Guild Wars 2

DevonCarver.5370:

We are in the process of making a change to the requirements for most things that take the vial of essence to make them acquirable outside of the fractals. We don’t have more to announce right now. We 100% agree with the premise of that statement in regards to fractals, however.

Bless you.

Crying about KillShot is so BWE/2012.

canadez.5328:

Actually Desolation and Underworld did send out the majority of their WvW Guilds to other servers so they don’t move up or stay in Gold League. Simply not to raise suspicion. Those tricky kittens. I’ll tell you all guilds will return to their home server on thursday. Rumours say even IRON will go back to Desolation.

Yeah, as an Underworld player I have to admit we did that. You know, we started to be too close to Gold league six weeks ago, we were already on rank 16. Thats like… only 7 ranks to Gold league. So yea, we had to send most of our guilds to play on other servers so we would stay on Silver.

True story.

The problem is that rangers attract people who want to be a jack-of-all-trades.

That’s not what the ranger is in this game and the sooner that people accept that, the sooner the class’s best traits can be utilized.

Rangers are awesome roamers and scouts. You trait like you would for SPvP and you become an outrunner and scout for zergs/groups.
You should be on the outside rings of a large fight, using barrage and other AoE; while using your focused fire on down enemies.
Throw down traps, spirits, and springs for support; but don’t try to be part of the zerg.

My 2 cents worth.

Chris, +1.

Said everything I have been saying since GW1.

Let’s say your working towards your Legendary Twilight, but you’re short of msybe 30 gold.

One fine day, BAM, you get Entropy from a champion bag.

Now you can either equip Entropy since the hammer will look kitten on you. Or you can sell Entropy for the 30 gold and complete your Legendary.

Either way it’s a 30g decision. And so it is with farming mats.

Do people not understand the basic concept of “free” anymore? Just because something has a value attached to it does not make it “cost” you when there is zero cost attached to ownership.

If I collect an item, that has no cost attatched in doing so it is free, REGARDLESS of its value.

If I enter a competition for a brand new car, and I win and I am given the keys and ownership of it, the car is FREE. If I then chose to sell it, that is PROFIT.

All mats gathered in the world are free. There are GIVEN to the player. The “time” involved in collection is not a cost, as your “time” has no given value in the game world. You dont get 10 gold just for logging in each day. You are not “employed” in any way shape or form.

sil.4160:

Need some Quality of Life improvement in this. Could you improve the special effect of FIELDS. Water field and light field for some skill look too much like each other. Sometimes its hard to tell. How about blue circles around water field and yellow circles around light field

Also make downed icons different to target icons. Maybe make target icons much larger. Currently they both look the same. Red arrow pointing downwards

I think all fields could use some sprucing up here.

Add a nice looking unique border for each field.

Simzani.4318:

Knote.2904:

An option I’d really like to see is smart ground targeting when targeting areas that are out of range.

Like if I use a 900 range teleport, but I cast it at 1000 range, then it still casts at it’s maximum 900 range in the direction of where I tried to cast it. Instead, right now it just fails until you target within range, which usually means you’ll waste like 100 range.

This would be a huge QOL change.

This. Please. Asap. Thanks.

I want this also. Currently the lack of this feature makes fast cast ground targeting quite slow, since I’m required to go though a series of trial and error casts to find out a range where I’m able to cast.

If I’m trying to cast at a spot which is a little over the maximum range by using fast cast ground targeting during a fast action battle, my intention is still to be able to quickly cast in that general area and not to fail because of a few pixels estimation error. Getting actions done is better than adhering to absolute precision in measurement.

I can only speak with experience as a thief, but for example short bow skills 2, 4 and 5 should all cast at the maximum range if my fast cast ground targeting is activated over the range. At least up to half or two times over the range. Even if I don’t move my mouse cursor at all and have cast a skill at close to the max range, subsequent terrain and camera angle variations can cause the next cast to fail because it’s no longer in range.

As an example of what we seem to want, warrior Greatsword skill #3 Whirlwind Attack is working in a similar way. Even if it’s cast over the max range with fast cast ground targeting, it will still activate in that direction for the max range.

Simzani.4318:

Knote.2904:

An option I’d really like to see is smart ground targeting when targeting areas that are out of range.

Like if I use a 900 range teleport, but I cast it at 1000 range, then it still casts at it’s maximum 900 range in the direction of where I tried to cast it. Instead, right now it just fails until you target within range, which usually means you’ll waste like 100 range.

This would be a huge QOL change.

This. Please. Asap. Thanks.

I have to agree with this, it also ensures you always get the full extend of the range which would be awesome.

Knote.2904:

An option I’d really like to see is smart ground targeting when targeting areas that are out of range.

Like if I use a 900 range teleport, but I cast it at 1000 range, then it still casts at it’s maximum 900 range in the direction of where I tried to cast it. Instead, right now it just fails until you target within range, which usually means you’ll waste like 100 range.

This would be a huge QOL change.

This. Please. Asap. Thanks.

Warriors are fine – for the first time they’re competitive in PVP and I’m pretty tired of all the people QQing that they don’t get their free kill anymore. Honestly sad.
Instead of shifting the meta they QQ about warriors being OP.

milo.6942:

Erick Alastor.3917:

thedrumchannell.2405:

Guild Wars 1
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+ Better prestigious armors
(comparing this gw1 armor with the real ascended would be too unfair so I’ll use an enhanced version designed by one of the member of my guild).

