Guild Wars 2

I’ll wait…. and if nothing happens I start playing Dragon Age Inquisition :P

Welp, I don’t know how much I can rely on GW2 timer but it has changed 50 minutes ago and now shows that Wintersday comes in a bit less than 2 weeks… :/

And it’s a late evening where I am. I’ll see what happens around 1a.m. my time, usually something happens then. But I don’t like how there’s no info on the event.

I REALLY, REALLY don’t like it. I’ve been playing GW2 long enough to get bored and a festival like that is really a very expected change. On the top of that I feel a bit depressed today and this is making me angry. And there was no news about that schedule change either!

http://gw2timer.com/ says Winterasday is coming in 2 weeks! WTF Anet!
even my character started randomly cursing again! In his sleep! Because he heard the news !
“Lyssa confound you!” kitten it!

Am I tripping or was it supposed to start like… 10 minutes ago? Was it moved? :/

I see… it was moved… meh

Okay… is Season 2 designed for groups only? I don’t know how it works? Do I get some special buff in the locked episodes that I dont know about?
Because I tried the World Summit again and the difficulty level is RIDICULOUS once the dragon appears… I’ll NEVER be able to go through it without outside help. I should have 20 NPCs there running as a bait so I can focus on actual fighting the enemy! Maybe I suck, but how the hell I went through the rest of the PS?? I think I’m a pretty good player. I buffed up my warrior as much as I could. All exotic. Tweaked my build as much as I could and… it still sucks. IT JUST SUCKS! He dies after 2 minutes, why ALL the floor turns to lava? How am I supposed to protect him from that? Once the armor gets damaged it all turns hopeless. He may as well get killed at the very beginning… oh well, the hero died, you stupid NPCs have to figure it out yourselves!
I’m soooooooooooooooo disappointed :/

Seera.5916:

But to the flirting, I don’t want my characters to flirt with NPC’s that I do not want them to flirt with. Which means I don’t want them flirting with anyone. It’s better to leave that out if it’s not a voluntary choice. And unless its a meaningful romance, I’d rather them not put forth effort into putting that in. Otherwise it’s a meaningless choice and I’d rather only make meaningful choices.

MMO’s aren’t the genre to find super well developed stories. Sure, there are probably one or two MMO’s out there with a good story, but in general, MMO’s are not the genre to go to for great story writing. The story parts don’t keep the attention long enough for the average player for anything but the common tropes to be effective.

Welp, we can skip the flirting part. That’s just my personal preference.

But saying that MMO are not suppose to have super well developed stories… huh? I’m not saying it’s supposed to be developed. I’m saying it’s supposed to be good and engaging. And thee PS cut scenes are all but that (except maybe the 1st time you play it).
And above I wrote a few paragraphs how a common trope exactly makes the story boring and forgettable. Common tropes repeat so much in media that they’ve became boring.They don’t catch my attention that much at least. I’d rather be surprised with something, even if it’s the simplest story in the world. Maybe they should swap Trahearne with a talking goat. I’d rather stand there and stare at a talking goat That would grab people’s attention for much longer.

Redfeather.6401:

Claw Island is where it falls apart and stays sitting on the floor in pieces.
And those pieces are nothing but risen zergs with Trahearne spouting cliched pep talks.

For those who didn’t play their PS yet, yes the whole game after claw island is risen zergs with Trahearne spouting cliched pep talks. I wish I was kidding.

Haha! That’s a pretty good description. I have 9 characters (don’t judge me) and I slowly grind the PS with all of them (just to get some items and have it checked, for the sake of it).
Advice: if you’re sick of PS just mute dialogues, skip all the cutscenes, play music you like and make your character dance if you have to wait through another speech of Trahearne. :P

And Claw Island is the point that I always put off as long as possible. Especially because of that noble death. This is why I go with the Vigil, since the old warrior guy can die in a battle – hey a pretty good way to go for him. I don’t want to see the silly sylvari or awkward charr to die like that again :/ I don’t understand why would they give us a “friend” to be killed off so soon. But sometimes I want to pick Durmand with that stupid sylvari. “Let’s just go to this kitten island and why don’t you just die already!” This is what a bad writing does to you. Makes you bitter and/or bored and not caring about the kitten NPC. I was disappointed and baffled the first time I played Claw Island.
“WTF Anet?! This is not some cheap TV show! I thought you could do better than that : ]”

ProtoGunner.4953:

I didn’t find anything particularly hard in the season 2. I hear that a lot. I don’t know, you even play warrior – it’s really no big deal. Know what the skills do (like prevent damage), time your dodges wisely etc.

LOL, well I couldn’t expect less from a ProtoGunner…
Maybe I’m a worse player than I thought but then I feel as if the difficulty level was raised 250%….
I guess I have to tough it out :/

Seera.5916:

The personal story/main story in an MMO can’t have too many choices in it. Or at least not too many choices where the choice has any effect.

