Guild Wars 2

Hey, I’m also very dissapointed by this annonc.

You pretend that you listen to your fans, yet the dev. plan is quite the other way.
Ppl talk over and over and over about:

- WvW update
- fractal update
- new legendaries (but not mace, axe, shortbow or pistol no one uses – sword, greatsword is the main target!)
- yes they keep talking about dungeons, maybe because lot of ppl love them???
- raids are still the issue, not only new wings but rewards and access. for new players
- LFG system is a JOKE! this is worse than 10-15 years ago lfg chat system, srsly even SWTOR made it better before you.
- legendary fractal backpack – let ppl wait 6-12 months to get it… ?
- legendary armor – lot of my friends already want to skip that because of time-gate on that stupid Faction Provisioners – wth? Provisioner Tokens – worst idea of the year. FOCUS on making legendary armor/weapons a challange not farming. You are making your content just more and more plain farm not achievement or adventure, thats rly bad.
- PvP leauge is another farm place, not fun at all. Where are new pvp maps? How can this mode be interesting with 0 reaction to terrible metagame? Where are new pvp maps? and once again check where are new pvp maps

- GvG and Hero Ascent – this modes maked GW1 legendary game. Put this on your board and ask yourself a question why nothing in GW2 make ppl excited like that 2 modes in GW1

Neural.1824:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If you guys really want a lower price then you should be campaigning to reduce the price of T3-5 dust. There are millions and millions of lower tier crystals that are flooding the market, but they can’t be upgraded because dust is too expensive.

Instead of asking for flat out price nerfs that will never happen in 1000 years, look for the root causes of the prices, in this case, dust, and ask for the drop rate there to be changed.

Of course the devs already know this, which is why radiant dust has dropped 50% in price the last month since its drop rate was adjusted. Now they just need to add another source and do similar things for T3 and 5 dust.

This is the best suggestion so far.

yes + incandescent dust direct drop from something + orbs/crests as perma drop from dungeon chest

I know legendaries are expensive. I think most of material cost / recipes for legendary weapons are ok. I think collections for precursors are well designed and all steps and materials work fine.

But this Amalgamated Gemstones??? This is disaster!

There is no way this will end up good in current system. I just sold my 50 AG and gave up making them. The price now is 4-4.2g on market with 3.6-3.7 buy orders. The price on orbs is arround 36-38s, crests 32-33s. You need 9orbs/crests for 1 AG, there is no way their price will drop – you can’t farm them and the lower tiers will rise as chain reaction.

Please look into this

same problem here, I just cant finish my personal story, because it disconnected me 3 times and graphic card crashed one time. bad thing is its not short story but the longer one. this is just ridiculous I can’t reconnect to my instance…

Same problem, from PL this time…

Salonikios.3154:

I would be less harsh on them about an expansion if only the world had something new for me to discover that i didnt play,see or interact with.
The world is far too small and the areas that are level 80 are just 2 if u exclude dry top and silverwastes….

hmm I disagree with that. The new maps are really well thinked and I know it means lot of work for dev team. Good job with that! Its really another level of game map developing. Dry Top could keep you attracted for a long time and Silverwastes can do that too. Its multilevel masterpiece if you really explored it good and pay attention to details. Dynamic Events work very well – these maps are best achiev of last year.

The problem is we need something more than that and much more faster. So it means ArenaNet need to hire another good dev teams to deliver. Team for dungeons, team for fractals, big team for WvW, hardcore team for GvG, team for Guild Halls, team for new pvp maps, etc.

You can deliver that if you have money to pay those people for they work. There is already good team for story, pve map creating and excellent team for graphics and new 3d models. But thats not enough to keep such big project as GW2 alive for years.

Thats why I think expansion would be such a financial boost to pay those ppl.

