Guild Wars 2

WvW and Keg Brawl are the worst achievements.

I am sure some people got Keg Brawl completed but it was definitely NOT by playing the game normally (At least, the other activity “Belcher’s Bluff” can easily be complete). However WvW is impossible to complete. This may discourage players to continue playing this game, knowing this is an impossible feast to complete and would rather play a game they know they have a chance to “finish”.

I would go as far as saying that getting all the World Ability Points is also too painful to keep people playing WvW. What Arenet should do is give more WXP earned if your server has a lower rating and lower the requirement to reach the next level from 5000 to 3000.

notes of the 4th day (DB perspective).

JQ often doesn’t attack FA, and often leave their structures intact.
JQ has spies on DB and ts just to make sure they keep winning.
I am almost certain JQ is making sure we are as close as possible to be outnumbered to make sure we have to pay for the armor repair (as off right now).
The entire day, I barely saw any FA player. If FA plays, they use thieves and attack DG structures and supplies.

I am sorry… where is FA presence already? This is happening for the past several hours.
http://i40.tinypic.com/2qa1si8.jpg (FA is red)

Today, FA did nothing but bother us with thieves in our own base… that was when we had one.

FA is not even trying. And when they try, I feel they team with JQ to beat on DB

FA is not even trying for the past several hours =(

DB is full of scared selfish people who don’t want to die, and attack anything they see in the vicinity. But we all get a bit more aggressive once we know we don’t have to pay for the armor repair. Our commanders may not be the best, but they are still pretty kitten good .

Yes and I almost always play with pugs. There is no difference in skill with anyone else in pve. If you meant for wvw, there is no difference either. All you do is follow the zerg brainlessly.

It is not a contest because Kiel has zero chance of winning.

I expect the result to be in favor of Evon because of the tokens. People need tokens to play the mini games. However, Evon mini game (Hungry game) requires more tokens to complete. Therefore Evon should win. The only possibility that Kiel win is because of cheating by Arenet. If Arenet developers are already working on Kiel stuff and not Evon, they may cheat the vote result to make Kiel win.

“you cannot see”. Therefore you cannot use phantasms/clones since you need a target.
Does that mean the thief cannot run after you if he is built to go stealth non stop?

I fought a thief 3x and lost because I couldn’t target him. I read a lot of posts in here defending the thief, saying nothing of value (ex: you just need to know how to fight him).

Please explain how you beat a good thief as a mesmer when you cannot see him and you have no aoe?

saiyr.3071:

To say that you’re only in T2 because the other servers are slacking is disingenuous.

I am not calling them slacking. You are.
I am saying the other servers and their respective players are much better than DB. We just roll all over the map only as long as they are not there in full force. If they were playing, we had no answer.

saiyr.3071:

Pretty sure all of that is happening because nobody on DB NA prime cares about holding stuff anymore because it’s a chore and you’re going to win no matter what, and the night crew will always take care of re-upgrading everything. Nice job trying to use just one part of the match to make your point though, I guess. And you did it so politely, too!!!!!!!!!!

And if you don’t think it’s a good excuse for YB, who lost to BP last week, I dunno what to tell you.

I don’t think so. Yesterday was really madness. If you were on my server, you will have known. Eternal Battlegrounds was maxed up on my server (everyone who wanted to join had to queue), and we still got kitten d. We couldn’t reach Lowland for hours. I hear that Maguuma and Yak worked together at that time. I ran to our own Borderlands to get supply and each time I had to wait in queue to return.

If ever someone say that DB is tier 2 and we owned because the other servers are tier X, he is an idiot. This is total BS. We got owned yesterday and today.

Yesterday we couldn’t even get out of our portal without getting killed in Eternal Battlegrounds for hours. And today (a few hours ago), our own borderland was run by Maguuma. They had even bigger zerg than us. We had at one point 5 commanders and they were all wiped like insects. We lost almost every structure on OUR borderland. They also had a small team: 2 mesmers, a thief who owned me (see my previous post), a necro, and an elementalist who took over Dreadfall Bay. The only reason why we are still tier 2 is because the other 2 servers are not playing 100% of the time. For example, their entire zerg left us to clean their mess after taking our garrison.

