Guild Wars 2

10/10 Would read again.

lordkrall.7241:

So.. any pictures of this supposed “SAB reveal”?

Thats what im waiting for too…

Way to much

3 infinite harvesting picks, 3 infinite logging axes, 1 infinite harvesting sickle…
50-100 trans stones..
Broom stick…
50 keys throughout three years…
4-5 of the outfits…
4-5 of the armor skins…
All but two of the weapon skins…(Fan and marjorys axe)
2-4 dye packs…
7 character slots..
max bank slots…might be short one..
my three mains are all getting inventory slots very slowly…

So yea..lots of gems! Course, i put aside 20$ a month towards games or whatever else i want to spend money on

as soon as i get my tengu, sure

Wuselknusel.4082:

When was the last time you just wandered around the world? If people would care about the world and less about specific parts, ANet would shift its focus and the game would look a lot different from now, probably for the better.

Hi, ive been doing map completion on 3 different characters over the last 2 months, two of them are now at 92% and 1 of them is at 44% While the rest of my 12 characters hover between 10-54% and all but two are level 80. I wander the world everyday, im still finding things i havent seen since launch. I do not want mounts. We have plenty of speedboosts(most who want mounts also want massive speedboosts to go with) for those thinking exploration is slow, i dont use those even, unless i can make it part of my build. They(mounts) would take away from all that. And hes right, its your opinion that waypoints are why the game is dull. i like being able to pick up right where i left in my exploration easily, with the waypoints.

The fact that this game lacks them, is one of the reasons i bought it, Aside from playing GW1 for 7 years prior(Which didnt have mounts either(Also one of the reasons i played it.). “B-but the Junundus..and the devourer…”you say? Those arent mounts to me, those are mechanics for those maps, and only exist in those maps.) They clutter up the screen and force you to use them to go anywhere. This game isnt designed for mounts. Its small. The zones are small and easy to cross, even by walking.

Edit: I do nothing but PVE and Dungeons. I dont PVP, and i dont WVW. Ive crossed the world multiple times without any speedboost skills, or runes, or even items. Ive also been playing for three years. i hope they keep mounts cosmetic gem store items only, that cant be used in combat, and give no boosts(speed or otherwise) to the player who owns them.

Number 3 In Edwins post makes the most sense to me

Roscoe.2348:

Rytlock figurine

This was part of the collectors edition.

Starcrusher.4172:

The devs stated, iirc, way back at PAX East(?) or during someones interview at the press test back in March that there are Revenants already in the world. Just because we haven’t seen them, doesn’t mean that they don’t exist or that they screw up the lore of the game and should get their own story.

I remember something along those lines too, i just wish i knew where i saw that at. Because honestly it clears up everything. Just like there are still Ritualists, Dervishes and Paragons in the world today, we dont see those either, but they are there.

GW2 tanktops,…heck you could even do a GW2 skirt or dress, that would be cool!!

backpacks of every race!!

MistyMountains.3751:

I think this is a good idea. Tracks are time consuming to finish so it’s not like it would even be a true “short cut” And a lot of us utterly hate fractals :/ (Why the party finder for them are almost always empty other than maybe dailies)

No. As stated, Fractals weapons are rewards for doing high level fractals, hard challenging content. You want them, learn the fractals and do them. What they need to do is allow you to unlock and buy them at the merchant once you reach level 30 fractals, could even bump it up to level 40. 75-100 Pristine relics per weapon. You only get one per run, two or three with certain dailys. So it would still take you awhile to do get enough for weapon. They can still drop randomly. But it would for sure be helpful to those who are after one weapon and never get it, while at the same time not devalue the weapons at all, Because you are still doing fractals to get them, you still had to do fractals to level 30 to unlock them.

Fractal weapons should not ever, ever be given a PVP reward track. the reward tracks dont take long to complete at all. I do one PVP match a day, and im almost done with my Arah track after a week.

Zeanix.8624:

soooo i got two gifts of exploration…. im just sure that i already got them once.

i feel like an idiot.. Dante you won’t be needing those lawyers anyway – thanks for the help

xD Ill let them know! They where excited too! Glad to help, i know that frustration!

Zeanix.8624:

okay lets se Dante – ill remember your name and im going to finish the rest of the new zones that i have not done. if i do not get 2 new gifts im going to sue you!

:P

gasp Not a sue!!! :P Goodluck, hopefully you get it!

