection for Winter’s Presence yet so does anyone know if I do obtain it now whether I’ll be able to complete it or will the music score now always be missing?

Er…is that your Guildwars key instead of your Username?

Don’t know about anyone else, but (and I am using the 64bit Client) many of my Options were unchecked (like AOE loot, auto-loot, and showing the local time – those were the three I noticed).

ODB.6891:

misterman.1530:

Not me! I want more “adventures”! I want to be able to choose between fighting an end boss in a raid OR playing a Tyria-inspired game of Candy Crush™. Oooo Tetris!

And I think we should have some sort of…I don’t know…place where we grow crops and such and we can have our “friends” help us out. Call it the “Place-where-you-grow-your-crops-Ville”.

If they were completely optional…meaning just for fun (if you find that type of activity fun)…then yes. I personally do not find candy crush, tetris, or any mini game activity to be fun. What I find fun is the core content of GW2…which does not include mini games. I have no problems with the existence of these mini games. What I do have an issue with is ANET locking core GW2 content behind mini games.

You realize I was being sarcastic, right?

The problem is, people either need patient instruction in map chat (which is slow and cumbersome) OR they need to do some research outside the game in order to “learn what to do”. Few, if any, casual players want to bother with trying to find an accurate, half-decent guide to the new metas. It would be like studying or, you know, work.

It’s a bug. I saw that with a guildie…ran to his location and, lo and behold, he was there – even though the tooltip said he was “in another instance”.