Guild Wars 2

So I was poking around some old files on my system, and ran across a few songs from the super adventure box. Now I want to play the Super Adventure Box again.

Anet please bring back SAB soon!!! I love playing it and cant wait to get back in and see what you guys do with it again.

As someone who has run many many dungeons and even lead many as well. I have do not care what people run when they run with me. I have taken just about every combination out there and still beat every dungeon. Sure some times it is harder when you dont have a dedicated tank or run a bunch of people who cant do a lot of dps. But it has never stopped me from trying. But I do at time swap characters out and in if we are having difficulty with a section. One or two of the group might have to switch to another character that they might have but I leave this up to the person, or I do it myself.

Knowing the dungeon well and your character well, you can 2 or 3 man most of not all the dungeons. They just take time to do.

I actually prefer GW2 as it is without the holy trinity. Any class can basically do what they want. I have run PUGs though many dungeons without a classic tank class, no war or guards. I have seen a war get taken out fast than my glass cannon ele. This is what I love about GW2. The character and build is your own. I think it would ruin more dungeon runs with the trinity. There would be constant call out for healers, ect. for dungons and such. Getting into a pick up game of PvP with people you dont know would be a dice roll, what happens if you dont get a good healer or tank or …. The way it is now, people know their class, they know their character. You generally know how much damage you can take. You know when you pop your heals, and when you pull out of battle to recover.

What I remember most from WoW and GW1. Party wipe is most the time the healers fault as he/she couldnt keep the tank/dps/ect alive long enough. Now it might be someones fault if we party wipe or it might be just a bad engagement that caught one or two of us off guard which started the wipe.

I agree with Electro, the boxes seem tied to players who jump on them. You can jump over the blue ones, its almost easier that way you can be one of the first up and have a better chance of getting up.

The presents and Giant Snowballs are difficult, but once you figure out the pattern it is actually easier than the snow flakes.

As for the wind gusts dodge through the first one, the others you dont have to worry about unless you go to high on the peppermint candy to avoid the snowball.

The skritt cannons should not be an issue if your timing is correct.

KurisuX.7340:

Had this same problem about a half-hour ago. Went into stealth, destroyed the generators, stood right behind him and had nothing but 7 key to work with. No option to punch, slap, tickle, or drop kick. If that’s not the objective it’s not very clear what is.

I had this issue too. I made it Vropp and even to the second wave, but there was no way to attack him without agroing the entire room.
Possible spoiler...distract the mini golems, take out the shield generator make sure asura not looking at me and attack vorpp. But nothing pop'd up asking to knock him out like it did on the previous 2 waves.

One thing I suggest is to create a spreadsheet (Google docs is perfect for this). This will let you keep track of the items you are selling, what you bought them out, what you want to sell them at, how much you spent or will spend, how much you plan to make, how much you will spend on the 5% listing fee, etc. I also have mine calculate my profit margin so I can see how well I am doing. I normally don’t go for anything under 15% profit but I have been known to go under 5% if I can make a few gold off it.

I for one will like the new system. I have many times had the dungeon owner get DC’d or rage quit and half way though and had to restart. I have also a few times accidentally kicked the dungeon owner because we didn’t know that he was the host. He was so bad and not following directions we decided to kick him. But then we all get kicked, this will be a nice change so if someone is really bad we can continue.

It will also be nice since some of the people I play with cant always finish a dungeon so it wont matter who starts it, if the owner needs to leave we can continue with 4 man or find a 5th again.

I have also run into the situation where on an alt I want to run a dungeon with my guild or friends and I am the only one who has it unlocked so I have to use my main instead of an alt, this way I can start it with my main then switch to an alt and not have to worry about kicking everyone.

eekzie.5640:

Fyrebrand.4859:

“Dungeon owner” had to go because it is ridiculous to give one individual more power in a group than the rest. Renaming it “party leader” and adding a few quirks does not solve the problem, and not everybody can start their own dungeons if you expect people to actually join you.

I just want to see the number of votes required to approve a kick increased to 3 or 4.

Kerithlan.1659:

Get rid of party kicks.

