Guild Wars 2

These are my views not everyones, feel free to agree/disagree and get a good discussion going, spoken as if I was talking to a dev lol
So as it turns out I was hoping for this game to be brilliant, and it WAS! It had a new fresh feel and look and I just wanted to search every corner of the game, well I did, after that I kept myself entertained for 5 months getting the twilight, then got a Commander tag and moved into WvW for my gaming fun. Occasionally once a month I would get a new 20mins of content for the $10-$50 I had been putting in monthly to support new content and polishing.
Its got to the point now where the game seems so focused on Limited edition items ( GIVE US MONEY FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY ITEMS, NEXT SET OF LIMITED ITEMS OUT NEXT WEEK, THEN YOU CAN GIVE US MORE MONEY!!! ) that you have forgotten to “Polish” the game and seem to not care about its players that just want a challenge, new content is not at all a challenge, neither are the majority of dungeons. Instead I have given the game 3 months before I look elsewhere, just a date to see if things change. A lot of other players I am friends with from GW1 ( They are early day GW1 Players ) have also given the game roughly this amount of time to fix its act before we completely give up hope on something that has so much potentially – Gw2.
I am going to list a few vital bugs that seem to be getting ignored, some of these are not bugs but problems that anet has caused. I’m sure you have heard this all before but thought I would have my say.

Nerfed mal leap/cursed shore.
Why did you just turn off the drops? You essential killed the whole of orr instead of you know….. fixing the problem. Throw in a few champs, make the farmed events fail after 30 mins etc….. Why not? Instead you just turned off the drops now look at the crystalline dust price…. well done Anet clap clap, you killed your lvl 80 endgame zone.

Parties.
I recall this game being very “Work together” based, well thats impossible while I cannot get into dungeons or just a party in general because of a party glitch that has apparently been around for a long time ( I did not experience it till around 3 weeks ago, now “Partying up” is virtually impossible )

WvW
Outmanned? Did you guys pass grade 3 maths? or do they have to outman us 10 to 1 before it turns on? Its useless, free armor repairs? I would rather it gives us +100 to all stats considering the abysmally poor ratio it turns on.

Charged lodestones/Crystalline dust
Why is it they are some of the hardest mats to achieve AND most required in high end skins…. Is this so only the paying, EXTREMELY lucky gamers and CoF P1 players can afford them or was some programmer high at the time?

Here are a few suggestions of mine that I would like, but I cannot speak for the whole game.

HM Dungeons
Yup, Sm, EXP and HM mode for dungeons, throw in a daily chest containing 2 rares for a incentive and by god make it a challenge! Make it brutal and make it so ANY class can get involved instead of the select few that get chosen over others.

Parties
Fixing parties should 100% be your priority, while you’re at it add in a voice menu so we can talk to our party if we all choose to, something I think everyone can benefit from and i’m probably not the first to suggest it. Also a LFG feature thats useful would be awesome, but the website we have got for now is doing fine….

Incentive
Give us a reason to go places, you know orr would be awesome if we actually got drops…. Maybe when you do a event you also get 1-5 random mats according to our level ( 80 gets 1-5 T6 with a small chance of the 1-5 being core/lodestones etc ), not a economy breaking amount I don’t think.

Balancing
Poor rangers < Pretty much sums it up.

There is much much more, you seem so focused on money you seem to be ignoring/delaying the real problems annoying the gamers ( at least the ones I know ) and instead focusing on new content that no one seems to care about just to make money on your limited items. Fix the problems so you can keep the gamers, then give us new content so you can make money.. Basically you should delay any more living failures and fix the game.
I cannot speak for the whole community but these are what I think the devs should be discussing and working on. Sincerely – Tadz

I foresee this getting moved to “suggestions”……just a hunch.

Essence Snow.3194:

I foresee this getting moved to “suggestions”……just a hunch.

It was borderline, I wanted a Discussion on positive/negative aspect of the game and where people see room for improvement. Nonetheless I thought starting here couldn’t hurt.

Tadz.2870:

Nerfed mal leap/cursed shore.

Parties.

