Guild Wars 2

Substance E.4852:

I like the subdued look to it, but I agree on the illogical 59 minute duration and reapplication after zoning. If the birthday booster and food duration buff can last 24 hours and persist beyond death and zone change then there’s no reason this buff can’t as well.

This,
I really hope they come up with a way that these cosmetic potions don’t turn off unless you choose to.
(and I hope they use the same formula for mini’s, )

Svetli.4276:

yes that is playing the game what a net disain the game for is going on events, dungeons, world bosses !
if the goal of the game was making gold with tp flipping there was just going to be la with 1 npc and all the flipping you can do !

TP is part of the game too, ..anet could’ve removed the tp if they wanted. They have an economist. Flipping is a way to play GW2 as well,

whether you like it or not.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

Thanks everyone for giving us some feedback on this system we’ll meet internally and discuss this system some more as I think there are a lot of valid points being brought up here.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!

took a little too long…..but see, was that hard?

thank you, there are some fantastic ideas in this thread..maybe you could talk to us about what definitely cannot be done/implemented?

but anyway, thank you for finally responding.

Randall.7306:

From all the plan told until now, my only concern is that the boss schedule seems quite tight, and those playing always in the same hours of the day, will likely never see some content.

The only solution I can think right now is to do some rotations over time, like every month the whole schedule is moved 3 hours further.

actually this is a good idea.

rotate the schedule, so at least you’re not doing the same boss at the same time every single day.

Not everybody wants a harder game!

It’s very easy for you to make this game harder for yourself, want prestige? use twitch and youtube while you’re doing it.

Let us have a game that isn’t frustrating/challenged crazed. I am quite happy with this game, I don’t want more difficulty.

Amnariel.3659:

Only 3 Atm and all Berserker of course:Warrior/Guardian priority and for third elementalist this is the holy trinity right now in Gw2. But if you wish for some fun through and not just be a DPSbot try a mesmer,engineer,thief,ranger and necro

this.

sadly.

Zardul.3952:

Beldin.5498:

Zardul.3952:

Then i wish you never get bored of doing the same thing everyday.. like millions of past and gone GW2 players have experienced.

If that is SOOOOO much fun .. why are you here then ? Why don’t you play any of
the games out there with those feature instead of trying to destroy GW2 for all
player who love the game for what it actually is ?

I just can’t understand why people that seem to hate this game so much and love
other games sooo much more .. simply don’t play those other games.

i dont hate Gw2.
i love it, but i can feel the creeping feeling of Bordem knockin at my door as soon as i log on.

i would love to say theres something fun to look forward to on this game but REALISTICALLY there isnt.

im a hardcore gamer i played pretty much every MMO out there. and currently GW2 is my main one. but i know when something is dying out and what of.
WoW – 7 years
Runescape – 2 years
Gw1 – 3 years
Skyrim – 2 years ( if you count that)

and currently Gw2- 2 years

Experience has taught me when things need to change.

Wait..so because you got bored with the games after that time, means those games, instantly died? WoW is still going fairly strong. GW1 has been around for much longer than 3 years…
I’m not gonna google how the other games are doing, but simple, a game might “die off” for you, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer being played. and has shut down.

Games don’t have to stay top of the market to do well, and no game can cater to every type of player, it’s best they find the player they want to cater to, and maybe add a few things for others, but the majority of stuff will always be with their main players in mind.

there are some sigil types that can’t be crafted, their high tp price tends to reflect that

you could always ask a friend to continuenly jump off the vigil, and then you do the same for the friend XD …. .
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(we want our choices back anet!!)

“we’ll make some usability improvements "

I assume this has to do with the tornado.

What’s disappointing to me is they haven’t said that they will change it. They haven’t said “we’re considering this or that idea, what do you think?”
They haven’t even agreed that the current trait system is a problem.

So I’m not hopeful that they’ll fix it.

