Guild Wars 2

No thanks. The travel toys are toys, not combat aids. We don’t want to get into that conversation again…

Unseenstrike.2971:

I beg you, make an RP channel, just for rp, that rp players can use, and spam to their hearts content,

“Spam”?

Using /say chat is not spam. Roleplayers have just as much right to use the /say channel for friendly, in-character chat as those players who like to use it for out of character chat. If it bothers you that much, just use a different channel and make new chat tabs that don’t have /say or /emotes ticked.

RP is NOT spam.

mauried.5608:

The fix to this problem is so obvious, but seems no one wants to talk about it.
No loot if a pet kills a monster.
Only loot if the player kills the monster, as measured by the DPS done to the monster by the player, compared to the dps done by the pets.
I wonder why no one will think this is a good idea?

Because it punishes innocent players too, since getting your pet to kill an enemy whilst not AFK is allowed.

Johje Holan.4607:

In the image the rifle clearly has all of those; stock, barrel, trigger and muzzle. Its even got a strap.

The Barrel is obvious. The muzzle is partially off the image. The stock and trigger are hard to see just due to the blurring effect in the lower left of the image.

I’ve included an annotated image for those who don’t see it.

Thief isn’t getting rifle because the Revenant is getting it.

Can we not just express our concerns in a polite and friendly manner? If we shout and scream, call each other names and say “Mac Client is This” and “ArenaNet are that” it’s not going to get it fixed any sooner.

KidGafanhoto.5184:

Few days ago i was opening a lot o bags and box, now my mouse’s left button is failing, now i will need to BUY a new one. I only wanna know when AN will implement the option: “open all bags/boxes”.

Why do you feel you have to accumulate so many before opening them? When you open a bag or chest, you don’t gain any extra chance of getting something bigger by opening many at once.

Sorry, but it’s not ArenaNet’s fault. You chose to play the game in the way you have. If you don’t have a problem repeatedly pressing a key/mouse button when jumping on a champ or chest train, you shouldn’t have a problem repeatedly opening loot boxes and bags either.

yolo swaggins.2570:

If I am salty its because every anime freak is dropping common sense to play naruto.

You really have no argument anymore, if you have to resort to this.

I’m Pro-Staff and I don’t watch Anime. Anything you say on these forums on this subject I’m just going to take with a pinch of… erm… salt, from now on.

I don’t mind debating pros and cons with people with opposing opinions, but when people come up with labels and generalisation like this, then common sense really has been dropped.

How does a Norn turn down the volume on the TV set?

He presses the ‘moot’ button.

Mea.5491:

I actually agree with OP. Ele and Engi CAN change weapons, out of combat. Which means the only thing they take away from them is convenience. It’s silly. Besides, not every Engi uses kits. I would sell my soul to play a Rifle/Hammer Engi with utilities like Rocket Boots, Ram and Elixir C. Screw the meta, that is my dream build but I can’t get it.

It’s not just about ‘convenience’ – Elementalists and Engineers can swap only when they are not engaged with any enemy. If you allow weapon swap, it’s more than just taking away the inconvenience – you’re also doubling the skill choice against the same enemy. Things would have to be seriously nerfed if Elementalists and Engineers were given weapon swap, and I think that would bring about a lot more uproar than is necessary.

Zero Day.2594:

Kadsik.9281:

Maybe i just think they would be stupid not to listen to alot of thier theif players, lots of people want either dual sword or rifle mostly.

Or greatsword….

Or Staff…..

Soon™

Orpheal.8263:

Anet should in my opinion finally alow it that a name can exist as many times as possible

No thank you – I don’t want another player going round chatting verbal abuse at people in map chat with the same name as one of my characters.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

penelopehannibal.8947:

9 Already exists Mobs do jump out of ‘nowhere’ and they are strategically places in their respective zones (i.e. Griffons are near nesting areas, bandits near bandit camps etc.).

Except the Quaggan never stay near the bbq sauce. It’s so inconsiderate of them. No one likes bbq that’s recently been in lakes.

