Guild Wars 2

Dungeons are locked in time.

Warkupo, that would completely defeat the purpose of down-scaling. If you remove any incentive for players to go to maps other than what’s level appropriate, nobody would ever go to low level zones for any reason. Changing how the down-scaling works is much more appropriate.

Celestina.2894:

Only in GW2 will people complain about being given multiple ways to unlock things.

Anet could simultaneously cure cancer, invent clean sustainable nuclear energy, end world hunger, and end all wars and people would still complain that Anet isn’t doing a good enough job.

What difference does it make? We are getting 5 new grand master traits.

What amazes me is that the “IN” thing to do is make a post that offers no ideas, or interesting discussion, simply to complain and moan about which skill they mentioned.

Turrets have had great demand for fixes and changes. It is very reasonable that they would highlight them. While threads with no actual purpose or direction to positively influence discussion, such as this one, bring a dark shadow to over otherwise highlighted and positive changes. People making threads such as these should be ashamed of themselves.

Whether or not it is an, and I quote “incredibly interesting trait” is subjective, and I for one think it has potential to be very interesting indeed.

Yoh.8469:

Ah, not bad.
I found the scenes in the Dead End Bar esp good, but I always find those little moments of character building to be enjoyable.

The living story has come a long way since the early days, but it’s temporary nature still holds it back. There were several important character building moments I missed out on due to moving, and now they are effectively lost to me forever.
That is just terrible design. Hands down.

Thou if the living story content were to sometime after the fact be turned into personal story instances, that would pretty much solve the issue. Say after each season, you go back and boil it down into personal story instances, I think that would be great, hours of more content to work through.

Because otherwise your always going to run into the problem of new players being locked out of the story of this world, with no way to catch back up.
(as well as making the world smaller for it)

See, I’ve been trying to suggest ArenaNet and the playerbase that expanding our Personal Stories would be a better idea since adding Story in the Living World would lock out other players from knowing what’s happening.

I think they should focus on Dynamic Events changing the world and shaping it up with little story involved, while focusing on expanding Personal stories and choices by keeping them perminant, can bring good replay ability down the table. Also add more Jumping puzzles. lol

Ya know, it’d be easier to believe Chicken Little if he hadn’t been screaming that the sky has been falling for the last year and a half. No matter how many times you repeat it, it’s not going to make it any more true.

The game’s not dying, no matter how much you wish it would. Arena.net isn’t going to come crawling back to you with the GW1 with updated graphics you want, even if GW2 were to die. I’m sorry.

Teq as a design is a failure.

The reason I say this is because the content requires far to many people are far to much coordination for normal pugs.

So your request would simply make this boss another teq which is ignored most spawn times.

How does this improve anything?

Also, The Champ train is what some people enjoy. Just because you do not does not mean there is a problem with it.

The Pact is not an independent organization. Hell, you can’t really call it an organization. It’s an alliance of multiple organizations.

And the individual organizations did fight Scarlet.

Think of the Pact like this: You have 9 major groups (three Orders, LA, five major races), and in these 9 major groups, you have a portion of each major group dedicated to fighting a massive threat to all major groups (the Elder Dragons). Those individual portions make up the Pact.

The Pact is just a vanguard unit against the Elder Dragons. If you include the full of all 9 major groups, then the Pact is very small in comparison – and the non-Pact parts of the major groups deal with non-dragon threats.

To say the Pact should go deal with non-dragon local threats such as Scarlet is to say the Fallen Angels (a unit of the Seraph sent to Ebonhawke) should be fighting the centaurs because if DR falls to centaurs it’s all pointless. Fighting centaurs isn’t their job, it isn’t their duty. They’re there to protect Ebonhawke.

AVM.5746:

Long story short, I’m writing a fanfiction but I’m really sketchy on the GW2 vocabulary when it comes to their swearing and cursing. >_>

Can a few of you provide some examples, in “xxx” = “xxx” format? Of course, please blot out letters in the english terms for modesty sake…

Sorry Anet if this topic rose a big red flag

“Kitten”

I think player marriage would be very beneficial in a lot ways, not just role play.

