Guild Wars 2

Static Field appears to be broken. Graphics appear on the ground and I can blast finish off it, but it has no effect on enemies. Confirmed with another player in map chat. Thoughts?

Kal Spiro.9745:

It is only a grind if you make it a grind. I am not grinding the JP for presents to get things. I’m doing the JP because I love the JP and am good at it. The fact that it also hands out the best rate of presents it secondary. If it only dropped two presents a run I would still do it to the exclusion of all else because I enjoy it. The point where I grind is when I open those presents to get the alcohol to work toward the absurd goal of 10k. A goal I’m pretty sure I can’t meet by the end of the event in order to get a skin I’ll never use because it takes up the shoulder spot.

I’m also not grinding for mithril. I’m playing the game the way I normally do and gradually accruing mithril by salvaging junk, since I get a lot of junk in HoT. Once I’ve gotten enough mithril, something to the effect of 2500 ore, I’ll move forward in my efforts to craft Inferno through the new system.

If you don’t want to grind, don’t grind. If you want the skin more than you want to not grind, then maybe grinding isn’t a problem. It is entirely up to you. But no one, not a single person, not a dev and not a player, is making you grind.

Oh my. Are you real? I didn’t think such sensible thoughts were permitted any longer.

eureeka.5368:

I told you so! To all who supported this shift, it is YOUR fault. You took away all creativity and are now playing (and complaining) about meta builds. You have 0 choice, either play what they buff or get rekt.

I was confused until I glanced through your post history and realized that you’re one of those. Carry on.

Nope, never heard of such a thing.

Necro highest on forums though, fo sho.

Love seeing stuff like this. I think the translation was pretty good- people saying it looks “nothing” like the in game versions are nuts.

While I have esthetic issues with a lot of armors there are enough that catch my fancy. Ascended heavy is one of my favorites, minus that ugly helmet. Carapace heavy is also great, minus the skirt. NO MORE SKIRTS!

I wholeheartedly disagree. I’ve been having voluptuous mounds of fun, way more than the three going-out-to-lunches price tag would suggest. And I’ve had some kitten good lunches.

ReaverKane.7598:

PvP reward tracks are your friends.

After eight full runs through a track our friendship would be over.

Is there any way to get ascended trinkets with Assassin’s stats besides the associated dungeon collections? (along with the other stat selections for each dungeon collection trinket)

If not. Is this really necessary? Are these trinkets so powerful that they deserve to be that difficult/time consuming to attain? DeLana’s Coinpurse, for instance, requires the Caudecus’s Manor Collector achievement..which requires a player to collect ALL the dungeon’s weapons and armor. Ditto for Zhaitan’s Claw for Arah.

I could see myself running Caudecus once or twice a week and working on the PvP track and maybe unlocking this in the next six months, given my play time and (un)willingness to do things I don’t really want to. But the Arah one just isn’t gonna happen.

Seems a bit excessive? Or am I missing something and the stat selections available here are really special and powerful, not just assassin’s but the others… some of which seem to be available from laurel merchant…

Because war… War never changes.

Something like what you describe has been happening to me for a couple months now.

I’m in combat and without any obvious cause I’m suddenly unable to move. My character can change the direction they’re facing, I can still fire off skills, but I can’t move.

Using a movement power or dodge usually gets me out of this.

Since it’s been so random and I have no idea how to accurately reproduce it I haven’t been that keen on reporting it as a bug.

nobleroar.2078:

sarasvatri.6871:

nobleroar.2078:

sarasvatri.6871:

nobleroar.2078:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

There’s an artificial gate (RNG) on Precursors previously, and that kept the item rare.

There is a non RNG way of getting Precursors before crafting and it is called the TP and it quite accessible with just a click away.

While I agree to most of your points but it varies from players to players. In short, it means that player defines their own goal but the game sets up the rules in guiding the players to set up their own goal but all in all, it is almost always directed to farming gold.

Where do the precursors on the TP originate?

