Guild Wars 2

Anet, could you not?

By wanting to give players a chance for invisible boots, you made an item RARER than your most expensive legendaries.

GenoGar.5497:

At this point, I would rather have an /idle emote just to bring back those animations.

At this point I agree with you, the ’’dramatic’’ cutscenes represent below 0.1% of our gameplay. They legitimately purposely removed them because some vocal minority were crying about that 0.1% of their gameplay, not even a FIX but a straight out removal.

I can’t login either, but I’m not getting the same errors you’re getting. Since on hour ago I can’t seem to connect.

…. Not fixed yet, I seriously don’t understand why…
Why is your transparency so bottom barrel rotten grease terrible Anet?
If you aren’t bringing these back, then freaking tell us.

Hey forums, I’m trying to access the french version of the guildwars 2 main page articles, but every time I try to modify the domain manually it always redirects me to /en-gb/ instead of /fr.

French is my main language, is there a way around this?

Jellal.6927:

Wow. I quitted for a year and this so called “bug” never got fixed? I’m dissappointed

Yeah, they didn’t even add new ones to replace the old ones.

#NeverForget

Here you go, for those who never saw them.

Nivessa.4258:

Adding in my Anet please give us an update/fix this. It’s been over a year now. :/ :\ :/ :\ :/ :\ :S :~(

Betcha they’ll take another year to fix this kitten.

Fully agree 100%

Anet, will this be fixed for HoT?

I’d at least like to participate in the new ranked system, being an engineering student means I don’t get time to join a team. With the new league system being nearly my only HoT content for PvP.

I guess I can just come back when Solo Q comes back, hopefully it eventually happens.

1- Reliable Streaming Platforms for top players, giving gw2 more viewers. ?
2- Breeding and practice ground for future competitive players. ?
3- Giving new players a glance of were they stand and how much they can improve. ?
4- Something to do for people who like to PvP with a tight schedule. (Some of us have lives) ?

Solo Queue needs to happen, ASAP.

You forgot to include the Condi mesmer in your list, that stuff needs to get out asap.

The problem is that shattering also rallies, only problem I find.

Has it been fixed?

^That’s a great idea, but some people just like to play without any pressure, but I would still give up unranked queue for solo Q since we’re getting leagues.

Lowering queue times for Unranked queue would be great, so i’m for removing the exploitable easy dailies from hotjoin aswell as all other rewards.

Hotjoin doesn’t give a good impression of what Gw2 PvP should be. (Also please reduce/remove the 1min stale period before a game begins for unranked and give us the ability to auto queue when a game is completed.)

Necromonger.4970:

Shaogin.2679:

Additionally, for those complaining about lack of solo queue, this is a team game! Those who take the time to form teams and practice together deserve to have that advantage..

No, they don’t deserve an advantage. Dota 2, Lol and a lot of other games are also team based, but they have proper solo queues. It’s either team(WoW) or solo(LoL, DotA), you don’t mix them.

I played enough 3s in wow and i know how hard it’s to coordinate with 2 other people, let alone 3 or 4 people – everyone has their own schedule. That’s why i started playing gw2, because i wanted to play at my own pace and queue whenever i want. If i am “forced” to find people to play with, i’ll just quit and i bet i won’t be the only one.

Yesterday, i was destroyed in a game with 5 solo players vs 4+1. While this happens rarely, one or two of those games per day are enough to ruin the fun for me and it’ll be way worse when the leagues are implemented, because losing will actually mater.

Amen +1

I’ll just quit again if they don’t give us solo Q for the leagues…. Some of us actually have lives here, some of us are studying for a better future, and some of us have families with kids to take care of.

With leagues, they absolutely need to split Solo Q and Team Q for ranked, or else only fully teamed players will have the chance to progress. Leaving a majority of the community with nothing.

I fully support your idea!

Solo queue needs a comeback for this! I don’t want to be farmed in team queue.

Let us queue from anywhere please, like we used to…

BurrTheKing.8571:

I want to play Mesmer again, but atm the class still feels carried by traits and not the player.

Funny you didn’t feel that way during Hambow’s solid Reign on the meta.

I’ve been having the most fun playing the class post patch, I agree with your views to the CS trait, having an easy burst set-up from stealth at practically any-time is just to strong and rewards unskilled play.

I disagree with changing PU too much, it gives a breather to our defensive options, but I believe a 1+ cast time should be added to the torch stealth skill (So that it can be countered like thieve’s stealths). And possibly make that mass invis can’t be used while in stealth to avoid promoting stealth camp.

I think mesmer is fine the way it is, It would be annoying if the balance team defiled the class any further like they defiled Condi Engi/Condi Necro/SD Thief/Longbow Warrior.

Exedore.6320:

I followed it until that last section where it says “Just group balance changes arbitrarily at six months. It’s not a bad idea.”

