Guild Wars 2

I don’t know what it is, but something needs to change. Current living story, I feel, has left many unfulfilled and unhappy.People log on check it out complete the meta then log off. I would much prefer months of no content where you guys really think about what you want to add in the game. right now you guys are running a sort of quantity over quality mentality, and in my honest opinion this should be the opposite. I would much prefer you guys announce the day of th big patch and give us little hints of what’s to come, then the update would be a permanent addition to the game and allow us to explore what you haven given us. For example:

Uvatha made a great point! I feel the most important thing arena net could do to increase interest in GW2 is really increase the quality of the story. Over all aesthetic and minuscule features I listed prior only keep the game alive in its current state, however developing an enriching story that keeps everyone addicted to the development really makes an MMO long lasting. I believe this may not be and issue because ArenaNet has confirmed that there are currently 4 teams working on LS yet there are other, larger teams working on much more prolific content. What this is or may be I still have no clue. Hopefully their planning on adding large updates (with fee?) to the game, and the fact to been a year still that they haven’t announced it means their is a lot of care going into this add on.

0.increase overall story involvement(simply put make the story better)
1.New skills
2.Existing weapons for new professions
3.New weapons
4.New areas (Cantha, Crystal Dessert, or Magumma Jungle)
5.New sigils and runes
6.New skins (add some flavor with new weapon sets every month?)
7.New armor skins (this does not mean out them in the gem store)
8.new profession (hint third heavy class)
9.New profession specific armor ( make our characters feel unique out in Tyria, it sucks that rangers, and engi’s, and theirs can all look the same…)
10.More permanent content

Quality if life changes:
-being able to save build traits (no more swapping individual traits)
-make GvG more accessible to guilds
-people really want guild halls where you can quickly go to fractals, wvw, ext. (maybe let customize with influence allowing us to buy merchants, BLTC representatives, mystic toilet, etc.) ( this would be an instance where only your guild could enter)
-need more ideas…

I would really like to see the community to get excited of the upcoming big patches. Oh what’s next? I heard Cantha?(please.please.please) Really I heard we finally get the explore the crystal dessert with a whole new addition to the living story and adding new end game. There is none of this excitement and you guys aren’t showing anything back.
The living story needs to go and be replaced with bigger, permanent, and time consuming patches. And look if you can create a story and design it every two weeks you guys and easily and in some new weapon and armor sets. They don’t have to look well as a whole because in the end people like to mix a match. A whole set could look horrible but those gloves look FABULOUS. You guys said that end game wasn’t about stats but aesthetics you reached endgame when you finally completed the look for you character. If you keep adding in weapons and armours this keeps the surge of " I want…" I
“I like…”
The summarization:
LS isn’t working the way you want it to. Sure the “Update every two weeks” looks great for marketing and on paper but I fails horribly in implementation. Again it should be quality of your work instead of the quantity. Please just take a break from LS and stop shoving skarlet down my throaght ( if I hear DIE DIE DIE DIE in wvw on more time I will kitten on all of your desks). Think more of long lasting additions. And keep the artists busy with making skins for weapons and armies monthly. This keeps people working for what they want. ( and no that dose not mean put them on the gem store). Add actual skins like you did for the champion box update that was by far one of the better moments you guys got right. Of course keep the festives up like Halloween and Christmas. But please stop living story and emphasize on the actual work you put out. Think things through and don’t rush. For me I would fine with big updates if they were fewer and far between but not expansion pack material. But I feel something really change….

Neek.9531:

Think I just figured it out…

Yes I did thanks me. Oh btw your so handsome

Though I agree completely, I personally feel it would be kinda redundant. We have two major gay relations ships and they just happen to both be females. Adding yet another gay relationship but this time male and male (as great as that would be) would feel like cramming it down our throats, especially since Kas and Jory are pretty new to the overall story. Let’s just wait a while and let the current stories characters progress and develop first then add more relationships of this matter to present themselves.

I think I heard my elementalist stop crying for a second when I read this.

Rovaeden.8546:

Hahaha this is fantastic!

I will have to remember this method of ‘helping’ my team next time I am told to “F Off Scrub” when I ask to join a party or ask where I can be of most help.

