whan an entitled bunch, necro is useless in 95% of content but WvW and you have the courage to whine because you cannot press 1 button to obliterate siege weapons
let’s look at the history of necromancer in this game shall we
>starts off strong
>no utility, booted from dungeons
>gets big damage update, nerfed to oblivion due to pvp QQ
>conditions become viable in pve, nerfed again, can’t have necro doing damage now can we?
>power elite spec released, everyone tweakes it for conditions
>conditions nerfed again, power useless again
>support elite spec released, zero defence dies in 2 hits and barriers expire just as fast
all necromancers have left is a weird niche carved in WvW by force due to unique boon and condition juggle mechanics, the rest is pure trash that might have place in a tradional mmo but not in an action based one
you should just do like I did and move on, pretending necromancer doesn’t exist in gw2 other than a weird wvw bot
So for you xpac players out there – when was the last time you felt like your own character and not "commander’?
I speak of your charr calling some human meat meat!
Or asura ensuring his pact bookahs that despite their inferior intellect and bookah-level senses he is there to see this through!
Or sylvari overhearing subordinates forseeing fall of Tyria as it’s most powerful military force is being ordered around by a salad!
Ah wait! Nvm, a-net already killled “Commander”!
When i start xpac i hear i gotta do what i gotta do cause drumroll Kiel said so!
So remind me here, am i a commander of Tyria’s greatest military force or Kiel’s errand boy?
On second thought, don’t answer that. It’s too depressing to know…
Jokes aside there are hundreds of scary spiders in the game already, chances are if someone could die from it they are long dead, plus there are no reports of dead World of Warcraft players due to spider mounts
To me it sounds like an excuse because they couldn’t animate it well.
You done ….. it up.
I like 30$ pricetag (albeit being european i’ll have to shell out 30 euros, ouch). But that’s cool. Not overpriced like HoT was at launch.
What’s not cool is going back on your policy “New xpac makes previous ones free”.
Now don’t get me wrong – just the fact you’re reading this means i’m not a free player. I personally purchased both core and HoT.
But the place you goofed bigtime is in gliding.
Many players love gliding. Many love mounts (not me though).
But guess what? If you kept your old promise you could’ve made maps with gliding and mounts in’em. HoT crowd would be happy, mount lovers would be happy.
But now cause of “Player can have PoF without HoT” policy you couldn’t do that and made your desert that much more..arid (pun intended).
Now you’re gonna end up with one crowd happy (yay! mounts!), but another displeased (where are my glider sections?!).
Inconsistency can bite you in the ass for sure..
they never promised anything, they just said older expansions would be included in the purchase and that’s what they did, you can purchase both
you paid 50$ for Guild Wars 2
new players paid 50$ for Heart of Thorns and Guild Wars 2
you can pay 50$ for Heart of Thorns, Path of Fire and base Guild Wars 2
if you complain about this you are nothing but an entitled kid
Hey Everyone, feel free to share your suggestions on Mounts, I got few so far.
1# It should be possible to dismount without mount disappearing. Have it follow player until player “stows” it. Possibly give it a “Stay” order.
2# Having some emotes designed and/ or allowed while being mounted. Being able to /wave while in saddle for example. Plus Mount emotes, that would work only while mounted. /sit, /roar, etc.
3# Noticed that current Raptor can be dyed only with one Dye. Having more options would be nice.
Thats all I had in mind.
What do others think, I wonder?
1. No, player clutter for no reason other than annoying people at vendors
2.Waste of resources, the mounts are already beautifully animated and they are not a vanity item but a tool to exploit, it’s like asking for ranger pet emotes, it brings nothing new to the gameplay.
3.ABSOLUTELY NOT, we already have glowstick kittenfests and people that dress up and color their characters like absolute clowns with wings that glide with magitech absurdity that ruin the arstyle of the game, those people do not need more encouragement.
I would of expected to get the Dervish class in the new expansion since it returns to the desert lands of GW1 and would be an ideal time to reveal the Dervish Class. I is Sad man.
Revenant is literally an evolved dervish, instead of channeling human gods it channels everyone.
At level 1, you have no idea where to go. An experienced player knows to complete hearts and events, but which hearts and which events? If you don’t know the map, finding hearts is harder than it should be.
I hate the open “just explore” the map because it lacks structure. I want to be told where to go. Without such a guide, I feel like every move I make is a mistake. I doubt my every choice by thinking “should I be moving in this direction? Is there a better choice?”. New players I introduce to Guild Wars 2 feel the same way, and prefer a “Just follow the experienced player” approach to the game.
This continues to in level 80 play. I’ve been playing the game for years yet I have no ascended equipment. I have thousands of crafting materials overflowing my materialstorage and bank slots and inventory. But the game offers no direction for me to take. I need to watch a youtube video or google “how to make ascended equipment” outside of the game.
Every move I have ever taken in Guild Wars 2 has felt like a wrong move. From level 1 I feel that I am playing inefficiently, that my time is being wasted by choosing suboptimal paths. I feel like I’m missing crucial knowledge that only veterans possess. My years of playing Guild Wars 2 have taught me that my feeling was correct – I have been missing knowledge. I have been taking suboptimal paths. I have been playing inefficiently.
