Guild Wars 2

Don’t be this lazy.. c’mon..

Havenfrit.9371:

How exactly did you get there?? I sure hope we get this soon rather than later

Use necromancer death shroud to jump down from anyweher :P That absorbs the falling damage.

But still… somehow they are linked to Cantha. Structures, faces, and so on. In the harbor, the Durmand Priory golem says that they are probably of Canthan or Elonian descent. But shouldn’t they be Tyrians, if dwarves are the root of the organization?

Maybe the Echowald structures (that are possibly dwarven) and their inhabitants got something to do with it?

Sometimes in-game things just don’t make sense lorewise. Deal with it.

Yeah, first thing I noticed and was a bit shocked :o

Two of the possible translations from Latin of “Rata Sum” are “I have calculated” and "I am certain.

It is possible that the Mursaat came from these words as an anagram, and later came the asuran city as the direct version without any kind of connection.

This brings build diversity. Nobody could make all the skills useful for all the situations. Would people use mesmer port and bunkers for deathmatch?

This makes some unused skills useful. And that’s great.

Hotjoin is the cancer of PvP. It lets noskilled pve-grinders just farm glory exactly as they farm gold.

Hotjoin could work with ANY OTHER GAMEMODE but conquest. Seriously, the fastest way to reach rank80 is to pick up some teleport and speed buffs and run from one circle to another as fast as you can, whitout doing any PvP interaction. Sometimes you join a 6 vs 4 fight and zerg those guys and then just continue capping those circles.

SUGGESTION
Make tournament wins to give a stacking bonus. If you win a tournament, you will get 100 more glory for winning a consecutive one. If you win that, another +100 is added.

The bonus buff is lost when you lose a match. Has permanent duration.

This way, skilled players would get the higher ranks faster than noobs and would add some more reason for winning.

Also, as we get unrated, remove hotjoin.

*Priory

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Well, in GW1 they gave characters a minipet when that one is turned 1, 2 etc years old. Also, i think at the 5th GW birthday, they gave everyone a free ACCOUNT BANK TAB (aka xunlai tab).

So can happen, but no likely this early.

We will have minigames for sure.

Slyvaries cannot reproduce with the same method as any other races, they don’t have sex. They are born from the Pale Tree. Actually, for them it doesn’t matter if your are from the opposite gender or not, what’s between them is a simple sympathy and decide that way they will want to stay together. That’s all.

There are equal amount of straight sylvaries i think.

Currently, some dynamic events repeat 5 mins after you fiish that, taking away the feeling that what you did really matters and just adds a bit of grind.

I think the even-restart rate should be at least dobuled.

Also, events should have an impact and a reason to complete. For example, if you complete an event and take a camp from the enemy centaurs, 1-2 NPCs spawn, giving you some kind of quest. Not the kill 10 hogs kind of quests, but explore that cavern, get my chest back from the nerby vista, do the jumping puzzle, or just do another event nearby.

These kind of quests should give tokens that you can trade in for some rewards, or just give them RNG boxes that can also be sold at the TP. The token reward merchants should be scattered across the given map, and 2-3 different NPCs would trade them for differen rewards. Also, these merchants only spawn if you do a given event, like capturing another camp.

This would bring life back to each and every map in the game.

Quests would also make perfect scavanger hunts, requiring you you to collect items from all over the world for epic rewards, like the Black Moa Chick from GW1.

The problem is, they try to provide hard content with making bosses and mobs invulnerable for periods of the fight. I agree, this can make it hard. But extremely boring.

Maybe in one of the GW1 handbooks I’ve red that the charrs marched through Orr in less than 12 hours, so not much time to escape. The few that were somewhere else in the world have survived, but because of the risen hordes threating everyone, they often hide their ancestry from others.

The thing I don’t get is the fact about the Orrian army. Orr fell because its armies had been stationed in Ascalon and Kryta, to stop the fights. Basically, this army made 0 influence to the events. We haven’t seen a single soldier in Ascalon, and heard nothing about united Orrian and Krytan forces fighting the charrs.

The orrian army just disappeared.

