Guild Wars 2

phys.7689:

Sleepless.1906:

I only just noticed that the OP is HoD. Hopefully he’ll understand what I’m talking about here with our (Darkhaven’s) upset over SF… My guild and I put a 70+ hour week into last week… I’m still in a state of shock over how disappointing the rewards are and that DH received absolutely nothing to congratulate us on coming second place in Bronze league.

And for those talking about bandwagon servers being a problem… what about the story of Darkhaven? We lost two of our biggest WvW guilds, but despite all odds managed to pull together and place second. Not rewarding such a thing will only lead to increased bandwagoning – because clearly only first is good enough for any recognition.

And the reward for the servers that place first is only a temporary thing! Souvenirs of your accomplishments are a hugely important thing in MMOs – I can’t believe that GW2 are overlooking such an important aspect of these games. If I reactivated my WoW account right now, I could take you to my bank and show you so many things from my years there… and I could tell you about the people I earned them with and what was going on at the time… It gives me a shiver of nostalgia just thinking about it.

on a different note, this is one of the bad effects of having most good drops be completely random, or bought via some currency. You wont remember the 20th time you beat COF and got a full armor set, or the day you and your friends bought invader armor with badges, no one was probably around when you got your precurspr from the forge.

It has advantages, but somethings should be memorable, should be gotten in specific ways

I agree. Loot in this game has this feeling about it… like everything is hardly better than vendor trash.

This is odd, because one of the main reasons I came here was because of gearing up. I’m an altoholic and play many toons – and I enjoy all of them. And in WoW, with every new season of pvp there is a new tier of stronger pvp gear. So, every season I had to gear up 10 different toons.

Exotic suited me very well – all drops were basically trash, but at least gearing was super easy. But with ascended it is becoming increasingly painful.

And this… well, I’ve already said what bothers me about this.

I’m already out. I’ll be playing ESO when it comes out. This is not the first straw, this is the last.

I only just noticed that the OP is HoD. Hopefully he’ll understand what I’m talking about here with our (Darkhaven’s) upset over SF… My guild and I put a 70+ hour week into last week… I’m still in a state of shock over how disappointing the rewards are and that DH received absolutely nothing to congratulate us on coming second place in Bronze league.

And for those talking about bandwagon servers being a problem… what about the story of Darkhaven? We lost two of our biggest WvW guilds, but despite all odds managed to pull together and place second. Not rewarding such a thing will only lead to increased bandwagoning – because clearly only first is good enough for any recognition.

And the reward for the servers that place first is only a temporary thing! Souvenirs of your accomplishments are a hugely important thing in MMOs – I can’t believe that GW2 are overlooking such an important aspect of these games. If I reactivated my WoW account right now, I could take you to my bank and show you so many things from my years there… and I could tell you about the people I earned them with and what was going on at the time… It gives me a shiver of nostalgia just thinking about it.

I vote yes, it is a disappointment.

Fungalfoot.7213:

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

They did the same thing with magic find change. “All magic find items will become account bound” oops soulbound trololol.

And let’s not forget about the ascended fiasco. For one reason or another they seem obsessed with running their credibility into the ground. Mission accomplished.

Amen

Its been a bad week for WvW all round. Every day I do my dailies on an up level in WvW, but this week I’ve had to resort to the karma train in queensdale shudder

On the plus side I got map WvW map completion on several up levels, and received several black lion keys out of that.

@skullmount

Yeah, I can see how people would get upset with it too, but I’ve been playing these kinda games for a long time, so I know to just chill out and enjoy myself.

Ah kk, ty for the info. I can only think of couple of people who rep [BANE] but I’ve had nothing but good experiences with both of them. I’m in [MEAN] and we use our own raidcall, and that suits us just fine.

@Harbinger

I’m genuinely sorry for those on FC who are disappointed, but know that this week meant a lot to some of us too. When I got back during week 2 and saw how far behind we were, I put in 3 18 hour days in a row to help get us back on top. This was an important week for me, against a server I have a lot of respect for.

Thank you, Trouvo, for apologising for Callinq’s comments.

skullmount.1758:

Sleepless.1906:

Try not to worry about what the TS people think of you, I know plenty of people who don’t use the DH TS at all.

Yeah, I can see why some people don’t after what was going on last night (between 8-10pm est). It was getting a bit too much even for me. Its usually only a couple people that start it down that path. The commander we had in the channel did kinda try to keep people from getting too rambunctious/out of control. Joking is all well and good, but when they start in on people/groups its kinda going over a line.