What expansion should bring? I will repeat myself. Things that are vital to the game and asked not only in forums but in game chat, guild chat, reddit, etc.
- new dungeons and fractals
- new elite skills, utility skills and new weapons or weapons mods that change single weapon skill
- Guild Halls
- GvG – my suggestion: WvW for 10-15 players on smaller maps (guild halls?) with many objectives, forcing teamwork, npcs, etc.
- improved sPvP – my suggestion: new Hero Ascent mode for team PvP (5-6 players), existing maps for solo PvP (random) + new maps
- mounts
- WvW is so unique and great that its a shame how its developing. This mode needs epic team that can unleash its potential. WvW looks so deserted, last season was sad, ppl are bored to the bone. WvW needs attention!
- legendary weapons were goal for players for a long time, why not make another legendary weapons and armors?
- hardcore difficulity content for best players. Something you need try for several hours in good team to complete. Elite instance with extreme level of difficulity with acc bound elite rewards (awarded only once with normal chest afterwards?)
- and kitten – make weapons dyeable…

This game really need it. I was 3 month absent in GW and catched up in one night all the content and 3 new LS episodes…
My personal top 10 this game needs:
- new skills: elite, utility, maybe modify on weapons or all weapons av. for each class
- guild halls
- GvG, I would accept GvG in form of 10-15 WvW on smaller maps with maps designed for teamwork
- Hero Ascent team PvP
- expand WvW – its great but it stucked long time ago, need heavy support to became something GW2 would really shine for years
- new dungeons
- mounts
- Cantha
- raids
- new legendary weapons / armors

The main reason Living Story will not deliver it in time – MONEY
They need huge money boost to kick this game to another level. No way they will be able to do that anytime soon without expansion.
Why this works? Check SWTOR – latest expansion bringed thousands of players back, there was moment you couldn’t buy new expansion coz the payment system was overflooded. It was not cheap and expansion was not so big but still players knew its the only way this game will move on, and it moved, alive and kicking now.
ArenaNet! Just take my money and do it!

sonicwhip.9052:

There are a lot of new things that an expansion can deliver to the core game
-Player housing
-GvG
-New races
-New classes
-New weapons for each class
-New utility and elite skills
-New crafting disciplines
-Raids
-Massively expand WvW, new structures,siege weapons,etc.
-New continent
-Expand the personal story
-Guild halls
-Level cap increase
-Player ships and sailing, sea based zones
-New dungeons

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This!

capes were cool

I know that new features in game need some tests and time to be good, but why they ruin all good ideas from Guild Wars 1???

- birthday present was cool enough in GW1 so in GW2 they decided to give us crap for first ann and now even bigger crap for second ann – wth? where is my random mini?

- GvG was the most awesome part of GW1 so they decided to not make it at all!
I think its not so hard to do – just think about smaller WvW maps for 8-12 players, maps size of guild halls in GW1

- speaking about guild halls – yea, they were cool, so lets not make them at all

- alliances were cool in GW1, linking 10 guilds together so this helped avoiding guild merging and friends splitting… so they not maked it at all in GW2 and created system that supports creating guild for 100+ players only and best strategy is zerg…

- no system for guild recruiting, no server chat, they finally added LFG system but ofcourse without guild support – good luck with guild recruitment by spamming all maps all day long

This is not Guild Wars, this is single player PvE with other single players and zerg vs zerg face-roll WvW. I will not speak about PvP in GW2 vs PvP in GW1 because its just sad.

Sunbirds leave their dark recesses
Shadows glide the archways

Do not turn your face towards me
Confronting me with my loneliness
You are in a forest unknown
The secret orchard
And your voice is vast and achromatic
But still so precious

Lullaby of the crescent moon took you
Mesmerized, its kaleidoscopic face
Granted you a hollow stare
Another soul within the divine herd

The night…
A veil of stars, watching
My shadow is born from light
The light of the eye, in darkness

Over troubled waters memories soar
Endlessly, searching night and day
The moonlight caresses a lonely hill
With the calmness of a whisper

I wear a naked soul
A blank face in the streaming water
It is cold in here
Frost scar my coat with dust

If you like playing at night (21-22+ 3-4 AM) and you prefer
dark/gothic mood or Steampunk or metal music or just like such climat…
then I want invite you to SOTHIS guild.
Activity – Living Story, achievements, deep exploration of new places, Edge of the Mists – for fun, fractals/dungeons if bored, WvW on Gandara, or whatever we want to do.

- would you like explore dark places in dark outfits?
- do you like playing casual with no stress?
- don’t like to turn off your music because guild demands you to be on voice communicator?
- like to do variety of things not just farming ‘best’ way?
- no problem if you are not experienced – we have done almost everything in this game and we can help if needed or to get some achievement
- would like to do new LS stuff for 120%
- enjoying Dry Top?
- love mesmer class?
- like to play when you have time and not be forced to miss party because of guild missions at weekends or other stupid regulations?

want to join? have questions? message me – Nivelis.8763

Preview of the inspiration book.
Introduction + Dominium and Elizium factions description with examples.

