Guild Wars 2

How can you do a poll about something that isn’t released yet so we have no idea what we are talking about ? lol.

Am I the only one here thinking that there are too many loot bags filled with trash in this game? Don’t get me wrong I love loot but man … so much

Been playing through the first mission. My thoughts:

- My fellow npc’s weren’t helping the fight. Many just standing still
- The pocket raptors were standing still aswell, didn’t feel very ‘living’ if you know what I mean.
- The game is in night time during the first mission, while the cinematic is seen in day time. After the cinematic it is night time again.

They actually fixed this now! Thanks Anet!

Ohhh thanks!! Awaiting your reply:)

Ok so probaly for most of you this will be a useless question. And I guess this will not be changed.. but going to try this anyway:
Is it possible to enhance gameplay using a wacom tablet?

I have repetitive strain injury (no NOT because of too much gaming =p )
And the only way I can control my pc is using a wacom tablet. I’d love to play HoT and GW2 but I can’t with a mouse

I tried playing with it.. rotation goes fine, but when you click on the screen (like a mouse click) the camera inmediatly locks on to a random point for no reason. If this could be changed playing with a tablet would actually work !

Greetings,

If you jump down from the skritt boat you can survive by landing in a pool. There is a huge area which is empty and called sand dune caverns?

Does anyone know where this is for? Is there some sort of event suppose to happen here?

Karka farm??! It doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as a karka farm!! Shoo!! Move on!

Hey we almost forgot about dueling!
Will this feature ever be implented? Are there any plans for duels ingame now that more than a year has passed?

Random cub standing here doing nothing. No event active or anything. The cub is just repeating the following message:

Hello,

Weird enough, I can rarely connect to the trading post. I would say I have a 10% chance that it works. I play with some friends and they never have problems with it. When they start playing at my house they have the problems aswell.
My game never has any problems, except for this one. Could you please help me out Arenanet? Im tired of not being able to connect to the trading post and relogging 10 times before it finnaly works for me.

I hope there is a solution.

Kind regards,
Vince

Hello,

Weird enough, I can rarely connect to the trading post. I would say I have a 10% chance that it works. I play with some friends and they never have problems with it. When they start playing at my house they have the problems aswell.

My game never has any problems, except for this one. Could you please help me out Arenanet? Im tired of not being able to connect to the trading post and relogging 10 times before it finnaly works for me.

I hope there is a solution.

Kind regards,
Vince

Is this is scarlet’s plan?

The fractal of the mists exploits during boss fights. Great boss designs but sad that they keep the exploits for so long. I have no fun nor challenge doing the newly added bosses, except for mai trin

I know this is great if you want to complete fractals, but the boss fights in the molten facility and aetherblade cave should be fixed of these exploits..

- You can stack in the corner to complete the boss easily (Champion Dredge Weapon Specialist)
- You can stack near the wall to completly ignore the laser (Champion Fritzz? correct me if im wrong.

These are great boss designs, sad that it gets ruined by these ‘exploits’. I don’t understand why bugs like this exist this long, I’m sure this was not intended in the boss designs Arenanet

I had a good laugh reading this :P sorry :P

Will we ever see a fractal about Orr before it was destroyed or during the event of the destruction?

It is better to join forces with Lord tequatl. Open your eyes. Lord Tequatl is ruthless and unbeatable. Why resist? Choose the side of the dragon and you may life.
Soon our master will conquer all of Tyria!! Open your eyes!! All hail Tequatl the undefeatable!!

To those resisting: You will find your grave soon enough!

give people some time to learn the boss?

People need to learn the mechanics. give it some time

stop being lazy and learn the fight? first challenge in gw2. Stop whining and start learning the boss

Hi,

Making money is so much easier right now. At first it felt awesome.. But for some reason I start to feel a bit bad. I log in and I start gathering money. With the scarlet events I try to focus on the event. But the champions are just almost asking me to kill them right and obtain money.

Does anyone feel like this?

Hi Arenanet,

An idea I came up with:

- The loading screens are amazing with the concept art. It would be even more amazing if they were ‘slightly’ animated. Not to much! Just a bit.

- Animated in de style of the intro cutscene.

