Guild Wars 2

morrolan.9608:

Gamadorn.2659:

Wow it’s still down? I mean I realized you guys made a mistake….but….it’s still down?

P.S. Hope it’s fixed while I drive home from work….or else i’m probably going to get infracted for a post when I get home! lol

Teq didn’t spawn for over 12 hours and they didn’t even communicate anything. At least here there is some communication.

However once again Anets lack of proper user testing brings them undone.

I will never complain about “lack of proper user testing” since the release of Diablo 3, I think anet is doing a fantastic job!

Ravezaar.4951:

“RLHawk you playing the same game ? 1 Good WvW patch and 1 half decent over 13months. PvE has gotten what ? 20-25 ptaches

Yes, I play it. And I play largely WvW. Perhaps you need some history? Obviously initially a lot of the focus was on seeing how well everything worked on such a large scale and doing lots of bug fixes. After a while the decision to remove Orbs of Power was made, because they did more harm than good. Shortly after that loot was improved. Then events were added to help breakout of your starting location when overwhelmed too long. Then Laurels were added with the ability to get them in only WvW, and load times were improved a lot. They made orange swords only show for larger battles, opening up all kinds of new strategies for sneak attacks. Leaderboards were added. Ranks were added, along with special abilities to use your rank points on. Culling was removed — before it was removed in PvE, mind you. More buying options were given so that more and more could be acquired through only playing WvW. Tons of improvements to siege and abilities were made. Obsidian Sanctum was given its own map. Traps were added. The ability for commanders to ping maps and draw paths was added. (Not strictly WvW, but has the biggest influence there.) Matchmaking was improved. Rewards were increased again greatly with new incentives for PvEers to do WvW for help buying ascended items. Siege blueprints were made trade-able, balancing their cost and encouraging their further use. Rewards were again increased greatly. Borderland bloodlust was added, and in today’s update again rewards have been increased as well as both incentives to play and to do well. And then seasons starting in a couple of weeks with new rewards and incentives.

On top of all of that, nearly every patch for the last year at least has WvW specific bug fixes and minor improvements to rewards, gameplay, and balance in the update notes. And new and improved rank abilities have been added almost every update since they came out, as well as new finishers.

For the gametype that WvW is, I’m really not sure what you expect or want. Do you want celebrations to affect WvW more? Do you want world bosses and events and story content to be added to WvW? I’m assuming that Borderlands Bloodlust and Ranks & Abilities are the only things you consider decent updates, and I’d agree that they’re probably the most game changing. But the beauty of WvW is that each weak is its own story. It doesn’t /need/ progressive story content added to it, because you and I playing it is what creates that story.

As I see it, WvW is a huge focus of theirs. But to make changes similar to PvE changes at such a pace would be a big mistake in my opinion. WvW is a very different game type.

Shotzo.6209:

thats not to say a scroll or a book replacement skin for other weapon types wouldnt work

It wouldn’t work because your weapon skin allows your opponents to know what weapon you are using.

if you use an axe that looks like a book, when foci (or any one handed weapon, as you suggest) can also look like a book, then that hides important tactical information from your opponents, which is an unfair advantage.

ie: Your axe looks like an axe so that other players know you’re using axe skills.

Still trying to determine how this is so much worse than Anet locking cross campaign looks behind the makeover kit in GW1. People were fine with that…. but suddenly a similar thing here isn’t? At least here, you can convert gold to gems and get it, in GW1 there is no such thing. It’s fork over $10 or gfy….

Fay.2735:

<— The aforementioned shiny guild leader ^

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I’ll be submitting a petition to the Captain’s Council to legislate against super-shiny asuras on ground that they are a public hazard. Excessive shininess at below waist height will cause glaring to regular folk’s eyes, leading into them tripping over said perpetrator or other obstacle and fall to their deaths.

It is at these times that I am grateful that Evon Gnashblade did not get elected for he would simply tell us to buy more Sunglasses from the Black Lion Gem Store.

You can actually hear the ‘whoosh’ as money leaves my wallet.

A couple of these are absolutely great!

And am just now posting it today :S

Darkhaven 1 shotted him last night, we’re really getting the hang of this dragon. Props to everyone on the server who made it happen and ArenaNet, keep up the great work and adding more challenging content that brings entire servers together!

