Every death in the guantlet is a death Anet could have prevented.
The fact that gambits cost tickets is just stupid. Why do i get punished for increasing my difficulty every fight should cost 1 ticket stop forcing me to farm more when i don’t want(or shouldn’t need) to just let me have fun. Stop throwing up road blocks like soulbound tickets(my ranger i have been leveling has 70 tickets…yay), gambits costing extra tickets, terrible waypoint placement, repair costs in a duel, no multiple ways to purchase tickets(even though we have tons of currencies). This is a video game if you want us to keep supporting your game don’t throw stuff in the way of us enjoying it.
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You didn’t elect Evon, expect no sympathy from him.
But i did show 100% of my support for him not ever once touching the keil box or her achievements. Spent tons of time in LA voicing my support and showed people his short story so they would know that deep down he loves LA and wants what best for it(plus you know he was more qualified). Yet he still doesn’t want to show me some charr love Why Evon WHY?!?!?!??!?! Makes me a sad charr although crying is not a option for the charr so I’m gonna go beat the tears out of some aetherblade to compensate.
Possible although their are already 1 maybe 2 canthans in positions of power in Tyria.
Hao Luen is a captain on the captains council from a noble family in cantha that has had heavy influence on LA since its founding.
Doern Velazquez a preceptor in the Order of Whispers is rumored to be canthan. when asked he states “That information is classified. Maybe we’ll talk more about it one day.”
I think we should just be able help trahearne cleanse orr over an extend period of time. Something that slowly happens either by Anet slowly adding dynamic events that chain together or adding a huge update to orr were we the players are helping the soldiers take ground so they can cleanse the land.
It would certainly bring people back to orr if done right. They could do something like the karka event but always going back and forth. Also with bosses that respawn and can cause undead corruption to spread again unless defeated over this period of time during orr’s cleanse instead of a big one time event. It could involve multiple types of dynamic events with escorts, group events, gathering events, events were we actually cleanse the land and tons of others even some mist related events. They could also have the undead lich taking over elona tie into this maybe having him take control of the leftover undead across Orr. This would allow them to keep the temples as well because they could just say he is constantly bringing them back as they are extremely powerful and can help him spread his rule in that area. (although I don’t know if this could work lore wise it’s just a thought)
This could be the theme of the update were they redo the Zhaitan fight(if they decide to do this) to really give the personal story the send off it deserves. We get an awesome dragon fight and help cleanse orr all in one update i think that would be fun and tie together really well. The dungeon will still feel stuck in time of course and that won’t be a problem as most dungeons will feel like this for the majority of the game. If they really felt uncomfortable about this they could throw it in the fractals and make a old dungeon area of the fractals were players can return to the dungeons that have come and gone because of the living story.
As a fellow Engineer i feel your pain at least we are the only ones who can bash peoples faces in with a wrench.
Unfortunately, you’re wrong. There’s a mace that’s skinned to look like a wrench. So warriors and guardians can also bash peoples’ faces in with wrenches.
NOOOOOOO /goes to cry in a corner
Is their even a kit that’s unique in look to the engi then?
As a fellow Engineer i feel your pain at least we are the only ones who can bash peoples faces in with a wrench.
Probably one of the few people who actually voted because of the story. I don’t trust keil’s person(their barely is one) and I don’t see a solider making a good council member especially when compared to the leader of the biggest trading company in tyria. The fact that keil raised rank pretty much as fast as the charr character in the personal story did which is just fishy. So Keil makes me feel uncomfortable I mean look at the dead stare in her giant image.
Can’t wait to see were it goes though and I do hope Evon has some good involvement in the living story(maybe he has had involvement before the election we just don’t know of it). Rng was just a reward and a temporary one at that(it also made sense for the black lion trade companies leader reduced the price of black lion keys were keil reduced asuran waypoint costs? unless she had inquest help which would explain inquest research) and the black lion keys have never opened anything but black lion chests.