-Crafting the time-gated ascended components is very worthwhile. However, they are not listed on the “daily achievements”.
-Some PvP and WvW tracks are more valuable than others.
-You should be opening champion bags on level 40-50 characters for higher value.
It is not right to hide this information behind community-made youtube videos or behind google or behind the wiki. Too many new players will miss out.
I want a quest that teaches you to craft an ascended equipment. For example, you open up your hero panel and a tooltip pops up: “You don’t have an ascended Weapon yet. Ascended weapons are more powerful than exotic, but are difficult to acquire! Would you like the start the quest?”. And perhaps this quest can be easy, for example, getting an ascended amulet is as easy as going to the laurel merchant (vital information I didn’t know until recently, despite playing the game for years).
I think you should go play other games because you are asking way too much hand holding.
gameplay elements (new maps) are locked behind this second paywall
I agree, the real problem is that they should bundle living world with the expansion purchase. Guild Wars 1 employed an elegant solution in which every expansion was a stand-alone game and when you bought each one you had EVERYTHING that came with it without any strings attached.
The ones bothering me are #12 and #14 of the female hairstyles should be unisex across everyone. I especially love the goth possibilities with #14 considering it’s additional color streak through it.
But these styles are also most likely HUMAN locked too because “they’re from the human Elonan NPCs”…but should they be so locked? Hairstyles are universal and I’d love to see these on Norn, Charr (who doesn’t want to braid a kitty’s hair?), and Asura. Sylvari are left out because their hair is a salad. Though my point remains that these hair styles should be spread around, especially considering that ALL of Tyria is one intermingled family trying to stop Elder Dragons and rogue gods. And from a business perspective, players would be more enticed to purchase the kits if these options carried to other races.
I’m fairly sure that sexism has nothing to do with this, simply put female and male models are not one and the same so it’s possible they would have to tweak the hair to work on both and that’s not feasible.
I used to see this response alot when requests came up for things like raids, tanks, healers, mounts etc. All of those things are in the game now despite the strong protest of these apparent WoW haters.
So I guess we can go back to asking for anything now, and just ignore the naysayers. What’s next? Capes? Built in open world voice channels?
Edit: Before you start your rant, allow me to clarify that I in no way think any of these changes make GW2 a WoW clone. I was simply stating that it was the response I always saw from people that were against these changes. I was simply interested in what other changes, that were previously deemed impossible/unlikely, people would like to see put in the game now.
I’m personally rooting for in-game voice coms.
we had capes since gw1 and they still have better physics than wow in gw1 lol
The sudden shift to the story direction that ArenaNet took isn’t really good at all. Guild Wars 2 was unique because it was focused on the Elder Dragons as main antagonists and each expansion was supposed to be based on one of them but for some reason they gave up on that with living world season 3 and changed it to other random things making it impossible to kill another dragon in next expansion which is a turndown. We waited for so long to find out which Elder Dragon we will fight next only for them to change their mind and give up on the unique story it had.
As a long time guild wars player I am happy that elder dragons are gone.
Had enough of them in skyrim, had enough of them in dragon’s dogma, honestly they are the most played-out antagonist since forever.
Besides they were crikets compared to GW1 antagonists:
>Lich, white mantle and the Mursaat
>Shiro Tagachi, the afflicted and the alliance
>Abaddon, Varesh and the Margonites
all these kittens were diverse and offered unique challenges, so far in GW2 all we had to do was press F to shoot a cannon and mind kitten a plant.
I learned not to rely on glint all the time, the boon bot playstyle makes me snore.
Glint is good for farm trains since you get easy gold medals for sharing boons and perma swiftness.
I run around with S/S ; M/A – Devastation, Corruption and Invocation with a hybrid build of condition and power and just rotate Shiro and Mallyx.
For swiftness I just abuse impossible odds, unyielding anguish and rely on the rapid flow trait.
There is something oddly compelling about a bunny hopping demon.
So disappointing. This was supposed to be – and sold to us as – the profession you’ll love if you prefer energy to cooldowns.
Uhhh no that’s the Thief.
Revenant was always sold as the throwback profession for GW1 players that preferred skills with energy AND cooldowns like GW1.
The irony of revenant lies in the fact that your utility skills are all bound and you cannot mix them around, you can’t even move them on your bar without also moving the other legend’s skills for some reason.
It’s funny because the profession made for GW1 players allows you the least choice of skill swapping which was exactly what made GW1 great to begin with. Epic Fail.
Correct me if I’m wrong but… the new spec has 0 access to swiftness, quickness or close gaps in the #6 – #10 skill bar? So, in trade for a ranged condition weapon (finally) we must move like a snail or use the Traveller runes and lose damage?
(EU)I’ve been a Guild Wars player since 2005 and always deeply loved the design of the Mursaat(had a mursaat minipet). I know the backpack and the outfit won’t be in the shop for long and unfortunately I cannot afford them because of obvious economic problems. I absolutely love the outfit and the backpiece but I don’t feel like asking for 1400 worth of gems so I would be content with the Mursaat Backpiece alone, thank you.
