Guild Wars 2

Darnacus.5961:

Class: Mesmer (PU/Condi – sorry guys I have fun with that spec…)

1) Engineers
2) Thief
3) Necro

And there is always the occasional ‘special’ player that annihilates you with a class you almost always win against (still traumatized by a ranger I met in hotjoin 2 weeks ago…)

This spec after Dec 10 is actually really good in comb with the new healing skill, thats the one i use too

actually i just found one from last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZrQJpGuFY
The dragon was there

I think it was there from before, but you can check vids in youtube to confirm your theory

All Classes:
1. Condi or MM Necro
Done!! Just kidding…
Mesmer:
1.Perma invis thiefs
1.Engineer

I would say they are very strong, (or OP) builds for thiefs indeed… not all of them are strong though.

Once you mentioned weapon, let me remind that theres an asura researcher in a camp at kessex hills thats says hes preparing some kind of weapon. how could that possibly be connected? is that a type of weapon that we will use to defeat scarlet? maybe?

I like the fact that you need to do 100% exploration to get the legendary, but the thing that bothers me is that you got to grind the ultra-boring and un-rewarding hearts that are really time-consuming. This and really only this is the reason i will never craft my legendary, if i ever get one ill buy it from TP

No we dont want open world pvp, PvE is PvE, if you want competition WvW and PvP is more than enough!

we need trainer and also the ability to not get kicked if you have logged out while you are in it!
+1

please add all these Anet, i gave you10$ for that thing make it worth it

^ that ^ and that ^ and that too!

Sky.7610:

Removing dailies and we getting weeklies?

Thats something i read for first time and i think is very nice idea

I would say that most of the lists explain very good an overall idea of the class balance state currently, although i believe condi necros are still more powerfull than they should while pet necros are not

Eldric.2109:

Hopefully this something big, is removing wvw from world completion…

Or removing the useless heart quests form world completion, yeah that`d be great too!

woeye.2753:

My guess: ANet will announce the development of GW3. With the transition from GW1 to GW2 they got rid of the holy trinity system. With the transition from GW2 to GW3 they will get rid with the classes. Everyone will be a warrior – lol.

This made my day! Thanks random Mr/Mrs from the internet!

I play a lot of pvp but my complains are:
1. very bad class balance
2. lack of game modes

Chuo.4238:

These people are very excited for 2014. I do notice a conspicuous absence of one particular game in their predictions…directly mentioned once, I believe, and that was to ask for something that’s not been delivered…

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/12/20/the-think-tank-massivelys-2014-mmo-predictions/

I hate to say this, but I kinda saw it coming. I think things are going to become very quiet in Lion’s Arch soon…which is a shame. I looked forward to this game more than any other for several years.

these guys are wow brainwashed funboys, wildstar has more superior features than wow and they still praise the wow ex-pac. This just doesnt make sense.

I dont want to be pessimistic but i doubt that most of the ppl that were playing in launch they still play, but yeah there are more new ones came as well

Tman.6349:

it means the game revolves around using the #1 weapon skill to accomplish everything from riding the ‘Queensdale Champ Train’ to defeating massive world bosses to zerging mindlessly in WvWvW. its a “SKILL-based game” and that skill is auto-attack.

Go to PvP and try to play only with skill 1… Yeah now you get what “skill based” means! But no, nobody gives pvp a chance either as endgame or fun content, just because they claiming is “unbalanced”

Hate: RNG , Personal Story
Like: Fractals, PvP, Graphics, Questing System

yep i was thinking exactly the same thing recently, i would like to be able to change music in the game for example having the Norn theme during the wvw battles, many games have this option

Yes it does, i paid for this thing only to have quick skills reset!

Do you guys even check the blog posts? :P https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/release-notes-for-a-very-merry-wintersday/ Here you are!
Edit: Also the page https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-10-2013/

double xp weekends worked for many in SWTOR is smart idea imo

RNG is bad in gw2! very bad and we know it

Gotcha!!! https://twitter.com/John_J_Ryan/status/417058515035779072

oh boy oh boy!!! i cant wait!

so any news in housing? do we know if the devs start thinking about it?

