Guild Wars 2

To put it shortly, GW2 doesn’t feel rewarding.

In overall games, as the game progresses towards a final boss, you would need items designed to help you play through content. And when you beat these difficult encounters, dungeons, stages, you felt not only rewarded to beat difficult well-designed puzzles and battles, but you were also rewarded with a new piece of loot that would help you through more content, giving you access to more story, more experiences, more difficult boss encounters, etc.

And that’s where I feel GW2 is flawed. It’s not the elitism of high-geared players, or the free-way you can play your class, but on the overall experience of the game that make you say, “kitten , this is pointless”.

In PvP; I really liked the fact that the better you were and more experience you had, the prettier and shinier your armor could look. But well. That was also swept away.

I found it cool that it was mildly challenging. GW2 is far too easy these days, having something that actually made you move a bit and not stack was a bit refreshing.

Unless there’s a way of stacking this boss i don’t know about…

Lol well I thought it would be fun if the Pale Tree went evilz. Or something of that nature.

I kept expecting the Pale Tree saying “Finally you have fallen in our trap! Praise Mordremoth! PRAISE OUR FATHER” suddenly the dragon approaches as every Sylvari becomes soundless

…

But it was alright. I’m just not sure if the GW2 writers have a backbone to pull something like that. Or if it’s allowed by the story standards…

I think Belinda hit me, but … I just don’t know what’s the problem with her being a plot device.

There are tons of characters in other games that are plot devices and no one seems to bother about them lol.

Anmida.4058:

Eszett.6950:

I want them to call me babe.

Braham: “Hey, babe! Come! Eir is here. We must speak with her!”

If you picture this scene with a male human/sylvari/asura, and then proceed to picture Eir’s face, Living Story quality increases by 200%.

Better yet, I’m a male Charr.

I was like, “CALLED IT”, and then looked at Marjory, and shut my trap

I want them to call me babe.

Well okay, so um, does this mean Jormag is sleep? And Kalkathing isn’t rampaginig and beating people in the Crystal Desert? I thought we would deal with him next since he’s the one who killed Snaff, right?

And Taimi will fill us on what Scarlet actually did, I suppouse… but the other dragons seem a bit forgotten.

I’ll be honest. This is bothering so much, I’m really considering to just stop playing until this issue is resolved.

I don’t know whenever it is on my end, or on Anet’s end, but lately I’ve been getting massive lag spikes which makes the game completely unplayable.

Does anyone know a way to solve this? I mean, it’s been working perfectly in other games. I don’t really know what’s wrong…

I have one major corcern and it doesn’t have much to do with the storyline itself… I’m a bit worried that Scarlet’s final stand will be way to easy, or that we will have to fight minions of Scarlet to do her damage like Zhaitan. I don’t know if it’s too late to suggest it, but please make the final battle worthwhile :/. Don’t do it like the Prophet in the Tower of Nightmares, cuz he was way to easy.

I was wondering what’s up with this. I don’t like playing 8v8… but even though I join up on queues that say “team size: 5” it still lets 8 players in.

Has anyone gotten this or is there a fix or what. I don’t wanna be forced into zerging thank you.

Fellas. I came here to discuss something slightly different about what i thought the living story was going to be.

To be honest i dont mind the alliances arc or the lack of dragons we had this year but I must express some disappointment in the fact that they took a break this year from the threat to introduce new characters when there is so much material they can use with already existing charcters and plotlines.

Let’s take for instance the Khan Ur claw, or Cadeceus plotting against the queen, or so much from our already existing world that had lead to some kind of blind alley that has no answers. Some of you guys can probably name more than I do…

Any of you share my concerns and maybe hope next year they bring some answers into this?

I think of the TA aetherblade path and I just wonder why didnt it had to do with Caihe’s now forgotten girlfriend. I would like to see more dungeons expanded, i would love to explore CM with a Cadeceus storyline, the guy that ascended to search for the human gods in Arah P4. you know. I appreciate Scarlet and new characters but i feel i barely scrapped the already existing storylines to be introduced to a new one.

ozma.3498:

Eszett.6950:

you don’t lose your progress (they are adding new things to the last 20 levels)

I fail to understand the logic behind this. Levels are being lost, regardless of whatever “gambits” get added or not. Besides, even if it’s just a number on the screen and access to high levels, progress is being reversed. That’s a sin in video games, especially MMOs. The fact that ArenaNet don’t realize this makes me think it may be time to quit playing, since I really don’t trust them anymore.

And what does these levels grant you that make you feel so hurt that they took them away? Harder content? They’re giving it to you already. Granted! I don’t know how diverse or hard it will be, but it’s new content. You will probably be able to get back at top level in no time anyways.

