Guild Wars 2

Excy’s quest continued inside Sparkfly Fen, being hunted by the same Hylek, he got hylekrekt multiple times by the same nahuali, yet, Excy perserverance was still humongous.

The quest was a long one, with many a perril, Excy had to travel through a canyon filled with zombies, and even though they had a desire for asuran flesh, they did not catch Excy

EXCY ANNOUNCED HIS ARRIVAL TO LIONS ARCH AND WAS GREETED IN LIONS ARCH BY HIS FANS IN /MAP, THEY WERE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF EXCY

Excy travelled swiftly through Gendarran, making it to Lion’s Arch in five minutes, wondering wether Excy’s fans where there, to cheer him on, as the journey was only just beginning.

Deathcount 2:

In his quest to make it to Arah, Excy was intercepted by a warg and got killed by it, luckily due to asuran technology he managed to get back up, through fields filled with ettin, earth elementals, and bears he ran, as swift as his asuran feet would take him, he jamp down a waterfall and swam through a river of drakes. And made it safely onto the Lion Road, into Gendarran.

Deathcount: 2

see here Excy as he made it to the entrance to Kessex Hills with only 1 dead. Excy however gained power in his journey and is now level 3,

On the way to Arah Excy encountered generic looking thief, he asked generic looking thief to cheer him on and generic looking thief did, also he died of skelk cuz he wanted to kill skelk with kitten bare hands but failed and skelk killed him,

Deathcount:1

Its time for Excy to go to Arah, be among the first to congratulate this level 2 asuran Chuck Norris as he is too MLG to do the story, and skips leveling all together just to reach Arah, starting right now.

Excy is going to get to arah in less than 100 deaths. Because he’s just that mlg

SO JOIN EXCY IN HIS RUN TO ARAH WHICH STARTS RIGHT NOW

So i’m fairly certain that I’ve seen this topic pop up before but i cant find it anymore, and figured it’d best be time to start a new one. As some of you long time players ((like myself)) might be aware, the Wizard Hat skin is still not dyeable, while it’s little sister, the Witch’kitten is. Both of these used to be townsclothes before Feature pack 1, and both of these were released at the same time. Can a dev please look in to enabling dyeing this piece of armor?

Pretty please?

So, one more I am stunned again due to another musical masterpiece, this time the one that plays during the living story season 1 recap cinematic,And once more I am wondering what the name if it is, or if someone has a link to it?

Thanks in advance.

Anyone else experiencing to same issue?

Hello everyone, ever since the start of the beta weekend i’ve been experiencing weird lagspikes where my MS goes from 28 to 4910, i’ve been testing and the problem doesnt seem to be my internet.

I wanted to make a suggestion upon seeing the Fashion tab in the achievement roster. Currently some achievements feel ridiculously unrewarding to max out, therefore I figured maybe it’d be nice to add titles for some of the tabs in there;

Talking in particular the more grindy achievements, anyway, here’s some suggestions, while most of these are already self explanitory.

Slayer Panel- Slayer of All ((Norn Title from Gw1))
You could also add a Giant Slayer title because that achievement takes some serious dedication to max
Weaponmaster Tab- Weaponmaster
Explorer- Explorer
Tradesman- Tradesman

Lord Kuru.3685:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Living World teams could generate content, perhaps on a monthly rather than bi-weekly basis.

Content was never generated on a bi-weekly basis. It’s unbelievable people fell for the “bi-weekly” hype: It was maybe four bi-weekly LS releases every six months. That was how much content Anet was capable of putting out which means they simply can’t put out expansions and LS at the same time.

To be honest, I’d be surprised if HoT actually contained what’s traditionally considered an expansion’s worth of content — much less a Factions or Nightfall’s amount of content, which I think a lot of people are expecting.