While the article does have a point that you can’t constantly be balancing, there’s also a point at which you aren’t balancing often enough. In a PvE scenario, you can wait longer and balance isn’t as important as long as everyone is still useful outside of extreme min-maxing. But in PvP, balance is a large part of the game, and you can’t let things linger too long. “Extra Credits” is much better if you’re talking about PvP balance.

Agreed, balance is very crucial for a game’s PvP future. I’m not saying it Anet should slack on balance, but the balance team is indeed very busy with designing the new elite specs and the new class. Its kinda just to say that the world isn’t as golden as we want.

Miku.6297:

Heres Serah Farron’s new look ~

Looks great Miku!

The main focus right now should be bringing D/D ele back in line with the rest, while giving a bit of buffs to rangers, engineers and necros.

(Probably a bit of love to warriors too… probably.)

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Snip

I’m not trying to sound mean buddy, but mesmers weren’t good pre-patch, every tool the mesmer had (except portal) was easily trumped by the tools thieves had. Mesmer didn’t bring anything to the table and was bad at 1v1s on top of that. Mesmers were almost complete trash.

Now they are buffed, and lots of teams don’t even have a Mesmer. They want more eles, because eles have many uses.

Mesmer is fine, in the past you ’’defended’’ warriors when the meta was practically 2 of them per team.

(Do you think 1v1s should be the main concern of Anet? Because its clearly not)

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

so what?

still does not change the fact that mesmers have too many traits made baseline when compared against other professions.

i could say the same for certain warrior traits that should be made baseline.

face the facts please, the fact is that mesmer has more traits made baseline and other professions should be given a fair share as well.

Yeah, because all traits are created equal? The number of traits will define the class’s balance precisely? No other factors other than traits define balance? Lost traits don’t count?

Hopefully you haven’t answered yes to any of these questions.

An article that may or may not make you see through the PoV of the skill designs team, In my opinion, skill design and balancing should be 2 different posts with different people communicating with each other, having the same employee for both seems like a lot of work.

livlaender.8790:

i think the problem is, that mesmers can do dps while being stealthed, becouse of phantasms

if phantasm attacks would break mesmers stealth other classes would get a solid counter play and the mesmer would need to think, if he wants to dps enemy, or to play defensive in stealth

Thanks a pretty good idea, I also thought of mass invis not being useable while in stealth, so If the mesmer we’re to go in extended stealth, he would have to use mass invis first, leaving lots of room for interuption, or force the mesmer to blow distortion which is a huge price to pay.

Mesmer:
Reduced glamour recharge rate (Glamours had a huge cooldown and were rarely used in PvP, except portal)

Phantasmal Strength: Phantasmal damage boost (Fair exchange for loosing conditions on clone death)

Manipulation range. (Needed Buff IMO)

Illusionary Persona: Shattering illusions creates the shatter effect on you as well. (Having this trait in a line, completely ruined build diversity, shatter mesmers couldn’t even function properly without this, and even most other builds.)

Illusionary Elasticity: Bouncing attacks have one additional bounce. (This effect was removed on GS #2 which was pretty much the only ability that mattered, at this point loosing this trait wouldn’t even phase the mesmer)

Protected Mantras: Gain extra armor when you cast a mantra (Utterly laughably useless)

Balancing isn’t as black and white as you think.

This would be amazing

Animations do have a big impact on the lifeblood of your character, Anet’s endgame content requires us to stand for long periods of time to set up for groups before then Queuing for PvP or doing a dungeon.

And seeing your character doing practically nothing for over 10 months is really difficult for immersion. I can’t say I relatively loved the feminine animations, but I’d rather have them than nothing that’s for sure.

(PS: Female Greatsword stance is terrible, but I don’t mind dealing with that)

We’re still waiting…

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Snip.

They probably aren’t admitting these changes being unintentional because they probably don’t want to bother easily coding already existing animations back into the game.

Apparently we loyal/supporting Guild Wars 2 fans don’t deserve even that. We can only hope at this point.

With the flood of players coming back for HoT, it is VERY likely that female humans having just 1 idle animation will be noticed.

If they discover that this hasn’t been fixed for 10 months (Likely 16months at HoT release), they might assume gw2’s bugfix quality standards to be bottom barrel. Which I’m starting to believe they are.

I would honestly leave a new MMO if I saw such and obvious bug unaddressed for so long. My immersion has been dead for so long because of this bug.

ViolentOyster.7534:

Utterly pathetic of Anet to not even give an update on one of their playerbase’s biggest topics. I love this game, but Anet is handling it sooooooo poorly.

I would be happy with just an update on the situation of these Idle animations. Can any dev in here give us info? :<

serenke.4806:

I’m pretty sure that this won’t ever be fixed or changed. Character customization is apparently not part of a “living, breathing online world” or a theme park mmo.

