Guild Wars 2

Please Anet, tell me when Nuclear Explosives will be available to kill the entire map!

@CHIPS,

I’m sorry, but it’s extremely hard to follow your post. It’s like you’re posting answers to a list of questions I didn’t post. I get the general gist (“you’re bad and wrong”) but it seems like you’re trying to respond to specific points and I just can’t easily connect my points to your counterpoints. I’ll do my best to respond but I’m just going to have to skip a few numbers.

CHIPS.6018:

1) In wvw zerg fights an ele would always use staff. Only the most crazy eles would use dagger. So that weapon switching problem is non-existent for them. They don’t need it. They just need to switch the elements at any time to be effective.

But then the fight changes and you’re SOL. One line charges the other, you need to give chase or suddenly deal with a crazy glass Thief (oh boy do they ever exist in WvW with their 10.5k backstabs) who’s jumped you, etc etc. If you’re just sitting by a wall attacking or defending, yeah, you’re just just going to sit in staff but there are situations where you feel the lack of weapon swap.

CHIPS.6018:

Corrupt Boon is the another useless skill in wvw.

I must respectfully disagree. Anyone with Stability can be rough for a zerg to take down sometimes. I find a lot of Commanders like to buff themselves up and lead the charge into a Lord’s Room. I honestly can’t count the number of times I’ve seen someone go from flying through a zerg with near-impunity to flat on the ground after pushing that single button. For some reason, killing a commander with a single “kitten you” button is one of the more satisfying things in the game for me.

CHIPS.6018:

Skill ceiling is not how hard it is to learn a profession. That is called the learning curve. Skill ceiling is how much you can potentially achieve with a profession. And the necro is very low in skill celling.

I’m aware of the difference between the two terms. I’ve just heard it said about almost everything that ends up being considered overpowered. When the game first came out, everyone said this about the Elementalist as well (“way too high skill floor, way too low skill ceiling,” to be precise). Then we figured out x/x/x30/30.

This leads me to be suspicious.

DS should be a steal style teleport. That is all.

DevonCarver.5370:

The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.

well, not having them, without having an options to HAVE them is better than having them, without an option to NOT have them.
So it was the right decision, imo.

Thank you baby Jesus.

THANK GOD. Too much clutter.

Necromancer

Well of Corruption skill: Updated damage skill fact to indicate the correct number of attacks.
Well of Suffering skill:
Updated damage skill fact to indicate the correct number of attacks.
Updated the number of attacks to be consistent when affected by Focused Rituals.
Spinal Shivers skill: Updated damage facts to indicate damage dealt based on boons removed.
Signet of Spite skill: Updated the skill facts to indicate the passive effect of this skill. Increased the passive power boost by 100%.
Corrupt Boon skill: No longer causes odd interactions with Aegis. Now unblockable.
Epidemic skill: Now unblockable.
Flesh Wurm minion: Increased health by 25%.
Flesh Golem minion: Increased health by 25% and toughness by 10%.
Lich Form skill: The Grim Specter skill now strips boons from enemies and conditions from allies when it reaches its target point instead of only when the missile hits a target.

Meh.

Softspoken.2410:

You’re definitely going from one end of the spectrum to the other. The thief is extreme mobility at the cost of being fragile by default if you do get pinned down. The necromancer is quite durable by default, with the cost of being easy to pin down with control effects.

Problem being that one these features is MUCH MORE REWARDING than the other.

Pretend for a moment you are a newbie to WvW or you are just trying to get some tactical/better understanding of how to play it.

You pop on the WvW forum as many people do and start browsing the posts. What do you learn?

Jumping puzzles QQ
Nerf this profession/ability
Peoples Suggestions on fixing this or that.
This sever cheats, this server only zergs, We are better but not enough numbers….

Heck look at the stickies even, the only thing we have is how to keep score, when the reset happens, and night capping… That is sad.

Day after day I hear both commanders and veterans of WvW complain about how the “Randoms” do not know how to play and hurt us. But yet we do not try to teach or put our knowledge out there.

I challenge us as a community to start adding some good threads on tactics, general gameplay and ways to help all of us get better.