Maybe you elitist WVW D-bgs could learn a lesson from this and actually be friendly and helpful to players new to WVW for a change.

You can bet your brainless skull that if you ever spit on me again in WVW I am gonna troll your supplies till you run and cry on the forums… kinda like this. LMAO

Great, way to stoop down to the age of insecure 11 year old who didn’t get accepted into a party. Mellow out dude either join a wvw guild or simply leave to another map, server, or Zerg. Why act like a 2 year old and waste stuff that hurts your entire server over 2 or 3 kittens that ruined your day. :/

So there seems to be some talk of wether dhuumfire is going to stay 100% burn for four seconds or something else but nonetheless if it stays I think it would be awesome if the flames from this trait were black and green (like the guardians blue flame skills). I feel this would provide a uniqueness to the class and be visually appealing to the eyes and gameplay knowing “oh hey I have black and green flames on me crap there’s a necro somewhere…”

1 RULE: Mention the TOP weapon you would like to see for any class multiple makes it very hard for me to try and record.

NOTE!!!!!: I left Warhorn, Torch, Shield, and Focus main hands out because of simplicity reasons (except for MH Torch for Necro.) If you vote for these i will ignore and continue with your other submissions.

Also!!!!! Please, please make sure the class can’t use the weapon you vote for (ex. Asking for Ranger Axe(OH) already exist.) When I see this ad go to update it gives me a small moment of confusion and i have to go and recheck to make sure i didn’t make a mistake.(Also please let me know if i missed a weapon and or have a mistake with one of the categories.)

ELEMENTALIST

Greatsword-4
Hammer-
Rifle-
Longbow-3
Shortbow-3
Mace-
Sword-3
Axe-1
Pistol-
Scepter(OH)-
Warhorn-
Torch-1
Shield-2
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-
Trident(Land)-

NECROMANCER

Greatsword-4
Hammer-
Rifle-
Longbow-
Shortbow-
Mace-2
Sword-2
Axe(OH)-
Pistol-1
Torch(MH)-3
Scepter(OH)-
Torch-4

Shield-1
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-
Trident(Land)-

MESMER

Hammer-2
Rifle-
Longbow-2
Shortbow-1
Mace-
Axe-
Pistol(MH)-1
Dagger-3
Warhorn-
Shield-
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-
Trident(Land)-

THEIF

Greatsword-
Hammer-
Rifle-1
Longbow-2
Staff(Melee)-1
Mace-2
Sword(OH)-1
Axe-1
Scepter-
Warhorn-
Torch-1
Focus-
Shield-
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-
Trident(Land)-

ENGINEER (long one XD)

Greatsword-
Hammer-2
Longbow-1
Shortbow-
Staff-
Mace-5
Sword-
Axe-
Dagger-
Scepter-
Warhorn-
Torch-2
Focus-
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-1
Trident(Land)-

RANGER

Hammer-1
Rifle-
Staff(Druid?)-3
Mace-
Sword(OH)-1
Pistol-
Dagger(MH)-1
Scepter-
Focus-
Shield-
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-
Trident(Land)-

GUARDIAN

Rifle-
Longbow-3
Shortbow-
Sword(OH)-1
Axe-1
Pistol-
Dagger-
Mace(OH)-1
Scepter(OH)-
Warhorn-2
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-1
Trident(Land)-


WARRIOR

Shortbow-1
Staff(Melee)-2
Pistol-
Dagger-3
Scepter-
Torch-1
Focus-
Harpoon Gun(Land)-
Spear(Land)-1
Trident(Land)-

Burnfall.9573:

(I will continue to encourage and to remind Arena.net; Class Balance, must be enforced for Guild Wars 2 survival).

I literally laughed at this for 5 minutes when I got to the end. This is the class that has the lowest health and the most prominent x/x/x/30/30sh proffesion. This is the class, besides engineers, that needs the most buffs and looking into. But you got what you wanted Ele’s D/D build is gone now with the Arcana switches.

