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64 BIT Client Patches Slow

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Works now, thanks Anet!

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64 BIT Client Patches Slow

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My 64 bit is also downloading at 2 kbs…

Patched using the 32, worked really well.

64 still won’t patch.

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How could you!!

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I really hope they scrap WvW…. They kept making it worse and worse until this point now, can’t we just let the WVW we know and love die respectfully? It will never be the glorious game mode it once was.

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Are You Mad?

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I jumped off the ledge and glide all the way down to the bottom then run all the way back up…

I didn’t know there was an achievement with it, just did it for fun.

(Those monsters were unresponsive for the most part too)

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Dueling in WvW ... not a good place?!?

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The thing with duels that most people forget when making snide remarks like “Go to OS or go to PvP” is that most duels aren’t organised.

Usually it’s boring, come across another solo roamer and the fight lasts longer than normal, leading to a party up, friendly chat and further duels. NONE of it is premeditated. There are other scenarios, but you’ll find they just happen when they do without any planning.

If you see a group of people standing around, it’s because what I described earlier happened, and more people have seen it and either watched or try to participate themselves, which by this point it should be pretty clear what is going on.

No one has any right to stop you from attacking them, but I can guarantee you that you will become food to the afk players watching from the other 2 servers, and no one on your own server will help you for making that choice.

If you have trouble knowing what’s going on, just watch and see how it pans out, if your ally goes down, go to rez strait away and if the enemy tries to stomp, use an interrupt skill or use your own burst as his skills would most likely be on CD, low health pool and low endurance.

Those casually started duelling groups can steamroll into a monster. I’ve seen them utterly kill roaming in tiers.. In other games lead to an end to mass fighting altogether. At the very least, it goes against the spirit of RvR. I hold no animosity toward my opponents, but I believe getting too friendly with the enemy is dangerous to game health.

Hence a place for such behavior has been specifically created.. Obsidian Sanctum.

Ok.

Well next time I’m solo roaming and come across another solo roamer and we end up fighting for more than 10s, I’ll party him and ask him to stop so we can hold hands and skip to the OS to finish our fight that may or may not turn into a duel…

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Dueling in WvW ... not a good place?!?

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The thing with duels that most people forget when making snide remarks like “Go to OS or go to PvP” is that most duels aren’t organised.

Usually it’s boring, come across another solo roamer and the fight lasts longer than normal, leading to a party up, friendly chat and further duels. NONE of it is premeditated. There are other scenarios, but you’ll find they just happen when they do without any planning.

If you see a group of people standing around, it’s because what I described earlier happened, and more people have seen it and either watched or try to participate themselves, which by this point it should be pretty clear what is going on.

No one has any right to stop you from attacking them, but I can guarantee you that you will become food to the afk players watching from the other 2 servers, and no one on your own server will help you for making that choice.

If you have trouble knowing what’s going on, just watch and see how it pans out, if your ally goes down, go to rez strait away and if the enemy tries to stomp, use an interrupt skill or use your own burst as his skills would most likely be on CD, low health pool and low endurance.

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My experience today with PvP

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It sounds like you’re below your MMR… If the enemy didn’t know how to dodge or use heals and class mechanics that would be my bet.

I think I’m in a similar situation, last night for example won a 4v5 and absolutely creamed it (pic below), next game was yolo q team against a 5 man premade and smashed it, the following 4 games after that were all wins by a margin of 200 and during that time an opponent made a comment about unfair MMR putting him against dragons.

There is a quite a bit of rage in PvP, but Anet has given us a “Vial of Salt” to link for moments like those.

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I would agree on removing celestial

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Remove cele and give all classes the same base stats.

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Exclusivity and Why I Don't Raid

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Completely agree…

It’s horrible to pay $50 for content that you end up being excluded from because you’re too casual to start a crafting profession, and make a full ascended set.

What happened to exotics being highest entry level? what happened to grindless game catered for casuals, THE WHOLE REASON I BOUGHT THIS INSTEAD OF WoW.

As someone else pointed out: 3 Years of a fun game with a casual playerbase, can the elite playerbase keep the game going another 3 years?

Oh the expansion only covered the raids? All this time I could have been playing the new content.

Thanks for the info!

I said content, which is apart of the expansion. Overall the expansion is great.

A lot of “elites” have been here since the very beginning, myself included, although I don’t like being called an “elite”.

