Guild Wars 2

WoW armor sets look like they came out of a child’s cartoon. GW2 armors look realistic.

I hope they introduce whips as weapons (we already have the animation) and allow us to use spears on land (since we have a ton of essentially wasted spear models that are rarely seen).

I could over look the lack of dyability if it were a full set for $10…

Overall I really liked this season, especially the new boss mechanics. However, I do wish there was a bit more open world group content like the Marionette and Vinelash.

Also, the two breaks were kind of a buzz-kill. I hope we don’t have to wait months between episodes again during a season.

From the wiki: “the Six Gods arrived on the world [Tyria] and brought the humans with them.”

This, along with the origins of Grenth and Kormir would imply that it is possible that the “gods” didn’t create humans but rather are humans that through some means ascended to a god-like status of power and consciousness.

Trahern died. His last words were “FIRE!”

It was just for one episodes, get over it.

Faolin was the only “bad guy” Caithe and the other silvari were just defending themselves.

I liked the crystal battles and how they all sort of led up to the final boss which had the abilities of the previous enemies. HOWEVER, the music during this battle was so lackluster that the battle didn’t have that feeling of epicness that it could have. Even the generic battle music would have been better. I hope future boss battles get great music to go along with them.

The Phoenix Light Armor for human males has the same issue. It’s the only reason I haven’t bought it for my necro. Kind of hard to see how this was overlooked.

KngGilgamesh.3481:

Barabbas.8715:

Vayne.8563:

Barabbas.8715:

Dragon Bash is another good point. It’s kittened that it was cancelled. Dragon Ball was one of the best mini-games in the game.

Vitus Dance.4509:

Halloween & Wintersday are just seasonal events…nothing to do with LS at all.

When you incorporate a story that progressed from 2012 to 2013, then in 2014 it just repeated itself it makes no sense! Anet said SAB was gone because it didn’t fit the LS and yet here we have the Bloody Prince introduced to us for the “first time” again, like I said, it makes no logical sense.

It makes no sense unless, I don’t know, there are a million new players in China who never saw the beginning of the story?

For all we know this game now has more new players than veterans. In fact, I think it’s likely. Which means it makes sense to help people catch up on stories.

I don’t care about China. And as for new players sure, let’s just redo the entire Scarlet story arc for their benefit if that’s what you want. Your argument makes no logical sense.

Anet actually does want to do redo season 1 with journal system. Oh and your not caring means nothing and I don’t know want didn’t make sense to you… Players not wanting to be thrust into a story they don’t know about?

If you’re going to have a living world then you’re just going to have to get over the fact that new players will come in during the middle of story arcs, that’s just the way it is.

Also your reasoning that China is the reason the Blood and Madness storyline was repeated makes no sense. If that’s the case then why not start back over with the 2012 Halloween? Why not redo LS Season 1? Why not have had Dragon Bash over the summer since it is mentioned during the Blood and Madness dialogue?

You can’t have a living changing world and then turn around and repeat stuff just to try and catch people up, it just doesn’t work. End of story.

The fact of the matter is that the Bloody Prince/Mad King storyline should have been advanced this yearn, not repeated. It would have taken only a few instances to do so, about the same amount of effort that goes into a LS biweekly update. There is really no excuse for this.

GW2 has given me no reason to play the game for the past 3 (going on 4) months and the way Halloween was done this year once again gives me no reason to play the game.

Vayne.8563:

Barabbas.8715:

Dragon Bash is another good point. It’s kittened that it was cancelled. Dragon Ball was one of the best mini-games in the game.

Vitus Dance.4509:

Halloween & Wintersday are just seasonal events…nothing to do with LS at all.

When you incorporate a story that progressed from 2012 to 2013, then in 2014 it just repeated itself it makes no sense! Anet said SAB was gone because it didn’t fit the LS and yet here we have the Bloody Prince introduced to us for the “first time” again, like I said, it makes no logical sense.

It makes no sense unless, I don’t know, there are a million new players in China who never saw the beginning of the story?

For all we know this game now has more new players than veterans. In fact, I think it’s likely. Which means it makes sense to help people catch up on stories.

I don’t care about China. And as for new players sure, let’s just redo the entire Scarlet story arc for their benefit if that’s what you want. Your argument makes no logical sense.

Dragon Bash is another good point. It’s kittened that it was cancelled. Dragon Ball was one of the best mini-games in the game.

Vitus Dance.4509:

Halloween & Wintersday are just seasonal events…nothing to do with LS at all.

When you incorporate a story that progressed from 2012 to 2013, then in 2014 it just repeated itself it makes no sense! Anet said SAB was gone because it didn’t fit the LS and yet here we have the Bloody Prince introduced to us for the “first time” again, like I said, it makes no logical sense.

Let me be honest here and say that I’ve been playing since the beta and have been a regular player throughout (well, I did take a 3 month break after the release of that terrible karaka/Fractals patch in 2012.) That being said, I haven’t logged in hardly at all since the last Living Story mission.

