Guild Wars 2

Astral Projections.7320:

pdavis.8031:

Astral Projections.7320:

It’s not bad at all. I took it out, did some mining in Brisbane and then some area completion. Got about an extra1.5 gold.

ZOMG!!!!111 Thats game breaking and needs to be nerfed!!!! Its pay to win!!! QQ QQ QQ Whine whine cry sniffle boo hoo!!!!

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I’ll bank that gold and in 5 or 6 months (or 7 or 8, but who’s counting) I’ll break even from buying that pick. After that, that extra gold or two a day will be used to dominate the trading post. I’ll use it to drive out all you lesser beings and take over the whole land of Tyria.

Bwahahahahahahah.

(Ow, evil laughs hurt my throat)

SEE!? SEE!? What have you done ANet!? You’ve created the most OP player bent on turning the TP into his personal play ground!! Please!! Have mercy!!!

I think this pretty much sums up everything…..

saalle.4623:

pdavis.8031:

saalle.4623:

sorudo.9054:

saalle.4623:

sorudo.9054:

saalle.4623:

Ameepa.6793:

saalle.4623:

Duels and Cantha are most desired content we ware waiting for and those that dont like it are just minority.

No they aren’t. People asking for those are just minority.

Why dont you go then and look how many views and comments Cantha tread has? I dont even want to talk about numbers of treads made for dueling.Stop been selfish people.Dueling wont hurt anyone.

last time i saw a thread like this about 80% were against duels, the reason why you don’t see “remove duels” threats because it isn’t in PvE.
if it was, i can guarantee that allot of players would leave the game permanently, apparently it does hurt someone

Well i played WOW,AION,and at least 10 more MMORPG games and no1 ever left cause of duels.But i know that many people did left GW2 cause of lack of duels and 1 of them is my brother.This is only MMORPG game that i know that has no open world (pk) or duels in open world at all.It was only thing that was backing me off from buying this game.But what lacks here…Everquest Next will have.Too bad that Anet always learns too late.

the reason why they didn’t left the game because of duels is because they accepted the fact, GW2 is the only MMO where PvE is free from duels.
in fact, i know some who play this game because there are no duels in PvE, if it’s added then you can expect a decline of players.

That poll above proved everything clear.Majority of people want duels.Minority will leave but more people will come ( or stay to this game).

That is false and illogical for reasons already stated.

I think that the vast majority of players don’t care one way or another, and that the battle really just lies on the forums.

True that.Most of people dont mind it and battle that is on forums are showed on polls.You say how poll is illogical but what you guys talking is logical really? “im lazy to click on auto block duels” is logical?Im done with this.If they want too add dueling i will be happy.If they dont then i dont care,i will play other games that have.Toxicity here is terrible and i dont want to leave this game as i did League of Legends just cause of bad community.Dont bother to reply cause im not gonna read it.

“That is false and illogical for reasons already stated.” It’s just in reference to another thread that the OP tried to defend every argument with that line. Some of us kind tried to turn it into a meme. I just find it amusing when I see the same arguments going on again :P

Astral Projections.7320:

It’s not bad at all. I took it out, did some mining in Brisbane and then some area completion. Got about an extra1.5 gold.

ZOMG!!!!111 Thats game breaking and needs to be nerfed!!!! Its pay to win!!! QQ QQ QQ Whine whine cry sniffle boo hoo!!!!

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saalle.4623:

sorudo.9054:

saalle.4623:

sorudo.9054:

saalle.4623:

Ameepa.6793:

saalle.4623:

Duels and Cantha are most desired content we ware waiting for and those that dont like it are just minority.

No they aren’t. People asking for those are just minority.

