Guild Wars 2

I’m happy with the amount of mastery points there is today. I don’t have all of them, and I don’t want to go back and do certain things I’ve already avoided just to keep going with the masteries.

Of course the pont of the OP is mute if you don’t die. But the point IS about what happen when you die. Or you think the solution is to ask anet to make gw2 characters immortal in WWW? (It would be really stupid, but it WOULD solve the problem… )

@Panda:
When someone in these forums talks about “armor weight” they are NOT refering to specific materials, animation or models, but to that arbitrary separation between armor types (Heavy, Medium and Light), that Anet put in place in the first place and which we don’t know how complex or possible to change is.

I doubt there could be anyone more happy than me if Anet stop doing Outfits to invest those resources in doing more mix’n match style armor pieces. But my wishes doesn’t change the reality that the only ones with enough knowledge and involvement to determine how difficult really is to make an armor vs an outfit are Anet developers.

Sell the armor pieces at 3 times their actual value. It will still be more probable that I buy them than any outfit.

I’m the only one that thinks is funny that Ronan just wanted to protect the seed?

I highly doubt there are “alignments” in GW2 world. I think Tyria, while very maniqueistic in the surface, is way more fluid and grey than traditional old school D&D style fantasy.

Guardians can be good, bad and both, as long as they have the conviction enough to keep fighting for what they believe.

My warrior is Carracido Rustclaw, from the Iron Legion and the Rust warband, and my ele is Circe Sharpfrost, from the Ash Legion and without an official warband.
They havent seen real RP since my guild isn’t really RP oriented, but I like to imagine them as part of a larger effort from the Charr to strenghten alliances with other races within the Pact: Circe uses her ice oriented magic to provide surprise attacks or distraction operations for the Order of Whispers, while Carracido and his band have specialized themselves in the protection of squishy scholars in the Priory.

This seems like a combination of two ideas that have been lingering around quite a while.

1 – “Custom Outfits” (Basically a pre-saved combination of skins and dyes for your toon to use with one clic)
2- “Armor Racks” (Basically a rack or mannequin to show of the armor you have earned in game)

IMO, your mix of the two concepts is both interesting and elegant. Well done!

Throwing bags at dead people forcing them to insta wp to receive the drops far away or run back to get them is an ugly, inconsistent design.

Dead players should either:

- Truly receive ALL the rewards they earned while fighting, no matter their status.
- Not receive ANY reward from foes dead while they weren’t fighting.

The point for me is the consistency. Reward or not, but please stop the Shroedinger with “you get the bag, but you can’t take it”.

Aury.1367:

Since Revenant is still buggy AF since it never got out of BETA phase, no. Maybe we get some bugfixes with new expac. Ye, I always have the hope up. Just fix what is bugged, then add something.

I really hope they do a thorough bug fixing this time, but somewhat I doubt it.
After all, Engie was buggy years before Rev, and is still buggy today…

IMO, Anet has already devised a way to keep evolving their game mechanic and story-wise, through the elite specs and the 3-monthly chapters.

Eventually, however, mechanics and story will not be enough to keep people interested. They will need to make changes to the game technology and aesthetics.

Then will eventually have to choose how to re-impulse their bussiness: use resources to do a whole new game, or use the resources to create big aesthetic changes to GW2.

Only then the new playable races would become a valuable investment. Until then…

I didn’t played GW1 (I tried a few hours, but didn’t liked it enough to continue), so I must ask:
What were the defining features of Ritualists, Dervishes and Paragons people seems to miss so much?

Seriously congrats, these ones are just genius:

Plenty of Fish
Palace of Farts
Profit Over Fixes

Rata Sum organize spontaneous naked sing-along dance toghether raves very often. How much of those craziness really counts as RP is debatable.

Great design, Asura respect, but no mix and match.
Same as the Arcane outfit, I love it but it is useless to me.
Not buying.

This design has toes for Asura, is Asura related, AND from the Dynamics College. It totally fits in the GW2 universe, wich mixes multiple styles of technology with multiple kinds of magic. The design also looks good.

I STILL WILL NOT BUY IT BECAUSE IS NOT MIX’N MATCH ABLE.

Well, some people don’t like to craft. Not myself, really, but its very common.

Chak, Raptors (normal sized and pocket ones), Griffons, Bunnies.

