Guild Wars 2

Becase this dungeon is in the Mists it means it can by anywhere during time, and thats exactly what i believe that is going on.

Some of the fractals take you to specific events in Tyria’s history.

Ascalon – The searing event
Snowfall – ?
Swampland – Probably related to the “Chosen Ones” being slaughtered by the White Mantle under Mursaat’s command.

Also i believe we will be seeing the Mursaat soon. The merchants are selling gear vs Agony.

- http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mursaat
– http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Spectral_Agony

Mostly because GW2 actually is made of GW1 players and some new joins.

In GW1 you had achievements that took a serious commitment, e.g.: EXPLORATION.

Exploring GW1… was incredibly hard, HARD, even using TEXMOD to cheat your way, it would take you a long time.

In GW2 there’s simply nothing to do, while the graphics look awesome and the Jeremy Soule music is amazing, the reality is, this game is so empty that makes me wonder why was it delayed this much.

It took them 5 years to develop GW2, that is a very long time for a game that is empty.

And thats why alot of people left, because they felt cheated, i did too.

Remember the Mike O Brian video talking about revolution and the next level, etc, etc, well, GW2 is not pulling numbers close to any revolution.

I’ll post a screenshot of my friends list, out of 15 noone ever logs in, except my gf that sits next to me.

Is this game dying? Yes, slowly the player base decreases, you will see some spikes during events like the November update, a few days later it starts declining again.

Common they already are asking you to tell their friends to play…

European servers were reduced, and only 3 are on FULL the rest is High, i expect another server reduction soon.

Do you realize the Engineer is a Ritualist with turrets instead of spirits?

Ba air.1372:

You’d have a point if say, names became free after a player hasn’t logged on period in over a year, and only on characters below a fairly low level. But 30 days? No that’s not fair. 30 days is really not that long to really declare someone completely inactive.

This is not something that would be implemented permanently, just a one time event, the game is fairly new, but alot of names were taken that noone will ever get to use them.

Since the game has 2 months, this actually makes alot of sense to apply now.

After the name release, it would return to normal and taken names are taken, if they do this a couple of times per year it would not hurt, there are alot of players leaving and alot of players joining, and trying the game, soon enough names will be running out like they have in GW1.

Only you need to do is to login to GW, you don’t even need to play, and if you wanna keep that name reach level 10, takes about 30 minutes.

I just can’t understand how this makes no sense.

I joined the french server, now i’m stuck at 97% cause the french can’t cap anything besides the spawning point.

I’m talking about characters below level 10 where the user has not logged in at all to his account for the past 30 days.

Being the game a very new game, and we all know that a lot of people quitted, releasing some names would be normal, it only makes sense to do it while the game is new, not in 2 years from now.

If you bought the game 2 months ago, the game was launched 2 months ago, and you have not logged in for 30, 40, 59 days, most likely you will not return.

Where your characters level 10 and above would retain their name, characters with level 9 or less, would have their names stripped, and give to actual players the chance to grab some non kitten names.

How can this not make sense?

Also i would appreciate your contribution but please read before posting.

I was just suggesting some random names, my characters are not called Legolas, or anything LOTR related.

Hi,

Being Guild Wars names unique worldwide, and having a lot of people who played the game for 2, 3 days and then decided to never login again i would like to suggest that some sort of name releasing mechanism to be put in order.

This would be up to you, but since the game is out for about 2 months, I would suggest all accounts that the user has not logged in for more than 30 days all his characters under level 10 to be offered a free name change at login.

I tried making a character the other day i tried to give him a name and everything was taken, so then i went stupid and wrote, ixl legolas ixl, surprising or not it was taken, i decided to write, asdasdasdasd, taken.

Soon enough we gonna have to resort to really stupid nicknames, which would be fine, if we didn’t had thousands of names locked in ghost accounts.

Cheers.

You should speak with npcs instead of rushing in a game in with no end content.

Make a new character go to Metrica Province speak with the first Asura scout you see he will explain you about the “magical matter-transportive devices” more commonly known as waypoints

Sialor.7396:

Magic. Or unobtanium.

The Core reference?

Netsu.3769:

There is a heart of renown in Ebonhawke that has you tearing down separatist propaganda from the streets. I was curious what the posters actually said but the letters don’t match any in the New Krytan alphabet, does anyone know what alphabet is this and how to read it?

