Guild Wars 2

Arenanet, I’m sorry people have been so critical of you, including myself. I think you’re great, you have a beautiful past and have a beautiful future to look forward to. I don’t want to demand something you cannot do, I think the main concern here is whether it can be done. Is there a way to get Cantha re-existant? Will Ncsoft try to work it out with some sort of compromise on our part? I know there isn’t much you can say without making it seem like an announcement of an expansion or a lack thereof. We just like what you’ve created and we want you to succeed.

I think there’s room for tweaking to the point where the continent is not entirely east asian but retains the Canthan feel. The Kurzicks and Luxons for example. They seemed more fantasy than anything else, and the fact that they are now united provides alot of room for their unique cultures to influence the architecture and culture of the new Empire. Maybe it can be more Roman empire feeling, adding a culture like that to the mix really takes it away from being solely Asian and creates something more fictional. I’m not sure how many would agree with me on this, but If it takes a compromise like this to bring Cantha back, it should be something to at least consider. the creative investment Arenanet put into that continent is totally worth it.

Anet, thanks for being so patient with these constant complaints. Some people don’t know how to balance criticism with personal issues. Don’t kick yourself over Scarlet, just continue what you’re doing and I’m sure you’ll have something better planned for the next arch. You’re still the Arenanet that made the beloved Guild Wars Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North. We all make mistakes, and it wasn’t even a big mistake, it’s just a character we don’t like. You’re smart people though and you have your reasons for doing what you do, and WE DON’T HAVE TO KNOW THE REASONS YET. So, know I trust you and I appreciate the fact that you can stomach some of this reading.

Will Santa hats ever be made? That’s a guaranteed in every other mmo with a winter event, it’s expected if we’ve gotten Gandalf hats, I expect Santa hats.

p.s. I miss Cantha.

Chrispy.5641:

Here’s how I look at it….

If its all Temporary, then I won’t care much for the October 1st update, because all it does is add a new path to an already existing dungeon that will last for a grand total of about 28 days. Why spend the months of hard work on something that is only temporary? I will play it for about a day, depending on how hard the content is, then probaly forget it ever existed in two weeks, like much of the other Living Story/World.

Whether you play it or not is your own thing, but the fact that I absolutely have to log on every time an update is sneezed out to understand the story (also load up the guildwars2 webpage to read out of game short stories), just spells out ‘FORCED’ with great big letters to me.

If Anet is going to atleast put some sort of Living Story overview in the game somewhere, then the content wont feel so forced anymore, and I wouldn’t mind it at all because I wont have to log in every other week just to keep up with the story and other players. Since that wont be happening any time soon, I don’t care for the these updates all that much (also, Achievement Points don’t matter much to me, since the time it take to get those rewards you would have gotten ten times that amount just playing the game (except for a pitiful boost to experience, karma, magic find, and gold, and also some weapon and armor skins. Im not going to miss those!)

If its Permanent, which some people seem to point to, then Great! I’ll get to it when I get to it. It might be in October, It might be July next year, whenever. I will go enjoy the story when I want to go enjoy the story, not when someone else tells me I have to. I Enjoyed the Gw2 Personal Story, and I remember characters like Tybalt Leftpaw really well, because no one was trying to force the character down our throats. Scarlet? I still don’t know what she’s all about. Canach? wth ever happened to him? What about…whoever, it was that, we captured in the Aetherblade retreat? Ellen? So, since she’s been elected to that position, she’s gone from the Living World for now? if so, GREAT! I was getting tired of getting her story shoved in our faces, and constantly stealing the spotlight from the players anyways!

If Guild Wars 2 is a Great game (which I and other people generally think it is), then let the game speak for itself and stand on its own, leave worrys about player numbers, $$$ from the gem store, and the temporary illusion of full servers every other tuesday out of the equation.

I agree so much with you. I really like the Guild Wars world, I’ve liked it since Prophecies but I think it’s important to add, this world doesn’t feel immersive anymore. There are no secrets and honestly, you’re not the hero because there’s a big army of flooded people trying to get through the short term content with you, so you feel like a number. I remember doing a poll early on about short term content after the first one-time scheduled event happened, I think it was a dragon attacking places or something. Since the world of GW2 was still new to me I put on that poll that I’d like to see new short term events, this poll won and what emerged was the living story we all know and… love? I think it’s great that anet pushed the boundries and tried something incredibley new but honestly, Guild Wars 2 has become my least frequently played MMO because I just can’t handle the constant new temporary content. The only permanent thing we’ve been getting at the end of it is backpacks, and after awhile, they’re going to fill up our inventory because they’re bound.

Now, back in the day, the most similar thing to this system was the Guild Wars 1 Holiday events and the hats /costumes. The best thing about this was you could get the hat/item on any character or all of your characters, and if you didn’t have the space for it, it was documented by the hat keeper and you could drop the hat in the bottomless trashcan and if your whim decided it wanted it back, it only cost a few coins.

So, to make sense of what I’m trying to say, I’m saying is if anet is not going to return to permanent content like they had in gw1, they should have better methods of reaping the permanent rewards.

Thanks. I’ll check it out!

Anjasa.7869:

Hi there. You might be interested in Pathforgers, depending on what you want out of a guild. You will have to sign up and apply on our guild site, but it really makes a difference in the quality of members we get If interested, check our recruitment here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Pathforgers-Institute-RP-Tarnished-Coast/first#post848537

Hello. I understand Tarnished Coast is the unofficial roleplaying server and I’m in it to find a guild that does that. I’ve been a member of the GW community since 2006 and I’m well aquainted with the lore. I have much Roleplaying expirience from LOTRO so I’m not new to it although I can probably be taught a thing or two. I am sometimes not playing the game for a week or so at a time. I have backstories to my gw1 characters and am working on some for my gw2 characters. I would like to apply via these forums so that I don’t have to make accounts to a guild I’m not yet a member of but if recruitment via the guild’s site is required I won’t resist.

Ty,

I agree with some of these things expect the following:
1. race change. This would drastically change your personal story. As an alternative they could have makeovers like they did in GW1 where you could change the looks of your character or even do an extreme makeover and change the gender.

2. crafting proffessions all at once. You can always switch your crafting proffessions without losing your progress in them. It’s overwhelming to have all at the same time. They try to keep only two at a time to balance the in-game economy.

I won’t elaborate on the others…

What I do like:
-Name-change, I think I want to change one of my character’s names.
-Housing (in addition to guild halls (during earlier development of the game there was talk of actually having housing within the guild halls which would be like towns and then if you are not in a guild hall you just have a house), although I do see that it would take players out of the main game world and make the cities a bit more lifeless).

-Pirate battles, can proabaly have a better name. If it was even just the option to join a band of privateers on a moving ship and start pillaging krait cities and fighting pirates would be great. (privateers because Anet does try to keep things good guys vs. bad guys, unless they could make pirates somehow good) But overall I love the idea of sea combat on boat. Maybe even have a dynamic event where a kraken is summoned by a krait sorcerer and attacks your ship and some of the crew have to go underwater to fight it while others have to make repairs and fight the out-of-water tentacles, so that underwater-combat (which Anet put much time and effort into) isn’t overlooked.