Guild Wars 2

Chris Whiteside.6102:

2014 is going to be an amazing year for GW2 and the community! Chris

Chris do you how many blogs and videos all the devs used to make before game launch? Do you also remember how much less communicative and more enigmatic in 2013 you guys became. In 2013 I lost complete faith in you guys because of the silence treatment. Yeah I still enjoy the game, and you’ll forgive me if I say that I have no interest in remarks like the one you posted. All I would like to see in forums in 2014 is pre launch communication like we used to have in the form of the following few words, blogs, videos, elder dragons, new explorable regions, new race perhaps, new armors and weapons for in game sales or drops not in the store for once.

So far for 2014 all we know is that there are no blogs or anything new before at least March need I go on. It’s not a big list but seeing these words would go a long way towards restoring my faith in the company that hired you.
It would be nice to hear from the old gang as well, Colin Johanson, Daniel Dociu, Kristen Perry and so on.

What burns me up the most is their silence treatment behavior it’s the complete opposite from before launch. We used to get a lot of articles about development and now they behave like I could tell you but you are on a no need to know basis or I could tell you but I’d have to kill you. Then they wonder why we have no faith in them.
I want to hear a confirm of an expansion, new zones or elder dragon 2 is coming before the end of June or at the latest August, and gem support for 2014 has already fallen to 0% opposite quite a hundred dollars in 2013 and that is a direct result of poor armor and weapon looks being added to the store only and none for merchant sales.
GW1-100% dedication to player base, GW 2 dedicated to the store only after all this is a business first and we are here simply to be milked.

So yeah let’s speculate we’re getting the 4 last episodes of that Silvary adult child putting up a tantrum. Not even a hint at a content interview for 2014. I speculate to become an EX player by August’s end.
P.S: No MMORPG can survive without an expansion not even if it’s replaced by by-weekly updates.

Junkpile.7439:

9G. Too hard to get gold in this game .

It’s only hard in your mind, if you did at least one hour of train a day you would make a few gold. Even when I feel lazy and don’t do trains I still can make one easy gold a day simply by killing foes. I sell all my whites and green, I recycle all my blues for the luck pills. I recycle all my rare and some low end exotics for Legendary weapons.

I have 125 and have 12 gold of items waiting to be sold. Working on the 200 gold title.

I just bought some of those stupid things written above, so I said to myself, self let’s go to the MF and get some clover leaf, but guess what? There was another 25 there at the bank from God knows which of my 7 other characters, now I’m gonna have to log in and out up to 7 times just to find out can use the rest. I don’t know about you but I find this Einstein idea freak’’’’ingly annoying. Is there any chance to reverse this engineering idea back to account bound?

Pretty please…

No MMO can survive without Cantha, I mean an expansion. If we don’t see an expansion before 2015 arrives, personally I don’t think there’ll much of a GW 2 left.

Weapons yes, armor there’s no way, Anet made sure you would need 6 transformation crystals for each armor by creating the crappiest armors yet. They darn well know of our dislike for butt capes and trench coats and yet they are still ignoring us. Since I cancelled all support of gems for 2014 it’ll be impossible for me to get them.
So my max for armors is exotics and even with those most of my 8 characters armors are mixed sets.

1; More Maps 2; Elder Dragons 3; New Race 4; New Profession
5; Add armors buyable with karma without buttcapes or trenchcoat and not requiring transmute crystals because in the end we darn well know that’s all Anet thinks about.
6; A WvW sea maps with naval battle putting Corsairs vs The Queen’s fleet Vs The Risen Fleet.
7; Submarine fights, The Pact vs The Charr vs The Deep sea Largos fleet.

Your best option is go at it blind and then put a bag, I mean a skin over it. I’ve seen them in a post on Guru a while back and my curiosity got slapped in the face.
It’s not like they listen to every suggestions we make, the fact of the matter is to this day even if you buy your armor at the store, it’s still the same old butt capes and trench coats. They simply don’t get it or they couldn’t give a rat’s butt about it.

Human Female Elemental Lv 80, 100% Mc.
Sylvari Female Thief Lv 80, 86% Mc.
Norn Female Engineer Lv 80, 46% Mc.
Human Female warrior Lv 80, 63% Mc.
Charr Female Ranger Lv 80, 45% Mc.
Sylvari Female Mesmer Lv 80, 66% Mc.
Norn Female Necromancer Lv 80, 100% Mc.
Asura Female Guardian Lv 80, 58% Mc.

