Guild Wars 2

Yes, underwater mask would require same rune of set to get 6th bonus.

but…to those espousing tribal…it’s light only. That’s a pretty hefty limitation.

khani.4786:

GOSU.9574:

Loot in this game is the saddest part of this game. Crappiest loot in any MMO I have ever played.

One thing that history will reveal, years later this game will be known as the WORST loot MMO ever.

You never played GW1….that game had abysmal loot! At least here you get something about every other mob. I had about 30 slots in my bag and I’d be lucky to fill it up clearing an entire map.

I played the first 2 years of GW1. Yes, it was bad, but it isn’t the most recent. GW2 has supplanted it. GW1 wasn’t an MMO by the way.

Loot in this game is the saddest part of this game. Crappiest loot in any MMO I have ever played.

One thing that history will reveal, years later this game will be known as the WORST loot MMO ever.

Malediktus.9250:

Because armor is there to protect. If you dont want to see armor unequip it.

Someone not familiar with Tattoos in GW1.

I suggest Tattoo “skins” ala GW1.

You know…I get a bit burned out with all the “Expansion” threads.

Personally I see no reason to put forth an Expansion in the traditional sense. Live content can be created and pushed in small or large chunks that over time can equate to the traditional Expansion. Just like the Big Numbers people like to see when doing damage, they don’t see the big Expansion if it slips in on them.

Those people….those are the one’s that need that big BOX expansion.

There is a LOT of overhead when pushing boxed expansions. That overhead has to be recouped before the expansion can even begin to be profitable. Why should Anet go down this road? If GW2 can remain profitable without that large initial overhead, why feel pressure to go down that traditional route?

Conncept.7638:

You can farm a transmutation stone in 20 minutes, make an asura and do Rata Sum map completion. An hour and a half and you have enough for a full set.

….seriously some of us just don’t think this way…you just made my day.

Let’s make a bit of a correction. Map completion rewards are unsatisfactory, however there are quite a few exploration enthusiasts that will complete the maps even if there was no reward. Basically it rewards that diehard niche.

In GW1 there was no reward for revealing all map areas (at least at the time I stopped playing, just as EotN was released). Yet people would insist on clearing the Fog of War from every nook and cranny.

kokiman.2364:

Wethospu.6437:

Games and especially gambling in them is still quite a new thing so it will take a while until older people catch up. I would expect to see laws in a few years.

I guess that’s why A.Net is so aggressive about it. They try to exploit it as long as there are no regulations. There is imo a good reason why gambling is restricted in so many countries

While I am not advocate of Black Lion Keys/Chests and the randomness (gambling) that is involved, I wouldn’t go to such links as to say Anet is exploiting something.

It is a small part of their business model and while you, and I, may have no appreciation for it have you considered what would be the topic if it didin’t exist? I will tell you…

“We need Chests that we can spend Gems to open!!!!”

Just because you and I don’t care for it does not mean others do not desire it. In fact, if they didn’t, it would have been removed long ago. The truth is keys sell and players buy them because they want to.

Let’s keep things in perspective.

GvG needs to happen. It needs to be implemented now. It’s 2 years over due.

What on earth would GvG do to help in your situation? It would put a competitive PvP edge on your guild where it belongs. It would take a LOT of pressure off WvW being the only method for you to participate with your guild in a competitive environment (though you can do this now by tPvPing with your guild).

GvG would not be server restrictive.

Uh….it is by design that MF doesn’t effect chests. They have stated the chance for items is higher from a chest. I don’t think you are gonna win on this debate as I think it was thought through and the approach is set in stone unless a complete overall of everything loot chance based were to occur.

Teleri.7124:

Every once in a great while I’ll come across some pretty offensive guild names. There’s no point trying to list any here because they’ll either get me banned or they’ll be censored, assuming I could remember the exact spelling. Why is there no way to report bad guild names?

One example I remember was something along the lines of “We pick your cotton”, which seems inoffensive enough except that the 4 character symbol for this guild was the “N” word with the vowels removed.

Same can be said for bad pet names. I am not sure the person monitoring such reports would think to check a pet’s name, and reporting a player for bad name that isn’t a bad player name will likely result in action against me after a few times…….the report system is bad due to one reason and one reason ONLY: NO TEXTUAL INPUT ALLOWED.

I bet nothing changes and you will be required to be a zerker build in order to enter raids (by other players).

and…they should be outfits so when that opposing zerg tops the hill driving you down in full bathing attire…..yeah.

I can see the total makeover kits rolling off the shelves as guy toons are remade to gal toons.

Yes, it’s been in game since launch but recently I found other versions that seem potentially related but may be unique bugs apart from the slope damage that can kill you almost instantly.

1. Slope damage that can kill you almost instantly. Been in the game since launch. Nuff said.
2. Fall from a great height. Land. No damage. Move = All damage accessed, which can include instant death if it was a high enough fall.

