Guild Wars 2

Most zones in this game seems to be missing any concept of local governments. There are too few lords, mayors, tax collectors, military officers, elders, doctors.

This game needs more small towns that have some government within them and the surrounding areas. This idea will also help Aet to create more interesting stories and DE’s.

As It is now small towns seem to have no identity to them. With little interesting things happening. To make me care about the area.

I would love to be able to buy a house for my characters, and have different professions be able to make things for it (like artificer makes lamps, tailors could make rugs etc), and be able to visit my friends’ houses. And you could show off any pretty weapons or armour you own, but don’t want to wear anymore.

Fishing could be fun if you could do something with the fish (use in cooking, like WoW, or make into a taxidermy decoration, like LOTRO). It would certainly be fun to have more things in the game that don’t revolve around hacking and slashing away at things constantly.

Similar to how there is a unique recipe for the twisted minis. When I found that out my first thought was, "Oh, Sparkles must be a mystic forge recipe obtained from combining the 3 golems you get from guild commendations + something else. It all made sense logically until I found that you couldn’t forge those.

I think most people can agree that exclusive in game items for attending real world events isn’t fair. I think a mystic forge recipe for sparkles requiring the 3 commendation golems and maybe the inquest golemcaster would be a great idea and one I think most people would really enjoy.

I am surprised there are not more responses to this. Is there another thread filled with mini-collector outrage? Personally I take collecting minis to be the only long-term goal I have in GW2.

If we can’t acquire one…why get any?

Moss.5371:

Josh Foreman.8250:

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That explains a lot. You do indeed sound sadistic, which is troubling. What’s the point of investing this much time and effort of development in content that only a handful will enjoy AND come here and brag about it? Can only be sadism. Maybe you could try to make more popular content for the people that bought your game(1), which certainly didn’t buy it expecting this.

(1) New permanent content such as areas, skills, classes, skins, dungeons.

Another player who thinks all employees of Anet could put their extratime to suddenly jump over to another team and do a few maps, skills and dungeons just becouse they are devs or something.

Josh’s team is working on SAB, so if they wouldn’t be working on TM then there would be something else for SAB.
I myself don’t think I will be able to handle TM but I will try and I hope I am good enough but I won’t whine since I know it will be back so that I can give another try, I love SAB and if I don’t have something better to do I could atleast try… Again… And again.

Just becouse Josh thinks TM isn’t as popular as a regular Hard Mode (less lives and stronger enemies) doesn’t mean “only a handfull of people will like it”, it is also about making everyone happy, not just the majority.

Last update with champion loot we got quite alot new permanent skins, Ascended weapons is comming and probably they have new skins.

I got lot’s to say about not needing Permanent Classes and Areas but this is not the thread for that.

I would extended that list even further.
- Sitting on chair/stools
- More idle animations
- More dance moves
- More RP emotes ala Age of Conan or EverQuest 2

I’m on the Tarnished Coast, part of the reason why the server is so lively its because of its dedicated RP community. I think its fair to give RPers something for the life they bring into the game.

so i can kill all the critters, but i want to be able to pet them as well
would be pretty nice to have the ability to pet the animals instead of just killing them :P

Hi.

Since this game was released, the suggestion forum has seen thousands of submissions, many of which might be irrelevant or do not correspond to the arena-nets’ vision of the game, however, it is a good idea for arena-net to publish the list of user suggestions that actually made it through, and possibly the link to the original post of the suggestion, so that people who have viable ideas know that there is a chance of having your ideas implemented.

How ironic.

DevonCarver.5370:

The server calculates things every time a skill fires off and the more people it hits the more calculations it does.

Thanks for your patience replying to everyone who keeps poking you about this, I’d probably have become a hermit by now if I were you

However what you’re saying seems to be missing one significant factor in my experience, and one which your team can optimise without changing the engine. Here’s a simple thing I’ve noticed: when there’s a massive fight in garrison or SM, it always lags horribly. When there’s a massive fight in Bay or Hills with comparable numbers, it doesn’t lag much if at all.

