Wall of text but I stopped at the whole Bull’s Strike thing. If you were a warrior using Bull’s Strike in the GW1 metagame, you weren’t doing the metagame right to begin with. Which, really, this is where the play-your-way chimes in. GW2 is designed to have a metagame and still be completed by how other people play – the metagame doesn’t necessarily finish content, just finishes content faster. That’s key.
The fact that I can run around with an ele camping air for Lightning Whip or use bearbow on my ranger or, if I wanted, use swordhorn/dual axes/sword and board/staff mesmer for PvE content makes play-your-way viable. Which is a nice bonus for me, because I love using this stuff for cosmetic/cosplay purposes.
It doesn’t require specialization to complete – although it does require people to have some idea of what they are doing. When you run across a player who’s not very good, there’s a strong likelihood even if you gave them a good build they wouldn’t be very good.
I’m not really sure. I feel like it’s a bit of a stiff for people who grabbed hold of a good name early. Yet it’s still not very fair to active players if someone who will never touch the game again has a name they want. Perhaps they could use 365 days (1 year) + 2 week grace. After 365 days of inactivity, ANet sends these players an email regarding the situation. If they have interest in playing, the email will prompt them to visit GW2 or message Customer Support if they don’t want your proposed mandatory name change, and they’ll have 2 weeks before it takes into effect.
It might help to weed out the people who simply haven’t logged on for a year vs. the people who will likely never log on again.
My “if wishes were horses” changed would be do close the gap between high, medium and low HP professions by 25% from top and bottom, but that’s a general game mechanic wish and not Ele specific.
I liked how in GW1 everyone had the same health and it changed according to the upgrades you ran with your armor and weapons. I could see the game being different if an elementalist and warrior had the same amount of health (maybe 15k being the base health for a level 80) and any decision to get more health required Vitality.
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I think we can get our enemy fill within the subplots. The dragons are just ominous harbingers of destruction – the catalyst for the cycle of death and rebirth. It’s a kind of enemy that needs to be addressed. I think of Terry Pratchett’s books:
Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.
But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
Then there was another line I couldn’t find but it was something about the nature of a dragon vs. the nature of an assassin. A dragon was big, it was menacing. But an assassin turned a corner and blended in with the crowd – a dragon couldn’t do that.
It’s just interesting, I think, to get different perspectives. While the dragons might be the big bad – we have some interesting characters and subplots that haven’t been explored completely (which I think would be better if they had just released this story as a continuous story in an expansion). When you think about it, we have the Master of Peace, the situation with Belinda (and, more specifically, her ghost that's interestingly at Fort Salma), Rytlock's disappearance, the situation with Taimi and the Council (they seem to REALLY dislike her). It’s interesting to have these fleshed out characters to balance the genuine, simple evil that is a force of destruction.
They might not be as fleshed out as The Joker or Albert Wesker or Sephiroth but these characters also don’t quite have the same degree of ability to be worked with. Having all of these go down simultaneously is a bit interesting, and feels genuine to the story. Sort of reminds me of the Batman: Arkham games – I feel like their ability to intertwine all of Gotham’s characters made the game feel stronger and more genuine than just having Batman focus on one particular villain’s mayhem.
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Am I the only person who has played GW1 that feels that a lot of the lore of the series …
I never play an MMO for the story (tbh i think very few do), i have offline games for that.
Played GW1, Ragnarok, Aion, Lineage 2, Perfect World and some other which i dont even remember the name anymore, i never care about story , most of the time it´s a wall of text that i just skip by spaming the “next” button.
Guild Wars has one of the best told stories, a really well-crafted world that ties in with its lore. ANet really spent a lot of time crafting Tyria. With that in mind, though, I’m not naive enough to try and compare this game’s story to BioShock, Kingdom Hearts, Infamous, God of War, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Final Fantasy, etc. The game has a beautifully crafted story but sure as hell isn’t one of those games that is a story in playable form.
First off, this is mostly just a roaming build – so it doesn’t need metagame strategies since everything works with roaming and story.
Anyway, so I’ve always wanted to run an elementalist with D/D focusing in air because I love the skill Lightning Whip, makes me think of Whiplash (the Mickey Rourke version). However, I’m not fond of elementalists in general – they’re hard to manage, they have low healthpools, and their utility skills make me cringe.
With that said, I’ve had some discussion with someone who is pretty good at the game has led me to conclude something that work for me for this situation would be 0/6/0/2/6 (2 in Water is for Vitality, not necessarily the Cantrip Recharge rate).
