Guild Wars 2

I just got finished with all of the steps to create this lovely little creature. When I first found out about it my first thought was “ooh a pretty plant for my Sylvari Mesmer!” So that was my motivation.

The first parts were admittedly a little tedious and kinda boring, but then I got up all of the components to make it and that was when I got my first taste of connection to it. Crafting this took me to several maps and I got to revisit old places I did with friends/guildmates back in the day. Needless to say it was a trip down memory lane, and while I was meandering down that lane I ran into some people doing what I was doing.

This is where it gets a little weird for me, as I am generally a solo player (now that my old guild fell apart due to internal reasons), I whispered one of the people who seemed to be having trouble. Along the way we ended up having to do all the escort and pre-events to all the mini puzzles and such. This person and I ended up partying up! I had so much fun doing it too and we ended up with a large group toward the end. We decided to not just stop at the components. We finished the whole thing, cheering each other on, helping each other figure it out.. for the first time in awhile I put down my Solo player mentality and opened up to find that despite my run ins with some bad seeds (pun intended) recently, this game and its community are filled with awesome people!

It made me stop focusing on my end goal for once, and instead I ended up just having a lot of fun. The journey to get there was just as rewarding as the end product! I’m glad I didn’t let the daunting task of its steps prevent me from accomplishing this.

tl;dr: I love this aspect of creating an item! It not only attached me to the item (and the little shop of horrors homage tugs on my nerdy side), but also it gained me a couple new friends. I generally enjoyed my time making it and now I am proud to have done it. Thank you ANet, whoever dreamed this up is really on to something!

Oh hum. So strange. I don’t mind the simplification but the amounts are very odd. =/ There should be a 100gem increment at least.

Or maybe it’s just a bug? Why would you wish something nasty on another human being for something so silly? It’s not like these people purposefully do things to make your life miserable. They’re just doing their jobs even if it is an intentional change (which I don’t think it is).

MarkoNS.3261:

Hello as someone who speedruns dungeons i would find it extremely helpfull if you were to add an player filter that can be set based on the desired number of ap , gear stats etc so people who dont have those cant join and i dont have to do gearcheck, thanks.

Make a Speed Clear Dungeon Guild. nod Then you only have to gear check once and you can pick from the pool of like-minded individuals. Don’t LFG expecting such things. And I seriously doubt that will ever come here and thank goodness for that. I also like that there is no inspect feature. Inclusivity is far better than exlusionary things for a small subset of players.

I find GW2s music fascinating, and I love the title music so much it is filled with such memories for me. And I still listen to the OST I got with my CE of the game. Its beautiful music.

1. They tested it in China. Works great for them.
2. Do NOT place your knowledge base/experience on others in shoddy “Everyone Knows” science.
3. ANet has more metrics and more information than you ever will about the over-all feeling of the start of the early game.
4. I am sorry you don’t like this change/idea but its already coming, adapt or move on is all I can tell ya.

I’m confused on what you are talking about? Could you elaborate please? I bought Gems the other day and it was the same options its been?

You should be ashamed attacking people for their opinions on something. Just because they don’t feel the same as you do about something. Discussions OFTEN need points and counterpoints to be a discussion. This is not the “Sit around and agree with everything everyone else says” forum.All people including you are allowed to your opinions on the matter and really you should be receptive to what others say sometimes. Or at least respect their right to not agree with you. I mean seriously.. there is no reason to attack someone else on a personal level at all. Its not productive or conducive to a healthy atmosphere. People of all opinions should be listened to and taken stock of. Not just those that share your personal opinions. We all would do well to do a little more of this, myself included.

1. I generally enjoy teaching new players how to do things and I will take any appropriate level into a dungeon…Most of my friends think I’m rather “Elitist” because I speed clear all the things all the time.

2. I run non-meta builds on purpose with classes people think are rubbish just to see if people say anything or kick me. You’d be surprised at how little this actually happens.

3. to supplement this I take GREAT GREAT pleasure when someone who has expressed negativity toward me for playing something “different” dies/gets downed/generally messes up and I do flawlessly. Mostly this happens in fractals when the party wipes and I finish off the boss/encounter solo just because I know the actual mechanics.