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A living world to me is something that is breathing, changing, and rearranging according to the involvement made by itself, the players, the devs, and the npcs across the world. At the moment factions just do loop quests were if they fail or succeed their is no real consequence because it will just repeat again in a few minutes. It makes the dynamic events feel meaningless and shows that the world isn’t changing because of our involvement it’s just made to look that way. Centaurs aren’t some force that travels around taking land and planting bases in ideal locations they are just there repeating the same dynamic events over and over showing no signs of intelligence or planning. They don’t have an agenda unless Anet make it that way and even then it shows that once again if Anet don’t get involved their world is set up to stand in the same place. We can’t even move forward simple stuff like construction in Cities the players can’t go collect materials and help push forward the construction of the statue in LA or the countless repairs that need to be maid in DR and the BC.
Not to bring in another game and cause a thread derailing but the Ideas brought forward by the Everquest Next team recently are what i would believe to be a living world. Players being sent by a friendly faction to build up a town over the course of a few months building at the pace that players around the new town help it be built up. Enemies don’t respawn in the same spot 30 seconds later either they have an agenda and if fought off enough will retreat and move their base of operations to a new area that interests them(depending on the enemy factions characteristics like if it were krait they would move to a new underwater location)or those enemies you tried to push out could get kitten ed and fight back with even more strength causing that city you helped to build to be attacked. These events can happen without player or dev involvement to making it a living breathing world that does what it wants and can change due to the interaction that everyone in the world is giving it. Of course this game isn’t made yet but i just wanted to talk about the Ideas that the EN team talked about and brought forward and explain that to me those ideas make a world feel more alive whether or not they actually execute it properly.
I love gw2 it’s an awesome game and has given me many hours of fun but the way they set up their world makes it really hard to even notice it to be living. If anet were to add a ton of dynamic events i doubt players would even notice. They would just assume this is another dynamic event and move on without questioning how this new event came to be or even knowing it was new. It’s because it didn’t happen due to past player involvement in the zone(causing big changes in the faction their and how they operate) it happens because anet added it and now it will loop till Anet decided to remove or add to it.
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The world of Tyria doesn’t change it just stays the same and due to this even dynamic events lose their feeling of impact. thus making it so anything added doesn’t feel like it’s impacting the world making it really hard for players to notice new dynamic events across the world or when they do feel lik their actually changing something. We don’t help the world progress and the world doesn’t progress without us or the devs getting involved it’s forever stuck in the current state until Anet decided to jump in and change it. This is not, at least to me, in anyway living.
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She is already responsible for the genocide of adventures entering the gauntlet and then forces them to walk all the way back up to the gauntlet to die again.
Issue with your book analogy is in a book i can go back to previous chapters and recap on stuff i might of not caught at first. I can re read the book because i enjoyed so much and if i don’t have time to read the book during a period of time im not penalized. Same goes for most other forms of entertainment like tv shows, movie series, comics, etc.
The living story can evolve as much as you want to but if players enjoy something and it gets taken away then Anet are losing out on a person playing more of guild wars 2. What if they liked the last update but hate the new one their is nothing to allow them to go back and have fun with a dungeon, event, or enemy that they enjoyed their time with.
If we were truly in a living world orr would be cleansed, Centaurs/flame legion/inquest/nightmare quart/dredge/krait/any other enemy faction wouldn’t be doing the same loop quests over and over they would be taking or getting pushed out of their land, Tequatl wouldn’t be spawning anymore, Their would be seasons, and many other things that don’t happen. This is just a TV show advancing when Anet want it to not when the players or world make it advance so if Anet just allowed players to go back and experience the content that they have spent tons of man hours making then a lot of the community would probably be happier about the living story.
Festivals, celebrations, and all the content that’s planned to return in the future would obviously be left out of this.
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Both characters were really under developed but yes given the fact that more players like humans and least made race is the charr it was already a bad start. That with waypoints vs keys and no idea what the fractals they promised would look like. It just wasn’t a well made election their was no campaign, the characters never really explained their message, and we have no idea what either was gonna do for the story of gw2.
Wish they would have released Evons short story as a cut scene in game I liked reading it but i doubt anybody really knows about it.
