Guild Wars 2

Seriously.

I tried like hell to get it the first 2-3 weeks the x-pac was out, but it was way too buggy and kept blocking me from doing anything.

Then when it was sorted out I tried getting in and it is impossible for me to do it by myself. Just literally impossible. I guess I’m not pro-leet enough for that stuff.

Then when I finally got a guildee to help me the servers wonked out and I crashed.

Now I just tried doing it again and my playing as a Sylvari bit me in the butt so hard. The stupid part at the beginning when you’re on the same side as Mordy? It glitched out because my guildee’s Elemental killed me and that glitched me onto Mordy’s team for all eternity. Guildee left the instance and it let me start fighting, but as noted already I’m not cool enough to kill Mordy by myself and I died.

I just don’t get it at all

Even though I’ll be on vacation I’ll try to log in and join

warbignime.4610:

How does this has anything to do with cash grab, stop tag money grab on every thing.

Also didn’t they fix this last patch? I saw guild mission fix last patch.

They may have fixed loot rewards, but last week the Challenge was the Skritt one and it was completely broken- you couldn’t even start it. The week rolled over and guess which Challenge it is? The Skritt one, even though we have no confirmation that they fixed it.

I’m honestly really torn because for me the content is on such opposite sides of the spectrum- it’s either really great or baffling how it got past being a passing thought. I also don’t really trust ANet since they sort of randomly decided they want in on the whole “esports” thing. They refuse to balance PvP and PvE differently and it’s always been a problem, but now if they really push PvP I fear PvE is going to have a lot of issues.

ANet would need to really show me that they are working on fixing the things to have me pre-purchase the next x-pac.

I’ve gotten a bit burned out too and I haven’t been grinding for eternity. I just find the maps to be a bit too chaotic for me- in Orr the mobs were spread out and there were some areas you could just chill in. I also find it very hard to even map the new areas out on even one character. Just not my cup of tea I guess.

I wish that part of moving the story along included participating in the meta events. I don’t even mean that the events need to succeed, just that you hang out through certain ones at different points in the story mode. I still have no clue where the meta events fall in the timeline of the story

I had avoided TD precisely because it has been so punishing. I waited for people to figure it out and went with my guild this morning. It sucked waiting the 2 hours, but we did end up getting it all down and it was pretty interesting.

I do though think it takes way too much for far too little pay out, especially for something that takes up the entire map and is what gives you access to the next. That level of difficulty is fine for something like Triple Trouble since it only takes up a bit of the map and is completely optional, but TD is just a bit too much.

Sadly, we were asking for this back during the Beta events. It seems like for now ANet likes how it works and won’t be changing it.

I’m in a pretty small minority of players, but I know there are others like me. I also know I’ll probably get a lot of salt and shade for this but, I want some one at ANet to possibly see this.

There are a few us Trahearne fans who love him because we relate to him on so many levels. Even if the writers tried to say he isn’t neurodivergent they basically took most core aspects of “high functioning” autism and put them in Trahearne. It was great that we finally got a hero that we could truly connect with. Most writers take neurodivergent characters and use them as plot points- make a person more sympathetic (“Oh, look at what they put up with!” or “Aren’t they saints for caring for this poor mental cripple?”) or to push the story along by making a Red Shirt death “oh so very tragic!”. But ANet proved to be different- Trahearne has all these weird ticks and quirks, but he works with and around them and other characters work with him.

I know a few people who refused to buy HoT because it looked like things could go very wrong and they didn’t want to see them and become upset. I on the other hand was optimistic, I mean ANet has always made the game very inclusive and treated “different” characters well. Taimi has been an amazing character for those of us with physical disabilities and I feel that they would never do anything completely traumatizing to her. They take pride in the fact that disabled people relate to her and are happy to have a hero like them.

Sadly, I was wrong. Hell I had even thought that if he died it wouldn’t affect me too badly, but some massive insomnia later and I find that I am not taking it well. Most media uses neurodivergent people as stepping stones for “normal folk” and get the short end of the stick. We don’t get truly relateable characters, the only show that I’ve seen that made a great autistic character got canned after a few seasons. And now the ONE character that I had got taken away brutally and basically as a glorified Red Shirt.

