Guild Wars 2

I saw many posts about this and no reply, also I can’t find the old one where someone from Anet repled that it was a work in progress.
So… Will we have a build saving system soon? With the expansion maybe?

I was maybe one of the few that enjoyed the activities like keg brawl, crab toss and so on.
I liked, when I was with some of my friends in a city or in a place where it was possible, to spend some time on a few rounds throwing kegs, but now it ‘s always hard to be in the city where you can play the right game..
It seems like they placed a rotation of the activities maybe due to the low afluence…
I would like to have them back all together, it’s not wise IMO to turn content off just because most of the people don’t play it…there are people that do and having the activity running doesn’t bother anyone I think.
Also if the problem is that there are not enough active players for those kind of activities then just add the option to have npc’s fill the empty spots or onvert the system to something more organized, those activities could be a really good distraction as pvp modes. Maybe you could have the option to queue for the activities or even better, give the option to the players to organize their own matches from 2 vs 2 to 10 vs 10.
With this back in game you will surely see a lot of events from guilds and the community in general about the crab toss championship and the other games.
And I would be so happy!
I know it’s not top priority but…. pretty please Anet? .
Think about it ;D

Wouldn’t it be better if it was more something like Dry Top events where the collective efforts in the maps give rewards to those that played at least 1 eventh through? And you get more rewards if more mordrem events are done in the map in the fixed time span.
So you don’t feel like you have to run around to catch as many events as you can without finishing them because you have to stack the boon, and you are sure that people don’t just kill two mordrem and then afk because you have to wait till the end.
Just y 10 cents..

Yup, maybe it’s better but still I don’t think that the introduction that we currently have is enough to create a connection.

I got some of my friends to play Gw2 lately and I figured out they are all not so happy about the start of the personal story.
The point is that, like me and other old players I think, they can’t feel the connection to the Destiny’s Edge that I think is needed to enjoy more the dungeons stories and the end game.
We discussed it a bit and we think that just a mission or 2d animation at the start of the game would be of great help to introduce the player to the Destiny’s Edge story.
We thought of something epic with a strong emotional side.
When you select your race and gender, a cinematic(3d with a standard child as yourself or a 2d animation) starts where you are in Lion’s Arch as a child and you see the Destiny’s Edge parade through the city going for the battle against Kralkatorrik. You hear people cheering and you hear your thought about how high you think of them and that in the future you want to be like them. This would work to create the first connection with the Destiny’s Edge, then you play as one of the Destini’s Edge characters based on your race in the battle against Kalkatorrik, or just before of right after, you can see Glint and Snaff die maybe and you feel the emotions of the different characters about what’s happening.
After this you can create your character and start your journey already knowing clearly what those people are.

I was so sad when I heard some of my friends saying..“ah ok so Logan is left behind here…who cares” in the Arah mission. Or “so this Glint why was she so important? Was she a human?”.

Other than the problem that sometimes people don’t get thins that are presented in front of their eyes… I would still like to have all the important content explained in the personal story and not having to read a book or find informations on the wiki about who these Destiny’s Edge people are.

Anyone else thinks the same?
Please Anet think about it!

I have to agree with Rikimaru, they were not clear about the 10 players instances though. I think this needs an explenation from the devs. Also having 2 parties would mean having 2 guardians or 2 war for buffs for example and not all different builds, and that for me is limitating, 1 guardian with buffs is enough. Also yeah the Raids will be instances so I can’t see why it would be 2 parties…

……..Are the Devs really listening?……….
I’m asking myself this question from some time now… And probably most of you will reply with just a “NO”.
But I love this game and I love the attention that the Devs are putting in the game.
It makes me a little sad though when I see really important topics on the forums and no Dev replying. And that happens a lot!!
I know they have much better things to do than replying to every single post but the feeling that I get from the current state of the GW2 community, especially with the close release of HOT, is that we are lost and unheard.
Of course they do hear us, we had the proof when they blew it with the prepurchase of the expansion, and they tried something to fix it, but I would like to see more contact and interaction between the Devs and the community, more attention to what the community asks for, new features and bug fixing.
I mean, there are a lot of game blocking bugs that need to be solved from the release of the game! Of features that people are requesting for from the start *cof*build saving cofcof…. Maybe even things that they said that they’re working on but then you don’t hear about it for years…
But you know what Arenanet Devs? I think that the Gw2 community has a great potential, and we love this game! You sometimes screwed it up, but we’re still here! The Gw2 community deserves more love back!