I wasn’t on last night so I don’t know what you’re talking about. I almost never use it, actually. I haven’t had any bad experiences with it myself, but I’ve known a few people who have gotten quite worked up over it – who I’ve tried to calm down and remind them to just have fun.

I just came back to the game (during week 2, while we were last against FC) after taking several months off. Its sad to see how much drama is about these days, my memories of DH involve laughing and chatting with other pugs while we zerg stuff down. [Abys] were still about when I was last here though, so shows what I know.

Arius.7031:

Sleepless.1906:

Arius.7031:

Jeknar.6184:

Well, if they are a great deal of the off-hour coverage, we can say they are carrying the server… For exemple: I’d say [Dx] is carrying HoD, as if wasn’t for them, HoD wouldn’t win against SF as they would never surpass SF prime time and have no one to take advantage of SF off-hours.

In lower population servers, 1 or 2 guilds CAN carry a server if they are placed in the correct timezone…

But once they hit a higher ranked server that have a big coverage, then the “carrying” of those guilds would end.

The night time coverage is almost nothing but pug, fun contributes at that time but they’re definitely not necessary in coverage. From what I’ve seen, they’re mostly prime time. Not downplaying fun’s contribution, just saying our coverage isn’t due to them and we’re not being carried by them.

I wasn’t saying they’re night crew, I was saying ‘from’ and ‘to’, including everything in between. I’m Oceanic myself and agree that [Fun] have little presence in those hours.

My intended message was that DH is held together by many forces.

Just to be clear I was responded to jeknar, if that wasn’t clear my apologies.

To reinforce what you have said though, and to give some info to other servers about us, we’re a pug server lol. We have like 4 semi-large guilds, one of which is really big [BRL], and then a few other large WvW guilds. But, we don’t have super guilds with super coordation. anbu, fun, and brl will often show up in numbers and mess some people up but other than that Dh is 99% pug. That’s probably the only thing holding us back from being a match for HoD, TBH, that hurts our coordination. There are of course some guilds I may be forgetting, these are just what come to mind.

oh whoops, I just read your comment and it was about the same thing, so I assumed it was the same convo.

but yeah, DH is a pug server for sure. we have a lot of very regular pugs though

Arius.7031:

Jeknar.6184:

Well, if they are a great deal of the off-hour coverage, we can say they are carrying the server… For exemple: I’d say [Dx] is carrying HoD, as if wasn’t for them, HoD wouldn’t win against SF as they would never surpass SF prime time and have no one to take advantage of SF off-hours.

In lower population servers, 1 or 2 guilds CAN carry a server if they are placed in the correct timezone…

But once they hit a higher ranked server that have a big coverage, then the “carrying” of those guilds would end.

The night time coverage is almost nothing but pug, fun contributes at that time but they’re definitely not necessary in coverage. From what I’ve seen, they’re mostly prime time. Not downplaying fun’s contribution, just saying our coverage isn’t due to them and we’re not being carried by them.

I wasn’t saying they’re night crew, I was saying ‘from’ and ‘to’, including everything in between. I’m Oceanic myself and agree that [Fun] have little presence in those hours.

My intended message was that DH is held together by many forces.

oZeppy.9028:

Manaburn.4569:

Sleepless.1906:

saying that you carry us is going too far.

I don’t recall anyone in [Fun] saying we carry our server. Only people attacking this guild have said things like that.

I did at one point, I didn’t mean carry but rather help a lot. I don’t think DH would be doing as well as it is without us, but I will admit that we’re not quite at the point where we “carry” the server yet.

Yeah, thats fair, yas do offer substantial groups in BLs fairly often. But WvW is always a server effort – from our prime time EB commanders to our Oceanic night crew, DH is all of us.

Try not to worry about what the TS people think of you, I know plenty of people who don’t use the DH TS at all.

oZeppy.9028:

Sleepless.1906:

I quite like The Fiend (one of [Fun]‘s commanders), but if [Fun] think they’re carrying DH then they are deluding themselves.

Might have been an exaggeration on my part but we do a lot in the BL without people noticing. Fiend is one of our only EB commanders, which is why you notice him. He’s great, and we’ve been training him, but Fun as a whole helps a lot more than people tend to realize.

