Guild Wars 2

Disk I/O error. Is one I keep getting. Twice today. Pre any update.

Email wasn’t being sent until I tried to log into forums.

I guess I was overdue.

Do achievements give progress on Tyria ot HOT masteries? For e.g, sword master, crab toss, LS stuff. As they don’t give xp.

Do some WvW. You can get the lot done with Notaries.

P.S How you get those crowbars to open chests?

I gave up on new map until I can get that gliding unlocked. In the meantime I’m doing WvW to at least get all the HP’s with boosters. Then I may give it a second chance. By that time Halloween’ll be done and the area may be a bit more bearable. Instead of watching pocket raptors, that give 90 xp!, down my Dragonhunter in 2 or 3 hits.

Does your progress on the Mastery bar count for/towards Tyria and HOT masteries simul’? Implying that both have a separate Mastery bar.

simplesimon.2084:

Renim.6921:

Drayos.8759:

Right, so this QQ is on the bases that U want the Elite specialisation for free?.. claiming this is a barrier and not content?..

Right, so No PvEr is going to raid?… No PvEr will do world Bosses?…. No PvEr could possibly have interests in WvW, Litterally 100% of the community complete Quests then AFK in main towns for the Rest of their lives?… Not even guild missions?….

im sorry but the statements ridiculous, theres NOTHING ELSE TO SPEND THE kitten THINGS ON, ofcourse this new specialization was GOING to involve hero points its Funded EVERY OTHER specialization throughout Guild Wars 2, to claim its suddenly wrong is ridiculous.

there is 0 terrible decisions made, dragonhunters great and is performing well in PvE and PvP and the reasons to refuse having it all together is ridiculous, to claim it was a waste of money without the elite is ridiculous, as im pretty sure PvErs mainly bought this Expansion FOR THE NEW PVE CONTENT.

400 hero points is steep, i did feel like maybe slightly too high, but to outright Say theres 0 justification to it.. and nothing to do after u’ve done it is just bullcrap, i did feel it should be on the Same sorta guideline of grind for any other Specialization, as these elites are ment to ADD to the proffession and not replace it, so the reasoning for it to be so much higher then the rest is ridiculous.

but at the end of the day, some inconviences exist.

When I picked my profession at launch, I got to play as it. I didn’t need to play anything else to unlock it. I could use all of the weapons, and only with about a 5 minute commitment I could use all weapons.

I could use the hero points to get other things like sigils, signets, meditations, etc… and that’s fine because the costs were reasonable and well within my level range.

Currently, I’ll have to complete the entire expansions Hero Challenges to actually get to play Dragon Hunter at lvl 80 capacity, so I can do all the wonderful PvE stuff you were talking about: world bosses, dungeons, raids, etc… Except for half that stuff, I’ve already done it plenty of times. I’ll do all the new content with my normal Guardian, so I can get Dragon Hunter, and do all the stuff I’ve been doing over and over and over again.

I’m not asking for something for free; I’m asking to be able to play something I paid money to have access to in a reasonable amount of time, at a reasonable point of the game.

You can unlock your elite spec with just 65 hero points. After that the other points unlock traits and skills for that spec.

It took me nearly 200 hp to fully unlock the core stuff, with some alrdy done. Now, it’s 60hp to unlock the first skill or trait ot w/e it’s called on tempest. That’s not a rant, but fact. Unless I’m missin’ something.

Would help with nodes in Cursed Shore as the resource maps are terrible and inaccurate at best. Post mastery bar, I ain’t got time to wander around aimlessly.

‘Time is money (xp), friend’

kitten right.

Aktium.9506:

I enjoyed grinding 26 800 500~ experience in a day. It felt good to be rid of all those useless EXP boosters I’ve had lying around for years. Even if I got a headache doing so.

I have loads to. Dozens of B’day Boosters etc. Cursed Shore?

I got around 36k from FE event. To fill mastery bar I need 1,270,000 xp.

BaconofPigs.1683:

You can’t. You have to fill all core specs before it let you unlock the elite spec. So yeah, reset all you want I guess.

I thought you had to do masteries to unlock it. I have more than 500 unspent hp’s on two toons, as all I ever really done is farm events etc and one full map comp’. Why ppl want to reset them?

Setz.9675:

The amount of experience needed for masterys has been discussed since BWE1 and how it was a chore and not fun to do.
Now in the actual game where my elite specc is locked behind a 400 hero point wall which is annoying to begin with is further locked behind not a grind but behind a chore. A really long and frustrating chore.
Unlocking masterys does not feel like meaningfull progression, it feels like a mandatory event grind which in all honesty is rather difficult if you look HOW EMPTY THE ZONES IN HoT ARE!!! Both players and events are incredibly hard to come by. The experience we gain in the jungle from enemys is close to null as well.

So yes Anet congratulations, you turned your extremely grindy game into an extremely annoying chore. Anet’s policy of no fun allowed is really shining down on HoT. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I feel like a moron right now.

When Halloween is over, one hopes it will be different. At the moment, it’s hard to get anything done there of value, for the time you spend ‘in it’.

