Guild Wars 2

Limited editions mean you can con people into paying more for an “exclusive” item that people who join later will not be able to get.

I’ve been looking at some of the WvW achivement paths, and all I can say is, Arenanet must be expecting to keep running this game for a LONG time!
take for example the chain for the “Yakslapper” title. For this you need to kill on MILLION supply dolyaks in WvW. I think someone really needs to learn just how big a million is.
I did some calculations, and the results are pure madness.

Lets imagine a player who is ocd enough to dedicate their life to this one task, killing dolyaks in WvW.

Lets say they can kill one dolyak every 5 minutes, which means finding it, killing it, and fighting off any rival players trying to protect it.
That means 12 dolyaks an hour.
If they played the game 10 hours every day that’s 120 Dolyaks a day.
In a year, (which I’m takinging as 365.25 days) they’d get through 43830 Dolyaks.
Divide 1000,000 by 43830 and you get 22.815 (rounded up to 3 decimal places).
NEARLY TWENTY THREE YEARS!

And that’s for someone who does nothing but hunt dolyaks for ten hours every day, 7 days a week. Seriously, what kind of playstyle are Arenanet trying to promote with achivements like this?

This really nails it for me. I no longer care much about HoT. Every thing they release is making me feel less and less like I want to be part of it. I preodered GW2 for launch. I probably will be quitting it when HoT goes live if the reviews don’t make it out to be bettert than what Anet are currently implying with their mashup of misinformation and frankly half baked sounding new stats system. Anet have exhausted their credit with me, and I no longer trust them to make playable content as they consistantly spoil most things they rework and donot consult their playerbase about what changes are actually WANTED in the game.

Anet NEVER give information ahead of release. I didn’t mind when waiting for GW2’s release because their credit was still pretty high with me coming out of GW1. But after 3 years of botched updates, poorly thought out living story episodes, lazy recycled events (or just plain missing events like 2nd anniversary) I don’t have high hopes for HoT really. I certainly will not be pre-ordering this time, I’m going to wait until I can see in depth reviews before I decide if I want to invest any more money in this game.

“Military installations Number Two?”
“Yes sir, well potential military installations. Alright … trees.”
“And we interrogated a gazzel!”

Speaking since the stability patch, my ranger’s battlecry is usually “GET BACK OVER HERE YOU STUPID…”
How about a pet training manual so you can make your pets do funny tricks?
Roll over, sit, run around in a big hollow ball. maybe even have pet try to copy you as close as it can when you dance.

Good steampunk appearance, but needs a handlebar mousache for the full effect

sMihaly.1492:

Bathos.6341:

That would indeed be pretty funny.

Also new emotes.
/facepalm
/flex
/tiptoe
/sing
/thumbs up
/thumbs down
/juggle (profession specific, theif juggles daggers, engy juggle grenades, ele juggles mini fireballs, etc)
/headbang (loops like dance)
/drink (character pulls out a cold bottle of beverage and takes a swig)
/scope (Character takes out a telescope, extends it, scans horrizon, collapses it and puts it away again.)

You forgot /doubletake. /facepalm was used as /doh in GW1
https://youtu.be/QjlpC1aHlkE?t=44s

Doubletake looks pretty close to /surprised that we have now, /doh is ok but I was thinking more of a longer facepalm like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSvJaYxRoB4 (I know, star trek, but was literally the best facepalm I found )

I think it’d be epic if the Silver Eagle heavy armour from GW1 EotN was bought back. (though tbh I think I’d most like to see it as cultural amour for playable Tengu some day )

