Guild Wars 2

selan.8354:

get sims 2 type the code rosebud around 100 times, build your mansion and be on the top of the world and then come back to GW 2 with lots of energy to farm and play.

At least in SIMS (no cheats needed) I didn’t have to make profit by reselling my chairs and wall materials to be able to purchase something new. I just played with my character having fun and the income would be enough to achieve anything in the long term.

Here, its impossible. Play the game, you earn 10, TP players raise prices 20. You earn 50, TP players raise prices 150.

Lets go play Need for Speed! but this time, if you don’t spend hours reselling car parts instead of racing with it, you won’t get the best one.

I can do this all day but I’m afraid people will still not get the point…

the ONLY hope for us players is to bypass the system with that 0,00001% of getting a precursor out of the box that will save us…

In other words, we are the working class who pays for the riches and put our hopes in a lotery. Pretty sad and pathetic analogy for what real life is.

Well done ANET but it kind of ruin the fantasy and kill the game,

Zero Day.2594:

“Everyone, including casual gamers, by level 80 should have the best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base. The rare stuff becomes the really awesome looking armours. It’s all about collecting the unique looking stuff and collecting all the other rare collectible items in the game: armour pieces, potentially different potions – a lot of that is still up in the air and we’ll finalize a lot of those reward systems as we get closer to release. And those come off of things like the bosses at the end of dungeons – the raids.”

Musha.4025:

Please stay true to the GW2 manifesto.

They can give Scarlet all the depth they want and even if they end up making an interesting story, it doesn’t have to like me.

I don’t like her conceptually, I don’t like made up on the go “armies”, I don’t like her smile, her joker wanna be attitude. I don’t like what she might be looking for, I’m just not interested. She behaves like a spoiled teenager, desperate to get some attention. Everything around her was forced in the story, her knowledge, her way of manipulating factions, her powers… nothing is believable and it has to be explained through very unlikely scenarios. It’s a character I simply cannot buy.

The only damage she is really causing is to the game lore if this character ever becomes representative of the Guild Wars franchise. For all we know, Scarlet had much more impact on the world than Zhaitan, many times more; it just doesn’t make any sense. Even if at the end an Elder Dragon was behind Scarlet, it can’t be more powerful than she already is. She controls everything from everywhere at any time, it’s stupid. It’s also stupid that we are still beating her, just let us finish her and move on with a real story about Tyria.

THIS HAS TO BE A THING

inb4 moved to the land of the lost, I mean the suggestion forum

They already ruined the game for many, so why not to you too?

ANet is not loyal to itself so get ready, your game will be ruined sooner or later.

colesy.8490:

That has nothing to do with anything.

You said dungeons don’t require teamplay, I mentioned examples of teamplay and now for some reason you’re now claiming I’m “worst than I thought”.

Because I said dungeons don’t require team work. You mentioned examples of “teamwork” that are not required to complete a dungeon. You are not responding to my statement either.

Honestly, I don’t want to spend an hour at the office in a “no you” discussion. Try to understand the point and don’t answer with examples of how the game is since this topic is talking about changes so we are all in the magical land of hypothetical situations.

Have you ever played a game that requires tactical organization? like the very basic, sniper to the tower, machine provide cover, assault move ahead? ok,… that is the kind of things that are missing here. There is no “sniper”, nor “machine-gun” nor assault, simply because there are no defined roles. We can invent our owns based on what my class can provide as useful but its not really a role I’m playing. See what I’m talking about? I’m not trying to kill zerk class. On the contrary, I want it to shine at dps as I want a support role to shine in support or a control rol to shine at control. Of course, not only stat balance has to change; game content has to change as well to make that happen.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Mesket.5728:

Well,… GW2 is a big boy and handles itself now… NCSoft puts all his attention on his newborn WildStar. I won’t expect much improvement in this game from now on.

Actually, if NCSoft loosens its “grip” on GW2 a bit, that could be a very GOOD thing in terms of development direction and pressure to be the cash cow of the company.

Maybe that is why Wildstar is sub based… one can only hope that we won’t be seeing patches so focused in the gemstore now and more focused on content.

ilr.9675:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Mesket.5728:

Sorry, just read this reply. No, skipping is very, VERY easy. There is no skill in pressing swiftness and the W key. Specially with a thief or Mesmer in the party.

