Guild Wars 2

Also stuck at 23/24. I made certain I wasn’t interrupted but twice, some kitten dragged enemies into me while I was trying to transcribe.

I got every last shard. They ALL say I’ve visited them. Is this going to be another BS thing like the Aether key where we can’t get our achieve even though we’ve done it?

DarksunG.9537:

Aerlen.5326:

I’d go for that if the male armors had the same options – let’s see some “sexy” and impractical male armors.

There are several armors when men have their entire chest exposed. (actually looks cool too) Can we get that for women? =P

The male chest is not considered sexual or as sexual as female breasts but nice try.

If you want a “fair trade”, women can have full topless if men are allowed no pants.

I dunno, it’s nice to see a lot of women in roles that gaming traditionally gives to men….

Paulytnz.7619:

Aerlen.5326:

Paulytnz.7619:

I guess if they just made them look the same as males we would then have just as many people complaining “Anet hates females because this armour makes us look like a guy!”

They just can’t win….

No, that’s not what people would be saying. No one says a company “hates” females when they don’t make them into male sex objects.

They’d be saying “This armor looks great on my Guardian! Thanks for no bikini armor this time, Anet!” judging by the majority of replies here.

And this is from someone who has her Guardian in a combo of T2 and T3 human cultural because it’s one of the few wholly covering armors that I liked.

Oh I’m sure there would be tons complaining, I’ve seen it before.
Don’t get me wrong I am NOT against the complaints here. If anything ALL female armours should have 2 options. The exact same male version look or whatever else they may decide to add as a more female looking choice if people want to look that way.

I’d go for that if the male armors had the same options – let’s see some “sexy” and impractical male armors.

Ashariel.8490:

Aerlen.5326:

Really? Are we really letting horny boys design armor now or do we women just have iron skin on our boobs and thighs that men don’t have and somehow need less protection? Why is this 75% of female armors in the game while 75% of male armors are wholly covering or covering in a way that makes sense?

Yeah, I’m gonna ask you to show me your 75% revealing female armor here: http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/heavy_list.php

Just from the heavy at level 80? You do realize I meant all female armors for all classes, right? But on the subject – all three orders have awful armor for women – http://www.gw2armor.com/human/male/heavy_list.php Look at the Vigil male armor and please explain to me why the female has a boob window.

http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/light_list.php – You try this and please point out to me which armors looks completely ridiculous. Also, have you seen what female light armor classes start the game in and the first few armors they get a choice of compared to the men?

Paulytnz.7619:

I guess if they just made them look the same as males we would then have just as many people complaining “Anet hates females because this armour makes us look like a guy!”

They just can’t win….

No, that’s not what people would be saying. No one says a company “hates” females when they don’t make them into male sex objects.

They’d be saying “This armor looks great on my Guardian! Thanks for no bikini armor this time, Anet!” judging by the majority of replies here.

And this is from someone who has her Guardian in a combo of T2 and T3 human cultural because it’s one of the few wholly covering armors that I liked.

I wanted this armor for my Guardian too. FINALLY, a helmet I like! Then I preview the female version and…

Really? Are we really letting horny boys design armor now or do we women just have iron skin on our boobs and thighs that men don’t have and somehow need less protection? Why is this 75% of female armors in the game while 75% of male armors are wholly covering or covering in a way that makes sense? I don’t want a burqa but what sense does it make for a heavy plated female warrior to have an open spot in her armor for cleavage or to be missing leg guards? It’s like giving a heavy plated male warrior a thong and letting his butt hang out.. then having most of the male armors share that design.

And SURPRISE, female Charr get the MALE versions of these skins. The one race you’d want to have armor that showed off their fur patterns and they apparently aren’t sexist enough for it. Same with the Asura. Is it just a non-human trait to respect women as capable warriors and not eyecandy for men?

Guardian and Mesmer – Signet that also grants a passive movement boost. Being able to move fast is becoming 100% needed in a lot of content.

