Guild Wars 2

Thank you! After all the negative posts I read (and wrote…), it’s a great idea to focus on the positive aspects of HoT.

Verdant brink night: Forced me to tag up and tell people to distribute, ask for status in map etc… Solo deffed a camp, barely survived. Great feel of satisfaction after t4 was reached.

Tarir meta: despite being quite hard, ppl there do a great job to organize it. I’m surprised how easy the coordination goes there.

Tangled depths: Wow, 4 vertical layers. Spent hours to find my way around, very satisfying when I finally understood how to get around there. Events are also fun (if you know how to get to the event).

Dragon stand: The meta there is awesome! It has something epic that I didn’t experience in GW2 or any other MMORPG.

64 bit fixed all the crashes I had (even before HoT I crashed often at Karka, these days are over!)

I thought after finishing all 3 collections, we can essentially craft the legendary backpack, maybe spending a few hundred gold (or maybe a thousand) on mats?

Anyone knows how difficult it really is?

As i asked in another thread, members of multi-server guilds have it very hard to do WvW missions: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-missions-and-multi-server-guilds

Unfortunately, the old WvWers want to keep amongst themselves, and are totally against an influx of casual players that are not strongly tied to their server.

So the answer is (unfortunately): Do PvE missions, your guild is not welcome in WvW, as it has no server pride.

Yes! Even old WvWers start to admit that the megaserver based EoTM is more fun than the new borderlands atm.

Ok I Did It.2854:

Samis.1750:

If you removed the rewards from EOTM, there’d be only 5 guys there, and 3 of them would be the the EOTM designer’s wife, grandmother and ex-wife/dog.

People go there to level alts, k-train or farm badges for their legendary.

People go to WvW even with the bad rewards. WvW is an end in itself. EOTM is a means to an end.

If you removed the rewards from WvW there would be no one in the maps ***oh wait nevermind.

The point is people hated EotM because its not what they wanted, but the hard truth now is, that EotM is now WvW and the boarderlands are the slow K-Trains, and the more and more PvE pugs that realise this, the more the boarderlands will be K-Trained and the WvW guilds will move into EotM for the battles.

What irony that is…

You can either have some ppl run the same raid twice, or fill the remainder with friends/pugs/hired help.

Also since there is no gear treadmill, skipping some weeks is no problem.

Most likely, if what Anet promised about the difficulty of raids, the most elite 10x players of the guild will have a raid spot, the rest will be kittened.

What we will do (rather casual guild) will really depend on the actual difficulty.

no extra cost, you get the full set of colors immediately

Nadesh.7953:

1) Do people think we will get more in the furure?

2) I don’t have HoT, but, the other NPCs from Rytlock’s team, will get a specialization in the future too? I know Logan needs one. And which ones do you think they could get? Someone told me Eir should become a Druid.

3) If we get more elite specs, which one you would like for each class, and which weapons those classes would use?

- Thief: I think the next one should be Sniper (or a better name), and focus on rifle.

- Mesmer: Illussionist, and focus on warhorns.

- Warrior: Warlord, but don’t know which weapon could be.

1) Yes, Anet said that they will most likely add more elite specs in the future.

2) I don’t really know. Rytlock actually got a completely new class/profession due to his “visit” to the mists. Maybe something similarly drastic will happen to others too (I haven’t completed HoT, so I won’t try to make any wrong guesses).

3)

• Mesmer: Dancer, with daggers.
  Mesmer needs a second melee weapon! With chronomancer being a more defensive (shield) and strategic (well placement) spec, an aggressive spec that goes more toe-to-toe with the enemy would be nice.

• Thief: Sniper, with rifle.
  Thief needs that long range weapon.

Firelysm.4967:

1) We have to remove Server selection, and you should pick your server once you join WvW for the first time. We need to filter out PvE people that don’t ever play WvW, because over populating servers for not even participating is not an smart idea.

Good idea! Put the server selection to WvW, where it belongs. This would prevent people from accidentally selecting a bad server when they start the game.

+1, even though this would make it even easier to rush through swamp/molten boss for dailies.

But that problem should be addressed by reward balancing.