The text in those posters say: “NO PEACE WITH BEASTS”

Those posters are written in Ascalonian, a very smart move from ANET.

The separatists believe in conservatism, meaning retaining Ascalonian instead of New Krytan, no peace with Charr, etc.

Alphabets besides New Krytan:

- Krytan
- Ascalonian
- Canthan
- Elonian
- Old Kurzick
- Mursaat
- Titan
- Vabbian
- Corsarian
- Asuran
- Charr
- Grawl

Not all these languages are fully translated, some we just have a few letters and some we don’t even know what it means.

There are also many incomplete, mysterious languages/symbols found all over Tyria that we do not know with who are they affiliated.

sterrell.2780:

EmpyJon.4561:

I only want to know what ever happened to Razah. I think, by all means, he should still be around, somewhere…

I would like someone to explain why ritualists are no longer part of the game? (As well as dervishes. . . . I’m giving ANet the benefit of the doubt that paragons are subsumed by guardians and assassins are thiefs.)

The Engineer is exactly the same as a Ritualist, instead of spirits it has turrets, instead of AoE healing it drops med kits.

These classes were introduced later in GW1, GW2 has enough classes, more surely will be introduced later.

It’s pretty much business, instead of releasing 10 different classes, you introduce 6, the consumers play those 6 until new character creation % drops low, which means the market is saturated and the life cycle of the product (classes) has ended and the market is in need of a new classes.

New classes are introduced, % of character creation increases again, more gems are bought, more hours are put into the game, etc.

This is what happens in real life with many electronics (GPS, smartphones, Graphic cards, etc).

[/quote]I meant a mesmer hero on the group of humans.
Devona, warrior -> Balthazar
Aidan, ranger -> Melandru
Mhenlo, monk -> Dwayna
Cynn, elementalist -> Abaddon
Eve, necromancer -> Grenth
You?? mesmer -> Lyssa[/quote]

Dunham

I believe you are confusing something.

The Dwarves turned to stone, by the rite of passage to defeat The Great Destroyer, The Great Destroyer as far as we know has been killed.

Destroyers still roam in Tyria’s underground, but they are controlled by their master Primordius.

Therefore they accomplished their goal, and thus did not fail.
Cheers!

Also you will find Ascalonian in the game, which is very different from Krytan or New Krytan. You can find Ascalonian around Ebonhawke or areas that have a strong separatist presence.

Ludovicus.7980:

I’m lacking a mesmer… I guess you were supposed to be the mesmer in GW1

Lyssa

I have seen a few tombstones of some of them but not of all.

I am still exploring

Noone knows yet.

Let’s brake this word so people don’t say foolish things.

Homosexuality -> kitten + Sexual
kitten -> Homosapiens -> Humans
Sexual -> Sex

A Sylvari cannot be homosexual, because it lacks the part from being a human, it might be humanoid looking but they are not humans.

A Sylvari is Unisexual, they can’t reproduce with eachother, they are all born from the Pale Tree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality

Sylvari only have feelings for eachother, the same way i love my grandmother a Sylvari will love another Sylvari, but they won’t kiss and have sex like humans.

Sajuuk Khar.1509:

there is literally zero guarantee that Eir’s plan would have worked had Logan been there.

There was 100% certainty it would fail if Logan was not there.

Bard.7215:

My question about the Dredge is why the Norn are at war with them.

Please be carefull with spoilers, remember this game is fairly new and you don’t want to ruin someone elses experience, just like you ruined mine, because i just started playing Durmand Priory and i didn’t know they were housing such creature.

On topic:

Norn live in the Far Shiverpeaks, this was prime territory for the Stone Summit and Deldrimor Dwarves. This is also the location of Sorrow’s Furnace ruins, aka, Sorrow’s Embrace.

The dredge as you probably know were enslaved by the Dwarves, now that they are free they have claimed the Shiverpeaks to be their territory and they see the Norn and other races as invaders.

This means the supply roads to and from LA that pass trough Shiverpeaks are under constant danger of being attacked by the Dredge, same goes for explorers fearing to be killed trying to learn the Dwarves Lore.

I hope i was of use.

