Guild Wars 2

Well the reason I no longer play is because I didn’t play the weekend Lost Shores was release. I didn’t get to log in until 2 days after and by then I couldn’t find a group to even try FOTM.

I pre purchased this game after playing GW1 since it’s release and watching the MMO Manifesto. The things I was told and saw were what I wanted from a new MMO, something that if I took a break from and came back I’d still be geared and ready to go to new content but that’s no longer the case.

I feel lied to by Arena Net employees and I know my words may never reach their ears, so I’ll NEVER support Arena Net again, my wallet is closed to you Arena Net since money now a days speaks far louder then any words.

Before I opened my first BLC I looked online at what I could possible get and from that point on I put them straight on the TP to be sold for a few copper. I’d rather get the 3-5 copper then waste time / gold buying keys when I already know the chests only drop crap.

Broran.6318:

they were able to make gw recognoze wts and wtb and force those chats into the trage channel why can’t they make gw2 recognize and not supress lfg

exactly I don’t understand why they don’t just filter LFG into a LFG chat channel. I don’t understand why they didn’t add quite a few services/features that were available in GW1 and use them in GW2.

“We’re in the middle of working on additional fixes for the FOV, we’ll have an update on this very shortly. We’ve been doing some very promising tests internally, will role out more info soon once we’re sure everything is working”!

well that’s a hell of a lot better then what JonPeters told us in the thread he created concerning this issue (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Camera-and-FOV-field-of-view/first) he pretty much told us to go kitten yourselves and the art is more important then people getting headaches and nausea.

It’s about time you guys actually started listening to the people that give you job security.

I just found one off a trash ice elemental during Claw of Jormag event.
I was wearing MF gear and food buffed for 120% and only got one, so I’d have to agree with the above there pretty well none existent. (or I just have the worst luck)

Arena Net has already said they will not touch the current FoV, and they seem to get rather annoyed when they see all the threads with titles with FoV in them.

However I love seeing all these threads because Arena Net needs to get it in there thick heads that the current FoV IS an issue and not something that can be simply swept under the rug, like they have been trying.

Brynna Stormclaw.9621:

With all these threads, I’m beginning to wonder of we are being acknowledged.

Anet – with all due respect I think it is time one of your staff has addressed this issue.
I realise you have a lot going on, but I would think something that affects the physical well-being of your customers would be a pretty high priority.

They already created a thread and locked it. Arena Net does not care if people are getting sick, they care more about their “art” and how we see their “art” (or the lack of art I see with the current FoV)

’I’ve seen a lot of topics on this both here and externally so let me try and address it. The current FOV is going to stay because increasing it, while having some benefits for some players, has too many drawbacks".

1) performance suffers greatly because of how things are built and view distances.

2) art suffers because of texture tiling, LOD problems and just general stretching from the fisheye effect.

3) gameplay suffers because positional awareness becomes less necessary in a game where combat is greatly designed around positioning.

There is a a serious camera problem, however, which is making some players nauseous. We believe a large number of these cases are not FOV related but rather due to bugs in camera smoothing. Because of this we are expediting a quick fix to this issue that is currently in testing and should see the light of day in the next build we do.

Jon" Taken from tread “Camera and FOV (field of view)”

So Arena Net knows about the issue they clearly don’t care and say its from mouse smoothing issues.

For anyone that is feeling nauseous while play since Arena Net is not going to fix this for you the only thing I can think of for you to do that isn’t going to cost you money like a 3 monitor display with eyefinity is what I do (I know this is not going to be possible for some but some maybe able to so here it goes).

I use a 50" HDTV for my monitor at 1920×1080 and I sit about 6-7 feet away which helps with the nauseous feeling but does not totally eliminate it. (I think it would eliminate the issue if I was able to sit 9-10 feet away). Now I know everyone is different and others may be more sensitive then I am to this issue. I do find the farther away I sit from the screen the less nauseous I feel.

Hopefully this will be able to help some, I know it wont help all.

Arena Net posted in another thread about this and said:

“I’ve seen a lot of topics on this both here and externally so let me try and address it. The current FOV is going to stay because increasing it, while having some benefits for some players, has too many drawbacks.

1) performance suffers greatly because of how things are built and view distances

2) art suffers because of texture tiling, LOD problems and just general stretching from the fisheye effect.

3) gameplay suffers because positional awareness becomes less necessary in a game where combat is greatly designed around positioning.

There is a a serious camera problem, however, which is making some players nauseous. We believe a large number of these cases are not FOV related but rather due to bugs in camera smoothing. Because of this we are expediting a quick fix to this issue that is currently in testing and should see the light of day in the next build we do.

Jon"

taken from thread “Camera and FOV (field of view)”

I’d love to have an option added in the graphics section to change the FoV to something like 80-90 maybe 95. The FoV really bothers me at its current setting it just doesn’t feel right to me.

