Guild Wars 2

Gonna chime in once again on this topic.

For this item to be even remotely worth 900 gems, banking and all the other niceties of visiting a town should be included.

When I first saw the item I actually thought it would portal you to your Cultural Home, not your exclusive instance in it.

The item needs to portal you to your cultural home, and back again. Otherwise I don’t see it even being half the listed cost.

Someone needs to man up and rethink this item and be willing to admit the current state is just bad.

Been asked for for 2 years now. Hold your breath.

I would like to see them first balance the ones that exist. A few are very good, the majority are mediocre or just subpar.

An Elite should be Elite, not just some fluff utility you have to use cause you can’t put a decent utility in the Elite skill slot.

Guild Wars was just a franchise name theft. GW2 has nothing to do with actual Guild Wars.

Login.5102:

Better qol=better fun=better game

Ah but the conundrum goes like this…

Better QoL=Better Fun=Better Game=Less Profit with tricks and gimmicks sold in the gem store!

To the Gem Store! not

GlowSticks.9734:

Megaservers suck, thanks for ruining farming.
I’ve yet to see one benefit of them.

Then you must not have levelled a character through events and the like after the first 4 months from release. As much as I hated the bots that were around for the first 3 months or so, once they were gone there was NO ONE doing events that were good for levelling.

Bloodtide Coast was one barren locale for probably over a year.

Blame Final Fantasy and it’s ilk for the inspiration for such “poses”. I have seen worse though, so I don’t really have an opinion.

I truely do not like Conquest, never have, never will. I liked old GW1 RA/TA where it was just smash face, last team standing.

I also liked GW1s GvG and Tombs. Having Guild Wars in that Guild Wars game – revolutionary.

munkiman.3068:

GOSU.9574:

Putting a drop in this bucket that will never be read by the devs but anyways….

I just returned to the game about a week and a half ago after being gone for 8 months. This megaserver is a great boon, especially to those who are new or levelling an alt the old way. Gone are the dead maps where no one was doing events (Bloodtide Coast comes to mind). However….

Currently I am not sure Temple Events are linked to occur at the same time on the servers the way World Events are. Not sure exactly why but they can not be monitored for time/activity like world events, and this makes it very hard to get into a Temple Event unless you are right there staring it in the face when it starts.

Can we get something done about this?

As far as i can tell, this was a “fix” to contested waypoints in Orr, which had the counter of never knowing when “your server” or shard had them cleared.

Quite possibly. This further extends why we need a World Events (including Temples) in-game Browser with Timers and Nearest Waypoint links. It’s 2 years over due.

I think you are on the right track for a Black Lion item collection pack, but the items and their uses you mention are already well above what you specify for pricing. While I don’t think a hairstyle change any time you want for a month is totally out of the realm of possibility, the endless transmutation charges for a month would be. Some of the other things are out of the range of possibilities as well.

Rereading my previous posts I seem terse and combative, that is not my intent. I am merely venting my frustration but trying to do so constructively.

My apologies if I seem abrasive, not intended. I would like to see these things fixed as I believe they were oversights or just poorly planned and implemented, and we can do something about things that don’t turn out the best that they should.

Thanks.

Darkorical.9213:

So you are saying its trash because you can exploit it in to being a free trip across the map?

OP is saying it doesn’t work in a way that he felt made sense. There is no reason to denigrate him about expecting more than was delivered.

Ugh…another thing I just noticed, if you level in PvP you do NOT get a skill point.

What is this raw deal? It’s like everything was half thought out and pushed live.

I am a casual player. I try to play the best I can and I am above mediocre, but I do not push my self to be some stalwart elite “dude”. That aside…

I like to make throw-away toons. I like variety. I have a PVE toon of every class with some duplicates, all 80, blah blah. Sometimes I want to PvP with a different race, hair, whatever suits my fancy.

In GW1 you could load the game, log in, create a PvP ONLY toon, equip and jump in. In GW2 you have to go through the starter tutorial, you can not enter Mists until you complete it. Thats time that isn’t necessarily well spent, for someone wanting to enter pvp, now is it?

