Guild Wars 2

Hopefully they can get it up on gw2stuff.com so we know when it is up or how long we need to wait.

Did they keep their promises? – Yes

Scarlet is awesome :P

I voted for Evon and I am happy with this fractal. I even like Scarlet (seems like a crime on these forums lol).

9/10 – I actually like the Thaumanova reactor fractal despite all the Scarlet hate. Last boss was pretty fun.

Account.9832:

Ahlen.7591:

The gear is INCREDIBLY accessible. If you play for only an hour a day, you should have at least 2 ascended weapons, and full trinkets by now.

You mean since release? In other words, if you’ve been playing for about 500 hours ? To get two weapons ?

Yeah, “incredibly accessible”…

I have a friend who got to level 80 and crafted an ascended weapon in < 1 month of creating his account. He is not exactly a hardcore player and only plays at night when kids are sleeping so yeah, not that hard.

I love the addition of ascended because exotics were WAY too easy. And yes I love guild wars 1 too but common you have to have something to shoot for progression wise.

Guild wars 1 just didn’t have gear progression it had skill progression. 1200 skills anyone?

We did get that new heal skill lol.

Honestly I would love to see more progression in the form of ranking up weapons, the more you use them and allow us to unlock more weapon skills to swap out existing ones. Example warrior greatsword 3 is a whirlwind attack and if we rank up to X rank we can replace it with a new skill (whatever new stuff they come up with). Something to give us some awesome horizontal progression like guild wars 1 had.

Lostwingman.5034:

RLHawk.3290:

I apologize sincerely.

Somehow I don’t believe that, your entire OP reeks of condescension and borders on being a troll post.

Maybe it is you who is trolling. I read the OP post and no where does he talk DOWN to anyone.

At this rate DB.

Luna.9640:

Guy stay on topic – its about low population servers where you dont even have the player needed to cover turrets,batteries and defense/attack.

It’s not about the complexity (which will stop existing in time with players learning what and when to do) but about not having nuff man power to fulfill the tasks.

Try guesting?

I hope all the dragons get this treatment because so far it is pretty awesome. Funny that failing feels better than winning because you know that when you finally win it will be that much better.

Glitchboy.5794:

Or work as team and do the mechanics right. Servers are already beating him on the first night. Would’ve liked it to be a bit harder honestly.

Really??? What server has downed him?! Screenshots?

If anything performance will be better with culling gone. It was for me in WvW and I expect the same boost to pve.

to much surprise

Only piece of gear I am worried about is the utility infusion. I think its like 20 laurals. I hope that if they remove it they compensate us all with our laurals back. It will be interesting to see how they handle this. I don’t believe magic find should have even been a gear stat to begin with but they do need to find a way to handle removing it through some kind of compensation.

Its sad that they keep doing this. Easily one of the largest oversights in the gem store. They need to just allow you to buy tickets for gems. THE END of RNG please!!!

So many people would actually spend money for this over not spending ANY money. Its a no-brainer and I can’t believe they have not picked up on this yet.

Stark and Arkham Creed hit the nail on the head. This game is perfect for people that don’t have a lot of time. The thing is a lot of people have done the raiding thing in the past and to me that IS NOT endgame. It’s just some stupid RNG gear grind that I could care less about. This game has the endgame I was looking for. FUN.

Yes because of:
A) Every month they have high quality patches with tons of new content.
B) Dynamic events imo are far better than any quest hub type mmo I have ever played. I hate traditional questing with a passion.
C) No vertical progress (ascended gear is not vertical because they are not adding more tiers like all those other mmos)
D) They made Guild Wars 1 and I have faith that this game will be every bit as awesome as the first one over time.
E) Combat system doesn’t feel clunky and animations are top notch and fluid. I hate being rooted to the ground when casting; is there even another mmo that does this?

Sure there are lots of things they can work on to improve the game but it’s already pretty solid for what type of game I like. Honestly I get board with vertical progression games because its so linear. Guild wars 2 is the most non-linear mmo I have ever played besides maybe Eve-Online.

Lilium.1509:

Arisal.9740:

Mirta.5029:

CobaltSixty.1542:

Mirta.5029:

I find it funny that Anet didn’t learn how to put DR on stuns and knockbacks yet.
A) if in any other MMO you get stunned you can’t get stunned again for at least 2 seconds
B) almost all enemies have a knockback or a stun of some sorts. Even the ones that don’t have it in their description
You can get stunlocked by 5 mobs infinitely.

Looks like the mobs are too intelligent for you and are exploiting your lack of stability.

not all classes can even apply stability. For example: necro – the only skill with stability is Lich Form. And I can’t really spam my elite.

There is a trait called foot in the grave that gives you stability.

