Guild Wars 2

Same here. Everyone is buzzing about it, I hope it gets fixed fast!

This conversation seems to get needlesly heated for some individuals. ^^; Do you mind if I throw my two cents in?

I see some fellow Finns have already commented on this, put let me give another perspective on this. You see, despite being on that ridicilously awesome finnish school system, I have learned to write english way after everyone else, little after my twenties. I understood it pretty well before that, but I couldn’t write it. You see, I suffer from learning disability, which in my case is dyslexia.

I learned to write and read finnish closer to age 8, and even then I was very, very slow. I was age 10, when I finally learned to read inside my head instead of out loud. Age of 9 I started to learn english, I was terrible at it, one of my first tests was particulary funny when I was meant to write “people” and wrote “peapole”. Writing english was a nightmare. by high school I actually understood english, but still couldn’t write it. I got 5’s (thats from scale 4-10) from most of the classes. However, as finals came, I got M, which is equalent to 8, because I mostly had to just listen and read and write in finnish did I understand it. Last question was a essay, and I managed to utter just 5 sentences there, and they were technically unreadable. And thing is, in scale of severnes, my dyslexia is about medium, meaning it could be much, much worse.

Reason I write this is not to gain pity points, I have no need of such nonsense. I learned finally write and read english trough games, in fact.D I just wanted it out there to point out, that not-learning-language isn’t nessecerally sign of laziness. We don’t know topic starter’s age, educational background, possible learning difficulties, access to resources or knowledge of where to find those resources. That’s why it sounds a bit harsh to speak of ‘entitlement’. I do agree, that learning languages is good (see, I learned in the end did I? ) and should be encouraged, please consider that learning a language just isn’t as easy to some as it is to others. So let’s not be needlessly rude, ok? ^^

That said, I do have to point out that starting message wasn’t too polite either, people tend to answer aggressively to aggressive messages. Politeness takes long way.

Personally I think that fansubs would be very good idea, all and all. I bet there are fans who would be more than happy to translate the texts. Though of course, that has it’s downsides. Translations would be first partial, and quality control from Anet’s side would be hard unless they got someone who speaks the language which is used. this might cause some troublesome translations. Also, if we have livin world content which goes away in short time, there isn’t much time to translate that. But the idea would be lovely, and it could be helpful for some!

In huge, global games like this translations are always problematic, as well as several languages on chat. It would be nice to speak with friends with your native language via chat, but if there is issues with offensive names or harassment, Anet might have hard time to take action without translation of what is going on. We all know how awesome translations bing and google give to stuff…

Adding my name to the list. My poor minions keep falling to their faces which really doesn’t help at my quest for world domination. Jokes aside, I would love to see this fixed if possible. ^^

Ah, well that explains that! I must have missed that when reading the notes! So at least that ain’t broken then. Thank you!

But there is still an issue for me getting a wrong quest. waiting Anet to reply. ^^

I did make a ticket about this, but since I have been watching around this forums if anyone else has this issue. So I thought, just in case, post this here too in case someone has seen the same problem.

So, when me and my pal had both created human mages not too far apart, we decided to play our living story together. Since very low levels we have played every story mission together: usually she opens the instance and I add the whole thing to my story after it, sometimes other way around. Only story part in higher levels we didn’t do together was Forging the Pact, which was a bit too hard for two mages, so we did it too times, first with her mage and my thief and then with my Berry and her warrior. During that mission, you don’t make any story choises.

Yesterday, after taking a bit summer break from the GW, we started to play with our girls again and went to do Tower Down, I wasn’t thinking, I just went after my friend. However, after the story, I didn’t receive anything and couldn’t take it as part as my story. Instead I noticed, that my character didn’t have Tonn mission at all. I got you a screenshot to you as attachment.

In case it’s unreadable, it says that I should be doing Shell Shock, and claims it to be level 70 quest (it’s acctually 64, isn’t it or am I wrong? O.o; ) but I know that me and my friend made A Light in the Darkness together, so we should be both doing Tonn storyline. o.O;

So yeah, this feels a bit weird. I hope it can be fixed and isn’t too hard to fix. But it’s definitely weird.

I have been watching client crash problems for sometime – my friend has rather unbalanced internet connection, so occasional dropping off has been usual. However, around Halloween and after that friend’s client crashes came daily, now client is crashing at least 3 times a day, sometimes more. And during last month or so, my client has started crashing too. I have never had this problem. For moment I thought it’s my computer, as I just got a new one, but when I log on from old one it’s the same. Now I’m pushed of by client about 2 times a gaming session. Don’t even ask how often my friend drops. And this is getting seriously annoying.