Completely misses the point but since you asked:

1) Random drop

2) Mystic forge (deliberate or unintentional)
3) Precursor crafting (as of HoT release)

3 would not end up on the TP, as they’re account bound. I don’t think it misses the point at all, my point is that any Pre you buy on the TP originated through RNG. While a buyer doesn’t have to directly deal with RNG to get a Pre on the TP, the price is regulated and dependent on RNG. Buying on the TP doesn’t circumvent RNG, it’s just a step removed.

still misses what OP is addressing. #3 is not account bound. They can be sold.

Yep, I’m wrong about number 3.

Also, I more or less completely agree with the OP. My point was tangential to it. But since you seem to be more interested in forum warrioring than having a discussion, good night sir.

First thing that comes to mind is Dredge, found in most Shiverpeak zones.

I’ve definitely noticed the eerie silence. Seeing 50+ people in a map and having silent/unresponsive map chat is weird.

Just craft 3 more and see if you can MF them. No prob.

nobleroar.2078:

sarasvatri.6871:

nobleroar.2078:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

There’s an artificial gate (RNG) on Precursors previously, and that kept the item rare.

There is a non RNG way of getting Precursors before crafting and it is called the TP and it quite accessible with just a click away.

While I agree to most of your points but it varies from players to players. In short, it means that player defines their own goal but the game sets up the rules in guiding the players to set up their own goal but all in all, it is almost always directed to farming gold.

Where do the precursors on the TP originate?

Completely misses the point but since you asked:

1) Random drop

2) Mystic forge (deliberate or unintentional)
3) Precursor crafting (as of HoT release)

3 would not end up on the TP, as they’re account bound. I don’t think it misses the point at all, my point is that any Pre you buy on the TP originated through RNG. While a buyer doesn’t have to directly deal with RNG to get a Pre on the TP, the price is regulated and dependent on RNG. Buying on the TP doesn’t circumvent RNG, it’s just a step removed.

nobleroar.2078:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

There’s an artificial gate (RNG) on Precursors previously, and that kept the item rare.

There is a non RNG way of getting Precursors before crafting and it is called the TP and it quite accessible with just a click away.

While I agree to most of your points but it varies from players to players. In short, it means that player defines their own goal but the game sets up the rules in guiding the players to set up their own goal but all in all, it is almost always directed to farming gold.

Where do the precursors on the TP originate?

Draknar.5748:

Offerande.5240:

Draknar.5748:

Pick any MMO and their forums will be similar. It’s the nature of forums.

Last weeks way to many

Nah, I’ve been on these forums from practically day 1. I see nothing out of the ordinary. I’d say the worst of it was when Dragonhunter name was announced, and then maybe the first two days of the expansion. But all of that is in line with every other major LS update, or holiday update, or balance change, or really anything that changes in the GW2.

I still love the people on Day 2 of HoT who “quit” because of lack of content. Like seriously, these maps are so ridiculously huge, the story is big and involved, events are everywhere. Don’t even get me started on the map metas and how awesomely difficult they can be.

Some people just don’t like change.

There are a group of regular anti-GW2ers on the forum. They’ve “quit” the game, but spend their free time frequenting the forums to reiterate the same complaints they’ve had over and over. If they see someone new with a similar complaint, that’s like cat nip, they all swarm to add to it. You’ll start recognizing these people. They are also the first ones to call people schills or fanbois or white knights for disagreeing with them.

Very much this. I play a little game sometimes when I should be working but choose to procrastinate instead, you can play it too. When you notice a post that’s really hyperbolic and negative, or you notice a poster making a lot of negative posts, check their history. There’s some real gems that have been doing this for months or in some cases even YEARS- page after page of posts trashing the game over and over again.

Most amusing when you find people making claims a year ago that “this game won’t last six months/1 year/whatever,” “ANet will never release an expansion,” or “I uninstalled, never playing again” from last year, still posting strong today.

Eventually you start to recognize names and it’s like when that crazy uncle visits for Thanksgiving, kind of uncomfortable but amusing.

Like, single click to use items in inventory? I wouldn’t use it, too much opportunity for mis-clicks, but as an option sure why not.

