Guild Wars 2

The story instance and the view of the map felt right. The mastery points are good. There are very easy ones and there are hard ones too. They felt like the title based mastery points, but in the open world. Especially thanks for the portal mastery. As a GW1 veteran it felt nostalgic Besides, the Hell’s Kitchen mastery is a bit hard The fight felt good too. Sometimes I went down quickly (because of my own arrogance), sometimes I could tank three hydra and their heads! Oh, the heads It was really fun. The raptor felt good, the animations are wonderful and the jumping capability is very useful too. It will opt out the staff and retreat on my guardian in pve very quickly. No other opinion from me about the mounts, because I only saw one.
Oh, almost forgot! The music was fantastic!

At first, I used the regular GS skin. It’s relatively small and good for almost every armor. Some times later i found the GS from the Ascalon Catacombs and it was my go to GS skin for a very long time.
Then the Chaos GS has arrived to the store and it was a love at first sight I think there is no other GS skin which is in par with this one.
Except one My main character’s name is Vérpenge (or Bloodblade in English), so when the Bloodstone GS has arrived it was a no-brainer for me
TL;DR: I think there are more than a few good GS skins.

xikira.3264:

I don’t think mounts belong in the game they ruin the immersion.

Breaking immersion? Really?
One example against it from Guild Wars: Prophecies.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Summit_Beastmaster

And this is only one example.

I remember the time, when they put in the /wings emote in GW1. There are endless wing-parties in the big cities (mostly Spamadan )… for a few days. Guess what, two months later rarely see anyone to use that emote.
GW2 has a few similar stories too (khmmmentortag…khmm)
:D

Faaris.8013:

Rinn.2375:

Think about the dailies. There are some Orr lumberer, vista viewer, etc. You can do it rather quickly without paying any “teleport fee”.

The fee for teleportation is so low, it certainly is no pro argument for purchasing the VIP ticket. Porting only once and paying 2 silver gives me more value than porting twice without additional costs.

Is it a laziness competition? I hate the world map and I avoid it as long as I can. I use teleport stones, scrolls, portals, glide, anything to avoid bringing up the map and use those magic pebbles. It’s not immersive to me at all. So, it was a nobrainer for me to buy the pass.
We shouldn’t compare playstyles I think. It’s an endless argument.

Alin.2468:

In my opinion Royal Terrace pass beats every other pass currently in game, because it has the shortest distance between TP – bank – mystic forge. Royal Terrace has the least amount of walking between those 3 points.

Besides, Royal Terrace was released in GW2 core game, not HoT or PoF, and is located in Divinity Reach, providing a chance to meet more people than other locations.

Compared to other special passes it does not offer features like low gravity, but it gets the job done fast and efficient.

The Captain’s Airship pass has an easy access to Orr too. You can jump out of the ship and glide down to the Vigil keep to enter the portal to Fort Trinity. I have access for all the restricted areas and I think this is the best option for a PvE’r. Think about the dailies. There are some Orr lumberer, vista viewer, etc. You can do it rather quickly without paying any “teleport fee”.

Ok, maybe it’s time to one of the wvw noobs talk about wvw and the first impression he got. I am a PvE player who hate every kind of PvP. I am really hate it in the last 5 years, but I joined the big fight because I want two Gift of Battles and some Ascalonian Tears too. I don’t have to say for what reason I reckon
So there was the time I traveled to one of the wvw maps and I didn’t have a kittened clue what the kitten I had to do to get that kittened Gifts. There were the map chat ofc, but a greenhorn most likely shut up when two commanders and the scouts are talking about whoknowwhat
No mentor in wvw, so I checked the LFG (as a pve’r it’s a reflex nowdays) for a kind group to learn about this fight, but nothing I found ofc.
I ended up joining a squad and run in a middle of a big group (now I know this was a “zerg”) and I think I just learnt the most boring and braindead way to play this gamemode.
Fortunately I found some kind people to show me the tricks, and learnt so much from this forum too. Now I kinda like this fight, but if I had the tool to find them more easily…
TL;DR I think, the LFG system update is a huge step forward and I really mean it.

I never have done fractal in the past four years. Ever. Yet I have the Agony Channeler mastery (the 2. in Fractal Attunement mastery line) unlocked because science. Why can I do this and why can’t with the raid mastery?

Maybe the solution is to create a tonic which is working when you’re next to water.
Or a guild event item you can touch and change to your swimsuit.

