Guild Wars 2

Wow, I can’t believe I’ve just had to report a Moderator to Community Special Operations. Oh the irony…

I just hope the mods don’t ninja this thread and infract us all for speaking up.

Do ANet just not want us to have a way of seeing how many people have left their precious game? Without any other kind of explanation this seems like the most likely answer.

Rainzar.6905:

pretty sure in the last interview it was mentioned nothing was being worked on or planned with the Guild UI atm.

Wow that sucks.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

It’s really annoying that we have to use kitten backwards systems like facebook checkins every 2 weeks just to prune the dead weight.

Yea, or external websites to even find a group for a lot of activities.

#’Caution!: Ninja kitten mod detected. Thread closure imminent!’#

It has been many months since the game was in Beta and subsequent launch, yet throughout that time one of the most requested and useful features for players, and in particular Guild Leaders, is still not in the game…

Now with this update that Guilds have been a huge part of, I seriously think that the devs are refusing on purpose to give us this very small feature that would make a huge amount of difference for GLs. Argument also includes the Friends List.

GW1 had it, so why does an apparently superior in every way game lack such basics?

Have they given us any kind of explanation as to why they have chosen not to add it?

Please, if reading this and want to help this feature get noticed, then leave a post, doesn’t have to be long.

Hard work? lol, surely you jest?
The game has hardly changed at all since launch, and many of the changes that have happened have took the game in the wrong direction.

So people will do X event once a day, meaning that anyone who does the event after them will have less people to do it with…

Facepalm

Why don’t we use those Charr tank things to transport supply instead of dolyaks?

It gets boring after a while. Everything does. Anyone looking for a game to keep them permanently occupied and interested has unrealistic expectations.

I was just in LA and someone’s text in the chat box was red. How did he do that? I also hear there is a way to make your text in the chat box bigger than everyone else’s.

See in the middle of the chat box where it says ‘For Zhaitan!’.

Good riddance.

Seriously, if all of these guilds decide to pack up and leave for greener pastures just like that then why would we want them to stay? Shows how much of a kitten the really gave about the server and community.

Losing RG is hardly a loss at all, if anything it is a bonus. The ripping on RPers, telling people to leave certain areas just so they can get their own guys on, mindless zergs and little respect for the community as a whole are things I will not miss. They left once before and we did just fine.

All we have now is a cleaner slate on which to rebuild and a better idea of who to rebuild it with.

Chrono is not trying to troll or doomsay with this thread, merely presenting what is happening to those who would otherwise be ill-informed. The collection of big/powerful guilds that created this ‘WvW powerhouse’ notion are what attracted the band-wagoners, and are ultimately their own undoing. (See Blacktide)

TBH this thread is not really good or bad, just pointless. The same people are just going to jump from world to world, and the same problems will follow them. Piken has run its course, and who knows, maybe we will be all fighting on the same side again some time in the future.

I for one look forward to dropping a few tiers to regain our composure.

There are some Renown Heart NPCs spread around the south (green area) of Wayfarer Foothills. They are Shamans or something of their respective spirit and sell you the consumable once the RH is completed.

They can also be used in WvW, which lets people bring PvE benefits into WvW. They ought to be unusable there like most other PvE obtained items.

Add dueling please.

The Enjin In-game Client screen recorder.
It is free, records screen and audio in superb quality/fps, there is no record time limit that I know of and the UI is clean and easy to use. Way better than Fraps IMO.
http://www.enjin.com/client

I lose my cursor in the middle of fights too. The ability to change the cursor colour to something more obvious like pink would solve this problem easily.

If only ANet would actually focus on improving the base game and not just adding more temporary content that nobody will care about in a few weeks…

Some worthwhile mini-games in each city (perhaps with minor rewards) would certainly bring people back to them.

There is that ‘Shooting range’ thing in DR, but the girl at the counter keeps saying ‘Sorry, someone else is playing, come back later’ and has been since launch.

The Black Citadel has The Bane, which is such a wasted opportunity to make a player dueling arena. It has no use at present.

The beer keg toss thing in Hoelbrak rarely has anybody playing it. They could easily make that huge frozen lake into some kind of game with an environmental effect that makes you slide about.

Rata Sum has that blocked off Polymock arena just to the north east.

I’m not sure about The Grove.

Let’s all keep dreaming shall we?

ANet don’t care…

Months of waiting for one of the most requested features? Wow, I shudder to see this game in a years time.

Too little, too late…

Don’t hope for much, as you will probably be disappointed if you do.

At the rate content is being spoon-fed to players, you will likely never see guild halls.

