Guild Wars 2

I must admit it was quite good.

No scarlet around, instead we get good likable allies, some really decent cinematics, a neat choice between Adventure and Action in the puzzle part, and a live animation mixed with the map itself, showing players while the camera pans to the remains of the tower, it kind of reminded me of the first cinematic in Prophecies, when the camera moves behind you from the battle scene, and there’s other players there, and the battle still goes on down there.

I don’t really like when cinematics in shared maps show show the area clean of other players, and then they pop out of nowhere.

And best of all, there was reasons to stick around in the camp and talk to the players. And even actual changes in their dialogs based on your actions. For example, you could learn about what happened to a daring skritt in the tower.

A really nice break from all those Scarlet shenanigans.

The only thing that could make it better is getting to see the wedding (or whatever the quaggan equivalent is) of those two quaggan in Lion’s Arch, and be able to visit them in the quaggan village.

One of the huge draws for me to GW2, and one I still love today, is the flattened progression system. I’ve played enough games that were based around the vertical type with the gear treadmill involved, with WoW being a major one, and believe it or not they have far FAR less endgame then we have here in GW2 with the horizontal style. Really… what do you do for endgame in the WoW model? You either raid or prepare for raiding, that’s really it. So, from the heart and most emphatically, please let the ascended tier be the final tier of gear. We don’t need higher and it will be so incredibly much easier to create new content based on a known and expected level of power while keeping that new content accessible to all.

That last part… that’s the most important. Accessible to all. You shouldn’t be forced down a narrow road of required content in order to progress to further content later. You don’t need the WoW style of gimmickry where you toss a new raid every now and then and watch the lemmings run along to the next expansion while you suck the sub fees out of them. You’ve proven that already. Keep ascended max, keep content tuned to exotics and the sky is the limit for what you can create while simultaneously making sure the vast, vast majority of players will be able to experience it all. NEVER sacrifice accessibility!

So, progression. Horizontal rules. I’d like to see more and varied options towards that horizontal… a growing choice of ascended (and exotic) skins for example. Cosmetic things that maybe go a little beyond just an achievement and a title, but I’m not exactly sure what. Well… I have an idea, remember the statues in the Hall of Monuments? Of course, that would require a housing type of setting, but it would be great to have a place of our own to progress with our accomplishments as opposed to a power grind. Imagine a fireplace/hearth carved out of one of Jormag’s teeth that you can craft after defeating him? A lovely couch made of genuine naga hide? That type of progression, showy instead of powerful, would go a long way.

Of course, this is all my opinion, others will vary. I like the path we’re on progression-wise and the potential that is available using this path can be endless. (And yes… housing could really benefit the whole thing… but that’s a topic for another CDI…)

Edit: Just saw the later post – regarding speed, exotics are (now) fine but may have been a little to quick originally. If you speed up the rate of ascended progress you’ll need to more quickly offer alternative skins and the like to shoot for. Some people will push the speed to it’s maximum allowable, and they’ll be the loudest ones shouting that there’s nothing left to do while the rest of us cruise along at our own pace.

ykyk.2740:

It’s ok we got the toxic alliance

I like to think that their Wintersday gift to us is making the Toxic Alliance go away

Ranger, definitely.

Nyamo.4798:

Whips for Necro/elem/thief//ranger

How can you have a whip and not give it to the Domination Mesmer ….

The main weapons i want are Crossbow ,Halbeard and flail

Whips
Spears
Battle Net

Love how gw2 made weapons dictate your skills.
But why is there so little weapon categories.
Im I player that likes to see more personally feeling to my characters. I don’t like to fall in line with what is good. But it so hard to do with so little choices.
Engineer is a prime example postal and rifle… Yes yes they have tool kits but it just not.the same… I.personaly believe they should receive a dagger with skills more potion or poison oriented. But that’s a different subject all together.

This thread is manly for what weapons do you want to see in game that are absent ATM. I’ll start with a few I really want.

-Spears (we have them underwater but can’t use them above, that baffles me, and I don’t just mean 2h spears I want to sport a spear and shield)
-Halberd (by far one of my fav weapons of all times.
-Crossbows (another death machine I miss.
-Gauntlets ( no need to make a whole new monk class if warriors can pound some ones face in with their fist, good combo with thiefs guardians and elementalist, who doesn’t wanna hurl flames from there fist?

I have Alot more but I’d like to see every ones ideas on what they want.

Whips for Necro/elem/thief//ranger

So I would like to let ArenaNet know first, I am extremely happy with this update. Awesome cinematic at the end of the instance, wintersday is fun, and the amount of references to Scarlet’s short story at Thunder Ridge Camp is amazing. But I found a treat on the other side of Kessex Hills in Black Haven. Look!

P.S. Pay close attention to where the minimap shows me being. That’s Black Haven, right near the zone-in to Gendarran Fields from Kessex.

EDIT: I want to add, there’s an asura that talks to the quaggan about the tower but a lionguard shoo’s the asura away, accusing the asura of harassing the quaggan.

Wintel.4873:

Can someone please translate what happened in this round:

but guy at srat say ok gusy lisen plan
1 close 1 animal 1 far rest mid
ok ok i say i am mid coz far is noob
burt map say i am 1 mid rest animal no close no far
and i die hard lol
loost

But yeah overall this post made the entire Dec 10 patch seem insignificant XD

Translation:
“At the initial strategy phase of the game I joined, I presented the following plan to my fellow teammates: ‘Dear sirs, would one of you kindly cover the closest point, and then another person attack the nearest NPC type beast for the point bonus, and finally, would the rest of you accompany me to engage the enemy at the middle point?’

