Guild Wars 2

I wrote in other thread, that I won’t continue supporting GW2 until the email authentication is gone. I was answered that I have to manually contact support to disable the authentication. Well, I am not going to ask to remove something that I didn’t ask to get in the first place. So, it looks like I won’t be playing GW2 ever again.

I will not buy another expansion of GW2 until email confirmation is gone. The thing is really annoying and I didn’t ask for it. And no, I won’t use mobile authenticator.

I have to log through email authentication every time, and it didn’t remember the setting as allowed. It gets annoying.

The thing is hard anyway and it resets so corpse running doesn’t work. Then you can’t even hit the mounds… Needs a tweak.

There is no tank, but also there is no dedicated healer. Someone often needs to mark target though.

I have played years a similar mmo and I wouldn’t say I panic. I know really well my buttons and options, as the first dungeon came as late as level 30.

I play warrior and it has certain skills for avoiding damage: Block. Heal self. Other skill, that prevents all damage. And some others. But when these skills are on cooldown, what am I supposed to do? I can’t use the skills now, can I? All I can do is to save the skills for a tough phase and use them and after that try to avoid get hit.

Well, I do these things. Except that I use mouse to move. Now, I can’t walk backwards. If I could walk backwards, I could avoid some damage. I tried to use keyboard also for movement, but it felt unnatural to me.

Also I haven’t used to use dodge. So I don’t dodge much. But even if I dodged a lot, well, in some cases there are so many mobs and hitting so hard, that I die all the time.

I have done AC story and CM story and tried AC exp path 1. Those story modes took some practising to succeed, but that exp mode was just too hard. I have tried with one group so far, but it felt like we didn’t even have a chance, after dieing many times.

Exp mode might be a challenge mode, but so far it seems too difficult.

And I can’t preview items in trading post listing?

And still, can’t use trading post.

Rebooting game helped.

It starts to be quite annoying as the trading post is not working, again: “Invalid authorization”.

Sylvari are the new elves, as there is no other.

I always target content that is for higher level than me, but things tend to level out soon anyway. Things are too easy at times, too hard at times. I can kill one 7 levels higher mob, but not two easily. And what is the point of finding a zone for your level, if that zone is too easy? It becomes farming hearts to complete the zone.

Even the start zone epic dragon was way easy. It was epic yes, but there were no problems of beating it. First event has to be relatively easy of course, but some times I barely get to hit the thing before it is dead -> and afterwards I haven’t seen such a dragon at all and I am level 35 now. On one hand, personal stories, and some skill challenges, have been tough if I was not couple levels higher than the story.

Story mode AC has been somewhat tricky, but I start to guess that it is tricky only for random groups of new players, as in other run we didn’t die much at all.

But more of the events: I think that the events are nice, but not very deep. I have just done tons of events and after one event it might lead to couple more. But I don’t get the feeling that the events affect things. I have noticed that you cannot teleport to waypoint if it is contested by mobs. But other than that I don’t see much change. One reason for that might be that the change is not significant for farming hearts, and while levelling -> I am soon in the next zone and don’t notice significant changes in the environment.

Most of the time for example Lion’s Arch isn’t inaccessible due to mobs conquering it. If I was forced to conquer Lion’s Arch back, I might notice something. But mostly a grass zone is still grass zone, even if some centaurs appear for players to kill. And there isn’t any progress bar for showing how soon Lion’s Arch will be lost to the mobs because players are not fortifying it.

Currently when a dynamic event appears nearby, I think that there is no reason to take part, as 1) I have done that event already 2) I have done that event already many times 3) I have done it and it will probably just appear again even if I did it again so there is no point, I could as well go do something else now 4) if I left the event and it failed, well I won’t be around to face the concequences so who cares, not me. -> I go farm hearts in the next zone. 5) some one else might do the event anyway 6) what if I did the event? There is no mark in the map for me. All I get is a bonus prize. But if I farm hearts, at least I get a progress mark in the map.

Events seem to be too easy most of the time, though there are some harder ones, too. But usually there is a zerg, and I barely get to hit a mob before all of them are dead.

Other things is that after the first epic starter dragon fight there has not been much epic fights if not at all. It is like a minute of glory, then back to the basics of farming smaller stuff. Some event bosses are tougher, especially skill challenges when you are alone and not high enough level. But mostly it comes to farming hearts and doing an occasional normal event.

