Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Lahmia.2193:

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Doesn’t matter Anet doesn’t update anything in wvw anyways good suggestions or otherwise so who cares. Not to mention I have no idea why wvwers would object to an update to auto loot that would result in getting more loot. Especially when all wvwers complained about for years was no loot/rewards…. but whatever lol.

This is one of those suggestions, where if Anet just changed it so you got loot no matter what every wvw would say, “we like this” or “good job Anet more loot” but because I’m suggesting it, it’s an absolutely horrible idea, for some reason which nobody can figure out.

I mean at best it’s more loot, at worst it’s irrelevant, but you know keep up the good fight.

People object because it encourages people to lay dead on the ground instead of releasing and running back to the fight.

right….. so loot auto going into your inventory = you are encouraged to stay dead? Im not seeing the connection. Seems completely unrelated to me.

I can’t recall ever playing a game where, when you died (essentially when you failed in some way), you still automatically were given every bit of the loot you would have acquired if you stayed alive, contributed to the fight, got ressed by a comrade, or used other mechanics (like WP) to rejoin the battle. Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but shouldn’t death have a death penalty of some sort? It’s modest enough, with the mechanics in place, but should it be zero?

Yes, I do believe that such functionality would discourage active play. “I’m dead. I’ll just lie here and gather all my goodies while I go order a pizza. Doesn’t cost me a thing to be inactive — I’ll still get 100% of the loot either way.” Does that even make sense? Or am I misunderstanding the suggestion?

I recall trying to be active during fights and used to WP and went back and tried to help and get loot. I remember continually getting ganked by roamers and could never get to my group because they was +5 minutes away and the fight was always gone and they had moved on. This was back when it was still competitive and active. I also recall on how Anet said they wanted to make an MMO that was different than other ones but from your response I guess not, but this also comes from the woman who encourages bashing and insulting other players, so I guess Anet lowered their standards.

I can see why people would post them here, so Anet would actually do something about them. Same for players hacking, if you report in game/support nothing happens, but if you report on the forums, action happens whether its the kind you want or not.

It would be nice if Racial skills could be useful, but they will not be for most people. Also it is in my belief that anet really doesn’t want them anymore. they have already got rid of them from the Rev class, might as well just remove them and they say “oh no one used them so we are going to remove them since we don’t feel like making them useful”. I also think they said they don’t want them useful or powerful otherwise people will choose one race over another because they are “better” so they might as well just get rid of the skills tbh.

I think that would be a nice idea, but it doesn’t make them money directly so I doubt they will waste the time to figure out what their customers actually want and just push more gem store remakes out. It would be even nicer to have in game polls when they want to change certain new armor skins because of possible mistakes or something else like that where you can get a larger poll size.

So I was thinking of getting into gw2 again after about..2 years I think. ATM though my good computer is down and I am stuck with a computer that can run gw2 but I do get a bit of lag with it, so I was hoping for some suggestions of either builds or gear that could help me survive but play again.

1. Probably playing solo.
2. Got HoT
3. Got all 9 professions to 80, all traits unlocked.

Personal thoughts, I was thinking MM necro for some added distractions for foes, or Warrior just because I remember them being pretty OP. I will probably not be playing new maps just because of Mastery issues and because they are not designed to be lag friendly. Thank you for anyone who tries to help.

Anet wanted the game to be easier to balance. This means less skills because the less skills you have the less balances you have to do. Anet has done this with a lot of things, doing or making the stuff that is easiest and makes them the most money.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

kamedin.4698:

$60 for 3 games and an xpac isn’t that bad, even better if you compare with what you got with HoT at the same price.

$15/title for a game that is 12 years old? That looks pretty bad to me, especially since I had no trouble get the same combination for US$40 back when the game was still being actively developed (well, at least, there were adjustments to festivals & GW: Beyond).

Seems to me that $30 would be a “not bad” price, i.e. $10 per ‘campaign’ with the expansion thrown in.

For an old game it has been able to hold my attention better than gw2, plus it is actually a complete game while in GW2 they can’t even release an xpac. But, might not be up to your taste, because you don’t play gw1 because of gw2 but you play it because its gw1.

