Guild Wars 2

in base gw2, i never really thought of a feature and said to myself, ‘well i guess i can’t do that’. it was all basically do able with small parties and guilds. nowish, i keep saying that, and its quite sad

pvp – soloq been gone ages, but the leagues reinforce the need to party to succeed, quite sad

pve:
- raids, not really solo n small party/guild friendly
- general roaming, u need to be careful solo, u can’t just play and enjoy the scenery etc
- map events, completing the metas req u to bounce in the lfg tool until u find a server actually working on the meta

misc:
- guild halls, attainable but upgrades are beyond the extremes. pretty clear large guilds were 1st in anet’s mind during design, small ones were an after thought

the way wvw has been, i can jump into it and have a decent time w/ my couple of friends/guildmates. either we find the zerg and roll around or break off and try to find small fights

so pls don’t make another core part of gw2 focused solely on the large guilds… i kno they need stuff to do as a team, but just don’t write off the lil guys n gals that are just trying to have fun in the game they really enjoy

philheat.3956:

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It would be really great and super fun.

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this is where u lost anet. they haven’t been considering fun in their pvp plans for quite some time.

good ideas tho

add evades to f2, proc f3 insta

Beryl.1493:

The greatsword skills, the ability to hit multiple enemies at melee range (I thought this was unique to Guardian at the time) and buffing allies with boons reminded me of the GW1 Dervish with all the different scythe skills, enchantments like Heart of Fury and some warrior shouts (Soldier’s Stance with Fear Me).

And Dervish is my favourite GW1 profession.

derv ftw!

its funny to read all these threads about how unfair the achieve for winters presence is, and then all the threads about why HoT being difficult for solo/ made for large guilds is fair and people should earn their rewards…

ZackCC.3965:

Jaxom.7310:

you might have to buy some. but its day 2 of the event. many people will see the drinks, not care for the achieve, sell the drinks

as many people do this, the supply of drinks will go up, the price of dem will go down, and then you will be able to easily buy the amount you are missing.

n other werds, keep playing, you’ll prob get there sooner than u think, as long as u didn’t think it was going to be yesterday

To some of us even buying them is impossible. I simply dont have the gold required to do that. I would be willing to work on the shoulders just as everyone else. I don’t care if it takes me more time than your average players but I’m still willing to do it.

What bothers me is that it might be time gated. I can only work on the shoulders RIGHT NOW which is impossible, because you know, holidays.

The amount required isn’t the problem. I’m fine with that.

truth, but since its an achieve, i think u can likely continue to work for it even after the event. the loot wont be dropping anymore, but chances are there will remain enough in the tp that you can game and make monies and buy up wat u didn’t earn during the season

so as long as u unlock the achieve, and do all the time limited achieves (jp, sno fight, etc) and all u have left to do is drank up, then u should be ok to complete it later on too

unless they literally lock out the achieve after the winter event ends, in which case, i’ll agree that its annoying to an extent. but i still think do able durin the holiday. the event will last and i think prices will come down

Starfall.6425:

That is what I’m hoping for but certain answers still would be usefull, no matter what you intend to do with Wintersday.

Still a new “holiday-skin”, that emphasise the season of gifts and christmasspirit, leaves a bit of a sour taste in ones mouth if you have to go “well.. let’s see how much is possible in all the time I can spare during holidays and after that… TP to the rescue!”

you spend time to get it, time is monies. or you don’t have the time to get it, so you just spend the monies. or you mix n match so that u can get it.

i think you’ll be fine

you might have to buy some. but its day 2 of the event. many people will see the drinks, not care for the achieve, sell the drinks

as many people do this, the supply of drinks will go up, the price of dem will go down, and then you will be able to easily buy the amount you are missing.

n other werds, keep playing, you’ll prob get there sooner than u think, as long as u didn’t think it was going to be yesterday

it just takes practice and timing. sometimes if u get into a slump it’ll seem impossible.

take a break and return. its lik riding a bike, once you’ve broken tha seal, it’s easy riding from then on

they prob just didn’t remove it from the wintersday version of hotm. i wouldn’t git too excited…

Mobile Kirche.8095:

Finished the JP twice. No reward, no chest – nothing.
Still 0/3….
Wow…

there is a chest at the end of it where all dem kids and ginger bread man are jumping.

open it

old

Malediktus.9250:

So essentially people will still be able to keep several teams in the top 25.

nah, i mean who has time to play at least 1 game every week? much less 1 game for like 5 teams every week, dats lik… at least 5 games…

git a life amirite?

yeah, then you are going to get dinged still for the loss from what i understand.

if he’d just been a soloq’r attached to your team, then i think you don’t get penalized.

i think thats how it works, and i think its intended

TallBarr.2184:

