Guild Wars 2

Wetpaw.3487:

CMM.6712:

Wetpaw.3487:

No mounts just feels a little outdated (like no jumping) in a fantasy mmorpg for some players, it’s an enjoyable rpg element for many.

I do not share this view and I don’t want my frame rate dragged down by someones glitter pony. I play this game to escape from most of the MMO crap, and don’t take kindly to it wanting to follow me here.

So build a better rig? Clearly mmo players in general like mounts (yes not the few GW purists), the genre and cash shops of other games (whole mmo genre) make this a fact.

but I did get a good chuckle as I envisioned you escaping those dreaded games w/mounts! the horror you must of went through!

The rig is fine. I bet you already have a glitter pony in those other games huh? Don’t you? In case you hadn’t noticed this is the anti-MMO MMO.

Wetpaw.3487:

No mounts just feels a little outdated (like no jumping) in a fantasy mmorpg for some players, it’s an enjoyable rpg element for many.

I do not share this view and I don’t want my frame rate dragged down by someones glitter pony. I play this game to escape from most of the MMO crap, and don’t take kindly to it wanting to follow me here.

I like some of the ideas you have put forth, namely the Ascended versions with the different types of agony, and the different difficulties of dungeons. Things like this might prod me into dungeons again.

DaveGan.8065:

CMM.6712:

Fair enough. Thanks for a sensible and non-toxic reply, it is appreciated.
I do not play a game to have my performance monitored. I don’t feel it is right to be the “performance monitor” or the “party crasher”. I guess this is the reason I avoid dungeons, I feel no need to put up with any of this type of behavior. Is there a solution? I don’t know.

To be extremely blunt, it’s a degree of social anxiety. It’s not uncommon in multiplayer games, but the initiative ultimately belongs to you.

I’m not sure social anxiety is the right call here, maybe hassle aversion? Maybe I am just too old to want to put up with some BS? It’s not a problem for me though not doing dungeon content, I can do what I want/need to do, if I feel the need to do dungeons I will just not join a pug to do so.

Harper.4173:

CMM.6712:

Wow. I hope I never end up in one of your parties. God forbid the phone ring or I have to use the bathroom or turn away from the screen for a minute. This is what the game needs less of on display right here.

Actually you’re wrong.

If you have a valid reason to not perform or go afk just stating so in party chat will be alright and it won’t be a problem.
Nobody can predict RL interference to the game. If it’s managed reasonably quick then there’s no real problem.

The problem are people “sneaking in” to runs where the people in the party don’t want them only to be able to brag about it on the forums later.

Fair enough. Thanks for a sensible and non-toxic reply, it is appreciated.
I do not play a game to have my performance monitored. I don’t feel it is right to be the “performance monitor” or the “party crasher”. I guess this is the reason I avoid dungeons, I feel no need to put up with any of this type of behavior. Is there a solution? I don’t know.

Harper.4173:

MikeyGrey.2496:

Harper.4173:

All I ever wanted was that the people who don’t care about the way I play stay well clear of me and my parties and all is well. Sadly that does not happen. Even when I clearly post that I’m looking for people like myself.

Also – it’s not forcing it “on the entire community”. It’s not forcing it at all. You want to run with the groups of people who care about their time? play to their expectations.
You don’t? Nobody cares – just don’t interfere and make your own groups.

That, as you say, does not happen. In all likelihood, it will never happen. Unless lfg tool adds filters to only let certain gear/trait type in. But that would come with its own problems:

What if they change the armor with same skin but different stat? Have a system to continuously monitor gear throughout the instance. What if gear breaks? Require party members to ping repair canisters &/or additional sets of gear with required stat but differing skin. Now all that seems a bit drastic… but i would be ok with it. I have no intention of using such features. To each their own.

However, solutions like these are temporary at best. Ignoring/isolating the problem won’t make it go away. We do interact with each other as it is an mmo. Influence spreads across the whole game. I have seen parties trying to gather similarly geared toons for dynamic events (last i remember was during maw… not sure why though) in open world. While that in itself isn’t a problem as of yet, it does set a dangerous precedent. There is no way to not-interact during open world content short of map change and that isn’t always going to happen. Not bothering others is one thing but inconveniencing yourself for someone else’s convenience (regardless if it takes an hour or half a second) isn’t a choice for all… definitely not for me.

