I miss beta.
I actually like the game better back then. T.T
I’m in the same boat as the OP. I too have a casual guild where we still try to follow the game’s original tagline of “play how you want”.
Sadly, GW2 is moving farther and farther away from casual play. I barely log on anymore because with each update while I used to be able to log in, play and have fun and be rewarded for it (see old dailies and old trait system), now the game has become a job. I have to run half way across Tyria for one specific event, location, or what have you in order to get the same reward.
I don’t play games that feel like work. =/
As always, GW2 is yet another game that is anthropocentric, so all non-human (yes, norns and sylvari are just reskinned/blown up humans) get thrown out with little to no effort put into them and what makes them unique.
Oh…this still hasn’t been rolled back huh? Well on top of this and the loads of other kittenting game breaking updates.
…bye then. It was nice that first year it lasted. Now I’m off to make a GW2 table top rpg where “Play how you want” still means something.
@OP: Did you ever play GW1. That game was perfect EXCEPT for the level 20 cap. More levels means more room to grow and becomes stronger to overcome challenges. Even if it isn’t the point of the game, having a max level for weeks in GW1 and having an area I can’t beat simply because there’s no way for me to become stronger or better to get past it is poor game design.
I wondered that about Mad Memoirs too, but I don’t think the year 1 stuff will be returning. It seems Year 1 was good, and everything after is repeats and decline. =/
+1 to the OP.
Now here’s hoping ANet is good enough to sack up, and finally say “we were wrong” and bring back the game we (or at least I and older players) PAYED FOR.You want them to remove every single patch ever?
I wouldn’t be opposed to it if it means we go back to the original feel and mission of GW2. If I didn’t have to patch to play, I would roll back manually. Every update ANet has let out this year has been terrible and game breaking.
+1 to the OP.
Now here’s hoping ANet is good enough to sack up, and finally say “we were wrong” and bring back the game we (or at least I and older players) PAYED FOR.
kitten China. Guild Wars is an Western game series. If they want grind they can go play the billions of Korean and Asian MMOs out there that are nothing but grind.
Personally I’d rather see the Ritualist. I thought they were a crazy fun class, but as it is now the mages dominate class choices so I’d be glad to see another heavy armor type to bring the spread to 3 all around.
Hmm. That rather sucks. I may try a ticket, I have an idea for a couple points where it might have gotten poofed, but it never hurt to try I guess. I was just wondering if there was a legit way to get it back. I wouldn’t mind doing the little event thing again, but it seems like you can’t even do that. =/
So at some point over the years my account’s copy of Mad Memoirs disappeared. it happened before the wardrobe system too, so is there any way to re-obtain these items, or even just the skins?
It’s not that I didn’t have it before and want it now (thought I can’t blame people who do cause it was a cool item), it’s that somehow in the past 2 years it got misplaced on a character or bank and probably deleted by accident. =/
Even on an outfit like this, the clipping wouldn’t be all that bad, really. There’s even a gap in the middle of the skirt where the tail should go, so it looks like the model was built with the intention of having a charr tail. That’s why it’s so odd that it’s just up and gone like this.
Anet needs to see how awkward charr look without their tails and fix this soon. Please!
I thought the exact same thing!
It’s like the outfit was made to accommodate a tail, but nope. I can only hold out hope that the unanimous outrage at this will prompt some development retcon here. Sadly with all the glorious kitten ups I’ve seen ANet make and then do absolutely nothing to address, my faith in them as a good game company is dying by the day. =/
To the OP. No, just no. If you went out and actually played free to play games you’d know that they’re kitten and good for a few hours of time wasting, but that’s it.
GW2 is a one time fee, so it already is free to play, and that one time keeps the dreck of solely F2P gamers out of the system so that only people who genuinely care about the game play and stay.
Name: Crystal Spirits [CryS]
Server: Crystal Desert
Website: http://crystalspirits.enjin.com/
VOIP: C3
Contact
-Felkes.2759
Purpose
-To make a fun, cooperative guild for working or busy people; those don’t have endless time to throw at an online game.
-Providing a place for Tyrians who like to immerse themselves in the world and role play their characters.
-General cooperation to help our members and other players achieve their goals.
