Guild Wars 2

Edge.4180:

Instead, make the events do something that gives players in the area a reason to beat them, like locking down a portion of the map until they’re defeated, or awarding victors with a buff only applicable to that zone.

I can see it now . .

“ArenaNet, y u gate content behind a world boss?!”
“ANet, ur so unfair, can’t get the cool buffs cuz i can’t kill the boss.”

I’m honestly okay with dyes being account bound.

In Mabinogi, you can’t reuse dyes at all. You use it once on ONE PART of a piece of gear, then it’s gone. Being a veteran of that game, I think ANet’s dye system is extremely generous.

And I respect the fact that dyes are part of their income. Making them account-bound would destroy the value there.

This thread will probably be moved to the dead suggestion forum for having ‘suggestion’ in the title.

Anet responses:

Aware, but investigating/deciding
1. An option to disable right click targeting (435 replies, 13263 views)
ANet response – “Our development team reviews play input on a regular basis. They are aware of this suggestion, but have not yet reached a decision on what changes, if any, they will make to targeting.
There is a lot going on right now with the upcoming event, but after that, the team will take a look at a lot of different game elements, and may make some changes in the future.
Sorry I don’t have more specific information, but you can be sure this is not being ignored or rejected without due consideration.
Thanks for understanding.” (low priority statement from another forum section was shared by a player on pg. 8 )
2. Turn off “Titles” below Nameplate (153 replies, 6339 views)
Anet response – “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.”
3. No love for condition builds? (105 replies, 19075 views)
Anet response – “I certainly agree that we need to improve effectiveness of condition damage builds against objects. We have some ideas, but none of them are simple and easy to implement/test. Rest assured it is something we recognize as a problem.” – “Might as well chime in and say big crowd events where condies are stack capped is also a problem we are investigating.”
4. Traits missing vital informations in tooltips to make info (52 replies, 9598 views)
Anet response – I understand the frustrations that come with inaccurate descriptions. I’ve worked a lot on the skill “fact” system to bring it up to a good point, but I know there is more we can do. This includes making all buffs, upgrades, sigils, and traits affect skill tooltip numbers (some already do), adding additional skill facts based on traits, as well as adding the same or similar “fact” system to trait descriptions.
There are a couple reasons why trait/skill descriptions aren’t as accurate as they could be. They were constantly changing up until ship for balance and polish. This means some of the descriptions are just out of date. Also, each time a number is changed within the text, it needs to get localized again. This means it’s more efficient to make them a little more vague to lessen the localization cost and protect ourselves if that number needs to change again. That’s why skills have “facts” instead of baking the numbers into the descriptions. The last reason it’s difficult to keep skills and traits accurate is because of technical and time limitations. Our skills are complicated, and it takes designers a lot of time to make sure the numerous parts are correct. Sometimes we don’t even have the ability to make the facts accurate (summon’s damage was a tricky one).
I’m personally very passionate about skill descriptions. We know there are improvements that can be made and I’ll push to get time to revisit them because, well, I just like them.

Non-substantive responses
5. Attention! [April 1st troll face suggestion] (45 replies, 5373 views]
Anet response – “Doing something fun on April 1st is a good idea, hmmm…”
6. Color bling gamers: Issues seeing red circles (137 replies, 9891 views)
Anet response – “Thanks for the suggestion, Timebomb. If anyone else has suggestions of their own, don’t be sure to create a thread yourself. That’s what this sub-forum is for.”
7. Weapon scaling and asura (84 replies, 4075 views)
Anet reponse – “Hi Mythazor,
your thread will be moved to the suggestions sub-forum, where it belongs.
Thanks for understanding.”
8. Combat UI improvements [locked] (363 replies, 13131 views)
Anet response – Moderator made the following statement, but did not provide a line to the source, “Since the position of Anet has been stated regarding the use of this mod, this thread is closed.”

Commitment to fix asap
9. Revert changes in corrupted shortbow (33 replies, 5032)
Anet reponse – “Hey guys! Very sorry about this. Looks like the Shortbow had been using the Longbow model and I fixed that when I hooked up their new icons to use the correct model file, not realizing that the Shortbow was so different looking from the Longbow (usually the shortbow versions are just a little shorter than the longbow). You are absolutely correct to be bummed out, the Longbow has a lot of majesty that the Shortbow does not. So we are going to adjust the Shortbow model to look a lot more like the Longbow. Very very sorry about this! It was certainly not my intention to nerf your awesome bows. We are working on this fix as I type. It might be too late to get it into our next bug fixing build (today or tomorrow) but it will definitely get into our February build at the latest. Again, so very sorry!”