4. I got a Second account and when the NPE came out I pretended to be completely new to the game and I used map chats and party chats etc. to ask questions I knew the answers to just to see if people would troll me or help me. You’d be amazed what you can learn about a community when you do this. Long story Short: I made some cool friends. The experiment lasted until I got my first 80 and anyone who went out of their way to help me, the day I turned 80 I sent everyone who was nice to me 25g and told them the truth. (a funny story about my second account – When the game started there was a mix-up with Gamestop (they over sold the CEs in my area) and when ANet Temp-Banned me because I didn’t have my proper key yet (ended up waiting 6 weeks extra) after the 5-day grace period I bought a second account. I never played it after I got this account back until the NPE )

5. I flirt with every Male Norn I see… I love norns.

6. I loathe people who call anyone by their class and not their name. In return I always will type out someones name when I am talking to them.

7. I prefer to pug than run with friends when I am having a bad day so I don’t accidentally hurt their feelings.

8. If you assume I am a male when you talk to me I will correct you that I am indeed a female, and I will generally dislike you for awhile. No idea why I do this it just irks me to know end.

9. I loved Living World Season 1,and I found Scarlet to be a fantastic villain that tugged on my personal love of The Joker.

10. I genuinely love to have “link Parties” in Map chat, Party chat, Guild Chat, any chat! I love when people start linking random things they have. And I love linking back. I enjoy the conversations it spawns and the cool people I meet. I am actually happy when I see someone who got a cool drop at a boss/event and I always “grats” them, and I hope that those same people are happy to grats others that do the same.

11. I say my main is my guardian but that is only because no one questions me on my guardian. I actually love to play my Necromancer more than anything else.

12. I made my mesmer simply to port random people to teh ends of JPs.

13. I ask for help/donations in Map Chat on LA regularly on a unknown character alt. When people send me money I send it back + more.

14. my best weapon (foefire’s essence) was given to me but I sometimes lie and say I crafted it myself =/

To quote the great Canach “We are NOT your enemy!” =(

cuddles her many Sylvari This is exactly why I don’t like how dark the storyline is going. Its just too much to be accosted for being a race. There is more than enough of this IRL to want to deal with it in a game. I don’t find it funny or a joke. If you see me in game don’t say that crap to me even jokingly.

Goodluck. I know from personal experience that GW2 Customer Support is one of the best in this industry. They are super awesome. I really hope they can help you!

@fellyn: They can confirm it. Everything is in their knowledge. They can see if you forged, sold, destroyed, or got anything in the game. The game logs every. single. thing. that happens to everyone.

o.o; Don’t really do this … this is ridiculous.

At least your account name is in full display so I can put you on my blacklist and never worry about it.

Mushuchalaka.9437:

I actually like the expansion and like the direction its going.

Except for your failed posts in the thread about how “Greedy” Anet is? lol. Way to be hypocritical.

@OP: Check the Dev Post part of the Forums, or the “Reddit Dev Posts” Thread here for communication form Devs. They are busy working on stuff. I am sorry you are feeling saddened about it! I don’t feel that way, I love Guild Wars 2 more than ever right now plenty of things to do and I’m excited for the next raid wing to come out soon.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This system looks absolutely fantastic! It looks elaborate and well thought out. I am super pumped for the return of the Meta-Achievement system even in this capacity. I love all the ways you guys are rolling different ways to obtain small but significant rewards.

The monthly part I was worried about, until I read how it is changing, its like an advent calendar for every day of the year! You open it and get a prize just for logging in (which I already do almost every single day), and I love that Its not tied to any specific timer leaving me to finish each 28-day cycle at my leisure.

Thank you a lot for this, I look forward to being able to fully explore this new system. Always winning me with these quality of life updates, Anet!

And let’s not forget we’re not getting:
-fixes to the precursor market (precursor crafting) -
My Thought: Would be neat but they have said they were having trouble getting this just right. Probably so that it doesn’t ruin the market as it stands currently.

-removal of hobo sacks
My Thought: I have No Idea what this even is?

-the SAB (just turn it back on as-is!)
Content and NOT a Feature, also we don’t know why it didn’t come back only speculation abounds as to why it is.

-a real fix to cloth prices
Was Stated That the Silk thing was intended, otherwise not certain what you mean by this either.

-various camera fixes and/or first person
Also, something nice, unknown reason why its not implemented either.