My lists
3 pros:
- Salvage all fine, masterwork and rare is the top feature, me think.
- Glider skills is the second. It’s a new mechanic and I looking forward to they spread the feature to the other areas.
- The third is the new PvE content. I know it seems a bit short, but the previous seasons doesn’t have a full area in every single chapter neither.
3 cons:
- Guardians Spirit weapons are still useless
- Guardians Spirit weapons are still useless
- Guardians Spirit weapons are still useless

My (very) shortened list:
- PvE/PvP skill splits
- Gliding puzzles
- More and relevant underwater content. I recon they think about a new mastery line too if it’s on the table. Streamswimming for faster movement, dolphineye for reduce the fog or whatever.
- More mastery points for central Tyria.
- More “random” content like the bounties in Current Event
- Achievements for helping rookies
- New Elite specializations. I like to see a paragon guardian with a spear

LouWolfskin.3492:

Once again i will ask: What exactly does casual mean?

I want to know this.
I want to know what this casual player sees himself doing in an MMO.

Casual content is that you can start right after you logged in and last 15 mins top.

Nero.8047:

Not to sound too pessimistic but Josh said they’ll look into mace, which is on their list of investigation.
Although chances are there, there is no guarantee that other areas of the Guardian will see a revamp/buff.

I’m with you, Nero. I’m a bit skeptical about this too and I can’t have any strength to be optimistic. As I see they’ll nerf the mace to even more useless.
Maybe we have to start to use the environmental weapons instead.

momorif.3619:

meow mewo pew pew more runes~

Maybe legendary runes and sigils? Random drops from dungeon chests and in raids?
Tradeable right?
Then we shoud have ascended runes too

My VIP list

1. Access to a VIP area like The Royal Terrace
2. x Black Lion’s key. 1 for the first month, 2 for the second, etc., 5 monthly tops.
3. No waypoint cost from the 3th month
4. Unlimited waypoint to your friend token
5. Unlimited waypoint to your Home Instance token
6. Quarterly titles like the birthday titles.
7. Ability to change the apple tag to something nicer. Maybe pineapple?

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Rinn.2375:

Crafting is a huge gold sink. It meant to be like this. Do you have an idea what could replace it?

Any intelligent person will only level the expensive professions on a single character. What OP suggested is really just the QoL that you don’t have to switch characters to craft your stuff.

Since people also use crafting to level their characters, how about adding a dialogue to the master craftsmen that allows your character to learn all your account’s recipes?

I know, I did them on one toon too, but there are situations when it is a good thing. Like in the leveling of a new toon as you mentioned it. Lot of BL key farmer will angry about a change like this

They can bind them to a mastery line if they want The system is in place for this I think and it’s account bound already.

Crafting is a huge gold sink. It meant to be like this. Do you have an idea what could replace it?

I have no hope left since fixing a visual glitch is a balance fix?

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

- Not to create content for WvW players, they will hate it anyway.

This. Is. Hilarious Thank you sir. You made my day

My endgame is to get my first kittened Legendary at last.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I only counted Act I steps. The are 5 races, two major choices for each race, and several times in each ‘path’ offering a choice of column A vs column B, for a total of 22 new instanced ‘stories’.

But if you want to call it “6 or 7,” no problem — all the other changes still need to happen.

the tl;dr remains the same: it’s very costly to add a new race to GW2.

Oh, I see, but your math is still off a bit, because the first PSS is the same in the Act I. For example, The Wild Hunt is the first step if you choose the Norn race no matter what. So it’s 19 after all They did 16 much more complex story steps for HoT.
I think it’s doable to add a new race to the next expansion.

Edit: minor issue whit the quoting system

Maybe she is a guardian and though: “OMG, where’s my spirit weapons?!”

I want to play as an ascalonian ghost. It would be lovely in a full radiant armor and Chaos Glowes At least a tonic would be cool.
My second choice is an aquatic race, but not the quaggans or skrits. Something else. Surprise me Anet Maybe a race created by a watery[sic] elder dragon, or something. I don’t know, I’m not a designer after all

Edit:

Dante.1508:

Dante.1508:

Been asked since release, nothing ever gets added, i wouldn’t hold your breath op.

