Guild Wars 2

I leveled my first character by doing events, hearts, gathering (a year ago) and since then i leveled all the alts with crafting and dungeoning. Now i’m leveling my engi and i decided to level him “casual way” by doing hearts/events and exploring.

So what i’ve seen a lot now while i was doing events and hearts was a LOT of dead npcs. This is such an imersion breaker for me. I come to village and see 15 dead npcs lying on the floor. I join an event to escort two guys (charr and sylvari) and pack bull and what happens? Longhorn ram comes and kills both of the npcs! Ram kills sylvari and charr! WTF? Tamini kills seraph just by looking at them. Lionguard gets wiped by everyting that moves.
“Event npcs” are so god kitten useless that i have to cringe and facepalm everytime i see them fight.
Correct me if i’m wrong, but i think there is no npc in open world that could take out any mob 1v1 (not counting important npcs like brimstone).

Share your imersion breakers

Thief
Engi
Mesmer

Bump ‘cough’ ‘cough’

Naetell.3815:

You can use various consumables while transformed.

Check out http://dulfy.net/2013/01/16/gw2-useful-and-fun-consumables-guide/

I know of all these. Some of them are cool, but again, they don’t have much purpose. You look different and that’s all. You can’t fight any mobs while transformed for example.

I like the transformation potions in game, but unfortunely they are pretty much all the same and kinda useless in current state. They all have brawlfight mechanic (meh).
So you can’t really do much other than punch some people in DR if they are using a potion too.

I think there is a lot you could do to tweak potions to make them more cool, more fun, more useful.
For example I’d like to see potions that lets you fight for real (real mobs). I only know of two of such potions, one of them is unobtainable now afaik and the other is cool, but you’re left with your own skills of the class you’re playing.
I’d like to see some potions that would transform you for example into wolf and give you at least five skills that you can use in open world to fight real mobs.

I could come up with so many nice ideas for events to do with my guild if i could use such potions.

Same goes for other items in game. There are quite some items that really has no good purpose to exist. Make those items useful, so we can use them for guild events for example. I’m trying to come up with some fun guild activities/events, but there are so many restrictions or lack of features in this game, that it makes a lot of my ideas impossible to realize.

hendo.1940:

Xaylin.1860:

hendo.1940:

Well clearly it does take skill if you can’t use it properly yourself.

There is a difference between something working properly and using something properly. Of course, you can make Temporal Curtain work. But it certainly does not fulfill the task it was designed for. Wall of Reflection makes this quite obvious.

Except, for the last time, it does.

Its purpose is to cripple enemies that cross it, apply swiftness to allies who cross it and reflect projectiles within its radius. It achieves all of these flawlessly.

Someone’s inability to use a skill doesn’t mean it’s broken.

edit – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CKyzb3CDHc&feature=youtu.be

oh look it reflected every time

I don’t know how many times i will need to repeat myself for you to understand that i KNOW and UNDERSTAND how skill works. I UNDERSTAND that it has radius and i KNOW how to use it properly. What i don’t understand is, why it was designed this way, especially while all other classes can just activate their reflect and it will work 100%.

Btw, how are sure that this works as intended? Are you develeoper? There are skills that are broken since beta in this game, so i won’t asume anything. But even if it works as intended, i still think the "reflection"radius" should be removed.

Get it now?

Now stop suggesting that i’m saying the skill is broken or i don’t know how to use it. Read OP again and come back to me.

OP, how do you play melee without stacking? Or are you saying that all players should be playing with ranged weapons? We are playing mostly melee for a reason – more damage, more boons, faster reviving and more. So, what’s your reason for NOT stacking?

Also, why no meta builds? I gotta laught at statements like this “Uh, i’m gonna use non meta build, you know, just to show these zerk idiots that i’m against it! Even tho i know my build would be weaker, but whatever, i must go with non meta, just because!”
I’m not saying non meta builds are bad, they can be even better, but the your reasoning to not use meta build seems like a same reason that a five years old kid would have.

