Guild Wars 2

Tripped on a banana peel.

Flissy.4093:

Terra Dactyl.2047:

I’m with the OP on this one. If they don’t refund the cash, it feels like they duped us into buying gems by offering something they knew a lot of people wanted, then pulling a bait and switch leaving us with some kitten skin we don’t want, or the option of buying other things we don’t want.

I’ll be keeping my money in the future if it’s not a refund of whatever we used to buy the gems.

Its a bit of a conspiracy, but yes, this response should have been expected, so perhaps it was they did dupe a bunch of folk into buying gems.

But you won’t get your RWM back. You bought the gems, not the item skin directly, and you’re getting the gems back.

Funset.7893:

Flissy.4093:

Funset.7893:

The truth is that the whining minoroty on this forum does not represent the opinion of the majority.

Removing the skin just because of few whiny people on the forum is not fair.

Remeber, people on the forum are minority, and we should not consider their opinion, because it does not match the majority. It is a proven fact.

Please, give back the armor skin, Arenanet. Do not bully your loyal customers based on the opinion of a tiny minority of your playerbas in 1 single thread!

The armor impacted the goals and accomplishments of many months of past players. Reverting has just made your character go back 24h or so. You were happy enough to play without this armor. Big difference, eh?

Well were are these players to rise their point? I see a thread with 17 pages and many double and triple posts. Hundreds of thousands players play this game. Why did they remove a skin based on a bunch of whiny people, who do not represent even a 1% of the gw2 playerbase? Not fair!
By this logic, they should remove the Ascended items right now.

Source for your figures please.

Are you saying that the gw2 playerbase is basically a forum thread of 17 pages? Are you that smart?

Nike.2631:

Funset.7893:

The truth is that the whining minoroty on this forum does not represent the opinion of the majority.

The truth is that appeals to minority or majority are both guesswork AND meaningless.

It doesn’t matter if it infuriated 2% or 88%. They offended a basic principle. They should have known better but someone was asleep at the wheel. Now they get to settle for the lesser evil to cover a stupid mistake. There is no “fairness” involved. Just damage control.

What basic principles? The only one offended here is you.

Flissy.4093:

Funset.7893:

The truth is that the whining minoroty on this forum does not represent the opinion of the majority.

Removing the skin just because of few whiny people on the forum is not fair.

Remeber, people on the forum are minority, and we should not consider their opinion, because it does not match the majority. It is a proven fact.

Please, give back the armor skin, Arenanet. Do not bully your loyal customers based on the opinion of a tiny minority of your playerbas in 1 single thread!

The armor impacted the goals and accomplishments of many months of past players. Reverting has just made your character go back 24h or so. You were happy enough to play without this armor. Big difference, eh?

Well were are these players to rise their point? I see a thread with 17 pages and many double and triple posts. Hundreds of thousands players play this game. Why did they remove a skin based on a bunch of whiny people, who do not represent even a 1% of the gw2 playerbase? Not fair!
By this logic, they should remove the Ascended items right now.

The truth is that the whining minoroty on this forum does not represent the opinion of the majority.

Removing the skin just because of few whiny people on the forum is not fair.

Remeber, people on the forum are minority, and we should not consider their opinion, because it does not match the majority. It is a proven fact.

Please, give back the armor skin, Arenanet. Do not bully your loyal customers based on the opinion of a tiny minority of your playerbas in 1 single thread!

But guys, I thought the forums do not represent the opinion of the majority?
Why did they remove the armor skin based on the opinion of the TINY MINORITY in this thread?
How is this fair?

I have a question about the birthday present – do I get the “instant level 20” item just once, or do I receive one every time I create a new character? Thanks.

AntiGw.9367:

Charak.9761:

Is anyone even surprised at this point? All the temporary content pushing bug fixes off the todo list.

Temporary content is done by entirely different teams than bug fixing.

I keep hearing this, but [citation needed].

Because it is the easy way. 1 minidungeon, quest-like achievements, a back item or so as a reward – content. Tied some cash shop stuff to the “main story” and you get little dev effort plus some cash flow.

JustTrogdor.7892:

One thing I have noticed is there seems to be a large number of female characters as opposed to male characters.

This is just not true.

Why I quited…

1. Borig story and lore. The Living story was the final nail in the coffin for me.

2. Absolutely dull and boring PvE. The epic element is missing. And where it was supposed to be there (world bosses for instance) it was still missing, because of the huge zergs, and the complete lack of PvE mechanics (homogenized classes etc).

