Guild Wars 2

as long as the transfers to higher pop servers are paid, they are benefited by doing nothing about it. recent earning report showed that games such as STWOR make more money than gw2, so probably dont expect solution to that any time soon

they can bring it as fractal-raid and by doing that they will open a wide area of end game content for 40+ people. And FINALLY when you DC youll be able to get back in

withe the last release there has been a quite big frustration of the players relating to overflows guesting and loosing your spot on main when you DC. im wondering if anet will do something realistic about it.

Jaken.6801:

Immensus.9732:

Awesome question… i really wonder first of all why there are Mists weapons and Foefires with very cool looking auras and no staff at all… i believe having weapons with auras makes them very good looking, also the staff is a weapon better represented from magic so staffs like the aether one or the fused dont really fit to the concept, from the other hand i think kasmeers the legendary one and the ascended are a very good example of how they should look like. for start what i would do is get the ascended staff concept and add some blueish aura like the mists weapons.
EDIT: Something that i want to add is theres was a post quite sometime ago on reddit with a staff that they datamined with a very very cool looking raven effect, you should check it out.

So your mainproblem that you do not think there are some “high level” staffs that fill your needs in term of design, while you see no other overall that seem to be what you desire for your character.

You want a clear distinction for high lvl content to look epic. glistering with particles and maybe some cool animation.

Right now the ascended weapons are not that what you would like, i guess. At least not in their current form.

In my opinion i am not really a fan of particle effects. The whole glowing thing is getting a bit out of hand in my opionin.
I like it a bit more subtle. More detail.
Simple looking from the outside, but if you look closer you see all the amzing design that was put into it,

I think there are other ways, aside from: “let`s put more sparkle or fire on it”, to get an epic looking weapon done.

This is why like to ask the question: What is good design? What is beautiful?
It is a personal question. Everyone has his own ideas about that. This is what makes art so hard.
More so if you try it on a common sense.

Yes I agree everyone has personal preferences. But! There are currently very simple looking or detailed staffs that are very good looking that are good for both for male and female characters. But there aren’t any good with effects especially and I repeat that especially for male characters which is where I think the problem is

Jaken.6801:

luke kavanagh.5937:

- Integrate the idea of GW1’s weapon dying system… It worked, and there should be a quest available to unlock it. I suggest a quest because we have too much Trade Post stuff and way too many achievement metas with the current living story.

While i would like something like that, it would also make some weapon set ingame useless, since some are just reskins of other (asura and inquest for example).
Overall it is a nice idea, however there is another problem:
Some weapons are colorful, but only thanks to their effect that is placed on them.
So it would not work with your following idea.

luke kavanagh.5937:

- Elemental Fusions (Idea from: Tibia)

-snip-

- Energy Gems

-snip-

I like the idea. even though i am against the whole “too many particle effects” thing.
I am a bit more simple with the designes i like.
Anyway the system you are proposing is something that has been said before, however i would rather integrate into the a revamped crafting system so the high lvl crafting jobs actually mean something.
It could be combined with the ability to choose handle and bladeform to create unique weapons.
Right now every tier looks the same, so they are not really desireable before lvl 400, where you get access to the cool stuff.

However if you want to aply elemental effects on the weapons, they actually need to do that damage too, like all the other “elemental” weapons ingame.

I also would suggest that this is not something everyone can do from the start. it should be something to be earned.

Furthermore it has to be restricted to certain weapon, so that there can be still a lot of unique weapons.

While i understand that you want to “pimp” every weapon i do not think that is a good idea in the long run, because after a while we would see a lot of “same” designes in the world

Immensus.9732:

i also think they need to make better staffs, the current ones are very very very bad looking. the only nice is the kasmeer and the legendary one that are both fenelish and they dont fit to a male elementalist or mesmer.

I have to agree. Staffs are not easy to do, however the ones we have range from elaborate to unpractical.
I was hoping for a “simple” staff design somwhere. However in my search i did not find many so i went with the guild staff.

However i have to ask you what you (Immensus) think would be better looking staffs?
kasmeers is cool because he has unique animations and effects.
I hope you do not mean we need more of these.
The staffs ingame are fine for the most part, but they all follow mostly the same design paradigma and thus are stuck in some way.
Do you want more leaborate designes in general. Things that stick out.
Or do you not like the overall designes so far?

