Guild Wars 2

Yes, it is a pretty basic feature that any low budget f2p mmo has.

Red Falcon, you spend too much time theorizing on the forum instead of playing, kid.

The game is FAR, FAR from revolutionary. If anything, it is a step back on MMOs development because it does not give ANYTHING new, it just remodels old things on a new package and tells you its something awesome. Weak minded players like you believe it, others with more brain do not.

DEs? Rift done better. The rest of the game is just copy/paste of other MMOs really, but with great art.

Go play the game and you will realize GW2 is nothing but incredibly hype of a not incredible game.

ArenaNet doesn’t need to provide this information, a simple “full” on the server list is enough to keep the fanboys thinking the game is a huge success, even if full means there are 3k players playing.

This is the result of the rush to deliver the game earlier. Many, MANY things are unfinished including group content. Dungeons are known for being broken since release with many “band-aid” patches, as well as DEs and etc.

They charge no subscription fee, which is a excuse for their lazy and negligent attitude towards the game fixing and development post-release.

Like others say, just check back in a few months when they realize there are no players buying gems and start working on the game.

Well, if this game had a subscritption fee I doubt even 10% of the population would keep playing. So yes, awesome marketing and hype, terrible deliver of the promised game.

Completely agree with this, I don’t play the game its been 3 weeks… there is absolutely no replayability.

Dont mind the fanboys OP, they will keep using the same old and weak “arguments” to stand by ArenaNet on the terrible developer choices like the skill system.

When I started playing it really astounded me I would be stuck with that same 5 skills forever. The person in charge of this must have been drunk at the time.

Here you go mate, pick me pretty please

Ingram of Haz.5987:

Considering how expensive Commander books are I would be quite shocked if those that have it right now are not gold farmers and marketers… And if not I question where thy got the funds to get said commander book. Gold sellers probably…

That being said I wish the commander book was more useful in PvE. IE larger team building… If you only want them to be given to those that earn the right for them, so be it, take them off the venders for currency and have them redeemable for merit in WvW alone, then lock their function to WvW only. and Give something better suited for PvE in place for PvE guilds to use.

The commander function was designed for WvW, which is meant to be the pvevp endgame since there is nothing else to do. For pvp, people go sPvP and tPvP, for pve people go wvw and commander is useful there.

The way you acquire it is the only thing questionable. Why the richer should get it and not those who dedicated time to being proficient at WvW instead of a TP camper?

This is a shame. I would NEVER follow a random stranger with the Commander title right now because as far as I know, it is just another TP camper who likes attention and knows nothing about WvW. Unless of course they play 24/7, in which case is very possible to camp the TP 20h/day (thats the only way to be profitable there if you are not using a TP bot) and then go to WvW for 4 hours/day.

Stop bringing up GUILD WARS as a literal term, that is only a lore reference.

Fact is commanders get the title by monetary power and not combat proficiency. It’s like putting Bill Gates to command an army squad on the middle of Iraq. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There is no excuses.

meanwhile, there are FOUR commanders camping the Trading Post at LA. Ironic, isn’t it?

Just like many other terrible design flaws by ArenaNet. You guys should just fire whoever decided to give a BATTLE COMMANDER post to people interested on making gold instead of those who are useful at WvW and knowledgeable there.

What is the point of the Commander title at the current state? kitten growth? Because I do not feel comfortable following around a random stranger who might be competent on camping the TP all day, but doesn’t know jackkitten about how the WvW works.

Way to go ArenaNet. WvW is the ONLY endgame content and you yet manage to screw it up in so many ways… way to go….

After loggin in Rift last week I noticed more people there than in GW2. Perhaps most players ran out of things to do in here and returned to Rift so they can experience being rewarded for their time spent..

Fanboys are starting to run out of arguments when trying to make up for this design flaw.

There IS no activity to do once you reach level 80. You can tell whatever you want, but most of the “suggested things to do” are very subjective and I believe not every player would like to grind DEs over and over and over and over for millions of karma to make a Legendary weapon (whose skins look terrible if you ask my opinion).

After getting my Guardian to 80, getting full Exotics, all the skins I wanted, 100% map completion and all jump puzzles/dungeon paths I simply have NOTHING left to do besides WvW, which is incredibly one-sided and unfun on my server. There is no point on leveling another toon to 80 either, unless I feel like re-experiencing leveling which I don’t thanks to 100% map completion.

