Guild Wars 2

Sunshine.4680:

I’m an altaholic and the new trait system makes me mad. My warrior is 32, the 25% movement speed boost was great, now lost that and all the added stats I had from power tree and pretty much am slow until I get the next 5 traits, which is like 46? That’s complete garbage.

Get better gear? If you honestly need traits that much to perform well at level 32 with a warrior, you’re being frugal with your money anyway. I think the new trait system is fun and immerses a player with the environment to unlock stuff. I wish one thing they’d do too though is add more elite skills that were obtained similarly to the new grandmaster traits. Similar to how elite skill hunting went down in GW1.

Most MMOs don’t have any way to gauge player skill over time investment and wealth. As Vol mentioned, Liadri is really the only indicator. This isn’t anything new. In fact, most games don’t have any indicator of player skill unless you count direct PvP and experiencing their skill first hand. Even in games like Borderlands 2, having Slayer of Terramorphous wasn’t that big of a deal since The Bee and The Conference Call made a 5-man boss a joke with one person.

Indicators like titles and skins are only effective if there’s no other means of obtaining it other than skill, which is just something that doesn’t usually exist in games.

Azreell.1568:

The problem is “Soon” never comes……………….

Amen to that. Twenty months is too kitten long to wait for any significant releases. People are right in saying this is just a patch to support future patches – but those future patches aren’t being talked about, aren’t being revealed, aren’t being introduced…ANet can’t keep interest forever if they continuously push off and keep secret any big reveals of actual content.

CommanderX.5809:

They ruin the Traits system which makes it now more harder for lower levels.

I didn’t feel like they ruined the trait system at all. The new traits and some of the skill/mechanic changes (aside from ranger’s pet) is not really as good as I was hoping they’d be, so the content is still just about as flat as prior to the feature patch. That’s really what I think any of the complaining boils down to: it’s not new. It’s just stuff they’re releasing to polish content they already have while not releasing anything new. A polished coin is still a coin and only has the value of one coin, it’s not two coins.

Rivi.4129:

It would be wonderful to find a good source that clearly explains and defines the changes. Just bits and pieces everywhere. I am wondering why I lost my entire monthly and have to restart again. The combined daily with pvp, wvw is awful for casual players.

You shouldn’t have lost your entire monthly unless you didn’t do the 2/2 in the first half of the month. What happened is that they released monthly with 2/2 and then after April 15th rolled it’s X/4 where whatever you did prior to April 15th carried over. If you did, provide a screenshot and make a support ticket of your monthly being 0/4 and having a monthly category filled.

It’s not new content.

It’s just polished content.

I want new content already.

That about sums up how I feel about the feature pack. I still enjoy the game, mind you, but the feature patch hardly has made me interested in playing the game beyond just logging in once a day and fulfilling my daily needs.

Moh Jay.7240:

Thank you Anet! Going from 262% crit dmg pre patch I’m now at 225%!

You may have lost 37% crit damage, but it was only a 14% reduction – making their announced 10% damage reduction number still seem tame and on point. If you didn’t see this happening, you’ve likely been living under a rock for the past month.

LightningBlaze.4913:

He’s a vampire, watch out!

Third soldier profession revealed.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Anyway, the thing with all of those players is that they aren’t dressing for individuality. They’re dressing for status. So, no matter how obtrusive those holographic wings and legendary are, they won’t be caught dead without displaying their gaming prowess.

And I thought I was cool for making “Divinity’s Edge” characters with the T3.

Now there’s Twilights everywhere.

Phantom Master.9582:

I’d enjoy it if a dev would confirm this for us but I don’t think they’ll do, we’l have to figure out by ourselves.

A dev doesn’t have to confirm something that is likely to remain unchanged – that a skin can still be applied like how it was before. Cultural armor will have racial restrictions but orders armor was always able to be transmuted twice in order to place it on a different character. As Hannelore mentioned, the only restriction was purchasing – and that’s because the order armorsmiths wouldn’t talk to you unless you joined the order. Then when you bought the armor, it was soulbound which could “easily” be fixed by transmuting it onto a common item.

Phantom Master.9582:

hannah mee.7925:

Um…yes?

