Guild Wars 2

No.

Items such as these only promote gambling in every game whilst having an extremely low chance of success / dropping something valuable.

WvW / EOTM = join a group (also known as zerg), run for objectives with a commander (also known as karma trains) and after some time you’ll have enough tomes to level a character 0 – 80. Easiest option imo.

Really? Now you want them to have 25% passive movement speed?

Oh man……. ok, let’s simply make guards the ultimate super class and… or you know what, the only playable class in the game. Give them something from every class…. oh snap! that has already happened!

let me see… let’s give them perma-invulnerability…. noooooo, that has happened too!

I’m running out of ideas…

Why isn’t this implemented?

I like this idea.

+1

I get the whole idea of planning ahead, but think of those who have limited time to access the game for various reasons and in those cases it can prove very difficult to get a simple armour with celestial stats e.g. for weeks, maybe months, depending how often those folks can log.

Then there are a lot of people who don’t plan ahead because they treat the game like a game – they are busy to plan other things, not keeping excel sheets for mats – not everyone is willing to go there and be “hardcore” and they never will because they don’t want to be. I keep notes for groceries and important stuff, gaming is leisure. I don’t know what will I need in the near future, I don’t know whether I’ll decide to play an Elementalist e.g. and what armour it should be wearing, weapons, trinkets…; will I need another celestial armour in the future, since even meta changes, everything changes.

Do you get the point now? Nobody can tell the future.

In such scenarios ANet are counting on people to buy gems / convert to gold / buy mats / real money involved since they don’t have the time to grind. But even that is pointless in my example.

A gentle reminder, that a game should be fun, not a second job, which is often a problem with MMOs, everyone knows that, but GW2 was promoted from the beginning as a casual MMO, catering to those folks with limited time to game, remember?

Now, I’m not suggesting to add more stuff to the gem store and make the game P2W. I’m simply hinting to the fact, that there are things, simple crafting items that are time-gated and it doesn’t make any sense for them to be.

And the nonsense about “it would ruin the economy”… bull-sized grapes it would…

I don’t think I’ve ever met with this pattern in any other game where you have to wait to craft something just because there’s a timer. Then again I know I haven’t played that many MMOs, so maybe I’m wrong. Usually it was because one needed a specific amount of mats to proceed, which is the natural order of doing things.

It’s like they are giving us a choice – either this, or they put us to gather triple the amount of mats, which would be the same as in any other MMO turning this one into a mundane grind.

My point being, irc the game was supposed to be a unique casual MMO with as few grinding involved as possible, which is why many liked it for from the start. Then there was HoT… and everyone knows the story since then.

To conclude, it would be nice of them to reconsider what does make somewhat sense to be gated, but take into account the stuff (like this), that makes little to no sense.

“Unspecified security reasons my kitten ”.

Now the question is, since I believe there are many amongst them who bought gems, how does NC plan to proceed? Or just use the ban hammer and “thanks for all the fish”?

This unbelievably cancerous company called NCSoft and their impositions… ANet needs to separate from them, ASAP.

I’ve been meaning to propose this for a long time, particularly now that I’m about to craft my second celestial armour and to think that I again have to wait days/weeks to be able to convert quartz crystals into a charged crystal is an unnecessary drag.

Anybody feeling the same way? If I have the ingredients now, why should I wait to get my armour? What’s the point?

It’s just stretching the process unnecessarily.

Thus I vote to have this completely removed and be able to craft e.g. celestial the same way as any other = you have the ingredients, you craft now, not in days, weeks, a month.

atheria.2837:

How can it be that cheaters are still allowed to glitch into or use mechanics that are invisible four years into WvW? We’re still reporting them and they aren’t stopping anyone that we have experienced.

That’s because most, if not all of NC’s games, are plagued by bots, scripts, RMTs and cheats and they actually bring in more revenue because by paradox those who are responsible for the game’s demise are the ones to sustain it.

Welcome to the F2P model.

The parent company, NCSoft. What I would love to see is ANet and NC separating, ANet becoming an independent company.

Also, why are certain items in the gem store locked? If I e.g. wanted black wings why can’t I have them? Why do they have to be specific only to some seasons? Hawk wings are there, no problem, so what’s the big deal with black wings?

Even so there’s nothing unique there since anyone can have it.

So e.g. I got a Mursaat glider + backpack combo, but the problem is it cannot be applied any time on any toon, one has to have transmutation charges, which is silly. I would want it to be like with Zenith and other special skins from the large achievement chests, or like with outfits – applicable any time anywhere, on any character without any transmutation charges, since we already paid for them.

