Guild Wars 2

Hals Warrior.9863:

I’m pretty hyped for HoT, I’m really hoping for a Hylek playable race!

Foo Hylek, I want quaggan! OooOoo! XD

The bosses are fine… for small groups. The problem is that with megaserver there’s few world bosses that ever see a small group. What Anet should do is re-balance the mechanics for large group play. Something along the lines of Teq (which does also suffer a bit from being overpopulated) or Tripple-Trouble.

Xia.3485:

Has anyone else noticed that if you don’t hit a champion fast enough you wont be eligible for loot?

It’s not dependent on if you hit or not or when you hit, but rather how much damage you do. In large zergs this can be problematic since it can be hard to do sufficient damage if you have a hoard of other people burning the champs down in seconds.

maddoctor.2738:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

27. forum is buggy and it’s impossible to use the search function, taking much away from its utility

How is this a “questionable decision”? I doubt they decided one day to say: “Hey let’s not have a working search function on our forums for <reasons>”

Most people just seem to use this thread as a place to complain about whatever. So yeah, better not to question.

Donari.5237:

Does anyone have a link to the videos of the new frogs in action from today’s PoI? All I have is a Snip I took of the Itzel leap concept art:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

Schwarzseher.9873:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Charr mature at the same rate as humans. Humans live ~80-100 on average, so charr is likely the same but less common due to militaristic lifestyle.

Not in Tyria, here humans rarely become older than 50 years.

What the others said, also keep in mind that low average life expectancies don’t come from people not getting old, but from high infant mortality. So when it says people in the middle ages reached the average age of 45 or somethign along those lines, that doesn’t mean they died around 50 years of age, they usually lived up to their 70’s or in some cases even 80’s, it’s just the high chance of dying at birth that drags down the average to such a low level.

Once you make it to your teens you’re chances improve remarkably.

Ranatoa.4869:

Half of the posts on this forum would be unnecessary if people would read…

The forums aren’t unnecessary!
;p

skullmount.1758:

Well there is also the Exalted (race?) too, that we still don’t have info on (though its suspected that they’re the ones in the gold city in the trailer).

Could also be other minor races. ANet has been rather silent so far in terms of the lore.

Rin.1046:

Am I missing something here? Has Anet said these new Hylek are the only new races in HoT? I don’t remember seeing that mentioned anywhere, does anyone have a link?

No but these are the official forums, we tend to veer into wild speculation, overblown reactions and an amazing ability to forget all of that rather quickly.

Algreg.3629:

Well, relevant areas are not part of the game yet. But in a fantasy world like this, I am not sure ethnic diversity of a single species is really that important anyway, who cares about colour of skin when that dude at the other end of the bar has a kitten horned lion´s head?

True enough I guess, I’d personally just want to see more varied people / races / cultures, whatever form that would take.

TheFantasticGman.9451:

If they really just wanted to listen to the playerbase they could send ingame surveys.

This has been suggested for two years now… on the forums so you know.

Frogs offer so much design variety!

http://listverse.com/2013/03/04/top-10-bizarre-frogs/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/60200/5-weird-looking-fascinating-frogs

AdaephonDelat.3890:

Given the size of the frogs themselves I’d actually say it was quite large :-P

+1

But yeah variety is good. Hopefully we’d get more variety in other races as well.

If you think they were botting then report them and let Anet sort out of they were or weren’t botting.

No, not really. I guess it comes down to the meta your running so in theory one meta will always be better against another meta, but there is no balance regarding a Necro vs Guardian will always have a 50/50 split assuming equal skilled players.

PowerDrilz.6571:

I think I speak for every person on Guild War 2 when I say that something is missing from your game that would make it amazing.

And unfortunately that’s where it stops since what is missing is different for every single person.

PowerDrilz.6571:

I am talking about areas on the map that have not been added yet such as Homelands and the areas above Divinity Reach such as Isles of Janthir that should be a part of this game seeing its part of guild wars history.

More areas would be nice, but not sure if it would make the game inherently amazing.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It’s a shame this suggestion just slowly fell into oblivion.

hey mount threads don’t spam themselves.

Prototypemind.4026:

Something in between would be nice. I definitely like the hero panel redesign. I like the interactivity of LFG, noting that solo rewards have been claimed, etc. I do think the website needs to come back more towards what we currently have. It’s a little too busy. Overall, a good suite of ideas.

Yeah, some good ideas and some ideas that aren’t so good. But still ANet could take a look and see what they like and don’t like.

Avascar.9237:

Oh my god, the lore page! It would be absolutely amazing to have a little book of all the characters, items, locations, and lore bits you unlock as you play.