OriOri.8724:

kamedin.4698:

$60 for 3 games and an xpac isn’t that bad, even better if you compare with what you got with HoT at the same price.

Not on the surface, until you realize that its an MMO with a small population currently, as well as one that hasn’t had any updates in years and isn’t going to be getting any content updates in the future. I don’t mind paying that price, but I do think its a tad high

Maybe if you research a bit you will realize it is not a mmo but a CORPG or Competitive/Cooperative Online Role Playing Game.

$60 for 3 games and an xpac isn’t that bad, even better if you compare with what you got with HoT at the same price.

This has already been suggested I believe and it falls under if it unlocks anything for free then you shouldn’t get the gifts anymore. I would just like to have the map unfogged for all characters once you have done it once, but it really doesn’t affect me anymore since I already got full map comp on all my characters.

the closest you are going to get is the shared slots. to me i couldn’t care less about shared tool slots but it will just be the same thing of other people being mad that someone now is benefiting from something that didn’t exist 3 years ago.

It is a time waster for players to do while we wait for meaningful stuff to be released which at this point my guess is in a couple years.

It would be nice if choosing your characters race actually had some type of impact but Anet doesn’t want that to happen because other games do it. Anet wants a boring world where nothing changes unless they change it, that’s why the Living World is in instances and it doesn’t matter if you don’t do events because nothing changes if you don’t or do. It would of been nice if the Races were as unique as they was in Guild Wars 1 but they lost all of that because it wouldn’t fit into the new story.

You know if they didn’t allow dps meters they would use AP to exclude people and if they get rid of achievements they would want the API to look people up on that gw2 efficiency, or even something else. So pick your poison, because they will always find something else to use.

Also you have the choice of who to play with, as do these other people. They want to have everyone carry their own weight. If you don’t want to play with these elitist then make your own group or get into a guild group. Just because this is a MMO doesn’t mean you have to play with every single person that enters a group/map/party/guild, otherwise they wouldn’t have a block list so you can ignore people you don’t like.

They don’t tell the players anything before it is 100% completed and ready to ship (except for HoT). This way they can’t be held accountable for something they said they was going to do then decided it was too hard and not do it. And they will not optimize the game because it is too hard and it won’t improve anything enough to warrant it.

Also a nice rule to live by here is: Don’t expect anything. If you do this, then when they release something good you will be impressed. If you expect anything good and they don’t deliver you are just gonna feel sad or angry.

Well people have the right to play with who they want. If they want people that can pull more of their weight and do more dps, I don’t see why they can’t play with those people. I know Guilds have reqs to be able to be in the guild, why not party reqs.

Danikat.8537:

I don’t think that would achieve anything.

From what I’ve seen the people asking for race change aren’t asking because they made a character without thinking about the race, assuming it didn’t matter because they could change it whenever they wanted.

They knew they’d be stuck with their choice, but at the time thought they were making the right one and it’s only later on they found they wanted to change it and deleting the character to start over from scratch felt like too much of a loss.

Edit: I also think it’s an understandable request given that lots of other games offer it.

A lot of games also offer mounts but people don’t want them. I was thinking though it might give some warning that Gw2 isn’t most games and maybe they actually want to think about it or play the character a bit to see if that is the race they want to stick with instead of like 2 years later just wanting to change for the hell of it.

I suggest to have a warning somewhere on the page where you select your characters race that says in all capital letters “YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR CHARACTERS RACE AFTER YOU FINISH CHARACTER CREATION” or maybe something a little shorter. I make this suggestion because I keep seeing about 1 thread a week about changing their characters race through gems or some other item.

I gotta agree, after a few years of playing I got nothing left that I want to do. Core pve stuff is way too boring anymore. New HoT maps are laggy, zerg fest and if you don’t grind masterys, it is a pain to navigate. WvW used to be fun but with that mastery system, I lost my place that was in wvw. Never got into too hard core pvp but the more it goes, the less i want to do it. I can’t even bother to log in to get daily rewards. Maybe one day they will actually get it right and I may come back for it, but for now I would rather play any other game.

