Guild Wars 2

This, exactly:

MarkoNS.3261:

MarkoNS.3261:

market flippers should be punished for this for trying to make profit

People know how to play the economy. They aren’t cheating or using IRL money, they are using the laws of supply and demand to their advantage. They shouldn’t be punished. If anything there should be more ways to get fragments- like being able to salvage down higher tiers, for example.

It’s not disgusting, or horrible or whatever. It’s economics, and it’s basically how the world works.

What a silly thread.

I don’t like how most of OP’s ideas sound, but this:

OriOri.8724:

While I enjoy in games where you have to hunt for your skills/traits, I don’t want to see it return to GW2. Like @Mea said, waiting for a specific event to start is boring, not to mention having to do it again for each alt you have. Its just no fun at that point when you start to play more than 1 class. Maybe if it was limited to once per account (so it would be limited to once for each of the 9 classes), but that would still get boring quick imo.

I like your analysis of the trait system. Personally I would like to see 2 changes to the current system

• A major rebalance of every trait and traitline for every class. In my opinion no trait line, not even the elite spec, should feel mandatory to take because it is just so much better than other trait lines. Similarly, no individual trait in any traitline should feel mandatory to take if you have that traitline equipped because it outshines the other 2 traits in that tier. Similarly, no trait should be so useless or underpowered that no one ever uses it.

• The ability to pick lower tier traits. This is pretty simply really, instead of picking 1 adept, 1 master and 1 grandmaster trait we should be allowed to pick 1 adept trait, 1 master/adept trait, and 1 grandmaster/master/adept trait. To explain more, I should be able to slot a lower tier trait into a higher tier trait slot if I wanted to (but not the other way around), so I could have all 3 adept traits selected at the expense of no master/grandmaster traits, or 2 adept and a master trait, 1 adept and 2 master traits etc…. You wouldn’t be able to equip more than 1 grandmaster or more than 2 master traits under this system, but it would open up the door for so much more build variety by opening up your options for traits.

So really, 1 change to the trait system and a major rebalance and I think it would be a pretty kitten good system in general. Balancing would be made harder for ANet unfortunately since there would be many more trait options for players to take but I think this system would be for the best.

I can definitely agree with.

Yes please let us turn these annoyances off.

Lucifer.7289:

Reddit is terrible, can ArenaNet please stop feeding the fire of ignorance that is reddit, and just support your own company’s official forums, providing all relevant information here first at least?

I throw up when reading reddit most of the time, how can anyone spend so much time on that site.

QFE

These inventory slots are great. Price seems reasonable for the convenience they offer. Good stuff.

Siobhan.5273:

re: Elden Arnaas.4870-

Well, I think since Colin claims the sliders are something we “should be seeing in the future”, we should also have been hearing about it by now. We can see gliding in the ‘older lands’, and get balance change first looks, but for some reason, this is being sat on like it contains some super super industry secret?

I look at the bolded parts of what Colin wrote on Reddit, and see just how rude his post was, well, at least in my opinion.

“Combat visibility in general isn’t driven by any sort of “esports” stuff though I realize that’s the easy out that’s cool thing to blame things on this week. Despite some of the insane assumptions I’ve seen lately, the PvP pro league is pretty much entirely a marketing team thing and has almost no impact on the dev team.

If you don’t like it more power to you, don’t watch, but it’s absolutely helping our marketing folks make Gw2 a bigger game which I’d hope we’re all excited about. If you want to see the game fail I’m not sure what you’re doing here, but rooting against programs like pro league is basically rooting against Gw2 growing. When folks come here and rip on stuff like PvP, you’re basically hurting the games ability to grow – and personally I would say shame on you, if you truly love the game, be constructive and give awesome feedback and suggestions":

People were here, in this thread, and giving feedback, constructive, polite feedback before this Reddit post. We still have been met with resounding silence, and worse, while it seems ANet has has gone out if it’s way to be more “visible” here since the holidays ended last week, this thread has purposely been ignored. I watched it sit amid a bunch of red responses, untouched and that is just disheartening.

These changes did nothing but single out certain spell effects and ruin them for seemingly no reason, as the screenshots I’ve attached show. Speaking of, here is a fight with Mordy last night where it was so bad, players were actually obscured by spells:

Wow.

I don’t go to reddit because I find it eye-bleedingly ugly and incredibly frustrating to use, so I haven’t seen that post before.

I am disappoint.

On a related note, I find pretty much every aspect of the “taxi” thing (the fact that it’s a thing at all, it being a solution to something that frankly shouldn’t be a problem in the first place) is symptomatic of nothing more than very bad design.

