Guild Wars 2

I have 2 problems with HoT

1. The content that was used to sell copies and then never worked on until well after it’s launch.

2. Dungeons were killed off, Raids were brought in.

I have Reasonably High expectations for living story 3. If it comes around and we find out that almost a year after launch and we just get another tiny pizza slice of story, i’ll know exactly what to expect of the next expansion/dlc and plan my dollars otherwise.

I’m glad to see there are other people who dislike the legendary surfboard swords. If you look at them sideways the blade disappears entirely! Transmute them all into Guild Busters.

It would seem that the Super, Toad and Storm wizard horns no longer fart.

Praise Moto

The day I acquired The North Wind, I decided not to waste any more time in DS. Well, I went back to that horrible place tonight, in hopes of taming the Wyvern for my ranger.

Didn’t happen

Disconnected at the final Mordreburn

Yes, I was playing on the N64

Another nights g-wars time trounced by Dragons Stand

CETheLucid.3964:

Swooooooooordssssssss. Gib. Want sword. Give me the sword. Want to use a sword. Slash slash slash stab BOOOOM. That was an explosion.

Because I’m an elementalist. I make things explode. With fire. And now with swords. Swords AND fire. Burning and hurting.

And water. Healing and stabbing. Freezing and hacking things. And lightning bolts. So much zappity zap zap. Huge spike damage.

Who’s that coming? It’s a gods forsaken OP ele with a freaking sword. Better Alt+F4 to be safe.

And earth. Swords and earth. Bleeding + more bleeding. Lots of blood. Or that’s what I would say… if I could use a sword as an elementalist.

I want to use the sword.

Fire and sword and Ice and sword and Earth and sword and Air.

Swords.

Lets all go swording together.

Or dual scepters whatever’s cool.

Elementalist warhorn fart still overrides all of the unique horn sounds.

(As far as I know anyway, and ive tried super horn and science horn)

It sounds like a FART

Even the horns that are supposed to have unique sound effects get turned into FARTS

A-net, Please Gas X our warhorn

The Greyhawk.9107:

I say, that whenever we see a red tag ingame, we let them know our displeasure. Make it so no Anet employee can play their own game without hearing about how angry we all are. Don’t do or say anything that can get you suspended or banned, but let them know how furious you are. I also encourage that you tell them you won’t spend another dime on this game until we get our visuals back.

I like it. I saw a red tag with all the latest bat-shoulder and bee-aura “Noise” the other day. It’s a shame that they can remove visual effects that were used to sell copies of the game and yet add all kinds of knick-knacks with high price tags on materials designed as a “gold sink”.

Roda.7468:

And, while not necessarily relevant to nerfed visuals, it is on the topic of kittenty visuals:
Can we PLEASE see our nocked arrows on bows? I’d say it would add to the feel of being a bow user, but honestly, calling the presence of arrows on a bow-and-arrow character a bonus is like saying fire is a bonus to a pyromancer..

Well, it WAS the bonus to being a pyromancer…
now we got flame-dart x.x

But honestly I’d love nocked arrows, as-well.

Glenstorm.4059:

You know what finally pushed me off the wall and made me buy HoT? Seeing the amazing animations for the Tempest Overloads and Shouts. I’m not exaggerating; the ability to run around casting those skills and looking amazing was the single biggest reason I bought the expansion.

Had I known they’d irreversibly neuter those awesome animations without giving us any choice in the matter, I’d never have done so. I’ve learned my lesson: no more buying into Anet hype. You never know what feature that you loved will be removed without warning.

I say this as someone who’s spent multiple hundreds of IRL cash on this game so far. No more.

I think this can be said for a lot of Elementalist players, right now I don’t even have words to explain my feelings regarding all the effects taken away. After reading their explanations I was furious because every time I play I can’t go anywhere without seeing 4-5 twilights/sunrises surrounded in bees and snowflakes and sword-traps and what-all-else.

The light effect is fine. I do, however, agree that the constant flamethrower breaks immersion.

Ele community: Anet. Please buff scepter.

Anet: uhhhhhhhh ok. Here’s a little raw damage to flamestrike and shatterstone

Ele community: Yeah. No. You’re doing it wrong, karl.

Anet: ok ok yeah. You’re right, here’s a little more shatterstone.
(I hear them laughing and snickering in the background on this one)

I really hope this isn’t all of our balance for the quarter
(Think about it. Possibly the last time they’re even going to look at our scepter for a while.)

Because screw that

Karl you’re drunk.
We need a new dev.

Yes

If they’re so concerned about things getting normalized, lately, they should either

A.) take away our requirement
or
B.) Add shield requirement to the Revenant

Sounds fair to me

I used to have Noise

…Then I took an arrow to the Elementalist

For real, though

fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff fix our stuff

nolop.8095:

They should reduce the size of greatswords to butter knife size. I can’t see anything of the fight with all those surfboards around !

^
Those legendary greatswords are everywhere and create SO much more noise than our fireballs did

Ugh

Who forgot to add the trailblazer recipe’s to the mystic forge before launch?

Detain their Christmas presents until we can blaze trails.

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

I would like change my armor to this stat already to compensate the nerf to food shame it is still bugged.

Yeahhhhh.. kitten food nerf, anyways….

I’m submitting my bug report every day till we receive justice.

Negative. The trails are left un-blazed.

They’re Ripping the game apart skill by skill, killing the effects that the original design team put a lot of work into.

It’s wrong.

Those hyperactive bats are more “Visually noisy” than my fireballs ever were.

Meanwhile: MORE SHOULDER SKINS! MORE NOISE!!

For real, though. What’s the direction with all this Visual Noise BS?

Then consider EotN

Still more content than HoT

Factions could be played by itself or as added content.

