Guild Wars 2

Let me tell you about “The Legend of Tony”, the best, the fastest, the first chinese Commander of ALL! #PraiseTony

Atleast you can wear the bunny ears, for the ladies..and the chef look for the commander. Embrace yourself! The new Clothes Meta is coming!

I would like to see a town clothes tab for individual mixing of town clothes.

Exactly wh not make Town Clothing armor with no stats in the first place, maybe I had much more gems used by now on Town clothes that are a good addition to my overall look.

So if you just bought that cherry blossom shirt, you get that in a endless tonic with complimentary parts which are pants to avoid nakedness. Why again can that not just become a skin and get mixed with other town clothes or armor?

It makes sense on the costumes but whats up with the town clothes. You don’t want to put “the town clothing pieces mix and match by themselves” in a endless tonic where you only can use one at a time, because that’s really awful.

5/10
Bugged as usual, it goes, meh LS meh LS, good LS, meh LS, meh LS, good LS and so forth, with only the highlights being bazaar of winds, nightmare tower (the time anet finally got behind LS) and the LA LS. Looking forward to LS2 if it starts this cycle again?

Achievements started with good cosmetic meta achievement rewards over to “filling the hole” economic meta rewards to boxes of crap with fancy names meta rewards and finally over to item-gated achievements (soon item-gated content from BLTC?) “build your own backbone” even if we have enough achievements to get meta reward, please dont do this again for the sake of all completionists who give a kitten about the backbone. Just look over to WoW, or Lotro they both have an amazing achevement system and even more titles.

Story was not too long but too slow building up, not really a story until scarlet, she was not proper introduced, no personality, no really background infos ingame, just on the site or atlas which I personally don’t give a kitten about, but good end of LSS1

Great writing on the Biconics lately, except for Scarlet, the Lightning of GW2.

Hermes.7014:

I’ll take it… along the “Savior of Tyria” title that somehow wasn’t given for completing the personal story after slaying Zhaitan, an elder dragon.

This is why I couldn’t feel anything at the end of the PS, together with the reward disaster, it was really dissapointing and they didn’t really improve since then, well they trying. Rewards are a running gag for me now. :/

Many more titles in general would be great, but Anet is really slacking here.

Devata.6589:

killcannon.2576:

Devata.6589:

killcannon.2576:

Latinkuro.9420:

killcannon.2576:

darkace.8925:

killcannon.2576:

To the actual MMO crowd? It is a good thing.

How so? Where is your source citing the developers statement that the implementation of a subscription fee would mean a shift away from gem shop-driven design or fully-polished content rather than bite-sized filler Living Story content?

The sub itself is used as a mechanic to get people to login in other sub based MMO’s.

I assume you have played a sub based MMO? The payment models define the gameplay.

- this thing is clearly for the chinese market
- since gw2 doesn’t have sub it has time gating !
- Theoritically speaking, if paying this VIP thing removes the time gating I would gladly pay it otherwise NO thank you

Not sure if it’s for the Chinese market or not, I fully expect that GW2 will never see a full release in China. Even if it is, it will be so far removed from Western GW2 it may as well be an entirely different game.

Correct, time gating and large amounts of rng replace some of the draw of logging in that a sub based game creates from it’s payment model. Not saying sub based games don’t have those, they are just drastically reduced.

I see it as the first step towards a true hybrid model, and hopefully much less reliance on rng systems and the gem store than for those who choose not to subscribe to it, or purchase it.

The model GW1 had.. Expansion based income was that perfect ‘hybrid’ model.

In a way buying the expansion is then the same as paying a subscription but in stead of buying it for a month you pay for the content and added content ever year / year and a half. The game company can expect a pretty regular income and the player has no time above has head or game-play effected by it’s cash-shop because the design does not have to stimulate cash-sales.

I would have bought that, and I think that would have been a perfectly feasible way to monetize the game to an extent. They would still need time gating and a heavy reliance on rng to make people log in every day though, in order to populate the zones. Something GW1 didn’t have to worry as much about considering it’s mechanics and zone wide instancing.

Not more as a sub-based MMO. Maybe even less because while in a MMO the fact that you payed money might be a reason to log in today and tomorrow but there mus also be a reason to log in the day after you month ended. Of course GW2 would have a similar thing as they would need to keep people interested in buying the new expansion. So overall I think it’s similar to sub-based game.

Besides some RNG is not bad, it’s even needed. An ‘required’ endless grind is bad.

