Guild Wars 2

I like that they are making the dragons actually formidable like they really should have been from the start. Can’t wait for the others to be updated!

YOU’RE too lazy to learn to play the game. Try double tapping a movement key. It let’s you dodge attacks. Then if you’re not exhausted by then, you can even press the “6” button on your keyboard to get some of your health back!

Seriously, some of the fights (Maw) are still super easy. If you want it easier, maybe you need to go play something else.

TheJokester.4672:

@ Stain…. Ehem it’s called internet not english class. I would figure you would have enough of a brain to actually pause and not read it all in one go. You know that common sense thing that this generation seems to be lacking… my apologies if I have insulted you.

You’re wrong. That dreadful post can’t be read by humans, and especially not on the internet. You clearly seems to be lacking the English skills necessary to hold a written conversation. People don’t just pause while reading a text, that’s the exact function of punctuation. If you don’t have the brainpower to write properly, how could you expect an intelligent being to read your junk?
My apologies if I insulted you but wall-of-text posts are not appreciated for good reason.

“This generation”…. you’re talking like someone who’s 50 years old. But that can’t be true:

on topic(with gramar this time -.-) around 2k achiev and holding a legendary I smell a ban comming that way. I mean that’s almost dead blatant of buying gold seeing that anet nerfed dungeon running for gold. I myself only have a little more than 6k ap and have twilight and honestly ap means nothing. I’ve seen 9k ap players that have about as much clue about what to do in the game as my 8 year old brother. some people achievment hog every living story which actually nets a good amount of ap.

How old are you actually? Your 8 years old brother implies you can’t be older than 18, which is also evident from your lack of English skills and social intelligence. Before talking about other generations … please consider you might be insulting people who are twice your age. I’ve played more hours of videogames than you have lived in total. Take a pause and structure your posts. Pull it through word’s spelling check to fix the most glaring mistakes. Can’t expect people to read garbage. I don’t want to insult you, this is advice you want to be accepted in real life and the internet alike.

That said .. you’re mostly right in this second paragraph.

aspirine.6852:

Why the hate for wvw, what’s so bad about it?

Simple. Because there are people in it who kill me while I only want that POI that is a fraction of a second away from being filled. But they won’t allow me to get it.

You’re with a group of 3+, and you are standing on top of a POI. You see a person (alone) walking towards you. No weapons drawn, just running towards that POI.

You:
a) Kill that person before he has a chance to get the POI
b) Let the person get the POI then kill him
c) Let the person get the POI and then get away again.

Chances are most people will go for a.

And that’s why I dislike WvW.

People want trinity back because they don’t realise that support and control already exist in the game, but it’s not their concept of support, which is fall asleep and then occasionally wake up when HP bars fall low to heal.

Things like stealthing your team, putting up blocks, putting up reflects, stacking might and fury, putting up protection, pulling mobs together for group cleaving, chaining blinds on mobs and stacking vuln on bosses isn’t supporting your team apparently, but literally doing jack all and then doing a burst heal like in a trinity MMO is like … loads of support.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Paulytnz.7619:

If you ask me the champ train in Queensdale gives new players a bad introduction to the game and how us current players play it and about how this game should be played………

When I’m in Queensdale I like to help new players. I go there often just to do so. I’ve seen some new players in the zerg train asking questions about where to go next and what not. I offer to show them the routes and WPs as this was the information they were seeking. After I show them then I generally say something like, “So, have you gotten the skill point in the swamp yet?” or “Have you done any jump puzzles yet?” Then I borrow them from the zerg and show them around a bit more outside the champion circle. The response has generally been favorable.

Well that’s all good and all but you know this could have been done and even was before the champ rewards came along. I used to go there and throw my commander tag up and offer to take anyone wanting to right through all the chest locations to and through to the end of the JP.

My point about these champ trains is these new players get into the game and the first thing they see is a bunch of players running around in an endless circle for shinies ignoring the rest of the game content.

What’s worse is you get people yelling at each other and arguing not to kill this or that champ yet because the rest of the zerg is not there. Heaven forbid some new player starts one off by accident and then gets yelled at by everyone else in the map.

I don’t know, I know champs needed a boost to their rewards but perhaps it should have been done at the same time as event rewards?

Astralporing.1957:

Vol.5241:

I hope it’s rare. We need items in game to be rare enough to entice people to do them.

Depends. If it’s too rare, it will just make people not care enough to try.

If it’s rare enough to cost, say, 300g on the TP, then yeah people will do it.

I understand that GW2 seems to have a reputation for being “casual”. I had those discussions on other (gear-centric design) game forums before GW2 released. I found that most of the players that were not attracted to GW2 had only ever experienced gear-centric gameplay. The upshot from those discussions was that the “hardcore raiders” saw GW2 as something they could do in their off-time while waiting on raid timers.

Am I a little concerned about the direction GW2 is going? Yes.

My guild came to this game because it was promoted as “play for fun”, because it wasn’t gear-centric and because it is the only MMO that is centered around 5-man, which we haven’t had since server raid leading and 4-manning MLs in DAoC.

We view “casual” vs “hardcore” as a matrix intersecting time/approach/values/skill. We feel it’s a sliding scale and not a black and white definition.

