Guild Wars 2

Maxwell.7843:

To be honest, I think some of you guys are worrying too much

I doubt this trend will last, people are just having a bit of good natured fun with their brand new dorito. Just give it a bit of time.

By the way, maybe I’m the exception buy I have yet to see such high concentrations of commanders… After the announcement, at most I’ve seen 2 or 3 doritos in the same map, and it din’t usually last long (so I assume people were just testing their tag).

Once I did see like 6 doritos in a map/situation that hardly required any, but it was before the announcement, so…

No one is worrying to much guy, it’s blight on my screen, right now. Blight. It uglifies the game. Blight. On my screen. What does that have to do with this faked up “worry”?

Wolf.5816:

I’d like an option to exchange all the PvE Weapons/PvE Armor/PvE Sigils/PvE Runes/PvE Chests/PvE Boosters/ and all the PvE Crafting materials I get from playing PvP into Gems, Black Lion Weapon Claim Tickets or atleast Black Lion Chest Keys. This way I will have the chance of getting a interested Skin.

Being Rank 80 for so long.. I already unlocked most of the the armor skins before they even removed Glory and I don’t PvE. These mounds apon mounds of PvE stuff is crazy.

Perhaps there should be a seperate reward track or tracks even, for rank 80 (could be rank gated to include lower ranks as one progresses). I know that will stir the pot on rank-gating, rank farming, etc.

Pifil.5193:

GOSU.9574:

I am quite sure Anet is well aware of this blight issue that has been brought up multiple times since the Commander Tag fire sale began. I am just hoping they take action instead of “waiting to see how this shakes out”. It’s not gonna be pretty……

How would they “take action”? Nothing that those players are doing is “wrong”, as such, it’s just pointless and visually noisy. There’s nothing they can really do.

Hopefully, people will get bored and turn their tags off pretty quickly, otherwise you’ll have to follow the one guy who doesn’t have a tag.

I have posted an answer to that many times in the other threads on this topic.

Graphics Options> Commander Tags:

1. Display Commander Tags for my server
2. Display Commander Tags for my guild
3. Do not display Commander Tags

Left unchecked all Commander Tags would be displayed.

Spiderbite.8049:

My apologies good sir.
When I purchased my Commander’s Tag I seem to have misplaced the rulebook that tells you how/when to use it properly.

Keeping it up 24/7 puts you in the Vanity Plate category. Nuff said.

Boon stripping. Sorely lacking for Ranger.

I am quite sure Anet is well aware of this blight issue that has been brought up multiple times since the Commander Tag fire sale began. I am just hoping they take action instead of “waiting to see how this shakes out”. It’s not gonna be pretty……

Serraphin Storm.2369:

AEFA.9035:

for anyone here doubting ranger in terms of build, come 1v1 me in game Firstborn Strife, I use power build. no cheese builds like traps or spirits or regen condi builds PM me.

I think he meant he doesn’t use a cheese build not that you can’t use one. I could be wrong.

This is where he sets up confrontation. Builds he doesn’t like are cheese.

I feel sorry for power ranger builds, and this is one of the reasons. The survivability is pretty low for a melee build, there isn’t any healing stat taken to boost the chosen heal and without that the heals just don’t cut it. None of them do for power builds, IMO. Heal as One though, I consider trash (since I mainly play BM Regen/Condi, I stick with Spring or at times Ungent).

One thought would be to make Heal as One more Power friendly while not making it more powerful (LOL) for non-power builds. Perhaps have it draw on Power for it’s Healing boost.

Topic.

Long overdue.

Hamfast.8719:

GOSU.9574:

Check my post pic above. Fem Orc at the ready.

Looks BORG to me, what with the techie monocle and all. Or perhaps the mythical “BorgFrogOrc”.

Adelas.6598:

Wait… is she seriously pantsless? where are her petal panties? How’d you do thaaat?

Tier 3 Cultural armor. (It’s what Caithe wears. Or doesn’t…)

Last I checked goggles aren’t a monocle.

In GW1 (prior year to EotN) I remember players begging, pleading, they wanted options to spend money on the game. Namely character slots. At the time Gaile was the PR type persona and was doing some back and forth with the internal powers that be and the players. They brought in PvP packages and such later after the character slots. I left the game shortly after this as I wasn’t interested in EotN, but the point is…

The PLAYERS were demanding this.

Fast forward: GW2 built to give players options to spend their money on the leisure activity Anet provided. Yes, it monetizes the game, you aren’t seeing an expansion every year or 6 months since they can do content from this monetization. Players get what they asked for, company gets paid.

I don’t see the issue with them ensuring players have access to this option easily available. Adding shortcuts to access this hurts no one.

