Guild Wars 2

sharkswithlazers.7632:

When I heard that you guys finally released the Pre-Purchase for the game, my wife and I rushed to your website to purchase the Heart of Thorns expansion. We don’t care that you chose to give the game free to new players because we’ve spent three years loving your master crafted game. The amount of dedication poured into the making of this MMO is apparent. The quality of life in this MMO greatly surpasses your competition and we have been avid fans of this franchise ever since we discovered it during your pre-release of GW2.

It’s disheartening to us to see that other veteran players are blowing up the forums because they want free stuff. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to put so much effort into making a game and when you finally release the pre-purchase for its expansion that the player base would be so negative and calling you guys “soulless corporate husks” for just trying to market this game.

My point is, I’m super hyped for this expansion, and I’m sorry that rather than hearing from your players about how excited they are as well, you’re getting ragers angry that they didn’t get free stuff.

You should probably read the forums posts before you comment on disgruntled vets.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

You guys literally just had a $10 sale on the core game. That’s as easy as you can make it for new players to “get into it” without ripping every other god kitten player off. The amount of money you guys will lose from disgruntled current players will be much larger than if you just discounted current players.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

Ok then. So seeing as I purchased the core game, could I get the expansion for free? y’know, to make it easier for me to get into it.

So basically new players are going to get both GW2 and HoT at a reduced price because they get the core game with the expac for only $50 while current players of the game will pay $50USD for the expac and something we already had. New players get to have both the core game and expac for $50USD while I spent around 100 NZD and even more on gems (i know i didn’t need to buy gems to enjoy the game, etc) + an additional 70NZD for HoT and a core game i’ll never use?

They shoud make a Pre order version on the Gem Store that players can buy for a reduced price, say 35USD which only includes the expac (and a character slot if they’re feeling generous) and a seperate web page where people not currently playing gw2 can buy HoT and the core game in one package for maybe $60 or so. That, to me seems fair.

Don’t throw a 50USD preorder on an expac we know little about at us and try to make it better with a free version of a game we already own.

Also, $100 dollars for the expac, gems and a bunch of crap that will be redundant within the first few weeks of release is just insane.

Anet seems to have this thing where they either punish or neglect their loyal veteran players to cater to new players for all they know, wont even stick around.

Is it just me or is karma bought equipment always soulbound on acquire? Surely you would know that? (sorry for assuming, its just typically if you’ve played long enough to have an 80, you start to notice a trend in the karma items)
Just unlock the skins in your wardrobe and then forge the items themselves

Ranger are not OP at all. So stupid to think so.
You have to be a huge idiot not to be able to counter the “OP Ranger’s”. So many things to avoid the RF’s or just flat out kill the ranger in seconds.
Dodge once – Evaded half of the RF
Projectile Reflection – Make him kill himself
Retaliation – See Above
Interrupts – Duh.
Just a few no brainers. Telling Rangers in sPvP/WvW to “L2p” when you cant do any of these is just down right hypocritical. And if you run a straight up damage pew pew build, they go down faster than RF’s animation
Btw, people are only complaining because before this patch, no one liked Rangers so not many people played them in WvW/sPvP. They aren’t used to fighting Rangers so they QQ when they lose to a class they have hardly fought against.
Btw, Btw, Rangers were pretty decent before this patch, I’ve mained a Ranger since launch and had never felt underpowered or useless <—- People who say they were underpowered/useless are sho shilly

Gabe.6810:

I’ve played a decent amount of sPvP both on my Ele and Ranger and had thought everything was okay- I didn’t get too many people whining when I had an off game and I didn’t get too many people complain when I killed them either.

I started playing my thief in sPvP and it’s horrible.
Use heartseeker any amount greater than 0? “HS noob, uninstall”
Fail to take down another class 1v1? “bad”
Fail to get the top of the score board? “lol can’t play ez class”

Playing the thief is definitely much more difficult than my ranger and about as hard as the Ele- what is it about thieves that make people want to whine?

The short version is that a good Thief has complete or atleast quite a lot of control in any fight. People dont like that and they get frustrated leading to QQing.
They have the potential to burst the life out of enemies if you build and play right, other people think its just a innate thief thing (Thiefs naturally have massive amounts of burst/kill potential when that isnt exactly true) and figure “ez class gtfo”
Also blinding, steal, rolling/dodging and shadow stepping can be incredibly annoying but that falls under controlling the fight i suppose

it’s purely condi dmg, duration and healing power (for healing venom)
venom’s dont augment your power stat so there’s no reason for that to be shared

8/10 across the board love the origins for the names

Saira – Sylvari Thief
Ventus – Sylvari Ele