Guild Wars 2

They added hair with the dwayna outfit, not your hair but it was ay least something.

Why not with hats like this, especially cash shop ones.

They are not making much money from expansion and from other sales so they bump up prices.

I stopped buying bl keys because the chance of scraps are too kitten low and not value for money ankitten ow only buying select outfits.

So even if they cost a bit more they are still losing out because they refuse to work on making things more worthwhile.

And obviously I am saving more xD

They are spending resources on their gemstore when their core game is losing players and needs work done to it.

They need to slow down on the gem store and get more people working on actual game content to keep people playing long enough to invest money into the game.

Gem store is fine and all but not at a crucial time as this where old players are leaving because of various reasons and new players are having to go though areas that are not as full as they used to be.

I had huge doubts that they would expand out of tyria but I really think they need to.

Look at how HoT was received by their playerbase, and if they think they can for all the game into tyria then I do not see them going past the next expansion.

They could even release sections of Cantha every 3 months until the whole thing is out as I really think that if they want people to stay then they need to release some big content.

Just saying that they would be returning to Cantha would sell a ton of of copies of the game xD

They need more stat variations wth healing power in it.

Like power, vitality and healing power concentration for example xD or something like that as having toughness in a raid when you are not the tank could spell trouble xD

And what if you kick someone doing a little less dps over someone who is pure zerk but the pure zerk dies alot?

You kicked out sustained damage from 100 to 0% for someone who lasts til say 75% then I dead for the rest of the fight xD

And they say gw 2 has no memes xD

Well I am thinking they might add rifle to ranger and call it sniper or something xD so another ranged weapon I hope xD

Look at Rev ranged wepons, just the one and it is mostly cc and relies on a precision build to make it do condis. XD

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/slashing-devastation-and-a-memorable-assassin/

That was the source. Now it does mention the playstyle but also that they couldn’t do it without the iconic blades.

Even if I was mistaken I still believe the skin would be something good to add in.

What they need is to buff the shortbow to make it more viable but even if they did due to lb having the 5 skill on rangers people will still stick with that and the 2 skill as well xD

If too many people use it then it will get nerfed. Just remember that ????

So because a weapon isn’t as used much it should be removed?

Well not HoT is out almost every ele uses the warhorn, so now the focus isn’t used as much why not remove it ???? doesn’t matter that it has different uses in battle.

What happens if they did that and you want a Condi ranger and only have a small selection and no ranged Condi weapon, you would complain.

Every guardian now either uses Gs,longbow or staff so why not remove every other weapon because meta is those?

Variety made gw good so taking that away will not be a good idea even if no one uses them.

Having this would make the game even worse, you would have people asking your dps cap and if it was too low you would be kick or if you didn’t know you would be kicked.

In fact in fractal 40 which I have done on my druid countless times I was asked of I was a healer, which I am since alot of people doing 40 seem to die alot, and was told I should switch to a dps or Condi build, on 40 which is so easy.

So I left and did it with another group whilst they had to wait.

The game had the problem of people going full zerk builds and dying fast which failed some meta maps due to min max dps xD

They would not even revive and return so they would lay their useless.

What the game needs are more people trying new things and less going for meta builds and stats or trying to min max damage

In pve it wouldn’t be an issue but think of pve, a scrapper using the invulnerability utility of a warrior. Or someone stacking two trait lines with greatsword skill reductions and stuff xD or a scrapper taking minion traits and utilities of a necro xD

Pvpers would complain, it would get nerfed which also does the same to the pve skills.

And as noted I only mentioned a few ways a class could abuse this xD

Like I said I would love cross class as it was a gold part of gw 1 and I hope they try to implement it but maybe at a time when they can handle it as now they are having issues all over the board xD

Fractals are level 80 content, if you enter at a lower level than 80 you should be prepared for this, do not forget will also have 1 less spec if you are less than 71, which can go a long way to improving your survivability and or damage.

If you want levels use a tome or go to eotm and join an exp train.

Now that there are new f2p users people are less likely to trust taking a lower level through, someone tried to do a level 40+ fractal with almost no ar, claimed they could defend a point and full died in seconds causing a goo player to leave.

