Guild Wars 2

Behellagh.1468:

Drakz.7051:

They seem to just brush this off by saying that making these takes alot of time and work but they seem to have the time to make MANY cash shop skins.

But as for the topic, they should have some light coats not just robes and some heavy armour that covers the butt.

And as it’s been said time and time again armor is many, many times harder than an outfit due to it’s mix and match, piece meal nature.

It’s harder to fly into outer space than it is to fly around the Earth. So, let’s not fly into space then? What the hell, just give us our real armour! Nobody cares “how hard it is”. There is no substitute for quality

Why limit the number of shared inventory slots!!??
This totally blew my mind, and annoyed me at the same time.
Same goes for bank tab slots – having said that, after 3 years Anet finally allowed an additional 2 — but only 2!?? What’s with the limits?? Mind blown.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Anet has said that armor skins (particularly full sets) aren’t going to be released on the gem store anymore. Those will be reserved for content rewards, while outfits will remain gem store.

Oh please, for god’s sake, I’m so tired of hearing this unhelpful information.
The player base wants more armour. (There is no-one who would legitimately say, “Anet, don’t create more armour pieces, just create outfits.”)

That said, even if they’re not going to put real armour in the in Gem store, who cares!!? Put them in the kittening game instead then, and hurry the kitten up about it!

Put armour in the open world rewards systems.

…is completely and utterly kittened.
That a pink Moa or a Fresh Water Crab could somehow be hoarding an axe, gold coins or other man-made loot is ridiculous and breaks any immersion one might wish to find in a game.

As ‘yucky’ as I feel this is, I can’t see this changing any time soon. But could someone try and explain the mentality behind such a ‘design’ decision?

Leo G.4501:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

At some point in time, I do wonder when this discussion became about legendary armor, instead of about then nature of raiding in MMOs as a whole.

That may be partially my fault and I apologize.

The OP does talk about so much more and I was hoping to get discussion going on making your characters more personalized to instill more personality to your character besides the whole skin-race that results in most people settling on a look like their wardrobe projectile vomitted on their character model.

ArenaNet did away with the “RPG” personality element (Heart, Crown, Fist) a long time ago and it ain’t coming back—in it’s previous form or an updated one.

Sometimes mixed up with various people, sometimes you see the same names.
Definitely need to make sure there’s a good mix-up each time I reckon.

The first step in improving the armour situation—and this could almost be scripted automatically on various levels—is to ‘export’/add all the non symmetrical shoulder armour as symmetrical versions.

Ranger — assault rifle, works like Long bow but with a longer burst and wide bullet spray, oh and 1 shot-kill damage yeeeharr!!!

Daroon.1736:

You can google the math but (roughly) you have a 12% chance of stringing a 3 game streak together against a (roughly) 6% of getting 4 wins in a row.

Put simply, you are twice as likely to be able to put a 3 win streak together as a 4 win streak.

This!

No, that’s not it.
Some guy in my team made the offer—the thought had never occurred to me actually—so I added to his offer, on that occasion.
People were joking, “I’m a Guardian, I don’t take bribes”.

Anyway, my point here being that this PvP experience is so bad that people are offering bribes.

Celeras.4980:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Yes, 4 wins to get 5 pips, or if you are losing, some people seem to think, lose 3, then they need to win 3 to get 5 pips. So you can see why some people do this.

Sorry, those people are idiots. It is always, 100%, the same number of games at best. There is zero benefit to losing intentionally and there is no argument to the contrary. Counting to 5 isn’t complicated math.

People with mindsets like yours are why the gaming experience is so kittening awful. As ‘beautiful’ or ‘correct’ as the math or programming might be, human experience doesn’t correlate.

People are starting to offer payments of gold for their opponents to AFK and throw the match. It’s that bad. It’s that desperate.

Last match in a would-be 3-win-streak to hit next tier, some guy was begging the other team. …and I thought, why not offer the same, as I was also in the same position. So I did, they didn’t accept, and we lost.

I hate this new system, it’s rigged.

Celeras.4980:

Daroon.1736:

Pure Heart.1456:

A related concept is that it’s sometimes better to lose 3 matches in a row.

