Guild Wars 2

I have to agree Caledon has, by far, the best area layout by level. It flows properly as you level up, making it difficult to wander into too high a level without you noticing. Ashford would be 2nd, but the open space doesn’t funnel you as well…. And the fact that 2 heart don’t spawn at all unless you talk to the Scout makes it insanely confusing if you didn’t start Charr.

Next I would rate Queensdale and Wayfarer’s. They split part of the map off so you can’t wander into the upper levels until at least lvl 6. This is nice for the beginning, but some areas on the other side have big level jumps that can get you off guard. There are also a lot of sheer hills used as dividers, but face the wrong way. Most players have a tendency to want to travel downhill if given the option; and will sometimes go that direction despite it being there as a deterrent.

Metrica Providence is the worst design wise. In true Asuran fashion, you have to be very cognizant about the design, as it regularly wants you to double back to reach a level appropriate area. Its also got a lot of non-obvious short cuts that get explorers into trouble. And don’t get me started on the Inquest complex entrance being on the other side of the map. However, it also has the most activity, and the most amusing dynamic events. I just wish the Battleground Plaza design and event timers were better so you’d realize the Golem fights have 4 major Krewes, each with their own events; And that periodically there is a major event where the 4 Krewes go Captain Planet against the Inquest.

Why is thief getting mentioned in almost all of these posts? Thief is at the bottom of the barrel post patch in pvp and wvw. They are underwhelming in all aspects of the game.

Mesmers are the problem, and their ability to stealth more than thief and attack without being revealed is just silly.

But asking to nerf stealth or give more classes ways to deal with it is not the answer either. What’s next? Should all classes get 2 ways to instantly remove a ranger pet from combat? Or prevent aegis from being applied? Do you listen to yourselves before you just blurt out posts?

If you have a problem with mesmers, go post about mesmers. Don’t try to break a mechanic that would ruin a whole other class altogether. Might as well just rename topic to “please remove thief from game” .

There have been plenty of times where I’d dodged out of an AOE only to find myself in the middle of another one (the cannons during the Mai Trinn fractal come to mind). I would be very sad if we dropped it to one dodge.

pretty much all pve content and probably a lot of player skills (because of wvw) would require a total rework to accommodate this. Even if there were some benefit to it (i don’t see any?) i can’t see it happening

You’re confusing a base line mechanic as a build option, when given how EVERY class uses dodge as their primary defensive strategies. Adventurer classes (Med armor), being decidedly more mobile as mid liners and flankers, make more use of, and have more traits relating to endurance.

If they hurt that base line, the entire combat system would have to redesigned to compensate for it. Given the rough state of PvE mob scaling, and the polar opposite nature of PvP combat being burst oriented, taking away that evasion destroys the staying power of pretty much every single class.

still one of the best hide and seek spots

Random lines:

NPC1 – Do you think it is safe to have a shooting range so close to a tavern.
NPC2 – Sure, we only had one casualty in the last week.

Char soldiers at Moorwatch Tower:
“Do you think cows migrate?”
“What?”
“You know, like birds.”
“Don’t be stupid. There’s no such thing as flying cows!”
“Maybe it was an exotic cow. From someplace far away.”
“Get it through you thick skull, there’s no such thing as flying cows!”
“Hey you hear that? I thought I heard a ‘Moo’ just now.”
“What?! Where?! Incoming!”
“Hahahah! Just kidding.”
“Do that again and I’ll kill you!”

Look, I TOLD you I’m sorry; I didn’t MEAN to set your mother on fire!

Asura researching skrit:
“We’ve confirmed two skrit are smarter than one. And three are smarter than two.”
“So we’re just measuring skrit for brains.”
“You’ve been just dying to say that haven’t you?”

You : Hello
Homeless Guy : Hello, welcome to my house, you seem friendly
You : So… you live there?
Homeless Guy : Yeah, i get an awesome view of the cows
You : You like cows?
Homeless Guy : Yeah, a lot. They smell bad, though.

My Asuran engineer when he gets up from being downed “Guess who’s back”.

Or again on my engineer “You don’t know it yet, but your about to die”

Not as hot as my male Charr.

Random Citizen in Divinity’s Reach:

“Ran into an Asura, called me a “bookah.” I think she was hitting on me."

Bwhahaa!

The sense of entitlement applied to video games is insane. Also, I hate dying. Could we remove that?

Why wouldn’t guns exist in this world? As soon as someone figures out how to make something explode, it’s only a matter of time until they figure out how to make it propel something in a specific direction.

Oh and cat ears would not be anywhere as horrible as theses wings ….

Char slot? What if I want to play a Sylvari?
…
Sorry, couldn’t resist.

Nope. Don’t run from your past. Learn from it.

Shot:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/

Chaser:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Gear-Anet-please-fix-this/first#post5173842

extra bonus:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Skill-points-and-Spirit-Shards/first#post5187859

Many thanks, Anet.

IIvIIozzie.9250:

It’s a pretty clear contradiction. I guess fanboyism is blinding.

So is hatred. The only contradiction would be if they were trying to follow both policies at the same time. What ANet “wanted” in January is in the past. What they want now is in the present.