Only real activity I’ve seen there is around when Karka Queen spawns, or when Southsun is the daily event completer location.

Delete pls. Players can then go to populate the new WvW borderlands.

Dragonhunter is op. Decide for yourself if I’m a troll, a frustrated noob, or both.

Afaik, if you get the gift of exploration, you’re flagged to get no more map completion chests.

I got the gift even before 100% world due to some weird counting of silverwastes, making me not getting some map completion chests for vanilla maps.

There are quite a few threads in the bug section about that problem.

This would really help with some jumping puzzles. Also if you have pact commander mastery yourself, you should be able to disable the swiftness boon.

This is a well known bug, if you have 100% (old) world completion, you don’t get the chests. No eta on fix known.

I noticed that if you want to complete an event chain, it helps to ask in map chat and to put a tag (even if apple tag) up. Most people unfortunately don’t stray from the zerg by themselves.

If the map is unresponsive to such requests, taxi to a different map instance (usually taxis are available for all HoT maps, at least in EU). It saves a lot of frustration.

I’ve done VB t4 night 5 times out of 6 tries without too many problems (always organized by random commanders), and seen VB day completed almost always.

Long known problem, though no official response when or how it will be fixed.

Philanthropist.7246:

So now even more servers that actually have active WvW are full. I came back to WvW — I am caught on a dead server. What the heck do I do???

It seems sad, but the best thing to do is really spamming the forums, and hope the devs have mercy.

Unless you want to spend the gems required to transfer and you’re lucky to get a spot on an active server.

I had that problem once, too.

Full ack. Even if ANet has not finalized solutions to the WvW problems, at least acknowledging the problems on the formus, and giving a schedule of potential fixes does not hurt.

At the moment a lot of people simply think that ANet does not care anymore about WvW.

Imo, the current server-centric structure of WvW is outdated, and runs orthogonal to the megaserver system for everything else in GW2.

For many old WvWers, servers and “server pride” are very important, which is something I fully understand. Any change should take this aspect into account. (Maybe divide WvW in hardcore T1 and T2 servers, and a set of more casual servers that can be freely changed on a weekly or monthly basis.)

For the more casual oriented people, and for people playing WvW occasionally, the server-centric aspect has become a huge problem. They cannot play WvW with their friends, with their guilds, unless the servers match. Also casual grouping for WvW is extermely hard, as you only have access to the minute fraction of GW2 players on your server.

This caused that many new people shy away from WvW, even if they would like to try it. Now the “old” WvWers see the number of participants in WvW dwindle more and more; and many are even moving to the megaserver oriented EoTM.

If it would be made easier for PvE focused players to play WvW with their friends, I’m certain the new borderlands would see a lot more people. Right now, many people that would enjoy the new borderlands are unfortunately locked behind their server choice.

Nice, as soon as the complaints that masteries are too grindy become old, people start to compaing that they have grinded all masteries and no value from the exp they earn.

Just as expected.

I would recommend also Nuhoch 3 for wallows and Nuhoch vendor (if you want to play in tangled depths at all).

Depending on your priorities, get gilding to 5 first, infinite gliding is awesome!

That gives around 8k gold at current prices. Feasible if you very much want to have the best stats.

I agree, it would be much more statisfying to upgrade the stat infusions to +7.

Are we actually sure that this is not already possible?

ANet wants everyone to grind the new HoT PvE maps and masteries, so why should these things drop in other places?

Could just as well make fulgurites tradeable again if they could be obtained everywhere by anyone.

Yes, I had that problem too, on occasion.

I think most people are just too lazy to start a group or invite you. Especially on maps that did not reach a high meta level (yet).

To get a group nonetheless, I usually just invite random people doing events with me. So far this worked well, and nobody complained yet.

As for other map responsiveness, it pays to taxi around to find a map with a more active map chat.

