Guild Wars 2

DarcShriek.5829:

Vesuvius.9874:

Ashantara.8731:

I still despise the mix of divine powers and technology

Agree 110%. Gods don’t/shouldn’t need technology to get stuff done. It undermines the value and meaning of divinity.

Except the human gods aren’t divine, they are aliens from another planet. Therefore using technology isn’t a problem.

Where did you get that idea? Just because their avatars walked the earth doesn’t make them flesh and blood.

Also, aren’t most deities “alien” by concept?

Great, I opened 20+ chests before the fix and did not notice the issue. Now I can’t really tell how many did not reward me appropriately. GG, Anet.

Arden.7480:

I am not sure. Balthazar used different sword in final instance and he sent his hounds to kill us

I had the same thought, but maybe those hounds were illusions, too? After all, they were too weak to be a God’s pets.

Anyone seen the new Gem Store GS? Hint hint…

TempestMoon.5403:

i’d be curious as to why they introduced it so soon

See my previous comment (“Edit”).

OMG! It wasn’t Balthazar after all?! Now, that would be an exciting twist (although I still despise the mix of divine powers and technology).

Edit: Hrhr, they probably released the skin prematurely so that people (including myself) would stop kittening about the poor plot of episode 5.

Arden.7480:

[…]3 teams are totally unnecessary if they are doing everything in the same ways.

Can you see that there are 3 teams? Can you feel differences? I can’t, everything works in the same way, that’s really disappointing.

In defense of some of the devs, I need to point out that not everything was done the same way and that some episodes displayed a lot more talent in story-telling (plot) and quality writing (dialogue) than others.

I think the writing for Ep. 2 (humor) and 4 (characters, events) was a lot better than 1 (boring altogether), 3 (childish dialogue) and 5 (bad plot twist + awful dialogue). It differs in regard of the maps and their content however, which would require a separate rating.

We can agree that, if nothing else, consistency in not a thing this season.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

However, I’d suggest that the goal you advocated using polls to achieve is served equally well with free-form feedback in those threads […]

We have come full circle. Re-read my initial post.

Silverwing.9857:

Has anyone managed to find a solution?

Have you tried the other things I listed in my post right above yours? (#2-4)

Also, please answer #1.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Ashantara.8731:

Yes, which is why I was hoping for a dev to pop in and confirm they are working on this issue (as I haven’t read anything about it on here).

The curated issue tracker is how they do that.

Okay, bookmarked — thanks!

Vornollo.5182:

Well, don’t know what changed but it just suddenly stopped freezing up on me since yesterday.
Wish I found out what ended up fixing it though…

Could have been a Windows 10 issue, if you are using that terrible OS. If it auto-updates without your knowledge, it might look like your issue miraculously disappeared.

Contact support, explain the issue, ask for a replacement. I am sure things will be resolved.

I could harvest them just fine yesterday.

Yes, which is why I was hoping for a dev to pop in and confirm they are working on this issue (as I haven’t read anything about it on here).

notebene.3190:

The last story related one here .

LOL!

I do use the feedback threads. Feedback threads aren’t polls, though.

Faaris.8013:

I wonder if there is a real money market for popular character names already. Character name grabbing exists. I actually met people who create free accounts in newly released games just to secure the name, in case they want to play it at some point.

That’s terrible. But then again, it is always more fun to use your own creations than “widely popular” names. I don’t have (and never had) a single character whom I would name after existing characters from novels, movies etc., or after real people (I was accused of being a Draco Malfoy fan, because my Ranger’s first name is Draco, but that character’s complete name I came up with in a pen & paper RPG back in 1992, which was long before Harry Potter).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

There is more than one sort of “bad plot device” — it isn’t a Deus Ex Machina just because it involves a machine.

It was supposed to be a funny play upon words (i.e., a pun), but hey.

