Guild Wars 2

Conner.4702:

Crafting should be a viable way to make money. Honestly crafting should be the backbone of the ingame economy and not random drops as it is now.

I haven’t seen a game where crafting was profitable at max level. Everyone can learn any crafting discipline. Everyone can learn every recipe. Everyone can use crafting as a way to level alts. Therefore items that are crafted have less value than the materials used to craft. (Think about it, if the finished product is sold for more than the materials, why not just buy the materials and craft it yourself?)

What I would like is weapons and armors that are crafted in the mystic forge to use different base materials than the legendaries. Right now everything good uses corrupted lodestones… and so everything that uses them is expensive.

I’d also like to see some nice items drop for challenging encounters. Make the dungeons relevant.. add optional bosses that are difficult and they have a high chance to either drop an item like this or a good deal of crafting materials (corrupted lodestones for example).

I like the snippets of dialogue which refer to different quests, events and so on throughout the game. Such as:

Two asura dreamers in the sylvari tutorial talking to each other – one wants to grab a sylvari and chop up him/her. The other jokes, are you going to experiment or make a salad?

Two asura in Lion’s Arch talking to each other – one makes a deep and thoughtful comment about the sylvari and the other says he was going to make a bad salad joke, but now he doesn’t feel like it.

In the opening of the asura personal story, the Inquest has just finished demonstrating a new invention – the floating grisworl. The same device shows up in the human personal story involving the circus. All the crewes from the different asura personal stories are assembled in the area, including Shrieksy, a raptor that hatches during one of the stories.

In the human “home” instance a guard is talking with a woman who is distraught because her young son hasn’t come back from the circus – if a human toon chose the circus option for the personal story he investigates the disappearance.

These are just some little things I’ve noticed… these little continuity details are all over the place.

It IS inappropriate to treat non-Berserker’s gear players as if they were on training wheels, waiting for the final level of “pro-ness” in which they can finally play the game “as intended”, with full Berserker’s gear, getting rid of all of those “needless” stats such as condition damage, healing power, toughness, vitality, etc.

I do not condone bashing those who use Berserker’s gear, because that would be hypocritical-players should use the gear they want, prefer, and works for them, pure and simple. All stats are viable for certain players, playstyles, and Profession/build combinations. DPS is good, but contrary to popular opinion (and I am sure developer’s must agree 100% on this) GW2 is not about “who DPS the most, wins”. That’s a player conclusion that has become popular, not something that was ever intended. So yes, make no apologies about your “zerk” gear, but avoid feeling superior to others just because “you know how to dodge”-PLENTY of people are good players, know how to dodge, and still wouldn’t use Berserker’s gear-it’s a PERSONAL choice, not a proof of “skill”, “zerk” or otherwise.

I mean no offense, and do respect anyone’s wishes to use Berserker’s-why shouldn’t you? But no, it doesn’t make you the better player-it’s just what you like best and works for you.

4 Suggestions from me on this:

1) All DE’s shown on the map from anywhere in a zone (this has been stated but frankly it is the biggest need)
2) Major DE countdown timers (Maw, Fire Elemental, etc)
3) More DE’s should have been multi-part chain DE’s, possibly even zone spanning
4) Major stuff needs to happen, example: A coordinated Svanir/Dredge/Grawl offensive that pushes everything in Wayfarer Foothills back to the starting area, which then results in a counter offensive to push them back. NPC’s would allow for multiple paths (maybe the Vigil lead the charge to get back outposts, Whispers infiltrate Moleberia, and Priory work to minimize damage and keep Joten out of the fight) each giving equal rewards. This culminates in a similar Dome DE but would be far larger with more then one Champ to handle at the end.

Personally i would keep dueling limited to arenas (which could be placed around world) so players can gather to known places and not spam duel requests to first person they see on map.
It could go a step further with some betting system, just to spice things up. Betting is already present in-game, only difference is you wouldn’t bet on cows landing spot, so why not?

People do love duels, just not the elitist creating, smack talking, kitten meter having, kind that you are referring to.

[Edit: An arena for these people is fine as you know exactly what your getting into when you enter. Just don’t do something stupid like Aion did and put quests inside so that randoms can kill you while you PvE..]

Duels can happen on different ‘arenas’ found in the open world. Once the competitors enter, the gates are closed and nobody can leave until one player is defeated or concedes defeat. These fights are visible to all other players visiting the arena.

I hope and pray duels are never added to this game. If they are going to be implemented, for the love of God, please have duelists locked away in some remote corner of the Mists so that I never, ever have to see or hear them in the game.

GW1 never hooked me like GW2 has.

I disagree, you don’t need “progression” to make an experience fun and engaging. Chess, checkers, Gin Rummy, Bridge, Euchre, Poker, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and a host of other activities do not have “progression” as we’ve been discussing it.

But people play those all the time.

RebelYell.7132:

This seems to be the inevitable conclusion when you design your Dynamic Event system around “Everyone who shows up wins a gold medal.”

