Guild Wars 2

lady krottos.7940:

They’re frustrating for a reason, that’s why you get an achievment for completing them.

I don’t mind frustrating, I seriously mind shenanigans.

And by shenanigans I mean invisible walls. There are a number of spots where it looks like I can jump only to be, literally, shoved away from my goal in mid air, and plummeted to the ground.

Yeah, I call shenanigans on this. If it looks like I can jump there, then kitten it, let me jump there. If you don’t want me to jump from A to B then put a ruttin’ wall I can see there.

Oh yeah. And about Lightning Flash and Blink. I fail to understand why these don’t work on uneven ground in general and in jumping puzzles in particular. Seriously, if you want 2 or 3 tough jumps in there so people have the option of using that skill and then jumping normally to finish the tough jumps or deciding to wait on that skill use for a later jump.

But seriously… lose the cheaty-face invisible walls.

tom.7468:

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

Tom, that’s a macro and a gaming mouse.

Is it allowed? else it would be better to implement the feature.

It would be better for ANet to implement the feature.

But why wouldn’t it be allowed? You aren’t multiboxing or botting.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

So use an Equipment Box and don’t click sell everything in your inventory?

Unless the Equipment Box gets filled from drops.

And I don’t sell everything in my inventory, but I do tend to sell/salvage everything in my top bag, sometimes w/o realizing that my Equipment Box is full and I didn’t manually fill it.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

Kernel, there’s just too many problems.

What do you suggest that isn’t a bird, bear, cat, or dog.

Shark, Skelk, Drake, Bat, Ooze, etc, etc, etc. Whatever’s in the game already.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

How do you work them for all the races? How do they all animate, what are the skills for each one. How do their weapons work.

Races are irrelevant, changing into an animal changes your character model. Many of the animations are already in the game for their wild counterparts.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

And if they have no weapons, do they simply get stats that scale with their level? How is that fair to everyone else who has to actually upgrade their stuff.

Or make the shapeshifter have reasons to stay in human form so they have reasons to use level appropriate gear.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

And what about underwater? Do they get special aquatic forms? And how do you balance that?

What’s the first animal I listed? Shark! But there are amphibious animals in the game, and other aquatic animals. Have ANet do as they did with Skills, some can be used underwater, some can’t. Some forms can be used on land, some can’t.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

How do you balance them at all? A weaponless, shapeshifting class with access to four forms, 20 different weapon skills with no weapon required, and who knows what for utilities.

Elementalist is balanced with 20 abilities and no weapon swap. Heals and utilities would have to be balanced by ANet, who already seem to have done a pretty good job balancing the rest of the game.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

And how do you explain it? Where did they come from? Does this supposed druidism simply spring up and kick the Druids that already existed in the game as followers of Melandru out?

Or make the new Druids followers of Melandru.

Nevertheless, this is a point I will gladly concede to you. Lore is very important (whether other people recognize this or not) and this would stretch the lore pretty far.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

And why, look, the entire Norn race are just big human druids. The thing that defined the race from the second conversation you ever had with one is now common to every race on Tyria.

Animists, yes. Druids, no I don’t think so.

Yes, they have a unique racial ability. No, I don’t want to see a shapeshifting class step on that uniqueness.

I am personally on the fence regarding this suggestion (contrary to my first post in this thread). I suppose ANet could do this properly, but it would take a lot of stretching of the lore and I am not sure how it could be done without diminishing the Norn.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

I don’t know, I tell a lot of people to go back to WoW, Drake. It seems to be where most of these ideas come from.

It’s hard for ideas to NOT come from WoW when WoW has taken the better ideas from all the fantasy MMOs out there.

Now I might just actually allow that to display on my Ranger or Engineer.

Nels, why are you being such a horses backside about this?

If you don’t want it, don’t use it. OOC weapon swapping for Elementalist would be a very reasonable thing to add for the reasons I cited above. All you have done here is stamp your foot and say “No”. Please, refute the arguments in this thread or politely bow out.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

no one will know i went w/ order of whisperers. why? the heavy armor looks terrible.

I went with the Order of Whispers. Why? Because the human female light armor looks great!

Double tap your movement keys for dodge. Camera facing is now irrelevant.

