Guild Wars 2

This might solve the current meta issue, but the nature of “meta” would be that people would simply start going for the new “best stat combo”.

There is always going to be a best combination. Unless Anet manages to achieve perfect balance between stat sets, at which point it kinda negates the need for different combinations I would think.

If only the devs had a place they could go to read users opinions.. on wait.

Forget how often the devs play, I’d like to know the following:
When was the last time they had to change something because “management said so”, even though they, the devs, knew it would be terrible for the game?*
And while I’m at it, how many people in the upper management even understand what the companies product is?

*This is not to accuse the devs of any wrongdoing, but just a question on if it’s happened at all, because there are times I suspect they are getting all the heat for nerfing things when they only made the changes because they wanted to remain employed.

If I run past a dead person, it’s usually because I’m running from the reason they are dead.

I make an effort to run towards where a downed player is, and will make an effort to keep them from becoming fully dead.

This is a major problem with GW2 though. For all this “wonderful community” we’re supposed to have, the majority won’t even stop to rez a downed player. Never mind issues with scaling, etc. in regards to fully dead players, but people are so intensely selfish they won’t even stop to help a downed player that isn’t even being attacked.

Just adding my voice to what’s already been listed:

doubloons
blade shards
bloodstone rubies
Petrified wood (still want to know what it’s so scared of)\
Philosophers stones
Mystic crystals
Pile of silky sand
Essence of luck (not sure if this one was on the exclusion list, but it is technically a crafting component)

My guess is 2014 will be the same as 2013.

More rushed buggy Living Story content
More cleverly crafted statements with double meanings meant to entice the playerbase without actually requiring them to deliver what the players think they are getting (i.e. precursor crafting)
More buffs for warrios
More nerfs for rangers
Changes to champ loot that will result in zergs going from champ trains to the next most profitable thing that everyone will subsequently complain about
and.. as always, more general nerfing of any method of making the slightest amount of gold.

Only just started, but wanted to point out: I get the idea of changing the story intro from an e-mail to an interaction, but if you don’t have sound on, or don’t know what to expect, it’s going to be easy for a lot of people to miss the initial introduction to the story after clicking on play this episode. Not that it won’t happen once for each character. It’s a good idea, I like the no-e-mail, but… perhaps have a location to go to for the next one, in order to kick it off.

I really like my white wings, however the physical structure of the hawk wings is much more bird like. Comparing the two, the white (and black) wings look more like an avalanche of feathers that roughly approximate wings, while the hawk wings look very bird-like. I’d like to see the white/black wings get a makeover if possible.

Second, I love the butterfly wings backpack, but I really wish that I could have a larger version as my glider skin. Dye channels would be nice too, but not mandatory. The yellow/purple theme is working for my character currently.

Doesn’t affect gem sales, so it’s broken to stay.

Are you seriously complaining about a ghastly skeletal wraith sort of creature not having mammary glands?

This seems more like OP spent a night searching on the forums for something that hadn’t been complained about.
The prices on cultural armor are just fine where they are. They are still prohibitively expensive for a large portion of the player base, especially when it comes to completing entire sets, or even the collection.
When things get so bad that the daily completion rewards are 50gold, then maybe it should be looked at.

OP: off topic, but nice outfit! Very different for a Charr. I like.

RebelYell.7132:

I don’t need to personally be hit by the DR code to be affected. Every time I buy a vial of blood, or crystalline dust, I’m playing the game by DR’s rules.

This, a thousand times.

DR is not about bots, it’s just one more grain of the mountains of code developed to push people to the TP and the gem store.

So … get a small group together and go set off events randomly across the map?
If they are going to be kittens about it, make them miserable.

I’ve been trying to keep mine over 10, hoping that some day the stupid hint-achievement would pop up.

Rouven.7409:

Neural.1824:

I do silversmithing in RL. Believe me, either we are using tiny little ingots, or we are absolutely horrid jewelers if it takes multiple ingots to make a single ring.

Ok, but can you smelt an ingot or forge (would that be the correct term?) a ring in … what … 3 seconds?

