Guild Wars 2

Well I am a fan of Defense and I made a Defensive build for each class.

Warrior: Mace+Shield/Mace+Warhorn->this doesn’t suit me. At all. Plus Warrior in general feels to me as generic crapton of everything proffesion(maybe when/if they nerf it, it’ll be more fun. Hey! Who knows right?). I don’t feel any active change in playstyle from my Utilities(Shake it off+Signet of Stamina+Dolyak Signet+Mending).
Guardian: Mace+Shield/Sword+Shield->it is better than Warrior, but it still feels, idk, lacking. I expected more from Signet of Mercy and Judgement+Stand Your Ground. It’s kinda boring as well. Guardian has been one class that I THOUGHT would be my Main, but it is SOOO boring and faceroll.
Ranger: Defense through mobility! Yay! No really, Wilderness Survival+a mix of Carrion and Rabid jewels+Shortbow=OMG fun. Add in entangle and sharpening Stone and muddy terrain. Oh boy! I love my Ranger SO much! I Like when my Pets help me to boot(in general I love pet classes)
Thief: Defense through blindness(S/P) or through mobility(S/D) with huge Tracts of swiftness(Runes of Speed…). An awesome build. Pistol #5+Blinding Powder utility+Roll for initiative=Troll! Ridiculous really! Idk if I Like my Thief or my Ranger more(I guess Ranger because I am more keen on DoTs than I am on DDs)
Engineer: Defense in the field of Turrets! Awesome thing really! I love <3 Turrets! Whole Engineer resonates nicely with me. Only think that confused me was the toolbelt skill granted by the Rifle Turret while you don’t have it out(so small damage for such a recharge? Am I missing something?). Am a huge fan how tangible Utilities feel(skill+toolbelt+overcharge-if Turret). I guess that it is right behind Ele…
Elementalist: speaking of the devil. Defense through versatility. D/D is awesome in it’s mix of mobility and damage. I love it. As do I love staff-such a Slow and meticulous weapon. Defense mixed with DoTs(Shaman’s jewels-Amulet is Soldier’s!!!) and awesomeness that Water and Earth Attunements are. I have no Word. Really awesome. I don’t Like S/F so much tho and I am sad that there aren’t elites for elements Earth and Water(Air is represented by Tornado and Fire with Fiery Greatsword)-why no love for us ANet? I also Like how shamanistic Norn Ele with daggers feels…
Necromancer: Defense through sheer HP. It requires patience. But it is going to reward you for your patience. I haven’t tried it, yet, but it should be okay with Staff+Blood Magic+Soul reaping(OMG HP). DS then basically doubles your hp. Who would say no to 60k+hp??? Slow and efficient, just Like it should be…
Mesmer: I don’t Like him. He feels too dam weird. And I loved mes in GW1. Meh. Another time…

So my classes would go Like this:

1.Ranger(well deserved)
2.Elementalist
3.Engineer
4.Thief
5.Mesmer
6.Guardian
7.Warrior(YUCK!!!)

I withheld the ranking for Necro. It wouldn’t be fair to just put him somewhere without first trying him…

It is not an MMO.

They will choose whether it becomes one hell of a game(and a MMO!) or one more lame excuse for washing money(Like all other “MMOs” in the past 5 years)-namely an OLG…

I am hopeful and be how it may, I love this game. I Already got my money’s worth so all is k!

It’s not too much work them lol! If they can get iPad 3+iPhone 5+250$(at least) for Christmas, it means they are drowning in money. So make them work for said money! Big money=Big challenges eh?

And that’s a bad change anyhow. They need to have at least 2-3 Armour sets that at least resemble what each of the classes in that said Armour class is supposed to look like. Medium Armours-where are Fking Engi Armours? All I get are either sleek Thief Armours or Ranger greatcoats(don’t even make me comment stupid YARRR Armour). Heavy Armour-80% of Armour looks Like it’s designed for Warrior, not for Guardian. Light Armor-where the kitten are scary Necro attires(Light Plates, Gothic dresses and stuff Like that)? Most of L.A looks Like it’s designed for Ele anyhow…

Show some creativity please…

Why not? ANet has a huge budget! Think BIG!!!

(Or they’ll get lazy and we’ll get LFG→total catastrophe)

Yes. The people are the problem. They always are. You simply can not please unwashed mass of people…

Tho, they have gotten lazy. But after 5+ years of “DUNGEON DUNGEON BATTLEFIELD DUNGEON BATTLEFIELD BATTLEFIELD RAID” it is simply nonsensical to Expect different from that same mass. Remember the Pavlovian experiments? How about BF Skinner’s? It all comes Down to psychollogy…

And let me tell you, the world is really positively insane today. But with all the financial ledges and financial recessions, you can’t Expect anything else but the despair and madness. Shame…

Of class based Armour. You’d have Ranger inspired Armour(with Skulls or leaves n twigs) or Engi Armour(basically a cool Blacksmith’s appron with all the cogs and gizmos hanging about) or Guardian Armour(Heavy Plate with inscriptions-way too cool)…

Price it Like cultural Armour. You can also do it in tiers, but it is not necessary. Each race would get its own set of Class Armour(so you would have, for example, Norn Engineer and Asura Engineer Armour)-each looks different.

