Guild Wars 2

Rikkagin.9472:

Before I came here I played LOTRO. They would shut down ALL servers, even EU, but using US time, and sometimes the servers would not be back up for until midnight (EU time).

I’d often lose a whole days play every two weeks.

Do you see anything concerning with your post ?

Haishao.6851:

GW1 was 200 years in the past.

Earth looks like science fiction compared to 200 years ago too.

I’m sure people who use video games to escape from their every day madness highly
appreciate your comment.

If GW2 need one thing more it’s connection to the real world.
May i suggest some lawyers or self helping groups ?

Sombrero.9204:

The game is extremly far from being technologic aside from the Asuran (and still it’s a lot of magic involved). On top of that Asuran technology was already a thing in Eye of the North for example. The game happens much after the first GW so it makes sense that some technologic evolution happened. It’s far from being sci-fi, there’s a tiny bit of steam-punk but that’s it seriously. I mean the most advanced weaponry we have is a flamethrower basically, we are far away from spaceships and all man.

You call this far from being SCIFI ????
Beside that, it would be nice to not lie blatantly into peoples faces.
Living Story and the Aetherblades have ships in the air and shoot lasers on ground targets. The battle for Lions Arch and the Marionette was full of laser pew pew

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

How time changes perception.

These forums were full of criticism of Scarlet (’s story) for a very long time.

I’m not sure I’ve seen Scarlet in Heart of Thorns, anyway.

Doesn’t that tell us something about the quality delivered after Scarlett ???

Rozalina.3196:

I would love to see living story season 1 added to our story journals so we could replay it.

I can assure you, you don’t want that.
Go to Dragon stand and you have LS 1

Joanna.3541:

Yesssssssss

Something along these lines

lol…
are you insane ??
This is GW2 we can’t have cool stuff.

This would defeat the purpose of dull button #1 mashing without any purpose
or enjoyment of environment or adventuring.
I’m pretty sure they are developing a just white flat plane where black squares punch white squares and everyone focuses on loot and nothing else

If someone asks me they should keep politics completely out of a video game.
This reminds me of the guys that was offended by one of the free armors becuase it looked like it had crosses all over.
These things go pretty ugly fast.

The next person wants a black transgender… then an asian transgender in a male body
with female hair and a quaggan lower body. Soon we end with ghost marrying horses.

Like i say, they should keep politics out of a video game.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’m not dead sure what you’re asking for.

The part " a lot of the criticism of HoT was that it wasn’t welcoming for new players in the slightest." Are you asking for the game to have everyone make new characters and level to max in order to do the expansion so that new people won’t be left out? Cuz that’s not really fair to the vets. The new people now have a level 80 boost to use or not as they wish. That’s a better solution than forcing everyone to select a new main and relevel.

As to the story. The game is not really set up to go off in a completely new story lines since they are in the middle of a story right now with the dragons and the effect of unbound magic on the world. However expanding on old story lines during this would be a way to bring in new/old material as they go along.

What’s wrong with you ?

The Op asked for a complete separated story line on another continent
like in GW1.
What has that to do with deleting characters ????
In GW1 you could jump from continent to continent without deleting characters.
I strongly advice you play stuff first before annoying the OP

UnbentMars.9126:

Also when you leave, send me your stuff. Idk why you think the game is dying when more and more people are playing it.

lol….

do you have any whatever evidence for that?
Any ?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Please, put some fun back in the game instead of endless numbers games.

Now describe how to put fun back in the game in a way that replayable, and something that’s fun for a substantial number of people.

Edit: all you said was “I don’t like.” That’s not constructive or useful to the devs.

I can tell you exactly why people don’t like the game….

Example ????

Here we go…. Masteries are a chance to create something awesome instead repelling anyone with half a brain.

It is far beyond me how killing 100000 pocket raptors makes me learning a frog language.
Make Masteries like mini games….. like making logical connection between
words and gestures… as more you understand as more progress you make
until you get it 100%.

Is it really so difficult ????

Glider the same thing.. make a minigame controlling glider maneuvers…
actuelly learn what updraft really means and how to use it ….. this would entertain people.

But nooooooo……… the usual killing (insert random monster class)
teaches us how to fly………… brilliant.

This is why people hate the game. The devs cut corners wherever they can
instead going the extra mile.

tolunart.2095:

They give players the story in little bits and they complain. “We want an expansion!”