Okok guys! Can we focus on the topic of this post please?
Do you guys think that the skill activation bar on foes would help making the combat better?

Gotta agree with Rabe XD that made me lol

I mean, it’s not just only about the fact that you can’t see what the foe is doing but also to give more importance to stun and other control skills, we even have a skill on the daredevil that slows down the ability that interrupts, but maybe, with the bar where you can see the skill you’re interrupting you can plan better your actions.

I saw many other people having problems with the crowded battles due to the effects on the screen.
I think that adding the ability charging bar like it was in gw1 would solve at least part of the problem.
That way you are able to see the skill activating under the enemy life and you are able to use your skills of dodge accordingly even if you can’t see clearly the movements of the enemy.
You can see what I mean under the mallyx life in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZooidsVHVGc
Please support this!!

It would be great, due to the new traits about the minions and the new minion skill that we will get with the expansion, to have a minion counter to know how many minions are active.
Also sometimes it gets tricky to understand how many minions are left per skill. For example, if you used summon bone minions and you have other minions of the same shape, let’s say summoned with “Rise!” already in game you always have to figure out which are the bone minions and which are not.
I know that you have just to count all your little beasts but a counter would make the life much easier.

We’re getting close to Hot expansion, so can we expect some good news about the Build Saving system?
I know it was announced near June of the last year that the devs were working on it, here’s the source http://dulfy.net/2014/06/05/gw2-developers-are-looking-into-build-templates/. It would really be a great news!
Not having the option to save the build I make sometime keeps me from experimenting enough..

Other crits on the animations:
- Parring with Bandit’s Defence makes the weapo disappear
-using fist flurry makes the weapon disappear.
For the first one would be better to see the weapon in one hand I think and for the second one just put the weapon stowed for the duration of the skill but I guess it is the same as other skills on other professions…

Well Griffith actually most of the time that we take random players in the team to be full they end up spoiling our fun because we have to keep running after them , sometimes because they don’t know how to do things, somethimes because we disagree.
Since this game should be fun for for everyone even small groups I can’t see why the scaling is such an issue.

Well, that’s exactly the kind of movements I was thinking about!
Let’s throw in some more inspiration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmy_qJ7o0uM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPCx9u93XdA

Ok I have to start with saying that to me the overall feel of the Daredevil is appealing , I like the mechanics and some of his abilities are really cool, the devs made a really good job with it!
A polishing of all the abilities is needed though, like some other guys pointed out on the forum, but I will not repeat the same that they said.
My crit is more on the animation side of the staff. I tried the Daredevil on all the races and it always feels like it’s swinging the staff like a mage would do, rotating it in mid air in front of himself, too magical and not enough phisical.
Also the idle animation feels weird with the staff since it seems he’s using a heavy weapon like a hammer or a greatsword instead of an agile staff.
I would suggest to rework some of the animations, going for more interesting and unique poses and figures and maybe save the already good ones. A good inspiration would be the Bo staff combat techniques.
I know, you’re trying to keep it cheap, reworking all the animations will take time and you’re releasing soon but the final result would be amazing, don’t you think?

An other critique is for the second skill of the staff where, if I drop near the target but I’m not facing it the daredevil will just stand there, not using the auto attack. I think that the skill should let the daredevil drop in the same direction of the selected foe so that the combat isn’t interrupted, or at least if the Daredevil is near enough to the selected foe it should turn and continue with the auto attack

I hope this helps!
Keep up the good work!

Ok as in the title, 2 questions:
1- Is it possible to know how many main missions and how many hours of main missions content we will have in HOT?
That would be amazing to know, so that people like me that like Pve would understand if the expansion is worth it.

