Guild Wars 2

fishy story is fishy.

how do you not know what your “original” account name is.

isn’t the “garbage state of karma” caused by everyone having way too much of it and not enough things to spend it on?

seems to me like reducing the amount we get from one source in exchange for something everyone benefits from is in the general direction of “better”, regardless of the small numbers involved.

every patch since the game was launched has been followed by players claiming some kind of secretive, evil nerf of ecto salvage rates.

every single one of them.

I think a good solution would be to have all the activities available at all times, and still have a rotating daily achievement for a specific one of those.

that way each activity can build it’s own community while still pulling new ppl into trying them out.

Astralporing.1957:

If we’re considering gemstore to be normal gameplay now, we’re on sad times indeed.

I bought the phoenix light armor for my necro using only resources that I obtained through normal game play. /shrug

clint.5681:

Backs are accessories…

Back pieces are armor, they break down from defeats and must be repaired, just like all the other armor pieces. Also, it’s a visible modification to your appearance, which accessories do not do.

clint.5681:

and Bismuth and OP are right

Since Bismuth is contradicting OP, they can’t both be right.

Kincaidia.3192:

Works out to 8.4k per autoattack sequence, or in other words, you can kill yourself in 2 seconds flat. Just autoattacking.

pvp/wvw lesson 1: turn off auto-attacks.

to be fair, they also have released several new back armor pieces since launch.

so not literally zero, in fact.

Xandror.2356:

Even simply equipping my sword can be a long process if I’m in combat for whatever reason.

If you’re in combat, you should NOT be able to modify your equipment or build in any way.

Xandror.2356:

This game lacks the ability to easily change specs or even sets of gear. When I played another popular MMO, and I wanted to change my from DPS gear to my tank gear, I simply pressed a hotkey. In guild wars 2, I must individually go to each slot in the inventory window and right click, and choose from a list of everything I can equip including whatever loot I have accumulated. I counted 31 keystrokes and mouseclicks to change my equipment.

This was a design decision to foster a sense of character permanency and growth, to tighten the link between your character and it’s build, as opposed to gw1 where your character is just a template holder.

Luckily for you and the players who don’t like that concept, the new instant retrait item from the gemstore is definitely a large break from that previous philosophy.

I kinda have to agree that the community would really benefit from anet closing some of accounts based on game inactivity.

something along the lines of: don’t play the game for a month and you lose access to the forums until you log in to the game again. I know it’s very easy to get around, but it would at least shut up the “I uninstalled 6 months ago but I’ll keep trolling the boards” crowd.

Yaro.3251:

This argument though should go away since you can do dailies on WvW/sPvP.

in fact, sPvP is by far the fastest way to get your daily laurel. rarely takes more than 20 minutes.

Jamais vu.5284:

They could add fluffy kittens as free permanent minipets and someone would still find a reason to complain about.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_White_Kitten

luckily, I don’t think anyone did complain

Gyler.8150:

Just to make sure I understand this, now if my main character is rank 41 in wvw and i bring an alt, rank 1, I will not gain level up chests on that character?

Nothing at all has indicated that this will be the case.

The bonus WORLD rank chests you receive at the end of every match now will be account bound, I assume so that it’s not automatically bound to a random character you happened to be logged in as when the reward is assigned.

Kamui.3150:

Evasive Arcana doesn’t exactly do me too much good while I’m swimming around.

That’s part of the cost of having made that trait choice.

Quick Mouse.7635:

Once again those of us stock pilling wxp potions to use in conjunction with boosters are kittened.

Why would anyone do that knowing what happened with the karma boosters?

I’m guessing there’s a fundamental divide in how this is perceived based on whether or not you play WvW.

what “on the fly respec” means to WvW is someone in a tower seeing opponents approach, waiting to see what they deploy and then respecing based on that. Having that ability is a fairly large change from having to WP back to the citadel, respecing, and then running back to the tower.

Kilandros.2098:

Second, there’s nothing stopping people from retraiting pretty much on the fly anyway beyond the WP cost.

