Not really. I only use the Charrzooka when screwing around. Warband Support is useless on a thief since its pretty much a crappier version of thieves guild and Atillery Barrage just doesn’t seem very good.
But then the only racial elite that gets much use from me are the human ones on my mes for pve.
Necromancers in GW deal with death and sprits but aren’t evil by defult. Often the necromancer NPC’s seem to be caretakers of the dead, taking care of burial rights or protecting and putting spirits to rest. Besides which I don’t know that a race of linked plant people would necessarily be hung up over the idea of “repurposing” a dead body. Would they consider it defiling or simply not being wasteful? Copses do after all make great fertiliser, life springs for death, the cycle continues and all that jazz.
It also something they don’t have a lot experience with so makes sense that some would want to study.
I guess having more options like a cutesy option is a bad thing for female charrs huh?
Go figure..so much for creativity X)
You shouldn’t be adding option that clash with lore of the race and are they going to start adding cute faces to the men as well then?
In the vast majority of media non human females are either "cute’ or humans with accessories (and often using “non human culture” as an excuse for them to be promiscuous and not wear much). I would really rather they keep the cute out of the Charr.
Yeah, basically it suck for both sides. Ascalon may have been Charr land once but the humans living there at the time weren’t the ones who drove the Charr out. To them they were just deafening their home. Same thing applies to the Charr.
I don’t really care which race had the land first or which has committed the most atrocities against the other over the years. If someone is to be punished it should be based on what they did, not there ancestor and not a collective punishment for an entire race.
Christ, that is terrifying…nice horns though. It’s the first time I’ve seen forward facing horns on the female charr. Doesn’t fit with her face at all but still on a different Charr they could be nice.
If you want one go for it, they are still a fairly rare sight.
I’m not going for them since I don’t like any of the current ones. If they add some new ones and there is one I really like I might but I’d still probably only go for it if I happen to find a precursor.
Charr Guardian isn’t uncommon but it seem kind of weird. I know the faith thing doesn’t have to be based on gods, they could have faith in in their warband or something but the description of the skills and the stuff they say just seems weird for a Charr. Asura Warriors and Guardian too tho they are funny to watch.
Norn (female) because despite the fact that I don’t really like them as a race (not to fond of the arrogant warrior culture thing)
A) I already have characters of the other races and wanted one of each.
B) I like what they look like more than human. Don’t look as young, muscular, tattoos, I like the T1 cultural armor, staff animation makes them look kitten where as the human female and sylvari one is kinda “girly” too me.
Yeah mushrooms aren’t plants, they are part of the Fungi kingdom. Perhaps it isn’t actually their hair, maybe they just have a parasitic mushroom growing out of their body! Yay!
But who cares, the mushroom hair is cute. I’m probably going to redo my Syl at some point (she looks too human to me) and i might give her that.
Also for a second the title of this thread made me think of a different type of “shroom head” lol.
An underwater map has the potential to be really beautiful to explore so I kinda hope they add one but I’m not a huge fan of the underwater combat to be honest. The fact that half you skill don’t even work is really annoying and I always get blindsided by mobs I didn’t see and get killed (though this my fault) so while I wold definitely explore it once or twice its not likely to be an area I return to regularly.
Clearly they should just not reward anything because that’s forcing players do it and punishing those who don’t. Everyone should just get a set amount of money every day.
Seriously though, you make that argument for pretty much any activity in the game. Dailies don’t even give you that much money. It’s the cost of a waypoint or two. You get more just from running a dungeon.
I love the T3 heavy cultural helmet. If ever make a warrior or guardian I’ll make them a Charr just for that.
I like T1 light cultural helmet on female charr and T2 medium one would look OK if it didn’t float off my characters face. (though I maybe alone in this one)
In general the helmets don’t really fit the charr properly though.
I love it. I manually sheath my weapons after battle just to go back to running on all fours. Unfortunately, as other have mentioned it makes you feel painfully slow even though I know I’m running at the same speed as my other characters.
I think they are referring to the dynamic events. No it doesn’t stay saved permanently, I don’t see how you could ever have this regularly in an MMO. We had the Kakra event which was like that but it turned into a disaster with too many people trying to the event at once and people missing out. It would be great if once the land was cleansed and Zhaitan defeated the land actually started to heal but I don’t really know how they would do this.
But at least when you save a village you see it saved, people rebuild and other events do or don’t happen based on if it was saved. It’s not like you kill X amount of enemies and get thanked for “saving the village” despite the fact that it’s still swarming with enemies and on fire. Eventually it will get attacked when no players are there to defend it and put you back at square one but it feels relatively natural (it’s not like the centaurs are going to stop attacking because they lost one battle) and you need to have the events reset otherwise you run out of them.