Bump – also frustrated with all bugs we’re dealing with!

Chase.8415:

Then why are you still here? If you keep complaining about how bad the content is distributed, with the game being free whats your purpose for complaining? They’re not

If people would quit a game just because they have something to complain about, then no one would ever play any game at all. There is no perfect game. So please stop with this nonsense comments that we heard 1000x before already.

And if you’re not complaining, why would anet care then and change anything by themselves? If no one would report a bug, why would they fix it?
Unfortunely with anet even complaining doesn’t work, they just seem to ignore pretty much everything that playerbase wants, but that’s for another thread..

hendo.1940:

“It takes skill to use therefore it doesn’t make sense”.

Oh, pardon me, i didn’t know placing a curtain in front of your feet requires so much skill. /sarcasm

And, just for the heck of it, let’s look at temporal curtain’s description:
Create a wall of energy that grants Swiftness to allies who cross it while crippling foes who touch it.
And now let’s look at Warden’s feedback trait:
Focus skills reflect projectiles. Reduces recharge on focus skills.

So, I think every player would expect the curtain to reflect all projectiles like a wall from reflection, since there is no indication that it works differently. There is no info on “radius” or “height of reflections” or anything.

If you still disagree, that’s your opinion, as well as it’s my opinion that current reflection doesn’t make sense.

hendo.1940:

EnderzShadow.2506:

When in the kitten did ‘radius’ come into play in this conversation.

The op says things will go RIGHT OVER top of the wall… that isn’t kittening working as intended…

What I mean by radius, is that to offer you an example, a traited ranger can reflect Lupicus’ projectiles because their radius is increased to 300, whereas an untraited one can reflect some, but not all of the projectiles aimed at it.

The same case here, temporal curtain itself has a smaller radius than wall of reflection, meaning that attacks can go over it. And then wall of reflection has a smaller radius than feedback, since feedback absorbs almost all of Lupicus’ projectiles aimed at people inside of the bubble whereas you can sit directly in a wall and still take multiple hits because of its smaller radius.

It’s working as intended, just because you either don’t like it or can’t use it properly doesn’t mean it’s bugged.

I think we all know that “radius” is smaller, that’s why it doesn’t reflect if placed at wrong distance. That’s notthing new for mesmers. The question is, why does it have such radius? That doesn’t make sense to me. Mesmer, master reflector, even have to go 20 points in inspiration to trait for focus and then i can’t even get proper reflection?
Every other reflect or “absorb projectiles” skill that i know of are working 100% of time.
If you place wall of reflection in front of you, there is no way you’ll get hit by a mob that is firing at you from ahead. Same goes for smoke screen. And the other reflect skills like daggerstorm, magnetic wave, whirling defence etc., (idk about ranger) all reflect 100%.

Mustafa.7684:

you can farm linen from bags and scrap in iron marches. there is a quest where charr will attack a bridge. Its before the fire shaman meta. The more player there the higher the event will scale.

you can average about 40-60 linen scraps. in about 30 min.

however do this at your risk as there are rumors that Anet will ban you. I personally think the wont but who know….

What’s with all the “rumors” about anet banning players for farming something in game? Seriously, are you saying now we can’t play the game and i should first check the forums, before i join some event in open world? Don’t believe this nonsense.

Xyonon.3987:

Well iWarden reflection is extremly large and safe, IF the iWarden isn’t up to his buggy starring contest …

That’s my point with both skill being unreliable. Example: Hotw p1, second boss – warden failed so many time there, when i needed him the most. Annoying.

