Guild Wars 2

I believe the most recent explanation was that they needed animators to make new animations, who were probably secretly working on HoT at the time, and have since then had over 9000 opportunities to do this.

There is clearly no intent to bring these back at Anet, and the absolute lack of communication on this regard screams willful ignorance to me.

Edit:

As a former gw2 player who used to play regularly and spent hundreds of $ on this game every year, it’s things like this that made me quit the game. This particular issue might not be the number one reason why i’m not enjoying the game anymore, but it’s definitely played a role in my loss of interest so i just want to emphasize how disheartening this thread has been as a whole and how it ended up impacting my commitment to this game.

Just to quickly recap, this issue has been reported almost two years ago, and as this thread gained traction and got merged with other threads asking for the animations to be fixed or put back in, Gaile Gray eventually jumped in and announced that the issue was actively being looked at and that it would probably take some time since they need to assign a dev to reconfigure the animation parcels.

Well that was over a year ago, and since then, there hasn’t been any news or update despite many players asking for exactly that. So what we’re left with here is an issue that has been known for over two years, an issue that was aknowledged as needing fixing, and a big whole lot of nothing since then.

I know this isn’t the end of the world or even such a big issue at all, but the way it was handled left a pretty sour taste in my mouth, just like many things that have / haven’t been done since HoT’s release. I’m left with the impression that ANet just doesn’t care, or even have enough respect for it’s paying customers to provide them with an update, because who cares right?. Well I don’t… not anymore.

That’s it for me, it’s the little things that used to make this game great, and like a lot of other little things, this one is gone, and so is my wallet.

Which is probably a good thing, at the moment i don’t believe the amount I paid for HoT was worth what we got. 5 whole months have passed and still no idea when the wvw overhaul will be, no ls3 before a full year after release, and now this.

And still no human female idle animation replacement that were promised like… 15 months ago now? 16?

Raxzor.5946:

After today’s news from Mike, has anyone changed their mind about pre-ordering the next expansion when they are not delivering on what they promised?

Never in a thousand years unless it’s 100% done and i decide it’s worth the price they’re asking for it… If i’m still playing at all that is.

eNeRgOo.5463:

THIS GAME IS NOT ABOUT LEGENDARIES kitten .
Wake up. Content is more important than shooting mobs with flowers, kittenes or other weird things. You have lots of legendaries, other ones can wait. Living Story vol 3 Please! :*
Malyck! :* Rata Novus :*

What’s great about gw2 is there’s a little bit of everything. There’s something for everyone to do. While legendaries might not be what gw2 is about for YOU, it might just be the most important thing about the game for someone else.

I’m going to take a step back and set all emotions aside for a moment.
I think it’s been a trend over the recent years at ArenaNet to set arguably unrealistic timetables and goals for the release of new content.

What we are seeing here is probably Mike stepping in and taking the 1st step towards adjusting that, and it makes a lot of sense.

Of course there’s going to be a LOT of flak… but looking at the bigger picture? i really hope this means more realistic goals for the future.

/raises flame shield

I don’t really know what to think atm… new legendaries were advertised as being part of HoT content but at the rate new content is being developped anyways its probably better off prioritizing more critical content releases.

I sincerely hope you guys at ArenaNet manage to deliver, because content drought is hard, and as evidenced by multiple posts in this thread, player satisfaction levels are dwindling.

No idea what that guy is on about. In my 3 something years on BG i’ve been the very definition of a fairweather pug. Never joined a dedicated wvw guild, but i always enjoyed good fights, and there’s always been plenty to be had on BG.

Most commanders welcome fairweathers with open arms provided you stay on tag and dont overreach etc…

Not a single time have i been told to kitten off, or have i seen a comm telling pugs to gtfo their raid. Even in the event where i caught a closed raid running across my screen and joined in for the fights.

BG might not be as pug oriented as JQ but it isnt in any way toxic either.

Get your facts straigt mang.

DeceiverX.8361:

Snip.

I share that sentiment entirely. HoT has left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. Even now after the AmA and all the interaction that happened on reddit after Colin’s departure, i still feel mostly left in the dark about what and when to expect the finished product i already paid for months ago.

Fool me once…

Would this issue be worthy of being added on the list pretty please?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Female-human-only-has-1-animation-now/first

http://help.guildwars2.com/entries/98802888

As of now, this issue didn’t make the list.