They give the players an expansion and they complain “We want a constant stream of updates!”

Devs can’t win.

?? not even sure what to say.
It’s players like you that destroys a healthy communication with the Dev’s.

Let me be clear here…..

People doesn’t want content, people want MEANINGFULL CONTENT !!!!!!!!!!.

And this is exactly why there is so much friction and a huge chunk of the players left.
Everytime we have friciton A-Net tries to give out everything but content.

People are not angry woth HOT they are angry with what HOT offers.

I am very clear about what people don’t want jut to clarify.
- People don’t need a 2nd job
- People don’t need always repeating events at special timers.
- People don’t need to deserve everything they want, this is a freaking video game.
- People don’t want mindless zombie zerking.
- People hate no customization of skills
- People hate the low variety of monster.
- People absolute hate how A-Net butchered the original map to 60% of it’s former Glory
- People hate grinding for cosmetics.
- Archivements are NO CONTENT !!! Just because you do stuff over and over again doesn’t mean there is more content.
- People are so fed up with repeating the same lukewarm story over and over again.
Dragon comes.. groups who could fight don’t want to… you make them work together…
defeat the dragon….. this is so old and so annoying i could puke we have 1375 more Dragons to come.

You wanna have positive examples ??

- People love adventuring and exploring new locations full of wonder and miracles.
- People love sheer beauty
- People love to play around with skills and outfits
- People want PVE and PVP skills absolutely disconnected, i can’t point this out enough
- People want to hang out with some friends and have a great time, they don’t want to be forced to team up with 60 random people to do a 2nd job.
- People want freedom to do whatever they please, they want a meaning in this world.
- People want homes to decorate and cusomize their own environment. And no, they don’t want to grind 3 month for a chair.
- Peopel want to interact with each other in a meaningfull way.
- People want a story that ties you to your chair.
- People want variety in bad guys… they want twists in storys they want exitement.

i could go on and on with stuff ……….

And you come and tell me Dev’s can’t win ?
Heck, People would cry of joy if Dev’s would at least try to go the extra mile instead cutting corner wherever they can.

Just take a look at GW1 after 10 years you can still go there and have fun with 3-4 people or your own customized heroes. You don’t have to do anythign else than having fun…. this is a huge difference… no grinding, no timer, no fixed skills, every story has it’s own unique boss…… just pure fun…

lol i think they get nervous and the “third Party” thing is just an excuse.
I was suspended yesterday as well.
I was just looking at people at Mount Maelstrom and didn’t even had minions out.
Neither was i AFK or farming.

The whole group disappeared at the same time so i guess i was “collateral damage”.
But no bad feelings here, the Forum is full of crying people, i understand that they have to execute some examples

JPUlisses.8756:

It feels there is no other MMORPG that is better than GW2 right now…

All the other seem to be hype and die in a month. (Black Desert, Blade and Soul, etc).

WoW being the one that lasts longer, but stays dead longer (1 year no content, twice), WoW has higher player base, but when you actually go and play, it feels like no one is playing, not only the garrison makes you feel alone in the game, but when you try and go out in the world you notice it is also very empty, this does not happen in GW2 as you always find a random noob every dark corner you try to dig into.
WoW vanilla felt much better, while having less players, the game felt full of players, either in cities or people trying to level up or dungeons, quite similar to GW2 world (just look how lion arch is always full of people).

Also the game modes:
PvE: GW2 content lasts forever, while WoW content dies. While players chase different content for different rewards, new players come and take their place, renewing the cycle.
Raids: WoW has more raids, GW2 raids last forever, so eventually GW2 will win.
PvP: I play casually all, GW2 feels slightly more rewarding (skins/loot) and slightly more fun (faster games). Still wish there was 1v1 or death match arenas (no contest).
WvW: GW2 > elder of scrolls online. WoW open world pvp is dead.
JP/Mini Games: WoW(has battle pets)

GW2 content is much more stable and persistent than all other MMORPGs.
If you like MMORPG you don’t have other choice, but play GW2.

Opinions?

lol… Opinions ????

Well words like Fanboy come to my mind.

But let’s assume everything you say it’s true… just for fun.

The MMo market is so incredible bad and all of the games not even close to be entertaining anymore.
Sticking out here is like being the “one eyed under the blind”
Yes, you may be better than everyone else but please…. a great game ???

