Guild Wars 2

I was told last week you know Storm you have never done a review of Gw2 or your actual thoughts. So I said well kitten you know what I never have. So here it is my thoughts on the game what could help it what’s hurting it. Here’s a list of things I touched on feel free to input your own thoughts as well. You have no right or wrong statements here. It’s all opinion and good to get out want and desires.

Community, World Events, Dungeon, Professions, Looks&Style, Combat, and PVP

I also touched on what could help the game more in depth towards the end. For example better social interaction because we have no urging to even do so at the moment. Also more server engaging world events that make the server react and do something beyond zerging. Better reason to do the normal dungeons being that they are almost all but abandoned.

Legendaries needs to be streamlined because even with help it’s still too ridiculous right now to be worth your time. Finally the last two things more skills need to be added to the weapons and the means to switch them. And SPVP/WVW needs to mean a bit more than it does right now. A better carrot at the end so to speak we can run for.

I went more in depth in the video but for those who don’t wish to watch that is more than fine. Like I said above leave your views and comments hopefully something we say will get noticed and added to the game.

If you want more weapon skills, please play elementalist.

if I had to go from 20 to 24 i’d probably have to untie my fingers.

Also. the game’s skill bars were pretty much custom-built for razr nostromo

Without it, i’d probably go insane, and adding another skill to the bar would do this.

plasmacutter.2709:

If you want more weapon skills, please play elementalist.

if I had to go from 20 to 24 i’d probably have to untie my fingers.

Also.. the game’s skill bars were pretty much custom-built for razr nostromo.

Also.. the game’s skill bars were pretty much custom-built for razr nostromo.Without it, i’d probably go insane, and adding another skill to the bar would do this.

actually more weapon skills that could be switched out in the same way utility skills are could be interesting.

say one handed weapons in the main hand have around 9 or so choices that you could assign to the 3 slots you have for them. and 2h weapons have 15 choices that can be slotted into any one of your buttons.
will it be implemented? probably not.

Ok you named one class out of 8 lol…..So everyone must reroll Elementalis? That’s not really a viable suggestion. Also if you had to adjust for growth of the game you just gotta suck that up. I’m pretty sure people would concur that they take growth over worrying about one mouse.

Silentstorm.7531:

Ok you named one class out of 8 lol…..So everyone must reroll Elementalis? That’s not really a viable suggestion. Also if you had to adjust for growth of the game you just gotta suck that up. I’m pretty sure people would concur that they take growth over worrying about one mouse.

If you want more skills on the bar, the other games are that-a-way.

I’m fine with forrae’s suggestion: add skills to weapons that can be swapped out, perhaps offering the capacity to focus more on offense, defense, control, or support — makes pvp less predictable.

more skills on the bars just gives me terrible nightmares remembering rift and the other wow clones.

His suggestion is what I said in the vid to begin with lol…..

Silentstorm.7531:

Ok you named one class out of 8 lol…..So everyone must reroll Elementalis? That’s not really a viable suggestion. Also if you had to adjust for growth of the game you just gotta suck that up. I’m pretty sure people would concur that they take growth over worrying about one mouse.

people have a hard enough time understanding there skills as is ((and the combo systome.. O_O )) and you want to give them more

Silentstorm.7531:

His suggestion is what I said in the vid to begin with lol…..

You are aware that youtube converts most of their vids to flash, which, despite tuning off hardware acceleration, still will underclock your gpu permanently until driver reload?

I try to avoid youtube links like the plague. Youtube is now a remote version of what the old fileshare apps like kazaa used to do to your system locally.

FPS tanks by 50-60% and your system just crawls.

Why not use print? people can read!

Underdog a lot of people have no problem at all understanding the skills and want more. Check my combat depth post and see just how many people want more. Your however proving my point about gamers being lazy and not wanting to get off they’re butts and learn. But then when the company nerfs the game into kitten mode. The same people say it’s too easy and bail.

My suggestion to do that is ignore the lazy whiners. Either they get with the program or get left behind. The same way if in school you can’t hack it you fail the class. You don’t get a diploma from a ivy league college so to speak for failing to get with the program. Games should be the same way and things be a whole lot better.

Plasma you have a complaint for everything why are you even on the net. That eats electricity runs your bill up and you have to pay more. Get the hint comparison? STOP complaining if your on a social site. Links you tube twitter facebook etc are the norm. Plus stay on topic

Also the length I tried to shorten this as much as I could just wasn’t happening lol.

Mesmer has around 20 if one actually weapon swaps (I do all the time), and it’s always good for us to carry a few extra weapons; I usually have a GS, sword and pistol equipped, but have a staff and a focus in bag 1 when they’re needed.

