Guild Wars 2

MaXi.3642:

they dont do anything because of PAX… so i REALLY hope they will introduce some BIG balance patch after PAX… and many others hope as well…

I’m talking about forum responses.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard of them. There are tons of important, upvoted, much discussed topics/issues without a single reply for weeks.

MaesterTed.6571:

I don’t usually post a lot, but I have to get this off my chest:
I don’t mean to be rude, and I don’t mean to offend anyone either, but I’m getting kind of annoyed with the slowly increasing whining about the living story.

The majority of people here weren’t too happy with Scarlet, and were telling they needed a break from her. When we get exactly that, and nobody’s happy either.
The invasions won’t magically stop either, it’s been announced some time ago that they will remain permanent, albeit at a reduced frequency.
We’ll get back to Scarlet in time.

I fail to see how this update is destroying the game. GW1 had candy cane weapons and similar joke weapons.

(Just to be clear, I’m not saying the LS and this update are top notch, but does it really deserve all of the flack it’s given? You don’t even have to pay for it, for crying out loud!)

And it’s sad enough I’m crying Scarlet or even, even the dragons back. It’s that I see people with these awful 8bit weapons everywhere.

And GW1 candy weapons didn’t do max dmg, i think only a very limited (under 100), did.

Nick.6972:

Will we ever get a serious, mature, non-disney story without childishly cliche characters?
I’ve seen better fan fiction stories from 13 year old Twilight fan girls.

I mean, I have NOTHING against light hearted content now and then, but no LS so far have made me think to myself “Wow, this story is amazing!”.

What happened to dragons and all their evil minions?

Totally agree. I’d like to see something similar to.. anything from GW1. Those stories were epic, developed.

I think it’s terrible. This is destroying the game more than the plush quaggan hats. I can’t even think about a worse thing to happen. This game is falling apart.

Killing risen with 8 bit weapons, pony bows, plush TYBALT backpacks, panda hats, yeah, totally fits the game.

A note to Arenanet: this is supposed to be an AAA MMO, not some f2p sandbox BS.

zamalek.2154:

Gandarel.5091:

But only Tengu got chances and maybe

Geographically they are in the perfect starting position for starter zones (right next to Caledon forest, a 1 – 15 area), maybe ANet ran out of time and that’s why they walled themselves in? I still doubt it though, a new playable race is smack-bang in the middle of expansion territory.

Somewhere it was stated that there are Tengu in the maguuma Jungle. So we may have a portal there from the Dominion or something to bridge the gap.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Gandarel.5091:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Gandarel.5091:

Btw, if expansion. The reason why we couldn’t go to the ocean was Zhaitan. He is gone. Basically, route to Cantha and Elona are open. Elona is closer, and if they could aid the living in rebelling against undeads and attack Kralkatorrik from 2 sides would work.

Or recruit.. Palawa >_> The OoW wouldn’ like that, however.

I would like to contest that with the existence of the DSD. Sure, Zhaitan’s navy are grounded, but you still have the critters of the deep.

We don’t even know where that dragon is. And the Ocean is a lot bigger than any other dragon’s territory, maybe 1 out of 10 ships will disapper, big thing.

For Elona you would just have to follow the coastline.

For Elona by essential principal, you can just walk there really. It’s Cantha that’s the problem. And there’s the thing. As long as the DSD is there, all we know is the ocean is a risky place.

You can’t walk to Elona because of Palawa and Kralky. However, I think eastern-kourna has the highest human population atm, which can be approached by ship.

And again, what if that dragon is in the western-region of the Ocean, far away from old trade routes? Also, after defeating Zhaitan, Eir sorts the next possible targets – DSD isn’t among them. Maybe they don’t even know he exists and is only a speculation by Priory scholars.

Drakkon.4782:

…

Here it is:
Leave this guy alone. He is argueing with himself, on the basis of ‘anything can AND WILL happen, doesn’t matter how much it is against logics’.

And real world example: if you visit another country, you have to keep to both country’s laws.