Actually, living world went bi-weekly ever since the second southsun releases, all the way up to the climax of the Tower of Nightmares :P, now, seeing as after that it went down to less frequent content, suggests that they mightve started working on HoT around that time. Which would mean that you’re looking at nearly 2 years of developement time :P ((If HoT would be out around november)).. Which would mean as much developement time went into it as any other MMO expansion.

You found my hiding spot

Sorry for the loss of both the IRL family of the player, and the guild. I wish you guys the best out there. And as stated before, this would be an amazingly fitting tribute!

…Ah. Moving on.

What about the people who started earning their HoM stuff AFTER the bug? Will those people also get a total revert?

YES! So much yes! Been wanting that since the start of the game!

NIIIEEEUUUUWWWWWWWWWWW~……

VRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOM~…..

Best Aprils fools ever 10/10 xD

Cant we just make this a feature for Heart of Thorns? ^^

I pick number 149 – Riftguard Excell

Weird thing is, i’ve been playing GW1 for the majority of the day, and I havent actually been kicked from that game even once :/

Dutch here, KPN aswell.

I had that aswell, then it kicked me out after 4 mins of play. Probarbly server issues again >.<

Same here aswell >.>

For some reason it sometimes let me into my character screen, then it lets me into the game, then the map loads.. and then I get kicked out again. I managed to play for 4 mins earlier.. then it kicked me out again :/

So, for some reason I cant connect to the login servers, anyone having the same problem?

Coopziana.1802:

I really don’t see the issue here… we are talking about +2px height and -10px left and right… Really, does this even constitute a forum post? It’s the smallest little change that neither adds nor takes from the game.

Oddly enough I couldnt help but notice it right away, Its just very weird when you run around in game, looks very buggy :/ then again, i might just be the only one feeling it looks a bit off.

Right, let me restate once more. I dont like the fact that the level display at both ends of the bar are suddenly all in black, when moving in game it feels really unpolished and it doesnt feel streamlined at all. Its a minor change, I know, but it is distracting me alot

((Then again, I do see how some people do like it)) :P

And the new picture!

Im just going to post it in screenshots :P

Old

Okay so, i dont hate to be “That guy” to complain about something that might be a bug, but something happened to my EXP bar, and I for one am not a fan of this change…

Is this a bug or is this really a change?

I was wondering what will be done to fill the gap between now and HoT, are there any plans to bring back old content like SAB, Queens Jubilee, ETC, or will we get nothing untill HoT releases?

I didnt know it was, just a brainspin. Which thread?

What with the supposed trademarking of a new name, I admit I got a little hyped too, however, it soon struck me that this might aswell be a name for the bundle of Living World Season 2 episodes.

Any thoughts on this..?

(Dont wanna derail the hype-train)

While not really an obscure name, ever since launch I wanted to have the name “Excell”, its been taken ever since launch, and the player who owns it ((as far as i’ve seen)) has quit the game. Sadface :C

After the December 2 patch goes life, will disconnects be punished aswell? Seeing as some people just fake DC by shutting down their client?

To those of you experiencing this, after taking your client from Quarantine and playing the game, have you been experiencing moment of game lag?

Iason Evan.3806:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

Its called the five stages of “Grief” for a reason, and you can grief over nearly everything

You can “grieve” over anything. Griefing over anything at all is only found on forums, youtube, and reddit. :P

Ahahaha. Got me there, my english teriburu! D;

Roland Shadow.6192:

As a player since the first beta I definitely feel that frustration as well. At this point I only log on to complete the living story every two weeks and I skip the holiday events all together as they seem to just be recycling last years events at this point with little to nothing added to them. I refuse to purchase anything from the gem store and I provide the game with no revenue what so ever. Since I only log on to do the living story I do not interact with other players any longer (all of the people I know having quit playing long ago) so I do not even act as content for other players.

I can only imagine I have become the antithesis of the player they want, but hey at least I still “play” the game which is more than I can say for anyone else I know. I am awaiting some major changes or an expansion to take the game seriously and as far as the others I used to game with most have stated that even an expansion at this point is unlikely to bring them back.

