Guild Wars 2

Why does it have to adapt already existing weapons?

New mystic forge weapons requiring 30-50 Dark Matter would be better IMHO. But would have to be account bound on acquire, because the material is just that.

Like, dark smoke effect opaque weapons would be amazing. Maybe like the Chaos Weapons but black.

I had no problems with my Wurm armor.
It has to be an actual piece of armor/weapon. Not the boxes they come in.

My word, why has this thread not been locked yet?

Everyone has their opinion, what Anet chooses to do with the game or their facebook/twitter profile is their choice. Like it or lump it.

Congratulations to the US on this remarkable decision to put everyone on an equal level when it comes to love, sex, politics, and financial gains(or losses!).

VaLee.5102:

@Behellagh You are assuming everyone is living in your country.

You’re assuming that the US is just full of white Christian people then?

I’m pretty sure there’s diversity, and I’m pretty sure Anet has done nothing wrong in showing support for something that should have been a right all along.

Torsailr.8456:

Dyvim.8293:

How naïve, of course there are massive ramifications in this case…but yes we agree, change is both good and bad. The equal rights under the law portion of this, IMO, is good. But the use of the term marriage…no. The redefinition of marriage in stark contrast with tradition and basic biology is illogical.

So a few things here.

First, you can not have one thing for two people and call it two different things. The country tried doing that with race and the Supreme Court said you can not have separate and equal. The same reasoning applies here. So yes, it has to be marriage for all or civil union for all.

Redefining marriage in stark contrast with tradition? You are aware that marriage has changed several times over the past hundred years right? Not to mention the thousands of years the concept has been around for. For example, marriage used to be closer to a sales contract where the husband was taking custody of property. Yes, women used to be so inferior that they were treated as property. Shocking ain’kitten And marriage has since evolved into an actual partnership between equals. I’d say that’s a redefinition.

Biology is reproduction and marriage exists for more than reproduction. If you think marriage only exists as a means of having children then whoever educated you has done you a grave disservice.

This change is only for the good. The only ones who see there being bad ramifications are those that want to discriminate against gay people and refuse to let them marry for whatever reason.

All of this.
Are people forgetting it wasn’t so long ago that mixed race couples couldn’t marry and women couldn’t vote?

VaLee.5102:

What if someone is muslim? Their religion does not allow gay marriage and it’s a serious offense. You praise equality in your EULA and yet you kitten all over other religions or other cultures with this tweet.

Think about the consequences for once Anet…

Just because someone holds a certain religious view does not mean they are against equal marriage etc. They are not mutually exclusive.
You can be devout Christian and still believe LGBT has exactly the same rights as Hetero people, which they do because we are all equal, no matter what religion. Any half decent person thinks like this.

Why does it bother people what people do with their privates or who they love?
A few comments on this thread from people stating they are against it, that marriage is between man and woman, I believe in God, etc. But how exactly is what other people doing affecting you? You have the right to think how you want, but the majority of people WILL disagree with you.
You guys are CHOOSING to be against the majority who want people to be equal in their lives.

The new system is great.
It was a pain in the bum either paying to unlock traits or do weird tasks just to get a trait you should have access to.
Stats no longer tied to trait selection is even better.

I’d love to know this ‘we’ you are talking about, because every post in this thread disagrees with you!

I rebuilt my condi engi and I thought I was going to have a hard time.
But you know what, I found my new build/traits made him far more powerful! If you’ve not lost hope you can message me in game and I can pass build details on if you want.

Arkitech.9158:

Haleydawn.3764:

Disagree with OP and here’s why.

A lot of you are just thinking about the ress time of the downed player, what about utility/elite skills that revive them? They would need shorter cast times too.
Downed state abilities would need a rework to add counter play to it too, some need a rework anyway. Reducing the stomp cast time would be chaos and you may aswell remove downed state from the game

Edit: In response to your suggestion to just remove it, that seems counter to your argument. As removing it would mean rebalancing or removing all of those things you mentioned. Rebalancing a shorter stomp would probably be just as difficult as removing it entirely.

That was sarcasm and clearly so in how I wrote it.

The whole point of downed state is supposed to be slow, you’re bleeding out needing help, 3 seconds for a stomp is not much really, you can still stomp people in those 3 seconds, reducing it makes it meaningless.

Disagree with OP and here’s why.

A lot of you are just thinking about the ress time of the downed player, what about utility/elite skills that revive them? They would need shorter cast times too.
Downed state abilities would need a rework to add counter play to it too, some need a rework anyway. Reducing the stomp cast time would be chaos and you may aswell remove downed state from the game.

