Guild Wars 2

Bread.7516:

Terrible suggestions and not well thought out.

Can any of these anti-zerker at least get some sort of real combat experience (minimum spar with someone, not booty boxing and pads) however short term it is and complain why your opponent doesn’t get hurt when his fist meets your jaw.

So you’re countering a terrible suggestion with a terrible argument? Comparing a game’s mechanics to real life?

Seeing as reflection is a terrible suggestion because that’s not how it works in real life, let’s look at a few more unrealistic features:

Buffs? No way, out.
Telegraphs on the ground telling you where not to stand? What nonsense is that? Gone
Instant healing? Regeneration? Pfft, don’t even get me started. Shift-Delete

No seriously, I could do this all day…

zengara.8301:

Fun tbh, not increasing it would probably lead to grind rather than fun, since everyone already got the best gear out there, tbh, I started in gw2 because its fun, honestly the only game that I lvl capped into, because it was fun capping, from the story to even discovering something new, I would like that back rather than pretending to be a big shot with my 2-3 lvl capped full geared characters with gear on each of them that at least looks like it costed 500 gold+ while running through each new event because I dont need to watch them and my time would be better spend if I just ran through…

But beside that, ye I can see why people would be mad if A-Net decided to make every gear I got useless

You’re not making sense. You say you had fun with the story and discovering new things, (and levels have nothing to do with either of those) then you say because you are max level, new things suddenly are no longer fun.

If you mean the fun was in the content being challenging, then raising the cap is the wrong way to go. Sure, if you raise the cap you can add monsters with higher caps as well, but everything else becomes even more faceroll easy. If you want things to be challenging then keep the current cap level and raise the mob caps anyway.

Lindbur.2537:

You can try searching for this very thread and it won’t turn anything up unless you spell the exact title.

I did exactly that prior to asking. Tried searching “zerker” and “meta” and it showed all the threads on the first page that had that.

But anyway, moving on

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Dedlaw.9130:

Veydar.5017:

The lack of a search feature

I’m not sure what you mean with this? The forum search function is not the most optimized search tool I’ve seen, but it worked 100%.

Or am I missing something?

It doesn’t always work 100%.

Ah ok

Veydar.5017:

The lack of a search feature

I’m not sure what you mean with this? The forum search function is not the most optimized search tool I’ve seen, but it worked 100%.

Or am I missing something?

Mental Paradox.3845:

My baker’s girlfriend’s hairdresser used to work for Arenanet and he told me that “Heart of Thorns” is the codename for Guild Wars 4.

True story.

Not buying it. If you had said the hairdresser once met somebody that used to work for ANet, then it would sound more believable.

So there is hope?

Cheers for that

So I’m just getting back into the game after about a 1 1/2 year break, and I figured getting my gear a bit updated would be a good start, so I started looking at Ascended items (prior to my break I had the whopping sum total of 1 Asc item).

Now my gold reserves are a bit low so I decided to use Laurels to upgrade my trinkets (my only Asc item is a Berserker ring so I figured I might as well start there) and as a tribute to how badly my luck sucks, I went and bought a second Ring of Red Death, not knowing you can’t equip 2 of the same type at the same time.

Is there any possibility that this bit of stupidity on my part can be rectified? My Engi is my only 80 and I’m not looking to level an alt just for a ring.

Thanks for any help/feedback

Mic quality is good, never had any complaints about being hard to understand.

As for quality of the suond, I can run on max volume with no distortion. The only thing I feel I should point out is that the padding around the earcups vibrate to better simulate the effect of bass, but if you dislike it and turn it off the bass is rather lackuster.

Wait…so they removed the whole “A Light in the Darkness” chain of quests? That’s severely depressing. Next to Battle for Claw Island, Liberating Apatia had one of the best (read here: very emotional) endings in the Personal Story

I use the genius HS-G700V. Not the best, but I’ve never had issues with it going on almost 2 years now

Edit – Correction, passed the 2 year mark 3 days ago. What are the odds.

Correct me if I’m wrong but can’t you group up with another player that has the full LS and play through their missions?

- A bunch of new maps
- Updates to WvW
- Legendaries that don’t look like Easter Eggs
- A dragon fight that is not as dull as Zhaitan
- Tengu. I don’t care about them being playable or not. I just want to interact with them, explore their world and learn their lore.
- Allowing people to replay mission from LS Season 1 as well as their own Personal Story.

