Guild Wars 2

its already 3 laurels for 3 obby shards – post patch you’ll be able to use pvp as a slow but free way to ‘farm’ clovers

i would like a spore node – i thought we were getting one i nightmare tower but nope

webtoehobbit.4201:

Apophis.2498:

Did you not notice that we will have to deal with a new Elder Dragon soon?

Why are people so excited about an Elder Dragon??? Do you all remember how absolutely boring Zhaitan’s story and fight was? It was terribly written and I don’t see how just because there was a cutscene that revealed a new Elder Dragon that that’s magically going to transform the story of this Living World into amazing story. Fact is, the Personal Story was mediocre, as was Season 1 of the Living World, we could’ve had an amazing ending but we didn’t, we got more mediocrity.

What in the world makes any of you think that Season 2 of the Living World is going to be any better than what has already been released by ANet story wise.

Mordy is going to be another bland Dragon with bland minions and we will get all sorts of questions raised about Mordy but will likely never get any answers as we didn’t get any answers about Scarlet.

New Elder Dragon =/= amazing content

i kinda liked the PS, then at least you could choose how to handle certain points, the LS felt as though we were placed on rails the entire time, even down to the elections (think about it, isnt it convenient that kiel’s fractal just so happened to tie in with the main story?)
like i said, i preferred the ps, however, who knew elder dragons were afraid of fireworks right? (basically please make a different final fight)

seeing how guild wars doesnt actually HAVE any battles between guilds, the title should be “chronicles of Tyria” and release should be “Secrets of Orr”

Khattnip.1908:

OtakuModeEngage.8679:

Divinity’s Reach was not damaged in the attack

I believe the attack being referred to is in fact Scarlets actions during the Queens Jubilee, in which if memory serves me right there were bombs set off in the city, in addition to the general rampaging of her twisted watchwork creations?

that’s nothing compared to lions arch if the queen was generous in anyway, most of the money’d go to lions arch besides, i didnt notice any major craters/rubble in divinities after the attack

for 2), i meant the main city that everyone has asura gate access to was taken pretty much without a fight, the real battle started with a counter attack/guerrilla tactics

I know its a bit late for this but based on what I experienced in season 1 of the living story, I’d like to give a bit of feedback to use for subsequent seasons of living story.

1) Don’t give us loads of information when it comes to patch notes – this includes location, features spoiler plot twists and general plot
– the reason I thought of this was that I would look at the patch notes, find out what I need to do and the fact that we knew exactly who was attacking and where, do achievements and farm rewards (you could hide the achievement list until you found the correct events/talked to a herald). The patch where you placed the nightmare tower in the forcefield was awesome, people just found it and then it speculation spread – try to let the players find the events, not have to read them off the achievement lists/patch notes (you could also try and making the patches have different intervals so its not “ooh its been two weeks since the last attack, there’s another coming”)

2) let us have some control over the events – I mean, lions arch was attacked and completely decimated after we had 2 weeks notice and we could do nothing to prevent it? we just went “Scarlets going to attack Lions Arch sometime soon…. oh well” /shrug “I’m sure it’ll be fine” one game that did this well was dragonfable – they’d have wars where you’d have to defeat x number of waves (which were kind of like the instances where we helped evon/kiel with the treasure) in the time given (usually a month or something) and there would be succeed/fail conditions – I think at one point the town was destroyed and we had to try to find enough materials/money to rebuild the town – at certain milestones – 25%/50%/75% – there would be either minibosses or shops open with limited edition goodies and at 100% there was the final boss fight

what does everyone think of these?

