Guild Wars 2

Good on Orpheal for being brave enough to voice their critique. It’s 10x more valuable than an empty “sorry for your loss” post.

Whilst I agree with Orpheal I think it would be a good idea to add in some sort of optional monument in the guild halls. Many guilds are made of very tight nit members so it could get a lot of use beyond grief. An obelisk with a customisable plaque that is simple and poignant enough to most if not all potential instances.

“Note: this message was sent by another player. It was not sent by the Guild Wars 2 team.”

I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD MEAN?!?! /xfiles music.

I’m very critical of cartoony elements in non-cartoony games/media (e.g. that ridiculous fight scene between John Snow and the cliche turnclock in Craster’s Keep (t.v. show not book) and scarlet briar (cliche cliche cliche)). However, I like these new frogmen. They’re very “realistic”. Their top heaviness whilst on two legs is well within the forgivable margin and, as said before, I find them a commendably realistic imaging of a frogman.

eaxe.8570:

Hey-

Can I get a Dev to hit the little red button to activate the HoT BETA again please, I need to test something on the Glider. Jon? Regina? Galie?

Wont take long- promise.

:)

Yeah mate. I just saw Gaile turn on the bat-signal and the devs are assembling to start up the beta. They’re just waiting on a phone-call from the president to authorize beta log ins.

Just rename it Placeholder.

Zackie.8923:

Especially the music… the tone the mood the environment , everywhere is depressing.

Verdant brink is dark and the music is so heavy and down turning.

Can we at least have lions arch have a lively and bustling town music and mood after the reparation?

Please put in lively catchy townfolks music.

We don’t need carebear safespace kitten in Maguuma. Thanks, enjoy your stay.

Subversion.2580:

This thread and it’s tentative suggestion bears the same problem as many other direction-decisions in game design in recent years: Oppinions are collected as a quantiative decision-basis and decisions are based on greater-good- and greater-application majority concerns without attention to the higher-order minority use that tend to drive content.

For example, the concept of guilds is made more and more peripheral in an area like WvW as most players do not interact through their guilds there and rely on public pickup commanders. Those commanders on the other hand tend to gain their experience as commanders through gameplay in a tight-knit group of friends akin to a guild – so sidelining the guild from the content ultimately means less content is created as the necessary drive and experience to command (ie., the player as an enabler and in turn the game’s story-telling aspect) is erroded.

The concept of tomes rests on a similar basis. Most players do not use them and they are certainly not used in all areas of the game where the ease and applicable nature of shout- or signet mechanics is preferred. That, however, does not mean that tomes are not used, could potentially be used or does not fill some form of function. They do. They fill a function among groups such as tightly-knit guild-groups that utilize the intricacies of the game’s mechanics. Taking them away may please players short-term and/or in popular game modes, but also leave the game with less potential, redundance and dynamics.

Tomes, after all, are not different from other “form” mechanics such as Tornadoes, Liches or Rampagers. We see no calls for their removal. Rightly so, as the mechanic is not faulty, only, possibly, the set of abilities or certain abilities tied to the skills in question.

The recent stability change is one example when changes were driven by unreflected oppinion that is starting to pan out very poorly for the dynamics of content in the areas of the game where it was important. Yes, we would eg., commonly see melee-trains in WvW as the concept of ripping only saw coordinated and systematic use in higher-order content, but there was no actual balance issue if you looked at the mechanics. Instead, with the changes, we have a malbalance between availability of control and its’ counters, which comes with cascading effects as larger groups more easily dominate smaller groups and we accentuate the issues of server stacking or single-train stacking to win, in general.

Taking tomes away would be a mistake for similar reasons.

Also to the (irrational) complainers – go ahead and map out how long it takes you to get to every waypoint (since you probably don’t even have 1 100% character).

Yeah, didn’t think so. I’ve been playing since beta, and gw1. The game has aged. Get over it.

Rin.1046:

serenke.4806:

The topic is about waypoints, not exploration. Running from LA to Orr takes what… 15 minutes?

