Guild Wars 2

Schurge.5194:

The last think we need is the Pact Commander acting like a whiny little teenager like the rest of the super hero club.

Yeah, it’s terrible and immersion breaking when characters act at all sad about friends or family getting murdered.

He doesn’t commit suicide by tree, his brain explodes as a result of our actions in the last story instance. He’s never under any real threat in Dragon’s Stand because he can regenerate whenever he wants, but he has to rush to us(ignoring that, as commander of the Pact, we’re in two places at once…) or he’s done for.

Labjax.2465:

fixit.7189:

This is by far the most buggiest and content light expansion I have ever played in any MMO to date. I started in EQ/UO btw so that’s a pretty impressive feat. Only a few weeks later after HoT launch, I don’t want to log in and play no more; it’s the same old grind doing the same old things. Well played anet, well played. /standingovation

It’s probably just because I’ve been reading the forums too much, but I’m beginning to feel the same way. I don’t regret buying it, but I do feel like I’m already running out of interesting things to do. And it’s not like I don’t have stuff I can do… it’s just something about the design is boring me.

If I had to put my finger on it, off the cuff, I’d say the main thing bothering me is 1) how long it takes to do meta events and 2) the wait in-between. When I go farm SW, there’s a rhythm to it I can get into and the wait in-between is virtually nothing, especially if you watch LFG. With this stuff, it’s like… ok, I did the two hour long meta, now I wait twenty to thirty minutes to start again, so I can spend another two hours before we even see the bosses.

I have stamina, but not that much stamina. It’s exhausting, frankly.

The worst offender is Tangled Depths, where you can do all the preparation events in ~30 minutes and the actual meta is only every two hours.

draxynnic.3719:

Except that the sylvari only have the outward appearance of gender, and from what we see of how the mordrem operate, it’s likely that they have that because the Pale Tree sucked up human genetic information as she grew.

Except Malyck’s every bit as humanoid as Grove sylvari, despite coming from a different tree.

Snarftastic.6709:

Nath Forge Tempete.1645:

Wow … I really feel u guys would be really offended if there will be more “reality” in the game.

SJW : why is this that bad? Promote equality … diversity… well i don’t know why it’s that horrible The only thing i meant .was (as u said) it doesn’t have an impact on the story … but why have made this with faolain/caithe and marjory/kasmeer? and why not with guys? just that . ^^

And i think I have the right to be upset about kid’s argument on “homosexuality”

Btw sorry for turning your post in something completely wrong Jesseii (but ppl are kittens somehow)

Beacause Faolin/Caithe and Marjory/Kasmeer weren’t forced down our throats like tumblr crap. They had cool storylines that flowed well with the game and actually contributed to their personalities and characters.

I’d disagree about Marjory/Kasmeer not being forced, during LS1 anyway. Same with Taimi being a cripple.

It was thankfully pushed back during LS2, but it was right in our faces during LS1.

My understanding is that you need to decide against helping Laranthir rescue prisoners and there will be a Pale Reaver in or around the camp you can talk to. It needs to be done as a sylvari or with a sylvari as the party leader.

Agemnon.4608:

Aedelric.1287:

Lady Elyssa.2469:

I make no justification for stating facts.

You may not be aware but forum titles cannot be changed except by the Mods, who I am sure should they agree with your opinion will be more than happy to.

Just think next time mate.

Eir’s death was not wasted, and her death may not have been heroic but it had more meaning. Being killed Mordy infront of Braham has given him drive to defeat the Dragon and perhaps all Dragons giving a bland character more depth and forwarding his story.

Faolin being the reason for Eir’s death also creates conflict within Caithe as she loves Faolin but was a good friend to Eir. Ultimately she makes a decision to side with us and fight to avenge Eir and give peace to her love.

It also gives your own character an enemy to focus on as during much of the story Mordremoth has no face. As I said, it my not be heroic but it does have meaning, it furthers two fairly mediocre characters stories.