Threads that do not offer specific suggestions where a response might be expected (community brainstorming and a bug):

1. You are now ArenaNet’s lead designer (242 replies, 6958 views)
2. The top 10 things GW2 needs to improve (175 replies, 4123 views)
3. The Great Dream Patch: Add Your Own! (67 replies, 9523 views)
4. Show Profession Trainers on Hoelbrak map? (Bug) (5 replies, 4184 views)

Healix.5819:

Transmuted legendaries will most likely not get automatically upgraded, since not everyone would want it..

So you’re saying people wouldn’t want a completely free statistical upgrade?

Right.

On further thought, it’s unlikely they will be upgraded as transmuted Twi/Sunr no longer count for Eternity, making them totally “different” items. Not to mention Legendaries on lower level characters that are transmuted to non-80 stats, how would they go about that?

Causse ~95% of the players don’t know how to read a DPS/Total Damage/Heal/Whatever Meter properly and therefor will draw false conclusions. This will do far more damage than those spreadsheets that every now and than appear on the forums cause as an ingame tool it will be accessable for everyone and not just those that are really into reading spreadsheets about character developement.

Took you 3.5 months to get the best skins in the game? Most other MMOS would have taken that time to get a full set of gear alone…

Mirta.5029:

It’s not the game that’s farm inducing, it’s your view on it that’s wrong.

I love when people claim that the play style, and method of enjoyment of a game, is “wrong”. Arrogance can be so amusing when it isn’t annoying as kitten.

Mirta.5029:

This game has stated at the beginning that it is against all means of farming. It was designed in a way to not allow anyone to farm. You don’t need to farm to gain levels, to gain gear or to gain money. It’s not the game that’s farm inducing, it’s your view on it that’s wrong.
A legendary and other lots of material requiring weapons are supposed to be gotten over a really long period of time. I just ran CoE. Got lucky and 2 bottles of T6 blood dropped. An exotic that I salvaged and sold dropped. If I was collecting the blood I would use the money from the exotic that dropped to buy more of it. I would also sell other T6 mats that I have collected while running dungeons and fractals and buy more blood. See? Easy material management. You don’t need to farm for them

Assuming you get one charged lodestone per daily run of CoE, which doesn’t even happen most of the time, it would take you 100 days to get enough.

And this doesn’t include the 400-700g precursors. Let’s say per week you make about 15-20g playing without farming. That’s 20-35 weeks if you earn 20g a week, or 27-47 weeks at 15g a week.

That doesn’t include the 500 ectos you need either, or the completely random nature of t6 materials, where you’re lucky to get a couple of one type a day.

So you’re looking about 7 months or more of playing to get close to a legendary.

And that’s 7 months you played to get your legendary, while the random guy got a precursor drop and cut that time to about 2-3 months instead with the amount of money from selling a precursor.

Or the guy who farmed cof for about 7-10g an hour. Or the guy who played TP and got a precursor in 1-2 months.

This game does not reward people who play different aspects of the game. It rewards the lucky and those who spend time farming or playing the market.

In theory, ArenaNet’s early comment about Legendary weapons implied that they expect people to take 6 – 12 months to accomplish them. When people got full Legendary weapons within just a couple months of the game’s release, ArenaNet was really caught off guard. For some reason, they really expected everyone to be ultra casual about the process and not so aggressive about farming content.

To be honest, I really don’t know what ArenaNet was so surprised. They were caught with their pants down since Legendary weapons were likely supposed to be a large time sink. As a result of this, they started to nerf the available farming options as a reactive way of creating more artificial time sinks.

While I like many aspects of this game, there are times when I wonder about ArenaNet’s lack of ability to predict obvious reactions in their customer base. The Legendary weapon matter is just one of many in my mind. Like it or not, I don’t really expect ArenaNet to change their minds.

Actually this is a really good and well thought out post. Kudos OP. That said, you’re basing your initial assumption on something I don’t agree with.

You say that skilled play comes from having the time to analyze what’s going on and know what to do next based on that. I disagree.

