Guild Wars 2

LordByron.8369:

yes if you look at a famous staff that was the most desired for long it went from 80 G to 20 in 1 week.

To finally rest at about 3G.

I love some of the comments:

“Definitely the worst armor ever made in any MMORPG!”
“Worse than starter gear!”
“3-year olds can do better!”

Yea, I don’t think so. It’s not your flavour, we get it, but ooh boy does the over-exaggerating hit hard here.

As for myself, I can already envision a couple of armor mix and matches which will look stunning. Who wears full sets anyway?

MrRuin.9740:

Ravenmorghane.9287:

So really it boils down to one query from me:
If this game is really so bad then why are you people still playing ? It makes the forums less enjoyable for players like me who genuinely like the game.

I’m not. I’m logging in to do dailies for laurels in case I do play again one day and want those for something. But that’s about it.
I continue to post here because I hope for better things for it. IMO, it has a lot of potential that’s just going to waste. I’m hoping to see that potential fulfilled.

Hmm, so basically you are playing the game.
As far as the company is concerned you are a customer that logs in on a daily basis and you are thus a very welcome statistic.

And like that there are so many people who claim to have left the game or aren’t playing anymore, but still consistently log in and provide activity numbers, thinking they are making a difference when in reality they are being beneficial.

Drama much?
So you dislike two updates in a row because you get frustrated. If that makes you believe ‘the game is not for you’ then let it be and move on.

You’re getting your panties in a bunch over content that doesn’t even make up a single % of the game.

What? Only three?
Are you one of those rare optimists?

zencow.3651:

Unlike the OP, Meteorlogicus’ blue was the only reason why I STOPPED being a TA armor charr.

If it turns purple I will be forced to don the wedding dress again so my outfit matches both legendaries. And I’d have to stop using a Zodiac Dagger and get Peacemaker/Nightmare.

Before and After Meteorlogicus entered his life:

It’s like watching an extreme make-over show.

Mr Bimble.2764:

All the hints were that we would have a big improvement with this update

Really? I would say all the hints were against it. The way they were hyping trivial changes, even using the same change multiple times to add “body” to their blogs was a clear sign to me that this would be a pointless update.

They totally lived up to my expectations.

My thought is that talk is cheap. I might get excited if I see what this is actually going to be.

At least, more things to do is always better I suppose.

I wholeheartedly agree that any MMO needs to keep attracting new players. I just don’t think they need to have the mental capabilities of a chicken, that’s all.

I asked the question before, last QoL-update, if people were really struggling so much with traits. Apparently even back then new players couldn’t count to five anymore.

And now people are so confused about the downed state that they even removed it for the first five levels.

I’m sorry, what? How does this in any way make it more simple to understand?

What level of quality end game players are we raising with this, I wonder.

I’m very aware of what a whiny place the forum can be and I’m also aware that Anet is constantly in a “Kittened of you do, puppy’d if you don’t” situation.

However

Considering the enormous backlash the update has caused, with countless civilised and fair concerns popping up, I find it rather offensive not to get any recognition whatsoever. Furthermore, seeing the only communication going out either filled with “everything is great!”, “People love it”, “Couldn’t be better!”, or “Please bundle all your complaints in one topic (so we can ignore them more easily, I would like to silently add to that)”, then it becomes pretty disgusting in my opinion.

This whole ordeal has caused a great loss of trust in Anet for me. I, as part of a community, do not feel heard or respected in any way.

I do not consider myself whiny when I react to valid, real problems. At worst it made me cynical.

I just had to comment on all the “it’s your own fault, not the company”-posts.

Good lord, how horribly naive can you be? It is blatantly obvious that these little titbits of information are way over-hyped and yes this is most certainly done intentionally.

And why wouldn’t they? I bet most of you here, myself included, have waited impatiently for each new blog expecting the world out of the insinuating titles, only to be left with a bitter-sweet feeling after reading the incredibly trivial information they give.

You can call people spoiled all you want but it is a fact that this whole week of shenanigans is just one giant publicity stunt. In the end negative attention is still attention.

As for myself, I’m rather disappointed yes. You can say that these are all positive things (to which I disagree, because I feel really cheated out with townclothes), but that doesn’t mean we should sing songs of praise about it, especially when they are deliberately hyped up as the next best thing, evar!

