Guild Wars 2

As a GW1 vet, I don’t think it’s as bad as the OP and some others have made it out to be.

On the other hand, I don’t get quite why ANet dropped a lot of quality of life stuff from GW1 (they’ve included some, but not most). Movable UI, Guild Halls, etc.

Maybe we don’t spend enough in the cash shop? I’ve spent around 800$, I don’t know how much more I’d have to to have folks take seriously that being able to move the minimap to the left (so it would be under chat) would allow me to run and navigate at the same time, since I’m blind on the right. In GW1, you could move the minimap anywhere on the screen.

Not very much has discouraged me in this game, though the lack of that feature does; the accessibility of the UI to the visually disabled in GW1 was much more solid.

Garenthal.1480:

Is anyone else disappointed that Trahearne is the one to cleanse Orr? It’s meant to be of huge significance to humanity and yet it’s a sylvari who plays the biggest part in solving the problems in the region.

Sylvari are pretty much around to save the land, while the other races are there to save their people. Trahearne is the literal embodiment of this: unsure about everything else but his purpose, before finding his stride and fulfilling his function.

Sylvari were also stated to be the race that is there to try to smooth things between the others.

Anyway, he was created to solve the problem of Orr, while the Sylvari PC was created to get rid of the dragon— he’s got the long-term planning job, while you’re there to mow everything down.

ChampionChains.9780:

Since Sylvari son’t breed, they have no need for sex.

The devs have stated that they do have sex and do because it feels nice.

People and animals in RL have non-reproductive sex all the time.

Weindrasi.3805:

Unfortunatley, games don’t roll that way, so I figure it’s better just to avoid the problem all together.

Maybe they should.

I’d love to see some of the skimpier armors from GW1 come back, as they showed off both men and women. Heck, they even put batnips on one of the paragon male armors.

Right now, there’s very little way to show off the bioglow on my male sylvari mesmer. That’s a bummer, since I spent a lot of time in chargen designing him and can’t really show off his glow or body patterns.

I was homebound for almost 15 years with a serious illness, and more recently developed malignant cancer (under treatment, I posted about this a few weeks ago). I don’t know what I would have done without Guild Wars 1 and 2, and the friends I’ve made here. MMOs let me feel like I could still go out and do things even when I was, and still am, too sick to do much of anything, and lets me hang out with friends and meet new people anytime.

Thank you, ANet. <3

Laurelinde.4395:

I wonder if you put us in a cup with red food coloring overnight, will we turn red?

We could cut your character’s feet off and find out! :U

I dunno, I’m kinda down with a new meta being essentially *launch* WHEEEEE! *SPLAT* *everything dies*.

I would swim to Cantha. I miss Shing Jea Island and its Kirin. <3

I also have a low life expectancy due to an illness, and am homebound etc, I spend most of my day, when I’m awake, logged in to GW2.

If you had fun, it wasn’t wasted. Surround yourself with good people, and get rid of the jerks, you deserve better.

Good luck. <3

Taking those champs or nerfing that will nerf that morning run, and we’ll be back to pondering how to progress.

Re: the new influx of money— apparently they’re planning a lot of gold sinks.

The big big moneymakers of this patch weren’t zerg farming anyway, it was the ember farm and deadeye.

I hope they don’t insist on keeping the Champions. I can’t do daily dungeon speed-runs or fractals because I’m legally blind and often sick, and those things require a lot more focus than I can often manage. Farming Orr let me work towards stuff at a slower pace, with less pressure on the group.

Please change it to male. Neither asura nor charr have two breasts, so breast cups are pointless.

Please bring back Cantha! <333 I miss Factions so much, it would be awesome to see the place updated and brought back into GW2.

Chickenooble.5014:

I don’t get the, “I’m disabled and can’t work so I spend all my time playing a video game” mentality. Wouldn’t time be better spent learning something else computer related? It sounds like the OP and others have endless time to sit at the computer, but no time to learn a skill (like programming) which could be beneficial and profitable. There’s a lot you can do from a chair… why settle on leveling your characters when you could be leveling up your life? Be a web developer, a blog writer, a musician with a keyboard and a laptop, paint pictures and sell them on the internet, a graphic designer, a novelist, etc.

When you’re disabled or sick, sometimes you can’t do productive things. Also, this is a lousy economy, freelance work doesn’t pay much, and few people want to hire folks who work from home.

To folks who are frustrated with the OP: Remember that ANet promised us a continuation of GW1. What infos we got over the years (we waited YEARS with very few updates and content) was that it was going to be like GW1 but with the stuff that they couldn’t implement, like jumping, possible mounts (from the concept art coming out), more detailed models, etc.

We liked the game that they stopped making. We didn’t quit it to jump to another game, we moved because they said, basically, ‘the game engine isn’t what we need it to be, so we’re focusing development on the next iteration of this game, please come with us’. Most of us took it at face value.

