Guild Wars 2

If I see anyone linking that manifesto AGAIN I will swing my sword not twice but

thrice.

Avatar.1923:

cautious?

geez…
put at least half a page of text if you dont feel like putting encounters.

everytime i reached a refugee i was like; hmm hello. heres some token. cya *lights fire.

this aint a story!

Cool story bro.

I am enjoying it so far, though I would have liked seeing a horde of survivors running away from a horde of attacking foes while everyone screams of anger, pain, fear and being lit on fire.

These currencies are perfectly justifiable. It would be a chaos if there were currencies that were basically replacing other currencies, which doesn’t happen. Each currency has, had or will have an important enough role for its existence to be justifiable.

I would know, because I am your karka overlord.

I roleplay as a troll in mapchat, does that count?

So far I have liked the changes. Guild Wars 2 feels a much more solid game now than at release.

Just don’t stop being creative (hint:GW2Back2CANTHA).

I think Anet took an arrow to the knee when they stopped making the references. What you think guies?

Farming done solo : yes
Location: Queensdalevalepalemalegalegrey
Time Spent Playing: 69 hours
Amount made: after I find a legendary pre-cursor, 600 gold
Specifics: terrifying luck mandated obligatory

WvWvW. Vets come like hot cakes and events come like hot cakes.

Gwen returns to burn people in the major cities

How about an alliance system, wouldn’t that solve the problem a bit?

Quaggans as a group aren’t formidable like the current playable species.
They aren’t as well organized because, let’s face it, they are kitten babies

This was done in order to push in the new gear tier, called Mystic

I didn’t know the gw2 community housed such rioting players

I am sure Anet can do a lot with your well-explained statements

Avatar.1923:

Flamenco.3894:

purpleskies.3274:

Flamenco.3894:

bpphantom.8243:

Flamenco.3894:

It’s optional. If you have exotic you are fine. Ascended is for players who a little bit more but it’s not necessary. What’s so hard to understand about this concept?

Exotics are no longer BiS. New end-game content will be balanced around Exotics being the minimum requirements. Ascended will be the norm and the batch after Ascended will be the “good to haves”.

Do you work for Anet or are you just assuming that will happen? On what basis are you assuming that?

FotM already works that way. It is balanced off having ascended, exotics will only get you so far. So clearly that is the direction they are heading.

Fractals is an exception. Where else in the game is ascended gear a gate?
FotM has fractal relics that you can trade in for ascended gear precizely because you will need ascended gear to proceed, if not effectively, at all. Assuming that Anet will decide that ascended gear will be the new basis for most of ‘end-game’ content is quite absurd.

another player who didnt do the content an is complaining..
i played fotm from 1 to 20.
i NEVER had to “stop” because i was missing gear, i just got the gear as i progressed….

I am not complaining. If you had read the post I replied to, you would know that I was only stating it’s highly unlikely that ascended gear will be the norm for the rest of the game.
Try to read next time, alright?

purpleskies.3274:

Flamenco.3894:

bpphantom.8243:

Flamenco.3894:

It’s optional. If you have exotic you are fine. Ascended is for players who a little bit more but it’s not necessary. What’s so hard to understand about this concept?

Exotics are no longer BiS. New end-game content will be balanced around Exotics being the minimum requirements. Ascended will be the norm and the batch after Ascended will be the “good to haves”.

Do you work for Anet or are you just assuming that will happen? On what basis are you assuming that?

FotM already works that way. It is balanced off having ascended, exotics will only get you so far. So clearly that is the direction they are heading.

Fractals is an exception. Where else in the game is ascended gear a gate?
FotM has fractal relics that you can trade in for ascended gear precizely because you will need ascended gear to proceed, if not effectively, at all. Assuming that Anet will decide that ascended gear will be the new basis for most of ‘end-game’ content is quite absurd.

I have played a necromancer for ages.

Flesh golem does a nice amount of damage and can take some foes off your back. Plus it can rush in and interrupt. I’ve used this a lot whenever I rolled as a minion master.

Plague form works well in a team or when you face quite some foes at point blank and your skills are recharging. Underwater it’s magnificient.

Lich Form. Time this right and you can take down quite some foes faster.

