Guild Wars 2

OP has taken some weird pills… and overexaggerated.

John Smith.4610:

Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.

John, help us! The site doesn’t list what items exactly free accounts can buy/sell!!!!!

From FAQ:

Can buy and sell items from a selected list.

It has passed almost three years and there are long-standing bugged events throughout our beloved Tyria. I can’t help but think you just don’t love the game core anymore… don’t you devs remember how you raised the events flag as THE game-selling feature? Events should be at the very least fixed. I was planning to create a topic to suggest expanding them, improving the current system and adding more to it, but how can that be possible if the base event chains are simply bugged?

Actually it’s worse than just being bugged, players have to pray to RNGsus that NPC’s don’t bug out and stop progress. Players do sometimes fear they’ll lose all their progress, be it instance events (dungeons anyone?) or open world events. It’s about time you fix your… events. We have to be extra cautious to get around them or we’ll be stuck and will have to redo from the start, or just give up on a chain event.

I see some GW1 bugs are now immortalized as development for that game has been halted so you could focus on GW2, but I didn’t want that development posture to revive here. You don’t just forget about an old event because you’re too focused on the next xpac, many players bought the core game and fell in love because of central Tyria no matter how hard you try to push new layouts. And that’s ok to be honest, just remember there are altoholics here that play the game multiple times and enjoy every time they play through a zone… only to find the same bugged events all over again.

This is frustrating, ArenaNet, I tell you. This is frustrating.

Rebound!

I also think this should be removed.

Traveller.7496:

Your son needs a game that gives him an actual challenge. So it’s probably for the best.

HAHAHAH I laughed hard at this. Thank you!

I find it a joke to call Canach’s Lair a “dungeon”, even an “instance”.

That_shaman datamined some upcoming items which highly suggests we’ll be getting a warhorn, just look at the design (currently labelled as “ascended warhorn”). I would be very disappointed, to say the least. ;_;

I’d rather have updates every 3-week, not 2-week.

There’s a simple solution, just like many combat-related stuff in Options panel, add an option to automatically cast ground-targeted skills centered on the player.

You ALL have to consider: The Dreamer not always had these annoying sounds, they were added. So it did really annoy players who originally had The Dreamer, and it’s just unfair you can’t shut down the annoying sounds it now does.

maddoctor.2738:

For those who are talking about Damage/Damage/Damage, follow a guild raid in WvW and you will see that’s not the case at all. Control and Support are equally important, if not more important than Damage, in a PVP setting. Lots of different stats are being used (Berserker is not the dominant stat combo) lots of skills (and weapon sets) are useful and powerful and not just a tiny few that complete the “best” PVE builds.

Mechanics are here, stat combos are here, the trinity (Damage/Control/Support) is here in any form of PVP. I believe before the Raid CDI they should do a Mob CDI, how to redesign every single mob to use more PVP-like abilities that will make PVE better and not just Damage/Damage/Damage.

I’m with you. We have many skills and there should be some kind of importance using one or another, it just feels we only have to burn the most damaging skills and be done with it. PvE became just: DAMAGE.

Hi everyone.

Long ago ANet writers wrote what they called short stories, which were basically pretty chunks of Guild Wars 2 lore told outside the game, through blogposts, and as such added some depth to soon-to-come characters (such as Marjory and Canach). These stories were well-received by some (like me), while others hated them because for them these stories were an excuse to add lore to the game which were supposed to be told in-game. The devs listened, and stopped writing those.

Later on they introduced the Story Journal, a tool to track each step of personal story and upcoming Living World-related stories, the framework is used to this day and works like this:

• Tracks Personal Story by default, containing 8 chapters
• Tracks Living World season one summary
• Tracks Living World season two
• Tracks Heart of Thorns story

Each tab contains its chapters.

Since the stories tend to focus on Elder Dragon related stuff and sometimes the central plot rushes towards the end (Heart of Thorns arc, Eir’s part to be specific), it may make the story a bit lacking because some details go missing, and sometimes a character lacks depth or backstory (like short stories).

I would like to suggest devs add a tab to the Story Journal called “Tales”, in which they could add small side stories to add weight to the narrative, and the world itself. This idea is inspired by the short stories because I loved them so much.