Hello everyone,

Due to the recent spike on reports of accounts being hacked and stripped clean, and some of those reports saying ANET is not restoring the accounts i must ask the following:

- If i do get hacked and stripped clean, will ANET restore my account and items prior to the intrusion?

I hope this is possible, because if it’s not, i can’t accept that. MMOs if you are a hardcore or casual player you end up dumping hundreds or thousands of hours, restoration should be possible in every MMO from the release date.

Me as a player i want to feel safe in case something goes terribly wrong, all the money i spent on gems and playing can’t just be washed away and start from the beggining.

Also i would like to add the authenticator to my account, i see alot of posts talking about the authenticator but i see no post saying what authenticator is it, and where i can get it.

Maybe someone should make 2 sticky posts, one talking about how to protect and add an authenticator to your account and another with how to proceed in case of being hacked and what to expect.

Many thanks for your time.

Probably, good catch.

The only connection between a Quaggan and a crab it’s a fork, Quaggans eat crabs.

Not many sea animals can leave water, thats why we see crabs in the beaches.

It’s just a way of ANET showing that everything that can will leave the Sea of Sorrows.

So today i was listening to my GW2 album that i bought from directsong.

At some point i was listening to a very interesting soundtrack (btw the whole album is amazing), i looked at the title of the song and it’s called “The Tengu Wall”

Now, the Tengu wall, is a wall built by the tengu around their “city” which is located in Kessex Hills in the left bottom corner. Noone besides the Tengu have been or seen the inside of the wall, they rarely come out, the 4 factions, North, South, East and West work together to overcome the problem of the dragons.

We actually do a quest where we help them deal with the Destroyers that are digging tunnels under the wall and trying to breach into the city, and this forces a few Tengu to leave the walls and go outside to attack the destroyers and collect cores to research and develop weapons.

The thing about their city, is that below the city is the Sea of Sorrows, now with recent events of dead whales in the shores of LA and other things happening, i did put all together and i believe the Tengu, will play a very important role in the new patch, they might be the driving force behind the story that will defeat bubbles.

Discuss.

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This is not me, we have very smiliar forum names, even the numbers almost match.

When you play alone, you will.

So i have been noticing less and less people playing this game, one of the major facts that support my claim is the fact that my friends list composed by 20 something good friends since GW1 beta times are all offline, all except one (my girlfriend).

Most have left to other games, and some even have returned to GW1.

In my server, Far Shiverpeaks (EU – HIGH/FULL capacity), i can’t find enough people to do SE Explorer, the game map is small, and anywhere i go, just seems to be around 5 gonnies hanging around.

I actually have been doing dungeons with, 4 people most of the time, and normally, always the same people, we know eachother already because it’s always the same gonnies.

I took a moment to check, and appears that some websites that track gaming hours of their users like XFIRE (wow… i didn’t even remember this existed), GW2 has dropped by more than 50% .

One week after the release i started having the feeling this game was just gonna die pretty fast, before release i predicted that in 1 year 80% of the population would have abandoned the game, so far looks like i might be wrong, i think 6 months and we are 3 gonnies left.

How’s things on your server?

Question to ANET: How is the server population determined? By number of people online or by the amount of accounts registered in that server?

Because my server says it’s high but i barely see anyone.

“We founded ArenaNet to innovate, so Guild Wars 2 is our opportunity to question everything, to make a game that defies existing conventions. If you love MMOs, you’ll want to check out Guild Wars 2, and if you hate MMOs, you’ll really want to check out Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 takes everything you love about Guild Wars 1 and puts it into a persistent world that’s got more active combat, a fully-branching, personalized storyline, a new event system to get people playing together, and still no monthly fees.”

I have no idea what was brought from GW1, at least is not showing for me the fun, the pvp or the pve, i think my game is bugged.

I’ll be honestely contemplating during the next week if i will wait for an expansion pack that fixes everything, or, if i will just quit (seems most likely that i will quit).

This game lacks content, you only got three things to do:

- Reach level 80
- Get full exotic gear
- Get a legendary (if you care)

It took 5 years to develop GW2, besides the pretty graphics, everything else is below average, there are free MMO’s with better content.

Besides the pretty pictures, what else did you guys do with 100 million dollars and 5 years?