Why exactly would you think you couldn’t wear Whisper’s and Vigil’s at the same time?

In PvE both skins cannot be attained at the same time on one character, but in PvP we can, and its been like this since launch. Now with gear unification both skins might not be used at the same time, and the thought of this is ruining my exitement over the patch.

In PvE you could also use skins from two different orders, although it was a tedious process (you had to buy the set from a character who was in that order, use a transmutation crystal on it to turn into a common [white] item, then it was account bound so you could apply it again to a piece of armor using a transmutation crystal on the character you wanted to apply the skin to).

Now they’re just cutting out the middle man and if any character has it, it will be an unlocked skin in the wardrobe. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to mix and match armor sets still. They haven’t explicitly stated this but we can assume it won’t change so radically. If it does, I have a strong feeling that nobody’s going to stick around.

I would definitely like this to happen. I feel the problem with flamekissed armor, as mentioned before, is that it only “devalued” one particular cultural set. If every race could use other cultural armors…that would be amazing. Would definitely make me enjoy this game a bit more than I do.

I would say yes but only in the same regards as the digital deluxe edition. Sort of like in GW1 where the shop sold expansions as well but they were just digital upgrades instead of a disc that installed the data. I think they should give up on their previous desire to not release expansions and just make an expansion for this game. Everyone who would complain about a proper expansion and new content clearly has no idea how much it costs to design something so big.

Zuriel.2389:

I may be labeled as some kind of cynic, but in 4 months of play(since December), I have finished a legendary I was already working on (quit last year), gotten another, gotten full ascended and done all of the other content available (LS included). If you do things fast in most games you get burnt out, but this game is so gorgeous looking to me that there is no way that is the case. I have nothing to do and something as meager as a different item to acquire is like an oasis in a reward desert.

I wouldn’t label you as a cynic. I’m surprised to know how many people are already finding the game stale after such a short time though. I’ve played since launch and only recently has it gotten stale on me. I tend to find it easy to fill in gaps of boredom with other video games (just the past 45 days alone included Tomb Raider, Borderlands 2, Burial at Sea ep. 2, Batman: Arkham City and Infamous: Second Son). Guild Wars 2 is definitely a game catered to the casual gamer because we will hit the 600 hour mark of staleness in 15-20 months time.

Um…yes?

Why exactly would you think you couldn’t wear Whisper’s and Vigil’s at the same time?

Lexx.5780:

hannah mee.7925:

Lexx.5780:

Also, what’s so real about real life? As you said, you do things in game that you wouldn’t in real life. In that extent, it’s more real than the real thing since nothing is holding you back.

Except if I went and declared martial law because there was a mass murderer I’d be thrown in prison. Game’s aren’t real, period. They’re fun and entertaining. Hitting people with a hammer in Guild Wars 2 is fun, very few people (hopefully nobody) would say it would be fun to hit real people with a hammer. I don’t think being able to “do something you wouldn’t do in real life” makes it more real, in fact that’s kind of what takes away the reality. …

What I was trying to say is, that if you think, that hitting someone in the face is fun in-game, it may be your deep desire and you just couldn’t express it in real life because there is law to obey. Any character you play and how you play it says all about your personality and you can deny it countless times. In that sentiment, it is more real than the reality, because in reality, you wouldn’t do it, but you sure would like to try it. Because it’s the real you.

No, the real me doesn’t have any desire to kill anyone. In fact, I’m sure that everyone who plays Guild Wars 2 has no inclination to kill people. Sure, maybe a few people get tired of catering to idiot customers and stocking shelves for $8/h but there’s a vast majority of moral people who have absolutely no problem killing things or making fun of killing things in a game. Why? Because it’s fiction. People can distinguish it as not being a real act of violence and not imposing on somebody else’s life or happiness (well, I guess it could inhibit happiness depending on how immature some players are).

Lagg.3960:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I’ve been rickrolled.

I think a much more reasonable solution to the likely underlying problem here is we need more skills (utility, healing, weapon and elites) at this point. We, as a playerbase, pretty much need more content and more armor sets/weapon sets to be obtainable.

