Guild Wars 2

From being in the beta events for the release of GW2 and now beta for HoT, I feel that this beta is fairly poor in comparison.
The beta events for the release of GW2 were far greater in terms of getting your feedback! Does anyone else remember the pop ups when you completed something that asked you to rate it out of five based on a few different things with an optional feedback box for your thoughts?
That would have been far better for this.
Unfortunately, I feel that although it is good we have been given access to this area, the length of the beta does not reflect the playable content in game.
Within six hours of taking my time playing, I had done pretty much everything available and had discovered the bugs and then had gotten bored out of my skull.

I hope to god that the expansion is much better in terms of hours of game time…I fear I have shelled out the top end price of £79.99 for an expansion the size of silverwastes and drytop!

Hopefully I am totally wrong in this feeling, I really hope I am as I love this game!

We have known since the week of the Chronomancer reveal that there would only be three specialization weeks in the first set. This is not something that we learned last Friday.

Just because YOU don’t care about WvW doesn’t mean that no one else does. The same line could be added to basically every single week:
“Meh, only boring [insert subject here]”.

The changes are big in terms of WvW, and WvW is one of the three main game modes.

leman.7682:

Could we see future reworks of exisitng professions to make them on par with Revenant or should everyone just reroll the new profession on day one and forget about the past?

Specializations.

Even an optional trinity would prove useless. Most professions are versatile enough to do that already.

I think what’s expecting us is something quite new and Anet clearly proved that they were able to think outside the box.

So forget your wowy rpgy old druid and embrace innovation

Lyanna.9875:

3) On Dulfy it is said that it will be playable in 6 weeks at PAX East… So we can expect it to drop on August like the main game? Before or after? :p There will be available a pre-purchase like the one we had for the main game? :p i had to try and ask these questions XD

Guild Wars 2 had a playable demo in GamesCom 2010. It was released two years later, in 2012.

So, the fact we will have a playable demo in 6 weeks means your release window is anything from 6 weeks plus one day to two years

Trahearne can be fixed. Please DO NOT kill him off!

I see a lot of people asking for Trahearne’s death and blood, but I think that would be a huge, HUGE Mistake! Why? In short: It would be repeating the ‘Trahaerne’ cycle over again.

When Trahearne came into the story, players were pre-conditioned not to like him, not because of Trahaerne’s character itself, but because the way the Personal Story was set up.

1. Throughout the entire personal story, from level 1 to finish, we are introduced to characters who befriend us for about 10 levels, then simply get replaced. By level 50, when Trahearne is introduced, we already get that feeling about him as a “replacement”.

2. Our mentor’s death. As players, we thought our mentor would actually stick with us, as they remained for more than 10 levels. Our mentors had spicy, fun personalities, and then they are suddenly replaced. That felt really bad.

3. Trahearne came off TOO much as our friend. There wasn’t much time to build trust, even during the Sylvari storyline. It felt like he was being shoved in our face during the Clawr Island arc, and that instantly made him unlikeable to many.

4. Praise without any exposition. We met Trahearne, and he seemed like an incredibly humble scholar, and he seemed okay. But then other NPCs continuously praise him, and we learn he’s some sort of HERO BADDASS WHO TRAVELED INSIDE AND OUT OF ORR LIKE IT’S NOTHING! Yet to Trahearne, he likes to be humble about it. Okay, that’s all fair, and if he’s a humble baddass, that’s pretty cool. But here’s the problem with that: We never actually learn about what he did. And I don’t mean publishing a short story online. I mean, we never learn, through interacting with characters, why they respect Trahearne so much? That gave players the false impression that he is a Mary Sue or the writer’s pet, and it rubbed us the wrong way.

Yet despite his flaws, most of them aren’t Trahearne’s character itself. Quite the contrary, he is the ONE character to properly thank us and give us credit for our actions, and he even gave us command of the ENTIRE Pact during the battle against Zhaitan!

So why do people hate him, Trahaerne himself? They think he is boring. Why is that? My guess is because we rarely saw him interacting with other characters, so he became too much of a machine simply to guide along the players of the Zhaitan storyline. If anything, Trahearne himself is the victim here, because ANET forgot about him even during his own story arc!

However, this concern about Trahearne can be addressed very easily, and there were a few instances where I felt genuinely interested in his character. During the Sylvari Personal Story, we got to see him interacting with Caithe, while during the Claw Island arc, he was humerously remarking upon his misadventures with Sieran, and he actually made me laugh! It was the few scenes like those, where we actually got to see his personality and interactions with others, which actually gave players an interest in Trahearne!

Sure, Trahearne is a stoic Necromancer who has confidence issues, who is still a little shy even at the party after you defeat Zhaitan. But at the same time, if done right, that personality can make him very loveable if he were to interact and respond to other characters.

What defines a character’s personality are tension, conflict, and their approach to problems. In Trahearne’s case, he is not too good socially, and he is quite shy. Interacting with Taimi and getting a little embarassed around her, is a good way to define who he is. Or perhaps even more interesting, his interactions with a muscle-head like Braham, since Trahearne is a scholar Necromancer who uses tactical reason over Braham’s brute force.

My point is that Trahearne can be good if done right, and killing him off would be a bad decision since it repeats what we were pre-conditioned to hate him in the first place. ANET should instead show the community that Trahearne can be repaired.

So for pete sake, PLEASE keep Trahearne alive! (And stop killing characters so much…)

Lyanna.9875:

I think the vines are “drinking” the magic within.

There’s florescent light flowing down from the waypoints and along the vine. Pretty neat.

You know that the next update is coming TOMORROW right…

The quantity that Arenanet puts out on a bi-weekly basis is astounding. No other game comes close to matching that output rate. If they had released an expansion people would already have finished that content and would now be waiting a long time for the next release.