As a person that played GW1 for 7 years, bought all the GW1/GW2 merchandise, flew to GamesCom to speak/meet you guys, i believe i am entitled to an answer to the following question:

- What the hell is this!?

There was a time, not long ago, where a guild was more than being with friends or carrying around a tag. It was pride, dedication and excellence.

A time where competition was fierce, a time that you needed to keep your friends close and your enemies closer, a time where a single mistake could push you back months your chances of reaching the top.

A time where people not only played, but lived, practiced constantly, because to be in the top was not a question of showing how good you were, but how good your guild was.

A time where team-play was everything, a time where people spend countless hours calculating skills and their effects, studying your opponents before every battle.

You would know your team so well, you knew the the sound of their heart beat, move together like souls dancing synchronized, where communication was the river that took you further away, would know when to push harder, or when to fall back so you could push forward.

A time where thousands would stop to watch guilds challenge other guilds, a time where people represented not only their guild but also a nation.

Watching players defend their territory, America vs Korea, Europa vs America, where they would give everything they had till they had no more to give and hope it was enough.

Watching The Last Pride(KOR) vs War Machine kitten , Irresistible Blocks(EU) vs Idiot Savants(US), Esoteric Warriors(EU) vs Cow Level(US).

Every movement was magic, every swing of your weapon meant something, everything was calculated, like a match of chess, where your ability to predict your enemy was crucial.

So many more, that came and went away, like a generation of artists, that some forgot, but they remain unforgotten, because forever they will the ones that made Guild Wars a place where staying united and strong was everything

This time seems to be no more, we have a new game, but we don’t have the old heart.

Michael O’Brien bring us back to live, break the dam, let the river flow, let it bring back a morning spring, flowers blooming, the time for resurrection has come.

Guild Wars, we loved you, and we miss you.

Probably never, they left in the shelf what made GW a playable MMO.

Guild Wars.

So instead of using a system that people know that works (Holy Trinity) and believe me in GW1 there was no lack of healers or tanks.

They resort to a bad system that according to people here relies on you “dodging” using engi for damage, guardian for healing and warriors for tanks.

So i translate this into, handicapped holy trinity.

ANET tried to do something that doesn’t work.

Most of the people that defend this game, are people who don’t like to be challenged, to figure out the way the boss works, so they all can have max stat gear and cool looking weapons.

10 days later, everyone has the same gear and weapons, and then they will start complaining.

The thing about making games easy, is that everyone is as good as you.

Getting FoW Armor in GW1 or doing UW run was more challenging than GW2 all events and dungeons put together.

Besides the cool graphics and the new races, i just can’t see how anyone believes GW2 to be an improvement of GW1.

Please enlight me, please, please.

So they spend massive hours designing and creating huge cities like Divinity’s Reach, but there’s nothing there for us to do.

Like someone said, maybe getting your cultural armor, that’s it.

So much wasted space, they need to come up with something, those streets should be full of players.

No it’s not worth my money.

I don’t care if i gave me 50 hours of fun in it, this is a MMO it’s supposed to be fun for thousands.

I wish i could get my money back.

Biggest kitten idea ever, the game is already dying, give ANET a chance to redeem themselves with an expansion.

Otherwise this game dies, instantly.

So, why do these places exist?

Does anyone even do anything there?, besides personal story events?

These are some of the most deserted places in the whole game, plz explain.

This is why i find it hard to discuss anything in forums, it’s just exhausting.

“Stop standing still you noob”, “Theres no fun in taking a hammer to the face”, etc.

Guys, i am very happy that you like this game, now, instead of talking crap in my post can you add anything relative interesting?

I am throwing facts, you guys are throwing opinions.

Anyways, because it’s so hard to discuss anything without taking a billion fanboys replies, i close my case.

Moderator please close this thread, matter of fact you can shut down the forums, if it’s not a fanboy post, your voice does not get trough.

Arah was the easiest dungeon of all the dungeons.

The only reason you can’t speed run it’s because you are stuck on that boat.

I visit different communities as Reddit, GW2Forums, Guru, etc.

The game has been out for enough time for most people to have an opinion formulated. I have heard a lot of good things about this game, but i have also heard a lot of bad things.

So i would like to know, after you have played for a month and some:

How interested are you in keep playing this game?

Please keep the answers short and simple.

Like i said, the idea was great, but in practise it does not work.

