Guild Wars 2

if only it was real…

Please please please! Can we have the option to name our mounts like we can for the pets of the ranger?
Please???
:D

I need a counter for the sand shades on the necromancer with the time remaining till they despawn.
Otherwise you have to remember 3 different timings or you run into the problem of wasting skills because the shade despawns when you activate a skill

First of all I should say that I’m quite pleased with what I’ve seen in this demo, the introduction looks cool and the Raptor looks and feels amazing to ride. But as a big fan of GW2 I have some feedback that I hope will help to make some things better.

1- I had a problem with the introduction mission, I got stuck between two walls with the raptor after jumping and to get out of it I had to log out since there was no Waypoint in that map. I really wish there was one just to avoid frustration.

2- The raptor to me feels fine., I just hope we will have emotes on the mounts, it would be nice to RP, like pet it when you are on top of it or something else or even the character saying something to the mount when running around, like “faster!” or “wow easy buddy” or something more complex that would add even more flavour to the mounts.

3- Races.. I tried one and I was disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the idea of racing is cool but it’s really limited right now. Everything is based on how often you use your jump and after understanding that it was easy to win and to get bored of it.
I can imagine that when you unlock the longer jump with the raptor you will be able to win even easier..
What I was expecting was to have additional skills while you were on the race to slow down the other people racing. Something like the Beetle Race in GW.
Just restrict the skills to the people racing or in a radius around the path of the race so the skills can’t be used to kitten off other players that are not racing.
I’m not expecting the same amount of skills as the Beetle Race but still it would be nice to have at least one, so that it gets more interesting and hard to win.
Still power ups to pick up like in the Sanctum Sprint would be nice to have.
Also I realized that if you are partecipating in a race and not manage to win you don’t get anything at the end, no way to se your timing or at which place you managed to arrive(or maybe there is but I couldn’t find it).

4- Bounties.. This was my biggest disappointment. Bounties have no flavour at all..you just go up to the board and claim one, no text explaining what your bounty will be.
I really was expecting something like that, to be more involved into it, and some text just for flavour would go a long way. A great reference would be the Witcher contracts from The Witcher 3…no need to go that far but still it would help to satisfy people looking for lore. I think that gw1 bounties also had flavour text…

Again… I will post it here as a different post because I think it is important.
The Raptor Race is a good idea but I would like to have more options than just spamming the raptor jump to win. It felt boring and easy to win when you get the hang of it.
Beetle race from gw1 is a great example for what races on mounts could be, power ups on the path and at least one skill to slow down or stop the other people racing.
This way the races would be more fun, engaging and it they would last more as a content.
Also ending the race without winning doesn’t get you any board to know your timing… if it was like the adventures that you get the ending result and can climb to the top of the list it would be much better.
Also it’s weird how the start of the race works, I learned I had to wait a second or 2 before actually starting running because the first times even if I was starting when the game told me I was most of the time kicked out of the race.
About it, a bar that stops you crossing it with the mount till the race starts, so that everyone starts from the same line at the same time, would be a life changer.
Please don’t make it another system implemented just for the fun of it but never fixed or touched anymore to make it better! It is a great idea but needs some more love!

First of all I should say that I’m quite pleased with what I’ve seen in this demo, the introduction looks cool and the Raptor looks and feels amazing to ride. But as a big fan of GW2 I have some feedback that I hope will help to make some things better.

1- I had a problem with the introduction mission, I got stuck between two walls with the raptor after jumping and to get out of it I had to log out since there was no Waypoint in that map. I really wish there was one just to avoid frustration.

2- The raptor to me feels fine., I just hope we will have emotes on the mounts, it would be nice to RP, like pet it when you are on top of it or something else or even the character saying something to the mount when running around, like “faster!” or “wow easy buddy” or something more complex that would add even more flavour to the mounts.

