Guild Wars 2

Hi.
I got bored with GW2 after HoT. It lacks something I love the most – further personal story development (one-player experience). The story was rushed, I wrote about it then, but that’s not the point of this topic. I went to play SWTOR, free to play option, strictly to have role-play experience, without any interest for multiplayer. And as such it is fun. BUT!… Of course I saw how the game works in reference to GW2. And I just went back here to write, that GW2 as w whole is awesome after all. Lots of player-friendly solutions. Waypoints. Market available everywhere you are. Exchange of gold to gems. Community ! Player in GW2 just revives others without thinking he might not do this. That’s just awesome. In SWTOR? Nope. Besides, other players get in your way, block interactive objects for a short time. Really, GW2 is great. And those large events – like Tequatl. Players, keep in mind that despite some problems, it is still a great game. GW2 team, apparently it’s not you, it’s me – I just need something different right now. But GW2 is my reference example of good MMO game.

I don’t understand why people don’t bring up obvious flaw in GH design.
They are on actual Tyria map! Not somewhere in the Mists, no. On the map! Taking vast space out of it. Why is this a problem?
1/ We could be getting new maps in these locations, but now world map is filled with GH “maps”
2/ We got only two GHs, which comparing to choice we had in GW1 is so limited…
3/ …but I don’t even know if it would be positive to get more options, because that automatically blocks more space on adventure map!
4/ I personally think GH is too big

…And the funny thing is, with your wings on, when you speak with the first scout on VB map having full inventory, he tells you – you have no required item or something like this! When in fact he just can’t give glider to you because there’s no space in the inventory!

Why, oh why, only 2 wings backpacks can be converted to gliders?
Why? Seriously, there’s no good reason to that except to annoy people. That’s just lazy, ArenaNet. Some could say it’s for money, to force players to shop for skins with gems. But then, why not other wing-themed backpacks from gem store? Even not those recently intoduced with HoT?
I want every wing-like backpack to be a glider option!
Especially Holographic Shattered Dragon Wings, but also others like Tequatl, Daydreamer, because why NOT?
This is so stupid to limit this option only to two wing skins, it obvious a lot of players have other wings, why annoy them? The skins are already there, so what’s the problem?

To OP: I’m afraid the fact is HoT story was so badly developed and disappointing that it is hard to believe it has already ended – after all the hopes we had. You prefer to continue fooling youself? Don’t. YEARS has past and we got THIS shallow story. You want to wait another 2-3 years? After HoT I’m rather convinced ArenaNet is unable to deliver decent personal story anymore, that real story awaits in single player games. I just went to Hoelbrak and met Eir carving some stone. Hahahaha…

Hi.
So in Wardrobe there are this light armor pieces: guild shoes, guild pants etc. How do I get these?
Guild armorer in GH shows only chest piece I had unlocked before, which does not belong to this new “guild” set.
Also, with guild hall we were supposed to get Tenebrous armor set, can’t see it in Wardrobe, was this not included in expansion after all?

I’m so with OP.
Sadly, this story is stupid, shallow and over-advertised.

This is disappointing.
Story itself:
Rushed, not deep enough.
We just keep leaving party members on our way, splitting party all the time. No further development of party bounds. Why would Braham bury Eir alone?
Any check-up on our Pale Tree in the meantime? No.
Any great revelations? No. We delivered the egg to the city of Tarir! Yes! Will we get to know what next? No. How was this egg helpful? It wasn’t. Nothing substantial in Rata Novus. Each dragon has a weakness. Well that was expected. What weakness? We don’t get to know, even about Primordus, though it is best described in data. I expected Zojja to be helpful, but no. We don’t get to discover Mordi’s weakness by ourselves but wait until last mission for Traheane to tell us. In fact Zojja seemed to be really confused if not crazy. Hell, we don’t even know if Logan lived or not, he was unconscious, did he make it? Not important apparently.
I was teased that being sylvari I will have to face problems of trust, really, when was that? That first mission when you can show trust to Laranthir? Wow, so complicated. Teaser movies showed more story, with Canach screaming “We are not your enemy” and with Faoline fighting aside Mordrem. When in fact Faoline was just killed and her body used to create something. It wasn’t her choice.
And this way to defeat Mordremoth… What? That was so weird, illogical concept it’s even hard to discuss. Let’s just think we kill elder dragon and boom elder dragon is dead. Why didn’t we just kill Zaithan by sheer will of few people. And it even more ridiculous when NPCs keep saying how Mordi is so much more powerful than Zaithan.
Last mission:
Well that was a nightmare. I wasn’t able to win myself (not balanced for 1 person). Asked a friend for help. Mordremoth looks like a giant toad. Or a potato. What a design… Really… Good old Tequatl looks more like elder dragon. I got killed by Mordremoth and was automatically revived but trapped on some high platform. I just watched my friend fighting the last fight with final boss. I couldn’t do anything. Do I have to explain how awfully anticlimatic that was? But he did it and we got back to Traheane and then after this quite long mission boom I got disconnected.
I’m so not buying any other expansion in pre-purchase.

