Guild Wars 2

Except, well, everyone is hunting Dragons, not just the Guardian. Demon Hunter would work because the Guardian has skills that imply a holy nature, such as Consecration, Ward, Meditation, etc.

Take a phrase you like to name your character after. I liked Greater Flame for my Guardian, so I put it into google translate and tell it to use Latin. Ignis means flame, and Valder means very/powerful/great depending on where you translate it, so I ended up using Valderignis. I followed the “Valder” pattern on my later characters so I ended up with Valder Dolor (Very Smart, for my Asuran mesmer. Also reads as department, sorrow, and pain.), Valder Laminas (Lamina meaning Blade, so great Blade.) Valdermalgus (I think it means very evil, but I’m not 100% sure unfortunately. I made him over a year ago and haven’t touched him since).

Dahkeus.8243:

Can we please stop arguing against good ideas just because they’re not perfect and instead pitch ideas to improving the good ideas?

Except when the change actively makes the game a worse experience, (like in this case) I’m going to complain.

Why can’t they just charge us gems for the fused skins

DarkChaos.4326:

-I assume every player is male until proven otherwise

/high five

Brother Grimm.5176:

Morsus.5106:

I think people who play other genders are creeps (unless it’s a game where you have no choice. Then it’s fine. Or if you get some bonus out of it like in Fire Emblem)

What do you think of males that just like to look a the backside of a male character exclusively? Just a counter point to your irrational thoughts…..

If you play a game to get turned on, you have a bigger problem than my “irrational thinking”.

Crise.9401:

If you are so worried about cloth scraps go make an alt that uses light armor.

I’m not sure if you see the problem here. I shouldn’t have to make an alt to gear my main.

Please no. That would be the point where I leave the game.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

So wait.. you want Ascended weapons, which already have the same LEVEL of stats as legendary to be able to swap stats around just like a legendary?

Essentially you want a Weapon with Legendary stats and capabilities for like one tenth the cost…

ummm no…. that’s a horrible idea…

Legendaries were just a skin at launch, they should be just a skin now.

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

I don’t mind the idea of a less likeable race being added to the game

Wasn’t that the role of the Charr? Villains of the first game, turned allies against a greater threat.

I would greatly appreciate this. Of course, then people would be more likely to just run enough dungeons and get an 80 they don’t know how to play. That’s pretty much what they’re doing anyway though.

ipan.4356:

By making the dungeons 5x larger (with multiple entrances from different directions), and adding 2-3 times as many bosses, you naturally spread people out with little effort.

I thought you just said that ANet wasn’t going to be doing a whole lot of work on dungeons? 5x larger sounds like a lot of work, and it won’t solve anything. A guild could just say “Hey everyone, doing Dungeon #3 tonight on reset” and get 10-20 people who are going to zerg it all.

rapthorne.7345:

I can almost never get a dungeon party in lfg, due to “lvl 80, zerk, 5k AP” requirements.

Are we using the same LFG? The only requirement I see on a regular basis is the “Level 80” one. Easygoing groups tend to fill up fast. I’ll put something down like “Doing Path 1. All welcome.” and it will fill up in less than 60 seconds.

mtpelion.4562:

This is a good change people… it will allow people to SPECIFICALLY TARGET CLOTH as a drop now.

Being able to SPECIFICALLY TARGET CLOTH will cause overall supply to INCREASE.

An overall INCREASE in supply will result in LOWER PRICES.

LOWER PRICES means that even though the number of silk scraps you get on your Guardian is less, you are now able to afford to BUY LOTS MORE SILK than before (or play on an ALT).

I don’t think it is possible to explain this any more clearly.

You may continue complaining after this point, just be aware that it only makes you look silly.

That also means that light armor classes (Elementalist, Necromancer and Mesmer) will be more profitable to farm. The problem is the inequality in drops.

zenleto.6179:

Meh. Raging about something that hasn’t come into practice yet is ridiculous. When are we going to learn to wait and rage when we actually really know something?

