Guild Wars 2

I’d love for Reading Glasses to make a return to the Gem Store.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reading_Glasses

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I have (I think) 11 Experience Scrolls sitting in my bank collecting dust. It’s great that I can use it to instantly get to level 20, but since ALL of my characters are over level 20 and I have only two open character slots available I don’t really need 11 scrolls. (And destroying something that will instantly get you to level 20 just feels wrong, so yeah, I’ve kept them.)

Granted, I’ll probably use an Experience Scroll to bump a Revenant up to 20 when HoT goes live, but that still leaves me with 10 scrolls just sitting there… doing nothing.

My suggestion is to add a way to convert Experience Scrolls into Tomes of Mentorship.

Whacha think?
:)

Please, please, please let your girlfriend pick the race/profession she wants to be.

Because, seriously, nothing sucks all the fun out of a game faster than having someone else micromanage how or what you play.

And yes, there is plenty of “cuteness” in GW2.

As far as your request for a video of GW gameplay…
http://bfy.tw/iUw

My main in GW1 was a MoE (Monk/Elementalist) and I loved her to pieces. I wish we had the Monk in GW2.

I also really enjoyed my Ranger, Ritualist (awesome casting animations) and Mesmer.

Definitely use henchmen for everything. Everyone will have a different opinion on which campaign to start with. For me, I really liked the Nightfall campaign and I think it’s much easier for people just starting out. The heroes are way better than the henchmen because you can change their talent specs/spells and control them.

Agreed.

I’d like to have the HoM rewards back up soon, too. But yeah, Miss Lana is absolutely right. “When it’s ready” is the key phrase.

Just would like it to be ready… kinda… now.

;)

Cats can be jerks.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Yeah, I don’t understand how a guild hall decoration equates to the open world overrun by gravestones commemorating passed on players.

^This.

The OP asked for a way to add a gravestone or memorial to their GUILD HALL. Not the explorable world viewable by everyone who passes through. That makes a huge difference.

If Anet decides to add this feature, and if a guild wishes to fill their hall with gravemarkers and memorials to the point that it looks like a cemetery, more power to them. Heck, some guilds might use grave markers and memorials to create a creepy gothic vibe/necromancer hang-out for their hall while others may use it as a means to honor a dear friend who has passed.

I’m all for letting guilds have the option for their guild hall.

@ OP: I’m sorry for your loss.

Maybe. (Hopefully)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/page/6#post5173539

Pixie.8420:

For over a week now i have been trying to purchase Gems on both my debit card and Paypal. It always fails. Not to mention the fact that i am still waiting for funds to be put back in my account after my attempts were debited without receiving gems.

I’m getting more and more aggravated with this issue. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Yes. My husband and I are having the exact same issue. We have been able to purchase gems using a credit card and/or paypal without issue — until this past week. My husband created a ticket about it Saturday and has yet to hear anything about it.

In my first playthrough of The Battle of Claw Island, when your mentor stays behind to hold off the dragon so that everyone would have a chance to escape, one of the first things I thought when that happened was, “And there’s the birth of my next worst enemy — the undead resurrection of my mentor…”

Perhaps that’s a bit too cliche, but when you’re dealing with a dragon who creates platoons of zombies to fight for him, it seems kinda… I don’t know… logical? expected? that he would take your mentor and turn them into a champion that you would be forced to deal with at a later date. Who wants to see Tybalt turned into the very thing he was trying to protect Tyria from?

As far as the point of “my choices should matter” — last night I finally did the “Eye of Zhaitan” quest on my Sylvari and it annoyed me to no end to have Carys & Tegwen not know who I am. Especially when Carys says, “And then I went to Orr to rescue Tegwen… well, myself and Trahearne.”

Um, no. I did that with you — I don’t remember Trahearne being there at all.

It’s sad. I think the PS has a lot of potential. The overall idea isn’t really THAT bad (in spite of Trahearne annoying so many people). The PS feels like it’s still in rough draft form to me. I think parts of it feel pretty well fleshed out and other parts feel like it got past the first round of reviews & revisions and was promptly stamped with a “FINAL VERSION” mark across the top and pushed through the system without a third and fourth look.

I busted my butt to unlock 30/50 HoM — I’d be more than a little miffed if Anet made those skins, pets and minis available to everyone.

