Guild Wars 2

Khal Drogo.9631:

Arcturus.5846:

I said just another MMO simply because I found everything to be medicore. I like the concept of what ArenaNet had planned but everythign so far led me to believe that they only half dipped their foot on something greater out of fear that it might a failure.

What do I mean by medicore? Well ….

1) Dynamic Events: Next to WvWvW, this was one of the main features advertised in GW2. Yet although technically it does change the world, theres barely any impact. So an entire village gets burned down- oh well I’ll just wait 10 minutes for a safety net quest so I can return the village back to its orginal state. Each dynamic events imo are too independent and occurs far too often from the meta. It would have felt more dynamic if everything was linked (similar to how Orr Straits of Devastation and Temple of Balth works).

2) WvWvW: Although I still enjoy WvW, in the end its just a battle for points. I was expecting there to be an end-goal for the week with objective of taking their capital fortress similar to Minas Tirith battle from LOTR but all we got is zerg fest of one keep to another with no strategical value asides from claiming points.

3) Story: I have yet met one person who have said “The story was amazing! WOW! Kudos ArenaNet”. The common reply I get instead is “Meh. Okay voice acting. Terrible ending” and I have to agree with the common. Granted its a very subjective subject but the story was very dull with lots of lame deaths. I only remember ONE decent death, your mentor and even then I can barely his name (vigil guy). The story keeps dumping you with mediocre characters you only meet for 30 seconds with their death that is supposed to evoke feelings? To make it worse, the majority of the voice acting is just horrid (take Lionguard in claw island as example). Where is Destinity’s Edge? Instead of building a story with them, you seperated them and gave us crappy characters in their place.

I can still remember the characters in GW1- Rurik, Glint, Lich, Devona, Mhenlo, Cynn, Nika and none of them had the amount of screen time as GW2 characters did. My suggestion is to create LESS characters and more attachment with already known ones such as the Destiny’s Edge. I rather have 1 character I would be saddened if he/she died than 1000 new characters who randomly dies.

I could keep listing but I’ll stop to prevent an already large wall of text. I felt GW2 could have been better if ArenaNet put more effort into some of their original concepts.

What voice acting? You mean there are STILL missing lines of dialogue and mismatching subtitles 7 months after launch?

The story branches ARE rather interesting but only if you did 75% of them and you will see a lot of them tying in together, along with the story dungeons as well. The problem is some of them are far too short and the overall path feels that way too.

Voice acting I meant some of the NPCs voice acting are just monotoned. The missing dialogues didn’t really bother me much to be honest. I just didn’t find the story interesting until Orr and even then instead of an epic invasion, we keep getting sidetracked with only one quest that involves the march through malchors. GW2 NEEDS less meat shields NPCs that dies after 2 quest and more major characters. SWTOR suffered from the same thing. Instead of 2 memorable characters, you end up with 1000 faceless. Can you actually remember some of the NPCs names who made the “sacrifise” in Orr off the top of your head? I sure can’t.

You’re going to need help especially for POIs and skillpoints in caves etc.

Nope. I do hop on for some fun WvW action though. I just spend more time browsing because its what I do on when I can’t sleep.

I said just another MMO simply because I found everything to be medicore. I like the concept of what ArenaNet had planned but everythign so far led me to believe that they only half dipped their foot on something greater out of fear that it might a failure.

What do I mean by medicore? Well ….

1) Dynamic Events: Next to WvWvW, this was one of the main features advertised in GW2. Yet although technically it does change the world, theres barely any impact. So an entire village gets burned down- oh well I’ll just wait 10 minutes for a safety net quest so I can return the village back to its orginal state. Each dynamic events imo are too independent and occurs far too often from the meta. It would have felt more dynamic if everything was linked (similar to how Orr Straits of Devastation and Temple of Balth works).

2) WvWvW: Although I still enjoy WvW, in the end its just a battle for points. I was expecting there to be an end-goal for the week with objective of taking their capital fortress similar to Minas Tirith battle from LOTR but all we got is zerg fest of one keep to another with no strategical value asides from claiming points.