- Speaking of Personal Story: Let Trahearne become corrupted. Let him turn evil. Then allow us to put him out of his misery. Repeatedly. It can be a tragic story twist with the loss of one of the First Born, sad music can play and the NPC’s can mourn his loss while players teabag his corpse with unrivaled delight Please? Pretty please?

Novuake.2691:

xDudisx.5914:

Sirendor.1394:

Who wants levels going back to 20? ~a million hands raised~
Who wants level cap to be raised? ~people throw bricks~

I doubt you have any data to prove that supposition.

WHAT!? Hell go search the forums. 19 of 20 people(EASILY more) against level cap raising.

And if you want MORE traits, since that is all most people want from more levels.
They already change the trait system, I am sure they can and will do more if needed.

A few things:

Firstly, making up numbers doesn’t help when person you are replying to has already pointed out the lack of data to prove the numbers.

Secondly, game forums usualy just consist of a small percentage of the people actually playing the game. A vocal minority is not an accurate representative of a whole demographic.

I would want to say yes if only for more trait poins. Can never have enough of those.

But, my vote goes for no. Too many hassles for very little point

Ohoni.6057:

Im trying to understand why people don’t like it or are attracted to SPvP, If you ask the PvP forums they all respond with things like “tank meta” or “MMR / leaderboard structure”.

Why dont PvE’ers and WvW’ers like SPvP??
What could be done to fix* it?

I don’t like it because I don’t enjoy having other players on the opposing side. They could fix sPvP by putting all the players on one team and replacing the opposing team with AI.

Soooo…PvE?

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Dedlaw.9130:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Honestly, I wish ArenaNet would just come out and say “It’s not an expansion.” so people would shut up, but that wouldn’t be a good business move.

It’s not a good business move either to let hype grow when you know the news will be a disappointment in comparisson

As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. At the very least, the hype is creating attention for the game, even if I don’t agree with the hype. Even though I think it’s silly for people to get their hopes up, I still think it’s great that people are at least interested in what is just a few days away. I’m excited to see what changes are coming, but I’m not holding my breath, either.

Fair enough.

I’m pretty much in the same boat. As the saying goes “Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.”

Astral Projections.7320:

Because I’m gawdawful in PvP and can’t kill anyone unless they are gawdawfuler.

Pretty much this.

And also, I have an aversion for the gamemode based on previous games where if a miracle happens and I actualy manage to win, some little brat will then proceed to tell me of the long and eventful sexual history between himself and my mother. All 10 seconds of it.

Exroyal.9053:

put your head against the screen, you can actually feel the universal rage.

I wouldn’t reccomend it. Think of the long-term consequences of being directly exposed to all that rage

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Honestly, I wish ArenaNet would just come out and say “It’s not an expansion.” so people would shut up, but that wouldn’t be a good business move.

It’s not a good business move either to let hype grow when you know the news will be a disappointment in comparisson

X T D.6458:

I honestly would rather see more content involving races like tengu, kodan etc. Would really love to see inside the Dominion of Winds. I dont mind tengu not being a playable race because the novelty will wear off quickly, Id rather see them more involved with the story and lore.

Agreed. I don’t care for rolling another race, but having access to their lore and such would be pretty awesome

Zoid.2568:

It doesn’t have to be the standard samurai. It could be more of an assassin type of samurai with force techniques and spiritual attunement. I could see it being something like Dervish/Ritualist.

But what would it bring to the table that current classes do not?

Sounds like a mixture between Ranger and Engineer (which is pretty much what happened to the GW1 Rit)

Shpongle.6025:

jokke.6239:

Shpongle.6025:

Nothing. Just keep playing like I always play. Even without an expansion I still have so much left to do, I have for another year of content to go through that I plan to do.

And I have 22,5k AP. But there’s still so much left for me to do I feel like an expansion now would be to soon, a year from now in January 2016 would be the perfect time for an expansion imo, because that’s when I’ll ’’finish’’ the game and be done with everything there is to do.

Really? How do you have “a year of content”? You mean REPLAY content for achievments/collections?
I’m just curious what content i’m missing, since I only have 10,2 k ap, but already seen everything way to many times

No I never replay content I only do it once.

I call BS on your 22k AP then

Meh. I only dusted off my copy and got back in the game incase it might be an expansion. If it’s just more LS then back to the shelf GW2 goes. The LS is pretty good and all that, but it’s not enough to keep me logging in.

