Guild Wars 2

Needs more Cthulhu

Norn is the only race I don’t have one of, so I’d probably make a Norn. Though, if it’s not a heavy profession, it would feel weird.

I’m gonna make an image for the next mount thread.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chalice_of_the_Gods_

Because 420 smoke chalice every day~

Everything you are asking for would require a monumental overhaul of the game engine. I can promise you that Anet will never consider doing that for GW2, as that time is much better spent producing new content.

Luna.9640:

This forum restructure is actually same as BURNING DOWN A LIBRARY.

I’d say it’s more like making the library invisible.

BIGHARSHNESS.3510:

Race makes no difference. As far as PvE goes, you may want to look at Ranger. You can stand back and pick off your targets from a safe distance. You also have pets that can pull agro off of you.

I would recommend getting a good bear and a good longbow, then heading immediately to the dungeons! (Don’t actually do this, lol)

Anyway, Rangers are pretty survivable. Heavy professions, too. You shouldn’t have too much trouble regardless of what you pick, though. Good luck!

Problem is that the forums were made by contractors, and they’re long gone by now. Which means that (probably) there is nobody at Anet who can fix it currently. They’ll likely need to hire more contractors if they ever want to seriously address the problems with the forums, which, despite all the annoying bugs, still don’t prevent it from normal operation, so I rather doubt it’s high on the priority list.

Though, if you’re looking, Anet, I might be able to hook you up. Just sayin.

In the meantime I guess we can all just use a particular rhyme slang associated with a certain class of Londoners? (Hint: the word I’m looking for gets filtered out)

Allelya.6830:

Edit: Why on earth did the filter remove part of a standard English word that’s not offensive in any way? lol

That would be because the filter ignores punctuation and white space, so, for instance, a word ending in ‘t’ followed by a space and the word “it” would be filtered out.

Don’t expect it to be fixed anytime soon, as the contractors that initially developed the forums are long gone by now, so to fix any of the forum bugs, they’ll need to hire someone else. I somehow doubt they will bother doing that, since the forum bugs are mostly minor annoyances.

SonOfJacob.7396:

You guys mean this? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Foefire_Cleansing#Achievements

Yes, it is those things. They also appear around the area of the Shatterer, among other places, I’m sure. Been that way since that episode came out.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t that those electric balls added with that past LS episode? Gee, I forget their name.

My money is on this. It’s probably like, Spectral Flame or something. They pop up out of nowhere and you can’t really do anything about them.

ShaolinMonk.5190:

I love you man , it works , thanks !!!!!!

Glad I could help! I didn’t even know about that option, so I learned something as well. Have fun!

You can get all that from other games, you know. I’m not saying they’re completely out of place in GW2, but, it’s not a sandbox game…

It’s possible the way they are blocking the game is by blocking traffic on a swath of TCP/UDP ports that are not commonly used for anything other than gaming.

If this is the case, you should be able to circumvent it by telling the game client to use a different port.

1. Find your shortcut to GW2.exe. If you don’t have one, find the .exe, right click, and select “Create Shortcut”
2. Right click on the shortcut and click “Properties”.
3. In the “Target” field, outside of the quotes, put this: -clientport 80

If 80 (HTTP) doesn’t work well, change the value to 443 (HTTPS), and that may work better. If that doesn’t work at all, then it’s probably a different issue, but I suspect that might be what they’re doing.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Anyway, good luck!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I was under the impression that Anet was staffed entirely by various “-O-Trons” who worked on whatever task was given as their first name.

Hah! I really want to believe this could be true. “Whoops, looks like they found another broken farming spot. Roll out the Nerf-O-Tron!”

I certainly don’t want to see such a long break so soon, but I hope you don’t think they’ve been working at regular pace over the holidays… Lots of people have lots of different vacation hours, so it’s entirely possible for there to have been 2 or 3 weeks of very little getting done, on account of important people not being present.

You have to understand that people in the working world are not robots, though it does feel that way sometimes..

ErazorZ.5209:

If you have any self respect, and you do a job you dont like to do. You quit it regardless.