3. The grind for ascended weapons – no, I do not mean the grind itself, but the way you are supposed to do it – grind mats, level craft. This is absurd. Forcing people to craft in order to obtain end game gear, and not giving any other option. How epic and awesome is this?

4. Alt unfriendly – ascended gear being time gated. 1 daily quest and laurels reward per account, and not per character, same with the guild commendations reward (why, just why?).

5. No build diversity whatsoever – again, the problem is the ascended items, since different builds are usually tied to different stats.

6. Grind – the promised no grind, and the best endgame gear to everyone by reaching level 80. Broken promises and lies.

7. Boring skills, autoattack playstyle, unless you are a thief – Since 90% of the classes in GW2 do not use any kind of mechanics (for example – building rage -> spending rage) or resources (mana or energy), all of the skills are tied to cooldowns.

8. I am a vanity kitten, so I enjoy changing my outfits on regular basis. I can not enjoy this in GW2. In order to change my outfits regularly and keep my stats at the same time, I need to obtain several sets of gear and runes, or I have to buy their transmution stones from the cash shop every time I feel like changing outfit. Of course this is going to be off the table, once they implement the ascended armor. No more changing outfits, unless you buy the crap out of their transmution and “un-transmution” stones.

9. Rewards behind the achievement points – can’t get more elitist, can you, arenanet?

10. RNG.

11. The performance of the game in a large scale PvP – just awful.

Etc.

No. I completed the achievemtns on only 3 (I believe) Living story updates. Did not play the rest, because it wasn’t good enogh, IMO. Juts my opinion.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Windows has a nifty little clock app built-in. Down in the taskbar, that shows your local (computer) time, you can set it to show another time, anywhere in the world.

Right-click – adjust Date/Time – Additional Clocks – (UTC -8:00 Pacific Time)

After setting this additional clock up, whenever you hover over the time on your computer, 2 additional (world-wide) times will also be displayed. =)

This is really helpful, thanks for the tip!

…please provide the event times in GMT (UT) or CET format as well.
Because I cannot relate to this “noon pacific time” of yours. Thank you.

Stop beating the dead horse, people. If you disagree with the direction that this game is taking, stop spending money on their cash shop, and stop login in. Honestly, this is the only way.

Caramel Ham.4891:

Guardians do similar dmg to warriors

Joke of the year!

Nayru.4537:

I don’t usually keep track. Definitely more than 2000g. Never drop below 1000g.

That signature tho haha

WoW crybabies got what they wanted – a gear treadmill.
In this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Is-the-Majority-GW-playebase-Hipsters/first#post2916302 they claim that they do not want another generic MMO, yet they are trying to make it WoW 2.0.

This thread does not provide any sort of constructive discussion.

What content?
15 charrs in ugly armor

Whoever designed this bullkitten need to be fired asap, and change their feild. Consider something more simple, like a Mcdonalds employee.

The 450k at any given time was akittens PEAK. Please, stop the speculations.

Is it growing? I dont know. They broke all their promises, and I believe that many players who bought the game are really disappointed from the direction that the game takes.

Its hard to “re-hype” the game again and lure more people to buy it, when they have an access to the information about how the game really is.

Maybe someone is going to buy it out of boredom, or just out of curioisty. Is this growing? I think not. Cosnidering how many people quited already.

Redscope.6215:

The original Guild Wars was missing a gear and economic system that made you want to keep playing. Guild Wars 2 has it, and that’s why its the fastest selling MMO in history.

Anet has learned from their mistakes.

A bunch of nonsense. GW2 sold so many copies because they promised no vertical progression (and many other stuff of course, but they broke all their promises).

Chrisplosion.3756:

you have to work for them in some way be it crafting or killing things

It took just an year for GW2 to become a chore and grind fest. Thank you based fanbase.

- A proud ex-player who havent logged in since the ascended weapons and armor announcement

GW2 was a great to me because I didn’t have to care about gear progression, plus I could have several sets of (best tier) gear for any situation.

GW2 was promoted as a game with high build diversity (in terms of talents and gear).

GW2 was great, because you could level and gear several alts, and enjoy the game with several classes.

^All of these great things are now gone, because of the stupid time gated gear progression.

The problem is not the gear progression itself tho. The problem is its implementation.
It’s time gated in a very stupid way. Basically, acquiring the top tier gear in the game is boring and takes too much time. The “progressing” itself doesn’t really feel like a progression, but more like a chore. You thought farming dungeons was a boring old school way to acquire your gear? Welcome to the world of dailies and time gated craft of GW2! Enjoy your stay.

inb4 YOU DONT REALLY NEED THE ASCENDED GEAR.