Regardless of how anyone played it, the amount of content it gave for it’s purchase price puts HoT to shame.

I’ve got my elementalist parked in the mystic forge. Every day I log in thinking “Surely someones taken the 10 minutes required to plug a recipe into the mystic forge”, seeing as all the other new stat swaps work just fine.

Evidently they’re “looking into it” as of the 1st of December. According to Reddit.

What a HoT mess this game is in

If only

The mystic forge still won’t take a Trailblazer inscription almost 2 months after launch.

Still no word on a fix, sadly. I’ve been logging in just to check on it and every day I am disappointed. Just report it and hope for the best. I report it every time a new update is launched without the fix.

What I don’t understand is how they think it’s ok to sell an elite spec based on auras and overloads, then take away the visual effects from auras and overloads.

The “Platform” Auras I hate, but can deal with.
The removal of overload storm cloud was uncalled for.

Fireball was just a kick in the nutz

We have to keep this on the front page until someone at HQ decides to care.

Every time I’ve managed to be on a map that completes the meta event I’ve gotten DC. I’m using the 64 bit client. It’s so bad I’ve just stopped wasting time on it.

It’s a shame how many things in this “expansion” aren’t accessible to players.

Kal Spiro.9745:

The game is not a grind, unless you choose to grind. The game does not force you to do it, you force yourself.

yeah… No. Other players are imposing the grind upon us due to raid dps requirements. In order for any player to enjoy the endgame content that has been decided upon for our future, they will have to grind.

I favored Elementalist in my gw1 days as an aoe thrower, and was hoping for as close to that as we could get. For the most part I was happy with what we got, but i’ve never been too happy with our auto attacks. I’d like to see attack chains, someday.

Before Heart of Thorns was launched, I was spending a little over $20 a month on gems to help support A-Net and Paid the $100 for the ultimate pre-order when it came time to do so. I don’t feel like I got $100 worth of content. For that matter, I don’t feel like I even got $50 worth of content. Most of the content that I already enjoyed was killed to direct people towards “Raid(s)” which require me to spend a lot of money on gems for gold for gear (why the kitten was it necessary to RAISE the price of ascended gear, anyways?)

In short: No. I will not be giving them any more of my dollars, and it hurts me to say that much because I loved this game and the people who made it. I DON’T love what’s happening to it.

HoT felt like a scam, to me. Honestly.

What is even happening, you guys? Do we know if Chaos armor and light aura got murdered, as well?

No superhorn sounds, either

Kayberz.5346:

Lol how is heralds shield the most flashy elite spec weapon?

It’s literally a giant glowing dragon wing with sparkles coming off of it..
It goes great with the Revenants exclusive armor set…

Why do the other classes not have an exclusive armor set?

Don’t worry, guys. We’ll probably get our effects back with the next elite spec.

x.x

From an explorers perspective, HoT is the scrawniest excuse for an expansion I have ever played. You can’t even explore it all the way until you’ve ground out millions of xp for masteries.

and for what it’s worth, those 18 dungeons provided me with infinitely more enjoyment than THE raid (not plural) as I didn’t have to pass a strangers gear check to get in or use gimmicks to defeat the bosses massive boring health bars.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Guild Wars. But I expected a lot more out of HoT.

They use the same recipe, it’s the the trailblazer inscription itself that seems to not be coded for compatibility with the forge or something of the like. Hoping for a batch of fixes next tuesday.

Reading all these legendary crafting horror stories lately really puts a smile on my face.

So i’m sure it’s just a bug at this point. The forge will accept my minstrel inscription, just not the trailblazer one. Now to wait for a patch.

I filed a support ticket. We’ll see what happens. With everything that’s been taken out lately i’m gonna feel pretty bummed out if I can’t at least change my scepter and focus as demanded by “Raid Meta”

Thing is: The inscription doesn’t even show up in the menu of items to plop in the forge, but it’s in my inventory.

I was just wondering if anyone has had success in shifting an ascended weapon to any of the new stat combinations in HoT

Today I caved and just bought some Maguuma lily’s off the tradepost as I was having no luck with the jungle plants. After making the Trailblazer Orichalcum imbued Inscription and heading over to the mystic forge I noticed it didn’t want to take my inscription, Just the Weapon, Anthology, and Ectos.

Am I missing something, here?

And as one who cares not for legendary items, I happily crafted 3 years worth of obsidian shards into Fulgurite and sold them all.

Rare Reclaimed weapons are up to 20g on the tradepost just because all the trash blue and green ones never drop a plate.

I know they said the market would be wonky for a while, but this is ridiculous.

I don’t even see the attraction in “The Raid” so i’m not concerned about what happens with it. Spending hours whittling down a health bar for rewards that will mostly likely be salvage? Nope. I just wish WvW wasn’t such a ghost town x.x

Every day I spend hours roaming the maps for trash events all because I can never get a group to join the one server active in the meta event. If I ever manage to join the meta event, I get DC right before it ends with no credit given. (Yes. I’m using the 64 bit client)

Difficulty is not a problem. The servers are the problem.

My experience in Guild wars last night was 30 minutes in dragons stand checking lfg for groups while waiting for our server to get going. Once it finally got going we got about half way before the map gave me the change option, and since It didn’t look promising I decided to try it. All it did was take me to an even emptier server that hadn’t even started yet.

Shortly after, a player posted in map chat looking for Heralds and Druids for the active map. Just Heralds and Druids.

Is this what guild wars has become?

This is bad. Don’t take away our wonderful spells pleaaase

I liked reading through these and thinking about how many builds it could open up for us. I’d still like to see conjures work more like engineer kits, but your changes look like they’d at least make em function more like actual weapons and less like a “mash all the buttons and toss it” tool.