As for the Leveling Changes that were made, personally I find them awesome. They are targeted changes that obviously ANet has reason to change they have numbers and information we don’t (A lot of it from my previous experiences with developing things on my own). They care about new player retention as should any and everyone out there. New Players are the lifesblood to an MMO, even if you don’t like the idea, they are in some cases even more important than the veterans of a game.

TexZero.7910:

It is another unnecessary change that isn’t something we need or want.

Thanks for resources into a project that didn’t warrant it and not fixing other more glaring issues like player retention, making your game modes more meaningful, oh and pre-cursor crafting when ?

Too many things that should have been addressed way before this.

Please take the “we” and change it to “I,” my friend, this is something I both need and want in my life. My boyfriend and I were just having a discussion the other night over dinner how we felt that the dailies were too generic and boring, and we would like something more goal-oriented. Also you only have to finish 3 instead of 5 to get your laurel and AP, so its not that big of a change even if it is a little more specific. I like the idea of each achievement giving individual rewards on top of the “meta” for completing any 3 a day.

Not everyone at a company works on the same things, and even if it is the same teams they have already stated some things are easier to change than others. I made this thread about THIS change. While I myself want precursor crafting, I am not going to put it into a topic that has zero to do with the subject at all. You are free to your opinion and I respect it, but please respect mine.

Biohazard.7523:

Paradox.1380:

No thank you. This is almost as bad as want to be able to inspect peoples gear. All it does is create isolation and trolling. The good effects of it are not outweighed by the bad that comes with it.

I don’t need to be bullied online, got enough of that in real life thank you much.

You are being bullied over the achievement points, that are not showing the truth.
They are not representing dungeon skills, and people will not let you join their party if you have low achievement.
So my idea is still better for you.

I have well over any amount of “required” AP for anything. No one would ever question my ability to ru na dungeon when using AP as the basis.

Fact is, however I make my own LFGs that take anyone of level appropriateness into my dungeon runs because I don’t take the approach that new people are inherently bad. We all had to learn.

People like me are teachers we help foster the Dungeon Community because that is what I do in this game (Fractals and Dungeons is 90% of my game time). I don’t want to see it become an elitist community so I take steps to prevent that. I would never want to isolate someone from doing something new. I want as many people as possible doing dungeons. The more they get run the more the data stacks up and maybe, just maybe ANet will some day add new dungeons for us all to enjoy.

And no, no it would NOT help anything to let someone see my achievements other than invade my privacy. I think its bad enough that anyone can see my AP as just a number inside the game. AP is not a determining factor to someone being very good.

In fact on my second account that was purchased and made not long ago, I have just under 2k AP, no one who doesn’t know me already would never know that I have another account with almost 4k hours and many many dungeon runs under my belt. I’ve been questioned before about my abilities on that account, and so I just left the party. I do not now, nor have I ever felt the need to “prove” myself for a dungeon run.

But, I have played many an MMO where the “inspect” function is a thing and I’ve seen first hand how much the negative attitude it fosters far out weighs not having to take someones word on something.

I honestly think you guys need to calm down. Its not that big of deal, almost every MMO I’ve every played Level/Skill Point gates off their skills to help with NEW players learning the game giving them time to adapt, etc. They have tested this in China, they KNOW how their game plays to new people. As a player you only have one side of the experience, they have both ends. Why don’t you just let the people do their jobs? Its not even that big of a deal really.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

ipan.4356:

2 years is a long time for an MMO not to release anything.

I think you are mistaken. We have released content and features in the last two years on a fairly regular basis. Just because the content and/or features were things that you personally did not particularly care for doesn’t mean we didn’t release anything.

Please don’t trivialize the efforts of our design and development staff down to “nothing” because you didn’t like it. It’s fine to comment that you didn’t care for what was released, but don’t pretend like we’ve done nothing here for the past two years.

I’ve been saying this for so long. Thank you, Mark. THANK YOU! I have loved a ton of what ANet has put out over the last few years. You guys really have that QoL Thing down, and some of the awesome festivals and rewards. I cant’ get over it. I genuinely appreciate all your efforts.

ps. I so want this as my signature now, lol.

What I am seeing here is that it looks like you got your butt whooped and you are crying about it?

I agree with most of that OP, Very nice analysis. I wish more players would go and try it themselves. Sure some people are still going to dislike it, but at least they have personal experience to base and not someone elses.

