Guild Wars 2

Very excited about this dungeon. Such great combination of awe inspiring vistas, lore, and a progression mechanic that seems hardcore and casual friendly both. Can’t wait for it!

I’m a bit nervous in PVP but I quite like that feeling. But my problem is that I don’t really like killing people. I’m guessing PVPers must get a buzz from that but I all I feel is a mixture of relief and guilt. Sorry, I want to say, but it was me or you, mate, hope you’re not mad.

Gear checks do help with difficulty though. It works like this. They make something nearly impossible to do. Then they gradually improve your gear. When you do it it will be due to skill though. Why? Because you did it at the earliest possible moment. The gear made it perfectly tailored to you. Yes it will make it easier afterwards but that’s so others can get their moment too.

Yeah, lets talk about the rest of it for a change! I love the look of the new enemies. I love the prospect of defending LA. I’m very excited about the weekend events. The new dungeon looks amazing. What I love is that you won’t be stuck on the same wing all the time. People might reroll their luck if they get a particularly difficult or time consuming combination but that’s till better than running AC 1 over and over again. The other thing is that it’s just one place and not 8 places. The community will be focussed. It should be pretty easy to get a group. I’m hoping it will have the feeling you get from doing a raid in WoW when you knew all the other guilds were doing the same fights as you. One of the reasons festivals feel special is you feel everyone is experiencing the same thing. It’s the same thing with a central dungeon hub. Oh and I like this questline to weaken the karka shells. Sounds fun. But what has me most excited is the very fact that they are doing these monthly content bumps. Can they keep doing this indefinately? Lost shores – Xmas – SOMETHING – valentines – SOMTHING – Easter – SOMETHING…. that would just be amazing.

80 levels of vertical progression then told to go collect skins is a harder transition to make than 80 levels of vertical progression (solo questing) and then being told to go and do gear progression in a dungeon. Hence the problem. I’m not saying the transition is impossible but I’m pretty sure lots of people are failing at it. I think Arenanet has waited to see the data from the game before coming up with a rewards plan. They waited to see what people were doing and what they were asking for. They built a game though that creates a progressive mind set. 80 levels. It’s not surprising that one of things the data is showing is a need for some kind of post 80 gear progression, something other than skins and titles. I think this is going to be a very mild form of gear progression and I’m happy with it. I like gear progression except when it’s too much. This doesn’t seem too much, it seems just right.

I don’t have problem with people griefing in WvW JPs. Its meant to be that way. But I do think they shouldn’t allow siege simply because it reduces all the cool fights you can have in there to simple tactics of siege. I mean why chase people helter skelter across a jumping puzzle where your jumping speed and skill might have a factor in your survival or whether you catch them when you can just nuke them from range? Jumping puzzle fights should have jumping in them!

They are not rifles, rifles don’t fire nets or shoot you off the ground. They are not shotguns either. They are a two handed engineered weapon that has never existed in any shape or form in reality which has been labelled, for want of a better name, rifle. It shares a model with the warrior because that’s what happens in MMOs. All these arguments are absurd. Just say you don’t like the animation, don’t justify it, it won’t work. I do like it, I think it fits with the overall feel of the profession. I don’t care if it’s not realistic. Neither is firing nets or using a rifle to fire you across the room. And I’m no expert on animation but I think the animation from shoulder firing to leaping will look stupid or will slow down the ability.

I really hope not. Hip shot is a personal favorite of mine. I would like a legendary shotgun skin though…well more a legendary shotgun net thrower blast launcher thing skin. Beefy barrel, cogs, spinning gizmos, levers, some sort of hell’s angel skull painted on the stock…

I think a lot of players object to gear treadmill because they hate the gear they worked for being replaced. What if ascended armor merely took your armor and boosted it? Simply made it better by adding a slot or something?

In WoW getting a full new tier takes ages. I mean it can take months of daily grind. Then its the agonising RNG for those best in slot pieces. In GW2 can buy full exotics the very day you turn 80. You can have them waiting for you in the bank. Before you guys worry too much just consider how long it might take to get this new gear. I seriously doubt it will be anything more than a fraction of what it takes in WoW. That’s not gear treadmill guys. Raising levels of tier by itself does not create a treadmill it’s just the same as when you level up. It’s the grind that goes with it that creates the sense of a treadmill.