3- Races.. I tried one and I was disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the idea of racing is cool but it’s really limited right now. Everything is based on how often you use your jump and after understanding that it was easy to win and to get bored of it.
I can imagine that when you unlock the longer jump with the raptor you will be able to win even easier..
What I was expecting was to have additional skills while you were on the race to slow down the other people racing. Something like the Beetle Race in GW.
Just restrict the skills to the people racing or in a radius around the path of the race so the skills can’t be used to kitten off other players that are not racing.
I’m not expecting the same amount of skills as the Beetle Race but still it would be nice to have at least one, so that it gets more interesting and hard to win.
Still power ups to pick up like in the Sanctum Sprint would be nice to have.
Also I realized that if you are partecipating in a race and not manage to win you don’t get anything at the end, no way to se your timing or at which place you managed to arrive(or maybe there is but I couldn’t find it).

5- Bounties.. This was my biggest disappointment. Bounties have no flavour at all..you just go up to the board and claim one, no text explaining what your bounty will be.
I really was expecting something like that, to be more involved into it, and some text just for flavour would go a long way. A great reference would be the Witcher contracts from The Witcher 3…no need to go that far but still it would help to satisfy people looking for lore. I think that gw1 bounties also had flavour text…

Let me know what you think!

I’m still digesting the trailer.
I think I will be happy to play this expansion if it is exploration focused and if the maps are that big as it was suggested.
I have some questions though that I would love to have a reply to from the devs at Anet.
That would help me making my final decision and make up my mind about why this expansion is really worth it.
1. There are 5 maps…. ok, how big compared to the HoT maps will the PoF maps be?
How much content is in there compared to the previous maps?
2. Mike O’ Brien is saying that PoF can be bought as a stand alone game, not requiring the previous parts of the game. Does that mean that we will get an introduction story for the characters that start in PoF from level 1? Like for example in Gw Nightfall..
3. Will we have a branching storyline that makes us taking decisions and makes it worth to replay like the original Gw2 story was?
4. Will we be able to use the mounts also in the other maps?
5. Will the bounties be added also to the core game for the people that own PoF?

And finally: Why still no Tengu or a new race??

Hey there… anyone else is feeling this way?
The announcement will be early next week and I am already thinking “will it be good enough?” “Will there be enough content from the start?” “will I be disappointed by the short story again?” and so on…
I guess the time will tell.
Anet, make it good, please!!!

Personaly I would go for DERVISH, it was amazing as a profession, I had lots of fun in gw1 and having 1 more type of weapon, also super cool as the scithe, was amazing..
My hopes to have the Dervish back day it will never die.

My second choice would be RItualist.

oh noo hiring 10 new voice actors!!
What do you think that with all the effort and the growing team size they worry that much about hiring 10 new voice actors?
I said it before and I say it again, there is nothing that could stop Anet to provide us a new race, nothing other than the devs thinking that it does not make sense to have it because it’s not needed at the moment, but that is up to them to decide.
With all the people asking for new content and new races I’m expecting a new race or at least a new profession for the next expansion.

So please stop this nonsense, trying to act like you know what they can afford and what not, you clearly don’t know and it shows how little you know about game development.

Cheers,
D.

SlimSmoking.8364:

we at Squirrel Factory are happy to invite you to our guild altho we are not a wvw guild. I personally am on the SF server and can explain wvw to you.

Are you a PVP person or you like to go run some fractals or rather go and kill some world bosses with your guildies, then don’t look further.
We mostly consist out new and returning players.
We don’t kick or yell at you when you make a mistake, it’s only human and we are here to learn from each other.
We are a fairly new guild and we are dedicated in helping each other and just having fun.
We started guild missions and since a week or 2 we have our own guild hall.
Does this friendly and crazy bunch seem like a good home for you and would you like to be in a guild where you matter and where you can still help make this guild better and stronger then before, then don’t hesitate and send me a message see you in game
PS: we do use discord but it’s not necessary to join the guild.

Thanks for the offer, but I don’t want just to know how to play wvw, I would also like to play it with a good number of people in a guild.
I’m currently not interested in a guild not focused mostly on wvw

Hello everybody!