The downed state is not causing the Zerker everything problem. what needs to happen is a rebalencing so that other builds actually become competative. When you have a system where bosses commonly have big attacks that’ll drop ANYONE in one hit if you don’t dodge, vitality/toughness builds cease to be viable because your best chance is to just nuke the boss down before someone runs out of endurance or mistimes a dodge and goes down.
No one is going to take a tank build if it only allows you to at most take 1 more hit than a berzerker but takes twice as long to kill anything making it more likely, not less than a berzerker to die in a long boss fight.
Condition damage also takes way too long to rack up an effective amount of damage. If you can make it so condi specialists can do the same DPS as zerker if they manage their conditions right, that’d be a good start to lessening the zerker problem, AND make classes like the necro desirable for dungeon runs again.
It’d also make condi removal/support builds on classes like guardian more viable if conditions were made more dangerous.
That’s what really needs addressing, fixing the mechanics so that the best tactics for any tough fight is not just “DPS it down as fast as possible before someone in the party dies”.

Here’s my warrior’s current armour. He has the most mixed of my characters armour since all six pieces are from different sets.

Helm: Cultural T2 (more often Hidden)
Shoulders: Pit fighter
Chest: Scallywag
Gloves: Grasping dead
Legs: Forgeman tassets
boots: Lawless
Dyes used: Cobalt, Oxblood, Silver

IRL, yes. but in the game the maps are not designed around the concept of the player being able to fly. you’d be able to skip past jump puzzles and grab the chests, or get out of bounds all over the place with those gliders in the old maps.

That would indeed be pretty funny.

Also new emotes.
/facepalm
/flex
/tiptoe
/sing
/thumbs up
/thumbs down
/juggle (profession specific, theif juggles daggers, engy juggle grenades, ele juggles mini fireballs, etc)
/headbang (loops like dance)
/drink (character pulls out a cold bottle of beverage and takes a swig)
/scope (Character takes out a telescope, extends it, scans horrizon, collapses it and puts it away again.)

I think the new charr postue is kind of the average of their GW2 postures, hunched charr were much more so in GW1, while caster types typically stood upright. Since in GW2 there’s no variable psture they just picked somethign roughly in the middle. Not ideal maybe, but it doesn’t bother me so much as the fact that the Charr’s hunched posture seems to be totally baffling to Anets armour designers. that and tails seem to trip them up more than half the time. If we could just have some more armours that are fitted properly for charr as opposed to just shoving the humanoid version on them and then warping it we’d have a much easier time finding gear that looks good for Charr players as well as everyone else.

I am glad we’re finally getting the expansion, but remember they said LS was to be it’s own team, with other projects going on at the same time. most of this expansion was developed already before living story ended, so just because it’s in beta now does not mean they could not still have some small event to tide us over. If what they said about how the teams worked, the LS team shouldn’t really have much to do right now.

This is really the full extent of what a company of Anets size and resources can do? All airplane mode was essentially was to deliberately put the character into a bug state as that is what characters do if their animations do not load properly, then add stupid sounds and a screen filter any decent home video editor coul produce. Just offends me they’d do something so cheap and amateurish.

Never took many screen shots of SAB last time because I was strugelling to finish tribulation mode to get my ranger a green longbow. (which he still uses btw, now ascended). SAB is lightyears ahead of every other “activity” minigame in GW2, and yet anet persistantly insist on refusing to use it. and instead give us the laggy glitchfest of crab toss, and the exploit filled mess of southsun survival. Seriously guys, get you priorities straight and don’t waste your best minigame, and alienate everyone who payed 600 gems for a continue coin they have had no use for in over 18 months now.

When could the time be MORE right for SAB than now?
We have F.A. to look forward to until HoT opens, which does not look likely before June at the earliest.
Living story has ended.
There is essentially nothing else to do but farm gold/materials for crafting new gear, or try and level up in sPvP if you’re into that.

Yeah, Anet need to learn that a good april fools joke for a game is to make something FUNNY, not to just TROLL the entire player base. All airplane mode was is a resurected glitch from the closed beta back in 2012 with some sound effects and a cheap filter effect on top.

The main reason this happens is none of the craftable sigils are actually any good. The ones most people want are Force sigils, and you can’t craft those.