EDIT: A kind player gifted me not only the backpiece but the outfit as well, I will forever be grateful to you, generous anonymous!
Go away wishmaster. You got more than enough threads to choose from where you can complain.
You are the only one that cares about me, I have the right to vent wherever I want considering I’ve been a necromancer main for 10 years and I’m tired of seeing my profession getting quite literally kitten on even in the stream by rubi and that pathetic joke with the trailer with “le ebin funny voice XDD”.
“Combat in Guild Wars 2 is built around three facets: damage, control and support. Damage is simply decreasing the enemy’s health, control is preventing the enemy from doing what it wants, and support consists of working together with allies. Each profession is able to perform any of these roles.” – Arenanet, 2012.
What the hell is this? To unlock a minor trait I have to get a zone to 100% completion???!!! This is complete kitten! I shouldn’t be forced to do something that has always been optional just for people who wanted legendaries, It’s like Arenanet can’t stop making this game worse and worse with each update, what the flying kitten!
During the livestream the dev was transformed into a Jade Maw tentacle.
Whilst I find this cool, I’m fine with them not allowing players to fight whilst using them. How could you animate a tentacle’s use of skills properly, really?
With the same animations for attacks the tentacle already has???
>keep your +1 infusions and build up your AR without slotting it
>everybody will have to do higher fractals without agony resistance because it’s literally a waste to use the rare infusions that will drop
>lots of wipes and let me guess, Mei Trinn and the Molten boss will both have an agony attack like jade maw that can’t be avoided
Fractals are now impossible to do for newcomers and casual players who enjoyed them, good job Arenanet.
Technically you can do it when your character is level 2 (character level, not fractal level).
AR will help, but it is not needed.
You can learn the agony attacks and dodge/avoid them, all except two at maw.
Not really sure about this now, since they will add more boss (4th level) fractals I think that both Mei Trin and the molten boss will have unblockable unavoidable agony attacks..I’m shivering at the thought…especially since Mei and her cannon buddy were a pain even in the normal dungeon I seriously hope the rewards will be awesome for that kittener lol
At least 1 Guardian for the usefulness of his utility ( providing it’s someone that knows how to use the class ).
The rest can be all thieves for all I care, I’ve cleared Fractals with every class and there’s no best profession for them, only best AT certain parts.
Giving that I run with pugs 99% of the time, I only want polite players and….what else…oh no “one language” players, the absolute worst elitists kittens in the game.
Anet would it be possible to create a fractal that goes back into the past to kill scarlet before she was born and just wipe out all the scarlet living story?
Pretty Please?
Nope, because Fractals are just reproductions of events in time in which you can manipulate certain events in your given position to have an outcome that may or may not represent the actual facts that occurred within the Fractal.
The transition between scenes, the composition, the music that was used…just pure art!
Seriously, you guys hear us complaining all day on the forums about balance, nerfs, buffs, QQ and what-not, but when it comes to presentation….holy mitten kittens son!
The trailer literally made my heart pump with adrenaline even though I was exactly seeing parts of fractals that I saw for an entire year!
I applaud you guys for making me appreciate the Fractals again just like when they first appeared.
edit: sorry I didn’t notice there was a thread for this already XD
Same here, the only song I like is “Fear not this night” (surprised, eheuhehue, NO) but like you said, they implemented a way to insert custom song so no problems at all here.
To me, after playing Lineage 2, every soundtrack feels stale and boring in comparison, just my own opinion.
Give me back easy access to greater and unblockable marks without giving up on my anti-gibbing trait and you can do whatever you want with Dhuumfire.
I have an Idea, kittening Death Shroud….
That thing is literally made by DEATH, and since launch it looked like you are consumed by a black fire, make Dhuumfire BE that aura that you have during death shroud that makes people burn for 2 seconds everytime they hit you while you are in it with an internal cooldown if needed, maybe while you have the trait on, maybe move it on the defensive trait so DS won’t be as useless as it is now.
Full berserker warrior 30/25/0/0/15 here, no problems what-so ever soloing the “explorable” version, the only thing that could be dangerous would be the portals part, but Arenanet conveniently put mob spawns well away from them, so I could just destroy them with a long bow with ease and then make a run for it into the next room , piece of cake the hybrid boss, even though the occasional assassin spamming terror was a piece of kitten that had to be taken down occasionally.
No you will not be capable of anything like what he did in that video if you ask me. The trick that saved his tail the majority of the time, Elixir S. Both the use of the utility skill and the trait that procs it at 25% health. That skill has changed. You no longer have access to any skills once it is activated, so all of that healing he does while he is invulnerable will never be capable of occurring again, and he would have died in the first 12s of that video.
Why do they always nerf to uselessness fun stuff? Do they want it that badly for players to just be gone and leave the game or something? With the Dec patch they are also nerfing Vigor and speedy kits masking it with some lies about “Not having to switch kits continuously” tsk..
“By increasing the swiftness duration on Speedy Kits, we hope to allow Swiftness to be maintained more reasonably without having to constantly be swapping between Kits.”
So many lies, what happens if my swiftness gets stolen after I proc it? Just admit it that you did it JUST to remove perma vigor, not ALSO…
