Guild Wars 2

- I want a complete core Tyria overhaul, but, it can’t hinder development on new content in the slightest.
- Also, more and better new content that comes out more often along side the core Tyria overhaul.

Why would anyone want matchmaking to choose their team comp?

I’m gonna sum up that farm in one sentence. “Challenging” and “Farm” do not go together.

Since I didn’t see another thread quite like this I figured I’d make one. How combat functions and how skills, traits, and sigils/runes interact with those mechanics can be rather odd at times and cause certain issues that should be addressed in the future to help iron out the combat experience and even make certain thing viable to use. I’ll describe a couple as examples.

• When in an enemies face that you’re targeting to the point that the end of the player character’s weapon (rifles are especially good at causing this) sticks into the enemy’s character model the projectile fires back at the enemy. This happens when the player model is facing the targeted enemy, but the end of the weapon is in the enemy’s character model causing the bullet to fire backwards towards the enemy to register the hit(usually up and back diagonally from my experience). This effects piercing damage bullet paths such as Warrior’s Volley making it impossible to use in close range. Longer rifle models are worse off because of this.

• Enemies that don’t give experience don’t trigger traits and sigils that proc on a kill. This limits how often you get a charge from sigils that stack charges for various effects (usually stacking stat increases) on kills and traits such as Necromancer’s, Reaper Traitline, Grandmaster, Reaper’s Onslaught (Which reduces the cooldown of shroud abilities on a kill). The number of enemies that don’t trigger is a surprising amount, most event spawned enemies at in higher level zones don’t cause a trigger.

What I want to do is create a list of these type of oddities so the devs can have an easy to access resource. What I need you to do is describe an oddity that annoys you so I can add it to this list. Thank you.

Support Necro would be better if Reaper’s Onslaught triggered the cooldown reduction better in PvE. As it stands it only triggers on normal enemies and certain few ones in events (specifically the enemies that give you exp). Makes Transfusion and even Path of Corruption worse than they should be in PvE.

Sigmoid.7082:

ZombieLeach.5862:

Skills and Traits this effects:
Base Shroud Skills 2-5

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Yeah. My bad. I’ll edit.

The issue with Reaper’s Onslaught is that the cooldown reduction doesn’t proc on every kill only the normal spawned enemies that give exp and those few during events that do as well. This is a problem for any Reaper who wants to use it because during events where it would be most helpful over half the enemies you tag don’t count for the trait. Not only does this make the trait nearly useless, but also effects half a dozen other traits and skills.

Skills and Traits this effects:
Reaper Shroud Skills 2-5
Transfusion (Blood Magic Trait Line)
Path of Corruption (Curses Trait Line)

To change this they could just have event spawned enemies give zero exp, but not show it on screen. That way any other skill that triggers on enemy death also gets the proc. I’m no programmer, but I don’t see how that would be too big a change.

To close this I have a couple questions. Why is this trait tied to experience in the first place? Why wasn’t it designed with event spawned enemies in mind? Would this be a difficult thing to change? Is this even worth changing? Did I miss something this effects?

I would play wvw more if there was more emphassas on seige warfare and large scale battles instead of stealing keeps behind server’s backs and bouncing off zergs like a map wide game of pinball.

You guys do know that Anet doesn’t owe you the ability to climb the rankings don’t you? That it’s supposed to be hard, even impossible for most people? Instead of whining about duo quers why don’t you find a friend to que with? Or be happy you’re even in the top 250. Those who like to que with more than 1 friend have already been banned from Ranked. What more do you want? Another pip system? No thank you.

A video of some sort that points out the major factors in decision makering, such as looking at who’s dead to see whether it’s ok to decap far or not, or looking at the mini map to see where people are and where you need to rotate to, would help a lot.

spartan.9421:

Instead of waiting for anet to bring in a tutorial for spvp why not offer to teach people how to properly pvp? Maybe even make a guild out of it

Because no one really cares about guilds in pvp, tbh. Not noobs anyway.