What exactly are we getting for £35/$50?
How many new explorable areas? How big?
New dungeons? World bosses? How long will the core story to HoT be, 2 season? 3 season?

Tell me why I should put down £35 for it, because right now, we know barely anything about what we will be getting exclusively with HoT.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Why should the lobby get an update? Wouldn’t you rather have new PvP maps, than something that isn’t really useful? Even LA is useful, since it’s the portal hub and location of skin vendors.

I’d rather have functionality, the lobby is fine in itself. Duel/skirmish arena, mystic forge and crafting stations would be great. Being just stood waiting for matches is boring.
Plus we’re only getting one map with HoT and we’ve had the same maps for years. If anet wanted to put new maps in, they’d do it more regularly than they have.
There’s a few game modes I would love to see too, but that’s for a different subforum.

roachsrealm.9284:

You can que for pvp matches or just hot-join from the menu, from anywhere.

You can only queue for un/ranked matches from the Lobby. Has been like it for months and it was the worst decision made.
And Practice mode is not worth setting foot into, it’s a cesspool of rude children and people who force autobalance for a win.

pupi.2465:

There is a race and profession change, its called Tome of Knowledge, if you have 80, reroll, and Rock’n Roll :P

Yep, I did this to my thief a month or two ago. :P She had 100% map too. Didn’t take long to get the gold star back :P

Yamsandjams.3267:

Also, you don’t have to wait around in the lobby while you’re queued. You can go off into WvW or do some PvE while you wait.

You obviously don’t PvP. You have to be in the lobby to queue for matches, you can’t go into PvE or WvW anymore.

I’d be happy for them to revert this change.
Add back the Mystic Forge in HotM.
Allow duelling, by right clicking a player and selecting ‘Duel’ not in the main part of HotM, but a newer additional area for this to happen, only those who agree to duel each other will become hostile to each other, no downed state just down to 1%HP.
Add in 2v2, 3v3 arenas to the lobby, maybe eventually unranked for trial, something quick to practice skirmishing, again, no downed state. Just dead, last team standing wins. With an auto revive on completion.

The only thing PvPers can do to pass queue times is go into Practice arenas, which is just a joke.

Think of all the skins PvPers didn’t obtain because it wasn’t obtainable in PvP. All of the Halloween skins, the Molten Jetpack, etc.
Or other players that have obtained skins like Mad Memoires, shattered dragon wings etc, and they aren’t showing in the wardrobe, and aren’t purchasable with Laurels either.
I hope they add these back in too.

Maybe it wont let you because you have something of value on that character, like any ascended or account bound items? Just check to rule another thing out.

PvP Reward booster. Like the Greater Call of the Mists buff, but a booster…
+15% Rank Points
+25% Reward Track progress
+200% Magic Find (PvP only)

Teratus.2859:

I have 3 characters with 100% world completion.. several others ranging between 30% and 50% world completion..

I did all this alone thanks to PvE not requiring players to actually team up.. with exception to dungeon content..

I really wouldn’t mind if Anet added some areas to the game that are just full of powerful enemies that would require people to team up to get through it

Like in Aion and other MMOS

He’s asking for company, not help.

If your on EU you can /w me in game and I’ll come along as long as I find an alt that hasn’t completed the map you’re doing.
’Bout time I got my 7th character to 100%

Same boat but for the Shattered Dragon wings. I’d love to get these back since, as you said, the game knows I earned them.
I’ll be annoyed if they brought back other unobtainable skins because people moaned about not realising they were being removed, and didn’t atleast add these to the laurel vendor.

Atleast you now get 10ap for doing only 3 tasks. You can mix and match too, so you can pick the easiest 3 to get your daily, hello WvW big spender, Gathering, Vista viewer, Point Capturer, PvP Rank Earner (50 rank points, lol) I’m sure you get the idea.
And atleast they divorced laurels from daily tasks. So if 10ap is worth that much, you will work around what you’re given. I personally love the new dailies, quick and easy, if I don’t have time oh well, I still get my log in rewards.

That’s what happens when you limit yourself to one game mode. Anet wants people to TRY everything.

And, I’m one of those who got their daily done in 10mins in PvP and got 5 reward track boxes to open, tokens, trans charges, and then did a few in PvE for extra loots, and a couple in WvW for more WorldExp.
Total about half an hour on an average day

Tbh, you’re better of using them up hoping for gear with strength runes (Pick ele gear) in to BL Salvage to sell, than wait for hot and try to gear your rev with Rng boxes.

Don’t think you will get an exact match tbh.
You can check out all skins if your wardrobe so have a click through all the Gs.
Maybe the Fractal gs is what would look best.