Oh, yeah, forgot that smoke screens absorbs…
Yeah i’m putting it just next to my feet if i’m attacking from a distance, but even that doesn’t work always. It’s better, but sometimes i still get hit, because it seems that projectiles from certain mobs travel higher than other, like some of them would be aiming for head or chest while others for legs. Well, just seemed that way, but might be depending on distance, that mobs are attacking from.
Anyway, in each case, there are bunch of restrictions, that make curtain reflections not reliable… So, yay Anet! Both of my reflections on focus are not reliable! Thanks! =/

So I’m wondering is there a reason why temporal curtain doesn’t work same as smoke screen?
As far as i know, smoke screen reflects everything that is reflectable, just like reflection wall by guardian.
Now temporal curtain only reflects projectiles that travels low, close to the ground… If the projectiles are too high, they just passes the curtain normally, so you have to be really carefull and place curtain at the right distance, depending on what mob you’re fighting.
I find this really disappointing for a class that is considered as best in game when it comes to reflections. We even have to trait for it and then it still doesn’t “work” on half the attacks…
What’s your opinion in this? I haven’t seen any discussion about this…

Ross Biddle.2367:

Saturn.6591:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Anet buffed curtain swiftness duration in the past. Why revert it? So stupid.

To make it stackable instead.

Let’s see… imagine you run over your curtain 4 times in a row:

4 × 6 seconds = 24 seconds
4 × 12 seconds = 48 seconds

48 seconds of swiftness with a single skill on such a short cooldown would have been way over the top. Thus, this change didn’t look THAT unlikely.

Edit: Btw, adding “no offense” to an insult doesn’t make it less of an insult. And before you ask… I did not “believe” them. But I considered them to actually be possible, even though I didn’t really like them myself.

Stackable swiftness in this fashion may look like a buff, but mechanically its a nerf, If you have to flee, or chase. stopping to run over a curtain is counter intuitive. Nerf.

Exactly, i’d rather have my 12s than 24s if i run the curtain left and right like a madman.

Agree, there is no reason that iLeap is not getting fix in this amount of time. Even Warden is broken for more about 3 months now… What the hell, Anet? How many more topics we need to make about this!?

Behellagh.1468:

JoxerNL.3752:

Behellagh.1468:

Doggie.3184:

Behellagh.1468:

Well Google+ people didn’t want to go to Facebook.

No one uses Google+ we’re just forced to have one cuz of Youtube.

I don’t believe that. Now forced to have one because you want to rate your Android apps, I can believe. I have a YouTube account and don’t have a Google+ account.

If you want to do -anything- on youtube you do need G+ for it, comments you leave on videos get filtered out and auto marked as spam, the video creators cant unmark them as valid comments due to G+ not knowing who it is, easily seen since no one can “reply” to your comment.
Your thumb ups dont work either.
(I know all of this since I am a creator on youtube)

Who bothers to comment YouTube videos anymore. Especially the ridiculous stuff found in YouTube comments, why would anyone bother.

And you don’t find ridiculous comments here, right?
Besides, it’s not about if you want to comment or not, it’s about how G+ is throwing their kitten at your face on various sites.
Even if there are stupid comments on youtube, that shouldn’t prevent you to post something nice on a video of a song you like for example.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

serialkicker.5274:

aspirine.6852:

Is that really your current health? Could just be that people are tired of rezzing the zerker geared people that should not be wearing that type of armor?

I always try to rez, but if a person goes down for like 5 times I will stop rezzing that one right away.

And every time same comments. Like only people in zerk gear die… Don’t make me laugh, dude. In these events, having soldier armor won’t make a difference.
Some people with non zerker gear tend to sound like they are so proud of themselves and are feeling superior because they can stay alive for what…? three seconds longer?

And also, why shouldn’t they wear that type of armor?

I wear full zerk for PvE on every character and still die very little unless I decide it’s a good time to stupidly launch myself into the fray.
If you die, and get ressed, then good for you; if not, don’t complain, as the people who ran past you didn’t notice you or didn’t think that it was worth their time.

I personally ress people only when I can get away with it.

I’m not sure why you quoted me and suggested that i’m complaining if i don’t get ressed? I don’t complain. I have actually seen people ressing each other when it makes sense. But looks like some people here want to ress every single downed player, no matter in what situation.
Anyway, all my toons are also in full zerk gear and i don’t have problem surviving, unless i’m feeling careless sometimes like you said for yourself.

irk.2047:

Avengor.9147:

Heirlooms can drop from the Alliance bags. Alliances bags can be gotten via Black Lion chests, and a massive amount of grinding.

