Guild Wars 2

I still feel like the OP after 5227 hours played. A lot of folks still love the game, too. <3

Gathering OoooOOOoooberries!

ArchonWing.9480:

They just need to make more long chain events and trains in other zones.

Truth is, after the repeated Cursed Shore Nerfs before the train started, there was probably zero reason to play open world beyond leveling because there was nothing to be gained from it— oh good a rare after 15 minute world boss! And the only reason people are like that is because crap was nerfed elsewhere— so it’s pretty laughable to think that making the problem worse will solve the problem.

Bring back Cursed Shore or something… boost the loot greatly and revert it back to the old difficulty.

They nerfed Pen/Shelt in Orr repeatedly, first the timers and then by getting the scaling borked on champs for a long time. A lot of farmers had no problems doing the Caer Shadowfain / Pen / Shelt / etc and then hitting Plinx, but for some reason this was completely derailed. IMO, they should set them back to how they originally were. They insisted getting rid of this would make people scatter over the map, but it hasn’t. Taking a farm away doesn’t scatter folks through the game.

There IS a good event chain in Harathi, it’s good loot and XP and Ulgoth is at the end of it. It is arguably the best leveling chain from level 40 to level 80, if you can do it that long. It resets pretty quickly, but the downtime between the end and the start is long enough for some people to lose patience (ten, fifteen minutes). But if you get the time down right, you can pop out for whatever and then back as it restarts.

Pen/shelt and the surrounding bases was the best way to get from 70 to 80, as a couple hours pingponging between them would level you up very fast. But, nerfed.

Read the topic instead of making us answer the same things (and then ignoring the answers).

It’s just really frustrating. In my personal experience, most people in this game are nice. They’re nice for holiday dungeons, nice in chat (usually), nice at events, nice in Orr, etc.

But as soon as you get into a dungeon, creeps start arglebargling over everything. I haven’t gotten to do most because I am in a small guild. I have tried some large guilds but there is always some drama type looking to start a fight.

I don’t like dungeons, not because of the mechanics, but because of the folks playing. If I want a legendary, I have to do dungeons. But invariably, the formerly nice friend rages if you fall behind, or he rages if you can’t do massive AOE damage, or he rages over this or that. And that is NOT FUN.

Anet, why did you lock content behind dungeons? Why aren’t there alternate paths for guilds who can’t get steady groups? Pugs are horrible. They’re part of why I quit WoW.

GW1 let us do dungeons. I love GW2 but I miss GW1 so hard right now. I just want my tokens, but I am not up to being yelled at for hours (or yelled around if whoever is screaming or sniping at whatever) because players can’t be nice when playing the stuff you’ve created.

Please go back to giving us alternate ways of getting nice things. I understand that some players get angry when you allow smaller groups of folks alternate ways of doing things, but I don’t want to be yelled at for being slow, new to a dungeon, or because my roomate had to help suddenly clean my quad sweetie’s wound!

Part of the issue for me is that the camera shows so much of the ground that the movement scroll at the bottom can make me feel queasy. I wish ANet would raise their camera, so that the character’s head hits the bottom third, rather than midway. We’d see a lot more skybox anyway, rather than the ground.

But they haven’t even bothered to make the minimap movable to the left (I’ve only got vision on the left side), so I doubt they’d bother to give us a camera height slider.

A lot of folks have put forth good ideas; as a former GW1 and dedicated GW2 player, a few things I’d like to see are:

1. A ‘Go To Guild Hall’ button in the Guild pane

2. Like in GW1, an island— here you could make that in the mists or wherever you’d want, since the islands were apparently swamped— basically decent room for a lot of folks without forcing them all in one place

3. Merchants and Guild-specific merchants

4. GvG (though this might take time, since it’s a bunch of different pvp maps; granted you can reskin a few as was done in GW1.

5. The ability to choose different themes, either based on race, region, whatever.

6. Some customisability would be nice but I’d just be happy with something similar to GW1’s. It would allow a guild to group together to do guild-wide gatherings without needing to constantly taxi over in the open world, which for mine would be great.

7. Guesting, same as in GW1.

What I’d hate to see is some kind of rent system. Just like with the game itself, and everything else in it, there shouldn’t be a monthly tax/fee to keep playing. If real life gets hairy for a while, folks shouldn’t lose what they worked for.