There´s no difference between RNG and endless grind. Except that endless grind is better than RNG if you not are lucky kitten. Endless grind can you get the item you desire for sure at the end. RNG you have to be very lucky to get the desired item.

Latinkuro.9420:

killcannon.2576:

darkace.8925:

killcannon.2576:

To the actual MMO crowd? It is a good thing.

How so? Where is your source citing the developers statement that the implementation of a subscription fee would mean a shift away from gem shop-driven design or fully-polished content rather than bite-sized filler Living Story content?

The sub itself is used as a mechanic to get people to login in other sub based MMO’s.

I assume you have played a sub based MMO? The payment models define the gameplay.

- this thing is clearly for the chinese market
- since gw2 doesn’t have sub it has time gating !
- Theoritically speaking, if paying this VIP thing removes the time gating I would gladly pay it otherwise NO thank you

This is better for the chinese market, I find this still unsuitable for the western market. Especially if we can already buy all this without it.

zenleto.6179:

Vissarion.6509:

and then there is this from today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbwMS-XPGk

Nice to see these guys and girl but what about it?

I guess they release GW2 in China (or is it already?) and introducing the VIP thingy with it.

Vissarion.6509:

and then there is this from today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbwMS-XPGk

Yeah the better stay with this VIP bullkitten in china.

- Includes a misspelling of the word resurrection
- “benefits that make like worth living”

You mean they would not know how to write a proper PR poster. Evidence of Fake sums up on Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1utx8p/data_mining_vip_membership/celo4l5

We dont know how Tier 1 to Tier 20 is staggered (20 different prices), so they can have an impact, we dont know whats the prestige, recognition part of it. Or whats in the gift bag (like paying for emypreal shards) So everyone is running with a vip badge around like in kittenty browsergames, that smells totally like Nexon and Crystin Cox

If its an single purchase (its better be if its not an april fool joke), it depends on the price, I dont think I would buy that, when you can get it cheaper separately. And that Mask tattoo for 400 gems is ridiculous too.

Tough its not true yet, its bad enough they consider doing that.

I have to agree with the OP and this good summary on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1f0xqp/very_disappointed_player_with_some_good_points/ca5qxxg but I will stay at least for the Living Story and WvW. In my opinion the achievement changes (treasure) are nice but a bit to late, people are tired of getting junk. Now they realize they get rewarded for nothing. So Anet did learn nothing from the End of the Personal Story Reward disaster. GW2 is maybe the most unrewarding mmo ever but it has the best community interaction ever.

I heard the dungeon is awesome and the best ever created and all what I heard from, I believe it. I guess it has more features and different zones as every normal dungeon. But I totally dislike the direction the dungeon or the living story´s end is going, so I’ll stay to my opinion and not going into the dungeon. I can only assume that it is the same random-group-throwing-in-dungeon system. Was the negative feedback from the winter festival dungeon (defend the dolyaks) not enough. After that desaster I’ll never going into any instance with that crappy pug system. either you can go with “your group” or guild or alone. And the saddest thing is a team worked hard on this dungeon and I appreciate it (I would be interesting in how long it was build) Because one Month hard work and then such a great dungeon going in 2 weeks into nirvana. I will not support that.

Over the few last days, there was definitely really worse skill lag in WvW. It affects even the speed of the shortbow. It was like 10s delay for skills. It was during rushing the castle stonemist.. well pretty clear but the saddest or worst part was the one fraction was running in circles because they had also skill lag and so nobody got anything done. And the shortbow had a 3s delay between every arrow. It was hilarious, hilariously bad.

Sazgo.9842:

You can argue that achievement points are useless anyway, but when it displays it on your character in party .. well , im sure we have all seen some of the ‘LFM CoF 3.5k+ ap’.

I would instantly block these people. You only make people kitten off about you. And I saw already 3 threads on reddit that most of the people getting tired about skipping and elitists who think they´re better then a player with less points then 3500. Thats really stupid. You can only doing dungeons and be an expert in it and not having that much points. I don’t want to play with selfish player, nobody should do this. So the points are pretty useless and even more useless when you use the points as skill indicator.

The achievement points are so many times manipulated and bugged and whirled around, there´s not one useful info about them anymore except for the cheated kitten on the website. It’s really sad that the achievement system got so rushed over. And the titles stay meaningless (for those who care) because you can’t still see your OWN name. So stupid.

