Guild Wars 2

LS should be a bridge to close the gaps between expansions. Expansions should focus on the Dragons and other existing lore. That’s my ideal situation anyway.

If done well and not overused it can be a fun mechanic to make certain fights more interesting. Same with the Twisted creatures that could be remade into another, but it should not be overused.

Dominus.2360:

ArenaNet’s Servers: 5v5 only.

If there are people that want something else, there is still the option to use custom arenas. There are already enough empty CAs now that will close the gap when ANet takes their 8v8+ servers down (or converts them to 5v5 only).

I don’t think that’s the right approach. People that just wanna join in Hotjoin, PvP a little just want to have fun, they’re probably also not so good at it and that’s fine. With 8v8 there’s more leeway. Those people probably don’t care too much about it that they wanna make their own arenas etc.

When they revealed the information about the encounter the first thing that popped to my mind was: this amount of minimum players if WAY too much. And yes. It is. It’s a great encounter, but I haven’t been able to complete it on my own server because barely anyone does it. I should not have to guest over to another server in order to do a fight like this.

The scaling needs to be revisited.

A great initiative this Josh for involving the community.

I would like to point out something however in regards to the poll. "

Playing a bit the devils advocate here perhaps, but ask yourself the following: “Am I reaching my average player with this poll when I put it here?”

My guess is: no. Why? The people you have responding here are people that have a deep affinity for GW2 and PvP. The average player does not spend so much time on the forums. A lot of the players that play sPvP might not actually like the possible change from 8v8 and 5v5 to only one of them. If you want a more accurate result you should look into possibilities as to how you can reach the average player, but that is quite a lot of work.

These answers are of value, of course. It looks however that the average person that responded to it (via this thread) plays PvP a lot, perhaps it’s their main activity in GW2. Again: are you reaching your average GW2 player like this?

Great to see you guys and gals for reaching out and taking these initiatives.

While I agree that I would like to see them become unlocked like Achievement skins (and we can still use transmutation stones to apply them for instance), they’re not ‘too’ expensive. The thing is: you CAN use gold to buy those things. If you farm a lot or flip the TP well you can make a TON of money and buy all those things for ‘free’.

Yea I use a Flamethrower+HGH build as well myself as shown here: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlspSXHvSrF1LJxYBgZU37K6xjb8k/UY+A-jAyAYfAKDQyrIasVuoV6CSFMs6aMlLRUtUARsMC-e

Might not be the best, but I like it so whatever. If you have a stable group that can might stack for you you can swap out some things here or there, I don’t always run with the same group so this enables me to be at 25 stacks of might almost the entire time.

Weapon is up to you, I use rifle cause of the knockback, immobilize and gapcloser(which is also a decent finisher). Pistol/Shield or Pistol/Pistol would work as well I guess.

Elixir U can be swapped out to whatever other Utility you need, though another Elixir is the most beneficial cause of the trait. Make sure you throw your Elixirs as well for the Endurance and buffs (mostly might). Also you can swap out some gear with Knights gear if you feel squishy.

Beauty is though that you are in melee range buff wise and what not, but can distance yourself a little so you don’t take the majority of the hits. If you need any more info send me a PM. Enjoy!

Yea Tengu and the Dominion of Winds would be a cool thing as well! What would the reason be that they finally open up their doors though? Perhaps a Dragon lurking below them? winkwink

Yes. At least the meta skins should be put in the system as well along the Zenith skins etc.

In my opinion ALL skins should. Make us pay a transmutation stone/crystal for certain skins, I’m fine with that. What I’m not fine with is that I can get another set of gear from the gemstore or a dungeon if I want the same look, but different stats. Currently I loose my stats if I for instance want to go from serk to PVT with the same look.

A kitten shame. PLEASE change the current system.

..What would you want it to be about? This is a big IF of course still as the developers are still on the fence about it. I personally would love to see one where the established lore gets expanded upon and the story driven forward. Living Story could be a good gapcloser between expansions in my opinion, but okay.

And NO let’s keep Cantha and Elona out of this. It’s been made pretty clear that the developers do not want to focus on these regions. So please, keep it out of it.

So. With the lore we have in Tyria, what do you want the expansion to be about?

I personally wanna see the Norn head up North, establish a foothold in the Northern Shiverpeaks and start pushing back against the Sons of Svanir and Jormag. Kodan? Kodan!

