Guild Wars 2

If it’s not too late, I would strongly recommend a rollback so you can fix these bugs at your own speed. They are confusing and high in number.

A lot of the hero panel stuff seems to be just the display. IE. collections, trait unlocks etc. My specialization unlocks say 0%, but I seem to be able to still do everything. Collection that were reset did not take away APs or skins earned through them.

If people are able to earn double rewards for these, that gives them an unfair AP hunting advantage. I don’t see how to fix that without rolling back.

I had 50/50 and gwamm etc legit. I still have the titles and the AP.

I assume this has already been discussed quite a few times but I would like to state my opinion on the subject and hope if we agree we can give an incentive to ANEt to make what we think is right.
Since this is going to be a very long post, I tried to put some structures to it.

Do we want underwater combat (UC)?
That is the first and most crucial question. While we all agree that in the current state, UC is not satisfactory, the question is what are the inherent positive and negative points about it.
First the minus:

• The z-axis handling is difficult, and estimating distances is a nightmare.
• To be realistic, the fights should be slow as hell.
• We don’t have much experience of it in our world which makes it difficult to design weapons+skills
• It’s obviously a lot of work to create/balance a good underwater combat system.

Now some of the plus actually come directly from the minus:

• it creates welcome variety. New skills, new mechanics, new enemies.
• it is beautiful down there! I mean IRL, people go underwater breathing bottled air and withstanding huge pressure just for that right!
• It allows to add a whole new set of skills/builds… without having to balance them with the old ones (like elite specializations which should in principle be balanced with existing core specializations).
• Since we have little expectations of what UC should look like, there is a lot of space for imagining cool stuff (I mean this is fantasy right).
• Quaggans!

And finally an important point I think: we currently have UC. So much work has already been done and it would be a waste to completely scrap it by drying out the whole world like they already did with some maps. On the other hand, having this clumsy mechanics reflects poorly on the game.

The current state

First let us be fair, few games have satisfactory UC, and gw2 may actually be among the best ones. They decided to remove some of the annoying mechanics (you can breathe underwater, yeah!) and make the combat faster than what would be realistic. They went for water-themed weapons with their own water-themed skills. They have underwater enemies/allies,…

And yet, we all know we often try to stay away from water. And when we are there, we feel very fast constrained by the environment and only hope for returning back on lands to find our power.
Here are I believe the main problem of gw2 UC:

• lack of diversity. You have only 1 or 2 weapons available meaning that you don’t make a choice but simply equip all available weapons. Many (sometimes most) of the utilities/elites cannot be used underwater. Making builds is the core of the guild wars series, but you just cannot make underwater builds because of this lack of diversity.
• lack of motivations to go underwater. There is no good and unique reward attached to it. You only take a dive to get your hero point and already this is a pain.
• because of that we don’t spend enough time underwater to even know our skills, so we often end up just pressing everything on cooldown. Really not fun
• somehow, it feels like ANEt tried to make UC even clumsier by making many of our UC weapon skills mobility skills. So you just move around without the slightest idea of where you are and where you left your enemies. Also, there is almost only one personal story episode which is fully underwater (Temple of the Forgotten God) and it is awful design. You have to move around trying to find the doors making the underwater 360° even less bearable. Finally, one of the greatest day in my underwater carrier was to realize one can bind a key to « swim down », why isn’t it done by default???

Most likely it would start as just a simple system where a Guild can join a single Alliance that offers an Alliance chat. Thus allowing easy cross guild communication for organizing things such as boss fights, WvW and other larger scale events.

This could be expanded to allow credit for guild missions, visiting of guild halls, and even shared influence gains.