Even the GW1 system was better, though probably still not the best solution.

Spurnshadow.3678:

I don’t understand this at all.

I never read Redit. I hate the site. The format is terrible. IMO, this is the official site; if it isn’t posted here, or on the home page, then it isn’t official. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, and I depend on others to share information.

Why don’t you just make a policy prohibiting devs from posting anywhere else? For the life of me, I can’t understand why this isn’t the case.

This. Exactly. x100
smh

Counter-intuitively, it seems you actually jump a tiny bit higher if you just tap the spacebar as opposed to holding it down. For weeks I could never manage to get any character up on the little platform at FE until one day I realized I always held space down when I tried it. Changed to trying with just a short tap and no problem, up I went. Seems repeatable, too.

Sheobix.8796:

The metas for the maps drive the population in the maps. For the most part, if there is no current meta chain active on the map, it will be dead. ghost town. Once the chain is active, or close to completion, masses of people will “taxi” in via the LFG tool and the meta gets completed for the rewards, rinse and repeat ghost town etc.

Its truly bad game design for a dynamic game world that relies on spontaneity and scaling to be successful. You have people having to abuse an interface feature to put themselves into an experience that feels epic, yet still breaking immersion and making maps feel insignificant save for the paltry rewards at the end. They’re like open-world WoW raids that are 40-man autoattack festivals. It’s not fun, not rewarding (both tangibly and satisfactorily) and plain dumb.

QFE
The Anet white knights in here are funny.

Jasper Defthand.3018:

The game still has all the casual elements that casuals have had since day one. The game simply has additional opyions for game content beyond the casual if you so desire to take part in. Yes the new maos have a slightly increased difficulty curve, but they are afterall intended for players who have been playing the game for 3 years. I repeat: (These – maps – are – intended – for – players – with – 3 – years – of – experience.) If after 3 years you are still having trouble with this game to the point of openworld being impossible for you then you should probably quit. You are destined to be low tier scrub for eternity.

I rate this troll post 6/10. Not bad, but could use some polish and more advanced trolling techniques to really set it apart.

I can’t even make myself play in HoT maps anymore. Every kitten thing I try to do in one of them feels like a chore/work. Especially if it’s during a time (Aussie evenings) when there aren’t many people around. It’s way less fun than central Tyria was.

Chalk me up as another customer (yeah I buy gems pretty regularly) that ANet is in danger of losing.

When I want to work and feel like I’ve “earned” something, I can go to work. I play games to have fun.

Yes, this is very annoying. Please fix, kthx.

Agemnon.4608:

It isn’t necessary to convert karma to gold. Queue up for PvP with characters from level 25-60 to get armor from reward track boxes. It isn’t potentially an exploit since it’s intended behavior for a level 50 to get armor drops that salvage into linen, but since karma is earned and you need lots of it for linen there’s a real cost to converting it so I don’t personally consider it an exploit, but it’s what the devs consider that counts.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what this means.

Yeah, I know they want each armor class to have an iconic, easily recognizable look, but surely there’s another way? Stop the trench coat madness, kthx.

Colly.4073:

So are you expecting people to guess when your guild is going to run the event?

You don’t know when reset is?

A few server hamsters have definitely died or passed out or something. Game is currently unplayable. Squad, guild, party, and whisper chats don’t work, etc.

While the tone of this thread isn’t how I’d put it forward, I heartily agree with the sentiment.

These things are not fun.

Pretty bad memory leak happening rn. Lots of OOM: crashes.

Please fix asap kthx.

LOL Harold

as you were.

It’s usually a good idea to actually read the thread before replying.

So I’ve just completely failed this after spending about half an hour wandering around gathering the first 4 totems, only to discover, the hard way, on the last one that the updrafts don’t work. Spiraling down into the canyon, I was teleported to an open area completely surrounded by vines, with no way to get out and try again.

This would have been sort of okay if there had been ANY indication that these particular updrafts wouldn’t work. But there wasn’t.

Horrible design. I expect better from this game.

SilverThorn.5047:

lol doing this will empty all the HoT maps

SilverThorn.5047:

do you think devs would wanna vacate all their new hard worked map to have people move over to old stuff?

I reject your premise.

I like this idea.

If you want to min/max to the point where you’re switching buffs 15 times a day, fair enough, but there absolutely should be a convenience penalty associated with that, IMO.

Doesn’t seem broken to me, so I don’t agree that it needs fixing.

Lots of other good suggestions in this thread though.