Hence, get as much Alliance bags as possible plus some farming = bam, 250 found Heirlooms.

so 36 rubble piles x 2 days = 72 heirlooms from rubble piles

I have 83 heirlooms total at the moment… 11 heir looms out of about 1000 bags that I have opened from 10 runs with ~100 bags each… I must have some rotten luck with bags.

Hehe, you think you’ve seen bad luck but no sir! I saved all the alliance bags from today to open at the end. I had a little over 1000 bags and no heirlooms dropped from them.

OmaiGodman.2098:

Ashen.2907:

This annoyed her sufficiently to convince her to log back out.

Overreaction of the year?

Agree.

So she died… Couldn’t she just wp and at least try the content before getting frustrated?
If she gets frustrated this fast, then omg, i can’t imagine such life…

How did you get 250 heirlooms? :/

Oh and gratz!

aspirine.6852:

Is that really your current health? Could just be that people are tired of rezzing the zerker geared people that should not be wearing that type of armor?

I always try to rez, but if a person goes down for like 5 times I will stop rezzing that one right away.

And every time same comments. Like only people in zerk gear die… Don’t make me laugh, dude. In these events, having soldier armor won’t make a difference.
Some people with non zerker gear tend to sound like they are so proud of themselves and are feeling superior because they can stay alive for what…? three seconds longer?

And also, why shouldn’t they wear that type of armor?

Same issue here

I support the idea for 1st person view!

While you’re at it, Anet, please add a title for those with 2000 hours without loot worth more then 3g.

Name.9625:

MrRuin.9740:

This topic is absolutely horrible and filled with ignorant people who just want to attack someone for having a tag. A tag can be very useful in PvE when used right, at Tequatl, Wurm, Temples, Marionette, champ trains and so on. It gives helpful information and lets new and unfamiliar people know where they should be. I could go on, but I already know the response that’s coming.
Its just plain ignorant the way a lot of you replied.

It is also plain ignorant of the tag bearers to think they become sime kind of a superhero or a Saviour only because they were able to grind 100g. Or in some cases even less, they were able to hold a credit card.
Sorry, but you guys have to learn, that there is a lot more than that to be a “leader”. And as long as the majority of you don´t get that i will keep going to block every one of you.

You completely missed OP’s point. Go back to school and learn to read.

Wow, so much hate on the OP. Are you people serious? I think most commanders don’t deserve their tag, but there are some good commanders and they can be helpfull even in pve. It’s not players’ fault that anet don’t know how to make tags more usefull and less annoying in many situations. It’s kinda like some people hating on zerkers for example. Why hate on players, that just chose to play with the most effective build or gear?
Besides, it doesn’t matter if OP is good commander or not, or for what reason he got his tag, his point is still valid! If i had a tag, you bet your kitten i would be annoyed by this change as well.

This thread makes me sad. So many of those bugs are in game since forever… Nice list tho, gj.

Yes, imo they are slowly destroying the game. They will never balance the game, since they refuse to seperate pvp, wvw and pve.
For that reason, every time someone cries about X and Y is op in pvp, they nerf it and a lot of times that leaves us with another broken or useless skil/build.

Not to mention how Anet is absolutely terrible at fixing and optimizing the game.
I had to wait about 4-5 months so they fixed my izerker on mesmer, now it’s been 2 months since warden is broken. If you don’t find such bug important enough to focus on it, to get it fixed asap, then i’m sorry, but you have no idea how to prioritize tasks.

Chaith.8256:

Samhayn.2385:

1) Phantasm mesmer gets all its damage from phantasms,

2) phantasm attacks have a lengthy cool down,

3) phantasm mesmers personal damage output is fairly low,

4) in larger fights the phantasm can die to aoe before it even does its damage,

there are reasons they work differently then pets or minions.

