Guild Wars 2

I must have missed the difficulty of the encounter.

I was solo, on my guardian, full zerk, and was able to 2 burn cauducus. The jade was annoying but I had cc skills anyway from the previous encounters. I didn’t fight all of the enemies people were saying because i only had to break his shield twice.

So yea, I’m missing how this was so hard. Pressing the special action key fast wasn’t an issue, i walked around all of the aoe circles because they are pretty small. If someone has a reply to my comment about what was so difficult and why, quote me.

Just casually mapping out an area when I saw something really big from the distance. I had no idea there were such big events such as Tequatl I was missing! (Note, if he was revamped Teq at launch……… no thanks)

Dinosaurs.8674:

for banners and Empower Allies.

This right here is mostly it

The warrior banners provide an additional 170 to three offensive stats as well as 320 to power with EA

In long duration encounters such as raids, these stat increases are huge

Giving the might allows other professions such as ele to not worry about stacking/blasting/sharing might

As a veteran player, I bought HoT and am semi-pleased. What I am not pleased about is all the in-game content that was going to be released and still has not come out. Every company is doing this approach and very frustrating.
Therefore, as a new player, I will tell you not to purchase HoT until all of the promised content comes out with it. You’ll be missing a part of the game yes, but as of right now I would not recommend.

Zenith.7301:

Any comments on rewards? Something that doesn’t spoil the fight.

You can go to the merchant right at the beginning of Salvation Pass and see what rewards are capable of being dropped. The final boss has a lot of unique weapons. Also the 6 items you get for the legendary armor are not really time gated, so some of us already got all 6 items compared to the first wing which took a few weeks

Ropechef.6192:

Nicely done!!!!

you guys have fun??

what did you all think of the wing over all?

I think our consensus was that we were glad it was different mechanics and similar difficulty, but overall more annoying (especially the second “boss”)

Akachi.1352:

By no means am I saying legendaries should be cheap or easy to get, just some of the items to craft them need some more reliable methods of coming into the economy

I’m not in favor of 2250 orbs/doubloons/crests either. I think its stupid to require 9 of each for just 1 amalgamted…

But that being said, Anet said they wanted this to be a legendary journey. They are not catering to people who want a legendary the day that it is available. They want to think that you will spend months and months grinding as a goal to get your legendary, hence the ridiculousness of some of the precursor crafting costs as well.

So yea, I don’t like how much it costs for just one component of the total legendary, but this is Anet afterall

If you have advanced gliding, you can use lean techniques until your endurance reaches 0, but at that point you will stop leaning and your endurance will regenerate. It doesn’t stow your glider when you reach 0 endurance. If you personally stow it though and you don’t have enough endurance to reopen, yes you will fall a bit longer

HoT is by no means casual friendly

You may join a map at whatever time you want to, but don’t be surprised if you go into a finished or not started Dragon’s Stand, a Verdant Brink in the nighttime boss phases and see nobody on the map, an Auric Basin with saving Tarir meta only to find that none of the doors are even broken down, or a Tangled Depths that has all of it’s events finished in 20-30 minutes.

Want to unlock your elite specialization? There are some channel HP’s for an easy 10 in a few cases on each map (except for Dragon’s Stand, which is all channeling. Advice is to use teleport to friend to the map or just run there). The rest? Better be prepared to fight a champion and possibly some adds.

I heard you wanted to make one of the new legendaries. Congratulations! These are awesome new weapons. Too bad you’ll have to open (assuming a 1/3 chance, and excluding Dragon’s Stand random crystalline ore amounts [1,3,10]) about 750 of the corresponding “chests” in each zone! Exciting I know! Oh but don’t worry, you can get 15 of each currency by doing the personal story missions in those zones…

You excited for raids! I was too! Took our guild a less than a week to figure out all the mechanics, comps, and finally execution to beat it. That was hard. Now on a good casual run (no wipes, minimal afk time) we finish in 35-40 minutes.