That’s just my thoughts on the topic, instead of going through such a radical change to what already exists, the underlying problem might be that the game has stagnated and we need more content. It’s been 20 months, the game’s not getting any younger!

I also made a post the other day about why I give removing weight restrictions a two thumbs down: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-wish-ANET-make-all-armors-for-all-class/first#post3851367

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

What could make NCSOFT allow Cantha to still exist and everyone here be happy, is have the nation/continent of Cantha have 5 regions in it, 3 for each nationality in the real world (no more architecture mixing) with their own unique architecture and have the Luxons and Kurzick’s homelands still (they may be defeated by Emp. Usoku, but might still have their culture intact). Many one player RPGs did this with cultures that mimicked real life ones. Golden Sun series in particular (for one player RPGs) and Ragnarok Online as well as a good example for a MMORPG. Look them up!

So with this new idea, you’d have a Chinese styled sub region, a Korean-styled sub region, and a Japnese-styled sub region. Also it will not be one ruler anymore, but three rulers for each region all in a equal standing of government. Like a triarchy and yet backed by a ministry like Kryta that limits their power and voices the peoples needs to them from each of the 5 regions.

My issue with that idea is I don’t think it’d fit with lore. I do think Kurzicks and Luxons should be around but they would probably either be allied factions or enemy factions (preferably allied factions) depending on the position of the Empire. I don’t think it’d be good for the narrative for them to just be magical friends because it’s a way for Cantha to exist. People in real life don’t get along that well, why should we make the game world look so drastically different just because some people would be kitten about it not being a perfect representation of China?

Or, perhaps, extend it even further. Shing Jea Island could be its own region – perhaps seceding from the Empire being faithful to Togo’s teachings which included letting the Kurzicks, Luxons and Tengu be. At least then there would be narrative elements they could probably tie in and “fix” the Dragon Empire.

I just see no reason to drastically change the lore to try and satisfy everyone.

Lexx.5780:

Also, what’s so real about real life? As you said, you do things in game that you wouldn’t in real life. In that extent, it’s more real than the real thing since nothing is holding you back.

Except if I went and declared martial law because there was a mass murderer I’d be thrown in prison. Game’s aren’t real, period. They’re fun and entertaining. Hitting people with a hammer in Guild Wars 2 is fun, very few people (hopefully nobody) would say it would be fun to hit real people with a hammer. I don’t think being able to “do something you wouldn’t do in real life” makes it more real, in fact that’s kind of what takes away the reality.

Also for the OP, I don’t get the point of this thread other than a valid complaint about the poor selection of lines our hero had to choose (why can’t we get some more Charm-Dignity-Ferocity options? I miss having Honorable lines on my guardian, Charm on my norn and I’ll love having Ferocity as a default answer for my Mad King Thorn). Other than that, what gives? Might as well complain about WvW and PvP since we kill other players. Don’t forget to be offended by killing Bandits, Inquest and Nightmare Court since we’re being such morally upstanding and all.

I’m going to assume the armor will still remain soulbound. In fact, I’m pretty certain except for account bound legendaries they may keep a soulbound-on-equip mechanic (while removing soulbound restrictions upon purchase or acquisition, like ascended drops from Fractals and ascended gear bought on one character). However with the change it will unlock those skins in the wardrobe and instead of 100g+ to get the skin again, you will only need 5-6 transmutation charges (depending on how many pieces you want) which is 18 Transmutation Stones. So even if your T3 isn’t account bound after the change, you should be fine in transmuting it onto your thief.

Lishtenbird.2814:

I’m also in favour of more options to buy Tomes of Knowledge – like with skillpoints and karma.

This seems to be only sensible suggestion in this thread. I mean they’d have to be a hell of a lot of karma (maybe 100,000 each) but Tomes of Knowledge have a scarcity and now with Glory being gone and the LS being over they can’t be obtained except by luck via the Black Lion Chest. Experience Scrolls as well, although given on a character’s birthday, have no other means of acquisition. Just seems like these are two items newer players/veteran players making new characters would really like to get their hands on.

Leveling up to 80 shouldn’t be an instant experience, leveling should never be.