If you have to WP somewhere and then come back, it’s not “on the fly”.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

GrandmaFunk, that is what most of the commanders do anyway – grind for WxP and loot.

… and the proposed system would raise the entry bar for the commanders that don’t do that.

which is the problem.

I get that the idea is to trim the fat(ie: too many commanders), but this would throw the meat out and keep the fat.

tigirius.9014:

Dual spec is necessary in every game. !

it’s really not.

tigirius.9014:

Yeah I saw this as a serious greed issue myself. It’s one thing to add a respect token but to not have the option to have dual spec when the rest of the mmo games out there have it as a basic feature it’s just wrong on so many levels.

not having duel spec was a design decision that has nothing to do with greed.

you can debate whether you think it makes for a better game or not, but claiming it’s based on “greed” is completely idiotic.

context matters.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Rank is simply one aspect of WvW experience and skill that can be quantified and objectively compared.

I get that, but it feels like it would encourage bad habits in commanders-in-training.

ie: prioritizing personal rank gain over what’s best for the server.

Do you really want a potential commander to be faced with dilemmas like “we really need to defend this upgraded tower, but I need to grind out more ranks asap for my commander badge.. so I should probably just let the enemy take it so I can flip it back afterwards”

Machiavel.6042:

You know all the noise they made about player housing and Guild Halls ?

all that noise must be in your head because the ONLY stance that Anet has ever had towards player housing and guild halls has been : “we have no plans to implement this”

the high cost is to make the usage as non-trivial as possible.

well that’s something else, now you’re talking about an axe skin that is book-flavored, as opposed to looking like an actual book.

that would work as you could have a different book flavored model for each weapon type.

but an axe must always be recognizable as an axe, that’s fairly fundamental to the game play.

while some may look misleading, the same skin is only used for that one weapon, so once you know what skin that is, you know what weapon it is. ie: once you know the candy cane is a hammer, you know it’ll always be a hammer.

what’s being suggested is skins which could be used on multiple weapons, which is a problem.

also: weapon skins are tied into animations, and animations are tied into the combat system.

Shotzo.6209:

thats not to say a scroll or a book replacement skin for other weapon types wouldnt work

It wouldn’t work because your weapon skin allows your opponents to know what weapon you are using.

if you use an axe that looks like a book, when foci (or any one handed weapon, as you suggest) can also look like a book, then that hides important tactical information from your opponents, which is an unfair advantage.

ie: Your axe looks like an axe so that other players know you’re using axe skills.

Latinkuro.9420:

the class trainer manual itself is only 2g, you’re cheaper off buying a bunch of trainer books, it would just be like having this item !

trainer manuals DO NOT work this way.

The chests are now account bound because you get some at the end of the match based on how your server did.

since you could be on any character when the reward goes out, this lets you transfer the chests to the character(s) you want the chest to go to.

Seras.5702:

I don’t think being able to make build adjustments and experiment freely is ever a bad thing.

it’s a bad thing when there’s no consequence to your choices.

ie: if you can easily change your build whenever you want, as often as you want.. what’s the point of actually having a build?

if your decision doesn’t have an opportunity cost, then it’s not a meaningful decision, which means there’s no strategy involved. Since that type strategy is one of the main reasons I play games like these, reducing it’s value is something I view negatively.

each book type only resets your traits once, you cannot reuse them.

as for the new consumable, I wish they were a bit more expensive but we’ll see how it all works out. unlimited retraits would be horrible.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

It is a contradition to say on one hand anyone running with a zerg can make hundreds of rank points in a few weeks, but the person leading the zerg can’t expect to make many rank points.

The contradiction is that “being an effective commander” and “leading a zerg through PvD cycles” are not the same thing. at all.

-most of the servers have a really high population, it’s just spread out across a LOT of game modes, maps and activities.
-all NA servers are located in the same data center.

JPM.3541:

If you like wvw and want to command, why not reach that rank to command?