Yeah, I tend to roam BLs quite often and I often see you guys working on things. I’m not saying that you are not helping, but saying that you carry us is going too far.

I quite like The Fiend (one of [Fun]‘s commanders), but if [Fun] think they’re carrying DH then they are deluding themselves.

I feel that the solution I suggested has potential. Obviously an ~analysis~ is quite hard considering we don’t have any of their sales numbers, but let me repeat myself.

The idea is that by making a major investment in gem store skins now, they widen the market of those who are willing to purchase skins. If an MMO is healthy, it gains new players and its current players roll alts – both of which offers the potential for ongoing sales from these skins.

Another gain you make here is not driving a portion of you playerbase away with your greed. I got this idea from someone on youtube, who no longer plays. I’m tabbed out of WoW right now, coz I resubbed several hours ago – speaking with my wallet tbh.

And yes, being from a sub background, I’ve always valued ANet’s need for income and have regularly made gem purchases

Mourningcry.9428:

Maz.8604:

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TLDR: Ultimately, it boils down to the idea that the lottery boxes offer a better return on investment than just simply slapping a flat rate on the product. It adds nothing to the product itself and is just a method for increasing profits, without doing anything. It is a form of predation on consumers, it should not be tolerated, but there will always be people willing to defend a company’s decision either out of apathy, a belief it does not nor will ever affect them or some other selfish reason.

Glad to see this analysis eventually make it’s way to the official forums.

I’m not going to rehash the same posts I’ve made in similar threads, feel free to look at my posting history if there’s any interested.

However, I will say that while I don’t think anything said is inherently wrong, at the end it comes down to a critique in hopes of the the abandonment of an essential revenue stream.

Which is all well and good.

However, what is really needed is the proposition of a viable alternative, not more complaints, no matter how well said. I think it’s fair to say anyone who understands the practice is aware, to some degree, of what you’ve written.

What would be useful would be an alternative. Why not focus your efforts there?

I’d love to see you, or any other likeminded individual, offer an acceptable, reasonable alternative revenue stream for ANet to substitute for this practice you abhor.
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I’ve yet to see a single such proposition backed up with any type of financial analysis.

Is it that you don’t realize the implications of taking away a viable revue stream from ANet? Or is that you just do care about the consequences?

Several alternatives have been mentioned during the duration of the thread, if you read the whole thing.

And to add one more… I don’t mind paying sub fees at all.

I’m very excited about both WildStar and ESO and both companies have said that they’re considering sticking to the sub model. And you know what? I hope they do.

JustTrogdor.7892:

For all of you that want to buy all these skins direct consider this scenario.. They are all on the gem store buy direct. You can’t wait to get your elite new skin. You buy gems with money or (gold that you can earn in game at no cost other than time) get your skin and put it on. You head to LA and look around, everyone is wearing the same skin you have. Suddenly it doesn’t seem so special does it?

That doesn’t bug me at all – I purchase skins because I want my toon to look how I want, not because I want to stand out.

As someone on youtube said the other day, what they need to be doing right now is dedicating a whole team to building a proper collection of skins for the store. That way you can hit more people’s tastes and increase the likelihood of sales. And once they’re there, don’t remove them! Keep them there for the sake of new players and altaholics (such as myself).

One of the problems with this game, imo, is that there just aren’t that many skins. Its unfair to compare, due to how long WoW has been around, but when they added transmog (changing armor appearance), we were absolutely spoiled for choice! I literally spent weeks solo’ing old raids to collect all the pieces I wanted.

Vayne.8563:

So are fan boys necessarily wrong? Or can you be a fan boy and be right sometimes too?

of course you can be a fanboy and sometimes be right. the complaint is about bombarding any criticism into non-existence, and a general hostility in the posting.

and I’m not talking about you here, I’m just explaining it as someone who criticizes every game he plays, for what he considers to be the greater good.

Fernling.1729:

Sleepless.1906:

Fernling.1729:

Man, that TB quote means a lot to me. It’s sad, but true. GW2 is one of the more guilty ones too imo.

idk, the WoW forums are pretty awful for it. and you need to have an active sub to post there, so the bias is incredibly in favour of the game.

Honestly, just making a post about something you dislike about the game will usually result in about 20 people abusing you.

Its a terrible practice that alienates non-fanboy players of the game, and like TB says, ultimately prevents the game from improving.