And the latest one with picture included (I could make a video but I don’t have capture software nor care to download any):

3. Jump from the edge of where my character stands in the picture, while moving forward. As soon as you land, while continuing to move forward, jump again, and again, and again. Each jump will access the same original damage over and over until you stop or you die.

1. is repeatedly, any time, all the time. Oh…the picture is from WvW (Home) Green Borderland.

I suggested this last year in the original thread with dev replies.

ofLegends.9853:

Does anyone else do this?

It took me literally 20 minutes just to pick a GLOW color for my sylvari.
Twenty minutes!!!!

Usually I don’t spend more than 10mins if that, but I get in game to see how the toon looks, especially with sylvari, then I may end up remaking 2-3 times before satisfied. However, I have completely stopped making alts, I have levelled and equipped 17 toons, cycling through and remaking some, deleting some, I have 11 now and with the new levelling system, screw that PITA.

With all the warrior changes you can hang up that rifle now. It’s been nerfed into oblivion. Even Kill Shot is a PITA with the crazy adrenaline drain that happens now while not in combat.

Vayne.8563:

Could it be because the particle effects would cause additional lag? Imagine 30 people with those things.

Yet there are 20-30 minis and 10-20 Ranger pets in every zerg………yeah.

The reason they can’t be used is, at one time one of the costumes (I forget which) could be abused to give faster movement in WvW. At that time all costume type items were disabled from use in WvW.

after readomg the above post more carefully and considering the staleness of the current WvW map selection, I had an epiphany to prelude what I posted previously that follows.

WvW maps, new ones, could have drop in geodomes. Portions of the map could have geodomes that can be replaced by others, repositioned to other locations of the map, and/or rotated with different facing. This can occur at the start of each new week and the geodomes be placed randomly. New geodomes can be designed in the future and just dropped into a table of possible geodomes for a given week’s play.

Currently the reward rate in EotM is quite high. Granted most of it quickly becomes nearly useless or just trash, but it is far more rewarding item wise than WvW.

Sadly the items are underwhelming.

Now, that said, WvW needs a lot of work. Rewards being one of them. Something that alters game play often enough it doesn’t become so stale. I honestly don’t know what can be done, I can say this, until this Tournament I hadn’t played WvW for more than a few days of game time in the 2+ years since launch. At least the weapon skins were enticing.

Now that the tournament is ending I will likely not be doing much WvW, if I even continue to play the game much. I will return once something interesting happens, like Raids, but I expect that to be years into the future.

Bri.8354:

After reading through the thread again, I’ve compiled a list of common things players want raids to be:

• 10-25 player instanced content (possibly multiple raids each with different party sizes).
• Less “do this at this time” mechanics.
• Clear objectives and mechanics that don’t require vocal communication or precise coordination.
• More importance given to defense, CC, and support mechanics and less about sheer damage.
• Multiple objectives and roles for players in the group.
• Condition stacking needs to be fixed.
• Appropriate monetary and exclusive rewards for the difficulty and scale.
• No vertical stat progression.

Can we all agree on this or is there something that should be added to or removed from this list?

You left out Monks.

I occasionally see “it” in yoloq.

Can’t answer the questions.

calyx.9086:

This is why you never, ever buy armor or weapons with karma or badges. Buy it on the TP, or craft it, or get it from dungeons, or go naked.

Thats right folks! You heard it right here! It is YOUR fault the developers have a flawed extraction system! Shame on you players!

I lost a very close pet companion in May, more dear and closer than most humans. I know the pain of losing a pet and the conflict over how much the impact can have on you and your life.

There really isn’t anything that can be said but I just want to mention your animal companion will always be with you.

The funny thing is with the buff to ranger LB#2 you can now completely dodge it. Before, with the slower fire rate, 1 dodge would not cover the duration of the skill. Now with the skill being so fast to complete it’s 100% dodged.

Using your brain requires no skill, it requires you to use your brain.

Liston.9708:

nassaya.7109:

Hiya i’ll keep it short, i noticed today that our server had a que but we where outnumbered. How is this possible?

Cheers,
Nassaya.

You know, that might be one way to even a score – larger pop allowed in when in 3rd place of current matchup and down by x amount

So you like the “all isn’t fair in love and war” aspect of gaming, I take it?

If the match up is even numbers wise and one team gets ahead, nerf them! gotcha.

Since this game doesn’t have anything similar to a /follow command and I doubt seriously you are going to manually move and attack with multiple characters at the same time, I am confident however you figured you would “multi-box” would very likely be bannable.

1 keypress, 1 action per account.

xusa.4021:

I only ask: Don’t do a one path raid. Let multiple parties run different parts of the dungeon to make it more interesting :s

This is an excellent suggestion, I also don’t want to see a “Us vs Big Boss” mode. There is enough of that in open world, for GW2 to have instanced raids that don’t follow the mold of other MMOs it should be more than “Us vs Big Boss”. There should be puzzles, conquests, objectives, obstacles, etc., that are periphery, some required in order for the raid to be successful, some optional.