OMG this is too good. On the one hand, self respect… on the other hand, having a place to live and not being hungry… LOL Let me know what you wind up doing after you graduate.

I honestly don’t know. I guess I do have some goals I haven’t yet completed, like getting all ascended weapons for my guardian. But there’s no real reason why I want to do that. I know two other people who play regularly, and I have only actually played with one of them. But still I log in for Teq, and dailies, and crafting, and slowly progressing toward goals, goals that don’t really mean much, all things considered. It gives me some ritual activity, I suppose.

I’m not particularly tied to it, though. It’s entertainment to me, and if I get bored of it, I do something else.

naiasonod.9265:

The fact remains that it wouldn’t be necessary if these games weren’t increasingly designed to be less and less game, more and more financial strategy and investment planning simulators.

What are you even talking about? Somehow it sounds to me like the problem you’re having is not with the games…

dlonie.6547:

Well, I’m a C++ guy, so web is beyond my abilities, and this is for personal use. I’ve got a little app that does some analysis to try to find profitable investments, but I’d really love to be able to filter out all the crap that never, ever, ever, ever sells (OMG food recipies staaaaahp) :P

No way, bro! Web is easy, you could totally do it! But yeah, if it’s just for you to use, there’s no real reason to make a web app anyway.

Also, C++ might be a little rough for doing something like this. I would recommend a scripting language, like Python or Ruby, since it’s all just HTTP calls and presumably simple algorithms. Unless your other app you mentioned is already C++, which I should have realized before submitting this the first time, lol.

Anyway, good luck!

I looked around a while back, and best I can recommend is just do it yourself, so you can get exactly what you want (provided it’s available via the API, of course). It’s a pretty simple thing to interact with.

Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you want to build? A web app? Or just a personal utility?

I agree with some of your points, but you’re just mistaken on others.

What exactly is wrong with ascended gear? You don’t need it for anything except high level Fractals… you can do anything else with exotic, or even less.

Living Story could be better, but how do you propose they create the content faster? They’re working with everything they’ve got already. Give them some credit. When was the last time you saw anybody do this?

As for the “when it’s done” policy, how can you blame them at all for that, when, even as they’ve tried their best to abide it, there are still people complaining, “YOU PROMISED X” or “WHERE IS Y YOU SAID WE WOULD HAVE IT ALREADY.” Can you seriously blame them for not making any promises? And this policy has little to do with the ire on the forums here. That is easily accounted for by the sheer immaturity and lack of experience of the majority of users, and people not understanding what is feasible and what is not.

Theoretically, yes, but multiplying a 0.001% chance by 3 or 4 doesn’t make it noticeably more probable. I don’t know the exact numbers, but it’s really low, anyhow.

kamedin.4698:

And Anet, this really pains me to say this but if the community is the only thing that keeps people playing your game, that is a bad sign.

“the only thing that keeps people playing your game,” based on a case study of size 1. But surely everybody else in the game has the same priorities and interests as you, and from that alone you can infer mountains of insight into the state of the game.

stale.9785:

So much wishful thinking. At this point, I expect even less new content than we’ve gotten so far. 2014 gave us almost a whole 6 hours worth of new content. For 2015, I’m expecting maybe 3. Of that, 90% will be listening to unskippable dialogue from characters whom I dislike nearly as much as I do Trahearne.

Also expect more senseless redesigns! Then a six month long hiatus from any public forum from the devs while they pretend that everything is fine!

Why are you even playing this game? You obviously don’t like it. Or is that that you do like the game, and you just hate not having everything you want right when you want it?

Knighthonor.4061:

I am curious

But is there anybody here that “DONT WANT THE REVEAL TO BE AN EXPANSION”?
I would like to hear your view point.

Yes, I would rather ANet didn’t completely abandon their principles and give into pressuring from an extremely vocal minority of short-sighted individuals. And I can tell you right now, that’s not what it is.

They probably have found a way to incorporate the advantages of a traditional expansion into the Living Story, which is exactly what they should be looking to do. After all, there’s nothing they could do with an expansion that could not be accomplished via the Living Story; the only difference is that in the latter case we see the changes slowly over time, and we can have them at no extra cost.

