Guild Wars 2

Celtic Lady.3729:

If TP flippers don’t play any other parts of the game, why would they need the gold?

Obviously, our sole purpose is to destroy the fun for other players, while John Smith takes care of the devs.

John Smith.4610:

Wanze.8410:

John, did it ever happen that a new feature or game mechanic that was proposed internally by the dev team was vetoed by you because it would have too big of an impact on the economy?

50 Times a week, I am the destroyer of the designers intention to make people happy.

Duka.5864:

Read carefully Dear Legolas i am not trolling YA i am truing to help YA,swap on greatsword when enemy is in mile range you maybe win sometimes!

Legolas heard YA and loves YA

Hodor.

Absent Minded.5821:

I’m down. Just send me a pm when you want to duel I’ll be in sPvP for a while.

For those interested in the results. He played A D/P thief, Longbow Power rangers counter. They dueled, Absent didn’t land a single blow on Eura. He got annihilated.

And then he refused to pay his 10g for the lost bet.

<3’s Hope this sheds some light on things.

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

my original joke post aside, as a person that probably wouldn’t use a mount, I’m completely ok with them. I’d be against removing the wp system (at least completely) but aside from that, it’s not necessarily p2w and it could contribute to character diversity.

ts;dc +0.5

Because if you have them function like mounts in other games they’d be a speed boost. Meaning they’d have to scale maps to be larger to compensate or remove waypoints, as they wouldn’t want people running around with perma swiftness in the small easily traveled land masses we currently have. So to keep things balanced anyone who didn’t want to use a mount would get bent over and have it forced deep down inside them.

Now, if they added potions/tonics that put you on a horse that had no speed boosts and took your combat away, sure i wouldn’t mind, it’d be visually pleasing for those that want it. But how long till people complain that mounts should give speed boosts? 1hour? more like 1 minute?

it’s a slippery slope, it’s better to draw the line at NO MOUNTS than to start toying with it and have a continual wave of backlash till they are in the game like they are in other games.

I remember EQ, initially it was basically a small speed boost (think your 25% traits/signets/runes) at an expensive cost. They added a few VERY rare ones that were super fast, not gamebreaking as they were incredibly rare. But as time went on they were pressured and gave in, and added more fast ones till the runspeed was at the cap the game could withhold. Look at WoW, you had mounts and flying mount outposts for fast travel, well they got pressured for flying mounts, they added them, then they had to rework the entire game around those.

It’s just a nightmare waiting to happen and I never want to see them in any game but especially not this one.

Again if they put them in cosmetically and drew the line there, sure no problem, but really do you think the people wanting mounts would be happy with that? I highly doubt it.

i suspect that syfy is gonna rip this off and make it a crappy movie set in the mid west.

once we go to fight jormag the chickens are gonna turn into polar bears and it’ll be called a polar vortex

So now the rune is going to give a 30% damage reduction, right? right? no?

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee would be happy to do an interview! Seeing as how Vee Wee is #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, Vee Wee thinks people would be happy to watch an interview with Vee Wee!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Lady Deedra.3126:

I have always gotten a lot of Accuracy. I’m not sure it has escalated much recently. Lots of Rage also.

The mystic forge does seem to produce lots of rage. ;-)

law.9410:

wait wait wait!…
llama pet f2: pressing f near your llama pet allows you to ride your llama, giving you increased movement speed and damage.

…and so the Llamabow was born

• when you walk into a bar and kneel next to a chair instead of sitting on it.
• when you jump the queue in the bank.
• when you’re at the railway station and someone looks at their watch and asks “Where’s the train?” and you explain it got nerfed…

WE WANT LLAMA PET!

YOU CANT STOP ME FROM PEW PEWING! ARCHER 4 LIFE!

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

raptors are pretty heavy… i don’t know how i would feel with them being on my arm, let alone lit up…

No you see, it’s “light” as in “not heavy.”

They should remove the damage from the skill. It’s already extremely low anyway.

Then they should make the stealth instant, because the skill doesn’t do damage.

Then they should add a non-damaging condition-on-hit, like immobilize, cripple, chill, vulnerability, weakness, daze, stun, etc

It’s probably inflation

I was using this as a Berserk set ranger: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNMQJATRnEqQtg2vCGsAXLGIPQWHIRjmBnxczpKcyE-w

Healing spring is useless if you don’t have a blast finisher. (AKA 5th of the Boromir).