That person had mastery points so can you see why someone may not want to take someone who does not have the level and armour expected of fractals?

You only need about 15 people a lane but these commanders seem to think if the map is not full it is an insta fail, this even happened to me on the kitten Karka queen where a com would not start without a full map xD

And when a com fails after ignoring their team they just tag down and hide xD

I have been told thy they plan on releasing an expansion this year, anyone herd anything about tis?

Thing is they are having problems balancing the classes now as well without cross class xD

It would be interesting but they are having trouble with balancing non cross classes so it would probably fail hard right now.

Maybe look for a few people before you list, people are more likely to join if more than 1 person is waiting in your group.

I would hold up on crafting them in general since they are apparently going to reduce the amounts required xD

I am not working on legendary weapons because it is too much of a time and gold sink and I would rather being doing stuff than wasting my time on a weapon that looks ugly like Kudzu when you can play all of the game without one.

There are probably more people in wvw which is currently dead than people working towards a legendary as most people just get Twilight as a Rng drop then stick with that.

It takes 25 days to make the tier 1 ravenwood branch, and it costs more overall to do that then make the ravenwood staff than to just buy the bifrost outright. Same stats and less time trying to get it.

I believe they said in a different post that they had 60 working on it with an extra 10 working on whatever needed some extra people.

Like the topic post says, we where told when Revenant was introduced we would also be getting the Shiro sword skin and daggers as well I think? And yet not a word on this, I bring this up because another set of cash shop weapons was released recently and still nothing about this.

Well I play gw 2 for the story really, I came from gw 1 hoping for a continuation. The content is enjoyable but if one of the big reasons gw stood out as a great mmo is no longer the case well….

All I am saying is just because HoT is a stepping stone does not mean they should give us something this small. Seems like Gw 2 just had their first dlc you could say yet some of us paid more for this than we did the original and this has miles less content.

Pvp, raids and grinding meta events.

But recently the big pve events have just been rehashed with no self contained story like the Halloween one before last or the year of the money was just dragon bash and nothing really to get as a decent reward.

Well you should get to 80 first and finish gw 2 core game, then do the living story season 1 recap, then buy and complete season 2 and then get HoT.

If you do not care about the story them go straight from core to buying gw 2 but HoT is a direct continuation of ls 3.

I have been moved into a map that was supposed to be fuller but ended up being more dead. Or the big issue of being on a full map then the game crashing and when you get back on you are thrown into an empty one.

But for Gw 2,you can get through fine with any stats and build.

You only need set ones for say raids or high end fractals

The difference between gw 1 and 2 in difficulty was that gw 1 had a paty of 5 was it? So for tough enemies you had to plan your skill usage and even leave change up skills and return in gw 2 you can basically role with anything and you will be fine.

Anything in gw 2 they do to improve the difficulty will be steamrolled by giant groups smashing it at once, like HoT.

So as HoT as an example they upped the damage of enemies in it to make it harder plus enemies in a majority of places, but as the maps are all meta you have high parties killing these enemies in seconds.

Then again gw is supposed to be casual, if people want more challenging content maybe they should ask Anet to make some areas a casual friendly one like previous gw 2 maps then others more challenging, not just giving people one or the other.

I have bough every single outfit, everyone, most of their minis and only the watchwork pick because it gives sprokets, but for the others I would bot but they, I would wait until they are on a sale.

Wonder if this message will be deleted because I am suggesting people wait for the right time to spend? xD

I doubt the game will go beyond The armour qualities we have.

The real question is how to make challenging content without making it a huge meta grind again.

And will they add more stats or stats variation, or can they even? So will we be doing new evens for armour skins and just trashing the gear after we get it because there are no new stat options?

They should consider adding something like a sub elite spec, goes in spec slot 2 as the game needs more specs to go along with what will be a growing number of elite specs eventually.

Heck do I for slot 1 as well xD so you have more choices in spec development.

I want to see many different builds being used not the same 1 or 2 everywhere.

There is a section of ds that is going to be added later as part of ls3 I believe.

Probably won’t do henchmen as then everyone would run round with henchman and it would make the game too easy again xD and everyone would use them for everything and would no longer do parties as much.

