Guild Wars 2

Wouldn’t a decision that made more people happy be better? The only complaint if they had just added a path would have been about the new path. This is just confirms my fears that when other dungeons get touched or a new path, they’ll simply remove one of the paths. Great when they remove arah 4, but for the rest of the dungeons, not so much.

Artemis.4059:

Guys – path they are removing was bugged (dumb).

Spiders on last boss were not despawning. If new players go there and wipe 3 times, they need to repeat dungeon. It is plain broken, no matter what you say. It is like bosses would not loose stacks of their buffs after wipe etc, it is not normal and anti-player thing.

What I think has happened is just they weren’t able to fix it, so they remove it with a better thought-out path that all can complete, where mechanics can be learned WITHOUT having to repeat dungeon after few wipes.

Of course, you can say you can watch videos, learn, be good etc – YES, you can learn it, but the way this boss was working was simply wrong.

And no I wouldnt say they will remove an other path from the game, as none other path/ boss fight in the game is broken in a way it needs a serious fix.

Why do you defend broken dungeon? Cause you can’t laugh at nabs anymore?

sorry to burst your bubble, but it was a fixable problem, there was an update that made the spiders not despawn upon wipe. before that update this path was perfectly fine.

am I the only one who was made physically sick by the swirling waters? that’s all I want changed

@ilr to quote the great comedian Eddie Izzard. “I’m covered in bees. AHHHH”

@Faowri, you’ll still be able to obtain dungeon completion, you simply will have to do the new dungeon path instead of forward/up, granted you will still miss out on the forward/up path content… which i realize now is probably what you were refering to.

This also concerns me for other dungeons. like Sorrow’s Embrace path 2, it’s not hard by any stretch, it’s just very much time consuming than the other paths, and while not wildly popular, the dredge are very much capable of having a story around, especially if looking at how they changed from guild wars 1 and guild wars 2.

yeah, the guy just confirmed it… wow. I’m upset now.

I’m skeptical about that, yes F/U was a very annoying path, but not so much that it deemed being removed, just needed some tweaks really. Than again, I don’t know who Leif is.

Wouldn’t have to be from temporary content, look at boss week, tequatl is permanent.

1 thing that was mentioned in the first post that bugs me, the Sons of Svanir are horribly misogynistic so Scarlet would not be able to pull them in herself, and Aetherblades are bandits, not necessarily seperatists(as those are strictly human).

@nexxe, if you’d pay attention, Trehearne is a sylvari, which means he’s immune to all dragon corruption.

I don’t think this story line is very good, and while I don’t mind Scarlet, she’s just kind of there to me, I’m guessing they’re planning on wrapping it up either this month or maybe next. I don’t think we’ll see anything to do with Sons of Svanir until we go face Jormag, as they are the most exclusionary and jerkish. Rumors on my server are that the first new area we’ll be getting is in Maguuma, so that could lend support to something with Mordremoth if true, or anything else really, it’s Maguuma.

Aedelric, the key word is yet. We will one day see Palawa Joko again, and with how he was set up in GW1, I don’t see how they could possibly screw him up. I also heard rumors that we’ll see Menzies the Mad and Balthazars struggle again. And when I first learned of Menzies the Mad in GW1 I thought like sheogorath in the elder scrolls, as probably the most well known god I could think of, but then I saw his minions and the Fissure of Woe, and I think Mad may be as in enraged and bloodthirsty, so I hope if that rumor is true he get’s done well.

@Thobek, I can almost asure you, no, ANet really doesn’t, if the personal story is anything to go by anymore. And as for Kiel, the contracts being blown up, a lot of people would have been hurt if it was done by Canach, Kiel made sure no other innocent people were hurt. The hate Kiel gets just blows my mind

Now hold on, I loved guild wars 1 story telling. but other than that, I feel you’re largely right, I never intended to say that scarlet was a great villian, but just that compared to the rest of the game as is that she’s not so bad. I feel she was given an actual rival to stop her we may have seen a comparison with Vader and Leia, cuz Scarlet vs world is rather lame, but something about characters in search for absolute power and their fall usually is at least a good read, even if the characters themselves aren’t that great.

I read a lot of short story fantasy collection books, so that kind of plot isn’t exactly frequent, at least not in the ones I’ve read, so it catches my eye.

Gabby.3205:

Thobek.1730:

I want him back too. Perhaps his actions were out of desperation. To date he is one of the most interesting characters. A villian? anti-hero? who knows, they should bring in new writers to develop him further. I believe he is cunning enough to escape his cell and I hope he does as well.

