Guild Wars 2

the best map to complete requirments for elite weapons collections is VB. The POIS gated behind night time, can ben reached in a single run.

you are saying to go for hours killing the same mob using the same skills to go up one level is the fun? Play WYD. From level 1 to 400 is like 2 years LMAO. they even facilitate the work, there is a bot implemented in the own game, you can go to school and leave the PC on. Have fun with a game without playing it.

hot is a response to the demand for more challenging PVE content. At the time of beta testing, the mobs were easy as Core Tyria, and this resulted in massive complaints from testers who said that the content was boring, then Anet modified the difficulty. Currently I play with more glass cannon class possible: warrior zerker, no defensive traits.

I completely agree with Harper.4173
Im old and played many mmos, gold limit and account limits is the worst thing.
GW2 is one that has the best economic system.

Since the last gear set (ascedend or exotic) does not cost so much gold, it makes no difference between those with 1 million gold and 1 gold, why with these sets, they can have access to any content the game and that’s it what matters: the content.

And what kind of player cares more with gold than with the content? the gold-selling. Ironically i met guild wars through a friend who is a gold seller, he lives to hunt games where possible this kind of business, he left the gw2 with three weeks, when he realize it was not that kind of game.

I finished it many times with connection issues.

All u need is a good partner, most difficult on ls stories is linked to class mechanics.

im usually online 0:00 server time, i can help anyone beat it.

i payed a fried to do it for me in my home, i hate jumping based games.

Its soloable even with warrior berserkers once u get the boss mechanics. i helped many new/random guys finish it, even when the guys died.

But i recommend some regen food(mango pie), or skills. u didnt need change all ur build.

The last time, i was randomly search for pods on Dragon Stand when someone whispered me asking for help.

the majority of deads was on fly phase.

btw with glider+experienced player, the core tyria exploration become insanely fast.

Im almost a melee, and will stay alway from WvW ranged wars. i find my place in Eotm. The current fights seems more a kind of gunbound match.

If they develop viable arenas for GVG, even in Guild Halls, expanding it, it will be a Win-Win situation, players dissatisfied with WvW will have their guild wars, and they will take good advertising to sell the HoT. plus, eliminate complain about Guild Halls being just waste of space.

Same here, i always hated have alts in games. My main in gw2 is warrior. other alt was a inventory mules.

My first real alt in Gw2 is a necromancer/reaper, cuz i fall in love with Dark Harvest and dreamed using it in my Warrior.

Then i find that have a alt isnt a “hell nightmare”, and created a guardian, and a revenant, all now with elites weapons/gear complete, all with a optimized WvW/Pve build. My main warrior now have dragonhunter glover, herald shoulder, ydalir as longbow and darkhaverst as gs . These news skins for heavy classes is great.

This is only possible in Gw2, cuz of the principle of maintain game playable to all lvl 80 characters with exo gear. Except one high llvl fractals that need ascedend gear to Agony Res.

its suggested thousands times. no ideia why this still ignored.

I helped many new guys killing it, in many times the teammate was killed and i soloed.

The trick is basically to understand the Boss does not do much damage and so do not need to panic with his attacks. if you feel dying too easily, change some skill to something more defensive, or even use Mango Pie.

in the fly phase, just fly, use updraft when needed.

i will welcome any banners buff.

Banner of Discipline , is essencial to my ultraglass cannon build on PVE, focused on using the GS full time in PVE.

Essencialy, i take out the discipline trait and put strength, and walk using the banner #3 and #4 to travel(and in pve we travel a lot) instead of Warrior’s Sprint. the banner discipline ferocity buff + berserker mode ferocity passive, make get near 240% of ferocity.

What make the banners great its their lifetime spam, 90s for 120s of cooldown. its work near like a passive skill.

unfortunately they seem impractical for competitive use in pvp.

i completely agree with ODB, and with other guys that liked hot too. I will not repeat what they said, I will add that I have not read here yet:

- I liked very much the leystone armor, for the first time we have a “shining” effect armor outside gemstore.
- As big fan of map exploration, i liked the new maps design. Each one of the 4 maps is unique.
- Im near complete all Hot Content after 4 months, i didnt do any kind of CoF/Spider. My “exp farm” was Dragon Stand meta.
- For now I returned to Central Tyria to complete masteries. Im searching for some legends colletions items too. I like the lore behind some items, and coming back to places I had not seen a long time. After some Central Tyria, i will back to HoT to work for “the great reformer” title.