So there are few if any choose who dies steps. Few if any choices for flirts.

The story has to be fairly rigid for MMO’s. Because of the sheer number of combinations that would happen if they gave too many choices.

For example:

A game with 8 chapters. Each chapter has 3 sections. Each section has a choice with 3 options. For simplicity’s sake, none of the choices affect future choices.

That’s 24 times where you choose between 3 options. The total number of combinations is: 282,429,536,000 combinations.

That’s a lot of combinations to keep track of. And that’s not even considering chapters that branch out like the story here does.

Any major change tends to not be something that you can choose. You make tons of choices in the game already. But they only affect things in that chapter for the most part. There are a few exceptions where that does not hold true.

That explains the choices to me and difficulty of game design… but my main point is that the Personal Story itself is lazily written (mostly plain dialogues, lots of seriousness, using boring tropes as an emotional bait) and poorly executed ( good but very little emotional) voice acting. I’d be happy with even less choices if the story was better.
When hitting on a character in PS, I mean, it can be a dialogue line that has no choice in it. If things could get at least a bit spiced up in some ways! Just a stupid joke and an immediate (and funny) negative reply from am NPC. We have many moments in the gameplay when you can make a bit of an idiot out of yourself or get surprised by an NPC’s answer. Hardly anything surprised me in PS…. [As an example, I could listen to many dialogues from Prince of Persia Warrior Within every day because they are cleverly written and the main voice actor put all his heart into it!]
Everything outside the PS has some kind of drive to it and is not afraid to go freaky with the player, and in PS I had just a small taste of what it could be. even the voice acting of random NPCs feels much more emotional and dynamic. Even screams, shouts, coughing and moaning feels like it’s real! (My favorite is that asura panicking about the dragon and shouting orders at the Splintered Coast. This voice always makes me feel scared of the beast, even though I fought there many times.)
I’m pretty sure these two parts of the game were written by two different people (groups of people).

This is my personal opinion and also it CONTAINS SPOILERS and it’s HONEST and for mature players so you can get offended. I try to be polite and you’ve been warned.
I’ve been playing GW2 for a bit over a year now. I came into some weird conclusions. I’d like to share some with the community. I don’t expect any feedback, I just have this urge to write this on the forum finally. I haven’t played HoT yet. I know the new content is different but I’m focusing on the “old” personal story. I’m not much into guilds and I’m still a noob in some cases. There is no TL;DR this is for patient people.

Also GW2 is my very first MMO . I have never played a game like that before it. I’ve been playing many games before though.

What hits me now, it’s that all the PS seems to be written by a totally different person (persons) than the one that wrote all the other world interactions.
I like all this weird and awkward dialogues characters have in Lion’s Arch or wherever. I like to stumble on something really cool, like that sylvari standing by the bridge in LA and calling me “captain famous”. This game need more of that! I like that conspiracy theory dude! These are great tastes and this is why I play (among many reasons). I also like all the sexual innuendos, that may or may not be intended (except outfits that make everyone run around half-naked). Oh, I’ve seen many sexual innuendos in the game, that now I doubt if my mind is so dirty or the game is just trolling me. Whatever, these all elements work together great and make something greater.
And the Personal Story… first, since we HAVE to stumble upon a noble death trope at the Claw Island, when I choose to go through this with yet another character (because I’m weird and I have many characters) before hat, I choose to go with the Vigil every time because I feel least sorry for that old warrior guy. I’m emotional and I get attached…
BUT why would you put a very awkwardly placed noble death in the first place in a story like that? It’s such a used up and boring motif. This is not original writing, this is lazy writing. It makes me NOT like the story. I guess it was supposed to make me feel more emotional towards the whole situation, but not, it makes me detest it. “Oh, here we go again…” If the characters interactions were more amusing and were saying something that would be clever and kitteny, maybe I’d be eager to play this PS over and over again? Here, this doesn’t happen…
So, I killed the dragon and I went further with another character. And what happened? A freaking another noble death! This time I can’t choose who dies, but it’s a sylvari woman! How about I’d get more possibilities to see?? Maybe I should choose who gets eliminated, to have some fun at least? “Oh no, the timer is destroyed!” Whaaat?! WHAT?!?! you got to be kidding me!
I was playing as a Guardian and I could provide sufficient protection, but I know game mechanics can’t consider that.
That’s not all. I know game engine makes things look a bit stiff and some things don’t click. But why would you make voice acting of PS so stiff as well? I’d be happy to hear some more emotion in these voices, they fight the frekaing dragon and everything sounds like they’re having an afternoon tea… I can forgive Trahearne, because he’s an old necromancer… but the rest? It all feels as if director of voice acting wanted to get a particular effect, but this effect makes me feel less enraged and interested in the characters I meet. Less and less…
Can’t my character at lest drop a stupid joke or try to hit on someone? That would wake me up… these are free advises! I’d hit on Trahearne if I could!
On the top of that, it all feels so kitten official, that it hurts.
ah, and I just stumbled upon Pale Reavers, they have super awesome guns that kill the risen so quickly! Why can’t I get one of these guns at least for a while? Why don’t everybody use them? We’d kill off the problem very quickly! I have powerful, exotic weapons with my Guardian, but the sylvari guns just… they dominated everyone.