Another bug fix/polish update and not a single kitten given about this issue.
But hey at least there’s yet another glider skin in the gemstore… sigh.

I can confirm that BnS has some pretty neat human female idle animations… just saiyan.

One small step in the right direction. Not enough to get me to log in though. Soon… maybe? Nah… there’s probably more nerfs in the pipeline.

I think I have had enough for now.

Sure, you’ll say play another class well i have most classes 80 and geared and that’s not the point. The class I enjoy playing the most is Thief, and right now I’m not having fun. Open world PvE is still the same old, HoT maps are becoming wastelands, WvW outside of prime time is totally empty, Dungeons are no more, fractals have arguably become useless and the cherry on top I can’t raid on my favourite class. I can barely motivate myself to do dailies these past few days anyways, so I think it’s time i took a break from the game and come back in a few months to see if things have changed at all. Farewell fellow thieves, keep fighting the good fight, and see y’all later.

You know there’s something wrong with your class when camping shortbow is now considered a valid strategy.

Next tuesday in patch notes:

Thief: we felt thieves needed a little something to help their party progress through raids and decided to include a new stolen item to all raid bosses.

“The towel”
Activate this stolen item at any time during the encounter to immediately remove yourself from your squad, and be teleported back to the raid entrance, effectively throwing in the towel.

This is pretty sad, and we saw it coming. Thief might do decent damage but seeing as everything we can do, another class can do better, all in all there’s no justifiable reason to pick a thief over a (insert class name here) other than ‘’I like playing thief mmkay?’’.

Wait, so all they did was say ‘’boom, we’re done, not claiming world first btw’’
It was already public knowledge that they were testing it… why is this a big deal?

Edit: Ahh, i see the hashtag up there ^, yea that might have been a bit misleading.

I thought it was obvious that by accepting early access in order to help make the raids better, they were relinquishing any rights to claim world first? Did I miss something?

I realise that you can never make everyone happy all the time, I think people were unhappy with the lack of open world repeatable end-game content before, and that is what they have introduced in HoT. However in doing so, they seem to have also singnificantly undermined the rest of their end-game content, namely dungeons, wvw and fractals. The end result, at least in my opinion is that there really isn’t much more to do at any given time, and eventually i got bored.

At least the beauty of a B2P mmo is that you can stop playing whenever you get bored and not feel punished because of a sub, which is what i shall do once more if the feeling of entertainment and desire to play doesn’t come back with raids.

For farming orr events and such i find staff/sb to be very effective. Vault on staff hits 5 targets, throw a fire sigil on there for some extra tagging. Cluster bomb for easy pickings is a staple. For extra large mob packs like during the arah event and balth, make sure to pop dagger storm to tag every single mob and profit.

It’s effective at farming but not very afkeable as you have to aim skills. Staff guardian is usually the preferred setup as you can pretty much keep your finger on 1 and let the loot roll in while watching a movie or something.

“Yes guys, its still in the queue and we’ll get to it eventually. We’re sorry but we’re doing the best we can with the HoT release and all the bug fixes’’

‘’At this time it’s not something we’re considering any more, because there are many other things we need to focus on.’’

‘’NEVER! we don’t care so stop pestering us!’’

Any of the above examples would satisfy me at this point. At least having an update on the issue to know if it’s still in the works. Or then at least give us some closure so we can nerdrage and eventually move on.

Depends what you like most I guess, both are pretty awesome. I have a feeling DH will receive some slight adjustements in the near-ish future though.

lol no idea, i’ve been holding on to a set just because. Haven’t tried it in armor yet though.

Yes x1000. At least make the new backpieces dyeable, i absolutely love the new design of the ascended whispers backpack, but the color scheme doesn’t fit my thief at all… I mean how much work would it take to add dyeable channels to the current ones?

/15c

That’s nothing, i saw a thief one shot a chicken the other day, this is unacceptable, chickens are people too!

Well there’s a 15k cap on daily/old monthly ap, so given time you’ll eventually catch up.

Tapioca.9062:

I threw some trash rares up on the TP earlier today, came back later, checked on them and saw that people had strongly undercut me and then people had undercut them further until there was a price difference of something like 10-15 silver.

All my items still sold within a timeframe of around six hours or so anyway. All they’re doing is gouging into their own profit margins.

