Guild Wars 2

Sorry but what is FOV exactly?

I hate these kinds of threads… it’s like telling my cat will die if i stop feeding it. They already announced new content so why do people have this urge to post this stuff over and over again? It’s not like the game is OLD

obiemvy.5632:

@Charrgirl: Well, if my methods for gaining gold aren’t fun to you, then find a way that is fun for you. I didn’t once say to grind anything.

I love gathering, and make a decent amount of money from gathering each night for an hour after work. It’ll probly take me 2 months to get tier 3 cultural, but that is my goal… I’m just not going to use my hard earned gold for Halloween when I can get gems with my extra hard earned cash.

It’s purely optional. Just like in GW1, you get a free hat for Halloween. The whole Halloween event and content updates are free. Yet you’re here angry because they decided to also try and make some money with some new, purely optional skins/tonics for Halloween… There is nothing wrong with what they are doing.

They promised they wouldn’t force you to buy gems to get max stats or to be fully and equally competetive. They can’t control anything related to grind because people misuse that word and most don’t even know what grind is anymore.

*edited for clarity

I understand. But that isn’t free content then – it might be for fun and cosmetic but people who refuse to buy those items – how will they get to enjoy the event?

obiemvy.5632:

I’m so gonna buy gems with RL cash. I haven’t decided how many yet (either 800 or 1600). It’s fun to gamble, why do you think so many casinos exist??? And supporting ANet while having fun? What’s better than that!

I understand some people can’t afford the gems, so I suggest figuring out how to make gold in GW2 to get gems that way. ANet has given everyone a way to get gems… not only the people with the extra cash on hand. You can easily make 2 gold in an hour just gathering materials (ori and ancient logs) each night and selling them on the TP… do that this weekend and you should have enough gold to get gems for 5 keys or a costume. If you have extra time, farm Orr events in Magic Find Gear… you get a lot of gold items that way. and don’t forget the peach tarts ;-)

While you were complaining on these forums you could have made 20 silver more in GW2…

*edited for clarity

It’s exactly this kind of mentality that is ruining the whole point of what people are trying to say. Yes some people are just richer then the others and they will buy the hell out of the cash shop. That’s fine. But don’t make it sound like it’s the only right way. Many of us can’t afford it and others don’t have an income. And saying “I will grind my kitten off all night” is also putting a question Anet’s initial design philosophy that basically says – we DON’T want people to grind in our game. So believe it or not many of us bought this game following that promise after countless other MMO-s that basically work on exploiting people and their stupidity by thinking if they buy X amount of items you will get what you want. And turns out you dont. I fail to see how that can be fun.

As I stated before it MIGHT be a bit early to call on them, but many of us feel the direction set up by other games – the path this game is also taking. And please don’t talk about those keys, I got 2 from drops in my almost 60 levels of game play and other 3 from personal storyline. RNG game system is something that players are getting to be sick of.

Remember also in GW1 you could buy x-mas themed weapon skins with candy cane shards which you earned by playing various mini games. So putting a gamble factor is not worth it, unless they make the drop rate really really high (which I doubt as low drop rates increase profit).

Don’t want it to seem like I’m overreacting – just posting here my concerns. Because participating in the event does involve all new items you provide, and if 90% of them are obtainable only if you buy them, that could discourage people. For instance, I’m gathering gold now for a cultural armor, the most expensive one. It will gladly buy the costume but that’s bout it. Items should be free and for fun. This really starts to remind of Aion and that’s not really a compliment.

Mondy of War.8964:

Awww you couldn’t win could you.

It is a testament to how much entitlement there is in the Western World now that people expect everything for free otherwise there is something wrong with the game and its managers, which pretty much gave you the ultimate leg up in dropping Subscriptions for a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME.

Do you people have ANY idea how much it costs to maintain an MMO? You 60 dollars is only going to go so far before ArenaNet, once again, need your help in maintaining the entertainment experience that you are enjoying for what is, quite frankly, a measely asking price. Guess what, sometimes having fun costs money, and ANet don’t need your armchair criticism when the bills start rolling in, and they can’t find the dough to pay them because you couldn’t be bothered spending 30 bucks every 4-5 months. Even then, they’ve given you a chance to not spend a dime simply by learning to play the game better, and yet you’re still so indignant and lazy to even do that.