What’s the difference between Bay/Hills and Garrison/SM? The latter have multiple floors. At any horizontal position, there is only one floor in Bay/Hills (except for the bridge in Hills) whereas there are 3-4 floors inside Garrison/SM. As a former game modder (with full engine access) who roughly understands the current state of the art in physics engines, I think it’s really quite expected that the collision calculations take longer in that kind of environment…

So my question is this: do you know how much of skill lag comes from collision detection versus damage calculation? And if it’s mostly the former when it’s lagging really badly as I suspect, what about limiting the number of floors in future maps or even changing the current maps accordingly. Don’t get me wrong, the extra floors can be a lot of fun in Garrison/SM, but I’d much rather not have skill lag!

Again thanks for your many replies recently, and I hope your apparent lack of interest in the GvG scene is hinting at a longer-term GvG project by another team rather than a genuine dislike for it.

Stooperdale.3560:

There’s no reason to win the event if the only thing that you care about is how fast you can fill your wallet.

You say it like it’s a bad thing.

Just fyi, I got all the achievements by just farming.
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Oh, wow. That’s a wonderful story! Scarlet is such an intriguing being. She reflects a desire in all of us… the desire to create, the desire to know, the desire to master. She is so utterly “human” in her visions and impressions, it makes her very relatable and yet starkly different at the same time. The whole story has, at least to me, a deep sort of spirituality which I find admirable. And in the end, I feel bad for Scarlet. She is so smart, but she’s let her pride drive her to think she’s above everything. Her view of the Pale Tree and destiny, while factually accurate, is deeply flawed. I think when she truly sees the light and the darkness she has readily scorned, she’ll come to realize her own folly.
I applaud you, Arenanet. Scarlet is a wonderful character! I love how you’ve twined her actions throughout the entirety of our stories, and I love how you’ve portrayed her as a person with flaws as deep as her intellect.

People seems to miss the point of farming champions in invasions. Farming will get you more loot bags in the end. You also don’t need to win to get credit for the achievement. I know this for a fact since we failed FGS due to it being terribly buggy and I still got credit winning only matters if you need the scarlet achievement.

If you nerf the farmability of the invasions, people will have less incentive to join a map they’ve already completed. This means less people and you could wind up having even less of a chance of succeeding in stopping an invasion. Imagine trying to get the 100 kills for each representative in Crown Pavilion now. Hardly anyone is there as there are more desirable things to farm.

You have to face the facts that you need farmers otherwise you’ll fail.

Erasculio.2914:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Actually, I already did. You just skipped my entire rebuttal because I made sense. Now you’re avoiding my follow up question because you know for a fact that you’re misusing the term “exploiter” to label people like me who don’t play the game your way.

In other words, you avoided answering every single of my questions because you know they prove you wrong, and are using the “I already did” as a poor dodge. I can counter your arguments easily without having to hide behind excuses. Want one more example? Here:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

You have yet to explain how my doing of Jumping Puzzles on Invasion maps is an exploit. I’m still waiting.

Show me the quote where I say that you doing a jumping puzzle is an exploit.

… Oh, you can’t? My, what a surprise!

The worst aspect of this update isn’t only how it creates a toxic community, but how it empowers the most toxic aspect of the community – ArenaNet is telling people that yes, they are exploiters, but they are not going to be punished for it. There’s little surprise in seeing how many of the Anchorage event exploiters are exploiting this now, as nothing bad happened to them after the first exploit, so it’s only logical that they would exploit more.

Ultimatelly, ArenaNet will realize that the champion boxes will have to go, or the exploiters will have to go. The game can’t work with both of those.

I’m not one of these champion farmes you call “exploiters” (you really should learn the meaning of that overused term btw.), and still I feel sympathy for Smooth Penguin, because he is right – and somehow you seem to fail reading his posts in a level of detail that enables you to understand that.

The only gamebreaking thing about this event are people like you, calling other people names because they play the game the way they want. Comparing actual exploits (like salvaging items giving back more reward than the input is) to simply choosing not to attend an event is -> ridiculous (also an overused term but fitting in this situation). Same goes for accusing people of deliberately stalling the event just because they are doing something else.