There’s Orr. A former human land. According to human laws, that’s human land. According to charrs laws, if they conquer it, it’s theirs. Did they conquer it? Nope. According to overall laws, humans can claim Orr and charrs can’t. And charrs are busy enough to keep their ground in Ascalon, they won’t risk total collapse mostly because they want that treaty. And aside from “YEAH CHARRS DOMINATE THE WORLD GUYS GET ORR WHY NOT”, there’s totally 0 motive to make this step.

Charrs assaulted Orr but couldn’t take over, and Khilbron’s deed was a war act, not surrender. Actually, charrs couldn’t claim any portion of Orr not even for a second, they just rushed in and got destroyed. If Arah could hold out long enough and the Orrian army could’ve returned I’m sure they would’ve crushed the Charr, because their military power mixed with magic was second to none. Eventually, Charrs should be grateful to still exist/have Ascalon.

Btw in ‘ancient times’, people had common sense and didn’t hide behind liberal reasoning. Everyone knows that is a human land, even the charr and asura, they won’t attack human laws for a pointless war.

I’m out here.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Gandarel.5091:

Btw, if expansion. The reason why we couldn’t go to the ocean was Zhaitan. He is gone. Basically, route to Cantha and Elona are open. Elona is closer, and if they could aid the living in rebelling against undeads and attack Kralkatorrik from 2 sides would work.

Or recruit.. Palawa >_> The OoW wouldn’ like that, however.

I would like to contest that with the existence of the DSD. Sure, Zhaitan’s navy are grounded, but you still have the critters of the deep.

We don’t even know where that dragon is. And the Ocean is a lot bigger than any other dragon’s territory, maybe 1 out of 10 ships will disapper, big thing.

For Elona you would just have to follow the coastline.

Btw, if expansion. The reason why we couldn’t go to the ocean was Zhaitan. He is gone. Basically, route to Cantha and Elona are open. Elona is closer, and if they could aid the living in rebelling against undeads and attack Kralkatorrik from 2 sides would work.

Or recruit.. Palawa >_> The OoW wouldn’ like that, however.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I agree, Kodan could work. And if combined with the Far Shiverpeaks, they could even add more Kodan settlements in the game. I don’t think it’s likely that we’ll see a new race any time soon. But both Tengu and Kodan are viable choices. And maybe the Largos.

I don’t want to turn this to be the 3287476237856237th kodan-largos-Tengu playable race thread. But only Tengu got chances and maybe, mabye the largos.

But considering how the Largos alienate themselves from other races and only 5-6 of them makes contact with us, many of them hunting down playable races for challange + almost everyone hates underwater combat, their whole playfield would be a big big fail.

Kodan: basically spiritual bear-mans, similar to norns, however their mentality is different. But they don’t work for the same reason as dwarves don’t work: too similar to the Norn and share the same landscape. Having 2 almost exactly same starter areas with almost same inhabitants.. dull.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

if they’re not too stubborn.

Bury it.

The developers and their mentality.

Derigar.7810:

Hmm, I think both of you have a fair point. But why all these hints and teasers about a 6th dragon?

Also, do you think we might see new races & professions with an expansion pack?

ArenaNet is the master of making unfinished or teased story pots that sometimes never play out Btw this is a great strategy, because wherever they look, they can continues many stories.

If we look only at Kryta: ministers against the crown, Mursaat and white mantle, Wizard Tower, Dominion of Winds, Centaur war.

I think an expansion will likely focus on the Tengu of the Dominion of Winds, with the Tengu a new playable race, and maybe a new profession with it, the dervish.

Many say that Dervishes are tied to human gods, but that can be changed easily. They are also wind/earth element users in a different ways than elementalists. For example elementalist earth magic focuses on tanky/damage dealer setup using the earth itself, while dervishes used it to heal and control the battle with blocking/ crippling bleeding (in this aspect a bit similar to elementalists) + used mostly the thorns branching from the ground.

Also they used Wind and Earth prayers, not the elemnts directly. And they had a scythe. Scythe is abdass.

I could imagine a Tengu dervish using Wind.

Derigar.7810:

Gandarel.5091:

People see the dragons as main ‘lore’. It’s happening.

I hope he enters the game soon btw. Somehow with all dragons doing a deathmatch over Rata Sum, then kill each other off, and destroying the asura city in the progress along with all their mega-lasers.