Stop being so bloody selfish and learn to look outside the box. ANet don’t need your ignorance, they need your support, and I would love to know which of you are giving your support year after year to companies like Activision, who fart out a piece of kitten like COD which is essentially the same thing over and over, and yet you have a massive problem helping ANet who actually give a kitten about not only their product, but YOUR enjoyment of it.

Whoah slow it down there, some of us paid 250 dollars for this game. Yes that much, because we EU folk get it more expensive, depending if you buy CE or not but the point is we always get charged more. And please don’t defend an obvious flaw in design philosophy.

TRON.1085:

I don’t like what there doing with the gem store and using halloween event to take it even further.

Not happy with this at all.

Yeah. It’s completely wrong, events shouldn’t be a gold sink

Yeah I know the horns will be free tho it would probably look weird on my charr :P

No i was asking about other items like gifts, event items that drop from mobs or hell even new stuff. I’m ok with costumes being in the cash shop but I’m not ok with everything else being there too, because that means you won’t get free awesome stuff unless you pay for them, and that imho ruins the fun of events.

After reading this paragraph I got a bit concerned:

" All kinds of tricks and treats are coming to the Gem Store this Halloween. Costumes that grant spooky skills, tonics that transform you into ghouls and ghosts, creepy crawly minis to follow you around. And don’t forget to pick up your free devil horns before they disappear!
The Black Lion Chest is getting a spooky upgrade for Halloween. Between October 23 and November 5 each Black Lion Chest you open has a chance to give you one of six exclusive Halloween-themed weapon skins!"

So what I got from now the only event items you mentioned so far can be bought only. So my quick question is, will there be free items as well? Because I don’t want to spend my in-game money or real life money on fun stuff because I’m saving it for the important things:)

22 and enjoying it, certainly not thinking about quiting yet:)

There is never “too many parts”, especially on heavy armor. It’s supposed to protect and look cool, just like the male armor. You have such armors for medium and light, but to ask revealing for heavy? This isn’t an asian game…

urtv.8791:

Delsabre.5934:

Onshidesigns.1069:

This is a asian MMO. We should have more revealing armor!

How is this an asian mmo? >_>

anet is owned by ncsoft
rng in this game is very similiar to rng in aion.getting lucky with legendary precursor is the same as getting 3+ procs to craft eternal weapon.only 1% will be able to craft the weapon with highest base stats while the other 99% will end up with the 2nd best weapon.the only difference is that the rng in this game is a lot worse

You need to separate the general art direction and game mechanics because it’s just not he same thing. GW2 has better art, armor then any other MMO I’ve seen

This has happened few times before. I think it’s a bug – whenever I try to buy something the “BUY” option is greyed out. I have enough money on my character so that is not the issue, but it’s happened few times already so if anyone can look into this would be helpful.

Here is a screenshot:

Sentinel VX.1392:

The first person that start or enter the dungeon I believe.

Yeah that could be it, somebody else started it and it asked me to “join”. Will try.

I went on my first dungeon run today, since I got an invitation in the mail in game. So I took that as a part of my personal story. I invited all 4 people in the group but when the cut scenes started, some random player was talking instead of me.

This really alienated me from my storyline. Why would a random group member get cutscenes even though it’s part of my personal storyline? It makes no sense. How do you get your character to appear in important cutscenes?

Yeah same for heavy armors! I found a really nice one but it has this clipping issue

Yeah. Something like this maybe:

Which music plays in dungeons, that I wonder?

Festival items and special festival-specific events

Yeah happened to me today with my female charr. Was running around when I heard in a male voice “so cold…” or something. Creeped me out a bit

I noticed in human towns somebody is constantly singing or humming in the background o-O

I appreciate you removed laughing from crafting stations, but could you consider removing this as well? It’s…weird least to say. To hear it constantly. I hope I’m not imagining things, because I hear it even when there are no NPC-s around.

