Well I played GW1 since it released and I find GW2 much more enjoyable with the combat. Only thing I’d like to see would be to give us a few more skills to choose from for the weapons and allow us to switch those weapon skills (say there are 10 skills per weapon, allow us to customize our skill bar for 5 of those skills). Otherwise, I much prefer GW2’s combat.
Could just put something like that LFG website in game, basically a message board. GW1 had them in each city/outpost. Just expand that globally and you’d have a very nice LFG tool.
I’d rather see them concentrate more on the open world rather than have more instances.
level scaling is one of the best features of the game. if you remove it you will have a totally different game and basically will have to design everything else from the ground up
I think GW2 development team has changed there focus and now want to move people over to dungeons/WvW and drop working on the open world. Thats my impression right now.
I certainly hope that’s not the case. The open world is the best part of this game.
I don’t mind the WvW part of the game but if they focus on getting everyone into Dungeons I’ll be super disappointed. That would probably spell the end of the game for me at least.
I enjoy the combat in GW2 but’s not really a true action game, it’s a hybrid.
true action games would be something like Vindictus and Dragon Nest.
I know it sucks.
RIP GW2
Sincerely
GW1 playersPlease stop acting like all GW1 players agree with you.
Sincerely
a GW1 player
Same here.
Anyway, I think this is a case of a mountain being made out of a molehill.
These are game forums, it’s what happens. Some other game forums are actually more negative than this. I said in another thread but if you really want to enjoy the game then one of the best things you can do is avoid the forums altogether.
Didn’t we talk about this back in November? Anyway, yeah the ascended gear kind of blindsided us a bit but it looks like it will be quite a while before the weapons are in anyway.
Same here. The past few days have been really bad. I get about a 10% success rate in actually opening whatever forum page here. I might just skip coming here until the problem gets resolved.
I do them every once in a while, once or twice a week. I enjoy them. I certainly don’t do them for the loot (well really in this game I don’t do anything for the gear). I just enjoy killing the big dragons with a bunch of strangers.
Compared to other mmos if your age is less then 500 and thinking about quitting it, it wasn’t very good. Compared to GW1 I had over 7,000 hours in 7 years and I still actively play it. GW2 I have 400ish hours and maybe play it every 2-4 days (to do a dungeon or two). Not a good investment for me…not good at all
Is the guild wars franchise the only video games you have ever purchased?
What delay? Never had a problem with this.
Really the best way to enjoy games is to not go to the forums. Forums for all games are a depressing place.
Well I don’t know about you but I have over 50 fine transmutation stones in my bank and I haven’t spent a dime in the store.
Essentially yes. The stones are one time use consumable. But you get so many of them just by playing the game (map completions, chests, personal story rewards).
Yeah you combine both pieces of gear into one. When you use a stone and put both armor pieces in (or weapon) you’ll get a choice of which look you want, what stats you want, and what modification (rune or sigil) you want.
Well the armor will transmute the first time, after that you will have to use the stones just like any other armor. Just really depends on if you like the look of the armor.
By the way, what does Transmog mean in your title? Did you misspell transmute?
Maybe, but I’d be perfectly happy if they added to the pvp part of the game (it needs it in my opinion) and put in some quality of life stuff for the whole game (i.e. more functional LFG tool, preview option for the tradepost, better sorting options for the tradepost). And if they add in and switched some dynamic events around then I think it would definitely be a good couple of patches.
They are my favorite enemy to fight on my necromancer, they die so easy.
But yeah, if you have any kind of skill to remove boons, they are mincemeat.
I couldn’t agree more. The best part of the game is the world itself. Why are they focusing their development effort on instances, I hate them.
You don’t have to actually complete the jumping puzzle to get credit for the monthly. You just have to “discover” it.
Mini games and guesting please.
They have come up with a lot of mini games for the holiday events, I would think it fairly simple for them to put them in permanently in their respective cities.
not sure what the hang up on guesting is though
I’d like to have options A and B
But really the main thing I’d like to have is to be able to switch out my skills per weapon. Say there is a pool of 10 weapon skills for each weapon, then we can select 5 of those skills to have available. Well maybe 4 since the 1 skill will have to be one in which there is no cooldown on.
