Guild Wars 2

The thing is that they should, unless absolutely mandatory, never hunt down “criminals” by punishing legit players as well.

As it is, the system is punishing legitimate players quite a lot… Really think they should reconsider some of their choices in this area.

Heyo,

I’m kinda dissapointed to see how GW2 turned out. Why? Because they told everyone they would make the next level mmo. Instead they copied WoW. The only thing they nailed perfectly was the leveling system. But on top of that all they told they would put everything that was good in GW1 into GW2. (manifesto video)

GW1 was a next level mmo. I can’t seem to find any other mmo that is like that. It was unique. That’s why so many people loved GW1. If i play GW2, i miss the instanced areas, i miss that i only needed 20 levels. I miss the teamwork. I miss the drop system, the way how you get good looking items. I miss how PvP was. Balthazar points, the huge deck of skills. & omg! The dual professions :o (ow & GvG :oooooo,, GH !!! Alliances!!! i’m trippin here)

Looking to GW2 it looks way more like WoW rather than GW1. Like: traits = wow masteries, single classes with each their own set of skills. Trading post = auction house. Open world. Big bosses with high HP pools. Long time required to level. Mining, woodcutting, etc.. Lack of skills making you use the same skills over & over again like in wow.

Some new things that are new but i dont’ like: Paid waypoints, RNG, grind for items instead of challanging/hard content. Dodge to counter the dmg of EVERYTHING instead of taking the correct skills to counter your enemy.

The only next level things i found in GW2 was: leveling system although i rather have max level 20-30. & Jumping puzzles.

I would like to know from u guys that played GW1, what u think of GW2. But only comment if you did PvP alot or did speedclears or Solo farming. Cus i don’t want people commenting that played GW1 for like a few months and actually didn’t know what the game was about.

Obtaining weapon skins: out of all the methods that anet has done, now they’re resorting to boxes where you could potentially buy thousands and not even get a ticket?
Sure, you have a month to get it, but really, why change to a method that involves a ton of RNG compared to what they did before involving bauble baubles or sweaters/socks/whatever? At least some progression is made when they work towards getting the skin.

Dragon ball: Compared to the Wintersday pvp minigame, this is kind of lackluster. There’s not that much about it to be said.

Moa racing: Pay 50s to watch a bunch of moas run, if you win, great. nothing special

There’s also no jumping puzzle, but that’s not such a big deal. My major gripe is with RNG boxes for skins though. Not everyone gets lucky and that can be pretty upsetting when they have to go through thousands of boxes, and potentially not even get a single ticket.

tl;dr – event seems pretty kitten/poorly done after looking at the minigames and not much thought process went into the method of obtaining skins. (progression-based to RNG-based)

Stopped playing for a long time because of:

1) Ludicrously slow rate of balancing and once-a-month patches (and often balancing is just skipped)

2) Their philosophy is slow balancing to prevent whack-a-mole balance, but that has already happened. Poor solutions (nerf the one viable ele build in such a way that further breaks many other non-viable builds, BLINDLY nerf Quickness across the board which ended up breaking Frenzy, and to this day Sigil of Rage and all traits regarding Quickness have not been compensated. Others, like buffing Wars in PvP by strengthening their PvE, are just not the best solution. Updates are too infrequent for their philosophy to even work.

3) Lack of communication with the community. Responses like Soon™ or “We are aware of the situation and have a secret in-house solution we made while completely ignoring the community’s suggestions, but it will be super awesome just wait and see!” responses don’t count.

4) Too much focus on temporary content. Yes, Anet has stated that Living Story development is with a separate team and doesn’t interfere with regular development, but those resources can be much better allocated.

5) Does not fix non-critical bugs. And I have personally reported tons of bugs (some multiple times through multiple ways) since beta/launch days that have not been fixed.

If this keeps up, probably will stop playing again.