For married players they can have a minor buff that boosts stats slightly whenever those two characters playing together. Just those two though no alts. The buff could be called Love Conquers or something like that.

Also to counter it, for those who would just get married for the buff, if one dies while near their spouse they get a minor debuff for the loss of them.

As for account bound items keep it like that, but when they play together there is a chance to get items that are called Marriage bound items.

Also once we do get guild halls which I heard are int he works, players can buy player housing spots inside the guild halls or rooms to be exact. Married couples could purchase one together as well.

If we’re “missing the strongest story stuff” you should have made humans stories better.

I think the real issue is not so much the removal of the holy trinity, but them not replacing it with other balanced roles instead.

You kind of need roles in your roleplaying game. That’s because variety among the classes it nice, but ultimately pointless if they don’t have a role. Without a role, it becomes easy for some classes to outshine others. Without roles, every class is essentially the same, except for the numbers. And then it just becomes a matter of, who has the highest numbers.

Roles in DnD

The classic Dungeons and Dragons system works, because each class has a part to play. They have unique things only they can do, which makes them necessary for their party. A warrior does excellent damage, but is less effective when faced with magic. And while it is fun to have a warrior and a wizard loot a dungeon, they really want to have someone around to check for traps, and open locked doors. Which is why they bring a thief. And if they want to survive those massive battles, they’ll be burning through those healing potions pretty fast, unless they have a cleric to heal them. DnD has some classes that have overlap with others, such as the Paladin who can also heal, or the bard that can also cast spells. The point is, all classes have their part to play.

Look at it from the point of view of a necromancer:

Minions

When I play my necromancer, I know that my minions are useless in a dungeon. They used to be great in GW1, due to a lot of enemies leaving corpses that could be used to make new minions, and the minions themselves were quite durable. But in GW2, I can leave them at home. Plus, most of the time they just stand around doing nothing, or get caught on the terrain.

Life stealing

Life stealing is not going to do much either, since mobs in dungeons hit really hard, and I’m not going to out heal them. The last thing I want to do, is get into close combat. Unless I go full zerker.

Fear

Does anyone still think fear is any good? All bosses are immune to it, and you’ll most likely annoy your party by fearing enemies away. And unlike a lot of enemies that use fear, the fear a player casts is only a few seconds. Not long enough to get any notable distance between you and an enemy. Besides, half the time they just freeze, or get caught on some terrain.

Wells

The only thing that seems to be some what useful to me lately. At least I can buff my party a little. But the guardian already does that way better than anyone else.

Conditions

Are broken. It’s all about direct damage. Who cares if you can put stacks of bleeding or stacks of vulnerability on the enemy, if your party can beat most mobs to death in mere seconds by just stacking in a corner. That damage over time is not that important.

Blind

This is the one thing where I seem to make some what of a difference. But when everybody is stacking, it doesn’t really seem important to blind enemies.

So what is my role as a necro?

I honestly don’t know. I think Anet doesn’t know either. I think they’d rather not ask themselves that question. It seems the necromancer is entirely without a role. Yes, good riddens of that holy trinity, I’m glad it’s gone… but what are we left with?

hooma.9642:

how about communication (group) and training (wvw zerg)?

Because sometimes people want to play with strangers, or they don’t happen to have 4 other friends online, or the zerg ends up picking up some extra people who aren’t part of the guild?
Then there’s sPvP, with solo queue being entirely based around randomly matched teams who have pretty limited communication options (some pinging on map, or you can stop fighting to type in chat).

If every single interaction was within an organised group, I might be okay with expecting everyone to work out how to place fields to make best use of them – but there are too many situations that it’s just not possible in.