Sure, players like that are annoying, but the damage to the already small pvp community a system like what you’re suggesting would be a slap to the face of everyone playing the game type. They aren’t that common anyway, wanting to ban new players from the game type until they play 400-ish games would ruin any chance of the community growing. Just take a breath and realize that there are players like that on the other team as well. Farm them if it makes you feel better, but don’t damage the community because you’re annoyed.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

P.s. The frying pan is my favorite because of the healing.

I like smaller points. Sure it favors aoe’s but that just means they can be brought in line with other skills opening up more builds. This also means other forms of cleave have a stronger effect on the points as well.

Dravyn.4671:

ZombieLeach.5862:

Dravyn.4671:

I used to have a jumping spider in my office that liked to get on my monitor and chase the mouse cursor around.

Imma have nightmares now. Thanks… :c

Nah, jumping spiders are not aggressive…they’re very curious and “friendly” in a sense.

They’re also good to have around because they kill all the bad spiders.

For a boarderline arachnophobe? No, friendly they are not. They can be in my monitor, not on it, thank you.

I still say that Anet should just make the cap an achievement and put a title with it. Something like, “Daily Master” or “Dedicated Logger.”

Karma Boosters are still a level 38 level up reward. So, you could farm them I guess.

Dravyn.4671:

I used to have a jumping spider in my office that liked to get on my monitor and chase the mouse cursor around.

Imma have nightmares now. Thanks… :c

I have to say that I read it as “Flesh Armor Ideas”at first. I imagined an Asura in a meat coat… It was weird.

I don’t believe daily ap should be removed, restructured, or the cap removed. Anet should just turn the Daily ap cap into an achievement and award ap for dailies that way. 1 daily completion a tier with 1600 tiers and 10 ap a tier sounds good to me. (The cap is 16,000, right?)

Edit: It’s 15,000, my bad. So, 1500 tiers.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ZombieLeach.5862:

Although I agree that an underwater expansion is a ways off I believe that the combat should be fixed before then so the bugs can be worked out. I will not be happy if Anet markets a fix for underwater combat as a feature of an expansion. I want content, not fixes for content that should already be working. My hope is to start the discussion so they know what we want and don’t want that way we can avoid what happened with WvW and HOT.

My point is: they aren’t going to do anything at all with underwater combat anytime soon, because there’s too much to do first.

Consequently, I think there’s little point is starting the discussion until the existing content is stabilized and they get better at delivering a consistent amount of quality content on a regular basis. If they can’t do that, there won’t be an underwater expansion, because there won’t be any expansions.

And when they do decide it’s time to get wet, of course they’ll fix the existing issues (and I would hope, ask for feedback about it). Fresh underwater zones might be gated by an expac, but the generic updates and fixes won’t be. (Just the same as the four new legendaries are gated by HoT, but the fixes to the events that drop collection items are fixed for everyone.)

I understand your point. I understand that Anet have a lot on their plates, future Living World seasons, the next expac which they’re currently working on, the WvW fixes, PvP balance and the mess of that entire game type, Adding new items to the BLTP to generate revenue, and the QoL changes they’ve been adding to name a few. My point is that an Underwater Combat fix will never come if we don’t start the discussion. If there’s no desire for a fix in the community there’s no incentive for Anet to fix it. And they have been known to push needed fixes back until they are forced to impliment them. Think PvP leagues and the WvW fixes that should have been done shortly after or at the game’s launch.

And don’t be so sure they’ll fix things in between an expac, which is what I want, because the WvW fixes were marketed as a HOT expac thing. The only reason it wasn’t was because the scope pushed it back.

That’s all off topic. The point of this thread is so those who desire to can post what they want from underwater combat and possible ways to fix them in the hopes a fix comes sooner than later. What’s on their table is subject to change after all. And in that vein of thinking…

- A completely free moving camera, no artificial stops in the vertical position. It’s also an issue when trying to target things at your feet in action camera, this would solve that issue as well

- All skills being made available underwater. All of them.

- a jumping puzzle style underwater explorable cave which uses new mechanics to drive the difficulty, perhaps a drowning mechanic or the mechanic they use in the underwater paths beneath Tangled Depths.

- An underwater world boss or possibly a second Tequatl fight where you chase him underwater and finish him off.

Lemuria.3195:

No getting rid of my trident. I like my trident.