Hamfast.8719:

I previewed her as a male in the Total Makeover Kit… no changes other than sex. I think I came up with an Orc race.

Check my post pic above. Fem Orc at the ready.

Umut.5471:

Please allow us to pick up bought items seperately, picking up all at once is not possible sometimes.

I suspect the reason it is as it is is simple….people WILL use it as extra storage.

Eurantien.4632:

You just need to find your right play style and learn to become effective with it.

They axed the axes?

RubiBayer.8134:

I’ll chime in and say congrats. This is typical of the Guild Wars 2 community as a whole from what I see in my daily rounds: Players taking opportunities when they see them to make someone else’s day.

The gestures are all different sizes, and it’s not about being able to attach a monetary value to the item given or hold it up and say that it meets a certain list of standards. The common thread in all of these is a player seeing that they can offer something nice to another, and taking the opportunity to do so with no hesitation or expectation of reward. It’s a great thing that happens constantly in Tyria. Thanks for sharing yours!

On that note, I have to agree. Having recently returned to the game I had 188 unid’ed dyes due to the account bound dye changes. I went through them all and sent anything I didn’t have (about 180 dyes I would guess now) to a random person I saw that looked fresh and new. The guy was quite happy.

OP: Congrats. Good to hear someone made your day!

What you are missing, and this goes for everyone that replied so far, is the horrible Elites you are stuck with right now. There are very few good elites, very few.

Take your thief into an underwater boss fight. Get back to me.

Just ONE shining example.

Wait…..the game is progressing while you are away and that makes you very angry? Really?

If I were a 2handed axe fan, I would definetly get a pair of chaos axes. They are pretty large,e, each almost as large as any 2h axe I have seen in an MMO.

When an update contains mainly polish, that typically means either the developers have been doing some vacation time (who’d athunk it? summer…vacation….summer…vac..) and/or are working on other larger and typically more extensive projects. I don’t know the internals so I can’t guess as to projects for this game or something else, but polish is typically idle work that has been going on for some time and is being brought together and pushed live.

I am fine with occasional polish updates. Not sure why so many get bent out of shape cause their beloved content X, Y, or Z isn’t the feature each and every few weeks.

I mentioned the BM Regen/Condi since the OP seemed to have problems surviving. This build works by outlasting the enemy. I have never, ever, ever had a single issue with warriors other than they like to run away Seriously, that is the only issue I have with them.

The power builds like GS or Sword/Dagger brings up front damage, you can take the enemy down much faster. It does lack the survivability of the BM Regen/Condi, you just need to pick your playstyle.

Curtis Johnson.8456:

Berelious.3290:

Here’s another question that’s always bugged me… will we be able to specifically filter for back items now? (an item for which there was never any kind of filter to begin with)

Yes, back items and accessories are both select-able sub-categories of armor now.

These changes sound like very long overdue overhauls, along with Armor Weights. Much appreciated.

Most the time you get hit by it you are running away, I don’t see animation changes really changing anything.

From my Ranger/Sylvari looks post (I have since changed the colors from yellow to a bit more orange, and included that on the shoulders):

You know when I feel pressured to buy gems? When the design/developers put something in the gem store that I want! That I WANT.

I don’t feel pressure to spend money in order to convert gems to gold to get more in-game money. I don’t think anyone feels this pressure, ever. Now, that isn’t to say some may want to buy gems to get gold faster, that is their call now isn’t – it? (some odd forum moderation thing going on with that)

TL;DR: I don’t see the issue.

This game suffers from many underpowered elites. You don’t need me to tell you, just check your internal data on elite usage.

This game has needed elites/improved elites since release. How many times do you wince that your Thief in HotW final fight with an underwater boss has the impressivly awesome Basilisk Venom? Seriously….

I suggest future elites come with passives that are useful. At least that way, at a minimum, they will be utilized in some environments.

My most basic example would be to have elites for Mesmer and Guardian that include what all other classes currently have in some form of trait or utility: 25% movement speed.

Currently the slowest classes to level in PvE are these two classes, purely for that reason. All other classes have access to 25% faster movement speed very early, usually at least by level 20. But this isn’t the end of it, all classes should have elites with useful passives.

Yep, glass cannon bows don’t have the stealth of a thief now do they? No get out of jail free card for that Ranger. Once you are in combat, you are IN COMBAT.

Now that is off my chest, BM Regen/Condi. Embrace it if you are doing soloQ. You can play other more power heavy builds, but this one can get you through some thick kitten.

Rouven.7409:

Jornophelanthas.1475:

I have no issues at all with the Skillbar or Karl McLain, except one.

