Guild Wars 2

Wow, this thread got derailed. Whole point of it was to say what about this game you appreciate…and of course someone has to stroll in an crap all over it. Which then sparks debate. Sheesh…

I love the art, the design, the beautiful Tyria that Anet created
I love that each profession has its own identity
I love the constant content updates
I love how excited I get to try new things
I love my Engineer

I would argue that simply travelling from the boat up to the airship up top does not qualify as a jumping puzzle. It’s simply travel. With new skills. It’s not hard, it’s not confusing. It’s a single path (indicated by glowy bits on the ground to guide you). It’s actually far less complicated than 1/2 the vistas in the game.

However, I would classify collecting the crystals in the Bazaar as a sort of JP. While not a single continuous puzzle, this is more akin to many tiny JPs spread throughout the zone. A different design from the typical GW2 puzzles, but still a jumping puzzle nonetheless.

Some of the crystals are quite easy to attain. Others require some thought, planning, and perserverence. All in all though, I would say even the hardest crystal was easier to attain that the most challenging of our JPs.

All UI stuff should disappear from the top-right in PvP and WvW, except for achievements specifically tracked.

Didn’t read the thread. Don’t need to read the thread. Just no.

No to damage meters and especially to player inspection.

I don’t think any class can access every type of combo field. The fact is that Rangers can create a large variety of the fields, more than most professions in my experience. Fire, poison, water, smoke (underwater), even chaos. Our water field is the best in the game. Also, we don’t personally have a blast finisher, but one of our pets does (drake). Rangers are supposed to fully utilize our pets so having access to finishers and fields via our pets is fine imo.

Asura Engineer.

Tiny pocket of explosions and fire. Dynamic playstyle, build variety, adorable, underestimated.

All other professions seem boring by comparison. Alt-ing a mesmer currently. Not quite an engi, but very fun.

I actually found Ettins to be some of the easiest mobs to drop as a low lvl necro because they’re slow and telegraph their attacks. I ran condtionmancer and just kept chilling/crippling and stacking bleeding & poison on them as I backed away. Toughness doesn’t do crap against conditions. And like SicJake said, we have a high base health pool so you shouldn’t have to stack vit at your level. If you’re running a power build stack power, if you’re running conditions run +cond dmg (obviously). But try to itemize your gear for the way you’re playing. Often I’ll vend an armor upgrade if it’s got the wrong stats even at low levels.

I’d like to add that this recent LS update is a step in the right direction. I like seeing impactful changes to the world. Scarlet has forged an alliance and it has changed Kessex Hills. Even after this event, I’m hoping to see a continuation of this concept. Perhaps (if we win) the smoking hulk of what remains of the tower, still housing disgruntled Krait. Perhaps a scar of toxic destruction carving through Kessex and into an adjoining zone before the end. Despite the win, there’s still lasting damage done to Tyria and new DEs arise because of it.

This is my hope when playing through this latests LS release. It’s a good step in that direction that will truly create a Living World where our actions and the dangers we face shape Tyria.

Barraind.7324:

There is all of one thing that really means anything in the game (thats even debatable), and it requires gobs and gobs of $ or farming, and

Are you referring to Legendaries? Because I’m starting to think that they’re the single worst thing in this game. Because of their existance, and the (supposedly) vast differences between them and exotics, acquiring one has perpetuated endless farming and doign whatever is most profitable rather than what’s fun.

They should have just made the Crystalline Sword again and made it so incredibly rare that you’d be lucky to even see one, let alone own one and call it Legendary.

Read the OPs (and some responses) and I have to agree with the OP. I’ve been playing since beta, and it’s hard to go back and figure out where/how I learned all that I now know about GW2. I’ve been reading the forums, watching gameplay videos, researching the wiki, and rolling alts since day 1. Actually, before day 1 since I too was watching all the Yogscast stuff in anticipation.

My best friend started playing the game a couple months ago and it’s becoming more obvious to me just how little the game explains things to new players. He’s asked me questions that make my head spin. Things like what combo fields/finishers are. I think to myself that by level 30 you should certainly know that. but then I realize that he should but won’t because nothing tells him. Nothing tells him about event scaling, the TP and economy, gear stat importance, class roles, condition caps/stacking, and damage avoidance. He asked me what dodging is at level 25!!

