Guild Wars 2

I play a Ranger, without the Druid part, and I beat everything easy in solo PvE, have top damage in Dungeons and Fractals, I’m in the top five in Raids, I am pretty awesome in WvW, and if someone could get to me in PvP it would be incredible…

I have a Longbow / Greatsword build that is pretty good, especially if you know how to use it. That’s the point I’m trying to make, by the way. It’s all about knowing how to play what you’re playing, not what build someone else says is better.

The Wiki says that the signature moves don’t work. I know it’s not that big of a thing, but it is something that passes the time between things, and I like the achievement points too. We ought to either get it fixed, or no longer have it be in the game.

I can’t use any of the special moves, and that needs to change, quickly. It’s a fun game for when there’s nothing else to do, like when I’m waiting for people to get in to the Guild for missions. It needs to be fixed!

I think that the Bat Wing glider needs to come back. In fact, the entire combo needs to come back this halloween. It’s a favorite among many characters, and will give a lot of money to the game, while giving a lot of pleasure to the players!

I know, it’s not a new idea, but it is still a great one!

This idea is constantly suggested, always this bad, and never going to happen.

You never have to weapon swap. Ever. You can, if you’re not an elementalist/engineer and if you feel like it, but you never have to.

If you’re in WvW and come up to a tower that you can’t take down with your 1-4 weapons on hand, then you should probably just break out the siege…

Dungeons are fine. People have been beating them in under 15 minutes since release. We still get punished for beating them quickly.

If you thin your level matters, if you’re getting hit, if you think the enemies are like normal enemies, that’s your problem.

One letter, one word:

S Boon.

That’s how A-net does nerfs.

Some of the dye has such a pathetically small effect it’s just not worth doing. Some pieces can be dyed and don’t actually have any parts that change colour at all.

These suggestions are good, and should never be low on the priority list. Of the whole front page or two of suggestion’s I’ve been through, this is one of the only ones that I can’t point out a downside to.

Having mined and modded the game myself, I know how easy it is to do recolours and change areas that dye targets. This fix could be easily put together with minimal time, effort, or cost. It’s a solid improvement to the game, with no drawback.

Make these kinds of suggestions a lot, as they tend to get drowned out by people who try to rewrite entire gameplay functions.

TL:DR
These are the suggestions we need. +1

That’s a lot of work for undergarmets that aren’t normally seen….

Just mod the game yourself, it’s not against the rules. This gives you the option to cover everybody to exactly how you want them to be, without making A-net have to do any work.

Yes, punish the guester for playing with his friends. That’s almost as bad as punish the previewer and give me money for being a jerk.

You could do every one of those things before the change, and still get your daily done.

Kill variety, kill count, gathering, events. Each one so broad that as long as you weren’t in a town, you could accomplish them.

Merging wouldn’t solve the problem, because it’s not a population issue.

On Vabbi (an empty, dismal EU server) I can still solo every dragon, and get anything I want in Orr. What people guest on the other servers for is so that they can have other people do almost all the work. They tag, they loot, they move on.

Unless you merged enough to make them as full as the problem servers are now, people would still guest to the same places. And if you made it that full, people would guest away from it.

The premise of this suggestion is that if you get five people who have all done a dungeon before, but are all on new characters, and all know how to play their new characters well enough to jump right in to explorables…

It’s not a bad suggestion, but there are so many other things wrong with dungeons that are more important, like why I only get rewards once, and why they’re always 75% of what they’re supposed to be…

Fix limiting and DR, then we can go about fixing the small problems.

Like I said, “Great idea, if you’re willing to pay”

I’ve been a fan of every gem store dance suggestion I’ve seen. This is the first one that I’ve seen in which the OP did not state he was willing to pay for it, and asks for custom dances to a variety of songs.

Again, awesome if it’s payed for. A lot of wasted time and work that could have been raising A-net’s stock if it’s free.

Risen Drakes used to count as Drakes.
Risen Giants used to count as Giants.
Risen Sharks used to count as Fish.

And you obviously weren’t there when the zones were completely full if you don’t think you could have tagged one of everything while the hordes of people killed it all.

Pets do need to be smarter, but you can dismiss him while you run away, unless you’re in combat, which means you’re already screwed anyway.

See, making them easier for small guilds is a great idea. Making a whole new system to help guilds band together into even bigger masses of people while still feeling special is the problem.

It would be way easier to simply make every Guild Mission completable with a party of five guildies. Or three guildies even. Makes a lot more sense than trying to organize a mob of mobs…

And just for reference, I’m a casual with about 12 real world friends I play with, though never at the same time. We don’t even have a guild, because there’s no point.

If it required an invite, I’d just start inviting people for a minor amount of coin in the mail.

