Guild Wars 2

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

A friend and I have decided we would like to try out the raid but, unfortunately, even with all of the HoT owners in our guild, we still can’t muster up a 10 man group.

So, I was wondering if anyone knows a group or has suggestions for finding one that could perhaps do the content tomorrow (2/10/16). We tried the Vale Guardian in the beta and I have watched videos to familiarize myself with all of the boss mechanics, so we’re not totally clueless.

I would use the LFG Tool, post “LFR VG [your profession]”. Also, if you’re newer to the raid let the group know when you join. If they don’t want to take you because you’re new, you probably don’t want to be with those players anyway imo. There are plenty of builds guides online for the Vale Guardian too, if you want to take a look.

Rednik.3809:

PopeUrban.2578:

What’s really hilarious, just like the pole exploit, is that it is actively slower to kill mossy when you do it. Mossy’s fight already encourages and rewards stacking, but stacking on the tree means invulnerable wolves which don’t proc various things, and several classes behaving to skip movement based skills in their rotation and do less damage.

Oh, and also, mossy cleaves way more people if he gets in a sweet spot.

In addition the fight isn’t even that hard

Why people are insisting on going out of their way to engage in a stacking trick that often makes the fight both harder to survive and slower to complete blows my mind.

Try to do it with pugs instead of writing so much text. You’ll see so many new things.

I do it with pugs almost daily and don’t stack. We always succeed easily.

Shaaba.5672:

About the only thing I use Overwolf for is teamspeak / gamevox to see who’s speaking, and it hasn’t been working for me lately. It’s annoying.

There are normal TS3 plugins that allow you to see whose talking.

Answer to question: Yes.

Millssta.9064:

Or just give JAGEX a call, they destroyed the ENTIRE RuneScape botting scene overnight with one of there developed anti botting softwares.

Pretty funny to see actually. It just killed any bot that was in game, then the system perma banned them and there ip, and the bots around at the time were extremely advanced pieces of software.!

http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Bot_Nuke_Day

Epic

Jehuty.9608:

Nope….we all want Largos to be the next playable race, none of us want to play an ugly overgrown chicken.

Largos wings wouldn’t work players would complain about clipping issues (i.e. Charr tail) and Anet would get more back lash over that. So, I’m for Largos but don’t see it happening due to existing armor sets and players getting angry over it. However, Tengu seems to be a viable option imo.

From the patch notes today:
“Crab Toss has been temporarily replaced with Keg Brawl in the daily activity rotation.”

Sounds like Crab Toss is being repaired

Doublebrutal.3125:

thanks reapex

pretty pathetic of arenanet if that’s the issue

on a 4.2ghz quad core with a gtx 980 and 16gb ram. graphics settings already modest for my setup. get 60fps in cities / world. 16-20 in a massively over zerged boss fight. sad that i’d have to make their beautiful game look like garbage to play it.

Your specs are good, you really should try the 64-bit client as someone suggested and you’re welcome.

Doublebrutal.3125:

“Network error .

Please check your Internet connection and try again.
(Code=178:9:13:2932:101)

Change your graphics to best performance when you are in Dragon Stand, F11.

echo.2053:

reapex.8546:

There is another alternative where you can get rid as many as you want. Do crafting refinement of these materials at crafting level 450+. You can get rid of as many as you want, without no time restriction.

LOL using useless mats to make a third uselsss material. That does bring up a good point, an obby shard eater needs to be implemented those stacks are becoming kitteniance too.

Third mat that takes up less room, yes.

Tony.8659:

Ok reapex thanks doing the chapter again got rid of the egg. We need Anet to fix this. Everytime you want to replay this mission or maybe even a few before it, the egg will be there. Please remove the egg if you quit the story mission!!! I hate that egg back pack. Not fun at all…

Np

Tony.8659:

Can a dev. see this post please? I don’t know how to get rid of that egg back pack. I quit all stories :/

Maybe just complete the story chapter with the Egg again, see if it disappears then.

Still bugged, starting to see people just go afk in Crab Toss. Since, it’s extremely hard to get the crab from another player now.