There hasn’t been any changes in our internet connections, which previously worked fine (well, mine worked, friend’s one not as much , but decently.) So I doubt the problem is on our end. Is it time for GW servers to upgrade or something? Everything on my side should be checked, but I’m always open for ideas how to fix this.

Other than that I have enjoyed the game and eager to see today’s updates later today. I love the game, really, I just hope I could go to dungeons without being constantly afraid that I drop off from client any second, you know. ^^; It’s hard to enjoy the content when you get disconnects on worst possible second. ._. Usually when there is lot of going on (my friend tend to drop on temples, for example.)

Thank you from the awesome game. Just if you can do anything for this disconnecting, I would be grateful!

Stuck with this bug too. :/ Bad luck.

After 8 characters, my bank is getting cluttered. And I start to have lot of soulbound stuff there. I’m starting to get a bit confused about some of the stuff. “Oh, I got WvW boosters here, I’ll take one- oh, it’s soulbound to another character. Oh well I just switch to that character and – wait, if these aren’t this character’s stuff, who owns it then?”

Instead of going trough all my 8 characters to figure out who owns that kitten WvW booster, could you please just print out to the item who is it soulbound to? I remember this feature from GW1, and I hope it comes back! I don’t want to have million boosters and armour pieces with me, just so I don’t forget who owns them! I rather put them in to bank when I know I don’t need them.

+1

I’m not colourblind myself, but I know few. Colourblindness is quite common, it feels weird that this group of players gets neglected. They shouldn’t. Thickening circles etc shouldn’t be that big of a problem. ^^ Give these guys a hand, Anet!

This might be silliest suggestions out there, but i’m kinda getting tired of people arguing about “opinion of the most players”. Judging by what I see on every GW forum possible (and all the talks with other players in game) It comes painfully obvious what is the situation here. We need actual statics. Not just who logged in and when, and voice of the handful of players who happen to use the forums.

I suggest:

Once in a while (maybe 3 or 6 months or so), a survey hits our in-game message boxes. there would be option in settings to prevent this from happening, if you don’t wish to receive such a message. and on this, there would be simple form of some kind where we can tick boxes of what we have liked the content we have been playing. there might be option to write comments too. these surveys must be answered during a-week-or-two period. after that they vanish, and votes given are counted.

After this we would have data of:
1. how many players logged in during that particular week
2. how many of them didn’t have survey disabled from setting during that time and how many of those who got it didn’t answer it and so, didn’t care of stating their opinion
3. how many players actually did answer to the survey
4. what did people answer the survey, what content they liked best, what least, how they would rate that content, and what content they really DO care about.

With just 5 minutes (or less) of player’s time, this would give developers more accurate information about what goes trough people’s heads as they play the game. Players would have more power to get direct input from the game. It would reach every player, and if they don’t want to be reach, they simply disable the whole thing on their account with one click. You don’t have to take part if you don’t feel like it.

Not all people go to forums, and just “how many people did this and that” doesn’t tell the whole truth about how people felt for the content. I loved the TA update, but I had trouble of getting group to play it with me, so I haven’t played it as much as I wanted. There has also been living story-things I have done purely because of the prices, even when I dislike the actual content. So numbers on those participation percents don’t tell how much I actually liked the content.

And make this all visible somewhere: let us see the percentage. Not accurate numbers if you don’t feel like it, but percentage. This way we don’t need to argue that much anymore, and you guys no for sure what’s going on. It’s a win win.

(addition to last post)

So, we are definitely working with dragons here – at this point, I’d say more with their energy. Remember what happened to vizier who where playing with Lost scrolls which unleashed the wave of undead (which we so handily connect to Zhaitan, and thus dragon corruption, and their energy)? Well, Orr happened. It’s told in your personal story.

Scarlet is playing with dragons right now. it’s pretty obvious. We will get the dragons after they get foothold trough her, do we want it or not. Yes Scarlet != Dragons, but scarlet will lead us to dragons. That’s the Anet way. Or that is most logical assumption out of this.

There will be dragons. Just let the mad woman finish.

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she isn’t. she’s just the only “bossmob” out there since making us fight dragons seems to be too much of a bother to anet.

… You guys do know that she is most likely the character who will bring us those new dragons right?

I don’t think you guys should love the lore in the way it’s presented currently, but if you do have a moment and actually check things Anet does give us, it doesn’t need a rocket scientist to see where they are trying to go. Are they doing it right or wrong, that will be for everyone to themselves to decide, but the means are starting to look more obvious, if you just focus on studying what we do have, instead just dreaming about what we want.