I always avoided those forums.
GW2 fans attack people everywhere. I’ve never seen it so bad among various “gaming” forums, including the youtube comment section. Reddit is especially bad too, you are not allowed to post anything unless its a praise there. If you do, it will be down voted into the ground.

You are right, I’ve certainly noticed it on youtube. I don’t follow reddit though.

But some of the gaming commentators on youtube that I follow have complained that they feel like they can’t criticize GW2 due to all the fanboy comment spam.

Fernling.1729:

Man, that TB quote means a lot to me. It’s sad, but true. GW2 is one of the more guilty ones too imo.

idk, the WoW forums are pretty awful for it. and you need to have an active sub to post there, so the bias is incredibly in favour of the game.

Honestly, just making a post about something you dislike about the game will usually result in about 20 people abusing you.

Its a terrible practice that alienates non-fanboy players of the game, and like TB says, ultimately prevents the game from improving.

Great analysis of the situation. Thumbs up!

And ty for the TB quote. Despite which game you play, those forum fanbois are always there, doing exactly what TB says! That is literally exactly what I think of the situation, except worded by TB!

If they were aiming for WoW’s style, they sure missed it.

I’m not sure people always take jabs at WoW like that. It comes across as tall-poppy syndrome tbh. WoW did a lot of things right, a lot of things that GW2 did wrong.

I agree with you that GW2 has problems, and that WoW has become outdated, but I don’t think you’re crituqeing the right aspects of WoW.

I am a player who has no problem chucking some irl cash into the game now and then. I’ve purchased the armor skins (twice purchased the profane set). I’ve purchased quite a number of crafting boosts, back when I was leveling my crafting. And I’ve purchased other things too, which I can’t remember right now. Oh, I got the Halloween witches outfit for my necro too.

But I’m not into this gambling stuff. Let me spend money on a skin and I’ll spend it, but I’m not doing this ridiculous RNG stuff – especially not with irl money. I’ve always been against gambling.

Personally, this whole situation is just putting me off the game.

tolunart.2095:

pricer.5091:

Although personally I think TESO will bomb, because people are expecting too much of it and will be disappointed even if its a very good game.

It will be the same as every other MMO release. People will claim it’s the Rapture until beta info leaks (already happened) then they will rush through the game and complain there’s nothing to do, the population will drop after a month or so (especially if they charge a sub starting 30 days in) and people will claim it’s dying for the next several years.

Then they’ll release an expansion and the whole process begins anew.

I’m sure people will find things to complain about, but I doubt it will be that there is nothing to do. I’ve been following the news very intently and their skill progression system alone would take hundreds of hours to complete – going far past max level.

There is a real possibility that it will bomb. Especially considering the fine line they’re having to walk, all the different nails they have to hit right on the head…

Also, the leaked footage wasn’t amazing. It looked way too much like a typical MMO for anyone to be impressed by it. Jesse Cox says that when he first tried it, it looked different and more stylised – but it changed to that for this beta (which he also played). I’m hoping they go for a more stylised look, coz that footage was just blah…

WildStar is looking extremely good though. Has anyone here been following that? Great stuff coming from them.

I’ll be trying both – ESO for its deep and immersive PVE experience, WildStar for casual fun and its PVP (though I’m swaying more to WildStar with each new interview/blog/vlog).

Vayne.8563:

But that’s how it is in all games. Even WoW has lower and higher population servers. Do you think WoW is dying with it’s ten million subscribers.

WoW does have some big issues atm. I’ve continued to play, off and on, since the release of this. I also still frequent the forums there.

The low/high pop server thing is a major issue, as a fair number have become absolute ghost towns. Also, a server transfer there is for 1 toon only, so for people like myself who have all 11 slots filled on a server… at $25 per transfer… its not really reasonable to expect us to pay that.

Blizzard tried implementing the CRZ (cross realm zones) but its honestly not enough. There are still economy & guild problems on low pop realms.

Also, their most recent quarterly report states a 1.3 million sub loss, which is bring the game down to 8 million subscribers.

Do I think WoW is dying? Nah, with its history I expect it to live for a very long time, even if it does lose its status as MMO king.

This is my opinion, as someone who has played other MMos also.

RNG items I mostly just think ‘oh you lucky kitten’. For example, in WoW I got the Onyxia mount the first time I ever ran it. It has a 1% drop rate, and I also went on to win the roll. People commented on it a lot, but I never considered it to represent anything special – just RNG.

