Guild Wars 2

All they really need to do is turn down the nature magic cloud a bit, I find it to be nice otherwise.

Imo the Jacaranda and Iboga are awesome pets as a guild wars fan.

Not to mention that I’ve always wanted more plant style pets as a Sylvari ranger.

I’m looking forward to Soulbeast and Weaver personally.

It would also be cool to get some gw1 style armour: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ranger_armor

I agree though, the Ranger style of armour is lacking and makes me glad I rolled a Sylvari because I can avoid the poor armour choices via the cultural sets.

Basically everything Aveneo said, since Ranger was the only profession I mained I got turned off from the game and went back to WoW mainly for awhile there due to JP.

Irenos been a lot better so far and I am looking forward to Soulbeast since it fits the thematic of core ranger well and the build potential with it looks fun.

Agreed, I love how the movement is with the mounts once you get to used to it.

“Earned by completing legendary bounties in the Crystal Desert.”

This part makes me believe its going to be a hard open world bosses thing rather then a raid. Considering the fact that the bounty system is supposed to be a big thing this expack.

I’m really looking forward to the expack right now since the betas been a lot of fun for me. It feels like the exploring is going to be cool since I’ve been finding a lot of stuff off the beaten path (There’s a giant chest guarded by elites on one of the pyramids and several other things on top of the mountains/cliffs), I can’t wait to wander around the rest of the maps.

I can finally not be sigil spammed by blues and greens when I salvage so i’m pretty pleased with that. Although I can see why others may be annoyed by the identification kits.
I’m not going to comment on the story or anything since I don’t expect it to be that complete considering its a demo. I’ll wait till we get to see the full intro for that.

I’ve been dyeing mine Turquoise, I really like the color and I’ll probably used Rosewood and Blacklight for my other main toons.

While riding on the raptor with a Sylvari female the character is not attached to the saddle like other races.

When the mount moves the character clips and bounces through the raptor. The reins glitch as well and position themselves behind the character when the mount is running.

I adore the mount but a fix for this would be lovely.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Levetty.1279:

Longbow + Sharpening Stone + Sharpened Edges + Refined Toxins + Vulture Stance + Sharpen Spines + Griever Stats

Condi Longbow Meta.

+ Runes of the Mad King
+ Entangle

I think it’s gonna be really fun.

^This stuff, I’m looking forward to trying out different builds in the 2nd beta.

It also looks like your going to be switching in and out and comboing with your pet a lot and that sounds really neat to me.
Not to mention I’m pretty tired of Druid now and since I like dps ranger a lot more I’m looking forward to PoF.

Soulbeast, I wasn’t too sold on it since it looked like a total removal of the pet but it looks to be a style where you are switching in and out and still comboing with the pet. Which is pretty neat to me.

I’m pretty tired of druid now and going back to my dps builds sounds perfect to me atm.

I like Weaver and Deadeye a lot too.

Here’s my new Ele Niesha Kharim who is going to be a Weaver in PoF, I based her on a lot of the entertainer themes in Vabbi.

Hmm, looks like I might have to get back into pvp now.

I like the effect personally. : /

It would be better to ask for an option to turn it off, like what they should have done with the Rev fist glow.

Like others have said I could see them being in a Cantha expack.

Only if upon hiding mounts you see the people riding them as bouncing through the air while making raptor noises.

Crapgame.6519:

Zalani.9827:

Looking at that video LongArm posted it seem we are going to be getting both the Iboga and Jacaranda as pets. Thats pretty neat since we haven’t had any plant pets yet.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fanged_Iboga
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Stormseed_Jacaranda

I’m not sure about the Soulbeast yet since i’m holding back judgement until I can play around with it. It looks interesting though.

Let us think about this for a minute. Pets already have a path problem, right? Now you want to add something that has roots, stationary by nature, has a pet???

I was hoping for pocket raptors…not a plant. Unless it is a 10’ tall Venus Fly Trap type thing that swallows zergs whole, I’ll pass.

I dunno if it can swallow zergs whole but at least it matches the 10’ tall Venus Fly Trap? :P
(They were bigger in gw1 I swear)

Looking at that video LongArm posted it seem we are going to be getting both the Iboga and Jacaranda as pets. Thats pretty neat since we haven’t had any plant pets yet.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fanged_Iboga
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Stormseed_Jacaranda

I’m not sure about the Soulbeast yet since i’m holding back judgement until I can play around with it. It looks interesting though.

I’ll remain from giving full judgement until we actually see it but I hope we don’t lose the pet completely.

It would require an entire rework of the profession and I highly doubt Anet is willing to devote the proper time just for an elite spec, not to mention the recent pet buffs.