WvW

Charged lodestones/Crystalline dust

HM Dungeons

Parties

Incentive

Balancing

1. Fully agree. It was the only really worthy place to farm and there was NO legitimate reason to just take it away.

2. Fully agree. With the party glitch anyway. You can still get into parties, but this bug is SUPER annoying and really needs a priority fix!

3. I have been outmanned plenty of times, so I don’t see the “It never turns on” problem. However I agree with the “Useless” problem…I do believe it could give more helpful buffs. But I personally don’t feel like this is a priority problem.

4. I don’t mind lodestones and Crystalline Dust to be hard to get – if only they were farmable in Orr -hint- It was so much better while the farming was still going on, now the prices are starting to creep up and will keep doing so.

5. Fully agree with HM dungeons. A step towards the more elitist group of players, pretty please. I don’t even think it would be hard to implement, even if it’s just giving mobs more dmg and more hp, make them resist certain skills and the like. It doesn’t have to be a completely new path guys!

6. Party LFG in game would be AWESOME!!! I think we all agree, that that needs to happen. I don’t think an in-game voice chat will happen, period. I also don’t feel like it should, as it would force people to use it and many, many, many just can’t or don’t want to for infinite reasons, which I can respect. I think third man programs are being used enough by those who want to.

7. Incentive. Heck yeah. They ARE working on that though, I have to say. The added guaranteed rare for world bosses for example was a step in the right direction. But yeah, better rewards for dungeons. Better rewards for world events. And please…better mobs drops. Materials especially for mob drops. T6 to be specific…XD I know they are working on this though, so I have hope.

8. Balancing. Yes. Rangers. Yes. I have played a ranger for almost all time since launch after dumping my ele – I know what I’m talking about. Nobody wants a ranger in their party for FotM and dungeons. They are useless compared to other classes. It’s a fact. And other classes with certain builds are just WAY TOO overpowered. Comparing zerker warriors to rangers is like…day and night. This kind of stuff really needs attention and fixing! It’s sad, that certain classes are being picked over others for groups these days. I know, that’s not what the team was going for when they launched the game, so it would be my personal number 1 on the fix list.

I agree with most of what you said. I still don’t get the ranger thing. Yes, I know, other professions do more damage, but you know, for most content, I’m really happy with my ranger.

In the open world, my ranger is as survivable as any character I have. In dungons, I seem to do fine. Might a zerker warrior do more damage than me. Sure. Shrugs. Not all professions are going to have absolutely equal damage. My pet res in dungeons in my down skills, combined with search and rescue make me pretty useful.

In SPvP…well I like playing a harrasser type profession. And there should be some of these.

In WvW, I’m not a one on one guy anyway, and I don’t think WvW was ever supposed to be balanced for one on one, but I’m useful enough in a zerg. My pet does enough damage to annoy and again harass people. Maybe it’s me, but I LIKE my ranger.

That said, if Anet was going to give me a bit more power, I wouldn’t say no. lol

Everything else I pretty much agree with.

All your points are very valid and I support most of your suggestions.
So +1 for what it is worth.

I don’t particularly care about farms since I do not farm- but I get that people who want legendaries or high end MF weapons do.

I also love my Ranger so I can’t agree there- I also love Engi, so I pretty much don’t agree with the whole poor me I’m not a warrior/guardian class whoo hoo

Morrigan.2809:

All your points are very valid and I support most of your suggestions.
So +1 for what it is worth.

I don’t particularly care about farms since I do not farm- but I get that people who want legendaries or high end MF weapons do.

I also love my Ranger so I can’t agree there- I also love Engi, so I pretty much don’t agree with the whole poor me I’m not a warrior/guardian class whoo hoo

I am a guardian, I miss playing my ranger Problem is I get booted half the time before we even get to the dungeon because of it and it is far less useful in a dungeon then my guard or war. Its the truth, I and a lot of people just want the ranger and a few other boosted so they become viable options to party with, today my party ( not me ) booted a ranger……

Just a word about the class balance issue.

I love all my toons as well. I play a guardian, ranger, ele, thief, warrior and mesmer. Each of them has their unique pros and cons. But when it comes to how they fare against each other..I can say I have the easiest time finding elistist groups for high lvl FotM or speed dungeon runs on my mesmer and warrior hands down. Which is why by now my mesmer has become my main.

