Guild Wars 2

Plains of Ashford – Defeat Titus Gearclaw

Aggro has a few mechanics I have noticed.

1. Proximity – the closer you are the higher the chance you will attract attention.
2. Stats – stacking toughness tends to make you a higher priority.

There are probably others, including damage dealt, but I can not gauge them with any certainty.

In GW1 aggro never seemed to rely on anything other than possibly proximity.

Okay evidently there is a 5 minute timer that switches the grenade kit to equipped weapons. However this isn’t in the tool tip and there is NO counter to help me track when it is going to switch. On top of this there is no logic behind this switching what so ever other than to try and g i m p kits with no reasoning.

Since there is no logic for this forced switch, can we not remove the switch-back altogether? If we can’t agree this behavior is some relic idea that serves no purpose other than to frustrate the player, at least put a countdown timer on it so it can be tracked…

I think all imps hit incredibly hard compared to mobs of the same level, Ice Imps included.

Saying you are forced is ridiculous and you know it.

Completionist isn’t required for this game. You aren’t required to do pvp to get to 80. The funny part is you bought a PvP game and complain they have PvP in it. Research purchases before complaining.

Now a game like Allods you HAD to enter a pvp map in order to advance beyond level 22. That’s forced PvP.

I don’t really care for it all that much but it does make the game interesting and it does keep bottom feeding to a minimum, so I really don’t see why it should be changed.

as long as I can disable it, fine.

Put it in the Trading Post, sell it in small doses. Anything that will support the game and is completely optional is fine by me.

Again, as long as I can disable that chat stream.

I can’t say if your suspicions are correct, I can say I am seeing more and more bots. The longer a game is out, the further bot programs can spread over the net, the more tempted players will use them. The more bots there are, the more 24 hour play you will find.

Most things should just be account bound instead of soul bound. I don’t see why the OP is being ridiculed by Nels, completely unnecessary.

Yep, these skill challenge “blocked” even fixes don’t really fix jack. It’s the server resets that temporarily work.

Servers could reset nightly, or at least once every 3 days. My personal favorite is my suggestion of a constantly spawn/collapse overflow server.

In any event this would probably be best moved to Suggestions.

As long as the chests remain cosmetic I wouldn’t have an issue with buffing them. Mini-pets, dyes, etc.

In order to get the best out of the 15-30 maps it is best to play during prime times. Off peak times are rather barren and a bit miserable.

Making maps 1-60 more cross-realm accessible is one possible solution.

They do NOT need a trial “version”. The last thing we need is free bot accounts, freen gold spam accounts.

Monthly play is FREE. Pony up the $60 for the game and get over the welfare mentality. That’s just my opinion on the whole Trial thing, that may work for and be needed by the monthly fee games, but totally unnecessary for this game.

Very good info, recently sold all the mats I hadn’t used, been playing since pre-release, over 3g in mats easily and my highest toon is 60. Bought another char slot with it

I have no issues with the Hearts, Storyline (but I haven’t done hardly anything on any character with this aspect, just skipping it) or Dynamic Events outside of the bugs that need to be and seemingly are being attended to.

The system is different, I find that refreshing. I like it.

Any game isn’t always the best game for someone, for me GW2 is a good game and for the last 5 years the best one to date. Before this, GW1.

Let me start by saying when I say mature I don’t mean a bunch of teenagers that think being older than 12 year olds makes them mature, I mean adults that don’t insult, disparage, have repeated drama escapades, etc.

Looking for a PvX guild that has members that play hard but aren’t elitists in their endeavors, etc. While members may strive for perfection they don’t trample on anyone else in order to boost their egos.

Very niche, I know.

The game is great, once the blocked events/skill points and a few balancing issues are worked out (necro for example) it will be just about perfect for the product it aims to be.

It is a PvP end game, the only time I see heavy negatives against this game is from the PvE players that didn’t research the product and expected WoW 2.0

StarlightGamer.9560:

Well, I guess if I included only MMOs that I was required to pay for, then GW2 would be first. If I include F2P MMOs, then GW2 might be in the top 5. If I include single player games, well… GW2 probably wouldn’t even be in the top 25.

Perhaps it wasn’t marketed to fit any of those categories, it’s like me saying “well apples are great compared to apples but once I factor in oranges and bananas…”

I just want to chime in in case there will be the option to block mail.

First blocking non-friends/guildies/rewards should be the default so that new players who are less inclined to read forums and such don’t get stuck with being flagged as accepting money from gold sellers.

Second, be sure accepting rewards from heart quests can’t be blocked at all, or someone is gonna complain about unintentionally blocking reward mail.

I don’t have 8 char slots in GW2, but I had 10 on one of my GW1 accounts. I think the arrow scrolling thing is a relic brought over from GW1.

Ha! I use/d that map. The 30-40? area on the right half is indeed 30-40, Burning Plains IIRC. Accessed through Divinity’s Reach, lower right half asura portal.