I’m looking for a friendly WvW guild in Seafarer’s Rest willing to teach me how to play WvW.
I tried to join random groups and guilds but my experience was always really bad since nobody was willing to explain me how things work and what to do.

Looking forward to your reply!

Cheers,
D.

I really hope so!

I would be totally fine with a 2 stripe mantle like that one.
Please Anet!??

This is a really hard problem to solve for the devs.
I work in 3d and understand well the issue.
The point is eather:
1 make your character go bald when you equip a hat or helmet
2 having the original hairstyle under it but having big problems with clipping with most of the hairstyles
3 creating a standard hairstyle that goes with the head piece.
4 creating a variation for every hairstyle that conforms to the standard helmet and hats and then readapt every helmet and hat to have the same position on the head.
5 Creating hairstyles in pieces. Top middle and bottom part, so that each of these can be set up by the devs to adapt to each headpiece shape.
6 Giving the players the option to chose what they want. A simple check box to show/ unshow hair /beard /ears(for asura), and leave to the players to decide what they want.

The 1st option is not great but is the less time consuming. Used in most of the games with customization, it fully avoids clipping.
The 2nd option is not acceptable from an artistic point of view, especially with a community that doesn’t seem to accept even the smallest of stretching or clipping on charr armors…
With this option every hairstyle big enough would intersect with the hairpiece.
The 3rd option is good enough, it would make most of the people happy but some will complain about it not being the same hairstyle that they decided without the hat.
The 4th oprion is just not applicable this far into production. It means making variations for every hairstyles and having standard hat and helmet sizes and positions, something that has to be planned before starting the production of the game.
5th option, same as the 4th, too much time consuming and not appicable at htis point of the production since it has to be applied to every hairstyle already existing ingame.
THe 6th option to be applicable needs the devs, especially art direction, to trust some decision about the look of the characters into the hands of the players.
This is not easy since it would mean that a lot of people will make horrible things with this option for sure.
But overall the 6th option would be my favourite one, I really hate not seeing hair beard or ears on my characters when they should be there.

Hope this gives a good explenation about why your character with the wizard hat looks bald.

My feedback is:
GOOD – The map seems nice to explore. I liked to find Mox. The little recordings about the story were nice.

BAD- I was expecting to see mox in another instance, we found him and told him to come with us, he said yes and then there is no follow up for it in the story.
The story overall felt cheap and rushed. The machine that puts 2 dragons to sleep is not so interesting and the ending not well explained.
Also there is no cliffhanger for the next chapter…. 2 dragons to sleep, done, nothing more to do… Or at least that’s what the story leads you to belive.
I was liking the cliffhanger of lazarus in the other chapter and I think that every LS chapter should have one. It would keep me more engaged into speculating.
At first it seemed like that about the gods, but then big B started to say that he basically has no interest in Tyria and disappearing like that in the end left me meh…
I am disappointed by how it seems that the devs are trolling us with obvious plots or huge twists that take big characters from Gw1 back, just to force this big surprise.
For me the story should explain better the backscene or give the players the ability to understand it in game, like why big B did that, how did he got Lissa’s mirror and so on.
I understand that in a short release it’s hard to deliver enough solid story plots but maybe it would be better to focus on just 1 and make it as polished as possible, instead of telling the story of Zinn, the story of the White Mantle, the story of Balthazar, the story of Primordius, the story of Jormag and how we are fighting them. This is obviously too much to handle for the team, and frustrating for the players like me that find so many open stories in one chapter and never hear about the end because in the next chapter we will talk about everything else (+a ton more open stories and mysteries).
Overall this chapter for me was a 6 out of 10

A new race is not certain to not come in the game.
All the voices saying that a new race will not come to the game are just speculations.

From my point of view a new race is one of the most possible options.
I would like to play it, and I think that the limitation that people come up with like where it would be placed in the story, the amount of work put into it is not impossible for arenanet to achieve.

