Guild Wars 2

Gw2 still has moments like these, although admittedly much less. Taking the Gwen example, I almost teared up when visiting her grave for the first time.
And Old Nic’s.

And Tybalt. I’ll never forget Tybalt.

Worked fine last night, helped open it twice on BG. Took some communication to get everyone to work together (or to just stay out of it ^^), but got it done

GFRikku.2983:

ofc it is a war but nightcapping should not be encouraged, usually we end up every morning seeing the whole map getting taken over by a viz zerg while 10 people who give up their sleep or try to command that long keep those places, this is still a game and should also keep the players their health in mind, if you can not close it, maybe make some towers/keeps have a buff that makes it harder or impossible to cap at night, every day people spend too much in upgrading, just to see it dissapear in the morning, most of you dont know this because you are not having this problem nor have to pay for all these upgrades every day, if this is a 24/7 war, why are we not matched up against NA servers?

You really just don’t get it. What you refer to as “nightcapping” is for other players regular daytime. Just because its a EU or a NA server does not mean everyone is from EU or NA. There are players from all over the world on every server.

Yes it is a game and it should keep players health in mind. Forcing everyone else in the world to conform to one of two time-zones is NOT healthy for them.

Also, you seem to be implying that every server you face have players from other time-zones, yet your server has none? And saying “most of you dont know this because you are not having this problem nor have to pay for all these upgrades every day” doesn’t make sense. Is this something that only YOUR server has to deal with? Last I checked we still pay for upgrades on my server, and we also lose towers when other servers have a higher activity than ours. Doesn’t mean I go around asking that JQ and SoR be locked out until we are good to go again

Yeah poster probably forgot a space or something

negerleif.2106:

Dedlaw.9130:

Why not? You lose nothing by trying

you lose gold for repairing your gear

lol, my first pug wiped repeatedly enough for all my armor to get damaged, to repair it cost about 10s I think?

Why not? You lose nothing by trying

lunyboy.8672:

Wait… has this ALWAYS been a stun break? I could use it even when knocked down… never knew why.

It could be used when stunned like FT’s Smoke Vent, but didn’t break it

Please don’t be RNG boxes….
Please don’t be RNG boxes….
Please don’t be RNG boxes….

Pretty please?

That being said, I’d pick option 2. At least one guaranteed

Release a solid, full expansion with more than 1 day’s worth of content

Kilgorn.1463:

Interesting interpretation to say the least.
Defending a tower is an actual part of WvW, unlike just standing around with the sole purpose of ganking people in the jumping puzzle. That’s just being an kitten . The point I was trying to make is exactly that, that the gankers and the ones getting ganked take spots on the map from those who actually do want to defend and attack the towers.
And the map completion isn’t a temporary part of the game, so you can’t really compare those two.
And I do agree with you there that the JP should never have been put there in the first place. But I guess I’ve been a fortunate one with that so far and never had to deal with gankers there before. Just some fights where the winner moves on with the puzzle.

Well whether the ganking is considered as part of WvW or not is debatable. Consider the possibility of a cliff-side path to a camp that players need to pass through, with a high vantage point where another player can camp and attack from range or even knock other off the cliff. And yet doing this would not be thought of as a kitten thing to do. Cowardly, maybe, but that’s also debatable.

In the same way camping at the JP can be considered helping the team, as you are denying the opposition players, not only by keeping those in the JP off the battlefield, but by denying them reinforcements due to your targets taking up a number of finite slots available on the map, meaning actual WvW combatants are waiting in queue to get it.

What pushes this type of action into the kitten category is the fact that the reason people do the JP is something completely unrelated to WvW. I could compare it to people trying to do a dungeon and WvW players storming in and killing you before you get to finish it.

So in the end I think camping and gangking is fine, I don’t begrudge players that. It’s the fact that people are forced into WvW territory for something unrelated to WvW that is the problem, and that is solely Anet’s fault.

In a perfect world, yes.

Even in a slightly more understanding world.

But in the world we live in, there will always be a vocal majority who expect everything to be catered to their own needs, who make no allowance for what other players might enjoy, and anything that is not catered specifically for them is considered either a insult to them or signs of incompetence from the devs.