They won’t change the game now, but they can change when a new expansion comes, and i hope they do implement a healing class.

I’m a Charr Warrior speced with Vitality and Toughness, some fights i take 2 hits before dying, this mostly resumes to some dungeons to, die, rez, run, die, rez run.

Games are supposed to be fun, MMO’s are very sensitive, not having a healing class in my opinion it’s only hurting the game.

I actually just created a thread, talking about the same.

Zaithan fight is horrid, i am wanting to keep playing this game, but the deeper i go, the deeper i see there’s nothing there.

No challenges, boss fight sucks, not only zaithan most of them are horrible and require no brains.

Maybe it’s time to start thinking of reinstalling WoW, i play GW1 since release, completed everything, went to WoW for 9 months, loved it, but GW2 finally was announced so i stopped WoW and focused for GW2, now… i just feel empty.

I’m not trying to be a hater, just trying to be really honest, this game is very boring, battles are horrible, nothing challenges me, and the Zaithan fight was disappointing to the unbelievable.

Hey everyone,

I don’t wanna write a big wall of text, i’ll try to keep my points short and direct.

1. Boss Fights
These boss fights are very simple, too simple for any MMO standart nowadays, people want to be challenged, i want to be challenged when i go kill a boss, the way this is, it’s just very boring to do any boss fight as there is nothing special about it, just like the 10 bosses you fought before.

2. No healing class

When you ANET were designing the game, did you at some point said “what if instead of healers, we added these waypoints where people can rez?”

No tank, that would be OK, but no healer? Every fight is just a DPS race, until you get overwhelmed and you just die, rez go back and try to finish the rest of the fight with a few more deaths.

I would like you to take a step back and think, this is not working out, it’s definitely not fun at all, you need to change and bring spark back into the game, i hope the next expansion includes a healing class, otherwise i cannot possibly see how can this game will increase it’s player base or keep the people playing.

I hear more negative things about this game than positive, mostly because ANET decided to over-hype things, noone blames you, you tried something different, but didn’t work, swallow your pride and give the community what they want, and not what you think they want.

So, i completed the full story with my Charr Warrior.

After completing the story, the rewards are not OK, i was expecting a lot more, at least some exotic weapon or gear, but no, got blues, very bad blues.

But this is not the part that i want to talk about.

After completing the Story mode, you meet with Destiny’s Edge in Fort Trinity, and that’s it… celebration!

Should we not get some letter from the Queen? The Legion Leaders? Mother Pale Tree? Kodans? Trolls?

You interacted with so many races and helped them so much hoping they would help you back, and when you all get together and kill Zaithan, noone congratulates you.

And who’s “Your Herald”, i never knew who this guy was, even him didn’t send me a mail.

You defeat Zaithan and the world cares, except Logan.

If you played Guild Wars, you would know that the Destroyers were Primordius minions, when the Elder Dragon awoke, the Destroyers came to life and started spreading very fast, which made the Asuras come to the surface of Tyria, they lived underground before.

Here’s the link to wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Primordus

tjafaas, you need to update your gw lore, the seed is confirmed to show up everytime the dragons rise

Queen promised to return to them the Claw of the Khan Ur for a peace treaty and to help defeat the dragons.

Playing as Skritt would be weird, since they have a hive mind type, we could get a special buff that increased power and intellect whenever we were next to another Skritt player ^^

Also, the Pale Tree Seed does not show up when the Dragon’s Rise.

The Dragon’s Rise when the seed is formed and ready to bloom. (We got it wrong all along).

Yes, the Nightmare Court are doing the right thing, without knowing, even tough they too are evil and wish to corrupt the dream.

Also the Ventari’s Stone Tablet is a way to show that they are a noble race (which they are, except their leader).

I see your point, and i consider it valid.

Tough i believe the minions are have somehow the mind of it’s creator and do what they master wants.

Hello, not sure if this has been posted.

I am playing a Charr Warrior and most of my cutscenes the dialog pauses are horrible.

She is just finishing a setence and she shoots the next one, there is something clearly wrong with the pauses, most of them do not pause between long setences and a few pause for too long.

Also there was a cutscene, i don’t remember which, i know it was in Straights of Devasstation, that there was only subtext but not voice.

Please review this It’s breaking the immersion.