Guild Wars 2

Okay, basically, if people pick skyhammer or the RNG picks skyhammer, I don’t want to play the match. I would rather do ANYTHING else in game, than play that map. I don’t care if we’re winning or losing, i can’t stand Skyhammer at all.

But once the map is picked, I can’t leave. the button in the corner of the minimap doesn’t work, alt+f4 doesn’t work, logging out doesn’t work, even changing characters sticks you in Skyhammer.

I don’t care if I get a dishonor debuff that forbids me from playing pvp for an hour. I don’t care if I have to play other characters for awhile.. but is there a way to continue to play GW2, without having to play that map, when your teammates or the opposing team pick it?

Because I would honestly rather use sandpaper on my gums, than play skyhammer.

Elrey.5472:

Today i was in a silverwastes map where the vinewraith failed. Why it failed? Same old story, a lot of people were completely dead in the center room, upscaling the event and making it hard for everyone else. Some people told them in map chat to do it and they still didn’t waypoint back. It was frustrating and we eventually failed with a map full of players. I couldn’t believe it.

However, speaking with another player about that, he told me “i wish i could kill them again” and a smile crossed my face. Why not? I believe that we, as players, should be able to “finish” totally dead players and send them back to the nearest Waypoint. That should be enough.

Of course it would not be the usual thing to do, but it wouldn’t either be a big problem because you can actively avoid being warped to WP, all you need to do is not to die.
We often see players that are AFK, they die, you revive them but they stay AFK and die again. That player it’s upscaling the event and making it worse for us. I understand why the game allows that. The computers scripts can’t accurately know when are we going to revive someone or it’s a problem for us, however, we as players can decide that. We make our battlefield choices and we could efficiently move out of the fight someone that is not welcome because it’s not helping.

As final though, I believe that it would encourage players to play better and improve, because they would not want to die. That’s the main goal in the game, but right now dying is so mainstream and unpunishing that it’s getting too much common.

To avoid potential trolling, maybe the “finish him” option should only be availible to commanders. They can easily waypoint back 3-4 players (I hope with no long induction time) and fix a fight that otherwise could be lost.

What do you think?

Make it take as long as ressing the player and you got a deal

Blaeys.3102:

I really hope they do not raise the level cap, but my reason has nothing to do with ascended or legendary lvl 80 gear.

Raising the level cap would trivialize zones like Silverwastes, Drytop, Cursed Shores and Southsun.

I like the idea of world growth basically equating to more max level zone to play in.

That’s one of my concerns as well. If you’ll note we’ve been adding new level 80 areas as the game goes on, Southsun, Dry Top, and Silverwastes, all 3 zones are populated for their events and farming and on top of that, the old level 80 zones are also still popular, Orr, and Frostgorge Sound.

If you raise the cap to 100, those zones would be near empty, like Fields of Ruin or Lornar’s Pass.

Any of the mid level zones only get population when they have a world boss event going on.

I mean here’s my list of reasons why a cap increase is bad:

1. Regrinding ascended/legendary equipment
2. Making current high level zones become ghost towns
3. Creating bloated stats (Star Wars: The Old Republic actually doubled damage and health in a 5 level cap raise when they went from 55-60, this starts a bad pattern of bloat added to more bloat until you get to WoW status of numbers being so bloated they don’t mean anything anymore, supposedly they fixed that in WoD)/MUDflation
4. The higher the cap gets the worse it gets for people who want a lot of alts, a lot of people give up on their alts once the cap starts to raise. How many people have more than 2 max level characters in WoW? I know I always gave up and focused on one character once the cap started going up. Too hard to get them to cap and keep them appropriately geared.
5. The increase to the actual leveling process is moot because of tomes
6. People will expect more trait points which will unbalance the game and be a nightmare for Jon Peters and Izzy to work with.
7. Less focus on actual expansion of the game and more focus on throwaway leveling content that gets abandoned as soon as you outlevel it.

Absolutely not. This is a dealbreaker for me. If the cap is raised and people need to grind out ascended gear and legendaries all over again that’s the end of this game for me.

Raising the cap causes more problems without solving any. It causes massive power creep/stat imbalances (look at WoW for a prime example of bloated stats that become meaningless). It creates ghost town zones as all the prior end game zones are ditched because they’re no longer high level. It’s content REPLACEMENT not content EXPANSION.

You can do new skills, new zones, new weapons and armor, all that without a cap increase, and then it’s actually an EXPANSION.

So far Anet has added a few new skills and traits, and new zones, without raising the cap. More leveling itself would be meaningless with the tomes people have stockpiled. It’d just create new ascended/legendary grind to make new max level versions.

The fact that you have your head stuck in some line of thought that you have to raise the cap to expand the game is an extremely outdated concept.

Beldin.5498:

Devildoc.6721:

Yeah I’ve not been a fan of personal story and LS since the sept patches where kills in the story don’t count as actual kills for stacking sigils, and effects like guardian virtues recharging on kills.

Never did it with a guardian, but i’m sure especially that would annoy me to hell if i can’t spam F1 all the time when i have to deal with masses of mobs.

Yup, in open world, in dungeons and fractals, I start every fight by using F1 to blind everything and give me might and put vuln on the mobs, and as I kill more I gain more might,s tack more vuln and re blind.

But in LS.. I mean I’m used to using it, I pull, hit F1, kill, and then… wait 15s on cooldown still?

Yeah I’ve not been a fan of personal story and LS since the sept patches where kills in the story don’t count as actual kills for stacking sigils, and effects like guardian virtues recharging on kills.

I can do them and their challenges without.. but.. it is pretty annoying. that one of the most important functions of my guardian build is broken. and can’t be used.

Zenith.7301:

Because you either have to play bunker or a thief. If you want to play a zerker/offensive spec of any other class get ready to be farmed by thieves and warriors, because thieves and warriors both have really easy to land huge spike while having tons of active mitigation tools.

So if I play a ranger and don’t want to be thief food, I gotta build spirits or BM bunker.

None of the classes that aren’t thief or warrior have the escape tools to play effectively an offensive power based spec.

If you’re playing a necro in particular get used to the diea of having a team babysit you beause you can’t be self sufficient at all when you get CC’d to death or just torn apart by the nearby warrior and thief combo.

And then there’s also the bunkers which you stand no chance against as a power spec unless you are a warrior or thief. Maybe mesmer but mesmer is just a crappier thief.

Devildoc.6721:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Tried it a few times. In each case I was subject to messages like, “Noob GTFO”, “Moa me, you suck cheese build”, “You suck, I hope you die”

I don’t care to participate in such a hostile environment that doesn’t respect sportsmanship. It is my impression that many PvP players cannot control themselves from insulting others when they lose or win. That is one reason I hope there is no open world dueling.