Separating invite / kick permissions is top of the list for me personally.

Even though it does overflow, it would still be great if there was a better indication when a line finishes. Something like the jiggly level up jewel. Given how neurotic the game is about alerting you to stuff it thinks is important, this feels like a really glaring oversight.

Same here, sporadically getting this message in chat, just running around HoT zones, not in a guild hall. Guild chat seems to be working fine though.

you need to slot daredevil spec in?

also thread title is confusing.

Was finally able to get in but now the client is crashing repeatedly.

Partial error report:

• Crash <—*
  Exception: c0000005
  Memory at address 00000004 could not be read
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 6260

So that’s pretty fun.

Network error .

Please check your Internet connection and try
again. (Code=1083:5:7:1595:101)

Happening right meow.

OP is even more hilarious than most of the whining going on atm.

This thread is hilarious. Please continue.

I hate this paranoid crap so much. If this ever gets added as a requirement for existing accounts and I can’t opt out, I simply won’t play any more.

No you can’t have my stuff.
:)

Well, I’m annoyed also. I’ve got several mid-level characters, and not one of them has a build that I’d call the same as what they had previously. Some aren’t even really similar, or indeed relevant given the changes. It would have been nice to at least been given the option to start from scratch. I don’t really think the two problems they saw with doing that as being very problematic at all. If someone hadn’t played in that long that they didn’t remember what build they were using, certainly having to look at various build options is a good thing?

But this weird something kind of like the build you had, sorta thing feels like a waste of time for them to have implemented.

Vayne.8563:

Because it’s a transitional situation and not something most players have to deal with, there was zero reason to take the developer time to develop a system that would only be used once, during the transitional period.

I couldn’t agree more.

Totes happy. $100 really isn’t that much money. This game is great value, overall.

I did vote with my wallet. Already pre-ordered. This game is really good value for money.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I agree with everyone wishing there was a way to harm gold sellers and gold buyers that didn’t hurt the rest of us. But the fact is that RMT harms the entire community and ANet needs to put some types of restrictions.

Yes, RMT affects the game and its players somewhat, but don’t kid yourself: this has way more to do with ANet’s bottom line (with regards to their own RMT system) than it does a “healthy” economy.

It’s akin to overzealous, draconian DRM – it’s much easier to inconvenience honest users than actively police it properly or come up with positive, proactive solutions.

I wouldn’t play if I had to put a kittening PIN in every time I wanted to access my gold. That’s what the password at login is for.

Wow. This thread delivers way more than I ever dared hope.

NNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

KhanKatir.4038:

Bobbleheads, yeah. GW1 antics, yeah. “Hey, I’m Malasia Air, or Germanwings, vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!”

No.

Grow up.

As a fan of jet-engined aircraft, this resonates with me deeply.
+1

I endorse this thread. +1

Thank goodness others understand what I’m going through.

MUSIC? And this music is… GOOFY? Where’s my pitchfork…

gloflop.3510:

Kurr.4179:

They design these well in advance. They couldn’t have known 6 months ago that there would’ve been a plane crash recently.

They could have posponed the joke.

Yeah, April Fools’ jokes come off super well a week or two after April 1st.

Aeradore.2601:

Then you’d be kitten’d too when you can’t play.

That’s weird, I was logged on a few minutes ago and there were lots of people playing. Myself included. Why can’t you play again?

GuzziHero.5104:

warduke.1780:

As a Christian, I find the new bug highly offensive – everyone seems to be stuck in a crucifixion pose, and there appears to be no way to disable this. Even worse, I’ve heard this might be intentional.

Please remove this from the game, as I’m sure other Christians are offended also.

…

It is related to a very very old bug, a video to which I have posted elsewhere.

Stop being so oversensitive please. Your personal superstition really is not the be all and end all of life, not everything should be made just to cater to you.

I was going to say this but since someone else already has, QFE or whatever.

You should relax. You really will feel better.

Proof positive that people will take absolutely any opportunity to get offended. Good grief.

Firebaall.5127:

GuzziHero.5104:

Firebaall.5127:

I don’t think our German friends are appreciating this either. Please shut it off.

There is always someone ready and waiting to be offended on someone elses account. Its nothing at all to do with any plane crash.

It is an allusion to a very old bug.

OMFG i remember in beta, Please Anet after April fools add this emote into the gem shop just to stick it to all these salty tears on this thread i will buy it and so will may many players.

Put /plane in game so i to can run around like this when ever i so please diving bombing these cry babys!

+1 yes please. I would happily pay for this.

Best April 1st update in a long time.