Laggy.

15characters

Hehe, OP is calling the Living Story updates a content. Phunny OP.

Fortus.6175:

One word;

Gems

/thread

Reihert.1509:

And when they buff pve content, they make “Two shot” mechanics, mobs that hit so hard that even tanks cant survive.

It is simple, we need content where CC will matter, where tatical play will matter.
And how do we that?

They will never do this. For 2 major reasons. First, Anet hate the holy trinity, or any kind of encounter that requires a setup. Second, they promote the game as a game “play the way you like it”. Full berserker team will be always viable. And in the most cases – the better choice, if, of course, the team knows the boss mechanics and knows how to dodge.

Now that we have those 2, we can assume that they will never release a PvE content that need dedicated tanks and/or healers/any kind of support to be overcome.

I like the idea of no healers/tanks in PvP, but IMO it makes the PvE content really dull and tiresome. Thats why, as a PvE player, I spend less and less time in GW2, and more and more time in MMOS that have the so hated holy trinity.

How does this make you feel?

Personally, I am fine with it.

Tom Gore.4035:

Now now, you leave that mini charr alone!

He is upset on this picture, I don’t know why. I treat him with dignity and respect.

Not bad. The first time I saw the preview of this armor I thought it’s ging to look awful, but I like the leather/heavy touch.

Tom Gore.4035:

Funset.7893:

Man, who would spend 1300 gold on a torch _

Yes, it most probably was a man.

I don’t know what you are talking about

Man, who would spend 1300 gold on a torch _

Also it does not work with Retributive Armor, which is weird.

It’s a huge gold sink and they make money out of it (transmutation stones).
Want a new look? Buy 6 stones, buy a new set of armor.
They will never going to change it imo.

Charak.9761:

never bother’d with vit if you run ah

0/15/30/20/5
Knight armour/zerker trinkets/zerker weapon

This, or swap the 15 in radiance to 15 in zeal, if using a hammer.

I find zerker guardian lackluster. We have half of the HP that a full zerker warrior has, we can pull less dps, plus the amount of defensive abilities we get as full zerkers does not compensate the little HP pool. Go full zerker only if you wana farm CoF 1, and you are too lazy to level a warrior for that purpose.

Full bunker with a mace/x + staff – well I think it’s kinda overkill for PvE. There are more attractive tankish builds out there that are using 2h weapons. And they can pull more dps and provide higher group support.

I didnt spend a penny. I got a ticket from the first box I opened with a key I got from completing a map. I instantly sold the skin on TP for 60 gold.

Nuka Cola.8520:

i don’t think they’re stupid enough

Oh man!

So when are we getting the new skins? I hope they will be in the cash shop for a set amount of gems, not RNG boxes or 19 999 achievement points.

Charak.9761:

Yeah you have high hp/armour, but if your dmg doesnt mtch up, you cant get the mobs to focus you, and they drop aggro and switch to the person doing higher dps, so now they gotta either kite (lowering their dmg), in turn making you have to run around after them, making you do less dmg.

A tone of BS.

I do not care about 10 additional trait points. All I want is Role Slots and/or the ability to respec my traits on go.

No, not really. GW2 is very different from the generic MMO. But it dsnt make the generic MMO bad. I miss the holy trinity, I miss raiding, I miss how your class was unique, with its own role. I miss mounts. I miss the PvP there. I miss being a caster, and a healer. So no, GW2 didnt ruin the other MMOs for me, should I say it made them even more attractive?! Maybe. I like GW2 for its own features tho.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Some of the best dungeon players in the game only use double tap, they dont even have a dodge key bound

Okey?

No, I dont. I used to.
I failed so many jumping puzzles because of it, also it is not actually “instant” and you can get yourself killed if you delay the dodge even for half second (the time between the 2nd dodge, plus sometimes it can miss).

So I changed it to one of my mouse buttons, and never looked back. Click the button, and instantly roll back. If I wana roll forward or in left or right, I just need to hold the W A or D key before pressing the dodge button. Really easy to get used to it.

The reason is the revolutionary “no holy trinity” thing. Thats all I have to say.

The heavy one is awful.

So what about this one? There was a note that culling is goind away few months ago. Then they removed it from the patch notes and said it was a mistake.

When is PvE culling going away?

Guardians and dps. You are a funny one, OP.

The first combination, OP. I like it a lot.
The gold boobs and golden kite are just nono! The blue kite is perfect for a guard