For example, starting from zero pips (after a losing streak and then winning) gets you two pips, so you only need 3 wins in a row to hit next tier.

However, if you’re at 1 pip, you need to win -4- matches in a row so statistically it’s harder to hit next tier than in the example of starting from zero pips.

Lame.

Indeed, I pointed this out in a thread at the start of the season
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/AFK-is-back/first#post6003788

Nice to see you have a similar attitude to not throwing games as I do, but sadly I fear this attitude is not the prevalent one and along with the **** matchmaking and lack of action by Anet,. has contributed to the situation where afk’ing during matches is now becoming an ‘acceptable’ norm.

Are you guys serious? This is never the case. Ever. Even if you’re at a checkpoint in the irrelevant lowbie brackets that nobody cares about. It is NEVER better to lose for a losing streak than it is to win.

You can’t just say “yeah I only need 3 wins” and completely disregard the LOSS it took to give you the losing streak. Yeah, without a losing streak its 4 wins to get 5 pips. But in order to get the losing streak, you first have to LOSE. AKA L-W-W-W. AKA 4 games.

It’s not complicated. It’s a benefit for you if you already lost. It is never better to lose for the streak.

No, I’m sorry it is better to lose. Because this is a gamble, not a game of skill. The wins and losses are givens in a random system. You don’t control the wins or losses. If it was all about skill, then you’re closer to being right, but it ain’t that.

A related concept is that it’s sometimes better to lose 3 matches in a row.

For example, starting from zero pips (after a losing streak and then winning) gets you two pips, so you only need 3 wins in a row to hit next tier.

However, if you’re at 1 pip, you need to win -4- matches in a row so statistically it’s harder to hit next tier than in the example of starting from zero pips.

Lame.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Should average players stay in the middle divisions because that’s where they belong at their skill level? This retains prestige and only improving skill will allow climbing,

Except it doesn’t. There are —five-- other players on one’s team that determine the outcome of the match. Improved skill of a single player will not translate into climbing out of a division. In addition, overpowered classes/builds do even more to ruin this prospect.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Is there an incentive that could be added to league games for players who have reached their appropriate division and can no longer climb?

Of course there is! But isn’t that what the developers are paid to come up with!!?? A start would be to implement a way for people to see that the system either is or isn’t screwing them over. Show total games played, total games played for currently selected class, current division, current pips. As long the system is a non-transparent one, you’re going to have people calling “bullkitten” forever.

Every ‘naysayer’ to the this post is entirely missing my point, and it’s frustrating.

One really lame thing about MMOs to date is that the ‘mobs’, are sparsely sprinkled around the maps, they are just waiting for you to go and kill them. They’re just idly standing there, looking dumb, that’s it. They don’t serve any other purpose. One person suggested here that if I wanted a challenge I could take my gear off and go hunting these ‘dumb’ mobs. This is precisely not what I want to do.

I am proposing that at least in some areas of the game, there be mobs that _serve the purpose of making your access to a location challenging. Bridge guards would be one example.

Currently, players can just run right past every single mob everywhere, anywhere in Tyria. Lame, boring.

Can Anet see the number of +1 on posts?
Or more importantly, if they can, are they using that data?

A game based around CC is a kitten game.
You’d think the developers could come up with some more interesting mechanics.

How about some key press combinations—-pressing the buttons of skills on cooldowns in a certain sequence executes a stun break, or an animated block (like GS 4)?

Krysard.1364:

I dont see the problem tbh. What I see is people that just play PvP casually and now want the backpack and complain about getting rekt by better players

I don’t play casually, I have 2000 games played. I have the exact same story as many others, and that is regular blowouts. Maybe I’m crap, even after so many games—-I don’t mind losing, just pair me with evenly matched players for god’s sake! Give me close matches, even if they’re losses, just not this bullkitten that is happening now.

Wings and I’m outa here, back to PvE and WvW.

I don’t care what your programmers thought would be good logically or mathematically — the matchmaking system is THE WORST. You might have beautiful, logical code, but the gameplay experience is *everything, and IT SUCKS!

Why?

