Guild Wars 2

Since you are interested in rp I would point you over to http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com .

Darn. Yes indeed I did as I feel my primary obligation is to my RP guild. I shall have to find a more rep-lenient match.

I’m wondering if you still hold the 99% rep-time rule in force, what with the changes to the guild system and such.

Land of Cheese.2584:

Notsoperky.2348:

Vayne.8563:

Notsoperky.2348:

It’s rapidly becoming impossible to ‘do what you want, when you want’ and this game now feels more ‘log in after checking event timer, get lucky with lfg into good map, get lucky completing long boring meta event and maybe you have a chance at people sticking around to complete HP’s , POI’s, etc before map shuts again’.

Add that to the fact that my brain hurts as soon as I step foot in TD and map completion has gone from being fun to being next to impossible and/or tedious.

Anyone who says’ look for an event, etc’ bear in mind a lot of people can only log on for an hour or two a couple times a week, they aren’t wedded to the game.

What you said here is true. A lot of people can only log in for an hour or two every couple of weeks. But no game company can make games aimed at those people. It’s not a reasonable expectation.

Try re reading what I said. An hour or two . A couple of times a week. That’s pretty much most games target audience. Add in a couple more times a week and that’s your average game player.

You play 2 to 4 hours a week. The average MMO time investment is 22 hours per week. When the average is 5-10 times more investment than you’re able to put into it, I’m afraid you don’t seem to be a part of that target audience.

Of the links you provided the last is an article extrapolating from the report a marketing information group. A report I cannot read and evaluate by myself, so I don’t know what pitfalls the journalist has fallen into. And my experience is that journalists only rarely manages to report scientific findings correctly.

The mid link has no scientific value what so ever, being a forum poll with a rocking 156 respondents.

The daedalus site is interesting. The methods etc are correct, and it would be tremendously useful… if it hadn’t been in hibernation for the past 6 years. There’s nothing implicating from which year the data is, and these data do age significantly as the first and second generation gamers are finding themselves in a time of life where recreation tends to take a back seat to things like work and family.

It is also highly notable that both the Daedalus project and the article talk about total hours spent playing video games. Which means that some people will be dedicated to just one game and others will mix it up. One day feeling like playing an MMO, another day playing a single player platform game. So it doesn’t really say anything about how much time the average gamer spends playing GW2. And in fact, it is generally more interesting to talk about the median than the average.

Adventures ought to be like jumping puzzles. Achievements and some shinies for those who enjoy it, but not a necessary evil if you don’t.

I wonder why ANET thought their customers bought HoT if they’d rather be playing a platform game.

Is this live yet? I finished up the personal story on one of the characters that were halfway through chapter 8 and got tracked into the restored order of quests, i e getting Victory or Death after completing the Source of Orr. Entering Arah I do indeed get to choose between a solo instance or to find a group for the group instance. However, the actuall dungeon doesn’t seem to be altered in a way to allow for solo play. Of course it was ages since I did play the story mode and I might remember wrong, but the whole pressure plate thingy seems quite impossible to do when being only you and Destiny’s Edge.

Getting credit for the escort events seems rather flukey. Does it only count if you get the killing blow? Seems to me that that needs to be reworkd. I’ve done (or rather, tried to do) all the escorts save the moas, have tried to make sure I killed at least something, and have yet to get credit for even one. That is rather uninspiring.

Does guesting bypass the only one chest per character and event flag? If not, I don’t see how guesting is an issue, and if it does it sounds like a bug to me.

The OP were talking about making story modes soloable. You know, the ones that rewards you 26 silver, some karma and a hat the first time you complete them, and apart from that might net you some blues and greens and the stray copper here and there, possibly netting you another whopping 25 silver. It’s not like it’s lucrative to run story mode as is, if it was, people would be doing it on a regular basis since they are (supposedly) easier than explorable. And since the suggestion from the OP was to make storymode soloable, and the rewards as is are pretty abysmal, there is no reason to nerf the rewards for soloable storymode.

Me, I’m all in favour for that. Would be nice if perhaps we could make a party using the people we befriended and picked up during the personal story, a la GW1 Henchmen. Stories should be aviable to everyone. Explomode is a whole nother beast, and this thread wasn’t about them.

