Guild Wars 2

Deposite runes! Yes, an inventory only for runes, that would be soooooo OSOM.

Still cruel and twisted, like most prophecies tend to be…
But we are just swimming in speculation. The facts remain facts: of all the warmongers, bullies and assasins who dominate tyria in the “name of good”, Caithe is the less predictable and coherent in the eyes of the rest. No one in their sane senses would leave her in charge of a future great dragon in their most vulnerable and impressionable state.

No one in their sane senses… but the commander is not sane…

I don’t “hate” Caithe, and I think just killing her would make a very weak story. But, even if she really proves her good intent (Wich she still hasn’t done), she is still accountable for a lot of the pact loses, and I don’t see how anyone on tyria could trust her anymore, specially the better informed commander. It doesn’t make sense.

Thats my point: while I like Caithe’s ambiguity and dark craziness, the story is taking that behavior backwards, making a huge incoherent mess out of it.

On PvE I play viper rifle often. Its really ok if you like to tag multiple foes while the previous are still dying. I still prefer my celestial set, though. Less fragile, more fun.

Engie is just too engaging and fun. BUT, you need access to all the skills first. Don’t judge Engie until you got all skills unlocked.
Also, look at my signature: That tend to happen a lot.

I’m using the scrapper trait line but not hammer nor gyros. And I think most engies tend to do that: simply use whatever they feel can be useful in their own way, and never forever. What I mean is, Scrappers are still engies.

I prefer Asure because they are more agile and feel like are moving faster… but that is not something exclusive to Engies, so it is not relevant. Also Charr are awesome.

Ivantreil.3092:

Ardid.7203:

Exactly my point! I would really love to get a better condition availability while wielding rifle. AA giving more bleeds, Blunderbuss adding some burning, Net Shot could cripple, maybe even a few confusion stacks for Jump Shot…

That sounds exactly to what we have with pistol aa, and it would get rid of p/p main purporse, i would suggest making rifle get weakening conditions instead of damaging conditions (inflict weakness, criple, chill, etc.) and make rifle aa get his damage buffed to a 15% if the enemy has vulnerability.

I happily concede, your idea is way better than my rushed ramble.

I think the problem is the tone of the story in GW2 is not crystal clear. Sometimes it is very silly and light, almost like MLPony, and sometimes it become much more grittier and serious. It is really good if you look at it from a “variety is good” point of view, but it can make some characters in the story suffer from incoherence, be it internal, in the way they should behave (The commander is the primary offender here) or external, in the way other characters treat them (Here Eir is a very good example).

Tyria as a whole is very inconsistent when treating Caithe, so is not so strange people have divided opinions about her.

In MLPony, Transformes or even in Narnia (Which is way more serious) it would be totally ok to give someone in doubt an opportunity to prove their goodness. In TLODR, GITS or even Gargoyles (Which is way more disney), it would be extremely awkward to allow such thing, unless there is no way to avoid it.

I tend to prefer the more serious approach to the story, so in my eyes Caithe is being treated with a really soft glove for the things she has done.

If you make a list comparing her good actions with her bad actions (Concrete actions with consequences, not abstract intent without evidence), she really need to be put under custody. By the other hand, the same could be said about our own commander…

Hahaha. Taimi rocks. Caithe creates debate. That’s nice too…
But really, she’s just crazy and nobody should trust her with hard responsabilities. She deserve a rest, some not-epic friends and possibly a very thorough psychotherapy to recover from killing inocent people, being manipulated by her girlfriend and keeping quiet about info that could have saved a lot of their brothers and allies.

In my mind I really think the Pale Tree is just as bad as Mordremoth. I’m almost convinced she is controlling all these people and their goals just to replace the old green dragon.

SaltAndLight.4652:

Yes, please. So many awesome options here

• Flame Whip
• Morning Star
• Cat ’O Nine Tails
• Thorn Whip
• Plasma Whip
• Braided Leather Whip (e.g. Indiana Jones)
• Ley Line Whip
• Chain Whip (e.g. Ninja, Martial Arts)
• Grappling Hook
• Kusarigama

In fact I would prefer to call it “String Weapon”(or something like that) and include whip skins along all the other flexible weapons that flail, tie up and entangle.

Macha from the novels is a female asuran Mesmer. And she rocked!
But I agree, there seems to be a lack of variety in certain areas of the official character casting.

That’s a very interesting theory, but is also extremely cruel and twisted: the Wyld Hunt for Caithe could have included “warn the pact fleet” instead of simply “take away the commander so the pact fleet can be destroyed without worries”.

Take a Reaper and let the simple, quiet playstyle relax you. Forget your worries, forget your kits, just let it go…

Exactly my point! I would really love to get a better condition availability while wielding rifle. AA giving more bleeds, Blunderbuss adding some burning, Net Shot could cripple, maybe even a few confusion stacks for Jump Shot…

First of all, fixing the range of the emotes is fundamental. Nothing more to add there.

