Guild Wars 2

I am very much a solo player. Anet doesn’t want to let me play the way I want to, as they claim. They want to force me to group for things like this. Nice.

Levelled to 56 through map completions.

Total of 4 traits unlocked so far…

I’d have felt more impact if they’d have used a voice actor who sounded like a hardened soldier, not something from Sesame Street. I was glad she died for that reason.

This game is such a lonely experience right now. Noone talking in map chat. No roleplay, nothing.

Only thing we get on EU at least is German, Russian and Polish guilds advertising for members in chat. US there isn’t even that.

I completed Gendarren Fields yesterday on a character I am levelling to experience this new BS traits system. Not once after ressing someone or helping them/being helped did I see a ‘ty’ or ‘great job’. 3 hours of no interaction at all.

The game may not be ‘dead’, but the community is certainly dying.

squallaus.8321:

can we please make the GW2 keyboard available for purchase again ?

A cheap, poor quality keyboard with GW2 graphics on? Unless it was a mechanical keyboard, I wouldn’t go near it.

When you make an Asura character in Dynamics, you win the Snaff Prize with the Massively Improved Golem. It has a ‘biomagical psionic mind link’.

If Scruffy is fitted with this, and Mr Sparkles is not since it was created before the character’s story line, Scruffy would almost certainly win thanks to it’s superior pilot-Golem interface.

I imagine it more like…

Mortifer.2946:

Those zerkers are just dumb. Sorry, but they do. The most fun is when I see them play open world and some champ insta-down them. Most of them don’t even try to dodge. Thousand Blades rulezzzz, I guess.

Reminds me so much of one time I took a party of 5 into the final story mission.

Everyone except me kept downing, and I was on an all-bowcaster ranger. Okay, 2 of them were very young (under 18) so I can forgive that. But this one Warrior seemed a clued up guy.

So I asked him, is he running blue gear, or gear levelled 75 or below?

“Full zerk”

Explains everything. I quit the party. We didn’t even make it onto the airship.

sigh

No new races or, professions will be coming in 2014 or, most likely 2015 either.

Only way we will ever see a new race is if it is somehow tied to Chinese lore, since GW2 is a Chinese game now.

Don’t believe me? Ancestral outfits. Then this: http://dulfy.net/2014/07/30/gw2-monkey-king-tonic/

Nothing from Personal Story matters at all. Your race, Order, chosen Study Race or any of the decisions you made. None of it makes any difference to the story outside of the PS. You may as well forget it exists.

Wow, just breezed this today in 5 mins with a Superbomberman Engineer with a PVT/Dwayna armour set. What the heck are people doing wrong?

Lifestealer.4910:

This single spec i have seen people run it in every single game mode.. pve, pvp or wvw it doesn’t matter. Whats up with that, why are some people so in love with it.

I run LB and GS or SB and GS. Wolf, Stalker or Drakehound and Raven or Eagle. Have never used bears.

I’ve seen many, MANY rangers who don’t use bears. Please don’t exaggerate!

A better question might be:

What did the Atlas do?

Only thing I would recommend is to get her some transmute charges from the gem store.

Kids her age want to play Barbie with their characters and she may get frustrated if she cannot customise her look. I know my niece did and she played at age 12.

I am finding the wolf’s leap attack absolutely impossible to dodge. I even get the Evaded sign but still take total damage.

I found it easy. Watch for the mender as he comes in from the doorway and squack him before he gets close. The only attack that really does damage is the statue’s hammer and he telegraphs that move.

Simmu.9405:

Wish they remove map completion and personal story as requirements for trait unlock.doing them for the fourth time is no fun at all

Try the 8th… or for me, the 13th in some cases.

Sorann Peace.9056:

Why do people not care about Belinda’s death? When I saw her dead it utterly shocked me. Maybe I get connected to characters a lot more easily than other people…

Or I’m a special person. The world may never know.

Sorry but all I felt about her death was relief that I wouldn’t have to hear her voice again. It was pretty obvious even to an idiot like me that it was coming.

Azhure.1857:

The complaints are steadily slowing down… eventually these “Feedback” threads will stop being bumped and will be buried. People are tired of complaining… ArenaNet has won. They’ve ignored us and their “problem” is slowly going away as a result.

I fear its all they ever intended to do.

This, totally.

Some of us, like me, are totally bleeped off by all this, but have nowhere else to go.

Okay, I’ve made a Ranger to see if this is as bad as everyone says. I have set ‘newb rules’ – only pickup drops/vendor purchases for gear, not taking anything from bank or using the TP except to sell, and no bears!

Anyone want to chat/play together etc, the character name is Yoshiko Minamoto on EU Piken Square.

What I think makes it worse is that they have the new Points of Interest segment which actually doesn’t tell us much of interest! If you see what the playerbase is interested in, which are the largest threads still running, most of them address the April 15 patch. Still nothing is being said.

