Guild Wars 2

We already have mounts – every time I’m in Queensdale, people are catching some ‘Train’ :p

I think ArenaNet’s intention of the champ loot bags was not for people to all day accumulate them in the first place but for players to get the odd one or two, or five each day as they explored.

Then people farmed them – making the value of what was inside them drop (on the TP) – so they lowered the loots a little.

Then people farmed some more. People started getting agitated with each other over who does what and who is allowed to kill a champ, and who is too slow because they couldn’t keep up with the train whilst at the same time, one person should wait for the train.

So, sorry, it’s not surprise the champ train got nerfed.

As for people saying it’s all about the gem store – remember that there is no monthly fee to this game, and that gems can also be bought via in-game gold, without obligation.

There are also many, many other champs out there in the PvE areas, as well as loot obtainable from PvP tracks now, and there’s still WvW & EotM zerging if you miss button 1 bashing.

For the people that screamed and shouted and swore at players for killing a champ – I say they have nobody to blame but themselves.

(p.s. this topic should and probably will get merged)

I just think it’s really sad that some people still need scientific and litigious explanations of something that should be plain, common sense. It should be really simple:

Don’t AFK farm. End of.

I’m sure everyone is intelligent enough to know what that means by now.

Hi,

So this week sees the introduction of the White Mantle outfit. It’s nice, but I prefer to be loyal to the Queen. Please can you as soon as possible bring out the Shining Blade uniform from Guild Wars 1 as an outfit? You’d be doing my wallet massive favours.

Thank you!

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Shining_Blade_Uniform

sighs This is the Queensdale Champ Train all over again.

People are entitled to kill a champ if the game lets them. That part is not griefing. If they afterwards start to abuse people in map chat, then report them for that, but killing a champ that you are allowed to kill is not griefing.

You may pwn the champs, but you don’t own the champs.

reddie.5861:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Wallets at the ready!

nope, i bought gw2 i was happy with pve / wvw / spvp
i bought HoT i disliked PvE so much with so much focus on gliding and no more amazing events like cursed shore all farming came from freaking glide events i felt like whole map is build up in 2D super mario bro’s cus by walking u get nowhere everything is blocked off by walls and u gotta glide/use mushrooms or w/e to get around.
sPvP i started to dislike that pre hot already
WvW i still like it even tho these stupid HoT new builds kinda made WvW bit boring if u ask me.

so unless they can fix atleast freaking PvE maps to be OPEN and not closed by 100 walls and forcing u to use stupid jump mushrooms and glide then i would buy it but not for crap maps they have been doing lately (and no i didnt unlock all maps i just unlocked frostbite or w/e name is and that new map from today?) that is it i guess ah and that kittenty map that has endless floating little island everywhere worst kitten ever seen in my life

Erm…. ok?

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

I am getting tired of all inactive players who throws filth on these forums…

Not sure how you know these players are inactive. The minute we start saying one person’s opinion is genuine and the other person’s opinion is trolling is where we get into trouble. We just have to deal with it.

Always write your opinion, positive or negative, with a smile on your face and a smile in your heart.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

I have the best armour and stats at the moment, and i’m happy with everything.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

I’m not psychic, and not everyone who plays Guild Wars 2 is a ‘pro’. Some of us noobs need a bit more user-friendly experience.

I’m confused, one minute you’re new. The next minute you’ve got maxed armour.

In any case, I think the downscaling is one of the best things this game brings to the table, allowing for higher level people to re-visit earlier content, without having it too easy, and without it affecting lower levelled players since we share the same areas.

It’s a problem that’s been addressed several times. The issue is that taking a certain key point is more rewarding than keeping as certain key point.

As I’ve said in another similar post to this, I think you should get rewarded for taking a point, but get rewarded even more for keeping it.

As for the player whispering you, and anyone for that matter – there is never an excuse for verbal abuse – be it in PvE, WvW, PvP etc. Report & Block the user. That player will have their comeuppance one day.

There’s a familiar saying on Piken Square that will fit this topic:

I’m 32.

(It’s an inside joke thing between many of us on that server, but I still am until 02 June!)

I do know of people in their 60s and 70s that have been playing too. Sometimes you get things like “How is it someone’s over 30 playing more often than me who is a teenager” and teenagers saying “You’re too old to play video games” just say to them “So, when you’re 29 you’ll just all of a sudden stop playing will you?” and most of them won’t!

