Guild Wars 2

nightwulf.1986:

Guys, guys. Don’t argue. Anet will start to think that we have different opinions on things. We can’t have that or the poor devs will be confused about what we want. Remember the golden rule. “We all want the same thing.”

More precursor korean level RNG gamble account bound items and open world ‘1’ zergs! Here here!

Well in GW there was no soul bound item unless you customized it to your character/HoM so everything can be traded.

I got everything in cuz I just farmed where I needed to or traded for what didn’t drop. Power trading in Spamadan was much more enjoyable than playing the TP where there is no human interaction.

GW2 is more based on the gem shop so ofc these annoying systems will be there so you can just buy gold or whatever.

Most bosses / elite chest in GW1 have a specific loot table items tied to them so you know what you can and cannot get. For example you would farm ecto in the elite areas or run FoW for a chaos axe.

edit: actually now that I think about it, dedicating an item to your HoM did not even soulbind it, just not allow them to dedicate it to theirs so you could get cheaper priced items if they were ded cuz at that point you can only use them not collect as achievement.

ANet cares more about spvp? Lol grass is always greener I guess.. what has spvp gotten besides small QoL updates? We’ve had more maps removed than added in the only serious tpvp mode we have and even that is still a joke. Sure those maps were atrocious, but still.

Skyhammer is a slap and spit in the face to any half serious pvper, be happy ANet didn’t touch your WvW and screw things up like that… oh wait EoTM lol WvW is dead/dying much like the rest of the game besides some pve farmers. It is, in fact, completely dead on my server Kaineng.

Balanced is borked in all sides of the game and EVERYTHING is severely lacking.

Nifaea.9216:

They should have named it GwyNexon or GwyNCSoft.

Agree’d

“buy more gold, try your hand at the new pre-cursor drop rate mini!”

kitten you

300g in bags and nothing, definitely quitting for a while leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Can’t believe they made this non tradeable, oh sorry we can’t even trade in a 2k12 MMO, I meant not able to get off the TP.

Still enjoying the new Rift xpac more than GW2, a F2P game doesn’t even haggle players as bad as ANet.. sad!!!! What a disgusting, low-fallen company! Yes I am mad.

GW2 has absolutely no end game , no good pvp , so what else do players have? That’s right, mini and cosmetics. So ofc a collector is gonna be kittened at this.

Peace enjoy gem shop 2

ANet acknowledging GW1? LOL YEA RIGHT

Zerker (power/prec/crit) is the only stat that matters anyway but yes GW1 was far superior in every way , everyone knows this.

The fight takes way too long and too much effort for the puny reward (big surprise there!) and it’s CC city which no one in the world enjoys

I’m so excited

not

lordkrall.7241:

People keep shouting about all these massive issues that have been here since release and is not fixed and yet I have never actually seen anyone that have said WHAT these issues are and HOW to fix them.

How to fix grind wars gamble sim 2:

1) copy GW1
2) profit lol

Merge all your dead servers ANet, I can’t even WvW on mine. You aren’t fooling anyone with your megaserver, the game is dying no doubt.

GW2 has always been designed for simpletons, have you not ever noticed ‘group up and spam x’ the entire game is based around?

Hearts were and always will be boring as hell. They are even more boring than quests in other MMOs because they have no text or story just “do this stuff m8 kthx” just like events.

Oh and ANet is funny, they are trying to attract toddlers to their game I guess by simplifying everything but are failing by making things more complicated lol like the gem conversion and how everyone thinks TP and stuff is locked before the personal level reward tells you about it.

So dumb… NPE is a fail and the trait unlocking is horrible, I just buy them from merchant 90% of the time. Please devs you obviously never played GW1 so don’t try and copy it unless you know what you’re doing.

Let’s make a limited time account bound mini with a precursor drop rate!

If this isn’t korean MMO tactics then idk what is. I think I’d have more fun working as a chinese WoW gold farmer than trying to get this mini.

I opened a few thousand bags, didn’t get anything. I don’t know how you can all stand clicking 24/7. This is GW2 end game content LOL

Back to Rift… gotta play that new expansion

ANet promoting a dead game mode still believe they have a chance at ‘e-sports’ omg I can’t stop laughing right now. /facepalm

GOSU.9574:

I think you also mean we need more encounters with 1 hit auto-down states. Yes, can’t get enough of that.

I would also suggest adding more wine. Nothing goes better with cheese.

10/10 agree

Crovax.7854:

Having played XIV and GW2 extensively I can say both games are really good.
If you like the ‘older’ format of MMOs, XIV will be perfect. The sheer amount of quality content they put out for all kinds of players (explorers, raiders, solo, dungeons, housing, gardening, farming, breeding, incredible LS, new class plus expansion set for next spring in the works) is insane.

