Guild Wars 2

This has been in another thread.. and I made a long post about exactly how long it took to get through all the maps to all the dungeons/world bosses etc.

tl;dr it takes less than 90 minutes to get the slowest character in the game (Mesmer) to all the needed areas if you plan your route. 90 minutes per character is a small compromise given you got to 80 your character instantly.

Spoon.6170:

Crystallize.8603:

Einlanzer.1627:

This stat seems like a total waste. I’m sure there are certain highly specialized builds that benefit some from running it (i.e. a full-support Ele or Guardian), but it really feels under-tuned in general. So much so that for 90% of builds you’re significantly gimping yourself by having any of it whatsoever on your gear. I feel like it single-handedly reduces the value of Celestial Gear, for example, by hogging up all of the bonus stat points and then some that would be better served by being allocated to literally any other stat.

What are others’ opinions on this? Is it something that’s ever been discussed by the devs? I sort of see it as being a problem that needs to be addressed.

Passive defence/healing/support is generally considered fairly trash since active defence (dodging/blocking) is far more effective.

Being able to dodge every single hit or just block it renders defensive stats fairly useless. Hence zerker meta.

No, healing stats aren’t considered that useful because blasting water fields is where most of the group healing comes from and that is independent of the healing stats of the field caster or the blaster.

Blasting water :<?
But but fire!

Einlanzer.1627:

This stat seems like a total waste. I’m sure there are certain highly specialized builds that benefit some from running it (i.e. a full-support Ele or Guardian), but it really feels under-tuned in general. So much so that for 90% of builds you’re significantly gimping yourself by having any of it whatsoever on your gear. I feel like it single-handedly reduces the value of Celestial Gear, for example, by hogging up all of the bonus stat points and then some that would be better served by being allocated to literally any other stat.

What are others’ opinions on this? Is it something that’s ever been discussed by the devs? I sort of see it as being a problem that needs to be addressed.

Passive defence/healing/support is generally considered fairly trash since active defence (dodging/blocking) is far more effective.

Being able to dodge every single hit or just block it renders defensive stats fairly useless. Hence zerker meta.

Lordwafflez.4163:

I had to literally tell this guy for 5 minutes to sit on the oil leak in path 1. And the other time this guy just aggroes all the mobs all the time. Then when i tell them “Please dont aggro the mobs” they just keep doing it. Why don’t people just listen to people who have done the dungeon before? Is that too much to ask?

Do you even know if he was able to speak English? There are people from all over the world playing and maybe he didn’t understand. Also, you’ll find players that are older perhaps, and are used to VOIP don’t tend to pay any attention to chat period.
Final instance, they had you blocked and you didn’t notice!

Talyn.3295:

AP are a great filter.

When you look at a group and see them in the description you know right away if your the kinda of person who wants to be in a group with them or not. If you don’t mind AP points used as an experience guide join. If you do don’t.

Under 2k AP = generally terrible or an alt.

EDIT:

Under 7k AP = generally terrible or an alt.

Gambit.8425:

Judging by another thread here on the first page even the white knights have come to a conclusion that Hot will be a thin cash grab bundle of LS leftovers while more content is coming in the “future”.

Pretty sure the majority of forum warriors believe this.

Solzero.5380:

So I recently started using swords and notice that only a few of them feel good due to the fact of how the character holds it. Usually the hand is placed closer to the guard but in gw2 most of the time we are holding sword at the end of the hilt… this seems really weird to me, and makes the sword look unappealing to use. I’ts almost as I’m swinging a fancy stick. Balthazar, Crimson lion, Phoenix, Fractal, Aetherrized, Wintersday and Jade sword are a few of the sword that look and feel good in terms of aesthetics. I really hope arenanet moves the position of the the sword so the hand is closer to the guard.

This might happen
#Soon

Honestly this is just more trivial things that make HoT come out later. Get some perspective people.