Please, no playable quaggans… Largos… Only largos.

So…
sylvari – they are tempted by their father Mordremoth
charr – could be under Kralkatorrik influence
norn – obviously even now some of them follow Jormag
human – Bubbles?
asura – Primodus?
Zaithan had to go down first because he made minions out of corpses, so had no potential of gaining living allies. Each of the others can tempt followers, which wolud create similar experience for every playable race: being suspected of cooperation with dragon, mistrust, internal conflict.
Whould that be ArenaNet’s idea for expansions lore?

I agree, finally armor/outfit that looks good on charr.

So, could anyone tell me how teleport to friend item works?
Specifically, could I:
- get to the same shard, even when it’s full otherwise?
- get to location my character doesn’t know yet?
- get to area I don’t have access otherwise like HoT area without having HoT or Hall of Monuments ? :>
- get into instances (dungeons, personal story)?
- use it in WvWvW?
So many questions!

OK. Thank You. You made a mistake, but You are trying to compensate. I was one of the veteran players who couldn’t cope with previous situation. Now it is fine. However, be aware that all this mess made people calculate and think. And many people realised that we know little about HoT content. You really need to show how big the expansion is going to be. Also, You – as company – need to better plan strategy, not change important information during months and be aware that players really won’t instantly buy everything You manage to produce, no matter cost, no matter reason. We really waited for the expansion, but the ammount of presented content is not overwhelming, sorry! You don’t neeed to disclose everything, but how about:
- how large area is going to be added?
- dungeons?
- changes in existing maps?
- changes in existing dungeons?
- more underwater areas?
- large scale events and bosses?

I wonder if this profession had been already designed when GW2 launched or they have been working on it later. Apart from simple curiosity, this might indicate how well would it fit to the current strength balance. If it was forced only to fill the gap in heavy profession row, then something might go wrong with it. But personally i like it and I probably will try it. Though I would like to do this on my new race (largos) character. But no largos I suppose… ;(

I said I wanted maps big as at the beginning of the game ( GW2) and many of them together as a whole “continent” too (like in GW1). And you just read what you want out of my post, and yes your interpretation makes less sense.

Living story is obiously not the way to replace expansion. Expansions in GW1 brought entire continents. i miss this feeling from beginning of the game when you have a world to discover. Maps they give in LS are visually good, nice landscapes and all, but there is nothing that keeps my attention when after first look. Lots of people were active on Silverwastes because of the unbalanced farm, they left as soon as the farm was nerfed. I don’t know, I fell like original maps were filled with ideas, jumping puzzles, interesting places, quests… New ones are boring and… small. Maybe area is not that small, but in fact you are forced to run through NARROW CORRIDORS. I would like underwater expansion, but it has to be something BIG.

My problem is that Maguuma is no jungle at all so far, it’s dry desert. There’s no map that looks like genuine jungle in GW2!

This is blatant, deliberate change to make people buy more gems than they want. No provisional explanations about new players getting confused is even close to believable. The game is rated 12, so at this age kids have few classes of math. Please stop offend players with lies. Just bring back possibility to buy with gold whatever number of gems we want. And perhaps, after few years, good expansion etc. we will slowly forget how you tried to screw us. I don’t event feel like playing Halloween content right now. Especially as it is repeated from last year. Hey, nice new outfit by the way. Guess what. I WON’T BUY. I have 650 gems. Thank you so much.

So, I’ve seen people writing things I agree with:
1/ how can GW2 version of outfit be worse-looking than GW1 version?
2/ how can you make outfit that removes charrs’ tails?
3/ how can you make asura females walk with naked breasts?
If you designed different races, make a little effort to treat them equally serious.