The sunless weapons are RNG and boring. Only use they have is to get the specific ascended stat. IMO, not worth the effort, at all.

Here on Santiago de Chile we got this year’s coldest night in June 24. So it’s wintersday already.
BTW having snowy christmas trees and full wrapped santa claus trying to hohoho during full summer season is one of our more shameful national copy pastes from the north. It’s so sad its hilarious.

zealex.9410:

Thats the thing flames of warr and jms are both serious legendaries. They arent cool tho which is what the player base means by serious.

I disagree. I think most people think “serious” is simply “not laughable at”. Which is why so many Legendary Weapons arent serious, even when they aren’t intended as jokes.

So, is a pessimistic view over repeated patterns agains pure wishfull thinking. Guess which one of those is most often realistic.

Yes, more armor pieces please.

Thanks a lot, Linsey.
Please, don’t cut anything. Put everything in the material storage, your list is already awesome.

Raids aren’t PvE.
Raids are a very “special” PvE nook.

Scrapper can be “special”, no doubt. But it doesn’t work well in most PvE areas.

Asura also anounce their “dispensers”.

I think it is a great idea, Satenal: don’t try to adjust every detail with Anet, just point them what we consider worthy of our money, and direct our support directly into that.
If enough people vouches for it through the game, Anet put a team to work on that. If not, you keep your gems, and Anet is still supported.

There will be a lot of rough edges to smooth before implementing something like this, but IMO no doubt it is worth the effort.

Streamlined kits is one of the reasons I still love playing engie.

There should be gliding, jumping mushrooms and all the other masteries in WvW. It is a shame and IMO, a big part of its downfall, that the new map didn’t have gliding at all.

Awesome idea. I would love to follow this along.

Every mob is different. That is a good thing. You need to learn the best way to deal with each of them: that is also part of the challenge, and the fun.

I don’t get the problem. Why does it looks wrong? Is because there is a missing turn while moving? or what?

jihm.2315:

make 2 versions of the game or something , one as it is now and one with tab targeting that copies GW1 combat.
GW1 had one of the best (maybe the best combat) in mmo history along with Lineage 2 (games that you could play for hours) yet they decided to make GW2 different.

simplicity wins over complexity because mmos are not action games,
action games and those new mmos that wanna be action games are designed to spend players resources and energy and stresses you out while it had to be a relaxing yet challanging at times experience.

thats mmo games today simple things become complicated with skill point spam and everything even worst in newer games like black desert but GW2 also falls in that category.

just remove the dodge and copy GW1 combat instead of just focusing on making new expansions and let people pick which version of they wanna play.

dont even anyone say anything about your skills , skilled players where a thing before action combat plagued the games

You know… there is also people who never liked GW1 because of the boring gameplay it had. People that happily joined GW2 when they saw the amazing active combat it has.
I’m being quite subjective, I know. But I am SO glad to have at least 1 MMO (GW2) that is not a boring static heir of wow or lineage.

In the last chapter Taimi was the same size of my female asura engie.

Basically you are saying the Legendaries could be top quality, unique, bundles. Amazing the idea.

However, while I would love to see each legendary with their own unique skill set, I don’t think it can happen, because the balance fot them would become a nightmare for the devs, and no doubt some of them would become OP and mandatory for certain builds.

While I would really love to have more armor, I wouldn’t EVER sacrifice race diversity for the sake of it. What’s the point in having a huge amount of cosmetic items if I can’t use them in a race that I like to play?

No variety = No gw2 for me.

I would love to have more customization options, even better it it is tied to th Personal Story background.

Amaimon.7823:

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Any race that looks so similair to another race that you can’t tell them apart by looking at their silhouettes.

Norn are just slightly bigger humans. Instead of norn we could have had tengu or skritt or quaggan.

We do not use such foul language here, the quaggans are not, and will not ever be a socially acceptable race for any possible scenario.

Why not? They are more unique and less cliché than humans…

I did it with 9 people. I had 3 powerful CC on my skill selection, and there were 3 chronos giving alacrity. Most people had some decent CC. We killed it in less than 4 minutes.

I got bored of OTHER PEOPLE tacky, bulky and noisy legendaries in a few minutes. I can’t even imagine how fast I would transmute mine if I made one.