EverythingEnds.4261:

Aerlen.5326:

Look, I get your complaint, I do. A bunch of folks standing around killing each other for achieves is cheap but I seriously cannot blame them. Do you see how the game itself makes people need those points for LS things/game play? Do you see the behavior here that makes no one wanna touch PvP?

I get that PvP is all about competition, so petition Anet to remove PvP Dailys/Monthlys and PvP achieves in Living Story (they aren’t about the spirit of competition) or replace them with PvP only rewards and I promise, you will only see PvPers in your arenas.

As already mentioned, you don’t need those achievements for the meta-achievement.
And why remove PvP Dailys/Monthlys? AP are something, PvP players can need, too (Skins).
Some people here try to tell me, “I complain that people don’t play pvp the way I think pvp should be”, but actually, if PvE players say that they “need” PvP Dailys/Mothlys or this Living story-Achievement, they basicly say “I want this achiement by playing the game my way”, no matter if the sense of the achievment is completly different".

I hope you see the difference.

It is like I would say, “I only play Citadel of Flame, but I want the Arah Weapons, so make Arah Weapons able to get bought for CoF-tokens”.

Those are two different things and if I had not gotten the Mad King stomps, there would have been no Bloody Prince for me today. One thing I’ve learned about GW2 is to get my achieves and get them fast, the community loses interest about a week in so I seriously cannot blame or fault players for not playing PvP as a competitive killing sport to get that achieve and get on with the Living Story ASAP.

I have two level 80’s (Thief and Guardian) and seven others climbing up the ranks. I think someone else said it but it bears repeating – sometimes you burn out on a certain class and want something different to play for a while. My Guardian is tanky/supporty and while she’s great for most things, it’s fun to see how the Thief would handle the same event/battle too (as an example – Tequatl. The Thief plays a far different role than the Guardian in that). I tend to favor one over the other for spans of time though and that’s how I keep my focus. I’ve had those “wait, I’m not on the Guardian” moments though..

If you’re set on not playing them, at least do as others have said and park them at a JP for a Daily reward.

Xehanort clones are everywhere.

Quick, call Sora before it’s too late!

Look, I get your complaint, I do. A bunch of folks standing around killing each other for achieves is cheap but I seriously cannot blame them. Do you see how the game itself makes people need those points for LS things/game play? Do you see the behavior here that makes no one wanna touch PvP?

I get that PvP is all about competition, so petition Anet to remove PvP Dailys/Monthlys and PvP achieves in Living Story (they aren’t about the spirit of competition) or replace them with PvP only rewards and I promise, you will only see PvPers in your arenas.

Okay, now I’m curious.

Are these actual Legendaries? Considering the cost…

AntiGw.9367:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Again, I don’t see why people have to be all kittened-off about stuff that has no effect on them. Maybe some people think it would be FUN to stomp their FRIENDS with halloween stuff in PvP. Heaven forbid people should have FUN in a game.

Personally, when I realized the dailies count toward the meta, I decided to stay out of PvP. If I get a chance to stomp some players in WvW, great! If not, I’ll get the meta anyway. I’m thankful… oh so thankful… that the JP is not required, since those are truly excruciating for me… like really… I’d rather be killed 100 times over in PvP.

However, please… there are enough things (seemingly) to complain about in this game. This does not need to be one of them.

“It doesn’t affect you” is a typical argument of a cheater.

You are aware that the point of PvP is to kill other players, that you go there to competitively fight other players, not to farm each other. If you don’t accept rules, terms of service or anything like that, stay away from anything that has such rules.

Toxic attitudes like yours are the reason many people avoid PvP. All I’ve seen you cry is “it’s cheating when I say so but other things which are also cheating the game are not cheating because I say so and people should not play the game the way they want to because it upsets me because for some reason, PvP is sacred.”