“Gain stability for 3 seconds when you enter death shroud.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Foot_in_the_Grave

I play a necro and, not only does the ability have a cool down, but if your deathshroud goes out before it recharges, you have to wait for death shroud to fill up again before you can use it.

edit: I’m sorry, I thought it was the other thing in the third ability bar, not the trait skill thing. But again, you still have to wait for death shroud to be usable again before you can use it.

Death shroud has a 10 second cool down. That means you can have 3 seconds of stability every 10 seconds which is a heck of a lot. I was just trying to point out necros have a pretty good stability option if speced that way :P

Mirta.5029:

CobaltSixty.1542:

Mirta.5029:

I find it funny that Anet didn’t learn how to put DR on stuns and knockbacks yet.
A) if in any other MMO you get stunned you can’t get stunned again for at least 2 seconds
B) almost all enemies have a knockback or a stun of some sorts. Even the ones that don’t have it in their description
You can get stunlocked by 5 mobs infinitely.

Looks like the mobs are too intelligent for you and are exploiting your lack of stability.

not all classes can even apply stability. For example: necro – the only skill with stability is Lich Form. And I can’t really spam my elite.

There is a trait called foot in the grave that gives you stability.

“Gain stability for 3 seconds when you enter death shroud.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Foot_in_the_Grave

Mirta.5029:

doubt it that you will ever get it.
1. GW1 max amount of players was 8.
2. They did state when the game was coming out that they don’t want a big party size for dungeons, because a) getting a full party would be harder b) close small group play is much more demanding.

Apparently you didn’t visit The Deep or Urgoz’s Warren which were 12 player elite missions:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Deep
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Urgoz%27s_Warren

The good news is they will probably just toss the culling update up when its done and fully tested so we don’t have to wait for the typical “montly” patch.

I would like to see Anet’s spin on raids for sure (not traditional raiding). Something like:
- 10-15 players
- boss arena with waves of mobs and every X waves a boss
- timed w/ leader boards like they did on some challenge modes in gw1
- cool skins as rewards (not gear based like all other mmos)

It would be competitive for guilds and challenging enough for most players. Please make it happen anet :-)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Emote

There is only one mmo I know that supports 2 screen properly: Eve Online. What it does is puts your ship (character) in the middle of one of the screens so the camera rotates around one screen not the middle of both screens which would look horrible.

It would be awesome if more mmos would support such a feature.

New story dungeon actually.

Nappychappy.7046:

Wasn’t me, I resubbed wow 15.00, xfered servers 25.00, faction switched 30.00 and bought MoP 39.99…

I mean Anet could have had that money, but diminishing returns are a kitten.

That does make for one sad panda :-(

Simple. Most players are solo. Just look at the lack of teams there are now. This would have been fine if it was there at launch but in the current game it would definitely be the minority.

Not saying they shouldn’t do it but stating the obvious.

Kwll.1468:

I pretty much expect next to nothing in this patch. Some bug fixes maybe a slight nerft to Elementalist.

This is what I expect honestly. Icing on the top would be if the fabled custom arenas or spectator mode show up in any form.

What would be really awesome is if we saw balance patches every 1-2 weeks rather than waiting on “tiny” change to this or that every month waiting for the path. ANet please take a cue from LoL when they launched. Balance changes all the time for a pvp game is a must! Helps the meta shift and creates a more dynamic interesting pvp game :-)

Fantastic post. This should be sticky post honestly.

To be fair League of Legends went 9 months (Oct 2009 – July 2010) before getting ranked matches where we could see ELO and the separate rating ladders (5v5 teams, solo/duo queue, 3v3). I know we all wish it was in on day 1 but lets be realistic. These guys all want the best things for the game too and its not like they disagree with it.

Just takes time.

Farzo.8410:

Evan Lesh.3295:

With custom arenas, the play-now functionality will be revamped to better place you in servers.

I recall seeing some kind of ‘’Custom Arena Key Pass’’ or something similar in the Black Lion Trading Company some weeks ago. I know that we usually get a ’’Soon’’ as an answer or ‘’Not ready to be talked about yet’’ but since these Custom Arena Keys appearing in the Trading Company, is there a chance they could be ready very soon?

We all hope so :-)

Hammerheart.1426:

Is anyone able to take the % and figure out just how many people are playing this game?

Best we know is there are at least 10k ranked players based on some have said they are at 90% and not in the top 1k.

I believe they are working on search filters and options for sorting. We will eventually be able to see where we stand in the entire thing I imagine. Bare minimum it should display our rank# eventually even if they display top X players.