As it has already been stated, you can still earn those rewards. Just get GW1 and start playing. There’s even a handy guide for unlocking rewards in the HoM.

Ba air.1372:

- I’m hesitant to say this, because making dungeons solo content does go away from being an MMO, but it would be nice to have the storymode dungeons be soloable. I did Arah to finish my story and had almost no idea what was going on with the Destiny’s Edge (other than ~Friendship is Magic~ or something along those lines) because you don’t need to do the other story mode dungeons to finish the story. Also it’s very annoying to have to scrounge up a group so you can do a personal storyline and can be annoying for said party if you want to sit through all the cutscenes. Personal cutscenes would be nice too. For ALL story dungeons, on that note. Since there seems to be no dialogue directed specifically at you outside the cutscenes, I would think this would be fairly easy?

This.

110% this.

The personal story should be personal. If it is about me, then I should be able to complete MY story without being forced to group at any point during the telling of MY story.

That isn’t a slam against the MMO part of an MMORPG, it’s merely a bit more emphasis on the RPG part of MMORPG.

It’s too late to go back and fix the storyline with Zhaitan so that it can be experienced solo if the player chooses to do so, but for future updates, expansions, etc. I hope ArenaNet will reconsider that decision. If the game really is all about you, then you should be able to finish your story without having to group when at no point previously were you required to do so. The option to group is dandy, but the requirement to group so you can see the epic conclusion of your PS is kinda crappy.

@ OP: Best troll post of the week.

That said, traveling was free and instant in GW1. I feel I am being exploited for having to pay ANYTHING to travel anywhere in this game.

Agree on bringing back some of the GW1 armor AND the profession-specific armor.

I wouldn’t mind being able to craft them, purchase them with Karma, loot drops OR purchase them with gems… just having the option to get some of that armor would be great.

I would also be very curious to see how the devs adapt some of that armor for Charr or Asura. Like, say… the elite charr hide warrior armor for the charr. :P

But yes, /agree on bringing back some of the GW1 armor.

One thing?

Hmm…

This will probably never happen, but I would love to have the option to summon henchmen for Story Mode Dungeons (and only story mode dungeons).

For those of us that work odd hours and find ourselves playing when the server is relatively dead, etc. it’s not always easy to PUG a dungeon… which really sucks because I want to see the story that plays out in those dungeons. In GW1 you could fill out a group for missions and some dungeons with henchmen and/or heroes. It certainly wasn’t an ideal solution, but it was an option that offered some flexibility and freedom while allowing you to progress through the game.

I would love to be able to purchase a summoning stone in the Gem Shop that would allow me to summon a henchmen or two to round out a group for a story mode dungeon.

I know it’ll never happen, but still…

My husband and I are on Sanctum of Rall and we have both noted that the community in general is pretty friendly and helpful. There were a few days a couple of weeks ago where the /m in Kessex Hills turned into something eerily similar to “Barrens chat” but overall it’s been good.

Sometimes people are too nice. Sometimes I’d rather see someone kill the mob that put me into a downed state then for them to try to res me — only for us both to end up dead.

But yes, people seem to be naturally treating each other as allies instead of enemies. (Which makes since since we’re all supposed to be united against the Elder Dragons.) The cooperative spirit is refreshing.

@ zoobaby: Okay, I’ll bite. What character names?

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

Transit pass to travel for free for a month

This is brilliant. +1

And there is even a bit of lore to go with it. Check it out, in the “Edge of Destiny” book, Snaff had a pocket portal which was basically miniature asura gate (I forget what he called it). Players should be able to buy that item in the game through the Gem Store. Players could use it until its power ran out (in a month or whatever) and be able to go anywhere in the world.

Jack of Tears.9458:

Why are the Makeover Pack and EMP the same price? Ya’d figure the second one would cost more. And ten bucks? All I wanna do is change my hair style, burnit! At least give us more than one use for that ten bucks … three uses would be fair.

The Makeover Pack gave FIVE makeover credits — which means you could makeover five different toons or makeover the same character five different times. So really, it was $2 per makeover.

The Extreme Makeover was a one-time, full-monty deal.

Agreed. The TP needs better filtering. I want to be able to look at “light armor only” or “huntsman crafting material” only.

I’d love to see the gem store carry a lot of the same things that the current GW1 store offers.

