Guild Wars 2

Incredibly dull. Stop filling my bags with Wintersday junk.

And bring back Marionette…

Just can celestial once and for all.

Broken as intended.

It returns after each match to Hotm, where you have to put up with all the kittens who think pvp is some hardcore serious rubbish and talk kitten all the time.

It is bloody horrible.

Having purchased the spectre recently, I find that I have to reset my finisher over and over.

Reliable sources ( ie map chat) suggests it is happening a lot to others.

What’s the deal.

Fix please!!

responding the meaningful stuff again, eh.

Great IF you pvp or WvW.

Terrible for PvE peeps.

I do all so wevs for me, but must hurt for some. The level of some of the PVE tasks is silly.

I make 80s all the time… 3 x engineers, 3 x Necros, 2x warriors and 2 x guardians and a few singles.

Leveling is pretty decent for the most part.

A new plate class would be good:)

Mix of this and that…

With you all the way.

I hate this change.

HoTM is a cess-pit of obnoxious hate and self love.

I guess it has something to do with new players coming in and helping them think ‘wow, lots of people pvping! This game is pumping!’

WORST CHANGE EVER.

Hi,

Not meaning to be rude, how old are you?

Curious to see what age group would spend enough energy to care.

Cheers.

Hardcore wow???

Justin ODell.9517:

We’ve got something coming down the pipe that should improve these sort of scenarios. Details soon.

It’s called the return of the solo queue … hopefully.

They took away solo queue? ((sorry , been away)

That is about the most kittened thing Anet has done in a while.

Terrible. I am speechless. I am without speech…

As the title suggests…

That place is horrific. The mindless brain-dead trash talk is incredibly depressing. It is also very inconvenient. Why the change?

I don’t want these people in my life at all.

No, it is no where near as interesting aesthetically as Orr.

The monsters, as it were, are much of a muchness, tbh. Like the Season Two of the Living Story, it is conceived and designed by people with no great imagination, who should probably be doing something else for a living.

Nope.

15 char…

This is somewhat indulgent, but I get your point>< I always run off to the beach nd then go ‘oops!’

Because you seem a nice chap…

‘their’ which denotes ownership or possession, not ‘there’, which denotes place. E.g, My name, your name, our names and ‘their’ names.

Meh,

Much easier in and less irritating in phase two to be seen straight away….THEN you just kite with caltrops around the outside for a bit until everyone is dead and walk over and kill Vorp.

Like taking candy from a baby.

Vayne.8563:

I don’t know anyone who’s against new skills.

I have no interest in new skills.

New content and new worlds to discover are all I desire.

Rumbled past the old marionette site and had a wash of lovely nostalgia…but wevs.

Bernie.8674:

Exxcalibur.6203:

Mindlessly whacking my way through some Skritt community last night, I was struck by a sudden and overwhelming repugnance at the wanton fury inflicted on a race so lost and frail in the world.

You’re not the first to feel this way: http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=25

OMG, that’s great and awful at the same time.

OMG i love you both! May you have many happy precursors drops!

Templar.3418:

Need a strong male character. All the ones we currently have seem to be wusses….

He should be a tragic hero that is kittened off and full of conviction! Complex!

Sounds somewhat generic but I’m sure he could be molded into something great.

Anyway…Welcome and good luck. :P

God, so true. Tired of the politically correct excess with every hero NPC a woman. The lesbian thing just makes it nauseating.

Anyone know or heard and any news of this. I have the token ready to go and am happy the vendor returns with a future Queen’s Jub.

Any hope would be welcome.

Thanks. but nah; still incredibly boring.

There seems to have been a steady decline over the last month.

I mostly trade crafting mats and the like, such as heavy moldy bags, while also watching skins a lot like the ‘Ley line’ skins , and everything is back pedaling.

Anyone noticed this? Thoughts? Predictions?

Is this the result of a shrinking active player base?

‘The dichotomies of raiding’

Raiding translates to:

(-)

Horrendous time sinks
Two tier player culture of ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’
Elitism
Divisive power structures and player politics within guilds
A narky culture of self obsessed gamers

(+)
Greater player commitment
Time sinks
Player collusion within existing guilds and a deeper more mutually dependent guild culture

As a player with numerous real life commitments, who is not in need of a game to replace the vacuity of my life, I have no need for time sinks. But I can’t imagine players like me dominate the game.

