Guild Wars 2

It’s very good for ppl that dont wanna play pve to still get that level 80, so they can join wvw.

i kinda felt the same, i played like 30 hours and had my exotic gear, it was the strongest one atm, i just moved to another mmo, since gw2 clearly wasnt for me. Now i play pvp sometimes, because i dont always have time to play a match of dota. I also moved to another mmos, but still, playing 3 hours day, none takes more than 2 months to get the best gear available.

oh well, i payed 60 usd for the game, and now they want me to play another 50, im willing to pay 20 and no more. There are other reasons too, i really tried to like this game’s pve, but i just cant, my level of fun is 1 in a scale from 1 to 10 in pve, pvp could be a great experience, because in my opinion its where the game shines, but, match making is poor due to the small player base and balance patches once an year no thx.

Khalisto.5780:

Mastablasta.2614:

I keep wanting to reroll because i see some other race that could be slightly better. I cant decide. I love racials skills but i also hate them too. Some tell me they don’t matter, some say that some classes elites are garbage so picking this or that racial elite makes a better build. So here I am stuck….

I really need to know why racials skill either matter or dont matter and why. The classes are engineer, mesmer, necromancer, and any other possible combinations that seem to work very well.

I just want to put this to rest so i can get on with the game without looking over my shoulder about what if.

The bear form from norn used to be the only good racial skill, they nerfed it, so dont bother try to find a useful one.

Mastablasta.2614:

I keep wanting to reroll because i see some other race that could be slightly better. I cant decide. I love racials skills but i also hate them too. Some tell me they don’t matter, some say that some classes elites are garbage so picking this or that racial elite makes a better build. So here I am stuck….

I really need to know why racials skill either matter or dont matter and why. The classes are engineer, mesmer, necromancer, and any other possible combinations that seem to work very well.

I just want to put this to rest so i can get on with the game without looking over my shoulder about what if.

The bear form from norn used to be the only good racial skill, they nerfed it, so dont bother.

really, gw2 needs a lot, like toons of things, better graphics inst one of them

give aviator glasses o/

HoT 75% off
Challenging Content
DPSmeter
Gearcheck system
Aviator Glasses
The End of 1 spam content
Matchmaking that actually works
v1 maps
v2 maps
More armors less outfits
An armor stat that increases your CC duration (pve only)
Mechanics that punish stacking, like mobs get 50% dps buff per player on a small area
Since the game is all about fashion, it would be nice achievements giving you unique styles
Duels in open world
Unique styles from dungeons, something with 1-2% drop rate, 1 or 2 styles per dungeon path

unless they changed it, you can send money and items via email

hazenvirus.8154:

I think they should at least give them eotm access. I don’t think anyone would bother trying manipulate an eotm map.

Eotm is a leveling rush stuff, that also gives you good money if somebody guides you to never open the bags till 80, i dont think anet wanted a bunch of ppl 80 fully geared 48 hours after game going f2p. Plus the amount of ppl never steping into pve zones would be huge, anet is definitely not ok with this.

First thing i thought about when i saw the f2p announcement was making a free acc in enemy server to dry out all their supplies.

DaniTheHero.6318:

I don’t see the harm nor the shame in showing the huge amount of players that joined. Id think they would be proud of it.

Blizzard even publicly announced losing nearly 5 millions subs a few month ago.

Announce this kind of stuff can be very harmful if you not doing well, would you start playing wow knowing 5 million ppl left the game? I wouldnt. Blizzard does it because they pretty much rule the mmo scene, and can get all those players back + newcomers with a good expansion.

RSLongK.8961:

Fox Reeveheart.1890:

I have this feeling the content wont be as hard as we hope.

+1
Enough casual tear and Anet will bend.

This for sure, the elitist QQ will grow as we never seem before

i never give up, unless game goes 150-0 in the first 2 mins

not sure anet can do it without hurt the q times, but they could do it, and lets us q up from the open world, so we would care less about the q time.

Draknar.5748:

Khalisto.5780:

Hitting 30s? I dunno if they done something to eotm leveling train, its been 4 month i dont log in, but eotm run to 80 takes 9-16h, dunno if the f2players have access to it as well

Either you are exaggerating or have been really lucky with EoTM maps.

Fastest I’ve been able to hit 80, using strictly EoTM, with a level 20 scroll (so only 60 levels needed) is around 20hrs, and I was pretty kitten efficient. How were you able to do it in 9hrs, that literally sounds impossible.