So with everything that’s been said in mind, any suggestions for how I might better improve this build for me? Stat combos, different utilities, some tweaks to traits, different runes – anything really as long as it accomplishes the goal of not being a 10k health zerker ele not using Lightning Whip.
NOT IMPROVE TO MATCH METAGAME, IN CASE SOMEBODY CAN’T READ.
I feel like ANet should’ve just released Living Story as an expansion and scrapped the whole “no expansions” notion. I think expansions simply do a better job – being able to provide a fluid story with no pauses or breaks. LS2 will be okay, I can imagine playing through again when the whole thing is released will be a blast – but the biweekly updates to the story aren’t as fun as the whole experience.
I mean, I’m assuming the jerks are undercutting gem store prices, because they’d have to, wouldn’t they? Or how would they attract idiot customers?
There are some prices I’ve seen that don’t, it’s ludicrous. $500 for a Legendary or…$500 for a Legendary. It’s mind-boggling.
I haven’t checked it out in the gem store, but if it has unlimited uses I’d say it’s a pretty decent item. Would save a helluva lot for a level 80 that ran world bosses/dungeons/events. If it’s a charge per stone, then it’s pretty useless.
I would rather have an armorset that had Power/Precision/Vit. IMO, there are plenty of runes – and if you’re using runes for the attribute bonuses, you’re not using runes very wisely – might as well swap to some rare gems.
Please not the wings. They’re ugly. I’d rather see some more backpiece skins come out in the gem store, through crafting or through token rewards – or permanent living story add-ons. Just not those wings, any backpiece skins but those wings.
i play GW for 9+ years and i say you talk BS, they eventually made an NPC that rewards players with a hat when collecting a stack of even items like candy cane shards or candy corn.
After, like, 8 years.
7 actually, they also never asked to do a full set of titles for the reward, be there and you have the hat.
if they did that exactly the way GW1 did then i could understand the exclusively but since they locked it away behind a huge achievement grind and the achievements can’t be done anymore i now side with adding the wings back in the game as reward.
heck, add them like they did with the rest, takes quite a bit of time and laurels can only be gained ones a day i see no reason to keep them out.
I imagine they’ll add the wings back whenever they work out the kinks in the Story Journal to include S1 as well…(if they ever work out the kinks).
Please not the wings. They’re ugly. I’d rather see some more backpiece skins come out in the gem store, through crafting or through token rewards – or permanent living story add-ons. Just not those wings, any backpiece skins but those wings.
i play GW for 9+ years and i say you talk BS, they eventually made an NPC that rewards players with a hat when collecting a stack of even items like candy cane shards or candy corn.
After, like, 8 years.
Belinda’s part was to remove Marjory. She was successful.
Now the player-character is going to get real kitten done. Notice how much progress we’ve made since we became the “boss”?
While the OP’s story kinda sucks, I’m even more shocked that he’d spend 1h30m to sell slots for AC Path 1 and then people bought those slots.
…The dungeon can be ran with a crappy PUG in like 15-20 minutes.
it’s like selling runs in the original GW1 to get to a town or outpost you didn’t have yet
Except they aren’t anything alike.
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I think you hit the nail on the head though with your own comment: there is a myriad of players who play Fractals.
The exclusivity of the Tournament armor would allow the Tournament players to showcase themselves – because, unlike Fractals, winning the Tournament is extremely exclusive. A Legendary weapon or some Ascended crafting materials don’t necessarily cut it for how exclusive that honor is.
I think, on the other hand, that it just returns to the issue that a lot of people have – whether or not it’s in armor skins, weapon skins, skills, classes, etc. – but we could use some serious expansion to this game.
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I don’t think GW1 had more build diversity – at least not in the metagame scheme of things. The primary difference is that it had the trinity – which basically created 2 more roles and thus tripled the size of the metagame. Take the GW1 metagame and then remove everything that isn’t even remotely part of the GW2 vision and you have about the same size of build diversity.
You don’t have SoLS healers, UA/HB monks, Panic mesmers, Imbagons, ST rits, T1/2/3, MoP etc. These are roles that don’t work within the GW2 game.
And that list isn’t all-inclusive.
I never quite knew how to respond to EotM. Nothing about what they do bothers me, yet they still bother me. After reading the reddit post for a while and contemplating, I realized what bothered me.
These people don’t run ktrains, spy, organize attacks/siege/defense for the joy of it – they do it to spite commanders they don’t like and zergs that don’t do what they want.
