Guild Wars 2

Prysin.8542:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Fd7a51P8o

was thinking something along these lines XD. God that song is so merry.

Wow. You made my morning

Prysin.8542:

urieldhynne.2743:

The community is trying to make WvW competitive. And you ask for a troll hour? Is like ask for “no rules” in a official sport match of any kind, only for fun.

I’ve always fancied bringing a chainsaw and a rubber duck to a football game. God knows why

“And Tom Brady over the middle with the chainsaw launch, the rubber duck is caught and TOUCHDOWN!”

God I hate Brady.

Good idea, would be wonderful to have skins that weren’t locked by RL money costs and it would breathe life back into all the dead zones in the game!

zacsux.2098:

Back on the topic though…lol. I agree LofS. Weapons and back pieces should most definitely be visible from the character select screen. As to why this hasn’t happened yet, your guess is as good as mine.

Agreed, the option should definitely be there.

knives.6345:

Aeonblade.8709:

LofS.9743:

Mostly what the topic says. Since you can’t post in archived subforums I post it here.

Appearence is everything in this game. Weapons and Back Pieces are what often stand out on a character, I want to be able to see these things on character select screen!

As long as they give me an option to turn everyone’s back pieces off so I don’t have to deal with Joe Wingman flapping in my face all the time. Seriously been waiting for that option for a long time.

I do think weapons should at least be visible at character select anyway.

Don’t think they will do that simply because the game is about skins. lol

People got them to “show” them off..

I get that, but until they have cloaks/capes there isn’t really a back piece worth showing off to me personally, they just break immersion and look ridiculous. More power to people being able to see their own back pieces, but others shouldn’t have to deal with it.

I know it’s a pipe dream I have, so I don’t expect it to happen

LofS.9743:

Mostly what the topic says. Since you can’t post in archived subforums I post it here.

Appearence is everything in this game. Weapons and Back Pieces are what often stand out on a character, I want to be able to see these things on character select screen!

As long as they give me an option to turn everyone’s back pieces off so I don’t have to deal with Joe Wingman flapping in my face all the time. Seriously been waiting for that option for a long time.

I do think weapons should at least be visible at character select anyway.

I really like the Hero’s Forge player created items in EQ, I think most MMOs should adopt a similar system where they allow players to create skins and be purchased by other players.

Basically it boils down to 2 groups: Either you care about what products you invest your money into and intend to get your monies worth out of them, or you just don’t care about your money or quality service.

Not saying either is right, just 2 different philosophies in here.

Destai.9603:

Vol.7601:

Another interview
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

Good Lord, they don’t get it, do they? It’s way past time to add new content. It’s over a year in and they’re still telling us things are in the works? He goes on about the break after season and the big patch – it can’t be just quality of life improvements. It can’t be more of “we’re trying to strengthen the core game”. The game needs to be an expansion – it needs a Factions, a Nightfall. Nothing Colin has said indicates they truly understand why a good many players are kittened off. I don’t care about a permanent addition of a dungeon path – I want a new dungeon. I don’t care about Rox, Raisin Brahams, or any of the others, – I want my character to expand and grow.

+1, we scream it from the hilltops and the just close the curtains to the window.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

race and class changes will never happen, learn to love your character or reroll.

Blizzard said this too, and now you can faction and race change. I would look for it to hit the BLTP for a larger than life gem cost in the coming year or two.

solrik.6028:

What kind of chaos would happen if player bodies had collision?

Pros:
-Less dungeon skipping
-Smaller zergs
-Zerg is forced to use tactics
-WvW towers can be defended by blocking the enemy after wall goes down
-Less stack “exploits”

Cons:
-Troll blockers
-People can get stuck in a zerg
-Lion’s Arch bank problems
-AI (minions for example) blocks owner

These are only pros and cons I came up with and I am sure there are a lot more of them

The hitbox wouldn’t need to be as large as the players character. I.e. if a human is 1m wide, the hitbox would only be 0.5m wide. Norns would have slightly thicker hitboxes and asuras thinner.

What would this create?
Will people start running on the right side of the road?
Will people pay more attention to what others are doing around them?
Will parties find a good mix of ranged and melee players?
Will zergs develop a frontline, mid-line, backline?
Will zergs cease to run through other zergs with 30-40 people stacked tightly to eachother?
Will it cause major problems in the PvE world?
How will it affect balance?
Would asuras become the ultimate zerg infiltrators?
Would norns become the ultimate front line defenders?

