Guild Wars 2

How would that work when there’s a level 80 and a level 40? Everything would be set to level 80? That could work for instanced areas, but not open world areas.

All opinions, of course:

The bigger races, norn and charr, can whack their heads on stuff. That is to say, in tight spaces they can be bothersome to maneuver.

The smallest race, asura, can suffer from “I-cant-see-my-armor-itis” which is to say, things are scaled so that kewl weapon or armor detail is lost until you zoom in tight. But I think they have the best animations and story and just a fun, humorous society.

For me, and at least one other poster I remember, the charr running animation makes me sea sick. Obviously, that must affect a vast minority of players, but worth mentioning if you are sensitive to such things.

All toons move at the same speed, scaled so a human is the norm, so norn feel like they are plodding along and asura feel like they are tripping over their own feet to keep up, even though they are not. I’m sure if you “main” one, then you probably don’t notice, but I play a lot of toons so it is obvious.

Another consideration is male vs female. In game terms, no difference, but the voice and animations are different, so try both.

Of my 40+ toons, I have way more humans and asura, a few sylvari, two norn, one charr. That poor charr elementalist has been parked at a reward chest forever now…

I just built a rather affordable system with an i5-6600k, ASUS Z170-AR motherboard, 16gb ram, SSDs, and it works great with GW2. I have my eye on an RX-470 video card, but even the built-in Intel graphics work much better than my old AMD-based system. I do games like GW2 and Civilization 6, nothing too terribly intensive. Boosts instantly, works great.

RoseofGilead.8907

This is just my personal reasons for not doing sPvP and rarely doing WvW:

I don’t like fighting other players. That’s it, really. I’ve never cared for PvP in any game I’ve played; it’s not fun for me, so I don’t do it. So, since sPvP is all fighting against other players, it’s not really my sort of thing. Thus, I avoid it.

Now, I’ve done a fair amount of WvW. I enjoy the PvE aspects of it (killing npcs to take objectives), but, as with sPvP, I do not enjoy fighting other players. If someone comes along and is obviously trying to attack me or someone in my group, then I’ll fight back. But that whole part of it still tends to not be very fun for me. So, I tend to avoid WvW, unless I’m just in a mood to do it or need something from that part of the game.

Pretty much my feelings exactly. I tend to only venture out into WvW-lands early in the morning when there’s little chance of encountering someone, or just to kill the warg right around the corner. I will put up a feeble fight if I am confronted, but prefer to avoid or just port back to PvE-lands.

I don’t go into PvP-lands or any of the festival PvP experiences at all.

They should just “unlock” runes and sigils upon acquiring them, then allow the user to select from those unlocked in any appropriate upgrade slot. No need for an interface, other than the drop-down on gear slots that displays the unlocked items.

Yes, the market will take a hit, but the game will survive.

schlake.2718

invisible rabbits that follow the players around casting spells

I certainly hope you mean follow the characters around. Otherwise that’d be a little freaky.

• checks under chair for an invisible chicken *

You’d undoubtedly get more of the responses you’re hoping for if you posted this in the Lore forum.

From a game perspective, if after the dragons, Anet takes us into Ascalon to purge the ghosts and form a Lion’s Arch-type free city, then sure, I’d be happy to go along for that ride.

Otherwise, humans vs. charr… don’t think that will happen.

An additional account is a distraction from your main account. Any time you spend on it is time you’re not advancing your main, whatever that means to you. So consider if you wish to add in that distraction.

All but one of my alt-account characters are level 80, plus I have 23 toons on my main account. Right now all but one of the alt-characters are parked at chests or nodes so I can log them in, grab something, and move on. I keep one free on each account to do dailies, festival stuff, visit the bank, etc. That still takes time.

All the alt accounts are Core, and the last 3 were cheap from sales or Amazon. I have not upgraded them in any way. I funnel almost all of the good stuff they get into the main account, including any gold over 20 and all non-account bound materials. I’ve sold over 1000 mystic coins.

I can tell from others who have posted about alt accounts that they treat them more equal, but that’s never how I’ve used them.

I also enjoy leveling toons, and 5 slots on a cheap alt account is a good investment for me.

From my additional accounts I get:

login rewards (laurels = materials, mystic coins = gold)
daily rewards (excess gold, materials)
harvesting of my home nodes (I have 2 computers)
materials and gold
rare or exotics to salvage
extra limited festival stuff – gifts, lucky envelopes

I haven’t for a while, but I was doing multiple key runs per weekend on the alts. If I feel ambitious to do so again, I may add a character slot on one or more of the alt accounts. That all takes time, so the more time you can spread between the accounts the more they may be of use. I vary between hardly using them and getting dailies done on all five. Even if it is just login rewards, there’s a benefit.