I see nothign else than repeating repeating repeating over and over again.
Nothing is really content or entertaining. A-Nets cuts corners wherever they can
instead goin the extra mile.

How do you think is it possible that the only gaming aspect that has nothing to do with GW2 is the most popular and most wanted ???? And yes, you can guess it’s SAB.
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Haellymm.3801:

I bought this game years ago and played it for a while until life stepped in and I had to quit until now. I play his when I have the time, and even though I really want to, the people playing this game as well are starting to make me feel like this decision was a mistake.

My max level was 33, on an asura ranger. I decided to start fresh and made a new toon – a sylvari thief. I noticed some Tomes on my bank and I used them, now I’m level 26, but my gear is too weak for me to actually handle myself in combat. I’ve asked help from a few people but all I got was cold behavior from their part.

I tried PvP, but these people are so toxic, so vile that I just turned the game off. I remmeber that everyone was so nic to each other back then, but now everyone’s mean and toxic… maybe coming back was a bad idea.

It’s very easy.

A huge part of the community left the game because GW2 is not what it should be.

Left over are people who are not interested in anything else than loot bag clicking and hard core raider.
These people have usually a more questionable character.
So i am not surprised that people start noticing a change in behavior and hostile
environments.

If A-Net brings back adventuring and relaxed playing around content instead
check marking shopping list and huge group elite events i can see
lots of people coming back and brining back the spirit of a healthy community

Charrbeque.8729:

Oh and, people who claim there wasn’t enough content with HoT are really saying there wasn’t any content they want to do. The content is there. You payed for it. If you don’t like it and/or want to do it, that’s your problem. You knew what you were paying for. If you didn’t know, you should have researched it before buying the expansion.

I’m also getting sick and tired of the claims that “the game is dying”, “everybody is leaving in droves”, “everybody hates this or that”. It’s not true one bit. There are still plenty of players in the game. I see lots of people everywhere I go.

- Why would someone research bicycles when A-Net is advertising cars ????
A-Net promised tons of contend and lots of entertainment.
They delivered their same old washed up regular story of "dragon comes, group who can fight it doesn’t want to work together, you make them work together,
defeat the dragon.
People are absolutely sick and tired of that, even without research

- Game is not dying… and tons of people are everywhere …. really ?
And how do you explain that when you need an event which is bugged,
it is bugged for weeks because because they are never enough people to open another map ?
When i am walking around i see maybe 3-4 other people doesn’t matter what map.
There is even stuff happen like asking me to change maps 5x in 20 seconds because the next map is also empty

All this has nothing to do with missing research, it just means GW2 is far away from bein entertainment for a huge part of the crowd… period

amidare.9561:

Let’s start crowdfunding project so ArenaNet will have chance to finish promised 2nd weapon legendary set! Let’s say they offer to participants something ingame for donations. Would you use your credit card to support this project?

Share your thoughts.

Uhmm.. maybe you have to learn something here.

A-Nets problem isn’t the funding.
They have a fundamental problem with understanding what Gw makes GW plus
they incredible shy away from anything contend .

They cut corners wherever they can instead of going a single extra mile.
That we are still in the stage of having 60% of the original map and no sign of the other continents after 3 years should tell you one thing or two.

Another huge flag is they scratch legendary weapon sets after a huge wave of cash flew in from expansion money.

And now we should create a crowd funding for a company that has proven over and over again that they have no understanding that people want entertainment and gimmicks or a 2nd job ???

Kudos for your try,
but this train is going nowhere

Raven.1524:

2. I know ArenaNet does not have enough manpower to be compared to companies like Blizzard or Square-Enix, so why is everyone demanding the quality of content a big company could make in a relatively short amount of time?

a) because they pay the same price like for a AAA company game

b) how do you think Blizzard or Square got that big ?
I give you a hint… not by cutting corners everywhere and avoid the every extra mile possible especially regarding to contend.

Ask yourself one thing.
What is the status of a game when the most wanted contend (SAB) has absolutely nothing to do with GW2 ???

Bloodlust.3672:

Sorry to say, but the gameplay of Guild Wars 2 has taken the series in the wrong direction and has alienated lots of previous fans. Anet, please go back to your roots and remake the genuinely good game that is Guild Wars 1.