@OP: Penelopehannibal and RoseofGilead have hit the nail on the head… you’ve largely got what you were wishing. So, help a guy out with his wish and assist me in wrangling up some Quaggan.

~EW

Quaggans not staying near BBQ is immersion breaking, I agree!

I’m happy and excited for the future

“promised”

I really do think that people on the forums are using this term more loosely than ArenaNet actually do.

I’ll also point out that one doesn’t just simply ‘turn up’ and become an instant hit in the RP community. Everyone you see who RPs on a daily basis had a slow journey to where their characters are now.

RP is not some massive clique that some impatient people make it out to be. It’s just that it takes time to get adjusted to who new players are, and it also takes time for the new players to get adjusted to exactly what RPing in Tyria actually means as well. Not to mention that some RPers can get a little weary of newcomers as well, given that there are people who go out of their way to spoil fun for others by trolling RP for their own sad little kicks.

A wise friend of mine once said “Great RP doesn’t just happen. You make it happen.”

Translation: “Waaaaah!! T.T”

Just make a ranger and charm all the pets.

Too late to change it now. Be more loyal to your characters!

Personally, when I see a new person on my follower’s list I take it as a compliment and add them back. No real need to remove it in my opinion.

As a Brit, and a northern one at that, I have no problem them using the USA flag to denote ‘English Language’

I would be chuffed to bits if they did one day include a British option too, but I won’t lose sleep over it if they never do this, and there’s no need anyway.

After installing games from CD-Rom since 1996 that use the USA flag as language installation option, most Brits (and most other Europeans I imagine) are kind of used to it anyway.

It’s too dangerous to tie in-game stories to real-world events, especially when those real-world events involve politics.

We should have stories because they make sense in the world of Tyria, not because it mirrors real-life stuff.

Well, regardless of whether Michael’s posts are clear or not, I’m still reporting AFK farmers in Dredghaunt Cliffs and Straits of Devastation via Right-Click and under Botting. /shrug

Just two criticisms from me:

Thief
Now that [Venomous Aura] isn’t in Shadow Arts anymore and is in the base attack of venoms, it leaves [Leeching Venoms] the only condition trait in Shadow Arts, and doesn’t make sense to be in there on its own.

I think [Leeching Venoms] would be better suited now in Deadly Arts, and swap it with [Revealed Training] which is extra power on reveal, put that in Shadow Arts as it’s a trait linked to stealth.

Monument Decorations
Can we please have a female statue as well? I wanted to plant a statue to commemorate a female player who is currently on leave of the game, but it doesn’t make sense that a big, huge built male is the statue saying when you press F “To commemorate [Female Name]”

Well to be honest, as a mostly PvE or RP player, the WTS has no interest to me.

However, I will also argue that if Guild Wars 2 doesn’t do WTS then yeah, it’d probably indirectly fall behind other games. From what I’ve seen in mainstream news, WTS and eSports is a fast growing event. It’d be foolish if ArenaNet didn’t use this opportunity to get Guild Wars 2’s name out there.

And you can also imagine the countless threads on these forums if ArenaNet didn’t too: “Why don’t ArenaNet put Guild Wars 2 on WTS? They spend a lot of money giving us Living Story, this is a slap in the face if you PvP” etc.

Also, I imagine $140,000 a year is a small amount compared to the overall annual budget of getting Guild Wars 2 out there.

Gern.2978:

Second, and more importantly, thief has plenty of melee options,

Thief has melee Dagger and Sword. Sword has three melee skills, dagger has 4.

Ranged skills a thief has are Shortbow & Pistol skills. Shortbow has 5, Pistol has 5, plus 1 dagger throwing skill. There’s already more ranged skills than melee skills for thief.

(Underwater it’s 50/50)

Edit: Other than point and shoot, what other moves can a rifle thief offer over the fine martial arts style of a melee staff? A staff can offer both good ranged, melee and magical skills for thief that we would have never in the past have even conceived.

