Guild Wars 2

sorry for any mistakes or missspellings, but I thought this place might be the best place to get my opinion heard.

I did give Tempest a fair chance (again) this BWE, but still…. It’s not even that I dislike the spec, but I don’t especially like it either. The word which describes it most, would be “meh”. I feel kinda sad, that at some point the people, who worked on it, said: “That’s the best we are able to do”.

My three most played classes are Ele, Thief and Guardian. Therefore I did test them extensively. Let me quickly describe my feelings about Ele, Thief an Guard with their elite specs.

Thief: “wuhhhhhhhh…. giggle…. ahhh I’m dead.. Help… wuhuuuuuuu giggle”
Guard: “I’m a ranger…. pew pew… na na nanana stupid monster”
Ele: “hmm ok.. yupp it’s an Ele”

For me this whole elite spec isn’t elite at all. “Play your existing class in a different way” There is no differents at all. It’s just a plain old elementalist. Not more or less fun, no more or less playable, but after what I’ve seen on other classes just boring and (in lack of a better word) old. I think the ship has sailed with this one and there isn’t any hope for making it any less plain and let me have this exciting feeling of something new, like I did have playing my ele first.

I could make suggestions how numbers could be changed, how overcharge doesn’t feel at all as if you just dropped a nuke on your opponent (which it should for the amount of risk you take as an ele using them), how the traitline should be changed for making it better, but to be frank everything has been said. Just a short overview how bad nearly everything feels:

Overcharges: Just don’t use it. Most of the time I simply forget them, because I’m too busy fighting to stop, wait, stop, wait, cast a tiny “wind” (no tempest there).

Traits: Constant feeling I haven’t skilled a third traitline.

Shouts: Nice… but still I miss a traitline… was it really worth it?

Warhorn: Yeah that’s a thing… do I need it? Do I want it? Not really… it’s just there.

I don’t wanna be mean and I think the devs put a lot of time and effort into the Tempest, but it’s wasn’t fun in BWE1 and it still isn’t in BWE2. My only hope is that they are able to salvage this trainwreck and Tempest might find a niche in GW2 and won’t just simply be forgotten, because standard ele will still be more useful and fun in every gametype.

Let’s hope and see what BWE3 and Release brings. Maybe Tempest turns into a beautiful butterfly until then, otherwise I guess I play some more thief in the future. I do love my ele, but even the most fun gets stale after three years.

Same problem here! At least I received a response. Response: Can’t help you! Tough luck! Use the forum!
Alright I’ll use it! I’m seriously annoyed. One piece won’t unlock (the skin is even marked as “skin unlocked”), but mine is one of the underwater weapons. After asking other guild members, this seems to be a common problem, with different dungeon collections.
Please, if there isn’t any new content at least fix bugs like this one, which obviously isn’t
a new thing at all.
(sorry for any misspelling or grammatical errors – not a native speaker)

Normally I would complain in my native language, but I feel like it’s necessary to bring my opinion unfiltered and in “his full glory” directly to the source. Therefore I hope I won’t make too many mistakes.

I’m not even mad, about not being able to join with a group anymore. My hand is in a permanent state of “facepalming”.

Yesterday (in ts) I laughed at this matter and declared with sincere believe: “ahh nahh it’s a bug. A-Net isn’t that stupid. There was a kittenstorm 2012. 2013 they changed it into partymode and everyone loved the toypacolypse. They wouldn’t change it back!”

I guess I was wrong!

I had a lot of fun with the toypacolypse last year and we all were pretty hyped to play it again this year – together. Sadly this won’t happen. In my opinion it would have been even better, if it wouldn’t have been in the Wintersdaypatch. Toypacolypse at the current state is just a reminder how much fun it was and won’t be this year. That’s nearly worth a “Grinch Award” and I feel kinda stupid for believing that it was just a bug and everything would be fixed.

I can understand, that it might not be possible on the technical side, but if you can’t do it right, please just don’t do it at all and design some other form of content. The way it’s done now it’s only purpose is to leave a bad aftertaste. And I don’t even want to know, what our new players in the guild may think now, after we hyped them for the toypocalypse and all I can say is: “Sorry I guess we won’t be able to play it. A-Net isn’t capable to make it work. I know they did it last year, but I guess they aren’t 100% reliable in their capabilities.”