The game doesn’t need to be dumbed down by pushing traits back. It needs a better tutorial to at least explain things like dodge and stun breaks and cleanses and how conditions work and ya know, combat.

I think the point of the ‘kill 40 Krytan baddies’ dailies is to get 80’s out of Orr and into other areas of the world. You head to a Krytan zone you don’t have 100% on and start killing. Then you come across a few others doing the same thing, a DE pops up, you all join in, kill a Veteran, finish that heart quest nearby while you’re there and boom…you’ve just immersed yourself in the game and community, broken up the monotany of farming Orr, and gotten something in return for your troubles. And you’ve also managed to make some headway toward other daily achievements and map completion.

I leveled my warrior alt from about 36 (iirc) to 65 using the LA event. I ran the events, gathered heirlooms, used longbow for ranged aoe (since low level with sub-optimal gear = quick deaths in melee zerg), , completed events, and saved citizens. Basically did the event as I felt it was designed to be played. I can’t say how many runs I’ve done, but if I had to guess maybe about 20.

Also, I used a birthday booster (huge help!), as well as food and sharpening stones, and any banners that ppl dropped. With my standard guild bonus, I generally had at least +85% XP gains.

Also, I traded all Found Belongings for Tomes for +1 level each.

Rezzet.3614:

FT is just a conditional weapon

Ah, there’s where you went wrong. FT is not a condition weapon. It rolls burns but mostly for the 10% damage bonus and the napalm field is best used to stack might. Also, FT#2 is a power/prec skill.

Grimwolf.7163:

The simplest solution, as I see it, would be to have your weapon still show as sheathed while a kit is active, and somehow provide an option to hide the Engineer backpacks.

^ ideally this.

It would only work however, with pistol/pistol. problem I see is that if you stow your legendary shield or rifle when you equip your grenade your kit, it will severely clip. You’ll see your shield and grenade pack mushed together.

I think it’s going to take a more complex fix. Something like:

- For P/P, stow weapons on hips as usual upon kit use
- For Rifle, use rifle skin in place of FT & EG skins; No change to FT & EG backpacks. Swap rifle to offhand carry (some sort of non-combat ready position) for non-FT/EG kits.
- For P/S, stow pistol but keep shield in offhand for non-FT/EG kits. Stow both weapons for FT & EG kits, with kit backpacks appearing on top of shield, not clipped through it.

All of this with an on/off toggle for Old v. Improved Engineer Kit mode.

Either way, the particle effects and footprints shouldn’t be lost upon kit use.

Cero.5132:

And sometimes… yeh sometimes I´d like to know where the hell they get those numbers from!
I´m used to such cruel exaggerations from the community…. but from devs!?

From what I’ve heard, the screenshot showing a 26k 100nades was photoshopped. But unfortunately it appeared, Anet accepted it as law, and the nerfbat swung hard.

Illusions.3108:

Who overall is better for WvW? How about PVE?? and dungeons?? conditions?

They’re both great for WvW. I’d say about even for roaming and Mesmer has the sight edge in zergs if only for no insta-suicide from retaliation. Engi have great aoe attacks. Mesmer have better utility (reflects, portal, veil, TW).

Mesmers are wanted for dungeon speed clears for (again) their utility. But Engi are incredibly useful for team healing, cleansing, blast finishers, damage, everything really.

Engi definitely win the condition battle. They’re tops (along with Necro obviously) when it comes to PvP or WvW conditions.

Illusions.3108:

how would that be?

A lot of people believe in “zerk 1337 speed clearz ftw” and feel that top dps is king. Utilities like Mesmer’s veil and portal and TW don’t rely on gear/stats and can be slotted into literally any Mesmer build when needed. But Engi’s build design is much more complete, more a product of the whole and less because you brought that one utility. With a single Engi build you can deal consistent melee dps and group heal and buff and aoe cleanse. With a different build you can shower an area with damage, stack vulnerability, and burst heal your party. With yet another build you can aoe stack might and offer extreme group utility with cleanses & heals while debuffing enemies with weakness & poison.