Even the first dungeon comes only when you are level 30. Before that there is a lot of normal forests and normal grass lands. I have seen normal forests and normal grass lands a lot before, so it doesn’t feel as epic. Luckily there are also some neat places too for exploring. But especially for levels 25 – 30 there seems to be only one place to go and it is mostly grass, though there is some water etc. too.

It is annoying that the pet doesn’t have brains to jump over say a fench, when I jump. Normally animals would of course jump, as they are better jumpers than a person in full gear and backbags. I am talking about a panther. They do jump. High. And can climb up a tree. I haven’t tried a flying pet yet.

I think that all the turrets and stuff just drag my speed down. If I play a warrior, I can just swing my sword or shoot with rifle, but with engineer I have this turret that I have to constantly drop onto the ground and then optionally also pick the turret up from the ground. Then there is tons of kits and nades, but I have not gotten a clear way of playing. Seems that something is always being in a kit that is not currently equipped and need to change to use something else.

Otherwise I like to play the engineer and I like pistol and shield, though warrior can use also rifle. Using pistol all the time gets boring as it is constant boom sound.

When I roll a new guardian, the skills are too much magic -like instead of swinging the weapons. So I go back to my warrior.

I don’t like the mesmer (at least the starting) masks.

I tried thief, but the weapon skill combinations didn’t convince me as much as the warrior skills do. So I have stickken to warrior. Also the thief skill button icons are too vague: I cannot clearly see, is a skill on cool down or ready, as the colors are almost the same for both.

Also, I wanted to shoot with two pistols at the same time, but thief didn’t have such an option at start. So I got bored, though maybe it would have come later.

Yeah. And the mesmer masks look really such things I would absolutely not wear.

I walked to AC entry in Auroras Glade server. One person invited people to group of 5 for story mode. We regrouped for some reason. Then he went into the dungeon and a message appeared to enter. I accepted. Probably others accepted too, though one might have been afk. Anyway, I didn’t get into the dungeon. Then we walked to the dungeon, and it asked to enter the dungeon, again. I entered and an intro played. After that, I was in the dungeon, but alone. Two persons were in overflow server, and at least one was also in the dungeon, but I didn’t see him. It was weird that 2 were in overflow, as all of us could see each other in the entrance. Three members gave up and left. We left the dungeon, I couldn’t enter the dungeon anymore. Then we broke up the group.

Also, the asking to join a party should be more noticeable plus sound instead of a tiny icon in the edge of the screen.

In general I am not even interested in the option to talk to the npc. If the npc just responds “Hello to you too” when I try to loot, it is absurd.

Yes these are most annoying things. Targetting should happen on mouse click, not on mouse press, as I use mouse to move, not to target. When I use mouse to pan, it messes the target to random player instead of keeping it on the enemy I chose.

And shooting neutral mobs automatically is annoying. For example when a mob walks away and I don’t shoot it anymore. Then I walk a bit and suddenly I start automatically shooting the mob again, even though I didn’t want to shoot it anymore.

Targetting should work only on mouse click, not on mouse press.

Also moving / panning with mouse breaks from the pan mode, if you alternate clicking left / right, then right / left, then left / right clicking again.

West centaur area collecting catapult parts, I can’t drop the parts as there is no npc. Also Tekki didn’t wan’t crystals. And some events don’t move, even though there are the event npcs: A pact in middle centaur area, and defending rats while they loot parts near Tekki.

The timer is annoying when you accidentally swap weapons. “Nooo, I want my sword + shield back..!”

Other player / npc shooting with something?

I have noticed that some parts of armor have some surface pattern, that is darker than other parts. Then that darker part gets also colored darker than the other parts, even though I use the same color on both.

Quite many gear look the same.

I couldn’t create character one day, but eventually it got created. The problem doesn’t occur always. But then:
- I created the character and selected name
- I clicked next trying to get to play
- The game kept showing error message
- For quite some time I kept trying to click next
- Then the game started saying I have problem with internet connection. I didn’t
- I tried more. Then the game said that the character already exists
- I rebooted the game, and now I had a character that I could play with
- In this case I created the character with same name on existing character to create new one
- Also I had problem with autoplay