Guild Wars 2

When all the Elder Dragons are dead, 1/2 the magic will be consumed by Aurene and the other 1/2 will be consumed by another egg that houses Tequatil’s legacy. The commander now takes on the role of a concerned parent whose young adult daughter, being formerly obedient and good natured, is now coying over the new bad boy in town. You yell at Aurene, scolding her for considering companionship with such rebellious youth over the nice and hard working jungle wurm next door you’ve been trying to hook her up with since her junior year in high school.

Alas, your attempts only push her further away from you and closer to her new boyfriend. She leaves home without notice and travels across the content with Teq. Jr. with nothing but a run down dragon truck and the young ley energy coursing through their… whatevers.

Several years go by and you wave your fist in anger as that jungle wurm from earlier graduates to become a successful consortium ambassador for the Caledon Forest region while that drop out Teq. Jr. seriously thinks he can support Aurene and their two kids (they’re not even married!) with a tattoo parlor he started in the new norn settlements in The Far Shiverpeaks.

The Wintersday that year is awkward, as you agreed to have it at their place, the first time you’ve seen Aurene since that day she walked out. You’re initially disgusted at run down property, the budget food being served for dinner, and the fact that your grand kids only got refurbished Ventari plushies for gifts. You think to yourself, “How can Aurene possibly be happy with this!? She was raised in a city made out of kittening gold!”

After dinner, Aurene asks if she can talk to you while Teq. Jr. plays with the kids. “Look, I know this isn’t what you were expecting I would be at when you pampered me in Tarir all those years,” she says in a slightly guilt ridden tone. “You were expecting me to grow up to be some sort of savior of Tyria that the entire world looks up to and will remember for eternity. That I would live up to and surpass the expectations my biological mother set before me, but this just feels so right.” She turns away to face the living room where Teq. Jr. and the kids are laughing and playing, “I know this doesn’t look perfect to you and definitely not to those stuck up exalted, but I am genuinely happy here.”

Swallowing your pride, you begin to understand. All those years you thought you we’re training Aurene to be Tyria’s hope, to make a peaceful golden age in one fell swoop. Instead she only came to better understand the precious value of everyday life, warts and all, and dreamed of being able to being joy one step at a time to others and herself. To be one of many of us who watch out for each other as a community and as a family. You cannot speak a single word with out struggling to hold back tears, but you don’t have to, because Aurene can read your mind. You both simply walk out to the living room to join the rest of the family, with you as now a better more understanding person.

Yo Anet, this one’s on me, but let me know if you want to hire me for future LS.

Pretty sure this is a bit of an unpopular opinion now but I like the Replica Job-o-tron backpack. I like the character, it gives a feeling that I’m never alone when I’m in an empty area/solo mission……and whether people like it or not it has a unique mechanic XD

And my future favorit will be the mini scruffy backpack, was datamined a few weeks ago so that’s a suitable replacement to those who want a silent golem backpack

If it’s too much bother or time involvement for you, then you also have the option of skipping it.

I’m not being flippant, as I found myself in the past obsessing over completing dailies with my ever reducing game time (real life has been interesting over the last few years) instead of just playing the parts of the game I enjoy. Once I gave up the completionist urge and accepted that there would be days where I wouldn’t get the daily reward, my enjoyment of my limited time in game improved dramatically.

I firmly believe that the grind in this game exists only if you play it that way. I play on a very casual basis, but I have geared one character in full ascended and am currently working on my first legendary without feeling like any of it has been a grind. I just play what I want to, do the dailies that are quick or fit with my plans, and make some progress every day that I login towards my long term goals.

She’s at most a few months old, maybe even just a few weeks (I’m not sure exactly how long there is between story chapters in lore as the only date given is the year).

A lot of animals start out seeming more silly and playful. The contrast between the adult dragons we’ve seen and Aurene reminds me of the difference between one of the big cats (lions, tigers, jaguars etc.) and their cubs.

The cubs look small and cute and fluffy and they spend a lot of time rolling around, attempting to pounce on things and falling over, making absurd squeaky noises when they try to roar, chewing their parents tails and all kinds of other undignified things you’d never expect from a majestic big cat.

And yet doing all of that is vitally important for them to grow up into one of those majestic big cats (and completely realistic). Play is how young animals (including humans) learn and they have to enjoy it or they wouldn’t do it.