Ryou.2398:

Ashantara.8731:

Masteries per se were a great invention, if they hadn’t been so tightly locked to story progress in HoT. That ruined it for many, and calling people “lazy” because they have better things to do with their time than grinding XP and Mastery Points is quite impertinent. Furthermore, the fact that you won’t gain any more non-mastery XP unless you have all Masteries maxed is also an outrage, therefore I do understand people complaining about the status quo (even though Anet seems to have understood their own mistake and handled things better post-HoT).

P.S. I have all Masteries maxed, so you can’t say I was trying to “defend” a certain point of view because I was having trouble with the issue myself.

It does not ruin anything, it is all perspective, no mmorpg should he a cakewalk. If you want super easy there are always phone games. I understand why people are complaining but it does not justify it. They are far from being half as grind as other mmorpgs and if people do not wish to invest the effort and time they should not be playing an mmorpg at all.

I can’t say anything about other MMOs as I’ve never played any (except DDO, but that was different in pretty much every aspect).

I didn’t say that people shouldn’t be investing time if they want something. What I wrote was that the game is literally limiting their basic content access by locking Masteries to story content (you can’t proceed with HoT if you don’t have certain Masteries) and cutting their XP gain (for Spirit Shards) if they don’t grind all Masteries (including Raid Masteries).

Faaris.8013:

btw, taxis are not explained in the game either, they are not kind of the lore.

I only figured out what a taxi is because I asked someone when I read about it in map chat. And then, only after I participated in a gw2community organized Triple Trouble event, I really figured out how the map instances work and how and why people use taxis.

Welcome to the club, as we say in German. We’ve all been in that boat when we started out, and I agree, it is a drag.

Like I said many times before, the game needs a solid tutorial, GW2 Wiki etc. just doesn’t do. It is too much for any beginner and many feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff they need to google in order to understand all the game mechanics.

Faaris.8013:

Now, I don’t even need an LFG to get to a good map instance because I can guess who will command and just /sqjoin. I’m pretty sure there are casual players who played for a year or more and have no clue how map instances and taxis work.

Well, you can’t always rely on specific people being online when you are. It will force you to only do events at given times, which is a shame as there are constantly event squads outside of gw2community.

TexZero.7910:

It’s not your language….

Hoelbrak, Gretchen etc… doesn’t matter that words you know may have a real world origin, this is a fantasy world with its own language and script that has different pronunciations than you’re used too.

The linguist in me disagrees. Just like in real life, people should strife for an authentic pronunciation (e.g., names like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dirk Nowitzki are not being pronounced correctly overseas, and that is plain ignorant IMO).

While in RL nobody speaks every existing language, at least in a production that does use several languages (the game has character and location names in French, German, several Skandinavian languages, Japanese, Chinese) one could educate people by being as authentic as possible. I believe that to be something of importance, but maybe that is just me.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Well when I say I think 9 classes would be enough, it will only be enough if they can get Elite Specs going nicely =-)

I don’t disagree, that, more would be good to be honest =-)

+1

Firebird Gomer.9563:

As for Ranger as a Derv look at my Elite Avatar skill that I posted above. It would definitely work for Ranger and not so much for other classes, Avatars are fairly important to the Dervish setup. And really Ranger could do with a proper melee build.

True, but I wouldn’t call it “Dervish” then, as that is truly something I cannot associate with the concept of the Ranger profession (as it has a more “religious” spiritual background).

Firebird Gomer.9563:

I am TOTALLY with you on the Druid front! I made a Ranger so I would never have to heal anything. LOL and what did Anet do! Made a heal Spec for Ranger LOL.

Indeed. That’s why I think that a separate Healer profession is in order (instead of “perverting” other professions for that purpose). The Guardian is heavy-armored, so they can’t give that profession a Monk elite spec.

Petition: Bring the Monk back! (Monk love, heartbroken) Monks were the poster boys & girls of GW1, they do belong in the GW universe and are dearly missed in GW2.

DoctorDing.5890:

I’m thinking you might be due a break from the game.

No, I think he/she has valid points there.