• The core combat mechanics are bad/overly simplified.
• Auto-attacking is sufficient to easily get through 99% of the content.
• Skills are very generic. No choice in skills.
• Most traits are ineffectual and barely change anything.
• The AI is terrible.

If this game required a subscription, it would have died faster than AOC/WAR/SW:TOR.

Agree…to much CC allover the kitten place.Just like those scouts in WvWvW.CrippleCrippleCrippleCrippleCrippleCrippleCrippleBlindBLindBLindBLindBlindBLindBlindBLindBlindBLind….
Pop in some more random cc’s and you get the idea….

I just popped a holo projector in Iron Marches which brought the Orr holos out and it drew two warthogs to boot. Not counting the initial KD, and two evades I was knocked down and/or stunned SEVEN TIMES IN A ROW before I could even begin the fight.

For the love of all that is holy, STOP WITH THE ENDLESS CC in this game from every freaking mob. It is not “challenging” it is not fun it is strictly infuriating and pointless and drags fights out for absolutely no reason.

Getting pulled a half dozen times in ten seconds by spiders is MADDENING. Getting constantly locked down because every enemy in the area can do a knockdown or stun is MADDENING. Stop. With. The. Ceaseless. CC.

Dante.1508:

Reroll another class, the more engineers that do that hopefully will show them enough data that they need an overhaul asap, not turret fixes not grenade nerfs but real life fixes to their weapons..

And even if they don’t you’ll still feel better on a class that works..i personally had a engi i loved but i haven’t touched it in months..

Believe me I’ve tried. I hit content burnout at level forty with a ranger, and twenty-five with a thief. An entirely separate thread could be made on this issue, but the simple fact is that, at least to me, the leveling content in this game just isn’t fun after the first time though.

Clearly that idea of the zones feeling different and still being exciting each time you go through them because of dynamic events didn’t exactly work out as intended.

All of the things everyone above has listed is WHY I play Guild Wars 2. Because in games where that’s the norm, I don’t end up staying.

Yep, the farmers and end game progression people are definitely unhappy, and they’re not shy to say so. Okay.

That doesn’t make Guild Wars 2 a bad game. That makes Guild Wars 2 a good game for some people. The very things you detest are the very things that I look forward too.

Take the complaints about bashing pinatas.

If you go and bash every single pinata to get an achievement all at once, it’s boring as hell. If you bash some pinatas every single time you go to LA within the time limit of the festival, you’ll probably get the achievment for it without grinding.

You could stand and farm projectors on day one when everyone was doing it, or just sort of roam around and get them WHILE playing. You don’t have to farm these things. Most of them you’ll get.

I get it. You want to sit in Orr and run the same event chains over and over. And I’m sad that you can’t do it. I’m not saying that in just either. I wish you could play that way…but that you can’t doesn’t make Guild Wars 2 a bad game. It makes it a game unsuited to your play style.

Where as Rift and WoW are totally unsuited to mine.

My feeling, and it is just a feeling, is this. I think it matters little to Anet if people who have already purchased the game are playing anymore, unless their playing is bringing in revenue (gem purchases). Since they already have the purchase price of the game, the goal now is to somehow increase gem purchases even if they alienate players in the process. Why should they care if players leave who are no longer generating income?

I am not trying to be overly cynical, I think the changes to this game have simply been the result of nuts and bolts business decisions about how to keep the game earning.

Maybe they are right….because they already have my money for buying the game. Unless they can somehow manipulate me into buying gems they are not going to make any more from me. That’s business.

IDK why you’d change them. Now you took a grind and made it a “Pause, Wait, & Grind” Just because people were overzealous on day one, doesn’t mean daddy has to come lord over it.

I was having a lot of fun last night setting a bomb, trigger the holo, and watching them blow up! It wouldn’t kill them outright but, it truly was a blast! Just enough damage to tag too.

This is something we needed to work out on our own. Besides, being a low level alt, they aren’t THAT easy to solo. No one’s going to be doing them after they get the achievement. As a developer, Anet should realize how OCD their gamers are by now

Thus, please revert them back as it was more fun!