Would you like to come do Arah with us some time? I’d be mildly impressed if you didn’t go down once

Yeah I’d LOVE to see this, that is if y’all need someone to Record it… I always get most of the Trash-Aggro myself in P1/P2 when running and I get downed surprisingly often the FIRST time through while trying to make sure everyone else makes it in one piece.

And I used to run Droknar’s / Granite Cit / Marhan’s & And also Shards of Orr / RataSum taxi… It’s nothing like COF / SE. There’s more to it than just chaining skills & holding forward.

You just made me cry out in nostalgia. I used to be a runner too. 1 platinum here, another when we get there lol

Vayne.8563:

Mesket.5728:

Vayne.8563:

Mesket.5728:

Even though I agree conceptually with what the OP says… I disagree that the patch itself isn’t an issue.

Some changes they are proposing are bad. Simple as that. They will impact the game in a wrong way (I’m looking at you loot by profession). It’s concerning that they implement things like that (and others in the past). It shows we know more of the game than they know, no matter how many “statistics” they want to mention. I don’t buy it anymore. It’s simply wrong, in theory, in math, in practice.

I really hope they get their heads into the game and do things positive for the players or at least be honest and confess they have plans for the future that don’t include us vets.-

Sorry I don’t judge if something is bad or good till I’ve tried it and played it. I know some people think it’s bad. But no one really knows…and won’t likely know for some time.

“I’m going to kick you in the crotch…” Do you need a test to know its bad?

Some people can do math in their heads faster than others that’s true, but those people already explained a thousand times why even on paper those changes are bad. Besides, it’s not only this time they are including things without proper analysis or not being honest with the real intentions behind the change.

If I had a nickle for every time something was supposed to be good on paper turned bad, I’d be pretty rich. I’ve also had experts and people in the know tell me how bad something was that worked out.

Logic can only take into account known facts. There are too many unknowns here. The system is too complex. For example, what if it’s only for leveling and once you hit 80 it doesn’t perform that way anymore?

Then you will have a lot of lvl 80 medium and heavy wearer players cursing they didn’t get enough Wool, Cotton and Linen while leveling and now need to spend a lot of gold in the TP.

Like I said, its not the only change that it’s bad… how can you justify things like the Silver fed o’matic? You need to do elementary school math to realize how bad it is… and you only need 5 minutes. How can a dev propose, program and get approved with something like this is beyond logic. That is the true problem, not the change itself.

Vayne.8563:

My guess is the Halloween patch starts at the end of the WvW series, and after Halloween the living story resumes.

So glad they separate the story in game with halloween… the two together would’ve been so confusing… like dragons and pumpkins… oh my god, I wouldn’t know what to do!

Morrigan.2809:

Just to everyone- those are not wings- they are fins-
think manta ray,
not death fairy
They are an underwater race.

its even worse…

First “largos”-human encounter was in 1989 during the film The Abyss. For more reference ask your mom and dad (at least in that movie they looked fishy enough and not so succubus like)

digiowl.9620:

I think the issue with the mob density is within the mob respawn mechanic.

No, its because players still think this is Mario Kart instead of a mob slaying game. They still want to skip everything to “maximize” their efficiency… Zerk players, built to kill, not killing and dying because of it.

“Legendary” weapons… have nothing legendary. The name comes as a marketing strategy.

Many of these “bugs” are resolved if you just listen to the NPCs that are talking with you inside the instance. (or read the chat, their lines appear there).

The portal thing is not a bug, its a lottery between 3 gates, one will take you forward the other 2 will get you downed (until you use #4 to get up and try another one).

probably 1, my main…

This game went from invest to divest in my book… I will no longer place effort in long term goals until Anet set their goals first… at the moment they are clueless on what they are doing.

JaironKalach.4938:

Mesket.5728:

Accumulating money is not an in game progression. Nuff said.

It can buy stuff that makes progression easier, yes, but it should buy progression itself.

Yes I’m considering acquiring a Legendary as game progression because it is actually the top end of progression.

I find the two options to be no different. Some people like to see a big number next to their gold count. Some people like to see cool effects on their gear. In both cases it is either a case of internal pride or external status symbol.

But then we go back to page 2 or 3 of this thread (read my posts there).

This isn’t a money making game, its a fantasy monster slaying game. Give me a merchant class and you will have a point right there.

If this was Eve Online then money making would be part of game progression. I agree.

When playing the TP makes more progress than getting out of the city and playing the game, then something is wrong.