Right.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Aerlen, he’s right about 1 and 2. You don’t HAVE to do PvP unless you want every achievement point, and Hotjoin is where I got all my kills when I actually wanted to PvP for the AP.

You can use stomps on the NPCs, that’s where I got mine but few people know that and I can’t blame them for taking turns killing each other for points either. It’s cheap but it’s not cheating.

EverythingEnds.4261:

^
And this is, why I have something, against some kind of PvE players ^^.

Here are some news for you Thanguard:

1. You can achieve the meta achievemt by doing the Living-story related dailies, too.
You only have to get into PvP, if you want absolute every Ap, which is possible.

2. Hot Join, is full of beginners, as this is basicaly the sense of Hot Join. (Give new players a place to practice and players who aren’t interested in playing on tournament level a place to play PvP.

3. Yea, how would PvP players feel, if ANet tied PvP stuff to PvE?
cough cough Custom Arenas for which you need gems cough cough Itemshop Skins cough cough Black Lion Chest Skins cough cough Skins from the Crown pavillon cough cough All Backpacks ever cough cough
…yep, I have no Idea how this would feel…

…but as you have no knowlege about PvP, you probably dont know this…

“Play my way, you n00b, you know nothing about PvP and I’m right to cleverly insult and hold a grudge against you.”

About number three there…. anything regarding Gems can be bought by anyone anywhere who plays any part of the game – Paypal isn’t PvE only.

AntiGw.9367:

Aerlen.5326:

AntiGw.9367:

Aerlen.5326:

This really sounds like “They aren’t playing PvP the way I want and ruining it”.

It is cheating and needs to be fixed, regardless of how I or anyone else is playing.

So is asking a mesmer to port you to the end of a JP so you can collect the prize but many people rely on those mesmer ports and get rewarded same as if they actually did the JP. Are you against that too? Do you believe that should also be changed?

If they are going into PvP to get the Daily/Monthly achieves – how does this affect you and your game play experience and the GW2 world at large that makes you cry “cheating!”? Is it that they’re getting achievement points you feel they don’t deserve? How would you suggesting fixing this? You can’t exactly force players to only play PvP by your rules, the QQ of forcing new and strict rules into PvP would be incredible.

As to the example of “How would you feel if someone got Dungeon Master title by doing nothing/cheating??” – I wouldn’t care. What matters to me is how I got my title and I don’t care how anyone else got theirs. For all I know, anyone at any time could have used an exploit. It doesn’t take away from my experience nor does it make me want to “cheat” or feel slighted if I don’t have that title yet.

The easiest fix to this is to remove Daily and Monthly PvP rewards – you’d see no one bother unless it was something like grinding out Mad King finishers for a LS achieve. Are you in favor of this?

JPs are group objectives as much as they are single player objectives, so using group skills to reach them easier is perfectly fine.

Farming each other, however, is plain cheating.

You didn’t answer my questions.

Other posters are right though, GW2 does encourage this behavior and I’m really failing to see how this personally hurts others. A guild or friends going into PvP could also be seen as a group activity and if they all want to help each other get better at the game or earn rewards, why is it suddenly “cheating”? It’s cheap, just like mesmer portals and any activity where you let someone else win, but who is really being cheated here?

AntiGw.9367:

Aerlen.5326:

This really sounds like “They aren’t playing PvP the way I want and ruining it”.

It is cheating and needs to be fixed, regardless of how I or anyone else is playing.

So is asking a mesmer to port you to the end of a JP so you can collect the prize but many people rely on those mesmer ports and get rewarded same as if they actually did the JP. Are you against that too? Do you believe that should also be changed?

If they are going into PvP to get the Daily/Monthly achieves – how does this affect you and your game play experience and the GW2 world at large that makes you cry “cheating!”? Is it that they’re getting achievement points you feel they don’t deserve? How would you suggesting fixing this? You can’t exactly force players to only play PvP by your rules, the QQ of forcing new and strict rules into PvP would be incredible.