Do remember that these elite skills should be used to give you a little more during combat so that your chance of victory is higher or quicker. It does not mean it’s always efficient to use it. Play your cards right

bpphantom.8243:

Flamenco.3894:

It’s optional. If you have exotic you are fine. Ascended is for players who a little bit more but it’s not necessary. What’s so hard to understand about this concept?

Exotics are no longer BiS. New end-game content will be balanced around Exotics being the minimum requirements. Ascended will be the norm and the batch after Ascended will be the “good to haves”.

Do you work for Anet or are you just assuming that will happen? On what basis are you assuming that?

Raine.1394:

Flamenco.3894:

It’s optional. If you have exotic you are fine. Ascended is for players who a little bit more but it’s not necessary. What’s so hard to understand about this concept?

It’s like this community is made out of people who want everything their way. You do not need ascended gear anywhere except for higher level fractals. And to get a high level fractal you will need to play it a lot, but it’s not a gateway to something you are required to do if you want to play most of the game.

You can’t have everything at once and with exotics you will do fine just anywhere.

Also, just visited 20 areas, didn’t see a single soul. The game is doomed

The concept is easy to understand. Allow me to explain it to you. Vertical progression can be described by an integer series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,…n where each number represents a new tier of gear with a correspondingly higher power level. The difference between 1 and 2 is negligible with a low power level and could be ignored and it would have little impact on your ability to play the game. How about the difference between 1 and 100? Remember what we are dealing with. Vertical: the power level of the game increases. Progression: it periodically and continually increases. Vertical progression doesn’t progress by stopping. If it stopped it would no longer be vertical progression. It takes little intellectual horsepower to understand that what vertical progression introduces is a non-optional gear grind. If you want to continue playing the game you must follow the power curve. The concept is simple and should be easily understood. It does, however, continue to represent a challenge for many in the forums.

It’s all in your head. You can do just fine playing most of the game with integer # 4. You are only feeling peer pressure or the assumption that most people will deny people with ‘merely’ exotics in a couple of months, right?

Anyways, I understand the concept and I don’t know why you thought you needed to explain it but I assume it has to do with repeating it to yourself until you believe it.

More achievement points and of course the EXP you gain from completing one.

SMH

bpphantom.8243:

Flamenco.3894:

Zenith.6403:

Songsrock.1035:

Which race should I go with or does it not matter?

- It doesn’t really matter as long as you adjust the nose size to maximum.

Norn if you go for ranger

and norn if you go for warrior

both female of course

have I mentioned Norn?

So he can sound like a woman with a 30 year smoking habit?

Race doesn’t matter so just pick something you like.

I think you are deluded if you regard the voice of a female norn as the voice of a woman with a 30 year long smoking habit.

Race can matter if you think any racial skill will synenergize, so please don’t disregard norn.

smh again

this kit deserved beng strapped to a chair with its nuts hooked at some car battery

smh

Sardonia.8196:

Astralporing.1957:

Vorch.2985:

• They are in the process of rolling out different methods of attaining ascended gear.

Yep, they are – since November 15th. So far none of the methods they introduced were any better than the original one, and since none of them gives access to all ascended eq, you have to use all of them, instead of picking one that best compements your playing style.
In short, instead of improving the situation, they are actually making it worse.

This I do agree on. Why can they not just make it that accended gear can be obtained the same way as exotic but at a higher price. Let us be able to buy it with Karma, let us be able to craft it, etc. I should be able to acquire the gear that I want on my time, not theirs. If I wanted to grind for 24hrs in one day to get the gear, I should be able to, or if I cannot log on everyday, I could still acquire it when I could log in. The issue is that I am on their terms and not mine and that is making it less fun.

To me make it available through all forms right now. If someone wants to obtain the gear all through guild missions, then they should be able to. Same with running FOTM. Or if someone wanted to use Karma or craft it. Same thing. At least we would be playing the game the way we want to play it. Right now the gear is just gated through time which is not very fun, at least to me.

How about choosing not to get it? Is that so hard to do? smh

OscarKitteh.7198:

You can “play the way you want” you just don’t get a laurel for it. Why is this a big deal? In GW1 we had Zaishen dailies and no one whined that they weren’t able to get coins because they didn’t feel like doing the daily quest/bounty/w/e and that having this didn’t let them play the way they wanted to play. Same thing here, except easier. People don’t mind grinding fractals for ascended rings, or grinding mobs for legendaries but Dwayna forbid that you explore a new zone or do something different for a change.