Not only would you have hypothetically screwed well-meaning people like alfista, while giving ill-meaning people like me a way to cause the same issue we have now, and gain money from it.

Straights of Devastation: Easy. One of every animal in the pet zone. A few aquatics, some undead, some spiders. Finish with critters.

Malchor’s Leap: Six or seven from undead (A few individuals count as different types) a few elementals, wrap up with critters.

Cursed Shore: Six or seven types of undead, a few types of elementals, and some aquatics. Finish up with critters.

It was possible, at least up until the middle of september when I was done there, and pretty easy.

Cash => Gems => Gold => Ascended gear. Best in slot in under 45 seconds.

Cash => Gems => Gold => Influence. Homeless people can afford the influence required to unlock guild missions after buying some beer for some minors. You should be able to do anything a homeless person can.

And last, but certainly not least… Why not just join a bigger guild?

You have all the tools you need to do everything you want right now.

The random people don’t need to get rewards and many five player guilds can currently group up on the same guild missions as it stands now.

See, that’s why the old system needs to come back. It was possible to do a daily in 7 minutes for the first three months or so of the game. Nobody had a problem with the old system of four achievements.

In the working season, about 30 minutes a week.

In the off season, it really depends.

EDIT:
I’ll break this down, so it’s easy for anyone. During the working season, (Late October through May) I work 16-18 hours a day, 7 days a week. I wake up in the morning, and have my five minute kitten, shower, shave routine. Then I go to work. When I get home, I usually play a game for a few minutes while my dinner is warming up. Then I eat, then I sleep.

I repeat this every day for about six months, give or take a few weeks. While on the job, when it’s slow like it has been with the weather for the last few weeks, I usually browse the forums while the machinery warms up. Occasionally, I’ll be stuck at work overnight as I have to supervise a mechanic/repair man, and I spend most of that time also on my phone.

As soon as the weather clears, I’ll likely be back to 3-7 minutes in game, and never on the forums.

There’s already a notification by any topic that’s had a reply since you said anything in it. There’s already a Forum Profile page with links to everything you’ve upvoted, and everything you’ve said.

The notification is on the speech bubble symbol on the left hand side of each topic in the forums. This turns in to a red Arenanet logo if an employee replies.

The Forum Profile link is right next to your private messages, at the top of the page on the right hand side. You’ll see a small letter/envelope symbol next to a number, that’s how many unread messages you have. Then your profile, the link to your Account, and the Log Out button.

That would be so time consuming, to make so many dances, for so many different skeletons…

Great idea, if you’re willing to pay per dance move. If not, I don’t see how it’s financially sound.

This has actually been suggested quite a few times before.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the best suggestions out there. I’ve got way too many gems, and way too much real world money, and quite a few friends who play way more often than me. It would be nice to be able to give them things, instead of giving them a gem card. After all, there’s nothing more tacky than saying “Happy birthday, now go buy your own present, because I didn’t (or couldn’t) get you one.”

I don’t buy cards. I have a credit card, and a job….

Why is my money not as good as the money you spend at wal-mart?

First Person View is not possible. The simple fact of zooming in to look through walls, the overdone particle effects that would blind your entire screen in combat, a slew of targeting issues…

It’s not possible to do. If it was possible, it would be great. But it’s not, so give it up.

WvW is fine. You lost because you got shot while running away from a horde of enemies…

Sounds about as correct as things should be.

The entire way the game works, in so many little things, just wouldn’t work in first person.

Do you have any idea how many walls you’d be able to look through, and thus target through, and thus attack through?

A-net has never, ever payed attention to things after a specific point. They just throw new things at you, and hope you ignore all the broken stuff they left behind. That’s how they’ve done it since the release of Prophecies, and they’re likely not going to change.

Oh, I’m not gaming that much right now, as I’m no where near my gaming PC.

See, while I have the time to browse forums on my phone, GW2 isn’t Skyrim, and can’t be played from a phone.

Guild missions work easily, and you don’t even have to be in a guild to do ’em…

I don’t see the problem. Instead of banding bunches of guilds together, you just grab random people.

Zahld, that would be great, except developing a working version of an MMO on an OS that changes on the whims of the completely random people that make it is… well, it’s hard. Most console games, from small indie titles to big Steam titles are not often updated, and are easy to port to anything. Look at Skyrim as a perfect example. It can be played on everything from the Xbox to a calculator.

MMO games do not work like this.

Considering that the precursor is one of the few steps you can purchase with a credit card…

A whole better system, from the ground up, would likely be a much better way to go about it. It was very depressing when I had both my legendaries and everything done by October.

You can’t join other Orders, it ruins the incredibly little replay value in the game, and that’s the biggest thing keeping most people occupied between the good bits.