TERA has different sized hitboxes and it made anyone who was serious about the game forced to play an Elin. Hitboxes need to be universal.

Nalier.4921:

Actually I don’t understand Anet’s policy here. I’m not a Blizzard supporter, but at least they help their players in such situations. As far as i know, they even have a support feature in account management which lets a player to restore every recently deleted/sold item.
And they restore deleted characters, even though players have to type DELETE when they are erasing them.
Aaaand they have no problem with searching through the game logs/chats…
hmmm…

That was kind of my point, when SoE and Blizzard start to look like shining beacons of customer support, you really have to think.

Really? Downscaling as an argument is so laughable. Because soooo many people hang out in those 30-70 zones these days

Tinkereratheart.5086:

Just saw the small preview for the next content release, alot of LS and World bosses, is there anything for WvW? pehaps in a more official preview? will EOTM be released? changes to Wxp? anything for WvW?

A swift kick to the groin, the whole time they tell you are ungrateful and don’t appreciate the work they do. Like every other patch day.

Really guys, the WvW community should be used to getting pooped on after the WvW Matchup forum PR debacle.

Any other company I have played with would restore the items no problem. Just saying, the lazy way out isn’t the best way.

F2P and B2P games are really hard to have any sense of community in. You need a good guild in GW2 to get anywhere socially, otherwise you may as well be playing a SPRPG.

Nightarch.2943:

More science fiction crap? I thought I bought a fantasy game and not the Iron Giant meets Narnia crossover.

Tyria is on the cusp of the industrial revolution for it’s planet. It kind of makes sense to see this kind of stuff honestly. They have flintlock weapons etc. Steam powered tanks and so forth. Not to mention high fantasy usually includes elements of sci-fi as well as common fantasy themes.

shaiya.7649:

Arnath.2319:

sigh… all this hype about the final four releases, fist patch back from a long break and what do we get? Two boring world bosses that will either be to hard and abandoned like the new Tequatl (the most poorly designed epic failure in ArenaNet history) or something like the KarKa Queen who is easy yet no body gives a kitten about it because of its location and effort involved to spawn it.

I honestly was expecting something good in these final four releases, did they learn nothing from the epic train wreck that was Tequatl 2.0?

LOL ? tequatl is the best thing that happened to GW2 since release + fractals … , the only fail here is you been bad and not able to kill him .. in desolation he dies everytime he spawns without TS , and its hell of a fun , i kill him 3 to 4 times a day .. actually guildwars 2 community is going downhill with all thoose whiners …

Please, explain to me how this Teq fight is any different from any other raid encounter? It’s the standard DPS > Flight phase > DPS dragon fight. I guess I can see it being fun if you have never raided in any MMO before, so I can give you the benefit of the doubt on that one.

And no, TS is not required to auto attack kill a dragon :p

Harper.4173:

Aeonblade.8709:

Heavy diminishing returns on stacking the same stats comes to mind. For instance, wearing 4 or more berserker items has 10% reduced stat threshold on each following berserker piece.

This would do 2 things, make people think about their characters beyond just stacking the most OP set currently in the game, and promote build diversity using multiple armor types. As it stands now, berserker gear just makes the game’s PvE the laughing stock of MMOs.

Further clarity: This diminishing return applies to all armor types, not just berserker. This way no one would want more than 4 pieces of the same type.

This is a silly idea – here’s why.
People would stack 4 x berserker pieces and 2x assassin pieces and that would become the new " zerker meta". You’d have fixed nothing.

The new Knight’s meta would probably be 4 x Knight’s +2 x Cavalier’s and so on.

You wouldn’t be promoting more builds.
For each class and each area of content there are OPTIMAL stat ratios.
Say for a speed clear of CoF P1 class x will optimally have y amount of toughness, z amount of power and q amount of precision.
You’ll just be making it more difficult for people to get to those values – but that’s what will happen and nothing you can do will change the fact that people will ALWAYS want the most bang for their buck.

You do know that there are more than 6 pieces of gear you can equip right? You would need at least 4 different armor types with the setup I described, not 2. /facepalm

Mortifer.2946:

I don’t understand what are your expectations people. Living story content is great, I don’t say it has a strong story, but it is fun! I, for example, loved scarlet invasions and it is sad that almost nobody does them by now. Everyone just farm their way to legendary and forget about all the fun

The reason almost nobody does them is because the majority of people did not find them fun.

