Sylvi.8372

I’m here because of several failed Convergences with Sorrow. Only with Sorrow, not the others. It feels beyond miserable to lose 30 mins because everyone else in the instance either doesn’t know what they’re doing, or are AFK-ing. (I notice even AFK’ers actually help at the final boss.) Even if we do our best at DPS, boons, and CC…it still fails because not enough people run the orbs to heal Zojja. (This mechanic is making a lot of people hate Zojja as it’s usually her death that’s associated with a failed convergence.) Wasn’t ANet’s philosophy to make us glad to see other players in PvE? Unfortunately, Sorrow is a high skill boss. It not only requires CC, but sometimes the ability to stun break, teleport (blink, shift signet, shadow step), or self-stab. Part of why it’s so miserable is the long period of CC and wyvern wind that most PUGs don’t know how to handle. Rendering many incapable of running orbs. With stability mostly 5-target, there’s only so much boon givers can do. It’s unfair to make the top 10-50% who are trying their hardest and putting in the work, suffer for the skill levels or AFK status of other players. At least make the final bosses fair please. Some people even quit the instance when Sorrow spawns, without even trying. It’s that miserable and imbalanced.

I was wondering about this too. Considering Mesmer, Warrior, and Engi got support weapons. A "killing enemies" achievement like this is unbalanced with the other professions. 😆

Problem: After restarting from checkpoint, We had to wait several minutes in Nightmare CM fractal for everyone's downed penalty to go away. Request: Please make the Mistlock Singularity automatically remove the downed penalty.

Some of us have dozens of characters. It's not practical to finish Personal Story on all of them. However, the Personal Story objectives can't be hidden. It's annoying as I don't want to see that info. But on the content guide, whether it's set to "Off" or "Disable Personal Story", the green star and the personal story step is still there. Annoying to have info we don't want to see on our HUD, day in and day out.

Dear ANet Team, can we have news soon on what items we will need to craft the Legendary Relic in Update 2? (I’m guessing that’s Feb 2024.) What “significant progress” will someone who had 6 to 7 Legendary Runes before SOTO get? The possible materials for the SOTO Legendary armors are already hinted at in game. They can already make progress, grind, and save up materials. As for the Legendary Relic, we don’t have a shopping list yet. ———— For context, my reason why is build freedom. [Optional background info: I mainly play endgame instanced content (fractals, raids, strikes) and open world, and very rarely WvW…over 23+ characters. Since Nov 2020, I’ve prioritized and invested in full legendary slots (except non-underwater weapons — and Conflux which I put off). I can mostly boost any character to 80, then deck them out in complete stats plus ascended weapons. This is so I can play any profession or elite spec no matter the balance patch.] ———— Problem/Frustration with Souldbound Expansion Relics: At the moment, I’m beyond frustrated by the soulbound nature of Expansion relics. Meta condi builds seem to rely on expansion relics. I wish I could transfer Relic of Akeem or Relic of the Fractal between 23+ toons. It’s hard to test (and have fun with) expansion relics and different builds as there’s only one PvE way to get pinches of stardust. It’s on me for completing the Amnytas Mastery on 2 accounts (obsessive Achiever-style player — wanted MPs and /possessed)…and farming Stardust to get several expansion relics for 2 whole weeks…but I’m so sick of Amnytas metas by now I could puke. 🤣 At this point, I want to tap out of creating and playing new builds until we get the legendary relic. (That is, disengage from the build part of the game until the situation is resolved.) Can we get some hope there sooner: what mats do we need to save for the Legendary Relic? What ‘significant progress’ will we get if we had 6-7 Legendary Runes before SOTO?

Dang, that’s standard and reasonable modern gaming specs. 😳 Is this with Reflections off? 🤔 IIRC, the game struggles with that since the entire bottom area of maps is supposedly water. The entire center of Amnytas is the World Spire and the Bastion of the Celestial. There might be a ton of pixels and shades there. 😅 ————— I vaguely recall several YouTube guides on how to optimize GW2 graphics helped me a lot when my PC was a potato that could barely load textures in time — think invisible flame walls at Soulless Horror or Sabetha. (To ANet team: The Settings menu doesn’t explain well enough what each setting does. Especially since most of us aren’t graphics programmers. 🙏)

• I wonder how much SOTO raised the minimum requierments by? • My old PC that used to run HoT raids at 5 to 15 FPS on medium settings might have exploded. (It was the 2015 Macbook 12-inch that was netbook-like…I know. I was younger, it was a gift, and money was tight.) A guildie’s decade plus old graphics card — the Nvidia GTX 970 — can barely keep up now. • My current upper mid-tier 2021 PC (1440p at 165Hz, RTX 3070, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 32 GB DDR4, PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD) is playing Amnytas on Ultra settings and rarely breaking a sweat. 😅 (Side note: despite my PC having more than enough RAM, Chrome browsers get crazy memory leaks. I don’t know if the Trading Post being on Chromium affects memory leaks.) If the devs are designing and testing the game on a souped up work PC, they might not even experience how much of a bottleneck it can get.

(If it’s fully fixed — I haven’t gone back in-game to check — thank you ANet team for taking care of us and dealing with the bug. 🙏🎉)

Gotta admire this dedication. 😳👏

I'm on NA servers.

Thanks for the heads up Dhonti. 😮

Speaking of achievements, aside from Protector of Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03, I'm also working on Zojja's Journal: Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03. I don't know if it's because this event is bugged (as in the rest of the map events in Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03 are stuck due to Min-Ji and the Kestrels), but I've cleared Defeat Dexicos (Help the Astral Ward Destroy Tainted Artifacts) twice now and it won't progress this part of Zojja's journal. I'm praying for a fresh map instance or a hotfix soon. That /Heroic emote is waiting. 🤣

I'm not sure of this, but I think this event being stuck, also locks out the timer for other events in Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03. I've been here a while and only Dexicos the Covetous is spawning. All the other events haven't spawned: Stop the Naga Raiding Party Defeat the Ministry of Transit Boss and Emergency Broadcast Stations

Here is my mini-map which demonstrates how far away the stuck NPC is (Min-Ji) from the Escort NPCs (Kestrels). https://pasteboard.co/QvxMVrMb93l3.png

I've been to 5 different Skywatch Archipelago map instances today with this event bugged and stuck. (Help the Kestrels search for survivors). The "Wounded survivor aided: 0/1" is nowhere to be found. And I suspect this might be why. NPC Min-ji is stuck in a loop trying to fix a breaker box. She's atop a tower due south of the [Conquered Plaza] POI. She's considered a "Fallen Ally" with a resurrect icon but can't be resurrected or interacted with. Please see attached photo for what it looks like in-game. https://pasteboard.co/BboblOyPV6IF.jpg