I love the unlimited, I do wish they were cheaper so I could kit out all my alts with them but as it is, I’m happy to kit out my main with the tools I like. (the wasp axe; I love this one, the sickle is great so quick….I dont have a pick, yet. wanted the watchwork one, dislike the molten animation ): …..)

Are they good value? in gold? no.
In fun/looks? yes!
speed; can be.
convenient? for sure! (the only thing that would make them perfect would be if it was possible to set gathering tool slots across the account. so equip one char, they’d all be equip. that would be excellent. would pay geems just to make those slots account wide… XD)

I like that the LS is temporary. It’s different. for newer players, it means there isn’t tons of stuff they have to do to catch up.

It keeps things moving, .. I don’t want an expansion, I like how they patch it as it is.

What you’re asking, is for a different game.

When will people realise this?

Rainshine.5493:

I bought it for the animation. I wouldn’t care 2 cents if they took the sprocket function away, personally.

And I bought it for the sprockets and would definitely care.

SkiTz.4590:

Vayne.8563:

Nick.6972:

Compare the open world content to high level Fractals.
Which gets more frequent updates and new content.
Now. Which gets played more often? Which one doesn’t because of the lack of updates and repetitiveness?

FOTM alone is makes less than 1% of the whole the available PvE content hence gets played far less.

And I’ve never heard of Lord Of The Rings online.
Provide the same info with Wildstar.

It’s been provided for Guild Wars 1 and WoW. Can’t give you info on Wildstar, but I’d bet that if the game doesn’t attract and hold casuals the game will end up with a very small player base.

Do you guys not listen to what devs have said from different games over the years?

You think GW2 has a massive player base? (not including china) I would be shocked if theres even close to 50k concurrent players at peak times in EU+NA

Regardless, the point I think is that there is MORE THAN ENOUGH casual content in this game already.
What on earth could possibly drive away more players than it already has to add just something remotely challenging content or revamp dungs to add a harder mode with better rewards? even if everyone can’t do it, its something to progress towards. compared to other terrible forms of progression this game has.

Right..
how often id lv50 fractals completed?
Do you play lv50 fracs? in zerk ascended gear?

How often does arah get completed? (can you solo arah? )
or TA aetherblade path?

The majority of the community don’t want to even aim to be able to complete them.

And most importantly, for the hardcore players, how long do these dungeons stay challenging?

you can increase favours inbetween sandstorms. When a sandstorm hits, it’s then locked in that favour til the duration of the sandstorm.
At the end of the storm it resets back to 1.

I frequently see favours reach number 3, have yet to as see 4, but haven’t tried joining into a t4 map either.(via the lfg tool.)
All it is, is cheaper rewards anyway.

I do think there should be a note, it may be old news to you serkit, but there’s NOTHING in game that warns you that you cannot salvage the armour.
Alot of new players start with karma gear. I’d say many would think twice if they new it virtually useless once you decide to move on from it.

MikaHR.1978:

Supreme.4051:

I think one of the main issues is that salvaging karma/badge/token armor can be “abused” to make gold of your karma/badges/tokens. While this already happens with dungeon tokens (can salvage dungeon gear for ectos, inscriptions and runes) I don’t really know why other equipment should not be salvagable.

To avoid “abuse” of karma/badge gear salvage gold farm, arenanet could implement 1) do not add upgrade components to vendor gear, so for instance rune of melandru can’t be farmed with karma, or sigil of force can’t be farmed with Badge weapons. Instead make each ‘temple armor’ vendor sell a specific stat armor (berserker, knight etc etc). 2) Add small cost (~50 silver) to each armor piece (like lvl 80 Badge armor has already) just to counter most gold gain by salvaging for ectos. 3) Optional: add previously mentioned runes/sigils to karma/badge vendors so you can buy them with these tokens, but make them account bound so you can’t make a profit out of them (just like with dungeon token vendors).