Summary
Crystal Spirits has a very laid back atmosphere and welcomes players of all experience levels. Ours is a no pressure guild who’s focus is to make the game more accessible and enjoyable to the working man. Our target demographic is working adults who have a life to maintain outside of games, but we more than welcome school age individuals as well.
We delve into all aspects of the game from PvE to WvW and Dungeon spelunking. We ask that members represent primarily Crystal Spirits, the exception being if members are affiliated with Tequatl hunting guilds that require rep when fighting the dragon.
Rangers don’t fit in anywhere. T^T
According to the book that came with the Collector’s Edition the Tengu were a planned playable race, which makes sense since they use the same animation skeleton as the Charr and have established lore already.
So my top 3 list would definitely be
1)Tengu
2)Largos
3)Harpys
All possess sentience and culture, and cover various modes of living from land to water.
Option 2 is hands down the superior option. Removing the chance for or mitigating low drops has too many long range repercussions. But for people like my who have uncanny bad luck in everything (not hosting a pity party here, this us just a genuine fact about me :P), there needs to be some kind of extra system to counteract that.
Looks like I’ll have to wait and preview it when I’m on later. I’m never going to buy an outfit but this one is causing a bit of conversation.
It is, and that’s why I hope Anet takes note and does something, because a charr’s tail is like an asura’s ears I guess (nevermind the helmets and stuff that gets rid of their ears). Not to mention it’s one of the main gender identifiers for charr (i.e. females have bushier tails).
It’s just something that shouldn’t be up-and-removed like that. I mean, no other outfit/armor set in the game does that to the charr. Heck, a couple of the outfit even changes the tail, but honestly, I just want their good ol’ regular charr tails sticking out of their backsides.
The outfit looks so cool otherwise, it just looks like it’s blatantly missing something on charr.
Yes exactly! Take last year when we got the Mad King’s garb, it outright changes the tails. This new outfit is just oozing with lazy. =/
I’m not even going to gripe about my normal peeves which is tails clipping through most clothing and armors. This really irks me, and very few sets address it. Compared to this though that feels like nothing.
If I didn’t already know that ANet doesn’t really humor it’s consumers I’d be asking for a refund right now.
Yeah, I agree. And especially by adding the tail removal on top of this this new Raiment turns female charr into males (genderless at best). -_-
Yeah. I remembered this outfit the moment I saw it. I had some many characters running around in the original lich garb. It’s good they’re updating the good ideas they’ve already had, but I wish they wouldn’t half kitten the job. =/
I don’t really see the issue.
1. Asura are mammals, and they do have mammary glands. However, there’s nothing saying that they have breasts like humans do. For all we know, their nipples are located near their crotch like cows and deer. (Would make bedroom romps with an Asura interesting, wouldn’t it?) If that’s the case, then there would be no reason at all for female Asura to cover their chests, outside of practical/protective reasons.
2. There’s been no official confirmation of how many teats female Charr have, although they obviously don’t have prominent breasts. Logically though, I’d say a female Charr would only have one or two teats, since Charr only give birth to one or two cubs at a time. Cats having as many as six teats only happens because they give birth to litters; if a species has small numbers of offspring, there would be no evolutionary reason to have excessive nipples.
The rule in nature says that animals have twice as many nipples as is their average birth size. With humans it’s one, rarely 2, so two boobs. With charr it seems similar, though I would imaging 2 is a more stable average based on their culture and traditions, so I expect 4.
As for the outfits, just no. Every other aesthetic for these races gives a precedent for how the genders dress. Though the females of both races don’t wear the shuper shexy tight stuff the humanoids do, they do dress in a more feminine, somewhat modest way. Their tops are still always mostly covered. This new Lich gear literally turns my female charr into a male by removing her gender identifier (namely the tail) and giving her no top at all.
So much support. I’ve seen too many wild critters and been like, “why can’t I tame that”? when it’s just a reskin of something I can get. Or even when I see an NPC with it. Nothing irks me more than something an AI can tame but not a PC.
All of these are fantastic ideas and I’d be willing to pay a small amount of monies for them.
Is the Raiment of the Lich supposed to remove Charr tails?
I’m going to guess that has to be a graphical oversight or bug because it makes no sense at all and kind of shoots charr in the gut. =/
I was excited about it at first but naked cat butt is terrible to look at running around.