In summary: I enjoy the extra accounts, and I gain some in-game benefits from them.

You can also “play how you want” to earn the gold to buy the gems to buy the gem shop stuff. Unlike random/rare drops in-game, that is an assured method of gaining the skins.

That’d be the deciding factor. What things would be merged and what would remain separate? After all, those with multiple accounts have them for a reason. Daily logons, daily rewards, festival 1/days, crafting 1/days, teleport to friend. Take away too many of those advantages to gain some benefits, and it wouldn’t be worthwhile.

I can’t see it ever happening anyway.

I looked through the things MC’s could be used for and made a handful. Now I sell any over 500 reserved for “someday.” Maybe that’ll be a legendary, but I have no plans for one right now. I sold 99 MC’s last night.

As a seller, I’m good with the price.

Fastest way would be to use the instant-80 boost that comes with HoT.

Otherwise, pretty much anything you do gives you XP (until it doesn’t).

Use food, utility and other boosters as you go. Kill the rarely-killed critters along the way. The longer something stands there, the bigger the XP bonus. Hello yellows!

Yes and yes. 5 emails, 5 purchases.

Being an owner of 5 accounts, I would love such a feature. But I can certainly see the downside. I would assume such an arrangement would be permanent. How could it not? Then what happens if a couple/friends/whoever breaks up, goes their separate ways, but their accounts are still linked? Methinks Anet does not want to get involved in that kind of mess.

Longer answer:

There are skills, traits, and armor runes that grant always-on 25% movement speed increases. There are also skills, traits, runes and sigils that grant or enhance swiftness, which is a 33% movement increase.

Look at the skills and traits you already have or look on the wiki for skills/traits you will have to see what your professions offers. Warriors do get a 25% trait.

As for the runes, don’t worry about those until you reach level 80 and are building a set of armor you will be keeping. While leveling up, throw whatever runes you come across in your armor, since it doesn’t stick around for long.

So why did you choose to make it?

Could you rename them so that they appear at the top?

AAA Friend 1
AAA Friend 2
…

I feel the price is worth the value, and all my gems come from real money. These are the kind of gem shop items I truly enjoy, ones that add to my account.

Has there ever been an expansion where that was not the case? Whether it is added levels, or added skills, or whatever, if you don’t have all the expansions then you’re missing out on the competitive side of the game.

What I really want:

I have a piece of equipment, or a weapon. I have “unlocked” specific runes, sigils, jewels, and infusions. I want drop downs on that piece of gear that allows me to choose what I wish it to be based upon those upgrades I have unlocked.

Perhaps that is limited to exotic and higher gear. Perhaps the market for the expensive upgrades will crash.

But lugging around different sets of armor or, worse, not trying out different sets of armor due to cost, availability (celestial for example), and then having to carry all the alternate sets around is not fun. And I want the game to be fun.

So why would gear that’s better than Ascended be cheaper than Ascended? And for armor, isn’t that equivalent to Legendary? Other than appearances, of course.

That happened to me long ago. Support was quick to refund the gems since I couldn’t apply the additional storage slot(s).

These are the kind of gem store additions I like. Things that enhance your account.

They are still “seasonal” and I’d guess will remain until Lucky Envelopes take their place?

Thanks for adding shared slots! Always appreciated!

Does anyone know if the “bank job” bank slot increases the max allowed? I assume not.

@maddoctor… I wouldn’t assume HoT will ever be “free” and that only Core will be free, and all expansions will be bundled.

In other words, it will always be either Core or Expansion.

Yes. Last year I completed the jumping puzzles/ornament collecting a couple months after wintersday.

Could it be:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diminishing_returns

The trading post is there for a reason. Player to player trading was a PITA in GW1. Good riddance.

Or just eat it for the achievement.

@Doam… I don’t see how choosing to only play one toon hinders a player. In fact, I would say the opposite: They have fewer distractions, so can accomplish more. Only map the world once, for example.

Yes, if they wish to access all crafting, they would have to pay some coin to switch when needed. But they wouldn’t have to keep track of which toon has which crafting maxed.

They would miss out on the level 30 (I think?) stories for each race, but they could easily complete that on one of their alt slots. Not an issue.

If they choose to only play one character, then what do they care about “unlocking other professions elites?”

About the only thing I can think of is if they wish multiple world completion rewards for crafting legendaries. Most legendaries can be purchased though, right? What else is really a factor?

I find the title of this post and your complaint ironic. "GW2 needs to learn what “DPS” means." How is GW2, a game, supposed to learn anything? You created a title doing the very thing you complain about!

Better idea: Just make them salvage into dust or some other material(s).

I hit 7/10 on one “defend” event, then got the next 3 on another. Yes, people are kicking while others are trying to snowball, and yes you get nailed by or nail other players while trying. But it is certainly doable.