1. Anet has made clear in interviews that there is no expansion. They might change their mind in the future, but that is current situation. Period. Instead they will bring all the new content trough the LS. And there will be dragons. They are constantly saying on interviews that they are trying to bring story together, but they are doing it by their own time, and so that it fit the storyline they have envisioned. They have stated that storylines going on are connected, and they release stuff according how it works to storyline they have in mind for current moment.

2. It’s a common theory, that the sylvari are actually connected to the plant dragon. According the lore they can’t be corrupted. Zhaitan’s minions seemed to have connection to each other trough Eyes of Zhaitan, while sylvari are connected to Pale tree. Also, only plant dragon we see so far in whole game has been in sylvari starting story, with-in the dream. Nightmare Court would, thus, easily be thought as plant-dragon minions. Even id sylvari aren’t minions of the Dragon, there is connection between them and the dragons most surely in form or another. As Tyria’s immune system, if nothing more. That’s ties Scarlet, per se, to the dragons. but if this Theory is true, it does raise a intresting point: during personal story, krait had that blue orb, remember? One you fetch with Apatia? Which drives undead away? Shiny blue orb… This is just speculation, but if we consider sylvaries to be dragon-minions-and-thus-don’t-get-corrupted, only thing we know to give immunity to dragon corruption is presence of another dragon. Since krait fled from water dragon, there is possibility, that the orb is from it, it would nicely tie krait indirectly to water dragon… Go and figure. Since Krait have been turned undead, their relationship wouldn’t be same to underwater dragon than sylvari have to plant dragon. Sylvari (or Pale Tree) would be more like Glint.

3. Scarlet short story in webpage states that Scarlet has been interested of learning stuff and coming more powerful. It also states that she studied dragon energy with inquest. In case you never truly followed the storyline in Sorrows Embrace and CoE, Kudu was studying dragon energies and how to se them in their own advantage. CoE is basically littered with every dragon minion possible (but the water dragon). End of CoE story, Kudu let’s himself corrupt (by Kralkatorrik, I believe, because the purple crystal stuff) for power.

4. During Ice and fire we had lots of fire going on, pointing toward Primordus. Also hints towards Jormag. during Tequatl, Tequatl who should now be weaker got stronger, after Scarlet messing up everywhere in past few events. Yes, after dragon energy studying sylvari doing freeky stuff all around. we also found shard and stuff around Claw of Jormag and Shatterer. They told us that they are getting stronger.

5. Scarlet goes and does stuff with nightmare court. and Now suddenly kraits, who hate everything else, are doing something with Nightmare Court all of the sudden, turning in to glowing things like most of our dragon minions, so far as we know, are.

Wrapping things up: Anet says that this all is connected.

Scarlet has studied dragon corruption, and as a sylvari, she is naturally immune to it. Dragons getting stronger and she jumping around the background all the time suggests she is somehow involved with it, so probably she has learned how to manipulate dragon energy, no matter what is people’s personal opinion about that. Inquest have already done some of that, so she basically just need to build on stuff she has learned, without risk of doing “Kudus”. This power is most likely thing that is affecting krait: they are attracted to power after all. and If there is connection between krait gods and Dragons, Scarlet who wields dragon energies would make more sense to affecting them. Those pictures of krait do look pretty corrupted by… something, plant dragon, water dragon, who knows: but it does stink like dragon corruption to me. It reminds me of orr, places influenced by icebrood or branded areas.

(to be continued)

So, when it comes to thinking builds, I’m probabply not the sharpest tool in the shed. I have had engi as I main since I started to game year ago, and to be honest, everytime I start to read build guides and such I feel utterly lost.

I love my Engi, and dare to say I play him better than any other character I have. Still, I think there is room for improvement. I’m thinking of gettin badges to get him inquest armor one of these days, and I’m building him a ascended pistol right now, and I’m not sure what stats to take. So I thought maybe you guys can help me out to optimize my build a bit, and maybe to learn something new, and maybe help me pick stats to my upcoming asc-pistol (still dragonite ore to grind for that). You can see my current build here:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VV;4cPku0i63TFx0;9;5JT-J;105-29B;148-KZ;20-F18ZF18Zu-FcPL;1N_-VOVTWYXcYi3o_9kW9V09;1c1-T70;9;9-Vc-Fi

Mostly I have played so, that I try to protect certain space (usually reach of my healing turret) do a lot of criticals and conditions, and you know, kinda just safeguard a spot, trying to keep enemies off my neck. I’m most of the time with my pistol and shield, but I chance between my kits when ever it feels more efficent. At this point I’m using more flametrower, but I’m kinda attached to my elixirgun too. Rocket turret and supply crate are still my fav skills. I have used asura skill daze at times, and I have considered adding net turret there somewhere. I heard the the med kit is much better than the turret in long run, but I kinda got “scared of it” after first time trying it out and I haven’t picked it since.