inquest helm (CoE helm)
ascalonian shoulder (AC shouler)
ascalonian chest (AC chest)
Hellfire vambraces
inquest leggings (CoE leggings)
svanir boots (HoTW boots)

that is my armour – human male, dyed pitch/iron

you know? i heard the captains council were going to allow more adventurers to join the lionguard, you know, to help with the clean up/helping in general for lions arch

then kiel came along (must have thought that we’d take all her credit or something) and shut down the idea

they do these updates to try to keep the game fresh and interesting every 2 weeks (not atm due to being the end of the arc) all without subscription fees, im pretty sure world of warcraft, with their subscription fees and initial buy, waits an entire year before bringing something out that you have to buy to play

thanks anet for this extra FREE content

alright thanks for the help

if i wanted to make meteorlogicus, what would be the cheapest way to obtain storm (other than being lucky, cause im not) is outright buying it from tp cheaper than using the mystic toilet forge?

neural calm down – its STILL early 2014

imo, kralkaorrik will be the last one we face on the tyrian continant – then it will (hopefully) be off to elona, followed by bubbles and then cantha

thats what i think anyways

but would the two xenophobic factions stay together?

you say kiel helped with the ressing right? well, gnashblade helped me
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revive_Orb

DiamondMeteor.8345:

The same reason you see Risen in nearly every map. Not everyone finished the game/ experienced Kessex getting nuked. I assume these events would give people a taste of content.

but this is living story, even if the spores are still there, why is the toxic alliance still there? they should be broken

oooh i forgot the 4th option, treaty with kryta to rebuild in the maguuma jungle next to divinity’s reach

Lydell.8713:

Getefix.9150:

Lydell.8713:

Getefix.9150:

i wanted to talk about 2 things
1) kiels behaviour during this attack was abysmal – i never once saw her on the battlefield (as per usual) and she threatened gnashblade into service – not kidding, it was either work for free or firing squad -

So, basically, she kept him from making money off the backs of the victims of Scarlet’s attack. Not only that, but she used her power to get him to help people, not for profit, but just because they needed help. Jeez, what a terrible, heartless woman.

it was still a threat, i dont think thats the right thing to do, she could have had a word with him/tried to persuade him but she didnt even try

She took his resources by force, sure, but to put them to good use. She knows Gnashblade and she knows that she couldn’t have convinced him, especially her, considering the beef they’ve had. To be fair, I’d praise the person who’d go and force wealthy citizens to put their resources to good use in the light of a tragedy of that scope. Unfortunately, that never happens in real life, instead, it’s the non-wealthy ones who are asked to dig in their pockets to provide relief, while the wealthy and powerful will only see it as an opportunity to make more money.

forcing someone to do something, no matter what, is still the wrong way to do it – instead she could have swallowed her pride and asked to work together – instead, like with dessa, she had to resort to threats

plus, the election, name one country where if the winning party wins by 4%, its considered a significant difference, 48%/52% isnt a large enough difference to say: the people choose you

Lydell.8713:

Getefix.9150:

i wanted to talk about 2 things
1) kiels behaviour during this attack was abysmal – i never once saw her on the battlefield (as per usual) and she threatened gnashblade into service – not kidding, it was either work for free or firing squad -

So, basically, she kept him from making money off the backs of the victims of Scarlet’s attack. Not only that, but she used her power to get him to help people, not for profit, but just because they needed help. Jeez, what a terrible, heartless woman.

it was still a threat, i dont think thats the right thing to do, she could have had a word with him/tried to persuade him but she didnt even try

Sinbold.8723:

Taimi’s golem Scruffy is standing at the door to the Dead End. Unless you turn around upon entering, you’ll miss it.

yeah i saw it, but she still had to hobble to get across the room without messing it up
a mini-golem would mean she can go around without hobbling maybe something floating like yoda had in the prequel trilogy

shut the gates on escaping people, when did that happen? did kiel tell you that?