Hey all

I’m coming back to the game after about a 2 year break, so I’m as rusty as it gets right now. Looking to change my warrior from a power to condi build for WvW, will probably just be tagging along with the zerg till I get a feel for the game again.

Was thinking of running a build along these lines (no asc gear as I can probably only get exotic for now, will upgrade later) – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJEQNBjYDbknjyQb7wzDORDkEUIH9M4YAUBp7hjYHA-TFCBwAVUCG5BAAT3AgLAQy9HKq+DDzfOV+BA-w

Anyone feel like giving some tips/criticism/advice/calling me a noob?

Cheers

“It’s the hero Tyria deserves, but not the one it needs right now.”

I’d also like to know, if somebody could give a link to a page where I can maybe read up on what has been happening? Thanks in advance

Edit – OK, I came across this on the wiki – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_story

OP is proof that you can’t please everyone…

It’s not like gear is particularly hard to get a hold of (other than legendaries).

I would still have played through for the story (and be disappointed by it) do map completion/JPs/etc, customize my chars appearance, and then WVW further.

Grinding for loot was one of the activities I spent the least time on

Vayne.8563:

Some of your points would be well taken if you felt you had to grind that stuff out. But if you’re just running around the world normally, you have two weeks to get those pirates. After the first two days, no one went for them, meaning it can be done in two days. It also means just doing my normal dailies, I completed the pirates without grinding. You can grind and “get it out of the way” but it doesn’t have to be done like that, and I wouldn’t recommend doing it like that.

More to the point, the kite baskets in existing areas being boring….this gave me a chance to revisit some of my favorite jumping puzzles that I haven’t looked at at for a long time. It also encourages other people to go and try those things…the people who didn’t find them or do them in the first place. I know several people in that category.

But most importantly, for most of the stuff, it really is optional. Unless you’re an achievement hound, there’s no real reason to do this stuff. Unless you want the mini, or want the back piece. That’s a choice.

Every MMO is going to provide busy work, because every MMO eventually runs out of content for you to do. Most games expect you to play 20 hours or less…MMOs expect you to play hundreds of hours. And no one can give you hundreds of hours of unique material, that’s different. So there’s busy work. This is the fault of the genre more than the game.

But as I said, you can do this stuff without grinding if you want to. Just do it a bit at a time, in between other things. If you break a couple of pinatas every time you go to LA, by the end of two weeks (or actually a month in this case), you’d have them all broken without grinding at all.

Doing it in 2 days or 2 weeks won’t change that it’s dull to do.

An another problem with it is that if it can be done in 2 days, it has no retention value. Take what I would assume is a large portion of the player-base – players that have done all the content and seen all there is to see. 2 days worth of basic repetition is not going to keep them, and stretching it out over 2 weeks means they are still left with no real new content other than either a minigame or a dungeon.

Taking the above examples – dragon ball was fun, but it was broken due to AFKers.
The pirate dungeon was fun enough for those that wanted a challenge, but once you mastered it you had no real reason to do it again. Same for the JP.

Bazaar was a step in the right direction – multiple mini-games, puzzles and events kept players busy for a longer period of time. But for those that wanted more serious game-play there was very little added

So while the living story is doing an OK-ish job of plugging holes, GW2 is still leaking players because there is no real new content to keep players interested

Vayne.8563:

stayBlind.7849:

vic.7065:

syfro.6873:

We all know that this game isn’t going to make it if we don’t get some real expansion, and with the upcoming new MMO’s that are coming out ANET and NCSOFT should be very scared.

Speak for yourself plz. Why would you want to wait 6 months for a big update when you can have a constant flow of smaller updates on a biweekly basis?

As for the upcoming MMOs that you mentioned, which ones are you refering to?

A constant flow of what… do X for Y amount of times quests that eerily place themselves where quest logs would normally appear?

Actually, some people really do like the minigames. Take the Zephyr Sanctum. Some people enjoying finding those crystals and figuring out how to get to them (not everyone uses Dulfy you know). And then there was Sanctum Sprint. You might not have liked that, but I find it a blast.

I spent far more time running Sanctum Sprint than I would have in say a new dungeon.

Of the minigames released, I really enjoy Dragonball, Sanctum Sprint and Southsun Survivor. Now, I understand you might not have, but to me, that stuff is a lot of fun…and fun is why I play games in the first place.

Hell, I even enjoyed Crab Toss.

