Guild Wars 2

Adry.7512:

Hey, lets give it another shot

I used to be really into GW2 and as a GW1 player I was willing to give the game the benefit of the doubt and explain away the first year as a “testing period” and “catch up” since we all know they had to release it earlier than scheduled release. I was a bit blinded by optimism and then work caught up with me and I had to take a break.

After coming back I expected to be…I guess I expected to enjoy it the same way, but now all I see are flaws. I want to adore this game, I really do, but I feel like they’re misappropriating their talent.

Don’t get me wrong, I suppose it’s just things I expected to see by now.

1-2 new weapons for each class
Some new skills (not just a storyline heal and class specific heal)
Precursor treasure hunt (more preferably a storyline quest for a soulbound one)
More “hardcore” 1-5man content
Player Housing
Class wide rebalancing

Thanks for the good times Ive just uninstalled GW2
I wont be Forced into pvp to get a Legendry weapon
going back WOW .

simply no. Those who noticed me around here know me as someone who criticized GW2 a lot in various aspects, yet defended the game against a lot of attacks, most of them unreasonable in my eyes. So spare me both that “fanboy” and “hater” thing.

The moment I picked up a new mmorpg I realized just how bad GW2 is. Which happens often once you escape the “oh, I have spent so much time there, cannot waste that”-trap. Just a few points;

a) rewards: yeah, I know, just play for the fun of it. Thing is, noone plays computer games like that. You play single player games to see the story unfold, to see that next level, for competition, etc. MMORPG are theoretically endless endeavours. And loot is part of the equation. In the end, it does not matter whether I attack Scarlet or some crab in Caledon Forest, the game mechanics aren´t that different. The "ahs " and “ohs” of being rewarded count in mmorpg – and anet is ridicously bad at delivering that. DR, play how devs want, you name it.

b) combat and builds: combat sucks, builds suck – I cannot deliver that more nuanced after having experienced a better game. Characters are different only in low percentages. Sure, half a second more of blind, an additional burn. In “that other recent game”, I build a skill deck like this: “oh, if I can remove some interrupt resistance from a boss with that skill, I can then add a freeze lockdown, port behind him and unleash my full barrage empty all clips skill” – or something completely different.

c) that casual thing: I´ll be honest – I hate casual players invading mmorpg, not that this is a secret if you followed my posts in the past. BUT GW2 is not casual friendly. It tantalizes all kinds of players, casuals probably even more so. You scrounge and scrounge and scrounge. There is no cool thing to find, no improving your character. In those “hardcore” games, well, you maybe won´t ever get that raid loot as a casual, but who cares? Some great drop from some more difficult mob, some dungeon played with your friends at your own pace, fun. GW2 sucks all excitement and fun out of gaming, for you casuals and for “hardcore gamers”.

Seriously, find another game, you will be relieved. Yes, that applies to you “casuals” too.

if getting your legendary is the only thing to keep you playing…

you probably won’t be playing after you get your legendary anyway.

With the introduction of the new Ancestral Outfit (that I haven’t got and probably won’t get) the problem of Outfit management is more present than ever.

On most of the races it looks good, but me, and other users on the forum, don’t like that it can’t be mixed with other armor pieces.

Now this brings the old problem alive. Some users here are happy with the new Outfit system, but it is indeed a step back.
While we can use outfits in combat now, we can’t mix them with other armor pieces or manage the single pieces. We can’t even mix different outfits together.
Personally, I don’t see what’s the problem in making it usable in combat, but selectable in its individual parts.

Now this problem may not seem a problem at all to some, or may not look urgent to others, but this is just an outfit, and many others will come, and this matter will surely arise again until it will be solved.

I usually try to see things in a positive light, especially with new releases, but I’m rather baffled here. Right now I’m in an instance where we’re killing Boom Boom and we still have 5 bosses to go. I’ve watched the past 15 minutes go by with her health dropping about 20% total, between her healing and just have waaaay too much HP.

I don’t know what the intention is behind Boss Blitz, but it surely isn’t having fun. For now I’m autoattacking while playing on my phone.

The other day, while I was sitting out of wvw (the only thing I like doing anymore in gw2) after a transfer, unable to actually play anything other than eotm, I thought about getting a new game. Maybe go back to WoW, maybe try some D3, oh, I know, Wildstar. I’ve heard a lot about Wildstar. I go to pre-purchase it, but it’s an NCSoft game. Right there beside gw2. People tell me NCSoft is just the distributor, but after the “experience” of feeling ignored for two years in gw2, instead of pre-ordering like I do just about every other game that comes out, I hesitated. Did I really want to give money to people related to this? Did I really want to set myself up for another game of “Well I’ve put 1000 hours into this so I might as well stick with it?”. And the answer was “No”. No I do not feel like getting mired into another unrewarding gaming experience that sees my wallet like it has a bullseye painted on it. The only devs I’ve ever not bought games from based on past reputation are Peter Molyneux and EA, if that gives you any indication of how low my opinion is at this point, but just being associated with ANet now is enough to make me put my credit cards away and move on.