I view the HoM skins with respect, due to the fact that they represent company loyalty and that is something I respect in another player. Also because my little experience of GW1 was very good and I have a level of respect for people who managed to earn a lot of achievements in it.

I don’t view legendaries in GW2 with respect because, to me, all they represent is farming heaps. Or possibly even just buying it off the trading post.

Event items/titles, or items that were only available at past stages in the game’s history (not many in a young game like this), I view with respect because like I said earlier – it is a sign of loyalty to the game and a sign of someone being a veteran player.

Certain titles other titles, depending on how it is acquired.

Peetee.9406:

I got 1200 hours of enjoyment out of a $60 game, that’s a huge success imo.

That’s an extremely good point. I do remember that when I can.

Its mostly that I got all hyped for the game and it didn’t live up to my expectations, tbh. I was so sick of WoW, and from reviews and descriptions of mechanics, this just sounded like so much fun.

but then I’ve got to keep in mind that it was just $80 (deluxe) and considering how many hours I got out of it, it was some of the best money ever spent.

great post imo.

I read the entire thing and agree with pretty much all of it. My definition of what the typical GW2 player is, is slightly different to yous… but only slightly.

SandraSolace.7682:

A skin works like a transmutation but what that pvp thing would be, no clue. Nothing about the skin and pvp on the wiki.

But putting that on anet is a bit much. There is boatloads of info available about basically every aspect of the game. And I know it’s not what you want to hear but when you don’t know how something works it is best to find out before just clicking.
They gave you the option to send them info so they can check what happened and it worked even on wireless. So wait for an answer there.

these days with the skins it asks you whether you want to transmute it or transform it into a pvp item. if you choose pvp, it drops a pvp version of it into your bag rather than going into the transmutation window. these items are for use in sPvP and cannot be used in the PvE world (just like other sPvP gear)

ok, thanks for all the responses peeps. I’ll keep this thread bookmarked for reference while I shop around.

no, I don’t have ants in my pants and can wait for the release of the new chips. the game runs fine on my computer and I don’t often experience lag issues. however, a couple of days ago I watched angry joe’s review of the game and it was so amazing looking on his settings. so its a desire rather than a need.

@SandraSolace

I’m not sure if there is a website to help with that for our locality, but I googled it and can’t find anything. I’ll prob just keep googling each part when unsure

ok, thank you. I’m not sure what cooling this computer has. like it has fans & stuff, but all the gaming systems rave about their sweet cooling systems and I’m just wondering how important that actually is.

I was just looking into power supply. So confusing trying to work out what is compatible with what lol…

It was made for me by a computer store. So it didn’t come with an official information sheet or anything. I’ve been using dxdiag and it explained a lot, but I still can’t work out some things.

atm I’m just looking at components etc and trying to decide what the price advantage is of putting it together yourself.

Any recommendation for other components?

And is which case I got for important?

And how important are cooling systems, anyway?

Hrm this will sound really stupid but I just realised that if I got an entirely new system, then I could just delete all games from this one and use it exclusively for music XD

I’ve been considering compatibility for so long that I didn’t even think of that lol…

SandraSolace.7682:

But it’s also important to know what you have now. Because if it’s a older motherboard you might also need to replace that. And with that maybe even the power supply.

You didn’t mention your current hardware however.

I’m using as many tools to find these things out as I can, but I cannot work out:

-My motherboard
-Type of ram

ok, thank you very much. I’ve looked into those and bookmarked links to purchase them locally (New Zealand).

I’m not entirely sure, but I think I will have to upgrade my motherboard too. I currently have an i3 540. By the time we are upgrading this many things, is it better to simply get a new computer?

One of the reasons I am concerned about doing this is because some of my expensive music software has installs that are specific to a certain computer, though it seems that they are more specific to a certain hard-drive. What are the chances of compatibility between my motherboard and the chips you recommend? And if getting a new motherboard, what are the chances of compatibility between my hard drive and the new mother board?

The other game that I am concerned about is ESO. I plan on playing it and want a system that will also be able to run that well.

Cheers

Ok, thank you. But are other games less CPU intensive? Would this be an upgrade that is GW2 specific?

Hello,

I want GW2 to be prettier and have decided to upgrade my computer. However, I’m not sure what the priority list is (like which things are most important).

I’m assuming that graphics card & ram upgrades will help. Upgrading ram will also help with making music, as some software related to that requires very large amounts of ram.

