Guild Wars 2

DoctorDing.5890:

No thank you. I’m very happy with the time gate and the untradable nature of them because it means that some crafting is still worthwhile.

If you can’t be bothered to spend a few seconds charging a crystal most days for a couple of weeks then you don’t deserve the armour imo.

Nothing stops you of not buying them if they would be tradable or charge more then 1. The idea behind changing the timegate or trade/ untradable is so it because a bit more accessible to people.

While everyone has their own reason to get them, one very important aspect would that making it more accessible would motivate people to try new builds such as the celestial one. There are plenty of builds nobody has tried or bothers with because of the time it takes. ( full set takes +-2 months)

I will agree with you that the game lacks meaningful crafting

Best regards,
Halbarz

first of all thank you for your feedback folks.

The price would increase and I believe you when you say 2x or even 3×.
To counter this big price influx, just increasing it to 3-5 charges a day would help then a complete removal of the time gate + what stops Anet of adding a couple of extra nodes in dry top for example or to increase the amount one nodes. Maybe even add it part of the reward for killing champs in Dry top. The price would not increase that much that way

Dear Anet,

Being able to only create 1 Charged Quartz crystal is a bit ridiculous. I understand that crafting the celestial gear is something that you want people to work for but at least let us make 3-5 a day. it’s already a challenge to get the quartz crystal itself due to lack of nodes.

The celestial armor for example is great set and would be used more often by people if they could experiment with it easier and figure out new builds. Also it is rather weird that the ascended Insignia is not account bound and the exotic is.

Ps: When can we expect jeweler and chef to go to 500 ?

Dear all,

First of all not sure where exactly to post this.
World bosses in Gw2 have always been a part of the immersion for me they bring the world to live and are unique in it’s kind compared to other mmo’s.

My question is then as well will we get new world bosses such as Claw of Jormag, Tequila and etc? Will also the older bosses be revamped, the things they did with the Shatterer is great and I think some of the other bosses could use the same love.

What could be a potential new world boss? a Claw of Jormag version for the fire dragon?

I do want to thank the dev team for the work they did this year and continue doing so.
Keep up the good work, you folks should be proud of yourselfs

Best regards,
Halbarz

Tyger.1637:

If it’s going in the gemstore; it’d better be an outfit.

That would be best I agree. I am not sure about the tech side of things, but I think this is a reasonable thing to do and since they already make tonics having them in there would be perfect.

With the addition of the Endless Tonic I was wondering if this would not be something nice for Anet to add to the Gemstore in the future with different races. Priced at 350/400 gems this would be a great addition in my opinion and could easily replace the booster section n the store. While it is a great ingame reward, I also believe this would be a good way to earn cash for Anet and give us more playable races with these tonics.

Guild Wars 2 has introduced plenty of races by now with the story that they could add several to the store and I am pretty sure they would be bought by a lot of people, combining this with the shared inventory = a good deal in my opinion.

I hope to see a red post here or in the WvW forum in general.
If Anet would at least tell us what they are working on, with a reply to what people have been discussing here.

The reason that we see a lot of posts regarding “we want this and that” or “this has to change” is because we get no input from the dev team.

Mikhael.2391:

I keep saying. Fix balance in wvw classes and everything else will seem smaller issues.

an easy solution would be to introduce the SPvP system.
Just pick your weapons, sigils, runes and an amulet.
This would make it easier to balance classes + they can keep the rewards / loot that they have as it can be used for people their Pve Mode chars.

Nighteyess.2149:

Rink.6108:

I think what the community wants is shown in this topic: everyone wants different things to be addressed and some people have a hard time understanding that their opinion may be a minority or a bad idea in the context of the whole game (and I admit, I am struggling with that as well myself sometimes).

I think what all WvW guys want is to be taken seriously. I think the WvW community would be happier if Arenanet had someone on this forums to talk, publish their positions, react on good ideas etc. if possible someone from inside the WvW scene. It is easier to understand why something isn’t changed if we know “why” or that they are working on it etc. It wouldn’t change the game itself, but it would change our perception of it.

WTF! A reasonable and intelligent post? who let you on the internet?

I agree , while I do want many things it would mean a lot to just have someone from Anet listen to us and do a Poll on important things and not on cannons … !

