Guild Wars 2

Those are not valid points. The guild system was designed to make everything more accessible on purpose. It doesn’t restrict your options, it doesn’t force you in a situation you don’t like.

Why would I need to look for 3 random people to create a guild for myself and my friend? Why would I need to pay a lot of gold to be in a guild with anyone?

If you want a traditional guild with goals and 100% representation, you have the ability to do that. Just make a 100% rep guild and wait for more people to join.

What, you only have 5 members in it? I guess nobody wants to join a guild like that. Should people be forced to join a guild like that? No, and that’s why GW2 did the system right.

Eww. Why would anyone want that?

cesmode.4257:

Treeline.3865:

I think OP is reffering to the Champion fix in the Pavilion. I at least asked for a nerf. And it was needed. Economy was breaking.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24351 – This should show what I’m reffering to. When prices of certain items halves in a few days something that’s not supposed to happen is going on.

Did the economist John Smith see this one? Not to put him on the spot,and this type of short-sidedness is present throughout all of arenanet. They never see things a few steps down the road.

Unbelievable…

Nobody can predict such changes accurately. Nobody.

LoneWolfie.1852:

Edit: Oops. Please nuke this 7 months old topic. And guys stop posting. I just realized and edited my post accordingly.

You’re just trying to get all the donations for yourself!

Milennin.4825:

Huh? The exact reason why I go with PUGs is to avoid stuff becoming a chore. With a PUG you never know what you get. Every dungeon run is different, due to having different people in it you don’t know. Sometimes you get a bad party, sometimes you get an awesome party. If you always do dungeons with the same people, or the same team setup, I could see how dungeons become a chore for you. Because the experience is always the same that way.

Precisely this.

One of the reasons Diablo series was successful was random everything, from maps to party setups.

I could use some as well.

Don’t send anything less than 10g though…

colesy.8490:

I haven’t even played it for two weeks, I’ve had GPU and sound issues on my computer.

Once I get it working though I’m just going to grind for my legendary then spend my time in WvW since it’s the only game mode which is dynamic, challenging and still allows me to use my PVE gear (unlike PVP), plus it means I get to chat to all the awesome guys I met on Seafarer’s Rest.

When I get to that stage I’ll still hold my views though, just because I stopped grinding doesn’t make zerker any worse, it doesn’t make non-zerkers any less leeches and it won’t make me detest the idiots of the gw2 community any less.

Not playing the game your way doesn’t make anyone an idiot.

colesy.8490:

Of course we’re all selfish in this game, it’s just these people in this thread are going out of their way to try and deny it.

I’m not selfish in this game just because some dipkitten on the internet thinks that I owe him to play the game his way.

gurugeorge.9857:

I think even if one were to have the paradigm of dungeons being continually changing and therefore unlearnable (at least in the easy way they’re learnable usually in MMOs), one would still have to accommodate players who like to farm, with other aspects of the game.

They really should have made the dungeons semi-randomly generated, like the older Diablo games.

Home instance

Hickeroar.9734:

As I said. Deluded.

Not an insult, just a fact.

He’s just provoking you.

Plenty of servers clear temples on weekend.

A Guardian is not a leader, he’s the character that is usually still standing while everyone else is dead.

He is also the character that usually supports and defends the other party members, by giving them boons, removing conditions, and blocking the damage they are taking.

Just play the game, you’ll see yourself what you can do.

colesy.8490:

You can not care for speed and still accept zerker as the best gear.

I accept that zerker does the most dps. That doesn’t make it the “best” gear.

Unholy Pillager.3791:

Leo G.4501:

AntiGw.9367:

That’s one long rapier.

My thoughts exactly.

They need to cut a foot and 1/2 off that thing, at least…

It isn’t nearly as bad as you claim. Most people don’t realize that rapiers had extremely long blades, some of them even reaching (or exceeding) 50 inches. It got so bad that a law was made in England limiting them to ‘only’ ~40 inches. While that rapier is certainly too big for her, it looks to be within the size range of actual weapons. Also, it’s worth pointing out that most of the other weapons in this game have grossly exaggerated sizes in many of their skins.

Maybe, but that rapier is definitely longer than 40-50 inches (1.3m). That has to be closer to 80 inches.

No WoW-like gear was one of the major features of GW2 and it was always heavily advertised.

You bought this game without doing proper research, so you have only yourself to blame.

Syktek.7912:

No thanks. I would prefer that I, and others, who pay attention to what we are doing not have to suffer more clicks because of people who pay no attention.

I agree, the TP interface is already horrible enough.

Dog.1472:

AntiGw.9367:

Dog.1472:

Except they aren’t removing it. They are giving it to you as a bonus.

