Guild Wars 2

Aurelian Omenkind.2470:

The fact that it doesn’t give upgrades and has a low % for rare mats means ill be passing this one by.

It does. The Gem store description is wrong. This was described as “Anet roullette” since we don’t know if the thing will get nerfed later or if it’s even working as good as it should now.

Totally support this.

Also, make it instanced so the zergs below us don’t make us lag so much.

All those in favour of having the difficulty reduced on this boss: (post a comment to show your support and your ideas on how to fix the issues)

From the mountain of bugs:
Obstructed cosmic rifts ( a bug which has been there since launch AC burrows I feel they should just be removed (the rift not the burrows))
Camera in circular dome ( smart idea arenanet the camera sucks as it is your just making it worst)
The targeting system ( it sucked kitten launch and it still sucks hard GW1 had a better system)
Previous bosses not despawning ((doesnt happen all the time) wasting tickets and money on repair)

Attacks
The AOE (overpowered I think the pattern should remain the same as phase 1 or either reduce the damage)

• The clones* ( same issue reduce damage)

Clearly designed for hardcore gamers. I wouldn’t mind the one-shot downs so much if it was a group event like in a dungeon but not in a 1vs1 fight, it’s just like quick scoping on CoD, just leaves a bad taste in your mouth

Arenanet need to remember not everyone is a hardcore gamer what happens to the casual games that arenanet are excluding with theses events. Not everyone wants to play a berserk practically all the guides online used a berserker build

I know a lot of people are complaining about this on the forums, and I think with good cause there are many issues that need resolving.

I think a part of the problem why some people don’t appreciate new events in the old zones is that it’s not easily obvious that those are there and there are little incentives to explore zones again once you have the world completion. A lot of times when you go through zones no events are up near you or just the ones you already know.

If I remember correctly one of the events you are talking about is the event about the guild Modus Sceleris. I tried this event once, weren’t successfull and that’s it. It was awesome but I didn’t came by this area again.

At this time it felt also normal that the world was being expanded with events since it was exactly what Colin told us would happen. (I’m a bit sad that this stopped actually).

A suggestion how I would introduce new ways of going back to lower zones would be frequent field trips with a certain NPC which start in a fixed spot and lead to interesting places all around the world. You could then add this trip to the daily achievement rotation.

example: you go to the center of Divinity’s Reach where a NPC (orange dynamic event marker on the map) calls out: “the next field trip starts in 4 minutes”. He would then open a small portal to the borders of a random zone where you follow him to the start of one of gw2s longer event chains. People now can experience a chain from start to finish. While you stay in the orange field trip event marker during this long chain, you’ll get +300 magic find also, so that people have incentives to stay till the end of the chain + a guaranteed reward.

Some of these events also might be meta event chains which are forgotten by the community. These field trips start every 5 minutes in a known spot in the races home cities.

This will only make everything more expensive

Tower Guard.5263:

If I can wait 15min for SB, what is 2 min?

2 mins if no one is in front of you. Just saying.

butch.8136:

So one zone with 75 people, where the ‘raid/zerg’ part requires 20-30 people. There will be merchants and there will be afk’ers. There are 6 ‘rooms’ and these all require a ticket. I think things will just be fine.

It’s an MMO, they’re trying to give us a real arena and a sense of community.

Why cant that do that AND if all arenas are full allow you to enter an instanced version rather then wait. Or even better, not make this content temporary based… something we were promised there would be more of… something we are all still waiting on…

^everyone is suggesting instances so

butch.8136:

It’s an arena. They want to get that arena feeling. So people need to watch. I think is fun aslong as it doesn’t get out of hand. Sjeez, do you want everything instanced? Play a singleplayer game.

You wanna wait in line for something go to disney land. bad logic is bad.

stof.9341:

So, a map has 75 players and 6 arenas. So the queue is composed of 69 players. At a rate of 6 new players that enter every 2 minutes, it means on average you have to wait 20 minutes between the time you leave an arena and can reenter to try again.

I suppose that’s better than having to stand somewhere afk for an hour hoping that a Quaggan will do a brief, non-interactive show so you can get an achievement.

Of course, you only had to do that once.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Actually it’s two minutes. And the map capacity of Crown Pavilion is limited to 75 before it starts to create overflows.

2 minutes to defeat all 5 competitors in the tier or two minutes per competitor?