I thought I’d have a reason to come back for a bit for Halloween but it is the EXACT SAME AS LAST YEAR! So that’s pointless. Apparently the same can be said for Winter’s Day.

So normally I’d level an alt during the down time but thanks to the HORRIBLE changes to leveling what’s the point? I don’t want to deal with a butchered Personal Story and level locked crap.

So whats with the lack of content? What are all your devs doing huh? You can’t be running low on funds since you’re pushing the gem store harder than ever. Speaking of which, I haven’t bought anything from the gem store in forever since I haven’t played in forever. Why would I?

Side Note: How does repeating Halloween from last year fit with your whole living story vibe? I mean, we already know who the Bloody Prince is but it’s like we’re just being introduced to him for the first time all over again WTF? And yet you say that the ultra popular Super Adventure Box doesn’t fit with the Livings Story. What a joke. Get your crap together Anet. Your management has NO IDEA what they are doing. You’re running a great game straight into the ground!

Pretty cool watching the GW2 player base slowly devolve into WoW player base levels of toxicity.

Furyan.9578:

Guys. Guys! You don’t see, they’re establishing the changes into the game to prepare them for the “just click one button” approach to defeating Zhaitan.

They’re actually remaking Zhaitan so you have to defeat him by going up his butt like Lemiwinks.

I used to defend Anet and GW2 here on the forums and other places. Sadly I can’t really do that anymore thanks to the new patch.

The patch was garbage. 1 step forward 10 steps back. This was even worse than that terrible Kraka/Fractals patch in November 2012. This just might be the patch that goes down in history as the on that killed GW2. Level gating, mini culling, personal story gutting, this patch just took a big dump on nearly every aspect of the game. Absolute garbage. I’ve been playing since beta and this makes me want to quit. I sure as heck am not purchasing another character slot to level another alt.

laokoko.7403:

You’ll boy is too young to play a game rated T. Wait 7 more years.

Hey look we have a parenting guru on here who knows exactly how every child in the world should be raised even if he’s never met them. So all you parents listen up and do what the great laokoko tells you and bow before his infinite wisdom!

Anet made leveling suck. End of story.

Vayne.8563:

So 12 year olds are impatient and think things are dumb.

My teenagers thought everything was dumb. Insurance was dumb. Taxes were dumb. Eating vegetables was dumb. Chic flicks were dumb. Reading was dumb.

I’m not sure what that proves except that you’ve got plenty more years of that to go.

Insurance, taxes, and chic flicks are dumb. If you think that thinking those things are awesome is a sign of maturity…lol.

I normally defend Anet but these changes to leveling are garbage. All the original players and myself had NO problem figuring out stuff at low levels. Unless Anet has switched their demographic to 5 yearolds this is a terrible move. I honestly have no desire to create any more alts and level if this is how it is going to be. This is honestly the worst update from Anet ever, whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

ANet is turning into Capcom. The players tell you what kind of content and features they want and you tell them “No, you’re going to get [x] and you’re going to like it.” Btw, ANet, have you seen how Capcom is doing lately, they’re pretty much finished.

Trahearne is my favorite character in the game just because of all the “WAAAAA WAAAAAA WAAAAA!” that goes on here on the forums about him.

DoctorOverlord.8620:

And suddenly Mr. Expert is ordering our character around.

Total BS. Trahearne lets your character make all the major decisions concerning the Pact and how they operate. He was just the “face” of the Pact while your character was the Commander.

I like my character being called boss. Reminds me of Saints Row.

I agree, the credit roll at the end of the story mode with Fear Not This Night playing is one of my favorite “moments” in this game.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’d prefer for them to make some sort of music that gives you that “on the way to kill a final boss type enemy” feeling during whatever dungeon we’re doing for it. I had this playing on the way to the Zhaitan fight my first time through Arah because I didn’t like the music they had playing.

I always liked this theme for a lead up to a final boss. Feels very ominous yet epic…

Thanks for the info. The number of items wouldn’t update unless I actually clicked on each one, weird.

Thanks for the info

I thought Liadri was invincible during phase one but yesterday I saw a thief who was running and gunning around the arena with dual pistols doing damage to her. Time ran out before he could get her health all the way down but I’m curious; what would have happened if he did take her health down all the way? Would she have died or would she have just stood there with no health?

Pandaman.4758:

The pavilion should either have enforced splitting like the Marionette or Tricolor Knights fights, or it should have enforced failure conditions.

10 minutes to get gold, 20 minutes to get silver, 30 minutes to get bronze, anything after that is a reset; given each boss takes at least ten minutes, this will encourage splitting to some degree and also discourage people from randomly donating for an early start.

Finally someone gets it.

Astralporing.1957:

The answer is very simple. Marionette was fun (even if it had some flawed mechanics). Pavillon is not fun.

You’re 100% wrong. The marionette battle literally forced the zerg to split or fail the event VERY quickly, same with the Watch Knights pretty much. The Pavilion doesn’t do that. Also the Pavilion would be fun if people would stop zerging and turning the boss battles into 10 minute bore fests.