Mesmer gets a power with the Focus (I believe, could be a different off-hand weap) to improve run speed

Elementalist can get a passive 35% boost to speed when attuned to Air. And you can fire off Ride the Lightning w/o a target to zip forward in a straight line about 100 yds. Or use the Staff Air ability #4 to add to your speed on top of the passive speed boost.

Engineer gets an Elixir to improve their speed

Guardian has a Shout to get speed

This is just off the top of my head. I’m sure other professions get similar boosts.

IOW I don’t see the problem here.

Hmmm, yeah. I like it. Just put it on the map and mini map. No need to turn it on, just mouseover the Heart and have the circle appear. Make it Gold so it doesn’t get confused with the Orange DE circles.

Each attack for each weapon type is specifically designed and balanced to be either AoE or ST. I don’t see a balance issue here, but I’ll admit I haven’t spent a lot of time on my Necro recently.

You can set ground targeted AoEs to fire on activation under Options. So move the mouse to where you want it, and press a number key. Done. No $60+ mouse needed. I wouldn’t complain if they added more keyboard camera controls though.

@Xaia
Dungeons need a bit of tweaking, not a complete redesign.

True, DR for Diminishing Returns.

However it should be clear from context.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

If you want it to be easier to swap weapons out of combat, why not give rangers eleven slots, and only two that work in combat, so that they can switch to their Sword/Axe, or Axe/Warhorn, or Greatsword, or Longbow, or Shortbow, or Axe/Dagger, or Sword/Torch out of combat a bit easier?

Actually that’s been suggested in another thread. Put all possible weapon combos into swap slots for every class and flag 2 of them as combat swaps for most classes (i.e. not Elementalist or Engineer) and call it a day.

My Elementalist uses a different weapon (Staff) for traveling and DEs, while equipping dual Daggers or Scepter/Dagger for “hunting”. Being able to change conveniently, and without having to hunt through my inventory to find which Staff, Scepter, or Dagger I want equipped (or the risk of selling/salvaging a weapon I’m using) would be a great QoL improvement in this game.

I like to experiment with different weapons on the classes that do allow in combat weapon swap as well, so making that experimenting easier would make me do the happy dance.

That was my thought, Nels, when I read the title.

However, I like the OP’s idea. It would depend on how it was implemented of course.

It might be an interesting twist to give the option to purchase alternate Forms with Skill Points (since there are an effectively infinite number of SP available).

There would have to be something to differentiate the forms from the Norn spirit forms though.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

No. Literacy is dead, and you can’t ever bring it back.

There is a difference between chat slang (LOL, ur (wasn’t that the capitol of Babylon?), l8er, etc) and useful abbreviations. I’m perfectly happy typing DR in game rather than Divinity’s Reach, LA instead of Lion’s Arch, etc, etc.

Most RL professions have their own set of TLAs, it’s only natural for people to expand that use into a typing heavy environment.

TLA = Three Letter Acronym for those not in the know.

There are stupid bots, and there are smart bots. It’s only a matter of time before all the stupid bots get banned.

The only way to deal with RMT spam of any form is to ban the account after 100+ people report it.

Before people say that large guilds would abuse this, it takes 10 seconds or less to review the spam email and decide if it’s RMT spam or not. If people falsely report other players as RMT spammers you ban them. If 50% of a guild falsely reports someone as an RMT spammer you disband the guild. We don’t want griefers or spammers ruining the game for legit players.

The only thing that will kill that horrible game (I despise the game mechanics in WoW) is WoW itself.

It remains to be seen whether MoP will do that or not.

Man, I’m just starting out here. I spent 12s on fireworks and dropped about 20+ at the centaur bridge. I think if I could drop 150 fireworks that it MIGHT wipe all the botters at that bridge. It looks like a simple script, I don’t think they have a rez routine.

Someone who’s independently wealthy want to give this a shot? Or just mail me 150 fireworks, I’ll do the dirty work.

Very nice!! So I assume that when they pick up the firework it replaces their normal weapon? Does that mean if I can drop enough fireworks when an event starts that all the bots might die?

lothefallen.7081:

I feel like a deeper semblance of trinity would only help this game’s combat to be more structurally engaging. I don’t think it could possibly harm the game. It was done well in GW1, i don’t know why they decided to gut the strategy and tactical combat from their franchise. I’m tired of stupid, incoherent zergs with narrow mechanics and options for the player. This combat isn’t going to hold a playerbase like GW1 did so successfully. Take heed, ArenaNet. The innovations are not as good as you percieve them to be.