Also, when I started playing “Dragon’s Reach” (the free episodes) I stumbled onto so powerful and hard to kill enemies, that it turned my so far smooth gameplay into a grinding torture! And again, a warrior with all exotic equipment. I don’t have anything legendary now and I’m a complete noob with these. But if I need such weapons to kill vines and a dragon at the Grove, I’d like to know that before I play!!!
The floor turns into lava, there is almost no place to escape, I’m alone with vines hitting me from close, from far. The difficulty level suddenly goes up as if expect me to be a pro gamer, which I’m not… I have killed a champion once on my own… but these enemies don’t forgive unless you have perfect aim, perfect timing and acrobatic skills. On the top of the floor turning into lava under my feet (not giving me any time to regenerate before next attack) and draining my energy, once the armor gets destroyed…. it’s a frustration nightmare.

That one night made me feel hate and rage towards otherwise a wonderful game that I love. And I still don’t want to play that part, and I don’t even want to pay for that. I hope HoT has a NORMAL combat.

Whew!

That is all.

Thanks for reading if you go that far. Of course, I’ll read every comment if such appear.

I’m actually on that part right now, just put my warrior in a safe spot.

The mouth has been about 50% defeated… and now nothing happens. I don’t know what I did before that it worked.

I throw that kitten fire orbs and they do nothing! This is such a frustrating grind!

I throw it before the mouth attacks me: nothing, I throw it when the mouth can’t see me: nothing, I throw it when the mouth sucks in air: definitely no reaction

If it’s a personal story I’m supposed to be able to defeat this sucker myself, yet, it’s just such a horrible design. I just want to end this! If I quit now I’ll have to repeat it all over! no wonder people drop personal story.

*Now that I look at it, it may be a game glitch… just sucks. Why can’t we just kill it with a weapon like all the other enemies?

The game starts fine but when I choose a character to play it takes a long time to load and finally says “Network Error”.
I also have a free account on another server and it works just fine. So, what the hell is going on?? I need to do more stuff before Halloween ends!

If I said I need 2 more professions to my account to have a full set, that means I already have at least one additional slot. In fact, I have bought 2 additional slots and earned one in game.
Thank you Inculpatus, but Qugi could be nicer, instead of assuming “I just want a free slot” or trade accounts. And this tone, pffff….

Of course that I’m set to get bonuses, who isn’t? I paid for Guild Wars 2 and I’m buying the expansion because I love this game, my first MOO and already such a good choice!

But being rude to me, not knowing the full picture makes me want to use curse words and punch people, but I cannot because the moderators :P

I’ve been playing for a year and I recently created an account for my boyfriend (a free one).

I know that my bf will use this just for a while (he wants mostly to explore the land). As I really want to play with a mesmer and necromancer and he will have one or both developed (by me, BTW), I wonder if I could merge my boyfriend’s account with mine.

The restrictions on the free account are a bit of an issue in the long term and I don’t want to buy an expansion to a free one since I plan to buy it for the paid account.

Also (because we are so smart ;p) we have accounts set on servers from different continents, I wonder if it’s even possible like this.

I’d really love to have a full set of professions without a need to go through advancing process again (even with tomes of knowledge it’s still a bit pain in the kitten

Problem solved! Though I wish it told me from the beginning what was the actual issue. I really don’t like how I was left alone wandering.
But it’s fixed!
Thanks for all the advice.

I tried everything, except I cannot use different e-mail than provided. I’m soooo disappointed with ANet right now. kitten! Make game free and then make it impossible to register?! WTF Anet? and on the top of that, not even saying what’s wrong in the registration form… This is bullkitten, total bullkitten!

you know how to program the forum to censor out swear words but you cannot make it possible for people to register and tell them what’s wrong in the process?? IKEA could do it better!

I LOOKED for a solution but found none, so I’m posting this here.
I’ve been playing for a year and I since the game went free I wanted to start a new account for my boyfriend. I filled in the form but I keep on getting the message:

“We were unable to register an account using the information provided. Please check your information and try again”

I have changed the entered password a few times but this message keeps on popping up. Also, there is no way they could have the email i enter and there is no indicator which info I entered is wrong. I’m really disappointed and I think this is really unprofessional. :/

Anyone has idea how to fix that? since GW2 technical support apparently can’t…

Seera.5916:

Because Gaile Gray and the rest of the ANet team is busy with other stuff and players in this thread had mentioned a non-SMS alternatives (authenticators). Just because you ask for a response from ANet doesn’t mean you’ll get it or everyone and their mother will ask for an ANet response on every little thing even if it’s a question that can be easily answered by players.