I have absolutely NO interest in PvP, but I am VERY interested in changes to skills and traits (from a PvE perspective). However, I still have to dig through a half hour of chatter in order to find the Skillbar segment. Which is prerecorded and not even a true part of the rest of the show.

So please publish any future Skillbar segments (whenever new upcoming changes appear) as independent videos.
That way, I can find the information I need, and can continue to ignore Ready Up, like I prefer.

Et voila (they said they would do this):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c86ECLpcamo

I agree with the original poster though. Not only should the Skill Bar be available seperately, it should be available as soon as it is ready. There is no reason to postpone it to be available a week later.

While I pvp, I don’t care for idle chatter about the pvp environment or the meta vs anti-meta, or hyping one’s own personal nickname ad nauseum. I am only interested in the skill changes.

Valento.9852:

I posted once and the image was eaten, so I’m uploading my final look (I guess).

Very nice.

I should post my light armor gals, will do it once I finish my new ele. But they are simply in combinations of Cultural.

Lunar Sunset.8742:

How did GW1 survive 3 years w/o a gem store then. And look at my post history, I’ve known since day -3 that you could buy gold with gems m8.

I played GW1 the first 2 years and left when EotN was released, I had no interest in it.

I bought character slots and, if I recall correctly they had added PvP packs and other unlocks for a price. While it may have not been a “Gem Store” it was certainly in that game at the 2 year mark, not 3.

I have levelled and equipped 17 characters so far (I rotate out toons I am no longer interested in, so I have deleted 7 fully geared in exotics toons). All of them are in full exotics and I have a few of them in ascended trinkets and I have 1 ascended bow from a drop. Currently I have a stable of 10 level 80s in exotics with some ascended trinkets.

You don’t have to have ascended gear. Since I do not have a real “main” it seems a huge waste of time to work on ascended armor or weapons. I also loath crafting, the money it takes to skill it up, and the time.

I prefer to play the game with the best gear I can have under my circumstances and enjoy my time playing it. Some people enjoy having every ounce they can drag out of power on their one main character, which is fine. I don’t know of many who have a stable of toons in full ascended.

Give the guy a break. Have you every done a dry run live on video reading something?

I seriously doubt you or I could do any better. Poor Karl, I bet he did not sign on at Anet to be “The guy in front of the camera”. He is delivering what he and others working on skill tweaks have been working on, directly to YOU the gamer. You know, that communication people complain about Anet never delivering……

Some gamers……..

OmaiGodman.2098:

I think you missed the part where Guildwars 2 is the sequel to Guildwars 1.

I think you missed the part where there is no Guild Wars in this Guild Wars sequel.

Kibbles.9813:

Engineers are the only profession besides Banner Warriors in the game that are able to lay down their utility skills on a point, walk away from them and still have them be effective to some degree, with the addition that the turrets also passively deal damage. A Turret Engineer doesn’t even have to be on or anywhere near a point to put pressure on a capture attempt.

Summoning three AI minions that follow the player and deal damage are one thing, but self repairing AI objects that do not despawn when the player leaves their radius, self-repair and have no penalty for actually being destroyed is another thing entirely.

I am curious, do you find leaving your 3 utilities (not to mention healing turret) somewhere that they do not directly benefit you advantageous? I don’t.

Just putting this out there cause you make it sound as if turret engineers do this regularly.

It does appear to be more of an “I did that on idle time” developer work. I suspect they are either working more on something else for the game, or for a different game entirely. It feels as if this is more filler/fluff than anything else.

Sizer.5632:

Too bad, i’d rather face a mindless turret engy than a multi kit condi one that knows what he’s doing.

Exactly.

Dahkeus.8243:

GOSU.9574:

Here is a suggestion I could have made but failed to do so….

Spectate.

What I do is spectate, watch a class I am interested in trying a particular build or I am looking for something “different” than what I have played. I switch players, switch matches, servers, etc., til I find something. I check their playstyle. If it is something I think is interesting/good/whatever, I screenshot their traits, their gear choices, their choice in heal, utilities and elite.

Now I may never play it. But I have it all screenshotted in my library O screenshots if I decide to give it a test.

Careful with this one…you can only spectate in Hot Join and the builds/players you find there are somewhat less than reliable. Just be sure to remember that Hot Join is optimal for people learning a class or testing a new build, so don’t expect to get the best example of how a class plays from observing there.

However, watching popular streams/youtube videos can be much more helpful.

And this is why you find something you like and give it a test to see if it is a fit. Then you take it live.

I find nothing more boring than watching twitch streams. I also find meta vs anti-meta boring as hell.

