Guild Wars 2

I’m indifferent to it. I can see the concerns about it being in QD, but I’ve seen way worse mapchat in other games and I’ve never seen it get THAT bad on TC. The rage was more hilarious (and filled with hilariously bad metaphors) than “omg scary”. I also see that it’s a nice thing that you don’t have to be lv70+ to do it if you want to participate for whatever reason.

Woo, typos from posting on my phone.

I have no problem with limited-time stuff, either – it wouldn’t bother me either way. It just seems like less work and clutter to have the same holiday titles instead of ending up with a bazillion titles for the same event. I guess it’s only one a year, but maybe I have undue hope for the longevity of the game. :P

I don’t rely see the problem with bringing back holiday titles – it would be less cluttered than making new ones and it’s a recurring event, not a one-off. I wouldn’t be mad, personally.

I would pledge my firstborn and sacrifice a goat for this.

My main is an Engineer and it seems like I use kits 90% of the time – so it would be really awesome to have something to change things up.

Shoot, I’d grind out a Legendary-level-of-work skin or whatever just for my Flamethrower or kit backpack since I’d see it way more often than my actual Rifle.

I like her voice actress but otherwise she just makes me facedesk. Nothxplz. I want to hope they can turn her around and do something with her, but I also hope for a lot of things that will likely never happen.

And to think, I used to be fluent in 1337.

Dear ANet, if someone puts that much effort into trying to talk about butts you should probably just let them. :P

I know, but why would you filter out “45” with an “s” right after it.

Is this some new-fangled gang thing you kids are doing ?

I had assumed it would be random when I read the notes, but I do really hope you get a choice (like the PS rewards where you pick one of so many) – that makes sense and would be really nice.

Okay, now I just have to try it : kitten

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what.

Just the other day one of my guildies posted that they just got the gasmask reward from the meta.

I don’t mind, I think it’s a nice change to the map to have something “different” going on and good that people who don’t play every day can have a chance to get it, too (I’m saying this as someone who got the gasmask on day two).

I’m glad that something from it will be sticking around after it’s over (I hope the husk of the tower and such are staying – just with the mobs and poison atmosphere gone). I mean, I’m doing world explore on two characters and Kryta especially gets kind of old after a while and the Tower was a refreshing change of pace – and also refreshing and cool that something will stick around after the LS as a reminder and have actual impact on the world to make it really living and changing.

I missed it last year so I’m not complaining. And next year it will have been a whole year so I doubt I’ll care then.

I do agree that they need to work on adding more new armour to the game itself. This game is still very young so I understand the smaller pool of armour, but I’d like to see them working on adding things so that one day we can have that “mature” pool of armour with lots of things and surprises in-game not just limited-time gem store stuff (which is fine, but I feel like the in-game-acquired armour needs love too, to make the whole game richer and more interesting). Same goes for weapons.

They need to re-order the set up of the gem store so that they can have a larger inventory presented in a less-cluttered manner (as in, not having weapon, armor, and town clothes skins all in the same “barrel”).

I agree, I just think as the gem store is set up right now they’re making it difficult to KEEP many things in the store and get them viewed and sold. It would HELP them sell things if it was better organised since it would have more options easily viewable to potential buyers.

I want to say, “sure, why not” – because it’s just an option someone can choose… but I’m wondering what the full implications are. I wonder how difficult it would be. And it just doesn’t “make sense” – sure, you really like this character but they’ve already been to all those places and done all those things – it’s like giving the option to down-level to 1 again… both of which can be had by making an alt.

The skillpoints becoming do-able again seems like an issue. Your character already visited those places and got those skillpoints – shouldn’t that be taken away ? And you get experience for visiting all those places… shouldn’t you lose that, too ? It seems like you would HAVE to lose that experience somehow or people would abuse this option – they could park somewhere (it wouldn’t have to be a main, it could be an alt specifically created to abuse this) and keep resetting and getting easy skillpoints and xp, et cetera.

How would they hash out “taking away” all that you already earned ? Make you earn so many skillpoints in the “bank” before you can reset (and enough to take into account XP gained since map completion) ? It seems like a hassle for everyone, ANet included – for something that few people would want to use legitimately. Without “taking it away” this seems like a game-breaking problem to me that would fundamentally change how many people would play the game even if they didn’t want this and wouldn’t like it when it was implemented – and would feel forced to play this new way instead of how they wanted to (please see end paragraph for an address to the concerns on how you want to play).

Not to mention abusing the map completion rewards. Having them restrict when you can reset seems good – but adds even more for ANet to have to do for a very small group of people.