Also, as a former GW1 player, I love the idea of FoW, UW etc.!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The Devs do, however, offer them (some more formal, some more informal) outside the game occasionally.

Really? Do I need to start reading the Reddit forum if I want to participate or are there other platforms they use?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Hmm…I don’t seem to have that issue: no response/misclick. Perhaps, there are some options in your mouse software you could investigate.

This has nothing to do with mouse software, I am simply a fast-clicker and the game does not support this type of handling (as the buttons are small regardless of text size).

Masteries per se were a great invention, if they hadn’t been so tightly locked to story progress in HoT. That ruined it for many, and calling people “lazy” because they have better things to do with their time than grinding XP and Mastery Points is quite impertinent. Furthermore, the fact that you won’t gain any more non-mastery XP unless you have all Masteries maxed is also an outrage, therefore I do understand people complaining about the status quo (even though Anet seems to have understood their own mistake and handled things better post-HoT).

P.S. I have all Masteries maxed, so you can’t say I was trying to “defend” a certain point of view because I was having trouble with the issue myself.

logan.5846:

Yes, however the exotic backpack will be soulbound to whichever character completes the collection.

That’s not a problem, it will be salvaged anyway. Unless it is not salvagable, in which case it will get deleted once it has unlocked the skin and achievement for the ascended back item.

Djinn.9245:

Maybe the people who keep saying the maps aren’t dead know how to find full maps! Maybe the people who say the maps are dead don’t know how to find full maps because it isn’t told anywhere in-game.

Yes. It is called the LFG (Looking For Group) tool that should always be used to either find an event map or initiate one by taxiing people in.

Djinn.9245:

I see the OP being criticized because he doesn’t know how the DS meta works. Where is it explained in-game?

I absolutely agree with that kind of criticism.

The game, in general, is in no way self-explanatory. The fact that none of the events (especially Dragon’s Stand) is explained, is only one of the many things that cause newbies a severe headache (and understandably so). You do have to ask in order to learn, or else you are lost.

As for the LFG tool, took me a while myself to figure it out (I think it was updated since then to increase its usability).

Well put, Grimheart (thanks for the giggles, by the way ), and so true.

TexZero.7910:

We know it changes the pronunciation, we just don’t give a skritt.

That is pretty sad (because it is ignorant), but also typical.

I play the game in English, and most of the Skandinavian and German names (which there are plenty of among the Norn characters and locations) are pronounced inaccurately as kitten. From cities like “Hoelbrak” to names like “Gretchen” (will never understand why it is such a popular name in the U.S., when it means “Little Margarete” and is merely a nick name, as in term of endearment, and never used as an actual first name), everything is pronounced wrong.

I wonder why American game developers, once they decide to implement foreign language into their products, never bother to look things up before they hand the script to the voice actors.

Grimwolf.7163:

If they insist on everyone having unique names, I think they should add a system in which any character that has been off-line for X amount of time (a year?) has their name up for grabs, and if the name’s been taken by someone else when/if they come back online, they have to choose a new name.

That would be unacceptable. First come, first served. Not my fault if real life is keeping me away from the game for a while, why would that make me lose my name?

I haven’t had trouble so far finding suitable names, and eight of my ten characters are “newish” by GW2 standards (also, only three use names from GW1 which were reserved for me).

K THEN.5162:

Alternate keyboard symbols such as ä, ü, and ö are your friends

Not a good idea, because Americans believe that doesn’t change the pronunciation, when it does, and greatly so.

Okay, so I just spent 100g on the Bottomless Kit to finally pursue this achievement, only to discover that the Bluffs have been LOCKED.

Wiki says this happened March 31, 2017.

Well, when will it finally be fully functional again? It is impossible to get the final achievement (Omnomnivore) without unlocking those Bluffs.

Edit: At least let us unlock the NPCs bluffs upon victory, we don’t have to be able to use them.

Thank you, IWN, for your response.

I didn’t know there had been a New Player Initiative (was that when they gave the skill system etc. an overhaul?). Also, I did not know quitters had been interviewed at some point — is there a place I can look this up in detail (as I am very curious)?