Azure Prower.8701:

reapex.8546:

There is another alternative where you can get rid as many as you want. Do crafting refinement of these materials at crafting level 450+. You can get rid of as many as you want, without no time restriction.

All whilst using up obsidian shards and gold. When you already have a full stack of each refined mat that you’ll never use. No thanks.

If you never use it, that’s your choice.

Thrist.9046:

Nilkemia.8507:

Because the guild halls are boring.

I love my guild hall and plan to marry her after I can save up enough for a ring. This will require 100 linseed oil, 4 black diamonds and more mithril than you can shake a stick at but it will be worth it.

Scribing costs are being reduce so you maybe able to find a ring on discount soon (Trading Post, discount market).

Lobo Dela Noche.5127:

reapex.8546:

With Silverwastes, DryTop, Heart of Thorns maps there are more loot. But this loot has bags within the loot. Sometimes there are bags, within bags, within the bags! It leads to a ton of unnecessary and time consuming clicking.

Suggestion:
Allow us to right click one bag and click “Open All.”
This will open bags that are within the first bag.

The current system adds frustration, when you feel you’ve taken care of your inventory to only to find 1-2 sub bags you forgot to open.

Please, comment if you agree with this change so it won’t go to the forum Graveyard. Thanks.

Its a great idea. Right click the stack and select open all. Then it stops opening bags when inventory is full. I can see this generating some lag though if to many people did it at once in the same instance.

Thank you. Hopefully, it will only take 1-2 seconds to open all bags so the lag will be minimal at worse.

Greyrebel.7492:

i i like the idea, farmers need this , but .. but … think back toa year ago before u come to gw 2, remember how weak ur finger was ? XD
thats the good part it makes ur finger stronger or ….. but well the bad part is it might break ur mouse

Lol xD

There is another alternative where you can get rid as many as you want. Do crafting refinement of these materials at crafting level 450+. You can get rid of as many as you want, without no time restriction.

altme.9780:

I find myself a lot of times needing to see the name of the zone by hovering over the minimap with the cursor or by opening the big map.

I believe that it would help with orientation and discovery, to have an option to always show the zone name in the minimap.

You could press the G key, if you’re in a guild. It will show your location via the guild roster.

Bandit.8279:

reapex.8546:

Bandit.8279:

A Disk-I/O error has occured!
Guild Wars 2 will now terminate.

Been getting this error every so often of late. The other day I couldn’t zone into Brisban Wildlands and tonight I was not able to join my friends in Fractals:/

The other day I was eventually able to log into Brisban but this is now getting frustrating!

Sounds like it maybe some type of issue with your hard drive. You could try reinstalling the game to another location or using chkdsk (if you’re using a windows machine). You could also try the GW2 repair option.

Thanks. I think you might be onto something. I will try to repair or move the game files to another drive and hope that works.

I hope it does

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I changed the title to include “[Suggestion]” within it so that it will be more easily spotted. Therefore, in case anyone had it bookmarked, I’m shamelessly bumping the thread to the top.

Just as an aside, it’s good to see more and more posts from you and the devs in these forums, Gaile. It’s appreciated. Keep it up!

I agree, it’s awesome

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Has any thought been given to making creatures spawn more …plausibly.. instead of just popping into existence? You’ve just killed a critter.. you’re standing around for a while… POP.. another one appears beside you. There are creatures that already move underground – why not have these at least spawn by appearing out of the ground?

I agree, with this. I’ve thought about it before when thinking of GW1. In GW1, when assassians spawn they would string down from the sky using rope and land on their feet. It would be interesting to see the Mordrem Itzel do something like that. Or have enemies that can tunnel underground, climb out of the dirt when they spawn and maybe shake the dirt off a little.

Are there any plans to change mossman attacks to be more varied. Like transform to various Norn animal forms?

pattyb.8156:

i love all classes, my main right now is a guardian looking for the second one. I just want to pick the “best” as in the class that does the most damage.