I wish I had. I didn’t expect that outcome at all. And I didn’t expect to meet him 2 times after that. On the other hand, after that he had friends. But I was tilted after the first encounter. I am still hell mad at my lack of pvp skills, but also at the fact I still have no idea if anything could have been done to prevent that.

What happened was simple: We were capping a spot. He shows up and target me, the mesmer. Half my life is gone. He went stealth. I can’t target him. Cast Chaos Storm, chaos armor, and healing. Suddenly he reappears. Almost dead again. Dodge, use distortion. Suddenly he reappears. Now I am down. Deception just in case. My “friend” came to res me. And suddenly he finished me. I still don’t even see him except the flag. Same fate for the next 2.

I feel robbed. How can a thief stay so long stealth and hit so hard?

PS: If you are that asura thief, well I dunno know what to say to you. I am the mesmer with blue clothes and the engineer backpack. You own. Congrats. I wish I knew how to put at least a challenge. If you have a few tips for me to survive longer your attack, then I can’t tell you how much I want to thank you in adv.

I just “experienced” a thief who killed 3 of us, going stealth to kill me, and then the rest of us. We couldn’t see him the entire time, even when he finished us. While I am certain he got skill, the length he can go invisible is total BS.

I got 1min lag non stop this morning in wvw. Since I wanted to play, I ended up using the mortar… but I shot only once every 1 to 3 min. It got too tedious and I had to leave.

Back in LA, everything was fine again.

I just discovered WvW and started to play for the past week. And I think it has potential like everyone else. However this has too many flaws.

1. Lag. I just got hit by several 1min lag due to zerg rush. This can be fixed by
- make the map flexible in size based on the number of players.
- reducing the number of people per server

2. In case of the unbalance, here are the solutions I can think of:
for server with less people:
- give each player 150% dmg extra
- extra wvw accomplishment bonus
for server with too many people:
- eat and drinking is not allowed
- the number of players (on that server) who can join is temporally limited further
- give the option to guest on other servers to balance thing out with bonus intensives

3. Commander. What is the point of purchasing the commander option? It seems to me that the goal is make you spend 100g to have an icon on the map so mindless players know where to follow. I would buy it if I could find out info without having to turn on the commander icon:
- how much friendly people minus enemies are around me (4000 radius)
- how many supplies are taken and around me (4000 radius)
- update on buildings being attacked
- info about the near by damaged building

4. Stonemist Castle is too hard to take over. TC got a hold of Stonemist Castle the entire time. Dragonbrand could not do anything. We tried zerg rush and all, but TC has at least twice a bigger zerg all the time.

5. reduce the requirements to complete the accomplishments for wvw

6. Add a rank emote

7. allow to talk to the enemy using emotes.

8. But most important: DO SOMETHING!! Everyone I know is leaving for other games.

just my 2 cents

what are the list of consumables we can or cannot use in dungeon?

I agree with OP.
This is clearly a step above my skill level. Not only I don’t have the time to “step up”, but I seriously doubt I will reach that skill level. I passed AR once, and failed in 2 groups so far. I haven’t survive the laser part but it should be feasible in time and it is quite fun. I find the final boss extremely tedious.

And no, this is not “perfectly fine the way it is”. Here are a list of all problems I have with it:
- the very beginning: swimming among mines is boring and just a waste of time.
- the cannon phase is too long. Once you know what to do, no need to make it longer than one minute max. If you really believe epic gameplay is measured by time, then make it 1 hour long each cannon phase.
- Moving Mai into the circles and keeping her inside is painful tedious. I wish she was not immune to movement control.
- It is hard to see the red circles. If you are color blind (I am not), you cannot do this dungeon as it is impossible to see the red circles on green floor.
- this dungeon difficulty is way above all other dungeons.