in terms of helping the city the player ive done more than kiel – lets see what we’ve done

repelled the attack of undead on lions arch
reclaimed claw island
set up pact
set up fort trinity
attacked orr
killed zhaitan – thus stopping future undead attacks
repel the attack of karka
take out the ancient karka
did all the work on southsun (although this was claimed by kiel and also why she got the council seat)
volunteer in aid of the refugees from frost and flame
take out a load of molten weapons facilities
complete the investigation as to the murderer of the council member during dragonbash
take out the aetherblade bases
get a trade agreement from the zephyrites (we did that technically)
destroy the tower of nightmares and kill the prophet
donate millons of gold to divinities reach
save millions of lives during scarlet’s attack on lions arch (do the maths)
repel the attack on lions arch
AND kill scarlet

if anyone deserves a seat on the council, its the guilds

i wanted to talk about 2 things
1) kiels behaviour during this attack was abysmal – i never once saw her on the battlefield (as per usual) and she threatened gnashblade into service – not kidding, it was either work for free or firing squad – thats the 2nd time she threatened someone to get her way, poor old Dessa – plus kiel and the other captains even ignored gnashblade when he said an attack was incoming – if they dont make him a part of the council ill be annoyed, surely after the attack there are spots open

the 2nd thing is a more lighthearted one, my main charcater is an asura of the synergetics college, my first invention was the VAL-A, and i can produce power armour, defensive series D golem and an atack series 7 golem and i am a master (training for grandmaster) armoursmith – in the dead end pub while partying with the others, taimi turned up without her golem (being indoors) if i could, i would use my abilities to help her create a miniature scruffy so she’d be able to go around without worrying about her weak legs

a guild mate offered a 4th choice – the maguuma jungle near divinity’s reach – perfect for leading into arc 2 no?

also for orr, i liked the irony of rebuilding a city in the straits of devastation – maybe rename them to the straits of renewal

i was thinking of the area between http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Thunderhead_Battery and http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Izz-al-Din_Sarayi
here the refugees will be right in the shadow of fort trinity, so its safer than the orrian country itself

then again, who said the refugees had to stick together? they might disperse to different new homes

currently theyre in refugee camps near the bases of the orders – in my opinion we can relocate them to three places:

1) orr, providing that pact did SOMETHING in the past 1.5 years and cleared out some of the undead – it only needs citizens to help bring life back into the dead land

2) ebonhawke – the fortress is safe (relatively), away from the leftover miasma, there is a bank, crafting stations and trading post – there’s work as miners, shops can be re-established along with asura gates to divinities

3) southsun – the consortium would be happy for extra workhands

what are everyone else’s ideas?

i think the living story is something that yo can play but doesnt affect the fight against the dragons, sure it leads up to it, but new players deciding on tengu will hear about what made them open up, doesnt mean they have to have played through it – its like the novels – people dont need to have read ghosts of ascalon to be able to play as charr – its just extra lore

largos imo would look weird – these huge wings would clip through everything and would look even weirder if someone is using holographic wings back item

dante, they didn’t come to help us so why would we be seen as worthy?

hey what about the hylek/heket? could they be playable? what about dredge? (say theres a community of dredge that have completed their revolution against communism) would that work?

Vexander.9850:

Getefix.9150:

your phoenix idea is pretty much pretty looking tengu, kitsune are slim charr

I wasn’t aware the Charr were a race whose very biology incorporated magic, or who lived amongst humans, disguised as them. Or that Phoenix, winged humans in essence, have clawed feet and hands or were extreme isolationists. If you read what I wrote, you’d see how badly wrong you are. Unless you’re just looking at, “fur and feathers.”

you never said anything about no hands…. then they won’t be a playable race cause how will they hold weapons? and the charr sometimes are magic-orientated, just look at the ‘gold’ legion (what happened to calling the flame legion the ‘gold’ legion anyways?)

I suppose wasn’t that clear, I meant physically speaking (fox-people/cat-people…. meh)

if you want to create a new race – try insect-people
or maybe the races to be used in utopia

chouji’s ultimate form is a butterfly…. in japan aren’t they manly or something

your phoenix idea is pretty much pretty looking tengu, kitsune are slim charr

the asurans current theory of magic is that it can’t be destroyed – only transferred from one state to another and gradually replenishes
so…..what role do the elder dragons have in this?

