8:16 pm, November 19, 2013
Well after looking over these new previews for the next update I found myself immensely underwhelmed, and even bordering on offended. This is primarily because I dont play Fractals, and dislike gettin [..]
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2:16 am, October 28, 2013
So it's been a year and the lag has gotten worse (understatement) not better. With the introduction of WvW leagues the lag has hit extrodinary levels.
We all know it's there, we've [..]
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4:16 am, October 26, 2013
Just an off day or is it getting worse? Has anyone seen Arenanet address this issue lately? The last ones I reported were 4 rangers stacked on top of each other all moving together, all dressed the sa [..]
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3:36 pm, October 18, 2013
right now it's a keymashing nightmare when facing an array of opponents, the GW2 combat experience isn't a tenth as crisp as GW1 was, which was itself firmly in FPS territory at times, but it's made s [..]
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7:03 am, October 18, 2013
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Yay! Zaitan is dead after a severely disappointing one dimensional final battle! Everyone lives happily ever after and Trahearnia lords over everyone with his smug, dreary, cheap-motivati [..]
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9:16 pm, October 17, 2013
By the third night, the mob around Castle Thorn had grown so thick that their bonfires reached the river, making a constellation of pyres that stretched as far as King Oswald Thorn could see.
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7:45 am, October 13, 2013
Hey there, I played GW2 a bit back at release, stopped, sporadically played it here and there, stopped and now I'm back to sporadically play it some more.
Yet I am left wondering how this game has ch [..]
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4:04 am, October 11, 2013
Since this relates to both PvE and PvP I couldnt really post it twice in those forums so sticking it here. While I love my Warrior and it it my main it feels like this game just fav [..]
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7:09 pm, October 10, 2013
I was afraid to try sPvP in GW2 at first because I remembered how hardcore GW1 PvP was and was afraid that I'd just end up feeling like a useless noob if I tried the PvP in GW2 until I was at least lv [..]
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1:35 pm, October 7, 2013
So I play a warrior, and with a group of friends, we went to AC explorable mode. Our comp was as follows:
Warrior x2
Guardian
Mesmer
Engineer
We choose the 3rd route and made it to the Extraction pa [..]
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4:44 am, October 7, 2013
Basically, what I've yet to do:
Dungeons:
- CoE explorable (no one wanting to do that)
- CoF explorable (can't be arsed to do it)
- Arah explorable (from what I've read, it's too hard, long and has a [..]
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10:46 pm, October 6, 2013
This thread is for everyone who agrees that GW1 was a better game than GW2. If you don't agree, stop reading now please.
The idea here is to build ideas on how to improve GW2 based on gameplay streng [..]
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10:10 pm, October 6, 2013
The personal story ended up being one of those GW2 features that managed to massively reduce my enjoyment of the game. And it's not the story's writing, rewards or something similar - it's the way it' [..]
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11:33 am, October 6, 2013
Hey all,
My ping was fine from game launch to 2 days ago (50-100ms), but in the last 2 days it started going up significantly to 250-300. It gets even worse in large battles (NOT an FPS issue at all, [..]
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9:58 pm, October 4, 2013
I see a number of people impressed with ANets stance on a Dungeon finder, in that they have no plans for one. I on the other hand feel that not having on in a glaring omission and t [..]
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8:15 pm, October 4, 2013
This post will include spoilers pertaining to the personal storyline, so if you have not completed it yet, and continue to read on, don't complain.
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8:02 pm, October 4, 2013
Disclaimer: I fully understand that no two players' games can be completely the same, so I also understand that this doesn't plague everyone. The problem is that just because this is not happening to [..]
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3:55 pm, October 4, 2013
I've been playing this game a bit now, sitting at about Lvl. 73(almost 74) and I am rapidly becoming less and less excited to finish it up.
1) The story continues to get worse and less cohesive. Voic [..]
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3:19 pm, October 4, 2013
A couple friends and I decided to so our first dungeon today and it was a total train wreck. We sat outside the Ascalonian Catacombs to get 2 more people to join us and found them pretty quickly, but [..]
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10:01 am, October 4, 2013
* Minor Spoiler Alers*
Now I know everyone's disappointed about the personal story. Half the fault lies with Anet, for bad writing, cringe-worthy cinematics, clunky sequences and for rushing it all. [..]