I would likely still be hypocrite enough to buy extra animations on the black lion store, even if it was ridiculous like 1000 to 1600gems(if thats what it takes). My character feels dead now. :<

I don’t want to be angry at Anet, they probably don’t have the time since they’re busy working on more game-breaking things, the HoM bug was a huge thing, and now its recently fixed which is a huge breath of fresh air and hope. Their bug-fixing priority right now is most likely working on HoT, probably helping with the programming.

Even if the forum devs were to insist that the team work on fixing this ’’bug’’(I’m skeptical if it is), they probably don’t having enough power to change the priority. And since they aren’t allowed to reveal false info or even most info, they end up just being silent because they can’t do anything about it.

Though it would be extremely fun if we could get some info, if this is actually still planned on getting fixed.

Dark Jericho.8609:

Nivessa.4258:

They don’t care, they’ll just keep taking away from our chars til just they just stand there with no effects and no animations and making no sounds (see them removing falling screams from all characters).

Sadly, this seems to be the case. Their reasoning for removing falling screams made them seem very inept or just flat out lazy.

I haven’t noticed until recently, but now that I know, I actually feel a bit sad about this. It really does make you feel like content is being removed without being replaced, if we could get word or anything about what they’re trying to do by removing so many animations/sounds. But they remain silent…

Natsu.2589:

To be honest, I am pretty glad these animations are gone. I found them annoying as hell. Seeing females in heavy or even medium armor doing these … things … it just broke my immersion – big time. I didn’t even wanted to see the animations on my light armor character, because it doesn’t fit her one single bit. She is a tough girl, not some sort of a … chicken, scratching with her feet to find some corn in the sand … blagh …

I sincerely hope they’ll never come back. However, this would be the perfect opportunity for Arenanet to give us options. Why not sell different animation sets in the Gem Store? Or how about putting them into some achievements? I’d very much like to see this.

(Animation 1): (Dirt shuffle) I also find myself kicking rocks and dirt when bored of waiting, what’s wrong with that?

(Animation 2): (Stretching) Is it taboo for women to stretch or what nowadays? I’m a dude and I stretch at least 5 times a day, do people think stretching means being feminine or weak? Hell naw

(Animation 3): (Standing Straight and messing with hair) Hopefully fixing your hair is not considered taboo now, I do put on hair Jel every morning it requires me to stand straight and mess with my hair until I get results. Does that make me girly?

(Animation 4): (Both Hands on hips) Often seen as body language indicating a dominance over the situation, it makes you look bigger. The only problem I had with this one, is that the girl would stick her butt outward and bust forward when doing it, which was definitely very feminine/sassy. If they could change it to the girl standing straight instead, it would be much better.

(Animation 5): (Single hand on hip) I particularly hated this one, it looked beyond girly and made me feel like my character was a ‘’insert word for female dog here’‘. If they could re-purpose this as a serious crossed arms animation or something, I’d love that.

ignore this—-

Hamfast.8719:

The “official” reason for removal of the female human idle animations was that some players complained they were “immersion breaking” during some cut scenes (especially certain NPC death scenes, when the mood was supposed to be sad).

Death scenes represent only a tiny fraction of cut scenes. Cut scenes represent only a tiny fraction of our online play. So why completely remove these animations from the entire game when it only affects a minuscule portion of it? This response was entirely out of proportion to the perceived problem.

And what about my feelings of immersion? I am usually bored to tears when the cut scene soap opera is playing. My female human was perfectly expressing my feelings whenever she stretched or shuffled the dirt at her feet.

And what about the other races? The Asura crack their knuckles and scratch their heads. Norn males stretch and smack their fist into their palm. Charr flex their claws. My female Sylvari waves her arms about and gives a great big grin. Do these animations have any place in those rarely-seen death scenes?

Please restore these animations to the game! I guarantee that more people miss them than cried about seeing them in cut scenes. Fix them whenever you have the time, if you think it’s such a big issue. But please restore them to us in the meantime.

Well said! Having this bug left in this game unfixed for nearly a year now makes me believe an Arenanet employee did this intentionally.

I would actually enjoy PvE if the stacking and running full zerker wasn’t the norm, it disconnects me and I dislike that.

When will a MMO game actually make the mobs not mindlessly run up to you melee in range when your out of line of sight, or when will the mobs stop stacking in your face when it causes them all to die quicker?

If the AI was a bit smarter, I would really enjoy PvE, but instead I’m doing just fine in my TPvP/WvW roaming.

I would love that skin that the OP showed, Eternity deserves a unique skin.

MithranArkanere.8957:

The fact is pretty simple: Can a single character defeat in less than 3 seconds another single character? If the answer is yes, there’s something wrong with that character’s build that is to be fixed.