This is the first I saw and heard of this. I checked out the video and I decided for myself the video was fake as soon as the guy started putting items in the mystic forge. If anyone fell for this then I’m sorry for your loss, but you seriously need to get your eyes checked out because you need glasses and or an updated prescription.

this is bugged on Borlis Pass as well, I’m also getting a bit frustrated with the amount of bug I fun in the 80 zones.

black lion works on all nodes (my experience), master mining picks I destroy because mine can’t mine orichalcum node they always give ruined ore chunks so there useless as far as I’m concerned.

just mined a orichalcum ore node with master mining pick they DO NOT give you ore just ruined ore chucks, Black Lion Picks do give ore, I don’t see them giving me gems EVER.

Ojimaru.8970:

When I pop Virtue of Justice I should burn, blind and cause vulnerability to foes near me but I’m not burning anything just making everything around me blind and vulnerable and it doesn’t matter if I stand right inside a group of mobs burning is never applied.

Permeating Wrath only works for the Passive activation of Virtue of Wrath, i.e. ever 5 attacks, as far as I am aware.

If that’s how it works the wording is pretty darn misleading since it says"activation" in the wording of Permeating Wrath. I took that as when I activate Justice not the Passive from Justice activating. Traits “Justice is Blind” and “Blind Exposure” have pretty well the same wording as “Permeating Wrath” saying when activated and they work each time I activate Justice.

Tested what the above players have suggested and indeed it only activates on the passive part of Virtue of Justice, which I think to crummy oh boy a 1s burn. I’ll be respeccing once I log in since “permeating Wrath” isn’t nearly as good as I thought

Thank you everyone for clearing this issue up for me.

To Arena Net: you guys really need to word your skill/Trait a hell of a lot better then your doing and give us some more information on some traits so we as players can make better more informed decisions on our skills and traits.

I think it took me around 5-10 minutes I wasn’t keeping track.
I agree Anet is sure taking there sweet time at fixing some of these bugs.

I had the same issue, I just swam out to the ship and speared the ship to death and swam back to the shore after.
I filed a report on that for blocking progress 2-3 weeks ago.

I had this problem from awhile I emailed support and got a BS copy paste reply, so I started messing around with my rig and sound settings in game.

I found that setting my sound options in game to crappiest quality and most stable fix this absolutely annoying issue, I also had to stop using 7.1 surround I couldn’t even use 5.1 had to go stereo which pisses me off I can’t use the hardware I paid quite a bit of money for.

Edit: I think while in a large group or around a lot of other players during DE the game cannot process all the sounds and the sound “crashes” for lack of a better word from all the gun shots and sword hits and what not.

I took Permeating Wrath in the virtues trait line which states “Justice no longer burns your target, but instead burns the area around you when it activates”, I also have minor traits Justice is Blind “activating justice blinds nearby foes” and trait Blind Exposure "applying blind also applies vulnerability.

When I pop Virtue of Justice I should burn, blind and cause vulnerability to foes near me but I’m not burning anything just making everything around me blind and vulnerable and it doesn’t matter if I stand right inside a group of mobs burning is never applied.

Is this a bug and should post in the bug section or am I missing something here?
Any insight would be great thanks.

you can actually use the dodge key while WW is active and it will greatly increase your movement speed in the direction of the dodge, however it cannot be controlled once you dodge you just go in a straight line which introduces a whole new problem of hitting mobs/players, so it really wont fix anything.

I’d honestly prefer not to be forced to use an elite skill, I’d rather have the ability to put another utility in my elite slot, or have Arena Net add or fix our existing elites.

Redscope.6215:

Cortechs.3265:

Wanting to roleplay My Little Pony isn’t a good reason either.

We could do that if we wanted to, just use a transformation potion…is there one that looks like a horse?

…wait…

Serious Question: Has anyone ever seen a horse in Tyria???

No the only mount I’ve ever seen in Tyria (GW1 and GW2 included) was the Stone Summit dwarfs from GW1, which of only one type of the Stone Summit dwarfs rode a Dolyak which were named “Dolyak Rider” see guildwars wiki search Stone Summit will bring up a list of Stone Summit mobs.

Edit: I think I remember a Stone Summit dwarf on a lizard type mount in GW1 as well. player characters never got mounts of any kind in GW1 either.

I’m not for mounts being added to the game but I’d love to see a quest were we can drive the Charr Submarine maybe a DE of some kind.

I’m sitting at 74% completion and it hasn’t moved for about 2 weeks probably more because I don’t have much interest in exploring the PVE side much more since I already know I’ll never be able to get the POI, Vistas and what not in the WvW maps since my server sucks/ has not much interest in PVP. I haven’t even seen WvW myself but just looking at the WvW panel seeing who is on the winning side I can tell you its not my server, and I will not transfer for fear I wont be able to get back to play with my friends/guild mates on my home server (I’m very happy with my server besides the whole PvP issue).