In the end, this dungeon takes in my experience around 2h to 3h due to the last bosses. As you can see on gw2lfg, this is clearly not worth the effort for 1g: almost nobody care to look for a group, and sometimes people have discrimination classes as heavy armor have an easier time.
And if you think this is easy or not challenging enough with pug, then you clearly have not played enough. Why don’t you join groups like the following one right now on gw2lfg: “Aetherbalde | LF2M | Currently on Last Boss” instead of joining groups like “LF1M for AR. must know to stack and know boss fight running. We will kick you if you don’t…no laggers, no mistakes…Know it or don’t bother….we’re getting the 15 min achieve”.
The biggest issue I have with gw1 and now gw2 is the arrogance of better players to rub in the face of less skill players by glorifying as “this is easy”. Pug does not mean noobs. Accomplishment points does not mean skill but mean hardcore as in someone who play a lot.

While I worry, I don’t mind if you are not level 80. I don’t ask question and see it more as an extra challenge. I am only worry in Arah path 4.

I have done over 400+ fractals and this is the TOTAL number of drops:
Vial of Condensed Mists Essence: 17
Glob of Coagulated Mists: 11
Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence: 11
Ascended rings: around 10

I usually have 70% magic minimum all the time.
Once in a while, if the team is not doing well, and I switch armor for 0% magic.

I have the same problem as OP and share the same exp and opinion.

Personally, here is how I plan to do path4. I am going to wait until I get all my ascended stuffs (even the stuffs NOT out yet). Then hopefully, I do enough dmg to pull it with all potions and every bonus possible. But still there are too many specific req.

If not, forget it. Like I wrote in another post, maybe I suck. Maybe the team I got suck. I dunno know. Look… I tried for 8h+ the Mad King jumping puzzle. At the end, I was alone and I still can’t pull it. Yeah I know all the pro here who are going to scream it was easy implying I am a noob. Whatever. Ultimately, Arenet will have to decide what kind of gamers they want to attract/keep.

yes, but the kick requests stays there forever, and it is annoying.

I will not advice you to transmute the prototype until you get the beta version. I didn’t know and when my prototype became a beta, the skin changed back the original skin.

Can someone post a screenshot, and show me how can you cancel someone getting kicked… if you are not the person who originally asked to kick someone?

Many times, I get a request to kick someone (usually at the last boss of fractal), and I don’t want to. But I don’t see the cancel button. Help!

I think Arenet should force a 3 man vote if you get to the last boss of fractal.

Btw, personally, I don’t kick people. Worst case of all, I quit. I have been in teams where someone don’t speak English and couldn’t get what to do. I have been in team where it takes over 1h to beat the boss of cof path1. Hey… you can’t get always a perfect team doing a perfect run, and these weird situation is what I find memorable.

Wolfheart.1938:

Kite.2510:

Blablabla PvP dailies/monthlies give laurels blablabla

No they don’t, sir. Check your facts before posting.

He clearly made a typo. What he meant is that the monthly req pvp of some sort. If I recall, it is WvW.

That’s awesome! Thank you, shadowdust.2018

Erasculio.2914:

yesfourme.8906:

For example, in order to complete Arah path4, I need to have a higher dps. That amulet may help me get that completed.

…Aren’t there a lot of people who have completed Arah path 4 without an Ascended amulet?

Maybe I am not as good as them. Maybe my build is not enough. Maybe I’ll get another bad team who have low dps (I was once in a team that beat the boss of cof path1 after 1h). It doesn’t matter how I plan to play this game. I am not whining about it.
How do you plan to get your daily fast without spending 4-6h for 1 month?

I used to play the game for fun, but the requirement for the daily has turn the game into a job… and I don’t like it. I just want that amulet because I feel it is required in order to “progress” in this game.
For example, in order to complete Arah path4, I need to have a higher dps. That amulet may help me get that completed.

Anyhow, do you have any tip how you plan to get your daily?

I want badly an ascended amulet. It requires 30 laurels. You can get 1 laurel each time you complete a daily achievement (req: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily).

What is the fastest way to get ONE laurel every day?
I am not interesting into playing the game for fun. I have only 2-3h max a day.

Daily Gatherer:
At this point, I am thinking to skip all dungeons, including fractals. If you do any fractal, it takes +45 min and you get only 4 events max. So I am thinking to drop 4 characters level 1 at "Troll End " (in Lion) to farm 5×2 fruits/vegetables (daily gatherer) even if they don’t have the skill for it. I am not sure if this count as a daily gatherer. Does anyone know?

