Guild Wars 2

I got stuck and typed /stuck in chat and that MAYY have teleported me. I got teleported after a while at least, after typing both /stuck and /checkpoint

Seeing as how wings and several other backpack items have cloth-like animations, i dont really see any reason for why there is no capes yet. A-Net pleeeease. It doesnt have to be a simulation for the movement, make animations, I dont care, I just want a cape ;_;

Hello Tman, thank you for the reply!

First, sorry if I have triggered you in any way :-) . When you mention it, I do remember boosters way back when. I’ve just come back after a 4 year break, and upon noticing the 1 special, 2 proper random slots, I went full “???”. Whatever the case may be, invisible slot or not, it’s really unappealing to see a guaranteed low-value item take up a space that intuitively should be a random slot. Part of what is troubling me is how bad the visual slot of it is handled. If there is an “invisible” slot, it should be mentioned somewhere. I did not know about this.

Here’s how I’d do it:
“BONUS SEASONAL SLOT” [ ] Normal slots [ ] [ ] Rare slot (5% chance (or whatever it is)) [ ]

And instantly it’s more appealing.

Hello, I rarely makes any posts on the forums, so forgive any errors etc.

TL;DR: With “special” Black Lion Chests, offer the normal 3 slots, and then add the “special” slot to a 4th unique slot, to make the lootboxes attractive (instead of punishing people for buying seasonal ones).

Black Lion Chests are normally 3 random items, right? Now, Wintersday, Lunar New year and now Head of the Snake has followed each other in pretty much continous succession (the latter not having a day off).

I like that you offer a special, guaranteed item alongside the Black Lion Chests, but the way A-net goes about it just feels like a “don’t buy our crates now” and are really unattractive. The problem is that the 3 Random items gets reduced to 2… WHY?!
I am buying the Black Lions Chests in hope to get a new exclusive wardrobe unlock, weapon skin, a new dye, miniature etc. Why would I want to trade one of those slots for a guaranteed, lower-value item like a Divine Lucky Envelope that offers literally nothing (in the Envelope’s case, you could get the Golden Lanterns, but it’s more effective (less of a gamble) to just buy gems, and convert to gold than buying Black Lion chests for actual money and gamle on the envelope). The envelope offered literally no value. And now, with Head of the Snake, we are given a high-tier crafting bag. That has more value than the Envelope for sure, as those ingredients are a bit hard to come by, and are rather expensive on the Black Lion Market.

To me, this feels like a really cheap trick from A-net, as my ability to gamble on a rare unlock is decreased by 33%, and instead I’m given a common bag or item that I can get in the game without much effort. Literally who would think “oh hey, I can now get a crafting bag from the black lion chest! Better spend 125/450 gems on keys so that I can get those commonly acquireable bags!” ?
No one.

Please consider not making “special” Black Lion Chests punish you, but instead offer the bag as an EXTRA reward to make the Black Lion chests worthwile to buy when they are “special”.

I’m sorry if I sound frustrated, but being unnable to buy the item I want to buy (a Black Lion Chest with 3 random slots), I am forced to wait unless I want to waste gems (and actual money (I know that gambling on Black Lion Chests is a waste of money in itself, but at least it would not feel bad, like it does now)).

Thank you for your honest and informative response.

While I wish for a GW2 where you can play exactly the way you want, and make it work well, it’s understandable that’s not possible. I guess Elementalist is the hardest class to play, cooldown-management, keeping track of your skills, buffs etc. Its probably an image that has stuck with me from other MMO’s that you usually go one element as a mage.

If I follow that guide that was linked above, it’s supposed to work for small-scale fights, and as I’m not a fan of PvP, and I don’t have a guild, I guess it works for doing normal world PvE stuff. I guess what I need to do the most is to spend time on the elementalist, getting to know the different abilites, swapping between them etc, as it’s always been overwhelming to me. It seems that if you’re going ele, you have to go in fully concentrated and focused.

