Guild Wars 2

Much as I love the infinite tools this is not ok.

the point is that they are infinite- it is a mere convenience with the added bonus of looking cool- adding sprockets is not ok- much as I love you, you should not have done this.
Call it a bug and remove it- you really don’t want to go there (PtW)

LordByron.8369:

If you really care for the game you need to check 3 things asap:

1) “vertical progression” got out of hand…..it became a grinding like the worst korean mmorpg….
Fully equipping single character to be optimal for PvE and WWW requires not less than lineage 2 probably….and considering the lack of trinity and the need to change equip often this game can t follow the vertical progression road.

With armor you risk to give the final blow to this game for many players…..tie ascended armors to story missions and such…not to gold farming that is making a HUGE disparity between players.

If you force people to rush 10 dungeons daily to farm money they get old quickly…
If you let people play for fun, the game is better for MOST player…leave the few grinders following legendary stuff etc….

2) PvE and WWW are the most popular gamemodes…..yet they are suffering from PvP balancing….PvP is ruining PvE.

3) Some decisions you made pushed the friendly community we had at launch to what we have now…..consider that also please.
People start measuring time with gold profit rather than fun…..

I would like to add to this:
The base game is a good foundation- build on that with the Living Word

At the moment the game feels very disjointed because there is no connection between your character, the world, the personal story and the Living World

For the Living World to be truly living instead of barely coherent you need to use what you have in place i.e the main plot- the orders – the personal story, the DE’s etc and use that to drive the Living World forward.

Temporary content should drive permanent content.

The game could also benefit from having emotional roots-
if you are interested in how communities interact in the game you need to give them anchors.
Some things like decent guild tools, guild halls, personal housing etc
A zerg is not a community

Another thing is communication- sure you see the lack of it but we are where we are as a community because we are left in a vacuum by you guys.
You do not communicate enough, you know this.
It is all good to ask that we step on for the ride/ or not.
But what is the ride?
State where you want the game to go- do it honestly and decisively but do it.
The reason the forums are such a cesspit is because we are all at sea here.
You cannot have a one sided collaboration

Oh and please- not sure how you collect data via metrics or actually from in-game but please take a look in game- just because a million people are running up and down does not mean they are enjoying themselves- it means they are farming because they are afraid of being left behind.
Sometimes I feel that there is a disconnect between what is happening and your interpretation of what is happening

I love this game and I have been here from the betas- so far I am along for the ride but sometimes I feel like you guys- as awesome as you are- need a bit of tough love.
Less PR, more honesty and transparency.

as a complete aside
Recently Kirsten Perry did a podcast about her work process- that was amazing and incredibly appreciated

So let me tell you about my experience yesterday:

I was leveling a new character when someone said Behemoth pre’s are up.

I switched to an 80 only to find that he was halfway down because I was in another part of megaserver

After he was dead I switched back to the character I was on before- and when someone asked about Behe replied in map that he had just died.
Only to be called a troll and a liar because he was up— so in the space of 10 min I was on 3 different Megaserver shards or whatever..

Now think about this- basically all those people you see around you?
You are never likely to see them again because they are completely random.
This is not good- it makes other players nothoing more than pretty npc’s, you have no reason to engage with them because they are as fleeting as bubbles.
Megaserver completely destroys community.

oh- I forgot, for the first time since the patch I saw that one of my friends were on and at Maw- naturally I wanted to join him.
So I went to Maw- only there was no friend, 2 other people and no Maw.

That was when I just logged out.

MMO’s live and die by the cohesion of their communities- we have none atm.
It is currently more lonely playing GW2 than it is playing a single player game

I want a tinfoil hat in the gemshop- mounts not so much.
Why is it that every week there is a thread about mounts?
The fact that there are waypoints/speed buffs and no mounts should really have given you guys a tip by now.
Also calling people who don’t want mounts unreasonable, is no more reasonable than demanding they be added every week.

this is honestly the first time I have seen people complain about strong female characters/ and or same sex relationships in a game.
Mostly it is the other way around :p

I play GW2 so I do not have to keep to a schedule.

I could log on when I have a few minutes, catch whatever boss was up- have some fun and still have time to take care of my family etc.

That is why I quit the game I used to play because I didn’t appreciate telling my husband, I have to do this now, can’t make dinner or chat to you- or tell my daughter- sorry, have to finish this tuck your self in.