To me, that feels like Anet is turning away from me whilst I am trying to voice my concerns. It feels like an insult.

We’ve given feedback. When will the team listen to us and/or answer our concerns?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Guild-World-Events-Megaservers-WvW/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Traits/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Questions-MegaServer/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Megaservers-and-RP/first

Now, I don’t expect developers to rush in and answer every little nit-picky complaint and issue, but these threads contain thousands of posts including everything from sarcastic comments, to real solutions to many of the issues raised by the April patch.

For me, the total lack of recognition shown regarding these problems is just killing my enthusiasm for the game. I am sure there are many others like me.

Can we please have at least one post saying “We have read and are looking into the issues raised”? I don’t know how much longer I can hold on to GW2 in the hopes of an improvement.

I tried but it will only accept one picture attachment

I serve the will of Koda!

http://imgur.com/6gFDTL9
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(How do you get this stupid forum to show pictures? The instructions in the more formatting options link are plooked.)

Ronin.7381:

Can I haz katana naow?

Me sarcastically: “Oh no, Belinda. What will you do Majory? That’s tragic, truly.”
Me: “Hey! I know… gimmy dat sword!”

/e grabby hands

No, its…

“I guess someone has to take her sword to keep her memory alive! It would be a terrible burden but I will volunteer!”

Oh my giddy aunt… a scene with Taimi in the SAB where she can run and jump unaided would probably bring me to tears.

Lobo Dela Noche.5127:

I think they created these threads knowing the feedback would be negative. That way they could use them as an excuse to merge every new thread into one so they don’t cover the entire forum. I also think they never planned on replying from the beginning.

I agree with you. I don’t think that Anet really cares about its customers at all anymore except as people buying in the gem store.

Our opinions are all worthless now. This is why I have all but quit GW2.

William Bradley Knight.2609:

Shows how closely I pay attention to the LS that I didn’t know Taimi was disabled until I read it here on the forums. But while we are being offended, Marjory’s stereotypical Southern accent and persona seems pretty offensive.

She sounds more like an offcast from Di_ck Tracy to me. More 1920’s Chicago-esque private detective style. Goes with her investigation style too.

Basically, a totally out-of-place anachronism.

OP: In my opinion you are very wrong about Taimi. This is why.

My mother was born in a time where there was very little to help the disabled. She was born with weak/brittle bones.

At 13 she spent weeks in pretty much a full body cast to try and ‘straighten’ her. Her sister refused to recognise her in the street, and told her ’ you’ll be a cripple for the rest of your life’.

She was one of the first patients given a hip replacement by the legendary John Charnley, who anyone with severe disabilities may have heard of. If not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charnley

At times she was unable to walk, not through the fact that one leg was shorter than the other because of multiple operations, but through the pain. Years of using crutches left her right shoulder joint so damaged that it had to be replaced with a reverse implant (ball on shoulder, socket on arm).

She was still indefatiguable, doing most of the housework, cooking etc, even if to brush the stairs, she had to use a stair lift to the top and come down on hands and knees with a pan and brush. She refused to let anyone else do it, saying that everyone in the household had their role to play, this was hers.

She was an inspiration to me, and along with my father, my true hero.

Taimi does not make me pity her, it makes me admire her. And it makes me wish that my mother had had access to a little ‘Scruffy’ to help her when it got too much.

With the removing of meta rewards (now there are just crafting rewards it seems and I don’t craft) plus this, I now log in to do the story for fun and then log back out till the next one.

This is new GW2. I had ideas for 2 more character to RP with, but now they’re not worth making. It’d be interesting to see the current population figures compared to pre April patch.

I kill the roots first, they take a while to respawn, then hang around two spawns to kill the wolf ASAP. Works for me.

Cheers to you both for compiling that information!

My new tactic with everything is to use a warrior to learn the mechanics, if in doubt use my other warrior, and then use other classes.

Trying to use my favourite engineer first always leads to rage.

So… altoholics are bleeped again. I have to do this 24 times to get it on all my characters?

Do I get rewards each time? Sure hope so if I’m going to have to drag my most hated Elementalist and Guardian through the story. Its good, but not THAT good!

One of the greatest swordsmen of all times, Miyamoto Musashi, would often dual wield swords or use unconventional techniques. He even created a kenjutsu technique that used a katana and a wakizashi (niten ichi-ryu). Admittedly, his style by all accounts was to ignore tradition if another way allowed you the victory, but I am sure many others would eschew traditional styles when necessary.

My issue would be that most of the swordfighting animations in GW2 would be wholly incompatible with the techniques of Japanese sword use. Jian and Dao (Chinese swords) may be another matter altogether.