Why dont you go then and look how many views and comments Cantha tread has? I dont even want to talk about numbers of treads made for dueling.Stop been selfish people.Dueling wont hurt anyone.

last time i saw a thread like this about 80% were against duels, the reason why you don’t see “remove duels” threats because it isn’t in PvE.
if it was, i can guarantee that allot of players would leave the game permanently, apparently it does hurt someone

Well i played WOW,AION,and at least 10 more MMORPG games and no1 ever left cause of duels.But i know that many people did left GW2 cause of lack of duels and 1 of them is my brother.This is only MMORPG game that i know that has no open world (pk) or duels in open world at all.It was only thing that was backing me off from buying this game.But what lacks here…Everquest Next will have.Too bad that Anet always learns too late.

the reason why they didn’t left the game because of duels is because they accepted the fact, GW2 is the only MMO where PvE is free from duels.
in fact, i know some who play this game because there are no duels in PvE, if it’s added then you can expect a decline of players.

That poll above proved everything clear.Majority of people want duels.Minority will leave but more people will come ( or stay to this game).

That is false and illogical for reasons already stated.

I think that the vast majority of players don’t care one way or another, and that the battle really just lies on the forums.

SO I ran this build last night, casual run, nothing fancy, with a Mesmer in the group. Started stacking the might like pancakes. BAM 25 stacks and a decent sustain on it. Party was stoked. Mesmer is like…“ooo dat might! I think I’ll stack too!!” So I had mesmer stacking might as well. Well we were able to keep 25 stacks almost constistantly which was cool. But I’m wondering if 2 might stackers would be needed. It would seem if one is stacking might, and can keep a high count, the other would be better off going DPS to take advantage of it.

Kurrilino.2706:

What about we keep AR where it belongs, in Fractals.
If you guys need harcore stuff try teequatl alone or the Worms with 3 people
or play Fractals.
You can also join Pvp if bored.

You guys have to understand one thing.
A-Net learned that the majority player doesn’t want Raids, Zerking, hard core farming,
AR or whatever ultra stuff you guys play.
The regular player wants a nice fantasy world with epic storys and being a hero.
I don’t have any interest in changing the game play to a hard core game.
I am interested in the story not in loot or titles or whatever.

Thankfully A-Net leaned a lot and went back to personal experiences.

I’m not looking for “extra spicy hardcoreness of doom” content. But it would be nice to have another use for my ascended armor OTHER than high level fractals. It doesn’t make sense to have a whole new armor/weapon/trinket tier, A whole new system to combat a new type of condition, new crafting recipies, mats, drops, skins, etc. JUST for running fractals. If they wanted to go beyond level 50, that would be cool too. But a dungeon boss, or path, that required AR, much like fractals, wouldn’t be out of line at all. It’s completely optional, much like the Aetherblade path (seriously, does anyone even run that anymore?) and wouldn’t give any “special” loot that couldn’t be gotten from any other dungeon.

Update: Unless I want to do a full examination of every thread of the ~1100 pages of threads, from what I was able to see, up to about pages 20ish, there hasn’t been any reports on this issue. However I did find this. Wiki about instances , and it would appear that the mechanic in question has been there from the start, and would be working as intended. Do I think there should be another option for dealing with this? sure, never really had any “bad” experiences in that regard though. I think part of why it doesn’t get attention that (again) it’s basically a QQ and demanding thread that Anet needs to “fix” it, implying its a known bug, when in fact it’s not.

CharrGirl.7896:

Theory: the peach I just ate is a meteorite. Discuss!

Actually it wasn’t a peach. It was the heart of a Silvari, that had been corrupted by “Bubbles” who is actually Scarlets sisters, boyfriends, cousin, who worked with a guy who had a brother who met them in college, whos uncle had a roommate that delivered pizza to the girl who was dating bubbles at the time.

Discuss!!

FrostSpectre.4198:

Should include upgrades that adds infusion slots on Exotics gears, through Mystic Forge, just like Ascended and Legendary gear have.

Or nerf the superior stat bonuses away from Ascended and Legendary, since there was no “Superior Elite gear” in GW1, so it shouldn’t be in GW2 either.