Thats why HoT is so delayed. They wanted to get new players into the game with this new OP trait system. At the cost of resources on HoT.
So old players have to wait for HoT
New players can experience easy mode Gw2 till HoT
#Soon
#BestMarketingStrategys

skowcia.8257:

Since last elite spec reveal. Wazzup? That break is a bit too long.

8 weeks without any news is a problem to you, but 6 months without any substantial new content (except a rebuilt map that took 12 months to do) isn’t a problem? word.

I hear there is a forum and a reddit and.. a site called.. betabattle.. no.. hetabattle? Idk.
Maybe you could ask/search those for a build without wasting your precious gold.
Not sure why you don’t want to spend gold on a game. Why did you make it in the first place?

Make your own group. Group with friends 3/5. Never get kicked. Not hard.

No. Skype. /shoo

Miku.6297:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

I really don’t see this as necessary… Not by a long shot.

But would it hurt to include? Even if it’s only a minor QoL improvement, something that would most-likely be simple to add would be worth it, if it improves a players overall experience.

Time it takes, is resources away from HoT. IMPOSSIBRU

Stace.1357:

yes that is my complaint thanks to the new op update, it’s also cost me quite a lot trying out new armor and runes with my hard earned gold…. I don’t see why they keep changing skills so often. It’s understandable when a skill becomes too op and abused ( like Shadow Form from gw1) but was this last update really necessary, unbalancing things so much?
I’d much rather them work on improving other game issues like the dodgy targeting system and running slow motion in aggro, and leave things which are not broken.

If you know about Shadow Form, you’ll know that no matter how many times it was “nerfed” they ended up making it the most over powered skill the later into the game it got. Sure, originally you took no damage/no damage reduction.
However, when they changed it, they allowed Rangers to rip the game apart (can still) since you take physical damage albeit 0s.

Expecting anet to do a good job on skill balancing is asking way too much.

LandStander.7094:

Crystallize.8603:

The issue I have; and I’ve spoken to my partner many times about this in the past is that a lot of the LGBT community wants to fit in. They want to be accepted and they want to be treated like everyone else. Which is their right and I don’t think there are many in the gaming community that really has an issue with that whatsoever.
At least; I’ve never met anyone that has any issue with my sexual preference though I’ve only mentioned it a few times to a few friends online.
I’ve personally never felt the need to tell people about it I’m not hiding it. I just don’t feel that in a game, I need to tell everyone about it.

Regardless of who I’m attracted to, if I’m homosexual or hetrosexual it doesn’t influence my gaming in anyway, it doesn’t influence my ability to play and it doesn’t change how I interact with people.

I don’t understand why a lot in the LGBT community feel they have to parade it around for everyone to see. Wanting to be accepted and wanting to be noticed are entirely different things.
Sure; needing rights and protection is a big thing in the US. Being able to be open about your sexuality is wonderful and I encourage it. But being open about your sexuality and parading it around for everyone to see is a different thing entirely.

The whole; Lesbian Living Story.. I don’t think that was anything other than Anet directly trying to be PC. Transgender NPC? PC gone mad.

I’m not against any sexual orientation; I just don’t see the need for anyones sexuallity to be paraded around like it’s a big deal for anyone but the individual, because it’s not.

Transgender NPC standing around in Lions Arch = parading around like it is a big deal.

Ok?

If you read what I wrote; maybe it didn’t come across quite as clear as I meant it to. (But we’ll never know for sure since you’ll just respond that you did read it all.) That I didn’t have an issue with the NPC at all.
My issue was more directed at some members; probably a tiny minority that are outwardly in my opinion screaming “I’m a part of the LGBT community, pay attention to me” which from my personal experience is just so counter productive :s

The issue I have; and I’ve spoken to my partner many times about this in the past is that a lot of the LGBT community wants to fit in. They want to be accepted and they want to be treated like everyone else. Which is their right and I don’t think there are many in the gaming community that really has an issue with that whatsoever.
At least; I’ve never met anyone that has any issue with my sexual preference though I’ve only mentioned it a few times to a few friends online.
I’ve personally never felt the need to tell people about it I’m not hiding it. I just don’t feel that in a game, I need to tell everyone about it.

