Guild Wars 2

Hello Anet.

Some friends and i have comeback from a long break, and have been enjoying the game. You’ve made some really nice changes and polish, thank you.

Last night we gave a Fractal? a go and i must say it was the most frustrating event we’ve experienced thus far.
Who designs this stuff? At one point we died over and over again from being blown off 2×4 planks we had to climb in order to get to the top of this boss statue? Are the people designing your dungeons literally 10 years old? Because as adults this stuff is nowhere in the vicinity of being enjoyable or fun.

The constant movement and dodging out of crap on the ground is annoying at best, and really requires no strategy from the team. And if underwater tunnels full of flesh eating fish that kill your entire party over and over again are ideas of teamwork and fun to you at Anet, then you folks need to hire some new team leads.

This place was WAY too long for the average “we have jobs and we’d like have a bit of fun together and hopefully get through this before we all have to go to bed tonight” kind of folks, way too annoying, and simply not fun or engaging in anyway shape or form. It did however look great and felt epic in some sort of sick and sadistic way.
How can a team that put together this beautiful world be so utterly terrible at dungeon design?

You folks are amazing when it comes to world, animation, and model design. But everything else is sorely lacking.

Which leads me to my next beef with you Anet. Why in THE hell would you not officially implement a group finder in your mmo? Who doesn’t do this in 2013? You rely on some 3rd party community driven site to help your customer find a group in your game? What laziness, what incompetence.
And while i’m at it, why not an “Event” finder or tool to help your community come together and interact with one another?

I just don’t get it. Your number one goal should be to find ways to get your community together in a quick and easy fashion. Period.

And PLEASE hire some folks who have the ability to create dungeons and grouping events that are enjoyable, even relaxing to those of us who aren’t 13 years old.

Thanks, have a great day!

I simply so not understand why every kitten dev in the business is not taught rule #1 in game design.

1. Give the player the bloody option to set their FOV as they wish, for the LOVE OF GAWD!
It’s beyond me that this simple issue has to keep being brought up by gamers time and time again!
It’s lazy, it’s stupid, and it’s..LAZY!..Oh and it’s just plain bad game design not to give players some of these simple choices.

It’s 2012 and it’s as if design has gone backwards with the advent of this last console generation.
PC design must move forward. Please listen to your fans.

Thanks.

Thanks, my eyes are very sensitive to picture quality in games.
Screen tearing drives me mad, therefore i always have vsync enabled.
The bloom in this game is also way overdone in my opinion, and simply turning off post processing is a tough option because it turns off more than just bloom, but i wont go into that cause these guys have plenty on their plates atm im sure.
But i sure do wish they could optimize the engine a bit more so we can get steady framerates.

I’m sure they’re working on it. I hope..

My PC consists of.

i7 2600k
gw2 on 256gb ssd
24gb 1866 ddr3 ram
gtx680@1920x1080p

Yes the game mostly runs at 60fps, but it’s so bloody inconsistent, it sutters along in so many area’s it’s distracting to gameplay.
I run with most options on high, sampling on native, vsync enabled, refrsh rate@60hz etc.

This is a beautiful game, but at the same time it’s still a dx9 client and i’d expect a high end pc to crush this thing, but it doesn’t at all.

Pets in this game are completely useless at holding threat.
40 Ranger here and i’m constantly kiting and running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off, the constant kiting in this game has gotten way past old.

The lack of power or the feeling of power has gotten way past old.
Love the game world, but i’m beginning to despise the design under the hood.

Chaz.1835:

I feel like no one ever has a chance to appreciate the beautiful environments in games like wow because of the mounts, I enjoy the feeling of adventure in guild wars when traveling so I vote no.

Since we’re using WoW as a reference yet again, i’ll just say some of my fondest memories in that game were sitting atop my dragon, flying over the beautiful world taking it all in.
I don’t understand your line of thinking, even remotely..
It’s called “choice” folks, choice is a good thing.

Look, if they never put mounts in GW2 i’ll be fine, but would i enjoy the choice? Sure.

And to those claiming it would ruin the waypoint system, i guess having more than one type of apple to choose from in your grocery store completely ruins fruit altogether..gotcha.

Some folks need to elevate their thinking.

I just have to laugh at those who keep using WoW as a reference to literally anything and everything, when almost every mmo ever conceived have offered mounts in their game.
I also love the folks here who get so angry at others who simply “suggest” a possible feature in the game, that they feel the need to insult and attempt to tell them to leave GW2 altogether.
After all, is this not the suggestion forum, or am i mistaken?

Now there’s an intelligent response.

It amazes me how closed minded people are.
It wouldn’t feel right in GW2? Would the saddle cause you chafing?
Honestly, you guild wars folks are an odd bunch.

Mounts would simply be another feature that many folks who’ve played other mmo’s for years would enjoy in this game. Let’s not even speak of the moronic price tag on Waypoints for just getting around in this world.

Choice is good, and the option to obtain and ride a mount instead of running endlessly from place to place would be a welcome addition.
And we all know Anet could create some amazing looking mounts.

Love the game guys, you’ve done a great job with your world.
But this downleveling system is is taking it’s toll not only on me personally, but i’d say most of my guild are growing tired of it.

On one hand it’s a wonderful attempt at allowing one to go to any zone and still have relevance, but on the other hand, i never feel powerful.
I always feel as if im running for my life from mobs half my(true)level and this is not what i play mmo’s for.

I believe i’m not alone feeling like this system is flawed, and i long for my other mmo’s where i feel like my work and progression has earned me the right to feel powerful.
I don’t in GW2.

I don’t have the answers, but i think we would rather have a choice in the matter.
Not sure if Anet is flexible on this or not, but i fear i won’t be sticking around for the long haul id all i ever do when i log into this beautifully crafted world is constantly fight for my life. Not fun.

Thanks.

I’m 33 and i couldn’t agree more. The Ele has issue’s.
And yet It’s always the ub3r dewdz telling us scrubs we need to l2play.
Ok noted, but when i can hop on my war or guardian, wade in and smash 4 mobs 2 levels above me while watching tv inkittenmode, then something is up. Meanwhile attempting to do that on my ele will get me killed. Of course this is after running around like timmy thekitten for 5 minutes trying not to go down.

Sure the Ele plays differently, and im all for diversity in classes and gameplay, but as an ele, the word of the day is PULL ONE and kite yourkitten off. Anything more than 2 at a time and you’d better just keep on running to the next waypoint.

In the end, It’s simply not much fun.