Judging by the way we often get crap/pointless content that very few people wanted and how things that people have been screaming for for ages like dueling, guild halls and an LFG tool are simply ignored, I would say that we would be better of NOT wanting to visit Cantha again, as we would then be more likely to get it.

Makes as much logical sence as the topic of this thread.

I would put pretty pink flowers and unicorns and rainbows all over it so it would match my ‘Legendary’ bow.

Amos.8760:

Afyael.1740:

Dueling will not be in the game. Anet COULD put it in if they want to. However they are making this game how they believe it should be made and don’t care what you think even though it’s logical/beneficial for the game. I’ve been following Anet since the release of GW1 and whilst they make good games they are also a notoriously stubborn bunch.

Edit: They could add in an option to automatically reject any duel requests but of course Anet doesn’t believe dueling should be in the game…

Do you have a source for this? Because I heard it was on their to do list. Not their immediate list, but eventually.

Do you have a source to verify that it is on their to do list?

Is it really hard to add dueling?
No.
ANet are just lazy, incompetent and/or ignorant and have little interest in the wants of their customers. They are giving us content that they want us to have instead of what we want.

Dueling has got to be the single most frequent request I see for this game, yet it is nowhere to be seen.

There was even a dueling arena in Lion’s Arch. You see that big circle outside on the ground outside of the Vigil Centerhouse that the asura gates are positioned along the edge of? One of the nearby NPCs (a charr I think) says that that used to be a dueling arena.

Personality affects what?

Nothing.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The guild stays on the server where it was created.

Why?

Moving to TC I presume? From what I’ve noticed recently Piken Square is getting gradually emptier of RPers. I might move myself.

Sucks major balls that a guild needs to start from scratch. I guess it is to deter world-hopping guilds, but it still happens anyway.

A ‘Change guild home world’ feature would be cool, perhaps can only be used once a month or whenever, and requires a payment of influence or money.

But there are higher chances of aliens landing tomorrow than there are of anything like that happening.

Is Anet upgrading the Guild System?

Probably not.

This has been one of the single biggest requests from players, particularly GMs, and given that the game has been out now for however long and we still don’t have it makes me think it is never going to happen.

The fact that GW1 had this mindlessly simple feature makes it all the more annoying.

Guild Capes
While I loved them in GW1, looking back now I think they look really cheesy and gimmicky. Apart from advertising your guild, they didn’t really do anything or feel special.
The guild items in GW2 I think are better as they cost money which, what with with the multi-guild system, allows you to show which guild you are most supporting of. You are not going to spend your hard earned on guild items for a guild you don’t like that much are you?
Yes the guild armour does look like crap, but that can be changed or new styles added.

Alliances
Alliances came to GW1 with the addition of Factions, of which the Luxon/Kurzick war was a central part of. Guilds would chose which side to fight for and then be able to ally themselves with other guilds of the same faction.
But now we have WvW which is meant to be its successor, replacing Luxons and Kurzicks with other Worlds. Essentially, all the guilds on your entire home world is meant to be considered your ‘Alliance’.

There any reason why there isin’t 1st person in gw2?

Because devs cba.

I know what your thinking with a 1st person option, like TES games. Being able to see things as your character sees them makes for a more immersive experience. They make this beautiful world and yet don’t let us fully appreciate it.

Don’t the devs have more important things to be doing?

So… When are Guild Wars coming?

Short answer, never.

I remember buying the original ‘Guild Wars’ with the premise of the game being centred around actual guilds at war, to which I was largely disappointed by the absence of.

But that’s not to say that guilds as a whole were pointless.
Oh no, guilds in GW1 had a sense of meaning and purpose, a reason for them to exist and for you to join one.
When you found the right guild for yourself, they often became your online family.
The closest things to ‘Guild Wars’ back then were GvG battles with rankings/leaderboards and Alliance Battles, which I guess turned out to be adequate substitutes.

I understand that open Guild PvP would bring a degree of negativity towards other guilds and there would be some political mud-slinging on each server, but this happened with GW: Factions with the Kurzicks vs Suxons and it gave you an purposeful enemy to fight against and allies to fight with.

In GW2 however…
The fact that groups just spontaneously appear for events, and there is not much to do that requires an organised team makes having a guild for the sake of PvE content redundant.
WvW? Yes guilds can capture forts and whatnot, but what is the point when that place drains a guilds money and influence yet gives no apparent benefit apart from displaying the guild banner, then only to be lost soon after? And all that is assuming you’re on a world that does a lot of WvW, some worlds hardly bother with it.
IMO, WvW is just a big gimmick/mini-game money sink.