Daily Kill Variety, Daily Kills, Daily Aquatic Kills, Daily Events, Daily Dodger, Daily Veteran Slayer:
My main character level 80 will spend its time in ONE low level area, probably Queensdale.

Daily Healer:
When it comes to “Daily Healer”, maybe there are a few NPC dying at Scaver Plateau that can be healed. If we can heal one npc/player, and then stop, and do this 10 times… does it count for the 10x daily healer?

Daily Laurel Vendor:
And then I need another character to be at the vendor, just to click on him.

What do you think? Do you have a faster way?

TheRabbit.9478:

5. You can’t differentiate between a green check mark meaning “I agree” and a red ‘X’ meaning “I don’t agree”?

I searched for that red X for several minutes in fractal and couldn’t see it.

TheRabbit.9478:

Also, I’m able to survive level 30 with only 15 agony resist. So saying you can’t survive at level 20+ means you don’t know what you’re doing.

Have you thought you may have a different setup (class/gear) than I? I am full heath and cannot survive the agony alone at level 20-22 with 10 resistance even with healing. That’s a fact. That doesn’t mean I suck and you are amazing.

TheRabbit.9478:

Casual players can enjoy fractals.

If you haven’t done it so, please play fractal and do the Cliffside map at level 30 right now. And then, I like to hear how much you enjoy fractal.

Jezath.7395:

its not righteous, its just right.. I really see no point in cheating it takes all the fun out of a game.. I also dislike the fact that people who do cheat in this game are not punished in anyway which sets a precedent for others to cheat with little or no worry..

Thank you for cherry picking the part that you care. I am going to assume you agree with the rest.
Yes, you don’t need to do fractals, but that’s a poor excuse if you ask me. Everything is optional in this game, but a casual player should be able to enjoy fractals. This is not fun anymore except for hardcore players who will find no flaw in Gw2 no matter what.

“Guild Wars 2 claims to be unique with a dynamic event system replaces traditional questing, utilizing the ripple effect to allow players to approach quests in different ways as part of a persistent world.”
There lies the problems of the dungeon called fractals.

1. GW2 was supposed to be for casual players but fractals is proof is it not: a simple daily level 14 requires now over 2.5h to finish. Yes we were not the top players of the world, but we all played this dungeon to death over 100 times (in my case 230+ fractals) and knew what to do. But after the patch, Cliffside fractal took over 1h by itself only at level 14. Morever, as your dungeon level up, it is harder to find a group.

2. Grinding was not supposed to matter for gameplay but it does. As your dungeon level up, you need to grind just to win (not earn) a special equipment just to play the same dungeon. And the equipment you get has lower stats than what you used to have, but you are forced to carry agony resistance. When we play other dungeons (i.e. CM, CoE), we don’t need to grind for a unique and special equipment just to enjoy the game further. On the same token, I must be the unluckiest person on earth. I have run fractals over 230+ times and haven’t get a single ring drop.

3. Fractal is not balanced. Even before the patch, it was very clear that some locations are very painful. Personally, I find the hardest locations to be volcanic and cliff side before and after the patch. Volcanic has a boss too hard compared to other fractals. Cliff side is difficult to pass at the “arm seals” and now for the boss. Take the difficulty of these bosses vs Jade Maw and tell me which one you rather do.

4. Fractal does not “allow players to approach quests in different ways”. There is only one solution/way. For example, to beat just the boss in Cliffside fractal, or succeed in the underground facility, there is a very specific pattern you need to follow. If you don’t, you are not allowed to win.

5. GW2 interface is poorly written when it comes to kicking people. I was presented several times with the request to kick someone, and each time I didn’t know how to cancel. I even saw someone getting kicked out at the very last final boss of the fractal right before the chest appeared. All you need is just one “teammate”. And there is still no way for someone disconnected to join his team again.

Yes fractals was buggy, and we all abused the bugs. But we have our reasons: Fractals dungeon was too long and now takes even longer, and the reward was required in order to progress. If you don’t have over 15 in agony resistance, you cannot survive agony alone at level 20+. And at higher level, you are required to have these special +5 rings. And since you can’t buy them, you have to keep grinding until you get the special ones you want. And the game does not allowed you to carry them 2 identical rings with resistance to agony.

My first 2 cents