First, this is all just a crazy theory that just popped in my head. Both poems we were given by scarlet have elements of time. The first was a pocket watch and the second is a metronome. Now both are pointing to the considered profession for gw2 which was a chronomancer. But this could mean Scarlett’s plans could just be to affect time somehow to her advantage ( speed up time to have the rest of the ED to awaken and begin chaos or reverse time to trap the human gods and consume their power?) I feel as though Scarlett will use time to accomplish her plans and when (if) we defeat here this will give birth to a whole new field of knowledge, Chronomancy. Scarlett’s uses her do not touch thumpers to control the the dragons way lines to control time for her goal. This is why I believe that the arena net developers didn’t want to add new skills or weapons to the game because they didn’t want the 3rd heavy profession to fall behind the other more played classes. Also we might fight Scarlett on the moon because at the end of the latest recap trailer it ends with Scarlett laughing and the camera looking at broken Asura gates and the moon in the middle.

So I’ve had this idea and told most people on my server and all of them thought this would be awesome to implement. It would be a new tier of die and would have special effects to the armor you equipped it to. So instead of that lame midnight fire dye you spent 5 gold why not actually spend your gold on something awesome. Why not buy a dye that actually turn your armor on midnight fire and walk around and astound other players. These effects wouldn’t be as noticeable as perhaps the effects on legendaries or maybe they could. How about these new dyes be craftable and costly (not to much though) and make your level 80 character into a god! Some effects would be-

Nightcrawler effect
Smoke- varied color
Fire- varied color
Energy- varied color
Rainbow dye (a dye when applied will slowly fade into a series of colors on, one or more the patters will sync)

The possibilities are endless and I’m curios as to what you guys think. How would this be implemented (champ drops, chests, crafting) and how will it effect the black lion trading company…( inflation 1000 gold for one dye yikes!!!) and what effects would you like to see? Please comment and leave your thoughts thank you for reading.

Idk just some speculation. Don’t forget the team that does LS is very small compared to the rest of ANet. They have a huge team behind the scenes working on larger content. I think a year is enough time to open a couple of areas ie. Dominion of Winds. And plenty of times to model our featherd friends. And I think they didn’t mention a thing about tengu thus far is to simply surprise us just how they stopped showing us the patch notes a week earlier. It builds suspense and surprise. And also the fact that the character slot expander, the xp booster, and the crafting booster are all free or discounted prices at the end of LS part 1 when it’s the perfect time to introduce the project they’ve been working on for over a year, leaves me HIGHLY suspicious.

I hope on the character customization they have different bird head models. I would love a black owl necro bird with big ominous white, pale eyes. Oh god I hope I’m right.

I hate how when you sheath your weapons like sword sword or dagger dagger they always go at your hips and become practically invisible to others around you. Whereas, staves and greatswords get more love by actually laying on your back. If I have S/S equipped I would live to see them make an X on my back rather then side to side on my hips.

Yeah PvE is easy when your dealing with stupid AI. Have you ever noticed that the only time over is hard is when the boss can one shot you? Try playing elemntalist with the lowest health pool, lowest armor level, and lastly ArenaNet hounding every good skill or trait in hopes it doesn’t seem to powerful. Imagine how hard it is to kill someone else who has actual intelligence with all these things already against you. Elementalist fighting anyone is a up hill battle..

So with the recent patch we are told that when Scarlet dove into the mists something had slowly began to torment her. She’s had recurring nightmares that have told her of scheme’s and driven her into insanity. Now I have 3 main ideas as to who this could be. But first,

NOT Abbadon: When we defeated abbadon we fought him alongside Kormir in the mist. When we won Kormir absorbed his entire being, not just his powers like Grenth did to Dhuum. She absorbed his entire existence into her herself this ending his further intervention in the plot impossible. (However this story isn’t real and the lore writers could come up with many ways to revive abbadon. Hey! The brought back Brian from Family Guy. But this is highly unlikely.)

Dhuum: Usurped by Grenth long ago, Grenth absorbed his power and thus locked Dhuum away. However, Dhuum gets his power from every death in the underworld. With this Dhuum constantly escapes from Grenth’s prison and must be defeated and put back in his place. (Grenth doesn’t poses the power to destroy Dhuum) Yet the gods have been gone for a while, so one can assume that Dhuum’s power has began to reach the point to when he can escape yet again. So when Scarlet went into the mist Dhuum plans to use her to distract Tyrian while Dhuum attacks the gods (Allied by Menzies shadow army?)

