Guild Wars 2

i remember reading GoA pre gw2 launch and thinking it would so much fun playing a golem-riding Asura in dungeons, then very reluctantly coming to the realisation it would never happen.

Trahearne never developed as a character despite becoming the leader of the pact, from the first moment your introduced to him until the end, hes the same boring sylvari, and to add to that he then makes you subordinate to him.

I use to want this, now i don’t need it, as i deleted the char that was annoying me and just re-rolled, if ppl still want this i wont dis it just because i dont need it, but OP you should know this is a very old topic and Anet have given close to zero indication its something they’ll ever do, so really your just holding out against all odds.

i think after 2 years of WS graphics you’ll been more done than you are now.

All we can hope for is that Anet will do a better job whenever the next personal story is released, and allow us to attribute the current bad PS to time restraints associated with launching the game. However i do feel the “mistakes” of the current PS are inherent to whoever wrote it, meaning should that same person or team be allowed to write the next PS it will still be bad no matter how much time they have to work on it, at the end of the day you dont have to be a genius to see whats wrong with the PS, fingers crossed it doesn’t happen again.

nice vid, musics pretty atmospheric too:)

i just wish my character didnt look so static when crafting.

i think the issue is more with the annoying voice overs as oppose to having your character speak when casting, partial assistance might be turning down your dialog slider, think it cans the talking.

I know, lets spend our time speaking about other ppl requesting things that are a waste of time.

spent bout 100dollars, but never used any on BL keys, and never will, im not a gambler nor wish to ever be one.

i was actually just thinking of this last night..and id also say mesmer with clones, but the main issue is the way they slip out of your targeting system so that the player whos fighting them has to constantly try switch to the correct target, thats what imo makes them so strong, similarly with a full MM necro, other than that hammer warrior can be quite annoying with the 3s of daze that they can spam, after that id say thief but only good thieves, the ones that pop out of the shadows and daze you, take half ur HP then disappear again..i find gaurds, rangers, engi’s and eles not scary.

it would be nice if players could setup their own temporary store with items they wanted to sell, these items wouldn’t carry the listing fee of the TP, sellers could undercut the TP and make it worthwhile for buyers to bargain hunt… i suppose it would be a administrative nightmare going through each individual players items on sale, maybe they could make it each guild can register an “outlet shop” which then members can advertise items that wouldn’t incur the listing fee of the TP…(think ESO did something like this)
it would just open up that possibility of finding a great deal if you looked in the right place at the right time, which is a cool part of mmo’s

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Alex.9567:

OP can you link source please.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-reward-tracks-and-gear-unification/

There you go.

Thx, dont know how i missed that. soon i can stop do dailys, yay!!!!

OP can you link source please.

while i have no issue with having a bobblehead, is that it for April fools?

Pie Flavor.1647:

Alex.9567:

Pie Flavor.1647:

Alex.9567:

so many babies on this forum, whaaaaaaaaaaaa zerker ruined the game for me maybe what you need is your bottle so you can go back to sleep on ur blankie. besides isnt it already confirmed zerker will be edited?!

the discussion in these forums usually involve a combination of strawman arguments, ad hominems and reductio ad absurdum arguments like this.

cute, looks whose done philosophy 101

oh look another ad hominem, do you have an actual argument or do you only know how to do this?

actually all the arguments on this have already been made, and are being addressed, its not my fault you or OP weren’t taking notes, thus i feel its fitting to revert to ad hominems, as clearly theres something wrong with your ability to comprehend the argument.

Pie Flavor.1647:

Alex.9567:

so many babies on this forum, whaaaaaaaaaaaa zerker ruined the game for me maybe what you need is your bottle so you can go back to sleep on ur blankie. besides isnt it already confirmed zerker will be edited?!

the discussion in these forums usually involve a combination of strawman arguments, ad hominems and reductio ad absurdum arguments like this.

cute, looks whose done philosophy 101

so many babies on this forum, whaaaaaaaaaaaa zerker ruined the game for me maybe what you need is your bottle so you can go back to sleep on ur blankie. besides isnt it already confirmed zerker will be edited?!

every mmo’s gonna have elements of grind in it, why would i wanna leave the game ive invested so much in just so i can start all over again in another?

please dont say you want mounts, one look at ESO RvR and i never want to see another mount again.

xsquared.1926:

We do have skimpy outfits, though some of them are locked away in PvP.

those armours are so gay

also in a good space regarding gw2, think what solidified it for me was seeing ESO version of WvW, its virtually the same as gameplay mechanic as gw2 but you need to pay a sub, made me think we really do have it good here.

i have definitely felt the same way about the daily, it being a grind, ive been playing from launch and have stopped twice for about a month and a half both times because i was just bored and not enjoying the game.