1. Makeover Pack
2. Extreme Makeover
3. Name change
4. Guild name change.
5. More armor skins — personally I’d love to be able to buy some of the armor skins from GW1.
6. Costumes! I really loved the Grenth, Shining Blade and Lich costumes from GW1. And I loved being able to wear them over my armor.
7. I want a Charr cub pet that will randomly say things like, “I can pretty much kill an ogre,” etc. (I know this will never happen, but I still want one.)
8. More dances.

As a side note — when can we expect GW2 t-shirts? You guys posted a bunch of designs on your facebook page back in late July or early August and that was the last we heard about it. Are you waiting for the Christmas season to begin before you start selling those things or what?? (And please, please, please offer them in babydoll sizes for women.)

/signed

At least give us the OPTION to hide the icon from showing up on our maps, especially in PvE.

/signed

Yes, please.

Agree that waypoint costs are too high.

I don’t have a problem with charging someone a handful of coppers or even a couple silver if they are going from one zone to another (with the cost increasing based on distance), but I think it should be free (or pretty close to free) to jump from one waypoint to another within the same zone.

If costs are to be incurred for traveling from one waypoint to another, it should be a static cost and not level dependent. We have other gold sinks in the game — this doesn’t need to be one.

Please add more armor skins to the Gem Store.

Specifically I would love to see some of the GW1 armor designs as possible skins that can be purchased.

Not just the armor designs that players could acquire (I think the EotN prestige armor would be a fitting place to start for the current state of GW2, and then expand the options as we get closer to discovering what’s happening in Cantha and Elona/Vabbi, etc.).

Some of the Hero armor designs from GW1 would be great to see as a skin option, too. (All three types of Jora’s armor, for example, or Pyre Fierceshot, etc.)

I realize that some of the designs from GW1 wouldn’t translate too well into GW2 since we don’t have the same professions (such as monk, ritualist, dervish, paragon) — though some of those may eventually be added (I vote ritualist!). But some of the others could translate well.

I think a lot of the armor designs in GW1 are still very good and wouldn’t mind seeing them updated for GW2 and offered up as a skin option in the Gem Store (or as possible loot drops or crafting recipes).

Please consider it.

Thanks!

For those not familiar with the GW1 armors, here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Armor

Agree with OP.

I really like the idea of offering a unique weapon at the end of the a difficult dungeon for the very first time (like we got in GW1). Utilizing the token system in GW1 in GW2 is another good idea. Loot bag with rare crafting matierals, etc. is another good idea.

/agree

Yep. You do it here:
https://register.guildwars2.com/

I have the CE. I bought it back in April and registered the pre-order then so I’d have BWE access, then once I got the box I had to register again. Everything went smoothly.

Cyanerd.4562:

Come at me.

You’re not worth the effort.

Have fun in WoW.

If I remember right, the appearance change option in GW1 didn’t come about until after EotN was released, so that took a fairly long time to be implemented. I miss it, too, and would LOVE to see it implemented much sooner in GW2.

I completed the majority of the GW1 campaigns solo with just heroes and henchmen. I really thought I would miss having henchmen & heroes, too, since I relied on them so much, but so far I haven’t. I can see there being a need for them in dungeons if people are having a hard time getting that last member of a 5-man party, but right now I honestly don’t see a real NEED for them.

I miss being able to repec for free. I realize respecing traits is fairly cheap (and free in PvP), but still — it was FREE in GW1.

I kinda miss the weekend events. I realize we’re probably still waaaaay too early in GW2 to have weekend events, but I liked them in GW1.

I can’t wait to see what GW2 is like for Halloween and Wintersday.

I miss the wide variety of emotes in GW1 (/drums, /guitar, etc.) — and that each profession & gender had their own /dance (which gave us 20 different dances after NF came out). I thought that was very cool, and now the /dance is only different per race.

I can tell you what I don’t miss — Master Togo’s crappy voice acting.

EDIT:

Also, this

What I loved about GW 1 was the number of skills. I’m voting more non-weapon slots (5, not including elite/healing) and a hell of a lot more skills please.

I miss that, too. Would love to be able to capture skills again.

Seriously — posting a -1 copper under vendor is not a good idea.