About GW2, it’s rare for something to always be the best in something. Because Anet, nerfs the best or buffs the worse. So you can choose something that is the best right now but it won’t always be the best. Instead, choose something that you enjoy and is viable. What is viable? Currently, all the classes are viable in fractals because fractals are varied. There are some classes that are better suited to particular fractals but that does not mean the others are not viable at all.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

reapex.8546:

Offair.2563:

Won’t happen as it is a quality of life feature and anet does not do that. I got the feeling they have stocks in mice manufactures, each time they sell a mouse anet gets 5% of the profit.

Anet has been doing QoL features for years, just look at how much the inventory window has changed since 2012.

Yah, maybe so. However after the 2014 Wintersday, with its boxes inside boxes loot which had tons of “sell one by one” vendor trash as the reward, I had more than the sneaking suspicion they had stock in Tylenol as I had to take some pills for hand pain after a few fun filled sessions of opening large numbers of ‘Russian Doll’ style loot and then salvaging/vendoring it all.

For me, I waited until Wintersday was nearly over before opening them. I also took breaks while opening them. Since the gifts had a lot of additional items.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

reapex.8546:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

I’d like to suggest the opposite option – if you open a chest in the game world and it gives you more loot than you have room for, rather than displaying the encumbered window, I’d prefer to just have a bag pop into my inventory with all the loot in it, which I can open at my own leisure. Sometimes you need to grab loot on the run, or you’re attacked while looting and the encumbered window is just a nuisance. Just my 2c.

That does sound interesting but would probably be harder to implement than an open all feature, in my opinion.

They’re independent features and I’m not suggesting one over the other – both would be fantastic to have. Admittedly, I have no knowledge of the code but I believe/hope that my feature would be the easier to implement since it would, I think, use their existing systems. Maybe they could squeeze it in quickly while they’re working on the Open All option.

Ah, I understand. Thank you.

Bandit.8279:

A Disk-I/O error has occured!
Guild Wars 2 will now terminate.

Been getting this error every so often of late. The other day I couldn’t zone into Brisban Wildlands and tonight I was not able to join my friends in Fractals:/

The other day I was eventually able to log into Brisban but this is now getting frustrating!

Sounds like it maybe some type of issue with your hard drive. You could try reinstalling the game to another location or using chkdsk (if you’re using a windows machine). You could also try the GW2 repair option.

Most of the time when I enter pvp matches and go back to pve my backpack is disabled. Still doing more research on it.

Vayne.8563:

ProtoGunner.4953:

How can you get so many hours is beyond me. I just wonder: If you played half your life a game the past 3 years what else you do? I mean: work, family, friends, travel, sport, going out etc. You clearly have almost nothing of this if you clocked that many hours considering you still have to sleep for 6-8 h a day. I don’t want to moralize etc. but I don’t think this is healthy – neither physically nor psychically.

I wish people would be less judgemental.

I really think judging other people’s mental and physical health is pretty far beyond the purview of any forum goer, particularly as a generalization.

I agree, it’s why most people wouldn’t even consider posting their hours here due to immediate judgement by others.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Imagine if Mossman had a phase change every 25% of his HP where he transformed into a different Norn transformation and went enraged on people. Just that alone would improve the fight substantially.

That sounds like a great idea too.

Offair.2563:

Won’t happen as it is a quality of life feature and anet does not do that. I got the feeling they have stocks in mice manufactures, each time they sell a mouse anet gets 5% of the profit.

Anet has been doing QoL features for years, just look at how much the inventory window has changed since 2012.

Mushuchalaka.9437:

The OP’s name and this thread :P.

lol

Opinion Thread, Round 1 FIGHT!

Rhyav.4812:

Even though I’d love to see this feature, I can’t imagine how they’d implement it. Imagine you have 250 Bandit Coin Purses and you open them all at once 90% of the items you receive would go to the “You’re encumbered!” bag and you’ll end up spending the same amount of time (if not more) clearing bag slots for the items to fill them immediately, so you’re unable to salvage until you have nothing else on the encumbered bag, which will take quite some time.
I think I’d prefer a “Salvage all possible non-rare items” option and I feel is more viable.