I am not talking about casual gameplay – balancing really doesn’t matter much there. And I do that as well. But when it comes to the more advanced groups it is VERY clear which classes (and builds for that matter) are preferred and why. And Ranger is on the bottom of the “I want that in my group” list. And that is just sad. So yeah. We DO in fact need balancing work to be done. Even if it doesn’t feel like that for many of you. I didn’t feel like it myself, until I started to run high lvl FotM specifically and tPvP.

Tadz.2870:

1. Nerfed mal leap/cursed shore.
   Why did you just turn off the drops? You essential killed the whole of orr instead of you know….. fixing the problem. Throw in a few champs, make the farmed events fail after 30 mins etc….. Why not? Instead you just turned off the drops now look at the crystalline dust price…. well done Anet clap clap, you killed your lvl 80 endgame zone.
2. WvW
   Outmanned? Did you guys pass grade 3 maths? or do they have to outman us 10 to 1 before it turns on? Its useless, free armor repairs? I would rather it gives us +100 to all stats considering the abysmally poor ratio it turns on.
3. Charged lodestones/Crystalline dust
   Why is it they are some of the hardest mats to achieve AND most required in high end skins…. Is this so only the paying, EXTREMELY lucky gamers and CoF P1 players can afford them or was some programmer high at the time?
4. HM Dungeons
   Yup, Sm, EXP and HM mode for dungeons, throw in a daily chest containing 2 rares for a incentive and by god make it a challenge! Make it brutal and make it so ANY class can get involved instead of the select few that get chosen over others.
5. Incentive
   Give us a reason to go places, you know orr would be awesome if we actually got drops…. Maybe when you do a event you also get 1-5 random mats according to our level ( 80 gets 1-5 T6 with a small chance of the 1-5 being core/lodestones etc ), not a economy breaking amount I don’t think.

1. The lack of drops at the event was a quick fix to it. The event ending after a duration makes no sense, considering that the developers specifically cited bot activity at those events.
2. The Outmanned buff is supposed to help you, not carry you. It shouldn’t be something that gets you out of a losing streak, only for you to go right back to it once you lose the bonuses.
3. It was probably an oversight by the developers. However, they cannot exactly go alter the recipes this far into the game, it would cause some massive tremors for the respective markets. And let’s be honest, a short term price crash on many items is not worth having them all balanced on a long term.
4. That’s a whole topic on its own, but let me just give you the short list. First off, the people who do dungeons are not everyone in the game. The people who would do the hard content are not the majority of the dungeon runners. The majority outside of the dungeon runners are casuals, who don’t want hard content. The majority within the dungeon runners are min-maxers, who want the best coin-to-time ratios, they don’t care about difficulty. So either way, developing a single hard dungeon would probably end up not being played by most people. And revamping all dungeons takes a long, long time.
5. No, no no. That would absolutely decimate the current markets for all materials.

@Olba

1. If you went to the farm in Mals leap it would have been very difficult for someone to successfully use a bot, the wells the necro put out would kill you in 3 seconds, this was brought up in another topic and it was overlooked, but lets say it was for 1 second bots, why are all the drops in Orr turned down to near nothing, also CoF path 1 is ran over and over, could someone not get a bot to farm this path for them??? it was a weak excuse at best.

2. The outmanned buff is broken, its completely random, I have seen us on EBG with 20 people trying to defend against an 60+ man zerg and they where outmanned not us, how does that work?

3. You are right, they cannot change recipes but given the vast number of NA players look at the market for lodestones, they range from 50 silver ( 1000’s available ) to 3gold ( few hundred available )…..massive imbalance, yes some weapons should be expensive to make, not impossible, lodestones you have to farm for hours to get, but all the farming locations get nerfed to death…….

4. Needs its own discussion, I made a topic along time ago about HM vanquishing and it never went anywhere as do 99.9% of suggestions.

5. Maybe it could be looked at, it cant do anymore damage to the market than turning all the drops off, T6 dust went up 10s in 6 DAYS, if the drops continue to be so bad, it will be up another 10s before the weekend as demand vastly vastly outstrips supply.