ok so assuming the idea that sylvari are mordremoth’s minions, its a viable idea that he’d want his minions back right? this makes the pale tree a direct target of his

make the fight for the pale tree more interesting, make us defeat so many waves of monsters/completed objectives in the 2 week period, if we fail, make it drastic, the pale tree is captured and no sylvari can be created for the duration of the occupation :P
(maybe not that extreme)
imo the current system of the living story isn’t challenging or dependent on us, it feels as though i don’t need to do anything other than do the dailies to get the meta achievement then i don’t need to do anything

give us some motive – i didn’t mind the monthly updates, if thats what it takes to make a ‘succeed’ scenario and a ‘fail’ scenario then thats fine in my book

maybe we can have a villain that doesn’t contradict all known lore this time…. and as for a fight with primordius, i say let him fight jormag, the opposite to fire is ice, and mordremoth isn’t life as much as it is stone or nature

RoyalPredator.9163:

This is a hard topic…
Meanwhile other MMOs offer a more-or-less well designed story path for the Class/Character, GW2 has a line where you can chose how would you kill 10 rats and which one will you skip this time. None of them are the best.
When speaking about RPG, we speaking about real decisions to make, and those effect your whole legend. Skyrim & Fallout offers situations that you can turn positive or negative. It’s up to you. Mass Effect has only illusions, but you can really save lifes.

Sadly, I did not met with any game that had trueRPG. Where there is a well connected like-o-meter towards factions, and any behavior you do has effect on your entire life.
Like if you can’t enter the Grove now because people know you by being agressive…
… But you would get in by proving your kindness somehow.

In games, its only makeable if it has a well designed system with huge variety of tasks.

its kinda unfair to compare an mmo with a single player rpg, with a single player, your choices can have more of an impact than an mmo, which needs to take into consideration every other player, the personal story did that well since it was personal to you, living story felt as though it was on set tracks rather than something we can influence – if there was a fail condition it’d be better rather than just “everything goes away in 2 weeks”
in the tower of nightmares – yes the remains of the tower are still there, but i think the progress bar was just a timer as supposed to an event counter showing the total antitoxin pumped into the core

@gilgalas – in that way, it increases the workload of the teams doing it – its like having 2 releases at once very 2 weeks, plus the fight(or lead up to the fight) with mordremoth would either be over too quickly or drag on way too long (hah drag on… dragon….. its a pun)

i know its not up to me but ill still stick with the personal story being released in chapters – does anyone know how long it takes to develop a mission for the personal story?

but i think we can all agree that we want the proper mordremoth arc to be a permanent thing (personal story instead of living story), its unfair to players who’d miss it

like i said, have 2 teams, one smaller team that does the ‘filler’, non permanent episodes every 2 weeks and the larger team working on monthly/bi-monthly permanent chapter updates to advance the story

this is what personally think they should do if they want to continue with the 2 week updates – also…. polymock, bar brawl and firing range? (maybe as celebration for defeating scarlet)

i also prefer a choice in an RPG, take the tower of nightmares, when fighting the prophet, he was saying ‘i am the last of my kind’ as a biologist irl, that hurt me, i don’t wanna wipe out an entirely new species, even if there was no way to talk it down, i still would have tried….. 2 paths to get to the same destination

EDIT
while on the subject of choice, the only choice we had (to me) felt rigged, if evon gnashblade ‘won’ what would his fractal choice have to do with scarlet? seeing how kiel’s did, that kinda made me feel cheated of my potential choice/candidate

are you guys forgetting about the seraph/bandit couple? i laughed a bit when i found them :P

so long as the mordremoth arc/ lead up to him is done through personal story, then i’ll be happy…. wait… lemme add something to that – i don’t care about getting content every 2 weeks, if these updates come in the form of ‘chapters’ for personal story, wouldn’t mind getting them every 1 or 2 months – (in my head) longer time between updates = more refined/better content

if arena net insists on content every 2 weeks, maybe filler updates in between the big ones? kinda… they’re related to the plot but you don’t necessarily need to play them (kinda like the secondary quests from gw1 (e.g. killing the demonic fortune teller/feed the hungry) – kinda like helping with damages caused by mordremoths minions/setting up bases (like fort trinity – its a good example, trahearne says he’s gonna set up a base at the end of the chapter, in the intermediate fortnights, we help set up the base, so when the next chapter is released, its there)