1) Fix siege – (range, damage, …)
2) WvW is about PvP not trebbing one tower from the other …
3) Rewards that are actually nice and good (ascended stuff, backpieces, …)
4) Have all skills unlocked for WvW (Like Spvp)
5) Bring back the old upgrade system
6) Fix the landscape
7) Fix the towers and keeps (what walls can be hit and what not) Makes no sense Anza = every wall can be destroyed.
8) Fix the kittenm SKILL LAG!

Dear all,

With Halloween around the corner I was hoping that it would have been possible to get Ghastly grinning shield skin from farming the maze but without luck. I saw on the AH that is super expensive and I am saving up for it but it takes a long time to get there. With my Revenant being fully geared for it’s dark side theme (the kind of setting I play the game with this char) It just misses that shield.

If people could help with some of the funding every penny is welcome or even better with the shield I would be very grateful <3

Make the WvW tournament rewards permanent, instead of 25 tickets ask 250 badges , 200 tickets ask 2000 badges. Atleast it will give us something to save up for or work on.
As you are aware Anet WvW could use some extra rewards, so instead of throwing away the tournament rewards unlock them.

This is easy to do and will make plenty of people happy.
In the meanwhile you can also add a ascended backpiece maybe

Dear all,

Anet has to do a WvW rework patch to fix many of the issue’s we have.
Instead of making thousands of threats with each a different issue why not post it all in one ?

My suggestions:

Siege weapons:
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- Take out field cannons
- reduce the damage of siege weapons in general (except rams and cata’s on gate/walls)
- reduce the range on some of the siege weapons such as ballista’s, trebs and arrow carts. (to push the WvW community to fight not to sit inside a tower until the other towers wall is down. )
- rework the masteries to provide more defense against while using a siege weapon, instead of boosting it’s damage.

Characters in WvW:
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Odd suggestion maybe but here it comes:
- Use the same model for Spvp in WvW
– Template chars – just pick your traits, an amulet, weapons (with X stats) and your sigils + runes.
– Keep the rewards you have to help people build up their Pve character
– Easier access to WvW for both new and old players
– Should be easier to balance
– Makes the game more transparent with the other modes.

Progression in WvW:
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- With the Template chars , the rewards could stay the same.
- Progression based on ranks can stay in the game, same goes for the mastery system.
- Rewards should be spread evenly though amongst Pve – PvP and WvW.
– Add long term goals such as Ascended armor , backpieces, … that people can use then for Pve and as a skin for WvW/Spvp

Small scale pvp/roamers:
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- rescale the way rewards are given.
– Receive more WvW exp per kill or to take objectives (increase by 20%)
– Add a scouting feature to the game, each tower can have up 3 scouts checking in. This adds rewards them periodically when building siege or while they have siege inside that tower.

These are just a few suggestions. Feel free to post yours or give feedback.

Best regards,
halbarz

Dear all,

I don’t post often ( once a year or so) but I ran into an issue. I have to many different currencies that I am a bit lost and don’t know what to buy with them. While gearing characters I always a good way to burn through some tokens it is also kinda limited.

For this I would want to suggestion some simple changes that will help:
- People gear (old and new players)
- Make some content relevant again
- Make players with a 1000’s of tokens spend some

Gearing People up:
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Keep the exotic gear in the game from dungeons, it’s something many people like and it’s a good stepping stone. There is also the idea that you could expand on it by adding ascended gear with the relevant stats (no need for new armor skins even you can use the current ascended armor ones or apply the dungeons skins to them) of the dungeons exotic rewards.

If you feel like this might make things to easy, reward loot chests that have a chance of getting Dungeons X Ascended armor.

Example: Chest piece : 500 dungeon tokens from X + 5 stabalizing matrixes + 200 fractal relics.

Doing it like this would not only help Pve Players but even though slowly help WvW or SPvP players get a chance at getting their chars geared.

Making content relevant:
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Let’s face it dungeons are pretty dead now days, I think the above suggestion would not bring it back to 40 groups looking to do CoF but at least bring people back to them a bit + combined with the dungeon daily it’s a good bonus.

Spending it all Yaay:
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- Add some guild hall donation npc’s that you can donate your ( for example) fractal relics too, in return for Merits or Merits scraps ( 10 scraps = 1 merit) This could be linked to that npc unlocking a fractal base in the guild hall.

- Second of all add housing to the game or let people use fractal, dungeon tokens, laurels and etc into some small upgrades for the home instance ( add a few vendors (dungeons vendors, fractal vendors, ….)

