Guild Wars 2

The only ones asking for zerker builds are trying to do speed runs. If you want to do speed runs then by all means zerker is the way to go (assuming you are a decent player, otherwise you are a liability for when the content starts to become difficult).

If you want to do dungeons for the fun of it, then it makes absolutely no difference what your build is and any intelligent player knows that.

It’s hard to argue with the efficiency of a zerker build when doing speed runs.

I just hate playing games like work so I just ignore those groups. Consequently the zerker build people tend to want to stick together. I would just steer clear of them since they don’t want to play with anyone that doesn’t have a cookie cutter build like them anyway.

Honestly, just join an active guild and do guild runs or just make sure you aren’t joining a group that is looking for speed running. Leave the speed runs for speedrunners. That way everyone wins.

What can I say. I loved it. The living story Idea is great in my view. It got me back in to GW2. I love the fact that every 2 weeks I have something different to do. I still go around and do the same old, like events, and map completion stuff, but the bazar was a nice distraction with some fun content. I also like the transient nature of the living story, so its always fresh, and you want to get on and play it before its gone. Now this is only my opinion and I know many others disagree, I just wanted to say Good job Anet:)

If you are losing money in WvW you are doing it wrong. Really wrong.

… Dehaka would be proud! (Starcraft 2 Joke here)

Good job Anet! Maintain this Content Quality and Speed and we’ll have the best MMO to ever be created in no time!

Hi all,
the scope of this post is to do a four hand written review of gw2, what has been, and a lil of what is gonna be from what we know from last blogpost.

Disclaimer:
this is gonna be long, for a reason, and no tl:dr will be made since will make a detailed review pointless.
so get ready for a long read.
Sorry for any grammar or whatever, I’m Italian and already proud of my English level, but far from perfect!

Introducing ourself:
My name is Paolo, and I’m writing this with my gf Sara, I started playing a bit later than day 1, like in October, and Sara started in Gen following my advice on how amazing this game was.
I’m not new to gaming in general, I’m 25 so I was there when diablo1 and baldurs gate were on the top, but I never actually played a real mmo since I always refused to pay a monthly subscription. So no wow for me, I bvarely know the graphics and have really close to no idea of what trinity is and what a true gear treadmill is.
As for sara well she never played a single game beside angrybirds before.. lol!

Marketing strategy :
Well what to say, the first enormous pro we can see is the fact that the game is relatively cheap and free from monthly fees, kudos, I’d never even considered it if it wasn’t and this is even more true for Sara.
That’s a strategy that is highly aimed toward the casual gamer that isn’t sure about the game to buy a pre order or a collector edition.
And it payd off since I’m like 90% sure that 90% of the sales the game had were just right for this
RNG boxes are the drawback, just gonna say I agree on what 90% says on the forum

The beginning:
I’m gonna make a difference on the experience we had, since they are quite different.
For me well, not gonna lie the impact was tough, had close to no support from the guy that introduced me to the game and I had to make up myself into the enormous amount of information and waste a lot of time on try and fails, wasted a lot of money on wrong gears and builds.
As first char I made a Silvary elementalist. Because you know the race must have something to do with the profession, a char cannot be that good as ele right? Lol wrong

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Akechi Hotaru.7129:

You’re not going to fight primordus, lets just face that fact right now. You will probably fight a Great destroyer look alike. I hated the Great Destroyer so I think im gonna pass on that one. That said it would probably be more interesting to witness the fall of a god than chernobyl recreated. Even if all we do is fight some abbadon mobs n stuff.

hmmmm…“abbadon mobs n stuff” vs hordes of unleashed dragon minions, alternate dimension entities and angry displaced beasts from the world over all while an asuran style nuclear reactor is building to critical and you need to get out fast in the style of resident evil games and other survival games allong with “new” lore instead of lore we allready know about.

hmmmmm… your totally right vote nash today.

There i feel totally better now that ive got the sarcasm out of my bloodstream. You know what they say “A post a day keeps your inner warrior at bay”

Nuka Cola.8520:

Talenna.4052:

Nuka Cola.8520:

How about adding content for us to play instead of buying instruments on gem store?

It’s buying things in store that allow new content to be added. RL cash via gems supports this game.

Game sold over 3 mil, think that’s enough for new content and what we got? only fractals half a year ago. Im not paying them more so they add mini jumping puzzles and create more miniatures…

Don’t mean to put you on the spot or anything, but um…yeah, have you played MMO’s in the last 10-14years? Just wondering because I have played many and I’m going to go ahead and say that this game, for being still under the year mark has put out just as much stuff (if not more) as any other MMO on the market…ever.

Whether or not what they have put out so far is good enough for you/I/him/her/them is all subjective. TBH, many games receive NO updates at all…so.

On topic: I would love a violin. It would be sweet if they gave these musical items their own window with all the notes so no need to button press switches for higher lower octaves. Bring up a window like the wvw window or the spvp window. When that window is open..your skill bar is locked. In the options menu I would put a third pane for button mapping for instruments.

We need one of these for the forums.

Rising Dusk.2408:

He’s more likely referring to the magic find changes.

MF is going to an account bonus… This is good news for farmers. They can get the same MF bonus as well as do more damage while wearing better gear. So it is unlikely he is complaining about a positive change for farmers…

Champion loot getting boosted…
Dungeon paths being equalized to all be rewarding…
MF being changed to allow you to get good loot while wearing real gear….
New tiers of mats to farm…

This is like a farmers dream blog… I honestly have no idea what he could possibly be complaining about unless he was a CoF p1 farmer.

