Guild Wars 2

I really don’t like placement of GS Training trait.

In my opinion it is inconsistent with rest of weapon trait placements and in my opinion, no weapon trait should be grand master trait. Their argument was that all grand master traits should be ‘playstyle defining’ – but picking weapon is already playstyle defining a lot and putting it into grandmaster category (and putting only one from all weapon choices there) makes no sense and can kitten that weapon choice.

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Game rules and caps should not bend to those who push it into the extreme.

Getting mini pet should not be the extreme

You are not entitled to get everything you want. You knew chance is small and where is the problem ? You didn’t wanted that luck and so you can destroy it .

I am not complaining, just pointing out the problem that will occur in the future more and more. I know couple of people already that has EoL piling up. So it is better sooner than later to point that out.

It is not problem for anyone who doesn’t go intentionally for the cap.

As of this situation, it was not intentional :p

And ? Just because YOU , in ultrarare case, unintentionaly reached cap of some stat, it is problem and cap should be moved ?

Where you see me saying anything about changing cap? Thats a wrong way to go about it. I am just asking for people opinions on what should be done in the future. Same problem that once Bloodstone Dust and Empyrial Fragments had (they kind of still do). But something similar like EoL eating gizmo would be nice.

Bloodstone dust and company is something completely different because it is common material with limited use, and for the record, I destroy all I don’t need. Luck essences have way more use for non-extreme player. This so called problem with luck essences is simply artificial.

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Game rules and caps should not bend to those who push it into the extreme.

Getting mini pet should not be the extreme

You are not entitled to get everything you want. You knew chance is small and where is the problem ? You didn’t wanted that luck and so you can destroy it .

I am not complaining, just pointing out the problem that will occur in the future more and more. I know couple of people already that has EoL piling up. So it is better sooner than later to point that out.

It is not problem for anyone who doesn’t go intentionally for the cap.

As of this situation, it was not intentional :p

And ? Just because YOU , in ultrarare case, unintentionaly reached cap of some stat, it is problem and cap should be moved ?

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Game rules and caps should not bend to those who push it into the extreme.

Getting mini pet should not be the extreme

You are not entitled to get everything you want. You knew chance is small and where is the problem ? You didn’t wanted that luck and so you can destroy it .

I am not complaining, just pointing out the problem that will occur in the future more and more. I know couple of people already that has EoL piling up. So it is better sooner than later to point that out.

It is not problem for anyone who doesn’t go intentionally for the cap.

Stenlys.1387:

Malevil.2104:

Game rules and caps should not bend to those who push it into the extreme.

Getting mini pet should not be the extreme

You are not entitled to get everything you want. You knew chance is small and where is the problem ? You didn’t wanted that luck and so you can destroy it .

Game rules and caps should not bend to those who push it into the extreme.

No magic find is not problem. You and players like you are the problem. You pushed game to the extreme and now you cry.

So again, majority is ’ spoiling ’ game for minority … Maybe it is you who is playing the game ’ wrong ’ way . Shouldn’t be it choice of players how to play the game ?

Btw farm doesn’t stops you doing neither zone achievements or story achievements . Only problematic might be rare legendary spawns, but trust me, one I’m missing, I haven’t seen in quite few hours spent on defending blue oasis on non-farm maps …

And here we go again, some kittens have again problem when people organize themselves to earn some money in game.

I’m ok with how they handle it.
1.) Only VERY limited amount means it will have very little impact on price for those who bought it from TP.
2.) It is RNG, so what, almost everything is RNG in computer games, live with that.
3.) If you spend real money or gold to increase your chance, you are fool and you deserve to be screwed.

NoTrigger.8396:

as if it would change anything. he believes he is the most important person on planet earth and only his opinion counts.

Are you sure you are not speaking about yourself ? Because then it would fit.

It is you, who has problem to understand that there is significant portion of playerbase who don’t want WoW style raiding not because of difficulty, but because of time commitment it brings. For you it might be win, for others end. Win – win for ANet ? Definetly not !

NoTrigger.8396:

do you realize the mysterious rewards could simply be skins and not any higher gear? so nobody will be forced to raid. optional content + optional rewards that are not making your character any better stat wise = everything is ok.

but your reaction seems to be the reaction of someone who is afraid of not being good enough to play through challenging content.

You really got me here, I’m covering in fear behind my keyboard. I salute you, THE brave one !