Amen to everything you said.

Give us GW1 with better graphics and we are golden

ekarat.1085:

Why do people want more maps?

Imagine a huge map. Now cut it into 9 smaller maps. Is that any better? You started with 1 map and ended up with 9. More is better, right? Not in this case? Then you really can’t compare on map count.

What about empty maps? People don’t like empty maps. The more maps we have in the game, the more spread out the population will be, so the remaining maps will get pretty empty. How is this better?

What about exploring? Everybody likes exploring, except for the people who really don’t. Tangled Depths had a lot to explore, and to be fair, some people did enjoy exploring it, but for most people it was a pain. How many people just joined a train to complete the map and then didn’t bother exploring after that (except to complete it with another character). Okay, this is my weakest point, since a lot of people like exploring, but many of those people will abandon the map after, creating empty maps.

So, why this obsession with map count and the number of maps?

I will assume you never played GW1.

1) Just more maps is A-Nets assumtion what player wants

2) If you deliver quality maps where people just have a wonderfull time to follow their hobby people could care less the map is empty or not.

3) People don’t want more just more maps.
They want the continent complete they thought they pay for when buying GW.
On top they want they beloved Cantha and Elona back.
So we are not talking 9 maps here we talk maybe 50 or more.
Couple that with the quality they delivered in GW 1 and we start talking.

4) An MMO means massive multiplayer and this is mostly misunderstood.
You CAN play with other people but you DO NOT HAVE TO.
A-Net is absolutely underestimating how many people actually do not wish to play
in big groups.
They would like to !!!! adventure !!!! with 3-4 of their friend NOT zombie zerking with 50 others. People want adventures and exploring back not close combat on purposely tiny areas

I don’t even have words for how far you are off the topic with your assumption
of 9 maps or what you said in general

Vayne.8563:

Kirschsahne.2081:

Vayne.8563:

What happened was the fan base wasn’t happy with the living story so we switched to an expansion model and the expansion didn’t do well. That’s what happened. If the expansion had done better, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

I don’t get this post ???

So, if we would have a better game people would complain less … Really ???
If i would run faster i would be at the olympics or if i could fly i wouldn’t have to walk…
The reality is that i am not able to do it.

Isn’t the point that A-net isn’t able to deliver quality???

Nope it’s not really the point. The question is WHY they can’t deliver content. They in fact are spread too thin, trying to provide too many options for too many people. And if they’re going back to their roots and provide more for me, yeah I’ll be happy. lol

haha.. that made me smile. I wish it would work this way.

but i am not sure they are spread too thin.
The fan base has been very clear from the beginning what they want.
The mistake they made is always delivering everything else but what the comunity wants.
IMO they could have 3.000 more employees and would still do wrong.
In GW1 they had very few employees and such a huge success.

So i am not sure the problem is that they are to few people.

Malediktus.9250:

You can solo things in HoT just fine except the meta event bosses. Its just not faceroll easy as old Tyria. But I do not see people solo Shatterer, Tequatl etc either.

I am sure he is talking about hero points you can’t solo.
And without hero points you can’t develope your character.

I understand very well why he is complaining.
Multiplayer should be optional not forced.
GW1 was a perfect example how to do it.
Actually i have no idea why they threw everything over board that made A-Net so successful and invented cheap, no creativity new stuff to replace it.

Vayne.8563:

What happened was the fan base wasn’t happy with the living story so we switched to an expansion model and the expansion didn’t do well. That’s what happened. If the expansion had done better, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

I don’t get this post ???

So, if we would have a better game people would complain less … Really ???
If i would run faster i would be at the olympics or if i could fly i wouldn’t have to walk…
The reality is that i am not able to do it.

Isn’t the point that A-net isn’t able to deliver quality???

Rococo.8347:

There was so much brilliant open world content in LW1 that could have ( and still could) with forward thinking been reused and God knows we need the content.

You lost me here.

LS1 was actually the beginning of the end..
When people realized that A-Net replaced creativity with dull zerker fests
they left in crowds.
This damage has never really been repaired.

LS2 was a little bit better but still so incredible far from what people actually want,
that A-Net stopped LS in general.

The day A-Net decides to bring LS1 back is the day when they can turn off the servers.
I would never ever thought i would read a request for LS1 again.
We must really be in a bad place if people ask for the darkest hours of GW2 again

For the love of god……….

please not another dragon.
In GW1 they didn’t need a single dragon to have an awesome game.
Arena Net should go back to the roots.

