I want unique trade-able items like in Guild Wars. In Guild Wars it was so much fun to open your character and see you had a present waiting wondering what you were going to get. Getting items you could trade, or being able to purchase them off other players was so much fun. Between the tonics and the Mini’s it was a whole mini-game in and of itself.
Look at all the options we had back then. Each gift held the prospect of getting either white, purple, green or gold mini’s during most years, or tonics for the sixth year. Why can’t we have something this fun again?
Having recently came back, I see that the wardrobe is available. Can I safely delete items such as the celebration hat and witches hat which say “Skin Unlocked”?
Home World: Henge of Denravi Guild Name: Travelers of Tyria[TOT] Guild Website:http://www.TravelersOfTyria.com In-Game Contacts: MrsAngelD.6971, Beorn Raukar.4328, Razor Bliss.1675 Focus: PVE About Us:
Travelers of Tyria is a Social PVE guild with roots in Guild Wars. We enjoy spending our time completing content either together or on our own and sharing our adventures through both text & voice chat. We were apart of the We Need Therapy[Now] Alliance in Guild Wars have continued both the alliance as well as our focus into Guild Wars 2
Our focus is mainly on being social and ensuring that our members enjoy the game they way want to enjoy it. We dabble in a bit of everything including PVE content, Dungeons, and World Vs World. We welcome all mature players so if you’re interested in joining us feel free to fill out our application on the recruitment page.
Perhaps a possible fix would be to have a special mail to option within the guild box. This game seems very short on guild tools.
Perhaps this particular problem could be more easily solved if you could use the guild setup to send messages/mail globally to those members you check as selected?
Just a thought.
Something seriously needs to be done, it’s near impossible for a guild leader to communicate on a mass level with guild members. The message of the day isn’t even very prominent.
I eventually was able to send mail again but it wasn’t until the next day. That’s just insane imho.
Message suppression needs to be looked at, there should be some way for Guild Leaders to communicate with members.
I’m a guild leader, and I was sending out my usual bout of welcome emails to a new guild member, when all the sudden I received a message suppression error. All well and good I’ll just wait a bit and send the other two emails.
Problem,
It’s been 2 hours and I even logged out the game and I still can’t send mail. Not only that but I apparently can’t send mail to anyone, not even people on my friends list.
Can somebody please fix this for me, I’m a guild Leader, I need to be able to mail my guild members.
I’m actually looking for a build to use conjure weapons… Can you tell me what builds you use with conjures? I’m thinking in a power/vitality/toughness but maybe a set with condition damage can be better…
See my Earlier post, I use it with Conjures. It’s a condition/support build.
There are a few things that I miss about Guild Wars.
The skill variety.. We could really benefit from more weapon options. Weather it comes in the format of new weapons or upgrades to current weapons which give you more options on the skills currently slotted.
Risk: There really isn’t much risk in GW2. If you die not a huge deal, except that you might have to spend some money on repairs. The underworld in Guild Wars is an example of what I mean by risk. If your team wasn’t prepared you could all die and the run was over. You had to start all over again. But when you finally beat it man what a feeling.
Skill capping
Being able to move my ui around.
Free attribute point changes.
Bigger variety of emotes
Alliance functionality
Guild Message’s of the day that were actually shown in chat.
weapon & armor mods. There was something about the way they were done in Guild Wars made my weapons and Armor feel more personal.
Holiday drops. It was always fun getting tot bags off mobs &, other consumables during the various events.
Summoning Stones, the mysterious summoning stones were particularly fun because you never knew what you were getting.
Perfect Salvage Kits. Why is there no way to get my runes/sigils etc off my without breaking my Armor?
wow I didn’t realize my list was so big… lol. I But yeah these are the things I miss.
Just a few days ago I finally managed to get my 2nd level 80 (My Ele being my first) and it was a mesmer, I will agree with an earlier poster though, they can be pretty difficult early on.
Here is what I currently run, on my level 80 elementalist.
I’m traited & geared for Condition Damage/Support. Frost bow & Fiery Great sword are staples of my build. I will alternate back & forth between Lightning Hammer(Mostly while soloing) and Flame Axe.
For dungeons I may switch from a Scepter/Dagger to a Staff but it depends on the dungeon & the situation. Whenever I have a conjured weapon out (Which is most of the time) I’m attuned to Water so I get the effect of regeneration. From the Spell Slinger trait I get 3 stacks of Might whenever I pop Armor of earth. From the trait Earth’s Embrace I gain Armor of Earth when my health reaches 50% which also triggers the 3 stacks of might from spell slinger. With the trait Cantrip Master , Armor of Earth will recharge 20% faster. With the trait Soothing Disruption, Armor of Earth will also give me Regeneration and Vigor. Withe the trait renewing stamina I also have a 33% chance to gain vigor on critical hits.
The build does me quite well and I love using conjured weapons, I use them for everything from farming, to dungeons, to WvW.