Yeah, I saw this today too on a Charr and not only does it look broken as butt crack, but it looks so out of place in the world. All around terrible addition in my opinion. =/
Outfits were in GW1 (remember Grenth’s Regalia?). They’re not going anywhere. I don’t mind them since there’s so much more armor than before and those are mix and matchable with transmutation stones.
We killed Zhaitan over two years ago and we haven’t even begun to see Orr change or any pattern change with the Risen. So likely not.
This is a good point. Because Zhaitan was THE story of the game though, I’ve let it lie. New players still always have Zhaitan as their story line.
Everything else has been extra though.
My mate reminded that after the Mad King’s arrival there was a short living story event where the citizens came together to repair the statue. I think this kind of thing is good and should be given more attention. Tyria was beautiful, and still is in many places but after these big disasters normally nice areas like Kessexs Hills and Lion’s Arch are getting, just destroyed and left that way.
There’s the occasional NPC hammering away at rubble in Lion’s Arch but are we ever going to see it repaired?
This is kind of a suggestion, but more of a discussion so I decided it fit better here than on the other board.
Living Story brings us some big and epic events within Tyria, but these events have a tendency to change the world around them. And rightly so, I’d be disappointed if we didn’t see some aftermath after such an event was over.
My question, and kind of a concern is, will we ever see the world restored? Will Lion’s Arch ever be repaired. People who’ve been here since the beginning will probably remember when the Mad King first broke into Tyria how he destroyed the statue in Lion’s Arch central square. it took forever just for the statue to get fixed, at the current rate I kind of worry that Lion’s Arch will just be left in ruins forever.
The place was a pain in the rear to navigate before but like this is just awful.
Same with Kessex Hills. After the tower fell the whole area has stayed a mess, especially around the lake where you have to weave in and out of debris.
Will these areas ever be cleaned up?
Yeah, I hate light armor diversity, or lack there of. The only “diversity” you’ll ever see is between cultural gear and even then it’s quite minor on everyone except t3 humans. I made a ranger as my first character, it’s the class I like most, and it’s my main, but g-dam is the armor boring. XP
Good on never seeing the Tequatl revamp. I kittening hate that content. It used to be fun, now it’s just a big pain in the kitten and a constant frustration.
Here’s something I want to know that I really want to hear form the staff on. There have been several glaring problems in recent patches that have the community in an uproar, and in which the player-base shares an almost unanimous stance. Two of the best examples being the update to gaining traits, and the more recent level gating.
Because of the shared negative opinion and desire of the players for a return to the old system, does the dev team even consider, or will they ever consider, that they made a mistake? That this new content isn’t good and they should step back and re-evaluate, or is this going to be a Windows style, plunge in head-first, no looking back, people will get used to it, kind of thing?
Bows before the OP Thank you!!! Someone that gets it and put it together in plain (business) English. Maybe. Hopefully, if the gods favour us, ANet will get the mother-loving hint. -_-
This everything about this. I’m in the exact same boat as your friend, and I’m passionately trying to speak out against this pointless change to a good system.
I can’t stand playing my low level alts it just sucks so bad. -_-
It currently says: “Reflect incoming damage back to its source; stacks duration.”
Retaliation does not reflect or mitigate damage in any way.
It should say: “Enemies take damage when they damage you; stacks duration.”
The tooltip doesn’t say that it mitigates any damage. It says that it reflects it, and that’s exactly what it does.
Reflecting implies, you know, reflecting. Meaning the damage bounces off you back at the enemy. In every instance “reflect” is used to imply you take less or no damage and it goes back to it’s source. This is the only game that doesn’t.
I agree Retaliation needs a clearer tooltip description. As is now, it’s quite misleading.
Support for this thread and everything it’s trying to say. ANet doesn’t listen to it’s community, the people who bought this game and by extension keep them afloat. This is all too clear by the utter fail that the September patch did with bumping back traits, slots, skills, and class abilities. Not once have I seen this even addressed. No response from the development team or their PR despite the unanimous outcry of disdain for this monstrosity.
I’m likely to drop all of my alts that haven’t mad it into their 30s yet. This new patch effing sucks and honest to god breaks the game experience for me. I didn’t shell out over a hundred dollars just to put up with this nonsense. I plan on raising as big a stink as I can.