Those mechanics work well for a certain, infamous kind of Olympics. Not so much an online RPG that encourages you to tweak your character and gear, and strategize intelligently around a wide variety of encounters.

Perhaps its time to rethink what “participation” truly entails.

It’s a bit more complicated than that, if you consider scaling. Maw, for instance, is level 12 content. As it is today, a level 12, with level 12 skills, stands a good chance of bronze at best, even trying to participate in the horde of camped 80s. If you put a participation threshold based upon damage, kills, whatever.. these players will be gated even more.

Contrast to Svanir’s dome, where appropriate level players actually have to work a bit to take down a much harder, mobile boss, for.. a pat on the head and a pittance event reward. Few high level players bother, no chest. Lots of participation for nothing.

Effort has little to do with rewards in GW2.

Funnest MMO I’ve ever played. I’ve had more laughs in this game, more smiles, more walking away from a game session happy than any other MMO I’ve ever played.

The last few days my girlfriend and I have made use of the dragon timers for the first time in order to get some of the achievements we were missing.

I never realized until this point how many people camp the dragons for loot.

Standing there for 20 minutes gave me time to ponder this, and in the end I found it very sad. The reason is that you have these epic dragons in the world, but they are reduced to tasks or loot machines.

In my eyes a dragon landing in the role should be an epic event. It should be something that causes word to ripple throughout Tyria, and players to run from all over to experience. Bringing down a dragon should be something that causes everyone to cheer and talk a out for days. And the loot, the sweet loot that should accompany a dragon kill should be sought after and revered.

I understand that ANet wants to give everyone a chance to participate in this content, but these clockwork events are making the game stale.

Take the Maw for example. Does anyone even care about that event? All it takes is a, “Maws up” in map chat and people run the same predictable paths, line up in the same predictable places, and do what they do every day.

I think ANet meets to consider adding some real dynamic content. Content that isn’t on a timer, or in the same place every time. Imagine what would happen if a dragon showed up randomly one day in Queensdale. First, people would be confused and shocked. Second, the word would fly across the worlds so fast it would be amazing to watch.

As more players rushed to participate in the battle, it would become more, and more epic. In the end, IF the dragon was beaten, it would be talked about for days.

I look forward to a day when dragons aren’t on timers.

This topic is for lovers of Sylvari

Ppl help this topic with suggestions and reply.

I think the Sylvari need more customization on creation and armors inside game.

Hair

-Hairstlyes with flowers, flower petal like hair or vine like hair style like the old Caithe used to have.
- Some long hair maybe that goes down to his back for girls.
-Longer hairstyles for guys. So far they only have short ones and a ponytail looking one. -Guys cold use some long hairstyles made of leaves, something that cascades.
-Cactus-based hairstyles

Link with alot of hairsytes http://www.stonefacecreations.com/HEADGALLERY.html

Faces

-More Faces with plant like flowers and leaves
-and one or two more “generic” faces with less plant features, like Pale Tree face.

Armor

-Start with armor plant at lvl 1.
- More Plant armor and weapon at begin for low lvl for ppl can remodel and play.
Add Cutural tier 0 – simple armor for sylvaris can feel like they should be.
- More Plant based armor for all game, there is jut not enough for a whole race made out of plants.
-Craft: leafy armor and weapon from craft…. not only human style

Pets

-More Pets Plants like cat, bird, bug, butterfly, moth and etc.

Body and hair hehe

-Blue skin with gold freckles and blue or gold hair (blue hair with gold flakes)

PPL give more suggestions and I’ll update this topic here, maybe arena add more contend for Sylvari on game :P

Tolmos.8395:

Personally, I wish they would give Engineers the ability to use Rifles. And no, we don’t use Rifles now. We use shotguns that they lazily implemented to use a rifle weapon base. But they are shotguns, no matter how you look at it.

An interesting point, although I look at it from the other perspective; shotguns seem better suited to engineers than rifles. So I’d rather we get an interesting shotgun skin to match those skills. That said I think all of our weapons need another pass to make them viable; as right now it seems a lot of engineers, myself included, seem to feel that our base weapons are simply outclassed by our kits in every regard.

Direct damage = flamethrower
Conditions = grenades
Support = Elixir gun
Control = bombs
AoE = also grenades

Really next to kits our weapons are borderline worthless from a practical standpoint.

Engineer here with the Quip. Not my favorite legendary by any means, but it’s not as bad as I first thought.

The choices are sad. Quip or Predator. Or the Flameseeker prohpecies.

One thing most engineers I know agree on.. Legendary Flamethrower. THAT would be awesome.

Not to start server wars here, but it seems to me that servers that are heavily into PvP seem less likely to rez people than servers that tend to center on PVe. It’s just too care bear for some people.