Furthermore, the current model of the game allows that every player has free access to all content currently in the game, unless they missed some story episodes, but those aren’t anything you have to see. Compare that to a traditional, paid expansion, in which a lot of new content is added, typically like skills, professions, perhaps even races, but all of this is behind the price tag of the expansion, so only people who buy the expansion can have that content.

I will be in attendance of this announcement, so I hope most sincerely it is not a traditional “expansion.” Of course, I want the game to continue expanding, and I do hope they’re going to be announcing some cool new additions, just not in the format of a paid expansion.

I roll with 70+, though I stopped doing Fractals a while back, and I’ve yet to actually do scale 50… yeah you’re definitely going to need ascended armor to get that much, though.

Lol, so the “server crashes” and yet you’re the only one who gets disconnected? That’s not how that works.

I think there would have been monumentally more doubt and unrest over a total lack of leveling, and the game would probably have missed out on a considerable number of players. I don’t think the world is ready for a no-leveling MMO, leastwise one that can actually compete in the market.

DON’T GET RAZER. I had a Naga before, and the cable started to fray, and so I got a Naga Epic. Then the cable started to fray on that, and you can’t buy a replacement cable!!

So, I got the G600, and not only is it less expensive, I discovered it feels better in my hand, and it’s easier to quickly find the right thumb button. I have to recommend it.

I would probably have been doing WvW for months now if this were an option, but every time I think about trying it, I just don’t want to change my build.

I still have hope that this feature will make it in sometime in the future, but I’m rather annoyed it hasn’t been there from the start. Did nobody think of it? Or did they actually find a reason not to do it that outweighed this supreme convenience?

Nope, those are the top of the top exotics as far as stats go. Some may have rare skins that make them more valuable, but you won’t find better stat-wise unless you go to ascended/legendary, and that will cost you much more than 250g.

cuchallain.9632:

I found one more while looking through screens.

Must be how the developers feel these days

I got a precursor off Teq a few months ago, but I’ve mostly just used the money as a cushion. I’ve gotten full ascended armor and nearly full ascended weapons on my guardian with gold I’ve made since then.

One would imagine the Asura could have devised a solution to this by now…

yolo swaggins.2570:

So it isn’t as simple as, “Don’t like it? Gtfo.” And I know some of you are thinking, “Well you’ve already got your money’s worth…” but then that isn’t for you to decide. It is their money.

Understand this before you write someone off and tell them to go away.

No, objectively speaking you have your money’s worth. You exchanged $60 (or whatever) for the content that existed in the game at launch, and you have that, and will always have that. Everything else is bonus.

And maybe you’re just not at the point in your life where you understand this, but free time is more precious than anything, and if you’re spending it on something you don’t like, then yeah, you do need to gtfo. Stop whining about what you think you deserve, what you think will make you like this game, and go do something you do like. It’s just a game, for Christ’s sake. One day you’ll die, and you probably won’t be thinking “gee I sure wish I had kept playing GW2.”

All these arguments come down to is perspective. Some people look at the game as “what can this do for me?” and those people are usually disappointed. I prefer to approach games with the mindset of “how can I best enjoy this non-work activity?” and so, I don’t take issue with many things in the game, because I know if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t be doing it at all.

I think perhaps there is a misunderstanding of the phrase. To me, it doesn’t mean “if you don’t like this one thing, quit the game,” but rather, “if you genuinely didn’t like this, why would you be doing it?”

Yeah, well, some people are immature. That’s life. No getting around it. Are you gonna just stop talking about things because of it?

Or am I misunderstanding in assuming you’re trying to make a point? It’s very odd, the way you’ve presented this.

Oh yeah, I noticed this a long time ago. Guess I forgot to say anything, whoops.. lol. Shame on them.

Remember you can exchange gold for gems. You don’t have to pay a cent of real world money.

Though, you aren’t missing too much.

I used to be like a lot of you here on the forums. Not one year ago I was avidly clamoring for “more permanent content,” “more horizontal progression,” and all those buzzwords and phrases you all cling to so dearly; and truth be told, I plainly said on multiple occasions that a paid expansion was the only way to proceed. And of course, all that noise wouldn’t be complete without the all-too-common ultimatum: expansion OR the game is screwed forever.