Sorry that you don’t feel like it’s enough, but it is an incredible amount given the time frame and they’re doing a greta job. If you don’t like it please feel free to game hop?

They could release an entire expansion but players will rush and finish it all within a month and still leave.

Please add another crystal or platform that’s bigger than a mini

i get is suppose to be hard but really … only 18 s and you miss a jump you have to start over :/

bad move anet bad move!

[Edit] i wish people would learn to read this as a godkitten suggestion and not a qq about how hard it is .. i was thinking of my friends who live places where there isn’t just a server close to them is sad to see how immature and disrespectful the gw2 forum culture has become [Edit]

This got me super excited,

Look at the pictures, left is a sketch found in Scarlet’s Dry Top lab and right is a depiction of the realm of torment from guild wars 1.

The vines we see in Dry Top are also something that happens when the veil between the 2 worlds weakens.

Are you as excited as I am ?

I also would’ve preferred a UK flag for English in LFG. I saw those USA flags yesterday and got confused every time – it made me feel I was going to join an NA server group

I’d like to see ArenaNet add an unlimited use Black Lion Key that has a 24 hour cool down.

Gem price being 1200 (on the low end) or so.

I’d buy it.

So, I’ve considered posting this for a couple days now. I tend to lurk rather than posting. I realize this will likely fall on deaf ears, but after this weekend, I feel like it really needs to be said.

The attitude on the forums, and the response from the community over the past week (and even before that) is appalling. Every new thread is created to somehow belittle or bash the Anet dev team, or to negatively criticize every aspect of the game (whether part of the new update or not). And it isn’t just in General – it’s happening in PvP, in WvW, in the Profession forums, all of them. Is this criticism valid? Certainly – there are threads created for the exact purpose of collecting that information (and no, we don’t need to keep making 9 different threads on the same topic). But the tone of that criticism has reached an all-time low, and it’s turned the forum into a toxic mess. We’re no longer in the territory of constructive, positive discussion that a forum like this is here to encourage.

The general consensus of the community appears to be one where we expect the dev team to be chained to their desks 24/7, fixing every mistake and catering to every whim of any player who feels like our gameplay has somehow been diminished. I mean, just look around – you’ll find it in almost every new thread that’s been created this week. How does this kind of feedback – the whining, the complaining, the bashing, the lack of patience, the anger – actually help the game or promote any kind of meaningful discussion? Everyone seems to be shocked at the lack of responses from the dev team about issues – is it really any wonder why? If I were them, I wouldn’t respond to anything either, considering the community won’t be happy with whatever they have to say (or even if its what they want to hear).

Have there been problems this week? Certainly. Could things have been rolled out differently? Probably. But in no way does that excuse how this community has reacted. We dare say the Anet team can’t have a bloody holiday weekend to themselves? Of course they can! Who are you to say they don’t deserve one? (And there are threads where this exact statement is happening).

Lets use the Megaserver as an example. For those complaining about the megaservers, have you even considered that releasing this update this week, in this way, is intended? The Megaserver system is a BIG deal. And the devs have said repeatedly that its an ongoing system. I mean, the update isn’t even a week old! How do you expect the dev team to make any meaningful changes to the system to improve things, when they don’t even have enough data yet to determine what those changes should be? It’s called patience, and this community could use a huge dose of it.

Altogether, I know this thread isn’t going to deter the community’s reaction to the new content. I know it’s not going to correct anything. But I’m hoping that, if you support the dev team, their hard work, and their efforts to give us something great to play, you’ll post in here and let them know.

I love the new updates, and I know that I for one can’t wait to see what’s coming for us next

You know you play Guild Wars 2 to much

If someone says train and you immediately respond with “Boar.”

You know you’ve been playing GW2 too much when…

…you feel like dropping an AoE onto a herd of animals you see on Animal Planet.

…while taking a walk in the park, you can tell that that small tree is definitely choppable.

…you get excited when you hear “champion” on Eurosport.

…you say “Train?” whenever you arrive at a train station.

You know you’ve been reading GW2 forum too much when…

…you know you’ve seen the exact same thread about a hundred times before.

…you can tell how much sense a post will make by looking at the nickname.

…you are allergic to words “mounts”, “capes”, “guild halls”, “GvG” and “dueling”.

This whole feature patch introduced more gold sinks and further increased the profitability of their Gem Store.

I’m sorry to say that you hit the nail on the head with your post.

Hard to say, I have not used the feature patch. I would say wait until May 15th. Let the patch settle in with the player base.

Likes:
-No more bouncing around and using out of the game programs to keep up with events
-No more getting stuck in an overflow where the event isn’t happening
-Guilds can trigger mega events on their own time

Dislikes:
-Can’t see dungeon and WP status, meaning we have to spend nearly twice as much money to get where we want.
-Gathering nodes are going to be a pain now since there are no fixed maps.

Lightyears.8624:

We need new classes instead of new races. Anything besides human has already been a waste of time and resources.

AHH no. I really do enjoy the Sylvari and Charr. Their PS are pretty decent. Many in my guild really enjoy playing Asurans . Please don’t speak for the masses.

Lightyears.8624:

We need new classes instead of new races. Anything besides human has already been a waste of time and resources.

Some people refuse to play humans/norn/sylvari, you know. I was drawn to this game because they actually tried to be different by creating the asura and charr, and the sylvari (even though humanoid) are still pretty cool too. And I still haven’t gotten far in GW1 because I have to play another stinky human. Also, this game should have a new race before a new class, simply because balance issues. I vote for Tengu because they are the most creative concept of the unplayable races and are already set up to potentially be playable. From the concept art I’ve seen they look very colorful, they might even put sylvari colors to shame. And a samurai class to go with would be neat, but it’s probably best to save a new class for later.