Anet should improve it though, since it can be a pain. Give us some snowballing skritt separate from this event. Maybe a pack of them that gank you once you hit one to keep it interesting. Maybe they can randomly drop the sigils etc that were removed so people can get their wintery shoulders.

He knows all the cheat codes.

Still waiting for puppy ears.

If you haven’t already, do the “for the children” quest to get a Christmas tree in your home instance, so you get at least some free drinks all year.

And if I create a new character with this new “insta level 80” race, I would miss out on the personal story and all of its rewards. No key for level 10, no crafting materials, dye, salvage kits, etc. Granted, there isn’t a lot of value there short of a major score with a key, but loot is loot and I would take that into consideration when creating a character.

Maybe that’s more important to someone like me with many toons as opposed to a “one and done,” but still a factor.

So far, I haven’t seen any compelling evidence for Anet to go to the trouble of adding a race.

Remember that different materials dye differently. So if you apply dye Red to all pieces, the medium (leather) pants would probably look different than the light (silk) top. Players ask for these things, but I’d anticipate much screaming over the issues created, like color and clipping.

I highly doubt Anet wants to go there.

I assume, since you are asking about racial skills, that you are not trying to do anything optimal, but more for fun, or a character theme, or RP? So pretty much anything goes.

Otherwise, there will always be a better normal skill to take. For example, you could use the seed turret on a sylvari engineer, but you end up with a turret on a long cool down and I’m not sure the turret traits affect it.

Something like asura thief + caltrops + radiation field could be fun. But caltrops can be used twice as often as radiation field. So you see the challenges with trying to use the racial skills for anything other than fun.

Anet has enough trouble maintaining three game modes, why would they add an “almost WvW?” And some of that goes against their philosophy, like loot stealing, so why would they do that?

Have you tried a borderlands map in WvW? Or Edge of the Mists?

Right now, with Wintersday going on, get and sell gifts for some coin. The Wintersday dailies are in addition to the normal dailies, so they make it super-easy to finish.

Again, I don’t do any farming for gold, and I think right now I’m sitting at around 1120 gold. I have been playing since the start with a couple of months-long breaks in there, so have that advantage. But just playing the game gives me loot. Some I hoard and some I sell. Mystic Coins are ~90s each, so I sell extras. When a material store fills (2000), I sell off 500. I don’t purchase high end stuff, but am about half way through crafting the 18 ascended pieces for the achievement, which means I’ve gathered some of those materials and purchased some.

So with modest goals, plenty of gold comes in. More if you focus on it.

Each mode (PvE, WvW, PvP) has dailies. Complete 3 in any mode to get 10 AP and 2g. I often get 2 in PvE and 1 in WvW.

Farming is always the way to get gold in an MMO, at least if your goal is to maximize. Silverwastes and “AB Multiloot” are two common ones.

Personally, no farming here. Again, how much gold do you need and what do you want it for?

It was way more difficult to equip a glider back then.

Since you didn’t state what you would want gold for, it’s hard to answer directly.

You don’t get a lot of coin from mobs, but you can salvage and/or sell the drops. Many complain there are too many drops/too many containers of drops. I personally don’t grind for anything and my gold hovers around 1000. Plenty to gear up a new level 80 or whatever.

I’d say it more depends on your goals. If you are crafting something, you can work to collect what you want. Or, if you want it sooner, you buy the materials. Or some combination of the two.

You mentioned PvP, but I’m not sure exactly why. There are reward tracks there that award even ascended gear now. Again, what are your goals?

You would think with the many requests that appear on the forum for gemstore items, Anet would expand their offerings. It’s not like we only get one page worth now, we have to scroll. And these requests are for existing items.

Yeah, I understand the marketing mumbo jumbo, but still.

You can look at the current “desired builds” on metabattle.com to see what’s currently “in” for different game modes.

I don’t see why it matters how many Charr Engineers vs. Asura Engineers are already in-game. Play what you enjoy playing. Or play both. Character slots are only 800 gems and will likely be on sale in the near future for something like 640. Then gear them different and enjoy two different play styles with one profession (plus animations, voice, etc).

Personally, just counting my main account, my original Engineer is Sylvari and the new one is Human. Unless/until they release a new specialization that I enjoy playing, I won’t create another. When they do, I’ll most likely make an Asura since I don’t enjoy playing Norn or Charr.

Oceanne

Sounds nice?

While it does sound cool, it also sounds totally abusable. As in, take two steps out of LA, finish quest, reap reward. OK for a single player game, bad idea for an MMO.

Plus login confirmations and other communications would go to the original email, which I assume you wouldn’t have access to.

But if a new race uses the same armor and animations as, say humans, then would the community really be satisfied with their addition? It almost seems “why bother” to me.