There’s a lot of crossovers for sure. This thread is great. Keep the characters coming in.

Milissadre – Mesmer/Elementalist
Cersie – Necro (google Robert the strong, only if you don’t care for possible TV spoilers)
Arya -Thief
Jon Snow – Guardian
Tyrion Lannister -Warrior
Jorah Mormont – Warrior
Qyburn – Necro/engineer
And ofcourse, Ygritt – Ranger.

I don’t think this needs to change. Anything to modify any piece of Exotic gear that is obtained as ‘Binds on Equip’ will Bind it to the character that modified the item.

And as above, the box that said to you in this specific circumstance, “Equipping Rune of the Scholar will soulbind this item, Do you wish to do this?” Was blatently ignored by you.

No, just that practice mode imbalance does not matter. You want your daily, go to practice. Leave arena to those that want to pvp that wont QQ when a certain map is selected. It’s very simple.

Ohoni.6057:

I’m getting kind of tired of all this “play PvP how we want you to play it” elitist BS.

You mean, how Anet has set out how PvP matches actually run in game. That’s not elitist, or BS, it’s playing how it is designed to be played. You not liking what maps are selected, and choosing to log out for 15mins should give you a Dishonour debuff, for whatever reason it is not active at this time, does not mean you can demand a change in how PvP runs in unranked/ranked. It’s random map selection after players have selected a map out of 3, which you queued for.

Ohoni.6057:

It’s not a bug, it’s supposed to prevent people leaving a match they signed up for.

I signed up for Conquest, not Courtyard.

You signed up for Random map selection PvP out of all maps. Like or or lump it, go to Practice for your daily if that’s the only reason you go into pvp, looking at some of your previous posts, Practice is perfect for a “99.9% PvE Player”, because leaving when you like, does not matter to other people.
People pick Courtyard, because they like Courtyard, I know I do.

Agreed. Activate Dishonour to stop people like you unbalancing matches.

I never ever liked minis, until I got a couple of account bound ones. So I don’t have many. Liadri follows my human characters. Mini Teq or Risen priest follows my necro.
My fave for my norn main is the Snow Owl. So cute
^-^

Are people forgetting the year or so before wardrobe and PvP tracks the countless PvE only skins? Yeah, it works both ways I’m afraid.

It wasn’t glitchy, the pvp wardrobe was like how the wardrobe is now. Just in like a test form.
Tribal Armor was named Masquerade because Tribal was taken for what you now know as Primitive. And what is now Masquerade was named something entirely different.
Anyone who wanted these skins, should have known back then PvP and PvE were completely seperate, and should have workes torwards ‘PvP Masquerade’.

I don’t see anyone who actually PvP whinge, they would have made this set because it looks so good… Apparently.

PH Law.4063:

Its like when I missed the first Halloween event for gw2 i lost my chances in getting greatsword skins, scythe, or even the shield which costs like 2-5k gold each, am i crying cuz they aren’t releasing them…no some things in game should stay rare and unobtainable because god knows everything else is common and easily obtainable, and yes that includes legendary items.

And it would kitten so many people off those who worked their kitten off to get the 2-5k gold to finally be able to buy those skins, and then suddenly popping out in a Halloween event thinking those skins were rare and unobtainable.

Also before the wardrobe system was introduced it was implied for many months that they were going to change it to the wardrobe system that was the reason why I farmed my butt off in spvp in hoping that was true. So there really isn’t any excuse for the veteran players who had the chance to get the armor set but decided “i hate spvp” “the armor set name was different” “i didn’t know” simply isn’t an excuse. The armor set name was different but you could’ve viewed it on the spvp wardrobe back then.

All of this. But Anet will cater to the masses. So making it obtainable IMO should be RNG again.

The only items that should not have it’s obtainability ripped from game is if you need specific pieces for a collection.

The armor which was only obtainable in PvP should stay only obtainable in PvP.
Whoever posted about players being handed stuff on a platter with little or no effort is right. It’s why people get bored in this game.
Since there’s a few other armor sets unobtainable because of the same reason, and taking into account the RNG behind obtaining it previously…
Suggestion for PvP track, main reward boxes. (Giving the most popular choices of the unobtainable armor, Tribal, Stalwart, -insert heavy armor- I’ve not actually known anyone to request those heavy armor skins as adamantly as Tribal or Stalwart)
Tier 2 Box – Random Boot Skin
Tier 4 Box – Random Glove Skin
Tier 6 Box – Random Helm Skin
Track Completion Box -Random Chest/Leg skin.

Thoughts?