- Add a system to the game where that we can also unlock npc’s at some camps by spending X’s currency ( a fractal vendor for 500)

These are just some suggestions, I think everyone has their own idea on things and it’s important for Anet to know what people are thinking. So People go ahead post your idea’s or say what you think of mine

Have a wonderful day,
halbarz

Dear Anet,

Could you please inform us about the following, I was looking at my gf play the beta, I noticed that there are no hearts on the map is this intended?

I have noticed that the mobs have new skills and etc all cool, but still they feel very easy to kill even with the beta gear on the revenant. Will they be scaled up before launch?

I really like the way of the voice acting in the story, nice to see your char talking, will this be done to the older story as well?

Will we see the current dungeons being upgraded and more difficult?

If people have more questions post below.

Dear Anet,

This expansion is your shot to greatness, at this moment the MMO market is just terrible. No game out there atm interests players, and people are looking for something new! Make this expansion worth it then for them to come to gw2. Do not rush it and add everything to the expansion that is needed to be the best one ever. If you do this right, you will have big big sales and have a lot of new players. I can see that the expansion for what we have seen is very focused on the current players, but please make it as well for new or returning players. Even that we do not care that much about dungeons, it is something people want to see, it shows good on the box ( was an example).

I guess my point is Anet, this year is your shot to be the best and gain a lot of players!
So make this expansion as perfect as possible, delay it even !

Dear Anet,

Please change the classes so they are balanced more:
This is what I would like to see for the classes I play.

For ranger, make the class like gw1, zerk ranger is fun for a match of call of duty in battle of Kylo, but give us more options! there are builds out there but sadly they are good but not worth it in solo queue

For the thief, make people choice between damage and less stealth and support which gives you stealth. This would make people find the middle way and create something unique. Atm it is just another glass cannon, giving thieves -50% inc damage in stealth is not something that changes the class but even gives us more of a reason to play the same style. Even seeing some traps would be pretty cool but that is just personal.

Warrior, well same as with ALL classes, 1 build to rule them all.

In the end, I feel like Anet is not making the game about skill anymore, but about how zerks first wins. This is how it is, yes I know that this is not the case in ranked and tournaments but it is in 85% of the matches you do.

Sorry if the explanation is a bit weird, I hope you got my point a bit.

Best regards,
Me

I am wondering why no dev is replying here. Would like to get an answer on why some players have 2-5 portals in a freaking day and others get nothing at all over a whole week.

Not kittened off that I have to farm or didn’t get a portal but this RNG thing is broken for sure and no dev comes to give info to us. for their own sake they should just reply and get over with it

penelopehannibal.8947:

Halbarz.3854:

RNG is BS, during the years I have played this thing has caused more headeaches then anything else.

Since launch day = 1 precursor dropped for me in the mystic forge, we are talking about weekly spending a lot of gold on this toilet. (last week I got a spear)

Otherwise I get crap, worst part is that I am even getting used to it. I am used to the fact that I don’t get a rare even in fractal 25-40.

This is not as a complained that RNG should be scrapped, just want to point out that RNG is BS. People in my guild have 2-4 of those portals in 5-6 hours. Others as myself have 0 after 20+ hours in there farming.

10,000+ Hours. Never had a drop, and I don’t care if I do or don’t.

No point in getting upset about loot, just play the game. The game is about killing bad guys, slaying dragons and saving lives, not about trying to create wealth and status!

On a positive note, at least you got one – be glad of that.

not that I am angry, far from. I just believe the system is very unfair. but I don’t care anymore that much

RNG is BS, during the years I have played this thing has caused more headeaches then anything else.

Since launch day = 1 precursor dropped for me in the mystic forge, we are talking about weekly spending a lot of gold on this toilet. (last week I got a spear)

Otherwise I get crap, worst part is that I am even getting used to it. I am used to the fact that I don’t get a rare even in fractal 25-40.

This is not as a complained that RNG should be scrapped, just want to point out that RNG is BS. People in my guild have 2-4 of those portals in 5-6 hours. Others as myself have 0 after 20+ hours in there farming.

Oo when is this patch coming or is it already in game? because it sounds like again Anet has no clue what they are doing.

