Anet teasing rapiers and then never handing them over: eight years and counting. Thanks for screwing us over again, guys.
I don’t want a new weapon type. I like my sword skills just fine and I want a rapier (which, guess what, IS A SWORD) as a sword skin.
EIGHT. YEARS. AND COUNTING.
Eight years. And counting. Eight years and counting that you’ve been teasing us with a rapier and still you won’t give it to us, even after we begged and pleaded. I would’ve given you so much of my money. I was ready. Today was supposed to have been the day. I would’ve broken down and bought gems. I would have. So I could FINALLY, FINALLY HAVE A RAPIER.
EIGHT YEARS AND COUNTING, ANET.
Anet, some of us have been waiting EIGHT YEARS for our Mesmers to be given a rapier like the one their original concept art showed them wielding.
EIGHT.
YEARS.
I don’t care how you do it, but please hurry up and make the Aetherblade rapier skin available SOMEHOW.
Thank you.
That’s because the game doesn’t know how much of the personal story you’ve done, if any. You’re seeing exactly what someone with a low-level character would see.
But yeah, Anet’s been bad about doing this kind of thing ever since GW1. Our characters never get the recognition for past deeds that they deserve, partially for this mechanical reason, but still…
Tier 2 human armor is incredibly Mesmeric, but doesn’t seem to be that common unfortunately. It’s beautifully detailed and dyes incredibly well.
Numerous issues since the 1/28 update.
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Radeon HD 6970, i5 2500K. Since the update, there’s been a very noticeable drop in framerate and yet my card is also being worked harder judging by the increased coil noise.
Also, native sampling produced a black screen that would gradually “bleed” into white, an effect like drops of liquid spreading across the screen. Supersample (which is what I normally use) continued to work normally.
Updating my driver from 12.8 to 13.1 actually created an even worse problem, a severe blurriness to everything, including text menus.
Completely removing 13.1 and installing 12.11 solved this issue and appears to have remedied the native sampling errors as well, but the low framerate and increased GPU labor remain.
Watching the manifesto and believing what it said was your mistake. Trust me though, you were hardly the only one.
You’ve got some good ideas for the game. Well thought out. I commend you.
Too bad they’ll never be read by the developers who actually matter, let alone acted upon.
All I want for Wintersday is ascended gear, agony, and infusions removed from the game.
One of my favorite cloth armor skins by far is the Winged set. For females, at least. It doesn’t look so good on my Asuran elementalist. :c
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Winged_armor
Uh, I’d hardly call that set “unsung”…90% of female human and norn casters in the game are running around in that, and/or those pants in combination with the barely-there Feathered brassiere…
Anyway, back when I still played, this coat was a personal favorite, despite being “regular” Orr karma gear (not 42k).
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Well, that’s it. One-time events will continue, FoTM gear gating is as intended, and vertical progression will be crammed down our throats whether we like it or not. Nevermind that you may have bought the game looking to avoid such things – you know, because it was marketed that way, despite the revisionist claims otherwise being presented now.
I won’t be around for it. Arenanet, you’ve lost a loyal eight-year customer…no, not only that. You’ve lost someone who loved the world of Tyria, who spent years of my life in a state of sustained excitement over GW2, who obsessively followed every detail of its development, who had faith in your words and your vision, who spent hundreds of hours filling my Hall of Monuments to be ready for when it finally, finally, finally arrived.
Now the dream is over. Those years of excitement have all blown away, like they never existed. You can spin it however you like, but this is not the game you told us you were making. The only thing left to say is that I won’t be the only one to feel this way, and that I sincerely hope you feel the consequences of betraying so completely your actual “most dedicated players”.
Goodbye, and in the words of the lingering ghosts of the past,
“May you find the path home.”
I hope you will, someday.
Oh well that’s sorted then! You say it must be so. So it must be so. Right?
Stating your opinion is fine. But to belittle other peoples’ valid concerns with suggesting their choice of headgear in such a way is immensely discourteous.
You may also like to do a little bit of homework before making strange claims in your posts.
e.g. Nexon are the majority shareholder (14.7%) in NCSoft. NCSoft own ArenaNet. ArenaNet make Guild Wars 2. I hope that the connection is clear to you.
You are aware that NCSoft is the publisher. They don’t own ArenaNet. ArenaNet as a developer has full control of the final say in their game. You should do a little bit of homework before making strange claims in your replies.
Incorrect, as noted above. Maybe next time you should consider practicing what you preach, huh?
This is a known thing. Environmental weapons and the like allow this to happen. Engineer kits do the same thing.
Consider it a loophole to the insanely stupid decision to not allow people to fight in town clothes if they want to. They’re so busy trying to “monetize” everything, but they the ignore the fact that it would vastly increase sales of town clothes if they were displayable in PvE combat.
