Guild Wars 2

Yes! Please add Tomes of Hero Points instead of tomes of knowledge, we need it so badly.

I hoped I could play HoT and WvW with Elites, what’s the point to get the spec after you almost finish the content?? I was really kittened, Anet, 400 points? And if I want to have several Elites? I am so disappointed, I prepurchased a game and met that wall. Not gonna play until you lower that cap, it’s sick. Plz Anet.

Yes, where are some wild and tribal-oriented armors? Srsly, it’s a jungle, ane we got only full plates! There is no good armor (IMO) for druid, why can’t you bring GW1 tattoos etc. back? Plz

With tribal armor there is a bigger problem for me, because there is no other set in this wild aesthetics to choose. If I want to play human elementalist in shamanic style (with Tempest overload I want it even more :P ) I just have no other tribal looking armor to wear. I don’t really care if they bring tribal back or put a different wild-looking armor, like gw1 tattoo etc., just give me something close to it. Tattoos being exlusive to norn is a misunderstanding IMO, srsly. Specially, if we can buy face tattoo or war painting in gemstore, so why no other body parts?

Anyway, Maguuma is a jungle, so it would be wierd not to offer any of these.. All clothes we have seen in HoT screens are very detailed plate-armors, that not what I expect from Maguuma (not only).

So please Anet, please..

Liewec.2896:

I just want tribal armor..
i just came here to voice the exact opposite opinion
(as someone who earned tribal and now likes that it is a past-reward, just like your PVE past-rewards which you all seem fine keeping to yourselves.)

what? Sorry, but tribal being available only for first months doesn’t make it challenging to earn, you just had a luck. I am GW1 and headstart player, I just focused on playing with my friends PvE at beginning – specialy because structured PvP during first months (or year) totally sucked. Now I’m rank ~70 and I play PvP often, and as you’re talking about PvE rewards you can obtain dungeon gear by playing PvP, so you’re argument is totally invalid. And we, PvP players have exlusive glorious armor, so..

PvE past-reward may come back, who knows, I have nothing against.

I really don’t care how it will be put in GW2, it can be PvP exclusive as Tribal Reward Track or Leauge Tier reward, I just want the opurnity to reach it.

Your behavior now is selfish, you got your skin and want noone else to have an opurnity to earn it, even in hard way.

I just want tribal armor.. They said it will be back, when if not in wild Maguuma?
It is not “new”, I think they should convert it to other armor types (medium and heavy) and put in Heart of Thorns.

I hope for some other tattoo armors too..

So a revenant Spec? With a shield? Or is it a Longbow?

so what is that (jpeg from twitter) https://goo.gl/xsZ2FZ
“She was as old as the Shiverpeaks, older than the gods”
Revenant Elite Spec?

Totally agree, ArenaNet makes fools of us. What a punch in the face for loyal players! If content of core game is 10x bigger then HoT, why do we pay the same price for it?! Srsly, ArenaNet, what a let down..

I don’t like the name, but I will enjoy my longbow Guardian with old shouts, that will be my paragon.

I am happy they didn’t use “paragon” name, it’s prbly booked for futre Elite Spec with Spear

Is that a longbow or shortbow?

Srsly, it’s only a beta. Of an expansion. I don’t get how ppl are almost as hyped as for an original GW2, when it was our first contact with the game. Don’t you really want to have more unique experience after release?

It is only a beta. All info is in blogposts, we don’t have to play before HoT comes out.

About 1 spec/week we got another, equaly possible option (unofficial conversations)

The one time I chatted with Roy Cronacher in-game (revenant’s designer), he said they would probably reveal 2-3 specs each week, and only after that would they show everything else about the revenant. But it was clear to me that no definitive plans were set in stone yet.

That’s why I think 1Heavy+1Light+1Medium is the most fair scenario. If we got PvP Open Beta next week and Stress Test 2 weeks behind us, what ArenaNet needs more to place release date? They don’t even need this PvP beta honestly. I don’t think they will show us more PvE content before release, WvW was definitly tested by prof. testers (we can see a lot of folks on WvW trailers).

If they want to release HoT in late August, why would they do PvP event 5 months earlier? If all specs will be shown in 3 weeks, +1 Guild Halls, +1 Revenant, +1 Open Beta, +1 Legendaries that’s only 7 interesting info/events until realease. We can be sure they are aiming at 1 something every week since they haven’t skip any since first blogpost, so what with other 10 (weeks)?

IMO 1 spec/week is impossible now, because there are not enough weeks until Q3, even late, to show everything. I hope so :P

Yeah, but we get sort of open beta next week and that’s BIG I guess. Now I think we will get release date short after that, and between this announcement and release they will be showing the best stuff – 3 weeks of specs (every week 1 heavy, 1 medium and 1 light) and Guild Halls. With premiere very late Q2 – early Q3. These are my hopes :P
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-stronghold-pvp-public-beta-is-coming/

so, will we get something today?

dietzero.3514:

I want to know what skins I should start collecting for the new weapons! Guessing what the ele, for example, will get is just plain lame.

This. Releasing info about specs Will give many PPL a reason to play. Some want to plan the design of the character, some don’t know which race to choose for future spec. For example I want to play druid, but i don’t know his feeling. I want sylvari or human. And I can’t create This character until I learn more about druid.

If ArenaNET give info about specs earlier, then it will stimulate the movement in game – more active players, more info spread, more gems bought. Don’t w8 until 15 weeks before releasing, you will waste a lot of potential.

so.. nothing new this week?