^This^

It happens very often that i’ll check on my sell order progress to find out that some random tp social justice warrior tried to bring the price real close to buy order price and i can’t help but facepalm as i know full well that it’ll be back to normal values next time i check. It baffles me even more when it’s in fast moving markets, I just don’t see the point. That being said, too bad for them, I know my markets and all they’re really doing is, well… nothing but lose out on potential gold gains.

I totally saw you at SB earlier and even said hi and everything, but I didn’t know it was your 15th Anniversary with Anet

Happy 15th Gaile!

Everything that’s in the gem shop can be earned with in game gold, I don’t see a problem here.

Shield 5 in practice just isn’t useful. Might be good for wvw you say? Nope. It’s a suicide button at best because of the root. The only use i’ve found for it so far is pve boss fights and even that is debatable.

The thing is all this time we’ve been taught stay out of the red circles. Coming from thief it feels incredibly unintuitive to just stand still for 3 seconds while i could just have dodged out of the way, so just end up dodging and not using it.

They did try a fix but when they tried to compile they got error: no valid path to target

Did the whole Dragon Stand meta without a single crash! Yay!

\o/ Sign me up!! Oh Emm Gee!! \o/
Color me impressed, Anet.
Very impressed.

Thief is definitely still good in pve, like sparrow said it’s not quite as faceroll as warrior but if you find yourself struggling, you can always run Invigorating precision on top of signet of malice, at the (arguably high) cost of no quarter. Makes everything almost as afk-eable as warrior while you get used to the class mechanics.

Is there still a place for thieves in the meta? We’ll see when raids go live. On top of stealth, vuln and blind spam we also bring one of the best single target deeps, but not much group utility.

Doesn’t seem to have helped so far, still crashing left and right.

I remember having resentment towards Trahearne but that was a long time ago, when the time came i actually felt bad a little inside. But i mean… at least it was well done and he went with his dignity.

I’ll bite, will report here in a few days.

First of all, congratulations Anet on the relatively smooth launch of HoT. I’ve been having tremendous fun zipping through the battlefield on my daredevil. The mobility, the high risk high reward playstyle is there for me. The PvE aspect of thief is in a pretty solid place right now imo, and i absolutely love the fast paced playstyle and versatility of staff, and the new increased open world difficulty.

My only gripe so far is getting one shotted by unavoidable (untelegraphed) sources of damage in large fights on zerker gear. I want to clarify that i’m not talking about messing up, If you get downed by rolling devils, or pocket raptors, stand in sniper ground aoe or stay in the red well then you messed up and that’s your fault. What i mean is there are some ranged attacks right now that some enemies do, that have no clear telegraphs and instantly down you.

One clear example i can give is The Itzel ranged dudes (not the shadowleapers) especially of the elite variety and above. While doing events these guys will often switch aggro and one shot me from range without any perceptible telegraph. This right here is what i consider unavoidable damage in large scale fights and while unavoidable damage is fine, it should definitely not one-shot KO a thief.

Playing a zerk thief overall should be rewarding good timing and skilled use of the new dodge system, not punishing zerk wearers by introducing unavoidable damage sources that 1 hit ko you.

Have any of you guys had similar experiences?

And the cherry on top: You can now buy the fractal skin of your fancy desires for ~90g on the TP today!

No reason to step foot in there ever again!
GG Anet!

Rip prestige

/15copper

Please fix this Anet, just now crashed 3 times during dragon’s stand, the last time as mouth was dying, rip rewards, rip xp, rip 1h30 mins of my life. That and seeing how hard, tedious and stressful it is to actually get back in the map is totally sapping the fun for me atm.

It’s cosmetic fluff. 2000 gems isnt that high considering what’s included in the pack imo. Plus you get to have one exclusive weapon skin early.

Here we go, thought i’d post here with the newly released ley stone shoulders and gloves

Login seems to be back up, still giving me the same error though.

Edit: Can confirm, am playing. bye now!! <3

Just casually bumping this thread, also I decided to make a Charr revenant instead to avoid having to look at the constant ‘’hair shuffle’’.

I’m loving it as well. I feel like it could use a slight (read very very very slight) increase in range, however. Sometimes the sword’s visual model looks like it’kittenting stuff and it’s still a miss. Maybe it’s just the sword i’m using but yeah, annoying.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

I’ll be looking into this, it looks like a change I made previously to fix it didn’t make it to live.

That’s great to hear, thank you.
It’s really getting on my nerves atm.