Guild Wars 2

Arnox.5128:

So some have jokingly suggested that perhaps mounts could be forgone entirely that we should have characters themselves making huge jumps and traveling fast and etc.

But then I began to think about that. Why the hell not actually? Why can’t we allow an option to have people enter into a special “Travel Mode” in place of a mount if you so desired. You wouldn’t have a mount but (assuming you had the required mount masteries unlocked) you would have the exact same speed and abilities as someone who is riding a mount. The only difference between the Travel Mode and actual mounts would just be cosmetic.

I personally think it would be pretty awesome to see a few of people’s characters booking it across the desert at high speeds, teleporting, and doing sweet jumps. The more I think about this, the more I really want this now. And one of the cool things is that ANet could implement this super easily since all the animation work for jumps/teleports/etc. are already there of course.

This would give the option to keep things centered on people’s actual characters and allow for even more choice in how people want to play the game at minimal cost and maintenance to ANet.

That would be awesome! I would love to have super jump again along with super speed. My first mmo was City of Heros and I had super jump and super speed and both were amazing. If there was an option to obtain the skills for myself or have mounts that had them, I would pick to have them for myself. Mounts are a major clutter of space especially in cities! Just try to find the banker or mail box in Rift sometimes! because people are just too rude to dismount around npc. That is a major pet peeve of mine.

I feel gems are too expensive for 800, It should be more like 800 for $5.00 for the price of items in the store. Would you rather get more gems for your money or have items charge much less in the store. I know in AOC, I spent more money to spend in the stores because the cost was cheaper. Do you feel you would buy more if the cost went down?

This is what I was taught by one of my bosses that owned a sub shop. He used fresh steak cut from roasts every other day. Pizza dough made up every morning. Three cheeses on the pizzas, you would think that having top grade ingredients would cut too much into his profits. The subs were maybe 15 cents more for the steak and crab cakes. but because the were a good price and were great, more sold. This placed hopped daily and he made bank.

I feel if the gems were twice as many for the $10.00(1600), they would sell more. Or if the store dropped everything by half the cost of gems people would buy more.

Instead of the I love both dresses, which do I choose, its now I will get both and more because I feel I am over charged I will only get something if I am dying to get it, as if it was cheaper, all impulse buying would go ahead. Or I am nuts.

Thanks! Now people won’t get a million kills off of me…lol

I want to clear the map with at least one character but I am not a pvper and wonder if I have to clear the pvp world maps too.

UnderdogSMO.9428:

lunarminx.3624:

Basically nothing to do end game that you haven’t already done. For a free game I’d go play Age of Conan if you want end game content and you have to install anything. The combination of all makes it great, you can even control your necro pets!

So why are you here instead of playing that….. =_=

there’s plenty of new content in this game. even if its not traditional “end game”

Because I’ve been with my guild over three years and they left, when Rift came out and we’ve moved to other games too. When a game is no longer fun, they(your guildies) at least can hold you there, many are on vent but playing whatever now. Most have quit playing and we’re all waiting for Elders scrolls. He asked for opinions and he got mine, he left once because he was unhappy with the game, I do not see anything that has come out to make him happy now. Not once did I say the game sucked nor anything like that, everyone enjoys what they enjoy, that doesn’t make a game suck, some of us enjoy more end game, more guild raids, which I do not consider a 5 man group. To each their own. GW2 got a lot more of my time with 6 level 80’s compared to the two days I gave gw1, 15 days of rift and zero to TSW. Compared though I play COH for 1 1/2 years, Wow for 5 years off and on, Aion for over a year and AOC for 2 years. The only reason I played SWTOR was because of my guildies. There’s nothing like a close guild doing a 24 man raid and having a blast doing it(even while learning the raid) because its laid back, everyone gets everyone’s sense of humor(raunchy). In the right guild, you all seem to move to the majority approved game because once the pack moves on, you are having even less fun.

locoman.1974:

Finish your personal story, that’s where your fireworks and bonus chest are..