That being said, I don’t appreciate me paying $50 for content I can beat in mere moments. I like the challenge and I want more of it. I’m content with having a lot of game being casual-friendly, but isn’t it fair for more “hardcore” players to have something for them too?

A shame that his guild and others are having troubles, but just because you can’t do a VERY small portion of the game with your casual PvE guild doesn’t mean there’s a big issue here. Those people just need to find a separate group to raid with; that’s why you can be in several guilds at once. I have my guild that I play with in general PvE, I’m in a pvp guild, and I have a guild filled solely with raid buddies.

You guys have always had your “Elite” modes though and we had our “casual” modes, like fractal leveling system, we were able to see the story and what’s inside and experience the content at least once before we had a choice on whether we made it more difficult or not… Everyone who bought the expansion should have equal access too ALL of its content too. To me a simple fix would be to implement a fractal system to it or have it work the same as Diablo, easy the first time, harder every time after that.

Atleast then everyone could experience the expansion and elite/hardcore players could continue to enjoy hardcore mode.

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Hero points from pvp?

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Since you already have your pvp character with the skills unlocked, why would you need that?

Some people might only play PvP and dip their toes into WvW or PvE for a short break and would like to be able to earn their elite skills and skins the same way everyone else did, by just playing the game how they wanted too.

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question about shop

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yeah iv been to every toon and bank 5 times and wardrobe but like i said its not even displayed in the wardrobe any more looks like they have removed it from game
it was like 800 gems when i bought it

Might sound silly… you keep mentioning wardrobe… It’s in the outfits tab.

Hopefully you find it, otherwise report a ticket.

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Exclusivity and Why I Don't Raid

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Completely agree…

It’s horrible to pay $50 for content that you end up being excluded from because you’re too casual to start a crafting profession, and make a full ascended set.

What happened to exotics being highest entry level? what happened to grindless game catered for casuals, THE WHOLE REASON I BOUGHT THIS INSTEAD OF WoW.

As someone else pointed out: 3 Years of a fun game with a casual playerbase, can the elite playerbase keep the game going another 3 years?

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replace MMR with pips

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So Dragon ranks and Rabbit ranks all start with 0 PIPS regardless of previous time spent in PvP? Then get matched against each other according to how much they have grinded? That Rabbit rank might have only bought the game 2 weeks ago just before PIP release too…. Hopefully you see that issue there….

I like your idea, but it needs some tweaking… At the risk of sounding like an elitist, maybe it would be good to have ranks factor into the system too..

0-19 in a group with a PIP system
20-39 in a group with a PIP system
40-59 in a group with a PIP system
60-80 in a group with a PIP system

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No PIP for winning?

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I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn twice today I got no PIP for winning?

Is this intended or a bug? If it’s intentional, would you mind explaining why?

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Bunker Tempest viable without DS?

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You don’t need Diamond Skin in your build at all.

I found myself on fresh air > earth lately… much better to overload air, meteor shower and overload air again within 5s… Arcana is more than awsome for DD too.

I’m also using the cantrip heal though when the conditions become too much, relying on staff water 3+5 with blast finishers to heal without condi pressure.

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HoT has changed gw2 community

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Someone ignored me asking for a rez as I laid dead next to the raid entrance.

Sad times, sad…

xD

I hate rezzing people in the jungle and going down as they get up…. Then just watch em run off to a safe spot and waypoint while I bleed out lol.

Aww please tell me that didnt actually happen? That’s pretty low…like who does that? lol

It was a Ranger I found trying to solo the NE Auric Basin HP with the frog and vets everywhere…

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People deliberately tossing games

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And you’ll be able to determine whether someone’s intentionally losing or just new/bad… how?

It may track skill usage…

Someone playing bad will use all their skills while someone throwing will tap “W” every so often not to get kicked.

Might also track that someone is only using skill 1.

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Weapons And Elite Specs

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I don’t use staff on my daredevil, hammer on my scrapper, or gs on my reaper. I get what you are saying but…I take the line for the traits at this point (though my chrono needs it less and less…)

It seems I wasn’t clear with my first statement. Your trait lines shouldn’t determine whether or not you have access to a certain weapon.

Countless

My impression is the coding was too hard to write up to separate weapons from trait lines without giving the weapon access to non-HoT buyers..

There’s also the theory that the weapon tied to the trait line is what makes the traitline itself “elite”. We did after all, buy “elite” specs.
Elite: A select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society.

I would personally like to be able to use Vanilla Guardian build with a Longbow, the new virtues are off putting to me.

