Guild Wars 2

Kal Spiro.9745:

Crash.5362:

Serdoc.7261:

No new weapons.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35650

Yeah, I just seen it
Also it seems there’s no new content whatsoever aside from what they mentioned in the PAX, from what the article says at the beggining.
kitten ‘-’

What new content did you expect. They started the thing by saying, “Here is everything we’re going to give you.”

They said that those are the “major” things we’re going to add, from what I remember. Not that that was all and that was it.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Einlanzer.1627:

lordkrall.7241:

Why would more weapons be needed? What would they add to the game that isn’t already there?

Adding stuff just for the sake of adding it is usually not such a good idea.

Uhm, what? New weapons are one of the most badly needed things in the game. They open up build options, broaden potential character concepts, and are just plain cool. Who doesn’t want new weapon options? Plus, it’s something they’ve said they intended to do.

Greataxe
Throwing Disc
Whip
Polearm/Martial Staff
Gauntlets/Claws
Tome

Just a few they could and should implement.

“Because,” or “Because they’re cool,” is not a sufficient reason to create something from nothing. There are a lot of weapons in the game. Weapons that are restricted from each of the classes. Why create whole new weapons, that also wouldn’t be universally accessible, when they can just give weapons that already exist to the classes that don’t have them.

That’s the basic thought process that ANet is using.

If you can’t justify a new weapon over an existing weapon with actual mechanics and roles missing from the lineup then there is no reason to implement it. “But I wanna,” will never be an acceptable answer.

Read the entire post. This argument got replied to several times over, by several different people.

There’s A TON of things that are being added without the need or without really being something that “its missing” on the game’s mechanics or role lineup.

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35650

Just for those who didnt know yet, just got it posted on a thread I recently started and I saw this very day still that a lot of people didnt know about it.

(Its on page 2. When he’s talking about specializations.)

Serdoc.7261:

No new weapons.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35650

Yeah, I just seen it
Also it seems there’s no new content whatsoever aside from what they mentioned in the PAX, from what the article says at the beggining.
kitten ‘-’

Mewreon.8649:

Crash.5362:

And being able to use pole-arms, and spears, is a BASIC in the mmo genre. Something expected to be there, unlike all this stuff.

Yeah, a slight misunderstanding on my part there. I apologise for that. But they could add scythes for a GW homage, we already have spears (and tridents), which is a type of polearm.

Edit: Please, I don’t want a whip as a weapon type, only my elementalist should have a whip.

We have them as underwater weapon… It gets used 10% of the gameplay through, and never ever in pvp or wvw (That are basically what you’re doing late-game aside from farming a legendary)

Nobody really cares for the underwater waepons too much, hence how n underwater precursos costs 50 gold and a 2 handed weapon precursos is usually above the 1k mark :P

lordkrall.7241:

Morsus.5106:

They add new skills, something that a new class does too. I suppose we shouldn’t have a new class then, either?

They add (very few) new skills yes. But all of those skills have added something to the professions that they didn’t have before.

A new class could easily also fill a niche that is not already filled.

They dont add “very few” new skills… they add WAY more than a new weapon would add. And I proven that up there mathematically if you’re reading my replies…

Mewreon.8649:

I’m sorry, after reading some of the forum posts in this, I thought I would add to this thread.

The most common weapons in MMOs are swords and staffs. If anything, the polearm is midway in the levels of common-ness of weapons (definitely not a word). This seems to me that the OP wants something rather than the community wants something (although I don’t speak on behalf of the community).

Adding a new weapon in to the game is the equivalent of adding new specialisations in to the game (essentially they are the same thing). If ANet ever reused the current spear skins for polearms or land spears, I’d think you’d find more unhappy players than happy players.

The only weapon they should add in to the game is a scythe (cough cough GW cough cough Dervish cough cough).

You misunderstand me..

I said that the Spears are the most comon weapons IN HISTORY!
Not in MMO’s.

But either way, they’re PRESENT in almost all MMO out there. I for one cant think of a single one that doesnt have it. (Skyrim doesnt, but that isnt a MMO, now.)

I never said they’re the most common in MMO’s, just that they’re always there.
I said they’re the most common, popular, and historical weapons of man-kind.

Samhaim.8956:

Crash.5362:

There is no arguments being thrown at my end ? You’re the one that eems to not be taking logic into the consideration.