Come on, already being developed? like this stupid thing was developed. All they did was lock the upper character body in one static pose, and spend 5 minutes recording stupid mouth noises. If they spent more than an hour on this I’d be very surprised.

I wouldn’t mind so much if they’d put any effort into it like they did in the bobbleheads with merging them with the body, and adding new animations when moving. But this looks like something a kid did with Gmod in half an hour. cheap, uninventive, adds nothing to make me want to play the game today.

What makes this worse, is releasing SAB minipets a few hours earlier, letting everyone think this meant SAB was coming back, and then dumping this fail on the servers instead. That’s not a prank, that’s bloody developer trolling.

No one likes a smart alec

All this is is that random animation bug when your character gets stuck in an animation, server wide and with stupid mouth noises. thanks Anet, just what I wanted, A BLOODY BUG! Let me know when it’s over, I won’t be playing until then.

Yeah, I got my log in reward won’t be back on GW2 until this stupid gimic is over. most utterly PATHETIC april fools joke I have ever seen from a major developer. For a company the size of Arenanet to not have a problem with releasing something this badly made raises serious issues in my mind regarding the sanity of their management.

Ok, Anet need to try and remember when they made GOOD april fools stuff, or just stop bothering, because this, is more tradgic than funny.

I’m not personally offended by the joke, I’m offended by the total lack of imagination, time or effort behind it. this is just taking an animation bug and pasting in a kitten recording of some random member of anet staff making kittened noises. This is not professional quality, it’s not even INDIE quality.

Potentially offensive, lame, poorly executed, lacking in imagination, effort or charm. I wish anet had just stuck to a frikking fake trailer or something because THIS is pure crap. I’ve seen indi games on steam make a better effort.

This is without doubt, the stupidest, lamest, most tragic excuse for a joke in anet’s history. the april fools jokes back in guild wars ONE had more effort behind them than this crap.

Looks great, sounds like a low quality midi file. Worse is the total lack of Chords, WHY in the name of Ogden’s petrified britches can this thing only play one note at a time?

Here’s three good April fools joke ideas I had.
1)Turn all player races into something else for the day. Charr become Tengu, Norn become Kodan, Humans become Centaurs, Asura become Quaggans, Sylvari become Hylek
2)Swap the model size of the Shatterer, Claw of Jormag and Tequatl with that of chickens. Dragons now chicken sized, ALL chickens, including orrian, now dragon sized
3) Invasion of the rocket powered Dolyaks. Random event that can happen in any map, a herd of rocket propelled dolyaks arrives and players have to try and kill them all before they explode killing everyone on the map. (The rocket dolyak could then be sold as an endless tonic)

1)At least one new CITY, I don’t care if it’s an overgrown ruin, or populated by some race we’ve never met before. I’d like to see some more evidence that we’re fighting for somewhere other than a largely uninhabited jungle full of monsters.
It would also provide a hub to meet friends and use services without having to waypoint all the way back to Rata sum, which is going to get awfully busy if it’s still the closest city when HoT opens.
2) Two handed axes.
3) Crossbows.
4)Persistant choices, I’d like to be able to replay the personal story and see different things along the way based on what I do with each character. Bring it all to a single ending if you must, but let it branch out in the middle at least.
5)More armour that a charr can wear without tail clipping.
6) New ranger pets.
7)Tyrannus
8)Ceratadon
9)Angorodon
10)Ferofrax
11)Mounted mobs that ride one of the 4 above, (kind of like the stone sumit on Mamoths in GW1).
12)Some new dungeons, preferably with story +3 explore paths each and unique gear sets, as original dungeons.
13)The moon on a stick.

Seishiro.7468:

From all the evil guys that died since the release of GW-2, I would say the one most likely to become a legend would be Gaheron Baelfire, because:
- He had real powers, not just machinery, he was close to becoming a god
- He was no dragonminion

Ah, no, pretty sure Gaheron is at least corrupted by Primordus. The flame legion in GW1 eye of the north are worshiping destroyers, and there’s no reason to think they stopped since then, certainly they are still using effigies, which were originally sacrifices to the destroyers. Where did Gaheron get his godlike power? Almost certainly by selling his soul to Primordus much like we see Sons of Svanir doing to Jormag to become Icebrood. he may not see the strings while he’s on his pwer trip, but gaheron’s definitely one of Primordus’ pupets.