I’d be all for some missions, but part of the design was to completely remove anything that even looks like the old quest/mission system in every other MMO.

Some of us have jobs, families, and other obligations on our time. We’re also the people who make up most of the ~$60 million A-net is worth.

The achievements took the average person a bit longer than they took me, but I’m good at getting things done. And it was four achievements, look at the wiki history. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Daily&oldid=391793

Kills, kill variety, gatherer, events. Simple, sweet, doable in any zone without any stopping of the combat.

Have you ever actually done the math on the most successful bundle ever? $8.60 USD per person. And that’s the best, with the help of amazing indie titles like Bastion…

If the first million players to have bought GW2 at release payed half price, they’d still have made more money than the best game bundle Linux has ever had.

MMOs don’t work like indie game bundles you can get for free. There isn’t room to screw up, just ask Funcom… They lost more money in the launch of Secret World than humble bundles has made to date.

Unlike indie games, where people can just make 300 and hope one sticks, with very little risk and very high reward, MMOs do business in tens of millions of dollars for each single game.

The time and energy that would go in to a linux port would be very unlikely to show any kind of return at all, because no matter how you look at it, nothing has ever made good money running on linux.

I just have to say, while many people seem to think this is a good idea, they don’t really understand the basics behind the business end of the idea.

Valve makes games for Linux because Valve makes games for everything in an attempt to push as much crap on as many idiots as possible.

People with Linux are mostly people who either don’t want to, or can’t spend money. Exactly the wrong kind of people to try to market a product to.

Instead, get the Mac client going, and then we can all go over there and be happy.

Stop making these and do a search, please.

This exact same topic has been suggested, and closed so many times.

The answer is no. Extra weapon slots for everyone or why bother?

Midnight Gypsy.9360:

it was 5 things, I don’t remember it being 4.

It was four at the start of the game. You obviously weren’t around.

The problem with the new system isn’t that it’s not possible to do, it’s just not possible to do in under 7 minutes anymore, and that’s just stupid.

Jora, Ogden, Vekk, and Zhed were lead in by a qualifying human.

Who’s going to lead people in now?

Steam is terrible, and is not an MMORPG. It’s also serviced by what I think are the worst servers in the world. Torrents are faster, more stable, and offer me all the same product. Go figure.

EvE is an MMORPG, with under half a million players in 10 years. It’s not worth bringing up, because on the business end, they just don’t know what they’re doing. The only difference between CCP and Valve is that CCP isn’t lucky enough to have idiots throw money at them for no apparent reason.

Linux is, by it’s very nature, for people who don’t have, or don’t want to spend money. Not exactly the people you want to try to sell things to.

So, no. A-net’s stock is worthless enough as it is….

They’re not hard to get as it is. People had their legendary made in a few weeks of release. It doesn’t need to be any easier.

LFG doesn’t even work yet, and Guilds are still pointless. Maybe in the future, but for now, we need a lot of other things.

Remember back when dailies = 4 things? Kill Count, Kill Variety, Gathering, Events. Everyone could do it, in every zone, no matter what. This new system is stupid, and they just need to take it back to how it was at release.

Why not just play Guild Wars?

And, secondly, no to the entire idea. Nobody is Ascended, Weh-No-Su, or has survived the portal to the Realm of Torment that Varesh summoned at Gandara. You’re not cool enough to hang out with the gods.

And, thirdly, no to the entire idea. Human Gods are silent, and their domains don’t allow Norn, Asura, Sylvari, or Charr (Although there is at least once source for Charr revering Melandru).

Besides, Menzies and Dhuum aren’t really any part of the story, the Dragons are.

Midnight Gypsy.9360:

“Tethys was a Titan sea goddess” " could the “Concordat of the Tethyos Houses” have something lore wise to do with a Titan?

No. Titans have absolutely nothing to do with anything in the lore, other than the Flameseeker Prophecies, and the Realm of Torment.

wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/titan

Ranger: Longbow, Greatsword, Axe, Torch, and traps.
Mesmer: Staff, sword if you’re in to point blank.
Elementalist: Almost every weapon set, depending on attunement.
Warrior: Greatsword, Longbow, Hammer, Axe/Mace.

That’s just to get you started, look at some, and see how you like ‘em. There isn’t really any way to do exactly what you want, as party support and utility doesn’t come with great AoE and lots of damage.

You can specialize in AoE damage, but you’ll have to give up the utility, and be a bit squishy. You can specialize in the utility and give up on the damage and be a bit squishy. You can specialize in not being squishy, and lose the utility and AoE damage. You can’t have all three though, no matter how hard you try, you just have to find the right balance for what you want to play.

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