Guild Wars 2

My only gripe with Axes is that when you’re only facing one target they’re kinda underpowered. In group events they’re freaking awesome.

I have no complaints here. In other games the selection is basically the same or in a lot of cases, worse. (I’m looking at you, WoW, with your only THREE pets when it comes down to it)

I have at least one pet that I can ideally use in any given situation that it suits best.

My only (tiny) gripe is the number of “pig” based pets. They all have identical stats and the same “forage” special skill…which is pretty much completely useless in a fight.

:( Sad to hear this. Ranger is one of the Kings of PvE imho, so it sucks that that doesn’t carry well into PvP.

Someone commented at one point that dungeon damage is a multiplier based on the health and damage capabilities of the players in the dungeon.

I’ve got NO idea if that is true, but if it is, the 80s are probably throwing things off a bit.

However, I did AC Explore at 50-something with two 80s, a 67, and a 40, and we didn’t have too much trouble except on one of the boss fights….which we did eventually win.

I wouldn’t call them the “best,” but they’re pretty great. As much as I’m SO over WoW, it’s still got the “best dungeons” title for the moment. WoW’s dungeons are very very solid and very well balanced.

GW2 would probably sit somewhere between RIFT and WoW for me.

GW2 has a massive amount of dungeon potential though. I have no doubt we’re going to see some amazing things in the future.

Daihe.8275:

I haven’t been negative towards Dungeon Finders in and of itself, but a Cross Server Dungeon Finder would make groups much worse. People would be able to be jerks and jack off in a corner without any ramification. Dungeons would become like the Internet with idiots spewing goo all over it. If these kind of things are serverwide instead of cross-server, then people wouldn’t be able to be complete tools without getting them blacklisted. Trust me, I have played WoW from 1 year before the Burning Crusade to 1 year after Cataclysm, which means that I went through all the stages of the LFG-system in there, and every update to it made most dungeon runs worse.

I’m all for a serverwide LFG channel though, since there is technically a LFG function in one of the tabs in the social window. Don’t know how it works though.

I would disagree with your sentiment. I’ve played WoW for years, and I’ve found the Dungeon Finder to be a WONDERFUL addition. Without it I probably would have given up on WoW for being so frustratingly hard to find dungeon groups. At least there’s map chat and waypointing in GW2 which make it a lot easier.

I won’t cancel WoW at first, but I fully intend to once I complete the main Pandaria quest content. Honestly though….I preordered Pandaria. If I hadn’t done that before GW2 came out, I would probably just cancel right now.

I’ve tried to play WoW since GW2 came out, and it just doesn’t hold my interest at all anymore…

I would LOVE a nice little checkbox in the settings that says “Disable Mouse Smoothing” next to it. It’s been a long time since I’ve played a game WITHOUT this option.

Instead of investigating options for reducing the amount of smoothing, etc, you guys (ANet) just need to add that checkbox, and maybe a little slider to adjust the amount of smoothing when it IS enabled.

You should also default the smoothing to OFF, not ON. Smoothing is universally horrible and lag inducing in EVERY game I’ve played.

I destroyed lower level gathering tools as soon as I entered an area that had the next level of content. Why would you hang on to those?

Karma items? What karma items?

If you have various junk, sell it. If you have whites or yellows, salvage them. If you have blues, vendor them. If you have greens vendor or salvage them depending on if you want the sigils/runes or if you need mats from their level range.

Yes there are a few rare things that you can’t salvage or sell, but those have been few and far between for me.

I don’t think the lack of ability to sell or salvage some items has ANYTHING to do with bots or gold sellers. I think you simply can’t sell or salvage some things.

ravinhood.3981:

Looks like the positives are CLEARLY defeating the negatives and in the 80’s average just like on Metacritic.com Games a SUCCESS.

A lot of the lower happiness levels could also probably be fixed with some class specific tweaks, fixes of dungeon rewards/repair costs, and resolving the bugs/glitches.

FYI, for all the 10/10 and 1/10 voters: In statistics (if this really is a statistics problem) the high and low outliers are usually removed from the stat calculations.

I have a hard time believing anyone here is a 10/10 because there are obvious problems that need to be fixed. Your satisfaction cannot be 100% when there are broken things in the game.

I have a hard time believing anyone here is 1/10 because….if you were really that unhappy, you wouldn’t be here.

This is precisely why outliers are eliminated.

Ang.2157:

They could just turn all skill challenges into “commune with place of power” orbs until they fix it permanently.

It would take more time to switch them to this than it would to just fix the bugs that a few of them have.

In game the community is absolutely fantastic. Better than any game I’ve ever played.