Other things I’d like to see expanded upon is the Khan Uhr (who will it be?!) and the human/charr war/treaty.

Kudos to you all for trying to come up with all these stories, but I’m afraid that by the looks of it she was just shoehorned in. It has been said by the devs that some stories were put in place or altered to fit with the releases coming out as the LS teams worked independent from each other.

I’m afraid what you see if what you get in this case, and it aint pretty.

havellian.4073:

Why you ask? the answer is money. How you ask? the answer is transmutation crystals

/thread

Do the same system and just make it cost a transmutation stone/crystal each time. Problem solved. Everyone happy. They get their money from the stones and crystals, we get permanent skins. The new system with the Zenith etc. skins is awesome, the ‘old’ system is terrible for game that’s all about looks.

Should’ve just adopted the DCUO wardrobe system.

Mash Hog.5672:

Honestly,
I want things that I can do with my guild.

I’m the leader of a 200 person guild and there is nothing in this game which challenges us.
Figuring out how to kill Tequatl was entertaining when we failed the first 2 times to kill him and succeeded on the 3rd.
We have 100-120 people run guild missions with us, it’s literally a joke: we all get on TS and joke around while we go find one bounty. We wait 5 minutes for everyone to get to the bounty and we burn the bounty within a 30 seconds. Rush is the most challenging but still isn’t much of an issue. Challenge and Puzzle is a joke.

I want something to do with my guild which isn’t a breeze! I want something to challenge us which would provide appropriate rewards!

I’ve killed Tequatl with my guild over 50 times and I still haven’t gotten a tequalt mini or an ascended chest.

I want people who see think “Oh kitten, this guy’s from [Insert Guild Name] they’re able to (insert difficult content), I should talk to him about it”.

Experiencing the exact opposite with my guild. We are a small group of players and we can’t do those guild missions because they require a lot more people than we have. Oh well..

TheKillerAngel.3596:

Yes, but you can bypass that entirely if you just go behind him and slap him to death.

Fo real?! That’s just ridiculous <.< finally a fight with some mechanics, though not that interesting but yeej, mechanics and then people find a way to bypass it. Huzzaaaa

Also: more skills and traits. Don’t know if they promised to do them this year, but yea. That.

5/10 Because I’m split on the issue. Most things that happen at ‘end game’ interest me like Raiding and dungeons, however that content should not only be available at max level as with most MMO’s. That’s the good thing about GW2: the scaling, perhaps even one of the best things in there. While I would like to see more dungeons, fractals etc. more I do not want to see it under the ‘traditional’ way it’s usually presented with geargrinds, old content just collecting dust etc.

My comments about the Living Story.

I totally understand what ANet is trying to accomplish: create a living world. To some extend it does happen. My ‘issue’ is with the story we have been presented. The story has gotten better and better over the course of the year, Scarlet is a decent villain, but not every time was the story written properly. This is no new feedback however. Personally I think having story arcs like this are fine from time to time, but I personally would like to see new regions be added and the current story continued. There’s so much to work with: the Norn and their quest to reclaim their homeland and defeat Jormag and the Sons of Svanir. The Charr and their ongoing battle with both the Flame Legion and the Ghosts of Ascalon, also a bit of a political drama going on. The cleansing of Orr?

There’s a lot of existing lore to work with and expand upon and I personally would like to see that happen, perhaps with some filler arcs here and there like Scarlet.

Just get an expansion out that revolves around another Elder Dragon and some other cool lore, pushing the story forward. Who’s gonna be the next Khan Uhr? Can the Norn get their home back? With Zhaitan down we can finally push the Risen back more and more, perhaps eventually healing Orr?

There’s so much to work with and even though Scarlet is a decent filler arc, we need something big and I think it needs to happen soon. With so much on the horizon in the MMO genre alone it will be a very hard year to compete with all those new games and expansions.

I was always saying how it would be nice to be able to buy a certain piece of a set since you might not like all of it. Perhaps 400 gems is a bit over the top, but I don’t mind really. Neither do I like them to begin with, but okay.