A game should fit in with my schedule- my life should not have to fit into a game schedule

This is terrible and removes not only any semblance of an actual dynamic and alive world- it is really insulting to players.

lordkrall.7241:

People are already complaining about how anti-climatic it is that 5 players “easily” can take down an Elder Dragon.

How much more of that wouldn’t we get if we could suddenly do it on our own?

I personally don’t care- I would just like to do it.

So OP you have my vote- Actually I have been begging to make all the story dungeons solo-able, or at the very least-scale able from 1-5 players

Xenon.4537:

I play my alts because they are fun, not because I could reap extra rewards from them.

Me too-
I currently have 3 mains because every time I make an alt and invest time in it I grow to love it.
I play them all equally

If anything my alts have enriched my game enormously because they are all different with different play styles.
It keeps the game fresh for me and I love it.
It has also made me a much better player

Sorry OP if you don’t like to hear this but I don’t feel penalized for having alts at all- it is the opposite for me.

I am all for a PVE skin locker or achievement skins tied to the achievement tab
that said
I use all my skins- just use transmute stones to keep them and the transmute to white trick to make it unbound if you want to move them around

I like Legendaries- they can look really nice.
The moment they went on sale on the TP though they lost all credibility imo.
Especially if the player is dyed abyss/celestial and wears the title golden

Ironically off all the Legendaries, I like the GS the least- especially Twilight.

Sometimes, very seldom, you see a character with a legendary that completes and compliments his look perfectly and those are the best- they also tend to be the least obtrusive.

I am not impressed by them- I probably will never go for one.
If I do go insane and go down that road it will be Kudzu.
I don’t care if it becomes easier or not- since they are on sale on the TP- that is the nail in the coffin as far as I am concerned

Yenn.9185:

Ascended was not a mistake, exotic was. It was too easy to obtain exotic. I just hope they lower the stat difference between exotic and ascended.

There is nothing wrong with Exotic being easy to obtain in fact it was one of the selling points of the game.

The only people who had a problem with this are the ones who came from other MMO’s and jumped on the GW2 bandwagon with out doing research.
Then they demanded that GW2 be the same as whatever game they left.

If Anet removed ascended I would be the happiest person in Tyria- because from where I am sitting it changes the game from a very free and open and experimental experience- to a farmfest where people run around in circles to maximise time/profit.

The progression crowd could easily have had infusions added to exotic and used it to unlock more and more fractal levels with bigger and better infusions

Astral Projections.7320:

If Dulfy ever quits doing her guide, this stuff will get really hard. Talking to Rox didn’t let me know there was a track nearby to find. And just finding her would have been hard if not for Dulfy.

I wouldn’t even have found Rox if I hadn’t got one shot by a rot mouth and she came over to res me.
I had been looking for her for 10 min.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

unique distinctive icon is always better than generic roman numerals.

icons for traits should have been in the game since launch, but we have been stuck with roman numerals for more than a year. this is not acceptable.

OP these issues were exactly what was bothering people when Ascended gear was introduced in November last last year.

Honestly I would never want the level cap raised.

I don’t particularly care if they make Ascended easier to obtain because I will never get any.

New people are at a disadvantage already

Personally I want Ascended removed from the game and infusions added to exotic gear via the mystic forge or whatever.

The impact of Ascended gear on the game has been far reaching and mostly to it’s detriment as far as I can see.
just my opinion

I think this pick was a majour mistake.
1) the previous tools were all about convenience and added character customization

2) they were no different than any ori tools in game- just infinite

3) with this pick they closed the avenue of customization because now people are concerned with the" benefits" and “possible future benefits”

4) long term this will lose them sales because people will be less likely to buy a cool tools in case something “better comes along”

5) By selling a tool that does what no other tool in the game can do- in addition to being infinite, for real money ( gold conversion is irrelevant imo) it is very definitely paying for advantage that you cannot get from ingame tools- that is ptw

6) loss of goodwill will cost them sales- i have 2 sets of the tools- I will not buy another, when I was planning on buying all future tools because I like to match them to my characters.
Nevermind the collateral damage from people who simply will not support a ptw game

I played in the Beta and was here at release and I promise you this is not a beta.
It is instead an MMO in it’s first year.

Op I think you should have done some research before buying GW2.
It is not and was never designed to be what you want- those casuals you claim are ruining your game seem to have a better grasp of the point than you do.

As for Ascended? Everybody except for those few who were screaming progression on the forums because they can’t do research- complained about it.