However, to my distress, I found myself bereft of assistance when I went to the middle point and when I looked to find where my team was located, I found them all attacking the NPC beast. Not a single person had even decided to attempt in capturing either the point closest to our starting point, nor the farthest!

As a result of this ill fortune, I stood no chance to the overwhelming odds I faced as the enemy advanced upon my position, and I was struck down. Sadly, the game ended up as a loss."

Wallpaper is up guys and Ho Ho Tron is looking awesome!
Thank you Arenanet for taking the time to fulfill this unimportant request Much appreciated.

Suuuuurre he is. He will up the chances to the roof! Drown all your exotics and rares into his toilet on the eve of Xmass, and if you dont get something nice, it only means that you were a naughty little kid. Try harder next time.

Also, Zomorros knows if you didnt buy all the gem-store items. Just a hint.

I would not mind seeing some kind of Asuran snow generating machine that we can interact with once a day to get our choice of snow flakes.

Home instance rewards have been the best meta achievement rewards added to the game so far, my bank was starting to fill up with ugly backpacks.

Kindeller.3072:

I am not advocating this at all, as someone who was away for the release of the two other nodes… and missed it its a bit crap that there will never be (more than likely) another opportunity to gain things like these. If the material is intended to be available for use regularly then don’t release one time opportunities for them. For the candy corn and snowflakes maybe because they can seasonally return but the quartz will not ever be back unless the bazaar returns :/

Say no to temporary content! :p

You can always mine your friends home instance nodes…

Draugl.8079:

What makes you think that everyone will habe them?
From the forums i got the impression that there are many that don’t want them for various reasons.

Lol -not surprising …
Official Forum Recipe:

1. Title “X is Kitten Horrible – ANet Fix!”
2. First post: “I actually like X”
3. Second through eighth posts: “Kitten fanboy, you kitten . X sux.”
4. Every fifth post: “I don’t need X, ur whiners, I can solo it.”
5. Following three posts: “Kitten liar. Stop being uber. X is broken, everyone kitten knows that.”
6. Every ten posts and every other post for six posts: “U whiner, L2P.” “No, you, kitten.”
7. Post 48: “Hi, it’s Dev ABC. We didn’t want X to break the meta, especially with the EU servers lagging. While we’re still testing X and may make additional changes, we strongly feel X accomplished what we wanted it to do.” End with usually pretty funny joke (yeah, I’m sucking up now).
8. Following five posts: “Thanks ABC! GW2 rocks! X is perfect! Keep up the great work!”
9. Next three to fifty posts, depending on degree of hatred/love for X: “Sux”. “L2P”
10. Thread is buried by “I Hate Y – Fix This ANet!” threads.

Pennry.9215:

Sorry, but orphans burning each other is just in bad taste.

You are why we can’t have nice things.

Pennry.9215:

Sorry, but orphans burning each other is just in bad taste.

Just make sure to turn them over half way. No one likes half Charr’d orphans.

/respect

Pennry.9215:

Sorry, but orphans burning each other is just in bad taste.

Not if you season them properly.

Its just a joke. People really need to lighten up sometimes.

When he said the thing about Orphans having to burn each other, I almost loled loudly, which would have been bad (at work). I can’t wait to see the actual comment and see if its voiced. I really hope it is, Ho-Ho Tron/Hobotron will always be the best golem.

Pennry.9215:

Sorry, but orphans burning each other is just in bad taste.

that’s actually what Ho Ho Tron says after he collects all the money he needs.

to burn each other to stay warm – Ho Ho Tron. Tomorrow is the release of the Wintersday event. It is so exciting with all this new Dolyak Escort event and everything that was there last year with IMPROVEMENTS. Anyone who could not watch the livestream here are the most useful notes.

- Party Activities – you can now enter activities with your party (mentioned only about Toypocalypse and Snowball Mayhem, doubt it works on others)

-No queue for JP – you won’t have to wait for the puzzle to reset and can choose any of the three available paths, also a checkpoint where players can take the present and go or take continue. (right before the exploding gifts)

-Donations – in LA near Weaponsmithing station Minstrel and Ho Ho Tron are collecting gold to donate for orphans, they usually have funny conversations between them, bragging about gold they got.

-Dolyak Escorting – after the donation requirement has been filled HoHoTron or Minstrel will start Dolyak escort event where players have to repel huge waves of Skritt using Snowball or Kick (F key function) The event does not scale and gets harder over time.

-Gifts for you and you and you All activities grant gifts from various actions. E.G is your team scores a gift in Snowablly Mayhem you get a gift, during the dolyak escort the dolyak drops gifts the longer the event the more the gifts you get.

-Winters….MONTH – The event will continue until 21st January.

Nothing else has been revealed (if I forgot anything comment and I’ll add it)

Here we go again, is it Snowman? Is it Snow Globe, no its staff. I hope you get old or new winter weapons. This is probably my last winter in GW2, so have fun ppl and Merry Wintersday, ho ho ho…

Block or slide, wanna fight with style?…Shield?…Sledge? Time to share… So who distributes gifts this year? Ho ho ho

Another boring day at work.. Crush your opponents with giggle hammer bell, sow terror with Merry Wintersday style, ho ho ho ho, freeze hammer time…

Edit: now with lighting