Guys, go to the GW2 wiki and read up on the TP. It specifically warns you to NOT post at a +1 copper vendor price because you will LOSE money.

here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trading_Post

Be careful not to list for so little that you would take home less than you would get by selling the item to a vendor, i.e. never sell for less than 20% more than the item’s value. For example:

An item of 88 bronze coins can be sold on the trading post for 89 bronze coins, but this results in 76 bronze coins (after deducting 9 bronze coins for a successful sale and 4 bronze coins for the listing fee).

If offered for 1 silver coin 6 bronze coins, you would take home 90 bronze coin, 2 bronze coins more than the price the vendor offers (after paying a sales tax of 11 bronze coins, listing fee of 5 bronze coins)

Remember, the TP is shared across ALL servers and the TP was down for over a week and a half. People were crafting and storing up drops just waiting for the TP to come back online and now the market is flooded. Either vendor that stuff, buy more bank space or salvage… but don’t post for +1 or -1 copper vendor price. That’s just silly.

Snaylor.2760:

NyghtProwler.9386:

ColinJohanson.2394:

No need to buy them, Gw2 will feature consistent free content updates and in-game events going forward. Our goal is to make it so you get more from Gw2 for free than you get from a game you pay a subscription for.

On top of a large amount of free bonus content, we will be expanding on offerings in the Black Lion Trading Company going forward, as well as be doing large-scale expansion content down the road.

We’ll cover a lot of the details on the kind of support and plans we have in place over the next month or so on the Gw2 blog and with our press partners.

We do appreciate that you’d like to buy lots of new content, but we’d prefer to give a lot of it to you for free, cause that’s what we think a responsible MMO company does!

That business mentality will keep me as a loyal customer for years to come. Awesome post.

Why not wait and see how its actually put into practice?

I don’t believe it for one second with a cash shop in the game.

GW1 had a “cash shop” too where you could buy costumes, character recustomizations, name change, character slots, etc., etc.
You can see what they sold here: https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl?dnv=6065908858&action=toggleCategory&category=4

Aaaaand… GW1 also had free content patches.

True story.

Yes.

I thought the PvP Gear Locker was a great idea. Having a PvE one would be awesome.

MithranArkanere.8957:

This is Guild Wars. Characters are heroes.
They can never be traitors, backstabbers, cutthroats.
You cannot make evil characters.

You cooperate where you are supposed to cooperate, and compete where you are supposed to compete.

This is one of the most important foundations of Guild Wars, and changing that would be akin to blasphemy.

^^This. Exactly.

The people of Tyria are supposed to be united against the Elder Dragons. A PvP server just wouldn’t work lore-wise, like it does in games like WoW or WAR.

For example, the fact that the charr and humans get along and allow each other into their cities, etc. is huge. That alone is a major plot-point that I don’t think a lot of people new to the GW lore understand. It just wouldn’t make sense, lore-wise, to have a PvP world and if Anet implemented it I’d think they were planning to flush their own story down the toilet.

Now — if they wanted to have that kind of division in GW3 where the humans and charr have a falling out and the charr go back to calling the humans “meat” then it would make total sense… it just doesn’t right now.

Agree with the suggestions to show titles on mouse-over, as it was done in GW1.

Wow. GW2 ended? So the other Elder Dragons went back to sleep..?

Keep in mind that you can’t actually KILL an Elder Dragon. You can only defeat them (as in, they go back to sleep to reawaken another time — check the GW2 wiki). They are, after all, older than the gods of Tyria. I’m thinking mortals CAN’T kill them… just maybe knock ’em out for a few centuries or so.

There are four named Elder Dragons and one unnamed deep sea dragon. The threat is on-going. The defeat of Zhaitan appears to be more of a “part one: complete” arc than a “game over.”

I am also in the same boat of feeling that I level faster than the zone I am in — which I’m fine with due to the level scaling.

You get experience for doing just about anything. Resurrecting other players & NPCs, gathering, crafting, vistas, finding POIs, dynamic events, renown hearts, skill challenges… hell, just wandering the various maps and starter zones looking for pets to charm for my ranger got me a couple of levels and skill points. I find myself leveling without really trying to.

GW2 isn’t for everyone and that’s okay. If it feels like a chore to you, don’t play it or walk away from it for a while. A game should be fun. If you’re not having fun it’s not worth your time.