I hate that I spent the money to buy the Ultimate edition. I probably won’t be able to get the same fun out of the game that I used to even if I never touch the HoT parts again. It’s so disappointing and I wish ANet had done better.

I’m on Ele and couldn’t get past the first mini-boss on my own- after going on 30+ minutes and only getting it down 2% I gave up. Today I tried with a group and the mini-bosses were fine, but then the incredibly buggy final(?) boss ruined it. It refused to let me glide out of the arena at all. I would go to the air current, it pushed me up, and the glider would not deploy. Then add in that he gets harder if you need to reset and we gave up.

I’d get the occasional grumblings from him and a few times you get dazed and the screen goes wobbly for a bit, but yeah he gets more talkative towards the end few chapters. It’s not a lot, but it’s something cool for Sylvari players.

At least you guys got that far- I main standard Ele and spent an hour trying to fight Eir… It ended with me logging out because I had only gotten about 2% of health done. It was definitely a difficulty spike to infinity since I had no problems until that :|

This is actually something upsetting people? Really? We’ve known for awhile now that Sylvari can hear what Mordy is saying when he roars and growls. Also, from the Beta stuff it really doesn’t give more insight or anything- it’s just Mordy giving orders to his minions. Sure further into the story he may talk to the player and whatnot, but I don’t see it as much different than the fact that playing through the different races in the core game gave you a different experience and perspective on the events playing out.

kratan.4619:

People have always just tagged/turn in one item/etc. and run off to get credit for"normal" events, this is nothing new.

Yeah, but an event has never been based solely on the idea of tag and run.

Scarlet’s world map invasion had loot based on what you killed, which hindered the event so they changed that part, and based on if the map got through all the “levels” of the event. The map had to work together to kill everything and then you all got loot based on how well the map did.

I was really hoping for that kind of fun again- 4 commander tags in the main sections that the enemies spawned and everyone trying to get the monsters dead so we could all get fun prizes. It really solidified the company’s idea of players banding together.

Turamarth.3248:

If I remember correctly we already had the same kind of event with Scarlet’s invasions.
Therefore I don’t think it is a stress test.

Scarlet’s invasion was very different though. You only warp’d maybe three times during an event and it was all about everyone killing things together and finishing a complete event.

OPs idea actually sounds very plausible.

We just had this rally speech at the last stage reveal about how GW2 is so different and has such a different community from other MMOs because it is extremely cooperative. Which is true- people don’t need to fight with each other to get loot drops and to get credit for doing events. It’s why I love this game so much.

Then the very first event after that is this invasion that encourages tagging and running because otherwise you cannot get good loot and that then leaves players resentful of each other, for not finishing the events all the way, and towards the devs for making this. It’s like some parts of the company didn’t get the memo that this game doesn’t play like WoW.

It makes me worried about how HoTs events will go.

rapthorne.7345:

All my beta characters are sylvari, and I’ve heard Mordremoth issuing commands to his subordinates, threatening the pact survivors and responding to his subordinates requests for help dealing with us.

Oh, that isn’t just a thing they’ve added in since the last Beta? Didn’t realize only Sylvari got to hear Mordy’s melodic voice :O

I was sad that they didn’t put in subtitles for Rytlock’s big cut-scene. I’m hard of hearing and the volume being off combined with no subs just made it look cool, but I got nothing else from it.
I also had the problem of characters “talking”, but only the speech bubble showing up with no voice work. Mostly seemed to happen to poor Laranthir.

Honestly with the no loot and no guild thing I’m finding no reason to actually play it. I could understand not being able to keep the loot the HoT Beta thing because a good chunk of it was unreleased loot, but this time is silly. I understand fully that the testing is for ANet to see how everything is working, but you gotta give some incentive to play it- like being able to keep your loot and talk to your friends.

There are Revs in LA, but I can’t use my Beta slot… Why? ;^;

I would love it if the male version didn’t have those weird chest wings… They just look so slapped on and silly :<

I wish we had been given a thread to do this in so it was all together, but oh well!