I’m going to list how it would work mechanically, but I know that this may be difficult and $$$-consuming to produce, so if things are too difficult and not worth it, I’d understand. Here’s how it would work:

• One (or max. two) instance(s) that would start somewhere in the world of Tyria, with a few NPCs that make up the ambience.
• The story would not be focused on us, the player, but on some other figures or characters either well-known or random in the world.
• The instance would have voice-acting to add immersion, and maybe just one cinematic or none (if this is too expensive).
• To accommodate the player in the story as not to interfere but still make a play, depending on the story and to make sense we could be transformed into another race (don’t hate me on this, the focus is the lore anyways). The class/gear/skills/etc would be retained of course.
• Each tale would reward with (one-time only):
  • 5 or 10 Achievement Points
  • A Package of Tale Reader (1 Class Specific Box such as the one sold be laurel vendor, maybe 1 cosmetic stuff such as mini or back skin, and 1g)
• Each story would cost 100 gems (for revenues).
  • I’d like to add one more thing for revenues, and hopefully this next suggestion is fair considering tales would be optional: additionally the Package of Tale Reader would contain 1 Tale’s Paper token, amassing tokens would lead to a vendor that sells weapon skins. (Warning! no one is forced to do these stories, it’s just another more forgiving way to profit, specially when you compare to Black Lion weapon skins)

And that’s it. I’ve attached an image of how I imagine it would look. If you have constructive and respectful feedback I’d appreciate.

Thanks!

Hi there, guys. I’d like to express my concern about ANet reputation throughout the years when it comes to consistency on delivery. This is not a hate thread, it’s a legit concern.

See, it all started with Living World season 1 when updates were frequent, and a balanced mix of open world/instance, and a few items both in-game and gemstore. Soon ArenaNet realized the manpower needed to keep up was too huge or else it would work like enslaving the devs to create such amount of content. This is, too much content and unable to create for the stablished schedule. They decided to stop for reasons such as difficulty to maintain, and zero replayability value, but the main point is: it seems they hadn’t foreseen this could happen.

Second, they came up with Story Journal and season 2, and declared LS updates to be biweekly. The new framework allowed for replayability, but nobody replays just for the sake of replaying a story chapter, there wasn’t (isn’t) incentive for such. The schedule seemed to be settling down, but then they gave up on that aswell. Again, they hadn’t foreseen this could happen.

Third, there was a gigantic content drought while creating the expansion. This made the entire community overhype HoT to all extremes, regardless of everything Colin had been stating, that the xpac would be what he showcased on the reveal and players shouldn’t expect more than that. He was honest. But that seemed like a PR speech and we maybe could get more things, or maybe shortly after the xpac there would be LS3 (yeah…). Well, no. Everyone devoured the content to death, and partially that was because the content wasn’t much in terms of depth. It’s also important to remember that it’s been long since ArenaNet started reevaluating the game way too much, and polish, and redo core, and “improve the base game”. Feature Packs, and HoT were all about polishing stuff… but I have a feeling that they were actually fixing their true intent since the game’s launch on 2012. It’s a separate story, but I have a feeling the game launch was rushed. But anyways, they hadn’t foreseen players would consume the content in the blink of an eye. That was because it lacked depth, while the new mechanics for the millionth time “improved the base game” to allow for… more… in the future.

It draws a pattern that’s worrying:
1. They’re always strengthening the “core”. I think the core will never be strengthened enough. There are always these new frameworks to allow for more content, but the content is never delivered, instead we get new frameworks. We don’t want the plate anymore, we want cake. It’s been so long that their philosophy is so centered towards frameworks that it saddens me.

2. They always come up with schedules, and always go back in their own word. They cut content because they’re unable to do it. Do they even have meetings for this? Well, I think they do. How could someone responsible in there not realize some things can’t be done in time? Are they going to postpone new legendaries? Or maybe re-schedule the LS from 2-3 months (as we know from Reddit) to 6 months? Well, we’ll never know. But it’s clear now that they are horrible with scheduling content, and this saddens me aswell. For how much I like the game.

3. Content drought has become another part of the company behavior. It’s not my intent to make devs mad at me, or MO. But we got facts on hands: you guys postpone things and make up stuff, but the players… the players aren’t so blind. We know what we’re getting, and to what extent we’re getting. And you, ANet, is always making up little things as big, and time passes, and the amount of content is always so underwhelming that it takes the shine from HoT away. It didn’t matter how awesome HoT was, the content drought before, and after it was so long that folks are stopping to care how brightful it once was. Content drought damages the game in a way you rarely see in other MMO titles out there, F2P included.