Zeanix.8624:

but that is just the content they added after i got my gifts

Your world completion medal doesnt match mine(top medal on your screen, above the banner), you havent finished map completion. Yours is brown(because not finished) mine is gold and blue(because finished). Even after the stuff they added mine did not change, it stayed the gold and blue medal i have now. Not sure what to tell you OP.

Zeanix.8624:

i got the map completion medal http://i.imgur.com/51ionlU.jpg

Nope, you are close, heres what one with 100% looks like ^^ Your character also states 99% of the world, somewhere you are missing something.

Raven.3957:

Is close gonna be this weekend, or even this week? Or close meaning in a few months, instead of a few years?

Close is usually 2-3 weeks. When they said they where close to fixing the ranger pet mechanic they had it out in about 3 weeks if i recall, for a total broken time of almost 3 months.

WVW is not part of map completion anymore.

Malediktus.3740:

Look what it does to my pretty and expensive shield! It is soulcrushing.

And that is why i dont use shields on guardian anymore. As soon as i make “The Flameseeker Prophecys” im giving it to my mesmer….

Of note however, was the mounts and the riders where part of the same body. They did not separate, even on death.

Catching up on all the things i havent done yet…quite a bit actually..which surprised me

Stark.1350:

I have all the dungeon paths done, all LS achievements but a couple, all JPs and zero interest to do repetitive map completion or complete another set of ascended or legendary.

Next?

Oh i was just stating what i still had to do ^-^ Not what you had to do. But why that i still had plenty of stuff to do in this game, i know not everyone has interest in the same thing, so for some people this is a content drought(probably for alot of people) But for people like who still have so much they want to do, its a nice break to allow them to catch up, nothing more! Though i do want the expansion to come, sooooo bad.

Noktus.8506:

I believe its been said that they will be adding a dueling system into the game, its just not a high priority right now. My guess is we’ll see dueling implemented post HoT

They said they would think about. I just hope they do it the right way and make it so if you dont want to do it you never have to deal with griefers, that is all, no matter what kind of griefing it is. Yes ive had bad experiences with dueling, its why im so negative about it.

Id rather them implement arenas around the world that those who want to duel can go to and stay out of everyone elses way. Dont want to duel or want to see dueling? dont go to the arenas. They could also allow bets to be placed at the arenas too! That would be a massive gold sink i could see, 5-10% betting fee anyone?

Edit: Astralporing has said it pretty much correct. In each and every single dueling thread that comes up, those who dont want it outnumber those who do, almost every single time.

nesh.7234:

I, for one, often add commanders I like from WWW and/or PvE events — not to /w to them, it’s just a nice way to see when they are on some zone I’m interested in and I can check if they are leading something I want to join in.

Thats quite reasonable actually. If i did that stuff i would totally understand that and it probably wouldnt annoy me, id actually expect that

Stark.1350:

Yes, I read that wrong. I’m curious what you still need to get done if you’ve been playing that long and how often you play.

Well, ive been playing since then, 1008 days now, with almost 4000 hours on my account. I still need to do most of the dungeons(story mode and all paths) I need to get all the skins unlocked for those as well. (Have AC done, almost done with COF, and then CM is next) Still need to do map exploration on all my characters that dont have it(11 of 12). Need to do the Human, Norn and asura story lines still. Have a few LS achievements left to do(Screw you centuar, let me dodge your attacks ) need to get the Luminescent set completed. Craft an ascended light and heavy armor set for my two other characters i Main….finish off “The Dreamer” and “The Flameseeker Prophecys” and make my second “The Minstrel”

I do have all the JPs done but the WVW ones, gotten 100% map exploration, finished off all the other explorable achievements, i need to do the ones for reading all of history of ebonhawk still and a few odd ones that i have yet to look up how to do…But yea i still have alot of stuff left to do, that would take up so much space to type id hit the text limit!.

Edit: Averaging 3.5 hours per day of playing ^^

Stark.1350:

lordkrall.7241:

Stark.1350:

Once again, this game was specifically built with two week releases in mind. Those of us who have played since release are out of content. Period. And have been beating on the same content for some time.

And again, I can’t just leave. I run a guild.

Was it? The two week releases started half a year after release after all. If it was specifically built with it in mind, why did they wait half a year before starting with it?

I have played since head-start (over 1000 days now) and I still have stuff to do. Sure, it is mainly the same stuff (I mainly play WvW) but anyone with any sort of acceptance of reality KNOWS that it is completely impossible for a company to create content faster than people complete it.