Because 90% of the matches are blow outs, win or lose.
There is an uncanny pattern of disallowing progression, if it’s not intended—kittened code—if it is intended—kittened code. I’ve heard all the arguments for and against “progression” and “prestige”, and you know what, if you can spend $200,000 on PvP prize money you can sure as kitten hire someone to come up with some ideas on how to provide a pleasurable PvP gameplay experience.

I’ve played a ton of games, and it’s been the single most infuriating experience over several weeks clawing my way to Sapphire T5. I’m obviously not the only one having this experience.

I have several ideas for improvements; But do you really need them here?? Do you not have a professional team brainstorming?? What the hell.

Serious, you serious?
I want to play in my great gear, that’s a major point in playing the game.
The mobs are sparsely placed over the map, alone or in groups 2 or 3 — the point is, even if they were harder to take down, you don’t have to engage them. You can run right past them and get wherever you want to to get to…

I will pre-order the pre-order. Guild Wars 2 is great.
But, the armour sucks, and the matchmaking system in PvP sucks.
Otherwise, great game.

It’s been ages since they released this, where are the other parts of the set??
They can spend $200,000 on a PvP reward, but they can’t find the time or money to finish an armour set? What gives?

The OP’s points, I well agree with. The example armours weren’t a good example of an improvement though, imho.

There are lots of other games to take examples from—-in general, the armour in Guild Wars 2 is bland.

I think this is a poor idea to solve spam. Also, it would be easily abused for other purposes.

I have 2300 hours logged and completed all Heart of Thorns maps.
That said, I would like to clarify my original post;

I am not suggesting the open world be riddled with impassable obstacles and enemies.
It is however currently the exact opposite — a massive barren wasteland with not a single deadly enemy blocking a path anywhere in the entire continent.

Other than the enjoyment of a scenic tour, there is absolutely no challenge and therefore little reason to revisit the zones for purposes of, well, combat – which is what the majority of this game revolves around.

Why people have to be so ‘extreme’ I don’t know.

There are no bottlenecks of danger, no deadly enemies thwarting advancement, anywhere.

Players can traverse/reach 100% of the area within a map, without facing a deadly enemy(s) blocking said access. The same holds true for the travel between between maps.

All of the maps are sparsely populated with face-roll easy mobs. There are no “holy crap! … run!” moments, or, requests for others players to escort one another through danger zones. —Dungeons/Raids excluded.

It is often said, that it is not the destination, but the journey itself that holds the most reward. I feel that this is, in part, missing from Guild Wars 2 for said reasons.

I hope that in future expansion packs, the open areas themselves will present more of a challenge. Heart of Thorns was definitely a step in the right direction!

You need to understand that at some point people match out on their own potential and will just blame bad matchmaking.

This would be a fair enough comment if the game scores at end were close. They’re not, they’re wild blow outs.

95% soloq. The experience sux; Very very slow progression, frustrating loss streaks and wild blow outs (The games are rarely evenly matched) Been playing everyday, still only Sapphire T3.

One of the most frustrating experiences one can have in any game is to have control taken away from their player object.

This happens in a big way in PvP. In fact, most tactics revolve around it.
Immobilize, knockback, chill… then when this gets doubled and tripled as each player adds their own ‘layer’ on top of it, the end result is a character unable to move for 10 seconds all the while getting their head smashed in.

It really sucks.

Allow a double up on a trait line;

Players could choose to completely forego a third trait line in order to select a second trait from each tier of an already selected trait line.

For example;
Beastmaster
Beastmaster
Third trait line forfeit

As most are no doubt aware, using an emote cause the backpiece to disappear until the emote is over.

There is a semi-way around this, and that is to switch to one’s equipment screen and toggle the backpiece on and off, whereby it becomes visible again.

Please fix this situation. If not ‘properly’, implement an auto togggle on/off script when executing emotes.

Most swords clip into the ground. I’ve posted about this before actually.
In any case, there’s not really a ‘nice’ way to say this, but quite frankly, the fact that swords clip into the ground is really, really stupid. Monumentally so.

Having said that, the person in charge of the Timekeeper sword knows this, and they made it not clip into the ground. kittening champion! Promotion to CEO, thank you.

