Guild Wars 2

You do realize that even if they removed zerker gear tomorrow, a new meta would be theorycrafted, right?

You are never going to get to a place where all gear is equally good for every person. It just isn’t possible, and even if it were, it wouldn’t be a good use of development time.

Oh, why am I even trying? It’s clear that nothing that anyone says is going to change your opinion here.

alceleniel.3697:

uberkingkong.8041:

Its an ascended item, and ascended items are intended for fractals. I see nothing wrong here.

GW2 use to have ascended rings only drop from fractals. The game SPOILED you by making ascended gear obtainable elsewhere. Be THANKFUL you can get ascended gear outside the fractals of the mist because they spoiled you, so stop being greedy and selfish.

Guess what? I make mostly all of the ascended backpieces because of the look of it and because it fits to one of my characters and not because it has some nice stats. And Anet should know that there are always players who don’t want to play all parts of the game and will never do it for the various reasons. If they want to make them unhappy with such decisions then so be it. But don’t do it too often or they will go elsewhere some day.

If you’re not willing to play every part of the game, don’t be surprised when you can’t get any piece of gear you want. This is the way every MMO I’ve ever played has operated.

I don’t grind dungeons so I don’t have the dungeon armor skins. OTOH I have Wurmslayer because I like world bosses. See how this works?

GuzziHero.2467:

You know that this and all criticism threads are actually pointless. Anet will carry on doing what it does regardless. We don’t matter anymore, as long as we keep spending money on gems. Which I won’t be doing anymore.

Out of all anet’s decisions, you use the fact that you have to do a handful of fractals to be the decision that makes you stop buying gems?

Haha, I’m sorry, you have your priorities way out of whack here.

Oh man, another mount thread? Let me handle this guys

I cannot believe that this thread is still going

¯\(°_o)/¯

This thread is literally

“I don’t know any numbers so I’m going to rank based on ~~feelings~~”

Dear OP:

No.

Sincerely, cakesphere.

P.S. No

Protoavis.9107:

Vayne.8563:

First, it’s an event made for preorganized groups.

Which is kind of funny given how the current system doesn’t really assist people in being organised, first with the overflows and then with having to taxi in a couple hundred people on to a specific shard.

Oh, I agree, the current system for it sucks.
Half the battle is getting a shard empty enough to taxi a full group in

This wouldn’t be a problem if we had big instanced bosses, but I guess then it wouldn’t be a world boss. It’s a rough situation all around.

RagNoRawk.3625:

Hello, is this the thread where we discuss introducing mounts into gw2?

No, this is where we discuss introducing capes. Sheesh.

Laar.5476:

Mesket.5728:

body blocking in combat / body trespassing while out of combat.

Others game did it and it works perfect. It improves both PVE AND PVP.

That could be said about anything.

Other games did a trinity better, it improves both PVE and PVP.

Other games did mounts better, it improves both PVE and PVP.

Other games did jiggle physics better, it improves both PVE and PVP.

Other games did (insert latest BHB fix here) better, it improves both PVE and PVP.

Lack of compelling jiggle physics on Asura/Charr is RUINING THE GAME FOR ME
Please fix or I will LEAVE anet!!!!!

The only way to prevent this, sadly, is to be the instance owner.

Mac.3872:

J Eberle.9312:

-snip-

Why? will you post another Giff to strengthen you argument

“giff”

“giff”

“giff”

Biohazard.7523:

And boss needs to move more and have more spells. That should remove stacking…
If you can call boss and pushim in the wall he should be able to run away and throw some range spell on people… Common make monsters smarter… Let them live a little.

You can’t push the huge WBs into walls. What are you even talking about?
Only thing remotely close is positioning so that you can run the wurm heads into a wall but that’s hardly what I’d call an exploit, especially when the dps requirement is so high that it’s practically required to have to have the wurm head on a wall so you can kitten it with FGSes

You literally have no clue what you’re talking about. Please stop.

I think the biggest issue is that pistols are really small and hard to see.

But I don’t like very many of the pistol skins either so I’d be down with more skins. The Amberite pistol is the first pistol skin I’ve really liked in a long while.

Zardul.3952:

anything added extra to this game will make it more fun.. why are you all so UP TIGHT

I could dissect how wrong this statement is but it’s so ridiculous I’m not even going to bother.

Please take a step back and re-evaluate what you just said. Please. This is embarrassing.
You are not doing your side any favors by posting kitten like this.