How anyone can equate “you must make your team with this makup only” (i.e. the trinity) with anything resembling “tactics” is beyond me.

You moan about zerging because you don’t understand two basic facts about this game.

#1. This game is not your standard MMO. It is actually closer to an Action RPG (think Diablo) than an MMO.

#2. You don’t use combo fields.

If you would learn and use combo fields you would now have a sense of the tactics and synergies available to you in a party in this game.

Fast paced? Yes. Zerg? No.

Cyrus.8261:

My Guardian has more blocks and blinds than any other class, but it’s designed to not work 100% time, otherwise it would be tanking. So at some point the boss is going take 90% of my HP in one shot and I have to run until he loses interest.

Not to be rude, but you’re doing it wrong.

Take the Utility skill Save Yourselves. It casts (I believe) every Boon in the game on you with a 5 second duration. Switch one of your main hand weapons to Mace, 2 of the 3 attacks (#1 & #2) have a heal. Combined with you Virtue that heals and your #6 slot heal, you are golden the majority of the time.

I use a Torch in my off hand it’s more offensive. However someone else has recommended Shield. I assume that would increase your survivability even more than my setup.

Elementalist has the same issue, only worse.

One of the suggestions has been for an OOC weapons swap for all classes, including slots to hold each weapon that removes it from inventory (i.e. it can’t be sold/salvaged by accident.

What I do in the mean time is keep an equipment box in the last bag slot. All equipment goes in there automatically. Yes, it means I have to look at every piece and make sure I have the best one somewhere safe before I sell/salvage, but I just do the comparison manually and move the piece I’m parting with out of the Equipment bag before I open the Vendor/CH window.

I’d also like to second Arghore’s motion that you start a 2nd thread for the Party invite chime. It is an excellent idea that deserves it’s own discussion to call it to the attention of the devs.

To answer your question “What do I think” (presumably about your topic ):

I think I don’t have to hunt down 10 Centaurs. I’m having them delivered.

I also think that I don’t have to walk for 15 minutes to find the area where the centaurs hang out, then kill 100 of them to find the 10 with bladder infections, and then walk another 15 minutes to bring the 10 infected centaur bladders back to the sicko who sent me after them.

However, the progress bar on the event could be changed to a percentage completion, and the number of waves made into a random number between 5 & 15. Each wave could then be a random number of centaurs = to 2-4 centaurs per player present (rolled per player, not X (d2+2).

I was meaning to suggest that in the OP but kept forgetting.

Just having the gate’s destination show up on mouseover (once you’ve been through them of course) would be wonderful as well

Draco.2806:

Tonics would be the easiest solution to implement it, probably. Make then cost a few copper from a vendor in Holebrak, would work great.

I am opposed to this idea. As I stated above, this is for the Norn racial ability. If it’s a tonic anyone can use it.

Furthermore, how quickly does a tonic run out? This is a feature that should be able to be turned on and left on indefinitely while the character is in town clothes.

As you said, there are very few items worth selling, and way too many soulbound items.

Too many soulbound items can kill an economy faster than none at all. And that’s part of the problem here.

Anything that sells for less than 30c is more valuable salvaged than sold. The only real use for the CH/TP right now is ultra rare drops, the occasional piece of gear that only has 1-5 listed, or crafting mats.

WasAGuest.4973:

Xilo.9567:

-Go to heart of the mists.
-Take LArch gate.
-Free port to gate wp.
-Take applicable gate that is closest.
-Profit.

This is a good idea; but how do we bypass the often hour to two hour queue times? This is an honest question; not a trolling one. Am I missing a way around this?

If the queue times are excessive use a combination of WP and walking to get to your nearest city, then WP for free to the gate to LA, from LA to the city nearest your lowbie friends, and it should be a short foot slot from there to them.

FarFarAway.6579:

I don’t know if its “needed”, but it sure is more fun than combat w/out it. As an 8 year MMO healer, I sure do miss having a role I enjoy playing. To me, DPS is just boring.

Its just a difference of opinion on what’s fun & challenging.