I’m just trying to think this through and the impact it would have on the game as a whole. Also of mention it’s something people could accidentally reset or have reset if their account was compromised – and would become yet another thing people send ANet tickets about to have resolved – meaning they’d have to store two sets of data – your pre and post reset maps and that seems like a bit much to me – that’s quite a lot and now it’s being doubled.

I understand that our playstyles differ, but why not put that time and energy into an alt and get to know them more, too ? Or you could make an alt just for this purpose – maybe a clone or friend of your main who will be deleted when this is done.

A radically different solution would be to have a different way to obtain a “Gift of Exploration” after you’ve already gotten them once. I don’t agree with just being able to get one like an achievement skin, necessarily – but maybe also receiving a recipe to make more with them – something that would be no doubt as long and arduous as map completion itself.

It’s probably about the same as a subscription or less for me.

I spent a bit at the beginning on character slots and stuff – but then I didn’t play for a few months and paid nothing. Then I spent $10/mo – but only if there was something I actually wanted to but, so some months I didn’t.

I have been feeling a bit disappointed with the gem store lately, but only time will tell if it will smooth itself out or not. I understand making mistakes, we’ll just see what happens now.

I really like downlevelling. I am doing map complete on my lv80 and I like that I can be on all these low level maps and it still feels like I can still “experience” them, like I didn’t totally miss out just because I “outlevelled” them.

I really like the sound design as well.

Jumping puzzles are really awesome.

And also quaggans. Quaggans 4 Lyfe. And Skritt too.

I haven’t finished it yet, but I intend to at least on my main (I got sidetracked when Zephyr Sanctum happened and I levelled ahead of the PS and haven’t caught up yet) and I do want to get all the Order banners filled in.

I feel like I’ll probably keep doing it on my alts – I have so far, just because it gives me a “goal” as a level and makes the time seem to go by faster even if I am not interested in the story after the order section (I didn’t actually mind it, but doing that on each of my 8 characters is going to get old when it gets to the part where it’s the same thing on all of them).

This seems like a really good idea. I’m a person that just does the 5/5 for the laurel (and anything after that is a happy accident) and it seems like something that would keep both types of players happy. I like having a large pool of “choices” as it motivates me to spend more time on various alts. The only downside I can see is that if I’m very close to a chest I couldn’t push a bit and get points that way, but that is a very little concern and not a big deal at all (I just wanted to think through all the implications), at least not to me personally.

I think it’s an idea that would only benefit everyone, so why not ?

I would investigate what is important to you. If you mostly like PvE and LS and stuff you probably can’t go wrong – because you can always guest if you need something specific.

If you’re interested in WvWvW you might want to look more closely at the pros and cons of various servers. While being on an “always winning” server might sound great, it also means it’s harder to get INTO WvWvW in the first place – longer wait times. It depends on how/why/what you want to play. Wanting to be able to play that with a friend or not is also a big factor.

I dunno, by the time I got my characters to Kessex there was a decent amount of play time and experience already had.

I had one character who just reached Kessex through her PS when this LS started and one who I sent there to go do LS stuff – both were under-geared because I’m not buying armour and stuff to keep up-to-level on a lv. ~20-25 character.

Now, I have some “experience” to be able to play these characters since I’ve already played others for a good number of hours so I don’t know how biased I am (in that, I can keep these characters alive maybe easier than someone who is playing their first lv. 20 character) – but I didn’t have all that much trouble. It didn’t feel like “hard content” – just cluttered and more chaotic compared to levelling on a “normal” map at those levels.

I can see how the Toxic mobs clutter up the zone and make it annoying – but I don’t really know what the “right” answer is. I like that the world is at least this mutable and alive – it’s cool, I like it. Maybe have a Gate to a similarly-leveled area that people who are truly levelling can use to get somewhere free of the clutter ? They could call it an “evacuation” gate to fit in with immersion and lore. I don’t want to say, “just go to another area” – but this way they could and it wouldn’t be too difficult and they wouldn’t have to take a roundabout way and run across potentially whole other irrelevant maps to get to them.

Such yes.

Many want.

I never played fractals at all before the new story fractal but I think it would make sense if they made the people being reset something special or at least… something. Obviously, you guys that do fractals have better ideas of what a good reward would be – I don’t have any great ideas since I don’t, but they should definitely listen to you all and acknowledge your dedication with SOMETHING.

I still have mostly rares with a fee exotic pieces and I haven’t had a problem with anything I, personally have wanted to do. I mean, I want to work on a Legendary for fun once I level my Mesmer (main is an Engineer and I always use kits so um kinda meh on making a Legendary I’d never really get to use). But that’s for the “fun” of it, but I won’t need it!