But i already make a prediction here for the case it is a dragon:

-Different groups will be informed of a dangerous dragon
- The groups don’t work together.
- you make them work together.
-Defeat of Dragon
……….. rinse and repeat for the next dragon

i am so sick and tired of that.
I guess Colin is not the right fit anymore to lead this company.
His ambitions are barely higher than fan fictions

angeltears.8235:

As much as I enjoy the Bell Choir activity, I cannot spend my supposedly happy Christmas vacation doing the same thing over and over again. Did you not think of the people who actually have jobs and don’t have time to spend grinding this shoulder piece?

Sorry to say, but for me this year’s xmas event is quite disappointing.

They thought well of these people.
Usually these people own credit cards.

You are not forced to repeat Choir Bell like a robot.
Just use your credit card or Pay Pal and the Winter Pesence is yours.
If you are not willing to pay or to grind you won’t have it
Easy and simple.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kirschsahne.2081:

Fluffball.8307:

Also GTA turns everyone into murdering thieves. C’mon, this topic is full of 90’s style mom outrage. We’ve moved on.

Yeah right……….. and we always move on after taking the next barrier.
When was the last time you took a look whats going on on this planet ???

In the 80’s kids could play outside until nighttime.
These days they can’t go out alone at all.

Do you think there is any connection to our times and always taking the next barrier ???

No.

One of the things people do is a whitewashing and glamorization of times past. But they had crime and murders. They had public executions by the state out in the open where all, including small children, could come and watch. They had lynchings where no one was punished and it wasn’t against the law to beat or sexually assault your wife.

There were reasons that children were allowed more freedom. One big one is that people had so many. A family might have 4, 5, 6, 7 or more children. 15 or 20 children to a family wasn’t unheard of or uncommon. With that many, it wasn’t unusual to lose a few before adulthood to disease or accidents. Most people now only have a couple of kids and you only have a couple of kids, you keep them closer than if you have 20 kids racing through your house. Another reason was lack of information. Nowadays a school shooting is known around the world. Then, it might not be known outside the place it happened. People hear more bad things from all around the world, and it frightens them whereas in the past they would never have heard of it.

I am not sure is should even answer.

Actually i don’t know where you grew up.
But i have never seen a public execution or sex assaulting wifes or people having 7 childs or anything you mentioned.
Beside that this is not the topic. The problem is that if we continue to lower standards, which actually exist to keep people descend, we will face a horrible world.

Fact is that the kids in the 80’s had more freedom to explore and more safety in general.
Since the 90’s when people had the brilliant idea to remove anything that provided any stability or discipline the violence level in our society exploded.
In fact the 80’s were the only time when the USA remotely reached the quality level of the Scandinavian countries these days.
Right now the United States are at #15 even behind Costa Rica.
Strangely the leading countries have very strong standards when it comes to handling kids and safety or providing environment for children.

Like i said…. these days kids are not even allowed outside alone or woman are told not to be out after dark.

It is up to you to rage about that.
But if we fail to reintroduce rules, standards or discipline we will face a horrible
reality every day around us.
A good start would be to keep kids away from alcohol, drugs and tobacco
plus rethinking what is actually entertainment.

Just my 2 cents

Fluffball.8307:

Also GTA turns everyone into murdering thieves. C’mon, this topic is full of 90’s style mom outrage. We’ve moved on.

Yeah right……….. and we always move on after taking the next barrier.
When was the last time you took a look whats going on on this planet ???

In the 80’s kids could play outside until nighttime.
These days they can’t go out alone at all.

Do you think there is any connection to our times and always taking the next barrier ???

It’s easy to explain i guess, most people here a males.
Most males are surrounded by other males at work most of their life.
So i guess they want to change a bit in their fantasy world.
I guess it’s a natural outcome.

Wanze.8410:

Swagger.1459:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Swagger.1459:

IndigoSundown.5419:

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I gave specific examples of the pieced together development by what we see being implemented. There is no speculating… Fact that we have a mini raid and no legendary armor to even view is not a speculation. Nor is 1 wvw map while the rest of wvw is in production. Nor profession neglect that has been pointed out many times in and out of these forums… Those are facts… And that’s where “cost efficiency” come into play…

You are asking us to conclude with you that “cost efficiency” is the issue behind your observations. You’ve not looked at other possible issues that may have produced the effects. Thus, your analysis is flawed. Flawed analysis means suspect conclusions.