funny thing about AP points is they can make the game feel like a chore, especially for someone like me who has 3 hrs/day max during week days to play but Ive also strangely in a way stated enjoying getting the daily, or rather Ive just got so use to it i don’t even question it anymore, i just do it (whether thats sad or not you be the judge) and its now become a place for me to start playing from when i log in, i guess part of it is because im 400 AP points from 10k so now its almost worthwhile doing it to stay ahead. i want to say though the PVP daily is alot more fun, literally just play a few games of PVP and you get it, you dont have to go out of your way at all.

i think anet thinking behind AP is that they wanted to have a way to retain players that started playing from early in the games launch, you see they dont have a problem getting new players but they do have a problem retaining players, so AP may have been a way to give those playrs a reason to keep playing. the down side is new players with low AP are treated badly, however Ive definitely noticed a correlation between plyrs with low AP and their skill level in dungeon not being up to scratch, sure its not always the case but its something that ive noticed.

perhaps this is the issue

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Lol-0-kb-s-dl-speed-Wat/first#post3718088

ThorusDragone.4208:

I was having similar issues and came across an old thread which suggested changing your DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 in Primary and 8.8.4.4 in secondary.

It worked for me!

If you dont know how to change it, follow this link.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-change-dns-settings-in-windows-7-vista

thank you, thank you, thank you! i was cursing heaven trying to get this working last night, this sorted it out one time!

OP i admire your endearment for the original, i also played the original and the sec i heard the music from the escape from lions arch video it took me right back to LA in gw1, but truth be told the connection between gw1 and gw2 was severed a long long time ago, during the production of gw’s2 when devs decided to go the route they did, and thats ok, gw1 will forever hold a place in the hearts of the people who played it, and will always leave people who didnt wondering why we always gone on a about it, honestly let it go, gw1 will always be alive in our memorys and actually i kinda prefer it that way.

just a point to all the people who don’t agree with these types of convenient items remember all the kittenbags who do pay for them are actually funding the game for the whole community, so don’t discourage them, encourage them!

that music from the “Prepare for the Escape from Lion’s Arch” video, the second i heard it it brings back memories of LA from the original, its crazy that even 16 month of gw2 hasn’t changed my association of where that music comes from.

edit: or hang on, is that music from the shiverpeaks ?? :/

Young Somalia.1706:

1. You get a single set by 9k (assuming no mix); then the next set is gated behind the next 9k (grants you have both now); all pieces available are separated in 3k AP increments; you logically move onto the next at 21k points
2. Boots were not conceived (or maybe just mentioned) at the release of AP reward; people asked for more set pieces, this is likely the beginning of finishing the sets
3. They wouldn’t be prestigious otherwise; for the time being, boots will be very scarce; on the other hand, I see more than enough people downing in their pauldrons and punching the Sun’s lights out

makes sense, i just hit 9K this past weekend and Ive been playing from launch so its just a really bitter pill to swallow knowing that it’ll be at least 1.5 years till i can get the greaves

attainable at 21k achievement points – surely this is unreasonable? we get all the other pieces by 9k and now we have to wait 12k more achievement points to get the next piece, obviously ppl wanna complete the set? why put it at such a far distance from the previous piece?

uknortherner.2670:

MAD CAT.9321:

Well who gives a poop about personal story, I sure don’t!

You seem to be labouring under the false impression that you speak for the entire GW2 playerbase. Just roll a new character already.

you seems to be of the same false impression.

I cannot comprehend how ppl who think this is lore breaking get their lil heads around the already existing sex change and name change, thats right all you little defenders of race change breaking lore, put this in you pipes and smoke it till your heads explode, because in your universe of perfect lore, sex change and name change should already be earth shattering enough for you not to care, as for all you other kittens who think its equivalent to an insta80 item think again, some ppl like myself have 500 crafting on a char, i cant just re-roll. the funny part is Anets never confirmed your reasons (PS) which you site with such surety as to why race change cant be done, Anets already shown with the cash shop that wheres there a way to make money they will go there, for all we know this could already be in development, probably coming after end of LW.

but guys you cant have ur pick and eat it too

the problem sits with players who think the game is fair, thats an illusion (not unsimilar to a mesmer’s clones) how is it fair that some ppl get a precursor after a week and other dont get one after a year of playing the forge? wake-up the games not fair.

i wish the player base would become more shrewd and not give into the lure of “rip off” convenience, if people stop enriching anet for stupid convenience items it would force them to have to make money off good content, so try tell me different but in a lot of way the players asked for this.

some legendarys are unfortunately a joke, i feel sorry for anyone who wanted to take a mace build seriously and get a legendary, i hope that if new legendarys are ever released that they are approached with more consideration for people who don’t want their apex weapon to be comic relief.

is there an ETA on next group of legendarys?