I was very excited when I heard about this new tier. I always hoped skins, titles etc would be enough of an incentive for me but it has proved not to be the case. The new dungeon sounds more like a raid than a dungeon too which I love. I’ve been feeling for a while that there just isn’t any direction for me at 80. Nothing to aim for. I would have prefered something a bit more group orientated such as a Guild Hall to work for in some way, but I will take a new tier of gear as well. The fact that there is just this one really hard dungeon giving the best gear is something I really like. Why? Because it focuses things, all your friends will want to run it and not be spread out over 8 different skin grinds. Well done, Arenanet, in my opinion.

I’d like my house to reflect my achievements in game. By the door a huge map that changes depending on my map completion in the world. Along the hall trophies from the dungeons I have beaten and suits of armor displaying the gear I have collected. I suppose it would be a homlier version of the hall of monuments. I hate all these dollhouse suggestions, I wouldn’t enjoy that kind of housing at all personally.

I’m a bit disappointed with the endgame. But I think it’s just a rewards issue. I think if the rewards were more interesting it would be better. I don’t mean higher stats. I mean things like treasure maps, polymock pieces, parts of a dance manual that teaches a new dance, a GW2 version of the hall of monuments, guild housing and player housing, more varied legendary skins, zaishen quests to get you to visit old places, more titles for really hard stuff like brutal dungeons and JPs. Also these monthly content updates are looking like they might be good – we’ll see – and good new content beats repeatable old content in a lot of ways. But I would like to see something like an overarching epic purpose to the game. But I don’t know how they can add this. In WoW raids framed everything you did, no matter what: it was all so you could help the guild kill the final boss of the final raid. Zhaitan died too quick, too easy. Nothing epic to work for now.

Account bound legendaries are great for people who like to play lots of alts and who don’t really have a main.

Nofo, considering how there are lots of engineers who love the rifle the way it is now and it’s unlikely ANet are going to change it – at least not to any great degree, perhaps it would be better to argue for a legendary that looked like an awesome shotgun with moving cogs and other kinds of sticky out engineer thingies. That’s what I would like, anyway, because you’re right, engineers don’t have a legendary right now.

There was a trick where you make an alt with that monacle. Then have your main buy a white leather head piece and put it in the bank. Get the alt to transmute the white helm to the monacle. Put in bank. It will say soulbound but your main will be able to wear it. They might have fixed this though now.

There is something satisfying about wearing the loot you dropped or earned from a story quest compared to loot you bought off the TP. Just have to look at Diablo 3 to see how well an auction house plus random loot can ruin a game. Having these kind of rewards be non random is a good thing. Or rather random, but still stuff you can wear.

Account bound dye is a really old topic. In the BWE I thought character bound dyes was a good idea. I think though now that I would pay more attention to them if they were account bound. I just sell them now, I’m completely indifferent to them. If they were account bound I’d probably start collecting them, at least the ones I loot.

My wife misses healing, I miss tanking. I think it’s because we like to feel useful or vital. In GW2 I always feel a bit interchangeable. I suppose that’s good in some ways. They have said they want to move away from dependency to cooperation. I kind of liked the feeling of being depended on though. The frantic feeling is what my wife loved about healing, too.

I don’t farm cursed shores because I find it boring but I’m quite poor. I won’t do the monthly because I cba but I’ll have less karma. Just because it’s the “monthly” doesn’t mean it’s some kind of magic content that can’t not be done. Do or it or don’t do it. Be rewarded or don’t be. No one is forcing anything.

I decided not to bother with it. It’s only 10 jugs. Might seem like a lot but if you play most days you get 30 in a month anyway. I’m serious. Get your head around not doing these and it’s a huge relief. Just play your own game, don’t get hooked on carrots.

How do we know that the kits are not balanced around not having these stats? If they are then why does it matter?

I would not like to see a rifle-like rifle for the engineer as I believe it doesn’t fit the class at all in a thematic sense. What I would like instead is a nail-gun kit, or something similar. Engineers use gadgety, invented things, weapons with all sorts of swiss-army style tricks to them. A standard rifle would be boring, but a steam powered nail gun would be amazing, even a railgun type sniper affair. As long as it has an invented, crazy feel to it.

