Guild Wars 2

zommoros also told me a secret

“I am rng don’t waste your gold”

feels like none lol

Terrible. I was a short amount away from being able to switch server now I need far more because I am going to be over the 1800 I needed no matter how I look at it.

screw you, you guys are so disconnected with your players

Virtute.8251:

Even mentioning “boon duration” shows that you’re typing from the side lines of a no-GvG server.

I guess you missed the joke, I was pointing out how shallow combat in GW2 is.

Since GvG is not in GW2, yeah I am not on a GvG server.

Pandaman.4758:

1) Not done finishing my characters’ looks (ranger and necromancer are the only ones left) and gear (four characters still need ascended trinkets, one of which is stuck because there are no ascended zealot/keeper trinkets).

2) Blade & Soul isn’t out yet.

B&S is likely never coming to NA :/ … I just want Black Desert, omg that Blader looks so amazing.

jweez.7214:

But they seem to dodge the question when asked about it while reaffirming their belief that living story can deliver expansion content.

Evidence shows me that it cannot, so…. yes to expansion

kolompi.1287:

Yes, and you know why they are going through the story? To get the HoM rewards in GW2… I’m sorry but the fact is, the people you see there now are there for Halloween and nothing else.

I can tell you for a fact GW1 is not as dead as you think, there are a ton of regulars and active guilds.

Zquests always being run, speedclears, vanquish, pvp is populated especially during the events which are always now, just depends what it is on.

If GW was dead I wouldn’t be playing it… and I enjoy it more than GW2 much of the time because it’s not a zerg DPS spam 1 type of game and I loooove my monk so nya~

Aeolus.3615:

kitten .9460:

Blob vs blob / zerg vs zerg is nothing compared to GvG. GW2 pvp is a joke in comparison, GW1 rolling in its grave right now lmao

^this.

I kinda miss as a monk screamming to team when player decided to get overextended.

Haha yea…

prot monking was insane, can’t get anything like it in GW2

owait I can stack boon duration and autoattack on a guard, such deep gameplay brah ;p

Blob vs blob / zerg vs zerg is nothing compared to GvG. GW2 pvp is a joke in comparison, GW1 rolling in its grave right now lmao

ugh hot join is a plague, I would recommend solo q but there is skyhammer. I usually just queue in TA by myself.

Jeknar.6184:

kitten .9460:

yea but my friend mentioned there was free transfers before a WvW tournament or something.

idc about paying I just don’t want to waste the gold if they’re gonna be free soon.

There wasn’t free transfers prior season 3. The last free transfer were prior season 2… If you really intent to wait for free transfers, you gonna sit in your server for a while.

Ah ok… I wll just transfer then. This can be closed~

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lol stop clicking? never seen someone complain about this.

zerk 4 lyfe

lol PuGs

Chewy.9263:

Guys, come on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kk3CDbAO0M&list=UUe3-_UshHbsAaIO4CgAu6wA

omg literally about to kitten myself laughing

yea but my friend mentioned there was free transfers before a WvW tournament or something.

idc about paying I just don’t want to waste the gold if they’re gonna be free soon.

I am not a band wagoner I am just tired of my server (kaineng) being dead and would like to actually play WvW, should I spend the 270 or so gold or will there be a free transfer like there was not too long ago iirc?

Why are you letting your guildie run that armor.. .lolol

A feature that is essentially in every MMO, ironically not in GW2, the worst offender when it comes to particle effects.

Effect LoD is bugged and/or completely useless.

I find it almost insulting that this game was advertised as skill based combat, you watch a telegraphed attack and dodge it supposedly. Currently, this is near impossible on many fights because I cannot see what is going on.

Thankfully I can spam 3 on my S/P thief and excel at any level of pve regardless, but still it is pretty silly how over the top spell effects are in GW2. Please for the love of grenth add a slider or an option where I only see MY spell effects.

Spvp is a bit more tame but even there I can’t make stuff out sometimes which makes the thought of esports pretty funny to me.

This wasn’t a problem in GW1 at all, and we had audio tied to skills that warned us as well as visual. So what’s up :/

Kaineng. Dead server, chose it because I love Cantha.