I’m not going to argue that the mini-games were boring, I also enjoyed a lot of them (some had potential but got squandered), but the rest of the content was just dull

As an example:

Dragon Bash -

Run around bashing pinatas
Run around lighting effigies
Run around activating holos to kill already-existing mobs that spawn
Stand in spot X at Y time

Sky pirates

Run around activating holos repeatedly in hopes of spawning pirates
Run through already-existing areas to get to chests and kill pirates

Bazaar

Run from ore node to ore node
Run to already-existing areas to collect parachutes
Run from NPC to NPC
Stand in spot X at Y time

If we’re talking about just removing the self-cc, I’m all for it.

But if it means nerfing OS so we can have the self-cc removed, no thanks

Decklan.7540:

Really? It doesn’t fit? Kinda like how when a warrior impales someone it applies torment instead of bleed?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Impale_

God, have we engineers become so pathetic that we don’t even want buffs?

I’d rather say we Engineers want more useful/practical buffs.

Well if you’re a Charr you still have 8 more lives to go…

Since legendaries could be bought, the standard impression they give is not “Wow that guy is awesome!”, it’s “Wow, that guy is rich!”

Nice intentions behind the post, but it’s like trying to dry out a river with a teaspoon, and it’s only going to get worse.

We live in a society where basic moral values are being show less and less regard on almost a daily basis. I’d bet that for every 1 kid being taught manners and civility, at least a 100 have free reign to act as they please.

It’s even worse on online communities. The anonymity allows even the more civil people to express themselves in a crude way they normally would not in real-life. No repercussion means no boundaries.

Sure, different people will have different reasons for swearing. Some might do it to express their anger, others hear it daily from family/friends so it’s common-place for them. You even have the kids using it to be “cool” or to be rebellious. Whatever the reasons, it’s being more and more openly used, and the impression it creates with people is that it’s the norm.

SoPP.7034:

Don’t bring PvE to PvP -.-

Ironic, since that’s EXACTLY what Anet did

laharl.8435:

And your claim that you’ve never seen an overflow server since launch does absolutely nothing for your side of the argument as it totally inconsequential to the discussion at hand. Guess you guys are even.

My point about the over-flow was to contradict his hyperbole, because if such a significant portion of the player base hated JPs it wouldn’t have been that crowded. So I wouldn’t say it does nothing for my argument.

But then of course we’re going to go circles around the topic of how much they would have to hate it to make them leave in the first place for that to be relevant, right?

stof.9341:

Kitta.3657:

It’s pretty simple: putting a PVE achievement in PVP zone = encouraging GRIEFING

Completely wrong. This instead :

“putting a PVE achievement in PVP zone = maybe it wasn’t a PVE achievement after all but a PVP one?”

You put a dungeon in the middle of EB and it’s still a dungeon….

Dan.2940:

I don’t get where you get this information that WvWers dont like to do the JP, i do it with my friends all the time, and all we ever do is WvW, with the occasional pve for armor and new events (Like this one).

I never claimed they don’t like JPs. I claimed that for most the JP’s reward was not worth the aggravation to them. If this were not the case it wouldn’t have been dead in the first place.

Dan.2940:

Are you saying there shouldn’t be any PvP achievements then? Because PvErs want to be completionists? I agree that it shouldn’t be tied in with a pve event but PvErs can avoid it, like they avoid the sPvP achievements.

I never once said remove PvP achievements. I said they shouldn’t aim to revitalize a dead PvP area (most notably one that is designed around ganking) by trying to attract PvE players. That they are using an achievement to accomplish this is irrelevant. My point would remain the same regardless what they used as an attraction.

And again, the “pve can avoid it” argument does not change the fact that it’s bad idea.

Dan.2940:

something that isn’t necessarily a bad thing

And that is what’s at the core of our disagreement.
I DEFINITELY think it’s a bad idea.

Dan.2940:

how does it lure in PvErs for 5 points?

As you already said, completionist would be one reason. Another would be that AP now have value due to the reward system so players will want to be gaining every point they can.

Dan.2940:

if for some reason a PvE player wanted ALL the achievements, they have to deal with this crap and its at their own choice.

You can also use this claim if, hypothetically, Anet decided you need to pay 100g to finish a specific dungeon path. Just because completing it is not necessary does not make it any less of a stupid idea.

Dan.2940:

The complaining on forums about the issue, does nothing. Arena net can’t stop people from camping the JP, they did it even before this kite was added to the map.

Preventing it wouldn’t be necessary if they didn’t encourage people to go in there in the first place and none of the complaining on the forums would have been necessary.
And maybe the complaining does not change anything. But neither does defending it.