I can’t, personally, because I use older hand crafting methods, but if you buy a pre-made mold for casting, it only takes a couple seconds to pour liquid metal into the mold.

Now.. if you want it cooled, stamped, polished, etc. yeah, it gets messy from there. Especially when you start setting stones.

I’m a little OCD with jewelry making (partially due to the dangers involved with using torches and other fun stuff in RL), so I tend to cringe when blowing through a whole bunch of gold ingots to make an amulet.

I saw a Haiku recently about Mounts in Gw2:

No no no no no
No no no no no no no
No no no no no

edit: Not to say that I don’t want them myself, but this topic has been around for 3 years, and the answer has pretty much been the same. No.

Spiral Architect.6540:

The insensitivity in this thread is staggering. Stalkers DO use whatever means they can to “keep tabs” on people, including monitoring game log-ins through friend lists.

To those of you who feel the OP is just being “paranoid,” if you ever got stalked, you’d change your tune — in a hurry.

You seem to be under the impression that those individuals wouldn’t post in this sort of thread in order to defend a system which aids them.

MokahTGS.7850:

Everyone take a shot!! drinks

My bottle is empty :/

Perhaps if I had a guild hall to store things in…

:hides:

Oh look, another anti-portal thread.

Are you seriously that bent over someone getting a blue or a green because a third party stepped up and chose to help them?

Maybe this game is not for you.

I haven’t made any mistakes like that fortunately, however I’ve wondered if it wouldn’t be too much trouble for them to include the mystic forge on the list of things that can’t see the contents of invisible bags.

Onlysaneman.9612:

Chiming in here. I don’t mind you guys selling skins on the gem store- I’d prefer more armor and fewer outfits, but that’s a different matter entirely- but the RNG involved is a step too far. You’re forcing anyone who wants one of these skins to gamble, either with tons of gold or notable amounts of real money. It’s the rare moment most people would be better off playing the -actual- lottery.

The blatant use of gambling by game companies as a means of getting income has gotten to the point where perhaps it is time for governments to step in and regulate it, just like they have done with online Casinos.
Heck, with real casinos, at least you have a chance of getting real cash back. With game companies, the house keeps 100%

Anet stated in their post about this change that they knew ahead of time there were a small number of users who were going to be affected.

Let that one sink in folks, it’s how Anet operates. No matter what the situation, if they feel something should be changed, there is a threshold of some sort of “acceptable loss” when it comes to popularity.

We’re just numbers to them. :/

Fail

It’s a fantastic idea that was turned into a gimmick to get around producing permanent content that would need to be maintained and potentially contain bugs that can’t be ignored like they’ve done with so many this past year.

It’s also a gimmick to throw more stuff in the gem store and into RNG boxes.

The Living Story is a classic example of a great idea being destroyed in the name of money.

Sure, I loved Escape from Lion’s Arch, but a stopped clock is right twice a day too.

Calae.1738:

Arenanet will always nerf ways to make gold. The reason why is because they want you to buy gems. If I was working at arenanet I would design things for people to buy in the gem store. You’d think this would be common sense but; apparently for them it’s not.

Arenanet is obsessed with the gem store to an degree that is killing the game. Many things like self-style hair kits and other cosmetic items would sell a lot more frequently if they’d halve the price, but they obviously have some kitten for brains statistician who has never once touched a game like this applying real world purchasing habits of people to a virtual environment.

I’m beginning to think that their business plan is to “grab all you can, then shut down”, just like NCSoft did with City of Heroes when they made it f2p.

Erasculio.2914:

For the records, this is a suggestion, ergo it should have been at the Suggestions subforum. Don’t worry, though, I have reported it and I’m sure a Moderator will move it where it belongs.

Is that you Doc Fury?

How about increase the loot quality from a box proportionate to the amount of time the champ has been around?

10minutes: generic loot
30minutes good loot (i.e. chance at yellow)
1hour : good loot plus T7 mat
90minutes: great loot plus T7 (chance at orange)
2hours: best loot plus T7 (better chance for exotic, equivalent to how loot currently is)
1day+: same as 2hours, but increased chance for precursor.