I participated in the first two time slots, the third was from 10.30pm to past midnight for me so I slept through it, and I say that overall it was a great time. The servers that I ping off of were actually the ones that completely crashed during the second slot, so I guess we did a good job stressing the servers for the devs.

The few shady things I ran into, weren’t big and the game was a lot more polished and well running than I expected. During the Wyvern fire event in the Itzel village the Wyvern kept ignoring physics and the idea that matter is solid- he kept just flying literally through the village and just sort of appeared and disappeared. I did have some lag/latency issues where I would be walking normally and then just run off a cliff. I also had lower FPS in the Beta, I normally run in the 40-60fps area, but was lucky to get to 30fps while testing.

I agree with the numerous others who say that the events, especially at night, could have a little more guidance and the Mastery system was a little odd to figure out.

On to the good that stood out most! I loved the Itzel and their big bull frog friends/guardians. When they first revealed the Itzel I was pretty turned off by them, but they are awesome in-game. The whole plot of the red Hylek being nasty scum to them had me grumbling at the screen to leave the poor baby Itzel be. I also loved the humanoid Mordrem and can’t help but think that some of their attacks foreshadow a connection to the Dream which makes me excited. Having Laranthir running all over the map fighting and helping was really cool. Also, the music was fantastic.

All in all it was a good time for me. It was also a pretty good laugh for my friend watching me play since she got to laugh at my constantly going “Dear lord what is that?!” and “I have no clue what I’m doing, but everything looks cool!”

I agreed with you back in the day when servers segregated everyone in PvE as well as WvW, but now that really the only reason to change is for one of the competitive aspects I’m okay with it. You shouldn’t be able to switch teams easily.

I’ve always felt that these things should be based on what race you choose so that it better reflects the culture. Sylvari, while many have started following the dichotomy of humans, tend to be androgynous according to lore. So why do they follow the male and female armor and body features? Asura sexes are supposed to be hard to tell apart because they don’t have many/noticeable natural differences. Humans should have those huge differences because they have stricter societal rules about what they wear and how they look- like in real life.
It would be more immersive to me if there were things like this in the game.

I got mine after doing about 8 full Silverwastes runs. Started my 9th and while clearing Red Base I got one from a little vine. Makes me happy since I have Mystery Illness X that has me in a lot of pain which means I can’t marathon right now, but I wanted to get into Beta so badly

They borked the Hall with the last big update and still haven’t fixed it. Apparently anyone who went into it could grab all the rewards regardless of if they played GW1 or not.

Wildkitten.3872:

AlphaDelilas.2873:

TwistedFate.8705:

seizures incoming! epileptics stay away today.

Yeah, that’s why I blew a migraine- I have a weird seizure disorder and the filter set me off. Not funny at all :<

If you truly had a some form of epileptic seizures due to game flickering and such you would be well familiar with checking video settings to turn them off, which you can easily do to turn off the sepia tones and old style movie film grain look.

Lol@ implying I’m lying about one of my medical conditions. Like many people with seizure disorders, not just epilepsy, I’m effected by rhythmic flashes, so the typical effects do nothing. Sadly, the sepia effect they created is very rhythmic and triggered a migraine in the amount of time it took to turn off post-processing.
Please don’t try to patronize someone who is disabled with several conditions- it just makes you look ignorant.

TwistedFate.8705:

seizures incoming! epileptics stay away today.

Yeah, that’s why I blew a migraine- I have a weird seizure disorder and the filter set me off. Not funny at all :<

That bloody sepia crap with the flashing/scrolling black lines gave me a migraine in the few minutes it took to get to the post processing check box. The normal game effects don’t bug me when set on low, but scrolling things like that trigger my migraines like nobody’s business.

Can we not do “pranks” that do that? Please?

I hope so. It would be really nice to see Orr evolve like the rest of the world.

I thought something similar would be nice- when the Living Story updates have a bunch a little events in one area of LA. Then with the next patch we could see the improvements and move on to another area. It would be something fun on the side for everyone to do.