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People deliberately tossing games

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After just advancing into the emerald division after 20-something long games of getting through Amber division, I lost a game because we had a teammate refuse to play. He stayed at home and did nothing. He did not d/c or leave, but he sometimes left home and died while autoattacking the enemy player taking the point. I wouldn’t be too annoyed at this loss if I didn’t lose a pip.

The game is rewarding players who deliberately toss games by making future games easier. When a player comes in with the intent to lose what are the rest of us supposed to do. His loss becomes all of our losses.

Deliberately throwing games is not something that we are OK with, and we should have something in-place in the near future to discourage this activity. I would look for enforcement against this negative behavior to start sometime early next week and may be retroactive since the start of the season.

I can’t really comment on system changes, as that is outside of my realm, however I do know that it’s actively being worked.

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Dishonor system is ridiculous. Needs fix!

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2. Okay I tested this intentionally didn’t accept a queue and I had to wait around 3mins so idk you accidentally typed a 0 or cancel they queue to the point it reaches 30mins

3. I’ve never gotten a crash playing pvp. Sounds like a problem you should troubleshoot instead of continuously trying to queue. 2min is more than enough time to get in. 2mins is a lot of time and during this time frame a match can be decided

2 mins might be a lot of time to most people, but myself being an Aussie on wireless net I can say 2 minutes is no where near enough time to restart the client.

Open client > Log in…. loading character select screen takes roughly a minute by itself. Then gotta load HoTM before loading the actual map…

Thankfully I haven’t crashed since using 64b client. And the 64 client is a hell of a lot slower with loading times than the other client. (for me)

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People deliberately tossing games

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After just advancing into the emerald division after 20-something long games of getting through Amber division, I lost a game because we had a teammate refuse to play. He stayed at home and did nothing. He did not d/c or leave, but he sometimes left home and died while autoattacking the enemy player taking the point. I wouldn’t be too annoyed at this loss if I didn’t lose a pip.

The game is rewarding players who deliberately toss games by making future games easier. When a player comes in with the intent to lose what are the rest of us supposed to do. His loss becomes all of our losses.

Just stop playing like many others have.

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HoT has changed gw2 community

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Someone ignored me asking for a rez as I laid dead next to the raid entrance.

Sad times, sad…

xD

I hate rezzing people in the jungle and going down as they get up…. Then just watch em run off to a safe spot and waypoint while I bleed out lol.

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Lord Helseth Has Spoken League is Trash!!!

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Who’s this Lord Helseth?

Just a streamer…

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Super Adventure Box [merged]

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Yes, it’s coming back. ANET has been stealthily adding new SAB assets to the .dat file for the past couple of patches.

Such a shame for all those people who deleted their infinite coin.

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Condi Reapers = Really Not That Great

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But Their hardest counter is the warrior, and it’s always been the warrior. Warriors lack playtime atm but even the core rampage warrior would own any flavor of necro, be it core or Reaper.

That’s why I think necros are still not that great.

Just wanted to highlight this.

Good laugh!

My own personal experience: Warrior is food for Reaper regardless of build.
But we each have our own playstyles and skill levels, so each to their own.

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I'm just going to report you for botting...

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Naming and shaming is against the forum policy certainly. I dunno if it’s against the wider terms and conditions though but you should be very careful about saying you’re going to name and shame.

I think the playerbase needs to take control instead of waiting for Anet to fix our kitten.

Name and shame every afk player you see on the forums for everyone to see until the source of the problem is fixed.

Force Anets hand by either manually removing peoples posts or just fix the kitten so they don’t need too.

These AFK players are destroying PvP.

I don’t condone naming and shaming on this forum as it is against the ToS.

I don’t condone going afk and match manipulation as it is against the ToS.

I will name and shame every player I see on either team starting this weekend. I’ll even build a quick website listing usernames and character names if I have too.

Maybe even a thread on gw2wvw.net would be a handy reference.

(sorry for rudeness… Just had enough of AFK people managing ruin my free time while they go unpunished.)

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I'm just going to report you for botting...

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Naming and shaming is against the forum policy certainly. I dunno if it’s against the wider terms and conditions though but you should be very careful about saying you’re going to name and shame.

I think the playerbase needs to take control instead of waiting for Anet to fix our kitten.

Name and shame every afk player you see on the forums for everyone to see until the source of the problem is fixed.

Force Anets hand by either manually removing peoples posts or just fix the kitten so they don’t need too.