I always feel stressed when I play with someone else. I can’t relax and take things at my own pace. I have to worry about accommodating them, hurrying through content so they don’t get bored or frustrated. I can’t play organically.
the gap they bridged was TIME people… TIME…
Its to give us something to go for along the road to legendarys.
Except that “going for” ascended gear leeches time, effort, and resources that you could be putting toward actually getting that legendary.
That is not the HoM reward armor.
…I nearly fell into the trap myself, and then I stopped and considered what possible purpose it could serve in this particular thread. The answer is that it could have none whatsoever, because this thread, intentionally or unintentionally, is a troll thread.
Yes, hear me out. Whether you meant it to be or not, it is something that could only ever fan the flames without actually having any direct bearing on the causes. People have substantive and deeply held concerns regarding the direction the game has lately taken, but this thread is nothing but a “metadiscourse” – a discussion about the discussion, and as such, neither solves nor contributes anything.
Did you ever pause when creating it to consider what possible benefit it might have to anyone? Did you not realize that the only possible reaction it could induce was yet more acrimony? You have only helped to spawn more of that which you are attempting to self-righteously decry. If you were truly committed to cleansing the forums of that, you would have known not to create another such thread.
I trust you’ll think more carefully before acting in future.
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- What sort of mass insanity came upon the studio when you decided to add ascended gear, agony, and infusions?
- At what point did you realize adding ascended gear, agony, and infusions was a gigantic mistake?
- How soon will you be removing ascended gear, agony, and infusions from the game?
Yeah, Shelter’s Gate was the spot for me. Hang out, do DEs when they popped up (Nia and her darn gorillas) and spend the time in between messing with dye mixes.
I miss those days, I really do.
You can leave the forums anytime.
surprised there are no bots in Southcove, yet. i thought with how new it is, there was going to eventually be many bots down there. so far, i have not seen one. that should tell the community how bad it might really be.
Pretty sure the bot-runners themselves aren’t currently sure where would be best to go. I personally have a theory that making FotM the only place to be in the game right now was at least partly designed to be a botting deterrent.
After all, no matter how good the loot is, bots can’t run dungeons….can they?
They brought it on themselves. If they hadn’t loudly and repeatedly made confident claims before release about the kind of game GW2 was going to be, people wouldn’t be angry now that those claims turned out to be nothing but marketing lies.
If in fact these changes were forced on them from up above, fine. Let them make that clear. Find some PR-approved way to let us know that the strings are being pulled.
But I have my doubts about that conspiracy theory. It seems to me that the same overconfidence that let the studio to make dramatic proclamations like the Manifesto is still in effect, though it’s been turned in another direction. It seems to me that the developers are still convinced that they know best, that they are the experts and naysayers just don’t comprehend their acumen.
Maybe I’m wrong – but I don’t hear them saying it. Where are Messrs. O’Brian, Flannum, and Johanson now? Let them come out and explain how this move can be reconciled to their many past pronouncements about lack of grind and aesthetic rewards. Let them come out and offer detailed metrics to reassure us that this statistical power boost was a needed addition to the game. Let them come out and promise us that this addition was a singular anomaly that will never be repeated.
Either that, or let them come out and find some way of letting us know that none of this was their idea.
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I don’t play anymore. As an April prepurchaser living in the US, there’s no way for me to get a refund, but I wouldn’t have tried anyway. The game had issues but I played it enthusiastically for three months. However, I just feel sick at heart at the thought of logging in now, even though I admit I do miss it a great deal.
Why did I stop? Lost Shores Update.
I’m only still here because I’m praying for Arenanet to free itself from whatever internal insanity or external meddling has taken hold and make drastic repairs to the damage that has been done, both to the game and to their credibility. I’m not at all hopeful, but there’s still time to turn back, despite the near total lack of positive signs.
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You reap what you sow.
Exotics are your only choice for most slots at the moment. Only the back and accessories are currently available as ascended, and yes, you will need to do a great deal of grinding to get them.
Yes, you will be weaker in WvW against someone who has those extra bonus stats. It won’t be a huge difference – for now, anyway – but neither is it insignificant.
Welcome to Grind Wars 2.
I have loads of time to play, enjoy PvE the most, and absolutely loathe the Fractals and all that they stand for. Seems you didn’t provide enough options, or rather you made too many generalizations based on your assumptions.
i willl unveil the mistery for you….i read carefully the blogs…
Probably ascended gears will be the last tier, they simply introduced a system to add new “tiers” at will in the form of infusion slots
Notice how much does cost to ctraft an infusion and that they are only blue currently….
