Guild Wars 2

I’m curious about what has happened at Anet? Has the funding been cut off? Is the money being diverted? was most of the staff laid off?

I just can’t understand the current direction of the game. In the first year we saw a new map, a half dozen PvP maps, big WvW changes, introduction of fractals, a new gear tier, guild missions, dungeon revamps, a new dungeon,updates to 6 of the 8 crafting profession, multiple festivals, and a LS.

However since the start of 2014 it seems like nothing is being developed anymore and things are being removed instead.

In 2014 we have removed PvP rewards, removed servers, removed traits, told that most festivals aren’t coming back (SAB, Dragon Bash), told that dungeons are too hard to make and are being abandoned, no new systems, no new PvP maps, 6 months to add a single WvW trait line, no new armor, abandoning the last 2 crafting professions, no new legendary weapons, no expansion announcement.

What’s up? Has the game been officially abandoned by NCSoft?

Dear Anet,

Please get your head out of the clouds. This game is not an Esport and will never become one. The vast majority of people play this game for the PvE aspect of the game.

Over 3 million PvE players have been begging you for new ingame armor sets for almost 2 full years. We have gotten none.

Now you are implementing a PvP armor set that can only be obtained by winning tournaments in tPvP mode? There are currently <1000 players who actively participate in tPvP.

3,000,000 > 1000. Please re-evaluate your priorities.

Thank you.

People who enjoy SB daily: 10,000+

People who enjoy Teq daily: 1000, maybe on weekends.

The last thing this game needs is to lose more content.

Ignavia.7420:

First, this is not going to be the big feature patch, as has been stated multiple times by devs already. Glory is going to be removed and the first living story arc is concluded.

Wow I wonder if this is the first MMO in history that will actually have LESS content after a major patch instead of more…

It appears that the new bosses are completely immune to condition dmg and instantly reflects it back to you.

I spent about 500g, and a month of my time fitting my necro out to be a condition user. I have to literally stand at the boss OOC for 10+ minutes and do nothing. My options seem to be respec or be worthless.

If you want to make things that are strong against conditions then just make them immune, the reflect is crippling to me, every weapon I own and even my auto-attack applies conditions, my only option is standing there OOC for most of the fight.

The jetpack was always just based on luck. I ran that stupid dungeon 78 times during F&F to get it and it never dropped.

All the jetpack signifies is Anets stupid policy regarding temporary content and RNG.

The Tailor version of gift of blades uses 15 bolts of damask… while the leatherworker version uses 15 elonian leather squares….

I mean seriously? How did that make it past QA? One of those things costs a total of 15g while the other costs 300g….

This has been bugging me for a while now… every time we deliver a crushing defeat to scarlet it seems to grant her MORE resources.

Destroy all of her molten weapon facilities… UNLIMITED molten weapons for EVERYONE!!!

Destroy her aetherblade base, and cripple their leadership… Obtains a fleet of OVER 9000 AIRSHIPS!!!!

Destroy the krait prophet and shard thing and nightmare tower giving the krait no reason to follow her and depriving her of her poison source…. even MOAR krait fight for her, and UNLIMITED access to SUPER toxin that magically evolved.

Blow up a marionette that used more steel than all 5 major races could mine in their lifetime… ATTACK PLANS COMPLETE.

Where does she get this stuff? It isn’t even in the realm of possibility, and it makes our heros effort completely meaningless. Nothing we have done mattered at all up to this point.

Remember this:

“We keep hearing other MMO developers espousing the “holy trinity” of DPS/ heal/tank with such reverence, as if this is the most entertaining combat they have ever played. Frankly, we don’t like sitting around spamming “looking for healer” to global chat. That feels an awful lot like preparing to have fun instead of having fun. "

“That feels an awful lot like preparing to have fun instead of having fun.”

Yep, now instead we have replaced it with the ultra fun stand around for 2 hours waiting for an event to start you can zerg it with 200 people who won’t listen to direction and then fail!

Source: http://gw2101.gtm.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/healing-death/

Suggestion forum was where threads went to die. I don’t think the devs even knew about it. It will be much better for the suggestions to be posted in their own categories so the correct dev will actually see it.

People always complained about how WoW had this horrible endless gear grind that was the source of all evil in the world. However as far as I can tell GW2 has a much longer, less rewarding and more frequent gear grind then WoW ever had.

In WoW you got a new set of gear every ~6 months. It all launched at once and it came with the introduction of 1-2 new raids each containing 8-12 bosses. It took 2-3 weeks to figure out the strategies and then another 2-3 weeks to get them down pat. By that time you had about 1/3 of your new gear. Then it took another 3-4 weeks of farming the raids to complete your gear set. All told it took ~8 weeks to get the new gear but you also got dozens if not hundreds of hours of new gameplay, new story lines, and new mechanics from the raids.