I have been “out of content” since basically a day after the last content patch. It is not something that magically happened recently. That will happen in every single game.

Why can’t you leave because you run a guild? Don’t you keep pointing out how no one in the guild is logging in due to nothing to do? So why would it matter if you left or not? Apparently the people in the guild doesn’t play anyway.

People are logging on. But there are consistent complaints of how boring the game has become.
1,000 hours over 3 years is extremely casual play.

He said 1000 days. nowhere did he say the number of hours hes played

Miku.6297:

The list you are describing sounds a lot like the friend list.

The follower list is more like a compilation of people that you played with and enjoyed playing the game with you. They probably don’t actually think they are causing you any distress or annoyance, as it really doesn’t have any negative impact on your play.

I know, and thats why i said i prefer the WOT friend list ^^ They dont have a follower list, just a friends list, and to be on it you both have to accept the friend request(Which i do quite a bit) and if either of the two remove it, then you disappear from theirs, and they disappear from yours. Like i said though, its just an annoyance, and i honestly can ignore it easily enough, unlike other annoyances in the game

Miku.6297:

@Dante, how does having them on your followers list hurt you? If you liked playing with them, then add them to friends, if you couldn’t stand them block them, if you aren’t sure, just leave them where they are.

It doesnt “Hurt” me. Its a bloody annoyance. I dont remember they are, they dont talk to me. Why are they there then? what is the point of following someone you never whisper or do anything with? Nothing hurting here at all, i just would rather have a follower list made up of people that i know, do stuff with and talk to, instead of one filled with people who never get online, or do get online but never talk to me. Its pointless for them to follow me if they dont ever want to do anything with me. When ive tried to get ahold of them to find who they are, i never hear back, so again, why keep following me?

Edit: I agree the OPs thread is going downhill and looking less like an actual complaint and more trollish..

to the people saying “You dont know they cant just turn it on” Actually..for at least one thing, the SAB we do. Theres a post in the SAB merged thread that pretty much says “We broke SAB and have to do a lot to get it working properly”

Ardid.7203:

What you are asking isn’t really a “weapons swap OOC” but an kitten nal selection interface.
Of course, it’s the same thing, but the way to think an solve it is different.

IMO, it should be part of the hero/equipment panel, where you can alocate a few choices of weapon sets (5 could be great), that will NOT be in your inventary.

In the main set and secondary set areas you simply cycle through these 5 predefined sets. Engineers and Eles only have access to the main set, but can cyle it normally outside of combat.

It would be a great QoL improvement, but I really doubt Anet ever implement something like that. IMO it’s slightly more probable they implement some king of “Build Selector” that could include the weapons along armor, skills and traits.

That would actually be pretty dang awesome too, and again everyone benefits from it!

Eh, i kinda agree with this..i was looking through my “Follower list” and i went..“I dont know all but two of these people”. And none of them ever talk to me outside those two, or three players. So why in the hell did they add me? WOT has a better friends list than this game, in so far as both people have to accept the request…and yes i have turned down many requests before in that game, id probably do it here too. Just so i would know which people i talk to and which ones i dont. like..oh about..80+ of my followers right now..

roachsrealm.9284:

they already have this in the game. you can do it two ways.

hit I. double click.
hit H. double click.

you can also right-click and assign to your weapon slots individually.
yes, this is more than a one-button solution that every one else gets.

but engi and ele get more access to skills to start without having to do this already. other classes do.

AAaaaandddd thats why we are asking for an OOC ONLY weapon slot, and will probably continue to ask for it. We already do it in PVE, WVW, and Hotjoin in PVP. you cant swap weapons in Unranked if i recall, and im not sure on ranked but i dont see why it would be any different. So this is a QOL feature for something we already do, quite a bit, there shouldnt be any problems to this at all, considering we already do it whenever we want OOC.

Aomine.5012:

Because it would be OP.

Even it’s a OOC thing, it’d still be insanely OP in PVP and WvW.
Leaving combat is a very easy thing to do.
Granting 40 skills to Ele in SPVP is a no-no.

Stop saying that. We do it already in PVP and WVW anyways. Because as you say, going OOC is easy, and having our inventory’s open at the same time while playing is easy as well. It makes no difference if ANET supported the idea or if they dont. Its a QOL feature for something we already do. As has been said over and over again.

serenke.4806:

Here we go again.
If you make them available to buy with any currency from fractals, it will turn it into another dungeon token kitten.