1) I’d like a longbow that fires chickens.
2)A Teapot focus.
3) A Harmonica pistol
http://www.horstheld.com/553-i.jpg

Well if they added it, expect clipping, A LOT of clipping issues on charr and norn. I used to play star trek online which has working seating, if you were very tall your feet would clip into the ground. And of course, charr would get tail clipping even worse than with half the armour in game.
If you’re small, like an asura, you’d perch on the edge of the seat and wind up looking like a shelf sitter.

Yeah, I think Pistol, I’ve always wondered how Warrior Rytlock was using sword pistol

Since shields are almost useless, i have to ask why would you use a shield for both hands? what kind of autoattack could you do with a shield? Throwing it Captain America style? That’d just look stupid in gw2.

seriously, this is why I don’t buy limited edition dyes on the gem store. for the price at least give us a ganantee of getting an exclusive dye, by all means make some rarer than others for the rng lovers, but don’t make them drop normal dyes 2/3 of the time.
As is if there’s an exclusive dye I really like I just save up my gold and buy it on the trade post.

They either ned this, or make ascended items salvagable, because at present there is little more annoying than getting an ascended gear chest drop. Only to realise it has USELESS stats, and there’s nothing constructive you can do with it.

The problem is the “optional” grind for cosmetic gear, or PvP rank, or WvW xp, whatever, is that’s all there is to do at level 80. If you choose to do no grind at level 80, then you have effectivly chosen to do nothing in at all.
You have a choice of dungeon grind for gold and tokens, grind silverwastes for mordrem parts, bandit crests etc. Grind drytop for amber, grind WvW for xp/abilities, grind SPvP for rank …. yeah, this “optional” grind APPARENTLY means giving us a choice between one kind of grinding, and another type of grinding…

Stanley parable camera, can’t see your hands, can’t see your feet, can’t even see your own nose!

I’m in two minds about this, I legit earned all the HoM items, but I hadn’t got GWAMM until I made a new alt. I can see how it annoys people who were there all the way to suddenly have this title about the most common thing in GW2. That said, I dropped an Abyss dye on my new alt, so I’m hoping any roll back will just be restricted to removing the title from people who should not have it (like me :P), but not removing EVERYTHING that happened since the patch went live, so i can keep the gold I made from selling that Abyss dye.

I’d swear I caught one of my characters doing a raptor chirp in LA today, (could have been mistaken though I was just comming back from afk/bathroom break).

If you play it THEY WILL COME!

I’d like to see Tyrannus back in HoT http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/thumb/c/ce/Dinosaur.jpg/800px-Dinosaur.jpg , and a mini one would be nice.

For smeg’s sake that was just an old april fools joke.

I actually LIKE fighting underwater

I never liked the character of scarlet at all, but my engineer uses her gun.

I’d have rather lost Traherne than Tybalt Leftpaw at claw island.

The first “slayer” achivement I completed was “Indiscriminate slayer”.

I must admit to being somewhat bored atm in GW2, been playing starbound more lately. When I am playing GW2 I’m mostly farming gold in dungeons to buy new dyes as I’m trying to finish off the set of Glint’s dyes.

Words cannot describe how disappointed I was to hear Tengu were NOT being added in the expansion. I have been looking forward to new races for years, Hell, I was sad the tengu got cut from the original lineup. While I still intend buying the expansion, I should point out I’d be willing to pay the cost of buying GW2 in the first place again JUST FOR TENGU ALONE. Not to say I’d be HAPPY if they charged that much to unlock them as playable, but I’d do it if it was offered. If they released them at a fair price, I’d be extatic.