Short and simple: continue with the lore that was established before LS, make it a part of it. Not just the dragons, but for instance the Khan Uhr, Destiny’s Edge, Caudecus/Shining Blade etc etc. There is SO much excellent lore in game that is not utilized or expanded upon. A kitten shame in my eyes. LS has added some nice characters, though the implementation of some was lackluster in the story department, quality of life fixes etc, all nice and good, but I think its time to focus on the actual lore that exists.

Regardless if that approach is taken: make the story more conjoined. It feels (might not be the case) like theres a lot of different stories slapped together. Get one solid, fleshed out story and present that to us in chapters, with every team working on a differemt chapter, but ensure that the story is clear and conjoined.

Good luck!

Looks great! Let’s hope Anet is taking some notes!

What’s most important, regardless of how they change him, is that they spread people out. I even thought of giving his feet a seperate health bar and you need to lower them all to get to a next phase, but that can be done through more interesting mechanics as well.

Cannons need love, placement needs more spread out, minions need to be tougher and have little mechanics themselves (the minions at The Claw for instance are not far off during the 2nd phase for them to be interesting).

Overall good job on this though!

Well we fight her, but we fail a lot, due to not having enough people showing up. A problem I foresaw as soon as it was announced.

I myself have not had a successful encounter either, but neither am I trying because there is barely enough people that show up.

New weapons probably will not happen, existing ones to other professions might.

My suggestions:

Mesmer:
- Pistol MH

Necromancer:
- Torch ??
- Sword MH??

Guardian:
- Longbow

Engineer:
- Shortbow

Thief:
- Sword OH
- Torch OH??

Warrior:
- Torch??

Elementalist:
- Warhorn
- Torch??

Ranger:
- Sword OH

Tequatl has some interesting mechanics and other world bosses have also had a little tweak here and there.

And we can probably assume The Claw and The Shatterer will get an update too in the future.

What’s the current problem with Tequatl? Not enough people showing up. Whether that is due to the amount of times it spawns, which could be reduced as well to clutter people up a bit more to do it, or simply due to the population of a server.

But that aside, the biggest problem is probably the reward.

My suggestion is to add Tokens to these fights (Claw and Shatterer only after updated of course). Give x Tokens (Of The Pact for instance) per defeat of the Dragon.

These tokens are then used to unlock certain things: minipets, dyes, armorsets etc. etc.

‘Great another currency, just what we need!’ Well, yea, kind of. Loot is very RNG, and that makes sense as handing out loot would be a little silly, this results in having to invest a little time instead of being handed an Ascended Weapon after each defeat (for instance).

Why do people do dungeons? Because of the rewards. Sure a lot of people enjoy them, but you need more incentive than just fun, no way to go around it. Is there any good loot in any dungeon? Nope. But the reward lies in the Tokens I believe and these are used for really cool, unique things.

Will tokens make people want to kill Teqqie and whatnot more? I believe so. What do you think?

Yep. So much awesome lore in the game that is not being used, such a shame. If the LS did do that it’d be great. One can only hope that they will since they introduced Caithe into the LS. The new characters like Brann, Rox and Hob-O-Tron can definately add something to the game, but I hope they go back to the kitten lore that is in the game.

Just a kitten shame.

Title says it all! If you’re into heavy music then Blood And Metal on Gunnar’s Hold is the guild for you! We’re a friendly bunch and looking for more members to join!

We mostly focus on PvE: dungeons, DE’s, roaming and WvW.

Interested?! Message me, Gpinon, Greiwulf or Huntsforge ingame for an invite!

Cheers!

Joshua.9346:

Please convince me why I should not just use the most efficient group in the game. The trinity is not dead, just back in a different form. Why should I waste my time with subpar classes in Dungeons and Fractals? The faster I do dungeons the more loot I get the less time I have to spend grinding towards the next piece of ascended gear / my legendary.

What does something like a Condition Necromancer or Flamethrower Engineer or D/D Thief bring to my party besides a lack of clear time?

If you need to ask these questions then I’m not sure any answer will sway you away from them. It is obvious you find finishing stuff fast and efficient fun, that’s fine, but then there’s not much more you can do.

I play Engineer because of the versatility, it is very, very fun, but nowhere near as efficient as other classes, but then again I personally don’t give a rats kitten .