For me, raids are the worst of WoW, so take from that what you will.

However, more Raids’/events like the Marionette would be great.

Solitaire.3680:

Silvia.9130:

One thing I will never understand EVER is why people feel so stressed, angered and aggressive towards anyone tagging up…don’t get me wrong, I tag up only when I must and extremely rarely, but personally, I don’t really see a problem if there are even 200000 tags around me. -except in WvW-
Thus, I can’t help but think that the hate comes from jealousy.

Jealousy? Most people who played this game any decent amount of time could probably have afforded the 100 gold to buy it before the patch, as most of them did. I could have bought it but I am no leader and won’t ever wear it and I’m a very casual player. Kudos to you for not wearing yours unless your commanding though!
I don’t see a ton of rage over it in general.. just the request to be able to turn them off or turn off individuals tags that aren’t leading anything. Its a good system to have commanders but also Anet is putting too much faith in players to use it properly and clearly many they aren’t using it as it’s intended. This isn’t like a flashy legendary that you spend thousands of gold/ and or hours/ or both getting that should be flashy. It’s a bold colorful non-asthetically pleasing graphic that you can see everywhere on your map and on your screen anytime you’re around a lot of people, it takes a lot away from the art of the game.
That’s fine if it doesnt bother you personally, but you can’t just dismiss the reasons why it bothers other people and try to argue that everyone should be able to run around with commander tags. Defeats the purpose of it doesnt it if everyone did that? There’s reasons why most don’t.. and the ones who do let me turn them off.

Well said.

Nice to see some communication going on.

Default to highest buyer is what it was for years.

Many people just sell their junk, rather than matching lowest selling price. Matching lowest sell price is usually only done for more expensive items.

Perhaps more important than the convenience of selling junk are the economic implications.

Selling to lowest buyer keeps prices down. Matching, universally, to the lowest seller, gradually inflates the economy over time.

It is a wise decision by the reserve bank of ANet to revert back to tradition.

As a regular slot buyer and alt roller, I am confused at the change.

The BEST discovery I made in for new avatars was that I could swap the rubbish weapon choice I had been given by purchasing an alternative at the TP immediately after completing the starter quest.

I cannot understand why this was taken away, even fro new players.

When I first purchased and played GW2 on release, I tweaked up a ranger, thought the
1-h axe skills were incredibly lame, and didnt play for months. Had I known about options, then…well…who knows…

Seems silly, arbitrary and antithetical to the ethos of the game when it was released.

Anet took the TP traders out of the starting zones?

Why on earth would they do that?

Amazingly bad decision in so many ways. What are they trying to do to the game?

Looking like game over. Too irritated to go on with the these annoying and pointless and largely inconvenient changes.

Selling is incredibly counter intuitive.

The default setting are quantity 1/10 , for example, and ‘match lowest sellers price’ .

These are both wrong and should sell 10/10 default and ‘sell to highest offer’ as before.

If you click on the ’sell to highest offer ’ AFTER you hit the quantity scroll bar, it resets!!

What? Come on! This is basic programming…

Minor annoyance? All other transgression would have been forgiven, were it not for this one.

Rage! 99% srsz.

AlexEBT.7240:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On3Ya0_4Y

New player experince is truly a magnificent creation. And it doesn’t even cover the downscaling issues, the level up stats upgrades that unbalance the levelling experience and the personal story coming in batches and the fact they restructered chapter 7 and 8 of the story to not make sense any more.

I watched the video and it was very amusing.

Anet needs to go away, have a cup of tea, and cup back with a new idea. I can’t believe how much they ruined the low level areas, killing map completion and making skill challenges completely useless.

Well played, Anet.

And in case that’s confusing, I mean VERY BADLY DONE.

• Why do i have to type in my password each time I open the game now? Even with ‘save password’ option selected?

• Why is the TP ui/item screen so small? Why is selling stuff SOO annoyingly tedious now?

Who employs these people?

I absolutely hate gated skills and restriction of game elements, such as skill sets and barriers. (imagine the boredom of grinding a new engineer now!)