Guild Wars 2 is a 12+ Game, not a 12-29 game.

SkyShroud.2865:

TexZero.7910:

you know you can do guild missions whenever right ?

Like whenever you want….

Try doing a guild challenge solo then?

You can be in up to five guilds. If your current guild can’t wait for the weekend and for you to join them on Guild Missions, why not try finding another guild? One of the larger ones, for example, where you’re more likely to land with weekend players?

Stochastic.1398:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Paulie.6215:

Ganking pve’ers would make me soooooo happy.

This is the reason why it’ll never happen.

People who PvE could just not go in it.

It’s not the ganking part I’m referring to, it’s the motives behind why people want it. Labelling people ‘PvE-ers’ as if they hold people who play a certain way with contempt, and then wanting to laugh to themselves as they stomp them or whatever, as if PvE-ers are lesser gamers than they are.

Most of the game, especially the PvE part, is an open-world co-operative game. It should stay that way.

This month (November) you had at least five you could complete in PvE and you only need four:

Monthly Completionist (4 Dailies)
Monthly Salvage Kits (500 Salvage)
Monthly Champion Slayer
Monthly Successful Events
Monthly Skillpoint Amasser

You can do any of these PvE monthlies without the Puzzle Jumper! What more do you need? xD

In my eyes, this isn’t the Queensdale’s death. It’s a rebirth.

No to mounts!

I’ve just taken one shot of the GW2 Forum drinking game. No doubt when someone adds a .gif I’ll be taking shot 2 real soon.

1,500 hours? I’ve got nearly 18,500 hours under my belt and still haven’t had one drop, yet I’m not complaining. RNG isn’t about being entitled to something due to time served.

It’s an intended mechanic in the game and won’t be going away, sorry. Instead of running ‘through an enemy’, have you tried running around groups of mobs instead?

I think it should be increased not decreased personally. Maybe to 15, so it’s still in multiples of three.

Come on people, we bought this game to play it, not to stand about whilst we get freebies!!

I don’t think “should have been” is the right term. Perhaps “I think should have been” is more appropriate for the suggestions you’ve listed, most of which I respectfully don’t agree with. Especially the “adrenaline should have been initiative” bit – it wouldn’t change anything other than it being a different name for when you can dodge.

Edit: It just sounds like you want GW2 to be GW1 to me. It’s a different game with evolved mechanics and an even more evolved story line.

A lot of people worked very hard achieving the Hall of Monuments rewards in Guild Wars 1. To let other people who didn’t so, so easily get it now, especially via gem store, is tacky.

I’m not sure why some people think that ArenaNet actually has problems with money. They are a business at the end of the day, not a charity. If they need money, they’ll find ways to get it.

And also, more money does not necessarily equate to better content.

It’ll bring a load of people to the forums who can’t take a joke for one day.

Edit: Someone will write this on the forums tomorrow:

“You should have at least give us a toggle for this, so we players have A CHOICE "

The movie should be based on the forums. Some of the people’s flamboyant drama on these forums are definitely worthy of an Oscar or two.

The idea of designing PvE from Day 1 of this game was so competitive play and co-operative play were separate.

If you’ve been absent for such a long time, you couldn’t have wanted the item you’re about to craft that much.

In my opinion, having to empty your inventory every now and then is the price you pay for farming. Don’t know if OP farms a lot or not, but it’s often the case people who want bigger bag slots are the ones who spend hours on end doing farm runs.

In Character

For Roleplay.

Doggie.3184:

It’s a false flag so he wasn’t exploiting or doing anything wrong. The person who reported him was abusing the system.

You’re basing this off one player’s side of the story. You don’t know the facts of the suspension at all, so best not to jump to conclusions. The OP could be 100% innocent, 100% guilty. Not for us to judge.

Just like it’s not up to the person who reported him to judge whether he is guilty or innocent, but if they see suspect behaviour, always best to report.

Hi,

Certain champs that spawn in the world are tied to the Living World storyline and achievements. Theses champions are fun to play in groups in the beginning when they are first introduced, when many players are enthusiastic to attack them and earn achievement points or progress the story.

However, as time goes on, players who have already done them a few times (in some cases just once!), they grow weary of the difficulty of them, and many of them are now being skipped.

The best example is probably the Mordrem champion in Iron Marches, which is nowadays seldom done as a group to fight it is hard to ask for. Bandit champions across Kryta are also starting to be skipped.

