Guild Wars 2

P.S. Please, stop the military, rogue, and sci-fi looking armor sets for rangers, but make rangers look like rangers again. Thanks!

No problem with Saidra’s Haven or New Loamhurst. But I have stopped counting the many times I have already liberated Harvest Cascades from the White Mantle as well as the centaurs, yet I am not receiving the achievement.

The Verdant Brink bug is spreading, ahhhhhh!!!

Please fix, thank you.

Great. So I was excited about a new patch, but all in vain. This bug still hasn’t been fixed and I still can’t proceed with my characters’ personal stories.

This is vital content, please fix it already…

Hello all,

I was just going through my friends list and realized that in some cases I couldn’t recall who that person was. I sometimes add players that I grouped with in PvP, but then I don’t see them online in a while and forget who they are.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to put people into (self-created or predefined) categories, so that you remember in which game mode you added them or who they are in general?

I mean, close friends (RL) you’d remember of course, also guildmates (as you can see them in the Guild panel), but in cases of random players you encountered or people who have been absent for a while it is really hard. Friends categories would make it a lot easier to organize your friends list (PvE, PvP, WvW etc.).

Just a thought.

And here is another reason why Elite Specs are problematic:

I am just skilling a Necromancer, and there are so many trait lines from the core traits that make zero sense to be used with Scourge, because they apply boni to Shrouds. Unless you change them all to “Shroud and Shade”, they will become redundant for new builds.

Note: I am aware that there is a shroud skill, but it’s not working like the old shrouds, so traits that give a bonus to “Shroud Skill 1” or “4” or whatever won’t work, because your skill bar does not change into new shroud skills.

So, dear devs, what are you planning to do about it? I’m curious.

P.S. How about you change/adjust core trait lines depending on the elite spec that has been selected? That would be a nice solution and make builds more diverse and interesting.

Well, big mistake or not, you need to take responsibility for it and correct that mistake.

There are so many areas on core Tyrian maps that make zero sense if you haven’t played LWS1!

For instance, the poisonous field in Kessex Hill (Greyhoof Meadows) along with all the dead Seraph plasterted all over the place. Not to mention the many other poisonous spawns/events all across central Tyrian maps.

They leave that content in there without any explanation whatsoever. It’s just sad and IMO bad for the game as story continuity has been broken that way.

Equipment isn’t the key factor that makes HoT (and later content) easier to master. You need an efficient build and to train your player skill more than in the core campaign.

I remember entering HoT for the first time — I wouldn’t touch it for another six or seven months. Then, after I had played more frequently and improved my own skill at the game, I managed a lot better. By now, I regard the HoT maps easy to navigate and enemies just as easy to fight on my own, some with caution, of course. It really just takes getting used to.

onevstheworld.2419:

It would be nice, but I think Anet is unlikely to do that for a cost vs benefit reason. It would mean modifying every single piece of armor and outfit. And Anet doesn’t have the greatest track record in the armor department.

ESO can do it because it has similarly proportioned humanoid races, whereas GW2’s Asura and Charr would require very extreme sliders. And probably result in even more Charr clipping complaints.

The “cost vs. benefit” argument/excuse by Anet is getting real old.

For instance, they already have male human bodies they could scale and add to the Norn body options, so not all male Norn must look like misshaped orangutans with tiny heads, while their female counterparts all look like supermodels with flawless bodies (even the heavier ones).

I agree with the OP that there should be a wider variety of options, and it would be more desirabe new content than most of the kitten they have added in the past year.

Ayrilana.1396:

That’s exactly what you’re suggesting and thank you for re-quoting the post so I didn’t have to.

Obviously, you only see what you want to see, not what was actually said. I said that the aspect of telling things in a way so that even kids (or people of low IQ) would be able to follow the story was one thing I am critizing. That has nothing to do with the use of contemporary language, which is another thing I criticize.

I don’t know how much clearer I can make this for you to understand, but I am getting the feeling that, no matter in how many different ways I am trying to explain this to you, you will always read it the way you want it so you can keep on arguing. And that is something I am not getting further into. Good luck.

Ahlen.7591:

As someone who plays heavy armor I wish there was skimpy armor for females.

Oh, gimme a break! There are enough “tiddy holder” sets.

TheSlothArmada.6709:

Wow I thought this thread was a joke the first time I saw it.

How old are you to not understand the issue and the wish for equality?

Ashen.2907:

A woman, or even some women, wanting something does not prevent it from being sexist. There are women who believe, or at least state that they believe, that women should be subbordinate to men. Sexist even if the person stating the belief is female.