These AFK players are destroying PvP.

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Remove PvP League Icon

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Reduced visual clutter on awesome skill effects followed up with adding clutter to the sides of our names…

nmkvmbhmnjkygdfghhikgskdj;fhjigb (that is me, bashing my head against the keyboard)

Also, already seeing in map chat that “these icons separate scrubs from the rest”… Is that what they were really created for? Because just like AP, it’s now a unit of measurement related to player skill.

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Why do i have to play 2 classes

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A couple of people told me it’s more than 2 classes that you’ll need to play.

Does anyone know?

It looks like you have to play a few hundred games on every class going by the acheivments.

Is this a few hundred games again or if you have most of the champion titles will that count towards it?

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MMR is not reset with the Leagues.

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Thanks god I’ve been playing a glass staff Ele to reduce my MMR before League come xD

I don’t get this comment….

I’ve been playing heaps of zerker staff and get a tonne of wins on it, more than any other build.

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Worth coming back for HoT?

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To simplify it as best as possible.

If you enjoy grinding: Yes it’s worth coming back.
If you want to enjoy the game at your own pace like you have been able to the last 3 years without the need to grind for countless hours to make any sort of progression or get any involvement with the core content being raids: No, not worth coming back.

If you don’t like spending hours grinding and crafting for ascended, then the expansion isn’t for you. Without Ascended, the playerbase will exclude you from the core content being raids.

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AustraliansAllLetUsRejoiceForWeAreLaggy [Merged]

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This proves my point that nobody likes aussies.

move on mates

there are lonely sheep

You confuse New Zealand with Australia.

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Do you know for sure that an Aus server would solve the problem? The problem could easily be with the ISPs and/or the comms infrastructure within Aus in which case a closer server might not help.

It would solve a lot.

+1 to an Aus server. I play with 300-500 ping sometimes averaging out at 1,500 along with a few other Aus players in my guild.

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Multiple Elites, account bound acquisition.

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Dulfy has a guide; perhaps, it has a video…I’ve not looked at it.

Good luck.

I looked for videos for about an hour before I gave up and knuckled down on my thief elite…

9 hours to get it to 80% complete on the new maps. It wasn’t hard navigating the maps, the hardest part was waiting for half hour minimum at group event HP for atleast one person to come and help. I have a tag which made things easier.

So at that rate, it should only take about 170 hours to unlock 17 elites… Yay.

Question still stands: Could Elites be account bound?

I just want to WvW and have fun to it’s full potential instead of… This.

9 hours is a bit long. Get somebody who knows what they’re doing and at least 3 people in your group to fight the champs that needs to be killed and assuming you have no HP at all in central tyria. You’ll be done in under 2 hours for each character

Until you get bouncing mushrooms, updrafts and exalted ideally your run is guided by a mesmer who has those masteries and can port you places. But doing 1 HP run will get you a lot of exploration exp. After I think 3 HP runs I had all the required masteries and then some.

Yup, your calculations are right… did a speed run with my guildmates… 2 hours to get the elite.. that is without using the waypoints.

I plan on doing this after work, thanks

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Invisible Shoes! What the?!

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I’m tempted to play the game without boots equipped, trolling players to think I’m filthy rich/RNGod.

I tried that for about 3 hours and no one noticed… Turns out when people play the game, they don’t admire your feet at all.

2,500 gold or an extremely rare chance in a drop for something no one will notice lol

This is by far the best troll and money sink attempt by Anet yet.

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do dmg increase also increase condition?

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Just on your on hit damage.

*Damage: Physical.
*Condition Damage: Condition Damage.

It usually states what for, Berserker runes I believe is +5% damage and +5% Condition damage as an example.

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That's enough!

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If I understand this right:

You’re complaining about players who are complaining the game THEY bought under the pretenses of “casual, grindless MMO” is now a grindfest with no room for casuals?

They have every right to complain in my opinion, they did after all make a purchase based off marketing tactics produced by this company. A selling point to most players now rendered void.

Arenanet made it very clear that HoT is going to offer the most challenging content to date. Everyone who spent 15 minutes googling the expansion before purchasing knew that. Those who didn’t only have themselves to blame.

They only have themselves to blame because the structure of the game changed on them? Okaaaaay….

It’s great the content is harder, but they didn’t have to shut down the casuals in the process with the unnecessary nerfs to pretty much all the core content in a marketing scheme to push HoT sales followed up by a ridiculous amount of grinding to reach minimum entry level on the core content being raids. What happened to “Casual, grindless MMO” that was bought and loved by many?