Anyway her death is of no great loss to me, their are more interesting characters.

In Dante’s Inferno there are nine layers. Betrayers and traitors are placed in the ninth. Not only is betraying people who think of you as a friend and “ally” very wrong but betraying someone right after they save your life adds a whole other dimension. For perspective wrathful murderers and warmongers are placed in the seventh circle.

But we don’t need to go with Dante to know that Faolin crossed a moral event horizon and is therefore irredeemable. One cannot simply be neutral, those with Faolin are by default against us, as they are on the very side of someone who betrayed us.

Except we work with a Nightmare Court duchess in Dragon’s Stand.

Mortifer.2946:

And what is this problem with not-CC-ing? I actually never managed to get into organised event so I don’t know how it works.

He has a channeled ability where he stands still and makes rocks fall from the ceiling. If you don’t break his defiance bar then, he’ll stand still for a very long time allowing the group to burn him.

The entire Caithe thing is just silly. She apparently got another Wyld Hunt that the Pale Tree didn’t know about, and she refused to tell us for no good reason.

Small correction: we saw Primordus and Kralkatorrik in GW1.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Kralkatorrik
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Primordus

Unholy Pillager.3791:

I prefer the old circular saw blade icon. I also have noticed that they no longer use the new icon anywhere but the character select screen, making it harder sometimes to tell if other players are using an elite specialization or not.

You can still see them in PvE.

They said they changed the sawblade because people were confusing it with the tempest icon, but that seems so stupid that I can’t think it’s the truth.

Randulf.7614:

Daralii.8940:

The thing that bothers me about the egg is that Glint had a child in GW1, but Gleam hasn’t been mentioned at all by anyone since his name was revealed. Is he even still alive? Did the devs just forget?

There was speculation it was Gleam who gave the Master the egg.
Some have even speculated Gleam to be Mr E

Except E grabbed Marjory in Divinity’s Reach. I think a dragon in the city would draw some attention.

It could have been an intermediary, but there’s no evidence one way or the other.

megakittytron.5971:

What I want to know is…what happened to Garm?

Braham mentions not knowing if he was with her in the crash, so no one’s sure.

If they wanted to kill a member of DE for drama that ends up not going anywhere, I don’t know why they killed off Eir instead of Zojja, who’s hardly done anything and never shows up because of issues between ANet and Felicia Day.

The thing that bothers me about the egg is that Glint had a child in GW1, but Gleam hasn’t been mentioned at all by anyone since his name was revealed. Is he even still alive? Did the devs just forget?

starlinvf.1358:

One thing that got overlooked, and is driving me insane….

Why are Gyros not eligible Underwater skills? With the exception of Shreader, due to ground targeting, none of the other Gyros behave in a way that would prevent them from being functional underwater. In fact, they’d be great additions because their skill functions are just AOE passive effects. Even the Tool belt skills would be incredible for bunker and support roles in their own right, since the tool kits don’t synergize the same way they do on land.

Probably because underwater combat was completely ignored with HoT. Just look at revenants.

Red Mistress Denna.9804:

I’m hoping this gets addressed in future HoT releases (Raids, maybe).

I do think it has something to do with Destiny’s Edge 2.0:
Marjory picking up her sisters great sword
Braham inherits his mom’s longbow

Either way, I would love to see more on this.

From what I’ve been told, the devs have said that the elite specs are based on the plot points and not the other way around. Marjory’s not a reaper, she’s a necromancer with a greatsword(like Trahearne). Braham’s not a dragonhunter, he’s a guardian with a memento he doesn’t use. Hopefully that’ll change in the future, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

No lore beyond the blog posts revealing them, never brought up by the characters that have them(Marjory, Rytlock, etc). It’s really underwhelming considering there was supposed to be some.