It was like an year ago, and i’m jade quarry what means im always green, which helps a lot, 9 hours was the fastest run, I was eotming for quite some time before i got to the leveling alts stuff, so i had pretty good commanders in my friend list, that helps a lot too, when i got to level 60 i think i rushed all my SQ from level 1, huge xp coming from that as well.

rastaman.1905:

first of all i need to say that i am not a pve player (not in mmorpgs anyway). i played pve and leveled up my first char by doing pve only, and i found it boring and repetitive, just like i found pve boring in every other mmorpg i played in my life. i used to literally fall asleep during wow dungeons and wake up a few hours later. now i know that a lot of people enjoy repetitive and easy content, you can enter a sort of meditative state where your brain is not working under a 100% load and experience pleasure from that relaxing state, but that makes me just fall asleep. i need my brain to be under some load in order to have fun in video games in general. i know that fractals are supposed to be the solution for players that want challenging pve content but i found them boring and repetitive as well.

so here is the suggestion i have that would make pve content interesting for people that have similar problems with pve content in mmorpgs: introduce randomly generated elite mobs. give them multiple randomly generated traits like: increased speed, big crits, explode on death, leap attack, teleport, damage/speed aura for allies, hp regen aura, reflect damage etc. a game that does that really good in my opinion is path of the exile. every boss (except those standard scripted story bosses) has randomly generated traits and that very simple mechanic makes pve a LOT more interesting from my perspective. i am not saying that you should take away the fun from the people that enjoy slow paced, grindy and repetitive content, i am just saying that you should add some areas (like silverwastes) and some dungeons for players that dont like bosses/mobs that you can memorize and beat every time using the same sequence of actions and that do not want to skip thru dungeons by running past mobs or use various exploits in order to get to the end faster and get a chest and some gold.

Hahaha, i can already see ppl going stealth and skip those mobs, and get a chest and some gold are the only reason most ppl even play dungeons, i’d never step in CoF again if that run was turned into a 15 min run.

I think this f2p thing will bring to the game like 150k players that will actually stay in the game, many more will take a look and leave. I been reading some forums, many ppl that wanted to play this mmo are playing right now, many cant stand the no trinity, no gear grind, casual content played a few hours and already left, i think the total f2p registered accounts will hit 500k till HoT launch.

Menadena.7482:

What I find even more interesting is the ones who play it quite a bit will be hitting 30 this week. I happened to start a character Friday and am in the low 30s as of last night and know where the places are for fast advancement in pve. That also means the first ftp 80s are just about a month away. At that point they will be everywhere.

My fear is not the ftp players themselves but what they can do to the economy via the tp. A few could even grief events without doing anything reportable as well. So it would be nice to know how many ftp players are out there so we can figure out a strategy as a community. Unfortunately it is unlikely we will ever know.

Hitting 30s? I dunno if they done something to eotm leveling train, its been 4 month i dont log in, but eotm run to 80 takes 9-16h, dunno if the f2players have access to it as well

Anet never talks about this kind of stuff

Aberrant.6749:

Thankfully you can make your own party with whatever restrictions or no restrictions. Everyone can play how they wish. No problem here to solve.

Apparently you wrong, theres another topic that OP is saying he advertises as non meta, non skip, non stack, ppl still skip stack and guess whos kicked

ask ppl to link their gear is a genius move, let’s see what anet will do about it

I think they should add an inspect tool and dpsmeter, just to make the forums way more amusing

This is the best balance move any mmo could do, but I believe its really hard, cuz none done it yet. And knowing anet priorities it may never happen here, everything is fine if pve is fine.

RoffleMyWaffles.1295:

Ephemiel.5694:

…..you’re lv 10 and you’re complaining that the game is too easy? That’s like saying a game is too easy when you only played the tutorial, what the heck did you expect?

MMOs aren’t for you OP, it’s as simple as that if you think this game is too easy when you pretty much did nothing but a tutorial.

I wasn’t aware that when I was lvl 9, I was still undergoing a “tutorial”, nor was there anything to bring awareness to that fact either. At level 9 in most other games, you’re actually “doing something” and not being tutored still. Just thought I’d state that fact.

I was level 6 in ESO when I died for the first time from a boss. I needed to party up with someone in the same quest/dungeon to defeat the guy. Just a little help to get over the hump. I met a friend that day. We partied up from time to time to overcome challenges. It was fun.