It’s a kitten easy monthly except for the fractals. I have yet to complete a fractal so I don’t think I’ll complete this monthly again. For those that do though, can probably complete this in 3 to 4 days.
endgame in an mmo is a misnomer
I would love to be able to save templates like we did in GW1. Heck if they need a gold sink with this, just have a one time fee for each extra template that we are allowed to have.
I’d love to be able to experiment with different trait setups along with different weapons and utility skills. That was actually the best part of GW1, coming up with different builds. I’d like to see that come to GW2.
boy this thread has blown up
some folks here have caught on to the right idea. what needs to happen is better encounter design and better npc enemy AI. Since this combat has more action and fps elements to it, take a clue from fps games. fps AI is infinitely superior to mmorpg AI. Use tactics like flanking, scatter from aoe, cover, kiting, all that good stuff. Incorporate that to the mobs instead of reverting back to the tired holy trinity formula.
No, it doesn’t need to come back.
However, what I do feel that the game could use is better use of the combos (combo field and finishers). Make them more important in group situations. I think people will have a better sense of teamwork if that were the case.
But having specialized tank, damage, heal roles? No thanks, there are a million games out there for that type of play style.
I agree they really dropped the ball on a proper LFG tool. GW1 even has a much better one.
ANet has officially stated that Legendary stats will be bumped to Ascended when Ascended weapons are introduced.
They actually stated that ascended weapons would help “bridge the gap” between exotic and legendary weapons. It’s my belief that Legendary weapons will be better than ascended weapons which will be better than exotics. Basically Orange items will one day be equivalent to current day Greens . Which is a huge shame. It makes spending resources and materials for rare exotics a set back .
They are talking about the time gap in order to acquire said items, not a gap in power.
Guardian Hammer skill #4 + random invader + cliff.
Far, far, far more fun.
Best skill in the game. I laugh every time I use it.
Well, we really can’t have an argument about feelings.
I thought we were way past these arguments. Doesn’t WoW have an item shop in addition to the sub fee and paying for the initial game? There are much worse payment models than what GW2 has.
=/ they should just bring back holy trinity since most cant grasp the concept of playing a game without it
Sure seems like it.
Although the game would be destroyed if they brought back the holy trinity.
this doesnt seem very good then, looks like i wasted £50
If you are looking for a WoW type of endgame of raiding and gear grind/progression, then yeah you did.
To help alleviate it (You can’t really 100% stop it) I suggest the devs take a page out of TSW.
Indeed. But Funcom is a lot better at designing scripted content than ArenaNet is.
The skipping culture comes from in part from lack luster and tedious instance designs and it also comes from the speed clear culture of GW1.
It’s one of the reasons why I don’t run dungeons in GW2, which is a shame since that is what the game at max level seems to want you to do.
I like this area. It’s one of a few areas in which you really feel that there is a back and forth battle going on.
With the personal story tied to your race, I seriously doubt any such feature will be put in.
It really hammers the point that people want to be told what to do and where to go. At least those first three points really show that for the OP of that article. It’s why a real sandbox mmo will never be popular.
I think if the author really wanted to be critical of the game he picked the wrong points.
I’ve only ever gotten a karma jug and a mystic coin
I disagree with every point there except for the last point.
Congratulations ArenaNet
It’s certainly the best mmo I’ve played this year.
It’s good to know it wont be there forever, so, are you implementing armor preview for TP maybe?
I’m really hoping this is the case.
I absolutely despise RNG in cash shops. And then on top of that you make those RNG items non tradeable. I don’t mind anything else in the cash shop except for that. It makes for a real bad taste.
Anyone coming in to the game later is getting a less amazing experience IMHO.
.And the mmorpg solution for the last decade has been to make it easier to get to L80. Because that’s where the real game begins.
BAAHAHAHAHAH! You’re joking right?
Waitwut, did I just get trolled?
Well what he said is basically true for the majority of the mmos. Most of them are bimodal in nature and the leveling is just transitory. For me, the “end game” is where I almost always quit an mmo because it just isn’t fun for me.
Been playing since it released and I’ve never seen one drop. Only time I get one is from the personal story reward.
Won’t happen. GW1 is almost 8 years old and it is still buy to play.
It’s one of my favorite features of the game. The only thing better would be to have no levels at all.