Doesn’t sound very open and accepting, so I can’t see ANet implementing such a system in GW2.
In fact it’s probably undermining what they’ve been trying to build all along.
So because some people want to do speed runs with specific builds they shouldn’t add any LFG system at all and just make it more difficult for everyone? I doubt that is really why they haven’t because that is a really bad reason not not add one.
This already happens in game anyway and its not really an issue. It not like everyone is doing this. Just run with a different group.
Yeah…the light armour is the worst for this. If your going to make the female armour skimpy at least do the same for the male. Though they do far better than most MMO’s (not that being better than most MMO’s says much since female in most MMO’s seems to be either child or fantasy themed stripper). For once the female version of non human races aren’t made to look human regardless of what their male counter parts look like, the animation and poses for women aren’t sexualized and for the most part the armor is fine. I don’t like all of them but different strokes for different folks.
Guild wars 2 has many armours that aren’t skimpy so its not a huge deal that a few are and many of the ones that are don’t give of the vibe of “designed specifically to be jacked off too” .
The starting light armour I despise though since you start with it and it’s a skin is used for random drop armour all through the game. The armour that is chosen to introduce people to all the scholar professions is the one in which the guys get a cool long coat and the girls get a frilly belt? Really? I would rather fight naked and in fact my Norn Ele did fight naked until I could buy different because a large tattooed Norn in that was just too stupid.
Teir 3 human cultural medium and light armour kitten es me off a little bit too because I actually like the male versions and wish we just had that tweaked to fit a female body rather than under boob armour and a decorated bra. Unfortunately it also pretty popular so we might be getting more of this in the future.
I don’t really get what they trying to do with town clothes honestly. As you said they take up space and on top of that you can’t use them in combat so they are pretty useless. How much time do you really spend in town?
If they were like the costumes in Guild wars 1 where you could have there appearance override your armor (maybe not for PvP though) I would buy some of them but as it is now there is no point.
Well the names of my character make sense lore wise (or at least I think they do). That’s just the easiest way to name them to me. It’s harder to come up with a silly name.
I get a lot of names from random name generators or the books I happen to be reading at the time. I don’t RP in a game but I do give them personalty and back-story when I’m bored so I prefer they have an actual name.
However people naming characters silly or lore breaking things really doesn’t bother me at all. Some of them are clever or funny.
That is the quest in Diessa Plateau, yeah?
You’re likely entering from the wrong side. Enter from the Black Citadel and you will be at the part of the area more appropriate to your level and won’t have to run past all the level 24s to get your quest. I have seen many make this mistake.
It is an issue for me. I hate clipping and I hate huge floaty pauldrons both of which the Charr armors have in abundance so my armor choice for my Charr is somewhat limited.
It’s unlikely that they are going to go back and fix it now. I just hope they do a better job in the future and add in some more cultural sets so they have more armor specifically made to fit them. Some more plant armors for the Sylvari would be nice too.
Not really, I had this issue a bit with GW 1 where people were asking you to ping your build all the time but I have yet to be asked about my build in GW2. At most I’ve been asked if I’m using exotic.
You’re saying you got yelled at for the wrong build at level 6? what? you don’t really have a build at level 6 or anything that requires a group anyway. You sure it wan’t due to level?
When discussing a class on forums people tend to be min/maxing so maybe it comes across like you NEED to play that way but you don’t. Its just generally the more effective way to play.
Ignore them. IMO too many people just focus on damage and damage alone, especially people farming dungeons. Staff is an excellent weapon for groups.
Yes you want to complete the dungeon quickly but dying repeatedly slows you down too. Plus focusing too much on being optimal takes the fun out of the game. shrug
They are cosmetic only at the moment (and hopefully will stay that way). They have unique skins and animations. They do not have better stats than exotic. Although if they introduce ascended weapons presumably they would be buffed to match since they are meant to always be top tier. I’m not sure how that would work if you transmuted it though and since they don’t have a variety of stat combinations that could be an issue.
I don’t like most of them TBH. Many of them are joke skins and while they are good for a laugh when you first see them and the thought of my Charr shooting rainbows out of a unicorn bow is amusing I’m not spending that much on one. I like the trident but spending that much on underwater weapon seems silly since I would barely ever see it.
Though since in general I don’t like weapons that are too over the top and flashy I don’t think there are going to be many legendaries I will end up liking since they are all about being flashy.
Yep, one of my biggest issues right now. Honestly I don’t really understand why they don’t have a basic feature like this. Surely it can’t be that hard to implement?