Thank you. This is exactly the case.

So, as the OP already stated in their initial post, there are two options: Either stop creating armor sets where the female version does not equal the male one and is skimpy (thus sexist) in comparison (while the male couterpart fully covers the body), or start creating an equal amount of skimpy armor sets for male characters.

Witch of Doom.5739:

Hopefully mounts will make the dearth of waypoints less of a pain.

You got it all wrong: they decreased the amount of waypoints in PoF even further so you will have to use mounts, whether you like it or not.

I, too, am an advocate for bringing more waypoints back into the game, and hope there will be more in PoF than what we got to see during the demo.

• ID kits should be available from basic merchants, not heart vendors.
• Unidentified gear needs to stack by (and display said) rarit. That way everyone can decide what to salvage and what to identify, provided that the main point of this new (old) mechanic is to save inventory space…

I think that would be the ideal solution for everyone, no?

This is a game-breaking bug!

Note: Occured on EU/German server

The LWS2 story is stuck at “Plan of Attack”, which leads you into the Iron Marches, because the event (killing Bria) is currently undoable!

The Bria event is 100% bugged. (For attachments, check second reply.)

Two Shadow Fiends remain which are invulnerable to attacks. You can bring Bria down to 1% health, but she refuses to die. She just stands in front of her mansion and nothing happens. Her two remaining Shadow Fiends don’t attack, either.

P.S. People who need this event for certain legendary collections are screwed, too.

The Greyhawk.9107:

I’ve a question for those of you that are saying that the game is sexist for having some ‘skimpy’ armors for females: what do you say to female players, regardless of their own real life proclivity, that want there to be these types of armors for their female characters?

That is not the point here. The point is (a) to have alternatives, and (b) to have equality by providing the same amount of skimpy armor sets for male characters.

Which part of what the OP explained clearly did you not understand?

The Greyhawk.9107:

Ashantara.8731:

The armor choices for females are just awfully sexist or overly “femme” (which doesn’t fit an adventurer)!

Sorry, but, who are you to decide who or what fits an ‘adventurer’?

I did not “decide” anything, I voiced my opinion as a woman and as someone who has played a lot of RPGs (not just electronic ones).

That truly was the silliest idea they could come up with.

• First they destroy classic Guild Wars by implementing gliding into basically everything (remember the days when characters used to walk?). Even story missions are now increasingly build around gliding.

• Then they turn Guild Wars more and more into a sci-fi high-tech world (if I ever hear the words “magic” and “machine” combined again, I am going to explode like Taimi’s device).

• And now, on top of all that, they also turn the Six, the Pantheon of Tyrian Gods, into magic-hungry jokes. For real? You could have done it the classy way, have them return to Tyria in the wake of upcoming events instead of this embarrassing interlude featuring the once proud God of War.

I am so miffed right now. What a huge disappointment, ArenaNet. (Of course, your ugly Legendary Armors and even uglier new Legendary Weapons are more important to you, as well as creating maps that have the sole purpose of farming instead of story-telling. Yes, this episode’s story didn’t do it for me at all. GG.)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Gee, I thought their original concept was to be innovative. I mean, that’s what they said even before the game launched. (It’s even in the Manifesto.)

They promised the personality choice you make during character creation to be developed further and become more important in future content, but instead it was canned.

They promised personalized content based on choices your character makes (and on race, which by now has been reduced to mere cosmetics), but instead they changed the direction into a one-way path for all that makes for flat boring story-telling and lacks replayability.

They introduced swimming and diving in GW2, but none of it is of importance anymore. It has become an abandoned child. Instead, they introduced a crazy amount of movement and traveling mechanics (with even more to come in the next expac) that have become the number 1 priority of “innovative” content now, when they are fitting in a 3D action platformer but certainly not in a RPG (which should have rich story-telling, well written character involvement and dialogue, and personal choices as its no.1 priority, not this kitten).

whasabee.2370:

do the dev realise people could be able to fully reach the max in the new elite spec less than 10 seconds after the release?

So what?

Those people worked for their hero points, it shouldn’t matter when or where that work was done.

SmirkDog.3160:

People act like gold sinks are going to make them go broke, as if they don’t do WB trains and SW etc. etc. and have gold come out of their rear. Oh no 3 silver or something, how will I afford it.

That is a pretty selfish way to look upon the problem. Just because you play this way doesn’t mean everybody else does.