Crafting to 500 probably, crafting the Armors maybe besides even if there is eventually Legend armors the stats would be the same, the time spent creating a single weapon is bad enough Legend armors never unless Anet becomes more reasonable which is very doubtful. They tend to go overboard on just about everything, gems, keys, armors weapons, and transmute stone. I call it obsessive over priced greeeeeeedddd.

Are you mad? Your question should have been, why not sell fire auras at the karma vendor? Don’t you think they make enough money as it is? When was the last time any piece of clothing was added to the game’s merchants?

Umut.5471:

I want largos as a playable race more than tengu.

Me as well but only if that ugly grin they have is a mask.

Keep dreaming as in not gonna happen, why? Because there’s no profit in it, right Anet?

I’ll drop the subject then it’s obvious the devs won’t budge a finger or a minute of their time when it’s not a major bug or loosing money.

I get that, what I want to know is why come up with the Idea of having exotics you can and cannot sell. It’s like telling the fan base look if you don’t need it trash it, we couldn’t care less f you don’t make money with it.

Ok I got this as a drop today I can only preview or destroy it
My question is why can’t I even sell it for trading?
Is this a bug?

At this rate 3 years from now only 100 players per server will be playing this game.
Here’s a bone, 3 weeks later sorry we take it back you made enough money.
Way to go Anet.

It may be that some of it is acceptable for males of most races but it remains unwearable for all females exept for medium female Charr.

It’s a good thing I didn’t have any expectations for them.
It’s simple people bad looks = transmutation crystals.
Take only 1 armor for each 8 characters = 48 pieces of armor = about $ 19.50 in TC.
Anet has a good feeling you won’t like the armors because they are also very well aware that most people don’t like Light Armor buttcapes and Medium Armor trenchcoats. If ignoring player taste = more profit in the long run then why improve armor looks. I won’t craft them because they are for the lack of a better word Fugly and if I did I would have to give Anet another $20.00 and they got a few hundreds from me which is more than enough for the lifetime of the game. Until I see better updates Anet store = black list, not Black Lion.

So far I never seen a devs reply about the issue of buttcapes and trenchcoats and I doubt that will change. I too was a fan of GW 1 since day one and yes we had nasty armors back then too bad I can’t transfer them.

Chrispy.5641:

- If You want a great gaming experience for Guild Wars 2, you just buy a larger computer screen and get better speakers, because without a good 1st person view, a 3D headset would be garbage for a game like this.

I was simply curious about the tech, but like you said there’s nothing better than a big screen, which is why I went from Sony 50" LCD projection to Samsung 65" Led last January.
When 3D gets better on this game I’m ready and my 3D glasses are small and light.

Not having a first person view doesn’t mean we never will.

What is Oculus? Oculus is a future HDVR for the PC.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/11/oculus-rift-hd-prototype-vr-headset-hands/

GW 2 is not scheduled to play with Oculus HDVR.
However please share your thoughts on this soon to come out product for the gaming market.

Anet your fans could do more than look like candles while waiting for your DE’s to start. Why isn’t there a timer to the event you wanna do, so you can do other stuff in the region, like playing the game.

It would be nice to have a Dev reply on this post. I remember In the Elder Scrolls at night it was really dark in the forest and raining hard it was so creepy. It also had quite a few dark crypts. It would be nice to have stuff like that and have an animal jump you.

Why is it that every time something is free it comes only in one size? Even if you look like a total goof noob.

The mantle is obviously a heavy armor piece, which means medium and light armor wearers will never have a complete armor, unless you enjoy looking like you hatched yesterday.

Please discuss.

This isn’t a big thing but I find it immersion breaking a bit. In the middle of each gate vortex we see a swirl stain with the destination in letters simply hovering there.
With all the tech the Asura have couldn’t they find a way to create an electronic panel and place it on the side of it.

Not a priority you might say but it would look a lot more like Asura travel tech to me.

@ AcidicVision: Thanks I understand the clover strategy a lot better now.
But I still stand firm on the soulbound issue.

This rant was also triggered by the, give me $10.00 and I’ll generously give you a soulbound item. This refers to the harvest scandal everyone talked about and other similar items which should have been fully account bound to be fair.
Fair play would seem isn’t Anet’s way lately.

