Guild Wars 2

Kite.2510:

…and instead consider giving some different form of traversing the environment.

The world of Core Tyria is much more flat than the HoT areas, and there is truly not many cases where we’ll actually need it. All gliding will do is give players immunity to fall damage, and mess up the mechanics of many jumping puzzles.

I think what upsets the players, isn’t the fact that they cann’t glide in Core Tyria, as much as it’s “not having any traveling mechanic”.
…that, and them falling to their deaths from Divinity’s highroads because they forgot they can’t glide!…

Instead, if you want to give some cool traversing mastery to the old world that badly, consider giving some sort of mount. Sure, it isn’t that useful for actual traveling with the huge amount of waypoints, but you can think of some clever uses for them besides an increase in speed. Then have one mastery for each of the five locations of the Vanila game (Maguma, Hoelbrack, Kryta, Ascalon and Orr), that gives a different mount that fits the theme of that area, and progressing each mastery would unlock more abilities for that mount.

If you want to allow gliding somewhere, consider just the big cities. It’s a cool place for all traveling methods to be available simultaneously regardless of location and expansion.

We don’t want mounts, nor do we need mounts in this game. This game have waypoints, and a lot of waypoints. It is by far the fastest way to travel. And gliding is more about exploring then using for travel since again, waypoints are faster if you just want to move from point a to point b.

Man I KNEW this was gonna’ be another mounts thread.

No to mounts (for the 1000th time).

Yes to gliding.

Also…gliding will mess up JPs…..but flying mounts…won’t?

@kite – I’m curious how you’ll feel about it if gliding does come to central tyria. Will you staunchly refuse to use it or will you backflip?

Ironic name, btw.

no to mounts for the 1000x

I’m with you on some points. I found out about the wiki command from other players. I learned about the puzzle piece effect on combo fields through third parties. I’m still learning what stats for mesmers will and won’t transfer to their illusions. However, if you choose not to read the patch notes, you deserve whatever fate such ignorance brings. It’s one thing to get on their case about things they don’t tell you. It’s another when you refuse to read the information they make available.

I can guarantee you, as someone who writes instructional documentation for a living, that even if ANet provided all of this information in-game, people would still be too lazy to go read it. :P

A lot of what you mentioned actually IS taught to the player via those lesson tips that pop up whenever you gain a level. Of course, if the player is, as you say, simply grabbing their rewards and closing the window without reading any of them, they’re not learning this information.

Zefrost.3425:

The stuff that the devs write is in site for maybe a week. Especially patch notes.

What?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates

Zefrost.3425:

Now, imagine that every player doesn’t read every patch note.

Myself, I read only the balance notes. As for the average player, they read absolutely none because the the kitten would they?

Well, now you know. If you want to know what changed with an update, read what changed with an update in the notes they put out for you to read. If that fails, type /wiki in chat to pull up the wiki information about the game and you’ll find on the section about ascended gear.

Attribute change
The prefix attributes on ascended armor can be changed by combining the armor in the Mystic Forge with an Intricate Gossamer Insignia of the desired prefix. All upgrades (i.e. runes and infusions) are lost in this process.

I’m not sure it is ArenaNet’s fault if players don’t avail themselves of the information provided. Choosing to ‘only read balance patch notes’ could mean missing out on important information.

I think it isn’t unreasonable to expect changes in a game that offers patches/releases, so it might be not only prudent, but helpful to research what might have changed.

Of course, each player can play the game as they so desire; with a bit more information or preferring to be surprised. I’m sure both methods have their advantages and disadvantages for some.

Sorry, But Patch notes, blogs, posts, balance notes etc… they’re there for a reason… and it’s not to make the devs happy either.. They write out all that information “for the players to read”… If you decide NOT to read the info they bring out, then that’s your fault for not knowing something that the devs put/changed in game.

Also, wiki, !google! are already out there to search in
In chat.. typing /wiki brings up.. the wiki … /wiki Stick of butter… will bring up the wiki page for “stick of butter”

Tooltips would be pointless and would be everywhere.. What one tooltip for one player would mean nothing to another.

Best solution.. Read what the devs bring out. Then you would know.. Just like a lot of players already do.

Yes. I knew about the ability to change stats on ascended armors. I read it in the patch notes.

