Guild Wars 2

Here’s an example of a Possible conversation if this is implemented:
Player a: check out my +3 sword <@=)
Player b: lololol noob, chek out mah swrd is OVER 9000

I agree with most of it, but I reckon that the gear should only be aesthetic. So I player x has said gear, you can tell which season he played in. Different looking gear for each season would get more people playing. Although I’m not to sure about shuffling server around and resetting rankings. People would start QQing when their server gets bumped from T1 to T4 just cos the ranking reset.

This should be stickied

Letifer.4360:

bman.1683:

They should let us ride Thief’s

Fixed for you.

Tryin to catch me ridin sneaky

They should let us ride our pets

Seras.5702:

update: my human necro was Babies On Spikes. However, after having that name throughout all of GW and for over 30 levels in GW2, I was forced to change it by the moderators.

Henceforth, she is known as Seras Soulreaper.

Babies on spikes was an elegant name.

My characters name is suspicious fred. Cos he’s suspicious.

I heard sylvari are rolled up and smoked by zhaitan and his minions, instead of turning them into undead.

Zaxares.5419:

asrts.9743:

Hello fellow humans,
I’m Neko Catpaw

… Are you sure you’re not a Charr spy in disguise?

He’s an asuran spy on stilts

Bonefield.9813:

It’s most likely botting, using a teleport hack. I’ve seen it before too, and not only in GW2—that was how gold farmers in WoW and FFXI gathered from nodes, too. At least in GW2 I don’t have to deal with starting to mine a node only to watch it disappear under my nose and be briefly replaced with a nonsense-named naked character who then flickers away.

I always loved random naked characters. They make me feel like getting naked too.

Ickorus.4518:

Maz.8604:

When a company refuses to maintain an open, honest and transparent dialogue, speculation and pessimism are the only tools left to defend yourself with.

How often has it been proven that silence, denial and/or meek justification in the face of such things has ever lead to a positive result in the court of public opinion.

Thing is, Anet do tend to post responses to player concerns, admittedly they don’t do a particularly brilliant job of making their responses visible since they’re often buried in a forum, on their twitter, in a blog or in some completely random place altogether but they do tend to respond somewhere.

Unfortunately that doesn’t stop people from calling them liars and a whole host of other nasty things even when the post is pretty clear, let’s take Chris Whiteside’s blog post about ascended gear for instance:

“I’d like to respond to concerns players have raised about ascended items. Please keep in mind that we’re releasing this as one portion of a massive November update that introduces and improves many aspects of challenge, progression, and rewards. With this and upcoming updates, we view ourselves as introducing large amounts of content with supporting systems and features, akin to an expansion pack, building on Guild Wars 2 through a series of live releases. So it’s important for us to be able to add an expansion pack’s worth of progression and rewards to support that content.

Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill. Our goal is to ensure we have a proper progression for players from exotic up to legendary without a massive jump in reward between the two. We will slowly add the remaining ascended gear items and legendary items in future updates to allow people time to acquire them as we add exciting new content that deserves exciting rewards. We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.

Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content. PvP will remain unaffected to ensure our intended PvP balance going forward. We are also working on other reward and progression systems for the game that tie into current and new content and features. As you know we care very much about your support and opinion and are listening intently to what you say.
Finally we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the upcoming content, and we will ensure we share our thoughts with you on the experiences we share in the Lost Shores."

Chris Whiteside – Studio Design Director

People have called him a liar, said the post is vague, said that they could change their mind and make it a treadmill instead anyway (I.E. They just want something to whine about and someone to vilify) and a whole bunch of other things in response to that post.

I’d say that post was fairly clear, even if you dig into it a bit deeper all it means is that when they add new content they’ll stick a couple of bits of ascended gear in there to encourage people who might otherwise give it a miss to try that content, I do however feel like they need to work on the grind factor of it though, by no means should it be a freebie but it takes so much time to get any of the gear that it sucks the fun out of things fast.

It’s good you brought that post up. With what’s been goin on its probably been buried pretty deep.

Perhaps the new content was intended to be released at a much later date. But it was just pushed ahead of schedule and released at the wrong time, causing it to have exploded like it has now.

Mayam.8976:

bman.1683:

Is anyone aware that the legendary gear is going to be upgraded to ascended level as they continue to release more?