Sounds radical but solves the problem. I’m positive that someone could come up with a solution to solve the handful of new problems that crop up from this (idling, disconnecting, etc).

That does not solve any problems. You would basically be making dungeons a troll paradise. People will act like jerks, spout rude comments/harassment, refuse to cooperate, stand at the entrance forever or go AFK, and there will be nothing you can do about it.
Kicks need to be more strictly controlled, but they are necessary. Disabling kicks would be a very, very bad idea.

The biggest problem with the dungeon owner was that the instance would dissolve when he was no longer in the party (whether due to leaving or disconnecting or getting kicked).

I feel there is definitely a need for an individual with more power in the group. How is this a rediculous idea? Adding an option to prevent people from getting kicked does solve the problem and is not just a ’’quirk’’. As you can read, I wanted it to include the option to mark people to prevent them from being kicked.

If you want to do a dungeon, you start the LFG, you get the people… why should you not be the one who decides what to do? It’s not healthy that other people can pretty much hold you hostage in your own LFG.

Because not everyone can start the dungeon. There are many times I have gone to a party and the party leader can not start the dungeon because he/she did not do the story so someone else who has it unlocked has to do it.

Svetli.4276:

tp is not a gold sink it is gold hoarding !
ppl who flip the moust can aford the expensive precursors or even just buy legendery

gold sink is mf !

If I am making tons of money off TP flipping then I am doing something wrong. I only have about 1.5g on hand right now. Sure on paper I have several hundred gold, but I cant access it unless something sells.

If the home instance had a bank in it, the home portal stone would be prefect. Right now I use the home portal stone more to get free access to a bank more than anything else.

I can tell you what I do. I keep track of everything inside a google spreadsheet.
It has taken me 4+ months to get the spreadsheet to what I have today. But it calculates my total spent per item, my 5% listing fees, the total I will make when I sell, my gross profit and my profit margin, I also have it set up to tell me if I am buying or selling, if I need to repost it auto calculates the new values and it also finds the closest break even point in case I ever need to just dump it and dont want to loose my shirt on it.
I have also in another tab in the spreadsheet, a projected profits tab that I can calculate how much I might make on a given item. I just update the given item and then decide if the profit margin is large enough to make flipping said time worth the risk or not.

I can tell you now that you probably wont be seeing tons of gold on hand flipping items. For the longest time I was running less than ten gold on hand, 90% of all my money is tied up in goods on the TP, and even now I had 60+ gold, I just spent it all on a few big items, so now I am broke again.

I have an AMD 8350 for my main gaming system. I knew going in though that I wouldn’t get the performance of the Intel based one. GW2 does maybe 2 -3 threads most the time and is not optimized for a cpu that is designed for heavy multi threading. I do lots of video editing and video converting so the extra horse power of the 8350’s extra cores is a big help to me. If GW2 is the main reason I was building a new system I would go Intel chipset.

I also got the 8350 in a gamble thinking that gaming will go going more multi threading in the future. If you look at the console market both cpu’s (PS4 and XB1) are not too much different than the 8350 so I think in the long term the 8350 is fine. Just dont expect massive frame rates with an 8350 in GW2. It can hold its own, but it is not the frame rates of my brother’s and friend’s Intel chips.

I have to say you guys out did yourselves with the water balloon bucket. I must have spent close to two hours throwing water balloons outside of the trade post in Divinity’s Reach. It was most have I ever spent playing a costume brawl match.

Great job guys.

I second this…My main is an elemental. While I do not switch weapons often it would be nice to have an option to make switching a little easier out of combat.

my personal choice for staff ele, in PvE is 30/10/10/10/10 and with the correct trinkets I can keep my crit chance above 50 and even better with food. I find the little bit of extra health and extra toughness goes a long way in helping me stay alive in just about any situation I run into. So I sacrifice the precision for staying alive. I can still just about out AOE dps anyone I party with so I dont feel I am holding groups back.

