Guild Wars 2

Zenith.6403:

Xenon.4537:

The forums are about the worst place to look for opinions on a game.

- General look at the forums gives a very good impression at both the community and quality of game. What are they talking about? Is there excited discussion about the game or are the players criticizing faults of the game? How much are the developers responding and what kind of answers are they giving?

I tend to disagree with your statement. The population sample is significantly skewed. People who post on the forums are people that want to voice something.

In my personal experience, people are far more likely to feel the need to voice qualms than contentment or joy. It’s as if qualms have a way of prompting people. It’s not even that the game’s full of negativity, it’s just full of activity.

That the forum is active with complaints and suggestions is also misleading. You cannot always tell if the criticism is out of dissatisfaction with the game or coming from someone who loves the game and just wants to nurture it with new ideas and/or fight for representation in their favorite part of the game. Or it could even be that there’s a thousand things about the game they love and one thing they don’t, they don’t feel a need to write about the thousand things they love.

Any chance we’ll ever see more of these for sale? Would love to get Destiny’s Edge announcers, or Scarlet or Faolin or Taimi or anybody, really. Just anything to swap in place of the default announcer.

It’s such an easy sell, too. Look at the success of announcer packs in Dota 2.

Hm… honestly I think there should be a way to track diminishing returns real-time so you know how much it’s affecting you. Like, some sort of debuff/stacks counter.

glock.6590:

Konoha.4613:

Lol, engineer is fine at the highest level. Which is where I believe the game should be balanced.

Last time I checked both NA and EU ToL 2 winners had 2 engis. If stacking engineers is balanced then I don’t know what to say.

Class stacking = imbalance in my opinion. Because obviously nobody will use 2 of the same class if its garbage. People will stack the overpowered one.

Source?

From what I saw NA didn’t stack anything and the EU finals saw 2 guardians stack and cheese mode’s 2 ele 2 war 1 engi comp

Konoha.4613:

Lol, engineer is fine at the highest level. Which is where I believe the game should be balanced.

Bingo

So you’re saying they’re broken because they have a low skill floor. Got it.

witcher.3197:

Oniyui.8279:

I’d like to see a 5v5 tri-lane map and a 3v3 dual-lane map with minions, towers, roaming jungle with small objectives, like a MOBA. Kill for tokens to purchase siege, jungle for resources to build siege, something like that. Could be Skritt minions vs Hylek minions or something along those lines.

If you want to play MOBAs why did you buy an MMO?

Same reason I enjoy king of the hill pvp games and bought an mmo.

There’s actually quite a few genres I’m into, silly kitten. GW2 just seems like it’d meld well with the moba format and bring some much more intense combat to the equation. There’s a lot of elements of mobas in wvw, too, just waiting to be expanded on.

I’d like to see a 5v5 tri-lane map and a 3v3 dual-lane map with minions, towers, roaming jungle with small objectives, like a MOBA. Kill for tokens to purchase siege, jungle for resources to build siege, something like that. Could be Skritt minions vs Hylek minions or something along those lines.

I see potential. For 4, I’d say it needs to work on building up a prize pool.

Celestial’s in a good place IMO. Ferocity could use a slight buff to make up for some of what crit damage was lost in the spring feature patch (which significantly hurt the dps of celestial while raising its survivability via normalizing all the stats – crit damage was way high on it, right up with zerker)

As for might, personally I think the maximum stacks for it on players, as well as stacks of conditions on players, is too high.

at least that’s where I’d go to tinker with nerfs.

ghaleon.2861:

Oniyui.8279:

ghaleon.2861:

Then enjoy the boring bunker celestial cheese comp /thread

Cheese comp… lol. Cheese implies using a minimal effort pattern repeatedly to defeat opponents regularly identified as vulnerable to that pattern, and depending on that pattern. Celestial bunker… is like the opposite of cheese. Zerker rotation-oriented builds… now there’s where to look for cheese.

Lol , nice joke thx for the laugh.

If you don’t know the meaning of cheese don’t use it. Not every meta/OP build is cheese. A build would literally have to run minimal defensive stats and rely on a burst rotation, be it zerker or a condi build, to be even considered for the title. They also often consist of heavy CC and lock players out while they’re being burst down making them great for cheesing noobs and a narrow range of builds with impunity.

