Guild Wars 2

I know this was last year, but it seems like the description of the trait has changed – now it says 20% increased effectiveness but doesn’t display the total new % of protection like it used to. Anyone else notice this?

33% + 20% = 53% effectiveness. Can anyone confirm?

Obviously GW2 being “full:” is not true and must be a bug generated from truly what’s going on with the servers. There’s obviously something wrong and who knows if Anet has woken up or noticed it from social media.

When I was in the game, I wasn’t able to start waypointing to anywhere. Got some weird error. So I logged out and now I can’t log back in.

Zenith.6403:

I think that Anet has a problem understanding the scale of some things. At the moment they are selling a single shared inventory slot in the gemstore for 700 gems. What am I going to do with one shared inventory slot? Moving stuff between characters is a wholesale process:

- Ascended armor pieces (6)
- Ascended trinkets (6)
- Ascended weapons on some cases (1-6)
- Gathering tools (3)
- Salvage kit (1)
- Food and oils (2)
- Siege weapons (2+)

When I’m moving stuff between characters I need to swap all of that and I need a good amount of bank space for it. That means I won’t buy your 700 gem shared inventory slot ever, but I might consider buying 700 gem shared 20 bag slot. Get it right or you keep losing business.

Are we seriously scraping the barrel here of finding things to complain about?

Not everyone in their right mind wants to buy shared inventory slots in bulk.
It’s a preference.

What’s the point of this thread other than to complain? You already have the option to buy them single and in bulk. Maybe some people don’t spend money on loads of gems so they buy one slot as they earn the gold to convert to gems?

You said “Get it right” ? No, your opinion isn’t the “right” way to solving this “issue” you’ve created. I am put off by this post and the fact that there’s a whole thread about it.

I don’t understand what you’re getting at… lol

Still no word about karma boosters being removed from the game! lol. Please please would still love a response from ArenaNet on this. I don’t feel like removing the boosters because of the new karma traders Pact Commanders have warrants its removal.

They are just recipes and would still like to have a confirmed reason for the ill-advised removal.

Mr. Colin.

We are not denying there were complaints for the last 3 years in every aspect of the game having too much visual noise.

We are arguing here the fact that the way your team implemented and carried out the visual nerfs was done poorly. You guys toned things too much and didn’t take good care of when to visually nerf things (such as boss scaled size fights).

AND, you did not take the time to implement these changes with the option available in the graphics pane.

People have already ran into the ground that making an ele’s fireball a spark/pebble & the auras an barely visible egg is quite not practical. It takes away our profession’s visual flair. It makes PVP difficult to spot players using skills. It brings down the identity of our professions and roles, not visual clutter.

Valentinus.3412:

I’m genuinely getting more and more baffled by the complaints on this forum.

You can’t expect content to be balanced around 2-3 person guilds. That doesn’t even qualify as a full party!

The game type should clue you in… Massivley-Multiplayer-Online.

If you can’t stand the rest of the community to thebpointbyou have hamstring your enjoyment of the game… Well, that’s your issue and not Anets.

And for the love of Dhuum. Does ever single tiny tangential complaint need a new thread?! This forum is already hard enough to navigate without “I’m quitting HOT because X” thread number 9000.

You should all start an anti hot support group guild, then you will have plenty of people to get a guild hall.

/rant

+1 to you good sir.

Ok, to Dejavu, the OP… You have some loops holes in your reasoning.

You say you are blocked out of doing all the content offered in HoT and the game. I’m sorry but with 3 people as a “GUILD” , that is not a guild. That is a team of 3. So don’t label yourselves as a guild and feel entitled to be able to do all content. This has been your choice and doing.

Why focus on the guild halls being the issue. You have always been locked out of doing Guild Missions pre-HoT; you’ve never been able to complete most if not all guild missions with just 3 people. I think you’re playing the wrong game here. If you want to be able to do everything on your own, go play a single player game if you don’t like people that much.

I have no sympathy for your complaints. You picked the wrong game and are blaming the developer for incorporating long-term (BUT OPTIONAL) grind for endgame goals…. in an MMO. This game w/ HoT is no where near still the amount of grind in other MMOs where leveling literally takes a lifetime.