^ It’s ok to disagree, but obviously the biggest problem here is lack of variety and stuff you can do with your character’s face. Sylvari are probably best so far because all those colors so in the end it’s hard to find 2 same looking ones, but let’s say charr..how many times have I see a repeating pattern of black/white charr with 1 face.

I don’t know. It just seems to me they went lazy on the creator considering everything else in the game is kitten beautiful. I wouldn’t complain if MMO-s only just began offering facial/body customization other then plain presets.

Indeed it does. It lacks variety of hairstyles, faces, and separate options for makeup, scars and other facial ornaments.

They could have done it 1000 times better then it is atm, comparing to some other games

Vzur.7123:

I think its the best character creator I’ve seen in an MMO. If another one has done better, I’m drawing a blank as to which it might have been..

Aion, EvE online, Phantasy Star Online, Saint’s Row, I could probably count more games that have much much better CC then GW2

Excelliate, good point but in that screenshot i was facing a very bright light source – the sun. So it’s always like that. Eye color shouldn’t change no matter what kind of lighting there is, because my green eyes in real life surely don’t change to orange or purple if the room is not brightly lit lol.

They have the same anatomy. Why would anything be different?

One thing that is really destroying my viewing experience is how the camera zooms in my character whenever an object goes in front of my character. It’s annoying when I try to get a good look around and I get zoom in my characters face or back. I finally completed Black Citadel exploration today and I climbed on the top of command core and I couldn’t view anything from the top because of this problem.

Please, please remove it. It’s also very frustrating during jumping puzzles. Never have I played an MMO wich such big camera issues. But this one, zooming constantly in my character and bouncing in and out has to go.

Let us view the world around us without having our char’s face getting zoomed in.

P.S. minor thing as well, but it wouldn’t hurt to add first person view and let us zoom in our character’s face more (Charr are good but other races pretty bad)

I think that’s because Americans are obsessed with weight. In Hollywood movies you have skinny girls as leads, etc. So that may apply to a video game as well. It’s sad and unrealistic but there is nothing you can do about it. It’s how I see it at least, and I’m from EU

GW2 makes the same mistake virtually every other MMO does out there: it doesn’t place animals in a realistic way. You never see deer running away from you in the forest or a pack of wolves hunting across the map. The pretty much just stand there and like you said, wait for AoE as an excuse to attack.

I’m no animal expert but I think they should have made it more realistic. Especially with animals like hyenas or other predatory mammals. They just don’t wander around in the open waiting for you to come along so they can attack you.

My little Gylfie

I’m not bothered by it, but I am bothered that they used same sound as asura female for some attacks.

Human female with hammer on the other hand…

^ And you get the same thing in shield of the moon storyline, but this time it’s a woman. So why are we even pointing it out? It’s not shoved in our face, and frankly if it was a heterosexual couple this thread wouldn’t exist, all I’m sayin’

I noticed something odd. I chose bright yellow for the color of my Sylvari character but they change color a lot. For example in caves they can be dark blue, sometimes even completely black, in daylight dark orange. Only at night time they are truly yellow color I chose in character creation (and yes I previewed how it looks both in day and night)

So my guess is this is a bug, and well frankly – it’s bugging me. So here are the screenies so you can see what I’m talking about.

P.S I could get a picture this close because I was stuck behind an object. Make it please so we can zoom in more!

Cool Can’t wait for the update

Actually I realized it’s not the tracks themselves, they’re pretty epic but we just don’t hear much of them often . And it would help if they weren’t random but location-bound like in most MMO-s. No reason for Black Citadel to have the same tune as the Grove.

The track is called Logan’s Journey Hope that helped

Thanks i got it working I have to figure the boss battle yet, but I’m sure it will work out

No, no and no.

Charr don’t worship anything. They don’t bow to anybody – they rely on personal strength and innovation. This is an advanced mindset and culture and as such it would be dumb to see them as enemies.

I have 3 issues with charr armor:

1) Overly HUGE shoulder pads on most armor
2) Lack of holes for the tail so it just clips through (not on every armor but still)
3) Helmets look painfully dumb

Other then that I like charr armor

Milennin.4825:

I don’t know, it works fine for me.=s Maybe try other areas? I remember music not playing at all in some areas during Beta cause of bugs.