You know you can right click → use all for lucks now, yah?

http://www.metacritic.com/user/SoulstitchMMO

You seem like a very reasonable, rational person who it would be worthwhile to have a logical discussion with. Someone who doesn’t have a chip on their shoulder and can present and understand nuanced arguments from both sides. I’m glad you aren’t another one of the knee-jerk/hyperbolic reactionaries we’ve been plagued with.

Keep up the good work, though, judging from your forum post history, you already are.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

IPhyton.2348:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

IPhyton.2348:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

IPhyton.2348:

Dahkeus.8243:

“will said crash be good for the game?”

There’s a lot of rhetorical charge in that statement, lol.

The economy will be fine. We’ll see some definite change in the economy, but hardly anything to be called a crash.

Well lots of ppl with high ticket items on the tp will loose thousands of gold, in my case I will have 3k gold stuck in the tradepost forever or loose hundreds if gold by relisting. Thats somewhat a crash, since it affects a large portion of players.

In other words, because you have one or more high priced items listed, this shift in the economy that might hurt you means the economy is going to crash. Remember, making an sweeping conclusion based on your particular case is not always justified.

Your wrong. As I said, it affect anyone with items on the tp in different scales.

We’ll see. I have trouble believing that your conclusion that some high priced skins having to go down some in price will crash the economy though. Your pocket book getting hurt isn’t my pocketbook getting hurt isn’t the economy crashing.

Ok pal.

Well, if it crashes, maybe they’ll get a full time economist to work for them to study the economy and model the changes before they make them.

I like you. Can we keep you?

I’m blown away. Having more fun the past few days than I’ve had in years(in a game). Stunning attention to detail, fantastic launch, exciting maps. Exploring just for the joy of exploration. Wandering around, doing events, figuring how to get HPs and MPs, then oh what’s that? Next step in story is ready! Wow it’s actually good?!

Nice job ANet. Keep it up and you have me for life.

No more than character level, so, no.

Agree. Very impressed with everything so far and having an awesome time.

Ellieanna.5027:

If you notice, that is from Level 3. Anet does not have any control over that spot, nor can Anet fix the issue. You need to contact your ISP and inform them so they can let that company know. Anet can’t help you. It’s nothing on their end, nor do they control which hops you take to get to their servers.

I’m aware of that. What I’m more curious about is why I’m being routed through Germany, and if that’s just normal practice or what. It seems strange to a layman.

I’m pretty much unable to play this afternoon due to constant DCs. Yesterday I was experiencing ping spikes but they calmed down- today I’m not noticing any spikes according to in game menu but experiencing the symptoms of high ping: bags not opening, other people frozen in place, etc, all while ping tells me it’s 80-120ms.

Going to leave it be for a bit before I submit a ticket, but in running GW2 diagnostic tool I noticed some oddities, wanted to see if I could get some feedback.

It looks like my packets are being routed through Germany. Frankfurt, to be precise.

ae-3-80.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.138]

This is where the majority of packet loss is happening. The hop before that is California, and I’m in New England, playing on US servers. I did check that IP and it is being reported as being physically located in Germany.

What gives? Is there something about the way that IPs work that I don’t understand, and I’m not REALLY going through Germany, it just LOOKS that way? Because if the hops in my trace are correct, I’m leaving NE, heading out to Cali, jumping around the world to Germany, then back to Texas to the GW2 servers.

It should be relatively simple for someone to make a mobile app that scrapes the forums and presents posts and etc in an app instead of a browser. I suspect there isn’t a whole lot of motivation to do so because the default browser presentation is functional enough, especially on modern larger screen handheld displays.

Are you having particular problems with the interface?

I think that instead of nerfing anything it would be nice to have situations where the full variety of fields was useful.

butt capes best capes

Apolo.5942:

It is ridiculous beyond belief than some one can suggest that having 2 utilities on constant CD is actually a viable alternative.

Those two utilities, untraited, on CD give a ~22% speed increase over time. It’s less than 25%, sure, but not ridiculously beyond belief less.

Traited it’s an ~83% swiftness uptime for a ~27% movement increase over time, a little bit better than the utilities that give the flat bonus.