MMO developers failing to provide everything that MMO consumers might want at the pace those consumers prefer is the state of the genre. It certainly is not something unique to GW2. Nor is it new with regard to GW2. There have been complaints about GW2 content provision, lack of new profession mechanics, lack of attention to WvW, etc. since very shortly after the game launched. I’m sure that costs are a factor in that dynamic, but this is not something new.

Anet’s financial resources from ncsoft are too low and then spread too thin. That’s the main problem. This game deserves a very hefty injection of cash from the masters. Until then, it’s going to be continuous patchwork quilting on every project… That’s a problem.

I believe GW2 has the potential to be the number 1 flagship game for ncsoft. It needs a big cash boost…

Then buy some gems.

You must be new to economy.
People start paying money if they like a product not to make a product better.
This is the investors job.
People seem to confuse the purpose of investors or customers here since a long time.

Ayrilana.1396:

Swagger.1459:

Ayrilana.1396:

It only seems bad because of the definition you made up for cost efficiency.

Pay attention to most of the game and the development, and you’ll see the effects of “cost efficiency” in action. Put things into better context…

Cost efficiency is using all of your resources (which have costs) to produce a product or service with a maximum outcome. It’s simply using your existing resources efficiency.

No absolutely not.
It is quite the opposite.
Cost efficiency or any efficiency comes into play when you already have an outcome.
Think of motor and gas. You don’t get more motor for same gas.
Your motor is using up less gas.

Since there is already the game GW2 and it is impossible to remove contend
it means less people or less performance or combined.

And my opinion is that already see where they cut corners.
Actually everyone saw it coming when playing GW1.
This game shows what happens when the producer go the extra mile to
make people happy.
I was suspicious from the beginning how to jump over a bar set that high.
And yeah.. they didn’t especially when they didn’t put in what they should have.

fixit.7189:

Kirschsahne.2081:

It isn’t really that complicated. 90 gold is like 1 day of fun playing.

How are you making 90 g a day? Do you play 18 hours a day and or do you just sit there playing stock simulator? Do tell. Normal people will be lucky to make 5g a day considering that most collectible materials are now 1/2 or less the price they used to be; the min wage was cut in HoT. Yay?

Do you realize that a Deldrimor Steel Ingot is over 8 gold each ???
If people have trouble to craft a single Deldrimor Ingot per day and struggle to even make 5 Gold they don’t deserve the good stuff or any gold anyways.

Just my 2 cent

YaYa.5879:

WOAW i just saw the new update on the gemstore! That’s awesome. I mean who cares about fractal changes and the fix of stonghold! What we want is to spend more money for items that you can get by paying real money instead of playing the game. Thank god the new awesome winter glider isn’t a reward for the wintersday event: that would mean that we would have to play XD !

No but seriously good job guys keep up the good work. After Paying 45€ for a flawless expension like this, what i want to do is pay more money for cool skins, instead of wining them by playing.
I don’t want people to think “WOAW, what an awesome stuff he has, he must be a good player.”
I want them to think “kitten , that man must be really rich in real life to spend real money for fake items, i hope he lives near me and is single”.

And yes it is still possible to get a glider skin by getting gold, but thank god, no one would spend 90 gold on a glider skin, especially on this well balanced economy!

??????

Not sure what’s wrong with you.
I am very happy about the Gem Store items for the coming Winterday or Seasons in general.
That gives me some reason to spend some of my gold piling up.
An yes, i am doing good in real life but i never ever used the credit card to get the Gem items.
I am also casually and just have 1-3 hours per day to play GW.
I don’t get you people, just make some gold and buy whatever you want from the store. It isn’t really that complicated. 90 gold is like 1 day of fun playing.
I am totally happy to spend it on the Gem Store.

You should use the energy you spend to complain on forums and turn it into energy to actually play the game.

Dear OP

1. GW has never been about any PvP. If any the GW1 PvP was nice because it wasn’t competive, it was fun.
The PvP in GW2 is absolutely abused by the players and nobody else is to blame but them. WvW and karma train someone ??? Again PvP and GW is a bad mix from the start.
So you have no point here.