There was the harvest tool issue but also the armors bought in store in the beginning you could buy a light armor and it would be useful for other light characters as well but now once you have chosen the wearer it’s soulbound. So what now Anet? Why should we have to buy 3 times the same armor for 3 characters? That’s what I mean by unfair treatment of the player base.

@ LilMcGinley: 371 and you still find this a perfect situation?
I’m sure the person you know who did it that many times wouldn’t think so.
It’s unfair to everyone and this post is my way of letting Anet know that their system stinks and not only for me. The thing is most people don’t even wanna hear about legendary because it’s too much everything and I used to feel the same way until I found one I can’t resist.

@ Mirta: Sorry for the confusion, I shouldn’t have added the soulbound issue which has to do with the store only.

This rant was also triggered by the, give me $10.00 and I’ll generously give you a soulbound item. This refers to the harvest scandal everyone talked about and other similar items which should have been fully account bound to be fair.
Fair play would seem isn’t Anet’s way lately.

I decided today to start putting my materials aside for my first weapon.
It’s bad enough that we need the entire Encyclopedia Britannica of materials to create this abomination weapon. I just found out that for the clover which we need 77, that in order to obtain 1 or 10 depending on recipe, that you only get a 27 to 32% chance of getting one.

Please discuss the clover and let Anet know what you think of the way they handled it.
Personally I think more often than not Anet has a stinky way of handling material and the store in general. It makes you wonder if they really love and appreciate their player base.

PS: Would it be too much Anet to get a 100% guaranty of result from a recipe? Or do you always feel like “Bash the player, bash the player” until he quits?
This rant was also triggered by the, give me $10.00 and I’ll generously give you a soulbound item.

My rant is over.

My 2 cents…

This is a question for Anet, why are they never on sale?
I don’t know about the player but me it bothers me.
It bothers me that we’ve seen many things on sale, bank slot of 30 for example, character slots once or twice but I could be wrong. For 8 characters I would have to spend 12,800 Gems for 32 bags which = to $160.00 in bags alone.

Am I the only one who would like to see them on special?

What would have been nicer is for the collapse to have been used as a nest for the 7th dragon.

DarcShriek.5829:

I don’t think you quite know what they’re development cycle is.

No we don’t, but we know this; If not for all the Living Kindergarten Stuff we’d be face to face with the second dragon story and on the right path for the game, not to mention the added 3 or 4 more explorable zones.

inazuma.7021:

BobbyStein.2315:

Could it be Quaggan Soup?

Poo! Quaggan are not food! Quaggan are friends!

To the Krait they are.

What this system of living story does without saying is, at this pace the other 5 dragons will be dead in 10 years time. Rejoice we can go to Elona in 2024 and finally move on to a subject other than dragons, unless of course Elona has it’s own dragons and they kill Palawa Joko for us.

Yata.8932:

Actually in an interview, i forget where, they said that now that they have all of the seasonal content done they can now focus on pumping out more meaningful content per release.

Yet meaningful is another vague word it says nothing about confronting other dragons.
The big issue some of us have is that nothing at all that was added since August 28, 2012 has anything to do with the other 5 dragons. I observed the map fully trust me when I say at least 3 of those dragons are at most 2 to 3 explorable regions away from any map borders. Kralkatorrik 2 to 3 regions from Ebonhawke, Primordius 2 to 3 regions once into the Maguma Waste, Jormag 2 to 3 regions more to the north. Deep Sea Dragon closer to Cantha so very far away finally the Jungle dragon perhaps even 1 region away but we haven’t heard a thing about this one since he was the last one added to the lore.

It means Queen Salma, Quarterly Statement or Quality Sucks.

BobbyStein.2315:

We’re exploring some ideas for the future, including a system that would allow certain bits of Living World content to be accessed independent of the release. Plans and designs have not been solidified yet, so I want to temper your expectations. But if you have any opinions on the matter feel free to let us know. We’re already looking at ways to leave some LW content behind to evolve Tyria and improve the game. This would be one element of it, should we decide to build such a feature.

How about we’re no longer working on the Living Boredom Stories because we added the 4 teams to the other devs to create new explorable regions for the game and make Tyria’s main story evolve forward instead of backwards. Sarcasm aside what the community needs is a definite plan of action, we need good news, not the vague, clouded in mystery news we are used to getting. Example;

Kralkatorrik Summer 2014
Primordius Winter 2014
Jormag Summer 2014
DSD Spring 2015
You see were I am going with this, this would be encouraging not the, well the next dragon we encounter might be Kralkatorrik or the Jungle Dragon in the year of our Lord 2014 or 2016 we can’t talk more about it yet. That last statement makes it sound like a company that’s making a lot of money out of the Living Story so therefore there is no hurry.

