Guild Wars 2

There is still people left fighting in UW. GuM is not going anywhere.
And last night we managed to get a rather massive zerg in homeborder and wipe the enemy quite a few times and retake most of our stuff in there, so there is still fighting going on, even if the majority of the guilds decided to flee.

Nice fights on UW border, UW showed us they still have a fighting spirit and pretty nice numbers at least in UW border. GG all.

I feel sorry for UW, the people in UW playing GW2 for WvW are going to have a hard time… gl to those who try to fight

Can someone say summin…anything about UW? Feeling left outa the forum war aswell as WvW

There is quite a bit that is not working in ranger’s favor such as pet AI, traits and some weapons too. However, I wanna bring attention to one particular issue which might be sometimes overlooked.

- Utilities need hard commitment into traits.

Almost every single utility needs like 30 points into 1 tier to be effective. (Do not even want to compare this to other classes like guardian, mesmer or anyone for that matter.) What does this do?

1) It pigeon-holes builds. You cannot variate anyhow if you are forced to take whatever you must for your utilities to work.
2) If you choose 1 route, you will most likely be unable to take anything else than survival utility. Example: playing 2 traps and 1 defensive signet (that would affect you) would require in total of 60 traits. Thus, you cannot go 1 signet and instead take survival utility or maybe ‘Protect Me’.
3) This would promote shouts, unfortunately, shouts are still in a bad place. (Even after Sick ’Em buff, just pop that ability and let your pet do his thing – see how much it does when chasing an enemy.)
4) If you do not commit 30 points for a utility, it just becomes bad. Trap, spirit or signets – just completely ineffective by themselves. Other classes mostly only make their utilities from good to better, whereas for ranger – bad to good.

How to solve this issue?

a) Merge traits
b) Move certain traits into lower tiers
c) Rework shouts / make shouts not only good for the pet (and then again if you want swiftness / regen buff – need 30 points)

Well, these are my thoughts. /discuss

Considering Anet has 4 living world teams and a multitude of feature teams, it would make sense that they would have little time to answer every single thing. This post seems to be aimed at people who troll and prefer to start argument posts every single time an update is released.

Chris, I appreciate the post. However, I would appreciate it even more if you guys could do something like a State of the Game. And what we should expect moving forward. A lot of players don’t know where GW2 is going and they don’t know what to expect. It seems like a game without direction at the moment, and to me that is the key issue. There seems to be some sort of indecisiveness within GW2 (real or perceived).

You don’t have to do something like that, but players would like to see something like that. People are not being negative for no reason (most of the time). There are some underlying issues why it seems like people are upset. And yes I agree, being a troll or angry is not the best way to go about it.

I am afraid without tackling the root issue, nothing will change.

I realize that many people have a emotional investment into a game that they purchased and intended to possibly play for many years to come, it is just sad to see what happens at times when people have differing opinions (which they are entitled to) but fail to be able to discuss things in a rational manner. The dev response from Chris Whiteside largely did not address I don’t think many players concerns but it is at least a response with some information in regards to the “future” of where they are heading with the game (from the post it seems it will be addressed in more detail after the holiday in the states). For my part I simply still enjoy the game, even though I am a bit on the fence about how some of these changes have been implemented, I am disheartened however when I log on and see so much negativity expressed with out there being much substance to it. This is not to say of course that people should not express their opinions, just be mindful in how it is done. Thanks for the response and have a great day and a happy holiday if you are in the states.

Imagi.4561:

I will say that after doing the PvE instances for the Bloody Prince the candy puddles make much more sense, but not everyone participates in the Living World.

From what I recall, this mechanism isn’t introduced until the second Bloody Prince dungeon, which can’t be accessed until after the meta achievement has been obtained. Most people will be going into the labyrinth and fighting the candy corn to do this.

Perhaps a more obvious graphic would help. I tend to stay away from fields like that since they are often not beneficial, so I didn’t know until I read the forums. I have been sharing it in game and most people are quite surprised (and thankful) to learn about it.

It doesn’t have to be immersion-breaking – I believe we found a way that would affect players in a minimal way (repost):
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The connection between what players are doing and how they feel while doing it can be difficult to determine using login statistics alone. Allowing players to opt into a an in-game survey would allow the widest range of players (not limited to forum users) to provide instant feedback on the events and the game.

Using this data, Arena Net can not only see what players are doing, but what they like, and don’t like. This data could become a valuable tool in shaping future content.

Below are mockups I have put together based on the ideas o myself and a few users on this forum (Erick-Alastor, Marcus Greythorne, and crazylegsmurphy, who helped me with the screenshots). Please take a moment to look them over, and please don’t hesitate to ask for any clarification or provide suggestions.

See attached images at the bottom of the page

Overview Image 1
Overview Image 2
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1. Giving Players Choice

Surveys are only good if the people taking them actually want to. The following image shows how, once the survey was implemented, players would be prompted at the character select screen with a dialogue box asking them if they want to take part.

Mockup 1a)

If a player chooses not to participate at this time, they are presented with another prompt letting them know they can, at any other time, turn this on in the “Settings” menu.