This can be frustrating for some players, especially new players, or ones who haven’t done the achievements yet. So I recommend demoting a few of the ‘event’ champs down to Elite or perhaps Veteran status now, in-line with the lower demand to complete them.

I think this will help new players complete the achievements, and it might also perk some new interest for those who have already experienced them to defeat them again, given that fewer players would be needed.

Thanks.

My male Sylvari saying ‘You rarely see one of these’ when I receive some Bloodstone Dust…

Superfast.5901:

Maybe that girl left to play Wildstar like all the other intelligent people.

There’s so many people on the GW2 forums that say they’ve left or hinted they left, yet still feel they care to comment in the forums. confused

Unseenstrike.2971:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Unseenstrike.2971:

I beg you, make an RP channel, just for rp, that rp players can use, and spam to their hearts content,

“Spam”?

Using /say chat is not spam. Roleplayers have just as much right to use the /say channel for friendly, in-character chat as those players who like to use it for out of character chat. If it bothers you that much, just use a different channel and make new chat tabs that don’t have /say or /emotes ticked.

RP is NOT spam.

I looked at google for a definition of spam, I found this, quote, “irrelevant or unsolicited messages” – and that is exactly what most of that rp is to me, so I do define a lot of it as spam (particularly when it is repeated over and over again, for example, when someone is grinding on the lap of another).

You say “friendly, in-character chat”, I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about the spamming, the swearing, the abuse and the erp.

Everyone has a right to use the /me command and that is fine, what is not fine is spamming, and abuse.

Except it’s not unsolicited because roleplayers are talking amongst each other. Otherwise by your definition unsolicited talk is anyone who is not talking to you specifically. Let’s have only you and your friends who talk to you have their own chat channel instead, that’d save a lot of developer’s time.

Oh wait, that already exists, doesn’kitten It’s called ‘party’ and ‘guild’ chat. There you go.

Again, please do not smear roleplayers. They contribute a lot to this great game. Some of them a lot more than most non-roleplayers. They buy the game just like any other player. They spend money on gems for outfits like any other player. And most of them spend a lot more time in the game than most non-roleplayers.

I agree with you that the ERP should be private though. But if you’re going to want to put a stop to public ERP by roleplayers, then equally a stop should be put to non-roleplayers who shout and swear ‘lel top kek’ and make sick jokes in /say and /map chat. Which can already be dealt with via the function of in-game reporting.

I’m from Piken Square – virtually no roleplayer I have ever seen has partaken in public ERP in the four years I’ve RP’d there. I can’t say if the same is true for Tarnished Coast/NA roleplayers though. But the EU RPers are usually a friendly bunch that know to take indecent ERP to private channels (usually Salma )

Thanks for the Spoil-Eir alert! :p

I actually think the defend events should be more rewarding (And perhaps harder too to compensate) than the capture ones. What kind of hero says “Oh, you need defending? You’re on your own, mate. I’ll wait until your dead so I can get better loot!”?

Do you personally own Heart of Thorns? Because as far as I understand, only people who own Heart of Thorns get the HoT dailies, not all players. And this is why it’ll be coming up for you. Similar to how players with no Level 80 characters won’t get Cursed Shore Event Completer.

My thoughts are if you want to support ArenaNet in this way, all you have to do is buy gems with IRL money.

I’m confused by most of your post.

1. Already Exists Condition Damage and Condition Duration.
2. Unsure what you mean.
3. Already Exists Guild Hall arena & custom arenas set to “Courtyard only”.
4. Already Exists Down to interpretation what “realistic” means.
5. Alreadt Exists There are websites that show you profitable crafts you can try. Don’t expect crafting to give you 300% profit margin though – because if they did, everyone would do it, and the price of the ingredients rocket, quickly making that 300% into 3% or less again.
6. Bigger isn’t better. Can ruin balance.
7. As above.
8. Already exists Guild Hall arenas or PvP Custom arenas set to “Courtyard only”.
9 Already exists Mobs do jump out of ‘nowhere’ and they are strategically places in their respective zones (i.e. Griffons are near nesting areas, bandits near bandit camps etc.).

^ Pedantry is strong in this one today.

A new playable race would also require a new personal story so here goes for Skritt:

“I am Skritt. Yes yes. Long time ago, we lived in caves and under ground. It was dark but was skritt home. But then, destroyers came to get us, and we had to run away!

We found new home in outside world, but the sun was very bright. Yes, bright. We make living from finding shinies. Lots of shines makes us live with nicer things.