It’s very expensive to add a new race compared to adding a new profession or new zones. ANet would have to add:

• 22 new personal stories.
• Update all other personal stories based on changes that races have on the dialogue.
• A new home city (and, in theory, at least one new ‘home’ zone, comparable to Queensdale).
• Create new race-specific dialogue for a variety of situations.
• Hire voice actors for all the personal stories, LS2, HoT story, and skill/idle remarks, plus be prepared to rehire them all for LS3 and beyond.
• Create nine sets of new cultural armor.
• Update various achievements (or add new ones), for which race matters.
• Update every single armor in the game to work with the new race.
• Probably two dozen other things that other folks will think of off the top of their head, not to mention dozens of other things we don’t even know about.

tl;dr there’s a reason that ANet isn’t likely to deliver a new race, short of making them the focus of an expansion.

They have to add 6 or 7 new personal story steps only. After the Act II is started it doesn’t matter a lot which species the player come from.

I hope it’ll not be a wing, but a ballon, or surfboard, or a magic carpet, or a cloud (yes, like in Dragon Ball ), or a rainbow, or bats like with the tonic, or Thor’s hammer, or Supergirl, or Dragon spirit, or…. so many ideas why must it always be wings?!

I recon this is a bit bigger problem. The game become easier each update and the valued skins become less important. In the beginning there were a meaning behind that you have a legendary or two. Now the new stuff are obtainable relatively short period of time, there is no real challenge about it. I saw a player with an Ad infinitum backpack just two days after it’s patch. It’s frustrating because there is not a single elite set/skin in this game. We have crazily priced ones, but not a single skin which you look at and think: “that guy is know something to get it”

I’m playing HoT since the last patch and I really like it. I can solo the maps with a Dragonhunter. I have a terrible build and had many problems with it before the patch, but i had only one problem with a Hero Point to complete. The solution: one single “help me please with this HP” cry in /map chat. That’s all. Ten players appeared in notime and we can easily finished that kittened whateverwhatwasthatspider thing.
I love this community

My main is a Dragonhunter with a “non meta” Balthazar build with Greatwsord and Longbow. My secondary main Guardian is a Mace/Torch and Staff/Shield experiment with Balthazar build again. My third main is a Necromancer with a two daggers and wells condi build.

Dante.1508:

All classes should be able to face roll hot, the whole map not just some.

If they make it easier that much it will be boring like the starting areas. They launched HoT for HC gamers and they “loved” it. Then reduced the difficulty level to the casuals and I think they’ll reduce the difficulty level when the next expansion comes. I think this is the roadmap here.

Zenith.6403:

I think that Anet has a problem understanding the scale of some things. At the moment they are selling a single shared inventory slot in the gemstore for 700 gems. What am I going to do with one shared inventory slot? Moving stuff between characters is a wholesale process:

- Ascended armor pieces (6)
- Ascended trinkets (6)
- Ascended weapons on some cases (1-6)
- Gathering tools (3)
- Salvage kit (1)
- Food and oils (2)
- Siege weapons (2+)

When I’m moving stuff between characters I need to swap all of that and I need a good amount of bank space for it. That means I won’t buy your 700 gem shared inventory slot ever, but I might consider buying 700 gem shared 20 bag slot. Get it right or you keep losing business.

You can’t put armor, trinket or weapon in it if it’s soulbound.

Vayne.8563:

Anyone who said this hasn’t changed too much, simply isn’t paying attention.

It’s true. I am a casual player. Casual of the casuals as a matter of fact. I lost interest quickly in HoT because I died so many times. Now, I can manage in HoT with my guardian and easily finished Verdant Brinks map. Achievements and all. Even unlocking the masteries is a lot easier now (from 22 to 33 within a day with casual, not HC play), so I don’t know what is the problem with the difficulty level of the HoT content.
I think it’s good now. A bit harder than the “Prophecies” and a lot easier than the old HoT

My main char is a guardian, ocassionaly dragonhunter. I played with it everywhere across Tyria. Almost every time I played in a group in a nearwhipe situation I were the last man standing to res the whole party and save the battle. The guardian is still a very reliable profession. As a veteran “noob” I like it in PvE. I hope to the guardian get other role too. Sooner or later. I would prefer sooner

Look into it from the other way. I have a good friend who bought HoT recently and asked me every day: Why can’t I go to the content I payed for? In her eyes the GW2 “Prophecies” is just a tutorial area because she payed for the HoT content. Now, she can level up instantly her main toon and she can work on masteries ASAP.

I have a Dawn now and I am on my way to forge my first legendary from it. I’m playing this game since closed beta, so it’s about time But I have to play WvW for this…
I hate every single form of pvp and it’s a very thick wall between me and my first legendary. I think I have to be lvl 14 or something in WvW for a component I have to have to craft another component.
I would like another way to craft that without pvp.