Go play a different game. /end rant.

still awaiting an official response…. are you going to shut this one out like you did when we raged at you you for removing karma boosters from enchanted powder & most places of the game without warning?

I have the Incinerator dagger and there’s no aura or flashy effect I get on my armor other than the flames following up my character’s arm.

Please undo the visual nerfs. I think that is a more practical approach right now. Add options/solutions in the future.

ArenaNet, please give a response to the official thread in the OFFICIAL FORUMS on where you stand with this.

Most of us are very unhappy with how these visual noise changes were implemented.

Roll them back. In the meantime, figure out a slider or option to turn on and off.

Thanks.

Add your opinion in this thread. Maybe we’ll get an answer from Anet. Maybe.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Visual-nerfs-Merged/page/7#post5814545

I’ll add my voice here too….
(like I did when they removed karma boosters without warning).

I main an elementalist so this affects me a lot. This is a poor way to fix what a minority crowd cries about. Please make it an option and bring back all the original skill effects. I want my fireballs to look like fireballs. I want my auras to LOOK like auras.
This is ridiculous.

You may of escaped the wrath of removing Karma boosters from the game, but you will not escape this.

I don’t feel bad for you. You expect the maps to help keep players in them while they spend time in an instanced adventure? All those meta events won’t have any help from those players so why keep them in the same copy of the map?

That doesn’t make sense. You learned something new that you can’t do.
So don’t do it anymore.

Was this thread really necessary? Some class has to be last in announcing all the class elite specs.

I don’t get it.

I’ve had my screen go black for a few seconds before it comes back.

This has been occurring sometimes after a patch quite frequently until the next patch comes through. It really sucks. It feels like my graphics driver stops responding and then comes back recovered.

I have a Mac Pro 2013 running bootcamp with Windows 8.1 .
32GB memory, D700s, 3.5Ghz 6-core.

Sometimes I can play for days straight with no black screen issue and other times it just occurs very frequently… I’ve posted in the AMD forums hoping to GOD they update their drivers since Dec 2014.

Any thoughts?

1. Our own house (HoM like) with personalized achievements on our wall/mantle/etc, furniture, decor, statues, inside our personal instance. This would add huge meaning to our personal instance. It would be like continuing on the HoM legacy but in GW2. I would absolutely love.

2. Build AND gear preset saving for SURE.

3. There should be like a character shared storage of some sort. This is similar to the Wallet. So maybe instead of a separate system, just add things to the wallet any of our characters can use like boosters, food, utility food, all BLC items like BLC Merchants, Revive orbs… you get the idea; the things you will want on all your characters at all times-especially good for an alto-holic. This would solve the tedious and painful hassle of moving adventuring items between characters/vault.

4. (sorry i know you said 3-This, I’ve been asking for, for YEARS. So I’m adding it here.)
Make the professions like Engineer/Ele able to swap weapons only OUTSIDE OF COMBAT. I hate as an ELE main to have to go into my inventory and find my weapons to equip when I want to switch.

This original post is rubbish. Gee, maybe we shouldn’t have masteries, elite specializations, guild halls, and the revenant exclusive to the players who buy HoT. Wow. just wow. Why even post something like this?

Then what is the point of having an expansion then? What makes raids so different than all the other features of the expansion? Group content CAN be locked behind HoT. Why should only single player content be locked behind HoT?

Subjective post is very subjective & I don’t think a lot of people here agree.

Garambola.2461:

wetwillyhip.7254:

Taking off work that friday

Personally, I think you were better off taking the next Monday off. Unless you work nights.

AH I work 10am – 7pm, and many times later til around 8/9pm. Maybe I should take off Monday too lol.

I’m sorry the outrage from the Vets on the game going free is kittened.

Did everyone forget about the basic concept of depreciation over time? That car you’ve been driving for 3 years won’t be at the same value to you when you first bought it. Games depreciate in price over time. Same rule. After years pass they can be purchased for much less money because they. are. old.

It sickens me to how entitled everyone is now days. Guild wars 2 gets you 3 years of content, not to mention 40 releases and a whole Living Story season that new players cannot experience. AND they still have to pay gems to play Season 2 should they choose. You’ve had to pay one fee for a game that has given you and lasted 3 years without requiring a dime and you forget this is what happens to all products in the world. Would you rather pay 15$ a month? That’s 5 months and you’re passed the purchase price of the original game when it came out. People please snap out of this dream and entitlement.

