Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to say that people shouldn’t get worked up about the complaints regarding this expansion.
Firstly it was a band of 20+ people that started spamming negative comments and reviews, and it’s known by those who know some of them, that they were making duplicate accounts to increase the number of bad reviews on places like meta critic.

The level of mental infancy involved should be seen as comical.
Giving 1/10 for the game is so ‘try-hard’ it’s simply embarrassing.
The graphics, atmosphere and sheer ‘wow’ factor of the looks alone demonstrate that these people are just severely cognitively challenged and can be safely ignored with nothing more than a giggle.

Yes there are some valid concerns regarding some issues… but the majority of people have the ability to handle this with maturity and also with a ‘look and see’ attitude or posting some questions. Not like that little ‘gang’ who immediately start communicating in a series of clicks and grunts while running around the house dragging their knuckles behind them.
Those people did make a point. A very big one. Just it has nothing to do with GW2 at all.

As for the whining regarding the ‘grind’. Once again, one needs to look at the mentality behind this.
I’ve gathered that grind to most of these guys is actually having to do anything at all.
Heaven forbid you can’t go afk in Lion’s Arch and get rewards!!
There are some valid points regarding the hero points….but when you read the content of some of the babbling…‘I have to grind the same three of four events over and over to get levels up’.
All you can do is shrug and wonder how they manage to tie their shoe laces in the morning.
If you don’t know…then ask people who do. But don’t arrive at the Grand Canyon with plasters over your eyes and complain there’s nothing to see. Look around a bit. Explore. A linear, stunted approach is not going to help you anywhere in life.
Complaining and making a scene about things when you don’t even know the basics just highlights you as a…….

I’ve repeated maybe the same event three times at most….and managed to get lvl 15 in two days. As well as having fully maxed out all my hero points on one char…and half on another.
There are adventures, which are amazing and there are MANY events…all with different outcomes, structure and play. Let alone those beautiful legendary mob fights.
The mob models and their movements etc is just stunning. The look of the zones is also spectacular.

I just wanted to put it into context. Complaints and issues are normal. But this group of people banded together with the mental prowess of toast…did what they did and jumped the gun by being the first people to add the reviews…while everyone else was too busy playing and enjoying the game to even think of writing a review.

You’ll see that in no time at all, their idiocy will drown out in the flood of people who don’t need urgent therapy and CAT scans, and they’ll go back to doing whatever it is they do. (Stare at a blank wall perhaps?)

To the GW2 team. Thank you for a visually stunning expansion….with a lot of things to do to keep one occupied.
And whatever issues there may be…you’ve shown in the past that you do look into such issues.
Thank you once again.

and @LExBlackshtein

This is the beauty of GW. Versatility…and with that ‘all herding to one’ spec due to it being so overpowerd is exactly what kills diversity.
This nerf was incoming.
Your post reflects that you only see the one spec that is viable. That is your mistake.
That is how YOU wish to play your thief.
I have been exceptionally effective without having to perma stealth and teleport and rely on immense crits.

It’s about allowing different options….not herding everyone into one viable play style.
And the teleport was the most absurd of the lot.

People for this change are not the cry babies.
The people that want 100% stealth/teleport with 100% damage and 99% escape success by just disappearing out of a fight how and when they wish……they’re the cry babies as their troll spec is now finally being given a wake up call.

Very good job Anet.

I can only applaud Anet for the nerf on the gains for the absurd perma stealth play style as well as a great nerf on the teleporting.

Seriously.

Teleporting out of stuns…teleporting half way across the map at one click of a button.
Great move Anet. Thank you again.

And before anyone says it. I only play two chars with my main being a thief, and I will only love it more due to this.
It was just way too silly to even take seriously.

10/10

Good day,

Roll for initiative has a delay that seems quite hefty.
It’s not fps or lag or such.
I sometimes have to click it three times to get it to work, by this time a stun warrior or such has me half dead.
I have been told by a few players that they have the same issue with similar abilities and this seems to be a common issue with roll for initiative out of the thief corner.

Thank you
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Could not agree with you more Oozo. Thank you for this post.
I don’t need to add anything as you summed it up perfectly.

Haven’t logged WvW and won’t do so until they do something about this mess.
I’ll give it a while and see, but as I’m a pvper that loves the small scale WvW fights, I won’t be sticking around if it continues on this path.

100% boo!

Going to boycott now also.
Already people who sit and run with zergs all day have Guard leech and Applied Fortitude buffs which gives in total + 250 vitality and + 100 damage.
And now with these buffs the big zergs get another 150 to stats on top.

Really? +400 to vitality ????… (let alone the rest)

Small scale fights for people who enjoy that content are out. The whole reason I am in GW is for the immense fun our group has with that. Those stats are for lack of any cordial terms……kittened!

