Guild Wars 2

Days ? u grossly underestimate our impatience

IMO its not viable. You may experiment with buids but I doubt anything will be good enough from a spvp point of view, I mean there will always be s/d and d/d builds which are better for spvp

. Staff is best for ranged gameplay – Hence PVE/WvW are where it works best. May be generic…but its soo fun to drop fireballs on BG :P…..so many bags

I was hoping the raffle ends today…….This is such a huge download……hate my 2mbps connection x.x

As per what the skiritt npc says. The lottery was supposed to end in two weeks. That’s today right ? Or are the hoping for more people to buy scraps with gems….

I doubt there is a point discussing this since u have brilliantly announced it on forums and the prices of the respective items should see corrective movement……..

These attempts to increase your revenues from the game are soo irritating……..first you (Anet) ended the key runs in the previous update……..and now this…….and all in the name of “simplifying”

As long as the minimum reward in the Chest is worth more in gems than the gem cost of chests it is not gambling.
You are paying for a virtual item when u buy a BL key. The virtual item is just transforming into another virtual item. Everything is just pixels…..It will be very hard to call this gambling. Anet is probably paying Sales Tax or Service Tax. So please don’t think that any tax is being avoided here.

Who brought up this topic -__- ? probably someone from the IRS

Try Full condi build with Stone heart and S/D. Its a fun change from burst and pretty effective on guards/wars.

While I guess it is understandable that Anet is trying to position Guild Wars 2 differently from other MMOs and the target audience too appears to be different, there are a very large number of veteran mmo players here who are not happy with the changes.
The current changes are not suited for the hardcore PC gamers. Maybe when the game is available on consoles or tablets…..the casual gamer numbers there are large and such changes would be attractive to them.

Please put efforts on improving end game content and skill effects etc……a tutorial would help!
A certain supremely complicated space based MMO has a fairly effective tutorial too, I don’t see why we cant do it here!!

This appears to be more of an effort to ‘kill key runs’ with the excuse of helping newbies (dumb ones that too)

There is a difference between real MMO players and the “others” please make up your mind as to who you want to cater to…….And just who were these testers x.×.........Skirrits??

And seriously speaking I expect much of the player base consists of extremely intelligent nerds!!

Sheldon will not play this game!!!

Chrispy.5641:

The Complexity of Gw2 is already on a level comparable to Console games with less buttons than a keyboard, and GW2 is nothing compared to GW1, which itself is nowhere near as complex as an MMO like WoW or Everquest.

Exactly!! They might as well dumb it down further and start selling the game for 2$ on iOS or Android.

I have been wondering about making a topic on this myself…..Why does Anet steadily make this game dumber??

The beauty of an MMO is its complexity. I don’t understand the target audience here!Skill bars and builds are supposed to be complicated!! This need to please the “casual gamers” is irritating…….

If I may dare to do so, I would like to blame the dumbing down of games, to gaming on phones and tablets.

Its basically a very fun skill Also the Barrage attack which feels like using a machine gun is actually very strong.

Its amazing, the speed at which they resolve bugs relating to “Purchase of Gems” . So there must be a 100 devs allocated to the Gem Store and one slow poke dev for solving the WvW Reward Bug who will be done by the next season…..

Vasticon.7238:

Don’t do it. Their intelligence is all they have going for them in a generalized way. It’s entirely possible for any other race to be as smart as an Asuran, it’s just not as common. They’re ugly little ankle-biter rats. Aesthetic appeal is what this game was built on (see dye system/wardrobe) and they’re freakin’ atrocious-lookin’. I personally don’t find them cute, but even if you made that argument, cuteness has no place in a world of constant danger and battle. Asuran master race was a term coined by people who made a mistake in creating one — it’s a defense mechanism created solely for the purpose of staving off depression and guilt.

Bookahs……such envy……why can’t they just accept our absolute superiority……..

Thank you very much Dinny. The guide is awesome.

There is a paragraph in you guide on how Asura treat the less intelligent aka Dumb Asuras. I think you should add to this, details about the ‘Asura who has been imprisoned in Rata Sum, for being stupid’. You can find the guy in a prison cell in the lower part of Rata Sum

There needs to be a little randomness / time changes atleast Hate this time table style of bosses. Multiple bosses coming up together and rushing everywhere was fun……

And its becoming tiresome to explain teq literally everyday to a new clueless bunch…
You may as well delete the triple wurm boss…..

