Guild Wars 2

If you’re talking about Caer Aval (where you collect your Pact Weapon after finishing the story), you can enter that instance without doing the story, I just checked on my Asura who hasn’t quite gotten to Fort Trinity yet in her Personal Story

Tuomir.1830:

Regarding personal story and legendaries, there are a few Points of Interest that you can only get during Personal Story.

Which ones?
I’m pretty sure you can get everything just by running around the map. All the story events are in the actual maps in locations that you can access regularly, the whisper headquarters PoI doesn’t count, the dungeon PoI’s don’t count.

I think this could be a good suggestion if they don’t take out the PvE stuff from WvW, I for one would love to be able to run around the WvW map getting my map completion without getting killed all the time.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I think you should only be able to toggle untargetable/targetable inside your servers main base on the map, and if you remove all the chats instead of /say then they can’t really do any harm, right? Or if they still can just remove /say too, because if you’re untargetable, you most likely aren’t there to chat anyway.

Well we do have Costume Brawl

1. Running through a map doesn’t take that long, about 2-5min depending on how big it is and how fast you run, and the more you run through the maps to get to an area where your group is doing something, the more Waypoints you get, the shorter you have to run when you want to do something with your group.

2. As long as one person in the group has done story then everyone can do Explorable.

3. You don’t have to finish the Personal Story to make Legendaries, you do however have to get world completion

I have an idea.
Make the chests unlootable while guesting. That way people can still guest to play with their friends, they just wont get any loot for the world bosses, which should bring down guesting a bit and not make the world boss areas so crowded

If you think about it, it’s kinda logical to throw away a cheap axe instead of that awesome axe you spent all that time/money getting ;P
Logic aside, I can see how this would feel disappointing to some. I personally don’t really care though, you still see them when you’re not fighting and I don’t stand around looking at peoples weapons during battle.

spiritfightz.6951:

or they can make all karma item to be account bound instead of soul bound, which means able to share with alt character.

That is also a solution since karma items seem pretty useless once you level past them. But that would bring the same problem as making karma accountwide, getting karma gear wouldn’t be a challenge, getting karma gear wouldn’t be a reward for helping out a lot of people since you could get them before you even found the merchant.

Just leave it like it is now and if you feel karma gear is useless after leveling past it then do what the rest of us do, save them until you have enough and then forge them and hope for something nice.

Blueshield.6291:

Except for the level restriction. The best karma weapons/armor are level 80

They obviously meant the best karma gear for the characters level, not the best karma gear in the game.
If you have your level 80 make all the karma, since they can make much more than a level 1 character, you can then give all the karma to your level one and buy all the karma gear you come across without actually having to work as hard for it.

I don’t think letting people steer the ship would work out very well. Would leave the ship open to trolling. i kinda just see ships spinning around or going in the wrong directions.

Saxon.1908:

Seriously dude if they removed every feature because one player wasn’t interested in doing them there would literally be nothing left. Infact if they removed every feature that 10% of the players didn’t use I doub’t there would be anything either.

Everything would be gone except previewing other armour types, but then most of those, if not all, armours would be gone.

This is stupid. It’s so easy to get karma anyway. Do the daily and you get 4500 karma, do the monthly and you get 45000 karma. If you do 10 events every day, plus your daily, you should get 6000-8000 karma per day. if you do 20, then that will be 8000-10 000. You will have enough karma for whatever you want to do in no time

You get 10 from map completion of all four maps, which can be done on different characters, but yes it can take longer. You can get them from the chests after killing the Overgrown Grub and other similar enemies. You can even get them for Twilight Arbor(if you believe the wiki, that is), yes it’s a rare drop, but still. Jumping isn’t the only way to get those badges.

There is a topic about this already, under the name “Achievement Tracking”. But yes. I 100% support this suggestion.

How is Gift of Battle “Gift of Jumping”? Don’t you just have to play normal WvW to get that one

Edit: Looked it up and you can indeed get them from the Jumping Puzzles, but that really does not mean you HAVE to do Jumping Puzzles to get enough Badges to get the gift.

ArenaNet said during the recent stream that they had the idea to put in several Jumping Puzzles and that the farther you came the more difficult it would become, but then they changed that because they didn’t want people to get sad because they couldn’t finish the hardest one, or just finish the first.

And you really don’t have to do any of the activities, sure you have to do some if you want the title, but you still don’t have to do all of them. Find those you don’t hate, play those and then you will get your title sooner or later. And if it’s about the gifts, you get those from all the activities. Sure you get some more stuff from the Jumping Puzzle, but the people who work hard enough to finish the puzzle whould get something for their trouble.

I think they are going to fix this up to be a proper area with actual things to do in the future. Or that’s at least the feeling I got from the place.