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

Chaos.3579:

Going full phantasm is not completely viable yet. At least until they increase the hit points that pets have like arena net said they would. But even then it’s not nearly as good as having some shatter damage instead of going all out phantasms

June update:

Split the hit point values of clones and phantasms by game type:
Increased the phantasm base hit points by 55% in PvP and WvW.
Increased the phantasm base hit points by 270% in PvE.
Decreased the clone base hit points by 25% in PvP and WvW.
Increased the clone base hit points by 28% in PvE.

That buff already happened to mesmers as a trial buff to minions. I believe it’s the rest of the minion classes that will see the buff in the next patch. I do dream of the day that phantasms are affected by % increases other than the 2 traits. This would probably put us at equal levels of damage to other classes in pve without breaking pvp. Would also help all other pet builds that cant stack damage multipliers the way warriors can. Anyhow…

I fail to see how full phantasm is not viable yet? At least at the level that you consider viable. Dropping 1 phantasm and 3 seconds of auto attack kills any normal NPC in open world. Vets and above are usually better off with full phantasms. I’m not saying don’t shatter your phantasms ever but I don’t think it’s worth it to trait hybrid. More so, I don’t think a phantasm build should trait hybrid as there are a lot of good phantasm/support traits. Furthermore, 20% MW dmg just seems weak when you don’t have IP. Like when I run full phantasm, shatters make up a minor portion of my damage or a bit of an aoe finisher right before the mob dies. When I run full shatter though, phantasms still make up a decent chunk of my damage and I could see traiting for them as viable.

Minor thing for the OP’s girlfriend. I prefer 20% shorter cool down on glamours rather than longer duration. Both rather than mender’s purity would be better. Ruby orbs are cheaper and better than runes of the scholar for a mesmer.

Yes indeed, it should be shorter CD rather than longer duration, my mistake. She already has the Runes though, so she won’t be swapping that out thanks!

blasko.2418:

Colesy sounds like he needs a snickers bar.

I AM ON THE INTERWEBS.. HEAR ME ROAR!

I dig it, but needs help. A specific trait line comes to mjnd instead if combininf it. More wels, utilities and more opportunities to use all of that.

Devata.6589:

maddoctor.2738:

Devata.6589:

If you base you income on expansions (like GW1) you should do it faster once every year / year and a half.

And then you have a community spread all over the place, which was one of the main problems of the expansion system of GW1. Also, players not being able to play together was another big issue, I had loads of guildies with access only to Prophecies that couldn’t come to play Factions, while other newer players started with Factions. The regular expansion system has lots of benefits yes but it also has loads of drawbacks too.

Spreading the community might be a good thing because it means there are people everywhere not almost everybody in one spot. I also don’t see this problem in other mmo.. I mean I see the spreading, I don’t see the problem. In GW2 they are also spread out. BTW how did it spread the community in GW1? In GW1 you where always in instances.

Yes new members and directly after the release will not have full access true. But how long does it normally takes before people will buy the expansion, and the fact that other guild member can go there only is a reason for people to buy the expansion.

Of course it has benefits and drawbacks but if I put them next to P2P or F2P (so the income generated by a cash-shop) then the benefits of a B2P payment model where Anet focuses on expansions for income far outweighs the drawbacks.

The only thing they really need to be careful of is a pile of expansions that is a problem for new players. 5 expansions down the road it would become to expensive to start playing the game if you need to buy them all. Best way to do that is to work with a system where you have a little cheaper and a little more expensive expansion every time switching. Next you only require the original game and the last two expansions where the for-last expansion gives you access to all previous expansions.

DCUO does something along those lines: small expansions for 10euros with cool additions. Can play the majority of the game without, but they do contain good stuff, such a price is perhaps also more attractive and more people can buy that. But they do have a different business model so it might not work.

Do agree with ya, would never get a new acc on WoW for that reason alone (obviously theres more but w/e)

Obsidian.1328:

I respect Konig’s opinion, if only for his vast knowledge, but I disagree.

The new lore is ok, not great. Too radical a departure from its roots imo, but that’s another topic.

The story is good at times, but overall it just seems whimsical and flat. I have to say there were a few moments I actually enjoyed the story content, but they were rare gems indeed. It kind of felt like it was meant for an adolescent Harry Potter type crowd. /shrug

The characters…idk. Unmemorable? Destiny’s Edge is uninteresting: Logan is universally loathed; Rytlock is probably the most well-liked by players, including me. Tonn and Ceera’s little mini-story was nicely done. Trahearne…I don’t need to talk about him. The Personal Story had potential, but it didn’t follow through at all really. It also wasn’t very “personal.” People seemed to like Tybalt.