As to the example of “How would you feel if someone got Dungeon Master title by doing nothing/cheating??” – I wouldn’t care. What matters to me is how I got my title and I don’t care how anyone else got theirs. For all I know, anyone at any time could have used an exploit. It doesn’t take away from my experience nor does it make me want to “cheat” or feel slighted if I don’t have that title yet.

The easiest fix to this is to remove Daily and Monthly PvP rewards – you’d see no one bother unless it was something like grinding out Mad King finishers for a LS achieve. Are you in favor of this?

GreyMouser.1235:

Aerlen.5326:

GreyMouser.1235:

How did you know it was only 2 weeks? It doesn’t state that anywhere. Everything that has been published in the beginning of the month has always lasted until the end of the month. This was an aberration, and they should have made it clear that it was only lasting 2 weeks.

Past experience. Lately, LS achievements have lasted 2 weeks and I guessed the Halloween update would knock any other LS out of play.

I was right.

Wrong; all LS content that was published at the beginning of the month has remained until the end of the month. The mid-month publish lasted until the end of the month as well, and NEVER OVERWROTE the beginning month publish. This is the first time since the LS started that the first publish has been overwritten by the second.

Well if you insist I’m wrong, you’re welcome to, but I was right in assuming it was two week content and the next patch would knock it out of play (since it was a HUGE holiday one). I was fairly certain it was a two week thing meant as something for us to do pre-Halloween so it came as no surprise that it was – my guildmates were all aware too though they thought Monday might have a TA daily.

No use coming down on me though, I didn’t flip the switch that made the meta impossible and I was kittened out of my slickpack too. I just naturally assume all content is two weeks only now, saves on the grief.

“Of course you can say "if they are on their own server, nobody gets "harmed"", but on the other hand, this is no legit playstyle in my opinion, as PvP is about being competitive and not about farming each other."

PvP is about killing other players. Seriously. That’s it, that’s PvP. Killing other players. Kill player, you win.

If some players want to take turns offing each other for Daily or Monthly achieves – fine. They’re not gonna get the thrill you get out of the challenge of killing another player anyhow. I know I didn’t enjoy grinding the NPCs with Mad King finishers.

So what is the problem? Sure it’s cheap, but so is a mesmer porting people to the end of a jumping puzzle yet a lot of us rely on that because a reward has been set up that players want and the obstacle to get it is either a royal pain or something a player can’t do on their own.

This really sounds like “They aren’t playing PvP the way I want and ruining it”.

The drop rate in there is just bad. I got a Mad King’s Shoulders exotic as a drop though so they are in there, just at a really low percentage.

AirimirOfGondor.9081:

I think that there needs to be a happy medium between too hardcore and too easy. Sure, if it’s too easy, its not fun for some people. But if it’s too hard, it’s not fun for a lot of people.

So I just get confused as to why Anet has such trouble finding that happy medium.

Hardcores demand a challenge and something they need to work hard for… but then they break down the challenge, find a way to exploit the game’s mechanics to make the content be able to be done in the easiest and fastest way possible and go back to the forums demanding hardcore, challenging content again because what they were given was “too easy” without realizing they’ve sabotaged it themselves. I guess Anet figured the only answer to this was a silly grind because that couldn’t be broken or completed quickly unless gold was spent.

I think this is the result of QQing about things being “too easy”, rewards being “handed out” and the game being “care bear”.

Well Happy Halloween, unless there’s a major component we’re missing – these items will take hardcore, dedicated grinding to get and only the most dedicated or lucky (or rich in the case of the TP) will have them.

CETheLucid.3964:

Charak.9761:

Sorry but the anet promotion of zerg mentality has removed the skill mechanic from the game.

Actually if you want to read between the lines, several times they’ve posted about making WvW more diverse instead of just all zerg all the time.

Anet didn’t “encourage” that in this update. They can’t tell the players how to play or you’d whine about them doing that.