I really like this game and normally I always find a good point in any decision, that’s been made, but with all this “no friends allowed – yeah friends allowed – no friends allowed” even I can’t find a solution to sugarcoat the bad decision to keep a (in the actual state) disliked activity in the game.

sigh I feel better now and will be able to categorically ignore the toypacolypse this year, like I already did in 2012

@JumblyJebus:

I don’t know which server you playing JumblyJebus, but it must be the best server

Situation on my server:
1. Orr: dead – I know it was before, but I mean nearly no players
2. Other dungeons: Best you have a long friends list, if you wanna go somewhere else!
3. WvW: don’t know but actually you can directly join at the primetime. We had one hour or more queue before!

And I play on a high/full server.

I stay and log in from time to time, play an hour or less, but I don’t like where they actually going and their whole new philosophie isn’t my thing. I’m simply bored by the same, typical MMO stuff, they try to sell us as their concept.

In my opinion they lied and therefore I don’t believe anything anymore they say, until I see it for myself. Arenanet is just another game developer.

4. Different stuff:
I don’t wanna say everything is bad and Arenanet doing everything wrong. I love the world, I love the quaggan, I love the colors (but what the h.. happened with the unidentified color droprate?), I love the events, I love the dungeons, I just love this game, but it annoys me and some points make me only sad.

Major cities: Without LA the major cities had been a place where you met. It’s really, really sad, that everything is concentrating to LA. Why is every event in LA? I love especially DR. It’s the most beautiful city in an MMO I ever seen. The love for the little details is amazing and as a saw it the first time I was mesmerized. But nowadays there aren’t any players. Why should there? The new dungeon is in LA. If you wanna do other stuff: go to LA, cause there are the shortest ways and better mention it twice, there is the new dungeon.

World completion: I am an explorer. I love to walk through the world without knowing where I exactly go. And so I was really exicted as I saw there’s an achievement for exploring the world and also a title for doing this (I don’t get it: What does a title bring, if you only can see it, when you click on a player? – but’s another little issue). Normally this had been the first goal for me to get a 100% map completion, but not in GW2. I don’t like WvW. Mostly because of two reasons: a) my game gets really laggy, if there are to many players – b) I kinda miss the aspect of fun in running 10min. along a road for a vista only to be killed by two thief, who love to camp infront of this vista.
And sorry Arenanet: I don’t get it either, what exactly is the difference between WvW and sPvP Maps? As far as I know their both a part of the mists, not Tyria directly. So why the h.. am I forced to steal a WvW player his place to run around for map completion?

That are some little things more that just annoy me, but nobody is perfect, not even a game.

Final thoughts:
I’m to attached to this game, to take the same road as many of the people I brought to GW2. Otherwise I would play another game, where I can collect mounts. But nearly 100 days (or as my best friend and I called it: Happy GW2 day – We really didn’t said good morning on the headstart-day, we wished a “Happy GW2 day”) after the headstart I’m disillusioned. I trusted Arenanet with this game and they built a great and beautiful game, but I see it turn more and more into the same ol’ thing, the same boring, grindy MMO as all others on the market.
When somebody asked me, before Halloween, why I play this game, my answer was:
“Because it’s fun. I love this game. There’s no running for better items, the people are very nice and we do a lot of things together and just having fun.”
Nowadays: “I’m bored. There are no new episodes (tv-shows) online and I can’t afford to buy Assassins Creed III this month. But there’s no one online from my guild, I think I go offline too. I don’t wanna go fractals again, I don’t wanna run this dungeon again and again only for better stats.”

PS: Please don’t write anything like: Why are you whining? Stop playing!
I know that I could do this, but I think a forum is for thoughts and this are my thoughts. There aren’t happy, there aren’t positive, but I hope they maybe been read by anyone who could think about, what I wrote and if it’s somebody who could change anything they maybe change anything or if it’s a normal customer, he/she maybe share his thoughts as well.
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How are your thoughts nearly 100 days after headstart? Do you have the same experience? Are you disillusioned as well (from the game, Arenanet)? Or I’m to harsh with my criticsm?

