Guild Wars 2

1) i think its needed tbh. or perching would be a nightmare and it weould give unfair advantages to those defending keeps in wvwvw

2) i agree the ledge, its pretty annoying.. i know iots there to prevent grabbing and such but it really prevents u from shooting enemys unless you have an arcing attack..

oh you mean the JP... yeah theres a barn roof somewhere with a vista on top and i remember being there and trying over and over and over for the pixel perfect jump, ill do my best to try to remember it..

Narcemus.1348:

Yeah, I honestly don’t think the Jumping puzzles should be shortened in any way, I would hate to see all the hard work you guys have put in go to waste, and similarly I think they are a good level of challenge the way they are. My thought is that perhaps the Vista’s should just be moved somehow, perhaps a little further down in the puzzle, or perhaps their own mini-puzzle. But I definitely have friends that would give you a million thanks if you made this change. At this point in time those are the only 3 I can think of. I’m wracking my brain to think of the one that Jezath is mentioning, but I can’t come up with it at the moment.

Its a personal opinion really bud.. I feel that size doesent really affect the Jump puzzles being a max size norn. i agree the cameras still goes a bit weird sometimes but.. well… I think its just easy to blame size when youi fail because you need to learn the timing a bit better. Thats not to say though that im painting everyone with the same brush. for some im sure its the size that made them fall but i think for others itsd an easy excuse to fall back on thats all

I have real empathy for those poeple that have disabilitys like myself being arthritic and colourblind i have trouble sometimes.

The first time I stumbled upon fawcetts bounty! Oh my gosh! It was while I was levelling and i was the correct level maybe even a little low for the place.. I really could not beleive my eyes!! So I got past the crumbling floor and thought wow sooo cool.. But When I saw that ship! O gosh it was a blast straight from the past straight out of the goonies!! I spent the rest of the time inside looking for the piano lol!

I have had molten lodestones and other kinds of lodestones in fractals. This is awesome but they mostly drop in the maw instance. the loot tables for mobs in that instamce is impressive. Not really had alot drop in other places.. use MF gear to increase your chances.

I personally would get your grandmaster tome at level 80 when you have the sufficient gold for them... getting them early isent really needed bud. Sp u can get unlimited amount so u eventually will learn all those skills in your tiers... but my advice is get it when you need it not before.

I had a thought i would appreciate some feedback on.

What if there were some loot drop and/or gem store purchasable. "Big Game Lures."

These "Big Game Lures" could be in the form of a smelly peace of meat that could possibly be placed/thrown on the ground. Or in the form of a spray bottle to spray yourself or someone else (nasty suprise lol).

The effect would be to attract (aggro increasing basically) the kind of mob that the lure is specialised for. So for instance, the Kodan "Big Game Lure Spray" would attract kodans to yourself more than say another player whether in group or not.. Not totally 100% atttract because obviusly if sopmeone is caving its head in its not gonna be as interested in that female kodan phermone you just put on yuourself, as he would be in getting the guy trying to kill him. If you had that and were caving its head in though... Well thats a different story isent it

These would be pretty darn rare... kinda like the drop rate for ascended rings or exotic loot at the current time.

The big game lure meat that you throw onto the ground would have another effect.. For instance you could use that as a means of escape when the brown pudding hits the fan! but it wouldent last as long as the spray, once eaten its gone right?

What you think about this guys? Do you think its a great idea, creating new tactical solutions to current encounters?Or do you think its not a great idea?

Please give valid feedback thanks

These are awesome!!! Keep them comin troopers the WWWWWWWWWWW RUN one is just epic ive had that so many times lol

I wish you wold get a buff from being charitable to beggars like in another (SP)game i know

Lol achensherd! MORE GHOSTS!!! OH SSSHHH/cough. ruuun away! as king arthur of the britains says! haha, seem slike that well is very memorable, next time im there i shall throw a copper down and make a wish hehe

I musdt try sylvari story and check that out redfeather I wish u would tell with spoiler tags maybe?

Prophecies was gw1 right flamenco? i did play gw1 but it was a looong time ago... Lost shores main event was memorable to me in a negative way also but lets try keep it to the good times yeah?

I understand how you like the xp and level; progression buzz its my faveroute aspect of the game also actually. When you explain it like that it sounds like you want the level cap raised. This would be nice! But i think they wont do it yet as its too soon.

