Guild Wars 2

CC Dalmarus.8397:

If anyone else has suggestions of their own, don’t be sure to create a thread yourself. That’s what this sub-forum is for.

Ow… my brain… what?

None, because most of the people I try it with DC, ragequit or are just terrible players who don’t know how to dodge.

Spikedadragon.6015:

Sometimes you have to wonder if people realize what they are asking…

Did you take part in the opener Friday? Everybody was scaled up to be able to face the invading Karka’s. Even still you could be one/two-shot killed by the baby’s spit stuff, or a rampaging veteran. And woe-be-you if you got in the path of one of those Egg Layers. Lol.
You want this instance to just your own character, to take on the hordes of Karka’s that invaded?
Pretty sure by the time you finished the ‘instance’, if possible, all your armor would be broke and cost a fortune to fix up!

I’m all for instances, but in cases like these one-time events, unless they scale down the enemies health and rate, which takes away the fun of it being a ‘new’ event and just another to mow through, it isn’t worth that.

What isn’t worth it, is putting too many players and enemies in the same area for the servers to handle, causing extreme lag. The poorly optimized game doesn’t help with FPS in that situation, either. It’s also really fun to miss a one time event. I thought GW2 wasn’t going to be an MMO you had to schedule your life around?

Perhaps a better solution is to separate lions arch into a bunch of instances, not for every single player, but maybe teams of 10 or 20 or so. Whatever they do, they can’t just keep doing this.

Here’s the solution (I’m talking to you, Arenanet.)

The first time you enter the zone with the event, you are taken to YOUR OWN INSTANCE and you can do it that way, whatever time of the day the event happens. It can easily be a one time thing there, just, on the date it’s supposed to happen, you can do it once, in your own instance. Problem = solved.

I understand the desire to have huge epic events with dozens of other people fighting alongside you, but let’s face it, your engine/servers just can’t take it. You know it, we know it. Just scale the event for one person.

GuildWars 2 is so new and unique, they don’t test anything! So fresh.

I had to laugh when I saw how many commendations some of the stuff took. Instantly gave up on the whole thing and destroyed the one commendation I had.

Lord Aargadon.4135:

^Temples basically are raids. If you want raids, then go do raids in WoW.

Agreed, big events are this games version of raids. If you want more of those, I’d say that specifically. This game has no need for WoW-style raiding.

Raids are just bigger dungeons that make coordinating things much harder. Just… make more dungeons. Make bigger dungeons. No need to throw 10 – 25 people in them at the same time for some arbitrary reason just because another MMO does it. I genuinely don’t see the point of them.

Honestly if you want to donate, I’d say do it directly. I don’t see any reason to get GuildWars 2/ArenaNet involved.

Until the system is changed I don’t plan on paying ANY attention to anything a “commander” says, in WvW or out. This should be earned, not bought.

I think they should have a cap but have it PER character. Each character can only apply so much at once, instead of everyone. Maybe it would be lower than 25 stacks, but per character but still be a HUGE improvement. Frankly I can’t imagine why they designed it how it is right now, knowing that some professions would be stacking lots of conditions.

/shrug

As much as I’d find it hilarious to play a Quaggan, I’d really rather them not be ruined by being playable. My vote goes to the Tengu.

Definitely against making Legendaries anything more than a skin, that’s all they were ever supposed to be.

Holding “Alt” and dragging a stack to a new location will give you the option to split it however you want.

They wouldn’t be special, seasonal items if they were available all year round. There’s always next year.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Games should be about fun not grinding for hard find items.

No one is forcing you to grind for a legendary if that’s not what you have fun doing it. It’s completely optional since they aren’t any more powerful that exotics.

Addons were an interesting idea in WoW, but absolutely horrendous in execution. They enabled FAR too much (recount, gearscore, map enhancements, quest trackers, DBM, etc) that ended up being flat out cheating or detrimental to the game. I’d quit the game if they did something like that here.

I’d much rather see them implement new features as being built into the UI, not by allowing addons. If you want something in the UI that isn’t there, you should probably suggest it.

Lutharr.1035:

DavidGX.1723:

I think the way this game was designed is just not for someone who wants a new, more powerful set of gear every some-odd months. It just may be the wrong game for you.

pretty sure they said the game had something for everyone though

They also explicitly stated many times in many places that gear progression would be out (appearance) not up (power.)