I also don’t think I should have to rely on the others on my server in order to get map completion, I think I should be able to handle that myself if I so choose to have map completion.

I did have a chance to get some POI in the WvW once but, as real life unfolded I was not able to log in during that time and lost the chance.

I usually sell the dumb chest on the TP last I checked they were selling for 3-4 copper each or just destroy them considering I personally feel the chance of getting the permanent Black Lion Merchant Express is pretty useless when there’s a vendor around almost every corner and me spending real currency on gems is just not ever going to happen.

I might convert gold to gems for keys if the key price was more in tune with the reward.

I like the idea of having a chance for rare materials.

To everyone saying horses should be added because it would be more realistic I have some information for you.
I have 4 horses in real life and let me tell you no horse can run from point A to point B unless the distance is pretty kitten short or unless your just walking your horse from point A to B in which case the mounts shouldn’t even be able to run at normal character run speed let alone swiftness speed, unless there going to have the horse die from heart attacks like they would in real life. (Don’t even get me started on armored horses run speed and distance).

If Arena Net does end up putting mounts in they better give me a button to hit to dismount someone being a prick and blocking NPC which we all know people will do because some people have nothing better to do then grief others.

I’m strongly against mounts in Tyria!

Well they added the appearance change feature in GW1….eventually, I’m sure Arena Net will get around to it…eventually, you’ll just have to be patient.

I’ll support it, I don’t see why not.

^ I agree. The “below vendor prices” one is really annoying.

I can’t stand multiple guilds. I joined a guild for the first time a while back saw that the higher ranks weren’t even representing the guild they were officers of so I hit the “Leave Guild” button and never looked back.

Why should I as a new member of a guild represent when the officers and other members are not representing, why should I be loyal to the guild when the majority other members are not?

When I think of a Guild I think of loyalty, and friendship, and like minded people (for the most part) not whoring myself out to every guild out there leeching upgrades and what have you.

To fix this I decided I personally would only join one guild and if there are more people not representing then there were member representing I just hit the “Leave Guild” button and move on to hopefully a more loyal and like minded guild. Eventually I will find the right guild for me.

I’ve never used healing power as a Guardian and never will, unless it actually becomes useful. If Arena Net doesn’t want to update the stat to make it useful I agree that it should just be removed altogether.

I’ve contacted support a few times about various thing’s nothing like but different stuff each time and I’ll get the same copy/paste response.

One of my issue they copy/pasted a response telling me how to fix my connection issue, even though I didn’t and still don’t have a connection issue. My issue was never resolved and I gave up since it didn’t cost me any real money.

Arena Net support is a bad joke in my opinion.

I want to see a consumable slot added ill take an extra skill slot or a 3 weapon switch but i REALLY want the consumable slot. Maybe they could make it so each artisan job could give you something at 400 example: cooking at 400 unlocks a consumable slot on your bar, weaponsmithing an extra weapon switch.

I don’t know I’m just putting an idea out there. I’ll admit I haven’t thought the idea through fully and have no ideas for the other artisan jobs.

MrsAngelD.6971:

I think Anet should give all the bots some sort of environmental weapons when they detect them or just create a non public server and start putting them all there. Then cut of that server from the public trading Post.

P. S. Auto-correct sucks

If Arena Net has detected them as botting I think they should be perma banned not given a environmental weapon (I’m not attacking and I apologize if it comes across that way, I’m just a little sore about the number of bots running rampant on the server I play on that I’ve been reporting for the last 15 days now).

I want this SO BAD in the Cursed Shore when running to DE which is what most people/bots there are do and with all the AoE you can’t even see your own character sometimes, or the enemy rings on the group your supposed to be avoiding. If I could zoom out even just a bit more I might be able to see the enemy rings and avoid them.

Arena net is highly against Griefing and that is why there is no open world PvP because with open world PvP griefing will surely follow.

I agree with the ability to put a utility in the elite spot, or make the elite skills more elite?.?. I personally find the Guardian elite skills boring I love the class just not so big on there elites.

Phy.2913:

He probably meant .05%.

yes I did mean .05%, sorry my typo.

because people buy gold, if no one bought gold they wouldn’t make money, no money no gold selling business.

Seventhson6932 I can’t speak for Ruien9506 on how he knows that bit of information, however I have personally seen that information posted in another thread on these forums regarding the botting issue. I’d post a link to one but I think my DR should be reset and I’d much prefer to play then be on the forums

1) I’m sure there’s a limit but I haven’t heard of what that maybe.
2) As far as I know it increases your chance to get a rare item (say the item on a mob has a 0.05% chance to drop, and you have 100% magic find that said item now has a 0.25% chance of dropping)(someone correct me if I’m wrong here).
3) If you are killing the same type of mob over and over yes the anti-botting script will nail you, but not if you are killing multiple types of mobs ex: lizard types and undead.