So yeah, I just wanted to get this out of my throat. Some decisions, and behaviors make me really sad about the game. I am not leaving GW2. I even bought GW so I could understand more from the aspect I love the most: the story. But there are things that… really make me sad.

Axialbloom.8109:

I recommend refocusing the Tempest onto condition damage.

I secretly long for that too, specially attached to warhorn.

As the title says, replace them, but make a mastery for acquiring them. Unlock passive abilities through mastery, maybe only add to a trait the special effect upon landing, but people shouldn’t sacrifice an important trait for getting -50% falling damage.

Oh, and it’s just an idea.

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

I would like to throw 4 Anet Developers into the Mystic Toilet.

HAHAHAHHAAH XD

Precursor Scavenger Hunt release. ’nuff said.

This thread is ridiculous. Someone is clueless about what RPGs are about.

“Elite specializations keep the base profession core skills and traits in addition to the new ones provided by that elite specialization, while offering new profession mechanics or changing existing ones.”

Source: wiki

First, your quote is wrong (I remember when I first wrote that quoting from an early interview, and I stand correct to this moment). Second, you can’t change the attunements! They are the core of this profession and will always exist! Elite specs will work on top of attunements, and this is expected.

So, please, avoid quoting false information and understand the underlying approach for elite specs.

See attachment, devs! The male one is what I wish for my female. For now, she has that spread long hair, but I’d like thin petals more tight to the face, not so spread. Simple and gorgeous!

TD;DR Moar long hairs!!!

This elite is ridiculous. For Jesus Christ’s sake, you had ONE JOB, ArenaNet! I’m so kittening disappointed I just can’t even see this crap anymore. 0/10

Mystletainn.6285:

Why I think Tempest crticism is mostly innacruate:
People want Tempest to be overpowered. They want it to power up Elementalist rather than be an alternative to Elementalist.

With Fresh Air S/W Tempest, I’ve never had a problem ever with the 5 seconds wait time for Air Overload. Now, there is a very big problem with Earth and Water Overloads: when you need the protection and the heal, it’s often too late. However, what you can do as a S/W Tempest is Cylcone —> Lightning Orb --> Air Overload. Go into might stacking combo and by the time you return to air, Cyclone and Lightning Orb will be mostly off cooldown if you take the 20% off Warhorn Skills. Cyclone is on a 11 second cooldown and you can overload while it knocks because down and always have access to a blind on your 3 skill. Then a smart tempest will abuse LoS and overload to an enemy who cannot hit them. With a Marauder Amulet, Air Overload can 100-0 a glassy ranger.
Yes, Tempest is not perfect. Please don’t listen to people who demand it to be perfect. It should be balanced, not have every tool in the game. Our shouts don’t have to be absolutely perfect: yes, some could do some work, but they shouldn’t be the absolute strongest kitten in the world. Eye of the Storm does not need to give lightning Aura: that’s just people wanting even more on a class they’re not fully certain how to play to make up for the difficulty of Overloading, which should not be an issue if they work around LoS and Cyclone.

Your feedback is highly biased. There’s another thread that screams “Tempest issue: NOT A NUMBER PROBLEM!”, as in we’re not asking for more damage, or more healing, but working mechanics that you can actually use, and well-stablished trait line. You can see most of the elite specs provide more focused gameplay with interesting and synergic trait options, whilst tempest ones are all over the place and unfocused, and on top of that we have easily-interruptible overloads (mesmer, necro, warrior, ranger, engineer, etc etc pretty much all classes can daze/stun/knockback you from afar, in PvE this holds true for a lot of HoT creatures aswell).

See, I still think 50s on “Shock and Aftershock!” is balanced, despite what people say, when it provides a powerful projectile reflection, but your view about the tempest issues seems too narrow. No one is asking for “more”, we’re asking for “different”, and they’re simply throwing old gameplays into an elite spec and calling it new. At this stage, as it looks quite impossible to go back to the drawing board, we’re simply asking for tweaks to overloads and mainly traits. Again, not a NUMBER issue. Think it through.