I’d love to do more dungeons and WvW content, but in sakes of fellow players, I wanna have decent build too. I need to get a bit more mobile, but since I loose my keys easily, I want the build to be pretty straight forward. So, any suggestions, or do you think this current is okay?

New weapon types are something that pops up in request once and a while. But as far as I tried to find a topic where people would be listing their ideas I couldn’t find one. I might be blind again, as usual.

It’s possible that Anet decides that it will never give us more weapon types, and I’d be pretty ok with that. Yet it would be a blast see even more skills and builds in this games, and adding weapon kitten nal might just do that.

So, I want to hear (and that way maybe get these things on eyes of the developers) what kind of weapons you would love to see in this game. To make this lil’tricky, I also ask you to tell how the weapon you are suggesting would work in the game. You may make ideas of specific skills or just be very sketchy, but something more than just: “I want shurigens. Period.”

So there is few weapons I would love to see. And here is my list:

Halberd/Spear
It would be nice to have a two handed weapon, designed to keep enemy arm length away. It wouldn’t do damage as much as hammer or great sword, but it could have greater range and it could have more knockback skills, which would give a good player extra hits in close combat before enemy is on your skin.

Crossbow
How about high damage, amazing accuracy, long range and decent critical rate? Of course, this would all come in a cost of slow speed and loss of area damage. Crossbow could be totally brutal, but something you more likely to use on bosses who stay still than someone who is running to your face. You know, something to snipe guys in pvp. Ultimate sniper weapon. Would require 2 hands.

Slingshot
Low range, low critical rate but spread and reasonable damage, and of course high speedy. Not very elegant, but takes just one hand, and gives melee character a bit extra range.

Nunchaku/knuckle duster
Besides daggers, we don’t really have any weapons which would force you on another player’s skin. Since dagger is a sharp weapon, it would be nice to have “blunt” option with it. Maybe less conditions, more damage?

Umm… after playing sylvari start story twice, I always thougt why don’t see that leafy dragon anywhere else than the Dream. It’s only connection we have to Jungle dragon: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jungle_dragon Also on my ranger’s story I met this sylvari who was not from grove, and sadly, I haven’t seen him in story after that. After reading Scarlet Story, where she goes to see the pale tree in this machine and such and how she learns stuff about dragon energies from Inquest, and after this Nightmare court and Grove mumbo jumbo and such, and Faolain – Caithe stuff…

This could be a bit farfetched, But maybe Dream/Pale Tree/Grove is the thing that traps the Jungle dragon, Nigthmare court being actual servants of Jungle dragon itself. If nightmare actually comes from the dragon, and sylvari where awoken to guard that Jungle dragon stays trapped (which would explain their backstory, which is pretty lightly explained). That’s why you only see the wood-leafy-dragon thing in the Dream. But sylvari aren’t for what-ever-the-reason aware that the dream traps the dragon, thus they never mention that. All this Ventari’s tablet stuff is there to keep thing in control, thus sylvari is asigned to do this-and-that. But when you think about it, if nobody knows that Dream traps the dragon, nobody can actively try to free it?

So maybe, Scarlet now figured all this stuff out. And maybe she is now trying to get the Jungle dragon under her control? Maybe Tequatl getting stronger weas scarletts test if she could power up a dragon, so she could use that knowlidge to free tha Jungle dragon, so she could use it to whatever she wants to do with it. All this havoc she is causing is about she getting stuff she needs for her task.

Which might mean that we are getting new dragon to the game. Which would be kinda epic. And if it comes it might devour Scarlet in the process. I might actually enjoy that a bit.

But that’s just a silly theory among others.

First, hello all. I’m not native english speaker so I will apologize all terrible spelling mistakes I’m doing, sorry about that. I hope you still get my point. ^^;

Dear Anet, thank you for awesome game. I got 8 chacters, one world map completion and I still keep going and love the game. I have enjoyied most of the events around and I think you guys are awesome. I know you work hard and I appriciate that. I think many users here are a bit too harsh on you, though others give exceleent ideas howw develop the game. There is 3 things however I have been wanting to the game, and I didn’t find topics which would directly point to these ideas (I just might be blind or looked properly though) so I’m here to trow in my 2 cents.

1. Saving graphic profiles

I usually play this game with my friends. Neither of us have the best hardware, but I can run the game on best graphics quite ok, if there isn’t any big events going on. So yeah, game runs pretty smoothly in normal state.