Arena Net has some of the best artists and personnel in the business but at this point it is painfully obvious that their upper management is absolutely incompetent. It is a sad thing to admit but one only needs to look on the glassdoor site for Anet to see that.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ArenaNet-Reviews-E255820.htm

A lot of the people who made Guild Wars 1 the amazingly timeless title that it is have mostly all left the company. Jeff Strain and Patrick Wyatt are gone and the only original founder left is Mike O’Brien which begs the question of how much Mike had to do with Guild Wars 1 success in the first place and if Jeff Strain and Patrick Wyatt had the right idea to distance themselves from NCsoft back in 2009.

Sad to see a sinking ship like Final Fantasy 14 do a complete turn around and become great and move toward it’s first expansion while Guild Wars 2 the golden child that it was languishes. I have said enough, I do not mean to be disrespectful to anyone in particular these are just the thoughts I have running through my head about the game and the company working on it, I know a lot of talented people have poured their heart and soul into this game and it shows. It is just to bad that the people paid to manage the future of Guild Wars 2 have envisioned such a bleak one for it.

Not to mention that they lost their main engine programmers aswell :p

Infamous Darkness.3284:

First I believe the 5 stages is only meant for terminally ill patients, second at this point I only see depression and acceptance about poor updates (not to say they are all bad updates).

That is a misconception, the five stages apply to alot of things, not only to terminally ill patients. A good example would be pedagogy, this also applies there, and many other things. Its called the five stages of “Grief” for a reason, and you can grief over nearly everything

zallis.2138:

I am perfectly happy with the Living Story. I spend a lot of time in Dry Top and Silverwastes, I haven’t completed Mawdrey yet and I haven’t completed my ambrite weapon collection. I am currently working on mastery of all episodes and the luminescent gloves. You have 8000 hours in game. eight THOUSAND. and your saying that there isn’t enough content coming in the game? You spent 47 weeks playing this game and you are STILL playing it. You must like the content they are putting into the game. We WILL be getting new world bosses, I bet we get one this season We WILL be getting new PvP modes, I bet that comes this feature pack. As for dungeons, they said they aren’t working on dungeons, so you shouldn’t expect that in the first place.

Isnt it kind of weird for an MMO Developer to stop working on dungeons? or the fact that it takes them more than a year to finish pvp game modes ((We have seen them do a livestream on it, and they never ever mentioned it again)) Also. I’ll take you up on that feature pack bet, 100g for you if you’re right.

When you are grieving , you usually go trough 5 stages; Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. As a long term player who has been here since launch and has played nearly 8000 hours, I too go trough these stages everytime a living world patch starts, I think many players do, now, lets go trough them;

Denial- We deny that Living World is all we’ll get in this game, we keep saying “Sure there is an expansion in the works, new pvp modes are comming, new worldbosses are comming, dungeons are comming” While really, lets face it; they’ve dropped the ball on anything but Living World. After the living world episodes are over, we always say “There must be some more content hidden somewhere”

Anger – After we come out of the first stage of grief, we go onto the forums and start QQing about the lack of any substantial content, we get mad at arenanet and various other things involving the game.

Bargaining- We try to give Anet feedback on how to improve, bargaining that maybe they will listen to us and will produce somewhat more decent content

Depression- After we realise that none of this works, we get sad, seeing the game we’ve known and loved get worse and worse ((with the ocassional bump-up every now and then)) We dont want to play the game anymore.

Acceptance- At the end of the depression, we realise that theres nothing we can do about the lack of substansial content that we get. We accept it, we proceed with our daily GW2 lives, wether that is stacking in corners in dungeons to get our daily gold, go into broken 4 v 5soloque matches where people play imbalanced builds, or go head to toe against a gate in World v World. We accept we dont get nice things.

One of the things that has been getting only better and better since GW2’s launch has been the music in the game, from ((in my opinion)) having very little memorable music at launch to what we have right now with all the living world releases. Naming a few;
Both phases of the Marionette battle theme.
Battle on the Breachmaker
Scarlets theme
Lion’s Arch lament.
Dry Top.