Juclesia Elcritian.8410:

Also did not receive my veteran pre-purchase character slot. I received 1 slot from upgrading to digital deluxe in-game. But I should have received a 2nd slot for having registered the game before the start of this year, according to their promotion.

I have not opened a ticket yet, I’ll give them a breather because of the launch. But I will open a ticket on tuesday if I still don’t have it.

I got that 2nd slot. Which I thought was for Deluxe+, unless it was^. Either way it’s a bonus ’cos I was expecting just the one.

Do it too many times though (leave/join grps) and you’ll incur the timer’s wrath.

I’ll remember to play nice when those raid bosses show up.

JediYoda.1275:

Celtic Lady.3729:

It’s just another example of Anet killing farms. They hate farms and they have systematically gotten rid of every one. Also, they want people playing fractals and raids, so that will the the rewarding content for the game.

Guess you didn’t play GW1 at all? They nerfed every farm in the game and killed the 55 monk to further prevent farming on large scale. So nothing new really and its t be expected from Anerf!

Yes, things did get ‘nerfed’ but it was nowhere (near) on GW2’s scale.

If I’m on x,999 AP’s that 1 AP will come in handy.

One of the best things about the original was that it had a plethora of farming builds and locations. So you never had issues like embers and CS events failing on purpose (like) in GW2. The best ‘farmer’ in the world can’t be in two maps at once.

The key though, was that it was also ‘fun’ to do.

paintpixie.7398:

Yeah, I have dynamic IP, so it doesn’t work out for me either…
Did you at least get to keep the dragon pet? : P

Yeah, it’s still there…

It does NOT remember your network! So every time you log in here or game, you need new code.

Cancelled this horror.

What’s in these thousands of files? new maps, dungeons, fractals, armor, professions, currencies, races, traits, personal story, achievements……

No, some skills and TP fluff.

Nash.2681:

Mikal Dynath.6195:

Update 2.0: download came to a crashing halt about 20 min akittenb/s at 41k files left. It’s stopped juuuuust this side of ‘Playable’ … so now I think I’m being trolled.

(Yes, I’m saying Anet hates me personally … discuss amongst yourselves)

Even if you’d reached the “playable” zone- you wouldn’t have fun anyway. Massive lags, mostly no sounds, no previews, etc. etc. due to the background DL.

And be asured- ANet hates everyone of us, you’re not alone

Yesterday was fine. Today…the hells goin’ on?

Got that about 20 mins ago. Download is takin’ forever. wish I would have known whilst I was doing something else. Forums are slow too.

I noticed , recently, that the TP is a lot easier to use. Why? You can sell items a lot quicker and you don’t have to scroll back down to the next items you want to sell if they’re close to each other in your inven’.

With 100’s of champ bags, it’s quite a time saver. Feels a bit quicker and smoother too.

Unless raids are ‘paid’ content.

Ouch.

The times given on wiki are accurate, bit of patience, no big deal really. I left it till last and did the others in meantime.

If using Dulfy’s guide, avoid the torches for last one, you lose the gun.

Kal Spiro.9745:

RNG is RNG. RNG is always RNG. Statistics only tell you probabilities, not realities. All possible outcomes are possible, so never getting anything is just something that can happen, and does.

I remember Brian Cox explaining, how, as he made a sandcastle on a beach. That there is no Law in Physics that says that that same sandcastle, when blown away by the wind, can’t reform itself somewhere else, in ‘exactly’ the same shape as he made it with his bucket.

Billions to one? Maybe. but purely ‘random’.

Interesting subject. RNG.

I got a Dusk when the MF was virtually empty. One or 2 ppl maybe. I would try when it’s quiet and no one’s there. You never know.

Razor.9872:

Keep in mind that purchasing HoT will not only give you the content coming with the expansion, but also all the “free” content coming post-expansion. A-net announced that those who do not purchase HoT will be unable to continue receiving content updates after HoT hits (or at the very least story updates, I can’t remember exactly what).

Really? That’s like saying, that if you don’t buy HoT, no more updates for your acc’, ie your stuffed. Content wise anyway.

This implies they want you ‘commitment’ to the game…..interesting.

Well. It was an interesting read over the past few days.

I’ll be sad to see it go! lol.

End.

Should it not have been,

‘….We included the core game as a free bonus for new players, to make it easier for them to get into’.

The official line seems the wrong way round to me. A juxtaposition error. Also the ‘it’ at the end isn’t necessary, ‘into’ more than suffices.

HenleyLegoMan.4987:

See, multiple accounts are a good use for the laurels, wether u but t6 or not on your main. You can get t6 on your alt and either send them to main to sell or sell and send gold to main acc.

This means extra gold/t6 for your main.

However………

While the core game has been on sale this is a good deal. But if cord game is to become unavailable due to hot bundle, it isn’t as good a deal.

Do you need to use a different email for another account? Or use the same one as the main?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Flatley.1620:

Slightly confused… my main character has well over 500 skill points. Does that mean I’m going to get loads of mystic forge stuff? It also says hero points will be used to progress characters when HoT launches. How does my 500 SP’s translate into that?