I just plan on getting two skins I’ve been eyeing for a while but waffling on – and maybe some of the Set 1 minis, maybe a bank tab (depending on how nuts I go over the minis). I have a ton of the transmutation crystals in the bank already and don’t change stuff very often so I’m not worried about that.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Ceallach.8740:

I spend $10/mo on the gem store because I want to, but I like being able to NOT buy gems if I don’t feel like it or take a break from the game or there’s just nothing I actually wish to purchase with them. They get paid if they make a thing I want to spend money on – not just arbitrarily. As the person spending the money I’m pretty cool with this.

I don’t see myself playing a subscription-based game unless it’s the most amazing game I’ve ever played. There are so many other options I don’t want to tie myself to what feels like an obligation and outdated system if it’s not absolutely amazing.

I spend $15 a month and I get actual content. Actual dungeons/raids to run, actual attempts at class balancing and a halfway decent story. Not living story garbage that persists for 2 weeks and then goes away forever. I can go back and play content at any time I wish because it’ll never go away.

It just wasn’t worth it for me, personally. For what I did in WoW I didn’t feel like it was worth $15/mo. There are things I miss – but they’re not enough and I’d rather not divide my time anyway.

I understand if someone else DOES find it worth $15/mo for WoW or another game that has a subscription – but it just wasn’t what I wanted.

I wouldn’t be totally adverse to a game with a subscription but it would have to be that much better since I feel a bit wary. There are things that GW2 lacks that I would LIKE to see in an MMO, but none of the options right now really jump out at me. I’m curious about ESO and will certainly try it – I’ve heard mixed things so far and it would have some high hopes to live up to for me to want to spend a monthly fee to play – otherwise I can just play Skyrim and KOTOR and have “that” kind of RPG experience and play GW2 for the “MMO”. If there’s ever a game that really has both, great ! I’m happy to wait for it, but I don’t want to pay $15/mo for a game that I feel only gives me half of what I want or less – at least with GW2 I don’t have to pay them and I’ve never spent more than $10/mo on it so I don’t think I’m in danger of being that person who constantly binges $80/mo on something they’re not actually happy with.

I spend $10/mo on the gem store because I want to, but I like being able to NOT buy gems if I don’t feel like it or take a break from the game or there’s just nothing I actually wish to purchase with them. They get paid if they make a thing I want to spend money on – not just arbitrarily. As the person spending the money I’m pretty cool with this.

I don’t see myself playing a subscription-based game unless it’s the most amazing game I’ve ever played. There are so many other options I don’t want to tie myself to what feels like an obligation and outdated system if it’s not absolutely amazing.

I haven’t bought any of the extra bag slots and probably never will unless they go down in price (just not worth it to me for how much I feel like I “need” them). I did buy some bank tabs, but let’s be fair – if I wasn’t a hoarder I could probably clear out 2/3 of the stuff in there easily and not have lost anything important (LS items, skins, stuff that can’t be replaced). Two tabs are crafting crap that I could get rid of if I levelled crafting faster/more efficiently – but naw, I paid money so I don’t have to plan well and make smart choices. I bought extra character slots so that I could have a total of 8 – but I didn’t NEED them and I could still enjoy the game without needing to obsessively have one of every profession just because.

I allot $10/mo to the gem store. If I wanted all those bag slots or whatever, eventually I’d have them and be paying less than I did to play WoW so I’m happy.

The Unlimited Gathering tools are more than I really feel like paying for them, but I’m cool with the armor skins and have a few I’m considering for when I finish levelling certain characters. It’s all about what’s important to each player and what THEY care about. I will also spend money on stupid minis because I really NEED an army of tiny quaggans to follow my bidding. Will buy every quaggan yes must have.

Putting armor skins in the “locker” with achievement skins would be nice and save everyone a lot of trouble and clutter, but I do admit it’s not a dealbreaker for me. I have a ton of transmutation crystals I’ve gotten without ever having bought any. Like, over 50 of the regular ones and quite of a few of the lv 80s ones. I dunno how it is for everyone else.

If anything, you should get a “clouded judgement” debuff for being lovers – like, man, I played the Tiachren and Ysvelta storyline and love’s gonna mess you up and leave you a sad husk of a sylvari in need of a lot of therapy. I don’t even care if you’re a charr it’s still gonna happen, you’re gonna be empty sad leaves rustling across the cold, dead ground.