1) Personal Story – Uninspiring, poorly executed, had so much more potential!
2) Race – will never stop believing race should have meant more than just cosmetics.
3) Elite skills – or more like excuses for elite skills.
4) Mobs – Poor AI, scattered meaninglessly across zones. crappy drops.
5) Armour Stats – to difficult to switch between stat combinations, design is over engineered.

strike my sack, that looks like the same content from last time

you know i get the whole Anet wanting to make money thing, i really do, its a capitalist world where money dictates almost everything, the more you make the better off you are (not that i fully believe that but thats how the world thinks these days) the thing is theres a fine line between whats a rip off and whats value, and for me too many items in the gem store have just started to look like any attempt to squeeze every last drop of money they possibly can before they move on, yes all the stuffs “cosmetic” , no one is forcing me to buy 1 thing, but why do they want to by so scrupulous about it, for me the gem store has just become a negative association, everytime i see “this new item available in gemstore” i think how are they trying to rip ppl off today, when initially i was pretty keen to see what it had to offer.

Na guild wars 2 failed cause in Anets pursuit for a better game they forgot the basics and how to connect the player’s avatar to the world, PS means nothing, race means nothing, order means nothing, nothing matters in this game, all it is, is a game of i got better looking skins than you therefore i must be better, its a “keeping-up with the joneses” mentality that keeps people going, because other than that there is nothing more to play for here.

would it be fair to say Anet keep in-game gold acquisition low to "encourage’’ people to trade real money for gold?

I find this post incredibly naive, as if op’s expecting anet to come out and say they wish they had stuck with a hard trinity. all combat systems will have issues, Anets approach is by far the lesser of 2 evils.

i liked the way it went straight in to the story when loading into kessex hills, i was getting tired of the formula of: load in, find npc, talk to them, accept mission. the straight load in made the story feel seamless and it felt like it mattered in the moment, so i’m very happy with that decision.

I also liked having a solo instance, it made it feel like a personal mission, however there should be an option for people who want/need to group up.

i like marjory and kasmeer, found them more interesting than any npc’s Ive seen in a while

I went to the mad kings labyrinth yesterday to get daily pumpkin carver and because everyone was doing the new LS stuff there was no zerg! and i have to say it was kinda fun trying to get around it with like only 4 other people (who were lvling their chars) the problem is as soon as i carved my 5 pumpkins i left because it was just more of a challenge than i felt up for at that point in time, my point is your kitten ed with a zerg and also kitten ed without.

how many times in PVE have you tried to rez someone an accidentally got downed too?
point is someone rezing is taken out of the fight which means a sacrifice of dps output for opportunity to rez someone – thats a tactical choice no matter how you look at it. all they have to do now are create instances where the systems more polished.

personally like it, reminded me of sorrows embrace where enemies could res each other, and i like the finishers thing, however i wouldnt want to see it added to every enemy npc, that would just get annoying.

sorry getting a little nostalgic here, OP talks about his gw1 experience and it reminded me of the impact the original game had on me – i remember the first time i got to yaks bend in gw1, it was probably in 2006-2007, looking back i loved how the change of environment suited the storyline progression, i remember getting this sense of having traveled a great distance and arriving at a refuge in the snow, i remember that big pig on the spit in the center of the outpost and just going and sitting by the fire, that was one thing the original nailed that the sequel didn’t – merging the change in landscape to the story progression to really give the player that sense of moving forward and making progress, and that success came from not over thinking what works but just doing what was fun, and imo thats how they need to start thinking again.

in favour, however its not new, there all ready is a superior sigil of sanctuary that works off charges. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_sigil_of_sanctuary

No one can pin point whats wrong with this game because its a design flaw that was there from the very beginning i.e. they tried to build the game from the ground up with ‘balance’ in mind, the irony is its backfired and made a lot of stuff bland. the way forward is to take the same methodology that made the 1st GW have a cult following i.e. for fun and stop worrying about balancing 1st and how to milk the cash shop, why do you keep restraining your imaginations because your afraid of balancing issues? obviously balacing is important but when it makes races/and professions and storys bland then your missing the point

hey knighthonor, i remember your tag from the wiki forums where ppl were posting suggestions for the game while it was still in production, and you were pushing for shadow knight class back then too, my god man have you still not got your fix?

not sure how the whole mission thing would work as im sure there will be issues balancing teams, i.e if your delivering apples to the bandit cave will the bandits be friendly to you?

however something like a simple turn off/on friendly fire, which has like a 2-3 minute cooldown just for players who want a little added danger in PVE, it makes ppl who have it active able to fight each other, and ppl in a group cant target each other.
I think it would be pretty cool to see fights like this happening in a pve zone