When most skins were introduced there would typically be around 20 or more per skin on the TP as the event went on but this time I’m only seeing 1 or 2 per skin. What gives? I want to pick up a few of these but the prices need to drop a bit first and that isn’t happening because there are so few of them.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I’m all for content that discourages zerging, but this is just bad design imo.

When there are 100+ people present, who decides who gets to play? Everyone wants to participate, you can’t expect half of those people to just stand in the middle not doing a thing.

You need about 5-8 players on a boss, there are 6 bosses (less as more bosses get killed). Yet there are easily 100+ players present (courtesy of the megaserver system).
That’s just bound to fail.

What they should have done was make it so all bosses had to be killed at the same time (with a short window). This will force people to split up, organise and take on all bosses at the same time. Even when split up there are still too many players on one boss though so the scaling needs to be adjusted as well.

I agree zerging should be discouraged from time to time. But just not participating and waiting for other people to do the work for you should never be encouraged.

Right. There should have been an implementation that forces the zerg to split like there was for the Marionette and the Watch Knights. As it is people just don’t listen or are too lazy to care and as a consequence we spend about 10 minutes per boss and 15 – 20 minutes killing Boom Boom most of the time.

Neptune.2570:

This, except bunkering home all game against one or two far point assaults yeilds a lower personal score, and your own team blames you for the loss.
I think it’s time soloq was matched on experience, not MMR.

Anyone who thinks personal score matters in solo arena needs to go back to hot matches. Speaking of hot matches, it’s very easy to learn bad habits and bad strategy playing in it so someone who rank up mostly through hot matches is still going to suck in arena most likely even if they have a decent experience level rank.

Rezz.8019:

Pick a good (op) build and you will win at least 50% of your matches no matter how good or bad you are.

A good build isn’t going to stop people from suicide rushing far the entire match or morons from telling everyone to rush the orb when you have home and mid locked up. Most may average about 50% just due to chance but there will be people who get luck with teams and those who get screwed. That’s just the nature of solo arena.

No way, I love watching my teammates solo rush far and blow a 100 point lead when we have home and mid locked up…

So, a lot of your aren’t satisfied with the conversation options given when Jory asks how your character felt to deal the killing blow to Scarlet. And honestly I have to agree. So in this thread we share what our characters would have really said when Jory asked:

“How did it feel to stomp the evil snot out of Scarlet?”

My human female elementalist that I typically do LS content with would have replied:

“Like putting down a mad dog. I’m just glad this is over so I can get back to my research at the Durmand Priory.”

Race – Charr
Sex – Male (probably Female too…)
Description: MAJOR great sword clipping issues on back!

I remember back when my Charr Warrior looked kitten with his greatsword on his back. Now it just looks like kitten . WTF happend!? And it isn’t just this greatsword skin, it is most of them…

Don’t give in and re-roll, that’s like letting them win! I mean seriously, how hard is it for them to get Jimmy the kittening intern to spend a few hours correcting this kitten?

I logged back in on my Charr warrior for the first time in awhile and notice that his greatsword sits WAY to low on his back and is literally clipping straight through it. His longbow now clips through his back too.

ChapDev.7650:

Do we have any confirmation on the fate of the Raisin Face duo?

The charr suspected to be “squshed and weird” at the medical tent is now standing up and seems to be doing fine despite the fact that the medic previously said he had only 24 hours to live.

I really love the new music in LA. In terms of mood it reminds me of Quest for Peace B from Civ V.

Glad to see I’m not the only one who comes up with complex narratives for my characters in my head.

This is how most people react in real life when “villains” die. Remember the reaction when a certain individual who’s name starts with an O was killed (allegedly)?

Personally, feel don’t pity for Scarlet but I also don’t want to jump up and cheer that she’s dead either. She was a threat that had to be removed and she was. End of story, no primitive emotional reaction needed.

Apparently OP has never broken his leg before…

Most complainers, whiners, elitists, and other undesirables gravitate to the official forums of a game where they thing the devs will hear them and change the game to suit their sense of entitlement. Unofficial forums tend to be more positive and full of people who truly love the game.

Thanks Anet for the fix. Kind of interesting to see an event go from Epic Win to Epic Fail to Epic Win in less than a week lol.

Pipra.7580:

It is care-bear easy already, especially for ranged classes.

No it isn’t. The knight’s huge health pool, damage resistance, and time limit artificially increase the difficulty to the point that many servers can no longer complete the event.

Thanks for the heads-up. Btw who turned off the miasma so the Lion Guard could enter the city 24/7?

Sariel V.7024:

He might have slipped through (though I’m sure the devs did a thorough job of marking the unique npcs for representation). Given what they said about Taimi, children fighting in battle, and the ESRB, letting kids die is unkosher; so if the kid is AWOL now, he’ll likely turn up.

Doesn’t an Asura own that house with the forcefield? Maybe the kid lives or got refuge there.

Apparently there are loopholes in that philosophy as Taimi can be in combat if she’s piloting her mecha… er… golem. And children can die off screen since there is that Asura mother who talks about how her child died before they reached the camp. There is a good chance that Raisin Face is dead.