Their are metas you can farm to get good exp. At 30-35ish i go to harathi hinterlands and their is a meta in the northern part that repeats a lot and nets a ton of experience. Get a level every time we complete the meta up until 40 then it’s about 2 per level till 50.
Before that apparently their is a meta in kessex hills you can farm but i have yet to find it or farm it.
Not none just not the main focus i’d like to start heading into the crystal desert, maguuma, and all these other zones around. Maybe a new dungeon for each of these areas and a ton more hearts, dynamic events, metas, vistas, PoI, some new enemy types, jumping puzzles, and other stuff. I realize they could do this threw the Living story but they haven’t and the 2 new zones we got, although cool looking, didn’t add much when compared to other launch pve zones.
I’d also like to see some big changes/additions to WvW like one big patch that adds more siege, more tower/keep upgrades, maybe some new maps, more guild customization to personalize towers/keeps, adding depth to the hylek/orge/quaggan/dredge/centaur camps and better reasoning to take them, and as much as they can really cram into it.
So if that means that their would be no updates for a while i would be fine with that because having more of this world to explore or big changes to WvW would just provide me with lasting content i would enjoy. If they can still provide this content while doing the living story than so be it but they have yet to show us that unfortunately.
Been requested many times and Yes it would be nice to have just put it in their with a check box that allows you to auto decline all duel requests. Dueling in the open world as many agree would be awesome and probably get players to explore a little more to find some cool dueling spots.
I finally beat her on my engi haver 70+ tries and yes if you don’t have a good class at removing conditions then you are screwed by that cripple on top of that dodging can only help so much without endurance buffs as well.
I say next time the Queen’s Jubilee or this Gauntlet comes around Anet should make a Regular gauntlet and a heroic gauntlet that adds a few skills and other things that make the fights more challenging. Both could offer a unique reward for completing them and it would ease players into the gauntlet a lot better for those who struggled with it. Plus with gambits on top of that and the amount of time Anet has to learn before the next Jubilee they could really do some interesting stuff with the concept.
They also need to design the arena’s better so the camera is not an issue. Repair costs an dying need to go away i don’t mind the falling threw the floor when you run out of time but their is no need to die and have to pay repairs for a event that’s supposed to be fun. Less downtime in between each arena would be nice too maybe make it keep going till you fail. Walking back after each arena fail was just annoying and made the gauntlet itself less appealing overall.
That being said liara could use some balancing for all classes though and the fact that her orbs and lights are random spawns isn’t good as that makes luck a bigger factor than it should be(unless of course i missed something non random about them).
I’d like a cool looking rifle for once I have yet to see anything that i like and ive been looking for a good looking rifle since launch preferably shotgun style as that’s pretty much what my engi uses even if they call it a rifle.
No thanks a step under liara sure but im not gonna want to retry something well im at 70+ now times just to fail over and over and not learn anything from it not getting any further. A step down from Liara would be great having a fight that’s challenging but not about a orb across the room that you can’t get to due to cripple+minions in your way+a constant full room aoe you have to avoid that then pulls you into the AoE meaning you fail because you just happen to be in the wrong spot out of the 2 they offer on each AoE. Also if you can’t remove every cripple you will eventually run out of endurance and not be able to dodge out of the many things you need to dodge. I want stuff more like ornstein and smough from dark souls were it’s challenging and rewarding not something like the bed of chaos were it’s somewhat skill based but mostly about how lucky you can get in certain situations.
Plus watching a guardian just run around in circles doing her sword aoe and win on leidri means this content is just like all content extremely hard for some classes a lot easier for others. I’m not joking about this either i know it’s just words but she used her chain pull on minions in p1 and then in P2 ran away from the boss and would just use her sword AoE whenever off cooldown and smacking her if she was ever within melee range and won after 5ish tries. Wish i could attack her my back turned would make this fight so much easier.
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Would of been nice if they did this as the worst part of the arena is walking back up after 50+ tries on liara it’s hard to even push myself to walk back up their knowing everything about the fight and not making it any further.
Nothing new here but thanks for the information.
