Guild Wars 2

Zephyrus.9680:

The combat mechanics are fine. The rewards are not. Smaller groups should be better rewarded for doing the same things as larger ones. Soloing a supply camp should be 2x the reward of taking it with a 60 man zerg. Capturing a keep with 5 people, same idea.

On the other hand, level of upgrades should also modify the reward both for capture and defense.

^^^^^^^^^^

Butter.3024:

Why is getting ascended weapon based completely on luck ( low drop rate like precursor ) or an cost extreme amount of gold via crafting?

I guess Anet really wants to bring back crafting, but seriously though, can Anet develops like a bunch of quest and after we finishes each quest we get a small pieces and then all together makes Ascended Weapon, ideally it should took 3-4 weeks to finish the quest. I think that will be a lot more enjoyable for everyone.

We already got Legendary to grind, please dont add on Ascended….

Really hope Anet rethinks about this before releasing Ascended Armor.

Personally: my thoughts on ascended are this:

• Let us gather it through an enticing and challenging quest line!
• Don’t make us farm materials…, but give us pieces as part of a scavenger hunt
• Leave out the crafting altogether: getting to 500 crafting is an expense no casual player can afford so it is really pay to win.
• Make the pieces soulbound so you can’t just go buying materials for the ascended and then craft them like a boss.
• Bring new characters in that will be a part of the development of the weapon/armour, either as protagonists or as allies.

I like the idea, but it’s rather hard to control this kind of thing… people dcing, mods keeping the gold, people going down the same time, and whatnot.

If there was a regulated in-game system, sure… but this seems to much like scam.

Ricky.4706:

and while we are at it, how about making exotic / ascended weapons alt friendly also – account bound – not soulbound – it’s unaffordable to test out different combinations of weapons – or for that matter have a collection of weapons I can change my builds with both with mats and vault space, I feel locked into one build for a main because, getting ascended, maxing and gearing up different characters is not easily affordable for people who mostly wvw – wvw doesn’t pay as well as pve – so while I can appreciate the balancing for pve players who can afford it – it’s denying pure wvwr’s of diversity.

THIS

Very nice. Hope this helps the developers in doing something.

Justdeifyme.9387:

I don’t get the daylies complain. I can’t play much during the week and daylies take me around 10 minutes to finish, I don’t see the problem.

It really isn’t about the duration, it’s about the fact that anet wants you to do things you don’t like. Games are ment for relaxation, not irritation.

I’m waiting… for april.

Godmoney.2048:

Galtrix.7369:

Cactus.2710:

Interestingly enough, somebody over at mmorpg.com (a fairly popular MMO website) just recently started a thread asking players which MMO most disappointed them. Not the worst game, but the MMO that least lived up to player expectations for it and least fulfilled it’s potential. Tons of players posted their choice, and GW2 was the runaway winner … even beating out SWTOR.

The only thread I could find that was related to GW2 was this:

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/403589/page/2

I’m actually sad to say that I agree with most of the people that are hating on GW2. Mainly the part where someone said something like: “They took everything you liked from Guild Wars 1, threw it out the window, and then turned the game into a puzzle jumper”. That was brilliantly said. I pretty much only played this game for the Jumping Puzzles and the dynamic events, but when I was bored with those, I deleted my characters and uninstalled without a second thought.

That website is a troll website. You realize that almost every person on that website doesnt play mmo’s or hasn’t in years?

MMORPG didn’t like Gw2 from the very start. That websites sole purpose in life is to troll mmo’s that are running.

Imagine the reviews on Amazon.com or Newegg.com of people who just post negative reviews because they have a grudge even though it’s obvious they never owned that product. That’s the entire user base of mmorpg.com.

It’s not like mmorpg.com is the only place where people have complaints about this game. I’m sure I’m not the only person who bought this game and is right now quite deliberately saying: it’s not good enough.