Norbe.7630:

heres my punch line then

the same. Today I received an infraction for not saying anything wrong, just saying that the game is in a messed up state. No vulgar words, nothing.

I would advise we take these discussions to reddit where they are even so read by a larger amount of people and where ANet can’t do a thing about it.

To think, yesterday I threw 20 EURO at the game and today they treat me like crap. That’s their “customer service”.

They “encourage” us to support the game yet we can’t even voice our opinions. Democracy at its finest.

The purpose of EOTM, other than farming karma, somehow eludes me. Everyone keeps complaining about this game mode, so why is it even there, why not remove it all together if everyone dislikes it, or idk.

Someone enlighten me.

I spent a great deal of time there since it’s more casual I guess except for when some elitists arrive trying to make a career there yelling at people when they do smth wrong and that’s when I politely remind them to keep it cool…

Back on topic, I don’t get what would you want to claim there. It’s a smaller map with fewer objectives. It would need an expansion. imo it’s pointless. It would mean creating more mess.

No. I would say fix WvW, focus on WvW so it’s more enjoyable. These polls and everything…… they’ve proven useless. I think what WvW needs is people who know what they are doing.

Who the hell still invests in a heavily bot-infested, over 10 years old, dead game with horribly outdated graphics like Lineage 2… and based on these earnings (overall) how come this game, this game that could have a future, is in this messed up state?!

For Christ sake…

A few things that come into mind atm. could resolve some issues:

- offering server transfers to entire guilds once in a while free of charge to prevent abuse
- but mainly, coding a proper algorithm to match people based on active (online) numbers
- eliminate the possibility to constantly hop from server to server, sort of you transfer now, you cannot for at least 3 months, or even more. sounds insane? sometimes you have to take drastic measures if you want to achieve something.

Thought so… I mean with all the gem rush it would be far too generous of them to try and even things out this way

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Inoki.6048:

Thanks for tracking what we say. #Privacy

Anyone who thinks that there’s privacy on the Internet is going to get a big surprise one day.

I was hoping the obvious sarcasm coming from that post is noticeable

I’ve heard from a couple of people in game that there used to be some sort of promotion from ANet where entire guilds were proposed to move to a lower populated server to even things out free of charge?

Is this true?

Thanks for tracking what we say. #Privacy

shagwell.1349:

“We moved for fights”. That’s why most guilds stacki in already full timezones. Biggest lie on gw2.
If you move for a fight your transfer target are heavily underpopulated servers, not tier 1 or tier 2"

^ * insert thank you gif here *

Jim Hunter.6821:

I respect the handful of solo roamers that are still trucking along in a dying game.
I fear the next idiotic move anet decides to implement.

^that is the right answer.

No such thing. With the new linking system and bandwagoning many lost the respect they had, especially once respected commanders who jumped ship the moment they were outnumbered.

#losers

This could go on the whole day, just as fights with some of these ppl that last at least half an hour with all that condi “removal”.

I recall this case from 2 days ago in EOTM – fought a warrior again that hardly did weapon swap, mostly went GS, didn’t use signets at all and I watched his bar – among the hero banners and power foods there wasn’t resistance popping yet condis totally ineffective, so what would you make of that… his health constantly full. Am tired of this kitten.

While some believe only their own versions of things I believe everything can be bypassed.

Lately I learned to simply withdraw from these kinds of “fights” because it’s not interesting or fun to fight someone for half an hour, round after round the same – you drop condis, he cleanses, “fight” goes on…

Jim Hunter.6821:

I honestly can’t tell if you two are trolling or not.

In case you’re not here’s a little reading for you.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resistance

Irrelevant post, because this is not about Resistance. Everyone knows about it. I’m talking about the opponents I faced did NOT have resistance on them. You can’t miss the green glow when all you do is stare at your opponent watching their every move in combat, so you should read before you troll. I even specifically mentioned I’m aware of Warrior Stances (one of which gives resistance for about 10s).

What saerni mentioned about extreme minus condi durations, from what I quickly researched via builds, runes with food can give you up to -45% condi duration, not more afaik. Guys I’m talking about – you hit them with scepter / staff, condi ticks, it’s gone, ticks again, gone, you hit them with everything you got, all removed instantly – no stances used and you too use runes / food to prolong condi duration, damage etc., so this is really sort of suspicious, when no matter what you do nothing works. Your build becomes obsolete the moment you realize the power you wield has no effect. Dropping at least 3 offensive condis on your opponent with more than 2.2k condi power should at least scratch them imo. (I am talking about some of the deadliest conditions – Torment, Confusion – heck, these two are overkill yet to a warrior they seem like a pillow fight). Well it does not. You deal 0 dmg so while some complain how strong condis are, either they became terribly easy to remove or there’s a new “method” out there.

saerni.2584:

It’s hard to tell because some classes, if you build for it, can be completely immune to conditions.