I know enough people who do not do farm trains etc., because it’s repetitive, boring content (if you can call it that to begin with). For instance, I have a RL friend who is a casual player, for whom a silver coin does have value — and gold sinks make him play the game even less.

I created a new character only two weeks ago and am currently playing through the original campaign again. And like all the times before, I still can’t get over the fact what an insufficient job the actor voicing Trahearne did.

I mean, he is a core character in GW2, even the most important one in the original campaign. So how come they couldn’t find a different actor or tell this guy to try express emotions? It’s the worst professional voice acting I have heard ever.

Trahearne was supposed to be an inspiring figure, motivating his troups and being looked upon as the hero he never wanted to be. Instead he is sounding like an unemotional robot, plain boring. So boring in fact that I didn’t even care much when he died.

I just checked the Wiki entry, and the actor also voiced several Asuran NPCs in the game. I can’t remember any Asuran NPC sounding like that, though (i.e., emotionless and boring).

What are your toughts on this? Do you agree or disagree, and if the latter then how come?

Darcness.2408:

I was total blown away by this and wanted to ask, what did everyone else think?

I think that, instead of having animated armor (which I am certain the younger players or anime lovers will die for), I would prefer it to have the ability to apply any skin we want to it (and change it at any time) without having to waste Transmutation Charges — because I don’t want the same armor look on each character and have no use for animated armor, either (I believe that the game already has enough gimmicks that make you look “cool” and “special”, like the Nightwing shoulder skin, for instance).

slamfunction.7462:

but the way this set just organically transforms, is a modern marvel to MMOs

Exactly. Ugh… this is Guild Wars, not the Marvel Universe.

I truly hope that Elona and Cantha will find their way back into GW2 by respective content. It’s what made GW1’s lore and maps so versatile and fun to play.

There still is a dialogue option that asks for your character’s heritage, and one of mine has their roots in Cantha. I want Canthans and Tengu and what not. Give this game more cultural depth! (And stop calling every player who happens to have a character with Canthan roots a “weeaboo”, it’s a ridiculous assumption.)

DeceiverX.8361:

Went full-generic-Asian RPG especially with all the overdone particle effects and silly weapons/armor and I’m honestly disappointed. It’s no longer got that great rustic feel.

This. The term “rustic” describes it perfectly. It’s what a classic RPG should look like <3 and what GW did look like until they launched this new design agenda.

Faaris.8013:

I wonder if there is a real money market for popular character names already. Character name grabbing exists. I actually met people who create free accounts in newly released games just to secure the name, in case they want to play it at some point.

That’s terrible. But then again, it is always more fun to use your own creations than “widely popular” names. I don’t have (and never had) a single character whom I would name after existing characters from novels, movies etc., or after real people (I was accused of being a Draco Malfoy fan, because my Ranger’s first name is Draco, but that character’s complete name I came up with in a pen & paper RPG back in 1992, which was long before Harry Potter).

It will most likely be removed soon, like they did with the Southsun Cove commemorative box a few months ago.

Joseflin.7598:

I get the same “Can’t Knock Out The Guard Using F Key” error as well.

Me too, with every single one of my characters!

I was able to play through the mission before the late January patch without a problem. It’s mid March now. How long can it take to fix something vital like a story mission??

P.S. I reported this over a week ago and it still has not been fixed. And looking at the early posts here, this issue occured before (a year ago!). What is going on? I would like to finish the storyline as do my friends. (insert angry emoticon)

Caeledh.5437:

Even solo PvE favours melee. Zipping madly around a foe so they’re rarely facing the right way to hit you is one of the best forms of defence.

My vanilla build condition necromancer with viper’s equipment and a staff begs to differ. I am constantly switching between ranged and melee, but a lot of the time the long ranged staff gets the job done nicely in no time without my character getting hit by any AoE.

Chip.9267:

Wtb Rytlock face!!!

You can create that face, it’s already in the game, among the basic faces (if I remember correctly).

I think this thread is about “normal” looking faces (like the female ones), not monstrous ones like Rytlock’s.

hugo.4705:

What is STRESS test? I don’t get it! It’s not “How the game can be stressful for players” I think?

A stress test is how well servers can handle the load of players in connection to whatever might be causing server-sided lag on the maps as well (environmental effects, skill effects and what not). In that case, maps or skill effects and the like will need to get optimized, maybe server resources need to be adjusted or upgraded etc.

starlinvf.1358:

How far back are we talking? WoW? EQ? UO? Muds? Most of the early games designed around quest line adventures, and you could beat content above your level if you were smart about it. Sometimes you had to farm, but usually in the context of affording an item, or finding something specific out in the field. Now days the design norm is that of a constant deficit; no matter what you are tasked with, you start at zero, and have to fight every system to make progress.