Allow me to describe my situation:

- I have 8 characters, one of each profession.
- I am not always in the mood to play each profession.
- I play thief mostly but sometimes I want to jump on an alt to enjoy a different playstyle.
- I play to have fun, not to do a job. I have a real world full time job for that.
- I do not enjoy running around getting all the waypoints for each character, its very boring.
- If I create a new character, it will only be to experience a different profession, not because I want to explore or complete zones or do a different personal story.
- Because I work full time my gaming time is limited.
- If I create a new character I want to be able to join my friends straight away, wherever they may be, without having to spend 15 minutes walking from LA to Orr first.

Me unlocking waypoints will not effect your game. It will not make me more powerful than you. If you want to explore and get them normally you can. Why do you want to control my game?

Bold for emphasis. I don’t understand why people are slamming so much sand in their kitten over this.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Look, like a good many of you in here, I’m a bit of an alt-a-holic, but to blame the game for being boring because you are having to unlock everything over and over again…?

Uhm…that would be YOUR fault for making that many alts, probably in quick succession with one another. I get it. By the 10th one it can get REAL boring, but that’s not Anet’s problem to fix. That’s yours.

I take a good few months between characters and I don’t mean one or two months.

This isn’t about being omg so lazy as you people have lambasted us – it’s just a minor QoL issue that suits, I do imagine, quite a percentage of players.

The one time I became “burnt out” was when I played my mesmer from beta to 1.5 years into the game.

Regarding the poster above me, I actually swap to thief and have had him as my main since then. Thief pride! Point is that I believe most of us wanting this are not new to the game, we are often veterans who simply enjoy having a range of characters to play across the years and not be limited by this QoL issue.

If you fanboy this think of it this way: Anet gets money if they make it a gem store item.

Whilst I wouldn’t be totally happy with that, I would rather it be an item earned and achieved, I would be satisfied.

If you’re against it because some irrational issue like you think we’re lazy – go level some characters to 80 and get 100% world map exploration over the next 3 years THEN complain to us.

Kthnx and bai whingers.

Ralanost.8913:

So lazy. Do people not want to invest any time or effort into things anymore? Is it really satisfactory to just have things given to you? Gimme gimme, I want I want. Put in a few minutes to do some small task? Too much effort, boring, I don’t wanna. Disgusting.

Level up a few toons and do 100% a few times then talk to me.

Disgusting.

Kyuff.4875:

It seems the original poster and the rest of the repliers are playing the game for different reasons.

One have grown to see the leveling PvE aspect as a necessary evil required to get to the endgame (be that WvW, Bosses, dungeons or whatnot).

The other side see leveling PvE as part of the game that is fun and entertaining.

Both sides are valid points of view.

Personally I enjoyed leveling the first three characters. I hated doing the next two and it took ages.

The last two characters got to level 80 using Tombs and have ~1% map completion. I completely agre with the original poster:

Give us an option to skip leveling content the same way you gave us Scrolls and Tombs!

I agree it’s a “both sides of view” issue. I would like the option to go to end game to have more freedom do to what I want (fotm 50, explorable dungeons etc (and no, please don’t do them as a sub-80)).
Ascended gear is movable between characters for petes sake.

narwhalsbend.7059:

I think we should also just get a “complete all map completion” item while we’re at it. This way, we never have to do anything with our characters again!

Hyperbole noted – please be constructive.

Ralanost.8913:

No, go get them yourself if you want the mobility.

Refer to above.

Rasimir.6239:

Merlot.8567:

Thoughts?

I’m starting to wonder if it wouldn’t be easier for ANet to just offer “full” characters for sale. Full as in

• level 80
• all waypoints unlocked
• all skill/hero challenges unlocked
• all dungeon stories unlocked
• full set of exotic equipment of a stat set of your choice

After all, that’s what a lot of people on these forums seem to be after. Leveling, unlocking maps, skills, traits, dungeon access all seems to be regarded as boring, necessary grind these days if you judge by the topics around here.