Also, ArenaNet continues their combo of terribad decisions and are at the point where GW2 will have Living Story and not expansions.

As for the expansion back, I am using this as evidence:

http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/guild-wars-2-expansion-coming/

Also, could you please explain what you meant with terribad decisions? I’m relatively new, and I’m sorry for asking. I should’ve lurked more!

Colin keeps telling there are no plans for expansions, he did so even yesterday on the forum. So it’s interesting. They get enough income from quaggan hats.

Under bad decisoins: they took over nothing from GW1, often did the exact opposite. Just look at how hundreads are mad on the forums and many thousand in-game about the birthday gift, as they couldn’t even take this from GW1.

I’d say PvE is on the right track, but living story is still an awful story.

But Pvp is a joke. 90% of the GW1 Pvp veterans left some days after launch and Anet still refuses to admit GW1 players ever existed.

Flissy.4093:

Gandarel.5091:

I hope ArenaNet will start to make logical decisions at some point after they left behind their ‘GW1 didn’t exist and we ignore every loyal veteran’ mentality,

You got up to 500 achievement points and a bunch of exclusive weapons, armor and titles.

Yeah, you guys sure as hell aren’t rewarded for your past loyalty to the series.

We got that reward system from the “Old ArenaNet” that actually cared about us. But seems like only to the point to invest money with buying this game.

Lachanche.6859:

That was actually sarcastic lol

Sorry but after reading some of the posts here I no longer know what to say and who thinks these for real.

It’s just amazing how the GW1 Pvp population was 100 times larger and we only had rating in 1 gamemode (after the removel of HB).

Lack of gamemodes and forcing competitive play with broken matchmaking is what will kill this game.

Lore. It’s easier to just have some superbad dragons. But I miss real stories.

People see the dragons as main ‘lore’. It’s happening.

I hope he enters the game soon btw. Somehow with all dragons doing a deathmatch over Rata Sum, then kill each other off, and destroying the asura city in the progress along with all their mega-lasers.

Also, ArenaNet continues their combo of terribad decisions and are at the point where GW2 will have Living Story and not expansions.

GankSinatra.2653:

Thats because GW2 is all about outplaying the enemy, the skillceiling is so unbelievably high that after 2 weeks you’ve still only scratched the surface.

Also, the most important part is to listen to your teamleader on which node you have to move to. It takes another 2 weeks to master this ability. The learning curve in this game is just insane its no wonder other people can auto attack you down.

O_O"

KrisHQ, I think guides about basics are totally pointless. Who is at the level to actually care about a guide and look for it, has enough brain to know the basics already.

Who would really need the guide will never read that.

Wryog.5073:

Gandarel.5091:

+1,

BUT DON’T ADD RATING. PLEASE. Make it like Random Arenas in GW1: random, and not group que. That would be too WoW-like.

And WoW totally didn’t have skirmishes before Cataclysm.
Trying to be a 100% GW1 copy isn’t going to help this game.
Also stop the pointless hate on WoW. Let’s not have a LFG tool because WoW had that, right?

You are such an arrogant prick. If this game would be a 100% GW1 copy Pvp wise with new engine, e-sport wouldn’t be a silly dream that much.

Currently it has nothing to do with GW1, not even 1%.

And skirmishes were totally pointless in WoW. I’m just talking about adding a Deathmatch arena where you don’t get mad if your braindead teammates make YOU lose rating. Because there would be no rating. Basically a place where you can just have fun and still feel that you get some reward, (glory, rank points, or something), not like WoW skirmishes.

And not at a so shameful level as hotjoin.

Btw who has his PvE character level in his signature means his business isn’t in PvP.

AND there is a pointless dev-hate towards GW1, because if GW1 had something done right, they just totally refuse to use that. Even if we just look at the birthday presents.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Gandarel, since they clearly show intention of PvP being completely separated from PvE, Im guessing making gold from PvP’ing is not going to be an option.

Atleast this way it encourages people to keep playing, even if its only 1 game per day for the good rank/glory chunk the first win would provide.

We don’t get anything from the 2 week PvE updates. At least we could buy the new skins on the TP for gold. if we’d have gold. Or some gemstore items.