As to “it’s obvious they never owned that product”, I’ve played 1600 hours, I have tried every aspect of this game, some more in depth (world vs. world, normal dungeons, jumping puzzles, personal story, different classes & mechanics, lore…), some less (fractals). I don’t have any reason to act as if this game is all bad, because I would really want to like it and play it for many years as I did GW1.

I bought this game, not to say “oh this is bad”, but to enjoy it. Sadly, the game isn’t really being sustained enough by worthy content to keep it enjoyable and I think that it’s too late to come with the things that were obviously needed long ago.
People give up on a game after too many disappointments, for fear that the next time a ‘zomg so great patch’ is announced it will be another fail.

Another thing: what about mixing dyes together?

Zenith.6403:

Squishy.1965:

I keep seeing so many people say things like “Hmm, I don’t think I’ll buy the expansion because for probably 30$ I’m just getting a new class and a bit more.”

- Have you thought that maybe free time is precious? Why would I spend any money on a game that’s going to be soul-crushing grind that makes me question the meaning of my existence? If the game doesn’t teach you anything and if it’s not even fun, what’s the point? Are you going to tell your grandchildren about that time when you farmed 500 gold and 15k achievement points on a game that no longer exists?

As Zenith says… for $30 you can actually get FULL games which you might have more fun playing and which you might play longer than this expansion.

Example: I bought DayZ Standalone, which is a huge map online apocalypse game, that is continually getting new content (recently cars got added, before that a weather system, and in a while diseases will be added) for just $23.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

The Lost Witch.7601:

Then again, I don’t like that people are using dragon wing backpacks because they break my immersion. Yet the popularity of the wings suggests that others don’t agree with me on that. So perhaps my opinion is that of a minority.

-snip-snip-

I think Anet’s armor-designers also should take inspiration from many different fantasy-genre sources. Why not start a CDI where people could post their favourite suggestions (images) and discuss these with the designers themselves.

Yes! Make it so, oh Marcus!

Still in favor. It’s totally pathetic that you can’t get a new race on your character because of the lame story nobody cares about.

Demarca.4062:

GrandHaven.1052:

This DEFINITELY is not the case, most people are complaining about SKILL lag, which is indicative of a connectivity or server side problem.

Also to piggyback this post… this is the single BIGGEST cause of frustration. Video Lag is understandable. Skill Lag, where you either mash your button 10 times before a skill fires… or worse as an Ele, are failing to change attunements, is the lag most/all of us are requesting to be fixed.

On reset nights, the lag can sometimes be unbearable. IE; I’ve waited 5s before attunments to change, and forget about casting anything but your ‘1’ skill, because it isn’t firing.

It’s definitely skill lag me and my guild get in WvW. In PvP haven’t had lag for ages, in WvW… every few days.

Owww the new rune looks as bad as the old one was… Please nerf this rune in the ground or just delete it.

Hello developers/players, can someone please confirm me when custom arenas are being released? My guild has been looking forward to having their own arena for a time now and since the Time Tokens are released already, can we get a date for the Custom Arena Starter Kits?

Lord Trejgon.2809:

Eye of the North – the only GW expansion we have ever seen:
no new classes
no new playable races
phew new maps but nothing close to the size of continent
maps had terrible textures
a little new skills
some new armor sets

Only expansion? What GW have you been playing? Factions and Nightfall were expansions bro.

Whenever the commando comes to GW2 it’s GOING TO HAPPEN-!

JustTrogdor.7892:

Why do so many people seem excited at the prospect of GW2/HoT failing?

I don’t think anyone in their right mind wants to see GW2 failing and shutting down. People that deliberately want GW2 to die are really short-sighted and vengeful, something I disapprove.

I get it that people are angry and want to vent their frustrations. Personally I am not at all happy with the direction this game took with HoT: particularly the profession balance in PvP and WvW; grind walls for things we could access before; gimmicks in WvW borderlands and overpowered guild additions behind grind wall.