As it stands in GW2 at my current level, if it continues on this track I’ll never need to group up with another soul to overcome any challenge, and neither will it be encouraged. You catch my jist and my frustration?

They removed all champions from starter areas for lame reasons, so you wont find any till you go the lvl 15-25 maps, you cant solo most of them, you’ll need 3-4 ppl to kill them, but here is the problem, when you get more than 3-4 ppl, it quickly becomes an auto attack fest. As the game goes you’ll find things that are hard to solo, but you’ll never find a map where all mobs are strong, normal mobs will always be easy, unless you aggro like 7+. You pretty much wont be able to run dungeons till level 80, because ppl insta kick ppl that arent level 80 from any dungeon, and you if you get to level 80, you just need a quick stop at youtube to catch up the “strategies” and will take 2 or 3 runs to never die again in those dungeons. I saw you talking about how disappointing it would be if the gear grind was too easy, guess what XD, you just need money to buy your exotic gear, which is quite enough to run anything but fractals, if you have money enough you just buy it from tp and done. About the reviews, the review you linked was about 2 weeks after the game release, when ppl were overhyped, check this interview and you’ll have a better idea about how the game is right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG5oUKqbIVM.

The end game is all about gold farming, to look good and afk in lions arch.

you have the option to play the auto attack spam content in pve, or play the number game in wvw, that’s why you pvp

I gotta tell you, i felt exatcly the same, but kept going hoping it would get better in the endgame, guess what it doesnt, the big events are just 30+ ppl spamming auto attack, dungeons are all about stack and spam in the right spot. PvE in this game is just a gold farming tool so far, and the f2p broken the economy, so soon the farming will be not viable too. Maybe the expansion brings some challenging content, but now, most of it is auto attack spam. Jump into pvp and see if you like it, otherwise I dont think there’s much left for you in this game but prepare yourself for the expansion, and knowing Anet i say it may not be challenging as you want.

Drying out all enemies supplies incoming, this will be soooooooooooooooooo much fun

I’m loving this, it’s already f2p so, can we get inspect feature too, then we can inspect and insta kick all non zerker ppl, and dps meter, so we can add those who use the meta but are bad to our block list, and kick them too.

pve is not meant to be played as a fun thing, it’s a gold farm tool, everybody is bored from day 1

they release “balance” patches once an year, so, grab your op spec and profit

ppl leave because game goes 150-0 in the first 2 mins, its all tied to the matchmaking issue

Conaywea.5062:

I stay afk when i see 2 people in home just when the game starts

You missing the point, you should go home with them, and then afk, reward guaranteed.

I quit the game in february for the exactly same reason, 85% of my matches were 500-200 winning or losing, games 150-0 in the first 2 mins. today i comeback to forums to check if they fixed it, and i find this post, sad. MM has been broken for like an year now.

ascended 10% stronger, new meta with new armor stats needed, a lot of ppl dropping money to convert gems into gold, wp anet

Wolfey.3407:

For the most part, it’s not a match making issue, at least what the screenshots are showing. The problem comes from two distinct issues.

1) Full Team vs Mixed Team
My guild and I did a 5 ranger team a couple of nights ago just for fun and we got mixed teams to play against.

How is this not a matchmaking issue, i play dota for 2 years, and worst i got was 3,2 vs 2,2,1, and i can count in 1 hand how many times it happened.

thx for the feedback, guess i’ll wait for a note patch saying matchmaking improved to come back

Wolfey.3407:

I’m sorry to hear that your games haven’t been to your satisfaction; however, can you please provide a little more information?

-What class were you playing?
-Were you playing a meta build/ cheese build at the time?
-What type of match were you entering? Practice (hotjoin), Unranked, or Ranked?

If you were just playing Hotjoin, you will have horrible matches. There is nothing that can be done about it, it’s practice.

If you were playing in Ranked by your self, the only thing I can suggest is tweak your build to be more team oriented. Ideally, you should play in Ranked with a friend or two. Entering Ranked by your self is not something you can really control. The more people you have on your team and you are able to communicate with, the better your team will perform.

From my own personal experience, I think I’ve only had 4-5 games from Unranked that were in the 500: 200 range. Ranked wise ( i always go with a friend) only 1-2 games that were 500-200 range. Time frame wise, this would be roughly just this year (2015), maybe I’m just lucky.