JackalHeadGod.8195:

CapN Biku.6024:

Say if there are less than 10 people on your server you will get the message and be able to move over to a possibly more populated overflow.

The problem I see with doing it that way arround is once it gets under 10 people everyone will get the warning. most will probably click to move. Thus it never goes over 10 and your back to everyone just going to the overflows all the time. Also you’d have to load in to the normal shard and then transfer to the overflow one, double load time.

I see your point. I guess the move to overflow command someone suggested earlier is a bit better since you have to decide for yourself if there are enough people on the server for you instead of making the game do that for you. Although if they add a command like that then I think they should add a hint for it, which tells people about the added feature when they enter a map other than the towns. That way both old and future players will know about it and know how to use it.

There was a suggestion on here a few weeks ago about using overflow servers as a sort of “underflow” so when you enter an area that has little to no players in it you will get a message asking if you want to go to the overflow. I really liked this suggestion since there are already overflow servers in place and the mechanism is sort of there already, you just have to turn it around a little bit. Say if there are less than 10 people on your server you will get the message and be able to move over to a possibly more populated overflow.

I don’t think the story mode needs to have a greater reward. But I do think it needs to have some kind of reward for doing it again. Something minor, like 20 tokens or maybe a tiny bit extra karma, gold and experience, but something to make people more interested in helping people finish their personal story. It is after all a dungeon and you HAVE to have 5 people to finish it, the longer it goes the less chance you will have to find 5 people who want to do story mode with you.

It is incredibly annoying seeing that personal story on your screen all the time knowing you’ll never be able to finish it because you wont be able to find people who would do it with you just from the kindness of their heart. Gladly I finally did after a few months, but others might not be as lucky.

I support this suggestion. I’m for anything that can give me more to do other than dungeons, farming and playing on alts.

I really hope they change this some time in the future. The most annoying thing is that the price fluctuates all the time so by having to guess how many gold is enough for the amount of gems you want to buy you usually end up spending more (a few silver to a few gold extra depending on how much you’re buying) than if you could have just typed in the amount of gems and hit buy

White Knight.3925:

so I know which to avoid/not care about if I want to finish out the daily requirement to kill 15 types of enemies.

Something I usually say when people talk about not finding the one last mobs is to go to another race’s area and kill something there. You have Inquest for the Asura, Nightmare Court for the Sylvari, Centaurs and bandits for the Humans, Sons of Svanir for the Norn and Flame Legion for the Charr. Plus some other mobs that are more likely to show up in some areas, like Stalkers that you can find a lot of in Maguuma (Asura and Sylvari)

On topic though. This is an awesome idea, it would help when doing any achievements where you have to do the same thing over and over again.
100% for being able to track one or two achievements and having a bar for them below event info or above the minimap where all the other achievement pop ups end up.

Finally a response.
Thank you! I’ts glad to hear it’ll come back

This can not be because of clipping issues. Armours from the same types clip with eachother (for example the light armours Apprentice, the starter set, shoes and Country pants for female clip, don’t have a picture) so why would armours from differents types clipping be a bigger problem?

I really really hope they bring this back soon or at least tell us why they removed it so we can know if we should be angry or just wait patiently while they fix whatever potential issue there might have been.

I’m on Piken Square, we have several americans on the server so it shouldn’t be a problem for anyone and since most of the RP happen quite late in the evening/night there should be RP during your peak hours.

They shouldn’t just let you go higher with the camera, but lower too. It would make it a lot easier to take full body screen shots of your characters without looking down on them or zooming out. So I say yes!

Just so you haven’t missed it. The achievement for the title is for completing 12 achievements. But there are 14 (not including the title achievement of course).

Yeah I’ve done this. You should only do it when the gates are open though since then enemies can’t follow you all the way and you can rest or whatever in peace by the gate

Knote.2904:

You obviously haven’t been playing for very long or haven’t played all the classes if you cannot see why.

I have seven characters with different classes (Although I have tried them all) and I’ve been playing all day, every day, since the game came out.

They have already banned a lot of bots though. I don’t know about you but the last time I saw a bot was three days ago and that day I only saw one bot. And they have said that reports have gone from 2000/h all the way down to 20.
So I would much rather see diminishing returns removed completely

However, what would stop botters to buy these boosters and get past some of the diminishing returns? They could just invest a few gold and get it back fairly easy.

Bensozia.8071:

While we are on the subject of costumes , please change your designer, winters day costume is hideous. Ive only seen one player with it.

Really? All my closest friends bought that outfit and we all love it. It’s the only outfit that has actually made me run around in town clothes. Sure they could have added different versions for the different races or made the female Asura and Charr wear the male version like with every armour in the game since they would probably look better in that.