When you get really excited about an expansion that doesn’t offer new gear tiers or new level cap and you actually sigh in relief.

- I bought Gwen’s Necklace ascended Ammy to link to people when I am on my Main Gwendolynne Wolfe.

- I use the name Gwendolynne in every game I play at least one of my characters.

- As such many people in my real life call me Gwen now, and I like it over my real name. I don’t tell people online my real name anymore. I am Gwen. =O

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ok, guys. Some of you are unhappy about this change, I can see that. BUT… quite honestly, most of you are sort of (I hate to use the word) ranting (sorry!) instead of offering suggestions.

I assure you, the team leader told me not 15 minutes ago, they will listen to suggestions.

• Does that mean you get everything you want? Probably not.
• Does that mean you should suggest something? Yes, of course! Because they’re expecting player input.

So you want lower increments? Think it through and present a suggestion! You want XYZ in the interface? Post that idea. You would rather see something else? Post what you think about that other thing. Please don’t get into the whole “I’m going to kick the devs and their little dogs, too” because it’s not doing you or us any good at all.

I’m not here to apologize. I’m here to communicate and right now, the communication is coming in without a whole lot of substance. Over to you for suggestions and constructive input!

I posted my suggestion in this several times on the thread. I am not ranting, nor do I dislike the new system. I actually like being able to see what it costs ballpark for a set amount of gems rather than playing with numbers and guessing.

HOWEVER, I Would LOVE lower denominations ie: 100gems, 350 gems (2xblack lion Keys anyone?), 500, 700, etc. I would love if they increments were more in line to the denominations of things you can buy from the gemstore so that I don’t have to over buy gems to get the thing I want.

For example, I really want the new outfit for my secondary account, I have 400 gems left over from a 25$ purchase last week. I need 300 more gems to get the outfit sent to my other account. However I would have to buy 400 gems at the current exchange rate. Thus I am left with 100 left over gems. I don’t want to have to have the left over gems just sitting there. I balance out my purchasing with gold and purchasing with real money and I would love to keep doing so.

Thank you for your time.

No one is stopping you from going anywhere… at all. Just go do it. Once you’ve unlocked it the first time it’s always there. And even if the game doesn’t SHOW you it you can still do it. How many times do we have to say it? The ONLY things really locked off at Skills and they are all unlocked before twenty minus a few of the Utilities.

A handy list I made after making a new character on a newbie account I bought during the sale.

What You Can Do At Level 1:
Dodge
Dye Armor
Harvest Materials (go into the city when you get outta the first story and buy some Gathering Tools form a crafting master)
Craft Items (just talk to the guy like before and learn the discipline)
Use the Trading Post
You can Visit Vistas AND PoIs you just aren’t directed to them.
WvW or PvP (Use Hot Keys to open the panels or go to LA from Home City to access the Asura Gates)
Can Use Wardrobe just open it up
Can use Minis
Can Access your Bank/Guild Bank
Can Access the Guild Panel Hit G
Can do Jumping Puzzles (I did Morgans Spiral at level 3 and the secret troll one at level 2 just to see)
Can Map Complete and get rewards for it.

What You Can’t Do:
The Combat stuff is true and locked behind a leveling curve that is significantly increased (It only took me 30 minutes to get to level 10 where all my weapon skills for ALL weapons were unlocked)
At level 13 about 45 min into a new character I unlocked my first Utility skill and as such unlocked Skill Point Challenges. Also, you can use Knowledge Scrolls at any level to learn new healing skills if you don’t like the first one.
You also unlock the 1-10 Personal Story at ten and can do the whole arc at once. I did that at level 13 and it got me to level 17 and have a LOT of nice goodies and included the Black Lion Key.
Diving Goggles in Starter Zones (Item bundle, this one is weird but meh)

No thank you. This is almost as bad as want to be able to inspect peoples gear. All it does is create isolation and trolling. The good effects of it are not outweighed by the bad that comes with it.

I don’t need to be bullied online, got enough of that in real life thank you much.

I find zerging to be fun at times. I dont’ want this form of game play taken away at all. There is obviously a reason people enjoy doing it… I am one of them. I never understood people hating it. No one forces you to partake and I feel it falls well into the “play the way you want to play.”

There is plenty of non-zerg areas of the game. Please leave my fun alone, thank you.