Okay, I’ve decided to change my mind. We should implement mounts, huge ones, so I can sit on important LA NPCs. Then, we can watch the people who begged for mounts come onto the forums and complain about how horrible mounts are.

You done good, OP.

It might be a good thing that we didn’t get the Abaddon Fractal, because I’m sure it would be a terrible disappointment

There is a distinct lack of dead horse gifs. I will take this opportunity to rectify this

runeblade.7514:

cakesphere.5910:

Farming Flats.5370:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Farming Flats.5370:

It’s really amazing to see all of you discuss something that will never happen.

Umm.. You started this. What did you think would happen?

I had hoped that people will come to understand.

They ought to just sticky this thread and delete all other mount related threads
This one is full of reasons why it’s not a good/desirable idea to implement traditional-style MMO mounts in GW2

Nothing else needs to be said
We can all go home now

Or delete this thread and sticky the mount threads. Because people who are against mounts are silly.

Please tell me what adding mounts when we have waypoints accomplishes other than redundancy that pulls dev time away from more worthwhile endeavours

Go on, I’ll wait

Farming Flats.5370:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Farming Flats.5370:

It’s really amazing to see all of you discuss something that will never happen.

Umm.. You started this. What did you think would happen?

I had hoped that people will come to understand.

They ought to just sticky this thread and delete all other mount related threads
This one is full of reasons why it’s not a good/desirable idea to implement traditional-style MMO mounts in GW2

Nothing else needs to be said
We can all go home now

Why would you do this OP

Norn bear

/15char

Mac.3872:

I guess you have never heard the expression: The customer is always right.

You sound like you`re exactly the kind of consumer that game developers what.

I am a customer with standards.

There is a fine line between “what fits and works in the game” vs “dramatically changing your game to what the vocal minority wants”. Mounts are implemented in other games because there is no waypoint functionality and so a need to go quickly across large portions of the land is desirable. However, we already have this in GW2 with waypoints and so mounts would be redundant and a waste of development time for fast travel purposes.

I could see an argument for cosmetic mounts, I suppose, but most of the threads I see imply that they provide a function other than cosmetic.

Finally, please don’t act like the customer is always right because there are entire websites devoted to awful customers who were, in fact, in the wrong.

Pistol looks pretty good

Other than that, meh

Kind of digging the sword. Might have to pick it up on my mesmer P:

SIMBAAAAA

/15char

Tears of joy are leaking all over my face

That Vegetarr is beautiful ;^;

GamerOnline.3650:

Ok, I feel the need to post input on this.

Most of my characters are male with a couple of females for variety. With regard to revealing armor, I feel games should treat both genders fairly.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that males wear female armor, but that they can all have equally revealing styles. A loin cloth with straps, boots and bracers, helmet and chest harness (think Roman style barbarian) on a male can be just as interesting as a plate-mail bikini on a female character.

When I think of all that wonderful Charr fur and Norn tattoos that are always hidden, I’m saddened.

The closest chest piece I’ve found for my male asura is a Scallywag (heavy) chest piece. I mixed and matched a few of the set pieces and others for a half decent Mad Max style outfit suitable for desert adventuring.

I am all for skimpy male clothes

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

But I was using it more or less as an example that women in the real world, and not in the game, wear clothing that is extremely revealing and thus it confuses me sometimes why when it’s in a video game it’s suddenly offensive?

I was trying to keep my gender out of this but if I just say “agreed” it doesn’t have the oomph that it does without my gender attached

As a woman I actually get really upset when someone insinuates that a woman ought not to dress in a sexy or revealing way because I firmly think that I should have the choice to wear what I want (within limits, of course. I’m not going to be wearing that skimpy clubbing dress to my day job anytime soon!) without any stigma attached. I take offense to the idea that revealing armors in any game are only titillation because I as a woman like to dress up in and out of game.

TL;DR Let’s design outfits that appeal to everyone. Skimpy and non-skimpy for the guys, and skimpy and non-skimpy for the girls too

The difference is that a TV is a physical object

Xenon.4537:

cakesphere.5910:

See, MY problem is that all the light armor looks rubbish on female asuras because they don’t show any skin.

I see all these cute flashy armors on my norn and human colleagues and they all look really kittening cute, then when I equip my armor I look frumpy!

This is not okay. If you get to whine about how you show too much skin then I’m gonna whine about how I don’t get to show enough.

Literally the only thing that shows anything is the flamekissed armor set and that’s only because it bares the chest

I think Anet is afraid of sexualizing the Asura because they could be seen as “child-like” in appearance.