Why do dungeon tokens have ANY advantage over other tokens? What makes running a dungeon more worthy than doing hours of WvWvW?

Either make badge/karma stuff salvagable or make dungeon gear not salvagable.

Also you can buy individual runes/sigils at dungeon vendors. Why cant you have same treatment with karma/badge vendors?

This, they already nerfed karma.

Yeah salvaging badge/karma gear will change the market slightly. but crafting mats getting a little cheaper aint a bad thing.

personally what I’d like, is an option for aoe to go to target enemy and not be mouse control.
In some instances pve, you’re targeting an enemy anyway. or a mob and what to hit the lot. maybe have a button that if you hold it, aoe goes to target and not mouse.

this would be excellent in some cases. .. add another button (if people want) for aoe to reach furthest possible spot and only move side to side with mouse.

We need quicker control over aoe, and surely it’s not that hard to add a button click for various aoe options?

asura ranger, as pointed out above. Cute asura, plus pets? ..whats not to like :P.

what I’d like, rather than this merge.

Is a way for smaller guilds to group together to open events like teq etc. Otherwise..there’s no point ‘merging’.
Some of us like being in smaller guilds.

Azrael.4960:

Nope, the holo and teq wings were tied to achievement title tracks. If you completed them then you deserved to have those wings. If Anet made them available through crafting or some other such way, the player backlash would be quite serious. Allowing crafting of it would be basically the same as giving it away.

You might have a slim chance of seeing them again if Anet bring back Dragon Bash but otherwise you’ll just have to live with not ever getting them.

FYI I missed out on the Teq wings, which may have been nice for my necro. I had the shattered holo wings but they were applied over a fractal capacitor which I later put through the mystic forge to infuse thus losing the wing cover. I’m none too fussed as I got tired of the flappy nonsense.

So tough luck if you didn’t have the game at the time?

Also anet has brought back many rewards, this is just another one. And the likely will bring it back.

What anet should’ve done.

Was have all 3 maps count as “one”. That way you could get all the points without much trouble.

OP, Plan an alnighter, you shouldn’t have too much trouble getting them in the middle of the night/outside of peak times.

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Personally, I’m just hoping the new pve maps they bring in aren’t added to 100% world completion. There’s already quite a bit to do ….. ):

yes, events/champs in LA,they drop alliances bags = blade shards

Leo Paul.1659:

Taygus.4571:

Leo Paul.1659:

Taygus.4571:

Kumu Honua.2751:

Taygus.4571:

They are denying the success of the event!
How is it people can argue differently???

So are the people who are rubble clearing. So are the people who are zerging miasma events. So are the people who don’t know what the are doing, so are the people who are waiting to get rezzed instead of waypointing. So are the people who are running non-zerk gear. So are the people who are underleveled. So are the people who have terrible builds.

Ban them all!

Note: This is sarcasm to make a point.

At least most of these are/were doing something. Not just standing there for free loot.

They are denying the success of the event nevertheless. You’re not gonna go off about intention too, are you?

Actually most people I’ve seen going for rubble encourage/rez a few civs along the way, ..those who died were likelly fighting in an event.

They are doing something!

Players logging in to just afk, make it harder to reach 1200 civs, it’s really that simple.
Then they get loot for doing nothing at all.

While other players had to work harder to reach the tiers.

Pure speculation. Say those afk players were to participate and upscale events then end up denying other players of getting the triple threat achievement? (yay i can use slippery slopes too)

This is getting rediculous.
Are you denying that players enter LA, just to afk for loot?

They stand around wp. (or other ‘safe’ places) using auto run/heal, for the ENTIRE event.

It’s simple, they are getting stuff from other peoples work.

They are getting something for doing nothing at all, and worse, they prevent other active players joining together by taking spots, which makes it near impossible to reach the tier.

Really, how can you defend that??? …unless of course you’re one of those afk’ers.