So, C’mon guys, lets have some memorable moments.. some crazy times, some funny antics! Lets lighten things up a little! I wanna read your best moments and compare them to my fun times!

nah im sure it will be more than 5 if its for a guild

Totally i was very pleased with wintersday and how it showed anet progressing forwards in many ways and taking on suggestions from previous events.

i bet there is a kill quest for him from an npc in the zone somwehere

nice find shame theres not much info on him... It does prove its not one of those acheiv,emnts tho or it would be listed.

I agree it must suck alot if it happens to you this much. If people dont communicate with me tho before the dungeon i dont even get that far as to me its not a good sign. Can i ask are you on US or EU? Im on EU where i havent seen it much in my own xp.

Hmm not sure where it is tbh but theres a vista on a straw roof in one of the towns and the jump up to it is really hard. its one jump but u have to be pixel perfect to do it.. sorry im not more of help on that one. I also agree with you josh on the 3 types of people who fail at JP but i feel also there is a fourth. I think you know what that could be..

I think its one of the rare exoploraytion acheivements, did you chase him when he ran? i think if you do he turns u into something?

or was there an event marker on the minimap around the fight you were in or crossed swords?

I was just thinking a good topic would be for everyone to give us one or two of their most memorable moments in guild wars 2.

Here go’s..

I Think i must have been about level 12 or so, playing my norn warrior and smashing my way through deissa platauea.. I was exploring the zone and checking out the minimap etc.. I saw these ghosts and cannons and things around these ruins and thought wow that looks nasty! Some players were dead over there, so i charged in and started fighting! During the hectic fight i couldent really see any bodys and couldent understand why..

I charged towards another group of ghosts and suddenly to my utter amazment i was falling down into this tomb underground! Yep! i fell down the well lol, i dident see it or know it was coming and it scared the heck outta me! haha!

Ofc once down there i realised suddenly why there were so many player corpses around yet i couldent see them haha! I actually managed to revive one and then he helped me revive another and we fought our way outside to the releqative saftey of fresh air and sunshine! Great!

Actually being honest its only happened a few times.. I have left groups myself however even on final encounters if people start exploiting there. I try to make sure when i jin groups that people r communicating and are the type of player i like to be around. Players do lie about what they are going to do once inside though so sometimes you have to leave. Ive had to leave MANY times speciallyt on fractals until they fixed alot of nthe exploits.

Try to start groups and try to be the leader and be selctive is all trhe advice i can give you .. Good lcuk friend!

the steady weapon in spvp they are for testing builds, go check themn out!

mmmm... im on the fence again! suprise! i weould prefer one more setting, jusyt one, a guild mission difficulty setting.

I do agreee that the xp and grinding lvl 80 over and over is a bit dull tho!

Sorry cobra i have to dissagree here i mean I play maybe afew hours a day and i manage a level a day.. yopu can also buy skillpoints.. plenty of chances to get karma atm too maybe too many...

Sorry in my own opinion i would prefer it took 5 times longer for each level as well.

I am on the fence with this one as you have made the effort and played through the dungeon whats the issue if u switch charcters at the end?

if that happerned tho how would we gain the extra skill points we need?

im saving for the endless kitten potion

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

As our artists have also said in interviews that one of the purposes of concept art is that it is a way to convey mood to a viewer and to serve as inspiration for designers. Concept art is not necessarily a blueprint to follow by rote. There is stuff in the game that looks like the concept art, but just because something is depicted in the concept art doesn’t necessarily follow that it will make it into the game.

Please take your tinfoil hats off and be reasonable.

lol tinfoil hats thats just brilliant haha!!!!

Ayrilana.1396:

Of those who despise MF gear, how many of you are swapping to alts near the end of dungeons for the exp? Those that do this are on the same level if not worse than those people you dislike that use MF.

A bit offtopic but ill bite,

If you make the effort to complete the dungeon as a player i dont see the problem switchiung to another charcter to claim the reward. i mean you did the hard work dident you..

yeah one thing to remember is magic find is applied on monster kill only... so switching to the setafter comnbat doesent work and using it to open chests doesent work either. have fun!

like a laurel once per JP would be cool

Guys they are bringing raids soon be patient lol... Guild missions ring a bell?

he hates you guys because u dont give him what he likes

Ursan.7846:

VakarisJ.5619:

Swiftness and boons that boost speed mean you have more control over how you jump.