The Living story is a “testing program”. They throw in different concepts and players are giving their feedback. The ones they like will be noted and developed.
One example is: they added various events in the world but people didn’t seem too interested to discover them. In the end they managed to create the Scarlet invasions to see if people are doing the events if announced in the chat. People respended positively to this type of mechanic.
So, I guess they are gathering information “on live” about what people enjoy and what not. Instead of working on a big expansion and then have a lot of bugs in it, they can make small additions and people can give feedback on it.

I use KB strategically. If there is a unit “solo” when a group of them is standing near by, I will kb that unit in to his buddies to group them up for AoE.

However since champs have defiant, your example is extremely limited and a very rare occurance. Rarely do I ever see a “zerg” even bother to take down defiant stacks. And having to regroup away from banners should never cause the zerg to “fail” in taking out the champ. If it somehow does, thats a bad zerg with crappy dps.

No thanks
/15 and some other ones

Maybe it’s a clue to One Eyed Willy’s rich stuff!

Because nobody comes on the forum to say thank you, just like nobody ever contacts customer service to tell them they’re doing a good job, I mean, did you ever contact your internet provider to tell him “DUDE, I didn’t DC in 6 kittening months, you’re doing a great job, keep it up!!!” or is it usually something in the lines of " The internet keeps disconnecting every now and then, why is it doing this, what the kitten am I paying you for???"

Albane.3618:

Yeah because Seasons are such a HUGE attraction. Come play our broken open-world PvP for some meta achievements and a gimmicky finisher. I think I heard the wind blowing…

The results of WvW will actually matter week to week in some meaningful way, and you get a nice chest of loot for being on the winning server. There’s a lot of activity in the player base preparing for season one and I think you’ll see a lot of people come back, play more, and try wvw out to try and help their server since these are the matches that “matter”.

I’m more excited for this than I was for Tequatl or SAB. People are still sitting around doing Tequatl and failing repeatedly because they want the achievements and hope that they can get some loot; once the WvW Season meta achievements roll out I suspect those people are going to be flooding the area trying to figure out what’s going on, and unlike Tequatl they have a better chance of having fun if they’re just casually doing WvW.

They’re also not direct competing the start of season 1 with Twilight Assault anymore, meaning that TA will probably be all farmed out by the time this update hits.

XselectX.9026:

man its just soooo funny heavy wvwers really dont get how much more attention they get then pvper and still kitten

You have to be joking.

What have sPvP players asked for and didn’t get?

Players: Paid tournaments don’t pop!
ANet: single round tournies so you don’t have to wait more than a few minutes

Players: We want more maps!
ANet: Have 3!

Players: We want a ladder to see who the best are!
ANet: Yes, my precious flower.

Players: we want to run our own tournies!
ANet: custom arenas

Players: We want to spectate matches!
ANet: yes my special flower. Anything for you!

Players: Premades stomp pugs!
ANet: solo queue

Players: Necros, warriors and rangers are garbage
ANet: Here you go, now they’re great!

Players: We want more game modes!
ANet: they’re coming soon my special flower.

You get almost everything you ask for, except maybe PvE rewards for sPvP and fixing it so ranked matches don’t start with less than 5v5.

sounds like someone likes kicking up drama, and I’m not referring to the Anet dev…

Try not to charge in head first to a pack of enemies that use crowd control. Use ranged attacks, pets, illusions etc.

I can think of seven ways to avoid mob knock backs off the top of my head:

Dodge
Stability
Block
Reflection
Stun
Blind
Fear

Chilling an enemy also helps because it will put the knock back on longer cool-down.

Welcome to playing a game that is close realty life things changes fast to the point where you will get lost at one point. Most of the time this is due to not being able to keep up or “old age.” It happens to us all you just got to adapted as best as you can and try to enjoy your self in doing so or what the point of doing any thing if you MUST do every thing 100% before it goes away. I mean are you going to all the live events in your down town? Are you getting every new app or smart phone that comes out? Are you getting every new gaming system and games as they come out and betting them in a few days to keep up? Are you watching every moving tv show and playing every song reading every book? You cant and if you keep stressing about these things you will never have fun in a game or in real life.

Link your GW2 account to what? Sounds a bit phishy. Maybe it was a scam.