BUT. Well, we have both loved Scarlet, and Tequatl and all the things going on, seriously, they have been awesome, I had fun. But during Scarlet invasion, on those huge, huge fights, my computer crashed twice (yes, whole computer) and GW crashed who knows how many times, until I started lower my graphic settings. Your last updates have made this all easier for me, but my friend is still struggling. So we don’t want to play with low graphics all the time, so this is how our gaming goes now:

First we play with our regular graphic settings. Then wild Tequatl/Scarlet appears, we changes our graphis, go and kick some lizard/sylvari butt and then we change our graphics back again. Sometimes several times during the gaming session.

We start to remmember our graphic setting already, and I know you work on performance issues, but this is getting a bit silly. ^^; So my humble request would be: could it be anyway possible, that we could save our own graphic profiles (one or two) to the menu where we have high performance and best graphics right now? Make our own presets, so instead of going this graphic-mess all the time, we could do it with one click. It would be much efficent while we wait that game performance gets better or we get better internet connections and better hardware.

2. Way to see all my character informations side by side

So. I bought 3 character slots. And now I have 8 characters on level 80. and I never know who is where, what they have done, who was wearing what gear and had they visited this-and-this map.

When I got to login page, I only can see there armor they are wearing from the picture and few percents of world map completion on the side. This isn’t being very imformative. In game we can type /age and see how many hours we have played and how many of them with character we see on screen, but we have no way to compare this data, un less you log in with all characterss and write it down. it would be easier to figure out what I was doing, if I could view my statistics side by side. You know, maybe just out of curiosity, wouldn’t it be nice to know how many percents of each of your character has done from Fields of ruin completion, etc? you know, wiev all the data we have about in game from our characters in one place, to make our own comparision, if we wish.

I undrestand making such a feature inside the gamesystem might be way too hard. but you know, we can login to this website. our profile here is pretty much only for changing our passwords. why not make there a page where we could wiev our character statistics? Just, you know, to see what level was everyones crafting skills or have they visited cursed shore yet. just little things. It would be fun to see!

3. Skill change button

This one might be a bit far fetched. but sometimes I wish, that I could change my utility-, healing- and elite skills in the same way, from single button like I change weaponsets. With similar cooldowns and such. you could make 2 seperate skillsets, which could have some same skills if you want so, and with one click you could change between them. naturally, if you have same skill in both sets, and it has cooldown going it keeps cooling down, but yeah, it would change all the skills that aren’t in the another set. I play my necro with 2 very different skill builds depending whom I’m playing with, so it would be nice to change the build in fly. I think the current system is good alredy, so this isn’t must on my list, but still, it would be a cool feature to spice up pvp and such.

Thank you all for reading this far, have a goodnight and long live Tyria.

Full support from here!

Ah, seems that my dyslexia hit again! Thanks guys, that solves one out of 3!

First of all, I want to thank everyone involved of making this game – i’m really enjoying myself and I love the game. I got 8 characters and I play almost daily, somedays it’s THE thing that makes me in the good mood. You are doing good job, thanks for the game. It’ noit perfect, but nothing is and mostly I’m really happy.

But to business: my friend just flipped. He just logged in with his elementalist and got the new achievement chest, and had a choise to choose one of those cool weapon skins. He had been drooling that rifle to his engineer, so he picked it up, and when putting it to storage he saw the text: Soulbound.

Oooooops.

Yeah, I know that some of you are now laughing their heads of. But I bet it stops to be funny if that ever happened to you.

Last few events/updates there has been very wierd brainfarts in accountboud-soulbound policies. So far only items you equip or get from story-events have been soulbound, and that has, you know, made sense. Weapon/armorskins from events, and stuff like that have been either free to sell, or incase of some rarities, accountbound. I find this good system. But now Zenith skins arer suddenly soulbound, and I do not find any sense from this at all. I don’t see how that fact that we could receive the skin with another character and then give it to another character in our account would break the game in anyway. These are account achievement-points after all, NOT character achievement points.

Similar item, though not as important, was the fireworks during dragonbash. I mean… Soulbound fireworks? Why? I undrestand tha accountbound, but soulbound? Firework-achiement was not tied to character in anyway, but was ACCOUNT achievement, so why souldbound that stuff? Please, could you check this in the future (though my poor friend who is raging now would love to use that rifle skin to to engi if it’s possible to make the item account bound). I acctually had not noted that before, I got to check whom I log in with next time I’m getting a skin.

Allso, very small request which woud make me super happy: When I have a soulbound item on storage, could there be text that whom that I item is soulbound to? ^^; I just had to go trough all my characters to figure out who owned one Letter of Recomendation.

Thank you for your time.