(translated fast)

Dominium
The oldest and most powerful faction among all. Masters of domination magic. Their powerful abilities allow them to use very strong suggestion, control and evocation of emotions. In result they can control actions of chosen target by preventing it from doing something or even reverse action to target itself.
The nature of these skills quickly made them the ruling faction. For many centuries, from the total domination stops them only their own ambition. Internal disputes and constant struggle for influence and power keeps the fragile balance.
Ritualists are prophesying that there will come a day when ‘Dominium’ will be ruled by a Mesmer so strong that the faction will shake the pillars of reality and the world order.
Their domain is Tyria.

Elizium
The second oldest faction. Masters of illusion magic. They can control the perception, the cumulative effects can lead to strong emotional reactions. Their abilities are not only the constructs, illusions, visions and images that change the reality. They can act with direct effect on the brain causing confusion and a strong curvature of the perception of their actions, the environment or time. The second strongest faction, which has enormous power, but much smaller ambitions than Dominion. Strong individuals, devoted creators, artists, sometimes lost inside their own minds, inner worlds. The oldest mesmers from this faction due to the nature of this magic, have sometimes problems with the perception of reality, schizophrenia, or even madness.
Their domain is Tyria but their very often travel arround the world, alone or with good company, never finding place for long.

Hello,

As a big mesmer fan I’m playing mesmer as main character from several years in GW1/GW2. I was looking for all graphics, fanart and related pictures to create my own cosplay. I am photographer but I will create my own mesmer costume some day :P Last year my dream come true when I organized first big photoshoot event inspired by mesmer class. It was really cool and now is time to share some of this artwork with you. I hope you will like it and Im really looking for some mobilization to make more, now Im mesmerized by my own inner demons :P

So, basing on Guild Wars, I created my own ‘mesmer’ world (galaxy?) and taked mesmer story step further to imagination. There was inspiration document where I wrote story about mesmers divided to ‘houses’ – factions. So we have ‘Dominium’ (domination mesmers), ‘Elizium’ (illusion, artists, circus), ‘Venice’ (old mesmer faction that traveled to other dimension, to planet called Earth, they fighted with Dominium for power and lost), ‘Shadow’ (dark and mysterious faction witch is working ‘behind the curtains’ to keep ballance), ‘Mystics and Ritualists’ (tradition, rites, spirituality, etc), ‘Miraluka’ (another faction that lost with Dominium and traveled to a galaxy far far away).

This document was base (with lot of illustrations) for creating costumes for the event. The results were amazing and there was over 30 mesmers. The event was titled ‘Mesmers Gathering’ and it took place in gothic park ‘Arkadia’ and Nieborow Palace, Poland.

Here is first character, costume was created by my friend ‘Sumire’. She is very talented costume crafter, stylist and model
In attachment – small version as a preview for you.
Bigger version in hq:
http://nivelis.deviantart.com/art/Mesmerized-460505743

Hello,

I read about tickets review delay as reason of sending few tickets. I think this system should be updated because I think people are confused right now and there is lot of multiple tickets. Maybe option to create ‘chat or channel’ for single account would be some idea. My case: I created ticket #559606 and later wanted to update it with additional info, so I followed advice in confirmation mail “To add information to your request, simply reply to this email”. So I replied and this created another ticket #565215. I was really worried about this case so after waiting another 2 days I asked about my case status by… creating another ticket in process, yea that was my mistake but it’s not obvious to use boards when you desperatly look for help after account compromise.
It has been few days now, more than 8 since account compromise, so I would really like to merge my tickets and ask kindly for your help with my case (tickets #559606 + #565215).

Decided to write here after I received mail “Request #570779: How would you rate the support you received?”. uhhhh

This one made me angry.

Yeah, sure ‘last logged in’ will be good, would be even better with ‘last represented’.
But if we are talking about ‘social play improvements’ I just have two questions:

WHERE ARE GUILD ALLIANCES ?

WHERE IS ALLIANCE CHAT ?