In my idea Staff would double as the trident which includes the skins being made available for staff as well. And Riffle would double as the harpoongun, so, not really getting rid of either just combining.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

A while back, ANet said that they weren’t happy with underwater combat, but that they didn’t have immediate plans to revamp it. There were bigger (and tastier) fish to fry. Around that time, they removed a lot of underwater areas from maps (including wvw) and since that time, they haven’t done anything to update aquatic fights. On the contrary, it’s been neglected (with the exception of the nearly useless recipes for ascended breathers) — the worst example is that revenant only has a single underwater weapon and the most common e.g. is that ANet stopped releasing new skins for aquatic weapons (new BL sets include on 16 instead of 19 skins).

I can’t see that anything has changed to make ANet choose differently: there are still bigger (and tastier) fish to fry. If NCSOFT’s investors heard correctly that ANet is going to try to release more expansions more often, then I wouldn’t expect to see a change to aquatic before expansion #3 or #4, if that ‘soon’.

tl;dr underwater combat isn’t likely to change anytime soon, despite its issues or how cool it could be

(full disclosure: I like underwater combat)

Although I agree that an underwater expansion is a ways off I believe that the combat should be fixed before then so the bugs can be worked out. I will not be happy if Anet markets a fix for underwater combat as a feature of an expansion. I want content, not fixes for content that should already be working. My hope is to start the discussion so they know what we want and don’t want that way we can avoid what happened with WvW and HOT.

Better Underwater Combat.

My suggestions are in this thread.

Ok, so, I really want to like underwater combat, and when the came launched almost 4 years ago now, I spend much of my time underwater (Almost as much time as I did on land). The prospect of fighting Bubbles (The Elder Dragon of the Sea who is yet to be named) in the Unending Ocean is something I’m looking forward to, but don’t see happening if Anet and the community continue to ignore it. There are some problems with it I think everyone knows and believe there are some fixes that could open up a whole new realm of possibilities for the game. Below are my notes on underwater combat, what the problems are, and how they can be fixed. My hope is to spur a discussion on what people’s issues with Underwater Combat is and how those problems can be addressed. I hope my notes aren’t too difficult to follow.

:D Yes! I do want so badly!

Aktium.9506:

Being angry in PvP is part of the fun though.

Besides, this season there were no titles or achievements when I reached legendary and it was still worth it, even if it was quite the struggle compared to reaching legend in previous seasons.

Although I understand where you’re coming from and would agree that there is some level of playful banter on the part of competitive players that can be expected, there is a big difference when it comes to death threats, name calling to hurt, blocking because a player is “bad,” blaming a single person for a team’s loss, or even taking your anger to the forums to complain because you’re angry. When playful banter and calm discussion turns into name calling and shout matches the anger has gone too far.

Jogging, like escort events do. I want to be able to jog with them not run a few feet then stop.

- I want the hairstyle ‘accessory’ color palet to be the same as the ‘hair’ color palet not the basic dies palet.

- I’d like to be able to switch characters without needing to go back to the character select screen.

- A wallet or keyring for the crowbars, Chak acid, ect. Would be lovely as other’s have metioned.

- Ingame voice chat. That’s all I need to say.

- More rp locations added to the lfg rp section.

- To be able to, in crafting, click on the finished product and have it craft it if the nessicary base components are available. In other words, it will make all the smaller components all the way up to the the end goal. It would save so much time and hassle.

That’s all I can think of at the moment.

I didn’t see a suggestion this topic anywhere, if there is I apologize. I also understand that there is very little time to spare for this part of the game considering the current projects on Anet’s table, I really get it, but there’s nothing wrong with accumulating ideas, right? So here are a few suggestions that hopefully won’t take too long.

1. Update the “bosses” in each story step (Giant King Korag and Legionnaire Urvan Steelbane to name a couple) with more health to make the fight last longer and a more impressive appearance (larger for some, shiny bits for others). This should limit the let down from being built up to them and being completely underwhelmed by the fight.

2. With the ability of npc’s to check for achievements like the Squat Leader Bennett in Bloodstone Fen checking for raid completion to adjust his dialogue I don’t think it would be too hard to use that to smooth out some of the PS dialogue like Trahearne introducing people you’ve already met in previous story steps. I wouldn’t mind seeing some achievements added specifically for this.