Itzpapalotl.5802:

My belief is that the DSD is trapped under the Jade Sea. Remember Kuunavang? My theory is that she is/was his champion and because of him being trapped in the Jade Sea made by Shiro, that she was able to act freely and to help the heroes in Factions. It seems that the connections of ED to their champions and minions are a telepathic/mental connection. Because there wasn’t anything to really break the tie between Glint and Kralk that she had to be cleansed and for that she was permanently free of Kralk’s influence. Kuuny, on the other hand, only has a temporary break in her being controlled by the DSD. Cantha is so far from Kryta and the land that we have access to that we wouldn’t see any of the DSD minions this far from his territory, if they are in fact active now.

We can’t access Cantha and for all we know it’s utter chaos there especially due to them becoming completely xenophobic. So unless Anet will allow us to travel to Cantha, we may never see the DSD. Also, because of the Jade Sea being completely solid, the DSD may not have his connection to Kuunavang and was unable to awaken properly. I imagine it would be quite hard to break through all of that water turned to jade, so if he has awoken, then he is probably quite upset.

Except the entire reason quaggan, krait, and largos are around is because the DSD drove them out of the depths.

The weird thing about the Inquest point is that their tech is in Dragon’s Stand. It’s even stated by an NPC to be Inquest. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be hinting at the Thaumanova/CoE research or what, but it’s there.

lorddarkflare.9186:

Systemic changes:
-1/2 of whirl finisher projectiles should home.
-All Gyro detonations should be unique skills
-Gyros should have a VERY aggressive leash
-Final Salvo needs an HGH-type buff.
-Stabilization core should apply to all Gyros, should be AoE, but have 1/2 to 2/3 duration reduction.

Gyro Changes:
-Sneak: Good. Toolbelt could be less PvP-centric I though.
-Medic: Good. Needs condi removal. Should scale better than HT if healing power.
-Bulwark: Good. Toolbelt could use a lower recharge.

-Purge: Needs a complete redesign. Toolbelt as well. One of them should be good.
-Shredder: Needs additional functionality. Toolbelt is very good.
-Blast: Needs complete redesign. Toolbelt is functional, but redundant.

Another problem with medic is that it stops to cast its heal, which has a decently long cast time. Just moving at normal speed it’s possible to never get anything out of it apart from the initial heal on summoning.

Walhalla.5473:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

And that the Chak are just never-known-before ley line eating bugs.

To know this it would be nice to know if the Chak appeared after DSD awakened or before. I also find it suspicous that there is a Species that is eating Ley Energy and there were no Mordrem Chak in HoT.

They at least date back to ~1170, since that’s around when Rata Novus fell. I don’t know for certain if there’s any record of them before that.

draxynnic.3719:

I was thinking Vissh Rakissh as the Last Forgotten, myself. While it’s unclear if the massacre he talks about it one that happened around Nightfall or whether it happened before Abaddon was incarcerated, that’s the one Forgotten that we know survived Nightfall in Tyria.

I have to think more survived. Everything but the blog post suggests the Exalted were created after GW1, and I don’t think Vissh could’ve gathered and created them alone.

Rich Fuel.7253:

it ended like nothing, and im unhappy

My favorite part was probably that her VA voices one of the first NPCs you talk to after leaving that story instance.

Dante.1763:

Doggie.3184:

Lostwingman.5034:

Good thing we don’t let singular individuals determine what content other people get to enjoy.

If that was True we would still have Cantha. Good thing that one single racist Korean is gone now though and Cantha has been seeping back into the game.

As for the topic. SAB? Yes please. Love it. It’s awesome. I cherish everything I own from it. Gimme more when you can.

Is that true?

But yes SAB please, let my ICC have some use!!!

The old Great Collapse in Divinity’s Reach was originally supposed to be a Canthan district, but NCSoft told ANet that having a bunch of east Asian architecture next to European architecture was racist and it got cut.

If you don’t mind me asking, why shocking speed over recovery matrix?

I’m expecting heavy scrapper nerfs for the sake of PvP without the PvE issues even being glanced at. I’m not excited.