PLus, what if a player doesnt like the current weapons’s set ? What if a player doesnt like maces ? Swords ? Bows ? What if he wants his character to use a specific weapon ?
He is FORCED to have on an MMo to have his character use a certain weapon just because it “offers what he needs” ?

Sorry, the argument of “There’s already things that do that, and the class doesnt need more of it” its not logical. At all. Its an MMO, diversity makes it, the option to use whatever you want makes it. Not being forced to stick with something just because it gives what you needs.

You talk as if every class in every MMO is able to use all kinds of weapon that ever existed. Most MMO’s tie your weapon to your class, and the class options aren’t even that big to begin with, and you end up with 8~10 class/weapon choices, but here you have most weapons available independent of your class.
Demanding new weapons to be added by saying that they should have been on the game since the beginning is silly and a kittenildish, new weapons could be cool, yes, but the amount of weapons available to every class, with the exception of engineers, makes it so that you already have a lot of options.

i’m not claiming our current weapon choices are narrow or anything.
But just because something isnt already good, doesnt mean it cant be better, now, can it !?

It could be cool, it would be cool. People want it, it would be good advertisement to hype up the expansion, with the skins already in-game, it’d be less effort than most of what they’re already doing…

So.. Why not ? not to mention that gw1 already had those :P Its natural to expect that we’d get them too, specially with trailers and teases being released of them.

lordkrall.7241:

Sigh.. you are clearly not even trying to understand what I am writing.

No. YOU’re not understanding what I’m writing.

I understand that you dont think a new weapon is needed because its “cost-benefit” wouldt be valid. Because you think its too much work for something that the game doesnt need right now.

and I’m telling you that an expansion isnt about bringing what the game needs only. But also EXPANDING the game. This game haves SO MUCH STUFF that it doesnt need to have, but we enjoy it anyway!
Pets, Little useless yet fun toys, Hell, I can play music I play at my guitar in it with a flute !!! These things make the game cool and colorful, make it diverse.
And being able to use pole-arms, and spears, is a BASIC in the mmo genre. Something expected to be there, unlike all this stuff.

Saying that “we dont need new weapn, so dont give us” is litterally saying “Yeah, give us the bare minimum of what the game needs to keep going!”

I’m telling you that, not only that I disagree with your opinion that " a new weapon isnt needed or wont add anything" but also I’m showing you that they’re ALREADY adding stuff that isnt needed nor is expected. Hell, we’ll be able to talk new languages, who asked for that, who needed that ?? They’re adding anyway, just cause its cool.

So, EVEN if I were to agree with you that a new weapon wouldnt add anything, it still doesnt make invalid to ask for it, and want it, and expect it, since its a weapon that its in every game out there… I’d give you reason if we were talking about scythes, or something, that arent common weapons in games. but hey, its spears. Every game haves it.

lordkrall.7241:

Crash.5362:

As I pointed out.
Are Guild halls NEEDED !? Are they an urgent matter of necessity for the game to carry on ?
Of course not. They’re just a cool feature. That people will enjoy.

As a new weapon would be. Duh.
A game doesnt get new players just by addint necessary stuff, but also cool things that wont disappoint newcomers and attract new players. A new weapon could do that aswell. I’ve seen many peopl get yped about gw2 when I said that there are Rifles in them. Aswell as many to get bummed because such a basic weapon like a spear isnt.

The problem is that Lightsabers arent a historicallya ccurate weapon that exists in every MMO ever and every player ever expects it to be thre when you get to a game of this genre. :P

There is currently not a good place for guilds to meet up and do stuff together just on their own. Adding a Guild Hall will add such a thing. And as such it is adding something that does not already exist into the game. Ergo not the same thing as adding weapons that would not fill a niche that is not already filled.

But a new weapon that fills a niche that is already filled does not validate spending time and resources on it. And that is the whole point: Why add stuff to the game that is already there when there are other, more needed stuff, that can be added instead?

Oh, so weapon should only be added if you want them added?

Dont make it sound like only me want them added.
If you’ve been around this forum, you know that it isnt a minority that was hoping for that. Specially after they released trailers of the weapons being used.

Dude, they’re adding new legendaries. New specs that do just what a new weapon would do (Add new skill options and build options) There just isnt argument, every expansion adds things like that. The effort to pick skins that ARE ALREDY THERE and just design a few skill animations is MINIMAL in comparsion to what they’re doing.