First off, there is a reason legendaries are so hard to acquire. The point is that they AREN’T streamlined. They are entitlements to over achieving players (or rich kittens, take your pick). Everyone wants one, but not everyone can own one. That’s what makes them so special. If everyone had them, you wouldn’t give two kittens for them.

Second, dungeons are far from abandoned. Yes, I too wish there was more reward from them, but finding groups for these dungeons is not hard in the slightest. At least not hard if you learn to use gw2lfg.com Yes, it can be frustratingly difficult to find a group the oldfashison way, but there is a reason Anet made the servers so interchangeable and cross server friendly.

Lastly, I can not argue that some events are a bit of a zerg, but that really doesn’t bother me. That is however, my oppinion and I can understand why it isn’t everyones cup of tea. If I want a challenge, I’ll do a dungeon. I’m not going to find success with random people I bump into out in the world (if I’m lucky) against an overly complex world event boss. Especially when I am more likely on my own. Overworld bosses are dumbed down like that on purpose.

Two question to storm:
Have you played all professions to 80?

Do you not thing PvP’s reward for being rank 50 compared to rank 5 that you have more experience than them and it will be an easy fight rather than relying on gear with better stats as a bonus?

(You mentioned you played rift, and this was something they had trouble with – lowbies being matched against higher ranked guys in better statted gear which meant it was never a fair fight)

Original Post:
Thanks for sharing the video, Silentstorm. I enjoyed it and found it to be a reasonable take on the game from the perspective of the average player who’s just in it for the fun.

Post Edited For Clarity:
Thanks for sharing the video, Silentstorm. I consider myself to be an “average” player, skill-and-gear-wise, who plays the game for casual fun. I enjoyed the video and found that many of the opinions in it resonated with me. Well done.

From what you said in the review it’s clear you barely scratched the surface of GW2 and still need to understand how many mechanics work and especially why they are made that way.

The focus of GW2 combat is not on buttons but on player’s skills.
There will be more weapons and skills in the future but the combat is based on reaction/reflexes rather than “mash 12 hotbars” traditional MMO combat; against anyone decent a fight never lasts enough to push more than a dozen of buttons anyways.
GW2 classes have more or less the same skill pool compared to other vanilla MMOs so it’s pretty fine for now; variety and deck-building will come with time.

Legendaries are meant to be a long-term goal that you slowly save for in the course of months.
They are not meant as somthing to grind (infact they don’t give you any advantage), but as a far away goal that you save for.
This has been stated by Anet several times as well.

Finally, a game doesn’t need to force players to be social, it only has to give them the means to interact and then the choice is theirs. Sociality is a right not a duty.
There is already a lot of content that requires tight-knit, coordinated socialization (think high-end WvW, tPvP or even high-end fractals) in order to be done efficiently so GW2 already requires teamwork – but whether you want to befriend those people or just play alongside them is your choice.

Hope I’ve cleared some of those misconceptions

@Link hard to get and unreasonable are two different things. Check out my Legendary guide in my sig on that I went into depth on that.

@Dark Epiphany Who you calling average I’ve done everything the game has the offer almost twice over on two different characters. You shouldn’t assume things you don’t really know or even asked about. It’s part of the reason I’m sponsored on so many GW2 sites. Because I been there done that and showed the my stripes.
The only thing I haven’t done is gone as far as I can in fractals around 25 that becomes rather hard to group. And Legendary weapons even though I have them just about done on two characters. I don’t really care at the moment about it because they just don’t impress me.

@Red You know how long the video was originally lol? It was around 60 minutes no one to be honest would want to watch that. It be really hard to get to everything and make everyone happy mentioning things. So instead I spoke on main problems people have right now. Also it’s a opinion I said it several times in the beginning so it doesn’t matter your take on my understanding.
I know why it’s the way it is the review is about how what has happen to this point and what bothers people. And when did I say force anyone to be social. Again you are the one not understanding the video. Another problem people had with the game is it’s anti social. You can’t just ignore issues of a game people have by labeling them misconceptions. You lose player base like that it’s good practice DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN.

No one liked Lost Shores community was split on fractals. If you check my combat depth post you will see just how many people want depth and more skills. You can not like it but its quite a lot of people who want more. As far as pvp it’s like I said if you bust your kitten for 40 hours a week and do overtime. Do you really want someone who misses work and a bad worker entitled to the same things as you?

That is why I said pvp should actually have a divide. Because when it doesn’t it smacks the face of the person who earns the position of top. Rift isn’t plague with that problem they are plague with people who think they are entitled to win just because they logged in. And this game is starting to suffer that same fate laziness.