Ask please
1. when will we be able to obtain Tribal Armor again? (Suggest Reward Track asap :P)
2. Will Mesmer spec get some useful skills in PvE – AoE dmg skills?
3. When will they start deep dives about Specializations (can we expect them this month)?
4. When will they put the Build Savers in the game? (I know that they stated it, just show them how important it is for players, please)
Thanks!

I hope deep dives about specs will be published before closed beta, so march-april.. Because they should be available in closed beta, shouldn’t they? I’m dying to know more about Druid, Mesmer and Guardian specs

I want Tribal armor so badly too, I play since start but it was just too difficult to obtain. I don’t get why they don’t put it in PvP reward track, like glorious armor. I hope they just wait to put it in HoT content.

Xenon.4537:

This is exactly the type of thinking I was getting at in my post. You haven’t thought about the mechanics clearly in the context of GW2. You describe F1-F4 skills to swap forms? Sounds an awful lot like Elementalist to me. Could you please explain how it would be different other than the superficial cosmetic effect of changing into an animal?

I completely understand that everyone thinks of shapeshifting when they hear “druid.” […]What in Melandru’s trousers makes it different from Elementalist or Engineer kits?

First of all, I told I’m not talking about Druid spec, but some next Ranger spec – shapeshifter. I agree that Druid shouldn’t be an answer for all nature based imaginations. Remember, this is only one of future specs.

About similarity to kits and elementalist – I can’t imagine Shapeshifter in different way. Look, right now we go 8 profs with 8 different mechanics, lets say that each one of them will have 3-4 specs after few years. Don’t expect to have 40-48 totally different mechanics, it is impossible.

And maybe it looks similar, but gameplay will be different. It would change like 9 skills, not 5, and all forms would be MELEE.
For example:
F1 – Panther form (DMG, assassin style utilities)
F2 – Wolf form (control, supporting shouts)
F3 – Bear form (tank, condition control, signet based utilities)
F4 – back to human (with long range weapon prop. and support build) or 4th animal
Under elite skill there could be elite form, like gryphon or something.
Cooldowns between forms could be much longer then eles.

For me druid and nature based classes are most of all about RolePlay, more than other profs. And I don’t have anything against making them close to other profs mechanic, if it brings great RPG experience.

And I’m 80% PvP player. But I love nature in RPG

What I really want is a trait or signet that gives+25% moving speed for Guardian and Mesmer specs. They are so terrible to play in PvE, all other classes have that.

I’d love to see Shapeshifter as next Ranger spec – he could get shifting under F1-F4 with 4 different animals (or 3), each one changing all skills. And maybe no weapon swap.

I am very interested in Druid as my nr1 option in all games – from DnD to Diablo II.
I know that GW1 druids were a bit different and weather effects would duplicate some Elementalist skills – but I really hope for some weather based actions with wind or lightnings.
Beacause it is what nature is about, what druid should be about. I don’t want to be a florist like sylvari.

lordkrall.7241:

While it is indeed a rather useful thing, clearly the game have survived and worked quite well for two years without it, so clearly it is fully possible to play without having said system.

No, it didn’t survive, I’m not a fairy but players who keep playing PvP after these 2 years are 5-10% of the potential community. Thanks ArenaNet they improved matchmaking, but it is not GW PvP 1.0 yet. It’s like v0.85. After 2 years.

If I play mesmer and I want to play even 2 different builds in one day it is a nightmare to do that. Instead I have to play the same build for days and weeks because it is too frustrating to change 3 same builds every day for 2 years. I feel like an idiot to have to do that. Not only because it devours my time, but also it is a basic standard since GW1.

I love ArenaNet and GW, I am exited for HoT, but build saver is a MAJOR feature.
If GW2 wants to compete with MOBA or any other multiplayer game, they really need to give us build saver.

PLEASE.

Yes, Build saver is something elemental in PvP and we still don’t have it. ArenaNet, 2 years, srsly?

This should be the first step, not last. No build saver, no true PvP, no e-sport.

Sasuke.2573:

There is a poll before a match starts where players can choose the map they prefer. So if the majority of the for the match teamed-up people like stronghold and vote for it, they will most likely get it. If most of them rather wanna play conquest, they’ll more likely get conquest. I dont see the problem.

If u don’t see problem u don’t play PvP:
1) U choose from 3 maps, so stronghold will be every third chance. Or hopefuly Anet place it in every single map selection
2) ppl bring different team/hero builds for SH and conquest!!!!!!
so placing them in one queue makes PvP random → it’s a joke, not e-sport.
3) A lot of players hates conquest and want to play only Stronghold, why developers force us to play everything?

All the potential for e-sport and luring new players Arenanet is throwing out by bringing WoW-style forcing people to waste their time for things players don’t want to do.

ArenaNet, please separate different Ranked Arena modes and let us play what we want.

But Stronghold requires different builds than conquest, which we need to prepare before queue! It is so dumb, srsly.
Maybe it would be good for solo arenas to have a chance to pick SH besides conquest, but if 5-ppl party wants to play only Stronghold why stop them?! @ArenaNet, why?

I just hope he won’t be flora oriented (like vines), I love druids as beastmasters and weather/spirit controllers.

So lets just wait for introduction.. ASAP!

I hope we get Tribal in HoT or any other tattoo based armor. There is a huge gap in medium and light armors for ppl who want to play more primeval character (other than Norns). I really don’t understand why ArenaNet haven’t fill it for 2 years now.. I hope HoT with very primeval lore is the answer.

So please ArenaNet, give tattoo armors to us!

I hope there will be tattoo armors from gw1 or at least tribal – for all armor types, I’d like to see my druid, elementalist and revenant as occultists.
I don’t like the fact, that only norns can look wild and shamanic.

Wasn’t tattoo armor in gw1 available to get ina Maguuma?

Please ArenaNet, please..