Or imagine a world where you can buy PvP finishers from the gemstore with money earned from PvP >_>

It’s also destroying the economy, day by day.

PvP. Too bad GW2 doesn’t have it :/

And guild halls, too. Oh and the dervish. That’s some kitten stuff.

You should know by now that Arenanet only cares about ‘constructive feedback’ if that feedback is about what they want or are working on.

Feedback, not suggestions.

The main problem with GW2 beside the lack of gamemodes, is rating.

You can’t just go into a soloque and play delighted, you constantly have to worry because you may lose rating.

I hope if they will finally add another gamemodes, we won’t have rating for them. ive some rewards for rating so that won’t die out and replace hotjoin with deathmatch/FA/HA.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Gandarel.5091:

Actually, there’s a ceasefire (3 years now) and the whole Fields of Ruin (and a bit of Blazeridge steppes) is going to be in human hands. And you can see some noobles ‘chilling out’ in a balcony next to a pipe organ.

Two years, tops.

The ceasefire started after the end of Ghosts of Ascalon, which took place one year prior to GW2 (1324 AE), a year has passed gametime wise (roughly) placing us in 1326 AE.

Though instead of fighting charr, the ogres moved in almost immediately after the ceasefire began..

Yes but at least Ogres don’t put up siege engines against the fort-city. Still dangerous outside, but where isn’t?

I think if they decided not to continue these plots, they should at least tell us what happened. Like the Founding in Ebonhawke did. I’m curious about Evennia, too.

Better, how about they should make some lore-meta achievements, and if you do them, they will award you with a book about that lore element. For example investigating about Evennia somehow. Or something about Livia.

Or just make short-stories on the book carts actually existing and purchasable!

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Despite Gandarel’s claim, there are many refrences to GW1 characters in-game, especially heroes and henchies. But like BuddhaKeks said, this is Tyria (continent), so almost all of those references have been about Tyrians (again, continent). You hear a lot about Pyre, Jora, and Gwen, and their legacies; one of the Separatist camps is a nod to Kieran, as is Logan’s heritage; Vekk and Livia both get small references throughout the game; and Ogden and Anton both appear in-game. When/if we reach Elona, I would expect similar nods to the Nightfall heroes.

In the meantime, though, if I can slip you a red herring… there’s a charr called Razah in the Black Citadel.

Nah no need to explain. I know about the references. It’s just that there are many unfinished and untold story plots in GW1, and they don’t pick any.

Mursaat, Razah, Evennia for example.

Meglobob.8620:

Bring on the deathstars…

The prototype is called Glory of Tyria. The laser is already working.

We just need better chest-drops, so it would worth to play and win.

Like minis/skins we can sell on the TP. Or better rewards for wins above a given rating/leaderboards placement.

milo.6942:

i like to imagine the 3 founders of arenanet making gw1 with colin being the third wheel coming up with weird ideas and the other two largely ignoring him, then when they left and he had a chance to shape gw2 he left behind all good gw1 ideas just to stick it to the other 2

Heh this kinda makes sense.

Vayne.8563:

Dante.1508:

Siphaed.9235:

Gandarel.5091:

The real and final stab in the back was this. Not just that they didn’t give us random minis and we got 8 Jennahs, but meanwhile, they add 42 new minipets to the gemstore. Jennah for tease, and if you want your GW1 present, you can have it, just empty your pocket for it.

I hope ArenaNet will start to make logical decisions at some point after they left behind their ‘GW1 didn’t exist and we ignore every loyal veteran’ mentality,

What are you yammering about? Minis were set to be a gemstore item SINCE DAY #1. The players have gotten many a free mini pets through events (Wintersday, Dragon Bash, Queen’s Jubilee, etc.).

However, the bulk of minis are still a Gem Store item based on A.Net needing actual money to pay for the FREE 2 WEEK CONTENT UPDATES that players are getting WITHOUT A SUBSCRIPTION all the time. Even still with that into consideration, Type 2 minis are tradable and sellable on the Trading Post, which I’ve seen many there now (averaging 1-20g each). And, on top of that, you can still just trade gold for gems and get a random pack for free* using in-game currency (*meaning you don’t have to pay real $$ for it).