50$ isn’t much money when it can give you years of entertainment.

You can easily spend 50$ at a club or restaurant with a group of friends in one night. And you know how much that $50 got ya? 1 night of fun. I don’t feel it’s a big deal. It’s funny how these types of decisions arenanet makes shines a spot light on all the ppl out there who come out crying & they come off as entitled brats. Good riddance to you. You have no consideration but for yourself.

And if you bought the core game earlier this year directly from ArenaNet, you can get a refund! And then you can put that entire refund to buy HoT + Core game! Amazing! Yes, that’s right, Arenanet will give a refund to those who have purchased the core game in the last EIGHT MONTHS.

I happily play GW2 and have played since head start. I have happily played Gw1 back in 2005. And I want to support ArenaNet. There wouldn’t be a game like guild wars if it weren’t for them and all their hard work.

Also for those of you who have an opinion that free accounts are going to ruin the game with botting and gold selling, let it go & read the news article they posted with economy restrictions.

Just sick and tired of the whining and entitlement.

And I think Gaile Gray from ArenaNet agrees with the points I’ve made as here is what she says to a forum thread made about the same outrage:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/new-business-model-equality/page/2#post5436673

“I do not understand these threads. “My family and I have played thousands of hours, but we feel ‘cheated’ because the person who is joining now plays the core game for free or pays just the one fee for Heart of Thorns.”
Let’s consider another type of purchase, that of DVDs. FotR was $30 when it came out on DVD. You now can get all three chapters of LotR for less than $20. But the person who buys now lost years of viewing pleasure because he didn’t own the video at release. LotR is shown for free on television, but that doesn’t negate the value of purchasing the DVDs, for those of us who chose to make those purchases. Imagine showing up at a DVD retailer and saying, “This movie is now free. I want money off another title.”
The hours in Guild Wars 2 that your family has enjoyed—very likely the thousands of accumulated hours—are not without value. They are not, to us, without cost. The 40 major updates we have made to the game that you have been enjoying for three years each add significant value to your purchases: Wintersday festivals that a new player will never be able to attend, major in-game events they’ll never see, drops that were only available to you, as a veteran player, during a limited period.
The position in the first post has been put forth by different people and successfully dispelled time and time again. OP — Please know that we greatly appreciate your support. I encourage you to make whatever purchase decision is best for you and your family. But please never forget that all you have gotten for each of your purchases does have value, in the overall view of things.”

Taking off work that friday

Yes. Happy…. Birthday…..

Pockets.3201:

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Its pretty clear they are probably moving karma boosters to HoT content to encourage you to keep playing it so you can get karma faster for the new vendors.

I’m sorry… what.
Where is your source because it feels like you pulled this out of your rear.

How is it “pretty clear?” If it was pretty clear than this thread wouldn’t have 200 posts, a butt-load of angry players such as myself, and almost ten THOUSAND views.

We all must be morons for not knowing what you do and figuring it out for ourselves.

And if you have no source, then the "It is clear they are probably moving . . . " is you laying on some ridiculous hypothesis stating it as a fact when it’s not.

On topic, still waiting for ArenaNet to respond.

Still waiting…. Gaile Gray please respond. Where do you stand with this?

Still awaiting a response from a Community Manager.. . . . . … …… . . .

-.-

Narrrz.7532:

wetwillyhip.7254:

Still waiting for a response from a Community Manager on this….

SOME response would be nice.
Even just “i can’t get answers/i’m not allowed to talk about it right now”

Yes, even something like that I think would hold people over.

I would really like an explanation or if it has to do something with the Pact Commander Mastery line unlocking a special karma merchant. Is that what it is? ArenaNet is boosting the value of having karma?

But still….
Why make it less easy to gain karma years after release when there are still many many demands for karma already -like obsidian shards, wardrobe unlocks, etc.

And then you still have the fact if you look at it as pulling the purchases right out from beneath you if you’ve converted bought karma boosters into enchanted powder to save bank space (only to use it as karma again).
This is I believe the biggest and most solid logical argument to make when demanding some way of a refund or explanation.