Players still went through alot in GW1 to get Elite armors, even when they weren’t superior.

Since ANet said, it’s not needed to get Ascended or Legendaries to play whole GW2.

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Also that we have no confirmed kill on Zhaitan, it was just Defeated.

1)That wouldn’t be a bad idea, actually.

2)No. The stat difference between Ascended and exotic armor is ~5%, so it’s not THAT superior. Full exotic armor is more than good enough to complete ALL content. With Ascended trinkets, one can still get enough AR to do level 50 without an issue. Nerfing it to the same level as exotic would put out almost every player who spent the blood sweat and tears crafting it. Legendary weapon stats are the same as ascended. However with a legendary you can change the stats when OOC (i.e. switch from beserker stats to rabid). Again either of these don’t provide so much of an advantage that they need to be nerfed.
2a) This isn’t GW1. This is GW2. The only thing that the two games share is the in-game history/lore, and the name. GW1 wasn’t an MMO and was an entirely different type of game from GW2. Comparing the two is apples and oranges.

3) That is true. It’s not NEEDED. They are Luxury items that require a lot of time and gold. And thats what makes them special.

dlonie.6547:

What I really don’t understand is how an issue that comes up so often on the forums, is obviously a bug, and has frustrated the hell out of so many of the game’s players doesn’t even appear to be a priority.

Solving the instance ownership problem may be a tough one to fix in the current design, but it needs to happen. Several times a week, new people come here and make new threads about their instance getting destroyed because the owner left party. Week after week, and it’s been going on for well over a year now. How has this not appeared on their radar yet??

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Of course the same things come up every couple of weeks (mounts/dueling/expansions/etc) However much of the problem is these threads get deleted because 1) It’s a duplicate of another thread. 2) It’s in the wrong forum (these should go into bugs) or 3) Its not a discussion and generally degenerates into QQing that Anet sucks and needs to do something about this yesterday or people are going to quit. (I personally wouldn’t respond to a thread raging about how much I suck at my job…..)

Phadde.7362:

I’ve attached a dueling-poll in my signature below, since the last big thread about this subject.

I demand a recount of those votes. Mine had a hanging chad that interfered with the counting. Also the ballot wasn’t very clear on what I was voting on, and I live in florida…

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

pdavis.8031:

Yeah the time gate on ascended is stupid. But I think it was reduced. I made a lump of Mirthil the other night, and instead of a 24 hr CD, it only had an 8 hour CD. I don’t know if that had something to do with the time of day I made it or not though.

At what time did you make it?

It’s not a true “24 hour” cool down, like other games. It’s just “once a day.” It simply resets at server rollover, just like world boss and dungeon rewards.

I think it was around 9pm PST 8pm-1030sih PST is generally my play window…

Scrambles.2604:

pdavis.8031:

Scrambles.2604:

Im Mudbone.1437:

Bolthar.7192:

Yes PLEASE! They said they would add this when the game first game out and now it’s almost 2 years old. People have been asking for it over and over and over again. SURELY Anet is working on this. I think having duels will help Anet to see imbalances in professions easier and strengthen PvP in the game, not that it’s weak. It will also help newer players to GW2 PvP to get into it. Just PLEASE have an auto decline option for those that don’t like to duel or dont want to be bothered by trolls. And be able to block specific individuals from challenging you.

Where did you pull this imaginary BS from, “they” NEVER said they would add dueling to this game.

Colin Johanson actually said in an interview that they would like to add open world duels at some point. You’re right they never said they would add it, but he certainly said they would like to. At least you can add him to the pro-dueling camp, since i guess we’re taking sides now, lol.

skip to 14:11 if the video doesn’t do that automatically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7CcwnfUdU

Yes, but they said they would like to add a number of things that will probably never get put into the game. But I’ve noticed they say that about EVERYTHING. multiclassing? would like to. Player/guild housing? It’s not off the table. Precurser crafting? Not off the table. The ability to fly? Would like to, it’s not off the table. Legendary armor? Would like to. It’s not off the table. Remove gold from the game as a form of currency? Would like to. It’s not off the table (Although John Smith might show up and tell you you are stupid). Expansion? Would like to. It’s not off the table.

