Guild Wars 2

“What we are planning to do going forward is that we are going to shorten the span for the next launch of the expansion pack.”

Red flag.
The initial launch of GW2 and HoT (which took half a year to spit shine) were rushed, don’t be surprised by this pattern.

But hey for once WoW won’t be able to steal potential customers with a strategic release since their XPack is due to come out very soon. Which really makes me wonder what the rush will accomplish unless there is some sleeper MMO I don’t know about.

I’d like to think many people prefer quality over quantity but that’s just a wild generalization right?

In 3k hours I haven’t actually equipped a single thing that I have gotten from loot outside of original launch week back when the Trading Post wasn’t working in the game.

It isn’t news that loot in general for GW2 is fundamentally bad.
Even in GW1 the loot was better, none of the cool skins were locked behind a gem store. And seeing a pile of ectos drop would practically make your heart race lol.

Converting gold to gems.

One of the biggest nails in the coffin for WvW.

If I did I would just pre order it 6 hours before it launches to get the toon slot they decided to not include with the purchase, just like I did with HoT.

Not a huge fan of paying up front for something that doesn’t exist yet with nothing but marketing to go by.

Blude.6812:

Remove AP cap and retire the leaderboards. That would be the best way to handle it.

+1 Clean and simple.

Ayrilana.1396:

thisisit.6954:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Please never remove the daily AP limit. It is an important milestone for an account and serves as an upper threshold so that new players have something attainable with immense effort so that they can compete with other older veterans on the AP leaderboard.

See, you just proved one of my points, you can NEVER compete, because they have APs from events long retired that you can never get.

And not having the cap would only make it worse.

Assuming that any veteran players still actively play and are fooled by the chore known as dailies.

OP never post your hours played when trying to make a point regardless of what it is, as you can see it’s all people will focus on lol.

On topic: It’s not that surprising that a lot of HoT feels rushed because it was; they developed it within 10 months leaving the base game bone dry of content the entire time. Speaking of the base game it’s like people have forgotten how buggy it was on launch just like every MMO (some of those bugs still exist like Orr events and skills like Rush) and they spent 6 years making GW2.

The problem as I see it is a lack of solid QA during development, but mainly a lack of continued QA after release.

Just be glad that GW2 hasn’t gone the way of NCsoft’s other MMOs Tabula Rasa and City of Heros/Villains yet.

Anet wanted far fewer skills in GW2 than there is in Guild Wars to make it easier to “balance”; it seems the issue was simply websites like PvXwiki and Metabattle allowing people to just copy and paste the same thing as the next guy which then gets over used to the point that it is now meta/cheese and it causes them to over tune things (nerfs/buffs). Then X gets replaced by Y and the cycle continues.

Phy.2913:

Manasa Devi.7958:

I don’t think being able to get back into the same instance after a disconnect, or being able to forcefully join it regardless of it having filled up to capacity during your absence, are part of the 64 bit client.

You wont need to rejoin because you’re far less likely to crash, eliminating the problem all together.

I have the 64 bit client and get crashes every other time I do the DS, AB and Teq meta events. I normally play this game while streaming a show and it never drops below 720p let alone 1080p when these “disconnects” happen.

By this point it’s practically a feature lol.

Omega Zoa.3859:

Heh, i play 100% solo and reached dragon’s stand or whatever the last zone is, only needed help on a few hero points, but other then that i soloed 100%, i am a berserker glass cannon warrior.

Same here my main is a zerker zerker warrior and with 3 dodges (1 on GS) and double endure pain most things are pretty much face roll. But maybe it’s just the class carrying us and not skill right? lol

I already have the berserker traits that I want all the way to the 3rd row (it just happened to line up nicely) and I’m only on the 2nd map in no way does it require 80% of HoT to unlock your elite spec at least not for everyone.

Click spamming in this game is a way over the top, you click more in this game than you do in grand strategy games like Europa Universalis which can be played entirely by clicking.