Lol.

Nope.

All swiftness does is to allow you to jump farther. If that….is your definition of “more control,” sure. But would you seriously use swiftness to “control your jump” when jumping on the planks, in say, the EB keep vistas? (where it’s INCREDIBLY easy to overjump)

PS wasn’t aware of any boons aside from swiftness that boosted speed. You should get your terminology straight!

VakarisJ.5619:

By that I meant that mesmers, by them selves, are not favored at all and that engineers aren’t favored because of downfalls in areas that’s not jump shot.

1. You’re right on the mesmers. I worded that wrong, and spawned a whole another argument which we agree to disagree on. (The need for a CRUTCH. Which swiftness also is, entertainingly enough)
2. When I think about it, your original post is actually right. Engies don’t have a huge advantage if the jumping puzzle is timed.
3. None of this changes the fact that introducing class imbalace by having class skills in the jumping puzzle to end all jumping puzzles is stupid. And Anet agrees with the way they implemented Mad King/Wintersday, and will do in this new future JP.

You admit that using class skills introduces imbalance. In the one area in the game which SKILL matters a lot (and how good your rig is, I guess), why introduce these imbalances at all?

You know, hes right it DOES give you more control because your charcter under swiftness has a quicker reaction to slow down in the air and turn in the air or strafe.. Try it!

I would love to see some hidden jump piuzzles as random bonus events in dungeons

I love the JP in thegame and i have a max size norn, ive done every single JP in the entire game and pretty much every single exploration acheivement, all mini dungeons as well... Ahem, My point is dont blame your size its got nothing to do with it its a lame excuse for being not so good yet at them in my eyes..

Anyway my fave is griffonrook run, My gods that took almost a day from me and i classify it as one of the hardest puzzles in the game. yes much harder than clocktower or winter wonderland was.. although i liked them too

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So it is a ridiculous and tedious grind… but you don’t want one because they are too easy to get?

being common OR being easy to get are completley different things.

i agree this is common in alot of mmo and has been around since the early 90’s but as yet ive not seen anyone begging in this game, oh i mean ive had people needing help wiyth repairs in dungeons and such and i usually spare a few silver for that no problem. Im not one to go into why they dident bring the cash in the first place, just give and spread the love.. Flat out begging when u dont know someone and have not played at least 10 mins with them tho is a no no for me. i would say no also..

we have water and fire fields right? air and earth fields make sense to me, things like whirlwind and earthquake immediatly spring to mind.. I think the combo fields need expanding as well. it doesent take long to fully exhaust the current ones we have.. i think also maybe a small chance of something REALLY spectacular happening in all combo fields would be a nice addition also.

Now thats an assumption right there. When i levelled my character i read all the text, everything i looked at the scenery helped people out did all the events in fully explored all the zones i entered. It was awesome but i found that doing all of the things available, instead of just one or two different kinds depending on how i wanted to level caused me to level way faster than i wanted too... If i could i would have gladly taken a xp penalty for the entire time to extend the leveling experiences. There really is nothing quite like it and your right in the respect that its very enjoyable... Mindlessly though is not in my playstyle.. I still think its too fast thoough even though im not one of those who lvl mindlessly..

o well i think this is going to cause ori price to inflate again..

For myself im not worried for things to do at lvl 80, im fully aware theres plenty of endgame as we all put it these days. However, I feel that it wouldent hurt if it took twice as long to level to there, theres plenty of zones to do it with..

I think we level way to fast as well..... Back in the golden oldies of mmo it took 2 years to reach max level..... Dont get me wrong i wouldent want to advocate going back to that extreme but I do feel pretty strongly they have taken casual a liitle bit to far... how do you casual players feel about how fast it is to level would you prefer a bit more of an epic scale??

This would be a coool way to implement relationships.

You could expand on this and take it even farther though.. Having family trees and people pledging as sons, thus creating a heirarchy of sorts that passes up a % of earned xp to your father then hisfather etc...