BTW, I don’t think I’ve seen anything special on the level cap ding on any MMO I’ve played, other than the XP bar dissapearing.

LOL…seriously right.

Game over! If you keep it too long, it will be as boring as any other dungeon you run over and over and over again.

Tarnished Coast, right now!

Rash.6514:

Whoa, a whole family playing the same MMO, did I get it right? Cool.

LOL…I think that happens more than you think. We’ve done it for years. My ex-husband and I use to share an internet connection and had a second one for the boys. We all played COH and wow together. I play a lot of the same games my oldest son has played. Both boys are grown now and still play together on FPS. I been in my guild for a few years and through a few games together too. We have/had quite a few people playing in the same family. As more house holds all have their own pc, you will find more of this.

Open on Gates of Madness

Gates of madness now.

It started again, same error. It took forever to even log in the forums.
Gates of Madness….

Just open it on Gates of Madness.

Panda Shepard.1248:

I really don’t see the point of making fun of or belittling people because they want their title to show. I do think that there should be an option to turn it off though.

That or make it the same color as the rest of the name if you include it as your name/title tag. The fact that it is different is why you notice it so much. Someone was clearly sleeping on the job to have let this incomplete concept slip by.

JaNordy.6149:

Hahaha what? “If you dont wanna see titles turn off players name duh, why should you see players name and title, they are one in the same, entitled gamers these days” -Anet Defense Force

Because they made it an ugly gray color. Because it’s not in a place that makes it part of the name, it just doesn’t flow right. If it did, you wouldn’t have people screaming about it. When an addition is placed right, it just flows together.
Example: Lunarminx(ROM)> Neon green
Relentless> Ugly gray
That doesn’t seem as one

Example: Relentless> Neon Green
Lunarminx(ROM)> Neon Green
Closer but still too much for some people.

Example: Relentless Lunarminx(ROM)> Neon Green

Example: Relentless Lunarminx> neon green
ROM> neon green

The shorter abbreviation of the guild tag underneath would be the less obtrusive, as long as the font colors still match.

If you are going to add something to the title make sure you keep everything the same color.

Edge.4180:

This is the kind of thing Arenanet does wrong all the time that I find really frustrating. We’ve had titles since launch, but you could only see them in the target frame and that annoyed people who hoped their titles would be more visible. Fair enough.

So, now the titles display above the avatar’s head, but without adding a new UI option to allow viewers to toggle the titles off if they prefer to have less text clutter on their screen (you know, like the way it’s been since launch).

HOW do things like this not occur to the development team? I know they’re aware that players are not fond of having text all over the screen, and yet in one poorly thought out move they managed to find a way to literally double it. Note how text is never displayed in ANET screenshots and videos.. because the marketing team finds it ugly and distracting and they make sure it’s hidden. Guess what.. the players think so too!

I don’t want to turn off player names because they’re useful and I am willing to put up with the text clutter they add to the UI. But titles are not useful, and I don’t want them cluttering up my screen. Why is there no option to turn them off? You guys have got to start thinking these decisions through.

Its crazy that they didn’t realize the static this would cause and include an option to turn it off. They are forcing us to see it because some babies didn’t think enough people were mousing over them and seeing their titles, that they shoved them down our throats.

skullmount.1758:

I’m curious why they did this: “Weapons sold by vendors are no longer salvageable.”.
I know karma vendor items weren’t salvageable (even though I think we should be able to at least salvage upgrade items from them).

Haven’t finished reading the notes yet, so I may add more.

Just like this one: “Disabled the use of some consumable items in dungeons.” What consumables? (I’m assuming portal gun and the likes, but actual item list would be helpful)

People were buying vendor items and salvaging them to get the ore, most of the time, they made money over it. Someone cried like a baby about it so they killed it.

Maguuma just opened a minute ago.

Open on Gates of Madness right now.

It’s happening on Gate of Madness too. This is why many games do weekly maintenance, because when they do not more and more weird errors pop up.

Try again everyone, I got in.