WvW on low tier/dead servers
Korean levels of RNG
GW1 lore ignored
No build diversity or skills
Condition system is borked and unacceptable in 2k14, continues to be ignored.

John Corpening.9847:

You guys beat me to it. After last week’s positive discussion on siege trolls I wanted to bring up the topic of population imbalance and ideas that you have on it.

There are a couple of ideas already going in this thread:

• population caps
• merge servers
• Battle Groups

I’d like to join in this brainstorm with some questions on these. For merging servers, how do we determine who gets merged? Where would we merge them to? How do we maintain any sort of world pride or identity they have? How do we handle potentially merging with your mortal enemies?

You guys were willing to alienate your entire playerbase with ascended grind, I don’t see a problem compromising for the benefit of population balance. I’d have to say ‘who cares’ just fix the balance lol.

I didn’t even know TVH existed, wht a joke lol doing zero damage in a DPS game

Venoms are garbage, you lose far too much utility to use a build based around them.

They would need a total redesign to be worth using.

Awesome thank you.

I can’t stand running S/D in WvW, too many teleport bugs. I can’t even use flank strike combined with steal…

Holy necro, batman!

Pvp has like 2 on the balance department… I don’t think anyone is actively working on pvp content.

LS and bug fix probably has the rest of them.

In comparison to how many devs were working on GW1, either they are sitting there watching my little pony reruns or the event system is much more complex than I’d like to think. At this point we had 10x the content.

I am hopeful that they’ve been working on an expansion in the shadows but that is just wishful thinking.. in reality they probably just have bad management or not enough people which is crazy to think but it makes the most sense to me.

There needs to be a Cantha themed GH since we will likely never get Cantha itself :/

The merchants should be former Canthan GW1 heroes and guild lord is Shiro Tagachi with his epic dual blades

I had both of them but have since deleted I guess, don’t even remember when or why…

Einlanzer.1627:

No thank you.

Frankly, making DB a power skill wouldn’t make sense, since D/D is already fully functional as a power set and the only other melee option is power-only.

It doesn’t need to be changed, except for maybe tuning the evade a bit. It functions very effectively as a bleed stacker and allows D/D to have a little versatility. It’s also very flavorful. Anyone who thinks it’s weak or useless doesn’t know what they’re talking about and is just stuck in myopic perpetual backstab mode.

DB is a terrible skill I’ve mained thief since day 1… it is just bad, glad you can find some joy in 3 spamming on immobile AI though.

Try using it against another player in yolo or team queue or even a dungeon and watch as the group laughs at you and expect a swift kick.

Doesn’t make sense to have it condi based on an obvious power set.

No thanks the underwater combat is still unfinished.. as a thief I don’t even have access to 1 of my classes mechanics.

It’s even more boring to spam 2 underwater than it is 1 on land

Neptune.2570:

No don’t.
PvP becomes lame when people are doing it for any reason other than they like to PvP. Too much rewards attracts the wrong kinda players to a competitive game mode.

As if GW2 was competitive… pvp is just a more enjoyable pve with all the AI and crap passive builds let’s be honest.

I would appreciate any way to skip this troll map.

Do you get dishonored for logging out and skipping queue when it pops?

I’d rather fight an army of bearbow rangers than 1 engi..

Katahdin.8714:

To be honest, with mega servers, it really doesnt matter what server you are on for PvE. There is no longer any identity in PvE because we are all one big community now.

Precisely, so why would anyone be mad over a server merge? The only thing that matters is WvW when it comes to server.

nightwulf.1986:

kitten .9460:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I talked to a couple of the devs just now, and they told me this is a subject they’re still reviewing and considering how best to address. It’s part of a larger discussion, as you can imagine, and changes would necessarily involve a few elements, not just condition caps alone.

While there aren’t details on changes or a timeframe in which they would be done, you can be sure that this is being reviewed by the devs and considered as part of the big picture and potential adjustments in the future.

Is there a reason why objects and such aren’t affected by conditions? How did the devs not see these issues arise, did they not play GW2 during development ? lol every other MMO I played has your own condition limit and doesn’t care who else has condition on a target.

