Guild Wars 2

Well it’s rather easy to “blame” the servers IF the lag only occurs in EB and IF everyone on the map is affected by it. At least that’s the picture you get when playing on Gandara. All other BL are perfectly fine and all other game modes are also working fine.

Maybe I’m missing some technical detail here why it should be something different for european players.

And mass DC again on EB for Gandara, not sure if this is some work done before the patch but atm it’s almost unplayable

We had the same yesterday on Gandara, two mass disconnects and rubberbanding of around 4 seconds every two minutes. Haven’t been to EB today but from what I hear it’s still the same lag issue. A guildmate of mine gets a dc every few minutes who didn’t have a problem before.

Amelia Knox.9362:

Make the other color Free, don’t make us rage even harder, after months of 0 communication!

That says it all. I don’t see why anyone with an intact brain would pay 300g for a colour, especially if you already have a tag.

Simply make the first icon you get 300g regardless of the colour it has, then make the other colours free or if you have to put a price on it something reasonable like 10g max.
Actually, make the colours available through tasks as in “Get the yellow tag for capturing a t3 keep during prime time while being tagged up. Extra condition: only when siege was being used put down by you” or some stuff like that … something which makes it actually something more fun than just paying a ton of money for just another colour with no additional benefit other than it looks fancy.

Not to mention the tag only for guild thing, but well since the blog post is not up yet I have 0,3% hope for it.

Food for thought, maybe they decide what to implement using RNG?
- Account bound command tags? roll .. yes
- Make it more expensive roll .. yes
- What price should it be? roll .. 300g … omg, but hey that’s what rngesus says ..

Yep had that one too … event chain broke. Joined a different map where made it to the three shamans, killed all but just two of them went to the big totem in the middle blocking progress. After spending almost an hour waiting and map hoping in Iron marches this is getting pretty annoying.

Vayne.8563:

So people who wanted say dual dagger, and went out and made 2 incinerators (when they could have just used the second skin had they known about the wardrobe). They spent all the mats, all the time, all the energy. And in the end, it’s cost them another weapon they could have had. That’s what this title is for.

Those who made 3 or 4 legendaries have 3 or 4 legendaries. Those who made duplicate ones feel like they’re wasted time and resources.

It’s a small enough reward.

I know what your point is. Mine is that I also spent mats, time (just an example, you need more than one map completion to get there) and energy for all those I made.

For me it’s not about they have a title and I don’t for me it’s about seeing both achievements in relation and with that new thing there is none.

I’m all for compensating the players who crafted a duplicate before the wardrobe. Hell give them another one to choose just as suggested earlier but this achievement and the title is not thought through in relation to the already existing achievement.

Since there is also an achievement for it the post makes sense to me. I’m close to the 5th one and I get the same AP as someone who made one twice and I also don’t get a title for it.

That makes no sense to me since I invested more time, more gold, mats and what not to get those. So please buff the original achievement and give it also a shiny title.

Thank you

My Warrior and my mesmer

Might post a pic of my Ele later

Bump from an ex RoS .. a great community with many nice people on that server, relaxed atmosphere and always putting on a fight no matter what the numbers look like.

Ragnar.4257:

The point isn’t about whether it’s “fair”, “allowed” or “expected”.

Its just about fun.

Lets leave aside formal duels for now, and just talk about roaming, where 1v1s and 2v2s can frequently happen.

If I’m in a 1v1 while roaming, and 2 allies jump in and turn it into a 3v1, I don’t get annoyed because its not “honourable”. I get annoyed because its not “fun”. 3v1 takes zero effort, requires zero skill. You can do it with your eyes closed.

So rather than having a challenging 1v1 where I have to really work hard, by adding in you turn my fun fight into, basically, PvE. You have robbed me of fun.

Its not about honour and fairness, its just about turning fun fights into tedious zergfests.

However, I fully agree that people shouldn’t expect perfectly fair fights if they’re hanging around objectives and main-roads. This is why many people seeking duels on EB go to the east side of Stonemist, where the Oakhearts are, because there is rarely any reason for the PPT hordes to go through that way.

Exactly that.