Just think about how you feel about dungeon tokens, dungeon weapons and armor.

Is my suggestion so bad? You cant get another skin unless you get a skin to begin with ^^ Go read the whole thing, ill link it again for you too if you dont see it

JustTrogdor.7892:

I have no problem with an OOC weapon swap for those professions as long as I get to save and have a second set of weapons to swap to OOC for my other professions. For example my Mesmer:

I run GS/Sword/Focus most of the time so when OOC I also get a chance to, for example, swap with one click to Scepter/Pistol/Sword/Sword without having to move weapons around in my hero panel.

Win win for everyone.

Can agree with this, even though all the other classes currently have two equip-able weapon sets. Everyone wins with this, and it makes sense the more i think about it.

As ive said in other threads, we swap our weapons(at least Eles do) OOC already before rushing back into combat. aside from coding it would just be a QOL of feature.

I certainly hope not. Fractals was set up to be the end game dungeons, it as meant to be hard and need a group.

Malediktus.3740:

No. They are a pain to get in fractals. Reward tracks in PvP would devalue it. If it happens I want a way to earn Mini Llamas and Glourious Hero armor in pve.

I agree with this,, i want some of the skins, so im doing fractals, what i would however do, is allow players to swap a fractal weapon for another fractal weapon of the same type. IE a one handed weapon for another one handed weapon. Two handed for two handed. Sure would solve alot of problems with RNG in getting the skin you want!

BrotherBelial.3094:

Manimarco Devil.1790:

Not the greatsword but the one the guards are holding.

It looks a lot like the Balthazar Greatsword skin.

It actually looks like the Runic Blade from GW1. The Balthazar Greatsword skin is the big one in the dead body. The guards are holding entirely different swords, that look vastly different from the Balthazar Greatsword.

I wouldnt mind one map where you need mounts, but i dont want them invading the rest of the game, we dont need them elsewhere, its to late to remove waypoints nor should they, and anything outside of passive mounts that dont provide speed boosts i dont want to see. I find them ugly screen clutter that isnt needed. But i wouldnt mind them on one map, that was designed for them. Nowhere else would they work, and i still say they arent, and will never be needed.

Conncept.7638:

And you just proved my point, not about you being a doomsayer (that wasn’t my point in the first place), but about your comment that ‘Centaur are impossible’. People said in GW1 that the Charr were impossible, obviously they were wrong. Your point that the centaur are impossible is just as unfounded, being nothing more than your own assumption based on your lack of knowledge of the game systems.

Essentially you’ve presented the argument:

“It can’t work, because I personally do not know how it could.”

Which is completely nonsensical. Inability to provide evidence that something could work is not proof that it can’t.

There are few things that the developers cannot get to work in such a broad system as is present in a large scale MMO, and Centaurs as a race are not one of them. Sweeping generalizations against new content such as the one you posted earlier are completely worthless as points of discussion.

Actually im basing my argument more around what ive seen the centuars in game doing. They dont do fancy animations. They are kept simple and workable, i wonder why that is honestly….Hmmm… And again, the clipping of armor. They make a human armor and stretch it to the other races, that is how they do armor in this game, if they cant take time to make armor fit the one beast race in game(Which they dont, clipping issues galore on charr), can you imagine the issues they would have with centuars? i can, personally.

Another point, from the lore, weve never been able to play as villians. But wait, we can play as charr now! After 250 years have gone by, and they completely changed their ways. In GW1 we had friendly centaurs, however they where very limited to the Maguuma jungle, In GW2 i think theres..maybe one village of friendly centuars? They dont have a capital city that we can see(at least one that we can get into without attacking). ugh i wish i could type the rest of this out, but i have to head off to work!

Conncept.7638:

Don’t worry about him, some people just like to be doomsayers. New is bad, creativity is bad, everything is impossible, nothing will work, simply because they are closed minded and averse to change. Even insinuate mounts would function to any degree and you’ll quickly see the GW2 forums are flooded with such uncreative people.

That said, we still know we aren’t getting centaurs, not because we couldn’t or its a bad idea, but because the developers stated there would be no new races in the expansion. I’d wager people are blowing this whole preview image out of proportion and all we are getting is a lore week on the Maguuma Centaurs, similar to the previous lore week where we got information on the Maguuma Hylek.