Raging about Commander tags costing 300 gold per color got it changed to 300 gold for all colors. Sometimes it’s best to let the developers know what we think of their proposed changes before it’s released.

To continue playing: No.
To ever be happy again: Yes.

I think I saw the horse twitch, continue beating it until we’re sure it’s dead.

Encarton.3985:

Chris RJ.1843:

Pretty cool. Actually kind of sad in a way. It’s like Groundhog day.

Yeah… I kind of want it to be true but not true at the same time. It wouldn’t necessarily be a bad fate for Dessa (she isn’t reliving her death over and over at least) but it is just kind of saddening. Plus I don’t think there’d really ever be a future event that’d let us free her if this was true due to how Fractals seemingly work for now.

Also, on a semi-unrelated note, I think she knows something about the uncatagorized fractal. Wish we could ask her if she knows the crazy cat golem Asura.

(My theory) It's her lover and she got him trapped there reliving those horrible event over and over for eternity. She couldn't bear to watch what had become of him, and that's why she was silent throughout the fractal, and could only talk long enough to tell you it's time to leave. (Just my little conspiracy theory for the day. None of that is confirmed)

As someone who ran soldier’s for approx 6 months, I can tell you it has very little DPS. I’d say go with Knight’s simply because it’s still tanky and offers slightly better DPS. Hammer auto attack will offer you almost perma protection allowing you to wear more DPS oriented armor.

ferr.6403:

Did you ever see in real life people just dissapear in the air?

I never saw people teleport either.

No. Please. I like my 5 man instances. If we make them open world, they’ll just become zerg fests.

DiogoSilva.7089:

This is generally a good change, because it priotizes personal rewarding over trading post tactics. The advantages are worthier than the disadvantages.

I also wouldn’t mind if this affected even lv80 characters. It would bring something a bit more unique to playing with alts, and if you don’t like it, you always have the trading post to rely for and make your trades.

This wouldn’t be as big of a problem if they were evenly priced, but they are not. Mithril ore is worth ~45 copper, however Silk Scrap is worth ~2 silver, and poor Leather is worth ~10 copper. This reduces income for Heavy and Medium armor class while boosting it for Light armored classes. I’m also asked for a lot of silk to get my ascended armor, and I shouldn’t be hindered in acquiring it because of my chosen class.

I play with Rangers, Engineers and Necromancers when they come up in my pugs.

rincewind.9528:

Shakkara.2641:

I want female armor that not only fully covers, but also does not show boobs in any way.

In particular heavy armor that does not have any breast-cups. Currently there’s not much choice in that regard.

Breastcups are totally unrealistic for heavy armor. You don’t need them as armor will just flatten those boobs. And it’s dangerous as they deflect blows and arrows right at your heart. All historical examples of women in platemail (for example, Jeane d’Arc) had them wear identical platemail as men do.

That is what I want for my characters. I’m female in real life but I play mostly male characters because I totally hate most of the female armor.

Phalanx Armor for men, so totally awesome.
And for women? Ugly helmet, ugly torso piece, ugly everything. So disappointing

Even Game of Thrones does it right, with heavily armored women like Brienne running around with platemail identical to male ones. THAT is the look I want for women!

They should make male armor weareable for females. That would solve you problem.

For me? No, I like fantasy armor. Skimpyness for everyone. Male, females, plants, everyone can have the choice to be sexy!!

I like historically accurate armor, so I’d like to see the girls in the same kind of armor men would wear. Letting female characters wear male armor would be a great compromise.

Jamais vu.5284:

This would be a lot more useful if you define “skimpy” and seperate it by armor class.

Light: Fine as is.
Medium: We need more skimpy.
Heavy: We need generally more lighter looking choices which includes skimpy.

I think heavy armor should look a lot like the male armor. I mean, Guardians tend to bunker and support, and it doesn’t make sense that they can do that in metal underwear.

Dahkeus.8243:

Morsus.5106:

Dahkeus.8243:

Can we please stop arguing against good ideas just because they’re not perfect and instead pitch ideas to improving the good ideas?