It is always possible someone figured out how to hack the system…but I’d start with the assumption that they built themselves to counter conditions. Was this 1v1?

most of the times yer, 1v1. But with every single hit in that very instance the condi is gone? Hard to believe. I know they have stances but this was instant removal, every single time, the condi didn’t even tick once properly. they were bulletproof.

Correct me if I’m wrong, I know some classes have good condi cleanse, but some people are just IMMUNE to condi. Literally every cast you make is cleansed instantly on each tick. Now, I don’t know whether I’m doing something wrong, or if a third party tool is involved, but sometimes I think running condi is completely futile.

I ran into several such folks in WvW with my Mesmer and literally every hit (torment, confusion) was cleansed instantly on warrior classes mostly. These folks didn’t lose health at all with my condi values above 2.2k.

Can someone explain? Or there is nothing to explain and they are probably using something.

Note: what I’m talking about is landing a condition and watching it immediately go away. With every hit.

Deso since the beginning. Can’t say the same about many of our “comms” who abandoned us whenever we were outnumbered because they didn’t like losing. They know who I’m talking about.

This is in many ways turning into this https://youtu.be/kvNSZ1majvg?t=309

For those who don’t know Lineage 2 is a title from the company that owns ArenaNet, NCSoft. Their strategies and the way they employ the F2P model have caused this.

Very disappointed to see this happening in GW2, but frankly, expected.

I was even willing to throw a few more bucks at the game but when I see this happening here…. I doubt it. Not gonna invest into a bot infested game.

They really need to revisit & harden their security more often.

I’ve seen many agree on the fact that this might be the most useless feature in the entire game. The kit has nowhere near the potential to heal groups as other classes can and is just a waste of traits and slots in the skill bar.

As an idea it sounds relevant and fits the engi, but the execution is a fail.

“Trust me I’m an Engineer!” – they say

While most may have changed to Scrapper, I’m proudly a condi Engi with PP and I deliver massive blows. Engi continues to be the most entertaining, all-round class in the game with new-old ways to make every battle interesting, diverse and fun!

LoL NooBs.5076:

Finally! +1 for this thread.
Guilds dead. Builds dead. What is there to do in this game? Glide? Chat? Wow. Such features.

buy skins that’s what I would call it Fashion Wars.

On one hand populating the gem store to generate income since there is no subscription sounds fair, but the game itself needs to be a priority over the gem store with frequent and accurate balancing.

Nice input Edgar, only I was thinking of smth like a gun-like kit, similar to the Elixir gun, but this would be some sort of frost beam or laser – or ray of frost if you will – and other of its skills could be inspired by those of the flamethrower, only different, like freeze the ground, or shoot a giant, concentrated frost ball that would explode and shoot frozen shrapnels that could bleed targets around, create an impassable wall of frost, or trap a target inside of a small Iglu (?) (not sure how Eskimo’s houses are called )…

Speaking of explosions, we already have the mortar, that shoots a chilling shell, but I consider it somewhat lacking.

Off-topic: I main condi-Engi and fighting against multiple DH/Guards with constant block/reflect/cleanse is a pain. They are beatable, but it’s often a never-ending story. It’s like the rest got a fraction of everything and one class is an AIO.

With the addition of the latest chapter it hit me while playing – why not give the engi some sort of chill gun kit or something. Doesn’t have to do damage at all, or if, then some DOT would be nice, like DOT Bleed, or actually Burn, but what’s more important would be the fact that one could freeze solid their opponent for a few seconds. Sounds tactical, given what some other classes have.

Off-topic: Seems to me someone at ANet favours guards far too much describing them as well-balanced, while I dare to disagree. (remembers block, block… block? heal, cleanse, block, block… knock knock anyone?)

jonemirant.1653:

dont forget destroying gyro can’t stun anymore, meanwhile a full trap-guard still has 5 interrupts to chainlock you to death.

+10, for optimism.

Meanwhile, take the amount of constructive criticism and suggestions they have received over the years and how much of that has actually been translated into real game mechanics.

I have to say green was a bad idea. It easily blends into the background on maps. It happened to me on several occasions that I overlooked it, especially on a fully zoomed out map. E.g. a commander playing for the green faction on a green spot with a green tag. How easy can you overlook them? Very.

Try playing with those colours a bit and see how they fit on the map before implementing them for god sake. You have designers, are they colour blind?