I think the way this game was designed is just not for someone who wants a new, more powerful set of gear every some-odd months. It just may be the wrong game for you.

Agreed, I’ve gotten lots of infractions. Some deserved, I admit, others I find just strange. Like getting an infraction for agreeing with a suggestion, in the suggestion forums. Another for commenting on the Mad Kings Clock Tower, in a topic about it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for rule enforcement. I report ANYTHING I see in-game that breaks the rules of the game, anything at all, because I care about the game and don’t want the community to end up like the one in WoW, but some of the moderation on this forum is just bizarre.

Personally I would like to see a maximum number of stacks… per person. Maybe it’s lower than 25, but each person applying them should have THEIR OWN max.

I agree. I’d love the option to set who can and can’t send me mail, that would put an end to mail spam pretty quickly, if you used this feature at least which I think should be completely optional. I’d like to set it so guild members only could send me mail, I’d do that the second it was patched in.

I don’t think people understand the reasons why things like this would either hurt the game at worst, or be (mostly) useless at best.

This game has no pure DPS classes. That’s right, if you’re an elementalist, you aren’t pure DPS. Same for thief or anyone else. No class can stand in the same spot in a fight like some fights in WoW and do their skill/spell rotation to maximize DPS. Saying “I can do 10,038donkeybutts dps” is meaningless. Everyone is a mixture of support, control and damage. The amount of damage you do per second is going to vary wildly per boss or even per attempt on the same boss. Everyone needs to damage (hit the boss) support (heal and/or rez and/or condition remove and/or buff etc) and control (stun, slow, redirect, keep the bosses attention for a period of time etc) and that’s a very chaotic process. If you run a dungeon with a group, trust me, you will learn very quickly who does well and who doesn’t. Trying to quantify that with a single number just isn’t how this game works. If you want to run with people who you know are “geared” then join a guild and run with the same people.

As Olba put it, being able to see other peoples “DPS” would only serve to encourage and enable elitism, which has no place in this game for the reasons he mentioned, I won’t go into that here because he did such a good job, see his post.

Barricade.3210:

If you would like to compare it to WoW just by the discussion of having a recount then probably it shows how successful wow is with that add on for it to be totally related to it. My point is to atleast help the community sort the kind of play they want, and it will promote the title itself a Guild War, thus thos move might lead to guilds running guild runs to enhance their guildmates skills. But what do I know maybe this is just how this game is played all mixed together, then I don’t want to start an arguement and I’ll start to do the same thing on each dungeon without an aim but just the tokens when it ended.

My comparison to WoW wasn’t meant as a compliment, that was one of the many TERRIBLE aspects of the game. You don’t need a DPS meter to tell if you have good people in your group, I’ve run with enough people to know that. Like I said, the best way would simply allow you to wail on a targetting dummy (where you could crit it and do condition damage) and have it tell you directly and no one else. But, again, that would be of little use since DPS in this game would probably vary so much between fights and even during fights. This isn’t that type of game. I can’t play a DPS, stand there, do my rotation the entire fight and maintain a constant DPS. It doesn’t work that way. The only thing a recount type addon would accomplish is more elitism which isn’t needed at all.

Yeah I agree that the scaling could use work, high levels scaled down seem too powerful.

I’m surprised this topic is still going. Mounts are not needed with speed buffs and waypoints, this is just the wrong type of game for them. We don’t need everything that WoW has, this isn’t WoW or any other MMO. It’s designed differently. That’s a GOOD thing.

Absolutely no WoW type addons ever, especially something like recount. If you want to know what YOUR DPS is, then I’d say get the target dummies fixed and have them tell you directly. No addons needed. Even then I don’t think a number showing your “DPS” would be that useful in a game like this, since your damage can fluctuate so much in the course of a fight as you dodge and avoid attacks. It’s just the wrong type of game for it. Showing anyone elses DPS would only lead to elitism. WoW was perfect evidence of that.

It shouldn’t be for gold at all, although if they added in some way to earn it somehow I don’t see why it shouldn’t be account bound.

Paying money in the first place for it makes it a joke, people who have little or no experience buying it and running around Lions Arch to feel important. I stopped listening to anything a “commander” says a while back. I just can’t take it seriously as it is now.