I LIKE guild wars 2. But I do miss the many creative armors in GW1, I miss heroes and henchmen, I definitely miss Guild Halls (my guild has to go to other servers to have guild meetings just to not get griefed), I miss all my minipets from 1 that never got ported over.

People say, ‘well, go back to GW1!’ That’s not feasible when they stopped updating it. So I wish that they could stop avoiding some of the things that made GW1 good, like guild halls, like the armor styles, like the various cultures, like the guild halls, like those minis, skill capturing, etc. I don’t see why folks would NOT want any of these things.

So, I like Guild Wars 2, it does a lot of things well and it is my main MMO now. But GW1 was the MMO I planned to stick with for longer and that got yanked out from under a lot of players, and the many features which would go a long way toward easing things -aren’t here-. That’s going to bother some people. Dissing us for the quandary we’re finding ourselves in is crappy.

Regarding nostalgia glasses re: grinding: I never had a problem with grinding. Maxing titles and acquiring some armors and weapons required a lot of it, and I was ok with that.

I think OP just hit that content burnout stage; they’ve played the hell out of the game and need a break.

IMO, take a sabbatical, go play something else, and wait until ANet updates with a bigger content patch that freshens stuff up.

With all of the speed buffs that every other class has, I as a mesmer an a detriment to any dungeon group that wants to move fast. I’m tired of everyone zooming ahead, and either I have to equip a subpar weapon or drag behind.

And get yelled at.

Heck, the same goes for WvW. If I’m no longer allowed to keep up with my friends, then please make it so I can play without my friends. I’m tired of being yelled at for being slow. I don’t feel like being yelled at anymore. This is not fun anymore.

My roomie is having issues, too. They are my and my sweetie’s aide. If someone has an emergency, or even just a basic physical need, they have to stop, help us, and come back. This was not an issue in GW1, but in GW2, they get to be made to feel like a jerk for just doing their job.

I realise that fundamentally the issue is with players, but most players don’t want to pause or to go slow. And I don’t think that we should have to put up with nastiness just because we play classes with suboptimal speed or occasionally inconvenient real lives. What GW1 did so well was allow folks like us to access the content without the abuse. Please somehow bring it back.

Aberrant.6749:

I’m off to bed, hopefully I’ll see a dev post on this employee’s behavior when I wake up.

Hopefully the folks ranting and flaming will be banned for violating the ToS as well.

It’s part of why you see a disproportionate amount of Sylvari fighting on the front lines— they can’t be turned against their comrades if they die.

I’ve been groveling for the same thing:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Let-us-wear-outfits-regular-helms-3/first#post4515699

You could do it in GW1. Please let us do the same in GW2! <3

Piscore.6934:

I see NPC saying Cantha is impossible to travel because they have a Civil Wars right now, and the travel is very dangerous.

Sounds like a challenge to me!

With great risk comes great reward. <3

Dare.6913:

Sylv.5324:

Welcome to Tyria!

If you’re not on TC or Piken yet, those are the two main roleplay servers (NA/EU respectively). You seem like the type to get immersed that way.

I will definitely roll a character on TC then, thank you so much~!

Remember that all of your characters can only be played on one server, but you can guest anytime.

ANet nerfed pen/shelt and it’s that crowd trying to farm bosses that summon adds. As soon as one is nerfed, they switch to another spot to farm there. They are NOT interested in running around the whole zone and never have, and getting folks to turn out to take temples is always, has always been a pain. At least on my server.

If you take away loot from temple chain tables, you punish the rest of us who do the WHOLE chain for the loot, not access to the dungeon. If steps along that path are nerfed, I may stop going completely, as Arah, Melandru and Grenth are the best chains for loots in Orr now and getting enough people to bother to do them is almost ALWAYS a hassle as it is.

IMO revert the pen/shelt timers. Some folks cannot spam dungeons and the open world IMO should be just as rewarding.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

We’re listening. That area was never intended to be accessible, but we’re looking at other changes we can make that won’t confuse players trying to visit their home instance or continue their story, and won’t get in the way of RPers. I don’t have an ETA for when a change will go in, though, sorry!

I think that a big part of the frustration is that there are a few very unique spots in Salma that are nowhere else in town, such as the Hospital, the three separate houses, that really nice bar, etc.

If folks are roleplaying injured characters, or healers, medical staff, etc, losing the hospital completely short-circuits a lot of roleplay.

If Salma stays closed, possibly relocating those areas (Eastern Commons/Dwayna’s Quarter is pretty empty) would probably help!

Anyway, with roughly at least 10k roleplayers clustered in three servers, that is a lot of long-term players who buy regularly from the cash shop AND don’t require constant content upgrades who would like to see some kind of solution. <3 So thank you for looking into it. It’s appreciated.