Fallon.2347:

Can’t Log in. Here is your Error Code: 42:6:3:2158

When looking it up on your site this is what it comes up with:
We are currently experiencing high volume at our call center.
Thank you for your patience.

Ditto!

What area is everyone at? I am in Maryland.

I got booted out of the game then get a login error. I have been trying to get back in for 15 minutes now, even rebooted the pc.
Error code.42.6.3.2158

DahlKen.8369:

Open on any US servers?

Tarnished Coast, I just guested there 7:30 pm est time, 3-18-13.

Eroiqua.5891:

Tactical chest, gloves, legs, boots (for PvE you get them from heart vendors in Fireheart Rise; Halloween bird skull shoulder skin; starter skull mask.

So far I am the only one I have seen wearing the orr gear that matches Tactical. I love it. When I decide to show my helm, its the Shadow helm( I think). It looks great with Final Rest. I alos use the godskull skins.

Karizee.8076:

You will get a pop-up notifying you as soon as a spot opens on your home server in Queensdale. You aren’t stuck forever, just a few moments

Its not a few moments, I was stuck for over 30 last night on Gates of Madness. This guesting has to stop, let people transfer if they want to play with friends.

Not really, you have events there all the time, what it has done is kept a few events from starting because it is stuck on the pent loop. It really does need to be fixed, should have been by now but I guess they are waiting for the update. Funny thing is, this place gets bugged alot with patches….

AC – Toughness, vitality, power for the power builds.

Since most farmed the dragons for a chance at the precursor, was that drop increased?

Im Mudbone.1437:

FAILED ATTEMPT at new content!

I second that ….

Blaeys.3102:

The biggest concern I have is small PVE guilds remaining competitive as it pertains to recruitment and retention.

By placing the first mission at Rank 5 in Art of War, a tier dedicated to WvW in the past (and thus, something many small PVE guilds may have ignored completely up to this point), you are ensuring that smaller guilds who dont have deep wells of influence will not have access to these missions for some time to come – while huge guilds do right away (and will thus become more enticing recruitment-wise).

I understand the need to partition the content and make it something guilds – even small guilds – have to work for. It just seems that the requirements for the initial mission – specifically rank 5 in Art of War – may end up hurting small PVE guilds considerably right off the bat.

Agreed and everyone in my small guild feels the same way. no we are not going to merge/join another to be able to do this. It’s like they didn’t think about anything they put into this patch at all. I call it a patch because of the way it crapped on so many things it can’t be called an update.

Riggster.7952:

We are still recruiting and we are noob friendly. We are a fun friendly family that will come down and help you out on any levels.

BS, I am not helping anyone on a level 2 quest……

Elthurien.8356:

I think dungeons should scale to however many players enter (with a cap of 10)
It would be great to have a solo version of the dungeons in this game.

That would be awesome, have it scale from 1-10 players.

What are you playing Aly?

The recipe of extended ghost slaying unlocks extended undead slaying….

You owe me two gold, 76 silver

I too just had this happen and I see you got no response.

Go necro, you won’t regret it!

I have, too much so but not any more.

Azjenco.9425:

lunarminx.3624:

I paid full attention to what you wrote, blame yourself on how you worded your post.

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Did anyone look at the February content as of late? Did anyone notice this perchance:

Preview Items in the Trading Post

Try before you buy! You’ll have the ability to preview items in the Trading Post before you buy them. Simply right-click an item icon and select “Preview” to see the item equipped on your character. Check out how a weapon looks by itself, how it looks when sheathed, and how it looks when wielded by your character.

They must have snuck it in there while we weren’t looking. **

I never read about up and coming patches, or what was patched when I update, I wait for the breaks….

Your last sentence states it as if it was already done. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..

Before you tell people to pay attention to what you write, write what you mean. Snuck is past tense sneak. If it hasn’t happened yet, they are trying to sneak it in.