I agree with each game mode needs its own rewards and I am okay with that. What i am not okay with is Legendary Armor just being in Raids. I would like to hope that in the future they have a set for WvW and PvP and hopefully another set for the rest of PvE. I also agree you need to put work into these very nice rewards, but it would be nice to have something for the people that can’t get to a certain degree of skill but can still work towards slowly and over time.

I just log into the game to keep the story unlocked for when I want to play it again, otherwise I just play Guild Wars 1.

I would like maps with less lag. And maybe more single player content instead of maps that encourage zerging.

I went from a EU server to HoD, haven’t moved since (haven’t been able to play for a couple months though)

Duels: How I would think these could work would be, you can invite someone to a duel. You can only invite someone to a dual in a racial city. If they accept, you will be transport to a small arena in the mists and duel. After the duel you would be transported to the city you was in. If they decline the duel, you can’t send them another invite for at least 5 minutes to prevent spam. You would also have a option to auto decline invites to duels in the options menu and they wouldn’t even pop up.

Skin Inspections/Preview: You can’t see the stats, only the name of the skin of the armor/weapon/costume that person is wearing currently. I have seen some nice armor combinations in my time but not always will they answer when I ask about it or it may be a very complex set of dyes/armors. Also should see what dyes they used in the “preview”. And to the people who say they want their armor secret, its in the game, its in the public, at some point someone can copy your look, its just easier with a skin inspection/preview feature.

Vehicle/Toy: I don’t care what you call it but I would enjoy more of them. I can see how people don’t want these with speed boosts. The only thing I would want is more of a selection of what kind of vehicle/toys you get. Maybe something like the charr bike or a dolyak whistle. And again, it won’t give speed boosts but, just a slight more flavor to change just from running to “riding” a broom, carpet, creature, or even in a tunnel.

I either hope there are no April Fools Joke because they was never funny or there is a toggle that lets me turn it off.

I wouldn’t mind an Xpac that is released in full instead of in tiny little chunks for 2 years.

I kind of wish they would bring the tournaments back, sadly they do not want to invest the time into the game mode to make it function better and do the tournaments in a better way so, just another abandoned idea.

I wouldn’t mind an HD version of Gw1, but I don’t think I’ll pay a 3rd time for the game. I really want the content they said they was going to do before they just quit on it. That being said I can’t wait for the same thing to happen to Gw2 when they move on to another project, just abandoning a loyal follower base just for profit.

Don’t worry, its just a high, once it goes away you will learn the truth of the game that it is not as great as you think it is.

Please split game modes for the love of all things good. I don’t understand why you want to go backwards from the good times starting in Gw1 with things being split between game modes so that you don’t destroy one of them.

So I remember making a meme after an Anet employee commented on the Legendary Weapons thread.

God yes nerf hero points. Single player elements should be single player so I can actually have character progression .

Before HoT, yeah I liked to play my other characters, but Post HoT and after doing almost everything in the core game, I tried playing the HoT maps, only to find out that they are not solo friendly at all for me. Since then I have not been able to play my alts otherwise, I won’t get anything done.

Yeah, HoT really killed the game for me. Some of my complaints with it are -

• Maps: really confusing, and with no good z-axis on the mini map, meaning that I keep dying or getting lost. (this includes the desert bl) (SOOO MUCH LAGGGG) (so many zergs, not enough single player content)
• No more Legendary Weapons
• Still incomplete. Until the entire set of legendary weapons launch, it still hasn’t completely released, which is kind of hard to sell a 2nd xpac when you can’t make 1 complete one.
• Powercreep: with the new trait lines: for the small amount of play time I put in, the elite specs are WAAAAAAAAAAAAY better, in both damage and play ability.
• Maps on timers: I enjoyed the way Silverwastes did map metas, I could zone in and play whenever or map jump to one that had people, but with these new maps, i have to plan half my day around a stupid videogame.
• Raids: I’ve been with a certain guild a while and just raids coming out has caused me to grow apart. Before I could just jump in and play how I want with dungeons, fractals, openworld, pvp. Now its play this class and this build and this equipment and before you can join you must run it about 50 times and know every encounter before you have ever seen it. I enjoy playing not researching like i am writing a paper in college. If the encounters are so bad that I can’t have the time to learn in game then nty, more stuff I can’t play.