Yes, I didn’t like it either, but on the other hand asura are very much like it, opressive and looking for weakness. They brutalize inteligent species for experiments, they do not care to much if they see profit and knowledge to gain. So…

I almost started my own topic, but then I saw this one. I’ll post here. After my recent complaints about bugs I feel I should express appreciation and give credit when it’s due. This time I had no stopping progress bugs. This episode of LS is FANTASTIC! Last fight may be hard (my character ended up half naked), but second time I would be probably more focused and effective because I now know what to do. Some people may say it was too hard. At least it felt serious and it should, since [spoiler]Pale Tree gets so weakened [/spoiler]. But I just loved the storytelling and wonderful characters development. Someone who wrote Anise/Canach dialogue should be given bonus money and more, more, more job; please just write EVERYTHING. About Taimi – [spoiler] I would gladly defend her property from Phlunt, so at this point I was not happy to go with the story, but finally when explained as “sacrifice” this plot twist was acceptable FOR NOW, though I’m not 100 % happy [/spoiler]. Generally, this episode was fun and I was very pleased. Good job.

Oh, and it was just impossible to predict that many people may press TALK to key NPC. right?

Confirmed, once again Arena Net was unable to deliver LS patch without instant problem. You have a reputation already guys – people deep inside know it’s risky to try to play LS on patch day, but somehow we still have this silly hope… that this time… maybe it will go smooth… Well… Nope.

Yes I know it wasn’t doing anything (and it should!), but this was something like hair or eyes… esthetic feature but of mind not body. Why remove it? Ferocity could be just renamed. My point is that instead of making it more fun and meaningful, they choose to remove it. Sure, role play and personal story are probably quite challenging in development, but should we expect nothing ambitious? THIS IS MY STORY turns into “just do the daily”.

What is going on recently? I’ve noticed that character’s attitude (Dignity, Ferocity, Charm etc.) has been removed from the new Hero panel. Why?! I get reactions from my guild mates that this was not important anyway, but for me this is a BAD sign, really. Instead of improving the idea of some sort roleplay, ArenaNet just canceled it (with no reason given, at least I didn’t know such thing was planned). I’m sad. I take this as a prognosis that in the future (expansion) no deeper role play will be encouraged. Also, Personal Story forum is in Archive, does it mean there’s nothing to talk about anymore? Because I was really hoping for creative continuation of fabulous ideas from early personal story, like Malyck the sylvari from different tree, like my charr inventor and warband leader… Right now I just lost my spirit. I feel I was fooling myself. Does nobody else care for such things?

I just want to add that I was really dissappointed, when I tried to show some interest to new NPCs, because they weren’t properly settled in game’s reality as a bigger picture. Here’s Eir’s son. OK, I know Eir, I know where she lives, why not visit her and talk about it. I went there and guess what. Nothing, no option to talk about such interesting discovery – she has a son! OK, here’s Rox. She’s afraid to talk to Rytlock. I know Rytlock, I could go talk to him in Rox’s defence. I went there. He wasn’t even in his chamber. Is it really that hard to make some key old NPCs care about the new ones? In the last chapter we met Marjory’s sister. Is it possible to visit Marjory’s family? … I suppose no.

OMG really ?! This is broken, and for so long?! I was planning this rune for my necromancer. Nice, nice… That’s just so lame.

Lags from yesterday, but today I’m unable to do anything in game. Also, for a quite long time now, I’ve been having minor issues like slow loading of skill bar (can’t see the icons), enemies (for example world bosses), and constantly crowd of characters in default armors instead of real ones , even on my friends from guild standing next to me, sometimes I see someones armor, he takes a step and it is replaced by default. It wasn’t like this in the past. Some optimalization is needed.

Location: POLAND

Funny story, but totally unrelated to the Personal Story topic.

adamryason.9817:

I miss personal story a lot

Me too. And I’m sorry to see that this Personal Story forum is almost totally abandoned. It looks like a very bad sign for the game’s future. I want story, I want my character to live – not to be a machine to farm for a new tier of armor. It can understand it’s impossible to reach level of storytelling like in one-player RPG, but something surely can be done, little steps, but SOMETHING to continue some really nice ideas we’ve seen in first chapters of Personal Story (before Orders of Tyria).