Every level 80 will get 400 hero points and the number of skill points done in map, up to a max number. Those Hero points will be used to unlock your skills and traits. Any skill points you have above that max will be converted to spirit shards, usable to buy items from the mystic forge NPC. Any skill point scrolls in your inventory/bank will become a consumable that becomes the spirit shards.

Not much point using up these scrolls then?…I guess. L20 scrolls?

I’m a few days of the 10k AP reward which is 400 gems. Too early to buy yet though, wiser to ‘wait and see’.

Guild Wars 1 survives to this day with no cash cow that the gem store is.

Ten years on. ArenaNet are still here.

The price is more than enough for HoT. But most will want the new class, so it’s the base price +, w/e you choose ‘to lose’. Money, Gold or Delete.

Tranquilnelf.1258:

mrstealth.6701:

Tranquilnelf.1258:

The point , that a lot of people, including myself are making, is that there is a much higher value being offered to brand new players for their $50 spend.

Agreed , that the base game is not being charged, and that the price tag is for the expansion only, but if you consider the value offered to new players vs the value offered to old gamer, there is a huge apparent difference.

It’s a fairly safe assumption to say that the base game is not free. It doesn’t really make any sense to say that Anet, over the course of a single day was willing to change their perceived value of the core game from being $40(or $10) to $0. If they did indeed value their game at $0, they would have no issues with giving that “free” copy to all existing players that buy HoT.

This is true. The current market value of the core GW 2 game is certainly not free. As a separate product it does indeed have a non zero price tag, just that when it comes bundled with HoT expansion it seems to be offered as a massive 100% discount.
It’s good for new players, and I love that ANet is offering such a deal. For the new player, they get all the core game, all the original LS content plus a new expansion all in the same price. For the existing player however it does leave a slight sour taste in the mouth

I just hope there is enough of the expansion to justify the price instead.

‘……….all the original LS content’

wha………. ALL?!

Surely not.

They had a sale for that recently, and some of us mugs paid gems for it.

GW1 had no such problems with it’s exp’s. If i remember right, as smooth as silk.

It didn’t have revenue from Gems or a Gem Store either. They didn’t exist.

I’ve seen a few sellin’ high fractals for like 20g a piece (pp).

Looked to have scam written all over it.

Bomber.3872:

There are no mounts in gw1. There shall never be any mounts in gw2!

I remember reading similar about an expansion.

How wrong THEY were.

Once you give that gold away…..

Lost count of how many times I’m glad I didn’t do that, when I was gonna ‘quit’.

Cryptovirology.9470:

Messi.1795:

Hello Anet,
My brother sent a support Ticket (ID 1229429) about 4ish days ago, would like some info thnx.

I know you guys are working hard and have been getting a lot of tickets lately.

Thanks in Advance.

7 days or older. can you not read?

On the 1st page of this thread it says 3 days. the heading it says 7. I’m not scrolling thru’ 38 pages to find out.

You’ve got further than I have. Desktop icon is all I have, when I double click , nothing happens at all, and I mean NOTHING. As if the whole game has been wiped from my PC. It’s still in Control Panel so no uninstall, CD boot doesn’t work either.

Played since 2006 and this is the 1st time I’ve had an account problem like this. Ofc I made a ticket so I’ll see what happens…

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Run in admin mode turn off all antivirus and firewalls.

I tried this and it shows as Publisher ‘Unknown’

I also got this when trying to download client

I got Dusk on my last of playing. But I ‘knew’ it wouldn’t keep me in the game, just wasn’t interested, so I sold it in case you know what happens. Until then, my gold is idle.

Not a fan of it, I see it as content ‘on the cheap’. Lore is all well and good but it’s just…words, a story. Like newspapers produce every day.

Retsuko.2035:

Mounts to make us travel faster is not what this game needs at all. So many other things anet should prioritize over features for lazy people :P

LA has a speed boost, a decent one too. I don’t care if it’s a non combat area. A speed boost is a speed boost.

If travelling faster is ‘wrong’, why is it there?

‘This can encourage exploration.’

That should never have to be the case. If they have to ‘force’ players to do that, something’s wrong somewhere.

Mistress Elemental.3750:

While I am very sad I won nothing for the 4k tickets I put in, and also did not get any ghost wolf from the now 320k ToT bags I have opened, it almost seemed like the Mini Llama was another prize that was being given out. (At least per that screenshot from one of the other posts.) That would have made me happy as well. Why were those not given to everyone that did not win at least? That would have been a great consolation prize since it is one of the 3 mini’s I still need to complete my collection. I mean I am still holding out faint hope I’ll get the mini wolf and its clear I wont get any of the skins but I would have liked to have at least 1 thing to show for the massive amount of gold I have spent.

Holy Skritt, that’s about 16k gold, selling that lot you could have been in GW2 rich list.

To have both games merged as one, would have been my ideal GW. No doubt about that. New and Old Tyria, yes please.

As the last update proved with the GW1 references lore wise, that non lore fans of GW2, still remembered the GW1 characters and it was THIS that got it the praise.

I highly doubt they would go back on, or even change/alter a pre-release promise of no monthly fees.

More chance of a triple precursor drop I’d say.