Essentially, this guild is filled with vindictive children that throw temper tantrums every time something doesn’t go the way they want it to. When anyone acts out of such spite toward other people, they’ll usually carry other negative features – it’s basically the horns effect. I find more negativity in them because the little they do act out on is negative.
If anyone else were actually doing what they were doing, though, I would imagine they were just playing EotM.
I imagine it’s all a conclusion. There are some references to six elder dragons (and the name Mordremoth is as meaningless as any other name – why is Zhaitan named Zhaitan?). The player character has a bunch of little blocks to work with:
*Dragons feed off of magic (the entire Personal Story led us to this conclusion)
*Leylines are like rivers of magic across Tyria (Season 1)
*Scarlet had seen something in Omadd’s Machine (Season 1)
*Scarlet had FOUND a leyline and was going out further, trying to disrupt it (Season 1 & 2)
*There’s a probability for a 6th dragon (in-game dialogue and Inquest)
Really at that point, the player just takes shots in the dark. What would be even more interesting, however, is letting our character build a story – and then make that story completely wrong. Throughout the Personal Story and the Living Story so far our character has been a superlative genius with inductive reasoning. I think it would be much more human if they turned out to be wrong about something that caused something fatal to happen – such as any of our friends getting killed.
- A new race [snip] That’s a lot of new stuff to put in.
It would be a lot of stuff, but necessarily new. There’s a lot of untapped regions (lore-wise and GW1-wise) that ANet could easily implement into starting zones and such. The Maguuma Jungle, the Far Shiverpeaks (as far as I know, most of where we’ve traveled has just been the Southern Shiverpeaks), Crystal Desert, Kourna, Istan…
As for the rest of it, it’s really not as enormous as you imply it is. Expansions are extremely common in MMOs and with 300+ employees, I’m sure ANet has some teams developing some stuff. I can’t imagine they’d have so many developers and only produce what they do…that would be a sign of a true internal crisis.
2) One or Two additional classes. Like Bard/ Ministrel or Sumoner
6) New weapons and more weapons combination – like Lance, Whip, Scythe and etc.
Honestly I think if they implement #6 correctly, we wouldn’t need #2. I think this game doesn’t even need additional classes – the 8 classes we have are extremely universal. It would just be nice to have some more weapons/skills/traits in the future to play the classes differently. A bard/Ministrel or Summoner could easily fit to a Mesmer and Necromancer, respectively, if they simply expand what each class can do.
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GIVE ME KODAN ALREADY.
Ok log in, but don’t play LS
This is basically how it works in games that do expansions.No new content for months on end.
It’s what you’re asking for, so don’t play LS for 1 year. There’s your expansion.
~1 map, a handful of skins, maybe a dungeon at this rate and one or two mega bosses? That’s not an expansion.
Warhorn: Blowing into it until the enemy dies of annoyance.
Is that person solely responsible for knocking out the game or is it the attack coming out of China like can be seen in another thread?
There’s a lot of evidence that this is the kid. Not much can be done unfortunately. At least the ones responsible for the DDoS attack on New Years got arrested shortly after that so fingers crossed.
Even if he wasn’t doing it, the amount he’s tweeted about it could warrant a subpoena on Twitter and he wouldn’t even make it to trial – just a small hearing where he will get slapped with a kittenload of fines and creditors will end up taking all of his stuff and probably auctioning them off. Even if he wasn’t doing it, he’s provided enough self-incrimination to justify enough of a lawsuit to render him homeless.
It’s kind of sad.
I vote we blame him.
Seconded. I tend to blame other people for stuff anyway.
I thought DDoSing became uncool around the same time people started realizing using packet editors in MySpace chat didn’t make you cool.
If the chF dude is DDoSing, he’s like 9 years late to the party. It’s 2014 now, we have bigger stuff to worry about like how many achievements and platinum trophies we have.
I’m no expert on network security but I don’t think it is a direct consequence of DDoS attacks. With credit card information being stored server-side now, I’m sure they have security measures that will lock down servers when they are attacked – much like how Sony was shut down for 2-3 weeks ~4 years ago after a 20 minute DDoS. It’s all about the fiscal security, which should be the #1 priority.
still not fair with ppl who spend LOT OF MONEY and receive same a.pts and no title.
It’s not about the number of legendaries, it’s about a small compensation for the wardrobe feature.
There’s a difference between compensating for lost value and a reward – this is a compensation, not a reward.
