Guild Wars 2

Hello,
my name is Lahabiel Sangre, mostly known as Lu, formerly known as Lynx Someonehearth in gw1, also Lu.

And this is going to be long.

I’d like to write here because I’m… Hugely annoyed by what’s been going on with Gem armors. And living story.

In Guild Wars 1, I have most armors, lots of extra character slots, mercenaries with heroes, paid armor skins and most skins from events. And I loved those skins, the armor variety.

When I got into Guild Wars 2 and heard about Heritage armor, I thought, yay! I saw wariror armor in it and thought it’d be awesome to have some good old gw1 armors. Instead I got stripes on medium, looking like… Ehm. And light armor, that while nice, looks really silly when moving on females.

Anyway, my point. When it all went live, and I got in, I found that the GEM Armors, the first set, are Krytan, Primeval and Profane. While I’m fond of GW1 armors, when I look on what you picked, I… Was greatly disappointed.

Primeval armor is nice, was one of my favourites actually. Proper covering of body, TRUE armor. Krytan… I can get around. Even though I prefer a lot more ranger armors like Norn, Monument, Deldrimor. And I feel they fit GW2 coat-universe more, too. For no coats, I’d pick something more like Elite Canthan of Assassin (or brotherhood version of Anton), or hell, even some dervish armor, like ancient or primeval. And light… Don’t even get me started. Oh you did. Alright. For light I’d love to see, billion times more, things like Asuran Necro armor or Elite Sunspear or Primeval Elementalist armor. And if you HAD to go for thing like Profane, why not Ele Obsidian? It looks so much more better. Or If you went with that heavy armor, why not Eve’s? They’re together on your poster, you know.

But no, you HAD to go ahead with this trend. Or, should I say, even worse. Don’t get me wrong, I like SOME of your armors. Like the Primeval. Or Magitech armor. Some poeple like Braham armor, I know. But when I look on your latest addition, and generally, what you are doing with female armor, I keep thinking, are you just a bunch of pervs or are there no designers capable of stuff there?

Because, and I’m not talking about the Flame set (I’ll get to that later) the last gem set you added had really good heavy armor! Good enough to compete with CoE armor and such. Well, FOR MALES ONLY. I’m FED UP with your skirts, fishnets and lingerines on females. Are half of you ex-Lineage-players or do you think a girl is going to win fights by wearing skirts while the males go ahead and take the hits? And I can go on and on and on that…

But let’s not go on with that and go on with something else. Flame armor. Really? When I first went to check dulfy to see what it was about, when I saw it in launcher, I thought it was a joke.

Human, cultural EXCLUSIVE armor, T3, worth 120gold, freaking 120g is a huge achievement for new player. And you slap some fire on it and sell it. And made it availible to all races. So I guess, aside the fact that cultural is still yellow quality, there’s NO, ZERO point in getting it aside achievement.

Next, medium armor. Temple skin. Again, exclusive. Difficult to obtain (do you know how hard it is to obtain it with proper stats you’d like, with champion train you formed not caring a bit about temples) and again, you just slap some fire on it and sell it.

And last, karma lvl 30 armor. I do have to agree that some karma armor is nice looking. But this one? Really? Seriously? Taking the one and only karma armor I skip when leveling and slap fire on it and sell it?

Are the people allowing this happen revolting and rebelling by doing this against something your employers did? Because… I can’t think of other reason why you would do this unless you REALLY don’t want them to sell.

I like the toxic stuff you added, true, you could let us change the glow. Or on Achievement point armor. Or, make it the same glow color as the weapons you released with it in chest. Because… That’d give sense you know. But I still like those.

But I can’t get over what’s going on with the armors you release anymore.

I like to support your game by buying stuff, you know. I like the fresh ideas you put into it. And I put a LOT of money into the game. Yeah I did… But I think I’m stopping now. And it’s not only the armors, you know.

And so I get to second part of my little rant. Living Story.