Nah, I think it’s due to laziness on their part since both use the same body models. Same issue as charr sharing assets

See, MY problem is that all the light armor looks rubbish on female asuras because they don’t show any skin.

I see all these cute flashy armors on my norn and human colleagues and they all look really kittening cute, then when I equip my armor I look frumpy!

This is not okay. If you get to whine about how you show too much skin then I’m gonna whine about how I don’t get to show enough.

Literally the only thing that shows anything is the flamekissed armor set and that’s only because it bares the chest

DarkSpirit.7046:

Decrypter.1785:

Some Guy has Every Legendary , he either A, flipped trade post or B, its bill gates Son ..

The truth is, you don’t even need to be the son of Bill Gates to afford a legendary. Eternity, the most expensive legendary, only costs 735 USD, which is easily affordable for most middle class Americans.

That’s most of a new computer. I don’t know any “middle class” American that would pay that much for a virtual item in a video game when you can get something tangible.

In my experience the people buying legendaries or any other extremely expensive virtual item have more dollars than sense. Not gonna lie, though, I bet it must be nice to have that much expendable income to drop down over 700 dollars on something that disappears when the game inevitably shuts down.

I for one welcome our new hulk-kitten overlords.

\o/

I’m sure anet is willing to sell us an armor polisher for the low low price of 150 gems

I can’t help you with your kick, OP, but I can give you this

I can’t wait to macro staff guard as I afk to poop while playing pokemon

Thanks anet! You’ve made my dreams come true =^_^=

Xenon.4537:

Ashen.2907:

I would hate to see jumping puzzles removed from the game. I would similarly be disappointed if they, and their like, were used to gate content.

Are you calling this latest release gated by jumping puzzles? Lets be real. That’s like calling a cement street curb a “gate.” I suppose those in wheel chairs would be kept out, but in GW2 people aren’t crippled for life. They can learn to press 1, 2, 3, and space bar just like anyone else.

Everything can also by bypassed with a mesmer portal (unlike real life), so I don’t see what the issue with these JPs is

I’m going to be serious mode here okay

You are complaining about optional content in a game that is all optional content and “play how you want”

This is literally a non-issue because you can just ask for a mesmer port. You don’t even have to know a mesmer. I bet if you asked map chat you’d find someone to do it for you.

Complaining about not being able to do one small portion of the game is completely silly when you can flat-out bypass it.

It’s like if I were to complain that since I’m bad at maths, they should remove the TP because I can’t play the TP to get money.

Don’t take this as a knock against your physical limitations, it’s not meant as one, but I’m just trying to point out that there is already an in-game way to bypass this instead of demanding that anet tailor make its experience around you specifically

Vayne.8563:

Find a guild, team with a mesmer, get some portals. I’ve been portaling the few people in my guild who don’t like jumping all day.

It’s silly to take something out of a game that tons of people like because some people don’t. The solution is already in game.

This guy knows what’s up
#teammesmer

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Oh I love jumping. In fact, GuildWars 2 is one of very few games which makes great use of the jumping mechanic. I even wish we could jump and climb more, like on every single mountain on all maps.
Wait… this thread is against jumping? Oh… jumps away

-high fives-
-bunny hops away-

IDK man last time I checked the dungeons hadn’t been removed from game, therefore they ARE available for competitive play.

Having to name them is unfortunate, but it seems like it was largely done to clarify what was going on and possibly as a CYA measure with regards to questions about seeding and how it was done.

Psientist.6437:

Ayrilana, please stop stabbing the pig and trying to convince us that the pig is singing.

The DC signal can fit within a 2 type currency channel. Type 1 could be as numerous as needed and would behave as Bitcoin. Type 2 would compile comparative advantage internally and maintain relative to type 1 landscape.

“why not bounce”
is to
Legendary Heroic Parity
is to
ding-a-lings ping-a-ling-ing ping-alant-ing-ian-ism

release the Kritten

please accept the atypical nature of how I communicate.
very big abstracts
not enough words
extreme social anxiety

edited for clarity ;p

Did you roll asura? Because all I see here is technobabble

Kumion.7580:

What happened to GW2’s “horizontal progression”? Did this game need to jump on the all-endgame bandwagon? The new trait system is all about endgame rewards and results. I thought GW2 wanted to do something different, but it’s steering itself toward a leveling-grind, a push to endgame in order to really play the game, and forcing players to pay huge penalties for choosing to play the game the way they want. I’m very disappointed.