Harsh? Asc trinkets are a 3-5% overall boost to your stats. Unless you are hell-bent on always having the best items, you don’t have to get these.

Exotics will still be viable as they always were.

Crafting needed something like this to be worth-while again. No one crafts for any reason other than to level now, it’s pointless otherwise. Now you can make money and help guildies by being a 500 crafter.

marnick.4305:

The success of Guild Wars 2 can’t be denied. The game innovated on a lot of grounds at a time where MMOs became increasingly stale. It is still in a young phase but if A.net keeps the pace up, this game is bound to be a huge competitor to any other fantasy MMO on the market, and comfortably settle on the second place.

Completely agree with the quoted part!!

MMO industry needed a breath of fresh air, and although GW2 has many flaws, it indeed provided this renewal.

If it will be cloned, if it’s a killer, no1 can say yes or no with absolute certainty. Haters will say NO, Fanboys will say YES. What we can say for sure, is that it is very different than every other thing released on this industry! A pioneer we may add!

If you are that desperate for it..

Then why don’t you go to LA and say that we are going to make a server push for Obsidian Sanctum for all players who still need the achievement. Meet at X time.

I wanted that achievement. I couldn’t get it because we were getting camped. So I got my guildy group and spread the word throughout the server that we would be taking back Sanctum? And guess what? After 30 minutes of hard fighting, we did.

That’s a hard fought achievement.

Ide just like to share my views on the new achievement system i personally think it is very well designed and much better than previous well done Anet

However i see a problem and i hope it will be addressed in the near future

The current system is sucking all the players from pvp/wvw because the points gain advantage from pve is just huge compared to these other aspects of the game

I am hoping you boost the pvp and wvw points tallys to compensate and bring us up a bit im not asking you make it same as pve , just a boost is needed to keep the game balanced in all aspects of achieving points

but keep up the good work great system

nolop.8095:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brhhzum4ipo

LOL. I posted this in another thread where someone was complaining about the kites:

As you head from the bottom WP up to the Zephyr and land at the last lightning pull platform there is a child and a woman NPC. Every so often the dialog goes something like this:

Child: I want! I want! I want one mom!

Mother: Okay you can have one.

Child: But I want two! I want two!

I cracked up when I heard that. It reminds me of this forum every time there is some new skin, fun item, reward, or gift. I wonder if it was intentional.

I have zero interest in Abbadon. A leftover relic of lore from a game GW2 tries to distance itself from at every opportunity. Besides, the rampant hype, nostalgia and overblown expectations will make it easily the most disappointing, if not hated Fractal in the Mists… unless its made so easy it can be added to the FOTM farm rotation.

Show me the Reactor. No one knows what happened there… and its not often you get to see the worlds fabric turn inside out.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

I wonder what kinds of things would happen if you mixed the Mists with chaos energy…

Seriously, I keep trying to make this known.

Asuran city…massive chaos magic explosion…world’s fabric turned inside out.

The possibilities are literally endless, and can be just as lore-filled as the other. It’s definitely on the same level as the Fall of Abaddon, if not higher.

Any Asura who does not vote for the lovely Kiel is obviously the biggest bookah in history or an inquest spy trying to hide up something about the reactor! We need to research what happened to this reactor! The events with that silly god are done and over! This reactor altered the fabric of the universe! That and the gracious miss Kiel will allow us cheaper waypoints to go to our far away laboratories for more research after we study the reactor…also who likes smelly charr?

Farzo.8410:

Who cares about explosions and Asura problems, stuff explodes one after the other, it’s nothing new in the Asura society, just wait and a new one will occur soon enough again.

Many centuries have passed since Abaddon was defeated. We must go back to the past to see what truly happend, there might be clues about the gods disappearing as well! And if it is the very first fall of Abaddon, we might be able to ask the other gods themselves about the Elder Dragons!

#VoteEvonGnashblade

WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THO! We barely know anything about the reality-altering effects that took place at the Thaumanova reactor!! Jeez you char supporters dont think!! #TEAM KIEL!!!!

Devata.6589:

Nabrok.9023:

Devata.6589:

On the other hand.. The kites also have a function as Badge of Shame. Everybody can now see who buys gems and so helps to keep the gem-store focus alive.

Oh yes, how shameful it is that we chose to support the game we enjoy playing.

I will now hide in the corner (with my kite), while you continue to play the game we helped pay for.

Guess what, everybody payed for it and if an expansion would be released many would also pay for that. Buying gems does not help the game, it makes it worse as it results in a gem-store focus and that gem-store focus results in bad behavior like making temporary content and stuff.

So no, you did not help the game. Not for anybody that does not like the gem-store focus / temporary content and whatever more comes from that focus.

I am perfectly fine giving anet more of my money. For the same price as a console game I would beat in 40hrs and never play again, I have played this game for over 2000 hours. By my calculations, I still owe anet over $3000 lol.

Full zerk is squishy. I refuse to rely on others to keep me alive.

Knights Gear, Dolyak Runes, Valkyrie trinkets.

Yeah… lot of “what isnt optimal is bad” round these parts.

No real thoughts aside from a big hell no to the faction division, IMO.

If anything this makes me like ArenaNet even more, from a customer point of view.
Even if it is just a trick to make me buy even more gems.

I played WoW for 6 years(a game with a subscription model) and Blizzard never did ANYTHING. They have never given any kind of ‘thank you’ to people who have been subscribed for years.