Check the “new” Star Wars rpg from Fantasy Flight Games. It’s a narrative, fast and easy system.

I love the outfits! I have almost every one of them. Aside of a few very weird one I have a few alts under lvl80 and it’s a good way to hide the looted gear they have. I tend to use them on my main char too, because I haven’t have so much unlocked armor skins.

Didn’t hesitate a second to buy this upgrade. I have one terrace ticket and one ship ticket. I do understand the feelings of the people who have more than one, but I am happy now to have only one of these. (In a very very selfish way I know.) I have few alts that I parked next to a world boss’ or jumping puzzle chest and aside of the armors and weapons I can fetch the loot every single day now from these toons. Even the armors and weapons can be salvaged, ‘couse I can give the toon a proper salvage kit now.
This upgrade has a huge impact on everything I think. It’s almost game changing.

Changing the client means changing the servers too. It’ll not happen if they can fix/patch the problem other ways. It’s not cheap and a schedule nightmare to do it with a live 24/7 service. GW2 works like a medical solution. 24/7, 99.9% serviceability/month. And that is the minimum , trust me
Also they can’t just switch to 64bit just like turning a switch, they have to support 32bit clients after that too. So they have to solve the issues anyway and the cheapest way is to scrap the 64bit client idea and concentrate on the 32bit.
I think they doing a good job with fixes. I know lot of mmo’s with much greater problems but no fixes/patches for months.

roachsrealm.9284:

What I got was a daily theme park with nearly endless grind.

I remember the grind for the EotN titles, the Kurzik/Luxon titles, for ecto in The Underworld, the 55 monk farm, etc. If you wanted a really great thing, you have to grind a lot. I mean a lot It’s not changed at all. The cherry on top was the no TP thing. Do you remember Spamadan? I loved GW1, but it had/has issues too. Very big issues.

GW2 is not GW1. It’s a new era and GW2 must comply to the new standards. I think the devs are doing a good job. Even the free account system is way better than other MMOs similar solutions.
Hey! We can jump! And hey, GW2 Prophecies[sic] has the “new” feature called underwater battle, and now HoT has gliding! Whats next? Mounts?

Can I +1 this two or three times?

I think it is not a good thing when you have to spend 300g to be able to help others. I think the 300g prize of the Commander tag is a nonsense too. Why is a power trader be more valid Commander than a highly ranked pvp hero who has no money at all? I don’t get it.

I’m playing this game almost every day since the first beta and never – and I stress that a little more never – seen a precursor drop. I decided to not pay any gold or gem for this at TP and I was really hopeless about this. Now I have a way to get one precursor even it is grindy.
I have almost all the mats for Zap without grind btw. I just didn’t sell my extra stacks of something for some extra gold to buy something I didn’t need
TL;DR
I like this feature and I like that it’s not easy too

I don’t think this is an issue. I lead several zerg in the Labyrinth because there are no commanders when you need one. Also when I turned off my Mentor tag and say goodbye to the zerg usually – and interestingly – a commander just pop up and lead the zerg further.
It’s cheap, but I think it’s intended. I think the Mentor system is not for lead the big events, but “lead”/tutor/mentor/organize the new players with free accounts who have no chance to get the Mentor badge. The “full accounts”[sic] know that it’s cheap and they’ll follow the Commander.
It just helps when there is no commander. I saw it in the Labyrinth multiple times.

(edit: minor typos)

Who is this Angry Joe guy? Is he in a POI i missed?

Purecura.1795:

Dont forget, the art district in DR, that giant hole in the city that new players will never see.

I loved that in DR! I hope they’ll bring us a similar thing in the middle of Black Citadel

I remember the login screen of the beta event before launch too. That beautiful white login screen. I really miss it. I understand why they change it, but still this launcher solution is not my thing.

+1 I love this idea! As an owner of a 3D printer I like to have an option to download my characters’ model to print and paint them. If it’s for gems, so be it

I’m playing in Tyria since 2006. I feel rewarded.

If you want to sell/give away a whole armor set you can easily do it with this form. This is the benefit. If you want to get money for everything you should stop playing games like this and be a lawyer

You should try to use it in the Mystic Forge.

Armanant.1435:

Well, it says “valid recipe found! press combine to create the item” or somesuch.. press combine.. get nothing. Pretty sure that it’s a bug ;-)

Edit: Exact quote for ya “These items create a match! Hit Create to generate new items!”

Okay then my mistake