Skrittburg is my home. We live with lots of Skritt and look after Skritt King who must stay alive on throne for long time. Yes, but bad people like nightmares and grey ears and tall men come to get Skritt King.

Today, I chosen to leave Skrittburg to find lots of shinies, but instead, I found the bad nightmare people trying to capture other Skritt. I must do something, and help them from being slaves.

This is my story. Yes yes!"

I’d stay in the Ossan bar at Divinity’s Reach, RPing!

Necrotic.7820:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Necrotic.7820:

I find it interesting that many of the folks here apparently siding with the OP are condoning and encouraging the very same behavior they claim to be reporting.

There is a difference between being a kitten to an innocent player who just wanted to play an event, and being a kitten to a kitten.

If he just asked normally I would back away. I wouldn’t have a problem with someone wanting me to back off so he can do things his way, I have a problem with people insulting me for no reason, and if I can strike back at them without risking a ban I will.

If he just asked normally I would back away. I wouldn’t have a problem with someone wanting me to back off so he can do things his way, I have a problem with people insulting me for no reason, and if I can strike back at them without risking a ban I will.

I’m sorry…I guess you were talking about another incident. If the OP quoted the “offending” player correctly then I did not see any offensive or insulting behavior at all. Adding the “F” word did not change the players statement, it only added emphasis. They could just as easily have said “Get out there need to fail” and the meaning would stay the same…even if not in perfect English.

I suspect however that the OP might have found some other reason to report them or otherwise be offended. The fact that the OP even started this thread suggests to me that they know full well the situation but were choosing to be “Guiding light” in how this game should really be played.

You can’t understand the rudeness behind someone swearing at you in private message? Swearing doesn’t add emphasis to anything, it’s just plain rude and usually serves only to insult people or pick fights. You might find it acceptable to be sworn at, but that doesn’t mean every player does.

The OP had right to report/block. It’s up to ArenaNet to decide if it was intense enough to server a warning or a ban.

Almighty Dervisher.6720:

penelopehannibal.8947:

If the game still works, what difference does it make?

The difference being GW looks great and runs at a flat 60+, no issues. While GW2 won’t go above 40 no matter what kitten settings I pick. Whatever Anet did, they really kittened up their engine.

You’re comparing a 2012 game to a 2005 game though. One of which is more open world than the other as well. If they’re both on the same level playing field, no matter what is changed, one is going to perform better than the other no matter how many times you update whatever drivers or hardware you do.

40+ FPS is rubbish to you? Think about us Mac users for heaven’s sake!!

Tumult.2578:

So now every time we waypoint to an area where any events are occurring, our gold is taken, but we don’t go there. We go somewhere we did not want to go.
This is worse than having most of the waypoints show uncontested, even when they aren’t.
I’m concerned that a lot of players will look at this as simple robbery?

This system of being re-directed to a different WP when it’s contested has always been there since August 2012.

To be honest, we shouldn’t really be relying on manual taxis to do content in the first place.

I have 24 characters and what I’ve done is buy them each one set of Orichalcum tools, and equip them. My unlimited ones are in the shared inventory slots, and all I have to do is double click each one when I log onto my character, and when I’m about to log off, double click again to re-equip the Orichalcum ones. It was a bit awkward at first, but now I’m in the habit of doing it, it second nature now to do this when switching characters.

On the ‘Waa Waa’ bit – there are people from all aspects of the game that ‘Waa Waa’ from time to time. Not just what you label as ‘PvE players’ – the only label we should all have is ‘GW2 Players’ instead of dividing each other. But I guess that’s a different topic altogether.

Which race in Tyria invented perfume?

The Scent-aurs.

ChrizZcE.5981:

give us a reason to come back to the zones.

Erm, for fun? For entertainment?

If you’re playing this game for the loot, all you’re doing is the long way round of increasing a digital integer. Where’s the fun in that? Just keep pressing +1 on a calculator and you’ll get the same result.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

You CHOOSE to take offense to ‘vulgar’ language.

Nobody chooses to take offence. People DO choose to be offensive though.

Vayne.8563:

I don’t expect the game to entertain me. I learned long ago to entertain myself.

This is positive thinking.

A lot of people who complain, I sometimes think need to be spoon-fed entertainment. They say inside a computer game they’re bored. Bored.. inside a computer game…

To me, that’s kind of like sitting in a restaurant, not ordering anything, then complaining you’re hungry.