Guild Wars 2

That’s one thing, I wish they would hire professional authors for some of this stuff, even for a consultation. Mystery needs to be done right or it’s always obvious. The lighting ceremony made it super obvious. Then she had the whole Scooby doo villain commentary when she was caught. “Woulda gotten away with it, if it weren’t for you kids and yer dog!” After the spoiler on fb, I couldn’t even enjoy that bit of campy dialogue, it was just irritating.

Hubby got one last night, I know he hasn’t opened many or bought any (he picked the one handed sword), whereas I’ve bought over 500 and farmed a ton and gotten no tickets. It’s all rng. I’m happy for him, but still wish I could just buy the skin I want in the gem store like the wintersday weapons.

I bought both a wintersday skin and braham’s shield, I would gladly spend money-purchased gems on more skins that I liked. (I don’t change gold to gems, the rate is too high and I budget my disposable income for the things I like to do, gaming, eating out, clothes, etc)

I’m not buying rng boxes. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t want to gamble. So if that means I don’t get skins, oh well.

I thought that was supposed to already be in, based on the developer stream from Monday…

Are you sure you’re not just perma blinded? The eyeball turrets shoot blind conditions as well as the pink stuff. When on my warrior I body block it while others range it down. Or just use a guardian/mesmer reflecting wall.

I don’t think this is intended, because while my utility didn’t work to add vulnerability, some weapon attacks from party members did, it’s just there would be 2 stacks of vulnerability before they would fade or he’d shield up.

As a warrior, we killed Null last night and “On My Mark!” did not work on Null, at all. Funny thing was it worked Tuesday night. (And yes, I was trying to apply it when the shield was down) Very frustrating to not be able to add vulnerability to a boss with as many get out of jail free cards as Null has.

I bought the wintersday long bow for my norn ranger, I liked the bows. The rest were meh.

I will not be buying keys or crates anymore, certainly not this time around. Put the skins in the gem store and if I like it I’ll buy what I don’t have to gamble for, thanks!

(Reaper arrival noise) BWWWWAAAAAAAAAAA!!

Maybe anet can write a better ending than what was there in ME3 where we totally forget about the harbinger and the after credits deal and ugh, so many plot holes…

Rain being localized isn’t necessarily immersion breaking, I remember long drives down to Florida and where you can see ahead on the highway for a good bit of distance, it’ll be blue and sunny over you, but miles ahead you see the dark grey clouds and a wall of rain. Lol

That said, here’s hoping southsun weather turns nicer tomorrow…

If the skins and pets went up in the gem store, I’d buy them if I liked how they looked. For example, as cool as the fused skins are, I didn’t try for them. But I bought Braham’s shield for my norn guardian. I don’t buy keys, I’ve tried two sets of keys in the past and have since given up. Any keys I use now are the ones I’ve found or gotten as leveling rewards on my alts.

I’m also hoping that the content will up level folks, we’ve been getting friends interested in the game, and while we’re 80, they’re not. I don’t mind battling karka to bodyguard them so they can enjoy the content, but up leveling would make that job a bit easier.

Or go collect ten hearts, and the drop rate is so terrible, you wonder how all these heartless animals are walking around…

I’m glad that stuff isn’t in gw2. I hate poor drop rate quests. There’s a reason I don’t play those mmos anymore. :P

I used my dodge roll for that reason during the trap room boss, or just circled the core when the tornados popped up. The end boss was fine though, I was able to jump over everything consistently.

Just wanted to add my voice, I loved this dungeon! I’m really sad it’ll be gone in under two weeks, I hope more dungeons (permanent) are added with similar/new boss mechanics and story line.

I agree, I’d love to see a storyteller update us on one time events and be able to see cut scenes again, like the karka. Maybe multiple storytellers, using the karka as an example, one by the blown up lighthouse in LA so we can see it destroyed again and the fight after, one outside the huge karka den to hear about retaking the island and to show the death of the karka ancient, etc.