Skoigoth.9238:

kins.3294:

I dont know if you played during that halloween but all skins were obtainable through that chest at the end of the dungeon.

Stop spreading false information.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascent_to_Madness

The now re-released skins (Chainsaw, Ghastly Grinning Shield, etc.) were never obtainable through the chest at the end of the Ascent to Madness dungeon.
The “exotics, including Halloween weapon skins”, Dulfy was referring to are totally different skins (Arachnophobia, The Crossing and The Mad Moon).

Sadly, this is exactly what I stated in another thread to kins, complete with links to all of the information spelled out… and he ignored it and then said he was wasting his time with me. But thanks for the confirmation. Nice to have someone else’s input maybe they will understand now.

Wait, I’m confused a bit here. What do you mean they haven’t introduced any new armor sets to get in-game wise for a year? o.o;

Mmmmk, lets take a look at this.. I’m going to list anything cosmetically wearable. I know they aren’t all Gear Sets, but IMO thats irrelevant since the most fun part about GW2 is mixing and matching sets for a unique look.

Feb ’13 – March ’14

February – New Exotics Added for Karma at the Vendors in Orr (not entirely cosmetic, but I count it because those armors all have distinct looks from everything else in game)

March & April (the patch fell near the start of april) – Jetpack Backpack and Fused Gauntlets

May – Scerelite Backpack, White Flower Backpack

June – Dragon Bash Helms And the Two Back Items

July – Zepheryite Helm, Wind Catcher Backpeices (you could buy or obtain them in game). This was also the time the account-wide Achievement system was updated and the Radiant, and Hellfire Armor Pieces were added (I believe there is a full set to be obtained). Red Flow Backpiece. Zypher Ruckpack Back was a rare reward for one of the activities

Aug – Champion Updates Happened here that put multiple different unique items from champs around the world. Twisted Watchwork Shoulder Skins

Sept – Ascended Weapons, Teq Revamped and Unique Sunless weapons added to his drop table, Sunless Dragon Wings.

Oct – Slickpack Backpack, Twilight Assault Weapon Skins (in the new TA Path), Blood and Madness Halloween Skin.

Nov – Antedote Injector Back Piece, Gasmask Skin, Air-Filtration Device Skin, Toxic Spore Back Skin.

Dec – Ascended Armor Added, Dwayna and Grenth back items.

Jan ’14 – Wurm-Themed Armor skins.

Feb – Spinal Blades Skins, Old LS Skins Released in Rare Rewards.

That seems like a lot to me and I know I missed some in there, also I didn’t list all the new weapon skins etc, but I think this topic is silly. Also, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean its not there. I will agree on one thing I wish there were more full-sets of armor released for in-game means… but hey I’ll take what I can get I actually really enjoy hunting the armor and weapon skins they put into the game.

Hybarf Tics.2048:

Great then you cam replace me I left 2 weeks ago. Unlike you if an expansion never shows up then neither will I.

This game is ever-expanding. Maybe not in a boxed traditional sense.. but it is always growing there are new things to do… maps are changing and shifting with the story… especially Silverwastes…. Mordy you outta control, brotha.

It may not be what you personally want, but the trope that “Expansion” isn’t happening is getting seriously old. The game is growing at its own pace and in its own unique way.

How does one …. steal from their own franchise?

I would really like the Downed State to be changed back. I have trouble seeing green and its hard to tell when my teammates need a revive. Also the green text in the bubbles against white is also hard to read when Green is a hard color to see.

I just want more options. 100 gem Increments PLEASE. I often only need 100 or 200 more gems for something I want in the store. Having to earn significantly MORE money and have useless left over gems is not my idea of a good plan. I don’t mind the change overall I actually like seen the numbers out right so I know exactly what I am spending, but I would love more options.

Kurrilino.2706:

Kamui.4038:

Lishtenbird.2814:

Official point of view:

Yeah we thought so too. After tens of thousands of usability testers and interviews with players who tried Gw2 and left leading up to China launch both in NA/EU and in China – we learned we were wrong.

Honestly, we were kind of shocked how many systems, downed included a surprising number of players just didn’t understand. For downed, we tried a downed tutorial, building downed into the level 1 tutorial, etc. We found after usability testing with numerous different groups, the best rate of people learning and understanding it came from having it be layered complexity and the solution we went with above. Intuitively that wouldn’t have been my guess either initially, but we found people understood it better this way than all other options we tried.