People who buy without looking are what is ruining this game for everyone who came here because they were tired of same old same old.

Lord Kuru.3685:

If they tailor content so that it’s of the correct difficulty for Exotics then it will be too easy with Ascended. Those with Ascended gear are Anet’s loyal and longtime customers (you wouldn’t have Ascended gear if this weren’t true). They will complain loudly.

In the end, content will have to be created so that it’s of the correct difficulty for Ascended gear. Those who are new or have alts will just have to work a bit harder or spend a bit more time to get through the content.

This is how vertical “progression” always works out in the end.

I agree that Ascended gear will make content too easy but I am a long an loyal customer and I refuse to get Ascended gear.
The game should never be balanced around Ascended as a whole because of the time sink and the resources involved to get it- it severely punishes new players- nevermind alts.
A game should never be about preparing to have fun.

Unfortunately they now opened the box by releasing Ascended and more Ascended and even if they make content specifically for this gear it will exclude everyone else.

Personally I still think it should never be seen outside of Fractals- make high level Fractals gear dependent and tune for that- leave PvE and WvW out of it

Urghh- these are exactly the issues that where raised in the beginning and now here we are up the creek with out a paddle

Kasmeer has admitted that she gets hiccups when she is nervous or scared- she has done this since she was a child and it irritates her because she feels it makes her look like a child.
Marjory told her she thinks it is adorable during the scene at the Priory camp in the last update.

I thought it was quite touching how, despite how nervous she was, she went completely ham on Scarlet.

It serves the purpose of showing you the characters state of mind during the fight

I have no idea who made this video- I came across it in general discussion.
It is so awesome that I just had to put it here for all the Sylvari players

Kudo’s to whoever made it – it is the best fan video I have ever seen

sorry but no idea how to embed the video on this forum

I agree with OP- they are fine for me but I have a friend who just started playing
- she is having a hard time already adapting to how GW2 plays and how the combat works-
throw the toxic events into the mix and she is really having a hard time

I felt really bad for her doing hearts in Kessex it was not fun for her at all.

When a player starts the game it should be fun and beautiful-as someone said the starter zones are kind of like a honeymoon- not a nightmare of trying to learn how to play while you are repeatedly killed by toxics.

As for big orange circle tells you to stay away- sorry Vayne- the big orange circle trains you from the beginning that an event is up, you should learn to run towards it.
As it is now my poor friend runs away when she sees events, anything that says group in front.
then today fire ele spawned right on top of her… -_-

Err I am a female and people refer to me as dude all the time- I have never felt the need to correct them- why should I.
My husband certainly thinks nothing of it- it is not like I a wear a tag that says female online.

I am from EU and I am having cheese with my wine and olives right now, tomorrow is fine by me.
It is almost midnight :p

Give them time people

Arche.7489:

It’s amazing how many of you complain about how they do weapon skins in BL Chests WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME FOR FREE! My god, content doesn’t magically make itself.

We do not play the game for free we bought it and I dare say many of us have spent quite a bit of money in the gem store. Which is a BtP game’s main source of income.

The point is we would spend much much more if we could buy the things we want outright.
I really don’t understand this obsession with hiding things in gambling boxes, skins are great, we all want more skins.
Let people buy them already

A regular ponytail with nothing weird added to it would be amazing

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

I don’t like to see ANY romance in MAIN story plot.

I’ve seen people say this kind of thing.

I enjoy love stories a lot. They make me feel squishy inside. I’m glad to see them in a game I love.

I’m 22y/o and i hate “feels”, maybe i just too cynical for this kind of story. In my mind story should be way more brutal and grim. If game can show homosexual romance it can show something really dark and scary.

I am 42 and I outgrew the need for dark and grim years ago, real life is grim enough.
I like feels- it reminds me that I still have feels

ammayhem.5962:

More armor skins please! Still hoping they’ll bring back the Mesmer FoW armor from GW1.

Or hoping they finally introduce this armor:

that armor has haunted me for a long time indeed, I second that

The “problem” with the combat is that you are trying to be a healer or a tank.
Seriously- you are looking at how to make the trinity effective in GW2- this is not possible because the game was not designed for it.

Personally I think the DPS- PvE meta we are seeing is because you are not alone in this- at least in part.
the other half of the equation is game design.
It is also at fault here because of the condition cap we all know about.