And unless you cant see out of your own point of view, there is A LOT of people who were expeting them to bring a new weapon. Just take a walk around forums and google it out and you’ll see.
You claim that they should only add things that are needed because of “cost-benefit” reasons, well, keeping your comunity satisfied and newcomers not-disappointed is very cost-benefficial to a MMO.

Its really FINE if you’re hyped about the expansion and doesnt want toa dmit that there are things that it lacks. I’m EXTRA hyped with the expansion, I cant wait to check out the new builds, areas, and new class… But you cant deny, the fact this game doesnt have the most common weapon in mmo’s in general is a “hole” in it.

lordkrall.7241:

Crash.5362:

Are guild halls NEEDED in the game !?
No. Are they still doing it ? Yeah, sure. And it probably will be much more time consuming than it’d be to design 20 or so new skill animatinos.

Something doesnt need to be extremly needed and urgent to be added to an expansion.
Which is why an expansion is an EXPANSION. Not a fix.

There is currently not a good place for guilds to meet up and do stuff together just on their own. Adding a Guild Hall will add such a thing. And as such it is adding something that does not already exist into the game. Ergo not the same thing as adding weapons that would not fill a niche that is not already filled.

Well, there isnt a good two-handed weapon that looks like a pole-arm for players who enjoy those weapons. And as such, it is adding that does not already exist into the game. This argument can be used to everything that isnt the game, period. We dont have mounts, thus, they could be added into the game. We dont have raids, etc etc etc.

It may not sound like it to you, but some people care a lot about wanting to use the weapon they like the most when they get into a game like an MMORPG of the size of Guild Wars.
And I’m not even speaking my own mind when I say that. lol. I love my Greatsword on my warrior and the scythe-thingy on the necromancer.

Valandras.2093:

Don’t bother trying to talk sense to him, he’s in the middle of a rage spiral; the thing he wants isnt going to happen, and thus he won’t listen to logic.
Rather, he will rant and rage and fling faeces rather than come up with a solid argument.

But, since I’m a glutton for ruining my higher mental faculties:

You’re demanding a new weapon to replace a weapon that “all” Warriors use because it’s the most viable. Are you seriously suggesting that Anet purposefully throw in a new weapon specifically to replace a weapon that doesn’t need replacing?

You’re right, you aren’t a developer. And thats a fact we should all be grateful for.

I’m not suggesting new weapon as a replacement. i’m suggesting a new weapon as a new option.

As I mentioned, what if a player doesnt like the longbow’s skill set and want a different option?
Or like the other guy mentioned, what if a guy doesnt like the condition skillset of a sword, and want a new condition weapon to be avaiable ?

Then again, I dont know why we’re talking “Warriors” in this thread. I can think of AT THE VERY LEAST 4 or 5 classes that would fit well with ahving spears as a new weapon.
I mean, hell, Mesmers and Necromancers (on the expansion) (And to an extent, elementalists) use greatswords. Why not Spears ?

lordkrall.7241:

What if I don’t like old-school weapons? Should we start demanding that they add in lightsabers and laser-guns as well?

And it is not a matter of being against diversity. It is a matter of it being worth the time or resources or not.

You have to keep in mind that the game does not have a subscription and as such there is no real guaranteed income each month, thus they have to decide what they should put most money or resources into.

As I pointed out.
Are Guild halls NEEDED !? Are they an urgent matter of necessity for the game to carry on ?
Of course not. They’re just a cool feature. That people will enjoy.

As a new weapon would be. Duh.
A game doesnt get new players just by addint necessary stuff, but also cool things that wont disappoint newcomers and attract new players. A new weapon could do that aswell. I’ve seen many peopl get yped about gw2 when I said that there are Rifles in them. Aswell as many to get bummed because such a basic weapon like a spear isnt.

The problem is that Lightsabers arent a historicallya ccurate weapon that exists in every MMO ever and every player ever expects it to be thre when you get to a game of this genre. :P

lordkrall.7241:

No, you are not supposed to be a developer. But you are demanding that stuff is added, and thus you should also supply an actual good reason and a way to validate spending the time and resources on adding said things.

So basically a completely new class of weapon? How will that be balanced around the rest of the weapons and professions? What would other professions gain for it? Is it even needed in the game?
Warriors already have plenty of gap-closing abilities, they don’t really need more.

You talk about other weapons not being viable. Wouldn’t it make more sense in that case to spent the time and resources working on making them viable instead of adding yet another weapon into the equation? A weapon that according to you would also use a completely different system than any other weapon currently in the game.