I do not want to see gear progression and raids on GW2, this is the primary reason I bought it on the first place, I was expecting something NEW from endgame, since this is a MMORPG, supposedly a game with infinite replayability. What I received? Nothing at all lol. I log in 20 minutes a day to collect gold from TP and reinvest.

when were dungeons hard in the first place? any group with any class players can tackle any dungeon without much difficulty with just a little bit of brain usage

Isn’t leveling easy enough? I wasn’t even trying to level when I reached 80 lol

So your definition of ‘fun’ is one guy getting all mobs aggro and being a meat tank, then another one being his healing bot and the other 3 spanking all the mobs until they die, over and over?

This game has MANY flaws, but I am glad at least this aspect isn’t cloned from that other kitten mmo.

Would you notice a difference between a 0.05% drop rate and a 0.1% drop rate?

Loot table as a whole needs a rework, it is just broken in every aspect.

Endless grinding DEs

I thought it was a fanboy rule to not compare GW2 with other games because it is SO revolutionary

Moonthrower.1406:

Just a heads up: Mystic Coins aren’t gonna get cheaper…

So it’s completely ok for you to be rewarded about 30 silver in goods and 7k experience for investing ~100 hours or more into completing the map fully?

Valkyrie.

Burn doesn’t scale well with condition damage, it makes no big difference stacking it or not. At the same time, our pitiful heals doesn’t scale well with healing power either, so you are better off taking a hybrid approach and build with valkyries and zerkers.

Shield is awful and whoever says otherwise, simply hasn’t tested the Focus or never played with the Shield.

In theory, it is indeed amazing: OH MY it gives defense, plus has a trait with NINETY toughness and 20% CD reduction O-M-G why would I ever use another offhand.

On practice: you already have well over 1.5k toughness as a Guardian, whereas 90 is a WASTE of master trait slot, the 20% CD on the abysmal long cd skills makes no differnce whatsoever, you will still use the skills ONCE per encounter at most not counting the terrible mechanic on #4 and the huge failure that #5 is, KD doesnt work half the time, heal is pitiful, projectile absorption? wall of reflection says hi tyvm.

OP, I suggest you playin Guardian more. You seem like a newbie to me trying to make people believe the shield is amazing when it is actually just subpar in every aspect.

Divinity. 95% of other runes that offer on-skill effects are bugged anyway.

Thanks GSS. Apparently people that think the Shield is any useful simply do not play with it, or play ONLY with it. Focus currently is better on the survival, defense and utility departments. Shield knockback doesn’t work half the fights, the heal is terrible and doesn’t scale well with HP and the protection in a cone is the most counter intuitive skill mechanic I have ever seen.

This has been said over and over and over and over again, I don’t know why you made this topic. There is no true tips on how to make money, you are just telling people to do the obvious.

Apparently this is not bugged. If you look at other parts of the game, you will see that generally the rewards are pretty terrible. You don’t want to know what you will get for defeating Zhaitan on your last story quest, you know, the almighty elder dragon: a handful of low level blue equipments and a few coins.

Pathetic, really. You aren’t rewarded for accomplishing things in this game, which makes no sense at all to any reasonable mind…

Just ignore the above fanboys. I am now playing barely 20 minutes/day, just logging in to collect gold from the TP and then reinvest.

Achieved pretty much everything, all dungeons, full exotic, all skins I wanted, 100% map… there is simply no content to keep players playing for too long.

Nothing. But some places are very well designed, the artists on the staff are amazing.

No, 80 basically means you ran out of things to do. Just do like other fanboys and make 6 different characters, buying the single character slots of course, then level them to 30 and jump to another.

No, you don’t achieve 13k karma at level 39 just by playing normally. You have either been farming DEs or completing low level zones as you progressed, which is far from “playing normally”

No, it would never destroy WoW with the current game GW2 is. It is just more of the same. People who playe WoW would never move to a new MMORPG which looks just like WoW in many aspects.

Fanboys will say you are supposed to save karma for level 80.

Any other reasonable player will say Nexon ruined GW2. Those weapons were MUCH cheaper on the Betas and even Release, the costs were increased by about 6x on the first week to make players grind.

So yeah… the cost is not reachable and by the time you can afford it, you really won’t need it.

That’s part of their “no grinding” approach hehe

There are 10-15 bots on the same spot on Sparkfly Fen for the past three weeks, basically since launch. (Isle of Janthir)

I would play the class I have the most fun with. People who decide playing a class by its popularity must have some mental issue, which makes them hate the popular. It is explained by psychology.