Ruien.9506:

This was released more than 2 weeks ago. Bots are actively teleporting to resource nodes and mobs and flying orbs out of castle in WvW. The game is almost completely hacked at this point. Only thing so far that isnt is user account database. Only a matter of time tho so take those CC cards off your gem account.

anyone that put their card info into a video game in the day and age I truly believe are not very smart. Look what happened to Sony/PSN what a mess.

RamzaBehoulve.5640:

Striata.6739:

So OP your saying because the servers are pretty well full there isn’t anything wrong.
Ever stop to think that pretty well half the population in the game is a kittening bot?

Lol, bullkitten. I’ve seen maybe one or two in a whole week. ANet is quick at banning bots and gold sellers.

Then you don’t know how to spot a bot. Brolis Pass is infested with bots, gold spam, and mail spam. If you haven’t seen a bot then your flat out BLIND.

I don’t know what makes you think Arena Net is quick at banning bots. I’ve been reporting the same 20 plus bots on my server for over 14 days now and nothing there all still there in the same spot swinging at the air waiting for events/mobs to spawn.

Last night around 10:00 pm server time was the worst I’ve ever seen ever it quite frankly rivaled Aions bot infestation. There were so many bots I just said kitten it I’m not reporting all this. I bought this game to play and have fun and waste some free time not to report hundreds of bots all day.

Bluestone.7106:

Chillax guys, they will deal with the bots when they get around to it. I am sure they have a lot of other things they also need to do.

I don’t feel they will get around to it anymore. Yes they do have lots of thing to fix but those are not being fix either, so what exactly are they doing. Feel like there sitting back twiddling their thumbs.

I cannot believe that Arena Net the guys that made GW1 made GW2, after playing the first from release to GW2 release Arena Net feels like a whole new company and dev team now… I don’t understand what happened.

noremorze.1745:

Striata.6739:

Ever stop to think that pretty well half the population in the game is a kittening bot?

Ah the good old whiners exaggerations, never gets old.

whining right… I asked a question pointed at the OP kittentard

go play on Borlis Pass there a whole guild on that server and its all multi boxing bots there all over the place its far from “exaggerations”.

So OP your saying because the servers are pretty well full there isn’t anything wrong.
Ever stop to think that pretty well half the population in the game is a kittening bot?

I want the game I paid 60$ for back. I’ve had about all I can take form you Arena Net. I now spend more time on the forums then playing, whys is that, because I’m waiting for the DR to reset so I can get some kittening loot and do some DE and not get 19 god kitten karma what a kittening joke!

The bots on Borlis Pass has increased what seems 10 fold even after the DR was put in place, even though it was supposed to help with the problem. So DR is put in place botting/multi boxing increases and to top it all off I’m now being punished for playing? WTF!

I wouldn’t worry about new content they can’t even keep the content they have now working steady!

its gotten to the point I’m ready to move on and I played GW1 from release to GW2 release. I thought I’d be playing this game just as long maybe longer but GW2 is just turning into another Diablo III

this game is starting to remind me of Diablo III, which saddens me very much to say that

why did Arena Net ban all the people that bought a lot of that whatever karma item that was selling for cheap for “exploiting the game” when you let bots run rampant this makes absolutely no sense to me….

oh and Storm4718 better watch out posting that information here you’ll get an infraction for not using the in game report PoS system.

captcha if this is implemented I’m done and I’ll be done with ALL Arena Net games in the future I’m sick and god kitten tired of being punished because YOU Arena Net let the botting population become greater then the actual live population!!!!!!!!!!!

Borlis Pass is pathetic events in Cursed Shore are either bugged to all hell or there’s so many bots at the working events with AoE you cant even tag a kittening mob. The mobs are like snowmen running into a 750 degree furnace there none existent!

The bots I’ve been reporting for weeks are not being ban which leads me to think you guys really are not doing a whole lot or anything for that matter about the bots.

Then I read in the logging info page this article about how you guys are focusing on accounts being hacked, well those accounts wouldn’t have been hacked if people didn’t buy gold, power leveling, and knew how to use a different password then the same one as their email address.

Why exactly are you guys at Anet catering to people that get hacked, while letting your “game” your “baby” go down the crapper.

I bought this game because GW1 was AMAZING and thought by the way you guys were talking about this game your “baby” gave me high hopes for your company but between the diminishing returns on event rewards and loot, your really starting to lose my respect for your company and your developers.

sincerely A Player sick of being punish for playing legitimately.