WingLegacy.7159:

Option to save build template…

Oh please Anet please make this happened please!!!!!!!!

from what ive seen so far combat is awesome, pvp is probably what i`ll be doing a lot in WS, dungeons look challenging and fun and also they will have something similar to wvw called warplots that we dont know much about it but im interested in it. PLUS… yeah wait for it… Personal Housing, these guys know sandbox elements is what players want and they adding it! yeah baby!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Let-s-speculate/page/4#post3442249

Arganthium.5638:

Acandis.3250:

Please reply with the following information:

• Would you be willing to participate (y/n)?
  • If yes, how much would you be willing to pay to enter (5/10)?
  • If no, please elaborate.
• Do you have a team (y/n)?
  • If yes, would the rest of your team be willing to pay the same entrance fee (y/n)?
  • If no, would such an event create incentive for you to find a team to compete with (y/n)?
• What region do you play on (NA/EU)?

Thank you for reading and I look forward to hearing from all of you,
Ac

• I’d be willing to participate, but it depends on exactly when the tournament is. Usually busy around that time of year.
• I’d be willing to pay $5, $10 if it’s really high quality and there’s a good prize pool
• I do not have a team
• I’d be willing to find a team if the tournament had a good prize pool (right now, unfortunately, it’s difficult to find many good players since so many have left). Also depends on the date.
• I’m NA

That ^ thx i dont have to type all this

whatever everyone said is right but the biggest problem is that the focusing their resources in the wrong things, as someone said before instead of fixing the combat, balance, bugs and personal story which imo is the worst personal story ive done in mmo ever, they give us bad LS and it would be better if it was good this content, but nah, is not.

Useless? No! Overpriced? Yes! As always!

good idea man, but the PvErs are raging for having bad storytelling in personal story and in Living story, i dont know how good it would that be in PvP, but still, is a very very nice idea!

An Oak Knob.1275:

This is all what I want Anet to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK8fua6O64

That is all.

Sandbox is the future, we know that! Nice vid!

AikunFelcis.7258:

Hello, I’d like to post my suggestion about Orders. I don’t have time to read all topic so I’m sorry if such suggestion was posted before. Also sorry for bad english.

I guess when character joins Orders (I will refere to Vigil later in post, because this is my order on my main character) it should have some impact on the player and the world. My examples:

When someone join order he/she starts with „new joiner” rank. At the beginning, player get mail that he join new recruits in Vigils Keep. Now the story begins.

Player could trigger some events depending on his rank in the order. At the beginning as new joiner, he could help to gather supplies, help fixing old armors and weapons, cleaning Almorras boots, fight Skritts in basement (ex. they try to stole supplies/shinies). For each such event player gets exp, maybe karma and let’s name it „Duty Points”. It wouldn’t be currency, but it would show your progress in your rank. Example to go from Rank 1 to Rank 2 you have to get 50 duty points. To prevent people to reach maximum rank in 1 day, for example first 5 order events in day rewards you with „X” duty points. Other people from your order can help you and they are also rewarded for events and getting duty points.

When you reach higher rank, you get more interesting missions. For example quests in rank 1-5 takes please near Vigil Keep and if rank goes higher, the place when you do missions is expanding (ex. You were cleaning boot, better rank you escort someone from Vigil Keep to Lions Arch, fight back Zhaitan minions in swamps in Gendarran Fields etc). Finally when you reach ex. Rank 10, Almorra send you to Ebonhawk to help Vigil fighting separatists and so on. It is also fine way to introduce some story of area you are in and also you can form a bond with NPCs if you help them and fighting with them for longer time than 1-3 personal story missions.

Higher rank missions can get you better reward (ex. material to craft ascended items).

As I said before, player can trigger some events on the same place talking with npc, or take some item from npc, go to spot, use item (ex. throw purse of money downstairs and skritts go out from their hideout to get some shinies).

The ranking up system gives your benefits, like unlocking achievements, titles, unlock some NPCs with special receips only for your order, so you can craft unique reward. Maybe some special consumables, minis, skins, etc.

Part II below in next post:

Brilliant idea!

what about removing stacks or reducing the duration of the condis we you dodge instead of removing it completely?