The problem is that people don’t see group synergy as anything except warrior banners and guardian shouts and Mesmer time warp. Those are gimmicky. Engi can shape their entire build around an idea.

I remember the first time I found diving goggles. I put em on and freaked out cuz suddenly all my armor and weapons disappeared. I cried so hard.

Then a friend told me they were for diving into water and that I didn’t really lose my stuff. So I went back and put em on and dove into the water….and missed. I hit the ground and died. I cried so hard.

Someone’s going to loot my corpse now and I’m going to lose all my stuff.

The zones in GW2 are beautiful. Caledon Forest blew me away when I first saw it. The blinding snows of Wayfarer made me feel a part of the landscape.

Orr is disturbing, but mostly because of the feeling I get when looking at the once great city, now smashed and ruined, covered by corruption and undead. The undead don’t particularly feel creepy. But the sense that we’ll never recover the opulent city or the souls kitten ed therein incites loneliness.

However, I’d love to see a dark wood. Something dark and mysterious, filled with ancient evils and truly scary ghosts and not the restless Ascalonian spirits. They spirits seems full of humanesque resent & rage, not the type of pure horror that true angered spirits should show.

I know that Anet could make it too, because all of the other zones are beautifully done. I LOVE the magnificent reflections in the water of a gorgeous sky, mountain, and trees.

Nah, I prefer the GW1 Tengu by far. Now they’re hunched over, anemic looking. Basically just bird heads on hunched normal frames. In GW1 they had feathers coming out all over, had a presence, weren’t hunched over like decrepit vultures, but rather stood proud like an eagle. The GW2 Tengu remind me of the trolls in WoW. They coulda been cool, but instead had this weak look. I’ve never liked the hunched look of characters. It’s feeble, it’s unnatural. I understand a crouched combat stance, but not walking around like a 90yr old. Bring back the proud eagle warriors, not the feeble buzzards they’ve become!

If they can streamline the porcine F2 skill, it’ll be like adding 4 new pets.

Other than that, yea, I’d love to see new pets. I think Dry Top was a missed opportunity.

I’m happy with this upcoming update. We’re not talking about more temporary content. We’re talking about a LFG tool which the community has been calling for for months. And GW2’s first raid-style boss. These are both pretty big changes, the first of which will change how we play dungeons/fractals, and the second of which might determine how Anet approaches new large-scale content. I think the data gathered after this patch will be heavily scrutinized by the devs. How we play as a result of this (and the last champion update) will impact the future of this game.

Actually, I don’t think they’re profession specific. I accidently bought an extra once and just kept in for another toon, which wasn’t the same profession.

I’m Batman.

No superpowers, just the know-how and means.

The lasers haven’t been an issue for me when adventuring. They become a mechanic to deal with during fights, which is fine.

The only issue I have is when (as the OP said) I’m chatting with an NPC and the laser keeps focusing me. Once, sure. Haha dodged you Scarlet and continue with NPC dialogue. But bam-bam-bam-bam gets annoying when I just want to find out Peter’s story.

Best places to go afk are at the entrance portals or inside an heirloom cave.

Aveneo.2068:

So yeah, I kept coming back because there isn’t much else to do. And I’d love to get that gun but the droprate seems to be the same old 0.00001% and it will be a cold day in hell if I am going to pay 225+ gold for one.

That’s why I keep coming back too. Would love those rifles but I am not paying 225g or even 110g for a cool-looking-but-barely-visible holo-rifle. So I keep returning for over an hour of fighting per attempt at the outside chance I’ll beat the 0.0001% odds of getting a drop.

I’d look for 2 professions that…
can offer a good variety of combo fields & finishers.
can offer a difference in range.
use different armor types.

IE – a Guardian and an Engineer: Engineer fights at range, throws out combo fields, Guardian is fighting at melee range (inside combo fields) and uses blast & whirl finishers. Guardian has boons & shouts to aid his buddy, Engi uses elixirs and med packs to aid his. Plus, they have different armor types which makes sharing drops easy.