Awesome question… i really wonder first of all why there are Mists weapons and Foefires with very cool looking auras and no staff at all… i believe having weapons with auras makes them very good looking, also the staff is a weapon better represented from magic so staffs like the aether one or the fused dont really fit to the concept, from the other hand i think kasmeers the legendary one and the ascended are a very good example of how they should look like. for start what i would do is get the ascended staff concept and add some blueish aura like the mists weapons.
EDIT: Something that i want to add is theres was a post quite sometime ago on reddit with a staff that they datamined with a very very cool looking raven effect, you should check it out.

i also think they need to make better staffs, the current ones are very very very bad looking. the only nice is the kasmeer and the legendary one that are both fenelish and they dont fit to a male elementalist or mesmer.

Thorquist.8126:

Overflow Nightmare.

^ THAT or DC MASTER!

the actual problem here is that theres not any indication that this item is RNG with chance to get low rarety dyes, the text on the shop only says that you get random frost or flame dyes

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1w41kb/if_you_are_considering_buying_those_dye_kits/
One more reason why RNG sucks… If you are spending money on things on cash shop like dyes is just pure gambling!

yes please PLEASE

http://gw2dragons.com/temple/of/balthazar

YES PLEASE YES GIVE US CHALLENGE! LIKE THE WORM! Or at least like tequatl!

the level of frustration on DCs while in OF or MAIN for the worm is very very very high!!! that high that makes people post on forums for taxis! i feel you bro!

im not sure about that, the only problem is that people use overflow to do them, and instances will solve the problem of getting DC and then not being able to get back in again

cut the crap, open world hardcore content is awesome, is just not for everyone, and thankfully is not that much, there is always dungeons and other instanced and casual stuff for everyone

first of all there are indeed people like you casuals, but also people like me hardcore, why everything should be about you and not me too? second 2 bosses and maybe fractals that i consider the only hardcore content is only 5% of the whole game, everything else is for casuals. complaining about that is just selfish

I love the worm ive been doing it for 12-13 hours in a row, but i still think it should have been instanced

Yep I know is supper annoying that we don’t have them!

Is so strange that swtor is even in the list and in fact is so close to gw2! That’s worrying

It is worth doing it. Is just people bother to use their brain and think how to get organized

People ask for hard content, when they get it they complaining that is too hard! The worm is just fine and awesome if it is not your thing don’t do it

Sea of sorrows. It has many aus guilds and players

in the begining it sounds crazy, but the more you think of this idea the more sense it makes

Personal story in gw2 is the worst story I’ve done in a mmo I wouldn’t even bother repeating it

we need better support skills and (yes i will say it) tanking skills, and along with that some dungeon/fractal bosses revamp that will require the players use both the support and the tanking skills, and then just enjoy! this will indeed be a light trinity but will also be more entertaining

wtf is wrong with you people? whats wrong with having trinity and whats wrong with not having it? trinity is not outdated is timeless, and the hybrid model is something new. both have advantages and both are fun. if you like trinity play wow or wait for wildstar, if you dont play gw2 end of story

Indeed stop balancing the bloody game for a while and focus on something else, also the players claiming that some classes are already balanced and they don’t to many changes

Well said man. I keep posting everywhere the last couple of days that mesmers need the vigor regardless if they are shatter or not. That’s a stupid decision similar like the ones the took with the ele

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

LFM healer
LFM healer
LFM healer…..

I like the no trinity but I don’t care that it is totally forced. DDO did a pretty good job of allowing players to build for trinity or be self reliant but that game is PvE game.

So instead we are : LF Guardian LF Guardian
I don’t see any difference except from the fact that a very fun mechanic that makes the player unique is missing from gw2

I would agree with that, they are not really fun to do them even though they are different to the traditional quests, anyone that has done map completion admits that hearts were a huge pain to do and they felt very grindy and they have nothing to do with exploration in most cases

Honestly after watching all wildstar streams and really laughing out loud with the Devs humor, i dont think ANet devs have humor. but really thats not something that has to do with the game at all.