Dan.2940:

They also added the kite to the JP because it was so dead, its obvious to see that. Would you really rather them just remove the achievement? How would that be of any gain to anyone?

It was dead because no WvWers wanted to go there. If they wanted to bring a dead WvW area to life, why target PvEers by putting an achievement there? That’s like removing arrow cart blueprints and only making them available by doing Arah path 4. Wrong target audience

Shiren.9532:

Dedlaw.9130:

Shiren.9532:

Dedlaw.9130:

Clark Skinner.4902:

With the significant size of the player base who dislike or hate jumping puzzles,

Source?

Because quite honestly it’s the first time I’ve seen an overflow server since launch.

All that proves is that people are on the map, not that they like the map.

If they didn’t like it they could just leave?

And that’s where the OP’s point comes in. The whole content update is either jump or opt out. This is further worsened by the increased importance of achivement points in this update. Opting out will not only prevent you from accessing the lore, story and rewards of the current content, you take an achievement point blow as well.

My problem is he is making his point sound more valid by using hyperbole. His claim about “a significant size” is a guess unless he can provide proof to give the claim any substance.

Yes, I’m aware there are players that don’t and/or can’t do JPs. I’m not disagreeing with that. But using hyperbole to possibly exaggerate the problem does not add any credit to his argument.

AndrewSX.3794:

Star Ace.5207:

AndrewSX.3794:

Honestly, if you’re considering WvW as PvE, do a favor to you and to WvWers and stick with PvE.

Though I am not too fond of WvW, your comment is elitist and unneeded.

I’ll read it again for you, seems you misunderstood my point:

Honestly, IF you’re considering WvW as PvE, do a favor to you and to WvWers and stick with PvE.

Just saying that WvW is PvP.
If you consider an extension of PvE (like our devs do) is far better to stick with it because you’d have a unpleasant surprise.

Can’t speak for Star Ace, but I interpreted your post as

“Honestly, if you’re considering WvW as a PvE player”
not
“Honestly, if you’re considering WvW the same as PvE”

making it sound like you don’t want PvE players there, which sounded elitist.

Thanks for clearing that up

Shiren.9532:

Dedlaw.9130:

Clark Skinner.4902:

With the significant size of the player base who dislike or hate jumping puzzles,

Source?

Because quite honestly it’s the first time I’ve seen an overflow server since launch.

All that proves is that people are on the map, not that they like the map.

If they didn’t like it they could just leave?

Neural.1824:

In this thread: Campers complaining about not having easy targets.

You didn’t read a word, did you?

Dan.2940:

Ugh… you know, there’s two people in this world…

People who will whine and complain until something gets done, and people who actually do something about the situation. People who don’t wait around for the world to mold to their liking.

Whining about a measly 5 achievement points? You guys know how ridiculous you sound? If you are not about the PvP life, stay out of WvW where zergs are EVERYWHERE. Sure its annoying to be JP griefed, i don’t approve of it, but it’s never going to change so you have to learn to adapt.

There are THOUSANDS of achievements, why would you complain about 1 achievement that’s worth 5 points? You either accept the challenge and ACHIEVE your ACHIEVEMENTS or just sit with thumbs up your butts complaining on the forums.

I did the achievement during the Pirates LS and I’ll be doing it again this time too, and for all the upcoming times they keep thinking this is a good idea. Doesn’t mean I’m going to sit back and shut-up about how stupid it really is.

Like you said, the achievement is bringing life back into the JP. There’s a reason regular WvWers didn’t go there. The effort and annoyances are not worth the gain. It’s just a place where trolls went for cheap-kils. So instead of making it more attractive for WvWers (after all, everyone keeps repeating how this is a WvW territory, so WvWers should be the target audience right?), they decide to lure in PvE players. How stupid of an idea is it to lure them into a WvW gankfest that even regular WvWers avoid? Making the reward 5 points or 50 doesn’t change that.

Way too much fluctuation for Tier 1.

As a BG, I don’t really recall fighting anyone other than SoR and JQ except for the week we had DB join our little clash

Edit – Oh, nevermind. Missed the point that it was manual match-making

matemaster.2168:

IMHO
condition damage was not designed as primary source of damage for any class

Can you look at a Necromancer and say that with a straight face?

Dan.2940:

These caches/kites are bringing life back to the JP

There’s a reason seasoned WvWers didn’t go there