My guild is going to do an all day Arah Dungeon event in a few days, so I figured I would get up to the story mode on my one character so I could finish his story. I got through the Priory version of the missions right before the dungeon and was happy until I saw my personal progress. It now says that I am only up to the level 70 mission line “Against the Corruption”. This is a huge problem and honestly makes me not want to play the story on any of my characters now.

IYield.1204:

If they make Tengu as unique/colorful as this picture, I will proudly make one! Please Anet! The OP is on to something!

That image actually makes me want playable Tengu. I had no interest in them before, but kitten is that image awesome

It’s not rumor, Canach was bought by Countess Anise to serve in the Shining Blade. I’m so sad that he seems to have been hidden away. I love talking to him and knowing I need to wait at least another week and a half to see him is horrible :<

Styxx.1564:

Killing or not, he just needs to man up a bit and maybe Anet should hire someone else who didn’t just wake up from a nap to do his voice.
He’s seriously THE MOST anti-charismatic hero I’ve ever had to listen to. Like.. really.

When he gives a speech to “motivate” troops, I just want to throw down my weapon and go join the enemy’s forces.

I hate when people blame the actor completely. The guy who voiced Trahearne has done so many things and is insanely varied. The director specifically had him do that voice.
Actors do not have free reign in the booth folks.

I was going for some Foxfire today since I had nothing better to do while getting IV medicine and found that my Warrior alt has much better RNG luck than my main. She got 6 in Cursed Shore, but then when I did it with my main he got 5 from 3 maps. So stupid and annoying.

Nkuvu.2570:

Jornophelanthas.1475:

I don’t think it was there to “placate the whiners”. Most likely, the voice recording for the current Living Story releases have been done well in advance.

Complaints about the personal story and feeling like a minor side character have been around for a long, long time. Before season 1 of the Living Story, even. So I think it’s quite feasible that the writing of the player as the boss is exactly to address that.

Personally, I believe the “assistant” dialogues were written to illustrate how much the asura are intellectual snobs, and how Councillor Phlunt is even worse than that. Taimi obviously calls us her “assistant” because that is the only reason Councillor Phlunt can imagine why she would ever need a bookah for her experiment. (Other than as a test subject, of course.)

Which is a reasonable explanation for the non-asura players. However it makes no sense whatsoever when we’re dealing with an asura. A Snaff savant, no less.

I think it makes total sense even as an Asura that she refers to you as an assistant. The one dialogue you get with her as another Asura is her talking about her thesis and your PC saying that they would love to help her out with her research should she need it. The Asura Pkittenerally states that they would love to be her assistant for the project; they have “better” things to do as a Snaff Winner, but having their name on her project would be great for their resume.

Abaia.1365:

I didn’t really see it as much of a reconciliation. At the end, their interaction was still awkward and strained. (“Um, so, uh . . . anybody hungry?” “Yeah! Let’s go stuff food in our mouths so we don’t have to try to talk to each other!”)

I got the impression that even though Braham’s first “adventure” with his mom might have been an eye opener as far as her fighting prowess goes, it really did nothing to mend their relationship.

The part that bothered me though was “my” acceptance of Eir’s decision to abandon Braham. (“Can’t be a hero with a kid dragging you down” or whatever “I” said.) Then again, my parents were pro-career and anti-child rearing so I have a built-in prejudice against people who treat their children like burdens.

(BTW, I still don’t like Braham. He’s a punk.)

To me it was the PC accepting and understanding Norn culture. A Norn without a Legend is useless to the society and if one gets the opportunity to create one they should go for it at all costs. As someone who is really into anthropology I loved that part of the convo. Our PC doesn’t say that any one was wrong or right, just made a comment based on our understanding of the Norn.

Ashandar.2570:

Teratus.2859:

Recipies sure.. i’ve opened tons of chests and havent even found a kitten fossil yet XD

typical really
one new weapon set I love and I have no hope in hell of ever getting one.. good troll Anet thanks alot

the recipies will be an issue in the future, the fossils are not an issue anymore since you can buy them from the vendor.