One problem with numbers now is that people are leaving, they have ran metas so many times, done the story content and are now bored or unsatisfied with the game and have to wait til mid summer for content they will burn through in a day.

Gw 2 needs to flesh out its content more HoT is just 4 meta grinds and the story is short and more like dlc than an expansion.

I quit yesterday as I was tired of running metas and carrying unsocial people through content and just wholly unsatisfied with HoT in general, I will be back to see if they improve with ls3 but I am not holding my breath.

They won’t add crafting stations into gh because they think that then places like LA would be empty as a gh would offer almost everything, but alot of people are in LA all the time anyway and still you sometimes see no one speaks and lastly people just go to wvw to craft and pick stuff up anyway so.

It will probably be needed for the a achievement that gets you the precursor recipe to male it a greatsword (as that is was the original form is)

I quit today, I have played since beta and enjoyed this game thoroughly until HoT and specifically killing off dungeons, wvw and starting esports.

There are still fractals but it is the exact same stuff, just that you lose buffs on rolls or crits cause enemies to buff up or the enemy explodes doing the exact same thing and there is no real story or not one people may understand because they did not play gw 1 or ls1.

Dungeons where a self contained story, same location but different parts so different content each time and was fun with some nice rewards.

Now they are trying to push fractals onto everyone and make them for all probably by dumbing them down and raids. I get the sinking feeling that they intend to wrap un unfinished gw 1 stories with raids, all of them.

They used to want to not be like conventional mmo games, yet they added raids which also requires generic dps tank healer setups. Oh and esports is just another thing ruining the game.

They kill off good content like wve, the story itself and pve areas in favor of fractals that repeat themselves but with a different situation which people still go full zerk for anyway, esports and raids.

Well like I said I am out, a player who beta tested the game, has played through al the transitions and gave alot of money to the game, and now I am out like alot of others.

When ff14 hit a bad time they decided to close down whilst they worked on it, because they didn’t want their playerbase to suffer from bad content and potentially quit.

Look at 14 now, fantastic game and able to put regular quality content out every 3 months both story content, dungeons and raids, gw can not do more than 1 at a time.

Also look at the last gw 2 event, the Chinese new year, all we got was some imperfect pvp game with terrible rewards plus allowing people to buy both gw 2 and HoT for the price of HoT? They will just milk the free content and quit mostly, or try to win esports for the prize then quit.

So I am done, they have lost another fan I hopes of drawing in more people, I spoke to someone who joined and quit on the same day, f2p person and because the pvp is a flop without HoT he quit playing already.

And they throw away their playerbase for people like that?

Well anyway sorry for the rant xD

Bye people, hopefully see you in another game xD

Pvp is about short fights to take a point or prolonged fights to keep a point.

Build for one or the other in pvp but remember that if you go for prolonged fights you team loses out on dps and reverse of you go for a damaged xD.

Also remember your classes strong points, for thief it is steath and powerful bursts, Mesmers rely on using their clones while they whitle you down or keep you busy.

onto your thing about the necto, in the minion specific traits you can take a trait the allows your minions to transfer your condis onto you enemy so they have things in place for that issue.

Now about long cast times, imagine if a Revenant could cast jade winds almost instantly? Or the big ole bomb for engi.

As for the healing if a class can do that it has been at the expense of good damage.
If you make a mistake against a thief then you are screwed, if you step into a fear ring from a necro it is costly, if you try to burst down a guardian and they use their dome and then come at you when all your skills are on cd you are screwed.

And you yourself have stated you are a tank with a little extra damage which means your best bet is to accompany a team mate and work together with someone more dps focused.

When you go into a fight take not of everything you enemy does, like how many runes they have, what unique buffs they get like revenants impossible odds and if they have many aoe skills or direct attacks.

When I fought people as a dragon hunter I would first attach them with my 5 greatsword skill, lay down my traps then pull them in. It is all about knowing your class and the other classes

Anet has said that raids are not some big thing they intend to be doing constantly but after offering it once some will finish it that day and ask for more and you provide again, then they do the same and rinse and repeat, let us say 5% of players do raids, 20% pvp, 30% wvw and 45% are the rest of the pve content.