No they are not. They are making it a standard feature of any account. Which basically equals to simply buffing all drop rates.

This removes the element of choice, people like choosing to wear MF gear.

You actually choose to be terrible?

I have never in my life heard someone say they would rather fight with a dull sword than a sharp one.

Have you never played Diablo 2? Omg.

Dog.1472:

Except they aren’t removing it. They are giving it to you as a bonus.

No they are not. They are making it a standard feature of any account. Which basically equals to simply buffing all drop rates.

This removes the element of choice, people like choosing to wear MF gear.

That’s one long rapier.

Why do you post on GW2 forums about streaming a Payday 2 game or whatever?

Dog.1472:

Pretty sure that demanding that you get to play your way is considerably more selfish than wanting what is in the best interest of the entire group, which is clearing content as fast as possible.

No, playing the game with other people so that everyone gets to play his way is not selfish.

Demanding that everyone plays the way you want “for the group” is selfish.

Dog.1472:

I don’t see how anyone can be against improving and doing a better job. I would say it’s just lazy more than selfish. Choosing to hold everyone down, making things take longer… it’s just the respectful thing to do to play to the best of your ability.

I don’t play this game for you or anyone else. That means that I will choose whatever stats and playstyle I want, and I will not ask your opinion about it.

If you can’t respect my desire to play how I want, you have no business in my groups. That doesn’t make me selfish, it makes you selfish.

You are not being respectful when you sacrifice your individuality to avoid “holding everyone down”.

Karril Daltaya.4980:

For me it is a nightmare because i relied on the bank to keep the money out of my inventory so i didnt spend it all the time. Now I just see ‘hrmmm…. I /can/ afford that thing i dont really need…’

You know you want to… embrace the dark side…

Yes, report it here.

Kyllaa.1385:

You guys may need to open your systems and make sure there is no dust or gunk around your processors, fans, or heat sinks. Give them a good cleaning just to be safe.

Why would that suddenly matter if it wasn’t the case before?

I had some sort of critical GPU crash after the patch, which could be related to overheating. I’ve recently completely scrubbed all dust from the inside (even removed the cpu/gpu fans/heatsinks and reapplied thermal paste).

It has to be the patch.

Only “one button-one action” macros are allowed.

For example, you can’t make a macro that binds a dodge and a jump to one button for that awesome backflip.

Healix.5819:

They were loading pretty slow during the stream, so maybe they did something.

Someone once claimed that deleting the local.dat file could reduce loading times. Apparently it can become bloated. Local.dat is located in the Guild Wars 2 folder under Documents.

Doesn’t help.

I can’t play the game like this, we are forced to go through too many loading screens…

Mad Rasputin.7809:

AntiGw.9367:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

I don’t agree with this, not even with the MF argument, but the Devs have made pretty much said anything other than the optimal build is not promoting the party dynamics they wish to and thus zerker is the way to go.

That’s not what they said.

Running anything less than the optimal build is not in the spirit of coorperation. Thus, running anything other than zerker is not promoting the spirit of cooperation they wish to see.

We want to remove the choice players are currently being forced to make on their gear: “Do I go with better stats, or better loot?” This isn’t in the spirit of cooperation that Guild Wars 2 is all about. As such, we’ll be removing magic find entirely as an item stat and turning it into account stat that improved the odds of rare drops for all your characters.

The tone of that language suggests that the spirit of cooperation is more important than any individual goal. The goals of the party outweigh the goals of the individual. Thus running the most efficient build is in the BEST interests of the spirit of cooperation.

Again, that’s not what they mean at all.

It takes some pretty biased and twisted logic to interpret that quote the way you did.

Yaki.9563:

The difference between MF gear and sub-optimal non-zerker gear is intent:

A person wearing MF intends to screw over the party so that they can gain gold.

A person wearing sub-optimal gear is just trying to have fun playing their build, or maybe just haven’t gotten the gear yet.

The first is intolerable. The second I can deal with.

This is an RPG game. It’s perfectly fine to make a treasure hunter character.

You telling other people what is fine and what isn’t, on the other hand…

Clumsy.6257:

as much as necessary? really? imagine being at work, your boss sees your just doing enough work to get by, then he has somebody that he knows will work harder than you, your instantly fired and hes hired, its as simple as that, people who do more work will always be preferrred over the lazy slackers

Completely irrelevant analogy.

colesy.8490:

AntiGw.9367:

colesy.8490:

If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?

It’s not my stats that are helping the team. It’s ME in the team.

If a team is not happy with having ME in it, with whatever stats, it’s a selfish team.

