Guild Wars 2

• Dyes
• Legendary items
• All skins ‘unlocked’ via one time use items
• All meta achievement rewards

Its my opinion that all skins should behave this way, but your idea would be a good place to start.

They hyped this achievement reward system and then never utilize it, pretty dumb if you ask me.

Agreed, but it needs to be taken even further.

• One guaranteed scrap per chest, with a chance[and much higher than current chance] for a full ticket/more scraps
• Once the skin item is bought and used, it is sent to the account-wide skin locker, no more of this one time use garbage

Adding dye channels to the hundreds of weapon textures would take up time better spent elsewhere.

Also its clear its never going to happen, because they keep releasing reskins in different colors.

Pretty satisfied with this look, just wish there were good looking back pieces in the game.

These rng box only weapon sets would be acceptable if they were account wide unlocks like the zenith weapons. The current system is really shady.

jasonorme.5014:

Hello,
So I just found out about there being a Heroic Edition Digital Download that comes with stuff that myself (being a collectors edition owner) didn’t get.

Surely (if anyone) collectors edition owners should be credited with these free gifts and any future free gifts.

I can’t help but feel a little robbed and cheated.

First off, gifts are, by definition, free. Saying “free gift” is redundant.

Second, name one business that would award you with something a year after you bought the original product. You can’t. Why? Because that’s bad business.

Sorry you feel “robbed and cheated”, but you got what you paid for, knowing what you were paying for, when you paid for it. You are wrong.

Good luck, ANet has an aversion to decent looking staves.

Forcing dungeon running for progression is bad, I don’t run dungeons.
Forcing achievement points for rewards is bad, I don’t have time for achievements.
Forcing the trading post to obtain items is bad, I don’t have the gold.
Forcing random world drops for rare items is bad, I don’t farm.

Obtaining an ascended weapon(s) wont be realistic for everyone, and there is nothing wrong with that; the point is the possibility is there. You aren’t forced to do anything.

The shattered wings look cool, animation is horrible though. The other wings look/animate fine, but are way too small. Desert rose looks great on female characters with light nightmare armor.

You paid for the collector’s edition, you received the collector’s edition. How is this any different than me (paid for the normal edition, received the normal edition) asking for the legacy armors too?

Doubtful, due too the fact that the accessories aren’t craftable (jewelcrafting isn’t on the list of professions being increased to the 500 cap).

Skill hunting

Good looking gear

Elite skills that were actually elite. Elite skills in guild wars 2 are almost universally useless, or less useful than a utility skill that you would rather take if you could put them in the elite slot.

Weapon skins with particle effects.

More voters than the 2012 Czech Republic Presidential Election

What a meaningless statement… More than half the countries in the world have a population less than 8.6 million.

Anyway, since that sales figure is from January, the user count probably is too.

They are all too common, but that doesn’t mean they are overrated. Most of them don’t look cool enough to be called legendary, though.

How would anyone here know the answer to that question?

Why would they introduce new account bound mats and increase to 500 crafting for ascended weapons, and then give you a way to skip past the time and craft requirements? You will have to use transmutation crystals if you want to use those skins with ascended stats.

Romo.3709:

Wouldn’t that make them account bound permanently? You can sell an item that hasn’t been soulbounded, but upon equipping it becomes soulbound. I’ve yet to see an item that upon equipping becomes account bound, so I wonder how they’ll go about that.

Being account bound on craft would be the best thing to happen in a long time.

It has already been confirmed that legendary and ascended weapons will have both sigil and infusion slots.

You all realize rich orichalcum veins already exist, right?

Working as intended, not a bug, but it does need to be changed. If you switch model limit from high to low, you trade invisible names and visible models for visible names and invisible models; this is just stupid.

Off should mean off, regardless if the model is culled or not. I do not need to know the name of every single player and npc at once. Having hundreds of names really detracts from the quality of the game experience.

We need…
• A key to hold down to show all names (much like the alt key to show interactables)
• The current check-box should disable names the way they used to, regardless of model limit (or possibly a non-intrusive translucent symbol over a culled model).
• An additional check-box (or default behavior) to enable “essential” names such as party, guild, commanders, etc.