So they will introduce, green, yellow, orange, pink….
This way they gives you 9 overcosted stats to grind for every time.
So if prepatch you grinded for aestethic without stats, in the future you will grind for stats without even aestethic….Funny thing is that also people with legendaries will be forced to craft their infusions…
This is what I’ve been saying. The ascended gear itself is nothing but a smokescreen, a stalking horse for the real treadmill, infusions. They don’t need to create more tiers of gear to have a treadmill. They just need to release steadily better infusions, which leaves players doing the same thing: eternally chasing after bigger numbers. The infusions are what are going to be the treadmill. They’ve already admitted it.
The ironic thing is that my gameplay would probably hardly be affected by the addition of ascended gear at all. I could still be leveling alts and plaything through the now-empty explorable areas if I had any will to.
Not only that, but in reality, who’s in a better position than me to contribute the sort of grinding time necessary to get or do whatever? I have the time. I could be one of those people playing hours a day and getting ahead of everyone else.
But I won’t run in their hamster wheel, and I can’t go back to playing as usual. All I feel is anger and disappointment. I felt dirty just logging in for a few minutes earlier to see exactly how high material costs had skyrocketed.
Although I vehemently oppose its addition to the game, ascended gear itself isn’t what has made playing the game an impossibility for me. It is Anet’s apostasy that has sucked the fun out of the game. There’s no cure for that, whatever they do or don’t do in future.
If WoW had never existed, GW2 would probably be far more of an actual sequel to GW1 than it is.
If only.
Max stat equipment available in major cities for cheap, with no fear that it’ll ever go out of date.
This is all a smokescreen anyway. They don’t need to add new gear to the game to have a grind treadmill. They just need to add more infusions, which they’ve already stated they’re going to do. The result is the same.
The ironic thing is that my gameplay would probably hardly be affected at all. I could still be leveling alts and plaything through the now-empty explorable areas if I had any will to.
Not only that, but in reality, who’s in a better position than me to contribute the sort of grinding time necessary to get or do whatever? I have the time. I could be one of those people playing hours a day and getting ahead of everyone else.
But I won’t run in their hamster wheel, and I can’t go back to playing as usual. All I feel is anger and disappointment. I felt dirty just logging in for a few minutes earlier to see exactly how high material costs had skyrocketed.
Although I vehemently oppose its addition to the game, ascended gear itself isn’t what has made playing the game an impossibility for me. It is Anet’s apostasy that has sucked the fun out of the game. There’s no cure for that, whatever they do or don’t do in future.
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In before oranges and papayas…
What other content? There’s only one thing to do in the game now. They should just change the name from “Guild Wars 2” to “Fractals of the Mists”. (Lion’s Arch should also be redubbed “Fractals Group Finder Lobby”.)
They’ve said they’re just adding a step between Exotic and Legendary, and I’d like to wager the armor progression will eventually be Common, Fine, Masterwork, Rare, Exotic, Ascended, and Legendary for both armor and weapons. The statement I linked explicitly says that they will not be adding any more item rarity tiers after these.
There’s no reason to believe them. It’s a PR whitewash of the fact that they’ve already broken their word. Even if they don’t introduce more tiers of gear, they’ve already said they will be adding steadily better tiers of infusions, which amounts to the same thing.
I support this initiative.
Over 10k replies,13k+ views later, and counting; still no word.
Oh, there’s been word – the same empty words we were already offered, that is: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-ll-be-honest-about-the-gear-and-gearchecks/806894
And my response:
As for ascended gear, to reiterate what Chris has said (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-message-from-our-Studio-Design-Director-Chris-Whiteside), it’s not intended as a treadmill, but rather as a tier of rewards that can help bridge the gap between Exotics (a few hours of effort to acquire a piece) and Legendaries (hundreds of hours of effort to acquire one). They’re currently only available in the Fractals of the Mist Dungeon, but we’re going to be adding new ways to acquire them, both inside of WvW as well as elsewhere in PvE.
That would’ve been plausible if they had simply been cosmetic items and not an entirely new plateau of power to chase after, obsolescing our previous equipment. As it is, there’s no reason to believe you, or Mr. Whiteside. What you’ve done is directly contrary to the loudly and repeatedly stated design goals and philosophy the game was supposedly developed around.
Let Messrs. O’Brian, Flannum, and Johanson come out and explain how this move can be reconciled to their many past pronouncements about lack of grind and aesthetic rewards. Let them come out and offer detailed metrics to reassure us that this statistical power boost was a needed addition to the game. Let them come out and promise us that this addition was a singular anomaly that will never be repeated. Then I might believe your claims.