But why berserker? As many have pointed out before, meta (for lack of better word) will always be there. Zerkers wouldn’t get so much hate (or love… however you want to see it) if it wasn’t efficient everywhere. Yes…a skill or trait might be needed here & there… but for a vast, overwhelming majority of the time, its efficiency is unmatched. And even when it isn’t best, it is good enough to get through (when used by the right player). Such universal approach (combined with locked traits… curtsey of NPE changes and widespread appeal of zerk) renders experimenting/investing in anything else meaningless & gives it undue influence over all aspects of the game. I myself witnessed another new player geared all zerk simply because “everyone else doin it”.

IMHO, recent additions to the game have done much (compared to the past at least) to increase usefulness of other stats but much more is needed. Changes need to be implemented across the board. Also, active defenses need to be tied to your stat combo. As it is now, active damage mitigation has little-to-nothing to do with your build and it is good enough to decide the outcome of a fight. In its face, build diversity (apart from time differences) means nothing.

I can monitor if they switch armor to another set with different stats and same skin. The moment they get hit ( and they will) and I see their HP not going down hard enough ( and it won’t) I’ll know they pulled a fast one and kick with the fury of 1000 angry suns.

Same goes if the boss doesn’t melt properly – I’ll become suspicious and upon finding the culprit swift retribution will rain down.

You can play how you want in GW2. What you can’t do is trample of over people and trick them by not adhering to party requirements – I won’t stand for it.

Wow. I hope I never end up in one of your parties. God forbid the phone ring or I have to use the bathroom or turn away from the screen for a minute. This is what the game needs less of on display right here.

Azure.8670:

Whirling wrath does more damage as a male sylvari and human. This bug was around at launch and was under the impression it was fixed but it’s not as per testing on the Guardian forum and then done myself. I know these forums are completely dead but can something be done about this itsubject been years

These “dead game” and “dead forum” comments are amusing. There are a lot of people not seeing what you see.

xGraver.4918:

Hold on till tmrw when all WvW maps will become tottal karma trains then you just have 2 new maps to do it and maybe even c few fights. Just 10x worse rewards.
Honestly mate the gaem is DED.

How is anyone supposed to take this seriously?

Back to on topic: OP please don’t complain about loot, finally things are turning around.

Tachenon.5270:

CMM.6712:

joneb.5679:

Yeh and these mounts are fantastic ideas, not one animal or horse or bird like creature yet because the devs used imagination. But I would love to see something like a drake with a pink ribbon on its head, a pink collar and pink bootees, a raptor, a nasty looking spider then crazy things like an asura designed skateboard, a charr omni cycle, and so on. I would also love to see a speed buff on them and durability.

This is exactly the type of thing I would hate to see added in this game. I play Guild Wars because it is more life-like and realistic than wow or other games, and LESS CARTOON-like. Please stay away from adding anything like this.

That legendary short bow that shoots rainbow unicorns would like to have a word with you about life-like realism. See also: just about all the weapons in this game, putting on cow costumes to train cows in combat, and the living story.

My original response was longer and included that stuff, I narrowed it down. All that stuff could be removed and the game would be much better for it, but it will never happen.

joneb.5679:

Yeh and these mounts are fantastic ideas, not one animal or horse or bird like creature yet because the devs used imagination. But I would love to see something like a drake with a pink ribbon on its head, a pink collar and pink bootees, a raptor, a nasty looking spider then crazy things like an asura designed skateboard, a charr omni cycle, and so on. I would also love to see a speed buff on them and durability.

This is exactly the type of thing I would hate to see added in this game. I play Guild Wars because it is more life-like and realistic than wow or other games, and LESS CARTOON-like. Please stay away from adding anything like this.

I love the Living Story and I look forward to the new things it will bring to the game. Tired of seeing people complain about new FREE content.

Snowmoon.1758:

I’ll have to admit, I subbed back to WoW when Warlords of Draenor came out. I left during WOTLK and entered a Cata dungeon as DPS using Dungeon Finder.
The gear i’m wearing are Cata green gear obtained from questing in that Vashj area.

10 mins into the run, some party members keep posting DPS recount scores on
how much I suck at DPS, how they are fricking carrying a noob thru this dungeon,
how I should go die of cancer and various other colourful obscenities regarding my mother despite the fact I told them I was a returning player and just wanted to experience Cata dungeons as I’ve never experienced them before.

Out of 10 runs i’ve done, only 2 of them were friendly but thats because they’re also returning players like me. I then promptly deleted WoW off my computer and cancelled my subscription, and came back to GW2 and knowing that no matter how bad GW2 community is, it can NEVER be as toxic as WoW.