That said, I really really really hope ArenaNet makes a sharp turn toward a more balanced PvP environment, improvements on WvW and less grind in general (yes, the no-grind manifesto).

TLDR; I rather cry than cheer if HoT and GW2 fail.

Zuckerhund.4179:

…absolutely fantastic. The amount of dedication, passion and soul put into this game is without parallel to anything available in the industry right now. ArenaNet is still pumping out updates, listening to community feedback and making lots of positive changes that have really done a great job in improving the game.

Even the gem store has managed to stay consumer friendly and unimposing. If mistakes are made, the staff have no quarrel rectifying it in quick order. Just wanted to say how pleased I am with the direction Guild Wars 2 continues to take. Keep up the amazing work.

You have to be kidding me… most of the new updates are a try to keep people playing and playing and playing (one more achievement point there, one more exotic drop there…). Basically a mindless farmfest. No ty.

+1 to op

ArenaNet: if you don’t want us to quit your game, kittening get better or more servers to run on. Several of my friends have been complaining about lag spikes, so it isn’t my net or anything that is to blame for the lag. It’s obvious the lag is server-side so it’s your problem.

Xae Isareth.1364:

I don’t quite get it.

Everyone complains that mindless champ farming gave more gold than everything else in the game, so Anet nerfs it to balance the problem. Now everyone complains mindless champ farming doesn’t give enough gold.

Wat.

(before someone pulls the ‘they shouldve buffed everything else’ argument, if they buff everything else, that creates more inflation)

No way. I applaud the nerf. Why should mindless farmers get rewarded for something that takes 0 skill?

Instead of a hundred QQ threads about how bad the rewards are, what about a Thank You thread?

We’ve been playing wvw for over a year without rewards. Now we get rewards and people complain. I agree, the rewards aren’t “super”, but why should they be?
Most people in WvW ignored Living story because they didn’t like it. This season we could do what we liked and we even got a reward. The 5 tomes of knowledge were a nice boost, along with a little bit of Wxp, a funny dolyak and 100 dragonite ore.

I do have to say, I don’t plan on getting ascended through crafting cause I don’t have the money for it and playing WvW doesn’t earn me enough to level it.
So the dragonite is worthless to me.

That being said, I’m happy we did get something for doing the same thing as always (kill some players, dolyaks, sentries;.. cap some towers, keeps, stonemist). I’m also happy for the promise of accountbound wxp, edge of the mists and more. Thank you!

Ascended are pay to win and a grind. Screw them.
100% agree with OP

Aza.2105:

Allie Murdock.8152:

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Without a viable counter it allows players to spam endlessly without much thought of being punished for it. I doubt this will ever change either, since GW2 has been out since 2012 and the game has been having the same extreme balance problems since launch.

The solution has always been there, INTRODUCE more counter play mechanics. Dealing with players who abuse evade? There should modest portion of skills that go through evade. Got a player who abuses block? There should be more skills that are unblockable. Got a player who abuses stealth? There should be more anti stealth skills that exist for each class.

Furthermore each classes role should be distinct. At some point Anet released a design philosophy for each class and why they functioned the way they did. With the xpac, anet just tossed that philosophy out the window.

Hey Aza.
I have thought about this a lot, and read many posts by other people. You are right in one way, the meta today shows that certain things in the game are too strong.

However, introducing more counters isn’t perfect either, because of the way GW2 combat works: there are 9 classes, on which you can just combine whatever you like, with some limits (weapon sets, trait lines). Adding counters on classes may not fix the original problem for some other classes, or might be overkill.

Say blocks are overpowered. There are too many people blocking stuff and are basically unkillable, which makes decapping points impossible or extremely hard. You add unblockables to several classes. Now the risk is there that instead of balancing block/unblockable, it tips the scale in the other direction: blocking isn’t worth kitten anymore. And even when that isn’t the case, by ‘countering’ one mechanic when it’s overused, you might cripple playstyles/builds that rely on this mechanic but do not overuse it.