OhhGasm.9604:

I wonder if they will implement a method so that the people left in a team after someone leaves won’t get punished for the one person leaving…

That could get exploited. Lets say you are a top rated player and you play with someone who has a not so hot rating they could always have the 1 low person bail out of the game so that his high rated friend doesn’t take a hard rating loss. Only way I see it working is if someone quits in an early time window (less than 1 minute maybe) because early on you have no idea how the outcome of the game could go.

Void.4239:

Arisal.9740:

Honestly I think the conquest game mode is hit or miss with a lot of players. I think I remember hearing they had a whole slew of game types playing in house and found conquest to be so much more fun so they just wanted to focus on making 1 really good game type over a bunch of mediocre ones. Also with deathmatch the problem they had was since there is no trinity it would not function like other mmo arena/deathmatch modes.

Hopefully when they add custom arenas soon they will allow the option to turn off the capture points to simulate a deathmatch type game and maybe if they see enough people playing it they will make it an official game type eventually.

I would love to see more game modes too but I wouldn’t be surprised if conquest is their main focus just like SR is the main game type in LoL.

Let them first fix the bigger problems like keeping the casual solo Q players from leaving.
I hate the fact that they are using the casual solo player as a way to keep the 5man premade groups happy ( by not splitting soloQ and premade Q)
This way they ensuring premades wont cry anymore like they did with paids. ( you know when premade had to face other premades….)

100% agree. It doesn’t bother me so much to outright quit the game, but its something that I know that absolutely needs to get implemented asap. Any game that allows teams vs pugs no matter if you boost the pug team rating to compensate (LoL does this in non ranked games) still gets you some messed up matches.

Honestly I think the conquest game mode is hit or miss with a lot of players. I think I remember hearing they had a whole slew of game types playing in house and found conquest to be so much more fun so they just wanted to focus on making 1 really good game type over a bunch of mediocre ones. Also with deathmatch the problem they had was since there is no trinity it would not function like other mmo arena/deathmatch modes.

Hopefully when they add custom arenas soon they will allow the option to turn off the capture points to simulate a deathmatch type game and maybe if they see enough people playing it they will make it an official game type eventually.

I would love to see more game modes too but I wouldn’t be surprised if conquest is their main focus just like SR is the main game type in LoL.

Shar.3402:

that’s why we need a visible rating…but they won’t understand that

I think it is more of a matter of them making sure they like their own algorithm and once it gets fine tuned they will probably throw it up. Every game does it after time.

daydream.2938:

What confuses me is they reset win/loss but didn’t reset rating. Now I know that rating isn’t perfectly correlated with win/loss as it depends who you beat, and who you lose to. But , some people being on the leader board with 7 wins 6 losses, seems kinda….odd.

Only way possible with that few of games is that player beat someone who is very high up in the ladder thus giving him a massive rating gain. Its possible he also groups with other high rated players and got him wins against other top rated players to do that.

Ayrilana.1396:

Arisal.9740:

Ayrilana.1396:

So in sPvP, people will now leave the match before the timer goes off if their team is about to lose. This will force the auto-balancing and those on the winning team will get pushed to the losing team and get a loss assuming they too don’t leave as well.

This is just my initial impression so it may or may not be realistic.

It needs to be a combination of everything since doing kill/death would not be effective because wins are gotten by capping points, not pvping.

Hot join is not counted in your rating for the leaderboards. Only tournament games.

You can still do exactly what I stated in tournaments. I wasn’t talking specifically about hot joins. You can join a tournament and it your teams is going to lose, quit out of it. This is unless ANET has a system in place where the loss will still count against you.

Does auto balance actually happen in tournaments? If so that is probably a bug and should never happen no matter if the loosing team leaves. Tournament teams should be locked. Interesting if that is not the case.

Ayrilana.1396:

So in sPvP, people will now leave the match before the timer goes off if their team is about to lose. This will force the auto-balancing and those on the winning team will get pushed to the losing team and get a loss assuming they too don’t leave as well.

This is just my initial impression so it may or may not be realistic.

It needs to be a combination of everything since doing kill/death would not be effective because wins are gotten by capping points, not pvping.

Hot join is not counted in your rating for the leaderboards. Only tournament games.

You have to get an invite or you can create your own guild by talking to an NPC in the major cities.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild

Gehenna.3625:

Arisal.9740:

Are you really that insecure about playing something that reminds people of Mario & Zelda. Just because your old and don’t like classic 8-bit themes in games doesn’t mean other OLDER gamers don’t. Let me guess you didn’t play games as a kid because you thought games were for kids back then. I have a friend like you that hates anything with a cartoonish look and its ironic hes the immature one. I think you have some growing up to do if your that insecure about image.

This April fools joke is on you.

Why would you lash out like that? Just because we don’t like something, doesn’t mean he or myself for that matter is insecure.

