Guild Wars 2

This is my first MMO, is this “nerfing” something that happens constantly in all MMOs?

It makes me nervous that the class I invested time in is going to be something it wasn’t when I put all my time into building it up. I see things about nerfing in this game so much it makes me uneasy. ANet please don’t make the classes I play not fun, as in I don’t really feel like beating on monsters with a wet noodle (challenging: yes, fun: no).

If they did anything I wish they would give two pickable weapon skills per slot per weapon so combat would be less predictable.

NO. I’m all for open source software but in this case I’d rather it stay closed to avoid oh… you know…. clients widely distributed you can download made for cheating.

I have not gotten an Ecto since December. But I don’t run dungeons very often so this is from open world loot.

I say keep downed state as it is now. No need to change it.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Anet should have just implemented paid transfers without announcing

I agree with this statement

I decided to leave Kaineng myself a while back. It is not what it once was. I don’t really enjoy shooting up to #1 (if they make it). I’d rather just remain competitive in the tier I am in. Steam rolling is not fun.

Fallout.1798:

Why is it that whenever we show up on a map and take a single tower, the full population allowed at once on that map for Kain show up to crush us? Seriously, you aren’t even giving us a chance to get a foothold on a map. You are already guaranteed to move up to the next wvw tier. http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA
Really we try to get some stuff done and Kain’s only response is to mega zerg us, nothing else.

That is kinda what DR used to do. Just sayin.

I say leave the jumping puzzle as it is. No changes needed.

I transfered to CD before Wintersday and I’m happy with the people here, doubt I will be leaving.

What is the initial score?

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1lfSzgcAw

I think it is great how it is. I really hope ArenaNet does not listen to all the random complaining here on the forums. If they did we would be reduced to playing pong… but in a box that making it so you cannot lose.

This is a great game. I find the JP in WvWvW to be one of the many fun parts of this game. Thanks for including a interesting and challenging bit of gameplay to WvWvW in the form of a jumping puzzle ArenaNet!

I’m sure if this ability is removed there will be another ton of threads about something else next until all the classes are identical and boring.

sostronk.8167:

Congratulations on this weeks win CD LOL. Wow I had a 20 minute queue this morning on IoJ homeland, only to find when I get in there that we are outnumbered by more than 2 to 1. Then come the golems. WvW is no fun when there is no numbers balance. I wish they would do something to balance the WvW, because eventually this kind of stuff is going to turn people away from GW2.

If you had a queue than and the other teams had a queue the numbers were even at that time.

Besetment.9187:

Psychatog.8246:

Mag you have an advantage and you know it, no need to rub it in. Just get ready for next week.

This, seriously. Theres a bunch of Mag players in this thread that really need to knock it off. When we went over 625 PPT yesterday I counted a grand total of 16 Devona’s Rest players in all 3 Borderlands + Eternal. There was 1x DR player in our Borderland attempting to take south supply camp for an hour yesterday when I was janitoring in South West Tower.

In Eternal there was 10 roaming between Pangloss and DR Keep. Painting the map green in circumstances like that isn’t really something to get your rocks off about. It goes without saying that you paint all of DR’s territory green when they have so few players in WvW.

While it doesn’t make demoralizing chest thumping right, DR was 10x worse about this all the way up the ladder, even when they clearly had no one to fight. I would find the posts if this forum had a better search function but at one time their, or at least some of their, strategy was to break the opponents moral and they openly admitted it. I feel this is karma for a lot of them, and not the kind you spend in game.

Uberlicious.3956:

i’d be happy with 3 man dungeons… i hate when i have to rely on other people not messing up, the more people you have the higher chance you get someone will drop the ball

I wish there was 3 man dungeons too. Not even saying I dislike 5 man dungeons or am demanding this, but sometimes I just wish there were dungeons designed for those times I was running with two others I know irl which is fairly common for me.

Until they fix fractal disconnects I’m not really eager to do this one. Not to mention a better group finding system. Pretty much those things that made me skip last months achievement.

Hopefully they either fix fractals soon or leave fractals out of next month.

ArenaNet how about putting something new in the monthly thats not a standard grind part of the game? Like a monthly set of new missions?

Maybe something pertaining to the player’s order they joined (vigil, priory, whispers)?

I rarely get a good drop ever. Mostly just stuff I can hit “sell junk” on when I am using a vendor.

I might not have exact numbers but I can tell you this ArenaNet, most of my guild/friends don’t log in anymore because they had fun finding neat things. They stopped playing PvE and went into WvW with hopes it might be more fun. They found WvW to be a huge waste of money with little to no reward. Drops in WvW were even worse and even harder to get since they were randomly dropped in the middle of huge fights.

I don’t care about the drop rate from the chests you buy on the marketplace, I don’t care about the drop rates on things like the holiday events. What I do care about is all my friends leaving because of the normal drops from mobs in PvE being practically nonexistent.