I agree, I’ve always thought it was a terrible scenario to put a bunch of video game nerds, who probably never learned sportsmanship as a concept because they hated sports and PE, and put them in a competitive environment.

This is such a load of crap. I mean, you got football players knocking their wives unconscious, having animals tear each other to death for entertainment, or generally trashtalking pretty badly.

Some of the biggest thugs in life are athletes and especially the tribal-minded fans that follow them. Ask a referee about the graciousness of athletes and fans.

Well, maybe it’s social commentary about the diminishing respect of sportsmanship in athletics as well. Sportsmanship USED to be a big part of all sports and you learned it in PE class as a kid, and thats if your parents weren’t teaching it to you earlier as you played games with your family and friends.

Now days trash talking is considered “normal”. I consider it disgusting and people should be getting fined more often and more heavily for poor sportsmanship or voiding their contracts.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Tried it a few times. In each case I was subject to messages like, “Noob GTFO”, “Moa me, you suck cheese build”, “You suck, I hope you die”

I don’t care to participate in such a hostile environment that doesn’t respect sportsmanship. It is my impression that many PvP players cannot control themselves from insulting others when they lose or win. That is one reason I hope there is no open world dueling.

I agree, I’ve always thought it was a terrible scenario to put a bunch of video game nerds, who probably never learned sportsmanship as a concept because they hated sports and PE, and put them in a competitive environment.

WuGzaGenius.5684:

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 am not talking about custom or unranked PvP

Several reasons.

#1. Few game modes and those that do exist are mixed together randomly.

A build that is amazing for bunkering a point in conquest might be awful in courtyard since the objective is entirely different. Having TDM as well as Conquest is great, I hope there are more TDM maps in the future with different terrain and such, but people should be able to Queue for TDM separately. Not some wheel of RNG map picker.

#2. Gimmicky maps. Every map has a gimmick it’s not just different terrain to learn to utilize and fight on there are gimmicks that can radically alter how a game plays out. Some are okay such as Foefire and Niflhel. Others just suck the fun right out of team fights because they’re overpowered area control things, the Trebs in Khylo and the Skyhammer Skyhammer is especially bad because you stick a terrormancer on the skyhammer and you pretty much can’t get them off of it, they’ll just fear you off the edge to death

#3. Downed status. Nothing ruins your match more than when you get someone downed and they can utilize downed skills to stall for enough time to get backup. You can handily win that 1v1 fight, and then it becomes a 3 on 1 fight and you’re dead.

#4, and probably most important to PVE/WvW players, completely cancer ridden toxic community. People sending you insulting tells or calling you out in chat when you beat them in rage or gloating and strutting around and telling you things like kill yourself when they beat you.

I don’t need that in my games.

Gilosean.3805:

OK, time for some education.

Emerging from a birth state fully formed does not mean ‘is a construct’. If you think back to your high school biology class, you’ll understand this better. The birth process has no bearing on whether a being is a being or not. Beings get born in call kinds of ways. The only way beings don’t get born is in pieces – no animal I know if is assembled by other animals from bits and pieces. Bits and pieces put together are how constructs are made. Sylvari are grown in a birth chamber and inherit characteristics from a mother. Ergo, not constructs.

Also, Sylvari speak and use tools. This makes them not just beings, but intelligent beings.

Vorp didn’t know anything about the Sylvari birth process. What he knew was that these beings talked and could use tools. That’s certainly enough to bar them from use in experiments. I’m not really sure how you can defend his absolute lack of morals with a straight face.

Single celled organisms are not “people”. Heck, as of right now we only grant one species on the planet the rights of “personhood”, with a few places in the world extending the definitions to Dolphins, Great Apes, and Elephants (which I agree with)

We also don’t know if Sylvari are assembled in parts, or grow as other life does by cell division.

Maybe that should be an experiment to determine their personhood status.

Gilosean.3805:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

What’s that saying about two wrongs not making a right?

It’s not even 2 wrongs. The Sylvari weren’t doing anything wrong.

I mean, kidnapping is a separate wrong from torturing someone to death, so I guess we can count those as 2 separate wrongs. In that case you’re correct – neither of those cancels out the other.

Caithe and Faolin did far more than 2 wrongs.

Silalus.8760:

Devildoc.6721:

Ya’ll get way too defensive about a fantasy race.

I’m not particularly emotional about the Sylvari. I’m just very disappointed to see so many people who think it’s hilarious to make Asura “master race” jokes and explore what it would feel like to use real hate speech by coming up with new, safe vegetable-based slurs.

I thought that’s what you were doing- I apologize, you obviously really are trying to explore the lore and figure out the universe, so I was wrong to assume that.

So that having been said, back to the actual lore- I think I might be able to make this less ambiguous for you.

Devildoc.6721:

I for one find it interesting to have a somewhat self aware but not entirely free construct that feels the pull of their programming and yet can still make some free choices.

The thing is, you just described almost exactly what it is to be a human being. The only thing in that sentence that is different from the human condition, depending on your belief system, is the word “construct”.

And that’s the real world.

Tyria exists in a fantasy world. Magic is the stuff of life. You don’t need any religion to believe a living being can be created. All you need to do is believe in Tyrian life magic- which it would be rather silly not to believe in, since consuming it is the entire reason dragons do what they do, and manipulating it is part of what makes them so powerful.

Rocks, flames, and huge trees seem to just get up and start walking around in this world. It’s not much of a stretch to think that when a dragon creates something that looks alive, it really is alive. Heck, it’s hard to imagine otherwise. And if that something seems to think, love, hate, compose poetry, make mistakes, and all the other trappings of intelligent life, what possible reason do we have to think it isn’t intelligent life? Because the wrong force of nature made it?

What happens when we find out which god created Tyrian humans out of a lump of clay? Does that mean we’ll decide humans aren’t really people either? Is that true in every fantasy world with a known creator? Where instead of human instincts and reflexes and unconscious behavior being the product of natural selection, they are the product of a deity? None of those should be considered real people?

When you put it in context of the world it isn’t actually reasonable to compare Sylvari to AI’s or androids. That’s a sci-fi thing. This is a fantasy thing. They don’t just look like thinking, talking plants- they are thinking, talking plants.

I never said anything about Asura being a master race. I like Asura but they have their shortcomings. I also don’t mean calling them constructs as slurs just.. describing them as their nature seems to make them.

I AM trying to separate them out I suppose as constructs rather than calling them people because their nature of how they came to be and what they really are as Dragon Minions. Constructs describes their “life cycle” more appropriately I think anyway.