Its almost ironic that WoW not only broke the trend of how content was done, but also reestablished it in a more diabolical form. Lazy MMOs, and now lazy RPGs, use grinds as a game play element…. not a side effect of choices leading up to that point. The fact you think the two are fundamentally synonymous only shows you don’t seem to understand what any of these terms actually mean.

Thank you for this eloquent response.

I, too, find the statement “That’s what MMOs are about, so if you don’t like it, don’t play them!” rather ridiculous. An MMORPG should have the same qualities as good off-line RPGs, with the only difference being that the former is multiplayer. I had more fun playing Neverwinter Nights 1 in co-op mode with with my RL buddy than playing GW2.

Grimwolf.7163:

If they insist on everyone having unique names, I think they should add a system in which any character that has been off-line for X amount of time (a year?) has their name up for grabs, and if the name’s been taken by someone else when/if they come back online, they have to choose a new name.

That would be unacceptable. First come, first served. Not my fault if real life is keeping me away from the game for a while, why would that make me lose my name?

I haven’t had trouble so far finding suitable names, and eight of my ten characters are “newish” by GW2 standards (also, only three use names from GW1 which were reserved for me).

K THEN.5162:

Alternate keyboard symbols such as ä, ü, and ö are your friends

Not a good idea, because Americans believe that doesn’t change the pronunciation, when it does, and greatly so.

UlvenSkyblade.9830:

My suggestion is that when the new expansion drops to make the HoT maps free to play. Before I explain why I suggest this let me make this clear I only mean maps. Not masteries not stories not even adventures. Only map acces so people can walk around and participate in the meta events

You can’t participate in the meta events without many of the masteries, you can’t even get everywhere without gliding, updrafts, mushrooms, and poison resistance.

Have you filed a support ticket?

In respect of real PTSD, I find it a bit disrespectful to use it in context of a virtual gaming experience. That said, I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen. I wouldn’t mind seeing Ascalon City rebuilt and the Charr and their ugly, dirty, stinking metal contructions being driven out of Ascalon again, but that won’t happen — so all I can hope for is that Divinity’s Reach will prevail (and not look like LA afterwards).

Behellagh.1468:

That outfit is a throwback to GW, or so I’m told.

That’s wonderful! It’s the Spearmarshal outfit from GW1.

Is that the so-called “Spearmarshal’s Presense” that is mentioned in the Deluxe Edition? If so, what is the “Lily of the Elon Pass”? A location teleport?

Aveneo.2068:

Would have been cool if it actually looked like that. Unfortunately for female characters it looks like this

Oh.

Oh, okay. I tuned out early during those showcases, because I find WoodenPotatoes’ endless fanboy monologues quite tiresome.

By the way, I have not seen that “ammunition” update anywhere in-game when I switch to bows or pistols. Where do I have to look?

Well, I am always asking myself: What could I possibly get for that gold that was better than the convenience of never having to zone again in order to get to my stuff or exchange things between characters (I have nine)? The answer is: nothing. Legendary weapons cost more than that and everything else I can achieve on my own. But being able to access your bank from everywhere without the hassle of zoning, re-logging into another char etc. is simply priceless. Best service I can imagine.

Nihevil.8024:

Al Menia.4570:

Why is it bad?
At least it can stack, and that’s handy!

It costs 1s 68c to identify each piece and if you don’t you’ll lose out on precursors and other nice exotics that sell for decent amount of gold.

That is an outragous price. (head—>desk)

Mike O Brien.4613:

We hope we’ve brought each story chapter, each open-world zone, and each mount up to the level of what you experienced in the demos last month.

I seriously hope you have improved the things that people have criticized about certain map mechanics and, of course, the elite specializations (effects, balancing, and so on).

Don’t disappoint me! I would hate to take my leave from this game because of recent design disappointments and the increasingly infantile writing.

Nevertheless, good luck with the launch. I hope everything works out for both sides.

I definitely want new Elite Specializations, but they should be made more versatile so that they don’t replace the existing ones but instead provide an option which type of build the player chooses to play.

Tiny Doom.4380:

Arden.7480:

I am so happy that in the story we didn’t get USA politics.

That’s irony, right?

It must be, because — even as a non-US citizen — I could see the innuendoes, which got quite a few smirks out of me.