Other than commonly requested solutions such as right click open all and insert number amount to buy from merchants like Miyani it would be nice to have reward chest contents like the ones in PvP, WvW, and Silverwastes ect. go directly into your inventory just for a bit of QoL.

Staff ele imo, it basically plays just like warrior you just press 2 every 6 seconds pop utility skills and everything melts in PvE.

On the flip side since you want to do 100% map completion either choice is fine since thief in full zerker 2 shots every mob, has better mobility, and you can stealth cap hero points that have champions near them.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Spirited Was Eceni.3869:

The hero/henchmen AI wasn’t too good in GW1 as I remember it. If I took a melee char they’d do silly things and get themselves killed in no time. Caster hero’s were better as I could flag them away from the front line. I found the best option was to have two players with three hero’s each. That way it was possible to flag your hero’s individually.

Oh and the most annoying part for me? In a battle I’d be fighting hard and losing hp, did my healer heal me? No, my necro would cast Death Nova on me instead! Kitten!

Yes, the AI was stupid, but it was predictably stupid. The heroes were much better than the hench, at least from my experience.

I didn’t really use the melee heroes, there was no need. Even as a caster, I typically did any “tanking” (not that tanks were needed for 98% of the content) and my monkies kept everyone up.

Agreed, hero’s weren’t that bad at all but that’s not mentioning I had to manually micro manage most of their skills and targets (party and foe) as if I was a Starcraft player with 200+ APM lol. Did every single thing in GW1 on hard mode except DoA and UW with heros.

But sadly as someone else already mentioned the foundation for “pet” AI in this game is beyond borked in most cases and is unlikely to change so drastically as to support that kind of control.

Did they spend the 1st 45 minutes without the food buff then apply it for the last 45 minutes?
If so then it simply sounds like diminishing returns to me (which shouldn’t even exist to the extent it does since the bot trains died out long ago but that is a whole other topic).

In my personal experience killing the same mobs for 45 minutes straight is plenty of time to hit DR.

You can solo the Mordrem event @ Vine Bridge WP with a GS zerker guardian, just don’t pull the thrashers and use your blinds.

All the people here saying DR doesn’t exist never played this game prior to November 2012 when it was introduced it was made to “combat the bots” (which were a HUGE problem back then tbh) but these forums used to be on fire because of it.

In short DR does exist and if you farm you will see it everyday.

I’m just gonna go ahead and question ANET’s math on this one. Lol

Makes me wonder if their RNG has a similar problem.

Yeah… I’m from JQ and guested to Devona’s Rest to get power cores and saw Shatterer up at full health with 0 people even attempting to kill him and thought “very high population my kitten ” lol.

ALL those people that thought that the server pop was based on active players and not just accounts must be eating serious crow these days.

They had no choice but to give the warrior the most useless new heal ever conceived. XD

Butter.3024:

So for a newbie like me I should just keep champ farm until I got a good amount of wealth?

I’m at 460g atm

460 is plenty of capital, a 2,000g investment making 200g sounds very low ball and risk free it’s easy to turn 2k into 3k it just depends on the material.

The more you have the more you make.

The main reason I did fractals was for my infused back piece now that I have it there is still no reason for me to return other than to check out the recycled dungeons to see how they’ve changed them.

And I play too many games to care about some leader board in this one. :/

So making them account bound makes no sense in my mind also, but maybe someone who has 10s of thousands of relics will be overjoyed.

Elthurien.8356:

I can’t answer for my server but after over a year doing WvW I just aren’t as serious about the competition anymore, I’ve always enjoyed the fights more than the competition. This past few weeks I’ve been enjoying the new XCom expansion and Battlefield4 more than WvW so I log in less.

I know right! Before these LoLz “leagues” no one cared about PPT (at least in T1, remember all the GvG QQ from every direction even from the developers…) why should it be any different now, every week it gets reset and nothing is lost or gained for anyone.

P.S. MEC troopers are OP XD.

I find it a bit funny that this is posted in the sub forum that has the most front page developer responses.