My god, that outfit is hideous.

Battlefield 2 (2005) comes to mind, but I am sure it was used before that.

I would prefer downed state was removed entirely, but. . .

• Remove rally on kill
• Remove the downed state self-heal/res skills and all downed state traits
• Give all classes the same downed state skills, at least in pvp
• Cap the resurrector limit to one player or resurrection rate, while in combat
• Give all classes a button to instantly kill themselves while in downed state

. . .and I would be happy.

This game is mostly about the skins, so no, not really.

Its not like everyone will have their characters full geared in ascendent on the first day, week, or even month, let alone their alts. Ascended gear will likely take extreme amounts of time/capital to acquire. The ‘uselessness’ will depend on the individual. If they have the time to invest, then yeah, exotic stats (but again, this game is about the skins) will [eventually] be useless.

Solid Gold.9310:

Vayne.8563:

Actually using macros isn’t against the TOS. As long as it’s one keystroke per macro.

In other words you could make a macro to repeatedly hit F and that wouldn’t be against the TOS.

I think you’ll find a macro is a series of events, or more that one keystroke, any series of keystrokes that are repeated over and over.

You could make a macro to repeatedly hit “f”, in fact I repeatly hit the “f” key manually to make sure I pick up all the loot.

But a macro in it’s true meaning I believe would be against the TOS.

No… a macro is simply trading one set of inputs for another, this includes remapping keys:
• A macro to click mouse one when you press a key
• A macro to press a key when you click mouse one

Obviously this limits their use in the game, as there are already options for key remapping, so, to be safe, I wouldn’t even bother using them.

I am more concerned with the price of t6 mats going through the roof. Its around 400g for a stack of all the required t6 mats already, the thought of the price increasing makes me cringe.

While were at it, please only allow access to the entire game on tuesdays and thursdays, between the hours of 2pm-12am, as these are my days off.

We traded invisible enemies (culled) for enemies being hidden by player names, might as well just change it back to the way it was, invisible enemies are less annoying and ugly than hundreds of irrelevant player names on my screen.

Hebee.8460:

Its under the main options tab (1st panel with wrench), it says “[ ] Show All Player Names” un-check it. It will still show player names from what I can tell around your mouse & at a certain distance, but once they get close enough, their name goes away.

That only works with high model limit settings. For those of us with that setting on low or lowest, anything that is hidden has their name showing up. Pointless and laggy (almost as laggy as having the players show up anyway… whats the point?).

This would be great, unlikely to ever happen though. There are thousands of weapons in the game, adding dye channels to all of the weapon textures would take an exorbitant amount of time.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

If your desired outcome is to see neither the player models nor their names, then i can’t really help you… that’s not something you should want, as it hampers your tactical information.

Yes, because I need to know the name and location of all 300 people in a zerg, for tactical reasons.

The ONLY names that should be displayed, (regardless of culling settings) are:
• Guild
• Party
• Team
• Squad
• Commander
• Friends

With an additional hotkey to press to show the name of everything (much like the key to show interactables). I do not need or want to see the name of every NPC or player in the cities. It looks horrible, and it lags almost as much as the models themselves.

Last I checked, the pirates are part of the meta event. Selfishness? I am sorry, but killing champions that were put there to be killed is far less selfish than people demanding others play a certain way; unless you paid for everyone’s copy of the game, you have no right to do that.

It seems like everyone in game screaming “IGNORE PIRATES” assumes that if we were not killing pirates, we would be wasting our time on the twisted events. Lets be real here, we wouldn’t even be in the map, the meta event wouldn’t even get as far as it does now (there are more farmers than completers), it would still fail, and farmers would no longer take the false blame. I have seen several fails in which it took 12-15 minutes to kill the first wave, and the blame is still placed on people spending an extra 2 minutes killing aetherblades. If the map fails, farmers have nothing to do with it, they just don’t. This is no different than blaming people who were doing other things on the map before the invasion arrived (map completion, for example).

That’s not to say your idea isn’t good and wouldn’t work, because it is, and it would; except for the intermittent connection issues. I suspect farmers would still be unfairly blamed for every fail, though.