But what about CPU and motherboard? Is it possible that upgrading other components will be a waste of time if these are letting the new parts down?

Also, how do I find out what type of ram I have?

I really agree with what O kitten aying. I don’t think that stealth is always bad, but it is my opinion that this game has one of the worst implementations of stealth that I have ever seen.

Consider how ESO is doing it… like the single player elder scrolls games, everyone can sneak. In ESO, this will grant stealth… and every class has it.

How will they balance/manage such a thing?

Well, stealthing/sneaking consumes one of your 3 resource bars – your stamina/fatigue bar. (You have Health, Magicka & Stamina). This means that you cannot use stealth indefinitely. It also means that when you break stealth, it has cost you one of your resources and therefore puts you at a slight disadvantage in combat. Because, for those who know the series, stamina/fatigue is used in melee combat, for sprinting etc, and in this game for dodging too.

Firstly, the decision to give it to everyone is a great idea in my opinion. Secondly, there is an opportunity/resource cost to using it.

And yes, you can choose to speacialise in stamina/fatigue if you want to focus on it more than other builds – but all classes still have it.

Vayne.8563:

Sleepless.1906:

WoW certainly has many short-comings, and I’m certainly never going to go back to playing it. But what I mean there is that when you zone into a PUG, it really doesn’t matter what class/spec each player is. They all perform their rolls to a satisfactory level. The question that remains is whether the player can play their class.

There is a large amount of profession/class stacking in this game, and I wish that such a thing was not the case. Like you, I have an 80 necro and she sadly hardly sees the light of day – despite her being one of my favourite toons.

Like I said, I’m looking forward to trying ESO. GW2 tried a lot of great things, and I admire and appreciate what they’ve done, but I just don’t feel that its working yet.

I’m thinking ESO won’t be much different. It takes most MMOs about a year to find their feet. So if you start with ESO when it releases, my guess is you’ll have to wait till it gets to where it needs to be to keep players.

It happened with Rift also.

By that time, Guild Wars 2 will be further along and probably a better game, or at least a game with more end game options.

I agree with that, and I’ll certainly keep an eye on GW2.

WoW certainly has many short-comings, and I’m certainly never going to go back to playing it. But what I mean there is that when you zone into a PUG, it really doesn’t matter what class/spec each player is. They all perform their rolls to a satisfactory level. The question that remains is whether the player can play their class.

There is a large amount of profession/class stacking in this game, and I wish that such a thing was not the case. Like you, I have an 80 necro and she sadly hardly sees the light of day – despite her being one of my favourite toons.

Like I said, I’m looking forward to trying ESO. GW2 tried a lot of great things, and I admire and appreciate what they’ve done, but I just don’t feel that its working yet.

Mirta.5029:

Sleepless.1906:

Mirta.5029:

Sleepless.1906:

I’m in a very similar situation to Barbelo. They’re a very nice and friendly guild, but I really wish I could run with the class/build I want. That was one of the major claims of this game before its launch and during all the hype. But I’m honestly finding that my options here and even more limited than they were in WoW.

As of right now I’m looking forward to Elder Scrolls.

ESO is in closed beta. When you buy the game you gain access to it, so really you could just buy it and play it right now.

omg ty so much! I was just reading up on it, but didn’t realise the beta was that easy to get into!

maybe it was limited offer, but I’m sure I read about it somewhere, yet now I can’t find it. There’s always this as well:
http://signup.elderscrollsonline.com/

yeah, I can’t find it either. cheers for the link though, I’ll throw my name in and hope for the best

Mirta.5029:

Sleepless.1906:

I’m in a very similar situation to Barbelo. They’re a very nice and friendly guild, but I really wish I could run with the class/build I want. That was one of the major claims of this game before its launch and during all the hype. But I’m honestly finding that my options here and even more limited than they were in WoW.

As of right now I’m looking forward to Elder Scrolls.

ESO is in closed beta. When you buy the game you gain access to it, so really you could just buy it and play it right now.

omg ty so much! I was just reading up on it, but didn’t realise the beta was that easy to get into!

I’m in a very similar situation to Barbelo. They’re a very nice and friendly guild, but I really wish I could run with the class/build I want. That was one of the major claims of this game before its launch and during all the hype. But I’m honestly finding that my options here and even more limited than they were in WoW.

As of right now I’m looking forward to Elder Scrolls.

Tonight. Just happened.

