Guild Wars 2

I don’t think small guild struggle at all, I think “very casual” guilds struggle.

My Guild has about 10 active members, of which maybe 6-8 take part in guild missions (bounty,trek,challenge,puzzle,rush) we have close to 100% success rate in these too, except for the odd missing bounty. Honestly challenges and puzzles are easier with a small co-ordinated group. Our gold generation is large, because we know how to do it.

Basically, size is not the issue here, it is how many seriously active core members you have.

Actually, as long as that “pre searing map” is still accessible.. it may work might even make the living map an 80 zone, with minimal work required by devs :P

Yep, names need to fit the race to some degree.

My original main, was supposed to be a fire ele. She is a red-headed human female, called ’Kindle Wildfire" (however she finds herself in lightning with dagger/focus these days)

I kept the naming convention simple, all of my characters have the surname “Wildfire”
Eg my Asuran Engineer is “Trig Wildfire”, my Norn Warrior, is “Bjorn Wildfire”. my mordemath minion is plant themed, and I have made charr, but I keep killing them for the searing. (#neverforget)

So, I was wondering, with talk of “removing the ghosts from ascalon” by Rytlock or someone of royal blood with magdear.
Could this even happen? yeah, lore wise it could. but it cant gamewise.
But the Charr starting area would have to be fundamentally reworked, which would completely change the game and remove content for people starting new after.

Same with Orr, It basically exists in a pre Zaitan death state, so every map is time locked. more or less and the only way to advance forward in time, is to move to other maps, IE dry top/SW occur after orr.

But then Living story gets mixed in, flame and frost for example changes wayfarers and diessa, so these maps are moving forward in time. As are many others.

Now as you level a character, you have not even been to orr yet, but you have stood on the ruined machinery of scarlet.. IE Morde and Zaitan are awake simultaneously.

So basically the game is getting very confused time-wise. I suppose I’m wondering about how much effect the dragons can really have on the current world, they cant have too much of an effect, without messing up the leveling process, or being on different maps. Except Lions arch. We are on what the 8th iteration of that map? all of the others lost to time.

How about play the class you want…

I have an engi which I love to play.

If I attempt to join any pug with it, they kick me.
if I join my friends they tell me to stop trolling and bring my warrior :P

Personally I always felt that it had some inspiration from a motorbike, something ‘ghost rider almost’ more than from a physical rifle.

While we discuss Engi problems… One day I wish an engineer Dev will try use turrets against any old boss. and then cry when the boss sneezes and everything dies.

Maybe one day he will observe the rocket turret shooting at passing butterflys instead of my target.

The hobo sack. enough said.

The RNG in the class… basically we pretend that since you cant rely on effects to happen on demand, we choose something more reliable and ignore that ability.
Or as every engi has done at some point – spam heal in the hope you will run faster.

Maybe its worth noting that with elixer x the transformations leave you without heals. ie Its suicide if your low.

You don’t want to know what $10 is in my thirdworld country.
Some people think gemstore things are cheap… for me to buy a few thousand gems to buy any nice skins or anything, would be more than a months salary.

Had a game once where we were playing Foefire.
The other team was destroying us. sort of 497-350. they had all three points, then we killed the lord. both teams went to 500, but we must have got it a split second earlier because we won.

I’m an engi main.

I do have all of the classes, and do find my Warrior/Ranger to be easy mode in PvE.
But I love my engi, tricky learning curve to really get the most out of it. Especially to get the most out of your class in a dungeon party requires crazy amounts of comboing, controlling the bosses defiance and aoe healings.

I will admit, that many engi’s that I have played with are just a liability in PvE. any boss will sneeze and destroy all their turrets, then pull some reflect skill and then the engies lack of access to anything melee (yeh, I know tool, but its annoying to waste a slot for something basic) will just render then pointless, then they have way less survivability than a warior or guard or necro. So being effective is kitten tricky.. but possible

Anet you created this unusual class, show it some love.

I have to agree with the original post, the GW1 zodiac weapons were better, even though they are lower graphics and less particle effects.
Sure it’s just my opinion, but if I had to decide now which to buy I’d probably choose the older weapons.

they are more ‘gritty’ and less cartoony

Well as the title states I’m looking forward to the Thaumanova reactor fractal.
And I do play High level fractals, and I did play GW1 and I did vote Kiel.

Look guys, its the same team that’s would have made either fractal, I’m not sure how you think one will be more awesome than the other?

Some of the Dev team however is pretty excited at making the Thaumonova fractal, I think they got some pretty neat idea’s up their sleeve’s and we have literally no idea what to expect. I doubt it will be ‘just another inquest explosion’… It turned the very fabric of the world inside out.

