Guild Wars 2

I’m my opinion, most of the updates and fixes are fantastic. I was scrolling through reading, going “Yes… Yes… YES. OMG, OF COURSE!” Guild missions should be exciting for a while to come and I can’t wait to get in game and try them out.

Are there any you wish were implemented that weren’t? Or that were implemented but shouldn’t have been?

One of my big ones is the option to toggle Ranger pets on and off. This makes me think they aren’t ever going to do it, which I’m fine with because I just won’t play a Ranger.

I was also curious what “Using stealth no longer resets NPC aggression tables” meant (from patch notes). Seems to me whenever I stealth in PvE, I continue getting auto-attacked by lock-on abilities anyway.

Anyway, I’d like to hear other thoughts about things you like and don’t like.

I like that the mobs don’t retreat when in stealth ^^ and peppercorns I’m not sure what thats gonna affect heh

More Bullkitten for sPVP and Devs making excuses they forgot to add things to the patch notes…The sPVP forum is on nuclear meltdown.

like the new dailies, but guild missions for non guild members and small guilds= unfair and will more then likly hurt in the long run.

Dude, has anyone been able to get on GW2 as of 2.26, cause I haven’t and none of my guild has either…

…is this thing on?

Took away the glow for my mist pistol on unequip as well as the foefire weapons?

This ruins what looked to be a great patch, if this is intended then I wish I didn’t just shell out 10 bucks for gems.

Confused about buffing Kholer and nerfing black peppercorns. Everythhing else is ok, but as always, we’ll find out in a week or so.

I’m surprisingly pleased by the profession balancing. Was expecting more of the same Warrior >>>>>> everyone else.

Being able to view an item on the TP before purchasing it is extremely welcome.

No interest in PvP so no comment there.

Waiting to see about the new Flame and Frost stuff.

Not going anywhere near guild missions.

nethykins.7986:

Confused about buffing Kholer and nerfing black peppercorns. Everythhing else is ok, but as always, we’ll find out in a week or so.

Same. I know you get them a lot from those nodes, and of course I’d rather have vanilla beans. But where then do we get them now lol..

I’m fine with everything except new ascended items. That whole idea desperately needs to be scrapped. Nothing about the profession changes has me particularly enraged, although they do next to nothing to fix each class’ significant issues.

My opinion on the bugfix/balance portion.

Very Good:
- Event scaling fix attempt.
- Drop rate fixes for big bosses.
- Daily change from blizzard fetch quests to good quests around Tyria

Good:
- Removed bug that had you not be able to pick up stuff while running, and bug that locks you into terrain.
- Fixed exploits with ports/thief vs walls/ranger pets on walls
- Necromancer fixes.

Bad:
- No agony protection for pets/minions making them useless in fractals (good bye Minion Masters).
- No fixes to Bolas/Bull/Rush

Very Bad:
- The most OP build in the game made even more OP in WvW and only semi-fixed in sPvP.
Don’t even need to mention it, every single person reading this post will know exactly what build I’m referring to, only HS thieves in september were this OP.

Unsure:
- Stealth change could possibly lead to people abusing it to keep a Boss from recovering while team is wiped and have a Thief rez the team while in stealth.

Thank you ANet for removing the frustration of doing the Daily Quests. Now I just won’t do them any more at all. Only 2 on the list that I would be interested/able to do, so no longer a question of loging in shortly after 4 pm.

In a way it’s sad though, I didn’t miss more than 2 or 3 dailys since I started GW2.

P.S. Guild Missions don’t have any interest for me. I’m only in a guild to avoid the constant chatter/invites that are thrown my way whenever i’m not in a guild.

Now, what to do with the laural….. lol

Having played a couple of my characters I’d say it’s in the running for the worst patch ever. Of course 11/15 is pretty securely in that spot.

My experience so far:
What were they thinking with Foefires Essence? They removed the distinctive glow of a weapon that people paid as much as 700g for. Simply, what were they thinking?

They added champs and multiple vets to pent/shelt. While this could arguably be “more interesting”, c’mon, it’s a farming location. Working harder for the same reward is not particularly interesting or fun. Were the rewards commensurate, I would have no problem with making it more interesting. This has been the historical issue with champs all along…they are not worth the effort. Normal mobs are a much better choice for drops as you can kill many more in the time it takes to kill a champ.

I had finally made my peace with previous new dailies. Now, on the first day that I’m given a ‘choice’ of which dailies to do, I have to completely alter my planned play for the day. I’d much prefer that I dictate when and where I play than to have the game developer give me choices of which area do I least want to play in. I’m not sure how long it will take to make peace with the improved dailies.

I am very disappointed that the name change contract didn’t make it into this patch. I am glad they added gender change without it as it makes the game more visually entertaining.