Like: what if I don’t like the new style after a while? Should I buy another hair style kit and loose even more money?
That’s why they have a preview window. Realistically though I think they should just have a preview available without purchase, that way you can look at other styles and decide if you really want it or not.
YES! Yes! Yesssss! Season 2 has been so amazing so far. I had my doubts, tbh, that they would keep it up with Episode 2. I was pleasantly surprised. If they can keep it as awesome as this in the future – Living Story will be like 10000000x better.
It’s a NPC from Guild Wars 1 instead of 2, but I always wanted to be able to have a character that had armor like Saidra.
2+2=5 w a certain maths formula
The 2+2=5 formula is a mathematical fallacy assuming that x²=y² can be simplified to x=y.
It is NOT a fallacy that x=y is one of the solutions, however.
Yes it is. If it’s the equation that I’m thinking of, the penultimate to the “solution” is as follows:
(2+2-[9/2])² = (5-[9/2])²
Which they falsely simplify to 2+2-(9/2) = 5-(9/2)
A proper simplification is (-1/2)² = (1/2)² which is true.
You can’t simplify x²=y² to x=y. That’s not know squaring works. I don’t really care if anyone wants to think it can be a solution, just know that what you think is wrong.
2+2=5 w a certain maths formula
The 2+2=5 formula is a mathematical fallacy assuming that x²=y² can be simplified to x=y.
Ok back to the point
How long did it take to release guild wars 1 first expansion?
Let’s start by dates
Guild wars was released 2005 FULL classic map
Guild wars factions was released April 2006 FULL map with new classes
Guild wars night fall was released October 2006 FULL map with new classes
Guild wars eye of north was released 2007
By releasing the expansions so close together, ANet also exhausted most of their aces and had to rush development of Guild Wars 2 in 2011.
I do think, however, having an expansion every other year or so would make for a better game. Plus, it would offer a huge monetary cushion. In between years could have Living Story – similar to how Guild Wars Beyond played out.
I highly doubt ANet will be able to profit if everyone decides the slow digital releases aren’t worth waiting for anymore.
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This has gone beyond beating a dead horse – we are now beating a horse’s skeleton.
Jargon
Gems can still be purchased with gold and mobile apps shouldn’t provide any exclusive services/items that are locked behind a monetary gate.
They’ve come a long way from the Guild Wars 1 store where the only way to buy neat little in-game stuff was with real money. Now you can use a lot of virtual money to buy it too.
Better idea: An expansion’s worth of armor/weapon skins that are purchased with some sort of token.
arena net isn’t "punishing the skippers
Well of course they aren’t punishing the skippers. I’m sure they didn’t purposely design Detha to bug by getting stuck in an in-between combat and passive phase. The bug itself can just be avoided by spending like 2 minutes to kill 2 mobs.
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I’ve never had this problem with Detha when I didn’t skip stuff and just killed things – Kholer, the gravelings and the oozes.
Although to “fix” the self-imposed bug, pulling oozes to kill Detha while the players stay out of the way and let her die sometimes works.
This bug should certainly be fixed, but if you don’t want Detha to bug in AC path 2, DO THE kitten CONTENT.
“Self-imposed bug.” I like the way you think.
The bug only happens when you skip content. I’ve had an undeniable 100% success rate by killing stuff. So yes, it’s self-imposed.
Are you referring to skipping kohler or something else?
Skipping anything – Kholer, the gravelings, oozes. There are several adds that people skip for the hell of it and I find if you don’t kill them, Detha’s likely to bug. I imagine it is an issue with her never truly getting out of “combat mode” and getting stuck in some sort of in-between Twilight Zone phase – while it’s certainly a bug, it can be avoided by just stacking in a corner and killing 2 trash mobs.
I’ve never had this problem with Detha when I didn’t skip stuff and just killed things – Kholer, the gravelings and the oozes.
Although to “fix” the self-imposed bug, pulling oozes to kill Detha while the players stay out of the way and let her die sometimes works.
This bug should certainly be fixed, but if you don’t want Detha to bug in AC path 2, DO THE kitten CONTENT.
“Self-imposed bug.” I like the way you think.
The bug only happens when you skip content. I’ve had an undeniable 100% success rate by killing stuff. So yes, it’s self-imposed.
All bugs I encounter only happen when I start up the game client and log into the game. Ergo, all bugs I encounter are self-imposed.
That’s not how self-imposition works. A bug that can occur through no fault of the player, or a bug can occur because of what a player does or doesn’t do – such at this one.
