Guild Wars 2

The only “dungeon” without some sort of repair station are Fractals. Everything else should have a station somewhere.

In what way are Fractals “pointless” more than any other content in the game?

Cygnus.6903:

sbr.8170:

They say that will be released in the next batch of Ascended Gear but there is no timetable on when that will happen.

Where did they say this? And is there word on Carrion?

2nd post in this thread

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Missing-Ascended-Stats-Bug-or-Intentional/first

In ~900 hours of play I have had 3 Tier 3 Dyes drop, and I kept them all for myself. One white, one cotton candy and another reddish one I forget now.

You have to be invited to an existing Guild or create your own.

What things are you looking for in a Guild? Asking aroung in map chat and talking to the recruiters that advertise on map chat would be a good start to find an existing one on your server.

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

Check out Glyph of Elemental Power instead of Signet of Fire (think about this: Meteor storm or Glyph of Storms + burning), and also look into Arcane Wave – that blast finisher is awesome with all the fields that a staff ele gets.

Trait-wise, swap out Earth XII for Earth VIII (20% longer bleeds) or possibly Earth IV (5% more damage to bleeding enemies – I think even when not in earth attunement).

And if you don’t have a sigil you love, get yourself a Major/Superior Sigil of Battle (2/3 stacks of might (20sec) on [attunement] swap, internal cooldown of 9 seconds) for more might-stacking awesomeness.

Changing attunements counts for changing weapons on those? I feel like I should have know that already.

It is 12 unique puzzles. You can’t do the same one 12 times, other than that I haven’t noticed any problem.

How is PvE/Dungeon balance in other MMOs? This is my first MMO so I have no idea. While depending on skill/class knowledge any class is viable in any PvE content, there are definitely some that seem to consistantly work out better than others. Is that not the case elsewhere?

They say that will be released in the next batch of Ascended Gear but there is no timetable on when that will happen.

This thread interests me, I have been wondering how my Ele compares to other peoples’.

With the way parties and guesting works I have never not been able to go to any dungeon I have wanted to do within a couple of minutes.

Greenitrab.4913:

Wow. March just hit and Carrion/Valkyrie are STILL not in the ascended gear. I think I’m beyond even getting upset about this every month now (how long has it been since ascended release? 5 months?)… This just doesn’t make any sense anymore. Why are they not in there?! the dev replied they would be implemented weeks ago :\ booooooo

Out of curiosity where did they say that?

Callixylon.6570:

I always mention that I haven’t done it before if I do a new dungeon path, but if I put in a post on gw2lfg stating that I’m new to a dungeon, I rarely get an invite or people who want to join my group. I also had people leave me when I said I only did a path once.

I rather not join a group myself because I don’t know if they are ok with newbies. Most people on gw2lfg are looking for experienced players only btw, so I can understand why newbies sometimes don’t say they are new. Harder to find a group and afraid to get kicked.

Are you in a guild, that is really the best way to learn the dungeons in a friendly environment.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Quick answer to one of the questions I have seen:

You will still be able to salvage weapons you get from dungeon tokens, the change only applies to vendor weapons you could buy with coins.

Could we ask what the reason for that change is?

Ision.3207:

Oh dear, it looks like it’s time to copy and paste an old post of mine, and try YET AGAIN … to get a response …

Ascended: Carrion and Valkyrie

Devs, both myself and large number of other people within the GW2 community would greatly appreciate some sort of Dev response to the question of whether or not Ascended Carrion and Valkyrie gear will be released.

The reason it’s important for some of us to know is, because If the answer is YES:

This would also allow a great number of your customers to proceed with their current builds without wasting any Laurels for different Ascended items that they never needed to get in the first place, because they now know that Carrion and Valkyrie are going to be released (as well as saving myself and others time in trying to re-invent our builds). So a simple “yes” (even without a fixed date or time-frame), would be hugely appreciated by a great number of your customers.

But even if the answer is NO (or “maybe”):

A simple no, or maybe (“maybe” as in, perhaps in the future, but not currently planned)would still be hugely appreciated, albeit, disappointing. Sure, a “No or Maybe” would no doubt result in a 150 post thread of QQ and over-the-top posturing by the usual folks … but so what. Because if there is no response at all, eventually that QQ thread will appear anyway, just a month or two months from now, and the QQ and ridiculous comments will only be that much greater. But if in fact it’s going to be a no, then you would be doing me a great favor in letting me know now, instead of later, thus allowing me to make the proper adjustments to my character build and current playstyle.