Here is a suggestion I could have made but failed to do so….

Spectate.

What I do is spectate, watch a class I am interested in trying a particular build or I am looking for something “different” than what I have played. I switch players, switch matches, servers, etc., til I find something. I check their playstyle. If it is something I think is interesting/good/whatever, I screenshot their traits, their gear choices, their choice in heal, utilities and elite.

Now I may never play it. But I have it all screenshotted in my library O screenshots if I decide to give it a test.

The trading post, as is, was put into the game with the added benefit of reducing scams. It happened so often in GW1 (first 2 years, dunno after that) Anet was about sick of trying to pigeonhole transactions in order to prevent a lot of it. So this is one of the major reasons GW2 does not have open trading.

Now, with all that said, anyone falling for open trade via mail scams has absolutely no one to fault but themselves and their gullibility. That doesn’t mean it isn’t reportable, but it does mean they were given the tools to avoid this.

BM regen/condi, embrace it.

The only problem I ever had was with thieves that were stealth spamming/condi removal in wvw. According to all other rangers, I just need to l2p against them. Guess so. Builds like that which can stealth and run off will always be a problem.

Losing a lot of soloqueues isn’t really indicative of YOU. SoloQ is just to random to base anything on.

No one can suggest to you what you “would feel comfortable with”, as you mention. Only you can. Play everything, decide.

What I like playing, most do not. No, I am not some unique uber player, it’s just what I like playing. Why would I recommend that to you? Not only do many NOT play what I like, I doubt you would either.

Sadly the developers insist on saddling the Ranger with a pet and insist it is part of their dps package. Yet in many environments it is virtually useless, which renders the Ranger’s damage on the low end of the scale in those environments and encounters and why people rag on the Ranger as a class.

Take non-mobile objects. They refuse to attack them…..most irritating.

Kilger.5490:

Smoke field following the fire field on bonfire has been my suggestion. You could get some nice blind and stealth combos off of those.

You remind me about something I have come up fairly often in my thoughts on Ranger, I miss Dust Trap (GW1). Recently I was thinking about it’s potential abilities in GW2, with pulsing blinds and reduced ranged damage taken while within it’s area.

Sadly, they put it on the necro.

Lazuli.2098:

Love the diversity in looks among all the fantastic pictures of rangers in this thread. I’ve updated my ranger’s look slightly. Still going for the “blend into the background” look. My norn ranger, Aurora Wildborn, showing off her new quiver of swift flight:

I like her basic forester look. I also like the quiver, having finally managed to make mine recently. It’s a wonder what the lack of underboob can do for a bit of uniqueness.

Zord.6130:

But hey, engineers are the hardest class to play!

A well played engi IS the hardest, most skill required class to play.

That doesn’t mean you can’t faceroll in some cheap build and stay alive.

yeah….you know it’s coming.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

It would be nice if we could throw them into the mystic forge.

It’s high treason to toss Queen Jennah’s likeness into the mystic toilet!

I thought this game was prophesied to be dead the third month after launch? No? I know there were posts back then, heck basically since day 2, fortelling how this game was dying and would no longer be played blah blah blah…..

So……your friends aren’t playing much if at all any more right? Yet the game continues to draw in new players every day. So, there you sit in your neighborhood and all your friends have moved away and these new people have been moving in, but instead of making new friends you continue to lament all your old friends moving away….

The game is not dying, it isn’t being played less and less, you just have developed this reality bubble and believe it is shared by everyone else.

Well…it isn’t.

Raven.9603:

• QZ is still going to be a 50% damage buff after the patch hits, which makes it stronger for sustained burst like rapid fire or autos than signet of the wild.

How does one reach “sustained” using a utility that has a short duration and a fairly long CD (for a non elite utility)?

Bow users will use anything to try and eek out some dps.

Lady Celtaine.3760:

GOSU.9574:

I look forward to the graphics option to NOT display them. Thats right.

1. Display commander tags.
2. Display commander tags for my server only.
3. Display commander tags for my guild only.
4. Do not display commander tags.

Coming soon.

I’m not sure how that(2) will work if it’s at all relevant with the megaserver anyway. But I really like this(3) idea.

For instance, lets say you are doing Cursed Shore events, and you play on Henge of Denravi. Now you are in that glorious melting pot called the Megaserver with multiple server populations sharing it at the same time. Enable this option to only view Henge of Denravi Commander Tags.

In any event, I would take the Display only my guild’s Commander Tags as a single option. Since I am in a guild of 1, and I don’t display my commander tag, I remove the blight.

The current team has no interest in replicating any of GW1 in this game. Guild Wars 2 is a franchise name, time to move on.