I was wondering if we can expect more new music with the return of season 2?

To be honest, their new motto seems to be “Lets focus on new players” because the old players who stuck with their game for over 2 years arent really worth the time and effort.

Just wanted to state that I am SEVERELY dissapointed with this patch. Not the gemstore conversion thingy, you got to make money somehow, but the halloween patch to me, ((Who has been here for two years)) has pretty much given me this experience:

Log in after patching
Notices in the mail there is no new story
Goes to do story anyway

First minor dissapointement:
Checks achievement tab after story, notices Master Carver is back
I can understand this, Master Carver was bugged the first year, however, why bring it back 2 years down the line, and not 1 year down the line?

TP’s to Lion’s Arch

Major dissapointment 1:
Looks around for a gate to reapers rumble, no reapers rumble
Did they listen last year when players cried out for reapers rumble? I think not, once more halloween has very little minigame events.

Major dissapointment 2:
Sees a halloween vendor, wondering what goodies are on sale this year, jaw drops to the floor
Well, look at that, mini Ghost Carlotta, a combinable Halloween GEMSTORE mini, on sale for just 6 Candy Corn Cobs ((=/= 6000 Candy Corns,)), or alternatively you could buy it with 700 Plastic Fangs. BUT! NO! we aren’t done yet.
Mini Bloody Prince, last year the cost on that was roughly 240-300G, you needed 20 candy corn cobs ((20000 pieces of candy corn)), now its 3000 pieces of candy corn OR! 700 Chattering Skulls

WHY?! That is my question? Was it unobtainable for the majority of the playerbase? Well.. it was 2 hours of farming a day for 10 days straight last year.

And that brings me to another question;

WHY ISNT REAPERS RUMBLE OR ASCEND TO MADNESS BACK?! YOUR EXISTING PLAYERS WANTED IT BACK LAST YEAR.

Love, a very annoyed gw2 player.

Content Updates
Okay, so, one of the biggest annoyances in this game for me, so far, have been the content updates, and the breaks imbetween them. First of all, I do NOT think Living Story is the way to go anymore, I find more and more players daily saying “Really, I dont care anymore”. Why is this?

Its badly written! Even though Season 2 has been a stepup from Season 1 ((Which was confirmed in an interview, was written in 2 days)) It still isnt there.

Now, why is Living Story not fun? Its 30 minutes of meaningless content and scavenger hunts or “kill X amount” , every 2 weeks. They are not engaging, the story parts are not really that fun because you get nothing from them, and most people just do them to get their achievement points. Again, there is NO character growth, there is no challenge to overcome, and therefore it isnt quite fun.

Other than that? No more SAB because it interferes with the narrative? So let me get this straight! No SAB because it interferes with the narrative, but WVW tournaments, Halloween, Wintersday, dont? I mean, there are other stories going on with those festivals, as did SAB, and im sure that no one finds SAB’s story confusing with the LS going on aswell.

ANother thing: Breaks! Taking breaks are good, BUT since March 2014 we havent seen many updates, have we? We had 1 feature pack, that was good, then we had about 4 months of a break? and now we’ve got another break of ((7 weeks to go)) before the 30 minutes of content resume? Really! Do you need SO MUCH time to develope 30 mins of content that will go in break again after 4 patches! ((We all know it will happen, Wintersday is next, then another break))!

Major Changes

I think it would be fair to say that multiple people do NOT like the way this week has went, the Feature Pack 2 for me, removed any will to play the game, and I am pretty certain that comming tuesday, i’ll be trying out a new game, and hell! I might just stick to that for awhile, and make a decision on wether im back.

Besides, I dont think its fair to hype the Feature pack 2, because what was really new? China got it a few months back? So why do we even call it Feature Pack 2? call it China Port 1.