Menzies:The evil half brother of Balthazar shows animosity torwards the current gods by making an alliance with Dhuum and Abbadon, yet as of now we have never seen him or know his true intentions. We simply know he is allied with the other fallen gods. He, being the only one whose current whereabouts unknown, might plan to help Dhuum escape and either Revive Abaddon and all three attack the gods along with Scarlets minions or simply break Dhuums bonds and return into hiding. (Idk)

Alt. theory: The tormentor of scarlet could be one of Abbadons highest minion that attempts to use dragon magic to revive the fallen god of secrets. (Really unlikely)

All pieces together: I believe that either Menzies and Dhuum are driving Ceara(Scarlet) insane to help break Dhuum’s bonds of divine magic. Once done in combination of Dhuums power and forces, Menzies power and forces, Scarlett’s power and forces, and perhaps the utility of dragon magic they will attempt to revive Abbadon. When they succeed they will rip the six current gods from where ever they are and attempt to slay them and return to the godly state. (The gods are no more immune to magic then humans are and scarlet could use dragon magics of Primordus for example to revive Abbadon and/or attack human gods.) we as the citizens of tyria are in grave danger must rally extra forces. All five races and the tengu (new race available) must not only fight Scarlett but an Elder Dragon, Dhuum(his reapers), Menzies(his shadow army from th Fissure of Woe) ,and Abbadon(or just minions). Talk about a final battle for LS part one :p.

This will never happen: Before Abbadon was a god their was another that was in his place. We know nothing about him/her and this is their moment to strike and assume power :p. This unknown Fallen has waited very long for the moment to strike and has been veiled behind the shadows of the mists long forgotten even by the current gods. With no one suspecting this unknown entity has planned with Scarlet and allied itself with Dhuum and Menzies.

darkace.8925:

I firmly believe ArenaNet has stretched their resources so thin trying to maintain the bi-monthly release schedule for the Living Story that they don’t have the resources to work on things like new races. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.

Completely false. Anet’s LS team is very small compared to the rest of the company. Many other teams are focused on balancing, marketing, and even larger more pronounced projects for the game. They are the ones who have the potential to add new professions, races, areas etc. and it’s been a year and a half since they’ve released anything. So believe it or not the company isn’t spreading it’s resources thin at all, it’s your pop that makes it look kitten. LS is what sets up the lore and explanation for the larger updates to come up.

See this is why I like the concept of this class. Dual shields you would think that it would be pointless but there’s always something you can do. That what this game needs, uniqueness. Dual shields definitely adds some flavor, how about a staff for melee combat. The profession (I still think it being centered on harnessing the mist would be really good lore and implementation wise) focuses solely on cc( stuns,nock backs, knock downs etc.) definitely very interesting I feel and should really be implemented in my honest opinion.

If you do decide to delve into to making this profession about the mist I would make the concept art have the left hand surrounded with mist instead of the foamy effect. But it’s your concept don’t let me tell you what to do.

Ceara lost herself to Mordemoth when she stepped foot inside Omad’s machine. The mechanism that showed her the Eternal Alchemy severed her connection to the pale tree leaving her vulnerable to Mordemoths influence and corruption. The symbolic visions of the red thorn strangling the Pale Tree was Mordemoths own corruption spreading to kill the tree itself. I’d like to ask did we really kill Scarlet or Ceara? We knew her at the beginning as a independent being who chose their own destiny but as we saw her when she died, she seemed more like a rabid dog foaming at the mouth desperately trying to protect the drill so it can awaken her master. This completely contradicts the Ceara we know as she would die for no one. It really makes me wonder deep deep inside Scarlets own psyche she pleaded someone would kill her so she could stop the one thing she hated most: not having her own free will. I feel if she could have, she would have whispered thank you for freeing her from enslavement but the corruption that infested her would not let her do so. Personally, I feel we killed a highly intelligent champion of an elder dragon rather then the Scarlet we though we killed. Anyways we have a much bigger problem now.