Greets,
Vince

Entropy.4732:

I do think the above poster has a point though. The problem with Dragon Bash is that there’s too much “gambling” involved in this event. The Moa race gold sink gambling and this whole purchasable RNG box thing. You may say, “Who cares? Just don’t gamble! Don’t take part!” The big problem with gambling (as many gambling addicts know) is that the lure / trap of gambling can be very destructive and addictive. It is almost impossible for some people to resist and if sanctioned and encouraged by Anet it can result in some really upset, financially wounded customers.

If you have an object for sale, the consumer will gauge the price, weigh the time/effort/financal expense in accruing the item, then make a choice to get it or not. if they do spend the money they feel satisfied because they got what they paid for, and there are usually no surprises. With gambling it’s completely different.

The gambling cycle goes something like this. The consumer believes they have a chance of “winning”, that is spending a little and getting a lot. In reality the odds are stacked against them, but the BELIEF that you could win big (or get the weapon skin in an RNG box) is tantalizing. So you invest, and start buying boxes or betting on moas. At a certain point, if the consumer starts to lose, they become obsessed with the idea that only a few more bets will make it all worth it. They hate the idea of all the previous lost bets or boxes purchased being a waste of money, so they actually wind up spending MORE money. This is where it starts to really get out of control. The more you lose the more you bet. If you win, you keep betting, high on winning. If you lose, you keep betting. It’s a psychological trap. And it’s very, very dangerous. I know families in RL that were torn apart by gambling. One parent got hooked on gambling and secretly spent all their money, always thinking he could win it all back and make it worth it.

In terms of GW2, you can clearly see this psychological trap in play (albeit on a smaller scale). The posters on this thread got stuck in it. I saw someone on the forums openned thousends of boxes and spent almost $100 in a day. 0 tickets. Another lost 45g on Moa racing. That’s the gambling cycle demon in action. And I think Anet should be very careful about releasing that demon on their players.

Sure, you can argue (as casinos do) that the responsibility rests with the client, not the house. But the house is responsible for setting up the trap. And Anet should really reconsider this method for future events.

I agree.

As the title says.. I think stimulating gambling is a bad thing

You know what I really miss about these events like dragon bash, christmas, halloween etc….

An custom made themesong for each holidayevent. This adds so much more feeling to the entire event.
Never underestimate the power of sound design and music!

Greetings,
Vince

I expected a big bad kitten karka that would jump around the map. Like jormags champions. Wat we got was a champion karma that isnt even that much bigger then a veteran karka. Probaly nothing wrong with all this content but the person responsive for the outgoing communication towards the customers isnt properly functioning. Also the content varies to much. Flame and frost was good but the entire southsun was so overhyped to me. Wat caused that where those nice patch pages and the unneccesary waiting time between days.

1. Dual feature
2. More rewarding game environment

Hi Arenanet,

This dungeon made me come back from a long time of not playing

I just wanted to say that you guys done a wonderful job on fractal of the mists.
This new dungeon design is way better then the old ones, I absolutly love it.
I hope the team will continue to design such great dungeons as this.
It’s great how the team has listened to the players!

Keep it up!!

Cheers!

Hi,

I wasn’t able to participate in the lost shores event, but saw all these nice screenshots and items..
I’ve logged in now, walked through the map, but im wondering.. what is left to do in the new map?
Wish the event was repeatable but just with nerfed drops or something like that.

Is there a new boss like claw of jormag, shatterer etc that is repeatable?

Where? I can’t find it on the page here:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/november-2012/

Hi Arenanet,

Could you guys also post GMT times for the events?

Greets.

Ok so the mad king in Lions Arch spawned a haunted door, I clicked on it and now the game crashed. It’s stuck on the loading screen.

Last thing I heard was a mad king laugh, this wasn’t Intended I hope :p I don’t like crashing doors

Hi,

bug discription
Me and my girlfriend are completing the personal story co-op. The story Munition Acquisition is bugged in CO-OP. Tonn is not responding at the first part. When entering alone it does work.

expierience
We thought we could just pass him, we could. After doing the 2 sub-quests of the mission when we needed to head back, tonn was once again stuck with the message saying: "Meet tonn at the inquest entrance’’

So the mission was all for nothing.. VERY frustrating.