Are guild halls NEEDED in the game !?
No. Are they still doing it ? Yeah, sure. And it probably will be much more time consuming than it’d be to design 20 or so new skill animatinos.

Something doesnt need to be extremly needed and urgent to be added to an expansion.
Which is why an expansion is an EXPANSION. Not a fix.

Valandras.2093:

Don’t bother trying to talk sense to him, he’s in the middle of a rage spiral; the thing he wants isnt going to happen, and thus he won’t listen to logic.
Rather, he will rant and rage and fling faeces rather than come up with a solid argument.

But, since I’m a glutton for ruining my higher mental faculties:

You’re demanding a new weapon to replace a weapon that “all” Warriors use because it’s the most viable. Are you seriously suggesting that Anet purposefully throw in a new weapon specifically to replace a weapon that doesn’t need replacing?

You’re right, you aren’t a developer. And thats a fact we should all be grateful for.

There is no arguments being thrown at my end ? You’re the one that eems to not be taking logic into the consideration.

PLus, what if a player doesnt like the current weapons’s set ? What if a player doesnt like maces ? Swords ? Bows ? What if he wants his character to use a specific weapon ?
He is FORCED to have on an MMo to have his character use a certain weapon just because it “offers what he needs” ?

Sorry, the argument of “There’s already things that do that, and the class doesnt need more of it” its not logical. At all. Its an MMO, diversity makes it, the option to use whatever you want makes it. Not being forced to stick with something just because it gives what you needs.

lordkrall.7241:

Yes it is a small effort compared to that. But it would increase the total effort for very little gain.

Since you still haven’t supply any example how adding these weapons would give classes something they don’t already have I will simply have to assume that you don’t have any example of it.

And as such, it is basically adding something for the sake of adding it, and thus all effort needed for it would basically be wasted on something that adds very little to the game.

I’m supposed to be a developer now ? And know what all classes do and dont do !? lol.
I have TWO characters level 80. You cant expect me to know everything that every class haves or doesnt have and build up on them on my own. Thats a developer’s work, my friend.

But if you so desire for examples, lets do this.

1- Spears (Or pole-arms, if you prefer.) could serve as a middle-range weapon. Currently, in PVP, every Warrior haves to use longbows simply because they need an option of ranged weapon for when they dont have their gap-close skills active. Spears could serve as a sort of weapon that could be used to fill this lack and take away the fact that almost all viable warrior builds include longbow.
They could make spears have plenty of gap-closers and a very descent range, allowing Warriors to actually exist without longbows in pvp.

2- Spears could come in as a brand-new hybrid between ranged and melee functioning weapon. They could have a few skills that involve throwing the spear, and others that are melee. (All weapons do that right now for Warrir, except mace and hammer, but they have only 1 throwable skill, and the rest is melee.)
That would be nice too, since Warrior really lacks ranged weapon options specially for PvP. Rifle hasnt really been viable in a long time (Though it seems they’re trying to fix that with new update.)

There you go ? A suggestion.

Now that you forced a regular, casual player to become a developper for the sake of validating your argument, what else you’d like me to do ?

lordkrall.7241:

I am using warrior as an example..

You want them to add more weapons, in order to validate adding more weapons there should be an actual use for said weapon, that is not already filled. And as such you should supply suggestions as to what these uses could be, since you are the one that are demanding more weapons.

You can’t just take a spear and give it to someone and be done with it.
You have to come up with skills. Balancing those skills, animating those skills, making sure those skills don’t break stuff and so on. It is a rather massive effort. Why else do you think we have gotten so few skills since release?

They put effort on building an entire new map, 8 new sets of skill (Considering that every class is getting a new skillset entirelly from a new weapon.) And an entire new class with a different set of skills and traits on its own.

How making a few of the existant classes get a few new options with a new weapon would be a HUGE effort in comparsiont o what they’re already doing !? If we put it mathematically, lets say that… Land spears would be a “thing” for 4 classes. Thats 20 new skills for you to balance. Well! guess what! We’re already getting 5×8 (40) new skills, at the very least, plus new traits and a new class that haves 5 skilsl at least for each weapon it can use.

That is multiple times over the effort that it would take to make the few new skills and balance them out that land spears would bring. Sorry, its small effort in comparsion to what they’re already doing.