I know people are going to point out that I got my money’s worth from gw2. Fair enough, I certainly did. But it’s not 2012 anymore, and we’re still playing 2012’s mmo. That’s really clear to a lot of people. I’ve played mmo’s since everquest 1, been playing muds since they were back on compuserve and AOL online “was” the internet to most people. Only in the most pay-to-win games do I see new people join and drop out like they do in gw2. I see many, many new people (low ap scores) buy the game, join a guild, play for 20 or 30 levels and quit. They don’t even bother to max a single character, because everyone in their guild has told them, repeatedly “There’s nothing to do at 80, leveling is the fun part”. They don’t believe it at first. Surely there’s more to it. But eventually, after they’ve been told by several people “No, really, there’s nothing special at 80 except more dungeons” it finally sinks in that they’ve totally wasted their $25/$50/whatever.

I want to support this company. I feel strongly, however, that whatever made gw1 great (seriously, that’s my all time fave mmo, you really outdid yourselves in a lot of ways) has been watered down and neutered into something boring, formulaic, and so startchy-clean and perfect looking that there isn’t a spec of dirt on a norn. Giant sweaty dudes wearing leather and carrying axes, killing things all day, but every single one gleams like the top of Mr. Cleans bald head. That was ok in 2004 with 2004-era graphics, it’s not ok a decade later.

I can’t do it anymore. Between the writing (those hiccups to break what laughably little tension there was in the Scarlett final scene are a perfect example), the family friendly until it’s painful art style, the npc’s in major cities constant spouting about how wonderful war is (as a veteran, “I had a dream about a war, I must go fight in it” is the single stupidest reason I’ve ever heard to volunteer to be a body bag, fantasy situation or no), and now this… modifying of things, instead of adding content, and acting like it’s something special… It’s the last straw for me for a while. I’ve put a lot of hours into this game, waiting for it to get good. It’s not getting good. I understand that now. This update has been upsetting to a large portion of your userbase, and I think most of them are going to sigh quietly and either go back to wvw or just move on to another game. Normally I would join them, but things have been wrong (to me) for so long here, and I’ve abided it patiently, that I feel I should speak up.

I’ll come back for the next LS event. I won’t expect there to be more than an hour or two’s worth of new content, and I will expect to grind that content until it gets boring because it will be the only thing there is to do in gw2 that I haven’t already grinded into the dirt.

There are a lot of people out there with 3x/4x/5x the achievement points than I do. People who never stopped defending you. If you go to reddit and mention that you’re disappointed with gw2 you’ll be downvoted to oblivion. It still took you two years to give those fans account-bound legendaries and account bound WxP. The phrase “battered spouse syndrome” comes to mind.

Hey guys, just seeing what you guys think is good in the gem store. I got a decent job recently and wanted to give Guild Wars 2 some cash for being an enjoyable experience for me for a year. So what do you think? Gold/Armor/Weapons/Buffs/Expansions, which is the coolest thing in your opinion?

Lishtenbird.2814:

Ashen.2907:

If the people you are seeking to report for being AFK are saying anything at all in chat, including the message you quote, then they are, by definition, not AFK. You cannot type, “You can’t report me, there’s not an AFK option, you’ll get in trouble instead for a false report,” while, “Away From Keyboard.”

So technically they would be right. You would be sending a false report because you would be accusing them of something they have not done.

People call it “AFK” because it’s short. To be precise, it’s “idling” – which is actually abusing a game flaw for personal profit, thus exploiting.

After playing this content countless times now my suggestion to the GW2 player base would be worry about yourself first because I have never met a more skill less group of players in terms of pve then I have in this game.

Once again those cpl people sitting afk are not the reason you are failing the event. You are failing the event because the gw2 populous can’t see huge glowing circles on the ground or have no ability to dodge telegraphic mechanics. Add into the fact that apparently having to stand on pads to get 3 buffs is very stressful and confusing to most who play this game.

When you start loosing the event due to afk’ers then we can have a conversation.

Until then, You people should be looking in the mirror – not at other people.

I luff how this looks.

This is in sympathy with the March Sales item record.

I’m listing the gold to gem previous 24 hour running average just before UTC -8 or midnight Pacific time from GW2Spidy at the end of each sale. After a few days GW2Spidy starts throwing away the minute by minute data.