So was that a good idea or what?

And ANet-you have every right to copy paste this idea and make it happen

I’ll nominate myself. It is a)correct to the lorecool and C)one of a kind. Oh and D)Norn.

Vidar Skargrad. G is read Like H(so you would read it Skarhrad)…

Nuff said.

LOL!

+1000000

Idk why every game thinks we are lightly Armoured. Positively no idea. Granted this game actually gave us Medium Armour, but can we get some chainmails then? How about Chain shirts? Anything really-that Trenchcoat looks stupid and Like if it’s meant for Ranger(tight fitting Thief Armour is no good either). I swear it, I would kill for Warhammer Online’s every class has its look mechanisms. Hey! At least we are not Light Armour Like in WAR. Meh, whatever…

I guess that Man can dream. Neither Heavy Armour interests me(Warrior is too, well, not for me and Guardians are meh). Turrets otoh-GIEV GIEV!!!

OMG this!!!!!!!

Don’t close this beatiful game in never ending series of dungeons. Implement more Jumping Puzzles, more Dynamic Events, more Hearts. Make DEs have harsher consenquences so people actually start caring about the EVENT and not the REWARD.

Please ANet, for the love of all things Holy, take a cue from EQ/EQ2/Vanguard/EvE/Ultima: Online and NOT from WoW/Rift/Aion/LoTR:O/such games. Former games are TRUE MMOs while the latter ones are OLGs(Online Lobby Games).

GW 2 as it stands is on the precipice and will it fall from it hinges only on Jan/Feb updates. You can take right Path(Path of MMO) or you can take wrong Path(OLG Path). Choose wisely ANet, for if you choose wrong Path of thought, you will fall of the ledge, never to return again. Then again you could choose correctly and build your own homestead on the nice plain on the cliff(figuratively said: have your own piece of MMO Space).

Now if ain’t I poetic today?

See?

All you ask for is inconsenquential. So you are giving ANet an excuse to push out poor content update. Flashy skins/recycled dungeons/TP gimmicks-who cares about that? Think BIG! They have such an enormous financial backing and YOU are giving them a reason and an excuse to just sit and twid their thumbs. Even a new class-wtf not? With their budget you can do 2 smaller MMOs alone.

Then when I say that the greatest Enemy of humans are humans, people look at me strangely.

That’s why strong fisted regimes should prosper. I have no use of million people who all clamour for different things. I have an use for few creative people tho. In other words, I don’t care for masses…

If they do the following: PvE=Dungeons, it only means ANet we GW1 vets know and love is gone.

So no further dungeons!!! Leave that to other games(remember the time when there were none in GW1? It was so awesome). If you just look at Warriors n Guardians rock! PvE movement it is only caused by simple existence of dungeons…

More utility n weapon skills please! Especially the latter please!

Retweaking the end of story to somehow cut the Trahearne parts.

Some new areas.

Bug fixes n balance.

Perhaps a new map or two for fellow sPvP-ers(not that I care bout that mode, but still everyone should get something).

? for WvW.

I am sure that I am currently very modest

No, it makes it look awesome!

My big huge mc large Ranger looks just rad. As does my Warrior.

However, this is foolish. Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder-as they say. Nothing more, nothing less…

Go Norn or go home!

No, really just pick the race that looks best/coolest to you and depending on what you want pick the right class:

Offensive Support: Warrior/Necromancer/Engineer
Defensive Support: Guardian/Elementalist/Engineer
High Damage: Thief/Warrior/Elementalist
High Speed: Thief/Elementalist/Ranger
Jack of all trades: Engineer/Elementalist/Mesmer
Damage over time: Necro/Ranger/Elementalist
Difficult to play: Mesmer/Engineer/Elementalist
Easy to play: Ranger/Warrior/Necromancer
Personal recommendation: Ranger/Ele/Warrior

The list is written in the following pattern: 1st choice(best choice)/2nd choice(2nd best choice)/3rd choice(still better than the rest-3rd best choice). This is all imo of course!

Enjoy!