Jaxom.7310:

was he in your party or just a rando guy on your team

they are all randoms, ive played with some of the other guys and this guy was some “friends friend” holy kitten

right, but was it a party? did you create a premade? was it a party mate you queued w/?

was he in your party or just a rando guy on your team

thisisit.6954:

They wont run out as theres a constant flow of them into the game from the login rewards. It will balance out with people paying to make the skin/people waiting to collect their own coins and people willing to sell their login reward to make some gold.

i agree, when we get down to the last 5k, we can get nervous. til then, i think it’s balanced ok

luck, prob, but maybe u also play during good peak times so u usu have a good pool of people to play w/ an against

Sorenstam Blackrose.8425:

Jaxom.7310:

can’t be a fail. colin sayd over 400k unique viewers last time which = a win. anet might just be the charlie sheen of mmos. u wonder what they are doing? winning

I know you’re pulling people’s leg, but throwing it out there that unique views is a horrible metric.

am i tho? is it horrible or is it return on investment?

https://np.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3v0x29/how_do_anet_expect_us_to_take_pvp_seriously_when/

the quote u are looking for is here:

ArenaColin 70 points 13 days ago

Yeah I agree that really should have been more clear, I think we felt it was and clear that HoT was setting up the first season and obviously it was not.

In regards to balance – balance is NOT driven by our PvP Pro League, the pro league is a marketing effort that has almost zero impact on our dev team. Drawing parallels between the two is at best disingenuous.

As for viewers when it comes to the marketing side since you commented on it…pro league week one had over 400,000 unique viewers (non view bots) watch for a reasonable amount of time. That’s beyond awesome and a huge return on the investment. Are we LoL? Hell no we’re not. But PvP has been steadily growing for the last 2 years and it keeps growing faster and faster. Rather than knock it- let’s all get behind it and root for it. PvP was DoA when Gw2 first shipped, it’s amazing to watch what it has grown and turned into, how freaking cool is that?

And while we’re at it, get behind rooting for WvW and PvE to grow as well; we’re all in this together, it’s silly to knock things that are working. We have plenty of other stuff that we can make better to focus our energy on trying to improve

Daharahj.1325:

I’ll quote myself on this one.

I mean, we tried. Both reddit and forums are packed with constructive criticism and legitimate complaints, ANet hasn’t replied to a single one. There’s nothing else to do but sit back and watch their esports dream fail.

can’t be a fail. colin sayd over 400k unique viewers last time which = a win. anet might just be the charlie sheen of mmos. u wonder what they are doing? winning

i think DH don’t have much condition removal, so they are weak vs conditions

u were killing a rev. he was slowing u. it is quite annoying

Random Weird Guy.3528:

You know what would be fun? ….

u lost anet right about here

cause i like dps and healz myself.

i do not like to protect and support others.

its even moar the class i wanted than when i started

Ragmon.6350:

That mode was called Random Arena and Team Arena back in GW1. If you don’t know the details, its 5v5 TDM, Last-man-standing. It was the best dang PvP experience of all time for me.
Now we just have Capture The Point and for some odd reason people get points for killing the enemy.

dem was the days! hour after hour i could spend and have fun in RA. the beauty was the short intense battles. and since no mmr, queue was super short < 30secs when i played back then. and since it was tdm, even if u had a terrible team, u were wiped in < 2 mins and could move on and start a new match

Morwath.9817:

Ragnarox.9601:

…are currently 3 classes that perform 30% better than any other:

Meta DH
Meta REAPER
Herald (condi, normal)

so if you have 2 or more in your team win is guaranteed.
Haven’t seen balance this bad in 10 years of my MMO gaming life and “balance” is coming in 1 1/2 month.

I know they are selling unfinished grindfest but with this attitude you lose more than you gain, bad word travel fast. And guess what, PVP in this game is not bad its awful in its current state.

Wasn’t you the guy saying all the time “DH is fine”?

there is a ragnar the rock, may or maynot be the same person. i lik to think that it is and he just argues w/ himself

Laserbolt.6731:

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There are still lots of happy PvE people. They will buy the next expansion for PvE.

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theres lots of unhappy pve people since hot too. check out general and hot forums.

the entirety of the xpac moved away from solo play to teams

Collero.7963:

I can wait 10 minutes but even that is too long although after what I have endured today, I am grateful for even 15 minute waits. I just can’t take these 20-40+ minute waits everytime.

It needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, like in the next few days because I literally can’t play due to it and I know a couple of people who are also having long queues, not insane like mine though.

u should just go to the new zones and farm while in queue… er wait..

u should just go to a hotjoin match and farm while in queue… wait wait…

u should just find some of ur friend/randoms and duel for fun while in queue… wait wait wait…

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Since launch, GW2 prided itself as having one of the best, if not the best community of any MMO and rightly so. Always friendly, helpful and more than willing to assist those in need, at least this has been my experience and i’ve always done the same. I’ve lost count how many times i’ve died trying to help others.