I hope they will continue story with Malyck and The Other Sylvari Tree, it was very interesting and yet so quickly suspended… Think about it, what possibilities! Sylvari characters could choose to be from this Other Tree, different sylvari culture, new sylvari city… – if well developed it could make a big expansion!

Yeah, of the limited number of underwater utility skills, Arena Net just had to BREAK something useful. Hmmmpff… Just fix it quickly, please.

Yesterday my party made it to the final chamber, we got wiped and when we returned from the waypoint… the chamber was bugged. The floor was not electrified, 8 generators were regenerated but no holograms spawned and thus we couldn’t destroy the generators. Everything in the chamber just froze. We tried going to waypoint again, we even tried jumping from hight and killing the party and then returning… No effect. Sweet, nice update, tssss…

OK, sorry, I think that’s the explanation https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Karma-jug-won-t-stack-Retribution .
In fact 2 of jugs stacked eventually so the “lonely” one must be not from daily.
EOT

Please do something, the jugs won’t stack… Currently I have 3 that can’t be stacked, but I’m afraid with each day the number will grow O_o

I confirm that I was unable to leave (the usual way) first instance with Rox and first instance with Braham, also after conversation with Braham/Knut I went to Eir’s instance hoping to get some answers (disappointment – no new dialogue options ?!?! shame) and I also couldn’t leave this instance, no leaving option at the door… So perhaps the problem concerns not only Living Story instances. By the way – I like this chapter of Living Story!

Hi. I just wanted to express how I love the Fractals of the Mists dungeon. And I’m not the only one, others in my guild also like it very much. It’s fun, interesting and briliantly designed. So far the best feature of the new Lost Shores content and also one of the best experience in the whole game ;] I personally also like the jumping puzzle on the isle, it’s funny and seems so hard xD

Hi.
I’ve been playing GW since Nightfall (later I got previous campaigns, and GWEN), now I play GW2. Perhaps I just do not remember (because I can’t) the beginnings of GW and perhaps the players starting with Prophecies only felt the same… But…
I can’t understand why in GW2 we get so few skins for weapon, and more importantly – so few interesting skins. I’m playing elementalist and I’d love to have one great staff. If ArenaNet just copy the ideas form GW, I’m sure I would be able to pick something nice. Why won’t You use old concepts? Or make new ones, but make them nice. Dry tree branch is not what I like The choice is just to limited for ordinary staves. As for the legendary weapon… I’m casual player and I probably won’t be able to farm for legendary weapon for a long time, but I don’t want this this Bifrost staff anyway. I’m not saying it’s a failure, but not every one wants rainbow-themed staff. You did two versions of greatsword, can’t You do more dark-themed staff? There are necromancers there, does a rainbow suit them? I could write similar notes about foci or armor. ArenaNet, please be more creative

I do not use tornado on land, but I use its underwater version and every time I just disappear and I have to guess where my character is.

Same here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bugs-in-world-exploration-noticed-in-last-12-hours/first#post301977

Server: Underworld
Last night I’ve been exploring Bloodtide Coast and Mount Maelstrom.
On Bloodtide Coast: skill point in left down corner is broken (no NPC?), heart in the oasis seems broken though possible to complete only by killing the Risen, heart Assist Crusader Asling – one skritt artifact could be collected repeatedly. More improtant to me, because I DON’T HAVE MUCH FREE TIME – all my progress on Mount Maelstrom is erased in the morning. Just great.

On elementalist I can’t use elite skill underwater. You wrote few days ago that You are working on it. So? When will we see some results?

I’m from Iron Legion and I chose to cooperate with Blood Legion on my ghost-killing weapon, and female charr form Blood Legion was supposed to join my warband. Few missions past, I’ve never seen this NPC but thought maybe she is not supposed to appear. But now when deciding which Order to choose I have to consult my warband. And it consists of 2 NPCs I know (Euryale and Luccia Wildeye) and – surprise!! – some guy from Ash legion, that I’ve never met. I want the other NPC back, please.

Very disappointed, but at least I understand why. But as Weresentme says, give us back the transmutation stones. Why should we pay for your mistakes. Yes, probably I’m exaggerating right now, but today I just had enough of this. It’s been a week and the game fails repeatedly.

I lost unique appearance of my transumted staff as well. I can’t remember how my staff was named but I was so happy with the skin… Now I just have Mighty staff. It’s so annoying. “When its ready” they said. At least can someone tell if this bug will be fixed soon?!