So where to start? They should revisit what they want each class to be and what each class is supposed to be good at and what it’s supposed to be bad at.

Some hints, when you abstract from the current meta, and hypothetically think of a state of the game that is less “overpowered” in all aspects:
→ Thief is in a good spot; it fulfills the role of high mobility & deception class, is great for decaps and as a penalty has no tank ability. It might need some damage nerfs when you tone down other classes.
→ Berserker is in a good spot; it has some reliable sustain, stances still are great, can still dish out enough damage (so realistically the sort of main man who doesn’t have great team utility, but can just survive under focus) – also needs some damage nerfs when you tone down other classes.

Big offenders:
→ Damage: Herald
→ Sustain: Tempest & Druid

Broken mechanics:
→ Celestial Avatar
→ Continuum Split

JubeiTM.5763:

Sirendor.1394:

Looks like grenade autoattack is the dominant wish:

Cameirus.8407
JoxerNL.3752
Zenguy.6421
KratosAngel.7289
tigirius.9014
Sirendor.1394
Frightlight.3796
Erdem.8956
The Pork Chop Xprss.3152
Kain Francois.4328

-1
1500 Range auto attack would be extreme. Engineer is not supposed to be push button and win. The devs took out the auto attack so they wouldn’t nerf the damage even more. If somebody loves grenades so much they should adapt. Start by binding another key in stead of “1”.

Whether the auto-attack is there or not, doesn’t change the fact that the range of grenades is already 1500. I don’t see why it’s a point of discussion.

There are 2 mechanisms being talked about here and it seems to me you’re blending them:
- auto-attack function: the skill throws automatically, without you needing to tap the button, but it won’t go toward an enemy, but will still be ground-targetted.
- auto-target function: the skill throws automatically, but it will go straight toward your enemy, without ground-targetting.

I would be very happy if the 1st would be implemented, and even happier when the 2nd would be implemented. Even with 1st one implemented, we’ll still have to point the place we want the grenades to hit, and we’ll still need to anticipate.

Support this. There are other threads about this too:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/weapons-what-is-gw2-missing/first#post1255539
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Give-engineers-and-elementalists-more-weapons/first#post1255298

The more people vote on all these posts, the more chance we actually get the changes!!

Ah never heard that before. I really appreciate Anet’s talent at evading promises… everyone could learn from them.

I agree, the players have suggested so many incredible ideas, with a big potential, and still they just keep ignoring these suggestions and pleas and think they’re going to fix it with adding some mechanic or other that doesn’t change wvw and has near to no importance (as I’ve stated earlier).

Because GW1 is dead and dated. It was the most brilliant game we had for a long time. Now it’s gone, and GW2 is our only replacement (so far).

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 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.

The exact same reason why I comment here.

Vayne.8563:

While you might not be saying the game is dead, plenty of people have. It’s not a long stretch to associate it with the haters (which I never felt you were one of anyway).

On the topic of story, I’m pretty sure most MMO players don’t give a rat’s kitten about stories. Most of them skip cut scenes. They’re not interested. I am, but I’ve always known I was the exception to the rule.

You make it sound as if the majority want story. The majority seem to want loot. I think it’s a very sad state, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

In a perfect world Anet would be able to provide the story and experience I want, and the types of things others want…but it’s not a perfect world.

But I do think a lot of people do like the living story. Anet doesn’t go by what you say or what I say or what they forum says. They look at the number of people logging in and playing content.

Really the only way to vote is to not log in and not play content.

It seems to me plenty of people are coming in for these 2 week updates and doing the content. As long as that keeps happening, the game will be successful, no matter how many people say they don’t like it.

Hey Vayne I don’t know if you actually support the view that people here are “hating” (lol) but I’ll try to reply as if you were (do not take this personally).
People saying the game is dead are obviously wrong, but people who say the game might be very close to dying are not wrong at all, due to a lot of missed opportunities and extremely bad managing on Anets part.