His hair is the only thing that bugs me. I’m not a fan of the pink emo thing over one eye. :P

I had a long conversation with my hubby today about how we feel the story would’ve flowed better, and it all revolved around Destiny’s Edge. And not just because I read the book, but because it just makes sense. They were a guild (a small one, but a guild) that successfully faced and killed minions of the elder dragons before, large and small. They took on an elder dragon alone with Snaff’s know-how and would’ve won, had Logan not left. I feel like we needed to reconcile their guild far earlier in the personal story line and have Trahearne be their adviser on all things undead/Orr/Zhaitan. That would’ve made more sense for the three orders to follow a guild who was tested and true, even if there was some Jerry Springer internal drama now and again. Trahearne could’ve been happy in his place as Orr cleanser and information giver and Destiny’s Edge (along with your character, perhaps a new honorary member of the guild?) could do the heavy lifting and each character could help you out as you go through your personal story. I got really tired of being stuck with Eeyore (Trahearne) “This won’t go well…” before every battle and his constant complaining.

For future expansions, please focus more on Destiny’s Edge and less on any adviser, especially Trahearne. (Or give the poor voice actor more stage direction than ‘boredom’ and ‘depression’.)

Another thing we talked about was that I really wish our mentor hadn’t died in Claw Island. Except maybe Forgal, his back story made it more understandable why he might be tired and want to go out like a boss, given how norn are raised to behave and his family’s history. But Tybalt and Sieran didn’t need to die, they should’ve dropped mines and a wall of fire respectively and ran off with you.

Just our collective two cents. Love gw2 gameplay, the story was good until Trahearne takes over, then it was just disappointing.

Go up the stairs and talk to people on the 2nd floor.

I think jumping puzzles require the perfect storm;

You need a computer that lets you get more than 10 fps
You need to be familiar with your character’s true hitbox
You need to be coordinated enough for time trials
You need to practice and not rage quit after the third attempt

I created a full size female charr warrior, and completed all the world’s jp’s with her, including Halloween and now Wintersday. This is because I played her since launch, I know where her actual hitbox is so knowing my feet can “hang off” of tiny jumping objects is a non issue these days, it’s not even a thought, it’s just instinct. I’ve overcome tight camera spaces where I would basically be staring through the back of her head because I was against an invisible wall and the camera was squished, I just “know” where to go.

When I try jumping puzzles on my alts it’s always a longer procedure because I’m no where near as familiar with their true hitboxes compared to where you see their feet, so at that point it’s less instinct and far more concentration. I had to take off my norn’s skirt the other day when doing the quaggan nursery for the nth time because the puffing it does when you jump was messing me up so badly. Lol

Jumping puzzles are meant to be fun, if you don’t find them fun, just pass on them. If you like them and are having difficulty, just do them with your most familiar character, regardless of race or size. You’ll probably have an easier time!

Malediktus, I don’t think you’re going to find anyone who sympathizes with you, because unfortunately this happens in the real world all the time.

Almost no retailers have anything where you can get a refund. I think the only one I’ve heard of is Best Buy (in the states), if you buy a tv for $1000 and then you see it for $900 in the same store, or other chain, within thirty days they’ll reduce the price. Walmart has a price match thing where they’ll match competitor’s sale prices at the point of purchase, but you can’t ask for a refund of the difference. Anet isn’t Best Buy or Walmart and has no price match promise. :P

It’s unfortunate the cogs do nothing for you, but if you don’t want or need them, just vendor them. They’re still worth a few silver. Or do what I’m doing and bank them. Next wintersday holiday maybe there’ll be more toys to make and I’ll have a cog headstart.

The one I saw is the asura who wants to bomb the karka nests. He’s in the cave type area by the starting point for the northwestern jumping puzzle.

When I did this path the first time, my guild group did it what I assume the intended way, turn on the lasers and all 5 run down together, beat him up, jump back across and up the stairs, repeat.

When I started doing it to help guild mates get tokens last month, I was kinda shocked that everyone wanted to take 15 minutes to kill this thing with the 3 people do nothing but hit 1 and 2 people sit next to him and afk.

So really, this thread is nothing but people whining about their desired boring way of killing a boss being changed. Sorry you all have to be an active participant… o.O At least path 1 Bjarl is supposedly fixed, so you can farm 1 and 2 for tokens and skip 3 again. lol

Yeah, like Braxxis said, that’s probably not supposed to happen. The new waypoint in that tar boss room I think is supposed to spawn in the Jotun path and doesn’t. So it’s bugged in that it shouldn’t exist in the path you did. Not that it doesn’t open.