I’m sure there is much I have yet to experience in the patch. On a positive note, the guild queue seems to be working and they didn’t utterly destroy any of my builds. I suppose I should be thankful; it could have been a lot worse.

Some of the changes were nice, but the dragon chests and other world boss changes are just complete garbage put in to restrict peoples gameplay. That and DR puts a taste of D3 in my mouth with them trying to get us to play the way they want us to play and not how we want to play.

hmm 40 laurels are too much…20 are fine

Good:
AC is somewhat more interesting.
New sPvP map.

Bad:
Can’t start Guild Bounties for three days.
Living Story is still boring. Tasks are very menial and repetitive.
Event Chests limited to once a day.

The entire game seems to be shifting to a Daily/Weekly thing, which is boring.
Overall DR on farming Loot.
Daily fractal chests for Pristine Relics.
Daily achievements for Laurels.
Daily event chests for chance at Precursors.
Weekly guild missions for Commendations.
Monthly achievements for Laurels.

As a PvE player, it is becoming a waste of time to stay logged in after my daily checklist is finished.

Ill let you know when I can actually update.

Pretty bummed about the patch. They changed the legendary rifle audio to a standard sound. So lame.

More grinding patches for Grind Wars 2.

Not a fan. My build relied on consumables with life leech and now it’s… well, maybe not entirely useless but certainly nerfed a lot.

E: Also I quit WoW because after a certain point there’s no reason to log in except for your dailies. So… Why exactly am I playing THIS game then?

Culzean.8571:

I’m my opinion, most of the updates and fixes are fantastic. I was scrolling through reading, going “Yes… Yes… YES. OMG, OF COURSE!” Guild missions should be exciting for a while to come and I can’t wait to get in game and try them out.

Are there any you wish were implemented that weren’t? Or that were implemented but shouldn’t have been?

One of my big ones is the option to toggle Ranger pets on and off. This makes me think they aren’t ever going to do it, which I’m fine with because I just won’t play a Ranger.

I was also curious what “Using stealth no longer resets NPC aggression tables” meant (from patch notes). Seems to me whenever I stealth in PvE, I continue getting auto-attacked by lock-on abilities anyway.

Anyway, I’d like to hear other thoughts about things you like and don’t like.

How about the 500000000000000 bugs and broken features that are still being ignored as a start? Or making a giant post about mass changes to pvp and its free tournaments and none of the game breaking problems in wvw are addressed? Maybe instead of adding content that is pointless and worthless until they fix the core of the game which is still broken they address those issues?

I guess its much easier to shine up a pile of junk than it is to fix it, so add some sparkles and fluff and everyone will jump and cheer. I believe that this game has the most potential of anything in the genre to date and is so close to reaching that potential but designers are focused on selling gems. I would rather pay them cash to fix the game than pay for some kittenty backpack skin but I guess to each their own. If they add a spot in gem store to pay to fix the broken aspects of the game I will gladly fork out some cash.

Class balance: Ranger gets left in the dust again
Dungeon balance: It’s clear that dungeons are less about bosses and more about hordes of elite mobs that everybody hates fighting.
Dailies: Fun.
Living Story: New content is nice but nothing seems very alive about the content.
Equipment balance: More horrible time-gated content).
Misc. item balance: They nerfed Pies without tackling the bigger problem behind it and I’ll miss having Ash Kits to fall back on.
Guild missions and guild changes: Hasa diga eebowai.
Bug fixes: Hahahahahahahaha. Never going to happen.

Arimahn.3568:

Not a fan. My build relied on consumables with life leech and now it’s… well, maybe not entirely useless but certainly nerfed a lot.

E: Also I quit WoW because after a certain point there’s no reason to log in except for your dailies. So… Why exactly am I playing THIS game then?

U play it for daily/monthly grind lol.

New daily system is worse than previous system (some of them are utter garbage [keg brawl, really?], some of them are outright annoying) due to not enough choice, guild missions are too expensive, class balance is okay, dungeons meh, ascended buffs/additions are complete crap.

tl;dr: no, anet, no.

Now you get 1 achievement point for daiyls, before u got 5. Even more grind and they took away the points.. Blah.

it’s a terrible terrible patch. the few good things are far overshadowed by all the incredibly bad things that were added.

logic was thrown out the window on this one.

My immediate reaction is “totally appalled”.

Daily requirements I’ve seen thus far:

• Personal Story Completer (impossible to do if you’re not an altoholic or have a lot of friends who haven’t finished theirs)
• Skill Point Completer (also requires an alt)
• Mystic Forge User
• Keg Brawl Stealer
• Fractals Completer
• Daily Mists Invasion Defender
• Region-Specific Kill Counts

What happened to “play the game the way you want to”? All of these are horribly restrictive options that force you to go to places and to perform tasks that you might not do on a daily basis. Even with as many options as there are, you’re being restricted far more than you used to be. It used to be that you’d “kill x enemies”, “kill x types of enemies”, “gather x items”, and just like that, you’d be done.