Certainly not the Living Boredom Story Achievement! I love the art and general enjoyment of the gameplay. I log on regularly everyday, sometimes a few hours sometimes only minutes. I feel that Anet has failed us entirely ad far as added content is concerned.

For those of you like myself if you missed out on one or more, now is the time to let Anet know. Personally I missed out on the pics.

I think it would be a good Idea if Anet were to put all of them on sale or not for a whole week-end. So that we can fill those tool slots that are missing.

Am I to understand your characters are not comfy in their digital armor?

There are areas in the game with no points of interest or even waypoints, but they do count for the achievement. Sometimes it’ll be a cave but the cave’s name shows on the map and that may count as well. So make sure that all areas in white lettering shows up on your map, consult Wiki or compare with a friend. When I did my first I discovered 5 more areas even if my 30 maps were completed.

Took me in between 15 to 20 tries. In the end even after viewing the video a few times and failing, I found the sweet spot and simply walked off the edge without jumping and did it. Why jump it? Your character is already a runner.

In the past I’ve ben a very good supporter for the store including my CE, I must have contributed over 600 to Anet. It’s exactly this news that made me stop purchasing gems. Anet the honeymoon is over no more support for the store I’m done you’re getting too greedy, and I don’t like fat cats.

When I started playing the game I gave myself 18 months to enjoy the game and hopefully see some new content story related. In January I said ok I understand they’re trying to do things differently, maybe this will be interesting. It’s been 11 months and we’ve seen 5 festivals, 1 election, 4 chapters of Flame and Frost, 3 chapters at Southsun Cove, an 8 bit game, the last 4 living story 3 of them were festivals.

So in 11 months outside of a very few hints about dragons there’s been absolutely no content about them and also a confirmation not to keep our hopes up because there will also be no sign of them for the rest of 2013, at that point we will have reached our 16th month.

So does it feel like your watching soaps every 2 weeks? To me it does and it feels like the game’s main story isn’t getting anywhere. It’s even getting hard to motivate myself doing the daily. Even when the story is interesting it keeps my attention for 3 to 6 days at most, because of the fact that it is not new content as I see it or expect it from an MMO.

Don’t get me wrong I love this game I’ve been a fan since day one 2005.
Even my support for the store is falling to zero because the new trend is to put every goodies in there and not in the game.

When was the last time you saw a weapon or armor being added to the game in exchange for any kind of game currency? I’ll try to stick around until February 2014 but Anet you’re making it harder every week. Luckyly I’ve got 8 characters, one for each profession.

Oh and to finish on a humorous note please Anet try to come up with less buttcapes and trenchcoats.

Please discuss.

They said not this year for other dragons.
For now we watch short stories until 2015 or 2014 if we’re lucky or fed up enough.

So you want longer endless which is equal to eternity or at least an hour would be nice.

Sounds good to me.

Making Black Lion ticket the money of choice for buying weapon skins.
Because old living story dungeons are gone it would be nice to have access to older skins through the use of Black Lion tickets.
Weapons such as Fused, Dragon Jade and the last one Aetherized skins.
I missed out on fused but got 4 dragon jade.

Kill Momma.6127:

I knew race played a role in it, but I am a human ranger (sometimes the pet throws me off as well by hiding ledges).

I don’t use a mac and it’s been a while since I took my Charr ranger out for a spin but if I’m not mistaken you can deactivate your pet at any time. Confirmed, right besides pet management where you see what animal you currently have, to the left you have a button called stow pet.

I guess you guys didn’t get me the recipes are only visible at the weaponsmith for my Elemental who is LV Zero. The one who is LV 158 can’t craft them as they do not show on the list.
All I’m asking is if I activate a recipe I want it to show for all characters who are or want to become weaponsmith. Is this clearer.
If I crafted them with my Elemental who unknowingly activated them I would have to start at LV Zero and it requires a lv 400 to craft Celestial Pearl weapons.

Another way to explain this is, a weaponsmith title is character bound and should be account bound. I find it ridiculous to have to find out who can craft what then craft it and transfer it to the right character for it to use.