It’s important to acknowledge that even though both are MMOs, they are vastly different. If you happen to like both takes in the MMO forumal equally, I’d recommend XIV over GW2 any day!

Monthly fee allows quality content without all the kittening around in gem shop :]

Precursor Drop Rate Stealth Increase?

I laughed. Hard.

Berelious.3290:

You’ll be back… they all come back eventually!

Tell that to my all my previous guild mates and friends that abandoned GW2 when no end game was added.

I am the only one out of the group to even bother posting on the forums or waiting for things to get better. PPL have lost hope :/ no GvG no raids no nothing

John Smith.4610:

I think this thread is pretty good evidence that the value of skins is incredibly subjective. Sometimes a cool skin is going to be basic, gritty, realistic or plain. Other times a god’s hand come from the sky to hand you a universe tearing, light sparkling, night glowing mace that may not compel awe as much as it will force other around you to dance until the stubs of their bones beat a catchy cadence for your amusement.

Did I hear someone say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] ?

Is this outfit temporary or can I wait for them to fix the gold to gem and price to go down?

Vayne.8563:

Let’s look at some reddit numbers. There are currently almost the same number of people on the Guild Wars 2 reddit as the Archeage Reddit.

This is from just a few minutes ago, obviously numbers online will change. I polled the following games: Guild Wars 2, SWToR, Archeage, and Final fantasy. Of those games:

Guild Wars 2 Members – 97083 Members online 583
SWToR…Members 36651…. members online 130
Final Fantasy…members 50487….members online 512
Archeage…members 28430…members online 544

Guild Wars 2 has more members online than Archeage (and far more members) and you know, Archeage is relatively new. It has more online than Final Fantasy.

Or are you going to tell me Reddit doesn’t mean anything either.

Everywhere you look, Guild Wars 2 is up there with the most popular MMOs except WOW. Everywhere.

Some people just don’t want to see the truth.

I’m not even gonna argue if GW2 is dying or not but your metrics are extremely flawed and don’t hold anything. You are basing your information on an extremely small pool of active players on applications that hardly any of the total playerbase uses.

The korean made MMO ArcheAge has a system where you right click a stack of bags and you can have it auto open the rest, just throwing that out there.

Aeolus.3615:

Yeah that is true the problem i see it now, theres no healers, it would end in several ganks and 1vs1, every one know the only strategy in this game is kill before it lays eggs, and classes are mostly imbalanced for 1v1.

dammn hard to bring the old epicness from gw1 :| we’ve been converted to blobber’s that spend all time spamming 1 key.

It depresses me lol

Terrible way to track since no one rly uses those apps, xfire is going off of 400 or so GW2 players.

The only use xfire has is connecting to more people when it’s hard to find servers these days for dead (but legendary) games like CoD4, which is why it is #1 on their list.

Raptr is cool but I don’t actively use it anymore.. nice for the rewards if you care about that. Rift is partnered with em and I get some pets and stuff here and there when I play that.

This is simply bad metrics, and in no way an accurate representation of the game.

Valento.9852:

ANet isn’t reinventing the wheel, it’s just that GW2 lacks holy trinity (and of course that’s definitely NOT a bad thing) and therefore challenges, enemy AI design, and difficulty has to be sorted out altogether, or else you get crap uninteresting “challenges”. They simply won’t create instanced raids the same way because their systems are very different from other MMOs (to an extent).

Let’s look at challenges and AI.

Challenges: 1shot instagibs. Bosses with billions of HP. Blinding particle effects.

AI: the same repeated attacks with very few bosses actually having phases and never more than 2 afaik. Hell not like it matters, the game still comes down to dodge or die then go back to autoattacking in a ball.

RSLongK.8961:

Valento.9852:

ANet isn’t reinventing the wheel, it’s just that GW2 lacks holy trinity (and of course that’s definitely NOT a bad thing) and therefore challenges, enemy AI design, and difficulty has to be sorted out altogether, or else you get crap uninteresting “challenges”. They simply won’t create instanced raids the same way because their systems are very different from other MMOs (to an extent).

This.
Teq/3Worm IS the gw2 raids, The system here will allow so far this kind of experience, if ppl are expecting a “world of kitten” experience they will just be frustated, so a lot of time and resources wasted that could be used in other areas (new zones, new skills blablabla).

Those aren’t raids. They are open world zergs.

kins.3294:

This game would never be able to support GvG’s as people love.

Removing the holy trinity made kitten sure of that.

Pretty much

Aeolus.3615:

kitten .9460:

You mean mindless zerg vs zerg, AoE vs AoE, no just no.

What Chuo said.

thast not gvg, players not talking about guild clashes and waterfield spams.

link for epicness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnnlKMzJozQ

I was watching and playing when those tournaments were relevant.

My point: there is no GvG in GW2, and pavilion would be a terrible GvG map.

See how this post is not talking about actual GvG?