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11:50 pm, October 3, 2013
I first picked this game up on the pre-order early access. I have since made many characters (one of every class) and got three of them (Ranger, Elementalist and Mesmer) into mid-le [..]
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9:35 pm, October 3, 2013
Early on during Wintersday one of the jewellers recipes could be exploited to gain a lot of ectos through salvaging (craft, regain snowflake and potentially several ecto & repeat). It was pretty w [..]
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5:05 pm, October 3, 2013
Why would this be considered good design? An area where you can barely see anything, with narrow ledges that you need to traverse using the game's poor control system, while fighting foes that fear [..]
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6:24 pm, October 2, 2013
first, let me say I wont be copying the full guides here for downsampling but linking a thread on guru3d that has the answers to any questions you may have on getting it working.
Before we get starte [..]
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11:24 am, October 2, 2013
So I decided to check what the small update was last night after the huge bug fix/bug making update we had.
And read.
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Update:Fixed a client crash that would occur whilst using the dye panel w [..]
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9:58 am, October 2, 2013
The recent fiasco on Ascended items has prompted me to pop out of lurking, so I typed up a lengthy blurb on the state of progression in Guild Wars 2. Hopefully this can spiral into some meaningful and [..]
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8:24 pm, October 1, 2013
Here are mine:
Spoiler
Christmas has come and gone. For the most part, so has Wintersday. The events will run through Jan. 3, but no new content is scheduled between now and then. So I think its t [..]
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6:42 pm, October 1, 2013
Abstract
Would someone get Anette-chan out of here?! We don't need her tomfoolery now. Shoo you damn charr, go back to Ascalon!
Gems are bad 'kay? That's what I always say. And thanks to Cube's [..]
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5:55 pm, October 1, 2013
They are even worse than town clothes.
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3:45 pm, October 1, 2013
So ArenaNet why no player moderators?
Ok so we all have seen an increases in botters, hacked accounts, cash for gold for spammer and people spamming you mail inbox FUUUUUUUU!! and I'm for one am sick [..]
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3:39 pm, October 1, 2013
Professor Omadd, Headmaster Emeritus of the College of Synergetics, anxiously twisted his ear as he waited for the sylvari woman to wake. She had been thrashing violently in the isolation module for d [..]
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2:34 pm, October 1, 2013
So, as we all know, Arenanet has placed many "gold sinks" into Guild Wars 2 and vastly limited the ability to productively farm, as opposed to how easily possible it was in Guild Wars. Their [..]
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12:32 pm, October 1, 2013
Before fixing anything, let's quickly identify the core problems with GW2's PvE today. And by "PvE", I mean only the open-world PvE here, not personal story or dungeons.
So, the problems:
- [..]
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11:28 am, October 1, 2013
Is anyone actually enjoying underwater events?
I really, really want to enjoy exploring all the underwater content. I don't even really mind the specialty weapons too much, and most of what I've seen [..]
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11:25 am, October 1, 2013
Posted to GW2 Forums, I don't expect it to last. Please comment there as well.
TLDR: Points are boiled down here, but I encourage you to ready the body.
The Right to Make Money
N [..]
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6:39 am, October 1, 2013
One of the posts at the official forums caught my attention. Ensign, a well known member of the GW1 community posted the following in response to the lack of combat depth and the trinity as it applies [..]
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6:14 am, October 1, 2013
Purpose: In effect, what I intend to do is expose ArenaNet of lies, deceit, and otherwise facilitating or spreading false information for the sole purpose of garn [..]
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5:31 am, October 1, 2013
As an avid GW1 player I was rather disappointed that many of the aspects of GW1 that I loved had not returned for GW2. Many of the lessons learned in GW1 also it seemed had not been passed on to the s [..]
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2:35 am, October 1, 2013
Is it possible to post images of exactly what files I have on my computer to show my innocence? Or will that only get me legally crucified by Anet? After them tel [..]
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1:35 am, October 1, 2013
Ecto's?
Does anyone else feel ecto's are over used in the game in general for too many things?
Lets just say for example you would like a legendary, an exotic skin thats hard to get, upgraded ascen [..]
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11:29 pm, September 30, 2013
I saw something in a thread recently. It was about the living story content, and it went something like this:
QuoteQuoteIt wasn't so bad at first, but once you fall behind a bit and the content goes a [..]