No ones forcing the monkey’s to zerg. They do that on their own. Follow OPs advice and then attack from range.

Bam, you’re as effective as melee and safer.

When they tell you to stack, say no. Say little else after that if anything at all. Or else give them the line you’d give Anet here: Quit telling me how to play!

The drama writes itself. Take it in like you would a refreshing morning breeze. Pick up your bag and don’t forget your chest.

Following the zerg is the Labyrinth is just a good way to keep from being overwhelmed by trash mobs. Past that, you’re more than free to study the boss fights – they take long enough.

It’s only day two, give people time to figure it out. Even in the zerg, I noticed the “candy” buff but I wasn’t entirely sure of the point.

Zoltreez.6435:

I learned to not care or barely do any LS till they don’t make them replayable its just useless waste of time while its Temp.

I guess I’m the minority. I like temp content and special little things that won’t be around forever.

I just don’t like when it’s buggy or the time frame is stupidly short.

GreyMouser.1235:

How did you know it was only 2 weeks? It doesn’t state that anywhere. Everything that has been published in the beginning of the month has always lasted until the end of the month. This was an aberration, and they should have made it clear that it was only lasting 2 weeks.

Past experience. Lately, LS achievements have lasted 2 weeks and I guessed the Halloween update would knock any other LS out of play.

I was right.

1. No. More. Bikini. Armor. Armor for women that doesn’t have revealing cleavage, thighs, etc. Especially not when the male version is wholly covering.
2. Longer Living Story events, 2 weeks isn’t enough for the casual gamer or someone with limited time.
3. Balance of hardcore, dedicated, and casual content with something for each group to enjoy.
4. New lands/expansion/new classes
5. Less grind/RNG

No credit for Lich and I know I hit him a bunch of times and was never downed. Got credit for the other two the first time I fought them though.

I…

Wow am I disappointed. Unless I’m seriously missing something here, these weapon skins only seem obtainable by elite hardcores who play 24/7 from now until November 11th. There has got to be another part to this event…

I knew it was only 2 weeks.

What is bullkitten was the large group of people who lost out on the backpack because of the bugged Daily. Not our fault there, Anet.

Xhean.3452:

Hey!
So I got totally bashed by my group in a dungeon the other day for being a zerker guardian with shouts and wall of reflection.
They called me a noob and that I should learn how to play guardian.
Note that I did not die….
Is this the general idea of the public?

And for the wvw question:
I like zerker in pve but I will no way play that in wvw but what stats should I go for in wvw. I’m thinking that I might keep the trinkets zerker though, just to get some dmg squeezed out of it.
suggestions?

The general idea of the public is “Go Zerker or l2p” or “only bads play Zerker” depending on where you are. Both are kinda dumb. If Zerker works for you, then play Zerker. You could ask some Zerkers what you can do to improve/if you need to improve too. Builds are all about learning what works for you and your playstyle.

WvW, I’d think you’d want more toughness.

I’ve already got the two easiest achieves for TA so dunno what I’m going to do – I could try to PUG it but I’m not that great myself at the new TA path and would likely be kicked.

Bluh… great job on this one, Anet.

I’ve seen:

Morgan Treeman (a sylvari)
Am I Pretty Sempai
Tigger the Trigger (Charr Engi)
Prez Bill Clinton (a human engi who looked JUST like Clinton)
Pocket Godzilla (an asura)
And too many to recall!

Voland.5862:

Aerlen.5326:

Voland.5862:

Scarlet Briar & Rule of Rose

Red Crayon Aristocrats = Aether-blades
Jennifer = Caithe

Jennifer is consistently said to be “dirty” or “filthy”.
The game takes place in an air craft which is very similar in structure and design to the aether-blade air craft.

I very much doubt the Scarlet story involves a childhood lesbian romance, abused young girls, and the murder of several children over said lesbian romance going wrong.