CowKing.1785:

Am I the only one that needs to put on sunglasses to read the GW2 forums?
Is there any way to turn the white into black and the black into white?
You could light the way through the English Channel with this page.
Seriously though, your drying my skin out.

White text on a black background is bad for the eyesight — that is a scientific fact. However, more color options for this forum would be nice.

Since you claim you needed sunglasses, I suggest you adjust your monitor settings as it sounds like your brightness is at an unhealthy level.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

It’s been out for a year now, it’s no longer news, I can’t see why we still need to view the cutscene everytime or why it still has that horrible obnoxious fanfare theme that sounds like it could be a 70’s Superman movie theme.

The current background music for the city is truly obnoxious. Who needs heroic fanfares 24/7 while roaming a city? It’s a shame that many (newer) area have that issue so that one is forced to completely mute all background music in the game.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

Keep to your Jeremy Soule style music Anet, it’s great the way it used to be, trying to copy John Williams is an embarassement.

+1

Jeremy Soule = <3

Beorn Raukar.4328:

Ashantara.8731:

Curunen.8729:

I’m only interested in testing the elite specs.

Well, I am! So, did I get this right? We won’t get to test the elite specs this weekend??

Next weekend is Elite Specs demo. PvP and WvW,

That makes this weekend’s demo pretty useless though, no?

Palador.2170:

We’re not allowed to make Caithe answer for that, so I’m sure the Pale Tree will be “forgiven” just as easily.

Caithe is a different story. Mordremoth toyed with her mind, she can’t be held responsible for it and has apologized a dozen times already — so enough of that.

As for the Pale Tree keeping the secret: had she been conscious at the time that Mordremoth’s power grew to such destructive potential, she probably would have done something about it. But being as it is, her “children” were weakened by her unconscious state. Was it wise to keep this a secret? Hard to say, but she did tell it at least one Firstborn, who unfortunately was murdered. And Caithe promissed not to tell anyone. You can make of that what you will, it’s a complicated matter if you ask me.

AvaAzul.8290:

four year old thread being necro’d yet not being disabled????

This has been an ongoing thread for years now, so there is no reason to “disable” it.
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Here’s another one from my ever growing collection (left side: present state, right side: want-state).

Since these are no longer available during Halloween and Wintersday, please make them purchasable in the Gem Store:

- Mad Memoires
- Mad Memoires: Complete Edition
- Toymaker’s Bag

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Just an FYI: You don’t need to ‘grab’ a Bounty off the board to get credit for killing one. Just join in when you come across one.

Well, that is one less worry then in the big pool of worries.

Vayne.8563:

Founder Mike O’Brien did not leave.

Yes, my bad. The others did, making him the only original founder left. Maybe that’s part of the problem?

I don’t know, it’s just that I feel that the game has nothing more to give, while it could have been so much more. It’s one big “same old, same old” with no variety whatsoever.

For some reason, the devs believe that adding jumping mushrooms and oakheart essences makes for variety, but it does not. The game doesn’t make you feel, it doesn’t truly touch you and excite you (not anymore). It’s just fighting one big bad after another, with no real personal involvement in the story, no personalized content based on race and background story, no nothing that makes for an exciting RPG experience.

While many of the responses have valid points of criticizing the OP, I have to agree that the OP was right on spot when they wrote:

the reason people play gw2 instead of 1 is because gw1 is ancient and is not getting updates

This.

If GW1 still continued on, I would rather be playing that at the moment, seeing as how boring GW2’s story has become, how repetitive its missions (with their “need” to provide even “more action”, like that would make them more exciting and increase quality), and how little variety the skill system allows (because it is bound to weapons, and because of the meta).

While GW2 did start out as an MMO_*RPG* (and I dearly missed the RPG aspect in GW1), it quickly turned more and more into a mere action game/hackfest with only a few bits of good story content here and there (I can count the good story content and enjoyable missions of HoT and S3 on one hand).

GW1 had the better lore, and before its release I had hoped GW2 would be an advanced GW1: more mobilty (jumping and swimming), but remaining the same at its core regarding the skill system and story-telling. And while it started out as a promising RPG, with personal story options, cinematic dialogue, and story missions that had more to offer than just fighting, it changed drastically over time. Now it truly is just action and very little fun/RPG.

Therefore, I can relate to the OP’s sentiment of missing the feeling of playing GW1, which also was an online action game, but — as stated before — with much more enjoyable content in many regards. So if I wanted action, I’d be playing GW1 — only I already played through all of its content tons of times.