It is also why some people hate on WoW purely for it being the biggest and most popular MMO.

That 80 items could be merged into a 9 or 10 list lol

Bottom line: trying to justify the lack on in-depth content and replayability with a meaningless list with “goals”…

Saddening.

Artorous.8573:

It’s already been pointed out unless Anthem ggetsa full set after 6 runs then it’s a grind. There is no reason to post anymore in this thread because the type of player Anthem is is an instant gratification player. There should be nothing in this game that takes longer than 2 hours to accomplish so people can instead QQ on the forums about lack of content and quit because of that.

ANet has been doing this so called “grind” for the past 7 years. If you don’t like it then go to another game. Expecting them to change the way they have done business for over 7 years or you will quit just proves how immature you are. Call us fanboys all you want but stop trying to change the game. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Request a refund and go find another game. Let me know when you find a MMO that gives you everything as fast as you want it here. Well… I will have died by then becausee one does not exist and will not, unless you want to take pay2win games into account which no normal person would.

You couldn’t be more wrong. You never played GW1. There, you had a point to keep playing and achieving things, and the grind was entirely optional. on GW2 you have no content to tackle once you reach max level, and the grind for everything, from gold to crafting materials to karma is simply awful.

They intentionally increased the costs of EVERYTHING post launch. One dungeon armor piece costed 45 tokens, AKA 2 runs. Post release? 200 tokens. Anyone who doesn’t think this is grind can be outright classified askitten It is way past fanboyism, you guys refuse to see simply logic.

There are 10-15 bots on Sparkfly for the past 2 weeks on the same spot.

The community is mostly made up of mindless fanboys who get angry and personal whenever you point out any GW2 flaw. This happens both in-game and on the Forums.

Untouch.2541:

Knuckledust.5621:

Isn’t this a MMO? Or am I missing something?

Just another fanboy post trying to justify design flaws or plain lies.

What design flaws?
Mind pointing them out?

Mindless grind for everything past 80
No content to beat once you have 100% map completion (pve)
WvW and sPvP imbalances
classes being broken past launch with no perspective of fixes
huge amount of bugs that still happening
huge amount of bots that are not being banned
huge amount of gold spammers that are not being banned
no incentives to do dungeons
no incentives to do DEs
no incentives to keep playing whatsoever.

I have fun as long as I feel I am being rewarded for my time spent. When I spend 1 hour tackling a dungeon to be rewarded with 15s repair fees, a handful of blue drops and 20 tokens meaning I will have to go through this awful experience again, I am NOT HAVING FUN.

Isn’t this a MMO? Or am I missing something?

Just another fanboy post trying to justify design flaws or plain lies.

Same problem here… I am now unable to login for 36 hours with no reason because I can still log in my Forum account and there is no record of outer access…

Error code is 45:6:3:2114

Over 36 hours and still can’t log in…..

….???

When trying to log in game, it says my account is blocked due to unauthorized attempt. But I can log in here just fine and my account page does not points any unauthorized accesses. I haven’t any e-mail pointing it out either.

Is it another new bug? Cause I have kind of got used to bugs already by now.

Over 24 hours waiting for ticket to be answered.

It is not whine, Mr. Fanboy. If you haven’t seen any bot, then you haven’t played at all. There are a huge number of bots ranging from the starter zones farming skales to high-end zones farming events with longbows. Each zone has about 20 to 30 bots right now, teleporting around and disrupting people’s gameplay.

I wouldn’t be surprised if ravenhood has a bot himself, why else would he so fiercely defend this pratice?

The game focus is what you make it for you. Just stop updating this useless threads, the guy wants attention.

Anyone who says the Shield is OK either doesn’t play with it or never used Focus.

You use the shield for extra 45-50 armor which translates to nothing, and a situational knockback that msot of the times doesn’t even happen?

Way to go!

Good to see most of players also think the shield is a flawed weapon whose job is much better accomplished by the Focus.

I hope ANet looks into it on the future. I am not even playing the game anymore since there is nothing else to do tho.. so I at least have no rush, hope they can ast least notice the problem.

ComeAndSee.1356:

They buffed the Honorable Shield trait the other day.

It gives both +90 Toughness and 20% off shield cooldowns now.

Yeah, 50 more armor and a wasted master slot really made the Shield shine! Im so grateful for this buff.