So Devs, please, give us a heads up on this issue, because I know you guys read these threads, or at the very least skim through them a bit.

Thank you.

The dev above said it will be released so your question was answered last month.

Was there another announcement or statement that implied that they might be released today?

The post above that keeps getting quoted here says that the next Ascended gear they release will include Carrion and Valkyrie. There is absolutely no implication of when that might be. Unless there was another statement that changes that anyone outraged and accusing people of lying here are of base, IMO.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Whispers-leggings-ruined/first#post1703586

Like 6 threads down.

Can’t say for sure but I would imagine that was the entire point of the change.

I really hope this was a mistake as well. I don’t really have a dog in the fight, as I don’t have nor do I plan on getting Whispers armor, but why woudl I ever spend any time or money on dyes or skins when some dev in Seattle can just decide to make my toon look any way he/she wants.

OutspokenAardvark.9781:

LinseyMurdock.4165:

OutspokenAardvark.9781:

Could we please get an official response if this is an intended nerf or an overlooked mistake?

It is neither. It just takes time to build these items and there is a huge amount of stuff on our list of things to do. We aren’t done adding stat combos. We will continue to add them as we have time to do so. With this batch, we wanted to even out the spread of primary stats and we already had a lot of stats with Power or Condition Damage as primary (more than any other, in fact), but I’ll be sure to get Valkyrie and Carrion into the next batch.

So basically this was a lie.

Did they add some ascended items I missed? The quote from the dev says they will be in the next BATCH, not the next PATCH. Until they release ascended gear that is not Carrion or Valkyrie this is still a true statement.

I had a mosquito drop a spear gun, that got a pretty good laugh from me and my guild mates.

I just finally changed my settings so I control the camera with the right mouse button and i would LOVE to see an option that allows you to turn off right mouse targetting.

Cowrex.9564:

Zenith.6403:

Are the patch notes released? I’ve heard some players talking about changes to professions, but I haven’t seen them.

As for the patch notes, aren’t they always released after each update?

Last month they released the patch notes a couple hours before the patch went live, but that was the only time IIRC.

Hopefully they do the same today, there shouldn’t be too many major changes in the next couple of hours I wouldn’t think.

I know the first few times I did the fight I never saw the skulls, but then I realized my field of view wasn’t zoomed all the way out. Once I made that change I see them every time.

FWIW

Oops, just noticed akamon already addressed that.

Keiran.1896:

sbr.8170:

So they should be done 2 days before they say they will be done?

That’s kinda better than 2 days after, isn’t it? :P

Have they ever released one 2 days late?

So they should be done 2 days before they say they will be done?

What is freedom of stats?

I prefer fun to efficiency so I guess I don’t understand the question.

I suppose it depends on your definition of “reasonable”.

I find it more fun to run different party set-ups occasionally, though I’m not too concerned if my CoF run takes a minute or two longer so I am probably an outlier.

Just opened Balthazar on Yak’s Bend

I would have never bought the game so I couldn’t tell you how I would feel now.

I do make random Gem purchases to support the game, but have no interest in a forced subscription model.

As long as you aren’t expecting perfection, with proper skill and reasonable level/gear I think any group is viable. A guildie Mesmer and my Guardian picked up 3 PuGs for a run, I don’t remember the dungeon but it wasn’t one of the easy-mode ones. We ended up with a Ranger, Thief and Necro. We did pretty well in the end. It look us a bit longer than a normal guild run with voice chat for everyone but the three PuGs knew the dungeon, their class and their role in both.

If you are expecting speed runs and perfection then you might have problems.

The only pattern that I have noticed is that my guild group gets Cliffside every kitten time.

I’m not very in the know on tech stuff, but what does an SSD have to do with loading character models in an event?

There’s lots of character bound stuff.

Souldbound Gear.
Access to dungeons by level of character.
Fractal levels.

Just off the top of my head.

Halanna.3927:

Goatjugsoup.8637:

Unless you are very lucky I would imagine it being cheaper to just buy a precursor off TP

And that is really a shame. When your character does finally earn their legendary weapon (if ever) it should have been earned by the character, not bought off the TP.

That just kills the experience of your character having a legendary.

Oh look, I have a legendary, yeah, I bought it. Blah.

That’s pretty much the way I feel about it. I’m not all that bothered that others do it, or how hard they are to get. I just don’t want to buy it, I want to get it myself.