The Living Story characters I have no idea really. Trying to force me to participate in temporary content in a tiny window of time is bad. You can chalk this up to story telling like Konig said, but the reasons behind it is what destroys my interest in it.
There was an interview awhile back(can’t remember the details) where a dev was asked why GW2 has leaned so intensely toward the Living Story as its modus operandi for story-telling. His answer was basically that ANet had started to notice that “hype” for GW2 always seemed to spike before content releases. So they decided to change their content releases to be doled out in pieces every two weeks so they could ride that wave of hype more often. This also benefited their gem-store tremendously, adding several new, unique items every two weeks to pad their wallets.

It really irks me that marketing decisions can influence the story in such a way. Bad ANet, bad!

Have you read the novels? I’ve grown fond of DE because of it, shows why they are who they are better than the game. I know Logan is a bit of a lovesick puppy, but aside from that I dont see a reason to hate him like so many do.

But yea story and lore is awesome, but the actual storytelling isnt. Saw a gw1 eotn vie yesterday and it had very nice storytelling so i cant wrap my head around how its pretty awful now…

colesy.8490:

Rigel.3092:

colesy.8490:

Terrible in basically every game mode?

Do you actually have a clue what you are saying? PTV (with a couple mixed in pieces of knights gear/accessories) in WvW is a near most for most frontline guardians, but yeah……

THE OP ASKED ABOUT FULL PTV.

Can you guys even read or do you just see red the moment someone makes a criticism?

Oh kitten! Caps!

Yenn.9185:

You bet my kitten that when I’m on my min/maxxed gear, and suddenly someone joined my party on clerics, I’m NOT gonna enjoy that puppy.

Then don’t do PUGs and take the risk.

Xcom.1926:

Ok I spent sometime and looked at NCSoft’s releases on sales. Please be aware, that generally the developer only gets 10% to 15% of the total revenue and NOT all of it.

Unit : Korean Won in Millions

3Q 12 = 45,841
4Q 12 = 119,013
1Q 13 = 36,382
2Q 13 = 28,899

Without an expansion we will keep seeing drops. The only way to rejuvenate their revenue is a new expansion. They know this better than anyone else, which is why I am 100% sure there will be an expansion. It would be silly not to have one.

This.

Yenn.9185:

Why does it always comes up saying that speed runners are not having fun? The fun comes from being efficient, not wiping, and finishing ASAP (and loot). This is a game, not a job, and I don’t get payed to play. So we all play to have fun.

Where do you get that from? That’s not what people are saying, THEY do not enjoy speedrunning, aka not running min/maxxed gear.

Galtrix.7369:

Direksone.3867:

“1. Anet has enough money from RNG box sales to feed the world 90 times.”

WROOOOONNNGGGG

As has been shown ANET does not get money from the Gemstore directly. Money goes to NCsoft and they then get a % or whatever. Money goes to NCsoft and THEY decide howmuch ANET gets. Money earned by GW2 will also be put into other games NCsoft develops and vice versa.

Just because they make money with the gemstore it does not mean it all goes directly to them, let’s get that clear.

Now. Proceed with the flaming!

Recognize a hyperbole when you see it. Even so, Anet should be able to come up with better content with the money they’re given. As it stands, the content they come up with now is complete and utter garbage that I would not wipe my butt with.

THAT is a different discussion. But still you’re around? Go play something you enjoy more?

Mesket.5728:

Direksone.3867:

Mesket.5728:

Excalibur.9748:

trinity sucks, especially in ff14.

tired of 1 hour queue times when you’re a DPS using the duty finder.

That’s the problem (and lol look at my sign). After 15 years of MMO I can tell that almost everyone always wants to be full DPS in every game but its because game designers lacks the skill to make other roles (not tanks and healers necessarily) appealing.

Just to think about it… Warhammer Online (even though it had LOTS of bugs and bad things to mention) never had that problem even though it had a party set up of TWO tanks, TWO healers, and two dps…. You never had to wait in that game for a healer or a tank… simply because tanks and healers in that game were amazing classes to role with and people enjoyed playing them.

What if I told you I actually enjoyed playing a Prot Pally in WoW?

