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As long as the next expansion doesn't use the same fill bar quests and microscopic content drops per quarter as SoTO then I will be happy.

I absolutely would be interested in a new GW game. It would just mean I would be splitting my time between 2 GW games.

story was ok, but had a weak uninspired ending with the laziest writing I have seen since IBS. The zone is good, with plenty to do. already have 3 weights of legendary armor so open world set isn't an issue. all in all, not a terrible living world... oops i mean expansion update, with story and massive amounts of (obviously QC department have no staff) bugs that shouldn't exist in a live server dragging it down.

Urban battle ground fractal - i think it's difficulty 4... turn right as soon as you go outside the spawn and kill the veterans there, just hold down autoattack 1 and it will get the kills, did mine today, took a little while but got it done

To call this a "major" update is dishonest at minimum... The only part of this update that is OK (for now) are the convergences... apart from that everything is over too fast, the masteries are useless, and the new map is washed out and looks dull compared to the rest of Tyria. I was hopeful this new direction ANet was taking with yearly updates would be worth it, but so far I'm only encouraged to put my money into other games

Nope. Well maybe in a non-populated area on lower settings. My specs are: Ryzen 7-7800x3d, 32GB DDR5 6000, RX 7900XTX, 2TB PCIE 5 x4 SSD, on an LG 4K 144Hz monitor, and its generally very smooth in the 100-1400 frames range but there are still areas where the frames drop to 60-75, and that's on hardware infinitely better then the pre-built you listed. Even though you say you dont want to wait, in some cases waiting a few days more is worth it

I think it is something else wrong with your PC, because im on Ryzen 7 7800x3d and RX7900xtx on 4k 144Hz monitor, and never had any issues keeping smooth frames, even in SotO

7800x3d and 7900xtx here, playing at 4k and havent had a single stutter, even in the horrible boon ball junk of wvw. Have you tried playing with image sharpening, anti-lag, and enhanced sync off? You could even use lower quality scaling instead of native.

Title pretty much says it all, apart from, why does ArenaNet love Maguuma so much? Last night we were getting stomped by Magumma and lo and behold there is an ANet tag amongst them all. I know the devs also play the game etc etc, but what message do you think this is sending to the other 2 teams? It is about time the devs started playing on the losing team so they know how unbalanced and broken the whole cloud/boon ball system is when you are on the receiving end.

Who cares if he goes. If he is off to another game then his commitment/love of this game isn't as strong as his videos make out to be If ArenaNet were still lining his pockets with exclusive stuff he wouldnt be jumping ship

As the OP stated at the top of this page - crafting funded half his/her legendaries. Seems to be upset He/she will actually have to go out and earn them the slow way like the rest of us. He/she also made a comment on a previous page about people being jealous of all his/her shiny stuff. It's pretty obvious that the OP has a problem with other players having easier access to new shiny stuff. OP might have some kind of a superiority complex and is feeling a bit upset that he/she won't be unique or special anymore. Your billion gold business took a hit in its quarterly profit. Get over it and find another way to extort gold from new players that don't suffer from your level of self entitlement.

Just finished the story today. Got to say I was pleasantly surprised with it. Was so much better then EoD and the Gyala Delves junk. Sadly though, they turned Zojja into a female Braham. She used to be my favorite no nonsense character, now she is a bad daytime soap opera extra.

I think you will find its called "Player Retention". ANet needs to keep players playing, and if one of the methods they choose to do so is by giving new players easier access to ascended gear then I'm all for it. Having people who are able to run higher level fractals etc is good for the longevity of the game. Personally, I have met plenty of people (several who are on the friends list now) who are able to pick up the mechanics of the fractals, but are let down by the gear they have. I regularly run lower tier fractals with "new" people and donate my infusions etc to them so they can get a small but hopefully effective head start. I worked hard for my legendary weapons, armor and runes, but Im not going to throw any toys out of the cot because someone else can have a chance to enjoy the journey to their personal end goal like just like I have. Likewise, no tantrums here because a player can get easier access to a lower tier of gear then mine.

Well if ANet are going to give legendary rune holders a big discount towards the new relic why should they not give the same big discount to legendary armour holders towards the new set? Sounds fair to me

Yeah, cant really argue with your explanation!! thanks for not flaming!!!!