I will test it tomorrow then. Just how many enemies do you have to pull in order for it to work?

The title is pretty clear

If you have a human character which name-surname did you choose, and why? How does it fit to the lore ? Does it have a special meaning, possibly linked to the profession?

Mine is Elora Quenell, female noble Guardian. Elora is an old Greek name meaning “sunlight, ray of light”, which goes nicely with her hair color of gold, and Quenell is deprived from old Anglo-Saxon surname meaning “war woman”.

I agree it would be nice to see it in other races but then the flaming would be even harder, spawning much more useless threads like these.

SirMoogie.9263:

Furienify.5738:

But I can’t think of a gay character in the game that isn’t sylvari. No, Faren does not count.

That’s really a failing of the developers. They haven’t ruled it out from the other species, but they haven’t given any examples either. It’d be nice to see in the other species too.

Why is Faren gay? I didn’t get that implication. Maybe the way he talks? I think he’s cute and I play it with a female character. People are just weird

Yeah I checked in sylvari tutorial area and it played all the time, nicely. So what am I doing wrong in the game world? I tested it again on 6 mobs – nothing Shame because it would be really great to hear stuff if you pulled 2+ mobs

This is great stuff! But I can’t get my battle music to play. I tested around with playlists to see how it works, and so far I imported ambient, night time and battle music to test it. First two work perfectly they even randomize without adding extra silent tunes but the battle music never plays.
I know you have to pull more then just 1 mob but I was all over the place, pulling up to 7 mobs at time and nothing triggered. I’m not exactly sure how to fix this And when do boss battles work?

It’s not forced, it’s natural

I kinda have to agree on this one, especially when it comes to using the same tracks. It’s like…watching a better sequel of a movie, and they put same tracks inside. They just don’t do that – they remix them or re-work them in new songs, which would be better imo because Tyria is not GW1 anymore, so that old stuff has to go.

As for music variety well, I can probably remember 2-3 of them. I will probably spark some flames here, but imho, Aion has zillion times more memorable soundtrack, each song unique and oh those awesome battle themes! Sometimes I would just draw my weapon out to hear those kitten BGM’s over and over again. GW2 for it’s excellent sound quality is surprisingly silent.

I’m not posting this as a kitten thread just to make things clear

What I wanted to ask, are Black Lion Keys meant to be extremely rare drops? So far in my 35 levels of playing I got only 2, via random drops. Other 3 were from the Black Lion Chests themselves. My friend told me I should be getting them as personal story quest rewards, or map completion rewards, but so far – nothing. I have about 20 chests in my bank, gathering dust since I can’t open them.

So I was wondering, are there any chances Anet might boost drop rate a bit? Or at least make them part of dungeon rewards, that would be really really nice. Because on my server, to get a pack of keys from the gem store would cost me anywhere between 40-50 silver and that is just a huge money sink, considering you can get mostly useless tonics, and in the long term – not worth it.

Nope, I don’t like em as well therefore I don’t like using dance emotes with sound on lol, which is quite shame, since they’re so awesome

That sounds extremely rude :/ But I don’t understand that concept of “role-playing”, what, people just join together and act stuff?

Well for the most part I really enjoy the voice acting. Sure, for a fantasy setting it would be much more appropriate and nicer to have non-american voices like in game of thrones/similar but it’s just how it is with this game :P

But the ONLY thing that is weirdly pronounced, actually surprised me was the word Minotaur, they pronounce it “Mee-no-taur”, I always thought it was “My-no-taur”?

And about the whole Centaur thing it depends. In my language it’s Ken-tah-orr, not “Sentor”. We can’t really argue about different pronunciations.

Could you please reconsider letting us turn of the noises our characters make while they dance? I find them extremely annoying

My human female she has this cool dance, yet she keeps humming like she’s my grandma. Not cool, really. It really discourages me from using those emotes!

More manly human males and less girly females, yeah we need this

Well why would it be unlikely? An orphan could have been taken in by rich parents who couldn’t have a baby…the more I think about it all options are nice, but I chose the lost sister one. Seems fitting Hope it will be good hah