Guild Wars 2

And so I get to second part of my little rant. Living Story.

At first it felt fresh and nice. New content, yay! New skins, new stuff.

But then, it became a chore, unfriendly to new players, barely enough to bother unless you slap our faces with shiny things like gas mask (which would be really nice if you made like AP rewards. Get it, reclaim it as skin. Whenever).

I was trying to get my roommate to play your game again. She left before living story became a thing and just got new laptop, solid MSI, quad core, stuff that can handle the best thing gaming industry has to offer (and the worst, too, considering where is game industry going) and she didn’t because she didn’t understand anything.

While living story is nice, now it’s just… Ongoing train of… What exactly? I can’t even tell. I feel one after another, living story is getting cheaper and weaker. And while you can’t go back and take it away, you can still stop it.

I don’t know if you’re planning or making an expansion, but I personally think that is the direction that you should be going now. You did the living story, you achieved what noone else has. But it’s getting long, old and chore-ish now. New players don’t like living story because mostly they have no clue what is going on. Old players that’d come back are put off by it, because while it’s nice, it’s really nothing new. Expansion, true new content, like Factions and so on in last Guild Wars, would hit the spot I think. New players would get to it and it wouldn’t be slapped in their faces like newspaper in foreign language, and old players who left would come back to see, explore, finish it.

And that’s all about what I wanted to say. I have more to say, you can keep reading. But right here, at this point, the main rant ends.

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So what’s next? Things that I still would like to see. That I may or may not have put forward before. Things like proper one sword one pistol one animations when you don’t use second weapon. Ability to turn of guild symbol on guild things. Costumes that go over armor and not just hundreds of new skins (yeah, I’d still like to wear phantom hood over armor, or get back Grenth costume from GW1 for nice cape). Or you know, something new and shiny. Guild halls. Maybe some improvements to Hall of Monuments (Like making it house area instead of our story area and making it availible to everyone without those skins) or maybe making it account area. For which we could buy merchant, bank access, that kind of stuff.

And I’m left with just things I’d like to know. Yes or no things.

Player interactive animations? (aka hug n stuff?)
More instruments? (guitar versions, bass, violin? keyboard?)
Skin wardrobes? (upon completing a skin-set then unlocking by gems maybe? but after unlocking with gems, availible to whole account of no fee?)

That’s all for now. If you read this, then thanks for reading! If you agree, or not agree, post below why, or maybe put your own thoughts. Whatever.

Regards
Lu

Hello,
my name is Lahabiel Sangre, mostly known as Lu, formerly known as Lynx Someonehearth in gw1, also Lu.

And this is going to be long.

I’d like to write here because I’m… Hugely annoyed by what’s been going on with Gem armors. And living story.

In Guild Wars 1, I have most armors, lots of extra character slots, mercenaries with heroes, paid armor skins and most skins from events. And I loved those skins, the armor variety.

When I got into Guild Wars 2 and heard about Heritage armor, I thought, yay! I saw wariror armor in it and thought it’d be awesome to have some good old gw1 armors. Instead I got stripes on medium, looking like… Ehm. And light armor, that while nice, looks really silly when moving on females.

Anyway, my point. When it all went live, and I got in, I found that the GEM Armors, the first set, are Krytan, Primeval and Profane. While I’m fond of GW1 armors, when I look on what you picked, I… Was greatly disappointed.

Primeval armor is nice, was one of my favourites actually. Proper covering of body, TRUE armor. Krytan… I can get around. Even though I prefer a lot more ranger armors like Norn, Monument, Deldrimor. And I feel they fit GW2 coat-universe more, too. For no coats, I’d pick something more like Elite Canthan of Assassin (or brotherhood version of Anton), or hell, even some dervish armor, like ancient or primeval. And light… Don’t even get me started. Oh you did. Alright. For light I’d love to see, billion times more, things like Asuran Necro armor or Elite Sunspear or Primeval Elementalist armor. And if you HAD to go for thing like Profane, why not Ele Obsidian? It looks so much more better. Or If you went with that heavy armor, why not Eve’s? They’re together on your poster, you know.

But no, you HAD to go ahead with this trend. Or, should I say, even worse. Don’t get me wrong, I like SOME of your armors. Like the Primeval. Or Magitech armor. Some poeple like Braham armor, I know. But when I look on your latest addition, and generally, what you are doing with female armor, I keep thinking, are you just a bunch of pervs or are there no designers capable of stuff there?

