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I hope and expect they will not add new classes, but new races, weapons and skills.
agreed
Just posted about this in suggestions actually
Dude you asked a question and I answered it with proof. I don’t know what else to say to you. I’m not going to argue with you.
I wasn’t trying to argue. You had me wondering if I was playing on a EU server or something. I see people with symbols in their names, that I know for sure. I appreacite your input.
Thanks
On North American servers you can’t use any funny characters. If it’s not a part of the English language, the character creation screen won’t even let you use it (this even includes accent marks and other innocent things). European servers I don’t think have that issue. So if I wanted (and I have tried) to make an alt named Leilonì I can’t do it.
I play on US servers, and I see names with those symbols. So how are they doing it?
Your not on a US server then because I have tried multiple times and there is a message in the naming screen of character creation that tells you you can’t do that. I have also not seen any funny characters on my server.
Here I found a video for you. It says right on the screen, “This name is using only English letters”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PhK_9Mv8sPg#t=754s
I play on BSI, were fighting JQ and HOD. Is that not a US server?
On North American servers you can’t use any funny characters. If it’s not a part of the English language, the character creation screen won’t even let you use it (this even includes accent marks and other innocent things). European servers I don’t think have that issue. So if I wanted (and I have tried) to make an alt named Leilonì I can’t do it.
I play on US servers, and I see names with those symbols. So how are they doing it?
I completely agree with your post, so thanks for phrasing it so well. It would be a better design decision for the reasons you stated and also for roleplaying purposes, some people feel that the game doesn’t have enough choice for character customization as far as weapons go yet, for instance a lot of people one like one- or two-handed spears.
I mean come on, they were the quintessential melee weapon in the West for centuries, impossible to counter when in formation with shields and a kitten good all-purpose weapon, but games these days all overlook spears (Including Skyrim!) for weapons like double-edged greataxes and improbably girthy swords with edges that couldn’t cut a cardboard box.
Gratefully seconding this post.
Thanks bro!
I’m not going to name any classes because I dont want to go there, but even personally there are a few classes that I would like to play but don’t because I just don’t care for their current weapon options. I think it would be awesome if new weapon sets were added in the future to “plug the holes” so to speak
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More weapons would just be awesome for the sake of using weapons people love. One handed spear and shield combat, dual wielding whips, boomarangs. The options are endless. And a great way to revitalize classes and add new playstyle options without a whole new class.
Imagine a year from now. Eight classes. Eight races. And twenty different weapon types.
Some mmos had a no symbol policy, because people wouldn’t be able to type in their names; only click on them. I just wanted to know if symbols were cool in GW2.
Not trying to start a debate or ask what it should be. I’m asking what is Anets policy on names with funny symbols and tildas, specifically on US servers.
Thanks
There has been some information and dialogue which would lead one to believe that Anet isn’t particularly interested in adding new classes. Most specifically I’m speaking of how they said it was a balancing nightmare in GW1 when they added the new classes and they dont want to go through that again. Also they have said many of the current classes are combinations of multiple GW1 classes.
Personally I’m not against new classes per say, I just dont like the idea of adding classes to a game just for the sake of adding one. A new class would have to fufill a specific missing niche and be able to provide completely unique gameplay. The classes in GW2 are each so unique and flavorful it would be quite difficult to add new ones that could stand out.
I know some GW1 people in particular would like to see old favorites return, but alot of these classes were pretty much rolled under singular umbrellas.
This might be overly optimistic, but I predict a future where eventually we will have eight races, one for each class and live in wonderful symmetry land.
Of course part of new content in an MMO is expanding player options and even with new races and their racials things could stagnate abit.
In GW2, skills are tied to weapons; this provides an amazing opportunity.
Instead of adding a new class, we could add a new weapon type, there are so many possibilites! For example:
Whips
Chakram
Polearms/halberds
two handed axes
And each of these weapons would be able to be used by certain classes just like now. So in essence it would add a whole new slew of abilities to classes. And these would work with builds and utility skills greatly increasing player options.
And unlike new classes, this would be far easier to balance, would expand player options without forcing people to roll a ninth character, and would be far easier to program.
Also as an added bonus, a new weapon set would make certain classes that people might want to play but currently just can’t stand their weapon options so dont; now actually pick up and start playing the class.
All of the Avatars in GW1 would literally transform you into that god, or at least a representation of them (IE Avatar)
ALLof the human racials SUCK. Absolutely SUCK. Boring, weak, useless.
They should make them like the Norn abilities, and bring back Avatars.The above image you linked is what happens in GW1 when you use the “Avatar of Grenth” elite skill. You turn into the person you linked.
This is what happens with any “Avatar of _” elite skills.
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/2872/touslesavatarsrd6.jpg
I agree. I didn’t want to be rude about it, I’m sure someone worked kitten those racials. But your 100% right.
Now lets hope Anet gets the message and fixes this.
when I first saw the name I thought [attached picture] COOL!
and then when I activated it, I’m like… really :|
this is it?
YES!
If they just turned you into that and did nothing else..well it would still suck but at least it would be fun to use for RP.
Sadly avatar of melandru and reaper of grenth are pretty terrible skills and I rgret spending the points on them.
I agree melandru also sucks, but at least you actually shapeshift so you can fool around and rp or something.