This same level of testing led to the other changes as well. At the end of the day the biggest take away I’d say is: all of us, especially people who go to a reddit to discuss a game, probably know games (and Gw2) really really well. We have millions of users, and a tiny % of them frequent game forums or reddit. Just because all of us, me included, learned those systems well and thought it was all really easy doesn’t mean we are the norm

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2etzxq/a_fresh_start_the_new_player_experience_in_guild/ck35771

hahahahahaha what ?????
Is this for real ???

If that is the case the GW2 comunity is entitled to handicaped passes and must be
allowed to use the blue parking zones at Wallmart

So rude. I’ll never understand thinking like this. Why do you attach your experiences on others and assume just because they don’t think, act, or operate the way you do that you are entitled to say such things as to imply people aren’t at your average level of thinking? So what if they aren’t anyway?

just for reference, there is nothing wrong with those of us who have diminished capacities in the mental health department.

I spent athe better part of my evening trying out the new player experience.. and let me tell you.. I enjoy it a lot.. but that is not why I have come here…

What drew me to make this thread is that ANet has redone the Opening Cut scenes! and that are FANTASTIC… Oh My lordy you guys have done an incredible job with that. I am glad that it wasn’t announced in the patch notes (at least I didn’t read that change) but to discover it on my own I was floored. Thanks so much for revisiting this touch.

PS- Keep your negative thoughts about the patch to other more relevant threads. This one is about the new cut scenes. Anyone else see them? =)

I… need this in my life…. Like seriously. ANet has taken player-made ideas in the past and implemented them in similar fashion (Heres looking at you GW2lfg.com)! Seriously I need this in my life, make it so.. its so… streamlined and pretty and I don’t have to bounce around multiple pages =O I want.

I see your points, but ArenaNet never once said any of this stuff would be exclusive. I highly doubt anything in this game will be exclusive.

NEw Confession:

-Despite my earlier confession of not liking Humans. I fell in love with a guy who plays a human and as a result I play my Human Ele more than any of my other characters when I am with him, unless my Ele isn’t’ geared for what we are doing (Fractals I am lookin at you).
- I joined the Meta on my Elementalist to impress said guy.
- I actually really enjoy the meta staff bunker build in spvp
- I really like Meta on my Ele =(
- I still feel horrible for liking Meta after all of my years of fighting against it.
- My Guardian will never have berserker gear or DPS traits even though I have fallen down the Meta Rabbit Hole.
- I fell in love with someone I met in this game.

I’ll take minor interruption to me gaming for a restart that pushes a fix through than have to have the game go offline once a week for 2-10 hours for maintenance. This game has like some ungodly amount of up time. I think last count I remember there down time for maintenance and other things totaled LESS than three days for over 3+ years. The minor inconvenience of having to restart your meta or whatever is a small price to pay for such an awesome set of tech they have that allows their MMO to be up almost 100% of the time.

Try it out and see you lose nothign but time if you don’t like it. =) I personalyl love this game and Its casual enough I can play otehr titles. Has enough content (for me personally) to no life it when I get the chance.

It seems to be a bug at level 29 specifically where all EXP (save what seems to be Personal Story) is drastically reduced..

I havent’ hit 29 jsut yet to test this out myself. But its being reported on different fronts. It doesn’t seem to be limited to WvW/EotM.

I’ve leveled 2 characters with the NPE to 30 and here is my feedback:

Things I loved:

• Skill Unlocking – I love that its level based and I don’t have to hunt down every weapon every character and then proceed to kill monsters over and over to unlock the skills I want. It’s all done by level 10 and as someone from an Alt perspective I like this.
• Level Pacing – Now that you fixed the slump there in the 20s (especially level 29; thanks BTW), I love the new pacing. Being able to complete one zone and actually be able to hit the next zone is lovely.
• New Reward Structure – Love everything about this. It is exciting to level up.

Things that were weird that I didn’t like:

• Bundles Disabled – Not a big deal and I understand it, but Diving goggles? Please allow us to at least use those.
  *No Skill Points on Level Up – Not even after 30. I have to wait until certain levels for a cluster of Skill Points to play around with once I’ve unlocked the utilities. This is strange and counter intuitive for me.