Zabiyaka.2567:

Eir shouldnt die for sake of some longbow for guardians. But if they went that way why they dont revitalize her with druid magic and in the same time introducing this class. That would be awesome and would leave more ppl satisfyed, I’m sure of it becasue there is a lot of Eir fans out there that are not accepting her demise. Whats done is done they say but I have so much hope ANET will bring back her somehow:). PLS SIR COLIN!

As per ANet, the spec is based on the plot point and not the other way around. Development on elite specs seemingly didn’t start until very recently, so any of them lining up with characters is more of a coincidence than anything.

Eir died for some short lived drama and so Braham would shave his head. Nothing more.

Rym.1469:

Why would UA get a nerf?

The smokescale equivalent got nerfed(less evade time, -10% damage), which has caused some people to be afraid of UA getting a similar nerf.

It’s undoubtedly targeted at PvP, so it sure would be nice if they’d just split the skill slightly, but I guess the technology just isn’t there yet.

Senario.2038:

Depends on which one you are talking about.
Things like:
Dragonhunter, Chronomancer, Herald, Scrapper
for example are better and can be more powerful

Scrapper’s really only worth taking for PvP. In PvE, vanilla engi is flat out better for power and miles ahead for condi.

I think it might be the worst class icon in GW2. I’d rather they just reuse Perfectly Weighted’s icon if it has to be a hammer.

Kalavier.1097:

I hope Caithe doesn’t die. Merely because killing off a character to retire them/get rid of an unpopular one is almost ALWAYS a bad choice.

However, minor spoilers for me, I’m glad at least Logan and Zojja survived the events. That was one question I had.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if they’re killed after the fact(the second one rescued succumbing to their wounds, the first one rescued dying in battle somehow). Eir was possibly them beginning to “prune” Destiny’s Edge, since they want it to be all about the biconics and DE overshadows them.

Ardid.7203:

Daralii.8940:

Haralin.1473:

There are so many good ideas in this Engineer Forum, but they dont care, they just want to do there own thing.

Which is frequently nothing.

Or MORE AIs…

Our gen 2 elite spec will be the Garbage Can, which features turrets riding gyros.

GreenRipper.6432:

We can not make a “manifest” or “formal request” to Anet allocate a unique responsibility to take care of Engineer?

It can be anyone, provided they do not share with another profession, because we are always running in the background.

I’m pretty sure every engineer main could personally go to their offices and start coding and stuff still wouldn’t get fixed.

Haralin.1473:

There are so many good ideas in this Engineer Forum, but they dont care, they just want to do there own thing.

Which is frequently nothing.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

I don’t think it’s related to 100% completion because i don’t have any characters with that and i lost all exploration as well, so have dozens in the guild.

Different issues. OP’s talking about not getting map completion rewards from HoT areas, which is tied to 100% completion. The new issue with HoT map completion resetting isn’t as far as I know.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

geez… 20+gig download to use 64bit client… glad I’m on a 70meg conn… good luck all you 5 gig users!

You can just drop the .exe in your GW2 folder and it’ll use the same .dat file as the 32-bit client.

Klaugh.7415:

brunobyof.3541:

Actually all content from expansion was lost, including achievements

I was working ON Achievement stuff when it happened — I finished the mission I was on and got the last achievement I needed for the Act, and got the rewards for them. I don’t think Achievement or story progress was wiped for me.

Good to know that it’s not client-specific, though. Still a strange (and frustrating!) one, to be sure.

It happened to me in an SPvP game. HoT achievements(including completed ones) were displaying as locked, ongoing ones that required doing HoT content were taken off the track list. As far as I can tell the entire account was de-flagged, and that status was reflected the next time you loaded into a map.

It’s bugged for characters that have 100% core Tyria completion. Nothing you can do but wait for a fix.

Quip used to give grenades new particles/sounds, but that broke maybe a year ago and never got a response.