Been going on about that for two years now… please ANet

GrandHaven.1052:

I don’t give a kitten about condi’s and objects.
I mostly use condi build…

There are some dungeon paths that would be nice to be able to condi objects.

It was an interesting change, although not everyone liked it. Not sure about breakdowns though i.e. how many people were for, against and neutral.

ZULU.4257:

It is very, very rare to find games that present a positive image to black people.

Interesting statement….
Wait your name is Zulu? I WON’T EVER FORGET ABOUT WHAT YOU DID TO PIET RETIEF AND THE FIRST TREKKERS! BABY MURDERS!

Nah I’m just joking. Not about the baby murdering, that did happen. More joking about my outrage. That was like more than a hundred years ago. Also we got them back at the Blood River, so you know whatever.

Anyway it would be nice to see a bit more ethnic diversity in GW2, the euro-themed humans are getting a bit boring.

ZULU.4257:

MPGs very often do not portray anything positive of this ethnicity.

What’s MPGs? Military Provost Guard Service?

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

The Chinese, Japanese & Koreans throw a hissy fit when you mix their cultures in a game.
Since Cantha did this & Arena.net’s parent company is Korean Cantha is unlikely to ever return. (unless it gets some major changes in terms of culture & design of buildings)

If true, so sad.

Mikhail.4961:

CureForLiving.5360:

She’s probably just has a necro main profession and a mesmer secondary profession.

Which would be odd, given what Angel McCoy said about people in GW2 time would prefer to master one profession over having a secondary (she used some silly analogy for it).

Well people did that back in GW1 so maybe Liadri just old school

*Seen a lot, but done even more. I’ve got stories that would raise every hair on your hide.
*Some other time, perhaps.

What!!!! I want to hear some of those stories!

Siphaed.9235:

New players cannot PvP until a higher level.

Yeah this is really something that ANet should change. Some players seem to be only interested in PvP.

Siphaed.9235:

Content that was deemed “challenging” to new players was removed from the starting zones entirely so as to not be some sort of hurtle.

Not challenging, confusing.

Siphaed.9235:

A system of handholding is now in place that coddles the new players beyond just simply explaining things. NPE for GW2 = similar for NGE for SWG.

Never played SWG but from my understand the two changes aren’t comparable.

Astralporing.1957:

ChoChoBo.6503:

I have an extremely difficult time imagining that the same bug existed for two years. And a harder time imagining its gone unfixed.

Then imagine even hader, because it does happen. There are stil a ton of bugs that were there since launch, unfortunately.

ANet seems to have a priority list, and sometimes somethings just never rise to the top. Usually it’s small bugs, or bugs that aren’t consistently buggy.

I’ve been more lucky, I’ve gotten 3 tequatl hoards (and 1 zojja). I also have 229 bone spoons, so yeah drop rate sucks.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I do understand that coming to the office for a spell of testing would be a bit of a commute for most of you.

I’m going to change my subject line to prevent dashed hopes and disappointed dreams!

Only 16,415 km…

I’m all for class stories, it would be a wonderful way of expanding the lore and fleshing out the world more. By the same merit, class stories would limit player visibility i.e. if you don’t play said class you don’t experience the story. So it becomes a matter of cost / benefit.
That said I’m fine with Revenants experiencing old story instances. Maybe just because I’m so use to this sort of thing in the MMO genre.

Variety is the spice of life?

ReV.6097:

You probably won’t need more than 8, unless you are into Roleplaying and creating alts for other reasons.

I like playing dress up
Also I realised I have no female heavies!? So obviously I now need 1… or 2… probably not more than 3… Going to go for a female Norn Revenant… Also thinking of doing a female Charr Revenant…

Smooth Penguin.5294:

An example could be armor skins with unique auras, or existing armor skins with additional auras to make them stand out in a crowd. Imagine wearing the Flamekissed skin, but now you give off a Sunrise/Twilight type fire trail behind your body as you move.

Remember when the Flamekissed light skin was introduced? Maybe not, not eveyone’s been around as long as me… I feel old. Anyway when the skin was released there was a lot of complaining because it was just a reskin of a in-game armor with flame effect (not that it isn’t now but still…). So if they did do this there would be a lot of complaining.

vpchelko.4261:

Not stupid dailies. Not stupid farm.
For example I really enjoy playing League of Legends – having fun time. But GW2 lack such things – looks like something is over-designed (good but difficult).
Maybe I am wrong..?

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying. Maybe because I don’t play LoL? Maybe some elaboration would be nice.

heartless.6803:

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s the slowest moving class in game with the lowest health pool.