Mockup 1b)
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2. In-Game Prompts

During initial discussion, most players indicated that they would not be happy if the game was constantly shoving surveys in their faces as they played. To minimize UI clutter, Guild Wars 2 player Erick-Alastor proposed that an additional icon be added to the menu bar which would use the existing paradigm to alert players to new surveys.

Mockup 2a)

This icon would remain on the menu unless the player has chosen to not participate, or turn off in-game surveys completely.
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3. Instant Event Feedback

An in-game survey would allow players to instantly provide feedback to events they’ve just completed. For example, a player has just completed the Jormag world boss fight for the first time. As soon as the event ends, they are given a new survey alert at the top of the screen. Clicking on the icon would bring up the survey window allowing them to quickly provide feedback.

Mockup 3a)

If a player doesn’t have time to complete the survey they can simply close the window. The survey will remain in the list until the player chooses to fill it out.

Mockup 3b)

In the event that a player does not want to fill out a particular survey, they may choose to “skip” it, which would permenently delete it from the list. This gives the players the option to only fill out the surveys that are important to them, without being overwhelmed.

Finally, once a player has filled out each question, the “Submit” button becomes available. This eliminates premature submissions resulting in partial data.
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Pros & Cons

Surveys can be a very good way of gathering data, or very easily manipulated and biased failure. Below are some of the pros and cons I can see with creating an in-game survey. Please feel free to add more, and discuss these.

Pros:

- Potential to reach a wider and more varied percentage of the community
- Allows ArenaNet to gather data about how players “feel” about the game to supplement login/play data
- Players can give much more immediate feedback, cutting down on misinterpretation later
- Allows ArenaNet to provide players with concrete data to solidify design choices.

Cons:

- Additional clutter of the UI / Interface
- Potentially immersion breaking for some players
- Possibility of becoming “spammed” with survey alerts as players participate in multiple events
- Bad questions could result in biased, or meaningless data

Deus Rift.3951:

I agree. Guild wars at least had a story. This is way too much like WoW. So many junk quests that do nothing. Karma to buy things? Huh? I played for a week and I haven’t been back. Binding the skills to a weapon is so frustrating. Sure it may be a living world with better graphics but it is way too easy to get lost in all the trash quests, unviewed vistas, quests you have to repeat to get “Karma” and all that other crap. This game was hyped up waaaaaaay too much and it wasn’t all that it promised. What is with the level adjusting? I go into a lower level area and I get adjusted based on the enemies there? That is the main reason I will no longer play guild wars. You disappointed me with this game Anet. VERY much so.

LOL, the level adjusting and open world hearts for quests, vista’s are all the reasons I play GW2 over things like WoW. I love being able to go to a low level area and not feel like I am absolutlely trouncing everything (why would you ever go to a low level area in WOW…there was never a reason to go back). I love the vista’s. I also like the repeatable little side quests that you can jump into if you want to or ignore if you want to.

SPECTATOR MODE ?

If You ever been part of the GvG battle you probably noticed that there is a HUGE crowd watching the event (watching,commenting and even cheer for their team)

Any news on this ?

Its crazy that they are giving you your own area to GvG and some of you are still managing to find things to complain about.

Devon is right a lot of people who play WvW dont care about GvG so having your own separate area is probably best for everyone.

I don’t understand why they even went along with the Leagues if their servers clearly aren’t up to the task.

I mean skill lag was bad before, but WvW participation is now 200-300% of its standard and it’s much, much worse.

Hoskinsed.4296:

please fix this issue.. as it has costed me many deaths.

Think about how many kills you’ve gotten because of it as well.

Seriously though — skill lag is one of the worst technical problems in the game right now.

This is, unfortunately, true. Against Subdirector NULL, I had to quit the party so others could join in because my pet kept setting off mines and getting i or another player killed, even with the firm control i was placing on it. The simple fact of the matter is that unless a pet learns how to path around this sort of thing, We’re losing our ability to fight appropriately in fights that include such things. yes, we as ranger players can dodge, but our pets simply can’t.

I’m against permanent stowing. I play my ranger as a beastmaster because it’s why I play the profession in the first place, and that’s what you’re signing up for when you choose to play a ranger. Pets are fine in normal content – Citadel of Flame, Crucible of Eternity, Ascalonian Catacombs, and numerous world based events are all doable, possibly even easy if you know what you’re doing. The problem here is that these simply aren’t designed the same way, and that causes serious problems to anybody who can’t think, whether it be player or AI.

Excessive changes to pet mechanics are something I’m against – there’d be too many problems with a widespread change. But giving their AI an awareness of target zones would be a good way to make them more capable in combat without introducing a large change to their mechanics. Unfortunately, I don’t know how hard that’d be to implement, but it’s still something to consider.

On another note, to Holland: Avoid insulting Anet. First off, they designed the game we enjoy in the first place, so give them points for that. Second, They can’t officially reply to everything – doing so is the purview of designers for things like tabletop RPGs and similar. Every time they respond they need to get permission for the response or there’s a good chance they’ll reveal something that they’re not supposed to. And finally, Keep in mind that changes have to be in the works for a bare minimum of two months before they’re seen. Charr armor, for example, we likely won’t be seeing for quite a while; not because the Devs aren’t working on it, but because what’s been requested is an insane overhaul that’ll probably take months to accomplish.

Insulting them just makes you look like an ingrate, and I know you’re better than that.