Right now only 25% of their player base is being catered to. HoT was a flop and anyone who has played it including raiders have finished it. That 30% is basically gone, more like 5 or 10% now if that so now they have lost 20 – 25% pf their playerbase, now for pve with dungeons nerfed, fractals becoming available for everyone because you are leaving dungeons to die, HoT being 4 1-2 hour grinds and raids they lose 5% at the start and between 5 – 10% because they are bored and have nothing more to do because “glorious” esports.

That is a potential loss of 25 – 35% of your playerbase with one expansion, now this is not actual figures just a rough guess but in the case of this scenario they have lost 25 – 35% of a paying audiance in favor of a f2p community who will never pay a penny and to try to win the cash prize in the league and then leave.

In fact I quit today, I will check out ls3 but if it is as bad as HoT then you will have lost another player from those who beta tested and suported you for 4 years permanently.
I may stick sound if my girlfriend can persuade me to as we play together but I will no longer be supporting the game financially or with positives reviews.

Enjoy raidwars 2 heart of esports those who stick around xD

In pve I change frequently but for some I go survivability dps or pthers I go heal and support.

Pvp it is just whatever can win me matches and can go toe to toe with a meta

Wvw is more about numbers than a specific build though a build may help. And pvp sadly is all about specific builds.

Pve you can gonthrough with any buid, I am going minstral ele so my power will bebrock bottom yet I can manage well xD.

But for pvp you may just have to grudgingly accept a different build.
I played my Necro a certain way but I would get stompped all the time by a single person. So I had to use a different one and now I can fight about 3 people and hold my own or a good while before needig help.

To sum up, pve roll with whatever you enjoy and pvp go for a build that has worke for others like meta builds.

The only way HoT is p2w is when it comes to pvp but that is where it ends. In a dungeon or fractal a f2p can do just as well as a b2p user.

I enjoyed Sieran and Tybalt the most and out of them both Tybalt takes the cake, and he is a true champion after everything happens to him and he still kept on going xD he lost his family, his respect amongst the Charr and his arm meaning he wouldn’t be able to fight as efficiently in a very militant nation, he hit rock bottom but still found purpose and kept a smile on his face ????

I would suggest the Oni Blade, my characters amour colour is blue and silver but the mask on the sword is red, I would love to turn that mask blue xD

HoT introduced bladed, leystone, legendary, guild armour skins. In a few months they will have made twice as many outfits. It is getting really nad if the game is bringing out more cash shop outfits rather than in game armours.

They should sell the outfits as separate pieces as well as a whole outfit. Maybe give the individual parts to people who already bought the outfit.

In the moba games there are many team varieties that can win, in gw 2 only certain class mixes will win.

And the fact their system I aimed at pushing a certain group up the ladder quicker over others.

Ranked should be fair for everyone, not the 5% of good people have easy matches and those at the bottom have the most difficult.

Their attempts at esports will fail, they will not have a wvw community to fall back on because hey have neglected it for too long and their pve crowd is stuck with 4 meta grinds and if you are good raids as well.

Fractals now have too many noobs trying to get carried through high levels. They need to stop with the esports and get to making up for the HoT flop

Don’t let f2p users have access to ranked and only allow those who bought HoT before the start of league 1 to have access to ranked.

But that would require work and they won’t want to do that, plus they are spending time on esports, the new future of GW 2

When I do the meta events in the new areas and the bosses have names I always think “Who are they, who where they, what is their story” as some of these bosses where supposed to have involvement in the story but was dropped as it “ruined the flow” like the flow wasn’t already ruined for the story xD

More armour and weapon skins, too many outfits and gem store weapons locked behind RNG chests.

How about we finally get the Shiro sword skin we where promised when they where showing off Revenant? Revenant has been out for a while and still no sign of the sword skin.

They really need more armour skins on game, they added hardly any to HoT but keep flooding the market with gem store weapons and outfits.

It is getting tiring seeing yet another gem store weapon se, their gem weapons will soon be more than their in game weapons. I stopped getting them since the chests are not value for money as I never get scraps.