Fact is there are very many kinds of builds available and they are all interesting and mostly- touch wood- viable.
Players just find it very difficult to let go of the trinity and in it’s absence they go for the avenue of least resistance- which is DPS

Galtrix.7369:

timmyf.1490:

I believe the main problem is that it creates a TERRIBLE first impression of the game for anybody who begins with a human character. (Which is the plurality choice.) Those champ train folks can get rather nasty in map chat.

It may be a terrible first impression, but it’s an honest first impression. You can expect the rest of the game to be terrible if you don’t like the champ trains in Queensdale.

The rest of the game is nothing like the champ train in Queensdale.

I have no problem with people farming champs as long as they keep a civil tongue in their head

It kind of does create a bad impression of the game in a starter zone- new players hear that this is the best way to level- they never learn to use their class/skills but they do learn how to run a speed buff.
It also in no way shows them the many amazing things out in the world that makes this game fun to play

PvE culling is my biggest complaint atm

Mad Pig.2890:

Sylvari are originally dragon minions and supposedly belong to a certain dragon that hasn’t awoken(of course, now it has). Which is probably the reason that Sylvari cannot become risen. The reason that the Sylvari that aren’t killing machines is probably because of “The tablet at the base of the tree and the Dream of Dreams that guide the sylvari, who are imprinted by the morality and ethics of Ventari and the bravery of Ronan.”

A Sylvari without the protection of the tablet fall under the dragons influence (imminently?), this is proved where the first Sylvari born outside the pale tree (Cadeyrn) formed the nightmare court. Scarlet was probably turned by the dragons influence when she entered the sensory deprivation chamber.

So yeah, they kind of do have a reason to be hated and carefully watched.

Cadeyrn is the first of the Second born Sylvari of the Pale Tree.
He has reasons for starting the Nightmare court that is quite complex.

The Sylvari you meet who is not born of the Tree is Malyck and he despises the court and shows no evil tendencies at all.

I love DE’s.
What I would like to see is more chain DE’s- spanning over maps, more complicated DE’s that have various branches and outcomes.
A general improvement in Event density in some maps.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were so many events going off that players had to choose which ones to complete and then have consequences for that choice?

It is because they have not been assimilated
:p

Excursion.9752:

It makes me laugh how everyone is mostly saying zero. I remember everybody complaining about the ascended weapons at first. Now that’s all I most people have. Everyone screams for end game content and when they get it they don’t want what they get. No matter if it ascended items or living story updates.

I will be gearing my main with fully ascended zerker gear for the fun of it. I actually wish they had ascended runes and sigils. I personally enjoy setting a goal and trying to accomplish it. I guess what it boils down to is people are not wanting to do the work that goes with getting items. Where If anet was saying everyone is getting a full set of ascended trinkets, accessories, weapons, and armor everyone would be all for it because it would be a hand out. Nothing in this world worth getting is easily obtained.

I don’t know a single person with an ascended weapon and not everyone considers grinding for stat updates endgame.

I also like setting goals for myself but they are my goals and they don’t include ascended gear at all.

As for not doing the work- you realize this a game right and most people have rl jobs?

Just because something eats up all your game time and your gold doesn’t necessarily make it worth it to obtain- sorry to say but from where I am sitting Ascended gear looks like a massive waste of my time

none.
I have 4 80’s with not a single ascended piece between them.
that will not change-I never agreed with the introduction of ascended

Nage.1520:

Kurr.4179:

Nube one one seven.7039:

I just logged back on for five minutes, to see if the new megaservers were any more tolerable after a couple of days. Needless to say, I`m now waiting on final confirmation from Anet on whether or not I need to cut my losses, and uninstall the game. I honestly enjoyed the game before the “update”, but now, now I can`t be on for five minutes without gritting my teeth. I Honestly would revert to the game prior to this update, wardrobe system and all, if it meant I could ACTAULLY CHOOSE WHO I PLAY WITH. One way or another, this`ll be over for me when Anet finally decides to comment on it, either it`ll get fixed, or it`ll be just one more customer they`ll lose.

EDIT: typos

Yep. We’re all just waiting to see if they will revert this change or lose thousands of customers. The ball is in their park, and they’re being pretty kittening quiet.

I think they’ll lose less people than you think, because I think more people like the megaserver than is immediately apparent on these forums in particular. Plenty of people love these changes.

And many who don’t will get used to it.