Now that casuals were forced into HoT sales, they find out they have to spend countless hours unlocking skills they just bought, fight against mobs designed for “Hardcore” players and then get excluded by players from one of the core features they paid for with hard earned cash because they don’t have the time to grind for ascended gear with work and other real life commitments. With full time employment, time is limited and a game is something you play to enjoy in your spare time.

Yes, I believe they have every right to complain in the current situation after 3 years of investments supporting a game designed to be “casual”..

Anet has basically turned their backs on their main customer base. So the question is, will this “new” version of GW2 get enough “serious” players to replace all the casuals who quit?

Unlikely.

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If I understand this right:

You’re complaining about players who are complaining the game THEY bought under the pretenses of “casual, grindless MMO” is now a grindfest with no room for casuals?

They have every right to complain in my opinion, they did after all make a purchase based off marketing tactics produced by this company. A selling point to most players now rendered void.

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Since when did GW2 become a Hardcore MMO?

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GW2 initially made a lot of sales based off the grindless MMO design and play how you want.

It was breakthrough for MMO to cater to casuals.

Players enjoy the game, found it too casual and demanded harder content, splitting the community from casuals to elitists.

The casuals want to play the game they want to enjoy it, the elitists want to finish the content in the best possible scenarios which causes confrontations over builds and various things between the 2 different play styles.

Before HoT there were many quotes from people saying that the Elitist should be shoved into a corner somewhere where they can’t bother the rest of the community. Now they have raids. The rest of us can raid, but it was mostly designed for the “Hardcore” community. Personally I won’t ever raid due to not being able to finish a CoF p1 run without my partner needing help with something, also I have never crafted ascended, ever. 3 years ago Exotics was highest entry level to anything, when ascended was released, it was supposed to be just a boost for those players who wanted to have that extra stat bonus but it wasn’t meant in any way, shape or form to replace exotic entry level.

The game is changing drastically and both sides of the community asked for this change.

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….. And Elementalist.

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Dulfy has a guide; perhaps, it has a video…I’ve not looked at it.

Good luck.

I looked for videos for about an hour before I gave up and knuckled down on my thief elite…

9 hours to get it to 80% complete on the new maps. It wasn’t hard navigating the maps, the hardest part was waiting for half hour minimum at group event HP for atleast one person to come and help. I have a tag which made things easier.

So at that rate, it should only take about 170 hours to unlock 17 elites… Yay.

Question still stands: Could Elites be account bound?

I just want to WvW and have fun to it’s full potential instead of… This.

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….. And Elementalist.

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Dont just sit there - do something!

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Or you can do something productive like learn the maps.

^ This. The new maps are a lot better than what people are giving them credit for.

Yep, that’s why everyone loves them so much and there is always a queue.

Going by what you just said the old bl’s were hated then because they never really got queued outside of reset night.

Sarcasm can be hard to read.

The old borderlands were perfect if you were into 5-15 man squad battles, the new borderlands is perfect if you’re into solo flipping stuff with no resistance….

I took the bottom towers on an enemy map, then sat there for the whole duration of my 1 hour food buff before I left because NO ONE was coming out to play. I don’t even think there was anyone on map.

I proceed to EB, the only place where you can find an enemy, I realise all my enemies are farming elite specs in a blob hopping from tower to tower, without a completely levelled spec they are under powered and afraid to leave the blob for an engagement, which by all means is understandable. It’s the mentality being forced upon the players currently. As a roamer it’s very clear when fighting new specs that a lot of people havent maxed it yet but still keen to use new weapon skills.

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….. And Elementalist.

I need help understanding this rune

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You should try those scrapper runes on a tempest ele with earth/tempest/water.

All up you can stack 67% damage reduction ontop of being immune to conditions.

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….. And Elementalist.

Some WvW opinions from a long-time player

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Good post, but just like the other 5000 posts over the last 3 years it will be looked at for which direction not to go with WvW.

I was same spot as OP in terms of WvW play hours (6,500 hours), now I don’t touch WvW. And many people saw WvW going this direction from the day they put golems on the trading post.

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tempest bunker ele is OP

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Tempest has heaps of damage negation.

Tempest: 40%
Frost Aura: 10%
Earth: Geomancy Defense 10%, Stone Flesh 150+ toughness, Diamond Skin.

