Guild Wars 2

Yes, please change it. While I am not opposed to female charr and asura having more feminine armors, boob cups are not the way to go. I doubt there’s any chance of a real redesign at this point, so the male version would be preferable to the boob cups.

I would like to see the price be a little less, but more importantly, I would like to be able to get more than 5! Even if I had to spend another $35, i’d get another 5 in a heartbeat.

You folks make me so happy. It’s so nice to listen to your impressions of the game and how positive and upbeat you are. Old salty veterans… listen to their podcast and see if it doesn’t make your heart happy.

So, I tried this too… unfortunately, it just made GW2 black screen at login. Unless there’s a solution for that, I guess I’m stuck with 20-30ish fps.

I like the difficulty of the mobs. It’s a little bit of a challenge playing solo, which is nice, and we will get used to them and/or start using more survivable gear/builds. That’s fine! But the overall feel of the beta for me was just… broken events and empty maps, so all that there was to do in verdant brink was JUST kill mobs. That was the problem for me.

I agree, the UI is not as clear as it could be. At first I interpreted “next reward” to mean like… next week’s reward, since I know they change every week. I was expecting something along the lines of “current reward” for the ones I could get that day. It only took a few events to figure it out, but still, I’d like it clarified in the UI.

My beta characters have about 300AP less than my real characters. Since my real characters still have all their AP, I’m not worried about it.

I did not expect to even try dragonhunter, mostly due to the name. However, after seeing them in action, I made one and…. I kind of liked it…. It felt very ranger-y (NOT big-game-huntery; it would need a rifle for that). I happen to enjoy ranger so I guess it makes sense that I’d like this too, but I don’t think that it’s a good thing. I know they do different things, but they should feel much more different. And the name still makes no sense.

The UI when you hover over the map shows “next reward” and “other rewards.” Is the “next” supposed to mean “current”? If so, that’s confusing wording. Or are current rewards shown elsewhere? I can’t find it. Or do you just have to do events and see what you get?

EDIT: oops i see the post above me kinda explains it. So then yes, I think that the wording on the UI should be clarified.

Once your Glider Basics mastery is unlocked, you just hop off a cliff and press space bar to “get” the glider, you don’t have to talk to any NPC or anything for it. I think that is a little confusing to some ppl.

My sylvari hasn’t heard mordy

When I’m in reaper shroud wielding my scythe, I’m getting hammer mastery achievements. Not really sure if this is intended or a bug, but it seems like a bug. You’d be able to get hammer mastery without ever using an actual hammer!

I’m really hoping for some more leafy options for sylvari.

Try putting up an LFG asking for help? There are probably other folks who still need to get through that bit too. It is much easier with more than one person. I have solo’d it twice, not too bad on my warrior but it took a LONG time on my thief. Much better with a buddy!

Thank you very much! I’m happy to pre-purchase now!

I expected $50, but I figured for that much they could throw in a character slot. Then it would feel fair to me.

Black Box.9312:

Dewzie.7015:

JonPeters.5630:

A couple notes on Dragonhunter. We went with this name because we felt it was evocative of the medieval witch hunters. Guardians consider themselves protectors of the innocent. Followers of their faith be it in honor, valor, etc. The origin of the dragonhunter is a more subtle nuanced version of this. Guardians fight for justice and the dragonhunter faction believes justice is the eradication of dragons and their minions. I understand this is a lot more high concept than Mesmer but at the end of the day we felt like we wanted to try and push a more mature theme here. I hope this helps explain our thinking. We had other generic names in mind but felt like it was important to have a mix of spec names that are generic fantasy, more Tyrian fantasy, and more high concept. This one falls more in the third category.

Thanks,

Jon

Thank you for the clarification but did I miss something? I’ve always considered witch hunting to be one of the most unjust activities in human history. How is the slaughtering of innocents in any way something that should be idolized or considered heroic?

Even if this is alluding to the dragons being “good” and we’re wrongfully trying to stop them, I still don’t like the idea of my character being branded a religious extremist or big game poacher. I took down Zhaitan to protect the only world I had left. I didn’t do it because I’m some nutter who wants to commit genocide.

The main problem I have with the name is the story being forced into it. When the dragons are all dead what happens to Dragonhunters? Chronomancers can still Chronomance. What do Dragonhunters do? If they can still use their skills to go after other “prey” then why can’t they have a less specific name to begin with?

Just based on the skills we’ve been shown I think Warden would make the most sense.

Warden
- A person responsible for the supervision of a particular place (traps) and enforcing the regulations associated with it (justice etc).

Yes, it’s likely nothing will change but at least the feedback from the Dragonhunter can be taken into account when it comes to future specialisations. Unless you’re content with sitting back and letting Warrior become Drakeslayer and Thief become Harpyslapper.

I think this is a good point that I hadn’t really considered. Witch hunting seems like it’d be just and valiant on paper, but you have to consider the fact that REAL witch hunting in the 17th century was horrendous and resulted in the deaths of many innocent people. People actively seeking the punishment of witches were very misguided at best and sadistic murderers at worst, because spoiler alert: there weren’t actually any witches.

Between this and the contradictory “big game hunter” theme, Jon’s justification here fails on two fronts.

Yes, THIS. I didn’t much like the name before, but this explanation only makes it worse.

Sell your silk to folks who are working on ascended armor. I know I’d be thrilled to have 20 stacks of silk at this point.

Snow.2048:

Does it affect karma vendors as well? If so, then so much for getting all the karma skins with one character completion…

Wasn’t the warning pop up that your character can’t use this item enough?

Yep, it applies to karma vendors.