Still waiting for a response from a Community Manager on this….

Arenanet please respond. We want a response to this.

It makes us feel like you don’t care and it makes us think you didn’t plan ahead or foresee the outrage you would cause by doing this to karma boosters.

Seriously this is pulling the rug from our feet on what was bought and it involves money. This isn’t some little scam you pulled.

And the more you continue to ignore this thread, the more angry I presume people will become and feel ignored.

Why allow us to enchant our boosters to save space then you choose to change the options THOSE ENCHANTMENT POWDERS have. Why? Why? and Why?

This makes me actually upset and angry at something you’ve done & I never feel this way about your decisions.

Cannot let this thread die! lol Bump.

Yes please. It would be nice to get an explanation from ArenaNet.
The lack of warning is the worst part about this too.

OH and a way to give us a chance to convert what we bought/paid for. To the least.

I, like others, wouldn’t want the karma booster availability to change in any case but we can’t get what we always want can we?

I rarely ever post on these forums, but this decision really grinds my gears as I love karma my primary use for the boosters was strictly for karma.

Didn’t this update also make Enchantment Reward powder essentially useless to reproduce the new type of booster? How does it work with the old AND new?

When you convert the new boosters to powder, do you get back the 2H timer when you convert it back to the new type of booster?

If Karma boost are now exclusively only available via In-Game Rewards, then they are only exclusively available and obtained through In-Game Rewards. Obviously that means they won’t available via Enchanted Powder.

This is not a bug. This is not an oversight. This is intentional. And it’s upsetting.

I converted all my boosters (many karma too) to enchanted powder to save bankspace so that I could get use them as more karma boosters when needed..

This is ridiculous. Arenanet. We would like a response please. Stop ignoring us.

IT’S NOT A BUG. LOOK AT THE RELEASE NOTES.

The release notes do state that the way players can obtain Karma boosters have been now changed.

It’s no bug. It’s intentional and there’s no explanation. No warning. This is seriously a problem that I feel they need to address!

I want back what was paid for & bought.

I guess you could sort of consider a “Mount” being the glider in HoT. Right?

I hope they eventually come out with new glider skins/prestigious ones too.

Ravenmoon.5318:

Beldin.5498:

Tachyon.5897:

If Blizzard, and many other companies, can upgrade their game engines to use DX11 then there’s no reason why ANet can’t either. I’d also like them to fix it so the game isn’t so CPU dependent too and to take advantage of the power of our GPUs.

If Donald Trump can buy a Ferrari and a Yacht then YOU can also do that.

Thats more or less what you said here .. and of course a lot of other people also.

Why do you not just buy ANet and then let them make the DX-12 engine .. because
if rich people can do it .. poor can also do that.

It’s cheaper to make a Dx12 renderer than buying a ferari or a yacht. Fact.

LOL Ravenmoon. I’ve agreed with your thinking this whole entire thread. I read over what you said on the first handful of pages but then I got to page like 7 and couldn’t keep reading anymore lol.

I hope Anet do become a little transparent about a DX engine upgrade.

I may be unique case, but went away from Alienware and now run a Mac Pro 2013 (trashcan-why? I’m a video editor) with maxed out specs and Windows 8.1 on bootcamp. I would love to see more hardware utilization even on my system even though I have similar FPS’ as all of you hardcore PC users.

Please send Anet your CV and offer to help them. lol.

they better bring karma boosters back! -.-

I didn’t even know what Raptr was until this post.
I obviously think this is not a very accurate 3rd party system to measure the GW2 active playerbase.

yes please please incorporate a weapon swap OOC. It’s purely convenience so we don’t have to open inventory between combat and change weapons manually.

In no way would this make the ele overpowered.
Been asking for this for forever as i’m a main ele player.

if you’re seriously going to complain about all the changes that have occurred WHEN YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED GW2 SINCE BETA…that’s all on you bro.

i have no sympathy for you. I didn’t even finish reading your post. Don’t play MMOs then.

If you use any obvious word in the “Search Forum” field in any sub-forum, the result is ALWAYS and FOREVER “Not Found”.

