Guild Wars 2

I’m all for this and more. Let’s take it to another level by the removal of message suppression completely in WvW. I hit it easily while Porting in the JP from saying “NP” or “Anytime”. Becoming useless for actual /m chat.

With over 1k hours in T1 WvW, I think I know exactly how much killing is required to win the PPT. And as the OP demonstrated, it’s not always required to win or have fun! :-)

WvW isn’t about killing, it’s about territory. It’s about obtaining, building, and defending territory. If you are going to WvW expressly to kill things, then you might be missing the spirit of WvW. Try sPvP as I think you’ll like it more.

….Oh wait, does thinking about what another may enjoy more make me Carebear too??? Oop’s! ;-) haha

It depends on what you are doing. Solo roaming, anything glass is OP to me. Thieves are the most obvious opportunists in this regard. 6-8k C&D, 8-10k Backstab, 7-8k Heartseeker, and 9k+Unload is kinda OP. Especially when you add stealth. Now put them in a LR battle and watch them melt :-)

It’s because you OP are a good person! Don’t listen to those miserable folks who love suffering because it’s good to be good! Yes, many of us actually FEEL BETTER by building a community than slaughtering another for no real reason. I have done the same.

I laugh at the attempt to use “Carebear” as a slur. Yes, I’ll take that widely embraced Multi-Billion dollar franchise as a compliment, TY ! :-) lmao

I agree with this! Like Gems, Gold should be accessible from each character. Having to go back and forth to the bank is a waste of time. Life is too precious to waste on this. Gaming, as in real life, should be streamlined to be as efficient with our time as possible.

The only extra bank for gold should be our guild banks.

As the title suggest, may we visit the present design of high damage to defense ratio? I feel the game play is too frenetic and jerky. Almost to the point of this game being unhealthy to play for any length. (Mostly WvW referencing) Why not increase defense so fights take a bit longer? Slow things down a bit so it’s frenetic pacing isn’t too stressful to the human body? Elevated Cortisol levels on a daily basis are not something to cultivate in the player base, right? Then fighting would also take long and be more skill based too.

For more fun, obviously it’s very subjective. Though there aren’t any real community aspects to the game. Nothing to do, nor rewards for anything that doesn’t involve killing. Why is the creation of such suffering required for fun? Why is killing the only way for one to get ahead in the game? Something seems terribly amiss. Thus, please create some play and events not based on death.

May I also ask for new zones please? Ones with more vivid colors, flourishing and lively. The brooding dark deathly theme has been done. Can we get something else in the game now? I assumed after 6 months and most of us beating Zhaitan, we would have a happier ending. When is that coming to GW2? For a game that has this dialogue, “More violets, less violence” how about us having a place for this?

Absolutely not from my opinion. Because here’s the thing, I only do a dragon for loot. I want him on a set timer and more frequent. This way the dragon’s aren’t going to go to overflow every time. Nothing is less epic and more boring than sitting for an hour waiting.

Not matter what, the dragon is a programmed sequence. No matter what you do, it will be figured out. Then it will be once again, 1111111 6 111111 F 111111 ;-)

I’d rather have a Costume brawl with the dragon than killing him every day to be honest.

something!

;)

Agree’d! I’ve felt the same way around skill points

For the Lore argument, may I add, so someone came up with crudy Lore. You do not have to keep doubling down on it. If a large numbers of customers want something, you give it to them. Or suffer the consequences when someone else does.

If you like GW2 and want it to t last, making it fun and rewarding should be a top priority. If people want mounts, let’s have mounts. For mounts flying up to the VP’s, why not? It’s easy is not an argument. Because there’s nothing wrong with easy!!!!! Especially if it Feels good as you soar up to it on your flying mount.

This is a game. Feeling good and having a great immersive experience should come first. This game lacks in having that….. Especially for an RPG!

After reading this thread, it does reinforce my view on the inherent problems stemming from the “Free to play” model. The economy is designed to be near “Zero Sum”. Is it just me or does the game feel very oppressive towards any of our efforts to obtain the things we want? We can spend hours and yet it comes with little reward. Why, because we need to pay Arenanet for gems to get the things we want. But, I’m not paying over a thousand dollars for some pixels on a screen. Am I right???

I don’t have a very rosy outlook on the long term of this game with such limitations. I’m simply looking to feel more rewarded for playing for hours on end. And, less stressed for it too. To get something more out of the game. RNG is hurting any fun I may have felt too.

Btw… I dislike pugging dungeons, including an actual hatred of FotM. Sooooo…. where’s my option for getting enough gold to buy anything?

Thank you for the post. I wish it was possible. With our large PvE community on JQ, each Dragon will go to overflow if you try it last minute. The timers on websites aren’t very useful as they get monkeyed with.