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10:22 pm, September 30, 2013
(This topic contains subject matter which is being posted by a person who uses immature terms, but would prefer if people could take a mature attitude towards it)
(Please keep the "But then all t [..]
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6:48 pm, September 30, 2013
Simple thread: Post the ugliest, most horrendous character you've ever seen in the game. Can be your own creation, can be someone you saw, the only rule is that it must be hideous.
My contribution ha [..]
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6:25 pm, September 30, 2013
https://forum-en.gui...ion-of-the-Game
C&P'd for those blocked, but spoiler-tagged to de-spam. It is hefty, but a good read, IMO.
Spoiler
There have been many different so [..]
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5:09 pm, September 30, 2013
Originally I just wanted to do the math, but then it became more than that and i feel the need to share my thoughts. Disclaimer: Lots of text, also might belong in suggestion/ideas but that's what mod [..]
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5:00 pm, September 30, 2013
One of the 'exuses' anet came up with when selling the idea to the public that they would be adding 80 levels to the game was that it would take on average just as long to get from level 79 to 80 than [..]
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4:59 pm, September 30, 2013
Seems the latest "best practice" regarding the large presents is to pop them, snatch the actual presents that spawn and run, leaving the mobs behind.
It's really sad to s [..]
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4:39 pm, September 30, 2013
I've thought about writing this a lot before I decided to actually do it, because I wanted to get some feedback from other players to make sure it wasn't just me. I held off a day when I saw the patch [..]
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2:59 pm, September 30, 2013
Sometimes I just can't stand this game at all. In a lot of ways it feels like ArenaNet developed this game to be unfair in a manner that almost seems like "developer trolling". So here start [..]
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2:41 pm, September 30, 2013
It feels like ArenaNet is turning into the evil and greedy Blizzard. I don't know if there's any hope for humanity. This Halloween event is not as fun that i hoped for,so many disappointed fans. To ge [..]
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1:25 pm, September 30, 2013
Is it just me or did at some point during the last two weeks or so the "revive" action has become way too sticky?
Way too often I'm spamming the loot key over a pile of corpses and end up r [..]
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1:22 pm, September 30, 2013
So me and this River Drake, right. We... he... well, just watch the video.
Yes, he's level 2. This is very early-game content. But I'm level 2 too! Is this... I mean, what? He can't even **** me. I [..]
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12:37 pm, September 30, 2013
I prepurchased GW2 and played the head start, and let me tell you. This game was the most fun i have ever had.... from levels 1-60. Therein derives the problem. I loved finding secret areas, and wande [..]
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11:21 am, September 30, 2013
Most people have talked about how bad the ending was or about trahearne the archaeologist-to-commander transformation. What I haven't really seen yet was how bad the writing is in general. Half the li [..]
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9:53 am, September 30, 2013
Hi,
I came back to GW2 since i left it shortly before Halloween.
I spend the last 2 days levelling my guardian to lvl 80 and already had a thief on 80.
But no gear at all. I also spend some time che [..]
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8:18 am, September 30, 2013
So was wondering this, seems that some classes are way more heavily played than others, and it also seems to be getting worse.
First day I saw a great mix of classes running all about, second less, a [..]
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8:17 am, September 30, 2013
i searched, couldnt find anything, so if a re-post or similar, please just delete/lock thread/direct me where to post!
now please be respectable, don't debate with some on there "hate", it [..]
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7:48 am, September 30, 2013
So I decided to check what the small update was last night after the huge bug fix/bug making update we had.
And read.
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Update:Fixed a client crash that would occur whilst using the dye panel w [..]
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7:37 am, September 30, 2013
With the change in dailies some of us started modifying the way we play the game: our usual playstyle could not satisfy the requirements posed by the daily, so we started visiting, or just parking our [..]
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6:00 am, September 30, 2013
Just wondering how others have found the first part of this Fractal - where you have 30s to get all 3 Wisps through a changing labyrinthe of traps & mobs. My group were rolling [..]
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4:51 am, September 30, 2013
Just when you thought the bots were gone, something much worse has arrived. The latest is a zerg of players/bots that teleport around Tyria in time to a schedule of champion spawns. [..]
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2:41 am, September 30, 2013
This is starting to get a bit annoying. The level 80 zones are in much worse condition than they were right after the launch and on Gandara the situation is pretty bad, main event chains have been bro [..]
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