I feel as though they took her and few other fights a few mechanics to far although i do agree they have made some great fights here. I know how she works but I still can’t beat her i have my endurance buffs, and can get to p2 no problem. Once im their though i can’t turn around to fight her im constantly running and dodging just trying to get to that safe spot. I really think the fight is just mostly luck based. I’ve been going threw my 30+ tries now talking with other people trying to figure out the best way to do this fight and others who have gone 50+ tries are just quiting. If it was skill based i would see these guys making progress not just running in circles just trying to get a single hit on her while also knowing all the mechanics.
The 2 ele’s i watched were using mist form and teleport really well in P2(got to the safe zones way faster than me and killed all orbs) and neither of them have beat her yet and they were here on her when i was only halfway done with the arena.
Dark souls has skill based bosses that I love fighting over and over again(still play both soul games often). Liara feel more like the bed of chaos were my skill comes into play but the ultimate deciding factor is luck. Liara is also not a fight i will be returning to the fire asura, quaggan, 4v1(although my least favorite), sniper, the girl with the purple shield, the dog and the man, and fight 1 ill try with gambits.
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Can’t do damage to the orbs that keep pulling me underneath the big black 1/4 the circle spell. Can’t dodge out of it once i get pulled either because im stuck on the ground for a second. So im stuck sitting next to the orbs and hoping for good orb spawns till i figure out something.
I’m really trying to beat this fight and i can see it’s challenging but half the mechanics feel cheap and annoying instead of skill. Especially a Screen blinding technique that seems to happen at random as I’ve looked directly into the light aoe, away, and just had it on my screen and all of these have either blinded me or not it doesn’t make sense(seeing as I have to go after these things). Either way im already having to deal with a bad camera angle as a charr and running away quick turning unloading my cooldowns then running again and still being caught in a few hits. All while dealing with conditions constantly being put on me and barely any endurance even with endurance food/buffs.
I’m just struggling to find a way to beat her with my Engi given these circumstances so anyone with some help would be awesome.
Just looks like the closing of the festival hope their is some big permanent content hiding in their.
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Stupid that when you die in it they send you out dead I’ve had to walk back up every time. Nobody wants to wait either so they don’t sit at the ones already occupied unless they have to. Plus if their is only 1 they go directly in so he/she can’t revive you before they go into the fight should be a pop up that you accept and goes away after a period of time.
Developers could of made it way easier on players allowing them to get back to the fights faster and have more fun but nope.
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O that’s the mini well I’ve been wasting my time thanks for showing it though and Congrats
Got the point were it’s 4v1 and am stuck there. I survive the full 2m doing constant damage but due to everyone getting healed up as soon as i kill one and the fact that i can’t immobilize is making it near impossible for me to do it. I’m an Engi so that might be the problem but any help would be nice. I’m not really taking much damage either as i dodge pretty much everything the 2 whaling on me do it’s just the Heal up on a death(as the 2 melee characters constantly get in the way of my shots)and the fact that i can’t use most of my CC on them.
It’s probably my damage and if so i’ll have to complete it on another character i guess but any strategies other people use would help.
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I already deleted my Kiel mini. Will never know what she has to say. And I’m glad.
Deleted i didn’t even go for it waste of achievement points if you ask me.
Would it be possible to make a choice between one of two permanent buttons that the player can turn on and off showing what candidate we truly supported in the historic gw2 election?
You can just buy them off the TP if you want. They’re pretty cheap already, will probably be dirt cheap pretty soon. I don’t think they’ll become non-functional unless I missed some sort of information in that regard.
So you should be able to get both if you really want.
O Didn’t even know about those thanks and hell no im not gonna get a kiel button everything about her annoys me but I’ll leave that to another thread.
Congrats to the Kiel supports although i was not one of them. I’ll be rocking my Evon support buttons till the last drop.
Hey Anet ?
Would it be possible to make a choice between one of two permanent buttons that the player can turn on and off showing what candidate we truly supported in the historic gw2 election?