What’s even sadder is that there isn’t that much “traditional endgame” to speak of, at least from a PvE perspective.

You have
1) Big world bosses that you can realistically only kill maybe once a day if your schedule allows it (unless you’re a neet)
2) Dungeons
3) Fractals
4) Living Story that you can never go back and do if you missed it

And that’s it. Contrast with SWTOR (easy example for me, since it’s my other main MMO) where you have

1) Tactical flashpoints (dungeons) that do not require the holy trinity to complete
2) Hard Mode flashpoints
3) FOUR different raids with 3 different difficulty modes (Okay, okay, so nightmare mode DP isn’t out yet, but it will be in around a month)
4) Multiple daily quest areas
5) Recurring events like Gree/Bounty Contract Week

And tbh SWTOR is on the light end when it comes to end-game content imho. It blows GW2 out of the water with the sheer amount of things you can do, and that’s not even counting Galactic Starfighter, which was a pvp-only expansion.

If Anet wants to change GW2 to be end-game focused, they ought to ACTUALLY PUT THINGS IN THE ENDGAME

I had a few friends asking if they should buy GW2 while it’s half off.

I told them about the trait changes and they were like “Wow, no way do I want to play this now”.
I feel really bad for the people who DID buy it half off and are now realizing all the stupid kitten they have to do to unlock their traits.

Smashing job Anet

I wouldn’t need to champ train if they’d add more end-game pve options.
I’m bored to tears of dungeons and the champ train is quick and mindless for when I’m tired after a day of work and don’t want to do anything more involved

Also Anet kind of obliterated the one fun thing I still liked to do (Teq/Wurm which I used to do multiple times a night) so what else is there for me to do other than farm so I can get my legendary sometime this millennium

This escalated quickly

Chrispy.5641:

And on the Star Wars thing…..If you remove Jar Jar and Ewoks, there is no difference between The Phantom Menace and Return of the Jedi, other than an evolution in how special effects are made and presented that many people refuse to acknowledge out of a sense of nostalgia that also ended up ruining Indiana Jones for them.

I’m going to have to stop you right there because if you can’t see the difference between a compelling hero’s journey plot with interesting (if cliche) characters as opposed to a LITERAL MESS at every level with braindead characters doing a lot of crap that is not very well explained or thought out with lots of shiny special effects to cover up the absolutely awful characters (paper thin. I’m pretty sure a rock emotes better than Padme in ep1) and the needlessly complicated yet still completely boring plot (TL;DR Palpatine engineers a crisis to maneuver into power as chancellor but this somehow has to do with Padme signing a paper to make an invasion legal? Pretty sure an ILLEGAL invasion would be more of a crisis. Killing the jedi and bringing attention to himself somehow helped his plan? How? I don’t understand, I get the premise but nothing in the movie makes any logical sense) then you should not be participating in this discussion because you literally do not understand what makes a story successful.

Apologies for the massively run-on sentence and hyperbole, but as a writer and an avid consumer of pop culture (yes, including Star Wars) that post had me seeing red because it offended me on so many levels.

I don’t think anyone has ever said that Star Wars is some sort of perfect space epic, but as a fun, engaging romp through a galaxy far, far away? Hell to the yes.

Star Ace.5207:

Which “infection” is this? As far as I noticed my computer didn’t get any virus from the megaserver maps.

Not liking it =/= it being a malaise on the game.

The only thing “infecting” this game is trolls. Report them all, rather than giving in to their bullying. They were there all along-now it’s time to get rid of them since they are more prone now to rear their ugly heads

I’ve been reporting trolls, gold sellers, and spammers, and I can honestly say that I have seen all of ZERO banned.

So that’s cool I guess :|

8 characters total
2 level 80s
1 map completion

Kallandra.2610:

For the Piken Square roleplayers, I’ve made a new guild, Wandering Roleplayers [RP].

It’s an OOC guild for random roleplayers, wandering minstrels, people that really want to be around RPers, and anyone else really that roleplays, so that we can all try and get on the same map, in the same instance, at the same time. Also, I’m hoping it will serve as a way of finding out where the roleplayers are, so we can join them in their instance.

They said “guild up”. So, that’s what I’m doing sigh.

Hopefully this will only be a temporary measure until ArenaNet can sort out the megaserver so that we can all be sorted by home server, guild, and friend list.

I’m not a roleplayer, but as a writer and someone who has their own headcanon for every character I can totally sympathise with you guys. This system sucks. I might join you in solidarity :P