The fossils are still randomly dropped in chests during the sandstorm. Now though if you don’t want them you can exchange them for loot. Which is annoying as all hell. I have guildies who have gotten 5+ and have no want for them and I’ve gotten 2 and want the whole darn set. They should at least be able to be given through mail or something :|

I know he got bought by Countess Anise, but I can’t physically find him right now. It’s sad :<

He shouldn’t go crazy since he isn’t Soundless. The Pale Tree is protecting the Dreamers, and probably the Nightmare Court, from Mordy.

I knew he was being released and was excited, but then the guard wasn’t at his cell to give me any clues as to where exactly he is now. I looked in DR, but there is no tag for him… Where is he?

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

- Let my character speak just like in the original personal story. This is critical to make the game more immersive. I don’t care about the technical limitations, blah, blah… Just MAKE IT WORK somehow! We actually WANT this.

I for one would much rather ANet spend the money on development of the game than on getting the PCs’ VAs back. I’m sorry, but having the PC talk again would cost a small fortune that would be much better placed in making the content better

He’s still at the Vigil HQ. Look for the scroll with a star in it on the map and that’s him

I can’t be the only one who keeps checking in on the stupid sexy criminal salad. Anyone else like what they’ve been doing with him? I’m not surprised that Anise was the one to buy him, but the fact that she did so to place him in the Shining Blade is surprising. I also wish we could take him with us into Dry Top since he is so interested in adventuring :<

You have so many issues that need to be dealt with by a professional. Not being said as an insult, you just seem to have problems that need working on.

First, fantasy needs to have realism to make it relatable. If there was nothing from the real world it would be dull and have no immersive properties. I, and many others, love how ANet has gone out of their way to make characters that many different people can relate to. Taimi is the first major disabled character I’ve gotten to play with in a game and she and the experience are brilliant. She is strong and independent and her disability has barely been mentioned by her or the other characters; it is a quirk, not a defining trait.

Second, she is not 5. She is in her teens, which you would have known if you paid attention. She has already been placed in one of the three colleges and obsesses over Scarlet because she sees beyond Scarlet’s madness and wants to write her dissertation on what Scarlet discovered. I have no clue where you are going with her being intelligent contraindicating a disability. She has a physical problem, not a mental one. Hell even at that having mental disabilities not preclude someone from being smart. If you are getting at it glorifying the disabled I would agree if she were any other race, but she is an Asura. An Asura with even a high human IQ would be considered dumb by the rest of their society. Asura are just insanely smart.

Third, where the hell are you getting politics from?! I don’t even know where to begin with that bag of worms, especially given my scoleciphobia.

Fourth, you obviously did not play the EotM introduction LS. We already had to do things for Taimi because she couldn’t walk. We did not carry her because she refuses to be infantilized. Scruffy is the only assistance she needs, she built him specifically to help her with her disability and she does not wish to have anyone else do anything for her. In EotM Scruffy got damaged and she was having a bad day and could not walk and while Braham was there he was staying with her to make sure she was safe. That left the player to get the parts Taimi needed to fix Scruffy. We got the parts, gave them to Taimi, she fixed Scruffy, and all was good.

On to my own commentary: Taimi is beyond brilliant. The only time we’ve heard her talk about her disability was when we had to get the parts to fix Scruffy. Other than that moment she is treated as a normal teenage girl. Braham acts as a protective older brother and wants her to be safe at all times, but acquiesces, mostly at the others’ insistence, that she is enough of a grown up to do things on her own. She does everything that the others do, even fight, with the assistance of Scruffy and no one else. Hell she even built Scruffy on her own.

Or even let us exchange them for tokens. I would be fine with it being 2-3 tickets for 1 token, it would be something to help get rid of the almost 10 stacks of tickets I have

I’d want to see a profession like that be heavy armor; my favorite mages wear plate mail C:

I’m not even after a precursor, gave up on that pretty quickly when I realized my horrible luck in-game. I just want the nice drops from the mega-bosses; I beat Teq every day for months and never saw a Mini-Teq or Ascended Chest. My account is insanely hex’d :<

That’s some pretty old concept art. I honestly do not think you can make anything like it in game.