In theory I am slowly working my way towards one, though I am not going to get too carried away until I how to obtain a precursor without paying 100’s of gold for it.

Most of the requirements for the Legendary will come as I play the game, I like to wander and farm and kill stuff, but I’m not going to start spending 100’s of gold or skill points or karma until I have a purpose.

I don’t think Precursors nees to be a whole lot easier to get, I just don’t want to get committed now and never end up with one.

No we don’t but thanks for the input.

I think every Guardian should have 5 points in Virtues, regardless of the rest of your build.

Ioflux.4369:

“NO NO NO. We should go to the armory. That’s where Zadorojny is likely to be.”

:D

Currently it is one chest, per character, per server. Just make it so it is one per character on any server. It can’t be that hard can it?

First off I am in a small, but very good and coordinated guild that mostly runs dungeons and I am hoping to branch off from my Guardian. I would be looking at AC/CM/TA and >10 Fractals until I hit 80. My guild or myself is not that worried about not being 80 in dungeons and I wouldn’t PUG with the Ele. You might not think it is a great idea but hopefully we can keep this from being “your not 80, no dungeons for you!!”

I just hit 60 last night during the level ~60 Vigil personal story mission and realized I take a LONG time to kill things. I don’t remember my exact build off the top of my head, but it is probably something like 0/10/10/10/20. I started this character just after release, before I knew what I was doing, and just recently picked him up again. I mostly run S/D when soloing but would be moving to Staff as I group.

So what would be a good starting point at 60 for this? Also assume I am going to completely re-gear in mostly greens, but maybe a rare or two.

Thanks in advance.

Human Female Guardian
Charr Male Elementalist
Norm Male Ranger
Human Male Mesmer

Maybe because you are playing the wrong game?

No

I don’t see much reason to gain 10 levels just to fight critters that are 10 levels harder.

Valinerya.6713:

I’ve been checking out my collection of games on Steam. Some good stuff in there.

I suppose it’s stupid for me to become emotionally attached to a game. But this latest jumping bug… combined with all of the other issues in the game, such as poor world loot drops, the latest Mesmer break, the devaluation of the small amount of gold I do have, Bandits knocking you down repeatedly till your dead… it’s depressing logging on.

I play games to smile, have fun, unwind. I do not play to become stressed, unhappy, or frustrated to the point where I want to scream.

I now have a very fun game of CivV (with newest expansion from the Steam sale) going and I just installed STALKER SoC for the first time. Not much reason to bang my head against a wall that they don’t seem willing to fix.

kanikani.2430:

This is what happens in a game when it becomes more about ‘points’ and less about ‘fun’. These kind of win at any cost ‘tactics’ are often what kill pvp games. I talk to a lot of new people in WvW and they ask me about this kind of stuff from time to time and most say it is ‘stupid’ or ‘unfair’ and makes them not want to play. Anything that makes people not want to play a game should not be in a game. I have noticed that PvP players have a high tendency to kill their own fun in the long run.

There are simple things Anet could do to discourage this, but they have done nothing with WvW at this point so it is unlikely it will happen.

What simple things could the devs do to keep PvPers from kicking a downed opponent? I personally can’t think of anything other than a straight 1v1 matchup, and that isn’t as much fun. As others have said I think this just comes with the territory in a 3 sided PvP match up.

Peetee.9406:

Iohanna.4863:

The question is: if this is an oversight, why haven’t they fixed it already? Wouldn’t this have been fixed in the last patch if it were unintended?

It’s not intended, but it’s not a priority either.

Many players have the misconception that WvW is meant to be ‘End-game’, it is not. It is meant to be a side game much like keg brawl where you hop in, beat on a few keeps for an hour, and log off.

It’s nearly impossible to balance PvP and PvE before introducing WvW into the equation. WvW will always be third on the menu, ultimately it’s why you see constant PvE and PvP additions but only very minor fixes to WvW.

We are the minority and our issues (such as rendering) may not be addressed until months from now.

With their stated goal of putting out new content every month we may never see s fix to this, and other outstanding issues.

Too bad the new content isn’t worth it either.

Yep I already threw it back. Thanks for the answer.

I think I am glad I can’t get past level 2 because of disconnects and crashes. As good as the dungeon level design part of the Fractals is the rest of the implementation is so horrendous I think I will not bother even if they figure out how to make the thing stable.