The multi-guild system at first sounded great on paper… but then so does communism.
What multi-guilding in effect does is fractures a guild community. Many players see no reason to be loyal and become an ‘associate’ of many guilds but a true member of none.

What kinds of things do you miss from GW 1?

In short, everything…

When will duelling be added?

Simple answer, never.

What the players want is very different to what ANet wants us to have.

What could be the problems with having a ‘duel arena’ of a sort where people could challenge each other to a 1v1 fight without interruption? IDK either.

The devs have lost touch…

Drops from any karka are almost non-existent for me.

TL;RD

A post on another thread by Colin Johanson regarding the upcoming updates:

ColinJohanson.2394:

One of our major goals with these releases is making our existing world as strong as possible, ensuring there are reasons to go to all the locations in the world we’ve already built, and strengthening the core game we’ve provided.

My advice, wait a few more months for the ‘big updates’ whatever they may contain. These updates are apparently going to be addressing many of the core flaws of the game, but if they don’t deliver I think it would be wise to set aside this game.

It has been however many months since launch, and the same glaring problems have been staring them in the face all that time.

Lore has been seemingly completely disregarded in GW2. Nothing new that has been added to it seems to make sense.
It’s like ’Here’s some new shiny stuff, have fun waving it around like a pompous kitten
Want some sort of explanation? Tough kitten.’

Legendaries, FotM, Lost Shores, even the Elder Dragons. They just ‘are’.

Pleasing the hordes of silly kids is what has become more important.

Trahearne orders a mayonnaise sandwich.

Sends it back for being too spicy.

*Eagerly awaits Nayru’s snarky response to the OP*

Queen Jennah… Babe.

Perhaps the mods ought to lock this thread, due to it becoming the focus of Mkalafut’s excessive trolling.

I do agree with the OP though, perhaps if guilds could actually set whether the guild is democracy based or authoritarian. If set to democratic, members can vote. If set to authoritarian, the leader is in full control and the members can do squat.

A lot of the voice acting and dialogue (and subsequently the Personal Story) is truly awful. I can’t understand how they got it so bad, it’s like they didn’t listen to it before adding it to the game. Certainly one of the worst qualities of the game.
I really do hope they take in all of this negative feedback on the matter.

The Great Northern Wall is visible in that Fractal (see attached image), but it is also in its ruin-like state, suggesting that The Searing has already taken place.

Assuming that the map orientation of this area is wrong, the Charr are in fact attacking Southwards, meaning that they and the defending city are South of the GNW.
Now from what those of us who know what Ascalon City originally looked like in GW1 and what a GW2 rendition of the same place might look like, we can safely say this is not Ascalon City.

I highly suspect this Fractal (assuming it is based on historical events, past or future) to be of the Charr attack on the city of Rin, and that the great disturbance mentioned by Dessa is Rurik arriving with Stormcaller, about to devastate the invading Charr.

SirMoogie.9263:

The lore in the FotM dungeon is non-existent, except for the Siege on Ascalon as Charr, which is also poorly explained by the fractal for anyone who doesn’t know the backstory. In my opinion it is the worst dungeon lore wise as it adds nothing to the story. Like D3 killing hordes of monsters endlessly comes first, while writing and story take a back seat. It’s fun to do a few times, but I don’t think it adds anything to the GW 2 universe… yet.

100% agree.

Come on ANet, just give us what we want. Now.

I guess their egos might feel insulted if they actually shed light on the growing number of inactives in their game…

TBH it will probably be a while before they decide to improve the ‘Guild’ features of the game.

How did they get it soooooo wrong?

Scorpio Shirica.1286:

There would be little to stop a “play-to-win” guild from buying many accounts, placing them on your server and have them voting for their own account commanders. To list all the ways this could be exploited would take me a long time.

“play-to-win” or “pay-to-win”?
Assuming you meant the latter, if you think that they would buy that many accounts (more accounts than the normal WvW player population) just for the sake of voting for who they want their Commander to be, you are deluded.

Scorpio Shirica.1286:

So… the people that multi-box, now instead of simply botting to make easy money, they can influence the rally icons on the map? No thanks. I would rather the capital democracy where people can fundraise for icons now, then the easily exploitable one with a voting system. Heaven forbid, you get 6 commanders that are bots and new commanders can’t get on the screen or have squads formed.

Influence the rally icons on the map? What do you mean? How can that help botters?

Bots won’t overtake the rest of the player population, so they will not be able to occupy all Commander slots, if any. Also you seem to be forgetting that WvW is an open PvP zone, they would get hunted, hence why there are no bots here at present.