The OP started this thread by saying he now thinks that this game caters to old people because of the 8-bit stuff. Perhaps you missed what this thread is about?

We are simply saying that there are older players that don’t care for this and in fact find the game in general very childish and therefore more for people who like that sort of stuff. If you are older and like it that’s fine. But the O kitten till wrong from my point of view. If you love bows that shoot unicorns, then great for you. For me it’s just childish stuff. That doesn’t mean that I don’t like humour or silly things.

I played the original pac-man and thought it was great. I still watch cartoons like south park and angry beavers. What it doesn’t mean is that I like everything that is cartoony and the OP’s conclusion is simply wrong as is yours. In another thread I compared it to Star Wars Episode I.

I love Star Wars but I was not very fond of Jar Jar Binks. Supposedly he is funny to some but I found him irritating and there was too much of him in that movie. And that’s how I feel about GW2 as compared to GW1.

So let me turn it around. Should I conclude that you are insecure because you felt it necessary to lash out at him so strongly?

C’mon dude.

Haha you think that was lash out? Look, I was just saying I have a friend who is around both your ages (late 30’s) and he thinks pretty much what you guys have been hashing out in this thread. 1) he is very self conscious about imagine and looks. 2) He is fairly immature. I am just calling it as I see it. Feel fee to express why you guys think that 8-bit is childish or that guild wars 2 is childish and I will gladly say your full of it because I know plenty of people in their 30’s who enjoy this game and we all have kids and enjoy playing FUN games.

Just because in your opinion you think the game looks and sounds childish doesn’t mean that it is.

Laivine.9308:

Gehenna.3625:

To the OP.

I am 41 years of age and I stopped playing because this game is too childish. The voice acting is about level Sesame street. Rainbow and unicorn shooting bows?

No, this game is not for older people. You are wrong. If I wanna be nostalgic I will play those games from back then.

This game is too lighthearted, at least for me. Why on earth are there areas on fire and undead overrunning Orr? That’s what’s confusing. You’d expect a game that is at least somewhat dark but it isn’t really. Clearly this game is made for younger people and people who prefer light things.

If you want a game that has a real dark undertone (what you’d expect when the world is threatened) and a dose of humour and lightness to offset it, GW2 is not the game for you. It isn’t for me.

Nothing wrong with some light heartedness and some funny things. However, GW2 seems nothing but “funny” things and “goody-two-shoes” heroes and npcs. So, how you come at the conclusion that it’s for older people, I have no idea.

All I can tell you is that I am 41 and this box thing, doesn’t entice me in any way or shape to try GW2 out again. So, I can’t agree with your conclusion.

^^ This exactly! 35 years old and gw2 turns to be an even more childish game with every update. I didn’t buy Hello Kitty online or Mario or Pokemon. If I wanted to play Mario or Bubble Bubble or Tetris or Zelda, I would go play these games. Living in the 80’s unlike most of you youngsters, is an extra reason to want me to forget about this awful and kitsch era. Time moves forward and not backward. If you want retro, go play retro games. (this last one for all the smart kids that will reply to my message, telling me to go play another mmo). I have been following GW since 2006. I was there through most of the silly -goofy April’s fools days of old gw and most holiday events in old Tyria. None of them annoyed me as much as this new content. And now he have a petition to make it permanent?? Whatever……

Are you really that insecure about playing something that reminds people of Mario & Zelda. Just because your old and don’t like classic 8-bit themes in games doesn’t mean other OLDER gamers don’t. Let me guess you didn’t play games as a kid because you thought games were for kids back then. I have a friend like you that hates anything with a cartoonish look and its ironic hes the immature one. I think you have some growing up to do if your that insecure about image.

This April fools joke is on you.

Invoker.5462:

So is this finally fixed now? Checking in after the last update. Is it Really Fixed?

I have seen 100+ players on my screen in WvW and its amazing. Zero lag and maybe 20 fps

Pretty much spot on how I feel. The culling is gone for good feels pretty epic. When you see the enemy zerg a good distance away it really gives you that “holy crap” moment.

chrisk.4320:

Um yea, I think it’s safe to say the culling fixed worked. Holy basket of cute kittens at that screenshot.

Same for me. I have a beefy machine and its just looks absolutely ridiculous now seeing EVERYTHING.

Rerroll was talking about this post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Custom-Arena-Starter-Kits-Time-Tokens/first#post1702487

ahuba.6430:

its might be a huge step, but it will depend on the time they take to expand the list from top 100 players to every player, unless they only want 100 people competing.

So much this. I may not be good at pvp but I want to know how much I am improving over time (if at all). I want to see a number go up and down to reflect those changes.