That’s PART of skilled play. But reaction to the unknown, and having stuff in your bar to deal with the unexpected is, to me, just as much a part of skilled play. So you have your stun breaker, and condition remover and a decent AOE which is part of the best way to deal with thieves.

Because once the thief actually appears, he becomes more vulnerable than a lot of classes. Less condition removal (and stealthing doesn’t cure conditions), less health and pretty measly armor.

I kill a lot of thieves in SPvP, for example, even though they appear out of nowhere and stun me. Blinding helps, for part of it, but not all of it.

Because part of skill is planning and part of skill is reaction and planning on the fly.

In fact, part of skill is actually knowing the game you’re playing and adapting to it. The kind of skill that you’ve separated out as player skill is actually only one kind of player skill. Guild Wars 2 favors reaction over other kinds of skill. Guild Wars 1 favored a different type of skill.

I’m not really sure one type is better than another.

Stealth was already nerfed. This was due to an unbalanced “perma-stealth” Thief troll build. Now with that said, let’s breakdown your complaints one by one:

• Time to analyze your enemy
This is done before a Thief or Mes goes into stealth. If the target is squishy, you attack. If it’s a Guardian, you run away. Simple.

• Cooldown reduction
This was the nerf. No more perma-stealth trolling.

• Movement closing
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

• First strike advantage
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

• Untargetability
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

• Scouting undetected
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

Summary – Stealth is a part of the game. If you’re unable to come up with effective strategies to counter it, it doesn’t mean it’s unbalanced or broken. It means you need to get better. There are many ways to counter a Thief or Mes, but being that I play both, I won’t discuss them (for fear of people learning how to kill me).

Unless it’s a queue feature, which it won’t be as they have stated, people will just continue to use GW2LFG because it is the norm already. Honestly it’s a waste of their resources to put one in at this point, should have shipped with it.

They’re probably too busy designing new greatsword skins.

Delete you engineer.
Roll a Zerker GS Warrior.
Run CoF until you see Flame Legion Charrs even when you are not online.
Play GW2 as ANet intend.

I’m an Engineer btw.

Hotfix engineer turrets please. The traits are all broken as of 30th April and they are even more laughably useless than normal. Don’t forget Supply Drop while you’re at it plz.

Plus if you could actually give the turrets the ability to survive more than 0.2 seconds in typical WvW engagements sometime this year, that would be nice. This month being the minion/pet month it might have been a nice time for example to remember engineers have also have minion problems rather than breaking the turrets still further.

Hell everyone. Lately i’ve been having trouble with some weapon skills going off, but not doing anything. I know I have to face my target for them to hit, but even if there a little to the side, they just miss completely. Doesn’t say Miss,Block, Immune or anything else, just nothing happens and the skill goes on CD. I think it has to do with how close I am to my target. I believe my internet connectioin is very good, so I don’t know what the issue is, but it’s really killing me. Anyone else have this problem?

Dagger 2 in particular is a big offender. It gets cancelled all the times by people moving to the side.

The skill has also a slow activation time.

I am sure necro will get the weakest version of it. Just like fear. Fear is like a “Necro” condition IMO, Necro should be the master of fear, but the thief and warrior can still fear enemies way longer than we can.

Inb4 warriors get the new condition that lasts for 20 secs while necro only gets it for 2

If they did something before you predicted it, that doesnt count as a prediction

No, this is the most ridiculous idea I had ever heard of.

Oh for god sake we dodge to much now? Just remove us from the game and be done with it, next month it will be that we get medium armor, month after that we do damage! Nerf it…

Worst PvP gamers I have ever seen.

Why is an ele’s effective health so huge?
Why is invisibility so broken?
Why can mesmers kitten out clones?

Truly these are the greatest mysteries of our time.

DJSkittles.7196:

jcbroe.4329:

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

Haha, what a terrible rebuttal.

Actually that is fairly accurate.
Why does an independent pets health go to full when you remove a low HP pet? – because its a different pet
Why do the skills change when you swap kits? Because its a different bundle
Why do your weapon skills/CD’s change when you swap? Because its a different weapon

Mauricio.1932:

Why does the hunter pet health pool reset when they swap the pet in combat???

I think a better question would have been to ask something like “His pet only had 10% health when he swapped it out, after 20 seconds he brought it back out and it had full life… why!?” and the answer to that is because the pet has been out of combat for 20 seconds and has regenerated to full HP

Because they are two different pets, why would they share a health pool…?