It is like being treated like a naughty child causes me no end of irritation. Wow did it with MoP and I left the game and never returned.

One of the more pleasing aspects of the game, was being able to engage with character creation, and diverse elements of the game, on an equal footing with others , irrespective of level.

The narrow screen of the TP is also ridiculous. Working in management< I am aware of how stupid people have the capacity to make stupid decision that negatively affect others, because they lack pragmatism insight and emapthy. Anet appears guilty of all these things.

This splurge of restrictions offends me in every way possible.

Perhaps Destiny calls.

The problem with boys is the pfffffft pfffffffft wet noodle sound and graphics. It feels like you are shooting with a soft string.

They need to make them babies sing, maintaining longer straight line trajectory, instead of the weepy droopy parabola they use .

Perhaps we can get at tutorial about entering water, as new players might be discouraged to find they are swimming and not walking…or a tutorial about trees to help people avoid walking into them. It might be something like, ‘Trees are hard and will hurt your face. Use the mouse to avoid these stationary objects.’

Or perhaps a tutorial to help players understand that weapons have different skills, as picking up a long bow and finding you cant smash it in someone’s face is discouraging.

Or perhaps a tutorial helping new players deal with ‘night time’ , directing us to a heightened awareness of time in order to avoid confusion and alarm.

This might lead to a gender tutorial informing us about physical gender differences, as it can be alarming to make a female character and find, well, gender differences.

All a bit traumatizing really…need a break.

Danikat.8537:

Agreed with everyone else.

It’s not frightening in the same sense as a horror movie or walking down a dark street alone at night. But the fact that you’re dying and then suddenly all your skills change and your health is dropping whether you’re being attacked or not adds another layer of confusion to an already stressful situation.

It’s a bit like if you’re lost in an airport, worried you’ll miss your flight and then a complete stranger comes up to you and starts demanding to know why you chose the bag you’re carrying, where you got it and if you bought it for this trip specifically. It’s something unexpected and strange which you probably could cope with on it’s own, but you’re already stressed and don’t need this extra weirdness on top of everything else. (Maybe not the best example but a true story and the first one that came to mind.)

I’m not sure how moving it back a few levels is supposed to help because you still won’t have a chance to learn what the skills do except by sacrificing yourself to read and experiment with them. But I suppose the idea is that new players will be more familiar with the rest of the game by then so it spreads the confusion out and makes it easier to deal with.

Spreads the confusion? Like being lost in an airport? Hahahaha! Everything that is wrong with the world, right there.

No, it is not like being lost in an airport at all.

You are in a game, there are 4 buttons, you press on…or don’t.

No big deal.

Tbh, downed state is what kept me playing past level 2. I was afk and bored and suddenly 4 buttons appeared.. what now, I thought? I pressed one and threw things. The enemy died I rose from the dead, newly empowered, revitalized and excited by this new mechanic…

Thus renewed, I contributed to charity, invented Facebook and become a hero to millions of starving children.

Thank you, downed state < level 5!

Haishao.6851:

Walhalla.5473:

While most of us take it as a given that every player knows what to do at the down state, it was never explained ingame what to do when downed.

You’re on your butt with 4 skills. What do you do?
1) Call your mom
2) Click a button to see what happen
3) Uninstall.exe

I bet a monkey would figure it out on his own.

Mate, so true. Hahaha~ +10

Some of these responses beggar belief.

Overwhelming? Confusing?

It’s a game, you press some buttons and something happens…or not. Next time you figure it out.

It is not an issue. It is just so nauseatingly reductive.

How would kids today confront a rubix cube?

Wa~ ambulance!

Sea of Sorrows still a no go zone.

But anyway, the best thing players can do is, at mentioned above, guest elsewhere….

Tsk..

People can’t actually PLAY YOUR GAME while the human starting quest is bugged.

Get it sorted, already.

14 hours of this is a joke.

This is ridiculous. Defending Shaemoor hasn’t been working for over 14 hours….

It is the first quest in the game. The gate to the keep wont open and people cant actually progress.

Get on it already.

BIG ISSUE!

This bug is pretty huge, Anet. You can’t progress. It’s a big deal. Fix it.

Yeah 13 hours later….not working. Not a great first impression for new players.

I find it incredibly dull and hope we get a meaningful event soon.