Farzo.8410:

Sadly, I can’t say this video made me any excited. It looks like all the other videos with some kind of new boss we need to zerg down and remember the timer on.

That’s pretty much the impression I got. More zerg world content that has no real bearing on any part of the game’s story I actually want to explore, like Elona or Cantha or half the map that is still locked.

At least it’s almost over, and Colin pretty much acknowledges that an expansion is coming. Hallelujah, we might get our fun back!

Not sure what the video was trying to do exactly.

Lightsbane.9012:

Asmodeus.5782:

Maining an engineer, so legendaries are not even an issue for me. :P And after 2000 hours you should have more than enough gold to buy a prec.

95% of my game hours have been spent in wvw. that’s an issue that’s not even brought up. how in kitten kitten is a wvw player supposed to even come close to a legendary? luck? gems?

Gems, WvW has been a lackluster reward area since day 1. Do loves me some WvW though anyway.

As a support Guardian, I use Sword/Focus and Staff 90% of the time. Is it the “meta”? No. Do I do well? Yes. Many blind, so good.

Occasionally, you just have to fall back on gold ole mace/focus though.

By the way, with Sword/Focus and the right spec/gear I’m sitting at over 1k healing power, over 2k toughness, and a constant 75% crit rate with sword, without fury. With fury and sword ability 3, you have such a high crit rate even with low offense you can hit 5-8k easy if every attack hits, on top of all the support guardians can bring.

Geiir.7603:

Reverence.6915:

Was fighting in the middle of 25-30 people… Got hit with a killshot doing around 18k damage. That kitten needs to get looked at…

And that’s a 1500 range attack. Yet people complain about a 7k backstab….

I have yet to have a warrior kill shot me from permanent stealth. It’s not just the damage on backstabs, it’s the class on the whole that is broken.

If you care about character customization and getting the best items, this game is not for you, most of that stuff is gated behind insane grinds and gem store costs. If you don’t care and just want to play to have fun, this game is more in line with your interests.

Honestly, I feel like this game was made with future gen console releases in mind. Why else would they limit you to so few buttons and abilities in combat. It’s set up perfect for controller use on that basis alone. If not I seriously wonder why hotbar design was crippled if they weren’t looking for it to be “easy” enough for consoles, for lack of a better term.

With ESO and probably EQN coming to consoles soon, it’s not out of the realm of possibilities.

TexZero.7910:

Here’s how we nerf berserker …..

Stop making content that is a DPS race and make content that actually utilizes Support and Control.

Remove Unshakeable and Defiant. Give boss encounters access to boons and conditions.

Congratulations you’ve nerfed the need for berserkers!

This is the best option, would like to see that but I don’t see it happening personally.

Nike.2631:

Aeonblade.8709:

Reread my post, edited for clarity. Celestial would still suck either way.

Point stands: A static limitation breeds static solutions. I’d rather more variety in content than create ‘mix your gear like so to avoid the diminishing returns’.

At least it’s better than stack berserker and snooze at the keyboard. People would be wearing at least 3 different types of gear and have to think about which 3 types work for them.

Nike.2631:

Aeonblade.8709:

Heavy diminishing returns on stacking the same stats comes to mind.

I would rather more situational solutions that universally applying diminishing returns. There’s no point in dethroning Zerker only to mount Celestial on the best-at-all-times throne.

Reread my post, edited for clarity. Celestial would still suck either way.

Heavy diminishing returns on stacking the same stats comes to mind. For instance, wearing 4 or more berserker items has 10% reduced stat threshold on each following berserker piece.

This would do 2 things, make people think about their characters beyond just stacking the most OP set currently in the game, and promote build diversity using multiple armor types. As it stands now, berserker gear just makes the game’s PvE the laughing stock of MMOs.

Further clarity: This diminishing return applies to all armor types, not just berserker. This way no one would want more than 4 pieces of the same type.

Merging would be a good idea at this point. Most of the population is concentrated in the top 9 servers, with the rest being mostly ghost towns in PvE and bad coverage in WvW.

Really, they could probably merge them into 6 or 9 servers and the game world would be much better for it imo.

Eh, it’s a good game without much staying power. It’s why we are seeing so many empty zones these days. It’s fun, but it’s still riding the wave of success from the first game.

It has it’s ups and downs.

