Guild Wars 2

NinjaEd.3946:

From the amount of free trial periods I start to wonder if the game is banking on the gem store to afford it or are they desperate for new players with a declining player base.

If that’s the case, they have a funny way of attracting new players what with the absurd changes to leveling up in the 15 April and 9 September patches.

I don’t believe ANY “hype” anymore, no matter who’s spewing it out. Every MMO that I’ve seen since vanilla WoW has hyped their product as being the most awesome thing since sliced bread but don’t live up to any of it. They’re all intended to get a fast profit, and keep few, if any, of their promises. TESO is a great example of this.

Many of them, especially the ones run (ruined) by Electronic Arts, wind up destroying their own game. Anet’s falling into this category.

So Anet, some of our chars have their feet hidden on the Hero’s panel for the past 2 weeks and so far no fix. I know that there’s been several posts about this already but when are we going to see our feet again?

Hmmm… Maybe you shouldn’t “fix” it, we’ll probably end up with missing arms or heads.

“These statistics overwrite any prepatch testing.”

What PRE-patch testing? It’s POST-patch testing. Done by we, the playerbase.

Oh, Rapid Fire will DEFINITELY get nerfed when Anet’s beloved Thief class winds up getting consistantly spanked by it.

Let me put it this way; I have zero interest in ever leveling up another char in GW2. Leveling prior to the April 15, 2014 patch was fun. Now it’s a PITA.

Lunaire, I’ve thought about throwing in the towel too but I’m gonna stick around. Why? Because I want to see what else Anet screws up. It’s painfully entertaining seeing them screw up their own game like EA is famous for.

And if it aint a trench coat or mask, it has daggers hanging off of it.

Anet apparently dos’nt know that there are TWO other medium armor classes besides Thief. Anet, can you name them?

The best “improvement” Anet can make to the TP is to revert it back to pre-patch. This new system is a MAJOR FAIL!

I have the same problem but only with my Human Warrior and Human Ranger. My Human Ele, Norn Engineer, and Norn Guardian, are fine.

I cant see my char’s feet when I have the Hero panel open. I’d be nice to see our char’s feet when checking out footwear and dye colors.

I only have this problem with my Human Warrior and Human Ranger. My Human Elementalist, Norn Guardian, And Norn Engineer are just fine.

Addition; I only have this problem with my Human Warrior and Human Ranger. My Human Elementalist, Norn Guardian, And Norn Engineer are just fine.

Overall. I’m underwhelmed.

The changes to the TP just made it more complicated and frustrating.

I consider the changes to new char’s leveling to be detrimental to enticing new players to play the game and/or for old timers to roll alts.

I cant see my char’s feet when I have the Hero panel open. I’d be nice to see our char’s feet when checking out footwear and dye colors.

I have no doubt that this is working as intended by Anet. Since it often takes all of the fight with one mob to max out adrenaline, and adrenaline now drains so fast, we NEVER get to use our F1 skill to it’s max effect. That’ll teach us to be so crass as to play Warriors!

I’m not impressed with the “improvements” to the TP. It’s more complicated than it used to be. IMHO, the only thing that needed to be added was to be able to choose what type of armor (heavy, medium, light) one is looking for.

There’s a old saying Anet; “If it aint broke, don’t fix it”. Your fixes broke it.

Hell, I’ve long believed that no one at Anet plays their own MMO very much, if at all. Or if they (rarely) do, they most likely play Thieves. I don’t think anyone who runs other MMOs play their own game much, if any, either.

I’m gonna wait and see, but if the Warrior class has been overly beaten by the nerf stick I’ll probably shelve him and make my Guardian my main char. Until the Guardian gets mega nerfed, which I’m sure is coming.

Anet, who claims to not do things the same way other MMOs do, (LOL!) is just doing what every other MMO does and has done; Make Warriors/Soldiers, a class that’s been powerful and feared throughout history, into easy kills for other players.

It would be nice if Anet would introduce ore medium armor coats THAT AINT TRENCHCOATS WITH FREAKIN’ DAGGERS STICKING OUT ALL OVER THEM! Not to mention headgear that aint stupid masks.

FYI Anet; there’s THREE medium armor classes, not just thieves.

I vote for 2handed axes! Hell, this is the only MMO of this genre that I’ve played that DOS’NT have them!

Yup, I AM blind in one eye and cant see out of the other! DOH!

Thanks Robert.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Please submit a ticket by clicking “Support” at the top of this page and then clicking the “Submit a request” option. Provide as much information as possible in the web form, because that will create a ticket within the support system. You are not required to provide all the information but may leave fields blank when you cannot accurately complete them. The team should be able to help you.