3) Story: I have yet met one person who have said “The story was amazing! WOW! Kudos ArenaNet”. The common reply I get instead is “Meh. Okay voice acting. Terrible ending” and I have to agree with the common. Granted its a very subjective subject but the story was very dull with lots of lame deaths. I only remember ONE decent death, your mentor and even then I can barely his name (vigil guy). The story keeps dumping you with mediocre characters you only meet for 30 seconds with their death that is supposed to evoke feelings? To make it worse, the majority of the voice acting is just horrid (take Lionguard in claw island as example). Where is Destinity’s Edge? Instead of building a story with them, you seperated them and gave us crappy characters in their place.

I can still remember the characters in GW1- Rurik, Glint, Lich, Devona, Mhenlo, Cynn, Nika and none of them had the amount of screen time as GW2 characters did. My suggestion is to create LESS characters and more attachment with already known ones such as the Destiny’s Edge. I rather have 1 character I would be saddened if he/she died than 1000 new characters who randomly dies.

I could keep listing but I’ll stop to prevent an already large wall of text. I felt GW2 could have been better if ArenaNet put more effort into some of their original concepts.

Fortus.6175:

every week you change sides, know when the reset happens, as soon as it happens BAM, run towards those points, voila.

Yes, it might take a while, but trust me, only way if your server is losing (from 21/24 server; GoM for ya)

I’ve been Green since the start of the year. You’re screwd if your server can maintain #1 spot.

I think games by definition is just that- games but capable of creating art in the right hands. Take a look at journey for example. Gameplay is written almost like a very beautiful poem but its still just that, a game.

Ive said this before and I’ll say it again. Games in my opinion is the ULTIMATE form of art as every and any form imaginable can augment its success. (example from cinema, photography, to having a PhD in physics). If anything its impossiblity. creativity, and reality incarnate.

To emphasize though im not saying EVERY game is amazing art. Im saying it has the potential to become one.

I agree and it really bothers me too. It wouldn’t bother me too much if the mountains actually looked natural opposed to the + ot T shape we have now. People will say “Well they aren’t a perfect line” but its way too close to 90 degree angle for it to even look close to natural. (im talking about mountains in zone boundaries, not inside).

In GW1 the mountains still looked realistic despite the zones still in a rectangular or square form and it was never obvious. GW2 however leaves me to wonder what they were thinking when they designed the world. Take a look at Cursed Shore south area for example (the lake area east of grenth). Unexplored it looked like a natural body of water connected to the ocean that you can view but instead you get a giant straight wall of coral crap. What was the reasoning behind this? Why not just leave it the way it is and add exhaustion zone.

I dont hate single player content in MMO ( I rather love it actually as it gives me something to do when im waiting for friends to log on) but if you’re ONLY going to play solo then why play an MMO at all?

I agree there should be something like a dungeon that challenges players solo but it shouldn’t be a primary focus of the game.

Does this happen when you’re outside of combat too? Would be stupid if you DCd in the middle of the field walking out of combat and be forced to pay repair bills.

I say make at least ONE waypoint in each zone free. That way those who are too cheap/poor can still travel for free but will still have to walk to specific destinations.

My friend is color blind and he complained about this everytime. Although I myself am not colorblind I can see avoiding AOE as a huge problem for any person with eye sight issue as there is only a thin line around the circle ussualy surrounded by a 100 other spell effects.

As title said, the Skill Point Challenge in Caer Shadowfain is bugged in HoD.

Either the NPC is missing or the NPC is not letting me get the Skill Challenge.

Geekcrux.1245:

This isn’t fun. You don’t play a game to feel like a worthless POS.

So much win in that line and so true.

You have unspent skill points/traits.

The downed stated is kinda stupid. Just a few days ago I was jumped by 3 players and ended up victorious as Guardian? Wanna know how? By abusing the downed state system granted they were terrible players who fails to understand the concept of ressing downed teammates and that I was jumping off cliff side like a crazy plumber.

I pulled random mobs (non-players), got them to low health and reserved killing when im in downed state that way I get the rally ressurection. I managed to do this two times before pulling them to my server zerg.