I liked the map, I was kinda lost at first but I figured it out eventually. It’s really pretty though.

Very cool reveal with the big B, the humans gods are something that I have been hoping would return to GW2 since I find them interesting. I noticed some idle npc chatter and it makes sense that with his return it would throw the humans into a morality issue which can make some interesting story later if we have to deal with the rest of the six. I’ve had a lot of theories about whats been up with them but I never expected that we would actually fight one over killing an elder dragon.

Although I will admit that its odd to see Balthy not caring about killing the humans in this,but I suppose a lot changes in 250 years or so. I can also see it being that hes desperate to get his power back hence his line when you destroy the machine(Which makes me think we aren’t done with him yet). All in all, i’m looking forward to seeing what happens next episode after that reveal.

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Elemental_Sword

To be fair it did drop out of chests back in Gw1, not saying I agree with it being blc but still.

Would be cool if they added a hidden bone dragon mob into the world that dropped this staff.

Doesn’t have to be a thing but I do miss seeing these guys around in Gw2.

Yeah the Dreamer/Quip sounds are more of a personal preference thing. The idea sounds alright but it depends on how rare the current sound will be. You could also try making the sound client-side or as an option in the menu if thats possible. But the problem I see with the sound is that it can be spammed and overlapped,perhaps thats worth looking into instead of removing the neighing outright?

I also like Kudzu the most out of the bows personally since while it has the bird sounds they’re pretty tame while still sounding nice.

When you see them tall Charr/Norn in your Jp:

I dunno i’m still a fan of the three skritt in a trenchcoat greatsword idea.

Tyria knows we need less Twilights/Sunrises.

If it was kept to raids/staging areas.

Y’know what this would call for…

Jingle Moa ranger pets.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/5/50/White_Jingle_Moa.jpg
Please make it happen Anet, Tyria always needs festive moas.

The only serious/silly weapon I find difficulty with is Kudzu.
Depsite it being flowery its still serious, not to mention how great it looks with Sylvari. The crafting line seems to be you studying nature magic via plants and magical nature places to craft a weapon similar to Caladbolg.

Although I can’t wait to see what they come up with for silly greatsword.

Like I can understand why hes acting like this and what Anets trying to do. But its just…
deep inhale
Man do I want to slap that boy to Arah right now.

https://youtu.be/Sjhg1nguaEY
Can confirm on Palawa Joko having personality. Its very possible with the right amount of magic.

Isn’t it also speculated that hes the white mantle priory spy?

I wanted to go Consortium but I also wanted to keep the stone because that could have fun stuff happen.
I’m hoping that the Priory is the “wrong” choice personally since that could be a neat twist with how the consortiums shone.

You also get cheap krait oil despite going priory if you agreed to try a sample from the seller before the update.

Bring on the Cantha.

I thought about doing it since its neat…but it wouldn’t match any of my toons so it would not even be shown half the time.
Not to mention how exploitable legend was when it came out, I don’t find any of the high tiers to be prestigious anymore due to all that.

Personally i’d be more interested in it if they had some nice looking weapon and armour skins attached to it. Or perhaps some cool finishers instead of just some dye and gold.

Gryphon.2875:

Zalani.9827:

Coming from a gw1 vet here, Halloween and Wintersday have always been my favorite times of the year ingame. It was always cool seeing the city updates, Mad King Thorn, and the spooky theme in general. Especially when the Mad King game included lots of death.

I am also hoping it gets a story update! It would be awesome to see the Lunatic Courts storyline come back into play again. Since the whole thing with the seals has been on hold for awhile now.

Heck the two events are practically community tradition by now.

I’m also still waiting for Reapers Rumble to make a return Anet.

They are tradition And, by gods, do you remember the beauty that was GW1 LA and Droknar’s Forge?

Of course! I also liked some of the spots in kamadan too.

If any Gw2 players are curious heres a good vid of the fun in gw1:

https://youtu.be/593AOo6-v6s

Skittledness.5106:

Anet please disregard this post.
Only thing that may need tuning is staff auto attack <3

Can they fix the attack sound too while they are at it.

Razor.9872:

Zalani.9827:

The toxicitys always been here but its grown since HoT started. Meta/balance frustration and a whole variety of issues. The only time I didn’t see it much was in the first yearish part of the game.
Tbh I just block anyone who gets uppity and move on with my day. I ain’t here to cater to their salt.
Unless i’m getting paid to listen to them the complaint desk is closed no regrets.

Interesting. I actually witness the most toxicity during the first year of the game. Then, everyone was complaining about bull-rush/100-blade warriors and insta-kill backstab/heartseeker thieves.