In these forums there’s an overwhelmingly massive number of whiny, spoiled, entitled crybabies. The community here, with the exception of a few forums, such as Lore, is horrifically bad.

EDIT: Just went back and read some of the other responses. Glad to see I’m not alone in this opinion.

Darmikau.9413:

Hickeroar.9734:

A lot of players I’ve talked to firmly believe that their class is the best.

You haven’t met an Elementalist.

I’ve talked to a few elementalists who are huge fans of their class. Overall you’re right though, Elementalist sentiment seems lower than most.

80 Ranger.

8.5/10.

Really love the game, but the incredible number of bugs and glitches in the content in 70-80 areas is really putting a damper on it for me.

A lot of players I’ve talked to firmly believe that their class is the best. I play a ranger, and I’m convinced it’s the best.

You’ll never get anyone to agree on what “best” means in a game like this.

Dungeon queuing features are a relatively new addition to MMOs. I totally understand why GW2 didn’t implement that. I think something like that will inevitably come, but we just might have to wait a little while.

I do wish, if nothing else, that there was a server wide “lf dungeon group” listing so players could self organize groups from anywyere. WoWs original raid finder worked like that. You just list yourself and the raids you wanted to run, and players who were forming groups could PM you.

Well, being vicious is one thing. These are forums, and it’s going to happen. These forums are especially bad about it.

I’m just referring to the fact that it’s understandable why people are irritated about this particular glitch.

Algreg.3629:

People, really, I dislike the bugs as the next man, but they have been fixing a few bugged SP and will do this one also. Go back to the area once you see it fixed in some patch notes and finish the area, its not like the area is going to be deleted tomorrow. The things people start drama about in this forum are mindboggling.

That’s not a fair response. Completing this zone awards TWO exotic weapons or armor, as well as the other standard perks. Having this one skillpoint standing in the way of completion (and getting that good gear) since game launch is an obvious annoyance. If it was something complex, it would be one thing, but the map designer could probably fix a bug like this in mere minutes of work. It’s been reported probably thousands of times by various players.

While it doesn’t annoy you, it’s pretty obvious why this annoys other people.

I’ll throw my hat in for a “fix” vote on this one. I can’t believe something that would be so seemingly trivial to fix hasn’t been addressed yet.

On that note, this particular zone is bugged beyond belief. I hardly see anyone in there anymore because the main events are stuck in broken, non-finish-able loops. At the VERY least they need to reboot that zone once a day so the stuff is not perpetually broken.

The idea is that world transfers would NOT remain free, which is why when you try to transfer, there’s a price of 0 gems listed. Transferring will cost something before too long.

Your ability to switch back and forth wasn’t really a blessing from the heavens in that it was ALWAYS meant to be temporary.

It’s also been said that the price of the transfer will depend on the ranking of the server in WvW and its population.

I’ve seen a bit of reference to a “big patch” coming on the 24th (tomorrow). Is this true? Is there anything official I can read on it? I don’t see anything in the Announcements forum.

Thanks.

It’s been funny to see people (and myself) RPing, but when you sit on a chair you end up half-embedded into a table or something nearby.

Not to be one of “those guys,” it WoW had it set up where you could “use” a chair, which would make you sit in it. Seemed to work pretty well.

My only gripes about the dungeons are:

1) The extremely high rate of glitches and bugs in them. Obviously this will be fixed sooner or later, so hopefully it ends up being a “sooner.”

2) The fact that dying seems like a “fact of life” in dungeons. I can understand being downed, but it’s very commonplace for people to get completely killed and have to run back. The lack of a decent/fast rez capability (from total death) in the middle of a boss fight exacerbates this. Most deaths are avoidable, but not all players are capable of avoiding them 100% of the time. Plus one player getting downed often leads to another player getting downed while trying to rez them.

3) The loco cost of repairs. Repairs across the board are an order of magnitude higher than they should be. In support of the OP, in dungeons, deaths should a) NOT damage your gear, b) repairs in-dungeon should be free, or c) repairs should have dramatically reduced cost.

It seemed more bugged than anti-climactic to me. I think something’s wrong with it.

They have the first cinematic where Zhaitan gets his tail chopped off.

Then IMMEDIATELY cut to a second cinematic where a bunch of lasers or some such fry him and turn his wing all bloody/red. The thing is…is tail is 100% perfect and complete in this second cinematic, right after he got it chopped off.

Then you just hammer 2-2-2-2-2-2 over and over again. There’s NO possible way they intended this fight to be like this. Not a single other boss in the game carries any sort of strategy like this.