Again, thanks for your informative post, I’ll keep it in mind as I git gud.

lucadiro.4519:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Tempest_-_Fresh_Air_DPS_

You swap to fire just to use burning speed and warhorn 4/5 for make air overload charge again

Woah! Thank you for the reply! I’ll check this out.

Hello, I dont make many posts on these forums, so forgive me if I’m doing something wrong.

TL;DR: Is it possible to make a lightning elementalist/tempest work well (without building around the lightning hammer)?

I have always loved lightning magic in games, and GW2 is no different. I’ve tried several times to level up an elementalist with air attunement, time and time again, but I’ve given up due to how low-damage+low-surviability I’ve had, sticking stubbornly to air attunement. When I came back to GW2 after a 3-4 year break, I got HoT and used my lvl 80 boost on an elementalist (since I couldn’t bring myself through the painful leveling). I’ve gone and acquired gear of the ele, but I still find my lightning attunement to do little to no significant damage, while dying faster than you can say “Logan Thackaray is a kittenbag”. I’ll start collecting hero points in order to unlock the tempest mastery, in hopes of maybe making a lightnign-build more viable.

I’m aware that optimal elementalist playstyle is by switching between several of the attunements, using aspects of all in your plays. But I sincerely wish that you could play elementalist mainly sticking to one attunement (I know fire is the best one for crits+power, not lightning). I’ve been checking out some guides online, and it seems like almost all the lightning builds are focused on utilizing them Lightning Hammer spell, which I do not want to use. So can you play elementalist (tempest), not using the lightning-hammer, and still have good damage output (and I mean like a average dmg output for DPS classes/builds)? I really want to make this work. Thank you for any replies/help!

It’s really annoying how you can not do things with your friends in Wintersday instances. We were a group of 4 people trying to do the Toymaker’s Mayhem where you build constructs to defend the Dolyaks, but entering with a group is impossible. The only thing you can do is pray for one of you to join an empty instance, and then the rest of the party joins them ASAP (but that sometimes takes you to an entirely different instance with other people, wat?).

Also, I just came back from a 2year break and it’s a bit disheartening to see the JP being the exact same as when I left. It somehow seemed easier than last time I tried though. I’d love to see some changes to the event, not just the same every year, but that requires developement, so I get it.

So, having played Guildwars 2 for about a year (with a break), I thought I’d just share my thoughts about this game, both for the a-net and others to read. I don’t seek to start a discussion, I am merely stating my impression of this game, and thing that should’ve been changed, or things that would have been nice if they were changed. Feel free to discuss amongst yourself wether my views and opinions are right or not, but I won’t partake that.
So here we go:

Wrong impressions:
When I first heard about the game, I thought the game would be some sort of free-roaming RPG, where you could go wherever you wanted, and just “live” on exploring.
-However, it seems that this is not the case. You cannot roam freely, there are lvling-zones, which have to be completet in order. After lvling 4 characters in the same areas, this tend to get really, really boring. And if you do not want to get underleveled for the zone you’re in, you usually have to do more (for example) 15-25 maps than the one you’re currently doing.

I also thought you could play any class the way you wanted, and still be “viable”.
-This is also not the case. If I wanted to use a sword and shield on my guardian, my role would have been somewhat of a tanky mediumrange DPS-er, and that is the only role it can fill. I cannot begin to explain even, how much I wanted to play a rifle-wielding engineer, but I just had to quit, because it is so bad, compared to the flamethrower and other gadgets, that I ended up deleting it, swearing to never touch engineer again (I have not).

Things I’d liked added or changed:

The two things I want added the most is:
1 Capes/cloaks. I cannot really see why all MMORPG’s (Except WoW and SWToR as I know) don’t add this equipment, as it adds to a charaters look and can really pump up the feel I get when just walking through a town. A-net, you already have the visible back-piece, why not add cloaks as an item, or maybe even as a new backslot?

2 Rapiers. I know we already have the “Bonetti’s Rapier” skin in-game. That’s not really what I mean though. Imagin playing a thief or ranger, and you equip one or two rapiers, and suddenly, you’re this whirling blur of deadly stings, thrusting your opponents from all kinds of angles, bleeding and slowing. It would’ve been so cool. This is also something I miss from more games out there. Don’t understimate my rapiers!