The search forum function works on the full Forum Page only.

Will this be fixed?

Thank you so much for all of your feedback. This all makes so much sense.

You don’t suppose you have an ele? lol.

Shadelang.3012:

@wetwillyhip
The other setup that I have been using in pve recently ankitten ow testing in pvp (to decent results) is a 20606 build. It back loads the damage into death shroud instead of the minions and uses cavalier gear to make the best use of both the toughness to power conversion and also the high crit chance well have. Basically loading up on ferocity to make our in death shroud skills hurt like a truck.

Thanks to death nova our primary damaging minions (bone minions) still do there job perfectly as aoe pressure and debilitation. our other minions still do there jobs as cc bots perfectly as well (as well as the flesh wurm get out of jail free card) it just provides a more centered damage focus. And it seems to confuse ALOT of people I fight. Wouldn’t surprise me if other MMs are using this more often in pve now as well.

With vital persistence we can fire off ALOT of life blasts which means alot of crits and alot of might as the fight progresses. The high ferocity gives us the feel of a more power focused build while still having the extreme toughness levels that MMs are known for. The improved life force pool combined with the extra life force we gain from deaths means were almost immortal in any form of pve whatsoever. And our cc bot minions work just fine to keep us topped off. Your a bit more susceptible to condi nukes so being able to land dagger and staff 4 will become a second nature part of your survival. Closest ive found to a true MM/DS Hybrid. CC and tankiness from the minions and death magic while still having the high crits that makes DS necros dangerous. Also it has one thing most DS builds lack ive seen. Wide area and rapid poison application.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW3IDN12VjfNs3mIaokOAOgCAqek6aYH6UA-TJBFABCcQAc4JAIdZAAuAAAA

Thanks for explaining the builds you use.

The 2nd build is more interesting to me. I do like the sustainability of damage you can take while in DS and the high survivability. And, you crit and get some great damage dealt from DS.

My main profession is a glass cannon crit Ele and while I enjoy the damage, I am growing tired of how fast I have to be on my feet and low survivability. The problem is not being able to sustain lots of damage for a long period of time. In eles, you either go all damage being your best defense or you go all defensive and lose lots of damage output (basically feeling like you’re mediocre of a class lol)

My main application with a necro MM right now would be all levels of PVE
I’m thinking your second build with Vital Persistence, cavalier armor with golemancer runes. Any other synergistic runes you would go with besides centaur? For PVE, would you switch out flesh wurm for Shadow Fiend?
(Though I will have try it for PVP, looks great)
Here’s what I’ve added to your 2nd build (gear/sigils/runes):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQFAWjM00UbXNu1webiohS6A4AKAo6RqrhdoTB-TBSDABdq+T3XAgAeAACp8zFdA7t/wCKBBw8HA-e

If you look at the link, I’ve outfitted the armor/accessories with Cavalier. Sigil of Restoration will stack nicely with Parasitic Bond trait. Sigil of Cruelty will get you 250+ more ferocity and with 10-15 stacks of might from life blast, you’re looking at some pretty high power, toughness, and ferocity with a 63% crit chance when in DS.

One last thing…
What do you think of the original Necro MM PVE build I sent you? Are some of the traits not worth or redundant? Especially points into Blood traits like Vampiric Master (as you’ve said it’s bugged. What happens?) and Bloodthirst. Are any traits in the blood line worth it for a MM? I would think strengthening the siphoning would be the key to high survivability.
But at the same time, 300+ stats into vitality and healing is probably a waste right?

Shadelang.3012:

Bone minions with death nova alone completely nuetralize a group of wolves even if they have mender support. The poison nukes the healing. and the explosions themselves do a health chunk of damage in an aoe. The increased l.f. gain as well that death magic users get as well makes life force almost constantly maxed out no matter what your trait setup. this is especially useful in my 40604 build.

Teragriffs are easily nuetralized by necros thats true. but havin extra toughness goes a LONG way when you have 3-4 of them on you. and when your fighting inside a large group of mordrem having flash of hte master can be really key. Otherwise your bone minions can die before there implemented properly. your bone fiend,shadow fiend can get clipped and taken out. leaving you without a utility. since all mordrem cleave this is a pretty common issue Ive seen other MM users have. Just having FOTM helps ALOT. (even in its current bugged state).

