Guild Wars 2

lioka qiao.8734:

In game voice chat.
I know all the potential negatives and trolling that can come from this. I did some commanding last night and it was nigh impossible to coordinate a stonemist 3 way with typing and the pugs simply ignoring the chat while the other servers were clearly in voice comms of some kind with how effectively they coordinated.

Something for my squad or for shot range comms that could help me coordinate pugs who don’t want to alt-tab out to get on teamspeak would be sweet. It should have vox, push to talk, and continuous stream options (though i doubt anyone would use the thrid one). If bandwidth is a problem anet could contract it out to Mumble or someone of the likes.

Anti trolling measures could include:
- Blocking a player blocks their voice comms too
- Commander has priority override option for their squad, cmdr and lieutenants can mute players in the squad
- Report options for language and harassment

Lotro has this in their game. The difference in pve and pvp of a group/raid being managed with voice vs typed was night and day. IMHO if people are going to run in a group get off your lazy kitten and into a ts server if its provided. Difficult to direct and get your skills off correctly while typing as apposed to hands free voice or ptt on a easily thumbed key.

Spiral Architect.6540:

Yep. Spending significant development resources on content that’s played by only a few percent of the game’s population is not a smart business move.

If the GW2 devs made “Normal/Hard/Nightmare” difficulty levels available for raid content, they’d be including a vastly larger portion of the population. And no one loses.

Considering other games with multiple raid tiers have a tiny raid population compared to the whole its not worth it here for a raid. “No one loses” How about the dev time required to build and balance the new tiers. And they still wont be inclusive to the majority of the player base.

and before someone complains about paying customers….you got EXACTLY what they said they had in store for you.

“Your raiding team will need to bring a high level of skill, strategy, and coordination in order to succeed and clear the raid.”

“Everyone will be expected to pitch in and execute at a high level to ensure success.”

“Crystal Reid has a message for would-be raiding champions: “We started a bucket collection for your tears.”

“And if you fail to fill these roles? You’re going to have a bad time. But don’t worry, as we’re leaving you a repair anvil at the entrance. You know—to collect your tears on.”

circuitnerd.5863:

Seeing as probably the majority of people are not going to be able to complete raids or even get beyond the Vale Guardian due to difficulty*snip*.

I’ll just ask the question. Have you raided in any mmo?

I raided lightly in LOTRO and heavily in SWOTOR. The people who completed both “normal”, “hard”, and nightmare modes were only the people who put forth the effort(or were carried by a experienced group). Casual heavy pugs fail raids endlessly because they assume normal means anyone can beat it. Most wont bother to look up a guide and try to get some understanding of how things work. They don’t have any type of parser to know if they can actually Dps or heal well enough to even bother attempting. Voice chat? you got a 50/50 shot of them downloading it if they don’t have it.

We are only on day what 2? of this new raid. Its gonna take a while for people to get it down.

Also what level is casual in this game exactly because I keep seeing event breakbars not being destroyed and people being KO’d by very OBVIOUS telegraphed attacks.

Why bother making an easy mode when it will never be easy enough. Its pretty obvious dev time is precious and there’s a list a mile long of things that should be done before this should even be a thought.