In the firsts HoT beta tests, the mobs was like normal tyria, the beta testers become furious, and complaints were almost unanimous. if Anet someday wanted the players left the HoT, all they need do is just leaving everything easy as Central Tyria.

i have played HoT since lauch. And now has more players than the beginning, test put on LFG “DS Taxi” and see how many people, they will appear in milliseconds.

I stopped a little time with the HoT, and went back to doing only Central Tyria to complete collections and masteries.

About rewards, there is a belief that Silverwastes is still the top when in fact, a complete round of Silverwastes run, can not compete in terms of rewards with a complete round of Dragon Stand or Auric Basin. Just do the test, run the theses events, sell all materials and savages, and check how much gold u get.

i have played magumma with warrior all days since hot, and after thoushands of builds, currently i use the most glass canon ever build: gs as weapon. berserker+arms+discipline. its fun even against some op vets and mobs groups with a shadowleaper. i have tried some condis in pve, but its boring and tedious.

but this outside the Hot, in core tyria will make game ultraeasy(boring) cuz mobs in core tyria are very weak. if u want “more fun” in core tyria u will need “alternative” builds which artificially decrease your dmg and u have to rely on spam more skills.

I just dont get it. I dont understand the thought process behind a lot of these changes and why you guys dont reach out to us and atleast attempt to explain it. Our Mace and Hammer absolutely suck. Our axe has a chance to be great, but its rivaling a superior weapon.

This.

When a warrior needs ranged weapons for more survival ou dmg, is a sign that something is wrong with class design.

I always pickup heavy-melle class in games, and what I want of a warrior in GW2 is that I had in all other games, walk with a giant sword, axes, hammers and crushing everything out.

I do not want to seem “smart” to anyone. I do not want run fast and bouncy look like a ballerina .. not want to look like a ninja who is invisible and is thought “smart” or something, i dont want be a “powerful magician” or a merlin. I want be a warrior, carry big guns and cause fear. Thats why i pickup a warrior in mmos.

Anet guys should look on a Neverwinter Warrior/Orc combo. They already have BIG damage base, and their equivalent of a “berserk mode” is focused on sustain survival.

arms+disciplin+berserker is amazing on pve u get a near perma adrenaline with that.

When i have time i will write some guide, kind of “Hot for solos and lonewolfs”, It is what is needed to stop these complaints here.. Currently i play HoT with the squishest Warrior Build.

It seems that the guys only makes World Boss Train every day are struggling with Hot.

What you guys think about the two areas not implemented? Thorn Hollow and Deserted Coast?

And in map drawing there is a small strip of land that connects dragon stand to the ring of fire.

about the difficulty, I feel very at first mainly because my main is a warrior Zerker glass cannon. I switched to a defensive build for some time, but after months of testing, I realized that instead of being defensive, would risk being even more aggressive and it worked. When I have free time, I will make a guide or video, for glass-canom style play in pve hot. Currently my warrior does not even use the defense trait line, is full-Zerker and i solo hot a lot. I use Discipline+Arms+Berserker traits and a good old greatsword, i soloed some HP with this, like the 3 golems in TD.

particularly like geography and exploration, so I played a lot RTS. in this regard the Anet does a masterful job on their maps. .It is much better than even some offline games, which while not having to deal with connection problems tha maps of theses games are large empty spaces only. Even the simplest like Dragon Stand has a certain aura of “mystery” and adventure while walk through him. GW2 reminds me of the good old days of Super Metroid 2.

After HoT, the core tyria mobs seems extremely boring.

HoT maps requires some time to master it, like 2 months, but after u dominate it u feel that worth it.

In Beta times, the major big complaint was when mobs was easy like core tyria, so the devs improved their difficult, making it more hard.

But i agree on hate on minigames.

i have the same problem of dont have fast reactions, that why i always pickup heavy classes/warriors on mmos. but its not linked to age, since im teenager i always liked more fight games instead of “jumping” games.

i rarely use mouse, i use num pad keys section to bind skills, so right hand deals with skills, and left hand only with movement, i use mouse only when i need adjust camera.

the square design of numpad section of keyboard allow fast choice of skills and finger movements. and even if u need mouse, the numpad is on right, then is close to mouse.

theres a pic of my config.
http://i.imgur.com/9xeNvGJ.jpg

for hardcore grinders its cheap. in last december, with free-time i was making 100g per day, i buyed many gem stuff with gold. im farming to full bank/mats yet.

according to them, what will happen is the introduction of new lines of masteries.