Aneko.2534:

Hello,
I’m not sure if it’s just me or if others are experiencing this. But I’m noticing on my asura revenant that when I dodge/evade an attack, my character occasionally drops a bomb. Also, my revenant seems to be missing the racial abilities that my other asuran characters have. I don’t really use them much(took me this long to realize I didn’t have them) but I hadn’t heard anyone else mention it so I thought I would bring it up.

Revenants not having racial skills is intended.

So since this probably won’t ever be fixed based on their track record, what’s everyone replacing it with?

GreenRipper.6432:

Irenio alive??

All other professions are having bug fixes pretty much every day, and we have not had even one.

Anet could launch next path notes: Engineers are discontinued.

But we have had one! Two nerfs and bulwark gyro getting stripped of the change to minions!

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

He may not be dead in the physical sense.

In the story it was suggested we just burn down the whole jungle and every place he is at.
But that idea is rejected as mord is so many places & too large.

However since we only fought his mind in the dream he could just be brain dead or comatose.

Thus his body is likely still alive & his minions are still around, they just aren’t getting any new orders from Mord himself.

We fight his physical body at the end of the Dragon’s Stand meta event. At the end of the fight it tries to escape before seizing and slumping over dead. He’s probably more dead than Zhaitan considering we bomb him, blow up his brain, and a chunk of the magic he ate is absorbed by the egg.

Firebaall.5127:

Good news, but I hope they are still working on the issue of the GW2 process using more…and more….and more memory as it runs. The OOM happens under the 32 bit process when it approaches 4 GB.

That being said, the GW2 process shouldn’t be getting anywhere near 4 GB of memory used. I fear the 64 bit client is merely a bandage on a deeper cut.

The presumed root of the issue is GW2’s horrendous memory fragmentation. This at least should help serve as a stopgap until that’s addressed.

It’s something people have been suggesting since they were revealed to be AI controlled. No response that I’m aware of.

hardy.7469:

I think the problem is that the PS doesn’t make you do zone meta events. If you consider the timeline for the story where you go into Dragon’s Stand through the personal story, do the meta, then continue to the story, it makes sense and makes Mord seem more formidable, but since ANet doesn’t want to force the storyline to make you do zone map stuff, it seems like we just swiftly ran in there and killed him.

And Mord is dead, he’s dead. His energy exploded in three directions and something absorbed some of it.

The big question that hangs, ever since Zhaitan is whether or not the dragons can be replaced. Can something absorb their power and take their place.

We’ve known that since LS2. Ogden said in no uncertain terms that Glint was well on her way to succeeding Kralkatorrik. It’s the entire reason the egg is so important.

Zalani.9827:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Avador.8934:

With that killing mood everywhere, why just not killing every main character in entire game? Everyone should be satisfied then. -_-

Character purge would be nice. Pretty much all characters except Rytlock are meh. Even Player Character is meh now thanks to one locked personality we ended up with.

Tbh I find Rytlock the most meh, yay opinions.

Don’t you just love it when we go spouting off opinions as facts.

Same here. I guess that means they have to kill Rytlock to appease us. :>

Mystic Starfish.2586:

^The GW1 ones sure, unlikely to be concluded. But stuff like Caudecus, Mai Trin/Aetherblades, Magdaer, all could show up in future expansions theoretically. Now that we’re done with the “Sylvari Expansion”, we can venture to other areas of the world and pick up on these storylines.

Except we just finished the “sylvari expansion” and it addressed none of the dangling sylvari plot threads(Dream/Nightmare, Malyck, even the state of the Pale Tree). Why would you think the next storyline would be any better?

Zero mention of him, his tree, or any of the other trees. Hell, there’s not even anything about what’s up with the Pale Tree.

I find it really funny that some people are so thoroughly enraged because a video game character is a higher rank than them in a fictional organization and that ANet is so spineless that they felt the need to cater to them by killing off a character.

Jesus Christ, go outside and reevaluate your life.