This situation already exist, after doing SilverWastes for hours. Opening up the bags, your inventory is full and you’re encumbered with multiple bags on the side of your screen waiting to be opened. A salvage all non-rare items would be nice but it would need to know what salvage kit to you. Which maybe more dev work than an “Open All” option.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

I’d like to suggest the opposite option – if you open a chest in the game world and it gives you more loot than you have room for, rather than displaying the encumbered window, I’d prefer to just have a bag pop into my inventory with all the loot in it, which I can open at my own leisure. Sometimes you need to grab loot on the run, or you’re attacked while looting and the encumbered window is just a nuisance. Just my 2c.

That does sound interesting but would probably be harder to implement than an open all feature, in my opinion.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’m 99.99% sure that’s just fan-fiction. The name and the mention of Jotunheim (part of norse mythology but non-existent in GW2) kind of give it away.

Not sure why they would put a fan fiction message under the Lore section of the forums.

Conner.5803:

reapex.8546:

Lendruil.9061:

reapex.8546:

Rednik.3809:

reapex.8546:

Fractals is content, therefore they will be patch. The new fractals may have better fractal mechanics. It would be worth giving Anet suggestions on how to make fractal mechanics better. But what mechanics, need to change for fractals to be better?

As example, less 100500100500 hp punching bags and less absolutely ridiculous instabilities.

So lower health and different instabilities, will be better mechanics in your eyes. Problem with the first one is, Mossman needs to change as the fractals scales get higher. So what changes about him? Higher attack power? Also, “ridiculous instabilities” is subjective. What is ridiculous to you may not be ridiculous to others. Do you know of any challenging instabilities that will be accepted by all players at 50+?

Furthermore, of course attack power should be increased, it used to be much higher pre hot.
Regarding instabilities, the challengemotes with healing reduction would be better instabilities than most of the current existing instabilities. Also, a big list of instabilities that never got implemented was datamined a long time ago. Some of those instabilities were pretty good imo. For Example: No downstate, Cannot use your nr6 healskill, Cannot reflect projectiles, No rezzing of dead players.

Attack power was higher but several players complained that it was unfair and too difficult. They also did not like getting one shot and wanted Anet to lower the attack power. I agree about losing boons on dodge, not being able to dodge does increase the challenge because you have to rely on your skills (blinds, blocks, etc). Some of the datamined instabilities do sound nice though, ty.

In my opinion, if a fractal is going to be short, it should be at least hard.

I agree.

Ranael.6423:

That said, if they simply add a window at the end of an encounter where you see at least the amount of damage of the entire team it would be really helpful to see if someone has a problem.

That would be nice but that is when the finger pointing would start to guess who did the least amount of damage but I guess that is more of a player issue.

Lendruil.9061:

reapex.8546:

Rednik.3809:

reapex.8546:

Fractals is content, therefore they will be patch. The new fractals may have better fractal mechanics. It would be worth giving Anet suggestions on how to make fractal mechanics better. But what mechanics, need to change for fractals to be better?

As example, less 100500100500 hp punching bags and less absolutely ridiculous instabilities.

So lower health and different instabilities, will be better mechanics in your eyes. Problem with the first one is, Mossman needs to change as the fractals scales get higher. So what changes about him? Higher attack power? Also, “ridiculous instabilities” is subjective. What is ridiculous to you may not be ridiculous to others. Do you know of any challenging instabilities that will be accepted by all players at 50+?

Furthermore, of course attack power should be increased, it used to be much higher pre hot.
Regarding instabilities, the challengemotes with healing reduction would be better instabilities than most of the current existing instabilities. Also, a big list of instabilities that never got implemented was datamined a long time ago. Some of those instabilities were pretty good imo. For Example: No downstate, Cannot use your nr6 healskill, Cannot reflect projectiles, No rezzing of dead players.

Attack power was higher but several players complained that it was unfair and too difficult. They also did not like getting one shot and wanted Anet to lower the attack power. I agree about losing boons on dodge, not being able to dodge does increase the challenge because you have to rely on your skills (blinds, blocks, etc). Some of the datamined instabilities do sound nice though, ty.