Not really commenting on your request as much as pointing out my personal issue, I can’t get away from the keyboard. I have a speed pad I could use along with a mouse, or perhaps a xbox controller, but I would miss or have to fumblingly reassign keys like opening this and closing that, not to mention inability to type in chat without keyboard immediately in hand. The way I develop my game play is with half the keyboard on my thigh, the other half on the arm of my recliner, my hand wrapped around the left keyboard boarder, and my fingers able to manipulate many of the various keys without looking.

Over time developing something like this is very hard to break away from.

Don’t need raids in a PvP game.

I would really like to see GvG in GW2..after all it is GUILD WARS. I was rather shocked it wasn’t the cornerstone, WvW can’t really make up for it.

I also miss the old spectator mode thing from GW1 (stopped playing 5 years ago with the release of EotN so I can’t remember that mode’s actual name). I would like to see GvG return and a spectator mode for GvG and sPvP.

Gem Cards are supposedly, possibly, being added at some point in the future. Evidently they are available in some areas of Europe? A Belgian player posted on these forums that he had purchased such a card from a local retailer.

When the signal to noise ratio exceeds my tolerance level (meaning I feel like venting) I turn map chat off.

Mass blockage.

lookitsandrea.8531:

The problem with a healing class is that people will forget to strategize in the game.

In other words the trinity tends to breed complacency. This is where GW2 shines, you better be actively mitigating and avoiding damage and self healing when you can’t avoid it.

Not just soaking up damage so some wet nurse can wipe it away.

I would appreciate if an official weekly update on server statistics was posted. Things I would suggest including:

WvW statistics by server.
Population broken down by general level range that played during that week.
Dungeon activity broken down by each dungeon.
sPvP broken down by professions participating, etc.

Other suggestions welcomed.

Title of thread is completely inaccurate. I find the trading post more than useful, even given the botters selling at +1cp over vendor, doesn’t change this fact.

Not me, but I support any idea that brings revenue to a game I like playing that doesn’t have a monthly fee.

phooka.4295:

Phy.2913:

Maybe set them to have an internal reset. If I activate one but don’t finish it/die/leave for some reason it sits there until someone comes along and kills it. A lot of times the enemy bugs out or glitches into the wall making it impossible to finish it. If the enemy is inactive for 5 minutes despawn it and reset the challenge.

Nice solution, but… sorry, busy implementing some mechanic to punish players for having fun in some way that was not predetermined by ANet. Implementing that mechanic has priority. Please propose the solution again in a few months.

However, maybe we can implement some sort of diminishing returns on skill challenges. After you did 3 in a day, you’re not being rewarded any more skillpoints for 3 hours or so. Do the non-bugged ones, you won’t be able to find more than 3 in a day anyway unless you’re using exploits or you’re a skillpoint-grinder, and noone likes grind, right?

BRB, busy implementing a new idea.

Rather than being a sarcastic dissatisfied gamer you could channel your frustrations into another game that suits your needs.

Rpgtabbycat.5869:

2. This would prevent botters from using the BLTP as a convenient vendor.

No, it wouldn’t. They would list it for the least they could even if it was double vendor.

While adding auto-loot lets add in auto-sell to vendor. Heck lets remove item drops and convert them into coin that is auto added, with little floating text above head on +xx copper/silver/gold.

If we are going down that road, let’s floor it.

Other than, as with many annoying sounds and voices, its a bit to loud, I actually like the sound. I don’t really care for it in a group of necros though, that gets a tad nauseous in a long dynamic event.

Button-pressed-by-object-on-keyboard-for-auto-attack isn’t technically a bot, but most game companies consider it cheating.

The true bots in this game will suddenly “teleport” to the next mob and begin attacking. When it is dead they “teleport” to the next. There is no clear line of travel, and at first you may think you or they are lagging. Just spend a few dozen seconds watching and you will see other players run by without exhibiting this sort of almost lag appearance, yet the botter keeps doing it.

Most of the botters use a signet warrior build, can be greatsword, bow or rifle. However I see other professions lately including engineers and even necromancers. The recent necro I saw was actually 3 characters, identical char in identical gear with different names standing on the same waypoint in Gendarren Fields, with minions. They would attack a portion of the Dynamic Event that came their way. These necros never moved but strangely once I mentioned I reported them in local chat, they began logging out and back in periodically.

Just like Dynamic Events, and the open world at large, these challenges aren’t intended to be a personal challenge for you to overcome. They are a world challenge, in effect.

This game isn’t instanced other than dungeons and story line quests. I have no idea why you have an issue with anyone else getting involved in gaining a skill point.

Extremely pleased you have taken the time to bring us up to date on an issue most of us find irritating at the least. Also want to thank you, as a customer, for taking the energy and money to hire people to actively address these issues.

The feedback means more to me as a customer and gamer than you might imagine.

Counterpose:

Fact: You probably wouldn’t notice a bot cause you spent to much time zerging with tunnel vision.

Fact: I see bots all the time. I report them all the time. I know what to look for that differentiates between a bot and an afk-auto-attacker.

Fact: I see characters with auto-attacked mashed down by an object on their keyboard and they are afk, in the middle of where a dynamic event occurs frequently.

Fact: I run across broken skill point challenges and at least 1 Dynamic Event bugged up on every map I enter up through the level 60 maps. Haven’t ventured beyond that just yet, get back to you on how bad >60 is later.