Because the activities that good commanders spend their time on reward very little in terms of rank, and the activities that do reward a lot are not effective uses of a commanders time(with respect to the task of leading their server to victory)

Rank doesn’t give a much better picture of the commander’s tactical skills and leadership than the gold cost does, tbh

you don’t need to know much to follow a zerg train for a few weeks and farm up the WvW ranks.

My personal prioritizing of rewards vs gameplay hasn’t really impacted the legitimacy or validity of my comments in this thread. I am participating in good faith, not ‘interrupting’.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Why bother when you can get the same reward for doing the other one which takes 5 minutes?

well there’s two options:

-either you do the longer one because you enjoy the longer one.
-or, you do the one that takes 5 minutes because you’re prioritizing rewards over game play.

players that prioritize rewards will always chose whatever will reward them the most for the least amount of effort/time.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

If they make content, they need to make it rewarding enough.

good content should be its own reward. Too many players require a bribe to try out new content.

that doesn’t really fix anything, it only changes the math.

does this additional reward offset the extra time it’ll take to do today’s path in comparison to the current optimum path? if so, then it simply becomes the new optimum path.

no matter what, a portion of the player base will always chase the most efficient/rewarding activity. devs can change what that actually is but not the player’s mindset itself.

The flaw at work here is located within the players, not the game.

It’s human nature to find the fastest/easiest path and exploit it… there’s very little any game dev can do to combat this, players will always find a way.

Solstice.1097:

All the skilled players seem to be grouped up. Guessing that’s because you’ve been outnumbered recently???

Yup, after 3 weeks of trying to roam solo and only running into groups of 30+ that have 3xbloodlust.. many of us gave up on that play style and got in the habit of running with our own groups.

When it comes to skills, more is not always better.

I think they learned a good lesson from gw1 and they’re trying to avoid adding junk skills just for the sake of “adding new skills”.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

It is very boring and only a select few enjoy reading a wall of text( my self included on certain circumstances). It is boring because it is detatched from the game itself. More than half of the player base probably doesn’t even go to the website.

Pretty please. Be more creative and try putting the lore in the actual executable file that is Gw2.exe

How would it be less ‘boring’ to read that same wall of text from within the game as opposed to from a site?

If it’s posted on the site, at least players can read it whenever it’s convenient for them. why use up your game time when you could read the same story on your phone during your commute home?

more importantly though, there’s actually a fairly huge amount of in-game lore and it’s universally ignored by the player base unless it’s attached to an achievement, and even then very few players take the time to read it.

just view any out-of-game lore/content as free extra stuff.

Book skins are used/reserved for Foci (ex: Godswalk Enchiridion, Arcanus Obscurus)

thanks for sharing your useless, uninformed opinions with us?

last night, a few great skirmishes between roamers from all 3 servers.

Harbinger.8637:

Community: “We want more meaningful content.”

Anet: " Oh, ok have some hairstyles!"

Jokes aside some of them look pretty neat.

more like..

Community: “We want more hairstyles”

Anet: “Oh, ok have some hairstyles!”

Other parts of the community: “kitten that, we want better rewards!”

Anet: “Ok, we’ll revamp the rewards for champs”

Community: “this is soo lame now everyone just farms champs, we want challenging boss fights!”

Anet: “Ok, we redid one of them, polished a few others and more are coming”

Community: “ugh never mind _that_why does anet only care about pve stuff, we want new wvw content!”

Anet: “Ok, We’ve redesigned the borderland map and added a new mechanic”

Community: “bah! no one cares about wvw anyway, when are you gonna put more stuff in the gem store that actually worth paying for, like new hairstyle, we totally want new hairstyles!!”

There is no way for Anet to win with the community, ever.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Getting rid of the borderlands would do a lot to solve the problem of servers being outnumbered. All three servers would be roughly equal numbers

and queues would be four times longer

Use whatever language will give you the best chance of reaching whatever audience you intend your message for.

If anyone complains about it, that’s their problem.

well now that they’ve split it into 3 leagues for NA it should be a lot better, hopefully with more stable matches and more of a campaign feel.

Weird how at the beginning of the summer, the big food related topic was about how the lemongrass was OP and ruining the meta.