I have a longbow ranger that I’m thinking to run a few dungeons with. To prepare myself for that experience, what tips and tricks can you experienced ranger dungeoneers give me?

On top of my head:

Norn female
New land… New land! / By Raven, there’s no end to Tyria (exploration)
They got my pet! (ranger pet dies)
I choose you (switching ranger pet)
I’m awesome (level up)

It wouldn’t be hard for the refugee coordinator to say something along the path of “They’re comming through the breakneck pass, why don’t you go see if you can help them out.” And then maybe have the memento collectors also say something forthcomming about where they came from.

I shouldn’t have to go outside the game to find info about how to even begin to participate. Talking to the Refugee Coordinator should at least had set me on the path of where to go.

But you can still open the chest by pressing F, so what is the difference? * is confused and have possibly missed something *

Gorwe.9672:

Erasculio.2914:

Wasselin.1235:

The only way to get laurels is through dailies, and who knows if the next day will have daily acheivements you want to do?

It’s a matter of how much you enjoy the game. If you like all aspects of the game, most, if not all dailies, will be something you would enjoy doing. If you only enjoy a single, limited aspect of the game, finding a daily you enjoy is going to take some time, but then again if you only enjoy a single, limited aspect of the game, maybe it’s not a game for you…

True MMO allows you to enjoy just that little niche that interests you-be it crafting, slaying or even some other gimmicks(polymock, diplomacy, grinding, ….).

An MMO that does not allow you to play as YOU WANT, is not an MMO.

EZ!

So, any MMO that won’t make say…. raiding gear accessible (or equivalent) for people that dont like to raid isn’t an MMO?

BroScientist.9875:

Gorwe.9672:

No.

But VG gives you a reson to grind(don’t forget they are the makers of EQ!). GW 2 doesn’t. Besides, VG is almost fully f2p now-all PvE and RPG fans owe it to themselves to at least try it.

Simple as that.

Edit: TSW sounds awesome. Will buy that shortly with my two books(Warhammer High Elves!!!!! <3 <3).

No soe did not develop everquest 1. They developed everquest 2 which absolutely did not live up to it’s predecessor, as well as myriad blunders: swg, the ruining of PS1 post development, the mess that is PS2. I will never play a game developed by soe. (exception would be ps1 when it goes f2p because that game is amazing and is balanced now, though noone plays it currently.

To be technical, soe didn’t develop vanguard either, Sigil did and then they got bought up by soe.

Yes, VG gives you a reason to grind… You have to grind for everything, levels, gear, mats… Basically if you want to get anywhere, you have to grind. AKA forced grind. Whereas GW2 doesn’t give you any reason to grind for anything, really, unless you the player like to grind. So how is this game going more in the direction of Korean grinder then a game that has always been a grind, from the very launch?

Gorwe.9672:

Well, I reckon that I got my $60 worth of gametime.

For all of you wondering how the Real MMO looks and plays like-do yourself a favour and go play Vanguard(if you are into PvE). If you are into PvP-EvE.

This Game’s quickly becoming a f2p Korean grinder…

Are you insinuating that GW2 is grindier than Vanguard? Seriously?

Tarnished Coast for NA, Piken Square for EU.

T1 female medium glows on the upper arms and the berries around the waist.

There are no official RP servers. On Piken Square a lot of the rp is happening in Divinity’s Reach. Somewhat unfortunate if you don’t play a human. Best way of getting consistent and constant rp is hooking up with a RP guild that suits your character.

Being swedish I tend to get at least a small giggle reading the NPC names in Hoelbrak and surrounding areas, so partly I can comisserate. Not to mention the misspronounciation of german/nordic names. However, it’s just one of those things you have to suffer when people with no knowledge of the language gets enamoured with the mythology etc. When you think of it like that it’s sort of endearing. They try mimicing, and isn’t that the best kind of flattery?

What colour is the recipe in the production recipe list? If it’s gray it means that it’s trivial and you no longer gain xp for it.

Sieran grows up. Her sacrifice comes as the effect of realizing life isn’t just fun and games but also responsibility.