Agree and biggest issue I have with dungeons so far. Most of the dungeons don’t feel difficult at all and more of a giant annoying time sink.

You have no idea how many times I’ve felt tempted to just AFK auto attack.

Because SE story takes too freaking long to complete for the rewards. Also, the flame golem is easy to beat with a condition removal build.

I would say Arah with the airships but then I remembered Zhaitan and to avoid spoilers, all the “Am I even hitting him?” moments. Such a dissapointing dungeon since the buildup was so cool.

I think we should be able to choose at most 3-5 dyes that will be account wide. This way, the demand for dye won’t dissapear but those who spent 5g on black dyes can use them on other characters.

Its no the no trinity thats the issue, it’s the crappy boss mechanics they have.

They would be worth it if they were exotic with max stats armor similar to the gods kharma gears but theyre not. I honestly don’t understand the reasoning behind this. The 15k armors in GW1 at least had decent stats.

You know I love you ArenaNet but after spending 5 days in this stupid zone to avoid additional 3 silver WP cost, I really wish theres a useless unsubscibe button just for the purpose of raging.

No…thanks…

1. Arena would only last 30 seconds at most without healer.
2. We already have 5v5 SPvP.
3. Theres a reason why MLG droped WoW.

It probably is a violation of TOS but noone really cares. Ussualy you don’t want even if you trust your friend with your life but I do it anyway.

A little note though. Since he is logging on a new IP with your account, I believe he will need an e-mail authorization to acess the game after logging in.

Please fix it soon. I’ve been waiting for 4 days now without moving my character because I don’t want to pay the 2-3 silver WP cost.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If the author wrote the Jennah X Logan romance story better then alot people wouldn’t have a problem with it. Heck we even needed an actual confirmation that the love between them is real from the author.

If you think about it, alot of hero made the same mistake. Batman from Dark Knight for example. He was about to sacrifise Harvey Dent (the savior of Gotham or whatever) to save Rachel.

Arcturus.5846:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If the author wrote the Jennah X Logan romance story better then alot people wouldn’t have a problem with it. Heck we even needed an actual confirmation that the love between them is real from the author.

If you think about it, alot of hero made the same mistake. Batman from Dark Knight for example. He was about to sacrifise Harvey Dent (the savior of Gotham or whatever) to save Rachel.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If the author wrote the Jennah X Logan romance story better then alot people wouldn’t have a problem with it. Heck we even needed an actual confirmation that the love between them is real from the author.

Im going to be that person but I really want the bubble to absorb more damage or more healing at least for a type of mitigation. Right now that bubble ability is next to useless and the only thing it does iskitten my teammates off for knocking opponents back.

I don’t think anyone is complaining about it being hard. The problem with GW2 difficullty is that it’s “difficult” because they increased mob HP by 1,000,000 HP with no new mechanics involved.

What would be difficulty is a boss fight with alot of deadly mechanics (such as heroic Mimiron in.. dare I say it? WoW!) that requires actualy coordination than just tank and spank while dodging roflstomp abilities and ressurection fest if need be.

I think if the Jennah X Logan story were written better not as many people would have a problem with it. Now we have this mesmer bond theory which can go both ways in Logan’s defense.

Since the author apperantly said it was real, put yourself is his shoes. You don’t know what is going in Ebonhawke. The invasion threat couldve been pigs on the loose and charging at random citizens for all you know. Destiny’s Edge still had the option to make a different plan.

So now you have two options, to go to Ebonhawke with the assumption that it’s hell like Minas Tirith with the leader of a crippled humanity and your love on the line or a crappy plan that is about to be executed.

Snaff death wasn’t his fault. It was Destiny Edge as a whole. Eir continued with the plan even though she shouldnt and everyone just followed along. Noone (important) would have died if they just backed off.

Thats kinda the reason why its a 1v1v1. So two lesser server can team up againts a dominant server.

Agreed. Most laziest PvP design I have ever seen… even SWTOR had more unique Warzones (I died a little saying that). I was hoping there would be a Fort Aspenwood stle map or GvG but all we got was a GvG style map that still uses the 500 points 3 nodes system.