It should not take genius to figure out that they changed their collective mind. A company changing policy is not shady. It’s just changing policy. Now, they’re acknowledging that the change in policy disadvantaged some consumers and are attempting to redress those issues.

Analyze what’s said before you criticize next time.

Right now, there is a lot of stress running around in-game in anticipation of the Tuesday patch. A lot of people aren’t playing until then to try out the changes while others are irked that their favorite build will be drastically changing (for better or worse).

Tuesday will be what is literally the largest balance patch in the game’s history. People are antsy about the numbers of changes coming.

My advice: Tune it out for a few days. Try again Tuesday afternoon or so. It may change quite a bit once people are able to start actually doing something new in the game again.

I’ve been using a Custom Play List for quite a while, and by having a short blank track at the top of my lists it has generally allowed most of the playlists to play random song selections when I play. I know a few of the playlists never randomized correctly, like the menu screen, but most of the other ones worked before, or at least seemed to.

But recently I added some more music to my playlist right beneath that blank track in the m3u file, and it is playing every time I log into Lion’s Arch. Each track, in order, without fail, no randomization. Each m3u has about 20 different songs in it, so statistically I should be hearing something else other than the first few songs as I log in and check my various parked characters.

Is anyone else getting non-random custom music everywhere now? What changed and when?

Tl;DR: Custom music still works, isn’t randomized anymore, why not?

The short silent track no longer randomizes my playlists, which did change recently. So I hear the same songs, in the same order, every time I log in. I’m not sure if this also broke the night time lists or not.

And that has been happening at least 2 weeks, if not longer.

Forum Bug Report by Me

Daddicus.6128:

Khisanth.2948:

21s – solo – in combat
19s – solo – in combat with 10% faster res trait
7s(almost 8 ) – solo – out of combat, faster res trait doesn’t seem to do anything out of combat

It seems longer when in the thick of things, but even I was surprised at how little time it actually takes.

However, I don’t recommend taking a rez trait except in boss battles that always include a lot of death, and also have a long trip back from a waypoint. The other trait you have to give up is probably worth far more to the overall combat process.

We should also time how much the time compresses to have more than one rezzer. I suspect it’s a wash, but that requires proof. Hopefully having 3 rezzers takes exactly 1/3 the time. But, it might not, and it’s not easy to test.

21s for 1 person solo to rez someone in combat means the person dead now has to at least do 45 – 50 seconds of full damage to compensate for the damage loss ALONE.

That is not considering:
- the increased danger of getting the ressurector killed
- the ressurection getting interupted due to having to evade attacks (effectively increasing the time it takes to rez someone while not doing damage)
- the fact that the player who died might have subpar gear and/or skill making him a less valuable addition to the group
- not taking into account different damage boss phases or periodic boss immunity timers
- the fact that if the dead person waypointed none of these things would be an issue (effectively making waypointing out until the below the optimum amount of players are undercut the better solution)

Daddicus.6128:

I’ve been thinking, and I’ll go one step further:

If waypointing really does cause the boss fight to go more easily, then that’s an exploit bug that needs to be fixed. The devs clearly consider waypointing out to be cheating, (they removed the ability to do so in dungeons for that very reason).

The game rewards players for reviving and rezzing other players. Why would they allow a cheesy exploit if they clearly want to point people to the opposite action?

If it operated this way, they should do the same thing they did in dungeons: no waypointing when combat is still occurring.

By the way, that video needs to be done again, this time leaving the dead player in the combat area (i.e. not waypointing). Only if the boss’s HP stay higher (longer than in the current video) would it be valid as an argument against my position. And, even then, it just drops back to the time-to-run vs. time-to-rez equation, which has already been shown to favor rezzing your comrades.

No, it has not been shown in favor of rezzing your comrades. On the contrary.

No rezzing in dungeons to prevent death running content has nothing to do with open world content. Stop strawmaning.

Using a game mechanic is not an exploit. Making boss fights impossible once to many people have died is not fun game design. Stop mixing and matching things that have nothing to do with the issue at hand in futile attempts to somehow make your argument stick.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/38pdks/controlled_event_scaling_test/

Again proves that dead players scale events up. We can keep talking in circles. All i see is 1 person wanting the game to work in one way completely ignoring how ingame rules and mechanics work. Will ressurecting dead players be viable? Sure if anet change how the system works. Is it viable now? NO!!!!

AegisRunestone.8672:

Yeah, but I’ve been playing GW2 for YEARS. Since 2012 or 2013. I’ve been doing world bosses for over a year now and this is the first time it’s happened. :/ Though, I have noticed my fan is not keeping my computer cool. Could that be a problem?

Also, I’ve heard about a memory leak problem going around? Is that still an issue?

Lack of cooling is known to be a cause for diminished performance and crashes. Cleaning the inside of the PC may help, but it might also be you simply need new (or extra) fans. Or a video card with it’s own fan.

Played in my laptop with the technical preview and not any problem.

Mine is the Red Panda

There’s some definite creativity here. I want a teleport gun <.<;

Also, have a free bump.