Pandaman.4758:

Dude, that’s like saying a Cuban Revolutionary outfit is targeted toward an American audience. Right general part of the globe, but that’s about as close as you’re getting.

The whole ninja/samurai culture isn’t big (or even small, for that matter) in China, it doesn’t appeal to the average Chinese player any more than any European sword does; the dragon jade weapons would be more culturally relevant than the Japanese-themed items.

(Also potentially less offensive, but I won’t go into that)

I don’t even think it looks particularly a. ninja-like or b. Japanese. It has more subtle Chinese hints to me, and the only reason people are associating it with ninjas is the name and the mask.

Not sure I’ve ever seen a ‘ninja’ image outside of the worst cartoon depictions where they wear armoured bracers and shinguards, shoulder armour and metal masks.

I’m not so keen on it. For males, the quarterback shoulderpads fail it for me, on females I just don’t think it looks very good.

The Master of Peace. Hmm, creepy voice. Insisting tone that Aerin sabotaged the Zephyr Sanctum.

I am making a prediction now that the Master of Peace has ulterior motives and may even have sabotaged the Zephyr Sanctum himself. I wonder if Aerin was actually trying to catch him to bring him to justice…

GAHHH opportunity = missed! If they could make the sheath a backpiece however… hint hint!

I wonder if when drawn you get a silver blade and the scabbard remains on your back?

That… would be awesome.

So we have pirate outfit, ninja outfit. We just need the zombie and panda outfits now.

It isn’t for us, it is for China. So was the Ancestral outfit and so will Belinda’s No-dachi when it is released in the gemstore.

Everything is geared for China now. We are just lucky to have access to it as well.

Oranisagu.3706:

if you want to be able to fight while having a aspects, play engi: his kits can be equipped and all skills used normally and when stowed again, you still have your aspects.

I main engie and that’s what I did it on. For sure, it made it easier, as well as being able to stand on the largest rock and grenade him whilst seeing his attacks in plenty of time.

I was waiting to see if LS2 was good enough to keep me logging in and it is, so far!

I was a little frustrated at the aspect jumping puzzle thing to get in, and hoped that wasn’t a sign of things to come throughout the whole map. Thankfully it wasn’t.

I was also hoping for more challenge in the story steps, and got it. I downed a few times and actually got defeated once which was great! The final battle with Aerin was a little frustrating, but worthwhile once I got him down. I was worried the battle was bugged at one stage, I kept bouncing off his shield, till I realised that I had to target him then all was well.

Story well written and for the most part well voice acted. I thought the Master of Peace was a little creepy. Wouldn’t be surprised if he turns out to be not all so Peaceful. Aerin was like Canach Jr. When he was running around the Zephyr Sanctum, I felt bad things were going to happen to him, he was too happy, too exuberant. Flipsiding him into this murderous hunter took me by surprise in a good way.

DE 2.0… well. Apart from a few gripes about Kasmeer’s fluctuating abilities (“Thats too far for me to portal” when she had previously portalled twice that distance!) things went well, IMO, giving the player plenty of lead whilst still making it feel like we were in a team.

Kasmeer improved for me since I felt she was too ditzy and annoying in LS1. She seems to have come of age a little. Marjory was still the annoying anachronism she was before and as said previously, the forced ’I’d rather be making out with Kas’ vibe was a bit of an irritation.

Taimi is still highly annoying but hey, she’s Asura, so that is part of her design. Whilst I don’t much like her character, she is well voice acted and does the job well. Braham has gotten a personality cell now and is more interesting. Rox really needs to cut down on the uppers, if her eyes get any bigger they will gravitationally attract their own moons.

Belinda… good voice actor, wrong character. Still sounds like a 12yr old on helium, nothing whatsoever like a soldier. Special shout out for Riot Alice. I always liked her, good to see her back. Oh, and I did notice Taimi’s comment for my Engineer on seeing the Steam Minotaur. Might have to play through on other classes to see if each profession has its own subtle customisations.

So far, 8/10 on this LS.

I’m really enjoying this so far. Apart from Belinda’s awful voice, everything else feels good!

So… you believe only those who do group activities should be rewarded, for the first part. You would try to make it so that only the elitists / group players can gain. No, I disagree.

And one-off activities such as achievements would hardly gain you enough for anything worthwhile. Plus, there are already achievement goals.

I’d pay to play a race that mercilessly beat to death every character of anyone who ever made a ‘What new race would you like?’ thread.

It would then hack their account, steal all their stuff and ban them.

PvE – Minionmaster Necro. You rarely die. I got mine to lvl 80 and story complete on 17 deaths, mostly from falling.

Couldn’t give a rat’s bum for WvWv or PvP so I don’t know there.

I think I’ve spent over £400, not sure.

But not one penny more until they revert the trait kitten up.

Never Play On Patch Day…