I’m pretty sure I could come up with more instances, but those are some right off the top of my head

We’ve been heard

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vfeu3/letter_of_introduction_and_lets_talk_about/

“Fix issues that encourage toxic play or interactions. No collectible should be gated behind failed events, or mechanics that make you upset that another player is playing a specific way. Unfortunately these things take longer to fix and test around the fixes (don’t want to break something else on accident), so the turn around will be slower”

This is all that I need to hear. As long as this doesn’t take like 4 months to fix I’m glad to see and now I can just be patient and work on other things

Thanks all for this discussion, I think this pretty much closes the arguement… unless it doesn’t get fixed :P

This has gotten alot of attention, so I’ll post some additional information.

I did not take any screenshot of us actually explaining what we were doing. There were times for a few hours (and some people were waiting much longer) about explaining what a legendary collection was, what is a legendary weapon (for the brand new people), and why we needed the event to fail. Alot of times people were nice and patient with us, but these people are not the problem

There were several times where we would ask people to stop. They would continue to kill the icebrood and the shaman that were walking, never letting us get to the other events that happen if you fail it. They wouldn’t even respond with a “but its an event, I should do it.” They would just attack with all of us saying to “please stop, there will be more events and more rewards afterwards.”

That is what I’m driving at here, like all of us already have said, that people are actually fighting now because of certain legendary collection requirements

This has been said multiple times already, for multiple legionaries, but I’ll just add my story as well
Say chat says it all. Thanks Anet for making this collection a “legendary” journey
(Need certain events to fail to spawn new events, which is needed for the collection, but failing an event is a lot harder than it seems)
http://i.imgur.com/xAH3NBZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MkFxGHv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qFvVxNO.jpg

I had no problem getting the raven when I did it

This suffers from the usual mechanics that don’t make GW2 fully engaging in alot of areas

1- This type of event promotes event taggging, where you kill a few mordrem, hit the vine crawler once or twice, and can still manage to get gold rating and get credit
2- speaking of rating, bronze, silver, or gold, it doesn’t matter because you get 0 exp, karma, money for completing the events
3- The mordrem blooms are too small in number. As said many times, this is a pretty bad “swing my sword, swing my sword again” grind to get maybe a few items that you want, instead of actually working very hard to get every item.
4- disconnects suck, and if the game doesn’t recognize this you just wasted a hard amount of time and it’s not like this is repeatable immediately after (although it does have a nice rotation system)
5- If this was supposed to be similar to Scarlet’s invasion, there should be an incentive to fully stay at events like giving loot (that would prevent going to many events, because you would miss out on mob loot) or have a final mordrem boss appear if XX number of map events were completed

Those are just a few, im sure this thread will come up with many more

AC p1 is too hard

Do dungeons pretty much everyday, still plenty of LFG’s all day long as well

These changes aren’t for speed runs, just offering more for normal players. That’s just their objective now, adding cool stuff for “new” players and making more build options.

maha.7902:

is my computer just bad or is the second ele’s video really jittery? like it’s really irritating to watch when it’s freezing for a few seconds all the time.

No it’s not you, unfortunately I record at 30 fps (if that) with OBS because my labtop can’t handle anything higher, as evidence from this video :P

Really need to buy myself a real gaming desktop if I’m going for more records lol

Sometimes that’s what I see when actually doing the run as well

To confirm on this bug, I am noticing the same effects. I do precision tests on all of my characters to see if they are close to 80% critical chance based off precision alone. I generally get that, except for one of my warriors. In a span of just 4 days, he has lost around 80 precision. He only has 1 set of armor, and 1 set of weapons. I also do these tests away from all other players and make sure to either subtract food or not have any at all. This is a problem because it is troubling that when I seem to have a perfect build, it is ruined by this bug.

Probably redundant at this point, but i had the same problem, that my cultivated seed turned into a pet seed, didn’t realize until I tried to use my new pot. It was in my inventory, and did not know when the switch actually occured

Simple rules to follow to avoid “elitist hating”
1- read the lfg
2- learn how to dodge, dodging mechanics are overpowered if used correctly
2.5- learning to dodge reduces the need to have over 3000 armor for your build
3- watch speed clear videos, if you learn even 50% of what they do, you won’t be complaining
4- don’t hate, appreciate
5- “most” (not all) of us don’t have 10 hours to play a game everyday, we want thing done quickly and efficiently, hence why we go zerk speed clear
6- once you become good and “elite” you won’t be upset anymore