2- I’m in a small guild with just a few friends always playing the game (I think I’m not the only one in this situation). Most of the time we manage to have 5 or 6 people connected. I was really disappointed when I heard about the 10 people team for the raids, I was hoping for more content for small groups, something that would make it easier to play some exciting content with groups from 5 to 10.
And be honest, nobody would like to take random people in for a raid if you’re a small group with ts and so on…it makes things too complicated…
So….would it be possible to have the scaling system? Or can we expect something different for small groups in the expansion?

Could we have a set of armor instead of the outfit? Pretty please? .

So i eas thinking, the weapons from the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon are really cool with the night flaming effect but the armor has none…is there any way we could get the same effect on the armor? It would be so cool and a nice customization choice
Pretty please?

I’m not sure that this is the right place to ask for it but…
I’m moving to Germany soon and I will not be able for some months to use a cable line for internet. I will be using an internet stick with a 5.000 MB cap per month ..Do I have to get over it and say goodbye to the fun days of GW2 or can I still play it with minimum quality and maybe some lagg, without using all my 5g in 5 minutes? I love to play Gw2 with my friends on free time….
’am so scared guys….so effing scared…

Totally agree with this! There are some norn headgears that, for example, look better in the female armor than in the male version, look at the stag armor, the female one is awesome, especially the headgear and shoulders, it would be rad to be able to use those skins on the male norns.

This is something that always bothered me of the game aesthetic. Norn beards ans especially Asuran ears sometime are hidden by some headgears. I think that for the Asura, having the ears showing is a must, I heard a lot of other people saying “meh I’d love to wear that hood on my asura but it will look like E.T.” and they are right! There are a lot of old and new headgear that I want to use but hide my character ears…please Anet, make all the Asuran ears visible on each headgear, if not the old ones at least the new ones (Gas mask skin!!!). No one will ever care if they are just clipping through, and if you really want to make everyone happy put an option like the headgear or the shoulders armor to let us choose if we want tem to show or not. PLEEEASE!!

I liked the new chapte(r echoes of the past) a lot but I was really dosappointed when playing it with my girlfriend because if I was the one who activate the mission she couldn’t read the books by herself…
The same happens in a lot of other main missions. I think it’s something that has to be fixed to be able to enjoy main missions in groups. Even the dialogues sometime show up for the rest of the team sometime not and you have to read to the others what the png is saying since they can’t see the dialogue window. It would be much better if the other players are allowed to go through the missions dialogues and things by themselves but not being able to take decisions(leave that to the one who started the mission).
Please Anet fix this Pretty please!

it’s not something that’s happening only with my girlfriend but with other friends too in a lot of different missions, that’s why I’m asking them to change the system since the current one is bugged everywhere

I liked the new chapter a lot but I was really dosappointed when playing it with my girlfriend because if I was the one who activate the mission she couldn’t read the books by herself…
The same happens in a lot of other main missions. I think it’s something that has to be fixed to be able to enjoy main missions in groups. Even the dialogues sometime show up for the rest of the team sometime not and you have to read to the others what the png is saying since they can’t see the dialogue window. It would be much better if the other players are allowed to go through the missions dialogues and things by themselves but not being able to take decisions(leave that to the one who started the mission).
Please Anet fix this Pretty please!

I will write in this topic all my ideas about useful adds or changes to the game.

1- Build save: before Gw2 I was playing Gw where you had the possibility save your builds with different names and load them when you needed them. It would be awesome to see the same thing in Gw2! It’s nice that you can change your skills with a click, but if you have to change the traits, the skills and the armor it could take several minutes. I always try to write down the good combinations but sometime I’m in a rush and I can’t do it and the next time I have to read all the traits again to reset the build as it was that time.