GW2 not only support zerg playing but also forces ppl to play in zerg guilds for some coordination. Its so stupid to msg dozens of ppl to make some organized play (guild missions, WvW) so ppl are leaving their guilds and friends to sit in biggest PvE/WvW guild that is possible -.-

Now I can’t even log in to game. Changed ports (port forward) and disabled security.

error code now – 7:11:3:191:101

And its really shame what concept art they’re putting off. This all are 30min-60min sketches for dev meeting not graphic to be proud of. We deserve some art from time to time, browsing official gallery I see this is going bad.

It would not hurt to make some graphic and cosplay contest

we need expansion for proper and big dev team. right now is just not enough ppl, money and timework to see something really good in this game.

This game really needs some well paid, talented persons to move forward. Ascended armor was a big red card for concept and 3d artists and last time we have seen some good new concepts was Aetherblades and Zephyr Sanctum. New maps, monsters, weapons, armors with more stunning music – it must be new expansion. I wish its Cantha 2015

I never had issues with disconnect or heavy lag. Today I can’t play at all, heavy lag in game and dc, or just instant dc

code=58:11:5:523:101

yup, we need Cantha!

Kaineng City was not good but overall Factions expansion was good. With teaser of how Jade Sea would look now I just can’t wait to explore it all!

New Echovald Forest with some talented 3d artists and good money for music and effects can be easly one of the best locations in all mmorpgs ever. In GW1 it was very atmospheric and long remembered, use this good concept well and thousands of players will come to see it new graphics

My mesmer with his gf Liadri
mask+chest – Arah
pants – human t3
gloves – acolyte
boots – zojja’s ascended
shoulders – embroidered mantle (still searching for more awesome)
back – teq wings or sclerite karka shell

weapons – Twilight + asc sword (searching for proper skin) + steam gizmo focus (transm.)

Mel ryuzaki.1402:

- New legendaries;
- Crafting Precurssor (both of them were promised in 2013);
- Diversity of skills for weapons (i remember how i spent hours making builds on gw1);
- Stop grinding events (we are people not hamsters who walk in the same wheel for hours, this also gives a image of lazyness in the content production);
- Bosses with lower HP but harder to kill ( i’m not saying all bosses should be like Tequatl, but hitting the boss for loads of times doesnt make it harder, instead it kills the player with boredom xD);
- Hoping boss scaling to work good or remove it (“Oh 10 players coming, let me get loads of hp so they waste more time on me”, this just removes the “reality” that we all expect to feel playing a mmo);
- New and fun content, expansions;
- Armors that can be obtained or crafted in special areas (remember FoW armor? besides being costly being on FoW and having to do some quests first, just spiced it up and just felt better to wear it, also if it’s a place hard to reach just increases the pleasure of wearing that armor);
- Bring the GW armors and weapon designers back to gw2, because 70% of the skins are a bit bad looking in general, sorry to say;

I strongly agree with this!

I’m still waiting (hoping) to see:

- Guild vs Guild PvP : could be done as mini-scale WvW – Guild Houses for 8-15 teams
This was the best thing in GW1 I still can’t understand why Guild Houses, Alliances, Alliance chat and GvG is not present in GW2.

- Hero Ascent PvP : the idea of HA was awesome, properly done will be 1000% better than spvp, could be done for 6 player teams.
SPvP in fact is like AB and maybe this is a reason GW2 is not so popular for pvp players like GW1 was (and still is for some of them!)

- new classes
- new weapon skills and ability to change weapon skill bar
- all weapons for all classess, I want axe on my mesmer!
- Cantha and Elona

We want Anet to learn that overflow is bad, random system and it needs some changes.
I want to play with my friends, guild, not with random upset ppl! I want to do events like Tequatl, Marionette, Wurm, without afk 1-2h. Its so simple – for large bossess make raid/instances for guilds/teams/players – it works so well in other mmorpg, why it would not work here?
For world/map large scale events make districts, so I can switch to district 24 (like in GW1) to join my guild mates! I dont want to be put random to overflow that already have dozens of players that are not making event because they dont want to be on that overflow, so the event fails…