A wild CC has appeared.

Forum Community used ‘scare away’.

It was super effective.

Anet are possibly the least engaged developers i’ve ever come across. They hardly use their own forums, instead prefering reddit or twitter, and they provide verylittle information or feedback.

They seam not to care about longstanding issues and bugs, and the quantity and quality of content released leads me to question just how many people are working on the game, because it does not seam many unless there is some huge update in the works. I compare gw2 contet to rift in the first year and the difference is massive, and uet i doubt that anet are going to release an ember isle size update anytime soon…

I’ll post a TL;DR after to give a quick rundown of the issue… Also this post isn’t to say “GIVE ME ASCENDED GEAR NOW!” it’s to say “Give me ways to gear my alts as well as my main.” I say this now because my mixture of ranting and pointing out the issues with the system sometimes get jumbled. Anyway onward with the post!

The ascended gear is supposed to have moderate time constraints to keep players from just dinging max level and gearing up so fast that they have nothing to do… But the current system is designed so you have to focus on 1 and only 1 character due to the time gates being larger and larger with each piece of ascended gear added…backs will not be covered because they can be crafted. Let me elaborate.

FOTM came to the game… Level 10+ you had a chance to get one of the rings per day…. The rng was a bit excessive so they added a +1 relic system where 10 relics = 1 ring…

Time gate for FOTM rings 1-10 days per 1 ring… This isn’t bad I can gear my main and my alts in a reasonable amount of time… The system honestly good and the difficulty wasn’t terrible. The laurl aspect was excessive though it should use a 10 laurl per ring since it’s the same as the relics.

Onward to amulets and daily laurls!! This one is where it started to get a bit excessive…. 1 amulet = 30 laurls or 20 laurls 250 badges of honor… 1 1/2 amulets per month tops…. Little alt unfriendly but not as excessive as this next one.

Now to the guild missions and accessories…. These ones are the worst for people in small guilds who would rather stick to playing with friends… Most missions require a minimum of 10 people to actually do properly… Anyway you have a chance to get a accessory from the chest after a guild mission or you can save tokens do all guild missions for 6 per week so 1-14 day thing granted you can make each guild mission PER accessory. On paper this looks fine but onward to the major issue!

Accessories to players unable to do guild missions or who prefer not to do them! A whopping 40 laurls + 50 ecto PER ACCESSORY so a total of 80 laurls 100 ecto…. Honestly I subbed feedback on this because honestly it’s like punishing the players who are unable to do guild missions or would rather do other content…… This not only takes MONTHS to get 2 for 1 set but it digs into the amulets and rings if you don’t do the fractals for rings

This is causing issues in wanting to really focus on alts… The sheer time gating to gear 1 character is getting excessive…. The bare minimum getting rings from fractals and then focusing on laurls for the rest is going to take 3 months for 1 character….. Imagine when they finish adding ascended gear armor and weapons…. This is going to go up by at least 50×....

This post is mainly to point out how un alt friendly the ascended gear is at the moment… As time goes on this is going to become worse…. Imagine when they are done adding the full set of armor/weapons/accessories it will take a minimum of 12 months to gear 1 character.

Anyways

TL;DR
Ascended gear is taking to long to get per character forcing you to focus on 1 character at a time over a long period of time discouraging alts.

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Is that there is quite a large aspect revolving around grind/huge amounts of gold required.

100k zhaittafies. Sure there is the “Just buy from TP” but that emphasis on spending money but if you don’t want the “instant method” and want to get it on your own through normal play, it would take hours upon hours. There was a post on reddit where an example was from a user who said they got around 30 taffies in 10 minutes, so we assumed that if you managed to get 180 an hour (which I feel is quite a stretch of an assumption) that to get 100k you would need to spend 555.5 continous hours to achieve 100k.