Except when the change actively makes the game a worse experience, (like in this case) I’m going to complain.

Ok…you seem to not be understanding. This isn’t saying you shouldn’t complain, but complain about the right thing.

Making gear for leveling players more readily attainable is a good thing, even if you don’t care about it. Your problem is that it will keep you from getting silk, which means your problem can be resolved by addressing the silk situation instead of stopping a change that will benefit players.

Silk wasn’t a problem for me before. I haven’t bought Silk en masse, but this change will require me to start buying from other players do to decreased drop rates. I’m complaining about the right thing.

After this thread, I feel the need for a salad.

Maybe now I’ll actually use my light fields (besides Wall of Reflection).

-1 for mounts
/15quaggansdancinginarow

World of Warcraft is now selling an item like that for $60. You get it for $40 though when you buy an expansion. Considering that it takes much less time to level in GW2, I think $20 would be a good asking price, but goes up 5% each time you buy it to try to prevent people from just buying all 8 classes. To keep people levelling normally, each level 80 alt reduces the price by 10% with a minimum of $20. (IE 2 normal 80s, you need to buy the gem 4 times before it goes up).

Vayne.8563:

It probably has to do with changes to the commander tag, including the ability to change the icon color to differentiate you from other commanders.

/puts tinfoil hat on
Or maybe ANet’s trolling us and the first mount will be a rainbow.

inazuma.7021:

Evon is a selfish coward, and in this patch he has proved it. When the Lionguard conscript him to act as a quartermaster in this emergency, he threatens to “pull up stakes” and leave. He’d rather abandon everyone than help. The only reason he stays is the threat of execution. It takes a -death threat- to get that son of a grawl to do his civic duty.

#TeamKiel

You forget, Kiel did leave. The NPCs say she and Magnus get their own camp in the south. She’s a true leader, abandoning all of her citizens to the Vigil Keep while she get’s a nice little vacation spot? All Gnashblade did was make an empty threat and is now supporting the Lion Guard in retaking Lion’s Arch.

#TeamEvon

Biohazard.7523:

I am still waiting… they are late…

Did you read none of the discussion? They won’t be late for another hour and twenty minutes.

I think at 475 crafting professions should start making skins. Then we’ll have something to do besides exotics on our way to ascended AND we’ll get to choose how our ascendeds look.

Sellable ascended gear has been asked for so many times it’s not even funny. And it’ll be expensive too, considering insignias are going for around 40 gold, so expect around 130 gold per piece of armor. IMO ascended mats have been introduced slowly enough now, so bump the refine limit to 3 a day (and in a month remove timegating completely) and make armor tradeable. It shouldn’t shock the market too much IMO.

mike.5476:

i know you guys will say “idiot, why didnt you just gold farm the difference and buy the legend” to me it feels cheap to buy a precursor. I dont think precursor’s or legendaries should be sold on the TP.

But you chose to gamble your “winnings” so to speak. If I won the lottery, and then lost it all in Vegas, than it’s really my fault I lost it all. Unfortunately ANet hasn’t given us precursor crafting, and until they do your only option is go the “cheap” way or the “lucky” way.

Xbon.9086:

this would be heavily abused by trolls, no. and commanders? you can buy your way into commander position, I know I did.

I got all my money from dungeons, and my badges from levelling alts in the EotM train, but now I’m a commander and people listen to me. I love buying respect

Behellagh.1468:

Morsus.5106:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

you probably shouldn’t skip so much stuff.

Then maybe ANet should design some content I want to play, versus an hour long story and then a bunch of achievements for me to not do, and a backpiece for me to earn and then put in the bank and forget about.

My aren’t you picky for getting something for free.

So I should be forced to play content I dislike? I did almost all of the achievements last season, and earned all the back pieces last year. I have no desire to do it again, so I must apologize if I “skip” all of the content.

I want another dungeon with a new dungeon themed set of armor and weapons!