I mean now that the election is over it doesn’t matter and it would be something cool to show future players who we truly supported during this event as a lot of people went after both minis(and i doubt you’ll have another buff that displays a face so unique looking as well).
They should of made the fractals a scenario were you fight a long side the loser of the election to kill the winner after they betray the people of LA(they could of hinted at each candidate causing a different event) in some way.
Would of tied into the election and made the people care about the characters a little more(maybe).
Attractive female vs ugly cat
War Hero vs Greedy merchant
Cheaper waypoints vs Gem Store fluff
Nuclear reactor fractal vs Lore character most players dont know fractalThis was an election between being given a massage and being struck with a Baseballbat, did anyone actually think Evon stood a chance?
Unfortunately no I really wanted Evon to win, being a dirty charr lover, his short story was awesome. Although once i saw how they set it up i knew their was no way Evon could win.
O well still didn’t vote for that annoying Kiel wouldn’t mind a fractal in an alternate universe were we kill her as she betrays LA along side Evon.
And who is evon gnashblade? a bland NPC who we’ve had little if any interaction with before this event. I have no doubt if he had any quests/event dungeons where he was involved he’d be face planting and takeing all the credit too.
Realistically we’ve at least had some interaction with kiel. Ya she’s come accross as a stereotypical honor bound soldier dabbling in the private eye side of things. Then again evon is prety much your stereotypical smarmy business mogle who you should probably count your fingers after shakeing his hand. In the end if its a choice between 2 cardboard cutouts which do you choose? the one you like better.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-evon-gnashblade-disembarks/
He’s is an awesome charr who made a sacrifice for the future of Lion’s Arch and is probably more qualified for the position.
Yes this would be awesome!
Yeah they are all kitten about kiel winning, but if evon won they would probably tell us that we should shut up and deal with it :P
You mean exactly what this thread is doing ZOMG
but in reality let people complain, fidget, scream, w/e because it’s not WE who voted for Keil it’s the keil supports while the Evon supporters get nothing they wanted out of this. So let them complain just like I will because i really love charr and thought evon would have been a nice change of pace from the tons and tons of hero type characters in the game(he’s also far more qualified). If you don’t your gonna have a bunch of kitten ed of people roaming your forums and let me say Gw2 forums already have enough of that.
You guys won gratz for that but we didn’t we lost so while we will let you have your fun and feel great we will continue to complain to each other on why we wanted Evon to win. People are just letting out their anger it will die down over the next few days.
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It would of been nice if they had a post show up on screen when we logged in over the past few days telling us to get are voting done. As i didn’t even know voting was over till i got home from work had 100+ tokens saved up to thought it was ending at the end of the day today.
Well we are on the forum’s crying you guys are in game celebrating Duh
At least we aren’t alone as we all cry ourselves to sleep tonight
/wave goodbye Evon would of been cool to having you in the living story
I’ll lay down my life for this mission
LFM: Acting as Bodyguards for Ellen Kiel
So your looking in an area were the assassins of ellel kiel would be hanging out? your making our job of infiltration and elimination extremely easy
All I know is from now on, my hatred for Kiel can only grow.
Please let us kill Kiel at some point in the future, please let her be working for the Aetherblade Pirates so I can have my revenge.
That would actually be pretty cool. I mean i do hate her character and all her dialogue with a passion so killing her would give me huge satisfaction. Would be better than me resenting every living story that she is involved in.
Ya was really lame that Anet did that and not some letter from Evon for the people who supported Evon way more than kiel. I never voted for kiel once and got that letter it doesn’t make sense that she is thanking me.
Hopefully Evon comes back though or else ill probably have to quit gw2 from all the monitors i break every time i listen to kiel speak.
Ya i agree it would of been a great addition to the game and would of felt unique to the gw2 world itself purely from a visual standpoint. The reactor could bring many cool things into gw2 even a mini fight with the jungle dragon as he rampages towards maguuma but i just don’t see it as being unique when we already know it will involve an area already in game(just destroyed), an enemy in game, and look similar to the tons of other inquest areas in the game. Abaddon would mean a god which we don’t have in gw2 and probably the margonites, the crystal sea, the forgotten and the other gods all of which will probably never been seen in gw2 besides the forgotten. So i just feel like having the abaddon fractal would feel more unique than having another asuran/inquest part of the game.