ImLegion.4018:

Wvw is dead… there is some activity going on, but not what it used to be. Nor does anet care. Pvp is going downhill, nor does anet care. Anet cares bout their new baby pve raid.

Fixed that for you.

timmyf.1490:

Register for an account on Reddit. Post there. Problem solved.

Would be nice if this was an accurate statement, but the same trolls and white knights run reddit like their personal playground. Anything they don’t like gets downvoted into oblivion before it has a chance to be seen.

Just a small suggestion for helping with organizing bank tabs and working with inventory and bank tabs.

Currently, if you are in the bank window, and you double-click on an item, it is automatically transferred to the first available bank slot.

Suggestion: If a bank tab is minimized, make the empty slots in that tab unavailable for double-click transfer.

So, if the top tab (tab 1) has 3 open slots, but is minimized, and you double-click an item to transfer it, it will instead automatically fill the first available slot in the next open tab (or not transfer at all, if no slots are open.

All this “manly” talk about how easy it is to get to r30 is complete bullkitten. I’ve run in WvW on and off since January of 2013, and after countless doors, keeps, etc., and a lot more kills than I ever thought I’d get, I’m only r11. You have to be some special sort of mental if you think there’s no grind to get to level 30.

I have always been against dueling, but having arenas like the one in BC, or opening the Queen’s Gauntlet for it would be perfect. Open world dueling gives way to much mobility. People who duel shouldn’t have kiting half way across Lion’s Arch as an option. It should be restricted to a reasonable area, and arenas are great for that.

Loading screens in general are becoming a burden in this game. There are times when I find myself wondering if the client has simply frozen/crashed. If it had always been this way, it would be easy to blame the hardware, but this is something that has gotten steadily worse over the past 7 or 8 months. Load times are just unacceptable now. Throw that in with the double-load you get when using the air ship, and it’s a matter of a couple minutes before I can even start playing.

Swear all you want. Fine by me. Free speech and all that.

Do it in a job interview and I will put your resume in the circular file and find someone else, and there isn’t a single thing you can do about it, because you can’t prove it.
So please, let your words flow freely, it helps corporations weed out people who would otherwise be a blemish on their reputation with the general public.

I’m beginning to think that someone at Anet thinks Engineers and Rangers are pitted against each other in an eternal struggle to be the worst class to play.
I had no idea you guys were dealing with so much brokenness. As a ranger, you have my sympathy.

Dark FQ.1038:

Guild Wars 2 isn’t WOW , so we don t have raids, we have dungeons / world events.

I can’t help but hearing the conversation those two guys in LA have about outhouses.

“We don’t have raids, we have dungeons”

OriOri.8724:

From his post, OP is genuinely confused about the name of the patch, and not concerned with the price of the mats.

THANK YOU! People around here seem to be so obsessed with finding flaw in another persons opinion that it completely blinds them to what is being stated in the first place.

Morrigan.2809:

Most of this stuff is just bring us up to date with the Chinese client

That’s what has me the most worried.

erroch.8061:

I’ve also yet to get teabagged in wvw. This really happens commonly?

WvW is an extensive experiment on how simple “harmless” animations can be chained together into something vulgar, and there are many WvW players that are of the mindset to discover them.

Heck, you are lucky half the time if it’s not your own team that is degrading you for not being as uber-l33t as they are.

I try to keep up with patch notes, but missed this (and a couple others) in the wall of text that came with that particular patch.

This is going to cause trouble fro WvW with people going AFK etc. to get the gift without having to deal with all the lovely things that go along with the WvW community.
As one person previously mentioned, this wouldn’t be so bad if WvW was actually fun, but it’s not.

I’d like to see the vendor back for a week. I won’t play WvW any less or more than I currently do, but I know several people in my guild, who also missed the patch note, that will want to take advantage of it.

Mel.8769:

I have wondered this many times. Especially when opening Zhaitaffy.

Doesn’t Zhaitaffy make you hurl if you eat too much? That could very well be quite funny.

ProxyDamage.9826:

In b4 nerf.

Some of you never kittening learn do you? Don’t share. Keep your mouth shut or it gets removed.

This, a thousand times. If you find a farm spot, keep it to yourself, or your friends, but for kittens sake don’t tell Anet!