Don’t you think that, if they kept an eye on people’s perception of their latest releases (not in hindsight but just in time), that everyone would benefit from it in the long run, though?

P.S. Indeed, HoT was not newbie-friendly and I personally know several people who quit when it was released. Unfortunately, they continued down the road of making things as difficult for people as possible — not all of the devs, mind you, but certain design teams (there are several teams, right?).

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Tho Guardian is a Heavy class and Engie is a Medium class. Monk should really be given to a light class.

That’s why I think it needs to be a new class, as neither Mesmers (“illusionist”) nor Elementalists (“uses the elements to deal damage”) make sense IMO.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

I think that 9 base classes is enough

I don’t think it will ever be enough.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

I still think Dervish would be best suited to Ranger with animal class Avatars like I posted up a little higher in this posts page.

I thought about that, too, but again don’t really see it making sense (Rangers = “hunters roaming the wild”). Already hated the whole Druid idea (which would have made a nice Monk Elite Spec).

Wait, what’s “Dragon’s Watch” again? I think I’ve heard it somewhere before, but I don’t remember seeing such a thing.

@Arden:

If Balthazar actually behaved like Balthazar, that would have been something. But instead of a great god (one of the Six!) we got a bad joke disguised as Balthazar.

He had no class, no style, no nothing that made him be looked upon as “(gasp) The God of War!”

And then going in and fighting him, a “god”, alone!? – Oh please, c’mon. How much more ridiculous can it get?

Edit: Wait, I forgot about the whole Omadd’s Machine thing. Yes, go ahead and mix technology and religious mysticism. That’s even… funnier.

In this context, may I ask if the rest of the collection (outside of the items that you achieve through those three story missions) can be done on just any character?

MrFayth.3546:

Unlike SweetFX, I’ve never tried to share ReShade presets and am rather unsure of what you’d need. I’m assuming it would be a copy of my MasterEffect.h file
and the ReShade.fx file.

The majority of my changes for Gw2 are done purely through the MasterEffect.h table, which is just a text document.

Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. Just saw your post.

Will look into ReShade, thanks! (Am familiar with SweetFX, but never used it for GW2).

Does it influence the game’s performance in any way?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Meh, it adds 25, maybe 30, seconds total (on 25 keys)? A lot less time-intensive than creating a Support Ticket. /shrug

Okay, that is true, so can’t argue with that.

I am just not a big fan of the game’s UI, as clicking anything (especially a small X) often results in no response/a misclick. It tends to aggravate me a little.

Since there has been a lot of criticism lately as for the quality, consistency and credibility of the current season’s developments, I would suggest that ArenaNet implemented a quick survey at the end of each story mission (past and future) to get a better picture of what the players liked and what they disliked.

This doesn’t have to be too complicated and it should run only for a limited amount of time (2-3 months?).

I am picturing a pop-up (like the mission reward window) where you can rate the following categories

• Plot (consistency, story credibility)
• Dialogue (character credibility, quality of writing)
• Fun (difficulty/challenge level, innovation)
  … with three possible ratings:
  [ _ ] Liked
  [ _ ] Indifferent
  [ _ ] Disliked

I think this could be helpful for both sides, as players would feel like they can contribute to the future quality of content and devs would get an instant feedback rather than reading through tons of posts.

Note: Participation should be optional, i.e. once the survey goes online, people have to confirm or decline participation (e.g., by checking the option at game launch in their login screen).

Thoughts?

P.S. Perhaps they could also add an option where you can select your age category (<21, 21-35, 36-45, 46+) to see how every age group responds differently or if the tenor is equal across all groups.

I’m not going to go into detail, as these should be recognizable by GW1 veterans. I am just dying to see these classes return to GW as Elite Specs:
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New Profession: Monk
Shaolin

• Weapons: Staff, Sword/Focus
• Smiter skills

Mender

• Weapons: Staff, Scepter/Focus
• Healer/Protector skills

Revenant
Ritualist

• Legendary Ritualist Stance
• Weapons: Wand, Dagger

Thief
Dervish

• New weapon: Scythe

TheOrlyFactor.8341:

I don’t find Big Bang Theory to be funny at all. I’m more of a It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia kind of guy.