In dungeons this setup as worked out great. In AC path 1 I can solo two mounds and kill them in one shot each, One shot with the frost bow #4 and the other mound meteor shower. Which helps in keeping the others working on other mounds so when I get back to the other side of the room I generally dont have as much to worry about. There are times when after I drop mounds 1 and 2 the rest have finished off the other mounds or just about, so all I have to do is finish off the last mound to complete the room.

Personally I think it’s worth it. But I also got mine when they were 800 gems not 1000. but even at 1000 gems, I would still think they are worth it. Without the unlimited gathering tools I would carry around 15 or more other tools all the time just so I could harvest mats around the maps. I carried so many tools so I could use the cheapest tool for each plant. Now it doesnt matter as I have the unlimited. Plus you need to look at it as a LONG term investment. I also noticed that I tend to go after every resource node I run across now because why not I dont have to switch out tools or worry about them running out.

In reality nothing has changed when it comes to skinning your armor. Most the time you didnt use the transmutation stones because the skin you wanted was a level 80 skin or the armor you wanted was a level 80 armor both of which wouldn’t work with the transmutation stones. So you saved them up or got some crystals and waited till 80 anyway.

There are still a few free charge skins, the skins you get from your achievements are a free charge skin

I think you made your own point. Gear wise there isnt suppose to be a huge difference in stats between a exotic, ascended and legendary. What that extra 90+ hours you put into the game is experience that should make you a better player. What you think should make you have better gear so you can dominate your opponents is what I believe makes the game so great. I can just into a PvP match with my basic exotic gear and still be competitive. What a player that has done a ton of PvP has on someone like me who only does a little is not gear but experience in knowing the level and how it is played better than the rest of the people.

You have invested time in to your character, honed him/her into the perfect balance for how you like to play. That other player that only has 10 hours, they are still trying to find the correct balance, and are still trying to learn things.

What are you trying to buy that is SO expensive?

I on average have about 10g on me. I have had up to 93g but quickly spent it all to buy mats to level a crafting up to 500 and to start making my ascended gear.
I have never felt the need to run in the champ trains or farm a dungeon millions of times to get my money. If I play a dungeon I do a path once a day, or twice a day if I run one before server reset.

Most the stuff on the Gem store is not needed to play the game. Its almost all cosmetic stuff anyway. Yes there are the few unbreakable gathering tools which are very nice to own but are not needed to play the game.

actually there use to be a delay for mist form, but a lot of the time you would die before the delay ended, so they reduced it so you can mist form away and possibly survive a battle. I prefer it this way. Just pay attention to your health more, dont bring back a delay in mist form.

Normally you see an increase in gold sellers during free weekends and when there is a sale on the game.

Best thing you can do is just ignore and report them. The spam will go down in a few days once the accounts are ban’d again.

I see 1/10th the gold sellers in GW2 than I see in other mmo’s so I am not complaining. Just block and report them and move on.

For me, I run conjured weapons mostly for other people to use. If I drop a firery great sword, I dont expect to be able to use both of them. Same with the ice bow, if I can use both that is great, if not, no big deal, I will be able to throw down another one in a few seconds anyway.

For me if I run the ice bow it is a one shot weapon anyway. Drop ice bow, hit #4, drop ice bow, pop meteor shower. Target or targets dead.

I personally would never kick you out of a dungeon run. One of the best players I know has a necro as his main.

Personally I would prefer it on Linux before SteamOS.

vapor blade is actually a decent skill for a healing ele, it all depends on what you put between you and what you are attacking.
in PvE,
When I use vapor blade, I try and keep at least 1 or more players between me and my target, if I can throw in an enemy in there too I will. So I can hit 2 or more enemies and/or a player or two which at the same time does damage to the enemies, heals the friendlies.
Now while that wont keep my teammates from dying, what it does do is make it much longer before they have to pop their own heals or having me come in and throw in a large group aoe heal.

a 5th attunement that sits in the elite slot isnt a half bad idea. if it had a some what long cool down like the guardian’s tomes it would work perfect. you could use it often enough to change the course of a battle but not so often that it gets over used.