For fun, there are only so many events to do. You’re either doing the same cycle in Orr or dungeons really. I spend a lot of time in WvW just porting people and trying to make people happy I wish there was more opportunity in the game.

I’d just like to point out that I’m happy Silverfire doesn’t work for Anet. The game would be niche at best, the way you just described your vision for it. And, for the Carebears wise crack, you might want to read up on how popular they are. It’s a much better franchise than this game, unfortunately. Because good will forever be healthier and more desired.

Please consider Syncing World Bosses across maps and overflows. It’s really disheartening when you get stuck in an overflow. What’s going to happen then, people are going to begin sitting idle in maps longer and longer ahead of time. Any enjoyment from the game will diminish rapidly from this.

I think several of these post’s show an elevated level of elitism and narcissism.

I believe the solution will come in the form of Arenanet randomly shuffling each worlds positioning at reset. Making it just a matter of playing and waiting. Remember, this is a game for entertainment. Denying or withholding happiness from others will not accomplish anything good.

Please, SoR and BG…. please finish off Lowlands. I’m sick of reading all the “ZOMG… Bags, bags” comments in map chat. I can’t get anyone to rally a proper defense at all.

Finish us off and camp our spawn to teach us a lesson. They’ll most likely rage quit and go to bed then.

In those day’s we weren’t green! For tonight’s events, they actually began brewing right after reset tonight. Sooo…. it’s going on about 7 hrs straight now.

Now, can we finally lay off the 2v1 talk, please? Everyone get’s 2v1’d. SoR and BG, you’ve been hitting JQ in EB for hours on end now.

I don’t know whom decided to change Boss events. I can tell you it was a bad idea. Sitting for half to almost an hour for an event to start is boring as heck! If that was the intention, to make it so boring no one would do them, then you succeeded.

…..Though how long do you think we’re going to continue playing a boring game????….

Please increase the frequency of these World Boss events. Also, increase the server capacity/resources given to them. Going to one and being stuck in overflow kinda’ sucks!

Fun should be the first thought in design and then the last thought before finishing.

Exactly… this thread is all about greed. He probably has a couple hundred gold in the bank and stacks of ecto’s. His only concerned is about himself.

How about thinking of the rest of the community?

I see it’s another bright and shinning morning in threadville!

You just have to come to the EB JP when I’m porting. It’s fun time for all! And yes, even BG are welcome too. IF they are nice!….

^This is my first MMO. The wiki didn’t even have an entry at the time either. I took the term “unique” as a noun. Meaning that it is unique, in stats, from all other accessories. Which at the time, it was the only celestial accessory. Also, it’s an exotic with no infusion slot for offensive/defensive. So, it’s a bit odd why this can’t be equipped twice. Then they came out with two Ascended celestial stated accessories anyway! So… only being able to equip one is ridiculous even to them!

As I said, it was the first “unique” item in the game. Though the never went back and fixed this.

Like dye’s on the TP, it should have said that my character can only equip one of them on the purchase screen. Anet still had my $40 regardless. But, I could have sold my karka shells and recouped most of the money. The fact that I’m just going to junk them for Ascended accessories sucks even more. If they keep introducing “The Next Best Thing” in equipment, I’ll be done with the game.

L2P isn’t the problem. It’s that only certain builds work against them. IF you don’t like those builds, melee mostly, you’ll forever be killed by thiefs. That’s a balancing problem.

Another balancing problem is having Backstab easily doing between 6-8k and then Heartseeker doing between 2-4k. Those numbers are quite oppressive. 3-4 quick and easy shots for them and you’re about to be downed already. Of course you could run but, oh wait, Thieves have the fastest combat speed by far. Good luck turning your back to them and running.

Maybe if Backstab wasn’t broken and the target zone was actually much smaller it would be different. You can Backstab from just about anywhere and it’ll do the full double damage.

Let’s all face it, someone high in the company thinks frustration is fun. That’s why they made the scumbag class the most powerful and annoying in WvW. I call the class that because, well, you’re a THIEF! :-) Eventually, (hopefully) someone above the amoralist will take more control of the game. Making a thief a high risk class with actual consequences.

For the OP, take a day off from the game. Come back just before 8pm ready to go. Start the daily at reset. Whenever you have to log off, then log off. If it’s a half hour, then great! You are that much closer to finishing it. Think about it, the next day you’ll have twice as long to finish it.

I’d post how I do my daily usually. But, the moment Arenanet see’s you’ve figured things out, they change it. Effectively pulling the rug out from you.

