Guild Wars 2

Raids prepare you for raids. Fractals are a 5 man content, and if you think they’ll make you better at raids, you’re wasting your time. And fractal devs should probably concentrate in making 5-man content unique.

If anything Nightmare CM is the best example of the difference in high level gameplay between 5 man and 10 man content.

Yes, they can make you better at dodging, dps management, and etc., but so does the rest of the content in the game.

I tried to get a few of my friends back to GW2 by showing them that the Elder Dragons are again the focus of the game. Too bad Anet put the lesbian scene at the worst time, and now none of my friends can take the game seriously.

There needs to be a Kormir finisher just for OP.

Zomaarwat.3912:

Because the flow was interrupted so he got less magic.

Makes perfect sense, but everywhere I hear the opposite.

So I understand that Scarlet made the lay line under the Dragon disrupted which ultimately caused the dragon to consume magic and awake. All fine on paper, but then we look at why the dragons really awake.

As far as we know, they consume magikittenil only low energy magic is left, and they go back to sleep. They awake when their storage of magic has leaked out, so they can feast again.

For example, Primordus awoke because the Asura drained all of his stored magic to power their gates.

So by that logic, making Mordermoth consume more magic would only make him go further asleep!? What am I missing here?

Seems to me you trapped yourself in all those community made theories that were never relevant in-game. Most of the things were answered if you pay attention, and the other part was not, because the story is not yet done.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Marginalizing people for their sexuality is not going to make you any friends. Read the dev response, their relationship was written as a way of creating compelling characters and a compelling story. Just because YOU personally don’t relate to it doesn’t mean that other players can’t – regardless of their sexuality.

You obviously are missing the point of my post. I tried to ignore you in the other thread, but you’re just being annoying at this point. Stop making this personal. I think I am more than aware how most of the people feel about the story.

CharrGirl.7896:

Well if they don’t like it they can close their eyes and ears and pretend it doesn’t happen and go for their achievements and ignore the story aspect. Those things happen in real life and this story reflects it and there is nothing wrong about that.

Using Caithe/Faolain as an example isn’t too good, because all sylvari are bisexual by nature, as explained in one of earlier Anet posts.

I just find it amusing that people are more willing to accept walking talking cats and sentient cabbages then the prospect of a certain percentage of population being represented in a modern game.

So you’re saying anet should just aim the story at a certain minority of players?

Most of those achievement players know how bad the living story is. Even the general gaming community knows. I am ashamed to say I still care about the story. What do I say to players that left the game months ago. “Oh, y-yeah Scarlet is still the main plot of the story, but now we have useless lesbian and multi-racial relationships with the supporting characters.” That player would laugh at me if i said that, and this is the exact state of the story.

I am not saying it’s all bad, but I hope they improve for Season 2. It’s their chance to get players on board with the story, and this lesbian thing is not really gonna be the way. We want fantasy writing, not thumblr fan fiction.

CharrGirl.7896:

The majority of players don’t really care, or comment on this forum, or even in game about their relationship for that matter.

That’s because the majority of the players don’t care about the living story, since Anet has done such a great job to fill it with engaging and interesting characters that people can relate to. Scarlet already has made a mockery of the story by turning into a Saturday morning cartoon plot.

People just play for the achievements at this point. For them the story is the same old, same old. And this relationship thing is not really helping. It’s probably just turning away some of the more picky players.

Canach is like the best character to come out of the living story and anet haven’t done anything with him for months now.

GW2 living story lacks good characters, in a way that there is nobody for the normal player to relate to. There’s no point of this forced relationships. I wouldn’t call it an agenda, but rather unnecessary thing, that would make the majority of players scratch their heads. There are other ways of making bonds between characters.

This exact case feels so forced.

I don’t want to be that guy, but please, anet, stop forcing this crap down our throats. Same-sex relationships are not something that fits a fantasy game. This helps in no way the lore that has already been damaged by the living story. I know you want to make the characters more compelling, but this will just make most people scratch their heads. At least keep it subtle.

Don’t even get me started on the multiracial things with Rox and Braham, because if it’s going in that direction, then this is just gross territory.

There are other ways to make us care about the characters without forcing this. GW2 living story really lacks good characters at the moment and this is not helping.

You guys are forgetting that the Mad King is not evil, he just likes to have fun. Remember that he helped us stop Dhuum and Joko at one point.

Onshidesigns.1069:

I can’t stand the look of the Bloody Prince.

At least it’s not Scarlet again.