Because, and I’m not talking about the Flame set (I’ll get to that later) the last gem set you added had really good heavy armor! Good enough to compete with CoE armor and such. Well, FOR MALES ONLY. I’m FED UP with your skirts, fishnets and lingerines on females. Are half of you ex-Lineage-players or do you think a girl is going to win fights by wearing skirts while the males go ahead and take the hits? And I can go on and on and on that…

But let’s not go on with that and go on with something else. Flame armor. Really? When I first went to check dulfy to see what it was about, when I saw it in launcher, I thought it was a joke.

Human, cultural EXCLUSIVE armor, T3, worth 120gold, freaking 120g is a huge achievement for new player. And you slap some fire on it and sell it. And made it availible to all races. So I guess, aside the fact that cultural is still yellow quality, there’s NO, ZERO point in getting it aside achievement.

Next, medium armor. Temple skin. Again, exclusive. Difficult to obtain (do you know how hard it is to obtain it with proper stats you’d like, with champion train you formed not caring a bit about temples) and again, you just slap some fire on it and sell it.

And last, karma lvl 30 armor. I do have to agree that some karma armor is nice looking. But this one? Really? Seriously? Taking the one and only karma armor I skip when leveling and slap fire on it and sell it?

Are the people allowing this happen revolting and rebelling by doing this against something your employers did? Because… I can’t think of other reason why you would do this unless you REALLY don’t want them to sell.

I like the toxic stuff you added, true, you could let us change the glow. Or on Achievement point armor. Or, make it the same glow color as the weapons you released with it in chest. Because… That’d give sense you know. But I still like those.

But I can’t get over what’s going on with the armors you release anymore.

I like to support your game by buying stuff, you know. I like the fresh ideas you put into it. And I put a LOT of money into the game. Yeah I did… But I think I’m stopping now. And it’s not only the armors, you know.

Greetings,
ever since I first encountered Scarlet in this new event, I wondered….

Would it be possible to get Scarlet’s “Die die die. Die die, die die die.” quote from Guild Wars 2 to let’s say… Ring tone? I have streaming and recording software myself, but I’m asking this because I’m worried about the legal side of this act.

If any developer reads this, would you give any insight on this, please?

Regards
Genethitami (Lu Sangre, Piken Square)

There are a lot of topics about this, I thought I’d just add my own bit into this.

Weapons:
Two-Handed axes
Spears (Melee and thrown)
Staff (For melee combat) (Could be even two/three section ones)
Whips (I love the NIghtmare Court’s ones!)
Flails (Maybe animated mace skins?)
Throwing knives (Why not? I mean, we got throwing axes, could be chakrams)
Scythes (Yes and yes and yes! A ton of people LOVED dervishes!)
Crossbows (The edge before guns and bows)
Sickle (Even if not fancy, using such gathering tool for weak combat would be fun!)
Hand weapons (Fangs, knuckles, push daggers, kataras, pata (sword gauntlet))
Fan (Because, beauty is often deadly, too!)
Pistol/Gun Swords/Blades (They are real, in the history, a new class with mastery of both could use them)

More enviromental weapons for karma for PvE that we could keep! (I love the freeze gun! I got it somewhere and I got completely NO clue where. It was one of those things you use once and it disappears. Why not permanent ones? Maybe from Black Lion for Gems?)

With some of these weapons the ability to switch between melee and ranged mode would be extra awesome!

Animations.
We can hold one handed sword only. We can hold one pistol only (even with nice skill for thief). It would be nice to hold these with both hands, as it would seem more “realistic” because the user would use the power of both hands to handle such.

- Also, crouch option would be nice. Not as animation but as button thing. Like, crouch to shoot like in training at Queensdale.

More casual town clothes.
So far we got nice costumes from Halloween, Wintersday, we got Pirate, Chef. But no truly “casual” town clothes to select from.

Guild Wars 1 Costumes (Maybe costume slots, too?)
In GW1 I had whole collection of costumes and I really miss them! Is there a chance any of them will make a comeback? Maybe ability to add them to HoM (like, four max) for players who already have them?