And that is the big lie of the trinity; That w/o healers everyone is DPS.

It’s flat out not true, whether you enjoy the role of healer or not.

CHunterX.4083:

Colonel Kernel.7506:

The simple fix is to ban anyone who gets reported 100+ times. The owner of the stolen account can then contact customer service to get their PW reset and the ban lifted.

Large guilds would abuse this like nobody’s business.

It would please me to no end to see a large guild banned in its entirety if they behave in this fashion. I don’t like people who use other people as playthings.

Or simply ban the players at fault and if that is 50% or more from one guild then disband the guild and blacklist the name.

Seriously, the one key for all “interactions” has got to go, or autoloot needs to be added to the game.

aaron.7850:

Im glad someone made this thread, the reality is.. no one ever remembers the “serious” sounding names, as hard as they try to make people take them seriously, they are simply forgettable.

Au contrair! The best name I’ve seen is both appropriate with the lore and funny.

An Asura named Blamm Fizzpop seemed incredibly appropriate to me.

The simple fix is to ban anyone who gets reported 100+ times. The owner of the stolen account can then contact customer service to get their PW reset and the ban lifted.

Khronus.8370:

No. HELL NO. This is stupid. people need to learn how to spell. welcome to first grade.

I was a horrible speller prior to getting spell check. I used spell check to learn to spell because I got tired of getting corrected.

+10 million to the OP.

Ronah.2869:

Why do we actually need to pay taxes in the game?
…
And don’t give me the reason of “game economy” because i don’t bite on that.

Let me explain in simple terms how in game economies work.

A good character/player at or near the level cap can generate about one gold per hour.

Now what are they going to spend that on? Not much.

Crafting doesn’t cost that much and doesn’t return the type of items someone at the level cap wants anyway.

Vendors? What vendor has anything someone at the level cap wants?

The TP? With no listing fee all of that goes to another player. It stays in the game.

As pre WWII Germany learned the hard way, the solution to inflation is not to print more money. Supply and demand are very real, very valid market forces. If you have an unlimited supply of money (i.e. generating 1g per hour just as you play) something MUST be done to remove this money from circulation (i.e. the game) or the net value of each piece of currency becomes less and less.

None of this has a single thing to do with taxation, it’s a long standing reality of game economics.

Now do I think that ANet has gone a bit overboard with the gold sinks (that’s what all the costs are called)? Yes, I think they could tone them down a bit.

But your rant against taxation has nothing to do with this little corner of virtual space.

The title of the thread is my opinion, therefore can not be inaccurate, regardless if it is different from your opinion.

99% of my stuff gets either vendored or salvaged. Why would I wait for my cash, then have to go to a special location to get it, and lose money in the process?

It’s not hard to craft or buy larger bags, or hit a vendor and sell junk & goods, or salvage items and deposit to collections.

Seriously, if you use the market regularly you’re getting ripped off.

Add 10c (if 10% is too much) to the vendor buy price for the TP minimum sales price, at least make it worth my time to wait and then run fetch my money.

Yes please! More guild functionality in general, and this in specific!!

You have the option to make the interface smaller.

However I agree that I’d like more flexibility in the interface layout. I play on a 10" screen most nights and the mouseover popups on the combat abilities eat my screen right up.

Problem:
Items sell on the TP for the price a vendor would pay, +1c.

Proposed solution:
Add 10% to the vendor buy price and set this as the minimum price on the BLTP.

Reasoning:
Most, if not all, of the crafted/dropped items are not available through a vendor at all. It is understandable that a vendor would buy from an adventurer at a lower price as they intend to resell the item.

And now the player has a decision, put the item on the market, possibly competing with thousands of identical items, or get instant gratification with a smaller profit margin.

Currently it’s a no brainer. I can list a 45c item for 46c and pay a 2c listing fee, when/if it sells. Or I can take my 45c from the vendor right now. Gee…. let me think about that for a minute.

Benefit to ANet and players:
This creates a larger gold sink to help prevent inflation.

Related request:
Please clean up your DB. There are outstanding buy orders that can not be filled due to the purchase price being lower than the minimum list price.

I love the underwater areas.

I hate the underwater combat. Way too many of the attacks move me huge distances, aggroing additional mobs, sometimes many additional mobs, as well as disorienting me since I have no idea what direction this stuff is going to move me.