We’ll go with the former just for sake of argument.

that’s 6 people rotating out every 2 minutes. With a cap of 75 that means 12.5 groups of people rotating through every map, or a 25 minute wait to participate in this event.

There is absolutely no reason I should need to wait 25 minutes to participate in 2 minutes of content. It is completely unacceptable and if it goes live like this I will not be participating.

This may be the worst decision ever implemented into this game.

I don’t even mind time gating… but extreme time gated content, combined with a queue, combined with the fact that it is temporary is just out right absurd…

Farming Flats.5370:

The Queen’s Gauntlet will be taking place in the skyline above the Crown Pavillion. There will be a circular track with six suspended glass domes where players can engage in 1vs1 arena type of fights against various NPC opponents. The glass dome allow other players to observe you and serve as speculators. However, since only a limited number of glass domes are available per map and only one person can be inside a dome at a time, you may expect some sort of lineups.

so we will queue and wait for hours to get a try ?? why no instance like the candidate trials .. so we can jump in right away … another weird decision ….

Its a cool idea so that you get to watch real people playing, but because they made this content temporary they basically made it so artificially people wont be able to finish.

The Queen’s Gauntlet will be taking place in the skyline above the Crown Pavillion. There will be a circular track with six suspended glass domes where players can engage in 1vs1 arena type of fights against various NPC opponents. The glass dome allow other players to observe you and serve as speculators. However, since only a limited number of glass domes are available per map and only one person can be inside a dome at a time, you may expect some sort of lineups.

so we will queue and wait for hours to get a try ?? why no instance like the candidate trials .. so we can jump in right away … another weird decision ….

Just add me to the minority pile of folks who aren’t happy about new dual wielding of a sword I worked for and now also has fancy runes attached to it. I love my Fellblade and now it feels like it’s a lesser version of a new sword that is missing fancy runes and can’t be dual wielded. No worries if folks think otherwise and have their opinions. I’m just disappointed in the blatant reskin. I’m pretty sure no one will argue that the new swords are fancier, whether they like the pink runes or not. Whether they’re “better” or not.

Why not see new legendary greatswords folks worked for that could be redone into dual wielded swords, plus some new fancy effect of some kind. Does that devalue the work done before? It’s arguable as seen in this topic. Will many folks who worked hard for their legendary greatswords be unhappy and feel their work devalued or undermined? It seems undoubtedly.

So far we’ve only heard from folks who have noticed this screenshot. Later we could hear more from folks once it’s introduced.

Dondarrion.2748:

Getefix.9150:

Blackmoon.6837:

SpeedFiend.4521:

What happened to Fellblades being a unique reward?

As long as the clean version is still only obtainable via gw1, then it’ll remain unique.

but if this one looks better, theres no point to it existing anymore since no one would get them

…it doesn’t, it has horrible purplish runes… the darkened 2h Fellblade is unique in its own regard.

As 40/50 HoM, I don’t mind the HoM skins serving as bases for new skins making it into the game. Are you opposed to Jormag’s Breath (IDS) too because of the Fiery Dragon Sword you get at 10 pts? Same skin, just different looks…

but FDS can also be duel wielded.

HOM Fellblade meanwhile is actually very undersized by most Greatsword standards now and can’t be duel wielded (It used to be one of the LARGEST right next to Sage blades & Sephis)…. plus still no animation on it

Grimwolf.7163:

As someone with HoM rewards, I don’t care. At all.
I wouldn’t care even if they were letting everyone get the straight HoM items themselves and not just reskins.
The need to have something others can’t get is terribly juvenile.

That is a very nice disposition, but this is a horrible game for it. GW is all about needing to have something others don’t have/cant get. Other games have vertical gear progression to display accomplishments. GW has skins and titles.

Since the last day dawned on the kingdom of Ascalon the biggest driving force in PvE was to get those super rare, super unique, super hard to acquire, outrageously expensive things that few others had. You ooh-d and aahh-d over people and they ooh-d and ahh-d over you. You scraped your characters face against every wall in the game for cartographer so you could have that title to display an accomplishment that a majority of players didn’t have.

Promotional minis demanded the highest price because a limited number of them existed in the game and only that many people would ever have them. And when you see someone with one, it was neat.

Juvenile as it might seem, people are proud of their stuff and defensive of its exclusivity because they worked hard for those things in a game where working hard for those things is what you did.

You see it in GW2 already. Whenever it looks like something that players put significant work into is going to get slightly easier for anyone else to get, there is an uproar. Most recently from those that put the hours into WvW for the gift of battle for their legendaries, after achievement rewards practically gave them away to everyone.