Anyway, that is it, a fair rant, and I hope it wont spark too much flame from the a-net fanbase. I’ve also put in a screenshot representing the time i’ve invested in this game, just to reveal that I havent just pulled this all out of my “kitten”.

WVW

I myself dont really play WVW aside from the season, thus I have very little I can say on the matter of WvW.

What I do think is that it will need more than what it is now.. from my casual experience on WVW, all it is seems to be Door V Door V Waypoint

However, as i’ve very little experience with it, I cant comment on this much!

I still want to adress the issue that to most people, WvW was only fun during the seasons, im one of those people. And when I looked at the WvW season achievement panel, internally all of my will to play the game has about left me? 5 events every week for 4 weeks to get 2 pretty impressive skins? Really?!

Communication

Really, you (Anet) should really start working on communication with your fanbase, because all we’ve been getting is “Nothing’s Off the Table” then, when we ask “What is on the table?” we get a shady answer like “There are some pretty big things we’re working on in the background”

Really? What kind of answer is that? I will quote one of your employees aswell, kittenponded to a pretty big thread on the forums called “Megaserver and roleplay” , the quote goes something like this:

“Guild up Roleplay Folks”

So yeah, work on your communication.

First of all, let me state that I’ve always supported and loved my time in this great game, however, the last weeks in particular i’ve been more and more aggravated by the developement choices going on. I’ve been talking it over with several people and found that theres several factors at play here, I will adress all of these in this post:

PVE
When I first started playing GW2, I saw alot of possibilities in PVE, it was said that the Story dungeons were the “easymode” and the explorable dungeons were the hardcore endgame experience that approximately 5% of the playerbase would complete.

This was the truth, untill around early 2013 when dungeons were nerfed and became easier and easier, I found myself running dungeons more and more, and eventually I got burnt out on them.

I kept on trying to convince myself that in the future we got to see more dungeons and maybe a raid alternative, however, all we got since launch is a revamp of AC and Twilight Arbor Aetherpath ((Which isnt all that rewarding))

Now, with the recent feature patch you’ve added the collectable achievement rewards for dungeons, in which you collect all armor and weapons from a certain dungeon, then get rewarded with an Ascended Acessoire.

Woooooowww. Thats a really good reward! Makes me certainly want to run the same dungeon path over and over to get something I could get quickly with guild missions.

This is also where the ball is dropped PVE wise, aside from Tequatl and Wurm
((Which I’ve done too much now, as I can hardly carry myself to their spawn points))
Also, these events arent really a replacement for raid content, as these mostly dont feel that challenging, as they are just big zergs against a stationary target, that will ocassionally do something threateningly.

So? Dungeons? Have done them 100000k times. Tequatl and Wurm? About the same time.

There is nothing to do pve wise, aside from grinding gold for more skins, which i’ve found myself quite burnt out on aswell.

Of course, theres Dry Top ((Which was Amazing for its release)) but its still only an endless farm for skins!

SPVP
This is a gamemode i’ve loved alot at the start of the game, and still am to this game, however, I too am burned out on this, why?

First of all, a balance patch every 3 months is not a good thing, it causes people to run the same builds, which leave some classes underpowered and useless in pvp, which leads to alot of rage when you’re being paired up with said class.

New Pvp modes? Are these even comming? because all we have is conquest conquest and more conquest, which gets kind of boring after 3 rounds.. this too is a reason why people do NOT like pvp, its fun the first 3 rounds, and then its boring.

BUT THE WORST PART about SPVP is your kitten matchmaking system? putting 4 of the same classes together, leaving one poor sap to just sit out a match because you cant possibly win with 4 thieves, or it becomes a 4v5 and that is also doomed for failure!

DONT WORK ONTO MAKING IT AN E-SPORT WHEN THE BASIC EXPERIENCE ISNT THERE!

OMG now i mis out on reward bcuz i writing on forums and didnt understand waypoint and omg this needs moar tutoirla plz a net it veyr hart for me i think im moving back to wow