Does anyone have a list of which jp’s that counts toward the achievement without needing to be completed? I admittedly suck at jumping stuff and would rather spare myself the frustration of having to complete something that will take me ages to do.

Also, for those that wonder why people dislike FotM being on the monthly yet again (third month in a row). For my part it’s because they still haven’t fixed the dc issue, and as a player that tends to dc randomly, it’s frustrating and annoying. It requires me to find a new group after crashing, time spent doing one fractal is wasted, unless I dc right after completion and I impede on others progress. I had hoped that they wouldn’t push for more fractal monthlys until the dc issue was fixed. There are other dungeons in the game, that are far more underutilised then fractals.. They could have had clearing any which ones as the monthly.

Synmortius.3157:

The little princess dolls rock, Have watched them dismember a champion.

And you don’t see that a mob that can rip an open world champion to pieces might just be a little tiny bit overtuned?

Then again, I still want to be able to use to toy minis in combat. They obviously can handle it (I wouldn’t ever give one to a kid though).

Now that I, late at night, think about it. Why isn’t the Grove decked out in wintersday decorations? It is a bit disappointing to see it look all the same as always. I suppose it lorewise wouldn’t fit decking the Black Citadel out, but the Sylvari have a special bond to human things, right? And Norn like a feast and jollyness as much as anyone. And Tixx is an Asura.

I want more candy canes and packets and glittry light bulbs all over the place. More I say, MOAR!

This suggestion sounds excellent. Uniting Destiny’s Edge would be a parallell story to the order line, so in order to open the story for CM you’d have had to do AC, not just be lvl 40 and so on. Especially if story mode dungeons were soloable.

Rewriting Caladbolg would require rewriting the sylvari storyline. Your suggestion also doesn’t account for the fact that Sylvari are immune to dragon corruption. They wilt and die, rather then turn.

I was kinda starting to hope taht the minis will be combat capable.

Azure Prower.8701:

Frotee.2634:

The only thing that’s puzzling me, at this point, is the challenge-seekers who are soundly against difficulty levels because they don’t want people lacking their particular skill being able to enjoy part of the event.

Not really. I’m not against it. Just don’t see the point of it.

If you create easy/hard modes for example. People will still complain that hard mode is too hard and it’s unfair they cannot get the better reward because they cannot do it.

It’s an event puzzle. Why should rewards be any better for the hard mode, which people that are good at jumping puzzles do because it satisfies their demand for a challenge. Have a title, like “Wonderous Jumper” for the winter winderland puzzle or “Clockwork Master” for the Mad Kings Clocktower if you complete it in hard mode. Considering that titles are actually one of the few visible means of showing you actually did something, it ought to beat any reward that can be gained elsewhere.

They are vicious and should probably seen another round of tweeking before being let lose on the average solo roaming player.

I would like to have different difficulties for future EVENT puzzles. Rewards should be the same (since it’s just event items anyway) but I’d be happy to allow for different achievements, and the hardest version could even have a snazzy title going with it. I don’t want to have to stress through a puzzle, scrabbling to keep up with the pace someone else decided for me, which will ultimately have me fail. (Not to mention when one of the kids demands my attention. RL happens, and for some it happens more regularly then others). So I would like a version where I can take my time and smell the roses. And then the ones good at jumping are welcome to their hard as hell, run-as-fast-as-you-can-and-then-some version.

Hence… compromise. One hard puzzle, one easy. Fluff for everyone. More happy people. Those that have a hard time with hard puzzles won’t suddenly have an easier time with those just because there is an easy puzzle as well, will they?

Some people thinks the wintersday puzzle is too easy, others that it is too hard. There simply isn’t a way to make one puzzle everyone likes. However, there might be a way to make everyone happy, and isn’t that really what these special events are about, making people happy?

Make one hard puzzle, which is timed, where platforms dissapears, where one single misstake is death. Then make one that looks exactly the same, but which is far more forgiving, where those that need can take their time and still feel that jolly good cheer of doing something that they find difficult. Make the rewards the same, save for the hard one getting perhaps a title, where the easy does not.