I’m not sure how you would earn it, maybe buy it with a LOT of badges? Maybe different groups/squads have their own “commander”? There’s got to be a better way to do it than this.

runeblade.7514:

Yes please, This is easier for me to know who to kick out. I hate players that doesn’t use gear that isn’t their level.

Also, I want to know who is wearing MF gear. They are leechers and do not contribute to anything.

This is the perfect example of why inspect should be nowhere near this game, no matter how much detail it shows. I’m perfectly happy to tell anyone where to get the gear I’m wearing and have never had a problem when I asked someone else, it’s not needed.

I think it would be cool if the class trainers could sell starter stuff like this.

Would be nice, I agree.

Lysserd.4618:

DavidGX.1723:

Lysserd.4618:

It’s like you didn’t read my post at all

We’ve read your post, because the same things have been posted a hundred times already. This is nothing new. A bad suggestion that is completely unfit for this game. If you want to know what gear someone has, ask them. If they don’t answer, then oh well, try someone else or look it up. Inspecting is an absolutely terrible idea for this game now and it will still be an absolutely terrible idea for this game after the next 100 “PLS GIVE US INSPECT” posts.

It’s perfectly fine to not like it, but please don’t act like you’re responding to my posts if you’re not actually responding to anything I wrote in them. I would suggest you read the post right above yours. I want it, you don’t. We have both made our points clear. Now ANet decides.

I’ve responded to your comment from many other people, what you’re saying is no different. The same bad idea repeated with the wording slightly different. I don’t see why you don’t understand that everything you want is already in the game.

BrunoBRS.5178:

Lysserd.4618:

BrunoBRS.5178:

inspecting encourages profiling, profiling encourages segregation, and segregation is bad.

if you really want to know what it’s called, just ask.

they have far better, more important things to work on right now.

your “debunks” are pretty weak BTW, which is why i just repeated what you “debunked”.

I’d like to know how you could profile someone from only the item name, as I defined it above.

if it’s just the name, then you can just ask. believe it or not, implementing features not only takes time and testing, but it takes time and testing away from other features in development. so if you ask them to add an inspect feature, you also ask them to sacrifice another feature in development to work on inspection.

ANet, like any company, has limited resources, and most people would rather see those resources spent on better things than something that can be replaced by “hey what armor is that?”

Exactly. I had an exchange like this the other day.

“What armor is that?”
“Token armor from Twilight Arbor”
“ooh right, thanks”

OMG! Inspect feature is already implemented! Truly astounding.

If you don’t want an inspect feature with stats, then you have what you need already, the ability to ask. Inspect has no place in this game whatsoever. Posting about it over and over isn’t going to change that, this isn’t that type of game.

Lysserd.4618:

DavidGX.1723:

Lysserd.4618:

What sounds easier to you? Asking a person about their gear, maybe getting and answer, asking other people if they saw him/provide a screencap, and again maybe getting an answer. Or right-click, inspect, oh that’s what it is. Google. Extensive information on said item. It’s a quality of life feature, and in no way needed immediately, but still needed. Also, how does it further elitism just to find out a gear’s name?

If someone doesn’t want to tell you what their gear is, you just have to accept that and find out another way. There’s absolutely no reason to be able to search people without their consent, especially since it offers you nothing you don’t have already. I can find out what ANY piece of gear is and where to get it in seconds, I have the official /wiki and google. /inspect is not needed and would only hurt the game, just like it did in WoW.

It hurt WoW because of the ability to inspect stats. In GW2 stats have no connection to what your gear’s name is. Please tell me how you are able to, in seconds, find out what a piece of gear is from looks alone.

Like I said, there’s no good reason for you to be able to inspect others without their consent, especially if it offers you nothing you don’t have already, which is the ability to ask them or find out via the internet. If appeance-only inspecting as added, just like people are making noise about that now, they’ll start making noise about adding stats to the inspect window. This game doesn’t need that kind of garbage. It’s far too good to be ruined like WoW was.

Lysserd.4618:

What sounds easier to you? Asking a person about their gear, maybe getting and answer, asking other people if they saw him/provide a screencap, and again maybe getting an answer. Or right-click, inspect, oh that’s what it is. Google. Extensive information on said item. It’s a quality of life feature, and in no way needed immediately, but still needed. Also, how does it further elitism just to find out a gear’s name?