2- Asuran Ears and Norn beards: This is something that always bothered me of the game aesthetic. Norn beards ans especially Asuran ears sometime are hidden by some headgears. I think that for the Asura, having the ears showing is a must, I heard a lot of other people saying “meh I’d love to wear that hood on my asura but it will look like E.T.” and they are right! There are a lot of old and new headgear that I want to use but hide my character ears…please Anet, make all the Asuran ears visible on each headgear, if not the old ones at least the new ones (Gas mask skin!!!). No one will ever care if they are just clipping through, and if you really want to make everyone happy put an option like the headgear or the shoulders armor to let us choose if we want tem to show or not. PLEEEASE!!

3- Old living history and events pack: The possibility to unlock (with some gems maybe?) old events missions like the “Mad Memories” to unlock the backpack and skins that you missed. The unlock process could be even through killing some boss or finding pieces of a portal to go in the past.

these are just 3 ideas but I will add more in the future

I love playing the engineer but since every build is connected with the use of a least one backpack kit I barely see the skin of my weapon, I always see the kit, flamethrower, granades and the others that are cool but it could be better if I could have a skin for the kits to have the same range of costumization that the other classes have.

I reported this bug in game too…I hope they’ll fix it, I think that’s simple because a lot of other helmets had beards so why not this too?

Yeah I know why they made it this way, so I said that they could keep this gambling side in the moas race but at least add some more active part for the player, I play to have fun not to wait and be bored… I know that there are a lot of other minigames and things to do but I think that all the things that we do ingame must be fun to do and not feel like a waste of time…

Today I’ve sadly discovered that the moa race in the dragon bash festival in the game is a gambling thing…
Since now I’ve always liked the mini games that the gw2 team come up with, but this?! seriously…gambling on some moas that run in circle without you can do a thing? that’s boring, that’s grinding, without talking about the fact that is gambling and I end up hating it and ignore it just for that.
I asked a lot of people ingame about it and they think the same way.
The Rollerbeetle Race of the Canthan New Year in Guild Wars 1 is great! You can be active that way, than you can costumize your beetle and during the race you can play tricks to stop the other players.
That is really fun to do, you feel that you’re making a difference in it.
So, my suggestion is, please, change the moa race of the dragon bash in something similar to the beetle race of GW1, maybe with a bit of color costumization for the moas, than if you want to keep the gambling part too it’s ok, it could be even more fun to do, think about it!

I really enjoyed the racial quests and I enjoyed the racial armors and weapons too!
It could be awesome to have a line of elite quests or dungeons specific for each race, and every mission could give as reward a skin like in the all of monuments, like some strange asuras rifle or charr sword and so on.

I think it’s not that much complicated, but yeah, maybe they don’t care about this things..that’s sad…

I’m a charr in the iron legion, during the quests I became affectioned to my warband mates like Reeva and the others, and I have acquired the Warband support skill thinking that I could see coming at support my actual warband that I “played” with during the quests. It could be fun..but it was really disappointing when I used it and I saw 2 random charr guys instead of Reeva, Luccia the others .
I think that fixing this, replacing the two random with the charr of your warband that you choose in your story in the character creation, and an other charr of your actual warband could be awesome and it could help to stay more in the role.
I hope you’ll keep this in consideration.

I was thinking with my friends that would be awesome to have a crafting app on our smartphone/Iphone to use when not at the pc, like on the run for work, in a breack, waiting for someone, on the bus! to both enjoy crafting and saving hours during the actual playtime.
we could log in to our storage, craft and then save the progress when we are done with wifi connection.
We are not really sure of how much work, money and time it would be needed to realize this project, but still when we thought about it we were so crazy about this that we had to tell you.
thanks for hearing us out,
keep up the good work

I have some party members that have slower connection than me so when they help me with my personal story they can see my cinematics only since I see them, when the cinematic stops for me it stops for my friends too, so they can’t see the videos and can’t understand my story and enjoy it. This problem is really frustrating and it keeps other friends to play togheter. Please is there a way to fix this? Is it a bug or something I have to say to them to check to make it work right? I want to enjoy the time playing with them, It’s better for me to wait till they finish to watch my cinematics, than feeling their frustration and have to tell them in chat what happened in my videos.
Please, really! Fix this! Gw2 is a great game and this thing keeps ruining my experience.