People comparing real life to a game….not so much
People defining laziness as not wanting to do repetative tasks for hours & hours & hours that eventually become not enjoyable….not so much
People comparing themselves or their girlfriends to everyone and thinking their anecdotal evidence is law….not so much
People who like grinding acting completely baffled that everyone else doesn’t feel the same way they do….not so much
People who don’t know what the definition of grinding is…..not so much

Caring about what everyone else thinks or says or spouts off in forums about how others should play….not so much

rolled a sexy female norn ele….hated the voiceover at the first cutscene…deleted her immediately

With the sole exception of not liking melee, you’ve described a Guardian. I’d honestly give that a try.

Ele is another that fits the bill, but they’re squishy, not resilient. Lots of magic and healing, but not much defensive boon sharing or anything. Just raw healing.

Mesmer is fun, flashy, and has lots of boon sharing. Not much raw healing but a lot of reflects and ethereal fields.

Could we please at least get a red post saying IF anything is going to be done or if my farmed heirlooms are just wasted on a potentially fantastic item with horrible clipping/sizing/position issues?

I have a day and a half to make a decision on which potion to get and so far, neither of them look good on my asura main.

I don’t want to tell anyone to not play a particular profession. But elementalist is one of the harder ones to master, especially at low levels before you have access to all your skills & traits. So be preparred to put some effort into this profession (not to say you aren’t).

I found that, on the few times I’ve messed around with ele at low levels, that earth & water attunements worked best. Fire does great damage, so you can open up with that, but constantly swapping attunements is key, especially with earth giving you defense and water giving you access to heals & chills. Dodging is key in this game. No matter your armor or vitality or spec, you dodge an attack, it deals zero damage. Stay mobile, dish out conditions like blind, cripple, chill.

If you truly want to enjoy this game but just don’t like ele or your experience with an ele, don’t be discouraged. Try another profession. Guardian, warrior, and ranger are super easy to level in open world PvE. Try one of them and you might find the learning curve more forgiving. I did. I played Ranger & Guardian for a while before I tried my hand at Engineer. Now I love my Engi but know I wouldn’t have been able to play it effectively if it were the 1st profession I tried.

With all the Orr-hate I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a redesign to it with a future patch. Probably not until a year into the game though, but it would make sense if we destroy the dragon that the land can at least begin to reform. Perhaps the Sylvari venturing out to “seed” Orr and maybe plant a new Tree.

I do find it irksome that Anet released an infinite tool that was hailed as the last pick you’ll ever need. It can mine at every level. There literally was no better pick. All gathering tools had the same chance to gather the same pool of mats at all times (aside from BL tools). We had no reason to believe that things would change.

If they released a mining pick that had a chance to mine quartz, I’d be kittened. I worked to attain the meta reward of a quartz node in my home instance. But if I skipped that content I could buy a pick to get quartz.

Likewise, if people skip the current LS content and don’t get the meta reward (sprocket node in home instance) they can still just buy the pick with no effort expended and reap the benefits of gathering sprockets.

Trivializes the meta reward greatly.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

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Well said. And I agree. I’m just being childish and screaming “now! now! now! mine! mine! mine!”

I’ve found that creativity and some experimentation work best. By that I mean don’t go with full sets of armor, but mix n’ match and create your own. My “look” is very important to me and none of my toons have full sets of anything. They’re all mix n’ match and (I personally think) they look awesome.

Take a gander at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Post-a-pic-of-your-character-only-if-your-armor-is-mix-n-match/first for ideas. And each profession page has a sticky of character screenshots. Experiment!

I agree with Cherrylin. Try some other professions, you may surprise yourself.

I swore during beta that I’d be rocking a sylvari ranger main and probably an ele too. And I’d never touch an engineer. Now, my main is an asura engineer, I’ve gotten bored with ranger, and sylvari have lost their asthetic luster. My ele is lvl 11. You just never know.

Try thief and ranger. They are very melee capable but not your typical tank-n-spank style, requiring dodging, stealth, and avoidance. Try engineer with their mid-range fighting using flamethrower, tool kit, and bombs. Heck, try mesmer with a 1h sword and become an illusionary duelist. You may find the less conventional melee fighters are more fun.

This has been asked for numerous times. It’s a bit strange that this wasn’t implemented on the first patch day for such an integral piece of the Ranger. And still hasn’t.

They could have easily added a very visible button that would display that. As it is, the current logger has an auto-run feature that has me bypassing the notes every single time.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Heal-o-Tron? Not He-Ro-Tron? Disappointing!