Second, an RP exclusive channel would NOT solve the issue of people using abusive language, writing explicit descriptions or creating inappropriate content BECAUSE they are not the same thing.

A lot of people here are mixing things. The reportable part of ERP is the E, not the RP. The problem with swearing in RP context is the swearing, not the RP. The problem with describing a bunch of MLPonies being abused by mordrem is said description, not the RP.

If you try to segregate such kind of content to an “RP channel”, you’ll get 2 results:

1- Trolls will NOT go into the new channel. They will keep doing their stuff in the general area, because that is their purpose. And you’ll have to report them anyway.

2- You’ll ostracize all good RP, the one who add immersion and fun to the game, into an specific channel with a lot of trolls. You’ll force legit RPers who weren’t bothering anyone to take all the weight of a problem that doesn’t have anything to do with them. They will have to report the abusers anyway, RP or not, BECAUSE ABUSE AND RP ARE NOT THE SAME THING.

What people here seems to want is NOT an Exclusive RP channel. Is an Exclusive Inapropiate Content channel. Do you really think this is a good idea?

Just to be clear, I’ll love to have a way to help RPers be together. I don’t think an RP channel would help with this. And I think it wouldn’t help with the inapropiate content either.

Oh, please, I want it. I love to read RP while I’m passing through any place.

More constructive: Please Anet, add the previously proposed RP checkbox to facilitate people who likes rp to end together in the megaserver instances. And to facilitate people who don’t like rp to NOT end with rpers.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I don’t hate Caithe, and I like she isn’t an enemy we can combat. Not all the problems are so simple: the relationship between the commander and Caithe is a huge challenge we can’t just blast with our weaponry.

Caithe is not an armed enemy: she is the beloved but problematic relative we don’t know how to deal with. THIS IS GREAT!

Mi problem with the commander blindly trusting Caithe in the last episode is the minimization of this problem. It looks dumb, defuses the tension and remove drama.

Why is so important for some people how OTHER people call themselves? I can’t understand that obsession with controlling everything the rest do.
Younger people know and use WAY MORE profanities than I do. I don’t see how naming my toon something like “KungkittenKing” could offend them.

I supose I’m the only one that would prefer rifle to be more hybrid focused: more condis applied would be a gift for me.

This is at the same time totally true and extremely funny.

@Soon: The rift is part of the new “Current Events” activities, wich include a lot of teleportation and moving people around different interesting points in all Tyria. There are already quite a few complains about the rift localization in dry top!

Although all the “leaks&rumors” part on this thread IS new, I would like to add something more traditional to the discussion:

So… you only can charm the frog if you are a cat?

Hum… this is a GREAT opportunity to advance map completion for my tome-leveled chars!

Wow, that’s weird! Maybe they have too much effects working on them, with their own luminicscence added to the base effects and the legendary ones? I don’t know anything about this, I’m just making a theory from thin air.

I need the aetherblade heavy armor. But I will wait…

I never asked for less armor skins on the gemstore. I asked for more armor skins in the world. Anet never complied to that.

I like the heat concept… but rather than work like a “consumable” energy bar you deplete with use (which is a somewhat abused mechanic now), I think it should be the contrary, an “overcharge” energy bar that gives you better attacks the closer you are to fill it… but explodes in chaos, destruction and punishment for your foes AND yourself if you pass the limit.
This mechanic would keep you on your toes trying to maintain your bar always in the perfect spot, without overcharging…

We had the hobosacks removed… so, never say never.
Say…. very very very very very very improbable.

More than a “home” instance, I would like to have a place in the “world” to put all the stuff I have collected. Mostly unique exotic weapons, notable rare items and books, specially books. I know we have the bank for that… but it feels weird to have lots of items you never can actually see after you put them in your inventary.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

No. It’d have to be:

The Arcane Council admits the Asura are inferior to the Charr.

Sadly, it hasn’t happened yet. They’re still in denial.

~EW

Hahaha, and you think the Arcane Council opinion could have ANY wheight? XD ! Hilarious.

Since they can’t read our mind, I tend to always research things beforehand to see if they have already done something to solve any problem I see. (They usually have, just not the way I would have imagined).

Anyway, I agree, linking /pray to the current /kneel make sense. Also having a more subtle or specific way to say goodbye could be great. But I still think they aren’t as urgent as others, like the /chair one.

Rep should simply dissapear, with benefits and problems. Let me show all my guilds at the same time, or none.

I’m all in favor of adding more emotes!

However, PyroPrincess, I think you should revise the emotes we actually have, because some of the ones you request already exist, or have a decent alternative.