Bottom line is that this fight is either just broken, or it’s incomplete and they had a deadline to meet, so it wasn’t finish-able in time. If they DID mean for it to be like this, I would desire that whoever made that call please explain yourself…

The main problem with trying to make this dungeon take longer is that it’s an artificial extension. This is a VERY SHORT DUNGEON. Trying to keep people from speed running something that is so short by making it harder doesn’t make sense. The Dungeon is short, so letting people run it fast only makes sense.

Animatus.6197:

Zale.9645:

The token costs for a two-handed weapon is 390. For a one-handed weapon it’s 300. I’m a guy that likes to use two axes, but I’m being penalized for dual-wielding over using a two-hander. Colin, Jon, Robert, come on guys. Make one-handed weapons half the cost of a two-handed weapon.

while i sypathize even though i dont use dual wielding, what you are forgetting is you get an entire extra sigil slot over 2h weapons.

You do? I certainly don’t on my ranger. it’s a 3/2 split for dual carry, and 5 for two-handed. Same with my mesmer. What class or weapon combo gives you an extra sigil?

Also, to the OP, yeah, that does seem a little out of order. I can see making it a little more than 50% of the value, but the amount chosen seems a little excessive.

Interesting find. I haven’t seen anyone doing this, but I’ve only run it three times.

FYI, in the game you can type /bug and report the bug while looking at the wall in question, and take a screenshot. There’s a little checkbox to report an exploitable bug, so make sure you check that.

I lost a PILE of loot and a first time completion of Arah… :-( I logged back in, organized a group, and beat it again.

Sean.1897:

I’m in the same boat. I’m using power/precision/crit but I feel that it isn’t good enough and enemies do ridiculous damage which makes me think I need more defenses, but at the same time I feel like my damage is trash so I can’t give up offensive stats.

I’m really confused at the design goals of the dungeons. Enemies just feel like big bags of health while simultaneously hitting like a freight train.

If you feel like enemies do too much damage, you’re probably playing a ranger wrong. It’s a highly mobile class. You should be dodging just about every time it comes up, and running non stop. They should barely get the chance to hit you in the first place.

I named my shark Fluffy, only to later find out that that’s actually the name of an event boss fish. I was rather dejected.

I believe boss health is a multiplier of the player health in the instance or something like that. That’s what someone said in another thread anyway. Not sure if there’s any fact to it.

maddbomber.2176:

http://twitter.com/GuildWars2

They know about it and have called the Devs, they being the Twitter Gods.

facepalm Thanks. Looks like they’ve been down for almost a half hour.

Looks like it’s the login servers. If you’re in you’re fine until you try to change zones…

It’s probable that it wasn’t perceived to target any particular group or race. I read it and just thought that meant “jerks” or some-such.

Sorry, but I’m missing something. That doesn’t seem racist to me…?

Avatar.1923:

true, a good social group helps in enjoying pvp, wve and dungeons.

but id like to see ranking at some point, or fighting for something else that “my server”.
thats not really… fantasy.

same for pvp. factions with values that can turn the tide of the game would make it fun.

They’re working on a ranking and tournament system for PvP. ANet guy said it in another thread.

esnori.1756:

I avoided the forums for the first month of a new game.

Until today, I’ve had a fantastic time and thought great things about this game has a whole.

…so I came here…and holy..good..god. I really don’t think any of you will ever be completely satisified with a game…ever.

For most of us who’ve played many MMOs through, this one is really good so far.

Apparently my class (necro) is terrible. Can’t say I’ve thought that…until pretty much like an hour ago when I read the necro forums. I’ve been able to do pretty much all the content and have had a blast.

I feel as if most of you were given a nice new Porsche after having driven a Honda Civic for the past few years, you’d complain that the pedals aren’t the same distance from your feet.

..negating the whole..you know..Porsche part.

Yeah, I made a comment earlier today that I come to the forums, end up hating the game, then I go play it and remember that I actually love it. It’s crazy in here. :-P

Paraple.3496:

i must agree with the reasons that was write in the start but i think the problem is in me, im just used to do something to lvl fast to get gear and so on, now im trying to enjoy the game play slowly look at the scenery etc., only thing that i hate is bugs which are plenty and that you have only 5 skills that depends on weapon and then some almost useles utility skills

Haha, obviously we’ll disagree on this one, but I love the simplicity and impact of the combat. One of my chief gripes with other MMOs was how in the world was I supposed to manage the 30-50 push button skills I had. In WoW I had all 5 action bars completely filled with crap on all my toons. That’s just insanity.

Rhoame.6917:

Hickeroar.9734:

Rhoame.6917:

Hickeroar.9734:

Rhoame.6917:

Avatar.1923:

im quite sure most complainers are Blizz employees

(conspiracy!!!)