Well, where are we now? Season 2 is drawing to a close. Two more maps have been added to the game, and much more that I don’t care to recount right now. After seeing what ANet has done with this season of the Living Story, and more importantly, getting some real world experience for a new perspective, I’m convinced a paid expansion is not the right way to go at all. Why the change of heart, you ask? To answer that question for myself, I had to make an inquiry into why I even thought that nonsense in the first place, and the answer was quite clear: I saw the rampant negativity here on the forums, and I fell into the trap of thinking that people here have any idea what they’re talking about.

Needless to say, these many months after I (and so many others before me) predicted the doom of the game, it’s still going strong, arguably better than ever. So I just have to ask one question to all you people who are still making these claims today:

What on Earth makes you think that you know how to manage an MMO better than the people who have been successfully doing it for more than 2 years?

I implore you to take a step back from your delusions of self-importance and realize how completely unqualified you are to be telling an entire development studio that everything they are doing is wrong, despite all indications that they are doing just fine.

A common criticism of ANet is that they don’t listen to the players here on the forums. That’s not untrue: of course they don’t listen to everyone. But the implication frequently carried with that accusation is that they are foolishly plowing ahead on the path to destruction, despite all of these insightful posters’ well-intentioned advice. Consider, for a moment, that perhaps the real reason they are not listening is that these people simply don’t know what they’re talking about.

I urge all of you here on the forums to think twice about what you read on here before jumping on any bandwagons, because that mentality is a virus that spreads ignorance and misplaced malcontentedness.

I fully expect to now be labelled as a “white knight” in a malicious and fallacy-ridden attempt to discredit my opinions, but time will tell who is right, and who is too stubborn to admit they’re wrong. I’ve already been through the whole process; hopefully all you naysayers will one day join me in realizing that ANet is not an incompetent gaggle of fools, and they might actually know what they’re doing.

Distaste.4801:

If ArenaNet continues to add LS3 without adding any depth to the game then it’s a sad end for GW2.

I’d wager a fair amount of money you are wrong about that. GW2 is doing very well as far as MMO’s go these days, despite the decided air of pure, deluded pessimism you’ll find on the forums, to which you appear to subscribe.

Chrisco.5732:

The reason I feel that an expansion is needed is because the living story hasn’t been able to deliver the common features that people are asking for.

If you review recent changes you will find it has, in fact, been able to deliver features that people asked for. I think what you mean is “it hasn’t delivered features that a handful of very vocal individuals have been fruitlessly demanding for years.”

Ha! Now that’s what I call an oversight.

There are certain licensing rights that go into things like this. I don’t imagine they can assume permission to use any track from GW1 in GW2 without first working out a contract with the incomparable Mr. Soule to pay him again for the re-use of his work in a different manner than originally agreed upon.

You, however, can include whatever music you like in GW2 by creating playlists with particular names and putting them in a certain directory, and they will play in the game. Apologies for not knowing the specifics off-hand; you should be able to locate the information with a little Googling, anyway.

I could probably make one legendary with the materials and time available to me at present. Contrast that to the variety of ascended weapons I am in the process of making… Sure, I’d love to have a legendary, and perhaps one day I will pursue it, but I just don’t see the value of having only one when I frequently change out my weapons depending on the scenario. And more than one is just.. not feasible for me.

I guess “high and low” doesn’t include the Living World sub-forum? Hehe. :P

It’s January 13th.

That sounds exciting, makes me think of Warframe. I’d pay gems for that, though I’d much sooner trade in gold to get them than use real money.

“I propose I’m right and you’re wrong so there, deal with it.”

You’re gonna have to do a little better than that. People have also stated they love the changes, and want to see more like it, so where is your argument exactly?

Yep, looking forward to what they do with Season 3. S2 was better than S1, so far the trend is upwards. They’re constantly learning what people like and what they don’t, so they ought to be able to do even better next time.

You just gotta show up early, at least 30 minutes is recommended. Pretty much any instance you get into that early will have enough people to succeed by spawn time.