20 kills away from the ‘Champion Slayer’ Title, so started solo queuing.

I didn’t win a single game. It put me against premade after premade – and some were ruthless premades too, and I had the same afk player in my team 3 matches in a row.

I got the title, but it feels like dirt after such an awful chain of matches. I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever have it up, because it will always remind me of this night.

If I made a list of worst GW2 experiences, I think they’d all be in sPvP.

omg I support this idea 100%!

I hadn’t heard anyone talk about this, but it absolutely has to be done!

I’m simply not going for legendary, because of the precursor. When I was reading about legends I was like “Whoa, thats a lot of farming… but hey, if you focus on fun and just put things aside for it slowly, that should be fine, right?”

Then I found out about the precursor situation. Sorry, not happening.

And besides which, surely completing some epic quest would be more heroic than farming coin for endless hours? It’d be better in every way, imo.

@DiogoSilva I really agree with most of what you’re saying!

I’ve been feeling that there are a few problems too. Except I don’t quite agree with your take on it. But I love what ANet has tried here, and I want this to be my MMO for so many reasons, but I often feel like there are major flaws right in front of me that could be fixed so easily.

I’m from WoW, and have been playing that for about 5 years. These two are the only MMOs that I have experienced, so that is my perspective.

The problem I am finding with the dungeons is that people only want to farm them. I’ve only done 1 story mode dungeon, because no one wants to group with me for them. And my guild are only interested in running CoF repeatedly, because it gives the most coin per hour. Oh, and we do fractals too, of course (which btw – I generally like a lot as dungeons and think they’re quite well designed).

Can we not add incentives for people to do the other dungeons more? Or something?

Also, the PVP. sPvP. Man, I find it so awful. People said that this was a PVP game, but I honestly think that WoW’s PVP scene is so much more enjoyable. WoW has bad systems like having to farm PVP gear, and having multiple tiers so PVP gear with different levels of strength (so not everyone has equal quality gear) – but aside from that I just think that the PVP there is a lot funner to play.

I was honestly close to going back to WoW until I discovered WvW, which delivers enough PVP for me to get my PVP fix. I didn’t think I’d like WvW, because I prefer the small battleground type battles, but WvW has turned out to be the PVP I do in this game.

Um… well, sorry for rambling lol. Although I do not agree that a trinity is needed in PVE, I agree with what you say about the game needing improvements. And I want to see these improvements so that GW2 is the best MMO, like it clearly has the potential to be.

Any NA servers uncontested atm?

reedju.5786:

Alot of the reason that PvP is empty is the lack of venues for casual players to feel any sense of competition or progress. I feel confident after seeing percentiles that we have plenty of players to support a solo/duo only Q. I think what alot of players are afraid of is the disappearance of pops for teams who currently are often farming pick up groups or pugs. Still solo Q is healthier for the game and would give “pro” players and upcoming teams a better competitive platform. Not to mention giving solo Qs breathing room and a chance to improve and form their own teams.

That is the reason why sPvP has been mostly empty of myself and I completely agree with your suggestions.

I’ve started solo queuing tournaments recently and am finding it much more enjoyable than the cesspit that is hot-join, and am discussing starting a team with my guild, but I still don’t feel like there is much room in this game for casual sPvP.

Its a shame because there is so much potential here – they’ve done so many things right with PvP (imo), but the execution is somehow lacking for me (in a big way).

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

The 3 way for the keep was the most fun ive had in a while!
DH getting trapped between the 2 south gates after we capped it gave me a good laugh

I agree lol. I was one of the ones who got trapped inside. We were all like “What? How did DR upgrade that fast?” Then we’re like “OMG ITS IOJ”

Also, I think what fost is referring to us that situation. We were about to take the keep back when suddenly IoJ stormed us, then DR ignored the keep and tried to camp our spawn point. If that’s not getting zerged by two servers, then I don’t know what is.

Still, its all in good fun – lets keep it civil, people.

Since the 2 hour maintenance break we just had (April 16), I have been experiencing severe latency.

I have tried restarting both my computer and my router. I have also tried logging into other games etc, and the problem is unique to GW2.

In eternal battlegrounds I asked in /m if anyone else is experiencing this and the answer was no. Anyone on these forums having the same problem, or is it just me?

Some help would be appreciated.

Xavi.6591:

Coming from WoW, one of the first things I noticed is that the targeting mechanic in this game is terrible.