Also we fundamentally don’t want Aurene to only know how to fight, or to only associate us with violence. We saw from the moment she hatched that she instinctively knows how to fight (although she doesn’t seem to have full control of her magic yet), we don’t need to teach her that. We do need to teach her that there are alternatives to fighting and that there are many problems which cannot and should not be solved through violence.

It’s obvious from the training we did with her that Anet (and therefore players and the Exalted) are not shying away from taking her into combat – even at this age. But we are teaching her the difference between things you attack and things you speak with, heal and defend.

In fact it says somewhere on the site that for legal reasons if you email them a suggestion they’ll delete it without reading and if you post it to them they’ll return it unopened. They will only take suggestions and feedback through the website, which in practice means this forum and very occasionally polls on the main site.

Which is because the website Terms of Use includes this:
“However, by submitting User Submissions to ArenaNet, you hereby grant ArenaNet a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, broadcast, license, post, sell, translate, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, in any medium now known or hereafter devised, without compensation or credit to the provider of the User Submissions.”

In other words if you post a suggestion here they automatically have permission to use it. If you submit it another way they would have to seek your permission separately and may need to pay you for it.

In Practice

They do read the forum, and they have taken suggestions from here before. The best thing to do is to make sure you post it in the right section, give it a clear title “cool idea” or “suggestion” is not helpful, “New Collection idea” or “Suggestion for a Current Event” is.

Make sure you explain your suggestion and the background to it in full. Don’t assume everyone knows about the problem you want to fix and why it’s annoying, or understands why the new thing would be really fun.

Also bear in mind your suggestion is never going to be used exactly as you first write it, if nothing else Anet will put their own spin on it. It’s also much more likely to be used if a lot of people show interest. Both of which mean if people start replying and saying how they’d do it differently or pointing out potential problems this is not a bad thing. This kind of discussion shows how many people are interested in the idea (far more than people simply posting “I agree” and can lead to creating a modified version of your original suggestion which is more likely to work for the game and all the players and therefore is more likely to be used.

“Waiting”

Maybe stop waiting and start playing the game ?

Destiny’s Edge quick version :

Let’s be honest, is anyone looking forward to the AP Achievement Chests if they’re not the 5k ones with Gems or the ones with armor skins? The current loot is the following: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement_Chest With bigger ones having more of the same crap. Apart from the Forge stones, there’s nothing really in those chests that makes me goes “wow”. Karma? Badges? Oh, wow, totally not swimming in that. 2-3 WvW consumables? What, did I just play an hour of WvW?

Even the Zenith Skins get dull after the first 5-6 you like/want, and the accountwide bonusses are weird, you get +1 of xp/gold/karma/MF, yet you get +2% gold every month for doing nothing but logging in.

Back when the PvP Wardrobe was added along with the Achievement chests, you got some skins from the chests, which either unlocked skins for PvP/Wardrobe or you could salvage and gamble for more skins. When the Wardrobe was reworked, this feature was removed, sadly.

The proposal is quite simple. Retroactively add Wardrobe Unlock tokens as a reward for the Achievement chests you get every 500 AP instead of the boosters/Gem Store Items. It’ll give players something to look forward to and reward longtime players with some nice skins.

Taking for example 1 for 500, 2 for 1000, 3 for 2500 and 5 from the 5k chests. That’d give you 20 unlocks per 5k points, or 120 unlocks for reaching 30k AP retroactively.

Loyalty does not require bribes.

I absolutely do not want new recipes for breathers.

I want breathers to be converted to skins, which use the same stats as our helms. There is no reason for us to have to add a 7th piece of armor and a 7th rune for the tiny fraction of the game that is underwater, especially since huge numbers of skills and traits don’t function there.

Beast Sos.1457:

Blude.6812:

So, making more grind for this no grind game would be your suggestion? Doing the same 5 hearts for 30 days?
And how would putting exclusive gem shop items in game affect Anets’ bottom line? As Khisanth pointed out—they would prefer players to buy gem with real money. At least Anet allows you to exchange in game gold for gems.

Where did you get the idea this is a no grind game?! Gw2 is one of the most grindy MMOs out there its just not forced on you like others. It takes longer to get raid gear (ascended gear) in Gw2 than it does in games like WoW. I played the WoW xpac and it took me a week and a half to be raid ready and I wasn’t playing as much as one would think.

The more skins and things to get/do in the game more people will play the game resulting in more gem sales. No one is asking them to stop making gem store specific skins. All I am asking for is also skins in-game I can work towards without having to just spam farm gold..