MikaHR.1978:

Sylv.5324:

MikaHR.1978:

No, but im fed up with people without understanding of most fundamental things about how GW2 stats work

You’re also the one arguing against wearing next to best in slot gear whilst working on time-gated BiS, so I’m not sure why this upsets you. Have fun fighting in greens?

Im arguing against wasting of resurces but thats not topic of this thread.

The stat difference listed above is not that big, and can be made up in other ways, while you work on that weapon. Sorry if you’re mad and just refusing to consider any other option, but if that stat difference is the difference between you succeeding or failing, then maybe you should stop relying on gear to carry you.

I like zerg farming. I considered quitting, and so did my roomie, despite us being long-time devotees of the GW franchise, because the only real way to make gold was to run dungeons.

We can’t run dungeons very often. So for us, being able to work on legendaries and such ground to a halt. Now, we can get back to work on things. If others want, they can go do dungeons, invasions, or whatever they like— and we can farm. When we do, it’s usually early in the morning when the ‘zerg’ is 5-10 people and the champs take a while to die.

GW1 did not require you to farm dungeons to make money. Being straight-jacketed into dungeons, especially cof, was NOT fun and NOT feasible for us.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

A couple gripes here:

• No ability to trait shield?

• No further support for wells? That well trait is barely worth it. Should be at least 2 condis cleansed if you have to wait in the well for 3s. Or one Condi per pulse.

One condition per pulse sounds much better. Also, I like the buff to GS.

Doing stuff with friends is starting to turn into a real unfun chore. I was trying to do dungeons with folks and invariably I was the jerk who was lagging behind. I kept getting yelled at, and at one point offered to just leave because I was slowing everyone down.

I don’t want to DO dungeons anymore, and yet I have to go in there for tokens for my legendary.

WvW is going to be a nightmare. How am I going to be able to keep up with my friends? The whole maps were designed around running long distances.

If you’re trying to quietly make us reroll, I’ll just quit, okay? This ISN"T FUN anymore.

And before people kitten about ‘quitting’, I’m one of those players who spends a lot in the cash shop and was planning on spending more, but not unless this gets fixed.

Xae Isareth.1364:

There’s not much Anet can do without annoying a lot of players.

I suppose if you really want to get rid of the champ trains, you can establish some sort of guild which constantly griefs the train by killing champions out of order…..

The vast majority of train folks aren’t jerks, so griefing them (on TC, many of them are lowbies and a decent portion are new) is not, IMO, the right thing to do.

What IS the right thing to do is to report those who are verbally abusive (on either side of the argument; some of the non-train folks get hostile just because, too). If everyone reports these creeps, ANet will tempban them, they have no problem with banning folks for language.

If somehow you still see them raging, block them.

I try to defuse arguments if I see them start, eventually it dies down. Being polite and cheerful usually solves a lot of it. And if you kill a champ outside the train, just meep mapchat to let folks know, imo, just like when folks kill SB.

Kill.3458:

Still funny how people think we have healers in this game, the goal for guild wars was active damage mitigation not standby healer support clearing up everyone elses hiccups

Then why have healing power at all? There is no reason to take it over another Stat because of the scaling, but there it is.

Devata.6589:

timidobserver.7925:

Wow, some of you guys are really tagging the heck out of that cash shop. They are making an insane amount of money.

Not everybody is able to handle money. Anet uses some tactics to get people to buy gems. Make everything a grind to get people to buy gems and put items in the cash-shop temporary so they buy it before it’s gone, RNG for those with gambling problems.

Just marketing tricks and some people easily fall for it.

I doubt most of you complain about how people pay to go to a movie, a netflix sub, cable, or any other non-tangible expense.

I don’t pay for any of those beside netflix, so tossing a bit of money toward gems here and there is a much cheaper frivolity than a monthly cable bill. It supports a game that I like.

“Oh but it’s a trick!” They’re not tricking me into buying an extra bank slot or a pick. I’m willingly choosing to punt them a few dollars, same as me choosing to buy any other thing that’s marketed at me. I don’t NEED an extra pair of shoes. I don’t NEED that sushi. I don’t NEED an iced mocha, or a stick of chewing gum, or…