First of all, they need to make Stories concurrent and not sequential. What does this overly complicated sentence mean? It means implementing full character storyline, full race storyline and add more Faction storylines(as a Norn you could join three usual ones+Spirit of the Wild lodges(NEW!). Character storyline would be impacted by ingame and character Creation decisions, racial storyline would be impacted by ingame decisions and your race choice(Norns fight Jormag, Humans fight centaurs and enemies within,…) and Faction storyline would be determined by ingame choices. CS and RS would go from 1 till max while FS would go from 30(perhaps 20) till the max.

Second allowing us to slot weapon skills by giving as a choice on each weapon skill slot would be rad(you could have skill 2a, skill 2b and skill 2c-all follow the theme of the weapon currently equiped). It would make whole game better.

Finally add a henchmen in. If you ever bring Heroes back, you’ll have to do mini storyline(perhaps even few) with them-Mass Effect style. The gist is, most of this Game’s combat system promises lie in the Combo skill-which is barely noticable unless in Dungeon or sPvP. Henchies would Mend that(at least I think so).

I don’t even need to read anymore of this(after first page). However, I’ll ask one question:

Kalvix is that you???

I never saw something so stubborn and trolly as him and this “Vasham” sounds awful kalvixy…

What exactly is wrong with Norn? Nothing!

You just can’t live with such an epic character. They are Like Space Marines-do not treat them as mere humans. Perhaps Kurgans or Barsonlings would be better example(War Fantasy). Anyhow…

I love all Norn. And all things Norn! Asura and human are fine. Charr are despicable cannon fodder. Sylvari are just too dam alien! Hell Tyrannids are less alien kitten

It seems I have changed tho. Few years ago I would flock to Asuran way of thinking ASAP. But, somehow, I ended up LOVING Norns. A different way…

How come is Dagger Dagger violation of Elementalist?

You are thinking of a Wizard or a Sorceror-using Staff or Sceptre/Focus(more exotic).
But, have you thought of all those Norn Shamans? Do they look Like they prefer Staves? No, sire!

You can be both as an Ele. The only thing holding you Back is your own imagination.

And the only thing that is Written in Stone is “Written in Stone” itself. Hah!
Proof? Good Charr-if that can change you bet that anything can…

I am sort of vet. Not compared to most of you, but I did spend 4.5 years on GW1. I played regularly and I was fully immersed in it. Reaching another town was such an achievment(even if it contained 5 NPCs and a merchant lol). Tweaking builds was insanely fun and I got plenty of nice memories from GW 1(mostly Hero oriented). I LOVED Heroes-why can’t we have a single helper? They talked a lot about it in 2009. TOR did it and it’s one of stronger points of that game…

To put those 4.5 years into perspective, I played only a handful games for so long. And them being: Dawn of War(5 years), Starcraft(4.5 years), Morrowind(4.5 years) and DoTA(4 years). Can you hear THOSE names? Those are gaming legends and GW 1 is a proud member of those.

What would I want?

More RP options-round 10 emotes is flatout unacceptable. We need more emotes and more interactive world(sitting, lying or even breaking things!). Even GW1 on launch had more than 30. I don’t even…what is this??? Please fix!

A single helper-I can’t care about other people unless I know them or they are guildies. Why not anyhow? Game’s plenty antisocial as is…

Less focus on TP-I mean gems. ANet could regulate prices themselves to stop inflation or Gold devalvation(THEY MUST do that, but it’s a discussion for some other topic)

More variety in weapons-most notably first five skills. Another batch of weapon types should only come in Xpacks-GW1 style.

Fix broken Traits and rearrange them-there are some broken Traits(still) and some LOL powerful are in Adept tier and some WUT? weak are in Grandmaster tier. Fix that.

Better writing. I don’t care really what you have to do for it. Stop using some MMO “story” writers and buy Real ones! Hire Dan Abnett or Graham McNeill or Gav Thorpe(all veterans of Warhammer and they write REAL nice!) kitten I want more adult themes(forget sex), what I mean by that is more choices that leave REAL impact and more Real behaviour of characters. And NO MORE Trahearne Deus Ex Machinimas please! Gosh darn it Trahearne sucks!

PvP and RvR I can’t care about. PvP->not in my RPGs!!!

Better drops and bring back the green items-sort of Like Kole’s Torment or Rhino’s Charge or Nevermore. Self explanatory.

My comments about GW2 after 2-3 weeks of it?

I can feel that it is Guild Wars somewhere deep in it. But so much has changed(and change, as is clearly visible from Tzeentch’s example, can be pretty harmful). Not for the better mind you! I Like GFX, I Like Exploration, I love being able to move and use dem skills(well mostly), Vistas are GORGEOUS and so forth. Weapons are hit and miss, but I think that’s because some weapons just aren’t meant to be used in solo/small scale(Staves spring to mind!)-that and my personal preference. What can I say? What I don’t Like? Good Charr! Simple! Paint them worse than heretics in Warhammer for all I care! A nation does not do 180 degree turn in mere 250 years!!! They are born bloodthirsty mongrels and they will die as ones. Remember how awesome they looked in GW 1 and the time when you were afraid of, idk, Bonfaaz Burntfur? No more-they went through what Warcraft Orcs went(they were VERY bloodthirsty prior to WC3). Further I don’t Like how pointless it all feels(DEs and such are on a too short timer), I don’t Like crafting(it feels convoluted and plainly unnecessary). I am also uncertain where they will take their game after LS and fractals failure.