Yes I do care a bit about the drop rate, the key to it being it was more FUN when the drop rate was better. What I care the most about is everyone I know doesn’t log in anymore with this being a big part of it since it added a little excitement to running around killing monsters. We used to have fun sharing and trading drops with each other. They are bored. Without all my friends I’m growing bored.

I just killed maybe 25-30 things in Malchor’s Leap on the Crystal Desert world. I got these drops: 5 dark stained claws, a Giant Wintersday Gift (Contained a ugly wool sweater), and a white mace.

I say leave the downstate in. Leave it as is.

Patience. I got my map complete while on CD. It was back when it was TC, CD, and FA. In the middle of a heated battle in the FA garrison. I literally had to fight my way up to the vistas. Tons of FA, maybe about 15 of them, were camping up on the roof for my very last spot too, tons more on the ground. I got killed literally right in front of the last vista too. Luckily I had some teammates come up shortly after and pick me up and the fight continued and wiped them long enough for me to grab the vista, hit ESC to stop the vista view cam, and continue the fight. After grabbing the vista I noticed we were not only fighting FA but TC was in there too. If I recall TC did end up taking it but it was an epic battle and a memorable ending to my map completion.

Just go out there with groups going where you need to go, focus on killing those in your way instead of focusing on the end prize and you will eventually get it.

This is not the result of NPCs but it is very repetitive. Doing anything in Lion’s Arch, especially at the bank or Black Lion Trading Post:
“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”…etc…etc…

About about 18-20 seconds apart or so into infinity and beyond.

I love a lot of the audio in this game but this is one of the most repetitive things I hear. Please ArenaNet can we have auto-attack turned off in noncombat areas like Lion’s Arch? I am assuming auto-attack is what is causing this.

I like the OP’s suggestion.

For all the other people going on about downstate. I also say keep the downstate but add a button to instakill yourself if you don’t want to wait.

People wonder why people are annoyed by thieves.

One example: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Infuriating-thief-build/first#post1061024

As stated in the post, a build specifically made to troll other players. Fighting this is not fun for anyone but the person who is trolling. I will openly admit I made a thief simply for figuring out how they work and I have not had it very long so far all I know that build is no good. What I noticed though is the general feel I get: “Hey guys lets troll/annoy everyone else intentionally.”

Say L2P all you want, but I know my fair number of people who don’t like playing wvwvw anymore simply because of what the game allows thieves to do. I do win fights with all classes, and I die to all classes. I don’t claim to be this unkillable machine so many claim to be. But of all classes this one is the only one that is “not fun” to deal with and I don’t seem to be alone at all. How is it even fun playing some of the builds you can make with one unless you are a poor sport and would rather use it to troll and make people quit?

Personally I’d rather not make people rage quit and have friendly competition instead.

What I feel needs to be changed:
- Damage displayed even when hitting stealth targets. (Just the damage, no need to unstealth)
- No more stealth finishers. It is an act of aggression and should take them out of stealth.
- Somehow make it harder to “reset” the fight. If a thief attacks a target make it so they are more committed to what they started. As it is now, in stealth they can whack a target a few times (they may or may not appear due to culling) and vanish if it doesn’t finish the job. Boring, annoying, and not fun.

Even if it doesn’t remove stealth, damage should be shown to know you hit something. As far as I know everything in this game has a counter, other than dodging and stealth. Everyone can dodge. Just show hit damage even on invisible characters.

NotOneToRidicule.2340:

(Honestly DR… It doesn’t help when you have 2 or 3 people /laughing at very tower you take either.)

I’m sure there are many nice people on DR but as a whole this is the general feel I get from them. While I went to another world to be with friends I have gone up against DR in the past and of all the worlds I’ve gone against I saw more of this and similar with them than with any other world. Nice thing is the further up in tiers you get the more you see people making respectful emotes and even having fun together (e.g. costume brawls, dolyak parades) between fights. I wish those that go up against them the best.

I have had this happen for a few crashes and once for a que for another map. I think I am a somewhat casual player and over time it can add up. I’d rather see a short timer with the opportunity for the enemy to kill you than a broken instadeath system. I agree with all that are calling for a 10-20 second timer with the character left in game. I am not an ALT-F4er and I feel this is a poor solution to something with an obvious better solution.

Before you blame my computer for the crashes, this is the only game I have that crashes somewhat often. Before you say “yeah right you are an ALT-F4er!” lets not start that witch hunt. Before you say “it is such a small price to pay to get rid of this problem”, normally the drops are not worth much more if they even are. Before you say “if you crash, disconnect, etc… so much you shouldn’t play an MMO”, you really want less people to play with, less people to support this MMO, less “nonALT-F4ers” to play against and with, less legit players that happen to just not be as lucky as you. Which by the way I think is a poor elitist attitude.

Yes this was a bad solution to a little problem that a very vocal small selection of the community was upset about. Yes it does need a solution but this is not it. I prefer the idea many have said and to make it so in WvW that you stay in world for 10-20 seconds. If the person who logged can’t be killed in that time they don’t deserve that tiny loot bag anyways.

Just because people don’t like the solution doesn’t mean they were part of that problem.