Wow… I didn’t even realize this was possible, I had to think really hard about what you were talking about since my guild group farmed this place for tokens (all 3 paths in maybe an hour and a half every night) for armor/weapons, and I’ve never seen elites on this guy. You’re talking about the guy who’s on the stairs, right? We always just bum rushed the normal adds on the floor, killed them all, and then just killed him and never saw any spawns. So, I guess that’s how to do it? :P

There seems to be a bug with the waypoints in Path 1 (Jotun) after you kill the tar boss, no waypoint spawns. To me this seems like a bug, because if you do another path (I believe it’s path 3, the Forgotten) there will be a waypoint spawned in the tar boss’ room, even though you never go that way during that path. So it just ‘feels’ like the waypoint is spawning in the wrong explore path once you pass the light orb hot potato part (in Path 3) and never spawning in Path 1.

Path 4, if no one has mentioned Randall, I will again, because the dude is melee and annoying. Can you give him a rifle instead of a sword and shield, until something else is done with npc AI? He runs up to Lupi and spawns grubs under his feet, and sparks chase him in the dwayna priest encounter. The other 3 paths have ranged npcs that, while still mildly annoying, don’t cause anywhere near the problems he does due to being melee.

People have already mentioned Path 1 npc dying in the stargazer room to the fire that stays active after the stargazer dies. (If she runs into it, she dies, and will not complete the dialogue to open the door). Those are really the only bugs I can think of that we’ve experienced.

I also vote for account wide story mode completion (explorable unlocked) if you have the achievement for it. I did story mode for every dungeon on my warrior, I like alts, I don’t really want to do story on some of them again. Like coe story… :P I love explore modes, it makes sense to me that would be account based and not character based, especially when it’s an achievement.

Path 1 as mentioned is broken at the end if the npc dies after the stargazer, when she’s running to open the door. You can fix this by all of you sprinting to the door before the encounter starts to get her near the stone. When the boss pops up, the ring of fire will kill her. Kill the boss, the ring of fire should be past her body, so when she pops to life, she won’t kill herself and bug out.

For path 4, you will hate Randall. He is melee. He will spawn grubs. Dwayna’s priest’s sparks will chase him. I recommend getting him killed for Lupi (get to phase 2 regardless of grubs, red circles will own him, reset Lupi, startover without Randall effing it up.) And for the sparks, whoever he’s following should not kite sparks and stand off to the side.

Good luck! :-)

I don’t mind that this was nerfed, I think first boss farming is pretty dumb actually. But I do dungeons to compete them, ymmv.

What I would rather they do is increase monetary reward for the last DE in a chain, it would encourage people to see event chains through, and gather support as they get more difficult. In Orr, chests already provide the potential for precursors, but it’d be nice if you were given more actual money. Maybe a bag of platinum when you loot that chest along with whatever other blue/green/rare you get. (with gold in it, since bags of gold have silver in them. lmao)

I also prefer axe/axe, because of the large amount of trash packs in the dungeons I run, the way I’m built I can consistently crit everything I’m hitting for end damage of 5-6k in a very short amount of time, and it gives me plenty of adrenaline to line up evis as soon as it’s off cooldown, which crits for 8-11k. (And with fury, I have 70% crit, so it’s not very often I’m not hitting hard)

That being said, I think it’s appropriate for every profession to carry around every weapon set they can use, and be able to hot swap traits in dungeons to suit the encounter. Get some big bags, and make sure you’ve got a mace, sword, gs, hammer, shield, axe, horn, rifle and lb, and use it where needed! You’d be surprised how versatile you can be when you just hot swap your major traits. Two minutes to pop on a different weapon set and change a trait saves time later to make yourself useful on a boss that doesn’t like melee, or doesn’t like range, or is immune to conditions, or eats conditions to heal, etc.

Maybe add ascended gear for token purchase in the pre-fractals dungeons? Or a chance of getting it out of the final boss chest? Then we could do whatever dungeon we wanted without feeling like we have to grind fractals for ascended gear. (Don’t get me wrong, fractals is amazing, but candy every day will still make you sick of it after a while) The rest of us who want dungeon armor/weapons can then convince others to come with us. Lol

If it does become a chance to drop in a chest or off a last boss, could it be higher than .001% please? Maybe 5-15%. Stats are random and its account bound, so it should drop way more since it’s unsellable. Otherwise a chance to keep getting defensive/condi/mf ascended trinkets is not going to make my offensive build warrior happy! Or let us mystic forge the ones we don’t want into the stats we do, without 250 tier 6 crafting mats.