We (by we I mean the forum posters) are not the only people in the game experiencing the issue of “why do we actually still play if it’s not fun?”. My guild is a very successful one in the game with 50+ people online daily out of 120-ish members. And yet the last weeks a lot of posts have popped up about “silence in guild chat due to farming”, “lack of fun/joking”, “nobody willing to help anymore”, ’nobody does anything else than farming anymore" and a lot more of similar topics.

This means the problem isn’t one that is experienced by a small share of the players, it means it is one experienced by many. ArenaNet is trying to cover that feeling by continuously adding new “content” (Living story is hardly that) which provides new farm/grind options and new cosmetic rewards, functioning as a stick and carrot.

I believe story isn’t completely essential to having fun, but it does take the stress away from money. The story does give rewards in the form of personal feel of achieving something, living yourself out and so on. Other elements in the game are able to deliver that feel, such as exploring a hard dungeon and succeeding, finding a chest at the end with some completely random loot (maybe something good, most probably garbage, but it still feels good!), or getting to the top of a hard jumping puzzle and seeing the world from the top… etc. Story background creates a context for this.

Right now Living Story is a kittentail with following ingredients:

• Farm Method
• Farm Reward
• Story

The story however is so weak that it barely conceals the fact that arenanet is just throwing a random item at you and asking you: play (=farm) for 1 week more and you can have it! People finally see this and ask themselves “why are we doing this?”, cause it’s quite obviously a trap to make you play the game. That’s why we are not haters, but people who are discussing an existing problem, which will possibly rob Anet of a large chunk of their playerbase (not completely unjustified).

Hey people. We all know a lot of people don’t plan to create any ascended at all:

• Either they don’t have the money
• Or they have alts and don’t care for ascended
• Or they play WvW and hate to do PvE
  You get my point.

I think those people deserve to be able to exchange the ascended materials they got (and don’t plan to use), for something that is useful for them. Say: gold, laurels, karma. Give each ascended material a value for each of these:
E.g.: per bloodstone dust: 2.5 silver, 250 karma…

They’re just sitting in my bank. Can’t sell to players nor to npcs. Just let those who don’t want ascended have an alternative to just destroying the materials?

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Well guys you have to admit. It’s a lot better than those instant lvl 80 suggestions you often see.

The frequency at which those pop up does mean something. Leveling is plain bad in this game.

I agree mostly with what you say Marcus.

GW1 was a lot more enjoyable because you could buy most things you needed/wanted from merchants, or could earn them through playing the game, rather than this bull kitten in GW2 where you have to either
a) be very lucky (some people get 10 precursors in a month, others get 0 in 2 years)
b) grind your kitten off to buy them

Player-regulated economies shouldn’t be in a game. That only leads to kittening them up.

Mhmm that’s one angry comment. What ‘better’ games are you talking about? Neverwinter, Elder scrolls online? Sorry, but these games are a total joke as far as I’ve seen them.

I would be totally willing to spend leisure hours designing some alternative weapons. If only they would be willing to allow it. I think the future lies in player-development, personally.

On the one hand, it takes a burden off the shoulders of developers and allows them to focus more on mechanics while still bringing about new content without too much work.

And on the other hand it would probably please a lot of players that they got a chance at creating a new weapon/armour piece/… for a game they like.

Hey all, I held a survey and finished it yesterday (with a variety of questions about the different game aspects). The data has been collected and uploaded to this forum thread (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Survey-Scores-of-GW2-UPDATED-DAILY/first#post2729450) aswell as a number chart.

Here it is, hope it helps you discuss things and helps Anet to see the player’s wishes.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

It would be easy enough to move all the camp guards closer to the center, so you’d always have to fight all of them to flip a camp. But to be clear, you guys are arguing that you want to do ‘more PvE’, which seems to go against the forum’s current agenda of ‘less PvE.’

