Guild Wars 2: The One Thread

[Kazgrel]

I have not verified this personally, but it appears that two of the "gate" hero points in Verdant Brink have been fixed to not be gated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/...nk_changed_to/

Specifically, the Nuhoch guy deeming you not worthy, and the channel/commune point that was in a pile of poison shit. The latter could be cheesed by certain classes, though, otherwise you had to get Itzel rank 4 mastery. The Nuhoch guy apparently required rank 5 Nuhoch lore before now.

[Rivellana]

I think I'm gonna cry. I was just on a Dragon's Stand map that actually managed to complete the towers/bosses and move onto mouth. Mouth is pretty much one of the coolest fights I've ever seen. We were doing so well. On par to beat it, then one of the islands completely wiped because he smashed his head onto it and everyone was too close. So we missed one burn phase. Get to the next burn phase, have him down so low his bar looks empty...he was probably at 1%. He looks dead. Then we get the message that his energy bar filled up instead and he kills all of us and we fail. Saddest thing ever.

[zito]

I haven't touched dragons stand. Are you fighting mordremoths body or something?

[Rivellana]

I haven't touched dragons stand. Are you fighting mordremoths body or something?

If you get to the mouth, which is the last fight, it's basically a bunch of floating islands that you have to glide between. There are updrafts, but there are also leylines between the islands. You are basically fighting his actual body, but it's long and thin kind of like a wurm. He periodically stops and his head drops down onto islands so people can attack the head. The entire area for that fight is pretty visually amazing.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I haven't touched dragons stand. Are you fighting mordremoths body or something?

You fight Mordremoth's Mouth.

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Putting up spoiler tags just in case people want to feel the awe of it all.

[Rivellana]

I have not verified this personally, but it appears that two of the "gate" hero points in Verdant Brink have been fixed to not be gated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/...nk_changed_to/

Specifically, the Nuhoch guy deeming you not worthy, and the channel/commune point that was in a pile of poison shit. The latter could be cheesed by certain classes, though, otherwise you had to get Itzel rank 4 mastery. The Nuhoch guy apparently required rank 5 Nuhoch lore before now.

I can verify they changed the Nuhoch 5 guy. I just went down there and it was a commune point.

Got Verdant Brink map completion and was sad to see there's no reward.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Got Verdant Brink map completion and was sad to see there's no reward.

Did you check the mail? If I recall correctly, you get something in the ingame mail when you complete a map in vanilla GW2.

[Rivellana]

Did you check the mail? If I recall correctly, you get something in the ingame mail when you complete a map in vanilla GW2.

There's nothing.

[Arlee]

I think I'm gonna cry. I was just on a Dragon's Stand map that actually managed to complete the towers/bosses and move onto mouth. Mouth is pretty much one of the coolest fights I've ever seen. We were doing so well. On par to beat it, then one of the islands completely wiped because he smashed his head onto it and everyone was too close. So we missed one burn phase. Get to the next burn phase, have him down so low his bar looks empty...he was probably at 1%. He looks dead. Then we get the message that his energy bar filled up instead and he kills all of us and we fail. Saddest thing ever.

Oh wow, I haven't seen that map get that far yet. Sound awesome though. Looking forward to spending more time there though, still been mostly spending time on the Verdant Brink and Auric Basin maps and been having a blast there they are just so jam packed with things. Just the other day I accidentally fell off a cliff and discovered a cool little hidey hole in the side of the cliff. I love finding random things like that.

I can verify they changed the Nuhoch 5 guy. I just went down there and it was a commune point.

Got Verdant Brink map completion and was sad to see there's no reward.

I also like the change where they made one of the points near Farren's Waypoint a commune and moved the mobs that were there over to the one by Treacherous Waypoint. Far more likely for people to be wandering by there to help. That was a really good choice on their part.

Also last night I put together a group with two of my guilds to run around and get the Hero Points for everyone. It was a freaking blast and tons of was had by everyone. Will be doing Auric Basin next week On a side note as we were all running around one of the events popped and we saw three guys trying to kill one of the big champion things by themselves so we all glided in and helped, which was also a lot of fun

[Rivellana]

Oh wow, I haven't seen that map get that far yet. Sound awesome though.