I don’t blame John’s TP; its a design flaw as a whole and many variables get involved.

If dragon truly behave like dragons instead of practice targets we would have no chance.

See when you fail Tequatl he runs across the zone and covers 1/4 of the map in just a few steps? he should insta kill anyone that get caught under his claws… all he would need to do is run in circles and the world would be over lol

xusa.4021:

…Bear is ridiculously strong, the only drawback is not having a self-healing spell.

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree in a (what it will look like, its not) hostile way. If you think Bear is ridiculously strong, then your character might be ridiculously weak instead.

Read at this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/norn/Norn-Bear-Form/first#post2231455

Your character is actually weaker while transformed. You have less skills, less mobility, less mechanics, less everything, just raw stats and pretty bad ones. The damage is pathetic, not a bit down but pathetic. The 1-5 skills are so bad it makes you wanna switch to normal form in 5-7 seconds after transformed.

HP goes down faster in bear form than in normal.

Elites skills in gw2 are like Legendary weapons… the category was created as a marketing strategy but its a total fallacy.

I would change my warrior elites for another utility without hesitation.- (made a post in suggestions for this over an year ago)

OP, let me guess… Wow right?

Dreamslayer.7659:

Guhracie.3419:

CryxTryx.9208:

Most of you didn’t actually read the entire keyboard description..

The ‘macro’ keys located behind the F-key row are raised so that you can basically slide your finder down from one of those keys while pressing it and land on the F-Key underneath.

This fits exactly with what Anet considers acceptable. It makes it easier to press two buttons with one physical action, but you are still pressing two buttons.

As for the keyboard itself, I agree with the above poster that this is NOT a gaming keyboard. There are much better choices out there.

A macro is not the same as a keybind.

It might be to the Steelseries marketing team.

Well, they might not be as big as they think to re-define the word Macro :P

Missed the spot entirely… they did the “lets throw them a bone” easy way out and failed.

Berseker is still bad. It’s boring and offers nothing new.

Tried it once. I’ll be back when the nerf bat removes around 75% fo the wurms HP. Its a ciclic battle for christ sake, who wants to repeat the same thing a million times to get a giantic wurm killed? Give me a new more terrorific creature,… I’ve been killing gigantic wurms since the game released.

so, i was hoping for a cool silvary… but all i saw was a smurf wearing sauron’s summer armor with the tooth faery wings

dekou.6012:

Beldin.5498:

Is 15-60 minutes of gameplay really worth all that drama ?

Not by itself. However, the goals and quality of NPE are telling of the direction this game is going in.

^This. It was never a changed in particular that scared the community. It’s the lack of transparency and the intentions behind those changes that scares us.

If you are learning, don’t skip Kholer. It is one of the best bosses to learn the basics.

If you are experienced, don’t skip Kholer. It is one of the most fun fights in the game (and what is this game for if its not for fun battles) and has a big chest with chance of precursor drop. Easy money.

/flameshield

It’s a rare but very cool animation… when entering water instead of just switching animations you get an in-between animation of your character diving in.

Codo.2860:

Mesket.5728:

Conclusion for this thread:

60 Skill Points – Gain Stealth a few secs.

I’m sure that’s what all of you imagine when you read about shapeshifting norns… gaining stealth for a few secs to run away. Impressive…

Ahah pretty much!

In my opinion ANet did a very bad job on our elites, not because of the fact that they aren’t strong enough (was clearly stated that racial skills would have been subpar) but because they aren’t fun at all. How can you enjoy such a flavour transformation if it only last 30 secs every 4 minutes??? I really cannot get the reason of such a long cooldown on skills that has no impact on game balance.

forget the cooldown… give it to me 24/7 and I wouldn’t use it either… I’m half my character while transformed.

All this arguing falls when you have to face more than one,two,three? mobs at the same time.

If it wasn’t for the vast majority of players following this reasoning and constantly dying in Orr, it would’ve never been nerfed the way it was. “Tank/support” builds never had issues playing in overpopulated Orr.

A damage meter will just show how unbalanced classes are.

Its better to keep the ilusion.

Vayne.8563:

Mesket.5728:

This is one of the most single players MMO out there.

It’s just a bunch of zerk players (everyone one is a copycat of the other) doing things the fastest they can (like if they actually have something important to do in life) then leaving the zone.

Since there is no concept of team play, communications are not needed. Thus, people don’t eve say “thanks” when you rez them… you barely read a shortened “ty” every now and then.

