Guild Wars 2

its pretty sad when we have to tab out to use an unofficial website in order to find groups in this game…. still waiting for a real in game tool… cough

GW2 has a loooong way to go…they should have left PVP out and patched it in once they had more game modes etc etc…

Im curious to see how Elder Scrolls Online turns out….2013 is right around the corner and rumors (yes, rumors) are it will be in beta next few months.

They are probably waiting to spend more time and study GW2’s mistakes and make sure they dont do them in ESO….since ESO seems a lot like GW2 in terms of the way its done.

Dimm.8702:

Books are white(almost all of them), magazines are white( almost all of them). HELL paper is white(…. almost all of them). WTF you saying? Since you were a kid you read on white stuff, why you complain now??

This made no sense^

There is a difference between pages/books when comparing them to an electronic device (Monitor) that outputs light thus further intensifying the white background.

It really does get annoying after while especially with LED monitors.

They should allow a darker background.

Also don’t say turn down the screen brightness, why do all that every time you visit one website like this forum? Most forums have a darker color tone for this reason alone.

Chronomancer class that was supposed to come out with the canceled GW1 expansion called Utopia.

Even better there should be duel professions in the game like GW1 as well

I have to say..and sadly…Im not going to vote for GW2…

I still play it but Im severely let down..especially with sPVP…

Maybe in 2 or years I may vote for it…

For now…its got a long way to go….

Voting for it now would be one big lie…like the manife…….cough

Champions are just NPC’s with a lot of health (since that sems to be Anets answer to a “boss” fight…just add stupid amounts of health…and use zerg mechanics…) and no creativity to the way they attack or anything…. dont like em just skip em your not missing much.

Anet needs money to add more nerfs/Zergs/Destroy sPVP So the smart thing to do is put a Legendary up in hopes someone is dumb enough to max their credit card on gems then convert to gold.

I used my crystal ball for this conclusion.

4215 players??

I hardly call that something defining lol….

xFire? poeple still use it?

A site like twitch TV which has hundreds of thousands of viewers is a better (not reliable either) source then xFire is lol…

GW2 has a whopping 140 viewers today (went down from 20+ thousand live viewers across all GW2 channels at launch)…hell final fantasy X has more viewers today lol.

I’m curious,

I thought the original idea of the game was we could solo play without a group and still get loot….yet everyone in events tries to group up cause in a group they have a better drop rate.

This means I hit on a champ for a while (same amount of time as a group) and get no loot but people in a group get loot cause they had a larger combined hit amount?

Does what I say made sense or am I wrong?

Is that fair Arenanet?

I feel its kinda unfair. Also dont answer back with “group up” there are many times when groups are full or people group up their own guilds or friends…. or people dont want to group..and so on.

Should just make raid sized groups or make loot drop fair and balanced for non party people.

people argue that the devs are adding features and that GW1 took time to add features….however what people dont seem to get is that many of these features should have been implemented from day one in GW2….reason being is that they had the experience and knowledge from GW1 already and saw what people liked and what game modes etc etc worked.

Its like they took everything that worked in GW1 and tossed it completely out of the window for GW2, while dumbing it down in the process to zerging and the same cookie cutter builds. and weapon choices.

Same with observer mode!

They should have taken their time to finish and add all this stuff….I waited 6 years already (or 5?) I could have waited another for a complete non tacked on PVP experience.

They only care about PVE in GW2 in an effort to attract more players.
Same for zergVzergVzerg (WvW)

sPVP is something that feels tacked on. I feel lied to and totally betrayed as a complete loyal GW1 fan who convinced many people that GW2 was the way to go especially for PVP and now I feel like I lied to my friends.

They had plenty of time to incorporate more modes and not just point capture.

They could have added in many more skills.

They had GW1 to learn from and format those things to GW2.

How can their be no GvG??!! and dont give me the excuse they can do that in WvWvW…thats a joke…Im talking organized structered GvG.

Instead we get a tacked on addition to GW2 PVE.

This game should have stayed in Beta another year. All ANet has done is given other MMO developers (Like elder scrolls online, just one example.) time to see the mistakes ANet made in treating their game and fans and make sure they don’t do that in their game when it launches. So that way they will release a more complete “modern” MMO.

Why was it done like this??

Where there any changes/fixes this patch asides from the Wintersday event?