Why is there even a currency and items gated behind a DAILY Chore? It’s not like sitting on our butts gaming is really a healthy endeavour. Why not group the dailies into a stack of 7 and call them a weekly? A stack we can nibble on here and there. Or, we can take a huge bite out of when we have the time. You know, maybe just a little bit on Tuesday’s & Wednesday’s. Maybe on little bit more on Monday’s & Thursday’s. Either way when we finish one, we finish one. Then off to the next one on the stack.

Why aren’t Laurels able to be purchased with real currency I have no idea. All this gating is really going to backfire on you Arenanet. As OCD as gamer’s can be, there’s a limit to it. Show some trust that you actually have a game people would like to play everyday. Instead of trying to force your customers by having dailies.

When the Ancient Karka event from “The Lost Shores” ended, I brought up this topic. Because the Ancient Karka Shell accessory was the first unique item added to the game.

I know this because I bought a second Ancient Karka Shell and found out the hard way. I purchased Gems and sold them for gold a couple of hours after the event ended. Used the gold from Sunday night til Tuesday buying up 1,000 karka shells on the TP. Took them to Southsun Cove and traded them in for a second Ancient Karka Shell. I was really happy that I got it. Until I went to equip it and….. nothing! I was irate.

I’m not a farmer, nor a dungeon runner. Gold in the game is hard to come buy for me. Thus, the spending of US Dollars was required. Still to this day I’m kinda ticked off. I contacted customer service about it but, they couldn’t help me. To pour salt on the wound, they came out with the ascended accessories making my $40 or so purchase kinda worthless.

Why am I telling you all this, one may ask. Because I ended up not being the only one whom fell for this. With some severely ticked off customers, you’d think they’d change the “Unique” status back then. Heck, it was only one item at the time, right? Instead, they came out with a whole slew more since then. So…. whomever in the company loves being obsessively controlling, they aren’t going to budge on this.

Sorry to see you getting bashed OP. I’m with you on having more choice! I’m seriously shaking my head at all this. To those replying, why blankly defend Arenanet? If a fellow player wants to use some different armor, why try to stifle them from asking?

First, the skins are going to merge or clip when mingling classes? They already do this within the same class already! When the preview was available across classes you could easily see which pieces would work together. Many of them do actually. I believe this is why the updated preview screen will not let you view pieces across classes. Because then you might actually see something you like and ask for it. Shameful they’d stoop to this really…

WvW, unless you play with the camera zoomed to near first person perspective, you cannot see what classes are heading toward you. I posted a screen cap to debunk this already. If you wanted to know which class was which, why not bark at the dev’s for removing the profession icon from targets? Or, didn’t you even notice it was removed in WvW?

For Lore and metal blocking magic casting. Well, if metal blocks magic, then why does my warrior still take damage from it? I should be impervious to magic, right? Better yet, if my warrior can run, dash , and twirl as she does, I think a simple twist of the wrist to cast a spell isn’t going to be obstructed. Especially when you consider a race can be any profession. Each person within the race has similar physical capacity.

All these discussion all boil down to a failure of design. Our characters should have had agility and speed factored into the armor equation. The lighter the faster, more agile, and less defense. Heavier having the inverse of slower, less agile, and more defense. Thus, it’ would then be our CHOICE to build an agile warrior or a sturdier Mesmer.

Pre-packaged, cookie cutter, looks and themes are not what I imagined this greatly hyped game design was going to be. I’ve barely scraped together one look that’s acceptable per class.

Btw…. I wish they’d bring Aion artists over into GW2 for a new zone. The game desperately needs some Life and Light brought into it.

I’m sorry but, the dev’s really need to get over this. I can’t even tell who’s who on a 50" plasma! Here’s my perspective right now in EB. I have no clue who they are except that they are charging to attack me. And, after looking closely, that’s a Charr coming at me. Not a lil spec on the screen Asura.

Being as controlling as Arenanet is, it’s just going to keep pushing players away.

Please put them in Orr where they probably should be. No one does the world event in Southsun. This is on JQ, which has a very large PvE community.

Games should be fun, not enraging. Please stop gating things so much.

^ Too Funny!!!! :-) hahaha

Let’s not forgot, as Centrix mentioned, it’s a “title” per character. Obviously if I have 9 characters (I do) I’m diluting my points by a factor of 9. Making titles and points completely meaningless to me in the grander scheme of things.

Grrrr…. Devon, you are one hard nut to crack! :-) lol
I hope they give you the big bucks for handling all of us.

The funny thing is, on any map we could just all line up and count.
Problem solved

As was offered after our siege troll, I’ll personally come to help with this. I’ll bring a small party with a Golem to open the gates. Clear out any rams or siege you ask and leave in peace. All you’ll have to do is repair the gate afterward.