Regardless of who I’m attracted to, if I’m homosexual or hetrosexual it doesn’t influence my gaming in anyway, it doesn’t influence my ability to play and it doesn’t change how I interact with people.

I don’t understand why a lot in the LGBT community feel they have to parade it around for everyone to see. Wanting to be accepted and wanting to be noticed are entirely different things.
Sure; needing rights and protection is a big thing in the US. Being able to be open about your sexuality is wonderful and I encourage it. But being open about your sexuality and parading it around for everyone to see is a different thing entirely.

The whole; Lesbian Living Story.. I don’t think that was anything other than Anet directly trying to be PC. Transgender NPC? PC gone mad.
I’m not saying all sexual orientations shouldn’t be included. Not at all. But it is main characters and it’s a lot of the story so it does feel it’s there for the sake of inclusion rather than to represent everyone.
“We have to include this or we’ll look homophobic” rather than “we believe that all sexual orientations should be represented”
That’s just how it feels to be personally.

I’m not against any sexual orientation; I just don’t see the need for anyones sexuallity to be paraded around like it’s a big deal for anyone but the individual, because it’s not.

So what happens to the “base game” that is thrown in for free? We just lose out on an account?

Also. Dear Anet;

YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG WHEN YOUR ENTIRE FIRST PAGE IS PRETTY MUCH COMPLAINTS

http://i.imgur.com/ezjA1x0.png

Buying the basic standard edition of Gw2 HoT gives us a serial code.

This code will give us:

Access to Gw2
Access to Gw2 HoT

So as a new account, this opens both Gw2 and Gw2HoT.

If applied to an existing Gw2 account;

Access to Gw2HoT
+1 additional character slot?

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Perhaps, you could just replace your existing trinkets or upgrades with those featuring Toughness/Vitality etc.

Good luck.

Uh, well that was sort of the point of my post: I don’t think we should have to do that.

Amulet: 20 laurels + 250 badges

Rings: 25 laurels + 250 badges

Accessories: 40 laurels + 50 ecto

Given the stats don’t translate directly (2 stats for a trait line vs 3 for a trinket) then I could see myself adjusting 150 laurels worth of gear to rebalance just for 1 of my 8 alts.

Rings come from fractals.
Guild Missions/Dungeoneer(only expense comes from 2nd sets of dungeoneer) for Earrings
2 Amulets a month from Laurels
Backpiece.. is the only real difficulty.

Soon™
/15chars

Given ascended accessories are basically on every single character.. i’d wager the only reason to bring 500 is for legendary (ie. changable stat) accessories. :s

We’ll probably get some cool new jungle armor skins in the gemstore to progress our wardrobe and maybe some awesome new weapon skins.

You have basically answered your own question.

If you’re talking about the Fractal Relics for the backpeice/infusions then yes. Doing Fractals over and over is the only way to get them

If you’re looking for Pristine Relics (currency for Rings) then you can get 1 daily from

1-10
11-20
21-30 etc

But only if your personal level meets the teir in question.

Honestly just doing a Fractal every day (to progress) should be enough to get you all the relics you need.

If you are that desperate, you can break down pristine relics for 15 fractal relics.
Also, completing Fractals when it’s (daily frctals) will reward you with an extra pristine.

So we’re getting prepared for 3-4 weeks of videos about Lions Arch, 6-7 weeks of videos about each specialisation and then the content release?

Am I right!?

There will be no new content till HoT releases.

The problem is, who cares how profitable SW is?

I mean, that’s all some people do. All day, every day. and for what exactly? To get that new legendary? Okay great.