The very last thing stealth needs is a duration increase

I wouldn’t mind for CB to go back to 1200, but without good reason I doubt the devs will just change it back

If thieves can scale walls then their damage will definitely need to be toned down. If they manage to hide inside a tower they can already kill the Lord solo. Allowing them to scale walls AND kill lords will just be too much

Mouby.7096:

Wartna.8671:

Hello,

What I think would be cool is the ability to name your legendary weapon. Right now a lot of people have a legendary already, some even more than 1. To make it more unique/personal I thought it would be nice to attach a name to your weapon. Maybe make a ticket for it wich costs 1g or w/e. Just a quick idea ^^

Ye, 99% of the ppl will give there legendary weird names.

definitely NO, worst idea ever.

What’s wrong with naming a Twilight “Fluffy”?

Kimbald.2697:

Few adjusting patches later, with the tooltip still in eefect and all of that… think we have a keeper here.

Didn’t trust it at first, but by now I would be very surprised if they would still remove it.

Yeah I think Engis all over were collectively holding their breath for this one

Theoldman.6483:

As I checked into the forums every few weeks since the beginning of the year it seems to me that they continue to become more toxic over time. They also seem to be more toxic than other game forums “I” still occasionally visit. As I get my life back, it occurs to me that many of us tend to get wrapped up in a game losing our balance in life. Just something to think about.

Good for you on all the improvements, hope you are fortunate enough to maintain it

As for this part, I’m also a MMO gamer since EQ days (although I was a bit of a late arrival there). I don’t know what forums you still frequent, but all the ones I still pop into more or less look like this. Rampant self-entitlement, along with the drop in social standards due to the freedom granted by anonymity, are some of the things I’ve seen eat away at the core of just about every online game’s community

Well cast time shows at the top-right corner of the skills, next to cooldown timer.

No idea about the others

JOKER.3952:

somewhere between ~600 – 700 regular dragon coffers opened and got 2nd jade weapon ticket … hmm wonder if dropped rate increases as it gets closer to the end of the event ? 1st drop was @ about 500 coffers , 2nd one about 100 chests later.

Well considering the drop-rate is about 0.05%, 700 chests is not nearly a large enough batch to make any deductions from. You just had some luck left ^^

Conncept.7638:

AntiGw.9367:

You spent 200 bucks on gambling, and complain? The fault is entirely yours.

Don’t spend money you can’t afford to lose on gambling.

I once knew several people who took this same stance on r(a)pe, you don’t protect yourself, it’s your fault.

It is never the victims fault, not in thievery or any exploitation of any kind. And you should be ashamed of yourself.

The difference is there’s no victim here. People weren’t forced into anything.

They gambled and they lost.

swiftpaw.6397:

‘Other 95% of the player base will find better ways to spend their time and money.’

wow, I wish I could get such quick and accurate statistics of what players will be spending time and money on.

Not that hard. You thumbsuck a figure, then present it as fact. Instant results.
Works 73% of the time

GFRikku.2983:

-.- no wonder they have bad updates, people like you aren’t that educated enough to even get a point, nor to actually think before you post

1 the post link is closed

2 is not a punishment(nobody works from 10 to 10 you nub) everything closes too at a time go QQ at life for being unfair

3 for your info the world is split in 24h time zones(na -> gmt -7/japan GMT+9) so they can still play(good morning and go to school, no wonder you nolife in games, you can easily play in other servers from other timezones, even with the time limit on wvw)

only thing i get to this post is nubs just QQing that they dont want to accept other people are bothered by it, you are just too stubborn to even think out of the box, shame on you guys, got 4 nubs picking on just a post that tried to improve the experience and now i get 4 nolifers who probably havent got proper education to even realize there is still a way, for real? I played in NA and japanese servers too, did the time limit bother me? NO. If you want to contribute at least try to make a decent opinion instead if going tantrum like a kid saying “We are getting punished” oh yeah it is the end of the world booo-hoo

People aren’t educated to get a point? You’re the one missing the point. let me spell it out: You want the servers to be locked according to NA and EU timezones. So according to you everybody else playing outside those timezones can’t play unless they play at awkward times to meet yours, and you don’t see that as a terrible idea?

You talk about stubbornness, but ironically your stand point is “people shouldn’t be allowed to play when I can’t be online to defend”. How childish is that for an idea?

You throw around insults about people QQing and lacking education, yet you can’t even grasp something as simple as the fact that there are more people being catered to than just you.