Olvendred.3027:

hannah mee.7925:

I agree with this. The etymology of terms plays a huge role in understanding people. In fact, most of these examples looks like OP is just QQing because he doesn’t understand how slang is used in modern culture. Does he have to agree with it? No. However, these examples show few signs of any mocking over sexual orientation.

I think he understands exactly how slang is used in modern culture: namely, that ‘gay’, a term for homosexual people, is used as a catch-all term for ‘bad.’ Associating homosexuality and badness like that is homophobic and offensive. An etymological argument would justify the N-word on the basis that ‘niger’ is the Latin for ‘black’ (literally, just black. The colour). Are you going to argue that?

No, because etymology also doesn’t account for things like slavery, corruption and slander. It’s a bereft argument. I can call on all my kittens and hoes and etymology would justify it as evolved language – I’m not calling out for black slaves and prostitutes. Etymology only gives us insight – such as why the word was chosen. Likewise, it’s a good progressive field of study to determine a standard of words. Just because gay can mean gay (it can also still mean happy, that’s an archaic definition), doesn’t mean there’s a denotative correlation between the definition and the slang.

I think you’re reading too much into how etymology works to assume radical feelings and occurrences are an adequate placeholder of a word’s definition. In the same respects, socialism can be equated to Hitler, yet a majority of the first world practices some form of national socialism or another and nobody’s equated to Hitler. Why? Because the situation is completely different.

Understanding the origins and associative meanings of words helps us understand the progression of language better (which in this case is the disassociation of the term “gay” and “homosexual”), not give scientific or grammatical reasoning for hate and bigotry.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

You can edit your message box to show only Guild messages.

Have all my +1s.

Mirta.5029:

The word gay in itself is not a swear word. And a lot of the times people are not trying to insult homosexual people, but rather use it in a “that sucks” kind of way. Remember that word meanings change often and fast, 50 years before “gay” used to mean “joyful”. As in “I’m having a very gay day”. Some of the remarks can be seen as insults, but not all that you point are actually wrong. To some of them, I think, that you’re reacting too sensitively.

I read everything that’s written. The talk about lesbians among sylvari is just how people joke.
“kitten that is gay” is how the word is most commonly used right now and like I’ve said most homosexuals do not see anything wrong with it, because it’s not directed at them or even used as an insult.
The person using the harsh word "starting with “fa” in the say chat can be reported.
The person on the map chat being racist can be reported.
Commander saying "stay on my kitten “no kitten ” is once again joking and you’re seriously overreacting.

I agree with this. The etymology of terms plays a huge role in understanding people. In fact, most of these examples looks like OP is just QQing because he doesn’t understand how slang is used in modern culture. Does he have to agree with it? No. However, these examples show few signs of any mocking over sexual orientation.

@OP in response to the whole “learn to spell” thing, “gey” is a respectable spelling for someone with English as a second language – don’t assume that just because you are fluent in English that everyone else is expected to know the grammatical difference between [ey] and [á] (I may be wrong about the accent mark, I’m fairly certain it needs to be acute).

I’m not sure this thread should even be posted.

Vitus Dance.4509:

Pie Flavor.1647:

or just remove the armor weight limitation

People were up in arms about this suggestion a while back – seems they’d get confused at a, previously light armour wearing, mesmer wearing heavy armour.
Personally, i don’t see what all the fuss is about.
If you honestly can’t tell what class a player is, from the skills they use, and are solely relying on looks alone…well, there are no words really.

That’s a pretty lame reason to not add it. I’m against it personally because for the past 19 months, armor and aesthetics were an easy 70% of character creation – since there’s no build variation (and if there is, it’s meaningless racial skills that don’t fit well with builds), armors played a large part in deciding on a race/gender to go with the class. If that suddenly didn’t matter, it wouldn’t be fun. people worked hard to make characters that they no longer enjoy as much.