Personally, I find waypoint unlocking a quick, easy and painless way to advance my character, giving me several levels on the side. Just running from Lion’s Arch to the gates of Arah with a lvl 75 character will bring you close to lvl 80 by map unfogging/wp unlocking alone, and takes way less than an hour.

I wonder how many people would actually play their characters more if they could pay to unlock the world, and how many would pay because of being impatient, but ultimately end up playing less because “there’s nothing to do”?

A lot of tears and 0 substance.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Merlot.8567:

So this has been brought up in the past but I feel it might do with a revision.

Anet have created an expansive world. It’s full of stuff and things. The only issue with this and an MMO is convenience and replayability; that is, levelling alts can become quite a chore.
Having several 100% world map completed characters, I would personally appreciate an unlockable item earned in-game that allowed alts to unlock waypoints across the world because, whilst I like whatever profession I am levelling (spoiler alert: sylvari necromancer) exploring/running around what I alread know off the back of my hand is…boring. And tiresome.

So what does everyone think of an item that can be earned to unlock waypoints. Mayne a consumable that’s account bound so you can send it to that particular character and it will unlock waypoints. The waypoints unlocked could be specific to the age of the game, i.e. old world (tyria excluding south sun and dry top).

Thoughts?

Also not a gemstore item kthnx.

If this where to be done, it would be a gem store item. It’s an item that’s at best, a QoL item, much like the home portal stone, also a gem store item.

Personally, I don’t see the need for such an item. I mean, what would people use it for? world bosses, that’s all I can think of.

I would agree that it -would- be a gem store option as it is a QoL issue and therefore optional and easily accessible on the gem store.

I would enjoy the option so I can do my personal story faster, get to world bosses faster, get to skill points faster for my character.

I feel p2w arguments like the first two examples are a joke because 1) you can buy a legendary 2)the prolific gem store advertising. I love the game as well but wake up to yourselves before you become a bigger joke lol.

also – gw2 is not (as of this moment) a gear tread mill race. Like come on whingers – you can get resource nodes in your home instance lol.

So this has been brought up in the past but I feel it might do with a revision.

Anet have created an expansive world. It’s full of stuff and things. The only issue with this and an MMO is convenience and replayability; that is, levelling alts can become quite a chore.
Having several 100% world map completed characters, I would personally appreciate an unlockable item earned in-game that allowed alts to unlock waypoints across the world because, whilst I like whatever profession I am levelling (spoiler alert: sylvari necromancer) exploring/running around what I alread know off the back of my hand is…boring. And tiresome.

So what does everyone think of an item that can be earned to unlock waypoints. Mayne a consumable that’s account bound so you can send it to that particular character and it will unlock waypoints. The waypoints unlocked could be specific to the age of the game, i.e. old world (tyria excluding south sun and dry top).

Thoughts?

Also not a gemstore item kthnx.

You can get a forum infraction for naming and shaming though \o/

Careful if you have a sense of humour in this game, there are lots of SJWs about.

Azala Yar.7693 you are entitled to nothing. Your access to the game wasn’t inhibited by your character being in a T pose.

Some people have such an outrageous entitlement complex.

Silk scrap you can sell. Mithril you can upgrade to ori in the mystic toilet. Leather is dirt cheap – idk if they’ll do another mat dump like they did with silk (was dirt cheap/excess before ascended came in, then spiked hard).

serenke.4806:

What i really don’t understand is how people can play a game and have so obviously no sense of fun whatsoever. What are you playing a game for if you can’t have fun?

I think they just go around the world farming herbs and delete their character if they kill anything.

I really want it back too. It actually goes well with my thief’s gear. Now I just wish I chose Grenth instead of Balth for my thieve’s god!

irishrose.9580:

To those who think no apology is necessary, you are simply wrong. This type of black humor has no place here. The dev’s made a mistake and they need to acknowledge it. Bobble heads, etc., while annoying did not allow comparisons to a mass murder. Certainly some took no offense, but for those who did the development team needs to apologize in some manner.