Ironic you should talk about tantrums, basically you want everyony to be locked out of WvW just because you can’t play when they do. What is that if not a tantrum. So what if you need to recapture a few towers tomorrow, don’t come crying here going “it’s the end of the world. Boohoo”

Well if you want to start a petition, try www.goodluckwiththat.org, or www.itaintgonnawork.net

Kilgorn.1463:

Valento.9852:

ShAdY.7586:

Obsidian Scantum Achievement made me report 20 people, at that point I stopped counting and I am still lieing on the ground, reporting everyone who lays a hand on my mates.

Sorry what? Hahah now this is totally kitten, really reporting for DA BAD GUY KILLED ME! PUNISH ‘EM! =’(

Please, grow up.

Yes, because when a group of people just standing at one point doing nothing but keeping people away from content sounds so very grown up. Like I said in the other thread, it has nothing to do with actual WvW, where you take and defend objectives for points. Both of these groups take up valuable spots from the actual WvW’ers. The gankers don’t help their server one bit, and the ones the’re ganking aren’t doing much either. Why not just let people get their achi so they can move on. The gankers might want to try fair fights instead and join the battlefield, much more fun.

Sooo what you’re saying is having people defend a tower is wrong? I mean they are keeping other people away from that PoI, and it’s needed for map completion, so they are effectively blocking other players from game content. Yeah, very childish. How dare they.

Or, we can just be sensible about this and realize that Obsidian Sanctum has been a terrible addition to WvW as it has only been a source of grieving since day one. You cant blame the PvE players for going there because they want to get it for achievement reasons, you cant blame the PvP players because killing other players is the core of WvW. That leaves you with the option of blaming Anet for either not having the fore-sight to predict this would happen, or having the bad idea of thinking this kind of grieving would be fun.

GFRikku.2983:

lordkrall.7241:

So, when did the earth become flat?

I am quite sure that it is not flat, and therefore night will be different for different parts of the world.

What about people that lives on the other side of the world?
Their middle of the day is our night. Should they not be allowed to play WvW?
What about people that work and can only play at nights? Should they be banned from doing WvW aswell (unless they start skipping work?)

read the post first entirely before you make bad commands, they made server regions for a reason, they can join other regions where they can play in then, it is that simple, ofc NA servers should get other times to close but you can play there if you are not from EU and can only play while EU servers are closed, same for NA players who are only available for wvw when it is night there, they can go EU.

You don’t seem to be aware of this so I kinda feel obliged to tell you:

There are countries outside of NA and EU timezones!

Shocking, I know! Who would have guessed?

Jigain.8231:

KeyLimPi.9031:

I don’t know if I just never noticed this before, but “Oil Slick”s toolbelt skill skill is a stun breaker. Runs at double speed for 5 seconds as a stunbreak? That seems crazy useful xD

Is it really double speed though? I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall reading at some point that tests indicated the speed gain to be about 40%, a far ways off from 100%.

Not sure if it’s bugged or just badly worded. It’s only marginally faster than Swiftness when roaming, but when used in combat it takes you up to roaming speed, so definitely a noticeable increase there

2 things I can think of is that Engi’s Elixer Gun’s toolbelt skill has stun break that wasn’t mentioned, and same with Ele’s Arcane Shield I believe.

I read some players talking about the 2nd July, although yet to see an official source for it. Makes sense as it fits with the next maintenance on Tuesday

KeyLimPi.9031:

I don’t know if I just never noticed this before, but “Oil Slick”s toolbelt skill skill is a stun breaker. Runs at double speed for 5 seconds as a stunbreak? That seems crazy useful xD

They made it a stun break with this patch ^^

Novamatrix.2569:

Trying to get a base number of how many people do not like it.

Pointless pursuit. Even the vocal majority on the forum is still a minority in the game. It’s not an accurate representation of the player base.

Aerpoweron.5834:

New built released, and still the same problem

It’s not a problem, it’s content soon to be released

Because it’s not implemented yet. It will probably be out in the next few weeks as part of the current living story

Probably something to do with the ship-thing sticking out of the mountain south-west of Broadhollow Bluffs

What can one say except very well done and congratulations!

/salutes

It’s not like one less profanity will suddenly change the context of what they are trying to say.