This is pretty much their standard answer to everything. I have yet to see them straight up say “no” to any of the ideas presented on the forums, or in interviews. Although I could be wrong about that, as I haven’t watched/read them all. But that doesn’t mean that we will ever see them implemented. It’s like your parents when you were younger. If you wanted something, the general response was “We’ll see” (at least in my home). It didn’t rule out the possiblity, but after while you came to realize that “we’ll see” generally means no.

You can extrapolate all you want. I’m just glad Colin doesn’t automatically associate open world duels with trolling/harassment/griefing, like a reasonable person.

It’s not extrapolation. How many times have you seen a dev give a clear and precise answer, a definate “yes, we WILL add that” or “No we will NOT do that.” to a question regarding content that many people have asked about? (i.e housing/dueling/mounts/ etc.). They ar very carefully diplomatic in their responses to such things. That way, if it doesn’t work out, they have broken their promise and upset a bunch of people. Or they change their mind, and people call them liars because they said they wouldn’t do that.

I agree, it appears that he doesn’t automatically jump to the extreme conclusions about trolls/griefers/etc. but you can be sure that in their considerations of such things, those ARE taken into account.

Scrambles.2604:

Im Mudbone.1437:

Bolthar.7192:

Yes PLEASE! They said they would add this when the game first game out and now it’s almost 2 years old. People have been asking for it over and over and over again. SURELY Anet is working on this. I think having duels will help Anet to see imbalances in professions easier and strengthen PvP in the game, not that it’s weak. It will also help newer players to GW2 PvP to get into it. Just PLEASE have an auto decline option for those that don’t like to duel or dont want to be bothered by trolls. And be able to block specific individuals from challenging you.

Where did you pull this imaginary BS from, “they” NEVER said they would add dueling to this game.

Colin Johanson actually said in an interview that they would like to add open world duels at some point. You’re right they never said they would add it, but he certainly said they would like to. At least you can add him to the pro-dueling camp, since i guess we’re taking sides now, lol.

skip to 14:11 if the video doesn’t do that automatically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7CcwnfUdU

Yes, but they said they would like to add a number of things that will probably never get put into the game. But I’ve noticed they say that about EVERYTHING. multiclassing? would like to. Player/guild housing? It’s not off the table. Precurser crafting? Not off the table. The ability to fly? Would like to, it’s not off the table. Legendary armor? Would like to. It’s not off the table. Remove gold from the game as a form of currency? Would like to. It’s not off the table (Although John Smith might show up and tell you you are stupid). Expansion? Would like to. It’s not off the table.

This is pretty much their standard answer to everything. I have yet to see them straight up say “no” to any of the ideas presented on the forums, or in interviews. Although I could be wrong about that, as I haven’t watched/read them all. But that doesn’t mean that we will ever see them implemented. It’s like your parents when you were younger. If you wanted something, the general response was “We’ll see” (at least in my home). It didn’t rule out the possiblity, but after while you came to realize that “we’ll see” generally means no.

Yeah the time gate on ascended is stupid. But I think it was reduced. I made a lump of Mirthil the other night, and instead of a 24 hr CD, it only had an 8 hour CD. I don’t know if that had something to do with the time of day I made it or not though.

Yes, because an Asuran child is totally an Elder Dragon. I think she must be modeled after Sorry…(IF you know what I am talking about +35 points for you, if not…well….look it up Malazan book of the fallen

Khang.6743:

Its already here, my friend! It may not be the traditional dueling system that we see in other MMOs. But, there is still a community of people who do nothing but duel. I have a friend who plays the game, specifically for dueling.