For Hi and Bye most people uses /wave, or /salute, or even /bow.
For Shocked the option is using /surprised.
For Pray, we have /kneel. You can even use it in the shiverpeaks to get bonuses from the spirit shrines. The asura version is EXACTLY what you describe as a “holy knight one-kneeled position”.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Emote here is a complete list.

On the other side, there are lots of emotes we do need. Anet added a few ones with the LS3: /upset (/facepalm is the same), /talk, /crossarms, /sad and /thanks, which I thank a lot, but they are still not enough.

We still need the /chair one, an /applause, a /yawn, a /highfive, a less exagerated /laugh, etc. /kiss and /handshake could be hard to do, but would be incredibly amazing to see available in game.

Other ideas I would like to see:
/idle: just a new bunch of random idle animations. It could be linked to professions, races or even gamemodes.
/afk: it is also automatically prompted when the user don’t activate any command for a time. The character sleeps standing, drooling and making slow circles with the head.
/inventary: it is also automatic when you spend more than 30 secs on your inventary. The character unpacks and search things in its clothes and bags.
/timeout or /brb: The character makes the typical “t” gesture with the hands and stands that way for a while. Alternatively, it could make the gesture of looking its watch while impatiently tapping the floor with one foot.

Any of you know the Nezumi from legend of the five ring? I always found totally natural for skritt to be inmune to corruption…

Oh, the meta fight itself is really fun, specially the last section. But the map doesn’t offer anything else. Exploration is at the same time rushed and trivial (You are not looking around, enjoying the landscape while keeping your senses alert. You are just running like a headless chiken from one oxious pod to the next), and there aren’t any event beside the meta, so, if the meta is not advancing, you found yourself in an empty map were is hardly anything to do.

I don’t know with what are you comparing, but believe me, it is hard. If it is easy for you, I simply take my hat off and applause you. But it is still near impossible for any common player without a good pre-existent group and lots of time.

How much time do you require to oganize a succesful raid? How do you communicate with them? What do you do to keep them disciplined and alert? Where do you find your teammates? Can you do it with pugs?

Verdant Brink is still my favorite map on all GW2. TD and AB have been growing on me more and more, also, while DS feels every day more stiff and unnecesary, even less interesting than most vanilla maps to me. Bloodstone Fen is just above Orr for me, because I like its verticality, but I find it lacks variety. Ember Bay I put 4th for now, but somehow I think it will lose its interest in just a few weeks.

Her new suit in fact made me remember Kudu for some reason.

Now is my turn to do this…

Sorry, but “defensive” in pve = boring. IMO, hammer is way more fun than pistols, but rifle is the winner anyway.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Sergot.9106:

This would save a lot of time for the team.

The thing is, Devs would have to go through literally thousands of different submitted mods just to check they don’t contain profanity, check for bugs and quality of life, before they even judge which would ‘win’ as a release. That alone would not save any time at all, but would use up a lot more developing hours than them coming up with their own content.

I can’t agree with this. While properly checking something for bugs, errors and other aspects in fact require time, you don’t need to filter everything in full to judge if it is useable or not. That’s not how public contests work.

You use multiple layers for filtering, starting with the most broad and easy ones, (We are asking for a sword, that is a helmet, next) and leaving the more specific and hard for the final stages (These 5 are clearly the best ones, lets see if they are safe to use). This makes the process eficcient and fast, and yes, testing stuf this way is faster than producing content AND testing it (Which you HAVE to do anyway).

What, there is a cap?! Woah, I really didn’t know.

Malediktus.3740:

The raids are not hard at all, basically 10 man dungeons.

There isn’t anything harder than get people to act as a coordinated team. The more people, the harder it is. Even more if you also need time and practice. Raids are hard as hell, because they involve 10 people.

The long and boring instance applies to Windmane too. It is okay the first time, but that’s all. To get the achievements you have to do everything again from the beginning. And if you die once, you have to do everything again from the begining. And if you miss a dodge, you have to do everything again from the beginning. And… so on.

I didn’t even remember Aerin. Shouldn’t have been so bad for me. (Or maybe it was so bad the trauma erased the episode from my memory..)

Only thing I’ll add to Overcharged shot is a mini evade just after the shot, so the engie never get caught by his own reflected attack. People reflecting it would still be safe and sound, but the price to pay for using the skill against the reflect meta would not be so high.

From Living Story only?
Without any doubt, the only one I really hate and despise and would like to transform into jerky with the bigger hammer at hand is Windmane .
Why? Because is the only boss that I HAD to kill without my own character, but using Caithe weird skillset instead. His achievements are also in a whole different level of stupid, unless you get to do them with a group… which I wish you good luck to find, because, really, no one wants to kill this awful manhorse a second time.