Strifey.7215:

Now imagine that warrior wearing MF gear and now doing 7k crits instead.

Also you should tell your warrior axe/mace is way better for dungeons then axe/axe.

Axe offhand = 1 useless skill and one skill that does less damage then auto attack which is really only good for procs/adrenaline and axe/mace build you already have max adrenaline before Evisc is backup.

Mace offhand = vulnerability for 10 seconds which helps your entire group do more damage and an interrupt that can also remove defiant stacks which is hugely valuable if you are running a dedicated dungeon group which it sounds like you are.

Yes, we do run a pretty dedicated group, it’s nice for progression. I also spend some time teaching guildies explore paths, arah being this week’s choice. 2 down, 2 to go.

I would say I agree with you that vulnerability is a great condition to keep up on a mob/boss, same with weakness, and I used to run a hammer spec for that purpose. But I find that whirling axe, especially with quickness, is a lot more helpful for paths with large trash packs, since I can hit all of them for upwards of 6k each if they don’t run away from me, so that’s why I run double axe. (besides, using On My Mark! makes up for it if we really need more vuln on a boss) My swap is whatever I need for the fight, I carry around my gs, hammer, lb, rifle, sword and horn, and hot swap traits when I need to.

But I agree that you need both competent people who know their profession and are in good gear to support their trait spec. Even if a person is in mf gear and only critting for 7k, they’re still doing more damage than a support guardian who crits for maybe 3k. Numbers are nice if you’re trying to be damage, but the overall health of the group is more important. If you can kill things quick enough, not wipe, and make it to the end, I’d say the composition was successful. For the op, if their warrior was broken and in underwear, I’d imagine he strung out fights by being dead, or worse caused wipes. Like I said before, he would’ve gotten the boot from me. Lol. If you don’t die every fight, get us killed, or slow us down, you’re ok in my book.

He’s a very Eeyore kind of character. I can understand him, but I don’t see how he ended up leader. He should’ve been head advisor to someone else, maybe divinity’s edge, if we could’ve gotten them to come together earlier in the story.

The biggest thing that bugs me is how he always says something to the effect of “This won’t go well” when you enter combat… So inspiring, Marshall… you’re lucky I’m a vigil warrior, formerly of the blood legion. I’m trained from birth, I’ll lead the charge, Trahearne, you hang back and wring your hands like the lil eeyore twig you are.

:P

Just wanted to say I play a glass cannon double axe warrior (11.5k evis crits are so lovely) in our dungeons, and don’t go to down state all that often unless it’s something any melee would fall to, like the champ orrian spider and her multiple insta-down poison circles. Lol. It’s all about where you stand and dodging effectively.

Sounds like the op just got into a group with a baddie. Sorry that happened to you, I would’ve kicked them if they wanted to fight in their underwear and we needed their contribution. (for ex, stargazer you can fight in your underwear) The only other times you get nekkid are the torture traps of laser beams and rolling fire boulders and floor traps and bees and… xD Love some of those explore modes; no sarcasm. Much squealing and hollering is done over vent. Haha

We also noticed after this patch he seems to have been hit with the nerf hammer a bit. He ate a grub, which we usually run away and reset him to try again, but this time he had already started fighting and didn’t immediately down anybody. Before if he ate a grub and you got hit, it was instant down state. Now, it’s not so bad. Maybe half your hp.

GL fight really just requires people to have a good enough frame rate to see when to dodge, and be able to avoid the red circles. Phase 3 is really easy if the person he is chasing just keeps out of range and runs away the whole time. Hardest part is surviving phase 2. Took us a while to figure it out when we started running arah a few weeks ago, but now, my team is outfitted with the armor and getting weapons. Just keep at it, once you learn him, he’s easy.

God, nobody can just be happy with something extra. The bags of wondrous loot (in Arah, at least, we did mursaat and forgotten last night) also dropped mini vials of karma, 3 tokens, and 3-4s in the bag of gold.

It’s not a ton, because then people would just farm a first boss over and over. But have you ever tight fisted your tokens because you were saving up for armor and weapons, and looked longingly at maybe getting the dungeon potions? This lets you get the dungeon potions without sacrificing your tally for the next weapon or armor piece. Or don’t buy any potions and save up to get something just a little bit faster. I happen to like the change, it was much appreciated.