Interested to see how this works seeing as the game is moving further towards pay to win rather than away from it.

I really have been warning people about the P2W state of this game, and it seems to be intensifying as other MMO’s get close to release.

Thanks for the link OP!

Skyliken.3941:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Open world (non consensual) PvP is despicable. It’s just for sadistic people who want to gank, bully and harass others.

Or for those who would like a guild x guild?

Or for those who would like to test builds against a friend?

No, you can’t do that in WxW.

I like WxW, (rank 200+), but 90% of the time it is a Player vs Door, Karma Zerg…

They can test it out, creating one new server with Open PvP.

Heart of the Mists does all of the above for those people.

The problem is they’ll end up like every other games pvp servers. Dead, with the few people left whining that the population is gone being the cause of them leaving in the first place.

Mindless gank servers are just that: Mindless ganking. Full PvP servers have a shorter life cycle than a triple A battery trying to crank a car.

Fuzzion.2504:

MartyPartys.9187:

mahariel.4981:

Welcome back. RG got bored of Camelot Unchained or something?

Camelot Unchained is not released yet.

Elder Scrolls Online is garbage from what i have seen and heard.

Camelot unchained is atleast 2 years from an actual playable state. Alpha is supposedly mid this year. Also do you really want to trust mark jacobs again after he sold out his fans for a big fat check?

I trust Mark Jacobs far more than any other MMO minded person I have ever met. Then again, I’ll readily admit I was a DAoC fanboy, as it was the best PvP game ever made.

You should check out the Camelot Unchained website and read the articles therein.

Okiru.7635:

Is there a way to get ascended armor and weapons without crafting it yoursefl? I dislike crafting, I usually just gather and sell the mats in all the MMOs I’ve played. This used to be my favorite game prior to ascended gear, haven’t played in months.

I enjoy doing dungeons, world events, and wvw. Now I feel my toons will always be subpar to others. My ideal way to get ascended gear would be to added as a guarantee random ascended gear to the end boss of each explorable dungeon.

Take heart, multiple avenues of acquiring ascended armor/weapons are coming to the game soon. The CDI on vertical progression was pretty productive, I expect the gear to be available for badges/laurels/etc soon.

I absolutely loathe the crafting system in this game, and most people I meet won’t bother with ascended armor till it’s available from doing what we enjoy in the game anyway.

The Outsider.8630:

Hey guys, I see a lot of people hating on the zerg in the forums. Personally I don’t mind it but I do feel like the game could be a lot more compelling (talking about WvW mostly) if there were reasons NOT to zerg. So there would be more incentive to have smaller groups running around in addition to a zerg. I repeat, I do not want to kill the zerg, just give added incentive to have a bunch of smaller groups running around.

There’s something I’ve been thinking about that I’m sure comes with a long list of issues that you all will immediately point out, but this is all conjecture, and I hope that with your added opinions and ideas maybe we can come up with a new gameplay mechanic the devs might like. Lets get creative!

My current idea:
What if, say you were in a group of X amount of allies, the numbers aren’t important here and I’m just using them to explain my idea, numbers would change for balance. For this example lets say 40 or more. Say the 40 of you were all within X range of each other, a big, big range, think like a regular ground targeted AoE skill circle but larger, like upgraded warbanner range. Pretend 40 or more players are together close enough that they would all be within that circle. They would all receive a debuff called “cramped” or something along those lines. this debuff could do something like drain your endurance, or something else that otherwise would weaken the zerg. maybe you take a lot more damage from siege weaponry while in a zerg. essentially making siege the anti zerg. Not sure what the best debuff would be but, it shouldn’t DESTROY zergs, but be enough to make players want to have a lot of smaller groups in addition to their main zerg.

Any thoughts on this? Perhaps a different debuff, or another approach all together?

My thoughts? Leave WvW alone for people who like that game mode and focus more on small scale fights in EotM. It’s the whole reason they are making EotM. No need to bork up WvW because people are impatient.

Fun to me is:

• Challenging combat
• Siege warfare
• Having the best gear/skins available
• Strategic/hardmode solo/duo content for PvE

Basically what another poster said, challenge and reward.

I just wish they would give us more control over the chat box and UI in general. I wrestle with it constantly myself, and there is really no way to customize it to make it efficient.

It would be a huge QoL improvement if they would let us have some sort of control over the UI and chat windows.