Your stats are helping the team because in the case of the zerker it’s increasing their damage output, whereas without any gear, or bad gear you would be doing a lot less damage.

A team wanting you to pull your weight is not selfish, wanting everyone in zerker is actually to make things smoother and faster for everyone involved.

Increasing my damage output is not the goal of every team out there, so no.

Clumsy.6257:

AntiGw.9367:

colesy.8490:

If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?

It’s not my stats that are helping the team. It’s ME in the team.

If a team is not happy with having ME in it, with whatever stats, it’s a selfish team.

except your not helping the team as much as you could be because you sacrificed important stats for stats that would only benefit you

I’m helping the team as much as necessary. I’m not asking ANYONE what build or what stats I should bring.

Not happy with what I have? Feel free to jump off nearest cliff.

colesy.8490:

If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?

It’s not my stats that are helping the team. It’s ME in the team.

If a team is not happy with having ME in it, with whatever stats, it’s a selfish team.

Abyssmal Shadow.2785:

AntiGw.9367:

It’s perfectly fair. People that voted got their candidate’s win as a reward.

Everyone else can sell their stuff for some pocket change.

Except the people who deleted their tickets assuming they’d be worthless like every other one (both voters and non-voters), and the ones didnt get their election win.

Just another odd, silly thing ANet has done against itself.

They shouldn’t have been so hasty.

Silly hobbits.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

I don’t agree with this, not even with the MF argument, but the Devs have made pretty much said anything other than the optimal build is not promoting the party dynamics they wish to and thus zerker is the way to go.

That’s not what they said.

It’s perfectly fair. People that voted got their candidate’s win as a reward.

Everyone else can sell their stuff for some pocket change.

Clumsy.6257:

except your wrong… in multiple posts on the forums and in podcasts as early as late 2012 anet said they know MF is selfish

Except you’re wrong. Devs never said anything like that.

jrod.1250:

raids are something all players love

Nope.

jrod.1250:

loads of fun,

Nope.

jrod.1250:

end game is what everyone looks foward to after reaching lvl 80

Nope

jrod.1250:

the game also could use a role system in dungeons, and tanks/healers/dps and such those are very fun aspects to the game, everyone likes to play a certain role.

Hell nope. One of the selling points of the game is none of that trinity system.

int randInt return.7810:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

lordkrall.7241:

int randInt return.7810:

I dunno, I wouldn’t be surprised if abbadon was secretly behind the destruction of the reactor.

Abaddon was dead long before that.

The reactor has a button to specifically port in a steam ogre, which is a creature from the future in another reality. So it has some connection to time.

Infact that’s the plot twist. Both fractals would have been the same thing.

They could borrow a plot twist from babylon 5:
The main core of the reactor was sent back in time, and was used in the battle between the gods.

I hate that twist. Screw that guy on the planet, and those monkey guys.

People paid real money to vote, so making both fractals would be literally false advertising.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Could be worse, we could be like Joss Whedon.

Could be worse, could be like George R. R. Martin.

You don’t have to do them. If you feel compelled, then it’s your problem.

Dailies are a reward for a diverse gameplay. If you do different things by yourself, you’ll finish the daily without trying. The idea is that grinders like you already get plenty of other rewards. Dailies are for people that don’t grind the same crap, but instead do different things.

lordkrall.7241:

So, basically have nothing at all outside dungeons that “require” a group?

Sounds like you are looking for a single player game rather than an MMO.

Get rid of dungeons too.

Player Character.9467:

There is a trinity, dps-cc-support. You just don’t have a dps CLASS and a cc CLASS and a support CLASS. Just like anybody can build to tank (which is typically a cc/support build with heavy toughness/vitality).

That’s not a trinity.

Justdeifyme.9387:

No Trinity, No Tanks, no Aggro.

Go back to World of Warcraft.

Don’t go back to World of Warcraft, but this.

Onshidesigns.1069:

You didn’t read anything in this whole post?

Players NOW are staying in there little zones. If you go to other zones, there nearly empty. Dailies are only make low level zones populated.

Dailies were introduced to get people out of karma grinding in Orr.

As long as they aren’t running Orr events in a loop, everything is fine.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

• Having to pay for re-distributing trait points

Having to pay 3.5s to reset traits is unfair somehow?

GuzziHero.2467:

I care as little about Abaddon both IC and OOC as I do about real life man-made theologies, and that is a lot less than I care about the potato harvest of Bavaria in 1911.

Potato harvest of 1911! Now that would make an excellent fractal.

You completely miss the point of dailies. They reward variety, not staying in the same zone until you fall asleep.