It would be nice if they at least made it into a full fledged dungeon or something later because a fractal might to small for them to provide a good amount of lore and some good fights to remember. A dungeon would also be more fun to repeat than a small fractal.
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A Thaumanova Fractal would just be another fight with a Fire Elemental. We already get that every hour, every single day. But we don’t see Abaddon ever in this game. So his Fractal would be new and original.
Vote Evon, for originality!
The Shadow Behemoth uses chaos energy. There is a chaos rift in the Thaumanova reactor. We could be fighting anything.
So it could be a rehash of SB or the Fire Ele fights? No thank you. Abaddon Fractal is the way to go!
We don’t know how either fights would go. The reactor was a huge source of magic so it could be that the jungle dragon went directly after it on his way into maguuma as dragons eat magic. Making the fractal more about dealing with a dragon and his minions than an actual explosion.
Wish we got some kinda of small preview like art of what abaddon’s and the reactor’s overall look would be so players could have better discussions about this because in reality we don’t know how either fractal will turn out gameplay/lore wise.
I’ve been voting for Kiel just to spite all the whiners about her. Perhaps people should keep their mouths shut instead of complaining about her all the time. Then people wouldn’t be so inclined to vote out of spite.
So instead of voting due to what you want as a person from each candidate you instead go out of your way to read what people have said and then vote against them because you think they are whining. Their is whining coming from both sides so i don’t see your point people are just voicing their reasoning, some not so well, on why they voted for who they did so they may get others to vote for them as well.
If anything you’re already a Kiel support looking for some rude reason on why you should be voting for her instead of say you want waypoint cost to be reduced for a while or would enjoy the reactor fractal more than one about abaddon.
Either way doing it just to kitten people off is a stupid reason and makes no sense. Especially considering this election is just terribly designed when you look at player statistics and how the election is set up.
Most made race is human
Least made race is Charr
Kiel is a hero like character and has already been around
Evon is new and a villian
Waypoints are used by all players
Black lion keys involve RNG which the community bashes
No preview of the fractals even in art form so nothing to look forward to there just speculation and only a small portion of the population runs fractals
This whole election is won by Gems anyways so I couldn’t care less i love charr and felt i could see more new stuff in the abaddon fractal so i voted for Evon.
Well I at least hope Evon gets more involvement in the living story as the months go on as i have yet to like a single bit of keil or anyone surrounding her. I also wish her fractal wasn’t focusing on the inquest as they are already a huge part of gw2 and will continue to be as we learn more about the dragons. Plus the reactor is already in game and abaddon, the margonites, crystal sea, and the forgotten are nowhere to be found yet so i’d rather see them than more inquest.
I kinda figured Keil was gonna win from the beginning(due to humans being the most made character and charr the least) but i’ll continue to mindlessly spend gold and farm support tokens while i level my alts till the last day of election.
I really want Evon to win soley due to the Abaddon fractal and all the new things it has a chance to bring that we might not ever have a chance to see in Gw2 ever again. Sure the reactor could be cool but it’s already in game so we can see the after effects of the explosion. The inquest are a huge part of gw2(asuran personal story, CoE, jumping puzzles, activity in a lot of zones) and will continue to get more support as we find more out about the elder dragons as they have a obsession with their magic. While the gods and especially abaddon(1 personal story mission 1 temple in game) probably won’t have a huge involvement in Gw2 for a while if at all. The margonites and the crystal sea will most likely never be seen again the only thing that has a could show up in the abaddon fractal that might show up later is the forgotten which would be really cool to see as well. This is all speculation of course but I just see a lot more coming from the abaddon fractal that i would personally enjoy.
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Vote Evon! Abaddon! Margonites! Crystal Sea! The Forgotten!
For example, in WoW’s latest expansion you got:
- 16 new raid bosses at launch, with 3 difficulty levels.
- 9 new 5-man dungeons with 3 difficulty levels.