3. Take out certain story decisions to pad out some sections of the story. Such as the Charr “Building your warband” sections, it seems so short. I’m sure there’s others, but I mostly know the Charr story. :/

Please add you suggestions.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Other than those we personally see? We only know this amount for Mordremoth.

Population has always been a big “never talk about” thing when it comes to Anet and GW2. We don’t know how many asura, norn, charr, humans, or sylvari there are. We don’t know the size of the Orders, or military forces. Nor the size of the Pact.

Nor casualty numbers in wars.

I think t’s funny that there are more skritt on that list than Charr. Either no one cares enough about the Charr to put there names on the list or they are simply kittenes who don’t die. I fully intend to believe the later. I doubt it is an indication of population.

I think the biggest problem with GW2 pvp isn’t the matchmaking, but the skill level needed to be a good player. Most would think that as long as you can win fights you’re good, but in pvp that’s not the case. It’s all about rotations and that isn’t very intuitive. In wvw you have commanders to direct people, in pve it’s not really needed, and in raids there s pre-planning. Pvp has none of those elements. You have to trust that you teammates know where they need to be and when or the whole team suffers. I don’t believe complaining about matchmakng is going to help anything.

Cynz.9437:

You mean like this? Spawn camping at its finest~

No… No that’s not what I mean.

I’m typing this on my phone during my 15 minute break at work so this will be brief, but I want to know what people’s opinion is on this observation. I’ve observed that the end game score seems to be more volitile than most give it credit for (in other words, a big lead in score doesn’t mean a complete blowout). I’ve played games were the score is 100-500, but the winnng team barely holds their points for most of the game or where the winning team gets wrecked in fights but rotates better winning more score. To keep this short (I’m nearly out of time) I’ve heard people complain that a score of 100-500 means that there is something intrinsically wrong with matchmaking, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. There are so many factors that impact end game score that it isn’t really a measure of how the match has gone. Think of all the casters that have stated that the score doesn’t reflect how close a match is. What is your opinion? Have you had really close games that the score showed a blowout?

Reminds me of Necromancer Rissa from the Personal Story. Very cool!

Sviel.7493:

Thank you! I can wait until I get to my comp before reading the paragraph.

TorquedSoul.8097:

ZombieLeach.5862:

I can’t read it because the page is sliding off the left side of my phone screne and won’t load that side. I’m missing 2-3 words per line. :/

Turn your phone sideways.

Tried that as well as zooming out. The left couple inches or so of the page isn’t there at all. It’s like the page loads seceral inches off center.

I can’t read it because the page is sliding off the left side of my phone screne and won’t load that side. I’m missing 2-3 words per line. :/

bLind.6278:

What you’re saying is that balance in a “competitive” game with a competitive league doesn’t matter to you?

I see you’re the person that rerolls to the fotm class every patch. Good for you.

So what you’re saying is that you only care about competative PvP and none of the other game types? You know that this is a casual game right, not competetive? I’d think Anet not adding a proper leage for over 3 years would tell you that. And to be clear, no I don’t reroll every balance update. I main Warrior with Engi as my secondary.

To clarify what I said, I think the expectation of 3-5 builds per class, per game type is a bit extreme. 1-2 is what I expect. And to add, I can understand the salt at the lack of weak weapon, skill, & trait tweaks. It’s a legit irritation.

I am of the impression that these forums will never be happy. That’s alright. I like reading salt. On the topic, I’ve not played it much yet, but there are some changes I really like. Balance has never been a big concern for me. I think people’s expectations for balance are too high. I voted yes.