NoTrigger.8396:

alright so adding a few raids automatically means the endgame will be only raids and nothing else?

do you even realize that alot of players and guilds are looking for a challenge and there is no challenge at all in gw2 at the moment?
there is nothing to do in PvE except running in circles like mindless monkeys and clicking through living story dialogues.
raids would be a good way to give players challenge and something to strive for.
if you think this will turn the game into a WoW clone then there is something wrong with you.

Do you realize, that if they add raids and they don’t add incentive – aka better rewards then rest of the content – almost none will play them ? I was raider long enough to know this. But if raids will get better rewards they will become THE end game, that yours mysterious ’ anything else’ will be pointless.

NoTrigger.8396:

so introducing raids automatically means there wont be anything else to do? alright.

Topic of this thread are raids or that mysterious ‘anything else’ ? But back to the topic, yes raids are what most of their players wants … riiiight, thats why they are dumbing down NPE on the level of 6y olds (and now I’m insulting my younger son). They are for sure inspired by huge success of their fellow sister company producing next gen mmo with hc raiding end game, lets say hello together to huge success called Wildstar !

NoTrigger.8396:

Malevil.2104:

Ahh finally ! Next step add trinity and this game is finally perfect .

/sarcasm off

I take adding raids in gw2 as final admission that ideas in original manifesto failed miserably, which is really sad. But still if change is needed, and it is needed imo, I would definitely prefer if they would be trying to turn gw2 into gw1 with improved engine and events. But making it just another WoW clone – which it will become if raids are to become elite end game, is just another mistake – you cant beat WoW at its own game …

adding raids to a game automatically means you want to turn the game into a WoW clone.
you are very smart.

Ah you noticed, yes, I’m very smart . Ofc it will become WoW clone, every game with raiding end game gets called WoW clone and every WoW clone fails to beat WoW anyway.

Ahh finally ! Next step add trinity and this game is finally perfect .

/sarcasm off

I take adding raids in gw2 as final admission that ideas in original manifesto failed miserably, which is really sad. But still if change is needed, and it is needed imo, I would definitely prefer if they would be trying to turn gw2 into gw1 with improved engine and events. But making it just another WoW clone – which it will become if raids are to become elite end game, is just another mistake – you cant beat WoW at its own game …

Gedekran.1487:

Scandi.5693:

Gedekran.1487:

I like completing the event.

How many times do you need complete it? I don’t mean to make a personal attack but I do question why you are there if not to troll the farmers. I checked earlier and found a map within minutes that was not being farmed and had people doing the event to completion. So I think this thread a bit disingenuous.

So you are saying there’s now a limit to how many times a person can complete events in this game? Then what happens, get labeled a troll? There should not be any event in game where a person wanting to complete it, no matter how many times, should be labeled a troll such as you are trying to do right now with me. So no, I’ll keep completing it because completing events is fun at least to me.

Doing something that doesn’t bring you anything significant (aka when you finish this event for more than once) but you know it will kitten a lot of other people is trolling (and you knew what reactions will be). Not understanding this means your social empathy is way below par.

1) I understand ppl who finish the chain because they want to finish story and I have nothing against them

2) My decision to not finish chain is NOT exploit. I’m not bugging anything, nor event or mobs, I just let event go through one of 2 scripted paths. There is no difference between dieing in defense or just watch Sons of Svanirs wins from outside. You wanna see real exploits ? Just go do some PUG run of almost any dungeon path …

3) Real toxic trolls are people who would otherwise ignore the event but now go there whenever they see there farm going there just to spoil farming for others. I find it hilarious that then they go to forums to cry.

Simply NO.

I’m sick of ppl want to use money as shortcut for everything.

This is seriously joke. So you propose to kill last sensible way to actually earn money by playing the game and not by playing the trading post ? /facepalm

nightwulf.1986:

Well, regardless, Anet is making changes in the future so that we can do more than just kill things faster to better support each other. What I’m hearing from the reluctant folks here is that when there are changes, we need the support and healing builds to be more active than passive and should require a decent amount of skill to pull off. That way, you can be an awesome group healer or shut down mobs with skill, all while killing things fast too. I don’t see why we can’t allow amazing healing builds that do good damage so long as it is a skill based build. That’s the logic behind allowing people to stack PPF and still survive as well as they do, right? Let’s move forward with that trend instead of stagnating. Passive defense = boring. Active defense = awesome.

You said it yourself : Passive defense = boring. Active defense = awesome.