I would like him to become more of an anti-hero whose methods are questionable but not completely ruthless as to turn people away from him. A bit like a vigilante. If there was a quest to break him out of jail I’d do it.

This a gazillion times. And if I could kick Kiel’s face while at it, even better.

Nobody ever talked about him on interviews though (I mean, since the SoS is over). He is probably not so popular, nobody ever asks the devs about him. I just hope that he has not simply disappeared.

It would put me at ease if we could at least see him and talk to him while he is in prison, like with Mai Trin.

Kiel kind of finished what he started with freeing the people from the consortium, so your action to kick her would be dumb.

I think scarlet just doesn’t like idea of her life being predetermined by the pale tree, and is trying to forge her own destiny through force. I don’t know, this games lore and story telling is incredibly weak, you can’t argue that, but i still don’t see her as a bad villian. I think Nilkemia is pretty correct, but I think they’ve given the impression that Faolin is too obsessed with Caithe to actually do anything significant herself.

I feel the people who excessively dislike Scarlet didn’t actually read anything about her and just think she’s a joker clone

Edit: there is reason and a cause behind her actions.

Palawa Joko wins. but I don’t feel it’s entirely fair to call Canach a villian, I think anti-hero does fit best and he just didn’t really think things through

Singer.8740:

To me, these are the damage kings:
1.Elementalist
2.Warrior
3.Engineer
4.Ranger
5.Thief
6.Necromancer
7.Guardian
8.Mesmer

i corrected this for you

I don’t know how much I agree with either of you… mostly with the bit with ranger and necro. I feel ranger should be lower than thief, and at least in pvp, power necros hit HARD.

akamon.2769:

Paradox.5498:

Seeing the blue part on the SAB-map, I guess in one of the future worlds we get to see aquatic SAB zones. And probably… aquatic weapon skins as well. And seeing how we can’t get world 1 skins now, we probably won’t be able to get world 2 weapons after this month anymore either.

:OOO
can’t imagine an underwater level. tribulation mode. ://

but you do bring up a good point. if i’m not mistaken, all “available” weapon sets are released already. apart from the aquatic weapons. so we’ll only get a few weapons to choose from come W3? hadn’t thought about that…

Sharks as someone said, and undercurrent and vortexes, oh and jellyfish.

Ayrilana.1396:

null.1298:

If the design of Shortcut Worm was actually intended to be impossible, then the devs could have done what they did with Shortcut Eagle, and teleport the player back to the start of the map instead.

The eagle transported you there and the wurm is essentially a passage. Doing the same thing wasn’t possible.

null.1298:

Beating the Shortcut Worm is not a case of using buggy mechanics, exploits, or similar methods. You can beat it entirely with just basic jumping.

In Arah, you can bypass a lot of the level by using basic jumping. Whether you can do something with basic jumping does not mean something is intended. I am not saying taking the wurm shortcut is an exploit.

Samhaim.8956:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab-bts/Shortcut-eagle-TM-bugged
Read through both of his answers again, if after doign that u still can’t see that the shortcut worm was intended to be doable then idk what else they could say to change your mind.

Yes, that was the thread I’ve been talking about. Maybe you should re-read it as well? Nowhere does he say it was intended.

That entire thread is about how the eagle shortcut is not intended. The dev responded because it would not be very justice-y. Someone then brought up that the wurm has a strong sense of indigestion. which the dev agreed. Based on what the thread was about, you could assume that the it wasn’t intended since the wurm has a strong sense of indigestion that was supposed to prevent you similar to the justice with the eagle.

There was no direct response from the dev, yes. That does not mean it was an admission that it’s intended. I don’t see why they would allow one shortcut and not the other.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

If they implemented extra traps inside shortcut wurm, doesn’t that automatically mean that they clearly DID want to make it an alternative route? It’s just a very hard alternative.

Unless you weren’t intended to get past them. That’s what part of my argument is about.

The guy is pretty clearly agreeing with that the worm doesn’t have the same sense of justice.

I would really say it’s not hard at all, just time consuming.

@The Gates Assassin I never really thought about that, but I think you’re right. Fair enough.

@Elidath, no I never played that before

Lonesamurai.4852:

A Massive Headache.1879:

EDIT: no, i do distinctly remember morrowinds music, it was definantly nice. and I’m sure KOTOR had distinct music but it was nothing memorable for me.