5 man content is good, but for groups outside the dungeons/fractals/instances i would like to have a bigger group

Substance E.4852:

Immensus.9732:

Substance E.4852:

Frenk the Vile.2596:

Guys, we paid the game. We’re not getting other big things. Spending money on gems is like buying hats in TF2, and all the few ’’new’’ features gw2 implemented can be copied in any MMO out there in 2014.
They throw away Trinity but now we’re all Berserker. They said no vertical progression and we’re now forced to farm for ascended(even for WvsW, bad choice guys, bad choice…). They said living world…and i see ONE map full of bots and afk ppl, tons of overflows of that same map, and the rest of the world is a desert.

This game had NOTHING special…not so-good, not so-bad, but it’s really nothing compared to GW1, who struggled to rise during ‘’Wow domination’‘, that was the only real ’’Guild Wars’’ game!

lol, sadly Valve still actually releases new weapons and balances existing ones from time to time all the while managing to maintain a fairly balanced RPG experience.

Im seriously thinking of buying Guild Wars and play it until the new MMOs im waiting for come out next year

It’s honestly about where it was when I stopped playing back in 2010 or so. Most of the areas are ghost towns but you can still find plenty in the market hubs spamming WTB/WTS and it seems like they still occasionally update it.

How long will it take me to get some of these nice skins and titles?

Substance E.4852:

Frenk the Vile.2596:

Guys, we paid the game. We’re not getting other big things. Spending money on gems is like buying hats in TF2, and all the few ’’new’’ features gw2 implemented can be copied in any MMO out there in 2014.
They throw away Trinity but now we’re all Berserker. They said no vertical progression and we’re now forced to farm for ascended(even for WvsW, bad choice guys, bad choice…). They said living world…and i see ONE map full of bots and afk ppl, tons of overflows of that same map, and the rest of the world is a desert.

This game had NOTHING special…not so-good, not so-bad, but it’s really nothing compared to GW1, who struggled to rise during ‘’Wow domination’‘, that was the only real ’’Guild Wars’’ game!

lol, sadly Valve still actually releases new weapons and balances existing ones from time to time all the while managing to maintain a fairly balanced RPG experience.

Im seriously thinking of buying Guild Wars and play it until the new MMOs im waiting for come out next year

sonicwhip.9052:

Immensus.9732:

sonicwhip.9052:

Lévis.5489:

Kalarchis.8635:

Listen. Two months from now will be about a year and a half from release. A year and a half after GW1 release, we already had Factions and Nightfall. That’s two new continents, four new classes, two new skillsets for all classes, new PvP modes, two entirely new stories, multiple elite dungeons, and bunches of other things. At near the same point in GW2 we’ve got…Southsun? Fractals? Temporary content? Did you guys set the bar too high last time or what?

In two months we’d better be sailing ships into Cantha. Zhaitan is dead; the path is open. Let’s go already.

Don,t remind me. How did a dev so based like Anet that was so dynamic back in the first year and half of Guild Wars 1, into a dev of a game that don’t feel like moving forward at all, with all it’s temporary content, with most of it’s new weapons and armors being cash shop only, with still no light at the end of the balance tunnel.

The game right now is centered around RNG, farming, zergfest, dailies and the cash shop with no fun allowed to a disgusting level.

I think the problem is that when gw2 launched Nexon took over 15% of NCsoft and Anet hired a former Nexon employee with no experience or passion whatsoever in the GW franchise and appointed him/her to a high level monetary/design position which probably caused a big shift in the dev team and some original gw2 devs to leave.
I think Anet was originally intending to deliver GW1 style expansions every 6 months or so which would have contained a lot of deep permanent content but the whole Nexon fiasco caused them to switch focus to temporary events every 2 weeks.
Sad what happened to a game with so much potential, I just hope Nexon will not have the power to influence Wildstar or Blade & Soul in any way.