No, I really don’t like being tied into a sub and I tend to be on and off with how much I play. I would rather pay for new content when it comes out. If I like a game and spend many hours on it I will use the cash shop as a way to give the developers money. Although while I am fine with a cash shop, if they start putting unbalancing gear that is unobtainable in any other way in it I won’t continue to play. I have left many MMO’s for this reason.
A large part of the reason I got GW1 was because it had no sub.
I haven’t had any issue with it so far and no one has been rude to me. I guess I’m lucky? It was kind of annoying when I was cheezing the aquatic daily by killing salmon and someone else came to do the same thing but that’s it.
I always get dodge naturally when playing because I dodge a lot anyway.
There are generally enough dead NPC’s around for daily healer so I don’t let people die just so I can rez them though I guess some would. I haven’t really notice anyone doing it but maybe I’m just not being observant.
5…well 6 if you count the one that is just being used for storage atm and I’m planning on deleting,
I have 2 level 80’s ( a charr thief and a norn ele)
1 level 60 (human mes)
1 level 40 (sylvari necro)
1 level 15 (Asura Engi)
My Charr Thief was intended to be my main but I like Ele more. I love my Mes too but she is a bit of a pain to level. They seem to be really good vs strong single targets which isn’t so great for general PVE but I probably just need to look at my build a bit more carefully.
Well they might need something for dungeons because at the moment finding a group for them, especially story mode is a massive pain in the rear. Problem is I don’t know that AI would work to well with this sort of combat or the traps.
I like that it down levels you. I want to explore the other areas and do the events I haven’t done yet without falling asleep because it’s so kitten easy. I don’t play games because I want to feel like an unstoppable god, I play them to have fun and if there is no challenge it’s just boring.
It is already far easier if you are over leveled and geared for the area, it’s just not impossible to die if your not paying attention.
Yeah, it’s annoying. People actually use to talk in LA, now map chat is just filled with people looking for FotM groups (and occasionally other dungeons). They need to introduced a proper group finder.
Why would we? If I buy something from a store and then it’s part of a special deal a few months later I don’t get the stuff from that. You get what you agreed to when you bought it.
People oppose the changes being made to Guild Wars 2 not because they are in love with Guild Wars 1 and want Guild Wars 2 to be the same as Guild Wars 1, but because the changes are bad changes, taken on their own merits.
Guild Wars 1 is only mentioned in cases where either A) People seem confused as to how an online RPG can be successful without parroting the features of EverQuest/World of Warcraft, and Guild Wars 1 serves as an example of how a game like that can be successful, or When people bring up previous statements made during Guild Wars 2’s marketing with the argument that “they didn’t specifically say this with this specific wording so I don’t know why you interpreted it to mean that”. The same philosophy was espoused during Guild Wars 1’s development, and they maintained that philosophy for close to eight years - it was not unreasonable for people to expect that ArenaNet would adhere to those principles.
People are also not dogmatically in favour of keeping the game exactly as Guild Wars 1 was. Guild Wars 1 did not have a functional Z-Axis, jumping, or dodging. Do you see Guild Wars 1 fans saying that those mechanics should be removed from Guild Wars 2? No? Then ask yourself, what does that tell you?
That^
I’m not annoyed that GW2 isn’t exactly like GW1. I’m annoyed because they talked this game up like it was going to different from most MMO’s in sense that you would not get stat grind, only grind for looks or achievements but threw that out the window a few months later when the reviews had already been done and most the people who would have bought GW2 based on the design philosophy had already got it. GW1 is used because people keep using “stat grind is necessary to have players interested” as an excuse for A-net doing this when GW1 did not have this.
And in what way is stat grind unique? It isn’t.
I dont’ like stat grind either, but I also feel like this whole Ascended gear thing is causing more stress than it should. I’m certainly not for the addition of equipment with greater stats than Exotics, but I’m also not pmsing over it. Right now it only effects Fractals, which I frankly could care less about. The bulk of the game has nothing to do with fractals, and PvE gear does not transition into PvP (excluding WvW.)
Hopefully the psychotic reaction to Ascended gear will leave a bitter taste in ANet’s mouths and keep them from doing similar things in the future. I personally wouldn’t mind them either reversing Ascended stats to exotic and changing stuff around so they have different attributes (adding some diversity,) or bumping all exotics up to match ascended stats.
Or Ascended gear would become the stuff you get from all dungeons, but those boons in stats would not transition over to WvW. Actually that might be better.