Experimentation on people (without their consent, anyway) is always taboo and wrong, but experimentation on other animals is only an ethically grey area, we do it all the time and justify it, and experimentation on machines/devices isn’t even morally wrong in the slightest.

So where Sylvari fall into that spectrum is up for interpretation and possibly justified because they are created like devices/machines rather than born like animals, and the nature of their intelligence was unknown at Vorpp’s time

Gabby.3205:

^They are still sentient beings capable of thoughts and emotions, no matter if you think that they can be compared with androids (which I disagree with) or not, which still makes Vorpp a monster.

(And, really, even if he didn’t do all of that to the Sylvari, sending Inquest to chase a child across the desert and to attack her is also a monstrous thing to do)

Vorpp isn’t Inquest, he wasn’t involved in chasing Taimi at all if that’s what you’re suggesting.

As Vorpp said before, he experimented on the Sylvari because they were an anomaly. IE they’re not like other sentient beings, which are born as children and grow into adulthood and then have children of their own.

Zaklex.6308:

Devildoc.6721:

Silalus.8760:

Devildoc.6721:

we’re not experimenting on people afterall, just dragon minions, constructs, with pre-programmed personalities.

Ridiculous.

First, you cannot justify actions based on information you learn later. The Asura culture is abhorrent for it’s flagrant disregard of the basic dignity of sapient beings, and the culture of the Inquest takes that to a level that is both evil and stupid. Asuran culture breeds sociopaths, and the Inquest collects the most… special of them.

Second, you cannot act just as ruthlessly bad as your enemies and still consider yourself better. That simply makes you a different kind of bad.

And third, what evidence is there that dragon minions are pre-programmed personalities? That’s absurd. They show a wide range of behavior, they can learn, and above all they can be freed and granted full free will. Creation and influence is not the same as non-sapience. (And that’s just in-game. Outside the game we absolutely know that Sylvari have free will- because they are able to be player characters. If they had no free will we would hit the button to start their story and then sit back to watch the character play up to 80 itself.)

Sylvari wake up already knowing what they have to do in their life. Their life’s purpose is programmed into them.

Their programming might not be “must kill Sarah Connor” but the basis is the same, they’re compelled to do something they might not normally choose if they had true free will.

So, if they’re pre-programmed as you say…how does that explain Trahearne’s Wyld Hunt to cleanse Orr…which belongs to another Elder Dragon? Doesn’t make sense now does it. IF the Pale Tree had grown in another area and not upon the place Ventari and Ronan had set up camp, I could see your argument…see Malyck(from one of the other tree[s]). Therefore, the Sylvari from the Pale Tree would have been Dragon Minions had they not been born of the Pale Tree, which is what you will find with the Soundless and Nightmare Court, those that have abandoned the Dream can be considered Dragon Minions, but not those that still belong to the Dream as the Dream is not of Mordremoth.

The Dragon wasn’t awake at that time and the pale tree was influenced by Ventari’s teachings, so, they were programmed with different things instead of the will of the Dragon.

Now that the Dragon is awake, he is overwriting that philosophy, so we will see the extent of that in the future, but basically, the Pale Tree could be considered to be somewhat like Glint, a Dragon Champion that broke away, that is why the Pale tree is being targetted and weakened. How effective the Pale Tree is at protecting her constructs in her weakened state is left to be seen but evidence we see so far, suggests her ability to protect them may be weakening and some may be lost to the Dragon, for sure the other Sylvari born from other trees not the Pale Tree we know, for sure the Nightmare court, and likely the Soundless, and possibly some of the dreamers depending on how weak she is and how strong those Sylvari are.

Ya’ll get way too defensive about a fantasy race. I for one find it interesting to have a somewhat self aware but not entirely free construct that feels the pull of their programming and yet can still make some free choices.

It brings up the question that if we create an AI, and an Android, do we consider that android a person. It is make as a replica to us, and it may have signals that it interprets to be analogus to pain and suffering, but it is still something we created artificially from inorganic materials and programmed.

I consider Sylvari not to be quite people, but rather like Androids at this point.

I also don’t consider this to be analogous at all to real world racism. We humans on planet earth are all the same species, so we’re not even really races, we’re just different ethnicities. On Tyria they are different species, actual races, and Sylvari being a construct, well, that’s just how their nature is. Dragon Champions create minions in imitation of things in the environment or corrupt those organisms in the environment to work for them. Sylvari are the former, minions created in imitation of humans.

Anakita Snakecharm.4360:

Sylvari are clearly sentient and capable of feeling pain. The fact that someone lacks free will in certain situations does not diminish their personhood or mean they can be tortured with no moral issue.

When their entire existence is to serve a dragon as constructed dragon minions, they’re not people.

Silalus.8760:

Devildoc.6721:

we’re not experimenting on people afterall, just dragon minions, constructs, with pre-programmed personalities.

Ridiculous.

First, you cannot justify actions based on information you learn later. The Asura culture is abhorrent for it’s flagrant disregard of the basic dignity of sapient beings, and the culture of the Inquest takes that to a level that is both evil and stupid. Asuran culture breeds sociopaths, and the Inquest collects the most… special of them.

Second, you cannot act just as ruthlessly bad as your enemies and still consider yourself better. That simply makes you a different kind of bad.

And third, what evidence is there that dragon minions are pre-programmed personalities? That’s absurd. They show a wide range of behavior, they can learn, and above all they can be freed and granted full free will. Creation and influence is not the same as non-sapience. (And that’s just in-game. Outside the game we absolutely know that Sylvari have free will- because they are able to be player characters. If they had no free will we would hit the button to start their story and then sit back to watch the character play up to 80 itself.)

Sylvari wake up already knowing what they have to do in their life. Their life’s purpose is programmed into them.

Their programming might not be “must kill Sarah Connor” but the basis is the same, they’re compelled to do something they might not normally choose if they had true free will.

DarcShriek.5829:

Devildoc.6721:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Devildoc.6721:

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Devildoc.6721:

If you did Crucible of Eternity you’ve known for 2 years that Sylvari were actually dragon minions not to be trusted.

Better put all Sylvari to the torch. I’ve been in support of that since oh, LS season 1 when Scarlet was revealed.

Yeah lets burn every race that has at least one evil person in their race (Let’s go with Scarlet being evil, I still have think they will reveal her as someone trying to do good but in a different way) aaaaand the world would be empty.

There’s a big difference here. You are not people. You are dragon minions. You are constructs. You are not born, you are created as an imitation. Knowledge is planted into your head, and you act on it. You do not learn your own perspective and choose your own path, your path is set before you, you are programmed.