Scryeless.1924:

How amazing would this be? The upper ring has rings for smaller battles and the bottom could hold tons of great larger GvG battles. All the sections are set up already as well as the Queue system used in fighting the NPC’s from the Jubilee event. So you could just use the Queue option to choose which guild you want to fight against. This way, with Megaserver, everyone can get in on the action and you wont be limited to your WvW match up. Not sure if this has be covered anywhere before but i thought it was a neat idea.

Yoroiookami.3485:

Well, the evil side of me is like “good, good, I don’t have one, so netiher should you c:<” but then I feel like a…like a centaur, and so I hope you will get it back.

Let the hate flow through you

Definitely not working like that in pvp, which is at the same time annoying for me when I can obviously see over a wall and the player is sitting there but it refuses to let me tab or even click on their name.

Or if they’re too far away, BUT I CAN SEE THEM, and still can’t target.

You mean mindless zerg vs zerg, AoE vs AoE, no just no.

What Chuo said.

It’s pretty simple, no gear progression just boss progression with your average greens n blues cuz lezbhonest loot will still suck in raids. Keep in mind, these bosses need to be extremely difficult and require coordination, not zerging.

RSLongK.8961:

Open world raids yeah, instanced no. instanced raids are in all other games out there.

I hear other games like to add content every so often as well, we should put GW2 on a standstill!

Being different for the sake of being different isn’t good, as shown by this games… well, everything.

Instanced is the only way to make true raids, and there is nothing wrong with that.

God forbid ANet tries to reinvent the wheel again…

I’m cancelling my sub

calyx.9086:

Honestly I think people want GvG so they can do large scale team deathmatch.

I hate death match with a passion, it is mindless killing. I want GvG with objectives like in GW1, IMO it was the perfect pvp mode. It trumps all other pvp I’ve played in any MMO and obviously has esport potential if you played or watched it back then.

Before GvG if you were to ask me if an MMO had esport potential I would have laughed in your face, but ANet managed to do it and now they are ignoring that foundation.. it is incredibly annoying for anyone that was a part of it.

Not only is GvG awesome but it also ties in perfectly with Guild Halls, ladders, tournament play, better rewards, change from stale meta and most importantly it’s not conquest…

Rangelost.4857:

People pay $40 for a console game, then consider it descent if they get 40 hours of gameplay out of it.

People pay $40 for Guild Wars 2, and after spending thousands of hours in the game, they complain about lack of content.

I don’t even.

Yes, more content would be nice. Yes, not removing content would be nice. Yes, other MMOs love to recolor older content, change some numbers and pretend it’s new content. No, Guild Wars 2 doesn’t need any of that.

Players ask for a new continent, players get a new continent, players complain about having to explore a new continent. Let’s take this moderately, shall we?

This is an MMO and expansion is expected, NAY, required to keep people interested.

ANet didn’t just make GW2 and think “whaylpe gaiz, hope we got 40 hours of content here” and their poor excuse for content simply does not work, as proven by the communities distaste for LS miniscule updates. Oh and when did we get a new continent? I don’t think that words means what you think it means there buddy.

Other games expansions are adding a billion times more than what GW2 has. GW2 progress stopped the moment it was released and a main feature of the franchise was adamantly ignored (pvp).

I spent $300+ in GW because it was a satisfying game and I felt they deserved the cash, I’ve spent $60 in GW2, and that was just base price.

GW2 is more like playing the TP / gem shop and the rest of the game is there but ignored. They treat this like it’s F2P korean grind #38940237423 and honestly it does feel like it.

timmyf.1490:

I do hope that players someday learn mindlessly mashing every ability as soon as it’s off cooldown isn’t the best way to play your class.

I hope. But I am not hopeful.

Yea I hope some day players learn that throwing on autoattack is the best DPS in this game, lololol can’t really blame them. They’re probably bored as hell, coming from other games and such.

From a ranger point of view it’s 1 > 2 >1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > 2 > 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

As with most classes.

It was just a PR stunt , hopefully get the graph back as well

Do the same thing you do in every other area of the game, stack on him. It helps to push him towards that little house, he wll get pushed all the way inside and his minions will die so fast to aoe even if you go down a couple times the rallies are instant.

Shaaba.5672:

If it’s backed into the hut, good luck on seeing anything.

Good luck seeing anything regardless…

Lol no GW2 will never be esport unless they start taking pvp seriously. (not gonna happen) 2 years and still no GvG

I have a suggestion, admit your mistakes and revert this change.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-gemgate

Can you guys honestly be this thick… if you are hurting this bad for cash just do a sale or something, better yet roll out an expansion.

Absolutely nothing was confusing about the gold to gem conversion, not even on day 1. Everyone knows this, unless you’re trying to make GW2 accessible to toddlers I don’t see reason for this whole confusion mantra you got going on lately.