At first it felt fresh and nice. New content, yay! New skins, new stuff.

But then, it became a chore, unfriendly to new players, barely enough to bother unless you slap our faces with shiny things like gas mask (which would be really nice if you made like AP rewards. Get it, reclaim it as skin. Whenever).

I was trying to get my roommate to play your game again. She left before living story became a thing and just got new laptop, solid MSI, quad core, stuff that can handle the best thing gaming industry has to offer (and the worst, too, considering where is game industry going) and she didn’t because she didn’t understand anything.

While living story is nice, now it’s just… Ongoing train of… What exactly? I can’t even tell. I feel one after another, living story is getting cheaper and weaker. And while you can’t go back and take it away, you can still stop it.

I don’t know if you’re planning or making an expansion, but I personally think that is the direction that you should be going now. You did the living story, you achieved what noone else has. But it’s getting long, old and chore-ish now. New players don’t like living story because mostly they have no clue what is going on. Old players that’d come back are put off by it, because while it’s nice, it’s really nothing new. Expansion, true new content, like Factions and so on in last Guild Wars, would hit the spot I think. New players would get to it and it wouldn’t be slapped in their faces like newspaper in foreign language, and old players who left would come back to see, explore, finish it.

And that’s all about what I wanted to say. I have more to say, you can keep reading. But right here, at this point, the main rant ends.

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So what’s next? Things that I still would like to see. That I may or may not have put forward before. Things like proper one sword one pistol one animations when you don’t use second weapon. Ability to turn of guild symbol on guild things. Costumes that go over armor and not just hundreds of new skins (yeah, I’d still like to wear phantom hood over armor, or get back Grenth costume from GW1 for nice cape). Or you know, something new and shiny. Guild halls. Maybe some improvements to Hall of Monuments (Like making it house area instead of our story area and making it availible to everyone without those skins) or maybe making it account area. For which we could buy merchant, bank access, that kind of stuff.

And I’m left with just things I’d like to know. Yes or no things.

Player interactive animations? (aka hug n stuff?)
More instruments? (guitar versions, bass, violin? keyboard?)
Skin wardrobes? (upon completing a skin-set then unlocking by gems maybe? but after unlocking with gems, availible to whole account of no fee?)

That’s all for now. If you read this, then thanks for reading! If you agree, or not agree, post below why, or maybe put your own thoughts. Whatever.

Regards
Lu

Heya Lu

Armors
Agree 100% with what you are saying, we need more variety in choice (I still think people who like fishnets need to be catered for as well). The cultural armor issue aside (which anet will get flamed over), reskinning an existing armor is in my opinion not in the top 10 the best ways to expand armor variety in the game.

Living Story
I didn’t think it was ever a story… if it was I could never follow it. I thought it was just the dev’s filling in/fleshing out areas of the game. So I’m not disappointed with it. I would like to see the filling in/fleshing out expand a bit more and shift away from getting people to one zone/area for 2 weeks, later leaving the zone dead and hard for new players who are trying to solo/level in that area 3 months later… there is a whole world out there make it all re-interesting.

You know I actually liked the living story thing in the beginning too. It was wonderful!

But like you said, I’m tired of it. I didn’t finish the Nightmare Madness meta or that Nightmare Within (eh…can’t even get the names right).

I really don’t care about the fractal meta either, but will only do it because I kind of like fractals.

It’s just too boring… Plus…Scarlet….She just needs to be destroyed. She needs to become the great collapse.

I honestly would pay money for the expansions. 40-60$ is fine by me. [I think I bought gw2 at 60$]

I’m only on for role playing mostly now. I’m tired of this content, and I revered guild wars 1, which was why I bought the game.

As far as the armor is concerned – if they wanted to use old ideas, bring back gw1 armor! That armor was INCREDIBLY beautiful. I would love to see the tattoo armors (folks who love revealing things) and I would love to see the full armors they had. Those were beautiful.