There are great custom servers for it. They’re simple to find, just find the ones labeled ‘1v1’ and you’re in business.

Good luck!!!

What!? The’ve had this in game mechanic for dueling for how long!? And we are just finding out about it!? What kind of sorcery is this!?

Seriously though, many of the opponents of such a device are saying this, but thats not good enough for the proponents. They want it more open world, much like other games, but fail to realize this isn’t “other games”.

I wouldn’t mind seeing AR somewhere OTHER than fractals though. I can see and appreciate the issues have having it in a map, but maybe in a new dungeon path, or whole new dungeon, outside of fractals would be cool. Maybe something involving the mursaat and the white mantle (because thats where agony started) with LS Season 2.

Who knows? But I think having a use for that armor I so painstakinigly crafted outside of fractals would be nice.

Because it’s better than the dead horse gif….

Hitman.5829:

Come one Anet hundreds of people have asked for duels. When is it enough? We want duels! we want to test our skills with the best players out there. 1 vs 1 in WvW is not even and not secure as anyone can come and disrupt the fight.

We want duels, we want duels!

Not everyone is one the same page as you. In every duel thread, the majority of people are saying no. Also in many of those same threads, its generally a small group of people who keep re-iterating how anti-duelers are wrong, and duels need to be brought in because “Other games have them”, and “It doesn’t hurt anyone”. Yet have been shown again and again that open world dueling tends to create a toxic environment.

I dont see how megaserver is proof that the player base is declining any more than normal. Yes it was implemented, but its been stated by the devs in the blog leading up to it, that it was to better facilitate friendly play. Also there was an imbalance in server populations. Some, like black gate, were nearly maxed, while others had a very low population. People in lower population zones were complaining that there were too many dead zones, that their servers didnt have the people to do many of the mega bosses. Losing so many players that megaserver was brought in to disguise or hide that? Only to those who are tired of the game and will try to use any excuse they can to bash the game and the devs.

Also it would be a very expensive way to make it appear they aren’t losing players. Because if they are losing players, they are losing money. You can’t do a major launch for another country, and spend the time and resources to do that, if they were losing money.

If you really want to save gw2, make a backup copy of all the files, especially after each update, and either put it in a cloud server, or an external hard drive. Its also a good idea to regularly make backup images of your OS just in case you need to restore anything.

Also saving in Gw2 is limited to your character progression and inventory. But this is done automatically, and off site, so there is no need for you to do anything to save your progress.

Warrior. Always and forever. Also ele or mesmer. Basically anything really, as they all can be used to work well with anything.

Im sure farming gold is easier, but as many people have said, it lessens the value of being legendary. Ive been working toward mine for awhile now, and im sure when its done it will definitely feel much more legendary than just buying it. Its more work sure, but I like the feeling of accomplishment that comes with doing something like that

You cant refund time spent in game. Much of the process of making ascended anything is time gated. I dont see how giving away a free set of ascended armor because its account bound helps anything. Plus theres the issue of runes. So effectively you can have 2 very different sets, with different runes, for the price of one, even if they had the same stats. So giving a refund of gold for making the set, really is a slap in The face for those who spent hours grinding EotM, of world bosses for dragonite and empryeal fragments. I spent 3 months on mine, I cant get that time back. It was totally worth it though.

Now if there were a way to directly transfer account bound items directly to another character I’d be ok with that. But as it is, with the bank, it still can be done easily and without much hassle.

Signet of rage is a must for might stacking, but also adds a good source of swiftness, might and fury. With SoR, and FGJ one can almost keep purma fury, and a few stacks of might. I have found stances in general to be very situational. I take balanced stance in AC when running the graveling tunnels, and finding the 5 scepter pieces. Endure pain can be helpful when in a tough situation where you are getting downed, and could use a few seconds of surviability to keep on the DPS.

But basically take what you think you need, and can always switch out per situation when OOC. so it’s not that big of a deal.