Add to this the new Trait system. If I want to use a XIII trait, I have to buy it if I am not on a PVE toon that has bought it or gone out and earned it. Now if I delete this “PvP” toon, I just threw away gold.

Why is this necessary? If I unlock a Trait in PvE on my account, it should be available in PvP on any character I make for that class.

I don’t get it, but I am assuming this was something not taken into account when the new system was put in place.

Editing: To add the solution I didn’t orginally add

At creation have an option to create a PvP ONLY character. This character enters the game in the Heart of the Mists, no tutorial required. All gear necessary to play has no cost, all trait lines are unlocked. This character can not exit the Mists. There will have to be some form of storage so earned items can be processed by the Mists-locked character.

Simple, solved.

Once upon a time, fairly long ago, Gail Gray (sorry for misspelling) was sorta the internet PR/Liason.

She was promoted out of that position and I am not sure if anyone filled it (I stopped playing GW1 very long ago).

All weapons and gear need a method to regain runes/sigils without destroying anything. This should be an in-game, game monetary system not some junk gem item.

The game needs it badly, runes and armor are too expensive now to be forced to salvage any of it. It might have been a good idea initially but it’s bad design is showing itself.

Turned voices off about 2 months after release, it’s been winner winner chicken dinner ever since.

Hearing cries and chants and calls for help (Quaggan needs help…will you help Quaggan!?!?) repeated over and over again, loudly, really grated me to the point of intolerance.

I turned voices off. Have never regretted it.

Putting a drop in this bucket that will never be read by the devs but anyways….

I just returned to the game about a week and a half ago after being gone for 8 months. This megaserver is a great boon, especially to those who are new or levelling an alt the old way. Gone are the dead maps where no one was doing events (Bloodtide Coast comes to mind). However….

Currently I am not sure Temple Events are linked to occur at the same time on the servers the way World Events are. Not sure exactly why but they can not be monitored for time/activity like world events, and this makes it very hard to get into a Temple Event unless you are right there staring it in the face when it starts.

Can we get something done about this?

I just started dabbling in this as yet another thing to do to cut out routine and keep the game a bit more fresh with more diversity.

Here is my tip to share: [&BC4DAAA=][&BPAAAAA=][&BCMDAAA=][&BCkDAAA=]

Make a whisper chat channel, allowing (obviously) only whispers. Now copy the above waypoint codes and whisper yourself.

Between repeated character remakes, the whisper does not go away (only if you close the client completely). Staying in the whisper chat channel keeps it from being flooded off the screen with idle map/guild chat.

This will shave a few seconds of loading the map and panning around for the next waypoint you need, just click the chat link.

If you look carefully you will find Mesmer is the Bard of GW2. Some of the skills have musical icons, effect floaties, etc. I believe it was an intentional way of the devs saying “Hey, here is your bard!”.

I am a big fan of playing a Bard in MMOs. I played one for the first 3 years of EQ, then the first 6 months of DAoC. I do not expect it to ever exist in GW2. I just can’t see the devs going down that road.

Yeah he is sure, I can confirm this as I did AC for the first time (story mode) yesterday to unlock the track for pvp, with a character I do not use in PvP. The track is now open and I am progressing in it.

49 – not overweight – not geriatric – but comparitively speaking, I can’t hang with the twitch reflexes of the typical gamers these days.

It took them nearly 2 years to take out a map. Skyhammer has been in the game about a year give or take, you got another year of suffering at minimum.

There is room for criticisms here, I would like to see Condi/Control more viable in PvE encounters especially on larger scale fights in the open world. Sadly I don’t think the developers want it, not that they don’t consider it.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Purple Miku.7032:

Let me get this straight. You’re complaining about necromancers being underpowered because you were defeated by multiple people fighting you while you were alone?

Am I mistaken or is this actually what’s happening here?

This is a troll thread. He got beat by a necro so he is trying to get them nerfed. Just report it and move on.

I have to agree with this, totally smacks of trolling.