I don’t care (and it wasn’t my joke), I only explained what the quote was all about as people didn’t get it and were taking it seriously.

P.S. One would assume pop culture references to be recognized, but the person cracking the joke obviously bet on the wrong horse.

Re: “Geology is not a real science!”

Ariurotl.3718:

Ariurotl.3718:

Remember to stay in school folks!

Yeah, I choked on my tea when I read that.

Ryou.2398:

No matter what religion or beliefs you have geology is still real atleast to an extent, science is flawed but its not that flawed wow, just wow I really hope that is a joke.

Guys… That was supposed to be funny as it is a quote from “The Big Bang Theory.”

Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Raj and Lesley play paintball against the other science departments. Sheldon runs into the open field to “sacrifice” himself for the team, shouting that line.
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Here’s the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBQv8Y3V4o
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In various other episodes, he also denounced other sciences (apart from his beloved physics) as not being real sciences (primarily geology, but also biology, not to mention his arrogance towards those who study subjects such as literature).

Ashen.2907:

[…] led me to believe, at the time, that ANet was not sufficiently competent, or was insufficiently dedicated, to pull it off.

Well, it hasn’t gotten much better then, if you ask me. This season has been totally weird in many ways, even though some elements of it were dearly loved. The badly written dialogue of a severely childish nature did its fair share of leaving a bad aftertaste in my mouth.

You need to uninstall your previous graphics card’s driver, then install the one for your current card.

I recommend Display Driver Uninstaller for a 100% safe and clean uninstall, then go to the nVidia website and download and install the latest one for your current model.

The Champion Risen Royal Guards that guard the final entrance to the Eye of Zhaitan are hostile upon spawning and kill you within three seconds.

Only after you died and respawn, the dialogue where Trahearne talks about being invited triggers and they turn friendly.
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Edit: P.S. Also, Trahearne is bugged at the end of the mission. His animation seems to run in an endless loop (him raising his left arm to the sky, then crouching, like he was trying to stab his sword into the ground). It looks extremely funny, especially since he is making noises of great exertion.

The one next to the Quaggan NPC Sharoona has been bugged for weeks now.

When you use it, 75% of the time you hit the landing platform’s edge and fall back down (many die because of this). It makes farming the Unbound Magic and Ice Chests in the Forest harder.

Please fix.

Why are some people getting toxic at the idea of implemeting old, long forgotten content into the current game?

Palador’s suggestions and explanations are really good and do make a lot of sense, actually. (I think we all agree that the events would have to be altered to fit the current timeline…)

Dawdler.8521:

So has she shrunk again? Because in the latest living story, she was as big as my Asura.

No, I suppose you can build Asura PCs that small (the NPCs don’t have any unique scaling for any of the races). It still looks ridiculous IMO, though. I, personally, can’t take any baby-sized Asura serious.

Best:

• most of the important ally NPCs (especially Canach and Phluntt)
• Human male PC in general
• Asura male PC in general

Worst:

• Trahearne (lacks any intonation/expression, even when calling the troops to battle)
• Zojja (so annoying… sorry, Felicia, I love you!)
• female Norn PC’s battle cries (sound more like bedroom noises)
• male Charr PC outside of the race’s personal story parts (too tamed/soft)

bird.5920:

I don’t know, lore wise, and as a roleplayer, I just like the feel of norn and their shapeshifting shamanic roots more than humans.

The problem is that — like the Asura with their golems — the Norn’s shapeshifting ability (honestly, I had totally forgotten about that!) has been reduced to skills nobody uses, because they are not strong enough build-wise.

This is a huge shame. They could have made it so that Norn automatically shape-shift under certain conditions. That would have made them more interesting and reminded players of their supposedly unique background.