Oh one thing I forgot I don’t know what server your on. But I’ve been on a few traveling with you tube fans just making visits. And number one thing they say is close to impossible to do normal dungeons now. No one wants to do them anymore beyond grinding Legendary parts. Which just makes Ascalon done alot along with COF for its social look.

As it stands now even once you get sets you never go back or even want to. That isn’t good because it’s a big part of the game not used. Which again makes you lose population. Because it’s one less thing people are doing to stay online.

Pretty much agree with everything you said and you managed to reconcile me again with all that Fractal gear stuff.
I did get kitten-tinklely about it introducing the typical MMO gear grind. But I guess it´s not that big a deal after all, for now. And when you ignore them Fractals, which I do.

As for the low skill problem, agreed. It does get boring, even on the Ele!

Not more skills are needed but actually better combos, more intricate.
Kinda akin to what your typical beat ´em-up is doing with just a couple of buttons, but NOT going quite that far.

By “combos” I´m talking about the different attacks most weapons already have on key 1, but then add more combinations between the other keys.
As a bonus make them unique to the dungeon weapons, with every dungeon having a different combo option.
As super bonus, make them craftable and let us freely assign the “powers”.

Silentstorm.7531:

@Dark Epiphany Who you calling average I’ve done everything the game has the offer almost twice over on two different characters. You shouldn’t assume things you don’t really know or even asked about. It’s part of the reason I’m sponsored on so many GW2 sites. Because I been there done that and showed the my stripes.
The only thing I haven’t done is gone as far as I can in fractals around 25 that becomes rather hard to group. And Legendary weapons even though I have them just about done on two characters. I don’t really care at the moment about it because they just don’t impress me.

Actually, I was referring to myself as the average user; though I can see how it could have been interpreted differently given my wording. No disrespect was meant. My point was that I enjoyed your video and could relate to many of the points you made.

It’s all good but don’t even call yourself a average gamer. The way i see it everyone is equal it’s just a game. When guys start thinking they’re better then everyone the game stops being fun.

And I agree on the weapon number 1 combos Hawk. That would make people stop button mashing and think about the end of the attack. Say if your out of range maybe use 2-5 to close the gap/clense/CC etc…. You can come up with a world of things and they wouldn’t have to change the skill bar at all. And give us some more depth at the same time.

I still don’t understand why you insist dungeons are in such a desolate state. I do a few nearly every day and get into groups within minutes of deciding I would like to do one. Use the website. It is your friend! You seem to be under the delusion that the game is made up of a single wave of people. The people that started playing when the game came out and that is it. New people are joining every single day. Across all of the US you have people looking to do these dungeons. You only need a measly 4 people to fill those slots out of all of the freaking American servers! That’s a pool of hundreds of thousands of people! Just because some people no longer need the sets doesn’t mean you wont find others that do! Use the cross server functionality! That’s what it’s there for!

Yeah http://gw2lfg.com/
don´t leave home without it. Essential just like Spidey and the GW2DB.

You can come up with a world of things and they wouldn’t have to change the skill bar at all. And give us some more depth at the same time.

Exactly.
And I´m kinda stumped they didn´t do this.
It´s like they had a great idea to get rid of the GW1 balancing nightmare then “swung a sword again” and forgot to finish it.
BTW this is totally separate from the field-finisher dynamic, although some synergies could be introduced there too to make it more “pro”.

@Link I don’t have to insist they just are you have like 1000 posts on that over several sites. Just because in your opinion you don’t think so doesn’t mean it’s not the concensus the other way. I mean I could link you 20 post on this forum alone stating it with proof and numbers. I’m happy for you if you have a group of people who in your server community who run a lot.

But if you didn’t know now you know that isn’t the norm. Fractals basically mortal kombat finished the story/explorable dungeons. Outside of AC/COF everyone knows that it was mass posted first day of the LS patch lol…..

@Hawk we will see if they do something like that in the patch coming. It be nice and wouldn’t take much coding or change I imagine.

Side note since for some reason it makes me authincate every time I come on the forum is that new? Or something wrong with this post lol? It only does that would I come to this forum….

Always liked your vids Storm, keep it up ^__^

There is a tiny box below the authenticate button, hit that and it “should” remember your location. Happens to me after every patch, here and in the game…

Nice review and video. I enjoy watching your vids because you try to emphasize the basic premise of the game is to enjoy yourself and not succumb to the “play this way or your wrong” way of thinking.

Keep it up.

It should always be about fun. It’s too bad guys don’t equalfun with actually being good at the game. You can be good and have fun too.

Im a bit late I was on vacation thx to Aoshi and Rustypipes