I love the idea of this class but have just one problem the whole infernal energy and fire theme seems a little overdone with you know elementalists and guardians having that under their belt. However I think a better theme for the class would be a full on knight profession imbedded in the mystical power and magic of the mists. Almost like the mists is their source of power. This would provide them with a huge range of mist like attacks and AoE’s. A a giant mist forms at target location that causes attacks to miss. Harness the energy of the mists into a spear, hurling at your foe and drag them in. Create a dome of mist essence that slows all enemy cool downs and movements by 20%.

Yeah i agree it should go to your account name with your 4 digit code as well. And for the love of god!!!! Please make wvw traits resettable with badges of honor and allow world rank to be across all toons.

The best way to beat these classes is to play them and understand how the other person thinks when running this class. There are so many times I run into mesmers that run 3 clones at all time. While choosing 1 of 4 randomly isn’t really effective, I played that build of MESMER and can tell which is the player by mere observation and movement. Not that hard to counter. Same thing with THEIF when they go invisible it’s all about knowing what and where their likely to attack. I’ve dodge rolled out of plenty of back stabs with really just knowing when, and I never played thief. As for GUARDIAN, the magic weapons fit it perfectly, just not to what your used to I guess. The staff is great for wvw might stacking and support. The focus is great for healway builds and so in. ELEMENTALIST does not have good DPS unless you run full zeeker which will get you killed half the time and their health is at the bottom of the food chain. ENGINEER makes me laugh the hardest, the turrets are abysmal. If they place one down simply leave its target area and challenge the engi there they can’t move them without a cd. And their health is not decent, any form of aoe destroys them in seconds. The healing turret is the only reason the engineer is viable besides bunker builds. The other heal is a kit that actually isn’t to bad but much more complicated to go through and the other is a rng mess. The NECROMANCER is supposed to have control over conditions and the marks successfully provides that. Death shroud is the necros main source of survivability due to their lack of outright damage. The WARRIOR is a really tough opponent in the right hands and is the easiest to master. Though they hit kittence you get them low they start to fall apart. They lack the ability to recover easier then guardians, engineers, and elementalist so you basically have to survive longer then they do not to hard if you no what your doing. I feel your main problem is that each class has its one niche in this game. Wether it be eles attunments, theives stealth, guardians runes, necromancers deathshrouds etc. each class is like this for diversity and efficiency. Can I condition necro beat a condition clearin engineer? No. Can a condition cleaning/bunker engineer beat a zerker warrior? No. Can a zerker warrior beat a tank Guardian? No. Can a tank gaurdian beat a shatter Mesmer? No. Can a shatter Mesmer beat a aoe elementalist? No. Can a staff aoe elementalist beat a stealth thief? Can a stealth thief beat a condition grenade engineer? No. Of course all these NOs are actually maybes. No one class is guaranteed a better chance at killing other opponents. Just master your class and build and deal with the fact there’s always going to be someone better than you. If you get hit for 11K health their obviously running full seeker and are taking a lot more damage then usual anyways. Kill them before they kill you. So please stop with all this over powered BS. You simply lack the skills to defeat those that are more skilled and are better adapted to the game than you.

Necro and mesmer are currently doing really really good! Elementalist however, were suffering. We were placed down to the class with the least basic health and armor. Basically you have to go full seeker to kill your enemie before they kill you. Right now the best way I can describe my feelings for my main elemental it’s is a hyena trying to fit off a pack of lions. BUT staff eles support abilities are still perfectly fine. And it’s very easy to maintain permanent swiftness as well with staff. So if you want to be semi helpful and do great damage go necro. If you want to be helpful and do damage go Mesmer. And if you want to be super helpfull and do pretty good damage but have a tough time surviving go elementalist.

The whole end game of GW2 is primarily cosmetic so in theory the more skins you add the greater the differences in end game are.

I want the head skin from the image of the tools trait line for engineers….

Konig Des Todes.2086:

What if the attack on Lion’s Arch doesn’t open their doors… but closes them tighter?

Sylvari, charr, asura, human, and norn are all invading Lion’s Arch. The tengu are studying whom they can ally with… what if t heir thought is “if they cannot unify their own race, how can we expect them to ally with other races like us?”

But a thousand refugees standing outside your get is a real game changer.

Yes this is so frustrating when I have to buy a dye multiple characters because I like it. This is just stupid.