But HoT has changed all that.

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It’s a real shame and I truly hope you will make map completion in HoT a viable thing not just for now, but future players as well.

this is the portion i read. i will +1 it. hopefully u didnt’ say something crazy in the rest of that stuff

Evan Lesh.3295:

This isn’t your MMR, but your ladder position. We could let matchmaking expand the ladder position cutoff, but then we’d have a lot of players complaining that they keep getting matched with people outside their division. We’d have to let this happen pretty slowly still.

How long would you be willing to wait before going significantly outside your division for matchmaking?

i say make ‘em wait 15 -20 mins. he’s gotten up high enough fast enough that he’s going to need to wait for a match.

in theory, eventually, once enough people have played enough to be in the higher divisions he’ll have a bigger pool of people to play w/. but if hes up in a high div after less than a week, he’s just going to need to wait

Pimsley.3681:

Guys – this is what anet should have done while still keeping their best interests (esports, they have such a huge fetish for esports) in mind:

Before promoting the $400K prize pool, they should have invested towards recruiting the best talent they could find. I know they lost 3 pvp developers this year alone.

Hire the best, pvp developers to flush out most of the disliked aspects of the mode. An experienced PvP developer will have the track record to know what users generally like and then apply those metrics towards this game. No need to redesign from the ground-up. The combat mechanics are already good.

If their goal was to create a game mode so amazing, so fun, so enjoyable and If they listened to some of the suggestions we gave them – the community itself, will organically spread how amazing the game is.

But they made the mistake of throwing more money in the prize pool thinking they would attract professional gamers to the scene. They need to remember that creating a superior, well-made product will yield a greater return on their investment as opposed to just throwing money away, baiting people to play an unplayable game.

^ dis guy gits it

lighter.2708:

In china server, they ban who ever create multiple teams to farm pips.

in soviet russia, you ban anet

right after the games release oct 21, 2012
https://web.archive.org/web/20121021235408/https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2

just before living world season 1 jan 17, 2013
https://web.archive.org/web/20130117160738/https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2

just after living world season 2 started jul 2, 2014
https://web.archive.org/web/20140702023829/https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2

just before hot release sept 6 2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013316/https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2

is there a trend of incr negativity? maybe not. is this relevant? prob not. but it crossed my mind to see how the forums looked around releases of gw2 and so i thought i’d share the links, i think i got the best dates for the events i was looking for

Cuchulainn.7421:

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A video game should never frustrate people.

so a video game is supposed to be fun? i think thats the #1 thing anet needs to think about.

make the game fun → and more people will come to play → esports be more of a thing here

instead they keep trying to force it. anet forgot about the fun part

^ he’s basically right and my take on why they won’t bring it back:

if anet splits queue, so # of people for teams to face drops off
?teams have to wait longer to play
?teams stop playing as teams because they so bored

^ thats the fear, the reality:

anet merged queue, so # of people for teams to face jumps up
?teams have shorter to wait to play
?teams roll over soloq’rs (or at least is perceived as such)
?soloq’rs leave spvp/leave queuing/leave gw2
?total pop falls
?queue times begin to rise again
?back where we started, except the overall pop is down

so wat do they do? the moment they split it back up, queue times for teams def jumps up as all those soloq’rs go back to soloq’ing.

wat anet isn’t considering is that when people are having fun, they will continue to play and can try to bring their friends over/spread the word of fun/grow more.

the current strat is to force people to play X way, try to entice w/ $$$ in tourneys to get the pop up, all the while neglecting the #1 important aspect of gaming… having fun

Espire.9723:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xg5D2gJAsU

Yep, it’s gone.

aaaaaand… its gone.

u needed to carrie those kittens to the lake in a boat and do wat u do

i made a thread about this back when the bliz made the announcement. my thread was quickly shut down

Vieux P.1238:

Halt ppl.. There is no esport in Gw2.. This all but a dream. But….. Anet throwing 200k in the mystic toilet is real tho. gulp!

it won’t be in the mystic toilet, it’ll be in the pockets of the same kids who they’ve given money to in the past, altho not nearly as much as they giving this time

did anyone complain w/ how guild halls were done in gw1, big vs small?

i lik guards weapons atm, not a big fan of scept an ham tho

dare to dream, dare to dream

Josh.3590:

So I’m sure someone has already posted this somewhere, I just haven’t found it… I’m pretty new to the game but have been PvPing most of the time I’ve played, was just wondering if there was ever going to be an arena implemented into the game? A 2v2 or 3v3 map type. Whichever team kills the other first wins… Kinda self explanatory… Also, should be a rating system as well sort like WoW has theirs. DISCLAIMER, I DO NOT PLAY WOW NOR HAVE I EVER. Just seen streams, so in before the rage of people telling me to go back to a game I’ve never played haha.