But ppl who want to nerf berserker meta want passive defense. Stats on gear are passive, your skills are active. Zerker wouldn’t be able to exist without active skills. Thats why so many ppl in zerker gear sucks – they expect to kill things with just zerker gear without pushing other buttons …

You want to play your awesome group healer, which would do good dmg at the same time – now that would be crazy OP, becouse that not how gw2 was designed . In other games such role is required, becouse dps classes ussualy have only limited healing (if any) and low dmg mitigation, so they need healers and tanks. But in gw2 all have superb dmg avoidance (dodge) and all have personal heals. With players who know their class, you dont need party healer – all have already what they need.

wiki is your friend

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Volcanus

TooBz.3065:

Since everyone keeps saying that the OP knew the risks. Can someone please let me know where ANet has posted the odds?

Inherent in any scratch ticket is the fact that your odds of winning are clearly published.

This .

When you are new, for 20+ USD or Euro you expect guaranteed chance to get new dye or at least something valuable. To not get anything feels like cheating. Whole structure of dye packs is wrong for the money you pay for them.

Either make some new colors uncommon and guaranteed drop or make all dye drops rare quality.

+1

If i will see in next blog how big success megaserver is, i will proly uninstall game.

Zahrexsiiszb.8472:

So ? You have 4 Infused Fractal Capacitors, what is your point? You wanted 4 of them , you made them.

His point is imo valid – u do last version just for look, it doesnt give u other benefit.

Rangersix.1754:

Get a core party of 5 people in a map, consider that your “main map”. Now break the group apart and have each of those 5 people form their own party so they can then join their party leader on the “main map”. It’s quick and it’s easy. Guilds complaining that they need to make use of organization, dear me.

You simply dont know what you are talking about. Try to do that with 100+ ppl and during 15 min time limit T3 bounty … and it’s not about finishing that stupid bounty, it’s about getting all your ppl credit doing it.

Jinroh.4251:

There is one way it could work. The item changes you to the race that you wish to change but at the cost of your personal story and cultural items equipped. So lets say you’re a Charr that wants to be human but you’re wearing a partial or full set of the Charr cultural armor. The switch would convert it to the human equivalent and your personal story would be rebooted back to the first chapter after the tutorial. At the change they’d probably make you answer a bunch of questions much like they did during character creation.

Of course many people have finished their personal story and don’t want to do it again or many haven’t even bothered to do it.

Neither of your proposals is good solution for everyone and everycase, thats why i doubt they will do it. Leveling is easy and best gear (ascended) is accound bound, so there is no real need to do this imo.

undouble.1472:

Spurnshadow.3678:

I’m sure this has been brought up a bunch of time. I don’t think I’ve posted yet in this thread, but I started another thread on the topic and posted in a different thread, so, obviously, many people are having an issue.

We can not salvage our WvW or Karma gear. This is a big issue because transmutation stones are gone and we have no way of getting the expensive runes and sigils out of our gear to consolidate or make a new set with all the rune / sigil changes. On top of that, it makes buying a new set of WvW or karma gear obsolete as if we socket any of that gear, we will have no way of retrieving said runes / sigils.

Many people, like myself, have obtained most of their gear through karma and WvW. Fore example, most players had a stacking sigil weapon which we would swap out once we obtained 25 stacks. Now, we can’t do that, so if we want to utilize stacking sigils, we need to combine them into the extra slot now available. But, we can’t salvage one weapon to get out a rune, so our only course is to buy 2 new runes AND new weapons in fear of this never getting fixed. That’s ridiculous. Another example: my ele. Since boon duration has been nerfed, my water/monk/traveler is useless. So, I made some new runes, cost me about 50G. I sure as hell am not going to put those into the same armor for fear I won’t get them back. I’m not going to replace the traveller, they’re expensive. So, I also have to spend about 12 G making a new set of armor. That’s about as far as I want to go with new stuff.

I have 10 characters with multiple sets of armor and weapons. I’m not the only one in this situation, especially when it comes to the weapons.

I assume this is just a huge over-site. Please fix this ASAP.

The “Upgrade extractor” is still available in the Gem Store (TP). Better than the stones because it leaves the item and upgrade intact (but separate). Or is that just an oversight on ANET’s part?

Now if they would cost 25gems instead of 250 it would be option.

Dev team simply underestimated this feature of transmutation stones. Would be great if wardrobe system could be expanded for sigils and runes.

Imo game is desperatly missing reasonable way to reuse sigils and runes. Wardrobe is great but this feature of transmutation stones is missing.