Perhaps a great many people would run around everywhere in swimwear, were it added.
Perhaps it would be too much trouble to implement an opposite version of that “Southsun Cove” forced swimwear location—in that, unless you were in close proximity to a shoreline or body of water, you would not be allowed to equip the swimwear (outfit)…

Has there been any ‘progress’ on this particular issue concerning pets? Or any dev posts about it?

Totally need a /resign command

If you CHANGE and LOCK my window focus ONCE more in PvP lobby when I’m typing, I will quit GW2. It’s so obnoxious I want to arrghhh!!

Sunshine.5014:

People should be able to see their own MMR in the PvP panel. But it’s a bad idea to make them be able to see all the MMR.

It’s like everyone should know how much gold they have, but they shouldn’t know how much gold other players have. If you want to know how much gold your friend has, ask them. They have the right to tell you how rich they are or tell you that’s privacy. It’s the same thing for MMR. People should know their MMR and has the right to share it or not, but it shouldn’t be public.

That’s a fair call.

Show the MMR and division OPENLY inside an actual PvP match.
That way, everyone can see how good or bad the system is working for themselves.

Everyone’s preferred win rate is 100%.

However, because achieving that is practically impossible, I believe that most people’s preference for a gameplay experience would be to have close matches regardless of the win/loss outcome.

The current system results in massive lop-sided wins/losses, which is just awful.

Leeloo.4185:

is not really like you say.
with S1 system put you in a fair match, you can play better than what “system think” and that adjust what “system think” or worse.
the brick wall in S1 is 50% win rate. if you have that, that mmr is your skill.

[snip!]

You talk like Leeloo.

Losing streak says it all – the matchmaker is broken.
Almost all are blowouts.

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

That is an interesting suggestion. Who else would you like to see as returning heroes in stronghold?

Me – Primordial Legendary Losing Streak Champion /sarcasm

Very dissatisfied with PvP, particularly this season 2.

Nobody likes to to lose, and it’s the way in which one loses that makes it most unpleasant;

1) Close games are almost non existent. It’s either 639 vs 25 loss, or vice versa.
2) Endless losing streaks obliterate any feeling of progression.
3) An uncanny (deliberate?) system of “win 1, lose 1, win 1, lose 1” (when not in a losing streak) This is even more frustrating than #2.
4) Balance issues; there are a few classes/builds with overpowered damage combos or invulnerabilities.

I’ll continue to play because I’m after the wings, but continuing on for fun, I am most certainly not.

TLDR; Season 2 is an incredibly kittening unpleasant experience.

It should be most obvious by now.
We’re going to the Crystal Desert next.

We’ve got TWO Crystal-related outfits now, and the world map scrolls a great deal south east towards the Crystal Desert with a big purple streak where the Dragon that killed Glint and a member of Destiny’s Edge went.

Crystal Savant outfit is underwhelming. The Crystal Nomad outfit is far better.
But who wants more outfits? Not me. Bring real armour pieces, not these cop-outs.

Aidan Savage.2078:

It’s been stated time and time again that the gemstore will only have OUTFITS (beyond the few armor sets from way back when). Armors will be obtained exclusively ingame (see lumi/carapace set, HoT armor sets, the pvp track armor set, etc).

So put them in the kittening game, in-game already!!!
This whole issue kittens me to tears.

Need story. Need, more, STORY!!!!

Armour Stands (mannequins)- they appear in the home instance.
Players assign armour pieces to them for display.
This could also serve as the beginnings of a build save system.

Look, this is a very simple issue;
Both from Anet’s point of view and from the players’.
Here’s how it’s going to go down;

1) Anet creates ‘Armour Stands’, sold in the gem store at say, 700 gems per stand, that then appear in your home instance.
2) Players equip these ‘Armour Stands’ with the actual real armour, weapon, trinket and back pieces that they have in their inventory (It goes without saying that the pieces disappear from the inventory and are assigned to the armour stand), also selecting their specializations.
3) In all game modes, players may press a key to ‘summon’, ‘warp in’, ‘teleport’, ‘display’ (take your pick of a word) before them, all the armour stands that they have set up in their home instance. They player may then press ‘F’ over one of the summoned Armour Stands to equip that load-out.