Have you seen Wreck-It Ralph? That is reality

I want the crossdressing!
It’s been from the release of the game that I’m saying that it’s not fair that girl characters have the best helmets…. Look at the stag armor for example, the male one looks terrible compared to the nice design of the female one

I have to agree with the OP!
I loved this little quest chain.
I wish we could get something like this more often, it is totally the right way to keep me engaged into the game and lore!
Now I look forward to future similar release more than the living story chapters
ANET, YOU HAVE NAILED IT!

The answer is… maybe.
If in the future they will start to add new playable races and if we will have the underwater expansion then they are the best candidates.
But do not expect them soon.

Seriously? This discussion again?
Nobody here, except for the devs know what they will or will not do.
People some time ago were saying that “the Mursaat storyline would never return to the game!” or that “expanding the explorable areas is a waste of resources since they have so many good maps already in the game”. We have seen how much those and many others things the biggest part of the community was sure about were wrong.
So I really suggest you to stop wasting your time arguing if there will be or not a new playable race, because you will never know till it happens!
I repeat, if the devs think they like the idea of having something new in the game as a new playable race, if they just like the idea, even if there are a lot of things that go against it they will find a way to make it, cutting stuff or changing how things work for the dialogues in the main story and so on.
And SPOILER! The devs are not stupid, they probably already set things up to allow a new race to be added, since that’s something that they were probably thinking when developing all the playable races.
If they don’t think that it’s gonna work now we will not see it.

Maybe I’m just wishing to get the same outfit he’s got
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/overwatch/images/8/8d/McCree_Portrait.png/revision/latest?cb=20160503194126&path-prefix=de

XD
The poncho is what I’m missing the most and lett trench coats!

I wish for the next expansion, if it will really take place into a desert, to have some cool Cowboy inspired armors for the medium ones.

It would be amazing

I’m loving the Scout in the Snowball Mayhem and I started to think “this would be an amazing idea as a thief elite spec!!”

I was hoping for the thief elite spec to be the sniper instead of the daredevil, and now I can clearly see how I want it! Rifle and highly inspired by the Scout’s 3, 4 and 5 skill.
Especially the Sniper Shot if used with the right timing an turn the battle upside down.
And having the 5th skill for stealth would work great with a full steath build with the daggers as second set.

PLEEEASE ANET . !!??

My wishes are(brace yourself is a quite long list ) :

-Tengu as a playable race
-Going to Kourna and elona other then the Crystal desert
-Ride the Junundu like in Gw1
-Have the Dervish coming back as an elite spec with the scythe as a new weapon
-Have the Ritualist as the supporter elite spec for the Necromancer.
-Proper single mission introducion to the elite specs.
-Have the players characters talk between them in the main story so that the other members of the party don’t feel like just random bystanders.
-A branching, interesting and long storyline, with meaningful choices like the main story(the orders storylines), so that it makes sense to replay the full story. I’m missing this so much in Hot…I just played it once and that was it.
-BUILD SAVING
-Normal camera mixed with the pointing and auto attack of the action camera.
-More armors that we had in Hot.
-Dungeons to come back
-Small group contents (2-5 players)
-Slap Braham in the face…with a chair
-Activities being a proper Pvp mode to play with a party
-Activities like keg brawl to be implemented as guild activities.
-Hidden things with clues to find.
-A cool final boss fight not like the tiny Mordremoth at the end of the Hot story.
-Did I already say BUILD SAVE?

Humm and that’s it for now.. well it wasn’t that long of a list in the end

I play nearly every day

This is kind of a rant…
I asked for this the other years and Anet keeps ignoring it like it’s nothing…
Isn’t this game about playing with your friends and your guild? Having fun together?
THen why…WHY? can’t I play Toypocalype with my friends, my party, instead of being put in a random party with random people, making this activity just a pointless farm fest?
I spent so much time trying to Join my friends in their instance of Toypocalypse….. and unlike the other years I was totally unable to join them!
Please Anet you should fix it!

why not also fixing the BUG that prevents people to play with their friends in toypocalypse??

I miss the option that we had in Gw1 to automatically set the Helmet to be on or off in the cities, I wish we could have the same in Gw2.
Please Anet? For Wintersday?