2. Fractals are far from dead. I play a couple per day without any problems to find random players.
No point to make

3. Dungeons are also not dead. One of my 3 guildies is playing them on a regular base to level up alts. On top he enjoys how the stroy from vanilla extends there.
You guys have to understand that the dungeons were never ever intended to be a gold farm. It is a story based mini game. Again abused by players and rightfully stopped.
Again nothing to see here.

4. You admit yourself that you don’t care about storys or RPG gameplay in a RPF.
I am not sure why you point fingers on someone else then you.
The points you make are just not valid or even existing.

I am in a 3 person guild and we have tons of fun and every day is something new to do. Upgrading the Guild Hall, daily Tequatl, leveling alts, equipping alts,
farm some nodes, admire the beauty in Timberline Falls, actually roleplay characters.
I don’t even know where to stop. We are very casually though since we have a busy real live and just a couple of hours per day.

Just a little hint for you.
You are not forced to play GW hours and hours per day. Invest into a hobby or something real life.
Having these high expectations and don’t even play for the right reasons will just annoy you.

Maybe GW2 is just not a good fit for you

Bonanzas.4735:

Total grindfest. Was excited to use my new elites specs until I realized I had to grind the hero points to use those too. Way to go A Net. After months of getting excited to use the Dare Devil, Dragon Hunter and Druid I have to grind xp in the same old specs from 3 years running just to play the new classes. Even funnier is how the first zone all these events are going on just makes it super overwhelming. It’s as if A Net jam packed too much into one zone. Complete chaos.

I don’t even know what to say.

Ok here is the thing.
You go into a completely unknown area with totally unknown creatures and tribes.
Now Mr. Superman comes and says… Well i already know all of the languages and behaviors of total unknown races and environments……

Does that sound right to you ?
HoT is all about a journey into an unknown Jungle where you have to adapt
to everything else around you. Including talking to frogs.

I am extremely happy with the outcome of HoT and have to gratulate A-Net.
The only mistake they did is to cater to people like you before.
It’s people like you why they removed feeding cows, because you couldn’t find the buckets to feed them.

If all that is to difficult and involves too much of a learning curve you better look somewhere else.
GW2 will be like that for a long time

FlamingFoxx.1305:

The character slows are given out on Fridays. So you probably just missed it because of when you purchased. You should get it tomorrow when HoT releases

I hope so. I am waiting for my one too.
Would be disappointing to start Hot without creating a Revenant

I don’t get what you people problem is.

There are 2 things that can happen.

A) To afford your stuff you are forced to buy gems and support A-Net
B) Less people have cool stuff and i can sell my stuff more expensive

As you may guess i am extremely fine with both

Torvic.8256:

Either by sheer force or by the heroes eventually quitting the fight due to either exhaustion or despair (or both)?

After all, even with the best case scenario of Mordremoth’s defeat, there are still so many more elder dragons to defeat afterward.

Mordremoth can’t win because i will be there.
Period.

You may sit back and watch some LOTR hero crying while i manhandle the dragon

Don’t know where to start.
A-Net is on the absolutely right way to bring differences into classes.
This change is actually too late than to early.
Does it really sound right that paper armor grab a great sword and tank or heavy armor guys run around with scepters ?? Really ??

I want imbalance in the game. If i wanna play Warrior i don’t want to play a light armored little Asure. Many people felt so and A-Net thankfully is changing.

I don’t know what to say about the pets. Why would a fire wyvern fight under water ????
It’s like asking why can’t my shark fight on land.. i wan tit so much.

People…. just be thankful that A-Net listens to the fanbase and starts bringing the fun back to GW2.
And they are doing right so following what made GW1 so much fun.

Vyce.2014:

EDIT: I’M NOT ASKING FOR THE ZERKER META TO BE FIXED. I’M FINE WITH IT! PLEASE READ MY POST.

TLDR: Defensive & Offensive stats don’t trade equally. Increase the effectiveness of defensive stats so a trade makes more sense. Dodging, Protection, and Condi cleanse make all the difference in survivability. Toughness/vitality/healing power have less influence.

If you would have followed the last interviews you would know that they are looking into “Toughness” since a longer time.
And they also stated that they will change toughness to make the difference.
They are going into the right direction bringing roles like healer or tank back.
The life like Zerker knew it will end very soon and it can’t come early enough.
Anything that bring in diversity is most welcome

jacim.5904:

Given the way GW2 was made there is no place for a healer or a tank in a group.