Its killing this game, Karka was a warning, Tequatl was yellow card, Wurm/Marionette was frustration festival, now we have grand finale HOW BAD overflow is after so many players switched servers to more populated, just to be able to play this game properly in other content…

weapons would be best, WvW deserves some nice weapon set inspired by medieval wars and historic sieges etc. WvW reminds me of that battles in XIII-XV century, you almost feel them! Crusader heavy armor? Templars longsword? all with scratches, dust, blood, smoke, etc. that weapon got during all that WvW battles – that would be awesome and memorable reward

lordkrall.7241:

Exactly, which means that with awesome rewards it would be pointless to play WvW on any server other than those that would most likely win, since you would be more or less constantly outmanned and never have much of a chance of winning.
Which is my point.

no sir, thats not the point

Rewards should be quite the same for all servers. Like unique weapon/armor skins or tokens for uniqe price, 1 exotic weapon/armor, 50 gold, 20 lauerls, 500 badges of honor. Winners should get bonus like finishers, and thats ok, and maybe 5% more tokens/materials/gold for each place

good film about reward

:D

I agree with this. We have done big job to bring players back to game and motivate PvE players to join our effort. We spent many nights in game to fight for our place in league. Achievements took several hours to get them and some of them took additional time, because we had other strategic things to do all the time, to keep our server up.

I want to tell this – rewards for dozens of hours in WvW are INSULTING. We were second place in silver league… This game is so demotivating I cant belive Im still playing. You know what? I want be playing season 2 and just beacause I love GW1 I will check updates, but this was last time (after living world prooved to be schematic) I believed developers in something.

- why rewards are demotivating?
- why loot bags are still droping on ground?
- why I cant craft legendary after one year of playing and half year of having all gifts but precursors are still RNG?
- why there is no chance for me for ascended armor after one ascended sword ruined all my materials, money and time?
- why RNG rewards are in game that promised not to be grind (and mystic forge, wvw level, fractal chest and other rng system frustrated so many ppl you cant imagine)
- why after 7 weeks of playing WvW and hours spent to fight I got 3 rare weapons and 4 greens? WTF!!! I have more loot after 30min champ train in Frostgorge – you want champ farm to be strongest and most interesting part of game? or maybe CoF p. 1 speed run or fractals lvl 30 gear check, achievement points check?

Now I wish this game will end as SWTOR, maybe then you will start to respect your players…

I can’t belive this is still not in game? Why, I think its easy to do (with team chat already in game)? up!

As a long-term GW1 player, I also feel bad about GW2. Its just like the best things from GW1 were forgotten and throwed away? WHY?

GvG
HA
Guild Halls
observer mode
capes
rewards for pvp that could benefit in PvE (zaishen keys)

Recently we had info about upcoming changes this year. No world about things that kept players playing GW1. Why Guild Wars have no guild wars – GvG???? why!

I think its a good idea +1

It worked in GW1, dunno why its disabled in GW2. I’m for this!

mounts are fun – the main reason they SHOULD be in game, even if its pointless

yeah, and now we get Aether Armor and medium looks perfect on my female Elementalist… WHY, OH WHY I can’t use medium skin on my light armor…

bump this! We need GvG and HA!

GW1 was so good because it was one of the best PvP mmorpg games ever created. Wtf happened? The recipe was so easy – transfer GvG and HA to GW2, make some PvP arenas for 1-4 players and some simple PvE content for relax. It worked in GW1, why it was cutted-off? We got now some interesting PvE game with shooter-like sPvP and very good, but slowly improved, WvW – thats not enough to keep this game alive for 6 months!

Phira.3970:

The ultimate reason why GW max lvl was 20 and people still played it was because of the competitive ranked 8 vs 8 Guild vs Guild or Heroes Ascent. Also, IMO, the pvp in GW1 is better.

They did said they are working on them, but I can’t believe they didn’t release at least GVG at launch since the title is “Guild Wars.”

Yeah, I agree completely. GW2 without GvG is something incredibly wrong! I don’t know how to do it with GW2 fighting mechanism but I would do it, even if it would be with new rules. I even can imagine bringing back GvG as some sort of game inside game, with old skills, classess and mechanics, entered inside Guild Houses :P

I agree with 1, 2, 5 and 6.

WvW also need some improvement for re-zerging, more reasons to fight in smaller groups.

Commander – oh pls! Why not give them real raid-party mode, 20-25 slots. Mechanism similar to SW:TOR raid would be enough. The party size should be increased to 8-10 for regular players.