Thats something i didnt know and is pretty shocking

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-06-08-nexon-acquires-15-percent-stake-in-ncsoft
“Nexon acquires 15% stake in NCsoft”

http://my.mmosite.com/2221790/blog/item/guild_wars_2_team_hires_nexon_employee_as_cash_shop_manager_changes_already_apparent.html
“Guild Wars 2 team hires Nexon employee as cash shop manager, changes already apparent”

Ooohhh, so they put a FTP games company in charge over the cash shop? ok i just lost every hope i had

sonicwhip.9052:

Lévis.5489:

Kalarchis.8635:

Listen. Two months from now will be about a year and a half from release. A year and a half after GW1 release, we already had Factions and Nightfall. That’s two new continents, four new classes, two new skillsets for all classes, new PvP modes, two entirely new stories, multiple elite dungeons, and bunches of other things. At near the same point in GW2 we’ve got…Southsun? Fractals? Temporary content? Did you guys set the bar too high last time or what?

In two months we’d better be sailing ships into Cantha. Zhaitan is dead; the path is open. Let’s go already.

Don,t remind me. How did a dev so based like Anet that was so dynamic back in the first year and half of Guild Wars 1, into a dev of a game that don’t feel like moving forward at all, with all it’s temporary content, with most of it’s new weapons and armors being cash shop only, with still no light at the end of the balance tunnel.

The game right now is centered around RNG, farming, zergfest, dailies and the cash shop with no fun allowed to a disgusting level.

I think the problem is that when gw2 launched Nexon took over 15% of NCsoft and Anet hired a former Nexon employee with no experience or passion whatsoever in the GW franchise and appointed him/her to a high level monetary/design position which probably caused a big shift in the dev team and some original gw2 devs to leave.
I think Anet was originally intending to deliver GW1 style expansions every 6 months or so which would have contained a lot of deep permanent content but the whole Nexon fiasco caused them to switch focus to temporary events every 2 weeks.
Sad what happened to a game with so much potential, I just hope Nexon will not have the power to influence Wildstar or Blade & Soul in any way.

Thats something i didnt know and is pretty shocking

Funset.7893:

Immensus.9732:

sonicwhip.9052:

Corpus Christi.2057:

I do like GW2 and I do wish they introduced something amazing… But when things like this come out ( notice it’s only some raw alpha footage ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_73qvfI8Y, it’s gonna be tough… And when I say “tough”, they’re gonna do something better than introducing Scarlet-like stories…:/

Also really looking forward to that “Heroic movement” where you can double jump, flip, teleport mid air, slide down hills,vaulting over ledges,leaping far distances, wear magic boots that make you float, and probably a lot more when it launches.
In gw2 I am kinda getting tired of always being tethered to the ground with a boring slow walk and a few speed buffs because waypoints justify not having any of that stuff or mounts.

Also heard that they are already working on the first expansion for EQN right now which is how they intend to generate the most income as it will be F2P.

They working on the first x-pac without having released the game? oh well thats Sony!

Better than not working on an xpack at all after year and a half after the release, amirite?

Yep thats what i meant!

sonicwhip.9052:

Corpus Christi.2057:

I do like GW2 and I do wish they introduced something amazing… But when things like this come out ( notice it’s only some raw alpha footage ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_73qvfI8Y, it’s gonna be tough… And when I say “tough”, they’re gonna do something better than introducing Scarlet-like stories…:/

Also really looking forward to that “Heroic movement” where you can double jump, flip, teleport mid air, slide down hills,vaulting over ledges,leaping far distances, wear magic boots that make you float, and probably a lot more when it launches.
In gw2 I am kinda getting tired of always being tethered to the ground with a boring slow walk and a few speed buffs because waypoints justify not having any of that stuff or mounts.

Also heard that they are already working on the first expansion for EQN right now which is how they intend to generate the most income as it will be F2P.

They working on the first x-pac without having released the game? oh well thats Sony!

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Spidyr.5287:

Well this was a buzzkill. I just started playing GW2, and even though I’m late to the party, I’m loving it! How can people hate on it this much? I pretty much despise WoW so I’m not sure how people are saying they might go back to WoW, the least interactive, least immersive, most gear based, calculator combat ever invented. The combat, the questing system, are all far better here in my rookie humble opinion.
I’ll admit that I never really got into GW1, but from my limited experience with it, it was entirely instanced right? No open world filled with other players, if you left town at all it was an instance. Anyways, I like this much better.

Hearts are disguised as the most grindiest quests.

Hearts are disguised as the grindiest quests?