I’m reposting this offer since I was given an infraction for inferring to a “Bad Guy”.
Oy… I’m too old for this kitten :-)

Sounds like to me it was RESET yesterday :-) We’re busy building and upgrading. Which to some of us is actually fun too.

As someone who’d rather see everyone getting what they want, over the greed of a few get rich schemes, I’d much prefer skins to be repeatedly available. New players have to have the option to obtain items. Inflation only makes it harder for new players to enter the game.

TY Ikaros! I further looked it up and found a Youtube video link in the forums.

I’m not a fan of pull skills in general. Having the higher ground is a real world tactical advantage that should be maintained. But THIS… wow, it’s a new level of wrong to me. Explains how I was pulled from a BG in the JP yesterday before reset too.

I believe, since no recent data has been given on map populations, that Arenanet uses an inverse scale to balance each tier. Meaning it’s not a flat rate of 100. That Red would have the highest population per map. Followed by Blue with slightly less. Then Green having even fewer than blue.

Every update has been about balancing, balancing, and more balancing. Thus, how could we not expect this same when it comes to map population? Arenant could quell such beliefs by providing us simple answers to such simple questions.

What’s getting old and tired is the endless complaints of entitlement and laziness. Keeps don’t flip often, we all know this. No amount of individual effort can suffice. More so, to grab a keep usually requires a near to full queue. Locking out anyone else whom may need it.

For Green being the easiest to defend, in my point of view this isn’t accurate. It’s the people in the Green zone that gives it this illusion. They are the first place world. If anything, with the capacity to treb Stone Mist from Overlook, this gives Red a distinct advantage. No other zones can attack SM from a keep. Pangloss is also a highly defensible camp on the map too. I think the developers did a good job of making the zones balanced and a slight edge to the 3rd place world.

You realize, we’re all in the same boat across all servers. Even though I agree that map positioning should have been randomized from the beginning, it’s not needed for this. This is something we can all achieve with just a little effort and cooperation from the community.

No one has an opinion on this? I know I have been pulled off walls and such before. That’s no big deal in itself. It’s the shear excess of being pulled off of SM’s mortar platforms from an enemy that is outside the outer wall and standing on the ground.

I’d post but, the volume of post from JQ’ers might make it look like JQ and SoR were trying to 2v1 this thread.

;-)

I have a community based idea that might work. It’ll need cooperation of the majority. Luckily, the PvE community is bigger than WvW. So… you could simply take over the queue’s to do it

I’ll have to post the concept over the weekend. It’s something we could do by the end of the week if warranted.

That’s by design. It’s how they removed culling. As Catisa asked, there are settings for this.

Someone is either hacking or exploiting something fierce. I was just pulled off the 2nd floor platform of Stone Mist by a Blackgate invader. They have a zerg outside, keyword being outside, of SM outer walls. Far away from any skills reach. Yet, was pulled with a sound effect of into the void.

Seriously bad flaw in these pulling skills or hacking, idk. But, something must be done about this please? Here’s a screen cap of where I was pulled off. By the time I was rezzed the battle was over.

I wear my “Combat Healer” title proudly. While you may find some sense of joy in assassinating, many of us find it in healing, rezzing and being supportive.

Meanwhile, I hate to break it to you but, this thread is kinda’ ridiculous. Because if you liked going after the commander, having him rezzed on the spot only gives you more of what you like. It’s that many more chances to kill him! You should like the existing system more.

Sounds like you are obfuscating your main reasoning behind this request. Or, just haven’t thought it through

I just got a kick out of “dumb down combat”. Because zerging is really THAT skillful? lol

“Would love to build my own device to get walls down.”
—— I ninja’d Stone Mist open just the other day by myself.

For the performance issue, it might be server lag. Which has nothing to do with our personal computers. On higher tier worlds, server lag seems to be of greater and greater issue. It’s something Arenanet should have at the top of the priority list.

Oh lord, another angry lil Tolkienian having to change the world to appease Lord Tolkien. I think you really need to put down the keyboard and read up on actual history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology <—- learn something. Mythology is where Tolkien ripped his idea’s from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis <—- oh look, the original Ranger motif.

Meanwhile, the conversation was about potential’s, not absolutes. Whomever said a Ranger can’t Melee? Did anyone write that? NO….. no one did. This is about what they are BEST at. So get off your high horse. Or just admit, you want to melee on the Ranger and be done with it. Because I’m done with this thread.

Why are you two so angry? It’s an opinion! He’s allowed to say what his is. Then you can make your own post saying what you think is yours. Endless bickering is proving next to nothing.

That last video link is a gimmick build. I rolled one just for giggles back when the video came out. Wow, insta-kill from a mile away. Yet, died even more because a good zerg’s doesn’t stand idle like in the video.