No, you weren’t paying attention, not even remotely…

I specifically said “did anyone look at the February content” which can only be found on their main page. There is no other place to see what content will be coming in Feb. Then, I referred to the specific piece from the article. And if you’d look at the February content page, you’d see February 26, 2013 clearly displayed at the top of the page. So, if you somehow assumed they will be adding content meant for the update before the update arrives, then it’s still a failure on your part, not mine.

You say you never read about upcoming changes… then you blame me because you don’t want to stay up to date on new announcements… Again, this post referred to that article, which I clearly stated. But since it’s up coming changes to the game, something you avoid reading about, it’s still a failure on your part for not staying up to date then blaming me for sharing said content from the update notes.

Finally, they snuck it into the update list, is right. I wasn’t referring to the game, so obviously it wasn’t snuck into the game, I was referring to the features list. Therefore, snuck is correct, as in “they snuck (past tense) the preview feature into the update list”.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

Dude….

They listed a feature, it is not snuck in, get over it. You’re fired.

Aroxisas.2416:

We always appreciated gw2 for being fun and different from other mmos. But what is so fun about grinding dailies and monthlies for one ascended neck ? Especially when dailies are like this :
1. Daily Kills : Kill mosquitos, sparkflies .. job done in 2 min (In bloodtide coast) or any white mobs
2. Daily Dodger : Hit Ice wurm then avoid its stone balls … job done in 2 min. (in frostgorge sound)
3. Daily Healer : Now, this is annoying as hell. There are some places, where players let NPC die just to ress them back.. even in events. Instead of doing events or helping ally npcs… players are actually just waiting for them to die … wow lol
4. Daily Aquatic Kills : Salmon
5. Daily Events/veteran kills : WvWvW … no really … its really easy to kill veteran dolyaks/guards and get both dailies done easily.
6. Daily Crafting : I have no idea why people complained about it at first… it is the 2nd easiest daily in-game after finding laurel vendor, as you can get it done even by crafting low level items. For any crafter… especially chefs… its less than 1 min really
7. Daily Gatherer : I like it, but it really does not encourage to explore low level areas
8. Daily kill variety : Nothing wrong with it so far.
9. Daily Laurel Vendor : LAMEST THING EVER… Rename the daily to “Daily visit to Lions Arch”.

Guys, I just want you to know, I want this game to be more fun and exploring. At the moment, dailies do not offer anything interesting, except gear grind and people are doing it like crazy just for the ascended neck and infusions. It is getting a bit like other mmo dailies, where you do them even if you do not like them. I just want to know, do you really like the Dailies as it is ? Any constructive criticism will be appreciated.
Thank you

1. Daily Kills, should name specific mobs to kill and amount to combine kills and variety in one.
2. Gathering should name a specific too.
3.There is a Laurel Vendor in Divinity’s Reach BTW.
4. Crafting is no big deal.
5. Healing is no big deal.
6. I hate the dodging but really, it’s done in a few minutes.

It’s all boring, it gets done.

Azjenco.9425:

Chorel.1720:

Writetyper.1985:

Chorel.1720:

Finally starting to turn into a game that it should have been at launch.

But this doesn’t actually fix any of the core problems with the game… it’s just… skirting around the big issues. I hate to use the term "polished kitten because it’s potentially too strong, but holy kitten this game is a big pile of greatness washed over with a bucket of wasted potential and letting us preview things isn’t going to help that any time soon.

Starting to.. still have TONS to do to make it better. I’ve personally given up on them fixing the big issues. It seems they’d rather nerf than fix.

I think chipping away at the mountain of issues is still a step in the right direction. Even one fix is still one tick off the huge list.

By the way, what are the big issues you’re pointing at? I’d just like you to name them. By asking this, I am in no shape or form saying the game is perfect, far from it. I have my own gripes with the game, but I’d just like to know what you think is still wrong with the game.