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As for ascended gear, to reiterate what Chris has said (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-message-from-our-Studio-Design-Director-Chris-Whiteside), it’s not intended as a treadmill, but rather as a tier of rewards that can help bridge the gap between Exotics (a few hours of effort to acquire a piece) and Legendaries (hundreds of hours of effort to acquire one). They’re currently only available in the Fractals of the Mist Dungeon, but we’re going to be adding new ways to acquire them, both inside of WvW as well as elsewhere in PvE.
That would’ve been plausible if they had simply been cosmetic items and not an entirely new plateau of power to chase after, obsolescing our previous equipment. As it is, there’s no reason to believe you, or Mr. Whiteside. What you’ve done is directly contrary to the loudly and repeatedly stated design goals and philosophy the game was supposedly developed around.
Let Messrs. O’Brian, Flannum, and Johanson come out and explain how this move can be reconciled to their many past pronouncements about lack of grind and aesthetic rewards. Let them come out and offer detailed metrics to reassure us that this statistical power boost was a needed addition to the game. Let them come out and promise us that this addition was a singular anomaly that will never be repeated. Then I might believe your claims.
players do have the choice to play the game in the way they want.
I want to play the game in a way that does not require me to grind for a new tier of gear and slot upgrades to replace what was previously the best available equipment. However, it seems I don’t have the choice to play the game that way anymore. Perhaps you could do something about that, please.
Where is all this gear treadmill talk coming from?
They added a new tier, yes, but so far they’ve only added a ring and back pieces, you’re all acting like there is a whole new set of gear out there right now from helm to feet, and this is not the case.. yet.
Except you just showed that you know there will be, so you just answered your own question. And infusions are also being set up as their own seperate treadmill of steadily increasing power.
But what can we do? IMO go to amazon and tell the other naive consumers what you really think about this game. You want to make a legal impact? Bad reviews at places who sell this game. A flood of bad reviews right before the holidays? That’s one way to be heard.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TOQ8X4/ref=cm_cr_mts_prod_img
Good idea, I hadn’t thought of that yet. Done.
Please do not worry…NCSOFT is developing your new MMO…Lineage Eternal…google it and enjoy..:)
Best regards,
Red
First thought that came to my mind was, “who cares, it’ll just be another korean grinder”, but of course, the thought that immediately followed that was “oh yeah, they’re even turning GW2 into one of those too”.
The MMORPG, as a genre, is fatally diseased. It’s suffered the worst fate any group of things can suffer: one hugely, wildly, incredibly successful thing (WoW), which has begotten an unending torrent of me-too cash grabs.
GW2 was supposed to be different. Don’t get me wrong, I never subscribed to the notion that it was a messiah that was going to lead the way to a new post-WoW golden era of MMOs. But I did hope that it could at least bring some fresh air, for heaven’s sake some DIFFERENCE, to a genre which Penny Arcade has rightly described as “a reeking necropolis of [crap]”. That necropolis is filled with specimens suffering from rigor mortis – stiff, unmoving, rigid in their mind-numbing sameness.
Those hopes have died now. Our would-be champion may continue to shamble on for a while, but it has taken a mortal wound, and will eventually lay itself down in the necropolis among all the others. Then there will be nothing left to do but burn the corpses, bury the ashes, and walk away.
I honestly don’t know. I just feel lost, empty. GW2 was supposed to be it. I’ve been playing a little Minecraft again, but I’m a gatherer not a builder, and I’ve gathered pretty much everything already (1800 diamonds mined). So I usually just end up standing around watching crops grow, even though I don’t need them either.
I won’t go back to GW1. Same situation. After seven years of playing, I’ve done everything.
Maybe I’ll replay Kingdoms of Amalur. It has DLC out for it now pretty cheap…
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Sadly no. You can’t display town clothes in combat. This is something I and many others asked for repeatedly during the betas, and yet was never implemented, nor did we ever receive any explanation as to why it is the way it is.
In any case, there are a few sets of town clothes available in the gem store. I don’t recommend wasting either gold or dollars obtaining them though.
There are things I wasn’t happy with, but ascended gear is what has forced me to leave. Everything else was bearable, but not that. I won’t get sucked into an endless chase after maximum number-power.
We’ll never know. All it would’ve taken to force these changes is one command from their shadowy NCSoft overlords. We’ll almost certainly never know the specifics of how it came about.
Does anyone have News on Eric Flannum and Colin Johanson?
No, and there won’t be any. Even if they do hate these changes, they’ll never be able to say so without losing their jobs – and even if they did lose their jobs they still couldn’t, because they’d never be able to get another job in the industry if they went shooting their mouths off about their old employer.
In short, no explanations or apologies are coming. Ever. Official PR spin is all we will get from now on.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
This is my thought.
Ashes and dust? Appropriate.