EpheSOSIayer.6370:

Rising Dusk.2408:

I mean, you can get kills with all Guardians, all Necromancers, or even stranger compositions than that. That said, for a beginner group, your composition is making it much harder for everyone than it needs to be. If you have even one player remotely competent at Chronomancer you could carry the rest of the players extremely hard on a Minstrel’s set with permanent protection uptime, distortion sharing, and ancillary healing. Heck, even swapping one ranger in each for a Guardian would be helpful because they can generate some quickness.

Thats is exactly the fact many raid groups didn’t get. You don’t do a new player any favor if you carry him though all wings. People have to learn all mechanics and that includes doging attacks. As an example with, perma protection and double magi druids, you won’t even recognize that it is not a good idea to stay in a red orb @vg or something similar. One important phase of learning is adapt after doing failiures. With this “babysitting” you would not reach that goal.

Agree. People are always too focused on the win, and not enough in the learning. Your idea is strong.
Respect!

Charr are thousands of times more interesting and entertaining than Kodan.

Human individuals, culture and stories are:
Predictable.
Cliché.
Ubiquitous.
Monotonous.
Puerile.

We are literally drowned in boring human stuff all day. I mean in the game.

Bitterfrost Frontier only have a habdful of events (11 maybe?), while the other maps have twice that, at least . Even without AFK farmers, it still is a really boring map…

I think this should be done in a case to case basis.
However, Orbital Strike is a clear case of “imperiously needing visuals back please”.

Remember you can transform your equipment in the Mystic Forge.
IMO, right now, Viper is better than Zerker for Engie. Closer to meta, easier to get into Raids, compatible with more builds. (Viper isn’t that bad for power builds, and can be magnificent for condi builds.) Unless you hate condi and will never use it in any way, I’d reccomend to change zerk into viper.

FT is great because, first and foremost, is fun. The auto is no great thing, but is not bad either, since you can use it to keep pressure and attack though objects… You shouldn’t take kits (or play Engie, really) to keep pressing 1111111 all the time (Bomb kit is just a sad mistake). All the other skills are situational, strategic, position dependant and therefore, interesting to use.

Only thing I don’t like is how they removed the burst potential from FT 2. IMO FT shouldn’t be power or condi, but a good hybrid, whit good burst in 2, good condi on napalm, and a bit of both in AA.

Great idea, ILobo. It is closer to what I was thinking, something that makes turrets valuable and interesting to play. Keeping all the functions under player control is a good thing for the players and for the game.

My specific suggestion, to complement:

When the turret isn’t deployed, the skill is “Deploy”.
The instant the turret is deployed, the skill becomes “Overcharge”.
The instant the turret overcharge, the skill becomes “Detonate”, until the CD for overcharge completes, when it becomes “Overcharge” again.

No matter the animation delay on Overcharge, the skill changes to Detonate immediately when activated. This way both subskills remain strategic, and the toolbelt isn’t touched.

Better before patch (multiple manual overcharges, toolkit changes to detonate)
Better now (single automatic overcharge on deploy, toolkit skill remains)

I tryed to correct the poll to be more accurate, but I think it still don’t fully reflect the vastness of the difference between the two alternatives, and it also don’t gives the possibility to simply reject both, which is what most Engie players should probably do.

To put it in exaggerated metaphor: What is better, to die from a heart attack, or to die from a cerebral attack?

@Cristalyan, I really think you are enclosing yourself in a very specific and very personal interpretation of the word “god”.

I don’t understand the concept “god” as something so narrow it can’t encompass the extremely diverse levels of power, reach and logic-bending the word “god” is quite frequently used to describe.

Lovecraft’s Chtulhu is an “old god”. Rabbit Brother is a “trickster god”. LeGuin’s old gods are basically trascendental stones… and they are rightfully gods anyway. Christianity’s god has two flavors: one old, impersonal, cruel and angry, and one new, familiar, human and kind. The greek Titans weren’t called gods, however is clear their scope and place in the myth made them gods anyway. In japan, an ancient tree, an illuminated man and a well beloved housefire can all be considered gods. Siddhartha is a well known prince turned sage, turned inmortal, turned something else: he may not have been defined originally as a god, but he is now for many of the sects that follow him.

“Godhood” only have limits within specific settings, and even then they are usually really hard to define. You are trying to apply really narrow, human rules to something defined by its supra human, unexplainable quality.