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No, I’m positive that the players who want/need mobile apps to do minor functions are a minority.
I’ve never had this problem with Detha when I didn’t skip stuff and just killed things – Kholer, the gravelings and the oozes.
Although to “fix” the self-imposed bug, pulling oozes to kill Detha while the players stay out of the way and let her die sometimes works.
This bug should certainly be fixed, but if you don’t want Detha to bug in AC path 2, DO THE kitten CONTENT.
“Self-imposed bug.” I like the way you think.
The bug only happens when you skip content. I’ve had an undeniable 100% success rate by killing stuff. So yes, it’s self-imposed.
As we delve deeper into the Maguuma Wastes, how about a shout out to GW1 with some Shining Blade armor sets for players?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Shining_Blade_Ally
The idea and concept is already there, all it would take is reworking them to fit opposite genders and then the actual physical design process.
Just would be a neat little something the further we dig into Maguuma.
But I’d like to see options to unlock them instead of having to play a game mode you don’t enjoy.
I never understood this argument. Even for people who are WvW players you have to level up as if it were PvE and unless you do EotM ktrain you aren’t likely to get so many badges to pay for full exotic gear appropriate for WvW. The only people who have a “right” to complain about it would, potentially, be PvP players. However they get all of the first 12 traits in each line for free as it is.
What “game mode” are people being forced to play that they don’t enjoy that was any different prior to the update?
It’s not so much game mode as it is parts of the game. Not all PvE players enjoy EVERYTHING in PvE, because PvE encompasses a lot of stuff.
There’s not a single MMO, ever, that won’t have some cross-over. That’s just mindless, erratic stupidity.
Has anyone even played any other games or is this just the step up from Solitaire?
Well, if it happens because players skipped parts of the explorable paths, I highly doubt it is a bug, instead of a intended function to prevent players from skipping parts.
So it’s a bug that it’s not always happening ?
If you go back and kill the monsters it probably won’t fix this. Nor will killing Kohler and take the WP.
It doesn’t fix it, but the way to prevent the bug is by just killing stuff. I’ve had a 100% success rate in AC path 2 by killing Kholer and the skippable mobs. When skipping, I’ve probably got a 50/50 shot. The “inconvenience” of killing Kholer or a few gravelings/oozes isn’t nearly as large as the inconvenience of Detha bugging.
I’ve never had this problem with Detha when I didn’t skip stuff and just killed things – Kholer, the gravelings and the oozes.
Although to “fix” the self-imposed bug, pulling oozes to kill Detha while the players stay out of the way and let her die sometimes works.
This bug should certainly be fixed, but if you don’t want Detha to bug in AC path 2, DO THE kitten CONTENT.
I just feel like Anet has turned into Walmart, I refuse too shop at Walmart.
What?
I…I…brb going to cry for humanity.
Step 1. Go outside
Step 2. Go to any store.
Step 3. Look at how many other sales are in the world.
Step 4. Quit QQing.
But I’d like to see options to unlock them instead of having to play a game mode you don’t enjoy.
I never understood this argument. Even for people who are WvW players you have to level up as if it were PvE and unless you do EotM ktrain you aren’t likely to get so many badges to pay for full exotic gear appropriate for WvW. The only people who have a “right” to complain about it would, potentially, be PvP players. However they get all of the first 12 traits in each line for free as it is.
What “game mode” are people being forced to play that they don’t enjoy that was any different prior to the update?
but find the implementation to be poor.
That’s because it is. ANet needs to relook at where certain traits are acquired – locking certain master traits behind content designed for people with fully traited builds seems like a Catch 22.
That doesn’t make the system bad though, just flawed.
You can buy the trait too, just visit a mesmer trainer.
If you cba to do Personal Story, map completion or events to get your traits – and you’re too cheap to buy them – well, sucks for you. Personally, I think it just weeds out the people who want a handout from the people who actually care to build their characters.
I’m guessing you were one of those who were grandfathered in?
Four characters were grandfathered in, three characters are undergoing the new trait system. I found absolutely nothing wrong with the new trait system – my mesmer was a bit of a pain but even before the trait changes mesmer was painful in regards to leveling.
I fail to see the point, though. WvW has always been linked to PvE and changing the acquisition of traits in PvE by doing PvE content just makes sense. In PvP they are still given freely, except for the 13th major trait in each line – even to newly created characters. Doing PvE content to unlock PvE versatility just seems like such a no-kitten concept I am surprised anyone actually finds the complaints legitimate.