Remember, don’t go by the forums to see how people like this game. Most of the people that go to gaming forums only go to complain.

I am really enjoying this game. Its true, i have only been playing for a month and half but it takes up a good amount of my time. Most of the time i have no idea what items i need to get but the fun part is figuring that out.

When i started i had no idea what the LS was. I didn’t start realizing what was going on till the end of the Queen’s speech. This time i was way more involved with Tequatl and have been having a blast. I spent all my gold on exotic Valkryie armor for my Ele to the point it took me a few days to get enough gold to finish it. At that time i was broke but then i was able to beat Teq each of the last 3 days and i’m already back up to 10g witch is good because i haven’t been doing any other farming since i’ve been busy.

So to sum up, the more i learn, the more fun it gets for me.

I think sometimes in the intense debates about stuff on this board, which I sometimes participate in, this fact does get a little lost. There is a lot about GW2 which degrades the fun, or distracts from the fun, and indeed it’s why I stopped for a few months, but getting back into it, that’s my big takeaway – so long as you can find the right class and spec for you:

GW2 is basically pretty fun.

Just messing around in the world, doing zone completion (and all that entails), zerg-surfing in WvW (which I keep accidentally calling RvR – it’s not yet as good as DAoC, but could be one day), trying out new dye looks, new gear appearances, doing the new world bosses (except Teq – he’s got potential but is too frustrating), and so on – it’s really quite a lot of fun in a way that most MMOs are not, and I really hope they can continue to make it feel that way.

There is some stuff which probably should be fun but isn’t quite there yet – dungeons are a bit too dependent on detailed pre-knowledge, Fractals can be very fun but can be a tad tedious, depending on which you get, sPvP is a bit too same-y and faceless (it’s good – not great – good though), the Living World stuff is a bit too “GIT IT DUN!” because of the short time scales, Dailies are almost fun, now, so that’s an improvement but could do with more, and gearing, sadly, is little fun outside PvP, because elsewhere it’s just zerker or gtfo. More fun doesn’t necessarily mean more rewards, either – rewards support fun (and prevent you having to do anti-fun things to compensate for “wasted” fun time), they rarely create it – but it does mean being careful about them.

But again, I keep coming back to how basically fun the actual, underlying game is. how fun the abilities are, how it’s fun to combine them, to defeat normal enemies, veterans and champs, how it’s fun to dodge abilities and so on.

You know what other game was like that? GW1. Yeah, GW2 isn’t as awesome in that regard as GW1 was after two expansions, but it’s getting there. So I think the devs are, in a lot of ways, on the right track. I really hope the new skills and their acquisition help with this fun (hopefully involving the open world, not instances!).

Came to GW2 because I loved GW1. Stayed until now (and will) because although there is a lot I’m not happy with (mostly because of how GW1 worked) there is still a lot more I do like with its variance from the tried and true formulas of other MMOs.

Put this into perspective. After getting a new comp with better graphics a month ago, I decided to give TERA a try because it’s now FTP, rolled a priest. At first, I was all, oooh look at the graphics, the huge kitten monster fights, ooh third person skillshots! Then I was all, wait, why can’t I run while attacking? Why is dodging a skill instead of double tap? Good god, what the hell do I do with all these skills at the same time… why is leveling so boring? Oh god, QUESTS?! Kill X monsters, find X items, I’m not really reading any of the quest dialogue, I’ve got like 50 random quests sitting in my log that I’m not doing because of crappy exp… I’m in a dungeon, doing healing stuff, oh god this is boring, I just sit there and don’t attack to not get aggro and watch bars go up and down… kitten this I’m going back to GW2.

I dunno.. I was attracted to GW2 because the devs just seemed to “get it”. Their manifesto was a refreshing change of attitude. Some people may feel like they didn’t live up to it, while others feel they did. Those things weren’t important to me…. what mattered is that they seemed to have the sincere goal of providing the most player-friendly mmo experience ever designed. People will debate their successes and failures for years, but what you can’t deny is that they are aiming for something uniquely exciting here. It might not be to everyone’s taste all the time, but when they hit their mark, its some of the best gaming ever designed.

its one of many sub categories of counter culture groups . The OP is basically saying anyone whi disagrees with him is against mainstream MMOs which is a completely false premise