In Guild Wars 2, the average length of a KD was 2 seconds, you couldn’t knock down a knocked-down target, and KD was still an extremely powerful interrupt mechanic which had to be used sparingly on monsters despite the fact you were roaming everywhere in 8 person parties. Why does it take so much longer to get up in Guild Wars 2? Did everyone suddenly get a lot fatter in the last few hundred years?
Pretty much my whole build centers around conjure frostbow & lightning hammer. It works out rather well. I don’t find the cast times to really be as much of an issue as I do having some random person come up and grab my extra one. I don’t mind sharing my weapons for dungeons and events with party members & guildies, but when you’re out questing solo and some stranger grabs your weapon it can be really frustrating.
Also, just be aware that as far as MMO’s go we’re pretty lucky with GW2 as most games require server downtime to patch, meaning that the entire game is unavailable for everyone.
My brother in law and his wife tried it. My sister in law is a die hard wow fan though and she got her sylvari mesmer to about level 2 before deciding that she didn’t like it (personally I think she just tried it because my brother in law wanted her to). My brother in law says he might get it to screw around but he’s working a lot right now because he’s a truck driver and hauling away trash from hurricane sandy in New York.
Thank you for a great write up and while I do agree with some of you bullet points, personally I find it hard to leave GW2 because of the community I have found within it.
I just wanted to say, that your post was well written & well said OP, and you bring up a lot of valid points, which I hope arena net sees & takes into consideration.
You know I hear everybody complaining about this, but I’ve never used this trait line on my ele and I have a blast on her. I’ve had my Ele since Day one of Head start. I would say it’s time for some of you other ele players to investigate and try out other trait-lines.
fwiw I switch between a scepter/dagger offhand and staff, depending on what I’m getting ready to face.
I cannot find proof that the accusation made by ANet is wrong, what’s the evidence? Or is Dulfy automatically considered innocent just because she’s kind of famous? ANet sees the ways and amounts in which gold is moved between accounts.
I don’t know if you ever look at the account forum but there have been quite a few bans issued for both botting and RMT’s that were indeed false positives and the accounts were then restored. My point is that there is a decent chance that this is another false positive.
Its to point out their bans hurt the community. The fact she is high profile hopefully will make AN take a better look at their banning algorithms. Plus, lets face it, you’d ALL be screaming if you got banned just before the event unjustly.
I would be screaming. In mail. On the forums, no one would care, because I am not a Celebrity. So no, I would not go vomiting my complaints on the forum, unless they took too long to respond to my email.
And let’s face it: the only reason you are upset is because she is high profile. If I was banned, you would probably not care. You would probably say the same: “I would rather have a strict algorithm with a few false positives, than a huge bot/gold seller problem”.
Actually I had a guildy get the banned for botting they opened a ticket then opened a thread under account issues with the ticket number included and got their account back in less than 24 hours. So it might not hurt to say something on the forums.
“Yeah. The level cap will be 80 on the initial release of the game, and we absolutely would increase it further into the game, probably through expansions is the most likely place we would do that.”
Out of combat weapon swapping would be nice, but in combat would be to over powered. My main is my level 80 elementalist. And it took me a while but I eventually realized that the solution to my survivability wasn’t exactly the most obvious thing. So I sat down one evening and really read through my traits and skills. After playing with them a bit I worked up a build that gave me some regen and toughness and allowed me to swap between scepter dagger offhand or staff depending on the situation I was going into. I’ve been having a blast ever since. I also found using conjured weapons with the trait that gives double the charges to them to be really great.
Q: What of the level cap? You guys decided whether you’re going to be increasing the level cap in future expansions or … ?
A: Yeah. The level cap will be 80 on the initial release of the game and we absolutely will increase it further into the game. Probably through expansions is the most likely place we would do that.
So yeah, where people get this ‘YOU NEVER SAID YOU’D RAISE THE CAP’ stuff blows my mind. and raising the level cap means you’d be getting new armor every expansion. Well that or be outdated.
When they do add levels I fully expect new gear to match the level cap, that said what I don’t expect is gear I’m required to have before I get to see the content. I really don’t expect that Arena Net will ever put that into the game.
After Guild Wars launched we didn’t have greens(rares) in the game they were added later. Then with the addition of new campaigns we got golds which are better than greens because they could be enhanced with modifications. I’m optimistic that this is what Arena Net has in mind for GW2.
I’m by no means a hardcore player that said some time in the next week or so I’ll have logged 1000 hours (I’m disabled and can’t walk very well so I have a lot of time to spend). I only have one level 80 and she’s sitting at only 83% map completion. A huge portion of my time is spent just chatting with people or wandering around Tyria. I’m always finding either new events, places or puzzles I hadn’t seen before. GW2 is an amazing game and I’m looking forward to enjoying it for many years to come.