Be sure to bring this up in the CDI.

This will never end. It is about comprehension and understanding and as long as humans are involved there will be failures to comprehend or understand.

“I bought something when it first released, I paid extra to get more stuff than others and I thought that was fantastic! Now long after the item has been out and the company puts out more stuff with extra cost to entice customers to pay extra I don’t get that extra! I feel ripped off!”

Really….

This is a rather odd view but it may have some merit.

I see a lot less uplevels in WvW maps these days while EotM is just full of them and I play on a T1 server.

I have been asking for a keybind to Stow pet for 2 years now, get in line.

ellesee.8297:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee is the one that pushes far in the beginning and carries you!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Made me laugh.

Thanks for taking the time to make that video, I would never even bother had it not been shown how useful the apps can be.

I support the ability to move the current UI elements around, and gosh!, scale them up or down!

Yeah, how many distance ranged characters do you have that when using top of screen to set down a reticule ends up being blocked by the target UI element and your skill reticule is placed at YOUR location instead?

Yeah 2 years later and this fail still happens.

Well not to be the devil’s advocate but when removing repair costs on gear it was stated that the money sink would be shifted.

Jeknar.6184:

You can buy PVT gear for 42k Karma from the temples in Orr… And since Karma isn’t useful for anything else, it’s a good trade.

42k karma per piece, thats 504k karma to fill out all 6 slots, accessories, rings, amulet and backpiece. Also Karma is used for Shards, which are used for making Ascended gear and thus isn’t useless “for anything else”. Lets keep the facts straight.

WvW doesn’t follow any pvp philosophy. Basically it’s GW2’s Open World PvP.

There are some differences between PvE and WvW as far as buffs and things go (Ranger Pets don’t get the same health in WvW they do in PvE, etc.) but they are minimal.

I think in the attempt to be aggressive against phishing adding a warning message to EVERY in-game mail from another player is heavy handed and alarmist. Simply adding the official stamp/logo to OFFICIAL in-game mail would be enough.

Imagine if every letter you got via snail mail not from the government had a warning:

“This message is NOT from the government and could contain a BOMB!”

I think that is a very good analogy.

Not gonna happen. Clearly many, many elites in GW2 are underpowered and underwhelming, especially in various environments (Hello Basilisk Venom in underwater champ fights ala HotW).

The fact that in GW1 you didn’t have to equip an elite, you could only have one but any skill could be used in lieu of one, speaks volumes on the current design as being 100% rigid and intentional.

This would certainly be a bug. It would have so much QQ on the pvp forums I would become obese eating all those tears.

On the upside they fixed the bug with the bank and double-click to stow items that aren’t already in the bank as a partial stack.

How is that any different than yahoo private chat rooms (if that messenger even still exists) or virtually any such voice chat app?

Until you can spectate a live match (with a delay, 5 mins was the delay in GW1) there will be no real esport for GW2. You will have a niche group doing niche pvp tournaments and that is where it ends.

I won’t go through all the details, I will let others who are more passionate on the subject do that. I would like to mention this though:

When designing guild halls, don’t just make a place guild members hang out. Make them GvG maps, as in GW1. Even if initially there is no GvG, at least think ahead for GvG when designing them.

As stated many, many times in similar threads, the game needs an in-game economy method to remove upgrade components without destroying the upgraded item. It should cost game currency, laurels, gold, ecto, whatever. Karma gear should have runes removed period. This will alleviate any issues with karma-gold flipping.

Tman.6349:

Swoop is divided into two parts, the actual leap portion and the attack. Both trigger as leap finishers. Working as intended as far as I could reason.

This is also true in other fields. I never realized this until recently with light fields and ranger gs #3. When leaping through a large enough light field it would trigger twice.

Do we really need zerg rank finishers? Really?

PvP for rank finishers, zerg isn’t indivual rank now is it?

TL;DR : Basement nerds are toxic.

I got it.

On the flip side, during my game time since launch I have reported probably less than a handful of players I thought were botting and within minutes I discovered I was wrong. I don’t just go around making reports, I would watch their game behavior, etc., and firmly believe they were indeed botting. However some time later their behavior or chat or whatever would reveal I was wrong.

My issue? I could NOT delete the report…..sure I was hopeful Anet would realize I was wrong, but it would be nice to remove reports up to 1 hour or some other shorter time period after creating them.

In what way does this activity break the game? While I am sure if they feel a need to it will be fixed, I don’t understand this overly dramatic thread title, it’s like some little girl got her panties on fire.

WvW Current Burst DPS (Ranged) Meta Award goes to: Ranger

You need to decide your end game and choose based on that decision. For me Ranger fills all the niches, but I still have one of everything.