My Guardian in Nomad gear can take a lot more punishment then my elementalist in zerker

DoIKnowYou.3896:

We have tiny smart people who are SOOO cute

Until they open their mouths… those teeth…

Miku.6297:

Hmm I actually like the races we have… I would rather see major additions and balance changes than a new race…. Unless it’s QUAGGAN

Oh we need Quaggans! Just imagine if the Pack had a Quaggan commander! If a Quaggan was the one who killed Zhaitan and Scarlet!
ANet makes this happen, PLEASE!

Chameleon Dude.1564:

On the converse, I dislike games where I’m forced to play a 7’, muscular, lumbering brute with scars everywhere

So basically Norn then :P

pupi.2465:

Remember Neverwinter Nights? or any other game that offers you a different soundboard on voices for the same race when you create the character?

I’d say a soundboard or something would probably be the most scalable solution.

She’s probably just has a necro main profession and a mesmer secondary profession.

Renn.8241:

LS Season 2 is some really great content

Definitely some better boss mechanics.

Yargesh.4965:

Don’t recall seeing too many half naked males or females here in Scandinavia during the winter outdoors either, that black dead tissue look from frostbite seems to not be a thing in fantasy games either.

Norn are biologically different from human (so much so you’d have a good basis to call them a separate species), they can’t get frostbite. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Graff
They wear skins only as a cultural practice not to stay warm.

Hamfast.8719:

What about the Sylvari player character I saw in-game called “Cabbagepants McGee”? Is that a proper Sylvari name?

I’m not exactly sure how Sylvari naming convention works… I guess they just choice whatever sounds cool when they pop out of their pod?

Sages.3496:

I should note that this is directly speaking against the games developers so this will get alot of criticism and be taken down by the forums moderators, but hey. figured it was worth a shot.

Yeah they do that do they.

Aiglos.2907:

It’s a very cool idea but sadly there is no such aforementioned class or weapon type in this game.

Perhaps a future warrior specialisation?

32bit works on 64bit but 64bit doesn’t work on 32bit same with DirectX, so creating a 32bit DX9 client provides the widest reach.

In verdant brink at least we know that the event cycles will be between day and night, so it would be (in theory) more like Dry Top and the sandstorm than Silverwastes and the Vinewrath. Although the only way to ensure this is to have the event cycles synchronized across the megaservers, otherwise we can expect a lot of hopping from one server to the next.

Latinkuro.9615:

• Will dungeon experience increase the progress bar for Tyrian masteries ?
• What percentage of a mastery bar will a dungeon run increase ?
• Masteries, are they horizontal or vertical progression ?

Probably
No one knows
Horizontal http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/05/mmo-mechanics-comparing-vertical-and-horizontal-progression/

Ayrilana.1396:

Thief and warrior have the highest mobility. Classes with easy access to swiftness and/or the passive speed boost signets are great too.

Thief shortbow of daggers probably put them ahead of warriors.

Yeah this makes me sad about drop rates…

Osteg.8915:

I didn’t get any precursor. Even if I had one though, it still wouldn’t have been correct to say that the chance for precursor is around 0,0037%.

Usually I’d say sample size too small, but 15k is a pretty big sample. But yeah pre-Ks don’t have nice drop rates

I’m so jelly!
Anyone can spare me 980g?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Poly-luminescent_Undulating_Refractor_

diax.2815:

Every new player that buys gw2 gets a free legacy armor now? What’s the idea behind this? And why not just give older players the set for free aswell then?

Didn’t the deluxe edition always work that way?

narwhalsbend.7059:

There is no relation.
Dwarves are fighting Primordous, but does that mean they are related at all?
Jotun have nothing to do with Jormag.
Glint isn’t related to the Forgotten at all.
There is nothing to link the Mursaat and Mordremoth.
We haven’t even seen any Seers since GW1 times.

Yeah, other than the Great Dwarf vs Great Destroyer there isn’t really much of a hint to in lore connections between them.

rabidsmiles.5926:

As someone who owns Dreamer…I kitten hope so! Unicorns EVERYWHERE!!!

Now all you need is unicorn mini and a unicorn armor.

Yeah it’s not really all that constrictive though, unless you want to optimise your daily in which case you’d obviously have to make some concessions.

Diovid.9506:

I firmly believe the White Mantle were behind the mining operation in Dry Top and behind the notes about the ‘New Kryta’ or whatever it was in the Silverwastes (along with the badges found in the Silverwastes).

Yeah in general the entire bandit mining operation thing as it stands now seems… oddly pointless. The only reason for the bandit copper smuggling seems to have been to give Seraph reason to be there, and they didn’t even really play all that much of a role in S2 other than reintroducing Belinda.

How do you tell you’re fighting a premade?
But what I can tell is that I very often get put into teams with people who aren’t very good… and usually against teams that are…