I see that as a blessing, if guild wars 2 didn’t have all this crazy damage it wouldn’t have any excitement in watching it, I played through a meta that was all about defense in attrition in this game’s past, it was horror.

As long as you know what you’re doing there’s a good chance you wont be getting bursted to death in 3 seconds unless you’re caught totally offguard. The players with this crazy damage are usually very glassy and have a ton of weaknesses in exchange, mesmers simply doesn’t have that many counters and thats the main issue.

People often sound like ‘’mesmers are bad, and should feel bad’’ when it comes to these forums, and suddenly all the good mesmers prepatch are considered brainless kittens now even when they win.

You should leave these forums OP you’re still pure, you might catch a disease or something here.

I agree we mesmers need a nerf, but we’re not that rediculous, we just have no counterplay to our stealth and that should be fixed pronto, we’ve always had quick burst which should stay for the sake of sharing roles with thieves in conquest. Anything more than this would be asking for mesmers to become free kills again.

Oh boy, I think Anet cares a fair bit about WvW, its just that this is a temporary event, thus fixing it would be using resources on fixing a temporary bug.

I wonder if there’s even a quality standard to bug fixes, there should be, big ’’bugs’’ like these staying un-fixed for the span of years is just demoralizing.

Hopefully no one at Anet is taking advantage of the passing time to limit those who know about this bug just so they won’t have to fix it. Because so far it seems like working….

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Phantom Master.9582:

Anet has let this bug persist for almost a year now… can we at least expect a fix before HoT? T_T

Can we even expect a fix after the release of Heart of Thorns?
And if so, will they finally fix the human females’ animations completely?

I was honestly not a fan of the old running animation, it looked very feminine/silly while not really matching the ’’heroes’’ our characters are suppose to be, not that a girly animation is wrong, its just that the current animation caters to a wider variety of the players’s possible personalities.

Not getting our old animations would suck, but what really bothers me is the fact that we only have one…. ONE!! of these animations left on the most played race in the game! And we’ve had just ONE for 10 months now, with no advances on fixing this…

If the devs truly believes the gestures we’re too feminine or ’’hot’’, then please give us new ones. :<

bhagwad.4281:

There is no class that has enough stunbreaks to keep up with our six chained stuns with CS and background mantra recharge. Moreover, stun from stealth does not even cause reveal! And apart from that, where is the question of dodging when you’re stunned?

Stunbreaks, invulns etc are precious, few, and far between. They simply don’t keep up with the frequency of damage bursts and stuns available to mesmers post-patch.

And of course, our stealth has no counter. Stealth skills are insta cast and take no set up – unlike thieves where everyone knows ways to disrupt the famous BP+HS combo. And even if they can’t, they know where the thief is for a few seconds while they stack stealth.

Where is the setup for using “The Pledge”? Or “Decoy”? You can even chain Mass invis while your other stealth is about to run out and your opponent has no way of knowing.

Counterplay. The idea is to have counterplay. Thief stealth has counterplay. Mesmer stealth does not. Thief burst also has a lot more counterplay than mesmer burst – at least you know the thief has got to be close to you to Backstab. A mesmer can burst from distance. After stunning of course.

Heck we’re at advantage, what of it? This game doesn’t balance as per 1v1 combat and that should be apparent by now.

If it were me at the hands of the balance team, I’d simply nerf PU or make that Mass Invis can’t be cast while in stealth, probably also change CS to simply (increase all cc duration by 25%) so no MoD free stuns. This would in turn force force Mass Invis to be used first to enter extended stealth, which has a fair cast window open for interruption unless the mesmer pops blink or distortion which is a fair price for extended stealth.

Having CS modified would give counterplay to mesmer burst, allowing it to be slightly easier to avoid(we don’t want to make our burst completely unreliable).

But to the relief of many that enjoy unfair advantages! I’m not part of the balance team, heck I doubt they even work full time with such terrible balance.

Yes we’re the cheap ones now, the opponents we fight may not have direct counters but they do have options of their own.

Mesmer’s burst can be quick, but not as ridiculously quick as thieves, it also takes a decent while to set up for a shatter burst after recently attempting one.

This means our opponents can wait patiently while we’re in stealth (their fingers on their blinks, breakstuns or invincibility while their other cooldowns also finish), to quickly dodge once they see a quick sign of incoming burst (like a mirrorblade projectile or CS stun) and then immediately instill pressure upon us while we’re revealed. (Forcing us to pop our distortion of blurred frenzy, or lock us down to force our blink)

Being a burst build means we lack attrition, if we always sit in stealth and lose our exchanges out of stealth, that means we’re loosing.

The other option is to just… run, unlikes thieves we can’t move much while we’re in stealth, we don’t have the shortbow shadow stepping and our blink is precious on a 22sec cooldown if traited. If they run we have to chase them and we won’t be able to efficiently burst, once we do get revealed we end up at their mercy with all their cooldowns back.