If you want to play Zerk you play Zerk. If you join a guild that doesn’t do that, then you have different experiences.

I definitely have different experiences than the ones you’ve outlined here.

I’m talking about the occasional talk in the map with random people you encounter. Is it better now? I thought the message was troll proof but I was wrong…

Thanks.

Ps. Its not only the zerk gear, but the zerk mentality also. Players in this game are like a swarm. They just flow in the masses spamming 1 (this is so funny, some of them actually press 1 when there are no mobs just in case they are missing something or waiting for the spawn lol )

I thought Trahearne was some dev ego made character.

They actually do… people do dungeons every day with the idea of getting out as soon as possible… so yes, they do play content they don’t enjoy.

With the ridiculous cooldown as it is, it should charge knocking EVERYTHING on its path for at least 4 seconds.

Lua.4163:

I am concerned about the Radiant and Hellfire skins because I don’t think that the Achievements rewards are well balanced. After checking the Achievement Point (AP) Reward table on the wiki (see attachment), I made a few changes to make it possible for players to acquire one full set until 18k AP and another full set until 36k AP (see attachment).
The way the system works right now is very questionable because you will acquire 2x Helmets, 2x Gloves, 2x Boots before you can acquire any Top or Bottom piece and it would be more productive to work towards one full set before getting additional parts of the other set.
Since many already made their choice for their second pair of gloves, shoes and helmet I would recommend either resetting those rewards or even letting those select players keep those skins as a “bonus”. If you let those players who already have the 2nd gloves/shoes/helmet keep those skins they would have an advantage but it would still be better for the new players to have this change implemented because the way it is right now, they would never have the chance of getting one full set or even both sets complete. What are your thoughts?

Links:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement_rewards
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Radiant_armor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hellfire_armor
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2h668p/radiant_and_hellfire_armor_skins_achievement/

You think they even thought about it? Don’t use that kind of logic,… you will never end finding logic flaws in GW2.

I took a walk out on the street today…

I saw another dude… he had 2 eyes, a nose and a mouth… stupid copycats. Get your own face design

RubiBayer.8134:

we hear and pay attention to feedback from all over the place, both out of game and in it.

No you don’t. There is not a single source you can link that outweighs the negative feedback provided for this feature pack before and after it was implemented but yet you won’t acknowledge the wrong with it.

Repeating that you listen to the community doesn’t make it true.

get a teleport riffle for a few copper and you are done.

They didn’t think this much through

It pretty much goes against with their casual-friendly policy, but many “prestige” things are behind immense gind-fest; so…

Draknar.5748:

Not sure if this was discussed anywhere, but I was speaking with some guildies about Scarlet and all of these story arcs they are putting together.

Does anyone else notice that:

Molten Alliance, Aetherblades, Toxic Alliance = Vigil, Durmand Priory, Order of Whispers? The evil versions obviously. They are even growing an evil Pale Tree. Scarlet is creating evil versions of what we got going on.

The LS up until now doesn’t sound so random when you think about it with this in mind.

Someone must have rolled a dice… where is Evil Abed?

(not all will get the reference).

Fractals skins are the ONLY thing in this game that you can’t get unless your kitten gets out of the trading post. Please keep it that way.

Terkov.4138:

I made Kudzu (no lodes needed) in ~5 months since beginning of game. I had luck to make prec in MF (used rares I made myself from t5 mats I found – no buying), but I didn’t farm ANYTHING. I just played. I bought and dropped mats, but everything was from normal play – WvW, fractal lvl progression (it was new back then) and some casual dung running. Doable? Doable.

Lol, sure you got 250 of each T6 just playing within 5 months of release… everyone who plays this game believes you.

Behellagh.1468:

Mesket.5728:

Behellagh.1468:

They designed and built a car. Asking for wings to make it fly or a hull so it can drive on water isn’t going to happen.

That is the problem… they said they were going to make a car without wheels… so we were all expecting some new kind of mobility, some hover system or anything… instead they did what they said… they built a car without wheels and nothing more. A simple car without wheels.

It’s easy to say we will remove the trinity just like that… so hey, whats new? what will replace it? nothing… lot of classes that can do everything. We are single players doing the same next to each other.

What’s new is for you the player to learn to adapt to a system where it’s someone else’s job to keep you alive in battle or to keep the critters off your back. It’s about dodging and flanking rather than simple mindless fixed roles. The challenge in dungeons, where you are forced to have a fixed size party, is about strategy of near equals not the super specialized.