Greets

No way! Feeling stupid now. Ok thanks!

Issue fixed! Reading failure!

Ameepa.6793:

CrimsonOmen.7865:

SevenSigma.7462:

Some of you seem to have a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome with the carrot-and-stick model of character progression. It’s a relic of a begone and benighted era. Just let it go.

That era is far from gone my friend, and it will never truly be gone if a game company wishes to continue to have a solid player base. Look at TOR. That player base kitten near went the way of the dinosaurs because of the terrible end game. If I remember correctly they added more gear progression, more dungeons, more raids and more general content, and they are more alive than they would have been…some say it was way to late on their part.

I don’t want to see this game lose the player base. I want this game to be successful like EVERYONE else. The current system implemented is not good enough. Your game ends at 80. That’s not how it should be. Either make me have 15 plus character slots to constantly create newer characters to “fill” my end game craving or create an end game that will actually motivate players to want to work for something.

Actually that is one of the reasons why TOR failed. Only new content after launch has been two new raids. There is absolutely nothing to do if you do not raid or gather gear.

But if raiding and gearing is the only thing you want, why not play a game that is centered on that instead of trying to change the only one that does things differently?
People want different things and now there is a game for non-raiders too.

I think ‘game for non raiders’ is a weak argument actually. GW2 just does not have a solid endgame.
People keep turning around the issue, saying that it’s ok the way it is. It really isn’t. And your not helping Arenanet by improving their game. They want to hear what’s wrong with their game and how players feel. That is feedback.

And why keep reffer to raiding and world of warcraft? Am I saying: I WANT RAIDING NOW LIKE WOW? no.
We are adressing the issue, it’s up to the creative people at Anet to find an unique solution, and im pretty sure their team has the potential to do it

Seraki.2753:

Sounds like the OP wants the gear grind [sometimes called “progression”], problem is it would fly in the face of many promises Anet made about the game being different before launch.

Sounds like? Once again, for like the 4th time. I’m not bringing an solution, im adressing an issue.

- Anyway, im happy I’ve brought up some discussion and that people agree.
I hope this topic helps you explain your feelings about Guildwars 2 and that it gives you a chance to reach the devs
Guildwars 2 is an incredible game, but it needs some fixes.

Hi,

I personally thinks that the ‘running back from waypoint until it dies’ feels a bit buggy.
In every game that I have ever played, a boss fight is an:‘isolated battle that you got only one chance for’ And this is some classy rule that I think really works!
I would suggest closing the doors after starting a boss encounter. Would be much more challenging for the group!

Greets!

Remmember when Areanet in the documentary video stated clearly:
We wanted to make the best MMNORPG ever!’
And now they tell us that you can’t progress at level 80.
And that you can ‘put the game away’ for a few days? , is that what the best mmnorpg offer after hyping us up?

The endgame starts from level 1? Really? I’ve made second character and many maps are empty already. What can I do there once I have map completion? Nothing, well, yeah you can go loot rocks and trees.. zzz

You can bring up your great arguments about ‘helping friends’ and ‘having fun’
Really? Well I can go ahead play runescape then! Is this what makes GW2 unique. Is this what the ‘Best mnorpg’ can offer? Helping friends?

I love how people keep reffering to World of Warcraft. Once again I do not ask to be like world of warcraft.
I’m just saying that this endgame is just not working. If you’ve just hit 80 you will enjoy for a while. Soon enough you will see that you will get bored. There is just nothing that wants you to keep playing.

‘Judge from yourself, don’t refer to ‘what areanet’ said the game would be like. They wanted to bring the best MNORPG right?

You can keep reffering to what Anet stated, they can say that their endgame would be like this, but it just doesn’t work the way it is right now.
You can keep believing in what you hear from them or what you has been told. But you should just judge from yourself

penatbater.4710:

it’s classic and it works… for some people, not for all, sadly. They explicitly said their endgame is a horizontal not vertical progression, so I’m dumbfounded as to why people are even asking such from a game that from the get-go, said it didn’t wanna be like those games.