Post script: Theres a “side history” told by meta events in 4 maps. Culminating with the pact defeating mouth of mordremoth.

in short, the history told by metas it is:

1-Verdant brink. The pact recovers from the destruction of their area fleet and establishes bases. It has a lot of mini stories here. As the noble Lord or Farren.
2-Auric Basic. The pact, most on this map, being members of Durmand Priory, help defend Tarir against a Mordrem megaassault. again plenty of mini stories and lore.
3-Tangled Depths. The Order of whispers, prepares a big hole to invade the Dragon Stand. Theres much Rata Novam stuff here.
4-Dragon Stand. The pact, mainly vigil members here under Laranthir of Wild, atacks “mouth of mordremoth” their physical form, while Pact commander fight his “mind”.

the topic of the author exaggerated. But he’s right about some kind of textual system with in-game lore. It is not difficult to implement and efficient.

It seems to me that Anet been doing experiments in this direction, because they introduced this gizmo that is a type of book. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zinn's_Study_Guide

Choppy.4183:

ugrakarma.9416:

when using warrior greatsword skill #3, sometimes at the end of turn he is giving blows with the greatsword to the side, usually right. anyone else seen this? dont have pic yet, cuz its seems little random.

I don’t understand what you mean. We’re talking about something that’s happening when Whirlwind Attack ends, right? I’m not sure what you mean after that.

yes, when Whirlwind ends, he does a strange moviment.

i will try get a pic or video later.

more “defensive”, they will put reflects and “shield generator” instead of shots.

Dark Templar Shoulders and Armor u buy that skin cheap with Badges of Honor(WvW currency). The hard to get in the pic is the arah legs, u will need dungeon currency.

when using warrior greatsword skill #3, sometimes at the end of turn he is giving blows with the greatsword to the side, usually right. anyone else seen this? dont have pic yet, cuz its seems little random.

theres really something wrong with Guardian/Dragon Hunter in PVE. I did hot history with warrior, guardian, reaper and revenant, and Guardian is more squished than warrior, detail that in my warrior i use 0 defensive traits.

mentor cant create large squads with 50+ ppl, and dont change colors. Ppl uses mentor as last option. in Hot maps is commom mentors leading hp runs or events. they are blocked in WvW.

Requian.5791:

I’m personally really looking forward to Deep Sea Dragon, because I think they can take it and it’s domain in a very lovecraftian direction, everything we know about it already suggests it. It’s domain is the unknowable dephts of the oceans, and the only description we have of it’s minions are “tentacled horrors”. It’s domain also lends itself well to the idea that even the enviroment wants to kill you, the vast expanses of water ensuring that you can never feel safe, that no matter where you are, something is lurking just at the corner of your eye. Which brings me to an idea, having the Elder Dragon take a more active part in the early levelling experience. In WoW during the Cataclysm expansion, the dragon Deathwing occasionally flew across the world, scorching entire zones and killing anyone in his path. I’d like them to do something similar with DSD. Something along the lines of, you see something massive in the distance, something that’s mobning. The first time, you might want to swim closer and check it out, only for the water to start raging around you, battering and crushing you, as DSD minions start forming out of the water in the area, and though you might not have gotten a clear look at it, you know DSD just killed you. So whenever you see it from then, get the kitten away, swim or hide and hope you’re not too late.

Also it’d pretty much force Anet to address revenant underwater combat.

Theres a room for many good stuff with that.

As the HoT brought the thing to “focus on vertical exploration” and gliding, an expansion to the Deep Sea Dragon could bring something new in terms of maritime exploration. Bring forth, back atmosphere “piracy” that involved much of the history of Lions Arch. And why not improved naval battles?

yesterday i was reading ls2 on wiki, and they name the HoT egg as “last one intact”, as if the others was “smashed”, but for who?

baconelk.1807:

ugrakarma, what leads you to believe this is a DNS issue? My understanding is that once you’re connected to a gw2 server, it’s already resolved the IP and you’re good to go. If the dcs were happening when changing maps, I’d be more inclined to suspect this.

To me is a mystery too, but that’s what worked. By logic its like you said, once connected, the DNS is supposedly resolved. But Anet never admitted have problems in their servers, and after about two months in the forums complaining about having no answers, I was testing things by myself, until i find the DNS stuff. At first I had redone the entire physical structure of internet in my home, thinking that the cutaways were caused by bad wiring. The symptoms I noticed were: for some mysterious reason was booted from the anet servers when the computer’s DNS was “dirty”, mainly in things that involve private instances, like fractals or history mode.

People complain about the most dynamic event in the the game. i love DS.

Why boring? I wonder what isnot “boring” for them, do world boss train and kill fire elemental?

i dont remenber well, but There 5 or 4 red arrows.