I like the new system. I was finally able to get my monthly this month and hope that the options next month will also be doable. The previous “good” system that some of the posters are praising so much, REQUIRED you to do JPs, WvW, Fractals, etc. for the monthly. So why is that fine, and such a horrible system when you have the OPTION of it for the daily?

Indeed man. The nerve of these people today smh
Always this insulting underlying tone smh

A good fix for this would be some kind of alliance implementation. If you have an alliance chat, you won’t need to represent a certain guild to chat with your friends.

Also, perhaps that influence can be earned together, but the guild with the unlock or most members doing any mission will earn his guild the most influence points.

SMH

Zenith.6403:

Songsrock.1035:

Which race should I go with or does it not matter?

- It doesn’t really matter as long as you adjust the nose size to maximum.

Norn if you go for ranger

and norn if you go for warrior

both female of course

have I mentioned Norn?

smh This is a problem on your behalf. smh

You can entirely skip the dailies if you want. smh Unless you want a laurel, mystic coin, jug of karma or achievement points you don’t have to do it to play most of the game. smh

Smh, it’s as if everything that is offered in Guild Wars 2 is seen by people as obligatory. smh

smh

smh

Warrior and Ranger

It’s optional. If you have exotic you are fine. Ascended is for players who a little bit more but it’s not necessary. What’s so hard to understand about this concept?

It’s like this community is made out of people who want everything their way. You do not need ascended gear anywhere except for higher level fractals. And to get a high level fractal you will need to play it a lot, but it’s not a gateway to something you are required to do if you want to play most of the game.

You can’t have everything at once and with exotics you will do fine just anywhere.

Also, just visited 20 areas, didn’t see a single soul. The game is doomed

The game seems to be dying, I fear for ghost towns

Ferguson.2157:

21 char slots.

8 level 80s
11 level 50-79
2 sub level 12

I enjoy leveling characters. The trip is fun, the final destination not so much. I can’t wait for the introduction of additional skills and traits to broaden my 80s even further.

I’m not a huge fan of vertical progression but am a huge fan of horizontal progression. Please Anet do start adding additional traits, skills, and weapon types.

Had I known from the start how this game was to function I’d have two or possibly three accounts. This account based laurel system really hurts folks like me with all their characters on one account.

Most fun, the Mesmer.
Easiest, Ranger
Most survivable, Warrior
Most ploddingly slow, Guardian

HOLY MOLY POLY PHONE

I got 8 myself, one of each profession

I do agree that necromancers should have a 500% damage buff

Urge to kill rising

After 6 months of 12 hours per day playing with ranger I finally reached lvl 70

I hope the next patch nerfs ranger a bit, I feel way too powerful most of the time

20 areas so far, not a single soul seen

I don’t know, walking through 15 areas and not spotting one player is a little concerning.

Is Monday a free day for Anet?

Mixing dyes were only in GW1.

Parlourmeatflex pretty much provided a strong argument for Anet and I whole-heartedly and with entire backbone support, endores and agree with him

This game should’ve been a hybrid. With that I mean, you can play with or without trinity. It should’ve been all up to the players, that way the game would’ve been more interesting and more fun with this various dimensions of gameplay.
Now, the game is most likely doomed.

There are 3 categories in this game

1. Give it away for free
2. NPC or salvage
3. Sell for profit

Guess in which class the black dye falls?

Destroy.

At least make a tier 6 gate. We already have tier 5 researched and not having to research a new tier for this content just puts us off playing it. It feels unworthy of having our time spent on.

Removing the energy bar was a bad decision tbh. It would add a nice layer of gameplay. This game is most likely doomed with all these stripped layers of gameplay

Just went over 10 areas, only spotted one necromancer that was afk and dead……..

acklag, I hereby am insulting you.

Regarding the art-book, I was wondering the same. Has anyone sent Anet a ticket?

Oh so these are loot chests. I was wondering where these popped from. The game is doomed

Was playing just a while ago, nobody in at least 5 areas

I got 2000 after 6 months 12 hours a day

Guild Hall will need tier 8, which will take a year to research taking up 2 research slots

I liked the traditional quest system. Not only did it add greatly to the lore but also enriched the world with certain sense of being alive.

The tasks are shallow, repetitive and only some of them are memorable because they serve no grave purpose