I really loved the beta login screen as well honestly I’m surprised they changed it, because it was similar to the guild Wars login screen. I wish they would bring it back.
I can confirm this is still an issue, I crafted 3 kits on my level 80 Elementalist, and can’t grab them from bank on my newly created guardian even though they say account bound.
I’ve logged over 900 hours since headstart my main character is my elementalist. The biggest thing I had to realize was that glass cannon is not the optimal way to play in gw2. You have to really look at your traits and see what would better help with survivability. Also you have to learn to kite and move. Lose the mindset you’ve held while playing other games and you will see a difference.
I don’t understand Why Orr is full of waypoints that can become contested, but none of the important places in WvW have way points? I mean why can’t there be waypoints at each place accessible to you only when your side owns it. It really sucks having to run all over the map.
If arena net was smart they would issue a copyright takedown notice on that website, it’s apparently super easy to get a website taken offline that way these days.
I agree with all your ideas but I have something to add.
I would like to see a per day limit that we can set for each rank for items and coin.
Setting for example 3 items per day allowed for withdraw, helps to protect our guild stashes from those that can currently come in and take everything all at one time, including coin.
In my guild the treasure trove and deep cave are available to members for general use but the guild stash is where we put all the cash and high end materials The only people who have access to the guild stash are myself, my husband(the other guild leader) and my 5 officers.
It’s a small application in which I ask a few basic questions and they must agree to our code of conduct. But if they can’t be bothered with filling out our application then I probably don’t want them in the guild anyway.
I feel so strongly about the text I quoted. You’d be surprised (or maybe you won’t be.) at the response I get sometimes when I tell people they need to go to a website and fill out a Q/A / Application and read rules before they join.
What? I have to go to a WEBSITE to join your guild? I have to read? I have to apply? Screw that, too much work I’m not looking for a job. <—responses I get.
Oh I’m not surprised at all. I’ve received lot’s of responses like that, but for me the trade off is worth it. The people who have filled out applications have been great and I’ve met a lot of good folks.
Agreed. Delayed gratification > instant. I’d much rather have someone go through the proper protocals and actually show the initial effort than someone who won’t bother taking 5 minutes out of his life to do so.
Then why are you kittening about the multi-guild system? You didn’t want the members anyways since they aren’t representing your guild 100% and/or don’t want to put in the effort for an application…so why are you trying to force everyone else to adhere to the way your guild runs? It seems like it makes your job really easy if they don’t want to do the application nor be in only one guild you can boot them/not invite. I’m not seeing the problem here. You can be happy knowing your members want to be in your guild and the rest of us can be in any guild we like. So what’s the problem?
I don’t know if my quote was accidentally included in this, but if you go back and look at my OP in this thread, I have no problem with multi-guilding and I’m the proud guild leader of an 80+ member guild that has a healthy active community.
As a guild leader since head start there are some real glaring quality of life issues that seriously need to be looked at for guilds. I was pretty disappointed to hear in the recent stream that guilds weren’t really being worked on at the moment. I understand Guild halls take time and I’m willing to wait for that but some of these things really need to be looked at.
Guild Bank
Guild Bank funds(gold) should have separate permissions from than the guild bank items.
Deep cave needs permissions there is no way to set permissions for deep cave currently.
Guild Message of the Day
The Guild Message of the day should be shown to you when you log on, as it stands right now I still have members who are surprised to realize we even have a message of the day.
If the Guild Message of the Day is updated it should be shown to all members who are currently logged in.
When using the edit button in the Guild Message of the Day, it is not actually an edit feature when you have to constantly retype the entire message every time you need to change it.
User activity/communication
If a member logs in visible & representing it should let you know they have come on line, also it should tell the guild when they log off.
When you join a guild you should be notified that you need to click represent to interact with the guild, earn influence for the guild, & receive active buffs from the guild.
Add a "last time logged in: or “Activity” column to the roster so we can keep track of inactive members.
Show guild members on map (different color / icon if they are not in your party) or allow larger party’s for PvE world events. (not dungeons / wvw)
Option to appear offline to guilds you are not representing. (i.e. I’m on an alt that is in another guild, but don’t want to be visible to guild of my main.)
Alliance Chat and/or Custom Chat channels, currently there is no real way for Alliance guilds to chat in game with each other this can make coordinating events together very difficult.
Officer Chat
Allow Guild Leaders to send announcement type mails to guild members, allow more characters per email currently I am constantly hitting the email message suppression when trying to send mails to multiple guild members
I soooo badly want this for my guild. I have bunch of inactive members, at least I think I do, for all I know they could be logging in when I’m not logged in.
The building itself is pretty run down, I see ranger pets running around that I have tamed on my Norn Ranger, there are a few ghosts I cant speak with and if I run all the way to the back where the Eye is (where all the statues & stuff are in GW) There’s a ghost I speak with to get my HOM skins.
This is what I see when I go to my HOM in GW2. I hope the info helps.