With practice you can over time get the pods of almost all of them. Then sometimes you do not always need pods, then you can use the time to complete something else.

And am currently making gold with the hot maps, has good drop of yellows, materials, black diamonds and purple recipes who worth gold. U can use the currency of the maps to get exotics.

Completing the collections i got 3 exo backpieces, 1 ascend backpiec, im working to get the “The Great Reformer” title.

the old content was not designed in prospect that someone could “fly” over it, probably will cause hundreds of bugs and glitchs. im against. anyway gliding its better as fast travel mechanism, better than horrible mounts(ugh!).

Theses news collections in HoT, most of the contents that is RNG related, has drop rate of 90% to 100%, u get items almost on first attempt. It would be very strange that this collection was different. If the drop rate is low, it may be bug, and so better inform developers to fix it.

When i was collecting Dark Harvest, the item from Nightmare Courties strangely have low drop rate too(like 30%) when the others has 100% of chance, i dont know if they fixed it.

Dragon Stand events, and u dont feel “grinding” while doing it, will earn loots of gold and stuff too. whem u get familiar with it, its most easy navigable map.

The misterious disconnections when your internet connection is fine, is a DNS related issue. U need get familiar with tracert tool, diagnostic tool of Gw2, and probably changing and clear your DNS will resolve u problem. Reset Winsock will help too. Need search for info on web about this. My english is very poor i cant explain very well.

I have disconnections for months, after hot release, for some unknow reason their servers become “sensible” to some DNS servers.

U can try google DNS, or openDNS, there manys around. And most important learn how to clear your dns cache and winsock reset, then problem is gone, u will can play for hours along without have dc issues.

Gaaroth.2567:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

I’m not sure it is a failure at all. HoT added a lot of things that are pretty decent.

#1: Harder enemies. I’ve been wanting that for awhile.
#2: Elaborate maps and more involved maps. Always a good thing.
#3: A metroid style of progression where you gain the ability to explore new areas.
#4: The elite specializations are awesome (if a bit power-creepy), and I like playing as most of them.
#5: A large series of collections and achievements for completionists.
#6: Some pretty cool looking skins.
#7: Events that are actually fun to do.

So, I like the xpac, and from what I’ve heard it has sold really well, so I wonder what your standard of failure is.

I totally agree with you. I’ll be full honsest and say that yes there are things that need fixing and balancing and badly. But theobjective and the direction this xpac has set up is very much what I desired. I think people are overly salty. It’s not easy to code, and atm it’s christmas holiday (almost finished tho)
So give those devs some times to see the actual fixes they have in store, then maybe you can complain.

My 2 copperz

Agreed with u guys. Summing up what is really needed is they heards us here.

Special mention to amazing Leystone Armor set. Finally a set with “energy effects” that is not Gem Store. im also big fan of auric weapon set, machined weapons and new back items,.

to close with a flourish, should have a “plus expansion” or something with

1. epilogue.
2. “rytolock adventures in the mists.”
3. lore polishment.
4. recategorize lfg tool.

What would you have done to make the pve content in these maps challenging, without actually giving the mobs the abilities you find annoying?

its easy to test, just try kills regular mobs on core tyria.. its very strange, the feelings of “victory is sure even i have tieds hands”.

however do not think of all Tspatula complaint invalid, . When you just want to get somewhere in HoT, some areas seem like nonsense minefield, like dragon passage in TD.

the funniest time in DS, was when there was a commander speaking in Spanish. probably 70% of the map did not understand what he was saying. Some guys translated, others thought it was Japanese. I lost my breath with laughter. It was probably the strangest and funniest thing I’ve seen in GW2. most guys took it with humor, and only one complained “why someone who does not speak the language of most players tries to lead?”.

magumma isnt dead.

On the contrary. If you put in LFG “organized DS” in a matter of seconds appears a lot of people. DS map is filled with players in a matter of 2 minutes.

This utopia of just log in and already get a map with people and organized, it is a matter of luck. As a matter of logic is unlikely to happen.

Simply what happens is that in disorganized maps, people stop him, and quickly goes into an organized via taxi, which in turn he becomes “full”.

What the devs need do create a separate raid section in, LFG spliting it from open world. It is getting terrible.

the effect I write above. does not occur with maps of Core Tyria, cuz all they are soloable. So the players do not leave a map when he is “disorganized”. Your chances of enter into a map with mid population is more higher.

DS is becoming more interesting each day. yesterday i improved my noxius pod run, after meta completion.

why the owners of the guild, themselfs dont become scribbers with any alt? LOL. its more simple than expect devs implement huge and complex security aparatus.