Guesting was designed for visiting your friends on other servers in the first place and not to abusing World bosses and other things. But since there´s no cross-server technology yet (US→EU) it’s limited. But people will always try to abuse the system and now here we are. People complaining about why the can’t anymore abuse world bosses while guesting wait what?

I mean whats the point of these mega chests anyway,when you should have fun and not rewards in the first place dont place a huge chest there that tranforms fun to frustation. Make the items at least useful (blue) but the chest drops ALL kinds of crap and most of it, is not even salvageable, no wonder it had this rushing effect on it.

I agree with TooBZ.
If loot drops weren’t so generally miserable changes like this wouldn’t cause the problems they do. Just make a proper percentage on it and not this 1/100 or 1/1000 bullkitten.

“It’s poorly implemented. In WoW I would do stuff I usually wouldn’t do for an achievement. In GW2 I just don’t care. Reason are daily/monthly achievement points. Not only that, but whole achievment UI needs a complete rework. There’s a lot of achievements where they shouldn’t be and they’re poorly categorized. Also, when I click on achievement pop-up, it should open that achievement. It needs a tracker too and I can’t remember can you see the date when you’ve done it. A better done achievements system would greatly increase my gametime. "

And I’m not the only person who thinks a better done achievements system would greatly increase their game time. And not just logging in for dailys and monthlys. Also Infinite Achievements needs to go away.

I never said it should be like the WoW achievement but I think as a Non-WoW player it is the best feature what WoW has. GW2´s achievement system is poorly implemented and really needs some rework. Like described as above. And the Diving Master title is still bugged for me another example ArenaNet does not care about the Achievement system.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/189kgs/the_status_of_achievement_points/

Are you planning on implementing a Golem pet for Asura Ranger?

Can we see the progress of the achievement like in WoW, (collapsing the Achievement and look what area´s we´ve and we have not discovered, it’s really annoying not know what I have actually achieved, in the actual state it’s pointless.

Are we getting more GW1 Armor in the Shop?

Are we getting more specified title but also fun-title! in PvE and rank like title in WvW?

Computer says No. ‘cough’
http://youtu.be/WOdjCb4LwQY

They should not be removed but they should get a kitten longer timer for commander respawning. We defeated 8-10 waves of commander on bluelake (t3 was after 8 waves on 95% such a waste, that’s why we were defending in the first place) against riverside in a row and in the meanwhile we defended several waves greenbriar against the commander. 8-10 waves that’s ridiculous. In the end we could not build up proper defending tools against the commander because they´re just RESPAWNED as the old Commander was dead and the next was on the road down. Thats really a worse design of the breakout event. Maybe next week we meet a worse attacker then riverside we could beat commander over and over again because there is no timer at all. The breakout event totally need a longer timer so we can build up proper defending tools after the 37th commander wave. So that the attacker can see that bluelake or greenbriar is well defended and not bringing the 50th commander and we’re doing ALL DAY break out events because it is so much fun.

I tried it 10 times with broken groups/already dead Dolyaks/afk player/not enough player/in the middle of the instance loosing player before I came into a instance for the 9th wave of 10 and the player were actually good and all dolyaks were alive, so I just jump in the last wave defending toys and got my both achivements before Anet had make it easier and I would never ever seen in Toypocalypse anymore. It’s a great concept but I’m glad I dont wasted my time with this automatic grouping fail. Yeah there were maybe player that got a good group and the luck of a new instance and got trough it (Hello Randomness) but there´s also many player who got the same as above listed. So far for the Toypocalypse. But the Tixx instances in the different cities were great.

You know the Economy is failing or broken if you hear from random Fractal people that they running scripts all over the AH that raises every item 1 copper/1silver so that they getting a ton of gold. I’m sure it’s not the only script that is running all over the AH but ArenaNet seems not to care or Anet can/can’t track and does nothing about. And now where Legendarys are worthless because in a month can everybody just buy the Legendary status from the AH, yeah thats really a Accomplishment. Legendarys should be accountbound and not tradeable otherwise they are just another skin and don’t deserve the title Legendary and just shows that you´re a rich dou. che. bag.

Some people getting no ring at all and some getting 3 rings in one run but there´s still a way to low chance of getting the right one you want. Somebody got 20 rings and it was not the right one. RNG is the worst system ever and just lead to frustration and anger. I hope alternatives coming soon.