i think they ve done some pretty heavy nerf to all classes previously including mesmers, but they were necessary, this time is just too much, mesmers need vigor and good endurance regen, and they nerf the skill that gives them this ability, that is just bad really bad

yeah the only mmo i remeber releasing numbers is WOW and that because they wanted to show off their record amount of players they had playing wow

i thought mesmers were supposed to be duelists not supports.these guys are nerfing dueling traits. necros were supposed to have main dmg from conditions, these guys they nerf conditions, engineers were supposed to be power condis relied on turrents, these guys nerf turrents. warrior were supposed to be a strong class that can tank, these guys made them OP and hey are both tanky and make massive dmg and cc. i dont like complaining but this must be the worst balance update by far. if they keep this way class balance will be for me the reason to look for other mmo

ohhhh, thats a good idea
In fact this way people might be able to acquire titles and achievements through commanding, i love it

I hate how people can be so stupid and hate that much content that havent even play yet, you dont know if the bosses will be boring or easy or hard or anything, you dont know if the story will be the same crap, you dont even know the size of the whole update if it will be bigger or we will get only these bosses and some lore. I mean seriously chill out if you really are so bothered with all this dont play it.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

Here is the proposal I believe we are making, please discuss and let me know if anything should be added or removed. Note many of us have read the thread internally and thus there has already been valuable impact.

Our Horizontal Progression Proposal

The Reward and Associated Journey

— Sociopolitical Diversification: Player housing (Customizable from rewards gained in the open world), Guild Halls (Customizable from mass play rewards) and Map Wide Meta events unlocked through Faction progression (Leading to both individual and group rewards such as titles and skins)

— Role Diversification: ‘Grail Quest’ (Personal rights of passage) style adventures through the open world (testing the player in combat, discovery, and puzzle solving) which others can engage in once the activities are activated which could reward the Hero with New skills/traits, new weapons, access to inaccessible existing weapons, and infusions.

— Hero Recognition (Reward) is a by product of the above two types of Horizontal Progression leading to Unique Skins, Titles, Rewards, followers and NPC reactions/opportunities based on the players individual feats in the world of Tyria regardless of how he/she chooses to play the game.

Global Rule Proposal governing the above:

- Where possible use the above design paradigm to reinforce and evolve the existing world.
- Players should be able to have multiple methods of achieving ‘Grail Quests’, rather than a section of the journey being based on Jumping Puzzles and that alone for example.
-A reworked (cleaner) version of Signet of Capture would work very well for Role Diversification.
- Sub-classes will be discussed again in a CDI once Arena finishes its current balance work in regard to roles.
- QOL features such as a wardrobe should support this global design.

Once we have discussed the proposal and the thread reaches conclusion we will sticky it and move onto CDI Process Evolution Phase 2.

Note this is the formulation of a collaborative proposal for discussion. Once the proposal is finalized it will be discussed internally. However there will be no promise of associated actions or schedule.

Thank you all so much for your hard work and your passion toward making GW2 awesome. This has been a really good CDI and I want to thank you on behalf of Arena for caring so much about the world we love.

Chris

AMEN! That`s all i got to say~

S TIER (too strong and/or too much reward for little or no risk)
- Warriors
- Necromancers
- Thieves
A TIER (really strong but probably balanced)
- Spirit Rangers
- Engineer
- Guardians
- Mesmers

B TIER (not a single viable build)
- Elementalists

I think they should get rid of all the stupid dowed skills, such as the thief and mesmer ones that makes it very hard to stomp them quickly.

pandora eight.9451:

Even the ‘high population’ servers are completely dead now. All the current servers need to be merged in 4 or 5.

They are not high according to their active players but according to the accounts they have, which is bad because we`ll never know if many players indeed left and new ones came

Azure Prower.8701:

kntz.1420:

Please, let me buy another expansion

I laughed at the idea of housing in WvWvW.

He probably mean something similar to what WIldstar is doing with the warplots, where you will have to build your own fortress with your team and do massive battles. thats actually awesome

Too bad is not something that would do good advert, the only ppl that know this character is from Gw2 are the ones that play it. But still is very cool.

No wonder Hambow Wars still on first place.

well why then dont they sell the template at gem store for a quite high price?:P obviously the proftis wont be the same but still

Well then why not add a fee each time you switch a template?

I think that that a topic relevant to balance once the ability to switch quickly from WvW builds to PvE and vice versa will solve many problems with many builds. But i posted it in this thread just in case.

People lately keep asking for things that will be introduced later this year in other games, it is a very good idea adding them in Gw2 to make the game more fun. Especially this idea is something good to break the routine.

Krion.5986:

He is Greek, I believe.

Yeah thats how i guessed it, im greek and i got the same horrible english accent xD

I can swear the guy at 2.30 is from Mediterranean country. Just an observation.