TheDaiBish.9735:

They’re really not.

Have you seen the requirements for Legendary weapons?

It’s a minimum of 327 ecto’s and that’s providing you get a Mystic Clover every time, which never happens (on average, I think someone worked out people will use 481 ecto’s, just getting their clovers). Not to mention the minimum spend of 120g 50s (100g for the Icy Runestones, 20g for crafting recipies, 50s for the Gift of Battle).

Ascended with their 12 ecto’s and the 11g, 35s, 20c cost pales in comparison. This isn’t even going into the other requirements.

Yeah.

Your cost of making one is, depending on the legendary, usually between 1200 to 1500g (more right now with the mat hike) if you buy your precursor. As far as I know, it will not cost that much to make an ascended weapon.

I really wish people stopped exaggerating to make their argument.

Chase.8415:

Levetty.1279:

Chase.8415:

Levetty.1279:

Chase.8415:

This entire feature is better for Guild Wars 2 community as whole,

How? The only advantage this has is if you go to some back water map where nothing happens and you can probably solo everything with ease you may see a few extra people. You can already gain the same benefit by making a party.

The disadvantages are a lot bigger.

Please give me a list of the disadvantages rather than just “a lot bigger”

Destroys RP community, destroys server communities, the champ train in Queensdale (aka the most likely starter zone for new people) will be 10x larger and probably 100x more antagonistic to people not doing the right order, puts in an unneeded layer of complication to organizing server events, can’t use overflows to get your entire guild into one map to do an organized boss run, etc.

Crystal Desert is the unofficial LGBT server and I don’t see anyone complaining that their server community is now ruined, it appears only the RP player seem to be complaining. One could argue that guesting has already ruined server communities.

There’s nothing stopping normal players rolling into TC and trolling now, there are no rules enforced on RP servers at all since they are not officially recognized by ArenaNet.

No matter what ArenaNet releases, there’s always going to be a negative side. You guys have to just accept change. Being that there are no dedicated RP realms, ArenaNet is not obligated to do anything.

I think you guys are being a little over-dramatic.

I think it should mostly be ok, but the problem isn’t exactly that there’s an influx of non-roleplayers, which seems to be what most non-roleplayers think is the problem. The problem is that it may be more difficult for NEW roleplayers who don’t know that TC is the unofficial RP server: they can’t then decide to guest over to TC to roleplay. They’d have to transfer. (As far as I understand how this will work.) Not only that, but scattering roleplayers makes it difficult for walk-up roleplay outside your guild, which is how a lot of roleplay happens, how you meet new guilds, etc.

So it’s not so much ‘ugh those kittenant non-roleplayers’, it’s ‘how do people who are not already in the community find us if you can’t guest to our specific world anymore’? And ‘if we’re getting split through random servers (though it should still weight us by community, thank goodness) how will we do big community events?’

That’s our concern. Being able to do community-specific things (because there is no way to weight criteria by an ‘rp’ tag) may be more difficult now.

Anyway, I don’t think we should be dismissed and mocked: we built one of the most active servers in the game, and we are one of the few demographics who will stick by a stagnant game and create new content for ourselves to tide us over until the next update (which is part of why TC has stayed so active). One headcount put us well around 7-8k players (correction: 10k plus as of more recently) and that was, what, a year ago? And we’ve lost some, but we’ve gained a lot of new roleplayers since then. We also tend to buy a lot of stuff from the gem shop, especially new outfits.

Ilike Trahearne.

Also, sylvari don’t see necromancy as dark or evil, it’s just another kind of magic, and they don’t get hung up on corpses. They don’t have the cultural aversion to death that we do.

More mounts would be great!

Waffling on the new outfit because of the helms issue. :<

Yes, please! I’d much rather do things in the world than in a dungeon!

Especially in the cities— investigating that big hole in DR, maybe helping to train cubs or something in the Black Citadel, or pirate stuff in LA.

I don’t get why raids were added when there weren’t even enough resources for PvE, PvP and WvW.

inazuma.7021:

“I’m healing you by gently stroking your leg!” LOL

LET ME RUB YOU :U

Anyway I’ve got 6k-odd hours played and I still like the game.

Sure, some things get annoying, but that’s every game and something will always annoy someone. There’s a lot of things to like, too.

Oh, don’t forget to bind aoe loot to its own key.

AggieTechGuy.4901:

The rule is kind of unclear. What constitutes “authorized personnel”? So any ANet employee can whip out his giant “I’m special” guild tag and start ordering people around?

He was justified in whipping it out when he was being slagged for just standing there.

For some reason, folks seem to think that having an anet tag (or just being a random player) is an excuse for them to be treated like kitten, and that they should just take it because they are employees. I’m glad he spoke up, regardless of the underlying incident, because folks were acting like entitled brats.