You barked up the wrong tree with saying that kitten. You are talking to the person who the moment she saw Charr in GW1 wanted to play them. Has long wanted, and discussed having the Tengu as a playable race in GW2, has advocated many many new features, including the now poorly implemented trait changes, as well looking at the new trait changes and hoping they do it well because it looks good so far. Mind what you say when you dont know said person. Im all for them trying new things, so long as they do it right. Hell, ANET cant even get the armor fitting on the ONE beast race they already have in game, and its a bipedal race at that.

Diovid.9506:

It’s not about the lore/immersion, it’s about the animations/programming/artwork needed to make all skins, skill animations, emotes, jumping, swimming and so on work on a non-bipedal creature.

This is the extra stuff i was referring to Tachenon.

And yes, horses doing flips is right out, condescending tone, mind it, it otherwise conversations wont go anywhere, like this one. Im not even going to respond to you, with that, im out, have a good day sir and or madam whichever you happen to be.

Tachenon.5270:

Guys. In this game we pretend to be cows in order to train cows to fight predators. We swim while wearing heavy plate armor. We will soon be gliding — through the jungle! No need to watch out for that tree.

I don’t think centaur thieves doing death blossoms is too much of a stretch.

Now. Do you? Really?

Yes. Among reasons why they wouldnt work as a playable race.

MiniEquine.6014:

It would only shatter a few vertebrae every time they land; no biggie.

Among other things too

Belzebu.3912:

Nice twist for a mount tread.
But still, please no mounts.

Yup, this! Outside of the gemstore at least! But nope, no mounts thank you, especially the kind that give speed boosts.

Elden Arnaas.4870:

As the OP said, players were allowed to allocate points to stats in GW1. There was a system in place to keep the stat allocation reasonable and fair. It is certainly possible for Anet to implement this in GW2. I don’t know why they failed to do it this way originally. Tying traits and stat point together always seemed like a poor system, IMO. It gives less build flexibility. I’m glad they’re at least partly correcting it.

In GW1 our Attribute Points which we put into various things like Fire magic, Air Magic, Longbow, Shortbow, Sword mastery are the equivalent to the trait tree, even without the +300 stats added to the trait tree its the equivalent of our GW2 trait tree. You didnt get to assign “Stat Points” you got to assign “Attribute Points”, or under a different name “Trait Points”.

They didnt increase your characters health or anything like that, they did allow you to use weapons properly and do the right amount of damage with them. If you didnt have 9 in swordsmanship, you couldnt use a sword that required 9 in swordsmanship properly. They also made your skills more effective the higher number put into them. But no in GW1 you could not edit your characters stat points.

All characters of the same class(say two warriors) without any armor or weapon modifications running the same skill bar would do the same damage and have the same HP and Armor as the other. In GW1 at least.

I do however agree with the OPS idea, i would love to be able to put those stat points into whatever i wanted, instead of adding it to armor.

Valky.2574:

Yes that back to back fear drives me nuts i will just hang back at the wp now until first phase is done it’s just to dam annoying after the 500000000000 time you get feared over and over

Pretty much this, the boss itself isnt hard and on my ele i never go down, but that fear is so annoying that i just wait for the first phase to end now.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Dante.1763:

I think the cooldown bit extends to almost every skill that isnt viable, regardless of class..

Cooldown reduction didn’t save guardian’s shield.

Didnt reduce it far enough! Must…squeeze..more…cooldowns…

ham.8209:

one thing from GW1 i got to say i liked a lot this game does not have is you could change your stats on both your armor and weapons and so forth the only ones you could not change in that game at all was the Green / Legendary wep stats but still loved it

What on earth are you talking about? In Gw1 we didnt have stats like we do in GW2. You could change your weapons and armors: Inscriptions, Runes, Insignias, which i guess could count as stats, but you can do that here as well, Sigils, Medallions and Runes. They where things added to the armor to make it better(If you could afford it, way better), which i guess we have in this game as well.

Rising Dusk.2408:

While we’re here, let’s talk about how the Marsh Drake Ranger pet uses the wrong model.

Yes that would be amazing too, can we get that fixed as well.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

This issue still seems to be present after several months.

Gonna hate me for this..But..

Its a miniature problem…..

Bad joke aside: Compared to other things, this issue isnt that important, it would be nice to see it, and other wrong models fixed.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I didn’t buy the boxed collector’s edition, so that’s not where I got it from. It was an online article, that much I recall. I just don’t know who it was with.

I havent either, i just coulda sworn that someone at one time had mentioned it was from there, but you are probably right!