The only difference is what knowledge was planted into your head prior to the Dragon’s Awakening was Ventari’s Teachings rather than the instructions of the Dragon.

Now the Dragon is awake, and able to reprogram Sylvari to serve him.

This isn’t a case of a few bad apples. This is the case of all Sylvari being vulnerable to corruption from the Dragon.

Also in other cases, people make conscious CHOICES to be evil but each person of you know ACTUAL people, Asura, Charr, Norn, Human, Tengu, Quaggan, Kodan, Skritt, Largos, even Krait (in their case it’s a cultural difference), each individual makes their own choices, so yes, it’s wrong to judge that entire group of people by the actions of one or a few.

However, Sylvari are not entities of free will and choice, they are constructs, they are programmed with a “wild hunt” which they are compelled to fulfill. Their life isn’t one of making choices, but one of obligation to fulfill their programming.

… and a Dragon can program them however he wishes.

Sort of like how humans were programmed to Zhatains will when they came in contact with him…

Or sort of how Norn’s will’s were programmed when they came in contact with Jormag…

Or sort of like how all Charr were programmed to serve the crystal dragon when they come into contact with the crystals…

So basically you are saying the Slyvari are evil because they have resisted not one, but 5 different dragons influence?

You’re wrong on all counts.

Only DEAD humans were acting on Zhaitan’s influence. Zhaitan raised corpses, he did not control people, he simply used their corpse, implanted with new programming rather than their original personality. Only a few very powerful Risen such as King Rega remembered who he was in life after Zhaitan had used his corpse.

Branded are also not living Charr/Humans, but once they’d been branded their bodies get basically fossilized as walking crystal constructs.

Jormag’s minions make a choice to join his side and accept his power. A conscious choice.

None of those other races are constructs created as Dragon Minions, Sylvari are.

Devildoc,

Kellach would like a word with you. He was not dead when Zaihtan corrupted him.

Kellach was carrying an artifact that was driving him crazy and well, rotting him from the inside out if I remember correctly. It was making him undead without dying first.

Rebound.3409:

It’s not justified. He had no idea about the dragon-silvari relation in the first place. He just started making experiments….and even so it’s wrong.

Had his experiments been allowed to continue he may have figured out their true nature! It could have saved Tyria from ever having Mordremoth wake up until the other 5 dragons were already dead and they could face him all alone, with one of his Champions (the pale tree) already removed from the equation!

Ardenwolfe.8590:

What’s that saying about two wrongs not making a right?

Experimenting on people is a wrong but disassembling constructs is at worst a morally grey area.

a lot of people harbored some hatred for Asura, or mostly towards Vorpp himself after Seeds of Truth for experimenting on Sylvari.

But now that we know the truth, his research is justified, we’re not experimenting on people afterall, just dragon minions, constructs, with pre-programmed personalities. It’s not much different from disassembling a golem when you think about it.

I wonder if his researched turned up anything useful on how to best stop the Sylvari menace?

Myraiya.4052:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It’s funny how he states it’s just a joke thread literally at the very beginning, and some people still take it serious.

tbh, my sylvari is my main and i love her so much. While i really hope arenanet won’t screw up my character for me, i’m getting kinda scared. People who don’t like sylvari have nothing to lose anyways, so they can more easily joke about it.

but thinking about my lovely myra being hated, that kinda hurts my heart. =/

Well, they don’t hate you, just a character, and only for roleplay reasons.

I mean OOC, no problems.

in character, you bet I’m distrustful at best.

Anet, every LS chapter we try to remind you of this, and every time you drop the ball and fail to include it. Seeing the cutscene at the end of the LS quest chapter is cool the first time or so you do it but as you do it on subsequent characters you kinda would like to skip it, but we don’t have the ability to.

Windsagio.1340:

Stupid 45 character limit in titles; If you were a writer in the LS2 story, would you push for Caithe to be tried and/or punished for what’s happened?

Both for stealing the egg and for her part in Faolain’s crimes that there is now a prominent, highly respected witness to?

I say skip the trial and go right to the burning at the stake, do Sylvari drown? I think a traditional trial of trying to get a confession out of her with dunking wouldn’t do much.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

It was a good ending.

The only down side is that ANet is still enamored with the darn twigs. twig twig twig twig It would be nice if the Charr or Norn or, heaven forbid, humans were the hub of the story instead of the boring twigs.

And see, I think the “twigs” are pretty fascinating, so….

That’s the problem, anet finds them TOO fascinating and neglects the other races to turn this whole game into Sylvari Wars 2.

Logos.1306:

Before Sylvari players rage, let me say that I am kidding

But then again when I think about it is somewhat epic. Something that did not happen in any MMO.
One group of players , one race would be banished from rest of community. They will feel anger, loneliness, hate. People will kick then from party and guilds. Then Anet should enable open world PvP towards sylvari. So they could be attacked anytime. They would run and hide in their home town. No other races would have access to Grove. Playing sylvari would be so interesting!

Then one day they will come back with ravange. Asura will know about this and will form Arcane Order. Asura players who will join this group will hunt and kill all sylvari.
We will use new Arcane outfit because it look like Jedi robe. We would have secret meetings and things like that

Wouldn’t it be fun?

Asura should resume live experimentation on Sylvari now that we know they’re Dragon Minions.

Vorpp is now vindicated, Vorpp did nothing wrong.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Devildoc.6721:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Devildoc.6721:

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Devildoc.6721:

If you did Crucible of Eternity you’ve known for 2 years that Sylvari were actually dragon minions not to be trusted.

Better put all Sylvari to the torch. I’ve been in support of that since oh, LS season 1 when Scarlet was revealed.

Yeah lets burn every race that has at least one evil person in their race (Let’s go with Scarlet being evil, I still have think they will reveal her as someone trying to do good but in a different way) aaaaand the world would be empty.

There’s a big difference here. You are not people. You are dragon minions. You are constructs. You are not born, you are created as an imitation. Knowledge is planted into your head, and you act on it. You do not learn your own perspective and choose your own path, your path is set before you, you are programmed.

The only difference is what knowledge was planted into your head prior to the Dragon’s Awakening was Ventari’s Teachings rather than the instructions of the Dragon.

Now the Dragon is awake, and able to reprogram Sylvari to serve him.

This isn’t a case of a few bad apples. This is the case of all Sylvari being vulnerable to corruption from the Dragon.

Also in other cases, people make conscious CHOICES to be evil but each person of you know ACTUAL people, Asura, Charr, Norn, Human, Tengu, Quaggan, Kodan, Skritt, Largos, even Krait (in their case it’s a cultural difference), each individual makes their own choices, so yes, it’s wrong to judge that entire group of people by the actions of one or a few.