Maybe I’m blind in one eye and cant see out of the other, but I don’t see a “Submit a request” option in the support section.

I keep getting a “error” message whenever I attempt to buy gems on the TP. Now that the Phantom’s Hood is back I’d like to buy some gems but….

“Fixed a bug in which the “Help Scholar Blix clear the tunnel” event in Cursed Shore would restart too soon.”

A 2 year old “bug” that you finally decided to “fix” eh?

I guess “bug” is Anet’s terminology for something that the players profit from.

Those 1% ARE SPECIAL. They EARNED that special recognition! If you want something special, or anything for that matter, EARN IT!

I applaude those who won the PvP tournaments. I know it wasn’t easy and you deserve recognition for doing so. So strut that awesome armor!

Why is the Fort Mariner Waypoint contested? Last I saw the event in LA is long over, so what gives?

How about a ticket to get a weapon skin from the Black Lion Weapons Specialist? I’m sure that players would really appreciate that.

Whats with seemingly every mob anymore having reflect damage? The newer mobs especially? Aint it enough that they do insane damage themselves without endless damage reflect on top of it? Enough is enough Amet!

This is as old as the game; Hostile mobs totally ignoring the friendly NPCs who’re with your char and swarming all over you. Like the friendly NPCs are any help, they die if they get glared at and do squat for damage.

I’ve also seen, in the world zones where hostile mobs who’re in a fight with friendly NPCs break off their fight to attack you when you pass by.

And those Weed Dogs do insane damage too.

How about some new outfits in the gem store Anet? At present there’s only the Pirate Captain’s outfit and the apparently never used Cook’s Outfit. (I sure aint seen anyone wearing it)

LostTemplar.6271:

Oh please, put this amazing skin on the shop, I will be the first to buy it !!! even if its 800 gems.

Thanks!

It’d be nice if Anet would put some WEAPON skins in the gem shop instead of the mostly fugly armor skins that they come up with.

SuLor.2840:

That is so sad. The original longer hair styles have a lot of fun animation. Why leave it out of the new hair styles? Well I won’t be getting the ponytail then.

Now I agree that some new hairstyles are nice but the lack of animation to them tells me that Anet only put minimal effort into it.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

The commander tag should just stay in WvW.

Every time I see tags up in PvE, the map chat is filled with profanity laced insults and bickering while they try to figure out who is the “main” commander.

It just degrades into an ego contest.

Horsepucky! I’ve never seen that anywhere, be it in WvW or PvE zones. Just like I never saw any of the alleged verbal abuse in the QD Champ train.

darkwombat.3695:

I want to talk about Guild Wars 2. More importantly, on how I constantly see crowded in game cities and how it appears in the top 10 most played pc games from sites ranging from Xfire to Raptr, and yet it is also the most consistently frowned upon MMO in most online forums. This is a game that was the next step up. If World of Warcraft borrowed the Everquest model and made its game more polished, then Guild Wars 2 took all the little irritating things about all MMOs and eliminated them completely.

No, they didn’t Examples; The highly irritating being slowed down to a plodding crawl when in combat is one that Anet decided to use. That’s something that someone in some past MMO thought would be great and it’s not as no one in fo-real combat is going to slow down and make themselves a easy target. This is one of the stupidest “features” I’ve ever seen in a MMO.

Making Rogues/stealthers (Thieves) overpowered is another theme that Anet implemented that’s ridiculous and borrowed from other MMOs.

Also, no particle effect scaling like pretty near every other MMO has. This not only lets you actually SEE the boss that your group is fighting and therefore you can see what he’s doing and going to do but it also CUTS DOWN DRASTICLY ON LAG.

Those are just off the top of my head. So until Anet corrects those and others I aint mentioned, they have NOT taken “all the little irritating things about all MMOs and eliminated them completely.”

I’d be satisfied if they’d make/change more female light armor leggings to where they don’t look like you’re wearing a circus tent from the waist down.

And who designs the armor anyway? IMHO, the vast majority of the armor, no matter what type for either gender, look ridiculous or fugly as hell. This game has the worse looking armor overall of any MMO I’ve played.

As you may have noticed by reading most of these posts Anet, assuming that you read them at all, A lot of the playerbase is most unhappy with loot nerfs. And unhappy players tend to go and play other games where they are happy. Something to keep in mind.

wingofbenu.4316:

A Massive Headache.1879:

uh just throwing this out there, you’re not supposed to zerg this. gold gets you 8 bags and 50 tokens. and 22 tickets. I mainly do it for the tickets. it’s great fun when there’s organization to the server

were all aware of that, you realize.