Yeah, I’m with edgar on this. There isn’t any reason to have a duplicate item because it makes life easier at all. Anyone who spent real money on buying multiple infinit gather tools, just to save having to swap would be hyper upset. I know I would. Ascended armor? Yeah, why should someone get 2 sets for the price of one? Even if it is account bound and exactly the same.

Really!? A sale!? Dagnabit!! I just bought the heroic edition for my wife like 2 weeks ago!!! Oh well…

Or a third option: People are causal players who don’t care. They like the way their prefered build plays, and it works. With not having a trinity, and all professions can meet all roles, they are in no way required to use the meta, or play the most optimal way possible. Why do you think there are so many “bearbow” rangers? It’s certainly not the most optimal build, but can be fun to play (from what I understand). People don’t listen to “elitists” because they don’t care. These same people aren’t going to be running “Zerk only, exp 80 speed run” LFGs. They log in a couple of times a week, for a couple of hours, have fun with their friends, kill a boss, maybe run a dungeon, do whatever, because they find it fun. This game largely caters to those types of players. So it takes them a bit longer to do a dungeon run, they don’t feel like they need to rush through content. They take their time, and play how they want, and find it fun. If people have a problem with that, don’t play with them, specify your LFGs, and let them be.

People in general don’t like being told, either by others, or the game itself, that what they are doing is “wrong”, that they are “gimping” themselves. Most of the time, they will run a “sub-par” build on purpose just to irritate those that are trying to tell them what to do, and how to play.

If players want to get “better”, they usually do the research themselves, and find the best build possible on their own. They don’t need someone telling them to do it, otherwise they suck and are horrible players.

All these terms (best, gimping themselves, bad, etc) are subjective at best. What one person may consider a good build, another will think it’s bad, because it doesn’t do x,y,z. For example, Condi necro. Many people say it sucks in PvE. Guess what? I run it in PvE and found it melts mobs just as well as anything. On a world boss it does take a hit due to condition mechanics, but in dungeons with a small group it does quite well. Now is that a “bad” build for open world PvE? Some would say yes, others no.

Ropechef.6192:

liliths dungeon forum lfg is OP

it really is.

ZOMG!!!!1!! Lilith lfg forum OP!!!! PLZ NERF!!KTHNXBYE!!!

While I think it’s awesome you are looking for fractal/dungeon buddies on the forums, I am curious to know if you even find any? I would love to, but I’m in NA, AND at work when I’m on the forums. Usually if I’m on the forums, I’m not in a position to be able to log on and play. I would think that many others are in a similar position.

LoS: Line of sight

Profession Specific:

SoR: Signet of Rage
HS: Healing Signet
FGJ: “For Great Justice!”
SR: Shadow Refuge
WoR: Wall of Reflect
BS: Back Stab

Danikat.8537:

pdavis.8031:

Faceroll: Standing face to face with an enemy and attacking with minimum defensive movement.

I’d always heard that faceroll was a dramatic and PC specific version of button mashing – basically saying that the way someone is playing is so uncoordinated they may as well be just rolling their face across the keyboard pushing buttons at random instead of using their hands.

It’s also used to imply something is too easy “faceroll content” is something you could play by mashing your head against the keyboard because it’s so easy that as long as you do something you’ll succeed.

I’ve seen it used both ways. Also facetank. But yes the idea is basically the same. You can stand and not do much and still win.

The only real thing this would offer is a standard cookie cutter best build template. And as more people used these cookie cutter builds, they would increase the popularity, which would effect the output of you blackbox, again only revealing what the popular builds are, which are what everyone is running based on the suggestion that they run that. Ad infinitum. As far as bad builds, that is subjective at best. Granted there can be builds that trait for a certain weapon, say axe, but is useless if the player is using a sword. However what currently is considered “bad”, at least on the forums, is anything that doesn’t provide high DPS. Any gear set up that doesn’t use Beserker gear, is considered “bad”. Having a UI that tells the player they are running a “bad” build because thats not what other people are running only further reinforces the meta and DPS builds, and don’t allow for experimentation, diversity, or creativity.