So, I’ve been thinking, I believe that many elementalists love staffs (maybe not the staff skills, but the staff itself), and didn’t like the rainbowy lollipop.
How would you like the legendary for elementalists to look like, if you were in charge of designing it? Comment about the appearance, and mainly the effects (body glow effects, and footsteps effects).

I myself would like an staff specific for elementalists that would have a base default look, and would have swirling auras based on the element, upon switching attunements. The foosteps would follow that same element, that would be rather cool, the devs can do whatever mechanics they want to I see this as a possibility.

And you?

I’ll just get the meta and that’s all… I’m only interested in lore at this point, marionette’s a laggy zergball despite how “epic” it may look but I must confess that ArenaNet is slowly getting there when it comes to open world real challenges (at least the zergs are a bit more well-split).

I’ve seen a lot but lore-wise it doesn’t make sense: asura warrior.

If the event could last more time… but I appreciate all the honesty.

Biased opinions are not worth caring about, that’s all I have to say. Have a nice day.

I was thinking of putting the long hair style on my female sylvari, but it doesn’t look nice enough as it’s too much “spread”.

Please please, consider making one like this (not so spread sliced-like hair), I hope an artist at ANet hear me out! /hope

First, congratulations on the job! Hope you can further you career there.

That being said, ArenaNet can’t schedule the company releases based on a single player’s reality. This means that, if HoT is released out of your training period, then good, if not, well that happens.

Geez… there are a few things I’m not happy with in the game, but this thread is a fine sample of playerbase toxicity lol… saying they haven’t done anything is unfair as kitten.

Road.1473:

If Anet adds anything called a “Raid” I will quit.

Simple as that.

Bye-bye!

I was mad at first, but then I just screamed “Kitten this crap! I’m buying this thing and that’s it!”. It’s not like I won’t be able to feed my children if I spend the 50 bucks, even if in my country the conversion rate is over 3:1.

I’d like more emotes such as:
/blowkiss (blows a kiss at someone, with sound please)
/talktomyhand (like really! you are annoying, pl0x talk to ma hand)
/kiss (don’t know how to describe this properly in english, but this would be like moving your head forward and closing your eyes, much like kissing… would make sense if someone else did the same! <3)
/timid (like holding your own hands downwards, shy, and move your legs accordingly. I really suck at explaining these stuff! <3)
/eww (ewwww!)
/heart (draw a heart in the air! <3)
/sit2 (crossed legs)
/scream (screams in terror! preferrably holding your face like Picasso’s The Scream)

Class A (Useful, Distinct, Fun)
1. Herald
2. Scrapper
3. Druid
4. Chronomancer
5. Reaper

Class B (Ok-ish…)
6. Dare Devil
7. Berserker

Class C (Fail, Uninteresting, Not on pair)
8. Dragonhunter
9. Tempest

Reviewing EotM patch + Feature Pack, I must admit I’m having fun with the game again, I kindly thank ANet for their effort while I wait the next LS Season.

PS.: Please, do a badkitten Elder Dragon if it has to come (I could wait a bit more while the devs develop the world better, but since people want EDs so much…).

Wow, some people excel in being rude.

Though you’ve already talked about it, I’d like to know if you’re still considering putting the season 1 in the game? As far as I know, while you put that small summary, a dev has spoken you’d like to bring it to the game. Would you have permission to tell us if you’re, I dunno, working on it? At least slightly? We have fractals that takes slices of season 1 during two great events (Molten Alliance with Rox ‘n Braham joining forces, and the Aetherblades’ culminating in Mai Trin going to the jail). So it might be possible? There are open world story instances in personal story and living story already, so maybe the Marionette fight could be re-scaled to make it possible to solo? You could add NPCs that mimic the three lanes’ fight, and make the player participation one-lane-only, and make it easier during the platform’s phase…. solely for the purpose of story-telling.

I mean, I’m sure it will be plenty of work, but I’d pay for it even being there when it was first released. I love the ability to replay LS experiences, and a few friends of mine have always dreamed of knowing each step Scarlet made during her episode in the world of Tyria. The Tower of Nightmares is a grand ambient that particularly my guildies are very fans of!

I know that during the early years of GW2 folks complained about Scarlet arc, and that they were too anxious to know the mentor, and maybe at some points they outraged because the story didn’t feel like it progressed, but looking backwards it was (is!) a great story, and it holds much value for me as a player. I really hope you bring it back.