Megaservers + guild bounty = MegaFrustration for large guild. Took us yesterday like 3 activations so all could get credit …

After reveal of all changes with megaserver, i honestly thing, these changes as whole package will make game worse , no better.
cons :
- traveling will be worse and more expensive
- world bosses fights will be worse, if you can actualy play during its spawn time …
- dungeon runs will be worse, because it might be real issue to find dungeon open …

pros :
+ better population in some maps

in between:
+/- guilds might be able spawn world bosses, question is, if they will be able to get all members into right overflow

As it stands, your proposed changes doesn’t make your game better, they make it worse.

Guilds starting world boss events is cool. BUT …

But way how overflows works will make it suck big time. I wonder how easy will it be to get 100 guild members into same overflow, even with all those ‘smart’ AI changes which will pick overflows fo us. I’m sorry , based on current experience with guild missions when there is world event in map, I simply cant see it work properly.

Seriously dear Anet, i dont understand you. Gw1 was/is wonderfull game. Why do you insists doing everything differently in gw2 ?! In gw1, what you had in cities was basicly overflow system, but you called them districts and there was this neat little feature you know, ability to pick in which district you wanted to be in. So why we still can’t do this ? Instead you choose to do overcomplicated system for automatic picking, when the best solution is incredibly simple – let US to do it, let us pick overflow …

Town clothes ? Seriously i even forgot that something like that existed … Ask for refund and move on guys.

Ehm, and what would be the point of level cap increase ?

You know there is 1 item in game, it’s called Tome of Knowledge, all it does is that my character gains 1 lvl . I have about 12 of them sitting in bank and can buy additional 8 (for found belongings from current LA event) and I’m prettys ure that there are ppl who have more of them .

So lets say Anet raises cap by 20 lvls to 100. NP for me, I get 1 char to lvl 100 in few seconds. So what exactly would Anet achieve with lvl cap increase in terms of progressions ? NOTHING. They would just kitten ppl.

Another essay about how is berserker gear bad for game but still not a single valid argument how passive stats combination and defenses would make game more challeging compared to active defenses which berserker setup uses.

Face the harsh facts, timing you dodges, reflects, aegis require you to watch whats happening around you. Toughness and vitality adds only more margin for your error . Passive defenses dont add anything it term of required skill from player.

What game needs in terms of diversity is imo reworking how conditions work, not making passive defense stats more required.

cranked.3812:

Malevil.2104:

cranked.3812:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

The guys who paid up front for Bolts of Damask might yet have the last laugh.

Absolutely not. Damask will come down in price along with silk and linen when people finish up their first set of armor. Your statement is that of overreaction just like everyone else freaking out because material prices are high right now.

Damask is going down, linen and silk up and they will continue to rise. Nobody is overreacting – it’s pretty obvious that anet made mistake.

Most of you are overacting. Damask won’t really go down in price as long as the mats continue to rise so much.

There was a first wave of people who crafted damask and then bought the rest off the TP to finish their sets. The next wave of people, the one we are in now, are still crafting their set day by day leaving no surplus and using all the mats.

After everyone finishes crafting their first set (36 days from the patch), people will either stop crafting damask all together and the prices of the mats will go down and so will damask with it. OR people will still craft damask and sell it on the TP, undercutting each other until it sells for cheap on the TP. Either way, once the large part of the population who is crafting their first set is done, prices will fall and supply will overshadow demand again, driving prices down. You can’t say anet made a mistake 2 weeks after the patch when demand is still largely outstripping supply.

It’s been two weeks since patch. Most people aren’t even done crafting a set yet. Give it some time. In two months if prices aren’t falling, come back and complain.

Yes ppl are not done with crafting yet, but you know what is funny ? That i know a lot of ppl who want to wait till praices will drop to finish their crafting … You simply need too much silk to craft your set, so i dont cant see prices drop in near future.

And honestly I consider it total BS how much light armor set costs compared to medium and heavy, it is simply unfair to 1/3 players. And waiting till market corrects itself, which can take a lot of time, is imo unacceptable – why should we who have chosen light armor classes be drained from gold, while our friends who play medium or heavy armor classes have their ascended armor for fraction of cost ?

cranked.3812:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

The guys who paid up front for Bolts of Damask might yet have the last laugh.

Absolutely not. Damask will come down in price along with silk and linen when people finish up their first set of armor. Your statement is that of overreaction just like everyone else freaking out because material prices are high right now.

Damask is going down, linen and silk up and they will continue to rise. Nobody is overreacting – it’s pretty obvious that anet made mistake.