Of course you did, thats why I said almost everyone as I did with my healing shaman and tank warrior

Are you going to tell me now that tanks and healers are popular classes in wow? because… the whole 2 spec thing was implemented just to deal with that issue.

True! But all classes in there can roll DPS and only some heal/tank so obviously it will be less people.

“1. Anet has enough money from RNG box sales to feed the world 90 times.”

WROOOOONNNGGGG

As has been shown ANET does not get money from the Gemstore directly. Money goes to NCsoft and they then get a % or whatever. Money goes to NCsoft and THEY decide howmuch ANET gets. Money earned by GW2 will also be put into other games NCsoft develops and vice versa.

Just because they make money with the gemstore it does not mean it all goes directly to them, let’s get that clear.

Now. Proceed with the flaming!

Mesket.5728:

Excalibur.9748:

trinity sucks, especially in ff14.

tired of 1 hour queue times when you’re a DPS using the duty finder.

That’s the problem (and lol look at my sign). After 15 years of MMO I can tell that almost everyone always wants to be full DPS in every game but its because game designers lacks the skill to make other roles (not tanks and healers necessarily) appealing.

Just to think about it… Warhammer Online (even though it had LOTS of bugs and bad things to mention) never had that problem even though it had a party set up of TWO tanks, TWO healers, and two dps…. You never had to wait in that game for a healer or a tank… simply because tanks and healers in that game were amazing classes to role with and people enjoyed playing them.

What if I told you I actually enjoyed playing a Prot Pally in WoW?

Yes he will. Has been confirmed by ANET.

Devata.6589:

Galtrix.7369:

Yargesh.4965:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Anet has already said they are NEVER doing expansions for this game. Deal with it.

They said they don’t know how they will release the expansion. They may have made up their minds by now though. They where unsure of whether to do a business as usual box release or feed it through the living story. The content will come one way or the other.

If I don’t want the content if it’s free, why the hell would I want to pay money for the content in box-form?

Because of the bad side-effects from the gem-store approach. Now Anet focus on the gem-store for income the question becomes “how do we get people to buy gems” and that effects the game in a negative way. Nothing is free you see.

I did already gave multiple examples with the mini’s in the game and the gold-driven part and so on but I will keep it to one example here.

Lets for a moment forget about money. You just want to create the best game there is. How would you go about hairstyles? Would you put new hairstyles in some separate part from the game where you pay a lot of gold to change your hair onetime (using the gold / gem rate here) or would you put a barber ingame where everybody can just go and cut it’s hair for a few silver.

But money is a factor, the company needs to make money so now lets suggest they make money with expansions. How would they then do it. They might put the barber in the next expansion or already put him in now but lock multiple hairstyles behind an expansion. Anyway, the barber is in the game and you can change your hair whenever you like for a few silver. You have the expansion? Then you have more hairstyles.

Now lets say you generate income with the gem-store what would you then do. Well you need to make money so you will luck the hairstyles behind some cash-shop most likely in a totally separate part outside of the game (that is not required btw) that means a you can not just go to the barber and cut your hair for a few silver whenever you like but you need to pay a lot of gold or some money. They need to make some money somehow so who can blame them if they have a F2P game.

So thats an example where the cash-shop focus for income makes a compromise to the game quality. The quality of the game becomes lesser because they have to answer the question “How do we get people to buy gems”. Just like mini’s are now mainly gem-store related so going into the world colling them is gone..

The question “how to get people to keep buying expansion” simply results in a better game.

Thats why you would want to pay for expansions.. to get a better game.

And you’re still here why? <.<

tl;dr

No holy trinity is something I like, the current ‘trinity’ is something that needs a lot of polishing however, because currently the emphasis is on damage only and support and crowd control (was always mentioned as the third in the trinity) are nonexistent and pretty much useless. A shame.

The combat in this game is what keeps me in, the traditional combat in other MMO’s are what bore me. If I ever get back into a game that has the old trinity it would have to be DCUO as that combat still is quite dynamic, a lot more than RIFT/SWTOR/WoW and games alike. THAT is dull.

Lostwingman.5034:

colesy.8490:

Or how about if you’re someone who enjoys playing well? Aren’t we allowed to have fun?

I really hate this forum sometimes.

No dude….you’re like…just an elitist and elitists are ruining the game.
I play how I want.
Hurp.