2. Items:
In this section I might make the one or another quote from a dev, I heard over the years. The qoutes are maybe not the exact words they used, but for sure the exact meaning (because I have a good memory, but I can’t memorize every word exactly).

Thanks for the wardrobe in sPvP and bwe I was able to see quite a lot of the equipment before start of the game and (that might sound weird as well) my focus is still on “how I look, not how good the stats are”. So, I was aware, that there aren’t many, let’s say dresses, that I like in the game. Ok! That’s my own problem. Don’t blame Arenanet for this situation. But I found something and don’t get me wrong the dungeons are nice designed. Twilight Arbor was the dungeon of my choice. And as an elementalist TA wasn’t ever anywhere near something like fun (I hate you still little blossoms), but grinding through this dungeon on the 30st time (anytime I stoped counting) only to get this set for myself and some guild members, who weren’t that lucky to get a full reward – never got the missing tokens back btw. – I started to think about this sentence – quote: “we don’t make a grindy game” unquote… But 25h of stupid mobkilling later for a semi-good-looking staff, – with full magic find equip and the support of my whole guild – I came to a conclusion: “Yes Arenanet, whatever!”

Ok it’s seems impossible to make a MMO without grinding, or the nicer term “farming”. I can live with that.

Then came this – let’s call it – interesting update with the karka (I still don’t know what and why and whatever). There had been rumors about new items. I in my naivety I thought: “Yeah.. new cloth. I need a new pair of shoes. And so fast after release! I need an Arenanet employee, I wanna kiss him. dance” And then came reality: “Oh they only add backs and rings. Ok sadface” – A little bit later: “What they are better than exotic?? turned into a living question mark” At this point, I wanna quote a dev (I believe it was a press beta vid from yogscast, but I’m not sure anymore): “it’s all about style.. you shouldn’t rely on dropluck”. Now I’m a bit confused. If I’m informed right, the new stuff isn’t except for the semi-nice-looking-back, even visible and the only purpose to get these new items is, not because of their style, but rather because of their stats and they (except the back) drop. But maybe that’s only for me a little bit weird.

Therefore my thoughts to items:
I can’t understand this 180° change Arenanet. You told your community over years: “It’s all about style” and a few weeks after release you claim you never said anything like this. Ok maybe quite a lot – me including – understood you wrong, but seriously I don’t believe I understood one of the major points, therefore I gave you my money month before even a release date was confirmed, wrong. For this bad “information transfer” another: —-> <—- for you from me

3. Item-Shop:
I love the shop, it gives me the opportunity to support Arenanet, without beeing forced to do this with a subscription fee. Hm no I would love it, if I was able to buy gems. I find it a little bit sad, that there aren’t many methods for payment. I’m not a fan of paypal and (sorry I don’t live in America, where everyone has a credit card) I don’t have a credit card. So I’m forced to change my ingame gold into gems or ask my best friend to get her payment data (paysafe-cards as an option would be lovely), when I want to buy anything. But seriously there’s not a lot I even want to buy. I hoped for a nice dress, like those who the noble women in DR wearing, as town clothing, or a dwayna dress, but nope the community needs more silly hats or a green-colors-pack.

Therefore my thoughts to the item-shop:
A very good idea, but I think it would be better if you:
1. more payment methods involve
2. bring stuff into it, that people really want: i.e. more and better skins for equipment, real town-cloth, color packs for grey hue (white, black are the most popular colors)
3. no more lying about black lion chests and their “certain” chance to get a new and incredible skin (Halloween) – You maybe sold a lot of keys at this event, but do you really think anyone would believe you again? I’m so happy I don’t fell for this marketing lie.

And I still believed it in bwe 1-3. Now are nearly 100 days gone, since the game had his headstart and my thoughts about the game changed significant.

1. Customer Support:
It felt like every small, even in the none-english forums, suggestion i.e. preview function (only four, five posts in our forum) had been seen and (that might sound weird) used to make the game better. This changed in my opinion dramatically. In the case of my forum especially there had to be nearly (more or less it was) a s…storm, because quite a lot of people shared the same opinion: “A-Net isn’t interested in us and our opinion anymore”. Seriously what should anyone think, other than this, if there had been (on the deepest point) 8 posts from any official Arenanet employee for the whole week. It’s getting better, but it’s still far from good.