In fact…it is so absurd I keep checking and rechecking as I’m SURE I must have made a mistake.

Unbelievable.

bah!….terrible.
Why oh why do this??
100% no.

Dear Sirs and Ladies of Anet.

I have seen that there is talk of the new ascended gear intended for this year.
I know this bandwagon has been playing for ages, but please could someone just let us know what is intended for Carrion/Valkyrie?

I’m not whining or shouting….I’m just putting in my 5 cents worth. It’s been over half a year without a word. *
I can understand there may be things out of our understanding e.g scaling of different damage etc (which I know nothing about)….but I’m still holding on to my laurels as I am not changing my spec due to lack of those stats.

I’m just waiting and giving a big please for an answer. We’re missing our gear so please just tell us something.

Sorry for the rinse and repeat. (* and a big apology if I missed a post about this, but I haven’t seen any)

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You guys who support or want stat increases in GW….um….
Go back to Wow..or basically any other MMO out there.
What are you doing trying to bring that nonsense to GW?

You have no sense of accomplishment or progression so you leave?
Well if stat increases are what give you that….then you’re lacking the finesse to appreciate this new concept GW is trying to put forward.
A game where everyone can take part in all things without having to spend hours grinding for gear. Competition is cosmetic.
You knew it was this at the start….so why didn’t you just stay in Wow or whatever you’re from?

If you need to be lame enough to want better stats to beat people in pvp as opposed to skill….if you need to spend 6/7/8/9 hours every day raiding/instancing for better gear…..and this is what makes you feel a game is worth playing….then please…..by all means, leave.
But don’t come to GW and try to create a situation where you force professional people who don’t have much time…aka the casual player….to HAVE to do that nonsense as well or not be able to play.
That was the whole point of GW.

GW has a large enough population without you lot trying to morph it into that twisted nonsense. If you cannot find things to do in this game then you’re blind…or you have WAY too much time on your hands.

Being able to compete in pvp or pve just because you have the time to spend hours and hours grinding stuff each time an new ‘upgrade’ comes out is ridiculous. It is a concept for the no lifer elites. Not all of us are no lifers.
Go back to your mule treadmill and let the rest of us enjoy GW for being a far more professional, beautiful and unique game than that hamster wheel rubbish.

Mindx.9610:

My whole guild quit because of lack of progression or sense of accomplishment within the game. They have even decided to group up with more people and are now playing on a vanilla WoW private server just to play a decent game that could get them working together again and to have this sense of accomplishment and progression.

This is a good move. This game already changes many aspects of the mmorpg genre, but it was wrong in removing noticable character progression from the rpg part of the game.

Lack of progression and lack of accomplishment?……so your idea of accomplishment is grinding better and better gear? ‘Noticable character progression’ does not only equate to ‘better stats on my gear’.
Also..many guilds are feeling very accomplished and satisfied and playing very well together. So this is definitely a case of ‘Speak for yourself’. Pvp and pve also use the same gear in WvW. So you need to feel accomplished by beating ppl in WvW with better stats?… That is just laughable. Fine GW. Make ‘Gear progression’ for the grind hungry Wow heads, but then you’ll need to split pve and pvp gear etc etc etc. Pvp that becomes a stat frenzy instead of skill is totally lame. e.g Wow. Useless stuff.

So the grind starts now? Come on guys. I thought the whole point was to make upgrades cosmetic.
The point was that everyone could have access to the gear without massive grind so that people could compete in WvW etc from the same ‘base’ without having to grind for hours and hours every few months for gear with better stats!

The ‘title’ and looks of the amour as upgrades was the best idea to allow casual players as well as those who live in GW to have something going on. With gear stat increase it becomes another Wow….and any casual player with pvp skill will still end up being one shotted by a bad player due to stats alone…..just because that guy had no issue grinding grinding grinding. No……I’m not a no lifer, and I want a game which is pretty much as it is now.
Where everyone can play…enjoy..and not have to keep up with gear changes every few months.
You guys have made a fantastic game with novel concepts and a lot to do. Those that say there is ‘nothing to do’ just because they want to gear grind all day and bash ppl with stats and not skill….well….I’ll have to stop my sentence lest I break the ‘agree to code of conduct’ tick box agreement.

You forget that there are many sets of gear as well…so it’s not about just upgrading one set. Many of us have taken time to create multiple sets specifically for the looks that we can use in WvW as well. Now I have to remake them?….no.

Dont make this game into that. You don’t need those players. You have a big enough base who love it for what it is.
Make the gear changes visual.
NO stat increases…No gear grind..please!!!!!……You’re not wow!