Just keep deleting them till Anet realizes most of them are being deleted rather than used

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Aeonblade.8709:

Swagger.1459:

I hope that if a “grand journey” to horizontal progression is introduced, the paths are equally offered to wvw, pvers and dungeon/fractal players or you’ll run into the same issues that we currently have with ascended vertical progression.

This, remember, WvW centric players aren’t going to be pleased if they have to farm PvE for their progression, be it horizontal or vertical

Add targets or mechanics for the progression on the parts of the Borderlands or Eternal Battlegrounds outside of the general combat area. Like behind Speldan, or out behind the skritt/centaurs/orchard.

OR . . . OR put it in Edge of the Mists?

Either or is a good idea. Or make the progression in three seperate sets: WvW progression (based off rank, kills, kill challenges such as win a 1v2 without another person hitting the 2 you are fighting etc.) PvE, and sPvP progression.

There is really no need to dice it up further than that imo. To me, the grand journey is a new challenge each day fighting in WvW, which is one of the only game modes that provides the feeling of something new to me after all this time.

Swagger.1459:

I hope that if a “grand journey” to horizontal progression is introduced, the paths are equally offered to wvw, pvers and dungeon/fractal players or you’ll run into the same issues that we currently have with ascended vertical progression.

This, remember, WvW centric players aren’t going to be pleased if they have to farm PvE for their progression, be it horizontal or vertical

Agreed, GW2 is a beautiful game world, there is no denying that.

Interface:

• Allow us to turn own our own nameplate
• Slider for particle effect density

Gameplay:

• Increased drop rates for all items across the board for people who can’t play 24/7
• Accrual of dailies if we miss a daily, we can accrue say up to 7 days worth of dailies to complete
• Repeatable hearts each day or month (Only have to complete once for map completion)

Most of the other issues I have are touched on by other posters. Good thread

Get with CS, they should sort it out for you rather quickly, no company would want to lose a player over this.

In my opinion, the forum changes are counter productive and terrible. They do nothing but further alienate the community from the company and cause more PR issues for a once great company.

Vayne.8563:

Aeonblade.8709:

I almost feel sorry for the dedicated few holding on to Anet’s vision and still defending them. Almost.

But to do or say the same thing over and over and expect something different is insanity, and I have no sympathy for self imposed insanity.

I almost feel bad for people who need to demean people who have a different opinion than they do. Honestly, you have your opinion and your’e entitled to it. Saying that you feel bad for people who have a different opinion is borderline offensive, not to mention argumentative.

If you have something of substance to say to add to the discussion, by all means, bring it on.

But disparaging people for having an opinion that differs from yours?

Probably not the best thing to post on forums…even if you think it.

I am entitled to my opinion the same way you are. If you find what I said offensive, that is an issue with you, not me, as it was not meant to be offensive. I can give you the definition of insanity if you like, but I have a feeling you know how to use google

At no point did I insult or attack anyone with that post, people just have my sympathy for doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. However, if they do it to themselves, no sympathy should be given.

Karizee.8076:

Aeonblade.8709:

Karizee.8076:

I think the people complaining about this really haven’t grasped the concept of this game yet. Look at it this way, if they left all the content permanent it would be the most confusing clusterbomb of a game ever created.

Just imagine, we would have a world where we are simultaneously building road signs for the refugees Wayfarer Hills while the refugees have already arrived and are camping in Lion’s Arch AND have already moved on to Southsun Cove where they are being exploited by the Consortium all the while Queen’s Pavilion balloons are taking players to the Jubilee while Molten Portals spawn everywhere and we have just started to open/build Southsun but the Ancient Karka has already been defeated but karka are still invading Lion’s Arch. Or how about Evon Gnashblade politicking for votes at the same time he’s bemoaning his loss while election banners are hanging everywhere and Ellen is already in the Council? Or how about Kessex Hills with the Tower of Nightmares both up yet blown up at the same time?

Those concepts work well within a linear game where you are working your way through the story via quests and such, but it simply doesn’t make sense here.

I do think the 2 week tempo feels a bit pressured and I’m happy they’ve moved towards letting the content overlap in one month chunks, but I simply don’t see how everything could be left in game within the freeform/nonlinear/multiple layers of content in zones way this game is designed.

Phasing.

Phasing was a failed experiment in other games. Couldn’t play with friends since they were on a different phase!

Um…Phasing was a huge success in WoW, dunno of any other game that used it though.