Oh my… didn’t we cry for weeks now ????

Get over it, there will be haler and tanks and that is a step into the right direction
especially when they announced that they change toughness.

I love these changes

HardRider.2980:

Pockets.3201:

It also tells some players that they can’t play the endgame, so they should find another game to play.

I’m sorry and I honestly don’t mean no offense here… but that is possibly one of the most stupid reasons ever to give.
If you’re not good enough.. You learn, you research, you.. get.. better.
The people who raid or do high level fractals.. they weren’t born good.. they learnt and grew to what they are now.

Are you aware of the reason why they canceled “feeding the cows” ??
Yes, because this game caters to people who barely can tie their shoes without an accident.

The research they did showed that people left because they found it too hard to pick up a bucket and feed the cows because nobody told them “use the bucket”

Those are the people you are dealing with.
They rather leave then do something not presented on a silver platter.

And yes i am totally ok with excluding people because if we continue catering to these kind of people we play Sims4 very soon

Bloodstealer.5978:

Kirschsahne.2081:

Bloodstealer.5978:

Kirschsahne.2081:

You guys have problems………..

Lemme guess you like to sit in Dry Top on your ranger a lot….

I don’t even know what they are talking about.
Yes i have a ranger but i refuse to go Dry Top or Silver Wastes.

If the spot is where i think it is standing around is doing nothing since there is just the event with the kites.

The kites event that respawns like evey 10mins ish then there are countless trash mobs .. oh and the sandstorm events, which are the main reason.. like Haze spawns twice and Twister. These are the real prizes that the farming bots/afk farmers are after as they provide them with a nice daily income of geodes as well as the possibility of lodestones and we all know we would all like to get lodestones as easy as possible without buying them.

But rewards aside.. if the map becomes full of these bots/farmers again then other players can’t get into the higher tier maps or maps struggle to get to higher tiers in the first place.

????

You have to actively walk to the events and play.
This is not boting

Bloodstealer.5978:

Kirschsahne.2081:

You guys have problems………..

Lemme guess you like to sit in Dry Top on your ranger a lot….

I don’t even know what they are talking about.
Yes i have a ranger but i refuse to go Dry Top or Silver Wastes.

If the spot is where i think it is standing around is doing nothing since there is just the event with the kites.

You guys have problems………..

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Kirschsahne.2081:

And may i ask why fire burns stronger or longer because your arms are very strong ??
Poison is working better because you can lift 200 pounds ??

There is absolutely no reason to change conditions right now or ever.

That analogy is nonsensical in itself.

Are you telling me that magic-users are doing more damage because they’ve been hitting the gym recently?

And that when I change from a Rampager’s build to a Berserker’s one, I suddenly grow a bunch of muscles simply by changing clothes?

Point is, I don’t think any attributes have any logical real-world explanation.

I think that the OP’s suggestion would require a huge amount of rebalancing. I think it would be a fairer suggestion to ask for more stat combinations that offer Condition Damage as primary.

And i am saying leave everything like it is.
We don’t need any rebuilding at all. Period

GW 1 is far superior to GW2.
GW2 is taking steps into the right direction but they set the bar with GW1 so incredible high that they still need some time to get back to former glory.

That said GW2 is not a bad game at all it’s just the quality of GW1 that makes it better.

If you ask me and i know you aren’t, if you look for loot you play the game wrong and of course it leads to disappointment.

Have you ever thought about playing to enjoy the content ????

I really couldn’t care less about loot and i believe everything is fine.
Serious… if you guys wanna loot get a archaeology degree and start digging.

And may i ask why fire burns stronger or longer because your arms are very strong ??
Poison is working better because you can lift 200 pounds ??

There is absolutely no reason to change conditions right now or ever.

XPilo.5862:

If this is added to teh game then i am leaving it. A lot of people are playing this game because is no like others mmos and don’t have the stupid holy trinity.

in before the “can i have your stuff”

Serious… if you are leaving because the fun is coming back nobody will miss you

lxghostxl.5097:

because to me this just sad and very bad move from ANET.

Jepp… you nailed it. For you it’s a bad move.
Everyone else on that planet loves it