TheAmpca.1753:

I do like this idea, would give some more reason to try to farm an area other than Orr. Would be interesting to have the entire map be filled with dungeon strength creatures

Agreed, that’s what hard mode should be about.

Having the world map with Dungeon style enemies. This way if we don’t want to do dungeons we can do it in the world map.

GW1 hard mode was great and with the idea above I’m sure they could implement it in GW2.

Last patch notes I can find was Dec 3rd.

Do they not do them anymore?

FaRectification.5678:

OP, I believe you are a veteran, however if you’re going to turn this game into WoW, you might as well have the developers give you the Sword of Judgement at lvl 1 and just turn everything you see in front of you into dust in a matter of seconds.

The point is not to make the game easy, to the contrary, it’s to make the game as challenging as possible but still balanced for all skill levels.

Don’t you want to feel a sense of accomplishment when you achieve something? Sure, you’ll be let down from time to time, but that’s in the nature of things.

How are the suggestions turning it into WoW?

Most these ideas from op are from GW1.

Ppl always quick to jump onto the "stop tryna make it WoW’ bandwagon. Its like the end all answer for haters who dont like ideas that may change the game a weee bit.

Understand where OP is coming from..

I was reading this thread here and had this idea.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/The-return-of-Hard-Mode/first#post982289

A lot of GW1 vets or even new GW2 players would like a form of hard mode not just tied to dungeons but for the whole PVE world.

I say this could happen. Even if GW2 has a persistant world where GW1 did not.

Make 2 channels per server

Channel 1 = Normal mode
Channel 2 = Hard mode…everything is lvl 80 plus, drops rewards etc.

Only lvl 80s can enter hard mode. Or add to the requirement list.
Also make it HARD…very HARD…like GW1 was or harder…so that people who dont want the challenge/headache will stay in normal as well…in an effort to maintain population on normal channels.

etc etc blah blah blah.

Thanks

Hard mode can be implemented in this game regardles sof a persistent world.

Each server can be given 2 channels.

1 = normal
2 = Hard (everything is level 80+)

Once you are level 80 you can choose to enter hard mode channel 2 for harder fights, better rewards drops etc.

GW1 had hard so I see no reason why GW2 cant create a form of it …even using above said idea/method.

will it be another “buy keys in the gem shop in hopes of decent rewards…or go out and grind the same area over and over” again?

Will enemies magically appear on top of us due to fantastic rendering…

Wonder if we will have to kill Christmas related mobs for 3 hours in an event/zergfest in hopes of getting a green item…

Perhaps maybe they have learned from the last few events…we shall see..

Ive noticed nothing but Whites/blues or nothing at all from many champs and veterens.

The devs seem to enjoy making us suffer and rage at getting nothing after spending so much time and effort to hunt and kill these types of enemies.

It makes me not want to bother with these types of mobs at all…which stinks cause I enjoy exploring and finding these type of enemies in the game world.

They are forcing us to rely on FOTM for anything and taking away from the enjoyment of this massive beautiful world they talked about so much that we could explore and find all the items we needed to progress and what not..

This game has become a grind no matter how you look at it.

indeed it was thank you

I saw a thread in here last week about a question and answer session with The Anet PVP team on GW2 guru or was it another GW2 website?

I cant find the thread and I cant remember the link…or maybe its right here in front of me and Im just blind.

It was suppose to be Monday or last Monday when they had it..I cant remember.

Anyone know what it was?

Hope that made sense. It was like an AMA but wasnt on Reddit.

Its just that they put so much work into each city…but we are forced to hang out in one place like LA cause there is no proper LFG tool and most the population for each server is in LA now due to a bad choice of adding a dungeon to LA…or making every event since Halloween take place in LA.

Keg brawl is in the Norn City…but thats a ghost event to now…

Eleazyair.5716:

So then why did Jon Peters lie to all the ranger players saying that there will be some big changes in the upcoming patch? When there was clearly no big changes?

Because underwater skills are better then land skills silly goose…

This whole “team” does not listen to us…they make the changes “they” want….not what most people give feedback on.

They wont even give us new game types.

They will do what they want with the sPVP…

I don’t even know why there is an sPVP forum in the first place.

I remember =r when we were told the cities would all ave events going on and mini games.

I also remember reading how our personal home instance would change and people would react to us differently and we could invite friends to visit our home instances and see what we have built and so on….I dont see any of that…..