Svarty.8019:

Don’t hold your breath. Nearly all of Arenanet’s effort seems to be being poured into the Play-It-Once™ Living Story. Granted, it looks great, but that only makes players of other content more resentful.

That is not true! Only because the LS is more visible it doesn’t mean they are not doing anything for the other modes.
Also I’m talking about buid saving for every mode, also for PvE

+1 to the op!
Please Anet!! The dervish was one of the best concepts ever!!!
My hope now is that they will add the dervish as an elite spec with the upcoming expansion…that seems to be pointing us to the crystal desert/ kourna. The Dervish coming back would make so much sense!!!

About Tengu, I hope they will be added into the next expansion as well, just because I think a new race adds more weight to the expansion and I’m tired of waiting…

To the people that think that Tengu will come back with Cantha, you are wrong, they were pushed out from the country when the Emperor Usoku started the campaing against non-human races. (Source https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tengu "In 1127 AE, Kisu’s successor, Usoku, finished what the Ministry had started and annexed the vassal states of Kurzick and Luxon back into the empire, before beginning a campaign to drive out non-humans such as tengu and dredge. Against the might of the Canthan military, the tengu had no choice but to flee north, to Tyria and Elona. ")

I will never understand why can’t get the aura that appears at night on the Ascalon Catacombs weapons on the dungeon armors too..
It would be amazing! And it would also make sense! At least give us an infusion that we can buy with AC dungeon tokens that makes that effect at night…
Please?

I didn’t know that! That’s amazing!
Now I know why I loved the norn male voice!

Soo, voices for me are really important in a game to get the right immersion.
I’m mostly ok with the voice actors already listed, especially the Dragon’s Watch, they are amazing!
There are some voice actors that I would love to hear as main NPCs in Gw2.
And they are:
Matthew Mercer, I love his range of voices and how well he can understand the characters he is playing and the environment they are in.
Liam O’Brien, just an amazing sounding voice.

Feel free to suggest others
Maybe in the future we will hear their voices in game!

If we are not going to have scythes in game, then a scythe greatsword skin would be amazing

it’s not a modeling problem, it’s a rigging/posing problem, if it bothers you that much just report it in the right bugs category

Pleaaaseee Anet!!??

Still waiting for the build saving system here… Just saying!

I think that if we will get a new playable race, it will probably be in an expansion.
I’m one of those that really hopes they will add a new one with the upcoming expansion, and after seeing the leaks I’m quite sure it can’t be the Kodan …
Maybe Tengu but we’ll see..
I was really happy about the tonic though, I’m always running around as a Kidan in the last days XD , but I have to agree with Fluffball, that is most likely a statement to say that kodan will not be playable.
I really hope they will not do it for the Tengu after all the teasing when they were in production…

The endless Kodan tonic is amazing!! I can finally fight as a Kodan!!
I was so happy when I discovered it!

But don’t you dare do the same for Tengu! I want them as a playable race! With different options for colours and stuff!

But it would still be a good idea for people that like races that will never be implemented ingame, like Centaurs, Quaggan, Skritts, Largos and of course Krait!

Doggie.3184:

coso.9173:

I keep reading people talking about the immense amount of work that would be. New zone, new personal story, new cultural armor. Yeah we’re aware of that. still many MMO’s inlcude new races in their updates. GW2 can handle it. nothing they haven’t done before. they just have to see if it’s worth it, depending on how much people actually want it.

They shouldn’t and they can’t handle it because they already aren’t. The time is much better spent on polishing the current races who suffer from poor armor scaling and have no distinguishing animations still, improving animations, etc. We already have to wait several decades to get new armor skins and don’t even get them at their best quality for each race’s alteration requirements.