Bugs happen in every. single. Game. Every one. You cannot test for live environment. Some bugs are easy fixes, some are harder. Some bugs take top priority and some bugs (like faulty sound bites) have very low priority.

Name me a game that has no bugs and I will smack a kitten (gently, more like a pet).

Morsus.5106:

Paradox.1380:

No thank you. This is almost as bad as want to be able to inspect peoples gear. All it does is create isolation and trolling. The good effects of it are not outweighed by the bad that comes with it.

I don’t need to be bullied online, got enough of that in real life thank you much.

What’s the problem with gear inspection? Either you lied to get into the pug (and deserve to be kicked) or you have the gear they listed in the LFG and it will be fine.

That’s not what I am talking about and you know it. Its not about lying or having it. Its about having to “prove your mettle.” Its elitist, exclusionary, and isolating. It’s also intimidating to some. I have a problem with this behavior and I don’t like it. Especially in a game like there where really you can roll up with any gear (even greens) and do generally fine in a dungeon run.

As I already stated I don’t join groups that ask for certain gears unless I am just to tired to teach and even then I tend to shy away from anything asking for something specific out of principle.

KSIBBQ.8123:

This Zerker meta has to end. It has killed the diversity too long. This game has such a unique build system, and you should truly be able to play how you want. However, unless you have a pre made, then people will kick you. Start building your toon the way you want to!

Couple things of my opinion:

1. Meta is there because every game has a meta. All Meta means: is that its the mathematical “Best Set Up for Optimal Whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish.” I’ll post a proper description below.

Meta Gaming Description: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=metagame

2. There will ALWAYS be a Meta no matter what even if it changes.

3. In most PUG Comps If you don’t say anything and you don’t screw up too bad no one is going to notice.

4. If your guildies want you to run Meta and kick you for not? Get new guildies?

5. No one is forcing you to run it there are many of us that get by JUST fine without running meta.

6. Run what YOU want, but also don’t go around begruding others for running what they want? How is it right of you to want to “kill” the meta to benefit you? There is room for all builds in the game and others opinions shouldn’t affect you negatively.

7. I’m a HUGE believer in Knowledge of Content > Skill > Gear. Gear is the LAST of the tri-fecta you need to worry about. The difference between a Zerker Run versus a Non-Zerker (barring a few stat sets that offer no offensive stat boosts, however there is room for them in my opinion too) run in a party of people who understand the content and make minimal mistakes is honestly rather negligible.

i’m confused? It took me maybe 30 minutes max to hit level ten (the level at which at you unlock all your basic weapon skills) getting to 15 where the rest of it and a utility unlock took me another 20ish minute because the way the personal story steps are now that got me almost all the way to 15, and finishing dailies pushed me over. I had no problems with this system at all and the best part is I don’t have to go back and kill 20-30 monsters for every weapon. I just go and they are all unlocked.

Corpus Christi.2057:

Paradox.1380:

1. They tested it in China. Works great for them.
2. Do NOT place your knowledge base/experience on others in shoddy “Everyone Knows” science.
3. ANet has more metrics and more information than you ever will about the over-all feeling of the start of the early game.
4. I am sorry you don’t like this change/idea but its already coming, adapt or move on is all I can tell ya.

Any single one of those points can be easily destroyed by the fact ANet hasn’t actually improved anything, but with each and every single change they make, more and more players are leaving the game. Evidence? See the financial reports.

End of topic. Move on.

To you perhaps nothing has improved. But, personally I am looking forward to it from what I have seen in you tube videos about the changes it will greatly help me and people like me understand the game. As, it does gate things away to give people a chance to learn it. As for the financial reports, I don’t even pretend to understand them, but 100mil profit in 1 year(as is projected for GW2 this year), two years after a Buy To Play game has come out is nothing to snuff at.

vesica tempestas.1563:

looking at that report, sales for HOT were slightly disappointing , however its showing that GW2 remains at a stable £6 million or so revenue a month and will continue to do so. That’s people continuing to invest in the game month on month, that means GW2 including HOT is not a failure.

It’s not a report. It’s a prediction from an unrelated company. NCSoft has not released their Q4 Earnings Report yet. Don’t let other companies skew the numbers.

Hail Mordremoth!

Come at me bruh =D

Signed,
Mordrem Rage, Proud Dragon Minion.