Guild Wars 2

Can ANet please hire this guy? This is what the game needs – developers who understand a profession in multiple scenarios, rather than “fixing something that ain’t broke”.

Great analysis and suggestions.

OP sounds like a kitten roleplayer.

Before you get all angry, I am (also) one of these kitten roleplayers. Well, less so about roleplaying, but definitely kitten. I used to go on TC for RPers just because they didn’t have eyesore armor or character names. The megaserver ruined all of that, so now I see people like “aojfgwep” (gross exaggeration) running around.

Again, they existed long before megaservers… I just didn’t have to ever read their disgustingly poor character name.

I had a sudden urge to try out this new trait system, so I rerolled an engineer I previously deleted and leveled it to 80.

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!

I don’t get traits until 30 (which makes me as fast as a mesmer until then, with my rocket boots), then I learn that I have to do some stupid event or pay to gain what is really a QoL thing for engineers, and at that point I realize I have to do this stupid event-hunting or skill point/gold grinding just to unlock my traits…

Okay, so I complied with Anet’s dumb enforcement of PvE, and sought out events and jumping puzzles… only to realize that I was severely undertraited in all approaches, which made things similarly difficult for me to complete them.

I had 3 traits when unlocking HGH through HotW. I’ve done many HotW runs, but this was by far the worst – I was lucky enough to have a patient and strong PUG to carry me, even as the second engineer in the group.

Why doesn’t Anet just spend the time implementing better tooltips + tutorials? Why wasn’t the story designed around teaching a player how to use certain skills and combos? This is the reason why this trait system was implemented, no? Either it was to force the population to play PvE, which is supposed to make sure that players know what they are doing before they enter endgame content…

They forget that those who refuse to play along with this stupid trait concept would just go to EotM/Fractals/WvW/PvP to farm gold + skill points.

I know my feedback is a bit late (as shown by the 40 previous pages in this thread), but I hope they still mean something and I’m not alone in feeling alienated with my toon

@OP: I’m about as optimistic as you are when it comes to GW2 updates. These are all QoL things. The cost-free update to traits and armors are most likely to scale with the gold nerf though, so in other words, it’s like we have 2+2=4, and then suddenly 3+1=4 is some novel, innovative idea. So… you are right. A lot of this is just hype-building over nothing. :P

Well said, OP. Agreed on all points.

I was QQing about the trait system before but this is next level bad… I suggest all pre-patch vets hug any new player they come across…

Lady Celtaine.3760:

Behellagh.1468:

Makes those level to 20 scrolls a lot more valuable now.

Thankgoodness I had one in my bank. I had certain unlocks pop up retrospectively having used the scroll to jump to lvl 20. This kinda peeved me though… it seems new players wont be able to join a guild and benefit from the experience of other more experienced players until they are level 16.

“downed skill 2 unlocked”… oh dear god…

This was indeed an excellent map. I hate to say it, but this single new map makes the rest of Tyria look small. I’ve done world completion and I never kick the feeling that the entire world of Tyria is small (possibly because it’s a world designed for no mounts). There was really no sense of grandness until Fractals or BotFW. But this is coming from a LOTRO fan, so my expectations for draw distance are set especially high.

Excellent map, and on the subject of this update, having a minimum amount of fortune scraps for kite fortunes is a strong step forward against the strongly-disliked RNG system.

This piece was originally written for a “HoD/CV Love” competition hosted on my old guild’s website. Since it’s inception, I have not had a very good experience with the guild, so I am removing their role in the inspiration for this piece. Thank you to all those who listened to it! The (altered) song link will remain on this post for anyone who wishes to still listen to it:

https://soundcloud.com/tim_six/henge-of-denravi

Left: Alternate weapon set
Top right: Phalanx, anyone?
Bottom right: Main weapon set

A combination of ancient Greek hoplite and Roman soldier styles (mostly because of the shield – there aren’t any large, circular shields). Unfortunately, there aren’t very many options for helmets, shields, or main-hand weapons that resembled the “Spartan” look, so this was the best I could come up with. I created the character solely for WvW, mostly as healing and off-tank support.

naiasonod.9265:

You shouldn’t play any of the core professions at all. The real profit is in playing an Economancer. As an Economancer, you will have to acquire or utilize your existing proficiency in spreadsheets and data trending in tandem with other existent resources to identify profitable markets and systematically exploit them.

In this fashion, you will generate the class’s core resource – gold. With gold, you can acquire virtually anything you might desire in the game, up to and including Legendary weapons. Via careful cultivation of your class resource you will meet and tackle Trading Post challenges that will subtly differ from week to week, ultimately earning your way into the almighty Legendary flipping market, where the stakes are at their highest and your entire fortune might be multiplied or lost with the shifting of the economic climate’s tides.

The Economancer has no need to pvp – they can, if played to a respectable level, afford to simply buy anything they might desire anyway, with very little to necessarily entice the Economancer to direct involvement.

The Economancer has no WvW advantage except perhaps for the distantly secondary advantage of never needing to bother with it if it isn’t in their interest.

The Economancer will be as specifically suited to PvE as their skill, knowledge and willingness to expend Gold for just the right combinations of gear and utility items to support themselves and a team in dungeons, at world boss fights and even in lower-tier pre-agony fractals allows.

Don’t settle for being a mere peasant-caste vagabond! Play an Economancer today, and learn the powerful truth of that the Golden Rule means that whomever has the gold, makes the rules!