He was way more powerful than a soloable risen left to rot on the top of a tower. :P

BobJoeXXI.2493:

Blame ANet for adding a new condition to the game only for the Necro first. It’s made Necro FotM and are now seeing a lot more use.

Mesmers and thieves also got Torment. The problem is torment+burning+fear+10-12 bleed.

If you take away fear dmg or buring or bleedings, nec is balanced.

Once human druids gave up their body to become one with nature, taking up a treant form. Maybe this is one of the forms.

There are many many cases where their response could be important, and would clarify some things. Not questions about future lore, but some about already existing ones.

Devs comment at an average 3 hour/post rate overall, from this the lore section is 8 months/comment.

Zacchary.6183:

Khisanth.2948:

Zacchary.6183:

Orrian: "Son, would you like to know about your ancestry?

Orrian Child: “Sure thing, Dad!”

Orrian: “Once upon a time, Vizier Khilbron acted like a stupid kitten and sank Orr with one of the most powerful magicks in history. Vizier Khilbron is now Zhaitan’s ho.The End.”

Abbadon not Zhaitan.
Depending on how things work … possibly Kormir now.

Zhaitan’s Ho in body.

I don’t think Zhaitan managed to get him back from the realm of torment…

+1

And another +1 for cows.

Arenanet devs only commented on a lore topic once, like 9 months ago. This pretty much sums things up about how much they care about lore in GW2

Fily.1407:

Gandarel.5091:

This is not a new map, this is a new gamemode. So forget it.

So?

I want to remember you how many different gamemode existed in Guild Wars 1:

- Random Arena
- Codex Arena
- Heroes’ Ascent
- GvG
- Alliance Battles
- Jade Quarry
- Aspenwood Fort

The question is: why, in a game which is supposed to be the Guild Wars 1 sequel, are we playing only one PvP mode?

So? i want to play HA and codex again. But they don’t care. We won’t get any game modes so get used to it or leave. Just like everyone does after 6 months of pvp at least.

This is not a new map, this is a new gamemode. So forget it.

Nothing. Just like the things that 90% of the new things that are added to the game. We will have basketball because they added basketball.

Legendary weapons aren’t that legendary. They have 0 lore. Just simple items with a label.

Deified.7520:

Phantaram.1265:

Deified.7520:

I don’t think it is viable for anything that wants to be competitive. It forgives dieing way too much on top of a whole lot of issues in pvp.

There are very specific situations where going into downstate is actually beneficial but those are few and far in between. I don’t think very many people just think “its fine if I go into downstate no biggy”

Never said they do, but when someone goes down and you have 3-4 people power rez him instantly, seems kind of forgiving.

And you can you burst down the whole enemy team at the same time if they do it this way. Not so forgiving

Learn to play. No, seriously.

Downed state is ESSENTIAL FOR PVP. Since we have no healers, if you get spiked, you can get downed in a blink of an eye. With downed state, your teammates can pick you up, thus surviving the spike.

Without downed state, everyone would just faceroll all his skills as soon as possible, and the one dealing more damage in 3 seconds won.

Spears as a non-underwater weapon. Voltaic Spear is already in the game, but noone is using them, because of the only underwater usage

Aaron Ansari.1604:

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That’s not as far-fetched as you might think. As of 1256, a mere seventy years before GW2 present day, Livia was still alive and well. She was also still a member of the Shining Blade guarding the royal family. What the motive be? What reason would she have to aid parties hostile to humanity’s allies?

“mere seventy”

Currently, if a guild wants to unlock further guild missions, they have to gather merits. If you got enough merits from Bounty, you can unlock the second mission type and so on.

The problem is, smaller or medium guilds can’t experience guild content, not even with 10-12 online members, because they fail the bounty.

To make every guild have a chance for guild missions, make guild trek the first available guild mission type that awards merits, so switch it with bounty

lordkrall.7241:

Gandarel.5091:

Too bad you start with bounty, for what you need at least 20 members to succeed. So 80% of GW2 players cannot go.

Incorrect.
It is fully possible to complete a bounty with 10 people without much trouble.