However, Sylvari are not entities of free will and choice, they are constructs, they are programmed with a “wild hunt” which they are compelled to fulfill. Their life isn’t one of making choices, but one of obligation to fulfill their programming.

… and a Dragon can program them however he wishes.

Sort of like how humans were programmed to Zhatains will when they came in contact with him…

Or sort of how Norn’s will’s were programmed when they came in contact with Jormag…

Or sort of like how all Charr were programmed to serve the crystal dragon when they come into contact with the crystals…

So basically you are saying the Slyvari are evil because they have resisted not one, but 5 different dragons influence?

You’re wrong on all counts.

Only DEAD humans were acting on Zhaitan’s influence. Zhaitan raised corpses, he did not control people, he simply used their corpse, implanted with new programming rather than their original personality. Only a few very powerful Risen such as King Rega remembered who he was in life after Zhaitan had used his corpse.

Branded are also not living Charr/Humans, but once they’d been branded their bodies get basically fossilized as walking crystal constructs.

Jormag’s minions make a choice to join his side and accept his power. A conscious choice.

None of those other races are constructs created as Dragon Minions, Sylvari are.

Your also forgetting one key point. Zhitan could not corrupt Sylvari. There are no risen sylvari, no branded, no icebrood. Why? Because other dragons CAN NOT Corrupt other dragon minions.

Exactly, there’s also no Risen Branded, nor Risen Icebrood.

Once a construct is “owned” by a Dragon they cannot be made to serve a different Dragon.

Since Sylvari are owned by Mordremoth, they can’t serve other dragons, only Mordremoth.

So if you absolutely must use Sylvari in the Pact, they should all be segregated into their own all Sylvari units and used exclusively against other Dragons, such as Kralkatorrik and Jormag.

Those Sylvari who are not serving in the pact should be quarantined in the Grove, with fences and armed military posted outside, because you never know when they’ll betray you.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Devildoc.6721:

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Devildoc.6721:

If you did Crucible of Eternity you’ve known for 2 years that Sylvari were actually dragon minions not to be trusted.

Better put all Sylvari to the torch. I’ve been in support of that since oh, LS season 1 when Scarlet was revealed.

Yeah lets burn every race that has at least one evil person in their race (Let’s go with Scarlet being evil, I still have think they will reveal her as someone trying to do good but in a different way) aaaaand the world would be empty.

There’s a big difference here. You are not people. You are dragon minions. You are constructs. You are not born, you are created as an imitation. Knowledge is planted into your head, and you act on it. You do not learn your own perspective and choose your own path, your path is set before you, you are programmed.

The only difference is what knowledge was planted into your head prior to the Dragon’s Awakening was Ventari’s Teachings rather than the instructions of the Dragon.

Now the Dragon is awake, and able to reprogram Sylvari to serve him.

This isn’t a case of a few bad apples. This is the case of all Sylvari being vulnerable to corruption from the Dragon.

Also in other cases, people make conscious CHOICES to be evil but each person of you know ACTUAL people, Asura, Charr, Norn, Human, Tengu, Quaggan, Kodan, Skritt, Largos, even Krait (in their case it’s a cultural difference), each individual makes their own choices, so yes, it’s wrong to judge that entire group of people by the actions of one or a few.

However, Sylvari are not entities of free will and choice, they are constructs, they are programmed with a “wild hunt” which they are compelled to fulfill. Their life isn’t one of making choices, but one of obligation to fulfill their programming.

… and a Dragon can program them however he wishes.

Sort of like how humans were programmed to Zhatains will when they came in contact with him…

Or sort of how Norn’s will’s were programmed when they came in contact with Jormag…

Or sort of like how all Charr were programmed to serve the crystal dragon when they come into contact with the crystals…

So basically you are saying the Slyvari are evil because they have resisted not one, but 5 different dragons influence?

You’re wrong on all counts.

Only DEAD humans were acting on Zhaitan’s influence. Zhaitan raised corpses, he did not control people, he simply used their corpse, implanted with new programming rather than their original personality. Only a few very powerful Risen such as King Rega remembered who he was in life after Zhaitan had used his corpse.

Branded are also not living Charr/Humans, but once they’d been branded their bodies get basically fossilized as walking crystal constructs.

Jormag’s minions make a choice to join his side and accept his power. A conscious choice.

None of those other races are constructs created as Dragon Minions, Sylvari are.

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Devildoc.6721:

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Devildoc.6721:

If you did Crucible of Eternity you’ve known for 2 years that Sylvari were actually dragon minions not to be trusted.

Better put all Sylvari to the torch. I’ve been in support of that since oh, LS season 1 when Scarlet was revealed.

Yeah lets burn every race that has at least one evil person in their race (Let’s go with Scarlet being evil, I still have think they will reveal her as someone trying to do good but in a different way) aaaaand the world would be empty.

There’s a big difference here. You are not people. You are dragon minions. You are constructs. You are not born, you are created as an imitation. Knowledge is planted into your head, and you act on it. You do not learn your own perspective and choose your own path, your path is set before you, you are programmed.

The only difference is what knowledge was planted into your head prior to the Dragon’s Awakening was Ventari’s Teachings rather than the instructions of the Dragon.

Now the Dragon is awake, and able to reprogram Sylvari to serve him.

This isn’t a case of a few bad apples. This is the case of all Sylvari being vulnerable to corruption from the Dragon.

Also in other cases, people make conscious CHOICES to be evil but each person of you know ACTUAL people, Asura, Charr, Norn, Human, Tengu, Quaggan, Kodan, Skritt, Largos, even Krait (in their case it’s a cultural difference), each individual makes their own choices, so yes, it’s wrong to judge that entire group of people by the actions of one or a few.

However, Sylvari are not entities of free will and choice, they are constructs, they are programmed with a “wild hunt” which they are compelled to fulfill. Their life isn’t one of making choices, but one of obligation to fulfill their programming.

… and a Dragon can program them however he wishes.

This is not yet proven. No one in game can you find yet that the dragon can corrupt/reprogram all sylvari. Sylvari have free will, which was proven so many times, some decide to be good little boys and girls and follow the rules, others don’t. That is still free will no matter what you decide.

They are not constructs, no one is making them piece by piece, they actually are born. Not from a gaping kitten but from a tree, they are still born.

Not born, synthesized. It is not reproduction that the Pale Tree does, she creates Sylvari as an imitation of the human bodies she grew on top of.

Just like a factory that would make androids makes imitations of human beings. These are just robots made of wood and leaves rather than steel and plastic.