So, in EBG about 10 minutes ago ANet claimed SMC while with Blackgate... how is this even allowed? Surely ANet staff shouldn't be able to help only one server in a 3 way matchup.

I can tell you from first hand seeing it, mechanist mech and necro pets will appear on the other side of structure walls/gates and start attacking enemy npcs/players/siege. Sounds more like a bug then a hack.

As much as I love GW2, if the latest patch and the events that are in it, are a sign of what is to come then the future expansions aren't really anything to look forward to, let alone pay for. Just a really anti-climatic wrap up to EOD, which in itself was a horrible way to end the decade long dragon saga.

Maybe if the server i cant name or ANet will give me a 3 day ban hadn't spawn camped other servers to the point they logged off every week they faced said un-named server, and told them to "get gud" on the forums then this topic wouldn't exist. You cant expect people to play fair if you are the perfect example of unfair play. ANet allows spies, double teaming, and other tactics in wvw, therefore two servers working together to make sure the un-named server gets locked into a tier it is now getting destroyed in is just another form of double teaming - a tactic ANet has said is fine. I just find it funny that when this un-named server is dominating and telling others to #get-gud-noobs that none of the other servers are calling foul and wanting tie break systems so they can tank a tier. But now suddenly when this un-named server is getting walked all over and locked into the tier it claims is its rightful place at the top of the heap, there are calls for tie breaks and other mechanics to allow them to tank and have "easy bags" They know who they are, I won't name them because ANet bans people for naming their pet project server on the forums. Everything that is happening in wvw with the T1, T2 "drama" is simply a case of said un-named server reaping what it sows A tie break system is simply another system some-one will find a way to twist so they end up in the tier they want.

Sorry I disagree with you completely. It’s this constant calling for reward nerfs, class nerfs, Maguuma nerfs (can sort of agree with this one lol) that is driving WvW into the ground. No wonder the Dev(s) don’t give it any love, when all they get it run down for anything they try. Yes, some of the recent changes are questionable, but they obviously have a direction or vision for WvW. To say bag farming is an exploit is like saying wall repairers were exploiting. So maybe bags need to be removed from WvW to make you happy? Maybe remove every single reward from WvW, remove levels, remove legendary armour, it all has to go - seems to be the only way to please people. Or maybe just shut the game down and all problems are solved instantly? Seems to be the only way to please people. /end of rant

The recent few patches haven’t seemed to fix the issue of memory leak and hard crashing. my specs are i5-13600k, 32gb ddr5-5600, rtx 380ti, z790, blah blah…. ANet giving radio silence on the issue, and support giving people the standard “windows 11 isn’t supported” etc does nothing to help with the issues. GW2 ran perfectly on my PC until the content patch (delves), and now I’m lucky if I don’t get a crash every hour or so. Before the usual “check pay, gpu” etc, this is the only game that has any issues on the pc. With the e-cores on or off it makes no difference. The only “fix” I ja e found so far is limiting cpu speed to 4.5ghz. At default it is crashes as usual. Compatibility mode, run as admin, none of it fixes the issue. its 2023, ANet (a “professional” company) should be able to keep up with the times and support modern pcs and operating systems.

Defense isn’t dead. The participation requirements are broken and the radio silence from ANet pretty much shows how much they care about fixing it. All it would take to settle the community would be something as simple as “we are aware that the Defense participation is currently not working correctly and are looking into a fix”, but in typical ANet fashion we get crickets

Unfortunately, as with most things WvW related, ArenaNet won’t acknowledge this problem exists, and if they do, it will simply be another “testing phase”. The sad thing is, we paid money for a game, not to be beta testers for a company that doesn’t fix issues (some that have existed for over half a decade).

Yup the weekly achievement is definitely noticeably harder to complete now due to actual defence not being counted as defence. Even running with a good squad and a commander who knows what they are doing isn’t enough to finish this as someone at ANet has entered a 0 instead of a 1 in the line of code that says “if player X kills player Y in player X base while it is tagged as under attack then give player X credit for killing invading player Y”

Maybe ANet should focus resources on balance and fixing bugs, defence rewards, known exploits, etc etc before they focus on Alloances. It makes more sense to iron these out at a smaller scale before they do nothing and transfer existing bugs and issues over to a larger scale