Pretty much all the human racials aside from hounds are rubbish compared to the other races.
But I want to stay focused just on the grenth racial in this thread, if you dont mind. As to me that is the worst of them all, with no redeeming value whatsoever.
I fully understand that racials are not sopposed to be better then class skills, maybe even alittle subpar. But they aren’t sopposed to be terrible either. I really regret rolling human when I look at our racials then look at the awesome stuff asura, charr and norn have. I mean werewolf forms, golem battlesuits, and bazookas are awesome!
Then we have the Grenth Racial.
First of all.. YOU DONT CHANGE. You just turn colors. I hope this is a placeholder or something. Avatar of grenth should make you..actually look like an avatar of grenth.
Moving on to the skill itself, its horrible. Huge CD, lasts only 15 seconds and does pretty much nothing. Chills and weak poison, thats it.
The hounds of Balthazaar are waaay better, and melandru isn’t that great but at LEAST you actually transform.
My suggestion:
Make it last 30 seconds
Make it actually transform you into an avatar of Grenth
Have it give you a new set of skills like all shapeshifts, make them fun, varied and yes actually useful in dealing damage to enemies.
OR
If you really want to keep it as an aura shapeshift.
SERIOUSLY buff the poison damage. This ability needs to actually do damage not just slow things down.
I’m also open to other alternatives, not picky. I just want it to actually be useful for more then incredibly specific circumstances, and even then it is severely underpowered do to the duration and cd.
Cheers
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Posted by: Lord Marshal.3490
Not sure what the bumping policy is, so this will be my one and only bump. So more people can see my ideas on this fast moving forum.
Cheers
Hotkey for Town clothes please. Also stay logged in feature for forums/account
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Posted by: Lord Marshal.3490
PLEASE add an option to hotkey switching to town clothes. Right now I just don’t bother. Its really annoying having to go into the Hero pane and manually click the town clothes every time I enter a town or take fall damage.
This button would also switch back to armor when pressed again, as an alternative to using the weapon switch key. That button would still work but this would be an additional option, additional functionality to this new button option.
Secondaly. I have an enormous insane password to protect myself, since theres no authenticators and people are getting hacked all over the place. The problem is theres no option to stay logged into the forum. My password is so long it prevents me from using the forums as much as I would like. A stay logged in feature, that many forums and websites have would be great.
Thanks
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Posted by: Lord Marshal.3490
I don’t visit the forums much, as I’m to busy enjoying the game :P So I’m going to post all the ideas I’ve had gurgling around in my brain for the last two weeks. These are in no particular order, and I will try to keep them short. Also I apolgize if some of these are repeats of often requested features/suggestions.
1. Human racials need some tweaking. The healing racial is pretty decent, but the utlity ones are medicore. The elites defiently need some work. The hounds are fine, but the other ones are very dissapointing. Grenth needs an acutal transformation, not to just make you turn colors. It also needs to do more or last longer. Melandru could use abit of tweaking as well. But the Grenth elite and the general utilities need the most work.
2. Add the following to the gem shop:
Name change
“barber shop”
Race change ( see next suggestion before you mention the personal story issue)
3. After we beat our personal story we should be able to reset it, to the first quest after finishing the tutorial. Like a GW2 version of New Game+. Allowing you to see all the options of your story allowed within your creation options, plus just doing it again for fun and glory, another unqiue “endgame” feature.
And if someone pays for a race change, this would activate automatically, starting them with the new races story. They would have to go through an abbreaviated creation proccess of course to choose the new race specific options.
4. PLEASE give us an option to turn off friendly offensive spell affects, so we can actually see what we are doing in melee. Also PLEASE make these options robust, like only hide non combo field friendly abilities, or hide them all etc.
5. Please make enemy red warning circles thicker/bigger. Also maybe a darker red. They can be hard to see sometimes, especially for color blind people.
6. We need more feedback options. For example I should be able to set the UI so something pops up or my character says something when my dodge is back up or my healing ability is off regen. These should all come with options of course so people who like the ways things are cant keep the status quo.
7. Preview options in Trading Post.
8. Ability to sort Trading Post by usable and already known, really really need this. Especially when shopping for dyes and recipes.
9. Vendors that sell town clothing. I know it will be a big Gem Shop thing in the future. But there should be at least a few different options in game that can be purchased with karma and/or gold.
10. Enhance the current LFG finder just a tad. I’m fine with no traditional auto placement LFG system. What we have would be fine except for one tweak please.. Allow us to write a long sentence/line explaining what we want a group for.
For example : LF2M AC story mode, NON speed run OR LFG to do zone hearts
As it stands we have no idea what the people in the finder are looking for and whispering to ask down the list is very irksome so I personnaly dont bother to use it.
11. When someone is reported for spamming or something similar, the game should auto silence at the very LEAST if not auto ban them after lets say 50 people report them. Its annoying to report a gold spammer and see them spamming 20 minutes later. I know it will get looked at eventually but they need to muted immediately.
So if everyone in Lions Arch reports someone for gold spam they should be auto muted from Map chat for an hour. Hopefully someone will investigate by then, and if not and they start again they get hit with the automute again.
Requiring a high number of reports would prevent this from being abused to harass people.
Thanks for taking the time to read all this. Feel free to discuss.
Cheers