So really. All I hear is whine whine whine. Y’all want some cheese with that?

Thanks for the reply, Robert, I do appreciate it.

I don’t mind npcs in dungeons as much as the OP, but like I described with Randall…

What would be amazingly helpful is if you could talk to your npc and they had a “follow me” directive, and a “sit, stay” directive. We could tell Randall to not be in GL’s crotch, and stay with us, and during Dwayna, could have him follow our melee, and not our ranged kiters. Keep it from being exploited by having them leash like normal if you get too far.

Furienify.5738:

I’m curious, when and how was he nerfed?

My guild has experienced this in our runs, it seems he has a smaller HP pool after the last dungeon update, I think two weeks ago? His mechanics remain the same.

Like Randall in arah path 4… A melee npc that grubs spawn on during GL… You pretty much have to get Randall killed to complete GL or Dwayna (kiting sparks, they love him!). We shouldn’t have to plot the demise of an npc to progress. Lol

Randall… If you were a ranged npc, like the others, you wouldn’t be so bad. But melee? With those encounters? REALLY? Make it so grubs don’t spawn on npcs, or sparks ignore him. Dwayna’s sparks are already buggy enough.

Randall is the main reason we will not do path 4 again. (very disappointed we couldn’t kill him during the last fight…)

We’ve found that getting her killed while the fight is in progress seems to work. When you run in, run to the far door. This gets the npc at the top of the room by the jotun stone. Then go to the center and stall the fight until the fire ring kills her by closing in slowly. Kill the stargazer, the fire ring will be closer to you and the npc’s dead body will be outside the ring of fire. When the stargazer dies, she pops to life and opens the door.

Until they make her invulnerable to fire, it’s really the only option for finishing this path.

I completed the jumping puzzle as a female charr and a male asura, and one of the biggest complaints I think anyone had was how big charr and norn got in the way. Every overflow I was in, we all stripped down, at least helms and shoulders.

So I thought if there are timed group jumping puzzles again in the future like the clock tower (PLEASE! it was amazing!) maybe we could all get costumes to make us human/sylvari sized? Like this one for Halloween could have been if we all looked like mummies/skeletons but moved at regular walking/jumping speed.

And maybe randomize the costume colors, so it’s not a sea of same looking mummies so it’s hard to tell who you are, but just so everybody is the same size. That would also fix the camera issues some large or super small characters have.

Clock tower was amazing, I really hope there are more of the same in the future.

As an east coaster, I’m really really hoping the party is NOT at midnight pacific. That’s 3am for us, when a lot of players have to get up for work the following morning. It would be pretty inconsiderate given I’m on an NA server to wait until one of the latest possible NA timezones to kick it off. :/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Pact-Requisitioner-Hargrove-does-not-exist/first#post507684

Someone said they redid arah story mode and could get back into the instanced version of fort trinity to visit the npc, I linked that thread in the link above. Try it out, let us all know if it works. I’ll be trying tomorrow night, I have to get up for work, so I can’t invest an hour+ into it now.

You have to finish arah story mode to see him, someone said they just did it, you can revisit the instanced version of fort trinity.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Pact-Requestioner-Hargrove/first#post507328

Has anyone tried piggybacking on someone else’s story where they can get in the instanced version of fort trinity?

The only other thing I can think of is doing arah story again. I wouldn’t hate it, but it is really long. Wish the npc was just available in regular non-instanced fort trinity.

I was running around WvW last night after playing heavily all week, and was thinking it would be nice if there was a map note on supply count for places you own. Maybe on the actual map when you mouse over the symbol, it shows “100/100 Supply”. Right now you can only tell if you’re within range of the camp/fort/garrison, and I feel it would be beneficial to see the number elsewhere from longer distances.

Adding something like that could help save time when trying to coordinate where to protect caravan dolyaks, and where to go when you need to pick up supply to begin with, etc. I think it would make things more strategic and less panicked attack/defense. Thanks

My ticket was answered 4 days after posting, I had an issue with gem store purchases (gem store items removing gem count, but not delivering in game item) and my gems were refunded, so I could happily spend again. No issues the second time!

My issue was solved, my gems were refunded (bought items in the gem store that weren’t delivered) so my ticket can be closed. 120903-002645 Thank you!!

I deleted all mail, from both players and npcs, my mailbox is wholly empty, still missing the 2 dye packs I bought.
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