Honestly, change the skill. Every 25% health mark you hit, (75% 50% 25%) you remove 5 conditions from yourself. 15 sec cool down. It gives the benefit of condition protection and defense, but you aren’t over powering either side. No too heavy on preventing all conditions, allowing more conditions to be placed, no struggle to kill a target just to apply conditions, and a good balance to allow self sustainment for the ele to heal itself and not have to stay at a certain tier of health.

Thoughts?

Oh okay, he’s a ginger so sometimes we don’t know if what he says is true or just an attempt to steal our souls. Thanks man I appreciate the reply.

Drakent.9605:

I am posting this on all classes b/c I feel the need to share that the world is not flat

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Condition-damage-miss-understood/first#post3739882

You know, interestingly enough, the world being flat was never a mainstream view, and has only had at most a slight following at any point in time, the reason being that pretty much any significant measurement you make with regards to the stars or distances over the earth will immediately reveal that the earth is not, in fat, flat. Despite popular legend and what your second-grade teacher may have told you, even Columbus wasn’t trying to prove the world was round, because that was already a well-known, accepted fact at that time.
In fact, the idea that the earth might be flat didn’t even arise until the 18th century (if I remember correctly), when some slightly crazy man decided it was despite every test he ever made proving that it was not. He gained somewhat of a cult following, which has since declined to the point of nonexistence.

Very tangential, but just sort of an interesting thing.

i just spam my skills and collect the bags!

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Such small
#animation
many difficult
so complain
very concern
much size
not wow

On a serious note, many animations in this game still lack polishing, the asura animations in general are just the tip of the iceberg. How do you expect “skillful” play to happen when reacting to crucial abilties is often times rendered impossible due to a lack of diversity or visibility of animations or the lack of a casttime. This process shouldn’t take 1 year per class (or even longer, looking at necros). Now warrior gets some fixing, but arcing arrow in melee range for example will still be a massive pain to spot in time, considering it hits for ridiculuos high damage, while beeing a complete joke when fired to a target further away.

Firstly you use lore and story interchangeably and they’re not. Lore is a body of knowledge (how and why things work the way they do in a given world, in the case of games) while story is a sequence of events. For example, I found skyrim to have wonderful lore-the gods, daedra, vampires and other mythical creatures, factions and the political climate set a very immersive backdrop for the game….the story on the other hand is ZZzzzzzzzzzz.

That said, when it comes to rpgs I value being given a compelling reason to do a given task to be the most important. As far as gameplay goes rpgs tend to be very….lacking in comparison to other genres. They aren’t as reflex dependent as and lack the spectacle of action titles, they aren’t as strategic as rts titles, they aren’t as dynamic and transformative as fighting games, but they do usually have the advantage of putting your actions into context. Indeed if you trace the history of the genre back to its pen and paper days, story is the ONLY thing (….and rng-but it was a fun story-impacted rng) so its always been a core part of the experience. Another example in-game is this patch and the gauntlet (I think or Jubilee..one of them), where we’re essentially doing the same thing-watching the minimap for an orange circle then rush there and kill things, but during the DR LS it felt hollow, cheap, pointless. Here there’s context and so doing the very same thing feels different, directed, focused, worthwhile, immersive and as a result I have greater satisfaction/appreciation for this event.

One of my main wishes however is they realize a mmorpg is not a single player game and crafting a single player story and sticking it in a mmorpg is just a horrid idea *cough*personal story*cough*. The story must take into account that there are multiple players and have it in such a way that it’s only through the combined effort of multiple players that it will be progressed-and to be fair this particular LS is just that, so fingers crossed for the future.

ThiBash.5634:

Just love it how people here will tell you exactly how to play the game and why you’re an inferior lifeform if you don’t play exactly the way they do.

Of course you’re not gonna be fast at clicking if you’re used to hotkeys…biggest duh in the history of duhs. It’s the same vice versa. Adopting a new playing style will take time and practice.