Yeah I thought of something for people who are going to spend a lot of time on the farming maps but are generally solo'ers like me. Make sure you join a party, in this case for more than just tagging/loot purposes. I generally never have game crashing issues in GW2 but I've crashed maybe three times in the past three days on Dragon's Stand maps. It's not just me, either. A ton of people are crashing. I nearly missed out on the disappointing fail I was talking about earlier because I crashed, but since I was in a party, I tried to get back to the map. Took a few tries since the map was full.

[zito]

Oh wow ok so the final story fight doesn't seem as lame anymore.

[Rivellana]

Oh wow ok so the final story fight doesn't seem as lame anymore.

I think you'll like the Dragon's Stand event when you get to it. The fights leading up to it and then the final fight are requiring Tequatl levels of coordination, if not more so, and that last fight is just so much more beautiful as well.

It definitely makes the final story fight seem like less of a cop out.

[Gray_Matter]

Question: Can i change world without using crystals if i delete all my characters on the current world?

Just make sure the world you want to go to isn't full.

[Kazgrel]

Yeah I thought of something for people who are going to spend a lot of time on the farming maps but are generally solo'ers like me. Make sure you join a party, in this case for more than just tagging/loot purposes. I generally never have game crashing issues in GW2 but I've crashed maybe three times in the past three days on Dragon's Stand maps. It's not just me, either. A ton of people are crashing. I nearly missed out on the disappointing fail I was talking about earlier because I crashed, but since I was in a party, I tried to get back to the map. Took a few tries since the map was full.

I've crashed on just about every world boss encounter I've tried to do since HoT launched. Took me 3 different tries to finally get Karka Queen for the new title (plus whatever item for the Mistward armor collection). Had to turn all my graphic settings down to shit...er low.

Seems to be an issue with the GW2 client maxing out on RAM use (being 32 bit, it's only able to use 4 gb max). I thought I read somewhere that they have a workaround which has been in place. But ever since Friday, though, I've always made sure to party up with someone so I don't get dropped from a map that's about to complete a world boss only to log back in to one that isn't even remotely close.

[zito]

I think you'll like the Dragon's Stand event when you get to it. The fights leading up to it and then the final fight are requiring Tequatl levels of coordination, if not more so, and that last fight is just so much more beautiful as well.

It definitely makes the final story fight seem like less of a cop out.

Ya if I did this meta event first then the final story boss it wouldn't have seen like a cop out because Braham mentions he just wants to burn the whole jungle but mordremoth will just grow back.

I'll have to play it when I get off work

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Very nice of the devs to place Rox's trail - one you can't possibly differentiate from all the hundreds of other rocks around and without a nameplate - in the middle of a hero challenge champion (that nobody is fighting) and three veteran Chak, with CC. Oh, and you're supposed to somehow interact with it and stick around for dialogue while being stunlocked and bursted down to death.

Thanks Anet for my 30 minutes of corpseruns!

[Rivellana]

Ya if I did this meta event first then the final story boss it wouldn't have seen like a cop out because Braham mentions he just wants to burn the whole jungle but mordremoth will just grow back.

I'll have to play it when I get off work

I finally managed to get a map tonight organized by a guild, and even though it had a lot of pugs, they were using TS. Beat it, and it was definitely epic. I'm exhausted from spending so long in there, though. 2.5 hours of straight events with no rest is definitely a bit much. A little surprised they don't give you more time to explore the areas that open when you beat it. You get like 15 minutes and if you don't get your stuff done, it just boots you back to the start and you can't get to those areas anymore.

[zito]

Anet got you Rivelle

Fixed a rare bug that caused the event to kill the boss of Dragon’s Stand to stall when it reached 0% health.

You good now brah lol

[Gray_Matter]

Anyone else getting "unable to connect to the log-in server" errors?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Anyone else getting "unable to connect to the log-in server" errors?

I did a couple hours ago for about twenty minutes.