Guild Wars 2

One thing I’m hoping for is that HoT let’s me play the game more than doing research in the internet. It might not affect everyone, but there are a few things which bother me:

- daily boss: you have to search in the internet when it will spawn.

- drops from festivals (e.g. winterdays): you have to search the internet to find out whether they are still useful or not. right now they just fill up the limited inventory.

- you want a legendary? search the internet how to get one

- you have any other goal? go search the internet…

I think it’s immersion breaking and I feel like I would have to spend more time than necessary, so I would prefer something like a “in-game navigation system”.

- daily boss: add a timer in the daily achievement menu (and provide more options for pve, but that’s another story)

- drops from festivals: add a warning before they get useless. click on them and it shows you where to trade them in and once they are useless, add a pop-up which asks you, if you want to delete them.

- legendary: add an in-game guide (like a tree with mouse over comments) how to get them

- communicate changes well in-game, like an in-game assistant npc in the home instance, which tells you the changes since you visited him last time and which provides a knowledgebase for older changes

In case some of those features are already in the game and I didn’t notice yet, then I apologize and please let me know.

dont delete stuff from festivals most of them are a reocuring thing so save them in bank or on a mule char

some of them are, but not all. last wintersday e.g. there was a npc, where you were able to trade in some “glue” from the year before, because they changed it. there is also stuff like twisted watchwork shoulder scrap. If you have less than 250, they are probably useless. Transmutation stones: less than 3, useless. I assume there will be more trash left behind as Guild Wars 2 gets older and gets more changes, so the launch of HoT would be a good time to also launch a system which deals with this.

Heart of the Destroyer. I somehow ran into that one. You need to search in the internet to find it’s required for Mawdrey II, but need a lot of other stuff for it first. Mawdrey II might be useful for the flood of bloodstone dust though.

You want to have luminescent gear? Go search in the internet where you get e.g. Verata’s Searing Ring, if you don’t have it yet anyway…

I’m just saying the game forces you to search in the internet instead of playing the game. For regular forum users that’s probably not much of an issue, I suppose.

How did people figure these things out to put them on the internet?

I see your point but a lot of players, perhaps most, dont even know about the guides.

A friend of mine has only been playing for a few months and was totally blown away the first time he came across jormag.

The OP is right. There are very few to no information at all in the game about everything. If you are just playing the game as Sube Dai’s friend, you will be in awe all the time but that doesnt solve the problem of becoming a 10k AP noob player.

Players who want to be told everything are why we got the NPE.

However a legendary progression tree would be nice. You can also have the compass tell you about ongoing events in that area, or just ask in the chat.

However you don’t need the game to tell you when to everything.

CobaltSixty.1542:

How did people figure these things out to put them on the internet?

This.

OP, all the information on the internet was put there by players. You’re perfectly free not to look anything up ever, you’ll just find it’s a lot less efficient for you.

Olvendred.3027:

CobaltSixty.1542:

How did people figure these things out to put them on the internet?

This.

OP, all the information on the internet was put there by players. You’re perfectly free not to look anything up ever, you’ll just find it’s a lot less efficient for you.

That’s exactly the point. Due to the efficiency loss, that’s not an option. E.g. the daily boss. Sure, you can go to the spawn point and wait there for up to 4 hours, once you found the boss by accident or looked the spawn point up in the internet once before.

Alternatively you can ask the other players who looked up the spawn time themselves or just answer with a link to a boss timer. From my point of view that doesn’t solve the issue, just transfers the hassle to another player.

That means, if you don’t want to annoy the other players or waste a lot of time, you have to look it up in that case.

Yeh, you do have to look everything up on the net, and for most of those things it really shouldn’t be necessary, there should be a little more helpful info in-game I feel.

I have been playing since just after GW2 came out, and I STILL have not completed a legendary, and am STILL finding out things I can’t believe you don’t find out about through playing.

A few more pointers in-game would actually be useful.