Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing gw2 for a long time (/age = 3600 hours played). I’ve leveled all professions to 80, and I’ve played a little with each profession (and I admit, a lot with the mesmer, warrior and guardian). So I though it was time for me to criticize GW2, and I hope some of you create some follow up posts.

—> This is not a thread where you should argue, if you disagree with what someone doesn’t like about GW2. This is a thread where you describe the stuff, that makes it less enjoyable for you to play GW2, and maybe a how you would like it to work instead.

So, here goes.

1) The field of vision / zoom / mouse sensitivity / mousewheel-zoom
I dislike the field of vision a lot. I hate that my mouse sensitivity isn’t constant. And it irritates the hell out of me, that the the FOV keeps zooming in automatically. Please make it possible to lock the FOV, so if it zooms in (because of obstacles behind your character), it zooms out again when the obstacle is no longer there. Stop zooming in, when I haven’t touched the zoom! And please make it possible to bind zoom to other keys than the scroll wheel. Let us decide how we want to use the scroll wheel. Even when all this is implemented, I still hate the FOV in gw2. If I stand outside a keep in WvW and want to look up, all I see is the back of my own toon – wtf? Also, the FOV is much too small – it should be possible to select FOV 110, instead of this ‘look at my feet fov’.

2) Weapon swap / skill selection
I hate it that my weapon swap key stops working (usually occurs after a cinematic). I have to press H, then swap weapons by clicking the swap weapons icon, to make the swap weapons key work again. If I am out of combat, I cant change a skill that is on cooldown – why? Please make it possible to change the skill, and let the new skill be on the same cooldown as the skill you had previously equipped. Also, when I try to change a utility skill, by pressing the ‘change skill’ right above a certain skill, the utility skills change positions. Why, why, why? Always keep the skills in the same position for the same profession/race. It is simply too stupid to develop user-interface-elements that move around like that.

3) sPVP servers
I really hate spvp, especially at the start of the month, when all the players that really dont want to play spvp, and are not able to team-play, join spvp to get their monthly spvp. Please rank the servers so that players need a minimum rank to join specific servers. And please punish afk/leechers so they can’t play spvp for at least a week.

4) Confirm dialogues
Why do I have to click ‘ok’ or ‘cancel’ every time I buy stuff from certain vendors? Or when I salvage rares for ectos. Give me the option to disable ALL confirm dialogues.

5) Chat disappears
Sometimes chat messages just disappear from the chat history. If you leave a party, the party chat disappears. Sometimes whispers disappear. If you swap toons, the guild chat disappears AND the guild-chat-tab stays ‘orange’, even after it is selected (see screenshot). This is simply not good enough. It’s annoying, and it makes it impossible to see if you have unread guild chat (if you keep your guild chat in a tab for itself).

6) Drop chances
I’ve been playing for a looooooong time. And I haven’t seen a single pre-cursor drop. 3600 hours of play, and not a single pre. Could you please modify your code/rng just a little bit, so the people that actually play the game, get >>>something<<< sooner or later? If I wanted to play a trading post game, I would play railroad tycoon or the like. But in this game, the only way to get a pre (or the like) is to play the TP. I do NOT play rpgs to play the TP. I play rpgs to fight, solve puzzles, etc. It actually seems like the loot get worse the more/longer you play – this means that RNG is already ‘bugged’ or ‘weighted’. I may be unlucky/mistaken, but it seems to me like you get less drops, the longer you are logged in (based on 3600 hours of play).

7. Cut-scenes
I hate cut-scenes. 99% of the cut-scenes are so boring, and unneeded. And when they pop, your skill is canceled. You press ‘rush’ and the micro second the skill activates, the cinematic start, causing you to run nowhere. You are unable to move and the enemies aren’t; they will catch up while you wait for the ‘cancel’ button to appear and when you are able to move again, the skill you activated when the cinematic started is on cooldown. Could we please get the option to disable all cut-scenes?

8. Parties / Dungeon popup dialogue
A year after the release, this still doesn’t work consistently. You might not get the popup. You may get the popup when a party member enters, and if you click ‘enter’, the dialogue disappears, and nothing happens. You may get ‘network error’ when clicking ‘enter’, etc and so on. It’s so bugged that it makes you wonder what Anet is … doing, when they develop/test/deploy/qc/plan.

9. Invulnerable NPCs
Npcs become invulnerable at will. They charge/leap in a direction and when you move to them, to the position they moved to, they become invulnerable and move back. They might become invulnerable for no obvious reason (see screenshot – notice the boss has lost half his health, and my toon still can’t deal damage to him). Anet ? Can you do better, please ?