Feb 28th: 7.913163g per 100
Mar 1st: 8.282175g per 100 – Collection Expander; 10% sale
Mar 2nd: 8.213522g per 100 – Braham, Megitech, Phoenix Armor Skins; 20% sale
Mar 3rd: 8.817895g per 100 – Black Lion Chest Key; 15%/35%/15% sale
Mar 4th: 8.388506g per 100 – Crafting Booster; 20% sale
Mar 5th: 8.190425g per 100 – Instant Repair Canister; 30% sale
Mar 6th: 8.169352g per 100 – Flute; 20% sale
Mar 7th: 8.502428g per 100 – Total Makeover Kit; 20% Sale & Kasmeer’s Staff Skin; 0% Sale
Mar 8th: 8.102759g per 100 – Metabolic Primer; 20% Sale
Mar 9th: 8.169047g per 100 – 2 Week Banker Golem; 50% Sale & Fuzzy Hats all styles; 20% Sale
Mar 10th: 8.492287g per 100 – Rox’s Short Bow Skin & Rox’s Quiver Backpiece; 0% Sale
+Mar 11th: 8.522785g per 100 – Gathering Booster; 20% Sale
Mar 12th: 8.349008g per 100 – Dye Pack; 20% Sale
Mar 13th: 8.317955g per 100 – Mystic Forge Stone; 15% Sale
Mar 14th: 8.214028g per 100 – Experience Booster; 15% Sale
Mar 15th: 8.605648g per 100 – Transmutation Crystals; 20% Sale
Mar 16th: 8.676984g per 100 – Phalanx, Viper, & Trickster Armor Skins; 15% Sale.
Mar 17th: 8.392304g per 100 – Magic Find Booster; 20% Sale & Pirate Captain’s Outfit; 10% Sale & Mini 3-Pack Set 2; Exiting Store
+Mar 18th: 8.892308g per 100 – Trading Post Express; 25% Sale
Mar 19th: 8.878539g per 100 – Consortium Mobile Crafting Station; 0% Sale
Mar 20th: 8.849836g per 100 – Marriner’s Horn; 20% Sale
Mar 21st: 8.628988g per 100 – Plush Charr and Quaggan Backpack; 20% Sale
Mar 22nd: 8.955157g per 100 – Marjory’s Axe and Dagger Skins; 0% Sale
Mar 23rd: 8.939717g per 100 – Aetherblade Armor Skins; 20% Sale
Mar 24th: 8.767769g per 100 – Box o’ Fun; 50% Sale & WXP Booster; 15% Sale & Threasher-Sickle 5000; Exiting Store
+Mar 25th: 9.227262g per 100 – Bank Access Express; 20% Sale
Mar 26th: 9.134028g per 100 – Permanent Spectre Finisher; 15% Sale
Mar 27th: 9.024413g per 100 – Braham’s Mace and Shield Skins; 0% Sale
Mar 28th: 9.058239g per 100 – Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic; 20% Sale
Mar 29th: 8.938644g per 100 – Royal Terrace Pass; 0% Sale
Mar 30th: 9.036830g per 100 – Primeval, Krytan, & Profane Armor Skins; 20% Sale
Mar 31st: 9.317227g per 100 – Black Lion Key; 10% Sale & Communal Boost Bonfire; 25% Sale & Scarlet’s Champions Mini 3-pack; 0% Sale

This is the range the exchange rate fluctuated during that day, actual data.

Mar 1st: 7.53g – 9.10g
Mar 2nd: 7.17g – 8.74g
Mar 3rd: 7.74g – 9.77g
Mar 4th: 7.66g – 9.47g
Mar 5th: 7.30g – 8.92g
Mar 6th: 7.54g – 8.96g
Mar 7th: 7.55g – 9.14g
Mar 8th: 7.50g – 8.78g
Mar 9th: 7.41g – 8.72g
Mar 10th: 7.62g – 9.33g
+Mar 11th: 7.75g – 9.08g
Mar 12th: 7.84g – 9.02g
Mar 13th: 7.64g – 9.11g
Mar 14th: 7.39g – 8.79g
Mar 15th: 7.89g – 9.41g
Mar 16th: 8.04g – 9.49g
Mar 17th: 7.93g – 8.98g
+Mar 18th: 8.04g – 9.74g
Mar 19th: 7.89g – 9.48g
Mar 20th: 7.99g – 9.53g
Mar 21st: 7.47g – 9.41g
Mar 22nd: 8.14g – 9.58g
Mar 23rd: 8.18g – 9.47g
Mar 24th: 7.74g – 9.38g
+Mar 25th: 8.39g – 9.65g
Mar 26th: 8.53g – 9.93g
Mar 27th: 8.03g – 9.63g
Mar 28th: 8.24g – 9.62g
Mar 29th: 8.16g – 9.48g
Mar 30th: 8.22g – 9.49g
Mar 31st: 8.60g – 10.53g

Note:
- March 11th introduced Scarlet’s Grasp and Scarlet’s Spaulders to the Gem Store.
- March 18th introduced Mini 3-pack Set 3, expanded the number of Collection Expanders to 5 from 3 and added new hairstyles to the Hair and Makeover Kits.
- March 25th introduced Lion’s Arch Survivor’s Dyes, Frost Wasp Logging Tool and Golem Pummeler Finisher.