The concept of Fighter, MU, Cleric, Thief has been around for 40 years in gaming. Very fixed roles with loads of limitations that niche each of those archetypes game play styles simply because of those limitations. This got propagated into video games, first fantasy RPGs and then FPS games when they introduced classes. It’s ingrained today so much that when a game like GW2 tries to break that mold many consider that it’s the game that’s broken rather than our preconceptions.

But the game is broken, not because we think so but on paper and math it is broken. From the very moment where you make a game without tanks and healers and provide those 2 stats for players to gear. You say other roles will replace the ones missing but there are none. They implement a design where range (safeness) comes in exchange for damage (risk) but at the very end, the system itself has so many flaws that playing this game is like playing Simon so you learn it by hard sooner or later and those safeness is nothing but a waste or burden leaving damage as only choice. And what happens when you balance damage to how close you are but don’t provide some classes of close combat weapons? (see rangers and engineers)

This is the first MMORPG I’ve seen where EVERYONE goes for the same stats… no matter class, race, “role” (if you can mention another than dps); they all go for zerk stat. Do you really think this is a coincidence? The core of the game is bad designed and that is a symptom. You don’t need to be a genius to see it. Another symptom is how much of a slap to the face this game is to players who plays far from the servers or have a bad internet connection… one shot skills, dodge or die design… not very good with an average of 500 latency.

So I don’t think it is a preconception of what an MMO should be, but what it is by definition. You can’t release an RPG and deliver a car racing game because you are innovating. So why are we all playing like if was some kind of MMORPG when it’s actually an MMO action/platform game?

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Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Mesket.5728:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Mesket.5728:

There is absolutely nothing that indicates there will be any kind of dimishing effect while you level up. Actually we have a red reply saying it will be otherwise, it will affect 80’s as it will affect lvl 1.

Can you link me the post? I’m not up for trawling for it and the one I remember was specifically in response to someone asking if it would be an issue at level 80 and the response was “it would be barely noticeable”.

And the thread derailed into asking “why if it’s not notable would you make the change at all?” and other stuff so I stopped following it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-No-Profession-Loot/page/6#post4343796

. . . which said exactly what I said it had earlier, it says nothing about Level 1’s being the same as Level 80’s.

I’m still combing through the Dev Tracker, but I’m not finding the one post where they say “nope, it’s a flat unchanging rate through your entire level range”.

Because if it would have any kind of diminishing effect while leveling they would’ve mention it already and if you ever programmed a video game before you know what kind of trouble you have to go through to implement that. It won’t be one unless they are working on it now. And even IF they do that, it won’t change the fact that the change in concept is bad. Not bad because having loots by your profession is bad but bad because it is inconsistent with the current game. That change alone without changing the recipes its bad. No need for deeper analysis, testing, or other economy-wannabe replies like its going to even out. If you’ve been here long enough you know where this is going. Expect more and more light armor players farming out there.

Vaxx.3178:

Mesket.5728:

Vaxx.3178:

Mesket.5728:

1) Anet want you to have a pet. Not to be a thief with long bow.

But its ok to be a Ranger with Stealth – Thief

But its ok to a Ranger with Heavy Armor – Warrior

Damage increase with pet dead or stowed isn’t OP. Period.

Of course, just because you say so. Your authority on the matter allows you not to provide arguments to your point. Perfect.

Ps. We don’t have thieves stealth capability and warriors don’t have our damage with bows. Don’t be like that.

No need to go into details, since its already been covered many time.

Warriors don’t have Ranger damage with bows? LOL. You are kidding right?

No, I’m a warrior and recently moved to the ranger’s world and amazed by how many biased lies I’m reading.

Not gonna disagree that ranged damage as a whole in this game needs a bump but from there to warriors better than rangers with longbow is just too much.

They should remove all fire armor/weapons from the game. They look childish. Just let us throw water buckets at them.

naskarpa.5972:

Mesket.5728:

this is an arcade, not a roleplaying game.

Really?

“_The first thing you should know about Guild Wars 2 is that, this time around, there’s no question that it’s an MMORPG. _”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto/

Thank you, the fact that your argument is part of the manifesto renders it invalid automatically.

We already know the manifesto as the cake is a lie

No, we already have enough overflows… it was implemented for a reason.