If you could easily tell if an ele was going to pop the skill in WvW or pvp that would give the others people a clear view that they either need to take down that ele fast or run away so they waste the skill.

we do have a mount in GW2, it is the witches broom. There is your mount now enough of this mount non since.

There are mounts in other MMO’s because they need them for faster travel, even if the other MMO has instant travel, normally it is on some type of cool down or there are not as many way points as GW2.

Guild Wars 2 provides you with more than enough way points and no cool down between instant travel, that there is no reason that you need a mount to get around.

If you want to look different while you run around go buy an endless tonic of some sort or another.

There is nothing stopping you from doing that now.

Ignavia.7420:

If you feel really cheap, you can also adjust the value of the Full-Screen Gamma in the settings to see in the dark.

LOL, that is what I did. Kinda cheap but it works.

I for one am kinda glad they changed the boss. HoTW P1 is one of my favorite runs. The troll boss as always been super easy. By pass the dogs, run to the door and fight the troll there, now we have a reason to take out the dogs so we have a little more room to move around and fight the troll.

I have never found the troll in AC to be terribly difficult, and I play a zerker ele, so I dont think changing the troll in hotw is going to be too big an issue.

cranos.5913:

Anet obviously wants ele to become the new “healer” lmao.

forget that. I will stick with my glass cannon build, thank you. But I might have to see if my old condition build will work again. I still have all the gear, maybe it will work now.

For me, if the party is moving along fine, then I dont care what skills you use. So sure use the hounds go all out and have fun.

From what the OP was stating, it looks like the party was killing things just fine and they were not having any issue. so if it was me, I would be right with the OP lets have some fun and bring out the more summons.

I know me personally on my ele I normally run summon elemental, as I like the tanking power for the earth elemental and the damage that the fire elemental can help me with. But if I know the party wants more DPS I will drop the fiery dragon sword so we can get more dps going around.

I just got this email from a phisher

Guild Wars 2 – Security question reset request

Greetings!

It has come to our attention that your Guild Wars 2 account [My email address] for engaging in or assisting wiht gold or item sales for real-world money, If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled.

It will be ongoing for further investigation by ArenaNet Entertainment’s employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:

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We will investigate into this case through verifying the account’s ownership. If the verification goes through, we will cancel any restriction. If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter and respecting our position and all statutes within the Guild Wars 2 Terms of Use.

Regards,
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I have a feeling that it is a fake as they couldnt even spell “with” correctly.
but I am going to change my password just encase anyway.

I did the event last night, full ele zerker gear, all 3 bosses and even standing in the bonus damage circles no loot at all. I got gold on all the events and we even got all 3 bosses killed in under 6 min. But I still got no loot. I know its not how much damage you can do as I was hitting between 2k and 3k repeatedly. I was also one of the first people to the boss on one of them and I still missed out on the loot. So tagging them early isnt the answer as well.

I got boxes on two of the knights but not on the last one, and a friend of mine who I was playing with didnt get any boxes at all and he fought two of the knights

just bugged for me. I hope there is a fix soon.

Thayel.1236:

When I see a downed player, or even a dead one off on their own away from events, I will stop and rez them. During events, especially these ones with massive amounts of aoe all over and those death lasers, I will “try” and rez a downed person. If however a red circle appears, I am dodging away. If you are dead, you are getting left there. Most of the events have a time component so when you die waypoint and run back. The lazy dead people that litter the battlefield are a big part of the reason these events fail. If an event is going on don’t expect people to pick up your corpse. If there is not an event right there and someone doesn’t stop to help you up, I would agree with you that that is just rude. Same if you are just in a down state trying to rally. I will always help someone trying to rally as long as I think I can do it without getting myself downed in the process.

I agree with you, if you are downed, and I can get to you to rez you without killing myself I will, but if you are dead, then just wp and get back into the fight. It takes just as long to rez you, as it does for you to wp back and run back to the fight. Plus in that time I can continue the fight or help someone else up.

my feeling is if you are downed try to rally and try to clear out either the guys next to you or try and move away from the fighting so its easier to rez you. I know not all classes have the awesome ele mist form but most have abilities that make getting to the downed person safer.