Can we stop pretending that new players are missing their prefrontal cortex?

More expansions worth of content aka 1 hour of LS and gulp more QoL / NPE ‘improvements’ but of course none of these will include a particle slider because reasons.

The future looks bleak for GW2 lol

It’s buttcape #90384901723712089472390486189312609816491623189236129046

with a cool hat.

90% of the time it is the brainless bearbows and the problem has only gotten worse with the ranger update. Don’t expect it to go away anytime soon..

Can’t believe I’m saying this but I actually want mobs to have defiant stacks now.

Probably the same old zerker content dodge or die, if anet makes raid need coordinated healing then people will cry saying a support healer is required and WoW2.0 etc. I can see it now.

Coordination 2 confusing for NPE

I love swtor story leveling a gunslinger atm

anet already said this halloween was gonna be the same as last year so if you want new stuff gotta wait till november 4th was it?

KeyLimPi.9031:

CMM.6712:

Rebuilt LA would be too confusing for new players, so unlikely.

But it’s not off the table

It’s not something we would rule out, but we can’t really say specifics right now.

Mystic.5934:

the lack of mounts confuses me.

Where are the flight paths?? I currently can’t even play because I need to travel across the map for my next personal story quest! I can’t find the gryphon ANYWHERE

It was nice being the only person I know of running ‘Master Carver’, on my thief no less.

Alas… just like Liadri

LA was broken to reflect on how ANets work office looks like

I kid.. I kid..

FrostSpectre.4198:

Dunno, but ANet has been experimenting with Mob variety on Mordrem, Giant Beetles and Legendary Sand Giant.

Before that they added Karka, most interesting ones being Veteran Karka.

These mobs atleast offer good targets for use of Conditions, since you cannot kill these mobs that fast as others.

Yes very interesting when they enter their thousand year long evade frames

Rialen.1524:

Brick walls listen more to their community than Arena Net does.

Brick walls got each others backs, that’s just how they roll.

OMG I’m glad we’re on the same page! You know what else is confusing? Pre-cursors, I think we should all be mailed at least one because I can’t figure out how to obtain one of these! Trading post? That is far too confusing for me to even comprehend let alone use.

Please for the sake of NPE can you make my legendary for me ANet

I guess anet do not expect anyone to actually play the game for 3 years with pretty much nothing to do so their target demographic is new players not the vets ;p

makes sense tbh

I completely agree with you. I think the most challenge I got out of this game were liadri and a couple jumping puzzles. Sadly he former was most likely due to lots of lag from having a billion people zerging under me and the latter because this game isn’t designed as a platformer and 90% of the challenge is trying to work the camera angles.

I feel you on Olias, it is more challenging to micro a party of heroes in GW1 than it is to do anything in 2 really. Try doing slaver’s HM with heroes without cheesing longbow and going afk then come back to GW2, you will feel like a god. Hell run some WiK content and then look at 2 and think “wth happened???”

Open world is so dreadful I only do it for the loot, the only ‘challenge’ I see are cheesy instakill mechanics which lol I just afk at range essentially because it’s totally anti-melee with an added bonus of 1 billion HP on champs. Oh so fun!

It really helps that there are so many particle effects flying around that even if I wanted to go melee and do some skillful battle it is completely meaningless when I have blue flames gouging my eyes out on my monitor + whatever the hell else is going on.

DocHolliday.5921:

Actually the problems you list I think have little to do with the lack of instancing, and a lot to do with the removal of healer and true support roles, along with making everything DPS-race zerg-fests, and just dumbing down the skill system in general. I was disappointed with GW2’s skill system less than 15 minutes after I loaded it for the first time, and since then, nothing has changed. GW1’s skill/profession system has always been vastly superior.

I’m not surprised in the least to hear that GW1 is more popular than GW2, because it’s always been better in almost every way. Honestly, the only two things I like in GW2 over GW1 are the persistent world and the ability to jump. Oh, and the AH is way better than traders. Everything else is still better in GW1.

Thing is, they could still overhaul GW2 to be more of a true successor to GW1, and it would probably turn it around completely. How easy it would be would depend on how much GW1 code they could just reuse in GW2.

It is definitely an issue because of the ‘holy trinity’ being removed, or rather replaced with simply DPS. I think we devolved instead of evolved as far as MMOs are concerned, IMO it would have been much better to let everyone be what they wanted. Tank/Heal/Dps instead of just DPS and minor support/self sufficiency.

I suppose pve in GW2 will always be boring because of this.. I hate how ANet just adds instakills and more HP but honestly can we think of anything else they could do with this system?? We are so limited with just DPS + dodge.

I feel a lot of it comes down to the particle effect issue, the game would be much more enjoyable if I could see what a boss is doing. It’s just not fun being downed and not knowing why because it was literally impossible to see. In the end I just range everything while watching TV…