First off, Guild Wars 2 isn’t the only mmo to have to wrap their head around this issue, you’ve said as much. But what you seem to be forgetting is that other mmos have also had to limit condition/damage over time skills for their own reasons. Wow had similar issues, I should know, I played an affliction Warlock for a long time. People complained there for many years before they changed which dots got refreshed, overwritten, and how many were alotted. There were reasons for the limitations, and when the opportunity presented itself, they were able to change it. It’s no different here. Don’t pretend that there aren’t limitations or considerations in designing condition damage. It ain’t easy.

Edit: Comparing how condition/dot damage works in one mmo to GW2 is also not necessarily apples to apples. The details man, the details.

Sure maybe when WoW was new.. is it wrong to expect an MMO in 2012 (release) not to have issues with conditions? If it is such a flawed system in GW2 why even have conditions at all unless they had a solid system to run them? Just because games circa 2004 had issues doesn’t mean it is acceptable in 2014 lol

Tachenon.5270:

Found another build I’d like to try on my NPE ele. Guess what? Can’t. Don’t have four of the necessary traits. Two of them require map completions, one requires my ele to befriend the dredge in WvW, and the other requires the defeat of a Risen High Wizard in Orr.

How does that make experimenting with and learning new builds easier?

Seems to me it makes experimenting with and learning new builds a bore, a chore, and not particularly fun.

So. Any communication about this coming our way anytime soon?

ANet wanted to bring a bit of GW1 skill capturing to GW2 but since there are like no skills in GW2 traits were the next thing they thought of.. too bad we hardly have any of those as well. It was a bad idea imo.

It worked in GW1 because you could make thousands of builds

Lhos.1643:

Lil Puppy.5216:

I can drop 100feet and barely take damage, but trip on a snowball and a cascading damage effect takes hold and I find myself requiring a masseuse to continue down the path.

Nobody gets “downed”, they just develop sudden leg cramps.

The word filter doesn’t like your name:

Did ANet actually say this is cuz of tripping? lol

. . . people here take things far more literally than I anticipated. Too used to the WoT forums, I guess. :P

I love Wheel of Time I just wondered cuz I would not put it past ANet LOL

Gaile Gray.6029:

I talked to a couple of the devs just now, and they told me this is a subject they’re still reviewing and considering how best to address. It’s part of a larger discussion, as you can imagine, and changes would necessarily involve a few elements, not just condition caps alone.

While there aren’t details on changes or a timeframe in which they would be done, you can be sure that this is being reviewed by the devs and considered as part of the big picture and potential adjustments in the future.

Is there a reason why objects and such aren’t affected by conditions? How did the devs not see these issues arise, did they not play GW2 during development ? lol every other MMO I played has your own condition limit and doesn’t care who else has condition on a target.

Did ANet actually say this is cuz of tripping? lol

WvW is borked on my server Kaineng it is usually dead so unfortunately I do not participate in that mode at all.

Dontfakeit.9865:

Bought Zap off the TP for 85g right after the first South Sun event.
Mystic forged 200g worth of rares for a Dawn got it in 5 tries.
Bought the trident precursor for 20g.
Bought Storm for 90g early on.
Bought Chaos Gun for 200g a year ago.

How did you forge 200g worth of rares but get it in your 5th try? Do you mean you got dawn then continued to forge

Yea I wonder too, it’s pretty baffling to think that obvious bugs that have been in since beta are still glaring issues and ignored. The fall damage one and the immobilize bug are the most annoying.

MVP.7961:

Even if we kill all the dragons we still have other characters like Dhuum and Palawa joko to deal with.

Who are a billion times more interesting :/ kill dragons asap plz

I could write a 10 page essay but I’ll just ask that you copy pasta them exactly how they are in GW1. And guild halls aren’t guild halls without GvG…!!

I have some in GW1 xD

Playing since beta not 1 pre drop, personally I think the whole legend system is terrible so I gave up making one about a year into the game. Would have bought some pre’s had I known their price would quadruple times a thousand.

Some of my most cherished memories & friendships made came from GW1 events. Sadly, I do not feel the same connection about them in GW2.

I will rather spend my holiday in GW1 this year plus I can visit Cantha nyaa~~

Beldin.5498:

knives.6132:

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

Yeah .. or have or forums look like this :

Rift has always had… meh forums, but the game itself is awesome :]