The game is free remember…its not like a subscription renewal is holding you back….log in and try for yourself

Hoewever to answer your question…sPVP is still a complete dissapointment in this game…nothing like GW1 was nor any other PVP game for that matter.

GrapeGatsby.6937:

Yes but it’s really difficult making players not congregate in one central location to advertise for groups and such.

Agreed…but then that should point to the need of getting a real looking for group system put into the game.

That way people don’t have to sit in one place all day spamming LFG and so on.

Get rid of Magic Find….or at least get rid of it for ALL dungeon type runs….players can still use it in the world map but for all instances….turn it of Arenanet.

Any one else notice the 5 main cities are pretty much dead most the time except for on rare occasions?

Unless its just my server lol.

Lions Arch is turning into the main hub…which is sad imo…they are following most other MMO’s out there by turning the other great cities into ghost zones and only focusing on one city…

I know lore wise LA is the central hub for all races…but does no one else think the other cities need some love to?

LA seems to get all the love for events and everything. Why not have other events that effect the other cities once in a while.

I personally love the Norn city…its so dead though..other then the fact of NPC’s

Azelroth.6801:

Maybe there are little clues about this in the Lost Shores?

“Under new management” – those that have done the jumping puzzle will remember this achievement. I wonder if they’re trying to tell us something here…?

I thought the exact same thing when I saw this

I see dark times in GW2 future.

Also think about it guys….I feel ArenaNet is still passionate and true to their game….however they are being forced/controlled by Ncsoft to go another direction…and if Nexon get their grubby lil controlling hands in on this then all I can say is…I hope for the staff of Anet the best…..Ncsoft and Nexon are a cancer.

I just want some word on Guild V Guild like it was in GW1.

That was so fun…Guilds out there smacking each other around fighting for that throne (per say)

I guess this request falls under the “when its ready” saying.

As the title states. Will there be more then just Conquest…soon?

Capture the flag, Arenas, etc etc

Guild V Guild is the biggest thing for me…and dont say do that in WvW…Im talking about an organized proper rated event like Guild Wars 1 where guilds can work their ways up in the rankings.

Most people care more now about the chance of a precursor then the actual experience cause the experience is a 2 hour grind/zerg fest anyways…

Anet did this to themselves.

I say we try not to argue so much so this thread dont magically dissapear and then all this will be for nothing since the ANet staff will never see it.

Biscuithammer.8615:

Darken Rahl.5824:

I simply cannot understand this point of view, in real life the greatest billionaires achieved their wealth were as much about luck and timing as it was skill.

If I wanted to be reminded of how unfair life was I wouldn’t be playing a game about plant-people and magical dragons.

^^^^

You sir/mam are my hero for the evening

I still sit here and think of the comment in the Manifesto video “We under promise and over deliver”

The whole manifesto was an over promise that under delivered 3 months later.

lacrimstein.5603:

Nayru.4537:

BaldricBlack.4359:

OP is clearly lying, if he has been playing since open Beta there is no way anyone, even the most brain dead of individuals would describe this game as being as shallow as OP has. This account isn’t more than a week old, tops.

Actually White Knight, I agree with the OP and I played since the first beta. As do many others agree. Fact.

+1. In fact, these are all very common complaints.

+1 here to… You dont know what your talking about. I’ve been around since press and these things are still plaguing the game. This game is indeed shallow.

DOnt dare mention raids in this community…you will get cut down fast …same thing happened in my suggestion about raids (was even a mature suggestion)

People (Most of this community) will immediately have a kitten fit and tell you to go back to WoW (even if you have never played WoW…since ppl forget WoW isnt the only game with raids)

However I support raid content as well for large groups and guilds…instead of most the mindless (some call it fun) zerging….with people mining ore or laying around dead for 30 mins instead of rezzing and running back…

BabelFish.7234:

Unless they changed it legendaries are still marginally better (by marginal I mean the difference isn’t worth the investment from a numbers perspective).

That’s besides the point though, the precursors are indeed expensive…silly expensive.

There is no marginal difference at all.

Stats are EXACTLY the SAME as exotics (Or ascended now? kitten I have no idea anymore )

either way..legends have no stat increase from the item used to make them

Its never changed either its always been this way..Anet even stated that in their legendary article iirc

100000% support OP

Magic Find is a joke and a terrible mechanic that they added to the game (among many other terrible ideas)

Either disable it for dungeons while still allowing it in normal PVE zones or get rid of it all together.