But no, that was far too open and provided me with too many options! Now instead, I’ve got to kill x enemies while in a specific portion of the map and while the moon is in the proper alignment. And then I have to play WvW, or run a dungeon every day, or do Keg Brawl, just to get a single laurel. And then I get to repeat the process every day so that I can keep equipping my characters with Ascended items.

MUCH BETTER! THANKS!

My enthusiasm for this game has been slowly waning. I went from an avid fan and day one pre-purchaser to a complete skeptic, disillusioned about the path ANet’s chosen. And now that dailies are actually tangibly harder to achieve on a regular basis (to the point where all of my available login time will now have to be dedicated just to this task just so I can manage to get Ascended gear some time this year), this patch just might be my last. Other MMO’s I’ve hated for one reason or another, but at least they at least had the dignity to let me play in whatever region of the game I wanted and do whatever objectives I wanted in a given day while still feeling rewarded for doing so.

Sorry, ANet, but I’ve run out of patience. I said back in Dec and Jan that this Jan/Feb/March patching session would be a make-or-break patch for many players. I think I just might be joining the exodus after today’s disappointment. I’ll stick around for a bit to see if maybe there’s anything else worth staying for, but I’m not very optimistic right now.

You botched dailies, you botched guild missions (which was the big selling point of this patch), you didn’t make nearly enough balance fixes (and in some cases made areas of the game much worse)….I just don’t see the improvement I had been hoping for.

Other ways to get new gear.

I don’t know what to write. It’s so epic fail and big middle finger for players.

Torn on Guild Missions. I can live with us small guilds not having access to the higher tier stuff – that ofc is them responding to the community asking for bigger events/raids. But, even the small guild stuff requires disproportionate amount of influence. The lowest lvl stuff should have been accessible straight after patch regardless so ppl can go off and start them.

The Living STory. Well, I’m enjoying the idea and last month was excellent and really atmospheric. This month was so short it’s a wonder why they didn’t just hold off until more was ready. It’s a good story you seem to be building, but I want at least a day or 2’s content, not a few minutes (not inc achievement since thats just rinse and repeat)

Previewing TP – fab!!!!!

Laurel + ecto cost for new ascended? Very bizarre. No consistentcy here as I put in the main thread elsewhere.

Dailys? Never had an issue with the other versions, can’t see any issues here either. You’ve given what the community asked for, any further complaints, well you can’t please everyone I guess

I love that you are giving us monthly content, but this one felt a little rushed and there’s a feeling more problems have been created that may need re-balancing later.

This has got to be one of the worst let downs I’ve ever had playing video games….was really excited a few days ago and now can’t even stomach playing the game today.

Nice, thx this new update i lost pleasure from playing my daily. So far i have to do 5 things, i took 15-30 min, then i could play on my way. Now, when i want to do all items in daily progress, i have to spend about 1-2 hour or even more on finding group, travel around the world, lvl character, complete personal story, fractal, group events, etc. And what will happen, when i finished all of personal story? All skill points and i have to get 3 lvls at 80, wich will take a lot of time…? Anet, this is not the way to keep players playing. I dont want to be behind other player with my achievements points so now i have 2 options, playinig all time, i have, on my daily, or lose my points and do something, that will give me pleasure… Nice move. Today me and friend of mine have lost pleasure from playing daily. Thank You ANET.

Finally, a reason to take a bit of a time off of gw2.. I shall wait for the march update instead.

why 50 ectos next to laurels ??? Isnt this a LAUREL VENDOR? Why would u need to grind now for even more grind ? So now you need to grind the daiyls/monthly to get laurels, and then grind something other to get ectos. And grind daily fractal to get pristine, and grind weekly guild missions? Welcome to the Grind Wars 2.

And ofcourse, lets grind some ectos for Vision of the mists, so i get the glowing weapon (Anet: no, lets remove the glow, and add more ecto grind).

Very nice move anet, you are losing players more and more. Im not surprised less and less players play the game.

You know you have a choice of things to do right? .. I know that if I can avoid the ‘Aquatic Slayer’ daily for the rest of the time I play this game.. regardless of what else I might find myself doing, I will be better off for it :P

small guild, not able to play the part of the game that the big guilds or the gem buyers get, kinda like premium content in other games. Daily kitten is just stupid, was easier and better before this crap. Single chest from dragons? are you kidding me? RNG, and now this on top of it? another updae before i can finish the first daily? now i cant even log on to do the daily.
Epic Fail Anet.
I cant wait for ESO

I’ll prolly go buy up some ectos. Now that they are ascended earring currency, in about 40 days the price will likely skyrocket.