Some things I want changed:

The balancing. As I mentioned above, you’re “supposedly” able to play a class with any weapons as any role, but you’re not. You might say that everything is equally good, just in different ways. Then my problem is, I don’t want “different ways” I want to be able to play my guardian, pick up a darned shield and bash my enemies skulls in with it, but for some reason all I can do is create this forcefield to amuse all jedis in GW2.
- What a-net could do was to add more “panels” to each weapon. Just like an elementalist changes between atunements, it could also be done with weapons. When you make your build, you could be able to select “Shield – Defensive” or “Shield – Agressive”. Same with the 1h-swords (which are only used for crippling and bleeding it seems…), you could have “One Handed Sword – Blunted” (for crippled and tormented) and “One Handed Sword – Sharpened” (for bleeds, critcal hits).

The last thing I can think of right now is:
The pick-up function. Take WvW and a more recent example, the Invasions. You’re fighting and getting loads of kills. At the same time as you’re using your spells, you’re also using the “pick-up” button to loot all your mangled, dead foes. And you get to loot one corpse, then you find yourself standing with a banner or elemental weapon in your hand. I just love that. How come it’s not been made a button for picking up useless things like elemental weapons and banners, separate from the loot button.

I had some problems with doing things in lvl 80 at first (which led to my break), but it has become better now with the fractals and continously changing living story, so keep up the good work!

Flowrence.4683:

Lol, I just got the bag in my inventory.

A-net actually listens! Thanks guys!

Uhm, some guys (that opened teh chest) said that they also got it…

Lol, I just got the bag in my inventory.

A-net actually listens! Thanks guys!

I also had the same problem.

I’ve checked them all, none of them have it

I talked to Tixx ona character, and then logged out (he said something about a ticket or something). I later learn that he is supposed to give you a “present” of some sort, but i got none. I learn that it’s supposed to be in the floating purple-glowing chest next to him, so I go there and see for myself. The thing is, I cannot interact with the chest in any way (it looks like it’s open), nor can I talk to Tixx, he only says: “Apologies my festive friend. Only one gift disbursement per citizen. No exceptions! If you didn’t have room to recieve your gift, perhaps try checking that chest.”
Only option in this conversation is: “All right. Good-bye.”
What’s happened? Did I screw up since I logged out before checking the chest?!

Well, the problem for me is, I cannot interact with the chest, and it’s open for me.

I talked to Tixx ona character, and then logged out (he said something about a ticket or something). I later learn that he is supposed to give you a “present” of some sort, but i got none. I learn that it’s supposed to be in the floating purple-glowing chest next to him, so I go there and see for myself. The thing is, I cannot interact with the chest in any way, nor can I talk to Tixx, he only says: “Apologies my festive friend. Only one gift disbursement per citizen. No exceptions! If you didn’t have room to recieve your gift, perhaps try checking that chest.”

Only option in this conversation is: “All right. Good-bye.”

What’s happened? Did I screw up since I logged out before checking the chest?!

This might just be because I find this to be needed in the game because I want my character to be “optimized” in the way it looks.

I would really like to have rapiers in this game, and thin sabres. This would be complete with a medium/heavy armour set that looks like the uniforms from 15-16th century.

Also, I am unhappy with the name on one of my characters, and I think it would be awesome if A-net added a namechanging kit, just like you did with the character customization kit.

I must say I got seriously mad. I played on a lvl 72 fuardian because it seemed more fun than to play on my ranger lvl 80). And when I finally got the chest on the end.. I was so looking forward to the lvl 80 exotics… and I got [CENSORED IN RAGE] items with lvl cap 72. I must say that I am seriously dissapointed in this, and that you (A-net) should atleast have warned us… This was the perfect chance for me to get lvl 80 gear so that I wouldn’t have to farm so much.

Thank you for ruining the entire event for me with kitteny gear.