Sadly, due to the way the classes were designed and the game designed, a healing class would likely completely trivialize most of this game’s challenges.

I mained monk throughout GW1, and I really like playing healing/support/ranged, I would really enjoy a healing class, but I can’t see this happening without a major game overhaul and that would likely require years.

Am I missing it? With the semi-pvp-to-pve conversion done while I was away, I am a bit mystified if these weren’t added to Heart of the Mists?

It’s an oversite, either mine (not finding them and they exist) or the developers for not placing them there.

Perhaps it could be suggested that a rotation of content very frequently be offered for gamer amusement. Each weekend could have a specific content event. Anticipation for a favorite event coming soon, and returning not to distantly, might be what the game needs for those who enjoy such frequent novelties as SAB.

There is a necromancer at work on the forums!

Gaebriel.3754:

I never actually noticed that, but I agree it’s kind of a silly oversight.

On the other hand, there’s zero chance in hell that I’ll ever buy that portal stone, I’d rather pay a few silver if I want to teleport. ^^

While it still may not be worth it to you, the real value in the new Home Portal Stone is you get to port BACK to where you were. That is the best part.

IMO the “home portal” should be tweaked. A new NPC in each cultural home that allows you to attune to that location. Then when Guild Halls are brought in to the game, the NPC can be placed there to attune to as well.

I got mine before the removal of the pvp wardrobe locker, but I got it from an achievement chest. Not sure if that is possible any more, I haven’t been playing for 8 months and with all the changes can’t be sure.

I have reached the point where I wouldn’t have an issue if they released mounts into the game, as long as it wasn’t some perpetually monetization scheme (mount only lasts so long OR you have to buy feed to enable it…etc.).

I simply do not think GW2 needs any sort of mount, GW1 was fine without them. But I am no longer a stalwart advocate against them.

The game has to be monetized in some way and these are very popular gem store items. I can not fault the business decision to keep it as it is. I also don’t have an issue with it, and you can buy gems with gold so it isn’t completely as if you are screwed if you don’t spend real money.

I recently made a male norn character, I haven’t played one in over a year and I don’t recall this happening, but I never played one for long before deleting, so I may have never noticed.

Currently when I am playing my male norn and I mine I get male asura sounds coming from my male norn….I thought it was a fluke (even though it happened a few times) but just now when jumping my male norn, once again, used the male asura grunting sound. I jumped a few times again until he grunted, and it was back to male norn.

Just reporting this issue, I find it a bit disturbing but obviously it doesn’t prevent the game from working.

Rhianne.4027:

The story mode of dungeons is also a good place to start, if you haven’t done it already. It seems to be more relaxed than the explorable paths – probably because people only have to run it once to unlock explorable mode, so don’t care as much if it takes a bit longer.

I have to concur here. I know in the past when I did story mode on my 80s I never, ever griped about low levels, mistakes, bad builds, etc. I just kept it shut and smiled while watching the newer/less experienced players PLAY their characters without being bickered with elitist BS.

Just remember once everything is “old hat” to you, take kind consideration of other new players who tag along for the first time, too.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

I definitely agree that in-game world boss availability messaging is something that should be implemented and it’s something we would like to do.

One thing I’ve always enjoyed about map completion is the abundance of things to do in any order I wish. Events could sort of have this nature if we showed them map-wide. But even telling players about events that are across a single map can be tricky business depending on the nature of that event. A number of events can be completed well within the time that it would take to travel to it from even the nearest waypoint. Yet a good argument for showing them anyway would be a map such as Dry Top or the Crown Pavilion, wherein you might care about the state of the events even if you don’t plan on participating in them.

Do you think that showing all of these events makes the map feel cluttered? Would it make finding the information you care about more difficult?

You know….I posted this nearly 2 years ago….had to be at least September 2012.

There should be an App. Currently I can get world event notifications via some random webpage designed that uses the API info, sadly this got borked for Temples with the megaserver thing. However I would like something from in-house development, that I can rely on, that is stable. Sure you could put an Event Browser with countdown timer and waypoint links (that can be used to link in chat as well), along with timer chimes for alerting, etc., into the game. That would be fabulous. Yet I would also like an iOS/Android app that I ckittene with my device.