The problem is organizing people in a game that largely functions around zerging around a commander is like trying to pull teeth with pliers.

What else do you pull ’em with?

BigfootArisen.6509:

It might be that you cannot have 2 of the same item in there. I know that happens when you use runes to upgrade all of your armor, it doesn’t highlight those that already have the rune slotted. Might be entirely unable to do it. Put in a bug report/ticket, see if anything comes of it.

BINGO! That was it! Thanks folks, that didn’t even occur to me, DOH!

sdasilva.7460:

I concur with all of this. I’ve been at it an hour and I’m already bored.

I did it just once and decided that it wasn’t worth my time to do it again.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

And really everything wouldn’t even be as suspicious for me if not the “did you know that you can buy gold from us?” add on their website.

I believe that’s where Anet is headed. Nerf in game gold acquisition to the point that the ONLY way you can get decient amounts is to buy it with gems. Look at the new trait system. Most players cant do most of the content needed to unlock those traits, and with this newest patch Anet made some of them even harder, but you can BUY them! That’s assuming that a new player has the gold and skill points and most don’t.

[quote=4044178;Mirta.5029:]

Let’s see now, 30+ minutes of ZERGING boss mobs who drop nothing themselves for a end of event reward not even equal to ONE run of the now deceased Queensdale Champ Train. And after PAYING to get the event started. Plus more Elites than you can shake a stick at that rarely drop anything. Someone please explain to me how this is better than the way the pavilion was last time.

However, I am impressed with some of the things Anet’s done to make those fights a challenge, like the Centaur stampede that you must evade while fighting the Centaur boss.

To give an idea of how impressed I am about this, I wont be wasting my time doing it again. I’d rather get spanked by Theives, Mesmers, and Necros in PvP, it’s more entertaining.

GummiArms.5368:

I am concerned at what a grind the game is becoming for new players with this change and the recent patch to traits. This move will worsen that situation somewhat, since unlocking traits sounds like quite the expenditure.

I’m sure that that was the whole intent though how can they expect players new to the game to be able to afford the cost?

I have no doubt that Anet will continue to nerf things in game that players like to do, this aint the first time. And here I thought that EA was the champ at killing their own games. Move over EA, you have competition.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I think the OP is stating that he doesn’t get the box and the weapon appears RED when he hovers over it to add the upgrade item. The only time I have ever seen something like that is if the weapon is not high enough level to take the upgrade (obviously, if it has orbs IN it, that is unlikely to be the case).

Wait, are you trying to put JEWELS in a weapon? You can’t do that (can only add jewels to trinkets with an upgrade slot).

Also, if the weapon is in a protected container or in the bank, you would likely get that kind of behavior.

No, I’m trying to replace a ORB in a 2hand weap. I’ve tried it when the weap is equipted, in my bags, and in the bank and still get the red saying I cant upgrade.

I’ve tried to change the upgrade on one of my 2handed weaps from 1 ruby orb and one emerald orb to 2 emerald orbs but I cant do it, I get red and nothing else. Is there something I’m missing here? Are 2 slotted weap upgrades permanent?

CaptnRio.2705:

Firstly, my main argument for why the QD Train is a bad thing is because it is in a starting area. An area where players who are just starting out should be able to freely roam around and learn to play the game without a rampaging horde of higher level characters running around zerging everything in sight.

With me you lost what little credibility you have with that statement. If you truly knew anything about the QD Champ train, you’d know that they only focus on four Champs, five when the Wasp pops up. And those are Champs that new players cant take down solo anyway. Every new player that I’ve talked to in QD has enjoyed the Train, they get lots of XP, Karma, and loot that they would have a difficult time getting on their own.

This is nothing more that sour grapes on your part. I also disbelieve that part about your “friend” being harassed.

This build looks like it would be good in PvE as well. What kind or armor do y’all think would compliment this build?

For those of you who’re gloating keep this in mind, you too Anet. Ruining things in a MMO that players like to do (Pent/Shelt anyone?) is NOT the way to retain a solid playerbase. So for those of you who’re gloating, I have no doubt that you’ll be the same ones who’re sniveling because the game is dead. And I have no doubt that will happen to GW2 if Anet insists on continually ruining what players like to do.

I understood that when we use our present armor in PvP that it would the same as in the PvE zones. So why dos’nt the Superior rune of the Traveller’s +25% increase to running work in the PvP areas?