If I see a 1v1 I tend to observe what is actually happening. If the player of my server just tries to get to a certain part of the map and doesn’t defend (not all have roaming specs) I join in and help him. The least it does is make the attacker go away 90% of the time, because they somehow also don’t want to fight outnumbered.

If the player is actually fighting back and is downed, I join but try to prevent the stomp.

Everything else I don’t really care about.

I’d agree though that SM is not really a dueling place but then again if the situation allows for a duel there why not.

Had that bloody bug yesterday in 3 fights in a row in EB on the necro. All three times it was just when I came out of DS if I remember correctly

I have that bug constantly on different chars. I have not found out what situation makes that bug occur but currently I have a primer running for 11 hours but the food does not get the buff. Since this is a gemstore item (either directly or BLT chest) this has to be fixed. People are paying money for these!

I want that flame ram tonic pls!! but only if you can’t be attacked by guards while transformed xD

Form what I see on MOS your side of EB is taken from AM, what does Gandara have to do with that apart from being able to take our stuff back earlier (we lost all but our keep and got all of it back 2-3 hours ago, when the Piken keep was taken) or not being focused by AM (if that is the case).

I do not know if there are politics behind it, I certainly never heard anything about it but from my viewpoint when I’m in the Borderlands or EB I rather have a good even fight with Piken than getting rolled over by the mother blob of AM.

Since I only play in the evening during the week I do not know what is happening during the day but from what I see on MOS it’s all about coverage.

I agree though that this free transfer thingy was a really bad choice, knowing what we do know now. I still believe they should’ve made the lowest rank servers of each tier free .. not the top ranked ones, which I think would’ve lead to more even matchups than this.

Can confirm this. Trying to do map completion and I can’t even find one logger alive.

We had some fun sieging up a tower with a full party .. welcome to WvW I guess.

I suppose almost all go there for leveling, but some people definitely need a reminder that it’s a pvp map where you can be killed by other players and actually need some skill to survive from time to time .. even when you are just an upscaled and the skill of question is called “dodge” and “retreat”.

Ofc when I am there and get killed by a bigger group I’m annoyed but so what, I learn from those mistakes and don’t let it happen again or find a way to beat them.

If you play on EU and get into our group (we sometimes have to pug the last spot) with 3 to 4 people from the same guild I can guarantee that we don’t kick UNLESS you bring not enough AR or just go Leeroy every time … but then we are able to use the party chat and clear things up before we even start the 2nd fractal.

If that person does not respond to us in chat and continuously kittens it up for all I see no reason not to kick .. but then we we’re lucky so far and always got decent Pugs, especially on the higher levels and some of them were the most fun runs I had.

But then again, you might leave us before we can start .. just because we are in the same guild.

What can i possibly get for the relics what I don’t have? As I’ve said 4 chars at min. 55 AR, why would I get more if I had enough AR after such a change with no additional fractal levels (51+)?

I don’t need more back pieces, I don’t need more Inventory bags. The only thing I would actually like is to be able to buy not only rings (two bank tabs full of them already just from daily chests) but amulets and accessories. Then it would actually make sense .. but then again, I wouldn’t need them since I had enough AR already on the account.

I’d also like my laurels, badges of honor and guild commendations back from the items I bought for my alts since those wouldn’t be necessary anymore.

A friend of mine has over 10k relics .. maybe you have an idea what he should spend it on since he’s also full ascended with “max” AR.

In my opinion, which may vary to others, ascended stuff is only really necessary for fractals .. in WvW you can do just fine with exotics. So why bother spending the time and probably money to get ascended just for that?

So we end up buying absolutely nothing for our fractal relics?

I have outfitted 4 chars so far to be able to do 49 and currently working on the second for 50 and to me that alone somehow feels rewarding even when it takes a lot of time getting all the mats, infusions and what not.

Why would I even bother with ascended gear with a change like that? Not going to happen as far as I see it.

Before they do that they should make Agony a default instability on all levels and fix a lot of other issues with fractals.