As far as I’m concerned this has been one giant pile of ‘simplifications’ on matters which hardly challenge the brain, making me wonder how high they estimate the general IQ of their players. Or maybe it’s for the “massive” influx of new players I’ve seen nowhere.

I’m not usually a negative ninnie, but I just can’t be excited about new systems that don’t fix any of the underlying problems or extremely trivial simplifications.

Hurray for juvenile thoughts!

Never mind that the Indigo Milk Cap actually exists and does in fact produce a blue milky substance, I’m sure they went for sexual innuendo here.

Gifting holiday themed items during the holiday season of gifting? Are you mad?
This is almost as outlandish a thought as actually earning holiday themed items by playing the game during the holiday season.

Simple case of “omg this is more flashy, ergo this is better!”.

Fashion tip: Flashy does not always equal fashionable. There are many gear setup’s which will be more aesthetically pleasing with a Fellblade than with these pink neonboards. In fact, if anything these things will be much harder to style around.

Anything you do gives you experience. Most people do indeed try to get 100% completion on maps to progress, as it works very well. Do heart quests, find vista’s, points of interest and hero challenges.

Grab yourself a gathering pick, axe and sickle and gather any resource you come by. And if you hit the requirements, go do the dungeon stories. Those are big exp bombs.

Another popular leveling strategy is to go to the Edge of the Mist map. This is a WvW zone, so you’ll go up against other players sometimes, but usually there will be trains, leaded by a commander, which focus on claiming points. This gives good exp.

However, I would suggest this for follow up characters. I think exploring the world is a very nice experience, I would suggest savoring it as it lasts.

Dawdler.8521:

MithranArkanere.8957:

A flat texture is a cheap way to save polygons. People usually don’t look under the skirt, so that doesn’t need to get rendered, and that allows you to add other details to the model, like earring and fluttering stripes.

It looks really ugly, though. So I don’t think it’s worth it. It’s better to save in other places.

GW2, save polygons on stuff that cant normally be seen with the current gear set?

My googly eyed Asura disagree.

It’s fine, I wasn’t going to sleep tonight anyway.

Clearly both are using plot shields, a very powerful NPC ability.

I do not mind the higher difficulty much, at worst it’s mildly annoying if you want to get anywhere quickly.

Actually, that’s the real issue with HoT and thus GW2 in general that I have. There is nothing left to get quickly. Everything, I mean everything is a long winded slog nowadays.

Oh you want item X? Well here’s your collection. Better go grind out that mastery and buy an item that only have value as part of a collection with your slowly grinded map specific tokens! Oh right, you want to get item Y too? Well you need more tokens for that, look here is your collection for that.

You know what, we’ll throw in a lot of expensive materials for good measure too. Just to be sure you ain’t getting diddely-squat anytime this year.

Logging into the game these days is like checking in at work. All right, let’s see what’s on my to do list for today…

If you want to get anything in this game, as it is right now, you’re not supposed to have any fun anymore.

Smurfbuster.1529:

3: Scarlet Briar and the systematic destruction of lore. First of all, I’ll start at the most obvious deviation from lore. Sylvari don’t have last names, there’s not a single sylvari in the entire LS/PS/open world that has a last name. Scarlet Briar is a sylvari with a last name. Why does she have a last name? I have no idea, but if Arena Net’s creative writing team is capable of overlooking a flaw as blatant as that, I have low hopes for them.

It’s obviously more of a title, pseudo, rather than her actual name.

Smurfbuster.1529:

Second, how is she so well-educated? Not only has she graduated from all three colleges, something even Snaff couldn’t do, but she’s been trained by several other races as well. If non-asura can get into colleges now, why haven’t we seen more examples in the game beforehand? The amount of time it would take to graduate from all three asura colleges, and then also be trained by four other races is far outside the timeframe that sylvari have walked Tyria.

I see this a lot. First of all, how do you know how long it takes to graduate from a college? All Asura join one and usually stay affiliated with that college for their lifetime, but where does it say how long it takes to graduate?
Secondly, who says an Asura can’t graduate from more college’s. They just don’t seem to bother.