If they’re NOT bringing it in, I’ll just have to say that the only excuse I can think of is that they thought: “Well, we’re already bringing a new weapon option for each class! We dont need to bring also a new weapons!” Which is a sad way to think, because I’d expect Anet to want to surprise us, rather than give us just what they think its enough.
I’m a fan of the company, and a fan of this game, its very well my favorite game right now.

lordkrall.7241:

Crash.5362:

New skills, possibilities. combos, are NOT an addition gameplay-wise !?

And EVEN if they werent, who said that an expansion must only bring new game-play, and not also new skins, and things that just look cool too ? They do this all the time bringing in those new skin packs and whatnot. As you said, “Adding stuff just for the saeke of being added”

I dont know how much of a fan you are of this game. I can tell you that you can trust that I’m the HUGEST fan of gw2 out there. But that doesnt make me blind, there is a HOLE that is the lack of those weapons in the game. Or at least one of them.

But what niche would it will? What would it add to a Warrior that he/she/it can’t do right now? If it doesn’t add something to that there is basically no point to spend the time and resources to add a new weapon.

I am not saying it must only bring new game-play, I am just questioning if adding something that is in no way needed or will not increase the playability of the game is really needed. Especially in a situation when said addition will require massive amounts of time and resources to get done, for very little gain.

Adding new skins does not require any balancing, it does not require any new programming and so on. It basically requires an artist.

What do you mean “add something to the warrior that he doesnt arleady have?”

Firstly, spears pole-arms or whatever could very well be weapons for other classes more than Warriors. I can easilly see Mesmers or even Elementalists using them too, aswell as Guardians.

Plus, I’m not a developer. its not MY JOB to figure out new things to add to the class, its theirs. Our job is to pay, and demand things that we think the game lacks. What do you want ? For me to write down 5 skills for a pole-arm on warriors and post them here ? So I have to make the devs work on figuring out how the weapon will work too? lol.

Also, the effort to make spears be a thing as land weapons wuldnt be that big I think. Since they already have the weapons in the game. All they’d have to do is allow them to be used on land, and add animations. Thats ALL. (They do this all the time, changing animations of skills and such. Dont tell me this is huge effort.)

Miltek.2104:

Why waste resources to make tons of skins to “new weapons” like crossbows, greataxes etc.
To me it’s better to make all classes use more of existing ones (like specializations).
At example give engineer : Hammer, Mace (of hand also), Torch, Axe (of hand also).

Adding new weapon type to the game comes with huge costs of developing them.

Because there are classes tht already use all the weapons “that makes sense” for they to use. And while other classes get access to new stuff, we have nothing new to look forward to. (Guardians and Warriors mostly.)
Or you’re gonna tell me that Warriors will start using staffs as melee weapons and their new class will be called “monk” too XD ?

Thats the problem with gw2’s playerbase, they’re satisfied with minimum. THey dont want the expansions to bring in new content, they’re happy with having just access to things that are already there.

Plus. They could just have made the underwater spears to be usable on land. That would scratch out the cost of making new skins.

lordkrall.7241:

But what would they add, gameplay-wise that is not there now?
What would a land spear add that the Warrior needs that he/she/it currently can’t do?

It is still adding stuff for the sake of adding them. A spear would not fill a niche that is not already filled.

New skills, possibilities. combos, are NOT an addition gameplay-wise !?

And EVEN if they werent, who said that an expansion must only bring new game-play, and not also new skins, and things that just look cool too ? They do this all the time bringing in those new skin packs and whatnot. As you said, “Adding stuff just for the saeke of being added”

I dont know how much of a fan you are of this game. I can tell you that you can trust that I’m the HUGEST fan of gw2 out there. But that doesnt make me blind, there is a HOLE that is the lack of those weapons in the game. Or at least one of them.

lordkrall.7241:

Why would more weapons be needed? What would they add to the game that isn’t already there?

Adding stuff just for the sake of adding it is usually not such a good idea.

Are you kidding me !?
Add new skills for people to use, therefore new build possibilities !?
Add weapons that some people may be fan of, and want to see their character using it ? What if someone doesnt like greatswords and hammers and would like to see their warrior or guardian using something else instead ?
It adds diversity, and its something that should have been in the game SINCE THE START. Since those are some of the “basic” weapons that are in absolutelly ever MMO ever.

Its not adding something for the sake of adding. Its adding for the sake of making justice to something that anyone that gets into this game expects it to be there. I heard it countless times (And felt it that way) When I realised there was no 2h axes or spears in the game. Everyone is like: “Wow! There are no 2h axes O_O !?”