I quite like the titles as they are except for one thing. In the story mode you are awarded a “title” or rank. This should actually be a title you can use, in my opinion. The first time I was given the rank of warmaster I was keen to display it, only to be disappointed when it wasn’t really a title at all.

A mount that is just 25% speed and comes with its own skill bar of charges, leaps, hoof cracks etc would be cool. Consumable instead of being permanent, like a tonic. Cosmetic, consumable, collectable perhaps(everlasting tonic version), underpowered in combat, CC-able…I think it could work.

Though sometimes it’s because the group don’t really know the tactics, sometimes it’s just efficiency that drives this request. You can’t blame people for being efficient when they are grinding out their tokens. People get very quickly to the point where they are doing X simply to get Y. That doesn’t mean it’s not fun. It’s fun because they like getting Y, it makes them feel like they are getting somewhere. If they get it faster it’s more fun. If you want to blame something for this elitism you should blame the tiered gear. Because level 35s can’t get exotics, but level 80s can then their gear is always going to scale down better. Not to mention that even if level 35s could get exotics most of them wouldn’t have them. One solution to this is to have proper downscaling in dungeons, that is you are brought down to the level of level 35 greens or some standardised level. But people like the power their hard earned exotics bring so that’s not going to be very popular. Another solution is to just accept it, level up, then it won’t matter.

I love evrything about the rifle. The only change that wouldn’t ruin the entire profession, whole game (ok I’m exaggerating – but only a bit) is making the 1 ability much less range like 600 but with a great deal more damage. It’s a shotgun, if you want a rifle roll a warrior. Actually its not even a shotgun, just like engineer pistols aren’t really pistols. These are weapons that you have invented, tinkered with. Just because they have a standard name doesn’t mean you should view them as standard weapons. They fit the engineer class so well right now, with the net, the jump, the explosions, the multifunctionality. Seriously how can you want just a boring old rifle and want to play an engineer at the same time?

Seems like an easy way to add content for them. I hope they will do this and maybe spice it up with harder modes or certain drops later on.

I found pistols on the thief really boring as most fight come down to using one ability. With the engineer not only will you be using almost all 5 abilities but you will also have a few F2,3,4 abilities that could really add to gameplay as well, such as throwing a handful of grenades, or a rocket out of your belt. Thief abilities do feel a bit more like pistols though, more like your typical idea of pistols anyway. Engineer pistols are more whacky, such as glue shot, poison darts, flameblasts…not really like pistols at all.

Give everyone the ability to write one then you can use it like a shoutbox. You can read all the past messages in history.

That guy in LA that sells stones to get to the hall of monuments, he should sell all that stuff that due to temporary bugs you can’t get right now. Just say he’s smuggled some in, get them now while stocks last. When Arenanet fix the bugs, well he can’t get those anymore, his supplier got eaten by a dragon.

The funny thing is that I tended to zoom right out with that bug, just because it’s the natural thing to do but I think it made the game worse for me. I couldn’t see the animation of the mobs properly which is pretty important, and I lost that sense of “looking over my shoulder”. My problem with having a zoom this high is that the highest zoom is always the default because you always can get to that setting just by spamming your mousewheel. But how would I get it to the zoom it’s at now? Just by eye I guess but I don’t trust those as much as scrolling back all the way.

I was very disappointed with underwater combat and the underwater zones. One of my favorite zones in WoW was Vashj’Ir and I was sure GW2 was going to outdo this in terms of visuals. Perhaps they still will. I’d love a very deep and huge underwater zone. But only if they can make it fun to play in it. Less mobs and mobs placed in more varied ways, so that it might be safe on the ocean floor at one point and at another be full of crabs. Also have the mobs doing more natural things not just floating aimlessly. At the moment it seems mobs are simply placed in order to get in your way or to make sure theres no empty spaces. They should be placed more creatively than that. These ones mining the floor, these ones guarding, these ones looting treasure. I liked the touch of floating undead that seemed like corpses until you got close, but there wasn’t enough of that kind of thing. Mobs were mostly place like some kind of homing mine.

They are not actually following you, you know….

It’s just a way to friend people who have friended you. There’s no reason why you would want this to be empty. You friend people who you know, those not friended are just random strangers, whats the problem with that? Also if you block someone its their whole account you block, so thats an anti stalking thing too.