Both also done by Jeremy Soule who does Guild Wars

Yeah… I’ve been aware…

I’ll give you of the games I"ve played, unreal tournament actually stood out from the rest music wise; however, considering oblivion may as well been the same music as skyrim, and guild wars 1 and 2 and some other rpg that I could have sworn he did music for but isn’t on the list I played with music by him, I really wish he would just stop.

EDIT: no, i do distinctly remember morrowinds music, it was definantly nice. and I’m sure KOTOR had distinct music but it was nothing memorable for me.

Narcemus.1348:

A Massive Headache.1879:

PopeUrban.2578:

You’re kidding right?

This franchise, thanks to the input of Jeremy Soule, has some of the best music of the MMO crop.

The problem is that you’ve heard it all before, as no boss has unique music.

Furthermore, the music you’ve listed is decent, but still nothing special in that it sounds like formulaic JRPG battle music.

I loves those games too, but you’re having a nostalgia attack. You want to FEEL like you did when you heard this music, which is why the music is meaningful to you, not because it’s great music.

Are you kidding? Jeremy Soule can’t do anything different, I swear I can’t listen to guild wars 2 music as it’s the same thing as the elder scrolls and I’ve gotten sick of that games music. I’d gladly take old jrpg music at this point.

I would have to greatly disagree, but you would have to listen to Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, Eye of the North, and GW2 in order to see that there is a very wide range of things this composer can do. You are very limited in what you are judging.

I’ll give you that factions was different, been so long since i’ve played them I can’t recall why; however, the rest were all very samey. I would easily mistake prophecies music for some tune somewhere in gw2. I think the only difference nightfall had was that there were noticable drums.

PopeUrban.2578:

You’re kidding right?

This franchise, thanks to the input of Jeremy Soule, has some of the best music of the MMO crop.

The problem is that you’ve heard it all before, as no boss has unique music.

Furthermore, the music you’ve listed is decent, but still nothing special in that it sounds like formulaic JRPG battle music.

I loves those games too, but you’re having a nostalgia attack. You want to FEEL like you did when you heard this music, which is why the music is meaningful to you, not because it’s great music.

Are you kidding? Jeremy Soule can’t do anything different, I swear I can’t listen to guild wars 2 music as it’s the same thing as the elder scrolls and I’ve gotten sick of that games music. I’d gladly take old jrpg music at this point.

soakman.7539:

I don’t understand. Why is it so hard to accept that not everyone will have everything? It’s not like the developer’s threw some random numbers down into the game and said “Gee. That seems about right.” They know how long it will take you to reach upper ranks through normal play. It is supposed to. It’s supposed to be a distinguished and impressive rank; not everyone is going to be able to reach it.

And yes, I know you guys doing this are “high-ranked PVP hardcores” but you still want something to work toward while playing, yes? I would.

I really have to ask you, just how sure of that are you?

bewaffled.5182:

A Massive Headache.1879:

bewaffled.5182:

To be fair on my TV (lol, don’t ask) the colors of the pack appear to meld together so I checked on my monitor, slightly less rage there (and after some tweaking less on my TV). Still. My point about them being very similar remains. Like.. It’s called the Storm Wizard.. It’s not even Storm like or even Wizard like.

So you didn’t have to defeat the storm wizard for that?

For the pack? Yes, you do. Otherwise you can’t complete the meta. :]

There you go. that’s why it’s called the storm wizard pack.

bewaffled.5182:

To be fair on my TV (lol, don’t ask) the colors of the pack appear to meld together so I checked on my monitor, slightly less rage there (and after some tweaking less on my TV). Still. My point about them being very similar remains. Like.. It’s called the Storm Wizard.. It’s not even Storm like or even Wizard like.

So you didn’t have to defeat the storm wizard for that?

Jordo.5913:

u ever think that since its TM and there are supposed to be pointless deaths that it is working as intended?

What part of a bug means it’s not working as intended do you not understand exactly. From what I gather it wasn’t doing that before, now it is; that means something was messed up.

I don’t think scarlet could have been involved, the timing would be off, wouldn’t it? Though, my first thought was that Moto had gone crazy and when he slept he put in extra danger, so, Scarlet in asura form… I think realistically, the inquest would be involved if anything.