People say they want more small groups. Make a thread telling of the synergies of classes for those, possible builds, strats to use. Let people know that the badge drop rates seem to be higher in a smaller group. Get people excited about trying it.

I would love more info on seige. Where to put trebs, what they can hit from each spot.

Once we put the work in and get those threads, we need to challenge ANET to acutually sticky something in here that will be helpful.

Just an observation, i think we are missing what this forum should be about.

[WvW] (the non pretentious one) had fun defending bay in AG with low numbers tonight. Looking forward to the upcoming days!

Can we get Anet to rename the Riverside server into “Server Runaway”? :P

Mathias.9657:

Wtf more useless town clothes that can’t be worn in combat, hello please wake up ANet I won’t buy any useless town clothing.

Dragon Festival meh won’t be the same I’m sure since Cantha isn’t allowed, gem store gets a bunch of temporary content as usual. Limited time only! Is that supposed to make me grab one before they run out, because it actually makes me not want to buy them out of spite.

And yet there is a rather clear part of the post that states that there is also armor-skins that CAN be used in combat.
Funny how people only read what they want, aye?

It says that I’m enjoying the content available and I’m excited to see what’s next.

If the 30 April patch is a indicator of what to expect, I don’t want to know.

Hopefully an inclusion of more underwater content.

But more likely more living story nonesense and more shirts in the gem store.

Please also note that the Suggestions sub-forum will not be open permanently. This is a temporary solution until we roll out a better, more organized way to provide suggestions to the development team than using the forums. – ReginaBuenaobra

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/How-This-Sub-Forum-Works/first#post74613

Why The Suggestions Forum Needs To Be Organized

At the moment, the suggestion forum needs to be organised for the devs to have a systematic way of looking through the suggestions. As it is, players can be an untapped source of Suggestions that could make the game even greater.

My Suggestions

Tags – When creating a suggestion, you’d have a drop-down box in which you’d have to select a category at where the suggestion is aimed at. For example, Leveling, UI, Dungeons, Content, Skills, ect. This would automatically add a [Category] tag that can then be used for ease of searching and filtering (where the filter would be added for people to be able to look through).

So, for example, suggestions for improving the UI would have [UI] before the suggestion title.

Once the thread has been created…

Community Vote – If someone likes a suggestion, they press a button saying “I Approve Of This” (or something like that). At the end of a given time period, the top [insert x number of posts here] OR if the post reaches a certain amount of likes, the suggestion are put into a Featured subsection for the Devs to look at. Likewise, posts that get a lot of discussion also have a look in.

Finally, once ANet have considered the thread….

Feedback – ANet give the thumbs up / thumbs down whether they like the suggestion / concept behind the suggestion or not. If they do but they’d like to make some changes, explanations of the changes would be given.

If not, as a matter of courtesy, I’d expect them to give a reason why.

I support this idea, but I seriously doubt the forum people care.

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DevonCarver.5370:

As with any change we are aware of the concerns about titles, nameplates, and screen clutter and we are investigating what we can do about all of these things to try and improve the experience now that you can see so many people on screen.

seriously?
You need to investigate this?
There should’ve been a toggle in the first place.
How did you get to asume that most players would like that their screen will cluttered with titles? In some places the names alone were too much, now it only need half the people to have your screen full of characters and less of the beautfiful GW2 world

remove titles… investigation complete.

But the mystic forge encourages spending real money on gold to gamble with!

You, sir, are my hero.

I hope someone from ANet looks at this thread and leave some word about their ideas/opinions.

I’m not sure I would want those wing things showing all the time. Would only like to be able to play them if I could hide/unhide them on command. Would rather be able to play as a Tengu/Skritt/Quaggan-/Kodan (in that order) before I play as one of them.

I want to know their story. What’s their culture, their history, why did they come to tyria? Who are they?

It was frustrating to beat a massive boss and getting bluetrash, just to see another guy getting a precursor during a karma run in Orr.. It was too much RNG..

Now that world chests have good drops (some golds, and even exotics) at least we have motivation to them more than once.