For those that want GW2 to implement a DPS meter, this is the sort of problem you will face. So please Anet, never allow DPS meter to be added.

This is exactly why there is no need to add a dps meter to the game. Thanks for posting this.

Prophet.6257:

Tao.5096:

Wow.
One Mount topic disappears from 1st page, then another pops up.
Passionate players…

Fixed that for ya’.

Seriously though if it gets brought up so much maybe their is some merit to actually adding it in game.

Well, expanding it since we technically do have “mounts”.

The same posters and their friends wanting the same things posting over and over and bumping each others threads is not passionate it is childish.

HtFde.3856:

CMM.6712:

Seems like we have one of these posts every day… player leaves for a year and comes back to complain with nothing constructive to say. If I had 1g for every time it has happened lately I’d be rich.

Hm … I guess there was something constructive in my post:

(a) get rid of the NPE and revert it to what it was before or a hybrid with X+ being unlockable

(b) change cloth drop rate

© rework spawn points of group events in Orr

I’d say … you’re not really an attentive reader, are you – so if I may counter: If I’d be given a gold for every post were someone just posted their standard reply without bothering to at least comment a single detail of the post he or she is commenting I’d be richer than you

I read your post and there is little clarity in what you’ve said, and it is difficult at best to see that your complaints are indeed suggestions. Looks like complaining to me. No time to argue with you.

Seems like we have one of these posts every day… player leaves for a year and comes back to complain with nothing constructive to say. If I had 1g for every time it has happened lately I’d be rich.

Oh look it’s this thread again.

I think World Completion should stay like it is now.

Leon.1903:

oh!!! well.. look.. this idea can give them extra earning right and extra style for players.. the point is you have ur knight or character full gear.. and just walking or running? it’s the epicness, the style XD but hopefully gw2 makers will think bout this idea…

Week later necrotic No.

The changes sound good to me, and I am looking forward to them.

Yet another “attempt to speak for everyone” post.

Zylonite.5913:

Again another feature/change nobody had asked for….

Really? Because it seems to me that a lot of people asked for it…

I like the changes and think it will add to my gaming experience.

0% care about wasting the devs time with something like this.

I liked it as well, have enjoyed most of S2 of the Living Story. I like the gameplay of the Silverwastes and doing The Breach , followed by some “Pac Man” in the labyrinth. Crests are not really that hard to come by if you do a tour of the zone and kill and assist.

Yeah seems a bit hyperactive lately…

WEXXES.2378:

Honestly, if we were to get a new class, it would have to based on the Zephyrites’ three aspects of Air Magic: The Wind, Sun, and Lightning, giving us something close to the Dervish minus the gods

I like this idea. How about they be able to drop aspect crystals for party/zerg to traverse areas? Fight with wind sun and lightning based skills. Glint powers… who knows what else.

Tachenon.5270:

joshc.3129:

Do people really think spamming the forums with the same topics like “Mounts” or “we want an expansion” multiple times a week or even multiple times a day is going to make Anet drop what they are doing and make/add them?

I don’t know. If a bakery that didn’t bake donuts had people continually asking for donuts, would that bakery eventually succumb to the demand and start making donuts?

How about a pizzeria that didn’t offer pepperonis on their pizzas, but had people continually asking for pepperoni pizza?

How about a game store that didn’t offer GW2, but had people continually asking for GW2?

If the demands kept coming, even after long periods of unresponsiveness on their parts, would these hypothetical establishments be more likely to continue to say, “Away, varlets! We say thee, nay!” Or would their thoughts be more like, “Hmm, we sense immense untapped profit potential here…”

When it is the same handful of wow refugees demanding and bumping each others posts, I don’t see much profit to be had there. Just spam.

joshc.3129:

Do people really think spamming the forums with the same topics like “Mounts” or “we want an expansion” multiple times a week or even multiple times a day is going to make Anet drop what they are doing and make/add them?

If they did add “mounts” they would be more for show than anything else. The maps in-game are already small. You can walk from on side to the other in no time. Also mounts wouldn’t have faster moment speeds since they are multiple ways to get speed boosts right now.

This. All spamming the topic does is to irritate forumites, mods everyone.

The infinite gathering tools need to be swapped around from character to character. I think it is safe to say we wish they could be in the wardrobe or something, but how do we do it in fairness to those that bought multiple tools for multiple characters?