Umm, just to bring an important point that hasn’t been mentioned, and I think to be pretty vital to this, cat mario and IWBTG were meant to be entertaining, and they were successful, I don’t see very many jokes around tribulation mode other than the mode itself. it’s like all those IWBTG fan games that are hard for the sake of being hard. There’s a megaman x romhack that is a piece of garbage in terms of design, with the same backgrounds and tilesets(rom hack, what is to be expected really) and that’s what I’d more closely like tribulation mode too.

I really wouldn’t call it skill, I’d say it’s more how many times do you really want to make the same dumb jump.

They couldn’t dumb down tribulation mode more if they tried. Saying tribulation mode is good is just wrong. I pretty much agree with raahk an stof, and would basically just be repeating them.

They outright said they were taking notes from cat mario and IWBTG for tribulation mode, I don’t know what you were expecting from that. I do agree world 2 had a lot bad moves, especially zone 2 with all those dart traps you have to just slow yourself down to a snails pace your first time through, and for a platformer like SAB that really doesn’t feel fun or fitting. I liked the yeti fight though, have yet to figure out the storm wizards pattern though, when he does that invulnerable charge thing. it just beats me

Luigi.1584:

And I’m wondering what about my Lunaria, Circle of the Moon and Solaria, Circle of the Sun. They have Magic Find stats too.. 4% but still.

All celestial items are just going to lose their magic find stat, they’re fine as they are

@Leablo, I had 8 characters that I could speed run with.
and @Xuro. darn, does make sense that they would do something like that, world 2 looks like it couldn’t exactly be speed(sped?) ran anyways, at least not the first level with the raft

Uhh, I don’t know what you did with your time in there if you didn’t make any money, the rare skin drops from that were worth quite a lot and if you wanted a skin for yourself baubles were not hard to get for the green version. In otherwords, the drop rewards could be the same format and you could profit immensely from it

I can’t believe this is still going on, Celestial equipment is fine without magic find, and the devs agree with that statement as well. so there we have it.

ZilentNight.5089:

TehPwnerer.7215:

Doubtful. People have already made 1000s of gold by selling them. They should have been account-bound from the beginning instead of sellable.

I think the OP means the weapon should be “Account Bound once equipped” and not Soulbound when equipped.

This would still allow players to sell a legendary if they choose to do so.

That’s exactly what they meant, or maybe they meant simply accountbound period. They certainly stated they wished that their legendary could be used by more than just their necro

It’s not going to happen, this game is not exactly alt friendly, so if this ever happens I will be shocked. Though I would like it to happen

Celestial is fine as it is without magic find, end of story, Devs even said magic find on celestial will just go away,

Except the living story is to try to present Tyria as a living world, Moto is introducing this and it’ll be temporary. You’re playing a game, it’s already a story. Though this games story is incredibly weak and lacking

They’ve already said existing magic find gear will give you a replacement for the stat and boosters will be unaffected. I’m just sad I didn’t use exotic magic find armor on one of my character so I’m going to have to use 6 transmutation crystals to keep the skin

I disagree with Evans, there are more sylvari than just those from The Grove, and those sylvari do not have the dream, and they seem to be just fine, except for the one guy with amnesia who tells us of the other sylvari. I do wonder how much empathy sylvari feel towards one another, as the dream certainly enhances it.

My problem is that this revelation of sylvari having predetermined fates, I don’t like that so much, even if our characters are predetermined to be heroes.

People aren’t intentionally failing the event, they’re simply killing the aetherblades, which is part of the event. If you don’t like commanders mostly being on aetherblades/champions go get your own tag and lead people, it just so happens that aetherblades and the molten alliance has more champions than the portals so of course more people are on them.

@Emyn and rainynoble. they’ve done it before, it won’t be the last time.

This is nothing new to ANet. They did this in gw1 with the mini panda, kanaxia, vizu, and various other minis; however, those were not account bound and thus extremely expensive. Don’t worry, just wait 7-10 years and Mr. Sparkles will be made available through other means.

I would fully support pinecone hair

@I See No Tomorrow actually the minions of dragons can’t be corrupted by other dragons, or at least all evidence so far points to that. there are inquest mixing dragon magics; however, I’m not entirely sure that’s relevant

But they said that primordius was the first one to wake up, not one of the first, and didn’t they explain where the seeds came from too? like some soldier came back from a cave to see his village destroyed? Seeds from a cave don’t sound like a dragon thing, but I could be wrong.
I understand the hate towards Kormir in gw1, my qualm was she never shut up. but it’s not like those npcs are undeserving or unfitting. That’s mostly what i mean, the story was mostly such garbage anyways, that why even care.