Hopefully this won’t derail any progress toward GvG, because using this as a reason to kitten about it IMO is lousy, and showing them support just shows support for the toxic behavior that’s become rampant in certain parts of the community these last few months expecially.

Vasham.2408:

I personally can’t wait for the players who would insult anyone who perfers the trinity as “unskilled.” I dare you to go up to a top 100 WoW raiding guild and say that.

This isn’t WoW, and you are unskilled at GW2 combat if you can’t master it.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

1. hit the nail on the head for me, I’m sick to death of being second fiddle on the server I’ve played on since day one!

This is my only — but serious — problem with this event-- I have not been able to get on my own server’s Tequatl fight since this patch went live. I can’t join my friends there with the ‘join’ function— always full. That last is really frustrating, as we as a guild, or a group of friends, can’t even play on our own server.

The Meat Wagon.7194:

Sylv.5324:

I dunno, I’m kinda down with a new meta being essentially launch WHEEEEE! SPLAT everything dies.

It would add depth to gameplay.

I dunno. I mean, I can’t believe mesmer gameplay has fallen so low.

Then again, it’s nice to have such an impact on zerg play, you know?

Nerf people’s passive speed buffs. I as a mesmer have no way to zoom through JPs like most other classes do, so clearly other classes have an exploitable advantage somethingsomething arglebargle blerg.

Sil.4560:

Players may not have demanded it, but they are defending it as if they did. It doesn’t invalidate what I’ve said either way.

No, it really doesn’t. We’re defending it because it was a lovely gift and is very much appreciated. You’re definitely trying to criticise us for things we never did or said.

I’m not sure that the majority is complaining. I’ve seen no one in game say anything but positive stuff about the rewards. Granted, my server is TC so the community there is pretty mellow.

I think the theme is fine. There are plenty of straightforward fantasy games, the genre didn’t really need yet another one.

I would like to see stuff like housing and mounts. I am not really interested in fractals, but I’ll spend years collecting every last mount and mini.

Probably the Norn (if you go by GW1), except for the weakness of Norn discipline: they are usually lousy soldiers because most of them are too individualistic. There are a few exceptions, but they join the Lion guard or the Orders.

Just convincing more than five to join you on your quest to fight the Destroyers was impossible.

That said, disorganised as they are, they were an even match for the Charr, who were not able to overcome humanity after overthrowing the Flame Legion.

So much for the ‘the rewards are irrelevant, we want challenge!’ folks.

Please keep up your spirits, ANet! I hope things turn out well and the rough patches smooth over in time.

If they’re descendants from that one bunny cave in GW:EN, the local mobs know better than to mess with ’em.

Don’t mess with the bunnies, man.

Defcon.8509:

Greatsword is an amazing mesmer weapon, easily my favorite.

The auto-attack does instant damage from 1200 range, and it hits nice and hard.

Berserker > Mirror Blade > Auto-Attack > Shatter can down a glassy target from 1200 range sometimes before they can even react.

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About the only thing GS needs in my opinion is a bit of tweaking on mind stab. It’s not a bad ability, but the radius could be a bit larger, maybe remove two boons instead of one, or a cool down reduction. A small buff to mind stab and I think the weapon would be perfect.

That rotation is optimal while leveling, too, and that’s the one I tell everyone to use when starting out a GS mesmer. Mobs usually won’t go for you, they’ll go for your clones, letting you stay at range.

I liked Mind Stab in its earlier iteration— not targeted, more like mirror blade in that it went for your selected target and a few things around them.

You can use a normal head skin with an outfit in gw1, so I assume they can code the same setup.

Allow us to pan upward (nod just sideways) in order to increase the amount of sky vs ground: I understand that the devs want us to be able to see stuff behind us (especially in pvp), but the movement of the ground at the very edges, plus the character being so high up when the camera is zoomed out, is great for motion sickness. My ideal would be the character standing at about a third of the way up, not half; then the scrolling wouldn’t be quite as bad and it would open up the sky.

First person view: folks don’t have to worry about that messing with combat. People who try it will soon switch back to regular view after dying, and the rest of us can make videos and take beautiful screens.

The bouncing off objects behind us is extremely nauseating when it comes to jumps, which is part of why I avoid them.

Being able to zoom in to your character one extra notch would be wonderful, as would being able to zoom out one or two more.<3

Sil.4560:

Nerd raging until the little veins stand out in your neck

You are projecting your own anger hardcore here, bro. You’re the one who’s started raging about ANet rewarding GW1 vets and making all sorts of mean and false accusations.

I’m surprised you didn’t rage about the headstart giving folks an advantage.

MikaHR.1978:

Sylv.5324:

That really does not seem like a dealbreaker to me. You could make up the difference with a buff or a piece of armor.

So basically you have no clue how much is it but feel invited to comment on it?

I think that you are very angry and should stop foaming. <3