You obviously haven’t played through the new Twilight arbor path. Come to think of it you probably haven’t listened to the story mode of TA let alone seen the new path. The analogs are very explicit and obvious.

The voice and vocal mannerisms are almost exactly the same as well.

I’ve played through half of it and I’ve also personally beat Rule of Rose as well as delved into all the subtle hinting and hidden meanings of the game.

I really sincerely doubt TA has anything to do with a very obscure horror game for Playstation 2. Are you suggesting the entire dungeon is merely Caithe reliving her childhood romance with Scarlet, being taken in by a mentally unbalanced man, misinterpeting abuse she personally saw as an unmarried “mermaid” and other highly symbolic things and surviving an airship crash? Scarlet wishes to kill Caithe because she loves her but Caithe instead loves a dog?

I’m not following your logic.

Summary of the thread:

Someone thinks guardian is best.

Bunch of folks mock them, some bring up civil points like playing for fun, not liking Guards and a challenge.

Zerker elitists come in with “lol noob l2p” arguments, mock everyone who isn’t on the zerker train.

Support Guard players argue back.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled pointless gear fight.

Voland.5862:

Scarlet Briar & Rule of Rose

Red Crayon Aristocrats = Aether-blades
Jennifer = Caithe

Jennifer is consistently said to be “dirty” or “filthy”.
The game takes place in an air craft which is very similar in structure and design to the aether-blade air craft.

I very much doubt the Scarlet story involves a childhood lesbian romance, abused young girls, and the murder of several children over said lesbian romance going wrong.

No. I knew this would happen because the patch will hit before today’s Daily’s reset and the Living Story will change. It would have been nice to have had an extra day because of Anet’s mistake but they decided we didn’t need one.

The problem is I did all the achieves needed but because they key one didn’t count, I’m also at 9/10. Friends are going to attempt the new TA for that last point but if we don’t get it…

You know, I wouldn’t mind if I was at 9/10 because of my own laziness but because of the key bug, I’m a little ticked off.

It’s broken and anyone who was counting on it was screwed.

As predicted, no TA daily today.

Anet, you owe a lot of people that last point.

Eh, just drop me one point towards TA – Anet. No one I know wants to go near the new TA path so we’ve all done other dungeons or killed Aethers or made keys for the meta.

I have 2 points left to get. Today should have been my last day.

Ellisande.5218:

Arius.7031:

Eurhetemec.9052:

reapex.8546:

Your choices still affect how Trahearne responds and what course the Pact take. Without you the story would go one linear path, there are several ways to affect the story after you are made Commander.

Not in any meaningful way. The story is effectively completely linear. All you are doing once the Pact is formed is deciding what scenes to “get in on”, essentially.

It’s really bizarre. Even the “end” of your personal story is essentially about Trahearne, not about you. Which is really the precise opposite of all four GW1 campaigns (I note all the GW1 campaigns gave you a really solid, last-forever-type reward, too, where this personal story just gives you a yellow with a so-so skin).

No, it’s every bit as much about you. In fact, Trahearne can speak in his own defense.

“Here, at the end, I am glad that it’s just you and me. We will cleanse Orr together-as were meant to do.”

It’s you AND Trahearne. He does the cleansing, but he can’t do it without you protecting him. Further, that’s not the end of the story. There’s one more personal mission, and it has absolutely nothing to do with Trahearne. You may have forgotten about that one, cus the ending does suck, but it does exist and it has nothing to do with Trahearne.

No it is Trahearne’s story. Anyone else could have protected him. And the entire cleansing of Orr was Trahearne’s own personal mission, not yours and not the Pacts. The character is never really made to feel like you they got to know Trahearne, they never really suffered with him never grew or experienced with him. So his words become extremely hollow. Especially because that isn’t really the end.

And that last mission isn’t a personal mission, it is just another 5 man dungeon where you might have to watch someone elses character speak for the entire instance instead of yours, just to prove how much that last quest isn’t a personal story.