I started THIS thread and it has over a 1000 views by now. Why would they bother to answer someone else then if replying me could help all these confused people?

I never wanted a reply from ANet directly, it just angered me that since they had time to show up in MY thread, I was ignored! And I was seriously concerned I’m going to be FORCED to give them my number, because.

And many people keep on having this SMS message problem anyways, despite using instructions given by ANet. The problem is not solved yet.

And this whole policy of suggestively enforcing people to give away their phone number shows LACK OF RESPECT TOWARDS PLAYERS. Something that people here seem not to realize.

I am not happy how I didn’t get reply from Gaile Gray myself, they clearly ignored my questions and concerns. Shame on you.

But I did get one advice from a player, that actually worked. Thank you!

You can GET RID OF THAT STUPID SMS QUESTION without giving them your MOBILE PHONE OR LANDLINE NUMBER .
The information here: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28147576-E-mail-Authentication is a bit unclear but I figured it out and used an alternative for authentication. There are FOUR methods of doing this.

Funny how they keep on pushing people on giving away their phone number. As if periodical, annoying message was an acceptable method of encouraging people to do things.
Imagine your friend doing so. You would smack them in the face after a few times… Such a google+ way, except google+ was asking me EVERY time I logged in to youtube.

I play GW2 everyday to like every 3 days, so I was getting this pretty often. So far, the message hasn’t showed up and I hope it stays that way.

I’ll remember this “incident”.

Avelione. Over and out. ;p

Gaile Gray.6029:

Dinks.2478:

I don’t know, but it would be nice if they would stop harassing me to set up the SMS authenticator every time I try to load the game.

It’s every fifth time. The team will review that frequency in the future, but for now we’ll leave it there, given the proven security advantages of authentication.

Why hasn’t the ArenaNet Forum Communications Team Lead reply directly too me?? Huh? You just leave there the harassing message, not caring if someone wants to use their phone or not??? WTF?! This is not cooperating wit the community at all! And you know it.

I know it doesn’t matter with the amount of the users playing, but with all my love towards the game and my 8 characters (and I wanted to have more) I’m starting to lose a desire to play GW2.

I absolutely hate the idea of giving away my phone number to ANET or to any other company/corporation (and I find this “new safety feature” pretty unreliable anyways). And now, this message keeps stalking me like google+ did back in the day!
I find this method “remind me later” insulting.

How do I get rid of that?
Are they going to FORCE me to give them my phone number? I haven’t signed up for this! I paid for the game to play it, if you want a phone number, give me one and pay for it :/
I love the game (I have 8 characters) but this is evil corporation stuff squeezing its 5 cents to the whole fun! ANET if you’re reading this, you better do something about it!

darkprecure.6129:

A funny story. I like it.

Thank you! I thought no one would comment A nice surprise.

Can you tall me which profession can wear that? So far it didn’t fit to the ones I tried…
I can’t find any info who can use it and it don’t want to teleport each of my charatcers just to check this…

Thanks!

Here it is>>> https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11193088/1/A-Banana-Sylvari

I got this idea really out of nowhere. It’s not exactly about bananas….

Sylvari are really intiguing creaures and the fact they are kind of plants adds to the idea in this story… can’t say more, because I’ll spoil the idea. … also, don’t you think adding edible banans growing on them would be cool?

I’ve been playing the game for about 6 months now and I really love Sylvari. I’m also a writer by call and fanfic writer by hobby, so enjoy!

I was invited to a guild and I don’t know what happened, but a few moments after I opened my panel, it suddenly dissapeared and when I reopened it again, the group invitation was gone :/ I’m pretty sure I didn’t press anything, and if I did, it was by accident. Now I have no idea what to do, because I wanted to join. these ‘join’ and ‘ignore’ buttons are much too close to each other!

I admit I’m totally lost how my inventory works. Why when I want to trade, just a few items show up and I have like 20 things in my inventory. For example, I have my starter backpack and two leather bags and they all seem to be combined into one storage space, yet I cannot sell everything I gathered.

Or I discovered in my other character that I carry 4 types of bows that show up in my equipment when I’m checking out “hero” option and I do not know how to sell 3 weaker bows. This is all counterintuitive and I don’t have much experience with games like that :/

Help!

Thanks! I made it back. I must say the gate system is kind of confusing….

Help! I’m new and I went to check out Rata Sum, now I don’t know how to come back to Lion’s Arch. I have 5 characters that I play so I got mixed up a bit and I cannot find the right gate anywhere. Wiki says the gate is in Arkentia Valley, but how the hell do I get there?

Thanks!