ANet shouldn’t, and wouldn’t, do something so mind-numbing 19 months into the game’s life.

hedix.1986:

The Bad

• Trait change. While the system seems ok, why the need to introduce something so drastically different over a year since release?
• Build change after grind to Ascended gear.
• DPS nerf with the zerk nerf. It does NOT change the game nor the meta. Crit damage changes only make the overall best damage output less by 10%. But how will this change current issues? It will just require more time for the same dmg, it will make dungeon runs longer and more tedious, it will make open world events with timers more stressful. Like increased health pools in HotW: still doable, but boring. This will still not teach people to run decent builds, and large-scale open world events will fail due to those poor-build folk who do not care to listen.
  Solution: Different mechanics, and not DPS nerfs, are needed to encourage build versatility. A good step in that direction was the need for Condition Damage parties in the Wurm event. New encounters should give us a reason to run different builds, but current ones, like Knightfall, were pure DPS-meters.

Heh, I didn’t think about those. Although a few things: I don’t think the trait change is that bad. I think it’s kind of refreshing. Makes the game feel more integral to doing something other than level up and get to a waypoint close to dungeons.

Build changes won’t be that impacting – zerker will still be best for DPS and such. Gear itself won’t change that much – unless the traits are so schematically different that it would warrant, say, getting Knight’s instead of Berserker’s (which is a fat chance in hell). However, I wholeheartedly agree that nerfing DPS was a bad move. As a ranger main, however, I would say that some of the edits they made to ranger was they should have done.

A trait that makes longbow arrows fly faster, pet skills being instant and fixing sword chain – they fixed some of the core mechanics that made your standard ranger bad and made the elitist community hate “bearbows” – now longbow will contribute more as easily being the highest DPS (it’s already high on that list, with doubled attack speed it would only get better) and pet skills like Shake It Off! will find more use since the bear doesn’t have to take the time to cast it.

Overall, these sort of mechanics should have been considered when visiting other classes and working on “balancing” – fixing some of the core issues of why a class is kicked from parties or looked down on by the general community. Then, fix it. You’ll always have those few elitists who won’t like the classes still because they aren’t the best but their opinions will hold less weight.

Risa Aerulight.3914:

Perhaps my lengthy thoughts would have been better here.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Questions-The-Megaserver-System-World-Bosses-and-Events/page/11#post3855914

Overall opinion: Bad. Very Bad.
Bad enough to seriously consider ending my gameplay now before features important to me drastically change.

I kind of haphazardly agree. With the megaserver changes introduced I’m not sure I really want to continue with my original gameplan. Really, every update until the megaserver was either good (traits, skills, some generic balancing and polishing, town clothes in combat) or I didn’t really care for it (merging PvP and PvE skins, unified wardrobe, dyes). However megaserver? Seems like it would seriously impact how much I enjoy the game if every conceivable open world event becomes some large megablob of players. With only doing minimal good by fixing some low populated areas to make them look artificially more active.

Heavy armor is also lacking, so they could really do with touching up on all of the weight classes.

hedix.1986:

Cause fixing the issue of underpopulated maps like Timberline at the expense of destroying the community feeling in cities and elsewhere it too high a price to pay!
And the reason Snowden and Timberline are underpopulated in the first place is that there is nothing to do there once you explored them.

Take all my +1s.

Megaserver is just a glorified overflow system.

One point I dislike too that hasn’t been said is how the waypoint system is changing. Now I have to enter a map…and then move to a different part of the map? It’s not like the cost scales down that well based on distance. I’d be spending nearly twice as much just to travel to any destination I want to. Unless they remove the costs of waypoints, that feels like a cheap method of developing a goldsink. Pfft.

Really all this megaserver thing is artificially making the game look larger when ANet is being plagued by depopulation. It’s not a real solution, it’s a temporary cover-up.

warbignime.4610:

I vote for kodan, you can’t beat the power of polar bear

Kodan! Sure they’re a little more humanoid than Charr or Tengu but who cares.

Make it happen, ANet.

As for topics on Tengu and a mention of Mursaat:

Tengu’s the most likely new playable race, although I’m not a fan of them. Their culture and everything is cool but I’m just not a fan of bird people.

Mursaat, I pray, will never be a playable race. There is absolutely no reason to kittenize the lore like that. I’m already slightly disappointed about Charr’s semi-180 in regards to their place in GW1 and their place in GW2. As a race that fanatically tried to invade Ascalon, Kryta and Orr the masses sure don’t seem to have any issue with people living in other places (Ebonhawke, for instance). Obviously there’s the Gold Legion and everything but that’s a different story. Anyway, yeah, I hope Mursaat are never true.