Most of my games were played cele ele and engi, im playing unranked. This is not about winning or losing, i just dont like how onesided the matches were, even if I had 70% winrate, I’d still have left if most of those matches were 500-200. I rather lose 10 500-450 in a row than win 10 500-200.

I left the game about 1 and half month ago, because 95% of my matches were 500-200 winning or losing, have they fixed it, or it’s still bad?

SimpleKingly.5021:

1v1, 2v2, and 3v3 arenas for ranked or for fun would be game breaking for the pvp scene. Just look at WoW’s pvp population. And it’s combat is kitten.

1v1 arenas would be amazing, and i can see why anet prolly never gonna make it, more qq on forums, about op v1’s builds.

Puck.1509:

There needs to be more accessible ways for casual players I guess like myself to become competitive in-game. not so much the leader boards but more so a tier system that I can earn my way up to so I’m at least in the same bracket as competitive players and can then be noticed or even thought about when looking for a competitive team. Right now, I am not even on the leader boards and who is to say that is what dictates my skill?

Their concept of ranked is kinda weird, when i first started pvping, i thought ranked matches would put ppl of same rank together (that’s how it works on dota 2, and i believe any other Esport, that has ranked matches), but i remember when i was rank 3, i got a teammate rank 69, and all matches were like that till i left ranked.

Suinz.5968:

nexxe.7081:

Don’t expect instanced content. There is no mention of new dungeons in HoT. GW2 is about open world events, such as Dry Top and Silverwastes.

Those zones are pretty much dead. Farming in event chains is BORING. It is not challenging whatsoever. Why does PvE have to be about spamming 1 and farming but not about challenging encounters?

Because everybody can spam 1 like a boss and beat the content, and that’s what anet wants, content that everyone can beat, that’s their conception of a friendly community they wanna build.

Junkpile.7439:

Khalisto.5780:

GW2 will never be an Esports, better mmos will be released and 80% of the community will move to those mmos.

Sure we start to play some old bad p2w korea grinder.

Not a korean, but japanese, and guess what, it’s not p2w and already bigger than gw2, and it was the only good mmo released after gw2, as ESO was bug fest and archeage p2w.

Keep talking about grind, when HoT is out you’ll have to grind the new skills, as they said those will be required to beat the new content, yeah, better than grind bigger number, but still a grind.

Suinz.5968:

We need more instanced content instead of boring open world zergs. This game needs CHALLENGING instanced PvE content. We could have raids that give unique skins instead of tiers of gear. Plus, it would be better than being with randoms all the time.

That is one of the things other MMOs such as WoW does great. Challenging content that you can do with your guild. You’d be able to choose who you’d want to bring.

They love too much their auto attack spam content, but dont worry hopefully this year’s mmo will be better than last year’s, and we wont have to rely on gw2 anymore

Wnerwiak.6049:

I don’t belive punishment will work… they will still rage quit if their team sucks terrible… even if they will be baned for it.

Banning only get rid of trolls as they can calculate punishment vs their actions but probably most leavers are just players dissapointed with their team progress/cooperation and their decision is more emotional than calculated.

The only way to balance such situation is just add extra survival buff to weakened team …more speed, toughness, power ..whatever necessary to make even competition 4vs5

I agree, and most players banned will never get back to pvp, with this matchmaking bad as it is right now, i wouldnt bother.

GW2 will never be an Esports, better mmos will be released and 80% of the community will move to those mmos.

style.6173:

Dirame.8521:

Yea, about that; Guild Leaderboards in the upcoming expansion. The Leaderboards you see now is just a test to get the algorithm right and now, they are doing a really good job considering how my match-ups have improved over past few months.

This left me speechless. :o Do you not read forum threads?

Lol i think he’s blessed by the MMR gods

warrior/elementalist/guardian/necro are the wvw raiding classes

Oh well, if you have already bought the game just download it and try. If you quit once you prolly quit again, because the game is pretty much the same as it was, with somethings better and some worse than they were.

when their “world grand finals” has 600 viewers, it looks like a fail to me

if you look at the most succesful Esports, they are all only pvp, that means you have:

1) All resources going for that game mode
2) You dont have to worry about breaking pve’s balance because you fixed pvp.

I do agree making the pvp f2p is the right call, you’d have a lot more ppl trying the game

I dont believe they’ll manage to make it an Esports, how big is the pvp community 0,5% 1% of total community, it isnt worth for them waste money on this, they might not even care about ppl quitting their pvp.