Wait for Living Story finale. He will be.

People whine for ages about the rewards not being enough.

Anet ups the rewards.

People still whine.

They just can’t win.

sirsquishy.8531:

This is not a community driven game, and the community shouldn’t be responsible for finding and fixing bugs PRIOR to Anet rolling out patches. It just wastes everyone’s time.

Instead, it seems to be the job of the community to find the bugs after patches. Each patch seems to cause more & more ridiculous bugs than the last. Now Engineer’s entire Throw Mine skill is broken. The whole thing. How is that missed?? There are traits that don’t and have never worked, yet Anet doesn’t even know months later, despite countless forum posts. Then it seems they rely only on their debugger and not actual game-play testing because they’ve argued with the community saying something works, only to be shown screenshots of community testing proving it’s broken. The community payed Anet to play a game, not to be employees without pay. Why are we doing all the bug testing?

I’d like to see this as well. I have the book on 2 alts but have since rolled a new guardian and he’s become my primary toon (so much fun!). but alas, no snazzy back slot item.

As long as the new armors are introduced into the game and not the gem store I’ll be happy. I don’t want more RNG box ticket scraps and gem store only buys. I’d like to see new content involve new permanent drops. And even old content.

I think sometimes people just want to complain about something. This patch would be fine for you if they called it something different, like “Feature Patch” and not “Living Story Patch.” Jeesh…picky. When are they allowed, in your opinion, to release content that alleviates problems, like they did with EotM? Should they simply release it with no story to go along with it? Just plunk it down and call it a fix? Or should they, as they have done, introduce it in the context of the ongoing story so it makes sense? Maybe they were planning on releasing this “fix” later but realized the current story would be a good justification for it now.

Even the most novice WvWer (like myself) has no trouble getting the 1 item needed in EotM to further the Living Story and the achievement. Would have taken me less time except I kinda got caught up in the fun of playing WvW in the new map. Huh…guess Anet’s hope that new WvW features will draw players in worked on me. Some people call it “being forced” into doing something they don’t want to do. Well, then don’t do it. But it’s really not hard and it could entice you into doing something you haven’t done before. It’s new permanent content and that’s something that everyone always complains doesn’t happen enough. Well…it just happened.

You said “we don’t really want to sit there and play recap cinema for 30 minutes” and that’s great…because we don’t. If you’ve done the recap you’d know that too. You interact with evidence and take part in conversation, never seeing a cinematic. And it certainly doesn’t take 30 mins.

I’d love a fully laid out swan dive. Or a cannonball. Complete with audible character yell “caaanonbaaaaaaalllllll!”

Phadde.7362:

“… you will continue to benefit from any bonuses your equipped weapons provide.”

This refers to stats and sigils, not weapon power. When swapping to Grenade Kit you do not lose the stats from your weapons or the sigil(s). But you do lose the base weapon damage from your gun and instead use the static kit weapon power, which is around 970 iirc.

@OP: you used your opinions as fact to back up your other opinions. GW2 touts itself as a game without the ‘holy-trinity.’ It’s gonna stay that way. And that’s how I’m guessing most of the players want it too, since we all started playing knowing this fact. If you want the trinity, go play a game that has it. The PvE encounters may need polishing, but that’s not cause for completely changing the style of the game.

Monadproxy.3489:

the engineer’s rifle kills are actually shotgun skills, so it would make sense for them to shoot from the hip.

Clearly you’ve never actually fired a shotgun. Nobody shoots one from the hip.

Simplest change to the trait would be to make it enhance the duration of the stolen skill by 20%. So the stealth, the conditions, the boons, the gunk field, the knockdown, the daze durations all last longer. I think it’d be a great trait if it did that.

crossoverAtt.9680:

Actually, that’s half my point… In order to get back into the single player boss dueling session (which likely appeals to one kind of player), you needed to complete several of the most cluster ****** events of all time and a 5 person dungeon (which likely appeal a different kind of player). It was three days before I could even get into a Scarlet event on my server. I can’t imagine what it was like on the highest population servers.

What 5-person dungeon? Scarlet’s Playhouse? That was completely soloable. It scaled to party size. Did you even try it solo?