Oh look it’s this thread, again, again.

Mireles Lore.5942:

Why are people trying to make this game into WoW?

If WoW, its features, format of releasing content, and subscription fee were really superior wouldn’t you still be playing WoW instead of trying to turn this game into a WoW clone?

Seriously the WoW format has been beaten to death. Alot of us are here for something different.

Xiem.4719:

Hopefully there won’t be season 3, but they will give us expansion.. .oh sweet dreams

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As a GW1 fan I think you will enjoy the lore and connections with GW1 in the latter parts of LSS2. I hope they find a way to add LSS1 to the journal.

You should go back and finish Factions and Nightfall and Eye of the North and watch the celebrations!There are some sites and videos out there that have documented LSS1 as well as the endings of the GW1 chapters, youtube has all of them I would imagine.

Dasenthal.6520:

CMM.6712:

pupi.2465:

Add a feature that allows guilds or a X numbers of players from other servers to “invade” a server to a “specific” map (could be random from time to time) warning players about that, so pver’s avoid going there and by that making the game have REAL OPEN PvP!

Do not want this at all. The potential for abuse and griefing is huge.

I like how our (WvW’ers, so not including you most likely) game mode is virtually DYING and your first thought directed at a potential solution is “this could be inconvenient”

I play WvW, and I have nothing against it or regular players of it. I look forward to seeing what changes and additions will be made just like you.

IllegalChocolate.6938:

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While I like the idea of some of your suggestions, I like doing things for myself, crafting and harvesting and what not… that gives me a sense of accomplishment because I did it myself. Interesting ideas you have though and I am not just dismissing them, I’m just not sure how viable they would be to add.

I am totally opposed to the subscription fee though and I feel that most players feel the same as it is one of the core reasons they play GW2. I would rather support through the gem store when I can than be expected to pay on a monthly basis.

Suggesting again a title change for more exposure as it is now it does not fully convey the intent and purpose of the thread. I fully endorse and support a lot of the ideas in this thread and feel it should be taken notice of.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

If it means content development closer to WoWs but with 2 week patches instead of the long content droughts so be it; perhaps something more like Vanilla Rift.

How about we make it less like wow and rift.

pupi.2465:

Add a feature that allows guilds or a X numbers of players from other servers to “invade” a server to a “specific” map (could be random from time to time) warning players about that, so pver’s avoid going there and by that making the game have REAL OPEN PvP!

Do not want this at all. The potential for abuse and griefing is huge.

Echoing the I love this jumping puzzle sentiment. Loved the scenery/feel/atmosphere of it.

Aerlen.5326:

CMM.6712:

Aerlen.5326:

Doghouse.1562:

Aerlen.5326:

I did try again after I’d calmed and after 30 minutes of failures and waiting, the RNG luck gods blessed me with knocking out Vorpp’s shielding a second time. I moved behind Vorpp to knock him out… and no action ever appeared, pressing F did nothing, no option to knock him out!

I had that twice. Kept going and finally succeeded – with every bit of my armour, but for one piece, broken.

I had a panic attack because my nerves cannot take unfair garbage like that =/

Not trying to be insensitive, but if a game gives you a panic attack (any game) maybe you should not be playing it/them.

Maybe anet should have a game that works then and isn’t a bug fest? An unfair, buggy mission is crap.

I don’t agree with the bug fest statement. They are usually really quick about getting a fix out for bugs. So let’s hear your example of what a non-buggy fair mission is.

I enjoyed the new mechanics/tactics and I hope there are more to come. Just because a player can’t make it through a mission doesn’t mean the mission is bugged or unfair, perhaps it is an indicator that player needs more practice. Just a thought, and again not trying to be insensitive in any way.

WEXXES.2378:

lordkrall.7241:

No, we don’t.
Especially not since people overall is fully aware about what a manifesto actually is and have also checked out the other bits of information that was released soon after said video and long before release.

Why get that people don’t like the game, but why not just move on instead of posting pointless stuff over and over and over and over and over again?

I like the game, but it could be a lot better.

A lot of the systems they talk about, especially with the world, is pretty much either impractical or ridiculously hard to implement or mostly both.

Also, a manifesto is basically what you are declaring something will be. So them saying that and almost doing half is very… meh.

And also, if no one posts anything about these “pointless” things, which is pretty much everything in the collective eyes of everyone, we wouldn’t need a forum.