There is a liadri appreciation thread….

personally I like easy content and would prefer not to see liadri type stuff in dungeons. (for one less people would run them dungeons.)

Tbf, most of the female armour is “over-sexualised” .. … \=

i don’t think anything should be soulbound, account bound maybe, but soulbound is just annoying if you have alot of alts.

frans.8092:

Taygus.4571:

Firstly, there are no “home servers”.

There are, or were rather.

Secondly, my guild organises for it about 20-30min early, so it’s not that long a camp either.

Yeah it is, actually.

People shouldn’t be on overflow with this Megaserver thing, not ever, if there is overflow, a new server instance can, and should be created.

So….this is about megaserver, not tequetal.

Beforeh megaserver we had to camp and hour or so early, now it’s less. It’s a little hassle with all the partying/joining. But it’s less camping than there was previous. Overflows were almost a guaranteed fail.

I also hope that with time more pugs will know what to do, It’s already being completed more often than it used to be. (Teq rewards getting cheaper being the proof of that.)

Kumu Honua.2751:

They are quite different.

The color of the window is different (Darker Grey for transfer). There is a gem cost/wallet on the transfer. The button for transfer is larger since guest is a smaller word. Guesting has a bullet list.

colour difference isn’t obvious to everyone, there’s also the way some pc’s render the colours.
They are very similar.

It wouldn’t be hard to make the cost of it in clear big bold letters. I can see how someone tired, not paying close attention thinks they’re fine and next you know they’ve spent gems. “a warning you are about to TRANSFER, would you like to continue y/n” is all it needs.

biggs.4702:

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

Black Lion Chest Changes:
Removed the following items from Black Lion Chests:
*Scroll of Knowledge (+1 skill point)
*Essence of Luck (50)
*Essence of Luck (100)

Thank you, ArenaNet.

Well with less key farmers, or indeed less keys farmed in an hour. I suppose it was time to change to rewards a little.

this is a good change!.

I missed out on the pick, was going to buy the next version……but not buying this because it doesn’t have 20% of something extra. I see no reason to go for a gem item when ingame “temporary” items do the same.

I was hoping it would be a continued theme. ):

no expansions, there should be expansion like content with the new living story.

This doesn’t mean there will be new races or classes. and tbh, I can do without new classes, they still can’t balance the ones we have.

what they should do.

Is create “map scraps”, where each map has it’s own scraps regardless of the events you do.

You can then trade in scraps for unique items on that map. (unique, not necessarily unobtainable through other means, it could have strawberries in one map, repair kits in another,.. a skin to the map…even a mini for the map-that could cost 1000 scraps or something etc.)

have a guaranteed scrap per event, but only once per character.(or account, but I think per characters is fine.). This would spread people out to chase a reward they want from a certain map. Or an item they would find useful. It would bring people into lower level maps as well.

Not everyone would find the same thing useful/want the same thing. So there’d be no reason to stay on the same map. It’d be something to do, and at least it wouldn’t be just ‘champs’ or ‘farming gold’.

Ok, it’s still some sort of grind, but..depending on the reward costs. I think this would be great. A map has alot of events one could hop through.

You get AP for the mini collections,
most of which are got via gemstore.

this isn’t anything new, really.

refine them or delete them……………

if it’s account bound or unbound equipment, and not tied to he characters race. you can.
If it’s soulbound equipment, you can’t.

cant blame anet for the lag.

Play on "best performance settings " as well.

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as for number 4.

auto select the ‘sniff’ for targets so you don’t have to click it

nope, it was a drop in crown pavilion, it may be again, next year.

wouldn’t it be easier if they just made it so you could trade ascended trinkets back for laurels(less than it cost of course)?

meh, no.

I have no problem joining a squad if I want to..and following the squad. Neither do other players.
Those that dont, dont want to..and wont want to see some random colour pillar on the terrain.

Out of all the things that should/could be brought in to make alt leveling easier. I don’t think this is it.