I just don’t understand what has been lost that people demand compensation for. It’s amazing how dramatic people can get to even point out that this was the only thing in the game worth staying for XD.

You don’t lose your AR, you don’t lose your skins, you don’t lose your progress (they are adding new things to the last 20 levels), you don’t lose anything. Not money or time or anything. You don’t even have to go and grind all your characters up to 48, whereas a single one (whichever you want) will do. What the heck are you guys crying about anyways?

This has been screwing with me for a while now, but I am just playing randomly (it sometimes hits me in solo queue in PvP) and then I suddenly get a blackscreen for no reason at all. What’s happening? How can I prevent this? :I.

I don’t know why the forums are flooding with tears. I think it’s fantastic that they’re putting new things and challenges in fractals. I mean what would happen if this update didn’t go through? You would all be doing fractals level 48 / max level eternally. Now you can progress through more (we’ll see) challenging and different content.

As for people leveling alts on fractals I’ll guess that if you have 8 characters on level 50, you have already gotten everything fractals already can provide. I mean what else is there when you get everything on 8 characters? Shouldn’t you be happy for this update?

These forums and the people whining about everything is a bit discouraging really.

Dott.5672:

Eszett.6950:

If you hate her she’s good enough of a villan.

No.
No, no, no.
I’ll stop you right there, because people don’t hate Scarlet because she’s a villain. She’s an obnoxious piece of kitten who doesn’t fit into the GW world, she breaks lore like there’s no tomorrow, she has the most annoying voice I have ever heard in a game (yet she’s supposed to be very persuasive; “silver-tongued” even), she constantly pulls new “evil alliances” that make no sense out of her kitten , she incessantly escapes every attempt to apprehend her (hell, in this update she WALKED RIGHT PAST MY CHARACTER. She just left. Right past a charr with a flamethrower after a five-minute monologue).

So don’t say hating her means she’s a good villain. I don’t hate her because of what she does, because I’m not sure what she does or how she does it. I hate her for what she is and what she represents: ANet’s incapability of writing a good kittening story.

I hope one of ANet’s writers reads this. Hell, I hope Bobby reads it.
You wrote a bad story, Bobby. It feels like you looked to David Cage for storytelling and Matt Ward for character creation.

I’m a bit new to the forums, so I have no idea what do you mean by kitten? I don’t say that her story is actually GOOD, I think perhaps it was written in a scooby-do way, but that’s not the character’s fault! I would’ve liked the villans to actually do damage directly to our characters, so it was a bit more personal, or actually done something really evil, in that sense I agree with you but personally I don’t find Scarlet annoying.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Israel.7056:

I don’t think 8v8 should be removed. Obviously it’s a game mode some people enjoy, myself included. If you don’t agree with my values then don’t play 8v8, simple as that. Play whatever makes you happy, let no one interfere.

If anything we need more game modes, let the players play what they want to play.

This paternalistic attitude of “what we want our youngsters to learn” is absurd. Let people decide for themselves what they want to learn. If you don’t agree with other people’s choices then keep it to yourself, no one needs anyone else’s permission to play this game as they see fit and I don’t see why they should.

It was simply a joke, I’m sure you’re fully capable of taking one. It’s a video game and we are simply attempting to provide the most quality experience we can for our players in game so they can play as they wish.

Anyways concerning the topic, there are players that impeded from getting better at our game and something we wish to do is help players understand how PvP works and help them get better if they do wish it so.

The decision on this topic has yet to be made. Either Josh or myself can give an update when a decision is made. However let me ask this, would you guys like to see less 8v8 servers? no 8v8 servers? Possibly re-work the play now so that it looks for 5v5 matches as priority?

I’m not one to vote for removing content, I just think 8v8 needs a different mode where 4 necros and 4 warriors zerg your strategy to dead. Maybe bigger maps or different game modes… dunno.

I would like to see less 8v8 server though, 5v5 should be the priority right now.

Errant Venture.9371:

Eszett.6950:

People really have it against Scarlet. She’s not half bad really. At least she has a personality unlike Traherne. Treharne…. whatever his name is.

I loved the cutscene, I think it’s a build up for the final battle with her. Finally you get to end her!

You call bad jokes and that awful baby-voice a personality? O_o

What else would it be? Harley Quinn of Batman has somewhat the same personality. She’s suppoused to be irritating. If you hate her she’s good enough of a villan.

As for the saturday morning cartoon villian storyline well, it’s not her fault mainly. I think the writers were a bit soft and went too PG 13. If she had killed someone important, or do something awful like sever the ties between Kryta and Ascalon, she would have been a bit more menacing.

