Guild Wars 2

Damage numbers have been buffed to the point it breaks the system it was designed for? Huh, who’d have guessed power creep could do that.

You’re proud of prepurchasing a product you don’t know when will be release nor what it will contain in its totality? I guess some people really to take pride in their stupidity.

Mysticjedi.6053:

Divide people up based on MMR and create tiers and let us play PvE while wait in the longer queues.

No! Cannot divide the small playerbase!

Instead enjoy this horrendous matchmaking, which will certainly not reduce the playerbase further.

Inb4 weakness.

Basic glicko system with a hard cap on how many points a players can drop/rise and rating decay scaling up with the current rating of that player.

kthxbye

Edit: Also show player rating as a stat on their pvp panel forchristsake.

DarkSyze.8627:

http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-are-thieves-and-mesmers-cause-meta

Yeah, this assesment is pretty much spot on.

Arioso.8519:

Charr= Honestly the hardest one, since they currently seem to have nothing lore-wise that really works, but they could possibly have a steam-punk battle suit along the lines of a dredge mining suit

Charr have their warband they can call on.

As for the OP, I sure would like a cosmetic only beastform with weapons for my norn. But then this is ANet we’re talking about, so it’s too much work.

Hahaha I support this! Move Stronghold discussion to pve please.

Nothing quite so elaborate is needed. All that needs to be done is for enemies to

A. Hit more frequently and have higher total dps, so you can’t use active defenses to avoid most of all damage (though still require active defenses to avoid a large part of it depending on profession)

B. Put party wide relatively unavoidable pressure damage, so some amount of party support and healing is necesary.

C. Not rally downed players on death. Rally on kill in pve has always been bad design and should be a pvp thing, it lets players go all out knowing they’ll rally anyway if they burst something down.

Edit: Also more enemies need cleave attacks so corner stacking dies horribly.

Blaeys.3102:

Also – during the last beta event – once people had gotten used to the format (later into the evening) – many matches simply became a PVE race down respective lanes. Basically the winner was determined by who could get to and kill the enemy lord first rather than any sustained actual player vs player activity (small potential for some as people were getting mist essence). The generally accepted “strategy” was for all players to stay clumped in their lanes and rush the enemy NPCs to clear for the doorbreakers. If either team deviated from that strategy, it usually didn’t end well.

Has anything been done to discourage or change that approach since the last beta? I also worry that removing a set of guards will make this an even more accepted strategy.

Nope none at all.

Honestly I’m not even going to bother logging in to test this. Devs can have fun tanking what’s left of the pvp in their game.

In defense of the humans:

Firstly afaik there aren’t many details about what sparked the first charr human conflicts. The original ascalonian settlers may well have been peaceful, while what we do know is that the charr have a history of being territorial and agressive. And even then if you look at the wall the ascalonians only took a small portion of the land, only a fraction of what lay north of the wall and east of the blazeridge. It’s only after the charr continued throwing themselves at the humans and lost their khan that they started losing land, in part due to violent infighting.

Secondly, claiming land because at some point in time some far ancestor called it home isn’t particularly good ethics. Hell, the forgotten have a greater claim on ascalon than the charr in that case. In the end land belongs to those who are born of it, which then were ascalonians and now are modern day charr. The ‘this is charr land’ justification is no more than an excuse for the glorification of their warmongering history.

Bathos.6341:

The charr didn’t attack ascalon out of malace, they attacked it to take back land taken from them, and to avenge an entire GENERATION of their people massacred by humans.

You realize the charr invasion was nearly a millenium after they were driven out? By all accounts it was ancient history by then, especially when you consider the searing was no more than three centuries ago current time.

Mrbig.8019:

So what about a red post about the matter ?

it’s not like noone is complaining about this, aight.

Nah, they rather reply to an inconsequential poorly formatted (no offense intended) post by a newbie or anything else unimportant than enter a discussion about something that matters.

What is this silly notion that challenging and casual content can’t both exist in the same game. Honestly I don’t understand.

Nightfade.4625:

Bow Fairy /15chars

Tsk. The bow, the wings…obviously the perfect name would be Cherub. Alternatively Cupid. :p

Supreme.3164:

Reading forums is like watching the news. Each channel (or person) will slant the details to match their own point of view. It is up to the viewer (or reader) to try and look past the personal bias and determine what is true

Supreme.3164:

When they are not complaining that every other class is over-powered, they are complaining about content. When they are done griping about content they feel the need to flame other people’s posts. When they are done trying to make themselves look good (by putting down others), they complain about something else. It is as if they sustain themselves by doing nothing but moan and groan.
[..]
-Edit- One thing that will never change is this :Every balance proposal you’ll ever come across will in one way or another, benefit the class played by the one making the proposal

Oh the hypocrisy.

Nike.2631:

Extreme.8350:

Devout, Prophet, Ethereal , Divine hunter

How do you see those working for Charr, who actively reject the divine as a source of power?