for fractals, i would love to see events from the first game make it – how about the battle with the lich, shiro and varesh for boss fights? maybe other missions like minister cho’s estate, the harvest temple, attack on gandara, thunderhead peak or sanctum cay

actually, i would love to play the gate of madness in gw2

not flames, just rocky/ash/embers

the shoulders kinda look like draconic but its the chest piece I’m talking about

i for one would have liked the heavy guild armour to be plate mail rather than scale – if it costs 1g i think it should be worth worth 1g

as a comparison: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scale_armor
vs http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Guild_Heavy_Armor.jpg

i thought proper armour would look like this: http://www.wallpaperfo.com/thumbnails/detail/20120509/video%20games%20fantasy%20art%20armor%20digital%20art%20drow%20swords%20swordsman%201600x1200%20wallpaper_www.wallpaperfo.com_59.jpg

ok so remember when arena net promised us some special stuff for reaching 1million likes on Facebook? did i miss that? because as of me making this post, it is on 1,009,232 likes

congratulations arena net
and thanks for making this awesome game

i love the marionette, its the type that people rage over first and then over the next few days/week or two find out what to do and get better; to those raging over people not knowing how to do this, chill, its only day 3

in terms of overflows/servers, i preferred the gw1 method, different districs and the more people in an area, the more districts, e.g. during the can than new year, you would get 60 districts of the shiny jea monastery map, and you could choose to move between each one so long as it wasn’t full

ReconPastry.8541:

Hey all,

Just a couple of ideas I think I saw mention of a few of these in the posts and I’ve not thought too much about these

in an expansion there could be some vampire/warewolf thing going on
Obviously I think it’d be best that warewolfs are not necessarily tanky and its up to the character to play the vamp/wolf as tanky/squish as they want but their dps will suffer,
I don’t want the vampire to be similar to the necro so.. I think the first thing they could do towards removing similarities would be to make their ability art quite red (being bloodsuckers and that haha) and close range so they use daggers and stuff. They could have neat abilities like dropping into a pool of blood to avoid damage for a couple of seconds (league anyone?)
and I’ve not thought about the warewolf but some battle calls increasing health regen or swiftness/might that kinda stuff would be fun —-> also epic emotes like roar where they scare the living kitten out of everything

a dwarf class? not thought about it but.. I love my dwarves
a monk.. a druid .. shaman (lets not get too wow orientated but those classes could be tampered with to suit guildwars)
instead of having aoe cc’s there could be more use of strategic wall placing .. so for instance instead of a stun just place down a wide kitten wall or something, wouldn’t be too overpowerd I think it depends on how the player uses it and the players skill ^^

anyways .. if you guys can add any ideas abilities passives uniqe stuff weapon types feel free to add
also great ideas everyone! hope they release a class or something soon!

no idea about werewolves but vampires were a little creature living in caves in gw1 so i doubt we’d find the stereotypical turn to DUST in the sun in gw2

Zaoda.1653:

I just want the Ritualist in GW2. That’s the only new class I want really.

ritualist merged with monk and paragon to make guardian

armour type: Lightight
name: Glycomancer
weapons: Staff
scepter
focus
torch
pistol
greatsword
mace
shield
trident
spear
abilities: -summon candy corn minions (minor, lesser (utilities) and greater (elite)
– construct candy cane ballista (elite)
-Puke (cone spell; causes poison, chilled, blind)
-Sugar rush (power, haste, swiftness)
-candy blast (like arcane wave, but has a candy animation)
-candy wall
-Sugar crash (cripple, vulnerable, weakness)
-pie (projectile – stun and confuse foe)

class mainly for comedy :P

when this is released, someone please make an attack on titan amv with this :P

scarlet is a timelord lord reincarnated into a plant, her TARDIS basically travels through the mist and is able to find points in time, thats how she would have been able to be in the abaddon fractal