Probably no. I can see Canach becoming a good guy. He’s not that bad of a guy.

Scarlet is the worst thing that could have happened to the living story. I hope anet realizes that and get’s rid of her soon. There’s nothing intimidating about her. It’s just “lol i’m gonna do this evil thing for no reason lol so random, btw did i mention i’m perfect at everything but making a successful plan”.

DarksunG.9537:

um.. no. a villain is almost always going “fail” in some way. being a villian sue has nothing to do with being infallible. & just because someone is intelligent doesn’t make them able to do everything amazingly with no effort. she DID master everything. finish the courses? who cares. Einstein didn’t excel at everything in college either. (incidentally Anet tried to soften the blow recently by saying she didn’t finish from every college. just that she took a special exam that proved she could. umm.. difference?) being a super, multidimensional genius who has seen all of reality (which they are trying to backpedal on) tried every trade but gave up because they were too easy is not villain 101. It’s “I want this character to be everything & have a sassy pop-culture crazy-girl personality 101”

But villains are supposed to win. Especially in a long story arcs like anet is trying to do with the living story. It helps build the villain as an actual threat. Anet have done a poor job building the villains in the living story.

Does anet expect me to care about Scarlet after I beat her in the playhouse and every other encounter? Same with the aetherized pirates and molten alliance. Sure they did some evil things, they killed like 1 or 2 people, but it never felt like they left any impact.

I really don’t want any more any more Scarlet. And with mad king around, two random acting crazy characters could be a bit too much for me to swallow.

lordkrall.7241:

You guys know that Halloween happens in October, right?

And that it is quite likely that they have pulled quite a bit of resources on that one, and most likely also choose to make the updates before it smaller, just so that people would be able to “complete” them without rushing it before Halloween.

Do you actually think they will redesign the whole Halloween event? It’s going to be the same as last year, but with a few extra things.
They’ve already said festivals are there so they don’t have to build new content from the ground up.

This and the Tequatl update have been pretty underwhelming. If this is what he 4 teams cycle means then i’m worried. They should drop the spoon feeding. I would prefer to wait 2 months per update if we get content updates equal to that of “The Lost Shores”.

I think anet should make him scale with players doing the event. That way a guild raid of 20-30 people should be able to pull it off even with few pugs around them.

The only thing that needs nerfing is Tequatl health. Or at least make the timer longer.

I love every new boss update, except for Tequatl. It’s something that should have been done a long time ago, and i’m happy we finally have the world bosses being exciting to fight.

It’s a matter of opinion. I like the update and the Lost Shores is in my top 3.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Not sure why people are upset that some items can be “exclusive”. These are novelties, not anything that is required to play the game (you know…what you PAID for). How is it wrong for ANet to reward supporters that went to a convention event?

5 year olds throw tantrums when they can’t get everything they want as well…

I know people that collect every minipet in the game. This is their goal in the game.

Farmers will find every possible excuse in the book to farm. I have nothing against farming, but when you’re ruining the experience for everyone else, then you deserve to be punished. You’re no different than botters. Why even play the game?

I’ve had the exact same problem. Getting real frustrated, because the game is made unplayable at this point.
Really unprofessional from anet, that they haven’t fixed or addressed the issue.

Since the new update the game has been made unplayable for me. Every 10 minutes the game either freezes or crashes.
This makes the new update impossible for me to do since after a crash i’m destined to end up in a non-invasion overflow.

I would have wanted to voice my opinion, but it’s hard to play the update when the game crashes every 10 minutes.

Not to mention this update totally broke the game unplayable for me. I get a crash or a freeze every 10 minutes.

Yeah, those have made the new update unplayable for me.

That was just bunch of GW1 players mad at anet for the birthday presents.

CorvusRex.8349:

Stop complaining about free stuff.
If you want the free stuff, keep it.
If you don’t want the free stuff, discard it.
Simplicity itself.

It’s not about getting free stuff. Is about the way you do it. Anet is basically spiting on the face of people who supported them since day one and stick with them for an year, despite the game being a mess at release, and all the numerous screw ups that they made since then.

It’s like they have all these minipets sitting in the shelf, and instead of giving them as a gift in the literal sense, they shove them in a box and put them in the gem store.

But forget about those players. It’s obvious anet takes them for granted. What anet is doing is actually hurting them even more than they realize. All of the player who left will probably wanna come back for the birthday stuff to see what they get, but they’ll probably go: “Everybody gets the same thing? Well i see no point of really coming back for that.” With the many minipets you actually wanted to return to see what you get. They could have gotten so many people back into the game. A missed opportunity.