1) Turret Engineers gets all its damage from Turrets,

2) Turrets have a lengthy cool down,

3) Turret Engineers personal damage output is fairly low,

4) in larger fights the turrets can die to aoe before it even does its damage,

Are turrets part of every engineer build? Nope.
Are phantasms part of every mesmer build? Yes.
(every mesmer’s weapon set has at least one phantasm)

This. Absolutely this. I wanted to make a topic about it for quite some time now.
It sure is getting more and more common that people just simply don’t read or just ignore the “requirements”.
I’m no elitist and i actually like helping new players, but when i want to do a speedrun with zerkers, i put it in description and it’s there for a reason, so kittenin read it!

What will we learn next? All the food is actually a huge bug! It was only meant to take up your space in inventory and take your money! :O

Warcry.1596:

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

Performance issues? Bullkitten it’s just another nerf to something that didn’t need to be nerfed.

The fact that you’re making a huge deal out of it shows that it did need it.

Because anet never nerf things that don’t need it, right?

Anet is concerned about performance? riiiiiiiiiiiight

OP, I can’t agree more.
Everything that works at least decently in this game must be nerfed it seems.
It’s like they are trying to kittenin make the game not enjoyable. Do they think that by nerfing damage the fights will be more fun? Because that’s the biggest bullkitten ever. Fights will only be longer and thus more boring. If you want to make more fun, reduce mobs hp and give them more skills, deadlier attacks…
But noooo, for anet it’s – longer and more frustrating = more fun.
I’m really sick of these nerfs everywhere. Instead of buffing other skills that are kittenin useless and no one use them for a reason, they instead nerf those that works perfectly fine. Instead of buffing other classes, they nerf the ones that works fine. Instead of buffing condition and other stats, they will now nerf zerker, so already looong, boring fights will now last even longer. They won’t be more challenging, just longer.
I really don’t understand 70% of the stuff you do, anet. It’s like none of you played any games ever.

jump (spacebar) , dodge (left alt)

No one who would go for legendary would then bother with pve completion, since it takes a lot more time then wvw completion… Or they would, but they would complain that wvw player got it easier..

I hope we won’t need to wait months before they fix this like with iberserker. Because that was the reason i quit the game back then. I came back to game not long ago, and i get another broken phantasm. Can’t mesmers exist with all phantasms working in the same patch?

I’m kinda bored, so i would be happy to help you guys with anything. I’m on piken square (EU). Feel free to whisper me in game if you wish.

Freeelancer.2860:

serialkicker.5274:

Freeelancer.2860:

serialkicker.5274:

I salvaged 36 pieces

Found your problem, bro. Add a couple of zeros and then come back.

Yeah, because you can guarantee that my drop rate will sudenly jump up to 1.0+, right?

I can’t guarantee squat, but I will tell you that anecdotal evidence is almost as useless as making a complaint thread based on nonexistent sample size.

That would matter, if i was claiming that they nerfed drop rate or something. I simply made a thread to see if others are having same issues lately as well ( since i never had this low drop) and in hope that anet, if they changed anything, would finally make up their minds and choose one decent drop rate and stop messing with numbers.
Again, i’m not claiming they changed anything, but since i’ve seen so many topics on this these last months, i can’t help myself but to think there’s a strong possibility that it might have changed something.
After all, we already seen some stealth nerfs so far..

Freeelancer.2860:

serialkicker.5274:

I salvaged 36 pieces

Found your problem, bro. Add a couple of zeros and then come back.

Yeah, because you can guarantee that my drop rate will sudenly jump up to 1.0+, right?

And i said that was just today, 36 pieces, i have extremely low drops for about two weeks. I have salvaged about 250 pieces in two weeks.

Mahaedros.7085:

lordkrall.7241:

No one have any real evidence that a change have happened. And people are getting tired of seeing these threads more or less every week.

what kind of statistical data do you have to back up this statement?

how many “people are tired of seeing these threads”?

why respond? why annoy the guy? he came here for answers and you give him grief.

if these types of threads are not enjoyable to you then why do you read them and post in them?