- Don’t get me wrong, I love Krytan and Primeval armors. But I reeeeally dislike Profane. I’d much more love to see Asuran Light Armor, or maybe, some of the high-end GW1 armors. I got primeval for two characters and krytan for like four. But Profane never appealed to me. Neither did Krytan female version, even though it fits, sometimes I feel female characters with medium armor need more fancy coats.

- Maybe some light-looking costume armor for heavy armor character. I really want a hood for my guardian character and I bet some other players would get it, too!

Races:
I would really love to see Tengu! I guess that is probable to come with Cantha expansion (if there will be any!) but just saying, I love those bird people. On the other hand, my girlfriend loves those adorable quaggans and their warriors. And there are also hyleks(frogmen, heket), skritt, each adding to the cause to stop the Elder Dragons as fighters. Also, playable Centaurs would be nice as well! There are also dredges, krait (naga), grawles, harpies, jotun, can’t forget them!

- As Elona – as far as I know – ended in a war with Risen vs Undead of Joko, there could be some undead based races, which would be very, very cool! Examples could be simply undead, fleshreavers, demons. There’s just so much to choose from!

- Exclusive playable races for Gem unlock worth of Digital? Like, Seer Surviror, Mursaat Renegade, Forgotten, Largos Outcast?

- And minor races of the World? Like imps, snow beasts, yeti, wardens (from the depths of Kurzick Forest – would love to see them!!), maybe some evolved dinosaur race?

Classes:
Marksman – Oriented on ranged weapons purely. Acces to both bows, rifles and maybe something thrown.
Assassin – Yes, yes, yes. Theif = assassin. BUT. Thief is purposed to be stealthly, sneaky. Assassin would be more of a bruiser.
Dervish/Ritualist/Paragon – Comeback from each of those would be nice. I do realize we have Guardian connected to Gods, Ranger connected to Spirits, Necromancer connected to Undead, but really, who played GW1 and doesn’t miss those?

Change of names! We already got makeover packs so why not names?

Separate title for PvE and WvW exploring!

Alliances, guild halls, guild capes!

That… Is all I can think off. Add your own wishes! Maybe we’ll be seen!

Anyone got any zkeys or coins they wouldn’t need?

Regards,
Lu

Dramatic Uke Lu in gw1,
in gw2 I tried to whisper you earlier today. (Kaylee Sangre, all of my GW2 characters got Sangre as surname).

@GummiBear
Try to get the Black Moa, there’s point for that, also, for finishing Cantha, you get the chance to charm Imperial Phoenix.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Black_Moa
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Imperial_Phoenix

Also, if you got Eye of the North, you could do what I did, find solid heroway on PvX (build for heroes for Hard Mode) and vanquish Eye of the North areas for titles.

Vanquishing Kurzick and Luxon areas gives factions which are able to trade in for jade and amber, still, the problem is money for Kurzick/Luxon Elite armor.

I can help giving out some mats, not many but every little bit helps.

Also Nay of the Ether.8913 and @Navi.7142 I'd very much love those! I'm usually on gmail: Genethitamigmail.com (also on google messenger) or skype (Lu.vito).

@Everyone
Someone in GW2 told me there is a heroway for DoA and also for most dungeons HM, anyone could by any chance have this build?

Regards
Lu

Thank you for replying
I need any, any two hero armors. Also, I was thinking of tormented weapon because that’d kill two birds with one stone: 5 weapon statues and tormented weapon statue.
Also, I completely forgot about the Moa chick! Thanks! ^^

Bump.
Hi, I worked on this a lot and I’m missing only three last things:
Unique Minipet
Tormented Weapon
Two Hero armors

Regards,
Lu

Greetings,
I’m usually called Lu or Biel and during my short time for which I’m playing Guild Wars 2 I found out that I’m still missing several points in Hall of Monuments for GW2 rewards. I wanted to make this topic for all players who are also missing points to ask what they’re missing for 30 points for full rewards.

For me, I’m missing:
Uniquie Minipet
Luxon/Kurzick/Obsidian armor set
Tormented weapon
Two sets of companion armor

I’m also looking for any, even tiny amount of coin/materials for more weapons, armor sets, or any help aquiring those.

Contact on me:
I’m on Piken Square server, Lahabiel Sangre/Lu Sangre
Genethitami@gmail.com

Regards
Lu