The problem with your “solution” is it makes the whole process very linear and appear MORE grindy. Simply because you HAVE to do xxx content/tasks to earn whatever it is you want.

With the current system you say instead you have to farm gold right? Yet look at all the ways you can do this. You have OPTIONS for “farming” that gold. It is only yourself to blame if you choose the most boring/efficient ways of earning that coin instead of breaking it up some and changing your play mode from time to time.

I gather you are just asking for a “forced” way to play differently than what you are? Because really, that’s all it really is if you think about it…

yeah hearts take a few minutes(minus the mursat fortres) etc etc, but if you dont keep a register you dont see whith toons had the map completed, pls a-net make a record of first completion of hearts for map completion and keep it in map stats.
an idea is hearts completed today can be marked as red as usual, hearts done once but not today in light pink and not reseted from map completion stats

Danikat.8537:

And that’s when I’m actually trying to focus on just doing one thing.

Dani-skritt?

(I shouldn’t talk — I resemble that, too.)

I voted to keep DBL in play, and yet I never play it (even when it’s my home bl). Why? Because other people preferred it, I only play one map at a time, and I don’t need three virtually identical maps to play on when I already have two (plus EBG).

Honestly, with the amount people whine about wvw I’m surprised Anet hasn’t told us all to go kitten ourselves by now.

misterman.1530:

Five pages, and not one Dev response. This speaks volumes, no?

Not really. A lot of this thread is contributors going back and forth with each other. At this point most if not all angles have been stated in one form or another, but while we as contributors tend to take ideas to the first step, Anet has to delve far deeper – and thus take longer – before being able to say anything. Speaking before they have a solid plan isn’t their style.

We don’t know if this change was the only step they intended, or if they have future plans. We don’t know if our suggestions are easy to code for or not. We don’t know how the UI can be conveniently adjusted to accommodate the player with future changes (I still struggle with the Hero Panel ). We don’t know the potential economic impacts, etc. etc. But since we lack the details to make those assessments, our words naturally come out sooner than Anet’s.

If someone is complaining about extra MPs on the map then maybe they should put in a ticket to have some of theirs transferred to a friend?

I think there are too many sources of gold and I can’t use it all. I think we should start removing sources of gold as it has no value Kappa

What do I see? I see a bunch of players that want rewards without “time spent”. I see so much about no new content.. It’s weird to me that people want the best stuff for their meager investment of play cause “well I just deserve it”. I have 7 full suits of Ascended armor and 3 are full Celestial, over 30 of the ascended weapons, Runes and sigils that are 25 gold apiece and many of them.. 1300 gold and materials to choke a dragon.. Am I a good player? No. I’m old, my hands are crippled (no feelings) so jumping isn’t my thing. I play PvE only.. So how in the world could I have done all this? Time spent.. Time spent learning how to overcome problems I have found.. The Elite armor and weapons were good but I couldn’t survive to beat champs. I read that ascended armor can give you a 20% advantage over elites so I became a master crafter (Grand Artisan title). Now I’m a better player. GW2 is a game built for “time spent”.. I don’t want drops by chance and I’m thankful that I don’t need anything BUT player vs. the world. Spend time my friends, hangout, build a legend with your time. Stop complaining and enjoy yourself. If this old man can do, so much think of how much more you can do being young and smart. Life is work, reward is sweet.

I have a very simple solution for days when none of the dailies appeal to me: I don’t do them.

There’s always tomorrow.

stat spreads that exist within the PvE meta,

Beserker,
Viper,
Sinister,
Commander’s,
Rabid,
Knights,
Cavaliers,
Magi,
Cleric,
Assassin,
Zealot,

I am sorry, what was the problem again?

Nova.7261:

Also something seems off for even with full stacks of bloodlust, my damage is still weaker then other players.

Necro, even Reaper, does not do as much damage as some other classes. The good thing is that even as glassy and DPS as possible, reaper can sustain very well. If you are playing alone, try to get as much might as possible and as much vulnerability as possible. Someone mentioned full zerk with runes of scholar. That is good advice. You can use shroud and Rise for defense. Even as glassy as possible you aren’t going to be able to do as much damage as an ele or thief though. But glassy reaper can facetank 80-90% of even HoT content. I used something like this when I was going through HoT on my reaper.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBhQD7kZTocTsbTwyGgeTsgLYxVxuYYE6qFAaBUnh2wzC-T1RBwA5U/hyFBwsSQAPAA86GkcEAuu/o8LcQAwQCYVlMA6jB-w

Vayne has given good advice too. It is much easier to do most of HoT with other people, not necessarily grouped up but rather just doing the same stuff at the same time. Watch map chat and look for commander or mentor tags. Check LFG to switch maps. This is typically how I play as well, just jump in a map and do whatever is going on. Next thing you know you have more experience than MPs.