GW1 had a better sense of aesthetics and the power of simple designs. GW2 is in your face constantly trying to prove it really is a big-boy mmo and that the flashier your armor the bigger the epen.

This. 1000 times.
Enough with the silly heavy armor – give us Elite Templar and Elite Platemail already. IT’s been TOO LONG.

One should always think of Murphy’s Law when making suggestions. You know if they do nerf it, we will then have threads saying they can’t get enough. When you consider there is such an easy fix already, deletion of excess, I see no reason to involve ANet in this.

insanemaniac.2456:

Zietlogik.6208:

What exactly is the complaint about? that it is too HARD to get?!

it isnt too hard, just too long for a daily

It took me close to 4 hours the first time we got this one. I play a lot of defense and scouting, and zerging WvW is the only way to rewards.

Anet simply has no idea how to reward anything except the zerg.

Constantine.7812:

SpehssMehreen.5897:

Lurch.9517:

Constantine.7812:

ye you are a total ranker and you are in wvw 24/7 thats cool. now lets think about ppl who doesnt sit in wvw all day and ppl on not so strong wvw servers but still want those achievements. lets not see this from our point of view ONLY.

Why do you honestly care? Before the update it did not even exist as an achievement, now if you are an active WvW player then its not hard to get. If your not an active WvW player then you do not need to do it.

theres no point in trying to reason with something like this, people will complain literally about anything and everything, just wait til they twist this into something about bloodlust or gvg or whatever etc etc

yes ppl will always complain. if you dont like it dont go on forums. its really simple.

I do not have any problems with people complaining, sometimes my curiosity is piqued enough to try and find out the reasoning (if any) behind some of the more odd complaints.

Your initial point that it should be 1 rank not 2 is fairly legit. Your later semi rant about how its unfair etc is the odd part.

YuGiOh.4906:

In my honest opinion, I wish there was two forms of commander, a PvE one (Green tag maybe?) and the blue one for WvW. Or improved commander abilities, maybe WvW abilities?

What?! An idea that would improve the wvw experience? Anet will never allow that

poepie.6570:

Congratz to the first hacker of the week and Desolation are the winners!
Had this d/d ele jump up to the Lake wall from down below and started to hit ppl instead of walking out.

Please don’t cry hacks for no reason, the Ele wasn’t hacking/cheating/glitching or anything, it was actually my fault (in fact it’s Anet’s fault for leaving obvious bugs like this in the game), I pulled him to the wall so I could land my grenades more easily from the top of the tower and he bumped on it, was launched in the air and landed at the top of the tower, this happens ALL THE TIME for me especially on bumpy terrain, it prevents the pull from working correctly and ends up wasted. What a PAIN.

The Ele grouped up with me and we had a little chat, he was afraid I would report him for “hacking” when I knew full well what had happened.

So yeah, nothing to see here, move along, and Anet, would you be so kind as to look into this annoyance of a glitch pretty please?

Sun Tzu never mentioned jumping off a cliff to avoid repair costs.

I guess he’s a bit behind the times.

Devon didn’t kill kaineng. Kaineng is dying from a videogame equivalent of white flight.

So much nonsensical replies already, sigh.

Yes, playing well is going to beat a bad thief, I already stated that’s stupid to discuss. We are talking about good players of equal skill. Saying that “any class can beat a good D/P” is just complete nonsense, they can’t. I’m wondering if there is a single spec that can because I assure you most cannot.

“Perma stealth” is not an exploit and they aren’t any lesser of a person than you are for using it. You speak as if leap finisher in a smoke feild is a glitch that ANet didn’t program in intentionally. If anything the D/P theives are just smarter than you because they realise it’s the best roaming spec for Thief. If you want to play D/D or something because you enjoy it, that’s totally fine. But if you refuse to play D/P because you think those players are ‘lesser people’ than you – then you’re just bad (and childish).

Thanks Ross for the Mesmer perspective. I can see how a good condi or hybrid Mesmer would be a pain for them because both classes use very similar mechanics to outmuscle everyone else. I assume neither spec can prevent the other one from fleeing the fight if they want to though?

So we don’t remember big movers and shakers from our big wars and victories? I mean who remembers George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson… Heck, we remember Paul Revere, and his story is VERY small. BTW, all of these references are from a similar situation in my own nation from a very similar length of time ago… Our PC was trusted by the crown and all of it’s armies. In Kryta, at the very least, they fought against the white mantle/mursaat/jade armors in the very streets of Lion’s Arch, they joined the groups of Lionguard that were hunting down and destroying the Titans in North Kryta Province, and they don’t deserve any remembrance at all in this nation? I do not understand why some guy who just stood and said, “Hey, go kill this guy” deserves to have had more impact on the world than my own character. I don’t expect his name shouted out at every corner, obviously, but I would expect more about at the very least the events and the group of adventurers that conquered them. Thus far there’s only one random comment by some scholars talking about an ancient scroll talking about those adventures, other than that… Nothing.

On a side-note, I was a great friend of many norn… would they have really let me die without spreading my legend? If so, they are either terrible norn or terrible friends.

LunarNacht.8913:

Most of the stuff in gw1 wasn’t as interesting as you make it.
There were some good quests. But most stuff was: “Enemies there, go kill.”

Next time don’t skip the cutscenes.