Game update notes: June 23rd

Added a Mystic Forge recipe to change the stats on ascended weapons and armor. The recipe is as follows:
Ingredient 1: An ascended weapon or armor piece.
Ingredient 2: The exotic insignia or inscription for the desired stats.
Ingredient 3: Five globs of ectoplasm.
Ingredient 4: An Anthology of Heroes, purchased from Miyani for 10 spirit shards.
Result: A piece of ascended gear with the stats of the inscription or insignia of the same type as the piece of gear that went in.
Example: Zojja’s Claymore + Knight’s Orichalcum Imbued Inscription + Five Globs of Ectoplasm + Anthology of Heroes = Beigarth’s Claymore
NOTE: All upgrades are lost as part of this conversion.

Agemnon.4608:

but hack and slash games are typically console games, which are a notch above cellphone games.

Until you run into Lu Bu.

Didn’t you read the thread yesterday? They made gw1, 2 and 3 and all the expansions years ago when they had heaps of developers and now run a skeleton staff to just do the required maintenance.

Lol.

Given that you can sell the booze for a nice hunk of change, at least while people are still working on the shoulders, I’ve been very happy to get it in the gifts. Do some relaxing activities, do my dailies, make a few gold without stress. I like this.

If I were talented at making gifs, though, I’d so do a cute one because of your typo

Send me all your useless, worthless booze OP. I’ve concocted a scheme by which they can be converted to gold by selling them on the trading post.

Utility item // fruitcake oil icicle. That’s give you same buff as master sharpening stone, oil, crystal.

Good drop of quartz crystals..sometime you get charged one too. Linseed oil.

Pretty good drop compare to last year.

Rainbowsand.2438:

on the top of lvl 80 food and booze? Food is worth petty silvers on ah, booze is useless and only the Ultimate Wintersday Gift contains useful stuff. I do understand that whole Wintersday thing is meant to be silly and useless but still?

The gifts already include ‘useful stuff’, unless you don’t consider the particular foods or the karma buff to be ‘useful’. In which case, perhaps you could be more specific about what you want to see instead.

I remember someone suggesting that racial skills could be specializations for each profession and you start with the one of your race.

Then you can learn the ‘racial specialization’ of other races by doing some “quests” for them.

With that they could certainly buff all the recial skills since everybody would be able to use them.

this is what becomes from alcoholics and party people, they forget things and can not keep up anymore.

(Got 3 norn myself and OP is completly right)

when i played EotN for the first time i saw the norn as strong fighters, honerable and tough to get trough.
a race that can take down a horde on their own and boast about there victories with a paint of ale, a race that doesn’t chase after some rumor but after making them self legends.

in GW2 they are kitten, so toned down and way to friendly.
they rather boast about past victories then chase after new ones, they make a fool of them selves.

they were considered dangerous to other races, now they are hiding behind walls with machinery.
of all the races in fact, the only non-human influenced race is the asura.
even the charr, a race of strong warriors bread in war are changed in half humans, at least the asura are still the same as the GW1 equivalent.

Vayne.8563:

Gameplay > lore

Why not have both?

After playing through Guild Wars: Eye of the North, I had fallen in love with the Norn.

Everything about them was great.

They were a race of shapeshifting giants, who all sought out to be great hunters, and revered the spirits of nature.

I understand that Arenanet does not want any races to be any better than the next in Guild Wars 2…. but I am extremely disappointed in the watered down version of this race that appears in Guild Wars 2.

Racial elite skills have, of course, taken a back seat to the elite skills available for each of the different professions. It comes as no surprise that all of the Norn’s racial elites are unusable due to their lack of practicality, and with it goes the Norn’s claim to fame, the shapeshifting.

Not only that, but even if a player were to go against the grain and use the elite skill to shapeshift, it would only last a measly 30 seconds… then go on cooldown for a full four minutes. Which is very different from that of the Norn in Guild Wars:Eye of the North which lasted for an entire minute and recharged after two minutes of being cast …. meaning Norn spent an equal amount of time in combat as a beast and as a humanoid.

We are unable to use our weaponry or armor in Bear form in Guild Wars 2, and we are just a naked beast swiping at foes with our claws….. which is not what the Norn ever did. They continued to use their armor and weapons even while transformed.

Would it be out of the question to simply grant Norn players a soulbound “tonic” upon creation that allowed free (solely cosmetic) transformation in and out of animal form?

Even if we just got a generic beast-mode model (that was not dynamic to what our characters were wearing) as long as it was wearing some armor and wielding weapons, I would be happy.

Thanks for reading.

Gods yes, please bring back some of the GW1 armors. I miss having at least one set of pants for my ele. Hell…pants in general…

Maybe some more options without butt skirts….

Or just some nice, relatively simple short skirts….

Or some nice tats….

Or just some of the old school elegance….

Ah nostalgia….

But seriously… PANTS! please?

Would also love to see some (most) gw1 armors around here…

Armors, NOT outfits.