You aren’t going to sway that one. Trying to explain those same points got me no where. The text says you’re praised so that’s all that matters to them.

Inerti.2437:

There is problem with farming in Frostgorge sound. Me and my friends were exploring and on the way we came across champions and wanted to kill them of course, but after doing that we got a lot of negative comments from farmers how noob (and other not so nice namecallings) we were because we killed champions and it ruined the “train”. It is like farmers make the rules in the map what can other explorers and players kill and when, isnt that a “little” wrong?. Also because there is a lot of farmers, peoples cant join to Claw of Jormag event because it redirects them to overflow server

Kill the champs if you like. The train doesn’t own them and good farmers understand this. It’s just one less loot box and a little extra time, it’s not worth being a kitten over. If someone decides to be harassing and demeaning towards you for enjoying the thrill of killing a champ with your friends, please report them and block them and don’t give them another moment of your time.

I kinda feel the need to say farmers aren’t honestly all bad like this too. If you kill a champ before “the zerg” gets there, I personally don’t care; I shrug, and move to the next champ which is really what everyone should be doing.

I can only play with a controller due to disabilities (though I use mouse to click on things), it would be great to have controller supporter instead of going through Xpadder or even a nice spiffy GW2 controller…

Happening on my server too, submitted a bug report.

The Queensdale champs count as events and drop Karma – the Frostgorge ones don’t. 80’s running Queensdale are doing so for events (to finish monthlies and dailies) and Karma.

Okay, that said – OP needs to report champ runners who are acting in a kitteny manner. A lot of us get that the champs don’t just belong to us and if another player or group killed it, that’s totally cool. We’ll just move to the next and if the whole “train” isn’t working, we’ll just take a break and try again later.

Also, OP, make use of the most wonderful tool Anet gave you – the block button.

There’ no swaying you, friend. You want me to use “text only examples” when the way the story played out itself, the way Trahearne is written, and the content of those missions makes the text empty. There are a lot of people who hate Trahearne and in almost a year in GW2 – you are the only person I’ve ever seen defend him with such fervid determination. I don’t defend Victory or Death with this much stubborn passion because I understand why a lot of players don’t like it and sometimes I even agree with the changes they want (why a 5 man dungeon? Zhaitan should be more epic.. etc).

Let me be positive for a moment then – If Trahearne would have been presented with more of a personality and written better, he would have been a very engaging character. Anet could have hinted at him in the other racial storylines as a scholar looking to cleanse Orr or an expert on all things Orrian. Perhaps you could have met with him sooner, a build up even.

To be perfectly honest, making Trahearne a more likable character with more personality and involving [YOUR CHARACTER] more in decisions/talking to the Orders to merge them/etc would have likely erased a good majority of the hate-on GW2 has for Trahearne and a lot of the feeling that it’s more HIS STORY than yours. He’s often compared to Kormir in GW1 – the feeling of “We did all the work, you get the big prize” seems to be the #1 complaint. All I learned being stuck with him was that he was 100% useless in a fight, had a flat and boring personality, that everyone loved him for some reason I never understood, and that he loved to lecture on and on AND ON. Forgal was my friend, Tybalt was my friend. Heck, I even learned more about Logan’s quirks than Trahearne’s. And it can’t be a sylvari thing because Caithe is also a very engaging character. Why is he written this way? It feels lazy and contrived.

What are Trahearne’s flaws? What are his quirks? Does his life revolve solely around Orr? Why should I feel for him? What does he fear, what has he gain in life? Lost? Could his voice actor not do things in a constant dull monotone because that contributed to the view of him as “boring” as well. Comparing to Tybalt – he loved apples and seemed a hesistant sort – not sure if he had courage or not. That made him endearing. Forgal was a battle-scarred Norn, tough on the outside but with heart. That made him inspiring. Both their VA’s did a wonderful job conveying that and they were written well.