The Pale Tree is just SKYNET with different programming and different materials to work with.

Remember you’re all jacked into something similar to a hive mind at all times. Your purpose and life and even your personality is pre-programmed.

You’re not people, you’re plant androids.

People are born as infants, they grow and mature into adults, and they in turn have children of their own. They’re born as ignorant blank slates with no real purpose, they create their own purpose and personality as they experience life and make choices and judgments

Sylvari are incapable of these things. They aren’t born, they “awake”, as the imitations of fully mature adults, they already have knowledge from their programming and are able to speak and walk instantly. They do not have children of their own, they are all drones.

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Devildoc.6721:

If you did Crucible of Eternity you’ve known for 2 years that Sylvari were actually dragon minions not to be trusted.

Better put all Sylvari to the torch. I’ve been in support of that since oh, LS season 1 when Scarlet was revealed.

Yeah lets burn every race that has at least one evil person in their race (Let’s go with Scarlet being evil, I still have think they will reveal her as someone trying to do good but in a different way) aaaaand the world would be empty.

There’s a big difference here. You are not people. You are dragon minions. You are constructs. You are not born, you are created as an imitation. Knowledge is planted into your head, and you act on it. You do not learn your own perspective and choose your own path, your path is set before you, you are programmed.

The only difference is what knowledge was planted into your head prior to the Dragon’s Awakening was Ventari’s Teachings rather than the instructions of the Dragon.

Now the Dragon is awake, and able to reprogram Sylvari to serve him.

This isn’t a case of a few bad apples. This is the case of all Sylvari being vulnerable to corruption from the Dragon.

Also in other cases, people make conscious CHOICES to be evil but each person of you know ACTUAL people, Asura, Charr, Norn, Human, Tengu, Quaggan, Kodan, Skritt, Largos, even Krait (in their case it’s a cultural difference), each individual makes their own choices, so yes, it’s wrong to judge that entire group of people by the actions of one or a few.

However, Sylvari are not entities of free will and choice, they are constructs, they are programmed with a “wild hunt” which they are compelled to fulfill. Their life isn’t one of making choices, but one of obligation to fulfill their programming.

… and a Dragon can program them however he wishes.

If you did Crucible of Eternity you’ve known for 2 years that Sylvari were actually dragon minions not to be trusted.

Better put all Sylvari to the torch. I’ve been in support of that since oh, LS season 1 when Scarlet was revealed.

Olvendred.3027:

Don’t forget that raising the level cap is even more complicated in GW2 than other games, since it implies you’ll get more trait points. Even 2 more trait points would make some builds incredibly, incredibly OP. Everything in the game would need to be re-balanced from scratch.

Every game has to completely rebalance when they raise the cap, they have to create new ratings systems and everything and even then stats get stupidly inflated to where they no longer mean anything. All to propel the ILLUSION that you are progressing.

Level cap increases cause problems, they’re just not worth it.

CrazyTraie.1075:

Was wondering if maybe the GW2 team could raise the level cap from 80 to i dont know maybe 100 or something, give a little more.

No. Absolutely not.

There’s no point. As it is the level cap is too high and they had to adjust the trait system to make levels past 60 actually mean something.

Also, resetting peoples gear and making them have to chase after the gear grind all over especially with ascended equipment and legendaries… if they raise the cap, I’m done with this game. I’m not doing these grinds again.

Level cap raise is not EXPANSION it’s REPLACEMENT. the progression is an ILLUSION.

If anything I wish this game would drop down to a cap of 30.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Trevor Bennett.3691:

Hmm, I love getting them. Once I finish my 8th alt so I have all the classes I’ll use them on new characters to 1)Run through the personal story, 2)Map complete, and finally 3) Cash out the skill points for w/e.

At minimum you get skill points out of them, with a little more effort you get all the level up rewards.

Let’s be clear about that. For those of us who don’t have the time, or interest if we’re being honest, to play multiple alts, the tomes of knowledge serve little purpose.

Even the skill points are moot given that criteria.

I have almost 200 scrolls of knowledge as well. Once the monthly achievements, for skill points, disappeared . . . so did my need to hoard and use these items. Like the tomes, the scrolls just occupy a space for the time when they will matter again.

You know there’s a lot of quite pricy items that require 50 skillpoint scrolls right?

Make those items and sell them…

I generally avoid hair styles with accessories because of the limited number of hair accessory colors available, we need to be able to dye them with the same colors we can dye our armors with.

Ticket #1124392, 3 days old no response that wasn’t automated.

Twice now I’ve killed triple wurm (on different days, only times I’ve killed him in the past week) without getting the bouncing daily chest, only the chest on the beach and the champ bag from the legendary wurm head corpse. I’ve been in zerg not in reflect or condi teams so I’ve been doing damage to the wurm itself so I should definitely be receiving credit, I’m getting event credit and as I said, the champ bag.

I"m just not getting the daily reward where you get all the things like ascended armor.

Just telling me to “kill it again, better luck next time” isn’t going to fly too because as we’re seeing, even killing it again I’m not getting it. Somehow my account is bugged and it needs fixed.

The kills were done on 2 different characters as well.

Oh, and just to reinforce to anet about how cancerous “Daily Fractal Runner” is, today we didn’t have daily fractal runner, we had daily scale 1-10 fractal (which is to complete an entire set of 4 fractals), we had a guy in group who quit midway through the 2nd fractal because he ’didn’t get his daily’ even though we explained that he needed to complete all 3 plus the boss fractal he just ditched and left us searching for another group member.

It worked out okay since we replaced a ranger with a guardian, but hey.

People are expecting to be able to just ditch a party part way through the run. Kill this awful daily now.

I want a Nunchuck mace skin.

It’d go with my assassin outfit and belinda’s greatsword.

Okay so here’s a list of the worst dailies I’ve seen in this new system with justification of why they’re bad:

1. Daily (Class) Winner: This is bad because you’ll end up with teams of 5 of the same class or two because everyone’s trying to get their 1 win on that particular class. The fact that it’s 2 of these a day makes it worse. For at least the first few hours you’ll find nothing but those two classes in matches. This also punishes people who focus on one class that they want to get good at in sPVP, but the main problem is what it does for team makeups.

2. Daily Fractal Runner: Not to be confused with the Daily (Scale) Fractal that requires a boss kill to complete. That one is fine. This one is the one where you’re tasked with completing ONE fractal out of a set rather than a whole set. It encourages people to leave runs when it’s customary to run a full set and complete a boss fractal.

