Guild Wars 2

Had lots of fun with my guild. Great event and interesting system for events going on in different zones. Thank you .

Also, Please tell the artists who worked on the new mobs, that they are amazing.

Cheers

I gotta say, turning off culling has made a world of a difference for me. Completing the first invasion event in Tarnished Coast at Fireheart Rise just felt so… epic! Seeing all the cities fully fleshed out with people is a great sight too. Heck, this one change alone has made the patch totally worth it for me.

on GH we got zergs with 300+ peple atm. and you can see each and everyone and dont lag

Indeed.

I believe the plan goes like this:

1) Increase server capacity
2) Remove PvE culling
3) Offer free trial weekend
4) Watch Youtube explode.

:D

It’s all about the Server. On mine I can’t walk a minute on ANY Map without seeing people running around doing stuff. There are a ton of people on my server and I get in a Overflow everytime in Lions Arch, the Pavillion and any Area where a Meta Event happens when I’m not fast enough.

Motoko.2875:

2) I know a good majority of people who are making those “busy servers” busy merely because there is nothing better out and they are waiting for that next game.

I never quite understand comments like these.
Do people really HAVE to keep playing because there is nothing else out there? Isn’t that quite silly?
If I start playing a game and find that I don’t like it, I won’t force myself to play it until the next game comes out, I’ll simply uninstall the game and do something else.

I’m gonna guess she’s going to say words. Possibly in sentences.

OMG it will be a LoJen!!!!!!

Tanith.5264:

Should we attach any significance to the colors used in the vandalism? Red, black, and green?

Red – There will be blood
Black – Once you are dead you see black
Green – The hulk will be attending

3 colors are used – Half Life 3 Confirmed

smeen.4237:

VOLKON.1290:

Anyone else get Dr. Who vibes reading that?

Tick tock, goes the clock
Even for the Doctor.

Scarlet is a Time Lord. Calling it now.

OK, if that’s what they called the head of the Chronomancers my inner geek would explode all over the internet. In a good way of course.

I actually achieved satori simply by abandoning the need to monitor and control others gaming habits.

Essence Snow.3194:

I don’t like players farming, thus they effect me?

They do, but more indirectly than that.

We have farmers directly influencing people in Queensdale, for example, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. We have the entire negative economic impact of farmers, although they are never going to admit how they make the economy worse for everyone else.

However, the real issue is in how they change the direction of the game. ArenaNet has likely realized that more players want to farm than to play in Dynamic Events. What is the company going to do, then? Put events in the sidelines, and add more and more ways to farm. For those who wanted other kinds of content, instead of farming, this makes the game worse (than what it could have been).

Read dulfy.net

I love my bank guild. Me, myself and I. I don’t see why that should bother anyone. My guild isn’t doing any harm. I even have my own guild kite.

I hope anet does not take any requests to nerf the gauntlet seriously. Eventually I hope my skill level will improve to the point where I can complete it After going through a few fights I quickly realized how bad I really am, but getting better every time. If lt were not for challenging content such as this I would probably just skate through pve thinking I know what I’m doing.

This thread needs screenshots.

I think this is more an example of Anet trying to find what players want but their dynamic event system isn’t exactly impacting on the player base. Everything we do is reset within the hour of doing it so nothing we do in a dynamic event feels like it has an impact on the world. Thus it wouldn’t matter how many dynamic events they added players wouldn’t notice because sooner or later that event is gonna repeat and all the work they did will be gone so the next group of players can do the event. Players don’t think about the impact they are making because their is none thus they don’t think about the dynamic event they are doing because it’s just another dynamic event to them.

Not exactly bad just shows that their events aren’t actually fully dynamic more quests on loop. If they want to make it so people have interest in dynamic events they need to allow them to go a little crazy sometimes. Allow entire zones to be taken and kept by enemies forcing players to get involved if they want their zones back to normal. Allow enemies and allies to fortify these bases they take and over time the longer they keep them the harder they are to retake or to be captured. You could then make it so the more fortified a base is the stronger the army is that attacks it. So players actually want to fortify and protect these bases so that more champions spawn across the map giving them more loot. If they lose a zone to they will still want to take it because chaining all the dynamic events together will net them some nice gold/karma and some champion spawns.

The living story is how Anet is impacting their world but their isn’t a lot of tools in game for the players to do the same while Anet is off working on updates. So working on dynamic events this way or in some form like this would allow more impact on the world by the players. It would definitely take a good amount of time to pull off but It wouldn’t be impossible and they could start out slow by adding to the current meta’s/dynamic events involving the major enemy factions of the game(son’s of svanir, centaurs, nightmare court, etc)seeing if players enjoy the impact and extra rewards for sticking around and fortifying or taking back an outpost. Adding choice on how players can go about a dynamic event not in how they perform it but how the outcome turns out(like buring down/seiging a base destroying all the buildings/walls/supplies making it worthless so humans don’t capture it, or going in and killing all centaurs causing a champion or two to spawn giving a better reward and a new base to help fortify)

Thanks for this thread, it was a great read. I completely agree with you. Unlike many others, I actually really enjoy the dynamic events and all the content that’s “for fun” and not “for shinies”. I play this game for enjoyment, not for a virtual reward. I’m looking for an immersive world with a rich storyline. Guild Wars 2 could have done this much better, but it’s definitely one of the best MMOs out there IMO.

edit: the problem, imo, is that other mmos have conditioned players to look for a grind. When players hear the term “MMO” many generalise narrowly.

theguildless.1386:

inazuma.7021:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Keep watching the skies.

Well, that was ominous.

Ominous winds are blowing…

A wild Shatterer appeared!

I hate to agree with you and so even though I have been saying the same thing, I WONT agre ewith you.

Seriously though, Dynamic events have failed because nobody seems to care about them or it could be that the 2 week living story is making players to only focus on completing their achievement checklist.

Personally, I am a little disappointed with the manner in the implementation of DE. I believe that the Living story could be used as a vehicle for their Dynamic event system. Using as an example Queendale, kessex and Gandara, why not make the theme of those maps a LS story about humans vs Centaur and not just have a little notification box that says “centaur have been beaten” or “centuar general is out”, make it more like the toturial where there is a sense of urgency and not passive like right now.

Why not redo the dragons so players can feel their affects on the whole map. Make DE that actually affects the whole map and gives players a compelling reason to fight.

My point being move the LS out of Lion arch and DR and into the world proper.

Since MMORPG players only seem to care about loot, why incorporate the precursors and new legendaries into DE system and get players out in the world doing events. If you are legendary, you most be legendary enough to experience it all and when I mean all I mean EVERYTHING, every single DE, everything make it torture for loot hunters make the whole game endgame by requiring every aspect of it be completed with as much grind as possible to minimize the amount of lemmings that have it. less lodestones more events make it so that theoretically it will take you a very long time to get the new legendaries like in FFXI.

Finally, when orr was revealed I thought it was meant to be a PvE version of WvW, make it happen. For godsakes at least make events where players can actually lose and not just wave after wave of mobs.

I don’t cringe at the word amongst, whilst used properly.

I do cringe at:

“Your welcome”
“Wheres you’re grammar”
“Its over their”

And countless other internet-speak phrases.

Don’t you think a male character with the Staff standing animation of Female Humans would look weird?

Now you can start playing the game again. ^^

About time too.