I know where ele fails to offer party-support. Most classes can already give all those might stacks, and important boons, PLUS fixed damage modifiers, so they surpass us. You know what we’d need to make a huge difference in raids, making us eligible for being picked?

Party-wide Condition Damage modifier. We wouldn’t be taken for all raids perhaps, or for some wings there would be parts where we’d be kind of useless because direct damage would be better, but having an AoE condi damage buff would make us have something specially unique. Plus, we know that for longer fights condi damage is way better. Maybe something tied to burning, like a constant chance for the party at spiking burning on critical?

I don’t know, druid/rev combo surpass the need for tempests support-wise, and druid have a godly party damage modifier trait, and berserker still fulfills a major DPS role with party-wide fury+might. All of them can outperform us.

Rym.1469:

What the actual kitten?

What’s next? Getting a baby, divorced?

It’s a game guys. If you want to marry, do it IRL with someone you love, not obese guy playing half-naked character.

I for one am not obese at all. I’d like this feature because I’ve experienced in other games and found it fun. I’m not demanding anything, I think ANet has put way more content than what I bought for and deserve my respect if they don’t actually add such things, but I’d just like to point out my opinion and how you’re stereotyping people. Shame on you.

I seriously hope they aren’t locking SAB because the issue when W2 came out (Josh was blamed for not Q&A testing enough, sync problems, etc). I think we should add weight to our voices spreading the word farther than these forums. SAB is unique, and Josh is awesome for coming up with it, and should get a raise, or maybe find some place where his skills are valued. #mad

You need mastery points and they’re not available for Central Tyria during betas AFAIK.

@Geotherma, I know lots of people like you and what you try to highlight, but as you already stated it’s not all brazilians that act or do things like that. Actually you’re bringing up a very disgusting stereotype that hopefully ArenaNet doesn’t agree with, there are thousands of people here who have respect for MMORPGs and because there were incidents in the past involving one country it doesn’t mean that should be extended to every other game released.

Not only in Brazil, but many countries have bad people who act in a childish nosense way and can bring bad things to the game (RMT’s don’t even exist here), if you generalize that behavior from one game to all the others then you’re taking it a bit too far.

I hope you change your mind, you might be missing out many friends and actually nice people.

Also, invite The Dreamer wielders to fire off happiness across the sky. xD

Just thought I’d jump in and say eles in general did not like damage increases on tempest overloads. We were actually looking for changes to actual execution of our mechanics. Despite all these apparently big numbers, it’s unlikely tempests will be as popular as eles once HoT is released. This is, IF anyone makes a tempest, as it stands it’s too crappy.

Nike.2631:

Shrugal.4513:

Lightning Orb: It would be great if we could swap location with the orb on 2nd tab. This would make it a great and unique tool for mobility and also improve damage on enemies standing still or moving elsewhere, since we could make the orb move through them twice. Also just make it move into the direction the character is facing.

Oooo. I do like this!!

I like this aswell. Something I told on my first feedback is a weird lack of mobility from the weapon itself, totally contrary to being “tempestuous”, and actually it doesn’t make sense from any angle…

Will they expand horizontal progression through collecting special itens to craft glow effects for skins (like enchanted dyes that makes armor glow)?

Wow… you used all slots? ArenaNet, give this man/woman a hug now. xD

I hope they give us a slot expansion discount soon, I’d like to buy 3 more.

Is this the future strategy to market “content”? Locking LS progress behind 2-3 months schedule? I know this is mostly rumour, but if the aforementioned info is true these chapters better be bigger and much more filled with content than what we had with season 2. I don’t think PvErs which are attached to lore will be happy with such delayed chapter releases.

If I’m not wrong, an ANet dev once stated we won’t be getting much of UW combat due to how impopular it is (as mentioned by Konig), so there would be fixes and such but no addition whatsoever.

IMO that’s very sad, not only because I made Kraitkin (yep, I did), the whole concept is fun, maybe lacking a bit of “action” but it seems to me that’s the very nature of this system. And man, if you look at Frostgorge Sound or Straits of Devastation, plenty of water everywhere! :P

I’ll pass this on to my entire guild and make sure each vote goes to Evon.

@Edit
Hopefully they’ll adjust fractals, perhaps polish them a bit more and give them a new purpose, as of now I have very few reasons to ever do them.