Leriol.8421:

I have checked every PvE map percentage three times and confirmed 100% for all of them. One character shows 98% map completion — 477/486 WPs, 633/652 PoIs, and 221/226 Vistas. Looking at the WvW map, those are the only ones I’m ‘missing’.

I know about the “new PoIs” and made sure to get them done.

You’re missing Rata Sum by the sounds of it

Taking bets. Account Bound vistas tomorrow?

Renown hearts are meant to take so long because they are a big chunk made up of little stories for the NPCs in the world of Tyria you character is meant to help. Map completion isn’t meant to be easy and instant, which is why the reward at the end are tied to legendary weapons.

So sorry, as I said to the account bound Hero Challenges and account bound Waypoints topics – no thanks. Leave Map Completion as it is.

I like Map Exploration a lot too – but I think I’d rather re-do it on another character. I have 2 of each class 100% Mapped, except for only one revenant and three thieves. I like to try different builds with each exploration.

However, what I would like to see is a sort of mentor button, where if I have my character with 100% map completion, I can help a friend out with theirs, and the button doesn’t make it disappear, but greys it out, so I can see what isn’t explored for them yet and help them with it.

I’m against fishing in the game mainly because we have underwater combat, and we can get the ingredients for chef by simply diving in the water and hunting fish with your Trident/Spear/Harpoon Gun. It’s a lot more exciting than dangling a rod and waiting for something to bite!

Also, if this does get implemented, why stop at fishing? Why not have other forms of farming, such as sheep shearing for wool scraps? Or goat milking for milk cheese and butter? Or having bee hives for honey? The possibilities are endless!

Why did you need three separate topics for the same issue?

Xillllix.3485:

Looks like a new elementalist elite skill to me.

Can’t tell if serious or not.

Devourment.2987:

Iv’e been playing for about 3 weeks now and out of any MMO iv’e ever played it seems like GW2 has the lowest skilled players per the population, people who just generally don’t know how to maneuver properly, pull trains of mobs into people or just ignore quest objectives and die constantly.

Three weeks and you’re an expert I assume?

Yeah, it’s dying. Just take a look at all the people on the forums that have left the game but stay on the forums to keep reminding us that they left and that it’s dying.

(Sarcasm of course, GW2 is still alive and well! )

McViolin.8547:

I got that by driving down to my local Best Buy and bought GW2 gems to support Anet, and made a character on the day that Anet was giving out the titles. I think I’ve earned those titles and they meant a lot to me. Because of those titles, I was able to meet new friends.

People who have put more hours into this game have paid the same (if not more) money into this game than you, and have still not earned those titles. Those titles were not for buying the game – those titles were for the die-est of die hard Guild Wars 1 players, a group of people no matter how much work I put into GW2, I will never earn the right to be a part of.

So I’m sorry, but I, and probably most of the player base, will disagree with your opinion that you ‘earned’ those titles simply by purchasing the game the same as everybody else did. Otherwise, we would all have that title.

Also, have you told these friends that you got that title without playing Guild Wars 1? If not, will you do?

You can complete all three Orrian maps without anyone doing any of the metas.

If you’re struggling with Hero Challenges, purchase [Ash Legion Spy Kit]s from Kyra Sharptracker, the Renown Hear NPC at Sharptail Encampment (Plains of Ashford). Buy a stack of about 25 of them for karma, and use them as you approach the hero challenges. They are particularly useful for the Statue of Balthazar hero challenge, and the one near Plaza of Lights in Malchor’s Leap.

As for Straits of Devastation, if the giant gate is currently closed, you can walk round to get in from the west, wade through the water and eventually you’ll come to a gap which you can enter and continue your exploration.

This won’t resolve anything. They are like flies around an open bin with apple cores. Remove the food source, and the flies just migrate somewhere else. The AFK farmers will find another spot to farm the materials, say Flame Legion for example, then we’ll have to deal with that.

As I’ve said in similar threads before, I don’t want someone from another server copying one of my character’s names, and spouting out verbal abuse to other people. And I don’t think , many other people want that either.