Fix this issue with bosses and I will be ok with megaserver. Also i think fine tuning the “match making process” whereby all same server grouped together will help greatly!!
The allocated weights to the various factors needs tweaking.

Nooo Way!! We regularly play mini games / Lotteries in my guild (MYTH – Jade Quarry) where prizes include small to medium amounts of gold. It is a wonderful way to have fun as a guild. Lets not do anything to ruin that.

Anybody who needs convincing to make an Asura is not Asura material.
We are the master race. All will serve us. It is inevitable.

PS : We will roll over the Charr legions with endless Golem armies.

Why would u put expensive runes into Karma gear in the first place……..And is this your first MMO ? Anet has done very well in not making this a pay to win game…..

Also NOBODY uses the upgrade extractor…..unless they have gems to throw around. This is a non issue. Just get new gear put new runes and be happy…….

I seem to be taking excessive damage from Mesmer phantasms and Ranger Pets even while using stone heart and having 3456 armor. They are not supposed to be able to crit on me but I have a feeling the phantasms and pets are………Can some one please check this.

Trait properly and choose the right trinket, runes and sigil while setting your pvp build.

Asacledhae.2650:

I have a better solution to this whole mess : How about adding a universal translator to the game, translating every language (including English, French, German, Spanish or maybe Greek) into Swahili?

That way everyone will see the same thing, so no more complaints!

There is a ios game called Game of War. It applies a brilliant universal translator. The devs should check it out. Might be better implemented here.

I had initially said I don’t like a crowded Rata Sum. But its feeling much better now. No lag and we are having a lot of fun. However I still hate bosses being on a “Timetable” because of mega server. And several events. pre events are having glitches. However I hope these issues will be resolved overtime as this system is refined.

Yes please let us know which server you are joining.

Hello, I was planning to use a torment sigil. And I have a few questions regarding the same.

1. Is Torment like any other condition ? Damage scales with condi damage or with power ? and it stacks like bleed ?

2. I heard the torment damage increases with movement. Is the increase significant ?

Thanks in advance.

Please exclude Home Cities from the Megaserver System! I used to go to Rata Sum to peacefully do my crafting , organising my bank and checking trade post. Its ridiculously crowded now……We go to home cities to escape the hell that Gendarren is!!

Also while i really cannot give any alternate suggestion for this….the “Time Table” system of Bosses seems to be a major blow to the Dynamic Events system which is the Heart of this Game. On second thoughts can u please lower the cost of guilds hosting their mega boss events….

However i also feel that overall the mega server system is a blessing to servers with low population. Just that something will have to be done to prepare maps to hold so many people better…

Guildwars 2 has a very large user base……it will take a long time for it to deplete. All the players talking about “Players Leaving” and predicting doomsday forget to notice that they themselves have not been able to stop playing this game……GW2 has not much competition as of now. None of the current mmos are up to the mark. (Excluding alpha beta trials) Anybody who disagrees should be on that game’s forums and not here.

I believe the changes coming up to runes will help balance this out through improved might/fury stacking.

With the various changes to runes being announced, I was particularly interested in the increase in proc rates of rune bonuses.

For eg Superior Rune of Strength and Hoelbrak have a chance to grant might on hit. Currently its at just 3% or 5% but this % may increase considerably. Now I was wondering is this chance to gain might when I hit a mob or is it when the mob hits me ??

Also with the increase in proc % wont this just add further to the “Zerker” category lol ? Will be easy to stack might ? Of course we still don’t know by what % it will increase, if at all it increases..

If you bought stuff without placing ‘Buy Orders’ you should not be posting about this here. The player base is so vast, it is difficult for anyone to control any aspect of the market.

Sooo anybody buying a large quantity of something is "Manipulating the price ? "
Prices in GW2 are pretty difficult to manipulate because of the massive player base. (Except maybe in the case of precursors and legendries of which there are few numbers on sale)

Everybody must place buy orders while buying some thing and show patience. Placing buy orders has no cost to it either. You can always cancel and outbid anyone who bid higher than u.