Waiting for Tixx

Rising Dusk.2408:

- ANet is an American company
- ANet employees work during the daytime in the PST (GMT-8) timezone
- ANet employees need to be working when the patch goes live in case something needs a hotfix due to issues transferring from the dev -> live server
- ANet employees cannot be expected by the company to work all hours of the night if something goes wrong and a release is in the middle of the night to satisfy Europeans

!

Most Europeans would be just happy if they deployed the patch about first thing in the morning PST. That’d make it what, 6 pm CET. We’d have the entire evening to play and Anet would have the entire work day to keep it smooth.

Please don’t put fractals on the monthly again unless this issue is fixed. I feel bad for my party when I dc and is half reluctant to do fractals knowing that I may dc and may block progress because of it.

I have a hard time seeing how the duellist armour is too skimpy when the human t3 is not, what with the half-a-boob showing. But that I guess is personal preference. Whisper and Vigil armour both show a bit of skin. For a simplistic, stylish look that shows a bit of cleavage but otherwise isn’t too revealing, I’d go with the prowler chestpiece.

Perhaps those that feel slighted because the couldn’t attend can feel a bit better that not everyone got phat lewtz. I can maybe get one gold in total for the two lvl 62 exotics I was rewarded with. They don’t even have a shmanzy fancy skin.

And yes I would have much prefered being able to choose a yellow reward that I could have use for now then exotics that are not really worth that much and which I can’t use.

It is indeed rather annoying not being able to get back. We were at the last boss on the third fractal when I DC’d

I suppose it also means that if someone leaves party you can’t go pick up a new group member

Same, but the Grove.

sniffs I dc’d just as we were killing the nightmare tree off and now I can’t get back in.

LastShot.4762:

Not sure what your level now, but assuming start with level 1:

Step 1. get healing signet asap, again awesome early game.

Step 2. first 10 trait pts all into Arm, pick up Deep Strike, invest all skill pts gain in between this time to signets.

Step 3. next 10 trait pts into Strength, get Berserker’s Power.

Step 4. next 10 trait pts into Discipline, get Heightened Focus.

Step 5. after reseting, 15pt into defense, then repeat step 2- 4.

After that, start put points whereever you see fit.

This is leveling build I go for, not saying its good for late game, but works great up to 60, even with under level gears.

After that, I crafted all the way to 80 for my warrior, so not sure how last 20 levels go.

Thanks. I’ll give this a whirl.

I have a low level warrior that I just can’t seem to get into, despite me trying quite hard. I feel squishy and clumsy and to top it off the damage feels lackluster. The image of a wet noodle in a paperbag comes to mind. So, please, suggest to me a couple of PVE leveling builds. And since they are leveling builds, I’d like if traits are partitioned in what they would look like at lvl 30 and 60 (If I haven’t get enough of a feel by then I think I’m a hopless case)

I would prefer a build using mainhand sword. It simply feels more right.

I don’t think the problem is the multi guild system. After all, it’s no different then if a person has each alt in a different guild, the only difference is that it’s now transperant. I think rather that the problem is that there are few tools for communicating with a large group of people beside the guild you are currently representing. One way to solve it would be if you could create custom chat channels, another would be if you could have access to the chat of all the guilds you belong to, even when not representing.

And yeah, if people don’t know who the guild leader is, I would think the issue lies with management rather then the unknowning member.

Mockingbird posted more or less all that I was going to say. I loved the event, save for one thing… You din’t give me enough reason to give you my money, Anet. I got the witch’s costume, and then i had some gems left over so i got 5 keys. If instead I could have bought all the skins, for say 700 gems each, I would have dropped at least another 20€.

The book is also one of the very few guaranteed mementos you can get, which makes it all the more attractive.

We who suck at jumping don’t bother with the jumping puzzles that much. And whereas there isn’t a timer imposed by the game it sure feels a bit stressful to still be trying to reach the chest while everyone else is chomping at the bit to have another go.

It’d been so simple to just have the chest spawn at the top, alternatively not have the Mad King jump up to the middle from the bottom under any circumstance.

Given that a good part of the world will be on October 23 when the patch goes live I feel it is a bit… missleading to say that the event starts on the 22nd. Please Anet, consider this in the future, as to not give your overseas fans that sad sensation of dissapointment when they fire up the game on the proclaimed day only to find it’s really not happening until the next.