I have never bought gems to convert into gold, and I am no farming player (I loathe farming with a passion).
You don’t need gold for gear – if you run dungeons you can work toward exotic gear while making gold. Or you can spend karma in Orr. You need gold for travel, but one DE or heart usually is more than enough to cover that expense, so unless you bunny hop all over the maps you should be fine. Same goes for repair expenses.

So I really wonder: what are you spending so much gold on?

Unfortunately all fixes that punish exploiters, botters, and gold sellers punish the rest of us in some way. This one TBH is minor to me. We didn’t use that feature often, it was just nice to have it there if we wanted to.

It isn’t the specific item that was changed that bothers me, its the way it was changed. Suppose someone figures out how to exploit all the banners? Magic find, karma, etc. Do those get moved out of reach? What about every single guild perk you work towards? Someone, somewhere figures out an exploit so we move them all to a high tier with merits required? Meh, that’s what bothers me. I don’t even care about the guild vault itself.

the OP needs to examine his definition of “fun” . if all the things he enjoys about playing games are what he likes then he is indeed having fun. Or if he is so used to doing stuff in the game he doesnt enjoy he actually log’s in expecting and acceptuing he isnt going to have fun he needs to have a word with himself about finding a new passtime.

Games should NEVER be work and work cant ever be fun . The old Chinese proverb goes " find a job you enjoy doing and you never need to work another day in your life ""
Meaning the moment you enjoy doing something it ceases to be work and becomes “fun”

The opposite is true as well, which is something many MMO players seem to have lost sight of. That once playing a game stops being fun or if the game forces you to endure hours of non-fun tasks (regardless of the rewards) it ceases to be a GAME AND BECOMES a job or chore.

At which point for me i’m out the door onto the next game.

Sawnic.6795:

We’re both right on what spam is, just one of them is not controlled by the filter.

Nope.

One person saying:

Join my guild…
Join my guild…
Join my guild…

is spam.

One person saying:

Join my guild…

and a dozen people responding:

I’ll join!
I wanna join…
Sounds like a fun guild…

is a conversation.

Just because you don’t find the conversation interesting doesn’t mean that you can stop them from doing it. If it bothers you so much, don’t guest to that server.

On the other side of the coin, I find it hypocritical if video games are automatically rejected as antisocial and must be shut off at the drop of a hat, while certain other activities or hobbies get a free pass and are accepted as “normal.”

Consider these scenarios:

1 a) You are in the middle of a dungeon with some guildies, but the wife makes it clear that it’s time to go sit and be quiet in front of your nightly television show that you don’t even enjoy all that much. She knows you can’t just “pause” an MMO, and you’d be inconveniencing your friends by leaving abruptly, so maybe you’ve got some leeway here — but ultimately, “real life comes first” and every minute you delay is only going to land you in hot water.
“Ha ha, gotta keep the wife happy! Sorry folks, hope you can do the rest of the dungeon without me!” I’m not some game-addicted loser!

1 b) Your wife is in the middle of her television show, when you come in and ask her pause the show and come play Guild Wars instead. She says she will in a minute, however after a while it is clear that she is not coming and you are getting annoyed that she is watching so much TV and not playing games with you.
You would be considered a weirdo, and possibly abusive, and anyone would tell her to leave you. It’s just a game, what’s your problem?
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2 a) You have been invited to a party, but it’s not really your kind of crowd so you end up awkwardly huddling in the basement where a few guys are watching Family Guy reruns and having a definitively mediocre time.
Good for you, getting out there! At least you’re not at home on a Friday night! This is REAL LIFE!

2 b) You have been invited to a party, but it’s not really your kind of crowd and it’s on the other side of the city, so instead you opt to sit this one out and play some Guild Wars with your buddies.
What a pathetic shut-in! Only antisocial nerds schedule their lives around video games!
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3 a) It’s the superbowl, ZOMG! Better block off my entire Sunday and call my friends to come over so we can sit around and eat chips and wings and watch men in tights throw a ball around!
This is the greatest day of the year! Hoorah for footballs! Maybe there will be a halftime show with boobs! Sports are important to be excited about!!!

3 b) Some new cool game or expansion is coming out, so you have your friends over for a LAN party.
Pretty sad, guys. As if you’re ORGANIZING video game parties now, like it’s a NORMAL thing people DO! Gross. You are the worst ever, and are probably perverts. Also, other bad things, about YOU, you nerds!
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4 a) Blew $80 on junk food/alcohol last night, at some bar. I don’t remember anything, so I must have had a wicked time! Aaawww yeeaah!! Worst hangover ever, though. Woke up at 3pm and still feel sick. No way I’m going out tonight! LOL!
Ah, the free-spirited energy of youth! Now THIS guy knows how to party! You only live once, and money is meant to be spent anyhow!

4 b) Spent $20 on Gems in GW2, had a few laughs over voice chat last night with your friends. Supposed to go out tonight, though your friend just called and cancelled due to being hung over.
You spent REAL money, on fake virtual stuff in your game?! What a rip off! Don’t you have any better use for your money than that?