Agree. I’ve died multiple times as a mellee thinking “Oh it’s only a few, I can survive this” only to get steamrolled in seconds by invisible players. I have spent at least 30 silver on repairs from this stupid glitch or bug.

Guardian with condition removals. You have no idea how ridicilously easy the fight was with a condition removal guy.

I noticed that if there are players camping areas between well and dark room, with perfect execution you can just avoid them to the dark room before it dissapears or do a surprise attack using the stealth well. Beyond that I haven’t really encountered any enemies past the dark room.

I agree. I don’t mind difficulty as long as its somewhat fun but unfortunately its not.

IMO they need to increase the numbers of trash mobs you fight but reduce their health so it doesnt take 5 minutes to kill one.

Majority of the bosses also feel like a huge time sink. Alot of them only have one or two mechanics. One involving a dodge and the other just a big unavoidable ability that will roflstomp you requiring teammates to ressurect.

I don’t mind paying 1 gold repair bills as long as the bosses mechanics are fun. Unfortunately most are not and are just ressurect zergfest.

Title is self explanatory. I apperantly deleted or sold my Fanatic’s Mantle awhile back and just realized today. Is there anyway to get Fanatic Mantle (guardian biography question armor piece) back?

I’ve tried creating a new Guardian in hopes of being able to transmute it to my main but no luck.

Henge of Denravi here and I’ve been experiencing a minimum of 1 second delay on using skills, looting, interacting etc. Happens in open world, WvWvW, and dungeons. Worst part is it’s happening everywhere regardless of how many players or activites are in the zone.

Do you want the game and your computer to explode? You do not want to see what happens when there are 2000 players gathered in a single area spamming tons load of spell effects.

Today I decided to open my 4+ years old birthday gift on my alt character in GW1 and to my dissapointment I recieved a http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Miniature_Necrid_Horseman

However I can’t help but notice that I have yet seen a single normal horse in Tyria. As you can see from the miniature, it’s a guy on a normal dead horse not an undead centaur.

So where are all the horses in Tyria? Do they even exist?

No thanks. They were taking up spaces for people who actually wants to WvWvW rather than exp farm.

From what I saw there are two types of zergs.

First zerg is your typical PUG zerg. They would run in a group and steamroll anything they see and be attracted to keeps (specifically Stonemist).

Second zerg is a more organized zerg and these are the ones ussualy run by guilds. They take keeps, supply camps, barricade important locations with defenses (100 arrows carts), and act as a response group.

So yes they entire game is zerging as do most keep invasions games.

Alpha Dragon.4576:

Arcturus.5846:

E8400 at 3.00 Ghz and HD6870 2GB and im running on 10-15 FPS normal questing and barely 5-10 FPS in large groups (especially WvWvW).

Im pretty sure my CPU is bottleneck but I would expect more than 20 FPS from my rig.

What settings are you using? I usually disable reflection,shadows and post processing everything can be set to medium-high.

Everything on default high settings. I tested my FPS on both lowest and highest and the difference is hardly noticeable. So the only thing I can think of is it’s either my CPU bottlenecking my GPU as my GPU activity never go beyond 40% while CPU usage is around 80% or the game is more CPU bound.

Im pretty sure its both though lol.

E8400 at 3.00 Ghz,HD6870 2GB, 4 GB RAM and im running on 10-15 FPS normal questing and barely 5-10 FPS in large groups (especially WvWvW). NOTE: all on high settings with Shadows on High and Native sampling.

Im pretty sure my CPU is bottleneck but I would expect more than 20 FPS from my rig.

I agree. Loot bags dropping on your feet is nice and good but 80% of the time I wouldn’t even be able to see due to the aoe madness and lag if it were not for the [F Search] button that appears.

Not sure is Logan and Jennah love is real but I probably would have done the same thing.

Also, technically he did make an unbreakable oath to come to Jennah’s aid if she calls unlike Destiny’s Edge where he’s just there for the ride. of dragon slaughtering.

Jennah may have survived Ebonhawke regardless of Logan but I doubt the Charr and Human alliance would happen as Logan were the one who presented the Charr prisoners with Rytlock medallion thing. (vague on this part so correct me if im wrong)