I’ll give you the other points because they’re mostly up in the air at the moment. You seem to jump to conclusions quite quickly though. There have been a couple of tidbits on Scarlet that point to her being influenced strongly by some purpose. She’s not just evil for the sake of it, she appears to be trying to show us something. Aside from that she’s clearly in the loony bin.

Lets face it, this whole fiasco is the fault of the Pale Tree. She should have informed Trahearne, at the very least, the moment Mordremoth stirred. Precautions should have been taken accordingly.

As far as I can see, the “Zerker” nerf is the least of the complaints.
Even so, the nerf was not even a solution to the problem. People will still play Zerker, they will just do less damage. It won’t change the mentality at all, just lessen it’s effectiveness to ‘still a little better than all other options’.

My sentiments exactly BFS. I used to be a most fervent supporter of this game, forgiving so much out of sheer nostalgia. But those days are long gone now.

I’ve been bored out of my wit for a long time, hardly forking over any cash at all any more. What’s the point when there’s nothing to do? I barely logged in to kill Scarlet, and that was only because it felt I should finish what I’ve been slugging through all this time, not out of excitement.

I haven’t even logged in for this patch either. It really doesn’t interest me at all, in fact I’m more annoyed that when I finally do log in, I’ll have to go and redo all my characters’ gear because of these pointless changes.

But I digress. Since I don’t pay any subscription fees, I’ll just let it sit there until there’s something refreshing to experience. If that never comes, then so be it I suppose.

Naevius.3185:

In any case, I’m not sure the Master Of Peace is a Sylvari…

That would be the Master of Peas.
Hahahaha ha ha ha…. I’ll stop now.

You have a legendary, your point is thus moot!

Hah

These kind of topics always bring a single thing to mind for me.

+1 for fun factor

Also, if I may chime in, I’d like the magic carpet and broomstick to be a gliders too

Flytrap.8075:

Colin says a lot of things and you must learn to take them all with a grain of salt.

I asked this in another topic, but I’ll do it again here.

People against the inclusion of a character slot in the base package, what do you have to gain in fighting against this. Even more, what damage do you have from including a free character slot?

I haven’t seen a single compelling argument. Adding a character slot is not only logical but furthermore hurts absolutely nobody. I’m very sorry but to me, if you’re fighting to defend this choice, your only motivation is to deprive others of enjoyment.

Yep. Everything sounds much better in English al right.

They just don’t give a cluck

Oh please, of course they knew.

Or at least those in touch with the community knew. It’s just that those who made the decisions don’t give a cluck and those who knew what was going to ensue are left cleaning up the mess and soaking up the hatred.

Usually I’m not that guy, shrug but isn’kitten bit silly to apply real world physics to the world of Tyria?

…Oh who cares anyway.
This topic entertains me and I learned something new. So +1

No it’s not. The stat ‘budget’ already exceeds the stat totals of other sets.

I don’t understand how these complaints keep coming. Making a time gated exotic set with relatively hard to get materials just for the magic find is absurd. And for what reason? Because it made you less of a burden in a party? Barely.

Anyway removal of MF from these sets change nothing to the combat usefulness of the set. It keeps a balanced stat total.

Legendary weapons were pretty much available to anyone, given a variable amount of time. I like that, because it gives everyone a thing to work towards, whether you are a master at the game or simply a casual player having fun.

Legendary backpack is locked behind fractals. That’s already a big difference in the sense that some people will be locked out of this because of their skill level. Is it fair that these people get no shot a the legendary backpack? What if ‘git gud’ doesn’t work?

Then legendary armor is locked behind raids, without a doubt an even harsher, much more difficult part of the game. If you take a gander at the collection, you’ll see that one will probably have to beat all bosses in several raid wings to get the precursors. That’s just not going to happen for a lot of GW2 players. Anet even said as much.

Is this fair? I don’t think it is. I feel that legendary gear must be available to all, but the rate at which you gain it should or can be skill gated. I certainly approve of skins locked behind raids, i approve those auras being a raid thing.

But legendary items were supposed to be a “journey”. Now they are not. They have truly become something for the elite, and to me that is disheartening.

Mmm there’s nothing quite like opening a topic and having your attention drawn to the crotch of a giant cat.