The term originated in classic arcade fighting games where players would cheese their friends by repeating the same move or combo repeatedly to win, knowing their friends were inexperienced button mashers that would have to get extremely lucky to stop them.

ghaleon.2861:

Then enjoy the boring bunker celestial cheese comp /thread

Cheese comp… lol. Cheese implies using a minimal effort pattern repeatedly to defeat opponents regularly identified as vulnerable to that pattern, and depending on that pattern. Celestial bunker… is like the opposite of cheese. Zerker rotation-oriented builds… now there’s where to look for cheese.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

50% the world is a kitten, 50% Get thick skin.

Fact: Grizzly bears have feelings too.

Single announcer gets stale. I’d like to see some more voice actors get some spotlight with gem store announcer packs. Put some flavor in them, too, like having a Jory+Kas announcer pack where they work together and/or finish each other’s thoughts, or a Rytlock pack where he calls them red & blue legions, etc.

Any plans to sell announcer packs in the gem store? for pvp announcers n such. One announcer gets stale.

Relshdan.6854:

they don’t want dedicated healers in PvE.

we don’t need absolutely unkillable bunker specs in a capture only-PvP gamemode.

Dedicated healers? What? Nobody said anything about reducing heals to 0 cooldown so that players can dedicate their ability rotation entirely to healing.

Crossaber.8934:

Krytan Samurai~~

I have 10 characters, most of them have their styles, but out of all, this is by far my favorite.

Oooh I like the look!

So, let me get this straight:

You want fractals.

I love all my characters and obsess over their looks, but this is easily the best picture. Here’s my Sylvari Necromancer pictured with my friend’s Engineer, who candidly took this picture after I took her through her first (and last) dungeon.

Players don’t complain about games they don’t like. They move on. Complaints are just poorly expressed pleas for more awesome.

Romek.4201:

would be nice when they would be removed from my blocklist after they get banned
or they will not be banned?

my blocklist has more than 300 with tag Goldseller cause i rename them always when i block

They won’t be banned; they’ll be returned to the rightful owner of the account. Unless the rightful owner of the account is the guilty party… then they’ll be drawn & quartered, and you’ll see 4 new blocked mini-accounts in your ignore list.

I’ve never understood the purpose of 1v1 in an mmo outside of practicing different matchups to make better decisions in team pvp.

For a 1v1 fighting experience with weapons you can always try Soul Calibur.

I’ve got toys everywhere and I need a wardrobe to put them in! Don’t make me leave them out, Anet. Or I’ll curse you all to step on a lego.

Mike O Brien.4613:

I know some are concerned about whether ArenaNet is communicating with you and listening and responding to your feedback. As you saw with yesterday’s announcement, we do. All of us at ArenaNet play the game with you, chat with you and read your forum posts, and work on the things that we think will most delight and entertain you.

We’ve set a clear policy in the past year: we don’t talk speculatively about future development. We don’t want to string you along. Creating fun is an uncertain business: sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t; sometimes we go back to the drawing board over and over before we get something right. If we make optimistic promises and then can’t deliver on them, everyone suffers. So when we attend a trade show or give an interview, we’re there to talk about what we’re getting ready to ship, not to speculate on what we might ship someday.

Don’t read that as meaning that we don’t want to talk with you about the longer-term roadmap. The intention of the CDI threads is to talk with you about the roadmap. We want to talk design philosophy with you and hear how you want to see the game evolve. When those discussions trigger development, we’ll work internally until we have something we’re proud of before we’ll announce it.

A lot of the questions I’ve seen posted this week are as simple as this: does ArenaNet have an agenda to never do something? That’s almost never the case, and if it is the case you deserve to know and we’ll make sure we get more clear. In general the simple truth is this: when we’re not currently working on something, it’s because we’re working on something else instead that we think is more important for the game and community.

Our developers post on these forums on a voluntary basis, and in addition to developers, we have a community team who can clarify and be the bridge between players and developers. They’re ready to engage you on these topics. And I know it’s hard for the community team to engage players across all the forums and sites where these questions are being discussed, so I’m going to support the team in consolidating and focusing as necessary, so that we can be clear to the community where you can go to get a response.

See you in-game,
Mike O’Brien

If I tried to make posts like this to solve my relationships ruined by playing too many video games… well, I guess I can’t knock it ’til I try it.

A player with a ton of AP has a lot of irrelevant experience. For all you know you could be hiring a plumber to bake a wedding cake based on how much cash in their wallet.