As for the birthday gift….they didn’t have to do that. There’s no benefit for them to give players something for free. They could have done what SW:TOR did, put a title up on the Gem Store for 24hrs for like $1 (no joke, this is what SW:TOR did during the 10th anniversary of The Old Republic series, which they made a whole big ol’ press release about it).

It’s the same with the Currency Wallet, something that again they didn’t have to do. There’s the fact that item frees up player bag space, which is contradictory your conspiracy theory of them trying to squeeze money out of players (considering they sell bag and bank slots).

Oh let’s not forget Achievement Rewards. Those things give players FREE GEMS [@ 5,000 and 10,000 points]. Those greedy people at ArenaNet are giving players free currency for playing the game, how dare they! I mean, those gems are enough to buy 2 sets of minis just from both those thresholds. That’s not right…they can’t possibly be giving away stuff for free?! Shame!

Really, you believe all that? well glad you’re happy then..

No one believes it.

Programmers at Anet all donate their time to work for free on the content patches and upgrades we’ve been getting. They need no pay. Anet’s headquarters are donated to them by fans who love the game, and the tech support department are all volunteers.

Every cent Anet makes from this game goes to a greedy Asura who’s manipulating the entire system for his own benefit.

GW1 managed to survive and be successful enough to make a GW2, and they had no gemstore. You could basically buy 4-5 stuff for real money. Like extra character slot, extra bank tab. No fluffy quaggan hats.

We’re not telling that they don’t need or don’t deserve the money. But they definitely became more greedy. You have to pay gems for a chance to get the skins you used to get for content reward tokens in GW1.

As a PvP player, I can’t make gold. 0. Nothing. I’m still stuck with 1 gamemode and still get nothing from living story. The response we got from the devs on this is: “they have to consult with the economy-specialists, because economy is very fragile and they don’t want to make too much impact on it with changes” – yeah right in 2 weeks PvE farming made gems drop from 1 gold=30 to 1 gold=17. And it’s not over.

Double standards all the way.

rimpak.8529:

Gandarel.5091:

rimpak.8529:

Where did you find that anet is against such pvp mode? Why would they? :O

Because they tested deathmatch, but neither of the teams wanted to start the fight, so they move forward to conquest.

I call this bull!@#$.
We want deathmatch arenas. NOA!

Imagine the effort they put into coming up with a solution. Like.. 0 seconds.

Heroes’ Ascent Definitely.

If you won a round, you were cheering, but meanwhile it was obvious that this isn’t over and will just get harder and the stakes higher. Loved that feeling. Had gamemode variety, great atmosphere, progress, and a goal/dream, the Hall of heroes. To be the best out there atm be watched in observer, or you guild’s name to be advertised in chat!

Priceless!

Also loved Codex, we were always there at the skillchange time To make the craziest and msot OP build out of the worst skills given.

Or JQ, playing a bomber nec

Or AB, trolling around hunting for baddies.

kito.1827:

i’m out.

I’m glad to hear it Btw by that means this was the last hope, that they already trashed everything we loved in GW1, and birthday gift (for obvious reasons) were the last in the line to be screwed up.

And yes gifts are useless and it has 0 surprise factor.

If they did it right in GW1 why not in the sequel? The question remains since launch.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I don’t think Ebonhawk is a good place for any noble, of Krytan descend or otherwise. The place is constantly at war with the Charr. What would a noble be doing there? Aren’t most of the people there either soldiers or farmers? The place was literally made by the last inch of resistance of former Ascalon, the people who stayed behind to fight. It is no place for any nobility. These people do not live in wealth, they live in constant war. The threat of the Elder Dragons and his minions, along with the Charr, constantly looms at their gate. I think everyone that lives there makes some sort of contribution to the survival of it’s people. Fancy titles are worth nothing in Ebonhawk I think. They seem like the sort of people who only want to know if you can wield a sword. Otherwise, they’d probably send you back to Divinity’s Reach, where people drink wine from expensive gilded goblets.