I am finding this problem game-wide, it’s not just a cursed shore issue. Having recently returned to the game, they had previously changed scaling to rectify the “melting” issue (so much damage so fast mobs died as if they just melted when they spawned), but it seems to have returned. Any overpopular event falls prey to this, even The Frozen Maw, at every stage of the event and it’s precursors, just melts so fast.

Hopefully we can expect a revisit to tweaking the scaling issue.

storiessave.3807:

Welcome to the megaserver.

So many events trivialized by megazergs now. There’s a lot of them that need scaling fixes like this, if they’re not going to lower the softcap on maps. :\

I am not seeing any more bodies than I did before I left the game 8 months ago. When it came to popular events, Blackgate at that time had just as many peeps as I see now with the new “megaserver”. Remember, this megaserver system was really put in place to merge the dwindling home server populations, not to amass a robust and expanding home population.

I posted about this a few days ago, asking how I can get my pricey runes out of karma armor. Sadly I lost them cause I wanted to delete the character (I had 2 80s and didn’t need more than 1, of the same class). I really can’t believe there was no forsight in this by the developers, but I bet they know of the issue and it’s not high on the to do list atm.

Simply put there should be an NPC that extracts components that players installed for game money as a cost, not gems. It should not work on items like runes that came with Karma armor, but should remove player installed runes from Karma armor, etc.

Yep I just got help in game, thanks for the reply! Hopefully someone in the future may find this answer via search.

Been away from the game for a very long time, reading through patch notes is tedious and I am not finding the answers. Tried various google attempts and the only change I can find is they were moved to Vigil Keep at some point during a battle in LA, but I can’t find them in LA or VK. Help?

Since the begining of this game’s release I have been an avid player but a staunch critic. Like most who felt the game did not come remotely close to the "manifesto"’s objectives (primarily power creep/vertical progression) a lot has changed in the nearly 2 years the game has been out.

Having taken 2 long breaks during this game’s existence, a 6 month followed shortly by the more recent 8 month departure, I missed a lot of the changes as they happened. Having returned I am somewhat lost, but as I find the changes that have taken place they have all been, overall, a huge improvement over the original launch and the first few months of the game’s growing pains.

While in many ways the game still doesn’t met my preferences, I have to give the development team, art team, and all those who work on this game the kudos they deserve.

Well done.

eisberg.2379:

GW1 wasn’t an MMO, developers of GW1 stated as such.

Unfortunately they didn’t develop GW2. It does seem they wrote the manifesto then left.

Aomine.5012:

GW2 is designed for no vertical progression

This is worthy of a tag line, the satire is remarkable.

Gobhoblin.7582:

Here is my necro – Dr Formel De Hyde.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/158184/Formel.png

Just because you spend every day up to your elbows in corpses, doesn’t mean you can’t be dapper!

I have to ask…what is this? It looks like some variation on town clothes?

Pretty cool but I have no idea how you pulled that together.

Having a daily routine will kill the entire point of playing a game. While I tend to have set things I do, I don’t always do them in any order and I often let this or that slide. The reasons I left this game twice, once for 6 months and again for 8 months is, it becomes tedious and unfun when you find you are in a routine. I am going for at least 3 months of play time this go round, lets see how long I last before I find myself in a routine.

I just returned to this game after an 8 month hiatus and I want to delete a character I have a duplicate class of. This character has some runes that are fairly valuable, that I bought and put into her set of armor replacing the karma armor runes. However it seems there has been no further push to have any means to remove player-purchased runes from karma armor? Perhaps I am overlooking something that has been added in my absence, but I can not find anything.

In order to keep you playing a gear tread mill was added to the game shortly after release. In order to make this treadmill a requirement, to keep you playing, past and current content will be buffed over time. Enjoy.

In GW1 I played the first 2.5 years after release. I have no idea what you are talking about, must have come later.

Unless you are talking about elite capping, which wasn’t a grind at all.