The other issue is the moa racing a simple gold sink; a thread on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1g1ntk/moa_race_math/ did some maths and came to the conclusion that the minimum gambling cost for the mini would be around 28.4g (cost will vary but being based on a 1/5 chance of winning races)

The immediate feel I got when I saw these things were “goldsink” and “time sink” (if you want to grind your own 100k candies).

The event itself is great but there is that feel that goldsink is quite a large factor behind this entire event. I’d like to hear from the decision who thought “100,000” items were needed to gain an item. if you were to exaggerate it and make it sound worse, you could say “One tenth of a million”.

I’m just confused by the decisions made from these new content updates, one moment it’s
“Halloween: you can only get these cool skins from RNG gemstore”

then it’s
“Wintersday: you can buy whatever skin you want from the gemstore!”

then
“Southsun: you can get these new crates that give out freebies AND they drop from normal monsters! AND we are throwing you a 200%MF boost to help you further!”

and now..
“Dragonbash: grind for your 100k taffies or buy them from the TP, also spend more gold on the moa racing not small bets like 10s or such but 50s per bet”

I always keep trying to think that GW2 is a new MMO that is trying to appeal to casual gamers and not the old MMO players who simply just grinded.

This latest Dragonbash event really does feel like Arenanet are taking steps backwards. I feel incredibly sorry for new players who haven’t been playing that long. 50s for a bet? that would probably put a huge dent in their funds.

edit: oh and one more thing, I feel kinda sad for those who are buying the “rich” coffers and aren’t getting much from them considering they are meant to be more generous. They don’t seem to be more ‘generous’. Let’s say the normal coffers have a 5% chance of a ticket, the rich roffers should have at least a 35%+ chance for a weapon ticket. It looks terrible how people are wanting to support Anet but still end up frustrated after 20+ coffers with nothing to show for it. And it feels terrible to tell others to no bother buying from the gemstore because it’s a rip off. Regardless of RNG it’s just a poor way to treat your valued customers, if they’re not supporting the game, who is?

I’m going to answer and then this should be closed.

If you don’t like it don’t do it, its that simple. Instead of joining that group that says lf1m speed run, make your own saying something like “lf4m se p3 (killing everything)”
I see posts like that from time to time and people always join them.

Start your own group, start your own group, start your own group. That’s it, that is the answer thread finished.

I logged on to GW1 for the first time in ages the other day to check my birthday presents, and I was stunned by just how much better the entire guild interface was in GW1.

Last online, recruitment date, ranks split into sections, separate Guest and Invitee sections and a guild announcement that’s editable without losing the current text and that appears on log-on. Hell, in the History section, I could even see when a current member was invited and when they actually joined. It recognises that distinction!

Seriously, GW2’s engine is just an updated version of the GW1 engine. How the hell did all this stuff get stripped out in the transition from 1 to 2?!
It’s an embarrassment.

Colin: If I could make a suggestion: Let not this “quest” be to gather more materials than we already need to(fear it turning into a..grind), but a legendary, epic, long, DIFFICULT quest/story chain.

One where the last mission is some mechanically challenging fight that you must solo(no grouping)..not a tank and spank, don’t throw 100 adds at us. A fight that can take 10-15 minutes to solo, one that will cause many wipes and deaths. One that not everybody can do.

I garuntee, it’ll feel epic and legendary then.

I really don’t recommend selling karma. Karma is actually pretty hard to get. It just doesn’t seem that way because you often don’t spend it and it accumulates rather slowly.

Imagine you spend 1.5 million karma and then Arenanet releases a bunch of new karma items that are valuable? It’s gonna be hard to get that karma in a reasonable time frame (especially since Plinx farm was nerfed a long time ago)

On a side note, it’s very efficient to save the karma from the jugs. Karma itself is not transferrable between characters but the jugs are. They are pretty cheap solutions for armor if you decide to craft-level a new character to 80 and want lvl 80 exotic gear.