I don’t think you’re understanding what the issue is, people are getting bored. I’m not refering to wow gameplay, not at all. (Or atleast I didn’t wanted to put up that feeling)

Something has to change, im adressing an issue, im not bringing a solution here

Ameepa.6793:

Let me guess.

Traditional raids and better gear tier after tier?

I’m not bringing a solution here, I’m adressing an isue, it’s classic and works. But that’s why I say that Arenanet should sit down and talk with eachother

Well not directly, but that title was just to catch your attention. Hah
Now that that worked read on since i’ve adressed a serious issue:

Arenanet has put alot of effort in the leveling proces, while the endgame is.. well im just going to call it.. BAD

What happens when you are level 80?
You start doing dungeons and get max armor. This takes you 2 weeks, maybe less if you’re a gamer that plays alot.

What about dungeons?
Max armor and weapons are easy to get, everyone can get them easily. The dungeons don’t have loot tables or do not require a specific organised party to complete, so the challenge is over quickly.
Why would I do arah if I don’t like the armor you can get there? There is no other reason to go there.

Fellow Player opinions
I’ve started playing with a couple of players from start and alot of them are already quitting, because they’ve got everything maxed out. They are bored..
Ofcourse there is legendary weapons.. but come on, that’s not worth playing for.

The solution
I’m suggesting Arenanet should sit down around a very nice comfortable table with some nice cups of coffee with their entire developer group and inmediatly find a solution to fixing their endgame.
This game is excellent with their mechanics and gameplay. But not enough time is spend in the endgame. This was stated from the beginning, but this is not where you keep your players with.

Opinion
Ofcourse this is my opinion and probaly not all of you would agree. But hey!
That is what forums and discussion are for!

You can keep reffering to what Anet stated, they can say that their endgame would be like this, but it just doesn’t work the way it is right now.
You can keep believing in what you hear from them or what you has been told. But you should just judge from yourself

EDIT

Remmember when Areanet in the documentary video stated clearly:
We wanted to make the best MMNORPG ever!’
And now they tell us that you can’t progress at level 80.
And that you can ‘put the game away’ for a few days? , is that what the best mmnorpg offer after hyping us up?

The endgame starts from level 1? Really? I’ve made second character and many maps are empty already. What can I do there once I have map completion? Nothing, well, yeah you can go loot rocks and trees.. zzz

You can bring up your great arguments about ‘helping friends’ and ‘having fun’
Really? Well I can go ahead play runescape then! Is this what makes GW2 unique. Is this what the ‘Best mnorpg’ can offer? Helping friends?

I love how people keep reffering to World of Warcraft. Once again I do not ask to be like world of warcraft.
I’m just saying that this endgame is just not working. If you’ve just hit 80 you will enjoy for a while. Soon enough you will see that you will get bored. There is just nothing that wants you to keep playing.

‘Judge from yourself, don’t refer to ‘what areanet’ said the game would be like. They wanted to bring the best MMORPG right?

EDIT:
People keep turning around the issue, saying that it’s ok the way it is. It really isn’t. And your not helping Arenanet by improving their game. They want to hear what’s wrong with their game and how players feel. That is feedback.
And why keep reffer to raiding, gear grinding and world of warcraft? Am I saying: I WANT RAIDING NOW LIKE WOW? no.
We are adressing the issue, it’s up to the creative people at Anet to find an unique solution, and im pretty sure their team has the potential to do it.

Hi,

-I think it would be way more exciting to fight a boss without the party wiping. In storymode enable running back from a waypoint. But in explorer mode, make it so that players cannot come back.
This would be way more exciting than just running back till the boss dies. Would improve guildwars 2 dungeons for sure!

-Also I would like to see the reward system changed. Make exotic loot drop from hard dungeon bosses or atleast give it a small chance to drop an exotic

-Make legendary weapons a little bit stronger then exotics! Just a little bit!

Greets

Simple suggestion:

Add a button to invite someone into a duel.
One of the developers already said that if enough players would ask for a duel option, they would consider it.

So, tell areanet what you think guys!

Hello,

I hear alot of people already begging for a duel feature, areanet told us that if enough players would ask for it, they would consider it.
So hereby, tell areanet what you think!

Greets Vince