RashanDale.3609:

I sometimes dance/laugh on the corpses of guardians/thieves/warriors in WvW, when roaming. If people play one of these professions and still manage to die, they deserve it.

I dance on whoever dies to my zerg in WvW.

Spiderpig.9843:

Yes but how ’’legendary’’ is a weapon as soon as everyone has it…

Considering you can buy it off of the TP, it’s really not all that legendary.

StinVec.3621:

[Insert your choice of “icing on the cake” pun]

Grats on your good drop.
I love those rings. Though I still wish we could transmute the name/icon from other rings/accessories onto the stats of another for nostalgia/RP reasons.

I would get 2 more ascended rings (Lunaria and Solaria) to transmute over my Crystalline Band and Ring of Red Death just because they sound cooler.

lordkrall.7241:

Have you seen what happens on these forums if something that have been announced is ever changed even in the slightest way?

That’s pretty regular in the gaming industry. If it’s subject to heavy change, let the community know. It won’t eliminate upset fans, but it will minimize their numbers.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

The article about profession system only presented the idea behind this system and we generally don’t give precise details about these systems unless these details are needed to understand the idea. In this case we can’t share details but we want to reassure players that they’re not going to see changes in loot so visible that some components are going to “rain” or they’ll stop seeing loot variety. It’s more complex than that.

The adjustments to the loot system are fairly subtle and the goals are that, after a certain time, your characters will effectively have more components you can use. So it may take some time for you to see a difference, or not, but it’s not going to feel like a very visible change each time you loot a mob. We want players, in particular new ones or those creating alts, to more often be able to use the items they loot directly or get something that is relevant to their profession. It does not mean that you’ll get less varied loot overall. We’ll keep monitoring the changes to kitten its affects.

Thanks for your early feedback!

Does this mean that it will affect level 80s?
EDIT: I hate to derail your post, but I’d really like an answer on this. The initial blog was very vague, and I’d like some clarification. Thanks for responding to our feedback

Baldrick.8967:

I’m still confused- do i need to purchase part 1 in order to be able to complete the required item so that I can make something in part 2? Anyone know? Or are parts 1 and 2 all part of one chapter and entering part 2 allows you in to part 1?

I believe Part 1 is considered a separate episode, and you will be required to pay for it. Not sure though since I already had part 1.

Farzo.8410:

Keep that pay-to-get-to-max-level cash shop kitten in World of Warcraft, a game with a box cost, subscription fee and features like this that costs even more than the game box and subscription itself.

Guild Wars 2 already got a lot of easy ways to reach max levels and is very forgiving with experience, no need for that World of Warcraft kitten.

Except levelling is mind-numbingly boring. I spent about 50 hours levelling my Warrior and I’m happy it’s over. The first time through with my Guardian it was fun but I’m not sure I’d be willing to do that again.

Tringsh.2380:

Morsus.5106:

Each time you put in 4 rares/exotics into the Mystic Forge your chance at a precursor doubles. When you get a precursor it resets. Problem solved.

Agreed, same goes for dungeon loot and world bosses. it needs to be weighted RNG.

As someone who’s run Sorrow’s Embrace at least 100 times, I can tell you you’ve got no chance at those recipes for Accessories and Rings.

Methal.9045:

Cursed Shore 50+ people intentionally failing this event so they can wow farm it, and raging like animals at people who want to finish it…

Claims of 100+gold and hour luring more people to it all the time.

None of the other events are doable because of the amount of jerks farming this thing.
Not to mention it screws up people who want to actually finish the event so they can do the next one.

I hate to take the side of the farmers, but if “50+ people” want to do something and you come along and ruin it for them you’re doing the exact same thing they’re doing (preventing someone else from doing what they want).

Personally, I love Sword+Focus/Greatsword for dungeons. Hammer is pretty nice when pugging since it gives permanent protection, but if you do a guild run I suggest Greatsword/Sword+Focus.

I’m putting a gold or two into Mini’s, because I can see them going up in price the next few days.