There was a mass exodus from this game during the ascended gear, and though it hurt the game short term, it looks like the game has full recovered. This exodus won’t be nearly so large, and won’t hurt the game nearly as much.

EU here and I am not aware of anyone liking the megasever.

During the ascended mess I still stayed because I could continue playing the game and ignore it.
if you think people will simply get over it or get used to the total bugger- up the Megaserver has made of the game – you are sadly mistaken.

I have loved this game- I have played it for 2 years now- almost everyday- I have been really happy.
I have recommended the game to all my friends and I spent way more than I should have in the shop- because I wanted to
yet
this update took all that I loved and valued away from me- why on earth would I continue playing?

I am not a masochist- I play games for fun.
A company that can take everything I value from a game in one update- does not deserve my time or respect because they clearly have none for me

Sorry Lanfear but this patch is not the same as same old complaints that the sky is falling.
I agree there has been oodles of those since the game launched.

This patch though?

It destroyed so much, just this once I agree that the feeling in game is pretty much the same as on the forum.
Megaserver is a fail for everyone I know

Make them drop in the world and trade on the TP.
Make them available for gems.
Other than that no thanks.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Felbryn.5462:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

The two main areas for discussion will be Horizontal and Vertical progression, however please understand that the commentary and ideation we are really looking for regarding vertical is around its accessibility in game.

I’m not sure I understand this bit; could you clarify?

Hi,

To clarify I am looking forward to hearing the communities thoughts on speed of acquisition such as how long crafting time takes? or drop rates in fractals and other areas of the game etc.

I hope this adds some clarity.

Chris

you lost me here- I have no interest
whatever in ascended gear- I do not like the fact that I get rewarded with Ascended crafting materials .
Instead of stuff I can actually use.
or like or fluff omg

I hate the fact that I have stacks of stuff I have no use for and can’t trade

I think Ascended gear was the worst addition to the game since launch because it influenced every possible form of game play.

If you are only interested in talking about how it is implemented- I have nothing to say
and why have a discussion?

It needs to be removed and no joke!

mega server is only ok if you pretend all other players are NPC’c- very vocal NPC’s

people don’t even res any more
they will run over your corpse because why not? it is not like they are ever going to see you again

seriously, give us our communities back- we made them- it took two years.
you took it away in one patch.

As someone who has been playing pen and paper RP since Advanced D&D, I find this topic hilarious.
OP- when I was a kid in the 80’s I was told I am a Satanist and was excluded from many many things because I was considered a weird nerd and probably dangerous- I would not even call that discrimination, just an unfortunate side effect of my hobby.

Oh and we never played with grids- so the only tools we had was literally our minds and a piece of paper/pen if we remembered to bring one.

What you want has not much to do with role playing and more to do with I want stuff

alcopaul.2156:

im against this ascended having better stats than exotics. keep the exotic stat ceiling and just make the armor look epic.

Yes please, by all means give us cool skins but please stay away from stat creep.

When you are lying in bed- listening to mosquitoes and instead of switching on the thingy that kills them- you switch to your staff ele.

When you dream of an amazing perfect battle and in the morning you try and remember the build and recreate it ( that is how I made my second engi)

When you are walking on a wine farm and you tell your husband- wow this is a big map

When you say kitten irl/ this won’t end well

When your rl friends who don’t play games ask how your characters are and they know the entire LS from Flame and Frost

Araziel.7201:

Anet’s gotta eat, fellas. Calm down, it isn’t that bad. Buy it with gold if you can’t afford the 12 dollars. And even if you don’t get it this time, save up and get it next time. They always bring that stuff back.

You are missing the point completely.
No none is saying that Anet does not have to eat and no one is denying that the gemstore supports the game.

the gold you convert to gems- those gems where bought with real money by someone else and converted to gold.

Whether or not we can afford it is not the issue either.

The issue is adding an item in the store that gives an advantage that no in game item gives.
So it is no longer cosmetic or convenience.
The store is about cosmetics and convenience.

This is why everyone is upset

@Claudius.5381.
Although BLSK do give you a 100% chance of getting the rune back- they do not qualify as pay to win to me because I get them for the game.

Mystic Kits have such a high salvage rate in my experience that I rarely use my Black Lion kits

I certainly don’t get sprockets from my ori tools- or from my other unlimited tools either

as far as I know that is a title from GW, I see it around all the time.
at the risk of sounding sarcastic I would suggest the title “sucker”