So instead of posting a years old video we have all seen, usually more than once… why not post something constructive about how to fix x or improve y or add in z? Posting this is kinda like a subtle dig against Anet and not necessary or needed.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Horse race! That is what this game needs. In every way possible.

Um no… don’t see any need or want for horse racing.

Maybe make the skip option available after it has been watched once already. I do enjoy them, and always love to watch them , but when doing achievements after the initial run through would kinda rather just get on with it.

IllegalChocolate.6938:

Xytl.8659:

Sorry to hear that you don’t enjoy the two new parts of the map given to us in the last few months, which probably needed to be modeled as the LS was developed, seeing as how those areas tie in directly with the story…

You also must not consider the brand new jumping puzzle, which is the largest in the game by the way, to be new content. But that’s probably because you looked up a guide on how to do it instead of figuring it out yourself, or you simply have not done it.

New armor and new stat combinations, of which we’ve had two in the last few months must not count as content either…

Tell me, what is “good content” to you?

perhaps I should clarify the aching perspective more clearly with a vague metaphor!.

Its great that a reception can serve some of the best kittentails in the city but if I’m looking for the beef sliders that were suppose to be at the reception and I was looking forward to getting some substance, its great to have a great kittentail but it would be much more my alley to get those hearty Hors d’oeuvres so I can enjoy the night in its entirety with no interruption a lot more, otherwise I may have to back out and hit the mc donalds to get something cheap and maybe come back when I’m fuller. Know what I’m saying?

The new jumping puzzle is probably the best to date, I will agree.

No idea what you are saying before it, but I do agree with the jump puzzle statement.

Ayrilana.1396:

Zepher.7803:

what is the need for a mount? I don’ t get it.

Because WoW has them and they look “epic”.

Even more reason not to want one.

Josh.5839:

-hardly any new content

-too slow to solve issues

-buggy

etc

Its obvious they cant afford a quality game with the current direction.

I do not agree with anything that you have said. From my POV not one thing you have said is true. I do not support a subscription idea.

DeWolfe.2174:

CMM.6712:

When you alt + tab out of GW2, the taskbar blinks when whatever you were waiting for has loaded or is ready. Personally I love it.

As I said, it continues to pops up a task bar I chose to hide. With load times being only a few seconds, why the heck do I need the entire Windows task bar notifying me for? Or any notification for that matter, it’s a few seconds! No less it covers the bottom of the game window requiring me to click the games tab in the task bar to hide the whole task bar again. This is a seriously annoying and unwelcome addition. There should be an option to turn this off.

For some people it probably takes more than a few seconds, and they want to look at something else while it loads instead of a loading screen. As far as the whole taskbar thing, if I hid my taskbar, which I don’t and doubt most do, then I could see this being annoying. As I said though I personally love it and think it is a nice improvement, as well as the salvage change.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I’m sorry but what task bar notifications? I don’t get any O_o

When you alt + tab out of GW2, the taskbar blinks when whatever you were waiting for has loaded or is ready. Personally I love it.

Random Wax Orc.7695:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

and a few very small explorable areas.

This alone is a hugely important issue. These tiny new zones are more arenas than areas. This may be, in part, due to the slow rationing out of the living story, however, I suspect it has more to do with megaservers.

Without expansive zones, the game loses its epic feel and diminishes the sense of exploration and discovery.

The Silverwastes is not tiny.

Zylonite.5913:

ANet can barely get a 15 minutes LS chapter out in two weeks and some people still expect an expansion at this point. That said, there is tons of work which goes into that 15 minutes of content….

But up until now, EoTM is still the best piece of content we got since the game was launched 2 years ago which they said it took 1 year of development. The living story drives the gem store business model and that will not change….

Edit: I honestly don’t understand why ANet doesn’t just come forward and announce that there will not be an expansion and put an end to all these discussions…

Not sure where you get the “barely” and the 15 minutes figure from… other than to be trollish.

Ilaya.1873:

It’s absolute garbage anyway. I’m sick and tired of these little puzzle type sub games in what is meant to be an mmorpg. Not all of us are stupid little x-box playing kids with nimble fingers. Gimme the option to trash the npcs with force but STOP trying to get me to play puzzles. I’m in no mood for that drivel. My patience with this game is running out fast.

100% disagree. I like puzzles and they are definitely a part of role playing type games and MMO games and always have been, and I do not consider it drivel or absolute garbage. Maybe this is not the game for you.