Maximus Delion.8719:

The biggest part of the problem is that the three stats on Berserker gear have a MASSIVE synergistic effect with each other. Your overall damage is increased, you crit more often and your crits cause more damage. Those three stats should never have been together on the same piece of gear. You should have to decide whether to crit more often but not cause as much damage per crit, or vice versa… or to hedge your bets and simply increase base damage across the board (flatten out the peaks and valleys and emphasize a strong consistent average). But having all three of these together is a level of epicness equivalent to a guitar-playing undead dude riding on a dinosaur that’s standing on a laser that’s mounted to a rocket which is strapped to the back of a shark.

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If each piece of gear only had one offensive stat, one defensive stat and one “utility” stat (gold find, XP gain, karma gain… perhaps Agony Resistance and other special types of fractal/dungeon damage resistances…) then we’d have a lot more variety of viable builds.

Using this system, there is no struggle between offense and defense.

Everyone has offense – it’s just a question of what ONE type you choose:

- Precision: I crit a lot but each one isn’t very hard
- Intensity: I don’t crit as often but when I do I hit hard
- Power: I don’t crit as often but I have a higher base damage

And everyone has defense – again, it’s just a question of what ONE type you choose:

- Vitality: I can survive a spike but am weak to pressure
- Toughness: I can survive pressure but am weak to spikes
- Healing Power: I’m fairly squishy overall but compensate with strong heals

Mix and match one stat from each of those two categories to your heart’s content, and throw in your “utility” stat for flavor. Most gear would be on even footing unless you’re facing specific mechanics that call for one gear type over another (i.e. a boss that exclusively uses condition damage, but you’re wearing your spike-defense gear).

Again, there’s no issue of offense vs. defense – each piece of gear has one (and only one) stat bonus from each of those two categories. But there’s still plenty of room to create builds by choosing what type of each category you bring, and how they synergize with (or compensate for) your skill and trait choices. The whole concept of Tank and DPS is thrown right out the window as far as your gear is concerned (though your skills and traits can still lean you toward one of those roles).

And you can also mix and match stats between armor pieces. For example, do you play it safe and choose toughness on half your gear and vitality on the other half, or go 100% into one at the expense of the other? Perhaps you have traits and skills which grant you extra Intensity, so you’ll complement that by wearing gear with higher Precision. Or maybe you have skills which proc special effects on a crit – the crit damage isn’t as important as simply proccing that effect, so you heavily emphasize Precision as your exclusive offensive stat on all gear (you’re triggering special effects more often at the expense of overall damage).

Unfortunately, the Berserker genie has been out of the bottle for far too long, and I doubt we’re going to see any kind of significant gear overhaul like this now. But really, I think a system like this would create a much more diverse set of gear builds that we have now.

I like that idea a lot. Just use two stats and get rid of the third option. When they are buffing the rune sets this sounds like a really good combo.

Not 50, 49 please so that the effect of dodging has an impact. They should also run all other fractals on 49 for a comparison of how much different it actually is.

Also Ascalonian and then wipe on the first group after dulfy (preferable the one in the middle) so that NPCs don’t spawn and you’re more or less dead on respawn.

Yesterday we didn’t get dredge with the same group, the complete run took us around 1:30 hours less if I remember it correctly (well maybe an hour since we took a break during dredge the day before .. because it’s so awfully long)

Also got dredge yesterday .. and the day before (both on 49). Just dredge took us as long as a full fractal run without dredge would take us. One evening spent well when you have limited playing time.

Also the last skip was fixed where you could get at least 4 people at the same time into the cage, which means they at least know about the existence of the fractal but refuse to do anything good about it which honestly makes me mad (especially with the lack of feedback here)

Awesome work. Will check the vids out in detail when I’m back home Don’t play the guard that often in fractals (mostly warrior) so every bit of information is helpful

Also sticky would be nice.

Nice fights, and well done vid Saw whatevakaiXD’s vids too and always wanted to try that build in wvw.

well as i have stated i’m not doing that much wvw and even if, i mostly have finished the daily before so don’t know. thanks for the info though

then it’s really not needed to change anything i guess

I don’t think the laurels need a change. It would be nice to be able to get gear earlier but it’s totally not necessary. I think you don’t need ascended armor/weapons for anything other than fractals (agony resistance) and wvw (those nifty extra stats) and with wvw it’s questionable to me if it makes a difference (do not play it that much).