I’ve also fancied the idea of The Ancient being a playable race – but I am more inclined to believe that Palawa Joko, even when threatened by Kralkatorrik, is more likely to be an enemy than an ally. So there’s not much chance in The Ancient being a playable race at any point.

The one race I wish they’d find a way to reintroduce though would be dwarves. I don’t know how they’d do it, since they’re all made of stone and stuff, but dwarves are a classic. (inb4 “we don’t want no WoW clone”)

Guardian is kind of an all-around player. The ranged DPS is lacking but with a greatsword you likely won’t feel like you’re missing much. I usually play clerics and ranged DPS too and I quickly fell in love with guardian.

Also ranger might not be a bad option for some WvW and PvE roaming, especially after the April 15th update. There’s supposed to be a trait that makes longbow arrows fly twice as fast and pet skills (F2) will be automated, meaning they’ll be usable even if your pet is disabled or otherwise being an idiot.

As a ranger main, I am quite happy for those changes to ranger – anyway. Going to try bearbow again if I can use Shake It Off! on a whim.

Yup. I’m making a Mad King Thorn! Just made The Mad Moon and bought Lord Taeres’s Shadow on the TP a few days ago. It’s going to be glorious.

Yes, costumes will be wearable in combat. However, given the wording and the deduction from the image – it looks like you will not be able to mix n’ match a costume for your character; just display it, all or nothing.

I will also fight tooth and nail to never have armor unrestricted by weight. I’ve spent far too many hours on my ranger to lose the T3 set as a character I could’ve made as a guardian (I would’ve really enjoyed her as a sword/focus guardian in medium T3, likewise my Asuran mesmer could’ve been an engineer in light T3). Armors were 3/4 of the reason I made a specific class-race combo. In fact, the class only had about 10% input in the decision-making process since any race and any gender could be any class. It was about the armor sets for each race for that specific weight. If that were all changed, suddenly, my decisions would’ve been a lot kitten different. I’ll give weight-restriction removal a two thumbs down any day.

Paulytnz.7619:

hannah mee.7925:

Being level 21 doesn’t necessarily help with that particular vista, since the Breached Wall is a level 24 zone. My suggestion: Go to a different, lower level map (Queensdale, or another one of the starter zones, for instance) and build yourself up a bit.

If you need help on how to accomplish this, feel free to ask – I’ll try to guide you in-game or give you written instructions in a PM! (I can’t come physically help, as I am in NA servers)

I am not even sure that we can PM other players on the other region game. Something you might want to keep in mind.

We can. I have several friends in EU servers and I’ve even sent them mail before.

Being level 21 doesn’t necessarily help with that particular vista, since the Breached Wall is a level 24 zone. My suggestion: Go to a different, lower level map (Queensdale, or another one of the starter zones, for instance) and build yourself up a bit.

If you need help on how to accomplish this, feel free to ask – I’ll try to guide you in-game or give you written instructions in a PM! (I can’t come physically help, as I am in NA servers)

I didn’t really lose interest in this game until about 1000 hours in (admittedly at this point I find it a little bland now, but that’s for entirely different reasons). Anyway, some general tips I can offer you:

Make sure you’re doing level-appropriate content (even a level or two over makes it extremely difficult to solo).

Get masterwork gear (either from drops or on the TP) that are level appropriate for you, they’re much better than fine quality gear for roaming.

When you hit 80, do everything you can conceivably imagine to get exotics – they will drastically improve what you enjoy.

Play around with weapons and see what you like. PvE is pretty easy, don’t stick to what people on forums tell you is “best” because the best is what you can use.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Wow….just wow.

I have yet to see anyone give a valid reason this is causing any hindrance to actual gameplay (borderline mental disorders and lack of humor is NOT an actual hindrance).

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It appears they have been removed already, I just logged in and all the heads are normal. At least on my end.

There appears to be some trigger mechanism with zoning that turns them back on. I think it’s awesome (both in visuals and monitoring the uber-over-reactions of some players….absolutely unbelievable).

