Guild Wars 2

At the risk of putting this thread back on track – I do not see the point of the OPs suggested changes. I like having to change attunements to maximize damage. Its great that my combo finishers are in Earth which happens to be my defensive attunement which I kinda need to drop the bomb in melee range. If I was still in Fire for the finisher I’d be much squishier and in any case i’d have to change to earth / water after burst to fall back / heal. From what I can tell you are simply moving the att. change from mid-chain to post-chain.

Personally, I prefer that the attunement changes are a part of my skills chain rather than a pre-ordained and limited functionality associated with each element. As it is the elements have a flavour (AoE, Heal, Single/Mobility, Defensive/Conditions). That doesn’t mean that they have to be completely devoid of other capabilities (like the ability to apply some pressure while in Water or Earth)

More to the point how are you level 80 without 2g to spare? Are you still Salvaging everything you come across for some measly mats instead of selling anything without a decent Sigil / Rune you want to get out of it?

Pirate.4631:

How about when you use a banner it puts it on your back and your skill chances to a new skill that is a combination of inspire (the speed buff) and the banners 2 skill. (does anyone ever actually attack with the banner or use the charge in combat?)

Yeah, we would lose a blast finisher, and I imagine multiple banners sticking out of you would look funny but it solves a lot of problems and is pretty practical.

I also suppose battle standard would have to turn into a PBAoE which is annoying. But it is the best idea I can come up with.

I’m building for shouts instead of banners (partly) because of the control issue. I do like it when others use my banners appropriately and trigger off group buffs and set them down again but when a player just picks it up and runs off for their own personal speed boost it gets annoying.

I really like this suggestion of having banners on your back. Very feudal Japanese style even if you had several sticking out your back. While carrying them on your back you are limited to the innate banner buffs but the Summon Banner skill now changes to Plant Banner which allows you to drop it and let others use it.

This should then provide players with both options of being more social or more protective of their banners / buffs

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere. I searched the Charr sub-forum (and learned how awesome search is on this forum btw ) but I could not find it.

It irks me no end that this Elite skill has a range of 450. It simply makes no sense to call in an artillery strike, effectively, on your own current position. Artillery is something that you call in for with a set of co-ordinates. It is not affected by LoS and other such things.

I fully understand that within a game you have to place certain limitations on skills for balance purposes but considering the weak damage and unpredictable To-Hit nature of this skill I feel that range should not be such a major limiting factor. This should be at least 1200 imho if not more. Not sure what the maximum range possible is in GW2 but it should be that.

The most obvious place where this affects me is in WvW while defending or attacking keeps. I would love to be able to call in a decent strike on Attackers / Defenders but it is almost impossible due to its range. At least while attacking a fortification I can run up to the wall, blow some CDs and call in the strike but as a Defender (where being on a wall already counts for some range) it is practically impossible to place this anywhere useful.

I know there are plenty of other things that people want ‘fixed’ and there are threads to discuss those. I’d like to know if anyone else thinks that this Elite skill should have more range or am I pissing into the wind with this one?

DJRiful.3749:

I made a char a while ago, the server got rolled back twice.

1. Just killed the first boss event starting noob zone then boot out of the game.
2. Log back in, back to where I start at the very beginning…. oh great… Just like the time I just made my char.
3. Killed the boss again and finally pass the area and done some hearts. Logged out sleep.
4. Next day, back to the noob start like I just made my char again!
5. !??!?!?!!??! What is this?!?

Groundhog Day!!!

I love it how people say “oh its an MMO so just put up with it. What did you expect?”

well I expected a quality product. Just because apologists keep saying that “this is normal for MMOs on launch” doesn’t make it right.

I have seen rollbacks before and realize that sometimes they are a necessary evil but data loss (which is what this is) is considered a major problem in any business. Just because this is a game that doesn’t exclude it. These days there are such things as capacity planning and load testing.

What is unacceptable to me is that for several days I have not been able to properly use something that I have paid for. What infuriates me is that ANet consciously decided to face this reality.

They knew they have a problem on their hands. That’s why they stopped sales for a brief time because the Tech people realized the server farm / architecture can’t take any more. Unfortunately for us someone in Sales / Product Management didn’t like the sales freeze and decided that its acceptable that some people will not be able to play for a while just as long as sales keep on coming in. They realize that eventually people will get bored of this and leave. At which point they would have put a very small amount of that money towards buying more bandwidth (figuratively speaking) and by then whoever’s left should have a decent enough experience.

Gamer does not exclude Customer. I am both and I am unsatisfied on both accounts.

whats stopping you? just dont equip anything in the other set.

game has been unplayable all afternoon / evening. This is getting annoying now. Its clearly a capacity planning issue and nothing to do with ISPs or anything else.

Anet please make sure you have the infrastructure required to support the number of Customers that you sold your product to.

At some point you added the -repair flag to the shorcut you use to run the game. I suggest you go fix that.

you repeated the exact same text. happens to me when I join an event way above my pay grade and end up creamed / rezzed quite a lot.

I have to change from ‘ty’ to ‘thx’ after a couple of times

yup.

still plenty of Defects in this release

restart the game client. Fixed it for me.

Happens quite a bit. Im more amused by a voice over that IS working but is clearly wrong.

In a Priory mission to build a containment unit Gixx talks about Priory Arcanists (at least thats what the text says) however the voice over guy clearly reads it out as Priory Anarchists. Quite the difference.

restart the game client. Should fix that.

after a while I am able to load a character however the server connections issues persist. My toon is clearly just free-roaming out of synch with the game server. No skills can be used. Weapon swaps dont happen, etc.

I often get this at peak times and im putting it down to “growing pains” but at this point Im just about ready to call it quits and go play something else for a few months until they sort this out.

Me too. Can’t load any of my characters now.

I can hear the background sounds as if the game has loaded but I remain on the loading screen and its not just toons in Lion’s Arch.

Havent really been able to play most of the day today due to lag / disconnects / now loading bugs…..