Do you really think this looks hideous?

I don’t really see a problem with this. If they want to rather buy a legendary instead of making it themselves, then let them. Everyone don’t work the same and everyone don’t want to use the same method of getting something.
And since this would most likely make people buy more gems to get the gold needed to buy them then Anet gets more money to keep the game up and running. Everyone wins on legendaries being sold for gold

Knote.2904:

The only 2 classes that have any right to complain is necro and ranger.

Why would rangers complain? My main is a ranger, I’ve been playing her since launch. I have nothing to complain about. I don’t feel useless, I don’t die too much, I’m not super squishy, I can do well on my own in Orr, I don’t have any more problems than all the other classes. So I really don’t understand why this would be necessary for Rangers.

And I looked through the patch notes from the 14th. Nothing has been reduced, everything that has been made to the Necro are INCREASES in usefulness. Damage has been increased, cooldowns have been decreased, skills have gotten the finishers they should have.
What exactly are you complaining about?

I would say. If you can’t handle it don’t use it. There are several other runes you can choose from.
And if you really want a Krytan Drakehound with you at all times that never dies. Make a Ranger.

Arsenic Touch.7960:

I just went over them twice, where is it located?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2012-12-14#Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_Notes
It’s the last one.

Kosai.7458:

the fact that there is still no official answer as to whether this is a bug or intended

Well it’s in the patch notes. So it was intentional.

Still the stupidest decision they ever made. And if I can’t preview armour from different armour types, then why can I preview weapons I can’t use? WORST. CHANGE. EVER.

Edit: Could of course be because there was some issue with it, but if that is the reason they should have said so ages ago, because this is just kitten people off. Do you know how difficult it is to have a conversation about armour with people using different armour types? People want to be able to actually see the armour, not just the stats and the icon.

The Wintersday dungeon is very very easy though, so far anyway. If you’re level 80 you could maybe be able to take it alone. Three people definitely works great, two people probably also goes pretty good if you stick together.

Or at least change so it doesn’t interfere with the rest of the game and change so you don’t have to manually close it.

That’s ridiculous.
Now how are we supposed to know what armour people are talking about without standing right next to them or memorizing all the names. Or how are we supposed to find gear for out alts when we are out exploring, you can’t go out and randomly find a piece of gear you absolutely love for one of your other characters.

I have always supported your decisions for doing what ever it is you have done. But this, this I cannot support

There are unofficial RP servers. Tarnished Coast (US) and Piken Square (EU).
And at least on Piken Square there are a lot of both types of people. Some only RP and some only PVE/PVP

You don’t have to buy the expensive dyes. For example, if you want a black dye you don’t have to go buy Abyss for 20g, you can buy Pitch (which is a good substitute for the blacker dyes) for 88s.

I quite like that the armour does this, so maybe just add another dye box to the sylvari armours and have that be the parts that are now automatically coloured to fit your skincolour, and then have the dye remover be the automated colour so you can either have it like it was originally made or have full control over the colour of the armour.

Oh yes!!!

It’s quite annoying having to rename the pets everytime you change your set up to new pets, or when you charm a pet and it gets the name of the one it replaces. Makes me not care about naming my pets, which I think is pretty fun, and makes me not want to change my pets because then I will have to rename them next time I want them on my team

They could add a tag infront of your nametag that says away or AFK or something along those lines. And they could also add an automated AFKing, so if you’re inactive for more than 10-15 min you would get the away tag over your head and people will be able to see if you are away or not. And then after being away for 2h, then you will get kicked like usual

Edit: As Ridgeblader said, the away status in your contact list could actually add a tag above your head already, and if it does, obviously they won’t have to add that :P

The issue I have is that my inbox can be full whenever, I can have 9 mails and it’ll be full or I can have 6 mails and it’ll be full.
Sometimes this has caused me to notice the mail hours or even days after they were sent. I think the longest it has taken me was a week, or maybe it was two (I don’t get mail very often).

The international language is English and the fact that some people don’t speak English at all (as you’ve made it seem) tells me that maybe they need more servers for different languages.
And if you don’t feel you fit in on your server you can always switch. I don’t really know which servers have the highest amount of English speakers, but I do know Piken Square doesn’t have many who don’t speak English, not from what I’ve seen at least. Although it’s not a good server if you can’t stand RPers.

I’m thinking a blood rim around their portrait when they are downed, like the border on your screen when you are low on health, and maybe a skull and crossbones when they are dead, either in one of the corners, next to their portrait where the buffs are or over their portrait, see through so you can see who it is of course.

They could just give them more health and not boost their power. That would still make it challenging, since they would take longer to kill and still do quite a lot of damage, without making it feel impossible because you die all the time.