There are rumors from a reddit post about somene who talked to the devs at the afterparty or something about a confirmation that there wont be any Pole-Arms avaiable in this expansion, and that the ones we see on the trailers are not to be in the game.

So… This means no land spears either ? Nor 2h axes ?…
I mean, this gotta be the one and only MMO out there that doesnt have neither of these. Yet we have things like Torches and Warhorns like weapons… Wow…

If we’re seriously not getting any new weapon, it’ll have to be a huge disappointment.
Spears are BY FAR the weapon that was most used in history through antique and medieval periods. Its the most popular weapon that there has ever been period.

Pole-arms in general are the prefered weapons for warfare, way more commonly used in battlefields than swords…. I just dont get it.

Sorry if this sounded like a rant. But this is just something that I had to put out there, I love this game, but this is defnetly one of the things that leave me with a very spite taste in the mouth about it. Specially when they advertised land spears and polearms being used on trailers. I feel cheated if thats the case…

If they’re not adding Pole-Arms, Nor land spears, NOR Two-handed axes… Wow…
This will have to be my biggest disappointment with the game so far. ubelievably that a game that haves TORCHES and Warhorns as weapons dont have the most commonly used weapon in world’s history. (Spears) And the most effective and popular as warfare (PoleArms)

I think this is the first “medieval” MMO ever to not include neither Spears, Nor pole-arms nor 2h axes in their weapon choices.

Yeah, the might nerf is kinda yet another bit of a hit against Warriors.

But there are many other classes that also rely heavilly on might. I wouldnt say it was a “lets nerf warriors even more” deal.

I’m actually convinced the “buff” was just a troll move by them XD

Will GreatSword EVER have a burst skill worth using?

I think if eles get the abilty to swap weapons too they’ll get a little too op…
At least in potential.

While Warriors, Rogues, etc. Only get 10 skills to use, we get 20 (Plus the ones of our other summoned weapons)… If we’d be able to ALSO weapon swap we’d have 40.
Its just too much stuff… not only players would feel overwhelmed, but also those who know how to abuse of the things those 40 differnt skills can offer, would be absurdly OP

Thaddeus.4891:

Crash.5362:

So, basically, he’s still on a good spot for PvP and WvW

But on PVE has fallen to the mid level of DPS’ing and nowadays its importance relies on the fact he brings banners ?

I can still hit 35k+ with my 100blades, its surreal to hear that this is low dps nowadays =o !!

We used to make 50k 100blades in normal runs with my best shot being 80k a while back. Don’t be fooled by the big number, 100 blades is a long attack, big burst but not necessary big dps compare to other professions.

But you pretty much got the picture. In PvE there is also the Phalanx build that drop Warrior dps to low tier, but allow him to stack 25 stacks of might, which is really really good for pugs run or some long fight.

Yeah, i’m familiar with it.
I run it very often on pugs… The 25 might for everyone does help.

So, basically, he’s still on a good spot for PvP and WvW

But on PVE has fallen to the mid level of DPS’ing and nowadays its importance relies on the fact he brings banners ?

I can still hit 35k+ with my 100blades, its surreal to hear that this is low dps nowadays =o !!

It will be a HUGE disappointment if no New weapons are comming up…
I cant believe this game haves Torches and Warhorns as weapons but no Pole-arms and Greataxes like 99% of all Mmos have. Like, what?

I double that. AND pole-arms.
I’ve been saying this for a while, and its REALLY awkward for a game that haves the option for you to use Torches and Warhorns as weapons for the most basic and common weapons across history and on MMO’s to not be a thing. (Pole-Arms and Axes)
I really think this is the only or one of the few MMO’s where Great-axes and pole-arms arent a thing :P I cant think of many at all.

Oh… Also, I remember I used to have some of the highest DPS on Dungeons, and so far I hasnt had trouble on Arena against any class, I almost always manage to score top points and kill more than die. But then again, maybe its just cause its unranked arena.

I have 3 lv 80 characters, been playing for some time, and Warrior is by far my favorite of them.
Its my “main” as some would call it… And its the only class I use to play on PVP.
I know of the nerfs, I was around at the time, but is Warrior really that terrible of a class as we keep claiming around here ? I dont know, I just looked around the other topics and the only one filled with people complaining is the Warrior topic…

How bad is it right now ? I hasnt played Ranked Arena yet, and its been a while since I last went Pve dungeons and such… We’re sucking that hard atm ?