the answer is basically no. the topic is brought up by a number of people every once n a while, but its been ~3 years and its not been added yet.

there are some imperfect work arounds like wat the other guy mentioned but it is quite sad

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jaxom.7310:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jaxom.7310:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jaxom.7310:

it shouldn’t charge u for choosing the highest buy offer. technically u aren’t listing it for sell, u are directly selling it, it never gets listed. so remove that 5% for not listing but for selling direct

That would steadily drive prices down if people who are willing to price higher and wait get penalized while those who sell at the current lowest price get a better deal.

tru up to a pt where that 5% is balanced out by the diff between highest buyer and lowest seller. but it would reward people to paid the attention +time to fig the best deal.

also it’d make more people willing to sell to the buy offer, rite neow i almost never do cause its usu not worth it, but if i git to save a lil monies, i mite

5% versus 15% difference? That extra 10% over time adds up to quite a bite. Every item sold at a higher price would need to be priced to account for that extra 10% charge that the “sell to lowest price” wouldn’t have to pay. Most people would be unwilling to take that extra 10% loss or to spend time figuring it out, and would sell at lowest, driving the prices down. Good for buyers. Bad for sellers.

i agree. and i’d be ok w/ that. the whole tp setup is already seller biased. in <10 secs u can see what the lowest price is and just drop yours by a copper and now u are in front of the sell line.

Let’s say you’re selling a lot of different items. That’s 10 seconds. And then 10 seconds and then 10 seconds and then 10 seconds…..

It all adds up, all that extra time to figure out how much extra to list it for just to break even. Most people aren’t going to take that extra time to calculate that extra cost then list it for that extra amount plus more to make a profit. No. Most will sell to the lowest price and as each person does that the prices inexorably drop.

right, i agree almost completely. only diff is i think its a good thang, u think its a baddie, so is wat it is

Kal Spiro.9745:

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It’s disappointing, but hardly game breaking, nor uncommon in MMOs.

maybe not in mmos, but gw2 wasn’t suppose to be same as all other mmos…

Sthenith.5196:

I’ll spend cash on the new “Instakill”. It’s a bow. 1-shots Raidbosses. Available only when easter and chrismas fall on the same day. Which should be soon. I hope.

Or a Vegeta mini that shouts “its over 9000!” everytime i kill something.

u give me a mini that shouts that when i crit for over 9000, and this game just became #1 again

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jaxom.7310:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jaxom.7310:

it shouldn’t charge u for choosing the highest buy offer. technically u aren’t listing it for sell, u are directly selling it, it never gets listed. so remove that 5% for not listing but for selling direct

That would steadily drive prices down if people who are willing to price higher and wait get penalized while those who sell at the current lowest price get a better deal.

tru up to a pt where that 5% is balanced out by the diff between highest buyer and lowest seller. but it would reward people to paid the attention +time to fig the best deal.

also it’d make more people willing to sell to the buy offer, rite neow i almost never do cause its usu not worth it, but if i git to save a lil monies, i mite

5% versus 15% difference? That extra 10% over time adds up to quite a bite. Every item sold at a higher price would need to be priced to account for that extra 10% charge that the “sell to lowest price” wouldn’t have to pay. Most people would be unwilling to take that extra 10% loss or to spend time figuring it out, and would sell at lowest, driving the prices down. Good for buyers. Bad for sellers.

i agree. and i’d be ok w/ that. the whole tp setup is already seller biased. in <10 secs u can see what the lowest price is and just drop yours by a copper and now u are in front of the sell line.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jaxom.7310:

it shouldn’t charge u for choosing the highest buy offer. technically u aren’t listing it for sell, u are directly selling it, it never gets listed. so remove that 5% for not listing but for selling direct

That would steadily drive prices down if people who are willing to price higher and wait get penalized while those who sell at the current lowest price get a better deal.

tru up to a pt where that 5% is balanced out by the diff between highest buyer and lowest seller. but it would reward people to paid the attention +time to fig the best deal.

also it’d make more people willing to sell to the buy offer, rite neow i almost never do cause its usu not worth it, but if i git to save a lil monies, i mite

it shouldn’t charge u for choosing the highest buy offer. technically u aren’t listing it for sell, u are directly selling it, it never gets listed. so remove that 5% for not listing but for selling direct

Kharr.5746:

It doesn’t take long to get the dragon finisher anymore. You can do it in 1-2 weeks of playing, if not less. It is not an indication of skill. Most of the skilled players don’t even use it because of this (they prefer to troll with Llama, Cow, Bunny, etc).

thats a serious 1-2 weeks of playing