Do you mean, the Exotic gear will be upgraded to Ascended level? It was my understanding that Legendaries would remain the most powerful items in the game. I don’t really actively seek info about the game and in particular upcoming changes but rely mostly on second hand knowledge of friends who do actively seek such info so it’s completely possible you know something I don’t. Just curious…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/
This may help

I always thought ai programming would be somewhat difficult..

Is anyone aware that the legendary gear is going to be upgraded to ascended level as they continue to release more?

plasmacutter.2709:

Looria.8019:

Mesket.5728:

Forum comunity is not representative for the player base… the real players are there playing and not posting here.

If they are not posting here, that means they dont care about the game.
Players feedback is what every mmo NEEDS to get better, improve, evolve.

Those players who dont bring their opinions to the table about the game and give devs some ideas are useless to the community.

Correction, if they’re not posting here it means they care about the game enough to be GLUED to it, and they also LIKE IT THE WAY IT IS.

The people complaining about a lack of a gear grind were the vast minority

ANet will NEVER retain these people. WoW has them beat hands down in their coddling of elitist snobs and gating of heroics, raids, etc.

Unfortunately it was the vast minority that got their gear grind in the end, too the expense of the other players it seems. How did they get this? I guess it’s because they posted in the forums. Maybe if everyone took note of the forums none of this would have happend. In the end, the forums had nothing about people enjoying the game, and only people not enjoying it. So I guess from a developers point of view, people aren’t enjoying the game, since no one is saying they are.

I think it’s a good idea. they can drop the price of cultural armours for one week, and edit it to be available too all races. At the end of the week all the cultural armours that were bought cheap get returned. The whole thing is purely based on aesthetics..

The only thing that has happened is that the players who complained about no end game content, ended up getting their content. Unfortunately now the rest of the players who don’t care about the end game content, feel like they have to get the end game content too.

Kaimick.5109:

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Kaimick.5109:

So by your example why run FoTM there would be no need to.

Your wanting something that people work hard to get with out all the hard work.

The need for running FOTM is quite simple: It’s the only place that currently offers the best stats. If people want to be on a level playing field, they need the best stats. So they must run FOTM.

Lets use board games as an analogy to gearing for WvW. Chess as the equivalent to WvW, checkers for FOTM. They current setup is like saying that if someone has played checkers enough, they get to start a chess game with an extra piece on the board in reward for their ‘hard work’.
Does that sound fair to you ?

So back to GW2: Why does someone who has spent a lot of time playing FOTM deserve to have a stat advantage over another WvW player ?

Kaimick.5109:

So hand out BiS gear for people that don’t want to run a dungeon cause they are too lazy. I say stop being lazy

It’s not laziness. It’s that we have other more important things to do with our time, we don’t want to sit down and have even more work before getting to the entertaining parts of the game.
Especially if they like WvW, because all the time they spend running FOTM is time they haven’t spent honing their skills at WvW.

So your whole point is I PvP and someone with X gear and mine is B gear will beat me ?

This isn’t World of Warcraft, gear is not a heavy factor in on this Exotic gear to Ascended gear is not that game breaking. Just like the guy with the Legendary two handier is not a guarantee win against the person with the green weapons.

You need to get the WoW mentality out of your head, sure it gives you a slight advantage it is never going to be a balanced and even playing field in WvWvW, you want balance go play SPvP or TPvP. Then you don’t have to worry about Ascended gear

You can look through countless Dev post and comments that Arena Net Stats that Guild Wars 2 is not focused around gear, it does play a part but a very small part in the over all picture.

If you can’t beat someone because they had a 2 to 5% advantage over you then you sucked anyhow

What you said is partly right. What most people seem to forget is that this game unlinke WoW and such, relies heavily on individual skill. With so few skills at your disposal during combat how and when you use them is important. With that said, any skilled player would easily defeat an unskilled player with ascended gear. The gear isn’t the problem. People are just still in WoW mode.

I think that from here we can only see the game being developed into two directions. This new rocking flavor of the month. Or the good old vanilla flavor they had before. Let’s just hope it’s the latter…

I think I get the storyline in gw2 now. Nexon=zhaitan, and their turning arena net into their undead minions.

I suggest that rangers should get a small buff depending on the pet they have out. For example, having an eagle out would give you a 10% speed boost. Switching to a bear would in turn improve your characters toughness, and so on.