This game is fine for some, for some of us, I guess we have realized it is not for us.
For me, crafting and selling has always been a part of my play besides, pve, and guild raiding. I enjoy farming and crafting with the mats, in this game, the high end stuff that sells( the reasons I enjoy it ) relies on a random drop not a farm-able materiel to make that item. That is all end game crafted items. So the reward for the hard work is not there, sorry, I want to feel rewarded for spending hours doing something, that’s my thing. After exploring the world, running the 5 mans there isn’t much else to do since I really do not like to pvp, If I did, i guess I would be playing a FPS and not an mmo, like my son does.

So the world is done, 5 mans raids been there done that, though I have decided I want to run how or ac 46 times for two toons. I run for guildies all the time, my major side hobby in game is not there, that breaks the game completely for me.

I know you didn’t ask me what was wrong but this is my issue with the game. Thats ok, so many guildies are signing in less, we have been together for years with various games, they will jump back into vent with something new and off to an new adventure we’ll all go, in the mean time I update aoc, my true love.

Azjenco.9425:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Not snuck in at all. They’ve advertised this addition on Facebook and Twitter (and maybe the forums as well?)

You’re not really paying attention to what you read, and sadly this goes for a lot of people that posted here as well.

First, if you’ll look over here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/february-2013/
I pointed out that the preview feature has recently been added to the February update list, as it wasn’t there when the page was first added. I said nothing about it not being mentioned before.

Next people rushed into the game to see whether it’s there or not… Again, my post was referring to the February update features list.

So please guys, please pay attention to what you read before you comment.

I paid full attention to what you wrote, blame yourself on how you worded your post.

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Did anyone look at the February content as of late? Did anyone notice this perchance:

Preview Items in the Trading Post

Try before you buy! You’ll have the ability to preview items in the Trading Post before you buy them. Simply right-click an item icon and select “Preview” to see the item equipped on your character. Check out how a weapon looks by itself, how it looks when sheathed, and how it looks when wielded by your character.

They must have snuck it in there while we weren’t looking. **

I never read about up and coming patches, or what was patched when I update, I wait for the breaks….

Your last sentence states it as if it was already done. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..

Before you tell people to pay attention to what you write, write what you mean. Snuck is past tense sneak. If it hasn’t happened yet, they are trying to sneak it in.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Though you should take this to the suggestions board and post there that you’d gladly pay gems for more armor/clothing

Many have….

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

I’d love to see them offering town clothes, or other armor skin packages but I think those require some lead time? After all, first there’s the concept art, then the model, and then the translation of that into how it works on character models.

Even assuming they only do a cursory “yup that’s the arm” and don’t look out for horrible clipping issues, you probably won’t see these things immediately.

Though you should take this to the suggestions board and post there that you’d gladly pay gems for more armor/clothing

Seven months is more then enough time, many games that have cash shops pop out fresh armor faster then one piece per year…….

As a matter of fact all of them do but this game, this cash shop is a complete joke of what they do offer for skins.

Karizee.8076:

Deer are overpowered – fear the deer!

IRL, that is true….. at least where I live/drive.

Calae.1738:

Suggestion

Give ideas to Arenanet instead of posting nonsense.

Like they listen…..

AcidicVision.5498:

DaedalusDragon.3754:

While doing Shelter’s event in Cursed Shore there was some player afk near where a bunch of enemies spawned. Needless to say they were dead. In an effort to finish their daily revives, a few people kept reviving them and over time she was a naked player character with broken armor.

This new daily encourages people to do this. Kinda sad.

People have always done this. So when players get back from AFKing and see their character naked, they know to AFK in a safer spot next time. Most of the time you’ll see AFK naked people standing near waypoints because they think thats safe.

LOL…I was not naked!

So then it wasn’t really snuck in period.

Azjenco.9425:

Did anyone look at the February content as of late? Did anyone notice this perchance:

Preview Items in the Trading Post

Try before you buy! You’ll have the ability to preview items in the Trading Post before you buy them. Simply right-click an item icon and select “Preview” to see the item equipped on your character. Check out how a weapon looks by itself, how it looks when sheathed, and how it looks when wielded by your character.

They must have snuck it in there while we weren’t looking.

Funny, I am at the TP right now and can not preview any items….