Here is a quest in a normal MMO:

1. Go to this area.
2. Talk to this npc.
3. Pick up the quest.
4. Go kill 15 boars.
5. Return to the npc.
6. Pick up new quest.

Here is a quest in GWII:

1. Be in this area.
2. There are 3-5 objectives, you can do whichever of them you want to. Or mix and match.
3. Go about your day.

How on earth is that a grindy quest?

The only “innovative” thing with the heart system is that it lets you pick your poison. Choices boil down to collect, kill, or some combination of both. And this, at the cost of having any sort of overarching story for a specific zone.

Quests and storytelling are two completely different things.

Just in case you’ve played WoW; how did me picking up 15 cactus apples help the orcs in Durotar in their conflict against Kul Tiras?

The storytelling in GWII is really poor, but that has nothing to do with quests.
It has to do with the fact that ArenaNet strictly wants to voice act everything storybased, which is ridicolously limiting.
They are against walls of text, not story.

Yes, me and many others keep saying gw2 story telling is bad, not the story itself, hopefully the Devs know it and they doing something about it

cesmode.4257:

Ah I totally forgot about the personality system. Currently, it seems completely, 110% pointless in game. I wonder if theres something that can be done with that?

Chris, I already posted my top 3, and I am not sure this should be in the top 3…its already in the game, you need to just find a way to work it into progression or make it more meaningful.

A page from…cough, SWTOR… Their personality system(forgot what it was called already), the choices you make in your personal story were either Light(good) or Dark(bad). Your physical appearance in game changed. If you chose more dark things, you would become paler and paler, and eventually your eyes would become crazy looking. Also, NPCs reacted to you differently. If you were dark, they would be afraid of you, and give you what you want. If you were light, they adored you and praised you. You also had access to different types of armors depending which allegience, dark side or light side.

Food for thought.

STWOR personality system and personal story is probably the only brilliant thing that this game has and i would LOVE to see it in Gw2

there was a guy streaming in twitch about an hour ago, he was streaming for 7-8 hours, YES 7-8 and he was putting rares worth 10,000 gold in mystic toilet, he got 3 precursors only, he would probably get some more if he was forging exotics but no matter what buying precursors from tp is your best deal

Sirendor.1394:

Sytherek.7689:

Sirendor.1394:

Magnus Heartseeker.7958:

1. Legendary Armor SKINS and Legendary Dyes – Have a way to earn this and make it very difficult. Once you earn this and unlock it, it saves to your account in the same spot as your Zenith skins. As for dyes, make dyes account bound, not character bound.

With all due respect… legendaries are probably for <5% of the GW2 population, because of their insane cost. They are considered, by the majority, as a horrible grind and an item that shows not the professed skill of a player, but his grinding activities. I’m sure if the developers come up with legendary armour/legendary dyes… it will end up costing 2000 gold too. In that perspective… they would be a huge letdown, as the legendary weapons are.

Also, consider that there are people like me who have no interest in legendaries at all. The lack of interest is due to ubiquitous skins, boring acquisition, and no interest in bragging. I’ve talked to quite a few players who don’t care about legendaries. And I don’t see something silly (unicorn arrows?) as progression.

Also, legendaries progress to the same small number of limited points.

I want progression that makes my character stand out, rather than “progression” that makes me like everyone else.

Exactly. You express my thoughts better than I can

legendaries are probably the least entertaining feature of the game just because is ultra-grindy, ultra-expensive and ultra-time_consuming thats why many people dont bother with it, but still they look awesome and i would personally like to see this kind of progression and the way to aquire them will be nice to be similar to the Fractal backpiece.

Fellow player, i must disagree with you on the part that is about mindless playing in pvp. on the contrary people “using their brains” to find good builds and learn how to play them, which most of the times are DPS focused but thats because there is not any full support or healing or tank class in gw2 , also in tPvP coordination is required. Yes gw2 pvp needs more game modes for many reasons but the Devs said there are more coming soon.

My personal comment here is, i dont know what class you play but usually warriors and guardians can get a bit boring in PvP for many reasons, most interesting classes in my opinion are mesmer, thief, engineer and ele can be nice as well, i definitely suggest you to try them out if you havent.