To O.P: I am facing the same issue as you in that it often seems like the ecto rate has dropped somewhat, but I cannot say for sure and I have to admit that some days I do get a good return when salvaging 9i use mystic forge kits).

I’ve been throwing more rares in the mystic forge lately instead of salvaging (no precursers- yet )

Hehe, yeah no precursor for me either… You know how it is… Rare weapons – mystic forge, rare armor – salvage. At least for me. But than i’m not sure if a should salvage today, hm drop rate seems so bad, but maybe i was just unlucky with first 10 or 20 pieces, let’s salvage 10 more and see… Oh same kitten, well, if i salvaged 30, i won’t stop now, i want to reach some reasonable drop rate, so i salvage few more… Bah, you just can’t figure it out, because who says you’ll get more luck tomorrow? :/

I know, but then again 80% of the new threads were also discussed 100x before.
I’m just frustrated with this rng bullkitten in every corner of the game.
I wish using a master salvage kit would yield 1 ecto guaranteed and then +1 or +2 randomly. Or something else, idk, but pure rng, omg, so kittenin annoying

lordkrall.7241:

serialkicker.5274:

Not sure if serious. I’ve salvaged… can’t even imagine how many armour pieces since i play the game and my highest was 1.1 and those was freaking good times, but 1.5?

If it’s true, gratz, i bet you’re one of those that get precursor once per week too? :P

Oh, I thought we were playing the whole: “Thrown random number in the air and then use it as a complaint”-game.

Why would i make up numbers? I salvaged 36 pieces today and got 15 ectos. I know it’s not a lot to make statistics, but i don’t want to waste all my tokens if that’s what i’ll be getting.

And one more thing. Why are forum people always start with stupid sarcastic jokes, if anyone is making some criticism?
And a lot of times these same people that were being sarcastic and fools in someone else’s topic are then few days or weeks later complaining about the same thing in their own topic. I’m not saying that’s you, but it happens quite a bit.

P.S. for all wondering, yes i’m using master salvage kits too

I guess i’m having a really bad luck last two weeks, but today is absolutely the worst.

lordkrall.7241:

I am going to say 1.5.
What the kitten.

Not sure if serious. I’ve salvaged… can’t even imagine how many armour pieces since i play the game and my highest was 1.1 and those was freaking good times, but 1.5?

If it’s true, gratz, i bet you’re one of those that get precursor once per week too? :P

0.4, that’s all i’m gonna say. What the hell!?

Not just that some people refuse to buy skins because they are one time use only, but there are people, myself included, that refuse to spend any real money in gemstore, because the bussines model is bad and prices are just…
700 gems for town clothes? Why?
+1 Character slot – 800 gems? Why? You would think they would be happy that their players want to create more characters, that means they enjoy the game, but with 800 gems for one char slot…. well, no thanks.
I don’t want to even talk about the “RNG boxes” like the dyes ones….

In general, i have absolutely no problem with gemstore, but i have the problem with how the gemstore operates now, with those prices and rng crap..

I agree, skins should be permanent. One of my end game goals are collecting expensive skins i like. But i can’t really collect some of them, since i can’t “store” them anywhere. It’s buy and use on one char. Lame.

They could make them permanent upon unlock and start adding more skins to the game and gemstore. Right now you have few skins that are way too expensive for one time use only. If there were a lot more skins in gemstore and they were permanent upon unlock, i’m sure anet would earn a lot of money.
And they could also put some new animations and emotes. That always sell very well in game afaik.

Week of constant crashing, sent support ticket and they replied it’s problem on my side and i should contact my isp. I have played this game for almost a year with no problem and now all of sudden it’s my isp’s problem… And funny thing is, this started exactly after the wintersday update. And i have no problem doing anything else online, other games also works well… I’m losing my patience, if they can’t fix this soon in next update, i won’t bother anymore.

Player A: Hey man, wanna do a dungeon?
Player 2: Sure, give me an hour to get there!