We need recipies to create silk and other tiers of cloth materials. I drown in bloodstone dust but i have hard time to get silk and linen ? Seriously …
Recipies for mystic toilet to convert bloodstone dust to other ’ common’ materials would give some real use for it and would help to stabilize market when some crazy imbalances occurs.

Ascended weapon handling is PERFECT.
Are you HC player ? You can get it by playing game. Hell, you dont have to be even hc player, if you play game long enough you have most of the mats anyway.
Are you cassual who cant commit time ? Buy gems, change it to gold and you can get it easy.

Are you cassual who cant commit nor time, nor real money ? You are playing wrong genre of games .

Omega.4950:

Treeline.3865:

Aza.2105:

This just shows that most of the gw1 fanbase is not playing gw2.

I voted for Kiel around 300 times. Want to see my GWAMM? Don’t make assumptions without any ground.

I guess the “MOST” word was pretty absent yet?

You might be suprised. 3/4 of gw1 story was basicly about Abaddon, a lot of gw1 players are tired of him, time to move on.

I’m realy hapy that Kiel is winning. Face harsh truth, fractal involving epic battle of 6 gods would fail hard, like Zaithan fight version 2 … Epic expetations = epic fail.

Man, sitting on 7800 AP, not even done everything in PvE and only minimal PvP

rchu.8945:

Siphaed.9235:

P.S. Guild Wars 2 is a great game. To you, personally, it might not be. That’s your opinion, however wrong it is. The millions of current players, and the Chinese players who are going to be added end-2013/early-2014, also think it is a great game.

With ESO coming out, this game will become another WoW wannabe with some gear grind but no raid content (lol). Anet chose to please the PvE crowd, and they should pay for it dearly.

I honestly laugh on everybody who thinks that ESO will be problem for gw2

Berserker gear together with dodge mechanic, gives skilled player realy powerfull option to avoid dmg, so they dont need other stats.
I would like to see better synergies for other stats combos (maybe with traits ?) , but i’m not sure it is easily done and boss fights would have to be specificly tuned to punish berseker gear. Don’t think that would be good idea, becouse it goes against declared principle to play with any spec u want and gear checks would be proly even more agresive, than they are now.

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

Malevil.2104:

Oh and u can buy ascended gear and infusions from WsW laurel merchant too : 25 laurels + 250 badges for ring – yea something that is ’ REALLY HARD ’ to get if you have problem with fractals …

So rather than getting the items to drop as Fractal players do (and as WvW players were supposed to be able to do six months ago), we get one item a month as a consolation prize?

Honestly, you want highest rank gear to drop from zerg vs zerg fights in WsW ? Now that would be joke ! …

Carzor Stelatis

Malevi

How the hell you want to get highest rank of gear to be satisfied ?

By playing content other than Fractals? We’re still waiting for the Ascended drops in WvW that were supposed to be launched in January, for example.

Go check wiki, you dont need to put feet into fractals for any ascended item except backpiece and even for that only drop from fractals u need drops from lvl 1 and is easy to get with magic find gear …

Oh and u can buy ascended gear and infusions from WsW laurel merchant too : 25 laurels + 250 badges for ring – yea something that is ’ REALLY HARD ’ to get if you have problem with fractals …

This is realy ’ amazing ’ …
- doing fractals few days on lvl 10 is problem for ppl
- crafting is problem for ppl

How the hell you want to get highest rank of gear to be satisfied ? Getting full exotics for all my alts is joke . And ascended ? None of methods aviable today is something what is problem for cassual player (cassual =/= crap ) . It’s not even hard, it’s more limited by dailies and weekly guild missions, which are stupidly easy.

Getting best possible gear for your character shouldn’t be matter of hours (as is with exotics).

Erasculio.2914:

…I simply have a brain. If ectos had been nerfed as often as those players accused ArenaNet of lying to them, there would be no ectos in the game anymore as the drop rate would have been nerfed to near zero.

Don’t fancy yourself too much, your brain might be not that great … Only official response so far is that they are looking into it, but here you go , mighty superman who knows better than ANet themselves … right …

Basic problem with raids (and raiders) is that unless u make it focus of PvE end game it will fail . Nice example is gw1 and its 12 man elite missions The Deep and Urgoz’s Warren . Without special loot they were significantly less popular than normal instances – waste of resources imo .

For me personally, raids are things of past, seen that, done that, have zero interest in second job in virtual world …

Nobody from us did big enough sample to prove that something happened with ecto drop rate. My personal results are now around 50% at best, were 80-90% before. But what imo proves that something is wrong is market : http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721

Price of ectos steadily groves since patch while supply ofrares is same, something is wrong.