Jesus christ you are a special case.

mcwurth.2081:

Rivercity.7142:

/signed a large chuck of the gw community….

source?? As far I am concerned it is just the complainers who are very voicey over this.

I just raced someone in DR. Everyone in game has been having a ball.

Galen Grey.4709:

Lets be objective about this, what happened is a tragedy and its okey to have strong feelings about.
Like others have pointed out this april fool joke has absolutely nothing related to what happened.

People that seemingly have no connection to anything that happened in Europe are so upset about it. That’s the kittening mind boggling thing.

Like kitten people. kitten.

Lazaar.9123:

From the german forums red post (very rough google translation)

“Good morning everyone,
I want to assure on behalf of ArenaNet, that we have the greatest respect for the airplane tragedy that has recently occurred in Europe, and bring our regret at. Our thoughts and sympathy are with all those who have lost their lives in the plane crash in the bereaved families, relatives and friends.
I want to assure you that our April Fool’s in no way a reference to the tragic events of recent days is still in any way related to them. The work on this joke was planned several months ago, and integrated into the game during a longer lasting development process.
We would like to apologize to all those who feel reminded of the joke of the events in France, or who have lost a loved one.”

I wish they didn’t acknowledge the tear-fest. Sure it sucks, sure some people who might have been ACTUALLY affected by the incident were struck by the aprils fools. But by “apologising” so many of these SJW and faux-outrage imbeciles are going to use it as justification for being a bunch of kittenwits. It didn’t need an official apology.

LOL a mod moved it to community creations. +5 points to the mod team.

UlanX.2143:

I’m outraged that I’m not particularly outraged by anything. How can they expect me to hang out on the forums if I’m not bitter and twisted?

Don’t worry friend, we can provide you with the necessary tools to become outraged by anything. Look at the current trends in what I call accessible feminism. Having done a few gender studies units at University, I feel somewhat more qualified than those that identify with accessible feminism because they are idiots.
You can take a legitimate issue, like base body politics, and completely legitimize it by irrationally blaming everything on cis white men for no apparent reason. So in that vein, that’s find something for you to be offend by.

Manspreading. You’re offended by manspreading. (yeah, people cry about this. No kittening joke).

Fun fact, I actually like post-structuralist feminism and I enjoy reading works by Irigaray (hell, I had a WoW character called Irigaray). It’s so funny how these SJWs and tumblr femikitten just get it so kittening wrong.

Have to agree with joe.7684. I wish there was a good way to force people to WP, however. Not on the user end – but maybe if in an area with a population of <50 in an x radius of player, fully dead are forcibly waypointed to the nearest one after a 15second timer.

My only real issue with the dead not WP’ing is on raid events.

Yargesh.4965:

It rained yesterday while I was outside and I got wet. ANET did absolutely nothing about this!!!??! I am enraged!!!?!/)!?$!

Edit, I did not add enough capitalization please work some in.

I CAN’T BELIEVE ARENA NET DIDN’T THINK IT WAS GOING TO RAIN?@?!?!?!?! Arena net have no respect for the common worker and are funded by ultra right wing political interest parties. If arena net had more female workers they would have KNOWN to think that it MIGHT RAIN and provide necessary assistance to all those affected.

Hey nice stats bro. I can tell they’re totally accurate.

Doggie.3184:

I’m outraged that my Sylvari can’t have sylvan hound ears skin and a tail backpiece.

Sylvari sexuality and gender shouldn’t be constrained by human-centric body politics. Sylvari have the right the express their Otherkin nature by adopting features of their past life animal friends. These human-centric body politics are a result of patriarchy and have no right to be pushed onto non-cis Sylvari.

Do you feel that you don’t have enough time to properly become offended by things? Do time constraints prevent you from becoming outraged over miniscule things?

Hi, my name is Merlot, and I’m here to help.