I really hope that Anet can turn this around with this new story (since that is all I have to look forward to now in gw2) but I will keep my expectations rock bottom otherwise, it will just be another turn off.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Allison The Strange.4519:

For instance I have a sorta friend who has Spark that I’m wanting to buy from him but since I’ve played Eve Online I’ve grown to trust absolutely no one in any online game when it comes to anything currency related.

I know scamming is a reportable offense but I want to know if Anet would rectify the situation if things didn’t go according to plan.

I know of the gold limitation when you mail gold.

What’s our stance? No. Just no. Sure it’s possible. Sure, sometimes it works. But sometimes (often enough to be a highlighted concern) it does not. Which is precisely why the developers created the Trading Post. Safe, secure, and no one gets ripped off. (Ok, guys, no rude comments about the handling fee. I’m talking the straight up transaction here, and it is exactly that: straight up.)

With the advent of the TP, and with all the security that it gives, are you willing to risk a P2P trade? If you are, I sincerely hope that all goes well for you, that you get the item you paid for, and everyone is happy. If it does not, we will not and actually cannot get involved, for a variety of reasons that involve not indicting innocent players who may get caught, tangentially, in P2P trading. (If I have to go into details, I will, but I imagine someone else already has and in my haste to offer advice, I didn’t see it yet. )

So, for trading, I offer my oft-given advice: Choose wisely.

I gave up trust on the TP when my friend lost his Legendary Sunrise off the trading post after canceling the posting and after contacting support they said, he never had it, they can’t tell that he ever had it or made it or have any log of it in the game. So yes, Choose wisely how you trade.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Don’t overthink it. Otherwise, anytime you died previously in the game wouldn’t make sense either. Remember: it’s still a game.

You don’t die in this game, you become defeated. While defeated is similar to death, you don’t actually die, because you can’t come back to life really easily. You basicly just pass out from being hit too much. When you are “revived” its like someone slapping you to wake up after being passed out drunk.

I would just go back and play gw1. Great game for lore reasons and also as a place to waste time until Anet makes good content again.

Sartharina.3542:

kamedin.4698:

Redenaz.8631:

kamedin.4698:

Kind of wish they had a tower of nightmares mechanic of when you defeat the physical body so many times that it would eventually change the world and make it a “living world” instead they just have all these “frozen in time” maps that never change and never make you feel like you do anything but again probably due to people wanting to play like it the game was released 1 day ago but want all the updates as well.

I’m glad that’s not the case here. They’d basically have to throw out the entire map, and then either we’d have one less map, or they’d have to spend resources to create new events in the area. I’d rather see that effort go into new content.

It’s a balancing act, for sure. The permanently changing world is interesting, but I know I’m not the only one who feels a bit wistful about the Tower of Nightmares, the Marionette, or Old Lion’s Arch.

If they redesign the events or make new events in the area that would be new content, or maybe just change to a really strong champion of Mordremoth like Teq is to fit the lore a little better maybe.

They might have to change it with Living Story content, but in the meantime – Remember, for a lot of people, the current Dragon’s Stand meta event going on right now is their first time killing Mordremoth.

That may be but for some of the lore nuts, we have a story saying we killed Mordremoth and are moving on but we still have a map dedicated to killing Mordremoth so it can kind of get confusing. Personally I think they made the DS map because so many people commented on how the last Zhaitan fight was so bad because you just stand there and push a button and he dies after a while. While the DS map is interesting, it just feels like it doesn’t fit in the story, but its up to Anet whether they want to be different and actually do what they wanted to do in the beginning (which is why they got rid of the Legendary team) or try and please everyone (which won’t work). But this is all personal opinion and I speak for myself and no one other than myself.