Dude you are so wrong…
They already can’t handle them? Really? Have you played other games with different races lately? They are nothing compared to gw2. Anet did a great job at handling the different races.. Could they do it better? yes of course, but still fixing everything(with all the different fixes that everyone wants) sometimes just doesn’t work, you need to take what you have that works and create something new that works even better, and the new races could be a win win on that side.
About the clipping issue with armors and some races, yeah, we have races that don’t have the same body proportions, you can’t expect Anet to make a new model of the armor for each race, they need to make 1 and adapt it to the other races. SHould they do it better? Yes again, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a new race. They should put a little more planning into the armor designs to have them race friendly, as they did for some of the last armors, look at the carapace armor on th charr, it has also an amazing tail cover!!!

So a new race remains for me a great idea.

I love pizza but I don’t like largos, they are lame…

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

i am fully holding on to all my keys and chest till this is changed and not buying any keys

at all !! until this is fully changed !!

I’m doing exactly the same

There is a white skin asura option, it’s called Albino, it’s the first one in the list.
It is as close as you can get to the white for asura, maybe try to turn white also all the skin patterns

My first will always be Tengu, then Kodan(so we can finally have kitten bears in armor, since I was hoping the bear form of the norn was like that <.<).
Then, I know it creates huge problems with the armors but I would love to have centaurs playable.

I hate largos so I hope their time will never come… better quaggan then largos for an underwater expansion.

But really after Tengu I would be fine with just race feature packs connected to the expansion’s environment. For example, asian features when we will get Cantha

Geez Anet… Who wants to have a seasonal item into the BL Chest that you work so much to open with a Key?
If I open it with a key bought on the TP it feels not worth it because I know I’ll get one item that I surely don’t care about… Everyone farmed trick or treat bags this halloween, I had so many that I didn’t know where to put them anymore! And now we get more? To have more junk in the inventory that we will delete?
I’m sure there was thinking behind this, and I respect that, but it’s about time you realize that it was not a good idea. The rest of the changes are great! Very well done, but the seasonal item should not be there.
We pay for keys, or we spend time to have them in other ways, it’s not fair if then you have 1 of the 3 reward being trash.
So please fix it ASAP!

Thanks!

0 !!! BUILD SAVING SYSTEM!!!
1 A new playable race…
2 playable Tengu
3 a new playable race
4 uuh.. Playable Tengu
5 Dervish
5.2 Scythes
5.3 Scythes replace greatswords for Reapers
6 Spears on land
7 A long and captivating story with different story branches and decisions
8 Repeatable Pve content that scales from 2 to 10 players (because you know we have an amazing scaling system that they brag about at the start of the game and now we are barely using it other than in standard pve)
9 Activities like keg brawl as guild events and structured pvp for activities with the option to join as a party and create matches from 1 to 5 players per team
10 Lots of new maps and secrets to explore
11 a lore centered expansion

Those are my top 11 for now…

I have some thought about some elite specs:

Revenant :
Name: Varesh Ossa
Weapon: Scythe
Sand based abilities with a hint of dervish feel.
Movements with the scythe as the dervish in gw1
I would be super happy XD

Necromancer:
Name: Spirit Master (Or Ritualist)
Weapon: Focus main hand
Support healer based specialization to make the Necromancer easier to place on a support role and less self centered.
The abilities would be based on summoning spirits like the Ritualist in Gw1 that do damage and support/heal allies.

Warrior:
Name: The Phalanx
Weapon: Spear in main hand(on land).
Damage dealer, boosts himself(Toughness and attack) and get’s vantage if near allies.
The spear does focused damage.

If we are going to Kourna and maybe Elona in one of the next expansions…and that is what I hope… I’m really looking forward to the Varesh Ossa Revenant elite spec…with the scythe of course.
Come on Anet, I trust you!

Well I’ll start a new thread every now and then to make them remember… Like for the build templates… XD

I don’t know why the thing about giving 1 mask per halloween has been interrupted but I want it back!
Will we have a mask obtainable with the “Mad King Says” game on Halloween or not?
I could start to brag about stuff on BL and so on but who cares? I don’t care if they put a lot of cool items on the BL, I just want one mask per Halloween, because it was a cool tradition… Take one of the carved pumpkins used as props and use it as a mask or make a scary facepaint…something …please Anet . …