Now I know you’ll pick this reply apart but I’m going to tell you right now, there’s no use in continuing this. I’m not going to see Trahearne the way you want because the game itself made him unlikable but I will conceed that had he NOT been written like Veggie Jesus with the personality of cardboard, there would be less of a feeling that it’s “Trahearne’s story” from me. In my opinion and only mine, a more likable, useful, fleshed out Trahearne would have eliminated a good majority of my personal irritation with him and made those lines of text that much more genuine.

I know it’s too late to change this but I hope Anet just keeps it in mind for future stories.

iniside.4736:

Just to be clear. I’m generally agaist such solution, but the amount of hate, trolling and other generally bad behavior on this forums is jut beyond ridicuouls.

Force real world last and first names on forums, instead of nicknames. It probably won’t shut up come persons, but at least most of people will think twice before posting something stupid.

Then you will have the “trolls” and jerks collecting the names of people they disagree with or just plain don’t like and taking that harassment to the real world. Trust me, I watched it in a roleplaying community – people got their phone numbers, addresses, facebook pages and everything else published for having opinions or playing in ways the “troll” didn’t like and once that stuff is online, it’s hard to get it taken down. Do you really want some guy who doesn’t care about you as a person having all your RL details?

It’ll punish far more of the good folks than the “trolls”.

Wolfheart.1938:

And this guys is why we can’t have nice things (the nice things being devs being open about their plans).

P.s. what makes you think that precursor crafting isn’t gonna cost as much as actually buying one?

Yeah really. If you thought Ascended was pricey, what do you think they’re going to make you go through to craft a Precursor?

MrRuin.9740:

Aerlen.5326:

THIS. This is why I don’t want to bother with WvW. If I wanted to worry about jerks out to gank me, I’d reinstall WoW and go on a PvP server. You have no idea how frustrating it is to finally get to a vista and boom, killed. Doesn’t matter if you are naked and unarmed.

And if you are JUST playing GW2 for WvW and never set foot in PvE… seriously? That really is like going to a movie just to watch the previews then leaving.

I don’t want to run dungeons for tokens. I don’t want to bother with it. Why am I being forced to do this for a skin I want? You have no idea how frustrating it is to get to a boss and have the party wipe when its almost dead. I should be able to enter the dungeon and get the tokens without mobs and bosses who are actively trying to stop me from reaching the end. If I wanted a mindless PvE grind, I’d install a Korean MMO.

Oh wait…….no, scratch that. I actually do realize there are other aspects to the game that aren’t tailored exactly to me and if they happen to be a requirement for something I want, I’ll do it.
Basically, this is a requirement for a Legendary. Suck it up and get over it. You know this going in. It is not a game flaw. Not a bug. Not a glitch. It is required. If you don’t want to venture in and are not willing to do what is needed for the item you want, then find another goal that better suits you.

More interesting is the bash of how people experience fun in the game. So because someone might spend all their time in WvW or PvP, they are playing the game wrong? Its a smaller percentage by map size yes, but in terms of how people have fun, that’s quite a judgement call on your part. I’m not even a WvW player, but I still find your extremely narrow view on it interesting.

Okay. I don’t care if you like WvW. WvW is fun for you. Sweet. Enjoy. It’s not fun for me and never will be. I don’t like CoD either.

Suck it up? Okay. For equality sake, when you dungeon or do PvE, do so naked and with a level 10 white weapon. When you are about to reach your goal – there is a 50% chance you will be killed for no reason, you’ll just drop dead, and have to start over from the furthest point from the goal. There, now it’s 100% totally fair.

Please enjoy.

And I don’t even want a Legendary at this point, I want map completion. Why is WvW part of map completion when sPvP and Dungeons aren’t and once a year event POIs aren’t? Are dungeon tokens parts of map completion?

So…

We can have two scraps of fabric serve as an “armored top” but battling in “town clothes” is immersion breaking?

Wut.