How dare you! Now my back will be under pressure as I need to carry you! /sarcasm

Thanks everyone. Will probably be something like the link below. Might change a bit with the Mantra boost as she likes to use Power Cleanse since it is more reliable than the Nullfield (you can do it on the move etc.) just the casting is a bit annoying obviously. Though the boost in that Mantra will result in also cleansing conditions on partymembers so that’s definately a good thing.

She’s using her GS mostly and when she knows it’s safe she goes in melee with her Sword and Focus, but to be safe she mostly stays a bit back. She’s just not THAT great at the game so she plays it a bit more safe.

She also likes Menders Purity so I think it’s better than the 5% health increase to Phantasms as she also blows them up mostly after they’ve done their job. Whether that’s the best idc, whatever suits her tbh.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAR8dlwzqqHVTgGa9IxpHQf5NnkCVn6SKwNvB-jwxAYLB5k3QETgZt4WENW1CmqMpKXBZA-e

Thanks for all the feedback!

They’ve said multiple times they’re not sure what they’re gonna do. They’re considering LS, which they’re working on already to contain expansion like features or work on an expansion.

They just don’t know.

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MrIllusion.5304:

Gear threadmill… that’s a good one.

Some people mistake a walk over a bump for a threadmill.

Real threadmills have you getting gear to do content to get the next tier of gear, to do content that gives yet another tier of gear.

That’s not how it is in GW2 right now.

And Ascended is not ‘needed’ as gear from treadmills are. Is it the best? Yes. If you’re a min/maxer you’ll want it. Will it make stuff go faster? Yep since Serk Ascended>Serk Exotic, but do you ‘NEED’ it? Nope. Difference isn’t that big to begin with.

Sindex.9520:

My guess it will be after the holiday season. Colin can shout out from his soap box about some tangible content but most of it will be generic “making the world more dynamic in the next year” speech. Since they can’t reveal too much unless the content is actually ready to ship. As of now we still have to look forward to ascended armor, halloween, wintersday, fractal update, balance/skill tweaks, and some other small things.

There is a long list of things they can take from this year and improve upon them for the next. The recurring content give them some breathing room so they do not have to develop things from scratch. However if they don’t use the data they have gathered from this year appropriately, then things will backfire. My guess we will probably get couple more dungeon and world boss refurbishment. One of the writers did say they are working on a way to connect all of the living story content together. I am also guessing we are going to get some more annually recurring content next year to fill in the months that missed out this year. The biggest hurdle to them is actually making any of this evolving world stick in a non predictable way. The invasion mechanic alleviated some of this issues. Though it does not rekindle interest in maps like Timberline Falls and does not impact the map in a win/loose scenario.

Indeed. Depending on the outcome of Teq they were gonna revamp other bosses as well.

My feedback: less frequent spawning and/or make it easier for smaller servers. NO ONE does it anymore on GH as far as I know. That’s after 2 weeks. kitten shame, because the mechanics are pretty solid imo.

I look forward to more changes to and adding onto the traits and skills myself. Love the combat system, bring it.

Zacchary.6183:

Its not my favorite. I am only here because its free after the initial payment.

At least you’re being honest.

It is a very fun MMO, I can’t say my favorite, because I’ll have to look back at this experience in a few years to do that. My favorite is the combat, after this and DCUO I just can’t get myself to play a ‘traditional’ combat style like in SWTOR, Rift or WoW, so dull and boring, but that’s just me.

My least favorite part is the storytelling. There’s good bits here and there for sure, the lore is there etc. but the execution is poor, sadly. I’ve read the books, which I found very fun, really like some characters in the game, but the emphasis is not on storytelling at all, perhaps I should get used to that. PS has highs and lows, story dungeons as well, but now with the LS they introduce ANOTHER chapter, so it’s really spread thing and none of them are heavily expanded upon. A shame, but I can live with it.

Core gameplay is solid and I play with fun people. All I really care about.

Not meant, no. But currently is the best, but whatever, do what you like. I’ll get a nice hot shower from the ‘elitists’ on the forums for this, but it’s most important that you play what you like.

Free tip of the day: do play with likeminded people, whether that’s hardcore meta guys or casual don’t get a rats kitten people.

I’ve heard rumors about supporty builds getting some love though, we’ll see how that works out.