No big deal. They also shun magic, but you can still make magic wielding charr.

Since we’d likely be fighting dragon minions in them, and in light of the guardian specialization and its creative name we can call them…

Dragonhunts!

Eh I was trying to make a joke but that actually doesn’t sound bad.

Boggs.6482:

ErazorZ.5209:

we just want arenas or more cap point maps, i play guildwars2 because i dont want to play dota style maps and now with stronghold your forcing a bandwagon upon us probably because of investors

Bring on the arenas! Seriously you could take black citadel’s bane, set up a simple annhiliation round system and bam, new arena gamemode.

There’s this thing called a status quo, and people love to maintain it no matter what. Having more varied gear stats and builds in pve will tremendously improve the game, if they pull it off, but many do not want such a big change for the sake of it.

Scott McGough.6897:

The Human Male PC is still Nolan North, same as in the core version of GW2. Could you be more specific about what you mean when you say it sounds significantly changed?

Tonally, we did shoot for a terser, more urgent and in-command feel to the PC’s lines, as arriving on the scene of the Pact fleet wreckage is a much more intense situation than, say, bantering with Lord Faren at a party (as seen in the Human Noble Personal Story).

It totally worked, great voice acting really felt like the player character was taking command.

Healix.5819:

Browsing through google images, they look fairly normal imo. Their eyes do seem a little off, a little too bulgy, but it’s not that far off judging by this picture.

Yep, that one’s head is pretty darn big. Still, even though it’s an extreme case their head isn’t quite as disproportionate as the ingame model.

Here’s another image to put it in perspective, some of them can be (intentionally) misleading.

Edit: Also improved that other img

Oh the sunstrike killsteals.

Must comend their timing with the tornado meatball shockwave combo though.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Yeah, but there’ve got to be more than two species who’ve died on that spot. We know Ventari did- why no planty centaurs? There were absurd numbers of riders around that island as well, and krait and drakes not too much farther out, certainly within the bounds of the Grove today. If you want to trust the overlay map, in fact, half of Arbor Bay was engulfed. I don’t object to the idea that she used what was around her/rotting in her soil as a template, but of all the variety she’d have to pick from, why humans and dogs? That’s the part that mystifies me.

Yep that’s the mystery of the pale tree, somewhere down the line she not only broke free or mordremoth, but chose to make her ‘mordrem’ based on humans and hounds exclusively. Maybe it’s the influence Ronan had on it, though that doesn’t explain how it could happen.
Hopefully we’ll find out more about the pale tree and her motives in HoT.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Nope. We don’t even have lore on why she makes hounds- hell, even the explanation for sylvari has some holes in it right now.

Mordremoth seems to design it’s minions based on living creatures it finds. e.g. Mordrem trolls look similar to flesh and blood trolls.
It’s not a huge leap to say the pale tree did this as well, but then with the remains of Ronan’s village. It’s likely there was a hound buried there somewhere.

Warrior ranger and necromancer are all fairly straightforward and robust professions. Good if you want to keep things simple, should be good for new players.

As for the other professions, elementalist engineer and revenant feel more like high apm ones with lots of combos and skill usage if that’s what you prefer. Mesmer thief and guardian are more nuanced professions, mostly.

I got bored and I decided to morph our froggy friend.

Quick and dirty, mind the quality loss. Looks much better imo.

Except it’s not really though. Observe.

They do resemble tree frogs somewhat. In fact the second image I posted has heads that look very closely to Randulf’s image, whereas the HoT hylek looks rather different.

All in all real life tree frogs have relatively big heads, but the HoT hylek is just way past that. Nevermind that tree frogs are quite small compared to other frogs, whereas these things are just about as big if not bigger than a norn.

The hands and feet are a good matchthough, those are fine. It’s just that huge massive head.

I realize this is a matter of taste, but personally I very much dislike the cartoony design behind these new big headed Hylek. I realize the big heads and popping eyes are part of the spritely frog look you were going for, but their bodies are just way out of proportions and just look silly. I shudder to think this game is going down the same path as WoW where they continuously cartoonified their game.

I’m assuming these guys are based on an older hylek (heket) model back from GW1, and I must say they looked way better with more realistic proportions.

On another note, the new big Hylek (the one that has you collecting wyvern eggs) looks brilliant. Great job on that one.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

I keep seeing people mention “there is no counter-play around the sigils/runes”. I feel these players believe that every attack should be obvious and easy to dodge/block. Let’s not forget that “counter-play” involves a great many deal of aspects far beyond “is something RNG? Is it dodgable?”

Let’s not forget why games like “Magic Cards” are exciting.
You never really are sure what you or your opponent will draw next.
Even though, you put the deck together yourself.

I think it’s important to distinguish the forms of design where randomness comes into play here. In your example of a game of magic, you and your opponent do indeed get a random card drawn, however there usually no random element as to the player’s action when they play a certain card, they know exactly what effect it will have. This is the difference between randomness that encourages the player to be adaptable, and randomness that takes away control of the player and puts it on a diceroll. The latter is not healthy for a competitive game, or at least so long as it’s in moderate amounts.