You know, I thought that with the introduction of this maniac character (who wanted to be somewhat like a joker) we would get the politics of Kryta shaken a little bit. Zhaitan’s arc is full of the power of friendship and it irritates me to no end. I thought they could use Scarlet as a way to make things a bit more interesting… well there’s still time.

People really have it against Scarlet. She’s not half bad really. At least she has a personality unlike Traherne. Treharne…. whatever his name is.

I loved the cutscene, I think it’s a build up for the final battle with her. Finally you get to end her!

I am personally excited :O. I really liked Aether and Molten facility. But I really wanted to check Abbadon’s fractals >:I. Oh well.

I don’t understand why people want to rush through content much. I understand the frustration of being stuck in a fractal for hours because your team-mates are kitten ing around (Cliffside huh?), but other than a slightly longer run (Aether didn’t take that long!) I don’t think it’s that bad.

Now Mei-Ling with agony attacks is going to be painful. Very, very painful.

conn.2097:

I agree that explorable paths should be accessible for every character once you completed story mode on your account (or even remove the requirement completely.. sorry @ Target ^.^).
But with an account wide fractal level the daily reward for each tier will probably be daily per account and not per character which is worse imo.

I didn’t know the daily fractals was character bound. That’s a plus right there. I suppouse for fractals veteran a change like this might hurt a lot lol.

As for running a dungeon once per day I don’t think I mind it really. It’s a way to keep variety going (PvP, other dungeons, PvE zerging, WvW), I never understood why it’s an issue, Black Box. It might be personal taste, but I like variety over doing a dungeon over and over. I’d get burnt real quick.

So this is just a question, but why isn’t dungeon unlock account-wide? I mean, it’s kind of silly that we have to switch toons to do explorable mode when we’ve already done story mode once.

I realize that this is a way to undermine story mode, but then I would suggest that the rewards on story mode should be tuned so people would do it too.

Same thing with the fractals reward scale… why can’t we have them account wide?

I think I would like the Scepter to keep conditions going on target. It’s not overpowered, and I don’t think it would allow the mindless 1 button going.

To be honest, you can’t go braindead with a mesmer. You’re too squishy, you need to be on the move, you need to shatter at the right time, you need to daze, teleport, you need to do a bunch of things to actually do damage (now that the braindead phantasm build was nerfed). That would give the clones some utility, and having three clones would consistently refresh conditions!

Also on scepter 3, I would like it to be some kind of ray that keeps a bond between the mesmer and the enemy. And it would consistently apply confusion until the connection is broken (IE knockback, daze, etc or the mesmer cancels the effect and maybe have some 10 second of channeling like scepter 1 on Ele but on cooldown), it’s a way to stop an enemy from attacking. I think scepter 3 is broken, it’s a really awkward skill, I mainly use the scepter for torment in PvP, and even hitting that is really awkward.

What do you guys think?

I want to know when they are getting it back!<

I loved World 2, and Tribulation Mode. But that’s because I just love these kind of plataformers. I mean sure, they were hard, but they weren’t that long. And it’s great watching your friends frustration as they die and die and die.

A lot of fun swearing over the TS.

I can’t wait for World 3 and 4. I’ll be sad when the SAB is over. Also the skins are merely a small reward. I never do things for the loot xP.

I’m hoping World 3 has pirates and a Sea level!

I was wondering about this. Not only the Magg exploit is a bit unfair towards the game, but towards the players too. I don’t think I can find ANY group in explorable mode that haven’t said to me “We’re doing 25 tokens right?”.

The very first time I was like “what?” and they pulled me all through the dungeon, and when I didn’t comply, they left. I had to take on the last boss with a friend. but the point is that I’m being forced to play a single path over and over. And if you don’t agree they leave. I mean, I can always pull my guildies into it, but that’s not suppoused to be the intent, is it?

So I finished my story, and with it, the death of Zhaitan (which was a pretty lackluster fight, AC bosses were more fun to be honest).

I’m guessing since there are three Elder Dragons left there will be more expansions, but I’d like to know if we will ever know what happened to our starter characters (in my case, Dinky and the warband), I mean, I hope it’s more than a couple of new dungeons!

I also hope the next three Elder Dragons have more interesting fights! :X.

Agh, I was hoping it was that he was bugged. Say, will ArenaNet redesign it? I mean, Zhaitan being immobile through the whole fight…

At first I thought my character model was bugged, but I tried creating several Charrs and now I see they all have some kind of bloodshot eyes like they had conjuntivitis.

Was this intended? I’m almost sure it wasn’t in the Beta. It kinda bothers me.

I like their atheist and view of progress, honestly.