So anet, please stop treating your fanbase as a walking dollar signs or gw2 might not even make to its second birthday.

Fat chance. The devs couldn’t even complete the Aetherblade Base dungeon during their livestream.

I would love to see a once per week boss events. It was something i thought we’re gonna get at release, and i’m definitely looking for it in the future.

There will always be that one guy who writes a wall of hate.

You’ve lost, deal with it. You’re basically being a jerk and saying the people who won made a bad decision. People have different tastes and opinions than you. Now stop making those threads.

So you don’t want another content vote because you lost? How would you feel if Evon had won, and Kiel supporters wrote the same message?

Abaddon fractal does nothing for the games story. Absolutely nothing. It doesn’t develop the Abaddon plot in any way. This won’t magically make Abaddon a major villain again, and center of the living story.

The reactor does more for GW2, since so far the dragon have done nothing of importance in over a year, and thins is anet’s chance to do something cool with them. Inquest is only a backseat of the whole thing, so stop whining about them.

lupercaleb.6041:

the majority of the community obviously didn’t play the original guild wars and are all bandwagoners who think the 2 in GW2 is just a dragon

I played the original GW1, and that had nothing to do with my choice. I voted for Kiel because i know what’s better for Guild Wars 2 lore. That’s right: for Guild wars 2! Not Guild wars 1.

The story of Abaddon is done, and as far is wish they were able to bring him back, the fractal won’t be the way. The fractal is just a moment in time. It doesn’t develop the story of Abaddon in anyway. We a;ready know what happened in the Fall of Abaddon.

On the other hand the Reactor will probably give us more lore about the Elder Dragons, you know, the main villains of Guild Wars 2, which haven’t gotten any plot development in a year. There is much more mystery behind the dragons.

To paraphrase: If we want the Elder Dragons to reach the tier of Abaddon, then we need to make them more than background characters that haven’t done anything since forever. The reactor is the better fractal for the Guild Wars 2 future.

Why do people accept for granted that the Abadon fractal will be the greatest thing ever? Why do you even think it will be good?
First of all, for the regular fractal runners, fractals must not be longer than 20 minutes.
Then i read somewhere people are imagining the fight with Abadon to be a shadow of colossus type of thing, which is obviously not happening. At most, he’ll be a texture in the background whille we kill magic crystals.
Fractals are not even that good at telling a story. The whole thing that made the fall of abadon good lore was the mystery behind it. Just being there will ruin everything behind it. Just like it happened with the first encounter with Abadon.

On the other hand, why do people think the Reactor will be bad? As far as i’m aware CoE has given us probably the most lore so far, so i don’t know why people keep bringing it up as a bad thing. You don’t even fight inquest in CoE, you fight dragon minions.

You really are getting desperate, guys.

No way it’s happening. The personal story would not make any sense.

But wasn’t Mr. E helping us? Also why didn’t Frizz and the other pirates recognize her? Yeah the story kind of makes sense but so does a lot of conspiracy theories. Kiel spend most of the time in Southsun and it could have been hard for her to cooperate with the rest of the sky pirates.
In my opinion Scarlet is an inquest asura.

Evon should have given us discount to listing tax on the TP. With the keys it seems like anet just wants to increase keys sales. It begs the question of how legit is this vote.

How is Kiel a mary sue. She’s been playing a second role to Captain Magnus the Bloody-Handed. She hasn’t taken any credit yet. You’re just being biased towards Evon and i’m calling you out.

Yup, profits from those keys have been falling short lately. The Keil victory doesn’t benefit the financially.

Yeah, 100 gold is a bit of an overkill, especially considering you get nothing of value when playing the game. It’s just for fun.

Fox Mulder.6907:

Your right I don’t have to do this story but I did pay at least $60 like everyone else. Shouldn’t I be able to accomplish everything?

Absolutely not. You have to earn your rewards, not get them handed to you on a golden plate. Next thing you’ll want is a legendary every time you log-on. But hey, you payed 60$ so you’re entitled to that.

I’m not gonna make a thread complaining like everybody else how thieves are overpowered and should be nerfed to hell. I don’t have a problem facing a thief 1 on 1, but there are a few wvwvw stuff anet needs to address.
1st. Make them get out of stealth when they finish someone. It’s really annoying when that happens.
2nd. They should take more damage from siege when in stealth.
The stealth itself needs nerfing but that might be going too far.