So instead of running around with Visions of the Mists greatsword skin you can run around with Twilight (just an example)..
But then that same person goes back into Silverwastes and spends the next 300 hours doing the same thing..

Silverwastes>Gold>Buy Item (Gemstore or TP)/Craft Item>Repeat
Silverwastes>Gold>Buy Item (Gemstore or TP)/Craft Item>Repeat
Silverwastes>Gold>Buy Item (Gemstore or TP)/Craft Item>Repeat

Like, there is no point at the end of the day.
Each time just looking a bit different. Now that’s not really an issue when that treadmill is situated in between other places to get gold at the same rate.

Dungeons ~ relatively easy content (fast paths) and can net similar amounts of gold within a given timeframe.

Fractal ~ relatively difficult content (higher scales) and nets nearly no rewards at all.

Silverwastes is currently one of the, if not the most profitable place in the game and requires no skill and no real participation (chest running = 1 driver and other ppl following pressing F)

Now the problem here is; everything after a point requires gold. A lot of gold, for very little progress

Looking at collections;

Exotic Hunter – I doubt anyone who has this (or very few) didn’t spend a few 100gold on at least 1 or 2 of the weapons
Spirit Weapon Crafter – Well over 1k gold
Dwayna Collection – Not sure but is still a lot

Just 3 require constant grinding and overall net what? 5 AP each or something miniscule?

In my honest opinion, we need something that generates more gold for more challenging content (Fractals could be the platform for this) rather than the easiest game mode being the most rewarding.

If they just put The Underworld in 8 man instance.. all would be solved.

2 Guard, 2 War, 2 Ele, 2 Thief.

Split into 4..
Stealth about the place.. Icebow.. Reflect.. might stack(bannerkitten)

Do all the missions.. problem solved. Raid idea right here anet come get it.

Which is a shame since a lot of people will quit and anet will make less money on the xpac. (Some will come back, others will when there is a sale, and some wont ever)

Oxidia.8103:

I remember the days when infused rings came with 5 ar allready in.

Me too.

Red Ring of Death (Infused)

Offensive Infusion Slot
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion

Agony Infusion Slot
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony_Infusion

As someone that pushed above and beyond 50 pre ANETLEVELSTEALING
I kinda miss the fact that everyone had to be the same fractal level (no piggybacking).

I kinda also miss if someone DCd you had to 4 man it.. or the instance owner DCd…:D

Thing is, now a lot of people do levels so much higher than their own reward level and don’t have a clue about what they are doing.

“Np gais. I have 85 AR and full ascended – personal level is only 15 but np”

It really shows when people haven’t done all lower scales when you’re up that high.

At least in the past, you had to get both rings/infused/backpiece by doing Fractals~~

The problem was, when the fractal changes “started” you needed to do Guild Missions/Laurel saving to get Amulet/Earrings.

I guess I liked that the whole point of Fractals (to me at least) was you progressed in Fractals, to progress in fractals

What I mean by this is, you had to do Fractals, to do higher fractals.

Now, you make all the armor/earrings/backpieces/amulets from open world pve/living story/guild missions and it’s just not the same.

Okay you still have to do some fractals to get the Versatile Infusions for the AR, but that can be got just doing 1-10 at the end of the day :/

Issue is, okay remove the canon phase.. but then what?
Boss fight is the same the whole way through.
The canons are kinda kitten and should be removed, but there needs some diversity in the fight.
Having a stage where we can’t attack the boss imo is pointless and should be removed, but something should replace it.

So you’re basically saying you want to play WvW.

All classes are viable in WvW, if you’re looking to join a WvW “raid guild” then they may have a set of builds/classes they want you to run.

simplesimon.2084:

Hopefully we get some word on a time frame. I have two characters that were made after the last trait change that need some traits unlocked. I’ve been holding off because I don’t want the spend the time or gold and then have the trait update roll out a week later.