I could just barely see it as an RP thing, but it seems like RP people already have those kind of things covered and don’t really need an in-game system for that. They might like it yes – but it’s already covered by “brain space”, doesn’t really need to take up server space, too.

I could see something like a “wooing” mini-game for Valentine’s or something silly like that – along the lines of Belcher’s Bluff where you play against NPCs and other PCs. I could get behind that – it’s silly and fun and everyone could play (and you’d have to woo a burly male Norn regardless of race or sex, duh) and there would be no real material bonus to doing it except maybe a title or whatever.

I think for a game to be able to really use a mechanic like you describe, it would need to have been built around that type and level of player interaction. Not a coding issue, but a “character of the game” issue, to me at least. Just my rambling opinion.

Imagine people sitting on thrones and lawn chairs outside the bank.

I vote yes. I would totally buy a lawnchair for the lulz. I’m sure that RPers would appreciate serious chairs as well, but I would love a lawn chair with balloons and cup holders because I am a small child (at heart) who is unable to take anything seriously.

Phy.2913:

The champ warlocks lifeblast attack doesn’t always show up visually.

How do they, then ? I assumed it was the green thingies because I kept missing dodging those at first because I didn’t (and still don’t) have the best understanding about how dodging works when there’s a long animation (I didn’t know that by dodging it at first it would evade the entire thing).

I’ve been playing since launch and didn’t know the “Confuse” thing. I learned most of the things you mention just by playing, but that one was never explained and I never caught on (I did miss Southsun so if it was talked about a lot at that time I missed it).

I figured out the “mines” quickly, but didn’t quite understand the Life Blast thing until someone said something. I was seeing the animation, but since I was focusing so much on not becoming dead I didn’t put 2+2 together until someone said something.

I do think people can be really helpful if we talk to each other in-game. I helped people with understanding the “Toxic Debuff” part of the previous LS achievement multiple times and when we would/would not get credit for a kill – after someone had explained it to me. On one hand, this “tell the players nothing” thing can encourage that kind of helpful interaction and thinking together – on the other, yeah, it would be great to have a “you are new” guide for super basic things like Confusion because that’s just basic game mechanics – especially because this is an MMO with people playing TOGETHER and not Legend of Zelda where you’re sharing tips with other people playing their own totally different solo game where mistakes either of you make won’t really impact the other.

I work and go to college full-time, so while I do log on most every day it’s not for dungeons and things like that, but to do dailies and participate in LS so I haven’t gotten heavily into the “theory” of the game. I was happy that when I did the Toxic Hybrid instance with a PUG that I didn’t drag everyone down. I would love to do more of the dungeon content with other “noobs” like me who are willing to learn as we go because we still have a lot to learn.

Perhaps it would have been a good idea to leave the LS characters “workable” and not tied up in any future plans.

I don’t know if that’s even possible at this point, I’m not sure what they’re working on or planning.

I know that it might be confusing to a new player if one of them did something (or even died, onoes) in the LS while they were doing something totally different in the PS but I don’t think it’s too much for new players to understand that the PS is “history” at this point – I mean, I played and enjoyed Dragon Bash when I didn’t have a lv 80 yet and it didn’t take anything away from me or confuse me overmuch.

I was at 8/9 and turned out it was one in the 3rd level that I hadn’t discovered. For me it was the first one in there.

Would be really nice if dying just spit you out at the start of that level.

I did it on my lv 27 Mesmer, although I didn’t get the “did not die” one that time. I got it with a post zerg PUG, w00t.

Whoever says this update isn’t “casual friendly” must be playing a different game. I like it, this update was awesome – but I feel like most “casual” players should be able to “follow the zerg” and if a PUG that picked up someone who said “I’ll go with any group that’s not too particular” (that was me) do it, it can’t be that super hard.

It’s annoying to have to wait around for enough people to do floor 3, but I think without that it would have been all easy and it’s an MMO after all and the chest and time limit give people incentive to be there so we have enough people that even lv 27 Mesmers can get through it. :p

I’m happy with GW2 when it comes to paying them. I like to support the game, so I will spend $10/mo IF there is something I want to buy that month. Still less than I paid for WoW and I feel like I’m getting more out of it while also paying less.

You CAN spend a lot more than $10/mo on GW2, I’m sure – but you can also spend $0/mo. I took a few months off to work on some personal projects and it was nice to not have to cancel a sub and then reinstate it – I just stopped and then came back when I wanted to.

It works for me, maybe not everyone else. That’s why there are different formats out there. I know I don’t like “Free to Play” in general – but some people must find that works for them because those games exist and people do play them. Whatever works for whoever.