BlackBeard.2873:

Actually, every class can be built to play important roles that can’t be gotten with just warr/necro/guard:

Eles: Rock solid (group stab) + water fields + ranged damage
Mesmers: Confusion builds (which can wreck a hammer train pretty hard as their null fields strip their boons and confusion stacks up high so they kill themselves), mantra healing + stab + condi removal, veil + null field in general
Engineers: Nades condi-spread (watch out for retal though) + healing turret water field
Thieves: cluster-bombing and back-line harass
Rangers: healing spring + barrage + more pew-pews + entangle

While some of these can be more useful than others, having a few of every class lets a group do more than just a hammer-train can do alone.

This is assuming that people know how to play their class, from my personal experience most people have no idea what blasting a fire field does. lol

Sounds like the Google+ tactic lol.
One day we will actually click on the pop up instead of the X.

PuGs that can’t even type to tell you they are new to the dungeon.

Yay?

CC Danicia.1394:

Bright.9160:

If you remember not to remove topics just because they give negative Feedback.

Kthanks.

As long as it is respectful and doesn’t include violations of the Forum Code of Conduct, it won’t be removed.

You should tell the moderators that.

P.S. Moving it to Linksville or Suggestions is the same as deleting around here.

I’ll just leave this here…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Promoter

Serv.6073:

Why can we not just have one big bag and one big bank? You crack jokes at me because it is true.

Guild banks.

You can make a guild for free and buy the influence toasts to get a (50? been awhile) slot bank for around 10g.

Use it for everything you need to store and only use the normal bank for account bound stuff.

P.S. You can make multiple guilds to mule stuff into, much cheaper than wasting gold/cash on gems if all you need is space XD.

matjazmuhic.1649:

I still think that “can’t be done because of the performance” is just a cheap excuse.

We get major skill lag with only a 5 cap AoE limit, ( upwards of 5 minute on any skill other than auto attack in WvW, granted that is kinda rare but still..) take a moment to think about how atrocious it would become with a lifted cap using the same hardware.

They’ve said a few time they won’t make it account wide because of character progression or some such, even though PvP glory is account wide its like they’re biting their own tongue in that regard lol.

Who knows maybe if it was account bound and after it adds up everyone’s alts it would show up as a clear power creep since some people would have lots of lines maxed.

They’ll sure as hell take your money though right?

aeroh.8930:

The question is, what is the counter to mass boons?

It used to be people would stack on one spot and warriors would shout the pain away. That got fixed. Now people run around in melee pain trains with literally all boons for the duration of the fight, whilst also mass cleansing conditions. But what is the counter to this? Bring your own boons? Boons countering boons? That’s..silly. That is counter play, that’s just escalation.

See, gw2 combat is about counters. If someone has high toughness, you can get around it with conditions. You can counter conditions with cleanses and higher vitality. You can counter vitality with spikey dps. If someone wants to go heavy damage, you can make yourself a bunker. At least that’s what the goal is. It doesn’t always work in practice.

Now with boons, what do you do? You strip them off. And that is working great for small fights, and borderline OP in 1v1s. But it just doesn’t work in mass blob fights. People share so many boons that you can’t strip them off with current skills.

So what is the counter?

alanis.6094:

Only allow combo’s to work while in combat.

That would be a good start.

Null Field by the tons would do the trick. But having an army of mesmers vs the army of anything else would end up with lots of dead mesmers.

tattyana.2356:

I’ve gotten the lover dawn and dusk out the forge I dont understand why cant get precursors or people say there so hard to get I got the lover used that money to buy mats towards legendar I then got dawn out the forge using rare swords but I didnt need dawn as I was making twilight so needed dusk and was impatient so I use all that gold to buy rare swords and made dusk all in two day span so I dont see why people cant get pre cursors I got three out forge no problem using rares the lover was with zero magic find gear out of the forge before the magic find change and the other two were with 92% magic find with the new changes so I dont know what to say.

MF gear never affected the forge.. lol

And you are beyond arrogant with your luck; many many others have dropped 500g+ and have gotten nothing.