Finding 2 targets and managing to take them down under 15 mins with only 10 people is almost impossible without tracking all possible bosses before the start. But with 10 members, you can’t do that.

Guild Trek should be the first challange type.

Vayne.8563:

Guild Missions are also content, and some of it is quite fun.

Too bad you start with bounty, for what you need at least 20 members to succeed. So 80% of GW2 players cannot go.

GW1: devs stated that they will release a new expansion every 6 months

Guess players did some math:
GW2= 2xGW1
GW2 expansion=2×6months
GW2 expansion in a year omg!

And they are wrong.

PvP. So GW2 could have one.

Erebos.6741:

1. Do you think it’s fair or good game conduct to degrade player skill/adeptness as a factor in the determination of combat?
2. How do you think down-state influences player capability from the downed perspective? i.e. Chance of winning?
   e.g. 1v1: Downed versus non-downed opponent.

Downed state isn’t designed to make the guy that first gets downed to be the winner.. It is designed for teamplay where if you get bursted teammates can still pick you up, since we have no healers to prevent spikes.

Barret.4095:

make it so that you can buy all the weapon and armor skins purchasable with glory as well. like for example having the basic starting looking armor as the cheapest and the exotics and cultural armors being the more expensive ones. and this goes for weapon skins as well. it’ll give people something to work towards.

I’m sure these will be gem items.

And the gear systeam you are talking about is already in the game from an r1-80 scale. r1=worst

r80=cultural

Stop calling the organised aoe spam a “GvG”.

If GvG will ever get added, it will be a PvP game mode, and i’m sure 80% of WvW guys won’t even play that because that’s not the zerging they expected.

There could be some hodoring copyright issues btw.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Guild Wars 1 was quite a bit different than GW2 with the whole dual-class system. There were plenty of popular builds that used Paragon skills on other classes.

Exactly, paragon was designed to be a support class, but because players could take up the needed support skills from paragons, the class became useless.

Rank=routine

You can become a legendary player later, but won’t pwn a rank 50 at r20.

I’d say most people play at the same level after reaching rank 40.

+1, finally someone

Quick Mouse.7635:

um the term imbagon comes from paragons being overpowered in gw1.
Jus saiyan.

Paragon had only one working buid, and that one was a PvE-only.

We know this for 3 months now. Devs even gave some details in the last SOTG.

It has platforms that can fall down and a floating cannon.

Actually both of you are right. These were the main reasons. But they stated that the guy from NCSoft has likely left the company, so this anti-Cantha thing is out of date.

jportell.2197:

swinsk.6410:

Why do we have 4s revealed in spvp?

Only question I have.

Especially when it was made with Wvw in mind?

Because a good thief is already uncatchable.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I think the White Mantle have been a little too inconspicuous thus far in GW2 to be included. They might include the Bandits or Separtists (who obviously are White Mantle in a sense and it is suspected/known that the higher ups are White Mantle), but I think they’d avoid using the Mantle until some Mursaat related storyline crops up?

Since when are Separatists part of the White Mantle? They don’t want to remove the Queen from the throne, only to end the peace talks and take their land back.

Maybe Ascalon, due to it’s huge catacombs and the bloody background of it’s fall. Ascalon had some powerful necromancers, like Verata (for a time, the owner of the Garenhoff Wizard tower), Eve or Kasha Blackblood.

VitalSuit.1980:

“A strange sound echoes in the darkness below. Could all of those stories about drakes in the sewers be true?”

Don’t mix a joke into a theory crafting :P This one is clearly just a joke.

1. Are custom arenas really getting deleted after not adding time in 2 weeks? Why can’t they just remove it from the browser? People will think twice to buy them if these conditions are true.

2. The tournament NPC’s text has chaged to Rated tournament – unrated is coming? When? As we had paid and free, we need rated and unrated ASAP.

3. Will we ever get Skyhammer? Its been 3 months since it has got leaked.

Yes, same thing concerns me, but they are living ones afterall, in the domain of undeath. Some may want to free their people because they have seen what’s going on behind the scenes.