It’s not about practice, it is physically impossible for clicking to be as fast as keybinding because of the travel time requires for mouse movement for clicking style.

joey the creator.3587:

Don’t join these groups, i joined a 6k ap group and met a cleric mace guardian for cof p1.

It’s clear the host was requesting 6k AP because they wanted to be carried.

Yeah, not so much retconned or broken by Scarlet – people love to exagerate it a lot – but it really bends the lore to unquestionable points which in most people’s eyes becomes breaking because they often presume things are more set in stone than they are. Which is part of Anet’s issue – they give too little to explain things, people then make presumptions (justifiably so presumptions mind you!) then it turns out that the unknown gets filled in with something different or an individual was simply just wrong.

The worst crimes Scarlet offers was her short story, second to worst is getting the krait to work with her. The former got less offending later on, but initially she was presenting as being a sylvari who studied under the greatest norn blacksmith, under an expert sniper, all three asuran colleges (something no asura has done – and she did within a year each), and under hylek – the last being “just because she could at the time, not because she wanted to or was interested in it.” She was outright presented as borderline Mary Sue, especially since she met attempts to use her as a scapegoat, attempts to kill her, and the loss of her experiment stuff with the same “I don’t care!” reaction. Topped off with “she saw the Eternal Alchemy and learned about all there is!” This later got dumbed down in the colleges and Eternal Alchemy bit, with the former being specialized courses, and the latter via “she didn’t actually see what she thought she saw” later turned into “it was all in her mind… kind of”.

The krait working for her has yet to be clarified. She somehow got obelisk shards, and she somehow threatened the enslaving race of krait whom view themselves superior to all into working for her to get their prophets made… and they complied without question.

The biggest issue with Scarlet is how she’s delivered – and this issue extends throughout the Living World. There have been pieces this improved greatly (Tower of Nightmares stuff, sans the lack of why krait didn’t just gut Scarlet, is perhaps the best example). Second issue is that there is no character development presented. Take how she is when she wakes up, and sans some paranoia over some entity that messed with her mind after she went into Omadd’s device – something unknown until the past month (aka we went a full half year, more or less, not knowing the only thing to develop her) – and compare her to now, and you get practically no difference. Again, the only difference is in her two journals of her talking to herself about the unknown entity. So even her interactions with all others remains unchanged. And the third biggest issue is how everyone likes her – the blacksmith who rarely takes in trainees? Takes her in. The gladium who’s a loner and hates everyone? Teaches her for two years. The asura who are paranoid on a whole? Gives her their secrets. All six groups she takes in as minions? Follows her even after the failure of her promises. Yeah… what?

1. Elementalist.
2. Ranger
3. I don’t care about the third one.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Scarlet though being a destructive force on par of dragons, actually has been giving tech to the races that the races such as Asura and Priory humans should have been giving to them all along.

What Tech did she give to the Asura? Didn’t she only study for her own personal gain? And lets not forget that sharing technology with various races is not a good act. The Krait for example are completely evil and extremely dangerous. Giving them technology, or helping them evolve, is in no way a good act.

You misread that line. Missing a comma in there…

Scarlet though, being a destructive force on par of dragons, actually has been giving tech to the races, that races such as Asura and Priory humans should have been giving to them all along.

What I’m saying is she is evening the playing field as the other poster said above. Really only Humans (DR/LA/priory/whispers), Charr and Asura are the three most highly advanced races in the game. Scarlet just gave tech in this LS to krait (toxin making tech), flame charr (metallurgy and a computer), dredge (same as flame charr) and even some NC Sylvari (toxin making tech).

You seem to have this twisted idea that this is a good thing.

Races and factions such as the krait, the dredge commissars, the Flame Legion and the Nightmare Court are not excluded from the Tyrian community due to prejudice, they’re excluded because they maintain a hostile stance towards the Tyrian community. We’re not talking about technology transfers to postwar South-East Asia to allow countries to modernise and join the developing world here, we’re talking about the equivalent of providing F-22s to Somali pirates.