It’s not pay to win, there´s nothing you can buy that you give a advantage over something. And they´re already working on Ascended Gear being available in WvW and many other things for WvW. And they just have updated the old dungeons with better rewards. (I hope)

It feels like a tumor in the world of GW2 but it is many times proved that player need progression so with FoTM there´s Progression until you hit the lvl where you can’t overcome the difficulty then you have to repeat until Ascended gear comes. But it is in it’s own instance and space so the outside is save for now until the Ascended Gear comes and the gear becomes maybe significant stronger than exotics. (6xGear=statsx6) or they just making no stats on the gear just Agony resistance.

GW1 was marketed as competitive online role-playing game. (CORPG) It provides two main modes of gameplay—a cooperative role-playing component and a competitive PvP component.

“precursors are too hard to get” say that to the player who looted the chest and going over to a overflow server to loot the next chest and then going over to the next overflow and get 3 precusor on ONE character and then switch to the second character. I don’t think this was supposed to be happen. And the best is these players coming away without any punishment and getting a ton more richer, because it was ArenaNet`s fault to let that happen and the player for doing this. And again the poor getting more poor and the richer more rich.

Went from 1800 to 1200

Not at all. Every LotRO player knows very well where this will be leading up to and it does not look pretty.

Of course a game should be about fun, but then you share all GW2 player about one player type. Unfortunately they´re many more player type’s out there. So the real challenge is to balance the game so everything can have what he decided is Fun for him.

I had Fun and it was totally worth my time in the MK Dungeon but then you see this SOULBOUND ToT bag 10 Slots.. What? The rewards from the chest don’t even matter. And Fun was turned into Disappointment. Almost every player has now 18 bag slots. Many people would not complain if the ToT Bag were accountbound and had 20 Slots. But so this ToT bag is just useless and then you´re one of them without luck and got crap out of the chest. No Wonder people are complaining.

faytte.1057:

Longbow: Terrible attack speed, animations, and the kit in general. Damage is sub par to Warrior Rifle, never seen outside of WvW and even in WvW we only use it due to the traited 1500 range. Any ranger who has seen Engineer grenade spaming at 1500 range would gladly swap classes im sure.

Let me ask this; wouldnt it have been a better decision as a game designer to come in here and make a post like

“Hey guys, we have identified some issues with SB #1, and are going to make changes to it, and wanted your opionion about Short Bow and what its lacking given that the dps on the auto attack might be scaled back a bit”. Then after a polite discourse and idea exchange, you would be empowered more and the players would be more content?

NOPE! THATS NOT WHAT YOU DID! Instead you ‘fixed an animation bug’ that no ranger I have talked to has ever noticed to disguise what would be an unpopular nerf to the class, and now that we basically are a terrible kitten class you are going to tell us you might review some data, which will spring the possibility for you to formulate a counter balance to the rest of our weak weapon?

If this is par the course for how you plan to introduce game changes, I may be looking elsewhere to spend my time.

I fully agree with faytte, instead of improving the Longbow, you blame a animation bug for nerfing the Ranger and the SB. That´s sad. When a DPS Nerf is needed, what I don’t think, then just nerf the DPS and not the attack speed, thats the worst thing you can do, especially to the Ranger Class. I guess Ranger are now the slowest class overall, thats what makes a Ranger right. Thanks for destroying a great class.

And its happening again today on the shatterer fight, soooo annoying >_< I hope THE FIX COMES MORE THEN SOON! Can’t wait to get rid of this ANNOYING BUG. Quote Lil Puppy “It seems to me that the sound library is being overloaded by too many simultaneous requests or you’re overloading the buffer.” and you´re overloading the buffer. so they´re to many requests or to small buffer. I agree seems a lot like this.

GW2 still lacks titles besides the HoM ones. There are so many possibilities for implementing titles: Order initiation (lightbringer), beating zhaitan etc. Of course its not top priority but are they so hard to implement?

I should make a shirt with “I killed Zhaitan, elder dragon, and only got 78+ blues and greens.” yeah we play it not only for rewards but at the end of a campaign or expansion or personal story it should be something special at least one exotic or something. It really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

That´s a great Idea from EIT_Turtle

They need to reward a player weekly/monthly/annually for staying in the same world. Maybe not an item, but maybe some type of account based title chain that resets whenever you change worlds.

If they can’t think of a name, then maybe use the GW1 title rank system.

New Transfer = Squire of “Server Name”

1 week = “Server Name” Supporter

2 weeks = Friend of the “Server Name”

1 Month = Companion of the “Server Name”

1 Year / 2 Years = Savior of the “Server Name”

I think this way you can see which player can be a potential spy.