I agree let us join the hot-join matches, the wait is getting really annoying

I can’t believe someone actually made a post about the power ranger being broken. There are other classes that need serious balancing before the ranger. Let’s all make posts now on how Anet can’t balance the ele, necro, thief, engi ! yaaaaaaaaay

Well I agree with skill to get away or whoever you use them, but in general there are to many skills in the game at the moment that make a player dissapear or port away.
I believe that Anet can do way better then this and make skills that are actually better then the lazy just add stealth or port option.

Centurion did you read ? I guess not what can I expect

I am just saying that in MY opinion there are to many stealth’s and teleports. I wasn’t saying Thief is OP or so as it is not. Actually a special note for you, thieves are fun to fight as they die fast

Is it me or does it feel like every day there is more and more stealth in this game and teleports. it is that bad that sure the warrior will be prob. be able to go into stealth with the next patch. Arenanet wants this game to be competitive then they have work to do.

In my opinion they have look at all the classes at fix everything regarding stealth and teleports, some classes have it all and others don’t. I am not asking to balance out these two actually i suggesting to reduce the amount of skills that give stealth or teleport or change the way they work.

A small example: thieves that teleport up ledges and etc why not make that skill work like the ranger one, where it ports you back a bit to help you survive?

As playing Mesmer, engi, ranger and grd in pvp I am losing the motivation to to play Spvp with the way this is going

FIRST MATCH; i was thinking that this is some kind of pve thing

SECOND MATCH; I get to see that it is more pvp focused and I am having fun

THIRD MATCH; You sold me the game mode, i love it. it is fresh and will be fun to see how it goes live as this map is dynamic based on how the teams react. AWESOME JOB

joneirikb.7506:

Changes to walls

Agreed.

Changes to doors / Gates

Interesting, though I’d prefer 20% less damage with rams, and remove PvD.

Heh, another idea here would be to make each ram within same area do -10% damage to each others. Which would make 1 ram good, 3 still faster, but not as fast as today.

Changes to landscape

No comments

Changes to siege

I actually think this could be a valid solution to the FoC/AC situation.

Changes to policy

Agreed, but I think this is already in there.

I added your idea about the gates, as it is actually a good idea!

Also would like to add that since the ram mastery was added gates even melt faster which is kinda sad, the mastery should be defence based ( more hp or toughness , ….)

Baldrick.8967:

Gates shouldn’t melt to 5/6 rams so fast to give players a chance to defend and rally to defend something that’s being attacked…

There are so many changes that could be made to wvw to make it better, and so many already raised and discussed.

But almost nothing ever changes.

I agree with this, even that I tend to run in small groups capping towers I would like to see the gates have more health and less ram damage this out of a defence point of view

Hi folks and Anet,

Yesterday some of us were talking in WvW and I believe that some of the idea’s people had you could easily apply and would make WvW more of a challenge for big fights.

Changes to walls

- Make walls so that you can’t build siege half way a wall and on the outside make them straight or whatever to fix this stupid thing of placing ac’s to take siege down.

- Make the walls a bit wider, so Aoe’s do not take out siege so easily, or at least make the corners bigger.

Changes to doors / Gates

- Make them so when they are reinforced they cover the whole entrance. this to prevent the take down of inner siege.

- reduce ram damage (20%) and make gates more difficult to take down (more HP – 30%) or another idea here would be to make each ram within same area do -10% damage to each others. Which would make 1 ram good, 3 still faster, but not as fast as today.

Changes to landscape

- infront of mendon take that hill out and make it flat.

- Mendon (bridge part) should be wider with half way two platforms this could make it nice change to siege placing there and actually make it worth defending.

Changes to siege

- when on siege make a fixed camera view and Line of sight, to prevent people to take down siege on the other side of a gate -.-

Changes to policy

- Ban people using zoom hack or the hack to fly.

This are a few things that we talked before in chat and I hope that in some way things are good with the other people in the community. If people have suggestions I would say post them and maybe Anet will listen for once to Wvw players.

Best regards,
me

I agree with the OP this is something that has to be looked into, Anet should take both the zoomhack + this into consideration and fix it for Wvw. As suggested above, make it so that when on siege you have limited view. Zoomhackers should be banned on the spot! then again for that we would need an option in game to report hackers. When reporting it should take a screenshot so people do not get reported randomly. Even that I am sure Anet ingores the fact that these two things ruin Wvw and that they don’t reply on this thread I gave it a shot .