I didn’t write anything anymore in the forum, because normally I write a lot (because just writting: “everything is kitten” brings nothing in my opinion) and I don’t wanna waste my time writing criticisms about different parts of the game (always with the purpose to make the game better), that they could be deleted, with flimsy reasons
i.e. I wrote a while ago a cynical tale about the whole bot problem. It was inspired by something that happend in our guild and what I saw every day in frostgorge sound. It wasn’t nice, it maybe hurt, but it was true and it was written in a way that in my opinion maybe had better chances to be seen than a normal post. I became a lot of positive feedback and I suggest this was the problem. My post got deleted, because I attached a screenshot to it. It was my mistake, I didn’t know that bots, with such beautiful names, slip under the “no name calling agenda”.

Ok there is a “edit” button in the forum and even if it had been to much efford for the people we pay to edit it themselves (just took the screen out), I had gladly deleted it myself if I could. But no, better delete the whole post, that took me only quite a while to create. As I asked why I hadn’t the opportunity to edit it, because it wasn’t never on purpose that I broke this “rule”, I got defamed (from our community manager), that my only goal was to save my missdeed with the rule-conform part. In this moment I was nearly on the point to write: “What do you thinking? I pay for you! A part of my money goes in your car, your appartment, your food. And for sure, your not in the position to talk to me like this!” But I am a adult and I know the consequences of such a post in our forum. People got a ban for less. On some points it was like a sellout: “Oh you annoying me, here a 72h ban! What you point with the finger on other people, because they post racial and homophob posts, and after three days we haven’t delete this post, here a 72h ban for free! And hey as an bonus this persons post still exists and he doesn’t get a ban!” On this point I thought: “No sorry, I don’t want talk with you anymore Mr. Community Manager, because you have no clue what you doing and for sure you haven’t ever worked with customers on a professional level in your life!” So I tried it with two different emails – one to forums@.. and one to community@.. – every time explaining and explaining the whole situation in our forum etc., always hoping that somebody would notice it. This was over a month ago, I didn’t get any answer. Not even a “thank you for your email”.(And I’m not the only one, who did this and never got an answer)

Therefore my thoughts to community managment (especially non-english): ??? I saw a lot of bad support (I worked a long time in customer support), community managment (however you wanna call it), but this must be the brand-new costumer support from hell! And finally my new dearest justification for editing a post: “edited, because of criticising the moderator”
Your reward Arenanet, from me for you for this glorious accomplishment: —-> <——

(if there’s allready a topic with the same content, please move the post – wasn’t able to find it)

First I want to apologize if there are any grammar mistakes or misspelled words, because english isn’t my native language.

But, there are quite a few reasons, that make me believe, my thoughts have a better chance to be seen here, than in my “own” forum.

First things first: My GW2 journey started quite a while ago. I think the first announcement, that there will be a GW2 was 2007 (but I’m actually not sure anymore – let’s say a long time ago). Over the last years I heard a lot and I consumed every piece about GW2 I was able to find. I believe, I saw every interview, preview, press-beta-test etc. I could find on youtube. I fell more and more in love with the game, but I still listened carefully to every word the developers said, because I knew/know that talking is easy, doing not. But still, I preordered it at the same day it could be preordered on amazon (january 2012) and changed it immediately into a prepurchase version. I believed what the developers said (that it was a great game), because they had so much excitement in their voices, when they talked about their game. So I thought: “here take my money Arenanet, I believe in what you doing”

@Jestunhi:

There are so many. I can’t even get one hit on their “prey”.

Solid Gold.9310:

Expect to see many more bots in the future, long lines of them, so many crammed together you won’t be able to see the names to report them.

This is allready happening on Kodash. Frostgorge Sound – 20 or more bots on one place. I couldn’t even report them all, because my pc started the “big dragon mode”. That means I can only see some of them and then they vanish and I see others.

It’s impossible to farm any stuff as an normal player. I would like to craft something, but because of the “bot-war” (it’s like they conquer whole maps), I can’t find any tokens.