Warlock.7136:

I overheard some people talking in Lion’s Arch and I hope they were trolling. they said SAB is currently being fixed and coming back. I hated SAB and I breathed a sigh of relief when the date it happens rolled by without SAB, so i’m sending a forum prayer to the gamer gods with the hope that SAB will not return. the playstyle of SAB went out of date in the 80’s. I do not want the dev team wasting their time on coding levels with Super Mario Brothers movement and Legend of Zelda combat(grab improvised weapon and attack with it whack a’mole style). gw2 is a cutting edge game and it’s content should be cutting edge as well. 8 bit graphics and the above coding barely kept me entertained when I was 8 let alone now. I want my character with gw2’s advanced combat mechanics in all nonmini-game content.

If you want to play a cutting edge game, play one of these mainstream shooter games. There’s even a MMORPG like that on consoles.

GW2 is fortunately a bit more diverse, and caters to more styles.

Also, nobody forces you to play SAB. Why ask to keep out content you don’t like. As it is, others enjoyed it very much, and SAB has been one of the top activities players asked to return.

Lemondish.3268:

It is far more than that. The guy I was making the bow for is a new player that purchased HoT after the game went free. I felt the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to get him a Wanderer bow (because that’s how he wants to play) was to craft it for him.

In order for him to get it, though, he will need to level Huntsman to 400 and gather the materials himself.

That is unacceptable. ArenaNet has really missed the mark on introducing new items in this expansion and it is extremely disappointing.

You’re right. It used to be that you needed crafting only for ascended gear. Exotic gear could be obtained in a lot of other ways (trading, guild commendations, karma, dungeon, karka shells, WvW).

Now a lot of stat combinations of exotic gear need to be crafted by yourself, with materials gathered in very specific places. For new players, this is very disheartening.

Yes please. Of course with a hefty upgrade cost similar to the original cost to the infustion. Maybe 1 stack linseed oil and 1 stack leyline infused tools.

In the process, the stat bonus should be raised from +5 to +6.

We need something to grind to

Shouldn’t WvW be made more attractive, so that players go there on their own, instead of removing any alternatives?

You are asking something similar to the dungeons nerf, SW nerf etc., just to lure people into more desirable content. Do you think this is a good idea in general?

Unfortunately, all these new account bound currencies/items are killing the “play how you want” paradigm more and more.

If you want gear with the new stats, you have to play exactly these events that drop the corresponding crafting mats.

On the other hand, if you don’t want gear with new stats, all these new rewards are useless to you. To get gold you are locked to the few events that actually give tradeable items worth anything.

Please ANet, make more things tradeable, and stop locking almost anything new to your account. Nuhoch hunting stashes and fulgurites were a nice way to make gold from HoT content, but unfortunately they have been made account bound too.

XxsdgxX.8109:

Please just no.

Would you care to explain why?

Do you think it is fair that I get better PvE bonuses just because

(1) I have the money to change to a better server and
(2) I have the time to raid before WvW reset?

Nohoch stashes have been made untradable (account bound), but for some reason they still show up in TP search.

Either the TP takes time to update, or this is a bug.

Guild Banquet Schematics seems to be the cheapest way. Still cost a few gold each, but less than other options, and the price is likely to go down.

While the devs listen to the PvE and PvP complaints, and made some changes already, in WvW nothing like that happens.

Except that nodes were nerfed…

Yes, they are made by scribing.

It’s the primary use of scribing, along with crafting decorations.

Coming in a few weeks with raids.

How to fix: Make WvW bonuses WvW only. For PvE, a similar static bonus should be applied to all players.

There is absolutely no reason to have different PvE bonuses depending on some arbitrary server choice.

Please make it possible to guest on a common server to do WvW guild missions.

At the moment, it depends on your luck whether there are enough people from the same server in the guild, making WvW missions essentially exclusive to dedicated single-server WvW guilds.

This would also bring a lot more people and guilds to WvW. To prevent messing up the balance, this could be restricted to lower tier and sparsely populated servers.

It’s intentional, masteries are PvE only. See e. g. the non-availability of WvW autoloot.

I had the same problem. I was at 96% world completion when HoT was released, and with Southsun/Dry Top/SW I got the gifts of exploration and some notification right away.

Now I finished world completion to 100%, but I didn’t get the map completion rewards of the maps I completed now (Timberline Falls, Dredgehaunt Cliffs, Fireheart Rise).

Working again for me.