So please, someone give some suggestions that focus on pve at 80 rather than world completion or crafting…there HAS to be something in the game, right? Please, please say that there is….

- World completion (I know you said no completion, but disregarding this is part of your problem)
- Alts (though that doesn’t qualify as lvl 80)
- RP (I’ve had all my best RP experiences as 80)
- Dungeons for the fun of it (This is what raids and dungeons in other games end up coming down to anyway.)
- Leveling with other players. I’ve gone back with friends who have lower level toons and kept them company and helped them level.
- Achievements…there are lots of them.
- Group events with guildmates, and general fun and run zerging.

I personally have no interest in crafting at this point, and I’ve had no loss of entertainment.

Raids and dungeons in other games are not done solely for the “fun of it”. They are part of advancement post max level…and the fact that I dont care to do exploration as my primary source of entertainment post level 80 is not “my problem”, it is what I like……..I want content that allows me to ADVANCE the power of my toon….NONE of what you listed actually does that…

Oh and btw, I complete 100% of every zone I go to now. I am only level 45 and I do enjoy completing the zone exploration while I am growing my toon. I simply do not think going back and completing zone explorations at 80 will hold my interest……I am not achievement oriented…this game is NOT called Achievement Wars 2…it is called Guild Wars 2….where is the endgame content that fits within the title of the game?

The very reason I gave up on WoW is that the endgame dungeons and raids end up becoming a mindless zerg. Once you complete the content there is literally nothing left to do unless you want to go back and do everything all over again to “hopefully” get a better piece of gear out of it.

It sounds like what you’re griping about here. You have the same basic endgame content (many of the dungeons are just as long and complex as many WoW raids), the same longhaul playing for loot, and yet you have a problem with it.

I don’t understand your problem here.

I dont know what the level 80 dungeons are like. I simply asked for some ideas for stuff to do at level 80 that would appeal to my stated interests. I dont play solely for loot. I play to get a sense that my character is PROGRESSING in developing power. I simply asked someone to state what content there is that might appeal to a player like me at level 80.

I have read the posts responding to these inquiries and it seems some people BLAME others for not sharing the same interests as they do rather than accept that interests differ and that there is NOTHING wrong with having divergent interests. I like this game…I like its style and I want to see it hold my interest for a LONG time…but I need more than achievements and crafts and meaningless loot drops to believe that the game will hold my interest.

I WANT this game to succeed. I have no issues with the game up to my current level of progression (level 45, all zones I have been in 100% completed along the way). I just wanted to see what there was that might appeal to my interests post level 80 and the responses seem to be that there is nothing.

Sorry, I was responding to your specific gripe about the raids and dungeons, and running them for the “fun” if it. Making the point that it’s very easy in other games to get to nearly the max level of possible gear without a huge amount of effort. At that point…it’s just the same old, same old.

Honestly what has absolutely MADE the end-game for me has been the social aspect of the game. If you don’t have a very social and fun guild, or at least a good group of RL friends that you have to play the game with, it would probably lose a lot of its luster a lot quicker.

I think that was ANet’s intent. The game was designed to be inherently social, and the players that I see griping about it the most are the ones who don’t “get” that in the same way as the others.

Paraple.3496:

by far i mean in other games bugs i found was solved in hours, maybe days but here there bugs even several weeks old. For example skill point in plains of ashford on aurora glade it is stuck for 3 days now. Also the experience survivor is buged for very long time.

You had bugs solved in hours? The QA cycle for most software companies is FAR longer than hours.

Rhoame.6917:

Hickeroar.9734:

Rhoame.6917:

Avatar.1923:

im quite sure most complainers are Blizz employees

(conspiracy!!!)

So please, someone give some suggestions that focus on pve at 80 rather than world completion or crafting…there HAS to be something in the game, right? Please, please say that there is….

- World completion (I know you said no completion, but disregarding this is part of your problem)
- Alts (though that doesn’t qualify as lvl 80)
- RP (I’ve had all my best RP experiences as 80)
- Dungeons for the fun of it (This is what raids and dungeons in other games end up coming down to anyway.)
- Leveling with other players. I’ve gone back with friends who have lower level toons and kept them company and helped them level.
- Achievements…there are lots of them.
- Group events with guildmates, and general fun and run zerging.

I personally have no interest in crafting at this point, and I’ve had no loss of entertainment.