Well then, if your take is to ‘give us less PvE’, why not remove guards altogether? :p

Just joking, at least players have something to do when there’s nobody around to fight.

I know, I know, ideally we would have people to fight against anywhere anytime, but so long as we don’t see your population solution (looking forward to it!) that’s not the case.

Sorry devs, but I seem to miss something. As it is now:
- The ranks show for enemies
- The ranks don’t show for allies

Doesn’t that kind of make the rank system deficient?
So what happens: you show your enemy you’re a “kitten”, making them more wary of fighting you.

On the other hand, the people who have a lot of experience in WvW, and have a high rank by this, can’t show they actually are this much more experienced than others and can’t take command as a consequence of that, without buying a tag for 100g?

Can you justify this other than saying it’s a huge gold sink for Anet and ranks are a try to hide that fact?

Agreed. Definitely the idea about the red cursor.

My ele hits about 1.5x more, but it is still weak compared to other classes because now it can not even survive in fights that have more than 3 players in it.

So yeah, damage decrease would balance the game a bit, cause right now having toughness and vitality makes a marginal difference, only thing that works is active defense.

I’ve seen tons of similar suggestions, and I supported every one of them, as i’ll do now.
I like how you’ve tried to make a nice, smooth summary

I can’t say it enough: YES, please remove multi-guilds OR allow us to see when someone last represented: we should be able to kick the inactives right?
The thing is, if they end up getting kicked anyways…, why allow multiple guilds in first place?!

Alliances: YES: we had them in gw1 and they were quite valuable. We want them back.

Tiers of guild armor sound nice. At the moment I’m quite dissapointed with guild armour, it looks like the cheapest pve armour there is.

More guild weapons: sure, but this isn’t really urgent.

I’d like to add Guild vs. Guild too.

@Awlbistle: seems like you’ve missed some news: they’ve announced an update considering the Guild hall and player houses: hooray!

Match-ups are broken, since the launch, but it got worse when they implemented random match-ups, not per tier. Personally I refrained from going into WvW, unless when I felt like solo-roaming on hours when there weren’t any blobs about OR when I got the chance to join in with a group of up to 5 other players to roam and fight against/escape from zergs. That’s the only real competitive PvP there still is in WvW.

Zerg vs. Zerg is barely PvP at all and Blob vs. Blob is even worse. Most of the time though it’s Huge Blob vs. Zerg or Zerg vs. 5-man. Barely balanced and barely a fair competition. I hope changes are being thought of, because this is certainly not what I bought this game for.

$$$$$$$$$

Interesting idea, but I think we are past this point already. A lot of people won’t run dungeons anymore EVEN if they are made 5x harder, just because it would still be a repetition, though with a few other options, but no new plots or tunnels or entrances are found that could make way for some new experiences.

I’ve listed 2 of my own ideas, because I found them really important, though they might not be the best ones about those topics, just easiest for me to find.

1- Player-changeable world
(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/CDI-Character-Progression-Horizontal/page/15#post3421456)

2- Horizontal stat/skin/class progression: unlock them all and never have to worry again.
(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/CDI-Character-Progression-Horizontal/page/5#post3409333)

3- Story-driven quests/missions that allow your character to progress in different ways: skin ‘transformation’, affiliation, PvP missions, guild content.

Silent Shino.7239:

I would love to be able to team up with Gandara, AG and Gandara are really similar servers, I would love to fight alongside them.

The feelings are returned Much respect for Aurora Glade.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

GW1 remake? No.

GW1 continued new content releases? YES!

+1

Can we get a GW1 kickstarter project????

anking.6245:

Living story?

Too busy playing SNES and running on the gear treadmill.

Can’t wait for treadmill armor next. :\

It’s close. :/

DungeonDaughter.7391:

Look at all you liars. MMO players with lives. Please.

[x] Married
[x] Have Girlfriend

Like… both?