Draw whatever conclusions you like.

*Now with a chart. Hope some think it’s informative.

Blue line is the range of the exchange rate that day.
The box shows start and finish averages for the day. Black box the average rate increased, red box the average rate decreased.

In case you wanted to start including images onto your post attachments, I’ll start updating each day with a shot of the sale items for you as well.

you are an amazing person. that is all

Christina, I am proud of you. You are exactly the type of player I think the Guild Wars community wants and needs.

I am honored to have you in this wonderful game with me. Stay strong!

This…

… Is literally the best patch ever. So much loot… So much activity… So much art to appreciate. LA has never looked better than it has up in flames. As if I wasn’t addicted enough to this game I can hardly get enough of the destruction and despair that’s now plaguing our once peaceful inlets. Feels like we were suddenly slapped in the face with an invasion, thousands are dead and we’re now fighting to avenge the fallen and reclaim our lands.

… Or maybe I’m just over-imaginative ._.
Either way I love this to death. I’m not big on PvE what-so-ever. I spend 90% of my time in WvW occasionally farming dungeons for a bit of loot/gold but besides that PvE has never caught my attention for more than an hour or so. But now… I can’t pull myself from LA for longer than a few minutes. When we’re all sent back to the nearest safe zone when the event ends, I’m just waiting anxiously for it to start again.

Great job, ANet. For this player, this is by far the best thing to hit the game. I can’t wait to see how this progresses ( :

-Consumes endless quaggan tonic- Quaggan out! ChooOOoo!

Why yes it does!
It reveals the entire universe!

yeah…no!
looks horrible, doesn’t even fit any of my characters and that includes my futuristic engineer.

This isn’t broken

You just need to buy some gems and exchange for gold and buy silk… I really don’t see what the problem is here????

So warriors are a better ranged class compared to rangers?

Saturn.6591:

Bagel.4598:

Saturn.6591:

Bagel.4598:

You don’t have to do anything except swing with a sword, swing again and oh look at that swing again – which is literally opposite of what was said in the manifesto you probably saw.

You really SHOULD try to do something other than zerging someday. You’ll be baffled about the variety of weapons and skills.

I don’t zerg at all, I fractals and dungeons. Your argument is invalid.

Then you should know that if you use a sword, you will always have to use the sword for your attacks (obviously). However, you have 5 different attacks with that sword. Then you can also us another weapon and also, you’ve got 5 more exchangeable skills. I doubt that all you do is autoattacking without ever using any other skill.

Considering the 4 other skills on a weapon are mostly utility based, auto attacking provides the highest dps in the game and as PvE is just a dps race, that is all you will be doing.

They added dodge. So much skillz!

Tink Cogwhizzle
Human Engineer

I went for a more sexy look with human cultural t3 chest and viper skirt while still keeping up the techno theme with aetherblade armor and goggles :-3

Here is the point:

ANet did not end the trinity. They just made healing and tanking not viable even though we have the options in most classes trait and weapon choices, leaving DPS the only role left for everyone in PvE.

People ask why other people would like a system like the trinity, but honestly, people just like to play different roles. Every class plays more or less the same in GW2:

Auto-attack, dodge, random-attack, dodge… The variety is very slim, and it gets fairly stale at some point. It doesn’t matter if you are a warrior in heavy armor or a elementalist in cloth, the mantra is damage to the face and dodge like a bunny.
With the melee/berserker meta in PvE, things get only worse. Everyone is a glass cannon melee class…

There is only only role to be played in this role playing game. How is that fun in the long run?

^ the problem is that they do this and PUGs dont bother with the content because it’s too hard compared to other existing stuff.

TA Aetherpath for example. It has a chance to drop unique skins, and gives a good bit of gold. But you rarely get PUGs doing it because simply its a horrible experience in one because it actually needs co-ordination, skill and non-Zerker gear which frankly most of the playerbase don’t have.

Not quite sure what you can do about it.

Trinity is fine. Every MMOs except GW2 have it. Even new mmos that is coming soon have a healer class. Trinity is important for raids. The role specialization is needed for co-ordination in a raid. That is the reason why GW2 has no raids and all world boss events are a Zerg.

After saying that I doubt we will see Trinity in GW2 since it is developed specify without it. To add trinity now will mean a total redevelopment of its core design. It would be easier to build GW3!