Yeah, I think its too early to be crying “doom!”. I am a bit pissed tbh, I very very rarely buy games within the first year of their release and did so this time because I liked their design philosophy and liked GW1. It feels like I was mislead and the way A-net has handled this hasn’t helped but while I’m going not to be purchasing from the cash shop I’m also not going to ask for a refund (I’m sure most have gotten at least $60 with of entertainment from this so I think a refund is a bit extreme) or completely ditch them and swear to never buy another thing from them until we see where this is headed.
I personalty think it would have better if they had just added infusion slots to exotics and then given you bonus while in the dungeon for infusions. At the least I think ascended gear has no place in WvW.
People oppose the changes being made to Guild Wars 2 not because they are in love with Guild Wars 1 and want Guild Wars 2 to be the same as Guild Wars 1, but because the changes are bad changes, taken on their own merits.
Guild Wars 1 is only mentioned in cases where either A) People seem confused as to how an online RPG can be successful without parroting the features of EverQuest/World of Warcraft, and Guild Wars 1 serves as an example of how a game like that can be successful, or When people bring up previous statements made during Guild Wars 2’s marketing with the argument that “they didn’t specifically say this with this specific wording so I don’t know why you interpreted it to mean that”. The same philosophy was espoused during Guild Wars 1’s development, and they maintained that philosophy for close to eight years - it was not unreasonable for people to expect that ArenaNet would adhere to those principles.
People are also not dogmatically in favour of keeping the game exactly as Guild Wars 1 was. Guild Wars 1 did not have a functional Z-Axis, jumping, or dodging. Do you see Guild Wars 1 fans saying that those mechanics should be removed from Guild Wars 2? No? Then ask yourself, what does that tell you?
That^
I’m not annoyed that GW2 isn’t exactly like GW1. I’m annoyed because they talked this game up like it was going to different from most MMOs in sense that the focus would be on horizontal progression and you would not get stat grind, only grind for looks or achievements but threw that out the window a few months later when the reviews had already been done and most the people who would have bought GW2 based on the design philosophy had already got and paid for it. GW1 is brought up because people keep using “stat grind is necessary to have players interested” as an excuse for A-net doing this when GW1 did not have this.
MMO’s are based on “more effort, more reward”
Stop trying to destroy a perfectly good MMO with the constant whining that all should be equal.
Why the kitten did you even buy this game?
almost every other MMO caters to “spend X amount of hour repeating the same mind numbing task over and over again not because it is fun but but to get some higher numbers” but instead of buying one of those you come to the one mmo that promised they wouldn’t do that and frankly people should pissed when a company pulls a blatant bait and switch on them.
No one wants something endlessly repetitive. On the other hand so many whiners in this game want things pretty much handed to them.
What are people going once they max their gear out in a three days-week (perhaps longer for the very casual player)? Is there any point of going into a dungeon? Are skins really worth the effort to the entire gw2 population to waste some hours getting?
I WvW but that isn’t always the most entertaining. With the “PVE-Welfare State” there’s not as many ways to entertain myself….
You don’t need a carrot on stick do something that actually is fun. I don’t get rewarded for watching a movie but I still do it.
Cosmetics rewards are fine and something that many would work for. Guild wars 1 had this and the sentiment has been expressed by many many people on this site. You want your character to look good do you not? especially if its one you spend a lot of time playing.
Another thing people could work for that don’t include stats is achievements, titles and trophies. A lot of people go for these sort of things in games (including me).
Since this game isn’t even sub based anyway it doesn’t really matter if you stop playing because you’ve got tired of the content currently in the game. Take a break or come back when they release more content and new challenges (new challenges meaning difficult not repetitive ones)
MMO’s are based on “more effort, more reward”
Stop trying to destroy a perfectly good MMO with the constant whining that all should be equal.
Why the kitten did you even buy this game?
almost every other MMO caters to “spend X amount of hour repeating the same mind numbing task over and over again not because it is fun but to get some higher numbers” but instead of buying one of those you come to the one mmo that promised they wouldn’t do that. You can reward a player for effort in ways other than stats.
Frankly people should pissed when a company pulls a blatant bait and switch on them.
The worst thing someone has done to me was when I was reviving a downed teammate in shadow refuge and another teammate ran to “help” revive them…while being targeted by an enemy doing AOE damage. head desk
Some people just don’t pay attention and there is general lack of communication in most groups made of randoms but then I’m sure I do stupid things too.
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When people bring up previous statements made during Guild Wars 2’s marketing with the argument that “they didn’t specifically say this with this specific wording so I don’t know why you interpreted it to mean that”. The same philosophy was espoused during Guild Wars 1’s development, and they maintained that philosophy for close to eight years - it was not unreasonable for people to expect that ArenaNet would adhere to those principles.