Jayne.9251:

Inoki.6048:

Kaldo.7960:

To be fair, Deso is the last server who needs to complain, being linked 2 out of 3 times and facing now what they did to other server for 4 months straight.

I know nothing of that, I mentioned Deso as an example because I play there, but I know we’re not the only ones.

Generally this is not fair towards any server and linking should be done properly.

Sure you do. We just talked about in your other thread.

Nobody ever authorised you to speak on other’s behalf. Who are you to judge what they are or are not aware of.

When I say I am not aware of that I am not. Just because I mention Deso and play Deso I have to be aware of everything that happens / has happened in the past on Deso, right?

I have a life, I don’t keep track of every foot that ever stepped into the arena, or how one server was underpopulated in the past. If it happened, bad for them, they should have spoken up. It’s exactly as stated in my signature – the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for people to do nothing when they obviously see something is not right.

Jayne.9251:

You just had five straight months of pairing and being the bigger blob server.

If you feel it’s unfair, why weren’t you here complaining when you had the advantage?

I mentioned Deso because I play there. If others didn’t mention the same in the past when they were disadvantaged is not my problem. They should have spoken up. Now they just blame others for doing what they should have done.

I know we are not the only ones who’re left solo. I am speaking up because I believe this is not right.

The current mechanic resembles favouring one child over the other: “Deso was mean to you for 5 months, now you get to be mean to them”.

Server pairing should be done exactly as mentioned by Deniara.

Kaldo.7960:

To be fair, Deso is the last server who needs to complain, being linked 2 out of 3 times and facing now what they did to other server for 4 months straight.

I know nothing of that, I mentioned Deso as an example because I play there, but I know we’re not the only ones.

Generally this is not fair towards any server and linking should be done properly.

ANet you screwed up big time with this messy linking. On Deso we hardly ever have people on for weeks now. All I see – and I log in daily – is the outnumbered icon with 5 – 8 ppl on average facing zergs of 50+.

Jayne.9251:

Deso was paired almost every match except the most recent, and you never saw anyone from Deso on the forums complaining.

That’s not complaining, that’s stating a fact. Or would you prefer if people just keep their mouth shut, leave it be and don’t enjoy the game at all. To some it matters, I’m one of those people. If nobody brought that up before, not really my issue, but not being able to enjoy an aspect of the game for more than a month is not something anybody paid for.

Having gone through the thread of the world linking this was no mere coincidence or a bug, but they intentionally screwed certain servers up. So now it should be OK for us to be constantly outnumbered for however long.

If they wanted to bring more people into WvW this was the worst way they could have thought of, because people are more disconnecting than connecting from what I observed, disgruntled from being outnumbered.

For the past month or so, maybe more, those playing on Desolation e.g. have seen the [Outnumbered] icon pop up far too frequently for their taste. When you look at how other servers are usually paired by at least two, while Deso’s always heavily outnumbered. On average we have around 5 – 8 ppl against zergs of 30 – 50+ ppl in EOTM, but BL and EB we’re also often outnumbered. The weeks before that it was 3 + 2 against 1.

Something should be done else that game mode is not worth playing for an entire server. Just came out of a group of just 3 ppl against 30. Insane.

If ANet haven’t noticed, thought they should know.

The only question that comes to mind is what about those who managed to get a decent (very) rare drop or accumulate significant amounts of gold in that time.

Everything else: not like you don’t PVP or WvW every single day, so any progress lost is not really progress lost. Same applies everywhere. Get over it.

Offair.2563:

Yea it is a joke and yea it is a kittenty build to kill but cmon that’s not the point. The point is ….. being INVISIBLE THE ENTIRE FIGHT WHILE DISHING OUT DAMAGE.

No class/build should ever be allowed to do that.

Sorry to break it to you man, but both you and OP seem to be overfrustrated.

1) thief is supposed to be deadly. It’s an assassin. I died many times to them, yer, but what I’m more concerned about is their teleport, not their condi/fast kills.
2) OP, sorry to say but you don’t know how to counter a thief. I play one, I play against all sorts of characters, even condi thieves, I simply know what to do to survive and you obviously do not.

Both of you and everyone else complaining about something that is in absolute order – learn from your mistakes. It is very possible to survive a thief that drops condis on you. An Engi can do it with area reveal. A ranger has Sick’Em. Ele’s, Guards and others have condi cleanse.

What is your problem again?

Today I was in Lion’s Arch when people from the GW2 community again advertised they are going to raid the wurm. Problem is it’s not clear how to join their map instance and use the IP and stuff because they didn’t make it clear as to how this all goes down.

