Guild Wars 2

This latest patch just bugged the hell out of dungeon parties. I mean after a run, me and my mates can’t re-run CoF or any other dungeon because we just get a stupid and idiotic bug where some of us can’t simply enter the dungeon in “Explorable Mode” and others enter but can’t see anyone inside the dungeon. Also, sometimes when we try to enter the dungeon it gives us an error regarding to something like “Party split.”.
I still didn’t understand if this is the so called “Diminished System” or if it’s just a awful coding from Anet.

Basically what you’re telling me is this: “Yes, you can run CoF in 30min or less. So the system will prohibit you to farm again by not letting you go inside the dungeon.”
This is becoming more and more a different Anet style that we were used to on the glorious Guild Wars 1.

Such a shame.

Development

Trading-post – Web Browser
This is really an ambitious feature that would transform and evolve the in-game economy. The idea is to develop the platform that would also support the “Trading-post” via web browser. I don’t really know if the in-game “Trading-post” is based on this concept, but it would be such an amazing step to develop and give to us players, the possibility to search, buy and sell items.
Basically, since every player has an account that can login your official site, we would also have access to some kind of section inside our account where it would be possible to make transactions regarding to the “Trading-post”. Obviously the “pick up” items would be the same, in-game, but the items would be pending until we logged in into the game.
Like I said, this is an ambitious feature and ArenaNet should consider some pros and cons. I can think of a few attempts in order to DDoS your servers or hacking the “Trading-post” system. But then again, to use this feature it would be always necessary to login with an authenticated Guild Wars 2 account.

Cellphone – Trading-post App
In some quick words, this app would allow us to once more logged in on the “Trading-post” and make the usual transactions or just to search for items and it’s attributes for future purchases.

Character Customization System
This feature would be something similar to the character customization we have at the beginning of the game when creating the character. It’s really heartbreaking to not be able to change appearance (face, eyes, mouth, body structure, hair, etc.) forever. For example, in my case, I become to realize I wanted my Norn Guardian to be a lot more tall and with a bigger body (muscles). Now that I’m level 80 and farming dungeons with other players, I really feel disproportional as a Guardian and I wanted to change that even if it was necessary to trade for some gold or gems.
Basically the character customization system would allow us to remake our character in exchange for gold or gems. I believe this can be accomplish really easy by just adding an NPC called “Character Customization” in the main cities (Lion’s Arch, Hoelbrak, Kryta, The Groove, Rata Sum) of the Guild Wars 2 world map.
Please, make this happen because it would be a really interesting feature. Everyone love their main characters and I’m pretty sure everyone would love them even more if they could change and improve their physical appearance.

Guild Hall and/or Training Arena
In Guild Wars we were used to have a thing called “Guild Hall” where we could reunite for PvP (TA – Team Arenas and GvG – Guild Vs Guild), it was our personal corner with all the investments in NPCs, etc. But now, we just have “Heart of the Mists” where people travel to and do structured PvP.
So, this idea could be one of two things:

1. Allowing the creation of PvP rooms with passwords in the “Heart of the Mists” for duelling and even training some skill builds and different strategies with guild members. This perhaps could be the easiest way of implementing this feature, although the number of PvP rooms in the “PvP Browser” would drastically increase, so maybe creating a specific NPC for these types of room would be wise.
2. The other solution would be to create effectively the “Guild Hall” and within it we should be able to enter some kind of “Training Arena” for testing skill builds and different compositions of team setups.

Thanks for reading and as more ideas arise, we will gladly update this topic.

Best regards,

Ohoke No Mikoto

Greetings ArenaNet,

Me and my friends are playing Guild Wars 2 and really enjoying every bit of it. While playing it we came across some interesting and new ideas that may also please the community. So, we felt it’s our turn to share with all of you what could be developed, improved and implemented.