15 charrs on a dead charrs chest

bladex.9502:

So basically
This entire subforum is filled with people wanting to be rewarded more for the new Mordrem event thingy.
They want to be rewarded more for mindlessly tagging mobs and spamming autoattack, something that takes no skill at all and pretty much everybody with hands can do.
But when we want to be rewarded for being able to solo content that is made for 5 people, something that does take skill, its too much to ask for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

You can cheese Scavengers Chasm if you’re having difficulty- collect as many orbs as you can then park until reset. Repeat until you have 12.

Hardest for me so far was Trolls Revenge, by far. Some of them are trivial though, so I guess it balances out…

Zaron.1987:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zaron.1987:

Should Waypoints really have a fee?
yes. cause one of the last remaining gold sinks in game

Um, the 15% TP fee is the most significant gold sink in just about any MMO. Waypoint costs are likely dwarfed by that.

Waypoints probably still have a fee for two reasons:

• Minor penalty for dying, in addition to having to run back.
• To ‘gate’ new players from teleporting everywhere instead of running, which would mean missing a lot of what GW2 offers.
• To discourage veterans from waypointing for everything.

I don’t know if the current fees do a good job of any of the above. I do know I would use them much more often if they were free, even though I can afford bypassing them.

People have suggested an alternative: make it free to teleport into any city, since that already can be done for free (not counting suffering additional loading screens). Go to the mists (wvw, pvp lobby, or eotm) -> use the asura gate to get to LA -> use the hub gate to get to any other city. This, too, probably won’t happen, for the same reasons.

Um just read!

ONE (!) of the last remaining gold sinks in game . since anet make repair for free. also very kitten action. from anet….

not THE one!

I guess, in the sense that.. If you have 100 things and you take 5 of them away you can say that the last 95 remain.

Danikat.8537:

Honestly I think this situation is a perfect scenario for the vote kick system.

That’s exactly what would happen if someone joined a speedrun or zerker only group and didn’t conform to the group’s requirements and I see no reason it should be any different the other way around. One person racing ahead of the group, skipping enemies and leaving the rest of you to 4-man it or aggroing a boss while everyone else is still in the cutscene is just a disruptive as one person not skipping and forcing everyone else to wait or not participating in the fight because they’re still in the cut scene.

Whatever your chosen tactics are it’s still group content and that means the group needs to be on the same page and working together. The vote kicking system is there for those situations when that doesn’t happen.

So… If you were advertising a zerk speedrun and four people joined seemingly onboard with the idea, go through the first boss… Then decided to start doing a kill all no skip casual style… And you objected, pointing out that’s not what the group was supposed to do… Then they vote kick you… You would be cool with that?

I am pay for go when we do the twice been have got a

The rooting thing happened to me last night during teq. There were no graphical indications of a cc effect, nor were there any status icons. It resolved itself after I got knocked around by a wave. Thankfully there were no recurrences.

I assumed it was an artifact of lag or something, though everyone else seemed to continue doing their thing so it didn’t look like a typical DC.

NumenorLord.6539:

Question 3
Mystic Forge: Y u no give precurser to me?

Zomorros: I did. You weren’t paying attention and threw it back in. Kittening mortals.

Sardath.8524:

With all the builds being zerkers it would be nice to have some diversity. I’m not saying you can’t play with other builds, but they’re suboptimal, especially in sPvP

Is this a typo? How many of of the meta sPvP builds are using a zerker amulet?

I’ve gotten a couple from random mobs in the past month.

eduardo.1436:

Color me impressed! We have the whole week (and more) of old, discounted, and new items, we are gonna get the thief spec fully revealed on Friday (with news on Wednesday and Thursday) AND on Saturday you will reveal the challenging group content! #GJ-GW2!

Yeah looks pretty awesome! What do you think of the the thief teaser art?

Test.8734:

ArenaNet has been mostly spinning on their wheels, mostly due to bad management. Unless they do a massive shake up, it seems very unlikely that they will be able to save GW2.

Test.8734:

Wait a few months and you’ll be able to buy it at a discount, as soon as the bad reviews start pouring in.
…
Save your money. This isn’t going anywhere but down.

Test.8734:

Even if ArenaNet weren’t famous for overpromising and underdelivering, that’s obviously marketing speech. Whatever those “big announcements” are, if you really expect anything good at all you will be massively disappointed.