Making it a rare vs exotic comparison misses the point. It’s really comparing a unique weapon skin with a generic magic find pair of boots.

I agree with you though about jumping puzzles in special events. A puzzle this hard ought to be a permanent fixture, perhaps introduced in a festival but not necessarily part of it. Festivals should be easy in my opinion because a lot of casuals players like to do all the achiements. They should definately make more puzzles like this though and make them even harder but put them permanently in the world so that you can go and do them at your own pace.

Invisible bag works but I love your idea. Even better, the food you eat affects your equipped mini causing something strange to happen. Would make food a bit more interesting. Or snacks hidden away in the world that would work the same way. A snack that makes your pet burrow when you enter combat. A snack that makes your pet cheer whenever you kill something. Could be really fun.

I think you can turn all dialogue off. I think theres a slider for that. I just wish though that the npc’s near the bank would shut up and that you didn’t hear the greeting of an npc each time a different player clicks on it.

It’s muted so engineers don’t get jealous. (They are anyway.)

Another benefit of interdependence is that your alts’ crafts feel more useful then.

Make a character and when the name becomes available get it on an alt and pay for a name change when they become available. All this waiting time you could be making gold to buy the gems to get the name change.

I just think its going to be something smashing out of the fountain. It will probably change the nature of LA for the rest of the holiday. All you will miss is the event that begins that change. If it was repeatable I’m sure it would be repeated but I think some things just can’t be repeated.

The skin has a glow that might help in dark places. Also I could equip it on my level 44 even though its a level 80 item. I’m quite happy about it. Though I display it now I will probably end up not displaying it except when doing a dark puzzle or something.

Could just be a change they made to DR and not the world at large. The Canthans/Elonians/Ascalonians division was dividing players along racial lines which NCsoft might not have liked. Class division is more universal in the sense that all races have rich and poor. Remember that they were aiming for a bigger audience than GW1 players also and a class division is more immediately comprehensible to players new to the lore. But this doesn’t mean Cantha and Elona have been deleted from the world, just from Divinity’s Reach.

I love the idea of an epic personal story line that is about forging some weapon. That would mean a lot more to me than something that was just an epic grind to get. The weapon itself doesn’t need to be godly either. It could just be something personal, like an old family sword that needs to be reforged or decursed or both. I’d much prefer an ordinary looking sword with a story behind it than a flashy thing that only speaks of grind.

I heard that the information isn’t lost. But they don’t have the customer service or IT infrastructure right now to restore deleted characters. I might be wrong about this. But it might just mean that this service will be available in the future but they obviously can’t make any guarantees until they have it set up.

My advice is to level up in the 1-15 areas. You will get to know which areas of these might be risky and once you get to around level 30 or 40 these areas become really really easy. When you get higher, perhaps even level 80, you can take advantage of the best gear and traits. Traits that will allow you survive better in downed state, or when low on health. Then you can take on the other challenges. If your aim is just to get to 80 then that’s easy. If its 100% completion or whatever, then good luck.

Crafting gives no benefit stats wise like some other MMOs. Its just so you can make stuff. If you want to make your own gear then huntsman and leatherworker are the best. But you could just sell all your gathering mats and buy the gear you need and would probably have more gold at the end. Another thing to consider is that you get 10 levels for each craft you level up to 400. So it has that benefit of levelling you up faster – or drawback if you want to level slowly.

Well what you need to do is get your mouse around about where you want to hit something, then you spam 1 while holding right mouse button down and moving with w, a, s, d. What happens is that the mouse will stay in the same relative position to your character so that by moving your character you position your grenades. Of course if you need finer tuning you can take right mouse button off and move just with w, a, s, d. This is a bit tricky. Make sure a and d keys are rebound for strafe left and right. I think that’s how I do it anyway, going from memory.

I love the rifle and would like it if they made it shorter range but do more damage. I love the shotgun feel. The toolkit is pretty good in PVE. I use it mostly for the burst of the number 3 ability. Start with rifle, use your throw wrench, when they get close, blunderbus plus crowbar and they’re dead twice over. Another thing you can do is melee a group of three while they attack your thumper turret. You dps them while healing your turret. Tank, dps and heal all in one.