3. Daily (area specific) Event Completer: This one can be hit and miss. If there IS a metaevent that is centered around large groups like say Shadow Behemoth in Queensdale or Svanir Shaman in Wayfarer’s, then it’s okay, just wait for the world boss on the schedule and go in and knock out the event chain culminating in the world boss. It’s designed to scale up and handle a lot of people. However areas WITHOUT world bosses or group oriented meta events.. like Brisban Wildlands are HORRIBLE to get this daily with because everyone is scrambling around looking for events that DON’T scale up to how many people show up for them, so it can be hard just to get tags, not to mention how many events get announced in chat and you wp over and just miss it, as in you’re seeing it complete as you’re running up to it and it completes just before you get in range to do anything. Either make them regionally specific (IE Maguuma Event Completer instead of Brisban Wildlands event completer), or remove zones that don’t have meta events, or do a pass of every event in the zone and make them scale up. I can’t imagine how much work would go into that last one

Aside from those the rest all seem pretty fair and fun so far as I’ve been doing them. Well, daily vista viewer is kinda ho-hum but that’s beside the point. The WvW ones are all pretty fair and don’t encourage any bad player behavior.

Some suggested replacements or heck, just plain additions to the mix:

1. Daily Dungeon Delver: Non specific, just any dungeon, any path, story or explorable.

2. Daily (Region) Jumping Puzzle: Region specific so it doesn’t crowd everyone into one JP, but so that you’d do different puzzles from time to time, under the previous incarnation of Daily Jumping Puzzle, people just did one of the ones in Lion’s Arch. But if they had “Daily Ascalon Jumping Puzzle” they wouldn’t be able to do that. They’d do Loreclaw Expanse, or maybe one of the ones in Diessa or something.

3. Daily PVP Conquerer: Reward for 3 wins, any class. Replaces Class specific victory achievement. For replacing the second class specific well, there’s already daily rank points, daily reward earner, daily defender, daily capturer, daily brawler (player kills), so I think there’s enough categories pretty much covering everything you can really do in sPVP. I thought about Daily Reviver but some people said that’d be a bad idea.

MightyMicah.7451:

I’d like to see this.

Can’t you still buy siege with badges though? I mean you could buy siege and sell it. Not that it would make you a fortune but it’s at least some income.

Most commanders don’t want other people in the zerg to have their own siege, and they don’t want normal siege they want upgraded siege or guild siege.

So you’d actually be spending money and skillpoints to upgrade it to send to your commanders, not making any money.

echo.2053:

Devildoc.6721:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Grump.7069:

Ooh cry me a river… For once the pvp reward track was worth something and pve’rs come crying over it :/ Maybe the gift drop rate of it was a little low, does it mean they shouldn’t have put it in the reward track? HELL NO.

Some PvPers don’t mind it being there at all because they also wvw and pve (think underwater frac) and could use it. After all it is an option. You can go for other things instead if the rebreather isn’t your aim.

Instead of kittening about the reward track, kitten about anet putting ridiculously low drop rates for the interesting loot in their gifts.

I don’t believe the complaint was about it being on the reward track, but rather that being the only reliable way of obtaining it. Having it available as a reward in PvP is fine. Having it only reliably obtainable in a mode where it can’t even be used is just dumb.

Yes I should have been more clear. If it’s an option in the PVP reward track that’s fine, like I said I have no problems with even the dungeon reward tracks though that’s sort of hypocritical that PVP’ers get PVE rewards but PVE or WvW can’t get the glorious set without doing sPVP, but whatever because nobody really cares about the dungeon sets at this point.

I just think there should be wvw and pve options as well. Buy an oiled mariner bag for 1000 ugly wool sweaters or 1000 wvw badges + 100 ugly wool sweaters or something.

Lol really dude, your trying to do the whole eye level thing with the pvpers? well if you want to do that, first you got to get down on their eye level. Until the spring of 2014 update, do you know how much gold and items pvpers earned? 0 – zip – nada. They had to grind pvp for months to get a certain rank and then gamble for a chance to get the same skin that you get for doing a 5 minute dungeon path a few times. So tell you what you face the same struggle as they did and well hash out this problem easy. The game came out in aug 2012 so for the next 20 months take every item that isn’t account bound on acquire, all gold, all crafting materials, runes, sigils – and straight up toss/delete them. Just so you don’t try to be a smart alec and take a few months break and then claim time served, itll only count while your actually playing the game.

Does this sound like an acceptable deal? Lets see how far you actually are willing to go for a skin

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that you now get gold, crafting mats, even things like mystic clovers and such through PVP, and I suppose since you always could get the dungeon skins through PVP it’s not a big deal.

I suppose the exclusive reward for PVE is fractal skins, and exclusive reward for wvw is mistforged/hero skins, where PVP it’s Glorious skins.

I’m fine with that.

I’m not fine with something that doesn’t even apply to PVP being almost EXCLUSIVELY rewarded through PVP though.

Mo Mo.1947:

I think it was a good idea. ArenaNet is trying to get people interested in sPvP. And it worked for me! I started up some sPvP to get the breather and discovered it’s quite fun.

When the game first released and they didn’t have the current PvP armor system things were a bit overwhelming, but now it’s quite easy to figure out and fun to just get in there and play.

And it doesn’t seem to take too long to get the reward track either. I’ve just done a few matches at the end of my night the past couple nights and I’m making good progress quickly.

It’s bad for 2 reasons. #1 PVP’ers don’t WANT PVE or WvW players who are just there for the rewards and don’t care about sPVP itself. They don’t want them to be on their teams, they want people who FOCUS on sPVP to be on their teams so that they win matches.

and #2 PVE’ers or WvW players who don’t enjoy sPVP format or especially the toxic community are feeling compelled to play the mode even though they don’t want to.

I mean say what you want about underwater combat but theres dungeon paths with it and fractals with it and there is NO sPVP with underwater combat in it. You don’t even have any underwater weapons in sPVP. This is the ONLY breather that you can get and put zerker stats on it (unless there’s one under level 70, but I looked at all level 70+ breathers in the game) much less of exotic quality, and it’s available only for a limited time.

So yes there is compulsion to force people into a mode they don’t like, and be a liability for sPVP regulars who have to have these players on their team.

This is not the way to put sPVP on life support.

If it’s not as popular as anet wants it to be, anet should consider looking at the format and seeing if it’s fun to a majority of people or not.

They should examine things like, downed status, the fact that some maps have gimmicks that radically alter teamfights (like skyhammer or kyhlo), the fact that getting courtyard instead of a conquest mode map radically changes what builds are effective or not (1v1 focused builds or builds focusing around defending points are useless in a TDM) and that while it’s great that there is now more than 1 pvp mode, you can’t choose TDM or Conquest, you can only choose to sPVP, and hope that your preferred mode wins the Roulette.