Haha, I like both of these ideas.

Discoverable minis in-world would make me more excited about them in general, and having a suspicious bush follow you around would be hilarious.

I think it was pretty well-thought-out when it comes to having people re-play the tower. The concept of the tri-key chest and needing to farm keys from all levels – that should keep a decent number of people around, and at least periodic zergs to get up to the chest.

Yes, you are upleveled to 80. I got through the 3rd level of the tower on an upleveled lv ~27ish Mesmer (of course not alone). I even did some of the Nightmare Chambers with her and although it was challenging, it was do-able.

Also, heads-up to anyone you unlock the golem transport to levels 2 and 3 per character, not account-wide.

Neverminding that I don’t see this happening since isn’t that a real life franchise or something (I could see a lottery being implemented in another, more game-related way, maybe)… but…

Why take a “tax” off it ? Just say you win 500g, the end. It’s a video game, not real life where you’re paying taxes on prize earnings to a different entity.

I work full time and go to college full time. I knew at the start when this event would be because they told us the dates and times for start and finish.

I did this event because I could – but before October I’d taken two months off this game to complete some projects of my own and I “missed out on” stuff and that was my choice.

I don’t think it makes sense that they should have to design content around the idea that a person is at work 24/7 for 48 hours in a row. That’s just not reality for the vast majority of people.

I understand the frustration of people who feel like they missed something. I know that after coming back from my two months off it kind of sucked to see all the stuff I missed and would never get to do. But that was my choice. If someone did have a job schedule where they worked 48 hours straight (hopefully with sleep breaks) during that event well, that’s life – you’re in that job and having that job means you’re going to miss out on some things, be it an event in GW2 or a sale at the mall – but presumably you’re in that job because you want to be and because you chose that path in life and willingly applied for that job. If you want out of it, I wish you the best of luck and hope you can do something like go back to school in order to find a schedule that better suits your priorities.

I’m not really upset about the exclusive pet at an event – I wasn’t in WoW even though I did that thing where you hauled your kitteny-kitten to a certain spot at reset to get a kitten or flew in loops over egg spawn points. I always knew that there were a few I would never realistically get unless I wanted to try to spend real money on eBay. And that was okay. My collection was as “complete” as I wanted it to be and was able to get it and that was fair.

I would agree that they should put the “IRL Prize” ones in a different category of their own. That would make sense.

I admit, I don’t really see as much point in collecting minis/pets in GW2. They’re almost all just bought – so it’s either “I logged on the gem store at this time” or “I bought this with gems or farmed enough gold for it”. I can see why people would still collect them, but it took the fun out of it for me. I was happy to buy some pets – heck, I’d go as high as 50% – but ONLY buying them kind of killed it for me. There are some that feel more special because they were tied to a meta achievement or such, but they’re a small minority.

/tangent

I was very pleased by how well the voice actor sold the character.

I also find it plenty believable that his family life had a negative impact on his mental stability.

I did not do this Achievement at all and I’ve finished the meta and gotten the Candy Corn node.

There are two “Dailies” per day that will fill up a pip toward the meta – one if not both were always fairly easy to complete. Just saying this in case the OP or others didn’t realise it (the “required to advance” part makes me think that – but you don’t have to do them ALL, you can substitute the Daily ones instead).

This might be a sign to change your password ASAP.

I think that “mouse fart” is a pretty “politically correct” insult.

I could think of a few politically incorrect insults for either of them because I’m a fountain of creativity. I would give examples because I’m a generous guy, but they’d most likely become adorable kittens.

This function is built into my mouse. Since I’m pretty sure that sharing an account is not officially allowed I don’t think they’ll implement it for that reason. There are other valid reasons, yes.

I wonder if there is software out there to map keys and save profiles even if you don’t have a mouse that came with it ?

Tom Gore.4035:

Ceallach.8740:

Khisanth.2948:

Without those recipe sheets the charged quartz is completely useless.

Well, you could still sell them !

If we’re talking about the charged quartz then no, you can’t. It’s account bound.

Ah, I meant the regular quartz, didn’t see that – a reason to acquire the node even if you don’t care about the gear.

Even if it’s not the Christian “hell”, they can still use “hell” as a word to refer to SOMETHING. Even if something isn’t real, the people in a culture can still have a word to refer to it or an idea or even old myth or whatever.

You know, like the unproven nature of “hell” for the good humans living on EARTH. But yet we still use “hell”… hmm !

Khisanth.2948:

Without those recipe sheets the charged quartz is completely useless.

Well, you could still sell them !