This^

a lot of that stuff relates to alpha testers tho..
We’re not really here to test that sort of thing. We’re here to test the servers/events/gameplay.

Honestly, people have a different understanding of the word casual.

To me, a casual TA would be skipping past a lot of the mobs. Bosses would still be killed/champs still. But a casual run to me isn’t killing every single mob.

To me a speed run is, stacking might/swiftness. All running zerker builds and using specific traits/skill sets.

It is possible, given that the LFG message doesn’t show the entire text unless you hover over it, people just missed it. Idk just a suggestion.

We’re very unlikely to see anything until HoT at this point. The community has proven itself to be content enough with watching short videos and interviews with developers that then give us a lot of waffle about what might come, what they would like, their ideas.. and then some conclusions based off their thoughts rather than actual information most of the time.

So at this point in time, it’s worth putting gw2 down if you’re expecting something before HoT.

The real issue is that right now. The ONLY THINGS I CAN DO is to grind gold or to grind pvp to PROGRESS
I can do dailys to get AP, or I can grind gold to get achievements. That is literally all I can do to progress AP wise which is the natural progression.

No event, nothing “different” to do right now.. no WvW tournament.. no valnetines/spring/jubilie/four winds etc.. :/

kash.9213:

If you ever find an MMO that makes you happy after a couple of years please post back here if you’re not busy with long posts on their forums.

I played gw1 from launch~ till gw2 launch. #16k hours

Azala Yar.7693:

Crystallize.8603:

I can’t do my daily today because I’d have to go out of my way to do it.

Please make 3 Fractal dailys every day so I can complete my daily please.

Seeing as more complain about there being 2 fractals in the dailies on occasions.
Do you troll much?

I do not. At all ever.
I actually like double fractal dailies. I only do Fractals when I log in, so why on earth would I complain.
I guess reading is hard :c

new solution. Remove the daily completely

No. I am entitled to complete my daily by not going out of my way. Therefore 3 of the dailys every day should be fractals.

Elden Arnaas.4870:

What daily can you get just standing in DR? What is it that justifies your outrage?

Kryta Vista
Crafting
Kryta Gatherer

Telling people to take breaks from a game before a paid expansion comes out.. is kinda awful.
I love the game, i do enjoy it a lot. The problem I am having is that there is nothing different to do. There have been no events which every other MMO is releasing right now.
Even if its just special drops during valentines. That’s the whole point, there is just nothing in the last 100 days (104? or so days was the dragon festival) that’s coming up to a 1/3 of the year.. :/

Dinks.2478:

So instead of educating yourself on the topic you’re discussing you’re going to discard what was already discussed and then blame others for calling you out on not knowing what you’re talking about?

The reward for raids can be the same thing we get from everywhere else. New skins. This whole game is built around skins. The concept of rewarding players for completing difficult content with skins shouldn’t be too hard for people to grasp.

New skins; okay but we already have methods for new skins which is simply dungeons and fractals. They are all unique skins that are rewarded for completing them.

If you deem them challenging or not, why are we getting more and more content offering basically the same reward?
Is there an actual need for content that only rewards the same as other content? Not really?

Fractals rewards:

Asc Rings
Asc Weapon Boxes
Asc Armor Boxes
Fractal Weapon Skins
Fractal Tonic

Dungeons reward:

Armor skins/full armor sets
Weapon skins/full weapon sets

EDIT Yes I can see the want for more people instances. I have played many games with more manned instances. 8man/12/24/48 But I can’t personally see how they are going to work in GW2 and why there is a need for them outside of “some” people would like them.

Aion and TERA are currently free to play for NA and Europe (the two main regions that Gw2 is delivered to.