I do get the point of finding like-minded players, but it sounds like you’re applying this to pugs that you don’t stay in contact with anyways.

Forcing players to cut skills from their build and make choices neither strips diversity nor creates simplicity. Developers streamlining abilities into fewer core choices for each profession eliminates redundancy.

There’s still a ton of complexity and diversity that players fail to recognize.

Comparing 10k+ to 4k+ AP is a pretty ridiculous metric. Both players have the necessary experience. If you’re looking for someone who knows all the tricks of the speed running trade, make a guild for it. If you’re looking for players that farm all the AP boosting events they can, make a guild for it. If you’re looking for players that can bust up a zerg in wvw, make a guild for it. If you’re looking for players that do all 3, expect mistakes and don’t be a kitten about it.

Hmm, guess the idea isn’t taking… I thought this might be something handy for havoc groups and solo roamers, expanding their capabilities and allowing them to utilize siege more efficiently than having to keep running for supplies.

Still looking for thoughts on it, but if it slips off the front page again so be it.

Jeknar.6184:

Oniyui.8279:

Idk, snow can get pretty kitten bright in the sun. It’s very reflective. Twice as bright as desert sand and more than five times brighter than a jungle.

Well i can’t really say… There is no snow in my country…

Well, the days are shorter… and often cloudy… but when the sun’s out and the snow’s fresh, days get pretty kitten bright. Like, it hurts to look outside level of brightness.

Jeknar.6184:

A snowy map (ie Borderlands) can’t have a tropical level of sunshine (ie Overgrowth side) or a desert level of sunshine (ie Badlands side).

Idk, snow can get pretty kitten bright in the sun. It’s very reflective. Twice as bright as desert sand and more than five times brighter than a jungle.

Was expecting a bel-air finish at the end, but this is just sad.

I’d say hang in there and wait for the new living story to kick in. The boss grind will be gone and people will likely have events they’ll enjoy a couple times rather than spending all their time repeating for tokens, and then they’ll hop back into wvw.

Though, the tournament meta achievements definitely bring in a lot more people.

Idk. Good luck. I hope something works out for you.

I wouldn’t mind a new map… with trains! Trains carrying supply… and you can have train heists oh my!

Here’s my idea for another mastery to spend those wvw points:

Resourcefulness Mastery

1 – Gain swiftness from harvesting plants.
3 – 30% chance of getting supply from logging & mining.
5 – 30% chance of getting supply from looting players & caravans.
12 – Renew weapon buff duration when harvesting plants.
30 – 60% chance of getting supply from logging & mining.
60 – 60% chance of getting supply from looting players & caravan dolyaks.
100 – Renew food buff duration when harvesting plants.
150 – 100% chance of getting supply from logging, mining, looting players & looting caravan dolyaks.

Thoughts, anyone?

How’d they nerf loot? The only nerf to loot I’ve felt was a while ago when they took away unidentified dye drops.

Lupanic.6502:

The best thing on the stun breaker on the thumper turret is that it has a cast time 0_o

Lol. Well, it’s not the only stun break like that. Similarly, a warrior’s Stomp and a necromancer’s Well of Power both have a cast time and provide just enough stability to get through the cast.

Calling it a ghost town is a bit dramatic… it’s still very active.

Anti-Cheese Mechanics are Ruining the Fantasy of Abilities

In particular, the mechanics I’m referring to are the strict patching of blink-style abilities and invisible walls protecting enemy npcs from being knocked off a cliff. These types of things, imo, ruin the fun of abilities when you just want to have a chuckle or try something a little too awesome.

Regarding jump puzzles being made too easy from improved blink mechanics’ pathing, I don’t think it would ruin them much. Made up data has shown that 37% of players just take portals from mesmers anyways, up 12% from the last survey. Engineers are already using their rifle to make awkward-looking jumps that they can’t get a good camera angle on, as well as skipping a few jumps here and there.

Battling NPCs and using blinks to escape to high ground wouldn’t break fights, imo. Besides, it would be an insignificant amount of fights you’d break with it, and big boss fights could always obnoxiously reset if someone’s fighting where a boss just cannot get to them.

EOTM bridge toll keepers could be made less susceptible to knockback abilities with a bit of stability and possibly moving them… not that it matters though since recently fabricated studies show that 92% of the time it’s just a karma train world anyways.

So, Anet, please let us launch unfortunate baddies off cliffs and blink up ledges and over gaps! There’s so much lost fun to be had!