First it was said we all have to port to a specific waypoint at the same time, then something with the IP and I got lost there…

Can someone PROPERLY explain the whole process for those who want to attend?

What I think could be done is to reduce the recovery and elusive (spam block/invul) abilities of all classes to make healing classes more viable since they have been introduced to the game, e.g. Druid’s staff heal (1st ability) could heal a lot more than just 160 points on average with a full classic Cleric build and healing above 1.4k. 160 – 200 points per hit won’t save anyone from dying.

The same with the Engineers Med Kit. That’s obviously a joke, right, and I haven’t seen anyone in the game ever use it.

I don’t see the point of playing a healing build since most classes can very easily sustain themselves. Some literally, like others already described, from 0 – full health in seconds, seen this mostly on Revenants and Elementalists – ridiculously strong heals.

Druids should be able to target allies with their healing abilities, not just enemies so allies get healed in the crossfire. Their targeted heals are absurd since most people move like crazed monkeys during a fight. Healing abilities should be auto-target, not manual ground-targeted.

It is evident, that some classes have greater advantages compared to others mainly after HoT was introduced, but even before and to mention every single example of imbalance is redundant since smart people figure out things for themselves.

It’s true that the imbalance is very strong. Speaking of Druids/Rangers, Guards and Warriors for instance make better archers than Rangers ever have even on lower range. When I compare their abilities with those of the Ranger the Ranger is deplorable.

Ranger and Thief classes should be equally lethal with the difference of one specialising on distance and one on melee range. Every game I played archers, mages and thieves were always amongst the most respected. Here you see a Ranger and think “oh what an easy PK point”. They’re laughable even with Lead the Wind enabled because their arrows can easily be eluded.

Their damage and the damage of their pets is ridiculously low compared to what it could be (a full zerk glass build hits for up to 3k per hit tops/average, but mostly around 2k depending on armour of the opponent and they have no access to any lethal strikes of any kind, like being able to hit the opponent into a vital spot to take out at least half of their HP instantly ignoring defence completely) but some would argue that their damage has been nerfed due to the fact that they employ pets in combat, but those pets and their AI are a fail; they can’t even be sent to engage targets on longer distances so the Ranger remains far, which is his primary defence and the further they are the more damage they deal, not to mention one doesn’t even have full control over the pet to stow it when needed and the CD on pet switching… just ridiculous.

I have very mixed feelings about a lot of aspects and mechanics of this game. Too much to mention, hence I picked the Ranger that I played but found pointless to play.

All of what you suggested is obsolete and would make the thief even more powerful than it already is!

Before you suggest anything take a step back and try to see everything from the bigger picture and employ a little bit of thinking.

The staff was never meant (nor is it in real life) to be a weapon for fast kill. In most cases knocking out your opponent involves a series of moves. It is not a sharp weapon, and usually it’s larger than a knife, thus not so agile (sacrificing manoeuvrability) as with a knife which is small, light and very sharp – this is all common sense! You don’t get to do things with a staff the same way you do with a knife. That is why you have different martial arts that involve handling of different weapon types, because you don’t handle a knife the same way you handle a staff, blunt, or sword.

Passive stealth? Are you completely out of your mind? Don’t you have enough stealth already? You seem to me like another one of those who just 1) don’t know when to have enough, 2) don’t know how to play the class.

Lastly, Thief is definitely NOT one of those classes that need manoeuvrability improved. They are very agile, move the fastest of all, move in the shadows, they are perfect in this regard. If you fail it’s your own doing, not the character’s. Learn to play it and you won’t be seen complaining on the forums.

A reasonable player would actually suggest nerfing to the thief because they would see it’s already far too strong. A strong player wants challenge, not more power than they already have. It’s achieving more with less.

@OP: stop crying. Thieves are overpowered as they are. A good thief can counter any situation and kill in almost one hit. Not to mention they are constantly invisible and teleport better than mages.

If you want more vitality then I want their blink/shadow step completely removed and stealth greatly nerfed.

The low vitality and relatively fragile nature are signs that you need to learn manoeuvrability to be very fluid on the battlefield. If you want something more resilient go with a Warrior or a Guardian like most people here. Those classes, especially the guard, are far too strong.

Complaining like you do only signals one thing – you don’t know how to play the thief.

Some classes use more profession skills (Engi e.g.) and some less (Thief, Necro). Some may like to use different key bindings for each character they play.

The suggestion would be to implement a feature that would allow key bindings to be saved and loaded depending on which character is being played in form of a simple drop down menu in settings, or directly saved with a character.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Are you kidding, those are sweet!