Being able to break the abilities down a bit, as you describe, would help. Not bouncing me all over the map would also help.

I guess they are still too busy fixing bugs and hunting bots to start adding additional features yet.

Strifer.3507:

@Colonel Kernel.7506
tl;dr
But let me give you my perspective.
The words “hardcore” and “gamer” should never be used together. It’s a freakin’ game. It’s not a second job, it’s not like you get bragging rights of any sort of accomplishment. You play games to relax after you have accomplished something in real life.
Seriously, do you want to be lying on your deathbed and have your major life accomplishment be “I was top DPS in X game”?

The words “too long” and “didnt read” should never be used together. It makes all your subsequent comments and views lack substance and irrelevant.
Serious, do you want to be lying on your deathbed and have your major life accomplishment be “tl;dr”?

I tried to give the OP some perspective and got a blast of sarcasm in return. On the Internet! I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you! :P

Oh well if it’s just a suggestion on how they could make more money, they could lower their gem prices. Half of something is better than all of nothing. I was going to buy some the other day till I saw that there’s no discount for buying in bulk.

Oh, and I’m all for the quaggan plushies. Maybe even put a chip in them with some of the lines from the game when you squeeze it. “Foo! Sea Witch is eating quaggans and feeding them to her pets!”

Peacenote.1698:

I would also like to see dueling. Last night my friend and I stayed up WAY too late trying to get in an empty sPvP match that would start with just the two of us so we could duel. I’ve often used dueling as a more interactive way to test things out. You know, a “let me see if this build can beat you now” type of thing. Plus, it’s fun.

I am all for preferences where you can choose to 1) automatically refuse all duel requests or 2) automatically refuse all duel requests if not friend-ed or grouped with requester. I have experienced the pushy strangers that spam dueling requests and probably would enable option “2” myself if it existed.

I can also see how it might break immersion in cities. I would fully support an option of dueling only in the Mists, outside of city limits, and designated areas in cities like fighting pits, if that is the concern. The Bane seems like a good area in the Black Citadel.

I’m glad someone else understands why I want the option to ignore duel requests.

As for dueling in cities, make it so! Put an arena in, Arena Net :P! Maybe only in Lion’s Arch if you don’t want to put one in every city. Heck, charge some copper for “seats” (i.e. let people spectate if they want to). Shoot, maybe even allow some wagering (copper/silver/gold) with odds based on the win/loss record of each character.

Let the duelists pick different environs, or even a random one, including under water.

aaron.4317:

…it would also raise the skill cap…

Were I interested in your answer (I’m not, so don’t bother) I would ask how forcing players to use a one make up team (aka a trinity based team) raises the skill cap.

My answer is “It doesn’t, and it can’t”. Taking tactical choices away from the players lowers the skill cap if it does anything at all.

Krosslite.1950:

Unpredictability.4086:

1. Could we have an option to sort alphabetically? I remember a lot of the dyes by name, and it makes it harder to find them this way.

2. If one is not possible, could we have a simple search box instead?

3. Can you increase the size of favorites? Currently it’s capped at 8, which makes no sense seeing there is 100+ dyes.

per my understanding it is more like 400+

350ish was the last count I’m aware of. I’m personally not certain the human eye/brain can make a meaningful distinction between that many colors.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

There is obviously a reason why it’s not done. If you don’t like it, play a different game.

And even more overriding reasons why it SHOULD be done.

For example, the loot is the “interact” key, which means you talk to all the NPCs, rez people, and pick up garbage you don’t want (e.g. shovels or garden hoes).

None of which stops people from botting. This only pisses off actual human beings.

Next time, if you don’t have something constructive to add to the conversation why don’t you just fail to comment? Oh, wait. You already did fail.

tl;dr

But let me give you my perspective.

The words “hardcore” and “gamer” should never be used together. It’s a freakin’ game. It’s not a second job, it’s not like you get bragging rights of any sort of accomplishment. You play games to relax after you have accomplished something in real life.

Seriously, do you want to be lying on your deathbed and have your major life accomplishment be “I was top DPS in X game”?

I was also thinking that in addition to a graphical button to click, you could pull up the weapon swap menu with a double tap on your weapon swap key ( ` by default).