This patch, like almost every one in the last few months, makes this game more frustrating for me. They seem to want to make this game more grinding and annoying instead of more fun.

Like some others, I’m now waiting for ESO.

This patch was bad for more than a few reasons.

1. Small guilds getting excluded from feasibly accessing guild missions. There should have been multiple levels where a base guild could get a mission and increasing levels as you level your different branches. This is seriously one of the worst things I’ve seen done to a community. A question I seem to be constantly asking myself about ArenaNets decisions is “Who thought this was a good idea?”.

2. Further gating of Ascended items(when can I buy an ascended ring/amulet/earring with karma? Or dungeon tokens? Or Badges? or Craft them?) For ArenaNet admitting releasing Ascended items without multiple ways to obtain them was a bad idea they seem to do it every patch. STOP CREATING NEW CURRENCIES TO GET ASCENDED ITEMS. Use the existing currencies and let us just buy them.

3. Class balance- this part of the patch is absolutely laughable. No seriously it’s that bad that it makes Mythics balancing look competent. This wasn’t even patch worthy, it was a hotfix. They NEED to get more devs on making more viable builds and that other builds aren’t so grossly above all others.

The only good thing this patch brought was nerfing Omnomberry pie, but all that does is show how terrible their trait system is because a consumable makes or breaks certain builds.

critickitten.1498:

My enthusiasm for this game has been slowly waning. I went from an avid fan and day one pre-purchaser to a complete skeptic, disillusioned about the path ANet’s chosen.

Ugh, same here. I also played GW1 for years and years, but GW2 is quickly becoming a grindy, repetitive, just non-fun game. It’s sad, really.

From ignoring major class issues time and again, being force fed (usually broken) new content, in which most of it is just ‘meh’ anyways…not sure how much I will be logging in anymore.

Depends on which 2/26 patch you’re talking about.

The broken patch?

The broken patch designed to fix the broken patch?

Or the possibly broken patch to patch the broken patch designed to fix the broken patch?

If I were a software developer, I might find this somewhat embarrassing…

I’m not happy about the shove toward being in a big guild. It’s not going to happen. I’ve been through that in other mmos, & it’s the main reason I left. I see no reason for it – this isn’t a raiding game (thankfully) and it begins to remove the freedom we’ve had to see content without being in a massive chat room.

As for the dailies – I don’t know. The game has gotten unnecessarily grindy, yes – and that decidedly undercuts the promise at the game’s release.

Idolicious.6091:

critickitten.1498:

My enthusiasm for this game has been slowly waning. I went from an avid fan and day one pre-purchaser to a complete skeptic, disillusioned about the path ANet’s chosen.

Ugh, same here. I also played GW1 for years and years, but GW2 is quickly becoming a grindy, repetitive, just non-fun game. It’s sad, really.

From ignoring major class issues time and again, being force fed (usually broken) new content, in which most of it is just ‘meh’ anyways…not sure how much I will be logging in anymore.

Hey at least the put in some new hair colors that can only be obtained by purchasing a make-over kit.

Am i the only one actually quite impressed? Sure, those new items are quite expensive, but it’s not like i should grind for them, it’s more like having to wait and playing the game instead.

Rebel.5827:

Only 2 on the list that I would be interested/able to do, so no longer a question of loging in shortly after 4 pm.

Which two?
I did
-40 ascalon kills
-40 shiverpeak kills
-10 salvages
-20 gathers
-1 jump puzzle (Urmaug’s Secret in LA, easiest one)

I wasn’t bored at all, it was actually pretty fun, though I miss the 5 event daily.

I’ve been silently hoping for ways to get ascended items that are not calender gated. That seems increasingly unlikely as each patch just brings a new “daily” we have to do to get an ascended item for another slot. This isn’t what I imagined when they said “more ways to get ascended items.”

As for the balance portion of the patch….

I’m a ranger. Go to the ranger forum and it’ll tell you all you need to know.

Jrunyon.3012:

Took away the glow for my mist pistol on unequip as well as the foefire weapons?.

I’m really hoping that is a bug. I see no reason for them to do that on purpose :/

Very awesome.

BUT its broken. If it wasnt for that it would be epic.

nethykins.7986:

Confused about buffing Kholer and nerfing black peppercorns. Everythhing else is ok, but as always, we’ll find out in a week or so.

Was thinking about that one too… Why? haha. Also, adding mobs to Kholer’s posse will be interesting.

A: is broken
A2: for a wvw player means nothing, actually is even worse, no more possible to make dailies only in WvW maps

cya

I just want that new item: Pink Quaggan Backpack Cover~
But they are inside the evil gamble boxes =(

If only Anet puts that cover in the cash shop for direct purchase, I’d buy it for sure.