Also:

Proc: an effect gained upon landing a critical hit.

Faceroll: Standing face to face with an enemy and attacking with minimum defensive movement.

Stack: A game play mechanic that invloves players standing in close proximity to better gain the group boons cast by members of the party.

Nerf: To reduce the effectiveness of. (i.e. Warrior is OP! Needs nerf!!)

OP: Overpowered. (i.e. Warrior is OP plz nerf!) or in the forums, Original Post(er).

Buff: To increase the effectiveness of. (i.e. Necro sucks, needs buff)

Tag: To inflict just enough damage to get credit for the kill.

Min/max: To minimize one trait in order to maximize another. (i.e. Berserker is min/max as it minimizes defensive traits in order to maximize offensive traits.)

RNG: Random Number Generation.

Drop: Loot gained from killing enemies.

T"X" mats: The various tiers of crafting materials. kitten. T6 being the highest. (i.e Vials of powerful blood, Ancient bone, etc.)

PuG: Pick up group. A group formed primarily through the LFG system to run dungeons/fractals/events/etc.

MH/OH: Main hand/Off hand

CD: Cool down. The amount of time it takes for a skill to be usable again.

As far as warrior is concerned, yes beserker gear is the meta, and DPS is king. However that doesn’t stop me from running my valk gear, and the only complaints I’ve had are about the look of it, and on the forums. In game, while they still happen are much more infrequent. GS is pretty much the standard weapon of choice for warrior, although axe/mace is highly favored as well.

If you are planning on using your great sword, This build can be VERY useful for stacking might in parties that lack it. I run it occassionally and love it.

Most certainly, it would help if you were to list some terms/jargon that you are not familiar with.

Its not so much of a hardware issue as it is a logistics issue. You would need a whole team to rewrite the ENTIRE code. Xbox one uses a windows 8 based OS, while PS4 uses a freeBSD (unix) based OS. Plus you have to contract dealings of both Sony and Microsoft, as well as the cross platform compatibility issues that don’t stem from hardware, but rather legal issues. Plus every PC update would have to be re-written, and submitted for each platform. Although some games have been able to successfully port from PC to console (generally FPS/RTS type games), putting a massive scale MMO onto a console at this point would cause more issues than it is worth.

Dungeons
HotW: Honor of the Waves
AC: Ascalonian Catacombs
CoF: Citadel of Flame
CoE: Crucible of Eternity
TA: Twilight Arbor
CM: Caudecus’s Manor
SE: Sorrows Embrace
Px: Dungeon path “X” (AC P3 would be Ascalonian Catacombs path 3, or the third option)
General
AoE: Area of Effect
DPS: Damage per Second
CC: Crowd Control
Zerg: A group of players in a group moving quickly from event to event, or objective. (Taken from Star Craft)
LFG: Looking for group
QQ: A term used for whining, or complaining.
L2P: Learn to play
Ping: shift-clicking gear to display to party/group

GW2 specific
JP: Jumping Puzzle
WP: Waypoint
Build: Term used to define specific gear/trait allocation for a specific play style.
PHIW: Play how I want. Used by people wishing to divert from the widely accepted way to play.
Meta: The current most effective build(s)/style of play.
Zerk(er): Beserker gear, often associated with DPS builds.
Elitist: Term used by those who disagree with the Meta.
Noob: Those who disagree with a build/style that differs from the meta.

Thats all I can think of for now. Some of these you may already know, but I thought having a more comprehensive list might be a bit more helpful.

So if it’s low damage, and low utility/support, why is run run so often?

I don’t know, I have a stack of about 150 in my inventory haven’t really had a need to buy them. My guess would be that more people are going for a legendary, or those in the speculation market, are hoping for new legendaries to be announced with season 2, and are hoping to cash in on the higher demand for coins when it does.