These are just the two I play and know of. I am sure there are other games falling into the same genre or very similar that offer similar payment structure. (Free to play)

Both Aion and TERA’s income might come from their Korea counterparts, but that has little relevance to the NA/EU market that is invested in gw2.
All gw2 players could suddenly go to Aion/TERA for free. Get free updates, get free content (no buy to play, totally free) and progress to the max level and be a top player.
FOR FREE
Paying will enhance your progress. But it is totally possible to reach the top as a f2p player on those sorts of games.
Tell me why many players would choose to pay extra $ to gw2 after they have left for a break and taken up/got interested in another game. One that is releasing free updates?

timmyf.1490:

Crystallize.8603:

So what is the purpose for the raid? Simply difficult content with no reward?

Maybe a new currency to buy X (New currency ideas alrdy are hated)

Maybe specific materials to craft a very special legendary weapon? But then that means you’re doing more than just raiding.. which I guess the raiders dont want..

They’d be better off imo, improving Fractals. Increasing the amount/difficulty/scales/rewards rather than working on raids.

We literally had hundreds of posts discussing this in the CDI. You could perhaps start there and educate yourself about the types of things people want rather than setting up and knocking down strawmen.

For my part, I suggested raids would allow players to upgrade Ascended armor into stat-switchable Legendary armor. Perhaps later raids would allow Legendary armor pieces to be upgraded and then usable across armor classes as well.

This is just one of many ideas.

My apologies for having missed those posts. I tend to focus on other areas of the forum in the limited time available to me and therefore can’t edumacate myself to your standard.

I however am allowed to express my own opinion and what in my opinion would be good. Sorry for contributing. I wont next time.

Because why should someone be rewarded with their daily AP for going to a Vista/Gathering/Doing a brainless spam 1 world boss

Because that’s what they enjoy/do daily

and I’m rewarded with LESS

For doing a scale 50 Fractal (gets daily fractal done) then I have to do 2 other things.

That daily 50 fractal, might have gotten me some nice loot, but it was;

a) challenging
b) took time
c) used more than 1 skill and F.

The dailys need to be more challenging. Not less challenging and easier for everyone to complete just standing in DR

Problem stems back to; what is the reward for a raid?

Specific armor skins/weapons ?
This is already catered to by dungeons / pvp rewards
Specific weapon skins
This is already catered too by Fractals (and the rewards here are complained at by most)

So what is the purpose for the raid? Simply difficult content with no reward?

Maybe a new currency to buy X (New currency ideas alrdy are hated)

Maybe specific materials to craft a very special legendary weapon? But then that means you’re doing more than just raiding.. which I guess the raiders dont want..

They’d be better off imo, improving Fractals. Increasing the amount/difficulty/scales/rewards rather than working on raids.

I similarly play a lot of different games at once, but I was prioritising gw2. The other games I play, are either f2p or b2p. However none of them other than GW2 are shipping an xpac for $ in the near future/at all, yet are still releasing healthy amount of content to keep me busy.
Even in AionEU (f2p) I’ve not paid a $ and am getting regular updates and content. I admit this content is funded by the KR market paying their monthly sub but the publisher is making money through it’s cash shop to support itself still.
But if I suddenly drop gw2 and “come back for a fresh feel” but that’s surrounded by kitten price tag, then anyone, myself included might and probably will have 2nd thoughts, especially since given the info about HoT is trickling out slower than ever, and there has been nothing thus far that would compel a player like myself to want to buy it with so little replayable gameplay in store (so we can see right now)

Triple Fractal Daily – Remove all other dailys from rotations = challenging content. NP

Broom.2561:

a guild is a bit more than something you join for convenience, and leave to be with other guilds at the drop of a hat.

Truth

So you want 10 AP for something you can be bothered to do. Like getting a vista?
I can’t be bothered to do that tho. So you’re removing my double fractal to get easier ones?

Better pve ones?

Like Vista/Heart/PoI?
Gathering?
Jump Puzzle?

You just want 10 AP for standing around doing FAll don’t you?

also. Fractals can drop skins/weapon boxes/armor boxes at scale 19 – and do fairly consistently