Also Anet, change the walls in WvW so people can’t place siege on a wall to take things down

Hi folks,

I am rather new to guardian and I do like playing around with builds. As I love the hammer on the class I made a build around it but not sure if it is good. I will be hitting 80 this week so please provide me some feedback

For extra info: I will wvw mainly with him.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVQQNArdSlsApbolDxfH8DNRDRlZ8dfYGBZw1HwFGAA-TRCBABVcIA0S5HaKBB4BAU1+D5pPIT1fY4IAEwJAgUAyqyC-e

The whole matchup system is just stupid, Gandara vs AR is ok, but why on earth Fsp they just have way more numbers then those two servers together. Just a joke, the old matchup system was alot better.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

I had to try at least :P

this one made my day thx !

I really like this april’s fool, people that are complaining ( see the other threads ) have no sense of humor and do not know how to have fun Thx Anet having a blast flying around and into german zergs !

Small question before I leave to work, will we still see regular updates now until HoT? with content and etc? If so could Anet give an example of what it could be
or If anyone knows an example please share

Thank you and best regards,
Halbarz

Issue : Same as everyone else
Country: Belgium
Provider: Telenet

My attitude: Annoyed with this
My opinion: Anet it would be good to see what you guys are doing about this.

Looking for an invite for the EU department.
As I am looking to do Teq , Wurm and ofcourse the future bosses on a regular base. I don’t mind whiping to learn the fight if we would get new encounters

I am a casual player and I support this kind of content. It is fun to see people gather and do stuff together. I do the wurms do’nt take me wrong when I can and like last weekend I just spend doing them. But for the rest I can’t play taht often.

1) for the ascended weapons folks
- I got a ascended weapon and I got it from fractals.
- crafting is also a way to do it.

2) Ascended gear
- I don’t have it, but lets face it who has ? I don’t see alot of people useing it.
- Is the stat difference big ? No and again you can craft it , just takes some time. But there is no gate system stopping you.

3) World bosses (wurm and teq)
- They are there and one day you might want to join them.
- They don’t drop anything special that you can’t get by other ways in the game
- Just like people said. 9/10 patches is for casuals
- 1 / 10 is for the bigger guilds, lets face it these events are great for guilds to bound and have fun.

regards
a person who is happy with the things he gets.
ps: we don’t pay a sub and we get plenty of things other games give crap or patch once a year and people aren’t happy.
take that into considiration.

As we now got our second boss encounter that isn’t a walk in the park insta kill fight. I was wondering if we could get a sup forum. for World bosses and in there one for each world boss ( like the wurm now and teq) this way people can talk tactics, kills, and even group up cross server easier

regards
me

With an overflow it isn’t easy. Atleast we get 1 wurm down all the time
3x cobalt today and 1x crimson. Amber isn’t really overflow material … yet

thats true, it is important for the time being to get people in your squad and spam /say chat while the fight to remind people of the instructions.

Amber our best attempt was 60%
People panic in that fight I think

First of all to the people that say wurms are to tuff. Just lead 2 groups this afternoon and killed Cobalt and Crimson with randoms in an overflow. The fights are easy and fun. Just talk people so they can understand what will happen.

I find the wurms more fun then teq, as it is less stressing and more fun, if you know what to do. again here it is up to the commanders to inform people.

Anyway maybe we meet in the overflow, to try and kill amber.

ps: thx to everyone in the overflows this afternoon for listening to me and for killing cobalt and crimson

regards
rogbarz

Anet , restart your servers / whatever the TP is running on. Might fix the issue :o

Same issue here, tried relogging, changing the langauge , launch as admin, tried a different pc. Still got the issue. Ps: just to make clear i don’t have a trail account just got my Bday Boosters two days ago :p

Gandara – EU

Arenanet, restart the TP that might fix it.

For the people not watching the Twitch TV stream atm ( 31/08/2013) ArenaNet is showing off some stuff for september the 17 including a very nice World boss fight and as the title of this thread the LFG system. It is very easy to use and looks really cool ^^

screenshot provided by “TIMEBOMB” thank you for that.

http://i.imgur.com/X1I7OUS.jpg

Most is cross server, except the WvW groups and the Open world events.

I believe its fair to say that Gandara did really good against the higher tier servers and I hope that both BB as JS had as much fun fighting us, as I had fighting them. I wouldn’t mind having this setup again tbh.

regards
me ^^

all condition, except Torment that is.

As the skill says: converting all conditions into random boons. Since the update this skill doesn’t do that as the new condition “Torment” does not get converted. This is something Anet should fix imo.