Ok I have some questions for the ranger community. I don’t play a ranger, but have thought of making one. I understand that it can be a difficult class to play, but that doesn’t deter me. However, reading the dungeon forums, profession balance forums, etc. I see a general disgust over rangers in general. Especially the “bowbear” build. It would seem to me, that as popular as the “bearbow” seems to be, that there is much hate toward it. Why all the hate? There must be a reason for it, and I am sure it was developed by the ranger community who I would think knew what they were doing. Any insight on this? Thanks!

Palador.2170:

Before I get to the main post, I would like to say that this thread isn’t for those that feel that GW2 does not need saving. If you think the game is more or less going well, then this thread isn’t for you. Feel free to read (naturally), but I do ask that you not derail the thread. (I can do that myself, thank you.)

Just wanted to pop in and say something about this. Instead of opening up a topic for healthy discussion, you’ve dissuaded anyone having a view point that is contrary to yours to participate. By doing that, all that you’ve done is create a QQ thread that only caters to those of a like mind. Which can only result in one thing. A collection of posts that offer nothing in the form of feedback, or suggestions that will do anything to help “save” the game. It’s a one sided converstation that in the end, will do more harm than good, as there is no perspective of any other view points and experiences, which is needed for a healthy and productive discussion to take place to make the changes that need to happen.

While you may not use evry skill while leving, it helps alot in LEARNING to play your class by leveling. Although you can jump into pvp at level 1 amd have full access to everything, there is a big difference between pvp and pve. Also no one jumps into a new class, heads to pvp and starts owning, even if they fully understand how combat works. Its the process of leveling thats important to learning to play your class. Even level 80s have difficulty running a dungeon for the first time. Now imagine a new player. Sees he can buy his way up to level 80, decides to do it, because thats when all the “good stuff” happens. They have no idea what to, and join in a pug. Would you rather do a dungeon with them, or with a player who leveled up normally and understands how to play his profession and is first time in dungeon?

Cyrill Faust.9340:

Everyone is giving good advice except for telling you to toss the Agony +1s. Sell them on the TP if you don’t need them they go for 10s a piece.

Why sell them at 10s a piece when you can combine them, and selling them for MUCH higher? Currently a +8 agony infusion is selling for 16g, where as selling 128 +1s would only net you 12g 80s. Granted it does cost 1g 89s 99c to make a +8, but still having at least a 2 gold profit is far better than just selling them.

Edit: It all depends on how much the OP has laying around. If he has enough to upgrade them then sell, that would be the way to go.

Almost forgot, Tequatl got an upgrade, and The Three-headed Jungle Wurm was added. And a new fractal path, and a dungeon path in TA. A new WvW map/mode was added.

LA is destroyed, Freocity has replaced Crit damage %, Dungeon and fractals gear are still being farmed, MF is now account bound in the form of luck. Ascended gear is slightly higher then exotic, but not so much that its a must have except maybe higher level fractals. The current events now are the Bazaar of the Four winds, and the Queens Pavillion until season 2 launches next week with the introduction of the Story Journal, which will allow you to replay any of the Living Story episodes provided you at least LOG IN during the time of the episode, or purchase for 200 gems.

While I have to agree on some level about crafting, that it could use more varity, and the use of some recipes over discovery. But I do see WHY you would need a recipe for “special” items rather then randomly discovering a certain unique sword.

However, I will say this (as I do when I see othe games compared to this one, and how it should be more like them) This is not those games. Anet certainly had the option to make something similar to how other games do it, but they chose not to. Changing it now will cause more problems than its worth.

Aleglast.6027:

LOL THE TROLLS, WHY NOT JUST TAKE OUT LEVELING FROM THE GAME AND START EVERYONE AT LEVEL 80!

Leveling is an expliot and should be nerfed.