Ankushp.7245:

First of all tell me, what exactly is the benefit of being in a guild in gw2? There is barely any content for guilds so I don’t know what we will do with guild alliance (Unless u specifically want it JUST for chating)……..I have not played the original Guild Wars, but from what others tell me, there was some amount of G vs G content (sumbody plz confirm ) . Here guilds are somewhat cosmetic (like much of the other things In game ) . I guess only TTS , some wvw guilds actually make use of ‘being in a guild’ . Now many of you may come forward and say that “No! Our guild does stuff together” but let’s face it most of the things are stuff u can do with the LFG system………

This game is called Guild Wars but there is hardly anything “Guild wars” :P lol in it.
However I hope the guild houses expected in the expansion changes everything ………

First GW1 did feature a guild vs guild pvp mode and guild halls but that was mostly it.

Your actually quite mistaken about Guilds in GW2.

GW2 has exclusive guild content already in the form of Guild Missions, which offer a special currency oly attainable through said Guild Missions. Additionally many different upgrades, boosts, skins and WvW related advantages are avaialble for guilds to buy and activate. Additionally guilds are able to spawn Tequatl and Triple Trouble to face them as a guild on their own time. Though just being a member of a smaller guild, not part of leadership, much of this could go over your head.

Additionally HoT will be adding Guild Halls to the game. Also there have been rumors of HoT adding other new guild related content or benefits.

The API is a JSON implementation. Basically, if you provide a url, it will return an array of information that you can parse through. I’d suggested going through https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/Welcome-to-the-API-Development-subforum , there’s a lot of useful information. If you’d rather not deal with the api itself and would instead like to use a wrapper, there’s a list of those here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:List_of_wrappers

Smith.1826:

If a player heads out to a champion by himself with the knowledge that a ‘zerg train’ is a few minutes away, is it wrong for him to kill it? He could farm materials and other mobs in the vicinity while waiting for the 20+ people to arrive so that could acquire credit as well. They certainly didn’t truck all the way down to farm mats.

It would be NICE for the player to wait, but I certainly wouldn’t fault him/her for starting the Champ early. Maybe they’re on a tight time schedule. Maybe they’re afraid that if the train shows up they won’t be able to do enough damage to get credit (a very legitimate concern, especially if they’re a low level character). The train can always move on to the next Champ, but the lone player may only be fighting this one Champion during their play session.

I will agree that people who deliberately set out to derail trains is also not very nice behaviour and I would not do it repeatedly to multiple Champs just to aggravate the people on the train. But if a player comes across a Champion and wants to test their skills against it solo, I can’t fault them for doing so. I certainly like seeing if I can kill Champs in the open world myself.

I do wonder why the loot bags drop loot based on your character level rather than the Champion’s level.

I think a better design would have been to tie the loot level to the Champ, that way you could run a train on different maps based on what kind of materials you were trying to farm.

Low on Linen? Head over to Iron Marches! Need some Jute? Queensdale for you!

Astral Projections.7320:

Ok. The champ train bags were designed as an appropriate reward for starter chars killing them, not fully rigged level 80s killing them ez mode on an endless loop. They are appropriate for the zone and the expected level killing them. Don’t be expecting ANet to cater to level 80s getting a bunch of them while neglecting level appropriate content.

Yup, that.

Just sell them at the vendor when you stop and wait for the boar to spawn.

It’s only four or five specific places, and in my experience, if one of those champions is up, the zerg will be there in under 60 seconds anyway. If I want to shoot at the troll until they get there, that’s my own business. If you’re really worried about super-efficiency, be faster. Entitled kids.

Guys, I think those for and against the sub fee for GW2 share one, most important thing: both of these groups agree that GW2 lacks expansion-worthy content. It’s 2 years old. It won’t keep the remainder of the people playing here without anything fresh, new AND permanent. It doesn’t matter, free or subbased, if the game lacks anything new for too long ( GW2 case ), it will simply die off ‘cos I don’t think people can have as miserable lives as to waste their time playing a game that hasn’t changed for 2 years.
Just my opinion, ofc.

People should go do the Frostgorge train instead…oh wait.

If you get the recipe, and enough blade shards, you should be able to do it at any time afterwards. The only recipes so far that has been deactivated were the original mystic forge halloween skins once halloween rolled around once more.