All in all, I think GW2 has a VERY bright future! Remember the launch of WoW? Those two months of game and server crashing bugs? Look where it is now! Who says that GW 2 can’t 1up it just because it had a better launch(miles better!). I’d agree with Notion that GW1 became fun only somewhere in the late Factions or during the launch of Nightfall.

There is still time lads! Give some and you’ll receive plenty! I feel I can say that about GW2. I thoroughly love GW 2 and I feel as I felt in GW 1. If only they fixed those jarring edgies and all will be k! Tho, I take it that Charr will never again be EVIL? If so, shame. Keep in mind, these anti Charr opinions are my own and I’ll NEVER play one after what they did to Ascalon…

Edit: Also it’s a kitten shame that Besides GW core, GW2 features a Nexon core. That second thing should be drenched in H2SO4 and burned with White Napalm lol, Cuz it’s Hardcore diarrhea and I’d rather that Camel kittenall over me than let my beloved game be infected by such trash! Eh what can I say? Nexon SUCKS, but that is common gamer Knowledge anyhow. That Nexon core scares the kitten out of me…

Try switching weapons on your Ele. You were prolly using Staff, yes? It is Slow, meticulous weapon that is highly effective. But Slow and boring. Dagger/Dagger Ele is more fun than most melee are in this game. You get OMG amounts of swiftness, surprisingly good DPS and a fun weapon. The one that I do not Like is Sceptre/Focus. Too static for almost no return. I shall see(lvls 25-50 are my S/F lvls)…

Can’t recommend Mesmer either. They have only 1 good weapon(Greatsword) and that weapon is almost identical to ranger’s Longbow anyhow…

Ranger is awesome. Mobile as hell on Shortbow, bursty on Longbow, nimble with Swords. I Like Ranger. And with a good pet choice it becomes awesome!

Warrior is awesome! I recommend you try Rifle with “On my Mark!”Bola Throwsomething+Signet of Rage(focus Precision and damage)! 2nd weapon is Longbow. They can’t catch you and even if they do, they are dead by then!

Others, I have no Real experience with. As others said, try them all. I suggest trying them at least until lvl 20(when you get all the utility slots) and 10points into Chosen Trait line. Trust me, the difference between only Bola Throw and Bola Throw+"On my Mark!" is huge.

Well, depends on what.

On a Norn Ranger, Trenchcoats look Like you were born in them.
The same could apply to Engineer.
Thief, otoh, is in trouble. You have those Velvety looking Armours, bunch of Longcoats and pirate’s outfits(YARRR! Gangplank be me name!). You can’t really look Like you want(either classy Leather Armour or practical Assassin’s Garb). Shame.

KrakenAZ.9367:

DoofyRob.5168:

Hjördís Svanhildr – Norn ranger

Very nice. Not your fault, but now any time I read a name with a “j” in it I cringingly think of it pronounced with a hard j, thanks to the way they do it during voiceovers. I hope you use a greatsword and/or sword in your weapon choice.

I have two norn so far:

Sigrid Nottsdottir – My necromancer. Literal translation “Night’s daughter”. Yeah, I know, cliche.

Byrna Thunderstride – Warrior with max height and large body. The last person to call her Byrna Thunderthighs is now known as Gunnar Cracked-skull.

Nice. Nothing creative as I’ve seen in this topic but still nice.

My turn:

Wtf why are there not more Ivars? Makes no sense…

Anyhow: 3 Norns here:

Ivar Skargrad-Ranger, Wolf, Strength to defend Spirits., revenge story. An older of two brothers. He is Gray! Huge as a mountain tho. Travels around with his Wolf Molnir…
Vidar Skargrad-Warrior, Bear, Cunning, “dude where’s my warwagen?” story. Younger of two brothers. Brown haired. Huge as a mountain. Prefers Rifles and bows and horns.
Gunnar(wanted Gun?r, but the game won’t let me) Knutsson, Ele, Raven, Instinct, Romke’s Horn. Just tall and pretty slender. Brown haired. Prefers Water and Earth. Thinks that Fire is too destructive. Progresses through storyline such as he begun with daggers and ended up with ABSOLUTE King of Ele weapons-Staff. I think that it is ok that it end with -son instead of -sen.

I think my names are nice(and norse enough). Put a LOT of time in them…