Personally, I hate it, because of rallying (rallying is the real issue, not downed state). Its one of the main reasons this game’s content is so easy. It should be completely removed from PvP, WvW and open world PvE, and maybe dungeons.

In PvP, all it does is shorten the skill gap. Even the worst of players can come out on top if a team mate shows up at the right time to get them back up. In WvW and PvE, it promotes and prolongs zerg play (something the game’s engine can’t handle well); it turns something that should be about tactics and strategy into a numbers game.

This game has far too many bugs and and poorly thought out mechanics/features to be worthy of a subscription based model.

All collected from drops, material promotion, and clover recipes (using ecto from salvaging). Feels good to not have spent any gold on them, and to almost be done with it.

If the loot wasn’t good, they wouldn’t bother going to the invasion; everyone seems to assume if the loot was removed these farmers would start helping with the meta event. People farming the aetherblades are there… to farm the aetherblades, they would go back to frostgorge or cursed shore if this wasn’t available. Why would they waste their time on something unrewarding?

If they remove the champion loot, the zones will be empty aside from a few stragglers (who now will not be able to complete the event due to the lack of people); who will the “blame” for failing the meta event be placed on then?

You paid for the deluxe edition, you received the deluxe edition; where is the problem?

You sign up for 40mbps internet, later on your ISP comes out with 80mbps internet; would you expect them to switch you to the newer service for free?

If they removed the champions, you would still fail. Removing them would not magically make the people farming them come help with the main event, they wouldn’t even bother going there in the first place. People need to stop blaming the ‘farmers’ for everything.

arjeidi.2690:

And for those who don’t really have the time?

Yeah. kitten off.

People who invest more time should get more rewards, there is nothing wrong with that.

Dual Shield guardian please… please?

Seeing 50 people walk over your downed body can get annoying, but I don’t expect anyone to revive me when it takes 5 seconds to waypoint and get back into the fight. Reviving someone puts you in a vulnerable position, I have died many times trying to revive someone.

All I’ve noticed is that the update has brought out the whiners and weekend warrior tears; and to be honest, hardly any of it comes from “farmers”, its almost always “anti-farm” people starting arguments or griefing in some way. There are also a lot of people who apparently do not read patch notes.

Until zerging and downed state are removed ( never going to happen ), open world pve will always be mindless.

First people cry about people killing the champions, now about people not killing the champions.

Great.

And they didn’t really nerf the champion spawns in the event at all, still coming out of the event with 30-40 pirate boxes.

I’d like an ‘inspect’ option that only shows the base armor and weapon names (no prefix, suffix, stats, or runes/sigils), just because sometimes I see armor that I like and have no idea what it is.

That isn’t culling, its hard drive latency.

It shows the names of anything outside of the fade-in distance, most likely intended (albeit very stupid, OFF should mean OFF). Most of the performance benefits from low culling settings are negated because of the laggy nameplates of every single player and npc.

I doubt its bugged, it shows the names of anyone outside of the fade-in distance, which completely negates the benefits of having them… you know, fade in. The name plate are laggy, anet, please turn them off globally if the setting is turned off (I would pay gems for an option to turn everyone except party and guild off).

ColinJohanson.2394:

The setting adjustments you can make currently will expand beyond just WvW, and simply be a game wide setting you apply for culling rules. For most folks, this means you can adjust the settings to actually improve your performance over current performance if you wish, since fallback models and name-tags are cheaper than full model renders.

If you do want to turn everything up to insane, you also now have that option to see an extremely large number of people in all their graphics glory. The choice is entirely yours!

Hopefully this works well.

That being said, I would pay gems for an option to turn off the visuals for everyone other than my party and guild.

You still need quite a few for other parts of legendary weapons (clovers, t6 mats).

Half of that stuff isn’t even accessible anymore, I see they left that part out.

Wolfheart.1938:

Completing a Dynamic Event constitutes a violation of the ToS?

No, but instigating bad behavior in others is. Do you honestly think people would be completing the event if there weren’t 100 other people trying to fail it? Once this is nerfed the event wont ever be touched again, and you know it.