Just went into HoD LA and was MAJORLY bugged. It started with the miasma full, and you couldn’t see how many citizens you rescued. We also dinged the level 5 rescue and didn’t get any rewards at all.

On my previous attempt I was in overflow and on the lighthouse escort the people you are suppose to protect just keep running, and get themselves killed, you can protect them if they just keep running into new enemies all the time.

I dont know about anyone else, but the last few times I have run the lighthouse escort the people just keep running, its all we can do to keep up, we cant even clear out the enemies fast enough for them not to die. At least with the childrens escort they stay put and let you clear out the enemies before moving on.

HoD has beat it several times last week and a few times over the weekend, but now the last few days we are doing really bad, why?

Serveral reasons. Most of the heavy core left when they got the meta. We are still getting a hard capped server but the new people in are first timers again so we have to teach them all over again. I think we are also starting to get the trolls, Warden 2 was messed up so many times its hard to think that people dont know what they are doing when for the last 30 min we constantly told them what to expect and right before they go in we tell them what to do.

I also know on HoD we try and get as many people as possible on teamspeak, we dont care if you dont have a mic. We want people on so we can tell them what to do faster, fill in hard areas, and if a platform is having issues we can help by telling them what they need to do to fix it. It also helps and we send encouragement over teamspeak easier and faster than typing it. Once the event ends we talk about what went wrong and how to fix it for the next event. 90% of what we talk about does not make it to map chat. Talking is faster and easier.

I do like the marionette I really do, but I think there needs to be a way to keep people playing large events like this after getting the meta. It seems like they get the meta and they are done. Time to move on to something else.

The warden does scale to the amount of people who are on the pad. So it is do able with just 3 people.

and remember that warden 3 is the ranged warden. On HoD we like to have rangers, rifle warriors or any other heavy class there that does some what high range dps and can take a slight beating. We dont discourage the lighter armored people or people who are set up as support not to join lane 3 as they can be a big help as well, but we have found that we beat it more often when we do have it that way.

For the inexperienced ranger it can be easier to just put the pet on passive, until they get to the point where they can bring out the pet as needed during the chain 2 boss fight.

Though its not rangers I have an issue with in that fight, its the people who dont bring the boss around back into his own mines. I then get downed or killed trying to tell them what to do in chat while trying to stay away from everything else. Personally when he does follow me I just run around in a circle and pass between two of his mines and make sure I lead him into one of the two I just passed.

I have seen some groups who can make him not move very much, Im not sure how they are doing that, it seems he drops a mine then immediately hit his own mine again, it make it great for burning him down fast.

Well you an guest to a larger server, or try a do the events at a different time.

HoD is a smaller server and we have downed the Marionette 6 or 7 times. We have also killed Teq a few times.

It also can be when you are trying to play. I know prime time for HoD is around 4pm pst to about 10pm pst, so if you dont get to the marionette at least half an hour early you are going to get into overflow and the server is hardcap.

TC is a large server, you should be able to bring it down. Its probably the time you are playing.

I agree if you are not helping please leave the area or go to an overflow server.

I know on HoD we have asked map chat that people who are not going to do the event to please leave so someone from overflow could join in. During prime time on HoD we can hard cap the server half an hour out from the marionette. I dont even want to know what the camping time on more popular servers are. So yeah if you are not going to join the fight please leave so others can join.

We figure that if someone ignores us and we do fail. We can laugh at them for dying if they say anything, as we did ask them to leave.

:( I so wanted to be there when we downed it.
Oh well hopefully we can do it again.

I love the marionette, HoD as far I know hasnt killed it yet, but we were kitten close the last time I was on.

On HoD we are doing one head at a time. This lets us learn the mechanics of each head, then later we will try to bring it down. This also has the benefit of at least getting some achievements for the boss.

I think that once the marionette has been played out on most servers that the wurm will start looking like a good boss to try and beat. But as for now its just practice and learning what to do and what not to do.

Mattus.1345:

Story instance unlocks only AFTER you participate in marionette event

thank you, that is what I needed to know.