Test.8734:

ArenaNet is this community’s worst enemy.

Test.8734:

And it wouldn’t be the first or the last time ArenaNet makes a promise they are not going to keep.

And so on for… 14 pages? You seem like a well balanced, reliable person. Someone without a chip on your shoulder, someone who people could rely on for informative and fair analysis.

And, off topic, and, it’s not my thing, and… but lol. Just lol:

Test.8734:

That kind of empty hyperbole is below you.

Followed by:

Test.8734:

Destiny is one of the worst games released this century so far.

Obligatory DOOOOOOOoooOOOOoooOOOOOMMMMMMMM response.

You have no idea how ridiculous this is, do you? Anyone who’s played MMOs for a while should know that these threads pop up regularly on forums for

EVERY SINGLE GAME EVER MADE

To all the Doomy People Ever:

Ugh, just stop it. If you don’t like the game, don’t play it. If you need reassurance from other’s agreement with your opinions then don’t just stop playing, stop playing and start seeing a counselor.

In game ping was reporting 0 for me yesterday. I live inside the server.

Also experiencing high pings(spiking up to 3000ms in open world), disconnects. First time it’s happened for me. Based on traceroute issues seem to be around

ae-1-60.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.10] and
206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.86]

where I’m seeing over 60% loss.

I’m in western Massachusetts.

Full traceroute submitted as a ticket.

Post snarky bandwagon whines on the forums in a heartwrenching attempt to salvage some meaning from my banal existence.

Then log in and have a fantastic time playing, but not admit it to anyone because it’s not cool to like stuff.

Poor grammar, arrogance, no grasp of irony, lack of self insight/awareness, some measure of homophobia and racism, logical fallacies, entitlement, memes, insecurity manifesting in a variety of ways.

This way surprises are always pleasant.

Also, if one were to DC during a personal story instance, say, near the end of a rather tedious quest… One would have to start again from the beginning.

One would then become frustrated and utter profanity at ones monitor.

Today:

pessimist.7294:

Welcome to the dying world of Tyria where not only dragons and several powerful maniacs are threatening the world but also a provider company with a kitten poor marketing strategy.
But until then enjoy your stay and dont mind the bugs which exist since release. Or the toxic PvP community which are worse than CoD and LoL together.

Seriously prepare a parachute to bail out, cause this game is going down for good if the Expansion sucks.

9 months ago:

pessimist.7294:

Turn around while you can, this game is doomed.

pessimist.7294:

1 year from now on the world of Tyria will be empty.

pessimist.7294:

You also dont seriously believe that this game will survive until an expansion kicks in?

pessimist.7294:

Run while you can, this game is doomed. With every patch they break the game a little bit more and turn this into a unenjoyable mess.

10 months ago:

pessimist.7294:

We wont see any significant releases for at least the next 2 years.

pessimist.7294:

GW2 is currently a sinking ship and the devs obviously dont have any plans saving it.

pessimist.7294:

Watch it going much worse from now on. There are barely any new players coming here and many of the veterans left the game or are about to leave. Means less money from the game and gemshop sales. And without these funds and no new ideas which arent complete bullkitten they are not able to bring the game forward. And from this point on they have 2 choices: Either close down the whole game to prevent further losses or they shut down the EU/NA branch and completely concentrate on the asian market which is far more lucrative.

About a year ago:

pessimist.7294:

If this is a strategy to drive out the players out of GW2 into your new game Wildstar I can just say: GJ you just took another step on your slow suicide because me and many other players wont even look into this game after the experience here.

Your predictions have not been very accurate. At least you live up to your name, I guess.

Electra.7530:

You do get the option of unlock skin (which is grayed out) when you right click on the option.

I have so few weapons in my wardrobe as it is, about 9 in total and I have checked every name. I have the greatsword now, but I do not have the sword (level 30 reward from story) in wardrobe.

Priory weapons are so awesome looking.

There is only one skin for each weapon(for each order). There’s only one Priory greatsword model. So unless you picked a different weapon for your level 30 reward, you shouldn’t be expecting any other skins to appear.