Yea it’s amazing isn’t it?
Now we can pick berserker stats and change to berserker stats when we do other content.

If you don’t need something, getting it for free doesn’t hurt you.

If you get a free cookie, but you don’t eat cookies, does that mean they shouldn’t hand them out to anyone? Maybe someone there was really happy to get a cookie and would be very disappointed if they suddenly stopped handing them out because someone complained that they didn’t want a free cookie.

I know I’m twisting the situation like this, because in reality no cookies are being handed out at all, and some people who saw the advertisement of said cookies were expecting them to be handed out, as a taste, and are now asking why there are no free cookies.

But I still wonder why anyone would deny someone else a cookie, because they don’t want it.

…I’m craving for cookies now.

simplesimon.2084:

Rainbowsand.2438:

I saw no carrier pigeon and its instant so its a quantum teleportation. Rm paid for merchant contracts? These have no purpose to defeat as all you have to do to access tp is to enter pvp lobby from anywhere and walk a few dozens of steps.

You have to look real close. Move the TP off to the side so you can see your person. When you sell an item you see a little bird fly off.

It’s really obvious with the red envelope though, as you throw those away, grunting.

They are simply there for atmosphere purposes. It could have been simply the cash value of that item, but these things are meant to make it look a bit more believable.

“Wonder what’s in this ancient chest! Hmm so sort of damaged crap, doesn’t seem to have any value. Bummer.”

They’re a minor hassle but without these little things the world would be far less immersive.

Well to be fair, you need some visual tell of what you’re doing. Either they redesign the engineer so that it’s toolkits are on the arms/hands or it stays as it is.

A neat little thing for engineers would be to allow each tool kit to be customised to some degree. Perhaps a couple of theme’s like basic/modern/plantlike/steampunk/etc.
Even dyeable would be great. They are part of the core of the profession after all.

Ayrilana.1396:

Traherne will be the final boss.

I guess this won’t end well after all then.

skowcia.8257:

And yet people still dont understand..Will you demand loot to keep while playing in new maps on beta toon? Nobody force you to make revenant and play it, if you cant handle the fact that you wont make any money during playing rev on beta slot then tough luck. Wait for release.

Oh no, i’m not asking anything. Like I said, I’m going to mess around with it somewhat, but they’ll get no useful data from me.

I don’t think people will demand drops from unreleased zones, they do however expect to get the same reward they always get from doing the same thing over again. Playing the revenant in a dungeon is not a reward by itself, and serves no gain in the end. Thus, few will do it.

Downhill?
The Community fell of a cliff!

Nox Lucis.8341:

Leo G.4501:

Now for my Asura. He just needs to find a Norn female that finds him charming and likes to hear him go on about his various studies and experiments. :p

Not wanting to be crude and horrible person, but…
Choosing to be crude and horrible person anyway.

I hope your Asura doesn’t mind being used as a d—-o!

pft! Asura/Norn. That’s rich.

“I majored in Norn anatomy, with a minor in spelunking. "

Fractals are impressions of events past and future, but not exactly true to them. They are often a mix and match of elements. They are scenario’s build from fragments of reality. Or at least, that’s how I understand it.

Uncategorized fractal is not a future event however, I believe none of the fractals are at this point.

Is this a rhetorical question?

Cash.2385:

Did everyone go on test day yeah this bad kitten something we can’t beat?

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Afya.5842:

I rather wear lady gaga’s outfits.

Try throwing a selection of stacks of meat in the MF, you never know…

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

Dondarrion.2748:

I just love Kasmeer’s ambient dialog when you interact with her. I was at the murder scene with Marjory and her and the story was turning grim, I pressed F and somehow interacted with Kasmeer instead of Marjory, so Kasmeer found it fitting to say

“I adore what you’re wearing, I must get a dress that colour”

I’m a male guardian btw…

What’s your point? She was complimenting your dye choice.
God knows too few people compliment me on my fabulous looks.

Besides, what are a few more bodies anyway. We’ve slaughtered hundreds of thousands. Even got achievements for it!

It’s probably something stupidly prude like promoting sex through playboy bunny ears.
¬.¬

Shame too, my Charr is ready for his makeover…