Azhure.1857:

Taygus, if you had read what I have posted throughout this thread and what others have said on the subject, you would know by now what “bothers” me and others.

There was one post in particular where I even listed off a couple of examples, a post I might add that nobody commented on.

quote it again,

Still, all I’ve seen is people wanting to push they’re playstyles on others. because some people die..and somehow that affects ye.

pvp needs an underwater zone, or mix zones.

same wvw, could do with an underwater tower or something.

But…first, they need to bring in more waterbreathers. I got my first waterbreather drop from teq. And it was one I cant even use and “rare”, I have never seen an exotic waterbreather, and most on the tp aren’t usable by light armour wearers anyway.

It replaces helm in water, being able to craft a waterbreather, is something that should exist.

Astralporing.1957:

Going with my option (more choices) doesn’t hurt you at all. Going with your options (less choices) does hurt me. See the difference?

I wish more people realised this, and anet too!

People in game arent happy either, please remind anyone in game to comment here about it.

The more complaints the more chance anet will listen.

Esya.3427:

Taygus.4571:

Tbf, most of the female armour is “over-sexualised” .. … \=

Do you think the same about a naked male chest? Most things are only over-sexualised if you perceive it as such.

They make the armour look as sexy as possible. More so on the female character than male…..If you’re denying that..we’re playing different games.

well I’ve started using the lfg tool to get into an organised map, and for the most part its been working,… got more silvers than gold… but they’re not long drawn out runs, it’s quick to start the next run and most people liste…..most..you still the get the odd person who say something like “chat was on a different tab”/“I have map chat off, sorry”.

In this case, its clear these events need to force mapchat on (and saychat) ….and for people that have multiple tabs..

maybe when you enter an event area like this, you chat tab changes to default. guild/say/map in one..combat in the other… and you cant block/stop map chat. It’s really crucial that people can see what you’re asking them to do.

a fix to this would be to guarantee precursor ‘scraps’ per event per account per day. And have it that you need, idk 5,000 scraps. (which would need to be possible to change scrap stack from 250 to 1 ticket, for bank space. So 20 tickets for a percursor. )

That might be a bit much or a bit low, ..but something like this would allow everyone to work towards their percursor. To see how they’re getting along, how far they are what they need to do etc.
(I’d suggest all WvW events arent limited to do once per day. Just pve to encourage exploration.)

RNG could still be there, but this would allow everyone a chance for it, without the gold farming. It would immediately events more worthwhile, as well. (which they arent atm…)

(I want to add, that I’d like legendary for the changeable stats, as I like to hop between pve and WvW, it would just be handier. Want an armour with that option too. )

You can also get there from Divinity Reach, Left, there’s stands to air balloons that will take you to the labyrinth.

I suggest taking a low level, all them falls & wp’ing can get expensive on a level 80

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Taygus.4571:

Another “play the way you want, so long as it’s the way I want”, thread.

only reason people can flip, is because someone is posts an item for less than it would sell for. It’s their right to sell it for half the price it’s worth, it’s someone else’s right to buy it and sell it for more, if it’s possible to sell for.

btw, I consider playing the tp, playing the game. I enjoy looking at whats selling cheap, but normally would sell higher. What seems to be increasing/decreasing in price.

I enjoy this. I also like playing gw2, and I love taking a break from killing things/exploring to play the tp. It’s just another game mode to GW2…..It doesn’t really affect your game play, you know. Them having lots of gold, doesn’t affect you. Tbf, they don’t get from thin air, unlike dungeons/farming. Their gold comes from other players, these other players don’t have to use the tp.

What do you play? Do you play the Stock Exchange simulator? Last time I checked this game was named GuildWars2. You seriously don’t have to play a MMO if the only thing you want to do is flipping the traiding post. If you want to play GW2, go ahead and play. But playing the trading post can’t be considered playing GW2.

It’s an aspect of GW2, whether you like it or not.