Redenaz.8631:

kamedin.4698:

Kind of wish they had a tower of nightmares mechanic of when you defeat the physical body so many times that it would eventually change the world and make it a “living world” instead they just have all these “frozen in time” maps that never change and never make you feel like you do anything but again probably due to people wanting to play like it the game was released 1 day ago but want all the updates as well.

I’m glad that’s not the case here. They’d basically have to throw out the entire map, and then either we’d have one less map, or they’d have to spend resources to create new events in the area. I’d rather see that effort go into new content.

It’s a balancing act, for sure. The permanently changing world is interesting, but I know I’m not the only one who feels a bit wistful about the Tower of Nightmares, the Marionette, or Old Lion’s Arch.

If they redesign the events or make new events in the area that would be new content, or maybe just change to a really strong champion of Mordremoth like Teq is to fit the lore a little better maybe.

ProtoGunner.4953:

You could ask the same question about every game you start anew. OH you killed Bowser in Super Marion 64, and now you kill him again with a new safe file… What a question… Or to put it more in the context: Raid bosses. Xera gets killed daily, still you can kill her every week.

I don’t know about you but I’m not starting the game over, its not made to be like that. Besides that Death in Tyria is different. Just take your character, you never die, you become defeated, pretty much the reason you don’t need a special skill to “revive”. Since the Gods left, it is very hard to come back from the dead so they changed the mechanic. The Raid boss could just be Defeated and comes back, although something like the Elder Dragons could of been “killed” but may just be defeated and always come back.

Kind of wish they had a tower of nightmares mechanic of when you defeat the physical body so many times that it would eventually change the world and make it a “living world” instead they just have all these “frozen in time” maps that never change and never make you feel like you do anything but again probably due to people wanting to play like it the game was released 1 day ago but want all the updates as well.

So in the recap trailer they put up today they said we killed Mordremoth. So what is the beast in Dragon’s Stand that we have to defeat (note we can’t kill it since it comes back to life and wipes everyone at the end of some timer) over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over?

Okay, I guess I was wrong. Going back to the original post, my personal opinion and not speaking for anyone else is that I agree with the original poster that I would like more options to get some of the skins.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Yes I know they’re “beasts”, but very human-like “beasts”. Charr have emotions, just like any other human I know. If you prick them, do they not bleed?

Dogs have emotions as well as bleed, so that makes them humans right?

Well as part of the community as pointed out in another thread, Charr are absolutely no part human just all beast although having a humanoid stance. (And they also pointed out how many furries we have in the game that love horns and tails).

But I agree that it would be nice if there was some romance or something besides War War War War thoughts with charr and at this point its going to be something between Rox and that bald norn guy.

The secret garden in regent valley.

Yes, without going on too much of a rant, the elite specz alone seem just too op to me. The second I unlocked the perma fury on Rev Elite Spec, I went through maps on double time and saved like 5 hours of play time (only had like 3-5 maps left to complete at that point), just because I did so much more damage and without even more effort.

CrusaderMichael.9245:

I take the ANET people at their word when they say they are working on many aspects of the game at the same time. Expansion, WvW, PVE, Raid etc.

Just so happens Raid is coming out now.

I watched a girl tonight Raid. With a guild.

I have never seen such a massively choreographed thing in gaming. Over and over they’d die. Go over every detail of each others roles. Over and over. Step after step.

That is not my idea of fun at all but there’s enough GW2 things to go around so whatever.

I just have no intention whatsoever of playing a Raid where I feel like I’m an actor that has to rehearse every single little line/action to succeed.

I’d feel like I have to pay a Screen Actor’s Guild fee.

This is pretty much how I feel about raids, it wasn’t that HARD in fractals but at upper levels it did get harder but, it feels not to the same level as if one thing goes wrong, we lose the entire thing.

Personally I went back to Gw1 and found a good guild group that is still in the game. I find it is more entertaining over there than on GW2. Maybe one day Anet can actually follow through on their obligations but until then, probably going to be playing gw2 minimally

Doesn’t surprise me, bad management is always going to bring a place down no matter where you work, and if we keep seeing the trend of management advertise paid content but doesn’t deliver all of it, I can see people not buying more xpacs which is really gonna down the company even farther (if possible).