Master Roshi shirt = win.

Big Tower.5423:

Guardian?! What the kitten? Where the heck did you get that from?! Guardian is 4th on lowest direct damage, only higher than ranger, engi and necro… XD

^ never used Sword/Focus with proper traits. :P

bravoart.5308:

a t s e.9614:

How about skill wins instead of the zerg? Skilled players are being punished in every aspect. Just look at PvP it’s very hard to 2v1 because of the downed state.
My point is the economy shouldn’t have such a big inflation just because they are allowing this to happen. I will be forced to do this boring grind if I want to keep up with the precursor price.

OMG wow.

Don’t take this as an insult but…. you aren’t skilled. There are people with real skill who are fighting 1v5+ with videos on youtube.

The inflation is based on flippers sheer greed, lack of casual gold sinks and lack of new merchandise being traded from player to player than from player to flipper.

Flipping actually takes money out of the economy (the TP has taxes..) explain to me how removing money from the economy causes inflation lol.

rjnemer.7816:

Can someone explain to me ap hunting? I personally dgaf about how many ap i have. I want them to make me log on because they put out good meaningful permanent content, not because i need to get these 100 ap.

Amen brother.

It used to be like that, achievement-whoring was a niche thing that only few really did then they added 2 week patches, leader boards, and chests at milestones now its mainstream and everyone (mostly) does it in mass just because its temporary and has “rewards” tied to it.

The only people that I can assume find it truly enjoyable are zombie-like addicts. : /

Because clipping.

Luthan.5236:

derneue.3624:

Then just bind “interact” to something else and “aoe loot” to ‘f’.

I still want to talk to NPCs with F. I can’t find the option to only bind ress or pick up banner stuff to another key. Where is this option?

Edit: Also it is funny to see how people argue against. I lol’d when I read people writing “ofc not you are dead” but when I’m dead and respawn I still get the loot ported to me. Maye they should remove this as well? Not very realistic to have loot appear next to you. Should be real corpses like in PvE then.

Bind AoE loot to Shift + F and spam it all day if you want to use F to interact and you also want to loot without grabbing banners.

Funky.4861:

Zerging is a player problem and has nothing to do with ANET. Players will find the path of least resistance and use it to the max; this happens all the time in every situation. We, the players have created this problem ourselves (content locusts).

Yeah, core design flaws are caused by the players.

This reminds me of the Halo 3 matchmaking. (Rank ups only on wins)
What I mean is that one very skilled person can “carry” the team do all of the work and is a good player in general but will get a lesser reward because his team loses or sucks.

Modern games have swayed away from a team based win/lose system and added personal rewards (XP rank for kills, titles, unlocks ect.) and it seems like GW2 just took a step backwards in this regard albeit minor but a step back none the less.

There isn’t even a /leech report system in game like GW1 had this will only lead to team hate and AFK players galore it seems.

Renny.6571:

Place your bets on the next alliance!

Sons of Svanir + Stone Summit = the Frost alliance.

: /

Respawn quicker all the tags you land as you’re valiantly moshing about will be around your feet at the WP (assuming the guys you tagged die).

All I see is SoR and BG have PvE achievement hunters that actually listen/follow the pin.

..Congrats?

Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is Ori runs (if you can deal with the repetitiveness every day) since gathering is about the only thing not tied to your account, it’s good easy money if you need it I guess.

xXJonoDXx.3061:

Im saving up my candycorn till next year when the prices are high. When they are worth around 2 silver again. ILL BE RACKING UP THE GOLD. Just saying farm the candy corn and bank it till summer next year. The prices will be HOT!!! I can see it. Over 100000 candy corn and then making 50 gold THE DREAM IS COMING MY FELLOW ADVENTURERS GOOOOOOOOLD!!!

Loads of people had this idea last year and bought dozens of stacks while it it was still 1s+ each and it crashed VERY shortly after to 1-2c each and stayed that way for a long time lol.

Now when karka shells were 50c, well…