Improvements

Trading-post – Filtering System
I believe the creation of the “Trading-post” was to facilitate the sell and buy of a variety of items, which is already possible, but in our opinion it lacks on a better filtering system.
The most important filters just don’t exist, which are filtering by type of armor. There should be a combo box that refined the search by: Light, Medium and Heavy armors. This is a really easy thing to implement on the “Trading-post” and it would be an awesome feature that would buy us time instead of passing the mouse pointer on every single item just to find what we really want.
Along with the above improvement, would also be nice to have some combo boxes were each player could choose items with specific attributes, for instance: condition damage, % of critical damage, power, precision, toughness, vitality, etc. I know this requires an exhaustive inventory about all the attributes we can find in the game on armor pieces, runes and weapons, but these tinny and crucial things would make everyone experience more consistent and easier.

PvE and PvP
In structured PvP, it would be awesome if players could play on the same team as a party, instead of going to each different team randomly. I know we can change teams inside the arena, but it’s not possible to do that every time because of the auto-balance. There’s no point on making a party in the “Heart of the Mists” when you choose a PvP room and each player goes to different teams.

I don’t understand why you blame the computer specs. Are you serious?

So let me elucidate all of you for simple facts:

1. Why do I only lag between 6 to 8 P.M. GMT?
2. Through 9 to 11 P.M. GMT everything works just fine, no lag at all.
3. I play this game along with some friends on the above times and we also lag like hell and can’t play Guild Wars 2.
4. Since we cannot play Guild Wars between 6 to 8 P.M. GMT we go play other games, like League of Legends or World of Tanks and we don’t lag at those games, perhaps is not problem of our connection (sarcasm off).
5. The lags started to happen this week and yesterday I did CoF dungeon and every single player in my party had the same issue, lag lag lag lag lag lag.
6. I have a good computer with all the latest drivers, a desktop: i5 2500k, 560GTX Ti 2GB, 8GB RAM.

Really, don’t judge what you don’t know, those answers blaming the computer or the person behind the computer are just simple and idiotic. I know what I’m talking about, trust me. Also, like I said, I’m not the only one having this issue. So don’t blame me like I’m the only one lagging on the kitten game.

The server where I play is Seafarer’s Rest.

Also, I live on the farthest side of Western Europe, Portugal.
I really would like for Anet to look into this. It reminds me the first hour of the first beta, everyone trying to log-in and impossible to play.

Hello ArenaNet,

I’m a player from Western Europe and your server quality is really getting my nerves. So the problem is when we reach the time 6 P.M GMT, it’s completely impossible to play Guild Wars 2 and this not my connection problem because I have 100mbit internet and I’m not the only one complaining, other players from different countries of Europe also complain about the lagging issues. I believe the main reason for this to happen is related to the spike of logging into the game, since we’re talking about afternoon when people get home from work or school and want to play the game.
What I really would enjoy was for a better server quality because this situation is really annoying. Add new servers, add new capacity, just do something. We want to play with decent ping and not pressing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, skills and nothing happening in the game. I really hate when I’m killing a mob and everything freezes and then BOOM I’m dead, all the skill effects happening at the same time and really quick because of the annoying lag.

Hope you read this and once again, this is not only my problem, a lot of players suffer from this issue too.

Best regards,

K E N Z O V I S K I

Hello ArenaNet,

I just came here to this topic to leave my comment about the patch updates regarding to dungeons, with special attention to Citadel of Flames – CoF, and I just wanted to say that it’s absolutly frustrating playing this way. I mean, this is completely idiotic turning a fun and fast run into 2 hours of dispair. I tried this about a minute ago and my group couldn’t end the dungeon, what a perfect waste of my time. I also would like to say one thing, instead of nerfing fun stuff, upgrade your fricking servers cause everytime at afternoon GMT everyone lags like hell and the game is unplayable.

Really, I’m so angry with this crap I want to uninstall the game… You see, I have a job and I can’t farm like all the kids on vacation from school that already have the fricking full set, this action you took is totally unfair for those like me that actually have a life and can’t farm 24/7. What are the actions you going to take towards players that already have the full set and abused of the supposed bugs in CoF that made you nerfed it? Ouh let me answer that for you, NONE. They will still have the set and laugh to the faces of people that don’t have it.

But hey, this post will be useless since you won’t read it and won’t do anything about it.

Like everybody else, I too have the right to rage in this thread, so enjoy my post.

Goodbye.