There are literally billions of combinations of names people can choose from. Usually, the people who want to have shared names are those who choose to mix names from other franchises, like wanting to call their character Ezio Lannister or Dante Naruto etc. instead of coming up with something original.

Yet about a month before HoT came out, I managed to pick easily a lore-friendly Asura name called Spekka. Didn’t need to call her Krewemaster Spekka, just Spekka. So I reserved the name and made her a revenant! There are still names out there, just a little imagination is all that’s needed.

Tequatl is slowly claiming Zhaitan’s throne.

But I like buying new shinies off the Gem Store!!

If you stopped playing GW2, why do you care?

Which creatures in The Shiverpeaks are able to write each other letters?

Penipals…

(Edited to include an apology)

Hopefully the thief Elite Specialisation will come out of stealth, and be [Revealed] soon™

But, still no news yet. I’ve been on the edge of my seat for weeks now!

Talonblaze.3175:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’m told that if an audience watching an opera, play or movie feels hatred towards a bad guy in the storyline, then the writer has done rather well.

So if a lot of people hated Scarlet Briar for whatever reason, then kudos to the person who created her!

People hate Scarlet because they think she’s a bad written character.
Not because she’s a good villain.

The Joker is a good written character (in most cases). Even though he’s a monster.
Scarlet can’t even hold a candle.

It’s all subjective at the end of the day. I don’t think the character was badly written myself. She was annoying, kitteny and arrogant. That’s the character. I think what was possibly done badly was the structure of Season 1 altogether. It wasn’t in any clear direction or set way of it being one story until it became close to the end.

Season 2 was a lot better, because we knew when and where each chapter started and finished. I don’t think we can lay the entire blame of Season 1 on Scarlet’s door. (Her house in Dry Top doesn’t even have one anymore anyway!)

Also, let’s not forget that the more one might have felt annoyed and frustrated with Scarlet, it only meant it to be more satisfying that she was dead in the end.

Sindex.9520:

So you think that an antagonist is summed up by how much it hate it gets? Even if that hatred is because of bad writing, acting, or direction? So Jesse Eisenberg deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of “Alexander Luthor, Jr.” in Batman V. Superman? Which also sums up Scarlet persona to a point.

I didn’t quite say that. As above with the bad writing bit.

There’s no such thing as a bad player. Maybe a sore winner or a sore loser, but no such thing as a bad player.

Levelling in PvE the way ArenaNet intended is fun for me.

Verbal abuse, though if you consider it normal talk, just forget it then. There’s no real point in reporting someone just because they said they reported you. An ArenaNet member will look at the chat logs and determine the outcome.

Still block him if you wish, so you don’t have such a heated debate with him in the future. If you truly didn’t do anything wrong yourself, then don’t worry. Even if 100 people reported you, ArenaNet will see you did nothing wrong, and you’ll face no action.

It just seems like one of those heated conversations both parties are better off forgetting to be honest.

I’m fairly sure ArenaNet are onto this already – unfortunately it’ll take some time to sort out. It’s unfair on players trying to do their Living Story, especially for those who might have paid gems for unlocking that part of the story.

Arobain.8274:

each class gets 1 new weapon, if a class already gets that weapon for their elite spec, another class will not be getting it for their spec, rest assured that thief is getting rifle

And where did ArenaNet announce this exactly?

You say “Make JP great again” but mesmers have always been able to use Portal Entre on jumping puzzles. Mesmer portals are not ruining Jumping Puzzles since the only people who are affected by them are the people who use them.

Same with the character parking issue: there is not issue. I have a mesmer park at Portmatt’s Lab. I spent 800 gems (which I bought with IRL money) to make that character, levelled him. When he got to 80, I parked him there. I won’t use that character again until the next time it’s a ‘Daily Portmatt’s Jumping Puzzle’ to help others get their dailies. If you want to do that JP legit, you’re welcome to. I won’t force you into using my portal.