Smooth Penguin already tried to explain to you what the difference is, but some people seem to be simply resistent to learning and too focused on making their point instead.

I was attending lots of these events full time and aiming at finishing them, but once I was stupid enough to stay at a bugged event spot (still showing on the map, but no mobs present) to simply rezz someone who has fallen there. It took about 20 seconds until the first one wrote in the whisper chat that I’m stalling the event because I didn’t move on, and even asked in the map chat why all those “dumb people” at this spot can’t be banned. Now tell me again, which part of the community is more poisonous?

But enough of the troll feeding. You will keep on accusing people and calling them names, that’s for sure. I just hope for you, that you won’t be caught in a minute of being afk or hitting the “wrong mob” or being in the wrong spot for some seconds and therefore “stalling the event by not attending”, because such behavior “should be banned”.

Maybe you see the flaw in your statements and the whish to make such things bannable: how do you tell apart people simply playing different content, being afk for important reasons, just wanting to farm some champions or really wanting the rest of the map to fail in the events? The last point actually does only work, if a high percentage of players farms the champions so there are not enough people left to kill a single mob – the Aetherblade “boss” spawning champions… I actually never experienced that happening. When there was an event fail, it was due to lack of organization of the rest of the players not farming champions.

btw: The term you were looking for when using the word “exploit” would be grief play and even then it would not apply to all people you were previously talking about.

The problem with this event are all the people that whine about it instead of playing the game. Good luck getting the achievements now, when the farmers are gone and the people get their 13 maps.

Anet please please please…change the Temple of Balthazar’s level of mob difficulty. When trying to do map completion in that area its extremely difficult to get to the skill point let alone commune there if you don’t have a large group trying to do the event. I’ve tried to get ppl to come and help but no one wants to anymore especially most of the time it gets bugged. I appreciate areas that are difficult to get to but this particular locations level of difficulty for the skill point just is way unbalanced imo.

Kal Spiro.9745:

None of this makes sense to me.

Fall behind what?

What exactly is it you need to do dailies for? Unless you are doing nonstop fractals with every single character you should probably have hooked yourself up with whatever ascended gear you might want by now from laurels, so what is it you’re needing to do?

If you don’t want to do new content, don’t. If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t. Unless you simply don’t want to play the game, though, it is typically a simple job to complete most dailies just by doing what you like. I haven’t felt like I was grinding dailies since they changed them to the rotating selection process. There is almost no need to actually do living world content ever unless you really can’t live without whatever prize you get from the meta achievement.

I just don’t understand what the problem is here.

I don’t get it either. I never even look at the dailies until I’m about to log off. Then, if I only have one or two more to do I will quickly finish them in 10 minutes or less. Just by playing the game how I want to play it I usually get my daily done well before I log off. And if I don’t get my daily on a particular day big deal. It’s only one laurel.

I also don’t understand feeling like you have to participate in the living story. I usually play it to see what it’s all about, get a sense of the story, and then either go back to what I would normally do, or if it holds my attention, continue to work on the living story.

If I could give you some advice it would be this: play the game to have fun. If that is your only goal, then the rewards are bonuses and not the end all-be all of the game. Anyway, just my two cents.

After the skill plateau at lv80, the character progression is strictly cosmetic. This being the case, some of the dye options for certain armor pieces are lacking in that there are not enough parts able to be dyed.

I’m suggesting all future exotic skins (and maybe retroactively current skins) to have 4 parts able to be dyed per piece of armor.

Shiren.9532:

Vol you clearly missed the point. Many players are better off deleting an experience scroll because they already have 8+ level 80 characters. They aren’t going to make any more characters, so an item which only works on characters below level 20 is just taking up space.

Then put it in the bank in case you DO want to make a new character? It doesn’t cost Anet money but it actually encourages a select # of players to purchase another slot.

If you don’t use it, then tough luck. At least you got a minipet and an exp boost for when you want skillpoints.

Gifts are appreciated, but not expected. The moment you expect and demand things you become materialistic and miss the whole point of ‘birthday’ celebrations.

The ability to sort armor by light/medium/heavy in the auction house.