I dont know, but something people been saying a lot is that the thief spec will use Rifles, Engineer spec will use hammers (Almost confirmed, it did look like it.) And that maybe mesmer spec will have shields. (I find it unlikelly, sounds unfair they’ll get two new spells only!)…

And yeah, it did look like Rytlock used some sort of spear or pole-arm in there. I do hope… Cant believe this game doesnt have any.,

Would love to see some sort of raid-like content where you tackle huge bosses with something like 10 friends…
I love the living world bosses, specially Teq and the new one, but they’re a bit messy when there’s 50+ people doing it. And it would be a cool way to add some interesting rewards; (Maybe some obs shards and useful things we’re always after?)

Also… They didnt mention anything about it, but I sure hope we’re getting pole-arms or great-axes as new weapons This is like the only MMO ever to not have them!

Those things aside, LOVED the new features and am very excited. Specially with the class-specializaiton thing.

I hear you.
I hope they include new Dungeons or challenging Raids for you to do with groups of friends and what-not. Really is something I wanted to see in this game that it lacks at.

Also, PLEASE, a new weapon-type… Pole-Weapons, Great-Axes maybe !?

Rouven.7409:

Awww, let them rest in peace. I’d not like to see them suffer, having to stay on this plane as ghosts

Or are you thinking more like Obi-Wan …. mhhhh.

Lmao at the Obi-Wan part.

Idk, I was just thinking of having them popping out to guide us in some sort of live Event at Orr, or something.
Maybe having them being a Task Npc ?
I just feel like:
1- The way they died, and the way there’s absolute no mentioning of them after they died leaves too many loosen ends. They’re chracters a lot of people liked, we’d like to know what happened after, where their bodies are, etc.
2- They’re too good of characters to get SO LITTLE participation. Anet could use them as fun NPC’s for other stuff. It just bothers me to see some npc’s that are SO BORING and bland taking enormous participation, while others that are fun and charismatic are pushed aside and given a small few missions.

So yeah. Everybody miss their mentor, and everybody loved them as characters (Specially Tybalt, for the most part.). And everybody hates how we get such a bland and boring character to take their place, in fact, our place too, as the protagonist (Trahearne. ugh.)

I’ve seen many people begging for Anet to somehow bring our mentors back and find a way to explain that somehow they survived Claw Island, or, got cleansed back and no longer are Risen after Zhaitan’s defeat and Orr’s purification. And well, though this COULD be done, I feel like it’d take away a bit of the credentials of the story, and feel a little cheap.

However, I too wish that we’d be able to have more missions, or at least ways of interacting with such characters. Tybalt still is my favorite character of the game, the most fun and well-written one IMO. Way better than any other, specially the main ones like people from the Destiny’s edge (That are almost all boring) and of course, Trahearne. Still, however, we only get to spend a small handful of a couple of missions with our mentors. I’m certain that a lot of people feel like it’d be nice to have more.

Cutting to the chase, My personal opinion on what could be done is:

Have them return as ghosts, letting us see that they’re happy in the afterlife, and kept their personality. Let them guide us through some kind of event, or have them as permanent NPC’s. Something like that, just to give their story some closure and confirmation of what really happened.
A gate closing in, and we never hearing about them again feels a little too sudden and leaves too much un-answered, plus, its a kittenty ending for characters that were so good.
Seems to me like it’d be a good way of keeping them dead, but still letting us get some answered questions on what happened, and let us at least feel happy that we still get to comunicate with them.

So, we all miss our Mentors.
And its no secret that Tybalt is the one that people miss out the most (With good reason, he was the 3rd mentor I’ve met and still defnetly is and will be my fav character of the game.)
They were all good characters that we all get easilly attatched to, and later on, are replaced with Tra-who (Meh!)

But anyway, I’ve been looking around and saw that we can have a Mini-Tybalt, aswell as a Tybalt backpack.
Also noticed that there’s a Ascended set of status under his name (Leftpaw)

Which caused me to wonder, what other stuff like items and references are out there in the game to the Mentors ? If any at all that I dont know yet.
(Tybalt, Forgal and Sieran)

Cool that they did that. Would love to buy a Leftpaw Rifle just for the memories of the ol’ pal.

Yeah. I got very sad when I heard that he’ll make a re-appearance. Ugh, no more Trehearne, please… Please…

Unless the new Dragon eats him. Now that I’d like to see.

Maybe.