Now, I post this in the forums for discussion purposes. What are your thoughts on these mechanics, as a player?

EotM is a beautiful competitive map with fantastic competitive mechanics that are wasted on karma trains that completely ignore and discourage anything that would get in the way of exploiting their easy rewards system.

Anet should just make a Facebook game that links to your gw2 account and provides lavish rewards for minimal work, with a little avatar to display the fancy clothes you earn.

Then when half the zerg that was only in it for the easy and efficient farm leaves, perhaps rework the rewards of EotM so there’s rewards for holding ground & for winning.

edit: also worth considering… mirroring the map in spvp for a larger scale spvp format. For siege… use the existing resource nodes for gathering a currency to purchase siege with.

always hard to pick just one idea…

Knockbacks on npc enemies to fling things off a cliff… talk about spoiling the most fun thing about knockbacks.

Account bound tools, minis, endless potions & gear available to all characters without the bank & able to be equipped on more than one character at a time.

wvw/eotm rewards that’d encourage more defending & holding ground

EotM as an spvp map (with new system for acquiring siege weapons specific to the match, possibly tied to harvesting the resource nodes)

+4000 baseline hp @80 for all professions

“disengage” effect baked into some skills that removes in-combat status/slow

Many experienced players streamline the content they play for making gold by doing content that magic find doesn’t affect.

Balsa.3951:

looks like one of those before after photos

uses the same visual tricks as well

Those aren’t visual tricks.

Those are results.

zenleto.6179:

Oniyui.8279:

The only change I don’t understand is making trait start at lvl 30 instead of 10, and ridiculously slowly acquired after that. It was already hard enough getting new players acclimated to gw2 coming from other games, & this is another setback to those of us trying to pull new friends into the game. It’s really rather upsetting that they went that route.

Everything else, I’m happy with… a little miffed about the awkward megaservers interfering with community but willing to see where it goes from here.

People were annoyed that once they got a character to 30 there was nothing to look forward to until maxing. Now they give us some progression after 30 people are complaining about that. The trait change is fine if you really think about it.

They didn’t give any progression after 30, they just pushed progression we already had back to 30.

On top of that, leveling characters have to repeat progress they’ve already made. Not as big an issue as making the start of the game’s progress slow to new players, but still tedious.

The only change I don’t understand is making trait start at lvl 30 instead of 10, and ridiculously slowly acquired after that. It was already hard enough getting new players acclimated to gw2 coming from other games, & this is another setback to those of us trying to pull new friends into the game. It’s really rather upsetting that they went that route.

Everything else, I’m happy with… a little miffed about the awkward megaservers interfering with community but willing to see where it goes from here.

I could understand maybe for duals of the claim ticket weapons or gem store skins… but legendary weapons not a chance due to their inherent non-aestetic properties.

I think it’d be more interesting if it was more closely tied to wvw and earning for your server or perhaps instead your guild. There’s so much the map has to offer in siege strategy that just doesn’t get played, and really that’s a shame.

Those aren’t any ordinary trees. Those are trees of the jungle dragon, taking hold of Zhaitan’s territory. The jungle dragon’s coming is the first stage in a global extinction event over all the corruption and damage caused by the other dragons. When they’re no longer powerful enough to sustain they will go back into their slumber, resetting the cycle, until the major races of Tyria rebuild, repopulate Tyria, and consume the jungle dragon’s provided natural resources, weakening her into a slumber, while the death and decay begins powering Zhaitan’s next rise… if the cycle goes uninterrupted.

One is the loneliest number…

Just a really simple idea here: Why not let people change the color of their commander button, making it easy to quickly reference a commander on a map by their color?

I’m hoping they have the consideration to extend the time of all their sales… including the duration the current claim ticket weapons remain at 1 claim ticket so the price doesn’t skyrocket :l

Also, wouldn’t mind if they gave a courtesy bank tab & collectibles expansion for us ~ cough cough

Ellie.5203:

No, leave them how it is.. do you know how many times a Warrior has placed his banners right on top of a stack and i have had to pick it up and move it to the side because it makes ressing people (or picking up the cultist hammer in Frac) incredibly annoying when you got banners stuck on top of you.. ! Too many times to count !! (Even when you tell them not to place it on the stack but to the side)

Although I’m against the proposed change… this reason’s just bad. If they made it so you couldn’t interact with the banner then it wouldn’t give you any more trouble.