- 7 new scenarios (like a normal mode dungeon, but for 1-3 people).
- About 1400 new quests in an entirely new continent.
- About 900 new achievements.
- 2 new PvP maps, 1 new arena map.
- The usual mass of armor skins, weapon skins, mounts etc.
- Pet battle system.
- A new class.
- A new playable race.
- Increased level cap.Then you have the content patches throughout the expansion’s life cycle on top of that.
As much as I’m impressed (and surprised) by the frequency of updates in GW2, to say it’s the equivalent of an expansion being spread out over time is just plain inaccurate.
And what was taken away? Every character was de facto destroyed by that expansion which de facto didn’t expand the world but merely changed the carrot.
I’m all for expanding the world, but not the way blizzard did, by destroying my character every year. That’s not fun. I am invested in my characters and I don’t like them being removed from the game when I buy an expansion.
Except we are talking about the content blizzard added in their expansion showing that if gw2 had an expansion and added half of the stuff that blizzard does(content wise not raids, gear progression blah just in pure amount of content)Then we would have tons of permanent things to do that would add to the life of the game and bring in more people to play it whenever they see fit because it would be permanent. Because so far living story has had trouble even getting to 1/4 the amount of permanent content that mmo’s like wow, rift, ff11, w/e have gotten threw expansions and updates that add to those expansions like the recent 2.3-2.4 rift patches which was about the size of all the gw2 patches combined.
Huge disappointment as that means we will be getting permanent content like wxp, guild missions, fotm and laurel’s once every few months(with extremely small additions, like increased wxp ranks, in these updates obviously showing they have no idea how to release something that’s complete). Which doesn’t do it for me as im tired of trying to make new friends each time i log in and only a little bit of the temporary content has given me enjoyment but it’s gone now so i can’t go back and enjoy it again.
I’m just gonna give my account to someone who actually might enjoy this game as i haven’t for a long while now. I’m just not into temporary content i think it should be used to showcase holidays and huge events like the opening of a zone or dungeon/raid(something people will remember for a long time) but besides that it makes all the work you put forward worthless as it’s just being thrown out for the next update instead of enjoyed by players for years to come.
It just feels like they do this so reviewing their content is harder and anything that gets bashed is gone before anyone can really publicize anything about it.
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Never actually said?
3rd question
Speaking of the updating process- that’s one of the beauties of making a game that’s based in online, that you can constantly be updating it. But aside from continual updates for Guild Wars 2, are there any plans for bigger expansions that are kind of in the works?
Yeah, yeah, we are actively working on a bigger expansion as well. But that’s something we don’t have a real timetable set on yet. Our major focus now, like most of the companies, is live updates. But we do have a small group of people that is working on expansions and stuff down the road as well. But our big goal, what we wanted to do, is really kind of do something that no one’s ever done before in an MMO after it came out. And that’s every single month, adding giant updates to our game and do a huge release that really gives the players the sense that they’re paying their monthly fee, and every four to five months, they’re getting free expansions’ worth of content as part of logging into our game.
We had a huge Halloween update in October, we just had a big one in November, we have a giant Christmas update coming in December, and all of those have gone over really well, and I think in December people are going to be really excited. But January and February are actually are biggest updates to date. They’re even bigger than all the stuff we did in October, November and December. And I think that when people see how much stuff they’re gonna get for no monthly fee in January and February, they’re probably going to be blown away. These two months combined are basically an expansion’s worth of content for free.
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It would be cool to showcase the “dynamic” world(static as i call it as your just doing loop quests and/or what Anet want you to do unlike rift were you can lose entire zones/towns to some random kitten event you never saw coming but moving on)if eventually a war between the humans and the charr broke out causing humans and charr to be enemies when they meet in the open world and making divinity’s reach/black citidel’s guards hostile towards players of the enemy faction. You know because they seem to have an obsession with month to month temporary content so why not some temporary open world pvp. kitten they could make it so the slyvari are found out as something to do with an ancient dragon thus spooking the other 4 races into being hostile towards them till they find out the full story next month.
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