>>> Reserved for more whining <<<

2. I think that’s a bug, and they should work on fixing it soon. A suggestion, when a cinematic is about to appear (like in dungeons), don’t swap your weapons. I heard the bug thing happens if you swap your weaps just as the cinematic starts. Maybe that can help a bit.

3. not being able to play spvp for a week seems a tad harsh. At least make it a 5-15min delay till they can queue up for the next spvp match (only for afk-ers or people who purposely leave). Idk how they can manage that with dc though.

4. The confirm dialogue is there so you don’t accidentally salvage your precursor, or accidentally buy an ascended that you don’t really need (mostly due to lag/misclick).

5. The only thing that annoys me is the guild chat being erased when I switch toons. I wanna join in on the convo so the missed dialogue is a bummer, but certainly not a big deal for me.

6. There is no correlation between time and prec loot. And imo it shouldn’t be. The reason being is that if it becomes so, the game will become a grind in itself, of logging in x number of hours to get your precursor. I know it sucks you don’t have one, but if you’re true to your last statement (that is, to fight, solve puzzles, etc), why does loot become a problem then? GW2 is the least loot-based MMO i’ve ever seen, and I kinda like it that way. One suggestion to help you is to lessen your focus on the prec. The more you obsess with it, the more frustrated you’ll get. As you’ve said, you want to fight and solve puzzles and stuff, so try to focus on those things. The benefit is two ways: 1.) if a precursor drops, then yay! 2.) if a precursor still hasn’t dropped, then it wouldn’t bother you in the first place, and you still get to enjoy your game. I did that mindset finishing my legendary (got chaos gun cheap, but the other part is still quite a feat). Once I got my gun, I knew I was gonna save up for the legendary. But I didn’t obsess with it, just tried to play the game as much as possible, as fun as possible, while earning as much cash as possible (this means doing fotms daily, cof 1/2 daily, dungeons regularly, and world bosses whenever possible, and doing 5-10 clover tries at a time). Soon enough, I got a bulk of my materials. Let me tell you, the hardest and most infuriating part is the last 40g stretch I need for icy runestones. The other parts didn’t even felt like a grind. It was just that last 40g that felt like an eternity.

So chin up!

I wrote:

—> This is not a thread where you should argue, if you disagree with what someone doesn’t like about GW2. This is a thread where you describe the stuff, that makes it less enjoyable for you to play GW2, and maybe a how you would like it to work instead.

I guess you didn’t read that. But I will gladly comment on your post anyway.

penatbater.4710:

4. The confirm dialogue is there so you don’t accidentally salvage your precursor, or accidentally buy an ascended that you don’t really need (mostly due to lag/misclick).

I wrote: ‘make it possible to disable it’. If you prefer not to disable it, then don’t. Currently you can’t disable confirm-dialogues.

penatbater.4710:

There is no correlation between time and prec loot.

That’s what I wrote. And I wrote that if you don’t get it, you should get a higher chance of getting it, the more characters you have leveled, and the more time you have invested.

penatbater.4710:

And imo it shouldn’t be. The reason being is that if it becomes so, the game will become a grind in itself

With my suggestion, the game would become LESS of a grind. Not more.

penatbater.4710:

but if you’re true to your last statement (that is, to fight, solve puzzles, etc), why does loot become a problem then?

I wrote ‘I wanna get the pre by playing (fighting, puzzles, etc) NOT by power trading’, at least that’s what I thought I wrote. I apologize if my English is ambiguous – I’ve tried to keep it unambiguous.

penatbater.4710:

One suggestion to help you is to lessen your focus … I wouln’t obssess with it [edit: and it goes on]

I think you misunderstand what I wrote.

1. I agree with FoV. I work best with 90 FOV and I hope that they will change it to that.
2. Sounds like a bug, personally I did not have trouble there myself.
3. I do think that AFK should be punishable. Not being able to enter Spvp sounds reasonable enough.
4. I actually like this in some cases. Though I find it weird that the things that you have to confirm seem to be opposite from what it should be. For example if I want to throw away a Hall of Monuments stone (that I can re-buy from a vendor at any point in time) I have to confirm by typing the item’s name, however if I accidentally throw away an exotic, sometime it doesn’t even ask “are you sure?”
5. This, so much this! Sometimes you’re kicked at the boss chess, or get abused in the party chat, then kicked and you have no way to report these people or take a photograph of the chat.
6. The only point that I disagree on. RNG is RNG and rare items are rare items.
Great post overall. I didn’t expect that I’ll end up agreeing with so much of it.

Mirta.5029:

5. This, so much this! Sometimes you’re kicked at the boss chess, or get abused in the party chat, then kicked and you have no way to report these people or take a photograph of the chat.

Exactly. And you have no way to block the player, because you can’t see his name anymore. Was it Ångstrûrglebàugæørle? Who knows.