LMAOOOO this should be standard GW2 copypasta for class selection threads

fishball.7204:

More like they should make people who DON’T reroll when there are 3+ of the same on the team already lose 1 pip.

wouldnt it be better to fix matchmaking instead of punishing players for Anet’s matchmaking (which is out of the player’s control apart from rank/division changes)?

but yes, agreed that comps should be locked for ranked games, if you want to cheese with 4 thief please play unranked no matter how good you are with 4 thief

KyoHanakaze.8145:

First of all, SB NEVER, EVER should have had the same range as LB. This is logical. I’m surprised it took them THIS LONG to nerf it. […] So, man, I dunno.

Exactly, you don’t know. Short bows and longbows logically have the same range. They just differ in power and rate of fire.

Short bow range nerf was a fail.

I didn’t know how bad traits were for new players, until I emulated one with a new alt…

I stopped playing GW2 since the update, just move onto other games and let this place die. Ego-hungry gem store customers will/can only support the dying game for so long…

Since we are not subscribers, only way to get the message across to this ignorant corporation is to protest with your wallet (refuse to buy gems) and time (just play something else so the active player population drops).

Some background info on my own experience: I have had no prior experience with GW – GW2 was my first game out of the two Guild Wars games – and I haven’t even seen trailers of the predecessor prior to buying GW2. Seeing it for sale on Steam, I did some searching and found a free trial which lets me start prophecies. Well, I was somewhat unimpressed as expected, but mostly disappointed… but the disappointment was at GW2, rather than GW1. GW1 seemed a lot more vibrant, immersed me into lore instantly, and had a certain type of charm to it that GW2 has. I prefer the GW1 camera, skill flexibility, exploring, and even the questing. The characters look a lot better too. Also, humans being the only selectable race is actually something I prefer. The first cutscene with that King and Scribe had better voice acting than anything I’ve heard in GW2… What went wrong with the sequel?

I also felt a bit ripped off after running around and doing stuff for about 30 minutes… The music was way too familiar and some of the skills I unlocked I recognized right away… Whether or not it’s acceptable to recycle your own content is a different discussion topic altogether, but personally I felt like I was playing Sims 2 after buying Sims 3 (and several expansions)… In Sims 3, everything was presented as some authentic, unique feature. To a Sims newbie like myself at the time, it was true. Then I managed to try Sims 2 and was surprised to see a lot of that “new and authentic content” actually be recycled content from the previous game… Sorry about digressing, I hope it is at least a helpful metaphor for some.

I realize that people will disagree, and if you do, I see your point. There is no reason in reinventing the wheel. We have all seen that over-development play out in the traits update, which people are still being vocal about it on and off forums. So maybe it was a good idea to recycle things after all. I was not there to experience the transition from GW1 to GW2, so I don’t know how this impacted the people who did go through it.

The only thing stopping me from purchasing GW1 and expansions is just the age of the game… but aside from being evidently dated, the game to me felt like what GW2 failed to become. If Anet just remade GW1 with GW2 character models and skills, I would’ve happily bought it.

tl;dr: I have never tried GW1 but my experience with the game was fun and enjoyable. It made me wish GW2 was more similar to GW1 in many aspects.

I think it’s more of a problem with new content being permanent, rather than the speed of content being introduced into the game.

Lazaar.9123:

It’s not quite that simple, because of the particle effects.

I encountered a bug a year ago when I tried to transmute my subterfuge hood to my rascal mask, they somehow ended up combining (one clipped onto another) for a few minutes and then reverting to the subterfuge hood skin right after. Looked great, I thought it was some easter egg but when it reverted I knew it was a bug. Such a shame.

Point is, it’s not that difficult to implement.

Agreed. This is annoying.

The levelling system for a new player’s first character is fine. The sense of achievement is not. Alts that are created after achieving level 80 should receive some sort of permanent XP buff until 80. I doubt most people actually enjoy a repeated levelling experience, especially if they are playing as the same race (or dare I add profession). Most people who reach level 80 and start a new alt are familiar with the combat system and do not need 79 levels to learn how to play a new profession. That being said, reaching level 80 does not guarantee that a person has a good understanding of their profession (warrior + guardian GS in PvE = get through almost all content).

Perhaps letting players change profession at 80? IDK the solution but the levelling system is putting me off from being an active player, especially when I have a bunch of alts that are 80 already.

After playing a few hours of ranger in WvW I must conclude…

Arrow carts > rangers

I haven’t roamed/seen roaming rangers before, but AFAIK ranger AoE is soft. I’ll play my shout-healing warrior for kills, loot, and AoE DPS. Yes, my healing SUPPORT warrior (that’s how bad rangers are in WvW atm).

Short bows and longbows don’t have much discernible difference in terms of range in real life. What differs between both weapons (again, irl) is their power and rate of fire (assume equal archery skill).

It seems pretty silly to me that the ranger’s short bow skills all got nerfed to 900 range.

Now I’m not asking for 1200 range back on those skills (even though that is ideal and makes the most sense), but at least have a trait that lets rangers get their short bows back up to 1200 range.

The Eagle Eye trait is the easiest fix for this issue. It increases ranger longbow range to 1500. So why not have this apply to short bows as well? I am not asking for the added damage buff, just an anti-nerf for short bow range.

Like most have already said in ranger forums, after all these patches you might as well delete the ranger class and roll a thief. Especially with this default 900 range short bow garbage.