Sarrs.4831:

Mea.5491:

When players’ mentality changes and they realize that DPS is not everything. In other words: never.

What else are you going to gear for? Funs per second?

You’ll find it difficult to get more than 160 to 280 millifuns per second, regardless of gear. However, maximizing funs per minute leans heavily toward Valkyrie’s and mixed gear, depending on your class, and per hour tends for a more centered, Celestial approach. You can also add a dozen or so effits per minute, which interferes additively with funs per minute, by investing into some Rampager’s… again, depending on your chosen profession.

Without putting too fine a point on it, A.Net is not a well managed company. Their coordination and control structure is a mess and they waste an enormous amount of work. Private equity would be thinking leveraged buyout.

At the same time, building a game like Guild Wars is not like managing a P&L at a factory or retailer. A.Net really is building a work of art – and it shows in game. Sure, it could be better managed, and look more like, say, EA, but the game would likely follow suit. A.Net has a culture that runs on collaboration between a big jumbled mess of passionate creative types, and while I’m sure you could fire management and bring in professionals that would improve productivity and efficiency by leaps and bounds, I’m not confident at all that you could do that while maintaining the energy and soul that brought us SAB and all the other countless small touches that make the game what it is.

I think you need to look at it with a healthy dose of perspective. A.Net is not a publicly traded company tasked with maximizing return on equity to shareholders. It’s a private company owned by millionaire veterans of the game industry that want to run a company that they like working at – and if that resembles a kindergarten classroom of passionate artists and designers doing what they love, then so be it.

IndigoSundown, I was a “complaining casual” because I bought the expansion only to find out it was too hard for me. A whole new beautiful jungle and I could not participate in it because I am a clutz.

When they made the Jungle easier, I was finally, finally, able to play it and marvel at all the work the artists put into it.

If they had not made the Jungle easier I would not have my elite specs , (happy grin, I have added a Tempest and a Scrapper to my stable of Elites now ) nor would I have my advanced gliding…let me tell you, to me, the ability to be able to glide through the Jungle without worrying about endurance is totally worth the required number of mastery points.

Not all of us casuals who cried about the difficulty of HOT have turned their back on it..some of us are deeply appreciative for this gift.

Lisa-Hoping that the next Living World story thingy has this level of difficulty.

“Hey everybody, let’s try to improve Guild Wars 2 by redesigning it in a way that completely misses the whole point of Guild Wars 2!”

@Younger. I am less agile than the average player and somehow I managed to do it. I agree: getting silver (which I’ll have to do again, apparently, if I want a raven staff) is a pain in the, urm, kitten [sic].

Here’s how I went about:

• I parked a toon at the start.
• Each day, if I felt like it, I’d try it out and keep at it until either I got silver (never) or yelled at my computer screen once (ok, sometimes twice).
• I kept at it and eventually learned a couple of tricks.
• I got faster and faster and finally silver’d it.

I have watched vids of other adventures and they can be fun to watch — I am impressed with the madd skillz of our community. However, I have yet to find one that actually helped me get better at a single adventure, never mind get silver. I can’t tell where exactly people are when they do some sort of trick, even after stopping/starting the vids — I just don’t have the spacial relationship skills to translate the 2d video into my 3d space.

What helped more is
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Guide-Adventures-Silver-Gold-and-beyond/first#post5923849

This guy offered specific tips in text that I could use, gave me a sense of which are hard for everyone, and a general sense of what to expect — none of the vids I’ve seen (even the ones he linked) have helped as much as that text.

tl;dr try it for 5-15 minutes each day and don’t worry about mastering it today or tomorrow. You will get it eventually.

aka it’s Zen & the Art of Adventuring for the Agility-Challenged.

Elden Arnaas.4870:

But why should I have to learn a whole different game mode, and all new maps, for a daily?

But you don’t have to do it. It’s a bit of gold, a few spirit shards, and a few AP, not a mandate from the president. I’m pretty regularly missing dailies myself just because I couldn’t be bothered filling them.