People handicap themselves, die more, are slower and yet they gain more for crippling those of us actually trying.

Get rid of.

Punk.4072:

Day 15~18 i got my Key
- Hey folks , check this out i got 2 free keys what you guys think about playing Gw2 with me?
- wowww awesome, so and we can be level 80?
- YES!
- nice and what guild you are? so we can fight other guilds together!
- there’s no guild wars in guild wars 2
-mmm i guess i don’t want the key thank you

Tolololol

That was the biggest wtf moment for me to at launch…no GVG

Elder Scrolls online.

Check out the video on the main site. Seems like a lot of GW2 mechnics Done Better…same loot mechanics….Mega Servers which means no seperate servers…etc etc… but with better combat (blocking, sneaking etc) and somethnig for everyone….dark brotherhood FTW…yes you can join their guild in the MMO!!!
But I say this cautiously…it could turn into another GW2…

Other then that until then it will be random MMO’s and console games to waste my time.

GW2 on the very small occasion to check new maps and so on…but not permanent anymore…especially since I came for PVP and its a joke.

taomang.2183:

Apparently you never did Melandru, Grenth or Lyssa.

appreantly I have plenty of times….

those are the worse….finding people who have the ability to think and work at all 3 locations..at the same time… in order to bring the barrier down and then keeping it down…and then going to the boss or retreating back to a fallen location….these are lol events in a zerg scenario

Or people all pulling the NPC into the boss in the Grenth event and getting him killed….

Then when people complain they get flamed by the people screwing up who are just saying they are there for fun…especially multiple times into the same event..

Being ignorant does not = fun

Karizee.8076:

Jonin.7230:

Ok seeya. Have fun with those dailies.

And pandas. ew.

Blizzard be working the GW2 forums hard. They must be getting worried

Yeh i guess those millions they are still making every month have got them worried about GW2.

Not to mention Elder Scrolls online is taking what GW2 has done and is making it Better. Including better technology and DX 11 support out of the box.

Setus.4731:

Doesn’t Dusk have a level 80 requirement to equip? Do trials start at level 80 or something? Also I heard rewards were scaled with level.

THats what I figured…I hope I can get the dusk from him tonight before he gets locked out

And no.. not lying

Could it be loot table jacked up?

Clever.7918:

OP is lying, loot was scaled

Nope…

I got a lvl 75 Item from the chest…boots

rest wee lvl 80

I am pure 80

ljaphillips.3497:

Angelus.1042:

My friend on a free trial. First time ever in GW2. Followed me through this 3 hour grind fest last event (which is a bad way to sell the game to new people) he opns the loot chest and got 2 (YES TWO) precursors!!!!!!! Dusk and the staff one!!!!!!

WTF!!!

He didnt even know what they were he just told me and I almost fell out my chair.

wtf ArenaNet.

Ive been here since day 1 and have gotten nothing but trash from these chest (no joke)

Errr as loot was scaled to your level, and your friend was scaled up to level 80. I can’t see how he got level 80 rewards when his real level was considerably less.

I did the event with 2 friends who used their alts. (55 and 64) and they got
exotic rewards scaled to their real level. And many people on this very forum have said the same.

I find it hard to believe that a trial player on a low level character got level 80 rewards at the end of the event.

I am LVL80 and I got a lvl 75 item….

Sooooo….this games loot tables are kittened up pretty much

i think he equped dusk

the staff he is giving to his wife..:(

his offline now

Sin.8174:

Angelus.1042:

Mindless zergs allow people to kitten out…go mining nodes…stand around do nothing except tap and kill a few enemies and get the reward.

Thats the other thing thats bad about this system, lazy people not doing their share. Raids at leat do better to fight this part.

Typical type of comments I left WoW for.

You tell people to try to be grown up.. and yet you spout of something like this. Don’t get the logic.

I’d rather not have WoW-style Raids here. I prefer the ‘mindless zerg’ as you call it.

No gear score checks. No listening to ‘OHMAGAWD MY DEEPS YO’.

Just good ol’ fashioned fun.

I came to Play. Not to Work.

I came to play to…

I hate gear score…Ive never used it in WoW.
I was in a good WoW guild that didnt cry about DPs either

But still think about it…people wiping on the lost shore events…lay around 30 minutes expecting to get rezed while most of us spawn and run back….people laying around dead and people right next to them mining…

That just seems unfair to me.

This does not seem like good ol fashioned fun to me