Actually, there’s a ceasefire (3 years now) and the whole Fields of Ruin (and a bit of Blazeridge steppes) is going to be in human hands. And you can see some noobles ‘chilling out’ in a balcony next to a pipe organ.

Chrispy.5641:

I have gone through every possible thing I can think of to explain why Guild Wars 2 is 100% a Fantasy world, including one or two that wasn’t yet considered in this thread.

Aside from player characters and hidden lore behind machines, there’s very little magic in GW2. Look at the Living story.

Molten facility – weapon factory with new technology (and a very, very few shaman magic fused into guns)
Southsun – we help to build a holiday resort
Dragon bash – holo-projectors, skypirates with advanced steam-punk technology
BotFW – finally some slight magic use, but as we discovered, it’s actually all about the dragons…
Queen’s jubilee – terminators and skypirates

I’d say GW2 is 5% about magic, 30% about primitive weapons and 65% technology.

Drakkon.4782:

Gandarel.5091:

What kind of ally takes your ancestral land away from you by force if you already made a huge sacrifice to give up Ascalon, their ‘ancestral land’?

What “Ancestral Land” are you talking about? Orr isn’t the ancestral home of any of the nations on the Tyria right now. Stragglers and refuges need to stand up and be counted before we can possibly claim that the Orrian culture isn’t dead. So far, they’re keeping quiet. If they existed, they should have been the FIRST Living Story, not a forgotten footnote.

I’m sure the Order of Whispers wouldn’t let it happen. They are already behind the main political events.

Unimportant and irrelevant. The OoW isn’t a factor here. Unless we see a plotline or event that indicates that the OoW is taking a side in this issue, they aren’t. They’re going to sit on their tails and watch. It’s what they’re good at.

Charrs aren’t that kittened. They won’t do it. Claiming some ‘filthy faraway human soil plagued with their gods’, won’t happen. This wold be the most illogical thing to happen in the lore, ever.

I’m going to chalk this up to brain-eating parasites. You look like you’re quoting someone, but I’ve never seen this quote in the game EVER, so I think you’re just pulling it out of your kitten. The illogical thing going on here is trying to act like an expansionistic militarized people like the Charr, fractured though the Legions may SEEM, won’t look on fresh, unclaimed territory as a place where they can build a base, far from their enemies, where they can operate in safety and security to develop strategies and technology that will decimate their opponents with a minimum of casualties. HOW IS THAT NOT LOGICAL!?!?!?

Think before you open your mouth.

Charrs are in war with Flame Legion from north, branded from east, separatists from south (and within their borders) and ghosts also within. They won’t run away from this fight and will definitely not want to have Kryta attack from the West and Ascalon from the south.

My point, exactly. Orr is far removed from the fighting, and therefore from the influence of their enemies. Its a perfect location to develop new war machines and strategies. PER-FECT

Go back to WoW. You don’t care about reasons, you just imagine how the charr could conquer the world.

And yes Orr is considered ancestral human land. Because you know, city of the gods, cathedrals, noone lived there before humanity maybe exept for the Forgotten, allies to the gods, and other such menaningless minor details.

Yeah OoW not important. They are working on to make the Treaty go smooth, and are led by a human. Ofc they will just let a tyrian world war break out that’s so kitening logical.

About the last point. Not PER-FECT. As I said, charrs will never run away nor will invest serious amount of resources to make another war, next to their capitol AND on their ‘new territory’. To transport things to the destination is challenging by itself.

Chuo.4238:

Touchnshuv.2790:

So, back to point on my original topic. I know I’m nowhere near alone on this feeling. The Anet we know from GW1 wouldn’t do this to us. The Anet from GW2 is lacking PR and seems to just think that releasing a new area (then removing it at any time) and making nerf/buff adjustments every 3 months is adequate.

My original point was that the birthday gifts feel like someone who doesn’t like you showed up to your b-day party and gave you a gift because their mother told them they had to. Granted they didn’t “have” to do anything and I’m well aware, and this game still far outweighs so many and will for years. But in this instance we feel like we our characters are like children of Anet and woke up Christmas morning just to find that our parents didn’t want to take the time to get us anything but a couple pairs of socks.

You’re not the only one who wonders who these people are, and what have they done with ArenaNet.