Currently you don’t even need the armor for fractals IF you have ascended weapons.

That said, I have 5 alts which I can take to fractals up to 39, 3 of them being able to go to 49 while one of those is almost full ascended.
I don’t have the feeling that the progress with laurels is too slow even though I really want to equip my 6th char with an ascended amulet.

The only thing I can agree on is that pure wvw should be able to get a daily just by playing wvw. As far as I know there are mostly just three wvw related dailies .. and I don’t consider daily gatherer to be one of them.

Nothing feels better than a 2 hour 49 fractal run and just one rare amorpiece (salvaged into thick leather or mithril), some fragments and relics.

Heck, if you get Swamp, Molten and Aetherblades you can even be lucky to get a masterwork item!
Also the amount of uninfused rings is just way too high on higher level fractals. I can live with getting one of those on 10-30 but on 31+ I really expect the rings to be infused.

Since the update I’ve gotten maybe 4 Fractal Skins and 4 Weapon Chests (surprisingly with stats I can even use on my alts) but I’m also running minimum a 36 and 49 a day and on weekends also the lower tiers for daily chests since the update.
If we happen to get Dredge then we’ll only do a 49 most of the times during the week since we can only play in the evening, and that should say enough I think.

I agree .. change the thing so that it is fun. I tend to run fractals with groups who don’t have optimized builds all the time and we want to have fun. We do not speed run through fractals but Dredge is just annoying for us on lvl10 as it is on lvl49.

I play the game for fun, I do not care if I get an inappropiate reward at the end for the time spent but dredge is just no fun at all.
We used the cage exploit a lot lately since at least this made the first part quite quick (apart from a few wipes) but the rest is just tedious.

My solution for this, rage quit at every single dredge fractal we get from now on.

I can for example live with mai trin although she is a pain, but at least that is content which is challenging EVEN with wipes .. but dredge, nty .. not even for 1000 heavy bags …

Solution, make it customizable

That would be really nice. I noticed that especially when I was doing map completion and just wanted to look at the awesome design on some maps (standing on mountains in timberline for example).

Also the zoom is kind of messed up on a few encounters, fighting the fire shaman in FOTM as the smallest asura is a pain since I can only see the feet of him making the dodging of one of his attacks pretty painful (the one where he flies into the air and puts the 3 smaller aoe on the ground)

Just the fact that with your method you HAVE to switch to mesmer/thief proves the point that it should be fixed. In my opinion it’s not good design if you have to relate on a certain class to do the content.

Ah that policy … I really wonder if they believe what they are saying. Reply from support regarding the lost account bound skin:

Thank you for getting back to us.

We see your point, however each restoration request is reviewed independently an we do need to follow our policies when it comes to item replacements.

We apologize, but we are not able to replace the item you want.

Well second support ticket sent. I lost a backpiece skin in the mystic forge when infusing an item (did not get a warning message, nothing). That skin was only obtainable once from achievements. How can it be that a precursor is replaced but not an account bound skin?

Well some people want to play a class they enjoy which might not be a warrior

My main is a necro too but so far I’ve never had problems but that could be because of the people I play with. There is content which is a pain for a necro (Ice elemental in snow fractal with a con build wuut) but there is content where the necro brings many options to the party. Convert boons on foes into conditions? Check. Convert conditions on allies into boons? Check. Need Fear or pull the enemy away? Check. Vulnerability/Cripple/whatever condition you need on all the mobs instead of just one? Check. And so on and so on.

Find some people who don’t mind you being a necro. Find a good build which works for you as well as for the party and just have fun playing the game. I admit that necro is not the best choice when you want to do speed runs but when you want to enjoy the game it’s as good as any other class.

Same here with the Wings of the sunless. I have used them on a crafted ascended back piece which I later infused. During that process the skin was lost and support simply said “we can’t give it back”. Such a weird policy to be honest especially when spending so much time getting some of the skins and when it’s not even your own fault losing them.

+1 for that suggestions. When they are account bound from LS make them available the same way as the radiant/flame skins.