This is unlike GW1 in a bad way where you could choose RA or TA which were death matches, or JQ or FA which had objectives, or Codex Arena which is deathmatch with a sealed deck.. you know, you could CHOOSE.

GW2 they make the first mistake of only having relatively few game modes for sPVP, and then flub up again by making another game mode and then putting the 2 on roulette instead of choice.

Make sPVP fun and it won’t need to be on life support.

Leave it as it is now and you’re forced to offer rewards to bait people over.

GuzziHero.2467:

Devildoc.6721:

Asura Warrior is awesome actually. Best warrior animations in the game.

This.

My cute little min size female Asura warrior is so adorable!

…. Adorable isn’t quite the thing I was looking for… what I really like is the acrobatic animations (hence the ninja outfit and katana)

as I said earlier in the thread I used to have a Charr warrior at 65 but had trouble enjoying playing it… making my warrior an Asura instead made all the difference and now I enjoy the class a lot more. Animations help a lot.

Offair.2563:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Badges-for-Tomes-of-Knowledge/page/6#post3998764

I’m not dredging through 7 months worth of posts in the forum, not when search is currently broken just to not bug you that the topic was once talked about several months ago.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Grump.7069:

Ooh cry me a river… For once the pvp reward track was worth something and pve’rs come crying over it :/ Maybe the gift drop rate of it was a little low, does it mean they shouldn’t have put it in the reward track? HELL NO.

Some PvPers don’t mind it being there at all because they also wvw and pve (think underwater frac) and could use it. After all it is an option. You can go for other things instead if the rebreather isn’t your aim.

Instead of kittening about the reward track, kitten about anet putting ridiculously low drop rates for the interesting loot in their gifts.

I don’t believe the complaint was about it being on the reward track, but rather that being the only reliable way of obtaining it. Having it available as a reward in PvP is fine. Having it only reliably obtainable in a mode where it can’t even be used is just dumb.

Yes I should have been more clear. If it’s an option in the PVP reward track that’s fine, like I said I have no problems with even the dungeon reward tracks though that’s sort of hypocritical that PVP’ers get PVE rewards but PVE or WvW can’t get the glorious set without doing sPVP, but whatever because nobody really cares about the dungeon sets at this point.

I just think there should be wvw and pve options as well. Buy an oiled mariner bag for 1000 ugly wool sweaters or 1000 wvw badges + 100 ugly wool sweaters or something.

Lunar Sunset.8742:

Lvl 64 Asura warrior, I asked myself why do I even have this character… I hate warriors and Asura.

Asura Warrior is awesome actually. Best warrior animations in the game.

JustTrogdor.7892:

rapthorne.7345:

for my luck/bag opening, I just have an autohotkey that I activate to click 10 times a second (well within what I can manage on my own) and disable it once all my stuff is consumed/opened

You might want to review this post from Gaile

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/AutoClicker-Macro-Legal-Still/first#post4666463

She says it’s clear but it’s not.

People are asking about holding 1 button, to repeat 1 action as long as the button is held. Not hitting 1 button to do multiple functions.

This would all be solved if stacks of items had a “use all” heading.

This is especially problematic for wintersday where if you do PVP you’ll wind up with hundreds of gifts to open.

Could we maybe get a vendor where we can buy scrolls and tomes of knowledge for badges? I mean I love wvw but in the endless grind to pursue rewards and advancement of characters, I can’t help but feel like I’m losing out whenever I do wvw. Badges are pretty much worthless. You can buy traps and siege disablers I guess, and kind of reduce the cost in laurels of some ascended jewelry, and buy some junk gear that you’d probably better not put good upgrades in because they cannot be salvaged and cannot be sold, or even forged.

So you go out, you kill a bunch of players, and get a bunch of badges, complete achievements and get more badges…. and for what? After awhile you just stockpile them up for no purpose.

I find myself having to do sPVP lately even though I despise it partly because it’s a reliable way of getting tomes of knowledge. If I could get tomes of knowledge (I have multiple other characters still needing levels) through wvw, I could do that, something I enjoy, instead.

So, devs, next time you want to put in something for underwater combat. DON’T make the most reliable way to get it (aside from an almost infinitesimally small chance from RNG gifts) be from the mode that you can’t even use it in.

I don’t enjoy sPVP at all, but I’m finding myself having to do it a lot, even though I hate it, because it’s limited time only, and out of the THOUSANDS of gifts I’ve opened, I’ve gotten one outside of PVP, and it’s character bound.

This kind of ruined wintersday for me, it’s probably one of the biggest Bah Humbugs anet has thrown at us.

I don’t mind sPVP’ers having their own exclusive armor cosmetic set. I don’t mind them having their own exclusive titles. I don’t mind that they can get dungeon equipment without running dungeons even if it is a bit of a double standard (PVE gear for PVP’ers but no PVP gear for PVE’ers or WvW’ers)

But for them to get a reward they can’t even USE in that game mode, and for it to be almost exclusively earned through that game mode, that’s insulting.

Fractal dailies should never take up 2 categories on the same day. I say this and I even do fractals.

the “Daily Fractal” generic achievement needs to be removed. ASAP. It encourages people to join the group, stay for 1 fractal out of the group of 4, and then leave, requiring the group to go searching for a replacement.

Tachenon.5270:

nightwulf.1986:

Galphar.3901:

For some of us it’s not the end but the journey.

Careful there, that’s some PHIW talk right there. #divisive jab

PHIW? Cool, this a new one on me! Let’s see…

Players Handbook Is Wrong?
Penguins Have Inferior Wings?
Pretty Horses Invalidate Waypoints?

Oh, I get it. ‘Play How Iggy Wants’. I didn’t know she played GW2 or that she was a Journey fan. And I can’t quite imagine how ‘The End’ would sound performed by Journey. Or Iggy.

Anyway, I, too, would prefer to build (more) as I go and not (mostly) after I get there, because alts. And if life is supposed to begin at 80 for our characters now, 80 is way too many levels to grind to get to the alleged fun stuff. 20 would be better. And not the current 80 re-proportioned, so to speak, as 20, but just 20. Perhaps even as part of a new framework for leveling in a growing universe. Yeah. I could get behind 20 quick levels and then the rest be all about exploring and growing and being the big kitten (or puppy) hero saving the day and the night and the morning and the evening and especially that first coffee break.

I never liked 80 levels anyway. 50 would have been better. 20 = perfection. /e opinion

No it’s “Play How Izzy Wants” more like it, as in Isaiah Cartwright, he’s one of the lead designers.