Fact: Many who complain or mention how the activity levels have dropped are pretty much discussing the pre-60 maps where it has indeed thinned out. Full servers do not indicate map coverage, they indicate population which is now more skewed to max levels since the game is over a month old.

This is no different than those that are in one spot and put an object on their auto-attack key so it keeps spamming/looking for target – while afk. Most game companies consider this activity illegal as it isn’t really playing the game “by hand”. This is the current flood of “botting”, not seeing as many true bots as I am this activity in the past few days.

Yep UI could use some tweaks, like Element resizing/moving. I am hoping this was left until after launch and major issues and that some day soon we will see some work towards this effort. Outside of a few issues its one of the best game UIs at launch I have experienced.

Back to mini-pets. I totally agree the whole bag summoning/resummoning and them being “put away” whenever you travel via waypoint or portal is annoying. I don’t recall this behavior in GW1 (though its been about 5 years since I played that).

Also mini-pets need to move faster, right now its pointless to have one out as they are never on my screen when moving, they are always WAY behind…

Sugetsu.9174:

occasional in game bugs

If only they were that occasional. On Monday, prior to the patch, the bugged issues in the game were ridiculously high. They are already climbing again.

I do enjoy the game, I do think it will improve. I do understand the reasons behind some of these issues not being caught prior to release.

However I don’t make false claims like “occasional”. Stream would have been more appropriate.

GW2 is a PvP game? That’s news to me.

Then that is unfortunate for you. I am sure you researched the system requirements before buying this game, you should have researched the game itself. Guild Wars isn’t called Guild Wars for the dungeons and dynamic PvE content.

Guild Wars has always been about PvP, that is the end game. The only reason there are 80 levels to grind through in GW2 is that is what many of the GW1 fans cried about, more levels. Why? 20 was fine. They cried cause 20 is a number to low to brag about to your WoW buddies when chest thumping in the local sandbox.

GW 1 and 2 are PvP games.

I am a torchlight fan, haven’t bought 2 yet been playing this game for now.

There is a fundamental philosophy and game balance difference between a PvP game like Guild Wars, and a more “fun centric” game where the impact on other players is less crucial, like Torchlight 2. The fact TL2 can be heavily modified and basically “cheating” is left to the individual as to wheter to go down that road seperates it from many other games.

Perhaps at some point the PvE and PvP aspects of GW2 can be seperated enough as to where adding more, powerful and varied items to the PvE game has no direct impact on the PvP game. This isn’t hard to envision, I believe such was passed on in order to bring the game the designers had envisioned.

Currently fixing the constant recurring bug issues, tweaking out the balance adjustments and meeting other current demands on the game as envisioned will take precedence.

Not trying to invalidate your hopes or suggestions, just looking at it from the evident original intent of the game.

There were a couple of items they mentioned would have future exchanges to address issues like this. I am not affected so I don’t remember the exact statement, I assume at some point soon you will have a means to exchange soul bound for account bound.

or…

Bring back Henchmen.

The problem with threads like this is they just tend to be flame baiting and the flamers lunge into action.

The title is inflammatory, and while I may agree with the intent I don’t think it really serves any purpose to post threads that lure trolls in.

Now about WvW being a copy of DAoCs RvR…laughable I must say. I can only imagine you didn’t play DAoC in the first 6 months when everyone was getting 1 shotted from range.

Just chiming in my opinion, OP if you disagree you disagree, no sense responding to each person who disagrees with you, it’s all a matter of opinion. I do agree there could be more options but here is my stance:

Character Creation was and still is sufficient for the game’s release. Now could they expand going forward? Sure, but lets fix the bugs and skill issues first. This isn’t a Barbie game, it’s a PvP game.

In GW1 PvP also gave achievements, you could unlock more PvP skills (if you hadn’t already), runes, etc. This is sorta missing from GW2 but it is a different game in many ways.

So some do it for gear appearances, for that Trophy Log In Wall of Awesomeness…

^ What ASB said.

I sorta feel sorry for those new to Guild Wars (at least the OP isn’t knocking end game content for lack of PvE options), I think the underlying philosophy behind Guild Wars and Anet’s PvP vision is being missed by the newcomers.

They want you to be able to dive right into PvP when you log in on a fresh account, not drudgingly grind mindlessly just to get to the experience they want you to have.

Simply means the cloud lasts 8 seconds anyone getting in it will get 8 seconds of poison. Now does that mean if they stay in it the ticker starts at the end of 3 seconds (meaning if they are in it from the start they will endure 10 seconds total)?

Thats how I would interpret it.

Mickey.4207:

Ever saw this section called BUGS on these very forums? Obviously you have no idea what he is stalking about because ignorance is bliss.

Your trolling is bad, 0/10. There is no bug being reported here. As the title states, it is the State of the Game – BUGS!.

The only one’s worked up here are those that post things like “Relax” and calling someone “Chief”.

Please stick to the topic and keep the trolling out, you aren’t helping anyone with anything but you are bumping the thread. At least Anet may see it in time.