Seems there is more than one meaning for “design”.

I think overall I prefer Malchor’s leap for mechanics design. Not just one big event that everyone is eventually channeled to like Silverwastes currently is. However if they are going to do this hybrid of raid content in the main world, I guess it works.

As far as “design” goes for the modeling, texturing, lighting, etc. for a zone, I would have to place the Dry Top oasis area at the top of my list. That section, and the canyon to the east of it are so realistic and beautiful. It’s one of my favorite places in the game.

I’d have to say the risen gorrilas in the Lyssa event are the mob I hate the most of any in the game, especially the champ.

In light of some of the more common complaints about WvW, perhaps for now it should say “out-zerged”

zenleto.6179:

Knockback is pretty good for pushing mobs into a stack, and I’d imagine another player in WvW as well. It’s the only time I use it when grouped.

Knockback is an excellent control for small/large scale fights, especially in PvE. Wars/Guards battling it out with a champ, and you then can use knockback to control the additional mobs that might be involved. If they aggro the main group, knock them out of range of the stack. If they aren’t aggro’d to the stack, knock them into it and watch them melt.
Many rangers, however, tend to use solo tactics in group settings. That is their choice though. :shrug:

As for ranger hate, I don’t think it’s hate towards a specific class that is the problem in GW2. It’s elitist hate. It’s massive egos trying to compensate for who-knows-what by belittling, disparaging, and generally degrading anyone who doesn’t play exactly as they do.

Tman.6349:

The OP actually has nothing to do with ascended armor or stats or grind or anything else discussed in this thread. If you pay attention to the psychological aspect of what is ACTUALLY written, it’s plain to see it’s just another thinly disguised poke at the “zerker Nerf” which is in dozens of other threads and this one is just as exaggerated and silly as the rest of them. Granted that the ascended gear has been completely against everything that GW1 was founded on concerning grind, players having statistically equal gear, and encouraging build creativity and diversity, the damage has been done however. I don’t think a dozen or more of the same threads is gonna change any of it. Especially ones that aren’t straightforward about their motives in the first place.

Nice try mr. psychoanalyst, but also completely wrong.

There’s nothing thinly veiled about it. I’m not happy with the fact that one of the best crafting challenges in the game results in armor that has stats set in stone, coupled with the fact that Anet has proven they are willing to change or even completely remove said attributes/stats (see magic find).
It is a huge time/gold sink for results that can not evolve with the a “flavor of the month” style balancing.

Squee.7829:

… This is a public forum, and is open to public topics…

Incorrect. This is a private forum run by Arenanet. Within such a forum they have complete control over the topics and what can and can’t be said. Certain types of discussions are prohibited, as listed in the forum rules (RL Politics for example).
The main reason those types of threads exist (like the one currently on the front page) is because the mods either aren’t at work, or are choosing to not enforce the rules.

WASD is standard movement in the game, along with the use of mouse buttons. People work their way into how they like to use these tools to move around.

This request is to add some consistency to these tools and the modes they are used in.

Specifically, when in the water, or on land, you can hold down both the right and left mouse buttons at once to move forward (like pressing W).

My little QoL request would be that holding both mouse buttons also has the same effect as pressing “W” when gliding: lean forward.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

-DO make them tradeable. The people who have already unlocked the dyes and investors will complain that the market has crashed because suddenly they’re abundant and tradeable…

Um.. boohoo? That’s the risk/reward of the market. Just because someone speculated on dyes and they are now worth thousands of gold in profit to them, does not mean they have a right to that profit.

The concept of zombies in an MMO as monsters is quite like a zombie itself. It won’t die and it keeps coming back, no matter how much people hate it. Sad really.

My only real complaint with Orr in regards to mob density would be the southern end of Cursed Shore, but I like to solo and don’t do that very well. Malchor’s Leap has a lot of eternally-contested waypoints and champions that no-one bothers with, but I don’t think the mob density is that bad.
The landscape sort of matches the whole undead theme, so it’s hard to say much negative about that.
Overall though? Yeah. I dislike Orr more than any other zone. It’s just a bit monotonous after a while.