I don’t think you will ever find out why you were kicked unless you contact the Guild Master.
Some can be very tedius with kicking people.

One thing that does bother me personally is ‘80/90/100% rep’ no one can realistically monitor this time (except 100% ofc), it’s just one of the things that make me cringe when you see guild spams in map chat.

I help run a guild on Aurora Glade, we started as a bunch of friends migrating from WoW so we have a ‘do not kick, veteran’ rank within guild. We don’t recruit. We make in game friends who then request to join. We’re a casual guild and do pretty much everything in game, we have veterans of gw2 and new gw2 players. Finding a guild like this is rare.

I hope your hunt for a guild you like is successful.

Sneakier.9460:

When i play thief and i get a 2nd thief in my team its a joy, we basicly become best buddies and 2vs1 anything we find across the map.
Very few classes can have a chance against 2 d/p zerkers…

Now that’s EXACTLY what I do, and that’s what GOOD thieves will do.
I think the OP was just miffed by bad players IMO.

uhohhotdog.3598:

A mystic coin and some bonus exp is hardly a reward. It’s nearly useless

Don’t take my mystic coins from me! I need moar!

If you don’t want bad profession stacking, or bad players, form a team to queue with. For the second time.
:)

Most of my matches with double thieves end in a win. Maybe I’m lucky…
Personally you forfeit right to complain about team comp if you queue solo. MMR should be fixed yes, but if you don’t want bad profession stacking then form a team to queue with. That is the solotion to your problem.

Crystallize.8603:

@the person that said

Explorable dungeons and Non specific world boss.

This would just lead to more QQ when the daily was..

Fractal
Dungeon
World Boss

QQ I don’t have enough time to do all that.

To please the whiney pve casuals that log in for 30 mins for their daily and claim they don’t have time for anything else; in the pve daily category it’d have to be more like EVERDAY:

Daily Vista
Daily Gatherer
Daily Heart Completer.

But then that’d make people with full world completion cry.

So make it even easier.

Daily Gatherer – Wood
Daily Gatherer – Ore
Daily Gahterer – Plant

But then that’d make more hardcore players cry..

Ultimately people have to understand there is a limit to how many people they can cater to every day

Daily AP is capped, if you miss it one day. You can get it the next.

Well said. Can’t please everyone.

Possible solution, not that any of these suggestions will keep everyone happy. Just a thought though so lets just be constructive.
Keep the ratio the same, since it’s really just pve that bugs the hell out of people since pvp got it’s profession “fix”.
- Remove area specific daily event.
- Remove ‘Time-gated’ specific world boss daily.
- Remove ‘Fractal level x-x’ daily. But keep daily Fractal. (Removes possibilty of double fractals)
- Introduce Daily Explorable Dungeon path.
- Introduce non Specific World Boss. (So any world boss will give daily progression)

Thoughts?

Dailies are purely for those wanting the AP, as the old rewards are tied to you logging in.
We have just a balanced daily, the same number of options per game mode.
Why would 1 game modes options bother you? There’s 8 others you can do, that don’t really require much thought either.
Can only get 2/3pve done? Go cap a ruin in WvW or maybe you get the terribly easy ‘Big Spender’ to spend just 25 badges of honour (my personal hate, but then there’s more options in PvP!)
PvP dailies are a doddle you can finish your daily in 1 match, 2 if you’re unlucky.

“Dailies need better rewards” Don’t make me laugh, the rewards weren’t in game until the 2year mark, there were no individual rewards before. They’re adequate for the effort needed to complete them.

Yay for necro threads.
When the wardrobe patch hit, some of us pvp’ers who knew there were a few pvp only obtainable armors, knew that these would not be obtainable after the patch hit, so we made the ones we wanted.
Personally, I don’t think legacy armors should be available to buy or be easy to obtain. I hope they make it hard to get all pieces, similar to how it was originally obtained (RNG pvp forging or boxes). An RNG reward track in pvp for certain armors would fit just right.

Well, I’ve made 3 legendaries. Have all professions at 80 Fully geared in exotic or better.
But the thing I am most proud of is my guild and it’s members, we were a bunch of people that originally came from WoW, was sick of the toxicity of that whole fiasco and those that followed to gw2 were ‘rehomed’.
We’ve made new friendships in gw2 and it’s jusy amazing to log in and talk to them all. New and old friends.

Rending Claws never had a chain attack. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Axe#Necromancer

Phantasms are not clones. They’re phantasms that wouldn’t have applied to the clone change.

I love the effects of Incinerator.
My thief looks good with Incinerator.
Don’t craft a legendary without checking all the effects out next time. :P