And to be honest most serious fractal players just want another farmable fractal, just like colossus was awesome the first 10 times, after 50 times.. its somewhat of a minor annoyance. If Abaddon had been made, people would play it like three times and then try to avoid it, because more thought and effort put into it means a longer fractal. I honestly think Thaumanova will be an enjoyable fractal to run.

Dredge is not my favorite fractal. I don’t mind killing a gazillion dredge but it really takes rather long. And that bomb path is pretty annoying once you pass 40. yeah its totally possible, and actually fun in that it forces you to be creative in your approach, but still annoying. But that Rabsovich fight is just tedious. Honestly, we never come close to failing it, so their is no challenge, there are no fun mechanics, it just wastes time. Honestly put all the dredge in the room at the same time, instead of constant spawns, that would be a more interesting fight.

Tbh, Cheaper way points is only for four weeks.
The new crafting Materials, new loot from champs, the advent of the global wallet, and taking crafting to 500. These will all have a greater effect on the economy than than the way points.

Secondly the GW2 economy is somewhat controlled, not completely free. hence inflation is less likely than you think.

and also, even tho Kiel is an aetherblade undercover, it still makes her more cool than that scumbag politician char, who is clearly flame legion, and would like to find out more about the creator (abbadon) of his former gods, the titans.

They don’t Procreate. Sylvari are grown in pods by the Pale tree.
as for ‘mating’ one assumes that if they did that some sort of sap would be present.
But noting that it’s largely irrelevant to the average sylvari whether thier ‘partner’ is male or female, I would suggest that they dont… mate. not physically anyway. more emotional bonding.

I think that pervertparade’s suggestions are good, and @ runeblade, I think the idea here is to come up with a better method of distributing players in WvW,
Some of these ideas will definitely be annoying in practice, but I think it is important that we come up with a serious way of getting people to hang around in keeps. It would mean that their zerg’s are smaller, and gathering a large zerg would leave you at risk, behind the lines, but at the moment, there is no down side from the game side to running with the zerg, WvW is a numbers game. from a player side it can have downsides like lag, culling etc. but if people spread out more..

Ok, the scenario is, your server has taken a keep, and the zerg has moved on to the next keep, you and a few others are left behind by the commanders, with an order of ‘beef up the defenses’ get supply etc.

Now this role can be important, and on quickly changing battle fields quite exciting, but in general , its as boring as hell, and useless. because beside acting as a scout, the numbers still win it, if an enemy zerg shows up, you’re screwed unless your own zerg gets there in time. But in the mean time ,you sit around /dancing and running supply etc, sometimes for many hours, being very bored.

So what to do? well, we already know that fighting will keep it interesting, so have some npcs (krait/dredge etc) attack every now and then, only a few at first, so a few players could handle them, but if ignored will eventually add up and take the fort.

Now this isnt meant to aid either side, just to keep defenders busy, if an opponent runs in the npcs will attack them too, as to not provide the attackers with an advantage.

An additional side effect of this is that every few hours, if a keep hasn’t been visited at all by anyone, it will eventually fall to the npcs, becoming a rouge keep until claimed.

Another side effect is it forces more people to scout, and it will help split players from only running in one big zerg.

Karka = bubbles dragon minions. equivalent to destroyers/undead.
my opnion of course.
And yes we will eventually see all the dragons… whatever they may be, but not in this first release, wait for expansions.

Hi Arenanet, I know you say you read these posts, even if you rarely respond.

I realise that (A) you couldnt make everone happy, and (B) lifes not fair.

Im from South Africa, which means my event ran into the early hours of the morning on a work night. I was not able to complete it and still make work today, which gives me the money to buy your games.

Im worried reading this thread, about the fact that im way off american time? does this mean that like i missed out on the apparently awesome chest from last night, i will continue to miss out on content becuase there arent enough players in my country?

But in terms of moving forward now, please oh please try to not make the event happen at one time in future, i realise that this creates a logistical headache. maybe disable server swaps during that day but announce beforehand, what time things are happening on each server and therefore we are able to pick one that suits us.
Show some love for your supporters in far-flung lands

Take into consideration that the EU servers dont just cater for European players, they cater for everyone in similar timezones, including South Africa.
What I fail to understand is why arenanet made country specific servers for some countries but not for others, it doesnt seem to be player number based, (where is UK?)

I dont think there is any 100% english server, although most of the South African guilds got together and overtook Aurora Glade for ourselves as a result the map chat is mostly english, becuase we have 11 national languages, but there is an understanding that english is the language for the internet here.