Guild Wars was special. GW2 is just another game. For many, many reasons, most of which have nothing to do with this birthday present thing. I am seriously on the lookout for a new game to play. Once once catches my fancy…I’ll be there. And that never happened to me during my Guild Wars years. I’m sure I’m not the only one, and there’ll be a sharp drop in playerbase once something good releases.

I don’t know why, but ArenaNet completely forgot that GW1 players still exist.

It feels like “guys, being loyal to our veteran playerbase is too hard. What if.. we wouldn’t even try to make them happy, trash them, we will make them buy this game and then let them go, we will supply the missing income from quaggan hats”

rimpak.8529:

Where did you find that anet is against such pvp mode? Why would they? :O

Because they tested deathmatch, but neither of the teams wanted to start the fight, so they move forward to conquest.

+1,

BUT DON’T ADD RATING. PLEASE. Make it like Random Arenas in GW1: random, and not group que. That would be too WoW-like.

Drakkon.4782:

Winds.3087:

Stop dreaming. Charr will have to march trough shiverpeaks for that.
Meanwhile, Palawa’s forces can simply cross scavenger causeway and consider themselves in Orr – I bet they are already dispatching that last now-uncontrolled group of Zhaitan’s risen in desert. When Pact leaves, Joko and his undead friends will be there faster than you could say “swoosh” with your tail.

If by “march” you mean “drive their machines of war” then yes, and I don’t see a problem with that. It isn’t like the Norn will view it as an act of war.

I’m still trying to grasp where people are getting that the Charr claiming Orr will be seen by ANYONE as an act of war against one of the five races. The Charr aren’t declaring war on Kryta, Ebonhawke, Rata Sum, the Grove, or Hoelbrak. Any surviving Orrians will have to speak up and make a case for reclaiming their homeland, which will require proving that they can.

What kind of ally takes your ancestral land away from you by force if you already made a huge sacrifice to give up Ascalon, their ‘ancestral land’?

I’m sure the Order of Whispers wouldn’t let it happen. They are already behind the main political events.

Charrs aren’t that kittened. They won’t do it. Claiming some ‘filthy faraway human soil plagued with their gods’, won’t happen. This wold be the most illogical thing to happen in the lore, ever.

Charrs are in war with Flame Legion from north, branded from east, separatists from south (and within their borders) and ghosts also within. They won’t run away from this fight and will definitely not want to have Kryta attack from the West and Ascalon from the south.

No they basically took over nothing from GW1 but the names for skills, places and NPCs.

This was our last hope, to continue these gifts. Now they are gone, but you can buy it from the gemstore. Isn’t it wonderful?

And we could sell or show off these minis. Basically, everyone has a Jennah. 0 diversity, just like PvP. There’s nothing special about it, booster and scroll will be gone, and the Jennah worths as much as a mini risen priest of Balthazar.

Also, the GW1 version had the gift feeling
Like:
“hey look I got a Shiro!”
“Not bad, I got a bone dragon!”
“dude lucky you!”

Now everyone knows what’s in their gift before they open it. And it’s the same for everyone.

Danikat.8537:

I thought it was fairly obvious since launch that since the old mini pack was labled Set 1 that meant at some point there would be a Set 2, 3 4 etc.

Yes, released exactly at the time when every GW1 veteran was expecting new minis via a birthday gift. Total coincidence I guess.

Draconicus.7564:

About the new Zodiac weapon skins…They are based on the old Zodiac weapons that only dropped in GW1, Factions, elite missions: Urgoz’s Warren and The Deep.

Can this be viewed as a good sign to a future Cantha!?
Or are they giving us this kind of things just to make us happier, knowing that Cantha will never be done?
What you guys think?

I highlited the line I think :/

With basically leaving no weapon skins for a Canthan expansion, I feel no hope…

About the last 2 posts: basically every single GW1 player filled in every single character slot at the day of launch (I bet), because they were already looking forward to the minipet gifts they will likely have

Then a gigantic slap in the face. What should they do with 5-8 Jennahs?

And you know what’s really annoying? At the same time, Arenanet adds a second minipet pack to the GEMSTORE containing 42 minis.