Either way, I hope he doesnt die and comes back soon.

I miss him already, as someone above said, the only character I managed to like and care about from the DE group.
In fact… Probably the only character I managed to like ever-since the Mentors.

I’d be really sad if Rytlock died or became an enemy that we must kill. He’s got interesting personality/voice acting. One of the few characters that I still remember and care about from my storyline.

If they’d want to kill an important character, why not Trahearne ? No one likes him, No one would miss him.

Still hoping Mordremoth kills him.
He’s the wors character by far…

Terrible voice-acting, boring and dull
No personality what-so-ever
Predictable lines (You can guess what kind of reaction and message he’ll give before he does)
Steals all the credit and completely destroys the concept of “Your Storyline” from the moment he appears in the game.

I dont get it how they managed to make characters that we’ve been so little with so remrkable and great (Such as the mentors) And they cant manage to make one that we spent an entire half of the plot with be anything but terribad.

They should just make him get corrupted or something ala Scarlet or the sabouteur, so that we can have a cool boss battle against him.
Would be fun, we’d be fighting a “legendry” figure, and we’d finally have a spot open for someone else to take the “Protagonist” role in the game. WEll, since it cant be ourselves, at least make it be someone interesting.

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IMO this is the kind of thought that keeps games from improving and fixing up their mistakes.
Following this line of thought, no game should ever improve or fix a bug unless its a game-breaking one, since players could “just avoid that content, since its bugged or broken” somehow.
Maybe you dont play the pub pvp, but some people do, specially newcomers like myself. And we, newcomers and other ppl who play it, would like to see it fixed rather than have it being “A part of the game that shouldnt be played”

Very well, i’m a bit new to the game, but I’m pretty certain that I’m not the only one that’s being annoyed by this fact.
I’ve been playing a lot of PvP lately in the game, now that I’ve made it to lv 80, and I actually really love the PvP of Gw2, its way better than most I tried on other MMO’s…

However, on the pick-up pvp. I cant help but feel like 70% of the games are defined by which team haves most players. Almost EVERY game there is a number advantage for one of the teams, making it a 3v4 or 4v5, which makes it nearly impossible for a different outcome from, guess what, the team with more players winning.

That’s not the greatest issue. The greatest issue is the fact that, since we get to pick which team we’re joining before entering a already-existant game, the team that gets the EXTRA player is ALWAYS the team who’s already winning, since people want free wins.

This makes it almost always obvious which team that will win the game from the very start, since: Winning team = Team who gets +1 player = Team who wins.

It really annoys me, since I really enjoy the pvp of the game, and though I still have fun playing it, I really would like to see a normal 4v4 or 5v5 match play out for once, where skills, builds, and players would be tested rather than simply winning via having +1 player…

I dont get it why this hasnt been fixed before. I can come up with several fixes to it myself:

1- Dont let players pick the team that’s already winning when they’re about to join a game that has teams with even number of players.

2- Give the team that haves less players some sort of buff (Like, 15 or 20% extra damage and health) For the meantime that they’re outnumbered. So that they stand a chance when they get 2v1 or 3v2 on a fight.

3- Create a system in which the team who haves an extra player is forced to have one of its members kept at its base until another member dies, so that there will only be an equal number of players in the battleground at the same time.

I dont know, sounds like such a easy fix to me for such a big problem…

Behellagh.1468:

G210 is a very minimal graphics card. You are going to have to play at lowest settings, lowest resolution and even then your frame rate alone in a zone will probably not be that great.

I see. I do plan on upgrading my computer, for better performance on the game, however, what do you suggest ?
A better graphic card, or a better processor ?

Alright, so, I bought the game and sure am very eager to play, however, I did not upgrade my computer quite yet (which I plan to)…
Anyway, my questions are two:

1- Will I be able to run GW2 in my computer with the current specifications, or only afterwards I upgrade it? (Assuming I’d put all graphics ’n stuff at minimum)

2- If not, what should I get ? New processor ?

Current system specs:

Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5700 @3.00GHz 3.00GHz
RAM: 4.00GB (3.25 gb usable)
32 bits operational system.
Nvidia GeForce 210

I’m well aware that the processor is below the game’s minimum requirements, but I’ve had several games that demanded a Core 2 Duo at minimum and they ran smoothly enough nonetheless… I dont know why, Not very tech savvy, so it is why I seek guidance and answer to my questions, please, help! ^^

(Sorry for poor english, I’m Brazillian)