Rednik.3809:

reapex.8546:

Fractals is content, therefore they will be patch. The new fractals may have better fractal mechanics. It would be worth giving Anet suggestions on how to make fractal mechanics better. But what mechanics, need to change for fractals to be better?

As example, less 100500100500 hp punching bags and less absolutely ridiculous instabilities.

So lower health and different instabilities, will be better mechanics in your eyes. Problem with the first one is, Mossman needs to change as the fractals scales get higher. So what changes about him? Higher attack power? Also, “ridiculous instabilities” is subjective. What is ridiculous to you may not be ridiculous to others. Do you know of any challenging instabilities that will be accepted by all players at 50+?

If you don’t want commander markers are, this is a video guide for them by Anet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7auw7ixzbs

Can you say what waypoint this is near and what direction?

Rednik.3809:

reapex.8546:

I would be worried if Anet stops patching fractals because that would mean they’re going the dungeon route. In otherwords, more patches for exploits = good and less patches for exploits = future dead content.

How about more patches for content and better fractal mechanics instead?

Fractals is content, therefore they will be patch. The new fractals may have better fractal mechanics. It would be worth giving Anet suggestions on how to make fractal mechanics better. But what mechanics, need to change for fractals to be better?

shejesa.3712:

Zelanard.5806:

shejesa.3712:

MegumiAzusa.2918:

Yeah then we can do carpet bombing in Tarir!

I also very much agree.

It would be a bit… You know, bombs from flying carpet migh show some connection with eastern culture ^^

So… Only western culture are allowed to throw bombs? o.O

Nah, I think none culture is allowed to do so… My point was rather that throwing bombs from carpets would be not very wise, since we have all this “tolerance” kitten out here

It worked for Mario, in Mario 64. He threw bomb-ombs all day, on his magic carpet.

With Silverwastes, DryTop, Heart of Thorns maps there are more loot. But this loot has bags within the loot. Sometimes there are bags, within bags, within the bags! It leads to a ton of unnecessary and time consuming clicking.

Suggestion:
Allow us to right click one bag and click “Open All.”
This will open bags that are within the first bag.

The current system adds frustration, when you feel you’ve taken care of your inventory to only to find 1-2 sub bags you forgot to open.

Please, comment if you agree with this change so it won’t go to the forum Graveyard. Thanks.

zenleto.6179:

Kill it!

“Later tater!”

If anyone is having problems memorizing the default color scheme for Commanders markers, try the following:

Make a color scheme, for example, Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet [ROYGBIV].
Alt+1, Red
Alt+4, Green
Alt+5, Blue

I hope this helps.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

savacli.8172:

90% of thread being ragey? Depends what sub-forum you’re at (a moment of silence for our thief broski’s).

If you’re looking to rage on this thread? Congrats, you did it! Grab the popcorn and watch the commentary roll in. My advice? Add something constructive. Rather than rage how about adding a note or two about what makes your guild successful or even offer advice to other who may be in the same boat. PUG’s lying about they qualifications? That’s been going on since the beginning of times, so we’re not getting anything new out of your rant.

If you read the post the problem isn’t the lying the problem is the people crying/complaining about being forced to meet requirements when no one is forcing them to do anything, I will go through and rephrase it to get that point across more clearly I guess.

If you need another for raids, feel free to message. I don’t mind doing raids with any experience level, I find I learn something from each group I join up with. Since, many groups have their own way of doing the encounter.

fishball.7204:

Totally agree with everything you said spoj, guess I just worded it confusingly.

This argument reminds me of the old wall lupi argument. Such dejavu, rip dungeons.

I would be worried if Anet stops patching fractals because that would mean they’re going the dungeon route. In otherwords, more patches for exploits = good and less patches for exploits = future dead content.

Kami Poi.4659:

what most people here are forgetting great players have no need to exclude anyone only bad leaders and bad groups do so.

great players teach and mentor others.

^ that times 12.