Raids and dungeons in other games are not done solely for the “fun of it”. They are part of advancement post max level…and the fact that I dont care to do exploration as my primary source of entertainment post level 80 is not “my problem”, it is what I like……..I want content that allows me to ADVANCE the power of my toon….NONE of what you listed actually does that…

Oh and btw, I complete 100% of every zone I go to now. I am only level 45 and I do enjoy completing the zone exploration while I am growing my toon. I simply do not think going back and completing zone explorations at 80 will hold my interest……I am not achievement oriented…this game is NOT called Achievement Wars 2…it is called Guild Wars 2….where is the endgame content that fits within the title of the game?

The very reason I gave up on WoW is that the endgame dungeons and raids end up becoming a mindless zerg. Once you complete the content there is literally nothing left to do unless you want to go back and do everything all over again to “hopefully” get a better piece of gear out of it.

It sounds like what you’re griping about here. You have the same basic endgame content (many of the dungeons are just as long and complex as many WoW raids), the same longhaul playing for loot, and yet you have a problem with it.

I don’t understand your problem here.

Khoda.3601:

You could take your own advice and read my original post,
I wasnt winning, I was looking for suggestions and ways that other people are keeping busy when they reached 80.
Your fan boyish attitude kept you from seeing that though.

No, your original post was not bad. It was the poorly crafted whine-fest that has commenced since then that I’m irritated with. You attached yourself to my comments, and therefore you are getting my replies.

Attitude is everything, and yours sucks. You refuse to have fun, and therefore you don’t.

Rhoame.6917:

So please, someone give some suggestions that focus on pve at 80 rather than world completion or crafting…there HAS to be something in the game, right? Please, please say that there is….

- World completion (I know you said no completion, but disregarding this is part of your problem. Exploring is a major component of this game, hence the downleveling.)
- Alts (though that doesn’t qualify as lvl 80)
- RP (I’ve had all my best RP experiences as 80)
- Dungeons for the fun of it (This is what raids and dungeons in other games end up coming down to anyway.)
- Leveling with other players. I’ve gone back with friends who have lower level toons and kept them company and helped them level.
- Achievements…there are lots of them.
- Group events with guildmates, and general fun and run zerging.

I personally have no interest in crafting at this point, and I’ve had no loss of entertainment.

DusK.3849:

Khoda.3601:

If you don’t like it stop coming back.

Please take your own advice.

QFT.

deriver.5381:

Blacklight gave some interesting ideas. Although I still fail to understand why people would find something completely free a bad idea.

Excellent point. In other games, you get a whopping “achievement” for doing things like completion, and no pay off at all. “Never look a gift horse in the mouth” and all that…..

Khoda.3601:

Hickeroar.9734:

Khoda.3601:

Hickeroar.9734:

If you don’t like it, don’t play it. Stop filling the forums with your rants. If they’re going to improve the things you want improved, it’s not going to be within the lifetime of this thread.

Post your suggestions in the suggestions forum, in a constructive way, or don’t bother. The ranting and complaining is really getting old.

This is how I feel and this is the place to share that.
Move along if you don’t like the post, that’s not my problem.

You post is a clone of plenty of other posts, all posted by the same people who are sitting in this thread griping. We’ve all seen it a hundred times. It’s pointless, and it’s presented in the WRONG forum, the WRONG way.

And it IS my problem. I have to wade through the posts by the same whiny group of you idiots every time I come here.

Yeah clearly we are the whiny ones. (good one)
If you don’t like it stop coming back.

Next time try reading what I said instead of going into your default comeback mode.

Let me repeat what I said:
“it’s presented in the WRONG forum, the WRONG way.”

Jezath.7395:

not that i know of, you could try adding them to your friend list and looking that way though.

This works, fyi.

Yeah, there are a couple zones where I feel this way. Weirdly, i feel this way about the final, level 80 zone. There are a couple meta events there, but it’s the most uninteresting of the zones, imho.

Totally agree on the point about most zones having a “personality” though.

That’s bull. Worst bug solving by far? Give me a metric if you’re going to make a ludicrous claim like that.

If you want to report a bug anyway, use the /bug command in chat. Forums are going to be a lot harder to get a positive result in.

Khoda.3601:

Hickeroar.9734:

If you don’t like it, don’t play it. Stop filling the forums with your rants. If they’re going to improve the things you want improved, it’s not going to be within the lifetime of this thread.

Post your suggestions in the suggestions forum, in a constructive way, or don’t bother. The ranting and complaining is really getting old.

This is how I feel and this is the place to share that.
Move along if you don’t like the post, that’s not my problem.

You post is a clone of plenty of other posts, all posted by the same people who are sitting in this thread griping. We’ve all seen it a hundred times. It’s pointless, and it’s presented in the WRONG forum, the WRONG way.

And it IS my problem. I have to wade through the posts by the same whiny group of you idiots every time I come here.