Also items could be restricted to your family age rank IE father, grandfather etc.

hrmm i think that legendarys should have one set of stats abnd thats it. However... I do think there should be enough legendary’s for choice of stats combinations you want in each weapon type. Without having to transmute - variety is the spice of life as they say
maybe the transmute should perhaps only be there until there is enough variety implemented in the game, however it is a kitten useful tool and a good gem shop item.

NinjaEd.3946:

I repect the initiative to think this out but the idea of Legendary exclusive skill sets would never happen. All skills are supposed to be availible to all, legendaries simply are a time consuming thing and not all people have that kind of time or even care to get a legendary. By that logic, not all would have access to these skills and balanced or not, well they really can’t be balanced they’d be different. Bottom line, exclusive abilities are not possible in this game, skins and titles are but not abilities.

Thankyou I appreciate your complement, i can see from this that common courtisies on forums are not yet dead.

I see your point my friend, but this thought you have means that its already pre-assumed, people would not want these skills. These are hard to aquire skills, they are skills that will take a length of time to aquire, skills that you would have to quest for. Skill that when aquired would, I dont think nessecarily provide an advatage, just a different option than the player who say, has just started the game.

Do you think this thought you have affects both plans equally?

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You see, its not that the weapons will be statistically better they will ust have more variety in reward for all the extra work and dedication. I think its ok to reward players for there commitment to a game and there hard questing etc. I dont think they have to limit those gifts to clothing or skins.

People do want more variety in skills and weapon skills, its a common thread that appears and this is simply an idea on a delivery system for these extra skills this additional variety. People who have been ingame longer i think are ok to have additional skills.. Its no different to being a higher level and having additional skills that way its jiust that this carrot will last ALOT longer.

In awnser to the last part of your statement I would reply thus, "Your absolutley correct. Exclusive(although these are exclusive only in the sense that you must work for them for some time(legendarys)) abilities are not possible in this game. However I think ther key word here is YET. Just because its not possible now does not mean it cannot or will not be implemented in the future."

Shuriko.8130:

or they could just be the same skills BUT have Legenday Effect (changed effects and animations) on em instend

yes i agree Shuriko and this is also already being done as seen Here in Marks Post on this months main patch notes.

I see this idea as the bare minimum for both plans.

Kal Spiro.9745:

To accomodate both sides, the legendary could unlock a special unique skill for all teirs. This way you would have the choice to use them or not use them as you please. The idea would be for them to be equivilent to all other skills at that teir, but be unique to the legendary you’re weilding.

Yes this is what i think greyalis is trying to say also… however i agree the dragon does seem a little OP lol, im total agreement that this idea should be balanced and im maybe even slowly leaning now towards the one skill addition idea thats inline with the tier of gear. be it exotic or legendary.

Maybe you could get a quest to go on for an item or items to ubnlock this new power in this named or legendaryt weapon? or should it come straight away?

Kal Spiro.9745:

Jezath.7395:

I really am shocked that you think anet wont change there game to accomadate us... did gw1 have 400 plus skills when it released ?

more problematic than that is that the hope is so forlorn now that you dont beleive anet will listebn to our suggestions because the way the game is now is the way it will stay... Or is it just tio more skills that your against? or is it just to diff skills forlegerndary and named?

No, I am absolutely certain that ANet will accomodate player feedback when it’s good. This one just isn’t.

The problem, as has been stated twice now, is working for an item to look cool while playing the way you want to play, only to have that item suddenly changing the way you want to play because it doesn’t play as expected. It’s really very simple. It’s designed to have the best stats and have a unique appearance. It’s not meant to be Calenbolg and completely change the way you play the game.

You seem to be missing my point, twice now lol,. You wouldent be forced into these additional skills, they would be trans mutable through a new item so you can keep the skillset of whatever weapon you want. (Obviously only a staff can give the legendary staff iots skillset not a sword lol.)

It would be really cool would it not, to have the option of additional skills providing a multitude new ways to play the game at level 80? A multitude of new viable builds? Are you saying your happy with the amount of skills in the game we have right now and you dont want need any more? or is it just in weapons and you would actually prefer a different delivery system? Or do you dissagree with the volume of skills this would provide therefore confusing people with the sheer volume of skillchoice in one go? I apolagise, im not trying to be funny im only trying to gewt you to be more specific so i can understand where your coming from.