Scrapper runes for another 7%

Having aura build lets you have the ability to apply permanent protection with spammable heals ontop of everything else.

Running that set up with celestial, PVT or Sentinal then yer, you will need atleast 2-3 people.

if you play reaper you should know you can solo ele with it with half decent build without even trying too much..

Without a doubt Reaper would have the best shot and would most likely come out ontop but the duration of that battle would be a waste unless you already had the cap point. I play both classes for roughly 2 hours a day, I’m not a pro, but I know better to not waste time in a 1v1 vs a Sentinal/Cele/PvT Ele, especially now since Aura share.

If this was WvW, yes I would waste the 1-5 minutes fighting the spec just for the sake of a “good duel”. But it’s PvP and constantly rotating for the +1 is essential in such a fast paced environment.

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….. And Elementalist.

tempest bunker ele is OP

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Tempest has heaps of damage negation.

Tempest: 40%
Frost Aura: 10%
Earth: Geomancy Defense 10%, Stone Flesh 150+ toughness, Diamond Skin.

Scrapper runes for another 7%

Having aura build lets you have the ability to apply permanent protection with spammable heals ontop of everything else.

Running that set up with celestial, PVT or Sentinal then yer, you will need atleast 2-3 people.

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….. And Elementalist.

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I got more characters than you, and I have elite specs for every single one.

If I can manage it, you can too.

I assume you PvE?

Everyone has different aspects of the game they enjoy, sadly I think every game on my PS4 has better PvE elements while GW2 combat system triumphs over the rest. SO naturally what I enjoy about GW2 is PvP and WVW. You’re not psychic so you wouldn’t of known this.

WvW each rank up is 2-7 Hero points, getting those required ranks is hard when you’re at the bottom of the WvW tiers, regardless if you were diamond ranked pre-hot, you have to re-earn the necessary ranks required to unlock the spec.

Maybe I should stop being a casual and try to dedicate more than 4 hours a day to the game lol

You do not need masteries other than gliding, updraft, and bouncing mushroom. With simply those three masteries, you can speedrun all the hero points you need.

I really despise PvE in this game…

BUT

If it’s not too much of a burden, would you mind posting a video of a quick run through? You make it sound easy lol

I am really keen to make my Asura Thief, Sylvari Rev and Charr Engineer and would love to be able to quickly level the elite specs up ready for their intended build purposes so I can get back into the action so to speak.

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I got more characters than you, and I have elite specs for every single one.

If I can manage it, you can too.

I assume you PvE?

Everyone has different aspects of the game they enjoy, sadly I think every game on my PS4 has better PvE elements while GW2 combat system triumphs over the rest. SO naturally what I enjoy about GW2 is PvP and WVW. You’re not psychic so you wouldn’t of known this.

WvW each rank up is 2-7 Hero points, getting those required ranks is hard when you’re at the bottom of the WvW tiers, regardless if you were diamond ranked pre-hot, you have to re-earn the necessary ranks required to unlock the spec.

Maybe I should stop being a casual and try to dedicate more than 4 hours a day to the game lol

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Yeah, kinda should be like you mention, like tomes in gw1 ….
on the other hand as a funny note, you had the time to lvl 17+ toons to lvl 80 how can you claim tediousness!?

I pvp mostly, everytime I got birthday exp scroll and 60 tomes I would fast track myself to 80.

Now I have hundreds of tomes, about 5 exp scrolls left and no incentive to buy character slots.

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Does anyone know if something will be done about Elites and duplicates?

I understand that we have to earn our elites, but as someone who has 17+ toons it’s such a tedious task to unlock 3+ reapers, 3+ DH and so forth….

Any chance once we unlock an Elite, it could unlock across your account? I REALLY want to continue buying character slots to make characters with different builds for different aspects of the game for easy swapping but as it stands currently it feels like punishment for even considering that option. I also love going with the mood on what class/race combination I feel like playing. Just can’t do that anymore.

Hopefully someone from Anet can respond, as this indirectly effects character slot sales.

If no changes will be made, it would be nice to know just so I can strip every duplicate class of their gear, sell it off and be done with them.

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….. And Elementalist.

Major WvW overhaul incoming

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Major wvw over haul
-golems are now free to build
-golems now move 100% faster
-golems now do 100% more damage
-golems can now use gliders.

Done and done

That Golem event…..

Might aswell roll with this idea, atleast then I could have a chance at leveling 17 elites up.

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….. And Elementalist.