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It’s so simple that you should give it a shot yourself! Just post something below and we’ll prepare your own instant outrage!

well, at least it isn’t a fake outrage thread.

irishrose.9580:

Poorly timed and executed April Fools Joke. There are so many more things that could have been done that were not offensive. For those that don’t understand why this was offensive, I feel sorry for you!

God you’re pathetic.

I think this idea could really fly.

Vix.6730:

the day might have turned out better for many.

Buddy, there are not as many people “offended” by this as you think there are.

KhanKatir.4038:

. “Hey, I’m Malasia Air, or Germanwings, vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!”

.

Yes I am sure that’s EXACTLY what they were going for.

You people are amazing. I bet you’re great fun irl.

Since i logged in and saw this april’s fool stuff, and since i first heard my big bad female charr warrior make those sounds, i can’t stop smirking.
However, after a few minutes of playing, it hit me – what about the Titanic? So i came up to the forums to see if there are already topics about how bad this joke is. TBH i expected less topics than there are. It is just a joke, but not a very well-timed one.

Although i think it’s funny, i can understand it completely that those affected by the film18 years ago find it offensive or insensitive. I know if someone in my family would have died on a ship, i would just burst out in tears the moment i saw what this year’s april’s fool was about and then couldn’t relog for a few days maybe. It would be just one more thing to reming me of a loved one’s absence. I wouldn’t care that it refers to another era’s ships and i wouldn’t give a kitten about how other ppl think i “shouldn’t be offended” – feeling bad because of it would not be a choice but simply a reaction.

This event is a slap in the face to aviation experts and Anet should publicly apologize to all aviation experts.

JediYoda.1275:

Merlot.8567:

JediYoda.1275:

? For all we know one of the Dev’s kids was running around the back yard with their arms out pretending they could fly and making noises? So they added it the game.

It was a bug during the beta.

Maybe but still no proof that’s what Anet isreferencing, the avaitors cap and the veerooom is no bug. So nice try.

You must be one of the best detectives in the world.

Dragon.8612:

sparc.3649:

mXz.4512:

This + delete all said associated complaint threads.

Plus ban all the whiners from the forum! At least anyone that has created a redundant thread!

no one is at fault for giving their opinions. It’s a public forum.

Actually Mr. Armchair game designer, people have been caught out using the Germanwings crash and playing the holier-than-thou card not out of sympathy but because they just don’t like the event, which is really disgusting.

JediYoda.1275:

? For all we know one of the Dev’s kids was running around the back yard with their arms out pretending they could fly and making noises? So they added it the game.

It was a bug during the beta.

Merciless.3698:

Please fix. Ill be loging in to check if its has been removed.. wont be doing anyting other than checking… cant stand to play game like this.. bad move arena net for a joke this is more like a hack.. somthing lizard squad would do to make ppl not play.. you just hacked your self arena net are you stupid

LOL HOLY kitten. This is the most hilarious thing I have read. What a kittening moron.

When I logged in tonight, I first smiled. April 1st… However, my smile froze rapidly. There was a major boat crash 18 years ago in water in which 1500 people lost their lifes. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic

Given the event and given that the event is still present in our hearts, the idea was suboptimal. I would suggest taking out the april fool immediately and write an ingame apology.

You kittenwits are acting like your character being in a T frame actually has an impact in the game world. Wow – just wow.

15 character limit

no.

For next year, if someone says “i’m offended”, their character should be turned into an attackable ambient critter.

Over an ocean tears made by a few very, very sensitive people.

Imagine how insufferable these white knights are irl.

Funny that people mentioned the death of, or a death of the b-iconics.

That’s not dark, it’s everyone’s dream lol.

#SABorRiot

Lopez.7369:

There have been rumors for a while that people at ANet really do hate SAB because it detracts from the core game or whatever. I think this kind of confirms it. There’s really no reason to not switch it on each year.

What could they expect when they give us companions like DE 2.0? I’m excited about HoT but dealing with the scooby gang again really puts me off.