So even the April Fool’s prank is buggy. What a surprise.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It appears they have been removed already, I just logged in and all the heads are normal. At least on my end.

That’s sad…didn’t even last 12 hours. I hope all of the QQers die as virgins (at a ripe old age, of course, after living a moderately happy sex-free life).

BIMBLE.7952:

Teratus.2859:

You guys realize you can relog right and the effect is removed

Re-logging is fine: joining WvW – which is what I play – initialises it once more.

Again…just don’t play today. Or you could work on monthly – that just reset. There are plenty of options available to you without getting your balls in a twist.

To Teratus: WvW Tournament 2 is pretty active right now and a lot of people aren’t happy about the bobbleheads there.

It might be a bug, though, come to think of it – since the effect is removed elsewhere in the game.

Rubendorff.7140:

but claiming Anet is FORCING this on people? It’s not that I don’t see the principal aspect of this, but from a practical POV, it’s just 24 hours.

The April Fool’s joke: this will be a permanent change.

BIMBLE.7952:

for those who mysteriously grow hostile over opposing opinions. Grow up!

Could those people be compared to the people who get mysteriously hostile when a game becomes an inconvenience for one day?

Charak.9761:

April Fools ends on 12:00pm

you can literally wait 6 hours. That’s TWO lord of the rings movies.

It won’t end for like another 12-18 hours or something, I’m not sure if the April Fools is going on GMT or PDT/EDT (I can’t remember Arena Net’s home office). But yes, people can wait for April Fools to pass, it’s quite easy! The world’s got a lot of stuff going for it.

Cheer up. It’s just a game. I’m not a fan of the bobbleheads either so I think I’m going to go outside and possibly get caught up on work and do a boatload of chores today.

It’s not that difficult to spend one day off the game because you don’t like the bobblehead effect and there’s no reason to be such a negative nancy over something so stupidly trivial.

I’m quite fond of human T3 cultural.

I’m not alone. Yay! Please be fixed in 150 minutes so I can do the daily on reset.

Oh…well, thank you for that info about level3.net servers having issues. I thought ANet was trying to ban me for the past 3 hours.

Harper.4173:

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1) Look up the definition of “grasping at straws.”

2) Try to learn business administration a little bit better.

GW2’s target audience is gamers, any MMO/PC gamers, stagnation doesn’t necessarily lead to satisfaction.

Moreover, your idea that a game can’t be revitalized and well advertised shows just how little understanding of a business model you actually have. Guild Wars 1, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Halo and Killzone are all perfect examples of games with developers that push advertising to their target (usually web-based advertisements since they know the majority of their audience also surfs the internet) effectively and make respectable use of changes and expansions. Guild Wars 2 could easily do it – their niche is not “no-trinity,” their niche is that they offer one of the best F2P games on the market.

Games can offer little or major changes and still be advertised and sold to a new market. You’re just…so far off the mark it’s not even a relevant discussion at this point.

Is this…a joke?

Anyway, yes – under certain limitations of course (only warrior and ranger can wield dual axes). There is no weapon in this game limited like that – i.e. an axe can be placed in any mainhand or offhand of a profession that supports a MH/OH axe. I’m…I’m not sure if that can be any more clear.

Jordo.5913:

I get to be MAD KING THORN!!!!!!!

I just made The Mad Moon and bought Lord Taeres’s Shadow on the TP.

Bring on April, I am ready!

Azure Moonfire.7493:

It would be cool if the place was made into a repository of information for those curious about the events of GW1. The ghosts in the front had some interesting info, but not very much of it. I’d like to see more of that. Maybe books/plaques/tablets scattered around that told of Tyrian history? Would be interesting..

That would be nice. It could be a library of sorts, and around the scrying pool the tapestries (if they’re even still there…now that I mention it) could also tell a story. Perhaps even do something more with the scrying pool.

I’m not a big fan of making heavy exclusive content just for GW1 players – I think my GWAMM and Champion of the God titles (among the others…Chosen, Closer to the Stars, Flameseeker) are enough exclusivity for me because they are some kitten titles. However, I would like to see Hall of Monuments really be something more. Not just for GW1 players, for all players.