Id honestly say the survivability you gain from taking death magic atleast cancels out the dps loss. Since open world events care more about how long you can stay effective on the field and not how fast you can kill one specific mob out of 60. Especially since as a MM necro your unlikely to be engaging less than 4 mordrem at a time. If your 1v1ning mordrem as a minion master your really wasting your potential ya know?

In open world were probably the best there is at fighting and killing large numbers of computer enemies at once. Especially when we build with that in mind.

Hey buddy! would you be so kind as to show me more in detail what your “40604 build” is? I’m looking into working on my low level necro to be a MM.

I made up something like this and wanted to maybe create a hybrid of it and yours.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQFAWjM00UbXNu1webiphS6EYACgpvgJYDg6GB-TRxDAB5t/QMq/gqSwfU+Bg5PA-e

Let me know! The Death Shroud stuff that you speak of in your post is interesting and I def want to use Death Nova. I like your opinion also of that the pts in Death Magic/Death Nova outweigh the missed points into the spite trait line. I’m more into survivability with a minion army vs. full damage.

I remember as the OP may remember, the MM days in GW1 when they didn’t have a minion limit, you could harness an entire army! It was amazing. Even after the nerf to minion mastery to where you could only have up to 10-11 minions wasn’t so bad.

Thanks,

Thomas

No I did not play with another person. However, I did play the Arah Story a long long time ago before I even got to completing Source of Orr in the personal storyline.

Once I completed Source of Orr for the first time, like I said, I got pointed straight to Arah Story dungeon.

Guys explain to me if this has happened to you but this occurred to me last night:

I finally finished Source of Orr (end of Chapter 7). Killed the eye, Trahearne finished the purification ritual.

Next thing you know, I’ve now been pointed to go to Arah to complete the storyline dungeon. I looked in the story journal and it’s called “Victory of Death”.
I completed Arah story dungeon and that’s it. Personal story is done.

Looking at the wiki, I’ve completely missed all the missions for Chapter 8. I was never pointed to complete any of them.

What is going on here?!? Anyone else have this issue?

Love the idea. It’s better than nothing Colin. Let us know if there are any slight tweaks in your company policy after bringing it to the company’s attention lol xoxo

I have an Nvidia 690 GTX card and it happens to me too… with 2D Nvidia Surround 3 23-inch 1920×1080 monitors.

Astral Projections.7320:

wetwillyhip.7254:

ok, i understand you run the risk or chance with gambling. I understand the fact that fused weapons are a luxury item as they are just skins.

But I have spent 200$ worth of gems on BL keys alone to get ONE fused weapon. Still haven’t gotten it. Doesn’t anyone think this is a little ridiculous and outrageous?

The question is, does ANet think its ridiculous or outrageous? When a company puts out a product and buyers express intense interest by buying multiples of it then the company is going to feel that the product is a success. If some have buyer’s remorse afterwards, the company can still consider it a win if the money they make exceeds what they would have made selling the item without RNG. Some may be unhappy, but the company can look at their sales and conclude that the majority was not. I read somewhere that they feel people like “gambling” with the BL chests and I would say the sales validate their belief.

As long as people spend money on RNG then you can expect the gem store to sell it. It’s a business decision.

I can see your points very valid. I agree with what you’ve said. The fact that I have spent 150-200$ on BLChests can be successful. Anet can see my payments as a success… but at what end should gem-buyers be rewarded?

These kinds of odds will upset gem-buyers to the point I’ve heard so many times: "I"m not spending a cent more in the gem store". I think these odds could hurt Anet’s potential profits. In my mind, 100$ of gambling in a VIDEO game, should net out some sort of reward. That’s just my expectation from a video game that does gambling. They could at least put the fused weapons in the store for 300 gems each, or even 500. This still guarantees profit for anet, but they now have accumulated a bit of frustrated customers who have spent more than I and have gained nothing as well.

To what end should the odds be I think is a subjective matter.

Even if I didn’t get a fused ticket, I haven’t received any sort of other rare-reward from the chests.. same old crap. What motivation is there for me left to get them? Which puts potential gem purchases for me at a low.