Mind, I don’t necesarily agree with the sentiment of the thread title, I think the issue goes deeper than just RNG.

Well I’m all for hard combat, but difficulty through an npc getting killed by so much as a scratch seems a little cheesy.

Tachenon.5270:

How about commando?

Noooo, commando has to go to the thief specialization! If rifle thief won’t be called commando, I will shed a little tear.

The Escort Pact Soldier events were a bit hard, those npcs really are quite prone to dying and you can’t even revive them. Escorting them seems needlessly difficult.

Hm, must be my mind playing a trick on me then. I certainly would pay up if it were an outfit though, it’s one of the few sylvary cultural looks I like.

Also regarding your link, I think we can count ourselves lucky Rox’ face isn’t available to character creation.

It used to be available I’m fairly certain. At least I remember wearing it after release, though this is some time ago and I don’t have the best of memories.

Like it says in the title, I was wondering if this sylvari outfit is still available in the game, can’t seem to find it anywhere.

So, after over two weeks and having read through the thread (admittedly skipping most of the recent posts) I guess I’ll post my favorite suggestions once more, fitting the theme ANet has provided.

• Dragonslayer
• Inquisitor
• Vanquisher

Mhm not a bad idea, though it would be off with a couple of animations. I can’t imagine rifle engineer launching themself by firing a crossbow as they would a rifle for example.

Menzies The Heretic.3415:

Rng = bad (can’t be avoided)
Prediction = good (can be avoided)

Proposed changes:

Sigil of Fire – your attacks deal additional 5…17…20 fire damage while your enemy is burning.
Sigil of Air – your attacks deal additional 5…17…20 lighting damage while your enemy is stunned or dazed.
Sigil of Earth – your attacks deal additional 5…17…20 earth damage while your enemy is bleeding.
Sigil of Water – your attacks deal additional 5…17…20 frost damage while your enemy is chilled.

Just chiming in to say I agree this is what sigils should have been. Situational effects that enhance builds, not ones that just tack extra power on it. In the case of fire/air, way too much power.

Astralporing.1957:

Gerrand.3085:

The Largos are one of the more original races I’ve seen in a while.

Surely you jest.

Hey, at least when they play Largos and they dye their armor full black it actually fits their racial background.

Flipping only exists because many sell their goods for too low a price. To benefit from others passing up potential profit is perfectly fine.

What is bad is, as others have pointed out, if it happens with incredibly rare items and a single person with a lot of gold at their disaposal to completely buy out any competition. That is a serious issue that indeed needs preventing.

Norn names doesn’t necesarily have to be a norse one, the Norn are also heavily inspired by celtic culture (celtic knots all over their tats). A germanic, dutch (friessian) or pictish celt/scottish (gaelic) name will work. In fact Rhiannon is a celtic name I believe.

For the second name you can either go with somethingdottir, where you pick some other name or you can go for a title. Really, norn aren’t too fussy about their title so long as it’s something they’d boast about or brings them fame.

I think this is fair criticism, but keep in mind a system with tons of possibilities can actually be more restricting than a simpler one, if it is not balanced propperly. We may actually start to see more build variety despite the simplification.

This is why we need hard mode. Hard mode of everything. Hard open world with hard events, hard dungeons with their own achievements and improved loot. This way players who are comfortable with the current difficulty can keep doing what they’re doing, while the players like me who prefer challenging content over grind get just that.

There is indeed the connection between dragonslaying and knighthood. However then the specialization should be called Knight or Dragonslayer, not a big game hunter called Dragonhunter.
That’s besides the point that, afaik, knights generally did not wield bows so it’s a poor fit anyway.

ErazorZ.5209:

Where taking objectives is more important then the actuall Player versus Player interaction. Wich is terrible

I’m going to go ahead and quote this for truth. This right here is the crux of the problems in spvp. The new upcoming game type will only make it worse.

Phantasm doesn’t need a taunt, it needs to not have to suicide run into melee, get an easily evaded melee attack in just for it to trigger its effect. What it needs is for it to be given that fancy new mesmer shield range attack animations and become a ranged phantasm. This way it will A. give its buff in a reasonable and timely fashion and B. cause it not to get killed instantly by aoe and cleaves.

Fay.2357:

Already shattered illusions count for the purposes of compounding power/illusionary defense.

I know. Compounding Celerity and Signet of Ether as well I think. Not being able to tell how many illusions you can still make just to know how much passive effect you’re getting is not worth it though. It doesn’t really matter either, you want to generate more illusions either way.

I guess I’ll throw my Mimic idea in here.

Mimic
Manipulation. Daze your target. If it interrupted a non elite non healing skill, that skill goes on cooldown and Mimic becomes that skill until cast.
Daze: 1 second
Range: 900
40 sec cooldown