I hated the sword AA before. I may actually use it now that it’s changed. I don’t much care what the animation looks like. :/

As a PvE ranger that used mainhand axe the majority of the time I disagree with you. Sure it sucks if the axe is your main damage output, but as a utility weapon set it has great functionality. Stacking might through the AA (before the buff to it’s might generation) I could get anywhere from 8-15 stacks of might from the AA alone depending on how many enemies there were and with my chosen secondary of warhorn could get 15-25 fairly comfortably (might I ad my setup gave me swiftness, fury, and regen as well). It left me enough might to deal good burst damage with the warhorn #4 and longbow #2 & #5 skills before switching back. Granted I used it more for power than condi, but the chill is decent and the axe 2 skill was good for tagging enemies as is the axe AA. I haven’t tried it, but the shortbow or sword mainhand with torch may be a good complimentary second set. The benefit hybrid weapons have over power or condi weapons is that you can destroy destructables while still dealing decent overall damage. I prefer hybrid weapons in PvE.

I say use the tool most appropriate for the job. Also, reddit seems to move faster than these forums in general, so it makes sense to me that the threads there would get looked at more (more people posting means more comments to comment on afterall). If you want theseforums to be the main post location I believe it should start with the GW2 community using them more first. The devs will follow.

As a native to TC I feel like my server has been hijacked. :c I don’t like it…

Rocket.1723:

@RodOfDeath, I agree that build diversity has gone down since launch. Not only because of the lack of choices one can make post-HoT, but also because of the rise of single points of reference like metabattle.com where many starters get their builds and never try anything else.

I wouldn’t want it to get any worse than is already is…so, “No” I think we should be free to experiment in WvW.

You do realize that the current gear system in WvW limits build deversity due to the grind for gear and that a gwskills.net style pannel for gear would keep build deversity while removing the barrier for entry and allow for more on the fly experimentation, right?

The cd reduction would be nice and change it so each banner pulses an appropriate boon for each banner instead of regen for all. Such as;

Banner of Strength pulses Might
Banner of Discipline pulses Fury
Banner of Defense pulses Protection
Banner of Tactcs pulses Regen
Battle Sandard pulses Vigor

Lehka.8791:

Night time picture
Set: Adventurer’s scarf
Rubicon Shoulderpads
Mist Walker Coat
Carapace Vambraces
Seeker Pants
Privateer Boots

Dyes: Abyss, Charred and Fern

Your thief looks like he’s straight out of Dark Souls.

Subterfuge Hood
Studded Shoulders
Viper’s Jerkin
Laystone Vambraces
Heritage Legguards
Wrangler Boots
Abyss for the main color and Fog for the trim with Imperial Gold for the charm on the hood. I was going for a customized Ash Legion look.

It’s missing something to be useful. My suggestion would be a 25% CD reduction for banners. That would make the elite banner’s CD 180s (the same as Rampage) and the Utility ones 90s which is the same as their duration meaning they would have a 100% uptime if you used them properly. I don’t think that’s too much of a problem considering regen and a few stat points aren’t that big a help in the grand scheme of things. What do you think? What would you like to see added to make it a viable trait?

Kalla Scorchrazor… Cause Charr masterrace.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Galen Grey.4709:

Mirta.5029:

Galen Grey.4709:

how about all the other things that were never promised yet they still came like gliding in central tyria, Shatterer revamp, squad revamps, those dont count for anything?

of course it doesn’t count for anything. If you’re buying a product you look at the list of features and those features better be in it, as you’re buying a product based on it.
If you looked to buy a third person RPG with an open world and 100 different skills to level, you won’t be happy when you find out that the product that you actually bought is an isometric view RPG with instance based world and only 88 skills. And it won’t matter to you if afterwards they said “but we added bunnies and we never advertised them”!

What Anet did here counts as fraud. And because of that I urge everyone to report them to trade associations.

you know what the irony is here… none of this were actually listed part of HoT
dont believe me, just check heartofthorns.guildwars2.com and try to find where 16 new legendary weapons is listed. its not. This was content that was promised along side HoT not part of HoT.

Not that I am suggesting its okey for Anet to back on their word, they should still honor it of course and its not like they said otherwise either but it certainly does mean its not fraud so lets just shelf the heavy words and focus on the issue at hand.

You can’t craft the new Legendaries unless you have the Mastery that came with HoT, so I would say it’s part of it. If it wasn’t part of it it you could still do it even if you didn’t own HoT.

Not necassarily. It wouldn’t be the first time a game company has gated side content behind expansion/DLC content. It’s a strategy to get players to pay for the extra content.