With these new weapons being added in, can we expect to see existing HoM Fellblades get a visual overhaul? It seems that the image shown with the mesmer dual-wielding 2 of the newer 1h versions shows some new smoke effects off of the sword.

My question to ArenaNet is, do you have plans to update existing ones to update the affect as well? Because the current smoke effect is very plain in comparison to this. Second part of the question, what percent chance do we have of actually seeing the original Fellblade effect from GW1 make its way on to the GW2 counterpart?

Erasculio.2914:

Grimwolf.7163:

As someone with HoM rewards, I don’t care. At all.
I wouldn’t care even if they were letting everyone get the straight HoM items themselves and not just reskins.
The need to have something others can’t get is terribly juvenile.

I couldn’t agree more. I have all HoM skins (although, truth be said, the only one I use is the staffx), but I wouldn’t care less if everyone got them. As far as I’m concerned, the more people who have access to skins they like, the better.

Ok that’s great, but why even have HoM in the first place? “Special rewards for only GW1 players!… until we add them into GW2…” what? That makes no sense.

raptor.1064:

not even bothering to give the fellblade the gw1 animation and then rereleasing it after saying hom rewards were supposed to be special for gw1 players

real kitten move anet

I agree 100%. The animation from Gw1 was incredible. The HoM Fellblade has a dull smoke that flows off of it like a Fiery Dragon Sword.. And this new Fellblade 1h looks like it has a better looking smoke effect. I just hope they at the very least update the HoM Fellblade skin to make the effect better than it is now.

Parisalchuk.9230:

Better is a very relative term. To me the pink/purple inscriptions absolutely destroy that sword and make it much much worse. Also, really how many people do you see running around with the HOM weapons because they think they are prestigious?

I use them. But no I wasn’t talking about the pink because I think that’s a disgrace to the Fellblade (which was ONE of the better looking swords in GW1) I am talking about the smoke around it.

In GW1 the fellblade had mist inside the blade that was animated. The GW2 counterpart had like purple smoke bellowing off of it and you can hardly notice it. This new one appears to have great new affects surrounding it.

And it’s not about how many people run around with them. The rewards were exclusive to GW1 players who completed certain tiers of HoM. Does it not seem wrong that they’re introducing variations of those weapons in GW2?

I’m not saying I won’t use them if I get one, because I absolutely will, I just feel like it’s kind of a punch to the face to anyone who completed HoM. Who knows what’s next?

Overall this update is incredible. Account wallet, permanent finishers, the list can go on about what I’m excited for in this update. What I am not excited for, however, is the seeming introduction of Hall of Monument weapons into the game as drops.

People worked hard for Hall of Monuments updates and now you’re releasing 1-handed Fellblades that have cooler effects than the actual HoM one? That just doesn’t seem right to me. And considering that’s all we’ve seen, who knows what other previously HoM skins will be released in the future?

Why even do HoM at all if you can just get better versions of the reward items in GW2? I hope I’m just missing something here, because I’m really disappointed in this particular aspect of the update. Don’t get me wrong those new Fellblades look awesome (I’m sure they won’t be called that… Or maybe they will who knows), but that’s the problem. They completely diminish even earning the 23 point HoM reward.

What are your guys’ thoughts on this?

I’m Kittened off by this

That’s supposed to be a unique HOM reward. Now not only is it no longer unique, but all we have is the plain dark Grey 2h version that’s roughly the same size as these ONE HANDED SWORDS.

Sinbold.8723:

The screenie shows a toon dual weilding the new Fellblade skins. Getefix.9150, the HoM Fellblade is a two-habded weapon whereas the new Fellblade is a one-handed skin. BIG difference.

Fellblades were a 1h sword in Guild Wars, yet they got implemented as a greatsword in gw2. Not that big a difference, it seems.

What happened to Fellblades being a unique reward?

The grind is within you. You have a compulsion to grind, it’s obvious from every word of your post.

There is no MMO in existence or able to exist where you would not feel compelled to grind.

You need to change your approach. ArenaNet can’t change it for you.

And they are gemstore only. Imagine when the gem prices go so high it costs WAY too much to even get those things anymore.

GW1 AND GW2 end game is cosmetics, to put the cosmetics over such an obvious moneygate is just.. wrong.

they ripoff everyone with fine stones which you HAVE to buy no matter what, there’s no other option