I actually forgot about the insta-kill thief thing from back then lol.

The toxicitys always been here but its grown since HoT started. Meta/balance frustration and a whole variety of issues. The only time I didn’t see it much was in the first yearish part of the game.
Tbh I just block anyone who gets uppity and move on with my day. I ain’t here to cater to the salt.

Mr Godlike.6098:

R O C.6574:

Shadelang.3012:

Ubik.8315:

EvesDesire.2596:

I think there’s a simple solution to the druid problem.

Make pet stats scale with the player’s amulet. Simple as that. No more tanking and dpsing at the same time.

^ this

Except that would horribly inbalance the pets themselves unless we rework every single pet to have the exact same base stats AS WELL AS doing a full rework on almost every single pet attack in the game.

Otherwise you risk breaking the class in one way or the other far more than it has EVER been broken before.

If you want to start doing the match on everything feel free. I don’t expect anyone at anet to do it when they are already trying to rebalance pets with the CURRENT system (as evidenced by the last balance patch and probably the next one)

I hate to say it but blanket (all you have to do is this) statements just show that the people that make them dont actually understand how pets in this game work. Or that they didn’t bother fully thinking their suggestion through across the entire spiderweb of effects there decision will make.

Edit: Fixed some grammar issues. I am sure I missed some others.

Yes. Bristleback f2 getting buff from berserker amulet sounds fun. I’m already dreaming up my power druid. You think people hate pets now? Just wait!

OOOOO 10k+ on Bristleback! YEA I WANT THIS…this will balanced like sh**

Make the spikey ball of doom great again Anet.

Let’s not even get into Drake pets spin to win or smoke assault lmao.

• Remove Stealth. That’s a Mesmer and Thief skill
• Reduce outgoing healing by 25%

It got better.

Yep, it was def a thing with BWE 2 I believe. So the tech for it to be possible is in the system.
They also did the same thing with number 3 when they devided players up into 3 teams in a Hunger games type match in an “outfit” and certain skills to survive. Somewhat like southsun survival(which I’m pretty sure is what inspired that, minus teams)

Said “PvP” event: http://youtu.be/-YzTlDbYUhY

Coming from a gw1 vet here, Halloween and Wintersday have always been my favorite times of the year ingame. It was always cool seeing the city updates, Mad King Thorn, and the spooky theme in general. Especially when the Mad King game included lots of death.

I am also hoping it gets a story update! It would be awesome to see the Lunatic Courts storyline come back into play again. Since the whole thing with the seals has been on hold for awhile now.

Heck the two events are practically community tradition by now.

I’m also still waiting for Reapers Rumble to make a return Anet.

Same here as well, having been a Gw1 vet and being with the game since launch its been so cool seeing this series grow. I still can’t believe its been 4 years already with this game sometimes. Many thanks for all the hard work and I am looking forward to the next part of S3!

Fear Not This Nights still one of my favorite game songs too.

I’m so sorry that happened to you Gaile, I know I would be devastated if that happened to me.
I hope you get your stuff, especially the frogs back.

Lol I still have an adversion to doing the last fight because of how bugged it was at the start.
It’s much better now but it still has those flight bugs you were talking about, not to mention a slow fight. Although I never had any crashes.

Ayrilana.1396:

Zalani.9827:

Its not the end of the world but it is pretty bad design to not account for it in this type of game imo.

“I don’t like it” does not equate to “bad design”.

Its bad(or perhaps poor?) design to force people into a game mode they have no interest in when everything else can be completed in the open world. I can see it in games like WoW but It’s not needed in a more casual game like Gw2.

And I never said I don’t like, im actually pretty neutral since I don’t care about spirit shards. I’m merely making a comment on it with how I see it.

Although at the Op, unless something like that even happens I do suggest looking around for one of those beginner groups just to get the boss if your open to it. You can also try searching on the forums too possibly. Perhaps even grab some guildies and do a mastery run on vale guardian? I’m sure theres bound to be some other people that want finished masteries. G’luck getting it regardless.

Its not the end of the world but it is pretty bad design to not account for it in this type of game imo.

I can see what you mean,but I love being able to fly in it. It’s so cool climbing the tree and then jumping or going to the really high ledges.
It is my favorite hang out place after all.

Stajan.4581:

Your crazy it is to short way way way to short

I didn’t know that people weren’t allowed to have different opinions.

So I was looking at some Gw1 hairstyles and I think it would be cool to bring some back for Humans/Norn/etc. A lot of them were pretty neat, I liked the ranger/ele ones a lot myself.
I also included another Sylvari style too.