If someone doesn’t want to tell you what their gear is, you just have to accept that and find out another way. There’s absolutely no reason to be able to search people without their consent, especially since it offers you nothing you don’t have already. I can find out what ANY piece of gear is and where to get it in seconds, I have the official /wiki and google. /inspect is not needed and would only hurt the game, just like it did in WoW.

Lysserd.4618:

DavidGX.1723:

Lysserd.4618:

So why not have an inspect feature that just shows the name of the item and not its stats at all? If I see somebody in cool gear, I just wanna check out what it is so I can try to find it myself. I don’t want to bother them with a conversation for the same result. They have the option not to respond, they could just not notice, or they could be sick of explaining it.

Also, an item’s name has no correlation to its stats in this game. So I don’t see how that kind of inspect feature could be abused.

It’s not needed. If you want to see someone’s gear… look at them, take a screenshot or three if you want to admire it later. If you want to know what gear they have, ask. Inspecting that DOESN’T show stats is the same as what I just suggested, so you don’t need it. Inspecting that DOES show stats will be horribly abused and is DEFINITELY not needed.

Inspecting that doesn’t show stats gives me item names. Names give me google. Google gives me locations. This saves making the other person explain what it is, where it’s from, and how to get it. I’ll say it again: They have the option not to respond, they could just not notice, or they could be sick of explaining it. If I ask and they say nothing, then am I just supposed to take a screen cap and post it on the forums hoping someone knows? Sounds kind of unnecessary.

If someone doesn’t want to tell you what their gear is or is afk, then ask someone else. What’s unnecessary is adding a feature that would only serve to further elitism and serves no other purpose, you already have the ability to find out what gear is what and where to get it.

Lysserd.4618:

So why not have an inspect feature that just shows the name of the item and not its stats at all? If I see somebody in cool gear, I just wanna check out what it is so I can try to find it myself. I don’t want to bother them with a conversation for the same result. They have the option not to respond, they could just not notice, or they could be sick of explaining it.

Also, an item’s name has no correlation to its stats in this game. So I don’t see how that kind of inspect feature could be abused.

It’s not needed. If you want to see someone’s gear… look at them, take a screenshot or three if you want to admire it later. If you want to know what gear they have, ask. Inspecting that DOESN’T show stats is the same as what I just suggested, so you don’t need it. Inspecting that DOES show stats will be horribly abused and is DEFINITELY not needed.

Ghost.6247:

They do this for a reason, 1 player in games like Rift and WoW can wipe a whole riad by not having the right gear or experience. So for the rest of the group who has worked for days, weeks, sometimes months to get where they are dont want some noob joining them and wiping their whole raid. Simple as that.

This game is not like Rift or WoW. This is a skill > gear game, not a gear > skill game like those. Most dungeons are designed for people below 80, including exploration mode.

Nihilus.3015:

Don’t expect an Elder Dragon to be the size of their concept art, that size we see on paper will never happen ingame.

Source?

I don’t understand how an issue like this even makes it to the live game. Was this issue not noticed in alpha/beta? That couldn’t be the case.

If you’re doing a level 80 speed run, you need to say so when looking for people. If not, you need to stop complaining and let people who are the same level as the dungeon is designed for run them.

It’s one of the best features of this game, getting rid of it is a terrible idea. I wish people would stop flooding the forum with the same, old, awful ideas.

New classes please, Arenanet.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I don’t mind seeing commander icons in towns. Yes it is a status symbol. But it can also be very useful when hosting community events.

It’s not a status symbol, it’s a “look at me I’m an attention w$%@ who wasted a lot of money” symbol. It’s been too abused to be any kind of positive status symbol.

Hmmm… yeah. Thieves use stealth for many things, including stomping. If you want to nerf our stealth stomping, I’d love to hear your ideas for buffs to balance it out.

What exactly is the “fighting chance” when you’re finished from stealth?
Some people just seem to read “stealth needs to go” and start crying about nerf compensations…

No one is doing that. This topic is about removing stealth from finishing players. If you interpenetrated a post in any way other than that, you read wrong.

This sounds like a terrible idea. If I wanted another class, I’d just… make another character. Not sure why I’d need an entirely new “subclass” system to be built for me.

Thieves use stealth, it’s part of the class. If you want to nerf thieves here, where would you buff them to compensate?

There’s no reason for any kind of “marriage system” in the game. If you want to be married, have whatever ceremony you see fit and then… call yourselves married.