No one likes this change. I just…if this keeps going on much longer, the devs just sticking their fingers in their ears and ignoring their entire community, I don’t know how much longer I can be moderately nice about this. X<
The new one sucks. It’s awful, and there are so many reasons it would take too long to list all of them, so if you have a reason you want to contribute please do so in a response to this.
For the time being this thread is here for one purpose. To bring to ANet’s attention that we are beyond merely unhappy with what the September “patch” did to levelling. Blocking off key game features (EG trading post) behind level walls, and pushing unlocking features of each class further and further back.
I strongly urge people to +1 this, respond to it, spread it around because this change the devs made is unacceptable. We didn’t pay for this crap. We payed for the Guild Wars experience that was.
It’s ok to balance, it’s ok to tweak. It is NOT ok to overhaul a system that worked just fine as is.
(Off topic note for mods, is there a reason the Suggestions thread is locked to me??)
I am laughing my kitten of. Thank you for linking this, this is exactly what’s going on. XD
Daily achievements, and world boss rewards have not reset, at least not for me, since the patch. So I had all yesterday, 8 pm (EST) dayroll should have brought up new dailies and let me loot the world bosses again.
It didn’t.
So I slept on it, now 2 hours until dayroll number 2 still no reset on any of my daily rewards.
Yep yep and yep. And some content seems to have been cut out around chapters 7 and 8. Thai mentioned it. It’s missing content now, and that’s just not cool. Change it back.
We asked for what? More commander flooding because I for one never ask for, or even bothered with anything relating to commanders.
And joining a squad isn’t a fix. I don’t join squads or even parties unless I’m with friends or to coordinate for an event. Telling someone to just join a group as a way to ignore the problem is like saying to just pour some vodka on a slashed artery.
Here’s context for this. I’m playing on the Plains of Ashford with a low level character, and I see (as best I could count) 15, maybe more, commander icons on my minimap. There’s no world boss in Ashford, there’s no reason for those commanders to be there unless they’re playing their own low levels and have it on for some reason.
So here’s the problem. I have 15+ rainbow doritos blocking up all of the other icons on my map. PoIs, Hearts, they’re bigger than just about every other icon. And there’s no way to turn them off.
There needs to be an option added in with the interface options to hide commander icons. Just like how you can hide player names, these things are useful at times, but everywhere else they just get in the way and turn my maps into an eyesore.
You can see your own minipet. You won’t see other peoples. I seen my mini pet every time this message popped up.
This is untrue. I’ve gotten this message and still can’t see my mini every time, on every character that’s gotten it.
It’s always been a thing that in a full area if there’s too much going on, or if too many people have them out you can’t pull out your mini. This system, it seems you can have it “active” so if it can be shown it will, but if not then it wont. It’s better than before, but it has made things easier, so everyone has minis following them now, and now the problem is just too many, so most people won’t see theirs unless they’re somehow one of only a few people on a map.
Insider trading is illegal in real life, if it’s going on in game it should be stopped. No if, ands, or buts.
Right I was talking with a friend about staff mages while I wrote this, I knew scepter, wrote staff. -_-
That seems to have done it. Thank you. My other costumes, witch and bloody prince, all transferred everything over with the wardrobe system. For some reason the Mad King got the outfit, but my scepter disappeared and I had to get it from the BL Armorsmith separately. =/
When my Mad Kings outfit converted to the new wardrobe system, I didn’t think much of it. The outfit worked just fine, but today I was engaging in a fun costume brawl with my guild. I go to use my Mad King set, and there’s no scepter! I logged into each of my characters and scoured their inventories. I did a search in my bank and it’s no where to be found. Help please!
Aaah, thank you very much. This wasn’t announced anywhere so I figured they were just going to sweep it under the rug. ^^;
I’m seeing old perma-harvesting tools being released again, and that’s cool cause causing a lava font when you harvest ore is epic, but what about people who bought these tools the first time around? The original items soulbound to a character, while these editions are account bound. Are previous buyers going to see a coding change so that we don’t have to shell out some $30 on products we already own just because the devs decided they were going to do something that should have been done from the get go?
Nope. We’ve seen where harder went with Tequatl, now the boss spawns for his window and almost never gets challenged. Shatterer’s current level of difficulting is just fine.