My – primitive – strategy was to use 3rd skill of longbow to gain opening strike again and place a well timed maul strike (2nd of the greatsword) to make a hard hit to the guy and block the next strike after the appearence., then you’d use swoop to get away from the opponent and so on, yea so primitive but fun to play.

I started using the marsh drake with my power build. The poison really helps when fighting regen builds and the drake will blast your healing spring for you. The drake is also great for tanking camps. Send him to attack a scout and use longbow 3 so all the npc’s will ball up on your drake, then you can barrage and swoop in with the great sword to finish everything off.

The only other thing is signet of renewal in place of QZ. If you are looking for more survivability then having an extra condition dump will go a long way while roaming.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for equality in the history of our world.

Five score weeks ago, a great Tyrian, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, created the CDI Initiative. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Rangers who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred days later, the Ranger still is not free. One hundred days later, the life of the Ranger is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred days later, the Ranger lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred days later, the Ranger is still languished in the corners of Tyrian society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

…..

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Ranger is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of Thief brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain access to decent Dungeon Groups. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Ranger’s basic mobility is from a smaller grotto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Warriors Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Ranger in Kryta cannot stand and a Ranger in Lion’s Arch believes he has nothing for which to stand. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

…..

I have a dream that one day this world will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Ascalon, the sons of former Rangers and the sons of former Warriors will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the country of Kryta, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their Character Class, but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Rata Sum, with its vicious elitist, with its council having their lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Rata Sum little Rangers and Necromancers will be able to join hands with little Warriors and Guardians as sisters and brothers.

….I’m going to quit while I’m ahead, but my belief in this comparison is obvious…

So, right. Before anything else, let it be known that my expressed opinion here does reflect what I actually feel would be an extremely nice thing to happen that would make…just a lot of things better on the forums and for the community and for Arenanet. I don’t care what labels you put on me after this, but I will say even after this I will still continue to play GW2 likely for a very, very long time.

Right. So first, let me just say that in light of the China release and how big a step that is to take for an MMO, congratulations Arenanet. Considering last I checked, you guys are running at least the very minimalist 250+ as per the wiki (which is likely wrong, but I reckon you guys are still in a ballpark figure under 1000 still), having to submit content that caters to literally millions of players with the new influx of the chinese market…you gotta put on those big boots. I, and literally no one else save for you guys, can fathom what pressure you might be under between balancing content related to both us and EU, and the servers over in the east…or west if you look at it in that regard.

Regardless, it’s hard to understand as gamers what could break on a patch by patch basis for the game. Something small could catastrophically destroy the Trading Post for instance (I can think of a recent MMO that had that happen…COUGH), or perhaps the ever so pleasant Profession balancing across PvE, WvW, and SPvP where every player believes their own version of ‘what should be in the game’ is so different it’s hard to believe everyone is playing the same game. But it is, you guys created it, you guys made the lovely MMO we are all playing for our own agendas right now, and you have made it encapsulate so many things I want to give a round of applause. I could literally go do just about anything I want, whenever I want without restriction. Horrah!

….BUT, I have to relate this very critical issue right now. I would love to hear a response, but that is kind of what is concerning me right now.

I think there is just the slightest bit too little silence going on. Heck, in the dungeons forum today there was a positive response from you guys over the potential of a Dungeon-based Tourney, which is a lovely thought but it came after such a long period of silence for the people interested in dungeons.

The thing is, since you guys made such a wonderland of specific things to do, it becomes more important to make sure the individuals invested in some specific things continue to give feedback and receive information or really, ANYTHING back from the people who made it. I personally know people who think Super Adventure Box was the premiere thing to do in GW2, but lament in anguish over not knowing anything about when the next level comes out!

It is of the utmost importance that everyone gets some attention, and not just a few key parts of this game. It displays an lack of care for some aspect of this game, which is just bad. Because even if the forums are a minority, we play this game, we play it with friends and colleagues who might not know everything and when they ask about whether Reflects are going to be fixed, the answer we as players and forum-goers will have to say may or may not be favorable. And the worst part? I really honestly believe you guys do mean it when you say all the time that you care about our feedback and opinions. But, it just sucks that the perception of a lack of attention on some parts of this game exists.

TL;DR: Arenanet you made a game with a lot of stuff, please respond more to us about ALL the stuff, not just some of it.

That’s about it from me.

- You get kicked from a PUG immediately upon joining.