Those taking advantage of people with less patience who buy directly without placing buy orders, should not be called manipulators.

Whether he wants it for legendary or for Map Completion, every person in the game at some point or the other finds a particular aspect of it to be difficult. That does not mean that he/she should ask it to be removed from the game.

WvW map completion is not too difficult. If you are having trouble reaching points like the enemy keep…just wait for the map colors to change. Have patience. Don’t ask a feature to be changed just because you are in a hurry. You may not need to fight a single person to get all points/vistas if u wait.

Besides I feel Anet already makes too many concessions for the “Casual” gamers.

The big new patch is going to hit us in a couple of weeks. Making Legendary Weapons and Ascended Gear Account Bound seems to be a good Idea. Those grumbling about having made multiple legendary weapons should have known that this was going to happen sooner or later..

However, does the Wardrobe system seem to be a bit excessive ?

Wouldn’t it be more prudent to just stop at making gear account bound ?

The Wardrobe system seems to be diluting the value of the skins in the game. A large section of the population in game may end up looking similar wearing the same type of gear skin and using the same weapon skins.

I hope that the cost via “Transmutation Charges” will be enough to control excessive use of same skins on every character in a single account.

The Wardrobe system does seem to be against the interests of those players who have actually been spending $$ on the game…..However rather than completely doing away with it, maybe It just needs to be tweaked in a way to minimise impact on these players.

For Example :
1. Maintain level restrictions of skins (That means u can use Legendary wep skins on other level 80 weps only)

2. Keep Gem Store Skins out of this system ? (Lol though I guess its these skins that will be most popular in the wardrobe….)

The big new patch is going to hit us in a couple of weeks. Making Legendary Weapons and Ascended Gear Account Bound seems to be a good Idea. Those grumbling about having made multiple legendary weapons should have known that this was going to happen sooner or later..

However, does the Wardrobe system seem to be a bit excessive ?

Wouldn’t it be more prudent to just stop at making gear account bound ?

The Wardrobe system seems to be diluting the value of the skins in the game. A large section of the population in game may end up looking similar wearing the same type of gear skin and using the same weapon skins.

I hope that the cost via “Transmutation Charges” will be enough to control excessive use of same skins on every character in a single account.

The Wardrobe system does seem to be against the interests of those players who have actually been spending $$ on the game…..However rather than completely doing away with it, maybe It just needs to be tweaked in a way to minimise impact on these players.

For Example :
1. Maintain level restrictions of skins (That means u can use Legendary wep skins on other level 80 weps only)

2. Keep Gem Store Skins out of this system ? (Lol though I guess its these skins that will be most popular in the wardrobe….)

Thank You GM Fluffy and the Anet Support Team for solving the problem which led to my account being wrongly blocked. I am now able to play again.

You can send a couple of good players / good commanders of your server to guest on Jade Quarry during one of our Tequatl kills. We do it daily 3 times. They can see how it is done and implement the same. Initially it will help if one or a couple of large guilds of your server organise the kill on your server.

If GW1 was better you would be playing that game atm and not trolling the forums here….You play and"grumble" here because GW2 is better. If there was any other game which you would have found better, you would be playing and grumbling there. Soo in your cases Better Game = one which you play and grumble at.

Bitfrost and Sunrise ?

Atlas.9704:

Agreed, no need for me lower myself by taking base in Rata Sum.
Divinity’s Reach will be my home for crafting and such.

We’ll turn Divinity’s into a human experiments lab once we take over Tyria O:<

First of all its the challenge of everyone doing their part in the marionette event that makes the event interesting. I am sure it has encouraged a great many players to improve their skills especially in dodging.

Players playing this game must make a continuous effort to IMPROVE in it. That’s how you should play the game and that’s how you should be in REAL LIFE.

If you do not want to make any effort to improve then certainly you deserve to be criticised etc etc……

Had this event been made easier with allowing the pro players to help/do every boss….it would have a terrifying effect on the game economy (which has already been affected by the event in its current state).

Awesome all very Asuranish names and true to their profession as well!!

I have a asuran Elementalist, he doesn’t have a lore friendly name but it speaks volumes of his menacing nature and attitude

Name is : Feelmycrits