Guild Wars 2

- The events don’t have consequences on the area, in fact the zone behaves as if an attack isn’t happening

i was quite pleased to watch Scarlet’s portal minions tear through NPCs found in the zone i was in. The portal was there with a Veteran and he and his friends just ate through a variety of mobs, including yellow named mobs that are neutral, such as deer. It was actually an immersive moment where i found myself wanting to save the creatures.

forget adding new races, just offer a tengu idol that can be turned on and off at will. Same class, maybe some special attack features, but you don’t have to start over and it will please the people who are bored.

This could work across the board for alot of things. Now we have plenty of illusions, i am still working through all my elemental potions from dragon bash, but we can’t fight in those forms, and while the watcher forms are cool and can fight, they are limited in time (i think i heard 5min with 30CD)…. so permanent style idols.

They could introduce all kinds of various idols that could transform your PC, and even make them account bound so you could start a new char over and play it up… albeit as that race.

A new race could be fairly quickly added, but i think that we would rather have more southsun difficulty content with a better solid story line, at this point, than something as arbitrary as a new playable race compete with a new city and new newbie zones…

As we move ever forward into year 2 of GW, the living story rolls ever onward. Whatever direction you are taking it, we as players need a place where the Lore of the living story exists for returning and confused, or even nostalgic players.

Some out of the way place in Lion’s Arch that details what happened: a councilman’s death, an investigation, aetherblades!, skyfolk, elections! As we move away from these events they will be harder and harder to explain to folks, and some players just won’t be able to make all the living stories, but will want to know what happened, from within the game.

I missed flame and frost, and have no idea what happened in that living story. I would love to be able to go somewhere, in game, and read about what happened. Who was affected and how did it end?

Not to mention the art that was included in the little noir short for the LA investigation event during dragon Bash. Or the dragon art. Tidbits…. they would not go amiss, and offer a permanence to the living story that we could use to visit and reflect.

I loved seeing the Queen become a mesmer’s joke in Faren’s arms. I think it would be sweet to be able to revisit that, or even show a new player sometime later when the pale tree sends sylvari to hunt that terrorist down what happened through a device in game.

It would be a kind of tatoo, a reflection of the living story that would last.

First off, i love the mesmer’s aggressive and active playstyle. For me, the GS (secondary staff) fits perfectly. The GS is a fun weapon to kite with, since it has a snare and a knockback built in, and the autoattack nuke is good from distance.

I like the greatsword for its combo field synergy with chaos armor. Its aoe is very nice for when something gets up close and personal. I have also used sword/pistol which i enjoyed.

I personally never found the GS lacking at all, but i am a shatter happy player, and its 2 really pumps out clones. I find all 5 of the GS attacks very synergistic and fun.

number 3 has its flaws (makes you stop, groundtargetted), but also has its benefits (AoE, strips boon)… you get used to pretty quick.