Switch over to GW2… here we have released new gear every 3 months, it came with NO new content at all. Was put on a gear grind that takes 2-3 weeks PER PIECE and does not even really require playing the game, just the market, and worst of all it doesn’t even make you hardly any more powerful in PvE since the game is so poorly balanced.

So why is it that WoW’s model was the root of all evil yet GW2 is claimed to not have a gear grind? As far as I can tell GW2 is 10x more of a gear grind then WoW was and it doesn’t even come with new content to make it exciting.

The sad thing about this extractor is that it is filling a need that shouldn’t have ever existed. The ONLY reason we need an extractor at all is because Anet wanted another gem store item. In any sane game design you would just add a +6 infusion to an already present +6 infusion and it would become a +7 infusion. They invented this horribly convoluted crafting/extracting/doubling procedure for the sole purpose of a new gem store item.

This is one of the best examples of how the gem store is hurting the game. In a sub game you would just add the infusions together and they would upgrade, now if you want to improve your gear you literally have to spend $3 every time you want an upgrade…

The entire premise of this item is to force bad game design in order to sell more gem store items.

Yeah the amount of silly content that has made its way into this game is really sad. I fully expect to get to the top of the tower and meet scarlet in her clown costume doing something absurd though, so I’m not getting my hopes up.

NO Time for questions we have to get the next patch out in 2 weeks!!! GO GO GO!!!

Well it does save you 0.52c per use. If you salvage 50 items a day on average with a basic kit then it will only take you 18 years to recover the price of the gems.

Anet is slowly killing off alts and I don’t understand why… Alts are one of the main driving forces to keep players around, yet every decision kills them a little more.

1. It started with fractals… oh fractals are character bound so you can progress on each characters… (i.e. screw you alts, you have to run 50 fractal runs just to get back to the skill level you are at)

2. Next was laurels… Oh sorry this reward is account bound so your alts will take forever to gear up…

3. Then came daily bonus chests… what you only made alts to get bonus rares? L2GW2!!!

4. Next came WvW ranks… oh you want to play an alt in WvW, sucks to be you, all your bonuses are gone now (i.e. “progression”)

5. After that came time gated crystals… oh you can only get one of these magical crystals a day, good luck ever building gear with these crystals on your alts… that will take 100 years…

6. Here we arrive today with dungeon rewards being switched to account bound for gold AND tokens.

7. Update: Ascended weapons. 2 weeks per weapon. 5 weapons per character minimum. Assuming you have 4 alts… that’s a minimum of 40 weeks of grinding just to get weapons for all your characters… I thought the other restrictions were bad… prepared to be crushed by this new level of alt hate

Every time one of these things happened the blind Anet defenders came and swarmed shouting their typical chant… "what you only play alts for X, Learn 2 GW2 and play the “right” way!"

Well guess what… there is no longer a single area of the PvE game left that alts aren’t penalized for, guess it’s time for a new excuse.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You can see how many people are waiting on the NPC who you’ll need to talk to in order to get into the arena. Most fights will not actually take two minutes. The arena will admit the next person whenever someone wins or loses as well. Also there’s a lot of other stuff going on in the map. You guys should check it out before you jump to too many conclusions.

Having to wait any time at all is the problem. There was no reason additional people past the first 6 couldn’t be put into instances and allowed to participate.

Based on the difficulty and the number of achievements, it seems we will need dozens of matches to complete all the achievements. Even at a 5 minute wait this means hours and hours of queue times overall that are unnecessary.

Again if this event was permanent then it wouldn’t be a problem, but we are forced to do it all in 4 weeks if we want to do it at all, so time is an issue.

Please use this thread to show your support for Evon Gnashblade.

Being a kitten he will be a great leader for us, just think of how many times people here on the forums yell for kittens!

Not to mention who doesn’t want to be part of the fall of abbadon, what is better than helping a god duke it out with another god?

Kiel has been off relaxing on the beach, having no personality and her best perk only lasts for 4 weeks then we are stuck with her forever with no more bonus.

Vote for Gnashblade, it’s the right thing to do!

Achievement:
noun
1. A thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill.
2. The process or fact of achieving something.

I’d buy up all the pre-cursors and ACTUALLY control the precursor market so that all those whiners on the trading forum would understand what real manipulation was like as they suffered under my iron fist.

Anet will continue to buff warriors until they are the only class in the game. at that point they can declare that they have achieved perfect class balance.