Unless it was something like “You kitten kitten kitten kitten, you and all your kitten kitten kitten are so full of kitten kitten!” But at that point I just use a bit of creativity to amuse myself into what they might have been saying, seeing as I will anyway be disregarding the post.

I’ve yet to find a kitten filter that I didn’t know or could not at least accurately guess what the person was trying to say.

- Give warriors ten traits more, they would be the only class with 80 trait points instead of 70

This one is a no-no for me. If their skills/traits are so lacking that they need 2 more additional traits just to be on the same level, then that just means the skills/traits need some serious re-working.

Staking up more sub-par skills/traits does not change the fact that they are sub-par

I really love the idea of duels on agreement, but I dislike the way people want it to be in a designated area. Make the whole map the battle ground! Combat only ends if one of the players dies, leaves the map or chooses to disengage.

Can you imagine the type of cat-&-mouse games you can have like that? Imagine having to hunt somebody down inside LA or Divinity’s Reach?

And why not in the cities? People are spamming spells all day in LA anyway. You probably wouldn’t even notice if somebody was actually fighting.

Yeah the moment you could just buy one, it ceased to be legendary. It became like a Lamborghini – just a status symbol that says “I’m rich”

Keep the difficulty, just speed it up. Reduce the amount of damage a golem can take and make the beams insta-kill. The amount of time it takes to win (or lose) the fight if somebody messes up is almost unbearable. Just make it quick and clean. You mess up, you start over. You get it right, it’s over in no time.

People were just starting to lose interest in camping there, and ~ta-daaaa~ the bait is back!

catofnine.3194:

Wolf.5816:

On that note, it sure would be nice if Engineers finally got a pure group of Shotgun skins. I mean like.. Hard core shot guns. Like a double barrel or combat shot gun.

Do want. Also, the smoke was a good idea as well.

Or even just regular pump action, the sound effect of it being pumped between shots would be sweeeet!

Didn’t want to get my hopes up too soon

~does the happy dance~

Well they really haven’t changed much since you played last. If you thought it was boring then, it will still be boring now.

Why stop at the torso?

Nabrok.9023:

Honestly, I haven’t seen lag at all since the second round of improvements they made.

Come hang over on Tier 1, see what the fuss is all about

Kuruptz.4782:

RainbowSyrup.4130:

Do you buy lottery tickets and complain when you don’t win too?

Yes, yes i do

And how has that been working for you?

On a FT Power build Elixer Gun is mostly an emergency weapon, you’ll be using it for tough fights

Toolbet skill is a minor AoE regen.
Skill #1 is mostly useless to Power builds as it does low damage, bleeds and inflicts weakness only for 1sec.
Skill #2 inflicts cripple and can be used in conjunction with the rifle to kite a target.
Skill #3 is pretty handy, AoE spray (if you play FT then the cone is basically exactly the same) and inflicts Weakness and Vulnerability, but also removes conditions from allies, so it can be used offensively to increase damage, or defensively to help allies.
Skill #4 is one of your get-away cards. Use the backward leap along with a cripple, knock-back or immob to quickly open up some distance between you and whatever you’re trying to get away from. Also does pretty decent damage.
Skill #5 cleanses a condition on impact as well as minor healing. It’s also a light field, so if combo’d with a blast finisher (EG #4) or a leap (rifle #5) it gives you a few seconds of retaliation

lol nvm, wrong city

Meglobob.8620:

What if they introduced limited rewards but also costs?

So everyone on a winning team gets 5s per match won? But you after pay exactly the same as what PvE / WvW players to change your traits currently, which is 3-4s…you would thus actually, slowly make gold..

Would PvPers like this and changes like it to do with equipment?

Non of this is pay to win btw…because pay to win is when you can spend real $ to improve your stats…

Or how about this for a radical solution:

Leave it as it is.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. It won’t make a difference to your PvE game-play experience in the slightest either way, so why complicate somebody else’s it if it’s not necessary?

For leveling I’d recommend a Flamethrower/Elixer Gun build. A bit of Toughness and Might from Juggernaut, 2 healing fields from Elixer Gun’s Super Elixer and Healing Turret along with AoE attacks from FT. You just wade into mobs and roast them.

I used the build to do map completion, and once you get the hang of using all the tricks at your disposal (knockback, blind, cripple, leap) and you have Supply Crate as backup…you just about never die.

And in zerg events it’s excellent for tagging mobs too