In GW2, we are creating our own level of “challenging progression” as we 4-man Fractals and Explorables, (including Arah). And running as a small “swat team” in WvW. Two of my guildmates enjoy SPvP from time to time, as we are also old FPS players as well. We also enjoy the community feel and outdoor raids (something also we loved in DAoC).

We’d like to see more outdoor dragon events and more dungeons. We don’t measure “progression” via gear-centric design, but by our own abilities to do content better, faster, easier, whatever. We enjoy exploration, progression, refinement, community events and good lore.

We are hardcore and elite and casual. We aren’t elitist, aren’t looking for bragging rights for anything, and at the moment, there isn’t another MMORPG out there that meets our needs.

I’ve always said a game is what you make it. GW2 comes close to being able to do that.

If players, like those I’ve been in discussion with on other game forums, define “hardcore” by size of raid, reward, exclusivity, then they will probably look at GW2 overall as a casual game. There are plenty of other games out there that offer those specific designs.

I just hope GW2 never totally mimics them.

I have added every Anet employee I see to my friends list. When I get 5 chests, I email them to them on a rotating schedule.
Only one Anet employee has been gracious enough to respond, and he sent me some Frostgorge Clams in return. We joked via email about how many we get, and no keys to open them. For his great nature I sent him some Omnomberry Bars, and he was gracious enough to give my Guild a shout out in all chat.

I personally want to see the Corrupted Veteran Oakheart of Queensdale go on a rampage that threatens Claypool.
Summon corrupted minions and let loose!

enjoying the game — reading this forum

Excellent points by the OP … in my eyes, it’s always been a question of perspective. I’m 100% in support of constructive criticism, with suggestions on how aspects of the game could be improved. But the pure viciousness that comes through in a lot of the forum topics, directed towards the devs and/or management … it still truly boggles my mind. I’m by no means a hardcore player, but i clock in a good 15-20 hours a week. I’d probably play more often, but there’s the job, the kids, the book i’m writing, etc. (you know, real life shtuff). I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt, though, that if I was just thoroughly disgusted with the direction the game was going, additions they’ve made to it, the frequency of additional content (temporary or permanent), or anything else … well, shoot — I’d find something else to do with my 15-20 hours a week that I DID enjoy.

But I’ve been playing since beta and for the amount of work, hours, and heart and soul that’s been put into the game, the folks behind it could use a few more forum hugs rather than a few more forum kicks in the junk.

I want to add that just as one should not think that the people who express themselves on the forums are indicitave of the whole player population, one should not extrapolate the chat of a few players on the map to represent them. I think most mature players just don’t chat or respond to silly or abusive remarks. Personally i am middle aged (44) and educated with a good job. I find this game to be a total release that i can play as carefree or as “intense” as i want.

second patch of the month is always smaller to start with. These are both also content changes instead of content additions. Hopefully this means the actual living story teams have more time to polish their content.

I would be very happy if they did 1 LS patch a month and 1 update patch a month. It would give everyone more time to polish things, give a better pace to the content, make old content better, more exciting and more polished, and give people more of a chance to get out into the world instead of desperately trying to keep up with the LS.

IndigoSundown.5419:

There was a recent consolidation of threads about Ascended into a 20 page thread that I can no longer find.

You can’t find that thread because, after 20 pages of comments (and not a single response from anyone at ANet) it was deleted. That thread is gone, completely ignored.

You are right, Vayne. This game has changed. It is as though I went into a restaurant and ordered filet mignon, then in the middle of the meal, the waiter came back, took away the filet mignon and gave me tuna noodle casserole.

IMO, GW2 doesn’t need that kind of progression. It needs a new class, maybe a new race, new weapons and skills for each current class and most importantly, new permanent content like the next dragon.

When you’re making the mechanics you’re just introduced obsolete in the next patch, something isn’t going right.

Namely, you’re not thinking your updates all the way through.

Personally, my favorite thing to do is to identify who each of my alts is as a character and build either builds or mix-and-match looks to meet those imaginings.

This hardly ever involves farming per se, as many pieces are quite easy to get. But if you want exotic stats or better, then you might have to do a bit of farming I suppose.

Either way, I find the end result (a goal I set for myself) incredibly rewarding. And sometimes, the looks themselves are commented on by other players. Not often, but every once in a while which reminds you that you have accomplished something that is appreciated but not connected to the “meta.”

But I really don’t get bored of dungeons, but I swap places and paths often. And I almost always PuG them. It’s more fun for me that way (dunno, guess I’m an odd bird?).

To you, it stuck in your mind, because that’s massively important to you. It’s one tiny aspect of the game to someone responsible for all aspects of the game.

I don’t buy that.

To me it’s clear there’s been a big change in company direction. I was sold on their ideas; it’s not my fault they can’t make it profitable. To turn around and do a full 180 on those ideas and come out and say exotics were too easy to get; in my opinion is PR damage control. They’re trying to justify their decision behind ascended weapons. You should be able to recognize that.

Hmm,

I was solo roaming in WvW a couple months ago when a group of five hostiles noticed me and started following. I led them into the water because I had spent a lot of time practicing underwater combat and had made a point of maxing my underwater gear. I hoped that my preparation would give me enough of an edge to survive the encounter. I managed to defeat three of the five in the initial encounter and put the fourth down while he and the fifth fled. The fifth got away though.

today, when i was called upon to solo tequatl